After being mistaken for a fellow by Long Aotian

The soldiers who cleaned up the battle found the body of the fifth prince in the early morning. He was lying in the alley where the sewage was flowing, and he died with regret.His body was wounded by random knives, and there was a long, long bloodstain behind him.

What is amazing is that he seems to have come out of the palace abruptly and crawled here again.

What is even more puzzling is that the entire palace has declined to such an extent.These days, the fifth prince seems to be drinking in his room all day long, and in his room, except for a pile of ceramic fragments, there is no trace of anything that has ever existed.

It is a mystery why the Fifth Prince died when he came here.However, no one will take this matter to heart.After disposing of the gangster involved with King Su's men, his death came to a complete end with his bones buried in the ground.

And the palace where he lived was also vacated.The emperor did not demolish it, because it may have new uses, so it saves construction resources.

After that, it was King Su's people who were liquidated.Seeing that Qin Liang was arrested, King Su knew that his plot had been exposed, so he simply gathered troops in an attempt to launch a Jedi counterattack.

In his opinion, the situation that the literati and officials said is very beneficial to him.He only needs to capture the emperor in the restaurant, issue an imperial edict in the name of the emperor, and coerce the emperor to order the princes.Or, let the emperor die of a sudden illness in the restaurant, or let the emperor go crazy, and the whole capital will be leaderless, which is naturally a good time for him to take the throne.

What's more, he still holds a trump card in his hand.

——The empress dowager who was supposed to practice in Mount Wutai.

——The empress dowager who wanted to rescue her son, the Fifth Prince.

The queen mother was also at the banquet at that time.She was picked up secretly by King Su.As soon as she came out, she reprimanded the emperor for his bad words and deeds, for killing his siblings for the sake of a male favorite, almost going crazy.Then, she changed her posture again and advised the emperor to take a rest as soon as possible, and leave the government affairs to King Su.

In the past, the emperor might have agreed with tears.The reason why the former emperor became a tyrant was because he was the queen mother's biological son with the fifth prince, but he was raised by the concubine Chong after he was born. Even after the concubine died and returned to the queen mother, he never got Queen Mother's love.Before he ascended the throne, there was a great conflict between him and the queen mother.The queen mother pointed at him, and kept saying that he was not worthy of the throne--of course, her beloved son Rongfen was worthy of the throne.

Therefore, after the queen mother went to Mount Wutai to practice Buddhism, the original emperor became a dissolute tyrant. He accepted male favors and did so many absurd things, but he may not have exiled himself because of his mother, eager to get the other party's review the meaning of.

however……

"However, it is me who is standing in the restaurant now!" The emperor pointed at himself with his thumb, and said triumphantly, "I preemptively struck the enemy on the spot, and the killing sound shook the sky. Take it... hiss."

Zhou Xun treated his wound with a cotton cloth soaked in wine, and said expressionlessly, "If I hadn't come quickly enough, you would have died long ago."

The corners of his eyes were red, and there were still traces of crying.When he rushed to the restaurant and rescued the emperor, the emperor still had the random arrow stuck in his shoulder.

Zhou Xun had never seen such a messy person as the emperor.

Surrounded by King Su's hands, the emperor actually pre-empted the attack, put a knife on King Su's neck, and shouted, "If you want to die together, kill me first."

In fact, King Su didn't have the idea of ​​dying together at that time.Instead, he was taken aback by the emperor's sudden violent rise.

Even the emperor was still in the chaos and tore off King Su's pants on the spot.He originally wanted to disturb the scene, but tragically discovered that King Su was even a eunuch.

This is very tragic for King Su, and it is also very tragic for those courtiers who support King Su.

At that moment, they couldn't help casting their eyes on King Su's lower body.In this shameful and suffocating atmosphere, Zhou Xun arrived with his troops.

Then there's counter-insurgency.After learning the fact of King Su's eunuch, many retainers even lost their fighting power because of it.King Su went completely insane. He picked up the knife and wanted to die with the emperor. Then the emperor picked up a whole plate of spicy millet and smeared it on his face.

In the end, King Su was hacked to death with random knives.And when one of the emperor's guards, who had been turned into water, raised a long knife and slashed at the emperor who was forced to the foot of the wall, the emperor was stunned, and did not make a move for a while——

Then, he was stabbed with a sword to the point of chills.

The corpse fell, and behind the corpse was Zhou Xun, who was covered in blood.He threw the long sword on the ground, his eyes were a little distracted, and he was still immersed in the panic of slashing the enemy with his own hands for the first time.Then, the emperor hugged the trembling Shura, and led him to run downstairs.

The arrow on the emperor's shoulder was hit at that time, and he protected Zhou Xun along the way, so that he was not injured at all.After he was safe, Zhou Xun hugged him and started crying.

He didn't like to cry, but all the fear at that moment outweighed the others.

After returning to the palace, Zhou Xun watched helplessly as the imperial physician pulled out the arrow that had been shot into the emperor's shoulder.There was still a barb on the arrow, but the emperor remained silent when the wound was pulled to a bloody wound.In the end, the one with pursed lips and red eyes became Zhou Xun again.So the emperor asked someone to pull up a screen, and while shaking in the screen, told him jokes.

"Do you know what Fenghuolian... Lian Sanyue's next sentence is? It's... Baosi... laughed like a fool, hahaha..."

"Old Wang turned on the faucet angrily, because the boiling water scalded him."

Unfortunately, at the end, Zhou Xun didn't laugh.Until he walked to the emperor's bed, the emperor held his face and kissed him.

After changing the medicine for the emperor, Zhou Xun lowered his eyes and began to blow hot soup for him again.The emperor looked at his appearance, scratched his head, and said to him: "You don't need to worry so much, the imperial doctor said, my injury will heal soon."

In fact, the emperor didn't know what he was distressed about.Zhou Xun thought.

The era that the emperor came from had only flowers, rain, dew and sunshine.The emperors of that era would not have swords and swords around them, bloody intrigues, and deaths and tragedies that might have happened just because they were half an hour late.

This was not what the emperor should bear.he thinks.

"Actually, I can bear it very well. I have seen a lot of bloody war movies before. I have also played chicken eating games, but I am 6, don't worry!"

The emperor seemed to see what he was worried about, and patted his chest.

Zhou Xun looked at him and gave him a forced smile.

"Don't be careless anymore." The emperor sat up, put his hand on the back of his head, and said against the tip of his nose, "If you are sad, it won't look good, you know?"

"……Um."

They talked for a while, and the emperor saw that Zhou Xun was about to cheer up, so he complained to him: "Actually, I don't understand. Where did that king Su get the confidence to kill me? And that queen mother, After all, I am her own son, it's really weird whether the two sons are the emperor or not the emperor..."

He thought for a while, and then said: "And that queen mother is like a psychopath, she should be able to see that I am not the original emperor, right? This is going to be troublesome."

"This is not something you should worry about now." Zhou Xun said seriously, "What you should do now is to take good care of your illness."

Emperor: "Well..."

Zhou Xun asked him well, and after confirming that everything was fine, he wanted to leave again.Before leaving, he heard the emperor say, "Actually, there is one more thing I want to do..."

Zhou Xun turned around: "What?"

The emperor raised his eyebrows at him, and there was a bit of condescension in his smile: "I want to be with you..."

Zhou Xun: ...

He said coldly: "Heal your injury."

After speaking, he closed the door and left.His black hair was like a cloud, but it couldn't cover the bright red ears.

When he left the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he heard Xiao Lizi report back.Xiao Lizi took a look inside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and said to Zhou Xun, "Master Zhou, the empress dowager said that she wants to see the emperor..."

Having said that, he looked around again, and hastily added: "The empress dowager knows that the fifth prince is dead."

After hearing what he said, Zhou Xun nodded and said, "I'll go see her."

"Young master Zhou, be careful." Xiao Lizi reminded, looking at the setting sun in the distance.

……

Before Zhou Xun entered the courtyard where the Empress Dowager was imprisoned, he heard a voice from inside: "The Ai family is the Empress Dowager, and he is the son of the Ai family. Why can't the Ai family see their son?"

The guards outside the courtyard are Zhou Xun's confidantes.Zhou Xun asked those people to avoid them. When he entered, the Queen Mother was sitting at the tea table.The moment she saw Zhou Xun, she showed a disgusted expression: "It's you?"

Neither humble nor overbearing, Zhou Xun also sat opposite her: "The emperor ordered me to visit the queen mother."

"It's you, you bitch, vixen, if it wasn't for you, how could Aijia's son..." The queen mother looked at him, her eyebrows raised high, her eyes full of disgust.

Zhou Xun ignored those foul language at all.He glanced at the empty teacup, and said: "The palace people didn't take good care of them. Why didn't they pour water for the Queen Mother when the tea was finished?"

As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves, poured a cup of tea for the Queen Mother, and placed it in front of the Queen Mother.His movements are elegant and pleasing to the eye, and he looks like he has specially practiced the tea ceremony.Even if the Empress Dowager looked at him with disgust, she couldn't fault his etiquette at this moment.

Zhou Xun looked humble and gentle, and he came for the emperor, so the queen mother naturally thought he was here to seek peace.The queen mother sneered, and Zhou Xun said in a timely manner: "The emperor wanted to see the queen mother very much when he was ill, but now the emperor is also heartbroken. Over the years, the emperor's unrestrained behavior is also for the sake of"

Sentence by sentence, he first let go of the empress dowager's guard with humble words and gentle manner.

After that, it was another half month. For half a month, Zhou Xun visited the Queen Mother every day, and poured a cup of tea for the Queen Mother every day.

He is the only one who can see the Queen Mother.

On the 15th, when the Empress Dowager finally had a conversation, she snorted coldly and said, "Is he worthy of being the emperor? If the first emperor hadn't said that, whoever gave birth to a prince first between me and the demon concubine would be the concubine." position. Otherwise, he is a raccoon..."

When she said this, the empress dowager showed panic.She hurriedly brought tea to drink to cover up her gaffe.

This is her first time drinking that tea.

"Your Majesty is feeling better today. He told you to go see him." Zhou Xun said.

The Empress Dowager's face suddenly showed joy.She said she was going to straighten her clothes and went to the back.When she came out, she saw Zhou Xun standing alone in the courtyard, so she frowned and asked, "Where are the people who welcome Ai's family?"

"This question." Zhou Xun smiled and said to her in a leisurely manner, "The queen mother can ask you about the... short knife hidden in your sleeve."

Seeing that the matter was exposed, the queen mother snorted coldly.She simply smiled arrogantly: "What can you do? I am the queen mother, the mother of the emperor! He killed my own son, and you are not a good thing. As long as I live for a day, I will take you down hell!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Zhou Xun smiling ambiguously in the twilight, and then...

She clutched her neck and fell down slowly.

There is poison in the tea.It took Zhou Xun half a month to get her used to the habit of pouring tea by herself.

It was a colorless, odorless poison that would stop the heartbeat and look as if it had died in sleep.

Zhou Xun disposed of the empress dowager's body.It will be recorded in the history books that the Empress Dowager passed away suddenly in her sleep, that's all.

As for the stories about the civet cat being exchanged for the prince, he will also find the people involved and bury it completely.However, it seems that the queen mother in her youth was far more ruthless than she is now.The people involved in the exchange of the stillborn baby with a healthy boy had been executed by her long ago, and Su Wang, the only one who knew about it besides her, was also mad because of Tianxiong's public execution. death.

And the emperor didn't need to understand these things.If two people are going to walk together in this world, one of them must have blood and sins on his hands. Zhou Xun hopes that if that person is him, it will only be him.

As long as the emperor stands in front of him, greets and embraces the sun with endless dreams, and leads him in the direction of the future, it is enough.

He hoped that the emperor's smile would always be the same as when he came from the world of flowers and brocades, without a trace of haze.

The next day, Qin Liang was picked up by the people of the Northern Wei Dynasty at a very high price and left the capital.Before leaving the capital, Qin Liang suddenly made a request - he wanted to go to Jiangzhou to see the old address of the Lin family.

The emperor did not promise him.

On the day he left, Lu Xiandao went to see him outside the city gate despite his injuries.His eyes were red, staring at Qin Liang.Qin Liang noticed his eyes and only gave him a contemptuous smile.

Zhou Xun patted Lu Xiandao's shoulder and said, "Lord Lu..."

"I know." Lu Xiandao whispered, "He can't die in Jingguo."

When he went back to bed that night, he had another nightmare.In the dream, there were blood and fire, as well as the cries of Yang Er's family members, and the yelling at him.He remembered that when he was a child, because his parents were at odds, he entered the Jiangwei guard in a fit of anger.During those countless days and nights when he was afraid of the dark, Lao Yang was like his father.

He woke up in a cold sweat from the nightmare.In the endless darkness and chaos, he saw the open window, outside the window was a bright moon, and the shadow of the white clothes was reflected in the bright moon.

At that moment, he thought it was a fairy descending.

Lu Xiandao stared blankly at Bai Yuxing in front of the window.He didn't have time to find out why this person broke into his bedroom suddenly, and didn't know if he heard the hateful, fearful and apologetic dreams he said in his dream, he just said: "What are you doing here? "

"Come to say goodbye to you." The little fairy under the moon said, flicking the ponytail tied behind her head.He was wearing boots, still swinging his white jade paperweight: "I'm going to the Northern Wei Dynasty."

"Go to the Northern Wei Dynasty... what are you going to do?"

The immortal grinned at him, smiling with endless chicness.He said, "Go and steal a present for you."

As he said, he threw the white jade paperweight into the air, grabbed it again, and said to Lu Xian: "I have entered Princess Fukang's mansion so many times, and I have never stolen a single thing. I stole your paperweight tonight! Treat it as an exchange of gifts for you!"

"you……!"

Lu Xiandao struggled to get up from the bed.Bai Yuxing said: "We sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes do not have as many rules as your officials. I will go first. The rivers and lakes are far away, and the mountains are high and the waters are long. See you by fate!"

"By the way, finally." He turned his face back, his eyes sparkled under the moonlight, "Lao Lu, you are a very loyal friend. I should have become friends with you long ago. I didn't like you being so majestic before, but now I think it's better for you to be prestige, unreasonable, and upright all the time, to look good, and..."

"You said you've seen me in my wedding gown, and I've seen you in your red gown, too. The two of us are really destined for each other. It's over!"

After speaking, he flew out of the window like a light swallow.Lu Xiandao had no time to catch up with him, only a gust of wind.

It wasn't until later that he realized that Bai Yuxing was going to the Northern Wei Dynasty to steal something for him.

The grand thief who has stolen rare treasures all over the world, this time, he stole not a luminous cup, not a glazed cup, not a red orb.

It was Qin Liang's head.

But Bai Yuxing, who was wearing night clothes and stopped at Qin Liang's mansion, didn't understand either.On the day he opened the window and brought in the moon and the wind, what he stole was not just the white jade paperweight on the desk.

And a heart.

……

Now that the overall situation has been settled, everything seems to be calmed down.Life seems to be gradually returning to normal.Zhou Xun found that the emperor had been lethargic recently.

It's winter, another year of winter.A stove was lit in the palace, and apart from going up and down and dealing with government affairs, the two of them just nestled in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, surrounded by the stove, and roasted oranges over the fire.

"Old Bai said, the green ant's new fermented wine, red clay small stove. It's snowing in the evening, can you have a cup?" The emperor seems to like brewing milk with tea leaves, adding some brown sugar, and heating it with a stove. drink.At this moment, he roasted another cup, brought it to Zhou Xun's mouth, and said, "Come, have a drink?"

Zhou Xun took the "milk tea" and started to drink it. His pale face was flushed red by the stove, and he looked very bloody.The emperor ordered someone to build an ultra-long and ultra-wide chaise longue, covered with various pillows, furs, and quilts.Zhou Xun was curled up in a big cloak at the moment.

His pale calf was resting on the long silver-gray hair, his black hair was casually draped over his body, his neck was slender and slender, and his outstretched hands were also white, the contrast with the black hair was almost shocking.Everyone knows what happened here just now.

Zhou Xun lowered his head and held the milk tea and drank it slowly. The emperor looked at him from his pillow. After a while, he suddenly smiled.

"What are you laughing at?" Zhou Xun asked.

Emperor: "Beautiful."

Zhou Xun: ...

"The second one-year plan is completed! Next year will be the third one-year plan!" The emperor changed the topic and leaned on him and said, "Now it's the turn of the Northern Wei Dynasty to pay us tribute! Now that we have money, the next step is to start revival Great countryside! We..."

He muttered, and slowly, Zhou Xun heard the sound of even breathing.

The emperor fell asleep again.

The milk tea in my hand has gone cold.Zhou Xun lowered his head, his hair fell like a waterfall on the silver cloak, and he gently pressed his face close to the emperor's cheek.

Recently, the emperor has become more and more lethargic.

Zhou Xun once asked many imperial physicians about this issue. He wanted to find out the reason behind this, and even wondered if the emperor deliberately hid something from him—but the imperial physicians couldn't tell the reason.

Doctor He said that this incident started after King Su's rebellion. At that time, no extreme abnormalities appeared after the arrow was drawn.Looking at it now, maybe there is some kind of colorless, odorless, unknown poison on the arrow, maybe it is some kind of sequelae of it.

He had never believed in gods before, but this time, he actually asked to see a famous monk in person.It is said that this eminent monk is different from ordinary Taoists who deceive people, but when he saw the eminent monk, the man only said one word to him.

"If you violate the harmony of heaven, you will eventually restrain yourself."

In just a few words, the secret has been leaked.After saying this sentence, the eminent monk seemed to have aged many years in an instant.

Zhou Xun finally understood.

The emperor... no, Rong Haoyu.

He is leaving.

This world once allowed him to steal the two years of Rong Haoyu's existence, and now, fate seems to want to take back this luck again.

He knew that the emperor had also noticed this anomaly.He is doing some deployments in private, for example, the deployment of the court.In addition, he also knew that the emperor looked at him when he thought he was asleep, lifted his hair that covered his face, and muttered softly: "Otherwise... I'd better let you go."

He knew what the emperor was afraid of.Later, the emperor also told him.

He was afraid that "Rong Xuan" would come back, and that one day when Zhou Xun woke up from his dream, what appeared in front of him was not the Rong Haoyu who was willing to protect and guard him for the rest of his life.

It was Rong Xuan who wanted to put him to death.

But Zhou Xun refused to leave.

"I know you have arranged everything. Even if you die, this court and this country can continue to operate." Zhou Xun said, "That will be a world where everyone can be happy. There is no second person like me in this world." Same, understand that world.”

"If the person who wakes up is not you, but Rong Xuan, or the second person... who wants to destroy everything, I will kill him." Zhou Xun lowered his eyelashes and said seriously, "I won't allow that." Anyone can destroy the world you left behind."

The emperor did not speak.But Zhou Xun knew that he secretly wrote an imperial decree, told his most confidant ministers, and hid it behind the plaque.

If one day he goes "crazy" and becomes a bloodthirsty tyrant, Zhou Xun has the right to kill him.

Zhou Xun thought, after this...

He will live for a long time, watching the world become what Rong Haoyu imagined and planned, and when his life is about to end, he will die quietly in his small courtyard in the capital.

The small courtyard that Rong Haoyu gave him.

Or, when he is old, when he sees that everything is getting better, he will go around the world alone to see everything that Rong Haoyu has no time to show him to appreciate.He would ride a horse and imagine that there was another person behind the horse whom he could not see, embracing him as gently as the wind.

In this world, there is no such thing as "camera" that Rong Haoyu once told him, which can record everything he sees.

But he will use the remaining decades to hone Danqing well.By the time he leaves the capital, he will have a very good painting skill.He will step over the yellow sand of the desert, step over the cliffs with hundreds of feet of ice, see the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River and the peach blossoms in the north of Mobei.Thunder in spring, rain in summer, wind in autumn, and snow in winter.He will paint all the beauties he sees, and keep them in the best place, in the most dust-free history.

Until many years later, perhaps in the future time and space of this world, there will be a college student named "Rong Haoyu".He travels back to the future with the memories and sees them in a museum somewhere.

Then he will know that there was someone he redeemed thousands of years ago and lived a long, long life after he left.

——This will be the starlight spanning thousands of years, and it will also be what Zhou Xun can leave to the emperor, the best gift he can give.

The only thing he won't do is take the initiative to end his own life.Because he knew that even if Rong Haoyu left, his eyes from a thousand years later would remain in this world, looking at him tenderly and cheerfully.

And he was going to be his star.It takes tens of thousands of years for starlight to travel across the universe, and the long time will eventually pass his starlight into his eyes, and let him see the beauty that existed thousands of years ago and was born because of him.

And on that day, the moment when his life ended, the setting sun shone through his pale hair, and he was lying on the rattan chair in the yard, with new peach blossoms falling on his forehead.

When the wind blows through the peach forest and the sound of the wind is like waves, Rong Haoyu will come to pick him up.

He has changed his life.And he couldn't waste the life he had saved.

Zhou Xun put his face on Rong Haoyu's cheek.Listening to the other party's even breathing, he thought to himself, when he wakes up, he will hold him back and take him to build a snowman, read memorials, eat delicious food, or think that the weather is too cold, and he will be with him again. Do this and that on the couch.

What a trivial and ordinary day to day.

But now, even a roasted orange is as precious as if it was stolen from the hands of fate.

He still wants to do a lot of things with him.

Zhou Xun thought.

He wants to build a snowman with him, and wants to watch spring and autumn with him for another year.He still wants to be hugged by him, and he still wants to go to Jiangzhou with him again, and take a walk in the memories of his youth.He wanted him to see himself in middle age, he wanted him to see himself with gray hair and wrinkles.He also wanted to see his old appearance. The two old men, whose legs and feet were not flexible, had to support each other and walk slowly.

He will be the old man with a bright smile, and he will be the gentler one.Even if they are old and lose their memory, they will eventually recall each other's name every morning.

He leaned against the emperor quietly and fell asleep.

Finally one morning, he woke up from his dream. That morning, he could only hear the emperor lying beside him, breathing evenly.

That day he waited from day to night, but the emperor never woke up again.