Su Rongqing looked at the cup in front of him, and after a long time, he still stretched out his hand and held the cup in his hand, drinking the tea in the cup as if nothing had happened.
Su Ronghua sat on the side watching him, and said slowly, "This assassination was planned by you and Concubine Hua Lerou together?"
"Yes." Su Rongqing finished drinking the water and put it on the side of the table. Su Ronghua looked at him and continued to ask, "When did you and Concubine Rou join forces?"
"When His Highness Pingle established the Inspectorate."
Hearing this, Su Ronghua closed his eyes, he paused for a while, and finally said, "Family clan training, do you remember?"
"Remember."
"What's the first rule?"
"The people of the Su family do not participate in the struggle for succession."
Su Rongqing felt difficult to read every word, and Su Ronghua slowly opened her eyes: "You colluded with Concubine Rou, what should you do, do you need me to tell me?"
Su Rongqing was silent, and Su Ronghua stood up: "I will tell my father about this, you can wait for the result."
"Big brother," Su Rongqing stopped Su Ronghua, "don't you ask me why?"
"What Concubine Rou has done has long been beyond my Su clan's ability to calm down. No matter what you are, you have already implicated the family. Back then, I protected you in the Hongde case, but now, I can no longer protect you."
"I have my reasons."
"Who is wrong, who has no reason?"
Su Ronghua lowered his eyes: "You should have a good rest."
Su Ronghua raised his hand to open the door, but Su Rongqing stopped him, "Brother, let me tell you a story."
Su Ronghua stopped by the door. After a long time, Su Rongqing's voice was very soft: "I had a dream, it is the future of the Su family, and it is also your future, don't you want to listen to it?"
Hearing this, Su Ronghua turned around in shock. He fixedly looked at Su Rongqing. Su Rongqing stood up, walked calmly to the edge of the tea table, and sat down on her knees.
He lit the charcoal fire in the small stove on the table, raised his hand to take water and put it into the small pot, and set it on top. Then he raised his head, behind the long sandalwood table, his hair was half-rolled, his black hair was hanging down behind him, and he was dressed in white clothes. He was as thin as bamboo, kneeling upright and straight.
He raised his hand, made a "please" gesture, and said in a calm and elegant voice: "Brother, please take a seat and listen to this story."
In the winter, the clouds are densely covered, and it seems that heavy snow is coming. The cold wind blows into Huajing, driving the pedestrians and banging against the windows.
Li Rong listened to the sound of the wind blowing against the window outside, and leaned side by side with Pei Wenxuan: "Then let me hear you talk about the wind and rain first."
"What do you want to hear, Your Highness?"
"I don't know what happened in my past life."
"Where do you want to hear, Your Highness?"
Li Rong fell silent, she thought for a long time.
After a long time, she finally said, "Shangguanya and Su Ronghua, let's start with them."
Hearing this, Pei Wenxuan laughed. He took Li Rong's hand and said calmly, "Okay, then let them go."
"In the three years of Dexu, Qin Zhenzhen was poisoned, and His Majesty ordered me to investigate the matter. I found Su Ronghua all the way, and spent five years tracking him down until he died. During these five years, I don't know whether Little. Su Ronghua is the eldest son of the Su family, and he is supposed to be the heir to the position of the head of the family, but he studied under Gu Zixiao when he was young."
"That's a madman."
Li Rong knew that this person was a rare exception in the family, but when he was young, he was quite disciplined and quite talented. It was normal for the Su Clan to invite him as Su Ronghua's master.
"It didn't take long for Gu Zixiao to teach Su Ronghua. He was expelled from the Gu family's genealogy because he eloped with a poor family girl. Later, he disappeared, and I don't know if he really wandered around the world or was cleaned up by the Gu family. Su Ronghua may have been influenced by the Gu family. Rebellious since childhood, at the age of eleven, he declared to everyone that he would not inherit the position of the head of the family, and since then he has been wandering outside, spending most of the year outside, doing business everywhere, and is keen to make friends in all corners of the world.”
"In the fifteenth year of Yuanhui, Su Ronghua returned to Beijing and was called to be the teacher of King Su. From then on, he gambled money and fought cocks every day, and became a complete playboy."
"In the 18th year of Yuanhui, Shangguanya entered Beijing. In the Jucai Pavilion, the two met."
"In the eighteenth year of Yuanhui, you and Shangguanya met by chance in the Jucai Pavilion. When you came home that day, you told me that you met a girl who disguised as a man and gambled money in the casino. She bet with you for ten rounds, and all ten rounds were If you lose, I will invite you to gamble again tomorrow."
Su Rongqing opened the white porcelain jar, took out the tea leaves with a teaspoon, and put them into the teapot.
"That day, you laughed happily and said that this girl was very interesting. Later, you often mentioned her to me. People didn't want to pay attention to you. , and finally one day on your way home, you were beaten with a pocket over you."
Hearing this, Su Ronghua burst out laughing.
Su Rongqing also laughed, he raised his head and glanced at Su Ronghua: "You are unwilling, you are planning to seek revenge, so you secretly planned that on the way the girl was going to the cockfight, a fake trafficker kidnapped the person. As a result, after he abducted the city, he really encountered a mountain. Bandit, you were kidnapped together, and I don't know what happened when you were kidnapped. When you were rescued, you told me that you made up your mind to marry her."
"You know that the Su family has a high position and authority. In your capacity, if you come to propose marriage, the girl has to agree if she doesn't want to, so you plan to ask her will first. I picked out clothes for you that day, and you polished a hosta yourself. , took her to find her. When you came back in the rain at night, I asked you what was wrong, and you told me there was nothing wrong."
"From that day on, you didn't go out much until a palace banquet, as Teacher Su Wang, was forced to attend."
"At the banquet, he saw Shangguanya."
Pei Wenxuan's voice was very soft, and Li Rong put her chin on her knees: "Shangguanya should ignore him."
"Yes," Pei Wenxuan replied, "but Su Ronghua knew the reason for her rejection of him, so naturally she wouldn't let go so easily. He went to Shangguanya, and he asked Shangguanya if he liked him. Sedan chair, come to the door and propose marriage to her."
"How is this possible?"
Li Rong was a little puzzled: "Shangguanya entered the capital for Chuan'er. This is something that the Shangguan family has already decided. The Su family is not so confused. How could she be involved in such a thing?"
"Why doesn't Su Ronghua know?"
Pei Wenxuan sighed: "Keren always wanted to try it once, so they decided to try it once."
"You came back from the palace banquet and found your father. You said you were going to Shangguan's house to propose a marriage, but Shangguanya was the chosen candidate for the crown princess. You are arguing for the future crown prince. How could your father tolerate you? Tell your father that you are willing to ask for your own expulsion from the Su family, leave the family, and ask for relatives from the Shangguan family. Whether it is life or death, you are responsible for it yourself."
The water in the kettle boiled, and Su Rongqing poured the boiling water into the teapot filled with tea leaves.
"You suffered three hundred battles according to the rules of the clan, and you went to Shangguan's house with injuries all over your body." Su Rongqing's voice was a little choked, but he still maintained his usual calm, "Shangguan's family dare not let you stop at the door, just Let you enter the inner court, you kneel in front of Shangguan Xu, and beg him to marry Shangguanya. You analyze the pros and cons for him, and tell him that Shangguanya's marriage to the East Palace is just pushing the Shangguan family to perish faster. Shangguanxu Where can I hear your nonsense? He can't drive you away, and because of your identity as the eldest son of the Su family, he can't kill you, so he made you kneel at Shangguan's house."
"You knelt for three days, and for those three days, the palace had already prepared a decree for marriage."
"The three days when Su Ronghua knelt in Shangguan's mansion, Shangguanya was locked in the backyard. You now know her temperament. She has a clear love-hate relationship, and she acts decisively. Su Ronghua is so far, how could she fail him? When I was begging Shangguan Xu, she kept shouting, she said that there are so many daughters in the Shangguan family, why should she choose her? She has someone she likes, she doesn't want to be a princess, let her go."
"The Shangguan family ignored her until the imperial decree for marriage entered the Shangguan mansion, and Shangguan Xu went to Shangguanya directly with the imperial decree. He told Shangguanya that the Shangguan family had given her more than ten years of wealth, honor and splendor, did she want to stay here? It’s time to abandon the Shangguan clan. The imperial edict to bestow the marriage has arrived, if she and Su Ronghua leave, the Shangguan clan will become the biggest joke in the entire Daxia.”
"Shangguan Ya can't stand it." Li Rong's voice felt a pain in her throat, "She can't make the family so shameful for her love."
"You're right," Pei Wenxuan knew that Li Rong was uncomfortable, so he put his hand on Li Rong's shoulder and hugged her, "Shangguanya went to the inner courtyard in person, and then she saw Su Ronghua kneeling on the ground, his body completely covered. It was blood, and Shangguanya cried when she saw him."
How can you not cry.
This is the first time in this life that someone has given up life and death for her.
This is also the first time in her life that she has pushed aside the layers of restraints that the family has given her, and saw the most gentle and bright existence outside. Try hard to catch.
Can't catch it.
It was raining heavily that day, and she looked down at the young man kneeling in front of her. She should have scolded him directly and humiliated him, but when she opened her mouth, she burst into tears.
She couldn't say anything, she could only squat down and handed the hosta that he gave her the day he confessed to him tremblingly.
"Let me go," she said hoarsely, "and let go of yourself."
"Love is nothing, and liking is nothing. We live, and we have our own responsibilities. I will enter the palace, I will become a crown princess, and I will become the future queen. You will not like me in the future, so you can When you have never seen me, as you said, leave Huajing."
"Go a little further and go to many places, the landscapes you have seen should be seen for me, and the things you are happy should be done for me. If one day, you can meet someone you like and marry her. Lian Li, that couldn't be better."
"Su Ronghua," she trembled, "don't force me."
"Why are you willing to force her?"
Su Rongqing's tea was brewed for the first time, and he raised his hand to pour water for the second time.
"So when you come back home, father sees your appearance, but he is still soft-hearted, so forget about it. The matter between you and Shangguanya is covered up by the two families. Shangguanya enters the palace and is her prince concubine, and you also leave China. Jing, I have been to many places."
"and after?"
Su Ronghua lowered his eyes, Su Rongqing brewed the tea, poured it into the tea bowl, and pushed it to Su Ronghua: "Afterwards, as you expected, the marriage between Shangguan's family and Li Chuan became a dead end in His Majesty's heart. He supported King Su, Abolish the prince. After the abolition of the prince, Pei Wenxuan persuaded the family and hoped that the family would send troops."
"Actually, the family is still hesitating whether to send troops or not. In the end, you will be the first to stand up and hope that the Su clan will send troops. You have countless reasons, and it is indeed appropriate, but I know in my heart that no matter how many reasons, I can't hide the point in your heart. Unwanted thoughts," Su Rongqing raised her eyes, "You are worried about Shangguanya."
"I won't take the Su family for my feelings alone."
Su Ronghua spoke calmly, Su Rongqing nodded: "You are not gambling, it is just right, this decision is more suitable. You made the right choice, supporting Li Chuan, at the time, it was indeed the choice that Su Clan had to make. Li Chuan was wise outside, It is also orthodox, and his ascension to the throne is most justifiable, so that people will not be dissatisfied and rebelled everywhere in the future. If you want to end the chaos, Li Chuan's ascension is the best."
"So hundreds of families gathered their troops to attack the imperial city together with Qin Lin and support Li Chuan to ascend the throne. After Li Chuan ascended the throne, Shangguanya became the empress, and you stayed in Huajing. In the first year of Dexu, Li Chuan had just ascended the throne, and Beicong When there was a war, the Manchu dynasty was at peace, and only Li Chuan, Qin Lin, and Pei Wenxuan would fight. Later, Li Chuan and Pei Wenxuan dredged Qin Lin around, got money, and forced the war."
"After the war, they found that the treasury was empty, and it was not enough to support the northern front. So they were forced to stop. At this time, Li Chuan was moved."
"What is he going to do?"
"He wants to reform the system." Su Rongqing said this, and couldn't help laughing, "To implement the imperial examination, we must levy taxes on the aristocratic family, restrict the family's purchase of land and the number of slaves, and formulate a custom score system, requiring the Ministry of Personnel to promote officials according to the score. When you are promoted upwards, when you score points, ten points will be deducted from aristocratic families, and ten points will be added to those from a poor family.”
Hearing this, Su Ronghua frowned: "It's too urgent."
"He just ascended the throne, and he made such a big move. Many local nobles naturally disagreed. He ordered from the top, but he didn't execute it at all, or he deliberately distorted his meaning and increased the burden on the people. He wanted to kill people. Waiting for the aristocratic family to move. At the end of the winter of De Xu's year, despite Pei Wenzuan's dissuasion, he let Qin Lin kill the patriarch of a small local clan, which resulted in continuous uprisings in that place for three consecutive years. In the end, it's deserted."
"That year there were wars in the north, floods in the south, the treasury was empty, and the local area was corrupt," Pei Wenxuan said with a cold tone in his tone, "I followed His Majesty to the north on a tour of the south, Your Highness, you didn't see it. That scene. On the battlefield, there are corpses all over the place, and in places of famine, Yizi eats each other. And Huajing sings and dances, heaven and hell, but that's all. Your Majesty is benevolent by nature. After returning, he will make a plan and try to reform the system."
"But you guys are in a hurry." Li Rong's voice was steady, "Chuan'er is too young, he doesn't understand, a country is like a big ship, you have to walk slowly, the emperor's hand points in any direction, and the crushing below, It is thousands of people. I know Chuan'er's decree, I understand what he means, but it's not that he gives a good decree and it can be implemented well."
"But in His Majesty's eyes, his heart is right, the decree is right, and it is only those officials of the noble family who do not implement it. Therefore, the conflict between the noble family and him has become more and more acute, and the one caught in the middle is Shangguanya. Shangguanya is His Majesty's younger sister, His Majesty still has some friendship with her in his heart, but he couldn't restrain his disgust for the family. His Majesty told me that every time he entered Weiyang Palace and saw Shangguanya dressed in gold and silver, he would think of those People who don't have enough to eat."
"And Shangguanya only thinks that she can't compare to Qin Zhenzhen. The more she dresses up, the more gentle and considerate she is, the more disgusted Your Majesty is. Later, His Majesty and Qin Zhenzhen became more affectionate, and he couldn't even have the same room with her, His Majesty told me. , Every time he was in the same room with her, he felt disgusted. He disgusted himself, he didn't like Shangguanya, and he felt that he had betrayed his lover. So when he saw Shangguanya, he couldn't even have any impulse. "
"Shangguanya is not favored, so the Shangguan family is naturally anxious, and keeps putting pressure on Shangguanya to make her work harder to give birth to the eldest son. She is desperate, so she came to you and asked you to help her."
"I remember," Li Rong lowered her eyes, "I heard that Chuan'er just slept in the middle palace and left, so I went to scold him. At that time, he pushed the decree too quickly, and the Shangguan family belonged to him. Gen, if he even beheads the Shangguan family, I am afraid that something will happen to him."
"When you talk about him, he feels guilty too. He knows in his heart that the Shangguan family supports him in order to be a prince, and Shangguanya is innocent, so His Majesty will take medicine later. Every time he goes to see Shangguanya, he will take medicine in advance and come back. Then I started vomiting."
When Li Rong heard this, she turned around and looked at Pei Wenxuan: "Does Shangguanya know?"
After pondering for a moment, Pei Wenxuan nodded and said, "I should know. In fact, Shangguanya herself also uses medicine."
Li Rong was speechless, and at that moment, she suddenly felt a huge sadness.
What a proud person Shangguanya is, yet trapped in this deep palace, like an animal, to give birth to a prince. She also faced the fact that her husband had to take medication to touch her, and he secretly vomited after touching her, and remained silent.
Two people who didn't love each other so much that they almost hated each other, were born to do sloppy things on the brocade bed and quilt for a child.
And such a secret, no one knows, only the two of them can swallow and hide it by themselves.
Li Rong felt an indescribable coldness in her heart, and Pei Wenxuan hugged her and kissed her: "Don't be sad, it's all about the last life, isn't Shangguanya not in the palace yet?"
"and after?"
"Later, His Majesty finally found out that Shangguanya was also taking medicine, and he realized that this was a dead end for the two of them. His Majesty made up his mind, drank wine, went to the Middle Palace, found Shangguanya, and discussed with her, she will be her queen, she will He can give her all the power, the two of them, stop pretending."
"But Shangguanya doesn't have a child, how can this be tolerated for Shangguanya? She abandoned herself and the love she should have, and came to this deep palace, not to hear His Majesty innocently tell her that they are well. It's not for the sake of entering the palace to fulfill His Majesty. Shangguanya cried so much that night, she asked His Majesty, why should she be buried in this palace, while His Majesty can live a willful life?"
"Your Majesty asked her what she wanted, and she said she wanted a child. His Majesty had promised her that they both drank the medicine, took off their clothes, and went to bed. But when His Majesty touched her, His Majesty couldn't help it and ran out. ."
"I heard from Shangguanya's palace servant that Shangguanya was retching that night. She was retching while crying. On the second day, Shangguanya took the initiative to find His Majesty and beg him for peace. She was very considerate. It is also very pitiful, His Majesty promised her that she will be the queen no matter what."
"Three days later, Qin Zhenzhen was found to be pregnant. That night, Shangguanya sent a letter from the palace to the Shangguan family, saying that His Majesty had made up his mind not to touch anyone in the harem except Concubine Qin, and she needed a Man, anyone can, she wants a child."
After Su Rongqing said these words, Su Ronghua's hand trembled slightly while holding the tea bowl. He tried to calm himself down, but he still felt pain.
Even now, he couldn't imagine how much pain he would have had at that time if it was true.
"At that time, eldest brother, you planned to leave again, but the Shangguan family found his father. The Shangguan family did not dare to confuse the royal blood. But if Qin Zhenzhen's child succeeded to the throne, it would mean, In the Qin family, a prince is going to appear in the Han family who thoroughly supports His Majesty's reforms."
"The Shangguan clan hopes to use this child to form an alliance with the Su clan. The child born between the Shangguan clan and the Su clan will be jointly assisted by the two clans. After negotiating for a long time, I finally decided to let you go. You were going to leave, and you told me that this trip would not come back. As a result, when Shangguanya was placed in front of you, you thought about it all night, and finally Still stay."
To stay is to sink into the deep palace with that person.
There will no longer be the distance she said, nor the freedom and beauty she said.
But he was still willing to stay, so under the arrangement of the two families, in the palace, Shangguanya waited for the strange man to step into the palace and humiliate her like Li Chuan.
What she saw was her best dream when she was young, coming from the moon.
He knelt down in front of her and looked up at her: "I have seen the goddess."
Shangguanya looked at this distant and familiar person, and after a long time, she said hoarsely: "What are you doing here?"
"be with you."
Fall into hell with her, and go to Huangquan with her.
Shangguanya burst into tears, she can accept anyone, but she can't accept him, she trembled: "You go, I don't want you."
"But you don't have a choice," Su Ronghua grabbed the back of her hand and kissed it, "I have no choice."
From the moment he entered the palace, he was her funeral.
So they entangled in the dark night. That night was the best dream of Shangguanya's life. It was full of guilt and sin, but it was the only harbor in her life that she could escape.
"Two months later, Shangguanya was diagnosed to be pregnant. Su Ronghua participated in the imperial examination and became the second-ranked official. This child's time is too embarrassing. In fact, now, I don't even know who this child belongs to."
"Does Chuan'er know?" Li Rong curled herself up, her voice soft, and Pei Wenxuan shook her head, "At that time, Your Majesty didn't even know about Shangguan Yasu Ronghua's fornication. At that time, it was three years of Dexu, and His Majesty had already cultivated a group of His own people. When people from the poor family saw that His Majesty favored Qin Zhenzhen and Qin Zhenzhen was pregnant with a child, they spread rumors and fabricated miracles among the people. After the child was born, even a poor family official wrote a letter saying that the child was the eldest son. should be made a prince."
"They are forcing Qin Zhenzhen to death."
"Many officials in the poor family are poor, and there are no elders in the family who have never participated in the government, so how do you know these twists and turns? Your Majesty actually knows that Qin Zhenzhen is dangerous, and Qin Zhenzhen shows that he and his children have no intention of taking the throne. I personally wrote a letter and asked to make Li Xin the crown prince. In fact, His Majesty had already planned to make Li Xin the crown prince, but there were rumors that a strange bird had just landed at the gate of Huguo Temple that year. Everyone said it was a strange bird. The bird is the phoenix, the omen of the abolition."
"The family can't bear it anymore."
"So Su Ronghua shot himself," Li Rong leaned on Pei Wenxuan, "poisoned Qin Zhenzhen."
"You originally wanted to poison Li Ping," Su Rongqing looked at Su Ronghua, who looked a little lax in front of him, "but Qin Zhen really protects Li Ping day and night, eats and lives with Li Ping, takes every sip of water, medicine, and rice. , she tasted it first. So she was poisoned first, and Li Ping was saved."
"After Qin Zhenzhen's death, His Majesty's temperament changed greatly. He didn't care about wars, people, or justice. He just wanted to overthrow the family. In those years, when the wind and rain were turbulent and fires were everywhere, he reused the poor family, killed the family indiscriminately, and selected the poor family. The people who came out were often cruel and corrupt officials, and the people were struggling to survive. Mr. Su tried his best to persuade the monarch from the top, and comfort the people from the bottom. Intentionally, he used this rebellion again and again to consume the strength of the family."
"In the eighth year of Dexu, he framed King Su for treason in order to keep his troops in his hands. As the teacher of King Su, you stood up to speak for King Su, and he sent the Su family to prison on the charge of collaborating with the enemy. At that time, I was still in prison. I don't know about your affair with Shangguan Ya, but I feel wronged, Princess Pingle knew that Su Clan was wronged and tried to save us. In the end, he saved Su Clan, but Li Chuan, who gave me Su Clan's son, will be punished by the palace."
Su Ronghua's pupils shrank, and he clenched his fists: "Palace torture?"
"How can my Su family be so humiliated? They all committed suicide in prison. I have hatred in my heart, and I want to be an evil ghost and stay in this world. So I managed to steal my life, and I was rescued by His Highness Pingle and survived."
"After Qin Zhenzhen died, His Majesty's last tolerance for the family disappeared."
Pei Wenxuan talked about the past of his friend from the previous life, with a bit of compassion in his expression: "When he was guarding Qin Zhenzhen's spirit, the courtiers of the noble family knelt outside and forced him to canonize Li Xin as the crown prince. Ghosts are entangled, only by turning into a ghost can you have a chance to win. Then he went out and canonized Li Xin as the crown prince."
"The aristocratic family thought that this was His Majesty's compromise, and then His Majesty became a tyrannical monarch. He was moody, taxed heavily, reused the poor family, and killed the family indiscriminately. He used the tax money to support Qin Lin's soldiers, and used the poor family's cruel officials to intimidate The aristocratic family, who is close to the Shangguan family, seems to love Li Xin very much, and let the Shangguan family become his amulet."
"So the local aristocratic family rebelled, and the Shangguan clan helped suppress it, while the big clan like the Su clan are known for benevolent discipline, and the world is in turmoil, so they can only send troops and pay. The investigation has also found the real murderer of Qin Zhenzhen's death."
"In the seventh year of Dexu, I handed over the causes and consequences of Qin Zhenzhen's death to Your Majesty. His Majesty imprisoned the Queen Mother, killed Shangguan Xu, and half of the Shangguan family. He was going to kill Li Xin and abolish Shangguanya, but Shangguanya bit him. The dead child belonged to His Majesty, so he offered to admit his relatives by blood. His Majesty tried blood to admit his relatives, and the blood was indeed blended. Shangguanya cried and begged Majesty, saying that Majesty said that he would not abolish her. Then the Queen Mother committed suicide in the cold palace, I beg Your Majesty to let Shangguanya and Li Xin live. Your Majesty is trapped by family affection and did not kill her after all."
"Queen Mother..." Li Rong's lips trembled slightly, "It was suicide."
Pei Wenxuan did not speak, and he was silent for a long time: "In the eighth year of Dexu, His Majesty's army planned to go to the north, but the Su clan insisted on obstructing it, saying that the treasury was empty, and the summer would not be able to afford the war. What His Majesty wanted was the military power in their hands, and he wanted to drain the family. So he deliberately framed King Su, saying that King Su had rebelled, and asked Su to send troops. Su Ronghua stood up and denied that King Su had rebelled. Go to prison. Your Majesty really wanted to kill them at the time, but His Majesty requested that His Majesty finally used palace punishment on the entire Su clan as a humiliation."
"Su Ronghua was unbearably humiliated and died in prison. When my Majesty and I went down, we found that he was holding a hosta in his hand. His Majesty took the hosta in his hand and went to find Shangguanya that night. He was very detailed with Shangguan. Ya described how Su Ronghua died, and when she handed the hosta to Shangguanya, Shangguanya suddenly screamed sharply."
"Shangguanya cried and screamed, His Majesty clapped his legs and laughed. I was standing outside. I felt absurd and sad. In fact, at that time, I really missed His Highness. His Highness was like the only bright light in the entire palace. The lights will go out, and only Your Highness will always hold the sword and move forward."
"At that time, Chuan'er wanted to abolish Shangguanya, right?"
Li Rong hugged herself: "It's just that Shangguanya has united with the family, and the Su family is a benevolent family in the world. Chuan'er is so framed and framed, even if there is a reason for the incident, the people in the world will not accept it. After years of fighting, the people have long been unable to bear it. Patience has also reached its limit, as far as I know, there were no less than twenty clans that intended to rebel at that time."
"Yes." Pei Wenxuan responded, "His Royal Highness and these noble families also joined forces?"
"If I don't take the family's plate, someone else will take over. At that time, I'm afraid Chuan'er won't even have a way to survive."
"Your Majesty also understands," Pei Wenxuan leaned against the wall, "so His Majesty forced the Su family to death, and after the Northern Expedition was completed, he asked Xiu Xian to ask, not because he really wanted to avenge his revenge, but because he knew that Daxia would no longer be there. We need him as a tyrant, and it’s time for Da Xia to cultivate his life and recuperate.”
"In the past eight years, the Han clan has risen, the aristocratic clan has fallen, and the clan is now at the end of its power. He can't force people to death, otherwise the jade and stone will be burned, and the fish will die and the net will be broken. Therefore, he chose to cultivate immortals and asked, and let His Highness become the princess of the town, representing the Holy Spirit. The country. And Shangguanya, he can't move, and he doesn't dare to move. He can only plan another time and make a decision."
"I am the head of the Han family, and His Highness is the representative of the noble family. You and I are checks and balances against each other, and we are allies. In the remaining twenty-two years of Daxia, I will cultivate my life and recuperate, and finally welcome the prosperity again."
"But twenty-two years,"
Li Rong raised her eyes and looked at Pei Wenxuan.
"But twenty-two years,"
On the other side, Su Rongqing looked at Su Ronghua in front of him and smiled bitterly.
The two sighed together in different spaces: "It's too long."
It is so long that it makes people unrecognizable, makes people forget the original appearance, makes people unable to see the way forward, and forgets the way back.
So the sword-wielder looked around at a loss, slashing indiscriminately, hurting others and hurting himself.
Falling into hell for ghosts, unscrupulously killing loved ones.
Who remembers the original intention of the Northern Expedition reform, who remembers the purpose of obstructing the tyrant.
Who remembers, in the palace, the promise of the Northern Expedition was for whom.
I don't even remember that under the corridor, the promise to the king, the grass and the ring, will never fail.
There are only two figures left, in this mud pond, separated by the veil of time, each holding a long sword, serving as a beacon to each other, passing by.
Now the wheel of fortune is turning again, and it is the moment of choice.
Pei Wenxuan looked at Li Rong quietly: "Your Highness, the past is known, Qingzhou, can you return it?"
Su Rongqing poured the last cup of tea into the tea bowl and looked up at Su Ronghua: "Brother, the story is over, Huajing, do you still stay?"
Li Chuan watched the palace gates open layer by layer. Above the main hall, two rows of bronze vertical palace lanterns with Zhu Que holding pearls went up to the high hall. Mianguan, with a similar but older face, stared at the bright-eyed and indifferent young man in front of the palace gate, quietly watching him, and the old voice came from a height: "Prince."
With compassion in Li Ming's eyes: "You are finally here."