246, Illusion
It was the wax moon, and the snowflakes outside the window fell silently, and the trees outside the hall were soon covered with a layer of white.
The chill invaded through the window next to them, and as soon as it came into contact with the heat emitted from the stove by the kang, a thin mist of water quickly rose in the room.
The water in the kettle was still gurgling, but it didn't sound the same as before, with some sizzling sounds that were about to dry up.
The emperor was wearing a wide-sleeved robe, he rolled up his sleeves, took a handkerchief wrapped around the handle on the lid of the pot, poured out the little residual water left in it, and then added water to it, and soon the hall was quiet again.
A series of actions are done in one go, and it seems that the emperor often does these.
He took a sip of tea, rubbed his slightly cold fingertips, and said, "Where did you just go?" He raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm jealous of you, am I?" ”
He spread his hands, and the tail note fluttered gently with the snow outside,
"Although you look irritable and give people a bad feeling, but in fact, you are forbearant and wise, calm and decisive, you are Xiao Yi's descendant, how bad can you be?
At that time, I was still a teenager full of ambition and wanted to bring my father's attention back again. ”
Xiao Yue was silent, looking at the tea leaves floating in the water in front of him, listening to the emperor's words, his expression was in a trance.
The emperor leaned back slightly, and the smile on his face retracted, "If it weren't for you, I probably would have been killed by the four princes or abolished by my father one day."
Not only did you save my life, but you also single-handedly pushed me to the position of God King, and you never asked me for anything, the only thing I probably wanted was that I could help you win to marry your princess. ”
"You can sit on the throne, it's not that I pushed it up, it's because you have such talent, in addition to me, you have the support of many ministers, you do a good enough, if you don't have me, you can sit on it yourself." Xiao Yue replied calmly.
The emperor is noncommittal, maybe so, but, who knows? There are not so many ifs in life, only what has happened and what is about to happen.
He shook his head and laughed,
"Moreover, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be where I am today, and between us, we probably achieve each other. So I thought that we just needed to know each other. ”
Xiao Yue looked at him seriously and said another sentence seriously.
The emperor raised the corners of his lips high and smiled, "Just because you don't ask for anything in return, sometimes, it makes me feel unbelievable, and sometimes I can't breathe and can't turn over."
It's not that you don't know about the fights between the courtiers, and you don't know about the intrigues, but how can I make you trust you unconditionally.
I even wondered if I had accumulated virtue for several lifetimes in exchange for a brother like you, who followed me like me.
I know that there are two decrees you have received, one of which is an edict that has been passed down to you.
On the contrary, you chose a different one.
If you want to sit on the throne, you can, in fact, there are many excuses, the emperor's children who are living in exile, or children who can't grow up in the palace because of their special lives. Anyway, you were liked by the emperor like that.
You can even make up a story that you are the one who was victimized. ”
The emperor said this in one breath, his tone was very fast, and his words were very smooth, as if these words had been in his heart for a long time, and he was just looking for an opportunity to resort to his mouth.
"You know, I don't have such ambitions, in the past, I just wanted to help you sit in that position, and later, I wanted to live a smooth life with my lover and children.
I promised to read it, and when it was over, I would take her and Xu'er to Jiangnan to have a look, and then go to Saiwai to appreciate the desert yellow sand and the boundless grassland. ”
Xiao Yue's eyes flickered deeply, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
The emperor raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiao Yue funny, "Do you think you let you come today because I'm afraid of you?" So, if you make such a confession that you are in a hurry to leave everything, you will let go of everything, and you will not covet everything. ”
"You're thinking too badly of me." The emperor raised his glass, "Or rather, you think of me too simply." ”
"So I envy you and envy you, obviously my identity is better than yours, and my temperament is better than yours, but but, my wife, I want to treat her wholeheartedly, but she keeps stuffing me with women and calculating me behind my back.
I really just want a real relationship, I want a quiet backyard, and I can give me a quiet and warm home after I go back from the previous fight, it's enough.
But I didn't get it. Well, forget it if you don't.
If you don't have a wife, you don't have a wife. But I don't even have children, I have four children, three sons and one daughter, but they are not like me, and they are not close to me.
It doesn't matter, I haven't taught them much, so if you don't kiss, you won't kiss. ”
The emperor smiled mockingly, such self-comfort made Xiao Yue's heart twitch.
"Although we have blood kinship, but these are not enough, people still need to get along, even if there is no blood relationship, get along well, better than relatives.
Just like me and Xu'er.
You say, "How can you keep me from being jealous?" ”
The emperor got off the kang and got off the ground, stood up, and slowly put his hands behind his back, "Although I am the ruler of the world, I have lost more than I have gained.
Moreover, I will carry your kindness for the rest of my life, and all people will remember that you helped me, and if I were to treat you badly, some people would probably say that I was ungrateful, that I crossed the river and demolished the bridge.
If I do a little more, for example, if you accompany your wife and children to Jiangnan to see the beautiful scenery and experience the yellow sand, it would be a beautiful thing, but in the eyes of outsiders, it is I who will drive you away.
And you, because you are afraid that I will be jealous, let go of everything, or some people will say that you are high and bright, and you don't touch a leaf.
So, such an emperor, what else does it mean for me to do? ”
The emperor's words turned quickly, making Xiao Yue sit there in a daze, looking at him blankly.
Why did the emperor have such an idea?
He took Niannian to Jiangnan just because he was tired, and he always put the emperor first, and he failed Niannian, and now the emperor's side has stabilized, so he wants to make up for Niannian.
The emperor didn't seem to see Xiao Yue's stunnedness, but continued, "You have been taught in the palace since you were a child, you have a broad vision, you seem to be stingy, but in fact, you are open-minded, even if you want to do something dizzy, you also have a good virtuous helper, and she will pull you back in time."
More than 20 years ago, your father, for the sake of the country, abandoned his wife, although after finally knowing the truth, I hated him, it was he who ruined my life.
But because of you, I have to forgive him. ”
Xiao Yue pursed his lips tightly and didn't speak, what happened at the beginning was indeed what Xiao Yi did wrong.
He followed the emperor like this, it was not destined in the dark, and the father's debts were repaid.
Xiao Yi's damage to the emperor is up to him to make up for it.
The snowflakes outside the window are getting bigger and bigger, and they are blowing one after another, silently, and the world is gradually wrapped in silver.
The emperor walked to the bed on the other side with his hands behind his back, stood for a moment, turned around and walked to the edge of the bookshelf, took down a brocade box from the other, walked to the side of the kang, and put the brocade box on the kang.
"The second and third are not people who can inherit the unification, and I can't have the possibility of having children, you should understand what I mean by bringing Xu'er to my side."
A layer of trouble appeared on Xiao Yue's calm face, "Even if the second prince and the third prince can't inherit the unification, but there are still people from the clan, no matter what, it won't be Xu'er's turn, I don't agree with this." ”
Nian Nian won't agree either.
Xu Er sits in that position, then they must not be able to stay in the capital, they must stay away from the capital, how can Nian Nian stand it?
Xu Er stayed in the palace for a few more days, she couldn't think about it, how could she accept not seeing Xu Er for a long time?
What's more, his surname is Xiao, not Lin.
He just wants Xu'er to grow up happily and be a gentle and kind person in the future.
Although these are very empty, but the title, status, Xu Er was born, unless there is rebellion in the past two generations, otherwise, it is really very stable.
"No matter who it is, it can't be Xu'er, big brother, I can't agree." Xiao Yue refused.
The emperor smiled, "Sometimes you don't have ambition, it doesn't mean that others don't have ambition, this sentence was said to your father-in-law by your father Xiao Yi before he died."
Today, I will say this to you again, you have no ambition, and if everyone around you is ambitious, then it is difficult for you not to grow ambition.
Moreover, sometimes, you have no ambition in the past, but at some point in the future, you are suddenly dissatisfied with the status quo and give birth to many things.
For example, I used to want to do most to be a good prince, and then wait until one day to ascend the throne and be a good emperor.
But later, my ambition changed, and what I wanted most was to get out of this cage and go outside to walk freely, breathe fresh air, and see a different blue sky.
So, today, I will give birth to your ambitions, make you not satisfied, and let you promise Xu'er to sit in that position, Xiao Jiu ......"
When the emperor said this, he paused, laughed, rested his elbow on the table, and raised his chin, "Xiao Yue, this is what you owe me, and you have to pay it back to me." ”
"Your father gave birth to my ambition to escape, and today, you have to accept this price."
"Do you know why I called you in tonight? You've been defenseless against me, you can't have brought a lot of people in, and your guards have stayed outside the temple.
At this time, if I want to do something, you say, your princess, your father-in-law, and even, the eldest princess, do you guess they will be in a hurry?
Will they send someone to find out?
Of course, I can not let them enter the palace smoothly at this time, if they can't enter the palace smoothly, then they must be in a hurry, and they will have to scatter their hands.
When the time comes, there will be no one to protect Gu Nian from time to time? ”
Xiao Yue raised his eyes and looked at the emperor in front of him who was smiling like a flower, "I don't believe you will miss you so much." ”
The emperor's smile became bigger and bigger, and he said, "You're not nervous at all, let me tell you one more thing, remember that in Huangjue Temple, Xu'er disappeared?"
Do you remember why the eldest princess attacked the Pingyang Hou Mansion? That's because Gu Nian is gone.
Why not? Because my queen wants to send Gu Nian to my bed, so as to separate the feelings between us.
And she did, you know? What do I see?
Gu misses the slender wrist, and the hairpin with the magnolia......"
Xiao Yue's immersion was calm, and at this moment, he suddenly disappeared, and the pair of fists resting on the table were clucked by him, as if he could be angry with the emperor in the next second and knock him to the ground.
The emperor gently hooked the corners of his lips, "Are you nervous?" Angry? Didn't expect me to be such a person, did I? You still believe in me too much.
I've gone through so many things, I'm an emperor, the most ruthless emperor, why do you believe that I won't poison you? ”
Xiao Yue jumped down from the kang and stood in front of the emperor, his eyes were already red.
"You don't have to force me, no matter what, I won't agree to what you say, if you really dare to attack my wife and children, I dare to guarantee that I ......"
The emperor chuckled, "How are you?" Are you going to bury me here? ”
He took two steps out with his hands in his hands, "You say, if you can't get out tonight, and no one outside can get in, guess what's going to happen?" ”
Xiao Yue's forehead was bruised, and his whole body was surrounded by cold, and he looked at the emperor stubbornly.
The emperor said with a smile, "There is no news, one day, two days, three days, she can't stay up, she will definitely have no master, she will definitely ask for help, and when the time comes, it will be chaotic again, and I may be able to take her into the palace again, and she can do anything."
And then let you out of the palace.
You see, I'm so bad, are you going to put all your wealth with me?
What reason do you have not to let Xu'er sit in that position, and what reason do you have not to take your own safety into your own hands? ”
Xiao Yue just looked at him coldly.
I saw the emperor raise his hand lightly, and from behind the screen, from the door of the side hall, from the window, jumped into many black-clothed people.
"Look, I'm even ready, no matter how good your kung fu is, you're just alone, so many masters are here, can you fight?
Today, it may also be your death, you are dead, what I want to do is not a matter of my words. ”
Speaking of this, the emperor glanced at Xiao Yue maliciously.
Xiao Yue stared at the sword-wielding guard in front of him for a moment, and slowly looked at the emperor,
"Even if I die today, I won't say yes, and I'm sure you won't do that to me.
At the beginning, my father once asked me, why do I follow you so desperately, and I am not afraid that one day your butcher's knife will be raised to me?
I don't remember how I answered at the time, but in general, life is a big gamble.
If I win, then I win, I lose, and there is nothing to say, everything is my own choice.
And, I believe in my eyes, I believe in my heart, and I believe in you even more. ”
After speaking, he closed his eyes and said softly, "Come on." ”
The silent hall is about to suffocate, and the snowflakes outside are still falling silently, and the snow is already very thick.
A sound of wind, with a sharp voice, rushed towards Xiao Yue, Xiao Yue did not open his eyes, and his body was motionless.
The whistling wind passed through Xiao Yue's ears, and then disappeared, he only felt that there was something cold on his neck, he opened his eyes, and saw the emperor holding a long sword in his hand, and a bronze scabbard was against his neck.
Xiao Yue looked at him, raised his eyebrows, and faced the crisis of the scabbard against his throat, he did not panic at all, but there was a faint smile in his eyes.
I saw the emperor throw away the long sword in his hand, pick up the brocade box on the table that was taken down from the bookshelf and smash it to Xiao Yue.
Xiao Yue raised his hand to take the brocade box, the lid of the brocade box was not locked, and in the process of throwing and picking it up, the box was scattered, and a roll of yellow silk fell out.
Xiao Yue held a yellow silk in one hand and a brocade box in the other.
Even if he couldn't see the front of the yellow silk, Xiao Yue still recognized it at a glance that this was the Holy Decree.
There was only the sound of the scabbard falling to the ground in the main hall, and the audience looked around.
Xiao Yue turned his gaze to the roll of yellow silk for a while, "What do you mean?" ”
The emperor put his hands on his chest, stood opposite Xiao Yue, and raised his chin, "I want to know what it means, why don't you see for yourself?" ”
Xiao Yue stared at him for a moment, rolling up the yellow silk, "If it is the will of canonizing Xu'er, then I can't take it, let alone read it." ”
The emperor raised his lips and looked at him, "You are not afraid of death, but you are still afraid of seeing a will?" ”
Xiao Yue pursed his lips, put down the brocade box, and then opened the bright yellow scroll.
At first glance, the whole person has changed color!
The emperor smiled and said, "Your father can give up everything in order to leave this thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the east, if it weren't for him, maybe in the battle of the Northern Barbarians, the country would be broken, and there would be no prosperity today."
I, Emperor Yongkang of the East, Lin Yi, today the face of heaven and earth, announce to the world, from now on Zen is located in your Xiao Yue, I hope you will treat the common people well, create a prosperous world, and raise the prestige of our country. ”
"This ......"
In Xiao Yue's life, there has never been such confusion right now.
That's right, the holy decree in front of me is clearly the holy decree of the Taoist Zen position, and the words are the emperor's handwriting, stamped with a jade seal.
The emperor in front of him is no longer as weird as he was just now, but a faction of Enron, just smiling at him like that, just like every time before.
Since the emperor said that he wanted Xu'er to ascend the throne, why did he pass the throne to him?
Moreover, the meaning just now is clearly to persecute him, or even kill him.
The emperor kicked the long sword at his feet, making a crisp ding,
"I really hadn't figured out what to do before this morning." He sat on the edge of the kang, leaned on the small table, and said,
"I can't kill you, don't say anything, the people in the world will definitely hate me to death, even I will hate myself to death.
Besides, I like Xu'er so much, how can I make him a fatherless child?
Besides, the person sent by Empress Jiang that time was not Gu Nian, but the medical girl pearl of the Tai Hospital, otherwise, how could she be named the imperial concubine for no reason?
However, you can't agree with Xu'er's ascension, and I'm very tired and tired, and I want to leave, I don't have many years to live in my life.
I want to find my own happiness, then, I have no one else to entrust but to you.
You're not a person who covets this position, but things have come to this point, and I want to think about it, and this is the only way.
Although, I hated it a little just now, but it was also to force you to say yes.
I want to live a happy life, but I can only throw this mess at you. ”
Xiao Yue suddenly sensed something, and his emotions gradually became excited, "So, you are doing such a mysterious mystery today just to force me to comply?" ”
The emperor walked up to Xiao Yue and looked at him worriedly, "Xiao Jiu, don't blame me. ”
"After this poisoning, I don't want to live in the palace, I just want to go out and see, if I am still in the palace, then I will really die early, I don't believe you ask Zhang Chunzi.
He said, my poison can't be completely cured, it can only be recuperated, but if I am still in this position, how can I recuperate?
If it can't be good, then I can only wait for death.
You say, would you like to see me die early? ”
Xiao Yue waited for the rogue emperor in front of him, and finally adjusted his emotions.
"I've known you since you were so young, and you know me, don't you know what kind of people we are for each other?"
The emperor put his arm around Xiao Yue's shoulder, "Just as you always refused to believe that I was such an inconsistent person, I always believed that you would take this position for me, right?"
It is true that some people in this world will change, but the reason why they will change is because they have no control over their own destiny.
You can decide what kind of person you want to become, and I know you don't have the slightest idea about the country and the throne.
But I also believe that you are absolutely capable of carrying this country.
I'm doing this to get you to agree to take my place.
Anyway, I don't care, it's not you, it's your son, you choose. ”
Speaking of this, he smiled, gave Xiao Yue a big hug, and then said,
"I know I'm being a bit selfish and I'm afraid it's going to make you lose face, but please forgive me.
Because I didn't force you to be like this, you would certainly not be in this position, and you would not have agreed to my request. ”
"Okay Xiaojiu, you just promise me, please. You want me to be happy, don't you? ”
The emperor clasped his hands together and looked at Xiao Yue with his eyes, with such a look, Xiao Yue seemed to see Xu'er's performance in front of Gu Nian.
He looked at every word, every sentence of the decree, and he didn't know what to say.
He didn't expect the emperor to be such a scoundrel, or such a well-intentioned.
But to be honest, let him fully accept all this in front of him, for a while, it is really difficult for him to do it.
"In that case, what about these guards?" He stared at the masked men pouring in around him.
The corners of the emperor's mouth were very scoundrels and very unflattened, which made Xiao Yue look at a very itchy smile, and his eyes sparkled with a glance at the group of people who were obviously impatient, and said, "Guess." ”
I saw that a few of them couldn't help but take off the face towels on their faces, they were all familiar faces, and finally his gaze fell on Gu Shi'an's face.
"How are you?" Xiao Yue looked at them, if he was confused at this time, then he was not Xiao Yue.
No matter how sincere the emperor was, Xiao Yue was not happy on his face.
"Good people let you do it alone." He looked at the emperor quietly.
The emperor's face was a little unnatural, and an embarrassed smile appeared on the face of the scoundrel just now, followed by sorrow.
Xiao Yue saw his sorrow, and his heart softened inexplicably.
He picked up the long sword on the ground and split the yellow silk in two, "I don't want this position." ”
The emperor thought about a water bladder that had been punctured, and suddenly deflated, showing some fatigue on his face, "I know that you are a ruthless guy." ”
"However, I can help you watch it for ten years, just ten years, you can go out of the palace, you can go to see what you want to see, and seek the happiness you say, but, after ten years, you must come back, and then, you pass it on to Xu'er, whatever you pass it on, it's up to you." ()
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