Chapter 7: The Finale
I woke up in the dark, my mind drowsy, unable to distinguish things.
"Awake?" The man's voice rang in my ears.
I struggled to find something to lean on, but he scooped it up and held it in his arms.
Alarm bells are ringing in my heart.
"It's me, don't be afraid."
It's runes.
My hands and feet were cold, and I struggled to remember what had happened before I fell unconscious.
The army had been marching for more than half a month, and when it came to a land of mountains and rivers, Ji Qing set up camp, and I stayed alone in the tent until late at night. I suddenly heard shouts outside the tent, and when I got up to look, I was knocked out on the head.
Remembering everything, I didn't dare to move in Fu Guang's arms, I only felt him rubbing my arm inch by inch, resting his chin on my shoulder and saying, "You guys quarreled, didn't you?" Did that kid in Yuan Ming move his mind that shouldn't be moved? ”
I don't want to talk to him.
Fu Guang sighed and let me go: "You stay here obediently, and when the matter is over, I will take you back to the palace." ”
My heart tightened, and I felt that this was really strange.
What's the end? Why did you take me back to the palace?
I didn't speak, someone walked into the tent, breathed a sigh, and said again: "Fu Xiang is beautiful in her arms, so impatient?" ”
Fu Guang chuckled and let go of me: "This kid is disobedient and very clever, so he has to watch closely." ”
He should have gotten up and bypassed the screen and spoke to the man: "King Huainan, don't worry, we have already broken Ji Qing's vanguard, but we can't find him alone." We have surrounded this mountain, and he will not be able to escape. As long as he can't run away and can't report the letter, I'm afraid that we will only know that we are coming when we arrive at the door of the yellow-haired little er's dormitory. ”
King of Huainan, King of Huainan......
I couldn't stop shaking. Fu Guang had already colluded with the princes, and he should cooperate with the outside and wait for an opportunity to usurp the throne. He pretended to be so good, he also recommended his son-in-law, and discussed with the ministers about grain and grass, military aircraft, soldiers and horses...... He was like a man with a thousand faces, and the holster was peeled off layer after layer.
Fu Guang sent the King of Huainan away, turned to come in again, he took off my blindfold, and lowered his head and kissed me on the forehead.
I shook my head to dodge, and he grabbed me by the chin.
"I'll let you go out for a spin, not to let you get carried away and do whatever you want." Fang was still close to me, but now his eyes are almost cold when he looks at me, like an executioner, "What about the Queen Mother?" Yuan Ming became the emperor, you are the queen mother, if Yuan Ming died, what do you think you would be? ”
I glared at him, eager to skin him and cramp him, and cut him with a thousand cuts.
Fu Guang's fingertips rubbed against my eyebrow: "You used to be very well-behaved and listened to me, why did you become the way you are now?" It seems that I am indulging you too much. ”
"Traitor! Traitor! I gritted my teeth, "You disregard family affection, cold-blooded freak!" ”
Hearing this, Fu Guang suddenly got up and looked at me condescendingly, as if he was examining his prey: "Traitor? What is a thief? Win or lose, as long as I win and the throne is secure, I am right, and I will be a hero who turns the tide in the history books. And Yuan Ming is just a pitiful "Emperor of the Dead" who hasn't even been on the throne. But don't worry, I'm still a little interested in you now, and I won't treat you badly in the harem in the future. As long as you are well-behaved, I will love you. ”
He reached out and stroked his hair, all the way down, cheeks, chin, lips. He suddenly leaned over and bit my lip with some long-suppressed mania and abuse.
It's disgusting, his hands, his mouth, everything about him, it makes me so sick.
I grunted and struggled to dodge.
Fu Guang pinched my cheek with two fingers and squeezed it desperately, and he commanded me: "Open your mouth." ”
"Phew! You! "I was not afraid to die and spat on him.
His eyes suddenly widened, and his anger and irritability could no longer be concealed. He threw me onto the bed, who had been tied up, and pulled the rope around my neck from behind.
The feeling of suffocation rushed to my head, my ears buzzed, and my face turned red as I opened my mouth wide to breathe. He shoved his fingers into my mouth and leaned on my back, stirring as he spoke. Touching my lips and tongue: "Disobedient things, I'm afraid you have forgotten how I used to punish you, right?" ”
The white light in front of my eyes was dotted, my hands and feet were numb, and I felt that my body suddenly became very light, as if I was about to fly into the sky, and there was no more pain.
"Fu Yan!" I don't know who shouted and called my three souls and seven spirits back to my body.
I rolled my eyes in a daze, and I saw a blurry figure.
"Fu Yan! Look at me! Look at me! ”
Who is it? Who's talking.
Something warm seemed to run down the top of my head, sticking to my eyelashes, scarlet.
I'm so tired, I'm dizzy, my body is so heavy, I want to have a big dream, forget the floating world of three thousand, and I don't have to see the pain of Hongchen again.
When I woke up again, I was no longer in the Rune Light Tent. My head was still a little groggy, and I wanted to get up.
"Don't move!" Yuan Ming came from behind the screen and tucked the corners of the quilt for me, "What do you want?" I'll help you. ”
I didn't speak, just looked at him quietly. Yuan Ming was a little uncomfortable by me, and he staggered his eyes: "If it's okay, I'll call the doctor ......."
I struggled to get up and hugged him, crying silently: "Yuan Ming...... Yuan Ming ......"
I shouted his name over and over again, as if that wasn't enough.
Yuan Ming didn't move, letting my tears wet his shoulders. It took a long time for him to raise his hand to soothe my back, and I cried and convulsed in his arms.
His voice was low and soothing, and he kept reassuring me: "It's okay, it's okay." I killed Fu Guang, and I avenged you...... It's okay. ”
Yuan Ming's generous and warm hand ironed my heart, and the heat was transmitted to my limbs little by little, and my heart was no longer flustered.
"King Huainan and Fu Guang......" I want to tell him.
He immediately interrupted: "I know. ”
"You know?" I was stunned, "You knew that Fu Guang was going to rebel?" ”
"I know."
I was a little angry and incredulous: "You deliberately used me as bait?" ”
Yuan Ming smiled angrily and said to me helplessly: "Fu Yan, I just saved you, and you framed me like this, and you still say that I am a white-eyed wolf?" ”
I didn't dare to talk too much, and lowered my head.
Yuan Ming looked at me, suddenly held my face, and said seriously: "Fu Yan, you listen well." I only knew he was going to rebel, but I didn't know he was going to take you away. He's too greedy. If you want it, you want it. He will definitely pay for it.
"I've always sent people to follow you along the way, and the Taishou along the way have also changed their blood, and they are all obedient. I've come all the way, and I know everything. Yuan Ming looked at the look on my face and continued, "Do you think I will really let you go?" I would have liked...... When you arrive in Shuodi, I will ask the gods to steal you back and lock you up in the palace without knowing it, so that no one will know that you are with me, and we can be together again. Until the birth of the child, the ministers were no longer in a position. ”
My face was red and white: "Crazy." ”
"I'm going crazy." Yuan Ming stared at me motionlessly, "But I'm just thinking about it, I know you're not going to be happy, and you don't want to." As I said, I'm not going to force you to do something you don't want to. I'm not the same as him, and I'm not the same as them. ”
I looked down and digressed: "How did you get here so quickly?" ”
Yuan Ming pursed his lips, as if he didn't want to mention it very much, but he still said: "It's not fast, it took me five days and I ran three horses to death." ”
"Five days? I slept for five whole days? ”
Yuan Ming gritted his teeth and turned his face away: "Fu Guang was afraid that you would make trouble, so he drugged you." ”
"What about Ji Qing? Does he know about it? ”
Yuan Ming looked at me and squinted slightly, quite like a fox.
"He already knew about it?" I asked tentatively.
Yuan Ming nodded: "Yes, I told him, so my strategy is completely different from what I planned with Fu Guang at the beginning." The vanguard was not a pioneer, but a prisoner on death row in the prison, and the real army marched halfway with the grain and grass long before the expedition. Fu Guang didn't know. ”
I sneered, "I don't know either." ”
Yuan Ming played with my fingers: "Let me ask you, what would you do if you knew that Fu Guang was going to kill me?" ”
I was thinking about it, but Yuan Ming answered for me first: "You will kill him for me first, right?" Fu Yan, you have done too much for me, I don't want your hands to be stained with blood again, let alone dirty blood like his. Now I only regret one thing, that is, I really let you go when I was angry with you that day. If I let you go a little more...... At all, it won't let you suffer such grievances. ”
I listened to him babble and babble, and the ghost put his arms around his neck.
"Shhhh
I sat up on my knees and made a gesture to lift his clothes: "You have it, right?" Let me see! ”
"It's okay, it's just a small injury......"
I didn't care about him, I had already ripped open his shirt, and the gauze was wrapped around my left shoulder to my abdomen, and I could see that it was a new gauze, but I still saw blood.
My whole person seemed to have been drained of all my strength, and I felt so distressed: "You fool...... You idiot......"
Yuan Ming saw me crying, a little at a loss, he raised his hand to wipe away my tears, but I fell more and more, he came up and kissed me. I closed my eyes and felt his dragonfly kiss, as gentle and light as a dandelion on my face.
"I've always been smart, Fu Yan. I've always known what I want, what kind of people I want. He looked at him steadfastly, "I want you, and I've always told you very clearly that the person I want is you." We've all come through such a hard time, I really don't understand why you have to ...... Gotta leave me. What exactly are you afraid of? ”
He was injured, desperate to save me, looking at me aggrieved and puzzled, my heart suddenly turned into a puddle of water.
"Tell me...... All the prisoners will be condemned. "He's starting to be coquettish again.
I looked up at him for a long, long time.
"Yuan Ming, the first half of my life was very bad. I had naively thought that Fu Guang would love me, but he didn't; Later, I thought that your father and my husband would love me, but neither did he. Then I thought, why is this so? It's because I'm too attached to their love for me, but those things are always fake, fleeting, they can't belong to me forever, and they can't be my protection.
"All I can do is use it to climb higher and higher, to a place where I can hold power and no one can disobey me. I did it, I became the Queen Mother. But I ...... But I find that I don't have the same feelings for you as I used to, and so do you...... Your words and deeds are telling me that we are not the same as before.
"I was scared, very scared. I'm afraid you'll be like your uncle and your father, and I'm afraid I'll be moved again, and I'll make myself doomed. Rather than not dying well in the future, it is better to stop here, it is better than Lan Yinsuguo...... "I lowered my head, "Yuan Ming, I hope you can be a good emperor who will go down in history, and there will be no flaws in the history books." When future generations mention your name, they will only think of your merits, how you love the people like a son, and how you save the people from fire and water. You know, I had a hard time, nineteen years...... I have changed from a slave girl who is about to starve to death to the queen mother of this dynasty, I have splendid clothes and delicacies, but how many people are still living in misery in this world, and how many things do you still have to do? ”
Yuan Ming was silent, took my hand and put it on his shoulder and pressed it down heavily. I was so shocked that I wanted to withdraw, but he grabbed me and couldn't move.
"This will answer your first question." He sweated with pain on his forehead, "This knife is deep enough to see the white bones, and it almost split me in half, and I suffered it for you." Let me ask you, who of the two men in front of you would do this for you? But I can. ”
"Second question." He moved my hand to his heart. His heart was pounding, and it was hot as if there was a fire burning: "If I say, I am willing to share the world equally with you, and you and I will be the co-masters of this country and govern together. Governing the country and saving the world from danger, are you willing to go back to the palace with me? ”
Rao has seen the wind and waves, and now I can't sit still. I opened my mouth to say something, but it seemed like I was choked.
A nineteen-year-old boy, a nineteen-year-old emperor, gave me all his most precious things like a devout believer.
I kicked deeply, trembling and asked, "You're not afraid...... The ministers are outraged? ”
He scoffed: "Don't be afraid. ”
"You're not afraid...... The world scolds? ”
"Don't be afraid."
"You're not afraid...... History book? ”
He leaned in close to me: "Don't be afraid." ”
I hid my face and wept, I don't know if it was tears of happiness or tears of guilt.
I suddenly remembered what the first queen said to Yuan Ming-
People's hearts may really be warm.
postscript
There are many records in the "Chronicles of the Northern and Southern Dynasties":
Jingtian Minshun Queen Fu is a concubine, her father is also a countryman, and her mother is anonymous. At the beginning, she was a concubine of Cheng Cong, and she entered the palace for Mrs. Li Dirong at the seventeenth, with a very beautiful posture, good at greeting, wise and wise, lucky, favored, moving at home and abroad, talking about demons and disasters, and the emperor did not obey. And Emperor Li Fu died, crowned the six palaces, Fu Kangdi, often accompanied by driving, belonged to the literature to read, through the hundred divisions, and Emperor Li collapsed, Emperor Kang succeeded to the throne, hung the curtain to listen to the government, and collected people's hearts. When the emperor is nineteen, there are six after the twentieth, the emperor Yue, the long luck from, after the seal, the main dynasty, the waste of Tongxing. Shi Chen had many words, and the emperor abolished the Buddha, and the voice gradually died down. In the first year of the vertical arch, the Southern Dynasty invaded the territory, and the Fu family had many advices, and the emperor won from it, and the love was diligent. Five years old, the Southern Dynasty was destroyed, the world was dominated, the founding name was "Jin", the Emperor of Kandi, the Queen of Fu was called the Queen of Heaven, also known as the "Little Fu Hou", the world called it "Two Saints", and the world called it.
Empress Fu had five sons, all of whom were from Emperor Kang. The eldest son, Yuan Xu, is the king of Fengyin Mountain; the second son, Yuan Li, the king of Huainan; the third daughter, Princess Qinghe; the fourth daughter, Princess Anning; The fifth son, Yuanxi, was the feudal king of Kang and later the crown prince.
During the reign of the queen of heaven, she made more suggestions, persuaded Nongsang, Bo Fu, repaired literature and ink, passed the ditch, Guangyan Road, Du slander, expressed loyalty, and committed treachery, and wrote more than 20 volumes such as "Yaoyue Lines Collection", "Ancient and Modern Training", "Ming Palace Discipline", etc.
Shi said: Emperor Li hurt the country, and the two saints reopened.
In the twenty-third year of Xining, Fu Hou collapsed, at the age of fifty-seven, the emperor mourned, dropped out of the dynasty for five days, and did not regain his face. In the twenty-sixth year of Xining, Emperor Kang collapsed, the prince succeeded to the throne, and the emperor and queen were buried in Tailing.
After the prince worships his ancestors on the winter solstice, his sleeves are wet with tears, and he says: I can't see my parents when I raise my eyes, but I can only see Tailing Chunxuan and luxuriant.