The Imperial History rang the next bell. Hundreds of officials rushed out, the red copper door slammed shut, and the major affairs of the family and the country were separated by a door.

Zhao Xixing of the East Palace, but leaned on the side of the white marble and stopped Zhao Xiche, who was about to leave the palace: "Huaiyang!" ”

"Elder brother!" Zhao Xiche looked back, grinned, and ran up the steps in a flutter, "What did the eldest brother call me?" ”

Zhao Xixing looked at the snow foam on the young man's boots, frowned slightly, slowly bent down, dusted off the foam for him, and said softly.

"The dignified prince, what kind of system has it become."

Zhao Xiche scratched his head and grinned: "I'm not a prince, and I haven't seen me!" Thank you, brother, you won't get your shoes and socks wet now! ”

Zhao Xixing straightened up, pulled the young man to the eaves, and asked him while avoiding the snow: "Just above the court, why did you persuade your father to tour the south?" You don't seem to care about politics, why are you so active today? ”

Zhao Xiche clapped his hands and smiled even more: "Of course you play!" Gangnam, what a great place. My father only toured the south in the first year of his reign, and never went again. I still remember how delicious the lotus root noodles were......"

"Ridiculous!" Zhao Xixing interrupted abruptly and scowled slightly, "There is no way in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the people's livelihood is difficult, and then after the April Palace Change, the people's hearts are uneasy, and Kyushu has long been riddled with holes. ”

Zhao Xiche was bluffed. I don't understand, but I don't dare to talk more.

Zhao Xixing said with a straight face: "It is easy to open the country, it is difficult to defend the country, and the way of heaven has its own profits and losses." At the beginning of the reign of the world, my father proposed 'recuperation' and not disturbing the people's livelihood as the first of all policies. It's been three years now, and you've done nothing, do you remember? ”

"Remember...... Remember? Zhao Xiche dodged his gaze, "When did my father say this?" I remember my father saying that the shredded meat was salty at noon today......"

"You're a prince anyway, you always have to smell things outside the window." Zhao Xixing blamed slightly, "Going south to the south of the Yangtze River costs a lot of money, disturbs people's livelihood, and goes against the original intention." So in the past two years, my father has not toured the south again. Although your father loves you, you can't distinguish between right and wrong, and you can't tell you nonsense. ”

Zhao Xiche lowered his head, like a child who made a mistake, and said sullenly: "I know, if I don't go, I won't go." I have to go to the eastern suburbs to worship my ancestors. ”

"It's nature. During the Chinese New Year, we also have to go to see our ancestors, and it is also to deter the rebels on the Lanling side. Before Zhao Xi finished speaking, he was angry with the boy and sighed again.

"Eastern suburbs, hawthorn is delicious, frozen and soaked." Zhao Xiche's eyes lit up.

"That's it. Remember to remember the etiquette in advance, and don't make jokes on the day of ancestor worship. And also...... Hawthorn eat less, flatulence. Zhao Xixing gave up the rhetoric of the righteousness of the family and the country.

"Good! Huaiyang wrote it down! Zhao Xiche lengthened his tone and responded playfully, probably not listening.

It's a joke when the sky falls, and I don't know if he's a newborn child or a thousand-year-old demon.

Zhao Xixing's fingertips clenched slightly in the robe, and said tentatively: "Huaiyang, are you ...... Stealing my keys? ”

Unexpectedly, the young man did not hesitate, nodded as if beating a drum: "Yes!" ”

"You are a prince, stealing things from the East Palace. Although from the understanding of you and my brother, I know that you are probably playful. But ......" Zhao Xixing's eyes narrowed slightly, "If it spreads, the deep meaning in it will make a big fuss." ”

Zhao Xiche seemed to be taken aback, secretly pulled the corner of Zhao Xixing's clothes, and said timidly: "Eldest brother, I was wrong, am I wrong?" I didn't mean anything else, I just slipped away to the auspicious shop! ”

"Jixiangpu? Who to meet? Zhao Xixing was like a cat whose tail had been scratched, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat.

"Wei!" Zhao Xiche still didn't hide it, and smiled so much that he showed a circle of big white teeth.

Zhao Xixing was stunned for a moment, blinking: "He? How could it be...... He? ”

"How can't it be him! That's him! It's going to be him! Zhao Xiche smiled instantly, and his face flushed like a little fighting.

"That's it. In the future, this kind of thing will not be allowed again. Remember, in this imperial palace, there are first monarchs and ministers, and then brothers. After Zhao Xixing left a sentence, he brushed his sleeves away.

Zhao Xiche was left alone in the same place, standing on the white marble platform, the twilight was heavy and closed, and his figure was annihilated in the darkness.

And at this time, Zhao Yin went back to the study, leaning on the jade case, beads of sweat rolling on his pale face, which was completely different from the son of heaven who said his word in the Jinluan Palace.

The palace people were all dismissed, and even the successors who came to greet him were invited back. Zhao Yin was left alone in the huge golden gate.

With a slightly stiff back, white lips, and sweaty head, he is no different from an elder who is over half a hundred years old.

He was holding a ropa in his hand, and the red blood on it was shocking.

"Your Majesty, I can't hold it down." A pair of hands took away the blood handkerchief, and said worriedly, "In the past, the grass people prescribed medicine and pressed it, but it treated the symptoms but not the root cause, and over the years, even the medicine did not work." ”

"Is it that serious, haven't you been good in the past few years?" Zhao Yin looked at the man who spoke, "Sun Lu, Sun Langzhong." ”

Sun Lu shook his head and sighed: "Luo's case, five years, a whole five years, you have to take a mandala every night to fall asleep." Although the amount is not much, it has accumulated over time, and hidden dangers have long been buried in the heart. ”

After a pause, Sun Lu skillfully threw Luo Pa into the fire, and the flames rolled up and turned into ashes in an instant.

"Your Majesty, in the years after the end of the Luo's case, the grass people used medicine to help you recuperate, but the things that were broken in the inside, Hua Tuo couldn't cure them when he was alive, but he just pressed it and let it break out as late as possible. But now, it can't be suppressed. ”

Zhao Yin held his chest, panting weakly, but his face was quite calm, with only a trace of regret.

"I have to pay for the sins I have created. Everything has a price, even if you are the Son of Heaven, you can't escape. ”

Sun Lu looked at Zhao Yin deeply, his eyes flickered slightly: "In those five years, everyone in the world said that it was the most beautiful day for the right minister, from being unknown to being powerful in the world, and walking to the highest point in Kyushu...... However, the truth is that those five years are the most painful days for you, and you have to take a mandala every night to fall asleep. ”

Zhao Yin smiled self-deprecatingly: "...... The Master said, "Don't be soft-hearted, he will be glad to see me, and he will step on blood and bones in exchange for supreme power...... The master said, "Erlang and I are his proudest students......"

After a pause, he covered his eyes, he couldn't see his expression clearly, and his incomparably noble bright yellow shirt was extremely lonely at that moment: "In those five years, someone lost a teacher, someone lost a classmate, someone lost a sibling, and someone lost a close friend......"

"You have lost your teacher, your classmates, your siblings, and your friends at the same time."

Sun Lu took Zhao Yin's words, and his eyes were soaked.

"Yes, tears, can only flow at night when no one sees them, and when the sun rises, the sword will continue to fall...... Master, the student has spent his whole life to understand what the rules of the royal road are. Zhao Yin's forehead hurt sharply again.

It was thousands of prostrations, and his bones were shattered, and blood and tears wiped him out.

The master of the country's eunuch, sure enough, is right, he will go through a period of time that the world thinks is brilliant, but for him, it is an endless dark night.

He came over.

Then, he was left alone.