Chapter 33: The coffin leaves the city
The suburbs of Chang'an City are deep and blue. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe grass is green and the trees are lush. In the distance, you can vaguely see the villages of Tianchou, which can remind people of the busy farming and weaving of farmers, and contain a thriving atmosphere.
The troubled Guanzhong Plain has been plagued by military disasters and wars or natural and man-made disasters over the years, but it has always stubbornly supported it again and again.
The weather was sunny, but the atmosphere was sad and sad.
Therefore, the coffin of Dr. Guanglu and the founding prince Su Sui will be buried in his hometown martial arts, and today it will come out from the west gate of Chang'an City.
The gates of the city were wide open, but there was no complicated guard of honor, and the plain chariots and white horses were extremely simple. Ordinary people are just like this, so it is too simple for Su Sui.
But it was such a small coffin pulled by a carriage, passing through Chang'an Market, but it attracted thousands of empty alleys in Chang'an City.
Following behind the coffin were the Great Wei officials who could not see the edge at a glance, and the leader was the great prime minister Yu Wentai. From Yuwentai onwards, all the courtiers were cooked linen filial piety robes.
The momentum is so earth-shattering, Su Xuan's grief can be imagined.
The officials were all sent off on foot, and it was the prime minister Yu Wentai who led them. From Su Xuan's hometown, he followed the ox cart carrying the coffin to the west gate of the city, and then followed the ox cart out of the city.
This distance is not short, but no one dares to complain about being tired. Especially when he saw the prime minister crying while walking, the officials who were a little thoughtful followed suit to wipe their tears. It doesn't matter what kind of friendship it has with Su Xuan.
Yu Wentai had already cried to the point where he needed someone to help him walk. But he always chased the ox cart and couldn't bear to stay away. Of course, no one dared to really get past him to get ahead.
Seeing the prime minister crying bitterly, some officials were also moved, feeling that the prime minister treats people very kindly, and the prime minister's heart of cherishing talents can be learned from the sun and the moon.
No one remembered where the emperor of Great Wei was.
Of course, Emperor Yuanqin could not send Su Xuan's coffin out of the city on foot with the hundred officials.
In the queue of hundreds of officials, the great Sima Duguxin, who followed the flow of people, and the Taiwei Li Hu, the two great generals of the Zhu State, were side by side. They did not follow the prime minister Yuwentai like Taibao Zhao Gui and Taishi Yu Jin.
didn't grasp the balance like another general of the Pillar Kingdom, Sikong Li Bi, and kept an appropriate distance behind Yuwentai.
They were clearly a little deliberately falling behind. The flow of people almost overwhelmed these two top eunuchs of Great Wei. Only when Duhu Xin occasionally looked up would his majestic posture appear above everyone.
"General Wen Bin, these days when you don't go out and excuse yourself to recuperate, has no one come to visit?" Dugu Xin deliberately lowered his head, lowered his voice and asked Li Hu next to him.
Li Hu didn't raise his head at all, completely hiding himself in the crowd of hundreds of officials who joined forces and cried loudly.
"If you wish, the general will not go out without anything, will someone come to the door to ask Da Sima what is annoying in his heart?" Li Hu didn't answer, and asked Dugu Xin instead.
"Exactly." Dugu Xin did not shy away from it, and sighed, "The temptation is just to take advantage of it." How can such rashness be accomplished? It is inevitable that we will have to comply. ”
Li Hu turned his head a little and saw another general of the Pillar State who had fallen farther behind, Guangling Wang Yuanxin. Yuan Xinzheng described sadness, and then raised his sleeves to hide his face, as if he was wiping away tears, and the situation was really like mourning.
"Just sit back and wait, there will always be a chance in the future." Li Hu didn't know if he was talking about it to Dugu Xin or to himself. He is a typical example of "the coming days are long", the person who can calm down and settle his heart.
Dugu Xin didn't speak, and still walked forward.
"Something big is going to happen today." Li Hu sighed unconsciously.
Dugu Xin glanced at Li Hu in disbelief. Li Hu is a very cautious person. His caution is different from Yu Jin's caution, and Li Hu is more sophisticated and tactful. But what is it that makes him sigh like this?
However, what is even more abnormal is that without waiting for Dugu Xin to ask, Li Hu approached him and whispered, "Su Gong's coffin went out of the city, and the whole country shook, such a big momentum, but the Son of Heaven was not seen." Isn't he saying to the world that the Son of Great Wei is a dispensable person? Only the prime minister is the real lord of a country? ”
No matter how good the weather was, it was swept away by the earth-shattering wails that rushed into the sky, and it became dark.
The carriage pulling Su Sui's coffin stopped not far from the west gate of Chang'an City.
The carriage was decorated only with white linen cloth and nothing else. Almost all the officials of the Great Wei were present, but only the emperor Yuan Qin was nowhere to be found. When they saw Prime Minister Yu Wentai walking to the front of the car, holding the coffin and stopping crying, the officials also stopped crying quite wisely, and they all looked at Prime Minister Yu Wentai.
The cry just now shook the sky and turned into the silence of now.
Yu Wentai looked a little weak because he had been crying for too long. He held Su Xuan's coffin, as if he was supporting it, but also as if he couldn't bear to separate. He glanced at the countless Great Wei officials in front of him, and the gaze in his eyes seemed to be probing deeply, but it was not sharp and sharp.
"Today, Su Gong's coffin went out of the city and returned to his hometown, and the ministers came to see him off," he paused, and then added, "I'm afraid not everyone is willing." ”
This really said the mentality of some people, so they hid in the crowd and didn't dare to look at Yuwentai.
Yu Wentai said, "Not everyone is close to Su Gong, and if you don't know Su Gong, I don't want to blame." Su Gongsheng is parallel to things, even if he is as close as a wife and a son, it is not as good as me to know Su Gong's heart. ”
It turned out that he wanted to make a name for Su Xuan, and the hundred officials relaxed a little. But there are also a few people who are very sensitive and find this unusual.
"Su Gong dislikes flashiness the most, and his actions are in line with the times. Some people say that Su Gong practiced Confucian etiquette to fool the common people, and practiced the reality of a lawyer who was proficient in art. This is exactly the person who doesn't understand Su Gong. Yu Wentai was finally able to slowly stand up straight on his own, and he left Su Xuan's coffin.
The "someone" he said has already attracted someone's attention.
Dugu Xin and Li Hu glanced at each other. Yet none of them spoke, and they all understood that they could not attract attention at this time.
"Duke Su was an honest and simple servant, so that after his death, the family had no money to spare. Although it is light on property, it is the only important thing for the country. Over the past few years, Su Gong has worked hard for the community, and often has good strategies, which have benefited me a lot. If there is no Duke Su, where will Guanzhong become more and more abundant, the common people will abide by the etiquette and system, and the Great Wei will be strong? Yu Wentai pointed to Guanzhong Fertile Field in the distance.
Then he suddenly raised his voice, "Su Gong is a great talent, and his way is the way to open the prosperous world." Educate the people like parents to protect their children, strict teachers to improve good materials, and do their best. If everyone is like Su Gong, sooner or later Dongkou will be destroyed, and the world will be unified. My courtiers, let everyone take Su Gong as a mirror to correct themselves. ”
Yu Wentai said that he was already in high spirits and full of sorrow. At this time, I don't know who cried first when he saw the opportunity. The hundred officials and everyone scrambled to whimper softly, and at the same time looked at the attitude of the prime minister.
Yu Wentai ignored the crowd and turned around to bow down to Su Xuan's coffin.
"Su Gong walked slowly in the spirit of the sky, and the black otter came to see Gong off and then hit the road. Mr. Bao Guo, the people, the security of the community, taught me like a mentor and a friend. I lost Mr. like a broken arm, and Mr. Wei lost like the heaven and earth collapsed. The day is not a holiday, and it is a disaster that befell the Great Wei with Mr. If the gentleman really has a spirit, he should instruct Dawei to eliminate his immorality and cultivate his virtue with self-cultivation...... Mr. walked slowly...... "Yuwentai is already crying bitterly after worshipping.
Baiguan also hurriedly knelt down and cried to worship Su Sui's coffin. Everyone was crying and thinking about what the prime minister had just said.
Listening to the meaning of the prime minister, Su Sui has made great contributions to the society, and everyone should learn from Su Sui. Su Sui suddenly fell seriously ill and died, which was the punishment of God for the loss of virtue of Great Wei.
Those who are more sensitive think, "The Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven, and if Heaven is punished, he should be in his son." And when I didn't see it with my own eyes and thought about the middle court of the Liangyi Palace, the Son of Heaven angrily scolded Su Sui, and Su Sui vomited blood and fainted. It didn't take long for Su Xuan to die.
These things are all connected, and all of them are related, and the more I think about them, the more mysterious they become.
The end of the team stopped crying.
It is the closest to the west gate of Chang'an City. Stopped crying because they heard the abnormality, and when they looked up in surprise and turned to look again, they had already seen the Son of Heaven driving out of the city.
The Son of Heaven actually came by car.
This surprise is contagious. Slowly, the entire team of Great Wei officials stopped crying and looked sideways.
The driving uniform of the Son of Heaven was as usual, and he drove slowly past with a cold sharp aura hidden in it.
Finally, when the coffin was approached, the car stopped. The tall and gorgeous carriage was lifted by the eunuchs, and a black-clothed man was slowly helped down from the carriage, which was the young Wei Emperor Yuanqin.
He got out of the carriage and walked towards the carriage decorated with white cloth.
The dark robe of the Son of Heaven was particularly conspicuous among the hundred officials kneeling on the ground in a white field. His crown is also magnificently noble. These are incompatible with the simplicity and clumsiness of the scene.
Ah Xiu followed behind the emperor, his heart was beating very fast, and he looked at Yu Wentai, the prime minister who had just gotten up from the ground next to the coffin, as if he was a thief. What Ah Xiu didn't notice was that Zhao Gui, the commander of the palace guards and Taibao Zhao Gui, who was not far from here at the front of the hundred officials, was staring at him and studying carefully.
"King Anding made such a big noise to send Su Xuan's coffin out of the city and back to his hometown for burial, why didn't he tell Lone Sheng'er?" Yuan Qin was a little smug and called out the name of the prince he had newly given to Yuwentai.
"The minister didn't tell His Majesty because he was afraid that His Majesty would not be happy. Didn't Your Majesty dislike Su Xuan? Yuwentai knelt down and saluted as usual, with a humble and respectful attitude. In this way, he can really say that he has no resentment at all, but seems to be thinking about the emperor wholeheartedly.
"Is King Anding afraid that his lonely heart will not be happy, or is he afraid that Su Sui's spirit in the sky will not be happy?" Yuan Qin's words were said to Yu Wentai, but his eyes were glancing at Su Sui's coffin.
"Whether Your Majesty agrees with it or not, Su Sui has made a great contribution to Sheji. His Majesty is a descendant of the Yuan Emperor and the lord of the Great Wei Society, so he can't help but be courteous to Su Sui. "Yu Wentai is not as knowledgeable as Yuan Qin, which seems quite reasonable and fair.
"Lone is not as narrow as the prime minister thinks. I went out of the city today to see Su Sui's coffin on the road with peace of mind, but I didn't expect the prime minister to say goodbye to him and cry for him. Is that because Su Sui has made great contributions to the society, or is it because Su Sui has made great contributions to the prime minister? Yuan Qin's face was radiant, and Yu Wentai was too sad and haggard.
"If Your Majesty is truly the Lord of Tolerance, there is no need to study this verse in detail. The minister is also a minister of the Great Wei, even if Su Suizhen introduces the minister as a confidant and does his best for the minister, it is all for the lord and the Great Wei Sheji. "Yuwentai is just as right, and there is no shame." After all, Su Sui was sick because of his worries about the accumulation of social work, and he died of illness under His Majesty's anger, and His Majesty came to send Su Sui, believing that Su Sui could also go on the road with peace of mind. ”
Yuan Qin was silent.
Ashuti looked at the emperor with fear.
Baiguan was a little far away, and he didn't hear what the emperor and the prime minister were saying, but they were guessing completely based on the facial expressions of the two people. But neither of the two people has too many expressions, which makes it difficult to figure out.
Only Zhao Gui, Yu Jin and others in the vicinity looked at it clearly.
Those who are a little farther away, such as Li Hu, are all old by their own shrewdness.
Only Guangling Wang Yuanxin paid special attention and tried to look.
Yuan Qin suddenly laughed, smiling lightly, as if he didn't take what Yuwentai said just now seriously. "How does King Anding want Gu to be courteous to Su Sui? Isn't the mourning that should be given to the king of stability already given to him for Gu? Lone has come here in person, how can I send him? Do you want to say goodbye like the prime minister? ”
looked at it with a pleasant smile and asked, but it was wrong.
Yuwentai didn't seem to see all the dissatisfaction that Yuan Qinqiang pressed in his heart. only said, "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, just give a salute." Not in its courtesy, but in its heart. When the hundred officials saw His Majesty seeing off Su Sui like this, they must have been moved by His Majesty's love for his courtiers, and he would definitely do his best for His Majesty's society. ”
Yuan Qin's face was pale and uncertain, and it was extremely ugly.
In fact, his pretended kung fu was very shallow, who could he hide?
Finally, Yuan Qin made a long gesture at Su Sui's coffin, but he looked extremely arrogant.
All eyes were on Yuwentai.
Yuwentai smiled at Yuan Qin, "The Lord is courteous, and Duke Su must know everything." ”
After the memorial, Su Sui's coffin went on the road.
The officials were already exhausted from crying repeatedly. At the end of the ceremony, he was allowed to leave.
Not long after, the countryside was crowded with people just now, but now it has disappeared.
Only Yuwentai kept watching the Son of Heaven's car disappear, thinking that he had entered the city and left, so he relaxed.
"My lord, the eunuch beside the emperor is very abnormal today." Zhao Gui also spoke and let go. "He hasn't done anything to be ashamed of the lord, why is he trembling when he looks at the lord?"
Yu Wentai didn't answer him, but sighed, "Today's emperor is no longer the little boy who was with Yu Jiulu's fists and feet in the Zhaoyang Palace. ”
The next day suddenly calmed down.
Empress Yuwen Lianai originally heard that the emperor suddenly went out of the palace to deliver Su Sui's coffin that day, and she was worried at that time. But there was nothing to do at all, and I heard that the emperor sent him off with a gift, and he had a very happy conversation with the prime minister at that time, and he was really happy in his heart and couldn't help but chant Buddha.
She was influenced by her mother-in-law and was also a devout disciple of Buddhism.
The Yanjia Hall became the most eye-catching place in the palace, and on the surface it seemed to concentrate all the attention of the emperor. Yuan Qin came to Yanjia Hall almost every day, even if it was just to sit and talk to Mercy.
Somehow, Lianai felt that her husband was particularly reluctant to give up on her these days, as if every little time they spent together was extremely precious. This moved pity in my heart, and there was an indescribable faint sadness. And the cause of this sorrow is not clear.
The palace maid Xiangzhi saw that the queen sometimes cried alone, and she was also puzzled. But when I saw the emperor coming, I felt that the emperor and queen were sitting in pairs, and sometimes although they didn't have anything to say, they just looked at each other and smiled, which also had a moving feeling.
I don't know why, every time Xiang Zhi sees such a scene, she also feels a faint sadness in her heart. But she would never dare to show it.
In the blink of an eye, summer came, and the queen's abdomen gradually bulged. People also seem to be in a much better mood, and they are no longer as inexplicably sad as they were a few days ago. The emperor still often came to Yanjia Palace, often touching the fetus still in the womb, as if he was particularly attached to this fetus, and couldn't wait to meet this child.
On this day, when Yuan Qin entered the palace, he didn't know what he was thinking, and he didn't know it.
Yuan Qin only saw her weeping under the window.
His heart was also tugged up. His state of mind was inexplicably complicated.
At this time, the linen cloth covering the window was replaced with a thin, almost translucent, changing the darkness and dullness of autumn and winter.
When Yuan Qin walked to the edge of the big bed and sat down, Mercy wiped her tears and looked up in panic.
Seeing Yuan Qin's eyes looking at her deeply.
"Why are you crying?" Yuan Qin's tone was very soft, and he took her hand and held it in his palm.
His hands were warm and strong.
"I miss my mother-in-law." The tears of mercy are still there, and his voice is a little hoarse.
Yuan Qin seemed to see the end in the near future. He might have to try to soothe her more.
He didn't speak, just held her hand.
Loving to look at her husband.
Yuan Qin finally raised his head and smiled at her, "My aunt and eldest princess can't be resurrected, but you can ask your father-in-law to come to the palace to visit." My father-in-law may not be here for a long time. (To be continued.) )