After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

The rain that lasted for days finally stopped on the day of the sacrifice.

The war between the border and the Northern Wei Dynasty finally stopped for the time being.The Northern Wei Dynasty suffered heavy losses in Xizhou and Liangzhou, and temporarily occupied Yunzhou.The entire Yunzhou has been surrounded by Jing Guo's army. Although Yunzhou has the famous General Li of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the situation is over at this moment.

On this day, the emperor will visit the altar set up in the capital, pray to heaven for peace, and comfort the warrior spirits.

Two days before the sacrifice, the emperor took Zhou Xun to show him the clothes he was wearing, and put the prayers finalized several times by the Imperial Academy beside him.Zhou Xun saw his high spirits and serious expression, and said to the emperor, "I didn't expect you to be so serious."

"Huh? What?" the emperor asked him while putting a crown on his head, "Why are you so serious?"

"It's nothing, I just thought of writing a prayer for you last year. At that time, the civil and military officials asked you to go to sacrifice, and you didn't like it very much, and complained many times." Zhou Xun lowered his head and focused on straightening his belt .The emperor looked down and saw that he had black hair and his face was red.

"...The mentality has changed now. Since I have come here, I have to take responsibility for the people here. Since I have become the monarch of this era, I must respect the culture and customs of the people of this era. Always hold What is the difference between my own so-called "advanced concept" mocking other people's cultural appearance, and being divorced from reality and looking high above the ground? Moreover, since there is no respect, there is no understanding of them. If sacrifices can make them feel at ease, they should be respected and go to Do it, instead of saying 'science' over and over again, as if you are more noble than them." The emperor said, "holding your own knowledge and treating the people as fools is not sincerely wanting this era to be better, but just for One's own showing off. And arrogance is a kind of ignorance."

"Who said this?" Zhou Xun hung up the jade pendant around his waist for him, "Which gentleman is it?"

"I said it." The emperor said, "You said I was too anxious before, but I reflected on myself. Indeed, my eagerness comes from my arrogance and ignorance."

Zhou Xun tidied up and looked up to see the emperor.At that moment, he found that the emperor was half a head taller than him. When he looked down at him, his eyes were dark, his nose was straight and his eyelashes were long.

He suddenly felt a little strained to breathe.

If Zhou Xun and the emperor were in the same era, then he should know that his current reaction can be called——

"Arrived by the Sudden Serious Emperor Su".

However, the emperor quickly smiled, his brows and eyes were still full of sunshine and heartiness that he was familiar with.He stretched out his hand, touched Zhou Xun's cheek and said, "You have lost a lot of weight recently."

Unconsciously, Zhou Xun's voice softened: "A little... a little."

He was held in the arms of the emperor, his breath was full of the other's breath, and he grabbed the other's shoulder nervously without holding back.The emperor buried it between his neck and said to him: "We have been very busy in the past few months, working overtime every day until the early hours of the morning, and falling asleep—"

Then there was a sense of suspension below him.

As soon as Zhou Xun said in a panic, "No, I have something to do tomorrow", he felt the emperor hugging him...

Shaking.

Then shake again.

Emperor: "Hmm!! I've really lost weight!! I didn't feel so light when I hugged you before!!"

Then put him down.

Zhou Xun: ...

"From tomorrow on, let Lianrong and the others cook you more fish soup, hoof flower soup and other nourishing body, your waist is a bit painful when you hold it... huh?? Why are you staring at me?"

Zhou Xun went out without saying a word.

It wasn't until an hour after Zhou Xun left that the emperor, who was lying alone in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, suddenly understood the reason.

Then tears flowed from the eyes.

Emperor: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!"

……

No matter how heartbroken the emperor was, the sacrifice on the third day was held as scheduled.

The head of the Ye family was transported out of the place where he was temporarily detained that day, as planned.However, Zhou Xun ushered in an unexpected visitor the day before he was shipped out.

To say it was an accident is actually not very surprising.Recently, Prime Minister Lu often came to Zhou Mansion.They sometimes played chess, sometimes read books, and occasionally Prime Minister Lu talked to him about the few apprentices he had recruited.Prime Minister Lu is indeed very knowledgeable. When they are together, they seem like friends.

Surprisingly, Prime Minister Lu brought something.

In the case file, he found a last letter that had never been handed over.

It was sewn into the prison uniform by the Patriarch of the Lin family, and it was a last letter to his daughter.

At that time, the Patriarch of the Lin family could not see his daughter coming in. When he was exiled, he asked the jailer who escorted him for pen and ink, and wrote this letter.He sewed this letter into his clothes, and it was originally waiting for a certain day to be sent out.It is a pity that he suffered from a cold and died in the end, and the letter has been placed in the archives.The letter eventually disappeared.

Prime Minister Lu found the unopened letter and brought it to Zhou Xun.

"Now that you are the only descendant of the Lin family, this letter should indeed be given to you." Prime Minister Lu said.

Zhou Xun thanked him.After Prime Minister Lu told him to take a good rest, he left.It wasn't until after he left that Xiao Duo came over and told Zhou Xun that Prime Minister Lu had sent two big pig's trotters.

Zhou Xun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he asked them to cook the trotters.

He went back to the study alone, and the letter was in his hand, old and yellowed, with the breath of more than 20 years ago.When he opened the letter, he suddenly remembered what the emperor said. The stars in the sky are actually far away from people. What people see is the light they emitted hundreds or thousands of years ago.

And at this moment, he read the handwriting line by line, and saw the starlight of the overly naive Patriarch of the Lin family who made friends because of soft-heartedness decades ago.

……

The next morning.

In the early morning, the head of the Ye family was sent away in a hidden carriage.They picked up the path and walked all the way, but there was no one on the road.Wearing shackles, he tried to shrink himself into the corner of the carriage, panicking about the coming attack at any moment.

In the morning, the emperor set out from the palace.His carriage will travel through the capital—to the new altar.He will comfort all the souls of the dead on the altar, and bring the confidence of victory to the people who are waiting for them outside the cordon, in the mountains and seas.

In the early morning, old man Shen set off from Princess Fukang's mansion.

He met Princess Fukang's son-in-law, whom she called "Old Lu".Lao Lu was the second in the list that year. He was knowledgeable, but he didn't have any ambitions.At the beginning of Princess Shang, Fukang refused to go on a blind date with him, let alone consummating the house, and he didn't care. If you want it, take it back.

Day after day passed like this, and he finally changed from "son-in-law" to "Old Lu".

He talked to Lao Lu, and Lao Lu was still smiling, holding the bird cage in his hand.He left from the mansion, and started to walk on the road in the capital slowly.

He walked in a lonely way, there was no one but him on the road, turned one street after another, and finally, he stopped on a certain street.

He took off his shoe and started to shake it, and the sand got in the shoe.

He didn't hear the sound from the outside world, just kept shaking and keeping.At the same time, the carriage of the Patriarch of the Ye family passed a small bridge.The emperor's carriage was blocked at a busy intersection.

A group of hooligans rammed into the carriage of the Patriarch of the Ye family, but only feigned a shot.

The crowded crowd was evacuated, and the emperor's carriage began to move on.

At the same time, someone grabbed the bowman's hand.

And Lu Xiandao, who was the emperor's guard, saw a familiar person in the crowd with sharp eyes.After he ordered He Liang to take over, he subconsciously chased after him. Behind him, another person in the restaurant saw him and chased after him in a panic.

"Stop." Zhou Xun's indifferent voice came from behind the archer's body, "Your master is in the tea house over there, right? She wants to see the death of her most hated enemy with her own eyes."

The archer wanted to bite his tongue, but the others came faster, and they grabbed him by the throat, and he would not let him die.Some people stepped forward and carefully put away the poisonous arrow.Zhou Xun also opened the curtain and looked at old man Shen quietly.

He didn't have to go out today, but he appeared here, on foot.

—He did it on purpose.

After the conversation between Zhou Xun and him.

He used himself as a bait to bet that Zhou Xun would not make it in time.Or maybe, after seeing Fukang and Lao Lu's happiness, and seeing Zhou Xun's success, he was no longer betting on whether Zhou Xun would be able to make it in time.

Perhaps he had already considered the possibility of death when he came here.His deputy should have told him the identity of the "general".And he also knew that the original root of the birth of "General" was Qin Liang's boarding at Lin's family due to serious injuries.He chased after Qin Liang, finally found out that Qin Liang was in the Lin family, and because Qin Liang escaped in time, he didn't care about the case, and directly handed over the matter to the governor of Jiangzhou, which eventually led to the destruction of the Lin family.

The person "General" hates the most is him.And he also knew that Zhou Xun was the child of "General".

And that day, facing Zhou Xun's hint, he still said that he wanted to go out.Perhaps he also thought that if his death could end the hatred, if his death could bring the "general" to leave, then Zhou Xun would no longer have to face such cruelty of mother and child.

But Zhou Xun was too fast after all, and he also knew his intentions.

Old man Shen finally stopped shaking the non-existent sand in the shoes.He looked at the figure upstairs in the distance, and his eyes suddenly became hot.

……

The teahouse was surrounded by people back and forth, Zhou Xun finally walked in step by step.

First floor, second floor, third floor.

He finally reached that floor.

The moment he opened the door, he realized that the "general" had no intention of escaping.

The room is full of fragrance.It was the smell of burning incense. Zhou Xun turned his eyes and saw that the incense on the censer not far away was almost burned out, and only half of the ashes were left hanging on the side.

So decadent, as if burning to the last of life.

He saw the shadow of the woman behind the screen. The woman was sitting there, looking at the window sill over there, holding a long pipe in her hand.After so many years, this was the first time he had looked at her properly.At that moment, he felt that they were not like mother and son, but a pair of strangers who accidentally disturbed each other's fate.She has her destiny, he has his.

Zhou Xun sat down on the cushion.

"You didn't run away because you knew you couldn't run away?" he said.

The woman holding the pipe turned her back to him, and he only saw her shadow. The woman said, "Actually, I should have withdrawn three days ago. Qin Liang told me that was the deadline for me to leave the capital safely." , but I didn't. Qin Liang won't come to pick me up either, he's an old fox. His guilt towards the Lin family is almost exhausted."

"Because you are waiting for Shen Huanju, you are going to kill him." Zhou Xun said quietly.

"Yeah, I don't have to hate the emperor. When the Lin family was wiped out, he was still a child who didn't understand anything. And the head of the Ye family? If you want to kill him, you can kill him at any time, and he is already a dog in the water. So , the only thing I hate the most is Shen Huanju, everything started because of him. And you, you actually became his apprentice...Zhou Xun."

When she said the word "Zhou Xun", she paused for a moment, but her tone did not change.Zhou Xun smiled instead, and said softly, "Yes, Zhou Xun, this is the name you gave me."

"I never thought that you would still be alive, let alone that you would be the one who came to arrest me today. Shen Huanju actually accepted you as an apprentice. The fate is really strange. He sent the Lin family to prison, but finally accepted you Be an apprentice." The woman said, as if she lowered her head and took a puff of hookah, and then let out a slow breath, "I put all my eggs in one basket, staying here, and dying just to see him. It's a pity that I was hoping for luck, but You, but you are too smart, you found the place where I should go from the very beginning... How should I put it, you are worthy of being the blood of the Lin family, right?"

"Your anger has already affected too many other people. Isn't it enough just to destroy the Ye family and the Zhou family? What did the people of Yunzhou do wrong, and what did the people of Jingguo do wrong?"

"——Then what did the Lin family do wrong? What did my father do wrong? It's funny, haven't you suffered the same pain?" The woman said slowly, "You can accuse me like this only because, you think I am from Jingguo, and I think I am from Jingguo. But do you know what the Lin family has experienced?"

"There was a severe drought in Jiangzhou, and the Lin family took the initiative to open warehouses to relieve the disaster. The canals in the city were donated by the Lin family. The most affordable drug store for rice, grain and oil is always the Lin family's pharmacy. All the people, as long as they explain their difficulties, they can get medicine for free. The poor students were gifted by my father to go to Beijing. My nanny was sold into a brothel by her gambler husband. It was the Lin family who redeemed her and punished her husband—but she was framed by the Lin family and released. Do you know what they did when they entered the private correspondence with the Northern Wei Dynasty?"

"All the shops were raped in the name of justice. The students who had been subsidized stayed behind closed doors and drew a clear line. What's more, they stood by the Ye family and kept making up false confessions. They had received relief, People who have received free medicines all said that we usually just use those grains and oils to buy people’s hearts. When we were walking on the road, they threw me with mud. The shantang of Lin’s family gave so many free medicinal materials, but when my mother When I was seriously ill, I went to all the pharmacies on my knees, but they refused to sell us any medicines." The woman's voice became deeper and deeper, "And the most ridiculous thing is...you know who put those letters in my father's study in?"

"It's my wet nurse. Her husband, a gamer, came to her and said that if only she did it, they'd be right again."

"If it were you, what would you think? And my father, he has been kind and charitable all his life, and he ended up like this just because he took in a 'friend'. If you were him, would you hate it? Unfortunately, he was exiled long ago On the way, they died. Dead people can’t speak. My elder brother died too, so I’m the only one left in the Lin family. I’m the only one to make their voices out—”

Zhou Xun looked at her back quietly, and after a long time, he said, "Prime Minister Lu found something."

"Lu……"

"He thought you were dead. And I am your child, so he gave this to me. Now, I will give it to you and return it to its original owner."

Something appeared beside her.

Zhou Xun handed something in through the screen.

"Look at it." Zhou Xun said softly, "This is..."

"Patriarch Lin, a letter to you."