The tombstone in front of the grave is very simple, with a hastily inserted sign, crooked melons and cracked dates, with a line of words carved by a knife, which is also written in one stroke.

Chief of the Imperial Chamberlain: Li Zhong.

Wu Liyin looked at the pines and cypresses in the mountains, the default mass grave in this palace, and never thought that the pillow person she was honest with was related to the eunuchs who everyone scolded in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

"Your Excellency?" Li Chen didn't answer immediately, looked at her and smiled.

Wu Liyin's face was slightly red: "Husband...... Husband. ”

"And, my father?" Li Chen raised his eyebrows.

"Father...... Father. Wu Liyin's head was almost down to her chest.

"That's right. Although you and I have not been married for a long time, I Li Chenru swears that I will definitely be good to you. Li Chen's eyebrows loosened and he took Wu Liyin's little hand, "So I'll take you to see our father." Not many people know about my origins. But husband and wife must want you to know. ”

"Husband." Wu Liyin raised her eyes excitedly, and her eyes were filled with tears.

"Yes, as you know, my father is none other than the eunuch Li Zhong, or also Li Zhong." Li Chen smiled bitterly, "I am his godson, and I picked it up to inherit the incense...... Let the lady smile. ”

Wu Liyin shook her head desperately, the last trace of diaphragm in her heart should be dissipated, and she just grabbed Li Chen's hand: "No, it's the concubine who is ignorant." How can the words of the history books be believed? There must be merit for a father to be able to raise a character like his husband. ”

Li Chen touched his nose: "Ah, he's not a great person." will force me to study, beat the ruler to a thief, will let me sit on his shoulder, take me to see the lights of the fifteenth, come back from duty in the palace every day, will bring me some rewards, and when I am scolded as a little eunuch, I will bring my little eunuch to the door, and I will set up a field if I don't fight. ”

After a pause, Li Chen stroked the line of words carved by himself on the tombstone, and his eyebrows rose with a melancholy tenderness: "He is just an ordinary father." ”

It was the first time Wu Liyin heard someone comment on Li Zhong like this.

The chief of the inner chamberlain who served Emperor Xiao Yi of Zhou Ai, once because he wanted to make a batch of new clothes after Xiao Ji, he led his troops to surround the city of Xiuniang, and set a ten-day deadline, the blade was in the neck, and the fresh blood pressure city was just to force the embroidery girl to weave the only splendid in the world as the emperor wished.

Eunuchs. He was scolded as a thief by the whole world, and in the seventh to ninth years of the Apocalypse, he could get anything that the king wanted, and if it was something of the world, he would kill people, and if it was between gods and demons, he would kill gods.

Mercy, the common life, exhortation, iniquity, nothing was reflected in his eyes, except for the pale and gentle king with a smile.

If it is said that the fox Shangshu Chen Su is a planner, then Li Zhong, the chief of the inner chamberlain, is the tiger, in just two years, let the East Wednesday hundred years of the country come to an end, and also laid the foundation of the Zhao family's royal industry called the people's heart.

"There are records in the history books, and the people know that my father has indeed been confused." Wu Liyin recalled that magnificent history, and still felt unreal.

Li Chen nodded, shook his head again, he remembered a conversation with Li Chen when he was a child, maybe it was only now that he understood the unspeakable, and unswerving.

……

"Father, the family next door scolded me for being a little eunuch, and scolded you, saying that you were in cahoots with the faint king." The little boy adopted by the Li Mansion wiped his tears, his face was black and red, and he had obviously already fought.

"It's just a few words every time, it's boring." Li Zhong, the head of the imperial chamberlain, squatted down and pulled the sleeves of Sanpin's official robe to wipe the boy's face.

The boy touched his brain: "Why did my father do this?" ”

Li Zhong smiled faintly: "Because I want to make Your Majesty happy." ”

"I read Mencius today, and the master said that the king should be the first of the people. Did my father kill so many people in order to make the king happy? The boy was confused.

The chief waiter, who used to be a Xiucai, bent his eyebrows and eyes, and a little boy's forehead: "You read well!" There is a reward for dinner, and our family will make you a stewed elbow with our own hands! ”

The boy immediately jumped up with joy, but when he thought of something, he pretended to have a straight face, and blamed: "If my father doesn't answer this question today, I won't eat any good elbow." ”

"Okay, okay, I'll get back to you." Li Zhong touched the boy's little brain, "Pain, because it's too painful, Your Majesty wants to go to hell." Our family is a eunuch, and I have no other skills, so I can only accompany him. ”

The boy bluffed, and his face changed: "Father is going to hell?" ”

Li Zhong shrugged, as if making a homely joke: "If our family is a slave, we must follow our master." However, Riling, there are some things left for you, and you should do them. ”

After a pause, Li Zhong looked at the starving bones outside the Zhu Gate, the broken and obscure rivers and mountains, and smiled untruthfully: "Riling, study hard, get a good ranking in the imperial examination, and become an official." Please, tomorrow. Our family and Your Majesty will not follow. ”

"Okay." The boy thought that Li Zhong was talking about the heavenly spring and nodded.

……

So when tomorrow really came, the boy understood that sentence, and the chief chamberlain and His Majesty, really, did not follow.

So he responded to the system, won the thirteenth place in the country, and was assigned to serve in the East Palace, and he returned the promise of the year.

……

"The day before the April Palace Change, Zhao Yin led the Right Prime Minister to break into the palace and behead his father to show the public, and the whole world was cheering for the eunuch and the thief." Li Chen let out a breath of turbidity, "But I heard that at the last moment, my father changed his name and changed his loyalty to Zhong." ”

"Bell?" Wu Liyin was stunned.

Li Chen picked up a stone and went to grind the word on the tombstone: "Yes, it's the bell." It is only today that I understand the meaning of this word, and the words that my father finally tried to convey to His Majesty. ”

Just, I want to make you happy. Hell, too, will accompany you.

Wu Liyin was silent. She seemed to understand something, but just like this careful word, she couldn't even see the daylight.

"I'm Li Chen, the word is Riling, is it a little awkward? But my father said it. Li Chen smoothed the tombstone and began to engrave the bell letter, "He said, I hope that I, the tomorrow we create, the sunshine can sprinkle on every mountain of the 800-mile river." ”

Beneath the green hills, the eternal night of hell does not distinguish the years, and sins and redemptions are forgotten.

On the green hills, spring has come, and it is the light, which will reflect everything.

"I, Li Chen, came from a humble background, had a straight temperament, and was old-fashioned, and I would not greet him. Now he is only a seventh-rank official, and he is still disgusted by the East Palace. Li Chen carved the new tombstone, got up, and looked at Wu Liyin, "This marriage of catching ducks on the shelves, I ask you now, do you regret it?" ”

Wu Liyin wiped the corners of her eyes and smiled: "What can a concubine regret?" ”

Li Chen shook his head: "I mean, even if I am degraded and exiled, I will continue to be an official and be a good official." Our children, I will also let him study hard and be a member of the imperial examination. Do you accept such a fate? ”

Wu Liyin stretched out her hand, and for the first time, she really felt that this crumbling and stupid little official, she wanted to follow him, just like Li Zhong once followed the first emperor and went with him everywhere.

"If you are degraded, the concubine can embroider to subsidize the family, and if you are exiled, the concubine will take the package and go with you. The officialdom is sinister, ups and downs, you end your day in the palace on duty, you will see the concubine light at the door, reflecting the way home, as soon as you push the door open, there is a hot meal, and then you are waiting for you to eat together. If you want our children to follow the office, rest assured, you can't go down the ring ruler, and the concubine will help you fight. ”

Li Chen smiled, laughing so much that tears came down, tomorrow will come as scheduled, and the light will eventually pass through the cold land, and spring will arrive.