After becoming a widow, I raised my traitor brother

Chapter 238 Looking up day and night, loving and fearing

Shangjing City is no better than Shanyin County.

Wei Zi knew it early in the morning.

She touched the feather-black silk cloak wrapped around her shoulders. The cloak was expensive, and the edge was embroidered with the pattern of impatiens with gold thread. It also carried the body temperature of youth and the bitter scent of pine flowers.

In the long night, the rain was getting heavier, and the cold wind blew the rain into the lantern, which wetted the candles inside. The wick made a slight beeping sound, and then quietly disappeared in the dim rain.

Wei Zi is still holding the handle.

The heat from the lantern dissipated, and the icy chill gradually eroded the fingertips.

She put down the paper umbrella and carefully relighted the lantern on the steps.

As the flames lit up, she raised her head, her charming peach eyes revealed surprising firmness: "Someone told me that people like us are insignificant in Shangjing, like fleeting candles. But Second brother, I am not afraid that my heart is as weak as a candle, I am only afraid that my heart is dark and cold without any warmth. If one day, the flame in my heart is extinguished by the wind and rain, then I will rekindle it, no matter how many times, I'm going to light it up over and over again."

The orange light and shadow danced on the girl's white and tender cheeks, presenting a grand and splendid beauty in the rainy night.

Xiao Fengxian looked at her condescendingly.

His cloak was too wide around her, making her look so petite and frail.

The light of the lantern cast her shadow on the steps, but she was as tall and inviolable as a spring mountain.

Even though he was standing on a high place, Xiao Fengxian was inexplicably short of breath.

Raindrops fell on Wei Zi's eyelashes, she blinked, her eyelashes were wet.

However, her red lips were curled up: "Look, your cloak can only protect me from the wind and rain alone, but the cloak I want to weave is designed to protect the whole world from the wind and rain. Second brother, do you have any?" Your ambition, you want to have a bright future, power over the government and the people, and you want to be under one person and above ten thousand people. Be kind, I hope that there will be no more wrongful convictions in prisons or on the guillotine, I hope all kidnappers in the world will be brought to justice, and I think all women can be treated equally like men."

She has suffered.

From childhood to adulthood, she was displaced and encountered inhumane situations. She has suffered too much.

But the girl has no hostility in her chest, and she still has a bright heart.

The lantern she was carrying radiated a thin warm light in the rainy night, such a tiny ball of light was like a dazzling star at the moment, piercing Xiao Fengxian's eyes hurt so much that he dared not look directly at it.

He touched his wrist.

He wears a string of white Bodhi beads between his wrist bones, which Wei Zi begged for him at Yunshen Temple in Shanyin County.

She mistakenly thought that he had killed someone, so she knelt down in front of the Buddha and begged him to punish her if he wanted to.

He once threw Wei Zi to the ground angrily because of Wei Zi's escape from marriage, but after all he couldn't bear it, picked them up one by one, threaded them into bracelets again with gold thread, and put them on his body as if they were treasures.

He said hoarsely, "Sister-in-law is really not afraid of death?"

Holding a lantern and an umbrella, Wei Zi stared at him deeply: "If you hear the truth in the morning, you will die in the evening."

She turned to leave, her back straight and her steps firm.

It wasn't until her figure completely disappeared from sight that Xiao Fengxian closed her eyes irritably.

He is an evil beast that dwells in the abyss.

But he fell in love with the brightest moon in the world.

Look up day and night, love and fear.

Nan Zhu whispered: "Young master, what should I do?"

The fox eyes of the young man were slightly red, he stared at the direction where Wei Zi disappeared, and his tone was extremely gentle, just like a lover's whisper: "Since the ambitions are different, from now on, I will use my ambition to protect her ambition." .”

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The next day, the sky is bright.

It's sunny today.

After Wei Zi dressed up and greeted Mrs. Wei, he went to the palace on the pretext of visiting Zhou Xianji.

Mrs. Wei has always been willing to match the two, so she is happy to see it succeed.

As the weather turned colder, Tai Hospital used Codonopsis pilosula, deer antler and other precious medicinal materials to nourish Zhou Xianji's body, but his condition did not improve.

Zhou Xianji was wearing clothes and sitting on the couch, holding a gold silk enamel heater in his arms, because of the medicine he had just taken, his pale cheeks were a little moist and bloody.

He motioned Wei Zi to eat the pastry on the flower table, and said in a hoarse voice, "I know why Xiao Zi entered the palace today. You came here for the emperor, didn't you?"

Wei Zi frowned: "His Royal Highness is kind to me. Now that he is in disaster, I want to see him."

"Brother Huang is under house arrest in the East Palace. The case has not yet been finalized, so the surveillance is not strict. If you want to go in, you only need one thing."

"what?"

"silver."

When Concubine Bei married to the Great Zhou Kingdom, the dowry was very rich, so Zhou Xianji's money was also very rich.

Using his connections in the palace, he disguised Wei Zi as a little eunuch, and entered the East Palace under the pretext of delivering meals.

Wei Zi held the food box tightly and walked through the corridor with his head down.

Zhou Xianji's exhortation echoed in his ears:
——I'm not in good health, so I can't accompany you to visit Brother Huang.At the bottom of the food box is a stack of silver bills, which can be given to the emperor's brother, so that he can manage the palace servants, so that his life will be easier.The delivery time should not exceed a quarter of an hour, Xiao Zi must remember to choose the most important words.

Wei Zi took a deep breath.

Standing in front of the closed palace door, she reached out and knocked on the door: "His Royal Highness?"

No one answered.

Wei Zi frowned lightly, seeing that the palace door was not locked, he stretched out his hand and pushed it open.

The hall was damp and dark.

There are no extravagant furnishings on the ancient shelves, only yellowed books and volumes are piled up.

On a black lacquer writing desk, there are the simplest brushes, ink, paper and inkstones. The green bamboo brushes hanging on the pen stand are the cheapest. Wei Zi also bought them when he was in Shanyin County, and they can be bought for ten yuan. to several.

"His Royal Highness?"

Wei Zi carried the food box and walked in cautiously.

The gray-white curtains are rolled up high, and the inner hall is as simple and unadorned as the outer hall, without any furniture decorations piled with gold and jade. I don’t know how long those armchairs and desks have been used, and the wood has faded and mottled. Put it in the corner, filled with bright red persimmons.

Going further inside, Wei Zi saw a young man in ordinary clothes, leaning on the wooden couch by the window with his arms pillowed, as if he had fallen asleep. There were two black and blue marks under his eyes, and his brows were full of fatigue and sadness.

As she approached step by step, she saw that his cuffs were frayed and fuzzy, and there were traces of stitches after mending.

As if awakened by her footsteps, Zhou Xianyuan suddenly woke up, saw her, and quickly got up: "Miss Wei."

Wei Zifu saluted and said shamelessly, "I thought I could help His Highness the Crown Prince, but I didn't expect..."

"It's okay." Zhou Xianyuan smiled warmly like an elder brother, "You are the first person to visit Gu in the East Palace after Gu's accident. Gu is already very happy to see you."

Wei Zi put the food box on the table: "Your Highness just fell asleep by the window, and the weather is getting colder after autumn, how can your body bear the wind? Please take care of yourself, Your Highness."

She wanted to close the window lattice, but she saw that the autumn sun outside the window was bleak, and the floor tiles were covered with white banknotes, extending all the way to the gate of the harem. Several imperial guards were ordered to guard here, turning over the banknotes to dry from time to time.

She was startled.

It turned out that His Royal Highness was lying by the window, looking at those bank notes.

I think these banknotes were found under the bed and study of His Highness the Prince.

As the autumn wind blew up, the silver bills in the palace flew into the air, like snowflakes.

Outside the window is like a world made up of banknotes, extremely extravagant and chaotic.

Inside the window, the palace room was dilapidated and plainly furnished, and the owner of the East Palace didn't even have a silk-made uniform.

Zhou Xianyuan's eyes were moist: "I have never seen these banknotes before, and I have never touched one of them, but neither father nor Prime Minister Murong believe in orphans. Miss Wei, can you trust Gu?"

(End of this chapter)