Broken wings

"Can you still get up?" asked the executioner.

Ouyang Qian supported and remembered, but he couldn't get up anymore, he snorted twice in his weak nose, and his eyes couldn't focus. Seeing that he was so badly wounded, the jailer looked at the person next to him and asked, "Why don't you do it?"

"The emperor is going to examine his injuries. The man said solemnly, "If the emperor finds out that he has both hands and feet, we will die." "

They saw that Ouyang Qian was in great pain, so they simply took his arms and legs off in the posture of lying on the stool, Ouyang Qian whimpered in pain, and tears slid down the corners of his eyes.

The jailer explained: "You can rest here for a while, and then go to the emperor to examine your injuries when the pain is not so much." And then he left.

Ouyang Qian struggled to get up with one arm support, one leg dragged on the ground, one arm hung to the side, and walked back step by step, at this time the moon was already hanging high, and when he returned to the Chengming Palace, it was already

ugly, he saw that the Chengming Hall was dark, and it was expected that Yuan Zhen had already slept, kneeling on one leg at the gate of the palace waiting for Yuan Zhen to wake up and check his injuries, and his whole body was shaky.

He just waited, waited, and watched as the sky slowly turned from dark to white, the sun slowly revealed, and at noon the sun was three poles, but there was still no movement in the house. Ouyang Qian swallowed his saliva, his lips were dry and white, he was so hungry and sleepy, his eyelids were almost open, and his legs and feet were already numb on his knees, but he still didn't move for half a minute.

He watched the sun slowly go down, and it was dark again, and the door still didn't open, and he even thought that if he knelt for another night, he would kneel and die here.

The moon hung high again, Ouyang Qian was physically exhausted, panting for breath with one hand on the ground, his stomach churned, so uncomfortable, his mouth was full of blood, and he wanted to retch.

The

sound of footsteps came from behind, Ouyang Qian was subconsciously stunned, wasn't his father-in-law here last night? Sure enough, he walked in front of him in a bright yellow body, and Ouyang Qian leaned down in a trance: "The slave has come back from the punishment, please ask the emperor to examine his injuries." "

Yuan Zhen's footsteps paused for a moment, and then his voice couldn't hear the joy and anger: "Get in." Then he pushed open the door and walked in.

Because he had been kneeling for too long, Ouyang Qian's knees had long been unconscious, and they came together like thousands of needles piercing his legs, and it took a moment to get a little better, and it was really hard to go up the steps, he only had one leg to walk, so he had to rely on the strength of one of his arms and abdomen to climb up, pulling the scabbed scars behind him, and it hurt hotly. I finally climbed the steps and limped to the door, but I hesitated not to go in.

"I told you to get in, are you deaf?!" Yuan Zhen saw that he didn't move for a long time, suddenly became angry, and roared outside the house, Ouyang Qian was frightened, looked at him timidly, held the door frame with his hand, and one of the feet on the ground was still trembling because of the lack of blood circulation, "The minion is so dirty, it will stain the floor if you go in, why don't you go outside to check the injury." "

There was the

sound of bamboo paper smashing on the ground, Ouyang Qian still hurried in, one leg was completely weak, he could only staggered closer and knelt down, his chest was heaving heavily, he was still afraid that his father-in-law would punish him.

"Please ask the emperor to examine the injury...... Ouyang Qian knelt on the ground, the moment his forehead left the ground, a bamboo note smashed on his head, and his whole person was crooked, and the head was immediately swollen and bloody, Ouyang Qian glanced at Yuan Zhen in a panic, and lowered his head in fright.

"Raise your head and look at me. "

Ouyang Qian looked up at him, and Yuan Zhen asked, "Can you remember the lesson?"

The minion remembered. Ouyang Qian's eyes lowered again, and Yuan Zhen said sharply, "Look at my eyes and say!"

Ouyang Qian was about to cry, Fu raised his head and looked at him again and said, "The slave has remembered the lesson, and he won't dare in the future." "

"That bottle is two thousand three hundred and ninety-four taels, how are you going to pay me compensation?"

Ouyang Qian lowered his head, held back his tears, and said: "The slave still has the emperor's previous reward in the palace, I will make up the amount to pay you first......" Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yuan Zhen, "The money was also rewarded to you by me, and I will confiscate all your reward money when I have time, that doesn't count." "

Ouyang Qian didn't know how to compensate him, he was only a hard worker in the miscellaneous service room now, and the marshal's salary was no longer available, and the salary in the miscellaneous room for a year was only two or three taels of silver, how could he afford to pay three thousand taels.

"Minions...... Go back and find a way......" Ouyang Qian finally couldn't help crying, tears flowed down in strings, aggrieved and twitched, raised his hand to wipe the tears, and new ones flowed down, as soon as he cried, he couldn't stop, the crying was getting louder and louder, Ouyang Qian pinched his nose and covered his mouth, and forced the crying in his mouth, his face turned red, and he really had to ventilate before letting go, sobbing for a while and pinching it.

Yuan Zhen looked at him expressionlessly, he returned to the palace after he went down to the court, staring blankly at the broken jade in his hand, trying to stick it up, but it was all in vain, thinking about her, thinking about her painfully, thinking about her promise to keep with herself, thinking about her belief in giving up her family and country for herself, thinking about the beauty of the day she married herself, thinking about her thoughts of leaving her for more than ten years, thinking about tears sliding down the corners of her eyes. As soon as he thought that his precious things would be destroyed so easily, he longed to strangle him with his own hands and let him be buried with his beloved treasures.

Yuan Zhen sat in the attic all afternoon, and did not remember to return to the palace until the sun set.

Yuan Zhen saw that he was crying and was about to turn his back on the anger, and put his arm on the chess table: "Okay, this time I will spare you first, I don't need you to compensate, and I will ask for some hands and feet in the future." Come on duty on time tomorrow, dare to come a moment late, I will take your neck off. Yuan Zhen condescendingly glanced at Ouyang Qian who was kneeling on the ground, that posture was that of the master who was high up, looking at Ouyang Qian's eyes was no different from looking at a dog.

"The slave will find a way to compensate you, thank the emperor for rewarding and punishing. Ouyang Qian's eyes were swollen from crying, he twitched and thanked him, kowtowed and wanted to stand up, but because one leg was useless, he fell to the ground again before he could stand up, Yuan Zhen looked at him and staggered to the ground, his eyes touched the blood stains on the floor, and he was a little unbearable.

Who knew that Ouyang Qian came back with a rag shortly after he walked out of the door, Yuan Zhen thought he was gone, and frowned when he saw him come back, Ouyang Qian knelt down and bowed his head: "The slave soiled the emperor's bedroom, wipe the floor clean before leaving." The voice had calmed down, just with a distinctly nasal tone. Then he knelt on the ground and wiped the blood with that hand, and slid back with his knee, wiped the wet rag again, and then knelt down again and kowtowed, "Then the slave will retreat first." "

"Wait. Yuan Zhen threw him a bottle of medicine and smashed it on him, he hurriedly caught it with his hand, "Go back and wipe it on the wound yourself, don't dangle it everywhere with a wound!"

“...... Thank you, Your Majesty. Ouyang Qian kowtowed again, Yuan Zhen brushed his sleeves, Ouyang Qian pushed the medicine forward a step away when he got up, got up and bowed back a few steps before limping away. It's not that I haven't used the gold sore medicine, a bottle of medicine is dispensed with hundreds of taels, and I don't know how to pay for three thousand taels, where can I afford such a good medicine, just go back and apply some herbs.

Yuan Zhen turned around and saw that the medicine bottle was still there, and wanted to stop Ouyang Qian, but he had already walked out. Little beast who doesn't know whether to live or die, and you are talking to me in front of me, not only do you not repent of doing something wrong, but you also drag your face to show me, I really don't know how thick the sky is!

Yuan Zhen felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, not only feeling sorry for his precious token, but seeing Ouyang Qian silently enduring all the punishments, and really leaving all his past identities in the past, he felt extremely sad, as if it was not him who was abandoned by this relationship, but himself, so he was able to accept the change of identity so quickly, without any excessive reaction on his face.

Yuan Zhen sat there for an hour, thinking about the past, the past of his youth, the past with Ah Xun, and the past with his father and queen mother. Everything flew by in my head, and all those times, the people who had appeared in those days, were all gone. Is the token really that important? Yuan Zhen asked himself over and over again, the jade pendant is not only a token for himself, but also represents Ah Xun as a person, and represents his emotional sustenance that he has nowhere to place. If you forgive him, it will be as if you have forgotten your feelings with Ah Xun.

When Ouyang Qian

woke up thirsty, it was still the middle of the night, but when he saw Chu Yan still guarding the bedside, Ouyang Qian shook his body and called him: "Uncle Yan? Uncle Yan?"

Chu Yan woke up and hurriedly asked, "Eh, what's wrong?" are you thirsty or hungry?".

"Why haven't you gone to rest yet?"

"Your hands and feet are inconvenient, I'm afraid that you are thirsty and hungry and want to go to the toilet, so I can help you. Chu Yan tucked the corners of the quilt for him, and the corners of Ouyang Qian's eyes suddenly became sour, "I want to drink water." Chu Yan helped him sit up, Ouyang Qian saw a small stove burning in his room, and a teapot was sitting on it, Chu Yan poured him a bowl of hot water, fanned it with his hand, and waited for the water temperature to drop slightly before handing it to his mouth.

"Qian'er, you ...... hands and feet," Chu Yan asked hesitantly, "Can you still pick it up?"

"It's just a dislocation, you can pick it up at any time if you want to, it just depends on the emperor's meaning. Ouyang Qian understood very well in his heart, so he didn't have an overreaction when he broke his hands and feet.

"That's good, that's good, I thought you'd be going to live in bed in the future. Chu Yan wiped his sweat, "Are you hungry?"

He shook his head: "I'm not hungry, Uncle Yan, go back to sleep." "