Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

I just feel that at this moment, I have heard more than I have known about everything in my life over the past few decades. It seems that I just talked about the ordinary bland expression of today's weather, and I was stunned.

The tidal sound of the sea was loud at this moment.

It kept rushing around, echoing in the already noisy ears. I just felt that the noise was unbearable. I took a step back and held my head.

At this time, the iron-faced king showed a stern expression: "Don't you really know?"

"..."

"No one told you?"

"..."

"Huaiyin didn't tell you?"

"..."

I didn't say anything. I was gritting my teeth hard and driving out the hustle and bustle in my head. It was only then that I panted. Cangjie raised his head to look at the King of Iron Mask and shook his head.

No.

No one ever told me.

If it were not for some memories of my childhood that were too deep, if it were not for the fact that I deeply imprinted every word and deed of her in my mind, even if the Iron Mask King told me now, I would not believe it, my mother When he married his father, he turned out to be a nun who had been ordained.

But—of course she is!

In her memory, she has always been half-length hair. Until the last time I left Xichuan North and went to Beijing, her hair did not grow too long, but because it was the look of a mother from childhood to most, I did not have any Feel strange and weird, just like my mother should be a woman and my father should be a man.

But how is it usual?

Parents whose bodies are affected by skin, girls do n’t cut their hair like that. Any ordinary woman has long hair when she is married, but the mother is in my memory until I At the age of three, her hair was not even ear-length.

There was only one possibility-until then, she had no hair and she shaved her head.

Even now, I finally figured out one thing.

My mother, even after marrying her father, became the head mother of the Nishikawa family, rich and noble, and her life was very simple. Most of her clothes were blue and gray. Only during the New Year, the father asked Under the circumstances, she will change into bright red clothes to show her joy, but beyond that, she has never had any joy in bright colors.

However, her father's painting, Xishan Feng, was blowing red gauze, but she was wearing a shadow.

Maybe, it wasn't the red yarn at all, nor the colorful clothes she was never used to, but the greed of Buddhists who gave it up-袈裟.

Xishan wind was blowing the red yarn, it turned out to be cricket.

When I thought about it, I suddenly smiled.

Feeling ridiculous, but I do n’t know why, the sadness that followed made me cry.

Over the years, I have always understood that I am not without grievances, but I am suppressing that kind of grievance, because the world ’s parents are no exception, so even if she has never been enthusiastic about our lives, even if she has always treated my daughter lightly, I can only accept it, I cannot blame it, although in my heart, there is always a grievance.

But now I understand that she is not without enthusiasm or indifference, but all innocence and innocence are her nature, or in other words, a spiritual attitude cultivated by a Buddhist.

She moved her heart, persuading herself to marry, but never changed her soul.

At this time, Iron Face Wang Chang sighed.

He slowly said, "It seems that she does not intend to tell you this."

I looked at him, thought about it, and said, "Maybe, my mother didn't think it was worth telling."

He froze slightly and looked at me with a little surprise.

She didn't tell me, of course, because of her cold nature, she never felt too important to her own affairs, and her father didn't tell me, naturally because of protecting my young and ignorant me, this matter is for a child, How much is a blow.

No one from Xichuan said--

Maybe they don't know at all, I don't know.

What kind of mother is her? As a daughter, of course, she should be the best person in the world, so this seems to be a well-known thing, and everyone probably has a collective consciousness that I must know, and know better than any other People are deep.

Therefore, no one will come to mention a daughter specifically, who is her mother.

Therefore, this should not be a secret, but in front of me, has achieved a secret for so many years.

I wanted to laugh again, but I couldn't laugh anymore, only my heart was full of sourness, and my eyes were blurred by tears.

Looking at me like this, Tiemen Wang was silent.

The two of them stood face to face without saying a word, and I didn't know how long it took before I finally got rid of that sadness, looked up at him, and asked gently, "Do you know, Who was my mother before she became a monk? "

Even if she calculated her family, she must have been alive at that time. What is her family like? Who are her father and mother, my grandfather and grandmother? Why did she become a monk? What is her purpose of becoming a monk?

All these questions came to my mind in a flash.

But Iron Face King shook his head gently.

My heart suddenly cooled down.

Although there are so many doubts in my heart, I know more clearly that the mother ’s affairs have been sealed for decades, and there are not many traces of her willingness to stay, and there may be fewer things about her privacy. Wang Tiemen didn't know, I'm not surprised at all.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but looked up at the man opposite.

It is undeniable that he is old, and I can imagine that his face almost identical to Huang Tianba was so handsome when he was young and the spirited Mercedes was on the grassland, and now his eyes are already wrinkled and rough His skin is also withered, but even so, the thickness and depth of the years in his eyes, and the unrelenting hard-heartedness of manhood, make him even more attractive.

Such people should be very attractive to girls.

I couldn't help but think of those words Xue Xue said, although I believe the facts must not be as bad as she suspected, but now people are in front of me, I still ca n’t help asking: “Then you and my mother—”

Before I finished speaking, he had already said, "I like her."

"..."

I don't know if it was because he answered too directly, or if he looked too frankly, I also lost my response for a while.

After a while, he said a blank "ah".

He smiled a little, but there was a vicious expression in his smile, "It's a pity that I was too late when I met her."

"... when did you meet her?"

"She and your father's wedding."

"..."

"I traveled to Sichuan and heard about this great event in Shudi, and rushed to observe the ceremony."

"..."

"So, the first time I met Huaiyin was when she married."

He looked at me stunned and grinned viciously: "If not, I'll talk to your father-we must have a win or lose."

I hesitated: "You and my father, did you win or lose?"

He said, "What made her feel good and made her decide to marry is your father. What else should I fight for?"

"..."

I was so shocked that I was speechless.

In the love of men and women | love, I've seen too many horizontal swords to win love, and there are countless quarrels and jealousy, and even tears and shame, and it's just for whoever gets who, who loses who.

But I've never seen him be so open-minded, in love, so dedicated and so decisive.

In shock, I smiled at him gently.

In this smile, all my respects, even those inexplicable feelings, were integrated into it, and he looked at me with a smile and seemed to understand, and gave me a slight smile.

but--

Their feelings are so simple, and other things may not be as simple as feelings.

Why did he go to sea?

Why do you become a pirate in this area?

Why did he attack Yan Qinghan's ship, why does he still stay at sea, why not return to the grassland?

With his identity and the revelation of my mother's past, these many problems slowly emerged in front of me.

I said, "You--"

However, this time without waiting for me to ask, he has already said: "Why do you go to sea?"

"..."

"You weren't sure it was me until you saw me. You definitely didn't come to me. What did you come for?"

"..."

"Is it the same as those people?"

"..."

"You're here, Folang artillery?"

Immediately, my heart seemed to ignite something, and the whole person was shocked. Although I had already guessed this possibility, I was still a little hesitant when he really acknowledged it.

"Flanger artillery ... are you really going out to sea for this thing, so many years of drifting at sea?"

"..."

"My mother really hid the Folang machine gun to the sea. Did you make it?"

"..." He glanced at me without saying a word.

After a moment of silence, he said, "You did come for this."

I took a deep breath and said, "I-I know this, but I didn't come for the artillery. Someone wanted to use me to find the Folang artillery, so I designed my daughter. I thought they took me His daughter brought her out of the sea and followed. "

"Someone designed you? Who?" His dark eyebrows frowned. "Your cousin? The court? Or the Jinling."

My eyes widened in amazement: "How did you know this?"

He sneered: "Do you think pirates really only live at sea?"

"..."

"Although we only relied on the shore half a year, we know what happened on the shore."

"..."

I looked at him silently, and suddenly realized: "So, so you will attack Yan Qinghan's ship ?!"

He gave me a slight glance.

I was still a little unbelievable, and asked, "You know, their purpose of going out to sea is to find Folang artillery, so you-you just go and attack them?"

"..."

He still didn't speak, but his face was calm by default.

I took a breath of air.

Before today, all things are uncertain, so I can't figure out why a group of "pirates" will actively attack Yan Qinghan, and the purpose is not for money. Now I finally understand it a bit: as I had previously imagined, although ordinary pirates operate on the sea, their range of activities is definitely not limited to the sea, and of course they are, so they must have their own manpower on land , Or eyeliner, as soon as many of the things they are concerned about change, they can know in time.

However, they are different from ordinary pirates.

Their purpose at sea is not to plunder, but to guard and prepare.

Therefore, anyone who wants to go to sea to find Folang machine guns going to sea will become their target of attack. When Yan Qinghan, Pei Yuanfeng, and Xiao Yusheng, together with Yangzhou, Jinling sent a huge fleet to the sea, such a major event would not escape their eyes and eyes, so they would find Yan on the vast sea. Qing Han's fleet was unceremonious, but the merchant ships that were clearly and richer to Boss Wang were let go.

This is what Xue Muhua told me before. She felt that the purpose of this group of pirates is not simple. Activities in this area of ​​the sea are not like looting, but more like patrolling.

It's a little clearer--

My mother did hand him the Folang machine gun!

The two of them have no relationship with husband and wife. Even from his tone, there is no love relationship between them at all | love, but something so important, my mother gave it to him, which is almost better than his own Life is more important to entrust, she can completely trust this man and entrust everything to him!

I think maybe my mother trusts him more than she trusts herself!

Thinking of this, I looked at him with a little more respect, and solemnly said, "Uncle Tiemen Wang, I—I also heard something when I returned to Xichuan. I think only you can tell The truth about my case. About the Folang machine artillery, about my mother. It was her who took the artillery, didn't she? "

He glanced at me with a little hesitation in his eyes, but nodded after all: "Yes."

"she was--"

I want to ask why, but just thinking about it, I know why.

Regarding such a murder weapon, even I do not want it to appear on the battlefield or even in this world, and since the mother was a nun, she must be more compassionate for the suffering of all living beings. Her rejection of that kind of thing must be Deeper than me.

I didn't ask what I said, but Tiemen Wang said: "In those years, the Xue family bought the batch of artillery from overseas and planned to ship it directly to the land of Shu, united the forces of the Yan family, and opposed them. Go to war. "

This is a fact I already knew, but I have a doubt-

"The Xue family bought such a powerful weapon, why not use it yourself?"

Moreover, depending on the terrain, it is more difficult to go north from Shu land than to go north from Jiangnan.

King Tiemen looked at me and said lightly, "There are three dependents in the war, do you know which three?"

I said, "Weapons, money, and people."

"That's right." He was a little surprised. I would answer it right, glanced at me, and said, "The Xue family was only a big family in Jiangnan. Although they had money, they had to support a war. That's nothing. , Even if the weapon is already in hand, but man— "

"people?"

"At that time, the Pei family had been in the Central Plains for more than 20 years, and most of the situation in the Central Plains had been calmed down, especially for Jiangnan. In such an environment, the Xue family started in Jiangnan and the chances of winning were very small. . "

I nodded.

Probably because the Xue family experienced this period, when Pei Yuanxiu and Yao Lao did not fight directly when they separated Jiangnan, they used the contradictions within the imperial court to encourage Shen Gongzhen to rebel and let Pei Yuanzhang release all his energy. In dealing with the Shen family, the situation in Jiangnan was relaxed a little, and they had the opportunity to take advantage of it.

"The land of Shu has never been within the sphere of influence of the imperial court. They brought artillery to the two sides and joined forces. If this battle is fought, perhaps the outcome will be unknown."

"So, my mother stole the batch of Folang artillery?"

"Correct."

"Are these artillery pieces unused?"

"No."

I frowned: "Didn't it happen once?"

Iron-faced Wang narrowed his eyes and looked at me. Although there was no anger on his face, from his expression, I had already seen the suspected dissatisfaction, and hurriedly explained: "We talked to Nian Baoyu six months ago. The cavalry of the East Chaga Department fought a battle. One of their generals met my father and my mother that year, and said that they had been attacked by Folang artillery. "

Tiemen Wang also frowned, pondered deeply, and then slowly said, "You say that, I remember."

"how is it?"

"Indeed, Huaiyin mentioned that before the batch of artillery was purchased from overseas, the Xue family bought one for power testing."

"Power test?"

"Correct."

I exhaled slightly, and my heart came over.

Usually, when we buy some goods, we will first propose a part of the trial. This is also common sense. If the Xue family buys such a large number of artillery, it will not work in the end, of course, they have to try it.

Therefore, Nian Baoyu, the cavalry of the East Chaga Department, became the touchstone of the Folang machine artillery that year.

When I thought about it, I couldn't help sighing secretly.

Hu Muhan once said that Xichuan suddenly went out to prevent the cavalry of the East Chaga from entering the Central Plains and plundered. The battle was inexplicable, especially taking my mother to the battlefield, it was just like showing my mother The same.

Now, I seem to feel a little trace from it.

That battle may have been shown to my mother.

Or maybe it was just an audition of the power of artillery, and my mother appeared on the battlefield because she wanted to know how powerful that firearm would be and how much harm it would cause.

She didn't make a decision until she knew everything.

but--

I looked up and looked at King Tiemen.

Maybe it was too much inquiry and doubt in my eyes, and he frowned, saying, "What are you looking at me for?"

I thought about it and said gently: "Uncle Tiemen, I have a question for you."

"You ask."

"All of this is my mother's decision, but you-why are you involved in this?"