"It doesn't matter how long it is!"

He muttered, "I'll start with the time when the saint is still king." ”

"Now in the court, Liu Ceye and Wang Zhang are the most powerful. Wang Zhang is from the family of the Empress Dowager, and Liu Ceye is also from a family, and he is the uncle of the prince. But the current queen Liu is not the prince's biological mother, but an aunt. ”

When the sage was the king, he took the daughter of the Liu family of the Kanto family as his concubine at the beginning, and Concubine Liu gave birth to the current prince Li Mao, who died of illness. When it came time to discuss the step-concubine, the Liu family originally hoped that one of Concubine Liu's cousins would continue to be Princess Ding, but King Ding had other intentions, and the woman was the later Princess Yin.

Yin's father once made the country's son of sacrificial wine, Yin's daughter was very good-looking, and I don't know what kind of chance, into the eyes of the king, the king admired, and asked for the front of the old sage.

At that time, the old saint was getting old and was wary of his sons. This request of the king should be exactly what he wants, and the lord has given him the marriage.

"It is said that when Princess Yin married Dingwang, she was only seventeen or eighteen, and Dingwang was also in the prime of her heroic life. There is a female crown view in the nearby Wubenfang, the name of the hairpin star, that place was originally the Dingwang Mansion, the name of the hairpin star, is also from the county lord. Not only that, I heard that the reason why the little county lord used the hairpin star as his name seems to have a history back then......"

"Needless to say," Su Yu interrupted Zhou He's words, "What's going on with the empty tomb?" ”

"This is going to start with Ye Zhongli. Ye Zhongli claimed to be a disciple all over the world, but there was only one person he really accepted as a disciple and took it with him to teach carefully, and that person was named Ding Baiya. ”

It was the first time that Su Yu heard that Ah Gong had such a personal disciple, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Ding Baiya is talented, articles, poems and paintings, all of which are good, but because of his humble background, he has no family background, and after coming to Chang'an, he repeatedly failed to pass the imperial examination, and finally became disheartened, abandoned the book and painted. He was naturally smart, and he was carefully taught by Ye Zhongli, and he became famous in Chang'an a few years later. ”

"Ye Zhongli left Chang'an after painting the Jingluo long scroll, but Ding Baiya did not leave, and became the most high-profile court painter after that, participated in various palace banquets, and once made portraits of the royal ladies from the queen mother to the princesses and princesses."

"Ding Baiya is rich and beautiful, chic and uninhibited, has the demeanor of the Wei and Jin dynasties, after becoming famous, he got the name of the first beautiful man in Chang'an, because he usually wears white clothes, everyone is called Ding Lang in white, and there are countless women who admire him. It is rumored that there are even many noble ladies from high families, in order to beg him to be a statue, digging out their hearts, and they do not hesitate to spend a lot of money to bribe the powerful eunuchs of Sigongtai, so that the eunuchs can arrange opportunities for them. He was alone in love with Princess Ding, and deliberately approached him as a court painter, and the two gradually had a personal relationship, but because of their identity, they each endured it. Later, it coincided with chaos and gave a god-given opportunity. ”

It is said that on the eve of the Beijing break, the Empress Dowager summoned Princess Yin to take the little princess into the palace to prepare for Xixing, but she took the opportunity to escape with Ding Baiya, and then disappeared, and there was no news of the two of them. After King Ding ascended the throne, if these two people were alive, they would naturally not show up, maybe now they are in a place where they don't know where they are, and they have made a pair of free mandarin ducks. ”

Su Yu heard the blood flowing backwards all over his body, and his heart was beating suddenly.

She remembered it too.

When she entered the palace with A-Niang, she did see a young painter who was born as beautiful as jade. The painter also painted portraits of her and A-Niang together. I remember that A-Niang liked it very much, and once hung the picture of mother and daughter in the bedroom. Later, for some reason, Aya seemed to dislike it, and the portrait was removed.

"Impossible! I asked you to tell me about the old court affairs, but you told me these rumors that I heard from nowhere! She couldn't help but retort.

Zhou He sneered.

"If you look at common sense, it's really unlikely. But that day, the world overturned, Chang'an was in chaos, even the emperor left his people and fled, everyone's lives were in danger, what else was there to fear? In that case, what is the identity? ”

"I don't know if you've ever seen the place called She'an Temple in Chongrenfang. Before the rebellion, it was originally the occasion for the royal family to hold a wedding for the princess and the princess, and civilians were not allowed to trespass, how noble. After the Beijing was broken, dozens of royal princesses and horses who had not had time to escape took refuge in the news, and the rebels arrived, raped and killed the princess, and slaughtered the horses, their blood flowed out of the threshold, staining the ground red. ”

"The sky has fallen, no matter how noble their bloodline is, how can they be, and they are not slaughtered like pigs and dogs? It's better to take the opportunity to leave with your sweetheart, and you can have a happy rest of your life. ”

Su Yu's expression barely remained still, but his hands were clenched into fists under his sleeves, and he trembled uncontrollably.

Zhou He continued: "Naturally, whether Princess Yin escapes or not, whether she is dead or alive is not up to me. But in the first few years after the chaos was pacified, everyone in the court knew about this rumor. Why are there so few murals painted by Ye Zhongli in Chang'an City in his early years? His original handwriting on paper and silk is now even more difficult to find. Although the rebels did destroy some of them, including the long scroll he had painted in the Yong'an Temple, they did not destroy all of them. The rest is all from the present. ”

After he ascended the throne, the Taoist temples of Chang'an have taken action, either covering the old pictures with new paintings, or simply eradicating them. If it weren't for the order, who would have destroyed the original works? Nowadays, only the south wall of the Tianwang Hall of Qinglong Temple still has a mural of him. It is said that it was because the monks were reluctant to risk their lives to build a whole new wall in front of the south wall to cover it, which has survived to this day. Not to mention, at that time, the court painters who had dealings with Ding Baiya didn't know how many had been driven and killed! ”

He didn't say it, but the meaning was clear. That was at the beginning of King Ding's ascension to the throne, because he hated Ding Baiya and became angry with Ye Zhongli, ordered the destruction of Ye Zhongli's pictures, and persecuted those painters who had dealings with Ye Zhongli.

"What you say may not be accurate."

Su Yu settled down, and couldn't help but defend again.

"If that's what you say, why didn't you stop it? I heard that in the new hall built for the longevity of the saint, there is even a reproduction of the long scroll that Ye Zhongli once made! ”

Zhou He nodded: "What you said is good. But if you were a saint, you would do the same. At first, it was an act of anger and hatred. I'm afraid ordinary people can't bear such humiliation, let alone the Son of Heaven? But later, you'll figure it out. The more this is the case, the more the rumor is confirmed? What is the face of the saint, and how can he be embarrassed? Besides, Ye Zhongli's reputation is too great, and the people are already called gods. It's not that I offended Tianwei, even if the saint is the Son of Heaven, I'm afraid it will be difficult to suppress it for a long time, so it is better to cover up the ugly things of the day, as if nothing happened, and tell the world that Empress Zhaode was unfortunately killed by the rebels back then, which is the way of the emperor. ”

Su Yu fell silent.

"Then you should understand why it's an empty tomb, right? Now that so many years have passed, when it comes to Empress Zhaode, everyone among the people says that the saint made a great imperial mausoleum for Empress Zhaode to express his sorrows. Isn't it bad that the love between the heavenly couple is so deep that it is enough to be a model for the people of the world? ”

After Zhou He finished talking about this old thing, seeing that the other party hadn't spoken for a long time, he smiled and said, "Why don't you speak?" But is there anything else you'd like to inquire about? ”

"Is there a chamberlain named Zhao Zhongfang in the palace?"

Su Yu slowly raised his eyes and asked.

"Zhao Zhongfang ......"

Zhou He repeated the name, frowned and thought for a moment, and bowed his head.

"I still have an impression. After the saint ascended the throne, it was this person who became the chamberlain. It is said that he was an old man in the Dingwang Mansion in his early years, and he was deeply valued by the saints, and Yuan Zhi didn't know where he was at that time! Later, for some reason, a few years later, the person suddenly disappeared, and he didn't know where he was going, dead or alive. Today's Sigongtai is all about Yuan Value. After so many years, there are probably not many people in the palace who still know this name. ”

"By the way, I remember that this man had a problem in one leg, and he walked differently. If I'm not mistaken, it's the person you asked. ”

The grass and trees in the suburbs are lush and green, wildflowers are mixed everywhere, the sun is dazzling, and the warm wind is blowing through, but with the narration of Zhou He, a person who has experienced old things, Su Yu felt that her whole body was like being immersed in an ice well in the harsh winter, and it slowly became cold, and in the end, it was so cold that the roots of her teeth seemed to be bubbling out of the cold.

"Brother Ye, what's wrong with you? The complexion is not very good, but the body is not well? ”

There was a call of concern in my ears. Su Yu flashed his head, and saw Zhou He looking at him with concern. She shook her head: "Thank you Brother Zhou today, I have a lot of knowledge." I'm fine, it's time to go back. ”

She bowed slightly to Zhou He, went to the city, walked a few steps, suddenly stopped, turned her head, and said word by word: "What you said is all rumors and speculations. ”

Zhou He was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "So what? It is the wind of the hole, and it also comes from the hole. What's more, those statements were very noisy that day, and they were not fabricated by me, Zhou He, out of thin air. ”

Su Yu stopped making a sound, turned around and continued to move forward.

"Brother Ye, what we said was good......

Zhou He looked at the back of the fading road in front of him for a moment, and suddenly shouted.

"I remember."

Su Yutou did not go back.

Chang'an is too big, on this day, when Suyu finally returned to the hotel in Yongpingfang, the twilight drum was once again echoing in the sky above the streets and alleys, and the sound urged people to return home.

She came back on foot. It's not that you can't take the return car, and after arriving in Xishi, there are many hitchhikers to take. She walked, her legs almost numb, and her whole body was exhausted, as if she could not feel the almost suffocating pain of the huge mass pressing down on her chest.

Before leaving, the words she said to Zhou He word by word were not testified to herself.

She never believed that her aunt would leave her and Aya behind that night and elope with a young painter.

Later that night, how she wished that her father, who had always been incompetent in her heart, would come down from heaven and save her from a horror she had never experienced.

Zhao Zhongfang drove her away, she cried, turned around, and saw those who were chasing. In the darkness of the night, their faces danced and twisted in the light of the fire rods as the horses galloped, one of which she had seen before.

One thing Zhou He said is indeed right. She has a half-brother who is almost ten years older than her, and his name is Li Mao. His mother's family, the Liu family, often had people visit him in the palace, and the most frequent one was Li Mao's aunt, who is now the queen of Xiaoliu.

Just a few days before that night, the woman came to the door again and picked up Li Mao, saying that his mother missed him very much and wanted to see her grandson.

A-Niang is a stepmother, but she does her best for Li Mao, and her attention and care for him on weekdays is no less than that of herself. However, the young Suyu could still feel that Li Mao was obedient on the surface, and when he carried his father behind his back, he always looked at his mother and her with a little silent disgust.

The distorted face in the firelight was the head of the Liu family's guard who had come with Liu Nu to pick up Li Mao that day.

Many years have passed since that nightmare night.

She did not die and returned to the city where she was born.

Her former Aya has become a saint today.

The Queen Mother became the Queen Mother.

The daughter of the Liu family became the queen.

Her half-brother is the crown prince.

Everyone is doing well, even better than ever.

Only her mother, the most beautiful and gentle woman in the world, she seems to have died, and the person who was her lover built a huge mausoleum for her, and everyone in the world can see it.

But she seems to be alive again, in the most humiliating way, in human words.

At this point, she finally understood who Ah Gong had been looking for for so many years.

He must have known this rumor to be so persistent, and for many years, he has been trying to find the stigmatized disciple he values the most, this is his unfulfilled wish. After settling down with her for three years, Ah Gong still entrusted her to Pei Ji, left alone regardless of his body, and went to a place she didn't know.

When he first regained his memory, the urge to go to Aya and tell him that he was back was gone.

Zhao Zhongfang did not die that night. Like her, he survived and continued to serve Aya for several years.

At that time, it was impossible for him not to see that face, and it was impossible for him not to know who the other party was.

She could figure out what that face meant when it appeared there, and Zhao Zhongfang wouldn't be unexpected.

Su Yu's mind seemed to have a fire burning in the air, outside the door of the main workshop, the pomegranate flowers full of trees.

Zhao Zhongfang had just been flogged and was lying on the couch unable to move. She secretly ran to see him, her eyes red and her heart full of remorse.

"Alas, alas, it's all my fault for making you like this. Are you going to be mad at me? ”

He hurriedly waved his hand.

"Don't cry, little county lord! The slave doesn't hurt at all! How could a slave be angry with the little county lord? It's a blessing that the little county lord is okay. Little princess, go away, don't let people see you here! ”

Coincidentally, on the night of picking the flowers, she fell into the pool in front of the courtyard of the dormitory because of her naughtiness, drank a few sips of dirty water, and was a little frightened. Her Aya ordered someone to fill the pool overnight, and the matter was over, but I don't know which one was more talkative, and Zhao Zhongfang took the little county lord to pick pomegranate flowers in front of him, he was furious, if it wasn't for A-Niang's strong dissuasion, she was so frightened that she hugged Aye's leg and cried, plus Zhao Zhongfang was a companion who grew up serving him, I was afraid that he would be killed on the spot.

"Don't be afraid, I've begged A-Niang, and she allowed me to come. I brought you honey. You eat. ”

She took out a piece of honey from a small and delicate backpack decorated with gold leaf patterns on her back and sent it to Zhao Zhongfang's mouth.

The honey is as white as jade, it is fried with fine cane juice and milk, and it is also made into the shape of a rabbit, which is lovely.

Zhao Zhongfang didn't eat it at first, but then she couldn't help her begging and bit a small piece.

"Is it delicious?" She asked, tilting her head.

"Delicious!"

"I have kittens, fish, and dogs, all for you! You eat and get better, and then play with me! ”

With a bang, she poured out all the honey in her backpack.

"The princess is kind-hearted, the little princess, you are really good to the slave!"

Zhao Zhongfang's voice was choked, and he was so grateful that he was about to cry.

"You are my Zhao Bandang! Always! ”

The little girl shouted in a loud voice.

Zhao Zhongfang: Where is he now? Is it dead or alive? That night, A-Niang didn't come back, Guo Zong came back alone, what did he say to him? Were those who were chasing her really as she saw being sent by someone from the Liu family, and for what purpose?

Also, did he tell the emperor what happened that night?

Su Yu returned to the hotel, exhausted.

It was the busiest time of the day, the guests came in and out, two drunk guests scuffled together because of gambling, Gao Da Niang scolded and shouted to separate the drunk, but the people around were coaxing. The tall lady was furious, carried a bucket of water out, and threw it at the two heads, which separated the drunk, and suddenly saw her come in, and her eyes lit up.

"Xiao Langjun, you're back! I didn't come back last night, I said you don't live in my house, go to your room to see, and you haven't taken anything away, I thought you had an accident, and I worried all night......"

Su Yu didn't hear it, left the concern of the tall lady and all the noise behind him, went into the house by himself, and fell asleep.

At the moment of closure, there was only one thought left in her heart.