The third year after the death of the emperor

Xie Wen couldn't go back to Xie's mansion, so he was still detained for another night.

Under the layers of veils, the candlelight swayed, and the night was as cool as water.Xie Wen woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. He dreamed of high-rise buildings, busy traffic, flashing colorful neon lights, and young players in the junior Go class... When he turned around, he saw candlelight as weak as beans in front of him. There was a hazy shadow on the curtain.

Xie Wen stayed beside him quietly, looking at the familiar face of the other party.From the age of 16 to 26, he accompanied the other party through the time of the greatest change and the fastest growth and change.The other party's dependence and needs are sometimes like warm fireworks, and sometimes like hot magma.

Xie Wen can always suddenly get strong love, and suddenly taste the desperate despair.

In fact, the love and hatred between the two of them are as illusory as a dream most of the time.

Xie Wen thought quietly: It's just that this dream is exhausted, I can't stay here for you, it's not a matter of tolerance... If I can go home but don't choose to go back, I will die here.

Xie Wen stretched out her hand to touch him, and no longer felt like she would be stabbed when touching the other person's hair like before.His wolf curled up under the sheepskin, trying his best to make himself docile and harmless. He wanted to cut off his wildness and violence, and offer his loyalty to those who raised him. between hands.

He has worked hard enough.

Xie Wen leaned her head slightly, and actively stuck to the opponent's arms, leaning against Xiao Xuanqian's chest and closing her eyes, he said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."

If Tongtong hadn't told about that opportunity, he might have stayed by the little emperor's side, spending the rest of his life with him, and running the country with him... But now everything is different, he still has his parents, mentors, relatives and friends on the other side , and a whole world.Xie Wen also couldn't tell where the little emperor ranked in his heart, and he couldn't care about the weight.

His mind was in a mess, the memories of the two lives were intertwined and paralleled, and finally he couldn't help but think - if there is an afterlife.

If there is an afterlife...

In the early morning of the next day, Xiao Xuanqian supervised him to finish drinking the medicine and tidy up before he reluctantly sent someone to send Xie Wen back.In the next few days, the capital was turbulent. After the decision to conquer the northwest was finalized, generals and deputy generals, supplies, transportation of grain and grass... many things had to be prepared one by one.The entire center seems to be installed with rolling wheels, supporting the entire behemoth to operate and roll.

On the third day of February in the sixth year of Qiming, the eve before the emperor left Beijing, the Xie Mansion was brightly lit. Shen Yuexiao and Feng Qijun sat on one side and discussed with the emperor's teachers about the deployment of the capital and the emperor's arrangements. Just as Feng Qijun left Afterwards, Shen Yuexiao suddenly changed his serious style, took Xie Wen's hand and asked: "Is there anything bothering the emperor recently?"

Xie Wen's heart skipped a beat, and she asked in surprise, "What did you see?"

Shen Yuexiao said: "Gao Kun, Wen Hanyu and others can't see clearly the form at all, and they don't understand the relationship between Master Xie and His Majesty. It is by no means comparable to the world of mortals. Don't..."

"No." Xie Wen said, "I won't."

Shen Yuexiao was a little relieved, but for a moment he felt that the other party's reaction just now was not quite right: "I knew you wouldn't be worried because of these other people, but your reaction just now clearly means that you were hit, why?"

Xie Wen avoided answering, and instead asked: "Master Xiao Shen hasn't married a wife for so many years, is there a reason?"

Shen Yuexiao was not annoyed by such a blunt transfer of the subject, and replied smoothly: "When I was young, I had a childhood sweetheart who was married to my fingertips. I always thought that he was my lifelong wife, but I only found out later that It should be my brother..."

He touched the tip of his nose in embarrassment, and continued: "He was raised as a girl before the age of ten, and he wore a skirt called a nickname. I misunderstood. Later, my family moved to Kyoto. I haven't seen him in six or seven years. In the third year of Qiming I saw him again, and he turned into a man... No, he was a man in the first place, we drank all night, and he left, holding a sword and pursuing his world."

Xie Wen listened carefully, nodded and said, "My condolences."

Shen Yuexiao: "...What's so sad about this, it's not that my wife is really dead."

"Although you live a good life, but the shadow in your heart is dead, shouldn't you say mourning?" Xie Wen casually poured him half a cup of tea, "Is there a connection?"

"A spring and autumn year, two letters." Shen Yuexiao said.

Xie Wen raised her eyebrows: "Is this why you?"

Mr. Xiao Shen smiled embarrassingly, he didn't know whether to admit it or to deny it, but fortunately the other party didn't insist on asking, but asked speciously: "He is gone, are you sad?"

Shen Yuexiao's heart trembled, and he pretended to be magnanimous and said: "Why am I sad? Since they are still alive, they will be my good brother in the future. I naturally hope that he will roam the rivers and lakes and have a happy life."

Xie Wen stared at him for a while, then said: "When we part we lose, how can we not be sad?"

He was just talking to himself, but Master Xiao Shen immediately stood up, blushed and retorted loudly: "Don't get me wrong, we are really good brothers, ever since I knew he was a man, I never thought of marrying him Yes. Didn’t you admit your mistake before? Is the lady who confessed wrong still a lady?”

Xie Wen looked at him with a smile, and even comforted him gently: "I didn't mention you. He must be sad."

Only then did Shen Yuexiao sit down resentfully.

The two exchanged a few words again, and the other party ran away as if fleeing, a little faster than the red-eyed rabbit.Xie Wen sat in her original position and twirled the teacup, and a little girl with a red hair rope suddenly appeared on the empty seat beside her.

Tong Tong was sitting on a chair with two short chubby legs dangling on it, she asked: "If they fight, even if it is a quick battle, it will take three months, Xiao Xuanqian is likely to be I can't come back in time, just in time, since he's not here, so that you won't be entangled and act like a spoiled child, and soften your temper, you can set a date."

Xie Wen rolled her fingers on the rim of the cup, pressed her fingertips beside the porcelain, and said flatly, "I have to tell him."

Tong Tong said: "He will go to war tomorrow, there are so many opportunities, if you don't tell him, when do you want to tell him?"

Xie Wen lowered her eyes and explained calmly: "I left him a kit, the first two are planning for this battle, and the last one is a letter from me, and I will tell him all these things. He said that it can be opened when the battle comes to a great victory.

"According to his plan, if the whole journey is like breaking a bamboo... I calculated the date, when the city was attacked and the stronghold was directly entered the Tatar king's court, that is, around April [-]th, when the victory report arrives, we will go back."

Tong Tong said: "The others are not around, what's the use of you guarding until then?"

Xie Wen said calmly: "The two armies are facing each other. I have to hear some good news about the victory, so I can rest assured?"

Rao Xie Tong couldn't think of any way to comfort him, until he heard Xie Wen say again: "If he doesn't go well in this battle and is hindered, I will serve as a warlord and accompany several military officials to lead the army to help in one month. It was pre-arranged."

Tongtong stood up on the chair all of a sudden: "You want to go in person? I don't believe Xiao Xuanqian arranged it this way. He even asked you to lose a hair, and dare to let you go to the battlefield?"

Xie Wen said: "I don't go to the front line. I'm just an overseer."

"You almost died in Qiongzhou because of him back then. I don't believe that Xiao Xuanqian is not afraid of swords without eyes. This is definitely not his decision."

"You look a bit like him." Xie Wen said unexpectedly, "He wants to train you to be an empress, and it seems that he has really made a name for himself."

Tongtong puffed her cheeks and muttered, "I'll definitely go back with you, and I'm not his successor... Forget it, you can do whatever you like, but at the latest, at the latest... April [-] , on this day, no matter where you are, I will send you back. This is my final bottom line. "

Xie Wen stretched out her hand and hugged the little girl: "I discussed this with several important officials, Gao Shizhong, Wen Changshi, Dong Pushe... and several young military officials. We agreed together. Civil servants are never at ease with military officials. The military officer is very tired of civil servants, so I was the compromise choice."

"If the little emperor finds out, he will definitely be furious. But thinking that this is the only way for him to have the chance to see you for the last time, he should thank these people."

Tongtong wrapped his arms around his neck and let the host rub his hair. He heard the other party whisper softly: "Thank you for taking care of me. I'm not such a good host..."

Tongtong was silent for a moment, then lowered her head shyly and said, "...not anymore. You, you are fine."

The fourth day of February in the sixth year of Qiming.

The Xuanding banner is waving in mid-air, and rows of tall warhorses are draped in saddles, standing quietly by the side, civil and military officials, and the people of the imperial capital, they are all waiting for the same person...waiting for the ruler of this dynasty, the symbol of feudal imperial power , the supreme ruler of the land.

But before Xie Wen saw the long-awaited and incomparably magnificent scene, he was the first to feel the slightly cold and hard embrace covered with silver armor - he was earlier and faster than those people saw, It is also more profound to feel the coldness that spreads and permeates from the military uniform.

After leaving the Ziwei Palace and going straight ahead, there are flying flags and hundreds of officials and people waiting in the road.But those uproar seemed to have nothing to do with him.The broad armor and battle robe, the deep and long embrace...continuously enveloped him.

Xie Wen just acted slowly, and was detained by the emperor and broke away from the ranks of officials.

Xiao Xuanqian once again absorbed energy from him.Once again calmed down to the best state through a short hug, he lowered his head and held Xie Wen's cheeks, and kissed him devoutly as if serving a god, but soon, his piety turned into a thick and unresolved Relying on longing, his stern eyes were full of nostalgia, and he said in a low voice: "You have to wait for me and take care of yourself."

Xie Wen's words stuck in his throat - if he could say it, he wouldn't put it on the paper and use those handwritings as a parting message... But he knew that it would be most sincere to tell him face to face, so he thought about it several times. Open your mouth.

Can not speak.His eyes were full of Xiao Xuanqian's dependence, the more the other party was able to endure and change, the less he could express it.Xie Wen was silent for a long time, but she failed to agree. Instead, she let the other party kiss tentatively and respond with more active feedback...until he couldn't bear it.

Xie Wen's palm rested on the armor, and the cooled metal covered his body temperature, and it took a long time before it was separated and exhausted.He put his hand into the opponent's palm and said softly, "Go."

Accompanied by these two words, the emperor he cultivated will personally expand the territory, and will let Daqi's sword point to the far side, so that the border will no longer be disturbed, foreign troubles will be resolved, and the world will be peaceful.This will be their last time together in the same world, if all goes well, this will be their last.

But worldly events often don't bring such smooth news.

The emperor took away most of the military officials, and the imperial capital was empty and cold.A month later, the osmanthus trees in Rongyuan sprouted and sprouted, and the greenery appeared new and thick. The rare early cherry trees in the yard were in clusters, and their petals fluttered into the window.

Xiaoxuan window.The chess game was temporarily interrupted in the military newspaper.Xie Wen took the envelope and removed the sealing mud under Xiao Tianrou's watchful eyes. When the remaining feathers around the sealing mud turned to ashes in the candlelight, the eldest princess saw her friend's frowning eyebrows.

It was still spring, she was holding the hand stove, with a thick blanket covering her knees, and said, "The spring rain last night made all my flowers wet."

Xie Wen read the entire content of this military newspaper, and said: "Spring rain? Yes, it has warmed up recently."

"Yes." Xiao Tianrou sighed and smiled, "But you are going to endure hardships in a cold place, who can keep it?"

Xie Wen was silent for a while, then said, "Because I'm leaving."

The eldest princess was taken aback.

"I'm leaving." Xie Wen stood up and raised her hand to say goodbye to her, "Princess take care."

Xiao Tianrou stared at his face: "Sir... It's a long way to go, and the cold wind from the northwest makes it hard to march. Why don't you change someone? You are not the only one."

Xie Wen just said: "When spring comes, there is no better season."

When he stepped out of the Rong Garden, Xiao Tianrou couldn't walk to the door because of his discomfort. When Xie Wen walked into the courtyard, the eldest princess just leaned against the screen, holding the hem of her skirt that was slowly dragging to the ground.She stared at the other party leaving, then turned her head, her eyes fell through the window and fell into the grand evening clouds.

She saw the overwhelming twilight sweeping in.

The author has something to say: it's HE, don't be afraid.

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