In the third year of Jingtai, the emperor personally conquered the Western Regions, 27 tribes and 13 states, and the non-naturalized ones won it in one fell swoop. The Western Regions paid tribute, and the Xue family was rehabilitated.

Post-Seal Ceremony. The whole country rejoices.

In the fifth year of Jingtai, the queen gave birth to a daughter, and the emperor treasured it.

In the tenth year of Jingtai, the emperor began to select suitable princes from the clan to prepare for succession.

Ying Wu was already the head of the guards of Kunning Palace, and many years of comfortable life made him a little helpless at the moment, he was guarding the outside of the Zongren Mansion, and Xue Ke walked into the courtyard quietly.

The emperor was not harsh on a daily basis, but the maids and eunuchs sent were all returned. The courtyard was covered with fallen leaves, and the person in the courtyard was sweeping the fallen leaves to both sides.

"King Qin swept out a road, who are you going to let go?" Xue Ke looked at the person in front of him sarcastically.

His face has not changed, his eyebrows are low, but he is more like Ah Que when he was a teenager, just a silver hair, and he has no buns, scattered behind him.

"Amitabha, Akko, you're finally here."

"Are you waiting for me?" Xue Ke looked up at the courtyard with a sneer: "How about it, how about waiting for a Rao in this courtyard?" ”

He slowly plucked the rosary: "The four seasons change, the flowers bloom and fall, and I can slowly understand the mood of Ah Ke waiting for me back then, but it is also very good." ”

"I'll wait for you?"

He looked at her calmly: "Ah Ke has been waiting for me in the Qin Palace, and I have been waiting for you in the Zongren Mansion for ten years, Amitabha, Buddhism is compassionate." ”

Xue Ke looked at him in disbelief.

He raised his hand and stroked her sideburns: "Ake, can you get your wish in this life?" ”

Xue Ke's body slowly trembled. The past, as time fades, sometimes even I feel like an old dream: "When did you know? ”

"After entering the Zongren Mansion, I fell seriously ill and had a long dream. In the dream, you found me after the accident in the Xue Mansion and followed me into the Qin Palace, Ah Ke, you know what happened next. ”

The autumn breeze blows away the freshly swept leaves.

The two looked at each other for a long time. There is no turning back on many things, and there are many words that cannot be spoken.

An immature voice came: "Mother, mother." "A girl of five or six years old came running with short legs, and she looked white and exquisite.

Xue Ke's face gradually softened: "An Zhi, why are you here?" ”

"I was looking for my mother, and my father brought me over."

"Where's your father?"

"The father is outside, his mother doesn't need to worry, he is waiting outside slowly."

He squatted down, looked at this princess who looked like Shi Xue Ke's mold, and coaxed softly: "Good, your queen mother will go back immediately." ”

"Who are you? How is your hair white? ”

"Hello, princess, I'm Zhao Que."

In the winter of that year, the emperor selected one of the children of the royal family to succeed him as the crown prince and granted amnesty. The former Qin king was also in the grain of amnesty

Jingxi Huayan Temple has always been a royal temple, not open to the people, the temple is strict, and the incense is continuous but not vigorous.

A monk next to the tall Buddha statue was copying scriptures, and a piece of wisteria petals fell on the scriptures in front of the court in the wind, stained with ink that had not yet dried, and he picked up the petals and walked into the courtyard.

Is it another year?

At the end of the previous life, she asked him, but he didn't.

The prince did not receive her letter, went to the west, escaped the assassination, but did not escape the conspiracy of the Anxi Protectorate, and the prince died. He naturally became the crown prince.

It's just that since she was pierced through the heart by his sword, he has nightmares every day, and in the dream, she struggled with all her strength and shouted: "Ah Que, save me." ”

He knew that he couldn't save her, and he couldn't save himself.

The abbot of Huayan Temple gave him a string of bitter soul beads, the abbot, love parting, resentment for a long time, can't ask for it, can't let go, can receive that soul into this bead, let him from intrusion.

Three years later, he succeeded to the throne and had a long sleep.

In the palace, he was known for his strictness. Several concubines brought by the Hidden Mansion were also killed or sent away by him because of some mistakes. After Yang Xiang retired, because of a mistake, he ignored the minister's letter, insisted on abolishing the queen Yang's throne, and a few years later, the eunuch in the cold palace saw a monster crawling on the ground, and the queen could embroider the golden phoenix on the veil.

In the tenth year of his accession to the throne, he insisted on becoming a monk, and the ministers who dissuaded him knelt outside the gate of Huayan Temple from the Forbidden City.

On that day, he knelt in front of the Buddha and begged the Buddha to let her come back to another life, give her a lifetime of stability, and keep the two sides together.

Master Zhihai asked him: "Come back to another life, but if it is not you who gives her a stable life and stays together, are you willing?" ”

He smashed the Buddha statue like crazy, lifted the offering table, and ordered the temple to be sealed. He would rather detain her soul in a string of Buddhist beads than be freed himself? As long as he is with him every day, a string of beads will do.

In the twenty-third year of his accession to the throne, he became the crown prince and became the first emperor monk of this dynasty.

Master Zhihai asked him, "Would you like to?" ”

"The disciple is willing." He removed a string of Buddhist beads from his wrist.

A tear fell on the futon.