Chapter 476: The Former Dynasty
The spring breeze disturbed southern Xinjiang and also disturbed Chang'an City. The suburbs of Beijing, offering tombs. This is the tomb selected by the current emperor Li He for himself a hundred years later, surrounded by mountains and rivers, the land of dragons and tigers.
As for why it was named Xianling, it is said that Li He himself set it. He said that his life was like a sacrifice, and after a hundred years, he would be commented on by future generations.
Because it is an imperial mausoleum, the project is huge, from three years ago, Li He chose a site for himself, and now only half of it has been completed. Not far away, there were noisy people, splitting mountains and cracking stones, and the mausoleum was still in full swing.
And somewhere on the edge of the Emperor's Mausoleum. The Imperial Forest Army surrounded a piece of land like a copper wall, and the brocade guards followed in secret, and the bright yellow canopy peacock fan showed the nobility of the comer.
In the middle of the crowd is a jade carved tomb, Li He stood in front of the tomb, looking at the pile of paper that had not been completely extinguished in a daze.
A line of words on the jade tablet: Empress Xiaojing Renshu.
With a pop, the last flame was extinguished. The paper ashes of the burnt embers fluttered like butterflies in the spring breeze, fluttering one after another, finely and finely broken.
Li He's vision was also blurred. Between his eyebrows, there was an indescribable complexity, and he looked at the line of words silently, and the hand behind him clenched slightly.
The sound of embroidered shoes approached, and a gentle female voice sounded: "Your Majesty." ”
Li He didn't look back, and hesitated: "Fengxian?"
Fengxian Divine Doctor thought that her senior brother Liu Zhen was in Sichuan and Shu, and she couldn't bear to be lovesick, so she made a clumsy excuse and went to Shu to accompany him. It's a concubine. The concubines were not summoned, and they hoped that the emperor would forgive their sins. The female voice was like water, and then the skirt swayed and bowed down.
"Fengxian went with Liu Zhen? These two brothers and sisters, in order to cure their lives or diseases, have quarreled for the first half of their lives, and it is estimated that they will have to quarrel in the next life. The corners of Li He's lips curled, he turned his head to look at the woman, and held it with his empty hand, "Concubine De doesn't need to be polite." ”
The person who came was Wu Hui. A while ago, because of the matter of Wu Yu, the emperor appeased the Wu family, and Jin Xiuyi Wu Hui was a concubine and respected as one of the four concubines, so there is no need to elaborate.
"Your Majesty, Emperor. Wu Hui got up decently, looked at the jade tablet in front of the grave, and smiled, "Has the emperor come to see Sister Shufei again?" ”
Li He nodded. The fingertips touched the words of Empress Renshu, and her face turned a little pale: "Today is the death day of Concubine Shu...... We made an agreement that after a hundred years, the tomb would be repaired, and I would rest here with her...... However, she couldn't wait to move in first, leaving me alone......"
Wu Hui's eyes flashed, and her tone was still extremely gentle: "God is jealous and red-faced, Sister Shufei left early." Otherwise, today, how happy it would be to see the fourth child grow up. ”
Wu Hui intentionally or unintentionally mentioned the word "fourth", which made Li He's eyes burst with light, but he perfectly hid it, and did not let the woman see the abnormality: "The fourth child......"
It turned out that the beautiful woman who slept in the tomb was Concubine Li He, Concubine Yang.
Concubine Yang, born in the Yang family of the former dynasty, gentle and gentle, elegant and dignified, the emperor favored and wealthy, soon after entering the palace, she was respected as one of the four concubines, and there were four princes Li Jingxiao, but unfortunately soon after giving birth to the dragon fetus, the blood collapsed and died immediately.
Before the emperor had time to rejoice and add another son, he was immediately crushed by grief. Posthumously crowned Concubine Shu as the Empress of Xiaojing Renshu, and was buried in the mausoleum with the queen's ceremony.
Therefore, when the fourth prince was born, he never saw his mother's concubine, but he was regarded as ominous by the palace with the words of "Kemu", and the emperor naturally counted this account on his head, and couldn't help treating him coldly, and also placed him in Chuxiu Palace when he was young, and let him go freely.
As a result, it was revealed that the fourth prince contracted smallpox when he was a child, and he was not treated in time, leaving his face full of poisonous sores and his complexion terrifying, which made the people in the palace even more avoidance of him, and the emperor simply rewarded him with a house in Shu and let him move out to live.
However, after all, it is the bloodline of the Yang family, a famous family in the previous dynasty, and it can't be too ruthless without a mother as a father. Therefore, in order to avoid gossip in front of people, the emperor has also done enough to save face, and the etiquette and treatment that should be there is no shortage of the fourth child.
In the past 20 years, some of the truths, such as smallpox's face sores or the four halls with cold faces, have been lost in folk anecdotes, and the only one that is still as ancient as yesterday is the tomb of the concubine in this mausoleum.
It's all about the past.
"It's all the same. Wu Hui sighed lightly, her face was a little more strange, "The old people go, the new people come, there is never a shortage of warblers and warblers in Daming Palace." The emperor doesn't come to see Sister Shufei every year, why is there a sudden interest today, but he has encountered troubles?"
Li He raised his eyebrows, and his smile was also a little weird: "When others see me coming to sacrifice to the concubine, they will definitely say that they value love and righteousness." But only Concubine De will see something different. ”
Wu Hui bowed her head slightly, and her tone was like water: "The concubine has been praised by the emperor and is the military advisor of the king's harem. With this name, you have to worry about it. is also a person in the chess game, the emperor may wish to say it clearly. ”
Li He turned his head to look at the jade tombstone and smiled: "Don't you think Concubine De that the Wang family and the second child have been very quiet recently?"
"Tiger wolves don't bark stupidly until they show their fangs at their prey. A chill rose between Wu Hui's eyebrows, "The Wang family and King Zhao are not quiet, they are sharpening their knives." ”
"Sharpening the knife? yes, sharpening the knife is ready to bite. Li He sneered meaningfully, "Where does Concubine Nade think they are going to start?"
Wu Hui raised her chin confidently and paused word by word: "I'm afraid that the answer of the concubine is the same as the reason why the emperor came to see the concubine's sister today." ”
Li He's eyes flashed. Looking at Wu Hui's gaze again, there were many different things, appreciation, affirmation, and recognition, but there was no affection.
"What a harem strategist. It lives up to its name. The corners of Li He's lips turned up inexplicably.
"It was my samurai daughter. It lives up to its name. Wu Hui's face was shrouded in a kind of brilliance, and his eyes were like fire, "The former dynasty is famous." Right?"
Li He retracted his gaze noncommittally, looked at the jade tablet in front of the tomb, and fell into silence, Wu Hui didn't care whether the emperor allowed it or not, his eyes were blazing, and he talked to himself.
"The former dynasty Da Chen, the founding of the People's Republic of China for more than 300 years. It was also prosperous, and there were many heroes, such as Huayin Yang's family, Lanling Xiao family, etc., all of which were famous families in the world in the previous dynasty, and they were not weak at all compared to today's five surnames and seven hopes. It's a pity that Emperor Chen was mediocre and was destroyed by Wei Gaozu, and since then I have been founding Wei for more than 200 years, and I have unified the rivers and mountains of Kyushu. Wu Hui paused and sighed, "It's a pity that the two hundred years of my Wei can't be completely ignored, and the three hundred years of the previous dynasty are more than three hundred years old. ”
"Not bad. Time is a little bit worse. Li He interjected, and his gaze became heavier and heavier as he looked at the tombstone.
"Some of the famous families of the previous dynasty have been lost in the years, and some have become famous all over the world again in the new dynasty by virtue of their accumulation. For example, let the emperor marry his concubine and marry the Huayin Yang family, for example, fill the Lu family, and rank the Lanling Xiao family with the fifth surname. There are also clans that are not as good as these two families, but they are also powerful clans, and it is estimated that there are no less than hundreds. Wu Hui's face gradually became heavy, and he said that the previous dynasty was a problem that no dynasty could bypass.
"The abacus of the Wang family and the second child is estimated to be planning, if they directly aim at the five surnames and seven hopes, it will be too much of a target, if they aim at other famous families in Dawei, the interests will be more intertwined, and it is difficult to say whether they will win or lose. Li He interjected again.
Wu Hui's fingertips hidden in his wide coat clenched suddenly, leaving a white mark in his palm: "Therefore, if the Wang family and King Zhao have an incident, it is most likely that the first person to take advantage of is the famous family of the previous dynasty." ”
“…… The famous family of the previous dynasty ......" Li He played with these words, and exhaled a turbid breath.