No matter how much I didn't want to see it, that day still came, and as soon as Shi Tong and I fell asleep, the butler came to report that someone had come to the palace. I glanced at him, silently got up and dressed him in his official uniform, I didn't know what he was thinking, but I didn't dare to look him in the eyes, I put on my formal suit, I thought about taking out a string of beads from the jewelry box, put it in a small box and pinched it in my hand, and went to the front hall with him.

In the front hall, a eunuch sat leisurely drinking sencha, and the butler stood on the side with a tray hanging down, and I waved my hand, and the butler retreated and closed the door. The eunuch covered his mouth and smiled: "The martial family has such big rules, and Mrs. Wu is really a great tutor." ”

"My father-in-law praised it falsely, I don't know why my father-in-law came to visit late at night?" Shi Tong clenched his fists and laughed.

"Alas, the miscellaneous family is just sending a letter to General Wu for the old master." The eunuch stood up, straightened his clothes, took out a fire paint seal from his sleeve pocket, and handed it to Shi Tong with one hand. I glanced at the eunuch, who looked very young, eighteen or nineteen years old, and seemed to be on an errand for the first time. Shi Tong read the letter on the side, and I smiled and walked up to the eunuch.

"How many days has my father-in-law been by the old master's side?"

"The miscellaneous family is not serving the old master, the miscellaneous family is serving Concubine Yang." A villain's appearance.

I nodded and smiled again, Concubine Yang, that real Yang, how many years, a person who is not in my heart at all suddenly jumped out, is it really my retribution? I took out the jewelry box and handed it to him with both hands, "My father-in-law is tired of traveling, please smile and buy a cup of tea." ”

"Alas! Mrs. Wu is really ...... Haha, the miscellaneous family is welcome, the miscellaneous family went out of the palace to do business, all they knew was to help the old master pass a word, I don't know how much grace I thought it was. By the way, this Concubine Yang asked the miscellaneous family to bring it to General Wu, saying that she would be happy. He took out another jade bottle and gently placed it on the table.

I took a deep breath and smiled, "Father-in-law is tired!" Why don't you go to the guest room for a night and talk tomorrow morning? ”

"Mrs. Wu is polite, and the miscellaneous family will give Mrs. a face." He opened the box and glanced at it, nodded, and thought for a while: "Madam, there are some black-armored elite horsemen escorting miscellaneous families outside the door, please Madame bring them some food." ”

I couldn't speak, so I clapped my hands and asked the housekeeper to take the eunuch to rest, and asked the housekeeper to get up and boil the pot and cook. After I had all the arrangements in place, I looked back at Shi Tong.

He sat there after reading the letter, and I stood across from him, and I didn't reach for the letter, I didn't want to read it, I waited quietly for him to talk to me.

"What do you know?" He didn't look at me, he reached out and put the letter in his hand into the lamp and watched the paper turn to ashes, and at the moment of burning, I saw the words on it, because there were only eight big characters on it, 'Teacher and friend, life and death together'. The handwriting is very familiar, and this is written by Shi Tong himself.

"Let's go see my mother and the children!" I tried to keep my composure, but I couldn't help but choke up when I spoke.

"Forget it, let's go to the garden together!" He took my hand and sat down on the small pavilion on the rockery of the garden, which was the highest point in the courtyard, and from here you could also see the scene outside the courtyard, the front and back doors of the courtyard were brightly lit, and a temporary shed was erected, and a steady stream of wine and food was sent out from the house. It seems that there are quite a few people coming, I sighed, is this the reality? Surrounded by the government like this, for fear that we would run away, in fact, can we really run? The old one, the little one, ran away with him, and the whole family was finished, maybe only Liniang and Qiang'er could keep it, right?

"What do you think?"

"How do you want to change history!"

"The way of heaven cannot be violated, didn't you and Daoist Yuan already know about this day? In fact, you have suffered more than me in the past few years. He smiled, looking unexpectedly relaxed. I wanted to cry, but I couldn't, and in the end I wanted to leave him with a smile.

"My father had a long talk with me before he died, and he said that you are 'wise and close to demons', let me listen to you more and don't ask why. In fact, over the years, I have never asked you about it, including the almost Zen conversation between you and Yuan Tiangang that day; Also, you asked me if I was afraid of death, and you thought about letting me escape; You quietly exchanged the income of your hometown into gold and handed it to your second brother, so that he could help you buy that piece of sloping land, help you build that small house, and also help you buy a few acres of thin fields under the slope, enclose it into a manor, and hand it over to Xiang's sister-in-law's son to take care of. Isn't it just for this day that you've done? You have never reassured Yuan Qing and Yuan Shuang, are you planning for the days after me? ”

"I love you, do you believe it?"

"Of course, this can't be pretended, but sometimes you feel distressed, you know everything, but you don't dare to tell me anything, and you bear everything yourself." He smiled bitterly, I looked into his eyes, I laughed, I couldn't cry, but I really wanted to cry, when he was saying that I was miserable, why wasn't he? I'm obviously a very smart person, but I think I can hide it from him?

"I didn't want to come back with you, I knew you were only nine years old, and I didn't want to be a widow, so I said, I know it's wrong, why move forward? But Mrs. Jun woke me up, I have at least nine years to go with you, and we can live a very happy nine years. I smiled bitterly, and suddenly felt that our topic was too heavy, "Do you believe that you can be emperor in the future?" ”

"I'm dying, and you're still teasing me?" He gave me a blank look.

"I didn't lie to you!" I showed a rare seriousness, and he froze, looking at me.

"You, my father, and my grandfather will all be posthumously crowned emperors, and I am also the queen!" I sneered, "I have many more years to live, and I will die in the palace and enjoy the glory and wealth of the world." ”

"What will the Yang family do?" He looked at me for a moment, and I shook my head.

"It's not her, it's not Liniang, it's your favorite Mei Niang. She will be the queen of the Tang Dynasty in the future, she will have many children, her children will also be emperors, and in the end, she will become emperors. The Great Zhou Imperial Power was established, and you and I were posthumously crowned as emperors and empresses at that time! ”

His eyes widened, and he couldn't say anything for a long time: "But, but, Mei Niang is a woman!" ”

"Do you remember the first time Li Shimin came to our house to give Mei Niang a name? I was scared and fainted after he gave the name, I didn't believe it that day, the lovely frost in my arms was the only female emperor in history, from that day on, I wanted to leave the martial family, you know me, I'm afraid of things, I long for a life of small wealth and peace, what I can do is to try to arrange the future for your family when you are alive, and send the second brother away not because of you, but because of Mei Niang, I am afraid that in the future, the martial arts will be wiped out. ”

"The samurai will be wiped out?"

"Li Tang is in the world, Mei Niang gave birth to Li Tang's child, she will not live forever, and it is impossible for the children to be willing to be filial sons and grandsons of the martial family. Besides, if you look at Yuan Qing and Yuan Shuang, may the children they gave birth to become big things? I'm just afraid that it's just a group of losers who have no ambitions and no ability. I really want to let the second brother leave, first, I don't want the children and grandchildren of the second brother to be affected by the martial family, and secondly, I am also afraid, after more than ten years, the martial arts family will be like cooking oil in that environment, and the good children are afraid that they will be taught badly, and leaving is a kind of preservation. I sighed and looked back at him, "Actually, thinking about myself is really unfounded, these are actually things behind us, but I think so much, what you said is not wrong, I have been more bitter than you all these years, because I am always in a panic, I don't know when this day will come, why it will come, I have thought about letting you escape, our family will live in hiding, what kind of empress, but I also know that it is impossible, this is the way of heaven!" ”

"What did you ask Yuan Daochang for that day?"

"Please don't interfere in history, please don't be an enemy of Mei Niang."

"Isn't there anything you want to ask me?"

"Why does the Yang family have to kill you?"

"Hate! Hate me for sending her into the palace, hate me for taking the children away. ”

"Liniang, are they your children?"

"No, when I sent her into the palace, she asked me why I didn't kill Li Yuan together." He sighed, I can imagine the tragedy of that day, if Li Yuan also died together at that time, she could be a righteous Mrs. Wu and live a normal life from now on, and the agreement between Shi Tong and Li Shimin should be to send the Yang family in, and he can go home. No one really thought about what she wanted for that woman, so it was her belated revenge.

"She's not afraid that without you, I'll abuse the children?"

"The Black Armor Elite Cavalry is His Majesty's personal soldier." He smiled and shook his head, "Back then, I was able to negotiate conditions with Li Shimin, why can't she now?" Li Yuan is going to die, he wants me to be buried with him, and he wants him to take care of those two daughters, Li Shimin will not even give him Li Yuan's last wish, that piece of paper was written to him when I and Li Yuan Taiyuan raised troops, I didn't expect that now he would use this piece of paper to ask for my life, maybe this is also Li Yuan's revenge for me betraying him, right? ”

"I'm sorry, I ......" I raised my head, suppressed the tears that were about to burst out of my eyes, I was wrapped in a warm embrace, the tears finally did not hold back, this will be the last night I have this warmth.

We stopped talking so quietly to each other, when the day was about to dawn, there was the sound of horses in the distance, it seemed that someone was coming again, but we did not let go of each other, the door was opened, and there was a mournful roar, "The old master is gone!" ”

We shook slightly, he smiled, took out the jade bottle from his sleeve and drank it all, I bit my lip and turned around to hug him, he sat down, and pulled me to sit beside him, pointing to the east. The sun is rising, I let him lean on my shoulder to watch the sunrise together, gradually my shoulders are getting heavier and heavier, I just took his hand and sat there quietly, until someone found us, the eunuch rushed to the front, as if he was really afraid that we would run away, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Shi Tong, reached out to try Shi Tong's snort, wiped the black blood from the corner of Shi Tong's mouth with a white handkerchief and carefully put it into his arms, and said loudly: "Master Wu heard that the old master was killed, and he was so angry that he vomited blood and died. ”

The people in the house cried, and the children who followed behind were stupid, but the first to wake up were Yuanqing and Mei Niang, and the two of them rushed into the pavilion together, Yuan Qing and the eunuch carefully observed Shi Tong, and Mei Niang saw the jade bottle on the ground for the first time. She didn't cry, she looked at the eunuch deadly.

"Mrs. Wu, the old master wants Master Wu to return to Beijing to accompany the spirit, and hand over Lord Wu to the miscellaneous family."

"The first husband left a word, I want to return to the roots, and I hope that my father-in-law will return to Beijing to return to your master!"

"Mrs. Wu, are you making things difficult for the miscellaneous family?" His voice sharpened.

"Father-in-law!" I finally looked into the eyes of the little eunuch, "My husband asked me to send him home!" If you feel embarrassed, then the samurai can't care about that much. ”

"Madame!" A general dressed in black armor finally appeared in front of me, he glanced at Shi Tong deeply, lowered his hand and was silent for a while, and then looked at me and looked at me, "The last general escorts Madame back to her hometown." ”

"General Helan!" The eunuch screamed.

Na Helan didn't look at him at all, and shouted directly: "Come on, set up a spirit for Master Wu." The black-armored soldier entered, and carefully lifted the soldier down, and I sat quietly in place, a small hand clenching my hand, and an extra hard object in my hand. I looked, Mei Niang was standing in front of me, and in my hand was the jade bottle.