At the beginning of June, the weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day, especially at noon, the heat wave is soaring, making people drowsy. Outside the courtyard, Zhizhi sang sleeplessly for a noon, showing no sign of tiredness. The wind blew through the hall and lifted the clothes of the old man in the house, but he didn't feel a single thing, and still dozed off intently.

The girl opposite him did not show the slightest sign of sleepiness, frowning and staring firmly at the chessboard, hoping to see a glimmer of life in the frozen chess game, the black chess pieces flipped on the tips of her fingers, lining her complexion even fairer. She had been thinking about the time for nearly a cup of tea, but she still didn't have a clue, and when she looked up at her sleepy grandfather, she was getting more and more deflated, so she simply put the chess pieces back in the box and prepared to go back to the room to rest.

Just as she was about to get up, the waiter came in from outside the door and saluted her, "Girl, someone from the capital has come." ”

Her heart jumped suddenly, although she knew that this was the result, but she was still unwilling in her heart.

About two months ago, someone from the capital came to say that her father, that is, the great Sima Chun Yujia, wanted to marry her to Zhao Huan, the Marquis of Wude, who was about to ascend the throne, so he came here to welcome her back.

Everyone knows that Zhao Huan is just Chun Yujia's puppet who manipulates power, if she marries him, she will become her father's pawn, and life and death will be unpredictable at that time. She did not hesitate to force the messenger to die and forced the messenger back, but after all, she couldn't escape, and what should come will always come.

She didn't understand why she was making this chess piece, was it to bully her into being motherless?

Her biological mother died early, and she was frail and sick since she was a child, and her grandfather Zhan Huang took pity on her loneliness, so he took her over to raise her. Although her father is the official residence of Da Sima, she feels that she is not as good as a country girl, she has no father and no mother, and at this moment she is going to be sent to the unsightly deep palace, and all the hope in her life is cut off alive.

The old man was also awakened by this sentence, looked at the girl and sighed deeply, waved his hand to let the waiter retreat, "I'll go out to greet first, you go back to the room and change your clothes." ”

"No, I hope he doesn't like me." She stubbornly looked away, her eyes full of grievances.

"Don't be stupid, go." The old man patted her on the shoulder, turned and went out.

"Why did he let me go......" She raised her hand and wiped her tears, full of grievances, but she couldn't say anything.

The old man stopped when he heard this, and sighed inaudibly, "When your mother insisted on getting married, I expected today's ending, this is fate, and I can't escape." ”

She looked at her grandfather's lonely back, and swallowed back the sentence in her heart.

……

When she came out in a blue gauze dress, it was already time for a cup of tea, and her grandfather smiled and said to her outside the door, "Nian'er, come and see your second brother." ”

Chun Yu Nian raised his eyes to look at the man beside his grandfather, who was wearing an ivory-colored robe, with a kind smile between his eyebrows, and instead of waiting for her to say hello, he got up and walked towards her, took her up and down a lot, and said with a smile: "Nian'er was still a toddler when she left home, and she never thought that she would be so slim. ”

She smiled faintly, gave a slight salute to this unimpressed brother, and softly called the second brother.

Chun Yuchuan answered, and hurriedly led her over to sit together.

Zhan Huang got up and said with a smile: "The second master has been driving all the way, and the old man will go to arrange the guest room, and it will not hurt to rest for a few days before setting off." ”

"I'm tired of Mr. Tired." He stood up and saluted.

Zhan Huang smiled, "You two brothers and sisters talk, and the old man will come when he goes." ”

Chun Yu Nian sent his grandfather out, and looked at the teacup on the table in a blink of an eye, what could she and Chun Yuchuan say? The left and right were just some lukewarm greetings, but Chun Yuchuan was willing to tell her how the family was doing, and how her father missed her.

"Are there any other sisters in the family?" She left home before she was two years old, so she didn't know exactly how many siblings she had.

"In addition to your eldest sister Chun Yuran, there is also a younger sister Chun Yuxi, who has a lively temperament, and the two of you should get along." Chun Yuchuan said with a smile.

"Whose daughter is Xi'er? How old is it? ”

"It's the second aunt's, thirteen." He said patiently, and then asked her in a deep voice, "Nian'er, in the future, my mother will be my mother, you and I are the same mother, do you know?" ”

Chun Yu Nian is a concubine, and the so-called mother in Chun Yu Chuankou is the mother-in-law Zhang, and the biological mother can only be called an aunt according to the ceremony. But Chun Yujia wants to marry her to Zhao Huan, so naturally she can't be a concubine, so she says to the outside world that she is her own young daughter.

Chun Yu Kawamoto had no intention of reproaching, and when he saw her bow her head and purse her lips, she realized that her tone was too heavy. He sighed, touched his sister's head, and said softly, "It's not your fault. ”

In fact, he didn't have much impression of Chun Yunian, but he had a deeper memory of her biological mother Zhan Youli, when her father went south to Gusu Wu, and brought her biological mother back when he triumphed. Chun Yuchuan still remembers Zhan Yuli's voice and appearance, and he is an extremely gentle person. She died in childbirth a year later, and he never saw anyone like her again.

Although Chun Yunian looks very similar to her, she doesn't have that gentleness, but there is a little more heroism between her eyebrows, which makes people know that she is a person from Chun Yu's family at a glance. The joy of seeing Chun Yu Nian for the first time was not so much that he was surprised by the eighteenth change of the little sister and daughter, but rather the excitement of seeing Zhan Yuli again.

Chun Yunian was startled by the intimate action of touching her head, and then the next person came over and invited them over for dinner, which relieved her of this embarrassment.

……

After dinner, Chun Yuchuan rested, and she returned to the room to watch the maid pack her luggage for her.

"I have wronged you, and I want you to go with me to that place where you are not familiar with life." She leaned back on the table, and her tone couldn't hide her melancholy and uneasiness.

The woman in the pale cyan dress smiled faintly, "The girl is entering the palace to be the queen, and I am waiting to follow the palace to enjoy the blessings, what do you say Nanxing?" ”

The woman who called Nanxing glanced at her and laughed helplessly, "If only the girl could be as heartless as you." ”

"What are you talking about!" Banxia pretended to be annoyed and hit her, and the two of them suddenly made a mess.

Just as he was talking and laughing, there was a knock on the door, "Is Nian'er asleep?" ”

Hearing the sound, the two girls stopped fighting, put down their things and went to open the door.

When Zhan Huang entered the door, he saw his granddaughter with a listless face, and sighed before he could speak, "If you enter the palace, you will still have such a sad face, see if the little emperor will wait to see you." ”

Hearing her grandfather say this, the resentment on her face was even heavier, "Doesn't grandfather know what his father's intentions are?" insisted on making grandchildren smile. ”

He walked over and touched the little girl's head, but she childishly avoided it, and he said in a deep voice: "How do I not know his intentions, he married your mother back then and was secretly Chen Cang, and now he wants to send you to the palace, his thoughts are known to everyone in the world." ”

"He didn't kill his mother enough, he wanted to kill me too." She pursed her lips and said aggrievedly.

"No, it won't." Zhan Xiao sat down in front of her, and said in a firm tone.

She turned her eyes to look at her grandfather, wondering why he was so sure, "How not?" ”

Zhan Huang took out a scroll of drawings from his sleeve and handed it to her, "This is the secret passage of the Imperial Garden, if something happens, go from here." ”

She opened the drawing, and the secret passage led from the palace to the outside of Yongzhou City, "This ......"

"This is what your father wanted," he laughed, sarcastically, "and he thought I had the treasures of the Xi Dynasty in my hands, so he was very courteous to your mother, who was deceived when she was so young. ”

"Does Father know who you are?"

"Your grandfather is Fan Yangmu of the Xi Dynasty, and he brought your father with him when he went to Beijing to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother, and we met once at the birthday banquet. He was only twelve years old. ”

"I've seen you once and remembered it?"

Zhan Huang smiled, "If you want to say that Chun Yujia is talented, otherwise he will not be appreciated by Zhao Hao, and he will be carried by Zhao Huan, and the official worships the Great Sima and stands for three dynasties." ”

She listened silently, and in addition to being surprised by her father's superiority, she felt more terrible.

"Emperor Wai once summoned me into the palace and gave me this picture, for fear that Zhao Huan would kill them all when he forced the palace, so as to protect the Xiao family's bloodline. But in the ears of others, it has become the secret treasure of the Xi Dynasty that I hold. ”

"My father believed it too?"

He glanced at his granddaughter, which was considered a tacit acquiescence. His original surname is Xiao Mingzhan, the cousin of Emperor Xiwai, the night Zhao Huan forced the palace to escape from the palace with Emperor Wai's young son overnight, and since then his surname has been changed to Zhan. It's just that the youngest son of Emperor Wai died of depression after the collapse of the country and the death of the family, and the Xiao family's bloodline, speaking of which, only their ancestors and grandchildren are left.

Thinking of the old things, he could only sigh, the trace of blood they had worked so hard to leave behind was about to be cut off by the Zhao family.

"The Xiao family's qi is exhausted, if there is no Zhao Hao in the princes of all walks of life, the Xi Dynasty Guozuo would have perished in the Guying Rebellion, where is there still the twenty-three years of Xianghe? The whole world is unified by the Zhao family, and it is reasonable for Zhao Huan to force the palace to usurp the throne. ”

"But does the Chun Yu clan have the ability to fight for the world?" She has been by Xiao Zhan's side since she was a child, and the female worker didn't learn, but she memorized the history of the Xiao family very well, and naturally knew how the Zhao family got to the Yong Dynasty.

"Zhao Ken, the only one in the court who can compete with Chun Yujia, Zhao Lan was booby-trapped by your eldest brother Chun Yuyan, and the power of the court is now all tied to the Chunyu family, and the Zhao family is in decline. In addition, Zhao Fang was deposed, and the emperor Zhao Huan, who was about to ascend the throne, was just a powerless and powerless countryman, you are about to be sent to the palace, and the former and harem are all people from the Chun Yu clan, and your father has the ability to fight for the world. ”

Chun Yu's three fathers and sons, Chun Yujia is the great Sima, in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, the eldest son Chun Yu Yanfeng is the general of the Fu Army, in charge of the conscription horses, and the second son Chun Yuchuan is in charge of the Jinwu, in charge of the soldiers and horses in the capital. The military power of the world is all in the hands of Chun Yu's clan, and he does have the ability to win the world.

Hearing this, she fell into silence for a long time, and after a long time, she said in a deep voice: "Will I become my father's murderous knife?" ”

"I know you have a grudge against your father, but remember, your surname is Chun Yu Jia's daughter, once the Zhao clan regains power, you will be the daughter of a criminal minister!"

The daughter of the criminal minister, four words, like a thunderclap, crushed her ridiculous pity for the Zhao family, and what followed was an inescapable disaster and fear.

"If Chun Yu wins the world, you still have a way to live. But if the Zhao family regains power, what will happen to you? Even if Zhao Huan doesn't kill you at that time, there will not be too few people who want you to die. ”

Her face turned pale and she looked at her grandfather stunned, "Then should I stand on the side of the Chunyu clan?" ”

Xiao Zhan shook his head, "You can't stand on either side of them, it's not certain who wins or loses. ”

"Do you think the Zhao clan can still regain power?"

"Maybe, if your father is sure to suppress other forces in the court, he definitely doesn't need to send you to the palace, and the Zhao family still has strength, it depends on whether the new emperor Zhao Huan understands how to keep Taoguang and raise obscurity."

"I don't know what kind of person Zhao Huan is."

"Nian'er, I shouldn't have said these words next, but there is no other way to do it now."

"You say."

"No matter whether Zhao Huan is wise or stupid, ugly or beautiful, you must not have his children, and you must not have half a love for him."

Her heart skipped a beat, and she didn't expect to go here. But her grandfather was right, if she had a child, her father would probably persecute Zhao Huan even more impatiently, help her young son ascend the throne, and then force her to write a Zen document, which would be easy. At that point, how will she and her children deal with themselves? Chun Yujia won't want her life, but what about the child? Moreover, if Zhao Huan regains power, I am afraid that his treatment of their mother and son will only be worse than her father and Chunyu's. Her situation, the front is Longtan, and the back is the tiger's den, and only by being alone can she get out of trouble.

"My grandson understands." She said as she looked down, the knuckles of her clenched fists white.

"You have to keep the drawings well, in case Chun Yu's clan loses power, you can retreat with all your body. Nanxing and Banxia will protect you, and when you arrive in the capital, I will arrange for Wang Chen and Li Lian to enter the palace again to ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

"Do Wang Chen and Li Lian want to follow me into the palace? Who protects you when they're gone? "Those two people are the best guards by my grandfather's side, and my grandparents have followed the Xiao family, and there is no one more credible than them.

"I'm an old bone, who will remember me? Besides, there are other people around, so rest assured. At this point, there was a hint of relief on his face, he reached out and touched her hair, and said with a smile: "I hope my grandson will come home early." ”

Hearing this, the tip of her nose was astringent, her heart was like a pinprick, and tears fell down fiercely and fell on the placket of her clothes. She was lonely when she was young, at least she could live with her grandfather, but this last bit of warmth was taken away by others, and she had to become an unpredictable pawn, and the person who played chess was her biological father.

She lifted her skirt and got up, knelt down in front of her grandfather, kowtowed three times crisply, and burst into tears: "My grandson has no grandfather, and I can't do it today, and I will definitely tie the grass ring in the next life to repay my grandfather's great kindness." Her original intention was just to find a good person and be filial to her grandfather, but the world is unpredictable, the good person is not good, and she can only be the unfilial person.

Xiao Zhan had long been accustomed to seeing the warmth and coldness of people, and thought that he could be ruthless enough to send her away, but in fact, he still couldn't help but cry. His biggest wish in this life is just to see her get married, but after all, her surname is Chunyu, not Xiao, even if it is the last trace of the Xiao family's bloodline, it is still difficult to escape the doom of the court dispute, it is really the Xiao family!