Brother Donggong

Over there, someone had already opened the door, covered the eight-treasure glazed lamp, and lit incense.

The courtyard of the Guanzhi Building is extremely exquisite. I like that there is a whole set of ebony furniture in this room, and there is a huge bookcase that stretches all the way to the roof against the wall.After the lights are lit at night, the aloes are lingering, and the walls are full of books, making it very quiet.

The fragrant tea served by the little boy, although not as expensive as the tea used by Cui Bicheng's family, is still a first-class thing.

When it's time for a cup of tea, the meals are also served.

I am a regular customer here, and I often spend money here for this benefit. Without talking, they know what I like to eat.This time it was the same old ones: three yellow chickens, Pingqiao tofu, lion head with crab powder, fried three winters, plus a small bucket of fragrant rice, and a small pot of flower carvings, either old wine or new wine, they know I don’t like old wine.

In addition, they also brought a bowl of hangover soup, which seemed to be made with another recipe, exactly the same as what Xiaolian made at my house back then.

Cucumber looked at these things suspiciously, as if they were created by goblins with stones, grass roots, flies, and toads, and they seemed to be able to return to their original forms at any time.

"My lord, can you eat these things?"

I was about to pick up food with my chopsticks, and said casually, "There is nothing wrong with it. Food is what matters to the people. If you don't eat actively, you have brain problems."

After finishing speaking, I was about to put a piece of chicken into my mouth. Cucumber pulled my sleeve and stretched out my mouth, "My lord, let the servants taste it first, even if there is no poison, let the servants taste it first." It's salty. The prince is a golden branch and jade leaf, with exquisite and expensive taste, so I can't let the idle food be spoiled."

After I finished speaking, I heard my stomach growl, and I didn't know if it was mine or the cucumber's.

Cucumber and I have big eyes to small eyes.

Then, I threw the chicken into my mouth, and when I was done, I patted the cucumber's head and seeds.

"When you're hungry, eat with chopsticks. Don't grab my things here. If you want me to feed you, you can wash yourself up and sleep with me tonight. If you dare to do this, I will feed you every day in the future. Do you think so?"

"Come on, my lord." Cucumber drooped his head and shrank back. "At that time, you want to feed me every day. Maybe it will be sesame oil candles. If the prince finds out about this, will the slaves survive?"

I asked the cucumber to serve me rice, and he took the chopsticks and ate obediently.

I took two mouthfuls of rice, and suddenly asked him, "Cucumber, tell me, why do we live in such a slump and panic these days? They are all sons and grandsons of phoenixes, why can he have three wives and four concubines? I have to suffer by myself." with?"

Cucumber was gnawing on the chicken butt, his mouth was stuffed, and when he grinned, I saw the unswallowed rice grains.

He said, "My lord, don't feel wronged about this matter. As the saying goes, people are more dead than others, and goods are thrown away when compared with goods. If you want to be wronged, you are far worse than the third highness!"

He picks the cracks in the wall every night, and his eyes turn red. Why is he a son of a phoenix, a prince is a prince, and he will only be a prince in the future?Based on his relationship with the crown prince, his fiefdom in the future will definitely not be rich and prosperous, maybe he will be entrusted to Longji, Guizhou, and become a vassal for the Miao people who can't speak Chinese.Not only will he not be able to leave the fief for the rest of his life, but his son, grandson, and grandchildren will be imprisoned in that small fief. Whether it is a flash flood or a rebellion by the Miao people, even if he dies, he will die in the fief, because The ancestors have family laws, if they don't follow the call, the vassal king will leave the fief without authorization, which is tantamount to treason.If the unlucky day came, there would be huge floods behind, and countless pursuers, and he would flee, maybe before he left Guizhou, he would be slaughtered by the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou with the flag of Wang Ming.It's wrong. "

I said in my heart that it was quite unjust.

But I don't sympathize with him either, I might end up like a grandpa or grandma in the future!

I looked at him in surprise, "Cucumber, you should look at him with admiration after three days."

Cucumber smiled, "Your Majesty, didn't you ask the slave to tell the truth in the future? Also, you don't think that when you were studying in Yuzheng Palace, the slave would be like you, stealing snacks, climbing trees, and going down rivers to fish."

I thought for a while and said, "Hey, tell me, is it true that the third child is digging cracks in the wall at home every night?"

Cucumber leaned over, with a particularly obscene expression, and he said, "It's true! Your lord, this servant also knows when the third princess comes every month, do you want to know?"

Evil~~~~~~~~

After Cucumber started telling the truth, I suddenly felt that I couldn't eat anymore.

In fact, from the moment I entered the door, I knew that it was not easy to see Xiaolian. Sure enough, after Cucumber scraped all the fragrant rice out of the rice bucket with a wooden spoon, Xiaolian did not show up.

But the people in Guanzhilou have been serving carefully.

After we finished eating, Cucumber played with me. He said he wanted to play Go, but that thing looked scary to me. I couldn't count the number of moves, so I said roll the dice.But I didn't expect the cucumber dice to be so skillful. Before we played a few rounds, he won me seven or eight coins.

I propped my chin with my hand on the table, picked up the dice and looked left and right, to see if the cucumber was secretly filled with mercury lead lumps or something like that.

Cucumber stretched out his hand, "My lord, give me money."

"No, I have no money now."

"That's impossible, my lord. You still talk about family members. Family members never renege on their debts. As a gentleman, you can't rely on wind, moon and gambling. It's ugly to do so."

I waved my hand, "Use these words to run on me, you are picking the wrong one, the food I owed here back then is enough for you kid to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble here for two months."

After I finished speaking, I stretched my waist, and it was getting late, and there was a bed with a quilt over there, which happened to be for two people, and it happened to be a good place to spend the night.I will let the cucumber go outside and get some hot water to drink some water to moisten my throat.

Cucumber asked me, "My lord, we really don't want to go."

I said, "Go if you are told, why ask so many questions?"

"Hey." Cucumber complained endlessly, "The sky is big and the earth is big, the prince is the biggest."

He turned around with the teapot and went out to pour hot water, and I went to make the bed, but I didn't expect that when he opened the door, he didn't go out, but retreated step by step.

It's dark over there.

The black skeleton of the more than 500-year-old sandalwood is bathed in the mottled moonlight, and it looks extremely dark. One of them stands sideways at the door, with a pair of ice-coloured eyes, like stars nailed to the night sky.

It's Xiaolian.

"You finally came."

I'm so glad to see him.

"Cucumber, put down the teapot, you go to the back and lead the horse, we will go home and sleep later."

Cucumber looked at me, then at him, he even said hello to Xiaolian, went out, and closed the door behind him.

I don't know when he came, and I don't know how long he waited there, but I know I have something to tell him.

I said, "Xiao Lian, listen to me, leave Yongjing, and let Liu Yi go with you if possible."

He doesn't speak.

I am the only one chattering in the huge room.

I remember that we met here, and it seems that we will inevitably separate here.

He suddenly said, "I heard from Liu Yi that you are going to lead someone to seal up this place. However, if this place is so easy to be sealed up, I think I would have died long ago."

I shook my head, "No, this has nothing to do with me, and it's not because of this that I want you to leave here."

He raised his eyebrows, "Oh?"

I walked up to him, walked sideways through the door, and then said, "It's Yin Wangchuan."

He pulled me back, "How do you know this man's name?"

Me, "I met Tang Xiaoxie once, he told me. He said that the two of them are brothers, but the hatred is irreconcilable."

He sneered, "You think I'm afraid of him?"

"No, because the imperial court will encircle and suppress the Kunlun Sect in the near future, I'm afraid you will be implicated."

Yin Wangchuan blatantly intercepted and killed the commander of Tiqi in the seven provinces, which is tantamount to conspiracy. No matter how powerful Kunlun is at the top of the Western Regions, and no matter how arrogant he is in the martial arts, in Wen Zhan's eyes, he is just a group of reckless warriors who set up private incense halls. If they hadn't openly opposed the court, it would not have been worth mentioning.

Not to mention anything else, Wen Zhan only needs a paper transfer order, and [-] cavalry in the frontier can level Kunlun.

Mo Que suddenly smiled enigmatically, "I thought you came here to tell me something very important. It turned out to be such an insignificant matter."

……

"Chengyi, don't you ask, when and how did the Third Highness and I meet?"

I pushed open the door and walked out.

The surrounding area is extremely quiet, only the chirping of cicadas and insects, a little sound can startle the night birds. The carved beams and painted buildings of the Wufeng Pavilion across the water are overlapping and criss-crossing. Low singing, and slightly disorganized footsteps.

……

"Also, why don't you ask me why I came to your house?"

If he asked me this question a day ago, I would be very interested, but now, I am no longer interested in knowing.

No matter what purpose he came to Yongjing, no matter what he came to do, what he wanted to do, or what he had done, his home country was ruined, and his father followed Gaochang He was hanged on a hard bow for breaking the city, and his sister was trampled bloody when she was pregnant.

Enough people have died.

There is no need to add another life to him.

"Chengyi, today in the twelfth lunar month, I am the assassin who robbed and killed His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Even so, can you still let me escape unscathed?"

"The position of His Royal Highness in your heart is unmatched. Anyone who hurts him, you don't want to deal with it quickly?"

"Let me go now, aren't you afraid that one day he will die by my hands?"

I stopped, turned around, and looked at him seriously.

"You don't hate him, the person you really hate is me. He and you are independent, and there is nothing to say, but I am different. I failed your sister, and I abandoned you from beginning to end. I insulted you. I have never treated you sincerely from the beginning to now. You were right before you left, my kindness to others is false, and I am a hypocrite through and through."

Because I know that all relationships in this world are nothing but illusions, no matter how vivid life is, how passionate emotions are, they are just flashes of light, and will eventually be disillusioned and all living beings will be forgotten.

What about outside of this?

Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are still luxuriant flowers and the sound of swallows and warblers.

Yong Jing is like a monster, sitting on the river of time, watching the time passing by, not even needing to sigh with emotion, "the passing is like a man"!

It will not be happy for anyone, nor will it be sad for anyone. The dead are dead, and the living will eventually die. Only it is eternal.

This is the thousand-year-old capital of Dazheng, magnificent and poetic, but without mercy.

I finally said, "If you want to kill me, I'll wait, but before that, live in peace."

Cucumber and I walked freely on Zhuque Street in Yongjing.

He stretched, and I stretched too.

He said happily, "My lord, there is a taste of summer tonight, let's eat live fish tomorrow. The maidservant brought out two jars of 70-year-old Moutai from the Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau, which is just right for the fresh shad sent by Mr. Cui!"

I nodded quickly, "Okay!"

But Cucumber suddenly looked around, there was an eerie silence, and there was no one around.

"Hey, what's going on here, it won't be a ghost in the middle of the night."

I quickly comforted him, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we're almost home anyway, the big deal is that we'll cover two quilts tonight, anyway, we haven't done anything wrong, and we're not afraid of ghosts calling the door."

"But, but..." Cucumber began to grimace again, "I just bought two catties of buns from Sister-in-Law Yang who sells buns in the back street yesterday and didn't give me any money. Is my case gone?"

I gave him a blank look, "Do you think Lord Yan is like you, he only eats and sleeps every day, he is a stone egg pickle, and he has no free time..."

Just as we were talking about this, we had already arrived at the main entrance of King Qi’s Mansion. Suddenly, the main gate of the Palace opened wide, and one person came out surrounded by the crowd. He said with a smile, “Chengyi, I’m so excited.”

When I saw it was him, I laughed too, and hurried off my horse, "Wen Zhan, why are you here?"

He came over and said, "I can't sleep at night, so come here and have a look. How is the banquet at the third brother's side? I heard that it will be over at the beginning of Haishi. I'm afraid you won't drink to your heart's content, so I brought you two jars Nurhong, it's all new wine, something you like to drink. But..., who would have thought you weren't home."

I quickly said, "Oh, I took the cucumbers out for a walk."

"yes."

Suddenly, Wen Zhan came over, his breath was right next to my ear, it was hot and itchy.

I pushed him, "what for?"

Wen Zhan said, "It smells so good! You don't have such a unique fragrance in Da Nei. But I remember you once smoked it. It seems to be a year's Dragon Boat Festival. At that time, you were still living in Yuxi Palace, and so was I. The courtyard is waiting for you to drink, but you don’t come when you are waiting, and you don’t come when you are waiting for you. Finally, at dawn, you come back from the outside, with the smell of alcohol and a special aroma all over your body. After so many years I still remember it deeply.”

I stood, motionless, looking at him.

He still smiled, "That's what you told me that night, you never go shopping..."

Seeing that I kept silent, he stopped smiling.

"Guanzhi Building?"

He seemed to be asking me, but I knew that he didn't expect my answer at all.

He smiled to himself and said to himself, "It's a good place, with good wine, good food, and good people."

He grabbed me, ignoring so many guards in front of him, he dragged me and walked inside.

"Go inside and let me see."

"Wen Zhan, what do you want to do?"

"I want to see with my own eyes what you did behind my back!"

He forced me into a room and tore my clothes off.The thick curtain blocked the piles of people outside, but it couldn't hide the secret between us at all.Wen Zhan's eyes are terrifyingly calm, but his actions are like a complete lunatic, he is like a beast dazzled by jealousy, it seems that he must check my body inch by inch with his own fingers to be satisfied.

--Snapped!

It was a slapping voice.

Wen Zhan's cheek turned to one side.

I looked at my hands and was stunned.

While tugging, Liu Congrong's voice came from outside, "Your Highness, Your Highness."

Wen Zhan ignored it.

He suddenly lowered his head and bit my lips like punishment. At the same time, his stubborn hands wanted to separate my legs and insert his fingers in that place to explore.

At this time, Liu Congrong's voice was dry and loud, "His Royal Highness, urgent delivery from eight hundred miles in Zhejiang. In the middle of Sichuan, there was a severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and there was almost no harvest in the five southern provinces. Hundreds of thousands of refugees entered Zhili and rushed to Yongjing. Come on. The cabinet, the supervisor of ceremonies, please return to the Weiyin Hall quickly to discuss countermeasures!"

This is a catastrophe that has never happened in a hundred years since my father ascended the throne!

Thousands of miles of prosperous Jiangnan has no crops, and there are millions of refugees. After looking through the history books, it is an unprecedented tragedy, shocking!

Hearing this, Wen Zhan finally stopped. He hugged me and pressed against my forehead, like a beast suppressing something, panting chaotically.

I was disheveled and held in his arms.

I felt it, his body in my arms was stiff and stiff, but seemed to be full of infinite power. I raised my eyes and saw a weird but sweet smile on Wen Zhan's delicate lips.

Like a hunter who sees his long-awaited prey and is caught.