Chapter 240: Fragmented Memories
Drunk and dreaming of death, I haven't felt like this for a long time.
On the fourth day of the first month, the queen set up a small banquet in Linlang Pavilion, and Zhao Zhenyuan naturally became one of the guests. At the moment when the flavor of the year is full, on the surface, it seems to be just an extremely ordinary family banquet of the Heavenly Family, but because there are more guests and the six princes and princesses of the Jin Kingdom, the queen's intentions are a little intriguing.
In the early dynasty, Zhao Zhenyuan, who was accustomed to being free and casual, set an unprecedented example for returning to a hundred officials: the first official to arrive at the Zhengde Palace. When Xiaozong went to the court, he was also quite shocked to hear the palace people who were waiting for him, so he took the opportunity to praise Zhao Zhenyuan during the court meeting, and the pretense was beautiful, with the purpose of cleaning up the fatigue of the government and the opposition.
The unintentional move was really helpless in Zhao Zhenyuan's heart.
Yesterday in the "Drunken Immortal Fang" between the drunk, the memory only stayed in yesterday afternoon, as for how to return to his own mansion have forgotten everything, and when he can sober up and remember again, it is already the fourth watch this morning.
After a hangover, Zhao Zhenyuan's most profound experience is: back pain! Especially in the shoulder blade area of my left shoulder, the soreness is like a small needle piercing me.
I thought it was the sequelae of a hangover, but when Zhao Zhenyuan took a bath, he found that his left shoulder blade was a bruise! It is impossible for a good person to have this bruise for no reason, Zhao Zhenyuan endured the pain on his shoulder blade while racking his brains to recall what happened yesterday, but his brain was so fragmented that he couldn't remember where the injury came from.
With doubts that could not be solved in the morning, as soon as the court meeting dispersed, Zhao Zhenyuan hurried to Linlang Pavilion for a banquet, waiting for the appearance of Anle Hou Chufeng.
"Third brother. I thought you wouldn't come! ”
When Chu Feng, who had just stepped into the Linlang Pavilion, saw Zhao Zhenyuan leaning on the pavilion railing drinking tea and listening to music, he couldn't believe what he saw.
"Xiaofeng, you can keep me waiting. I've been sitting here for more than two hours. ”
"Third brother, are you waiting for me?" Along the palace maid handed over the gold lacquer tray. Chu Feng picked up a glass of Western Regions grape wine and leaned against Zhao Zhenyuan, looking at the sky blankly: "The sun still rises from the east?!" ”
In the face of Chu Feng's joking, Zhao Zhenyuan leisurely put down the tea cup in his hand and patted him twice on the head.
"Why, it's surprising that the third brother didn't die drunk in the 'Drunken Immortal Fang'?"
"Don't charge me indiscriminately, it's too late to hope you're good. It's just that you were drunk yesterday, and I was worried that I would be bored if you didn't come. I don't want the third brother to arrive safe and sound! ”
"The queen is full of affection, how can I prevaricate and bluff without distinction? Looking at the pomp and circumstance in the Linlang Pavilion, the queen must have put a lot of thought into it this time. ”
Listening to Zhao Zhenyuan's obscure words. Chu Feng tasted the wine in the jade cup with a smile, and he heard it clearly but didn't care at all.
Life must be happy, he just wants to be his own peace and happiness, as for those intrigues, he has no heart.
"It's not my turn to worry about it anyway."
"Really? What did the noble concubine ask you to do at the banquet in Linlang Pavilion. Can't watch the play? She seems to be hoping that your brother will help her. ”
"Third brother!"
mentioned the power struggle in the palace. Chu Feng looked displeased, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, and then responded to Zhao Zhenyuan resolutely.
"What is Xiao Feng's thoughts, doesn't the third brother understand it today, is it possible that you also suspect that I am helping the fourth prince to make enemies with the crown prince? I, Chu Feng, am not a saddle horse under anyone's command, and who does the position of prince has nothing to do with me, I just want to do what I like. ”
"I'm sorry Xiaofeng, the third brother has never doubted you. We all want to live a chic and comfortable life, but the general environment does not allow us to be free and easy. Can we really stand alone in this battle for the crown prince? You and I both know it, it's too difficult. ”
"People come empty. If you have the intention of going, why are you afraid of being empty? Third brother, what about your pride, your self-confidence, and your freedom?! Xiao Feng used to think that you and I were all the way, but in the past few years, I have seen that the involvement between you and the queen has become more and more frequent, and I am deeply involved in this fearless dispute and cannot extricate myself, and I am suddenly a little disappointed in you. ”
Such a heavy topic, it is the first time that he and Chu Feng have been brothers for so many years and have talked about it so seriously, which shows that the identity and position between them are becoming more and more abrupt.
"It can only be said that we are all really difficult free and easy people. If one day the concubine has a bad pool, can you, as a brother, sit idly by? You can't do it. In the same way, your situation is that of me, and I can't watch someone put the crown prince and queen in danger. ”
Looking at the bleak lotus pond in the distance, Chu Feng's unruly face was depressed, he knew that he couldn't argue with Zhao Zhenyuan, because the facts were irrefutable.
"If my parents had made me an idiot, I didn't know anything, how good would it be to live my life stupidly?"
"It's rare to be confused. The world will only see our glamorous side, but they don't know what kind of unknown burden we have behind our backs, and they don't understand that we are smiling and struggling in the deep quagmire. ”
"Bitter Pleasure"
Stuffed for a moment, Chu Feng grabbed the wine jug in the palace maid's hand with his bare hands, and poured it into his mouth fiercely.
"Third brother, you are also aggrieved in your heart, so I just wanted to get drunk yesterday."
Gently wiping away the dark red wine stains that leached from the corners of his mouth, the once energetic young man smiled bitterly, as if he had drunk bitter medicine instead of fine wine.
"Speaking of which, I also wanted to ask you. I was drunk and unconscious yesterday, and you sent me home? ”
"Or else? Whoever calls us iron-beaten brothers, I don't care who cares about you. ”
I have also guessed, and now when I heard Chu Feng admit it in person, Zhao Zhenyuan felt much more comfortable. The fragmented memories in the brain must also be some glorious thing, and the less people know about it, the better.
However, when it came to this, coupled with Zhao Zhenyuan's hand constantly stroking the vague pain on his left shoulder blade, Chu Feng released an interesting topic on the side.
"It hurts, third brother, my sister's kick was not covered."
"What do you say? Whoever kicked me"
Suddenly, there was surprise in Zhao Zhenyuan's calm handsome face. blurted out and asked Chu Feng rhetorically.
"It seems that the third brother was really drunk yesterday, and he even forgot about the incident when my sister kicked you when I was young."
"Little hour?! Has she been to 'Drunken Immortal Fang'? ”
That blank memory, in Chu Feng's prompt, fell on the memory of Zhu Xi's time. The panic in Zhao Zhenyuan's heart became more and more turbulent.
"No, the second brother is also here. You were drunk and crazy yesterday, but you made a lot of trouble, hugging your little sister and crying, laughing and begging, it is estimated that you really your little sister at that time. ”
Crying, laughing and begging, Zhao Zhenyuan listened to this quintessential description, his whole face was cramping, and it took a long time for him to stammer.
"Crying, laughing, and begging. Wouldn't it be too much of an exaggeration, I wouldn't be so bad, it might be a bit of gibberish, but it's not so much."
Talking and talking. Zhao Zhenyuan himself has no confidence, and he really doesn't know himself after drinking!
"Won't it be too bad? Third brother, yesterday I said that Sister Xiao was going to kick you, and even I wanted to smoke your impulse. You don't know how crazy you were at the time. I don't mention it when I'm angry, and I'm disgusted when I think about it. ”
Unconsciously wiping his lips, Chu Feng's face was full of pain and itching, and he restrained his somewhat undulating mood and continued.
"I advise you to prepare the thorns and go to the 'Butterfly Medical Hall' to ask Sister Xiao for sin. Yesterday, you were drunk and yelled to see your sister, and I invited her if you didn't have a chance; I don't want her to rush up like a demon as soon as she comes in, hugging and hugging Sister Xiao, and saying something that everyone doesn't understand. It was quite embarrassing. ”
"What did I say" Suddenly, Zhao Zhenyuan's heart raised his throat. His eyes were as wide as cowbells.
"The name of the person you are talking about sounds like 'Pig Shih Tzu' and 'Pig Eats', that's what it means anyway. But depending on the situation, third brother, you mistook Sister Xiao as that person at that time, and for a while what 'big liar' scolded and scolded, for a while what 'you hate him, she hates you' nonsense, and for a while what 'she is so good to live' and so on. All in all, how messed up at the time, how did you make trouble. ”
Chu Feng said freely, Zhao Zhenyuan, who didn't want to listen to it, turned more and more pale, and as soon as his hand shook, the teacup in his hand fell to the ground and fell to pieces.
"Now you think about it, third brother, you are really embarrassed to be thrown home."
has seen the crazy Zhao Zhenyuan, this little gaffe Chu Feng is not the same thing at all! The time to refill a glass of grape wine temporarily left Zhao Zhenyuan to buffer his mood, and after a shallow sip of mellowness, Chu Feng spoke.
"Don't blame being a younger brother as a joke, I've been in the same place with you for so many years, and the first time I saw you crying so sadly, it was still in front of a woman. Our uninhibited third brother is also a person after all, with seven emotions and six desires. ”
It was a pertinent consolation, but I didn't want to give Zhao Zhenyuan the most ruthless slap in the face, and Wan Jun's strength pressed on his body, but forced him to ask.
"Did she say anything?"
"Who?!" The sharp turn in his mind was not bypassed, Chu Feng asked very quickly, and replied clearly: "The third brother is asking Sister Xiao." She barely spoke at the time, and she was probably full of anger if you let you mess around and get drunk. Oh yes, and finally she said, 'People didn't give him such a bad thing,' and then she threw the pot and left. Third brother, who is the 'Zhu Xi Shi', I feel as if you owe her a lot, and you still want to repay it with your life. ”
Chu Feng's words seemed to drain all the strength of his body, Zhao Zhenyuan was powerless to ask anything, and suddenly leaned softly against the side of the railing and was silent, his face was full of depression.
Whoever trampled on whom, it was really endless, and Zhao Zhenyuan was just a little more guilty than her but was suppressed and had no power to fight back.
But this guilt, like dripping in a tank full of water, instantly upsets the balance that has been maintained for a long time. The heart is quietly undergoing earth-shaking changes. (To be continued......)