The favorite wife of the black-bellied prime minister

Chapter 22
Later, Situ He inexplicably changed his ways and went to the battlefield with the army. Two months later, Jing Xiaobai went to Lutai Mountain, and his mother, the second child of the Mo family, died of illness.

Speaking of the past, Li Shu was full of emotion, shook his head and sighed: "I have no choice but to let the flowers fall, and the familiar Yan returns. I said, General He, you are old enough to be patient. You sent yourself to the prison well. Have you been kicked by horses too much?"

After four years of experience on the battlefield, Situ He is no longer the 17-year-old boy he used to be. His phoenix eyes were fixed on Li Shu, and gradually became darker, but he ignored the sarcasm in Li Shu's words. He was thinking, if these four years He never left Shengjing for half a step, never left Jing Xiaobai's side, so, will everything be different now?
God really likes to joke, but it is self-defeating. The path he chose cannot reach the end he wanted, so it can only show that the original choice was wrong.Since he was wrong, how should he go on?
Seeing his eyes fixed on him, Li Shu opened the folding fan proudly with a "wow", shook his coquettishly a few times, puffed up his chest and said, "Did I come back this time and find that I look better? Hehe, that's not enough." Tonight, my arms are always open to you, General He!"

Situ He was used to his frivolous teasing, so he didn't respond, but the jailer not far away coughed vigorously after hearing it.

Li Shu turned his head and gave them a hard look, and then sighed sadly: "Situ He, is this how you treat old friends? Last winter when you returned to Beijing to report on your work, Jing Xiaobai gave you a banquet, and you drank too much." You're so drunk that we didn't have a chance to talk properly, this time when you get out of prison, you must follow me to the Bibo Pavilion for a reunion!"

Situ He suddenly raised his lips and smiled self-deprecatingly. It all started last winter, right?
"Master Li!" The jailer suddenly rushed in in a panic: "Master Li, hide quickly! The imperial decree is coming! Hurry up!"

"No way, so fast?!" Li Shu quickly got up and slipped through another door.

Soon, Eunuch Gao, who was beside Emperor Jing Yuan, held the imperial decree in both hands, stepped into the prison surrounded by a group of people, and announced the decree: "By heaven's blessing, the emperor ordered that Situ He, the general of Zhengbei, leave his post without permission and break into the forbidden area of ​​the harem. It can be described as a heinous crime. I think that he is young and has made countless contributions over the years, so he is pardoned for the death penalty, punished with a staff of one hundred, and demoted three levels in a row, so as to set an example to others. I respect this."

Situ He knelt down on one knee, raised his hands high, and received the imperial edict: "This humble minister accepts the edict, thank you Lord for your kindness."

Eunuch Gao sighed: "General He, I'm really sorry. This servant is also ordered to do things. He can't leave until he sees you finish his punishment. Your Majesty is really angry this time. You have to bear the hundred army sticks."

Situ He got up, smiled lightly and said, "Execution."

The jailer took off his black iron armor and pressed him on the hard board. The two soldiers who were executing the sentence looked at each other, but they couldn't grasp the strength. Explain, how can you hang out in the army in the future if you start hard?

Eunuch Gao saw through their thoughts, coughed, and said in a high-pitched voice: "If you two don't know the strength of a hundred military sticks, you should try it first, and when you understand it, it would be no problem to torture General He." Late."

If the body is a little weaker, it may not be able to get up again. Compared with life, life is of course more important than future.

So, the two soldiers gritted their teeth and smashed down with one stick without mercy.

Thirty army sticks went down, but Situ He didn't say a word.

Li Shu hid behind, stooping furtively to listen to the sound of "pa...pa..." Every time he hit, his eyelids jumped, and suddenly he heard a shout from outside: "Stop!"

Li Shu's eyes lit up, and he almost rushed out excitedly.

He tiptoed forward a few steps, looked out, and was taken aback for a moment. He saw Jing Xiaobai holding a sword on the execution soldier's neck, clearly intending to rob the prison!

Obediently Jing Xiaobai, she even dared to resist the imperial decree, Li Shu admired her courage from the bottom of her heart, but, that Eunuch Gao is not a vegetarian, the old man of his family once said that the most popular person in front of the emperor cannot be offended It's Eunuch Gao.

Sure enough, when the group of people were in a daze, Eunuch Gao calmly said: "Princess Jing, what are you doing? General He committed a capital crime, and His Majesty thought of the good of the Queen and Marshal Situ, so he lightly punished you." If you make such a nonsense, if you make it public, how will His Majesty explain to civil and military officials and the people of the world? At that time, you will have to add another charge of disobedience and disrespect, and General He will really be sentenced to death!"

After Bailijing heard this, she still held her sword high. Situ He was lying on the hard board, sweat slid from his forehead, and his clear and clear voice trembled a little: "Jing Xiaobai, you...don't mess around, back away, this You can't stop the stick, you have to hit it all at once, and it hurts even more when you stop."

Bai Lijing didn't know if what he said was true or not, she still stubbornly refused to leave: "Hey, I'll bear the rest of the plank for you!" As she said that, she threw her sword away and was about to walk towards him with a fearless look on her face .

Situ He yelled sharply: "Stop! Anyone can come in such a heavy place like the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice? Master Liu, please take Princess Jing down! If she dares to take another step forward, I will reward the general with one hundred military sticks. Straight, to, stick, kill!"

Baili Jing froze in place, never seeing He so manic, with such a vehement voice.Liu Xian, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, became difficult again and again, and finally waved his hand: "Come here, please Princess Jing go and rest! You two, continue to torture!"

Li Shu's legs softened when he heard the crackling "papa", and he simply squatted on the ground, pinching the folding fan tightly in his hand.But when the sixty army sticks went down, Situ He still didn't make a sound, only a small muffled hum occasionally leaked from between his lips and teeth.He turned his head slightly and saw the corner of the crabapple red sleeve at the door of the cell, and immediately clenched his teeth even tighter, swallowing all the muffled groans.

Jing Xiaobai never listened to him, he told her to be good, but she never was.When he went to the battlefield, she went to Lutai Mountain to practice martial arts. She wrote to him that she had to practice martial arts well, and then she could become a female general of Daxing Kingdom when she grew up.Every step she takes, she obeys her own thoughts, and the opinions and advice of others are completely invalid.

After the one hundred army sticks were beaten, Eunuch Gao and the others exchanged a few words of greeting and left. The two executioners hurriedly helped him up. Situ He's coat was completely soaked in sweat, and it was tightly attached to his body. At this moment, his vigorous figure could not even stand firmly, and he only took a step before his knees softened and he fell forward.

Li Shu's legs went numb, and he rubbed his legs as he walked out. Master Liu, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, saw him and was shocked: "Li Shao, you, why are you here?"

Li Shu took off the grass clippings from his hair, squinted his eyes and smiled, tapped his shoulder with a folding fan, and said rascally: "This matter is a long story, let's talk about it next time!"

(End of this chapter)