After Su Hexiang spun off all the properties of the Ling family, she chased her irresponsibly and left me a mess.
Many expenditures in the early days of the Hua Dynasty were supported by the Ling family for free. Although the tax revenues in those years had begun to have a surplus, and after the Ling family was spun off, a large amount of tax revenue was increased, but the gap caused was still very large. It may make the imperial court spend as much as before.
But this time I understand very well that I am angry with Su Hexiang not because I have to deal with all the things he left behind, but because I am angry that he is like this, he can be like this...
Power and wealth treated her like dung, and they chased her like that.
What they do is something I can't do, how can I not make me jealous!
Xiao Se sat on the throne, but we all know that it was just for Xiao Zheng to watch, because Xiao Zheng is still young and needs more experience, so let Xiao Se watch.
We all know it, but some people don't.
Xiao Se doesn't have a wife, and his post has been vacant all the time, but he has quite a few women, big and small, and there are more than a dozen of them. It can be said that the history can be regarded as a joke after dinner. The one who took off his clothes directly relied on him, some who had to be sent over and had to accept it, some who attacked Dali in order to buy the local chieftain before Yexue, and one who had the longest experience and the most plots, and was often caught by Ye Shi. A woman who made fun of him.
Gao Ziqing from the Gao family.
Later Concubine Gao.
When he first came to the throne, his harem woman lived in the palace honestly. As the days of her departure grew longer, Xiao Se became familiar with him in the previous dynasty, and various things began to come to his harem.
is to find us directly.
She demanded to add eunuchs to the palace again, to repair those barren places in the palace, to ask for tribute, to ask for jewelry, to ask for clothes, and to ask for everything she could enjoy before.
I just replied that all her clothes, jewelry, food and accommodation were all her own, and even the palace was repaired with her own money. If you want to, you can take the money and I will arrange someone to help you buy it.
I heard that the beauties in the harem cried to Xiao Se all night, and Xiao Se killed two of them before calming down.
But Xiao Se could kill those beauties without background, but he didn't touch those women from aristocratic families.
Xiao Se found us and sat in the imperial study, looking at Cheng Jia's paintings on the wall, we were silent. Later, it was Zhu Weili's suggestion that the imperial court allocate a fixed amount of money to the royal family every year, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs It is decided to use, and this amount cannot exceed 10% of the fiscal surplus of the year.
I chimed in, five percent.
At that time, Huachao's financial surplus was already 30 million taels of silver. These were all her hard-earned money, so she just spent it on those women? I can not be reconciled.
Xiao Se asked me about my surplus for the year, and after a long silence, he said, 2% is fine.
In the name of frugality, Xiao Se released a few more beauties, and he cleaned up the harem until there were only five people left, four of whom had children, and one was said to be a benefactor to him.
The harem fell silent.
Although Xiao Se followed Zhu Weili and followed her since he was a child, he fought alone in the south for so many years. He wanted to revive his family's prestige. At that time, it was necessary to use people from aristocratic families, so the aristocratic families in the north of Bianjing, including Jiangnan, were killed Ye Po was severely suppressed by Ye Po, but there were still quite a few people like that among him.
He used to be a counselor, but now he naturally occupies an important position.
The first one to take away was the original seat of Su Hexiang.
When Su Hexiang was there, she was not only in charge of Huachao's huge household department, but also the Ling family's property, which was already closely related to Huachao's economy.
As soon as the counselor came up, he wanted to trick the Ling family.
In fact, I can understand his behavior very well. Although Huachao already has so much surplus, in the past, the Ling family gave Huachao 40 million taels of expenses every year without compensation. Now the emperor's harem is poor and has become a first-grade concubine There are no more than twelve servants in this position, so it would be strange if he had no idea.
But he moved the Ling family's silver buildings at every turn, and nationalized all the Ling family's silver buildings free of charge.
He didn't get approval from anyone, didn't tell us or Xiao Se, and he went directly to the Gao family to lead people to seize it.
However, that was the Ling Family Silver House.
Su Hexiang divided all the properties of the Ling family. There is no information in the Huachao household department. The flow of funds and the account books are all in the hands of the elders of the Ling family. The shopkeeper, the main person in charge, should be the genius doctor's son, her other godson, Lan Bao.
And Lan Bao, if there is no accident, is the heir to the Red Mansion that Xiao Se can't even find a shadow of.
Even if Lan Bao and Xiao Zheng go out to sea together, even if Ying Er and Ying Ten no longer appear at all.
But when they are dead...
When they went there, there was not even a dime in all the silver buildings, and all the gold, silver and jewelry disappeared overnight.
Zheng Xi respectfully held the title deed of the silver building and the ownership of the store, went directly to the main hall of the early court, and spread out those title deeds and warrants in front of Xiao Se and a full hall of civil and military officials.
Everyone on it is still her name.
Xiao Se directly ordered to kill that idiot and all the generals and soldiers who obeyed his order.
If he didn't give the order, then he and his harem, including those who depended on him, would never be able to leave that hall and Bianjing city again. They have been quiet for four years, and everything above the court continues as before, bleak and conscientious, and they rarely even go to the harem.
Although I seldom go there, I think it is impossible for him not to know the dirty things behind.
And those undercurrents under still water.
Human thoughts, human selfishness, and human selfish desires will motivate them to do something, and even if they know they can't do it, they will do it.
Four years later, Xiao Zheng and the others came back.
The young and tender boy back then is already as tall and straight as a pine, sharp and restrained, so I feel relieved.
The child she fancied, the child she brought up with one hand, now seems to have a majestic momentum. Even if the smiles on their faces are bright, and the hugs they rush forward are enthusiastic and rough, but that is already enough to bear anything. Responsible man.
Those teenagers raised in the harem, those children surrounded by lies by their mothers and staff...
Ha ha!
The relationship between Xiao Se and Xiao Zheng is not good. Compared with Xiao Se's other children, he sees Xiao Zheng very little.
That's why those people have thoughts, who doesn't like children who are close to them? Everyone is eccentric, and once eccentric, many things can be changed.
Sometimes I am curious about Xiao Se's real thoughts, this man who inherited the ancient Xiao family is known as a man who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Ye Shiyi.
There is no doubt about his ability, and his understanding of those decrees is even more thorough than ours in some places. After all, he is the one who governed the barren land so that it flourished.
Therefore, it is impossible for him not to know the thoughts of those family survivors, the thoughts of those women in his harem, and the consequences of pampering them like this.
It is also impossible for him not to know that those children who went to sea with Xiao Zheng back then are like sharpened weapons, those sons of generals who hold heavy soldiers.
He looked at me just like me, without any emotion or emotion in his eyes.
But when he saw Xiao Zheng, there was a wave in his eyes, the kind of distant memories and warm eyes were so familiar, I knew it in my heart.
I, no longer asked about those things, Zhu Weili formally submitted his resignation and went home to take care of the elderly, Han Bian and I had more things to do, I promoted many new officials, and then told Xiao Zheng about their hobbies and habits.
I want Xiao Zheng to start from the lowest level of officials, keep his name incognito, and start from the lower levels of the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Industry.
The new generation of children is starting to make their mark, and those students who have been educated by the Ling family since childhood are starting to become talented, and I have started to delegate the authority of my subordinates.
In the fifteenth year of Huayuan, the seventh year after she left, floods broke out on both sides of the river and in the land of two lakes. From southern Xinjiang to Dongting Lake, the heavy rain turned the fertile soil into a swamp.
Xiao Se gave Xiao Zheng the right to rule the Xiao Family Army in Lianghu and Southern Xinjiang, and asked him to be responsible for disaster relief.
Unlike those military factions of the Ling family, the Xiao family army was brought out by Xiao Se. They have no feelings for Xiao Zheng, but are very close to the members of the Gao family.
At the same time, a rebellion broke out in the old land from southern Xinjiang to Dali, and even affected the two lakes.
Xiao Zheng only took five thousand Rakshasa troops there.
Back then, not only the land of two lakes was flooded, but also the land of two rivers. However, Wei Lang, Fan Ye and others in the land of two rivers were very experienced, and there was no danger of the flood.
But the land of the two lakes is different. Before Xiao Zheng arrived, there was a plague because of too many dead people.
Later, after the event was settled, it was found out that they had made a trick at the time, deliberately dug up the embankment without any warning, flooded several embankments, and killed many people.
They wanted to use this to hold Xiao Zheng down, make him lose popular support, and even let him die in the plague.
As the godson of the empress of the Ling family, even if he didn't want to, he would enter the plague land like she did back then.
Sometimes I really doubt whether those people have grass growing in their heads
They remembered what she did in Jiangling back then, but they forgot her best friend Xiao Zheng and Alan, another godmother doctor.
No, they didn't forget, because at that time Alan was being forced to stay in Bianjing by Concubine Gao because of her physical discomfort. No, Alan should have taken advantage of the situation to stay in Bianjing.
However, they still forgot one person, the girl who was very similar to her back then, the girl who made people feel cheerful when she smiled.
Her goddaughter Lan Xiang.
Xiao Zheng didn't go to the affected area at all, the people he led directly beheaded the local people who were unable to provide disaster relief, sent people to take over the local government office, and then sent the army directly to the disaster relief site, and took the lead in taking the people who were flooded. Unblock it again.
Lanxiang entered the epidemic area.
After Xiao Se sent Xiao Zheng there, Concubine Gao's son Xiao Qing also went to the land of two lakes, and brought the medicine prepared in advance into the epidemic area.
I don't know what happened to them in the epidemic area.
It's just that after the epidemic in the epidemic area was completely solved by Lan Xiang, Xiao Qing returned to Bianjing and asked Xiao Se to marry him.
At that time, Xiao Zheng had already entered the vast mountains of Southern Xinjiang. The Southern Xinjiang army was a trap in the first place, and Xiao's army also had some people who disobeyed the general's order.
The five thousand Rakshasa army and the Xiao family army led by the 40,000 Gao family members who came to ambush them were buried in the mountain so silently.
After Xiao Zheng came out from Southern Border, Dali Old Land and Southern Border never dissatisfied with the Hua Dynasty, and the Xiao Family Army directly lost one-third in that mountain.
The other third became Xiao Zheng's people, and another third was deprived of the command right after hesitation.
When Ye Xiao told me these things, there was a gratified smile on the corner of his mouth, and at the end, he muttered softly.
After all, it was the apprentice brought out by Ye Shiyi and Ye Po.
I also feel relieved.
Xiao Qing knelt in front of Xiao Se's hall for a day and a night, begging Xiao Se for a marriage. Concubine Gao tried hard to persuade him to leave, saying what's so good about such a woman, but later she became her son's true emotion and knelt down in front of the hall together with her son, begging Xiao Se is perfect.
Lan Xiang is her goddaughter, the daughter of a genius doctor, and she has a very good relationship with those young generals. If she can get Lan Xiang, Xiao Qing's chances of winning will be greatly increased.
I don't know how Concubine Gao figured it out, but I have to say that she used this trick very well.
Xiao Se's dormitory is not far from the main hall of the former court and early court. I have to say that he is indeed a diligent emperor and a wise emperor, but the crying and pleading in the back hall are really...
Han Bian and Fan Zheng and I stood on the sidelines to watch the excitement.
Xiao Zheng hasn't come back yet, but if Xiao Se really confers marriage at this time, I think Xiao Zheng will definitely be able to blow up this harem.
The Gao family was formerly the Duke of Ji, and she sent someone to rescue them when the deposed emperor killed the generals' family members. Gao Wenhe was the confidant of Third Brother Zhao. After the death of Third Brother Zhao, he has been guarding the remote Northeast He has completely severed ties with the rest of the Gao family, especially Sifang, who has been very active recently.
After Concubine Gao became a concubine, she sent someone to find Gao Liu's wife to enter the palace, saying that she wanted to join the clan, but Gao Liu flatly refused, and then sent her son who was not yet ten years old to join the Fengshen.
Gao Liu's son has also grown into a handsome young man. That day, the upright and heroic young man in military uniform rushed directly in front of the emperor's bedroom, and beat up Xiao Qing in front of Xiao Qing's father and mother.
He said: My sister has long said that she wants to marry me. You brat has evil intentions and wants to harm my sister, right? ! You wanted to kill your sister when you were in Wushi, and you still don't give up now! Damn, I beat you to death first!
Concubine Gao yelled for those imperial guards to kill him, but no one listened to her. He didn't stop until Xiao Se made a sound, and then saluted Xiao Se, saying that he was rude before the emperor, and he went to get the eighty court sticks himself.
He went to get the eighty court sticks, Xiao Se did not pursue this matter further, and at the same time strictly ordered Xiao Qing not to mention this matter again.
At that time, he said to Xiao Qing and Concubine Gao in front of us spectators, as well as those imperial guards and secret sentries of the Red Chamber: Do you want to marry? You also have to see if people think highly of you, which onion do you count
After Xiao Zheng came back, he heard that the Ling residence had been lively for several days.
I just listened to these things about the juniors as excitement, and I, counting the days, I promised her that I would guard the country and the world until the day when Xiao Zheng could really take over.
I think, too soon.
However, I didn't expect that I, the old man Twilight, would be missed by others.
A young man came from Jiangnan, holding a letter from that beauty, saying that he was my son who was left behind in Jiangnan, and came to recognize my ancestors with me.
I am nearly fifty years old, I have no wife and no children, I am in a high position, and I have so much savings. In ordinary people's thinking, I must want to have a descendant to inherit the blood. In my life, the only concubine known to outsiders is that one .
She has been with me for so long, and it is normal to have a child.
I admire the thoughtfulness of the Gao family.
That young man is indeed the child of that beauty, and the date of birth can be matched.
However, I have serious cleanliness, not the women I like, I can't get close to them, let alone do that kind of thing.
I've done that with women three times in my life.
Except for the first time, the last two times were all after she was drunk, she recognized me as Cheng Jia, she cried so sadly that Ye Po backed away silently.
After waking up drunk, she didn't remember anything.
But how can I forget, so unforgettable, how can I forget.
I have been looking at Xiao Se and Xiao Zheng as a bystander. What I promised her is to keep the prosperous world she created with great difficulty. I have no interest and time to meddle in their business, but this time, I am very angry .
That is the cleanest place in my heart, and that is my only persistence in these years.
That's the only place I can beat Cheng Jia.
But the Gao family poured such a big basin of sewage on me.
I found Lambo.
Not long after, Lan Bao brought the beauty, the young man's real father, how the Gao family found them, what they promised, and all the witnesses and material evidence to Bianjing.
I said in the hall, if you don't give me an explanation, the emperor, I will crash into the hall and die.
Xiao Se punished the Gao family and demoted Concubine Gao from concubine to beauty.
Then, he asked Xiao Zheng to formally take charge of the final construction of the new capital of Beijing as the crown prince.
The new capital, Beijing, was a plan she made. Huang Jing and Zhou Tan built a huge new capital city with the assistance of Qi Tingyan. After more than ten years of construction, it has changed from a wasteland to an extremely beautiful city.
At the end of the seventeenth year of Huayuan, the atmosphere in Bianjing became subtle.
After nearly ten years in office, Xiao Se is also a hardworking and enlightened monarch. He has gathered a large number of people's hearts and ministers' hearts. Even Han Bian told me in private that Xiao Se is more suitable for this position than her, and she is right.
Her idea is too far from our rules. Although it is good, it is not possible to do it. There are many things in her cognition that we cannot achieve now. For this reason, Cheng Jia spent a lot of effort to adjust and integrate , For this reason, I have worked hard for more than ten years and dare not relax for a moment.
For the people and the remaining family of students, Xiao Se is easier to accept than her.
What's more, she is still an empress.
What if he won't retreat while occupying that seat
I don't know why Gao Liu came to ask me this question. I think their group of people had already reached conclusions and ideas, so it was because Xiao Se did a good enough job, and she didn't leave any written evidence at the beginning. .
Before I answered Gao Liu's question, Xiao Se also found my mansion.
As early as two years ago, my body was getting weaker and weaker, and I never took the medicine that the miracle doctor gave me. After a few times, the miracle doctor stopped sending medicine.
I gradually faded out of the court, and I taught Xiao Zheng everything about my contacts, students, and everything.
So, I didn't expect Xiao Se to come.
In the ten years of the same dynasty, our relationship was neither good nor bad, but there were still some confidants in it.
Xiao Se is nearly forty years old, which is the best time for a man. He has experience and energy, so there is nothing wrong with him wanting to continue working.
I personally made tea with him in the yard basking in the warm winter sun.
We chatted from Beijing, the new capital that can be built and used soon, to the reclaimed fields in the northwest, and chatted leisurely about the newly promoted young female official.
Then Xiao Se said: "There are still a few months, and she should come back."
I'm very surprised, we all know that although she said she was going to travel the world, she has already left this world, and Xiao Se, did she always think that she was still alive
Looking at my face, his expression gradually calmed down from the relaxed one at the beginning, and he said, "Tell me the truth, Wang Xuanzhi, if you still consider me a friend, tell me the truth! She will come back, right?"
At that moment, I seemed to see my own shadow, and I said: "She died a long time ago, the emperor, and that year she went not to other places, but to the Palace of Longevity."
Xiao Se's face was ashen, his eyes were red, he covered his eyes and murmured that she didn't believe me.
I couldn't bear it, and comforted him: "It's not that she doesn't believe you, but that she doesn't want people who like her to worry."
So all she told anyone was that she was traveling the world.
Xiao Se shook his head, at that moment, his handsome face that could not tell his age was in front of my eyes, just so old, covered with a layer of ashes.
When he walked, his back was bent slightly, as if his heart couldn't bear the pain, which made his steps erratic and his back lonely.
Standing at the gate of the yard, he left without looking back after saying a word.
He said: "Wang Xuanzhi, you know, I have been proving to her all my life that I, Xiao Se, is worthy of her trust, and I, Xiao Se, is also her pride!"
That night, Xiao Se died suddenly in the bedroom.
Gao Meiren, together with the remnants of the Gao family and the forces instigated by them, in the name of Xiao Zheng poisoning Xiao Se, declared Xiao Zheng to be a conspiracy, and immediately made Xiao Qing emperor.
Bianjing once again ushered in a storm.
After Xiao Se left, I asked Tong'er to close the door tightly.
I am not in good health anymore, old people who often get confused should not participate in those things.
Before the incense burnt out, soft voices came from the yard.
I looked at the sun, and the sun was just right, reflecting on the snow, reflecting colorful rays of light.
I think, I can have a good business with her.
I will guard her world well, and hand it over to Xiao Zheng.
I have no regrets and nothing to worry about.
In the future history books, under the female emperor Ling Qingyu, there will definitely be a famous minister Wang Xuanzhi.
That's enough.
"Is Master Xiang still sleeping?" Lan Bao asked the Tong'er in a low voice as much as possible, the long sword in his hand was still dripping with blood.
Tong'er was very calm, and said in a low voice: "When I went in earlier, Master Xiang seemed to be in a daze."
Lan Bao nodded and said: "Then I'll go in and talk to Mr. Xiang, the matter has been settled, please prepare to crown Zhenzhen."
Tong'er nodded, walked to the door of the bedroom, first knocked on the door lightly, then gently pushed the door open, and said, "Master Xiang, Master Lan is here."
"Master Xiangye!" Lan Bao shouted, and walked into the bedroom with a smile, but the smile froze on his face, and his stepping feet stopped on the threshold.
In the bedroom, although he was nearly fifty years old, the handsome and gentle man was half leaning against the head of the bed, holding a scroll in his arms, with a contented smile on his face, long eyelashes covering his wise eyes, just In that way, in the warm sunlight coming in from the window, I stopped breathing. The place.
But the Gao family poured such a big basin of sewage on me.
I found Lambo.
Not long after, Lan Bao brought the beauty, the young man's real father, how the Gao family found them, what they promised, and all the witnesses and material evidence to Bianjing.
I said in the hall, if you don't give me an explanation, the emperor, I will crash into the hall and die.
Xiao Se punished the Gao family and demoted Concubine Gao from concubine to beauty.
Then, he asked Xiao Zheng to formally take charge of the final construction of the new capital of Beijing as the crown prince.
The new capital, Beijing, was a plan she made. Huang Jing and Zhou Tan built a huge new capital city with the assistance of Qi Tingyan. After more than ten years of construction, it has changed from a wasteland to an extremely beautiful city.
At the end of the seventeenth year of Huayuan, the atmosphere in Bianjing became subtle.
After nearly ten years in office, Xiao Se is also a hardworking and enlightened monarch. He has gathered a large number of people's hearts and ministers' hearts. Even Han Bian told me in private that Xiao Se is more suitable for this position than her, and she is right.
Her idea is too far from our rules. Although it is good, it is not possible to do it. There are many things in her cognition that we cannot achieve now. For this reason, Cheng Jia spent a lot of effort to adjust and integrate , For this reason, I have worked hard for more than ten years and dare not relax for a moment.
For the people and the remaining family of students, Xiao Se is easier to accept than her.
What's more, she is still an empress.
What if he won't retreat while occupying that seat
I don't know why Gao Liu came to ask me this question. I think their group of people had already reached conclusions and ideas, so it was because Xiao Se did a good enough job, and she didn't leave any written evidence at the beginning. .
Before I answered Gao Liu's question, Xiao Se also found my mansion.
As early as two years ago, my body was getting weaker and weaker, and I never took the medicine that the miracle doctor gave me. After a few times, the miracle doctor stopped sending medicine.
I gradually faded out of the court, and I taught Xiao Zheng everything about my contacts, students, and everything.
So, I didn't expect Xiao Se to come.
In the ten years of the same dynasty, our relationship was neither good nor bad, but there were still some confidants in it.
Xiao Se is nearly forty years old, which is the best time for a man. He has experience and energy, so there is nothing wrong with him wanting to continue working.
I personally made tea with him in the yard basking in the warm winter sun.
We chatted from Beijing, the new capital that can be built and used soon, to the reclaimed fields in the northwest, and chatted leisurely about the newly promoted young female official.
Then Xiao Se said: "There are still a few months, and she should come back."
I'm very surprised, we all know that although she said she was going to travel the world, she has already left this world, and Xiao Se, did she always think that she was still alive
Looking at my face, his expression gradually calmed down from the relaxed one at the beginning, and he said, "Tell me the truth, Wang Xuanzhi, if you still consider me a friend, tell me the truth! She will come back, right?"
At that moment, I seemed to see my own shadow, and I said: "She died a long time ago, the emperor, and that year she went not to other places, but to the Palace of Longevity."
Xiao Se's face was ashen, his eyes were red, he covered his eyes and murmured that she didn't believe me.
I couldn't bear it, and comforted him: "It's not that she doesn't believe you, but that she doesn't want people who like her to worry."
So all she told anyone was that she was traveling the world.
Xiao Se shook his head, at that moment, his handsome face that could not tell his age was in front of my eyes, just so old, covered with a layer of ashes.
When he walked, his back was bent slightly, as if his heart couldn't bear the pain, which made his steps erratic and his back lonely.
Standing at the gate of the yard, he left without looking back after saying a word.
He said: "Wang Xuanzhi, you know, I have been proving to her all my life that I, Xiao Se, is worthy of her trust, and I, Xiao Se, is also her pride!"
That night, Xiao Se died suddenly in the bedroom.
Gao Meiren, together with the remnants of the Gao family and the forces instigated by them, in the name of Xiao Zheng poisoning Xiao Se, declared Xiao Zheng to be a conspiracy, and immediately made Xiao Qing emperor.
Bianjing once again ushered in a storm.
After Xiao Se left, I asked Tong'er to close the door tightly.
I am not in good health anymore, old people who often get confused should not participate in those things.
Before the incense burnt out, soft voices came from the yard.
I looked at the sun, and the sun was just right, reflecting on the snow, reflecting colorful rays of light.
I think, I can have a good business with her.
I will guard her world well, and hand it over to Xiao Zheng.
I have no regrets and nothing to worry about.
In the future history books, under the female emperor Ling Qingyu, there will definitely be a famous minister Wang Xuanzhi.
That's enough.
"Is Master Xiang still sleeping?" Lan Bao asked the Tong'er in a low voice as much as possible, the long sword in his hand was still dripping with blood.
Tong'er was very calm, and said in a low voice: "When I went in earlier, Master Xiang seemed to be in a daze."
Lan Bao nodded and said: "Then I'll go in and talk to Mr. Xiang, the matter has been settled, please prepare to crown Zhenzhen."
Tong'er nodded, walked to the door of the bedroom, first knocked on the door lightly, then gently pushed the door open, and said, "Master Xiang, Master Lan is here."
"Master Xiangye!" Lan Bao shouted, and walked into the bedroom with a smile, but the smile froze on his face, and his stepping feet stopped on the threshold.
In the bedroom, although he was nearly fifty years old, the handsome and gentle man was half leaning against the head of the bed, holding a scroll in his arms, with a contented smile on his face, long eyelashes covering his wise eyes, just In that way, in the warm sunlight coming in from the window, I stopped breathing.