Leaving Suhua Palace, Shu'er hid in the night and came to the Splendid Garden where Lin Long lived alone.

Mother, do you remember Shu'er?

The two ginkgo trees in the Splendid Garden are much thicker and more lush. Shu'er climbed along the uneven palace wall to a ginkgo tree in the garden and watched from afar.

Lin Long's bedroom has an open window, and the candles in the window are bright. Just like more than ten years ago, Lin Long would always sit by the window after dinner for 100~10,000 \ small! Speaking and writing, quiet and serene.

Tonight, Lin Long is still sitting by the window writing, and Aunt Adie is still standing next to her, grinding for her.

Shu'er jumped down the ginkgo tree gently, and the branches trembled slightly, making a rustling sound. Lin Long was still writing and didn't look up.

Ah Die looked out the window and saw that it was pitch black in the night. Ah Die smiled and said: "Princess, the cat in this Song Palace is getting better and better at flying eaves and walking on walls." Lin Long put down the pen, folded the written words into a letter, handed it to Ah Die, and said, "Deliver the letter tomorrow." Adie sighed and said, "Yes." Lin Long got up, picked up the lamp and went out of the house to see the vegetable seedlings in her vegetable garden.

Shu'er hid behind the ginkgo tree, watching her mother's busyness from a distance, in an orderly manner. She feels that compared with her brother's mother, her mother has not changed much. Maybe it's because the night is dark, maybe it's because the candlelight is dim, or maybe it's because Shu'er can't see it really when she stands far away. Lin Long's figure is still petite, there are not too many wrinkles on his face, and he can't tell if he has gray hair.

Shu'er leaned on the ginkgo tree, and at some point, her eyes were full of tears. Mother, I'm sorry, you have raised me for seven years, but I still haven't been able to repay your kindness. I should have been most relieved to see that you were well. But when I see that you are all well, why do I shed tears?

In the shadow of the tree, Shu'er's heart struggled.

Mother, at this time tonight, I should tell you, am I still alive? Tell you, I'm still alive, I just can't be with you? Tell you, I'm still alive, but I haven't come back to see you for more than ten years? Tell you, I'm still alive, but I'm at ease in the rivers and lakes, but are you painting the ground in the deep palace as a prison?

Just like at this moment, I see you who are busy and flawless, you who have no traces of time, and you who are not depressed because of my departure...... Do you know? In fact, over the years, I have been hoping that you are as well as you are now, but seeing that you are better than I imagined, I am a little inexplicably sad. Isn't it, after all, that I am your adopted daughter, not my own, so my disappearance is like a cat jumping into your garden for you, you never looked up at it, and let it come and go freely and fend for itself?

Shu'er kept wiping her tears, but the tears were like springs, and there was a sound on the ground. Mother, can you hear my tears? She crouched and crouched, burying her head in a light blue men's suit, tears soaking the fabric so that she would not hit the ground or make any sound.

Mother, whether you still remember me or not, whether you care about me or not, I will come back to visit you after all. Although I know that you are not my biological mother, you will always be my mother in my heart.

After Lin Long inspected the vegetable garden, he picked up the lamp to look at the flower garden on the side. After looking at the flower garden and a small medicine field, she finally walked into the house lightly and picked up a book. Ah Die brought a pot of tea, and Ah Xing also walked in and sat on the side embroidering. The medical woman Lin Long brought from the Chu Palace also limped over from the backyard, carrying a medicine basket in her hand, sitting next to Ah Xing, and sorting out the herbs in the basket.

Shu'er looked at this familiar scene stupidly, as if she had returned to more than ten years ago. At that time, her mother, Aunt Adie, Aunt Axing and her mother-in-law were her closest people. They have three meals a day, and they have a great time. Her mother knows how to cook, she can also write poems and songs, and always tell her stories and sing songs before going to bed, until she falls asleep, and can still be heard vaguely in her dreams. She likes to ask Aunt Adie about the food of Chu Kingdom, and Aunt Adie always portrays an extremely ordinary dish as mouth-watering. She was crawling and running outside, tearing her clothes, and it was Aunt A-Xing who smiled and sewed for her. She fell and broke her skin, and her mother-in-law gave her medicine carefully and carefully, for fear that she would leave a scar on her body. The most carefree years of her life were all spent with them in this splendid garden.

Shu'er was about to get up and walk towards them, but the evening breeze blew through the undried tears on her face, and she sobered up a little.

A few words that she had never wanted to recall but had never forgotten suddenly flashed: "This little girl was born unknown." On the day she was born, the news of the death of the former king on the battlefield reached the palace, and Xiao Meiren also died in childbirth...... The stupid princess of Chu also brought the little girl back to the Splendid Garden to raise her like a daughter......"

The dark clouds covered the moon, and Shu'er's heart was suddenly cold. The words she overheard when she was a child have been echoing in her ears: "This little girl was born unknown...... This little girl, born unknown......"

Shu'er couldn't help but just step into the candlelight, and she stepped back into the shadow of the tree. When I was born, my parents died, I arrived at the Shengwang Mansion, Xiaoying changed from the prince of the palace overnight to an incognito, wandering foreign land, I returned to the jade capital, before I met my brother, I disturbed his wedding banquet...... Do I want to recognize you at this time, then hug my head and cry, invite the palace guards who have ears on the wall, and then put another charge on the mother who is already grounded here for harboring Chen Guo's assassins?

Mother, forgive me for not saying goodbye, forgive me for saying goodbye again. When I see you well, my wish has been granted. In fact, since you can send the message out, the Song Palace can't trap you. Maybe you are painting the ground here as a prison, there is your unspeakable secret, I, the prodigal son of the world, should not come back to disturb each other. Now that you have already left once, it is better to be traced from now on than to worry about you.

Shu'er didn't delay any longer, jumped on the ginkgo tree ruthlessly, and left the Splendid Garden over the wall.

That night, how could she know what kind of gains and losses, a love and hate, a smoke in Kyushu, and the ups and downs of the countries would eventually result from this step away and a thought difference.

In the Yongtai Temple, there are no red candles. Liu Jing instructed that this is the place where he reviews and reads the chapters and is diligent in government affairs, and there is no need to put up lights and waste extravagance.

At this time, Liu Jing changed out of his fancy clothes and wore a loose white robe that he was used to wearing, and worked diligently.

But there is only one sentence on the recital, and he has come and gone back to watch it more than a dozen times without knowing it.

Sometimes he thinks about her who answers like a stream when he offers advice in the Zhao Palace, sometimes he thinks about returning to live under the peach tree, she dances to the sound of the piano and the sword flowers circulate, and sometimes he thinks about her who puts the sword of King Huai on his shoulder...... The warmth of her slender hands was still hot in his palms, and the fragrance of the tips of her clothes and hair lingered in front of him......

Rausch's recital! He sighed, got up and walked to the lyre beside him, reaching for the jade box in a small drawer.

The jade box is exquisite, the color is warm, it is made of the best Qi white jade, and a peach blossom is engraved on it.

Liu Jing opened the jade box, took out one of the dozens of crystal pearls in it at random, and carefully examined it under the lamp, which was engraved with the score used by folk musicians of the Zhou Dynasty to record the lyre music a hundred years ago. Although anyone who knows the art of the piano can see that it is engraved with a musical score, few people can understand the musical scores of the folk musicians of the Zhou Dynasty nowadays. The lyre was not an instrument in the court ceremonial music of the Zhou Dynasty. If you want to chat about "The Ups and Downs of the Nations" with more like-minded people, follow "Hot Network or rd444" on WeChat to chat about your favorite books with more book friends