XIV (Final Chapter)
After half a year, Li Zhi finally cleaned up the nobles with the old surname of the imperial court from the inside out, and all the activities of forming parties and engaging in smuggling in the imperial court were also turned out and eradicated one by one.
At this time, in the main hall, the same scene as the questioning of the crown princess Lu Susu twenty years ago, except for the guards, the palace people were basically cleaned up, only a few parties were left, and the atmosphere was still so depressing.
Lu Wei, the second room of the landed family on the ground, was already a person in his sixties, half a life of scenery, and he did not expect to have this today.
Li Zhi sat in the upper seat and looked at him condescendingly: "Lu Wei, did you kill your eldest brother Lu Zhennian back then?" ”
Lu Wei replied in fear, "Your Majesty, your subject... Don't understand what you're saying? ”
Li Zhi sneered, "You think you can still get away with it now?" Even if there is no such thing, with the money you have embezzled over the years, it will be enough for your whole family to die several times! ”
Lu Wei was instantly frightened and broke into a cold sweat, and he couldn't stop prostrating his head.
Li Zhi's words turned sharply: "However, if you are willing to tell the truth, I will spare your children and grandchildren' lives." ”
After a moment of trembling, Lu Wei slowly told the truth of that year: someone had asked him to cooperate and join hands to rob and kill Lu Zhennian's family. He just provided the time and place that those people provided for the killer.
Lu Wei hated Lu Zhennian, not only because he was smart and liked by everyone since he was a child, but also because Lu Wei's birth mother indirectly killed Lu Zhennian's mother and was poisoned by Lu Zhennian's bowl of medicine. Lu Wei blamed Lu Zhennian for the death of his birth mother, so he didn't feel guilty about killing Lu Zhennian's family.
Even if Lu Laoxiang knew later, because he was the only male remaining in the family, Lu Laoxiang did not attack him in the end, but only snubbed him.
As for Lu Susu, it was completely an accident that she did not die, because Lu Zhennian and Su Ling took her in their arms and hid under them before they died, her brother and brother successively led the killer away, plus she was stabbed by a knife in the palm of her hand at a young age, and she did not say a word, which avoided a disaster.
Speaking of Lu Wei in the back, he was a bit crazy: "Lu Susu looked like her mother when she was a child, but the more she grew up, the more she looked like my big brother, and she spoke and did things very similarly.
But so what? A woman, who is not yet used by our Lu family, pinches her nose and listens to my father's words, and earns official positions for me and my children and grandchildren.
Later, she didn't know where to get the evidence that I had killed his father, and ran to find my father, who said that he already knew, but for the sake of the Lu family, he had to suppress it.
Lu Susu was about to rush over and slash me with a sword, but was stopped by a sword raised by the guards of the palace, which injured her left hand, and later heard that her left hand was destroyed.
Later, she became more and more disobedient, and I heard that she was still drinking the soup medicine, and our whole family waited for her to have a son to turn over, so my father asked the maid next to her to change the medicine. ”
Li Zhi's whole body was shaking, and he looked at Lu Wei, whose eyes were bloodshot, and waved his hand to let people pull him down. Xiao Xia Zi stepped forward, extinguished the incense in the incense burner that could make people hallucinate and spit out the truth, and then silently retreated.
Li Jun, the eighth prince at his side, handed over the testimony of the seventh prince and the fourth prince: It was the fourth prince who was still the fourth prince at the time who poisoned the emperor, because he heard that the emperor had already made an edict early on, appointing the prince as the next king, and let him stay in the fiefdom and not enter the capital without an edict.
It just so happened that the staff of the fourth prince offered a chronic poison, and at that time, the prince's power had not yet grown, which made the fourth prince make up his mind, and it was impossible for the fourth prince to make the emperor gradually seriously ill in three or four years, and without the prince who the emperor was a patron, it was impossible to compete with the fourth prince.
Li Zhi leaned back in his chair weakly, and he finally understood what had happened that year: Lu Susu went all the way down and found that the death of his family was related to the emperor who had called his father and emperor for several years, and his second uncle.
At that time, her sentence "Treat his body in the way of others" actually meant that she provoked the relationship between the emperor and the four princes and let the emperor's own son give him medicine.
He also understood Lu Susu's words: I shouldn't marry you. What is the meaning.
Yes, how ironic it is to marry the son of one's own enemy!
I stood to the side, looking into his desperate eyes, a pain in my heart.
I vaguely guessed something, and suddenly understood what Lu Susu said to me before he died: Su'er, I can't live.
I still remember that year, Lu Susu was imprisoned. I sneaked up on her and handed her food and supplies a few times. Later, I heard that she had a miscarriage, her body was very weak, and the guards were no longer strict with the guards there, so I went to see her again, but she didn't see me. I could only quietly send all the supplements in.
Until an extraordinarily cold winter night, someone handed me a message saying that Lu Susu wanted to see me. I hurried to meet her.
As soon as I entered the palace, my tears almost did not fall, it was less than a year, the place where she lived was so dilapidated, the cold winter moon, not even the coal for heating, Lu Susu shrunk in a thin quilt.
Seeing me coming, she smiled as softly as ever: "Su'er, I knew you would come." ”
I stepped forward with tears in my eyes and shook her cold hand: "Sister...."
She smiled and waved her hand to say it was okay, then slowly lifted the quilt, I saw her bloated abdomen, she did not have a miscarriage at all!
Looking further down, I saw that the bed was already wet, and she was going to give birth.
She should be in a lot of pain at this time, she can see the thin sweat on her forehead, she said weakly: "Su'er, you have given birth to a child, help me, don't be silent, just let me quietly give birth to the child." ”
Fortunately, she prepared something herself in advance, and I went to boil hot water again. In this way, she did not cry out a single cry of pain, and it took nearly half a night to give birth to a son.
Then a man quietly entered the palace, and I heard Lu Susu say to him: "Brother Suiyun, this child will please you, let him leave the capital and go to the farthest place, and never come back for the rest of his life." ”
This man is Shan Suiyun, who once had a marriage contract with Lu Susu, and it is said that he has been staying in the frontier. Lu Susu wrapped the child in brocade, strung a copper coin with red money and stuffed it into the brocade, looked at the still wrinkled baby, she laughed and teased him with tears, and at the end she said: "Mother and father only ask you for peace in your life, away from disputes."
Say goodbye and put the child into Shan Suiyun's hands. That night, Shan Suiyun disguised himself as a palace guard and left the palace with his child.
Before Shan went with Yun, I asked me to tell Lu Susu that he would find a way to save her. Unfortunately, Lu Susu did not wait, when Shan Suiyun first arrived at the frontier, Lu Susu did not know where to get a cup of wine.
That day, I went to her with the zongzi candy she liked to eat, thinking that in a few days I would beg Li Zhi to release her, even if it was to be sent to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing to raise her body.
She had just given birth less than a month ago, her face was pale, and her eyes were full of joy when she saw the zongzi candy I had brought.
Watching her take a sip of something and happily eat a zongzi candy, I thought in a trance that everything would be better, after all, Li Zhi loved her so much.
I saw that today she seemed to be dressed up deliberately. Dressed in a powder blue dress, with a single snail and a pearl-studded gold hairpin inserted in her head, slightly powdered, it was still as beautiful as ever, just as I had when I first met her.
When I saw the blood spilling from the corners of her mouth, I understood what she had drunk.
She smiled indifferently and was still talking to me: "Su'er, do you know why I like you?" The first time I saw you, I felt that your eyes were exceptionally clean, and the longer I lived in this palace, the more I could understand that from the Son of Heaven down to the slaves, which was not full of desire and greed in his eyes.
That day I gave each of the concubines a hairpin, which I personally picked, but they were all disdainful in their eyes, only you, when you received the hairpin, were really happy, your eyes were shining, and you were the only one who thanked me very sincerely.
So Su'er, I hope you can do the same in the future, just like now, not greedy, not so much desire. My grandfather, and our emperor, have all achieved superiority, but they are not yet satisfied, and in the end they do not all end up like that.
Su'er, help me keep the secret, let my children live carefree life, and don't get involved in this royal affair again. ”
I couldn't help myself from crying, so I could only grab her hand and ask her why she asked to die.
Lu Susu smiled miserably: "Su'er, I can't live, I live, the Lu family will not die." She took another piece of sugar, mixed with the blood in her mouth, and tasted it little by little.
"I've been making wedding dresses for my enemies all my life, and when I die, I don't have a face to see my parents, where is my face alive?" In the next life, I want to be stupid and live carefree. ”
"Su'er, take good care of Li Zhi, take care of yourself, if there is really an afterlife I really am.... Want to be your sister. ”
I don't remember how I got back to my palace. I sat like this until dawn and listened to the palace people running away, exclaiming, "The crown princess has gone." I didn't shed a single tear, because my tears had already run out on the night Lu Susu left.
Li Zhi often mentioned Lu Susu to me, and the tone was like she was still alive, just throwing a tantrum and going far away. We tacitly agreed not to mention her in front of outsiders, like a secret between the two of us.
Until I saw him lay out for many years, one was to collect the net, one was to eradicate the pests in the imperial court, and the other was to find out the truth that Lu Susu killed the emperor.
With such a kind smile, he pushed the Lu family into the abyss of eternal doom. I realized that he had never forgotten her, and that he hated the people who killed her.
After doing all this, Li Zhi drank a lot of wine for the first time, he wore a thin nightgown, stood precariously with a wine bottle, and said in his mouth: "Raise a glass to invite Mingyue, to the shadow into three people..."..."
I was afraid he would fall and rushed to help him. He smiled and took my hand: "I am very powerful, I killed all the people who killed her, Su'er, you said I am not very powerful." ”
I helped him and said, "Your Majesty is indeed very powerful!" ”
He laughed and suddenly stopped laughing: "But I tell you, there is a person, the person who hurt her the most has not been punished, and that person is me."
I myself was cowardly and didn't want to work hard, so I pushed everything to her and let her bear it. Even if I knew that the child was something that my father and emperor had asked my mother to do, I pretended not to know, thinking that I would get better in the future, but in the end, I didn't even believe her, and I forced her back. ”
It was a long time before I said to him, "Sister didn't blame you. ”
Li Zhi looked at Mingyue and smiled: "I would like her to blame me, even if she comes to the dream to scold me a few words, but she never enters my dream." ”
On Li Zhi's fiftieth birthday, his studio suddenly caught fire, and when the people below found out, it was almost burned.
This is not to blame them, after all, his studio is in a very remote place in the palace, and no one is allowed to enter it on weekdays, not even the people who clean the palace.
He rushed over like crazy, and found a painting that had been half burned in the wreckage, and I saw that the only half painting that remained was a beautiful face of twenty-eight years old, this face was buried in the depths of the years, as beautiful as I remembered, just a little more youthful vitality, less of the fierceness of the killing between the eyebrows, that was Lu Susu that I had never seen, and the only person who could paint her so vividly was Li Zhi.
I had a cloak in my hand and thought of putting it on him, afraid he would get cold. But when he held the fragment and knelt on the ground, my feet seemed to be nailed and I could not move.
I waved my hand quickly to keep the palace people away. Li Zhi was a nine-five-year-old, how could he let others see his appearance? And I stood less than a hundred meters behind him, quietly waiting for him to come out of his sadness.
However, Li Zhi, who had always been calm, was like falling into a nightmare, and refused to get up for a long time, so he knelt there, hugged the painting, like hugging his deceased lover, and murmured: "I have hardly painted a hundred portraits of you, why don't you come back?" ”
"Su Su, when you were in Longhua Temple, you shouldn't have saved me, you should have let me die in that fire, so you wouldn't have to leave this world."
Then he glanced around, and the elaborate portrait of Lu Susu was now in ashes, leaving him with the half in his hand. He smiled sadly: "Su Su, you don't even leave me with your last thoughts..."
After all, I didn't come forward, because it was their time, and I couldn't bear to disturb it.
You see, what a good queen I am, grateful for what I get, and relieved of what I can't get. I respected my husband, and I had a studio for him, which was full of his portraits of Lu Susu and the old things she used, as if I didn't know, there were concubines who didn't open their eyes who wanted to inquire, and I could still block them back one by one.
But why does my heart hurt a little?
The wind was cold, but my tears were particularly hot.
I have a secret that I have been hiding in my heart for many years, and this secret is not that Lu Susu and Li Zhi have a child, but that I actually love Li Zhi very much.
I loved him before I entered the palace.
Once I was incense with my mother, there were many people that day, and I was separated from my family. In the middle, I met a few stupid boys, and I saw that I was single and intended to be light.
I was really desperate at that time, for the daughter of our small family, what was really done, it was a dead end.
At that time, a handsome man appeared, but the process was different from the bridge section in which the hero saved the beauty in the fold, and I was not a beauty, mainly because the hero was a little weak...
A few times later, a woman in a silver-red beard came and saved the "hero" who was kicked to the ground.
The woman handed me a veil, found a few servants and guards to send me back, and scolded and grinned and helped the man away.
I thought the woman should be the "hero's" bodyguard or sister, not like a husband and wife. A wife pokes her husband in the head and says something like, "How are you so weak?"
I thought about the way the man was knocked down, but he was still protecting me, and my heart was inexplicably a little sweet.
My life is too boring, and my future days are predictably boring. Probably to find a man with the right door to be his wife, and then generously give him a concubine, have more children, and take care of the back house....
I put on the quilt and thought to myself of the man, he was so stupid.... It's so simple, it's too good-looking....
After a year, before I could find out who he was, news came from the palace asking several official girls to enter the Eastern Palace as crown concubines. It is a concubine, not a side concubine, and there is no name.
After all, she was only a concubine who was one level higher than the palace maid. So I was fortunate and unfortunate to be selected. In fact, my father thought that this was a good thing, and he even wanted to let the fourth sister born of his beloved third aunt enter the East Palace, and she was indeed more beautiful than me.
However, people wanted me by name, because I was the eldest daughter of a concubine, and I began to help my mother take care of the family affairs in the early years, and I was still a little famous.
In fact, my mother and I are reluctant. It is rumored that the Crown Princess is jealous and vicious. He has been married to the prince for more than five years, has not had a son, has not let the prince take a concubine, and does not even have a room. What good can happen to us, the concubines that the emperor uses to block the crown princess?
And, the man in his heart.... Not found yet. Looking at my tearful mother, I finally smiled and packed up my things to bid farewell to my family and entered the East Palace.
I never dreamed that Prince Li Zhi was the "hero" who saved me that day, and that woman was the Princess...
However, after three months in the palace, the prince did not enter any of our rooms. The others were quite critical, but I should eat and drink. I feel fortunate to be able to marry someone I like, even if it is a concubine, and I am content.
I like Lu Susu very much, she is indeed very powerful, and the East Palace is her master. She's different from everyone I know.
The hairpin that Lu Susu picked for me was the hydrangea style I liked, and I just mentioned it by chance, and she wrote it down, and under her fierce appearance, there was actually a very delicate heart.
On the night of the bedchamber, I could feel that in fact, Li Zhi did not want to touch me, there was an element of gambling, and there should be some helplessness.
At that moment, I boldly played a mental eye, and instead of lowering my head, I looked at him with tears in my eyes. He would save me at that time, which shows that he is a soft-hearted person, and I firmly believe that he will let me sleep.
Sure enough, his heart softened. That night, I could feel his awkwardness. But so what, I was so happy, and when I was carried to the side temple, I was left with tears of joy.
Then for half a month, he didn't touch me again, and he told me that he was looking for me to sleep because Lu Susu liked me. You say I'm not sad? No, I'm sad, who doesn't want the man they like to like themselves? But the princess is very good, and although the prince does not like me, he is also very good to me, and I should be satisfied.
In the years that followed, I witnessed their beauty. I have always been kept to myself, raised my daughter, and occasionally went to chat with Lu Susu. She taught me so many things that she even came forward to help me straighten out my insatiable father.
Li Zhi was still very good to me, although I could see that he didn't like our daughter much. But as long as Lu Susu hugged his daughter to see him, he would still cherish her, and I watched from the side, only to feel very happy.
Probably the most uncontrollable thing in this world is the human heart. I loved Li Zhi uncontrollably, but I hid it very well, and neither my sister nor Li Zhi found out.
But at this moment, I had suppressed the love for nearly thirty years, and was stimulated by the painful nostalgia of Lu Susu.
So I handed the cloak to Xiao Xiazi and asked him to stay away and wait for Li Zhi.
And I was alone, walking in this palace, walking aimlessly, letting the tears fall.
Behind him was Li Zhi's voice: "More than twenty years, Lu Susu, can you come back to see me, I miss you too much." ”
The words seemed to be chasing me, echoing in my ears. Sister, I am a little envious of you, you can live in his heart for so many years, but sister, I may be luckier than you, after all, I have accompanied him throughout his life. Ha! Whoever is luckier is actually impossible to say.
Since that night, I have not cried so wantonly, and Li Zhi has not mentioned the burned-out studio again.
He remained conscientious and managed the country well. He was better at me than before, basically stopped going to other concubines, and occasionally used to look at the children.
We went through another six years of bland time.
Li Zhi fell ill when he was fifty-six years old, and I accompanied him every day, and he handed over the affairs of the former dynasty to our eldest son, and the eighth prince and the second prince assisted him from the side.
I prayed day and night, hoping that he would not fall. But Li Zhi smiled and touched my head, saying that life and death are fateful. I could tell he didn't have much of a sense of survival.
So one night, I knelt on the ground and told him that he and Lu Susu had a child, raised in the name of Shan Suiyun, and said to the outside world that it was Shan Suiyun's son, called Shan Tian.
"Your Majesty, the concubine has never opened her mouth to beg you in her life, nor does she ask you to forgive the concubine, only to ask you to live well, General Shan will enter Beijing for a month to report for duty, the concubine will let him come with a single day, please... Would it be nice to spend some more days with concubines? ”
Li Zhi smiled and said to me, "I thought Su'er would never tell me about this for the rest of her life." ”
I looked up at him in astonishment, and understood in his deep gaze that he probably already knew. I bowed my head and burst into tears.
"Su'er, thank you for helping her keep this secret for the rest of her life."
Before Li Zhi left, he still saw Shan Tian,He was very similar to Lu Susu, and he also had some resemblance to Li Zhi. I heard that he is now a lieutenant in the squad and has a lot of talent for combat at a young age. A few years ago, I married a beautiful woman from a small border village, and the two did not fight and did not know each other, and finally got married.
Li Zhi just watched from a distance, and later he took the initiative to come forward to toast him on a single day, Li Zhi was ill, and no one drank anyone's wine. Only he drank this cup of his. Shan Tian did not say anything beautiful, only said one sentence: "May Your Majesty take care of his body, so that he can see the prosperous scenery of our great zhou in the future!" ”
Li Zhi smiled and said, "Na Shuo is waiting." ”
Li Zhi passed by my hand and gave him a piece of Lu Susu's jade pendant. Within a month, he and Shan Suiyun returned to the border.
When Li Zhi was fifty-nine years old, he finally couldn't hold on.
He chased the crowd away, shook my hand, smiled and said to me, "Su'er, I can finally go to see SuSu." ”
Holding back tears, I said to him, "Your Majesty, you must find your sister..."
Li Zhi smiled softly: "Su'er must live well, thank you for accompanying me in this life, and for the next few days, you can have a good rest." ”
I nodded and smiled at him, and I didn't say that to him after all, and I didn't tell him that I loved him too in the days when he loved Landing Susu, right behind him, watching them, or him alone.
I watched him close his eyes and suppress his cry in his ear and said, "Your Majesty, if there is an afterlife, Su'er wishes you and your sister a lifetime." ”
I am seventy years old this year, my health is still good, my children and grandchildren are filial piety, and I am living a very comfortable life.
There are basically few people left in the old days. Five years ago, Empress Dowager Yuan Xueling also left. She came to see me once before she left, and said only one word: She dreamed of the princess again.
In fact, I know that when she got older, she began to regret it, when she had some resentment towards Lu Susu, plus she saw those so-called evidences, and she only wanted to put her to death regardless of the truth.
All I said was: It's all over.
It was another spring, I sat on the recliner, closed my eyes, felt the spring breeze, felt that life was very beautiful and complete, accidentally slept in the past, in the dream Lu Susu touched my head and said: "Su'er is so smart, I understand as soon as I say it." Unlike some people, I can't understand what I said for half a day. ”
On the other side was Li Zhi smiling sarcastically, looking at us, taking advantage of Su Su's lack of attention and making a "help me" gesture to me.
In my dreams, I can't help but raise the corners of my mouth.....
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Against the Water 1 [I finally became his queen, with a secret that can't be said, and he was worshiped by all people] https://m.toutiao.com/is/dahpPAE/
Against the Water 2 [Lu Susu's ambitions are expanding day by day, and Li Zhi finds that he can no longer see clearly or understand the person in front of him] https://m.toutiao.com/is/dahCjxd/
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