After the rebirth, Aijia and Bamboo Horseshoe printed him

Facts have proved that everyone's self-righteous understanding of the opposite sex will be questioned, even the familiar childhood sweetheart.

Zhou Shuhe kicked away a Yuhua stone at his feet, turned his head and glanced fiercely at the tile that nearly tripped her just now, and sneered.

"Don't tell me, I really didn't expect there to be such a wild place in the palace. I like it very much. There is no yin and yang, and I am not mocking you. Really, I just admire you for finding this land."

Qi Yu held the lamp in one hand, and raised his arm to give her a grip with the other. He smiled dryly and did not dare to speak.

After the canonization ceremony last month, the emperor remembered that Qi Yu had mentioned to him last year that the concubine was promoted to the palace for renovation. He was actually quite happy to give some rewards to the concubine he liked, but this time more than ten people were promoted, and each of them went to Xin Repairing is also a huge expense, and in the end, the palace was not repaired at all, and a small garden was built directly, which can be used by everyone, and the concubines will be blessed.

This is the newly built Yingchun Garden.

The people from the internal officials said the day before yesterday that the main garden could invite ladies and wives to enjoy the flowers, and the eunuch Qi Yu sent to inquire about it also said that it was beautifully repaired, but only the west side door that he wanted to show Zhou Shuhe It's not finished yet.

Kind of embarrassing.

He cleared his throat with a cough, and said in a warm voice, "Miss Zhou, be careful where you step, the ground here has not been paved yet, just go to the right and you will be there."

Zhou Shuhe hummed twice, ignored him, grabbed his forearm with his left hand and walked forward, and held the newly named kitten "Dabai" in his arms with his right hand.

The night was as cool as water, and a few spring branches protruded from both sides of the remnant road, and the lanterns reflected the orange-red firelight. It was hard to tell whether the branches grew red flowers or pink white dyed red.

Facts have proved that no matter whether Qi Yu can fully understand Zhou Shuhe or not, at least he will remember every promise he made to her.

For example, in this Yingchun garden, there is a swing that has just been painted red.

The spring night was windy, and the wooden plank was swayed gently by the rope. The cat in his arms purred softly, and pressed Zhou Shuhe's chest warmly.

She stood there quietly, as if seeing the future she had dreamed of.

In fact, there is nothing special about it, it is just the ordinary life of many ordinary people in Huxiang County, but after they grow up, they have their own ups and downs. The step-by-step road in their youth gradually became best future.

For example, when the weather is good, she can step on the swing and fly into the wind. The clingy little raccoon slave loses the embrace of its master, and meows unwillingly at the side. Qi Yu was sitting in the house reading, but was The barking was so disturbing that I couldn't read it, so I had to close the book, and came over to pick up the cat and coax it.

She would laugh at him, because his posture of holding the cat was always so awkward that it was funny. She never thought that one day she would meet a Qi Yu who worked in the cat kennel.

This Qi Yu stepped forward and respectfully led her forward.

"I asked the people from the internal official prison to reserve a place at the west side gate. I made a swing when I had nothing to do. This side is not included in the main garden. You have to go around a few paths to find it. On weekdays, the empress and palace People won't come, so it's considered inaccessible, and the lady can sit on the swing to relax."

"In addition, the west side door is connected to the side door of the Taiji Hall. I specially made this swing higher, and the swing is much higher than the low wall of the Yingchun Garden. If your majesty passes by here, you will definitely be able to see you here. Acting like a half-immortal."

The words are to the point, but the meaning is very clear, this is for her Zhou Shuhe to fight for favor.

Like a pot of cold water poured down her head, the throbbing in her heart when she saw the swing just now cooled down instantly, she calmed down and nodded slightly.

"Thank you."

Qi Yu was stunned for a moment, and could see that she was not very happy, but he didn't know why, after searching for a long time, he came up with a sentence that was neither embarrassing nor embarrassing: "Ms. Zhou is polite."

Zhou Shuhe walked to the swing and sat down, leaning his head on the rope on one side, gently stroking the little Dabai in his arms.

"Did Jiyue tell you something?"

Qi Yu followed her and also walked to the swing, the lamp in his hand dispelled the darkness again: "Miss Jiyue said, you seem to be sad because of Hui Baolin."

"It can't be said that I'm sad for her." She thought for a moment, "I don't regard her as a friend, and I don't want to risk doing things that sacrifice myself and others. I want to live a better life for myself. Only this has never wavered ..."

She looked at the candle lamp, and her voice was about to drift into the light smoke: "But I am guilty."

Her thoughts are very confused now, and what she says is upside down. Even she herself feels that this is blatant hypocrisy, hypocrisy, and sanctimonious.

Qi Yu squatted down halfway, looked at her and avoided his eyes, carefully considered his tone, and spoke slowly word by word.

"Don't think about it. There are indeed some sages and heroes in the world who can stand up in the face of injustice, rescue those who are hurt, and sacrifice bravely regardless of life and death. This is worthy of everyone's admiration. But they are not brave and kind enough. People... are far from being guilty."

"Isn't it a sin to stand by and watch?" Zhou Shuhe asked.

Qi Yu sat on the floor with his back leaning on the swing frame, and suddenly changed the subject.

"Do you still remember when I was in Huxiang's cell, I mentioned some outrageous thoughts? I actually couldn't explain it myself at the time, but I slowly figured it out later."

Zhou Shuhe glanced at him, not knowing why he suddenly mentioned this, but she did remember the "favor of a meal" he wanted to repay back then.

"I didn't know His Majesty at that time, I didn't know what kind of person he was, and I had never met Qi Huizhi. I only occasionally heard my father complain that he never cared about the family and called him a white-eyed wolf."

Qi Yu smiled: "Later my family was implicated, and my parents and aunt hated him very much, but I think it was because of Qi Huizhi's arrogance, but it was His Majesty who really ordered the nine clans to be imprisoned, and he was convicted by fate. It is a law that grows harsher."

"The law of the Qin Dynasty changed the law and the three tribes of the barbarians. It was a cruel and cruel act. Later generations held the book of benevolence and righteousness, but it became more cruel. The three tribes, the five tribes, and even now the nine tribes, such behavior is not to punish the guilty, but to shake the people. Those who ruled by imperial power lost all their relatives and friends, and the possibility of their revenge was eliminated."

"So then I slowly discovered that the person sitting on the supreme dragon chair was such a cruel and ruthless person who was always cowardly and fearful. He was called the Son of Heaven. There must have been many emperors similar to him throughout the ages. Only then will there be these increasingly brutal punishments.”

The moonlight on a spring night is hazy, like a light veil wrapping around the flowers and trees.Zhou Shuhe leaned on the swing and realized for the first time how rebellious Qi Yu was.

On his knees, which seemed to be able to kneel down easily at any time, was a rebellious heart that disrespected the emperor, disrespected the imperial power, and despised the inferior.

"The emperor is nothing special, and the emperor will be guilty." He also had a gentle smile on his face, "even the yellow robe, the dragon chair and the supremacy, and the freedom they bring It is the source of many evils that have power and those who are unworthy of it."

On the long and long road of exile to the northern border, Qi Yu met many people whom he had never met before.

If he was still a scholar who was born as a young master, he went all the way to the Jinshi, became an official and then went on an official career, I am afraid that he would never have in-depth contact with these suffering people in his life, but perhaps it was fate that the rebels who had lost their families met them.

Among them was an old man whose son was run over to death by a young master of an official family. The county magistrate said he had misunderstood it, and brought a servant who was tied up and said that this was the one who killed your son.He was not reconciled, and wanted to go to the state capital to beat the grievance drum, but he was put in a sack and locked up before he left the county town three miles away.Two months later, the young master caused trouble again, and this time he was the one who was pushed out to take the blame.

The other was a young man whose father was old and evil. Seeing his wife's beauty, he wanted to force him to have sex with her.Until his wife was killed by hitting her head against a pillar, and her father committed a crime that no one could cover up, and finally the whole family was imprisoned, and one person left alone and several others died in vain. *

There was also a middle-aged woman whose husband wanted to rape a girl from a poor family, but the girl refused. She was beaten to death by him in a fit of anger, and her body was divided and buried at home.Later, the woman accidentally found the dead body at home, and she reported to the officials in a panic.

Qi Yu watched them cry and plead, and finally fell into the same numbness.Some of them are innocent and some are guilty, but no matter who they are, they can't be so guilty, and they are not the ones who are really heinous.

It is noble and humble.

It is clan etiquette.

It is patriarchal right.

It is the benevolence, righteousness and morality that the emperor preached for his subordinates.

"Xiaohe." Qi Yu's voice was as soft as a sigh.

The spring breeze brought the continuous fragrance of magnolia flowers, and she heard the name that he had never evoked in her whole life.

"You have never harmed anyone. It is not sinful to want to live a good life, but if someone is guilty..."

He didn't finish this sentence, neither the man nor the cat made any sound, only the swing was still shaking.

The author says:

Qi Yu: Running into Communism

*The prototype of the case was Zhao Cheng and Zhao Youliang during the Qianlong period.