Tread thousands of dust

Suburban palace.

Mo Fengyi got off the carriage, and Chen Zhongming, who greeted him from a distance, approached with a smile.

"Your Highness, I heard that you will come back after resting. The emperor and the imperial concubine are waiting for you. Unfortunately, you have already missed the ceremony. Seeing that the sun is going to sink, the holy car is going back to the palace, you hurry up Go and say hello."

Mo Fengyi's face was gloomy. He glanced at Pei Zhixu, then waved at Chen Zhongming and said, "The emperor should be tired today, so I won't bother him. I heard that the empress has not been out of the palace. , Is it because you are not in good health?"

Chen Zhongming hurriedly replied: "The Empress has a poor appetite recently. The imperial physician also said that this is caused by her depression. Is Your Highness going to see the Empress?"

Mo Feng smiled lightly and said: "Well, didn't you avoid your mother's illness before? Now that I'm better, why don't you go and visit me, is your mother free to see me now?"

At this moment, Chen Zhongming completely forgot that this guy just used bullshit like "illness" to cover up and went back to the imperial city. How dare His Royal Highness not worry about his illness being passed on to the empress?

Chen Zhongming couldn't care about these things, so he quickly smiled and said: "Of course, my mother has been looking forward to you going to see her! Your illness must be cured after you go to my mother!"

Mo Fengyi twitched the corners of his mouth: "Then I'll go there by myself, and I won't bother my father-in-law to lead the way."

Chen Zhongming said sensiblely: "Then this old servant will report back to the Holy Majesty, and the Holy Majesty must understand His Highness, so please go ahead, Your Highness."

Mo Fengyi turned his head, and the faint smile just disappeared in an instant.

Xiang Yi woke up drowsily, and asked wearily, "What time is it?"

The maid bowed her knees respectfully: "Hui Niangniang, it's past the unitary hour, and the sun is setting."

Xiang Yi rubbed her forehead: "It's been so long."

A maid came in from outside and said, "Empress Empress, His Royal Highness is coming to visit you."

"Feng'er is here?" Xiang Yi's sickly face lit up, "Let him in quickly."

"Yes."

Mo Fengyi stepped into the hall, glanced indifferently at the people on the floor, and then saluted: "See empress."

Xiang Yi supported her sick body with a smile and said: "I have only seen you once when I came back these few months. Is it because you are not feeling well?"

"It's healed now, thank you, Madam, for your concern."

Xiang Yi was stunned for a moment, unable to tell where she felt uncomfortable, she always felt that Mo Fengyi's attitude was a bit too alienated.

Xiang Yi asked with concern: "Feng'er, why do you feel that you have lost weight again?"

Mo Feng said stiffly: "No."

"Come here and let Auntie take a look." Xiang Yi smiled lightly and waved at him, "Winter is coming soon, the imperial city is very cold...cough cough...don't catch the wind and cold again... ...."

Xiang Yi felt blood gushing out of her throat, and coughed fiercely a few times, the maid hurriedly fetched water and a spittoon.

Mo Fengyi stood still and said indifferently: "Is your mother also suffering from the cold?"

Xiang Yi came over slowly and waved her hands: "It's an old problem, it doesn't matter."

"What kind of disease is your mother suffering from?" Mo Feng asked reluctantly.

Xiang Yi was puzzled all of a sudden, why is Mo Fengyi so strange today?

But she still said: "It's like this when people get old, their bodies get weaker and weaker, they can't stand the cold wind, and they fall down when it blows."

Mo Feng raised the corners of his lips: "I remember that my mother was in good health when I was a child. I heard that you suddenly fell ill in the year my mother passed away. I'm afraid it's just a rumor?"

It's not that Xiang Yixin didn't notice the obvious temptation in his words, but she chuckled a few times and said: "Rumors must have a basis, and they are true. I really don't want to accept your mother's death back then, let alone This palace is gone, even the emperor can't accept it..."

"Really... It seems that the relationship between my mother and my mother is really good." Mo Feng said with a smile, "Then how did she die?"

As soon as Mo Fengyi's words came out, Xiang Yi was stunned and remained speechless.

The maid said: "It is well known that Princess Xiangyue died of a sudden illness, why does Your Highness ask such a question?"

"I didn't ask you." Mo Fengyi turned his eyes to the helpless maid, who lowered her head in fear after being glanced at by him.

Mo Fengyi looked at Xiang Yixin again, but Xiang Yixin didn't answer.

"Empress, can you tell me how my mother died?"

Xiang Yi lowered her eyebrows and smiled lightly: "Xiao Feng'er, has your memory recovered?"

Now it was Mo Fengyi's turn to be stunned, he said in disbelief: "It's really you..."

"You really remembered what happened back then?" Xiang Yixin actually had a gratified expression.

"That's natural." Mo Fengyi lied without thinking, "It's just that it's been too long, so I still forgot a little bit."

Xiang Yi smiled lightly and said, "That's all right."

"So it's you? Did you admit it?" Mo Fengyi's voice trembled unknowingly.

"I never denied it." Xiang Yixin said with a meek expression, "But that has nothing to do with you, you are just a child."

"She is my mother! How could this have nothing to do with me!" Mo Fengyi said angrily, "You really killed her!"

"Xiao Feng'er, you don't know the past." Xiang Yi was a little eager to explain, "Back then I... cough cough!"

Xiang Yi's heart ached from coughing, she waved her hand to signal everyone in the hall to go down.

Standing in the room, Mo Fengyi looked particularly abrupt.

"Why did you do this? Did my mother treat you badly?" Mo Feng asked tremblingly. He really couldn't overlap the gentle and weak woman in front of him with the murderer of his mother.

"She treats me sincerely, like a sister." Xiang Yi leaned on the bed as if her heart was failing, "I was deceived and did something wrong."

"Why on earth did you kill her!" Mo Fengyi's eyes were completely red.

Xiang Yixin suddenly asked: "Is it because you think of these things that you don't want to enter the palace to see me these few months?"

Mo Fengyi frowned coldly: "Otherwise what?"

Xiang Yi smiled heartily: "That's all right, I thought something happened, as long as you're fine."

Mo Fengyi said angrily: "Stop caring about me hypocritically! Haven't you done enough for all these years! My mother was killed by you! Do you have the right to ask about me!"

Xiang Yixin lowered her eyebrows and smiled slightly: "I know it's my fault, but Feng'er..."

"Don't call me that." Mo Feng's voice was cold, "You don't deserve it."

Xiang Yi was completely stunned, she said with a flickering expression: "I knew this day would come, do you really hate me?"

"It hasn't been long since I knew you were the one who killed her. It's not hatred, it's just a cold heart." Mo Fengyi twitched the corner of his mouth, "You hid it so well, I once denied this fact. Look at me When my mother was picked up by those people, wouldn’t you be afraid of pain when you dreamed back in the middle of the night? It’s really embarrassing for you to pretend to care about me after all these years! Do you still have a heart? "

"...Xiao Feng'er, I've never pretended."

Mo Feng shouted: "Stop talking, I don't want to hear you say this! Just tell me, why did you kill her? Push her into the water to make it look like she was drowning, and turn around and pretend to be a violent death, empress empress You really cover the sky with one hand, even me, the leader of the Wenyu League, is willing to bow down."

But Xiang Yixin's eyes moved: "I didn't push her into the water."

Mo Fengyi sneered: "Are you still going to hide the matter now?"

"You also said that I don't need to hide the matter until now. I didn't push Yi Lian into the water. Maybe it's been too long and you really forgot... You and her fell into the water together. Yi Lian did it to save you. Also fell into the water."

Mo Fengyi trembled all over: "What did you say?"

Xiang Yi said calmly: "At that time, I was watching from behind... It was you who fell into the hair pool for fun. Although you often played by the water when you were young, your water skills are not good. Who will you be?" Thinking of Ye Lian also falling into the water, she pushed you up, and got entangled in the vines in the water...I didn't push her into the water, I just didn't save her."

Mo Feng felt cold all over his body, and stood there stunned as if struck by lightning, so why was he drowning in the dream?So who is drowning?Who is saving whom?

Who can come and save him! He is going crazy!

Mo Fengyi gasped heavily and couldn't control himself, he blinked his eyes in a trance: "...Is what you said true? Then why..."

"How can what I saw with my own eyes be false? I saw that you were still sane after being pushed ashore, but you have no ability to save her, so you can only watch her sinking in the water..."

Mo Fengyi only felt that his throat was tight, as if someone pinched his neck and couldn't vent his anger. He suddenly knew the reason for these bizarre dreams.

Those hands did catch him when he was drowning, but he couldn't catch them again.

It was he who failed to save his mother.

What Peixuan said was true, he was the only one beside that pool at that time, and he couldn't blame anyone.

Where is Xiang Yixin's fault?How can he have the right to blame others?

"I can't save her..."

Xiang Yi hurriedly said: "Feng'er doesn't blame you!"

"But why didn't you save her?" Mo Fengyi raised his head in misty eyes, "You can obviously save her..."

Seeing his pitiful appearance, Xiang Yi felt distressed instantly, she waved her hand to let the maid go down, and asked quietly: "Do you want to hear a story?"

Mo Fengyi faintly sensed something, but he didn't make a sound.

Xiang Yixin smiled lightly and said: "...When I was not out of the court, I once fell in love with someone, but he was just an actor in an opera with no achievements. Touching stories, she even threatened not to marry unless he was the only one, and would rather elope with him than enter the royal family."

Mo Fengyi closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were full of indifference.

"My parents thought I was crazy, and almost didn't intend to have me as a daughter. At that time, Li Ping had just married, and he was fighting in the outer city and hadn't returned. No one could persuade me, so I lived with that person every day. Thinking about how to stay together forever." Xiang Yixin recalled those wonderful days, a warm smile appeared on her face unconsciously, and she lowered her head shyly like a girl, "Feng'er, will you understand? The feeling of being together every day.”

Mo Fengyi nodded slowly.

"That's good, you also have a sweetheart." Xiang Yi continued with a smile, "But you know, it is impossible for me and him to stay together forever. I was pregnant in the spring of that year, and I thought he would Happy, but didn't expect... I never saw him again..."

Mo Fengyi was slightly stunned, and couldn't help asking: "Is he scared? Is he hiding?"

"I don't know, it's just that after I told him, he disappeared." Xiang Yixin recovered her indifferent expression, "I've been looking for him for a whole month, and I've been asking people to find him everywhere like crazy, go The theater he used to go to the place we used to love the most... Father and mother said he has left the imperial city, they gave him a sum of money, and he will never come back... I finally gave up and prepared to drop the child..."

When Xiang Yixin spoke, her eyes were lowered, she seemed to be lost in memory, her face had a gentle expression, she was intoxicated in telling this story, she thought that she was a storyteller who stayed out of the way, the love in this story had long since passed by. The entanglement was so scattered that she had long forgotten that she was the person in the book.

"I thought I hid this matter well. Who knew that everyone in the imperial city took me as a joke. I locked myself in the room every day and refused to see anyone... When he was about to drop the child, he came to propose marriage to me." Xiang Yixin had a smile on her face again, "I still remember that it was the second time he proposed marriage, the first time I rejected it, and no one I thought there would be a second time."

Mo Fengyi asked: "Is it the emperor?"

Xiang Yixin smiled lightly and nodded: "He knew I was pregnant, but he was still willing to marry me and let me give birth to this child..."

Mo Fengyi was stunned, leaving that child behind, wouldn't that be...

How is this allowed?The royal blood must be pure, doesn't the emperor even care about this?What's more, there were so many rumors back then, even if Shu Hanxu didn't care, how could the former emperor and queen mother not care?

Mo Fengyi couldn't explain these strange things to himself, Xiang Yixin said again: "You must find it unbelievable, but it's true. I married him when I was five months pregnant."

The shock in Mo Fengyi's heart is indescribable. Is Shu Hanxu really willing to do this?

Xiang Yixin continued on her own: "I did give birth to this child, and the emperor announced to the world that this is his first son."

Mo Feng said differently: "There are so many wonders in the world."

"Feng'er, I know that I have owed many people, especially you, but I am sorry for him, the emperor. I had no choice back then. I actually regretted it, but he never... so many years have passed , I thought that this matter would eventually be forgotten as Ren Lu grew up, but who knew...Yi Lian found out..."

"My mother? How did she know?" Mo Feng was puzzled. Why did Shu Yilian find out after such a long time?

"That year Renlu's leg was injured, and he was diagnosed and treated by the imperial physician. When Yi Lian went to visit him, he looked through the medical records and saw the age of Renlu's birth... It seems that it does not match when I gave birth. , she found it strange and came to ask me..." Xiang Yixin recalled, "How could I have confessed the truth to her at that time? Originally, Yi Lian didn't think much about it, she just believed me when I lied. I didn't expect that she would hear what I said to the emperor later..."

Xiang Yixin closed her eyes and said heartbroken: "At first, the emperor also went to visit Renlu, and I mentioned Yi Lian to the emperor, and the emperor said that it was all right, he would treat Renlu like his own son, but at that time, Yi Lian was there outside the door!"

Mo Feng was taken aback by Yi Xin, only to hear Xiang Yi continue: "Yi Lian told me I shouldn't, and she reprimanded me for not being worthy of being the mother of the world... At that time, Mo Xian had just left the city, so I really didn't think about it." Killing her... I know that Mo Xian will find out everything, but when I saw her fall into the water, I didn't even want to save you..."

Mo Fengyi's breath stagnates: "That's why you didn't save her...just because she knew that Shu Renlu was not the heir of the emperor."

"She must know more than that. I believe that after that, she investigated a lot of things in the past in private, but she didn't tell me." Xiang Yixin said softly, "Later, maybe the emperor actually knew why Yi Lian died. , but he didn’t say anything, he just ordered the imperial physician to treat you well.”

"I didn't expect you to lose that memory. Don't you really remember that you always wanted to hold Ye Lian's hand? Then you went back to find someone and found that I had been standing there... I Didn't save her..." Xiang Yi tremblingly said, "Have you remembered now?"

Mo Fengyi shook his head in a daze: "You didn't save her...how could you save her..."

"Maple!"

"I said don't call me that!" Mo Fengyi roared angrily, "How dare you write to me all these years? Why did the emperor protect you? Why did you survive so many years without incident while my mother turned into a scorpion?" Soil is buried in the ground!"

Xiang Yi said in pain: "I really care about you, and the emperor really misses you, you can't deny these years just because of this."

"Then what should I do? Should I thank you for not throwing me into the water to fend for myself? Should I thank you for returning my mother's whole body?" Mo Fengyi sarcastically said, " Your face really disgusts me, it is because I have been cheated by you for so many years! I actually once really thought that you would treat me like my mother...I really thought you were a Good aunt... why did you lie to me for so many years..."

There were tears in Mo Fengyi's eyes, but they kept spinning and did not fall.

But Xiang Yixin was the first to cry: "I know that my fault is irreparable. After Yi Lian left, I became seriously ill and was bedridden. I even forgot for a while that I failed to save her. I knew I should Atonement... I thought I would go with her, but the gods don't want me to end this pain... I've lived on for so many years..."

"Heh." Mo Fengyi sneered tremblingly, "A serious illness... Are you doing it for my mother?"

"Feng'er, I've been regretting it all this time." Xiang Yixin tried to stand up, but she could hardly stand up because of the lingering illness, but she still supported herself with her hands to make herself look not so weak, "I always hope that you grow up safely , Fortunately, you have not disappointed me and the emperor all these years..."

"Disappointed? Let you down?" Mo Fengyi found this statement unbelievable, "What do you expect from me? Do you have the right to have expectations from me? Empress! Do you know why I don't want to see you so much now, yes You are still making excuses and excuses for what you did to this day! You killed someone and made a mistake! Why do you still feel that you can't help yourself?"

"Feng'er..."

Xiang Yi walked towards him with tears in her eyes, Mo Fengyi's eyes froze: "I told you that you don't deserve to call me that."

There was a knock on the door outside, it was Shu Renlu's voice.

"Empress, father is ready to leave, don't you want to go back to the palace together? Why are you still inside?"

Just as Mo Fengyi was about to speak out, Xiang Yixin took the lead and said: "Don't worry, Ben Gong and Feng'er have a talk, it's still early."

"Mo Fengyi is still inside?" Shu Renlu's tone was full of fear and anxiety, "Mo Fengyi!"

Mo Fengyi lazily said: "The empress has already talked about chatting, why is His Royal Highness Wei Bin worried about what I will do?"

Shu Renlu was already impatient: "Why do you close the door for chatting! You open the door!"

Mo Feng raised his voice and said: "Your Highness does not need to worry about these matters. After we finish chatting, I will personally send the empress back to Luan."

"Mo Fengyi, open the door!" Shu Renlu knocked on the door anxiously, the sound of knocking on the door disturbed Mo Fengyi.

Xiang Yixin said again: "It's just talking to Feng'er, why are you still so worried?"

Speaking of which, Xiang Yi insisted on going down the steps, wiped her tears as she walked over, pushed the door open amidst the knocking sound, smiled and pretended to sigh: "You child is always worrying, Bengong and Feng'er chat What can there be?"

"I'm just worried. It's good to see the mother now. Have you finished chatting?"

Xiang Yixin turned her head to look at Mo Fengyi, then turned her head and said: "There is no rush, the sun hasn't set yet."