Lonely King and Widow

Chapter 1297 The pit is 284 meters deep, when the wind blows, the killing edge dies (one more)
Mo Jiu felt a sharp pain in his heart.

The eyes that were prone to tears, seemed to be caught by the wind, and immediately became damp.

For Song Yan, and for the beloved Cheng Wang and his wife, my heart hurts.

It turned out that Song Yan had suffered such a big change this time?

That pair of legendary couples who love each other without any doubts, that Princess Cheng who makes all the women in the world envious and jealous, that Prince Cheng who only married one wife and had one daughter all his life, and spoiled his wife and daughter like pearls and treasures, That's it?
How could they be willing to keep such a spoiled daughter?

"Yan'er, sit down and talk!"

It was the first time that Mo Jiu used an affectionate name for her.

Then, he held Song Yan's trembling hand, pulled her to sit beside her, and then swept his white eyes to Su Yi, who was just idly watching the fun and had no sympathy at all.

"Master Xiang, the tea is cold, why don't you leave?"

Evicted?
Mr. Su, who looks like a flower and looks like a jade like Pan An, was so nakedly disgusted by others, he couldn't help being slightly startled, and lazily pulled his wide sleeves, a little dissatisfied, "Miss Mo Jiu, I came all the way to visit you with wine, what kind of affection is this? You are so ignorant, you don’t invite me to dinner, and you don’t let me finish the tea? It really hurts my heart .”

"Whether your heart is hurt or not, what does it matter to me? I'm not your mother?"

"..." Poor Mrs. Su, the handsome young lady, only pouted.

"Little hairy kid, let's go out and play! Go, go, go—"

Mo Jiu waved his hand like chasing flies, sprinkled a handful of salt on his wound indifferently, watched him get up helplessly, then glanced sideways at the table where the pear cup was placed, pursed his mouth slowly, and softened again. He said in a calm tone, "It's easy for Mr. Xiang to go, so I won't send it off. But kindly remind you, Lord Su He will be back soon. If you are interested, you can go to the living room over there and wait for a while. Come and talk to him. The narrative is also good."

Su Yi paused.

He looked into her eyes complicatedly, as if hesitating.

"Mo Jiu, I actually have another question I want to ask you."

As he spoke, his eyes fixed on Song Yan, his thoughts were still unfinished, as if it was inconvenient for him to speak.

Mo Jiu looked at him, with such eyesight, Su Yi's tall body seemed to be shrouded in a circle of light and shadow, there were double images, but it was still pretty.Couldn't help but smile slightly, she waved again to show that she knew what he was going to ask.

"If Xiangye wants to ask, you don't have to ask me. It's also okay to ask the prince directly."

She didn't want Song Yan to know that Xiao Qian was still alive.

This idea stems from two considerations.

On the one hand, there is a bit of little woman's care - Song Yan likes Xiao Qian, if she continues to worry about it, she will feel awkward, after all, no woman would like her man to be secretly loved by another woman forever.

On the other hand, Song Yan thought that Xiao Qian was dead, so she didn't say anything to her, so it's not a good thing?When everyone is dead, her love string will be broken. Time can smooth everything out. In the future, she may still be able to start her own love affair.If she knows that Xiao Qian is alive, she will always live in her own obsession, and always look forward to a fruitless love, which is more painful than knowing that person is dead.If you die, you will have a new beginning.

Seeing her smile, Su Yi raised his eyebrows.

Is this her acquiescence?

Su Yi got the promise he wanted, sighed inexplicably, and looked at the two altars of pear cups.

"May I ask Ms. Mo Jiu, when will I eat the pear cup?"

"What's your business?"

"When you eat, take a bite."

"Hoho!" Mo Jiu smiled treacherously, his eyes turned into pea corners, "Dream."

"Oh! You are so unkind to people. I am very sad."

Poor Prime Minister Su was driven out of Lengtaifang half-coaxed and half-coaxed. He looked so alone, it seemed really unbearable.Therefore, Mo Wang kindly sent him to the main room of the palace to wait for Xiao Qian, and squeezed out his remaining value on the way - chatting about the situation of Lin'an and Xinglong Mountain for a while.

The two men talked a lot, and Mo Wang is a person who knows clichés very well, Su Yi is rarely talking to anyone at the moment, as he talked, he unconsciously finished everything he could say——

At the same moment, only she and Song Yan were left in Mo Jiu's room, and they could not help staring at each other, speechless for a while.

Reunited after a long absence, there is joy and excitement.

But under such circumstances, joy and excitement were inappropriate, and instead, they remained silent for a long time——

"Mo Jiu." Song Yan's cheeks became thinner, her chin became sharper, and her lonely expression was no longer that arrogant and mischievous little princess Mo Jiu had seen at the Xuyi Post Station.

There was too much sadness in her eyebrows and eyes, and she also lost her happiness.

And the most painful thing for a person is not not having it, but losing it.

Back then, Song Yan's happiness lay in being favored and loved. She was a real princess.

Now, all her reliance is lost, how uncomfortable is it?
Mo Jiu, who is pregnant with a baby, has more compassion than before.She supported Song Yan's shoulders, slowly sat beside her, took her hand, looked at the white fingers, and squeezed tightly, "Yan'er, tell me, what happened? King Cheng and Princess Cheng, they are both in good health, they have never interfered in government affairs, and they spend all their time in calligraphy, painting and poetry, such people... don't touch anyone's interests?"

Song Yan smiled wryly, lowered her head, and held Mo Jiu's hand tightly, without answering immediately.

With a slight movement, it can be seen that she has grown up and knows how to think.

"It's just because my concubine's surname is Xiao."

A Xiao character, but she married the royal family, so she is the daughter-in-law of the royal family?
Half-closed her eyes, she asked puzzledly: "Is Song Xi so vicious? In the end, the Xiao family has been executed, and none of the five hundred people will be kept. King Cheng is his uncle, and Princess Cheng is his uncle." His aunt. Keeping Cheng Wang and his wife can promote his good reputation of not blaming the past, but it will not hinder him. Why should he kill them all? Even if your mother and concubine are surnamed Xiao, she is a female generation, without the Xiao family as a backer, What can she do?"

Her analysis makes sense.

But Song Yan sneered after listening.

"Some things, you can't just look at the surface. The royal family is already rotten to the bone, and those people are also rotten to the root—"

"Oh?" Mo Jiu half-closed his eyes, "What a bad thing?"

Song Yan gritted her teeth, let out a long breath, and said slowly: "I didn't understand before, and my father, mother concubine, and nuns never told me about it. I thought that bitch Xie was the same as my mother. The concubine made friends when I was young, it was a handkerchief acquaintance, an old heart, and she was very good to me, I never thought that she would always miss my father and king—”

"In the past, my uncle Huang was still alive. Although she had a wicked heart, she had no guts. She kept suppressing her dirty heart. Now her son has become the emperor, and her niece has become the queen. The entire Nanrong court has been destroyed. Their family is firmly in control. While rehabilitating the Xie family, she indulged in her lecherous deeds, secretly recruiting strong men to serve on the pillow, but she still couldn't satisfy her heart. In the end, she even turned her mind on my father. gone."

Xie Empress Dowager Xiao Xiangcheng?

Mo Jiu had heard about this incident before.

Later, when I arrived at Xinglong Mountain, when I used the Acacia Token to find Xiao Qian, I had multiple sources of information, and gradually learned more about the secrets of the Nanrong royal family, but at that time, she had no intention of other people's scandals, Just heard it.

Let's just say that Song Yan's mother, Xiao Mingzhu, is Xiao Qian's aunt, and Xie Qingshan's mother, the current Empress Dowager Xie, is inseparable handkerchiefs. I fell in love with the handsome and unrestrained King Cheng.But good fortune tricks people, one finally entered the palace, married the eldest brother of King Cheng to Emperor Hua, and had a son and a daughter. The husband finally fell in love with his daughter and did such scandalous things. She was so loved by Emperor Hua, and the status she gained was simply because there was a Xie family behind her.And Xiao Mingzhu married into Prince Cheng's mansion and became the first concubine of Prince Cheng. Prince Cheng not only doted on her everything, but was also a woman who had no concubines, no house, no outside room, and no neighbors for life.

All of this would really make Empress Dowager Xie red-eyed and mad.

When she has no ability to reverse her fate, she only has bitterness and resentment.

When one day, she holds great power and can control the fate of countless people, she will finally be unable to hold back.

She wants to get—what she couldn't get before.

She wants to destroy—make her hate and envy.

Thus, the childhood dream and the girl's love finally slowly climbed to the tip of her heart, and her heart and bones made her sleepless all night. He also resembled King Cheng when he was young.It's a pity that when the body is satisfied, the heart becomes more and more empty.

She is not young, in fact not very old.

Slowly, she finally understood that there is only one person in the world who can fill those emptiness, those loneliness, and those coldness.

She wants to get that man, that man with picturesque eyebrows and eyes, who has never been forgotten for more than 20 years, that man who is far away from her whenever she sees him, makes her want to take a look at him to relieve the pain of lovesickness Unbelievable man.

She got angry and refused to give up until King Cheng got it.

So, borrowing the case of the Xiao family, she cleverly set up a pretense to imprison Princess Cheng Xiao Mingzhu with a crime, which means that she colluded with her late elder brother Xiao Yunchang and others, and she was charged with treason and murder.Then, she directly told King Cheng that there was only one way to save Princess Cheng's life.

Exchange his life for her life.

Prince Cheng was rich and honored all his life, but he was just an idle prince.

He has no soldiers, no power, and no party members.In the whole court, there is no one who can help him.

The Xiao family is dead and his wife is in prison, what can he do?

In order to save the life of the princess, he humiliated him and said that as long as the princess returned safely, he would obey her.

It's a pity that although Princess Cheng Xiao Mingzhu had a prosperous life and was always pampered from the Xiao family to Princess Cheng, she was still a daughter of the Xiao family.The Xiao family is a family with several generations of hairpin tassels. Even the daughter of the boudoir is literate, righteous and sensible.When something happened to Xiao's family, if it wasn't for her husband and daughter, Xiao Mingzhu would have been unable to live alone and left with her family.

Now that she is saving her life, she already has the heart to live.

Sitting in the cold prison, she would also think about it——After the Xiao family case had been closed for several months, why did Empress Dowager Xie fabricate charges to send her to prison?
She soon understood.

How could she not understand Empress Dowager Xie, the best friend she knew when she was young?
For so many years, every time there was a big banquet in the palace, why didn't she understand those eyes looking at her husband?
After thinking about it, she chose another path for herself——

When King Cheng went to the prison in the imperial city to pick up Princess Cheng, she had already turned into a corpse.

She didn't want her husband to be controlled by a woman because of her own fate.

How can a majestic prince, Uncle Nan Rong, become a slave under a woman's skirt?

Even if she died a hundred times, she would not want to see it.

Xiao Mingzhu hanged herself in prison in the imperial city without leaving a single word.

But what she wanted to say, these days, the couple had communicated a lot, King Cheng understood her.

The two have been husband and wife for more than 20 years, and their emotions and thoughts have long been integrated into each other's bones through those calligraphy, painting and poems.King Cheng is the person in the world who understands Princess Cheng the most. He has always known that after she suffered hardships in the Xiao family, every day she lived would be like death, like years.

This choice to leave may be the best relief for her.

Her death made him hate it.

She hated that at the last moment of her life, she thought of him as that man.

She didn't even give him a chance to explain.

Of course, it is impossible for him to become Empress Dowager Xie's male favourite.Originally, he had already planned their escape route, and after he rescued Princess Cheng, he took Song Yan and the family away overnight, leaving this exquisite cage to see the outside world.Or go to the north, go to the legendary Xinglong Mountain, or go south, go to Miaojiang, which is like spring all the year round, or choose a place at random, put your love on the mountains and rivers, and realize their dreams that they have thought about all their lives but have not achieved——Shijiu Tianyuan , a simple family.

Of course.

How about more ideas?
People are gone, everything is empty.

What?He Nai!
He is respected as the emperor's uncle, of course the Empress Dowager Xie can't do anything to him.Of course, she was not willing to do anything to him.Hearing that Princess Cheng hanged herself in prison, she was actually a little flustered.At the same time, for her, this is also the saddest thing - the man she loves the most, the only thing she can restrain him is that woman.

Once Princess Cheng died, that man hated her so much, could he still obey her?
She was fidgeting in the palace, but she didn't expect that King Cheng came to the appointment that night.

Just like a normal person, he said that a person cannot be resurrected after death, and he has to think about the future.

Empress Dowager Xie was overjoyed, and asked her to cook and prepare wine, with a touch of girlish shyness, to share her love with him at the same table.

But King Cheng only hated her, so how could there be any love for her?He said that he came to tell her some old things, some old things that made her want to stab him to death.

He said that the marriage between the Xiao family, the Xie family and the royal family was not accidental.

Their marriage was all done by him.

During the friendship in the bamboo forest, when he first saw Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Xiao coming out hand in hand, Mrs. Xiao uttered a bamboo pose poem and played the piano to accompany him. He immediately fell in love with Xiao Mingzhu.With just one look, it has been ten thousand years, and he swore at that time that he would not marry her. For this reason, he knelt in front of the emperor for a whole night.

Because the woman from the Xiao family that Emperor Zhihua had taken a fancy to at the beginning was also Mingzhu, not Mingzhu's sister, the later concubine Xiao Gui.

Of course, Emperor Zhihua didn't even take a fancy to her, Mrs. Xie.

It is not uncommon for two brothers to fall in love with a woman at the same time.

But like them, there are very few peaceful solutions.

Emperor Zhihua was an ambitious man. At that time, he had just succeeded to the throne for a few years, and Nan Rong was troubled internally and externally. The old empress dowager was still alive. , can completely influence any decision of Emperor Hua.At that time, his biological younger brother, the unmarried King Cheng, was not only capable of writing and martial arts, but was also liked by the old officials in the court, and was also the heart of the old empress dowager who doted on the youngest son.

Therefore, King Cheng calmly asked Xiao Mingzhu to marry him, and Emperor Zhihua followed suit and made a deal that he knew well with his brother.King Cheng handed over the 15 life-saving soldiers left to him by the former emperor before his great trip to the government, and said that he would never go to court or be involved in politics for life, and there were as many women in the emperor's harem, and Emperor Hua was not a person who valued love and love Of course, he was happy to settle the dispute between brothers with a woman.

King Cheng got married as he wished, so it was fine.

But when he heard that Emperor Zhihua was going to marry Xiao Mingzhu's sister, he recommended Xiao Mingzhu's good friend Xie Shi to his brother.

He said that one of the daughters of the Xiao family became Princess Cheng, and the other entered the palace as the imperial concubine. The Xie family would inevitably have ideas. In order to balance the contradictions between the Xiao and Xie families, and to balance the government, it is better for the emperor to accept Xie Zhen's daughter together. The younger sister just entered the palace.

When Emperor Hua thought about it, he agreed.

That's all for women, one more is not too much, one less is not much.

Xie Chen is naturally happy to accept his sister, so why not do it?
Therefore, what King Cheng said at the beginning determined a woman's life.

At the same time, he was also fooled by good fortune. The original cause caused the current result for him and Xiao Mingzhu.

When King Cheng talked about these past events, no one knew how he felt at that time.But after hearing this, Empress Dowager Xie almost collapsed and became furious.This man, the man she loved all her life, not only never liked her, but also the pusher of her sad fate, he pushed her into this abyss with his own hands, making her unhappy for the rest of her life, life would be worse than death——

"Why, why did you do that?"

She hated, hated to the extreme.

But what King Cheng gave her was a mocking sneer.

"Mingzhu is too kind, she can't see through you, she has always trusted you. If you don't enter the palace, you will always appear by her side - with your vicious heart, there is no guarantee that you will not do something? I I have to help her guard against you, and I don't want to have your shadow in our lives every moment, I feel sick. But I don't want Mingzhu to be sad and keep cutting off with you.

What's more, sending you into the palace was originally what the Xie family wanted, and I was just going with the flow.Isn't your brother very happy that his wish has come true?Mrs. Xie, I sent you to the palace, made your life rich and honored, and also made your son emperor, shouldn't you thank me?Hahaha! "

King Cheng's smile was mocking her, but also at himself.

Even the guilt for his dead wife—he was the one who killed her.

Back then, he should have been more extreme, and shouldn't have left such a woman in the world.

"Thank you? Hahaha. Yes, I am grateful to you, and I will be grateful to you all my life."

Empress Dowager Xie also laughed, laughing until tears flowed out.

Everyone said that she had a heart of snakes and scorpions, even this man looked at her like that.But she was raised by her father and brother since she was a child. Growing up in such a family, who knows how she spent her childhood?She lived in the palace for several days and years all her life, suffering from wind and rain, those pains that could not be shown to others, who knows, who has pity?
Suddenly, she pointed at King Cheng and pointed at him fiercely.

"Don't think that if Xiao Mingzhu is dead, I will have nothing to do with you. Believe it or not, I will send your daughter to get married, let her marry a barbarian far away, and make her unable to return to Nanrong for the rest of her life. The daughter will never be seen again, and she will marry those barbarians who don't know how to pity and cherish jade, and she will be teased all the time, hahaha, just thinking about it makes me happy! Hahaha!"

"Up to you." King Cheng responded indifferently, his eyes were full of indifference, "In a barbaric land, human nature is also a paradise. The great China, controlled by people who are not like beasts like you, is the hell on earth. The daughter of Mingzhu and I grew up loving her parents and received a lot of love when she was young. She is a child who grew up being loved. Only when she is loved can she know how to love, and she will love. No matter whether she is married or not Anyone can grow old together with their husband and son-in-law, do you believe it?!"

When he said this, the corners of his pretty lips curled up again.

"It's not like your kid, it's not going to end well—"

Empress Dowager Xie thought of Yujia, her delicately dressed face was getting paler and her hands were trembling uncontrollably.

"You - bold!"

Seeing her dying pain, King Cheng smiled sincerely.

"You have not been loved all your life, your parents do not love you, your brother does not love you, your husband does not love you, your children do not love you. And you have never loved anyone. You are the most pathetic woman in the world .Living high and high, but not as good as mole crickets! Alas! Poor!"

King Cheng walked away in a huff. That night, he returned to the palace, cooked delicious soup for his daughter, and stayed in the kitchen for a whole night without closing his eyes. At dawn, he made another meal with his own hands and ate it with his daughter. After that, he carried Princess Cheng's body to the outskirts without saying a word, cremated her with his own hands, then sprinkled the ashes in the river, and then threw himself into the river.

In the mansion, only one suicide note was left for Song Yan.

"Daughter, when you read this letter, the father is no longer alive. Parents have no children, and after death, you can only ask your daughter. Let the father be like your mother, go with the wind and flow with the water Okay? Don’t let our remains stay in this dirty world and turn into dust. This is our best belonging. If in the future, your daughter wants to come to worship her parents, you can bring your husband and children to the river Kowtow a few times, I believe that my father and your mother can see it and bless you. Yaner, we can see it, and God can see it too. You must believe that one day, when He Qinghai Yanshi, My daughter and the people of Nanrong can live in peace and well-being. Father: I must write."

Three days later, King Cheng's body was salvaged ashore.

In accordance with his wishes during his lifetime, Song Yan cremated his body and scattered his ashes into the river.

The girl was also stubborn and did all this without shedding a single tear.

When throwing those ashes into the river, he only said one sentence from the beginning to the end.

"Father, hurry up, you have to walk faster, don't fail to catch up with my concubine mother's footsteps, and let others snatch her first—"

(End of this chapter)