Brother Donggong

July [-]th is a very special day.

Halloween.

People who treat guests on this day are very godly.

Yongjing, Xian Pavilion.

The stage is covered with a glazed layer, and a piece of mercury is painted on the back of the glazed layer. When the performers walk on it, they seem to be floating on the water.

Played in the wild drama "Zhong Kui Marries a Sister".

Zhong Kui, whose face was smeared like the Lord of the Underworld, and the wedding procession of all kinds of imps, circled around the supposedly elegant and elegant stage, making people dazzled.

The entire lobby of the Xian Pavilion was empty, so two chairs were placed in the middle, Yin Wangchuan was sitting on the right, and I was sitting on the left.

I asked him in a low voice, "I thought you would invite me to listen to the Kunqu opera "A Dream in the Garden". That seems to be the most popular excerpt they invite me to listen to."

He said lightly, "But you don't like it. I think what you like is "Zhong Kui Marries a Sister."

I,"……"

"That's strange, how do you know?"

"Why don't I know? You doze off every time you play "A Dream in the Garden", but one time when you listened to "Zhong Kui" outside, you were so excited that you even hummed when you fell asleep at night. Didn't you like it? What."

"Chengyi, if you wear your mask too tightly, you will suffocate."

I opened my mouth, and after thinking about it, I said, "My name is not Chengyi anymore."

"Really." He didn't seem curious. "It's as if my name is not Xiaolian. It's just a different name."

I scratched my hair, "Why did you choose such a strange name as Xiao Lian at the beginning? The name of the top Yunjin son in your place at that time was so elegant."

"Yeah." He turned his eyes from the stage and looked at me, "I gave him the name Yunjin, and he got mine. From this point of view, people who don't learn or know how to read every day are I can’t think of a good name. Just like Chengyi, cucumbers, silver notes, and gold are all named like this.”

"The silver ticket and the gold belong to my mother, and they are named after her."

"No, it's you. I know, I know a lot about you."

I nodded, "Yes, you are almost becoming a magic stick like Lao Cui now, but I don't know anything about you."

He shook his head, "No, you don't know everything about me. You know my life experience, I told you. If you forget, don't blame me for not saying anything."

"Then why did you change your name to Yin Wangchuan again? So you pretended to be Mo Que in front of the third child. Isn't this a blatant lie to me?"

"There's a reason for that."

Me, "I'm listening."

With a wave of his hand, all the demons and ghosts on the stage stopped and retreated.

There are only the two of us in the huge Xian Pavilion.

"Three years ago, I met Mr. Cui outside Jiayuguan. He helped me bury my mother. He used this favor as an excuse to ask me to protect you at a high price of 100 million taels of silver. At that time, I had something important to do. I originally thought that I would be able to go to Kunlun Mountain in three to five months to meet the appointment, but in fact, after I get everything done, it will be three years later."

"what's up?"

He thought for a while, and said without any emotion, "I had a life-and-death confrontation with Xianjiao Wang. We fought for more than 40 days. He died and I was seriously injured. And my half-brother Mo Que took the opportunity to poison me , completely abolished my martial arts, and threw it to his subordinates to test the medicine. Later, those people, including Mo Que, were all killed by me. But at that time, there was civil strife in Kunlun, and the congregation was torn apart. I let Tang Xiaoxie sit in the Asura Headquarters , I disguised myself as Mo Que and came to Yongjing to subdue Mo Que's remnant forces."

"At that time, I had a strange poison in my body, and it was unknown whether I would survive. Fortunately, I met the third highness, Yu Lan. He collected medicinal materials for me, and I killed people for him."

Me, "Prince..."

"Yes, he once wanted to kill the prince, and besides the medicinal materials, he also promised a reward of 5 taels of gold, but later I discovered something, so I gave up the idea of ​​assassinating the prince. From some kind of In a sense, he is kind to me."

"what's up?"

Yin Wangchuan said, "Because he killed Princess Ayila of Gaochang."

I,"……"

I really have nothing to say, this is a web of entanglement, love and hatred, everyone is deeply trapped in it, and no one is lucky enough to escape.

half an hour.

I asked him, "Since this is the case, why did you promise Cui Bicheng to protect me?"

"Why did you ask so?"

"Don't pretend to be confused, the princess has something to do with me, you know."

"What does it have to do with me? What does it have to do with my agreement with Mr. Cui? Mr. Cui's agreement with me is just an agreement between me and him, and has nothing to do with anything else."

"That is to say, no matter who I am, it doesn't matter if I am a stone, a piece of wood or a piece of donkey dung, even if I am the lover of your enemy Princess Ayla, don't you care?"

He mused.

"Well, Gaochang's rules are different from Dazheng's in the Central Plains. It is actually a very honorable thing for the royal family to fight, kill brothers and sisters, and then accept the favor of their concubines. If I kill the princess with my own hands, and put you Snatch it over, and our relationship will be blessed."

I am speechless again.

A barbarian is a barbarian.

Even if he is as elegant as the Yin Jiaowang in front of me, a barbarian is still a barbarian.

I said, "Then you entered my palace at that time, did you also have deliberate plans?"

Unexpectedly, he shook his head, "No, that incident was purely accidental. But thinking about it now, it may be the will of Changshengtian that we met.

I just took the medicine that day, and I didn't feel very well, so I sat in the lobby of Guanzhi Building for a while, watching the scenery, and then you came.I thought you already knew who I was, and then you took me into the palace in order to cooperate with Mr. Cui to hide it from the prince's eyes and ears. "

"But soon, I found out that you don't know anything, and you are outrageously slow."

"Is there anything else you want to ask?"

I shook my head.

"Well, give me your finger."

He raised my left hand, and on the ring finger was the iron ring that Lao Cui forcibly put on this morning—the Life and Death Pact.

Yin Wangchuan bit his own finger, and a bright red blood bead overflowed, trembling slightly, delicately hanging in the middle.He murmured the curse of the foreign race, and at the same time imprinted the cinnabar-like blood bead on the iron ring of my left ring finger.The bright red beads slowly flowed on the gray-white iron ring, and then disappeared like a clear spring hidden in the sand.

But the life-and-death alliance between me has turned into a strange scarlet.

Like blood, like cinnabar, and like those overwhelming red lotuses in Taisho Palace.

"All right."

He grabbed my wrist and pulled it away, "After listening to the play, let's go shopping in Yongjing."

July [-]th is Ghost Festival, Ghost Festival and Yulan Basin Festival.

This day is the day when the dead return to the world.

According to legend, the ancestors who have already died will be given half a month of annual leave by the king of hell, and they will go home to gather with their children and grandchildren, eat some cold rice and rice, and enjoy the family happiness.

On this day, many people on the street were burning paper, paying homage, mourning, and parading through the streets.

The water lanterns outside Yongjing City are even more lively, one piece after another, the water lamps, the bases made of bamboo, and the lotus flowers made of paper are placed on them, and they go away along the water.

I think about it a lot.

Yin Wangchuan suddenly said, "Gaochang is different from Dazheng. People here are attached to the world, to prosperity and fame, to their beautiful wives, and think that everything will come to naught after death. People in Gaochang are not afraid of death, because after death, The soul will be blessed with eternal life and eternal peace."

"Only the world is the dirtiest place."

I look at him.

Suddenly there was a commotion at the edge of the pickaxe water, dozens of servants in small black silk shirts drove the people who were putting water lamps aside, a child was squeezed into the water because he couldn't dodge in time, and suddenly became a mess.However, this chaos quickly subsided, like dredging from the bottom of the pot, making the scalding water quiet.

Then, under the guard of the crowd, several young men in luxurious clothes put their krathongs in the night-black pickaxe water.

……

"Whose family is this? Why are they so overbearing? Only their family members are allowed to set off water lamps, and no one else is allowed to stay by the water."

"Hush...don't talk nonsense, do you know who that is, it's from Henghou Jiang's family!"

"Hey, who did I think it was? It's not a real princely family, it's just a military post left by Yongjing. How can you be so arrogant?"

"The Jiang family is not what it used to be today. You don't know it yet. The youngest daughter of the Jiang family is pregnant with the prince's child. If a son can be born, the mother will be expensive in the future, and she may become a queen. Today's The Jiang family is the next Pei family, the next Du family!"

"That's right, that's right. Recently, Jiang's house is full of traffic, and those who want to curry favor can line up a whole long street!"

"Prince!...Is that Prince Wen Zhan?"

"Yeah! Not him, who else?"

"Didn't the prince be told behind his back by the courtiers that he was 'cut off his offspring'? I heard that he likes men."

"Hey, what do you know! Liking a man is like being an actor, playing with flowers, birds, fish and insects. Who really wants to spend their whole life with a man. Now what happened to the Du family and the Pei family? Maybe what happened? It’s just casually arranging the troubles caused by the prince’s liking to Nanfeng... Also, don’t say that he is a prince who’s cut off his sons and grandchildren, be careful of being wiped out, I don’t know what’s going on!”

"I know, I know..."

"Hey, do you know who the prince likes?"

"I told you not to talk nonsense, but you still say it!"

"I don't know, even if there are rumors in the court that the crown prince likes men, they all say who he likes... I guess it's not some great person, maybe it's a servant of the inner court or something..."

……

I looked at the group of people, most of them only dared to hide in the dark and whisper.

Those guys in the Jiang family who were angry and angry, no one tried to stop them.

Wen Zhan, do you want to make the Jiang family the next Pei family?

Yin Wangchuan sat by the water, he didn't know if he used lightness kung fu or something, his body looked extremely light.He wiped the stone next to him with his sleeve and let me sit.In an instant, his eyes sharpened, he grabbed my ear suddenly, turned me aside, and twisted an arrow from the back of my head with his fingers like a leaf.

——that is the long arrow that will assassinate me by the dim pickaxe water.

Three feet long, a black-painted wooden pole, the tail feathers of a white winged bird, and a golden arrowhead.

It's the emperor's direct line, the golden feather of the Dragon Knights, a golden feather that can only be used to execute princes and relatives!

Yin Wangchuan looked at me with pity in his eyes.

"It turns out that Mr. Cui's one million taels is to deal with this person."

This person...is the emperor.

Is the person who wants to kill me the emperor? !