Chapter 93: The Story of the Puppet (4)

"Mother, are you talking about Uncle Ling Tian's story?"

A crisp, childish voice rang out, and then out of the inner chamber came a boy of six or seven years old, who stood in the doorway, looking at me with the same eyes as his mother. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Yin'er, come to my mother's place. Princess Qingping beckoned to him.

Yin'er obediently ran over, and soon found the puppet in his mother's hand, and couldn't help but cheer: "Uncle Ling Tian!"

But when he took a look at the puppet, he was a little dumbfounded, his big black eyes turned, and he asked in a low voice: "Mother, this person looks so vicious, is it the Yu Wenxiong who was defeated by Uncle Ling Tian?"

Princess Qingping nodded with a smile, "This person is Yu Wenxiong, the lord of Beirong, and he is the defeated general of your Uncle Ling Tian." ”

Yin'er stared at the puppet for another moment, and suddenly said loudly: "When I grow up, I must be a big hero like Uncle Ling Tian, and let Yu Wenxiong also become my subordinate!"

Princess Qingping lovingly stroked Yin'er's head and said with a smile: "When Yin'er grows up, she must not only be a great hero, but also a good emperor, so that the people of Dayu can live a peaceful life." ”

Yin'er nodded, but asked as if she was a little puzzled, "Is the father a good emperor?"

Princess Qingping just looked at him with a smile and said, "When my mother was a child, I also asked my mother the same question as Yin'er. ”

Yin'er blinked her eyes and asked, "How did the mother's mother answer?"

She didn't answer. ”

"Oh-" Yin'er hung her head in disappointment.

But she told her mother's father about this question, and her mother's father told her the answer himself. Princess Qingping winked at Yin'er, who raised her head when she heard the words.

Yin'er bit her cute lip and stood there, waiting for her mother to tell him the answer.

Princess Qingping gently held him in her arms and said softly: "Don't worry, let my mother tell you slowly-

His father, the Emperor, was the last monarch of Daning and the shortest-reigning emperor, and just two months after his accession to the throne, Danyang, the capital of Daning, fell.

On the day the city was broken, his father and the emperor stood at the head of the city in military uniform. My mother took me by the hand and climbed the high bluestone steps to my father's side. My father leaned over and picked me up, and the hard armor on his body hurt me, but I still hugged his neck tightly, not wanting to be separated from him.

Pointing to the overwhelming enemy army outside the city, my father said to me, 'Qingping, my father cannot go with you and your mother, because my father wants to defend this city and cannot let them rush in and slaughter the people in the city. ’

I cried and shook my head.

My father smiled and asked me, 'Don't you want to know if your father is a good emperor?'

I cried and replied, 'My father is a good emperor, but I don't want my father to stay and die with the people in the city!'

But the father shook his head, "No, my father has never been a good emperor!" Qingping, you have to remember that a good emperor is a person who can make his people live a peaceful and happy life, not a person like your father, who can only fight for his own life to atone for his sins when he sees the mountains and rivers shattered and the people are displaced!"

'But it's not my father's fault!' Those bad guys were out of the city months ago, and my father wasn't even emperor at that time!'

My father's gaze suddenly became extremely sad, and he hugged me tightly in his arms and said in a hoarse voice, "All this is my father's fault! Because I never thought of becoming an emperor, and I have never put this country and the people of Li in my heart." Although I knew that my brother was tyrannical and incompetent, I never thought of disobeying the emperor's will and seizing my brother's throne. In the face of my brother's perverse behavior, I chose to flee the rivers and lakes, and I pretended to turn a blind eye to the bitter sufferings of the people. In this way, I watched Daning fall step by step, and finally let myself become a sinner for the ages!'

At that time, when I was only six years old, I didn't really understand my father's words, because I never wanted my father to be this emperor!

In the past, my father was only the Heng King of Daning, and I was only the lord of Qingping, and our family was not trapped in this lifeless city. At that time, my father often took me and my mother to some very interesting places, and once even went to the rough sea, and our family was always happy together.

But ever since my father became emperor, he has been busy all the time, and sometimes I can't see him for days. And today, he will leave me and my mother alone, and separate from us from now on!

I hugged my father's neck tightly, and no matter how much my mother tried to persuade me, I would not let go. I want to be with my father, even if I will be killed by those bad people, I will never leave!

'Qingping, my father gave you this name when I wanted you to fulfill your father's wish and build a peaceful world for the common people in the world. Can you do it for your father?' my father looked at me with a smile in his eyes.

'I can do it, Father!' I finally let go of my father, because at that moment, I was no longer an ignorant little girl of six years old, but Princess Qingping who inherited my father's dream of ruling the country.

The concubine took me into a dark passage, so close to the city gate that I could clearly hear the fierce fighting that had lasted all night.

The concubine stood there in tears all night, but I did not cry, and through a few cracks in the wall, I watched the lights of the city not far away that were flickering in the heavy rain, until it was finally completely extinguished......

A few days later, my mother took me to escape from Danyang City. She walked so hastily that she didn't even look back. But I stood down and turned my head.

My father's head still hung high above the city gate, and I couldn't see his face clearly, but I could still hear his voice, and my father had been calling my name: 'Qingping'......"

Yin'er suddenly opened her arms and hugged her mother, "I understand, mother, I will be a good emperor in the future, so that you and your grandfather can see it!"

Princess Qingping still looked at him with a smile, "Mother often said that my eyes are most similar to my father's. In fact, in the eyes of my mother, Yin'er's eyes are really exactly the same as your grandfather! From now on, we will use our own eyes to see the world for my grandfather, so that he can see that the world is peaceful and the people are happy!"

The last thing Princess Qingping said to me was, "I know that little brother has gone to the place we once agreed upon, and I also know that he will always be there waiting for me." ”

By the time I left the Cool Temple, it was already dark, and the wind outside had stopped, but the snow had begun to fall. Walking on the long street that I walked along with Ling Tian, I suddenly understood Ling Tian.

- Love her, and you will fulfill her.

Since then, I have never sent those dolls back for Ling Tian, nor have I ever seen Princess Qingping again.

After so many years, not many people will still mention Ling Tian and Princess Qingping, but I have never doubted in my heart that everything they have done for the common people in the world will remain in the annals of history forever. That's why I'm going to live forever, to see the world for them with my eyes, until the day their wishes come true.