Chapter 73: The Finale
Xiao Heng looked at the person sitting opposite him unscrupulously. Halfway through August, after a long drought, there was a sudden torrential rain in the early morning, and the man came from the apse, and he didn't know how to take an umbrella, so he poured all the way over, and when he sat down opposite him, there was a thin layer of water all over his body. As soon as he came in, he smelled a smell, the smell of mud and dust from the rain on the long-dry land, that smell, bitter and fragrant, always wanted to get up, roll him up, and stick to smell enough!
Fragrant. It was so fragrant that he had to close his eyes to resist, save the incense from being too much, and bring out the bitterness. He doesn't love bitterness and wants sweetness.
Shen Wenzhao silently looked at the autumn rain outside the hall, and had a lot to say in his heart, but he couldn't find a suitable word to start with.
The man sat opposite him, and it was impossible not to look, even if he was not like him, who always looked not enough, and when he looked at it, the general outline was still clearly visible—he had lost a lot of weight, but his eyes were shining with a ghostly light, and his spirit was vigorous and vigorous, and he was so sick that he seemed to have burned the fat on his body to the end, and he was a little decayed by the end of the oil.
"Your Highness, have you taken some kind of elixir?"
Otherwise, how could it be like this?
Didn't you send those two Silla people away, or did you keep them and send them to you I don't know what use, are you really not afraid or fake not afraid? Life in the world, less than 100 years old, you still have to toss yourself like this, don't give yourself a good feeling, and don't give others a good feeling, are you tired? !
"Convinced, so what? Ziyu Tete is talking to Lonely, and that's what he wants to say? Xiao Heng saw that his teacup was empty, and refilled it for him, a little leisurely, and a little happy, and he didn't know what to be happy about, so his face was tinged with joy, as if it was because he had finally defeated him, and it seemed that it was because he was embarrassed by his gaze. It's good to be embarrassed, it means that he has embarrassed him, and he can't underestimate him anymore.
"Your Highness, the slave dares to ask you, what do you want about the court and the rivers and lakes?"
That's right, I've been waiting for 200 days for your question, and I'm finally waiting for you to spit out.
"Lone's mind is the clearest, so there is no need to say more."
Simple, what I want, you give it. And beyond that?
In the turbid world, if you can love a person, you can do everything for a person and fight for it, it can be regarded as an infatuated species, but the characters are not suitable, and the prince is an infatuated species, where are the rest of the things placed? Even the person he admires doesn't know where to put it.
"Where did you place your minions?" Shen Wenzhao pinched the teacup, and his hands trembled slightly.
"In the heart, on the tip of the heart, life is inseparable, death is inseparable." Xiao Heng's thin, sunken eye sockets, there were two blazing lights, and when he said that he was digging out his heart and lungs, he burst out and shot straight at the person sitting opposite.
Shen Wenzhao was still silent, and after a while, Xiao Heng suddenly saw a stream of blood dragging out of his hand, which shocked him to get up, snatched his hand and examined it carefully-it was actually crushed by the tea cup and cut out of broken porcelain!
The broken porcelain was cut obliquely from the palm of the right hand, and a piece was wedged into the middle fingernail, the nail was split, and the skin of the palm was open, Xiao Heng was heartbroken to death, and he broke it open, "Ziyu!" Don't be so ...... Don't hurt yourself so much! Loneliness is, loneliness is caring, but I can't let you go......"
"Can't let go...... It's going to be a day?! What you care about is really ingenious! ”
“…… The promise of life and death is not only one thing of happiness, but more importantly, it is also dependent on each other in the future...... Is it so difficult to ask for someone to grow old together? ”
In the prime of life, it is natural to be greedy in love/things, it is not enough to be tired of being together every day, and if you are tired of being together, you are naturally sound and colorful, full of sound and color, life and pleasure, come a few more times, so as not to live up to the good years, why not?
"Your Highness, your love for the heavy slave is really unbearable......"
The head of the Shen family is a strong man of words and deeds, from hearing the news of secretly entering the imperial capital, to receiving the holy decree to lead people back to Anyang, without consulting anyone, returning to Anyang, in full swing, began to negotiate Shen Wenzhao's family affairs. It seems that they are in a hurry to get rid of a hot potato, and the conditions are passable, all of them are included in the list to be selected, and the family thinks and scrutinizes, and finally decides that the three daughters of the Zhao family, who are also members of the Anyang family, once it is decided, they will immediately send official media to come to the door to say that they are together, but in the end they did not say synthesis, first, Shen Wenzhao refused, and secondly, the boss of the Shen family, who was invited by the prince to goggle his teeth, sent an urgent letter to their father, talking about the situation in the court, and saying that the prince acted for days, although he had not yet opened his mind at that time, but the meaning of the letter happened to poke at the heart of the head of the Shen family. The two reasons coincided, and the marriage was quietly put down.
The reason why Shen Wenzhao refused was because he knew the prince very well, if he reluctantly achieved a marriage in order to avoid him, it would inevitably hurt countless irrelevant people, why bother?
"Whether it's difficult or easy, you have to bear it." Xiao Heng always called him "Ziyu Ziyu", and never used such a clear word as "Qing", this was the first time he had used his identity as a prince to press him, and he was not willing to be pressed, and he was unwilling to be pressed!
Shen Wenzhao was angry and hateful, and he pulled his hands fiercely, not speculating, it seems that this trip was in vain!
If you want to go, it's so easy, Xiao Heng said, whether he can or not, he doesn't want to get away!
The two twisted together silently, and the blood on Shen Wenzhao's hands was pasted on the prince's body, and the bloody handprints on the bright yellow coat turned into the clothing, turning into pieces of shocking red.
"Ziyu, I have taken the pill made by the Silla Inhumans, unless you are willing to follow me, otherwise I will definitely have a reverse flow of qi and blood all over my body, and I will not die well...... I haven't lived long enough, so I have to keep you by my side for a while......" Xiao Heng smiled desolately, and suddenly pierced the side of Shen Wenzhao's neck, the needle was quenched with anesthetic, and when the needle went down, Shen Wenzhao couldn't move, and watched him pick him up, and like a bouquet of flowers, he held it into the dormitory.
Shen Wenzhao's mind was clear, judging from Xiao Heng's thin but vigorous attitude, he could probably guess what the two Silla people were paying tribute to Xiao Heng. This thing is not so much an elixir as an extremely sinister Gu poison. He, Shen Wenzhao, is the antidote to this thing. If it is a two-way Gu, it is an antidote to each other, isn't it "two loves"!
Who wants such a love affair!
The Silla people are good at making anesthetics, all kinds of drugs, and the effect is miraculous, and it is famous all over the world. Since these two Shillagon people paid tribute as tribute, the pharmaceutical methods were of course the top among them. Xiao Heng put him into the dormitory, the two of them had been waiting inside, seeing the master come in, his hands and eyes were quick, and he immediately offered a pill, and there was a advice, saying that the pill should be taken for three days in a row, one pill a day, and take it at three o'clock, and the time can not be advanced, can not be delayed, must be punctual, and if there is a partition in the middle, the previous efforts will be wasted, and I hope that the master will be careful, do not miss the time, or cut it halfway.
Xiao Heng took the small pill, squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully for a while, and the two Xinluogong people retreated when they saw this, and brought them to the palace gate. Shen Wenzhao was waiting to be slaughtered on the bronze gilt bed like a fish, waiting for Xiao Heng to knife him, and at the same time clenched his teeth, intending to die without opening his mouth, but when he wanted someone to open his mouth, there were many methods, only to see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince quickly make a move, point at a point at the back of his head, and then pinch and cover, the pill slid down his throat into his stomach. After the medicine was gone, he was in a trance, half asleep and half awake, and it was not until dusk that he really woke up.
As soon as he woke up, he saw the man who was working him from morning till night. From morning till dusk, hours passed, and this man did one thing without eating, drinking, or resting.
Shen Wenzhao looked at Xiao Heng, who was pressed against him like a mountain, and suddenly thought of a small Liba that he had seen on the street many years ago. It was about seven or eight years ago, the twilight of the hot summer, the hour is the time of night, but the sky is still very bright, the sun has changed from a big stove to a ball of yellow velvet, scattered yellow eggs like spread in the sky, the summer heat is still raging, he sat on the teahouse, condescendingly looking at the street, too hot, the street is basically not human, occasionally a few dogs come over, the tongue is spit out, wilted head to the shade. At this time, a carriage came over on the arch bridge opposite the teahouse, there was an old and a young man sitting on the car, the old one was the owner, and the less was the Liba who worked hard to eat rice, the two of them were thin and the horses were very thin, and the car did not know what to carry, the whole straw was covered, and the two people were piled up, so that the thin horse could hardly move, a car was moved like a turtle, and it also encountered the uphill road, the thin horse could not bear it, and the whole was taken straight down and slipped, Xiao Liba hurriedly jumped out of the car, and pushed it behind the butt of the car, the things on the car were too heavy, and the slope was steep, Xiao Liba took lunges, resisted hard with half of his shoulders, and used his strength so hard that his forehead, neck, arms and calves were all green and bulging, and beads of sweat were smashed on the ground, selling ten out of ten coolies.
The one who was pressed on his body, although he was still 108,000 miles away from Xiao Liba, was also quietly focused and ruthless, and he was also smashed down with beads of sweat. He ploughed him like a piece of land, like an ox, silently, and only sold his coolies for fifteen and ten.
The Gu poison gradually took effect under his cultivation, and Shen Wenzhao didn't feel pain, only itching and numbness, which was both uncomfortable and pleasant. His reclamation is intensively cultivated, just like making a dojo in a snail shell, patiently, he is full of patience, opening up layer by layer, fiddling, turning over and over again, Shen Wenzhao is extremely sad to find that he actually sang and harmonized with him.
After three days, the medicine is still unstable, and the medicine has to be taken intermittently for half a month, and after half a month, the two of them will die in pairs.
Shen Wenzhao was very good at kung fu, Xiao Heng was afraid of his kung fu, and sent enough people to guard him strictly, guarding to the last step, but because of a little soft-heartedness, he fell short. Let him get away. I don't know if it's dead or alive, but it's gone. He fled, of course Xiao Heng had to chase, flee and chase, each with its own thrilling, each with its own gloomy sadness.
In this life, Xiao Heng will definitely often remember the chase in the dark night.
Shen Wenzhao ran as fast as he could, but with medicinal properties on his body, he staggered crookedly, and almost hit the ground many times, but he narrowly stabilized, and continued to stagger forward crookedly. He chased after him, and it was also a desperate pursuit, and he touched the man's running belt several times, but it was always a little bit closer, his hand stretched straight forward, and continued to stretch forward with his imagination, until he grabbed the man, but it was still a little bit close.
There was a whirring wind in his ears and heavy gasps from each other, and he ran so much that the blood was gushing in his cavity, and there was a smell of blood in his mouth, which was still a little bit worse, and there was a terrace in front of him, and under the terrace was a moat, the platform was high, the water was deep, and Shen Wenzhao didn't know how to water. He didn't know how to water, and if he jumped down, he would drown, but he still didn't look back to the ground, and a fierce man plunged down and made a splash on the surface of the river. Xiao Heng jumped down after him, and he didn't look back, but unfortunately he couldn't catch him. I don't know if it's because the water is flowing too fast, or something else, a big living person just disappeared into a river, no one alive, no corpse dead.
Not obtained, lost. The two most melancholy moments in his life were experienced by Xiao Heng at the same time. When he came up from the river, he happened to stop under a very luxuriant magnolia tree, the dark night lights and shadows, between the palace wall and the moat, stood such a huge magnolia with teeth and claws, his heart moved at will, and when his mood was sad, no matter how good the flower grew, it seemed like a mockery. He hated magnolia from then on, and for decades afterward, the magnolia tree was no longer seen in the palace.
Xiao Yu heard about the beginning and the end, the entire court was more or less obtained, and got part of the truth, the prince returned in love, but no family dared to come to the door to peddle the ladies raised in the deep boudoir, these old foxes probably know the true face of His Royal Highness the Prince hidden under the gentle skin, and know that the ordinary road of "inviting pets", "competing for favors", and "solid pets" cannot be taken. His Royal Highness was lonely and had no sustenance, so he happened to listen to a monk's lecture and became obsessed with worshipping the Buddha. Not long after worshipping the Buddha, the prince sent the two Sillagon people away, and the Gu poison on his body was also plucked out at one time, and he didn't think about anything, just a pure heart and few desires. State affairs are even more lazy, and they are all left to Zhang Cangshui and Xiao Yu to handle. These two were offended by him the most at the beginning, but now the burden is the heaviest, but the effort is the greatest, they are simply more than the minister's dedication to the king, a bit like the elders are conniving at the juniors' nonsense.
Zhang Cangshui is the left minister, the boss of the Shen family is the right minister, the boss of the Shen family has run away, the prince is always staring at him, and he is not assigned to do major things, for fear of not seeing him. Zhang Xiang is an old minister of the Three Dynasties, he is old, and he has been on the fold to ask for retirement, and the prince is embarrassed to send him big things to do. So Xiao Yu became the one who took the lead, seeing that he was so busy that people turned over on their backs, he returned home and rested for a while, and he was going to court again!
was so busy that Xiao Yu wanted to shake off his burden countless times, and as soon as he folded it, he didn't do anything and left directly!
Liao Qiuli is used to him, even if he doesn't say it, some small actions can bring out his thoughts, he knows that he is irritable, and always thinks about the agreement to return to Jiangnan many years ago. Especially after the emperor officially handed over the throne.
Just a few days ago, the emperor officially became the emperor, and the crown prince officially became the emperor, and he was a person with real power. Xiao Yu thought, I don't know when this country will let this person die, at least it will be a mess, guarding a gradually deteriorating mess, and I feel uncomfortable.
Liao Qiuli persuaded him to look at it a little, people live for a lifetime, there are always some thoughts that can't come true in a lifetime, why bother with it, now that they can be together, then it's easy to say, don't worry about the rest.
How can he not care, he doesn't care, and the new son of heaven will also care about him!
When the new emperor took office, the first messenger he sent was to find someone, and there was also such a saying: Qing is looking for it, Qing will go by himself, if he can't find it, Qing will stay, and the court will advance and retreat with me.
These words have a faint meaning of threat or coercion - find out Shen Wenzhao and replace you, and you can withdraw from the court and go back to your Jiangnan Taoyuan.
The new emperor naturally has his hands and eyes to the sky, and in the Qing Dynasty, there is no one he can't find, but it is really not easy to find someone who has the heart to avoid him. He knew that the general king had a close friend who traveled widely, and he also knew that this person had a lot of ramps to walk, and Xiao Yu came forward to let this person find it, so he shouldn't be startled.
There was no need for Xiao Yu to look for it, that person came back by himself.
A year later, the internal chaos of the Qing Dynasty was all over the place, and when the mountain rain was about to come and the wind was full of buildings, the man came to the door by himself.
When it was raining in autumn again, he was waiting for him in the Buddhist temple where Xiao Heng listened to Zen. Xiao Heng passed through the main hall of the Buddhist temple and saw a person in the blurred light and shadow in the hall.
Like a butterfly in a dream, the man just fluttered down in front of him.
He didn't remember how he got to him, he didn't say anything, he just wrapped his hands around the man and took him into his arms.
Shen Wenzhao patted him on the back, and thought in his heart that this person had grown so big in vain, and he would drop golden beans at every turn, and take out a point or two of his ruthlessness and greed on the bed, and use it seriously in state affairs, and he would never be so!
Maybe Heng Zhi can't escape the reputation of the minister, so I'll go with you. You don't feel pity, I don't pity me. Qing Dynasty is pitiful, and the common people are pitiful. So be it.
The Shen family was extremely low-key when they stood in the court again, but the limelight was there, and they couldn't hide it, and the new emperor issued a holy decree, and the protégés of the Shen family almost stood in the court. Zhang Xiang told the old man to return to his hometown, and what was replaced was the original letter of Liao Zhixin, the head of the household department, which was Shen Wenzhao's meaning. Liao Zhixin is a well-known hard bone, he does things reasonably, he is the prime minister, and no one can find a thorn. After two years like this, the new emperor finally became a peaceful and stable son of peace, and he also talked about it, let Xiao Yu take Liao Qiuli, return to Jiangnan Taoyuan, and live the small life they have always wanted to live.
On the day of departure, Shen Wenzhao personally came to send it and sent it to the outside of the Shili Pavilion, stopped on both sides, drank two cups in the pavilion, respectively, they were about to see each other again, several people had a faint parting feeling, they didn't say much, and most of the time they were drinking with their heads bored.
Xiao Yu and Liao Qiuli had to go by water, from Dijing to Jiangnan, and it would take more than 20 days to take the waterway, and the boat had already been prepared, and it stopped at a ferry not far from Shili Pavilion.
"Master and Mr. are going to the mountains and rivers far away, be careful on the road, and you can repair the book to report if you have something."
Shen Wenzhao's meaning is very clear, he is now in the name of a minister, no matter what else, he will try his best to create a peaceful little life for them in one day, and no one can disturb him. He can't live such a life himself, so he naturally expects the two of them to live a good and fulfilling life for him.
Xiao Yu nodded at him, expressing his understanding, after drinking the wine, the words were empty, and he was leaving. Shen Wenzhao sent them to the ferry, watched them get on the boat, saw the boat unmoored, rocking the boat, and the boat left, going farther and farther.
Xiaozhou passed away, and Jiang Hai was alive.
Shen Wenzhao watched all the way, and there was a little tide in his eyes, I don't know if it was to himself or to the two. In the world of life, it is difficult to find perfection in everything, and it is a good thing to be a favor today, let those two be perfect, and make up for their own imperfection.
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