Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Deadly Yellow Box

"The King." Kong Ming hurriedly said, "If you want to go east, you must have soldiers, there must be grain and grass, there are generals like tigers and wolves, you must have a healthy commander, the king will take good care of his body, and the rest of the things will be arranged by Liang and His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

I also said: "Father, my son sent troops to Liangzhou, and I saw a lot of new things, and I want to talk about it with my father." ”

The father nodded, but patted his head: "I seem to have forgotten something, what do I have to say to Adou, what is it?" Kong Ming, do you know? ”

Kong Ming smiled and shook his head.

The father said: "By the way, I didn't tell you either, it seems that I want to tell Dou'er alone." Dou'er, you go to the inner room and bring the yellow box at the head of my bed, I seem to have written it down. ”

I got up and took my leave, and went into the inner chamber that my father wanted. This is my father's secret room, and he is the king, and the king's office is a secret place, and no one is allowed to enter it without permission. Except for Mr., there are very few people in this secret room. When the guard heard my father's words, he dodged half of his body and let me in.

I looked around, but there was a large map on the wall, and at first glance this was the handwriting of Mr., just like the one I saw in Yizhou, densely marked everywhere, and this one was obviously bigger than the one in Yizhou, and included the entire territory of the Han Dynasty. Next to the map hangs my father's double-stranded sword. Pens, paper and pens were placed in a mess on the desk, and a yellow box was placed in one corner.

Father's secret room is not allowed to be cleaned up at will, and it seems that my father himself has not cleaned up much.

I picked up the yellow box, and it was unlocked. So I opened it gently.

Deng Shi was dumbfounded.

The first piece of paper was a prescription, and it was clear, it was my father's prescription. The prescription was neatly folded, but in my hand, it was like a coal.

This medicine was placed here, and my father showed me it, and it was clear that he was suspicious! Either he didn't have evidence, or he had evidence and didn't point it out, but anyway, this prescription is here and already warning me.

Although I had thought a thousand times that my father might suspect this, I always reported it as a fluke. I even thought that even if my father found out that one day he really asked, whether he noticed it or tempted me, I would immediately kneel down and swear that I could even take the medicine myself to win his trust. I can't admit the name of my father, otherwise, I will never be able to turn over. Even if I am now the best choice to succeed my father, this title will cost me everything.

However, I found this prescription in this case, what should I do, destroy it? Anyway, my father was a little stupid, and if he didn't give him this thing, he wouldn't know.

But is he really stupid? Thinking of him in front of the door, I knelt down and left on my own, and I remembered the mystery hidden between his words--Adou is big, is it simply that I have grown up?

Sweat, drop by drop. The male and female double-stranded swords on his arms flashed with cold light, like his father's eyes. This association sends chills down my shoulders.

The box was rattling, and it was my trembling that drove it. All the pride, pride, and self-confinement since the conquest of Liangzhou disappeared in an instant, and I returned to the weak, lonely and fearful Adou I used to be.

I wiped the sweat from my head, put the prescription aside, and looked down again, and the second piece of paper read: "Zhuge Qiao! ”

What happened to Zhuge Qiao? How could my father have thought of him?

I hurriedly picked it up and examined it carefully, but the back of the paper was wiped by the pen hook, and only a feather fan was drawn. I used my eyes to look at the hook, and I could vaguely see: "...... Staying in Yizhou? What is the death of all witnesses...... Ascension ......"

My heart skipped a beat, and I felt that I was no longer myself, a few simple words, but my father's suspicions were clearly stated. Zhuge Qiao's importance to me is self-evident, why did I leave him in Yizhou instead of bringing him to the army as a counselor? After Liu Shengzhi was captured, why did all the people who proved him kill me? These few points alone are enough to direct the object of suspicion to me.

I thought I was seamless, but my father's two words picked out my loopholes.

Of course, I can defend myself, and I have countless reasons to stop these two suspicions, but can I go directly to my father? What is it if you are not a thief?

My feet began to weaken and I almost fell to the ground. The worries I have been worried about have come true so quickly!

Father, what will you do with me? Have I just tasted the taste of dominating my own destiny, and am I going to lose it forever?

I wandered around the chamber in confusion, my heart beating violently. And what does my father mean by crossing all of this, and what does that feather fan represent?

I understand. The father seems not to be ready to check Zhuge Qiao, because of the feather fan, because he is the son of the gentleman. Whatever the truth, the father has decided to let him go.

So? Will my father let me go?

What am I going to do?

Tear these two pieces of paper off, and then hope that your father is really confused?

I was wrong, the first mistake was that the means were too shady, and the second mistake was that the attack was too weak. When I was young, I messed up both of these things, and now, my father's words can make me lose everything. But how did my father find out about this? With Zhuge Qiao's shrewdness, how could Liu Shengzhi leak the news to Chang'an; With the abilities of the doctors under his father, how could he doubt this calming elixir that promoted the efficacy of the medicine? What went wrong?

But now none of this matters, what matters is how my father will treat me. Now that he's aware of it, do I still hope I can get away with it?

Outside, Kong Ming said something to his father, and his father laughed, and in that laughter, there seemed to be a childlike innocence, and it was no longer as unfathomable as before. At this time, I really felt that I had never seen through my father.

"What to do? What to do? I asked myself anxiously in the bottom of my heart.

At last, I took the box in my hand, went outside, knelt down, raised my hands above my head, and offered myself to my father. Whatever comes next, I admit it, and since I've done it, I have to accept the result, whatever that happens. In front of my father, I actually had no other way to go.

The conversation between my father and Kong Ming stopped. I kept my head down, not knowing what the two of them were looking at or what my father was doing. I bowed low, only to see a jade pendant on his waist swinging gently. This extremely low position reminds me of the time when I was with my father when he was not yet high in his belt.

I was stupid at that time, and my father touched my head with his hand and said, "It's better to be stupid, and live longer if you are stupid." "Think about Adou in another world, is it really because I have become smart that I won't live long?

In fact, it was only a short period of time, but in me, it seemed like a lifetime, my father smiled, and his breath blew on my face: "Hehe, what a good boy." This thing will be given to you. It's fun to take home and take a good look at it when you're fine. ”

"Yes." I put the box beside me, bent down deeply, and rested my head at my father's feet, for a long time, for a long time, without any movement.

The father waved his hand and asked Kong Ming to withdraw. Then he walked alone in the temple for a few steps, and after a long time, he sighed: "You have learned wisely, but you have been too wise!" You, you don't understand a father's heart at all! ”

"I ,......" I looked up at my father with tears in my eyes, my lips twitching, but I didn't know how to speak.

A father's heart! Can a son of a monarch have a father?

My father and I looked at each other for a long time, and finally sighed: "Forget it, I'm old and confused anyway, I will forget about this matter in a few days." ”

He, a generation of heroes, even if he is old, will he forget about it? Will he let me go? Can I forgive myself if I change places?

There was no punishment, and he just gently lifted the page.

Why?

I, on the contrary, was in a state of panic.

In the following days, all that was dealt with was the funeral of the emperor.

Due to the death of the emperor, we all over the country to hang filial piety, my father regardless of his frailty, every day he went to Chang'an outside the city to summon the soul to set up sacrifices, crying bitterly, and the honorable name said "filial piety to the emperor".

And Liangzhou Dasheng did not hold any celebrations in this atmosphere, and it was hastily done.

Originally, my father urgently summoned us because of the death of the emperor, but Zhang Fei didn't know, but he brought his daughter, and he really had the intention of giving me a marriage, but in this case, naturally he couldn't mention it again.

However, the funerals of Huang Zhong and other soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country were still dignified.

Outside the city of Chang'an, at the foot of the mountain. The wind blows the banner of Chinese characters.

"The coffin is in the ground, my father ......" I whispered in my father's ear. The father did not speak, as if he heard, but did not seem to hear, but stared blankly at the coffin that was quietly put into the pit, and the wind blew his white hair, like the white grass on the autumn plain. These days, he cries too much and his voice is completely hoarse, but he still insists on sending Huang Hansheng a ride.

People looked at the white-haired monarch and were waiting for something.

After a long time, my father bent down with some great difficulty and grabbed a handful of dirt with great difficulty. His hands trembled a little, and he wanted to say something, but his lips were stiff and could not be opened. I gently grabbed him, and he gently got rid of me, and took a few steps forward, looking more intently at the black wooden coffin, and for a while, he slowly raised his hand, and a gust of wind blew the dirt away, and sprinkled down his fingers. Plop landed on the coffin.

"Hansheng, my left wing is guarded by you." Father's whispers, only I could hear.

This area is a cemetery chosen by his father, and Huang Zhong's tomb is at his father's feet.

I stepped forward gently, grabbed a handful of soil, sprinkled it on the coffin, and shouted, "General Huang, go all the way!" ”

The civil and military men who saw them off said in unison: "General Huang, go all the way!" ”

Kong Ming chanted a long funeral song: "Shallot on the dew, He Yixi!" Luxi Ming Dynasty has fallen, when will people return when they die!"

Everyone was in harmony: "Luxi Ming Dynasty is more falling, when will people return when they die!" ”

The sacrificial ceremony sang: "Seal the cave-" In an instant, the cry was loud, and tears flew like rain. The tigers raised their shovels and pickaxes in unison. Huang Hansheng, a veteran of the generation who killed Xiahou Yuan, was invincible with invincible arrows and unparalleled swords and horses, and was buried under the loess like this. Since then, it has only been accompanied by the autumn wind and cold moon, and the ghost fire and fireflies.

Thinking of the arrow that crossed the boundary at the head of the quail city, and the desperate conquest of him and the fierce general Yan Yan, I couldn't help but be slightly stupid.

My father looked at Huang Zhong's tomb and whispered in a voice that only I could hear: "Son, the heroes in the hands of my father are all old, and they all came with my father and will go with my father. You are the continuation of my life, and you will deal with Cao Pi and Sun Quan instead of me, so now you pick some people by yourself, train some soldiers, win over some ministers, and use some conspiracies, I don't blame you. ”

After that, he got into the chariot without looking back.

Three days later, Zhuge Qiao returned to me on his father's orders!