Qingchuan History

Chapter 433
The sound of weapons meeting and horseshoes trampling erupted in wave after wave in the main palace gate.

The Quefei Hall was locked behind the barrier of tall trees and shadowy clumps, as if there was no one there.

Ruan Xueyin led Concubine An all the way into the gate, passed the vestibule, all the palace people bowed their heads, and the old man in the phoenix robe sat on the steps in the main hall.

Looking at it from the age of [-], it looks like an old man in his [-]s sitting on the steps. The room is dark and fragrant with orchids. For some reason, Ruan Xueyin thinks it is a child.

Princess An appeared in the shadow of the threshold, and the old man raised his eyes.Ruan Xueyin turned around and left quickly, as if she heard the old man shout:
A Ci.

Which kindness it is, she doesn't know.

Also really want to eavesdrop, not a gentleman.

She went out the gate.

"Your Majesty, please wait here, don't leave." A palace man chased out, lowering his eyebrows and lowering his voice.

"Okay." Ruan Xueyin nodded, and looked towards the main gate of the palace, where the sound was like mountains and seas. The sun was covered by thick shade, and only endless fighting could be heard.

She suddenly felt weak, her mouth was dry and her legs and feet were weak, so she simply sat down on the steps outside the gate behind her.

I don't know if the person inside is still sitting on the steps.She propped her elbows on her knees, propped her cheeks, and her eyelids drooped.After three days of lethargy, the effects of all kinds of medicine should have been counteracted and melted in the body.

All that's left is sleepiness and extreme soreness.

She didn't dare to sleep, and she couldn't call people for tea and food, let alone leave.Let's hold on for a while, it's just today.

"Ah Ci."

The main hall was empty, the old man sat alone on the steps, and the woman in light dark blue clothes stood in front of him.

"Your Majesty made a mistake. My name is not Ah Ci. My surname is not Wang either."

"I know." The old man smiled and patted the steps beside him, "Come and sit."

"What does His Majesty know?"

"Your name is not Ah Ci, nor is your surname Wang."

Like coaxing a child.

The woman stood and looked down at him for a long while. "Do you know why I came to see you today?"

"I know. I know everything." The old man also looked up at her, "He will win."

"Whether he wins or not is none of my business." The woman squatted down suddenly, looked at the old man's cloudy eyes, "I hate whoever wins. You all have the surname Duan."

The old man was silent for a while. "Do you know why I gave him the throne."

"I do not want to know."

"He became the great treasure, you are the queen, and the next one will be your child. I always think that this is also a kind of compensation. Ah Ci—"

The woman laughed softly. "My son Deng Dabao, this land is still surnamed Duan. Letting a child surnamed Duan who is mixed with our family's blood be the king, is this called compensation?"

"It happened more than 100 years ago, Ah Ci." The old man closed his eyes for a moment, "When has the grievances of the ancestors been passed down from generation to generation? We haven't even met their faces, but they are just family instructions."

"It's just that." The woman repeated, her voice suddenly lowered, "You know how many people's lives are in the whole family. The destruction of a family is not a family motto, it's a blood oath."

"You are still alive. It means that someone was alive back then. Your family has not been destroyed, and it has been passed down to you, so why talk about cutting off your descendants." The old man's voice was soft, and he didn't know whether he said it was not serious or he didn't want to say it.

"Your surname is not Wang. I knew it three years ago. According to the rules of a hundred years ago, I should have killed you. But I didn't. Ah Ci, a generation has a choice. I am the king in this dynasty. I treat you and you. Your family did not kill them all. I even decided to give him the throne based on this as the last evidence, just to let Cheng—"

"The killing and betrayal of a hundred years ago cannot be resolved in this way." The woman said softly, "Human life is paid for by human life."

The old man in the phoenix robe seemed to have used up his last strength, he felt tired even sitting on the steps, he put his hands on the ground, panting heavily,

"I have been ill for most of my life, my only son died young, and Duan's orthodoxy is broken with me, isn't that enough?"

The woman's always calm eyes suddenly became cloudy.

"That girl outside," the old man continued, his words began to be unclear,

"She promised to help me with two things. One is about the situation at the Zhenggong Gate today, and the other is the source of my many years of illness. Most of the things at the Zhenggong Gate have been completed, and then she brought you to see me. Ah Ci, Knowing that your surname is not Wang three years ago, I had some doubts."

"She reacted really well. I just saved her life." The woman nodded and shook her head, as if sighing, more like a sigh of relief, "That's fine. I came today to tell you."

"Is it the food you always brought into the palace for me to taste?"

"Eat food, and give you sachets, shoes and socks, fan pendants, and spices for bathing. Everything that can move your mind will move."

The old man also nodded, his pale face was obviously sad, but there was a smile on his face, "Everything is pervasive. How can we prevent it?"

"Then why did you guard against me back then?"

When the old man really laughed, he was like a child, "It's good that you know."

The woman didn't look at the paper-like face, but turned her eyes to look at the magnificent curtains in the hall, "You said today that it was given to him 30 years ago. What do you mean by that?"

"Didn't I get sick when I was seventeen? After a delay of two or three years, the imperial doctor said that it couldn't be cured. I'm afraid it will ruin my life. How dare I marry you. Naturally, I have to let it go."

Both arms could no longer support the ground, and the old man suddenly fell backwards.The person is on the steps, and there are steps behind him. He is lying slumped, unevenly spread out on the few steps in total, looking embarrassed, more like a child.

The woman finally got up, looked around, took two cushions from the Zhengbei seat, squatted down again, and placed them between the old man's back and the steps.

"Why are you suddenly willing to come and tell me the truth today?" The old man felt a little more comfortable as his back touched the cushion, and asked with a forced smile.

"It's not the end." The woman turned her side and sat on the steps, next to the old man's clothes, "You can't get the sun, why did you move your umbrella today? You are the king, he is the minister, even if it is unfair, who is it?" Dare to say anything."

"It's not the end."

The woman said nothing more.

The room is full of orchid fragrance, as secluded as spring and summer when I was young.

"Today he is going to take over the throne, so I don't have to linger until the Tianlong Festival." The old man continued to speak slowly, words intermittently, "I haven't been exposed to the sun for decades, and it is also a wonderful thing to come to the front and soak in the sun and throw a pot." .”

There was deep silence in the hall, and no one spoke for a while.Concentrating on the analysis, Fang heard the loud voices of soldiers, horses and people outside the dense forest of high trees, mixed in the warm fragrance and dark light, just like the noise of the stage when I woke up in the afternoon many years ago.

Humming around, like light and dust.

"How long will this fight be?" the woman asked.

"Sooner is evening, slower is night." The old man replied.

"I thought it would be three days and three nights."

"I'm so old, I'm still as stupid as a little girl." The old man sneered, "My own soldiers, I can't bear to spend so much, I can practice and practice."

Another half hour of silence. "Is it also the idea of ​​the girl outside?"

"No. According to her idea, there is no need to fight. I changed the last step."

"So it's mostly her idea. You trust her."

"She's a good child." The old man said with his face up, stretching his hands and feet, as if the pain was gone, "One day the world will change and the rules will change, such a girl will also be worthy of the title of Marquis."

The voices of soldiers, horses and people are as quiet as the whirling leaves.After sitting for an unknown amount of time, the woman got up, "I'm leaving."

"You have been with him for most of your life, and you will continue to be with him for the next few days," the old man sighed, staring at the top of the dark hall, "what's the hurry. You didn't sit with me in the last few hours."

"You have your queen, daughter, and family members." The woman didn't stop, and walked slowly towards the door, "Let's talk to them in the last few hours."

"Ah Ci."

The woman paused, her back fell on the junction of light and shade on the threshold, the light blue clothes were incompatible with the dark green outside and the red and purple inside.

But it is like spring and summer when I was young.

She stood there for another moment.

Finally disappeared in the daylight.

The old man closed his eyes slightly.

Tiredness hit him, and he wanted to sleep for a while, but just as all his thoughts became chaotic, he suddenly heard movement behind the curtain on the east side.

footsteps.There is no deliberate lightening, the ultimate measure and order, the sound is closer, until the front.

The old man scolded in his heart and struggled, and he reluctantly opened his eyes for a long time.

It's a young man.A military uniform, with some obvious marks on it, as if the armor has just been removed.

No one should come as a man in military uniform.He felt something was wrong, opened his eyes a little, and stared at the face of the visitor.

He was unusually handsome, his pupils were pitch black and bright as stars in the sky, he had never seen a man so handsome.

The old man became a little interested, and said lazily:
"Whose people."

"I didn't intend to come to see you." The man said, and his voice was pleasant, "But I have already entered the palace gate. After thinking about it, I should come to say hello to the elders, mainly to make amends."

The old man narrowed his eyes and stared at the other person from his face to his feet.The military uniform, which is no more ordinary, was worn by him with the aura of king's presence in the world.

"Gu Xinglang." The old man opened his eyes completely, "You dare to come."

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