Hypocrites

Into the mountains?Which mountain to enter?What to do?

Without thinking, Liang Heng decided to follow the servant.The man led them back to the market just now, the owner bought charcoal, the west bought spices, and bought dozens of well-drained bamboo sticks.There are quite a few people who bought the same things as him, and they are discussing that going to the mountains for a picnic is a local custom, and it is the first fire of spring to be lit to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

Tomorrow, when the clapper sounds, there will be a huge team going out of the city.

Liang Heng turned around, and was about to tell Shen Yu, let's go and see what's new, Shen Yu has already brought the basket, spread it with new cloth, and the bamboo sticks inside are neatly stacked.

"I just don't know which mountain the prince and concubine are going to." Shen Yu said.

"Then what's the matter?" Liang Heng said, "just follow the crowded places. The princes and concubines are also here for the excitement. Then you will look at the most crowded places, but there will be guards separating them, and they will sit inside." gone."

Of course it's a fallacy.However, when the prince goes on tour, he must have a presence, so that he will not disappear from the crowd, and he must be recognizable.

Immediately, I bought charcoal fire spices, and went back to the inn to ask the shop assistant to prepare the ingredients roasted in the mountains.After falling asleep at night, almost closing his eyes, he felt Shen Yu shaking himself, and Liang Heng groaned in pain.

"Heng'er, wake up, it's time to go."

There was a burst of clappers outside the inn, and there was a faint noise, and the street was lit up with lanterns one after another. The whole family helped the old and the young, and prepared to go into the mountain to burn a new fire.

The dew soaked the clothes, and the cool wind hit the face.Liang Heng was half asleep and half awake, leaning on Shen Yu's shoulder, the two of them mixed in the crowd, the child next to him acted like a baby to his mother: "Auntie, sleepy, give me a hug."

Liang Heng said with regret: "I'm sleepy too, I want to go back to the inn to sleep. When they finish burning the fire, let me take a look at it from a distance at the gate of the city. Why do you get up so early?"

Shen Yu protected Liang Heng from being rushed by the crowd, and said along the way: "Well, let's go back to the inn and sleep in the cage."

Liang Heng was silent for a moment: "Everyone is here."

There is only one road into the mountain, and the crowd is bustling with people, and it is hard to tell who is who. After sunrise, the light of the sun pours down on the treetops, like a veil of a goddess, gently brushing over the faces of all beings, making everyone look refreshed.

Sure enough, the prince's car appeared not long after, two cavalrymen cleared the road, and the common people tacitly kept away from the grassland occupied by the palace.Two cars stopped at Fenglin, and a beautiful woman came down from the second car. She wore a pomegranate skirt and a jade tassel in her hair. Her slender fingertips stretched out from the bottom of her sleeves, and she walked on the mountain road with her maid. walk.

Once the concubine appeared, there was silence in the mountains.It wasn't until she got a little closer that the beauty of light and shadow faded a little, and then she showed signs of aging.

The prince got off from the previous car. His body was strong and his beard hung down to his chest. Although he was old, but because his beard covered his face, his physique alone surpassed many frail young people.

In Liang Heng's memory, Liang Huang, king of southern Sichuan, also had this body.If everyone in the royal family of Liang gave birth to a son named Xiao Fu, it is no wonder that he and his father were cited as different.

The hillside meadow is still green in winter, the thin ice of the mountain spring is broken, and the gurgling water is melodious.The prince took out his fishing rod and sat beside the stream that had thawed in early spring to fish, sometimes turning his head to talk to the princess.

Liang Heng watched from a distance, gradually merging the figures of the two with his own impressions from hearsay.The concubine took away the baby of Fengchun, the maid, and the prince imprisoned Liu Zhan and Fengchun. His father, in an environment full of gossip, gave birth to a dark seed in his heart.One is Li, and the other is Jie. What kind of psychology did King Zhangshan use to name his father Bizi?

With a flick of the fishing rod, a whitebait was pulled up.The palace maid made a charcoal fire, pierced whitebait with a bamboo stick and roasted it.Suddenly an accident happened, the prince's beautiful beard fell into the charcoal basin and was about to be burned.

All the attendants exclaimed, seeing sparks coming out of the lush beards curling up one after another, exuding a burning smell.The concubine made a decisive decision, plucked the hair with her bare hands, and plucked off a large amount of crispy beard. Suddenly, a puff of smoke came out, and the beard that the prince had kept for most of his life was destroyed.

Shocked and in pain, the prince hurried to the side of the stream to take a selfie in the mirror, feeling disfigured and very annoyed.After discussing with the servant, the servant came to the place where the people gathered and asked, "Is there a barber here?"

No one said anything.

Liang Heng stood up abruptly: "I am, my family's hair-shaving business has been passed down for three generations."

Shen Yu: "..."

The two were brought to the prince and princess.Shen Yu was completely unprepared for what Liang Heng wanted to do, and listened to him chatting with the prince in a fog.

"You are young, and you also do hair shaving business?"

"The son inherited the father's business. The father didn't do it, so the son did it. I didn't bring any tools when I went out. Does the prince have any?"

The prince never expected that his beard would be burnt. He usually grows his beard, pursuing natural growth and never trimming it.

Liang Heng looked left and right, he drew the guard's saber and was about to strike.Shen Yu was shocked, and stopped him: "Wait a minute! I have a small knife." The spatula used to dig out a piece of meat in the food basket for Liang Heng, but he was very worried, and asked in a low voice, "Can you do it? Don't let the prince see it." Blood, let me do it."

Liang Heng gave him a dismissive curl of his lips.

He caught the prince's beard and was about to start, the prince shouted again: "Wait, wait! Little master, I think it's enough to shave half of it, and it doesn't have to be finished?"

The princess said: "Shave him clean."

Liang Heng held a handful of beards: "I shaved it."

Prince: "Wait!"

Princess: "Shave!"

The blade of the scraper fell lightly, and the beard fell to the ground.The prince closed his eyes tightly in grief.

Although Liang Heng had never been a barber, he seemed to have experience in shaving. His hands were steady and light, and he treated the prince like a pearl wiping away dust, and his demeanor was full of indescribable emotions.If Shen Yu hadn't been convinced that Liang Heng was not a person with hatred in his heart, he would have been worried that the spatula would gently cut the prince's throat.

The prince's unshaven face was gradually cleaned up, he lamented repeatedly, the princess couldn't laugh or cry, so she could only appease her husband, and then ordered the maid to take money as a reward: "Thank you, little master, please don't be rude if you disturb the two of you."

However, Liang Heng just stood still without making a sound.Shen Yu felt strange, seeing Liang Heng staring blankly at the prince's face, afraid of arousing the suspicion of the prince and his wife, he accepted the reward for him, dealt with it, and took him away.

After leaving the residence of the palace, Shen Yucai noticed that Liang Heng was trembling faintly in his arms.

"what happened?"

Liang Heng's eyes were straightened, and he said dully: "He...he has a mole on his mouth..."

Shen Yu didn't understand, when he looked back, he couldn't clearly see the prince's face.So what if there are no moles?Suddenly, a silver light flashed from the mountain stream, piercing into his eyes, piercing the sea of ​​spirits—he remembered that the person with a mole on his lips was Liu Zhan who was taken to the golden hall by Qiu Zhiyuan!

Liang Heng was in a trance and couldn't go on playing anymore, Shen Yu took him back to the city, and when he arrived at the inn, there was a storyteller sitting in the waist hall, he patted him awake, and told the anecdote about the exchange of a civet cat in the Zhangshan Prince's Mansion for the prince.What a coincidence.There are foreign travelers and local diners who listen to the book.

The outsider said: "That's the case! I came from Wangcheng. A while ago, there was a lot of trouble with the eunuch's treason. My aunt's niece's brother-in-law's brother was working in the palace. I heard that the head of the eunuch - Shili The one who picks one—identifies the emperor's blood lineage in the Golden Palace! Everyone in Zhangshan County knows it!"

The local old man yelled: "Fuck your shit! How can a person with a conscience be a storyteller?! This matter has been refuted by the palace for decades. The child who died in the maid was buried on the same day. She went crazy later, not because The other thing is that she was beaten and scolded by her man! How do you know? Old man, I live on the same street as them! Liu Zhan made a mistake and was kicked out of the palace, implicating his wife. Got help from the palace. If the palace had ghosts in its heart, those two would have passed away long ago!"

"You call it unsubstantiated, but the eunuch has found witnesses!"

"If there is someone who has a fart to testify, this is a nonsense made up by outsiders. It was heard by the insane maid, and then passed on from the maid again. Isn't it true?"

The two sides insisted on their own words, and the local old man was full of "shit" and "stinky fart".The store clerk saw it, yo, this topic can't be discussed, so he drove the storyteller away.

Liang Heng was cold all over, and he didn't feel any time when he returned to the guest room. Shen Yu let him sit on the couch, poured him a cup of hot water and held it in his hand.The surface of the water couldn't stop swaying, the ripples dizzy and broken.

"I..." Liang Heng said to himself, "I don't know...Liang Buhai has a mole on his mouth, my father has it, and Liu Zhan has it too...Maybe what they said is true, my father is the palace Son, Fengchun's child died young, and there was no exchange at all... Qiu Zhiyuan lied to me, he said that Liu Zhan and Fengchun had been imprisoned by the palace for 20 years, but the old man said just now that the couple was still on the street after leaving the palace Selling straw mats...The one imprisoning them is not the palace, but Qiu Zhiyuan...But why can't my blood dissolve in the bone ring? I don't know...I don't know...Does my father know? Why doesn't he trust the prince?"

Shen Yu didn't know what to say.

No one thought of thoroughly investigating the source of all the contradictions. Because the first emperor Liang Xuan believed in the eunuch, Liang Xuan was forced by the eunuch to tell everyone that what the eunuch said was true and his blood was problematic.Even his own father admitted it, what else could Liang Heng doubt?Who dares to investigate a matter that knows the end, isn't it just asking for death?

Shen Yu's heart was suddenly aroused by Liang Heng's distraught appearance. He really wanted to dig Liang Xuan out of the stable imperial mausoleum, so he grabbed his collar and asked him why.

Why humiliate the eunuch?Why leave the mess of the dynasty to Liang Heng?Why didn't he say an explanation to his son?

What the hell is Liang Xuan thinking!

Shen Yu was silent for a long time: "Do you want to look back at the capital?"

In the beginning, Liang Heng became Zen because of the mystery of his life experience that made him feel like he was sitting on pins and needles. If there is something that needs to be verified and all worries are eliminated, will he want to return to the pinnacle of power that is rich and powerful?

Liang Heng pulled the corner of his mouth and said with a wry smile: "I really want to go back. But never go back to Wangdu City, I want to go back to Ruyang's home. Everything is over, there is no room for maneuver, I want to stay away from these things , don’t mention it again for the rest of your life!”