Chapter 45: Nightmare
Not long after Lin Suqing returned to the mansion, someone came to report: "His Royal Highness Prince Qiqi, just after noon today, His Majesty moved to King Ying's Mansion to visit King Ying." ”
It is probably that the crown prince himself has specially instructed that you need to pay attention to the movements of the emperor and others.
"How is King Ying's condition?"
The informant said: "King Ying is not in the mansion, and no one knows his exact whereabouts." After several inquiries by his subordinates, he heard that King Ying had never informed anyone, not even the princess. ”
"I see. Lin Suqing waved off the informant, thinking that this King Ying was really not idle for a moment.
Didn't he just get poisoned last night? Since this bitter trick had already been sung, it should have been expected that the emperor would inevitably visit him after the imperial edict was issued, right? But he was not in the palace at this time, and he didn't know what kind of wishful thinking the king was playing.
With a heart full of troubles, Lin Suqing slept a dull night.
In the dream, Ade's words lingered in his ears over and over again: "There are some things that must not be hesitated, otherwise you will be frightened and afraid of the enemy in your life, and I am afraid that you will die earlier than pigs, dogs, cows and sheep." ”
Immediately, the voice of the second prince floated back and forth in his head: "The so-called number of lives is just some choices. ”
Then it was King Ying's question: "If you were King Ying, how would you choose?"
The two voices swirled and intertwined, coming and going, turning over and over, making his brain hurt.
In the dream, he was so uncomfortable that he covered his ears and shouted: "Don't ask!"
The sound in his ears stopped abruptly, and then he opened his eyes and saw that he thought he had woken up from a dream, but found that he was in a blank space without roots and shoots, with no sky above and no bottom below, and everywhere he looked, there was chaos and nothing.
Everything in heaven and earth was reduced to nothingness, and when he tried to identify whether there was something in the thick ink that he had not seen, an angry rebuke suddenly appeared around him: "Woe!"
Before he could defend himself, hundreds of voices stabbed out, all of whom were scolding him and even threatening to get rid of him.
The voices were full of people, and the sound was dense like pouring down torrential rain.
But when he looked around, there was nothing but himself.
The voices scolded each other.
"If you don't get rid of it, it will be a disaster!"
"Woe to you!"
"Calamity!"
"Why aren't you dead yet?"
"Evil obstacles!"
"Heaven will punish your ......"
He didn't know where the voices were coming from, or where he was.
He could only cover his ears tightly, not listening, not thinking. But those voices were pervasive, no matter how hard he tried, they still sounded in his ears, and even like a sharp knife cutting at his heart alive, driving his emotions.
Impetuous...... Dysphoria...... Irascible......
The voice is getting louder and louder, and the scolding is getting more and more vicious.
"You should fall into the way of the beast!"
"You don't deserve to live in the world......"
"You should have been a pile of rotten grass and rotten meat......"
......
"Shut up!" An angry roar, Lin Suqing sat up from his sleep, this is waking up from his dream. He gasped for air.
It was all a dream...... But the dream was too real and terrifying.
The words in Fang Cai's dream were like a thousand pounds of boulders, weighing him down. To this day, there is still a real feeling of tightness in the chest.
He clasped his hands around his thunderous chest, feeling the strong vibration of his heart.
Fang Cai's dream seemed to be real, but in retrospect, whether it was the elders of Qingqiu, or the people of Sitian County that day, or the immortals who suddenly appeared...... None of them have ever been so viciously aggressive.
Maybe it was their words that left a psychological shadow on him?
But why did he have such a great resentment in his heart, that he remembered it in his dreams, and even doubled the attack of his tongue?
What's more, he asked himself that his face was as thick as a city wall...... How can shadows be created so easily?
It's weird, it's really strange to remember such a deep grudge inexplicably.
He suddenly remembered King Ying for no reason. Listening to Ade today, King Ying seems to be suffering from everyone's criticism, and he is also implicated in his own safety. Thinking about it again, he remembered the question that King Ying had asked him.
Suppose that he is the king of Ying...... How will he choose?
Perhaps, he also has the heart to win the heir......
Suddenly, it dawned on him.
Perhaps, it is precisely because of his own life that he will be particularly concerned about it in his heart, and he will hold a special grudge. After all, what more important choice is there than life and death?
Didn't those bad words to himself endanger his life at the beginning?
But if he is living a good life, why should he be verbally attacked and maliciously judged by others? Is he a scourge, and why should he be defined by others?
He couldn't help but feel some sympathy for King Ying, who had won a lot of military exploits in bloody battles with his generals, but was suspicious of his father and brother and regarded as a threat.
King Ying can't prove that he doesn't have the heart to take the heir, just like he, Lin Suqing can't prove that he is not a disaster in the future.
And if King Ying endures the doubts from his father and brothers, he can also leave behind all the achievements he has achieved. Just to not be criticized as a high-ranking master, not to be defined as having a lot of heart, so he chose to give up on himself and was willing to fall. So, is that proof?
But what is the point of such a proof?
How can he be worthy of those generals who live and die with him? How can those generals not be like brothers and sisters, and regard them as brothers? Those subordinate brothers have always embraced him and protected him, closer than their own brothers.
Lin Suqing sighed in her heart, but she was a little contradictory.
He is now the prince of the East Palace of the current dynasty, and it has become a fact that King Ying has the intention to seize the heir. In this way, King Ying is a hostile force in his battle between the government and the opposition.
In the end, they are actually the same kind of suffering, he wants to sympathize with King Ying, but he can't be too sympathetic. Otherwise, it will be himself who will be put to death.
When he was Lin Suqing, he was in a similar situation to King Ying, but now as the crown prince, he is the one who puts pressure on King Ying.
He seems to have indirectly become the elders of the past, the people of Sitian County, the heavenly soldiers and generals who suddenly fell, and became one of the people who regarded him as a disaster and wanted to get rid of him.
So, how does he do it?
For the stability of the crown prince's position, for the stability of the overall situation of the country, and for the safety of his own life, kill King Ying?
No, you can't.
Putting aside all the vanity and profit, King Ying is the prince's own brother, and he is now his own brother, how can he kill his own brother? And after today's contact, King Ying is not so heinous......
How, when and how? It's really contradictory.
There is only a dilemma in the world, and the choice is the most torturous.
After the nightmare, I can't stop thinking about it.
......
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The East will be white.
Lin Suqing asked himself if he hadn't slept much, and he hadn't been out of his mind for long, why in a blink of an eye, the sky was about to dawn.
Almost as soon as he came back to his senses, he saw that there were already attendants outside the door in order, waiting outside the door.
It's just that the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and if they come, they will be safe, but they will see how King Ying can treat him as a prince.
"Come in. He commanded the attendants outside the door.
The attendants pushed the door open with a light hand, and then stood on the side of the door, and then the maids came in in an orderly manner.
While serving Lin Suqing to change his clothes, the attendant reported softly: "Your Highness, this morning, Your Majesty decided to go to Fangcun Tianchi to escape the summer heat, and brought King Ying and King Heping. ”
Lin Suqing turned around, and after the attendant helped him tie his belt, he added, "It's time to set off." ”
"Got it. "The prince wants to supervise the country, and it is not his turn to do such a pastime as summer vacation.
But it's okay, they all went to escape the summer, saved the intrigues, and made time for him to get more familiar with and understand - some of the things to do as a prince. lest the emperor come to summon him at any time, but he didn't know anything.
......
After watching the concert all morning, it was a peaceful day.
He imitated the style of the prince and made some decisions that he thought were reasonable. There are also some follow-up follow-ups of previous things, but fortunately, he has a lot of understanding, and compared with the records approved by the real prince himself, he also made an approval that is in line with his character and style.
He yawned a few times in a row, and went to call Wu Yi, the general of Zuo Yiwei. Then he moved his waist and walked to the yard.
It turned out that he was not at ease in a high place, just as the prince of the prison country, he was so busy that he even had to take three steps and two steps to go back quickly, for fear that he would be delayed for a long time and miss some urgent matters.
He is still lazy, and he doesn't know what the original prince has become.
After the experience, although I don't know how busy the real prince himself is every day, judging from the time when the attendants come to serve and wash in the morning, he at least gets up earlier than the chicken......
It's not as chic as ordinary people.
Ordinary people's days are about carrying cages and racking birds, leisurely and happily wandering in the market, or flocks of crickets and crickets.
The general's movements were fast, Lin Suqing didn't walk out of the garden a few laps, and before he could finish feeding the fish food he was holding, General Wu Yi had already rushed to the East Palace.
As soon as he saw him, he knelt down on one knee with his fists clenched: "See His Royal Highness the Prince." ”
"Get up. Lin Suqing grabbed a few more grains of fish food in his hand and sprinkled them into the small pond, and when he looked back, General Wu always looked solemn.
He smiled and asked, "Why are you so nervous, this palace is not trying to punish you." ”
"His Royal Highness suddenly summoned his subordinates, there must be something important, and his subordinates dare not slack off. ”