Bright moon out of Tianshan

Xiao Jian saw Gao Che and wanted to reach out to touch him, so he asked Xiao Yao to hug him to his side.But when Gao Che saw the scar on his face, he refused to go to him, so he started to cry.Xiao Jian hurriedly covered his face with the quilt to prevent him from seeing him, feeling extremely frustrated, and didn't say a word for a long time.

Gao Huai asked Tao Yao and Xiao Yao to take Gao Che out, followed by silence for a long time, and then he approached Xiao Jian's bed and sat down: "Che'er saw that...fear on your face, it's actually not ugly, and There was no difference before."

Xiao Jian didn't respond, Gao Huai stretched out his hand and pulled the quilt down. Seeing that there were tears in his eyes, he hurriedly said: "His child is ignorant, just get used to it. Don't be sad, I think it's pretty nice." of."

He spoke out of conscience, Xiao Jian turned a deaf ear to it, but after a while he said: "Why don't you listen to Prime Minister Yun? You should be obedient, don't let him come to me again and again."

Gao Huai said: "Then you are not angry? I promised you to let Che'er be the next generation of Eastern Qi emperor. If it is true, I will not keep my word. I am really sorry for you."

Xiao Jian said: "You didn't apologize to me, everything you did was very reasonable. Yuncheng told me that there are many worries in troubled times. Besides, didn't you say that you can directly confer Che'er as the emperor's younger brother? It's broken faith. So be it."

After Xiao Jian fell ill, this was the first time the two met.Gao Huai looked at him, reluctant to look away, saw his hand resting on the outside of the brocade quilt, pale, slender, and bony, reaching out to hold it, Xiao Jian was seriously ill, but reacted quickly, and quickly retracted into the quilt, Gao Huai had no choice but to withdraw his hand, and listened to him continue: "I'm sick, and I can't go back. After you have passed the enthronement ceremony, don't delay, take the late emperor's coffin and go back to Jinling quickly, don't let the second The prince has an opportunity."

Gao Huai remained silent, staring at him blankly, seeing that he closed his eyes tiredly, and his long eyelashes cast two rows of heavy shadows on his pale face.He tentatively stretched out his hand again, stroking the scar lightly, Xiao Jian flinched, there was no place to hide, so he had to let him.Nowadays, it is difficult to recall the past, but Gao Huai refused to believe it. He slowly leaned over, and whispered firmly and gently: "If you don't go, I won't go either. You hate me, blame me, don't like me, no matter what. OK, but I will never abandon you again, it is useless to say anything."

He muttered an oath, Xiao Jian's eyelashes twitched twice, he must have heard it, but he didn't respond at all, Gao Huai continued: "In the future, I will give you a massage every day, don't dislike me, and don't drive me away. You have to learn to give up, you have to give up on many things, and don’t even think about it.”

The new emperor of Dongqi has ascended the throne in Taiyuan, with the reign name Qikang. The name sounds weird, but no one dares to say anything. Yunrui thought about the reign name for more than a dozen years, but Gao Huai couldn't agree with each other. If he wants to use the word praying for health, no one can resist him, so he has to let him.

Then Dong Qi canonized the emperor's younger brother, the fourth prince Gao Che.When the world is in such turmoil, many red tapes and customs are all exempted.Gao Huai took a few courtiers to deal with Zhao Guoyu's chores, and he was too busy every day.But no matter how late he was busy, he had to rush to Nongyuntai to massage the joints of Xiao Jian's limbs.Xiao Jian was usually already asleep at that time, so he didn't know that he had been here, and of course there was no need to acknowledge his favor.

As soon as Gao Huai took over the responsibility of giving Xiao Jian a massage, Xiao Xiong took Shen Huanhuan and He Mian to cremate Xiao Xuefei's body and sent He Mian to the main altar first.

At the same time, Zhong Ruota's soldiers and horses attacked the city all the way and arrived near Youzhou. Wei Mingzhen was a little startled when he heard the news, but he was reluctant to give up Jinling and still couldn't lay siege.Yun Rui became anxious, and asked at the temporary court hall in Taiyuan, "Your Majesty, when will we return to Jinling? The late emperor's coffin will also be moved to Jinling to enter the imperial mausoleum, there can be no further delay."

Gao Huai thought for a while and said nothing, he wanted to wait for Xiao Jian to go together when he got better. At the same time, in the territory of Zhao State, the remaining small groups of soldiers and horses were making troubles from time to time, and they were too busy to suppress everywhere every day, so he could only procrastinate.

But the matter on this side has not been handled properly, Jinling came to report to the mansion, which surprised the monarchs and ministers in the temporary court.

It turns out that the second prince, Gao Ze, colluded with several courtiers who had made good friends with him, and insisted that Gao Huai killed the king and brother, and then established himself as emperor. .Of course Xie Zhaoran did not agree, saying that the late emperor had intended to appoint the third prince as the heir apparent, and it was the former emperor who made the agreement on the jade seal.

Gao Ze was angry when he heard the words, but he couldn't offend Xie Zhaoran, so he quietly sent an envoy to hook up with Wei Mingzhen outside the city.The two agreed that Gao Ze would let Wei Mingzhen into the city and kill Xie Zhaoran with Wei Mingzhen's soldiers. Wei Mingzhen would support Gao Ze as the emperor of Dongqi, and then the two would attack Gao Huai together, and finally divide the world equally with the Huai River as the boundary.

Gao Huai didn't know about this bullshit agreement, he only knew that Gao Ze took Xiao Jian's father as a model, and while Xie Zhaoran was busy meeting the enemy, he led someone to open the gate of Jinling in private, and let Wei Mingzhen's troops enter the city.Xie Zhaoran saw that the enemy was outnumbered and the situation was chaotic, before they came to kill him, he led his troops out of Jinling City, retreated to Jiangning, and stationed troops in the south of Jinling in a siege, preventing Beiyan from continuing to go south .After negotiating with Gao Ze for a few days between Wei Mingzhen and Gao Ze, the emperor of Beiyan saw that the subjects of the Eastern Qi Dynasty were very angry with Gao Ze for luring the wolf into the house, so he simply took advantage of Gao Ze's unpreparedness and killed him, completely occupying Jinling City by himself.

The world is turned upside down outside, and the situation is changing. Xiao Jian still wakes up and sleeps from time to time. When he wakes up, he reluctantly talks to Lin Zaichun or Xiao Yao who gave him medicine and treatment. When he falls asleep, he has nightmare after nightmare. Can't escape.But gradually I was able to sit up, and was able to walk two steps with someone's support, and then I was able to walk by myself, so I refused to let others support me.

That day Xiumei and Ari Silan came to see him together, and accidentally leaked the news of Jinling's fall, Xiao Jian was stunned, unable to say a word for a long time.When the two left, before he could react, Xiao Yao saw his dazed expression and asked, "What's wrong with you, brother?"

Xiao Jian murmured: "It's time to go back, no matter what."

Xiao Yao said: "Go back? How to go back? Jinling fell into the hands of the enemy. Could it be that you go back and go to battle to get it back? What's more, the weather is so bad these days, and you look like you always want to rain, so you move even more No. Let's leave their business alone, shall we?"

Xiao Jian looked at the gray sky outside, then nodded in agreement, and said no more, Xiao Yao looked after him, ate some food, drank some medicine, put him to sleep, and then left.These days Gao Huai came in and out regardless of day and night, it was not convenient for her to be here at night, so Ding Wuxia or Meng Xin were replaced to guard outside.

In the evening, it really started to rain outside, with a continuous patter, and the moisture infiltrated through the cracks of the window. Xiao Jian's illness broke out, and his whole body began to ache, especially the place where his left forearm had been severed.He didn't want to wake up Ding Wuxia who had already fallen asleep on the soft couch outside, so he bit the corner of the quilt and fell asleep, and then began to dream again. In his confusion, he heard someone shouting: "Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao, The two of us have already had a cup of wine, I will wait for you, and I will always wait for you forever!" Xiao Jian was startled suddenly, covered in cold sweat, he got up in a daze, and searched for the place where he made his voice , but the voice was ethereal, lingering, haunting.

He slowly got up in his dream, and he was fine in his dream, his body didn't seem to be in so much pain anymore, he drifted out of the gate of the palace, just as the guards were changing shifts, no one cared about him.Only the voice kept lingering in his ears, and he followed the source and drifted forward like a ghost.In the middle of the night, it was raining heavily, and all the palaces and buildings were silent in the rain. Xiao Jian watched in a trance. The smell of green grass permeated little by little in the rain, slowly surrounding him.

The smell of this green grass reminded him of the vast and boundless prairie, he thought of hunting on the prairie, galloping with horses, the sky was high and the grass was growing, and now looking back on the past, it was like a dream.His tears flowed down, mixed with the rainwater, in a chaotic, unclear.But a palace appeared in front of him, it looked so familiar, Xiao Jian walked around the guarding soldiers and entered the palace.

Because of the fall of Jinling, Gao Huai gathered with the ministers and generals to discuss matters. He sent Nie Shihuan to Jinling as the first team, intending to contact Xie Zhaoran first.

When the deployment was almost done, it was already midnight, Gao Huai rushed to Nongyunxuan as usual, and said in his heart: "It's raining today, I don't know if Xiao Jian's illness has occurred, I have to give him a massage quickly." Enter the inner room He looked at the bed, but there was no one there, he yelled twice and refused to hear the answer, Gao Huai broke out in a cold sweat, hurriedly ran outside to wake Ding Wuxia up and asked, "Where is Xiao Jian?"

Ding Wuxia hurriedly took a look, and immediately panicked, Gao Huai gave him a hateful look, rushed out the door and ordered: "Come on, go find Young Master Xiao!"

Zhao's palace started from Nongyunxuan, and it became chaotic in the middle of the night. Soldiers ran past in groups, searching everywhere, wishing to lift up the cracks in the ground, but they did not find Xiao Jian's person.

Gao Huai stared blankly at the chaos in the rain, Meng Xin came over to hold an umbrella for him, but he stretched out his hand and pushed it aside.He paused for a moment, then suddenly walked in the direction of Chenghua Hall, followed by Meng Xin and others.Since the last accident, the Chenghua Palace has been sealed off, except for a few guarding soldiers, no one is willing to approach it.

But in this palace, at this moment, there are faint lights and tinkling sounds, although the sound is very soft, but clearly recognizable, the soldiers following Gao Huai all had a thought in their hearts: "Ghost! "Suddenly the hair stood on end.

Xiao Jian was chiseling the wall, on the wall behind the throne, he had been chiseling for a while with the help of a lamp like a bean.His hands were weak, so he could only chisel out shallow traces, but he chiseled down carefully and meticulously, and finally he chiseled out a pattern. Zhao Yuancai took Bai Lirong, twirled and danced on the gorgeous carpet, and finally rolled into a lump.Xiao Jian stood on one side, playing his flute.The sound of nature seems to come from above the nine heavens and below the nine springs, resounding in this spacious and spacious palace, mellow and soft, endlessly curling up.

He slowly stretched out his hand, brushing over the unexquisite pattern inch by inch. The bluestone wall was very cold, and the coldness penetrated directly into his heart, making his whole body cold and shivering.He looked back at the throne, and said in a low voice: "Yuan Cai, I'm going back to Jinling with them, and I'll die when I die. I have to go home. I grew up in Jinling, I am familiar with that place, and I don’t want to bury my bones in a foreign land. I have nothing to give you, so I carved a picture of you on this wall. It was during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year. , you take Bailirong to dance, and I will play the flute for you. At least at that time, we are all happy, and we can temporarily ignore the love, hatred, and disturbances in this world."

He looked at the pattern and smiled: "You must be resenting me. You asked Qi Jia to kill my sister Linglong, and I lied to you to shoot Baili Rong. I ruined your eternal foundation and let you do it." The short-lived emperor, but my own life is worse than death. In fact, neither of us took much advantage, did we?"

A few drops of blood suddenly fell from the corner of his lips and landed on his clothes.He dipped his hand lightly and said, "Just right, Baili Rong's clothes are red." He carefully applied it on Bai Lirong's clothes.

His clothes were soaked by the rain, and he was barefoot without shoes. It seemed that this was how he walked all the way from Nongyunxuan to here.Gao Huai stood at the gate of Chenghua Palace and looked at him, tears falling down, for a moment, he didn't know what to do.