Brother Donggong

This is a mess.

Now this ghost festival can't go shopping anymore, so I have to go back quickly.

Yin Wangchuan was thoughtful, but relaxed in a nonchalant way.

I waved my hand and said to him, "Xiao Yin, you don't know the seriousness of what's going on here. In the end, your life is lost, and Lao Cui is also finished."

"You'd better find a safe place to hide for a few days, I'll go back and find Cui Bicheng to get an explanation."

After finishing speaking, I put the golden feather in my sleeve and wanted to go back to Yongjing alone.

Xiao Yin didn't speak, just followed me.

If I walk fast, he will walk two steps fast.

I walked slowly, and he also walked two steps slowly.

"you……"

"I'm going back to Yongjing City too, let's drop by."

Back outside the gate of the small courtyard, he disappeared in a blink of an eye.

I quickly rubbed my eyes, and then opened the door.

In the middle of the night, Lao Cui's courtyard.

When I went back, he was sitting in a rocking chair in the courtyard, holding a big cattail fan in one hand and a teapot in the other hand, enjoying the cool air.

I put the golden feather in my hand in front of him, and said, "Someone wants to kill me with this thing today."

thump! ——

Lao Cui tossed the whole cattail leaf fan and teapot on the ground, four-legged and sprawled, the standard dog gnawing mud.He paused for a while before getting up from the ground, first he looked at my feet, saw that I had feet, and there were still shadows illuminated by the lantern, he took a rough breath, sat on the ground, not spoke.

I looked at him and asked, "What the hell is going on here?"

He still doesn't speak.

Me, "Cui Bicheng, you have been with the emperor for so long, you should know something."

He froze like a log.

"This man took a picture, and the geese left a voice. You are smarter than a monkey. How could you not hear the wind? What do you know? Tell me."

I leaned over and asked him in a low voice, "Is it true that the emperor wants to kill me?"

"Actually..." Cui Bicheng suddenly gritted his teeth and opened his mouth, "Golden Feather has other meanings besides killing people..."

"what?"

"This long arrow can be used as a coordinator for the Ministry of War in an emergency. With it, no one will embarrass you wherever you go."

I followed his example and sat beside him.

"My mother let the two of us escape. As a result, I was charged with making friends with the feudal town without permission, and I and you were arrested, and you were almost killed. You still want me to go?"

"One moment, another moment." Cui Bicheng rarely said seriously, "At that time, there was Empress Pei in the harem, and the court situation was unclear, which was different from now."

I looked at him, "Can I really go? What about my mother?"

"With the emperor here, the empress will be fine. Even if the emperor is gone, the prince will not do anything to her."

"how about you?"

"Me?" Cui Bicheng laughed, "A cripple is not qualified to travel far."

Suddenly, a burst of dark clouds drifted over from the sky, and within a quarter of an hour, the raindrops fell gently on the earth.

One drop, two drops, three drops...

I held up an oil-paper umbrella and sat in the courtyard with Cui Bicheng as usual.

Me, "Wen Zhan, what should I do?"

Cui Bicheng, "That's your business, only you have to think about it. Whose karma, who is resisting, whose debt, who wants to pay it back. It has nothing to do with other people."

He said, "If you want to live with him in peace and don't care about the gossip outside, then you stay in Yongjing. If you can't stand it, then you go. It's that simple, don't think too much. It's too late today , sleep."

He patted his ass and left.

I held an umbrella and sat in the yard all night.

dawn.

Just after five o'clock, someone from the palace delivered an edict, Concubine Cui Shu issued an edict to let me enter the palace to have an audience.

As soon as I arrived at my mother's Shouchun Palace, I saw her sitting on a wooden chair, so I asked Ann, and then said, "I thought, Mother disappeared."

My mother didn't seem to hear me.

She just sat quietly on the wooden chair, like a canna.

Well, it's just a little bit blessed.

I am not used to seeing such a mother.From childhood to adulthood, for more than 20 years, my mother has been a rough crock in my heart. Now she has become an official kiln in Jingdezhen, which makes people feel uneasy.

Ding……

I touched the table, there was a teacup on it, and with a movement, my mother seemed to be awakened, and then she looked up and saw me.Her face was pale, there was still some sweat on her forehead, and her eye circles were blue, as if she hadn't slept all night.

"You came."

As soon as she stretched out her hand, she grabbed me, fighting with the ghost claws of the Black Mountain old demon.

I was so hurt by the wrist she made.

I laughed quickly, "Mom, you asked me to come over, what's the matter?"

She didn't speak, just hugged me, like an old hen desperately protecting her eggs from an eagle.

"Mom, don't do this." I tried to comfort her, so I kept smiling, "You scared me."

"son……"

I looked at him, nodded and agreed, "Hey."

"son……"

I,"……"

Then, "Mom, I'm here."

She let go of me, then stretched out her hand, arranged my clothes, and then looked up at me, there seemed to be tears in her eyes, as if she had cried.

"Son, listen to your mother. Marry a lady from the Yin family and live a good life in the future, okay?"

"mother?"

"Don't get entangled with the prince anymore, just listen to your mother this time, okay?"

"Mother, you know..." I looked at her, "Not to be entangled with the prince does not mean that we must marry Miss Yin. Mother, Cui Bicheng and I plan to leave Yongjing recently and go outside..."

——"Stop talking about leaving Yongjing!"

My mother suddenly yelled, her eyes became a little frightened, "You can't leave, you can't leave, you can't... The emperor will not let you leave."

She shook her head, but the tears fell down and dripped on the back of my hand.

It's cold.

I tentatively asked her, "Mom, what did you say?"

"Really, son, don't talk about leaving Yongjing anymore, it was mother's mistake, mother's mistake. Mother didn't know at the time, that's why she let you and Cui Bicheng go, but now mother can't do that.

Did you know, Your Majesty, it's Your Majesty!

In order not to let you leave Yongjing, he killed the princess, and that child... After so many years, I finally figured it out. At that time, you said that you wanted to leave Yongjing for the sake of the princess, so that man, the emperor wanted to prevent you from leaving , just kill her!He killed Princess Ayila and the child in her womb, my God, that is your own flesh and blood..."

"Mother, what are you talking about? Princess, didn't the crown prince order the execution?"

"no no!"

My mother covered her mouth with her hands, her eyes stared in horror, like a rabbit facing a jackal.

Then her hands began to tremble.

"It's mother, it was mother who forced the prince to admit the crime of murder. Because mother was afraid at that time, she was terrified. Mother thought that it was better for you to hate the prince than to hate the emperor. And the emperor also agreed to the matter of the prince. In fact, at that time The crown prince wants to let the princess go. You knelt in the east palace for three days, and he knelt in front of the emperor for three days. He knows that if he kills the princess, he will be completely cut off from you."

She started to cry, and then looked at me crying, "Mother doesn't want you to be entangled with the prince again. Mother thought, as long as he still cares about you and loves you, he will never dare to expose this lie in front of you." !

That way you can actually hate him.But who would have thought that you would come together again...

The emperor said that if you entangle the prince again, he will kill you.That man is not a prince, he will be punished without teaching, and he will do what he says!No one knows what he was thinking all these years! "

"I have watched for 23 years, pondered for 23 years, and endured for 23 years. I finally figured it out, son, you can live lawlessly in Yongjing, but there are only two things you can't do."

"You can't touch the prince; you can't leave Yongjing."

"Only these two."

My mother grabbed my hand, "There is only one way to go now, marry a girl from the Yin family, and live a peaceful life in Yongjing, mother begging you."

This must be a nightmare.

I bit my lip hard, otherwise I would scream like crazy!

As if already dead.

Why do we need to rediscover those past events?

I thought that people who have long forgotten, things that have long been forgotten, are as fresh as ever.

But the wound on the heart did not heal with the passage of time.

It's all rotten.

Bloody.

I held my mother's hand and still smiled. At this time, there seemed to be no other expression besides laughing.

"Mother, I promise you. But, I want to see the emperor."

The emperor is in Shouchun Palace.

It is still resplendent here.

It's just that the carved door of the main hall is open, and the emperor is wearing a cloak, standing by the water, looking at a pool of lotus flowers in full bloom.

I walked over and knelt beside him, "Your Majesty."

The sun has risen.

There are dewdrops rolling on the lotus leaves, which have begun to dissipate slowly, and everything is shining brightly in the sun.He quietly looked at a lotus flower in front of him, and kept watching quietly until the petals peeled off with a snap, and then he turned around.

"what's up?"

"The emperor dropped a golden feather." As I said that, I took out the arrow from my sleeve, held it with both hands, and presented it up.

He didn't pick up.

I said, "Your Majesty, you saved me, my life is yours, and so am I. But what can't be said clearly, why do you want to kill someone?"

I looked up at him, and he looked up at me.

I've never seen the look in his eyes at this moment.

Mercy, even with pity.

But hidden behind these, it is iron-like indifference.

"Because you are soft-hearted, because you will always forget. Only when someone is dead can you remember clearly."

"emperor?"

"I know it's not good for you. Your mother also told you that you can live as you want, but there are only two things you can't do. One, you can't touch the prince again; two, you can't leave Yongjing. Maybe you don't believe it , In fact, I thought about fulfilling the prince's heart, but later, I found out that I was wrong.

The foundation left by the ancestors, the prosperity of the millennium, the peace of the ten thousand people, I cannot allow anyone to squander it.I can't do it myself, and neither can my son. "

Go ahead and reject the prince's absurdity, he will give up only if you personally reject it.Then marry a lady from a famous family and live peacefully in Yongjing. "

After a long time, my arm was sore, and the golden feather was finally taken away by him.

He asked me, "What I said, do you agree?"

I nodded, "Yes. It's just... Your Majesty, you shouldn't kill Princess Ayla, she's just a poor girl with a life like duckweed; you shouldn't force the prince either, he was only 14 years old, and he was still a child. "

"Damn it, it's me."

"From start to finish, it's just me."

"Why, you didn't kill me?"

In a sighing voice, "I don't know."

He turned around and looked at the lotus pond covering the sky and the sun, peacefully like a god, overlooking the world.