Song Chuanbai came out of the temple less than half a pillar of incense, and it was far from the Hou Mansion, sitting in the carriage, he suddenly heard the neighing of the horses, the curtain shook slightly, and someone said respectfully outside: "Master Hou, the sixth princess, please meet." ”

Six princesses, Zhou Guanzhao.

Song Chuanbai entered the palace late at night, Chonghe Hall was brightly lit, Song Chuanbai walked through the white marble corridor, only to see that the door was guarded by the secret guards in the uniform of the Mitian Division, and the palace people served from afar, and when they arrived at the place, they honestly would not take another step forward.

The emperor listened to the government in the Chonghe Palace. Song Chuanbai pushed the door in, the gold powder carved pillar in the hall stood silently, Zhou Guanzhao stood next to the dragon chair and lowered his head to look, and only said: "See Zhou Mingze?" ”

Song Chuanbai was silent for a moment and said, "Yes." ”

"How is he?"

"These things must have been reported to the sixth princess in detail," Song Chuanbai said: "It's so late, what is the sixth princess looking for me?" ”

"It's nothing, just talking." Zhou Guanzhao patted the armrest on the dragon chair, and said with a very ordinary expression: "Master Hou is tired of walking, right?" Come and sit. ”

Song Chuanbai stood still, his eyes were fixed, and there was silence in the hall for a while, and he could only hear the sound of red candles burning.

"I didn't doubt you, I tried your mind." Zhou Guanzhao finally said: "I even often feel that it is better for you to sit on this chair than myself." This position can also be yours if you wish. I can...... Stand by your side, or further back. ”

"Standing next to the dragon chair like this?" Song Chuanbai laughed, but there was no trace of a smile in his eyes: "Do you remember the sixth princess, who is usually standing in this position?" ”

Zhou Guanzhao was stunned, and Song Chuanbai immediately said: "Great eunuch." ”

So both of them laughed, Zhou Guanzhao leaned next to the armrest of the dragon chair, with golden sideburns, eyebrows and eyes similar to the prince, she looked biased towards her father, high cheeks and thin eyebrows, and was a relatively harsh and cold beauty, but the strange thing was that the first emperor and the prince were very generous, and in the end, only Zhou Guanzhao matched the impression given by this face, and often sneered when facing the courtiers of the hostile party, blocking the other party speechless.

The emperor's character is kind and conservative, which is not a good thing for his courtiers. The new faction of the poor family has long been unbearable to the suppression of the old family, and they are also very angry at the frequent reform proposals to the emperor and being ignored, so Song Chuanbai looks at the two factions every time they face each other, and those courtiers from the poor family are more emotional than the other, with sharp teeth and sharp mouths, like wild dogs hunting, revealing their green eyes in the grass. Of course, Song Chuanbai saw that the courtiers were sophistry, and the courtiers saw that Song Chuanbai was like this, and he was not much better in this.

Last time, he also covered his chest with an old minister, pointed at him and couldn't speak, Zhou Guanzhao was afraid that he would have a heart attack at the beginning, Song Chuanbai retreated, silently drank tea in the back, and sighed: "Today is very tired...... expression is very innocent, as if he has been watching the play tiredly behind.

Zhou Guanzhao suddenly asked: "If Zhou Ming is older, I will give him this position again, what do you think?" ”

"Can you sit on it yourself, can you come down on your own?" Song Chuanbai said: "It's better to ask yourself." ”

"To this day, I often feel that I am no longer myself, and I have become three people." Zhou Guanzhao looked at him: "Sometimes I want to kill Zhou Mingze, sometimes I feel that this kid is really redundant, I would have hid until I ascended the throne, and I wouldn't be too sad for him." But last night I dreamed of the sixth princess again, crying and begging me to leave Zhou Mingze and let me return the position to him. She said, if Ming Ze is too small, I will act as the governor of the country, and it will be the same. ”

Song Chuanbai subconsciously felt that there was another meaning in her words, another meaning other than expressing his contradictions and struggles, but he couldn't detect it for a while.

"Maybe I shouldn't have thought about leaving Yatesi back then, and I shouldn't have thought about holding power and proving it to anyone." Zhou Guanzhao said, step by step down the stairs with lacquered gold carvings, and stood in front of Song Chuanbai: "If I had listened to you, I would not have allowed myself to reach this dilemma." ”

"Sixth Princess," Song Chuanbai said calmly, "Even if you listened to my words at the beginning, you will still regret it now." Because you are such a person, forever regretting the choices that have passed. ”

"Have you ever regretted your choice?" Zhou Guanzhao was so close to him that both of them could see the subtle changes in expression on each other's faces.

"No," Song Chuanbai replied, unwavering: "I never will." ”

"Including choosing me back then and supporting me to get out of the Mitian Division, so that Zhou Ming has fallen into such a situation now?"

"Yes, including these." Song Chuanbai said: "Any decision I make is the best choice I can make under the circumstances, and there is nothing to regret." ”

Zhou Guanzhao's face did not move, and he exhaled a low breath very restrainedly, subtly.

She smiled a little and said, "After I ascend the throne, the Mitian Division will face restructuring, and the position of the division will ...... at that time."

"I already have talent to recommend."

Zhou Guanzhao was stunned for a moment and said, "This Si Cheng is for you...... You don't want to? So what do you want? ”

Song Chuanbai said: "Before the emperor's birthday banquet, the matter of Feiguang that I have tracked down will already have an eyebrow. ”

"You have the power of the dragon in your hand, and you have worked hard until now, and in the end, you just want to run to the corner to study the flying light?"

"By the way, let's bring Zhou Mingze again," Song Chuanbai said, "If the sixth princess is not at ease." ”

Zhou Guanzhao still wanted to say something, but after thinking for a while, he just nodded and said, "It's okay, since Senior Brother died because of Feiguang, all your thoughts are on this." When all this trouble is over, I'll take the time to go back with you to see him. ”

"I do these things, but I have nothing to do with my senior brother. His death was just a trigger. Song Chuanbai almost wrote the word rejection on his face: "The deceased has passed away, it's better to bother less." ”

Zhou Guanzhao finally couldn't help but raise his eyes and said, "Ziling, you are now separated from me." ”

"Yes, because you're separated from me."

Song Chuanbai replied as soon as he opened his mouth, not caring about Zhou Guanzhao's changing face at all: "In the future, we will be kings and ministers, and we will only be more divided and more vigilant against each other." You'll go on a myriad of occasions, as you do today, to probe me out of your own concerns. Countless times with this soft knife against your ministers, your palace people, your only remaining blood relatives. I'm tired from walking, but you're only going to be more tired than I am. ”

Zhou Guanzhao's face was very ugly, she used to rub fat powder on her face, looking like a peach blossom, extremely delicate, but now the blood is gone, but it looks fake, just like a paper doll in the market outside, selling a few pennies a piece, with a big blush and empty eyes.

But she didn't lose her temper anymore, Zhou Guanzhao raised her chin slightly, and asked, "I remember you said to me before that if someone uses a lie to test you, then you will also reply to him with a lie." Are you lying to me? ”

"It's not."

"It seems that the rules of dialogue between Hou Ye and others have changed."

"It hasn't changed."

Zhou Guanzhao paused again. Song Chuanbai didn't follow her words at all, no matter how she learned, imitating and inducing, Song Chuanbai could always maintain her clearest judgment and was not affected.

It's about talent, and you can't learn it.

Eventually, she retreated, and after walking to the dragon chair, her voice echoed in the empty Chonghe Hall: "Maybe in the future, I will completely become another person, and you will not change yourself in the slightest because of the mortal world......

"The six princesses have praised it falsely, only immortals have been the same for thousands of years, and there has been no change."

Zhou Guanzhao stopped and looked back at him, and said with a smile: "You are indeed like an immortal in my heart." And I didn't measure myself, I just accompanied the immortals, so I thought I could compare, and finally became what I am today. ”

"Or do you blame me?"

She paused, then said, "I'm just...... It's just unwilling. ”

Zhou Guanzhao's expression at that moment was very lonely, but it was also a fleeting thing, she quickly turned around and walked out, waved her hand and said, "It's too late, I'll rest in the palace tonight." Pick up Zhou Ming tomorrow and come to see me. ”

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"Maybe I'll be a completely different person in the future......."

Zhou Ming said: "But I will never forget my father and you." ”

He raised his head and said very obediently: "I don't want to be an emperor at all, I don't think it's good at all." ”

Song Chuanbai sat in the study, holding his hands to watch him take the paper in the room and fold out one lotus lamp after another, stacking them neatly together, and asked him, "Then what do you want to do in the future?" ”

"I want to go out to war! Be a general! ”

Song Chuanbai smiled and said, "Do you want to fight with lotus lanterns?" ”

"It's for blessings!" Zhou Ming said: "As long as you light the lotus lantern, my father can see the lamp, and then he can see me next to the lamp." The lantern will float down the water into the heavenly river and float to the father's hand. ”

He folded it and said, "Master Hou, do you know how to fight?" ”

"I haven't fought before, probably not."

"It's okay," Zhou Ming patted his chest very righteously: "When I learn, I'll come back and teach you." Can you go and tell the empress to let me be a general? ”

"Nope."

"I'll just take it."

"Not really, little girl." Song Chuanbai picked up a lotus lantern to study, and opened it easily, causing Zhou Ming to scream all the time, and hurriedly snatched back the half-dismantled lotus lantern, and after folding it, he touched it distressedly for a long time.

"I just want to go out, not to be a general, to be something else." Zhou Ming hung his head down: "Old man Guo said that you are going to leave again in a few days, and you won't take me with you, in Kyoto, I will be left alone." ”

"And your mother."

"My mother doesn't care about me, she just wants me to be the emperor, let me study every day, and wants me to deal with other sons and sisters. They didn't want to pay attention to me. Zhou Ming's voice was buzzing: "My mother also said that the empress is older than me, as long as she has no children, the emperor will be me sooner or later, let me always remember my identity as the prince." ”

"If you want me to say, the empress will definitely have a little prince...... Hey," Zhou Ming suddenly raised his head, his eyes widened, and he said seriously: "Does the empress also want to choose a concubine?" ”

"What?"

"The empress will also be like my imperial grandfather, set up a queen and store it in the harem, well, how should it be called...... Male beauty. ”

Song Chuanbai imagined that scene for a moment, laughed so hard that he replied to him while laughing: "That's right, Your Majesty will not only appoint a man with a beautiful country as the queen, but also choose a concubine, let a group of all kinds of men stand in front of her, and let her choose." Song Chuanbai wiped the corners of his eyes and made another shushing gesture: "But let's just talk about this kind of thing, don't tell others." ”

Zhou Ming reluctantly thought about it for a moment: "Okay! ”

He paused and asked, "In exchange, can I go hunting at the beginning of spring?" ”

"That's it, there will be a hunt in which many children of the family participate."

Song Chuan was happy: "Didn't you say that they ignored you?" ”

"I don't think they dare to ignore me, or they want to ignore me." Zhou Ming looked at the stupid child, and he still had a point in his heart: "I want to fight for it, if I stay in the Hou Mansion all the time, the empress will be unhappy." I don't go out to meet them, and my mother isn't happy. Alas, it's so tiring to be the crown prince. ”

"Okay," Song Chuanbai patted his head: "When the time comes, I'll take you there, and no one will ignore you." ”

In fact, it was only a wrong step at that time, but it was this step that buried a child with a living life on the Kaichun hunting ground in a blink of an eye.

It was at that time that Song Chuanbai completely realized that the people around him were not all credible people, maybe the playmates you grew up with since childhood would be unrecognizable for the sake of power, and maybe the people who followed you loyally were just latent minions of others in the end. The undercover agents around him have been caught one after another, the people around him have been screened over and over again, the beneficials may also take revenge, and the pure-minded people may also change one day.

When the years go by, you can't hold it, and when things are not noticed, it's already too late.

At the beginning of spring another year, Song Chuanbai met Fang Heming again, and saw the girl in his yard sitting cross-legged on the room in a daze, and suddenly remembered that this was the person who deliberately dropped the red envelope to the ground last year.

So the other party Heming said: "Why are the apprentices you accept more stupid than the other, and they are getting more and more stupid every year." ”

Fang Heming was not polite to him, and said, "What do you kid know?" ”

He shook the wine glass in his hand, and said with satisfaction: "I see that people have never missed it, and if you want to accept apprentices, it is one thing to be good or not, and it is another thing to be obedient or not." Kiryu is good and well-behaved, and he won't talk back to you, oops, like a little padded jacket......"

"She doesn't talk back because she stutters, right?"

"What are you talking about!" Fang Heming knocked the back of his hand with chopsticks: "It's still what I said last time, if I have an accident one day, you can take her away, and you don't have to test it." Kiryu sometimes has a bad temper, but people are good. Fang Heming pointed to his heart: "If she approves of you, she will never disobey you." ”

Song Chuanbai poured himself another glass of wine disappreciatively: "What if you don't agree? ”

"Kiryu will tell you, and then she will be sad."

"This hurts someone's heart."

Fang Heming patted his thigh and said, "Because she won't change, she starts to disagree with you, you can only change." ”

I don't know what to think of, Song Chuanbai turned the wine glass in his hand and said with a smile: "Where are there people who won't change." ”

Fang Heming also laughed, smacked a sip of wine, and said in a playful tone: "The immortals don't change." ”

Song Chuanbai was stunned, and when he looked up at the room again, he found that Chen Tongsheng was still sitting in the room, as if he didn't care about everything in the outside world, and he didn't care who came today or who was watching her. However, when Fang Heming took out a pot of wine from the bottom of the table, Chen Tongsheng suddenly said, "Master! ”

Fang Heming paused for a moment, and then silently put the wine back again.

Chen Tongsheng still sat there, like a wild cat that was not understood by humans, vigorous and silent, with beautiful eyes.

He thought of his mother, the eldest princess said that he had a cat before, and he used to be very pampered, with a very big temper, sometimes very well-behaved, but more often he loved to bite. The eldest princess threw it away, but in the end, no matter how far it was thrown, it would always come back dirty, and it would no longer be close to its master, but would just squat in front of the house day after day and meow, as bad as ever. He seemed to be very angry, and he seemed to be very sad, and when the weather was good, he squatted on the house, which was one of the roof eaves, and one of the pottery beasts. Later, the eldest princess left Kyoto, and it disappeared. He may have become a real feral cat, or he may have died on the way to follow his master.

Most of the domestic cats are well-behaved and sticky, and Song Chuanbai never saw that kind of cat again.

"It's interesting." Song Chuanbai retracted his gaze and commented.