(a)

When the emperor heard me mention Liu Shen in a sad tone, he couldn't help but say in fear: "It's all the son's inappropriate words, which caused the queen mother to be sad." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIf the queen mother likes to reduce the province, the son will never be disrespectful. It's just that now all the fruits and vegetables left on this list are ordinary fruits and vegetables, I'm afraid it's too vegetarian. ”

He said: "If my mother thinks that the menu of the former is too extravagant, can she reduce the number of dishes and keep the ingredients richer?" After all, this is our royal birthday banquet, and it is somewhat different from ordinary people's homes to comply with the regulations. ”

I said, "Your Majesty, it's not me who is my mother, but I want to rely on the old and sell the old to embarrass Your Majesty." I really couldn't bear to look at this menu. ”

I said, "Everyone in the world, afraid of death, and wanting to live should all be the same." Even birds and animals. ”

I said, "As children, you want your mother to live a long and healthy life." The children of these birds and beasts also have the same wish. How can we let so many young people lose their mother's care and love in order to celebrate their mother's health and longevity. Although the types of things are different, their parent-child hearts are not different. ”

I said, "The emperor is the emperor of the world, not only the emperor of the people, but also the master of all kinds of beings in the world. Your Majesty's thought is to decide how many living beings will be happy, how many lives will survive or die, how can you not think carefully and make a decision before acting? ”

I said, "Your mother has experienced too much in this life, life and death, and she has endured enough of this pain. Now, I myself am old, and I will soon have to say goodbye to you in life and death, and I really feel that there are too many life and death partings in this world. Mother, I really don't want to, and because of myself, it will grow a little more. ”

I looked at the emperor. I said, "Your Majesty, can you relate to such a feeling?" ”

I said, "The auspiciousness of the name of the dish, the consummation of the quantity, is not the real auspiciousness and consummation. Let all life live without fear is the real auspiciousness. That is the real auspiciousness of the country. ”

"Heaven has the virtue of a good life. As the Son of Heaven, he should do the right thing for Heaven and benefit the common people with the benevolence of nurturing all things in God. Your Majesty, do you understand? ”

I said, "May Your Majesty push yourself and others, with the heart of filial piety to your parents, with compassion for all life, with the heart of loving your children, with the heart of all life, with the heart of all beings, with the heart of a king, with the heart of heaven and earth, and with the heart of a king." If Your Majesty is able to practice great filial piety in this way, then Mother thinks that there is no more grand, more auspicious, and more precious birthday gift than this. ”

I said, "Your Majesty, would you like to give your mother such a supreme treasure?" ”

When the emperor heard this, he nodded again and again, knelt down and said, "Of course I do." The queen mother's compassionate wish should be obeyed by the merciful order and do their best to do it for the queen mother! ”

He said, "The son has remembered the teachings of the queen mother." The son will cherish the people in the world, and will not abuse them for no reason. The son also lives on behalf of the world, thanking his mother for her rescue. ”

(b)

In the end, the birthday celebration was held according to my heart.

It's grand, but it's also austere.

Together with the emperor, I hosted a banquet for 100 people my age in the palace, and I felt very pleased to see these old people with red faces and smiling faces gathered together to enjoy the prosperity and prosperity of the Taiping New Dynasty and celebrate their birthdays together in light but exquisite dishes. During the banquet, he smiled many times and smiled very happily.

Isn't it just that when we were young, we struggled and sacrificed like that, just to have such a day?

Unfortunately, when the day actually comes, you will be gone.

I'm the only one left.

(c)

In the middle of the staggering, I suddenly felt that there was a person in the front row of the banquet on the side, a little familiar, and when my eyes swept over, I didn't feel that my heart moved, as if I remembered something, but I couldn't remember what it was.

I turned my head to the side and asked the emperor, "Who is this old man, have I seen it?" ”

The emperor said that the queen mother should not have seen it, this person is the son of the late old minister Xia Wenhou.

It dawned on me, ah, it was him! It turned out that he was the same boy who came to propose to me with Wenhou Shibo, and he was the young man who looked me up and down in his aunt's room, couldn't take his eyes off, and found various reasons to say more words to me. I didn't think he was so old now.

He came to Cui's house with Wenhou Shibo to propose marriage back then, and how many things were caused. If he hadn't come at that time, you wouldn't have rushed home from the barracks and shown your love to me, and Jingyun wouldn't have been stimulated, and the dog jumped over the wall to possess me and destroy my chastity. If Jingyun hadn't raped me, he wouldn't have been kicked out of the house. If he hadn't been kicked out of his house, he wouldn't have defected to the enemy. If the Beji people had not driven straight into Zhuang Town and slaughtered Zhuang Town, then our hometown would now exist well in this world, and many dead people would still be alive and reproduction safely.

The face of this world may be a completely different picture.

With these things in mind, I couldn't help but look at this old minister with fixed eyes.

He gradually noticed my gaze, and found that I had been staring at him, and a chill suddenly rose up his spine, and his expression became uncomfortable, and he raised the wine glass in his hand, and did not dare to drink again.

He remembered Meng Lang's behavior towards the Empress Dowager when he was young, for fear that I would be concerned about the past and dissatisfied with his previous behavior.

I looked at his face for a moment red and white for a while, and then I called him a knight and told him to get up and come to the front.

He was shocked, got up from his seat tremblingly, and trembled to the foot of the steps where the emperor and I were seated, and fell to the ground prostrately, not daring to raise his head.

I smiled and said, "Wenhou, don't be so nervous. Speaking of which, we're old acquaintances. ”

After he heard this, he was even more frightened, and lay on the ground and said repeatedly: "The queen mother forgives the sin, the old minister is guilty, and the old minister deserves death!" ”

The emperor looked at us bewildered.

The emperor asked strangely, "Queen Mother, have you seen Xia Wenhou's son?" ”

The emperor asked him again, "What is your sin?" Why do you say that the Queen Mother forgives sins? ”

Xia Wenhou's son looked at the emperor, stammering, embarrassed, and didn't know how to answer in such a large public. He looked at me pleadingly.

I smiled and said to the emperor: "Xia Shibo is an old friend of the late general's father, Xia Shibo took his brother to visit his father in the Cui family, and the brother also came to give gifts to the aunt of the Cui family on behalf of Mrs. Wenhou. I didn't expect that after so many years, I would still be able to see my brother and Xia Shibo's descendants. ”

I said to the emperor: "Mother is very happy to see the descendants of the Xia family in such good spirits and good health. ”

The emperor said with relief: "Since it is a world friend of the queen mother's family when she was young, it is a happy event to meet again during the banquet today." I will reward the descendants of the Xia family and add joy to the queen mother. ”

The emperor said, "Give Xia Wenhou a reward." Give a jade plate, two wrenches, a hairpin, and two silk cloths. ”

The left and right attendants hurriedly sent the emperor's reward, and the current Xia Wenhou received the reward with great gratitude, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Since I am willing to relieve him, I guess I will not care about the past.

The emperor said, "But, Marquis Xia Wen, why did you just say that you are guilty? ”

After a buffer after this time, Xia Wenhou also found a proper excuse. He replied: "The old minister knew that he was the old man of the Queen Mother, but he was afraid that others would say that I took the opportunity to cling to the royal family, so he did not dare to report to the internal envoy and the Ministry of Rites in advance, which was not in line with the etiquette system, and he did not take the initiative to toast the Queen Mother during the banquet, so he felt guilty." ”

The emperor smiled and said: "In this way, it's rare that you don't want to take the opportunity to cling, for this high backbone, I will give you a double reward." ”

Xia Wenhou was overjoyed, and immediately bowed again and again and thanked him again.

I said, "Brother Shi, I haven't seen you for many years, but today I see you again at the banquet, the old body represents the royal family, represents the Cui family, and respects the late Shibo and the long-lived Shige with a glass of bar." ”

I said, "Old friends are the most precious." You can also go to pay more respects to Uncle Shi and Aunt on my behalf, and if you have anything to do in the future, you can bring the children to the palace to walk around a little more, and talk to me about the situation over the years, so that I can also meet Brother Shi's wife. ”

Xia Wenhou nodded again and again.

So, I raised my glass to him.

I drank all the wine from my glass.

This glass of mixed wine!

That day, after the feast was dispersed, Xia Wenhou returned home, and secretly worried for several days, I was afraid that there would be any turmoil behind, however, everything was calm.

The past is like smoke, everything can't be changed, how can I still care.

I just want to make a distant tribute to the youth that has disappeared and will never return, and that's it.

There was really no need for him to be so frightened.

(iv)

My 60th birthday was celebrated in a solemn and austere atmosphere.

It was the only big birthday I've ever celebrated in my life. Since then, I have continued to spend my birthday every year in the mourning hall where my mother and ancestors were honored, as was customary when I was younger. Just to avoid worrying my children and grandchildren, I stopped fasting all day and switched to a vegetarian diet every day.

I often think of what Xie Shuangcheng told me before his death, that you insisted on fasting on my birthday on the eve of the Battle of Drew Lake. What you have always done with me, how can I indulge myself and not persevere to the end because I am old.

I'm going to stick with it.

Although I never thought of setting a rule for others, since then, all the birthday celebrations in the palace, from the emperor to the concubines, to the kings and grandsons, have followed this rule, and there has been no transgression.

At least, as long as I was alive, it had always been.

I think that if I can still get a human life in the next life, and I can still meet you, it will definitely have a close relationship with this celebration.

A person is not only concerned about his own happiness, but can benefit the common people, he is worthy of being a man.

I think so.

I also know that you don't think so.

I know, you're not. (To be continued.) )