Brother Donggong

I had a dream this night.

My cage was split open with a knife, and the oriole inside was nowhere to be found.

That is the bird that Du Yuchan gave me. It is extremely delicate, but it is proud of itself.Any bird with its dirty mouth must be killed, and its food must be carefully selected. It can’t be like me, and I can eat big buns bought at the bun shop in the back street with relish. The precious ones need to be kept in ivory cages, and their only use in this life is to sing.

But this precious oriole disappeared in my dream.

Its equally precious cage had been hacked in half.

I rummaged through the palace, but I couldn’t find it. Cucumber, whom I scolded and cried, hid in the corner, drooping his eyes, as if he was covering up something. I walked over and pulled him up. I saw that sitting under his buttocks. Only the dead yellow warbler, with the soufflé millet she ate in the morning at the corner of Huang Ying's mouth.

Wow! !

I woke up suddenly, and the cucumber was right in front of my eyes.

He is not very energetic, and he has completely lost the spirit of the past.

I did scold him yesterday, what did I say? I don’t know that you, Mr. Huang, have such a great ability. You can deal with people in my palace casually without me. Leave it to you.

Then, the cucumber cried.

He never cried, even when he was beaten badly in Yuzheng Palace back then, he didn't cry, at most he howled a few times, and then tears and nose flowed down together, making his little face miserable.

Last night he cried very badly, and I found that I have the most trouble with human tears.

I've never seen him cry like that.

Like a rotten peach.

I was upset by Xiao Liangang, and I was upset by Cucumber.

I pulled Cucumber over, wiped his face with my sleeve, and kept coaxing him, "Don't cry, don't cry, your thing is gone, you are so beautiful, you look like a girl, Now that I cry like this, I look more like a girl. But, I said, how can there be a girl like you in this world? You don’t have any breasts, and you can’t give birth to a baby. Not only is there an eighty-year-old mother, but there are children waiting to be fed, Knowing Man Yongjing well, even the old master Qingtian sleeps with that girl in the middle of the night, you are clear about it, aren't you a goblin?"

Whoa whoa whoa! ! ! ——

I didn't expect that Cucumber cried even more.I was crying so hard that I couldn't be coaxed, so I could only let him wipe my nose with my fine lake silk robe.

I couldn't fall asleep until midnight because of him.

When he was about to leave, he also said, "Young Master Lian said, the rainy night is cold and cold, so he told me to close the window."

I slept in a daze for most of the night. When I opened my eyes today, I saw Cucumber crawling on the head of my bed with a sad face, like a dry bean sprouts.

I sat up from the bed and looked at him suspiciously, "What's wrong with you?"

The rooster is crowing outside.

Oh oh oh! ! ——

"My lord..."

Cucumber hesitated to speak, and looked like a quail.

"My lord... as I said, don't be angry, don't get angry, don't be sad, and don't..."

I grabbed his ear and said tremblingly, "What's wrong? Could it be that my father really died?"

Cucumber was stunned when he heard that, "No, Your Majesty just left the customs today, and the servant just copied a congratulatory form to the Supervisor of Ceremonies, congratulating Your Majesty on your great achievements in cultivating Taoism and Xuanzhen. I haven't heard that Your Majesty returns to the sea. "

I patted my heart, as if a big stone fell to the ground.

I pulled the cucumber, "Since my father is not dead, and the sky is still holding up, and it hasn't collapsed, don't you come here early in the morning with the bad look of being picked flowers from the dead and wake me up, so that I can see it as soon as I open my eyes." Seeing your pancake face, this is a very merciless and malicious act..."

"My lord, Young Master Lian is gone..."

I was still talking, but I had lost my voice. What Cucumber said cut my words like a knife.

The sound of the cucumber is like a plucking string, whether I want to hear it or not, it will vibrate by itself until it can no longer produce.

"He said, if the lord is thinking about some old friendship, don't look for him... He also said that he owes the lord and he can't pay it back, but what the lord owes him, he will take it himself, but it's not the moment... "

I don't think he owes me anything, I do feel that I owe him a lot.

I have never treated him sincerely, not even a tenth of my thoughts on Wen Zhan and Yuezheng, but I always keep saying that he is my family. I don't know if I am lying to myself or lying other people.

However he was very kind to me.

He would pull the quilt for me when I fell asleep, close the windows for me, and break into the small palace to see me and bring me delicious big buns. Zhan's sprained wrists, apply medicine to them, although he will wrap my hands like two melons.

He is not the cucumber that I grew up with, nor is it Feng Xiaosheng who ran to the palace to be a cook with the imperial salary, and he is not Wen Zhan Yuezheng who is connected by my blood.

He is him.

That is, a feeling like family.

--There is no never-ending feast.

I suddenly remembered such a sentence, and I seemed to see my small courtyard in the palace falling apart.

As soon as Wen Zhan entered Yongjing, he was called by my father to go to Dazheng Palace. Yu Lan followed him back to Yongjing, but he didn't enter the palace and went home alone.When I arrived at King Jia's Mansion, he had just finished taking a shower, changed into a clean robe, and was sitting on a rosewood chair eating shark's fin rice. He looked as if he had eaten green vegetables for several days in Taimiao and was starving.

When he saw me coming, he put the bowls and chopsticks in his hands aside, took a sip of tea and rinsed his mouth, then stood up, and came to me, his amiable appearance was very similar to the New Year picture hanging in the court room of the Taizheng Palace—— A big, round, fat boy, with a horizontal batch written in harmony.

"Brother Emperor is here, sit down."

He slammed his sleeves and pointed to the chair over there.

"Serve tea!"

"Brother Dahuang, I don't have Fenghuang Dancong with a tael of gold and a tael of tea here, but I do have a few taels of this year's Mingqian Longjing. As for whether it is the authentic Shifeng Longjing, then I don't know, anyway, it is from Hangzhou. Who doesn’t know that the Shifeng Longjing before the Ming Dynasty, except for a few officials in Zhejiang, only Gongli and Boss Cui can drink it in Yongjing City. , you will settle for some."

I smiled and said, "Look at what my third brother said, Lao Cui is in the tea business, but there is a saying in the market, 'The girl who sells flowers inserts bamboo leaves, and the lady who sells oil combs her hair with water'. Those teas are all from him. Some of the goods from the Yongjing tea house are for the palace, and the other part is for nobles like the third brother in Yongjing city. How can he get such a good tea? He doesn’t drink tea, he only drinks water.”

Yu Lan sat on the chair, waiting for the servants to bring good tea.

His temperament is exactly the same as my father's.

My dad is flirtatious, and so is he.

He has eight beautiful maidservants here, almost the same height, short, fat and thin, wearing tube top skirts from the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, wearing the same style of falling horse buns, and wearing the same golden step.Fingers like jade scallions are holding the tray made of alder, on which the blue and white porcelain teacups are placed securely.

The maidservant brought over the fragrant tea and put it beside Yu Lan and me, and at the same time put a cup on the small table next to me.

Want to come to him to have a guest, but don't know who it is?

After the tea was served, Yu Lan waved her hand, and everyone around her retreated.

Yu Lan said, "Brother Emperor, let's get straight to the point. Brother Huang, have you brought what I want?"

Without saying a word, I took out an account book from my sleeve and put it on the coffee table next to him.

He took it, turned it over, sneered, and threw it aside again.

I asked him, "But this thing?"

Yu Lan nodded, "Yes. However, if I remember correctly, I asked Brother Dahuang for the original account book, not the copy."

I smiled, "Third Brother, as the saying goes, you get what you pay for. On the day of Chu Qiangsheng's wedding, the things I saw were also copies, not originals. This copy is a fair price. Children and elders are not deceived."

Yu Lan, "What an iron-toothed and copper-toothed Lord Qi, if you say something that doesn't please you, you won't cry until you see the coffin."

"Wrong!" I shook my finger, "I don't cry even when I see a coffin!"

Yu Lan, "Could it be that you don't even care about the imperial concubine?"

Me, "My mother and concubine are under the care of my father, and she is all right in the palace. Besides, I know who my mother is. She usually only takes seven or eight sets. When she gets up early, she has an egg and a bowl of japonica rice porridge." , a meat dish at noon, a vegetarian dish, a bowl of rice, and a bowl of thin noodle soup at night, these things are enough to make ends meet, and they are even very good. When I was young, our mother and I lived in Xigong Lengyuan, and she ate These things are now in the Shouchun Palace, Jin Fengxiang Guifei, she still eats these things. There is no difference. Thinking about it, she will not care too much if she loses the title of this noble concubine. But, since it is the father As a royal concubine, my father must be happy with her, and I don't think she will be thrown at the queen's disposal. Third brother, what do you think?"

I drank tea from a tea bowl and praised, "This tea is so good, even the Weiyin Palace in the Imperial Palace does not have such good tea! If my father knows that the third younger brother can drink such good tea every day, He will definitely be so greedy! Who is the bowl over there for? If no one drinks it, give it to me too."

Seeing that I was reaching out to take the tea bowl, Yu Lan said, "Wait a minute. Big Brother, look at what you mean, I'm sure I won't be able to get the account books of the Du family today?"

I stretched out my sleeves, "You search it yourself, if you find it, it will be yours."

He bowed his head and smiled, "Brother Dahuang has returned from an adventure, but he is still so naughty."

I also smiled at him, "Third brother is good at tricks. Those who want to kill me outside Yongjing City are all under the third brother's subordinates. The third brother should have made it clear in the morning, so that I can still let my people show mercy , to save those three-legged cat killers from being annihilated, what a pity, what a pity."

Yu Lan put down the teacup in her hand and said, "Actually, I also know that you will definitely not give me anything today. I still invite you to come here. In fact, I want to introduce a guest from afar to Brother Dahuang. Brother Dahuang, you must interested."

As he spoke, he stood up, turned around and said to the dark part of the corridor in the flower hall, "Your Highness Mo Que, all 36 of your masters were lost in the hands of my brother, not only died cleanly, but also carried a The reputation of the three-legged cat kung fu, my brother is so good, you don't want to see it?"

Mo bird?

Prince Gaochang Mo Que?

Ayla's younger brother Mo Que?

Yulan said these words lightly, like a four-two-weight cotton peach, but in my heart, it was like the flint explosives that Pei Tan used when he leveled Gaochang. I felt my heart freeze, and I almost died up.

Whispering.

The teacup in my hand fell to the ground and shattered.

I saw Xiaolian, and walked out with a blank expression on his face. His eyes were still blue, but they were no longer as warm as water before. Instead, they looked like the Wannian glaciers hovering in the Kunlun Snow Valley, so cold. pole.

He was wearing a white brocade robe with mandala flowers embroidered with platinum thread on the sleeves.

He walked up to me and stood still, then bent slightly, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I have heard your name for a long time, and it's like thunder. I'm in the Gandharpo tribe of Lower Kunlun, Mo Que."

"... Kunlun... Gandharpo... Mo Que...??"

I stood up in a daze, I couldn't even hear what he was saying.

The third child suddenly laughed, "Brother Emperor, don't make such a fuss. Although His Royal Highness Mo Que is a nobleman of Gaochang, he has been learning martial arts in Da Guangming Palace since he was a child, and he studied under Kunlun Sect King Xijiaye. Napobu, he himself has become a top Kunlun master. Your Highness Mo Que, don’t be surprised, my emperor brother is a man of temperament, and he didn’t mean to insult the reputation of Kunlun master.”

Mo Que looked at Yu Lan and said, "It's because my subordinates are not good at learning and their skills are not as good as others. It is fate to be beheaded by others, so I can't blame others."

Yu Lan stopped laughing, "His Highness Mo Que is really sensible. But my brother is born arrogant, I hope His Highness tolerates it."

Mo Que walked past me and sat on the rosewood chair over there, his hands resting on the armrests, his sleeves were wrinkled, and the white-gold mandala on the cuffs looked extraordinarily brilliant.

He said lightly, "The prince is a noble person, and I should be patient."

Yu Lan looked at him, but Mo Que no longer looked at him.

The third child took a deep breath and said to me, "Since Yuanke has met, we still need to explain the matter between us brothers. Brother Dahuang, I have a book here, you have to take a good look at it."

Yu Lan took an old document from the long case next to it, it was obviously old, the dark blue cover on the outside was faded, and the paper inside had also turned yellow.

He turned a page, I just glanced at it, then closed my eyes, gritted my teeth, and sat back on my chair.

That's real stuff.

It is true that the old respect room record file.

My mother... when she entered the palace... was indeed not perfect.

It even bears the seal of the chief eunuch in charge of the respect room.

Me, "Third brother, are you not afraid that I will beat you right now and grab the things and tear them apart?"

Yu Lan, "Don't be afraid. His Highness Mo Que is beside you. We have agreed that if you make any rash move, he will break your wrist!"

I laughed angrily at him, "Third brother, in the final analysis, this matter is a family matter between our two brothers. Judging by your situation, it looks like I slept with your wife and killed your own mother."

Yu Lan, "I can't help it. Brother Dahuang and His Highness the Crown Prince have taken advantage of the right time, place, and harmony with people. If I don't think about it, I may die without knowing how I died. Brother Dahuang, how about it?" Well, can you give me the account of the Du family?"

I spread my hands, "Actually, brother, I have to tell you the truth. The thing you want is not with me. It belongs to Cui Bicheng. You know his temperament better than me. He belongs to the Pixiu family. I don't have the ability to take out what he has, whether to eat or not. How about I ask him out for tea for you? You ask him in person? Seeing that he has a good relationship with you, he Maybe I can still give it to you. But don’t be so narrow-minded, don’t look for any killers, what happened last time scared him so much that he almost peed his pants, and his arm was shot by your men, and it still hurts now I am afraid that he will hold your grudge, and it will be difficult to say what you want at that time."

Yulan sneered, "Chengyi, don't go around in circles. I know that Boss Cui has an expert by his side. I also know who that expert is, but it is Tang Xiaoxie taught by Kunlun. He himself is a The traitors of the Tang Sect were born with rebellious bones, and now they are colluding with Ashura Yin Wangchuan to murder the king Xijiaye, and try to usurp the throne of the king. Everyone in the martial arts will punish such a person! Your Highness Mo Que It has the decree of the Kunlun Sect King itself, and can call on people in the Jianghu to encircle and suppress the Kunlun traitors. Tang Xiaoxie has become a street rat, do you still expect him to be Boss Cui's amulet? It's just a dream!"

Right now, King Jia was like a dog that was extremely hungry.

Regardless of what he wanted, he didn't even think about whether there was any poison in that box that could kill him.

I looked at him and suddenly felt a little unbearable.Think about it, for so many years, Yongjing has not been particularly peaceful. Our brothers are dying, walking, and dying. If Yulan dies again, my father will be too deserted.

I looked at Yulan, "Third son, listen to my truth. Those things belong to the Du family, and they have done evil, so they have to bear it. In case the father investigates one day, you can't be implicated in it." Even if the Du family is finished, you are still the prince, and you have nothing to do with it, you can't jump into this pit of fire."

Yu Lan looked at him, but his originally elegant eyes were a little crazy.

"Brother Dahuang's heart, Yu Lan has her heart. But Yu Lan can't let go. In the final analysis, my fate is not good. Brother Dahuang is a blessed person, and what you want will naturally be held in front of you, and you can choose , someone will cover up the disaster for you, all the wind and rain will be covered for you, you can eat, drink and have fun in Yongjing comfortably, but I can't. Every step I take is as difficult as crossing a dangerous shoal with only one wormwood , Take a step back and you will be smashed to pieces. You can forget how the fourth and fifth children died, but I can’t forget."

Me, "Since you haven't forgotten, you should know that there are some things you can't do! You can't do things that are hidden from your father!"

"Ha!" Yu Lan laughed, and he pointed at me, "Don't be so righteous. Who was it to hide the truth from the father and secretly have an affair with his woman, causing the entire royal family to be ashamed? And who is it, with that woman? Another child? Elder Brother, if Princess Ayla's child is really born, should he call you brother or father?"

I just felt dark in front of my eyes, and I was so angry that I almost vomited blood!

But Yu Lan was relentless, "In the final analysis, Your Highness Mo Que and you really have a destiny! I just don't know, are you the son of his sister's husband, or his sister's husband, or, his lover?"

I sneered and said, "Third brother, until now, I admit it. You raised a tall man in my mansion. I can't see it. I am stupid. I don't blame others. The Du family's mess is bad today. I can't give it to you, tell me, what do you want to do?"

Yu Lan, "It's easy, I'll give my brother another three days. After three days, if I can't get those things again..."

He didn't speak, but lowered his head and drank tea from a porcelain cup.He regained the unique rich, elegant and leisurely posture of Yongjing literati.But no matter how I see it, he is a fake.He was neither leisurely nor comfortable, and his fingers were shaking as he twisted the lid.

"If I still don't give it to you after three days, what do you want?"

"Brother Dahuang, you and my brother for more than 20 years, don't force me."

……

"Okay, since that's the case, I'll take my leave first and see you another day."

Mo Que stood up and said flatly, "My lord, I'll see you off."

"no need."

Mo Que held my arm stubbornly, but said the same sentence, "I'll see you off."