Born short-lived

"Your Majesty, forgive me for being unworthy," Dong Sheng was about to kowtow again as he said, and hit the ground with a "boom", and the bystanders felt a pain in their foreheads when they heard it. Ordinary people don't care, I'm afraid it will delay the life of the noble girl."

Dong Sheng raised his head suddenly, his eyes were red for some reason, and his forehead was even redder, he squeezed out a bitter face, and said, "My son...I really can't bear to call your lady For the rest of my life, I will be lonely and cold at the top."

There was a sigh of relief in the courtroom, Dong Sheng had something in his words, and everyone who understood knew it by heart - the empress is not considered old, she is in the age of her destiny, she has good ears and eyes, if she is energetic, she might not be willing to abdicate until the crown prince passes away.And once Dong Sheng died, let alone the Crown Princess, even if she could really become a queen in the future, without Dong Sheng's protection, Li's daughter might not survive for long under the siege of Jiang's party.

The empress only felt a headache when she saw his pretentious face, but Dong Sheng was wearing a miraculous power, she couldn't be upset because of these "details".

The smile between her brows cooled down a little bit, and she said with a smirk: "What? His Highness the Crown Prince is really willing to give up this soft and fragrant jade, and intends to be lonely for the rest of his life? Or... His Highness doesn't like Master Li's treasure ?”

Dong Sheng cried: "How dare I despise the woman His Majesty is looking for? It's just... I just beg Your Majesty to give up this sinful virtue of my son."

Jiang Kun watched calmly, and turned his eyes inadvertently to Master Li who was not far away, and saw that the old man's expression was not indifferent, his brows trembled a few times, and he immediately raised his face and said: "Your Majesty, can you accept me?" How much do you say?"

The empress raised her eyebrows and asked, "What does Li Aiqing say? This crown prince is unwilling to marry your granddaughter...what do you think?"

"I... I think that there is nothing amazing about the Mingying of the minister's family. She was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, and she climbed high in the East Palace... It's really embarrassing for the old minister... Now that the crown prince is kind, the old minister dares to ask for help. Your Majesty takes it back." Li Chongwen moved forward a few steps, knelt not far behind Dong Sheng, made a big salute, and said, "I hope Your Majesty will forgive my crime."

Li Chongwen has lived for most of his life, even though he has been helping the crown prince, he still knows how to measure it, and he knows what is not desirable.As a courtier, you can still change masters after the death of the master, but if you become an in-law, then there is really no way out-the prince is not a long-lived person, once the prince falls, no matter whether it is the prince concubine or the queen, I am afraid it will be unavoidable The big tree attracts the wind, and the whole Li family will be implicated at that time.

It was difficult for him to speak before, but now that the crown prince is willing to help him, he naturally cannot let go of this opportunity.

"Your Majesty, I think that this marriage needs the right time, place and people," Jiang Kun said slowly, "Since both Your Highness and Lord Li feel that this is inappropriate, why not..."

The queen sneered, and said darkly: "Since this is the case, then I don't want to force others, but the prince should not regret it... Originally, I still thought that this would be the end of two marriages. gone."

Dong Sheng sank, and asked: "I don't know... what is Prince Beizhao's mind?"

The queen seemed to have seen something novel, "Yo" for a moment, and said in admiration: "It's rare, it's rare, the prince will still inquire about other people's private affairs?"

"I don't dare," Dong Sheng said suddenly, "it's just that I have heard that Prince Beizhao's hexagram this year is not suitable for marriage. I think, if it wasn't for the mutual understanding, I'm afraid... I still can't be in a hurry. After all, Jiang The family is the most important thing for Hua Xu, if something goes wrong..."

The empress said coldly; "The prince is really worried. He is very careful about his own marriage, and he is also careful about other people's marriage."

"My son is worried about the harmony between Hua Xu and his subjects."

"That's a good relationship." The queen shook her sleeves, and slowly got up from the dragon chair, "This prince is indeed my heir apparent, and he has helped me to worry about all the things I should worry about... Retire, I'm tired, let's go away."

The internal officials shouted loudly, "retire from the court", and all the officials nodded their heads, shouting long live.

Dong Sheng walked out of the Golden Luan Hall with a face as heavy as water, and within a few steps, Master Li hurriedly chased after him.

"Your Highness, please stay!" Li Chongwen ran over panting, with one hand slipping his clothes, "Your Highness, old minister... thank you, Your Highness, for your compassion."

Dong Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then smiled wryly: "Master Li is too serious, how can a person who is alone in his destiny not to cultivate his destiny drag down the girl's family... Besides, Gu is not without selfishness."

Regarding this "selfishness", Li Chongwen didn't want to ask too many questions. He took a few breaths, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cuff, and said in a low voice: "In any case, the old minister has thanked His Highness on behalf of the whole family. Your Highness is not greedy for any relatives of the emperor, let alone care about shortcoming."

Li Chongwen raised his wrinkled eyelids, took a deep look at Dong Sheng with slightly cloudy eyeballs, then immediately lowered his head, and saluted Dong Sheng with clasped hands.

Dong Sheng understood what he meant. In the past, he sometimes thought about why Li Chongwen helped him so much. Is it just because he and Zhou Zirong's father were close friends during their lifetime?

He thought, there are still people in this world who stubbornly stick to the ambitions they had when they became officials, and they still have to reason about things.

Dong Sheng's eyes fell on Li Chongwen's lowered head, he took a deep breath, straightened his figure, bowed solemnly, and said in a deep voice, "Thank you, Lord Li, for your trust."

The two straightened up, both speechless, and looked at each other for a while, first Li Chongwen couldn't help smiling, and Dong Sheng also raised the corners of his mouth: "Master Li, hurry up and go back to rest. Young lady Ying is beautiful and intelligent, she is very talented, she should look for a good family, not looking for magnificence, but also looking for someone who can be a good friend and support each other, so that the whole life can be safe."

Li Chongwen sighed, and said with emotion: "Yes, for this marriage, there must be a bond of mind and heart. Your Highness is still young, and maybe he can't understand it. It is a blessing in the world to be able to stay with someone who agrees with you for a lifetime."

These words stabbed Dong Sheng with a faint pain in his heart, but he covered it up calmly, and nodded with a slight smile.

After the two said goodbye, Dong Sheng watched Li Chongwen go away, and those words still lingered in his heart.

Dong Sheng thought, in his whole life, he didn't want to be loved by others, not to share with the family, not to make achievements for the future...he must have something to do, if he can't even grasp his only thought, then in this life , might as well leave it at that.

For the head of Li and Li, for the Huaxu Dynasty, for the common people of the world...he must do it for himself.

Dong Sheng left the palace, and before he could take off his court clothes, he naturally took the carriage of the East Palace to the Wangxiang Tower in the alley outside the imperial city.

The shopkeeper came out from the door, with a rag on his forearm, straightened his waist, grinned and said, "Your Highness is coming."

Dong Sheng gave a faint "hmm", and looked up at the white-blossoming June Snow outside the window sill of the Accord on the second floor.

The shopkeeper understood, and hurriedly said: "Prince Beizhao is drinking tea in the Yage Pavilion on the second floor, may His Highness go to meet for a while?"

Dong Sheng didn't answer right away, but stared at the white flowers outside the window for a while, then sighed almost inaudibly when he lowered his head, and while walking into the building, he said: "Planting such a bad luck thing with white flowers Why, plant something auspicious."

The shopkeeper let out an "Ah" and didn't get over it for a long time. After waiting for Dong Sheng to enter the building, he belatedly agreed and chased after him: "Your Highness, is this refreshment still prepared as usual?"

"Be more precise."

"Eh."

Dong Sheng went straight up to the second floor, stamped his feet in front of the door, and was about to raise his hand to knock on the door, but stopped less than an inch away from the door.

And just when he was hesitating, a familiar warm voice came from the room: "Your Highness, since you're here, why don't you come in and have a drink together?"

Dong Sheng smiled helplessly, and slowly opened the door. The inside of the pavilion was covered with a warm sunset, playing with the shadows of flowers outside the window, and the light blue incense mist overflowed from the purple-gold incense burner, looming over the moon-white figure Above, heaven and man are ordinary.

Zhou Zirong turned his back to the light, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and looked at him quietly, his deep eyes seemed to take in all the light, and when he looked at people so intently, he had a kind of captivating ability.

Dong Sheng was stunned for a moment, his eyes were unconsciously attracted to meet his four eyes, he opened his mouth but couldn't make a sound, after a while like a wooden stake, he seemed to realize his clumsiness, a little Clearing his throat in embarrassment, he said in a low voice; "Have you been waiting for a long time?"

Zhou Zirong was full of smiles, his eyes were glued to him, and he was so gentle that he seemed to melt into the light, and said: "It's not long, I was still in the palace an hour ago, I just vaguely feel that today's bright moon is probably willing to show respect , this is to try your luck."

Dong Sheng couldn't bear his smoldering eyes the most, and sat down opposite him a little stiffly, turned his face away to look at the flowers outside the window uncomfortably, twitched the corners of his mouth, and "hummed" whether it was a smile or a sneer He said, "You already knew?"

Dong Sheng was referring to his marriage with Jiang Huai Lan. I think Zhou Zirong probably guessed that he would definitely come to the moon appreciation banquet after hearing about it in court.

——This shows that he doesn't care at all.

Zhou Zirong nodded, and while twisting the bamboo clip to make tea for him, he said slowly: "Your Highness probably heard the news when he came to the capital, and the high priest is also worried about what will happen behind him..."

That's why he was called back in a hurry by the hand of His Majesty.

"What about you?" Dong Sheng turned to look at him, "What do you think?"

Zhou Zirong's movement of holding the tea was stagnant for a moment, and he smiled slightly: "Let's not talk about this... I would like to know how your Highness's injury is?"? "What? Luo Chi told you?"

"That's not true... It's just that I heard that Daling's assassin assassinated His Highness face to face in the name of peace talks, and His Highness couldn't afford to be seriously injured. It really worried me for a long time."

"……sorry."

Zhou Zirong smiled: "Why bother, the minister also wanted to understand later, if His Highness really couldn't afford to be seriously injured, he would definitely not let the news leak out, let alone make the trouble known to everyone."

Dong Sheng took the cup from him, hesitated for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "Since General Zi Rong is so knowledgeable, why did he avoid talking about the purpose of Gu today's visit?"

"..."

The setting sun in the Accord dimmed a little, a thin shadow quietly covered their eyebrows and eyes, the flower shadow trembled slightly, and Dongdong Sheng seemed to see something flickering in Zhou Zirong's eyes in a daze.

The last glimpse of the setting sun swirled in his eyes, and he put down the bamboo clip in his hand, looked at Dong Sheng with burning eyes, and asked hoarsely with some indescribable expectations: "Your Highness said At this point... the minister wants to know, what does His Highness think?"

This look forced Dong Sheng to have nowhere to hide. He didn't move the tea in his hand. He avoided his eyes at a loss, and said stiffly, "You...what do you mean by that?"

"The alliance between King Beizhao and the Jiang Clan will surely ensure the stability of the two Clans, and it will be of great benefit to His Highness..." A flower shadow fell silently on Zhou Zirong's eyes with the afterglow, making his expression look a little dark I don't know, just listen to him quietly saying, "I want to know... If I marry Miss Jiang, what will happen to Your Highness, and if I don't marry Miss Jiang, what will happen to Your Highness?"

Dong Sheng turned his face away slightly annoyed, and said stubbornly: "That's your decision, what does it have to do with me?"

"Really?"

"You... what do you mean?"

In a panic, Dong Sheng met Zhou Zirong's eyes, as if a heavy stone hammer had been slammed into his heart, making him speechless.

Those eyes reminded him of the East China Sea on a cloudy night, gloomy and gloomy, filled with wet resentment, but more emotions were submerged in the deepest place, even if he was rafting on it, he would scream. People are terrified, and only by sacrificing themselves and sinking into his eternal abyss can we know what he thinks, reads, loves, and hates in his heart.

"What does Zirong mean?" Zhou Zirong lowered his head slightly, burying his face in the shadow, "Didn't Your Highness already know?"

"You..." Dong Sheng stopped angrily.

Dong Sheng thought to himself: Why, why do you insist on forcing me like this...

However, at this moment, the shopkeeper's voice came from outside the door: "Your Highness, your refreshments..."

Dong Sheng said angrily: "Leave the door open!"

When there was no movement outside the door, Dong Sheng gulped down the cold tea in his hand, feeling that the cold had reached his heart, he choked almost inaudibly, turned his eyes away from Zhou Zirong, and said in a muffled voice: " ...Don't force me, you just need to know, you just make your own decision..."

Before Zhou Zirong could open his mouth, Dong Sheng lowered his head and continued to say in a low voice: "In my life, I have no possessions, no destiny, even in this world, I can't take it with me if I live or die... ..."

Zhou Zirong: "Your Highness..."

Dong Sheng went on to say: "The only one who doesn't want to be responsible is only one person, so what that person is willing to do, what he is willing to look forward to, and where he is willing to go, let him go... No matter what he decides, as long as he does not fail himself, as long as he If I can tell him to be good, I have nothing to say."

Every single word was burned in Zhou Zirong's heart like an iron brand, causing his heart to throb.Dong Sheng smiled wryly and sat in front of him. At that moment, he felt that the all-powerful prince in northern Xinjiang was so fragile that he would break if he touched it—he almost had an urge to pull Dong Sheng away immediately, to the ends of the earth, to go Its golden palace, its throne, its world... He has waited for 1000 years and can't wait any longer.

However, he is a person who is used to patience. Thousands of words and impulses like mountains and tsunami turned into a shallow sigh in the end. He gently took back the empty teacup from Dong Sheng's hand, In front of Dong Sheng, he put the teacup under his nose, lightly touched the place where Dong Sheng had just drunk with his lips, and deeply smelled the light tea fragrance with the smell of Dong Sheng in the cup.

This completely ambiguous behavior didn't annoy Dong Sheng this time, he watched Zhou Zirong lower his head silently, his eyes couldn't help but get a little wet.

He thought, how much Zhou Zirong likes him...

Fortunately, the lights were not lit, and the dusk was dark, so we couldn't see the sadness in each other's eyes clearly.

"Your Highness," Zhou Zirong finally opened his mouth after a long time, "If I say that no matter what decision I make, it is for Your Highness, can Your Highness be trusted?"

Dong Sheng looked at him, was silent for a while, and said, "I believe."

"If the minister says that no matter what, the minister is willing to be by His Highness's side, can His Highness be trusted?"

"letter."

"Then if the minister says that His Highness refuses to accept him for a day, and he refuses to give up for a day, he will never stop until he dies... His Highness is trustworthy?"

"……letter."

Zhou Zirong took a deep breath, letting something that was about to overflow his eyes flow back into his body, and it was cold to the bone: "Then why..."

Dong Sheng said in a low voice: "You know, I'm not a long-lived person, but you have to live a lifetime..."

He wanted to say that after his death, he didn't want to see the people who had been with him spend their whole lives with others and share the family relationship with others, and he hoped that Zhou Zirong could live a peaceful and happy life like ordinary people, so he felt that Well, since he is destined to take the first step, it's better to stop thinking about it from the beginning, so that he can walk more freely on the road to Huangquan.

Dong Sheng lowered his head and smiled wryly: "I have to think about myself, if one day I die..."

But Zhou Zirong interrupted: "Do you think if you die, I will still be alive?"

This sentence hit his head and face, Dong Sheng was stunned for a moment, then raised his head suddenly, and saw that Zhou Zirong's eyes were faintly filled with light, he took a deep breath as if in extreme pain, and looked at Dong Sheng. Ran wryly smiled and said: "Do you think that if you leave, it is impossible to find your life everywhere in the world, can I still stay?"

There was despair in that voice, it was extremely empty, as if this person had been withered for thousands of years and was only born for this world.

"You..." Dong Sheng couldn't react for a while, and said in a daze, "You...don't talk nonsense."

But Zhou Zirong affirmed flatly and unquestionably: "I'm serious."

He felt that he was not talking nonsense, and maybe others would think he was crazy, but for him, after wandering in the world for so many lives and searching for Dong Sheng for so many lives, he didn't care about the person in front of him any more. What's the point of being alive? It's better to die and go back to the underworld. Maybe I can catch up with him at the bridge of Naihe.

He looked at Dong Sheng fixedly. Dong Sheng had known him for so many years, and he definitely knew what he looked like when he was serious. If it comes out, it will definitely not just talk.

Dong Sheng suddenly understood - he was really serious.

"you……"

A full moon outside the window is slowly climbing into the blue night.

The silver light flickered for a moment, and Zhou Zirong suddenly leaned over, took Dong Sheng's hand that was resting on the table, and slowly held it in the palm of both hands.That hand was not smooth, and the palm was covered with a thin layer of calluses, with distinct joints.Zhou Zirong bowed his head silently, and kissed his fingertips almost reverently.

The so-called five fingers connected to the heart, the breath of hot air seemed to rush directly into the heart along the fingertips, Dong Sheng trembled as if electrified, and hurriedly pulled out his hand, but Zhou Zirong clenched it tightly.

I saw him gently leaning his face on the back of his hand, and with every breath, the hot air hit his hand directly. After Zhou Zirong was silent for a moment, he said in a low voice: "I, Zhou Zirong, will do what I say. It must be done, in this life, wherever you go, I will follow wherever you go, no matter whether it is life or death, I will never leave you alone."

In fact, Zhou Zirong wanted to say: I heard that there is a way to extend your life. If this way really exists, no matter what the price is, I will find it for you.

Dong Sheng only felt that what he said really meant every word to punish his heart, the heat flowed continuously from that hand to his body, causing him to lose all strength immediately, and he couldn't even harden his heart anymore.

At that moment, he thought, it's over, it's lost.

[The author has something to say: I didn't post it two days ago, but I was holding back my big move. Do you want to watch the Mid-Autumn Festival episode?

And I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 】