22. The past
The day of the exam is coming soon, and Cheng Xiuyi sent the first letter to her family, thinking that her relatives and friends in her hometown should take care of their health, and she is about to step into the threshold of fate.
She lit the oil lamp and sat at the desk to review the last knowledge points, and the summer breeze blew mischievously through the cracks in the window, with the slightest coolness of the night. Leaving home in May, July is approaching, and time flies by. Cheng Xiuyi was a little confused, except for students like Huang Linlin and Guo Xu, most people are doing one thing repeatedly like her, that is, studying. But she is lucky, her parents have made her smart and clever since she was a child, and she learns much faster than others, thinking of this, Cheng Xiuyi nostalgically took out the jewelry that her grandfather gave her, Sakura Yu, and gently wore it around her neck. Looking forward to her mother's relics to bring her hope and motivation in the exam room.
Suddenly, the oil lamp was blown out by a strong gust of wind, and the bright room became pitch black, with only the moonlight shining through the window paper. Cheng Xiuyi was surprised and wanted to re-light the lamp, but the palm of his hand was firmly held by the other hand in the dark, and his body was pulled in that direction by a strong force.
"Hmm......"
"Don't move, I'll come and see you."
Cheng Xiuyi struggled to shout, and Song Xingyuan's voice sounded in his ears. He held Cheng Xiuyi's soft white little hand, and couldn't help but increase his strength.
Cheng Xiuyi looked at Song Xingyuan's cold eyes, her eyes couldn't help but moisten, she grabbed the big hand that was a little rough with her backhand, and said with a crying voice: "Song Xingyuan, why do you always bully me, it hurts to death!" ”
Song Xingyuan was a little flustered, he didn't expect it to unfold like this. Will try tomorrow, he deliberately chose tonight to climb over the wall and enter the Sansheng Pavilion to see Cheng Xiuyi, he wanted to comfort and encourage, but the tears in the girl's eyes reflected crystal clear in the moonlight, and his stubborn eyes made him feel distressed, thinking that his rudeness really made her hurt. Song Xingyuan sighed and let go of his hand, stroked her hair a few times, and turned all his thoughts in the past few days into speechlessness.
After a long time, Song Xingyuan said: "Hu Er has been assigned to Western Xinjiang, and Hu Feihong is also under investigation in a lawsuit. In the past few days, I have been playing in the court to impeach him, but this person's power in Yancheng is not small, and it cannot be eliminated overnight. ”
"You are actually busy with these things, the Yancheng Rebellion is unimaginable, and it is indeed not easy to solve." Cheng Xiuyi sucked her red nose and continued: "If it weren't for Yisheng's desperate plea for help, I'm afraid I would have been boiled to death in the dungeon by that Hu Lao'er." ”
"Don't worry, he should be a little more restrained during this time." Song Xingyuan smiled rarely, and touched her hair a few more times as if it was not enjoyable. "You will try to be a good official in the future. I'll be waiting for you in the temple. ”
"If you have a wife, don't come to see me anymore, and don't do anything for me!" Cheng Xiuyi resolutely pushed Song Xingyuan a few meters away. Her face burned badly, but fortunately the moonlight was hazy and she couldn't see clearly.
Song Xingyuan was stunned for a moment and said, "If I can only come to see you after dissolving the marriage contract, then I will solve it and see you later." ”
Cheng Xiuyi looked at the back of Song Xingyuan jumping out of the window, vaguely remembering the night in Ji'an Village, she seemed to see such a person standing in front of the bed and looking at her gently, could it be ...... That person is Song Xingyuan? Cheng Xiuyi didn't light the lamp again, and lay quietly on the bed and clenched the cherry feather pendant, why did someone run to the remote Sansheng Pavilion in just a few words in order to see her, and then turned around and left because of her words.
Song Xingyuan is really a fool, right?
At this time, Gong Jingyu stood alone outside the door of Cheng Xiuyi's room, his outstretched hand froze in place, and the dark shadow of the eaves shrouded his trembling back.
He wanted to encourage Xiuyi and explain that the kiss before was not a random act. But hearing the conversation between Song Xingyuan and Cheng Xiuyi, there is no point in explaining it now. Everything in the world pays attention to the right people in heaven and earth, and the same is true for feelings, it is him, who came too late. Gong Jingyu smiled coldly, cold and piercing.
"Xiuxiu, you want to be like your mother, and leave me when I am most dependent?"
Ten years ago, Concubine Rong was favored by the dragon and monopolized the emperor for more than half a year, which caused an uproar in the court, and publicly impeached this concubine for her bewitching and seductive heart, and the forces of all ethnic groups continued to fill the harem with new blood, when Gong Jingyu was eight years old. At first, the emperor did not listen to these rumors, and pampered Concubine Rong and the eighth prince as usual, until a doctor surnamed Jiang found out that the emperor's energy was declining, his pulse was weak, and he was suspected of symptoms of heart disease. At this time, a former inconspicuous Hua Concubine proposed that she knew a great immortal from a distant mountain at home and had studied this incurable disease, and the emperor immediately agreed. Waiting for the distant mountain immortal to enter the palace for a while, he only trembled and whispered in the emperor's ear and said: Your Majesty, this is a demon! As for the demon, the villain does not dare to call his name, if His Majesty does not believe it, please go to the palace of Hua Concubine Niangniang to rest for three days, to ensure that there is a change.
The emperor was suspicious, so he did so, and turned over the sign of Hua Concubine for three days in a row. Hua Concubine also served the emperor with all her heart, which can be described as singing night and night, lingering. But something surprising happened, and the emperor's body gradually recovered, and his energy became more and more vigorous. The emperor immediately summoned the Great Immortal of the Distant Mountains and asked him to tell him what he knew directly, without caring about anything.
Above the main hall, there are hundreds of civil and military officials. Eight-year-old Gong Jingyu was pulled by his mother's hand and hurt, but he didn't dare to make a sound, he could feel his mother trembling faintly.
The Great Immortal of the Distant Mountains danced a dance, jumped in front of Concubine Rong with a roar, and said in a sharp voice: "You wait for demons and evils, and you will not die!" To bewitch Your Majesty to have fun is actually to absorb essence! ”
Concubine Rong pulled Gong Jingyu to kneel, tears falling like rain. The emperor looked at the woman who had been pampered for many years and the son he loved the most, but he still couldn't give up, and said, "Maybe it's just a coincidence, and it has nothing to do with the concubine." ”
"If the emperor doesn't believe it, I have a bowl of divine water here, ordinary people drink it like water, and demons drink it and their souls are scattered! Concubine Rong, do you dare? ”
The Great Immortal of the Distant Mountains held a bowl of water in his hand and jumped back and forth between the crowds. Gong Jingyu was very scared, the nose of this distant mountain immortal was like the beak of an eagle, and his eyes had no black pupils, only a cloudy gray, which looked terrifying. He quietly hid behind his mother.
"If what you say is true, I'll try! For the sake of the emperor's safety, the concubines are willing to sacrifice everything. With tears in her eyes, Hua Concubine snatched the bowl from the hand of the Yuanshan Daxian and drank half of it, and when everyone looked nervously, Hua Concubine put down the bowl unharmed.
Nothing happened!
The emperor was moved, since it was the same bowl of water, it was okay for her concubine to drink it, so ......
After serving the emperor for eight years, Concubine Rong understood the emperor's heart with one look, and the so-called companion is like a tiger. Concubine Rong let go of Gong Jingyu's little hand, squatted down and stroked his hair, and said softly: "Yu, my mother wishes you to grow up well." ”
After speaking, he rushed to the front of the hall without looking back, raised his head arrogantly and looked directly at the emperor, and said loudly: "The king wants the concubine to die, and the concubine has to die." I have known each other for fifteen years, and it has been six years since I assisted the emperor to ascend the throne, from the palace to the palace, Rong'er has no regrets all the way. May the emperor be in love in the past, and stay away from the palace after giving me the title of son, this harem is like a wolf and a tiger, without his mother, he is afraid that he will not live long. ”
Without waiting for everyone to react, Concubine Rong picked up the bowl and drank it with a smile, the smile was poignant and fierce, as if the bowl was not a poisonous wine that demanded people's lives, but real divine water.
In an instant, she fell down heavily, without shedding a single tear, until the smile on the corner of her mouth slowly dissipated, and her body temperature was cold.
In the sixth year of Da Xun, this year, the demon girl Concubine Rong was deceased, and the emperor gave him the title of prince and a palace.
This year, Hua Concubine was promoted to concubine, her son Gong Jingtian was named the crown prince, and the great immortal of the distant mountains was appointed as a national teacher and monopolized power.