"From now on, you will be that little bastard, aren't you happy?" Hands with rough calluses, mixed with the smell of wine, sweat and other odors, touched his cheek.
The man in front of him had blazing anger in his eyes, but he managed to squeeze out a smile, "At that kid's age, even if he likes you, he can't move... While he's growing up, you can please him in the past few years, and maybe he won't let you go in the future. You don’t have any status, but you can be kind enough to avoid starving to death... Of course, it’s also possible that he actually wants you for the old guy who taught him how to read. After you go there, you can serve the little brat during the day and the old guy at night... But you don’t have to worry about being lonely. .”
As he said this, he stood up, laughed loudly, slapped Gongsun Xi on the face, and walked away without looking back.
Gongsun Xi resented Gongsun from the bottom of his heart.
This is not a secret at all, because of the brotherhood between Sun Su, the protagonist of the Gongsun family, and Emperor Zhenqing. Gongsun Su’s confidant said several times after drinking that he almost made Gongsun Xi into a slave. After marrying Huan Yehe, he was sent back to Tortoiseshell Island by Gongsun Su overnight.
Because Gongsun Su knew that Gongsun Xi might consider the overall situation for Emperor Zhenqing.
But Huan Yehe is not a light-saving lamp. She has some tricks to kill those who keep talking about her husband.
So many people are surprised why Gongsun Xi didn't change his surname after he became famous
Even if you don’t know what your surname was earlier, it’s not difficult to take the surname of Emperor Zhenqing or Empress Sheng.
What's more, it's not flattering. After all, his first surname was "Gongsun", which was the surname of Emperor Zhenqing at that time.
Before that, he was nameless. People who were kind-hearted called him "boy", and when he was in a bad mood, he was called "little beast".
At that time, he had not been kidnapped to Tortoiseshell Island.
One year, probably not long after he started to remember, he was led to an old man.
The old man's demeanor was different from the people he had come into contact with. It was an indescribable momentum and lingering sadness.
He stared at the young Gongsun Xi for a long time, his eyes indescribable.
Finally, he said: "Don't let him come to me in the future."
After that, his situation went from bad to worse.
As he grew older, he listened to others and realized that the old man's identity was extraordinary and that he was an existence that should not be mentioned to others.
After being told by such a person that he was not allowed to come near him, it was no wonder that some people who were originally nice to him changed their attitudes and began to exclude and suppress him intentionally or unintentionally.
At that time, Gongsun Xi was confused, angry and confused.
Until one time, when he was working, he heard about his life experience: The Wen family of the descendants arranged for the wet nurse of the little prince born to the Wen family. He was half a year older than the little prince. His mother was a child of the Wen family. The people in front of my mother have been serving the Wen family for generations.
So after Little Wen gave birth to a prince who would bring prosperity to the entire Wen family, she became the little prince's wet nurse after passing five levels and defeating six generals.
No one expected that this wet nurse would have the intention to kill the little prince and then trade her child, the civet cat, for the prince.
What is even more surprising is that although the wet nurse could not escape death, he, the "civet cat", survived and ended up living at sea.
So the old man didn't want to see him, which can be said to be merciful.
The ignorant children did not know what words to use to describe their feelings.
... Later, many people came to the island, burning, killing and looting. It was only after a few years that he realized that he grew up on Han Pan's territory.
Han Pan was defeated and lost to Gongsun Tu. The two sea masters died in the battle at sea, and their heads were cut off. Several islands that were used as their bases were all looted, and a large number of people became the spoils of the Gongsun family.
Including him.
Gongsun Xi was indifferent to this.
Although he grew up in the hands of Han Pan, when it comes to feelings, it really doesn't count.
When he arrived at Tortoiseshell Island, life was still as miserable... What made matters worse was probably that Han Pan was just bullying him, but there was someone he coveted here, right
When he was rescued by Emperor Zhenqing, Gongsun Xi actually didn't understand those things very well. He just instinctively felt that it was a bad thing, so bad that it was worth using all means to resist and escape.
Many people, including Queen Sheng, felt that he was loyal to Emperor Zhenqing from then on.
In fact, no. When he first arrived at Emperor Zhenqing's side, his most intense emotion was jealousy: he recognized Emperor Zhenqing's teacher.
The man who even Gongsun, the old sea master, would respectfully address as "Sir".
It was the old man who said, "Don't let him come to me."
If he were not the son of a wet nurse, but a real little prince... the young Gongsun Xi felt aggrieved and lost for the first time.
But the old man didn't even glance at him.
He could only lower his head to cover up his myriad emotions.
But it wasn't just the old man who ignored him.
Tortoiseshell Island respects the Gongsun family, and the upper and lower Gongsun families have different attitudes towards Emperor Zhenqing. As Emperor Zhenqing gets older, he becomes more and more cautious, whether he is good or evil.
But Gongsun Xi, who was beside Emperor Zhenqing, received their consistent indifference and neglect.
Those who occasionally notice him almost always have ulterior motives.
As he got older, the girls began to whisper behind him, but Gongsun Yingjiang, who took the lead, still used a simple and crude method.
Many people thought that he refused the pursuit of the Sea Lord's daughter because he was keeping his integrity. In fact, it was Gongsun Yingjiang's attitude of doing whatever he could to only care about his own preferences that made him feel disgusted and disgusted from the bottom of his heart.
It was a very lonely life.
During these years, only Emperor Zhenqing really cared about him.
Many years later Gongsun Xi came back to his senses and felt that everything might have been planned by the old man.
The old man decided early in the morning to cultivate a confidant for Emperor Zhenqing who could be trusted with his life.
In his entire life from childhood to adulthood, Emperor Zhenqing was the only one who had any bright spots.
So besides working for Emperor Zhenqing, who else could he be loyal to
Although for Emperor Zhenqing, growing up on Tortoiseshell Island was equally lonely and difficult, Gongsun Xi was also his most trustworthy person during that time. But Emperor Zhenqing, who was accepted as his personal disciple by the old man, was not able to compare with Gongsun Xineng in what he saw and understood.
He also has Chuwu who is more trustworthy than Gongsun Xi, and the old man describes the vast world for him.
And the glorious future arranged for him by the old man.
When he fluttered his wings and flew high, Emperor Zhenqing saw far more than Gongsun Xi.
I only woke up to this later.
Growing up on Tortoiseshell Island, Gongsun Xi's emotions were mostly numb.
He didn't care about anyone except Emperor Zhenqing.
I don't care what others think of me.
After all, in that kind of environment, if you don't want to bear the emotional impact again and again, you can only be numb.
So after following Emperor Zhenqing to the Sheng Mansion, he was indescribably bored with the later Queen Sheng, the then Miss Sheng Family Sheng Weiqiao.
For a long time, he felt that it was this girl that was dragging down Emperor Zhenqing's future.
It was much later that he admitted that he was jealous of Sheng Weiqiao's carefree life.
The world is so unfair. Some people are struggling hard and still getting by; some people are messing around all day long, but there is a group of people who hold it like pearls in the palm of their hands.
How broad-minded should the former be to be at peace with the latter
At least Gongsun Xi couldn't do it.
Emperor Zhenqing may be full of interest in such girls, but he only has jealousy and hatred, and even occasionally has the urge to destroy such people's beauty.
A few years later, he met Meng Bijun.
At first, he had no idea about Queen Meng and stayed with her just for Emperor Zhenqing's sake.
Later, Queen Meng gradually developed feelings for him.
His colleagues in the Wuyi Camp warned him afterwards that this was because he was the most likely among the young men that Queen Meng could come into contact with.
If it were Gongsun A and Gongsun B, the queen would still fall in love with him.
Gongsun Xi actually knows this truth very well.
Why did he take the risk of taking the queen with him when he left the palace... He never told anyone this secret, including Emperor Zhenqing.
Because of Queen Meng's speculation about his life experience, he heard this said by another person.
That was when he first came to Wangchun Palace as a guard. One night, someone entered his room in the dark and wanted to tell him a secret in a disguised voice.
If it is true, then it is really a secret: he is not the son of a wet nurse at all, but indeed the little prince.
And why he is considered to be the son of a wet nurse, this is what Huan Guanlan means.
Because Huan Guanlan had already discovered Emperor Zhenqing who had better qualifications.
He made an oath to Emperor Xiaozong that he would take good care of the descendants of the Gu Rong family.
So he planned to kill Gongsun Xi, but he didn't want him to trick Emperor Zhenqing in the future, so he tried to hide his true life experience and pretended to be a nurse.
"Although your wife, the Wen family, has been in decline for many years, she has been secretly accumulating strength and waiting for a comeback." The man said, "Now that Huan Guanlan is dead, you are by Rong Suihe's side, and you have won his trust. You are waiting for an opportunity. move… "
He was killed before he finished speaking.
He didn't sleep that night and worked hard to chop the people into small pieces and throw them into deserted corners of the palace in batches to destroy the corpses and eliminate traces.
I don’t know if it was intentional, or the person who executed it accidentally exposed a flaw? At that time Gongsun Xi thought indifferently.
He didn't believe what the man said, because the man mentioned Huan Guanlan's death with a very firm tone. However, in Gongsun Xi's view, even if the Wen family still had the strength, they would never be able to conclude the matter before the evidence was conclusive.
After all, even the Meng family and King Gaomi were very cautious about this news when they were in their heyday.
That person was either a person left behind by Huan Guanlan during his lifetime and was specifically spying on him; or he was a colleague from Tortoiseshell Island who took a fancy to his position and wanted to sow discord and replace him.
Intellectually, he doesn't believe that he is the natural heir to Da Mu Jiangshan.
But I occasionally think about it, if I were really the little prince, and grew up in the palace without the intervention of the Shu sisters... it wouldn't be such an easy life.
Because there is the Meng family, the Gaomi King, oh, and the support of the Wen family from outside the family will not be free.
Thinking this way, I felt relieved.
But Queen Meng identified him as the little prince.
Gongsun Xi was not afraid of spilling blood to recognize relatives at all. He was not sure about his own life experience, but trusted Huan Guanlan.
Since that person could leave people behind to test Emperor Zhenqing's loyalty after his death, what's more, what about such an obvious way of verifying bloodline as blood recognition
He believed that even if someone really exposed this matter, if they recognized their relatives in person... the result would definitely be in line with Huan Guanlan's ideas.
That elder of the two dynasties was indeed a figure who made both the King of Gaomi and the Meng family in their prime have trouble sleeping and eating.
His methods are far beyond anyone's reach.
This knock on Gongsun Xi's memory is very solid.
Originally, he brought out Queen Meng in order to have time to explain to Emperor Zhenqing, because although he guessed that the person he killed was sent by Huan Guanlan to test him, the subsequent calm seemed to prove this matter more and more, but what if Woolen cloth
What if it’s really from the Wen family
After all, the descendants of the former tribe, after their decline, do not even have the power to resist at all... It seems that it is not possible.
After all, the Wen family did not fall naturally, it was simply due to the failure of the palace battle, and the family did not have no successor.
But he didn't expect that his colleagues would drug him and Meng Bijun.
What happened after that was completely beyond his control.
So much so that he later did not tell Emperor Zhenqing about the Wen family's life experience.
... Several years later, his wife, Princess Fenyang, casually asked during a casual chat: "I heard that when you were a guard at Wangchun Palace, you went to the palace where the little prince died and burned paper money?"
"Yes, I heard that I am the little prince's nurse, so I thought that since I have entered the palace, I might as well do my best." Under the influence of his wife, especially after the birth of his children, the man who was no longer so withdrawn took a sip of his drink. He said calmly, "I just didn't expect to be discovered by Meng, so I managed to fool him easily."
Princess Fenyang is Huan Guanlan's biological granddaughter. Gongsun Xi doesn't know if she is asking this to test his understanding of his life experience, or is she jealous because she thinks of her relationship with Meng Bijun
Although his relationship with Meng Bijun has never been made public, if Princess Fenyang wants to know... she may not be able to find out.
But Gongsun Xi didn't care. After following Emperor Zhenqing for so many years, he knew the emperor's temperament very well, and he was not someone who would burn bridges when crossing rivers.
Emperor Zhenqing didn't doubt him, so Princess Fenyang wouldn't bother with him over these things. Wasn't this princess just because of his status in front of Emperor Zhenqing
As for the relationship between myself and Meng Bijun...
Gongsun Xi raised his head and looked at the floating clouds in the sky, thinking lightly that it would not be wrong to say that he had no feelings at all. After all, in the first ten years of his life, Meng Bijun had made it clear that he had a good impression of him. Not only did he have the most noble status, but his attitude was also ordinary. Children, rather than the style represented by Gongsun Yingjiang on Tortoiseshell Island.
What's more, the former queen was so beautiful, how could he not be moved at all
If fate gives them more opportunities to get along, for example, the queen does not ask to return to Shanglinyuan, but waits for him to get married after the war... He is not an unlucky person, and will not forget the past due to long separation. As promised, they should also become a couple in that case, right
However, fate has no ifs.
Looking back, Gongsun Xi raised the bottle towards Princess Fenyang: "May your highness be young forever!"
… In this life, this is the end of it.
It’s superfluous and nothing to think about.
After all, Gongsun Xi understood a long time ago that there are always only a few people who have their dreams come true and everything goes as they wish.
Most people who are not favored by fate are well-dressed and well-fed, have a loving wife at home, and have children. That is the kind of happiness that should no longer complain.
There are already so many regrets in this life, so many that it doesn’t matter if we add or subtract a few or a dozen... Meng Bijun is one of them.
So what else is there to be sad about
Anyway, he had long been accustomed to numbness.
He was so numb that Emperor Zhenqing remembered it a few years ago and asked him if he wanted to change his original surname back... His original surname should be Wen.
This is based on the identity of the wet nurse and the son, who originally gave birth to the son of the Wen family.
However, he refused because he did not want to be a servant of the Wen family, even though the declining Wen family would never treat him as a servant again.
Emperor Zhenqing also felt that if his identity as a servant of the Wen family was confirmed and the Wen family came to ask for help, Gongsun Xi would not be able to refuse.
So I asked him if he wanted to take his last name Rong, or go back to his previous name of "Sheng Xi" when he was in Sheng Mansion.
Gongsun Xi finally said: "Just use your original surname. I have become accustomed to it after so many years."
As for the grievances with the Gongsun family in the early years, "It's not a big deal. It happened when I was young. How old are you now?"
It has been seen clearly that the Gongsun family back then was at best a pretense, and the real manipulator behind the scenes was the one who was respected as a teacher by Emperor Zhenqing... That person, let alone express his hatred, even privately took revenge on future generations. possible.
If you continue to hate Gongsun, you will only show your weakness and cowardice.
He really no longer regards the surname "Gongsun" as a shame or a problem.
Glancing at the smiling woman in front of him, the clear wine reflected the man's cold eyes.