Brother Donggong

However, Lao Cui and I think differently.

When I arrived at Lingering Garden, he was fishing.

After listening to my words, he looked at the sandalwood box in my hand and the robe inside. He was supporting the pole with one hand, and in the other hand was holding a purple sand hand pot made by Mingshi Yongjia, sipping tea one by one.

He said, "Inviting people to drink is a very learned thing. When Chu and Han were fighting, Xiang Yu invited guests to a Hongmen banquet, and Song Taizu had a glass of wine to release his military power. These are all written into history and turned into dramas. Every day Acting, to relieve boredom. This is thrilling enough, but it is not as good as the Taizu's saying, "Today we drink together, and we will not forgive each other." Taizu is still ruthless, and everyone treats guests like Good brother, those people were good brothers who followed him in the north and south, and lived and died together, but Taizu didn't even blink his eyes when it came to killing people. Chengzi, tell me, your old man invited the Du family to drink, is it true? What do you mean? After 20 years as the chief minister of the cabinet, no matter how strong the relationship with the emperor is, their own arrogance and domineering, selling officials and nobles, corrupting the law and corrupting the law have completely worn them out. The emperor will not sit idly by."

This time it was finally my turn to squint at Lao Cui, and I asked him, "Then you mean that my dad's treat is just to tell Du Hairy Xie that his good days are over?"

Old Cui did not speak, closed his eyes, and shook his head slightly, as if feeling the pleasant feeling of the evening breeze.

"Quiet, quiet Chengyi. Fishing is to calm down and enter the realm of forgetting things and me. The things you said about the court are vulgar and vulgar. You can't say it, you can't say it."

Seeing him shaking his head, I raised my foot and kicked his ass.

"Ouch!" He let go of the fishing rod, rubbed his buttocks, curled his lips, and said nothing.

I said, "Old Cui, you white-eyed wolf doesn't understand. My father is different from you. He values ​​love and righteousness, and is almost a bit chivalrous. I have a feeling that he treats Concubine Du Gui, Du Yu, and Yu Lan. A kind of sincere maintenance. Don't talk about friendship, talk about other things. Du Hao has been the chief minister of the cabinet for decades. There are many books, and in front of him, he was dismissed from office, decapitated, imprisoned, and secretly executed more political opponents than the bastards of Yongding River. Such a person has stood in the court for 60 years and is as immovable as a mountain. Do you think, you How much can you do to support him? Besides, Mr. Du Ge is also your teacher after all. He has supported you for so long, allowing you to study in Yuzheng Palace, and knowing so many princes and ministers. After all, he treats you well. .Although it is not wrong to say that it is wrong to destroy relatives in righteousness, but this kind of thing of crossing rivers and tearing down bridges is somewhat wicked."

Old Cui suddenly smiled, "I will remember his kindness to me forever. But..."

His eyes are a little complicated, chaotic and impetuous, I don't know what he is thinking.

He quickly changed the subject and talked about the emperor.

Cui Bicheng said, "Well, emphasizing love and righteousness is a good thing, but emphasizing love and righteousness does not mean not killing people. Taizu also valued affection and righteousness. It is said that he cried like a tearful man when he killed the founding father. I vomited once and almost died, but what happened in the end? Seven out of ten of the founding fathers and their families went to see Lord Hades. So did the emperor. Flesh and flesh close relatives, speaking of exterminating the nine clans, the emperor was so kind to the regent that he almost called him a father! When the emperor was in charge, he expelled the regent to a wilderness to 'tour', half a month later the regent died of illness, the emperor was sad Sadly, he didn't go to court for more than seven months, his bones were broken, he continued his life with medicine every day, and washed his face with tears. He was so sad, but when it was time for him to act, he didn't have the slightest arrogance and soft heart. So, he values ​​love and righteousness It’s one thing, but the righteousness of the court is another.”

I felt uncomfortable listening, but I nodded unconsciously.

In fact, in essence, my father is not a cruel person, on the contrary, he is gentle and elegant, and looks like a genius.

I have never seen my father compose poems, and I don't know what his literary talents are like, but his homework was taught by Pei Dongyue himself.That literary talent must be unmistakable, maybe he can go to the book apartment of the talented Jiang Wushuang to drink flowers and wine just by the poems he wrote, and he doesn't have to pay for it!

To say that Ge Kui and Pei Dongyue of the previous generation were amazing.

This guy has gone through two dynasties of Xuanyi (my grandfather's reign) and Fenghua, and he dominated the court ten years before the Fenghua Dynasty, and was called by the world as the most talented man in Dazheng in the past century.He doesn't need to be an official, he can live like a rich prince just by selling calligraphy and paintings!

In the 21st year of Xuanyi, Pei Dongyue, who was less than a weak crown, won the imperial examination. My grandfather was overwhelmed when he saw his article. When I was young, I heard the old eunuch in the harem say that when my grandfather saw Pei Dongyue, he liked it. Ai Cai, his halazi almost fell off, he said during the palace examination, winning this one person is enough to reach Dazheng Wanli! !

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Of course, I haven't met my grandpa. He went to see his ancestors when my dad was a kid.There are not too many rumors about him in the history books, but according to the daily life notes left by the harem prison, I found that he is not very reliable.

Not to mention my grandfather’s frailty, his heart is also soft. He always likes to cry. He can cry for half an hour when he reads a sad song about spring and autumn, and he can be scared to the ground when he encounters a black-bone chicken laying eggs while walking. Get up and shout 'Escort!Escort! 'You are less courageous than my mother, yet my mother dares to butcher a chicken!

But he is also very talented. He likes calligraphy and painting, and he is good at handwriting. He also likes to collect antique calligraphy and paintings. He likes Ru kiln utensils the most. I saw with my own eyes the bottles, jars, pots and pans of Ru kiln that he uses every day. The spoons are piled up in a whole storeroom, covering the sky and covering the earth, which looks like pearls are like earth and gold is like iron.More than half of the belongings in Iqi Wangfu came from his treasury, and some were borrowed from my father's small treasury.

My grandfather loves talents very much, he loves Pei Dongyue very much, and Lao Pei is also very grateful.When my grandfather was dying, he entrusted my father to Lao Pei, and asked him to help my father wholeheartedly, achieve a great career, and leave his name in history.

Therefore, Pei Shoufu is the emperor's teacher whom my father formally kowtows to.

Although they have an extraordinary bond, my father doesn't like Pei Dongyue very much. Maybe it's because he was trained too hard by Pei Shou when he was young, and he was almost disabled.

It is said that when my father was young, studying in Yuzheng Palace was worse than Wen Zhan.Twelve hours a day, Lao Pei wished to keep my father in the study for thirteen hours. He would not stop during the New Year and holidays. If he couldn't recite the book, no one could intercede. turn down!He was not allowed to eat, but could only drink cold water, and then continued to study.

At any rate, my father was enthroned at that time, and Lao Pei didn't dare to beat my father, otherwise my father would have wiped out his whole family of Pei's family after he came to power.

My father went to complain to the queen mother and the regent, but although they felt that Pei Shoufu was a little stricter, they couldn't fault him for his dedication.

The queen mother told my father that my grandfather came here in this way.

It is said that my grandfather's father also came here in the same way.

Therefore, when heaven is about to send a great mission to people, they must first suffer from their will, exhaust their muscles and bones, starve their skin and skin, and empty their bodies...

With all the people in power in the entire Dazheng Palace supporting Pei Shoufu, my father stopped.From then on, he changed his mind, studied earnestly, behaved honestly, and stopped doing some crazy and irrelevant things.

It seems that my dad is working hard to become like my grandpa.

As the saying goes, extremes lead to opposites.

My dad and my grandpa are completely different people.

No matter how others persecute him and teach him, he will never be like my grandfather.

My grandfather is a literati, and my father is a hooligan, but he is a hooligan who does not make a living in the streets, but hides in the Taisho Palace to make a living, that's all.

The literati will be admired by the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, because no one controls them, and they can't control them. They can exercise power freely, take bribes as they like, and from time to time, they will engage in some appalling things like party disputes, trampling people, digging graves, etc. scandals for entertainment.

But my dad is different.

Under his rule, no one should think that they can cover the sky with one hand and be lawless, because they understand that only my father is their law and their sky.

It is said that Pei Shoufu was pissed off by my father.

Exactly how and why he was pissed off, the details are unknown.I just know that Pei Shoufu vomited blood all night before he died, and screamed for most of the night with his neck straight. Of course, he might have scolded most of the night. eyes.

After his death, my father did not set off firecrackers to celebrate with the whole world, but once again washed his face with tears. After a month, he studied in the Weiyin Hall during the day, and visited Empress Pei at night. After all this came and went, Empress Pei was pregnant. My dad also started going up.

Although the Pei family said that the prestige was not as good as before because of the death of a chief assistant, but their family had a royal empress, and this empress gave birth to a prince.They played and sang every night as usual, with great joy.After Du Ju came to power, the Pei family gradually declined.

It’s true that the empress in the main palace belongs to the Pei family, but Dazheng Zu taught that the harem is not allowed to engage in politics, let alone empress Pei, just say a word about foreign affairs, my father might be able to kill her; It's true, Wen Zhan is a hero born in the world, but he was too young back then, how can a child in swaddling clothes be compared with Du hairy crab, who is over sixty years old and has been in the ups and downs of the officialdom for more than 30 years?

That's why the Pei Shoufu family, which was so impressive, gradually died down, and the sun was declining.

Perhaps, Lao Cui's idea is right.

As long as the Pei family can decline, so can the Du family.

Pei Dongyue's yesterday may be Du Ju's Ming Dynasty.

As far as the city government is concerned, the investigation of the details of Du's family, I can't bundle four of them together can compare to Cui Bicheng alone, so since he has his own ideas, I can't force him too much.

After all, the person who died was not my own father.

The sun finally set, and the evening breeze blew over, giving it a hint of warmth and coolness.

I thought about it, and suddenly asked him, "Cui Bicheng, do you know that Huanhou Jiang's family was taken over by the prince for his own use?"

Cui Bicheng didn't say a word, as if he didn't hear it, I focused my attention, looked at the fishing rod in my hand, suddenly pulled it suddenly, and caught a fresh, tender and fat shad.As soon as Cui Bicheng exerted force, the shad was thrown onto the floor of the water pavilion flower hall. He thumped wildly, Cui Bicheng didn't clean it up, didn't move, just watched it struggling to death.

He, "Why, do you know that little bastard raised a child behind your back?"

I was startled, "Old Cui, how do you know about this?"

Cui Bicheng sneered and said, "Everything in the world I want to know, I will know almost, and I will know what I don't want to know. Besides, the prince didn't even try to hide that matter! That's right, big wedding After more than a year, the crown princess has gone crazy, and there is no heir in the East Palace. If the news about him and you spreads again, he will really have no way out. Count the leaders in the court, whether they are helping the crown prince or stepping on the crown prince. , Those people can't spare him."

Then, he leaned on the railing, turned his face slightly, and a few strands of hair hung down, which seemed a bit frivolous.

"Chengyi, the so-called love between you and the prince is actually a very suitable sentence to describe the drama - the title on the gold list is false wealth and honor, and the bridal chamber is a fake marriage. If you like him, you have to accept these things. What do you like to see? , you can see it, and you don’t like to see it, you can’t see it. You know better than me who the prince is, and you have no reason to be deceived by things that I can see through. In fact, a person’s life is like that What is going on, just turn a blind eye and close your eyes, what is true and what is false?"

I felt like my throat was choked by something, and I panicked, as if I was about to die.

After a long time, I heard my dry voice ask him, "Since you know, why didn't you tell me?"

He sneered and said, "This is not a good thing. If you don't ask, I will never tell it in my life. And..." He looked at me with a meaningful smile on the corner of his mouth, "Since the cucumber closest to you The chief executive is keeping it from you, so I think it's better if you don't know about it."

Me, "So there are cucumbers."

"That's right..." Cui Bicheng said softly, "Huang Congchang is the supervisor of ceremonies. When he was in charge of the supervisor of ceremonies, he used to restrain the Fusi of Tiqi Town and spy all over the world. If the prince favors the Jiang family, he would If you can't find out, he won't live to this day. Cheng Yi, don't be naive. People are treacherous and unfathomable. Many times, you are very kind to others, and maybe you get a reward, maybe nothing, but this It's kind, because more people will trample on your wishes and accomplish their own calculations.

If you want to live a quiet life in Yongjing, it is not something you can do with kindness in your heart and alone.Even if you don't want to provoke others, others will come to provoke you for various interests and reasons, even your closest relatives, closest and most trusted people will want to use you as a stepping stone.Wen Zhan is like this, and so is Huang Congchang.

But you don’t need to be too sad, you can still realize this beautiful wish, you have two paths to go, the first is that you stand up to all those who hinder you, the second is that you die. "

The summer of the 40th year of Fenghua was doomed to be uneven.

I don't like playing tricks on others, and I don't like being played by others.

I don't want to extravagantly hope that the entire Yongjing City, the entire Dazheng Palace people live like they are in a peach blossom garden, with yellow hair hanging down, happy and happy, but at least I think the closest people around me can treat me with sincerity.

So when I saw Huang Congchang who gave me a brocade robe outside King Jia's mansion, I seriously asked him a word.

"A person's hands are so small that they can only hold a bowl of rice. So, do you want to eat the prince's rice or mine?"

I didn't laugh, and he didn't gag.We know that those words such as "there is an eighty-year-old mother in his family, and there is a three-year-old child who is waiting to feed the children" and I said, "if you are in trouble with the prince again, I will throw you to Tianqiao to sell Daliwan" are just because we trust each other, Sharing weal and woe, hanging flower guns when life and death are in the same boat, it is not sweet talk, it is better than sweet talk.

But not now.

Huang Zongchang didn't speak, he lowered his head, very quiet.

I said, "Don't worry, such a big thing is not to go to the restaurant to order food, order whatever you want to eat, and you can return it if it is not palatable. You can only choose one between me and the prince. There is no turning back when you open the bow. You are good." Think about it, I'll think about it too. I'm not in a hurry, and you don't need to be in a hurry, I can wait, ten days and a half month, three months, five months, one year, two years, ten years... as long as that time I'm still alive, I'll wait."

King Jia's wedding banquet was very lively.

The house was full of distinguished guests, drinking wine and raising wine.

I'm in a daze.

no party last forever.

Even with King Jia, Du Yu, Concubine Du Gui, or even the crown prince, Pei Dongyue, Queen Pei...their overwhelming power, lingering for decades or hundreds of years of wealth, there will be a day when the music will end.Or, to think about it more horribly, even if Dazheng has a thousand-year-old land, thousands of miles of land, the great achievements of the emperors of Dazheng, and the hegemony of the emperor, they will eventually become dung.

Thinking of this, I looked at the ancient porcelain wine glass I was holding in my hand, drank the centuries-old Luzhou Laojiao, ate abalone wing belly, and there were groups of people in brocade robes embroidered with birds and beasts swaying in front of me. What is true and what is false?

I suddenly remembered the first time I saw cucumbers when I was a child.

Treating each other sincerely for more than ten years can't compare to the temporary wealth promised by the prince.

Maybe, I should try to get used to losing.

Lose the cucumber.

Losing... Cui Bicheng...

Maybe one day, I will completely lose Wen Zhan...

In the dark night, there is a person who looks enigmatically through the endless and gorgeous peony bushes. I turn around, and there is a pair of blue eyes in the pavilions, looking here coldly.

He smiled like a fox.

The author has something to say: Spoilers

Not long after, eh, actually, the story behind is more complicated.Please believe in the mosquito's feelings for Xiaotiancheng, but the road is more tortuous, eh~~~~~~~~~~

One whip, two whips, three whips...

I bit my lower lip and never moaned even if I vomited blood.I know I deserve what I did, and I don't even have the face to beg Wen Zhan for forgiveness.The silence outside the main hall of the Eastern Palace seems to be a tomb, so the sound of the whipping on my back is particularly clear, like the death knell of Dazheng Qishan Shrine, one, two, three... one year, ten years, 100 years.

Really long.

The long ones seem to be able to grow vines, entangle my feet, and drag me directly to the eighteenth floor of hell.

Wen Zhan's attacks became more and more ruthless, and my whole body seemed to be broken.

Cucumber kept crying beside me. He wanted to jump over to take the punishment instead of me, but he was held down tightly by two strong men on Tiqi, unable to move.Finally, Liu Congrong knelt down at Wen Zhan's feet with a thud, kowtowed and kowtowed, "I beg Your Highness to show mercy, stop beating, if you continue to beat me, I will kill you, Your Highness, Your Highness!!"

Liu Congrong kowtowed like a lunatic, the sound was booming, like the sound of gongs and drums before the start of a big show, like the half of a rainstorm.

Then, he stopped.

I climbed on the stone slab and could no longer get up.

Wen Zhan came over, and he stretched out his fingers, which were so hot, he still gently lifted my hair and pinned them behind my ears as before.

He leaned down and whispered like a lover.

"Chengyi, I won't force you anymore, and I won't love you anymore, but...you can't escape,...stay in Yongjing, no matter whose son you are, no matter who you are, you were born Yong Jing, then..."

"If you die, you will die in Yongjing!"