But the atmosphere sank for a moment, and his breathing suddenly became heavy, "Can't I stay here a little longer?" I just want to ...... I want to talk to you. I bent my knees and hugged them, my eyes were fixed on a certain point, and I said slowly in a very light tone: "Ah Ping, this path was chosen by yourself, you should have been able to predict today's situation when you told me, do you regret it?" ”

"I regret it." He even confessed unabashedly, "If I knew that taking this road would be farther and farther away from you, I would rather not take it." On that day, someone came to report that the concubine had come to Orchid Garden, and I immediately became uneasy, and I was walking with the imperial grandfather all the way to think about how to react when I saw you, but I looked at you standing lonely and lonely in the crowd, and I didn't even dare to look at you more, I made you look like this. ”

I rested my chin on my knee and said weakly, "That's your delusion, I'm fine." ”

He breathed hard, grabbed my hand and asked, "Lan, can I turn back?" Dingding looked at the palm, and I slowly raised my eyes to lock on him: "You tell me, how to turn back?" Ever since you made a decision with me that day, some things have been doomed from which there is no turning back. Do you remember when I called you Zhu Yunwen instead of Ah Ping? That's because when you have the emperor's order and responsibility, you are Zhu Yunwen, not the Ah Ping who has lived a life with me. So from now on, when you come back to Lanyuan, I can still treat you as Ah Ping, but when you walk out of Lanyuan, it is His Royal Highness Zhu Yunwen, the emperor's grandson. ”

Soon, you will also change your identity and replace your grandfather to ascend to the throne and become the person at the top of the power of the Ming Dynasty.

I silently added this sentence in my heart.

On the way back from Ginkgo Village, when he was about to enter the capital, he cautiously told me a decision that he had made after thinking about it for a long time.

Zhu Yuanzhang's body is obviously not good, and it is so bad that he can hardly govern anymore, it is completely a strong crossbow at the end of the hard support, because Aping's qualifications and experience are far from being able to govern the country, so he must become stronger in the shortest possible time.

If Zhu Yuanzhang can live for another five years, then Ah Ping can grow into a decisive emperor through these five years, and now he may have his own opinions on major affairs in the court, but it is not enough to deter the ministers. Therefore, in this harsh environment, the only way to assist him in ascending to the throne for a short time is to use the power of courtiers.

Zhu Yuanzhang arranged for Ah Ping to be assisted by the closest courtiers, but others may be able to restrain him when he is still there, but one day after he leaves, how will Ah Ping maintain this balance, and how will he make them surrender?

Therefore, before Ah Ping asked for orders to come to Ginkgo Village, Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a sentence: If you want to be a king, you should have a choice, this is the first lesson you must learn to be an emperor.

The quickest and shortest way to establish the most intimate ties with the courtiers is through political marriage.

Therefore, in the eyes of our ordinary people, the emperor has three palaces and six courts, but in fact, many of them have entered the palace for this reason. The emperor regarded marriage as a bridge to maintain the relationship between courtiers and friendly countries, so the boundary of the concubine was rarely because the emperor really liked it, but because of whether the power behind it was strong.

Ah Ping embarked on this road under Zhu Yuanzhang's heavy order, and it is bound to stage a bloody battle of the side concubines of the harem in the future. And if I were in it, I was afraid that I would only become a victim, and if he wanted to save me, he would have to put me in a corner where I was not taken seriously.

So the first thing he did after returning to the palace was to pretend to favor Ah Lan, who was brought back from outside, so that everyone in the palace thought that I had fallen out of favor, but I just insisted on giving birth to his eldest son and still have a place in Orchid Garden. After that, he married two side concubines and gradually brought the two forces into his hands, and he carried out everything in an orderly manner, and he also honed his mind to be tough enough.

But when he confessed to me at the time, I couldn't accept it but couldn't stop it, and no one knew better than me what path he would take in the future. In a sense, he is not wrong, and Zhu Yuanzhang is also right, he must have a choice for the king. In all dynasties, which emperor married only one person? Counting up and down 5,000 years, there is none.

So even if I mess with him and turn my face with him, it is just a temporary compromise for him, and it is inevitable in the end.

It can be said that they forced each other into a desperate situation at that time, and I either learned from him to choose and lose this relationship, and the premise was to be able to give up Yuan'er, because Yuan'er was a character written into the history books one by one in history; Either compromise and accept, but this goes against my principles and intentions. Eventually, I asked him not to set foot in the other party's realm until he had dealt with the messy relationship. Whatever he does outside the Orchid Garden, I will turn a blind eye and not see or listen.

It was the greatest tolerance I could make, and he accepted it.

I remember reading a book that still has this sentence: Even if I foresee all the sorrows, I am still willing to go. This is a very good phrase for me, and I had foreseen that I would be exiled from grief after that, but I still came back with him. Because what I foresee is not only sadness, but also a sad ending, if history cannot be changed, then Ah Ping and I will only have less than five years to go.

I don't want to waste time on meaningless arguments, quarrels, or even angry departures, even if I can only occasionally hear a few words about him from the mouths of others when I come back, but at least I can see him under the same blue sky as he is today, and at least I can see him and talk to him as I do today.

Also, in fact, when he confessed to me that day, I was deceiving myself by saying those words, and I would come to Orchid Garden after he had dealt with those relationships. But this wait is indefinite, even if he only uses them, but once he borrows this momentum, it is difficult to put it aside.

Ah Ping suddenly hugged me and said emotionally: "No, Lan, I will always be Ah Ping here, not Zhu Yunwen." Don't worry, I haven't touched them, I haven't touched anyone, and I'm just playing with Na Lan, in order to attract their attention, lest they fight against you. Although I put a secret guard in your place, I still can't reassure me, for fear that you will be angry with them if you neglect you, so I deliberately pamper her in front of people. ”

I frowned and asked, "Does she know why you're doing this?" ”

"I know, when I brought her back to the palace, I made it clear that if she wants to stay in the palace, she can only be your shadow."

Then, if there is no sorrow than Alan. At least I can live in Orchid Garden, but she is made public like a target, and she can only become his nominal concubine because of her identity, and she must have suffered from the two side concubines behind no one's back. But she was willing, judging from tonight's banquet, she was willing to act with Ah Ping.

Seeing that I was silent, Ah Ping hugged my ear and whispered: "Listen to me, don't think nonsense, I only recognize you as my wife in my life." When I can get into politics one day, I will definitely break this situation, so that you can stand by my side with dignity, and no one dares to question your identity and status, and I want the world to know that there is only one person in the world who loves you. ”

So what? Can he divorce those two concubines? Can you erase the fact that you once married them?

The "one" from one to the end can no longer be done.

This night, whether Ah Ping was playing tricks or being tough, he finally stayed overnight, but there was a gap between him and me. He could only put his arms across and gently put his arms around my waist, and the effect of the alcohol caused him to fall asleep quickly, but he slept restlessly, calling my name from time to time. But as soon as it was dawn he arose, and I pretended to be asleep and motionless, and heard him creed-down and crept out of the house, and I opened my eyes when the door was shut, and I was inexplicably startled.

I thought that this night was just him using the strength of wine to "go wild", but I didn't think that the next night in the dead of night he actually came again, this time he didn't say anything and climbed into bed first and locked me in his arms.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him helplessly.

was silent for a moment, and the voice reached the eardrum: "Lan, I've been thinking about this during the day, you said last night that when I came back to Lanyuan, I was Ah Ping, and when I came out of Orchid Garden, I was Zhu Yunwen, so can I be Zhu Yunwen during the day and Ah Ping at night." ”

I was stunned after listening to it, but I reacted that he had listened to my words in his ears, and he broke them down! Did I mean that? I mean he comes back once in a while and treats him politely so that he doesn't chase him away.

I had no room to turn down his proposal: "No. ”

"Why? I can take care of everything, and make sure that there will be no rumors to disturb Orchid Garden. ”

I couldn't help but laugh, "This is what you thought about it?" Did you come over at night in the open, or did you sneak around? If it's the former, what you arranged before was not in vain? And if it's the latter, where do you put me? ”

When did I get down to the point where he would sneak in at night? When I am one of those women who wait in the deep palace with tears every day? It's one thing to be relinquished, it's another to accept it.

The air seemed to freeze for a moment, and I thought he would let go and leave, but after a pause, I didn't see any movement from him, and I couldn't help but scold: "Let go of me." He tightened his arms and said arrogantly, "Don't let go." ”

I'm angry, is he going to cheat? But he followed and said: "Lan, I don't lie to you, I will never let you have the slightest risk of being exposed to danger until I am strong enough to protect you, besides, this is only temporary, one day I will let those people really bow down to me, not too long, at most half a year." ”

Ah Ping, who said these words, had a ruthless tone in his tone, and he knew that there was another side behind his gentleness, to put it bluntly, he was affected by the environment and was well versed in power, and he would use power for personal gain without a trace, and I had already experienced this aspect.