Huo Jingcheng smiled bitterly: "This hall naturally understands. Jing Rou loves to worship it, and is willful. It's just that the main hall is helpless, and it is difficult to do so. ”

Yun Ce said: "If Your Highness is helpless, you might as well advise Your Majesty and approve Fengzhi's request to resign." ”

"Cloud Phase! You! Huo Jingcheng was surprised, and immediately said: "Yunxiang, you also come to force this hall?" ”

"Don't dare." Yun Ce saluted, and continued: "The people don't fight with the officials, and the officials don't fight with the sky." Feng Zhi can't afford to play with the princess and can't afford to lose, and it's still too late to quit at this time. Otherwise, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, and the joy lost at that time will become a lifelong regret. ”

Huo Jingcheng listened to it and was speechless for a long time.

……

On a spring night, the wind is like an orchid, and the moon and stars are shining brightly on the head, which is the most suitable night for drinking.

At this time, the leisurely Curie in the palace of King Cheng is also brightly lit. The two glasses collided together, then separated, each drinking.

Suddenly, a male voice commanded: "Extinguish the lamps and candles!" ”

The next moment, the leisurely center darkened inch by inch. In the darkness and mottling, Huo Jingyao saw Huo Jingxiao crying for the first time. His tears reflected the light of fragments in the moonlight.

"Starling, you're drunk." Huo Jingyao laughed and joked, but his eyes were also red.

Huo Jingxiao sighed: "Jing Yao, you and I have been holding back long enough, today the poisonous woman was abolished, and our brothers are in this darkness, drunk and crying together, what's the matter?" ”

"Yes, the revenge is avenged, what's the harm of getting drunk and crying?" Huo Jingyao said, pouring wine for each other. The two of them raised their glasses again.

Huo Jingyao asked, "Starling, you can always tell me today, right?" How did the queen hurt your mother? ”

Huo Jingxiao listened, his eyes darkened, and he lowered his eyes and said: "The scene of Yongxi ten years ago, when I was eleven years old, was studying with other princes in the study. When the ground moved, the sky shook, I was very scared, I just wanted to return to my mother's side, so I stumbled all the way to Shunhua Palace, the study was far away from Shunhua Palace, and I stopped when I ran halfway. When I arrived panting, I realized that I was a step slower after all, because the queen had already taken the lead, and the gate of Shunhua Palace had been guarded by the people in the queen's palace. Since I was sensible, my mother often warned me that I must be careful of the queen and beware of the people in her palace. So when I saw that the people in the queen's palace were guarding the door of the concubine's palace, I was quick and did not break in, but went around to the back of the concubine's dormitory, climbed over the wall and peeked through the back window. ”

"Starling, what do you see?" Huo Jingyao couldn't help but be nervous.

Huo Jingxiao smiled bitterly, and there was water in his red eyes: "I saw that the queen was pulling my mother's hair in the palace and scolding something, and then the eunuch next to her smashed my mother's head with a round stool, and the mother immediately fell into a pool of blood, her head flowed a lot, and the whole person was motionless." Then the Queen's men began to unload the door, and they threw it down on my mother, and pressed her so tightly that I could no longer see her. ”

"That was me, the last time I saw my mother."

Huo Jingyao was shocked when he heard this, and laughed bitterly, but at the same time shed tears: "No wonder the queen announced to the outside world that Concubine Shuniang was hit by the toppled palace gate when she was escaping, and died on the spot, with one body and two lives." ”

Huo Jingxiao's eyes were full of sorrow: "Yes, in addition, the queen also executed all the palace people in the palace of the concubine, saying that they did not protect the concubine in the ground movement, so she asked them all to be buried together." In fact, it's just killing people and killing people. I was the only one who quietly retreated with hatred. From that day on, I learned to endure, I learned to disguise, I learned to laugh to hate someone, the more I hated, the more I laughed, the innocent laughter, the laughter did not leak, the laughter was flawless. ”

With a "bang", Huo Jingyao put down his wine glass heavily: "Starling, don't say it." ”

"Okay." Huo Jingxiao agreed softly and said, "Don't say it, the starling brother is also drunk, and he can't go on." In short, you and I have hated fire in our hearts for many years, and in the end we burned that poisonous woman. ”

Huo Jingyao said: "It's all up to the starling's resourcefulness, bribing the guards to do things with their lives, biting out the incense, and forcing the incense to commit suicide." finally sharpened a sword for many years, and took the opportunity of assassinating the official's wife to kill the middle palace with one move. ”

Huo Jingxiao pinched the wine glass and sneered slowly: "Blood debt and blood repayment, whatever cause is created, what fruit must be swallowed." ”

Huo Jingyao sighed softly and took a sip of wine, lifted the pot to refill the tea for him, and his eyebrows were full of sorrow: "Starling, why are we born in this cold and ruthless place of the Heavenly Family?" If I hadn't been born in heaven, I would have been like everyone else, with a wife in my arms and children around my knees, and I wouldn't be what I am now. ”

Huo Jingxiao reached over and patted him on the shoulder, and comforted: "Jingyao, although Xu Guiren was forced to have no choice but not to teach you well since he was a child, but after all, it is up to people to succeed, if you want, you can change your mentality, marry a wife and have children, instead of falling in love with a man." ”

Huo Jingyao's tears became more and more turbulent when he heard this, and finally shook his head gently: "No, Brother Starling, the sky is going to destroy me, how can you give me a chance to turn it around?" No, no, it's already too late, the moment I was born in the heavenly family, it's already too late. ”

Huo Jingxiao couldn't understand, so he had to sigh: "Jingyao, you are also drunk." You and my brother have cried this today, and we are only allowed to laugh from now on! Defeat all our enemies with a smile! ”

Huo Jingyao rested his head on the table and muttered: "Starling, I'm drunk, I'm tired, from now on, I want to stay away from the prosperity of the Heavenly Family, away from the darkness of the Heavenly Family, and away from the struggle for imperial power." ”

Huo Jingxiao looked at him and asked slowly, "Jingyao, don't you want to go with the starling brother anymore?" Do you want to stop for Qiao Fengzhi? ”

Huo Jingyao slowly raised his head and supported his forehead with his hand, but he was silent.

Seeing this, Huo Jingxiao suddenly became annoyed, he smashed the wine glass in his hand and scolded him angrily: "Jingyao! Speak!! ”

Huo Jingyao said unhurriedly: "Starling is worthy of being a starling who loves me, he doesn't even call me by my full name when he is angry, he still has a kind Jingyao, which really touches me." ”

When Huo Jingxiao heard this, the anger in his stomach suddenly wilted, and after letting out a long breath, he said slowly: "Jing Yao, I always remember that when you told me back then, your father never called your name, and he called other sons Jing Qian, Jing Cheng, and Jing Xiao. So from now on, it's up to me, as an elder brother, to call your name and affectionately by your name. ”

Huo Jingyao shed a tear again, then raised his hand to drink the wine in the cup, and said: "Starling, it is your voice Jingyao, let me give you my heart and brotherly love to you from now on." It's just ......" He looked down at the broken cup on the ground, and said, "It's just that Starling knows that I am weak and timid, and what is he doing to scare me with such movements?" If my family knows about it, maybe they will feel sorry for me. ”

When Huo Jingxiao heard this, his head was big, and he said helplessly: "I feel sorry for you? You partnered with me to set up a game and hurt his wife, and it was too late for him to hate you, so how could he feel sorry for you? Jing Yao, you sober me up! Although you and I moved down the middle palace this time, we also exposed ourselves at the same time! Next, do you think Huo Jingcheng can let you go or can he let me go? Do you think Qiao Fengzhi is not facing Huo Jingcheng, but can still face you, Huo Jingyao? ”

Huo Jingyao's tone suddenly became intense: "But Brother Starling, as long as I stop now, everything is still in time!" I'm so useless, and I have nothing to chase after today's revenge! I don't want to point the sword at the East Palace and make the enemy of the sixth brother again! And, in the future, although I don't walk with starlings, I will never be in the same party with others! I just want to stay out of the way! ”

"How naïve is that?" Huo Jingyao said: "You don't want to be an enemy of the East Palace anymore, but after this time, the East Palace has regarded you as an enemy, do you think you can stay out of it?" Now the two of us, if we are together, we will live and die! ”

Huo Jingyao stood up drunk and dizzy, and said with his tongue twirling: "So, you have to force me to be the enemy of Fengzhi?" ”

Huo Jingxiao hurriedly stood up to help him, and said incomprehensibly: "Jingyao, don't be impatient." If you want me to say, the world is ever-changing, and today he is a member of his Zhang family, and he may marry my Li family the day after tomorrow. As long as some things are used well, the closest relatives can turn their faces, and the enemy can also make peace. ”

Huo Jingyao's eyes were drunk and hazy, and he muttered, "You mean, Fengzhi will marry me?" Or will I marry him? ”

When Huo Jingxiao heard this, one head became two big again, and he said angrily: "That's it, you're drunk, let's not talk about these today." I'll send you home. ”

……

The next morning, when Yao Duran woke up, Qiao Fengzhi was still sleeping on his side. This was the first day he said he was sick and avoided the court. For the next two days, he did not go to court. Only then did Yao Duran realize that the matter seemed to be much more serious. So he began to persuade him to go to court, but Qiao Fengzhi just said lightly: "I came out after a long time." ”

Unexpectedly, not an hour after he finished saying this, someone suddenly came to the palace. The person who came was actually Gonggong Wei, who had been serving Emperor Qian's side for many years, and his shrill voice let out a long report: "The holy decree has arrived-"

Qiao Fengzhi pretended to be unwell, and led Lu Yan and Fuquan to kneel in the courtyard to receive the decree, and the father-in-law of Nawei unfolded the holy decree and recited it.

After hearing the will, several people were surprised.

I thought that Qiao Fengzhi avoided the dynasty, and Emperor Qiandi would be blamed, but who knew that Emperor Qiandi not only did not blame, but also ordered to promote Qiao Fengzhi to the official department of the third grade, and was in charge of the appointment and dismissal, promotion, honor, and transfer of civil officials.

After Gonggong Wei finished reading, he presented the holy decree to Qiao Fengzhi with a smile: "Lord Qiao became famous as a young man, and His Majesty appreciates and reuses it so much, he is one of the best characters in my Nanqian!" Congratulations to Master Joe. ”

Qiao Fengzhi thanked him for receiving the order. Father-in-law Wei said again: "Master Qiao, don't be in a hurry to thank you, this great glory is still to come." No, Your Majesty wants to personally hold a banquet for your promotion, so he specially held a banquet in the princess's mansion and invited you to the princess's mansion for a banquet at noon. ”

At this moment, Qiao Fengzhi was really stunned, Emperor Qiandi actually held a banquet in the princess's mansion and invited him to attend? Which one is this?

……

At noon, Qiao Fengzhi arrived at the princess's mansion, but there were only Emperor Qiandi and Huo Jingrou's father and daughter, and no one else. Emperor Qiandi sat upright, his face gentle as usual. Huo Jingrou was dressed up in a fancy way, and sat there, like a delicate dummy. Only when a pair of beautiful eyes flowed on Qiao Fengzhi's body, a few wisps of affectionate appeal came out of the eyes, which seemed to be alive.