(a)

The news of the victory of the Pegasus arrived in Yunjing. The whole city was filled with joy.

How many generations have longed for the peace of the world, and after sacrificing so many lives, after paying so much blood and tears, it has finally arrived.

At that time, those who were the first to be unable to tolerate and recklessly wage war, did they really understand what a huge meat grinder this centuries-long world chaos had formed, devoured how many youth and lives, and destroyed the peace and happiness of many people? And how many other beings who flew and wriggled with them, and suffered from the misery of life together?

The result of being unbearable will continue to develop, and the final result will always be so tragic.

After leading all the palace dependents to Shangyang Palace to congratulate Concubine Wang, I returned to my Zhaoyang Palace.

I took the report of the great victory from the messenger Pegasus, pushed open the lattice door of the East Warm Pavilion, and walked in alone.

I turned around and closed the door.

I see the empty seat you've been in.

This is where our final farewell in this life is.

Ever since you walked out through this door, I've kept everything in the room as it is. Even the teacup you've drunk is always in its original place.

I know that doesn't keep you in this world. However, there is only so much nostalgia I can express.

I walked over to the empty seat.

You were the last person to sit in this position. Since you left, I've often locked this warm pavilion and don't use it to meet and chat with guests every day.

It became a memorial to the love of our lives.

I respectfully placed the report in my hand on the desk in front of my seat.

When the music arrived, my heart was uneasy, my muscles were tense, and my stomach was tense. However. Looking at the light on the messenger's face, my hanging heart immediately relaxed. I don't need to open the concerto, I also know, Liu Shen's dream, your dream, now. It has been achieved.

It was the last quiet time before the surging cheers and congratulatory cheers resounded through the court, and before the chaos of the founding of the dynasty began.

I just want to spend it with you.

(b)

I sat down in front of you.

I watched the sun shine through the window lattice. A lot of dust floats up and down in the sun.

I said, "Brother, I'm here to tell you that the city has been conquered. ”

I said, "The war on both the North and the South is over. It's finally over. ”

I said, "The person in the world who should know the news the most is you." Did you hear that? Did you hear that? ”

I said, "This is how the era of peace began." But where are you? You have one word, one thing. Nor was it left to me. You're gone as if you never existed. ”

I said, "When you went out from here, you took my heart with you." You're gone, and it's gone. So, right now, I have neither a heart to be happy nor a heart. It's okay to feel sad. ”

I said, "Although at this moment, I am sitting here in flesh and blood. But, in reality, I was also completely empty, just like the empty seat opposite. ”

I said, "Brother, don't worry. I will live well and will not be the same as I used to be. Suicide. Because, the things that can die, by the time you go out, are already dead. I don't have anything left to die for now. ”

I said, "That's good news." I'll be enshrined in front of your seat all the time. ”

I said, "Now, I'm going to get out of here too." To face the wave of cheers and to take up my responsibility. ”

I said, "You know, I don't want to get out of here from the bottom of my heart. Never want to go out again. However, as you said to Junko when you went to meet in the city, it is impossible for a person to stay where he likes all the time. ”

I said, "But my heart will stay here forever." will always sit in front of you. It will stay here forever. Wouldn't go anywhere else. ”

I stood up, bowed solemnly to the ground again to where you had been, and bowed deeply.

I said, "I'll never go anywhere else." ”

(c)

"There was the last house in the village, lonely, like the last house in the world. Those who leave the village will be adrift for a long time, and many will die on the way. ”

(iv)

On the 48th day after the end of the decisive battle of the city, a new dynasty was finally established.

Liu Shen was officially crowned emperor at a grand enthronement ceremony, becoming the only monarch in that vast land of East Asia. Subsequently, he canonized the Inner Palace, honored his biological mother Wang Taishu as the queen mother, and posthumously named his father the queen of the old Han Dynasty and his own mother-in-law, as the queen mother of the new dynasty, and maintained the tomb regulations of the queen mother in his mausoleum, and I naturally became the mother of a country in this country, known as Empress Zhengde in history. The concubines from the Rongxian and Tubo clans were canonized as the noble concubines of the eastern and western palaces. For the first time, I ascended to the Wuying Hall where you once calmly stated, where I received the worship and congratulations of the ministers and hundreds of officials, and wore the golden crown of the queen given by Liu Shen.

At the ceremony of Liu Shen's coronation and enthronement, when the civil and military ministers of Chaohe rushed in, they found something they hadn't expected.

On the left side of Liu Shen's throne, only three steps below Liu Shen's throne, an empty seat was placed.

Liu Shen never explained whose seat it was, and no one had ever sat in that seat. But everyone knows that it is the seat that Liu Shen has set up for you.

Liu Shen set that seat in front of his eyes to remind him at all times, because some people's seats are forever empty, so he can sit in this seat. 、

From the time he ascended the throne to the time of his death, he did not remove that seat for a single day.

Later, when my son, grandson, and great-grandson ascended the throne as emperor, this seat was also retained.

Later, after Liu Shen's dynasty ended, the new usurper replaced the seat with a statue. This statue stood on the main hall of the new dynasty for more than a hundred years.

A person can still live after death. The length of a person's life does not depend on how long his body can function normally, but on how broad his care for other lives is.

After the fall of Liu Shen's dynasty, the new ruler continued to build his capital in Yunjing and continued to use and expand the palace used by Liu Shen.

The statue on the main hall gradually became a temple protector symbolizing the stability of imperial power.

Later, the temple protector was brought to the door of the mausoleum by the dead rulers and became the guardian of the world after their death.

To this day, the remaining statue can still be seen in front of the emperor's tomb of that period.

However, in the increasingly confusing and obscure legends, the origin of the statue is no longer known.

Countless speculations have been deduced, but no one knows what its original true source was.

No one knows anymore that the original source of it was you.

It's your statue.

Its face is the face you had when you were alive.

(5)

The long summer grass and trees are deep, and the samurai leave dream marks. (To be continued.) )