The summer rain in Guizhou came suddenly, with dark clouds covering the sky. A gust of strong wind blew past, and the towering trees in the mountains were blown so hard that their branches and leaves swayed, and they trembled wildly with crackling sounds. The torrential rain did not bring much freshness between heaven and earth, but instead added an indescribable dampness.
Between the towering mountains and steep cliffs, there is a winding loess road, and in the distance a group of people are struggling forward.
There are few people in Guizhou, and on this special highway leading to the border military settlement, even merchants are not seen on weekdays. So suddenly there came such a group of people, so they were definitely not ordinary people.
A group of escorts in black robes were driving thirty or forty exiled prisoners in coarse and old clothes forward.
A torrential downpour suddenly came, the "crackling" sound hurting people's faces. A group of people, whether they were escorts or exiled prisoners, hurriedly ran to the post station beside the road to take shelter.
There were two post stations. The escorts occupied a large one, while the fugitives consciously moved to the smaller one.
Amid the sound of heavy rain, compared with the big pavilion where complaints were endless, everyone in the small pavilion had a blank look on their faces. Even when rain was blown into the pavilion by the strong wind, not many people moved.
Shao Qing put his hands to cover his face and glanced outside the pavilion with a frown. Under the hazy rain curtain, there were endless dark green mountains. They were the same on all sides, without any difference.
Glancing at the big pavilion next to her, her brows furrowed even more tightly. She couldn't go on like this. If she didn't find a way to escape, it would be too late.
Shao Qing believed that he would never find anyone more unlucky than himself.
Not only did others travel through time, but I also traveled through time, but unfortunately, I was transported to the body of an exiled criminal woman!
I don't ask for a pampered life with gold and jade, nor do I ask for an upgraded version of a legitimate daughter or a illegitimate daughter, but at least give me a peasant girl to farm, right?
How did it become like this? !
This was not just an ordinary exiled criminal woman. The original Shao had neither killed anyone nor set fire to anything. She was just implicated by her husband, whom she had only met a few times but failed in the battle for the throne. From a high and mighty prince's consort, she fell to the dust overnight.
The prince's wife!
She was reborn as a prince's consort. Instead of enjoying the fine food and drink of life, she was driven and driven on a road 2,000 miles southwest.
Fighting for the throne will never be pardoned in your lifetime!
When Shao Qing just opened her eyes two days ago, she had to shed tears for herself. No wonder her original body had no desire to live. She was in a daze, had a fever for a few days, and then died.
The original body could not accept the gap, but Shao Qing could still accept it. After all, it is better to live a miserable life than to die. If you die, you will have nothing, while if you live, you still have a chance.
She cherished her hard-earned new life very much. After two days, although she was still suffering from the sequelae of weakness in her limbs due to a high fever, she still cheered up and tried hard to observe the environment around her.
The narrow path surrounded by the vast forest was sparsely populated. After walking for two days, we didn't meet anyone else except our group.
The escort was obviously the best among his colleagues. He had traveled fifty miles a day from the capital city without showing any signs of fatigue. There were a group of more than a dozen of them, which was slightly more than the number of exiles. They were arranged in shifts and kept a close watch day and night.
Shao Qing's companions were basically women and children, all of whom were family members of officials who were overthrown in the fight for the throne. The male members of their families had long been beheaded, leaving only a group of old, weak, women and children. They were all sentenced to be exiled two thousand miles to the southwest and set off together.
The objective conditions are so difficult, and now she is just a frail girl with a delicate body.
Escaping alone is impossible.
As for group cooperation, the success rate is higher, but unfortunately its actual operability is lower than the success rate of escaping alone.
Not to mention the difficulty of inciting everyone to escape, she simply couldn't find the opportunity to incite them.
For example, at this moment, even though it was pouring rain and people were talking loudly in the pavilion, there were still some escorts holding knives and staring at this side.
Shao Qing touched his still hot forehead, sighed secretly, and glanced towards the center of the pavilion three feet to the left without making any expression.
There was a tall figure sitting cross-legged, the only adult male in the pavilion, and the only one in handcuffs and leg shackles. Heavy bracelets and anklets restricted the movement of his limbs, and there was a chain made of fine iron as thick as a little finger that passed through his collarbones, with special keys locking the two ends firmly to the bracelets on both sides.
Piercing the scapula completely locked the man's fighting power.
There was no way, because this person was the fifth prince of the previous emperor, who was known as the "God of War" and was named King of Qi, Wei Jing.
He is a good commander on the battlefield and has superb skills. If he is not completely locked down like this, I am afraid that the new emperor on the throne will never feel at ease.
Well, this person is also Shao Qing’s cheap husband.
Speaking of the other party, she couldn't help but sigh that there were actually people who were more unlucky than herself.
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Wei Jing was the second son of the Empress. He had an older brother who was the eldest son of the late emperor who had just passed away and was named the Crown Prince.
According to the memories Shao Qing received, the late emperor and the late empress were deeply in love, and even though he had to take in some concubines to balance the previous dynasty, he always reported for duty and spent most of the month resting in the empress Fu's palace.
The love has remained the same for more than twenty years. In this era when concubines are everywhere, this is an extremely rare kind of love. Queen Fu must have been very satisfied and moved, because all the noble ladies in the capital, including the original queen, admired her extremely.
Wei Jing and his brother grew up in such an environment of fatherly and motherly love.
The brothers were friendly and respectful to each other, and they were all very outstanding. The crown prince was good at civil administration, and the fifth prince Wei Jing was good at martial arts.
After the prince entered the court, he assisted his father in governing the country and pacifying the people, and made many achievements. As for Wei Jing, he was even more extraordinary.
Over the past ten years or so, the Tatars have been eyeing the northern border covetously and have repeatedly led large armies to invade the country. The Chu army has been defeated repeatedly, and in the worst defeat, they even ceded territory, paid compensation, and sent their princess as a concubine.
The fifth prince, who was born with a keen sense of military affairs, rushed to the northern border at the age of fifteen, established military orders, trained elite soldiers, and led the army to fight against the Tatar cavalry three times, winning great victories all three times. The last time, he even shot and killed the Tatar Khan who came to lead the army in person on the battlefield, and the 500,000-strong Tatar army was routed and forced to retreat hundreds of miles, without the strength to invade again for twenty years.
This battle will go down in history.
Unfortunately, Wei Jing did not get the treatment he deserved.
When he had just won a great victory in his last battle, he suddenly received an imperial edict which was sent urgently from the capital city eight hundred miles away.
His royal father had suffered a sudden stroke and was in critical condition.
Wei Jing was terrified and immediately gave a few instructions, then rode his horse day and night and rushed back to the capital.
He didn't expect that what was waiting for him would be a dragnet.
Designed by his father himself.
As far as Shao Qing knew, on the day the emperor suffered a stroke, the prince was "exposed" for poisoning his father with the intention of usurping the throne, and he "committed suicide" after being imprisoned. The news was covered up, and Wei Jing hurried back to the capital, where he was arrested in his father's bedroom on charges of treason.
The emperor held on to his last breath, denounced the crimes of his two legitimate sons, and finally appointed the second prince born to Concubine Li as the new crown prince.
When the new emperor ascended the throne, because Wei Jing had just made great contributions and many upright court officials argued against him, the new emperor had no choice but to pierce his collarbone and exile him 2,000 miles to the southwest.
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Shao Qing couldn't help but sigh, what a shocking scam.
Empress Fu was born in the Mansion of Marquis Pinghai. The Fu family had been prosperous for decades, while Concubine Li was an extremely humble maid who had served the emperor since childhood.
The previous emperor was a son of a royal family who succeeded to the throne. The royal bloodline was cut off, and after a struggle among several forces, he was chosen to ascend the throne.
Such an emperor "deeply loved" Empress Fu for more than 20 years, and Empress Fu attracted all the attention in the harem. In the previous dynasty, he relied on the Fu family to eliminate all the powerful officials with ill intentions. After many hardships, he finally took power into his hands.
He just suffered a sudden stroke and died young, otherwise things would definitely not have turned out so ugly.
Shao Qing sighed deeply as she was implicated as well. Otherwise, she would have been very satisfied even if she had been reincarnated as the widow of King Qi.
After sighing, Shao Qing continued to face reality.
That's right, she thought about it over and over again, and finally came to the conclusion that only by placing her hope on Wei Jing would her chances of successfully escaping be higher.
The royal family shall not be subject to capital punishment or severe punishment that would cause devastating and permanent damage. So when ordinary prisoners were pierced through the collarbone, they would directly pierce the shoulder blade and lock it with an iron chain; but Wei Jing, on the other hand, used a fine iron chain as thick as a little finger to circle the collarbones on both sides and then locked it on the handcuffs.
Both have the effect of restraining all physical force, but the former causes permanent damage that cannot be restored, while the latter can be restored to at least 50% to 60% immediately as long as the chains are removed. If the injuries are healed well, recovery is not impossible.
Shao Qing turned his head calmly, his eyes passing through the pouring rain to a bailiff with a mole on the left cheek in the pavilion opposite.
This man was called "Chen Zuzhang" by the escorts and was the leader of all the escorts. He had a bunch of keys in a cloth bag around his waist. Shao Qing could see him carefully checking whether the keys were in good condition almost every day.
Obviously, this is the key to Wei Jing's shackles.
According to the conversations between the escorts that Shao Qing had listened carefully to over the past two days, this group of escorts were not the new emperor's men, but were arranged after the efforts of loyal ministers. They were known for their integrity and old-fashionedness, and had never made a mistake in escorting prisoners in the past ten years.
They just wanted to quickly take the prisoners to the military settlement on the border, complete the task, and get rid of the hot potato.
This place is about ten days' journey from the target military settlement.
There is still some time.
Shao Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
But before she had the chance to get the key, she had something very important to do. That is to establish some relationship with her cheap husband first, so that he can trust her, or at least cooperate with her at that time.
That’s right, the original body and Wei Jingming were husband and wife, but they were not actually familiar with each other. Even the few times they had met were before their wedding.
The original body was chosen as the Princess of Qi at the age of fourteen. Wei Jing was eighteen at that time, and he was ready for the wedding after half a year of preparation. A month before the wedding, something happened in the northern border, and the most fierce battle against the Tatars broke out, so he naturally rushed to the northern border.
The wedding was not postponed.
When the fifth prince was young, he was seriously ill and nearly died. A noble scholar published an imperial edict to save him. The scholar also gave him a fate prediction, saying that he must get married before he turns 20, otherwise his life would be in danger again.
Anyway, the prince's marriage will be handled by officials such as Taichang, so there is no need for the emperor to go to the palace to pick him up in person. She was welcomed into the Prince of Qi's Palace, and the next day she paid homage to the Emperor and Empress. She was undoubtedly the Princess of Qi.
As for other secular rituals such as worshiping in the hall, it would not be too late to make up for them when Wei Jing returns.
Who knew that after waiting for so long, we would end up at the edge of the stream.
Shao Qing took out the cold steamed buns that he had specially saved in the morning, then took out a broken bowl from his small bag, washed it with rain water, filled most of the bowl with water, and moved to the center of the pavilion with his head lowered.
The escort would always throw the food in whole bags, and the war god, the King of Qi, would never fight for it.
According to her observation, he had not eaten much in the past two days.
It’s always right to encourage others to eat, right? It can not only build closer relationships, but also allow the main force of the escape to accumulate some strength.
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