Brother Donggong

In Yongjing this year, there is a lot of rain.

The sky was still clear during the day, but in the evening, the wind started to blow violently, blowing the hundred-year-old banyan trees outside to the side.The sky was full of lightning, and the thunder was like a rolling boulder. After a while, the pouring rain covered it in darkness.It seems that God has been in a bad mood for a few years, as if his wife stole the man.

Cui Bicheng asked Mama He to order the gatekeeper to close the firewood gate outside the yard early and lock it, and then the four of us cooked hot pot in the main room.

Small green vegetables, tofu, freshly cut mutton slices, plus small ground sesame paste, chive flowers, coriander, a few drops of balsamic vinegar, and sugared garlic when eating, although you can only drink high foam from the tea shop in the back street, but Everyone also ate happily.

Cui Bicheng could eat it. He alone had eaten more than three catties of mutton, which was more edible than locusts.

After eating and clearing away the bowls and chopsticks, Mother He and the dumb gatekeeper boiled water, Cui Bicheng slumped on a chair and picked his teeth with a toothpick, and I gave him the silver notes and silver ingots I brought from the palace from my pocket.

He glanced at me, "Why?"

I put these things on the table, "Money. I'll buy you two catties of good tea. You're used to drinking good things. You don't want to eat these things."

Cui Bicheng laughed, "I drink like plain water and wear it like coarse cloth. Besides, what can I buy with this small 1000 taels of silver? You can save it for snacks."

What he said made me feel uncomfortable.

Old Cui glanced at me, "Don't wrinkle your little face like a walnut." He leaned over and said, "To tell you the truth, I have silver in my hand. At that time they searched and took away some gardens. , land deeds, antique calligraphy and paintings, etc., the real big money is still in my hands, but the rumors are tight these days, let’s live a poor life for a few days, and confuse others. Waiting for them to stare at them will not be so evil in the future, we will still eat, drink and whore Bet you can live ten lives!"

He said it lightly, it just sounded like a joke.

This palace change is like a sap that completely stupefied me, and I am so stunned that I haven't recovered yet.

Even though Cui Bicheng has the ability to reach the sky, he is still a human being.How could he hide his money so closely under the watchful eyes of hundreds of abacus experts from the household department and the inner court who are pressing to check the accounts?

But looking at his triumphant, villainous, stilted tail, I don't want to expose him.I know he is really out of money.

No need to find any evidence, I don't know if he has money or not?

I still spread the money in front of him, "Take it, I don't need it anyway. There is food and clothes here, and I don't have to worry about it. I have nowhere to spend money."

Old Cui nodded, "Succeed, no one thinks the money is biting their hands, so I will keep it. The money was spent in a fair manner, and I can go to the restaurant to buy wine and drink, and save my money from being deducted by that old lady He Ma every day. Mom Yes, this old lady is simply my nemesis! Except for today, I have not eaten meat for several days, and I am almost becoming a monk."

There are no singing and dancing in the small courtyard, and there is no stage. Except for an old almanac and the "White Clothes Guanyin Sutra" enshrined on the stove (because the kitchen is a holy place, the killing is too heavy, so a scripture is needed to be devout). There is no serious book, and there is no way to relieve boredom. It is extremely boring. When the sun goes down, the courtyard is as quiet as a wilderness.

I slept for a few days, and couldn't sleep anymore at night, so I went to Cui Bicheng's house.

He also didn't have an account book to check, so he was bored, so he lit the oil lamp and looked out the window in a daze.His eyes were a little confused, with an unbelievably soft and sad look, like a lost reed chicken.It's a far cry from the appearance of the villain when he was full.

Seeing him like this, I couldn't help feeling a kind of 'fucking blood' in my heart.

"What are you doing?"

He saw me sitting on his bed and glared at me.

"Can't sleep."

I always feel that my heart is in a mess, and the storm makes me a little uneasy.

"How about we go to the theater?"

Cui Bicheng paused, didn't know what to think, and said, "But it won't happen today. I heard the chaos outside when I was eating today, and the curfew was half an hour earlier than usual. I'm afraid someone is going to go on a red business trip."

Me, "You really see all directions with your eyes and listen to all directions."

"Where, where."

At night, the rain became heavier.

The tile eaves on the edge of the corridor couldn't keep out the rain, and the windows were wet and hit a lot.

I poked him, "Hey, you can't sleep anyway, sing me a song."

"You want me to sing? You don't always say that I sing cats and dogs. You may not be able to sleep after listening to it."

I ignored him, just poked him again and said, "Sing a paragraph."

Cui Bicheng took a sip of boiled water, moistened his throat, and sang as expected, it was "The Kneeling Pond" from "The Lion's Roar".He played the sneaky Su Dongpo.

"Ah... Ji..."

Puff and laugh.

"Is this Ji Chang? Why are you kneeling by the pool? I can't help avoiding it, and when he wakes up, say something..."

Then he pretended to be cheating and asked his wife to punish him. Chen Jichang, who was kneeling by the pool, said, "Almost fell into the pool. Where did this come from? Hold your grievances and complain about the cause of the disaster. Hey, I don't blame my wife, I just blame it." Su Dongpo is an old man... I am sitting at home, and he is playing in the spring suburbs with red makeup..."

boom! boom! boom!

There was a faint sound of knocking on the door, but it was too rainy outside to hear it clearly. I thought it was the sound of the wind blowing outside.

Cui Bicheng is still singing, "It's okay, it's okay, and I'm glad that no one has seen it today, it's as if people are peeping and mocking..."

Before the words fell, Mother He yelled loudly outside, "Hey, it's a rainy day. If you don't stay at home, you go to someone else's house and smash the door. Who is it! Who is it?"

Chen Jichang dressed up by Cui Bicheng, "My knee hurts more and more from kneeling..."

As soon as the gate was opened, people broke in, like a herd of pigs broke into my vegetable garden.I opened the window and looked out from the pouring rain. Almost all of them were from Beizhen Fusi, and the leader was Cucumber!

The cucumber was dripping all the time, like a duck that had been pulled out of the soup without shedding its feathers.

Cui Bicheng leaned against the door, pointed at the cucumber with the walking stick in his hand, "Look at this face, it's as white as rice soaked in water, what happened?"

Cucumber didn't look at him, but just looked at me with an unusually serious look, "My lord, please go back to the palace. His Highness Seventh has a high fever, I'm afraid it's..."

I saw Cucumber's mouth opening and closing, but I couldn't understand what he was saying.

Then when my body warmed up, Cui Bicheng took a cloak and covered my shoulders.

He said, "Go. It doesn't matter whether the child is really sick or not, if you don't watch it anyway, you won't feel at ease for the rest of your life."

I was pushed out of the door by him ignorantly, my head seemed to be pinched by someone, why didn't I turn around.When I got on the horse, there was a gust of wind blowing outside, and a branch flew up and hit my forehead, which seemed to knock me stupid.

The palace is still so quiet, it seems that there is no big difference from a few days ago.

The same goes for Yuzheng Palace.

In the dark sky, the entire East Palace was lit with big wax, and it was as bright as day, and Yue Zheng's small body was lying on the bed over there.The rain-soaked skin on my outside didn't even come off, and he rushed over. His little face was burning red, like a steamed crab, and there seemed to be tears in the corners of his eyes, and he was sobbing and crying. .

I wanted to hug him, but I didn't dare to reach out because I was afraid of freezing him because my whole body was cold and damp.Someone in the back took off my clothes, and I followed him in a daze, changed all my clothes, and put on a clean robe before picking up the zither.

His forehead was as hot as fire, and he nestled softly in my arms, as if he felt some movement, he moaned and opened his eyes, his little eyes were swollen from crying.

"Brother Yi, concubine mother, concubine mother is gone... Wei Jin said that she had hanged herself...Brother Yi, I want concubine mother..."

After speaking, I started crying again.

This is simply gouging out my heart with a knife.

My eyes were hot from his pressure, and tears fell down one by one.

I wiped my tears and called Cucumber to ask what was going on?

Cucumber said, "His Royal Highness Seven has been crying since he was sent to the East Palace, and no one can persuade him. I don't know who said it wrong today, saying that the emperor killed hundreds of people from the three families of the Pei family. Concubine Pei did not." He became a monk in accordance with the imperial decree, but committed suicide and died in martyrdom. When the Seventh Highness heard this, he fainted from crying, and then he had a high fever.

I was startled and angry, "Where is your father, why didn't you report such a big matter to your father?"

Cucumber is in a dilemma, "The emperor is still suffering from three disasters and eight disasters. Besides, this is a matter related to the Pei family. No one wants to report it to the emperor."

Me, "Where is the prince? Even he doesn't care?"

Cucumber shook his head, "The crown prince has been in the Weiyin Palace. The tortures have been going on for the past few days, and the government and the public have been shaken. The crown prince can't be distracted, so I don't know..."

"I don't know?" I just felt chills in my heart, "There's no need to look for him, just let him die in Weiyin Palace!"

Now I'm not sure whether Wen Zhan deliberately made Yuezheng sick like this in order to get me back.

I originally wanted to find another person to go to the Weiyin Hall, but Liu Congrong was not in the East Palace, he was with the prince, and no one else dared to go to the Weiyin Hall to disturb the discussions between the prince and the courtiers. Flogged alive.

I hugged Yuezheng and asked them to bring the boiled concoction and feed him little by little with a small spoon.At first he couldn't swallow anything, he just cried, crying so hoarsely that his throat was split, I held him like this, his two little hands grabbed my skirt and spit out the medicine juice on it.Cucumber came over to take the kite and wanted to change my clothes, but I pushed it away. I poured the concoction into my mouth, then lowered my head, and fed it to the kite in my arms, one mouthful, two mouthfuls, Three bites...

In the end, I don’t know how much I fed, how much he vomited, gradually, Yuezheng stopped crying hysterically, just whimpering, and then seemed to be tired at last, he grabbed my clothes and fell asleep in my arms caught.

I was afraid that something would happen to him, so I sent someone to the side hall next to him, and brought over Lin Ruoqian who was brewing medicine after a day and a night. Lin Ruoqian took his pulse carefully, got another dose of medicine, and asked me to continue feeding Yuezheng. Lin Ruoqian let out a sigh of relief.

"As long as he doesn't cry, swallows the concoction and sleeps, he should be fine," he said.

I was holding the zither, my arms were sore and numb, but I didn't dare to move.

I was afraid that he would wake up again.

After four o'clock, when my hands couldn't hold it anymore, I lightly put the zither on the bed. As soon as his little body touched the bed, he woke up immediately. I followed him to the bed and held him in my arms. Covered silk was gently hugged.

"Brother Yi... woo woo..."

He sobbed twice, then closed his little eyes, and fell asleep again.

When the sky was dim, Wen Zhan returned to the East Palace.

"Your Highness Seventh, why didn't you report such a big incident? If it caused a catastrophe, who of you would be able to bear it? Liu Congrong, this group of wolves will not leave a single one behind!"

He stepped in, was startled when he saw me, and then saw Yuezheng sleeping soundly in my arms, tugging at the collar of his silk dragon robe, looking extremely agitated.

"How about the kite?"

I looked at him and said softly, "I took the medicine and fell asleep."

He came over, stretched out his hand, and wanted to touch Yuezheng's forehead, but I raised my hand and knocked his hand back.

Wen Zhan was taken aback, "What are you doing?" He looked at me, his eyes were a little dry and red because of staying up late.He added, "Something happened to Yuezheng, you should be angry. I'm also to blame for this, I've been in the Weiyin Palace, I don't know..."

I couldn't restrain myself, and said, "Is there anything in this world that you don't know?"

Quiet, not even human breathing can be heard.

Wen Zhan looked straight at me, "What do you mean?"

I,"……"

Then there was fire-like fury in his eyes, "You don't believe me?"

I also looked at him, "Why are you trustworthy? Yuezheng has been crying for several days, and he is so sick again that he can't feed the medicine, he doesn't sleep, something happened to his mother again...he Just cry... just cry..."

I couldn't go on, choked up, the kind of painful soreness stuck in my throat, forcing my tears to burst out.

"If you think Yuezheng is blocking your way, and you are afraid that he will compete with you for the throne in the future, you should abolish him at that time! Save him from dying in the East Palace for no reason!"

Snapped!

A slap on my face was hot and painful.

The prince looked at me coldly, "It's very happy to say, what about you? You treat Yuezheng just like you treat me. Come here when you are happy, whether it's patting or hugging, it's all some inexplicable warmth, The cheap ones are not as good as a bone.

It's like someone else raised a dog for you, and you get it to play with it when you're happy, and then forget about it.

Yuezheng has been in the East Palace for so long, have you ever visited him one day?Have you ever really cared about him?If Huang Congchang hadn't called you back, I'm afraid you would never want to go back to the East Palace to watch the zither in your life.You have long forgotten him and me.What right do you have to blame me? "

I didn't say a word, I just felt distressed like someone was brushing my heart, liver and lungs over and over again with an iron brush.

Wen Zhan sat on the edge of the bed, raised his hand, touched Yuezheng's forehead lightly, and then grabbed my hand.

"Chengyi, stay here.

Since you love Yuezheng so much and don't believe me so much, why are you willing to leave Yuezheng to me alone? "

"Stay."

Holding the zither in my arms, looking at his sickly little face, I seemed to have no other choice.

Can only nod.

He seemed to sigh.

I looked at him, somewhat puzzled.

Obviously he won, he opened a big net, I'm just a small bug in his hand, my only choice is to catch him without a fight, but why, his expression is so sad?