Chapter 55 Right and Wrong
Warm blood spurted out from his neck, causing the officials to scream in fear.
Ji Wen narrowed his eyes.
The one who comes is not good.
The guards of the Ji family took one look at his face and immediately slashed at Shang Bingjiu with their swords.
Shang Bing took out the red cloth and wooden frame from the basket without raising his head from the drink, and set up an exquisite bag puppet stage in the middle of the street.
The moment the guards rushed over, the huge guillotine that was suspended in mid-air suddenly changed direction and roared down at them!
The few guards who rushed in front turned into a puddle of flesh in an instant.
The smell of blood permeated the river breeze.
Xiao Baojing covered her mouth in horror.
Emperor Wumian frowned and stroked her head comfortingly with her wide sleeves.
Shang Bingjiu had already set up the stage and asked again with a smile: "Does anyone want to see a puppet show?"
The river breeze rustled.
The surroundings were almost eerily quiet.
Shang Bingjiu picked up a black-faced bag puppet dressed as a poor scholar.
The strings move the puppet.
The puppet stood on the stage with a sad face and spoke in a vivid manner: "Xiangshui County has been flooded for many years. If this continues, the entire county will be flooded."
Forty years ago, Xiangshui County.
It rained continuously.
Ji Wen frowned: "Xiangshui County has been flooded for years. If this continues, the entire county will be flooded."
The young master next to him twirled his beard: "In recent years, the imperial court has sent many officials to dredge and control floods, but they have not achieved any results. Countless sums of money are spent on floods and disaster relief every year. If only the master could control it. Good Hongluo will surely impress the Holy Emperor, and maybe he can rise to prominence in the court. ”
Ji Wen stared at the vast rain: "Xiangshui County is my hometown. Even if I don't want to be promoted to an official position, I still want to restore this land to its former prosperity and tranquility. However, even the imperial envoy with rich experience in water control is helpless. I So what? ”
The master lowered his voice: "I heard that Emperor Wu Mian in the royal family has been frail and sick since she was a child. For her sake, the emperor sent envoys to the secret realm of Penglai to get a Pisces bronze mirror for her. There is a fairyland in the bronze mirror. The hot spring can warm her body and prolong her life. It is a rare magical weapon in the world.
"The two herrings inlaid on the back of the bronze mirror are the incarnations of ancient mythical beasts. They can control water and calm down disasters, and turn disasters into good fortune. If we set up a water control formation at the highest point of Xiangshui County, with the Pisces as the eyes, maybe It can relieve floods and make Xiangshui County a prosperous place.”
Ji Wen frowned: "But Emperor Wumian is the most beloved daughter of the current emperor and empress. If we poach the herring, the hot spring wonderland in the mirror will also collapse, right? In the eyes of the royal family, there are thousands of people in Xiangshui County How can the common people be more valuable than the life of God Ji?”
The master smiled meaningfully: "If you can't force yourself, won't the young master know how to outwit you? What little girl wouldn't like the young master's appearance of talent and beauty?"
The scene changes.
Ji Wen went to Beijing to take the high school entrance examination and picked up the kite of Emperor Wu Mian at the Qionglin Banquet.
Emperor Wu Mian has been frail and lingering on the sickbed since she was a child. The emperor and empress regarded her as a treasure and loved her dearly. Although she was nineteen years old, she never allowed anyone to raise her in the deep palace. She was innocent and innocent. Today, she was persuaded by the personal palace maid to wrap her up. Cloak comes out to fly a kite.
Ji Wen personally returned the kite to Di Ji.
Just like other stories about talented men and beautiful women, the young and beautiful Xiao Diji was curious about the new science and fell in love at first sight.
Some people in the palace said that Ji Wen was deliberately trying to seduce him and try to become a phoenix.
But Ji Wen's repeated avoidance convinced Xiao Diji that Ji Wen was by no means the kind of person who loves vanity.
She was troubled by Ji Wen's alienation, and her already weak body became even weaker.
She originally thought it was an unrequited love in spring, but she accidentally learned from the personal palace maid that Ji Wen had secretly traced her portrait in private, and even inscribed "Yuan You Zhi Xi Li You Lan" on the portrait. "I miss you, but I don't dare to speak." This poem.
She excitedly went to Ji Wen to ask, and Ji Wen said with a blushing face: "Weichen was born in a humble background, and his status is very different from that of the princess, so he did not dare to reveal his sincerity."
"What does it mean to be born in a humble position?" Little Diji said with pure emotion, "A person's status should not be determined by his birthplace. Jirou is knowledgeable and talented, and is a bit better than the young masters from famous families in the capital. I am very happy about it..." "If I can win the favor of the emperor," Ji Wen clenched his hands and started His ears were red to his neck, "Ji Wen will live up to this in this life! I will treat Di Ji well and treat you as the most precious treasure. I will not take concubines or marry you in my life, and I will protect Di Ji with my life! If I violate this oath, Ji Wen will Wen will not die well, and the Ji family will have no descendants——"
Little Diji stretched out her hand to cover his mouth: "Don't talk nonsense! I believe you!"
She begged the emperor to allow her to marry Ji Wen.
When the emperor refused, she went on a hunger strike to protest, until they finally nodded in desperation.
She followed Ji Wen to Xiangshui County to worship her ancestors, dressed as Mrs. Xiang, and accompanied him to pray for the wandering gods of Xiangshui County.
But after praying, he found that Ji Wen had changed.
He took away the bronze Pisces mirror she relied on for survival, and placed her under house arrest deep in the back house.
Ignoring her pleas, he ordered the demon subduing master to dig out the herrings embedded in the back of the Pisces bronze mirror and take them to the back mountain waterfall to be used as the center of the formation, successfully diverting the floods from successive years in Xiangshui County.
Only then did she realize that Ji Wen had approached her with a purpose.
When he first arrived in Yejing, he had already bribed her personal maid. Everything from kite flying to portraits was planned early in the morning!
This man never loved her.
What he loves is his hometown.
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But what about her?
What is she going to do?
Without the warmth and nourishment of the secret hot spring, her condition worsened day by day.
She missed her parents very much. She cried and begged Ji Wen to send her home, but he refused.
She died of illness in Xiangshui County.
Ji Wen ordered the demon master to cut off her tongue, chop off her hands, and cast a spell on her body.
He wanted her to be unable to speak, he wanted her hands to be unable to write, and he wanted her to never be able to tell the world the secrets of Xiangshui County.
Her body was hastily stuffed into a coffin and buried far away in the barren mountains.
And her personal maid was asked by Ji Wen to wear a human skin mask and pretend that she was living in the Ji family's ancestral home. She claimed that the water and soil of Xiangshui County nourished people and she was in good health. She also forged Xiao Wumian's handwriting and wrote a letter back to the capital to tell the emperor. Later, she will use the Pisces Bronze Mirror to save thousands of people in Xiangshui County.
The maid had good intentions to bring her princess together with Xinke Tanhua, but she didn't expect that Ji Wen turned out to be a jackal in sheep's clothing.
Not long after she gave birth to Ji Huaisheng and Ji Shu, she died of heart palpitations and regret.
After the palace maid died, she was buried in the Ji family's ancestral grave. It was the corpse that Xiao Baojing dug up.
Emperor Wumian lingered near the coffin day and night, living in resentment towards Ji Wen and longing for her parents day and night. It was not until Xiao Baojing moved away the coffin where she lived that she set foot in Xiangshui County again.
On the stage, it is snowing in May.
It was like the drop of blood and tears that Di Ji shed before she died, complaining to God about her grievances.
A puppet wearing an ice-blue Kesi palace skirt huddled in the coffin.
That face gradually overlapped with that of Emperor Wu Mian.
The streets were silent for a long time.
Ji Wen's gray hair was swaying in the river breeze, and his dark face was covered with wrinkles.
I don't know how long it took before he said slowly: "The Pisces Bronze Mirror is the most precious treasure in the world, how can it be wasted on one person? At that time, tens of thousands of people were killed and injured in Xiangshui County due to floods. The royal family clearly had methods to divert floods and control them, but they secretly No, just use it selfishly on their daughter
"Between saving one person and saving the people of the whole county, I chose to save the people of the whole county. I entered the situation with my own life. I am obviously a rare good official in the world. How could I have done anything wrong?! My fellow villagers here, do you think Ji did this? Wrong? ”
The old man's voice was like a loud bell, and he asked questions.
There was no remorse in his eyes.
As firm and solemn as when he was young.
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