The position of the crown prince of the country is vacant, and the three princes and Zhong Lishu are the most favored.

The tyrannical nature of the three princes is not the choice of the Ming monarch, Zhong Lishu was born by the palace maid of Linxing when the saint was drunk, although he succeeded to the knees of the imperial concubine, but it was difficult to enter the elegant hall after all.

"I never thought that Zhong Lishu would be such an ambitious person. ”

Hua Wudu sat on a sandalwood chair, holding a cup of tea in his hand, "I used to treat him sincerely, but I only fed the dog." ”

In the dim candlelight, he was half in the shadows......

A year ago, the new policy proposed by the third prince was just some tricks to loot the people's fat and ointment, and Hua Wudu vigorously opposed it, preparing to impeach him in the court, and told Zhong Lishu his thoughts without reservation.

The next day, during the court debate, Zhong Lishu rejected Hua's indecisive opinion and strongly supported the three princes. The Sacred Heart is pleased, and he is praised for his broad-mindedness.

Hua Wudu asked him why, and he just sighed: "It's that I can't live with you, but I can't lose my sacred heart." ”

Since the Holy Lord was inclined to the policy of the Three Princes, how could he dare to be an enemy of the Son of Heaven.

After listening to Hua Wuxuan's story, Hua Qixi's hands trembled, and the teacup held in the palm of her hand swayed, and the hot tea was sprinkled on the back of her hand.

In his mind, we are all mere instruments to ascend to the throne of God. ”

Hua Wuzhi raised his head and took a breath of cold air, and slowly exhaled, "I didn't want to tell you this, but now that you are in the Loei Province, you have to beware of the pillow people." Hua nodded obediently.

The two were silent for a while, and Hua Wushu got up to say goodbye.

Hua Xiqi sent him to the door of the house, and the moonlight passed through the flower branch wine on his shoulder, as if frost had fallen.

"Xixi, my brother will find a way to get you out, don't be afraid. ”

Hua Wuduan patted her thin shoulder, turned around and mounted his fierce horse, and headed towards the General's Mansion.

Through the falling snowflakes of foreign wine, Hua Qiqi saw Zhong Lishu's sedan chair coming from a distance, she stopped her steps and stood by the door waiting for him.

Seeing her standing in the snow, Zhong Lishu hurriedly took off his cloak and put it on her, and reproached: "It's a cold day, what are you doing standing here?"

Hua Qiqi looked at him sideways, but her heart was blank. "See what I'm doing?" Zhong Lishu kept rubbing her hands and raised them to her lips, "Don't you miss me?" "You love stinky beauty!" Hua Xi took a sip, the corners of her mouth were smiling, but her face hanging in the shadows was terrifyingly cold. She thought that she would have no chance of happiness in this life.

When she got up in the morning, Hua Qiqi served Zhong Lishu to change clothes, and when she tied his belt, she wrapped her hands around his waist, and her ears were full of his breath. Zhong Lishu whispered, "Sigh." As he spoke, the delicate kiss was about to fall.

Hua Qiqi hurriedly let go of her hand and stepped back, hung her head and whispered: "Go to the court, the sedan chair man is already waiting at the door." Zhong Lishu stopped talking, then turned to leave. Hua Qiqi looked at his back in a daze. In the past, she desperately wanted to marry him, but now that she is really married, she feels that it is better not to marry, so she still has a thought.

At the beginning, because of the reform, Hua Wuxuan and Zhong Lishu had no contact for half a year, so she climbed to the wall in order to see Zhong Lishu at a glance, and smashed the sedan chair he passed by with a stone. Seeing him open the sedan curtain, he immediately shouted: "Brother Zhongli, I'm here!"

Zhongli looked up and saw that Hua Qiqi was waving at him on the wall, and the flowers hung down and hung above her head, matching with her black hair. Before he could speak, he heard an angry curse from the courtyard: "You climb the wall again!

Then, Hua Qixi's head poked out of the wall and disappeared, and then burst into a cry: "Brother Zhongli, I want Brother Zhongli!" But her Zhongli brother never appeared.

It had been a few months since the two met again, and the Holy Lord entertained the officials in the Imperial Garden. She carefully dressed up and entered the palace, but saw Zhong Lishu behaving intimately with a woman. Finally waiting for Zhong Lishu to be empty, she rushed over and grabbed his sleeve, and tears flashed in her eyes when she raised her face: "Brother Zhongli, if you have her, don't you want me?"

Zhongli Shu looked at her, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he was drowned in the fireworks, and his mouth seemed to be: "I don't have her, only you." Hua Xiqi could see it clearly, and suddenly smiled like a flower.

But within a few days, Dahong's invitation was delivered to the general's mansion, and it was Zhong Lishu who wanted to marry the prime minister's daughter. She only felt that someone had stabbed her heart hard, and she hid in the corner and cried all night.

Rao is like this, she still can't let him go, and she has to go over the wall to find him. Then she thought, there is no one more humble than herself. When she jumped off the wall, she fell into a warm embrace, and what caught her eye was Zhongli Shufeng's handsome face, and she called sweetly, "Brother Zhongli." ”

Zhong Lishu looked at her face that was scratched by the branches, and frowned and reproached: "If you don't leave the good gate, why do you always like to climb the wall?"

"My brother won't let me see you, so I have to climb the wall. She pretended to be relaxed.

Zhong Lishu raised his hand to stroke the broken hair of her sideburns, and his eyes were so affectionate that she hated to drown in them: "Xixi, shall I marry you?"

She blinked her eyes and struggled to suppress the choking in her throat: "If you dare to marry, I will dare to marry." ”

The next day, Zhong Lishu sent someone to the general's mansion to give a dowry,

was thrown into the street on the spot by Hua Wujue: "Do you want to marry my sister?"

The next day, Zhong Lishu asked for a holy decree to marry him. The Hua family has been loyal and good for generations, how dare they resist the will and disrespect?

Hua Xiqi jumped three feet high happily, and Hua Wuqi's face turned white with anger. At that time, she only knew that she liked him and wanted to marry him. Now she just wants to ask him: "What is the purpose of you marrying me?"

Until one day, she heard her subordinates chewing on the root of their tongues: "I heard that His Royal Highness didn't even go to the eldest concubine's room on the wedding night, and we all thought that His Royal Highness was a Yanagi Hui." The servant covered his mouth and snickered, "Look at his thoughtful appearance to the second imperial concubine..."..

Her heart, which had been dry and cracked, began to heal, as if it had been blown by the spring breeze and sprouted.

Whether he uses it or not, he has feelings for her.

The saint's body is getting worse and worse, and the battle between Zhong Lishu and the three princes for the heir is also more intense. At a time when the situation between the DPRK and China was extremely serious, the armies of neighboring countries were pressing the border.

Before setting out for the expedition, Hua Wuzhu sneaked into Loei Province in a night suit, rescued Hua Xixi, placed her in a secluded mansion, and took care of her day after day. She has not been very good since she was a child, but these days she is very tired for some reason, so she asked Lang Zhong to come to check her pulse, and only said: "Be careful to recuperate." ”

In addition, Lang Zhong also congratulated with a smile: "Madam, you are happy." ”

Suddenly, Hua Wudu's face turned pale. After sending Lang Zhong away, he began to silently pack up the softness again, and wanted to send Hua Xixian back to Loei: "The Holy Lord asked me to go on the expedition tomorrow, you are so weak, it is better to return to Zhongli Shu." ”

Hua Xiqi naturally didn't believe these excuses, but just looked at him fixedly.

He said helplessly: "Zhong Lishu came to look for me, you know that he is such a clever person, only one sentence is really reasonable, except for me in this capital, only he will really protect you." ”

Hua Wuzhu stopped talking, and instead picked up the package and helped her onto the sedan chair: "What do you eat on weekdays?"

"It's nothing more than a bird's nest tonic. Hua Qixi looked at Hua Wuxuan when she replied, and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Am I poisoned?" She has been weak since she was a child, but she has never been weak to such a point.

"Xu was poisoned, and I haven't found out yet. ”

Zhong Lishu stood at the gate of the mansion and waited for Hua Xixi, and when he saw her get off the sedan chair, he hurriedly wrapped her in a cloak and walked inside, without saying a word.

Both of them were silent, and Hua Xixi did not mention the pregnancy. She wondered how much was there between them to get to the point where they were today.

The weather was excellent on the day of the expedition, and the sun shone on the snow. This is the first time the two have spoken since there was a gap between Dahua Wuzhu and Zhongli Shu.

"During my absence, I and my little nephew have entrusted it to you. If you want to do something risky, remember to arrange them in advance. He didn't look at Zhong Lishu's frozen face, but instead took Hua Qixi's hand and walked forward.

Zhong Lishu looked at the backs of the two, and his eyes were dyed with melancholy that had lasted for years. He could understand the implication of Hua Wudu's words, but now that the saint was seriously ill and refused to establish a prince, it would be extremely detrimental to him if he continued to drag on like this.

But what shocked him the most and saddened him was that Hua Xixi was pregnant, and he didn't even know about it.

"You like the plum grove in the yard the most, and you can also take time to sit in your spare time..... Unconsciously walked to the city gate, outside was a general who was waiting for the battle, Hua Wuzhi looked at Hua Xiyi twice, turned over and got on the horse, leaving a trace of his back embedded in the sky.

"But tired?" Zhong Lishu saw that Hua Xixi's face was pale, and even his eyes looked a little sluggish.

"It's okay..... Before she could finish speaking, Zhong Lishu hurriedly caught her and turned around and rushed towards Loei. After pinching the pulse, the imperial doctor said earnestly: "Madame's body is too weak, make a decision earlier, adults and children can only protect one." ”

"Your Excellency. Zhong Lishu said without thinking.

Hua Qiqi went to tug at his sleeve, but before he could speak, he was gagged by a sentence: "I'd rather be the last than let you be in danger."

He said it very resolutely, and the sunlight shone on his face, making his skin as clear as a piece of warm jade, and Hua Xiqi was dazzled by it.

Even if she can't give him an heir, he won't be cut off.

Suddenly, his face under the fireworks broke into her mind, and he said softly in the fire tree and silver flowers: "I don't have her, only you." ”

Hua Qiqi softened her body and shrank into his arms, and tears fell unexpectedly.

Zhong Lishu finally couldn't resist Hua Xiyi, so he had to let her protect the fetus first.

It was already the moon on that day, Zhong Lishu had not returned to the house, and Hua Xiqi couldn't sleep without him to accompany him, so he simply sat under the eaves with a palace lamp and waited for him to come back.

She stared at the shadow of the tree cast on the white jade floor, and suddenly heard the sound and hurriedly walked over, and saw Zhongli tree pressed against the prime minister's daughter, and was staggered into the house. She opened her mouth and lost her voice. He never took her to the palace banquet, and I heard that he was also meticulous to the prime minister's daughter outside, pouring wine and clothes for her, which was enviable. It turns out that this meticulousness does not belong to her alone. She hurriedly wiped away the tears hanging from her eyelashes, turned and entered the house, closed the door, extinguished the wick, and turned over to sleep.

Hua Xiqi didn't care about the government, and he didn't know that now he and the third prince had torn their faces, and the two of them went around ganging up to seize the throne. In order to get the support of the prime minister, Zhong Lishu naturally had to play with his daughter.

One day, Hua Xixi went out for a walk, the road was very slippery after the rain, and she accidentally fell, and then her lower abdomen cramped, and the attendant hurriedly sent her back to the house to find a stable woman to deliver the baby. She was in heart-rending pain, and just when she was about to faint, Wen Po came to her with a wrinkled child in her arms and congratulated her loudly: "Happy to add the emperor's grandson!"

The door was suddenly slammed open, and Zhong Lishu's crescent-white clothes were stained with blood, and it was that auspicious sentence that hit his eardrums. He was so excited that his tone was unsteady: "We have a child.....".

Zhong Lishu and the Three Princes were summoned to the palace, and the Holy Son was placed in him. The third prince was ruthless, and he actually brought a large number of Praetorian Guards to surround the palace, intending to seek power and usurp the throne.

The saint didn't take a breath and closed his eyes, and in the eunuch's screaming "Emperor Bintian", Zhonglishu fought bloodily and finally got out of danger. Fortunately, he had already prepared, otherwise he was afraid that he would not return.

As soon as he left the palace, he heard that Hua Xixi was born prematurely, and he rushed to the house non-stop, and ran to the delivery room without even having time to change his bloody clothes.

The sunlight fell on Zhongli from behind, casting him in shadows, but it could not hide the joy in his heart. He excitedly pounced on Hua Xixi, stroking her sweat-soaked sideburns: "Xi...... He whispered her name, his eyes full of affection.

Seeing that his face was pale with blood, Wen Po put her palm on the baby's face, and said euphemistically: "Your Highness, you are doing this.....

Only then did Zhong Lishu realize that he was full of killing, and rubbed his hands: "I'll go and change it, this is....

Hua Xiqi turned sideways and didn't want to look at him: "I'm a little tired, you can come back another day." ”

The winter wind was cold, and Y hurriedly closed the doors and windows and lit the stove. Obviously the room was very warm, but Hua Xixi still felt cold.

The Holy Lord, the three princes attempted to usurp the throne and died in a chaotic battle, and Zhong Lishu naturally ascended to the throne. However, the country was in great mourning, and it was not appropriate to immediately ascend the throne, so it was postponed until the beginning of the spring of the following year, and the affairs of the DPRK and China were handled by him with full authority.

On this day, Hua Xixi was taking her son Arnold for a walk in the house, and Zhong Lishu walked up to her and said happily: "There is good news from the border pass, a great victory over the enemy country, and I have embarked on the return journey back to Beijing without a decision." ’

Hua Xiqi was overjoyed: "My brother is coming back? This battle has also been fought for seven or eight months, and he has worked hard." As she spoke, she hurried to prepare for his triumph.

"It will take a few more days to arrive in the capital, so don't worry. Zhongli Shu hugged Arnold and said to her hurried back.

After a while, Zhong Lishu watched her busy work, swallowed back the words that had just come to his mouth, and sent someone to bring a chair to sit next to her, and looked at her for a long time.

Hua Qiqi saw that something was wrong: "But my brother has arrived in the capital?"

"I'm afraid I'll never be able to reach the capital. Zhong Lishu hurriedly stood up and went to help the flowers. Hua Qiqi lost her strength and fell to the ground, and whispered in despair: "Good person, why can't you come back?"

Zhong Lishu looked at her helpless and confused face and felt so distressed that he had to hold her in his arms: "He rushed overnight in order to return to Beijing early, but when he arrived in the Lingnan area, he encountered a torrential rain, and a landslide buried him underneath. ”

"Have you found the body?" Hua Xixi raised her head to look at him, her eyes full of anticipation.

"Found it, wearing the armor of the Imperial Gift. Zhong Lishu was almost in tears, Rao is now in a high position, but he can't do anything in the face of the tragic death of his best friend.

He opened his arms and hugged Hua Xixi in his arms. "No, my brother won't die, no..... Hua Xiqi pushed him out vigorously, tearing her hair in pain. Suddenly, she raised her face and glared at Zhongli Shu, with unprecedented fierceness in her eyes, "Does my brother's death have anything to do with you? At the beginning, the tocolytic pills she took were harmful to her mother, and she collapsed and was weak when she was excited, and at this time she curled up in Zhong Lishu's arms and muttered: "You executioner, you seek power and usurp the throne, you kill your brother and kill .....".

There was a battle in front of the face saint, and Zhong Lishu and the three princes knew it. The king was defeated, and the three princes were detained by Zhong Lishu when they lost, and they were accused of seeking power and usurping the throne. Since he took power, the henchmen of the three princes have been uprooted, and now they dare to point their noses at him like this and scold him, and it is estimated that there are only flowers in the world.

However, Hua Wudecid's matter really had nothing to do with him, so he had to coax Hua Xiyi like a child: "I look forward to his return........ If you ask who he really treats in this world, in addition to his mother, there are only two brothers and sisters in the Hua family. "It's true that I love power, then I also want to protect my beloved..... The phrase "protect you" was bitten between Zhong Lishu's lips and swallowed into his stomach. He held her in his arms, and he couldn't rub it to his bones, but in exchange for Hua Xixi's struggle, he struggled harder.

"Then why did you marry me, didn't you want to control my brother?" Zhongli Shu's face was dyed with anger, his bright eyes dimmed, and he slowly let her go, "You don't believe me like that?" and then called the maid to send Hua Xixi back to the house.

Since then, Hua Xixi has never paid attention to Zhongli Shu, and whenever she meets his eager and sad gaze, her heart is like a knife, and when she is about to soften, she will think of her brother who loves her, and then she will ignore him.

After all, she still didn't believe that Hua Wu's death had nothing to do with him.

In the spring of the following year, Zhong Lishu held an enthronement ceremony. He wore a yellow robe and stepped up the high palace steps, waved his wide sleeves, and turned around to look condestinously at the official eunuch kneeling down below. He looked around for Hua Xi's figure, and after looking for a long time, he remembered that she was sick and didn't even want to participate in the enthronement ceremony.

Since the death of Dahua Wudecided, the two have never been harmonious, and even if they sit down, they are speechless. Fortunately, he could go to the West Temple to find her in the name of Arnold, but after a long time, he couldn't help but feel a little resentful in his heart, and the bitterness almost corroded him. At that time, Hua Xi secretly sent someone to investigate the cause of Hua Wudu's death, and many unknown secrets gradually surfaced. She stared incredulously at the creed from the guard, barely catching her breath.

I needed to go to the queen mother to say goodbye, and the woman who seemed to be gentle and tolerant turned out to be vicious: "The poison in my body, but you gave it?"

And every time Hua Deng's pulse is checked, it is the street doctor who treats the queen mother, no wonder Zhong Lishu still doesn't know about her poisoning.

The queen mother reclined on the couch, lowered her eyes and blew the cup of tea in her hand: "I heard that you are not in good health, the queen mother specially sent someone to help you make bird's nest, you drink some while it is hot." ”

Hua Xixi raised her hand and was about to wave away the bird's nest, but was interrupted by the queen mother in a cold voice: "I don't spoil you like the emperor, if you are so willful and suffer, it is still yourself." ”

Hua Qixi's face suddenly changed, and she reached out to take the bird's nest: "No wonder I have to take supplements every day, I think I put a small amount of antidote." ”

The queen mother put chronic poison in Hua Xixi's body, and she will not be poisoned to death immediately, if she takes a small amount of antidote every day, she can live for a few more years.

It turned out that it was not Zhong Lishu who wanted to control Hua Wudeciding, but the Queen Mother. Hua Qiqi just wanted to ask a few questions, but was interrupted by Zhong Lishu, who came to greet him in the morning, and they retreated after chatting a few words.

Out of the palace, Hua Xiqi was estranged from him, and he left after being blessed. Zhong Lishu's tone was aggrieved, and he said to her back, "How can you treat me like this?"

"Have you started to bring out the emperor's shelf?" Hua Xiqi glanced at him sideways. Zhongli lowered his body and walked towards her almost begging: "Xixi, you beat me and scold me, don't treat me so indifferently...

Something surged up from the bottom of her heart, almost annihilating her.

It was night, and the moon was as cool as water.

Hua Xiqi sneaked back to the General's Mansion from the palace, Zhong Lishu was extremely fond of her, and it was effortless to leave the palace. After thinking about it, she only felt that Hua Wuzhi said before leaving, let her go to the mansion Merlin to walk by Yu Qian, which seemed to be intentionally hinting.

Hua Xiqi searched for a long time before he buried the wine from Hua Wudu

Fang took out the brocade cloth, and she quickly read it in the moonlight, and her face turned pale in an instant.

She secretly went back to her house and found the fire fold and lit the brocade cloth. She crouched on the ground, staring blankly at the ashes that fell on the ground.

Before Hua Wudu's expedition, he was summoned to the palace by the Holy Secretary and drafted an edict to deliver to him. If Zhong Lishu dared to covet the throne, Yunhua would have no power to kill and put him on the spot. Why did the saint who had loved Zhongli Tree so much in the past put him to death so easily? Hua Qi pursed her lips, and then forced, and the fishy sweet taste spread to her mouth.

The next day, Hua Xixi sat next to the Queen Mother, and when she peeled oranges for her, she said lightly: "Zhongli Tree is not the Holy Emperor's vein?"

"Do you know, Guo Hui Yitian. The Queen Mother twisted a petal of orange and put it in her mouth, nodded and praised, "Well, it's so sweet." "The queen mother had a beloved very early, but the emperor's order was difficult to disobey and had to enter the palace. After entering the palace, she fornicated with her master and conceived Zhongli Shu, and she couldn't bear to slip the fetus, so she left him behind. Coincidentally, at that time, there was a plague epidemic in Beijing, and she publicized that she was infected with the plague, and she closed the door in the palace for nearly a year.

The child of the palace maid who was born by the saint was born, and the queen mother entrusted Zhongli Shu to her, and after the palace maid died, she passed him to her knees.

It's just that no one expected that she did a drip-tight old thing, and in the end she was known by the saint, and left an edict to Hua Wuzhi before her death, passing the throne to the third prince. It's a pity that the three princes didn't have a chance to face the saint and were killed by Zhong Lishu outside the Jinluan Palace.

"So you're afraid that my brother will return to Beijing and leave Zhongli too soon

When the tree's background is revealed, she intends to deploy our army to the enemy, so as to delay until he ascends the throne?" The orange in Hua Xixi's hand was pinched and rotted by her, and the juice seeped out from between her fingers, she gritted her teeth, "Do you know that after a delay of half a year, tens of thousands of soldiers died?"

"Heh, what's inconceivable about a mother doing something vicious for her child?" the Queen Mother didn't even move her eyebrows.

Hua Qiqi laughed angrily, there are indeed such people in this world who are so grassy but still have words.

"Aren't you too? For the sake of the emperor, righteousness is like dung in your eyes. "The person sent by the Queen Mother to follow Hua Xixi came back to report that she had burned the secret decree.

Once the will is made public, Zhong Lishu will seek power and usurp the throne, and will be reviled by the world.

She still couldn't let go of him.

At this moment, Zhong Lishu entered the temple door in despair, looked at the two of them in shock, and a thousand words were choked in his throat. Hua Qiqi dragged a heavy costume to him, and her indifferent tone was like a sword: "You can hear Zhongli Shu clearly, there is not only my brother's life between us, but also countless soldiers!" After saying that, she passed by him.

Zhongli Shu hurriedly grabbed the corner of her clothes, but she pulled it hard, leaving him with only a piece of cloth. He spread out his palms, and the fabric fell lightly from his hands.

It began to rain that night, and it didn't stop. Zhongli Shu was drunk and staggered into Hua Xian's dormitory, he had never been so embarrassed, he was soaked, strands of hair were sticking to his cheeks, crying like a lost child: "Xixi, don't leave me, I have nothing....

"In order to ascend to this throne, I have lost my sincerity,

lost seven emotions and six desires, and lost a good brother. If you leave me too,... What can I do?"

"It doesn't matter if we love or hate each other. You are one of the few obsessions I have. Only you're there, "I feel like I'm alive... However, when love becomes an obsession, good and bad, wrong and right, all seem thin.

Hua Xiqi sat all night holding the wet Zhongli tree, until the sky was white, she stroked the hair stuck to the corner of his forehead, lowered her head and gently dropped a kiss: "But Zhongli tree, I still have this obsession of avenging my brother." ”

She was like babbling, and the drunken Zhongli Shu didn't know what she was saying.

Hua Xiqi took advantage of the Queen Mother's greeting and stabbed the dagger hidden in her sleeve fiercely. Blood gushed out, and her eyes widened in surprise. How could this scheming woman make it easy for her to get it?

Blood kept gushing out along the hilt of the knife, and for the first time there was love in the queen mother's eyes when she looked at Hua Xixi: "Child, if you really love the emperor, kill me." "Hua Qiqi has not been in good health since she was a child, and the poison has penetrated deep into the bone marrow for so many years, and she has long been unable to return to the sky. But Zhongli Shu loves her so much, if she goes, how will he live?

"Since you can't love, you can always hate. The Queen Mother looked at Hua Xianxi's eyes with tears and faintly pleading, she held Hua Xianxi's hand and sent the dagger inside. "No!" Hua Xiqi hurriedly let go. The dagger was thrown out, and it landed on the white jade floor with a crisp sound, especially piercing in the quiet hall.

The Empress Dowager had already sent someone to invite Zhong Lishu, and he happened to see this scene when he came in. Zhong Lishu held the Empress Dowager in his arms while passing the imperial doctor, and pointed to Hua Xixi's fingertips trembling: .......

In a fit of anger, he demoted her to the cold palace.

Zhong Lishu's accompanying eunuch still reported to him as always, the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the flowers.

The revenge of killing his mother, even if he didn't report it, he couldn't write it off, so he waved his hand impatiently: "In the future, she doesn't have to report her affairs anymore, everything is according to the rules of the palace." "What a cruel place the cold palace is, coupled with the poison into the bone marrow, it will go within half a moon. However, it was half a year later when Zhong Lishu mentioned her again, and he casually asked, "Why hasn't there been any news of Hua Xian these days?"

"The mother is dead. The eunuch said lightly, and then put the imperial curtain in his hand on top of his head again, so as not to let the snowflakes float on him, "According to the rules of the cold palace, the old slave picked up a piece of land in the back mountain and buried it." ”

Bang! The stove in Zhonglishu's hand fell to the ground, and it rolled a few times and then came to his feet. He turned his head as if to whisper, "Dead?"

"Yes!" The eunuch saw that his expression was wrong, and his voice became smaller and quieter, "It was a few days ago.... It was as if snow had drifted into Zhonglishu's eyes, turning into hot tears. Suddenly, he turned around and quickened his steps to move forward, nodding his head incessantly: "It's good, it's good." ”

He swayed incessantly, and within a few steps he fell into the snow.

That illness came like a mountain, Zhongli Shu was sick in bed for several days, and Arnold took care of him day by day, inadvertently mentioning the day of the assassination.

He pouted and asked, "Isn't Grandma afraid of pain?"

"What else?" Zhongli Shu's mouth trembled with excitement. "Grandma said that after the death of the mother, my father was afraid that he would not be able to live, and if he couldn't love, he might as well hate... He tugged at Zhong Lishu's sleeve, "Erchen doesn't understand....".

Zhong Lishu clutched on his chest and choked on blood, which frightened Arnold and hurried to pass the imperial doctor. He lay on his bed looking at the dome, tears streaming down his eyes.

After he recovered from his illness, he found the imperial doctor who treated Hua Xixi, and traced it all the way to find out the ins and outs of the matter. At that time, he sat alone on the threshold of the palace.

When he was a child, he was always bullied by others, and he felt that power was the most attractive thing in the world. Now that he has ascended to this position, surrounded by corpses, he knows that power is nothing but loneliness for thousands of years. And the person he wanted to protect behind him was only a pile of white bones.

Zhong Lishu stroked the tears from the corners of his eyes, curled up on the threshold, his back was terrifyingly thin, as if he had returned to the lonely appearance of his childhood.

The following year, Zhong Lishu chased Lihua as the queen, and since then he has not accepted a concubine, and the harem is empty.

During his reign, Zhong Lishu created the prosperity of the dynasty and was a rare Ming monarch. Except for the old eunuch who served him, no one had ever seen the Jiuyang Supreme in the court, carrying the palace lamp at night, and going to the west hall with his back bent.

Beneath his feet was a road paved with time, long and lonely.

"Ahh......h He pursed his lips, and the rest of the words were blocked in his throat, and he couldn't make a sound anymore. The wind blew, and the extinguished palace lamp burst into a wisp of green smoke, plunging the surroundings into boundless darkness, and Zhongli Shu's bright eyes also dimmed.

When he was younger, Liang Tan didn't like Mu Yunhuan. He was different from the rest of the clan, he was stupid, withdrawn, his clothes were not beautiful, and in worse cases, he could not even maintain basic cleanliness. Therefore, for a long time, Liang Tan didn't understand why his uncle summoned Mu Yunhuan into the palace.

The entire Daliang people know that the most favored person in Daliang is Liang Tan, the princess of Yongning.

This princess has been by Emperor Jing's side since she was a child. Emperor Jing's harem has few and no heirs, and all the favor was given to this little princess who lost her mother since she was a child. Liang Tan grew up in a starry-eyed environment, so he grew a stinky temper.

Therefore, to treat Mu Yunhuan, who does not like her, she only needs to simply confide in some unhappy emotions, and naturally someone will let her happen to see Mu Yunhuan who is being cleaned up.

Mu Yunhuan is not very old, but his temper is very stubborn, no matter how blue his nose and swollen face are, he will never shed a single tear. Once Liang Tan was interested, he squatted in front of Mu Yunhuan and asked him, "Are you in pain?" Mu Yunhuan looked at her with a dirty face and nodded. Liang Tan asked again: "Then why don't you cry?"

Mu Yunhuan paused this time, and then replied slowly: "My mother said that boys will not be able to marry a daughter-in-law if they cry all the time." ”

The children of the clan who followed Liang Tan collectively laughed, Mu Yunhuan looked at Liang Tan in a daze, and suddenly realized that others were laughing at him, and instantly blushed. Liang Xian didn't smile, and stood up extremely indifferently: "At a young age, I only think about marrying a daughter-in-law, and it's really useless." ”

With Liang Tan's disgust, Mu Yunhuan's life in the palace was very sad. In order to please Liang County, those children of the clan all came to bully him. Liang Tan had already forgotten about this matter, but if she didn't stop it, this matter wouldn't stop.

After a year in a trance, Liang Tan saw Mu Yunhuan on the way back to the dormitory, the young man had grown up, he was very thin, his cheekbones were high and provish, and his cheeks were a little dirty. Blood snaked into the white underwear around his neck at the corners of his mouth, and he looked indifferently at the person who punched and kicked him. When he saw Liang Tan, his eyes trembled, and he suddenly bit the neck of the person in front of him fiercely. Those people didn't seem to expect Mu Yunhuan to resist, and after being stunned for a while, they suddenly intensified.

Liang Tan stopped his steps, and his voice was calm: "Stop." She pushed aside the crowd and took out a handkerchief and pressed it on Mu Yunhuan's bleeding forehead, "Blatantly brawl in the palace, I think you guys are too long." Why don't you get out of here?

When everyone dispersed, Liang Tan threw the handkerchief on Mu Yunhuan: "A man can't even protect himself, how is it different from waste?"

Mu Yunhuan lowered his head to hide his embarrassment: "Thank you for the princess's teachings." ”

Since then, Liang Tan hasn't seen Mu Yunhuan for a long time. When she was alone with Emperor Jing, she obediently knelt on his knees and asked Mu Yunhuan.

Emperor Jing gently patted her back: "A few days ago, his father handed over a fold, saying that he missed his only son, so I asked him to go back." He sighed faintly, "It's also a poor child, my father is away all the year round, and my mother has been implicated in her death." The entire Mu family is vying to get rid of his relationship with him, no one wants to care about him, he is clearly a son of a family, but he has no one to take care of when he is so old. ”

Liang Tan suddenly remembered Mu Yunhuan two years ago, she only thought that this person was stupid, but she didn't expect that there was such a reason behind it. She thought about it again and remembered the side a while ago, what Mu Yunhuan had experienced to be reborn in just one year. Liang Tan didn't dare to think about it, and was quiet

No more talking.

Liang Tan began to dream of Mu Yunhuan, which was a very quiet dream. Mu Yunhuan looked at her with a sad and joyless face, his eyes flashed, as if he was blaming her.

Liang Tan woke up from his dream every time he looked at the top of the tent and didn't dare to blink. It was the first time in her life that she felt guilty because of her dominance.

Liang Tan saw Mu Yunhuan again on her fifteenth birthday.

Emperor Jing set up a small banquet in the palace and invited some people from the clan. Liang Tan sat beside Emperor Jing, absentmindedly listening to the steward and eunuch announcing the congratulatory gifts sent by everyone.

Until she heard Mu Yunhuan's name, she suddenly looked up and saw a slightly familiar face. Mu Yunhuan has changed a lot, his cheeks are still thin and as thin as a knife, but he is no longer ugly with prominent cheekbones, his long hair is tied up with a jade crown, and his eyebrows and eyes are sharp and good-looking. Liang Tan pinched the corner of his skirt almost uncontrollably. At that small banquet, Liang Tan was restless, and the person who had occupied her dream for a long time finally appeared, and she was doing well, she should be happy. Liang Xian raised his head and drank a glass of wine, and saw that the crescent moon on the horizon that had been broken for twenty years was finally complete.

After the banquet, Emperor Jing summoned Mu Yunhuan to walk around the imperial garden, and Liang Tan also followed him. Emperor Jing asked, "When will you go back to Beijing next time?"

Mu Yunhuan chuckled: "Emperor, rest assured, the day of triumph is not far away." ”

Emperor Jing also smiled: "The hero is a young man, this is really true, I am waiting for An Guohou to take you to triumph." ”

Liang Tan secretly glanced at Mu Yunhuan, but he still couldn't help but open his mouth for a while: "The battlefield is sinister, the prince must be careful." "Thank you, Princess.

Liang Tan thought, what is the difference between this sentence and Mu Yunhuan's last sentence before leaving the palace? He probably hated her, so now, he has to be alienated from her like this. Mu Yunhuan returned to the imperial capital three months later. It was the hottest time in the capital, Liang Tan accompanied Emperor Jing, waiting for Mu Yunhuan and his son in front of the city gate, but only saw An Guohou riding a horse in front. Liang Tan's throat tightened, but he saw An Guohou immediately turn down and kneel in front of Emperor Jing: "The minister has defended the border city." ”

Emperor Jing stepped forward to help An Guohou, and An Guohou burst into tears: "Your Majesty, save the little ....."

Liang Tan hurriedly ran to the back and saw Mu Yunhuan lying in the carriage with his eyes closed and his face pale. She tried to reach out to probe his snort, but found that her hands were shaking and she couldn't stop. Emperor Jing gently grabbed her hand, and she burst into tears and shouted "uncle" in embarrassment.

Mu Yunhuan was placed in the palace, and under the instruction of Emperor Jing, the entire Tai Hospital revolved around him. In addition, Liang Tan ran here all day long, and the imperial doctors did not dare to slack off. Under careful care, Mu Yunhuan finally woke up in the middle of the night. Liang Tan got the news, ran over barefoot, and when he saw Mu Yunhuan, he only said, "You're awake..... Her worries, nervousness, and all the emotions that could not be said were blocked in her throat, and she couldn't say a word. Mu Yunhuan nodded, his gaze fell on her bare feet, and his eyes were as heavy as a deep pool. Liang Tan put his mind at ease, thinking of his current appearance, he only felt embarrassed, and put on the shoes sent by the maid with a red face under Mu Yunhuan's gaze. Mu Yunhuan smiled reluctantly: "Let the princess worry." ”

Mu Yunhuan's injury recovered very slowly, and Liang County ran over to look for him every day.