Chapter 10: The Place of the Buried
Miss Lin. Lin Daiyu. Or, Lin Dai, as she once told him under Takeshita, just omit that jade! She actually didn't have that jade to live.
Is this world too shaky? There is jade, which is also handed over to others to smash. It's better to abandon it and live.
The shadow of Takeshita Mori Green is now called Butterfly Xiaohua to come, as if it is another world. Central Plains, what a good place. There is water and green shadows, and when I walked in a city that I gradually became familiar with, I met a unique girl.
Such a good place, but it will force people to live.
He drove the iron hoof to smash the splash, the bamboo shadow, and the Jincheng without any guilt.
But what happened to her? Where is it now?
Anywhere, only in the desert.
According to the last news he received, should she be on the beach?
If he dies in the desert, his soul will not ascend to heaven, but he will be reincarnated like the people of the Central Plains. And if he could choose the afterlife, he hoped that he could be a tree by the sea, right?
A little taller, a little shorter, all good, in short, the crown is covered with pavilions, every branch and leaf is sprinkled with sunlight, like the eyes in front of the eye, every layer of waves are sparkling gold.
Such a cheerful and splendid world, in his fantasy.
Yes, he would like to forget everything in this life, but he is there to be a tree by the sea, born and raised in Si, he has seen ships soar into the vast distance like cheerful flying fish, he has seen the sea women dive into the cold sea to pick pearls, he has seen the dung of the sea eagles during the breeding period dyeing the rocky islands over there into white flowers, he has seen the wind burst out, and the waves on the sea are so violent that they look like ten thousand huge manatees are galloping and roaring.
Ears turn a thousand times. He couldn't hear anyone calling him anymore, only the sound of the waves, one on top of the other.
He fell headlong to the ground, the cold sand recovering him.
It's late at night.
And his hand was clutching the kettle by himself, and his lips were tightly wrapped around the spout to prevent the precious water from flowing in the desert.
It seems that his body is clearer than his mind.
It's just that his lips and tongue are too greedy and can't wait to drink all the water. He ordered himself to stop, take a deep breath, and silence himself.
There is no voice of Lin Dai, no voice of hers.
Didn't he "hear" her just now! It's just "felt".
That is, auditory hallucinations.
"If you want to die, why don't you die in the daytime? At least a little warmer. Butterfly smiled and muttered in her heart.
He lifted the kettle again. Wipe off the ink marks on your cheeks.
He was afraid that he would not be able to see the sun tomorrow. If you don't wash yourself, it's really too late.
"Wait for me!" He heard her eager voice again, leaning in his ear, "I told you to wait for me." Did you hear that? ”
Butterfly smiled and looked up. It can't be an auditory hallucination. It's all too true.
But it can't be real. This is too unrealistic.
"Say something more! If you're real. Tell me something I couldn't possibly fantasize about on my own. Gain my trust. If it's really you, you'll be able to find a way to convince me. He said silently in his heart.
But there was no more sound. The desert is as lonely as a tomb.
Butterfly smiled and looked at the kettle for a moment. Put the spout back on and dig the sand with your hands.
Sand dissipates heat much more slowly than air. Even if the sand on the surface is cold, the sand below is still warm. He dug a pit and buried himself with still warm sand, which would have a better chance of survival than if he was exposed to the night wind.
It's a very tiring job. If you can survive, it's worth it.
Or, if he doesn't survive, at least he has a place to bury his bones.
He endured in silence in the bunker, slowly boiled up, immersed in a half-dream, half-coma. A gray knight drove as fast as a camel could and came in his direction, nearer, farther away. I couldn't see where he was at all, so I had to go around in circles.
The butterfly smile flower is too small a little spot in this desert.
After the camel, there were many camels following. Camel bells, it's a camel caravan. There is a knight on every camel.
Butterfly opened her eyes, but she was unable to climb out of the bunker. If you want to shout, you will not be able to scream.
He concentrated all his strength on his fingers, little by little, pulled out the belt of his clothes, and little by little, lifted it to the sand, tested the wind, and let go of his hand. The belt was swept away by the wind.
Blowing in the direction of the caravan.
They finally found him. It was the gray knight again, who rode first, came to his side, got off the camel's back in a posture close to falling, trotted two steps to his side, raised his hand to hold his face, and seemed to cry and laugh: "You hold on." ”
"You're here......" Butterfly smiled in a vague grumbling voice, and it didn't really escape her lips. He passed out in a coma.
She came, and he knew he could sleep in peace, and left everything to her.
If she can't save him, then he knows that no one else can save him in the nine heavens and ten earths.
The capital is beaming: Xie Yunjian, who has been lost for a long time, has reappeared!
He regained control of the situation in the northwest. The royal family can rely on that side!
Cui Heng discussed with the royal family: Why don't you go over there to "hunt"?
The emperor did not say that he had fled, nor did he say that he had been kidnapped. Whether it is escaped by oneself or robbed by others, it is uniformly called "hunting".
Cui Heng's current situation is actually not really to the point of "hunting". Daling has been peaceful for a long time, even if it wants to destroy the country, it is not a matter of three or five years. It's just that Jincheng is too close to the capital. Butterfly Xiaohua had deliberately cut off the connection between the cities of Gyeonggi and the capital, creating an atmosphere of panic. After Die's miss, Xirong's army still inherited his combat ideas. The royal family in the capital is afraid and worried. At this time, Cui Heng thought, maybe the emperor is not suitable for "hunting", otherwise Daling's face will be injured enough.
So the wish of the second prince is about to be fulfilled: Cui Heng is thinking about letting him succeed to the throne as the emperor.
It's not just about being the crown prince. It's a step to the sky and a direct emperor!
Cui Heng calculated like this: let the second prince be the emperor and guard Kyoto. Cui Heng, as the emperor, went to other places for vacation. In this way, won't everyone's face be preserved?
It's beautiful to think about, and it's actually not difficult to operate, that is, before letting the second prince ascend the throne, you have to do some routine inspection work to see if he is really suitable for the position of emperor.
The queen is trying to protect the second prince. After all, she didn't give birth to a son herself, and the second prince is equivalent to her son. What's more, even if she originally had some doubts about the life experience of the second prince, it has long disappeared now - the second prince is from a beautiful woman, and the beautiful woman once had a relationship with Xie Xiaoheng. When the beauty died, the queen even wondered if there were any relics secretly sent out of the palace. But she checked, and there was no trace. Xie Fu She has planted a secret agent, the secret agent has used it for so many years, and she has not found anything, at most she suspects that Miss Xie Liu's death, and the trees are dug down and replanted, is it a bit boring? But after investigation, it was just that they killed each other in their own homes, and it had nothing to do with the secrets of the palace. The queen was relieved and cultivated the second prince as her own son.
Cui Heng had also been relieved of the second prince for a long time, but he was still not at ease with Xie Xiaoheng. He went to Dongxiao to visit Xie Xiaoheng in person.
Xie Xiaoheng pretended not to know his intentions at all, poured him tea, looked at the fruit, and talked to him, and asked, I heard that the scenery of Dongbin is good, does the emperor want to go and see it?
No, no! Cui Heng wants to go, but he will also go inland, and he will never go to the seashore.
In the emperor's mind, going inland is just a temporary avoidance, and going to the beach is really the end of the road. How could he possibly go? It's better for Xie Xiaoheng to go over there to relax and practice, it's more appropriate.
Xie Xiaoheng apologized for his sins, diverted the topic, and said that there were bees here, for fear of alarming the emperor.
Cui Heng is not so weak. He was very open-minded: where there are flowers, there will always be bees. He wouldn't take the initiative to alarm the bees, so how could the bees take the initiative to disturb the Holy Driver?
"yes!" Xie Xiaoheng sighed, "It's the fault of the flowers to provoke the bees." As long as the flowers bloom, there will inevitably be bees. And if all things dare to disturb the Holy Driver, it is the fault of all things! ”
At this point, he confessed and changed his clothes at the back.
He went for quite some time and didn't come back. When Cui Heng appeared, Mingzhu came to report with red eyes:
Xie Xiaoheng will never come back.
A plain curtain covered Xie Xiaoheng's face. He committed suicide.
He guessed Cui Heng's thoughts: as long as Xie Xiaoheng is alive and the second prince ascends the throne, it is inevitable that there will be insecure factors.
Even if Xie Xiaoheng is not the biological father of the second prince, Cui Heng clearly knows this. Xie Xiaoheng is still the only way to die.
Cui Heng had this thought, but he was embarrassed to say it, at most he wanted to exile Xie Xiaoheng to a remote area. I didn't expect Xie Xiaoheng to die so cleanly! He sighed for a long time, and very generously gave Xie Xiaoheng the honor after his death, posthumously awarded the title of Taifu, and gave thousands of gold, silver and jade silks to the Xie family, and even Xie Yunzhou added a first-class phoenix.
Now Xie Yunzhou can be regarded as the most beautiful wife in Daling, just like the seventh prince is the most beautiful prince.
The coronation ceremony of the second prince was held in a beautiful manner.
According to the accounts of later generations, the ceremony is roughly like this-
Although the emperor pushed the simple atmosphere at that time, and when there were internal and external troubles and storms, the ceremonial dress and honor guard at the ceremony were still very cumbersome and gorgeous.
Considering that most of the props are actually left over from the past, and some are even repaired with parts from the previous dynasty, these props do not cost too much money. The people were not too offended. If the people of the Central Plains are still likely to be offended in any way.
In short, the prince who was selected to be the acting emperor set off from the East Palace and went to the ceremony site. And the emperor and empress were waiting for him there earlier than him.
This prince was the second, born despicable, but fortunate enough to lose his mother at an early age and was raised by the empress herself. It is said that the queen treats him as her own son, which is the envy of the princes. In a later era, there was a certain prince who is said to have killed his own mother for this reason in order to be closer to the queen. It's a pity that this only exists in the wild history, and the official history does not give any corroboration, even the secret history of the palace's memory has been burned. (To be continued......)