Bright moon out of Tianshan

Xiao Yao was feeding medicine to Xiao Rong, very attentively.But gradually, she always felt that there were two eyes staring at her from behind.She was a bold girl, and she was not afraid in the middle of the night, but she was puzzled and looked back.By the dim candlelight, I saw that the medicine bowl in the hand of the person standing by the door fell to the ground and shattered.

Xiao Rong who was on the bed heard the sound and asked softly, "You Yao, what's the matter?"

Xiao Yao sobbed, ran over and hugged Xiao Jian's neck, tears fell like rain, and after a long time, he choked up and said: "Brother, you are really still alive! They all said you were dead, that you were missing, that you Treason, I say everything, I don't believe it! They are all farting!"

Xiao Jian hugged her, feeling inexplicable in his heart, and wiped her tears with his sleeve, but the tears became more and more, he smiled and said: "I almost died, but remembering that you are still waiting for me, I will die." No, so I survived. Yaoyao, don't cry, how is aunt?" Holding her to the bed, Xiao Rong couldn't see who was coming, and asked in a daze: "Is it Tiantian? Is it Tiantian?"

Xiao Jian said: "Auntie, it's me. I'm Tiantian, and I'm back." Both of his parents died when he was young, and he and his younger sister were actually brought up by Xiao Rong. The relationship with his aunt is extraordinary. Kneeling down in front of the couch: "Auntie, it's my fault. You have been sick these days, and I only came to see you today."

Xiao Rong stared intently for a long time, then reluctantly raised his hand, groping to caress his face, tears slowly streaming down the corners of his eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "Tian Tian, ​​it's really you who came back, aunt misses you very much , Aunt... I haven't seen you for almost two years..." I got up and wanted to hug him, but unfortunately my arms were weak and I couldn't hug him tightly.Xiao Jian took the initiative to lean into Xiao Rong's arms.

Xiao Rong stretched out his hand to stroke his hair slowly, and said: "Tiantian, did you go to war? But my aunt heard that you disappeared, and asked them, but no one would tell me. I see that you have lost a lot of weight, Where is this all along? Have you suffered?"

Xiao Jian smiled and said: "I didn't suffer, I have been in Taiyuan for a while."

Xiao Rong stared at him in a daze, and suddenly there was a trace of anger in his lax eyes. He frowned slightly and said, "In Taiyuan? What are you doing running so far?" Her skinny fingers suddenly grabbed the clothes on Xiao Jian's shoulders, gasping for breath: "They also said that you surrendered to the enemy and treasoned the country. Is it true? What are you doing in Taiyuan? What are you doing?!" Xiao Rong was impatient, and before he could explain, he slapped Xiao Jian in the face with his backhand.

Her hands were weak, and it didn't hurt when she was hit, but there were a few red marks on her long nails.However, Xiao Jian's face was flushed red. Seeing that Xiao Rong was suddenly out of breath and was panting heavily, he immediately panicked, and hurriedly stretched out his hands to beat his aunt's back, explaining: "Auntie, I did not defect to the enemy and treason! I was in Taiyuan too. It's just Gou..." He wanted to say "Gou and steal a living", but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them vigorously, and changed his words: "It's just to do something, and I'll be back soon."

Xiao Rong beat him, but felt distressed again, wanted to rub his face for him, but touched the tears with her hands, she regretted, and tremblingly said: "Tiantian, they all said that your grandfather is a second official, always behind your back. You laughed at our family, so my aunt couldn't hear the news that you defected to the enemy and treasoned the country, and she was frightened and anxious when she heard the news. The people in the court of the Eastern Qi Dynasty, they are sorry for our family, but we can't let them look down on us. Our family is straight, it's nothing Scheming, your grandfather, your father, and your aunt and I have suffered from this. So my aunt really thinks that you might as well go out in the rivers and lakes, even if you become a commoner in the future, this life is enough. But the second minister , but must never do it again!"

Xiao Jian nodded, and said solemnly: "Don't worry, Auntie, even if I die, I won't be a second minister!"

Xiao Rong suddenly remembered something, and said: "Yaoyao, Tiantian hasn't seen Che'er yet, go and hug him and show him."

Xiao Yao said: "Che'er has fallen asleep, she will make a fuss if she wakes up."

Xiao Rong said angrily: "Go! You are getting lazy!" Xiao Jian saw that she was exhausted after talking so many times, and hurriedly said: "Auntie, you lie down and rest, I will let Yaoyao go Holding Che'er, is it called Che'er?" He helped her to lie down with all his heart, but Xiao Rong grabbed his hand and refused to let go: "Tiantian, don't go, stay with me, I won't live for a few more days You can't leave me anymore. Listen to me, I don't want to part with Che'er, but I regret giving birth to him. Born in the royal family, it's not a good thing. If you have a chance, take him away and find someone nobody knows Live and work in peace and contentment in your place, marry a wife and have children, and live in peace for the rest of your life.”

Xiao Jian's tears dripped on her face, and he quickly wiped them away with his sleeve, saying: "Okay, I will listen to you. Auntie, you can sleep peacefully for a while, don't think so much."

While speaking, Xiao Yao had already brought in a sleeping baby in swaddling infancy, Xiao Jian hurriedly went up to meet it, stretched out his hand to take it, and saw that the child's pretty face was indeed somewhat similar to his own.He had never held a baby before, and he held the baby's soft and petite body carefully, and he didn't know what to do.In the end, I still don't know what went wrong. The baby woke up, felt the unfamiliar embrace, and immediately burst into tears.

Xiao Rong had already fallen asleep, but when she heard the crying, she suddenly woke up again, and said, "Che'er, what's wrong with Che'er?" Then he coughed heavily, and Xiao Yao hurried up to give her relief.Xiao Jian frantically coaxed the child, saying: "Don't worry, aunt, I accidentally woke him up, I'll take him out to coax him, go out to coax him, you go back to sleep."

He ran out of the room with the child in his arms, but he couldn't coax any child. He walked around in the corridor, and the baby cried louder and louder. Xiao Jian was sweating in anxiety, and said with a wry smile: "Che'er, do yourself a favor for brother." Okay? Don't cry!"

But he heard a cold and quiet voice not far behind him saying: "Let me do it."

Xiao Jian was shocked, and then his hands were empty, and the child was carried by Gao Huai who hurriedly followed from Taiyuan City.

He stood there in a daze, and after a while, he realized that he turned around and raised his legs, trying to get away.Gao Huai didn't stop him this time, but just coaxed the baby carefully.

Xiao Jian took a few steps and stopped obediently.All his family members are in the hands of Gao Huai, and he has completely grasped the lifeline. The so-called one who knows current affairs is a hero.Hearing that the baby was hugged by Gao Huai, the crying became smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a slight sniffling sound, and gradually fell asleep again.Xiao Jian turned around and stretched out his hand to snatch it. Gao Huai took a step back to avoid it and said, "If you don't know how to hug, don't mess with him. I often come back to see him, he is more familiar with me."

Xiao Jian had no choice but to withdraw his hand, but his anger suddenly rose: "Gao Huai, how did your family torture my aunt? How did she become like that?"

Gao Huai said: "Your aunt has been in poor health since she was thrown into the cold palace. She has been ill since she gave birth to Che'er. I asked Master Lin Er to come and see her, and he said that she was exhausted physically and mentally. Think about it, what can others do for a patient who is unable to recover even the Second Hall Master?"

Xiao Jian murmured: "The oil is exhausted and the lamp is dry? You mean it's hopeless? I have... few family members..." He slumped down on a spring bench under the porch, stretched out his hands to hold his face , Tears fell down again.

Five days later, Xiao Rong closed her eyes in Xiao Jian's arms, and ended her desolate and lonely life that seemed rich and honorable.

Xiao Yao and Ding Wuxia both stood on the sidelines, Xiao Yao mourned and cried, Ding Wuxia coaxed her softly.At this point, Xiao Jian did not cry, but his face was dull.Gao Huai stood beside him and asked, "Xiaojian, what do you think is the best way to take care of the funeral?"

Xiao remonstrated: "Keep everything simple and choose an underground burial on the Mang Mausoleum."

Gao Huai said: "She is my father's imperial concubine and has a prince, is this inappropriate?" On the Mausoleum of Mang, choose a geomantic place and bury Xiao Rong.

After everything was over, Xiao Jian felt that the words on the tombstone were not clear and beautiful enough, so he asked everyone to go back first, but Gao Huai refused to leave, so Xiao Jian let him go.At this time, the stone-chiseling skills he learned at the Taiyuan quarry came in handy. He took a chisel and re-engraved the lines of characters.Xiao Jian stretched out his hand, brushed away the remaining stone chips in the depression of the tombstone, and gently stroked the word Xiao Rong, but was filled with emotion.His aunt was once the highest-ranking woman in the harem of the Eastern Qi Dynasty except for Empress Jingcheng, but she was thrown into the cold palace because of a mistake.The child she gave birth was insulted by the second prince who stayed in the Eastern Qi capital as: "Another evil seed that was drugged!"

The eldest prince who was away on an expedition heard the news and sent someone over to deal with the little prince.The old emperor Gao Zhi was seriously ill in bed, and he had no time to take care of himself, and he didn't care much about the child, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb and pretended not to know.Fortunately, Gao Huai had known the news that Xiao Rong was pregnant, so he entrusted General Xie Zhaoran, who was staying in the capital, to keep a close eye on everyone's movements, and moved Xiao Rong out of Jinling City at a critical moment. Shen Huanhuan, the master of Jiangyao Hall, led people to meet him, and escorted the mother and son all the way to Luoyang, Gaohuai's fiefdom.

Xiao Rong was already seriously ill, and if he continued to toss around like this, he became terminally ill and had no way to recover.

In the past two days, Xiao Jian knew the whole story intermittently, and he didn't feel so resentful towards Gao Huai anymore.Gao Huai saw that he had finished engraving, and slowly approached him from behind, saying, "Xiao Jian, I have something to discuss with you."

Xiao Jian said: "Speak."

Gao Huai said: "What do you plan to do next? How about following me to the barracks?"

Xiao Jian said: "No, I want to go back to Taiyuan, I promised to go back."

Gao Huai was taken aback, seeing that his expression was calm and determined, he was neither angry with himself, nor seemed to be joking, his heart sank, and his expression slowly changed.