Chapter 16: The Past Ten Years Ago
Wei Zifeng, whose head was on the ground, did not feel ashamed, although he had a prominent status, his father was Wei Haokun, one of the four auxiliary ministers of the dynasty, and the empress dowager had also given him the exceptional gift that he could not take the imperial examination, directly enter the court as an official, enter the Hanlin Academy, enter the editor, and become a royal attendant. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The scenery and gifts of the world, he Wei Zifeng accounted for half of it, but in the face of Li Yuanhao, he really didn't think that the flattering slap and the wagging tail and begging kneeling just now were any shameful things, and these were definitely not because of the identity of Emperor Li Yuanhao opposite, but the awe from the bottom of his heart.
Many people in Tai'an City talked behind their backs that Li Yuanhao was the puppet emperor with embroidered pillows, and also gave him a free title of "the first beauty in the world" to today's son, and the powerful sons around Wei Zifeng were even more happy to do this, and took pleasure in ridiculing His Majesty the Emperor in the palace, as if he could highlight his own courage and extraordinary personality, although he did not stop it, and stood on Li Yuanhao's side with righteous words, but he never spoke disrespectfully and deliberately slandered His Majesty the Emperor.
Because he still remembers an incident that happened ten years ago, when the world was in turmoil, the people were panicked, the palace at that time was far from being as high as it is now, and the rules were strict, especially the Southern Liang and Western Chu successively established the country, and after the Xiongnu army went south, it shrouded the entire Tai'an City in a treacherous cloud, gathered the four major auxiliary ministers, The palace of the three major guards is like hidden in a thick fog, confusing, unable to see the direction of history, the dragon chair on the Jinluan Hall seems to have a chance for anyone to sit on, Wei Zifeng followed his father Wei Haokun into the palace at that time.
In order to avoid the assassination of Nanliang and Western Chu, not only the royal family, but also many of the old men of the former dynasty and the ministers of civil and military affairs also lived in the palace.
At that time, Wei Zifeng also lived in the palace, and his father lived in the north of the palace, Zhongcui Palace, south of Zhongcui Palace is Chengqian Palace, where the current Yangtze River South Line General Shantai State Domain, and the east Jinghe Palace lives in the current Guozhang Auxiliary Minister Su Kesha Su Shangshu, and the status of the noble can be seen in general. Wei Zifeng was only fourteen at that time, naughty personality, very bold, playing in the palace with a short sword, the first time he saw His Majesty the Emperor, Wei Zifeng extremely disliked the too handsome Li Yuanhao, the delicate air between the eyebrows covered the fortitude that the boy should have, and the clothes on his body were too fat, not ironing, climbing the tree must be very inconvenient.
Compared with the above, what made Wei Zifeng most unhappy was that Li Yuanhao was sitting on the high palace fence, holding a baby in his hand, tirelessly, singing children's songs over and over again, with a bad and intermittent voice. Wei Zifeng is not a patient child, so when he saw a child doing things at a glance, a certain string in his heart was touched, and he couldn't help but go up and poke it. Although I know Li Yuanhao's identity, I don't know who is in charge in the world today, no matter who you are. Quietly approaching Li Yuanhao from behind, Wei Zifeng's disgust was even stronger, Li Yuanhao was not only singing children's songs, but also sobbing in a low voice, wiping his tears with his fat sleeves from time to time.
He felt that the face of the boys in the world had been completely embarrassed by this quasi-emperor, and he even cried, and jumped out from behind suddenly, Wei Zifeng yelled: "Kill!", he pulled out the short sword in his hand and stabbed out in the void. He wanted to scare Li Yuanhao, but he never thought that Li Yuanhao's reaction was beyond his imagination, without the slightest pause, even if he jumped, he actually jumped off the railing with the child in his arms.
The fence is more than three feet high, looking scary, Wei Zifeng hurriedly walked forward, attached to look down, Li Yuanhao fell to the ground with a grunt, in order not to fall to the child in his hand, he tried his best to lean back, poofed and fell on his back, oops, tears flowed out unconsciously, for a while, Li Yuanhao got up from the ground, first carefully checked the child in his hand, safe and sound, slightly relieved, frowned, only to find that the palm of his hand was blurred, looked up at Wei Zifeng at a high place, his eyes were faint.
As soon as Wei Zifeng saw that the other party was fine, a hanging heart was put down, and his naughty personality surged up again: "What are you looking at! A crybaby, what a shame for our manly face!" Li Yuanhao didn't answer, turned around and left.
This kind of behavior of showing weakness made Wei Zifeng look down on Li Yuanhao even more, he thought that with Li Yuanhao's weak character, he would definitely sue the Empress Dowager, so what? Whether your Li family can continue to sit on the dragon chair still depends on our Wei family, even if you sue the ancestors, the Empress Dowager will not be harsh on me, but will only accuse you Li Yuanhao of ignorance of the general situation, not to mention that at that time, I, Wei Zifeng, will definitely not admit what happened.
It's just that I didn't expect that the palace has been calm, and there has been no turmoil at all, Wei Zifeng snorted coldly in his heart, he didn't even have the courage to sue, he was really a bear bag, Li Yuanhao's personality was too cowardly and benevolent, he was an embroidered pillow coward, it was good to be a housekeeper emperor in peaceful and prosperous times, but he couldn't do it in troubled times. And what made him even more proud was that Li Yuanhao always hid far away when he saw him in the future, and took a detour.
Leaving things behind, Wei Zifeng is still the little man who is not afraid of heaven and earth.
Wei Zifeng heard that the Yinghua Hall in the northwest corner of the palace is often haunted, very weird, there are often ghosts haunted, three feet from the ground, floating forward, the dry well in front of the Yinghua Palace hides the drowned ghost, in the bamboo forest in front, there are hanged ghosts, every late night will come out to eat people, and it is said that it is miraculous. Swallowing and foaming, he decided to visit the mysterious Yinghua Hall in person late at night to see if it was really as rumored that the Yinghua Hall was haunted.
Waiting until the night when the moon was dark and the wind was high, Wei Zifeng held a lantern that was flickering and flickering, and touched the Yinghua Hall along the tall walls of the palace, the rustling of leaves continued, the moon hid in the clouds, the dilapidated doors and windows were ventilated on all sides, and the deep and dark Yinghua Hall was like an open mouth, Wei Zifeng was both scared and excited, and there seemed to be a sound of squirming footsteps behind him, he turned back suddenly, the bamboo forest was quiet, the bamboo shadow was squirming, where was there anyone.
Touching the short knife on his waist, Wei Zifeng strengthened his courage, and walked towards the Yinghua Hall step by step, just a few dozen steps away, let him sweat, and sat down on the edge of the dry well, Wei Zifeng exhaled a long breath.
Suddenly, a black shadow came out from the depths of the bamboo forest, and before Wei Zifeng could shout, a black cloth bag was already covering his head, and a huge force pushed Wei Zifeng's chest, Wei Zifeng couldn't help it, and fell into the well on his back. Wei Zifeng was in a hurry, and in the process of falling, he grabbed the edge of the well with both hands to prevent himself from falling into the dry well.
The hanged ghost who came out of the bamboo forest was silent for two breaths, reached out to break Wei Zifeng's fingers, one after another, the strength of the hanged ghost was very small, Wei Zifeng used his hands and feet together, wanted to climb out of the dry well, wanted to fight with me, you hanged ghost is still early.
"Ah!" A miserable scream, Wei Zifeng couldn't have imagined that the other party would bite with his mouth, and his lower mouth was extremely ruthless.
With a pop, Wei Zifeng fell into the dry well, saying that it was a dry well, but in fact, there was water in the well, not waist high, and after eating a few dry water in the well, Wei Zifeng stood up with great effort and wiped his face.
At this time, the moon emerged from the clouds and shot into the well, and together with the moon, the hanged ghost in the bamboo forest came out and quietly looked at Wei Zifeng at the bottom of the well.
Wei Zifeng looked up and saw that the eyes of the person above his head were very bright, even in the dark night, they were extremely bright: "Do you know who I am? Hurry up and pull me up, otherwise you will die without a place to be buried!"
The person above his head was motionless, looking at it quietly, this silence made Wei Zifeng extremely annoyed, and he cursed viciously to express the indignation in his heart, but the other party just didn't speak, and he didn't move, like a sculpture.
After being annoyed, Wei Zifeng was soaked in cold water, trembling all over, snot flowed out, he began to say good things, show weakness and compliment, and coerce and lure with wealth, fame and fortune, but the head that came out was quiet and abnormal, in addition to watching quietly, Wei Zifeng knew that the other party was also listening, but the horror was that the other party was motionless, and he seemed to see a trace of silent calm from those bright eyes.
Wei Zifeng began to be afraid, he climbed up with both hands on the cold well wall, the well wall was slippery and useless, he began to howl and cry, crying and begging the people above to pull him up, no matter how miserable his voice was, how sad his cry was, the people above the edge of the well were just motionless.
Wei Zifeng's snot and tears did not exchange for the other party's pity, in the cold, he felt more and more helpless, and the black wall of the well seemed to stretch out countless hands to pull him into the boundless darkness in the next moment.
After a while, the moon hid in the clouds again, and the head did not enter the darkness, Wei Zifeng thought that the other party was gone, and after a while, a stone suddenly covered the dry well, and the light outside was impermeable, completely blocked, and the already dark dry well was even darker, and he couldn't see his five fingers.
Wei Zifeng wanted to cry, but when he opened his mouth, he found that his voice was stuck in his throat and he couldn't make a sound.
"Wow, wow, wow......" A few children's cries came to the bottom of the well, and then Wei Zifeng heard the familiar children's songs......;
Li Yuanhao! Wei Zifeng confirmed that the black shadow was Li Yuanhao, how could it be?! How could that crybaby have such guts!
I don't know how long it took, in the haze, Wei Zifeng, who was already unconscious, was rescued from the dry well, and he seemed to hear Li Yuanhao's voice when he collapsed, and his heart jumped suddenly, and he passed out again.
Later, Wei Zifeng knew that it was Li Yuanhao who told the Imperial City Division that he was trapped in a dry well, and the Empress Dowager was in charge, in front of the four auxiliary ministers and the three generals, let Wei Zifeng explain the cause and effect of the matter clearly, Wei Zifeng had the courage to only recognize Li Yuanhao, and when he looked up, he found that Li Yuanhao, who was standing in the depths of the palace and was inconspicuous, was holding the child, raised a finger and made a shushing motion, with an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth.
Trembling all over, the horror of late one night overflowed his heart again, Wei Zifeng lied, saying that he accidentally fell into the dry well because he was greedy for fun, and the matter was over.
Since then, Wei Zifeng has fallen into the root of the disease in his heart, seeing Li Yuanhao far away from the detour, not daring to walk alone at night, after dark, he often feels that someone is following him behind his back, compared to these sequelae, what makes Wei Zifeng even more frightened is that the more he reminisces about the events of that night, the more he feels that the complexity of the matter is far beyond his imagination.
First of all, how did Li Yuanhao know that he went to the Yinghua Palace, could it be that Li Yuanhao, who was isolated and helpless at that time, sent spies to follow him, it was obviously impossible, so the truth is that Li Yuanhao has been secretly monitoring him for many days, and every unexpected detour is Li Yuanhao pretending to show weakness and stepping on the point accurately.
Secondly, the rumors that introduced him to the Yinghua Palace, did not appear sooner or later, but appeared at that juncture, who compiled these rumors, and who spread them, and very cleverly grasped the characteristics of Wei Zifeng's curiosity, and grasped it just right, not bad at all, if it was other timid children, they might be frightened, and the rumors about the drowned ghost and the hanged ghost were like hooks that deeply attracted Wei Zifeng.
Wei Zifeng has been thinking about it for many years, and all the sources point to Li Yuanhao.
In the end, Li Yuanhao's boo action and the smile on the corner of his mouth were imprinted in his mind like a brand, and today, many years later, he recalled it and was very confident that Li Yuanhao's boo and smile were not for him, but for the Empress Dowager, the four auxiliary ministers and the three guards, and he was explaining a fact to the eight most authoritative people in the imperial court, I, Li Yuanhao, am not the coward you say, the ruthlessness and scheming you want, I have it, and I have the courage and forbearance you want to see.
Thinking back to that day, when he left, the eight people in the palace seemed to smile meaningfully and nodded, even his father Wei Haokun couldn't help nodding.
So today, when Wei Zifeng knew that the guest upstairs was His Majesty the Emperor, he slapped himself very gracefully, flattered and knelt down, and did not hesitate to surrender his identity in full view of everyone.
Now that His Majesty the Emperor has been erected in the court, he is a real and veritable puppet emperor, but Wei Zifeng always feels that even if the mountains and rivers are exhausted, the belly and back are enemy, ridiculed by the world, ridiculed by the world, and disfavored by everyone, His Majesty Li Yuanhao, the Son of Heaven today, can also toss a magnificent picture of willows and flowers for you, as for how to do it, how can he know that he was deeply injured by a woman two years ago.
(Is His Majesty the Emperor's character full? This is all an opportunity and foreshadowing, and it is all an opportunity and foreshadowing in the future!)