They all say I'm a puppet

It rarely snows in the capital city in winter, but it is still chilly. This year seems to be a bit colder than previous years, and it may be because there are not many people left in the palace.

At the beginning of winter, Empress Su lingered on the sick bed because of excessive worry. Several imperial doctors went to Zhengyang Palace to treat her, but there was nothing to do.Until I learned from the maid beside Empress Su that since the death of Emperor Chunxi, the Empress was in great grief. She often saw the traces of Emperor Chunxi in the palace and was touched by the scene.

Since it was a heart disease, he needed heart medicine to treat it. Since it was easy to get emotional in the palace, he took a few maids and imperial doctors and moved directly to the palace outside the city.

Cang Lin knew very well that Empress Su would not come back.Su Kun loved this daughter very much, and it was because of Chen Yuan that he sent her to the palace back then, so it was not easy to disobey him.Now that Emperor Chunxi passed away, and the new lord has not moved for a long time, Su Kun is in charge of the government, so he will naturally try to arrange a way out for his daughter.

There may be Chen Yuan who will not come back again.

Although the Xili Kingdom is coming fiercely, it is only a small country after all. Chen Yuan led [-] elite troops to fight southward. Although he suffered a little setback due to lack of preparation in advance, he finally resolved the attack of the Xili Kingdom and successfully recovered the captured four cities. , to resolve the crisis in the Southwest.

But after the war ended, Chen Yuan didn't return. He just sent 2 people north to help resist He Hongyi's attack, and he and the rest of the army simply stationed in the southwest without any further action.Afterwards, Chen Yuan's cronies picked up the mother and daughter of Yongning Princess Fu Zhi, and Chen Yuan's performance was very clear - he gave up the imperial city.

In fact, this is justifiable. Zhao Ying and He Hongyi's eldest son, He Zheqi, had a stalemate for several months. He Zheqi couldn't take advantage of it and couldn't go further, but Zhao Ying couldn't get out of Hedong.Just because Chen Yuan and the heavily damaged army that had just experienced the First World War in the Southwest, and the remaining imperial guards were definitely not He Hongyi's opponents, Cang Lin knew this, and so did Chen Yuan.

So Chen Yuan took his family with him and stayed in the southwest. According to the terrain in the southwest, even if He Hongyi captured the imperial city and occupied the whole world, it would not be possible to obtain the southwest from Chen Yuan in a short while.

And Chen Yuan relied on the natural dangers of the southwest to recuperate, just like when He Hongyi was stationed in the northwest and Chen Yuan had nothing to do with him, He Hongyi couldn't get rid of him either.And as long as he is still alive, there will be a day when he will make a comeback. At that time, it is still unknown who will be able to sit still in this world.

Cang Lin could see Chen Yuan's purpose, and those courtiers in the court who had become fine could also see it. He Hongyi led the army like a broken bamboo, and Nanxia's army could not resist at all. Many people even defected and gave up resistance. Joining He Hongyi's army, He Hongyi headed south like a rainbow, approaching the imperial city.

People in the court began to make their own plans. Those who didn't like He Hongyi went to Chen Yuan to the southwest, and those who stayed in the capital made preparations for He Hongyi's arrival. Find ways to find valuables, and then find ways to leave.

Cang Lin watched all this quietly.He was sitting on the roof of Changle Palace, holding the colorful pheasant in his arms, watching all the chaos in the imperial city with a blank expression.

The servants of Changle Palace were all arranged by Chen Yuan to enter the palace. Now that Chen Yuan has gone to the southwest, if they stay here, their lives will be lost when He Hongyi enters the palace, so they are the first to choose to leave.Before they left, they searched almost every corner of the palace, except for the one where Cang Lin lived now. After all, they could all see now that Cang Lin was no longer the taciturn little eunuch who followed the little emperor back then. No one will provoke him again.

After all, Fu Yu is not a righteous emperor, so even his bedroom does not have many valuable things. Those servants searched and searched, and finally couldn't find anything to take away, so they started to snatch what they had already got Things, they fought several times in Changle Palace, smashed a lot of things, finally reached a consensus, took all the gains, and fled the imperial city without looking back.

Changle Palace was the first to be vacant, followed by people from Zhengyang Palace, and then those nobles who were sent to the palace to please the emperor but ended up in a harem. Some wanted to stay, and some From the very beginning, he may not have come here voluntarily, so he simply took advantage of this time to find ways to get out of the palace with the escaped servants.

Cang Lin watched everyone's movements quietly, as if going back to three years ago.That day when He Hongyi's army surrounded the capital, everyone in the imperial city was in danger. At that time, Cang Lin and He Hongyi's family were captured by the Empress Dowager Chen and sneaked out while the guards were not paying attention, disguised as a little eunuch. , hiding in the palace in a panic, just to find a way to escape from the palace.

At that time, he was weak and incompetent, and he was bullied by He Hongyi's pampered and doted-on young son all day long, so he only wanted to survive. He followed the fleeing palace people to find the exit, and there he met Fu who was about to escape. Yu and Cheng Zhong, he knew that the young man was the emperor, instinctively felt that following him would save his life, so he really followed him out of the imperial city.

He originally just wanted to survive, but he didn't expect that step by step, he would no longer be under his control. He and the boy depended on each other for life, put him in his heart bit by bit, and then lost him completely.

He became as powerful as he expected, but still, he had nothing.

Only this time, he was no longer afraid to face He Hongyi, he was waiting in this imperial city, even if it became empty, he would not leave.

The sky gradually darkened, and Xiao Hei, who was nestled in Cang Lin's arms, moved restlessly, poked his head out and gently pecked Cang Lin's wrist a few times with his sharp beak, Cang Lin raised his hand and stroked it with his fingers. It patted its feather crown, and said softly: "I know you are hungry, go back and eat first, and accompany me to a place later."

Xiao Hei looked at Cang Lin with his pitch-black eyes, and then rubbed his head against the place he pecked. Cang Lin laughed when he saw it, jumped off the roof with it, and went back to his room. inside.

He is still living in Fuyu's bedroom, everything is still familiar, even there are two pillows on the bed, as if there are still two teenagers living here, nothing has changed.

But after all, things have changed, Fu Yu is gone, and even Uncle Zhong has moved to the Imperial Tomb, maybe this is his fate, he is destined to face everything alone.

When Cang Lin left, the charcoal basin was still burning in the hall, but no one was watching, and it had been extinguished for most of the day. Cang Lin poured out the burnt charcoal ashes, added new charcoal, and rekindled the fire.Looking back, Xiao Hei had already turned around in the hall, and finally stopped in front of the empty food bowl, flapping his wings in an attempt to attract Cang Lin's attention.

Cang Lin smiled, grabbed a handful of grains and threw them into the food bowl, seeing Xiao Hei immediately rushed over to eat happily, couldn't help but raise his lower lip.It's actually a good thing to keep Xiao Hei by his side, at least it makes him feel a little angry around him.

He walked around the hall, only to find half a white steamed bun left over from noon, it was already dry and cold, Cang Lin took it in his hand and took a look, then threw it back.The palace has become like this, so naturally there is no need to expect to get three meals a day from the imperial dining room. Cang Lin can only search for some food, vegetables and meat, and then turn them into something edible Things re-entry.

But in the past few years, although he has learned how to make fire and decoct medicine with Fu Yu, he has not learned how to cook. Fortunately, he ate these things alone. If Fuyu was here... That person has been the emperor in the past few years. He has not learned anything else, but he has developed a bad habit of picking his mouth. Things will never be imported unless it is absolutely necessary.

But if Fu Yu was still around, Cang Lin felt that he would definitely learn how to cook well, and he was unwilling to wrong Fu Yu in such a matter.

He stood by the table in a daze for a while, then looked back to see that Xiao Hei had finished eating, curled up by the charcoal basin and dozed off, his little chest heaving and falling, sleeping very soundly.Sometimes Cang Lin is really envious of Xiao Hei, after all, as a pheasant, it is beautiful and eats well, has nothing on its mind, and does not need to miss anyone.

Cang Lin smiled, shook his head, walked around the hall again, and finally found a food box, opened it and took a look, there was an unknown pastry inside, Cang Lin thought for a while, it should be It was put down by Xun Cheng when he came over the day before. He didn't take it seriously when he had something to eat before, and now he just relieved his hunger.

Cang Lin actually doesn't like to eat this kind of sweet and greasy food, but after all, he is a little hungry now, so he ate up the box of pastries with a cup of hot tea, then got up and stretched his arms, picked up the cake and returned it. Xiao Hei, who was sleeping soundly, stuffed it into his arms again, and said softly: "Let's go, we agreed to go somewhere with me."

Cang Lin walked out of the gate of Changle Palace, and walked towards a direction he had rarely been to before.It used to be Zhaoyang Hall, the bedroom of Concubine Xiao Gui, the favorite concubine of Emperor Yuankang.Later, Concubine Xiao's mother and son died here, and because the death was so tragic, some people rumored that Concubine Xiao's ghost would come to claim her life in Zhaoyang Palace, so this once luxurious bedroom was abandoned.Later, someone quietly cut a gap in the outer city wall on the west side of it. Cang Lin and Fu Yu left the imperial city through that gap.

Cang Lin sat on the roof of Changle Palace for most of the day today, and suddenly wanted to go there to have a look.

Fuyu's harem was empty, and there were many vacant sleeping halls to accommodate the beauties who were forced to be around him, so Zhaoyang Palace has been left unused, and over time it has become another cold palace in the palace.Along the way, Cang Lin felt the obvious depression.

He stayed at the gate of Zhaoyang Palace for a while, and Fuyu later told him everything he had experienced here that day, and said that he was fortunate to have picked up a life from this Zhaoyang Palace.

Cang Lin stared at the broken plaque on the top of Zhaoyang Palace for a while, then walked around the door and headed west.

On the same day, Chen Yuan went back to the palace to investigate how Fu Yu escaped. He heard that this gap was also repaired by him, and at the same time, the guards of the imperial city were strengthened.Cang Lin went to the city wall to have a look, and found that the gap was no longer found, the surrounding was desolate, and there was no trace of the day.

Cang Lin stood in front of the city wall for a while, gently touched Xiao Hei's curious head, and said in a low voice, "We escaped from here that day." As he said, he turned around. Qu pointed to the bushes behind him, "I was hiding here at the beginning, and then he found out, and then I asked him to take me out of the palace with him, but he was very reluctant at that time."

Naturally, Xiao Hei couldn't understand what he said, after looking around, he finally couldn't beat the cold northwest wind, and retracted his head back into Cang Lin's arms.Cang Lin smiled, and sighed long: "Forget it, let's go back."

The past can never go back anyway, and it is impossible to get back what was lost.But after all, he is still alive, so he has to live on.

It's the new year again, but with He Hongyi's approaching every step of the way, it is doomed that the current imperial city will not have another good year.

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, Cang Lin woke up early in the morning, first fed Xiao Hei, practiced his skills in the open space in front of Changle Palace, then went back to boil some hot water for himself, and washed himself. Take a shower, put on clean clothes, and start practicing calligraphy in front of the desk.

He was originally a taciturn person. In fact, in the years before meeting Fuyu, he had been spending time alone. The sons of He Hongyi would never talk to him except to bully him. Ri locked herself in her room to read and write, until she met Fuyu, and then she slowly lived another kind of life with company and jokes.

Now that person is gone, and he's back to the kind of life he used to be.

His handwriting is actually very good. At least Su He was very satisfied at the beginning. At the beginning, Fu Yu tried to let Cang Lin practice handwriting for him, but later found that the gap between the two people was too big, even himself. I can't stand it anymore.

Cang Lin casually touched a book from the bookshelf, opened the first page and wrote accordingly.He began to practice calligraphy when he was very young. At that time, he thought that as long as he could write well, he could please others and he would not be bullied again. Later, he realized that no matter how hard he tried, it was impossible to change. Those people, he later learned to be patient.

Cang Lin wrote according to that volume for a while, only to realize that it was a poem. He read it carefully over his shoulder, and he couldn't let go of the pen. It was clearly written on the paper: Ten years of life and death.Don't think about it.Unforgettable.Thousands of miles away, there is no place to talk about desolation.

Cang Lin couldn't help but squeezed the pen tightly in his hand, and finally couldn't control it, and broke the pen holder directly.

Cang Lin threw away half of the pen in his hand, took another pen, dipped in the ink and wrote again, two words slowly appeared on the paper.Those are two very simple words, but that person can't always write them well.Cang Lin stared at those two words for a while, reached out and picked up the whole piece of paper, and threw it into the charcoal basin, watched the tongue of fire devour the paper, and sighed softly.

There was a sudden commotion outside the palace, which could not be heard carefully from a distance.Cang Lin counted the days carefully, the last time Xun Cheng came over, he said that He Hongyi's army had already approached the capital, and now the guards in the capital had no resistance at all, so it was time to enter the palace today.

Looking back, the last time He Hongyi invaded the imperial city was probably in the past few days when he said goodbye to the old and ushered in the new. It seemed to be intentional, but it might be something he could do.

Cang Lin stuffed Xiao Hei into a cotton nest and placed it on the roof beam, rearranged his robe, tied his hair in front of the bronze mirror, then looked at the expressionless young man in the bronze mirror, slightly Lifting the corners of his lips, he took a deep breath, got up and left the gate of Changle Palace.

Those personal guards of He Hongyi had already entered the palace, rampaging in the palace, arresting everyone and snatching things. This is a rare time for them to indulge. When the situation calms down, there will be a new master in the imperial city.

No one is more familiar with this imperial city than Cang Lin. He easily avoided those people and went straight to the Hall of Martial Heroes. He knew that He Hongyi would be here, waiting for all civil and military officials to appear and surrender to him.

The gate of the Hall of Martial Heroes was open, and there were guards with swords standing inside. Cang Lin walked in as if he didn't see them, walked straight to the center of the hall, looked up at the middle-aged man standing on the high place .

The man was also examining him, frowning slightly, as if he was considering his identity, the two of them looked at each other for a long time, and in the end it was He Hongyi who spoke first, with no emotion in his voice: "Are you Cang Lin?"

Cang Lin nodded lightly: "Yes, father."

He Hongyi stared at Cang Lin's face for a while, then burst out laughing suddenly: "You are lucky, you are indeed my He Hongyi's son. I have heard about you in the secret letter, and you have stayed in that small The emperor must have suffered a lot of grievances, I also remember what you did, and thanks to you, we were able to resolve the matter of the little emperor." After finishing speaking, he pointed to a young man who was standing next to him , "Come and meet your second brother, Yin Zhi, your eldest brother is still in Hedong, and will come to the imperial city to reunite with us soon."

Cang Lin glanced at the young man, and saw vigilance and vigilance as well as disgust on his face as he wished, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.He knew that He Hongyi would recognize him. After all, the Empress Dowager Chen killed his family members, leaving only two sons by his side.He Hongyi is a person who wants the world, so he naturally hopes that his offspring will be prosperous, especially now that there is a young and capable young son standing in front of him, even if the young son's mother was killed by him himself, even if the young son was once ignored by him , almost died in the mansion.