How many buildings are in the mist

"Meet Choi Sang."

"Oh, why is the king of Nankang doing this, get up quickly."

After Cui Yi said that, Feng Zizhang straightened up. "For so many years, I have never visited Cui Xiang's residence. I didn't expect it to be so quiet and simple." Feng Zizhang said inwardly, from the time he entered the door to now when he was seated, he saw a total of three servants, without any gorgeous furnishings. It's even simpler than the average Jiankang wealthy family, and it makes people suspect that Cui Yi's salary has gone to hell.

"It doesn't matter, my house hasn't changed for ten years. It's the same whenever His Highness comes." Finally, another servant came to serve tea, Cui Yi said: "There are only some simple teas and food for Your Highness. Especially this tea, it's really good. It can't be regarded as entertainment." Feng Zizhang was puzzled, picked it up and smelled it immediately, it was the tea produced in Xie Jiashuang's Luocheng, she drank it every day, no wonder Cui Yi wanted to say that.

"Choi Sang made fun of me."

"Hahahaha no. Today, His Majesty had a detailed discussion with His Highness, but what did they talk about?"

Feng Zizhang put down his teacup and said seriously, "It's precisely for this purpose."

Feng Zihuan announced her decision that day, but she was not in a hurry to let Feng Zizhang do it. For this reason, the government and the public believed that she was waiting to see the reaction of the big family after the servant was beheaded.I also want the poor officials to rest and relieve the tense nerves of the court.She didn't even go to the "Grand Ceremony" where the slaves who committed crimes were beheaded in the downtown area, but prepared seats facing the execution platform for the important officials of the family who were present.She originally wanted to send Cui Xuanji to supervise, but later changed her mind and let Cui Xuanji go in private.As a result, Cui Xuanji stood on the roof and watched the head fall to the left, but his face was ashes when he looked to the right.When they came back, they reported to her one by one. After she finished listening, she asked Cui Xuanji to do what she should do, and called Feng Zizhang from the government office on the way.

Puzzled, Feng Zizhang gave up the chance to go home and have dinner with Xie Yan, and came to Feng Zihuan's bedroom.During the meal, Feng Zihuan first asked her what she thought of the inspection report, and she told the truth—the matter was serious, and it could be considered that excessive land annexation and serious protection of slaves were diseases that every family suffered from. Strictly speaking, the Cui Xie family is no exception, but the means are not dirty, and they are not causing harm to one party; Feng Zihuan asked her whether it is important to conquer the Xianbei Yan Kingdom and return the capital to Luoyang?

"Don't answer me with those big and empty words. You should answer me according to our actual situation you know now. Do you think it is important or not? Do you want to do it?"

Feng Zizhang thought for a while, and answered seriously: "It's important, to do it. It's just the difference between when and how to do it." Feng Zihuan nodded.

She thought that her sister was going to ask her about the national policy, and she was already making quick calculations—after thinking about it, she realized that there were too many things she didn't know, and she might not be able to come up with a reliable enough strategy. Feng Zihuan's unnecessary expectations and even wild thinking, it's better to decline—unexpectedly, Feng Zihuan asked her on a more serious topic: "Zizhang, will you always support me?"

In the past, Feng Zizhang would definitely make fun of her sister without thinking.But now the situation is different, Feng Zihuan's question meant something, but she could no longer answer with her old laughter.Any slight misconduct at this time will cause trouble.

"Naturally. My sister should know this better than me."

"That's true. I am very clear about the past. I just hope that everything will be the same."

As a result, I didn't continue to talk about these serious topics during that meal, and talked about the children all the way down.Feeling that something was wrong, Feng Zizhang went home and discussed with Xie Yan for a long time, and finally decided that Xie Yan would go to Cui's mansion to talk to him when he went to court the next day, and Feng Zizhang would go to see Cui Yi alone at night, so as to avoid as much as possible. Discovered, suspected, or even attacked by the emperor or any party in the conservative family. "Really, I don't know whose eyeliner I'm hiding from. If I don't know who it is, everyone is. In fact, we are aboveboard, but everyone should be careful." Xie Yan sighed.Feng Zizhang reassured Xie Yan and said, "The mediator is often attacked by both sides, and it is not pleasing. There is no way to do it." She let Xie Yan take care of the house, and went out through the back door alone, and took a very low-key car. The ox cart came to Cui's mansion and met Cui Yi.

"I always feel that what my sister said is right. If you want to ask one more question, you should ask how I think the property and population of the aristocratic clan should be handled in the future. What does Xiang Cui think?"

"Your Highness's heart is like a mirror."

"My sister never talked about this with Cui Xiang?"

Hearing this, Cui Yi smiled helplessly, the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes gathered together, and she did not have a calmness that is used to things in the world: "From the time His Highness left the palace and went south, the emperor seldom discussed many plans with me. If you don’t agree, where should I change it? I can only start here. Xuanji used to be able to influence the emperor’s thinking and give her advice. But now this matter, On the contrary, His Majesty stopped discussing with her. Or..."

Cui Yi suddenly stopped to think, Feng Zizhang went in without knowing it, and asked tentatively: "Cui Xiang?"

"Oh, I was thinking, maybe Xuanji didn't tell me?"

Feng Zizhang wisely chose to shut up at this time.

"In short, Cui Xiang, it is certain that my sister will deal with the family, but I am not sure what she will ask of us. She said this like the world is going to be chaotic. I am really worried. What Cui Xiang thinks we should do ?”

"Well, in my opinion, on the one hand, Your Highness might as well follow what he did last time, while there is still time, use the convenience of his position to find more materials, and prepare to come up with plans in accordance with His Majesty's requirements. Second, His Highness should You must continue to lead the humble scholars. Whether you want to be the leader of this party[email protected]#!, you must do it, because others cannot. I will think of a way to see if I can win Xie Come on, let’s go together to bridge other clans. Maybe they are not happy to see us. Three—"

"Three?"

Cui Yi shook her head, "Oh, Your Highness must also understand that the most uncontrollable thing here is His Majesty's will. I will talk to Xuan Ji about this and see if we can do something. Remember, Your Highness, the communication between us, Today's form is too conspicuous. The best form is a letter. Otherwise, it would be fine for Gu Heng and his gang to find out, and they will just scold us. If His Majesty finds out from them again, His Majesty will treat us badly. If you lose faith, you will be in trouble."

"I understand." Feng Zizhang nodded seriously.

"Also, Your Highness—"

"Yes."

"Have you recently felt that His Majesty's temper is more irritable and headstrong than in previous years?"

Feng Zizhang then told Cui Yi about the family Kungfu.Cui Yi took a breath, "This... is there any way to restrain it?"

"Yes, there is, but I don't know if my sister's cycle has arrived, and I dare not make any suggestions."

"Aside from the martial arts method, is there any other method?"

Feng Zizhang thought for a while, "Maybe we can start with diet, and it's good to suppress our anger."

Cui Yi nodded repeatedly.Feng Zizhang bid farewell to leave, Cui Yi stopped her, just thanked her.Feng Zizhang said with a smile: "This is my family, and I should be the one to thank Cui Xiang."

From then on, Feng Zizhang followed Cui Yi's instructions to search for materials from various state capitals, and compared them with the review results. Some information was really inconvenient to obtain, and she was busy with government affairs and had no time, so she left these things to Xie Yan and held parties. This kind of thing is also thrown to her master Neishi.The affairs are complicated, but the days are as quiet as running water. In June, it is Zhu Xianzhi's sacrificial ceremony again.

This is the third time I have participated in the memorial ceremony for Zhu Xianzhi, Cui Xuanji thought, she also wanted to go to Zhu Xianzhi's spiritual tablet and offer incense and pray, but she didn't know what to pray.Ask her to bless herself, or ask her to forgive herself?Like occasionally thinking if Jiang Yuan is still there, she also wonders if Zhu Xianzhi hadn't died young, would the world be different today?Will Feng Zihuan be able to listen to Zhu Xianzhi's advice?Where would I be then?Would he be carefree in the grand ancestral house in Huanyuzhang, or would he find Xie Yan in Shuangluo and go wandering in all directions?No matter what you do, in short, you may not come to Jiankang at all, and you will not say these words and do these things around Feng Zihuan, and you will do all other things in all other places except Jiankang. Slowly, Slowly, he forgot about his admiration for her.

That will become a dream when I was young. Because the dream is too beautiful and cannot be turned into reality, it will gradually fade away.I can go anywhere without you.

This year, because there was still no part of the maids being released, the ceremony ended very quickly.Feng Zihuan still stayed inside, standing alone facing Zhu Xianzhi's spirit seat.Even though the security has increased a lot, Cui Xuanji is still not at ease, so she stands at the entrance of the hall and looks in, in case anyone appears suddenly - even with her knowledge of Feng Zihuan's force, she believes that there are few people in the world who can hurt him. The emperor is no one.If there is, the emperor himself can beat it—but this is her duty and her love.

Every year when offering sacrifices to Feng Zihuan, he insists on wearing plain white clothes.It is said that a minister once protested, saying that the emperor's plain clothes are a deep condolence and cannot be worn all the time.Feng Zihuan replied coldly, I am mourning my wife.

Cui Xuanji looked at Feng Zihuan's figure—arms hanging down, back straight, like a pillar, similar to her name {133}—aloof, independent, and not close to anyone.Who can you get close to?Cui Xuanji thought, except for a pair of daughters, or you are close to the daughters because you love the part of Zhu Xianzhi in them?Putting all this aside, when you are not the emperor, not the mother, not the elder sister, but just yourself, you are really like a pillar standing there that has nothing to do with anyone.It's as if all this and that is something you can take away from you, if you really want to, you can throw it away whenever you want.

But you can't, you're given it all, you're forced to.And I seem to be forcing you too.What others force you is your status and what you were born with by your blood; what I force you is your treasure, your love.

As the wind passed, Feng Zihuan's cuffs and hair fluttered gently.Seeing Cui Xuanji, she suddenly remembered that in May, the night before her birthday, Feng Zihuan let her rest the next day, and specially invited her to the bedroom that night.She walked in anxiously, with sweetness and tension intertwined in her heart, and a trace of worry emerged from time to time.As a result, in the inner room, Feng Zihuan had just taken a shower and was resting with loose hair. Seeing her coming, he pointed to something on the table beside him that was covered by green gauze, "Come on, open it and see what it is." She Looking at the shape, I am afraid it is a knife rest?A closer look revealed that it was a dagger inlaid with gems.

"Look at it." Feng Zihuan's voice was very gentle.

The dagger, which was less than the length of the forearm, had a cold light, and it was extremely sharp at first glance.Feng Zihuan slowly talked about who I sent to make this thing, and where the gems came from, "For three years, I haven't rewarded you with anything, and you don't want it. But tomorrow is your birthday. Just take it."

The dagger was beautiful, very good, and very light, but she could only see Feng Zihuan's loose hair and fine wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.Feng Zihuan was smiling to himself, but he hadn't seen it for a while.

She knelt down and thanked the emperor for her kindness.From then on, I carried this dagger with me and never left it.For example, her birthday the next day has not been celebrated for years, and she does not want to celebrate it this year.She closed the door to thank the guests, sat alone facing the moon in the mansion, took out the dagger to watch carefully, ran across the blade with her fingertips, and saw blood before feeling the pain.

She stared at the wound, a drop of red blood on the flat and slender wound.

It's like I fell in love with you long before I realized I was in love with you, so I lost the chance to let myself live.I can no longer think clearly whether I love your arrogance and majesty, whether you are a strong man, whether you are chic and unrestrained, or whether you love your devotion.I love every part of you that twists together to be you, and every part of me may not exist without me, shouldn't have, can't have.

So you don't have to worry about me, be responsible for me, think about how to avoid being involved and being troubled for me, etc. I am willing, this is the only way for me to get close to you and have some kind of connection with you.I am willing to sacrifice myself to your great ambitions, for I know no other way of securing a small place in your heart.

I know I can't expect your love, I can only expect you to remember me, remember me forever.

There was a gust of wind that blew the fragrance of flowers, and a few strands of Cui Xuanji's hair also fluttered forward, but his hands were behind his back.Feng Zihuan also opened his eyes when he smelled the fragrance of flowers.It was narcissus, a flower that Zhu Xianzhi liked very much during his lifetime, so naturally many of them were specially placed here today.Every time she smells the fragrance of narcissus, Feng Zihuan always thinks of Zhu Xianzhi, but today she closed her eyes and imagined for a long time, but she never saw Zhu Xianzhi.This was frustrating, because Feng Zihuan was full of words and wanted to tell Zhu Xianzhi, even though Zhu Xianzhi couldn't answer a word.

I want to tell you that what I have seen these days is completely different from what you and I thought, especially what you persuaded me to rely on.Maybe you will still persuade me to rely on them instead of destroying them. There is no need to make such a big mess for them, take such a big risk to take back manpower and material resources, put them in their hands, and just use them. Why do you want to do this?You must say so.But can I?Can they obey my will?Can they follow my ideas without hesitation?Can they be honest and loyal to me, instead of flattering and deceiving me from various angles?

There is only one person who can do this to me, and that person is Cui Xuanji.Too many people regard the world as a world to divide up interests, and there are very few people who are selfless. Among these few people, there is only one Cui Xuanji who is still telling me the complete truth.Even though what she said recently often contradicted my thinking, aroused my anger, and made me utter bad words, she refused to take it back, and she would not change it even next time.I also thought about it afterwards, how could I say such a thing?Why should I hurt her?I found that I can't bear it, I can't bear it so much.

Xianzhi, I have developed feelings for her that I shouldn't have, and she is also interested in me.Clever, beautiful, upright, and quiet, who wouldn't like her?But I shouldn't be sorry for you, let alone drag her down.

And now, it's obvious that she wants to go through fire and water with me, and I can't live without her.So, what should I do, Xianzhi?Shall I wait?Wait until this is over?

If we all get through it safe and sound, I'll ask you again this time next year.

Feng Zihuan turned and left, and returned to his bedroom together with Cui Xuanji without saying a word.At this time, Dou Shangshi personally came over and brought today's soup.Cui Xuanji took a quick glance at the dishes, and they were indeed the ones specially prepared by him and Dou Shangshi to help reduce the fire.So when the ladies left, she gave Dou Shangshi a wink to express her gratitude.

Dou Shangshi still just gave her a blank look.

After Feng Zihuan finished eating, he talked with her about the weather, just when Concubine Duan and Concubine Ning came to visit, she wanted to answer, but also saluted, she got anxious and coughed.This coughing is not a big deal, I still feel dizzy after coughing and coughing, and I haven't recovered from it for a long time.

She was never like this, even Feng Zihuan was startled.

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{133} The word Huan has three meanings besides being used as a surname: 1. The wooden pillars erected on the side of the city walls, palaces, government offices, mausoleums or post stations in ancient times, that is, the later Huabiao. 2. Big. 3. The use of overlapping characters refers to a mighty look.