Brother Donggong

鸾宣

When I stretched out my skinny fingers to touch the cheek of the child in my arms, he smiled, and the tear moles at the corners of his eyes were bright and rosy, like tears condensed by coral.He is 23 years old this year. From today on, everyone will know that his name has been changed from Prince Chengyi to commoner Zhao Yu, but I can't see sadness in his eyes.His eyes are round, but often squinted, fluffy, like a lazy cat that is greedy for sleep and food.

Maybe commoner Zhao Yu is more suitable for him than prince Chengyi, that is the life he wants most, and that is all that his biological father left him.

He is 23 years old, I remember every day from his birth to the present, because I love him; his father Zhao Runan has been dead for 23 years, and I also remember every day from his death to the present, because I love him, more than this Everyone in the world loves him, but he was sent to hell by my own hands.

After his death, I used to listen to the Dharma, but those dazzling Mahayana Dharma could not appease me, and those teachings of hard practice in anticipation of the afterlife made me feel that this life is long and hopeless, so I gave up.

Religious peace and forgiveness are not suitable for me, because Pei Dongyue was still alive at that time.

Pei Dongyue...

The auxiliary minister left to me by my father, the former chief minister of the cabinet, has been the second prime minister of the Dazheng Dynasty after Zhang Yi, the power minister of the Heyu Dynasty, for thousands of years.

With the right to open the government, you can be the prime minister of state affairs, you can completely empty me, and you can steal the magic weapon without authorization!

For 20 years, I was just a puppet in his hands.

I hate him because I used to love him, he was like my father, unfortunately, finally I know, he is not my father after all.My father would not have strangled my power and put a dirty label on me - eunuch's son.

He slandered my mother for having committed adultery with an eunuch and gave birth to me. He wanted to drive out all the royal family surnamed Ji, and he wanted to replace them and become the masters of all kingdoms in Kyushu.

Fierce as a wolf, shameless as a hyena.

At his closest to the throne, he failed.

I think this is life.

After Pei Dongyue died, I would think of him often.

He was a lucky person, and his death was so timely that his name could be written into the history of the country in a very gorgeous form, and he could even be immortalized together with Fenghua Shengshi.

I have forgotten that he once told me "The Analects of Confucius", "Shangshu" and "Tao Te Ching", and I also forgot that he forced me to kill Zhao Runan because of his viciousness. I seem to have completely forgotten him, but unfortunately, I I clearly remember his face.

A face that is almost exactly the same as my prince.

Terrible.

Whenever I see Prince Wen Zhan, my heart feels like a pinch of crushed ice.

I will never be able to love Wen Zhan the way I love my other sons, even though he is so good.With a prince like him, I can laugh at my ancestors even under the nine springs, but I will never love him like a real father.

After Pei Dongyue died, I felt very empty.

Everyone died, only I stayed.

Something has to be found to do it.

I started to listen to Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching". I read it over and over again, until I vomited a bowl of rice, so I thought it might be a good choice to find some Taoist priests to make alchemy.

I like to meditate best.

In such a quiet time, I can put down all the sundries in the world and concentrate on thinking about that silly boy Zhao Runan.

He may have hated me when he died, but he wouldn't love me if I didn't have that kind of ruthlessness.

He was tied up on the execution ground in front of the Dazheng Palace and survived the torture. There were horrific scars all over his body, and the only perfect thing was his face.

Pei Dongyue forced him to admit that my background was not correct, and forced him to fabricate such a disgusting lie that my biological father was a eunuch, but he refused.He sent himself, his new wife and unborn child to die.

He defended me like that, but I kept doing nothing.

Even Ling Chi's will was written by me.

He can die, I can't.

Because I am the emperor of Dazheng.

He who was about to die still possessed a breathtaking beauty.

Ling Chi is cruel.

The executioner cut open his belly with the sharp knife in his hand, cut off his genitals, and finally even smashed his muscles and bones, but kept his life.

His wife was beaten to death by the guards, and his son, who was only one day old, was packed in a cloth bag and trampled to death.

But he raised his head and looked at me sitting high on the throne with bloody eyes.

smiled at me.

I stood up slightly and walked out slowly. I stood at the nearest and farthest place from him and watched him die slowly.

He smiled.

On her pale and soft face, and her blood-red lips, there was a treacherous but shy and sweet smile.

I think he knows, he knows all my secrets, he knows my love.He knew that the person who was killed instead of his wife was my concubine, and the baby who was trampled to death instead of his son was my eldest son.

Chengyi is my eldest son and my favorite prince. I sacrifice the prince of the empire just for my love.

Watching him being divided one by one, watching him die slowly, I found that I love him so much.That damned love that should be cursed is so intolerable and extinct!

I want to watch how he died, I want to completely imprint those cruel steps in my mind, let them lean on me and accompany me.The kind of pain that burns like a thousand arrows and is as vivid as my heart is my love. With them, his soul will not be at peace, and he will never leave!

I love him.

I want to own all of him!

He is my man in life and my ghost in death.

Zhao Runan

He is the son of the former Governor Gan Ning, the prisoner. After confiscating his home, he was sentenced to slavery in the palace, while his mother should be exiled and never see him again.But his mother didn't know what method he used so that she could accompany her young son all the way to Yongjing.

From Ganzhou to Yongjing, you need to go through the Gobi and grasslands. Many children of his age would die on the way of escort, but he is different. His mother is by his side, so Zhao Runan survived.

However, on the second day after arriving in Yongjing, his mother hanged herself.

He knew what happened.

On that road of escort shrouded in death, his mother was always taken turns by escort soldiers, and almost every night he heard her heart-piercing cries, she endured hellish suffering just to let him live , he can't let her down.

The first time I saw Luanxuan was in Yongjing.

At that time, he was taken to the silkworm room to execute the castration, but a handsome young man broke in, kicked away the insidious old eunuch who was holding a knife, grabbed his hand from the wooden bed, and ran out.

At that time, he thought that Luanxuan was also a palace slave who was about to enter the palace. He thought that the two young men would die if they ran out hand in hand, but in the end they both survived. Only then did he know that the young man was the emperor who lived up to his age. .

An emperor his age.

Luan Xuan is a very beautiful young man.

The bright and colorful eyes are like the brightest stars in the sky.

An emperor is an emperor after all, even if he is not yet in charge.From that day on, it seemed that Zhao Runan's bad luck had come to an end. Instead of becoming a little eunuch, he became the companion of the young emperor.He can go to Yuzheng Palace to study, learn from those high-ranking attendants in the court, and he can also study martial arts and art of war with masters and veterans.

Luanxuan once said to those who pursued him, "The Dazheng Forbidden Palace has tens of thousands of eunuchs. I have no shortage of slaves. What I lack are truly loyal talents. Zhao Runan is such a person. You should forgive his crimes." .”

Break the laws!

At that time, there was only one person who dared to reprimand the emperor like this, and he was the most honorable scholar of Yuzheng Palace, Pei Dongyue.

However, even though the emperor and the prime minister were arguing because of him, he was finally protected.

Many years later, Zhao Runan gradually understood that the young emperor like him was actually an expensive puppet, while the real master of Dazheng was the handsome founding prime minister, Pei Dongyue.At that time, Zhao Runan was already 17 years old, and he became Tiqi's best spy.This is not easy to come by. In the years when literati dominated the court, perhaps only relying on the sword in their hands can fight against it. He wants to become the sharpest knife in Luanxuan's hand.

It's a pity that when he became the commander-in-chief of Tiqi, he realized that not only the emperor, but also the prime minister can hold his blade.

Pei Dongyue was more restrained than he had imagined.

He has been obedient and obedient for so many years, but Pei Dongyue is still indifferent.He just quietly ordered Zhao Runan to kill all the concubine brothers of the emperor.

"Killing them is also for the fate of the emperor and Da Zheng."

Only Zhao Runan knew that Luan Xuan didn't want his brothers and sisters to die because of him.Luanxuan is a slender and sensitive person. Even though he is the emperor, he likes the family to be together intimately and enjoy family happiness.Pei Dongyue took away even such a small wish.

Zhao Runan didn't want to do it, but unfortunately, they couldn't escape the net opened by Prime Minister Pei.

——"To be loyal to the emperor, you have to cut off everything for him. Do you know how the emperor's biological mother died? He was strangled to death by the former emperor himself because she had an affair with an eunuch. If this matter is discovered by the emperor's younger brother We discovered that Commander Zhao should be no stranger to what is waiting for the emperor."

What else could there be?

Exile, insult.

And then after a long, long crawl like hell, to find the last forgiveness, death.

This is not a frontier, not Mobei, or the Huns.People don't like fast horses and knives, and they don't like to die quickly.Too many poems and books are like sour poisoned wine, making these snake-hearted people more vicious. They can imagine all kinds of unimaginable tortures to destroy an innocent and upright person.

When Zhao Runan wiped the knife with a white linen cloth, he saw the people outside the halo reflected by the knife, his delicate lips slightly curved, the people in front of him were no longer individuals.

He often had a treacherous smile on his lips.

The real meaning, only he knows.

Luanxuan likes to eat sweets, but because of bad teeth, the imperial doctor doesn't let him eat more, so he secretly eats.His bones are not suitable for martial arts, especially for light work, so when Zhao Runan saw Luanxuan No. 12 who sneaked into the imperial dining room to steal pastries and fell off the wall, he decided to steal it for him every day from now on. cake.

When he brought the white porcelain tray to the emperor's bedroom, Luanxuan swallowed that very cute pumpkin cake in one go, while wiping his mouth with the back of his hand to order, "Bring me some candied pears tomorrow." Going straight back to the desk, looking at those seemingly endless memorials, even at that time, he was not even qualified to hold a cinnabar pen.

His only power is to reject the memorial of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but he has never exercised this power.

"It's deceptive, it's not mine, I don't want it."

Luan Xuan said so.

No matter how much he cherished his relatives, Luanxuan's concubine brothers and sisters all died under Zhao Runan's sword.

Luan Xuan said nothing.

He locked himself in the bedroom for three full days, and on the fourth day, he came out with a haggard face, as if withered.He asked Commander Zhao, "How did he force you to do this?" It turned out that Luanxuan knew everything.So he told Luanxuan exactly what he said when he survived from Pei Dongyue.

— "Ridiculous! How dare he... how dare he!"

It's too hard to say.

Luanxuan slapped the lake and rocks in the garden, his palm was cracked and covered with blood, but he didn't seem to know the pain.His voice was trembling, Zhao Runan remembered those tremors, so vivid, so hard to get rid of, it seemed that they had been lingering for a long time, until he died, he saw Luanxuan trembling when he walked out of the main hall of Dazheng Palace.

He didn't want him to tremble.

Those few years passed like walking on thin ice, it seemed that every night the sunset was so beautiful, and the perfection of every meal was extremely sweet, and they would drink at dusk to celebrate their another day.

Yong Jing's life is like wolves and antelopes on the grassland.

The antelope has to run fast to escape the pursuit of the wolf, or it will die, and the wolf has to run fast to kill the antelope, otherwise, it will die too.

After a few years, Zhao Runan found out everything.

The mystery of Luanxuan's life experience has become a mystery forever with Zhao's tragic death.

Pei Dongyue stubbornly believed that Luanxuan was not the son of the first emperor, because the Pei family had been in power for too long for the royal family surnamed Ji, and they wanted to become the master of the empire themselves.

What did Pei Dongyue say?

Yiyin exiled Taijia in Tonggong, and he is still a sage who has been immortalized through the ages. Why can't we stand up and choose a holy lord who is virtuous and peerless for the common people?

……

Say nothing?

If it is a descendant of the first emperor, naturally it cannot be "abolished lightly", but what if the current emperor is not a descendant of the first emperor?Can it be abolished at will?

Still not possible, because the person on the throne is Luan Xuan.

Luanxuan married Pei Dongyue's younger sister, and he tied his fate to the Pei clan. He also married the granddaughter of the cabinet's second assistant Du Ruo, and he tied himself to the largest clan in the south of the Yangtze River.

He made Pei Dongyue understand that it might be possible to change to another emperor, but not now, at least not after 17 years of Fenghua.

In those few years, Pei Xiang and Luanxuan lived a peaceful life.

And he himself met a good marriage.

Her name is Cui Ying, she is an ordinary girl, she can cook good food and brew good wine.She is from Ranzhuang outside Yongjing City, but she looks like a southerner, soft and glutinous, like a glutinous rice dumpling.That kind of non-dangerous, unguarded aura reminded him of his mother who died young.

He is a secret agent, which determines that their wedding cannot be made a fuss.He must hide his wife for as long as possible, and the longer the time, the safer she will be.On the other side of his worship hall, Luanxuan sent a whole set of sandalwood furniture and a pair of gold cups, but he himself did not come.

The days went by like that, like flowing water.

Cui Ying would wear an apron when cooking, and then put the hot food on the table, watching Zhao Runan eat. She said that in her hometown, women were not allowed to eat at the table, so he was the only one at the table.While Zhao Runan was eating, Cui Ying wiped the table, and even wiped his mouth with a rag from time to time, which made the side of his mouth smell like rag.Who would have thought that a man like him, who was rumored to be as sexual as a jackal, would be delighted with the smell of rags.

It's a pity that in those few days, the emperor treated him in a vague way.

He doesn't know why.

That night, as usual, when he brought candied cakes to the imperial study, Luanxuan just took them in surprise and put them aside. He continued to bury his head in the book and said softly, "I'll eat it later."

Zhao Runan just nodded when he heard this, and sat aside. Today he is on duty and can stay overnight in the palace.

Sure enough, after a while, Luanxuan put down the book, picked up the pastry and was about to bite, but stopped, and suddenly asked, "The taste of the pastry is different today, has the imperial dining room changed cooks?"

"Ah? No, this one didn't come out of the imperial dining room." Zhao Runan took a mirror and was looking at the tear mole he had painted. Today, it was replaced with cinnabar, and the tear mole painted was crystal clear, like tears condensed by coral. "Cui Ying did it."

Luanxuan put the pastry back.

He said, "No need to bring me snacks from now on, I quit."

Because of the toothache, I can no longer indulge myself in eating sweets, and because it is Zhao Runan, I can no longer indulge my hidden dirty thoughts.

Don't molest your neighbors.

Close ministers are not obscene.

Luan Xuan thought, he is his arm, the sharp knife in his hand, he is even his relative and brother.

So be it, get along like this forever.

until death.

However, he died prematurely, and died so miserably.

After Zhao Runan was arrested, Luanxuan sent his dead men to take his wife who was about to give birth into the palace.Pei Dongyue's head hurts all the time, and his temper is a little irritable, and he is unconscious. He is afraid that he will not live for too long, and he is anxious to get the power of Luanxuan.Therefore, he used torture to force Zhao Runan to bite out Luanxuan's life experience, otherwise he would ransack his entire family and execute him Lingchi for the crime of treason.

I heard that in the end, all Pei Dongyue got was a contemptuous smile and a bloody face.

Zhao Runan will die.

Luanxuan personally issued an order to Ling Chi Zhao Runan.

In front of the Dazheng Palace is the execution ground. The executioner has sharpened the sharp knife in his hand. He sprayed hot sorghum wine on it. Pei Xiang walked out from the spacious main hall. He came to the execution ground and watched with compassionate eyes. people.

Whispered, "Your emperor can't save you, and he can't save himself."

Zhao Runan laughed again, he didn't know how to laugh before, and he never laughed again after his mother died, but Luanxuan made him laugh from the bottom of his heart.His smile is lazy, his eyes are fluffy, like a beautiful cat.

Even if the cat looks so miserable today.

Pei Xiang looked at him with pity, he loved him, loved him from the bottom of his heart.People like Mrs. Zhao, who are loyal, vicious, and determined like a rock, are hard to find in the world. If you can really get him, great things will happen!

Now he is going to die.

pity!What a pity! !

Pei Dongyue looked at him benevolently, "I'll give you one last chance, Zhao Runan, for the sake of your wife and children, think twice."

Zhao Runan laughed out loud.

Pei Dongyue also smiled, this time he was no longer benevolent, his smile was also contemptuous, "Do you think that incompetent emperor can save your family? Look carefully, who is kneeling over there?"

Suddenly, there was the sound of a baby crying in the execution ground.

With such heart and lung tearing apart, Zhao Runan felt that his heart was about to burst.

He looked carefully into the distance, a woman with a numb numbness in her mouth was pushed to the ground, she was struggling with both hands, struggling hard, but all the sharp spears of the Guards were pressing on her.Her body was bloody and bloody.

Zhao Runan looked at Pei Dongyue with eyes that seemed to be tearing apart, and suddenly he let out a cry, like a lion in a desperate situation, his limbs bound by the tendons soaked in water swelled up, even the wooden stakes that bound him After moving, the executioner who drank the strong alcohol took three steps back in surprise, with a look of fear on his face.

Even if he is bound, even if he survives the torture and is seriously injured, even if he is about to die today, he is still Zhao Runan.There is no one in Dazheng Palace who does not know him, and no one is not afraid of him.

Commander-in-Chief of Tiqi.

A throat-cutting knife from the Fenghua period.

How many children of the royal family, relatives of princes and nobles, and powerful officials from aristocratic families died because of him, and their families were ruined.

Everyone is afraid of him, everyone hates him.

When they heard that Prime Minister Pei had sent Zhao Runan to prison, the clan children and important court officials in Yongjing City were all celebrating with each other. They could finally let out the breath they had suppressed for several years.

Zhao Runan is a traitor, Zhao Runan is a villain, Zhao Runan is an executioner!

He dies!He dies!He dies!

When he is dead, there will be no pair of eyes staring at him like thorns on his back. Heaven and earth, the dark secrets of the ancestors that cannot be told are safe.

He should die.

but……

Wow!Wow!Wow! ...

The cry of the baby is so real. It is his son. He just landed today. He thought he would be able to escape by hiding in the Clothes Bureau in the harem. Unfortunately, Pei Donglai's dead soldiers are all over the Forbidden Palace. There is no one, nothing happened. Can escape his eyes, his palm.

Zhao Runan looked at the woman.

That was his wife, his newly married wife, an ordinary woman who could have married a good man and lived an ordinary but happy life with her husband and children, but he made her die with him.

what! ! ...

It seemed to be the sound of sharp blades cutting the body, the woman twitched like crazy in pain, her disheveled long hair suddenly spread out, and her moonlight face stared straight at Zhao Runan...

--that person! ...that woman! ! ——

Not Cui Ying!

What exactly is going on!

"I, go out and have a look..."

The very slight voice was exceptionally clear amidst the clutter.

It's the emperor, it's Luan Xuan!

Zhao Runan watched as Luanxuan walked out of the hall step by step while supporting the arm of a young eunuch.He is still so dazzling, the black dragon robe looks so gorgeous on his body, he seems to be born for the dragon robe.

He looked at him, and he looked at him.

Luanxuan tilted his head slightly, his eyes looked at the woman with pain.

what! ——

Zhao Runan's throat was strangled by a tendon, he couldn't speak, he couldn't speak, his eyes understood everything.

That woman is the side concubine of the harem, and Luanxuan asked her to die instead of Cui Ying.

So, that kid? ! ——

It's the eldest son of the emperor!

The child who was put into a cloth bag by the guards and was about to be trampled to death indiscriminately was the eldest son of the emperor!

Luan Xuan used his woman and his son in exchange for the lives of his wife and children!

why?

why? !

He has been unable to ask such a sentence.

Ling Chi's knife had already cut open his stomach, one knife, one knife,...

He smiled.

He knew all the secrets, the secrets of Luanxuan.

Luanxuan's indifference, Luanxuan's alienation, Luanxuan's distrust.

He loves him.

Perhaps, at that moment, he found sadly that the person he loved was Luan Xuan.

When Luanxuan's throne was shaken, maybe he could put Luanxuan in a state of doom with a single word, but he could keep his wife and son, but he easily let go of his wife Son.

Is it not enough love?

For so many years, Luanxuan has no children, and he has endured all kinds of insults from those ministers with ulterior motives. They laughed at him as an emperor with no real power, and they even laughed at him for not being a man.Luan Xuan vowed countless times that he would let his first son ascend the throne of God, and he would give him everything.

The eldest son of the emperor is his hope, his love, his dignity, and even his life!

But now, the eldest son of the emperor was thrown into a sack, trampled to death, bloody and bloody.

For him, everything is for him!

The heart-piercing pain turned his face into the gray of death.

They castrated him alive.

His lips were trembling. At this moment, Pei Dongyue actually stopped the executioner. He came over to hear what he was saying.

"...today...my body...returns to dust...in the future...the king's body...the same..."

This extremely shrewd Prime Minister Pei, I have already seen your end.

You will never be able to win Luan Xuan.

Because you are less cruel than him.

Pei Dongyue sneered and waved, "Continue."

He turned and left, leaving this suffocating and bloody execution ground.

Zhao Runan is dead.

When he died, a smile froze on the edge of his lips.

Unusual and treacherous, but secretly containing a hint of shyness and sweetness.

No one knows what that smile means.

Epilogue Luanxuan

he died.

The eldest son of the emperor, Chengyi, died.

His mother died.

Dazzling death, I seem to die with him.

Pei Dongyue walked over, his appearance was so gentle and elegant, so delicate, and even a little compassionate.

He pointed to the execution ground and wanted to say something, but suddenly, his eyes widened, as if he saw some weird and terrifying scene.His hands suddenly stopped his throat, and his fingers pointed at the dead women and children.

His strangled voice seemed to say:

--madman!You are crazy!So vicious that he even killed his own son! !

I think he gets it.

His seats are all over the Forbidden Palace.

He can be wrong for a while, but he can't be wrong for a lifetime.

After all, sometimes, he would understand whether it was Dazheng's prince or the prince's mother that he killed that day.No matter how crazy he is, he dare not kill another son of mine.

Half a month later, Pei Dongyue died of illness in Yongjing.

He was scared to death.

The enemy he faced was no longer an individual.

Pei Dongyue didn't know how deep the young emperor's heart was, and how many gullies were in his chest.

The emperor can continue to slaughter in deep sorrow, his butcher knife has no boundaries, and anyone, even his own flesh and blood, may become a wronged soul.

Moreover, he desperately found that his hands were bloody, and he was no longer Luanxuan's opponent.In his forbidden palace, which is full of eyeliners, minions, and dead soldiers, and cast a net, he can't even capture the wife and children of a death row prisoner.

He was wrong, he actually killed the newly born eldest son of the emperor in full view.

He can die.

His time is over.

That child is called Zhao Yu, a name given by his father, but from now on, he will live in peace and security as the eldest son of Da Zheng's emperor.

His name is Chengyi.

Inherit the ancestral business, enjoy happiness and well-being.

He is his son and mine.

I love him.