The wick of the candle shook slightly, suspected of air leakage, and the sound of rain outside the long window did not stop, Wei Yang slowly spoke: "In the second year of Qianhe, my father and emperor gradually became seriously ill, and the first queen passed away for many years, and the queen mother was naturally serving as the new queen. As far back as I can remember, I have rarely seen my father. Every to

Referring to the death of the first emperor, the emperor also showed a faint mourning. Wei Yang looked at the continuous drizzle, as if the curtain was still close at hand, "Later, by chance, the palace people entered the room and said: 'There is something wrong with the boiling medicine', so the queen mother was worried and went over to investigate. I sat on the chair, and my father and I were the only ones left in the hall, and I felt uneasy. My father looked at me motionless for a long time with his always kind eyes, and I could no longer bear the command of the restraint of everyone, and quickly stepped forward, and then my father stretched out a thin right hand from the quilt with great difficulty, trembling and trembling. I held him tightly, and felt the thinness of his hand in my palm, but I still felt the residual heat, so I burst into tears.

Shen Shuzhao's eyes seemed to be showing a scene, the young and beautiful Queen Mother, frowning sharp eyebrows at the immature and delicate little princess, her voice sounded like thunder in the sky, making people tremble. The red lacquer carved front door was heavily closed, and the figure of the old father and emperor on the hospital bed disappeared from sight little by little—from then on, it was never seen again.

"Until I was fifteen years old and learned martial arts, my appearance changed a lot, and my father never saw me. It was raining heavily that day, and the soldiers stayed under the eaves, so I took advantage of their unpreparedness and used light skills to find another way to reach the heavily guarded palace of my father. The thunderclouds rang out, and I landed cautiously in a secluded corner outside the hall, when I heard the familiar voice of the queen mother coming from the side. I secretly said that it was not good, so I hurriedly hid in the corner of the wall - and then the queen mother and the other person walked deeper and deeper, and the voice gradually came: "Imperial Doctor Wei, is this medicine useful?" ''Returning to the queen, the lower official guarantees it with a head, which is absolutely valid. ''That's good.'' It turned out that they were talking about my father's medicine, and I wanted to leave, but the queen mother continued: "It is best to slowly invade the body and make it naturally weak." I immediately stopped my steps, and looked over, the queen mother was holding a small packet of medicine in the palm of her hand, I was very puzzled by the meaning of her words, and my heart became uneasy, and it was the time to boil the medicine, I had to hurry up to visit my father and the emperor and then rush back before the queen mother returned to the palace. So I soon came to the window of my father's bed, and he lay peacefully on the dragon's bed, like a withered old tree. After I walked in, my father didn't wake up for a long time, and it was useless to call, and I heard from the palace people that I couldn't wake up more and more recently. Twist the quilt for him, and sit aside to watch his father. After accompanying him for half a pillar of incense, I heard footsteps outside the corridor and left in a hurry. At that time, the rain was getting heavier, and I was worried about the medicine, so I watched by the window. Then the queen mother walked in, holding the black decoction with no expression on her face. She glanced at her father coldly, put the bowl down, and took out from her sleeve the small medicine she had seen before—the same one that could slowly invade the body, and I saw her slowly pour it down, and the brown foam melted into the black soup, and there was no trace of it...... I backed away in disbelief, and I didn't even know why. The Queen Mother stirred it naturally, and her eyes swept over the gloom, completely different from the meek and gentle she I knew before my father. After stirring, she returned to her original appearance, picked up the medicine and prepared to coax her father to drink it. Suddenly, a white lightning bolt came down from the sky, illuminating the entire sky. I stood there and stared blankly at what was happening in the room. The queen mother glanced out of the window unconsciously because of the thunder, and she saw me—we no longer moved, and the queen mother's gesture of holding a spoon to feed her father and the emperor stopped in mid-air. I looked at her, she looked at me. At that time, the thunder came with a bang, like a heavy hammer striking on my heart, and the muffled thunder slowly dispersed from all sides of the sky, and finally disappeared into the deep inky clouds. In the rain, I looked at the glamorous queen mother and the terminally ill father, and I couldn't say a word anymore. ”

Wei Yang said, his voice gradually lowering.

Perhaps the rain of that day is indeed like the rain of today.

She stared out the window as if there was a young child standing by the window.

He looked into the hall in ignorance and dazedness, looking at the three of them indifferently.

Pale lightning flashed from above, illuminating every dark corner of it.

Shen Shuzhao felt that his body was getting cold, but he hadn't felt so cold yet. The remnant clouds outside the palace gradually subsided, the rain fell slightly, and the sound of violent knocking on the roof was no longer heard for a long time. "And then?" She asked.

"Later," Wei Yang gloomed, "I was sick for a long time after I came back in the rain. The high fever could not go down, and almost all the imperial doctors hung their heads, until the queen mother sent me to Xiaoyunzhuang, where the divine doctor lived in seclusion on the rivers and lakes, that I was cured. The queen mother hugged me, she cried, and said, she is also forced to do this, if you don't do this, you won't be the emperor when you become the crown prince, and I won't always be a carefree princess, everything we have will be taken away by the women next to us, your father must become like this, I'm sorry, Yang'er, I'm sorry. I was held tightly in her arms and couldn't say a word. In the end, my father died soon after, and from then on, she gave me the best of her ability, as if to make up for the shadow left on me that day. But in front of these beautiful jewels and flattering palace people, I gradually became silent. I wanted to escape from this place day and night, from the nightmare of my father lying in a hospital bed. So when I was seventeen years old, I said to my mother, 'I want to go to the north.'" She looked at me silently, without objection. Over the years, our mother and son have become more and more estranged, silence is a common thing between us, and after getting her tacit consent, I have to leave Changle Palace, put on armor, and go with the army to the Sewan Frontier. But when I turned and walked out of the screen door, before I had gone far, there was a low cry from within—it was my mother. I stopped where I was, and she was crying and whimpering softly not far behind me. At that moment, I suddenly felt endless sorrow for us. ”

After Shen Shuzhao heard it, she didn't say anything, just hugged her affectionately from behind, and her fingers were interlocked, close together. She smelled the faint cold fragrance of the bath on Wei Yang's body, and after listening to what she said, there were no words of comfort. There are some things in the world that are truly inconsolable. At this time, Wei Yang raised his left hand and gently placed it on the back of Shen Shuzhao's hand on her chest, which was the position of the heart.

Shen Shuzhao buried herself in her green silk and closed her eyes quietly.

In fact, she remembered something, but she couldn't say it.

I remember the day I first entered the palace, in Qinglian Pavilion, she stared at the delicate and free calligraphy on the wall, and had a strong curiosity about it, so she didn't intend to ask the palace maid next to her: "Which master is this calligraphy from?" ”

"Second Miss Hui, all of this is written by the eldest princess before."

"Since it's the word of the eldest princess, why is it hanging here?"

"I heard the old man of Changle Palace say that these were written by the eldest princess a few years ago, but in fact, her words are hung everywhere in the palace of the Queen Mother."

……

"The eldest princess is the eldest daughter of the Queen Mother, and it is rumored that it took a lot of twists and turns for the Queen Mother to grow up as a princess, so the Queen Mother loves the princess very much, and as soon as she mentions the princess with the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother's eyes are always bent!"

In the past, the scene of green Rong smiling and smiling eyes is still visible.

At that time, it should have been two years since Wei Yang left the palace.

Shen Shuzhao's mood has never been so heavy, she only feels pitiful. Not only the Queen Mother, not only Wei Yang, not only the Emperor, everyone here is pitiful. Destiny is ruthless, but people are merciful. It's helplessness, it's sorrow, it's natural, it's something that must be lost.

Weiyang's heartbeat was clear in her palm, and she pressed her head to her back, listening back and forth to her sad heartbeat.

"She's in love with you."

Shen Shuzhao said.

"Much deeper than you think."

She then affirmed.

It's just that I don't know if this will make Wei Yang better......

The sound of the rain outside the temple faded away until no more waves could be heard. and the wind will blow no more. It turned out that the sky was already clear.

Then the clouds receded, and the sun peeked out of the dissipating black haze.

A beam of light pierced through and struck between the three of them.

The emperor suddenly showed imperceptible sadness, he stood up, and Shen Shuzhao noticed his actions. The emperor put away the rice paper on the ground and carefully placed it on the table a few steps away.

"Tomorrow is long, and the future is even longer." He said, "...... Live well. ”