Should marry a concubine heart illuminating the moon

How deep is the courtyard?

There is a courtyard in Jitian Palace, which is very different from the other seven places. It occupies a single door in the southwest corner of Jitian Palace, as if isolated from the world.Helian Wanyan rarely went to Feixu Court, only when the Emperor came.The courtyard is not big, there is a hexagonal gazebo with glazed tiles, white jade tables and stools, and a pear wood fence. There is a small pond under the pavilion, where there are turtles, shrimps, crabs, and lotuses, but there is not a single fish in sight.Willow trees are planted by the pond, and there are willow trees at a glance. In April, the catkins are flying, which is more beautiful than the colorful garden.

"In previous years, His Majesty would come to Feixu Court to enjoy the scenery, but this year he missed it." He Lian Wanyan put down the teacup in his hand, glanced at the green willow trees outside the pavilion, turned his head and smiled at Zhao Zongqian, " Your Majesty thinks that the ministers and concubines will not dare to come if they are angry with His Majesty again?"

Zhao Zongqian's stern eyes were unexpectedly gentle, "Yi'er rushed to Huaiyang County, you are also angry with me, isn't I still here?"

Helian Wanyan lowered her eyes and smiled slightly, "How long have you and I been husband and wife?"

Zhao Zongqian didn't hesitate, "It's been fifteen years."

"Although the Emperor Song of the previous dynasty could not be a wise emperor, he was an infatuated kind. He vowed to grow old together with the noble concubine. The concubine still remembers that when he begged for mercy under the concubine's sword, he didn't want to live but to be buried with the concubine. The concubine agreed to him without even thinking about it. Does Your Majesty know why?"

Zhao Zongqian looked into Helian Wanyan's eyes and remained silent.

Helian Wanyan looked away at the catkins outside the pavilion, and sighed: "Everyone in the world knows that women are the most infatuated, such men who die for love will lose one every time they die. The concubine once thought that the same is true for Your Majesty. "

Zhao Zongqian's face was extremely forbearable, his stern eyes were no longer gentle, and he said coldly: "Wanyan, I know that you were not willing to marry me at the beginning. But Ye'er is her own flesh and blood after all, even if you don't think about the overall situation, you should Think about her. Back then, she and you were like sisters and best friends, but now you want to put her son to death with your own hands."

There was a breeze rippling, blowing willow catkins into the pavilion, Helian Wanyan brushed her hand, and said lightly: "If it wasn't for her, how could I be shackled here by such a false name as Lord of the Central Palace. Erlang , She is so devoted to you, admires you, and asks me how to make a choice? Gongsun's wolf ambition is obvious, but he is just a dog of the Northern Jin royal family. Are you willing to risk yourself to protect her flesh and blood? If Zhao Ye is still foolish in the future, you still want to hand over the Southern Jin Dynasty to him? Is this worthy of her?"

Zhao Zongqian's eyes flashed a glimmer of coldness, "I am the king of a country, I don't need to be wronged by anyone, I only have to be worthy of the common people in the world."

He Lian Wanyan smiled, "Your Majesty was joking, and His Majesty knows better than anyone else that if the throne is handed over to Zhao Ye, the Southern Jin Dynasty will surely be destroyed again. Or...Your Majesty has no such intention at all?"

Zhao Zongqian's eyebrows trembled slightly, "What do you mean by that?"

Helian Wanyan's eyebrows changed, "Your Majesty, don't forget that it was the concubine who almost flattened Longma Temple back then."

The two confronted each other for a long time, Zhao Zongqian's eyes became more gloomy, "What did the monk tell you?"

Helian Wanyan held up the teacup, lowered her eyes slightly, "The concubine guessed."

Zhao Zongqian gave a long sigh at the end, got up and wanted to leave, before he left, he said in a deep voice: "I only hope that his two brothers can return safely, if not, I will not be as ruthless as you."

When the person walked away, Helian Wanyan looked back, she got up and walked slowly outside the pavilion, her sleeves gently brushing the willow leaves fluttering in the wind.It seems that a mad dragon with a blade between them swept past, and the willow leaves instantly turned into snowflake-sized fragments, flying away like catkins flying all over the sky in April.

Helian Wanyan, covered in emerald green willow leaves, stood under the tree, whispering softly, "Xu'er, it would be great if you were still here..."

When the natural disaster in Huaiyang County came, a young man in black led dozens of followers into Qingshan City and stayed in the most inconspicuous inn in the city.At first, the clerk in the inn thought that there was a group of caravans from the Northern Jin Dynasty, and the waiters were very hospitable, but after a day, the young man dressed in black but with a white face didn't give any money, and the clerk cursed in private. Several times, I also neglected a lot in daily life.Fortunately, Mr. Sun didn't care, and he stayed for two more days after hearing of the natural disaster.

It was time for dinner, even though the shopkeeper was lazy, he didn't dare to neglect the distinguished guests, not to mention the dozens of people, the money spent for just one day's stay could be worth the profit of the inn in a normal month.The shopkeeper found the clerk who was dozing off on the front threshold, kicked the clerk on the buttocks, and cursed angrily: "You're still lazy here, hurry up and deliver food to the young master upstairs!"

The man rubbed his buttocks, went to the back kitchen to bring out the food, and was about to spit two or three mouthfuls into the food to relieve his grievances when he went upstairs. Unexpectedly, a strong man came up the stairs from behind him, the man He quickly swallowed the saliva in his mouth and coughed chokingly.The strong man had a beard and looked very honest. He patted the guy on the back and said with a smile: "Look, the one that scared you was sent to our young master, right? Give it to me."

The waiter hurriedly handed out the food in his hand, and watched the man go up the stairs and disappear around the corner, so he patted his chest in a false alarm.

The bearded man walked up to the door of a wing room, raised his hand and knocked it hard three times, and pushed the door open without waiting for a response from the inside.The young man in black stood behind the door, pinching a blade as thin as a cicada's wing with his two fingers, and said with a smile: "Hutar, I said, don't be so reckless when you go out, what if it hurts you?"

The bearded man named Hu Ta gave a meaningless smile, walked to the window, and poured out all the food in his hand, "You know what's in your heart, the master's hidden weapon can't hurt the little one."

"Is this food poisonous?" the young man in black asked suspiciously.

Hu Ta smiled, and slammed the bowl on the table, "That guy doesn't have the guts, but he just spit a few times, I don't bother to argue with him. Son, you eat chicken." A roast chicken wrapped in oil paper was handed to the young man in black.

The young man in black came from a noble family, but he didn't have the pampered style of a noble boy. He tore off the greased paper and pulled a chicken leg and handed it to Hu Ta, "Come out with me this time, have you explained everything at home?"

Hu Tar took a bite of his meat, and said vaguely: "Young master, don't worry, it doesn't matter if you tell me or not, that dead woman in our family wishes I could die outside sooner, so that she can stay and fly with that little white-faced scholar across the street, anyway. And Gongsun's family wiped my ass, so I'm not afraid that she would dare to abandon her son to do such dirty things."

The young man in black ate a handsome meal, biting the meat without saying a word.Hu Tar licked the oil from his lips, and said with a smile: "Young master, you can't be here. The brothers all respect you from the bottom of their hearts, and they don't want to be the dog of the eldest son."

"Success or failure depends on one move." The young man in black wiped the oil on his hands, and said with a smile: "I bought all the chickens, why don't you come back with a pot of wine, and save those few silver coins, if it is not enough, young man, I will make up for you." .”

Hu Ta slapped his forehead, and regardless of the oil on his forehead, he pulled out a small gourd as if by magic, "Don't mention it, young master, the little one almost forgot, there is wine and there is wine."

After taking a sip of the wine, Hutar sighed contentedly, sipped the oil on his fingers and said, "My lord, I heard some rumors when I went out this time."

The black-clothed man let out a groan, and Hutar continued: "It seems that Prince Rao Shizi of the Southern Jin Dynasty suffered a natural disaster and disappeared. There is a notice posted on the city's announcement, and those who have clues to report will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver."

"Zhao Wu?" The young man in black murmured in a low voice.

"Who?"

"Prince Wei, the Fifth Prince Zhao Wu, who was just appointed in April this year." The young man in black played with the wine glass in his hand, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth, "It seems that our whereabouts have been revealed, and the Emperor of the Southern Jin Dynasty already knew about us before we crossed the border." The reason for coming, it seems that something happened in the palace, no wonder Zhao Ye didn't send any news after all these days."

Hu Tar was stunned, a little flustered, "Master, shall we still go to Longcheng? Why don't we turn around and go back?"

The young man in black gave a bitter smile, "Hutar, you have no plan to go back this time, young master. If you are thinking about your wife and children at home, there is still time to go back home."

The simple-minded Hutar frowned, thought for a long time, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, put it heavily on the table, and said in a deep voice: "Hutar is a rough man, but he also knows that one servant does not serve two masters, so he went back. Hu Tar can't bear the anger of others, he will be kicked out of Gongsun's house after all, it's better to follow the son, life or death, Hu Tar admits it!"

The young man in black glanced at the rude man who had been with him for only two or three years. In the gate of the mansion of Gongsun who was intriguing, he said that he was congenial rather than sympathetic.The young man in black stopped talking and raised his glass to this loyal man.

"If it weren't for this natural disaster, we must have died under the chaos of the knife. Since it is God's will, then we might as well wait a little longer." The young man in black paused, "You will take a few brothers out to inquire about it later. Where exactly did Prince Wei die?"

"okay!"

After Hutar left, the young man in black got up and walked to the bed, found a flat box from under the porcelain pillow, opened the box, and inside was half a piece of jade ring with a greenish white color, the fracture was uneven, as if it had been forcibly broken apart.There is a small character engraved on the half of the jade ring, Xu.

The young man in black stared at Yujue for a while, then put it into his arms.

Huaiyang County is stacked with mountains, one peak after another, with a total of 33 mountains.Those who have the Tao call it the 33-hole heaven and earth, and it is famous far and wide.High mountains lead to lush forests, and lush forests lead to the growth of all living things. Although the logging was excessive in the past few years, most ferocious beasts hid in the deeper dense forests, but the deeper the ravines, the more frequent they appeared, and many forest pickers died here.

There are lush forests in the ravine, and there is little sunlight, even when the sun is shining, there is very little light penetration.Chen Baifei, who was dressed in rags, walked by a ground spring with one foot deep and one foot shallow, while Zhao Wu, who was also in rags, squatted beside him, scooping up water to quench his thirst.

Both of them had mud spots on their clothes, faces and heads.Zhao Wu wiped his face with water, looked up at the top of the branched head, expressionless.He looked at it for a while, then Chen Baifei turned back and said, "My lord, there is no way ahead, we have to go back."

The two of them walked in this ravine for a day and a night, and it seemed that they had been spinning in circles. There were many forks in the dirt roads stepped by people or beasts, one intersection after another.The two had to make a mark, go one way first, turn back and go the other way when they lost their way.

At this moment, it is already the seventh intersection.

Not to mention people, not even a beast.

"I can't walk anymore." Zhao Wu sat down on the ground and lay down.

He regretted it too much, if he had listened to Chen Guyue's words at that time, it would be great.