box of hearts

Chapter 217 Broken Marigold (5)
He paused for a moment, then raised his head from her arms, a dark white glow glowed from the whole outline, as if it was a midnight dream, "Even until these years, sometimes when I have nightmares at night, you always ask me What did I dream, I will tell you now, this is what I dreamed. Probably not long after my regency, one day the emperor called me into the palace. At that time, he was not yet ten years old, and for no reason, he gave me a royal pen. The word "Fu". Like the royal brushes and treasures in the palace, most of the characters for longevity, spring strips, and couplets are drawn by the painter first, and then they can be traced. However, the emperor himself wrote the characters. He said he I wrote it all night, with hundreds of sheets, and this is the best one. Sure enough, both his eyes were red from the boil, but I only felt disgust in my heart. A face full of childishness, just like seeing my emperor brother, the enemy who took away my throne and killed my wife and son. The strange thing is, the emperor always likes to pester me, asking me to teach him hunting for a while, and for me to teach him how to hunt. He fought wars, but this only made me loathe him even more. I took his words and thanked him perfunctorily. When I was about to leave, the emperor stopped me, looked at me with such timid eyes suddenly, and said to me:' Uncle Huang, I sometimes dream that you are standing by my bed with a knife in my hand. I wake up very scared and tell my mother that the uncle is going to kill me. But the queen said that the uncle is not going to kill you, but is standing next to me. You have a knife by your side to protect you. Emperor Uncle, you won’t kill me, you will protect me, won’t you?” At that moment, I had a very strange illusion, I felt that the child was no longer my enemy, It was myself—myself as a child. Those nights of isolation, helplessness, fear and despair all came back in an instant. That night, I also had a sleepless night. , I thought about it bit by bit. In the past, I always thought that Brother Huang killed my son because of his son, and my son died because of Qi Hong, but I no longer thought that way that night. Think, it is Qi Hong who survived for my child. I know, no one knows better than me, what it's like to be alive for a child who is always staring at him with a knife by his bed , Now it's my turn to be the one with the knife in my hand, I don't want to kill this child, I want to protect him, just like what I always hoped for when I was a child, someone can protect me.

"I have been by the emperor's side for these years, and every day is like facing an abyss. There are countless deceitful plots and dangerous turmoil everywhere. How many times I almost lost my life. Dao, I have learned my housekeeping skills from life and death, and I have no secrets, and I have given all my pockets. Do you think I am willing to offer this Taiping River and Mountain that I have taken care of with my blood and sweat? But I say Don't say anything, just grit your teeth and walk away, just as a gift to my own child. How stupid I am, how stupid, that's not my child at all, that's a wolf cub! It's the one who killed my child , The son of a brother who ransacked my home and locked me in a high wall! Qingtian, you just go to my desk and look, I have even drawn up the letter to return to the military power, but they want to give me an extra ride:' Thinking about the previous work, all the end'—how to complete the law? High walls and enclosures?!" Qi She smiled, and tears flowed from his smiling eyes.

Qingtian was stupefied with fright. She had seen Qi She being sad, seeing him bleeding, seeing his desperate situation, and even seeing his moist eyes when he fell in love with her, but she had never seen his tears. Two straight, cold tear lines cut his cheeks.She was so frightened that she pressed his thick eyebrows into her palm, wiped and pressed them for him.When the two hands were separated, her body unconsciously fell to the ground, sobbing, "This, this may not be the little emperor's original intention, everything, everything is just a misunderstanding."

Qi She's face has returned to normal, resolute and tough, "Why can't someone who misunderstood being a king not call his subjects to confront him, but instead put a sniper behind his back?"

"Well, since you know in advance, there is, there is still room for maneuver. Anyway, the decree has not yet been issued, why, why don't you hand in the letter quickly, and ask yourself to lift the military power, maybe the little emperor's suspicion will be dispelled. .”

"I hold the military power in my hand, but he still dares to treat me like this. If I don't have any more soldiers, won't I let others slaughter me?"

"Then, what should we do then? Otherwise, let's run away! Yes, let's run away. There is always a way to survive, incognito, at the end of the world, isn't it?"

"Escape? Why? Just because I raised a white-eyed wolf, I have to be a homeless dog? Besides, is there any king in the world, how far can I escape, and where can I escape?"

Every word Qi She uttered was a blade that fell straight down.What surrounds them now is like a fertile land full of crops, a bush full of sharp blades.

At the end of his words, Qingtian swayed limply under his feet, every inch of his body was pinched, painful, burning like ice.However, not long after, she raised her hands, first wiped away her tears, and then supported his thigh, her hands were full of strength, and a smile appeared on her raised face, "then stay Banned, let’s be banned. During these times with you, I only went to your house once, and I was scolded by people. I have self-knowledge, and I never dared to think that you could accept me in the door openly. Today I have the cheek to beg you, please take me into the palace! I know that the door will never be opened again, but I am very happy that I can finally be with you for the rest of my life. If you are not full, don’t be afraid, I Since you have been starving since childhood, there are many ways to keep you from feeling so hard. During the day, you just go to your circle, and at night, I will warm your bed. With me, I will make sure you tidy up neatly. , don’t let you add a little extra stubble on your face, and wear a worn-out dress, you are still as handsome and spotless as today. I will play the pipa for you, and dance the seductive Hu Xuan dance to relieve your boredom. We write and paint on the sand table together, and we can always live every day. Maybe one day the little emperor will understand and let you out? Or, he is really worried, and he will give you a cup of Huangfeng Yujiu, even if it is only enough Drink alone, I bit off the tongue and go with you. You used to tell me the secrets of the palace, that when those buried concubines enter the coffin, no matter how beautiful they were in life, their faces must be wrapped in yellow silk Stop, because I walked reluctantly, and all of them looked terrible. If there is a day, I can make an agreement with you, I will take a step first, and you can see if I am smiling, and if I am as beautiful as now. "

The tide in Qi She's eyes still hasn't faded, he fixed his gaze, looking at a sweet, affectionate face rising from between his legs: the whole face is cleanly exposed, with black hair Tucked up behind the head, there are two hosta flowers inserted horizontally.He raised his hand and stroked the cheek with the candlelight halo with his fingertips, "Damn it, at this moment, I suddenly remembered that year when you knelt at my feet and begged to die for another man." look." He smiled quietly, recalling the infatuated appearance of this woman that shocked him at the beginning, and now this appearance is in full bloom in his own palm, it is the red golden lotus in the sea of ​​suffering, the solemnity of Huazang, the perfection of ten thousand virtues .

Qingtian Qiubo smiled, and put his face on the heels of his legs, "Bah! That's not a man, not now, nor at that time. My aunt and grandma gave birth to Zhang and Wei Yue. There are countless people, and the only man I can recognize is you."

The full smile straightened the two mustaches on Qi She's upper lip, "Damn the little flatterer, but you have a sweet mouth, who can I send this full of evil fire to?"

Qingtian leaned there with a smile, stroked his thigh with his right hand wearing a small moonstone ring, and touched the hard scab from the saddle through his clothes, "The days of getting angry are still long, right now, I advise you to do it early. Those imperial critics, letters from internal and external ministers, those that should be kept and destroyed, all have to be sorted out one by one. And you have to beware of those servants who come to confiscate your house and pile up your documents Stuff a few forbidden books in it, deliberately smash the objects given by the emperor, so as to add more crimes to you, and you have to return—yo! I forgot, you ransacked other people’s homes, and you were also ransacked. Tell you, isn't it just a trick?"

"That house was given by the old man at that time, so I copied it. Now this house is earned by my own blood and sweat. Even for you, the head of the family, I can't go back to squat in the courtyard again."

Qingtian was shocked and sat up straight.She only saw it for a moment, and the discouragement and shortness of breath on Qi She's face was swept away, replaced by unprecedented coldness.To this man who is accustomed to fighting, being seriously injured is nothing, as long as he still has breath, he must first grasp the weapon and face the enemy in blood.The same is true of the battlefield of the human heart, and even more so.

His words are like branding, engraved into people's ears: "I never told you that before you were robbed in Yanjiao, it was the Empress Dowager who instigated it secretly. This mother and son, treat you unkindly first, and treat me unrighteously second. To me, the way of the monarch and ministers has never been "the emperor wants the minister to die and the minister has to die", but "the emperor treats the minister like a mustard, and the minister treats the emperor like a bandit." What is "true dragon" and what is "destiny"? Lie Others are okay, I was born in the emperor's family in Longtan and Tiger's Den, the only thing I know is: Whoever has a hard fist, the 'Mandate of Heaven' will be his attendant."

Feeling a chill run up his spine, Qingtian stuttered: "Third, third brother, you, don't you think...? Didn't you say that the emperor suddenly fell ill? Maybe, maybe he didn't know Love, this is what the Empress Dowager did without telling him, you, you must not be impulsive."

Qi Shetu smiled knowingly, "It's better that the boy is really sick, otherwise, I guarantee that his illness will never get better in this life."

Hearing these vicious words, Qingtian's worries were no longer for Qi She, but for those who were his enemies.

(End of this chapter)