A glance at the spring breeze

A winter snow is coming, and the warm sun in the afternoon is projected on this snow-covered land, which makes people feel comfortable and comfortable.

Beside the rockery, there is an evergreen white-bone pine. Its slanted and bent branches easily hold up the snowflakes that fall on it—those pine needles that are not densely blended with transparent and crystal-clear snowflakes. A gust of wind blew by, and the treetops seemed to be still.The green needle tip does not seem to be exposed, but it seems to exude soft luster, just like the most beautiful star in the night sky, which is eye-catching.

Standing in the stone pavilion, He Wei couldn't take his eyes off for a moment. Since ancient times, literati and inkmen have loved to appreciate the strong pine trees in the snow, and so has he.Hastily called the servants beside him: "Go get a small stove, and bring a small altar of Yuanhong."

He Wei was wearing a black mink fur and sat down alone in the stone pavilion in the back garden.Afterwards, the servants moved over the stove and the copper kettle for warming the wine, but they still couldn't see the altar of Yuanhong that he wanted to taste the most at this time.

Just when he was about to open his mouth to urge the servants, he suddenly saw a handsome figure walking slowly through the winding path from a distance. The man was holding a jar of wine in one hand, and the other hand was behind his back, very confident Chic appearance.

He Wei was in a trance, and was about to get up and kneel, when he heard the man say loudly: "You don't need to be too polite, you see, I'm wearing ordinary clothes today, and I want to drink with you, but you are fine, I am bored in the mansion and drink secretly." isn't it?"

Yin Jian was wearing a plain and ordinary blue robe, but he also wore a valuable black mink fur cape on his shoulders, so there was no trace of simplicity.He poured the wine in his hand into the copper pot on the table, glanced at He Wei's shoulder, and said with a faint smile, "Is the sable fur I rewarded you still comfortable to use?"

"Comfortable, what His Majesty rewards is naturally comfortable."

He Wei lowered his head halfway, avoiding Yin Jian's gaze—even if the two of them sat at the same table, they couldn't go beyond the rules and break the etiquette of respect and inferiority.

He spread out the wine cups on the table, and asked, "Why does Your Majesty think of coming to the humble house today, and even personally delivered wine to the humble ministers? I am flattered. Those servants will be punished in a short while, how can they be so negligent?" His Majesty."

"Hey, no, if you want to punish me, punish me together. I asked them to hand over this altar of Yuanhong to me, and I didn't let them inform you, so I insisted on coming here alone. He Wei, why don't you Will you be angry with me because of this?"

He Wei said: "How dare I, I'm just telling a joke, haha."

Yin Xian turned his eyes away and looked at the beautiful scenery around him: "Just after the snow fell, it was such a sunny day, I guessed that you, a sour literati, would go to the rockery to watch the snow in the cold weather, look I guessed it, right? Here, there are also these zigzagging pine trees and plum blossoms, which you like the most.”

He Wei turned around and lit the small stove, and the pot of wine was also warmed up.

"I have followed Your Majesty since I was young, and Your Majesty should know my preferences very well."

Yin Jian still smiled faintly: "No, He Wei...I didn't realize until recently that I don't know you well."

He Wei's hand holding the cup suddenly trembled.

Yin Jian did not continue with these words, but pointed to the white-bone pine tree: "This pine tree is really beautiful, it must have been rewarded to you earlier."

He Wei nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty."

Yin Xian said: "I remember this pine tree. Although it was a small sapling at first, it grew straight and straight. What's the matter? Now it is kept in your mansion, but the branches are twisted and crooked. It's really not like before. What about the one I gave you?"

After hearing this, He Wei's hands trembled even more.

Yin Jian changed the subject again: "I forgot how many years ago, we went out of the palace together to Taiyuan, and rescued the dying Zhang Yunsheng on the way... At that time, I really thought that you, like me, did not know Zhang Yunsheng's true identity. "

When He Wei heard this, he couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up from the stone bench, then knelt down: "Your Majesty, at that time, I really didn't know Zhang Yunsheng's family background and origin. Later, later..."

Yin Xian interrupted: "It was only later that you finally found out that Zhang Yunsheng's original surname was Cen and his name was Kong. The Cen family was wiped out, but you found out that the murderer was your distant cousin. Cousin is very likely to become the queen's son-in-law, and you don't want this to come to light and affect your soaring career, so you conceal it... Is there something wrong with my deduction?"

The direction He Wei was facing was backlit, and his complexion was gloomy.The two curled eyelashes trembled, already wet with the sweat streaming from his forehead.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty is indeed extremely intelligent."

"Hey, don't rush to praise me, I still have half the time to finish: you once told me that you have a brother from afar who works for Yin Cheng, and from this you learned that Yin Cheng committed a crime on Qiumang Mountain. You said that your cousin was killed by Yin Cheng again. However, you were not afraid that after I found out, Zhang Yunsheng’s family members were killed by your distant cousin. of?"

He Wei knew that he could no longer hide it anymore, so he had to tell the whole story: "At that time, the son-in-law told the minister that he secretly heard Yin Cheng say that in a short time, you...you will forget the things related to Mr. Ruan, then , the massacre at Qiumang Mountain, and the murder of Feng Bizhi that His Majesty did for Master Ruan in this matter will also be forgotten together. Therefore, the son-in-law and the minister only need to tell His Majesty that the minister's distant cousin was killed by Yin in a short time. If it is silenced, His Majesty will not pursue it any further."

Yin Jian stood up from the table, walked to the steps of the stone pavilion, and then walked back.

"It turns out that you knew that I would lose my memory...so you knew..." After calmly saying these two sentences, Yin Jian suddenly shouted angrily, "He Wei! I really misread you!"

He Wei's forehead was sweating like rain, and he kept knocking his head on the ground: "Your Majesty!...I, I, I am all for your own good, Your Majesty..."

Yin Jian asked curiously: "Oh? For my own good? Are you trying to say that I am afraid that I will get carried away by love?"

He Wei closed his eyes: "Exactly."

Yin Xian said: "Do you think that the reason why I actively fought for the throne later is because I forgot Ruan Lan? You are wrong, He Wei."

He Wei opened his eyes, as if he was at a loss for Yin Jian's words.

Yin Jian picked up the wine on the stove with a hook beside the stone table, wrapped a wet cloth over the handle, held the handle and poured the warm Yuanhong wine into two wine glasses.

"The first emperor discovered the prince's rebellion a long time ago, and wanted to pass it on to me. But in order to hone me, he ordered me to find evidence of the prince's attempt to rebel. In order to prevent being killed, I never said these words to anyone else. From now on, including cronies, but... He Wei, the "forgetting" you mentioned just now is probably not the same thing as the "amnesia" I mentioned, right? "

He Wei followed Yin Jian's words and thought for a while, and immediately understood what Yin Jian meant by this question.

In addition to amnesia, there is another situation that will be forgotten forever.

——The dead will forget everything.

Chen Chuiling precisely grasped He Wei's most worrying problem - fear that Yin Jian would give up fighting for the throne because of Yin Cheng's confidant Ruan Lan.That's why Chen Chuiling told him that Yin Jian would forget Ruan Lan in a short time.But the real meaning is——Yin Cheng has already noticed the suspicion of the former emperor towards him, so he wants to kill Yin Xian.

Then, what Chen Chuiling overheard Yin Cheng said was not that Yin Jian would lose his memory, but that Yin Cheng was about to send someone to assassinate Yin Jian.

Not long after, Yin Jian was attacked by an assassin on the way to hunt.

Thinking about this, He Wei kowtowed several times, and said in a panic, "Your Majesty, I have always been loyal to Your Majesty, and I have never intended to harm Your Majesty. I have followed Your Majesty since I was a child. Your Majesty should understand me best. I have no qualms about His Majesty..."

"Whether I understand you or not, only God knows. Get up." Yin Jian moved the two glasses of wine towards He Wei with a fan, and said, "Of the two glasses of wine, one is pure Yuanhong, and the other is pure Yuanhong." You have been poisoned by me with a colorless, odorless poison, and if you see blood sealing your throat, you choose a cup and drink it yourself, if it is all right, I will believe that you have never had any second thoughts about me."

He Wei's face instantly turned livid.He numbly stood up from the ground, opened the trembling fingers of his right hand, and raised his arm halfway.

"Choose." Yin Jian held the handle of the fan, and gently tapped the tip of the fan on the table, "If He Aiqing has always been loyal to me, how could God have the heart to let you choose the poisonous dove wine?" .”

He Wei's fingers trembled even more, and sweat dripped from his palms. He first approached the cup on the left, then paused his fingers, and turned to the cup on the right, hesitating back and forth...

Finally, it seemed that he had finally made up his mind—the edges and corners of his finger bones suddenly became clear, he picked up a glass, raised his head and drank it in one gulp.

In the next moment, he closed his eyes, as if waiting for death to come.

A bean-sized bead of sweat trickled through his eyelashes into his eye.

Only then did he realize that there was no... no blood to seal his throat.

He survived!

Yin Jian smiled: "These two cups are pure Yuanhong. How can I be so vicious that I carry the poison that sees blood and seals my throat with me? If it gets out, the historian will have to write me down in the history books. I'm still stunned." What are you doing, Aiqing, sit down."

He Wei felt as if he had walked through the gate of hell, his face was covered with cold sweat, and even his voice was trembling with lingering fear: "Thank you so much, Your Majesty. The crime of deceiving the king."

Yin Jian poured another glass of wine, and drank it down on his back.

"I just went to Bihua Palace to see the noble concubine, and told her that I was going to make her queen and let her enter the middle palace. Aiqing, do you know why I haven't named her queen for so many years? People say I'm doing it for Ruan Lan, He Wei. Don't you think I'm so stupid, too?"

"Of course not." He Wei pondered for a moment, and replied, "Your Majesty is afraid that the prime minister will dominate, so he has been suspending the position of queen, hoping that the prime minister's power will be restrained."

"That's right. Therefore, I have been sending people to secretly observe and monitor Wang Guifei, and the secret guards will report to me if there is any trouble. To my surprise, Wang Guifei is not only docile, but also never makes friends with other officials, even to King Lianhua. The clan has always maintained a close relationship."

He Wei nodded and said: "It seems that the imperial concubine is very loyal to His Majesty."

Yin Jian revealed a look of contempt: "She is doing it for me... She is doing it to keep her pair of children."

He Wei was puzzled: "My humble minister is dull."

Yin Xian said: "He Wei, let me explain this matter to you clearly. Not only is the noble concubine not the eldest princess' biological mother, but even the eldest prince is not born of her. The eldest prince looks a year or two younger than the eldest princess. Years old, but actually they have one child, Yin Xuan was born half a head younger than the eldest princess."

He Wei was shocked: "How, how could this happen?!"

Yin Jian shook his head: "I won't tell you these details."

He originally married General Wei's daughter because he was worried that Prime Minister Wang's clan would dominate, and hoped that Prime Minister Wang could be restrained by General Wei's authority in the army.But now that Concubine Wei is dead, there is no woman in the harem who can compete with the imperial concubine.

General Wei is old and without the support of his daughter in the harem, after his death, the power in the army will soon disappear and be replaced by others.

Even if the prime minister has no rebellion now, and the imperial concubine is gentle and virtuous, but one's ambition will change with the power... He can't let the prime minister block the sky with one hand in the court.

Yin Jian had to change his plan.

Yin Zhendao: "On the second day after the queen's appointment, I will make you a teacher of the prince. From now on, you must use what you have learned all your life to teach Yin Xuan meticulously, so that he can become a generation of Mingjun."

Now, only He Wei, Yin Xian's confidant for many years, is left in the court to fight against Prime Minister Wang. Whoever is more favored by Yin Jian, if He Wei can't become the uncle of the country, then he can become the prince's teacher, and in the future he will be a respected Taifu, even if he is as noble as the prime minister, he can't be easily moved.

He Wei knelt down, his heart was very moved, he didn't expect that His Majesty would not only ignore the crime of bullying him, but would instead put this great responsibility on his shoulders, he kowtowed and said: "Thank you for your kindness, I am here for you, Your Majesty With Your Highness, we will definitely go through fire and water, and will not hesitate to do so."

Yin Zhen stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the layer of ice and snow gradually melting under the sun, his eyes were shining with a proud light: "No... He Wei, you must keep it in mind, you taught Yin Xuan, not for the sake of me, Not for Yin Xuan, but for the whole world."

He Wei clenched his fists quietly: "Yes, I will definitely remember it in my heart."

Yin Xian said: "I will choose a girl from your clan who is about the same age as Xuan'er to make a marriage contract with Xuan'er, and when he reaches adulthood, he will marry her as his concubine."

"Thank you Lord Ron!"

After the two talked about the business, they continued to sit together and drink.

Holding the wine cup in his hand, Yin Jian lowered his brows and sighed, "It's been three years since I came back from Wu County. I sent people to search all over the world, but I still don't know where Ruan Lan went."

"Your Majesty, I heard that you know a spell, saying that no matter where Lord Ruan is, you can find him."

"Oh?" Yin Jian's eyes suddenly brightened, "He Aiqing's news is so well-informed?"

"..."

He Wei's face turned livid again.

It seems that Yin Jian was really frightened today.

Yin Zhendao: "After returning from Wu County, Taoist Xuan Mo said that if I use this spell too much, I will lose my life, so he erased the brand on Ruan Lan before he disappeared."

Of course He Wei knew that Yin Jian had burned a half-palm-sized flower on Ruan Lan's body, but this time he didn't dare to say it out loud, after all, Yin Jian was just "praising" him for being well-informed.

I didn't expect this branding to be used for such a purpose.

Only His Majesty in the world would do such a cruel thing.

"So, I can't find him now no matter what." Yin Jian drank another glass of wine, his face seemed to be flushed with drunkenness, but the words he said were still as clear and fluent as when he was sober: "I If you don't believe that he sank into the bottom of the sea together with Wu County...I don't believe it."

"His Majesty--"

Speaking of Ruan Lan, He Wei was really sorry for him.At that time, Yin Jian only told Zhang Yunsheng and him about his loss of part of his memory. He didn't know many secrets; and as the only insider, he didn't want Yin Xian to think of Ruan Lan. Even after many years when Yin Xian asked him about Qiu Mangshan and Chen Chuiling, he pretended not to know anything about it. .

Now, he has not only harmed Mr. Ruan, but also Mr. Zhang.

He Wei really regretted such a big mistake.Now, I can only use the rest of my life to be loyal to His Majesty to repay.

Yin Zhen stood up and said, "He Aiqing, I'm going back to the palace."

He Wei also stood up: "I will send you out!"

After Yin Qian left the mansion, he got into the carriage, and he lifted the curtain to bid farewell to He Wei.

The sunset glow sparsely falls in He Wei's eyes, rippling with ripples.Yin Jian looked at him, as if he saw He Wei when he was young.

No... not anymore...

Those were not He Wei's eyes when he was young.

Not only has he lost his lover for many years, but he has also lost his friends for many years.

As an emperor, he should live alone forever.

This is the price of power.