Brother Donggong

He loves me, which is perhaps the wildest desire he has besides the Throne.

Sharp, scorching, gorgeous, fiery.

Even destroy the world.

He doesn't know, I love him too.

Maybe he doesn't feel it at all, because my feelings are so insignificant compared with his, but I can only give him these.I don't have his desperate madness. Before everything is destroyed, I must leave him and myself with the last way of life.

Our love is distorted, rooted in the dirty court, sprouted, grew, and finally bloomed a bright and dazzling flower.However, no matter how beautiful, charming, and lingering it is, it will not change its original appearance. Its roots are in the deepest part of our hearts, where it has already been riddled with holes and blood. Layers of dried blood.

My eyes were blinded by surging tears, but I couldn't cry anymore.

I should be more frenzied, I have already pushed Wen Zhan away, and then walked out of the East Palace without looking back, that way, this miserable love will be like a snow lotus suddenly frozen in the glacier, arrogance in a state of death A lifetime of years to eternity.

but……

The sunlight that has been split by the carved window is shining brightly and mottled. Wen Zhan smiles, sweet as a child.

At this moment, the time in front of us is turbulent, and we feel as if we have returned to our childhood. I was also a child, hugging him with my thin arms, feeding him fruits, and the air is full of the sweet taste of summer.

That scene is so clear, it seems that it has not gone away, but I know more clearly that it is already a story from a previous life.

Slowly, Wen Zhan closed his eyes and fell into my arms.

And I hugged him gently.

Lin Ruoqian from Tai Hospital came, he hurriedly diagnosed and treated the prince, prescribed the medicine, and said to me, "The prince was in a hurry for a while, and only then did he see the red. Now his pulse is disturbed, and the minister has already used the medicine. If you can get it tomorrow If you wake up, there should be no problem, if not,... I can only take risks, and then use a medicine for tigers and wolves."

I nodded.

Then I heard him say again, "My lord's throat is injured. It's not suitable to speak these days. It's better to rest. If you don't pay attention and tear your vocal cords, it will be difficult to speak in the future."

I stretched out my hand to touch my throat, and nodded again. I was very obedient, and I didn't say a word.

I was beside the bed, covering Wen Zhan with the quilt.

He slept soundly, with a tranquility that never seemed to wake up.

I sat by his bed, looked at him, and suddenly remembered a saying that the old folks said, they said, among the five rounds, brothers are the closest.

Because parents can't accompany you to grow old, husband and wife have no chance to grow up together.

Since God made Wen Zhan and I to be born and grow up to be brothers in this life, maybe we should keep doing our duty as brothers until a pile of loess completely covers up all grievances and hatreds.

"Your Highness,...Your Highness..."

I was sitting at the dining table, holding the rice bowl in a daze, Liu Congrong brought me a bowl of clear soup, and called me tentatively. Once I recovered, I put down the bowl and chopsticks and looked at him. Since I couldn’t speak yet, I gestured with my mouth. Ask, "What's the matter?"

Then he immediately remembered something, stood up and gestured and asked, "Did the prince wake up?"

Liu Congrong quickly replied, "No. It was the cabinet minister Liang Zheng who came to the East Palace, and he said he wanted to see His Highness."

Liang Zheng?

Is it the old guy in the cabinet who specializes in messing around?

In the past two years, the cabinet has been tossed by Chu Qiangsheng enough. Except for that Du hairy crab who is as stable as Mount Tai, everyone else in the cabinet has avoided everything they can avoid, and they have hidden everything they can hide. Only this one is like a fat dough Liang Zheng, like old Du Ge, stood still.Although he always pretends to be crazy, sells good people, and is stupid, everyone knows that Liang Zheng was a scholar of the Imperial Academy 30 years ago, and he was a cabinet assistant minister for nearly ten years.

What is he doing today?

And come to the East Palace to look for me?

It's as if Guan Erye married Concubine Yang Gui, Zhao Zilong was forced to go to Liangshan, and he didn't touch anywhere.

I picked up the chopsticks and ate a mouthful of green vegetables, asked Liu Congrong to bring me some tea to rinse my mouth, and twisted a hot cloth towel to wipe my hands and face. When I became more energetic, I gestured to Liu Congrong, "Let him go to the main hall, I will Go see what's up with him."

The main hall of the East Palace is as quiet as a pool of water. When I passed by, I saw Liang Zheng drinking tea.He has a broad heart and a fat body, with sweat on his forehead, and a large Xiangfei bamboo fan in his hand, which is fanning wildly.

I didn't go in right away, just stayed in the shadow of the wooden door outside, looking at old man Liang, he drank tea, he seemed to be getting hotter, I stretched out my hand to take off the black gauze hat on his head, and wiped it with a silk handkerchief Wipe the sweat off his head, and then sit on the wooden chair like those celebrities who reflect on the wall, with their hands hanging down and palms facing the sky, as if they have already settled down in meditation.

A quarter of an hour later, the old man's sweat had subsided and his forehead was cleared. Then he picked up the black gauze again, put it on his head properly, straightened his robes, and sat upright.I pushed the carved door of the main hall of Yuzheng Palace, creaked, the door opened, and I walked in.

"Pray Your Highness."

He stood up quickly, and if it was normal, I would have gone to pat his fat belly, maybe even kicked his ass, and said with a smile, "Old Liang, the night owl comes into the house this night and comes here for nothing, what do you do?" thing?"

But now my vocal cords are torn, so I can't say a word.

Fortunately, Liang Zheng saw me, so he came over and greeted each other as usual, he asked me, "I heard that the prince is injured, is it okay?"

strange?

I look at him.

He is a minister of the cabinet, and he ran over in a hot summer day, instead of doglegging the prince, he asked eagerly if my injury was not in the way, where is this?

I shook my head, gestured to my throat again, and then opened my mouth to express that I could not speak, but everything else was fine. I also gestured that I could eat a bowl of rice, half a stewed chicken and a plate of mushrooms for a meal.

Who knew that Liang Zheng kept shaking his head when he heard this, and then with a mournful expression of seeing a ghost, he held up my sleeves with both hands, and said in a deep voice, "My lord, you, you have suffered. The matter of Mr. Cui, The subject knows, but the minister is really helpless in that case. I originally thought that the emperor's health would be better, and the minister could ask for mercy when he was in court. Who knows... Hey. After so many days, the prince who has been troubled has also suffered. The prince Look at you, you are so sad that you can only eat a small bowl of rice, a stick of radish, and a bowl of porridge every day."

I rolled my eyes and looked at him, then waved my hands, and took out a note from my sleeve, which said, "Stop talking nonsense, talk about things."

Liang Zheng's mouse-like eyes suddenly became bright, and he said in a low voice, "My lord, I came here to repay Mr. Cui's great favor. I gave you a white hat. Do you want to give me a white hat?" ?”

White hat?

I am a prince, put a white hat on my head, this is an extremely stupid word game, if the king is white, that is the emperor's emperor!

Why are you doing this again?

It is said that He Guangren, the hero of Emperor Daozong's "Fengtian Jingnan", once did such a bad thing. Emperor Daozong was still a vassal prince guarding Xirong, and his life was very depressed, because Emperor Dezong was his own brother.The emperor's elder brother of Daozong likes to control everything, and he is especially interested in the small and trivial matters of his younger brothers. Secret agents cover every mansion, even what they eat three meals a day, how many bowls of rice they eat, and how many chopsticks they use. Qing, not to mention sleeping with that bitch and having a few sons.Daozong was extremely depressed, just like a restless firewood, just short of meeting his destined spark, so as to become a spark that started a prairie fire.

He Guangren is his Martian son.

That day, on a dark and windy night when he couldn't see his fingers, he came to Dao Zong's bedside and asked Zong in an extremely gloomy voice, "My lord, Xiaomin gave you a great favor, that is, a white hat. hat, would you like it?"

Daozong asked for it, so after 14 years of "Fengtian Jingnan", which was actually 14 years of arduous "pull the banner to rebel", he finally became the emperor from a vassal who guarded the ghost Xirong. The emperor who lived for ten years was named Daozong by his son Xiaozong after his death. It is said that he, like my father, likes to practice sacrifices and make alchemy.

He Guangren sent out a white hat, the vassal king became the emperor, He Guangren also became the 'Dingguo Gong', and he was hereditary, and today Liang Zheng also gave me a big white hat, it is impossible, he wants to support me as a emperor?

"My lord!"

Liang Zheng's words seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth, no wonder, if this was heard by the eyes and ears of the East Palace, his Liang family might be wiped out. Under house arrest, the court and the cabinet are in turmoil, everyone says that a country cannot be without a king for a day, and His Highness is also a descendant of an emperor, why can't he take on this important task for the sake of the country that has flourished for thousands of years?"

"Your Highness, you are the eldest son, and it is justified for you to ascend the throne and proclaim the emperor."

Me... to be the emperor?

I looked up to the sky and looked at the tile-blue sky on the top of Yuzheng Palace, why is it so lonely as snow!

Liang Zheng wanted to be He Guangren, he wanted to be a supporting minister, he wanted to make contributions, he wanted to build a ancestral temple, which would last forever and be immortal, that was his old Liang family's own business.

I don't want to wear a white hat.

The prince wears a white hat. To put it mildly, he can be an emperor, but to put it another way, he only wears a white hat after his own father dies!My father is still alive with a full beard and tail, asking me to wear a white hat and use Lao Cui's words, isn't this fucking nonsense? ! ——

Suddenly, my eyes widened, I was very surprised, and I called out silently, "Father, why are you here?"

It would be ridiculous if Lao Liang's face changed, red, yellow, blue, white and black, more colorful than the flowers in the imperial garden.

He managed to take a breath, and put on his original friendly face mask, which was specially made with mud and clay, and then turned around and kowtowed to the old cypress tree behind him, which is said to have been handed down from the Western Zhou Dynasty. The emperor's body greeted him again, but later he found that no one was paying attention to him. When he looked up, he realized that not to mention my father, he didn't even owe me a fly. Only then did he know that he had been cheated, and he quickly got up and wanted to grab me Keep wearing the white hat for me, of course I am much smarter than flies, and I have already run away.

I didn't care about the hot weather, so I ran and ran behind the gate of Yuzheng Palace. Old Liang had a ghost in his heart, so he didn't dare to chase me.Seeing that he couldn't catch me, Lao Liang sighed repeatedly, stomped his feet, and left.

When Liu Congrong saw that I was back, he didn't ask me too much. I asked him how the prince was doing. He shook his head. I sat back at the dining table and continued to eat. When I was full, I went to see the prince. , he is still asleep, although Doctor Lin said that the danger period has not passed, but I think his face is quite peaceful.

Liu Congrong fed him the medicine, and I sat on the side, sitting so peacefully, after a whole afternoon.

After lighting the lamps, before dinner, another cabinet minister came. I didn't want to see him at first, but after I saw it, it turned out to be Chu Qiangsheng.When he came, the treatment was naturally different, I hurriedly asked Liu Congrong and the others to prepare rose iced white fungus soup quickly, grabbed the prince's private room to make a pot of good tea and brought it over.

Chu Qiangsheng's jade-white face was also a little sweaty. He wiped the sweat gently with his silk pads, then put the handkerchief back into his sleeves, and then held it up with his hands that were whiter and softer than the red and crisp hands of the beauty in the harem. Tea cup, enjoy tea quietly.

I found a pen, brought a stack of rice paper, and wrote on it and asked him, "Have you eaten?"

Chu Qiangsheng, "Not yet."

I wrote again, "Eastern Palace eats vegetarian food tonight, let's eat together."

Chu Qiangsheng, "Okay."

I asked Liu Congrong to come in, wrote some words on a piece of paper, and asked him to add an extra set of bowls and chopsticks for dinner, and leave Chu Qiangsheng for dinner. Liu Congrong answered yes, and then whispered in my ear, "Cui Guifei sent someone over to ask the prince to return to the Shouchun Palace, saying that he has something important to discuss."

I heard some whispers in my heart.

Recently, the number one priority in my mother's mind is to let me marry a wife. She doesn't care whether Wen Zhan is dead or alive, she has to let me marry Miss Yin back home no matter what, I can't.Wen Zhan was vomited blood by my anger right in front of me, and now he is lying in the East Palace bedroom with his eyes closed.

My mother has something urgent, and she can't go there now.

I wrote to Liu Congrong, "Send someone to Shouchun Palace and tell my mother well, and I won't go there."

"Yes."

Liu Congrong lowered his head and left.

After Chu Qiangsheng finished his tea, he began to eat Huamei again. He ate a plate of Huamei and drank tea again.

I brought the tea bowl in his hand, thinking that if you eat too much before a meal, it will be bad for your stomach. I thought he might be very hungry, so I asked the little eunuch of the East Palace to prepare the meal.There are still four vegetarian dishes, fried tofu, dry-roasted shiitake mushrooms, fried three winters, roasted lotus root, a small wooden bucket of rice, a portion of water shield soup, and a portion of honeydew yam after the meal, which is regarded as dessert.Chu Qiangsheng likes to drink light wine, and there is a good Yongjia Taidiao in the East Palace, and someone brought a small jar over.

I put down my chopsticks after eating a bowl of rice, Liu Congrong came back, he saw that I had finished eating a bowl of rice, he wanted to add another bowl for me, I blocked it with my hand, which means I am full, Liu Cong Rong added another cup of tea for me, and then I sat and watched Chu Qiangsheng, he had a surprisingly good appetite today, and he continued to eat quietly. He ate up all the dishes on the table. Feeling ashamed to let him eat the plate, he hurriedly asked Liu Congrong to bring over some more dishes. Chu Qiangsheng said no, he finished the dishes and the rice, and then sat there and continued to drink tea. midnight.

I can't speak, Liu Congrong is not a member of the ceremonial supervisor, and he doesn't speak in front of Chu Qiangsheng. Chu Qiangsheng seems to have his mouth sewn shut today, and he didn't say a word.

I looked at the sky, it was almost midnight, so I wrote on the paper beside me, "Old Chu, are you staying in the palace or going back to your residence today?"

Chu Qiangsheng replied, "Today I am on duty."

Then I wrote again, "Then I will send you back to the cabinet for duty."

He nodded.

I have some doubts. Chu Qiangsheng is a sharp-tongued person who is unreasonable and unreasonable. Except for reading books and writing memorials by himself, Pei Tan is by his side, or whoever looks at him to offend him and let him Except for the fact that he was very silent when he had the killing intent, he was quite eloquent at other times.

Moreover, he is also a person who does not go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing.Chu Qiangsheng is the Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, a scholar of the cabinet, and there are countless books and people to see every day. How can he go to the East Palace to find me to eat fast, drink tea and sit quietly every day?

When you leave Yuzheng Palace, you will find Tianjie Street. If you walk over there, you will find Taiye Pond. The ministers must think that this is not the way to go to the cabinet, but in fact it is not.However, I still took him to detour to the Weiyin Hall from here, and it took half an hour to stroll from there to the cabinet value room, which is suitable for digestion.

We have reached the Taiye Pond, there is no one around, only the red lotus covering the sky and the sun, the flowers and lotus leaves are rustling by the wind, Chu Qiangsheng suddenly called me, "Chengyi."

cough~~~

A gust of wind blew by, startling a night bird.

I turned to my mouth and asked him, "Why?"

Chu Qiangsheng sighed and said, "I shouldn't have said this sentence originally, but now I can only say it."

me?"

I think he has been fidgeting all night. He probably has something to hide. He wants to say it but doesn’t want to say it. , and drank two pots of tea, I saw that his face was paler than usual, so I took him here to eat in circles.

I gestured at him, "Speak."

Chu Qiangsheng said, "Chengyi, you should come to Weiyin Palace."

I,……

He said, "Others don't know the depth. Some of them may persuade you to overstep, some may stand by and watch, or some may enter without knowing it, but I know that if there are no royal family members sitting in the Weiyin Hall tomorrow, there will be an uproar in the Dazheng court." .You cabinet scholars, you can’t stand against the impeachment of “authorized power”, and the eunuchs of the chief eunuchs can’t afford the words “power eunuchs to disrupt the country”. "Eunuch Chaos" is the reason for raising troops to serve the king, and in an instant, Dazheng will be overwhelmed by disasters, and the world will be in chaos.

The emperor is seriously ill, King Jia is in custody, and now the crown prince is also ill. Among the princes and princes, you are the only one who can control the overall situation. Cheng Yi, I know that letting you come to the Weiyin Palace is to drag you into the maelstrom.Because if the next generation of emperors is not you, no matter who the crown prince Jiawang is in the future, what happened today may bring you a catastrophe.

As a friend, I can't say this, but as a cabinet minister, I have to say it.

After all, today's country is the country of the royal family with the surname Ji. It was the millennium prosperity created by the ancestors of Dazheng overcoming obstacles and difficulties. It cannot be destroyed in the hands of you and me. "

"so……"

Listening to him, I laughed.

I understand all these reasons, and this is what Chu Qiangsheng said, so it must be reliable.

Chu Qiangsheng is not Liang Zheng's two hundred and five who want to put a white hat on me, even if I don't believe in myself, I still believe in Chu Qiangsheng.

So before he finished speaking, I took a stick and drew a few words on the ground under the bright moonlight, "Old Chu, I believe you. I will go to Weiyin Temple tomorrow."