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The boxy courtyard, the boxy sky, the towering walls are covered with dark green moss, the withered creepers cling to the wall, occasionally a few dead leaves shiver with the cold wind, the snowflakes that fell last night are all over the ground, God seems to know that a big accident is going to happen in Chang'an City, and he deliberately makes the sky gloomy, as if to warn the world about something. I looked at the boxy sky with my head held high, my face was frozen and stiff by the bone-chilling wind, but I didn't feel cold, my mood was three points colder than the cold wind.

I have been imprisoned in this courtyard for more than two months, to be precise, I have been imprisoned for sixty-seven days, since the day I returned to Chang'an from my expedition to the Yamatai Kingdom on the other side of the sea, I have been imprisoned here by my father, the reason is very simple, I killed the Yamatai Kingdom to the point that no chickens and dogs remained, and their queen Himiko was also ordered by me to be in front of the citizens of Yamatai, and then dragged to death with a war horse, perhaps, my father, who had already mastered the land of the original Han Dynasty, did not like my cruelty, and he wanted to use the royal way to convince people.

Actually, I'm not a cruel person, I killed all the people of Yamatai because they colluded with the Gongsun family five years ago, trying to join forces to control the Goryeo Peninsula, that time, my father who was still in good health took me to conquer Goryeo, I saw with my own eyes the cruelty of the Yamatai people to our Han people, they tied up the captured Han men and buried their lower bodies in the soil, and then beckoned dogs to bite the flesh and blood of the captives, and after the women were raped by them, they cut off ** and died of pain, all kinds of extreme measures are outrageous, My father's iron cavalry was already considered a corruption of discipline in wartime, but in front of the Yamatai army, it was like a good baby encountering a murderer, so in order to fight for the task of conquering the Yamatai Kingdom on behalf of my father, I did not hesitate to turn against my younger brother Dong Peng, who also wanted to go on the expedition, and completely angered my younger brother who was favored by my father - also the future King Kang, and maybe even Emperor Dakang.

Or, I'm really at fault, I shouldn't be so cruel, but just as my mother cried to Jiuniang and Aunt Ma behind my back several times, my father didn't like me since I was a child, and I once heard the old family say that since I was a child, my father only hugged me once, or on the day of my full moon, the day I was named, and I was hugged on the other time, the father's heart was almost entirely on the second brother Dong Peng, otherwise when the second brother and the second brother Sima Yi went out to Shanyue, the second brother also washed more than a dozen villages in Shanyue, but he returned to Chang'an, My father simply scolded him, and although my real military exploits and actual political achievements were far superior to those of my second brother, my father still imprisoned me for several months without giving me any reason, perhaps, until the day my second brother took over the throne......

"Xianggong, it's too cold, let's go back to the room." The crisp and pleasant voice sounded behind me, hearing this familiar voice, I didn't have to look back, I knew that she was my beloved wife Lu Linglian, in fact, in terms of seniority, she should be regarded as my niece, but I love her, despite the warning of the eleventh mother who likes to invent and create, or begged my father to demote my prince status, just so that I could marry Linglian, I remember that year when I told my father my intentions, my father's old face was angry, and the second brother and second brother gloated behind my father, If it weren't for Jiuniang and Uncle Zhao to intercede with my father for me, the angry father might have killed me on the spot, and in the end, General Xu Rong came forward and accepted Ling Lian as a righteous daughter, so that Ling Lian would be the same generation as me, and my father reluctantly agreed to my marriage with Ling Lian, but General Xu also offended the second brother and the second brother, and was transferred to the distant Belga Lake to guard, and General Xu was so old that he probably never had the opportunity to return to the Central Plains.

I turned my head, looked at Ling Lian's beautiful pretty face and smiled: "Madam, my husband is not cold, I just want to take a walk, your body is weak, you should go back to the room first." ”

"Walking?" Ling Lian wrinkled her little nose, pursed her cute little mouth, and said angrily: "You have been standing still for two hours, this is also called a walk?" Speaking of this, Ling Lian made a small face and said, "Give me back, otherwise I will punish you for kneeling on the washboard tonight!" ”

I smiled bitterly and shook my head, alas, we have been married for four years, this little girl is still so rude, and her sister's temper is as unreasonable, I really don't know how my brother-in-law Lu Su, who has been imprisoned by his father for more than a month, has spent all these years. Sigh and sigh, this little girl must not be offended, otherwise I don't want to go to bed tonight, I carefully took her little hand that was frozen pale, and said with a smile: "Okay, good, go back to the room for the husband, listen to Ling for the husband." Ling Lian smiled with satisfaction, and pulled me to run into the room.

The room is very warm, the stove is booming, there is a pot of boiling ginseng hen soup on the honeycomb coal stove, the tempting fragrance fills the room, although my father has placed me under house arrest, but he still takes great care of my life, there is no shortage of food and daily life, on the day of the sudden drop in winter temperature, my father also sent someone to pass the decree, asking me not to leave the coal stove in the room overnight when I burn honeycomb coal, so as not to poison me with gas, I don't know what gas is, but my father is always right.

"Sit down honestly." Ling Lian put on a vicious and playful appearance, pressed me to the seat by the fire, she turned around and took a bowl of chicken soup, first scooped a spoon of chicken soup with a silver spoon and fed it to my father to give us the poodle to eat, seeing that the poodle was safe and sound, Ling Lian tasted a spoon by herself, and finally brought it to me, "Drink, warm up." "The chicken soup is very fragrant, and it is warm to drink in my stomach, but my heart is warmer, on the third day after I was placed under house arrest, because I had no appetite, I gave the original meal to the old family, and the old family immediately bled to death after eating it, from that day on, Ling Lian did not allow me to eat any food without permission, and the water and food must be tasted by her before I was allowed to eat it. It just so happened that the next day, my father rewarded Ling Lian with a pair of cute poodles, and the puppy became a test drug for Ling Lian and me, poor puppy.

"The Great Prince." A servant knocked lightly on the door, Ling Lian hurriedly opened the door a crack, the servant who had fought with me in the north and south reached into a hand, there was a very thick candle in his hand, Ling Lian took the candle, the door closed automatically, Ling Lian took off the gold hairpin on her head, skillfully pried open the bottom of the candle, took out a note hidden in the wax and handed it to me.

The letter was written by the Jiu Niang who once wanted to kill his father but ended up marrying his father, and the news of my brother-in-law Lu Su being imprisoned was told to me by Jiu Niang, Jiu Niang said in the letter, my father's illness is getting worse and worse, and he has not been to the court for two days, Wen Huahou and Zhang Zhongjing are helpless, and the second brother's door is in front of the car, and the big and small officials are lining up to see my second brother, as well as the second brother Sima Yi and my uncle Dong Chong, who are often in the second brother's house, and my left and right hands Jiang Wei and Guo Huai were dismissed ten days ago, also went to Chang'an Prison without even giving a reason, plus my younger brother Dong He, who was also imprisoned, which means that all my henchmen and cronies have been imprisoned, and no one can move freely.

Jiuniang is still so knife-mouthed and tofu-hearted, and at the end of the letter, she is still scolding her father, 'Yi'er, your father is blinded by lard, it seems that he is determined to pass the throne to Dong Peng, who only knows how to kill people and pretend to be military merits, you are good at yourself, if there is anything wrong, flee immediately, although Gao Shun, the commander of the Chang'an garrison, has no friendship with you, but his relationship with your second brother is also average, let your wife come forward to beg him, he will definitely let you live for your father-in-law's sake, out of Chang'an City, you will be free, To the south is your Uncle Zhao's first army, he will definitely not be difficult for you, and further south are Annam, Java, Sulfur, and Northern Tianzhu, these places are all down by you, you go to those places to regroup, remember, remember. Don't worry about your mother, as long as you Jiuniang and your Aunt Ma still have a breath, your second brother will not dare to hurt her, and when you stabilize, we will save your mother to reunite with you. ’

"Xianggong, what is written in the letter?" Ling asked with concern.

I slowly burned the note carefully, shook my head and said, "It's nothing, it's just that my father's illness is a little heavy, and Jiu Niang said that she is trying to find a way to beg my father to let me out." "I can't bear to let Ling Lian worry with me, which only makes her feel more uncomfortable - although she has been pretending that nothing is wrong on the surface, trying to make me happy,

The dark night of winter came soon, Ling Lian dragged me to bed, and asked me to tell her about the strange things overseas, I just used stories to deceive her, and for a while the second brother also liked Ling Lian, but after listening to the second brother to the second brother about what the consequences of marrying Ling Lian, the second brother did not compete with me for Ling Lian, and I was able to marry the lover of my dreams as I wished.

The active Linglian soon fell asleep in my arms, but I stayed awake all night, looking at the roof until dawn, thinking back to the past of the Prancing Horse field and the people, at that time, although I did not have the love of my father, I did all the dirty work, but the soldiers and the people loved me very much, ate with me in the cauldron, and slept together, perhaps because the army and the people loved me so much, so the fourth mother and the second brother, who had always been unseen, hated me so much, and kept saying bad things about me in front of my father, Worried that I and my second brother would compete for the position of King Kang's son, and provoke my second brother Sima Yi, who was usually very hostile to me, to hate me even more, and last year, after the second uncle, who was very trusted by my father, publicly expressed his support for the second brother to succeed King Kang, most of the civil servants in the court completely fell to the side of the second brother, and the generals who held the military power were neutral, and Taiwei Jia never participated in the battle for the succession, and never interacted with me and the second brother, so I was completely isolated.

When the sky was bright, I suddenly heard a noise outside the courtyard, I gently pushed away Ling Lian, who was still asleep, and ran to the courtyard wall to listen to the movement, I heard a voice say, "By the order of His Royal Highness King Kang, take over the defense of the eldest prince." Then came the commotion of the official documents as they were unfolded, the sound of the soldiers handing over the defenses, and it was evident that I was being kept under more than several times stricter guards, and according to my estimates, there were at least fifteen hundred soldiers watching over me outside the hospital. My heart was half cold, it turned out that I was guarding the subordinates of General Gao Shun who was in charge of the defense of Chang'an City, my safety was guaranteed, and now I have changed to another unit, once there is a change, I don't even have a chance to escape.

"Xianggong, why is your face so white?" When I returned to my room, Ling Lian had already woken up, and when she saw me, she asked, I shook my head, forced a smile and said, "It's nothing, it was blown by the cold wind." Ling Lian saw that I was lying, but she didn't continue to ask, just silently served me to freshen up and dress, but I still saw her big eyes full of tears in the glass mirror made by Eleven Niang, and I slowly closed my eyes.

"There's martial law outside." Ling Lian, who went to pick up breakfast and came back, told me, "Normally, our food can be brought in after only two inspections, but now it takes five times. ”

"yes, got it." I replied with a heavy heart, that the food tasted like chewing wax in my mouth, and if I was not mistaken, my father's illness had reached the point of no return, and the decision on the prince's ownership would be within a day or two—although there was no doubt about the candidate.

Linglian, who was eating, suddenly put down the dishes and chopsticks, and when she raised her head, she was already in tears and choked up on me: "Brother Yi, I love you." I took her into my arms, kissed her lightly on her pink cheek, and whispered, "Poor sister, I love you too." The two of us never said a word again, just snuggled up to each other and felt each other's true feelings.

Time flies, it's past noon in a blink of an eye, no one sends us lunch, and I can't eat it with Ling Lian, when it's almost time, I hear the sound of opening the courtyard door that is usually only allowed to be opened, and the neat footsteps of a team of soldiers, Ling Lian's face is pale, and she whispered in my ear: "Brother Yi, there is one thing I have been hiding from you, Dong Peng once brought me a message, after you die, as long as I obey him, he can make me a concubine." ”

At this time, Ling Lian took out a piece of pottery bowl with sharpened edges from her arms, and smiled at me: "I refused, Brother Yi and I went underground to be husband and wife." I held her little hand, my heart was both moved and confused, I don't know if I should even involve Ling Lian to die with me, but Ling Lian's gaze is extremely firm.

"By the order of His Royal Highness King Kang, welcome the eldest prince into the palace to meet King Kang." A voice I was very familiar with outside the room, and I stood up and said sharply: "Is it Zhao Tong?" ”

The man outside the house replied: "Back to the eldest prince, the last general is Zhao Tong." ”

Ling Lian and I glanced at each other, and we both saw the surprise in each other's eyes, Zhao Tong is the eldest son of my Uncle Zhao and Aunt Ma Yunlu, Uncle Zhao never participated in the battle for the heir, but I was taken care of by Aunt Ma since I was a child, and my martial arts were also taught by her, Zhao Tong and Zhao Guang brothers, and I are really closer than brothers, but the strange thing is that Zhao Tong appeared in Chang'an City? Wasn't he in the First Legion Army with Uncle Zhao?