Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 36

[36. Chapter 35]

Although Aliu’s mouth was blocked, he still prepared meals for Su Jin and filled hot water.

Su Jin ran around for a few days, and finally was able to wash away the dust.

This day, I slept very deeply, and inside and outside the Liu Mansion was filled with a faint Du Ruoxiang, the fragrance was pleasant, and I didn’t even have a dream after falling asleep.

Su Jin slept from dawn to dark, and woke up in the middle of the night. An Ran came in and said that the minister of the household had been waiting for her in Liu Mansion all day and wanted to take her into the palace to see Yan Shaozhan. .

Although Su Jin didn’t want to understand why Yan Ziyan wanted to see her when he was about to be executed, he didn’t shirk because he was about to die, and got into the carriage with Shen Xi.

In the dark night, the door of the prison was lit with lights, and down a deep corridor, both sides were iron prisons, dark, and occasionally the moonlight came in through the high windows, and you could see the prisoners locked in the prison.

Shen Xi led Su Jin in through the back door of the prison, and the little official in the punishment department held a torch beside him. Halfway through, Shen Xi suddenly stopped and handed Su Jin a small altar of apricot blossoms and said, “Go, I won’t go.” Su Jin was stunned

: “Sir Shen?”

On Shen Xi’s body, a pair of peach blossom eyes drooped down, and the moles on the corners of his eyes were particularly eye-catching.

He smiled in a low voice: “Actually, he didn’t say he had to see you, but I heard that you didn’t start with Yan Ziqi to investigate Chao Qing’s case, and you mentioned to me that you wanted to thank you in person.”

Su Jin said: “This is also entrusted by Lord Shen.”

Shen Xi was silent for a while, as if trying to think about what to say, and finally sighed: “He has been lofty all his life, and he has valued his dignity above everything else, but the current situation has made him I must have felt unbearable when I saw it. Every time I came, he would have a fight with me, as if he didn’t want to see me again as an enemy.”

He added: “You are different, you don’t have a deep relationship with him, he I’m dying, there’s something I don’t want to tell me, maybe I want to tell you.”

There was only fire in the darkness, the corridor was deep and long, and Yan Ziyan’s cell was about to come to an end.

He seemed to be closing his eyes, and when he heard the movement of the prison door, he opened his eyes abruptly, saw Su Jin, and said in a daze, “It’s you.” Then he was silent for a while, glanced behind Su Jin, and asked softly: “Are you alone?”

Su Jin still remembered the last time he saw Yan Ziyan.

With long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, white clothes and wide sleeves, he looks like a famous scholar of the Wei and Jin Dynasties in ancient paintings.

Seeing him now, he was almost unrecognizable, his dirty prison robe was covered with bloodstains, and his skinny appearance still had the old style.

Su Jin nodded and said, “I’m here to see Shao Zhan for a trip.”

After speaking, he entered the cell, put down the wine jar in his hand, and poured a glass for Yan Ziyan with the remaining wine from the road meal.

Yan Ziyan took it with a light expression, smiled and said, “Thank you.” Then he said regretfully, “It’s a pity that I was tortured the day before yesterday, and I don’t know why my tongue was broken, so I can’t taste it anymore. Although the wine looks good, I can’t taste what kind of wine it is. ”

Su Jin said: “It’s apricot blossoms.”

Yan Ziyan held the hand of the wine cup for a while, his eyes darkened, and suddenly asked: “Is Shen Qingyue really not here?”

Su Jin didn’t know what to say.

Yan Ziyan smiled to himself: “Every spring, he brews a few jars of apricot flower brewing with his own hands. I have never praised him for anything in my life. Having said that, the wine is good.”

Su Jin said: “Sir Shen said that every time he comes back to see Shao Zhan, you have to quarrel with him, and today he will not be an eyesore in front of you.”

Yan Ziyan shook his hand. Xinghua brewed, raised his head and drank it, and said with a “hum”: “I don’t bother to argue with him, I just can’t stand his taciturn appearance every time he comes back, and he has to be angry since he was a child. Where’s my motivation to kill me? Where’s the cynicism of the hippie smiling face? I’m not going to quarrel with him, I’m afraid he’ll suffocate to death.”

Su Jin lowered his eyes and said: “There are some things I may not be able to mention right now, but Qingming is like Shaozhan, and you won’t be ignorant of what the Sacred Heart wants. , my position is a little more ambiguous, and it’s not the same as it is today.”

Yan Ziyan laughed: “Shen Qingyue also mentioned this, and when he was very angry, he laughed at me for having to fight him. It was only after confronting him that I found that the officials in the south were fraudulent and asked to investigate the case myself, but,” he paused, his tone suddenly became very determined, “if you have witnessed the deaths of these officials, you have seen with your own eyes their talents who have worked hard all their lives. You and Hope are despised and insulted, you stand in my position, shouldn’t you seek justice for them? Ning Xu died in exile, and I can’t bear to do this. (Note 1)”

Yan Ziyan raised his eyes and looked at Su Jin: “I Yan Ziyan, from childhood to adulthood, was not as talented as Liu Yun, and not as smart as Shen Qingyue, but I have always adhered to my original intention. For me, what is it? I believe that the deceased is like this, and I also believe in the people’s hearts. I believe that one day, Qing Shi will give me justice.”

At this moment, although he was wearing a dirty prison robe, Su Jin seemed to see his past in his eyes. Incredible style.

She paused for a while, then said softly, “Yi Yu is good at what she has done, even though she has died, she still has no regrets. (Note 2)”

Yan Ziyan was stunned for a while, then suddenly smiled, and said, “Liu Yun has always valued you, it must be I want to take you to the Metropolitan Court, would you like to go?”

Su Jin suddenly remembered Liu Chaoming’s sentence – just treat me as me and never said that.

Su Jin shook his head and said, “I don’t know.”

When Yan Ziyan was about to say something, the lock of the prison door suddenly rang, with a bang, it was time.

Two officers from the Penal Department walked in, put shackles on him, stood at the door of the prison and said in a low voice, “Shao Zhan, please.”

Yan Ziyan nodded, picked up the jar of apricot brew, filled a glass of wine for himself, got up and walked out of the prison, but turned back and said, “Why not? You have a beautiful mind, why don’t you follow him and set things right? The censor of the censor. In this world, there are thousands of horses together, and eventually someone will make a voice. I hope that after I die, one day, there will be censors and idlers who will make a note for me, so that names like Yan Ziyan and Xu Yuanzhe can See the sun again in the history of history.”

Then he paused for a while, then smiled again: “Su Shiyu, the rest of the world is secluded and the sky will never be seen.” The

road was dangerous and difficult to come. (Note 3)

Enlightenment is late, but luckily it is not too late.

There are doors at both ends of the corridor, the north end is the entrance, and the south end leads to the noon gate.

Yan Ziyan walked to the door, suddenly turned around, looked at the endless darkness of the long road, raised his wine glass, and said loudly, “I have been fighting all my life, but I am slightly better in this battle?

” Someone sighed softly.

Yan Ziyan smiled, raised his head and drank the wine in one go, put the wine cup on the ground, and said in a low voice, “Tell him that you have been an enemy for a lifetime in this life, and you

are tired, so let ‘s be a confidant in the next life.” Turning back, he strode towards the outside of the Meridian Gate.

Su Jin looked at his back.

She originally thought that Yan Ziyan was arrogant, arrogant and widowed, but now it seems that she is wrong – if a person can be calm and unrepentant even if he is in shackles, he should be a celebrity.

The firing squad disappeared outside the noon gate, the morning sun was just rising, Shen Xi also came to Xuanyuantai with apricot blossoms, and asked softly, “He is talented, can you leave a message?”

Su Jin nodded. : “Shao Zhan said that he and Lord Shen have been enemies for a lifetime. I am tired. In the next life, I would like to be a confidant.”

Shen Xi looked at the towering palace tower in the distance and was speechless.

After a while, he bent over to pick up the wine cup that Yan Ziyan had placed on the ground, filled a glass of apricot blossom brew, raised his glass to the endless wind in the palace, raised his head and drank it.

Su Jin bid farewell to Shen Xi and went to Chengtianmen, thinking about Yan Ziyan’s last words constantly.

I hope that after I die, one day, there will be a censor and a freelancer, who will make a note for me, so that names like Yan Ziyan and Xu Yuanzhe can be seen in the history of history as soon as possible.

To be a censor, can you really understand the history of the Qing Dynasty, clean up the officials, and wash away the grievances?

When they got to the palace gate, someone suddenly called out from behind, “Your Excellency Governor.”

It was Aqi, a handyman from the capital’s yamen, who was driving a car.

Aqi said: “Lord Governor, Zhou Tongjing and Lord Fucheng got into a fight. Lord Liu asked Xiao to wait for you at Chengtianmen—”

Su Jin had a bad premonition in his heart. Before he could finish speaking, he jumped on the The carriage interrupted: “What happened?”

Aqi said: “I don’t know about the little one. It seems to be related to the grandma who was taken in by the governor.”

Su Jin’s mind seemed to explode, and she didn’t When he spoke again, he immediately raised the reins and smashed the horse into the dust.

There was a mess in the Retreat Hall, the desk chair fell to the ground, Zhou Ping’s face was black and blue, and she was restrained by the two yamen, but her eyes were still split.

Sun Yinde’s face was also bright. Hearing this, he sneered and said, “Does it have anything to do with this official? The old woman heard from somewhere that her grandson was arrested for cheating, and has been pestering this official for him. To wash the grievance, this official had to tell her the truth. Besides, His Majesty’s imperial decree has already come down, and her grandson has already died. She is old and eighty, and living is also a drag. Is what this official said wrong? His grandson should die, Let her follow her grandson, and it will be a hundred better.”

As soon as these words came out, even Liu Yichu, who had always been slick, had his face ashen, and the tea cup in his hand was almost crushed: “Master Sun, I am old and old. Old, the speaker has no intention, the listener is intentional, what is the difference between telling her that and pushing her to death?”

Sun Yinde smiled contemptuously: “You pushed her to death? She threw herself into the river and was pushed by this official?”

” What did you say?”

Standing outside the Retreat Hall, Su Jin asked in a daze.

Then she glanced at Zhou Ping, who was living in the place where she was controlled by the yacha, who was full of grief and indignation, and at Liu Yichu who was sad, and turned around abruptly, rushing back to her house.

The room was elegant and cleaner than when she left the day before yesterday. It was probably Yuanzhe’s grandma who had cleaned it up for her.

There is a pair of insoles on the desk, which my grandma made for her to match the size of her boots.

Yes, that day, in order to make grandma live at ease, she asked her to buy a pair of insoles for herself.

Su Jin held the insole tightly in his hand, took a slow breath, and then resolutely turned back to the retreat.

In the retreat hall, Liu Yichu and Sun Yinde were still quarreling. Su Jin stood at the door of the hall and whispered, “Gao Yan.”

Then she asked, “Why isn’t grandma?”

Zhou Ping heard this . , the resentment in his eyes suddenly turned into endless sorrow, he opened his mouth, and said hoarsely: “blame me. Yesterday morning, I saw my grandma go out alone. She walked very slowly, wiping her tears as she walked. I had already kept an eye on it, and asked her what happened, she said that she just missed Yuan Zhe, but I didn’t expect that later…”

“I didn’t expect that my grandmother didn’t come back until the evening, and Gao Yan and I only talked about it. People searched for her, but they found her body by the Huai River, and when it was fished up, people were already swelled up.” Liu Yichu continued, turned to stare at Sun Yinde, and finally couldn’t contain his anger, “I and Gao Yan said. The coffin was already set up for Grandma, but the surnamed Sun did not let us carry Grandma back, and ordered the yacha to find a place outside the city and hurriedly throw it away, tying me and Gao Yan back!”

Sun Yinde said sharply: “Do you still want to bring it back? Aren’t you afraid that others will think that our yamen has committed a murder? It won’t be worth it tomorrow?”

“Then you will let her corpse be exposed in the wilderness?” Su Jin stared coldly, and said coldly: “Sun Yinde, I left my grandmother in my house, I don’t ask you to help me take care of me, I just ask you to accumulate some virtue, no matter what you ask, it’s fine, you took me away with the horse’s situation, and in retrospect, is this how you accumulated virtue?”

Sun Yinde shouted angrily: “Bold! You are an eighth-rank governor when you are young, and you dare to give orders to this official. Be careful that this official will play the court and accuse you of being disrespectful!”

Su Jin sneered: “You can play the court and punish me. So what, the big deal is to add another one to the list of wronged people, but I want to ask Mr. Sun, how could he tell Grandma that Xu Yuanzhe died because of fraud, and he deserves it?”

Sun Yinde said: “Su Jin, Don’t take your word for it, Xu Yuanzhe is a chaotic party that the emperor personally decreed to name and name, and just one grievance from you is enough to betray you and rebel against the sage

. In this case of officials from the north and the south, how wrong is Yuan Zhe? How wrong is the official who died unjustly? How wrong is the chastity and righteous person who sacrificed for the two characters of fairness? But you can block your eyes for a while, but you can’t hide the long speeches of the people in the world. One day, those who have died unjustly will return to the light of day, but you—”

She took a step closer to Sun Yinde and looked into his eyes, He reprimanded: “As an official of your parents, you are ashamed of the heavens above, and the people of Limin below. If the Gong Shi disappears, you are afraid of offending the powerful and will not allow me to investigate; if the official makes trouble, you should avoid the streets and alleys. I was not held accountable by the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office, and I surrendered to the Seven Kings, and set up a scheme that almost killed His Highness the Thirteenth! But today, there are still righteous people in the deep palace who have died under the sword with no regrets, but you are here to care about a suicide. Will the old woman contaminate your innocence? Do you still have innocence? You are really shy, and you are like a dog!”

Sun Yinde heard the last sentence and said angrily: “What are you that dare to talk to this official like this? ?! Don’t think that you have the censor of Zuodu behind you, and that the Thirteenth Highness is protecting you, you can do whatever you want. If you think that you are the only one who has a backer, you can go to the prefectural court and file a lawsuit against this official now. Can you move this official!”

Su Jin glanced at him, and said lightly: “No, I have to punish you, and don’t lie to others.” After saying that, she bypassed Sun Yinde and walked outside the yamen.

Sun Yinde taunted: “Isn’t it in the hands of others? You are not a mere governor, and this official sees what kind of storm you can make. Is it possible that you can still climb on this official’s head? Oh, I’m afraid you don’t know. Today, this official is about to be promoted.”

Su Jin paused for a while, then turned around and said, “Then congratulations to Master Sun, and I hope that Master Sun will remember, no matter what method you use, how high you climb, I, Su Jin, will one day. Let you fall down, you will be crushed to pieces, and you will be buried with those who died unjustly.”

Su Jin felt that he had never been so awake and firm as he is now in his life.

When I was a child, the resentment and unwillingness of my family’s ruin and death were all turned into nothing after seeing the turbulent and turbulent world, leaving only a heart full of sadness and despair.

Even if he was framed by the Ministry of Officials that year, he climbed out of the dead pile step by step with only the will to survive.

If the perseverance and running around in the past were only for the love and righteousness in the heart, then at this moment, it is like a drowning person climbing a driftwood, a person falling off a cliff holding the mountain vines, stumbled forward, and can see the floating light.

As Liu Chaoming said, sailing in the dark night only goes to the bright moon.

Even if the mayfly is to shake the tree, even if it can be a man’s arm as a chariot.

Su Jin stood guard outside Chengtian Gate, and he didn’t know how long he waited before he saw Liu Chaoming’s sedan chair coming out.

Su Jin stepped forward, stood in the middle of the road, and stopped the sedan chair.

An Ran ordered someone to stop the sedan chair, Liu Chaoming walked out, glanced at Su Jin, and backed away from the sedan chair.

It was sunset and dusk, and the wind was blowing, and weeds were spreading on both sides of the road.

Su Jin landed on his knees, knelt down facing Liu Chaoming, lowered his eyes and said, “I beg your lord to accept Shiyu to be a censor.”

Liu Chaoming wanted to refuse, but saw an unusual clarity and sympathy between her brows . Resolute, the words came to his lips, and turned into a sentence: “Why?”

Su Jin said: “Since the prince knows my identity, I have only two outcomes, one, death; the other, keep me in the court, and make a useful one. The chess piece.”

Liu Chaoming looked at her quietly, and said softly: “This official is asking, why do you want to be a censor?”

The twilight wind blew, and Su Jin raised his eyes from the wind, his eyes burning like fire in a prairie: “Distinguish what is right and wrong, put things right, speak straight, and keep your heart as one.”

“The will of the adults is also the will of the rain. .”

“This life, this life, this ambition will not regret it!”

[End of This Chapter]