The reversal of the case (part 2) of the Fallen Kingdom/Misfortune of the Demon Princess is over

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"Is my story worth a bowl of Meng Po soup?" The girl was still thinking of her Meng Po soup.

Listening to her story, this girl does not seem to have committed any heinous crimes, is it not a case of injustice? King Yan and Cui Fujun gave a look.

The king of Yama began to say, "Well, you go back first, everything can't depend on your mouth, the king will have to check it out." ”

"How long will it take?" The undead seemed to be quite anxious, refusing to wait for even a moment.

"Your sin is recorded on the stone tablet of the eternal hell, and it is not an easy task to dispel it, so I have to go through it again."

"But I didn't want to go back, and I was told I couldn't go out."

This girl did have someone to help, and the underground government actually had an internal ghost. King Yan thought about it for a moment, it wasn't necessarily the inner ghost of the earthly palace, it might also be a heavenly immortal, if this matter was really an unjust case, if it was let the celestial realm know, it would be bad. He, the king of Yama, had to be questioned.

"Then you should first go to the ghost town of Fengdu for a while, and when the truth of the matter is ascertained, the king will let the black and white impermanence go to the ghost town of Fengdu to find you." Come when called, don't run around. ”

"Okay." The ghost looked down and thought for a moment, then said, "But I don't know the way to the ghost town of Fengdu." ”

No wonder she didn't know the road, this undead soul must have just flown up from the human world and was beaten into the endless hell, and even the gate of the Fengdu Ghost City had never entered. The King of Yan then sent minotaur to send her to the ghost town of Fengdu. This ghost town of Fengdu is the most prosperous and lively place in the prefecture, roughly equivalent to the imperial capital of the world. Fengdu Ghost City is the place where people's souls return after death, and most ordinary people have lived a nameless life, have not cultivated the qualifications to soar into immortals, and have not committed the most heinous and unforgivable sins, and come to Hades to report after death. First pass through a ghost gate, you come to the nai ho bridge, nai ho bridge is a bluestone bridge floating on the forgotten river, formless and traceless, rootless and baseless, only when the soul of the dead will appear. If the undead soul has a wish before death, and is reluctant to fireworks in the world, he sells the memories of his past life to Meng Po, exchanges it for a bowl of Meng Po soup, and then enters the reincarnation. If you feel that the world is boring, then give up reincarnation, be led by the minotaur, go to the ghost town of Fengdu to report, and officially become a member of the underworld. If the ghosts in this Fengdu ghost city are tired of being born one day, they can also reincarnate and re-enter the human world, in short, the reincarnation of all things depends on preferences, and it is very fair.

However, this girl was miserable. She was confused through the ghost gate, and as soon as she stepped onto the Nai Ho Bridge, she didn't even see Meng Po's face, and she was beaten into an endless hell, and she could no longer enter the reincarnation.

Why? Because Cui Fujun wandered in the human world (view), if he encountered a revenant soul who had committed many evil deeds and was unforgiving before his death, he would sign a "evil" word on the life and death book with a ghost pen, and let this undead soul have great ability and cultivate to a higher level, he would not be able to cross the Naihe Bridge.

Nine, the clouds will finally see the day, and the dust before the matter is leisurely

King Yan was well aware that this matter was not simple, and sent a small official to verify the situation, and the little official said: "King Qi Yu, three hundred years ago, there was indeed a supreme and most holy King of Shu, who originally had a perfect merit in the human world and could soar into an immortal, who knew that the King of Shu refused to ascend, and had to re-enter the reincarnation, saying that he had lost a person and wanted to get her back." When he walked to the NaiHe Bridge, he refused to drink Meng Po soup, where the fierce Meng Po was willing to let him fool around, a stick knocked unconscious, and a large bowl of Meng Po soup was solidly filled. ”

"And what about later?"

"This King of Shu is really a strange person, and he is also famous in this Division." After three hundred years of reincarnation, the family backgrounds are different, but the wife is married with the same name, as if the nickname is called Ajaan. This Shu king's later reincarnation ability is very poor, but the creation is good, born in a poor and poor family, but always able to official to the Ninth Qing Fei Huang Tengda, but it is indeed short-lived, every time is more than thirty years old to die of non-life, this is not, a few days ago the black and white impermanence came to report, saying that the king of Shu's limit is coming, no accident these two days his soul will come to the Si Ming Supervisor to report. ”

"Does he still have memories of his past life?"

"Probably all forgotten, so a big bowl of Meng Po soup, the gods and immortals can't stand it, let alone mortals?" It was probably because of a hint of obsession that he refused to soar. ”

"Cui Fujun, how do you say this matter should be handled?" The king of Yan had a headache, this Cui Fujun had always done things properly, and there were very few cases of wrong judgments. Si Ming Supervisor is also, without verifying clearly, he will beat people into the endless hell, if this is good to say in the underground government, he can still suppress it, if it is spread to the heavens, it will be difficult to do, he does not want to be promoted and raised this year.

"Your Highness, I also act according to the rules of the constitution, and I have not crossed the line at all." Cui Fujun said, "Besides, this, you are not unaware, in those years of great chaos in the world, countless unjust souls, brothers every day to recruit souls to collect tired half-dead, isn't this an oversight, this girl is a long mouth, the people's resentment is boiling, and it is also the will of the people to go to the endless hell." ”

"Public opinion? Can public opinion be believed? But it will be easy for you to spread to heaven when the time comes, and it will make the king angry!" Go ahead and find out the ins and outs of things for me."

"It's been three hundred years, and it's a little difficult to find out." Cui Fujun was embarrassed.

"Doesn't Meng Po have memories of the past lives of the undead?" Wouldn't it be okay to go to her place and find out Yunze and the memories of the Chu King's past life? ”

"This, this, don't you know that Shrew of Meng Po, how can the memories she hoard up easily show people?" The thought of dealing with Meng Po makes people's heads grow.

Meng Po has a habit of loving to listen to stories, boiling a pot of Meng Po soup every day, waiting for the wandering soul from the human world at Nai Ho Bridge, a bowl of Meng Po soup for a story, not drinking Meng Po soup will not let you cross the Nai Ho Bridge, this kind of strong buy and selling business is naturally supported by the Yan Wang Hall. There are also a very small number of undead souls who are not eligible to drink Meng Po soup at all, and most of them have committed unforgivable sins in the human world, so they have directly degraded eighteen layers of hell. Since they do not enter the cycle of reincarnation, there is no need to eliminate the memory, and it is also a punishment for them to keep remembering the evil they have done.

However, Meng Po's temper was so big that even the King of Yama did not pay attention to it, and it was said that there were people above him.

Although things are difficult, it is not completely impossible. Cui Fujun grinded at Meng Po for three days and three nights, and it took a lot of effort, and finally Meng Po relaxed: "Well, I don't have to embarrass you, everyone is doing things for Lord Yan Wang, but I have a condition." ”

It is good to mention the King of Yama, this is the meaning of the King of Yama, and I have not seen you respect him much, Cui Fujun can't help but break his thoughts in his heart. But the mouth respectfully asked: "What conditions, you say?" ”

"It's fair to exchange the memories of the prisoners of the inferno hell, one memory for another."

"Lord Meng Po, your hobby is a bit interesting." How mad are the memories of the prisoners of the Endless Hell, and what do you think about? ”

"Little fresh to see a lot, I just want to see some heavy taste."

"Then, I will burn the interrogator and ask lord Yama to go down."

"Poop, please."

Yama gritted his teeth and had to agree, after all, there were people in the sky on both sides.

Finally borrowed the memory of Yunze's first life from Meng Po, slowly unfolded, and came to the face...

Shu County, March, willow green, peach blossoms.

A handsome young man dressed in white stood at the head of the bridge, as if looking for something. Looking down at him, it turned out to be a small figure running farther and farther away, seemingly a little girl. The little girl ran away, turned her head again, and a small face as bright as a peach blossom was so amazing that people couldn't take their eyes off it.

"Your Highness, it's time for us to go back to the palace." The retinue next to the teenager urged. But he still looked in the direction where the little girl had disappeared.

This white-clad teenager was Yunze, yunze who was only fifteen years old.

Although Yunze is a prince, he always likes the fireworks in the city, and when he is idle, he walks the streets and alleys in a small way, no wonder the King of Shu always says that his playthings are lost. However, Yun Ze felt that there was nothing wrong with being an idle prince, anyway, he was not the eldest son, and he was even less interested in the trivial disputes in the court, or the good spring color and the peach blossoms in the city made him more happy. However, now his reason for leaving the palace is one more plain.

Since the last time he bought wine and met the little girl, Yunze had come to this street every few days to drink, and he liked to sit on the street-facing terrace on the second floor of the tavern, leaning on the railing, drinking wine while looking at the crowded street, waiting for a small figure to jump and run over. Pink and tender little girl is born with a pair of eye-catching peach blossom eyes, a smile on the closed time to let people sink into it, she even has an innocent look, was looked at for a long time, just stared at you, made a grimace at you, a smoke ran away, chased away, can not catch up. When the little girl ran into the alley and disappeared, Yunze lowered her eyebrows, smiled, drank the wine in the cup, and summoned the little two who ran the hall, and said: "Checkout." ”

Even if the day was over, with the orange-red sunset, he rushed back to the palace to accompany her to dinner before the queen's wife lost her temper.

"If Your Highness likes it, why don't you take it directly back to the palace?" The attendant asked.

"Daughter of a commoner, the queen mother will not agree."

"If Your Highness insists, it should not be difficult to be a side concubine."

"Then I can't help it."

YunZe followed her back home several times, but each time he only followed her to the door and did not go in. Probably not wanting to disturb her, he just watched from a distance as she ran into a scarlet door, poked her head out again, and looked at it for a moment, her twinkling eyes flashing with a cunning light. Yun Ze lowered his eyes, and the corners of his mouth rippled with a shallow smile, this ghost girl must have noticed that someone was following behind.

Yun Zegui is a prince, there are countless family bridesmaids around him, but he is not interested in the love of men and women, this is the first time he has tasted the taste of spring heart, like a little honey silk sweet in the heart, not long after overflowing the entire heart, overflowing is no harm, because after a while it will be full again.

Although Yunze had not personally experienced it, he also had an enviable love, his sister Princess Chaoyang and his close friend Mu Ziliang, which was a love like a fairy lover that was breathtaking in the whole Shu County, and even the whole world. Green plum bamboo horses, bitter and willing, raised eyebrows, foamed at each other, all the beautiful words about love to describe them are not exaggerated.

The twenty-year-old Princess Chaoyang was embroidering her wedding dress in Wanliu Pavilion at the moment, quietly and anxiously waiting for the day when her sweetheart would marry her. At this moment, the sun was just right, the spring color was just right, everything was just right, she put down the embroidery needle in her hand, pushed open the Xuan window, and when she looked up, she saw the clouds hovering in the doorway.

Yun Ze saw that she was looking at herself with interest, so he went straight over.

"You're embroidering your wedding dress again?"

"What are you doing standing in front of my door?" It is better to go to the father and king and order a few words, and he can also nag you a few words less. ”

"I want to ask Sister Ah a question, this problem has plagued me for many days, and my brother is puzzled."

"Oh? What's the problem? Chaoyang came to be interested

"Well, that is, how did you feel when you saw Zi Liang?" Surely it's not the same as seeing me, seeing my mother and father? ”

"Of course, why are you asking this question?"

"I met a little girl a few days ago, it is strange to say, this little girl is naughty and naughty, I can't say where it is good, and a pair of eyes are born to look better." But when I don't see her, I always think, what is she doing now? I wasn't much happier to see her, because she didn't seem to think of me at all. ”

"It turns out that we Aze have met our sweetheart."

Yunze meets Ajaan, just like Chaoyang meets Ziliang, and can never take his eyes off again.

Yunze's sister, His Highness Chaoyang, was the only princess in Shu County, and Princess Chaoyang had a sweetheart of a green plum bamboo horse, mu Ziliang, the outstanding prince of Xiangguo Province. They have known each other since childhood, have similar family backgrounds, and have the same heart, and they are really a pair of gods and immortals created by heaven and earth.

Chaoyang and Ziliang first met when they were very young, he was four years old, and she was only three years old, and their parents had set up this affair for them since then. They grew up together in the Xiangguo Mansion and in the Taiji Palace, and they also knew that each other would be the ones who would accompany them for the rest of their lives.

Chaoyang is slow, walking is also slow, walking with Zi Liang is always unable to keep up with his steps, at this time Zi Liang will stop and wait for her, or see that her steps are too small, can't help but crouch in front of her, carry the morning sun, stride forward. The two little dolls walked forward along the long palace road, casting a long oblique shadow behind them. Zi Liang's words are not much, he always silently listens to Chaoyang, but unfortunately Chaoyang speaks very slowly, half a day to finish a sentence, he is always very patient to wait for her to finish, and then seriously nodded his head, indicating his approval.

At that time, Yunze was still very young, still learning to speak in the arms of the queen. These past events were told to him by the queen, and when the queen talked about these past events, she had a gentle and loving smile on her face, and she said, if that hadn't happened later, it would have been nice, green plum bamboo horse, two little guesses, there is no more perfect golden jade in this world than them.

Mu Ziliang entered Taixue at the age of nine, and was accompanied by a small doll who was only three years old, and this little doll was Yunze. Crown Prince Fu praised him for his brilliant literary talent and outstanding talent, and in the future he would surely become a minister of the Humerus of kuangfu sheji and assist the king. At that time, Mu Ziliang was still a weak scholar with a wolf in his hand, exporting into chapters and writing brilliantly.

Since Mu Ziliang went to Taixue to study, the number of times Chaoyang saw him had decreased in vain, and the rest of the time was boring and lonely. She wanted to see him every day no matter what, so the princess on the Feihong Bridge who was looking forward to it became a scene in the Shu King's Palace.

When the sky was just dark, Chaoyang got up to wash up, dressed up, and then ran to the Feihong Bridge and waited for someone. Standing on the Feihong Bridge, she could see at a glance the family prince who had gone to Taixue to study, and among those people, there was Mu Ziliang, who had her heart in mind. Whether it is cold winter or hot summer, whether it is a clear sky or a smoke and rain, as long as it is too open for a day, the morning sun will never stop. Her day seemed to exist for this early morning. The little princess who was looking forward to it on the Feihong Bridge and the outstanding young prince in front of the Taixue Gate looked at each other from afar, which was the most beautiful scenery of the entire Shu King's Palace. People are looking forward to their growth, looking forward to a grand celebration.

When does Chaoyang often want to see him every day without bothering?

The queen said, "You'll be fine when you're fifteen." The age of marriage is the age of marriage for a woman and the year of the marriage.

But later, at the age of fifteen, the son of the kiss was uncertain.

10. Aquatic smoke by the bridge, jade pen sleeve hidden

When Chaoyang was ten years old, he inexplicably had a serious illness. This year, Mu Ziliang was eleven years old.

A lot has happened this year.

In this year, wars broke out in the northern region, and various princes opened up their territories and expanded their territories.

In this year, the State of Qin forced the State of Shu to sign an alliance in the same boat, and the covenant required the State of Shu to cede the thirteen cities in the southern foothills of the Qin Mountains to show the sincerity of the alliance.

In this year, Princess Chaoyang and The Duke of Xiangguo broke off their marriage contract, and the King of Shu strictly ordered the whole country to no longer discuss this golden and jade relationship.

This year, Yunze was five years old, and he often saw his sister sitting in front of the window wiping her tears, but he turned back to tell him that it was the wind and sand that blew into his eyes.

This year, Mu Ziliang, who was praised by Prince Taifu as "outstanding literary talent and young genius", threw down the pen in his hand and walked out of the door of Taixue without turning his head.

Although Mu Ziliang no longer went to Taixue to study, Chaoyang still dressed up every day and stood on the Feihong Bridge waiting, she knew in her heart that she could no longer wait for the outstanding teenager, but she did not know what else she could do except stand here and wait. The King of Shu no longer allowed her to leave the palace, did not allow her to go to the Xiangguo Mansion, and did not allow her to see Mu Ziliang.

Yunze could not bear her sister's sadness, and secretly ran to the Feihong Bridge, telling her that Mu Ziliang threw away all the pens, ink and paper in the family, went to the military camp, and worshiped the great general as a teacher to learn martial arts and military law.

"Sister, Zi Liang did not give up your marriage contract, he will fight for you." Yunze thought that Chaoyang would be very happy to know these things, but Chaoyang was left with tears, she watched the crowds in front of the Taixue Gate in the distance, countless royal children and family princes came in, but there was no talented teenager who wrote a flower.

The struggle of the teenager and the intolerance of the young girl are all dissolved in the autumn wind of the depression, and no one hears it, but it really exists.

The alliance of Qin and Shu, called "working together in the same boat", is actually the weak and the strong.

The State of Qin and the State of Shu bordered each other, and their lips and teeth were interdependent, so they should embrace each other for warmth, so they signed an alliance in the same boat. The State of Qin supported the self-esteem of the army and coerced by force, demanding that the State of Shu cede the thirteen cities of the southern foothills of qin as a promise of the alliance of Qin and Shu, and when the princess became an adult, she would become related to the son of the prince of the qin state, at which time the state of Qin would return the thirteen cities in the southern foothills of the Qin mountains. The state of Qin promised to contain the princes in the north who were eyeing Shu County and ensure the safety of the northern frontier of Shu County.

And Chaoyang is the only princess of the Shu kingdom.

After she heard this news, she also wanted to resist her will with her life, and resolutely refused to be close. But seeing her father's white hair and locked brows overnight, she understood that this was her mission and duty as a princess. She did not cry or resist, but returned to Wanliu Pavilion and became seriously ill and lay down for a whole month.

When she was well, she learned that Mu Ziliang was no longer going to Taixue to study.

This was the first time since they knew that Mu Ziliang had disappeared in Chaoyang's life for so long. Chaoyang remembered that the last time they met was in the Imperial Garden, Mu Ziliang sneaked out of Taixue and took the peach blossom puff pastry he bought from outside the palace, which was the peach blossom crisp that Chaoyang had in mind. Chaoyang sat under the tree to eat peach blossom crisp, Mu Ziliang leaned on the tree to read a book, Chaoyang deliberately ate very slowly, took a small bite of peach blossom crisp, gently sipped, and the faint long taste dissolved in the mouth. She knew that Mu Ziliang would always patiently wait for her to finish eating, she deliberately killed time, he just stayed by her side, and it was good not to speak. When Chaoyang slowly finished eating the peach blossom crisp, Mu Ziliang closed the book and smiled to wipe away the crumbs from her mouth. Mu Ziliang sent her back to Wanliu Pavilion, and when they were separated, Chaoyang also specially instructed him to bring her peach blossom crisps from the east of the city and bamboo leaf green next time.

However, she never had the chance to eat the peach blossom crisp that Mu Ziliang bought.

She is not only the sunrise of one person, but also the princess of the entire Shu County. Born in the imperial family, enjoying the glory and wealth that the world can't seek, it is inevitable to pay a corresponding price, Chaoyang once naively thought that he would be an exception, but he did not expect that fate had already laid a foreshadowing in her life, sooner or later, no one could escape. Rather than being kind, she cared more about Mu Ziliang's choice of throwing pens from Rong, and the young man who could not bear the literary brilliance in his heart threw down the pen and ink in his hand, picked up the sword, and killed the four sides on the battlefield and fought in blood. She wanted him to do what he loved, even without himself, to live happily.

In the place where Chaoyang could not see, Mu Ziliang was struggling. He took Li Muye, the general of the Shu State, as his teacher, learned martial arts and military law from scratch, and formed the Blue Bird Battalion. The Mu family has been a scholar for generations, and there have been many literary subjects, but they have never produced a military general. Who would have thought that the hand holding the pen, white and thin, would one day pick up a sharp sword, and even a sword could be fatal, and see blood seal the throat. He didn't have much time, only five years. Five years later, he would fight for the sunrise, for his princess.

Since then, there has been one less civil servant in the court of the Shu Kingdom who is concerned with Cangsheng and governs the country and the state, but there is one more general who is strategic and straddling the battlefield.

His father, Lord Xiangguo, naturally did not want him to give up the great future that was within his reach in the court and go to the battlefield where the sword was eyeless. It is naturally good to be able to marry the imperial family, but even the best marriage is not as good as the safety of the son. He summoned Mu Ziliang to the ancestral hall, made him kneel before the patriarchs, and asked him three questions.

"One man and ten thousand people, which is more important?"

"Marriage and life, what is the weight?"

"Killing and Anbang, which is the weight?"

Mu Ziliang knelt on the ground with a resolute look in his eyes, and he only thought for a moment before replying, "One person is as important as ten thousand people, I am for chaoyang and for the people of Shu County." The border is uneven and the court is unstable. Today, the Qin state dares to blatantly occupy the thirteen cities of Qinling, and tomorrow it does not know what kind of demands it will make. If the troops are weak, they can only be pinched in their hands and arbitrarily manipulated, and without the fighting on the battlefield, they cannot exchange the people's peace and contentment. ”

"The border is not the battlefield of the Mu family, and the battlefield of the Mu family is always on the court!" So many problems that generals can't solve, where did you have the courage to come from as a fledgling scholar who didn't even know what war was? ”

"Someone has to come forward, and since no one can solve it, why can't I try?" At least I have five years left. ”

"Did you know that battlefield swords have no eyes?" Do you know that there are still parents and relatives at home? Do you know that once a general dies, everyone wants to become a general, but in the end they all become mountains of white bones! "Lord Xiangguo was only able to have such a son as Mu Ziliang when he was young, and naturally he couldn't bear to let him go to the battlefield to fight."

"Father, forgive the child for not filial piety, since the ancient family and the country are difficult to complete."

"A good family and a country are difficult to have both, I really raised a good son."

Lord Xiangguo sighed helplessly and left the ancestral hall. Young people always refuse to listen to advice, and they have to crash into the south wall themselves, and their heads will be broken and bleeding before they turn back. They don't know that if they really come to the point where their heads are bleeding, they are afraid that there will be no way back.

Five years passed in a flash, and for Chaoyang, it was only the day that was least expected to get closer and closer.

Mu Ziliang was like a changed person, his skin was much darker than before, and his thin figure and resolute gaze no longer saw the appearance of the weak scholar of that year. Even so, there are still many family bridesmaids who love him explicitly or secretly, and naturally no one dares to worry about the future horse when he and Chaoyang have a marriage contract, but now that the marriage contract has been abandoned, the Huaichun girls will no longer hide their love, and the matchmaker who said that the pro-matchmaker broke through the threshold of the Xiangguo Mansion. Today is the concubine of General Wang's family, tomorrow is the little granddaughter of Liu Shangshu's Zhishu Dali, and the day after tomorrow is the county lord of Linjiang who regards the pearl in his hand... Warblers and swallows flock to the flock. Mu Ziliang was not moved, he was rooted in the barracks all day, holding the soldier's book, and it was a whole day. Or with the soldiers of the Blue Bird Battalion training day and night, practicing new formations over and over again.

Until that day, it finally arrived as scheduled.

Above the main hall of the Taiji Palace, hundreds of officials were seated, and the King of Shu was sitting precariously. The envoys of the Qin state also brought the will of the King of Qin, the thirteen cities of Qinling under the rule of the Qin State, the wind and rain were smooth, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and they were not happy to think of Shu, and the King of Qin suggested that when the Princess of Chaoyang and her relatives were treated, the thirteen cities of Qinling could be given as a dowry to the Qin State, and the Qin State would give back to the Peace of the Shu Kingdom.

Above the hall, there was an uproar. The people did not expect that qin guo's face was so arrogant and that he would actually make such unreasonable demands, but they were afraid of Qin guo's obscenity, and their hearts were not angry but there was nothing they could do. The Qin state was even stronger than five years ago, and although the Shu state was rich, it did not have a strong army to compete with.

Mu Ziliang stood up, and he persuaded the King of Shu to fight with the Qin army and retake the thirteen cities of Qinling: "Great King, today's Shu army is no longer the Shu army of that year, zi liang believes that it can be a war. ”

Peace was the weakest choice, and the King of Shu did not want to send his beloved daughter to the tiger-wolf Qin Kingdom. However, once the horn of war was sounded, the lives were destroyed, the corpses were scattered all over the field, and even the smell of ten thousand years would be left behind, and the King of Shu did not want to be a dimwitted king.

"Your Majesty, the Thirteen Cities of Qinling are a natural barrier to the northern border of the Shu Kingdom, and once they fall into the hands of the enemy, the Shu Kingdom can only be controlled by others and at the mercy of others."

"Yes, Your Majesty, the subject also thinks it is worth fighting."

"Your Majesty, the subject agrees."

Mu Ziliang issued a military order in front of the King of Shu and recaptured the thirteen cities of Qinling within a year.

On this day, he could finally go and see his princess. In five years, there has never been a day as easy as it is today. He took brisk steps and walked in the direction of his memory.

As soon as he looked up, he saw the morning sun standing on the Flying Rainbow Bridge, and his eyes instantly turned red.

It turned out that he was not alone in insisting. For five years, Chaoyang had been waiting for him here every day, even though she knew that the person she was waiting for would not appear.

Chaoyang threw down the maids standing on either side and rushed to him, the aqua green skirt fluttering with the wind, her long hair was already up to her waist, waiting to be pulled up.

The morning sun plunged into Mu Ziliang's arms, and the long thoughts of more than a thousand days and nights finally disappeared in this instant, leaving only the joy of meeting. They hugged each other wordlessly, listened to each other's heartbeats, and didn't have to say anything, didn't have to explain anything.

If only time could stop at this moment.

Mu Ziliang wiped away his tears for Chaoyang and said softly, "Don't cry, I will defeat the Qin army for you." When the time comes, offer the continuous Qinling Mountains and the thirteen cities in the north as a dowry, and the scenery will welcome you into the door, okay? ”

"You're going to come back safely."

"I'll definitely come back and see you." Mu Ziliang laughed.

"Come back safely, promise me, if, in case, you will come back safely no matter what." Chaoyang had never been so stubborn, she had never seen the battlefield, but she knew what kind of hellish place it was, the sword had no eyes, she would rather go and kiss herself than fight on the battlefield with the teenager she had in mind.

"I promise you, I will come back safely, and I will not let you wait too long."

Mu Ziliang led a large army out of Jinguan City and headed north. He did not choose to face the Qin army directly, but hid in the continuous Qinling Mountains and mediated with the Qin army. The Qin army was good at war, but it was not adapted to the humid and hot climate and complex and changeable terrain of the Qin Mountains, so Mu Ziliang wanted to fight a protracted battle and slowly consume the qin army's vigor.

The return date is unknown, and it is a long wait. Chaoyang was waiting, and the whole Shu kingdom was waiting for General Mu to triumph.

When Chaoyang was fifteen years old, it was reasonable to say that he should pull up his long hair and perform the ritual of making peace. Fifteen years old is the age at which a woman is married.

But Chaoyang's sweetheart was uncertain of his life and death. On the last day of the fifteen-year-old, she herself pulled up her long hair, stood in front of the window of Wanliu Pavilion, looked in the direction of Qin Ling, thinking of her teenager in her heart, not knowing where he slept tonight, not knowing whether he was injured, or even whether he was still alive. Every day, she went to the Taiji Palace to wait for the latest military report, but qinling came less and less news.

When Chaoyang was sixteen years old, the court did not receive news from Mu Ziliang for a long time, some people said that they had completely destroyed the army, and some people said that they had surrendered to the Qin army. The original one-year period had long exceeded, even the King of Shu had lost patience, and the courtiers who had originally supported Mu Ziliang began to waver, and only Chaoyang was convinced that Mu Ziliang would definitely return.

Because he promised her that he would come back safely, he never failed to live up to his promise to her.

She went to the Taimiao Temple every day to pray for blessings, no matter whether it was windy or rainy, never stopping. She prayerfully knelt in front of the idol, "The morning sun has only one wish, may the beloved return safely." ”

She offered a thousand lamps in the Temple, and all she asked for were her sweethearts. Yunze followed Chaoyang, watching the worry in her eyes deepen, so he thought of amusing her, buying the best bamboo leaf green in Jinguancheng and her favorite peach blossom crisp, but Chaoyang always couldn't eat a few bites.

When Chaoyang was seventeen years old, some people in the court began to question Mu Ziliang. Grain supplies were transported into the Qinling Mountains in batches, but no news came out at all. Rumors of defection to the enemy and treason grew, and the Mu family struggled in the court, and the King of Shu ordered that Xiang Guo be relieved of his official position and that arrangements be made after Mu Ziliang returned. Chaoyang knelt in front of the King of Shu and argued reasonably: "In any case, the Qin army did not fight, so you have to believe Zi Liang." ”

The King of Shu shook his head helplessly, if he had sent Chaoyang to make peace, it would not be today's embarrassing situation.

When Chaoyang was eighteen years old, she had become the oldest princess to be married in Shu County, and few girls had not yet married at such an old age. The King and Queen of Shu began to look for new horses for her, but Chaoyang saw no one but to go to the Taimiao Temple to pray for blessings, that is, to lock herself in the Wanliu Pavilion. Once the gentle girl is stubborn, no one can shake her heart. If Mu Ziliang didn't come back, she would have waited like this, anyway, she had long been used to waiting, she used to wait for him on the Feihong Bridge to get out of school, and now she was waiting for him to come back at the Shu King's Palace, and her whole life seemed to be waiting for him. She began to embroider her own wedding dress, let the Shangyi Bureau find the best Shu brocade, stitch and thread, embroider mandarin ducks into pairs, embroider and put lotus flowers, embroidered with worries and expectations. While spending a long and boring time, while fantasizing about waiting for himself to finish embroidering his wedding dress, the young man who has his heart and mind will ride a white horse, walk across the Flying Rainbow Bridge, and come to himself.

I don't know how long later, the peach blossoms bloomed and thanked, the willow trees withered and sprouted, the migratory birds that passed through the winter came wave after wave, and the water-like years of the morning sun also passed away day by day in the long wait.

finally.

Qin Ling came with the news of the shu army's great victory.

On the day that the Qin King's letter was sent to the Shu King's Palace with a swift horse, Chaoyang was praying for blessings at the Taimiao Temple. She solemnly knelt in front of the idol, prostrated her head three times reverently, and burst into tears.

On this day, it was Chaoyang's nineteenth birthday, and the teenager she had been thinking about had finally returned safely.

Mu Ziliang took off his blood-stained armor, changed into a white robe, and stood on the Feihong Bridge, still radiant.

The morning sun rushed towards him and pounced into his arms.

They finally don't have to be apart anymore.

10. A cup of sake song, waiting for the king to pull the green silk

The Mid-Autumn Festival in Shu County has always been very grand, second only to Chinese New Year's Eve. From the day of the golden laurel fragrance in August, the palace began to prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the queen summoned many family bridesmaids to help organize the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, and let Yunze entertain them by the way, and the queen could not help but ask him how things were going and whether the women of each family were adapting. Because the Mid-Autumn Festival state banquet was held for many days, Yunze has been trapped in the palace, and every day is a tedious ritual ceremony, and he has to deal with the family bridesmaids introduced by the mother and queen. Counting up, he hadn't been out of the palace for a long time, and he hadn't seen Ajaan for a long time. This day was the last night of the Mid-Autumn Festival feast, the Taiji Palace was singing and dancing, and Yunze pretended to be invincible, and the queen was distressed by him, so she begged the King of Shu to let him leave the table early.

YunZe naturally sneaked out of the palace, and he easily dodged the guards in the palace, passed through the crowd of people who were bustling with lanterns in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and came to a wooden door. He missed his little girl and wanted to sneak out and sneak a look at her. However, he noticed something was wrong, there seemed to be no one in the courtyard, not even a little light. He stepped forward and tried to push open the door, but suddenly stopped. It turned out that the door was not closed, there was a white lantern hanging on the door, and through the crack in the door he saw a coffin parked in the courtyard, and a lot of paper money scattered on the ground, and his little girl sat in the courtyard, curled up like a desperate and pitiful kitten. He hurriedly sent someone to inquire about the neighbor next door, and only then did he know that his little girl's family was in a bad situation, alone, and had nowhere to stay. He wanted to go inside to comfort her but was afraid of acting rashly, and he was even more afraid that the little girl would have an accident alone, so he turned over and jumped on the roof.

"Ah Niang, I am afraid," the little girl murmured as if in her sleep, "Ah Niang, come back, don't leave me alone." ”

"Ah Niang, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, I haven't eaten the mooncake you made..."

His heart tightened, his brows furrowed, and his face was full of worry and pity. He sat with her all night, the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival was as clean and flawless as a disk, but his little girl had no relatives anymore. He thought about it all night, and finally got up and left at dawn, leaving two retinues to watch Ajaan in the shadows.

He went to the Xiangguo Mansion alone and asked Xiangguo and his wife to adopt Ajaan, and Lady Xiangguo was already kind-hearted and could not bear to refuse this request, coupled with the relationship between Princess Chaoyang and Mu Ziliang, Xiangguo also agreed. Mu Ziliang personally went to Yongning Lane to take Ah Jiang over, and he watched from a distance as Ah Jiang was taken into the Xiangguo Mansion, and his heart was suspended for a night before he calmed down.

As soon as he returned to the palace, he went to Princess Chaoyang, and he couldn't even change his clothes.

"Imperial Sister."

"What's wrong? Come and see me so early? ”

"Is the wedding date of The Imperial Sister and Zi Liang coming soon?"

Princess Chaoyang smiled, "Where did you ask the girl about the marriage so bluntly?" What's wrong with you, so strange today? ”

"I, I have a matter, I want to please the Imperial Sister." YunZe hesitated, or he told him: "The little girl I know has a bad family and nowhere to live, I originally wanted to take her back to the palace to raise her, but because of moral ethics, I had to ask Lady Xiangguo to adopt her." I thought that sooner or later the imperial sister would also marry into the Xiangguo Mansion, and I could help take care of it. ”

"Oh, it's this little girl who makes you ignore the Mid-Autumn Festival feast and run out all night, where is the little girl you know, this is clearly a sweetheart." Princess Chaoyang smiled and said, "Besides, if you are inconvenient, you can take her into the palace and let the mother queen raise her, and if the mother queen likes children, you don't know, so why go around and ask Lady Xiangguo?" ”

"If we give it to our mother, won't we become brothers and sisters?"

"I also said that I am not a sweetheart, and I haven't seen you put so much thought into anything."

"Imperial Sister, I am also desperate, of course I want to take her with me and hide her well, but I have to give up because of moral ethics."

"I'd like to see what kind of little girl she is, and let us worry about Yunze so much."

On this day, Yunze and Mu Ziliang returned from training in the martial arts field, and they were thinking about finding an excuse to go to the Xiangguo Mansion to see Ajaan, but They did not expect Mu Ziliang to first put forward an invitation: "Why don't you go to your house for a few drinks?" ”

"Hahahaha, Brother Mu is really polite, then I will be respectful rather than obedient."

Mu Ziliang naturally knew that YunZe had Ajaan in mind, and since he had sent Ajaan to the Xiangguo Mansion that day, he had not seen her again, and it had been almost half a month. Yunze has been with Chaoyang since childhood, and naturally he is also very close to Mu Ziliang, although Mu Ziliang knows that his sister has a heart for Yunze, but he can also see that Yunze has no love for Jiaojiao. That day, Yunze came to the Xiangguo Mansion before dawn to ask for his help, and he guessed that this little girl was different to Yunze.

As soon as he entered the Xiangguo Mansion, Yunze was invited to the main hall by Xiangguo, and after some greetings, he finally found an excuse to push away the enthusiasm of Xiangguo to try to pull him to discuss political affairs. However, she met Mu Jiaojiao in the courtyard again, and she rightly stopped Yunze and asked him to teach herself a new sword technique, Jiaojiao has always been arrogant and unreasonable, and Yunze had no choice but to go to the side courtyard with her. After explaining to her, it was almost dark, and the queen sent someone to urge Yunze to return to the palace, and Yunze had no choice but to get up and resign, and Jiaojiao and Ziliang sent him out of the palace.

When the three of them walked to the Shuiyun Pavilion, Yunze's eyes suddenly lit up, and Ajaan was practicing in the pavilion. She was wearing a white tunic, her long hair was tied up by an aqua green ribbon, loose and lazy behind her, she looked much quieter than before. Yunze was seeing God, but she seemed to be aware and raised her head, and she was slightly shocked to see Yunze. Also, who would have thought they would meet here.

"Little girl, we're meeting again." Yunze said with a smile.

"Ajaan, I'm not here to see Your Highness yet." Jiaojiao spoke first: "This is the adopted daughter adopted by my mother a few days ago, her parents are both dead and homeless, and my mother took her home when she saw her pity." ”

Ajaan hesitated, not knowing whether to come forward, and the maid next to her carefully reminded her, and she leaned over slightly, saying, "Good boy." ”

"Ajaan, this is His Highness the Yong King, what a prince, I can't even ask for peace." Petite dissatisfied.

"Gongzi is also good, I like this title." Yunze naturally did not pay attention to it.

"She can't do anything, she just looks good, and she doesn't know where she likes her mother." Jiaojiao complained that it was probably Ajaan who had come to share Lady Xiangguo's favor and was dissatisfied.

"The prince is busy first, and Ajaan still has to go to his mother to ask for peace, one step ahead." The little girl got up and retreated.

Yun Ze shook his head slightly, not seeing for a few days was actually estranged a lot. However, seeing that she seemed to be doing well in Xiangguo Mansion, she was finally relieved.

When Yunze walked to the gate, Nanzhi was standing in front of the door waiting for him, when he saw Yunze come over and lean over to ask for peace: "Your Highness." ”

Nanzhi was originally the most powerful maid in the Shu King's Palace, and was given to Yunze by the queen from an early age, and was deeply trusted by Yunze. YunZe was afraid that Ajaan would not have a good time in the Xiangguo Mansion, so he quietly sent Nanzhi over and asked her to accompany Ajaan.

"Is she still adapting to life in the Xiangguo Mansion?"

"Miss xiangguofu is very well taken care of, but she is a little afraid of life when she first came." Nanzhi replied.

"Well, you take good care of her and notify me of anything." YunZe instructed.

"Your Highness is assured that Nanzhi will do his best."

Soon Princess Chaoyang will be married, which is a grand event in the whole Jinguan City. The King of Shu loves this daughter the most, and now she is married naturally to have more scenery and scenery, ten miles of red makeup, vast, starting from chaoyang gate, along the Suzaku Avenue all the way to the south, to the front of the Xiangguo Mansion. Everyone says that Chaoyang and Ziliang are gods and immortals created by heaven and earth, and the only golden and jade good fortune in heaven and earth. Chaoyang married into the Xiangguo Mansion with the blessings of the whole country, married her Ruyi Langjun, married her lifelong dream and the rest of her lifelong expectations.

Before Chaoyang left, Yunze came to see her, and also gave her his favorite set of green jade chessboards as a dowry: "Sister, you are not short of valuable things, your father and queen mother must have put them into the dowry box for you, this is a little bit of my brother's heart, this is what I won from Lord Qisheng Su, the only one in the world, there is no second one." ”

Chaoyang smiled helplessly, her younger brother was quite accomplished in elegant things, but he refused to work hard in political affairs, which always made the King of Shu angry.

"Yunze, if you are willing to use these thoughts on serious matters, the Father king will not be angry every time he sees you."

"Doesn't the father and the king still have the eldest brother and the second brother, I just like these elegant things, I like the fireworks in this world, I don't want to be trapped in the palace for the rest of my life."

"You've wasted your talents."

"By the way, Sister, this peach blossom hairpin... Can you help me give it to her? ”

"Little Ajaan to the Xiangguo Mansion?" Princess Chaoyang covered her mouth and smiled, "Why don't you send it yourself?" When did you get so upset? ”

"I'm afraid it's not a good number, so please ask the imperial sister." This peach blossom hairpin is polished by Yunze himself, crystal clear and outstanding.

"Yunze, you must know that your father and mother have high expectations for your marriage, and they intend to match you and Mu Ji, so you have to think about what to do."

"Sister, I just want to raise an eyebrow with my beloved girl." Sometimes I really envy you, you and Zi Liang are in agreement with each other, and such luck is really not possible. ”

"Alas," Princess Chaoyang sighed, "Jiaojiao also likes you very much." ”

"Petite, when did she like me?" It's just a matter of hindering the face of the mother's queen, just playing a scene, she has always been very fierce to me. ”

"I can see the girl's mind better than you." If you've made up your mind, you should have made it clear to her sooner. ”

Ever since Princess Chaoyang married into the Xiangguo Mansion, Yunze had an excuse to run to the Xiangguo Mansion frequently, and he always had to go every three to five, watching his little girl from a distance and watching her grow up little by little. Spring came and went, peach blossoms bloomed and thanked, bamboo leaves were brewed and drunk, and his little girl grew up day by day. He imagined in infinite anticipation the appearance of her long hair pulled up. Yunze sometimes thinks that he is really too instigated, instigated for so long has not told her his heart, afraid that this heavy love will scare her away, can only comfort herself to come to Japan for a long time, they still have a lot of time to squander.

One day, he pretended to be drunk and waited for his little girl under the peach tree in Shuiyun Pavilion, knowing that this was the only way for her to return to her room. Sure enough, she came, running briskly like a little rabbit, and didn't seem to have the intention of stopping. Yunze stopped her by the drunken head and pretended to hand her a carefully selected peach blossom at random.

He asked, "Little girl, how old are you?" ”

Ajaan thought for a moment and replied, "Thirteen years old." ”

Fifteen years old is the year of women and zhen, and the girls of Shu County can only talk about marriage after the age of zhen.

"I can't wait, little girl, Xiangguofu is so boring, is it okay to follow me?" Some things can only be said when drunk.

"Since you are bored, why does the prince always come?" This little girl is still as articulate as ever.

"Hahaha, of course I came to see my sweetheart." Girl, can you have a crush? Yun Ze couldn't help but reach out and rub her hair, both expecting her answer and afraid that it was not the answer he wanted. The little girl did not answer, but just lowered her head and fiddled with her white fingers, as if she had a thousand knots in her heart, and did not know where to start. Yun Ze couldn't bear her distress and said with relief: "It doesn't matter, let's come to Japan for a long time." ”

Even with a dashing and uncaring look, YunZe also felt that Ajaan always seemed to avoid him, although he didn't know what the reason was, but this discovery was like a fish in his throat, and he came to the Princess of Chaoyang again, like a sullen child.

"Sister, how can you make a person like yourself?"

"Who wouldn't like us Yunze?" The man really had no vision. ”

"I used to think so, but some people don't like me, always avoid me, and won't even say a word to me.

"Aren't people already have sweethearts and avoid you?"

"Impossible." Yun Ze patted the table: "Absolutely impossible! ”

"What if it's true?" Are you still strong? ”

"I, I, will slowly wait for her to like me."

Princess Chaoyang shook her head, Yunze has been this character since childhood, although it seems to have a loose temperament, it is extremely persistent, as long as it is determined, it will not give up easily. Chaoyang is not that she does not dislike Ajaan, on the contrary, she likes Ajaan very much, Ajaan has a gentle temperament, is not humble, does not argue, and occasionally shows a playful side in front of close people, which is indeed a rare good match for Yunze, more pleasing than the pampered and temperamental petite. It's just that even though she, as a princess, is accustomed to seeing all kinds of beauties, she has never seen a girl like Ajaan who makes people feel excited, it is a beauty that strikes the heart, a thrilling beauty, and makes people moths put out fires and do not want to give up.

Beauty to the extreme is a disaster.

11. The drums of war in Qimen are sounded, and the mountains and seas are loved

Yunze is a drunken son of this dynasty, he is the youngest son of the King of Shu, and he has always just accepted grace and love calmly, but he does not have to bear heavy responsibilities. But suddenly, the drums of war were thundering, the prosperity had become the end of the world, the mountains and rivers were crumbling, and no one could stay out of it.

Faced with the 200,000-strong army of the Chu state, the elderly King of Shu decided to march on the imperial conquest and fight a battle. YunZe did not escape this time, he understood that Shu County had reached the point of life and death, and he must stand up and share the responsibility for his father and brother. Before leaving, he specifically went to say goodbye to Ajaan, and cheekily asked for a long-life lock from Ajaan, thinking of carrying it with him as if she had been with him all the time.

Mu Ji was clamoring to go to the battlefield with him, and Yunze had no choice but to show her his heart, saying that he already had a heart. Mu Ji refused to give up and asked, "Is Your Highness's sweetheart Ajaan?" ”

Yunze did not answer.

"I know it's her, and Your Highness looks at her with extra tenderness." Mu Ji's eyes were red, and she seemed to be crying: "But, Your Highness, apart from her good looks than me, where can she compare to me?" Birth is not comparable, upbringing is not comparable, martial arts are not comparable, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are not comparable, why is she, why! ”

"Petite, don't make a fuss." Yunze didn't want to argue with her, and he didn't want to put Ajaan in an awkward position.

"Your Highness, I met you first!"

Yunze did not argue with her, and the army was about to leave.

Zi Liang patted Jiaojiao's shoulder: "It's all right, Jiaojiao, when my brother comes back, he will introduce you to a better Lang Jun, a thousand times better than this person." ”

This war was more difficult and cruel than imagined, hundreds of thousands of troops fought in the battle, the blood was dripping with wailing, and even the land was dyed blood red. Groups of warriors poured up and fell, and the corpses were strewn across the field.

The Chu army was pressing forward step by step, and the Shu army retreated again and again, and finally there was no way to retreat. The elderly King of Shu was stabbed to death by the assassins who attacked in the middle of the night, when Yunze arrived, he only had one breath left but refused to close his eyes, he stroked Yunze's cheek, revealing a loving and serene smile: "Aze, the father king is really useless, Shu County depends on you, don't blame the father king for being strict... The Father and the King want you to grow up soon... Live well, assist your eldest brother, take good care of your mother and sister... The Father and king went first..."

Originally, I thought that I was not close to my father and king, but the father and son who were connected by blood were always father and son.

Yunze decapitated the assassin's head, raised the Shu war flag, and rushed to the front of the line.

However, it is still impossible to recover the decline, the overall situation has been determined, and there is no way to return to heaven.

The Chu army broke through the last line of defense and surrounded them.

"You go first." Zi Liang blocked in front of Yun Ze.

"No, you go back! The Imperial Sister is still waiting for you! ”

Zi Liang hesitated for a moment, still blocking in front of Yun Ze: "You go first, I will come later." He also looked at Yunze's entourage to pull him back and meet the pursuing Chu cavalry alone.

Yunze fled for half a day under the cover of his retinue, but still fell into the hands of the Chu people. When bad luck strikes, it won't give you half a chance to breathe.

"Your Highness the Yong King, the defeat of the Shu kingdom has been decided, surrender."

"What about Mu Ziliang?"

"The general who covered your escape is dead."

Yun Ze's heart was as dead as ashes. Mountains and rivers are broken, fathers and brothers are dead, friends are dead...

He was imprisoned in the Chu State Prison, the six counties of Baling were also included in the Pocket of the Chu State, and the 100,000 Shu County sons and daughters who accompanied him on the expedition were killed and wounded, and fate finally showed him a desperate side.

When he was captured, YunZe lost a lot of things, only a long-life lock was still clinging to the close pocket near the heart, refusing to let go.

"This is something of great value, take it to honor the great masters." During the search, the long-lived lock was found by the guards.

"It's not worth anything, it's just a gadget"

"Not worth the money? I don't care if it's worth it, Lao Tzu just wants it, take it quickly. When the spring breeze was triumphant, the whole world circled around him, and once it fell to the dust, even the ants had to step on it.

"How about not giving?" Yun Ze smiled wildly.

"Don't give?" The jailer flew up and kicked at Yun Ze's injured leg: "What is the hardness of a prisoner under the ranks!" ”

Yun Ze was trapped by the chain and could not fight back, letting them punch and kick, still clutching the long life lock and refusing to let go, this was the only thing he wanted to hold tightly.

"Forget it, that thing is really not valuable, don't break him, it's not good to explain it to His Highness the Prince." Someone on the side exhorted.

The jailer then stopped and took a bite: "In seven days it will be beheaded, and sooner or later this lock will be mine." ”

It turned out that he could only live for seven days, YunZe smiled bitterly, or if he failed, he would not be afraid of death.

It's just that I don't know if his little girl is okay, I don't know if she will miss herself. He never saw her pull up her long hair and put on her wedding dress again.

Who knew that after two days, things actually took a turn for the better, and Yunze was released. It turned out that the two countries had reached a peace treaty, the Shu state ceded the six counties of Baling, paying a compensation of 100,000 snowflake silver, and the Chu state released the prisoners.

He rushed all the way, hurrying and hurrying, wanting to hurry back to JinguanCheng.

Halfway down the road, when I stopped at the station, I heard someone say, "Oh, have you heard that?" This time, the State of Shu sacrificed a beautiful person to the Chu Kingdom to make peace, which saved the disaster of destroying the country. It is said that the beauty was like a peach blossom, and the country fell into the city, making people lose their minds and be fascinated. ”

"Lie to you, how can there be such a person in this world?"

"What I said was true, I didn't lie to you."

"Which girl is that?"

"It seems to be the adopted daughter of The Xiangguo family, what is her name, yes, Ajaan."

Yunze was like being poured a basin of cold water, frozen from head to toe, he galloped on his horse, turned around and went to chase the team of peace and kissing all night. He traveled day and night, single-handedly chasing all the way to Jingmen, but when he heard the news that Ajaan had been named a concubine, he finally fell and fell ill. He had thought that they had a lot of time to squander, that he had survived the brutal battlefield, that he had survived the scourge of prison, that he had survived a long period of long thoughts, but that he would never see his little servant again.

"Your Highness, go back, the Empress, Your Majesty, and Princess Chaoyang are all waiting for you." It was Mu Ji, and she came to take him back.

Yunze lost his soul, all the struggle was in vain, he was like a soulless walking corpse, he was taken back to Jinguan City by Mu Ji.

It's just that in the past, Gu Pan's flying eyes no longer had brilliance.

Princess Chaoyang came to see him.

They looked at each other wordlessly for a long time before Chaoyang said, "Aze, cheer up, don't let the queen worry." ”

"Sister, what about you?" Do you have heartache? ”

"People can't be resurrected from the dead, and you're much better than me." Princess Chaoyang lowered her head, tears hitting her hands.

"I'm sorry I couldn't bring him back, I, I would have..."

"It's not your fault, don't blame yourself." Chaoyang took Yunze in his arms: "We still have to live, you still have your mother, and your brother, and me, we have to live well." ”

Chaoyang summoned someone to hold a swaddled baby and showed it to Yunze: "You see, doesn't it look like Zi Liang?" ”

"Sister," YunZe said with great pain to her, "don't stand alone." ”

"I'm going to raise him like his father, and be a good boy like his father." She added, "You too, Ajaan doesn't want to see you decadent, and you have to live well for her." ”

Everyone cheered him up, and when bad luck didn't happen to him, it wasn't a big deal. The pain of others is irrelevant and can be endured.

YunZe seemed to listen to the consolation. He began to go to the court, as his father expected before his death, to assist his brother Kuang To support the country, and everything seemed to be back on track.

12. Day and night are counted, and the old man is no longer seen

One hundred thousand snowflake silver is not a small amount, and the Shu kingdom has used the strength of the whole country to prepare for a whole year, which has completed the number. At present, the headache of the King of Shu was who to send to pay the reparations, from Jinguancheng to Yingdu thousands of miles away, it was inevitable that there would be some accidents, and there must be reliable military generals to suppress the battle. It was only the Battle of Qimen, and the generals in the army suffered heavy casualties, and even a reliable person could not be selected. When the King of Shu was anxious about this matter, Yunze asked for an envoy to the Chu State, but the King of Shu refused to agree, and the act was extremely dangerous, and Yunze was his brother.

"Brother Emperor, please believe in Yunze, you will not fail in your mission."

"This trip is extremely dangerous, I can't risk you, and you know your body... Just in case..."

"Brother Emperor, no one is more familiar with the journey from Shu County to Yingdu than I am, and no one is more familiar with the fighting habits of the Chu army than I am, and I am the most suitable candidate." As for the Emperor Brother's body, there will be no case, and the Tai Doctor will definitely cure the Imperial Brother. ”

Indeed, at present, there is no more suitable candidate than Yunze, but the imperial family of the Shu kingdom has always had thin heirs, but the current emperor has been weak and sick since childhood, not a long-term image, the emperor has no heirs, and Yunze as a crown prince is not suitable to leave the capital. On the same day, Yunze asked for an envoy to the Chu State at the court, and the important ministers of the DPRK and China opposed it one after another, and they all disagreed.

In the past year, Yunze has been quite calm and calm, and has also made great achievements in political affairs, and gradually has many followers.

Before leaving, Yunze came to the Xiangguo Mansion to bid farewell to Princess Chaoyang. Princess Chaoyang seems to have come out of the pain of widowhood and is immersed in the pleasure of taking care of children every day, and the whole person is much alive.

"Sister, I'm leaving, you have to take care of yourself."

"You've thought about it all?" Even if you risk the world's great disobedience, you still have to save her? ”

It turned out that Yunze's trip was not just to pay compensation, he had other purposes. He sent people to search for Shu County for a year, and finally found a girl who resembled Ajaan and raised her in the Yongwang Mansion. This girl was very similar to Ajaan, even more beautiful, and Yunze invited Ajaan's nurturing mother-in-law to guide her, and now, I am afraid that even the closest people can't distinguish the two of them. That's right, he's going to steal the day and save Ajaan back. In the past year, he has cultivated his confidants and planted eyeliner in the Chu King's Palace, and he has been fully prepared.

"I'm sorry, Sister." YunZe lowered his head: "I don't care what the world is like, I only care about her." ”

"Brother Emperor, how are you going to account for it?" If it angered the King of Chu, I was afraid that Shu County would be destroyed. ”

"Imperial Sister, don't worry, I have already arranged it." Jing Yao and Ajaan couldn't even tell The Lady of Xiangguo, so how could the King of Chu see the flaw? Even if the King of Chu found out, there was no need to worry. Today's Chu royal palace is full of crises, the harem disputes are continuous, the Chu army suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Qimen, the king of Chu is not a dark king, he will not go to war for a woman. ”

"He's not going to war for a woman, what about you?" You also shoulder the responsibility of the Kuangfu Shu Kingdom. Chaoyang never harshly rebuked him.

"Ajaan is just a pawn to the King of Chu, she will not have a good ending in the Chu King's Palace, and I can't watch her fall into the abyss of eternal disaster."

"Have you considered the consequences?" Even if you bring her back, what will the Minister of Korea think? What will the people think? ”

"None of this matters, I will declare to the outside world that King Yong of the Shu Kingdom died on the way back to China, and I will take her far away to fly high, to see the magnificent mountains and rivers, to see the fireworks in the world, and to live an ordinary life."

"Brother Huang's body, the survival of the royal family, you let it go?"

"I have collected the best doctor in the world for the imperial brother, he will be fine, besides, the imperial brother will have children." At worst, the royal family still has Si Liang. ”

"Si Liang is a child of the Mu family."

"He is also a royal bloodline."

"It seems that you will not turn back."

"I'm sorry, Imperial Sister, I've disappointed you."

"I had expected this to be the case." Chaoyang looked into Yunze's eyes and said slowly, "Aze, I would rather see a idle and vivid you than a wise but depressed monarch." I just want to make sure everything is fine and I don't want you to be okay. Brother Huang will hide it for you, if you want to come back, you can come back at any time, Sister A is waiting for you. ”

"Imperial Sister, is Aze very unambitious?"

"People have their own ambitions, and they don't have to blame themselves."

Everything was fine in the territory of the Shu Kingdom, but it was dangerous to travel to Baling. Baling has just experienced war, poor grain harvest, lack of food, coupled with the extreme cruelty of the Chu army to the people, Baling is not peaceful now, the exile is everywhere, and hunger is everywhere. YunZe ordered the team to be vigilant, and they chose to travel during the day and go into the city at night to rest and avoid spending the night in the wild. Even with all their care, they encountered a stream of rogues that night, and their intentions were obvious, straight to the convoy escorting Snowflake Silver. Fortunately, these rogues did not have a large scale, and they lost the battle not long after. Yun Ze was worried in his heart, although this time he failed, but their whereabouts were also exposed, and the road ahead would definitely be more difficult.

Sure enough, in the following days they all encountered different sizes of rogues, although they saved snowflake silver, but the team suffered heavy casualties. These rogues seem to be scattered, but in fact they are organized and disciplined, and they harass them many times in order to reduce the strength of the army and then kill them in one shot. Since the original route has been exposed, the only way to adjust the route is to avoid them.

"Everybody stick with it any longer, and when we get to Wushan, someone will pick us up." It turned out that Yunze had long anticipated the situation in Baling, and had arranged a receiving team at Wushan, Tanzhou, and Jingmen along the way early to replenish the escorts at any time. They quickly reached Wushan on a small road and came to the meeting place, but found that it was Mu Ji who was waiting there.

"Why are you here?"

"Of course, I'm waiting for you, my father said you're in danger, I'm here to help, aren't you welcome?"

"I've already made arrangements, you hurry back, girls' homes shouldn't run around."

"Anyway, they're coming, and I'm going to follow you."

"You!" Jiaojiao had always been stubborn, and Yunze could only let her follow.

They traveled for another ten days before they arrived at Yingdu, found an inn to rest first, and Yunze went to present the envoys to pay their respects, and visited the Chu ministers who were familiar with each other one by one. Jing Yao and his party arrived in Yingdu early by water and were waiting for them at the inn. Jiaojiao was surprised to see Jing Yao: "Ajaan, you, why are you here?" She hadn't seen Jing Yao, so naturally she didn't recognize it.

"I am waiting for Your Highness." In order not to show flaws, Jingyao has always regarded himself as Ajaan since entering the territory of the Chu Kingdom.

"Shouldn't it be in the Chu King's Palace?" Jiaojiao still didn't see through it, and even panicked.

"I heard that Your Highness is coming, so naturally I came to greet you." Even the tone of his speech became more and more like Ajaan.

"Ah Jiang, you, are you doing well in the Chu King's Palace?"

In Jing Yao's cognition, Jiaojiao was not friendly to Ajaan, and when she heard her ask such a question, she did not know how to answer it for a while.

Fortunately, Yunze returned and gave her a break. Yunze asked Jiaojiao to go down to rest first, and then dismissed the servants, leaving only the two of them in the room.

"Do you really not regret it?" Once you enter the Chu King's Palace, you can't turn back. ”

Jing Yao never regretted it. Thank you for the care of Your Highness these days, if it were not for Your Highness, Jing Yao would probably not even have a life, and Jing Yao would be very happy to be able to share the worries of His Highness. ”

Yun Ze was speechless, and the way he could think of to save Ajaan was to push the other girl into the abyss. On that day, he rescued JingYao from Liu Kou and brought her back to the Yongwang Mansion and asked her if she would like to become another person. Jing Yao did not hesitate to say yes, he was not without guilt in his heart, but these guilts were like a drop in the ocean in the face of flooded thoughts, and they could be endured.

"Your Highness does not have to blame himself, as Jing Yao, it is already a blessing in three lifetimes to be the favorite concubine of the King of Chu."

"Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?" I'll do it for you. ”

"No, I don't have any wishes." As long as His Highness could talk to Ajaan for a long time, Jing Yao would be satisfied. ”

Yunze arranged for Jing Yao to enter the palace with him, pretending to be Ajaan's family, and once they had the opportunity to meet Ajaan, the two could exchange identities and steal beams for pillars. Everything went smoothly according to plan, and the King of Chu agreed to concubine Mu to receive the envoys of the old country at the Huanyan Hall. They walked along the gallery towards the Hall of Joy, YunZe couldn't resist the beating heart, he clenched the long life lock in his hand, a long-lost smile appeared on his face, he was about to see his little girl...

Jing Yao seemed very happy to see Yunze's look of anticipation, and she lowered her head and laughed out loud: "Your Highness is like a child now." ”

Yun Ze didn't care about her ridicule, but just sped up his pace again.

Ahead, Mu Ji walked toward them, accompanied by what appeared to be the maids of the Chu King's Palace. Mu Ji looked flustered, especially when he saw Jing Yao. The maid of the Chu Palace said that Concubine Mu was unwell and could not receive the envoys of the old country today.

Yun Ze was vaguely uneasy in his heart. He grabbed Mu Ji's arm, "Have you seen her?" What did you say to her? ”

"No, I didn't say anything, but I just said that my mother missed her and asked her to write more letters to her mother."

"What's wrong with her?"

"She is pregnant, pregnant with the child of the King of Chu."

Yun Ze's feet were unsteady and he almost fell.

"Your Highness!" Jing Yao rushed to help her, but was pushed away by Mu Ji.

"A counterfeiter also dares to call himself Ajaan? Do you know that this is the sin of deception? You're going to kill us. Mu Ji saw through their intentions.

The King of Chu sent someone to take them out of the palace, and Yunze lost his soul and was speechless all the way. Back at the inn, the three of them were still silent, and Yunze and Jing Yao understood in their hearts that Ajaan was pregnant, and the plan to steal the day and change the day could no longer be used. However, Jing Yao still offered to fight to the death, as long as she replaced Ajaan out, she would bear the rest of the matter.

"Your Highness, let me try, it's a big deal to be discovered by the King of Chu, beaten or given to death, I'm not afraid, anyway, I've lived so long, no loss."

"What are you crazy about?" You are putting us and the Shu kingdom to death! "Mu Ji is also right, the King of Chu will not go to war for women, but no one can say for the sake of heirs." Yunze wouldn't let her take that risk. He looked tired: "You guys go out, I want to rest." ”

He sat alone in the room and did not rest. In fact, he didn't know what to do, he was very confused and helpless, and every time he met Ajaan, he didn't know what to do. Perhaps, the King of Chu did not regard her as a pawn, perhaps, she did not want to leave the Palace of the King of Chu, perhaps, she and the King of Chu were both in love.

He came to the street alone and found a tavern: "Boss, come two jugs of wine, the best wine here." ”

"Well, officer, wait a minute."

A glass of spirits under the belly, YunZe smiled bitterly, The wine of Yin Du was really ugly, where compared to the bamboo leaf green of Shu County. However, looking around, the other guests still drank happily and happily. Some people like bamboo leaf green, some people like peach blossom brewing, some people prefer autumn dew white, so does wine, and so do people. He seemed to be drunk, staggering on Yingdu Avenue, from south to north, from east to west, as if he were lost. I don't know how long I walked, but I finally met Mu Ji who came to look for him. He pulled Mu Ji aside and said, "Petite, have you seen Ajaan?" I couldn't find her anymore. ”

Mu Ji's face darkened, but he found that he was drunk, and he wanted to go back: "Your Highness, let's go back, it is already late." ”

"I'm going to find Ajaan, she'll be scared alone at this late hour, and I can't leave her alone."

"Someone is with her, she's not alone."

"Who? Who was with her? Is that person good to her? ”

"That person was very nice to her."

"No, no one can be better to her than I am." YunZe said nonsense all the way, and was helped by Mu Ji to finally return to the inn to rest.

The next day, as soon as he woke up, he ran to the Chu King's Palace, even if he couldn't take her back, even if he saw her.

He said to the guards guarding the gate, "Trouble inform Concubine Mu that the envoys of the old country are visiting." ”

"Concubine Mu is unwell, and no one is seeing her today."

"Then I'll come back tomorrow."

For several days, Yunze was turned away.

He finally knew that, it turned out, that Ajaan did not want to see him. He sighed, his little girl didn't need him anymore. The mountains and rivers he promised were beautiful fireworks in the world, and she didn't care anymore. She didn't even want the long-life lock lent to him. Also, the King of Chu would give her better, more valuable things, just a long-lived lock.

He walked back to the inn alone with his head down.

"Let's go back, go back to Jinguancheng."

Thirteen, a pilgrimage to Baling, ten years of sleep under the lamp

After returning from Yingdu, Yunze was no longer keen to participate in political affairs, resigned his position, went to the restaurant to drink and write poetry during the day, and feasted on guests in the palace at night, as if he had returned to his previous idle life. He gave Jing Yao a sum of money to let her live a good life, but Jing Yao refused. She insisted on staying in the Yongwang Mansion, and she said, "Your Highness, I am homeless. ”

Yun Ze had no choice but to continue to stay in the palace by her.

The life of the Shu royal family has always been bad, the Shu king's illness has not yet been cured, and the princess of Chaoyang here has fallen ill again, and the tai doctor cannot find out the reason, only saying that he is worried and hurt. Yunze searched for famous doctors in the world to see Chaoyang, and it seemed that there was no improvement, so he had to slowly raise it. The little prince of Xiangguo Mansion grew up day by day, and he became more and more handsome and beautiful, and everyone loved him. Yunze took him with him and taught him carefully.

Chaoyang began to worry about Yunze's family affairs, and asked Lady Xiangguo and a group of imperial court women to choose the family bridesmaids for Yunze, and none of them were satisfied. Yunze asked her to rest assured that she should not worry about these idle things, but Chaoyang said, "Where is the idleness?" Obviously, it is a big thing. You're not too young, how long do you want to wait? ”

"What about you?" The queen mother said to let you remarry, why did you refuse to do so? ”

"I have Si Liang, what about you, a lonely family, when you are old, no one will take care of you."

"Ha, Si Liang won't take care of me?" Isn't it, Si Liang? Yunze teased him again.

"Okay, uncle is old, I' ll take care of it."

"The queen mother has always been worried about your marriage, and you don't go back to the palace, only I can worry about it, you have two choices, either follow the marriage of the father and the king before, or hurry to choose a girl of your choice, and I will take care of you on the side of the mother and the brother."

"Can you not choose?"

"Can't!"

Probably not wanting Chaoyang to worry about him anymore, or wanting to take care of Xiangguofu and Chaoyang, Yunze agreed to marry Mu Ji. The most handsome and handsome prince in the whole Jinguan City has since had a family, and he can no longer be the spring girl's dream of the girls.

Their marriage was very grand, probably because Shu County had not had a happy event for a long time, and the people all hoped that this happy event would wash away the pain of the war and let Shu County usher in the spring. Suzaku Street is once again illuminated, and the sound of silk bamboo and wind music is in the ears. The distance from the Xiangguo Mansion to the Yongwang Mansion was only a short distance, and it was actually half an hour because of the crowd. The people stopped the greeting procession and threw them peanuts, dates, and cinnamon balls, wishing them a hundred years of good union. A proud son of heaven and a famous bridesmaid are really a match made in heaven. The King of Shu, who had been lying in bed for many days, also came, and he took the king to his brother's wedding later, probably because of the joy, and his appearance looked much better. Yunze was very drunk and unconscious, and was carried to the room early.

Chaoyang could not bear to see that Jing Yao had been nameless and unworthy in the Yong King's Mansion, so he begged the King of Shu to give Jing Yao to Yunze as a side concubine, which was in line with etiquette and did not lose measure.

This happy event did not wash away the bad luck of the royal family, and after January, the King of Shu died at the age of twenty-five. The King of Shu had no heirs, and his brother and brother, Yunze, were promoted to the throne of Shu. The Shu state that Yunze took over had not yet recovered from the war, and the year was an eventful autumn when heavy rains and floods raged in Shu. In order to survive, a large number of refugees poured into JinguanCheng, and Mu Ji donated jewelry and jewelry to help the refugees. Everyone says that the Shu King and his wife have compassion and help the world.

A year later, the disaster finally eased, Yunze ordered to fund the refugees to return to their hometown, those who did not want to go back could also settle down in Jinguancheng, the people applauded, everyone praised the Shu King Xianming. In this year, he also built a Guanyin Pavilion in the south of the city, although the temple is small but quiet and elegant, but a private temple, only for him to worship.

Yunze often took Si Liang into the palace, personally took him with him to teach, and also invited the most respected teacher of Taixue to teach him to read and write, play chess, calligraphy and painting. Si Liang is talented and has made rapid progress, and at the age of three, he already knows a lot of words and can memorize many poems.

"Uncle, Ah Niang asked you to see her." Xiao Siliang is often used as a microphone.

"Oh? Why didn't your aunt come to see me? I am the emperor, and I cannot easily leave the palace. ”

"You deceive people, you obviously go out of the palace a lot."

"You little clever ghost." YunZe gently tickled his itch and made him laugh, "Uncle, I was wrong, I was wrong." ”

Originally, Yunze wanted to build a long princess mansion for Chaoyang next to the Shu King's Palace, first, to facilitate her visit, and second, to facilitate the Tai Doctor to diagnose Chaoyang's illness. But Chaoyang disagreed and still lived in the Xiangguo Mansion. Today's Xiangguo Mansion has only one title left, Xiangguo is old and no longer serves in the court, his daughter is married to a queen, and his son is long gone. Fortunately, Chaoyang's mother and son still live in the Xiangguo Mansion and accompany the old couple.

"Is my uncle going or not?"

"Go, of course you have to go."

That night, Yunze personally sent Mu Siliang home, and he had not been to the Xiangguo Mansion for a long time.

"Ah Niang, Ah Niang, uncle is coming."

"Liang Liang is not obedient today, let Ah Niang see." Chaoyang opened his hands and tried to hug him, but was preempted by Yunze.

"This little guy is very heavy, I'll show it to My Sister."

"After not coming for such a long time, I thought you had forgotten my sister."

"How come?" Yun Ze looked down and smiled, "I'm afraid of disturbing Sister A's rest." ”

Chaoyang gently coaxed Si Liang to sleep and asked the maid to take him to sleep next to him, and then said to YunZe, "Go out with Sister A." ”

They paced slowly in the courtyard, although the Xiangguo Mansion was not large, but it was winding and quiet, yunze was very familiar with this courtyard, before he used to walk around the courtyard, expecting a well-behaved figure to appear, pretending to meet. They walked to Shuiyun Pavilion, where the pavilion still stood, but no one practiced writing there anymore.

"After you returned from Yingdu, you never came to the Xiangguo Mansion again, and you had to come at both ends of the previous three days."

"I'm too busy." Yun Ze lowered his head: "I can only grievance Sister A more into the palace to see me." “

"The King of Shu did a good job, but what about the husband?" Chaoyang looked at him.

Yunze shifted his gaze to another place for a long time before he said, "What did Jiaojiao say to you?" ”

"Petite didn't say anything. You have been married for so long, do you still cultivate Si Liang as a crown prince, and do you still say anything with Jiaojiao? ”

"I really can't hide anything from the Imperial Sister, and if the Imperial Sister is a boy, she will definitely be much stronger than me."

"Don't change the subject, Si Liang is a child of the Mu family, no one will agree to him being the crown prince, and I also hope that he can be ordinary people's happiness." Petite is a good queen, and you shouldn't do this to her. ”

Yun Ze didn't say anything more, he just looked at the pavilion and was out of his mind.

After returning to the palace, he was still staying in the imperial study, he opened the box next to the pillow and took out a letter, which he had read many times, and the letter was a small "ginger" word. He had been imitating Mrs. Xiangguo's handwriting and tone of writing letters to Ajaan, once a month, without interruption. Often he sent three or four letters before receiving a reply, and there were only a few words on the letter, Ajaan was all right, the mother did not have to worry about it, or asked Chaoyang, Si Liang, and even Jiaojiao, but never mentioned him. Even so, he kept the letters on his pillow and read them night after night.

His little girl did not have a good time in the Chu Palace, but she never mentioned it. Yunze is also, he only said some happy things in the letter, Si Liang grew tall, can talk, the peach blossoms of Jinguancheng bloomed, this year's bamboo leaves are very delicious, Chaoyang personally made mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, but it is a little difficult to eat...

Jing Yao often pretended to be Ajaan to make him happy, she was like Ajaan, and then put on Ajaan's favorite white gauze, and tied her hair loosely behind her, no one could distinguish it. But Yun Ze had never admitted mistakes, and he didn't like Jing Yao like this.

"Your Majesty, I just want to make you a little happier. If becoming her makes you happy, I don't mind at all. ”

"You're not her, you're Jingyao." Yunze always felt guilty about Jing Yao, so he did not harshly rebuke her.

Probably in the third year after he ascended the throne, good news came from Yingdu, and the king of Chu added another son, who was very pampered.

On this day, Jiaojiao finally came to the imperial study, and she said, "Your Majesty, Ajaan has a child, what about us?" ”

Fourteen, the turbid wine is exhausted, and half of his life has not shown his face

After ten years of dormancy, the Shu kingdom became stronger and stronger.

Everyone said that the King of Shu was wise, ruled the country well, sympathized with the people, and was a ming emperor who was rare in a hundred years. What is even more rare is that the empress is loving, the children are complete, and there is no dispute in the harem. The King of Shu seems to be preoccupied with governing the country, not close to women, and there are only queens and two concubines in the harem.

Compared with the harem, the King of Shu seems to have gone to guanyin pavilion more often, and soon after he succeeded to the throne, he built a guanyin pavilion in the southwest of Jinguancheng, which is not a treasure of feng shui, it seems to have been a residential house before, but no one lived there for a long time, and the king of Shu bought this house out of his own pocket and built a guanyin pavilion for blessings. This is the private temple of the King of Shu, and no one else is allowed to come near it, and every 15th day of the first month or every third or fifth day, as long as he is empty, he will go to the Guanyin Pavilion to offer a lamp, and after a few years, he has already offered a thousand lamps. At night, a thousand lights flicker, which is very spectacular.

Strangely, the King of Shu has always come to Guanyin Pavilion alone, and does not take the queen with him, even in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese New Year's Eve such a grand family reunion festival, the King of Shu always comes alone to pray for blessings, so there are also rumors that the empress is not harmonious. However, rumors are rumors, but the incense of this Guanyin Pavilion is very exuberant.

The people liked the King of Shu, and even superstitiously believed in the Guanyin Pavilion, and it was rumored that the gods and immortals enshrined in the Guanyin Pavilion blessed the Shu Kingdom to become stronger and stronger, and the country's fortunes were prosperous. The rumors spread more and more true, since they could not go to the Guanyin Pavilion to pray for blessings, the people set up altars a few miles outside the Guanyin Pavilion and offered incense offerings, and over time, the incense of the Guanyin Pavilion was even more exuberant than that of the royal temple. Every time the Shangyuan, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chinese New Year's Eve festivals, the people of Shu County would come to pay homage outside the Guanyin Pavilion to pray for smooth winds and rains and smooth things, but no one knew which god and immortal was enshrined in this Guanyin Pavilion. Some people say that it is Guanyin Master, some people say that it is Fulu Shou Sanxing, and some people say that it is Taishang Laojun, which is passed around, and I don't know which is true. However, the number of people who come to worship is increasing, and no matter where it is sacred, as long as it is spiritually experienced, it will not worry about incense.

In fact, there are no gods and immortals enshrined in the Guanyin Pavilion, Yunze lights up a thousand bright lamps, day and night, and all he wants is the peace and joy of a person.

His little girl, who was thousands of miles away, was not happy, her face was red, she was a curse, everyone cursed her for hating her, and he could only turn to the gods to protect her life safely and smoothly.

In the eighth year after Yunze ascended the throne, Shu County remained calm, but the King of Shu became increasingly anxious. The news from The capital became more and more dangerous day by day, the young son died prematurely, the king of Chu was critically ill, the king of Jin and the noble concubines controlled the government, Concubine Mu was favored, and the hundred officials were dissatisfied. Ajaan's situation became more and more difficult, and Yunze's brow became tighter and tighter, and he began to personally arrange military affairs and plan ahead.

Yunze never took the initiative to go to Mu Ji, and they had to quarrel every time they met, so they simply didn't see each other.

However, on this day, Mu Ji came to the Guanyin Pavilion. She had never been here, and the guards guarding the gate did not know whether to stop her, it was reasonable to say that no one except the King of Shu was allowed to enter, and the queen was no exception, but the queen was one, and if she insisted, there seemed to be no reason to obstruct.

When Mu Ji came in, the King of Shu was looking at the statue of the god. It was a statue that made people lose their minds, delicate, feminine, amiable, respectable, she was not a god enshrined on the altar, she was more like a carefree and innocent human girl. After seeing the idol, Mu Ji closed her eyes, she sighed, and asked, "Your Majesty, why have you been worried lately?" ”

"The queen can take care of the harem."

"Your Majesty's harem is extremely deserted, where else is it to be managed?" As the years passed, Mu Ji was already cold as ash.

She asked, "Is Your Majesty going to look for her again?" ”

"You don't have to take care of the things that happen."

"Does Your Majesty remember that he is the king of a country?" Is it the work of the Ming Emperor to devote the strength of the whole country to save a demon concubine of a calamity country? ”

"Curse the Princess of the Kingdom? Does the queen remember how she became a concubine of the evil country? Yunze asked rhetorically.

Mu Ji's face was very unnatural when she heard this, and she sneered: "It turns out that Your Majesty already knew that he was willing to keep me, and His Majesty is really magnanimous." ”

In that year, the Qimen army was defeated, and Shu County was in danger. It was Mu Ji who persuaded Lord Xiangguo to dedicate Ajaan to the King of Chu and his relatives, and personally handed over the portrait of Ajaan to the chancellor of the Chu state. She wanted her sweetheart to be safe, and she thought that if Ajaan wasn't there, her sweetheart would see her. She thought that when Ajaan was gone, she and Yunze would be able to go back to the past.

"Am I doing this for my own sake?" Mu Ji's tone was depressed, and his usual cold arrogance weakened: "Am I not for Your Majesty?" ”

Looking at Mu Ziliang's affection, Yunze has always been tolerant of Jiaojiao, even if she learned that she presented Ajaan's portrait to the King of Chu, when she was angry, Yunze did not harshly rebuke her.

The portrait was painted by his own hand, and he hid in the distance of shuiyun Pavilion, sketching his little girl with a stroke, carefully tracing her eyebrows and long hair.

"Have you had enough trouble?"

"How? Afraid I'm disturbing the purity of your sweetheart? Do you want me to remind Your Majesty that Ajaan is now the favorite concubine of the King of Chu, and they still have children, and No matter how upset His Majesty is, it will not help. ”

The King of Shu turned to leave, not wanting to tangle with the Queen.

"I met you first, why should she come to the top later, I am not willing!" Petite cried, and her proud head finally hung down weakly.

There is never a first-come, first-served basis in love, only love or no love. When she finally understood this truth, she had been stumbling for ten years.

Ignoring the opposition of the courtiers, Yunze insisted on leading an army to attack the Chu state and wanted to retake the six counties of Baling. This time, he was ready for everything, and only when the king of Chu returned to the west, he led his troops straight to Baling and drove straight into the invincible direction. Baling was originally the territory of the Shu State, and the people were miserable under the jurisdiction of the Chu State, and they had long been dissatisfied, so they naturally opened the city gates to welcome the Shu army into the city. Qimen was a dangerous pass, and the Shu army was defeated here and suffered a lot. Yunze had already thought of a way to deal with it, Qimen was dangerous and could not be attacked, so he sent people disguised as the people of the Chu State to mix into Qimen early, and only waited for an order to conquer it from the inside. The Shu army was fast and fast, and fought all the way to Jingmen, and only then did the Chu King's Palace send people to support. But the King of Shu was still worried, and he ordered the three armies to hurry up and hurry up.

His little girl couldn't wait.

In these years, the harem of the Chu State was restless, the former dynasty was in turmoil, and the dispute for the throne was continuous, so that the soldiers withered away, the army was scattered, and there was no longer the former Shenwu. Although the reinforcements rushed to the city, they still could not stop the pace of the Shu army, and Yunze actually hit the capital of Yingdu within a month, and the sword pointed at the Chu King's Palace.

After three days of strong attack, the city of Yingdu was destroyed. Despite the obstruction of his subordinates, he took the lead in rushing to the Chu King's Palace and went straight to the Huanyan Hall.

"I've come to pick you up, Ajaan."

But what he was waiting for was a dying her.

She seemed to be very happy, she forced herself to hold back the gushing blood, and looked at him with a smile.

She said, "We're meeting again, Your Highness." ”

"Oh no, it's Your Majesty. Are you here to give me back the Longevity Lock? ”

"However, I don't need it anymore, leave it to Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, isn't my longevity lock very magical?"

"Your Majesty, Ajaan went first, Your Majesty, you must live a long life."

Yunze held her tightly in his arms, as if she wouldn't leave. "Ajaan, let's go home."

"Go back to Jinguancheng and eat your favorite sugar oil fruit."

He finally saw her long hair pulled up, with the peach blossom hairpin he had given her, and the beauty was breathtaking.

"Ajaan, is it okay to wake up?"

He wept, and this most holy king wept, like a child.

This year, Yunze was only thirty years old, but he was much older overnight.

No one knows why he was upset, but he won the war and regained the lost territory. But after the king returned triumphantly, he locked himself in the Guanyin Pavilion, closed the door, and did not even participate in the triumphant ceremony celebrated by the whole country. Since then, he has become even more depressed, and everyone says that he is a once-in-a-century Ming Jun, but no one understands the loneliness and loneliness in his eyes. The officials did not understand, the people did not understand, they were just happy and happy, and as to whether their king was happy or not, no one cared, no one cared.

The rest of his life was long, Yunze only felt bored, he grew old day by day, the years took away a lot of things, but also left a lot of things, such as, hard thoughts. He is still diligent in political affairs, to be a good emperor, not to live up to his father and king, and not to live up to the royal family. In addition, his life seemed to be empty, and every day after the recital and out of the imperial study, there would be a burst of emptiness. The day was over, the tired bird returned to the forest, the pond fish thought about the abyss, and he did not know where to go. A lonely and sober king can only face the boundless loneliness alone, from mid-spring to winter, from mid-summer to late autumn, he is like a lonely traveler walking in the barren wilderness, coming and going, the way is unknown, he does not want to move forward, but he cannot stop, so he walks aimlessly, I don't know how long I have to go, I don't know how long I have to go.

Fifteen, Xuanhua is full of flowers, and the spring breeze does not enter

When Si Liang was eighteen years old, Princess Chaoyang Chang married him a gentle and quiet wife.

This year, Yunze was thirty-six years old, in the prime of his life. But his heart was as old as an eighty-year-old man, and the only sister in the world who understood him was gone, and on the night she finished drinking Si Liang's wine, her weak body finally couldn't stand up, or she had stood up for so long that she could finally rest assured to see her sweetheart.

Chaoyang understood Yunze's loneliness, and Yunze didn't understand her misery. The moment she learned that Mu Ziliang had died in battle, the light in her eyes was completely extinguished, and for so many years, although she was still smiling as always, gentle to everyone, but her heart was like a wasteland without grass, and there was no spring again. She was next to each other day by day, waiting for Si Liang to grow up slowly, watching him become more and more like his father, and now he had finally grown into an adult, and she could finally be at ease, and she could finally be relieved.

YunZe silently sent her away, he envied Chaoyang from the bottom of his heart, and he also hoped that he could be relieved sooner.

When Yunze was forty years old, Jiaojiao died of illness, and he never had a queen, anyway, his harem only had three concubines in total, and now there were only two, and there was no need for a queen. He buried jiaojiao in the royal tomb, but he did not reserve his place.

Yunze was fifty years old. The Guanyin Pavilion caught fire, and for the first time, people saw the gaffe of this most virtuous and holy king, who rushed into the sea of fire despite the obstacles, clutching a black urn in his arms. He was very ill, and he lay in bed for seven days and seven nights, and people thought he was going to die, but he did not expect that after seven days, he would wake up. It is strange to say that the Shu royal family has always had a worrying fate, and the royal family is either frail and sickly, or died young, and it is really unseen to live as healthy and healthy as Yunze to the age of fifty.

When Yunze was sixty years old, he did something that stunned everyone, passed the throne to his son, and moved to guanyin pavilion by himself. He had long been tired of such a life, and it was a good time for the current government to be clear and clear, the wind and rain to be smooth, and the country to be safe and secure, which was a good time to retire. Although the hundred officials felt ridiculous, there was no reason to stop it, after all, the prince was already in his twenties and could be alone. As a result, Yunze was revered as the Emperor Taishang, held high, and became a mascot. In order to get rid of boredom, he opened a calligraphy class in Guanyin Pavilion, which specialized in teaching the children of poor families to write, but there were always children from rich and noble families mixed in, after all, the opportunity for the Emperor Taishang to teach writing was rare in the world. Whenever this situation was encountered, Yunze was helpless, but the children were not wrong, and they turned a blind eye, and these children added a lot of popularity to the silent Guanyin Pavilion.

When YunZe was seventy years old, his body was still hard, and he looked like he was in his fifties. "Ajaan, it seems that I am really going to live a long life like you said."

When Yunze was eighty years old, he had already lived a miracle, and the people all went to worship outside the Guanyin Pavilion, and what they worshiped was not the immortals, but the Taishang Emperor who had created the prosperity of Shu County and lived for such a long time. He still added a bright lamp to Ajaan every day, and to this day there are as many as three thousand, and every night, the Guanyin Pavilion is brightly lit and the divine lamp is swaying, which is very spectacular. If his little girl had been reincarnated, she would probably have been in her fifties, an old woman, but she must have been a beautiful old woman.

When Yunze was ninety years old, his son also died, and his grandson succeeded to the throne. By this time he was very old, and he couldn't remember many things, except for the absurdities of his youth. He remembered that he had taught Ajaan to write, and over and over again he had taught her to write on the paper, but Ajaan had always made little progress and was still writing so poorly. Si Liang is also old, and Si Liang, who is full of children and grandchildren, still calls him "uncle", but Si Liang only comes to see him occasionally, after all, he is old and his legs and feet are not flexible, and he cannot go out often. On this day, Si Liang came to see him again and brought him a lot of things. The original Xiangguo Mansion was recently repaired and expanded, and many old objects were turned over. "Uncle, you see, is this the drum you gave me?" The quality is quite good, it has not been bad for so long. ”

Yun Ze also laughed: "Hahaha, your grandson doesn't play the rattle now, right?" ”

"Uncle, I also turned out some words, and the writing is really good, you see."

These words are very similar to the handwriting of his youth, the pen is vigorous, the clouds are frightening, but it is slightly beautiful, more like the handwriting of a woman. The papers were full of poems, asking the king if he was safe... The Daily News is safe... Peace in the home and the country... By the word of the king, peace is reported... Almost every sentence has the word "peace."

Two lines of clear tears slid down YunZe's old face. It turned out that she was writing very well and she had been lying to him.

He suddenly remembered that year in Shuiyun Pavilion, he held her hand for the first time under the pretext of teaching her to write, and the cold and slender little hand was unbearable. He was overjoyed, and finally found an excuse to approach this cunning little girl, so he promised to teach her to write in the future when he had time. Unexpectedly, when the war suddenly came, his father asked him to join the army in the war, thinking that he would not have the opportunity to teach her to write in the future, so he wrote a copy of the poster without sleeping for several nights and handed it to her. This is the only one in the world, this one.

When Yunze was a hundred years old, he was very happy, and he hadn't been so happy for a long time. "Ajaan, I can finally go see you."

When the final chapter and the song finally wake up, the mountains and rivers meet

It turned out that the longevity lock was a rare treasure.

That year, Guanyin Dashi blessed everything, just happened to meet Ajaan's mother, the desperate woman prayed day and night in the Guanyin Pavilion for her children, Guanyin Dashi could not bear it in his heart, incarnated as a worldly high-ranking person, gave her a long life lock, Guanyin Dashi said that he could bless you with a long life of 100 years, and would not let you die on the last day of the age of ninety-nine. However, I did not expect that this lock would finally fall on a person who did not want to live, and he would spend his life in vain.

"Then could this girl be in heaven, Master Guanyin?"

"Hmmm... It is very likely that she alone will not be able to escape the endless hell. ”

"What the adult said is reasonable, or should I check it out again?"

"Forget it, don't check it, this person can help her escape from the endless hell unconsciously, presumably not a small role, can't afford to offend." Taking a step back, even if we find it, it is still our loss. ”

"The great king is worthy of the great king, and he is really thoughtful." Thousands of people don't wear, and the same is true in the underground government.

"Then how should Yunze and Ajaan be arranged?"

"Let them go, if they want to reincarnate, let them reincarnate, and if they don't want to go to the human world, give them a pass to fengdu ghost city."

At this time, Ajaan's soul was still wandering in the ghost town of Fengdu, she had been in the endless hell for three hundred years, and she had not seen such a bustling and lively scene for a long time, and it was a little difficult to adapt. Walking on the street, from time to time to be bumped, although the ghost did not feel pain, but was hit, or could not help but scold: "Walking is not long eyes!" But it was a female ghost whose eyes were stripped of her eyes.

"I'm sorry." Ajaan was busy apologizing to her, somewhat overwhelmed.

Fengdu Ghost City is the most prosperous place in the prefecture, all kinds of cattle ghosts and snake gods gathered here, if it were not for these ghosts growing too crazy, Ajaan would have thought that he had returned to suzaku Street in Jinguan City. Fengdu Ghost Town also has a bustling street, with taverns, restaurants, tea houses are readily available, and vendors buy all kinds of strange gadgets along the street. Ajaan found a tavern and sat down to buy a drink, but found that he did not have any money with him.

"Girl, what do you want to do?"

"I didn't bring any money." Ajaan said sheepishly.

"You just came down, didn't you?" You are not familiar with here, you do not need to bring money in the prefectural government, you look at it is a large family, the relatives above do not burn money for you to light the lamp, do not believe you to take out your pocket. ”

Ajaan tried to put his hand in his pocket, and sure enough, he pulled out a gold treasure.

"Hahaha, I'll just say, I've been here for three hundred years, and I've never seen people wrong." Xiao Er of the running hall was quite proud, and said: "The aura of our ghosts and gods is maintained by the sacrifices and offerings of the human world, your face is rosy, your eyes are bright, and you are no different from the living, in this Fengdu ghost town is definitely one of the largest households." ”

Ajaan did not expect that there would be people in the world who would burn paper money for themselves, and they were so generous.

"Officer, what do you want?"

"Let's have a cup of bamboo leaf green."

"Girl, you can really order, our bamboo leaves here are all airlifted from the human world, which is a must in the earth!" You wait. Xiao Er disappeared in the blink of an eye, and his feet seemed to be smeared with oil.

Ajaan sat by the window and looked out as if in a dream. After a while, a pot of bamboo leaf green came from the small second end and poured it into the biying cup, and the refreshing aroma came to the face.

Ajaan drank it all, a familiar taste in memory.

She suddenly remembered that year and Lu Zhaoyi imagined life after leaving the Chu Palace, and she didn't know if Lu Zhaoyi had found her rolling green mountains and lived a day of sunrise and sunset. However, if you want to come to a lively and cheerful person like Lu Zhaoyi, you can live a tasteful life no matter where you are.

Ajaan looked up and looked out the window, but in the midst of the bustling crowd, he saw two familiar figures. The gentle maiden with golden branches and jade leaves held the arm of the man next to her, and the man was dressed in a military uniform and was heroic.

The girl picked up a bamboo dragonfly and handed it to the man, and Yingying's smiling eyes seemed to ask him if this was good. The man looked at her tenderly, the affection in his eyes had been ten million years old, and he took out the silver to buy the bamboo dragonfly in his hand for the girl. The girl was very satisfied, took his hand, and took a light step to the next stall. The man smiled dotingly and held the girl's hand tightly, as if the end of the world would not let go.

Ajaan's eyes turned red, and he inexplicably shed two lines of clear tears.

It was young Chaoyang and Mu Ziliang.

They finally got what they wanted and never separated again.

Ajaan didn't catch up, she wiped the tears from her face and watched them go away.

It turned out that those heavy past events had long been passed away, drifting with the wind, and there was no trace.

The king of Yan set up a banquet in front of the Naihe Bridge to entertain a man and a woman with two strands of souls, the man was about thirty years old, the fengshen was handsome and smiling, and the female ghost had a pair of peach blossom eyes and a pair of beautiful thrilling people and gods wept together.

"Girl, it looks very familiar, have you seen it somewhere?"

"I saw it, three hundred years ago."

"Three hundred years ago?" The man fell into deep thought.

"You asked me to wait for you to come back, and I've been waiting for you here."

"I've always had a bad memory, girl, what's your name?"

"Shu County Ajaan."

"Ajaan, Ajaan..." The man's face was very painful, the name was as familiar as engraved on his heart, but he still couldn't remember anything: "Who am I?" ”

"Yunze."

"Yunze, Ajaan, Ajaan..."

Memories of the past come flooding back... The little girl with sharp teeth in front of the shochu shop, the little beggar with a gray face on Suzaku Street, the little girl who is chuchu and moving under the peach blossom tree, the lifelong dream within reach of the Water Cloud Pavilion, and the beautiful woman wearing a peach blossom hairpin who fell into his arms, the vague memories that linger in his mind are pouring out, those faces are becoming clearer and clearer, and the pain in their hearts is becoming clearer and clearer.

He still remembered, even after drinking Meng Po soup, he still remembered those heavy past events. He gave up the opportunity to soar to the rank of immortal class, and after a lifetime of reincarnation, he wanted to find his little girl and take her home. However, his little servant was tormented and suffered in the endless hell, and could never turn over.

The saint wept, like a child, and he held the face of the female ghost and said, "Ajaan, let's go home." The female ghost frowned and seemed to want to cry, but the ghost did not have tears.

Fan Wai, who reads the west wind cool, Linjiang Huai teenager - the perspective of the King of Chu

Over the years, Aning has been too ostentatious, interfering in the politics of the dynasty, interfering in the establishment of the reserve, extending her hand from the harem to the throne, and the hundred officials have long been quite critical of her. I persuaded her many times, and she always didn't listen, and she quarreled with me cold war. Just when I was embarrassed, the envoys of the Shu Kingdom presented a portrait of a beautiful person who fell into the country and fell into the city, sitting under the peach tree in an aqua green gauze dress, with slightly opened lips, smiling eyes, like the long hair of the waterfall hanging obliquely, and the beauty of the world was breathtaking.

I thought that such a person would be the most suitable shield for Aning, so I pushed the boat along the water and agreed to the Shu kingdom's request for peace.

The first time I saw her at the Zhaohua Hall, she was still a little girl, wearing a red wedding dress, and slowly walked toward me, rao was a fairy in the ninth heaven, and she was eclipsed, a few points more beautiful than the portrait. However, she was not happy, and her bright and moving face was full of unconcealed loneliness and sadness, and she did not see the smiling look on the portrait. Even so, she stood there, still making people feel excited, and indeed deserved the praise of the country.

But at that time, I didn't have too much affection for her. I have long passed the age of talking about love, not to mention the early years of rolling and struggling in the red dust, physically and mentally exhausted, and my heart has long been like ashes, and I can no longer make half a wave.

I gave her a hall of joy and hoped she would be happy. There were many sad people in this huge Chu King's Palace, and sad things were shrouded in a layer of clouds all year round. Every year I have to choose concubines, beautiful, innocent, gentle and generous... People in the world say that the king of Chu likes the new and hates the old, but I just hope that these young and fresh lives can bring some sunshine to the gloomy Chu palace. In my heart, she, like the concubines who were chosen to enter the palace, was a beautiful ornament, making the crumbling and precarious Chu Royal Palace still seem to be full of flowers and cooking oil.

I rewarded her with countless pieces of gold and silver jewelry, jade jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, and even the grace of supreme glory, and I have a lot of these things anyway. I have no bottom line to spoil her, I want to make her happy a little, a little happier. Happiness is the most rare thing in the world, and what I can't get, I can watch others get it.

She was not like other beauties, these rewards did not make her smile, I gave her jewelry was always shelved, never seen her bring. She always carries a peach blossom hairpin, a watery, red peach blossom hairpin, which sets off her face more rosy and moving, which is a rare treasure. I asked her if she didn't like the gifts I gave, and she said she just liked peach blossoms more.

She listened to me very much, always followed me, did not argue, did not argue or make trouble, like a well-behaved and gentle kitten. But I was upset, she was different from the beauty I had seen before, I didn't know what she liked, what she wanted, what would make her happy. Gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and painting, and status and glory are all insignificant matters to her. She was like a sad and obedient doll, smiling and talking when she faced me, but she was always sadly looking in the direction of Shu County where I couldn't see.

Anin was always embarrassed by her, and I could only pretend not to know. Over the years, Aning's temper has become worse and worse, and she can't stop rectifying the harem and punishing the harem concubines, but no matter how excessive she is, I can't bear to harshly rebuke her, after all, she is my Aning, my wife who is green and beautiful, and who raises her eyebrows.

I could only redouble my efforts to compensate her, to give her the best things, the highest glory and grace in the entire Chu Royal Palace. But she was too smart and too sober, and she knew everything, so she never complained about Anin's harsh accusations, nor did she ever say anything about my eccentricity.

Everyone says she is a demon concubine of the evil country, maybe, if you can find an excuse to make everyone satisfied.

Aning always said that I was a selfish person, although I refused to admit it in my mouth, but in my heart I thought it was deeply true. I hurt Anin for the throne, and I hurt more women for Anin, I was such a failed husband. Rao is still conscientious and diligent, and I want to be a competent emperor, even if I can't leave my name in history, at least so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and no longer be displaced. I used to think it was easy to be a good emperor, but when I really sat on the supreme position, I finally understood that the authority of the emperor was not omnipotent, and more often than not, I was wrapped up in a deep sense of powerlessness. What is even more ridiculous is that from the moment he ascended the throne, these sorrows and worries can only be buried deep in the heart, and they can no longer tell others, and the loneliness of the cold in the heights is like a shadow.

There is probably no one in the world who is lonelier than the emperor, so I like to be lively, beautiful people on the side, singing at night, full of seats. It's so lively that I can forget about the loneliness of my bones for a while.

A year after the Battle of Qimen, the envoys of the Shu state came to visit and paid war reparations. The person who came was actually the Yong King of the Shu Kingdom, the young prince of the Golden Branch and Jade Leaf, and I did not expect that the King of Shu would actually send his own brother to the Chu King's Palace, after all, the two countries were still on alert in wartime.

King Yong said that he was entrusted by her family and asked to see her. I thought that she missed her relatives in her homeland and must have wanted to see the envoys of her homeland, so she granted the yongwang's request. However, she actually refused to meet, saying that the homeland was out of reach, and it was better to see the gods than not to see it.

She was pregnant, and I was a little happy, I hadn't known what it was like to be happy for a long time, like a little honey slowly dissolving in my heart, and the sweet air slowly filled the entire chest cavity. Since the homeland is out of reach, from now on, I will be her only reliance in this world. She liked peach blossoms, so I ordered the gardener to plant peach blossoms in the Chu King's Palace, thinking that in a few years, when the peach trees grow and the peach blossoms bloom, she will definitely show a smile from the heart, which must be very beautiful.

My joy didn't last long, our child was gone, and it was Anin who was manipulating her diet. I was furious and furious, over the years Aning did not know how many concubines had been harmed in this way, thinking about the past love, I always turned a blind eye, but Aning was so unrelenting. I can't indulge her like this anymore, or I'll end up hurting her and the prince.

But Ajaan didn't seem to be sad, she seemed relieved. She's always like this, she doesn't care about anything, and I don't know if there's anything in the world that she can care about.

She always asked me why I chose her. At first, I did see her as a pawn, an excuse for an armistice, a beautiful and decent ornament. But I told her that I was happy to meet her. She slept deeply in my arms, like a wounded kitten, and I gently stroked her long hair, thinking that I must treat her well, let her get what she wants, and what she wants can come true.

She always said that the wine in Yingdu was not good, not as good as the bamboo leaf green in Shu County, I remembered in my heart, just that spring of that year, the relationship between the Chu state and the Shu state eased, I sent people thousands of miles to bring back the bamboo leaf green from Shu County, thinking of quickly taking it over to let her taste it. I rushed to the Hall of Joy with joy, holding a pot of bamboo leaf green that had just been opened, and came to her window. But I heard her shouting in her dream, "Son, take me home." There were two lines of clear tears hanging from his white and moving face.

It turned out that what she missed was not her hometown, but the deceased.

It turned out that she also had people who cared about and things that she cared about, but none of them had anything to do with me.

I was burned with jealousy and whisked my sleeves away.

I don't know when I actually developed a shallow love for her, quietly, spreading, even I did not notice it. I thought that I would never fall in love with anyone in this life except Aning, after all, I had tasted the bitter fruit of love and never wanted to taste it a second time. However, day by day, I immersed myself in her bright and sad eyes, watched her quietly listen to my sad past, watched her sensible bow her head and did not puncture my selfishness, and listened to her soft and whispered explanations, sinking day by day, and could no longer extricate myself.

I thought she would come to me and give me an explanation. If she had bowed her head, I would have acted as if nothing had happened. But she didn't come, and sure enough, she didn't even care about my love.

When the doctor told me that she was pregnant, I didn't know whether to be happy or sad, and she probably didn't care about this child. However, I could not help but care, and I sent someone to secretly take care of her so that she could give birth to the child safely and unharmed. I waited outside the Hall of Joy every day until late at night, and when she was asleep, I sneaked in to see her, and it was ridiculous that an emperor was mixed up with me. She seemed to be doing well, she was slightly fatter than before, and her complexion was more ruddy. The palace maid of the Hall of Joy said that she had a good appetite recently, and always remembered to eat sour, rock sugar gourd, hawthorn fruit, and plum preserves... I was both funny and angry, laughing at her for not having a heart and lungs, and angry that she had no heart and no lungs.

Although I was extremely careful and cautious everywhere, after all, the dark arrow was difficult to defend, and she still had an accident. When I arrived at the Hall of Joy, she was lying in the ice and snow, bleeding profusely under her body, and holding a naked baby in her arms. I trembled and picked her up, shouting "Where is the doctor", the scarlet warm blood still couldn't stop flowing down, my hands couldn't stop trembling, my heart seemed to have been stabbed, the pain was tearing my heart and lungs, liver and gallbladder.

The doctor said that the situation was not optimistic, and if he could wake up, he would be fine.

But she had no worries, no heart and no lungs, and I was afraid that she would just fall asleep and refuse to wake up. I spent all day in front of her bed, calling out "Ajaan" and holding our little doll to show her. This soft little doll looks like her, with big eyes containing a puddle of spring water, and the shape of a distant mountain is faintly between her eyebrows, but the little doll is more smiling than she is. Even in her sleep, she always frowned slightly.

I took her hand and said, If you are willing to wake up, I will no longer pursue the previous matter, and give you a drink of bamboo leaf green that you did not drink last time. I said, if you are willing to wake up, I will let you go back to Shu County to see the peach blossoms in March. However, she did not respond.

Day after day, I don't know how long later, when the peach tree sprouted, she finally woke up.

I was ecstatic and held her hand, not knowing what to say. After a long time, a sentence popped out, Ajaan, let's reconcile.

She said, okay.

After all, I didn't want to let her go, and she didn't hear her anyway.

I had to go to Weiyang Palace, and this time I would not condone Aning again.

Anin was waiting for me, as if he had been waiting for me. Anin asked me if I was in love with her, and I didn't answer. It is not without weakness and guilt, but even the deepest friendship has long been consumed in the long quarrel and cold war, and the ideal of once a lifetime and a couple has long been dusted and cannot be looked back.

"She is more understanding than me, smarter and more generous than me, gentle and considerate than me, and prettier than me. Aning smiled and said, "However, Your Majesty, there are many wonderful people in this world, but I am the only one who loves you the most." ”

I deposed Aning as queen and imprisoned her in Weiyang Palace. Together with our mutual acquaintances, fighting side by side, husband and wife looking at each other, looking at each other and getting tired of all locked in Weiyang Palace, I am tired, tired, and those heavy past events never want to mention, remember.

I asked her if she wanted to make our children princes.

She was too busy refusing, and I laughed at her woman's opinion, but I had to agree from the bottom of my heart.

She really saw it more clearly than anyone else, and this supreme position was more unfortunate than ever, and it was even more unfortunate to win it, and wasn't it the best example in my life?

I knew that she wanted her little doll to be an idle young boy, to walk out of this gloomy Chu Palace for her, to roam the landscape and the mountains, and to see the ends of the world.

By the way, idle young prince, I suddenly remembered that the envoy who visited Shu County a few years ago was also a handsome young prince with a sword eyebrow and a shining eye. She said that the prince who said that "it is better to see the god than to see" may be the prince she was desperately looking for in her dream.

However, our little doll did not wait for the day he grew up, he stopped forever at the age of three.

Her health was getting worse and worse, and I asked her a lot of doctors, but they didn't improve. The Chu King's Palace was certainly not a place to raise people, and how many young and fresh lives were gradually withering and withering here.

My health was getting worse and worse, I was coughing day and night, and the hidden uneasiness in my heart was becoming more and more real. It seems that I am running out of time and should start arranging the aftermath.

I am not a Ming Emperor, I cannot even be considered competent, the Chu State has not gone to a higher level under my rule, and even the national strength is declining day by day. The harem dispute and the balance of the previous dynasty have exhausted the qi number of the Chu royal palace, and these years have coincided with a major drought, which can be described as natural disasters and man-made disasters, and I have struggled to support it. It is absurd to end up with such a fate after exhausting half a lifetime.

I invited the highly respected old minister of the DPRK and China to entrust the aftermath. Passing the throne to the King of Jin, my son is still decent, and he can entrust Jiangshan.

I wrote down the last holy decree, sending her back to Shu County, back to the hometown she missed day and night, to see the peach blossoms in March...

Fan Wai, the beautiful person smiled and went to the end of the world

Fifteen years later, black and white impermanence went on a business trip, passing through Shu County, remembering that King Yan rang tracked down the unjust case that shocked the prefecture fifteen years ago, so he took a detour to JinguanCheng to investigate.

"You say, can they be together in this life?" Bai Wuchang asked curiously.

"It's hard to say, fate is something that can't be forced, they didn't have any fate in their past lives." Black impermanence is a cold face, quite objective.

"But I have found that the obsession of mortals is sometimes more powerful than the magic of the gods, and it should not be underestimated."

"I hope so."

Black and white impermanence is inconvenient to travel during the day, so they turn into two dancing boys, shaking fans and walking on Suzaku Street. Black Impermanence had a cold face, he didn't like such a high profile, but Bai Impermanence said that they were performing official duties, and it was okay.

For example, today's Taiping, in the prosperous world, a scene of singing and dancing in Jinguan City is not lively.

They were suddenly drawn to a rush of noise. It turned out that the princess of Jinguancheng was throwing hydrangea balls, and the little princess stood on the city wall, bulging and seemingly reluctant. Nowadays, the King of Shu, who is in charge of Shu County, is no longer a family of Yunze, and the surname of Shu County is now "Xiao". Thirty years ago, the current King of Shu snatched power from the Yunze family, and these are not the same for the time being.

However, this little princess was the pearl in the palm of the King of Shu, so the King of Shu chose a horse for her with great fanfare and refused to let her marry into a distant place.

However, the little princess did not seem to appreciate it, and threw down the hydrangea ball in a huff, and then ran away with her eyes covered.

Bai Wuchang's little princess's eyes were very familiar, a pair of peach blossom eyes shone brightly, stabbed the black impermanence around her, and asked: "No, her life in this life is so good?" Good luck. ”

"Reincarnation of cause and effect, in the past life, I suffered so much in vain, and this life is naturally entitled to enjoy the great blessings of heaven." Black Impermanence said.

"Look, the guy who borrowed the hydrangea ball, it won't be... Yunze bar. Bai Wuchang looked gossipy and tiptoed desperately.

There was a commotion in the crowd, and the person who caught the hydrangea was a weak scholar.

However, it is not Yunze.

Bai Wuchang looked disappointed and very regretful: "Alas, their fate is indeed too shallow." ”

"Let's go." Black Impermanence remained expressionless.

"Then how do we explain this to His Highness the King of Yama?" But his old man was very concerned about this matter. Bai Wuchang said with chagrin.

"Tell the truth."

Although black and white impermanence often comes to the human world to carry out tasks, but all they do is the drudgery of summoning souls and collecting corpses, this time it is not easy to come to Jinguan City, White Impermanence naturally does not want to give up this good opportunity to eat and drink at public expense, so he pulls Black Impermanence to stay in the human world for one night. They found a tavern, "Owner, bring us the best wine and the best dishes!" As soon as Bai Wuchang entered the door, he shouted, like a mortal who often goes down to the restaurant.

"Black brother, why do you think they are so fateless?" Bai Wuchang drank too much and began to talk nonsense.

"That's the fate of it."

Bai Wuchang shook his head and sighed, "I've been doing this for hundreds of years, and I don't know how much I've seen, the first time I've been so upset." You said, or let's go to the Ninth Heaven to find the moon elder to help them seek a marriage in the next life, go, go now. Bai Wuchang threw down his wine glass and couldn't wait for a moment.

Hei Wuchang remained motionless and said, "How many years did you get punished for trespassing into the Ninth Heaven last time?" ”

Bai Wuchang sat down in frustration and couldn't help but complain, "Three hundred years, three hundred years!" I have a few three hundred years now! So what do you say? ”

"Go with the flow." Black impermanence is always a gesture of not caring about oneself.

"Little Two! Another jug of wine! ”

"Come, officer, your wine is coming."

"Hey Little Two, do you know which son received the princess hydrangea ball this morning?" Bai Wuchang asked.

"Left and right are just the sons of some adult in Jinguancheng, and they don't tighten up." Xiao Er said with a smile.

"How can the princess not be tight when she recruits relatives?" You're also too unconcerned about the situation. ”

"Officer, you are not from the Shu kingdom at first glance, and the princess's recruitment of relatives is not what you think." Xiao Er smiled.

"Oh? Let's hear it. ”

"Throwing hydrangeas is just a cover, if the princess doesn't like the person who receives the hydrangea ball, will the emperor force the princess to marry?"

"Then you can't openly repent?"

"It's simple, the person who received the hydrangea ball wrote a statement of affection, saying that he was not worthy of a princess."

"Listen to what you mean, does the princess have someone she likes?" Bai Wuchang was very puzzled. Since throwing a hydrangea ball to choose a pony is so unreliable, why not directly let the princess marry her sweetheart?

"Who doesn't know that the princess's sweetheart is the prince of the General's Mansion, but ah, which of the high-ranking families and clans in this Jinguan City does not want to marry the royal family?" Therefore, throwing hydrangeas gives everyone a chance to compete on an equal footing, just to make a show, and finally to follow the princess's wishes. ”

"So many twists and turns..."

The next day, Bai Wuchang pulled Black Impermanence into the General's Mansion to see what the little princess's sweetheart really looked like.

But I saw the little princess sitting under a peach tree, holding a bunch of sugar oil fruits in her hand, smiling and bending her eyebrows, and her spring heart was fluttering.

Beside the little princess stood a heroic young general, who gently coaxed the little princess: "Say the last string, don't eat it today." ”

The little princess pretended to be aggrieved: "What to do, the father and emperor are going to marry me to that scholar who has no chicken power tomorrow, and they all blame you for not receiving the hydrangea ball that I threw." ”

The young general lowered his head, gently stroked her head, and smiled: "Rest assured, no one will dare to marry you except me." ”

"You're not going to beat him up, are you?" He looks very weak, you don't break people. ”

"Don't worry, it's just a threatening letter, and at this point he should have gone to his majesty to ask for his resignation."

The little princess couldn't help but smile, and the crooked smile in her eyes was the melting snow in March, the first spring water, and the first sunshine after the rain.

The little princess asked again, "Then when are you going to marry me?" ”

"Hahahahaha," said the young man with a smile, full of pampering, "when you finish eating this bunch of sugar and oil fruits, I will go and ask Your Majesty to marry you." ”

The little princess threw down the sugar oil fruit in her hand and took the young man's hand, "I'm done eating, so let's go find the father and king." ”

Fan Wai, looking back and sniffing qingmei, where are the old people now - Shen Anning's perspective

Before I died, I heard people say that after death, mortals will come to the NaiHe Bridge, see Meng Po, drink a bowl of Meng Po soup, they can forget the past, have no worries, and then enter the cycle of reincarnation.

So, I actually had some expectations for death.

Meng Po asked me if I had an unfulfilled wish.

I thought about it for half a day, not knowing how to answer. In my life, when I didn't seem to be happy, the only thing I wanted was when I was eighteen.

At that time, I was the most beautiful girl in the whole of Yingdu. My father was a zhenguo general with an army of 200,000 in his hands, and my brothers were all wise and heroic, and their military merits were enhanced. And as the only little daughter of the Shen family, I have been honored and favored since I was a child, and I want the wind to be windy and rainy. Probably because the days of smooth sailing have been too long, I always want to find some unhappiness for myself.

Therefore, I refused the prince's pursuit and gave up the position of princess at my fingertips.

His father was furious, and he said that although the Shen family was thriving, you could not be so willful. My father grounded me at home and forbade me to go out.

However, at that time, I was just a young girl with a new heart, and I could only pretend to be my sweetheart in my eyes and heart, and I couldn't listen to half a sentence of advice...

I sneaked out and sneaked into the mansion of the Third Prince.

Of course, I don't look down on the prince, because my sweetheart is the third prince.

However, at that time, he was not conspicuous, nor did he like the emperor. However, I like him.

He was surprised to see me, and even the soldier's book in his hand fell to the ground. Also blame me, should not pick the midnight no one to sneak in.

"Is Your Highness going to fight in South Vietnam?" I saw him looking at the map of South Vietnam: "Why don't I help Your Highness?" "I grew up with my father, these soldier books have been turned over countless times, and the method of marching and deploying has long been familiar to my chest, if I am not trapped in my daughter's body, I am not necessarily worse than my brothers."

He turned around and said slowly, "Anin, you better go home." ”

The whole of Ying knew that I had been promised to the crown prince, and he must have heard the news. The Shen family is thriving and ambitious, and my favor is not without a price, for example, I must become the future queen of the Chu Palace. So, if you can't decide who you are, you can only let my sweetheart sit on that throne. My father and brothers spoiled me, but as a young man, I naively believed that I had the capital to be wayward.

My whole life's luck was spent at the age of eighteen.

That year, I went to the battlefield without my family and the Three Princes. The battlefield has no eyes, and the situation is changing rapidly. Fortunately, we fought side by side and defeated the South Vietnamese army together.

That year, I refused to marry the prince on hunger strike, and my father finally compromised with my stubbornness and decided to support the third prince to take the concubine.

That year, he was crowned prince, and I finally got what I wanted and married him.

He said, Anin, I will be good to you for the rest of my life.

I certainly believed his words because he was my chosen sweetheart. Calm and atmospheric, bright eyes, Yushu Linfeng, there is no better boy in this world than him.

He was cold to everyone, except for me who had no bottom line. I liked sword dancing, so he opened a martial arts training ground for me in the Prince's Mansion. I like to eat lychees, so he let people travel thousands of miles from Lingnan to transport. My leg disease recurred every winter, and he personally medicated me. I miss my brothers, so he sent me home to visit my family every three or five minutes...

Later, he became the master of the Chu King's Palace, and I thought we were finally bitter, but I didn't expect that it was the beginning of the end of the world.

On that day, he came to Weiyang Palace and sent me lychees that had just been transported from Lingnan. The fresh lychees are round and rolling, and they are in the ice box, and the brakes are beautiful. I was so happy that I peeled a lychee and brought it to his mouth.

But his brow furrowed, as if he had something difficult to say to me.

He said, Anin, I'm going to choose a concubine.

Why? Am I not good enough?

No, it's not...

In fact, I am not unaware of his suffering. He was a fallen prince and had no support. The senior humeral ministers were at every turn constrained by the newly enthroned him, and although he was the emperor, he was subject to people at every turn and struggled. His brothers also stared at him, waiting to see him ascend and fall. Why can't I tolerate it? If only I had been more generous, we wouldn't have gotten to where we were.

However, I dropped the lychee he had given me and drove him out of Weiyang Palace. Who wants to share their sweetheart with others?

Indeed, he still chose many concubines to enter the palace, Zuo Xiang's younger daughter, the granddaughter of the King of England, and the sister of the Great General of the Horse Riders... Flower-like girls poured into this Chu palace, and I naturally became a jealous queen.

He still came to Weiyang Palace every day to see me, no matter how late the political affairs were busy, whether it was windy or rainy. He still called me "Aning", and I knew that in his heart I was different from those concubines after all, but I was not willing, so I always looked at him coldly, making him feel guilty all the time, so that he could never forget me.

When my mother came to see me in the palace, she said that my father and brothers needed my support in the court, and the Shen family needed a prince.

It turned out that all the gifts of fate were secretly marked with prices, and since I enjoyed the glory and wealth that others could not reach, I also had to pay a corresponding price.

I asked my mother, what happens if I refuse?

My mother said that my father would give up on me, and he would also give up on the King of Chu.

In those days, I always didn't sleep well, and I often woke up in nightmares, and a deep feeling of powerlessness enveloped me and led me to the abyss. Every time I woke up from my dream and saw him sleeping peacefully beside me, I felt at ease, thinking that life was not too bad, at least he was still by my side. Not long after, it snowed for the first time in winter, and the doctor who diagnosed me said that I was pregnant. The fluttering snowflakes fell lightly in front of my window, and a thick layer of snow was laid on the roof ridge, on the treetops, and on the stone steps, and the silver-clad Chu Royal Palace was very beautiful. In the year of Ruixue Mega, I think my children must be very blessed. When he heard the news, he rushed from the Zhaohua Hall, happy like a child. He held my face and said, Anin, this is our child!

He invited the best doctor to take care of me, and he also decreed amnesty for the world and prayed for the blessing of our unborn children. The whole country celebrated, and the entire Chu Royal Palace was jubilant. My family was naturally happy, and they sent countless tonic medicinal meals. I carefully waited, looked forward to, looked forward to, and even began to wait to make small clothes, small shoes for this unborn little doll.

However, I could not keep this child, he only stayed in this world for a few days and then left.

Soon after, the noble concubine bore him a child.

In those days, I locked myself up in Weiyang Palace and washed my face with tears every day. I always dreamed of being on the battlefield with him, we were scattered by the rebels, I stopped my horse and looked around, trying to find his figure, but it was a mess all around, a sea of people, and I couldn't find him.

He dried my tears for me and gently explained to me, Anin, it's okay, we'll have children.

But I didn't want to believe him anymore. He is now the King of Chu, the king of the world, and he is no longer the Third Prince who holds me in the palm of his hand. I don't know when he was more determined to kill in his eyebrows, his tone was not angry and arrogant, and I almost couldn't remember his original appearance.

About the time Heaven saw me pitiful, and soon I gave birth to a healthy child.

I was terrified, afraid of losing my child again. I held him tightly by my side and refused to part for a moment.

The mother said that the dispute for the throne in the harem is imminent, and you must plan for yourself and your children and for the family. Those dirty blood-stained things don't have to be done by you, we're here to do them for you.

After all, I had no way to choose, and from then on I embarked on a road of no return.

I buried my young love with my own hands, closed the door of Weiyang Palace, and isolated him from my world. I often wonder if we would have hadn't helped him sit on the throne, wouldn't we have had a better ending? It's just that I never looked back. From then on, there were only checks and balances of power left between us, only endless quarrels, and only mutual disgust. He no longer called me "Anin," but "Queen." I also put away the charm of the maiden, no longer naïve and no longer willful, with a heavy phoenix crown, and became a dignified and noble queen as everyone expected.

In my thirteenth year as queen, Shu County sent a beautiful woman who fell into the country and fell into the city, and it is said that the king was fascinated. I didn't believe it, I had to see it with my own eyes. She stood in front of me in a plain makeup and a white shirt, meek and well-behaved, not humble, and completely different from when I was young. But like me, her eyes were filled with sadness.

I turned my head and told her to back off. As usual, the aunt in charge punished her in my name, punished her for copying books, punished her for kneeling on the stone steps of Weiyang Palace, and they solved all the people and things that threatened me for me.

The aunt in charge said that the king treated her differently from other concubines, and the king himself applied medicine to her and planted a peach tree for her. They told me to cheer up, plan ahead, and stop fooling myself.

Sure enough, not long after, my King of Chu came to Weiyang Palace for her to reprimand me. I finally understood that I was no longer the only special being for him. When he mentioned her, he was quite unbearable, as if I was a poisonous woman who had committed the most heinous crimes, and she was the flesh of his heart, and he could not touch her. Yes, twenty-eight years, the face is just right, men are indeed the same like the new and tired of the old.

I have never lost in my life, leading soldiers to fight, and even more so in the harem. So I regained my morale, and I wanted her to know that I was the hostess of the Chu King's Palace and the person whom the Chu King loved the most. I embarrassed her everywhere, harshly rebuked her, let her bear the crime of red face and water, and let the people of the world spurn her and laugh at her. I was like a crazy lion who wanted to protect my most precious things. But she was like a ball of cotton, ignoring my anger and attacks, and even the child who did not save her could not provoke her to fight back for half a minute. In the Chu King's Palace, I tripped over countless concubines, ambitious, arrogant, and deep-minded... But no one is like her, no desire, no demand, no contention.

But my King of Chu put her on the tip of his heart, and he ran to Weiyang Palace three times and twice to quarrel with me, saying that I was jealous and unreasonable. He went so far as to ground me and keep me from raising my children.

Until one peach blossom day, the aunt in charge ran in panic and said, "It is rumored in the palace that Concubine Mu was secretly calculated and almost killed huangquan, and some people said that she was instructed by you." Your Majesty, this time I am really angry. ”

Over the years, they don't know how many people have been killed in my name, but I am not innocent. My mother said she wouldn't let my hands be stained with blood, but which one of my lives was not written on me? The aunt in charge said that this time it was really not what they did, Mu Fei entered the palace for several years, the situation in the harem of the former chu state has long been turned upside down, the Shen family is no longer arrogant and arrogant in the past, they dare not and should not attack Mu Fei, otherwise the harem will lose its balance, leaving only the noble concubine alone.

"Niangniang, you should be soft to the king, look at the past feelings, the king may forgive you and forgive the Shen family."

I finally understood that the Qin clan who was bowing down and doing small cimei and good intentions, she was actually the one behind the manipulation of everything, it was she who killed my first child, it was she who brought Concubine Mu to the Chu King's Palace, it was she who made us fight with the sandpipers...

I waited for him at Weiyang Palace for many days. He finally came, with a deep disgust and hatred for me.

I asked him, are you in love with Ajaan?

He didn't answer me, just looked at me in silence, no longer loving in his eyes.

"She is more understanding than me, smarter and more generous than me, gentle and considerate than me, and prettier than me. I smiled and said, "However, Your Majesty, there are many wonderful people in this world, but I am the only one who loves you the most." ”

He threw down the edict and turned to leave, as if he didn't want to stay here for a moment.

"Your Majesty, how about calling me Aning again?"

Unfortunately, he left Weiyang Palace without looking back and did not hear my words.

I finally lost the queen's position, lost my child, lost my sweetheart... When I was imprisoned in Weiyang Palace, I often wondered what I was fighting for in my life. I had no regard for being queen, nor had I ever coveted that supreme position, and the only thing I wanted to keep was our children and my sweetheart. But in the end, I was left with only a heart full of holes.

I told Meng Po that there were too many unfulfilled wishes, and I didn't know which one to mention.

Meng Po took out a few shining gems from her pocket and asked me, do you know what this is? This is the memory of the dead.

What do you have to do with me?

These people all have a deep hatred for you, they are the concubines of the Chu King's Palace, and when they sell me their memories, please ask me to punish you fiercely.

I'm dead, how can I be punished?

Meng Po thought about it, and punished you to incarnate into nai ho bridge, cross the soul of the dead, and watch life and death. Subject to a hundred years of wind and sun, rain, snow and frost. Would you like to?

What if I don't want to?

Meng Po smiled and said, this is not up to you.

She clapped her hands, and the bridge under her feet instantly turned into a handsome man. Meng Po handed him a bowl of soup and said to him, you can go, the person who will replace you is coming.

But I couldn't speak, as if I was bound by my hands and feet, and the next second, I became a bluestone bridge, built on top of the Forgotten River.

You can see, you can hear, but you can't move, you can't say.

Meng Po said to herself contentedly, obediently stay for a hundred years, mother-in-law I will let you go.

I had never been wronged like this, but I couldn't say anything, and I could only curse Meng Po in my heart, thinking that when I recovered my free body, I would definitely kick over her soup jar.

The first days were more difficult, the water of the forgotten river slapped me all the time, although the undead soul had no weight, but Meng Po was a fat man of one hundred and sixty pounds, she sat on the bridge without a problem, waiting for her soup to open the pot with Erlang's legs. Every day I have back pain and pain. In the days that followed, I gradually became more interesting, watching all kinds of undead souls with different identities and different causes of death telling the stories of their lives, some died because of brothers fighting and accidentally injured, some died because they ate too much, some died accidentally, some died with hatred, some were poisoned and plotted, and some died of suicide without love... Sure enough, life was not satisfactory nine times out of ten, and the unwillingness and anger in my heart gradually subsided.

In the fifth year, a deceased man came up from the bridge.

He was much more haggard, his brows were locked, and he was not even as strong as ever.

When I saw him, my tears flowed down, and my ticking fell in the forgotten river.

He was very surprised and asked Meng Po, why did this bridge cry?

Meng Po said, leave it alone, it just rained heavily. Meng Po asked again, I see that you are like poisoned and died, do you have any unfulfilled wishes? Do you want me to punish you for the people who assassinated you?

He said, "I am sorry for many people in this life, and there are two people I am most sorry for, and I want to ask for one for them to get what I want." One was my young plum bamboo horse's knotted wife, and I had promised to be good to her for the rest of my life, a couple in my lifetime, but I broke the contract. The other is the most beautiful girl in Shu County, she originally had a sweetheart, but she was trapped by my side for half a lifetime. ”

Meng Po touched her chin and thought for a moment, "This is a little difficult, but if you are willing to sell your soul to me, it is not impossible, after all, I have someone above." ”

He didn't hesitate for half a moment: "Well, I do." ”

"Rest assured, this deal is very cost-effective, boil the soup for me for a hundred years, and let you go after a hundred years." The last soul who helped me boil soup was reincarnated the year before, and I was almost exhausted in the past two years. ”

Since he took over the work of Meng Po boiling soup, Meng Po has been even lazier, lying on me every day to bask in the sun, listen to stories, and talk about the mountains.

Although I couldn't speak, listening to them chatting, a hundred years didn't seem like a long time

Author/Hawthorn Mints (End)