Sparrow dream dance

Today's sage Murongju is a benevolent and filial king, and the first thing he did after he ascended the throne was to order the officials of the Imperial Academy to re-edit the history of Yan to show their filial piety to the nine former emperors in the emperor's mausoleum.

Perhaps it was because of several wars and turmoil and regime changes, most of the records about the emperor's words and deeds in the historical notes that can be preserved today are only a few ambiguous words.

And the historical records about Emperor Yan Ling's period are even rarer, and there is only a short sentence:

Emperor Ling reigned for seven years and had no heirs. He collapsed in Zhaolan Hall and was buried with Concubine Su.

Therefore, when Gu Ze, who is an editor of Hanlin, recognized the woman in front of him as the concubine Su Wan who was supposed to have passed away with Emperor Yanling for many years, his eyes widened in disbelief, and he couldn't help but point at her. cried out.

"You...you are Su...Su..."

Su Wan was staring at Gu Ze in a trance, but when she heard the word "Su" from her mouth, her expression changed drastically, and she took a step back as if suddenly awakened from a dream, leaning on the edge of the door, trembling. Asked, "You... who the hell are you?!"

She has been incognito in this backyard of Lianyun for more than [-] years. Except for the abbot, no one should know her identity.

Gu Ze looked at her, and suddenly remembered the last words Ling'er said to him:

"Perhaps it's up to them to tell you the rest of the story."

Gu Ze thought to himself, could it be that the storyteller that Ling'er was referring to was this Concubine Su?

At that moment, she suppressed her violent heartbeat, took a deep breath, and said to Su Wan, "Your Majesty, don't be afraid, I'm not a villain. The reason why I recognized your Majesty is actually because of..." She paused, determined to put herself When I revealed what I had encountered, I lowered my head and said sincerely, "...This matter is a long story, if the empress is willing to believe it, I will tell the empress all the reasons."

Su Wan stared at Gu Ze for a long time, then turned slightly and said to her, "Come in, let's talk."

In the small room, it is very simple.There is almost only enough room for a single couch. In the center of the couch is a low table covered with plain white paper, which is densely copied with tiny characters that are hard to read clearly.

"Sit down." Su Wan pointed to the couch and said softly.

After Gu Ze settled down, she sat on the other side of the couch.When her eyes met Gu Ze's, her face turned red and white unnaturally, and she immediately turned away.After a while, he whispered, "Say it."

"Yes." Gu Ze cleared his mind for a while, and then told the whole process of how he disguised himself as a man and entered the palace, and how he met Sparrow Yao Ling'er and listened to her storytelling without any concealment.

Su Wan listened quietly, and when Gu Ze finished speaking, she stared at her in a daze.

"Your Majesty?" Gu Ze stretched out his palm and shook it lightly in front of Su Wan, who was stupefied with pupils.

Su Wan collected her attention, looked at her with a wry smile, her eyes slowly turned red, and sighed, "You are indeed very similar to her."

Hearing these words again, Gu Ze's heart moved. He remembered Ling'er's disappointed expression when she reached out to caress the portrait of Emperor Yan Ling, remembered her burning eyes when she insisted on telling herself a story, and remembered that she had also been at the same moment Su Wan also looked at her with red eyes.

She hesitated again and again, and finally asked, "Is the 'her' the empress refers to His Majesty Emperor Ling?"

Su Wan remained silent, still just looking at her, as if looking at another person through her, dazed.

Under such gazes, Gu Ze felt a little restless, so he turned his face away and asked, "I don't know.. Does your mother know... What happened next?"

"Later?" Su Wan slowly withdrew her nerves and asked in confusion.

"Yes, I want to know, what happened after the Hun princess left?"

Gu Ze still spoke out the doubts that had been simmering in her heart, and she asked in a low voice, "Actually, in this story, there are too many things that I still don't understand, such as why the princess must leave, and why Ling His Majesty let her go? They are clearly in love, aren't they?"

Su Wan looked at the heavy-faced Gu Ze, suddenly made a 'puchi', and laughed cleverly.

Gu Ze didn't know what he asked wrongly, so he could only look at Su Wan who was about to cry from laughter in embarrassment.

After laughing for a while, she shook her head lightly, and suddenly said with a lonely expression, "Yes, after all, you are still very young... I used to think like you, thinking that love is holding hands , It means never leaving, it means treating each other honestly. It was not until later that I discovered that love can also mean forgetting each other, seeing each other through life and death, and deceiving each other with painstaking efforts.”

Su Wan said, "You know, I thought that I would be happy when I saw them separate. I thought I would be happy to see the two people I hate with my own eyes. ...but I was wrong..."

Speaking of this, Su Wan lowered her eyes, stared at the densely packed handwriting on Su Xuan, and sighed inaudibly, "Oh, not only did I miscalculate my own feelings, but I also miscalculated the affection between them."

Su Wan raised her head and met Gu Ze's young eyes, "Auntie is indeed gone, but does this really mean that she doesn't love her? And she didn't keep her, but the relationship between the two Can love really be let go?"

Gu Ze opened his mouth half-understood, and then heard Su Wan say, "Later, sister stopped before stepping out of Weiyang Palace, and turned around again. I thought she regretted it, but I didn't think she would." He looked at me and waved to me. At that time, I didn’t know what happened, my feet seemed to be out of control and walked towards her. I obviously hate her so much. But I saw her standing in the snow and waving to me When I was here, I suddenly remembered that when I came back from the mountains to collect herbs, my sister would always stand at the head of the village and wave to me..."

Gu Ze was listening quietly, when suddenly a gust of early summer evening wind opened the window, the long candles flickered on and off, and the plain paper full of cases fluttered like butterflies and fell to the ground.

Gu Ze hurriedly knelt down to pick it up, but as soon as he touched the pen and ink on the plain paper, the flickering shadow of a candle suddenly flashed brightly, making her unable to open her eyes.

It wasn't until a bone-piercing chill hit that she opened her eyes in a daze, and her pupils shrank——

The shabby room in front of him no longer existed, but he was kneeling on a snowy field, surrounded by majestic palace walls and immovable guards.

The sky was full of snow, and she seemed to be back in the story.

But in just a moment, she realized that this place was different from the phantom she saw in Linger's story!

Because Gu Ze was just a spectator in the past, even though she could see the changing seasons in the story, she couldn't feel the sunny spring day or the bleak autumn night in the story, she couldn't touch every plant and tree in the story, and she couldn't smell it. Smell the strong blood in the story.

But now, she could clearly feel the coldness surrounding her, and she felt that she was going to freeze to death wearing only a thin summer robe.

She stood up stiffly, and suddenly heard rustling footsteps behind her, she turned her head, and saw a girl wrapped in a pale pink dress walking towards her step by step with heavy steps.

She recognized at a glance that this was Su Wan when she was young, and opened her mouth to her in a daze, "Mother, how could I..."

Before she finished speaking, Su Wan brushed past her.

She didn't seem to see her at all, and she couldn't hear her.

Gu Ze looked in the direction Su Wan was walking, but couldn't say another word.

In fact, if you look carefully, you can find that there are two footprints on the snow, and even the heavy snow can't hide them.

It can be seen that each step of these two people is very heavy.

The footprints stretched all the way to the stone steps of the gate of Weiyang Palace, where stood a woman in scarlet clothes and a man in black clothes.

Gu Ze stared blankly, as if she had never seen the people in these stories so clearly.

It was so clear that she saw the teardrops that were almost frozen into ice in the eyes of the woman in scarlet clothes, and even saw the bright yellow back reflected in her teardrops.

Gu Ze watched Su Wan walk slowly down the steps, stood still, looked up at the woman in scarlet clothes slightly, and remained silent.

The scarlet-clothed woman also looked at her silently.After a long silence, I asked very softly, "Do you still remember the first night when you and I were brought into the palace, where were we placed?"

Su Wan was taken aback, as if she didn't understand why she asked this.

Yuehua Palace.

Although it was only one night, she would not forget it, because it seemed to be the last night that she and she could still be sisters.

After going through the physical examination the next day, she and her have never been good sisters for a day.

Su Wan replied softly, "I remember."

The woman in scarlet clothes nodded, and said, "Miss Su, no matter what happened in the past, you and I have been sisters for three years. We say goodbye today, and I'm afraid there will be no future. I have something to give you." After finishing speaking, she Then he bent over and put his lips together to Su Wan's ear and whispered a few words very softly.

The expression on Su Wan's face changed, and after a while he asked in a puzzled manner, "Why did you give me that?"

The woman in scarlet clothes said quietly, "Do you still remember what I promised you when you and I talked on the same bed at night?"

She had promised her that she would help her find a good husband whom she could entrust.

But at this time Su Wan's voice suddenly became cold, with sarcasm, "Why do you need to mention this again, Your Highness the Princess?"

The woman in scarlet twitched the corner of her lower lip bitterly, and said word by word with difficulty, "You will understand in the end."

After speaking, she turned around and left slowly without looking back.

"Don't...don't go..."

Seeing that the woman in scarlet clothes didn't intend to stay any longer, Gu Ze couldn't help but yelled out anxiously.

From the bottom of her heart, she didn't want her to be separated from her, so she staggered after the woman in scarlet clothes, reaching out to pull her, but she didn't want her palm to be so transparent that she couldn't touch her no matter what.

Gu Ze felt very sad. She turned her head and glanced at Murong Yan's bright yellow back, stomped her feet, ran into the hall again, and yelled at her, "Why are you still standing there! Why don't you go after me?! Here is Yan Gong, you are still Emperor Dayan! You...how could you be willing to let her go like this?!"

But no matter how Gu Ze yelled, that figure remained motionless.

Gu Ze became impatient, and he didn't care if he could touch Murong Yan or not, so he stood in front of her and pushed hard towards her shoulders,

"Go after it!!!"

Gu Ze's hand pierced Murongyan's shoulder all of a sudden, and saw that her body shook suddenly as if she had been hit by her, and she backed up a few steps, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

She wiped the blood from her lips, and looked around the corpses in the hall with some lax eyes, as well as the ministers who knelt on the ground and dared not look up.She raised her bloodshot eyes with difficulty, stared at Gu Ze in front of her, and finally laughed dumbly, "Okay...ok...you are really... very powerful..."

Gu Ze was stunned. She looked at her pale and transparent palm in bewilderment, and then at this evil-looking Murongyan, her mind was buzzing.

A guard in blue with a sword hurriedly stepped forward to help her.

Seeing Gu Ze, she almost cried out. At this moment, she already understood that this bodyguard in blue was her future father, Gu Han.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Gu Han got close to Murong Yan, she blocked him with her hand, and then she snatched the sword by surprise.

"Your Majesty?!" Gu Han was shocked, but he didn't dare to act rashly.

I saw that bright yellow holding a sword, walking towards Gu Ze step by step.

Gu Ze was terrified, but his legs seemed to be rooted and he couldn't move.

Seeing Murongyan raised his sword high at her with a ferocious face, Gu Ze was so horrified that he had to close his eyes resignedly.

"Stop!" Only a choked voice came from the back of the hall, "Don't kill Mister!"

Gu Ze was taken aback for a moment, opened his eyes and looked, and couldn't help but sweat all over——

The sword with a cold light was resting on her neck, but the tip of the sword was pointing behind her.

Gu Ze moved his body carefully, only to see a young man in blue robe walking out from behind the dragon pillar deep in the apse, it was Ninth Prince Murong Lian.And the sword in Murongyan's hand was pointing straight at the chest of a man with a refined face.

Murong Lian ran over, knelt down, kowtowed to the bright yellow and begged, "Your Majesty... please... just let him go!"

"Why are you here?" the elegant man asked, no matter how calm his voice was, he could still hear a trembling sound.

Murong Lian didn't answer him, but continued to kowtow, "Your Majesty please... let him go... let him go..."

"Let him go?"

Murong Yan looked at Murong Lian, who was bleeding from the corner of his forehead, and laughed lightly at himself, "Then who will let me go?"

She looked into the refined man's eyes again, and asked word by word, "Duan Wuyou, the son of Wuyou who is famous all over the capital. You really played a good game of chess, but look at the killing everywhere, please tell me Me, can you really be free from any worries in your heart?"

Duan Wuyou's Adam's apple moved slightly, and he slowly closed his eyes without speaking.

Murong Lian raised his head, which was half red with blood, and under the backlight, he saw Murong Yan's expression of despair and pain.

But he took another look at Duan Wuyou, who had his eyes closed and said nothing, and said with his cheeks almost touching the ground, choked up, "If that's the case... then please Your Majesty please kill me and my husband together."

Duan Wuyou opened his eyes suddenly, and said in surprise, "My lord, no!"

"Your Majesty, please do it!" Murong Lian said loudly.

"Are you crazy!" Duan Wuyou finally panicked, and his usually calm and clear eyes were stained with burnt color. He said maniacly, "Why did you ask her?! She is not the real dragon emperor at all! My lord, you It should be..."

"Enough!" Murong Lian raised his tear-filled eyes and interrupted, "Sir... why don't you understand... those things I don't care at all... I only care about you alone."

Murong Yan looked at him and then at him again, threw down the sword and turned around.

"That's all. Let's go." She suddenly wanted to laugh, because she never thought that she would say such things twice in the same night.

Perhaps it is because only by leaving themselves can they be happy.

Murong Lian bowed deeply on the ground again, and said, "Thank you Your Majesty for not killing me."

Murong Yan stood silently without speaking.

Murong Lian picked up the long sword on the ground, stood up with strength, looked at Duan Wuyou and smiled softly, "Let's go."

Duan Wuyou looked at him who was on the verge of falling, and wanted to reach out to help him, but he clenched his fists and put them in his sleeves, and said coldly, "Thank you, my lord."

Murong Lian's eyes dimmed, and he suddenly turned to Murong Yan who turned his back, and said, "Your Majesty, I have one more request."

Murong Yan stood silently without speaking.

"The fact that Duan's entire family was condemned is indeed my Murong family's fault. I would like to ask Your Majesty to grant you a gold medal to avoid death. No matter what happens, his life must not be harmed." Murong Lian said quietly.

Hearing this, Duan Wuyou trembled all over, and looked at him in disbelief.

He didn't know when he knew his identity, and he didn't know why he still asked for a gold medal to save himself from death.

"Ninth Brother!" As soon as these words came out, even the Eldest Princess Murong Qing felt very dissatisfied, "You know, what Wuyou plotted to commit today is a serious crime against the Nine Clans. If he seeks rebellion again in the future, is there any reason to forgive him?"

Duan Wuyou looked at Murong Lian, and asked deeply, "My lord, why is this necessary?"

Mottled candle shadows hit Murong Lian's discolored face, he looked at Duan Wuyou, and suddenly said, "Sir, when is the time, let's play another game of chess."

Duan Wuyou was taken aback for a moment, and he heard a "thump" in his heart, and bright red blood splashed on his face.

"Ninth brother!!!"

Murong Yan turned around and hurriedly yelled to get closer, "You are...why?!"

But saw that the long sword had pierced through Murong Lian's body, the blood stained his clothes and quickly stained Murong Yan's palms red.

Murong Lian looked straight at Duan Wuyou who was standing stunned, and said angrily, "Murong family owes you...in fact, I should pay it back...because the king of Chu and empress Nangong who slaughtered all your families back then. They are my biological parents...so, you should not seek revenge from His Majesty...but you should come to me..."

"Stop talking!" Murong Yan didn't dare to touch the long sword, and while using her dragon robe to stop the bleeding, she shouted, "Come here! Send the imperial doctor!"

Murong Lian didn't seem to hear, and continued to stare at Duan Wuyou and said, "Many things...they think I don't know, but I know everything...it's ridiculous, isn't it, compared to the Holy One, I was born by my elder brother and my mother* You should not be born as a human... I thought about it too... But at that time, I met you... Actually, I already knew who you are and why you approached me. But you once said that you would be with me forever...Even though I know that you lied to me...I still want to see you..." He coughed up a lot of blood and couldn't continue.

Murong Yan didn't stop him anymore, but her forehead was covered with veins.

"Sir... this time... count me as the winner..."

With a strong smile, Murong Lian raised his hand in the direction of Duan Wuyou, and when he was in the middle of the sky, he dropped it heavily.

Duan Wuyou fell to his knees because he couldn't stand up.

A blood-stained white chess piece rolled out from Murong Lian's palm.

He has played hundreds of games with him and never won.

Only this time, he will never lose again.

A long time ago, on the high platform and attic, the voice in the old dream was more beautiful than the harp.

"Sir, I only hope that after Brother Seven's matter is over, I can play chess and drink with you without worrying about anything else."

"Duan is willing to accompany His Highness forever."

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In Wangyue Tower, singing and dancing are peaceful, surrounded by Yingyan.

But in the backyard, there were bursts of noise.

Two or three thugs from Wangyue Tower beat a gray-haired crazy beggar severely, cursing non-stop,

"Damn you stinking beggar! After eating the bear's heart, you dare to come to Wangyue Tower to steal wine! Look at Grandpa, I won't beat you to death!"

But the mad beggar grinned obviously in pain, but instead of begging for mercy, he laughed maniacally.

"Stop." A clear voice.

Those thugs looked up and saw a masked woman in black standing under the moonlight, only showing bright eyes.

"Who are you?! Sensible, get out!" one of the thugs yelled.

The woman in black took out a golden token from her sleeve, and the faces of the thugs changed when they saw it.

"She...she is from the palace... let's go!"

Soon, only the mad beggar was left lying on the ground dirty, gasping for breath.

The woman in black frowned slightly, turned around and was about to leave when the mad beggar suddenly asked in a hoarse voice,

"After so many years, the empress has not forgotten to send someone to take care of the grass-roots people. She really is a kind-hearted mother who loves the world."

The woman in black turned her face away and said coldly, "Your Majesty just ordered you not to die."

She paused, and then said, "After all, my mother said, you still have the gold medal for avoiding death given by that person."

The crazy beggar laughed loudly, "Girl, tell your mother, I would have exchanged that kind of crap for wine!"

"Bah." The woman in black spat softly, "Last time you lied to me that you would trade it for meat. Your Majesty said, you definitely hid that gold medal for avoiding death well."

"Oh? The empress knows all this?"

"Well, my lady also said that that gold medal is your last memory, so you will definitely protect it."

The mad beggar's expression froze, and he said after a while, "Little girl, you are not an ordinary palace lady, why does the empress tell you everything?"

The woman in black was silent for a while, then said, "Anyway, just don't die."

She thought, at least don't die in front of her. . .

Because she understands that this crazy beggar is also related to that person to her, and there are very few memories left.