Brother Donggong

The palace wall is far away, but it seems to be very close.

After a short walk, we arrived at Xuanwumen.Unexpectedly, I was stopped outside the palace gate, and a strange guard guerrilla crossed his long sword. I thought he was asking for money, so I took out a silver ingot that the emperor had just given me, and wanted to give it to him. He didn't want it.

"My lord, please wait a moment."

He didn't arrest me either, he just wouldn't let me go, so it wasn't a terrible thing to think about it.As long as his brain is not drunk with liquor, he would not do this if he forced his way out of the palace gate in full swing.I waited here obediently, and those people brought me a bowl of sour plum soup.

Holding this bowl of rose and sour plum soup with crushed ice cubes, I looked at the majestic palace garden in front of me. I thought I should make a lot of poetry and write some poems about palace grievances like "the morning is like blue silk and the evening is snow", but my head It was as if someone had tied a dead knot, and it didn’t work, so after I drank the sour plum soup, I hiccupped and leaned against the wall of the palace. The guerrilla guards came over and let me out Door.

Passing through the far-reaching arch, standing in front of him is a man in a long gown, the crown prince.But his clothes are very ordinary, the fine silk cotton gown is ironed on his body, it looks like he is a gentleman of some Hanlin family.

"I'll see you off," he said.

"It's not far, don't dare bother." I said.

He still said, "I'll see you off."

Me, "I don't have money to hire a sedan chair, and I don't have a horse to ride. It's not less than ten miles from here to that small courtyard. You can't go that far."

"I send you."

He stubbornly followed me.

In fact, I don't need to go back to Ranzhuang's hometown to farm.My grandfather, that is, Cui Bicheng's grandfather, bought him a small courtyard in Yongjing City a long time ago.It turned out that when I gained power, I lived in the Wangfu, and Cui Bicheng lived in the Lingering Garden. They were all famous and luxurious mansions in Yongjing City. No one needed this small courtyard, so it was always empty.Now when Old Cui and I were ransacked and we brothers had no place to stay, we remembered this small courtyard. It was left to him by his grandfather, and it was regarded as his ancestral property, so it was preserved cleanly.

Yesterday, Cui Bicheng sent someone to send a message to the palace, saying that he had moved in, cleaned the yard, bought pots, pans, ladles, wardrobe and bedding, etc., set up the stove, and hired a janitor. Old lady.Everything is packed, let me go there as soon as possible.

I know Yi Wenzhan's eyeliner in Yongjing, whether I want him to know or not, I can't hide it from him at all, so at the palace gate, when he said he would send me off, I didn't think it was to test where my home is, maybe He knows that small courtyard better than I do, and his spies may even know everything within a few miles.

Along the way, he didn't speak, and neither did I.

From Xuanwumen, cross the Shili Canal Wharf, then to Luoyan Bridge, and finally pass through a pipeline, which is the small courtyard that my grandfather left for me and Cui Bicheng.

The road is long and narrow.

It is indeed much better to walk this road with two people than to walk alone.Even if you don't speak, but with those faint, shadowy footsteps, people will not be too lonely.

When I got outside the courtyard, I didn't knock on the door, but turned to him and said, "Here we are."

"Okay." He looked here, "Then I'm leaving."

He didn't move.

I looked at him, and he looked at me.

Then I went up the steps to knock on the door, turned around, and heard him say, "Chengyi, how can I make you understand that the one who bears the sin is me, and I am the only one.

I forced you, you are innocent.

Whether it's incest, sleeve cutting, murder, or whatever, the only one who should go to hell is me.

You think too much, but you don't say anything.What can I do to take away your pain? "

——Even though this love is wrong and sinful, I still want to love you...