Chapter 312: One Life, Three Lives (I)
Liu took the sword from King Zhao's hand, and everything was self-evident and unbelievable. He looked deeply at King Zhao and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, King Shu said that this is the sword of King Song Huai......"
King Zhao smiled gently, and said lightly: "Small, I have used three names in my life. One is what you know now, King Zhao Dugu. The other is what you heard from other people's mouths, Liu Ying, the king of Song Huai. There is another one that few people in the world know about...... It's a pseudonym of the rivers and lakes that I used when I was young, called Liu Yin.
The people who knew my pseudonym back then included your mother, as well as the King of Shu Wuxie, the head of the Medicine King Shanxue, and the patriotic knight who forged this sword for me, Meng Lin. However, the King of Shu doesn't know, I am the current King of Zhao, Meng Lin doesn't know, I used to be Liu Ying, the king of Song Huai, and Xue Jiuming didn't know, after he cured the strange poison for me, I was able to live so long that my sons had already established themselves as the king of a country. ”
Liu clenched the sword of King Huai, although he saw King Zhao's gentle smile, he couldn't help but choke up.
King Zhao suddenly lowered his eyes, sighed lightly, and continued: "Twenty-three years ago, in the Great Battle of Chen and Song, I didn't have time to say goodbye to your mother before I set out on the expedition. I only left her a letter, which was written about the contract between life and death, and said to Zicheng that he would return to the garden and meet Zhao Guo. It's a pity that she will never know that I am already in Zhao State...... I have been waiting for her for more than 20 years.
The Song people don't believe in ghosts and gods, but I hope that whether your mother is a spirit in the sky or a stellar in the earth, you can see your father and have no negative consequences for her in this life.
The year before last, I privately sent someone to send me a letter, thanking me for putting his sister, Liu Shu, the princess of the Song Kingdom, on the beauty list. He said that everyone in the world thought that the princess of Song was a golden branch and jade leaf who stayed at home, but he didn't know that he took his sister out of the palace to play when he was ten years old, and as a result, he was separated from his sister, and since then the princess of Song has been missing for thirteen years. He was reluctant to declare that the princess of Song was gone, firstly, for fear of damaging her reputation, and secondly, he blamed himself and was unwilling to face it.
He said that I could do him a favor and put his sister on the beauty list, as if his sister who had disappeared was still alive, which was also a comfort to him. He never thought that after many years, his sister was really alive, and she was alive and well, even better than him. As the king of Song, he didn't want to admit the theory of ghosts and gods, but he said in his letter that this beauty list was like a page torn from the book of life and death of the king of Hades.
I did not reply to my letter. However, I shared the same idea with him. I also hope that this beauty list is a page torn from the book of life and death of Hades. I hope your mother is still alive too. I hope that when she learns that she is on the list, she will come to thank King Zhao in person, just like you at the age of sixteen, who came to reason with me in person...... I also hope that she will come and argue with me why she is not promoted to the top of the beauty list......
When you were sixteen years old, you stood before me, separated from me by a veil of gold, and I did not recognize you. Young, although your father has sat as the monarch of the two countries, although it seems that he has lived three lives, I also have self-blame, guilt, and difficult things to face.
That year, I was afraid that when I lifted the golden veil of the veil, I would see a face very similar to your mother.
Until then, I have not informed your stepfather, nor have I taken you from him. Because your mother was by her side when she died. I think that your stepfather took you out of the White Jade Palace to raise you, and it must be your mother's last wish.
Your mother told me a long time ago that she did not want our children to grow up in the court, and that they did not want our children to become like me, sinister and cunning, full of scheming. I couldn't say goodbye to the old King Zhao and entrusted me with my life, so I had to stay in Pingliang. I think that instead of letting you grow up in the Zhao Palace with me and learn some tricks of power and scheming, it is better to follow your mother's wish and go with your stepfather to travel around the world and enjoy the mountains and rivers.
See you today...... You are not only strategic, martial arts, but also righteous and glorious. I knew your mother had made the right choice. If you had grown up with me, I would probably not have taught you better than your stepfather.
Little, since you were born, I have not fulfilled the slightest responsibility as a father. If you don't want to recognize me, that's right. You will treat King Zhao as if he was beaten by the Rong people, and he is talking nonsense......"
King Zhao turned his head sideways, no longer looked at King Qi who was standing in front of him without saying a word, and when he had mixed feelings in his heart, he only heard Liu call: "Father." ”
King Zhao paused, turned his back to Liu, and washed his face with the water that was no longer warm in the bathtub.
Liu took a step forward, probed the temperature of the water with his hand, and said, "The water is cold, I'll go get a handkerchief and clothes for my father." With that, he turned around and took clean clothes from the bench, handed the handkerchief to King Zhao, and still held the clothes for King Zhao in his hand.
When King Zhao was dressing, Liu saw that there were new injuries on his shoulders, back and legs that had not yet healed, and he choked up and said, "Let Xiao Wei rub some medicine on the wounds on his father's body." After wiping the medicine, then grate your father's hair? ”
King Zhao choked in his throat, patted Liu's shoulder, and said with a smile: "My hair is already half white, so there is no need to pound it." This small wound on my body is not a ten-millionth of the pain I suffered when I was poisoned. Looking at the blood stains on Liu Zhan's robe again, "King Zhao washed it fragrantly, but it made King Qi stink, what kind of system can this become?" Small, do you want to eat first, or do you want to bathe first? ”
Liu raised his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and replied with a smile: "I will also wash off the blood first, and then have a comfortable meal with my father." ”
King Zhao nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go get hot water for you." ”
Liu Dao: "I'll pour out this bucket of cold water." ”
The father and son did not call the waiter, but took matters into their own hands, exchanging hot water for cold water, and after a while, Liu had already taken off his robe and soaked in the hot water of the large bathtub.
Liu closed his eyes and rested, King Zhao had already taken the handkerchief and his own clean robe to the golden gauze curtain, put them on the bench, and brought a pot of hot tea, father and son, one cup each. Liu Jingxin drank tea, King Zhao drank the hot tea, put down the teacup in his hand, walked behind Liu, untied his bun, and took out the wooden comb that Shicai asked the waiter for when he got clothes for him, and picked up a black hair for Liu Grate.
Liu kept his eyes closed, for fear that he would not be able to suppress his tears, and when the heavens and men were at war in his chest, he only heard King Zhao ask: "Your father-in-law is he...... Have you ever grated your hair before? ”
Liu still closed his eyes, frowned slightly, and nodded slightly.
King Zhao sighed: "Fortunately, it is snowing heavily, and the Rong people should not come again tonight, otherwise, I'm afraid I won't even have time to do something as simple as giving you a grate of hair." Small, your hair is fine, like your mother's, jet black and soft. She and I also grated each other. ”
King Zhao chuckled a few times and continued, "That's probably the one thing King Song Huai likes to do the most, and it's no wonder that people in the world laugh at him for being incompetent.
I always feel that King Song Huai's life has passed through a gap in white horses, and now King Zhao seems to be an immortal monster. Probably because when people do what they like, their lives are short, and when they do things they don't like, their lives are long...... It's a long time, and it's all torment. ”