At night, the huge capital was pitch black.

Only the torches that patrol the night are swaying in the dark, like erratic ghost fires.

During the day, Shunjun moved back and forth, and the tense and solemn atmosphere stirred the whole city. Not to mention people, even dogs were not barking.

Even the updater who was fighting for the update disappeared without a trace.

After Dashun occupied the capital, he dissolved all the government offices of the previous dynasty, but has not yet resumed.

However, on the streets of Xicheng, there were two slightly thin figures holding hands with each other, jumping around on both sides of the street, carefully avoiding the flames of patrolling the night.

Occasionally, fire flashed by, reflecting two fair and slightly terrified faces.

One is a teenager and the other is a girl.

The young man has a very heroic eyebrows, and looks like he is fifteen or sixteen years old. The girl is slightly young, with beautiful eyebrows and gentle temperament.

If there is an old minister of Dali here, he will definitely exclaim: Prince.

This young girl is the crown prince Zhu Ci and the crown princess Ming Wan.

After the surrender of the capital, the officials and generals who decided to surrender finally retained the last trace of shame and did not arrest Chongzheng and the prince and sent it to Shunjun.

Before Chongzheng hangs himself, he ordered the queen to commit suicide, chop off the princess, and then called Zhu Ci to change into civilian clothes and escape in the chaos.

Perhaps he was completely desperate about the dynasty. Before leaving, Chongzheng did not ask Zhu Ci to go south to succeed the throne, but asked him to leave the capital, hide his name and forget everything in the palace.

At that moment, Zhu Ci felt that the sky had collapsed. After tears of farewell to Chongzheng, Zhu Ci took Mingwan and secretly changed into civilian clothes. He ran out of the palace while the chaos, and hid in the home of a small official who was attending the Eastern Palace.

The so-called attendant of the Eastern Palace is the official who accompanied the prince to study in the Eastern Palace, and is a close minister of the prince.

This man was loyal and risked his family being destroyed once he discovered that he would be buried in the previous dynasty's crown prince.

In this way, although Zhu Ci and Mingwan are worried every day, they finally have a place to live.

But soon, Liu Zongmin, the general of the Shun Army, began to torture the whole city, and arrested people almost according to the list of the Ministry of Personnel.

At first they were princes, nobles, cabinet ministers, and then they spread to fourth-rank and fifth-rank officials.

In the end, even the ninth-rank official such as the attendant of the Eastern Palace was not spared.

The amount of blackmailed attendants in the Eastern Palace was as high as 3,000 taels.

Chongzheng was a poor emperor, Zhu Ci was a poor prince, and the Eastern Palace was also a Qingshui position. His salary was poor, so the reward was a symbolic gift for the New Year. How could the family be poor?

So the attendant of the Eastern Palace was beaten to death in Zhao Prison.

He was loyal and did not offer Zhu Ci's existence until his death in exchange for a chance to survive.

A few days later, a group of Shunjun broke into the home of the Eastern Palace servant, killing all seven people from the Eastern Palace servant's family, and snatching all the money and food.

Zhu Ci and Mingwan had food cut off. After two days of hunger, they had to go out to find a new hiding place.

The two of them were lucky enough to avoid teams of Shunjun patrolling the night, and came to the entrance of a house with a rather grand front. The words on the door plaque had been knocked out, and only four remaining marks were vaguely visible: Jiading Bo Mansion.

After a moment.

When Zhou Kui, who was lying on the bed, was humming straight, he was immediately ecstatic when he saw Zhu Ci and Ming Wan.

Zhou Kui, the father of Empress Zhou, was Chongzheng's father-in-law, and Zhu Ci's grandfather.

That's right, the owner of Jiading Bo Mansion was the best financial slave who was Chongzheng who called for donating silver and was poor and was willing to donate fifty taels. Queen Zhou had no choice but to secretly give him 10,000 taels to donate, but he cried and earned five thousand taels, Zhou Kui.

In such a huge capital, Zhu Ci left the attendant's house and the first thing he thought of was his grandfather.

However, Zhou Kui was ecstatic, but he did not have the joy of seeing his "grandson", but his chance to get back his tortured family fortune.

Liu Zongmin's donation was naturally indispensable to Zhou Kui, the "besider" of the previous dynasty.

After some torture, Zhou Kui couldn't bear the pain and explained the location of the Tibetan silver at home.

At first, Chongzheng called for donation of silver to fight against the Shun Army, but Zhou Kui was willing to donate fifty taels of silver. As a result, when Liu Zongmin tortured, all three million taels of silver in his family were "donated".

Three million to fifty, one side is the enemy of the destruction of the country, and the other side is his own "daughter and son-in-law".

What is retribution? This is retribution.

But looking at it broadly, Zhou Kui's behavior is just a microcosm of the kings, princes, nobles, and civil and military officials in the capital.

After giving up all the money, Zhou Kui felt distressed even more severe than the pain on his body.

Silver is his life.

As a result, Zhu Ci appeared at this time.

What's this?

Grandson?

No no no no!

This is the credit for living and the hope of seeking credit for Shunjun to get home.

Zhou Kui felt his blood surge, and he got up from the bed, pointed at Zhu Ci and Mingwan and shouted to his servants: "Hurry, hurry up, arrest them!"

The servants at the left and right did not understand the identities of Zhu Ci and Mingwan, and rushed over and pushed the two of them down without any resistance.

"Maternal ancestor, you...you, why is this?" Zhu Ci's face changed drastically and she screamed.

"Don't call me my grandfather again." Zhou Kui's eyes shone and pointed at Zhu Ci and said, "You are the remnants of the previous dynasty. If I don't arrest you and send you to the official position, my life will be unsuccessful."

"No...no, I'll leave now, don't catch me..."

Zhu Ci was so scared that he looked deserted. He had a childish experience and never thought that Zhou Kui would catch him as soon as he met.

"Please, don't catch me~"

"I promise I won't say that I've been here and will not implicate you, grandma, please~"

Zhu Ci begged hard, but what he didn't know was that Zhou Kui was not afraid of any impairment, but wanted to arrest him and seek credit.

Capturing the prince of the previous dynasty is a great achievement in any dynasty.

However, Zhou Kui would not allow him to say more. He ordered his servants to block his and Ming Wan's mouths, then put them in the carriage, and hurriedly went out to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

The jumping up and down look was not as if he had been tortured in Zhaozhuo, and his face was full of redness.

Zhu Ci, who was lying in the carriage, had a pale face, his heart was full of fear, and a little dazed. He could never accept the fact that his grandfather would arrest him for office, while Ming Wan was disgraceful and her whole body was trembling.

The two looked at each other and tears flowed.

The galloping horse and carriage were pounding up and down, and the cold wind pouring into the door curtain made the two of them feel cold, as if they were falling into an ice cave.

If you fall into the hands of Shunjun, you will die. If you can get a happy ending, you may have to be tortured to death.

For thousands of years, there have been no exception.

However, at this moment, the cold wind pouring into the door curtain suddenly stopped abruptly, and even the bumps of the carriage became less powerful.

Zhu Ci looked up and immediately widened his eyes.

There was one more person at the curtain.

This man was wearing a coarse linen, sitting behind the curtain, straightening his waist and back, looking at him dimly, shook his head and said disappointedly: "The dragon head is gone, Da Li's energy is gone."

After saying that, he "shushed", reached out and pulled out the pouting cloth from Zhu Ci's mouth, and asked, "You are the prince of the previous dynasty, Zhu Ci?"

Zhu Ci didn't dare to speak out and nodded quickly.

"Do you want to survive?" asked again.

Zhu Ci nodded again.

"It's great, but the price is that from now on you will forget everything about you, your identity, status, glory, wealth, and even your name. You will live another person's life. Are you still willing?"
Chapter completed!