Loyalty Hou Tiansheng rebellious

In a secluded courtyard of Sanqing Temple, several memorial tablets are enshrined all year round.

Those are all people who have been removed from their names.Li Yan expected that they would not be happy and would not move them back to the palace.It's just worshiped on Sanqing Mountain. Taoist priests come to worship every day, and Princess Changqing often comes.

When offering incense, Li Yan asked Princess Changqing to stand in front. Princess Changqing thought it was unreasonable, and was about to decline, but she heard Li Yan say: "In front of mother, it doesn't matter whether you are king or minister, you only talk about siblings. My sister led us to the mother's bed." It's fragrant."

After he said that, Princess Changqing also stood in front of the two of them.

After bowing her head and kowtow, she straightened up and muttered a few words, but suddenly turned her head and said to Chen Hen: "Li Ting, you also say a few words."

From the beginning just now, Chen Hen just waited on the side in a well-behaved manner.Kneeling on the ground at this moment, he only bowed his head and said, "I dare not go beyond."

"Aniang used to like to hear you speak Jiangnan dialect. She couldn't speak well of what I said to Ah Yan, so you can say a few words." She paused, and when she spoke again, her tone was earnest, "You can do whatever you want. Say a few words."

Chen Hen turned to look at Li Yan beside him, and nodded slightly when he saw him.I only know that Empress Dao and Aunt Lin are both from Jiangnan, and they probably like the same things.

"Beat the oriole, don't teach it to sing on the branches. When it sings, it will startle the concubine's dream, and you won't get to the west of Liaoning."

Once upon a time in Chang'an, he read this poem to his homesick Aunt Lin. She liked it very much and asked him to write it down and embroider it on a handkerchief.

But Aunt Lin didn't know where Liaoxi was. When Aunt Lin asked, Chen Hen lied to her that Liaoxi was another name for Jiangnan.

Later, Aunt Lin realized that one was in the west and the other was in the south. Liaoxi and Jiangnan were basically two places.

So Chen Hen lied to her again, talking about poetry, as long as the meaning is clear, don't worry too much about place names.

Princess Changqing recited the poem silently twice, and asked, "Is it your poem from Jiangnan?"

"It's a poem by a gentleman named Jin Changxu." Chen Hen thought about it again, "He is indeed from Jiangnan."

Kneeling for a while longer, Princess Changqing said: "I will stay alone with A Niang for a while, you go and walk around."

Snow was scattered in the sky.

Li Yan and Chen Hen sat on the steps under the eaves, with a copper basin blackened by the fire in front of them, and several stacks of yellow paper in hand.

Chen Hen took the flint, and the snow was wet and cold, and he knocked it several times but failed to produce fire.

"I'll do it." Li Yan took the flint from his hand.

"Thank you, my lord." Chen Hen reached out for the yellow paper again, and only then did he dare to get closer to Huo Shi.

Yellow paper is flammable and burns quickly.

Chen Hen poked it with a branch, and in the light of the fire, he saw Li Yan frowning tightly, probably feeling uncomfortable.Chen Hen patted him on the back, didn't speak, just accompanied him quietly.

"Li Ting." Li Yan grabbed his hand through his sleeve.

Chen Hen pulled his sleeves back, stretched out his hand, and held his hand instead: "If the emperor is tired, you might as well take a rest."

"Where do you dare to get tired?"

Why did you say such a thing suddenly?Chen Hen was taken aback by him, guessing that he had something on his mind, he held his hand tightly and coaxed him, "I'm here."

Li Yan pursed his lips and looked at him with a serious expression, as if he had never seen Chen Hen before.

He suddenly smiled, his brows and eyes stretched out, as if snow had passed the sky.

He patted Chen Hen's hand: "Aren't you still going to see your mother? You are going back to the palace in the afternoon. You are always with me, and you have never been free. Go and see her. I won't bother you to talk to her." In my own words, you go first, and I will find you later."

Chen Hen was still worried about him: "I will accompany the emperor again."

Li Yan said: "You go."

"If you're tired, take a break." Chen Hen spoke earnestly, looking at him seriously, and finally told him.

"Ah."

After receiving Li Yan's reply, Chen Hen stood up, brushed his robe, picked up the small bamboo basket containing the offerings, and left with a bamboo umbrella.

Li Yan looked at him with his head propped up under the eaves, almost blinded by the wind and snow.

Without picking up his feet and leaving, Chen Hen walked out of the courtyard gate and hid in the dark to watch him for a long time.

Until Li Yan waved his hand at him: "Go quickly, be careful that Xueda gets lost."

After Chen Hen left, Li Yan got up and didn't tell Princess Changqing. He went to find the Taoist Master Xing Xiangzi in Sanqing Temple by himself.

In the winter, the doors and windows are fully opened, and the cold wind blows in, making the tea on the table cold.

Xing Xiangzi had white hair and white beard, and was only wearing bamboo clothes in summer. When he saw Li Yan coming in, he got up and bowed to him.His robe was loose and was blown up by the wind, and he wore a fairy-like appearance: "My lord."

Li Yan stood still in front of him, and said casually: "Master, it is the second year of Yongjia, the 25th of the first month."

Xing Xiangzi stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Is it true that the emperor violates the law of heaven?"

Chen Hen went to visit Aunt Lin's grave with full of thoughts.

When Aunt Lin died, he was accompanying Li Yan in the palace who was planning to suffer an accident, and he had no idea that something happened to her too.It wasn't until the next morning when Wu Duan surreptitiously handed him a letter that he knew that something happened not only in the palace, but also in the Chen residence.

He found Aunt Lin's body from the mass grave, and carried her back to Sanqing Mountain.

He dug the grave with his own hands, carved the tombstone with his own hands, and the ceremony——

At that time, the Taoist priests on the mountain did not dare to get involved in this matter. Aunt Lin's ritual was done by an old Taoist priest with white hair and white beard who felt sorry for him and kindly helped him.

Chen Hen knelt in front of the grave and spread out the offerings in the basket one by one.

Aunt Lin also has a memorial tablet in the Sanqing Temple, but he likes to come to the grave to talk to her, so that it is more real.

When I looked up, I saw the inscription on the tombstone.It was written by him, and the monument was erected last year.

After burning the incense and burning the paper, I reckoned that Aunt Lin Ruoquan knew it, and she should have sensed it now.Chen Hen gathered up his clothes, leaned against the tombstone, sat cross-legged on the ground, and talked to her.

"Alas—" With so many things, Chen Hen didn't know where to start, so he sighed first.

After sitting for a while, he called out, "Huan Niang."

Huan is Aunt Lin's boudoir name.

When he called Huan Niang, he spoke earnestly, not calling his mother at all, as if calling his sister.

But Chen Hen didn't take her as his mother in the first place, how young is he, younger than when he traveled through time, how could he be his mother so early?

I think so in my heart, but I don't necessarily say so in my mouth.

He just said: "Mother, don't be angry, I just yelled casually, I'm sure I didn't call you that in private."

Chen Hen was amused by himself, he got a little cold, he hecked his hands, and said solemnly: "I came back last time, I said that I was appointed Marquis of Zhongyi, and within a year, I was abolished."

After all, he was only serious, and soon he couldn't help laughing: "Li Jishu is simply a lunatic."

Chen Hen leaned his head on the tombstone, seemed to listen carefully, and then said: "Li Jishu is Li Yan, the emperor."

"We just came to Chang'an in the first year, Xiuxiu in March, you took me out to play, and I brought a child who was younger than me. You were afraid that I would get lost with him, and you even put me and his hands in red The rope is tied together——Speaking of this, I have to ask you, if you tied us together at that time, wouldn't you be afraid that I would be lost with him?"

"You always think that he is also the companion of the eighth son, and asks me to bring him snacks and some gadgets, but he is actually the eighth son."

"I didn't mean to hide it from you. I was afraid that you would faint if you found out."

"At that time... I really wanted to take you to Lingnan, and you would know about it at that time. Who knows..." Chen Hen sighed, "But it's okay, Lingnan is barren, and life is hard. You are in Jiangnan and Chang'an, both are rich places, so you don't have to go to Lingnan to suffer."

"What were you talking about just now? Oh, Li Jishu is a lunatic when it comes to it."

"Recently, I've been wondering if he was stimulated before he was reborn? But how could I let him go? I'm not a traitor with a heart of stone. Before I rebelled, I was afraid that he would hate me."

"At that time, if I had followed my arrangement, I would have been able to keep the two of us, and I would have returned the throne to him after finishing the task."

"It stands to reason that it shouldn't be. What did he experience before he was reborn? Could it be that I hurt him severely?"

"As the saying goes, a traitor is a loyal one, and a loyal traitor is a traitor. Loyalty is hard to distinguish from a traitor. I don't know which one I am, but I must be the most loyal one."

"Since New Year's Eve, I've been thinking, how about I find an opportunity to kneel in front of him and confess to him. But I can't explain the system tasks to him, and I can't make him understand that I have to rebel."

"As long as he relaxes, I will apologize to him." Chen Hen sighed, "I have been in love with him for so many years, and I just endured it like this, and it became nothing. I feel uncomfortable."

Seemingly indifferent, Chen Hen lowered his head and sniffled.

He regained his composure, and began to babble in front of the grave again: "He's so solid, he can approve memorials for a whole day when he sits down, or he just goes to the martial arts field to practice swords, and the more this person lives, the more boring he becomes."

"Sometimes I wonder, is he too tired to be the emperor? Then I thought, probably not."

"But in the end, why does he sometimes look at the preoccupied one?"

Aunt Lin naturally couldn't answer him, Chen Hen thought for a while, but couldn't think of anything, so he changed the subject and said, "Huan Niang, may I read your favorite poem again?"

"... When I cry, I startle my concubine's dream, and I don't get to the west of Liaoning." He just finished reading this poem, and Li Yan arrived.

Li Yan also lifted his robe, knelt down in front of the grave, and kowtowed.

Chen Hen got up and stood aside: "My lord, the etiquette is too heavy, my mother can't bear it."

Li Yan raised his head and said, "It doesn't matter whether you are a king or a minister here."

"When did the emperor come?"

"Just came." Li Yan lowered his eyes, "I only heard you recite that poem."

Chen Hen didn't doubt that there was him, he just said: "Thank you, the emperor, for making a special trip to see my mother. The snow is getting heavier and heavier, so let's go back quickly."

"Ah."

Li Yan helped him put the sacrifices on the ground into the basket, and Chen Hen was not allowed to interfere.

He opened the bamboo umbrella, turned to Chen Hen and said, "The snow is getting heavier and heavier, why don't you come here soon?"

Chen Hen hid under the umbrella, and reached out to take the bamboo umbrella over: "Slave, come and get it..."

"No, you're short."

Chen Hen touched the tip of his nose, did he ever speak like that?

"Li Ting." Li Yan turned his head to look at him, "Don't keep reading those two poems, read another one instead."

The folk songs in the south of the Yangtze River are beautiful, and they often talk about the love between men and women, joy when they get together, and love when they are apart.Men read to women, women read to men, of course sometimes men also read to men, and women read to women, but he read to Li Yan——

Chen Hen raised his eyes and glanced at him. It would be too strange if he read it to him.

So he was silent.

Li Yan bumped him with his elbow: "You read one."

Chen Hen flicked his sleeves, and half-sang a poem to him: "Nong is the North Star, and there is no shift for a thousand years. Walk happily in the heart of the day, and return to the east and the west at dusk."

Chen Hen thought for a while, and then said: "'Government with virtue, such as Beichen, where the stars live together'. This poem is just right for the emperor."

"Midnight Song" was originally a rather erotic poem, but he misinterpreted it, just like a pedantic old master insisting on explaining folk songs.

You are the North Star, and all the stars share it.

When the two went back, for some reason, there was a lot of noise in Sanqing Temple.

Chen Hen took two steps forward, shaking the broken snow off his body.

A woman in the temple was talking: "Mother doesn't blame you. You are young and naughty. It is normal for you to be naughty. I am also a stepmother. It is normal for you not to listen to me. The matter of praying for blessings is related to your father. How dare you... Ajin is younger than you, even he understands the truth, how dare you..."

Without finishing talking, the woman couldn't bear it any longer and began to cry.

If Li Yan wanted to come to Sanqing Mountain, he would naturally investigate everything on Sanqing Mountain.

He put away the bamboo umbrella, looked into the hall, and explained to Chen Hen: "Prince Rui's step-wife, and...the young son of Prince Rui's mansion. King Rui is seriously ill, and they went up the mountain to pray for blessings."

King Rui was the prince conferred by Li Yan's father during his reign, a royal family member.

From what Princess Rui said just now, it seems that the little prince made a mistake when praying for blessings.

Li Yan paused, and added: "Princess Rui has her own children, and the A Jin she mentioned just now is one."

Chen Hen glanced at the palace again, only to hear Princess Rui crying to everyone present.There are not a few people who come to Sanqing Temple to worship incense and pray for blessings, and most of them are famous figures in Chang'an City.

Besides—

He doesn't understand the rules of praying, but he doesn't know how to pray in the main hall. Is it because Princess Rui pulled people out to teach him a lesson?Isn't this bullying children in public?

"Slave to take a look." Chen Hen walked quickly into the hall.

He usually protects the cub tightly, but this time Li Yan didn't even touch his sleeve.