Streams, mountain ditches also.

The first time Tang Xijian knew the meaning of this name was at the age of seven, the second year he entered the South Study.

On that day, when Mr. said that "six dragons pass over ten thousand ravines, and the valley lingers with them", he explained the "stream" in it.

"Mountain ditches too."

As soon as Mr.'s words fell, the third prince suddenly interrupted Taifu's words and asked excitedly, "What, what?" Stream turns out to be the meaning of ditch! ”

As he spoke, he turned his head maliciously, clapped his hands and laughed, "Then shouldn't you call Tangxi Ditch?"

"Or do you call it Tangxi Ditch? You really can't get on the table, and you even have a cheap name! ”

The other princes didn't echo him, but just turned their heads and looked at him for a long time.

Although no one spoke, Tang Xijian seemed to see one humility after another in their eyes.

In the end, it was Mrs. Liu who put an end to this farce, he raised his finger and knocked on the table of the third prince, and said, "Third Highness, don't be distracted." ”

The third prince turned around at this time, but did not stop, but continued to ask, "Taifu, what does that Yu mean?"

"The meaning of beautiful jade." Taifu replied.

Tang Xiyu is the name of the three princes.

"What about Yi?"

"Good meaning."

"Taifu, what does Jing mean?"

"Peace and stability."

The originally quiet class instantly became noisy, and the princes got up one after another to ask the meaning of their names.

Even the prince, who has always been calm, couldn't sit still, "What about me?" Taifu. ”

When Mrs. Liu heard this, her expression became slightly respectful, and she replied very solemnly: "Huan refers to the vast area, and also refers to Wangji, Your Majesty has high hopes for you, Your Highness."

After all, he is only a teenager, and even if he pretends to be old on weekdays, the corners of his mouth still can't help but overflow a little smile.

The lively atmosphere in the south study lasted for a long time, and only Tang Xixi, who was sitting in the corner, never said a word.

The small palms curled together, and the nails left blood marks on the palms.

It took him a long time to keep himself from crying, after all, no one would feel distressed, but would laugh at him even more.

But in the next class, Xijian didn't listen to anything, but recalled Taifu's words over and over again in his mind, "Stream, mountain ditch." ”

-

Tang Xijian didn't understand many things when he was a child, he didn't understand why he was also a prince, but the attitude of others towards him and other princes was completely different?

He didn't understand why his father never came to see him?

I don't understand why I don't have a concubine, and I only have one palace maid to take care of myself since I was a child?

I don't understand why the names of other princes are all beautiful meanings, but they are ditches in the mountains?

He had tentatively asked the palace maid who took care of him, but the palace maid was mute and could not speak, and could only look at him with a pair of tearful eyes mournfully each time.

Others would not tell him these secrets, he could only find out what the reason was.

But he is a very special existence in the entire palace, he has no relatives, no mother's family, except for knowing that his father is the current emperor and his mother is a dead palace maid, he doesn't know anything.

He didn't even know if he had a grandfather? Is there an uncle? He was like someone who appeared in this palace out of thin air, and everyone could bully him.

It wasn't until he was seven years old that he learned the meaning of the word "stream".

His brothers didn't let him go after school, and they gathered around him and kept shouting to him, "Tangxi ditch".

Tang Xijian desperately tried to escape from their voices, but they were having fun and surrounded him, so that he could not escape.

Tang Xijian was forced into a corner step by step, squatting on the ground, covering his ears with his hands.

But those voices were like silver needles, and they still drilled into the gaps mercilessly.

"Shut up! Shut up! Tang Xixi shouted at them.

However, it was even more enjoyable.

"Shut up!" Tang Xijian couldn't hold back any longer, stood up abruptly and stretched out his hand to push, the original human net was missing a corner, and he finally ran out.

There was an exclamation from behind him for some reason, but he couldn't care about it anymore, just kept running forward.

There has never been a time when I wished I could run out of here like that day.

However, the palace was so big that even if he tried his best, he still couldn't get out.

When Tang Xijian returned to the palace, he realized that he had knocked down the third prince at that time, and there happened to be a stone next to him, and the third prince kowtowed and bled out.

His biological mother, Concubine Ying, was crying so much that she was about to faint in front of Emperor Guang.

Emperor Guang was furious and fined him twenty boards.

The board in the guard's hand was even higher than him, and the dumb palace maid was so frightened that she knelt in front of the guard and kowtowed, but in the palace, weakness could not be exchanged for any mercy.

The two men grabbed him and pressed him to the ground, and then the board was raised high, and it was black in front of his eyes, and he couldn't even cry.

The board fell on his body at once, and Tang Xijian was soon beaten to the flesh, and for a moment he thought he was going to die here.

It was probably painful to the extreme, and a white figure suddenly appeared in his mind, followed by a female voice, shouting at him: "Don't cry!" You're going to live! Promise me that you will live! ”

Tang Xijian was stained with tears and sweat, and he tried to open his eyes to see whose figure it was, but he couldn't see anything clearly.

Another board came down, and Tang Xijian was completely dark in front of him.

-

Fire, surrounded by a blaze in the sky, and a woman dressed in white was trapped in the middle of the blaze.

Tang Xijian couldn't see her face clearly, but he subconsciously wanted to go over.

However, the temperature around him was extremely high, and he couldn't get to the woman's side.

Tang Xijian was so anxious that he wanted to cry, he wanted to save the woman, she would die in the fire with such a big fire.

However, before he could get closer, a child suddenly appeared in the woman's arms.

The woman hugged the child tightly, and although she couldn't see the woman's expression clearly through the stream of the Great Fire Hall, she could feel that she was crying.

When Tang Xijian was puzzled, he saw the woman suddenly let go of the child, and then spit out a large mouthful of blood.

The child seemed to want to help her, but she held her down, "Hurry up!" You're going to live! ”

Tang Xijian was a little surprised, he couldn't see the woman's face clearly, but he could hear her voice.

And the sound is very familiar.

"Let's go! Don't cry! You're going to live! ”

The woman's voice became more and more sharp, "Promise me, you will live!" ”

The child only cried and cried, holding her and refusing to leave.

Then the woman closed her eyes, and finally pushed the child out.

Seeing this, Tang Xijian hurriedly took a few steps forward and wanted to help the child up, but when the child raised his head, he actually saw himself.

The kid had a face identical to his.

Tang Xijian jerked his head up and looked at the woman in the fire.

He finally saw the woman's face clearly.

It was a beautiful face.

That's his mother.

-

When Tang Xijian opened his eyes, the mute palace maid was sitting on the side crying.

Seeing that he woke up, the tears instantly flowed even harder, and he tentatively wanted to ask him where he was uncomfortable? However, his fingers trembled so much that he couldn't make a full sign language.

Tang Xijian lay on the bed, there seemed to be choking smoke between his nose, and the last image in his mind was the fireworks on the stargazing platform.

Stargazing platform?

These three words are like a thread, re-wearing all his forgotten memories one by one.

He thought about it all.

The memories of the past that he had buried were swept over like a tsunami.

He almost couldn't bear it anymore and fainted again.

Seeing this, the mute palace maid on the side hurriedly raised her hand and patted his back to give him relief.

However, the hand was held by the small palm of Tang Xijian.

The dumb palace maid was stunned for a moment, and then saw Tang Xijian turn around a little and called at her, "Aunt Liu." ”

The dumb palace maid was stunned when she heard this, and then big tears continued to pour out, and she lowered her head and hugged him into her arms.

She seemed to want to say something, but she couldn't make a sound.

-

The Great Liang Witch Wind is extremely prosperous, and it has reached its peak in the generation of Emperor Guang.

There are witch temples everywhere in Daliang, and they are even more prosperous than temples.

The palace is no exception, and Emperor Guang built a stargazing platform for the Great Witch, so that he could observe the sky day and night, and survey the future.

Emperor Rong Ma has also made meritorious achievements in his life, because of the experience of fighting on the battlefield when he was young, he was still calm about life and death at that time, but when he was old, he suddenly feared death for some reason, and pursued immortality.

So I asked the great witch how to live forever?

The Great Witch calculated three days and said: "The emperor's life is unspeakably precious, so you must choose a woman with the same noble life, and make her sit on the stargazing platform and pray for blessings every day for 18 years, so that your majesty can be blessed with eternal life."

"The Great Witch may have figured out who this precious woman is?" Emperor Guang asked.

Hearing this, the Great Witch closed his eyes and was silent for a long time, and suddenly picked up a pen and wrote a name on the paper.

"Killing the life of a daughter born to the Indian Prime Minister is unspeakably expensive."

Emperor Guang looked down.

Luan Yiwei Shui Jin's only daughter, Shui Yiying.

After all, Shui Jin is a military attache of the first grade, and he only got such a daughter as Shui Yiying when he was over forty years old, which made Emperor Guang embarrassed.

But in the end, the desire for immortality still overcame the embarrassment, so a plan was born.

In that year, it coincided with the drought, and Emperor Guang personally went to the stargazing platform to ask the great witch, who watched the sky at night and drew the will of the heavens.

Words: "The saint descended from heaven in the mortal dust, as long as you find the saint and pray every day on the stargazing platform, you can get rain, and write the eight characters of the saint."

The emperor sent people to search for the nobles of Yingdu with eight characters, and finally found Shui Yiying, the only daughter of the Shui family.

At that time, Shui Yiying was about to marry the Yu family, she and Yu Zhi, the eldest son of the Yu family, were childhood sweethearts, and they were happy with each other, and they should have had a harmonious and beautiful life, but the Son of Heaven decreed, and it was related to the people of the world, and they had to follow.

Shui Jin could only withdraw from his relatives and send his daughter to the palace in tears.

Although Shui Yiying is sad, after all, it is a matter of life and death for hundreds of people, and she still earnestly prays day and night.

However, one day while praying for blessings, the emperor suddenly came to the stargazing platform.

He originally came to inquire about the immortality of the Great Witch, but when he glanced at it, he saw Shui Yiying who was praying for blessings on the side, and the woman was kneeling on the futon in plain clothes, although her eyes were closed, but it was enough to fall into the city.

Although there are 3,000 beauties in the harem, it is the first time for Emperor Guang to see a woman with such a face, and he is shocked and falls in love at a glance.

He didn't even dare to move forward for a while, for fear that this was a fairy in the sky and would fly away at any time.

In the end, Shui Yiying opened her eyes after praying for blessings, and then she saw the Emperor of Light standing aside, and hurriedly got up and saluted.

Seeing this, Emperor Guang immediately raised his hand to exempt her.

"No wonder Luan Yiwei hid you so well, in all these years, Yin has never heard anything about you."

Shui Yiying raised her eyes to look at Emperor Guang's gaze, her heart trembled, and she was silent.

Emperor Guang didn't continue, just glanced at her meaningfully, and then turned to leave.

In order to live forever, Emperor Guang endured it for a year, but after all, he couldn't resist the desire in his heart, so he forced Shui Yiying on the stargazing platform, and gave birth to a son a year later.

After all, Shui Yiying said to the outside world that she was a saint, so Emperor Guang could not include her in the harem, nor could he admit that she was Shui Yiying's child.

It can only be claimed that this is the child of a palace maid who was forced by Emperor Guang after he was drunk, and in order to express his dissatisfaction with this child, he also named it Jian, which means ditch.

In order to be real, Emperor Guang really planned to hand over Tang Xijian to the palace maid to raise.

Liu Ru, a maid who grew up with Shui Yiying, was not at ease, so she asked to take care of Tang Xijian and drank dumb medicine to ruin her throat, indicating that she would never tell the truth.

Back then, the emperor's heart was on Shui Yiying, and he still had pity for Tangxijian, so he naturally agreed.

However, the good times did not last long, Shui Yiying entered the palace in the sixth year, the Shui family was reported to hide the relics of the rebel king, intending to rebel, Shui Yiying was trying to intercede, but the world was in drought, coinciding with the great illness of Emperor Guang, and many saints were suddenly born in the palace Unclean, only to suffer the news of this disaster.

There is a great drought in the world, and the people's lives are miserable, so they naturally need someone to vent, and rumors are spreading, Shui Yiying has naturally become the best candidate to vent his anger.

For a while, the crowd was angry and angry, feeling that she was worshiped by the people of the world as a saint and enjoyed all the glory and wealth, but she was greedy for pleasure and prayed for the grace of heaven with an unclean body.

Although there were also people who interceded for the Shui family, at that time it was just an egg hitting a stone, and it was useless.

Shui Yiying is a person who is loved by the emperor, so he is naturally reluctant, but the drought came so suddenly, the people's hearts were so turbulent, and he was seriously ill, so he couldn't help but wonder if this was really the crime of the gods?

At this time, the great witch came to speak again, saying: "The holy woman needs to pray day and night as a virgin to bring good luck to Your Majesty, and now not only is the body of the virgin broken, but also the birth of a child, the blessing is bad luck, it will bring disaster, and it must be burned with holy fire for three days to purify the bad luck, and in the future, you must not see each other in the Tang Stream, and the father and son will be separated in order to save Your Majesty's life."

Emperor Guang was silent for a long time when he heard this, and finally sighed faintly, and agreed with him quite helplessly, "Yes." ”

One word determines the fate of all.

Shui Yiying knew that she couldn't escape, so she only made a request with the last bit of affection.

She wanted to see Tang Xixi one last time, it was her child, but she only saw it once when she was born.

The emperor hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.

So the still ignorant Tangxi stream was brought to the stargazing platform, in front of the water Yiying.

Shui Yiying looked at him, her eyes were full of sadness, she knew how difficult the situation of this child would be after her death, she had no name and no share, so Tang Xijian could only be the son of the palace maid, the Shui family was now too busy to take care of herself, Emperor Guang listened to the slander, he would not see him in the future, he had nothing to rely on, and everyone in this palace could be bullied.

But she couldn't do anything, she could only tell all her worries in detail.

"Don't avenge me, no matter what happens, you must live!"

Shui Yiying knew that he was only four years old now, and he would soon forget these words, and when he grew up, maybe he wouldn't even remember who he was, but other than that, she didn't know what else she could do?

"Live well! You must live! Shui Yiying said, tears could not be stopped any longer, and hugged him tightly into his arms.

Say over and over again, "You're going to live!"

Tang Xijian didn't know why, he was so frightened that he cried, Shui Yiying finally touched his cheek, and then pushed him to Liu Ru on the side.

"Take him away, Jian'er will be handed over to you from now on." Shui Yiying said and bowed deeply to Liu Ru.

Liu Ru hurriedly knelt down, she couldn't speak, she could only kowtow to her girl, and then walked out with Tang Xixi.

Probably the mother and son are really connected, Tang Xijian suddenly realized something when he walked to the door, and turned around to run towards her.

However, he was pulled by Aunt Liu.

Tang Xijian didn't understand anything, but the instinct at that moment made him want to rush back and hug the woman.

Seeing this, Shui Yiying suddenly closed his eyes and shouted at him, "Hurry up!" Don't cry! You're going to live! ”

"You have to live well!"

Tang Xijian raised his hand and touched his eyes when he heard this, only to realize that he was really crying.

Aunt Liu on the side finally carried him out ruthlessly.

Then, what happened?

He only remembered that the stargazing platform was in flames that day, and it burned for three days, and it did not go out for a long time.

Even in the middle of the night, the whole Ying's lights are brightly lit.

The people of the whole city either stopped or gathered at the gate of the palace, and everyone clapped their hands and cheered, singing the praises of His Majesty's holy wisdom.

The demon girl has been removed, and the world will be peaceful.

Everyone was cheering and celebrating, except for one serious illness in Tangxijian.

When he woke up again, he forgot everything.