Brother Donggong

I had a dream.

In the dream, my father suddenly wasn't my father, he was just the prince's father.

So, from today on, I can only call him emperor, not father.

The emperor asked me to sit side by side with him on the steps of the throne. He only said that my father had died long ago, and that person was his good friend, so he has been taking care of my mother and me instead of my father.His finger was still touching the tear mole on my face, and he didn't speak again.

He and I have been in the deepest part of the main hall of the Taizheng Palace, looking out through the straight and wide gate in front of us, the surroundings are very dark, it seems that only the golden locks on the rosewood bookcases have some dim light.

After a long, long time, it was almost dark outside, and the emperor sighed a long time.

I don't know what he was thinking, because he didn't tell him anything, but I did feel that something was different, there were many, many indescribable things in the emperor's eyes.For the first time, I felt that he seemed to be a sad man trapped by memories.

In just one day, it seemed that his whole life had been exhausted.

He said, "Don't ask the prince, don't ask anything, it's best for you. If you have anything to say, just ask your mother. If she wants to say something, she will tell you. If she doesn't want to say it, don't force her. "

Everyone seemed to understand, only I was kept in the dark.

Like a dork.

The emperor took my hand and wrote a 'Yu' on my palm.

He said, "This is your name. It was given to you by your father when he was dying. From now on, you will be Zhao Yu."

"My mother? Hasn't she already..."

When I thought of those thrilling times, my heart tightened, and then it seemed like a hot current poured in, and my hands trembled a little.

"Your mother is fine. This is a bureau, she knew it from the beginning."

"...everything is a game of chess..."

The emperor didn't want to say more, and seemed a little overwhelmed.

His body was very weak, even in this midsummer of Yongjing, he was still wearing a sable waistcoat, it seemed that he could no longer bear the coldness of the main hall of the Dazheng Palace.He called Li Fang and said that he was going back to the Longevity Palace. He said that there was no nine-fold throne there, so there was no wind and it was comfortable to stay there.

I just felt sad, and the tears fell indiscriminately.I sat on the steps, huddled up, and covered my face with my sleeves. I felt as if someone was stroking my hair. I looked up, but I couldn’t see anything clearly. It seemed that my eyes were blurred by too many tears. .

That person seemed very familiar, but at the same time seemed incomparably strange. He was a clear and meaningful person, but his eyes were as far-reaching as the sea.

Like someone in my deepest memory.

It seems that many, many years ago, my mother and I were still living on the west side of the deep palace. That day I was playing with stones, and suddenly many people poured in from outside the gate. silhouette.

They said, he is the emperor, and he came to pick me up to study in Yuzheng Palace.From that day on, I became the prince favored by my father, and my mother also changed from a person who ignored the maids and eunuchs to the young master of the harem. She could also have her own palace, her own maids and eunuchs, and There is a considerable annual salary.

"emperor?"

I called out tentatively.

The person in front of me rubbed my hair, wiped away my tears with a silk cloth, and said softly, "No, not yet."

Is the prince.

Wen Zhan took my hand and walked out, "Follow me."

Outside the Dazheng Palace is another world.

The nine-layered white marble steps of the palace are too high, like a mountain. Standing here and looking down at the people below, it is like looking down at the world from the clouds.I never knew that this place was full of people, with the civil and military officials in front and the Guards behind. It seemed that the summer heat could not warm the cold weapons in the hands of these people.

The officials did not leave, and neither did the sergeants.

As soon as they saw the prince walking out of the hall, they began to kneel down and shout like mountains and seas.The sky was dark and the cheers like flying sand and rocks vibrated through the mountains and rivers!

I could feel the black glazed tiles of Taisho Palace trembling.

This is what the people want.

This is Megatron Eight Desolation, Gong Gao Yu Nei.

Severe punishments and severe laws eliminated some evil villains hovering in the court, comforted the loyal souls in heaven who died loyally, and finally let out the evil spirit that was stuck in everyone's hearts. Therefore, the government and the public are clear, the world is stable, and the world is stable. The hearts of the people are back...

Inside the palace walls, all conspiracies were annihilated in this crazy cheer.

It is right to use Du Ruo as the chief minister of the cabinet, it seems right that he loses power and harms the country, it seems right to enshrine the Pei family with the decree of grace, it seems right to kill the three families of the Pei family, it seems right to use Cui Bicheng to gather wealth in the south of the Yangtze River It is also right to put him in prison and give him a severe sentence, and then it is right to rehabilitate him, and it seems right to ransack his home in the end.

All are right.

No one will care whether Cui Bicheng's legs are lame, and no one will see him write over and over again with his severely severed fingers, "The field of Deng Lilu, those who are in the field of planning, the words of poor Yao and Shun, Recite the way of Confucius and Mencius."

Because this is done by the victor, everything is a manifest destiny and cannot be violated.

It's incredible!

I can't help but think of the feeling I had when I was in charge of government in the Weiyin Palace. The feeling of using power to turn clouds and rain is really wonderful, just like the most delicious wine, which makes people tremble with excitement.This is the ultimate enjoyment that only emperors can have. Ordinary people will be torn to pieces by it, and will never be reborn.

——One will succeed and ten thousand bones will dry up.

I stand here, trembling all over, not happy, but frightened.I feel that I am that dry bone, dragged out by the crown prince, and roughly adding a touch of compassion to his great talent.

I squatted backward hard, Wen Zhan grabbed my wrist and dragged me forward.

He looked at me like wildfire, "I said, one day, I will let you stand by my side in a fair manner."

But I was completely terrified.

I couldn't understand what he said, and I didn't want to hear it.

I only knew to struggle hard, but he just grabbed me, between our pushing and pulling, my head hit the palace door of the main hall straight, staring at my eyes, and passed out.

My dream begins.

This dream is like a big warm meat pie, suffocating me in the middle, roasting on the coals, and dripping with the aroma of sizzling fat.

"My lord... my lord?"

Someone pushed me, and I suddenly sat up from the boat like a carp. The cloth towel that had been covering my forehead fell off and was caught by me.

I looked up, hey, it turned out to be a cucumber.

Am I at home?

When I came back to my senses, I looked around, and it was obviously the East Palace.

How could I be in the East Palace?

"Cucumber, why are you here? Why am I here?" My mind was in a mess, and I grabbed Cucumber's hand, "Hey, I was having a nightmare just now. I dreamed of so many things, the most terrifying one The thing is that my father said that I am not his own, so I will be deposed as a commoner, the clan mansion will smash all the jade plates with my name engraved on it, my property and the palace will be confiscated, Cui Bicheng will also In this way, he can't keep his Lingering Garden business. Also, I remember that my father recovered from illness, and my mother died and lived again. And...the queen seems to be gone, the Pei family is over, Du The family seems to have broken up too...Prince, he...Wen Zhan, I can't remember what happened to him, it seems that he didn't exist in the dream..."

Cucumber didn't speak, he squatted at my feet and put on my shoes.

He listened to me babbling for a long time, but he didn't answer, and I kept talking, and for some reason, I couldn't continue.

He still didn't answer, just squatting like that, without looking up.

I tentatively asked him, "Is what I said true?"

……

He nodded.

After a while, I let out a soft 'oh'.

Then say, "Cucumber, did they take you back?"

After a long time, he nodded slightly.

Me, "You are from the palace, and now that Li Fang is popular again, they won't make things difficult for you."

Cucumber nodded again, "It's back to the Supervisor of Rites."

His fingers gripped my trouser legs, "Actually, I still want to follow my lord, but I'm afraid of causing trouble to you."

I said, "Yes, I can't even support myself now, how can I support you again. Besides, you will be a fourth-rank Zhengyin eunuch once you return to the supervisor of ceremonies. Maybe the new lord will use you again when he comes to court. , at that time, you might be able to help me a little bit, so you must not be confused now, let the supervisor of ceremonies not stay around, and run to my house to make trouble for me."

As I was talking, I couldn't continue, and I felt my eyes were wet.

He suddenly raised his head, "My lord, aren't you in the palace from now on?"

I shook my head, "What am I in the palace? By the way, don't call me a prince in the future. I am nothing. The emperor said that the name my father gave me was Yu, and he said my name was Zhao Yu, but I didn't even I don't know who my real father is..."

He, "Prince, he..."

I just shook my head, as if there was an extremely sharp thorn stuck in my neck, I couldn't swallow it, and I couldn't cough it out, it was uncomfortable.

Cucumber helped me to get up, and he said, "The servant girl will call you the prince of the last day. You have to go back to the palace today, because today is the day when the clan's house is ordered to raid the house, and you have to go back and kneel to receive the order."

At noon, I knelt outside the gate of King Qi's Mansion, watching a group of guards unload the ebony wood and gold plaque of my mansion, and carried it away.I quickly kowtowed to thank you.Because my forehead was originally bruised, I looked very religious.

The guards didn't make things difficult for me. Even when they copied the antique calligraphy and paintings in my house, they were scrupulous, and no ugly things like looting or secretly hiding happened.

Those things were packed in a ten-foot large wooden box and lifted out one by one.A street outside the palace was full of people, and the common people had never seen such a formation.

This dynasty is very famous, even in the city of Yongjing. The eldest son of the emperor, the prince, was ransacked and deposed as a citizen at the same time.The people here are not all watching the fun, there are also small businesses.Those selling maltose hawthorn, sour plum soup, and folding fans and umbrellas blocked a road that was normally square and wide.

Not only here, it is said that when the old Cui Liuyuan was copied, there were more people blocking the outside.

Everyone knows that the big boss of the Cui family, Cui Bicheng, is as rich as a country, and everyone wants to see what priceless treasure can be brought out of his house?Is it true that gold, silver and jewelry are piled up like mountains and seas, and even the plates for eating steamed buns, the ax for chopping wood, and the toilet for Chu Gong are all made of gold?

As a result, what everyone saw was the same as what I moved out of my house.They are all big wooden boxes, and they are all secured with big iron locks. Let alone peeping, even if you get close, you will be swept away by the sticks of the guards.

When these things were clarified, I suddenly found that I seemed to have nowhere to go.Besides the cucumbers coming out, there is also a group of guards from the Eastern Palace, so when I hold the lamp, I can only go back to the Eastern Palace.

I don't have a house to live in now, so staying here in Donggong is very comfortable.

But this is not a long-term solution after all.

Although I don't quite believe that Wen Zhan will let me leave the East Palace peacefully, but I don't want to just stay here like this.

It turns out that I am the prince, how can I have a glamorous status staying here, but what about now?I shudder at the thought that I might stay in the Dazheng Palace as Wen Zhan's male favourite.Immediately, he sneezed five times and shivered ten times.

Not long after, I received another imperial decree, which made me a little dumbfounded.

Yin Mingyang, the governor of Xuanda, went to Beijing to report on his duties, and was promoted to a higher level. He was still the governor, and at the same time he was the minister of the Ministry of war.He had another idea when he came to Beijing, which was to marry his daughter as soon as possible.So I shuddered to remember that I still have a fiancée called Yin Qiluo who needs to retire quickly.

I am poor and white now, and at the same time I am entangled with the prince. Under such circumstances, it seems that it is not suitable to marry, and it will save infinite troubles. Therefore, I am determined to push this marriage silently and decently, and I cannot let it go. Miss Yin has lost her reputation.