Chapter 9: Secret Words in the Zen Room
"Uncle, I have made up my mind, you don't have to persuade again, now that the wood is in the boat, there is no arrow to turn back."
Liang Cheng looked at Li Duqiu's eyes without evasion, his eyes were clear and calm, and he dropped the last sentence.
Li Duqiu's lips pursed into a hard arc, and he was silent for a long time, and finally took out a white tiger jade pendant from his arms, pushed down in front of Liang Cheng, and said: "Accept it, if you want to use people in the future, take this token to the nearest Hongwei Dart Bureau to find Mr. Bookkeeper, and someone will come out to greet you at that time." ”
The corners of Liang Cheng's eyes were already flushed, and he solemnly accepted this white tiger jade pendant, but he didn't dare to make any sound.
He was afraid that he would not be able to control it, and let out a trace of trembling.
Li Duqiu sighed secretly, stroked the top of Liang Cheng's hair with a big hand covered with thick calluses, and said: "Uncle will go back to the border after the New Year, and he will be alone, so take care of himself." ”
"Well...... Liang Cheng nodded, quickly lowered his head, and pressed his palm tightly against the jade pendant until he forced back the tears, then raised his head and said: "Uncle, don't worry, Cheng'er will take care of yourself, and you have to ...... Everything counts.
The corners of Li Duqiu's resolute mouth curved slightly, his eyes softened, and he said, "Okay." ”
Seeing this, Liang Cheng's face suddenly relaxed a lot, thinking of Liang Ji outside the courtyard, it was difficult to sit idly by after all, "I am a monk this time, I am afraid that the forces in Beijing will have to be washed again, Ji'er is still young, and he can't go to the court yet, so he will not be a threat for the time being, and his father will not let Ji'er have an accident at the moment in order to contain the second prince and the fourth prince." ”
Li Duqiu sneered, "Although I am not in the Eastern Capital, it is not so easy to move your two brothers. ”
Liang Cheng shook his head, "I'm not worried about the rest of the princes, but about Wuyang Hou Meng Liujun." ”
In his previous life, Meng Liujun used tricks to make him unable to be the prince, that is, to cause civil strife in the palace, and now he has advanced this step, Meng Liujun will not take no action, and now others are not in the Eastern Capital, but in a few days, he will know about the prince's renunciation, and Meng Liujun's hatred for Emperor Ming Yuan will definitely take the opportunity to provoke, incite one of the two princes and the four princes, set off a storm, and break the balance over the years.
And Liang Cheng is most afraid that one of them may do something to the Nine Emperor Princes, and then blame the other party, so as to kill two birds with one stone.
Li Duqiu was puzzled, "Aren't you very close to Wu Yanghou?" ”
Liang Cheng bit his lip, "Uncle, it has always been rumored that my father is not ......"
"Be careful!" Li Duqiu snorted and interrupted Liang Cheng's words, his face seemed to be frozen for thousands of miles, "How can you believe such nonsense?!" ”
"It's true!" Liang Cheng took a deep breath and said firmly: "The rumors are true, my father is not the son of the first emperor, and I have always been in love with Aunt Yuehe...... It is the hand of his father, Meng Liujun has endured humiliation and burdens for many years, and he has been scheming, and what he has done is the royal family, borrowing the hands of the princes to get rid of his father. ”
Liang Cheng knew that what his uncle said was difficult for his uncle to accept for a while, but he was afraid that in the future, he would regret it because of his foresight at this time, although he couldn't explain to his uncle where he knew this, but even if his uncle loved him again, the rebirth was too shocking after all, and he could only hide it.
Li Duqiu's eyes were gloomy, and he slowly exhaled a breath, "Since you already know, your uncle has nothing to hide, your father and emperor...... It is indeed not the son of the first emperor. ”
Liang Cheng was startled, and knocked over the teacup on the case, and the tea dripped down the corner of the case on the sunken wooden floor, making a "tick-tock" sound, which seemed to be terrifyingly quiet in the Zen room.
"Uncle, you...... You already know it......" Liang Cheng's heart rolled up with white waves, and he was shocked beyond comprehension.
Li Duqiu got up, walked to the window, stood with his hands in his hands, looked at a branch of slanted plum across the window, and said: "Even your mother doesn't know about this matter, and my uncle also confirmed it by chance, and the saint doesn't know about it, otherwise I can't tolerate it, don't mention this matter again in the future, Wuyang will make people pay attention, you don't need to worry." ”
Liang Cheng had the heart to ask again, but Li Duqiu didn't open his mouth, "I know that you have doubts in your heart, I don't want to talk about the past, you just need to remember that he is now the emperor of Daqi, or your father." ”
Liang Cheng was silent and said, "I know, uncle." ”
"Okay." Li Duqiu turned around and said, "I still have official business, so it's inconvenient to stay for a long time." ”
Liang Cheng understood, and Li Duqiu reskinned his cloak, and walked out of the meditation room together, Liang Ji was sullenly kicking the Tingxue that was swept into a pile by the little novice, when he heard the sound of the door opening, his eyes lit up, he cheered, jumped in front of Liang Cheng, raised his hands, and said: "Brother, Ji'er's hands are so cold, they are all frozen red." ”
Liang Cheng knew that Liang Ji had already begun to practice the Bodhicitta Sutra, as long as he transported the true qi in his body, he would never be frozen, and he couldn't help laughing, "I will be ten years old after the New Year, and I won't even wear a cloak, so I can't be so reckless in the future and joke about my body." ”
Seeing An Xiping with Liang Ji's small cloak on his hand, he asked An Xiping to wrap it around him.
Liang Ji waited for a long time, but he didn't see Liang Cheng rubbing his hands back and forth like before, and he didn't personally wrap his cloak, his eyes were red, he put down his hands, waved away An Xiping, who stepped forward, and yelled at Liang Cheng, as if he wanted to vent his depression in the past few days: "If you don't want me, I'll say it!" What a Buddha dreams, deceives! You just don't want to go back to the palace, so you deliberately became a monk and did something stinky bald donkey! If you don't want it, you don't want it, and this king doesn't want you! ”
After speaking, he turned around to run, but was grabbed by Li Duqiu's collar.
"Let go of this king! This king wants to go back to the palace! ”
"No big, no small, who taught you like this!"
Li Duqiu shouted angrily, Liang Ji was afraid of his iron-faced uncle since he was a child, so he suddenly didn't dare to be a demon, stood up honestly, turned around, but his eyes didn't look at Liang Cheng, and his mouth was tightened.
Liang Cheng really couldn't believe that such a younger brother would have something to do with An Xiping's death, Meng Liujun's words, he could be regarded as sowing discord, what about Xiping......
Could it be that there was some misunderstanding in between?
The body thought first, Liang Cheng held Liang Ji's hands, and the child made a gesture and pulled out, but he didn't exert any strength, and a trace of chagrin appeared on his face.
Liang Cheng's heart softened, squatted down, and said, "Brother didn't want Ji'er, it's my brother who is not good, Ji'er don't be angry with my brother, okay?" ”
Liang Ji snorted, and seemed to be very reluctant to say: "Okay, this king has a lot, so I will spare my brother." ”
Liang Cheng smiled, wrapped Liang Ji's hand, brought it to his mouth and sighed softly, rubbed it for a while, and said with a smile: "It's warm now." ”
Liang Ji smiled slyly, put his hand into Liang Cheng's neck with a strange scream, and laughed: "Haha, it's the warmest here." ”
Liang Cheng was caught off guard, he was so excited that he shivered, but he didn't dodge, let Liang Ji move, covering his neck, not wanting Liang Ji to inch in, he actually retracted his hand into Liang Cheng's clothes. Stick. The flesh is glued to Liang Cheng's chest!
It's a pity that Liang Ji didn't succeed for long, and he was pulled aside by Li Duqiu by the collar again, "Go back and walk for an hour!" ”
"Ah, uncle, don't want it, Ji'er knows it's wrong."
"Isn't it called 'this king' now?" Li Duqiu said quietly.
"Brother......" Liang Ji turned to look at Liang Cheng pitifully.
Liang Cheng was so troubled by him Liang Ji, the placket was loosened a lot, and the white chest was faint, and it was inconvenient to tidy it up at this time, after all, he had to untie the placket and rearrange the middle coat, Liang Cheng tightened the cloak to cover the collar, took the cloak from An Xiping's hand, put it on for Liang Ji, and then pinched the bridge of his nose, and said: "Brother also thinks that Ji'er has a good horse step and a certain character." ”
Liang Ji lowered his face and responded with sorrow.
Li Duqiu said: "Okay, I've seen it, and the clothes that your mother asked you to bring are also here, let's go." ”
"So fast?!" Liang Ji begged: "Uncle, can I ......?"
"No, you can't." Li Duqiu couldn't say anything: "Can today's homework be completed?" ”
"Ahh Liang Ji had a bitter face, put his head into Liang Cheng's arms, and said in a muffled voice: "Brother, do you have to become a monk, I can't do my homework, and I can't ask you, the queen mother originally wanted to show you the girl of the family, find me a sister-in-law, why do you have to be a monk, you can't even ask for a daughter-in-law." ”
Liang Cheng listened to Liang Jixu's chatter, and smiled bitterly in his heart, the prince of Daqi was going to set the crown princess at the age of sixteen or seventeen, but unfortunately his body, the queen mother did not know where to find a virtuous monk, and ordered the prince to be unsuitable for marriage before the weak crown, this matter was suppressed, and now the queen mother said so, I am afraid that it will be said casually.
He touched the back of Liang Ji's head and said softly: "When you leave the palace and build a mansion, you can come to see my brother at any time." ”
"Then it will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Month......"
Liang Ji had the heart to be more sticky, but Li Duqiu had limited time, "If you behave like this little daughter, Ma Bu will add another hour." ”
"Okay, brother, I'll send you out." The back of the child in his arms stiffened, Liang Cheng patted his back funny, took Liang Cheng's hand, and sent the two out of the temple.
Walking out of Merlin and bypassing the lotus pond, Li Duqiu stopped, "Just send it here, go back." ”
As soon as Liang Cheng was about to say goodbye, he saw Li Duqiu's momentum suddenly change, turned to look at an ancient pine with strong branches, and said loudly: "I don't know that Master is meditating here, and there are many disturbances. ”
As soon as the words fell, I saw a monk fluttering down from the ancient pine, plain clothes and green shoes, spotless, idle, charming, the west wind blowing from the plum forest, bringing white plums like falling snow, not like mortal scenery.