You remember son

He ordered the palace supervisor coldly: "Open the door."

"My lord..."

"The king said to open the door! When the war returns to Beijing, the king should face the saint!"

The palace supervisor bent down to look at the palace gate, plopped down on his knees, and said tremblingly, "My lord, spare me, but the servants dare not. The gate of this palace was locked by the emperor. It has been four days... the empress dowager sent someone to forcibly I went in, and was ordered to be beheaded by the emperor..."

Hua Rong didn't listen, and directly drew the sword on the waist of the guard outside the hall, inserted it into the crack of the door, lifted the heavy latch behind the door, threw the sword aside, and pushed the door open.

The door of the temple was opened, and the long-lost sunlight came in, and the dust in the air could be clearly seen stirring.

Hua Rong saw that Hua Yan was blinded by the sudden sunlight, and closed his eyes.It was cold at the beginning of spring, and in the cold and empty hall, he sat on the ground motionless for four days and nights.

That face that could only be cold at first, now can only see loneliness, and has lost a lot of weight.Hua Yan just looked at the ground expressionlessly.

Hua Rong heard him ask: "Hua Rong... I regret it, I... shouldn't have driven him to the battlefield. Where is he?" His voice became hoarse because he hadn't spoken for a long time. The hall echoed.

Hua Rong felt sore in his heart, and the only anger left before became unbearable.Eyes reddened and she knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, I'm not doing enough to protect Shen Liangyuan, please forgive me."

"I'm afraid to see him now..." Hua Yan opened his eyes and looked at Hua Rong in front of him: "But, where is he now? I want to see him..."

Hua Rong couldn't bear it, and begged on his knees, "Brother Emperor, Liang Yuan...was trampled into flesh...bloody and bloody, don't see you anymore." When he said that, tears came out of his eyes, thinking At that time, I was beside Liang Yuan, and I couldn't stop the arrow from flying, piercing his shoulder blade.

On the battlefield, Liang Yuan never stops because of pain. He often said that on the battlefield, he will only move forward and not backward, only advance and never retreat.

He watched Liang Yuan pull out the arrow, slap the horse with his gun, and lead the army to continue to rush forward, fighting amidst the shouts of arrows, blood and shadows, at last, he saw him fall suddenly from a distance... and then Did not see him get up.

He once said that a man should die in the wilderness, wrapped in horse leather.It turned out that the words became a prophecy, and he was buried in the battlefield after all. In his life, he only wanted to be a general after all, only for that person to be a king.

Hua Yan forced himself to close his eyes, holding the broken pieces of jade.This is what I fell to the ground that day and picked it up again on my knees.It turned out that it was crushed.It turns out that some people can no longer see each other...

His heart ached, the broken jade in his hand became tighter and tighter, blood flowed from the palm, overflowed from between the fingers, flowed through the whitish joints, and fell into the red carpet, with no color visible.

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Early spring of Emperor Wengan's 12th year

General Xinwei Shen Liangyuan went to fight Jiangyuan, defended the city and retreated from the enemy, fought bravely, but unfortunately died for his country.

The emperor posthumously conferred the title of King An on Shen Liangyuan, buried him in a rare ice jade coffin, and bestowed him with the Qi Nan Mountain on the east side of the imperial mausoleum.

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The palace supervisor stood outside the palace, not knowing what to do?The emperor didn't eat much for nearly half a month, and only locked himself in the palace and buried himself in government affairs.Now I was thrown out again with this bowl of soup... This was sent to the Chonglan Palace by the Empress Dowager's order, so how can I explain it to Jiashou Palace this time?

In the beginning of spring, there was another light snowfall.

When Hua Yan came out of the palace, it was already dusk, and the snow was still falling.

He looked up at the sky, the sky was dark, only a few stars were left to shine.Thinking of the scene when he left at that time, it seems to be the same, the cool wind blows at night, and the city is full of snow.But he shut out the last side of him.

At that time, he was kneeling outside the door, what did he seem to say when he knelt in the snow and kowtowed down?There is no way to hear clearly.I just saw his figure lonely and desolate when he left.

Why didn't you want to see him?Why bother to rush him to the battlefield?It's just that when I knew that he was going to consummate with Jin'an, I really wanted to kill someone.

Hua Yan walked out of the veranda and stood under the night sky, waiting for the night snow to fall, and when it sank into the neck, it was icy cold.Only now can I feel how sad and lonely Liang Yuan was when he was standing in the snow and waiting for someone to meet.

Now, I can't wait for myself.

"Your Majesty." The palace supervisor hurried over to hold an umbrella.

"Go to Shen's mansion to have a look."

after March.

Hua Rong came into the palace and heard that Hua Yan had already gone to Shen's residence.

Hua Rong rushed to Shen's residence and visited Shen's mother and Jin'an first as usual.

Ever since Shen Liangyuan left, Shen's mother had been seriously ill, and since then she has been living in the ancestral hall of the mansion and practicing Buddhism, ignoring other things, and Jin An has been by her side to take care of her.

Hua Rong saw the warden who came with Huayan, the warden was waiting outside the courtyard with the palace guards, carrying a birdcage.

"How long has the emperor been in the courtyard?" Hua Rong asked.

"The emperor has been staying in the courtyard since he came here." The palace supervisor said, "It's almost two hours."

"How is the emperor?"

Hua Rong remembered that when he entered the palace that day, he saw Hua Yan sitting on the ground. He had never seen his imperial brother so helpless.It turned out that he couldn't accept Shen Liangyuan's death.

Hua Rong saw Hua Yan in the backyard, he was rubbing the half-glued jade in his hand, standing alone under the tree, looking at the new buds on the branches.

That looks very much like the old Shen Liangyuan, who seemed to be waiting, but knew it was in vain.

"Brother Huang." Hua Rong walked over carrying the cage in the hands of the warden.

"Why are you here?" Hua Yan turned around.

"Grandmother asked me to come and see Jin'an." Hua Rong put the cage down on the marble table under the tree: "It's so cold, why is Brother Huang still standing in the yard?"

Hua Yan raised his head and pointed to the birdcage hanging on the tree: "This is the crested snow I gave him. I haven't seen you for a long time. I'll bring another one to see."

At this time, the palace supervisor led the old housekeeper A Weng slowly into the courtyard, A Weng bent and knelt down to salute: "This old slave pays homage to the emperor, long live the emperor."

"Get up." Hua Yan pointed to the birdcage on the tree, and asked, "He usually asks you to take care of this crested snow?"

"Going back to the emperor, the old slave will take care of you."

"It still can't talk?"

A Weng shook his head in embarrassment: "This bird never speaks, and I have never heard it speak... There is really no way."

Hua Yan lowered his eyes and smiled bitterly: "Just as disobedient as him."

He walked over, lifted the cage from the tree, looked at the crested snow a little displeased, opened the cage and took it out.

"Your Majesty..." Ah Weng saw that the Emperor was not happy, because he was afraid that he would crush the bird to death if he got angry.

Hua Yan gave him a cold look, and Ah Weng knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, this is left by the young master, and I once took care of it with my own hands. I beg the emperor not to get angry with the ignorant animals, and spare my life..."

Hua Yan still looked indifferent, glanced at A Weng, and finally put the bird back into the cage expressionlessly.

"The old slave thanked the emperor." A Weng hurriedly kowtowed and knelt down to thank him.

Hua Yan opened the cage that Hua Rong brought over again, and the bird flapped its wings and chirped a few times in the cage, and flew into the cold sky.He looked up, and sighed so softly that no one could detect it.

"Let go of these two phoenix-headed snows." He waved his hand wearily.

Hua Rong immediately opened the other cage.

It's just that this bird is spinning around in the cage and won't come out of the cage for a long time.

Hua Rong reached out to take it out, and raised his hand to the sky.It hovered in the air, flapping its wings around the tree branch several times.

Hua Yan glanced indifferently, then turned to Hua Rong and said, "It's time to go back." He turned to leave.

"The flowers have fallen—the flowers have fallen—the flowers have fallen—"

In the tree behind him, the hovering bird was calling.

"Xie Yuhua——Xie Yuhua..."

Hua Yan paused and turned around in a daze.