Everyone loves Huo Qubing

"what--"

Waking up again from the nightmare.Shortness of breath, his left hand was raised high and stretched out into the air to freeze, and there was endless darkness in front of his eyes.

How many nights has it been?

If the fragments of memory cannot be spliced ​​together, they will be like sharp knives stabbing my heart over and over again.

In the dream, the four people dressed as bodyguards all had the same face—Tian Fu's face.They removed my ankles, gagged my mouth, and dragged me around on my knees on the white-stained bluestone ground.

"Let go of him, you beasts!" Han Yan, dressed in red, galloped forward, her head full of black hair flying behind him, entangled with crimson thorny flowers.

"Empress Chen's scheme really worked," the guards all raised their heads and laughed, "This bait is really in hand, Dr. Han actually delivered it to the door by himself."

"Don't save me!" I didn't open my mouth, but I heard myself scream.

Taishi Han showed a dazzling smile with extremely slow movements, and the thorny thorny vines spread and wrapped around his neck.

"I've already died once, and I don't care about dying again." He smiled and said to me, "Thank you, Qubing. You didn't report me in front of the guards at the Qilin Banquet, and let me live like this You have won the favor of the emperor for five more years. Let me repay you today."

Han Yan turned around to face the guards, blue hair fluttering around his gorgeous face, he showed a ghostly smile, and thorny vines wrapped around me, covering the sky and the earth.

There was a faint wailing like tearing, and the bodies of the guards were cut into mottled pieces by the scissors-like vines.

Han Yan's shadow trembled and gradually turned into countless red bubbles: "Prime Minister Tian, ​​don't forget what happened tonight. The old and new feuds between us will be settled with you slowly when I become a ghost in the underworld."

***

I saw him again.

This time, under the starry sky, the Big Dipper shone brightly just like that night.

"Do you still remember that kiss that was lightly tasted?" On the grass, the phoenix eyes looked down at me.

I nodded.

"Do you like it? Do you want to try again?" The beautiful face tempted me.

"Okay." I went forward, deepening the kiss like last time, until he leaned down and kissed me back in the same way.Feelings came to me like a tide, and I clung to his shoulders tightly like a drowning person, and soon collapsed again. His hands were held down by him, and I was crushed on the grass with the coolness of night dew.

Styrax wraps around me tightly, and the taste of apricot blossom wine comes from between my lips and teeth, making me yearn for more.

"More, continue." I heard myself begging.

The phoenix eyes are full of an intimate smile.

"As you wish." He whispered in my ear.

The sky is on the ground, and the stars are twinkling in front of my eyes.The coolness of the night climbed up my chest and abdomen, and I felt a slight spasm in my lower abdomen while shivering, and the heat climbed up my back, rising continuously until it was burning like a flame.

The footsteps stopped beside us, and the queen mother led the emperor over: "Look, Cheer, this is the person you love, and he is with someone else now."

"That's right, he loves me now." I heard myself laughing out of breath.

"Mother, why did you show me this?" The Son of Heaven sighed sadly, "I've obviously let go."

"Remember, Cher, you are the only son of the Ai family." The Queen Mother's shadow began to shatter.

The warmth in my body suddenly pulled away, Han Yan floated in the air, and thorns wrapped around him.

"I'm leaving." I heard him say softly to the emperor, "Please help me take care of Qu Bing."

"Don't go!" I yelled frantically.

The red silhouette fell apart between my fingers. Before he completely disappeared, I heard him lament: "For 20 years, ruthless is the emperor's family!"

***

When I woke up, I found sadly that during the two years of getting along, we had never called each other's names.We have always referred to each other as "you" and "I". I have never been able to say "Yan'er" that the emperor called out crazily that night.Similarly, he only called me "Qubing" in the dream.I doubt that if he really called me, he would mistakenly call me "Jun Shang" or "Che'er"...

The tragedy that night seemed to be just a common farce in the court. I watched numbly as the eunuchs and maids covered the white cloth, lifted the corpse, opened doors and windows skillfully, and lit the incense burner.

The white paste exuding a strange smell was splashed on the ground, and with the sharp scraping sound of the brush brushing the horse's mane, it rendered a more beautiful carmine than Chang'an Xishi Lacquer Painting Workshop.

"The Ai family likes this child from the Wei family very much," I heard the Queen Mother say, "but the Ai family is really worried that when he grows up, he will be a troublesome beauty."

I saw Princess Pingyang, whose cloak was soaked and her hair dripping with water, walked past me and knelt beside the Queen Mother.I heard her say: "Mother, this is probably a misunderstanding. Qu Bing is still young and doesn't understand anything. It is impossible for him to do such a thing."

I saw Empress Chen turned her head and whispered to the Queen Mother.

I saw the Queen Mother nodding to the eunuch.

I saw the eunuch walking towards me, and I felt his cold hands lift the hem of my muddy skirt layer by layer.

I saw Cao Xiang's terrified eyes.

The fragments of memory began to be sorted chaotically again.

***

I decided not to sleep in Chengming Palace anymore.The strong styrax that fills here makes me uncomfortable, and I always have similar nightmares. If this continues, I will definitely collapse.

Besides, Han Yan always mentioned in his dreams that he left me something important.Although I don't know what it is, I am still curious to find it.

Han Yan's coffin was parked in Chengming Hall, and I heard different cries every day.During the day, it is mostly Han Shuo, and at night, it is mostly Tianzi.Sometimes the two choked up together; sometimes, in addition to the wailing and whimpering from Han said similar to what I heard in the previous music test, there were also some strange beatings and low-pitched singing.

Han Ru's descendants seem to have never shown up.I even forgot, after all, the one who died was the concubine who was sent to study with Weiyang Palace and had hardly been home for 20 years, and the crime of being Luo Zhi was not so honorable.

During the day, the Son of Heaven was not idle. It is said that he sent people to confiscate Han Yan's mansion outside Sima Beimen before Tian Fu, and then the two took turns to overturn the barracks of the Qimen Army and the barracks of the North and South Imperial Guards one by one. Upside down.

Both Tian Zi and Tian Fu seemed to be looking for something.I had a vague feeling that what they were looking for might be the same thing as what I was looking for.

Huo Yunma has been staying in the princess mansion to recuperate, and my yew bow has been missing.Trapped in this Chengming Palace all day long, drinking bitter soup and medicine, I don't quite understand why I have to drink medicine again, I don't have any illness at all.

"The imperial physician ordered that you can't go anywhere." When Cao Xiang came to see me, she said, "Your Majesty was going to send you to the Yilan Hall to recuperate, but later he was afraid that Empress Chen would harm you, so he kept you by my side to take care of you."

I remember that night, the emperor who was dripping with water kicked the eunuch away from me and stared at his queen mother fiercely, as if he was about to bite his white teeth: "This child, before his uncles come back, I will not give up!" Just take it with you, and don’t let it go away.”

"But I have already missed a lot of homework." I said depressingly.

Cao Xiang was surprised: "Your legs look like this, do you want me to carry you to class?"

"What's wrong with my legs?" I gasped as I lifted the silk quilt and saw the balled knees.

I am dreaming again.

When I wake up from the dream, I have to go and pray to Yagami, and beg them not to let me dream again.

This time, I dreamed that the emperor allowed me to move to Jianzhang Palace.I stepped into the familiar front hall of Jianzhang Palace, and a woman was already waiting there.

She was wearing Empress Chen's gold hairpin costume, but she had Su Jia's face.She said to me in high spirits: "Qu Bing, your second uncle has decided to be with me forever."

"Why!" I rushed over desperately and grabbed her by the collar.

She slowly raised the empty silver armor in her hand, her eyes frivolous: "Because he is already dead."

When I woke up, I wiped it with the back of my hand, only to find that my face was full of tears.

Changle Palace, Changle Palace, has a very good name, but it is destined to never be happy, and the generations are full of hatred.

***

After I was finally able to walk on the ground, I went to visit Han Yan's coffin first.In the hall full of white latticework, the incense from the Western Regions, which is stronger than the incense of Suhe, wafts through the hall, which chokes me so much that I can hardly keep my eyes open.

The chill brought by the piles of ice rocks drives away the residual heat of early autumn.Han said that he was kneeling in front of the coffin in hemp-colored filial piety, a few strands of golden-brown silk hanging from his forehead, and there were criss-cross tears on his face, and his expression was full of quiet sadness.

I haven't heard much crying lately.After so many days, he probably couldn't cry anymore.

I lit three sticks of incense, wishing the dead a good journey.

"I'm useless." Seeing me coming in, he said to himself, "If I can be more confident and stronger, maybe my brother won't die."

"Han Shizhong, it's not your fault." I casually comforted him, "Dead people can't be brought back to life, so let's be sad."

Hearing my calm tone, Han said he showed a puzzled expression.

"Brother passed away, you don't seem sad." He asked me, "The people in the palace told me about you and him, is it true?"

"Rumors stop with the wise." I shook my head.

His beautiful phoenix eyes were instantly filled with disappointment, and he murmured as if asking himself: "Yes, you are so young, how could you understand."

"I may not know much about feelings, but I am sure that Han Yan has always loved you, and Your Majesty." I tried to give him a positive statement, but I didn't have much confidence when I said it, more like I'm talking to myself.

Han said his face softened.

"However, thank you for coming to visit my brother. By the way," he thought for a while, groping under the altar where the coffin and jars were placed, and finally found a kit from under the bouquet, "Brother, I have something for you .”

Han said that he told me to go back and open it again. I carefully put the kit in the skirt of my clothes, put my forehead against the end of the black coffin bottle engraved with intricate patterns and lay down for a while, then said goodbye and left.

He closed the door gently, turned around, and bumped into the same person.

"...Your Majesty." The moment her knees landed on the ground, there was a sharp pain, and the sweat on her forehead immediately leaked out.If he had known this earlier, he should have pinched his nose and finished the morning bowl of soothing and pain-relieving herbs.

"Give it to me." The emperor stretched out his left hand and stretched it out in front of my eyes.

"Huh?" I looked up at the smug face in doubt.What does the Son of Heaven want?

"Han said what I just gave you." The emperor chuckled confidently.

***

I sat by the couch, staring at the kit in my hand.This fact makes me dumbfounded that someone actually sent someone to monitor Han Shuo.

Just now in front of my face, the Son of Heaven unpacked the bag quickly, turned it upside down and shook it upside down for a long while, and an octagonal disc came out.The emperor's expression was mixed, and he shook and pulled out but there was nothing else.

"Be flat." The emperor returned the kit to me with a sense of loss.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

I held the kit, but I couldn't get up for a long time.

"what happened?"

"I can't move my knee."

"Sorry, I forgot that you were still injured." The Son of Heaven hugged me horizontally, looked at the hem of my white uniform with guilty eyes, and the two red spots on my knees were gradually fading, "Send the imperial physician's order quickly."

I nervously stared at the two mustaches that were close at hand and moved up and down comically with the owner of the voice-the secret removal of the bandage was about to be exposed so soon.

"Until your leg injury is healed, you don't have to bow down to me." After a while, the emperor added, "And anyone in Weiyang Palace."

Put me on the couch in the side hall, and when the emperor left, he said: "I don't understand why Han Yan left this astrolabe to you, but if you are interested, you can find a man named Sima Tan, he Know how to read an astrolabe."

"Sima Tan?" Never heard of it.

"He is my Taishi Ling, who is in charge of the heavenly officials' astrology."

***

The Chengming Hall is very large. When I wandered around during the day, I could hear all kinds of voices coming from the main hall of the Chengming Hall. Some expressed condolences, some reported on the progress of the project, and some came to fetch the memorial and remind the Holy Spirit. , Some came directly to His Majesty to recommend and participate in impeachment.I heard the voices of Dongfang Shuo and Sima Xiangru a few times, but I didn't hear any news about Mayi.

And the night in Chengming Palace was extremely quiet.Looking from the window lattice, a bright moon almost full is hanging on the branches. It will be mid-autumn in a few days. According to the weekly ritual, there should be a ceremony to worship the moon.

Suddenly there was the sound of something being thrown, followed by a heart-piercing roar.

"Get out! Get out of here! A bunch of worthless people!"

After a while, someone knocked on the door.

"Mr. Huo, it's me." Han said in a voice, "Can I borrow you here to hide for a while."

"come in."

Han said that he opened the door and came in. There was no filial belt on his forehead, three thousand gold threads were floating on his shoulders, and there was a bruise on the corner of his forehead.With great effort, I moved this man who was much taller than me to the couch, and gave him a handful of caramel from the plate.

"If you continue to haggard, you will really collapse. Go home and have a rest."

"Let me stay here for a while, okay?" Han said, chewing candy, and pleaded weakly, "I have no parents since I was a child, and I have always lived with my brother. Now that the Han Mansion has been sealed off, I have nowhere to go."