Cao Zhi let out a long sigh and looked at the riverbank, in a trance.

"Sir, I think you've heard a lot of legends about me and Roselle in the outside world, right?" He asked gloomily.

"Yes...... Yes, there are some. ”

"Let's talk about it." Cao Zhi's smile was more bitter than the cool breeze that had struck.

"It's all you...... I fell in love with your sister-in-law Queen Zhen, after she died, you missed her deeply, and then passed by the Luoshui River, seeing things and thinking about people, fantasizing that she would turn into Luoshen and come to meet you......" I felt a little embarrassed halfway through my speech, so I hurriedly rounded the field. "Of course I know this is not true, this must be the subjective speculation of posterity, people always like to listen to those tragic stories......"

"Haha." Cao Zhi sneered twice. "Future generations are really smart, and they can always find some clues, so history can't be deceived, and the truth will always be blown out when the waves wash the sand."

"What! Isn't that right? ”

Cao Zhi's tone and tone seem to have recognized this legend.

"Half of the story is true." Cao Zhi said. "I'm actually even more disdainful than the legend says."

He slowly stood up, walked to the river, picked up a small pebble, and skimmed a long splash. "Zhen Luo and I met here, when she was only sixteen years old, and my father and Yuan Shao had not yet started a war."

"So, you knew her before she became your brother's princess." I say.

Cao Zhi nodded with a vacant look in his eyes. "That's right, at that time we were admiring the scenery and writing poetry on the riverside, and I had never seen such a talented woman, and I was fascinated at that time."

Halfway through the words, Cao Zhi stopped, that memory seemed to have been deliberately forgotten by him, and only by digging hard could he slowly recall it.

"At that time, he was the wife of Yuan Shao's second son, Yuan Xi, and at that time, although Yuan Cao Ming had not yet started a large-scale war, he was actually eager to try." Cao Zhi looked at the sparkling lake and said indifferently. "We were hostile, but we didn't care. also admired me very much, and finally we agreed that if Yuan Shao was defeated, I would marry her. ”

When telling this story, Cao Zhi's eyes showed a look that had just been completely complete, which was a kind of pure sincerity.

"Your Highness, you were just a whim at that time, but you really fell in love with her."

Cao Zhi glanced at me with a smile. "Sir, many things in the world are not so absolute, what I say is both true and false, I admire her is true, I want to marry her is also true, but I don't dare to take everything I say seriously, because in the troubled times, the love of children is too small."

I somehow understood what he meant, even though his words were really hazy. "You're afraid your father will be defeated, right?"

"Yes, at that time, my father's troops were far inferior to Yuan Shao, if the battle was defeated, those officers and soldiers could live, those generals could live, and those strategists could live, but our royal family had no way to live." Cao Zhi looked up at the vast sky, looking tired. "It was a precarious time, and who would dare to take such a promise to heart?"

In the battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao was five times the strength of Cao Cao, and no one would have thought that Cao Cao could win at that time, but history is so wonderful.

"As a result, in the battle of Guandu, my father sent troops to attack Yuan Shao's granary in Wuchao, and as a result, he won a great victory after another, and defeated the invincible Yuan Shao in one fell swoop." Cao Zhi said lightly. "Zhen Luo wrote to me, hoping that I would remember our agreement at that time."

"Why didn't you ask your father to marry Empress Zhen to you at that time?"

"I think if I told my father about it at that time, my father would have given me a good chance of it, because at that time my father appreciated me, appreciated my talent, appreciated my character." Cao Zhi slowly walked back to the tree, picked up another pot of wine, and drank it to himself. "But I didn't dare at that time, because I knew that my father and brother liked Zhen Luo very much, and they were all fascinated by her beauty, and I thought that if I fought with my father, I would inevitably offend my father, and I would be farther and farther away from the throne......"

Cao Zhi's last sentence really made me feel like a thorn in my back, he actually mentioned the throne himself, I always thought that the rich and colorful Cao Zhi didn't disdain the throne at all.

"Your Highness...... I always thought that you had no intention of being an emperor. ”

"Hahaha." Cao Zhi smiled bitterly. "That Cao Zhi, who can only drink and have fun, is the Cao Zhi that people fantasize about, and it is also what I hope I can become, but it is not the real me."

“......”

"There is no one in the world who is really indifferent to the throne. Even if you know that it brings far more pain than happiness, you will still go forward and chase it tirelessly, and I am a mortal, so I can't escape this. ”

"Your Highness...... "I suddenly felt at this moment that Cao Zhi in front of me was so real, maybe we had been too idealistic in shaping his image before.

"And sir, I think you must know that I have never been alone, since I was born in the emperor's family, there are countless pilgrims and strategists standing behind me, the name Cao Zhi represents a collective, I can be indifferent to myself, but I can't let everyone indifferent." Cao Zhi said sadly.

The breeze whipped the folds of the lake, the grass rustled on both sides, and the sun gradually dimmed.

The shadow under his tree grew longer and longer.

"It's just that I didn't expect that in the end, my father would marry Zhen Luoxu to my brother." The expression on Cao Zhi's face at this moment was more colorful than the sparkling waves in the lake, helpless, unwilling, remorseful, and cowardly. "And although they staged a farce to fight for Zhen Luo at that time, they didn't change their father's decision to pass the throne to his brother in the end."

The heart is intentional, but the resistance is deep.

Draw the knife and cut off the water, how to resist the rapids and rapids.

"Sir, don't you think I'm funny. At the end of the day, nothing was gained. Cao Zhi drank by himself, gradually getting drunk again.

"Your Highness...... Fate is always unpredictable. I comforted.

"Actually, if this matter is just like this, forget it, Zhen Luo became the queen, I think she lived a glorious and rich life, she should have forgotten me a long time ago." Cao Zhi's sadness seemed to be even stronger, and that expression was really unbearable. "But one day, she suddenly had a tryst with me, saying that she had been unhappy all these years, and she said......"

"Your Highness, if you have something unspeakable, it's okay not to say it."

Cao Zhi laughed twice. "It's been thousands of years, how can there be anything unspeakable, Zhen Luo told me that she wants to give up everything, she just wants to be with me, she wants to find a mountain forest with me to live a secluded life."

"This ......" shook my heart, it was a fragment I had never heard before.

"Sir, I ...... at this time I'm cowardly again, I really don't dare, I was being suppressed by my brother at that time, and I was living a turbulent life, and she was the queen, how could I bear to hurt her. Cao Zhi was a little choked up when he said this, but it was only for a moment, and he immediately covered it up. Also, after all, she is her brother's queen, and I'm afraid of ......"

"Your Highness, are you afraid of bearing the infamy of history?" I spoke for him.

"Hey......" Cao Zhi sighed, this sigh can really be described as the warmth and coldness of the world, sad and melancholy.

"There is no pain when you go out, and there is no worry when you go in. There is a lot of sad wind on the borderland, and the trees are beautiful! ”

I know that this poem is Zhen Luo's famous sentence, but when Cao Zhi read it, it is so compatible.

"She actually wrote this poem to me at the time."