limited backtracking

Five years later, Great Liang invaded, Xiye was defeated, and the commander died in battle.The Lord Xiye was unwilling to be captured, so he committed suicide in the palace hall.

Since then, Xiye has perished.

Yuan Yu squeezed the space between his eyebrows, took a deep breath and said, "After Xiye's death, I returned to Daxia and stayed in Yunsui for many years. Yunsui is far away from Bianjing, so I don't have to worry about my identity being exposed."

Bai Lian asked: "Why didn't Master mention my mother's queen? After Xiye's death, was it Master or Jiang Laohou who brought my mother back to Daxia?"

Yuan Yu didn't understand, so: "Your mother was sent to Daxia as a proton when she was five years old, whoever brought her back?"

Bai Lian shifted his gaze from the candlelight to Yuan Yu's face, and said suspiciously: "What the people in the palace said..."

Yuan Yu explained: "The four kingdoms of Daxia, Daliang, Beijiang, and Xiye, and Xiye are weak. If there was no assistance from Daxia back then, the country would have perished long ago. And the condition for Daxia to send troops is to leave your mother behind. Da Xia is the proton."

"Father and mother have no daughter under their knees. Although Jingyan is not their biological child, they did not treat her badly at all."

"Not many people know about this matter. The negotiation between the two countries was carried out in secret. Jingyan was raised in her mother's palace in Daxia. Some people who knew about this are no longer in the palace, and some died in the forced palace a long time ago. gone."

"Father is extremely benevolent to Xiye. If Bailiyi hadn't forced the palace, Xiye would not have ended up in the end of subjugation."

"After Bailiyi proclaimed himself emperor, he didn't attack Xiye at the moment. Instead, he secretly united with Great Liang five years later, attacking back and forth, causing Xiye to suffer from the enemy, and the country fell."

"In order to compensate Jingyan, my mother ordered Baili Yi to make Jingyan her queen, and she would never be deposed."

"After I know all the truth, something happened to Jingyan, and something happened to you, so how can I not kill him?"

Bai Lian opened his mouth but didn't know what to say, and finally only responded: "I see..."

He lowered his head and covered his face with his hands, silent for a long time.

Yuan Yu reached out to touch him, but retracted, "Xiaobai..."

Jiang Weiyan only put his hand on the back of Baili's neck, rubbed it lightly, and said to Yuan Yu, "Let him stay by himself for a while."

Yuan Yu was silent for a moment, then got up, "I'm going back to Wusong Mountain. Master has already told Feng Zhi to come to me to get medicine on the [-]th of every month. If you don't want to see Master again, I won't go down the mountain again."

Jiang Weiyan stopped him and said, "Master, stay here. After a while, I will inevitably go to the edge. I don't worry if no one looks at him and tells him to take medicine."

"Xiaobai..." Yuan Yu was interrupted by Bai Lian before he finished speaking.

"I don't know if Master only regards me as an apprentice, a nephew, or something else." Bai Lian raised his head, and he could only roughly determine Yuan Yu's position. He said slowly, "But Master has always been in my heart. Not just the master. It was in the past, and it will be in the future."

Yuan Yu stood at the door and watched Jiang Weiyan and Bai Lian leave the front yard, then turned back to the house and closed the door.

He put his hand on his heart, where there was the jade pendant that he always carried close to his body.

Yuan Yu walked around behind the desk, without thinking, just picked up a pen and dipped in ink to draw a sketch on the paper.

That's the man he's drawn hundreds of times.

If someone else sees this painting, they will probably recognize the person in the painting as Baili Eucalyptus.

No one else's fault, Yuan Yu saw Bai Lian for the first time, his eyebrows and eyes resembled that person very much.

So even if Bai Lian didn't tell him his real name, he knew it.Yuan Yu thought to himself, is this the nephew like uncle?

"Mu Heze...Mu Heze..."

After finishing a painting, Yuan Yu pulled a new piece of paper from the side.

Yuan Yu is not good at painting, there is only one person who can tell him to paint again and again without getting tired.

He painted like this all night.

***

Jiang Weiyan led Bai Lian along the corridor, Bai Lian walked slowly, and he also slowed down to accompany him.

Baili Eucalyptus: "I don't seem to have heard you talk about your childhood, tell me about it?"

"Most things that happened when I was too young can't remember clearly. Wenjiazhuang was a very small place. The family conditions were not good at that time, but my parents were very kind to me and didn't let me suffer. I can be with Like other children, they go to school, and they can play around in their spare time. If they get hurt, their parents will give them medicine when they go home. They don’t scold me, they just tell me to run hard. It doesn’t matter if you get hurt, they will always be at home Wait for me, someone will always help me with the medicine."

Jiang Weiyan's eyes lit up, and he frowned unconsciously when he talked about his childhood, "I've remembered this sentence for a long time. After they passed away, I thought that no one would give me medicine anymore, but the first time I The first time I came back from the battlefield, my mother wanted to hug me but was afraid of touching my wound, so she could only touch my face with tears in her eyes. In those few days, she did not ask the military doctor to apply medicine to me, but rubbed it on me by herself. Tears fell into the wound, and I shivered in pain again."

Bai Lian stopped and turned around to hug him, "And I, I will always wait for you at home, and I will give you medicine when you are injured."

"I know." Jiang Weiyan bowed his head and kissed his forehead lightly.

"When I was young, I loved my father very much. At that time, I thought he was the best father in the world. So when he ignored my mother and me later, I didn't hate him. I always waited until he hugged my mother again, and then Hug me once." Bai Lian said softly, "I have waited for many years, until my mother passed away, and now he passed away, but I have not waited."

Bai Lian laughed at himself: "I always tell myself that he is my father. But now I don't have any other feelings for him except hatred. It is said that blood is thicker than water, and family love comes from blood, but Not bound by blood."

Jiang Weiyan hugged him tightly, "Yuan."

Bai Lian looked up, "What's wrong?"

"There will always be someone who will love you, and there will always be someone who will always love you."

Most of the flowers in the courtyard had fallen. Thyme sat down on the railing beside the corridor and reached out to pat the osmanthus tree next to it. The butterfly on the tree was frightened and flew to another tree with flapping wings.

Just as Jiang Weiyan sat down next to him, he heard him ask: "Do you think I did something wrong?"

"Ok?"

Bai Lian was twisting the flower branch in his hand, but his eyes did not fall on his hand. He looked at one place emptyly, and said: "When I was demoted, Xiao Xi was only 15 years old. This is the age when I should have fun, but because of me, I am not happy." He was trapped by official documents, rules, and the intrigues of the court early on, without any freedom. He is still forced to succeed to the throne."

"Is this what 15 is supposed to be like?"

"I think it is. In the past few years outside the palace, I have seen 15-year-old boys in Beijing, they are very free."

Jiang Weiyan looked at him, "What about you?"

"What am I?"

"My brother has been training in the military camp since he was 12 years old." Jiang Weiyan raised his hand to brush Bai Lian's forehead hair, and caressed his forehead.It was once scratched by Daliang's sword on the battlefield, and even though it was carefully applied with medicine, it still inevitably left a very faint scar, and only he knew about it except Baili Eucalyptus, "When my brother was 15 years old, he went to the At the border, they fought desperately with foreign enemies on the battlefield, narrowly escaped death."

"I..." Bai Lian paused her fingers, not knowing how to respond.

Jiang Weiyan said distressedly: "My Highness was only 15 years old back then, and it is also the age when you should be happy and be held in the palm of your hand and protect you."

Bai Lian stopped folding flowers, looked sideways at him, and said slowly after a while: "This is my own choice, and I don't blame anyone. But Xiao Xi... I hope he blames me."

"If it wasn't for..." Jiang Weiyan paused, "If Baili Xi said he didn't want the throne, even if you didn't want to, would you still be the emperor because of him?"

"Didn't you ask me what the letter I burned in Zhengshitang was?"

Jiang Weiyan looked at him quietly.

Bai Lian continued: "It was written by my father. He said that there is a will on the back of the plaque in the Political Hall, and he wants to pass it on to me. If I want to be the emperor, the will in Xiaoxi's hand can be completely ignored. .”

Jiang Weiyan: "This..."

"I know he was trying to make up for me. I burned it because I didn't have much time left and I couldn't succeed. If I had no health problems and Xiao Xi insisted on not succeeding, I wouldn't force him. His Life should not be arranged by me."

Jiang Weiyan held his hand a little harder, and said annoyedly, "When can you think more about yourself?"

"Not everything goes according to my expectations. Back then, Master was, I was, and you were too." Thyme eucalyptus picked off the sweet-scented osmanthus from the branch one by one, "Everyone is like this. Life is impermanent. Impossible to complete."

"What if you could make every step of your life follow the schedule?"

"If this is really the case..." Bai Lian looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, and said after a while, "Then I might think that this kind of life is too boring."

Jiang Weiyan looked at him for a while, got up, stretched out his hand, and said in a warm voice: "It's late at night, let's go back to the house."

Thyme rose up with strength, leaving flowers falling all over the ground.

Jiang Weiyan led him to go to the bedroom, but at the corner, Bai Lian pulled him to the other side with a little force.

"Huh?" Jiang Weiyan was stunned for a moment, then realized immediately, "Going to another hospital?"

Bai Lian lowered his eyes halfway, and responded lightly: "...um."

Jiang Weiyan didn't come to Bieyuan very often, and this was the first time Bailian confessed to him.

Jiang Weiyan selfishly doesn't want Bai Lian to always come here, because every time he comes to the other courtyard, he is unhappy.

Bai Lian pushed open the door and walked in, turned around and said, "Go back, I will stay with my mother for a while."

Jiang Weiyan knew that he liked to keep things in his heart, but he didn't want to bring such a depressed and uncomfortable mood to others.

Bai Liyan shook the hand being held, Jiang Weiyan could only let go slowly, and compromised: "...Okay."

When the door was about to close, Bai Lian suddenly stopped, and Chong Jiang Weiyan smiled slightly: "I'm fine, don't worry."

He forced a smile again.

Every time.

"Okay." Jiang Weiyan replied.

In the late autumn night, there are no disturbing cicadas, and everything is silent.

Jiang Weiyan didn't listen to Bai Lian's words and went back to the backyard.

As long as Bai Lian in the back room knelt, he stayed with him outside the door.

until daylight.