Jiang Qing

Meng Ye's brows were still frowning when he fell asleep, Helian Gouyue silently reached out to smooth it out for him, the tenderness in his eyes seemed to overflow.

"Little master?" An old man over fifty years old walked in and called out.

Hearing the sound, Helian Gouyue restrained the expression in her eyes, got up and led him to the outside room, and asked, "Uncle Ruan, why isn't he awake yet?"

"Don't worry, little master, he is in good health, but the wound is a bit inflamed, and he will wake up when the heat dissipates." Ruan Bo replied with a smile.

Helian Gouyue breathed a sigh of relief, ignoring her emaciated appearance, she thanked the old man, "I'm sorry to trouble you for making this trip all the way."

Uncle Ruan stroked his beard, and there was a hint of teasing in his tone: "The news spread so quickly, I thought something happened to the little master, it turned out to be the young master."

Helian Gouyue leaned wearily on the soft bed in the outer room, her eyes were empty, and she admitted: "I was too impatient."

When he was in the ancestral hall, he had already made up his mind that he didn't need Meng Ye to seek any status for him, as long as Zhenbei Hou agreed to stay by his side.

Helian Gouyue didn't want Meng Ye to fight against his parents for herself, even though Helian Gouyue said that he couldn't understand the bondage between relatives.

But in the middle of the night, Meng Ye's fever was severe, and Helian Gouyue had no choice but to go to Zhenbeihou.

He knelt in front of Zhenbeihou's gate until dawn, only to see Meng Yilin.

He knew that the Marquis of Zhenbei couldn't give him a good look. At this time, there was only one way to get Meng Ye out of the ancestral hall, and that was to promise to leave Yanzhou and never come back to see Meng Ye.

Knowing that such a choice is the best way to solve the urgent need, even if it is to lie to Zhenbei Hou first, it would be good to let Meng Ye get the treatment first.But for some reason, thinking of the temperature of the person in her arms, Helian Gouyue couldn't even say anything about the scene, and quarreled with Meng Yilin almost crazily.

When he stepped out of the room, his face was still wounded, but he and Meng Yilin each took a step back after all.

Helian Gouyue voluntarily gave up her status and stayed by Meng Ye's side as a foreigner, and would not obstruct Meng Ye from marrying a wife and having children. Meng Yilin also acquiesced in their relationship and released Meng Ye from the ancestral hall.

Until now, Helian Gouyue's mind is in a mess. Although he made the decision not to have a status when he was in the ancestral hall, but when he really reached a compromise with Meng Yilin, Helian Gouyue realized that he was bewildered. It's crazy.

Because he never thought that with the lessons learned from his mother, he would actually make the decision to be a man's side room, and tied himself to him when they had no real relationship.

He even Gou Yue didn't dare to think about it.

He wanted to attribute this decision to his own impulsiveness, but Meng Ye had been burning for a day, and up to now, there was no regret in his heart.

"Uncle Ruan." Helian Gouyue stretched out her hand, looking at the shadow cast by the sunlight on the screen through her fingers.

The background color of the entire screen is azure blue, and there is no dividing line between the sky and the sea. They can only be distinguished by the positions of the birds and ships.Three or two seabirds, a boat floating alone in a blue tone.The slightly raised angle of the screen refracts the sunlight, reflecting the blue background shimmeringly, and the dazzling broken flashes make people involuntarily cast their eyes on the woman at the bow. She is dressed in white, without any beads, just her pair The eyes are like the brightest treasures in the world, blooming a bluish color.

"I seem to understand my mother's state of mind when she left Wulan country." Helian Gouyue said softly, her eyes softened.

The girl who was only sixteen received guests from afar. He was gentle and considerate, and his firm and affectionate eyes were enough to sink a girl.She willingly followed him on the boat and stayed away from her homeland. Even when he claimed that she was a young prostitute he bought in the market for 20 taels of gold, she didn't complain at all. She was like a seabird who only chased ships on the sea. No matter where the ship sails, she will only follow behind.

Because in the endless sea, only this ship is moving, giving her a direction.

She didn't have time to meet more people, she only had this one choice.But God let her meet such a person first, so why not give her the only choice in the dark.

Just like he met Meng Ye on the way to escape two years ago, is this also a choice written down for him by the heavens?

"Young master's heart has softened. This is not a good thing." Ruan Bo frowned and reminded: "Little master should not have any private property now, especially since he is still a native of Li."

"I know." Helian Gouyue has been up all day and night, but he is very clear about what is most important in his heart, "I can't take him away, but in my heart, I still want to stay by his side for a little longer meeting."

Helian Gouyue has always been sober and self-sufficient, the balance in his heart has never been skewed, and Ruan Bo is not worried that he will do any outrageous things.

"That's good, I'll go back first. Little Master, don't be in such a hurry next time. At this time, it's not suitable for me to appear by Young Master's side too early." Ruan Bo packed his things and prepared to go back.

"There won't be a next time." Helian Gouyue put away the bewildered look in her eyes, and her gaze became indifferent again.

Ruan Bo took a deep look at him, turned and left.

There were a few slight noises from inside, followed by the crisp cracking of porcelain.

Helian Gouyue walked a few steps into the room, and saw Meng Ye who was holding the head of the bed with half of his body leaning out, staring blankly at the broken teacup on the ground.

"Why are you up?" Helian Gouyue went to pour a cup of warm water, helped someone to bring it to his lips, and naturally touched his forehead with the other hand, and said, "It's not so hot anymore. "

After moistening his throat, Meng Ye found that he could speak. He looked around and asked hoarsely, "Why am I here? Father, he allowed me to come out?"

Helian Gouyue bit her lips lightly, and said softly: "Don't be stubborn with Lord Hou when you go back, I have already promised him that he will not have a status, and if he doesn't enter the Meng family, I will accompany you as your concubine."

"Gouyue!" Meng Ye looked up eagerly from his embrace, pulled the quilt and was about to get out of bed, "No, I have to go and explain to my father, I am sorry for you first..."

"Do you only feel guilty towards me?" Helian Gouyue said suddenly.

"That was not what I meant......"

He pulled himself back with too much force, Meng Ye's head fainted briefly, and he said after a few seconds: "I am the young master of the Hou Mansion, and you are used to doing business in the market. Double entry and exit, it is inevitable that people in the market will gossip, I don't want you to hear talking about yourself."

"I don't want those obvious things. If you feel uncomfortable, you can make it up to me." Helian Gouyue murmured while holding his hair.

Meng Ye was really tired, nestled in his arms and couldn't move, so he stopped struggling at all.Ever since that kind of thing happened between them, in private, Helian Gouyue has obviously changed from a cold face to a gentle and clingy one.Meng Ye has never married a wife or concubine, so he wonders if after having a substantive relationship, people with cold personality will be softened.

"What do you want?" Meng Ye was still a little nervous about the private agreement he had reached with his father.

"If you want to compensate me, give me the deserted pond behind the Hou's mansion. I want to plant lotus." Helian Gouyue replied.

"Okay." Meng Ye paused for two seconds before reassuring: "I won't marry other wives and concubines, you should go back to live in the Hou Mansion."

Helian Gouyue smelled the strong smell of herbs on Meng Ye's body, and carefully restrained the feelings in his heart. He secretly told himself that it was enough to like this much. This was already the bottom line he could bear, and he couldn't go any further. up.

Meng Ye was just an accident on his way, and his destination was never him.

Having endured the wrath of the Marquis of Zhenbei, Meng Ye and Helian Gouyue had a very pleasant time in the Marquis' Mansion. When Meng Ye recovered from his injuries, he could resume martial arts training in the morning, and it was almost time for Mei Shao and Bai Bingchen to leave. In Yanzhou.

The weather in the north is getting colder faster, and charcoal basins were added early in the house.

Bai Bingchen covered his hands with the teacup in his hand, and said to Meng Yilin, "If these private matters are inconvenient, Lord Hou can not talk about them."

Meng Yilin felt a little uncomfortable, he never thought that Bai Bingchen and Mei Shao would come to ask him such a matter before they left.

"There's nothing you can't say." Meng Yilin pondered for a while, cleared his mind and said: "The Meng family and the first emperor are indeed not close friends. The first queen mother was very flamboyant when she was young, and she offended many people. During the battle, she was falsely banned several times, but she was pregnant with the first emperor when she was at her worst, and suffered a lot. The first queen mother didn't like this son very much, and preferred some of the younger sons she gave birth to later. The first emperor could ascend He won the throne entirely by himself, and the Meng family did not do anything about it. After the first emperor ascended the throne, he never showed any special favor to the Meng family. It was not until the Cangshan Incident that the Meng family was granted the title for the first time. Over the years, I have guarded the northern land You must not go back to the capital without receiving the decree, and you really don’t know much about the late emperor.”

Bai Bingchen secretly grasped the hands on his knees, although he had already prepared to get the answer, but when he really heard Meng Yilin say it with his own ears, Bai Bingchen was still a little startled.

"After the change in Cangshan, didn't the first emperor issue any secret decree to Lord Hou?" Mei Shao asked from the side.

He wanted to ask the late emperor if he had secretly sent someone to find out which generals in the Northern Lands were the old Mei family members, but he was afraid that if there was no such thing, he would be exposed by saying so, so he changed to a gentle way.

"No." A hint of surprise appeared on Meng Yilin's face, "At that time there was no disaster in the northern land, so why did the late emperor send a secret decree?"

His undisguised question was very real, and he knocked heavily on Bai Bingchen's heart.

Ever since Bai Bingchen asked Ji Pu to investigate Zhenbeihou's property secretly, he already believed that Zhenbeihou's Meng family had nothing to do with Anxiang Pavilion. Eliminated the remaining two or three points of his doubts.

At that time, Bai Bingchen had just entered the official position, and in order to save Mei Shao's life, he recommended the Meng family as Marquis of Zhenbei out of desperation. He preconceived that their relationship was close, so he wanted to express his respect for the late emperor in this way. obey.

The fact that the royal family was closely related was not well known, but Bai Bingchen didn't know their actual relationship, the late emperor knew about it, so why did he agree to Bai Bingchen's proposal?

Unless he didn't mean to put Mei Shao to death, but he couldn't say it by himself, so he did it by Bai Bingchen's hands.

After accepting such a possibility, think carefully about how he joined forces with Zhao Zhen to seize the throne, how he gradually pulled King Jing down from the high position, who was always valued by the late emperor, and even how he took advantage of the late emperor to take gold. Dan's habit of making fuss, hollowing out his body step by step, made Bai Bingchen faintly afraid.

It is very likely that the first emperor knew about these things all along.But he was like a bystander, acquiescing to Bai Bingchen to do these things, without saying a word or doing anything.

Bai Bingchen was hesitant to tell Zhao Zhen what the late emperor had said to him before his death, because for so many years, he had never understood the expression on the late emperor's face.

When he was dying, when he was still calling King Jing's baby name when he was in a daze, when Bai Bingchen sealed off the palace and went alone to force him to make an edict to pass on the throne, the emperor's temporarily clear eyes showed no surprise.

He seemed to have expected that it would be Bai Bingchen who came in. He didn't get angry, annoyed, reprimanded, or scolded. He just watched Bai Bingchen walk step by step to his bed and knelt down with an unusually calm gaze.

There were mixed emotions in those bottomless eyes, relief, relief, self-blame, and relief, but there was no expression that an emperor should have when he was forced to a desperate situation.

Bai Bingchen even felt that the eyes he was looking at him were gentle, this illusion puzzled him all the time, until now, he had to accept a fact.

Rather than saying that it was Bai Bingchen who worked hard to win the throne for Zhao Zhen, it is better to say that the late emperor tacitly supported this prince whom he had always neglected to compete with King Jing who was much loved at that time.

This good show of brothers fighting against the wall was originally planned by the first emperor.