Brother Donggong

It's been a long time since I wore a full set of court clothes and the pen was straight.

The big hat weighing dozens of kilograms almost broke my neck.When I was about to eat lunch, I couldn't help it, so I beckoned Chu Qiangsheng, who was chatting with the Minister of Rites about respecting heaven, and I wrote him a small note, "Keep talking, I'll Go back to eat noodles."

Originally, I thought that Chu Qiangsheng might drag me for a while, and let me continue to sit here to support the cabinet and the chief of ceremonies, but when Chu Qiangsheng saw me rubbing my neck with his hands, he immediately nodded and let me Go back and undress and eat noodles.

I let out a long breath.

I reckoned that it was a bit far from the Weiyin Palace to the East Palace, so I thought about finding a place nearby where I could change this outfit, otherwise I would walk around the Dazheng Palace under the sun with a crown weighing dozens of kilograms. I must faint.

I thought about sneaking to Yuxi Palace to change clothes by myself first, and then looking for a place to eat. Who would have thought that I would be surrounded by a group of people as soon as I left Weiyin Palace, and they actually asked me to go to my father's original Chong'en Palace to change clothes.As soon as I was about to tear off my clothes, eight young eunuchs came to serve me, and two more brought silver bottles, washbasins and silk scarves for me to wipe my face.They didn't put the washbasin on the wooden stand either, they just knelt in front of me, holding the basin in both hands, their poses were very nice.I wiped my face, and two more people came over quickly, they were so gentle that I didn't feel my hair being pulled apart, and they combed my hair again with a delicate ivory comb.

My comfortable scalp tingles.

this……

This fawning is also too comforting.

It is better to eat at noon.The dishes are all top-notch, not to mention, they are all things I like to eat. The chicken noodle soup is smoother than Chu Qiangsheng's hands. The grapes and honeydew melons, and even the tea for gargling are all the top Mingqian Longjing this year.

Hey!

this feeling...

I crossed my legs and held Huizhou Wuliqing in my hand. The lingering aroma made me ecstatic.

Beautiful, really beautiful.

Now I feel the dizzy feeling of happiness when I was stunned by a real big fresh onion pie from the world. I was so dizzy that I didn't know where to go.

The slaves in the Forbidden Palace, they are too powerful. Serving people is an ancestral job. After years of trying to figure out people's hearts, they can know my mind when I lift my finger, even better than myself.

In the evening, before it was time for dinner, I got the big pie I had been dreaming of.

—— Cui Bicheng is back.

He was snuggled up on a chair, covered with a thin blanket, his hair was messed up like a chicken coop, and his eyes were dull, squinting at the sycamore tree above his head with his thin, sharp-mouthed monkey-cheeked face.

I took two quick steps, and beckoned a little eunuch to come over, "You, quickly go to the Imperial Medical Bureau to find a doctor on duty."

"Your Highness." The little official used the old palace name to me, "Doctor Lin has arrived."

Hearing this, I glanced sideways, and sure enough Lin Ruoqian was in the main hall behind, directing people to pour hot water and boiled thick medicinal juice into a big wooden barrel.

"Old Lin?" I rubbed my eyes in disbelief, then walked up to him a few steps, pulled him away, and waved to make everyone around me back, before I asked him, "Why are you here at this time?"

"See what the prince said, why can't I be here?"

"What are you pretending to be garlic with me? The prince is still sick there, what are you doing here if you don't serve him?"

Lin Ruoqian is not in the East Palace, I am afraid that something will happen to the prince, and I am afraid that Cui Bicheng will show his feet in front of him.

And he got rid of my finger, put his hand into the barrel, put his finger under his nose and sniffed, and said indifferently, "Someone asked me to come here, so I can only come here."

I was taken aback, "Who? Who sent you here?"

He didn't say it.

I will not ask any more.

The left and right are just those servants who have become fine, or those who are old Duge.

In such a crisis, they dragged Lin Ruoqian out of Wen Zhan's bed and sent them to me. Whether they were kind or malicious, they were just asking for trouble for me.Regardless of whether the gang of slaves in the harem want to help me or harm me, anyway, Lin Ruoqian is here to see Lao Cui's doctor, it is the best.Lin Ruoqian had his own sense of propriety, if Wen Zhan was seriously inseparable from others, he would not come here.

I pushed him, "Hey, how is Lao Cui's injury?"

"Trouble." Lin Ruoqian bent his nose, "I was injured too badly during the torture, and I didn't receive timely medical treatment. It was already very bad, but the gang of dogs in the prison used some tricks secretly... One of his legs may be limping."

With just this sentence, I almost spit out the chicken noodle soup I ate.

I said, "At that time, a military doctor bandaged his wound. Wasn't that helpful?"

I didn't say clearly that the person who treated Cui Bicheng was my nominally unmarried wife, Yin Qiluo, to save Lin Ruoqian from being suspicious, and to save Miss Yin from making trouble.

Lin Ruoqian glanced at me, then continued to sniff the medicinal soup in his hand, nodded slightly and said, "It will work, otherwise, it will be worse. Shopkeeper Cui may lose his legs."

Me, "Should I be thankful that those dog slaves in Zhao Prison didn't really abolish Lao Cui, or...should I be grateful to your master, after all, he didn't do anything cruel?"

After that, there is nothing to say.

I beckoned a group of people to come over and take care of Cui Bicheng to freshen up. Lin Ruoqian was always beside him, washing his wounds and applying medicine.The wounds on Cui Bicheng's legs were all tied tightly with smooth wooden boards, so that even if Cui Bicheng moved, his legs would not be bruised again, otherwise his legs would be completely broken.

Until now, it's hard for me to imagine that the coquettish Cui Bicheng will spend his whole life wandering around Yongjing on crutches, as if someone told me today that Du Xiaoge has become a singing and dancing girl, twisting his waist and limbs to win the championship in Yongjing.

The feeling of happiness of being stunned by a fat pie falling from the sky disappeared immediately, and I couldn't help shivering.

Lin Ruoqian wrapped Cui Bicheng like a big bun, which seemed to be covered with gauze inside and out, exuding a strong smell of herbs. I think Cui Bicheng at this time is like a pickle made with medicinal materials.Then a little eunuch brought over some meals. Lin Ruoqian hadn't eaten after working for a long time. He first picked out some edible food for Cui Bicheng. I picked some stir-fried bean sprouts, tofu stewed in clear water, filled a bowl of rice, and soaked some crucian carp soup.

I was holding the bowl and chopsticks and wanted to feed Cui Bicheng, but of course someone nearby rushed to snatch it, it seems that I am a born noble person, let alone feeding others, even holding something heavier than chopsticks would break my fingers.

I don't compete with this group of slaves for the credit for feeding the meal, because I really enjoy the feeling of happiness of being knocked out by a big pie, although this feeling has long been mixed with many inexplicable strange smells.

I started eating myself.

Holding the rice bowl and using chopsticks to pick up vegetables, I just took a bite of tofu when someone took the plate away in front of me. Before I could swallow it, another plate of new dishes was put on it, and someone beside me whispered the names of the dishes.

"Your Highness, this is colorful bird's nest silk."

I pointed at the tofu that was taken away with my chopsticks, "Bring me that back, I haven't had enough yet."

"Your Highness, you can't use those tofu anymore. It's not good to use too much, and it's not in compliance with the rules."

I took a mouthful of dry rice, "I know all of this, you are in case someone poisons you, so you don't let you eat too much of each dish, because it is impossible for the poisoner to put arsenic on all the dishes and rice, so it is counted as one bite." Poisonous vegetables can live too. But, look at me..."

So I raised my tofu-like face, "I guarantee that no one is so foolish as to poison me to death, don't talk nonsense, bring my tofu quickly."

These grandchildren want to confuse me?

What I eat now, and the posture I use are all used by my father, and the entire harem can't even be tolerated by the queen and prince.I'm in the mood now, so everything doesn't matter, and no one cares about it. If my father wakes up in the future, or the crown prince ascends the throne, as long as someone with good deeds writes a book, I will be unable to eat and walk around.Let alone tofu in the future, even stinky tofu will not be eaten.

Cui Bicheng was fed, I asked him to sleep in the Yuxi Palace first, and I found some court ladies and eunuchs who were familiar with me to serve him. I wanted to say one more thing, let him live in peace, and don’t engage in some interesting activities in the middle of the night. That's right, this is the palace, if anything happens, it will be 'disrupting the palace', and then I thought about it, he's become a steamed stuffed bun now, so I probably don't have much thought for a long time, so I'll stop talking about it.

Lighting the lamp outside, I put down the bowl that I had eaten and cleaned, wiped my mouth, poured another bowl of tea, and walked towards the East Palace.

There are sixteen eight-treasure glazed lamps hanging outside the gate of Yuzheng Palace, which are crystal clear.The main hall was also brightly lit, and when I walked in, I raised my eyes and was surprised to see that Empress Pei was here, looking straight at me.

……

When I meet her face, should I say hello?

Is it rude not to say hello?

I thought again, forget it, anyway, my mother and I have offended this girl a long time ago, and we can't hang shoulder to shoulder to drink, eat meat, eat hot pot and sing together without saying hello.

Queen Pei looked at me, but she didn't speak either.

I stood on the high threshold of Yuzheng Palace with one foot forward and one foot behind. Looking at Empress Pei, I retracted my front foot. I thought, this is not a good time to come and see Wen Zhan.

But at this moment, Empress Pei suddenly stopped me, "Chengyi."

I stopped.

She backed away and walked over step by step. Today she was not wearing a court dress, nor was she wearing her noisy golden phoenix hairpin. Her hair was thick and black, and it was all piled on her head. Hairpin with seven layers of tassels.

In fact, if you look closely, Empress Pei is not ugly, with delicate features, thin skin and red lips, but there is always a hint of evil spirit and loneliness.It's like a peony blooming in a dilapidated wall. After blooming for 20 years, no one looks at it, and it loses its breath-taking freshness.

Empress Pei is capable, when she walks, the long tassels just sway with her steps little by little, like petals stretched in the wind, if my mother wears something like this, it would swing wildly back and forth, Wrap around that little old lady's neck.

"Chengyi, I heard that you are getting married." The queen stood in front of me, "I should say congratulations to you."

"It's just some trivial matters, I don't dare to bother the empress."

"is it?"

The queen actually smiled slightly, which made me a little creepy.

As she said that, she took a step forward, and I took a step back. She stepped out of the threshold of Yuzheng Palace, and then stretched out a hand smeared with ointment and a golden peony ring towards me, like a mother Gently cupping my cheek, I hurriedly dodged back, the golden flower in her hand scratched my face.

She withdrew her hand and said in a sleepy voice, "...I have never looked at you carefully...If I knew it was you earlier...you wouldn't..."

——"Mother Queen!"

The cold words interrupted the queen's soliloquy.On the other side of the screen, Wen Zhan came out.He seemed to have dressed in a hurry, and his hair was untied and disheveled like a lion's mane.

"Mother, you should go back to the palace."

At this time, Wen Zhan looked at his mother with a strange indifference in his eyes.

Empress Pei withdrew her hand, and also cleaned up her expression. She smiled at the prince with a very beautiful and loving expression, and said, "You have a good rest."

Surrounded by her female officials, the empress left Yuzheng Palace. The tassels on her head were illuminated by those glazed lamps, which caught my eyes.

I blocked it with my hand.

"What are you doing here? To see if I'm dead?"

Wen Zhan didn't come over, he continued to work beside the priceless ink screen in Yuzheng Palace, and Liu Congrong asked someone to serve him tea.The little eunuch brought a wooden plate with two tea bowls in it, and then Liu Congrong held something like an imperial edict in his own hands and placed it next to Wen Zhan.

I leaned against the gate and didn't go over, "Wen Zhan, don't say that. I'm worried about you, I've always been worried."

"Really? Let me think about how worried you are about me. Liu Congrong, send this imperial edict to Chengyi."

Wen Zhan pointed to the thing at hand, but he himself stopped talking, just picked up a tea bowl to drink water.

I sighed, walked over by myself, and sat on the rosewood chair opposite him. As a result, the thing that Liu Congrong handed over was unfolded, looked at twice, and then closed.

It was an edict to accuse Xuanda Governor Yin Mingyang of failing to resist the Huns.It can be foreseen that once this thing is put into the government and the public, those officials who are as pervasive as crows will be excited and gear up, writing hard day and night, concocting impeachment memorials that are enough to describe a good minister through the ages as a traitor in troubled times.In that case, even a Zhengchen with a strong body and strong bones would be ground to powder.

Me, "Your Highness, I never knew you were a public avenger."

He sneered and said, "There are many things you don't know. What I do for you and what I say to you, you always ignore again and again. But I remember I told you more than once, if you dare Betrayed me, married a wife and had children..."

"I remember." I suddenly interrupted him, "I remember every word you said..."

……

In the winter of that year, he once warned me in a soft voice, "...Chengyi, let me tell you, if you dare to marry any wife and go home to have a son, I will let the guards torture that woman with the most despicable and shameful means." Woman, let her moan over and over again like a bitch until she dies! She will pray that she will be a pig, a cow or a dog in her next life, and she will not be reincarnated as a human again!"

……

Those words, even in retrospect, make people shudder.

But,……

"Wen Zhan." I looked at him, "I don't believe you would do such a thing. Maybe you are a strict person, but you will not kill innocent people indiscriminately."

"Really?" He suddenly smiled, "Before I killed that bitch Gao Chang, you didn't believe that I would kill her."

My breath was suffocated, and then I felt that my internal organs were burning like a fire, and the pain was so painful that they were about to rot.

I stood up and said in a low voice, "Since Your Highness is awake, I'll call Lin Ruoqian from the Imperial Hospital."

Wen Zhan stopped me, he said, "No need to go. He is treating Cui Bicheng now."

I looked at him, "Is that you?"

He, "I also know he hurt a leg."

Me, "I should be grateful to God, does he still have his own life?"

Wen Zhan was expressionless, "He should be grateful to you for saving his life. Chengyi, look, a person's body and life are actually very fragile. Once injured, injured or killed, there is nothing left."

I slowly loosened my clenched fingers, and rubbed my forehead hard as if it had been squeezed by a door.

"Stop talking about Wen Zhan, stop talking...you won't, you won't..."

"I don't know what? You don't believe that I will kill Yin Qiluo like I killed Ayila?"

I felt him, he gently grabbed my hand, "Look at me, Chengyi, look up at me."

I didn't look up, but said firmly, "You won't. I remember every word you said, but I still don't believe that you will do such a thing again. Because..."

"Because of what Chengyi?"

"because……"

because……

It seemed that something, hot and soft, blocked my throat and made me speechless.

He sighed and said it for me, seeming a little sad.

"Because you know, I love you."

Suddenly, he let go of my hand, knocked off the bandage on my head with one hand, grabbed the hair at the back of my head, and forced me to look up at him. Wen Zhan's eyes were cold and deep, as if he had hidden himself for thousands of years. The deep pool of time.

"Chengyi, you see me thoroughly. You know that you can't do anything against me. I can only be led by you. I even put down my dignity and begged you not to leave me, but you abandoned me like a shoe There are always so many people in your heart, so many things are more important than me.

Your mother's words, Cui Bicheng's words, and even Yin Qiluo who only met a few times are more important than me.What am I in your heart?

Do you think I'm your dog?Come and go when you call? ! "

I just felt like my teeth were chattering, and I couldn't speak a word in a daze.

He suddenly let go of me and slapped me with a wave of his hand!

My cheeks are hot and painful.

He said in a cold voice, "You go. I told Concubine Cui that I will not hinder your good marriage."

ended.

everything is over.

The rich and humid atmosphere of midsummer surrounds Yuzheng Palace.

It's quiet around.

There seemed to be no sound of breathing.

"no……"

I wanted to say something, but no sound came out.

I keep asking myself, keep asking, trying to find an answer that is more frightening than death——

Isn't this result what I've always wanted?

but……

Why wasn't there that sense of relief?

The heart seems to have broken.

All shattered into powder.

"you……"

I suppressed my trembling teeth, and finally bit out a few words.

"Take care, I... I'm leaving."

One step, two steps, three steps.

It seemed like half a lifetime had passed.

My hand touched the gate of Yuzheng Palace, and I grabbed it fiercely, as if my fingers were about to squeeze into the gates carved with beautiful patterns.

……

"Chengyi."

I didn't look back, and he didn't come over.

Wen Zhan's voice was like a breeze, floating across the entire Yuzheng Palace.

"I have gone through all the classics, including history books and patriarchal clans. I know what kind of punishment and curse my feelings for you will cause me, and I even know all the humiliation, blame and curse that I will face in the future.

I know that after death, I will go to eighteen levels of hell, fall into the animal realm, and never be reborn.

I was also afraid, I even wanted to hide my feelings, only to reveal them quietly in the dead of night, only for myself to see, but..."

"I can't help myself."

"You are...you are me, under the sun, the only one who wants to hold hands,..."

"pity……"

He seemed to be unable to continue, he began to cough, and after coughing for a long time, he finally stabilized his voice.

"I'm not your one."

"Never."