Chapter 439: A Letter from He Tengjiao
The donkey finally saw the three most familiar figures, Mrs. He, who often competed with him for favor in front of the old man, and the donkey actually didn't like her in his heart.
There are also two little girls, Du Heng and Fang Zhi have seen them since the donkey first knew how to jump, I heard that they fell in love with the man in this family, so they had to lock themselves in this small courtyard, and the donkey took pity on them.
When the donkey saw them, he saw that they had been crying to him, and even more so when they had read the letter in their bag.
He Tengjiao said in his suicide note that the old donkey had always sounded plausible, saying that if the two little girls could be accepted as concubines by the emperor, he would be at ease under Jiuquan.
He also said that if this can be the case, if there are any princes born in the future, they should be educated well, and as the emperor's concubine, they must not compete with the emperor's concubine, and they can defend the Ming Dynasty as a vassal king with peace of mind. When you are about to die, you still talk about the shadowless thing so carelessly, what kind of mess is it?
He Tengjiao also had a letter to Mrs. He and He Wenduan, for the old lady He who the donkey didn't like, the old man said very politely, but there was no sadness and easy ridicule, the old lady read the letter, cried and cried, laughed and cried.
The letter to He Wenduan is the most severe, he told his children and grandchildren many, many things, one by one are rules, donkeys feel that doing this is too restrictive, and he also told the He family to never forget their original intentions, live up to their mission, whether they are officials or farmers in the future, they only want to be a good official and a good person.
This sentence, the donkey is love to listen, but also echoes the old man's style of life, the old man is stubborn, but he is not a man, as a big official who came out of the mountains of Guizhou, he has never taken a stand to the people, and the donkey often carries him all over the villages and cities.
At the beginning, it was also the donkey who carried the old man step by step from the position of Nanyang Zhixian to the height of the temple, and the old man died at home halfway, so he even resigned from the official, which is impossible to understand in the world of donkeys what it is to abandon the official and mourn. And when the donkey once again carried the old man to the new officer, the old man began to lead the troops.
The past is vivid, the cry of the women made the donkey feel upset, and the letter left in the end was opened by a young woman, this woman is so beautiful, among these young women should also have the most status, the donkey can see that she is also very good to Du Heng Fangzhi and the two little girls, the little girl also respects her very much, she opened the letter and read it in public.
The letter was written to the emperor, but the emperor was not there, and the letter exhorted the emperor a lot, how to govern the country with benevolence and filial piety, etc., just this donkey remembered that the old man did not know how many times he wrote such a letter to the emperor, and the donkey used to sound like a toothache.
But the cliché words, put in the farewell handwriting, it seems so sad, the letter at the end of the letter also asked the emperor to treat the two little girls well, in fact, the two little girls are quite cute, at least the donkey likes them very much, so the donkey thinks, the emperor has no reason not to like them.
The queen noticed the donkey, but when she read the letter, she looked crying, and she also ordered someone to take care of the donkey, and said that in the future, the donkey could walk in the palace at will, and be a free and easy donkey that no one dared to ride.
She also rubbed the top of the donkey's head, telling the donkey that she would move to Guilin soon, and that there was a large garden with picturesque landscapes in the backyard of the Jingjiang Palace, where they were going to live in Guilin, and she was going to take it with her.
Or even if you go to Guilin, the donkey has the right to go to the big garden, where the flowers and plants, no matter how precious the species, can be eaten as you like, well, the beautiful queen is very generous, and the donkey thinks this is a good suggestion, so he pulls up his mocking thick lips and laughs.
But no one expected that this would be the last time the donkey mocked the laugher, the last time it laughed.
From then on, some people dressed him in red and wanted to show it like a hero, but the donkey did not go, so he gave up; Some people brought it good ingredients, and the taste was very delicious at a glance, and the donkey did not eat it.
Because of the hunger strike, all the people who had been in the palace were panicked, and the donkey has remained in the palace since that day, with special care, and the donkey is allowed to move around at will, and it can go anywhere in the palace.
Although he didn't eat, the donkey's spirits were good for the first few days, and the women in the palace came to see him every day, especially the two little girls, who stroked the donkey's anxious head and cried endlessly every time they saw themselves.
The donkeys will always rub their weaker and weaker heads against them, they are good to themselves, and the donkeys know that the donkeys actually like them, because the donkeys have also witnessed their growth.
But the donkey still has the most uncontrollable thoughts, otherwise he will definitely accompany the two little girls.
The last thing a donkey can let go of is that the old man walks alone, and no one supports him, how can he go far? The road ahead is wide and long, and the donkey still remembers that the old man always recites Qu Yuan's poems, 'The road is long, and I will go up and down to seek.' Drink the surplus horses in the salty pond, and the total surplus is Fusang. ’
The old man went alone, but he could not leave the donkey any longer, after all, the donkey had already done what he had told the donkey this time, and now, the donkey should also go with the old man.
When he was dying, there were many people around the donkey, several old women and those young and beautiful queens, and the donkey wanted to smile at the two little girls, and wanted to pull up its playful thick lips, although it was not ready to laugh at them, but the donkey could not laugh after all.
When the donkey died, the harem of the Ming Dynasty had already moved to Guilin, and when the donkey died, it fell under the Taiping Rock of Duxiu Peak in the world, but it had no nostalgia for the beautiful mountains and rivers, the quiet lake, and the fragrance of flowers and plants.
There were many people around it who wept to say goodbye to it, but the old man it cared about the most was never seen again.
It was going to follow in his footsteps, to find the old man who was also stubborn, and to walk with him on the road, not to take refuge from the wind and rain, to disperse the smoke of gunpowder and the fire all over the ground, and in the eyes of the donkey that was about to close, the old man stood on the high platform and raised his middle finger at the enemy, and he, like it, stood in the flames of the overturned mountains and rivers, and pulled his thick lips at the devil and laughed mockingly.
Before closing his eyes, the donkey took one last look in the direction of Changsha, and he was afraid that he would not recognize the road, that the man would go too quickly, too hurriedly......