Chapter 517: Death and Rebirth
After saying this, I waited for a long time, but I didn't hear a response.
Zhou Shu's expression darkened, and he was about to get up to say goodbye, but he saw King Ji'an slowly stand up with both hands pressing on the armrest. Without saying a word, he paced to the bookcase, rolled up his sleeves, spread paper and ink, and wrote down a word.
After writing, he picked it up and looked at it for a while, his brows furrowed slightly, and he didn't seem to be very satisfied, but he still handed the paper to Zhou Shu.
Zhou Shu took it with both hands, saw that there was a word "language" written on it, and read softly in his mouth: "Mingyu, Zhou Mingyu, is a good name......
Raising his eyes to look at King Ji'an, "Thank you, Father." ”
King Ji'an was still speechless, and looked down at his protruding palm. He remembered that Zhou Shu came back to ask him for a name, and he wrote words with strength and perseverance, and his strength penetrated the back of the paper, but now the words he wrote were soft and had no strength.
He's really old!
Zhou Shu saw that his hands trembled a little when he wrote, and when he saw him in a daze, his heart couldn't help but be sore, and he folded the piece of paper into his sleeve, "Father, let me check your pulse." ”
King Ji'an glanced at him and quickly looked away, "No need, this king is not sick." ”
Zhou Shu frowned, reached out and grabbed his wrist.
King Ji'an subconsciously struggled, but he couldn't break free, so he let him go.
Zhou Shu carefully examined him for a long time, and felt that his spleen and stomach were deficient, thinking that it was caused by excessive thinking and poor diet. I wanted to ask him what he was thinking, and then persuade him, but I knew that he wouldn't confide in him.
After a little thought, he said, "After I go back, I will prescribe a prescription for you to recuperate and relieve your symptoms." I've got the medicine and I'm sending it to you. If you can't believe me, you can show it to the doctor who sees you and ask him to dispense the medicine for you.
Then take care, my son will retire first. ”
With a wave of his hand, he went straight out the door.
When King Ji'an heard Zhou Shu carefully asking the little servant outside the door about his diet, sleep and excretion for a while, his hand unconsciously touched his wrist, where there was still a cold touch.
He suddenly remembered that Zhou Shu had been cold since he was a child, and he was particularly afraid of cold in winter, so he ran to the study whenever he had the opportunity. Huddled in his arms. Writing and reading with him, how close was the father and son at that time, and how happy the family was?
Looking back on his life, the first thirty years can be described as full of spirit. He was crowned king at a young age. The grace of God continues. Marry a beautiful wife and concubine. has sons and daughters, and there is a very assertive and stable mother sitting in the house, and there is nothing for him to work on.
After remarrying the Qin family. He was even more satisfied, and once thought that he was the happiest, most leisurely and most comfortable man in the world.
But suddenly one day, the two women he loved the most left him, leaving him with a heavy secret, driving him, seducing ~ seducing him, step by step away from the original track of life.
In the following twenty years, he worked hard, painstakingly, unscrupulously, and planned and deployed as if he was obsessed. He was so busy with all sorts of things that he didn't even have time to think about what he was doing, whether what he was doing was what he wanted.
The plan that had been planned for many years was ruined, and for a long time, he only had unwillingness and anger in his heart, so much so that every time he saw Zhou Shu, he wanted to strangle this son to death.
When the initial unwillingness and anger faded away, when he dreamed more than once at night that he had failed in his actions and was destroyed by the saint who raided his house back then, the heads of him, his wife, daughters and grandchildren were lined up and hung on the city gate, allowing people to point out and scold them.
After waking up from the dream, I found that I was still lying in a familiar place, thinking that my family was still there, and thinking that I would no longer have to work hard and worry about it in the future, and I felt a sense of relief.
If he doesn't hate Zhou Shu anymore, it would be a lie.
Men are gamblers in their bones, they all like danger and excitement, and they all have the dream of becoming an emperor with dry bones. What's more, he is of royal blood, and he is burdened with the important task of clearing the grievances of his mother and justifying his mother's name, spending countless money and effort, and finally succeeding, this regret is difficult to eliminate.
For Zhou Shu, he hated it, but also felt a little grateful, and more guilty.
He didn't know how to deal with this complicated feeling, so when facing Zhou Shu, he was always a little embarrassed and at a loss. In order to cover it up, he could only be indifferent to it.
The good times are gone, and between him and Zhou Shu, there are only the two words "kinship", and all the things that have been cultivated and established on the basis of these two words have been wiped out as early as the moment of Qin's death.
Even if he knows his mistakes, even if he repents, he will never be able to find the close father-son relationship of the past.
He is old and does not have the strength to make up for it, and some things cannot be made up.
So be it, why bother others and bother yourself?
The mistakes he committed, the sins he created, the debts he owed, when they got to the ground, someone would settle accounts with him.
I don't know if Zhou Shukai's prescription had an effect, or because he figured out some things and his heart was resolved, since that day, King Ji'an's body and spirit have improved, and people have become much more easy-going. When the three treasures put the full moon wine, they also went to the banquet to show their faces.
Out of the first month into February, it is the sacrifice day of the old concubine, and in March, it is the sacrifice day of the Qin family. Zhou Shu and Jian Ying discussed with the Fang clan and moved the Qin clan's sacrifice to the Bofu to do it, and the king of Ji'an had no opinion on this.
On the day of the sacrifice, the house gave incense to the Qin family. Probably people like to reminisce when they are old, and after returning home, they remember the days when they raised their eyebrows with the Qin family, and they felt sad in their hearts, drank a few glasses, fell asleep drunk, and never woke up again.
The servant told him to wake up in the morning and found that his body was already cold.
Xiao Zhengqian got the news of the death of King Ji'an, wrote a memorial essay in his own hand, gave him a nickname, and sent Yude, the former great eunuch, to pay tribute to him. After the burial, the son Zhou Han took the title of King of Ji'an.
Before attacking the knighthood, Zhou Han had found the Fang clan and wanted to give up the title to Zhou Run. The Fang family was unwilling to bear the charge of forcing his stepson to give up the title, and he was unwilling to let others doubt Zhou Run's life experience because of the title, so he did not agree.
As soon as King Qiqi of Ji'an passed, he liquidated the family property and moved out of the palace with his children and Concubine Baifang. and rejected Zhou Shu and Jian Ying's kindness to invite them to live together, and bought another mansion near Bofu to settle down.
Zhou Han had been decadent for a long time before, and the Fang family and the others moved away to cheer up again. After the twenty-seven months of filial piety, he asked the Fang family to make the decision and remarried him to a lady who also delayed the marriage because of filial piety.
This Ji family is a calm and capable person, and not long after marrying in, he managed the palace like a plate of scattered sand in an orderly manner. Because of her hearty and generous personality, Jian Ying and Fang's family also have a good impression of her, and they are quite diligent in their correspondence.
On this afternoon, the three of them were drinking tea and chatting in the water pavilion in the back garden of the uncle's mansion, and Zhou Qin ran over panting with a letter, "Second sister-in-law, happy event, big happy event......"
- (To be continued.) )
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