Chapter Thirty-Seven: Red Plum Falling Snow
Zhao Zheng didn't dare to go to the main gate, but went to a small gate in the back alley, the place was so remote, Xiao Heng asked five or six small guys to find it. A modest carriage was parked outside the door, and the coachman, who had seen him in the morning, lifted the curtain and let him in.
Zhao Zheng is a military general, and his momentum is still there after so many years, and when he saw Xiao Heng coming, he didn't hesitate, and said: "The minister doesn't talk nonsense, in addition to the things handed over to you today, there are three things, presumably you use them." As he spoke, he handed the box in his hand to Xiao Heng.
Xiao Heng took it, knowing that Zhao Zheng would not harm him, and opened the box directly. There were no valuables in it, but a letter, a piece of jade, and a book.
He glanced at Zhao Zheng and opened the contents in turn. This first letter was just an ordinary letter, but it was written to Mu Zongxin, the head of the Mu family, and roughly speaking, it was a letter of recommendation, but it did not say that it was him Xiao Heng. Zhao Zheng said: "I have some friendship with the old man Mu, but it is not deep, if you want to enter his Mu family as a protégé, with this letter, you can change to a second-class protégé, he can't see you, and you can do things conveniently." ”
Xiao Heng glanced at Zhao Zheng again, with a little inquiry. He picked up the second jade pendant and shook it in front of Zhao Zheng: "Then what is this?" I, Xiao Heng, am not short of such things. ”
Zhao Zheng was still staring straight ahead: "This jade pendant is what your second brother's biological father left behind when he was happy with his mother that day." ”
Xiao Heng's eyes narrowed, hiding some coldness. The piece of green jade pendant was played with repeatedly in his hand, and he suddenly smiled: "Marquis Zhao is a master with great ability, and it is an extraordinary kung fu to check the emperor's life experience." ”
Zhao Zheng was silent.
Xiao Heng continued: "Looking for me this time, I'm afraid it wasn't attracted by that letter, but it has been planned for a long time. Let me guess, for the sake of fame and fortune, your Zhao family is the Hou Mansion, and you don't care about that; For the sake of wealth, this fertile land is 100 acres, and there is a lot of gold, silver and jewelry. Could it be that I really took revenge on my father? ”
Zhao Zheng nodded, but shook his head again. After a moment, he said dumbly: "Ah Xian, it was in the cold winter of December, I left." ”
"She has been in poor health since she was a child, afraid of cold, I didn't expect that after entering this palace wall, her body is not as good as day by day."
Zhao Xianxian, the daughter of the Zhao family, the concubine of the emperor.
When she entered the palace, it has always been a good event, and she didn't tell us anything wrong. Until that day, a letter came from home, she was flustered, and she didn't know what she was talking about, but it seemed that something bad had happened. I didn't dare to go into the palace to ask, but I didn't expect her to come and write from then on.
Later, it didn't take long for the current emperor to ascend the throne, and as a result, she disappeared without a trace.
Until that day, her plain coffin came with the edict. The edict said that she accidentally fell into the water, contracted the wind cold, and became more and more sick, and a gust of north wind blew her away.
But I don't believe it, and our Zhao family doesn't believe it. She's not in good shape, but not to that point. What's more, she has followed her brother since she was a child, she didn't have a girl, and she learned to swim by herself, how could she fall into the water for no reason, and it took half a day to be discovered and fished up?
I wanted to open the coffin, but the father-in-law who accompanied me didn't give it, and he didn't give her one last look. The coffin only stopped for half an hour, and after explaining, it was carried back to the imperial mausoleum for burial. She was unfortunate in her life, and she still had to suffer from this upheaval after her death!
I wanted to check, but the emperor did everything possible to stumble on my Zhao family and didn't give us a check. My arm couldn't twist my thigh, so I stopped what I was looking at and continued to check in private. Mrs. likes Ah Xian the most, and regards her as more precious than her two brothers, and Ah Xian is gone, and she also leaves.
I have no wife, no beloved daughter, and at the end of the year, my son died again, and the sky fell halfway, and I couldn't do anything.
I was confused and didn't know what to do, so I used all my strength to find out Ah Xian's death. After such a check, I really found out something.
The emperor's biological mother, the palace maid, used to be in Aqian's palace.
"Ah Xian, she heard the conversation between the emperor and the emperor.
The first emperor protected her and said that he would not let Xiao Sheng touch her. The wolf-hearted cub poured the big pot of wine mixed with boiling soup in front of the emperor......"
The veteran general, who has galloped all his life, has tear stains on his weather-beaten face. He looked at the green vines in the summer outside the window, and for a long time, he continued: "The snow in Jizhou that year was so big and big, and it was three inches thick when it fell on the ground overnight, and her coffin came at that time. The coffin was covered with a layer of snow, and the moment the lady saw the coffin, she fainted with tears. She liked the red plum outside the boudoir the most, but she was reluctant to fold it, so she opened the window every day to watch. On the day she went to the capital, she also told us to guard this red plum, and she will come back in the future to see it again. ”
"Later, the red plum blossomed like fire, the most prosperous bloom in 20 years, but she couldn't see it."
The red plum has fallen on the branches and snow, but the beauty is no longer what it used to be.
No one said anything.