Chapter Seventy-Three: The Past Is Like Smoke
The moon shadow moved westward, and the breathing of several little radish heads gradually eased in the story told by Gu Lan, and seeing that they were all asleep, Gu Lan quietly got up and put on her clothes.
After a moment of hesitation before leaving, she still took the animal skin coat that Aggie had given her.
The moonlight is everywhere, and when you breathe it, you can see the white mist, and the moonlight and snow reflect each other, like daytime, and it is bright.
Gu Lan walked in the snow for a while, not knowing what to hear for a while, she buried her head and walked, suddenly her head hurt, her body staggered backwards, and she almost fell to the ground.
Aji's eyes were quick, and he hurriedly grabbed her wrist, "Be careful! ”
Gu Lan was pulled back by him and crashed into his arms.
This man! Deliberately do it!
Gu Lan raised her head, her eyes were shining, hiding a little anger, she rubbed her sore nose, and complained, "Why don't you remind me out loud?" ”
"I've been standing here all along, but you didn't see me." A smile hooked up at the corner of Aji's mouth, he touched Gu Lan's forehead and stroked it gently, "Does it still hurt?" ”
This action was too ambiguous, Gu Lan turned sideways and dodged his action: "If you have anything, just say it quickly, it's so cold." ”
She was dressed in animal skins and thin trousers and straw sandals underneath.
This pairing...... Let her be cold underneath.
Aji looked down, then he understood, and quickly took off his clothes and put them at her feet.
"If you take off your shoes, it's not cold to stand on them."
This fool, Gu Lan's big eyes blinked, and he didn't refuse.
When her feet warmed up, the two fell silent again.
Gu Lan was speechless: "You come out, does Grandpa Shao know?" ”
"He drank too much and was already asleep."
Thinking of Old Man Shao's reaction when he saw the paper, Aji shook his head slightly, "It's the first time I've seen him so happy in so many years." ”
"Why?"
Gu Lan's heart was pounding, she was waiting for Aji to answer him, maybe tonight, she would be able to know Aji's secret.
Fortunately, this time Aggie did not intend to continue to hide it.
He paused, was silent for a long time, lowered his head and did not look at Gu Lan's expression.
In a hoarse voice, he said, "I'll tell you a story." ”
The country they live in is called Jingguo, and there are six other countries in this land. The strength of Jingguo is not the strongest, nor is it the weakest, but it is a brother country with the Ming Kingdom next door, and the two have the same roots, and the kings of the two countries also have a very deep relationship.
Considering that each is the king of the two countries, there will always be estrangement, and the two countries decided to be in-laws and share a hundred years together.
More than 30 years ago, the queen of the Ming Dynasty gave birth to a princess, when the princess was born, the sky descended a vision, all the flowers and trees in the palace were full of vitality, sixteen years later, the princess was born in the country, dignified and generous.
And she also took on the burden of bonding the friendship between the two countries and married Jingguo.
The new king of Jingguo is six years older than her, treat her very well, since she entered the palace, dismiss the harem, the two are like a folk couple, love and affection, less than two years, the little prince of Jingguo was born.
In the memory of the little prince's childhood, everything is beautiful, the strict and pampered father, the gentle and beautiful queen mother, the carefree life in the palace......
But outside the palace that he didn't know, it was a mess.
King Jingguo is a good father, but he is not a good monarch, he wants to be a hermit more than a monarch, but fate forced him to this position, and he had to bear it.
But what he did was not very good, Lao Wang left behind a mess, the seven countries stood side by side, the relationship between them was not very good, and there were often wars and conflicts on the border.
During a visit from an envoy, the new king mishandled the situation and provoked another country to start a war, which was stronger than Jingguo, and Jingguo had no power to fight back, so he could only turn to his brother Mingguo for help.
And at this moment, the beautiful queen suddenly fell seriously ill and vomited blood, but died in seven days.
The reinforcements of the Ming Kingdom have not arrived for a long time, the external troubles are not stopped, and the internal worries are frequent, and the people say that it is because of the bad virtue of the new king, which attracts the wrath of the heavens, which attracts war, and the people who are harmed are conscripted, ten rooms and nine empty, and the men are all dead on the battlefield, and they will also be swallowed.
Now if you want peace, you can only overthrow a new king and establish a new king.
In this way, before the enemy could reach the outside of the palace, the new king was thrown off the dragon chair by his own people and hanged on top of the court.
That night, the fire burned the splendid palace to light, and the four-year-old prince was rescued by a loyal general, and fled all the way, eventually swindling to death, hiding incognito in a small isolated mountain village.
The past life was like a dream, and they tried to reclaim it all, but in vain.
On the contrary, in the quiet life day after day, he lost his sharp courage and became mediocre.
The tale of a vulgar last monarch.
Gu Lan read history books in her previous life, and she had not read a hundred of the same stories, but she had also read at least eighty.
But when such an example of defeat appeared in front of her, she had mixed feelings.
The dragon is trapped in the abyss.
What's more, Aji doesn't look like a prince at all, and Gu Lan can't imagine Aji being the king.
He is beautiful, calm, silent, quiet like a landscape painting, he may be a master, a clerk, but a king?
Gu Lan said something unpleasant, she didn't see similar qualities in Aji.
If you want to be a king, you must first be ambitious.
They are trapped here, saying that they are dormant, waiting for the resurgence of the mountain, and Gu Lan did see that Old Man Shao had high hopes for Aji, and he sent him to study, so that he could live like a carefree prince in such an environment.
But is that enough?
Aggie was raised by him to be a flower in the greenhouse, and it didn't look any aggressive.
Gu Lan felt a little regretful.
It's a pity that she can't tell Aggie these words.
She just asked Aggie, "Do you want to go back to the palace?" ”
Gu Lan didn't have the heart to tell Aji what story was not a story, Aji was the little prince back then.
Aggie's eyes were flustered, and he avoided answering.
Old man Shao had asked him this question more than once.
But every time, Aggie avoided answering.
If he was really a fool, he might be instigated by Old Man Shao to avenge his parents, even if it was only a dead end, he would kill him back to the palace.
But not only is he not stupid, but he is very smart.
When he escaped from the palace and wandered and hid among the people for two years, he saw a lot.
The people, instead of sympathizing with his father's plight, were glad that with the life of a single monarch, they could end the war and restore a peaceful life.
The people hated war.
If he wanted to return to that position, he would have to restart the war.
Fighting for what?
For his own selfishness?
People don't care who sits on the dragon chair, they only care about how well their lives are and how good they can be.