Just after the unitary hour, the unconscious woman in the Jiaofang Hall quietly opened her eyes, and her movement woke up the sleepy person beside the bed, her eyes were red, and tears were pouring down. "Your Highness, you have woken up, why don't you tell us when you have a body? Fortunately, the little prince is fine, otherwise what would you let us do? Jade Lady! Your Highness has woken up! ”

Mo Yan struggled to get up, and when she heard Chunyi's shout, Yu Niang walked to her bedside and helped her sit up with Chunyi. "Go and bring your Highness's soup and medicine, and then cook a bowl of hot porridge."

"Jade Niang, spring." Mo Yan thought of everything in the Chengguang Palace, the bloody and cruel facts were vivid, and the self-hatred in his heart arose. "It's all my fault, if I had remembered the reason earlier, if I hadn't matched, maybe this tragedy could have been avoided."

Yu Niang patted her gently on the back and secretly made a gesture to Chunyi to make her stand back. "Also, go and tell the general, His Highness has woken up, let him go home with peace of mind." Although Chunyi was worried, he still bowed and retreated.

As soon as the spring was gone, Mo Yan cried even more unscrupulously, and the tears couldn't be stopped at all. "Jade Lady...... It's all my fault, why can't Dong Lin have a child with her, and my evil ......" Before Mo Yan finished speaking, he was blocked by Yu Niang's hand, and Yu Niang shook her head. "What's wrong with Your Highness? Your Highness is not wrong, Your Majesty is not wrong, and so are your nobles. It's just God's fault. ”

As soon as Mo Yan closed her eyes, crystal wet teardrops fell on Yu Niang's hand, and Yu Niang wiped away her tears with a handkerchief. "There are people who are more sad and painful than His Highness."

Mo Yan knew that the person Yu Niang was talking about must be Liu Xie, this "Cloth and Belt Edict" incident, not only lost the nobleman and his child, but also the minister who conspired together, what will Liu Xie do at this time? She was worried. Yu Niang just mentioned the general, could it be Fu Wan...... "Yu Niang, you just said the general, is it ......?"

"Yes. But now His Royal Highness is the queen, and he can't step into the harem as a general, so he stays in the palace and waits for news from His Highness. Your Highness rest assured, Chunyi will let the chamberlain report the news. Yu Niang knew that His Royal Highness was very uncomfortable now, and it was difficult to accept it for a while, but this endless time still had to pass. ”

Yu Niang's comfort made her ease a lot, yes, this day is still going to pass, thinking of the look of spring just now, Yu Niang's face was haggard, and there was a nervous worry after the end, if she continued to be sad and painful, these people were even more worried about her, at least she couldn't do it in front of them, she nodded and said, "I understand." How's it going? She is so close to Dong Lin, if she knows......"

"Your Majesty sent someone to guard outside the Song nobleman's bedroom, and the nobleman will not know about this for a while."

"It's okay, you can drag on as long as you want, she's too naïve and innocent, and this matter is too cruel to her. That one...... I'm pregnant, do you know about it? ”

"Well, Your Majesty will personally carry His Royal Highness back to the Jiaofang Palace, the imperial doctor ordered the pulse to be diagnosed, and all the people in the Jiaofang Palace know that His Royal Highness is pregnant, or it won't be long before the people in the entire palace will know."

"Ah......h

Yu Niang said in Mo Yan's ear: "Your Highness don't worry too much, even if the Imperial Physician Ling has personally diagnosed the pulse, but the rest of the people don't know His Highness's true pregnancy, Your Majesty has privately explained to the Imperial Physician Order, and this Imperial Physician Ling must know it in his heart." ”

Personally carry His Royal Highness back to the Jiaofang Palace? Mo Yan pondered Yu Niang's words, did Liu Xie personally carry her back to the Jiaofang Palace? Thinking of Liu Xie's coldness before, he must be for this child, right? Mo Yan stroked her abdomen, but she remembered that before she fainted, how could she explain Liu Xie's momentum of pointing at Cao Cao?

"How is Your Majesty?" In fact, even if Yu Niang didn't say it, Mo Yan could guess a little, but he still couldn't help asking.

"When I went back to the Chengguang Palace, I didn't go out, I didn't eat, I was locked up in the Chengguang Hall to drink, and everyone couldn't persuade me."

"Have you ever been there?"

"Been there, useless. Alas. ”

Mo Yan was silent for a long time, the most difficult person to accept must be Liu Xie, he had already lost the battle before it began. The person he faced was Cao Cao, a unparalleled hero in the world, Cao Cao had strategists and generals, all of whom were loyal. What does Liu Xie have? In addition to the Han blood on his body, he is an emperor. What else did the crumbling Han family leave for him? What did he do to fight Cao Cao, relying on those old ministers? And those so-called ministers of the Han family, how many of them dared to come forward to confront Cao Cao? In this late Eastern Han Dynasty, in this troubled era of "people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat", who doesn't seek self-protection first? Mo Yan buried her head in the crook of her arm, she tried her best to search for records about Liu Xie in her memory, and she hoped that with her historical memory, she could help Liu Xie get out of the painful predicament at this time.

"The decoction and porridge are here. Your Highness, drink it while it's hot. "Spring brought the soup and porridge together. Chunyi picked up the porridge, scooped a spoonful and blew it on the side of his mouth, "Your Highness, let's drink the porridge first, and then we will drink the medicine after drinking the porridge." ”

Mo Yan suddenly remembered something, took the porridge from Chunyi's hand, opened the cloth wrapped around the palm of her hand, put it to her mouth and bit the wound again, the blood gushed out again, and she dripped the blood into the porridge.

"Your Highness, what are you doing here?" Chunyi wanted to snatch the bowl from Mo Yan's hand, but Mo Yan insisted on not letting her take the bowl, and Yu Niang couldn't understand what the intention was for a while, but she still chose to believe Mo Yan and stopped Chunyi's snatching.

The red blood dripped on the porridge, and a bowl of innocent porridge became a red-dyed "blood porridge". Mo Yan handed it to Yu Niang and instructed: "The people of Chang'an will not forget Your Majesty's relief, I, Dong Lin and the child in her womb, and my child will not forget, I hope Your Majesty will cherish it, the world belongs to the Liu family." ”

Yu Niang took the "blood porridge", put it in the food box, and hurried to the Chengguang Palace. When Mo Yan saw the porridge brought by Chunyi, she remembered one thing, but little one knew about it, she also heard about it by accident back then, and when she passed by the teahouse, a storyteller happened to talk about it. In the first year of Xingping, there was a great drought in Sanfu, the price of grain was expensive, and there was even an incident of cannibalism in Chang'an City. Liu Xie ordered Shi Houwen to go out of Taicang to cook porridge with rice beans to relieve the people, but many people still starved to death because of the lack of food. Liu Xie suspected that Hou Wen did not use all the grain to help the victims, but took the opportunity to encroach on the public grain, so he sent someone to take five liters of rice and beans and boil them into porridge in front of him, and finally he could cook two pots, which confirmed that Hou Wen was cheating, so he scolded Hou Wen with fifty court rods. After that, the hungry people in Chang'an City were finally relieved.

Mo Yan hopes that this bowl of porridge can awaken Liu Xie's memory, stop torturing himself because of it, hope is better than despair.

Chengguang Temple

The dim Chengguang Hall lit up with candlelight, and Liu Xie picked the candle flame, and the candlelight was even more obvious. He sat on the ground, and there were stains of blood on the ground, including his ministers and his nobles, and there was a faint smell of blood and a strong smell of wine in the hall.

He picked up the wine jar beside him and wanted to drink it all, but unfortunately there was no wine at all, and it was already empty. It was smashed on the ground, shattered, and the ground was full of debris, and I don't know how many wine jars were smashed. He wanted to drink another jar of wine, and when he reached to the side, there was nothing around him.

"Bring the wine! I'm still going to drink. Liu Xie's voice was hoarse and weak, and he had long lost the majesty of sitting in the court on weekdays, nor was it gentle in private.

"Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon's body! Can't drink anymore. "The inner attendant outside the hall is kneeling outside the door, Your Majesty has already drunk a lot of wine, what can you do with this body if you drink it again? Even if His Majesty is angry, the chamberlain still wants to persuade him.

"Presumptuous. Do you even laugh at me and look down on me? ”

"The minister has no such intention, Your Majesty can't drink it anymore!"

"Get out!" Liu Xie picked up the fragments and threw them at the temple door, and the fragments fell to the ground. Seeing that the inner attendant outside the hall was still there, he threw it several times, and finally blasted the inner attendant away, and he was the only one in the Chengguang Hall at this time.

"This emperor is really a wretch, the courtiers can't keep it, the nobles can't keep it, and the children can't keep it, this goes underground in the future, how to face the ancestors and ancestors, how to face it?"

He shed tears, he cried about his own powerlessness and incompetence, he simply had no way to take everything from Cao Cao, which should have belonged to him as emperor. He just wanted to make the world stable and end the endless wars.

"Huh."

He closed his eyes and saw Cao Cao leading troops to the palace again, the ministers around him were all impressed by Cao Cao's intimidation, Dong Lin did not hesitate to kill herself for the sake of dignity, and he didn't know when she was pregnant, and he failed to save the mother and child. If Dong Lin hadn't become a nobleman, would she have lived a better life, it was he who had failed Dong Lin's friendship and failed to protect her.

He saw Mo Yan staggering to the hall again, it was she who tried her best to inform everyone that Dong Lin was pregnant, but it was too late, Dong Lin's self-murder came suddenly, and no one expected it. Since that time, he hated Mo Yan, but when he saw Mo Yan misunderstanding Cao Cao's killing of Dong Lin and insulting him, he couldn't control himself, and actually pointed a sword at Cao Cao's back.

Liu Xie fell into a state of self-blame and pain, how should he spend the sun and moon in the future? Continue to be a puppet emperor? "Heh, what kind of emperor is this?"

"Your Majesty! You can't say that. Yu Niang carried the food box to Chengguang Palace, she looked at the debris all over the ground, and knelt down beside Liu Xie with red eyes. The slave will never allow His Majesty to say that. The Han family is still there, so Your Majesty must not say such depressing words. Your Majesty has endured it for a long time, do you just give up? The slaves and maids disagreed, the ancestors and the ancestors disagreed, and His Highness would never agree. ”

Yu Niang opened the food box, and a bowl of "blood porridge" appeared in front of Liu Xie's eyes. Yu Niang relayed her words: "The people of Chang'an will not forget Your Majesty's relief, I, Dong Lin and the child in her womb, and my child will not forget, I hope Your Majesty cherishes it, the world belongs to the Liu family." ”

Liu Xie repeated the last sentence in his mouth, "The world belongs to the Liu family...... Did she really say that? ”

"Yes. His Highness asked the slave to relay. ”

"I see, she's awake?"

"Yes, but His Highness grieves as much as His Majesty."

"Yu Niang, I can't see through as well as her, her bowl of 'blood porridge' is like a stick to drink, waking up people in dreams." Liu Xie understood Mo Yan's intentions, and she was hinting at what he had done to help the victims.

Liu Xie smiled lightly, picked up the bowl of "blood porridge" and drank it, and a strong smell of blood spread in his mouth. This bowl of "blood porridge" came in time, and it resolved the passing abandonment.

"Yu Niang, make more of her favorite food, and tell the people of Jiaofang Hall not to talk too much. Thank you for me. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty is not going to see His Highness?"

"Nope."

prison

In the dark and clammy prison, Cao Pi woke up in a daze, the pain behind him made him frown, and he grinned: "Forty big boards, but that's it." ”

His face was even more sweaty, where was his usual vigor in this embarrassed appearance, and these forty boards really made him suffer. Even if he is young, the forty boards are not something ordinary people can endure, but if he makes a mistake, he should be punished. When Cao Pi let Mo Yan go, he thought that he would be punished by his father, but he didn't expect it to be so ruthless.

Cao Pi's hands were covered with dust and sweat, and he reached out to rub them away from his body, and the unbearable pain made his hands tremble. took the handkerchief from his arms, and this handkerchief was returned before Cao Qing. He has always been with him, even when he went to the palace today, he also brought it with him, gently stroking the handkerchief, he thought of Mo Yan not hesitating to fight hard in order to go to the Chengguang Palace, his heart was full of jealousy, he was actually a little envious of that person. When he let Mo Yan go, he secretly decided that this was the last time he would help Mo Yan, and it would have nothing to do with it from now on.

It's just for Mo Yan that the price he paid is extraordinary. His father, Cao Cao, ordered him to be imprisoned and fought for forty years, and he turned a blind eye to the pleas of many people, and shouted: "He goes to the battlefield every day, and he is also such a woman's kindness, how many soldiers have died in Shacheng and cannot return?" The son does not teach the father's fault, and the pain of the flesh is better than the catastrophe in the future. When Cao Pi was arrested and taken to prison, Cao Cao whispered in his ear: "Zihuan, you have disappointed me too much." Cao Pi was not as favored as Cao Chong and Cao Zhi, so Cao Pi's status in the house was even more precarious.

"Zihuan! You okay? It was Cao Zhen's voice, and he was locked up in the cell opposite. Cao Pi put away the handkerchief and replied, "I'm sorry, Zidan, you suffered." ”

"Cao Zihuan, I don't like to hear what you say? We are all brothers, and we should share blessings and hardships. It's just that I don't understand, even if you don't do it properly and let that woman go to Chengguang Palace, why is he so ruthless that he will beat you with forty boards? You're his own son. Speaking of which, I always feel that I have seen the queen somewhere, but I don't seem to have seen it. However, I admire this woman. Huh? Zihuan, don't you like this kind of ......?"

"Zidan, you are so energetic, why don't you play another twenty boards?"

"Cao Pi!"

"Alright. Thank you for today's events. Cao Pi owes you once, you have to write it down. ”

"I try to remember, haha! Feed! Is there anybody? My son and I are hungry, hurry up and serve the meal, the punishment will be punished, if you dare to slack off, try it! ”

“……”

"There is a cage warbler in front of the hall, wailing in the morning and night, sad and sorrowful, and pitiful and endowed: I am sleepy and miserable, and the pain is dense with a net. Gu was poor and sad and did not tell him, knowing that the time was about to die. Sublimation hall and enter the palace, the mighty god of the Ming Dynasty. Only today's luck has to die and live. Holding the cage to perch, the wind is strong and wailing. ①”

Before dawn, Cao Cao came to prison. Before he saw him, he heard his voice first, he stopped, signaled that he would not visit again, and the people around him had to bow their heads.

"Give them the best medicine, and don't be lazy when you are recuperating from your wounds. I want them to return to the Prime Minister's Mansion safe and sound. ”

"Yes."

When Cao Cao ordered the battle to fight for forty, Cao Cao, as his father, was also heartbroken. Cao Cao hoped that this time could make him enlightened, but he was also worried about his other son, Cao Pi in front of him was gradually convincing people's hearts, and how should the young son face it in the future. But the war is imminent, and Cao Cao has no time to take care of these, so he can only think about them later.

Concentrate:

(1) Excerpt from Cao Pi's "Yingfu".