Chapter Seventy-Three: The Past (Part II)
I'm so sleepy! I really like the feeling of chatting with Zhou Gong! When I finally managed to get up from bed the next morning, I was shocked by a bright "ah" exclamation, which scared me all over my body and suddenly I felt sleepy.
Seeing that Liang rolled her eyes in horror, I hurriedly got up and asked her what was wrong. "Long Yuan, you, you didn't practice boxing last night?"
"Boxing? Nope! What do you mean by that? I said, are you talking in your sleep? Hearing Ryo's extremely strange question, I couldn't help but wonder.
Ryo didn't give a direct explanation for my doubts, but from the small pink bag she was carrying when she crossed over, she carefully took out the small mirror that she had always regarded as a treasure and handed it to me with trembling hands.
"Ahh When I was secretly feeling in my heart why I slept all night and turned into a snake spirit disease, I couldn't help but scream in horror when I saw my appearance as a god in the clear small glass mirror.
Because I had been thinking about the unsolved mysteries in my heart last night, I couldn't sleep until I was really sleepy at dawn, and then I fell into a deep sleep.
It is precisely because of this that my pair of shining dragon eyes have turned into a small black and blue smoke, no wonder Liang is so frightened that he trembles incoherently, and even I feel like a squid spirit when I look at it.
No, no, you must answer the questions in your heart today. Otherwise, tomorrow, I will change from a flying dragon in the sky to a black snake dancing wildly, in which case I will really become a snake spirit disease.
After hastily washing and cleaning up, Rang Liang asked for a morning off for Fu Rui for me, and hurried to the imperial study to find Li Fan, at this hour, he had already gone down.
When I rushed to the imperial study, I didn't see Li Fan. Odd? At this time of the day, he is in the imperial study to review the folds, but why don't you see him today? Where did you run?
I didn't see the person I wanted to see, my heart was really decadent and helpless, and I walked to the Yuhua Pavilion in the Imperial Garden dejectedly, but I heard a familiar male voice coming into my ears.
"What's wrong with that? Why do you look tired like this? Have you been worried about me for the past few days and haven't rested? ”
Hearing this, I looked up suddenly, and saw the man in front of me dressed in a white dress embroidered with auspicious cloud brocade, with wide sleeves and broad bands gently raised in the breeze, with indescribable handsomeness and ease.
This is really in response to that sentence, looking for him thousands of times in his dream, and suddenly looking back, it turned out that he was in Yuhua Pavilion!
"Li Fan, it turns out that you are here! Why are you here? Caused me to run away from the imperial study in vain. I was really surprised and happy to see Li Fan here, and hurriedly ran into the pavilion.
Seeing me striding over, Li Fan also took a step forward and joked, "What you said is really unreasonable." The entire Dali Dynasty is mine, not to mention this palace? Is it only this imperial garden in the palace, and I can't come here? ”
"Huh! Of course not, no! As the saying goes, 'the whole world is not the king's land', you can go wherever you want! Hearing Li Fan say this, I laughed embarrassedly.
While laughing, I suddenly remembered the purpose of looking for him, and was about to open my mouth to ask for an answer, but Li Fan asked me first.
"Long Yuan, you must have a question for me, right?" When I heard his gentle words, I was stunned as if I had been hit by a gold brick falling from the sky.
How did he know? Seeing my eyes of surprise and adoration, Li Fan stretched out his hand and pointed to my face and said with a smile: "Hehe! Your questions are written all on your face. Since you want to know these things so much, then I will tell you everything. ”
"I guess you know something about me!" Although Li Fan was asking me, he looked ahead, as if immersed in the memories of the past, with a faint sadness on his face.
"Ahh Yes, I overheard someone talk about it. "I nodded yes to Li Fan's question, but I didn't tell him, I forced Qing Yun to say it, it sounds like this king is a little overbearing, it's not good!
"My biological mother is my father's virtuous concubine, her name is Lan Ling, and she is the most beautiful woman in the world." At this time, Li Fan's originally somewhat dim eyes suddenly flashed with a brilliance as bright as stars, and I knew that deep memories of his mother and concubine had opened up in the depths of his memory.
"Do you know that the mother has long black hair like a waterfall, and she always likes to pull her long hair into a simple and beautiful bun, and the essence of jasmine in her hair exudes a light and fragrant smell all year round. Her skin is very fair and smooth, and her lips are only smeared with some light red lip red, and her whole face looks particularly clean and beautiful. The concubine's favorite thing to wear is the plain white long brocade dress, the clothes are embroidered with peach silk threads with plum blossoms, extending from the skirt to the waist, and the brocade robe is draped with an open gauze that is also plain. ”
Speaking of this, Li Fan paused and continued: "When I was a child, I liked to lie in my mother's arms, smell the faint fragrance of herbs on her body, and listen to her soft and soft words, that is really the most beautiful thing in the world. My father loved my mother very much, and often walked with her hand in hand under the moon, and a year after my mother entered the palace, she gave birth to me. Although my father had two sons before this, both of them died before they were one year old, so I became the eldest son of my father. My father was overjoyed by my birth, and he decreed an amnesty for him. But what his father did made the queen at that time, who is now the Empress Dowager Wende, very angry. In fact, since her mother entered the palace, she has always been dissatisfied because her mother was from a humble background but was so favored by her father. ”
"Didn't the Empress Dowager Wende have no children at that time? Didn't she enter the palace two years earlier than the concubine? Thinking of this, I asked Li Fan puzzled.
Li Fan looked at me with a strong desire for knowledge, smiled and continued: "Although the Queen Mother entered the palace two years earlier than the mother concubine, she has never given birth. For this reason, her father also begged famous doctors all over the world for her, and took a lot of decoctions but there was no improvement. At that time, it was rumored that the queen mother's system was very cold, and she was afraid that she would not be able to have children in this life, which made the queen mother very angry, but there was no way. After the mother learned of this situation, she asked her father to let her give the queen mother a try, but the father did not agree to the mother's request at first. Earlier, the mother concubine had spent a lot of energy on seeing her father and General Xuanyuan, and she had already exhausted herself from developing a prescription to control the plague. After giving birth to me, she was greatly injured and weak, but her mother was kind and insisted on treating the queen mother, and her father had no choice but to agree. ”
"I can't imagine that the Empress Dowager Wende is so narrow-minded, and the virtuous concubine is willing to help sincerely, it is really generous and benevolent!" When I heard this, I was also very touched by the kindness of this virtuous concubine.
Hearing my words, Li Fan lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Yes! The mother concubine is just too kind. After carefully examining the pulse of the Queen Mother, she determined that she was not a strange cold physique, but that the beauty and skin powder she often took at that time added an ingredient called Snow Mountain Safflower. Although this snow-capped safflower has a beautifying effect and can make people ruddy after taking it, it is not easy to get pregnant. The mother concubine told the queen mother about the pharmacology, and asked her to stop taking the beauty of the skin powder, and then personally for her to carefully condition the body and re-prepare the decoction, the queen mother took the decoction prepared for her two months later, there was good news, more than a year later, there was Li Yun. However, the mother concubine was overworked for the queen mother's body for several months, and her heart was seriously damaged, and she went after two years of lingering on the sickbed. ”
At this time, Li Fan's eyes were already moist, and he must have thought of his mother. Although the man in front of him is the king of a country, but he has so many sad things in his heart, as an emperor, he can't express his joys, sorrows, and joys, and even has no friends who really have a heart to heart with him, he can only bear all this alone and silently.
"The death of the virtuous concubine, the first emperor must be very sad, right?" Looking blankly into the distance, I also asked sadly. His beloved wife has left this world, how can he, as a husband, not be sad?
"Yes! The departure of the mother concubine made the father and the emperor feel painful, and he posthumously presented the mother concubine as the 'virtuous queen Zhuang Min', and dropped out of the dynasty for seven days in a row and almost did not enter the water, and has been staying by the mother's Zigong to accompany the mother concubine on the last journey, and only allowed the mother concubine to accompany him to bury his Jinling, and his life and death will never be separated. The rest of the concubines, including the queen, were no longer allowed to accompany him to the Jinling Tomb, and at the same time, he was destined to be buried in the Jinling Tomb after a hundred years. ”
I see! After listening to Li Fan's words, I finally understood why Xuanyuan Jin was always not close to Li Fan: first, because of Li Fan's biological mother, the virtuous concubine, and secondly, because she was the justifiable queen Li Yun but could not become the prince, she was naturally resentful.
But Xuanyuan Jin didn't want to think about it, if it weren't for Li Fanniang's help with her life, how could she have Li Yun, and I am afraid that she would not be able to be a mother in this life. People are sometimes so selfish, never thinking about how they got everything, and always resenting what they shouldn't be resentful.
Speaking of Xuanyuan Jin, I suddenly remembered Xuanyuan Fei, so I hurriedly asked Li Fan: "Li Fan, how did you learn about Si Mo and Xuanyuan Fengyun's rebellion?" Could it be that you knew Si Mo's identity before you did? And Xuanyuan Fei, why would he help you? ”
"Yes, I already knew about Simo's identity and their rebellion. Because Xuanyuan Fei always remembered his mother's life-saving grace to him, he always guarded me secretly. But Xuanyuan Jin thought that Xuanyuan Fei and her were of the same mind, so she told Xuanyuan Fei everything without defense, and Xuanyuan Fei immediately told me after knowing this, plus Yue Liang told me about you being kidnapped by Si Mo that day, I understood that they must be ready to do it. I don't need to say anything about what happened next, and the result is what you see. ”
Hearing Li Fan say this, I finally solved the mystery in my heart. It turned out that Xuanyuan Fei and Li Fan had always cooperated with each other and hid their Infernal Affairs identities very well, so everyone, including his biological sister Xuanyuan Jin, didn't know Xuanyuan Fei's true identity. Thousand! This acting skill is really comparable to that of an actor!
"Wait, let me ask you, why did Si Mo say that he wanted to save my life and threaten you with me?"
Hearing my obvious question, Li Fan, who was triumphantly sighing at his extraordinary intelligence, couldn't help but be stunned and stunned!