After saying goodbye to Gu Taifu for
a while
, I took Zhou Wen all the way to the north to flee. After the North Court Frontier Command, it was another frontier, where there was a rebellion by the East Turks. Later, after the East Turks were destroyed, the first emperor forced a lot of Han people to develop land in the past. Now it is sparsely populated. I want to hide my name with Zhou Wen there. It’s a very easy thing. When
Zhou Wen woke up in the carriage, it was already dusk. I was still on my way. I felt my back sink and realized that he had hugged me.
I chuckled. “Is Your Majesty awake?”
Chou Wen smiled bitterly. “I’m no longer your majesty.”
I turned around and kissed his eyes. “From now on, you are my own king.”. Is it all right?
Chou Wen clenched my hand, his eyes filled with tenderness. “Good.” After coming out
from Changan, in just three days, we have encountered two sets of assassins, although I and Zhou Wen have been a little hurt, but the heart has never been firm.
I think I must take him away from here, and when we cross the Tianshan Mountains and arrive at the frontier, it will be a sweet and beautiful life.
I can’t wait for that day to come.
However, the development of many things was different from what was expected. When we approached the Beiting Frontier Command, we encountered another accident.
Perhaps already heard the news of Zhou Wen out of Changan, not to the north court, general Chen Zilong has been waiting there.
However, to my surprise, Chen Zilong did not send us directly out of the border, but detained me and Zhou Wen.
I couldn’t believe that he, a general on the border, dared to hold the emperor and command the governors. He immediately took out a letter from Gu Taifu to me, hoping that this matter would turn around.
But unexpectedly, after Chen Tzu-lung received the letter, he had no other reaction. He just glanced at me and Chou Wen and said, “Somebody, take Your Majesty and the girl to the wing.” Inside the
wing, I felt uneasy, but Chou Wen’s face was calm, as if he had long expected today. Holding my hand, he quietly said to me, “Gu Taifu has never been on our side. He has always been loyal to the late emperor and to the imperial power.”. Chen Tzu-lung used to be the adopted son of the Ku family, so Chen Tzu-lung will certainly not help us escape. On the contrary, he will listen to Ku’s advice and force me to return to that position.
“You already knew. Why didn’t you stop me from handing over the letter?” I don’t understand.
Chou Wen smiled faintly: “According to my understanding of Ku Tai-fu, that letter should have been empty. He and Chen Tzu-lung should have negotiated terms long ago. The reason he gave you a letter was to give you a hope. He hoped that you would think that if you gave the letter to Chen Tzu-lung, we would be saved, so you would send me here anyway.”
At this point, Chou Wen touched my eyebrows. “I am the real letter.”
Hearing what he said, I was extremely annoyed: “You should have told me earlier!”! If I had known this, I wouldn’t have come to the Beiting Frontier Command even if I had died.
Chou Wen smiled and said very gently, “Apart from here, where are there no assassins from the imperial court?”? It’s better to come here than to watch you fight with those killers. At least we’re all alive. My eyes turned red
with remorse and guilt. I clenched Chou Wen’s hand and swore to him, “Don’t worry, I won’t let you go back to that man-eating palace again. When it’s late at night, I’ll take you away.”
Chou Wen kissed away my tears and said softly, “Good.”
Zhou Wen’s voice did not fall long, the door was opened by several generals. Chen Zilong, dressed in armor, with a firm face, stood upright in front of Zhou Wen and did not kneel.
Chou Wen remained extremely calm: “Who gave you the courage to force your way in here?”
Chen Zilong gave him a blessing and said, “I’m a member of the Gu clan. I swear to be loyal to your majesty. But now you’re not going to sit on the throne, so we can’t treat you with the courtesy of a monarch and a minister. Gu Taifu has already told you that when you are determined to take back the country, it’s not too late for us to kneel down again.”
With that, Chen Zilong waved his hand to me, and several generals swarmed up and came to catch me.
Chen Tzu-lung looked at Chou Wen with a meaningful smile and said, “We don’t keep women in the army. Only military prostitutes can stay in the barracks. You know the rules. Please forgive me.”
No wonder Gu Taifu said something of pity to me before he left. It turned out that he had decided to abandon me at that time.
I didn’t want Zhou Wen to worry about me, so I immediately started to resist the enemy. Chou Wen was clearly exasperated: “Did Gu Taifu ask you to force me like this?”
Chen Tzu-lung smiled. “It doesn’t matter who it is. The important thing is that you have to see clearly. If you take off your imperial robe, you can’t even protect your own woman now.”
Seeing that I was about to be taken away, Chou Wen took out my dagger in a hurry and put it to her neck: “You hurt her today, but I will never let you get what you want.” “You can try,” said
Chen Tzu-lung with a smile. “But I have to remind you that if you lose your blood for a while, you will suffer a lot. Our brothers in the military camp haven’t seen a beautiful woman for a long time.”
Chen Tzu-lung glanced at me, and his tone hardened: “Arrest me and take me away!”
I am a person difficult to defeat four hands, in the end or be controlled by them, see Zhou Wen flustered appearance, my heart suddenly hurt up.
I know, I am Zhou Wen’s weakness, only I am alive, they can use me to coerce him, if I really die, Zhou Wen will never go back to the palace, Gu Taifu is Zhou Wen’s teacher, will not really let Chen Zilong kill him, therefore, they will probably let him go, so that Zhou Wen can have real freedom.
Thinking of this, I took one last look at Zhou Wen.
“Beyond the Great Wall, where we have made an appointment to go, the bell is one step ahead. If you go there in the future, you will find that I am in the morning breeze, I am in the evening rain, and I am in the morning and evening clouds. I will always be with Your Majesty.”
Chou Wen recognized the meaning of what I had said, and his clothes softened. “Let her go, and I’ll go back with you.”
Chen Tzu-lung, however, did not give in at all: “Gu Taifu said that if this weakness is not pulled out today, it will break out again in the future. Your Majesty, I’m sorry!” With that
, Chen Zilong’s men dragged me away roughly.
When I was wandering alone outside the Great Wall, I got a poison from a familiar escort. I usually hid it in my mouth and bit it at the critical moment to ensure that I would not be humiliated.
I closed my eyes gently, and my teeth were already touching the medicine bag in my mouth. But at that moment, I heard a crisp “plop.” When I opened my eyes again, Chou Wen was already kneeling on the ground. His waist was very straight, but his eyebrows and eyes were all lonely.
“I beg you, let her go.” In his life,
Zhou Wen became the eldest grandson of the emperor at the age of eight. At the age of thirteen, he was on an equal footing with the eight kings. When he ascended the throne in his twenties, he only made such a big gift to his grandfather.
I can’t imagine that the person who kneels on the ground and kowtows to the generals is Zhou Wen. At that moment, I can’t control myself. How can person I hold in my heart tolerate others to do so?
But the more sad I was, the harder Zhou Wen knocked his head, as if if they didn’t promise him, he would die here.
For a moment, I frantically tried to break free and rush to help him up.
Chen Zilong seemed to be shocked by such a scene. He looked at several generals and finally ordered people to let me go. Holding Chou Wen in my arms,
I listened to his tearful expression: “So, I’m so useless.”
I felt his tears flow quietly on my skirt, and my heart was very soft. “Why did Your Majesty do this?”? Mingming wants freedom so much. You want to leave that Forbidden City so badly?
Chou Wen pursed her lips lightly. “Why don’t you understand? I’m only free when I’m with you.” He pried open my mouth, took out the poison with his long fingers, threw it on the ground, and looked straight at me. “A moment later, my life will be gone. Do you know that?” Without saying a word,
I held his hand, but tears could not stop falling.
Today’s Zhou Wen, let me make a terrible decision, even if the palace is hell, the rest of my life will be imprisoned there, I also hope I can accompany Zhou Wen, today, I really can not allow such a thing to happen again, let alone allow anyone in the world to hurt him. If he is destined to be the monster guarding the country, why don’t I be the torch in his hand?
I thought that I had made such a determination that no matter how many storms and obstacles there were ahead, I could always face them calmly with Zhou Wen, but I didn’t think that things were not as simple as I imagined, and Zhou Wen still had too many secrets I didn’t know. On the ninth day of the
tenth month, Zhou Wen used the troops of the Beiting Frontier Command to suppress the rebellion. At first, in order to appease the people, the court claimed that the emperor was still seriously ill and that the so-called Zhou Wen troops were just a cover for the rebels.
All of a sudden, people were in a panic and could not tell the true from the false, and there was another big event in the court. On the
eleventh day of the tenth month, Gu Taifu was given to die in his house by the Thirteen Princes. Before he died, he wrote a letter in blood, listing the things that Zhangsun Ce and Xiao Shisan used Zhao Wuliang to kill his brother and usurp the throne.
Gu Taifu was a patriarch of three Dynasties, and his character was valuable. His death immediately set off a great uproar. The courtiers who usually stood at thirteen could not help speculating, fearing that little thirteen would be exterminated because he had been loyal to Zhou Wen.
Blood after the outflow of the book, all over the defense generals as discussed the general stand out to respond, soon the situation inside fell to the side of Zhou Wen, we only took three months to fight back to Changan.
All the way too smoothly, let me can’t help but some doubt, small thirteen just ready to proclaim himself emperor, is the need to stabilize the morale of the troops, even if the eldest sun ce again quick success and instant benefit, also shouldn’t kill Gu Taifu at this time, I really don’t understand, small thirteen why must give Gu Taifu to death?
I asked Chou Wen this question, and Chou Wen looked gloomy: “Perhaps Thirteen is no longer the Thirteen we know.”
This answer, I can not accept, always feel as if there is something wrong.
Until, when I was attacking the city outside Chang’an, I received a secret letter from a parrot, asking me to avoid Zhou Wen and see him.
The parrot has always been free and easy, not the kind of person who likes to cling to him. After I refused him, he never came to me again, so I guess, this time, something big must have happened.
Sure enough, as soon as I arrived at the inn, I saw the cross-dressing princess.
The princess wore a dark robe, her long hair was broken, and her face was smeared with dark color. This was the mourning clothes of Tubo. I didn’t understand what it meant, but the princess made a big gift in front of me.
“I know the dog emperor is going to kill Chou yuan. I’m his wife. Take me to be with him.”
I took one look at the parrot. The parrot smiled awkwardly and explained, “I’m sorry. The last time you left like that, my brother got drunk at home a few times. It wasn’t long before the princess saw the clue. She guessed that you and Chou Wen were in the same group. She also knew that all the information had fallen into Chou Wen’s hands. She was worried on the spot.”. I can’t kill her, and I can’t keep her prisoner, so I have to bring her to you. When I heard this, I
picked up the princess and said, “I’m sorry. I lied to you.”
The princess is very free and easy: “Each for its master, you do this to me, I have been satisfied.”. If it weren’t for antagonism, we would be very good sisters.
I pulled the princess to sit down and asked her to rest assured that Zhou Wen was not without feelings for Xiao Shisan. With my understanding of Zhou Wen, he would not be exterminated. When
the princess heard me say this, she seemed to hear a great joke: “You really don’t know?”? Fake don’t know? The dog emperor gave up the idea of abdication a long time ago. He was fishing! Use his own brother to fish for the filth of those traitors who sink to the bottom of the water!
How come?
I couldn’t believe that the princess hadn’t seen thirteen for a long time, but the caliber was exactly the same as thirteen. Seeing that I was silent, the princess took out a secret letter cut off.
A few months ago, when Zhou Wen and I went to Puzhou for disaster relief, we had already secretly mobilized the military forces in Shu. As soon as Gu Taifu died, we created a situation and fought back. The
letter was indeed written by Zhou Wen, but I couldn’t believe it. At that time, in Puzhou, we were still talking about walking out of the palace and living a carefree life beyond the Great Wall in the south of the Yangtze River. Why could he do these things behind my back as soon as he turned his face? When
the princess saw that I still didn’t believe her, she gave a long sigh: “The dog emperor may have really planned to leave with you at first, but he must have changed his mind when he was in Puzhou. But he has been lying to you. Do you know why?” The more the
princess spoke, the more indignant she felt: “Men are like this. They want rivers and mountains, and they want beautiful women. He may have given his heart to you, but it was only for a moment. When he realizes it, he will never give up his wealth and the throne to accompany you to fool around for the sake of a person who has already got you.”
I stood in the same place in a daze. What I recalled in my mind was the picture of Zhou Wen kneeling and kowtowing in front of Chen Zilong three months ago. I couldn’t believe that the true affection and deep attachment were all acting?
The princess wanted to alert me, still aggressively throwing evidence, I do not know when to start, my tears began to fall from the eyes, the more tears accumulated, has affected my other senses, so that I watched the princess’s mouth open and close, but can no longer hear a word, the parrot probably can not stand me like this, he was very angry. I touched the princess’s dumb hole and wiped my tears little by little.
This woman is so angry that she dares to say anything. In her brother’s opinion, Chou Wen may not be what she thinks. Maybe there was some kind of misunderstanding.
I looked straight into the parrot’s eyes. “Of all the people, you are the most objective. Do you think what the princess said is true?”
The parrot smiled shyly and laughed at himself. “Girl, are you kidding me?”? When it comes to Chou Wen, when it comes to you, how can I be objective?
Perhaps realizing that he had lost his temper, he refused to talk about these sensitive topics again. Instead, he made a ha-ha: “On the way here, my brother thought of a way for you to find out about Chou Wen. If he didn’t lie to you and you still went the way you had originally thought, you can pretend that you haven’t seen us today. If he really failed you, you can stop the loss in time.”
It has to be said that the parrot is used to doing it carefully and has great talent in this respect. He analyzed it thoroughly. Whether Zhou Wen regards Xiao Shisan as bait or not, there is one biggest difference, that is, his feelings for Xiao Shisan in his heart.
If he wholeheartedly hold small thirteen ascended, but he killed, then he is more disappointed with small thirteen, in the future, Zhou Wen also court, may kill small thirteen, but will never move small thirteen children, because small thirteen is the fault party, even if there are children, children will understand Zhou Wen’s not to kill.
But if it was Zhou Wen who used Xiao Shisan as bait and finally used him to kill the spy, then Zhou Wen and Xiao Shisan were old enemies. He felt guilty and panicked about Xiao Shisan. What he felt guilty about was that he had used him. What he panicked about was that he was worried that Xiao Shisan would still have a breath to make a comeback. So, if this is the case, Not only will Zhou Wen not let go of Xiao Shisan, but also the children of Xiao Shisan will be eradicated.
In view of these analyses, the parrot asked me to tell a lie, telling Princess Zhou Wen that the child had not been lost at the beginning, and then tried to keep it, and now it has been well raised by her side. Recently, the princess would get up and go back to the border, and the parrot asked me to see Zhou Wen’s reaction.
I promised him, the parrot asked my plan, if Zhou Wen really cheated me, he was willing to meet me outside and take me away.
Can not know why, this time, I do not want to escape, thirteen was because I believe, just let Zhou Wen leave, in any case, this time, I also want to protect thirteen.
The parrot felt the determination in my tone, as if he was afraid that this side would be a farewell. He held my hand and refused to let me go back.
I lightly pursed the corners of my mouth with a gentle smile, and for the first time I opened my heart to him like this: In fact, I know that your mouth has been damaged a little, but you are a very, very good person in your bones. You have given me your heart, and I can’t let it break in my hands. So, now, I will give it back to you well. You are sure to meet a girl who is a thousand or ten thousand times better than me, and you are sure to give birth to a group of sweet children and live a free life on the border. When
the parrot heard me say this, his tone was unusually serious. “What if my brother has already met that girl?” He touched my heart and said, “What if my brother would rather have this heart broken in your hands than let it think of you all day and make me uneasy?” “You don’t have to answer my brother’s questions,”
he said with a self-deprecating laugh. “The greatest advantage of my brother is that he doesn’t like to make trouble for others.” Then
he helped me mount the horse, tied the reins for me with a smile, and said goodbye to me with a smile. Let’s
go! Brother, watch you go!
At that moment, seeing the smile on the parrot’s face, I felt a little sad. I wanted to say something to him, but I didn’t know what to say. Thousands of words came to my lips, and there was only one sentence left: “Brother Parrot, you..” Take care of yourself Outside
Chang’an, Zhou Wen saw me coming back in the night, with a look of anxiety in his eyes.
“The siege is tonight. Where have you been?”
I smiled at him and said quietly, “The parrot came to see me, saying that he wanted to send the princess and the children back to Tubo to say goodbye to me.” There was no change
in Chou Wen’s face, only a slight smile: “The original child was saved, and Shisan must be very happy to know.”
I was a little surprised at his reaction and joked, “I thought that at this moment, Your Majesty would get the child and use it as a bargaining chip to attack the city.”
Chou Wen twisted her eyebrows and looked at me as if she were a little strange. “In your eyes, am I such a villain?”
I smiled and said, “I thought Your Majesty was a man who did great things, and a man who did great things did not care about trifles.” I said, turned to go out of the tent, unexpectedly, Zhou Wen hugged me from behind.
Don’t go.. Something is wrong with you, Bell, tonight.
To tell the truth, the parrot asked me to measure Zhou Wen, I should not have said so much to him, but I hope Zhou Wen is the same in my heart, really did not lie to me, so I am also using my way to save him.
At that time, I thought to myself, even if Zhou Wen really moved the means, if finally because of my abnormal, give up on the children of small thirteen, so that at least I have a reason to deceive myself to stay with him.
At the moment when Zhou Wen and I were looking at each other, there was an urgent report in the city. Thirteen and Zhangsun Ce put up a desperate fight and caught the old, the weak, the women and the children to make meat shields. If
Zhou Wen storm, even if captured the city, will be the people of Changan spurned, in a hurry, he had to discuss the way into the city with Chen Zilong.
Before leaving, Zhou Wen held my hand tightly: “Tonight is over, everything will pass, you wait here for me to come back..” I have a lot to say to you.
I smiled at him and said, “Your Majesty said so. Is there something you are not telling me?”
Chou Wen did not nod or shake his head. He looked deeply at me and said with difficulty, “I’m leaving.”
I thought, according to me and the parrot for his trap, Zhou Wen will be at this time, send someone to find thirteen children, as a bargaining chip.
Once he did, it was time for me to fall out with him, but what I didn’t expect was that Zhou Wen was far smarter and deeper than we thought.
He actually did not move the idea of small thirteen heir, but sent a ride light soldier to find small thirteen negotiations.
I don’t know what Zhou Wen’s people said to Xiao Shisan that night. In the middle of the night, there was a sudden retreat outside the city. Xiao Shisan opened the gate and let Zhou Wen go into the city.
This night, my whole person is in a state of mistiness, and when I arrived at the palace with the army, Zhou Wen was already sitting on the throne, eyes I do not understand the look. Where is
Little Thirteen? Why would he let you in? What have you done to him? I asked him eagerly, and Chou Wen smiled at me. This time he used a positive tone. “If you go out of the city to see the princess, the princess will tell you that I have been lying to you, right?” For fear of involving the parrot,
I subconsciously shook my head and said, “No.”
Chou Wen smiled coldly. “You don’t believe me anymore. From the moment you said the princess’s child was saved, you didn’t believe me anymore, did you, Ling Dang?”
I did not respond to his question and gritted my teeth in silence.
Chou Wen smiled again. “Let me guess. Someone must have told you that I didn’t intend to let Little Thirteen continue to ascend the throne from a very early time. Instead, I used him as a target. So they want you to come back and test me. If I kill all the children of Little Thirteen, it means I have a ghost in my heart.”. Is it right
I can’t believe that Zhou Wen has reached the level of wisdom and close to the demon, just because I said that the princess’s child was saved, he guessed all the routines.
But since he already knew, why didn’t he lie to me? At this point, put the thirteen one, wait for me to forget this matter, and then quietly start.
At that time, all the beauties of Jiangshan will belong to him. Isn’t that good?
I find that I can’t understand Zhou Wen more and more. When Zhou Wen saw me looking at him confusedly, his smile became bitter: “It’s impossible for the children of Shisan to stay. After I came back from Puzhou, Gu Taifu had already sent me a secret letter telling me that Shisan’s ears were soft. He was lobbied by the princess and Gongsun Ce and became suspicious of me.”. He was pure and kind by nature. He didn’t want to have a conflict with me, and he didn’t want to ask me directly. Later, the princess suggested that if I really used him as bait in the future, they could lead the Tubo troops into the country and protect the Thirteen.
Chou Wen touched my hair, and the emotion in his eyes was very deep. You must remember that the night I came back from Puzhou, I forced Thirteen to interrogate the princess. Thirteen whipped himself. At that time, you blamed me for being too impersonal. But, you don’t know, Thirteen didn’t do that just to protect the princess. He beat himself, in fact, because he felt guilty about me, because from the beginning to the end, he never told me that the princess had helped him keep the most dangerous hand to lead the Tubo soldiers into the country.
Zhou Wen’s words reminded me of that horrible night and the scene of Zhou Wen’s hostility without saying a word.
At that time, I felt that Zhou Wen was too cold, but I never thought that he was the one who was hurt.
I glanced up at Chou Wen and wanted to know more. “It’s a big taboo to bring in foreign countries to fight in the affairs of one’s own country. So the princess’s children are not left behind. Is that what Your Majesty means?”? From then on, Your Majesty knew that Thirteen was no longer a person who could be entrusted to the throne, was he not?
Chou Wen shook his head. “You were only half right about this. At that moment, I did realize that Little Thirteen was not the best candidate to succeed him. But I didn’t give up on him. It was Gu Taifu who gave up on him. It was also Gu Taifu who forced me to submit.”
It turned out that after coming back from Puzhou, Gu Taifu had already guessed Zhou Wen’s intention to succeed to the throne. He could never allow Zhou Wen to make such a decision. So, when interrogating the princess, he did something to remove the princess’s child.
Subsequently, Gu Taifu forged the letters between Zhou Wen and him, and sent the evidence of the joint murder of the princess’s children to Xiao Shisan. After
such an operation, the princess of Zhou Wen’s conjecture, as well as Zhangsun Ce’s lobbying all became the truth, Gu Taifu with such a method, let small thirteen completely with Zhou Wen centrifugal, at the same time, also forced Zhou Wen to make the final decision, or, small thirteen as a target, hook out of the court’s rebels and thieves, play a beautiful bottom of the pot; Or, sit back and wait, waiting for small thirteen and his forces will be Zhou Wen nibble away.
Gu Taifu old hot to the extreme, this move is ruthless and accurate, if I am Zhou Wen, probably there is no other choice, but I did not expect that, to this step, Zhou Wen still want to escape the throne. When
I went to Youzhou, Zhou Wen, without telling Gu Taifu, let someone create an assassin’s assassination outside the Dali Temple, pretending to be poisoned. If Xiao Shisan helped him announce the Imperial Physician, the Imperial Physician would find a way to help Zhou Wen escape.
But Zhou Wen, did not think of, always simple and kind small thirteen, at that moment, also fell into hesitation, he believed Gu Taifu’s words, believed the eldest sun ce and the princess, he did not know that he should save Zhou Wen, or let him run his own course.
Had I not broken into the palace and brought back Zhou Wen from Xiao Shisan, at this moment, Zhou Wen should have been harmed by Zhangsun Ce’s people.
I looked at Zhou Wen blankly. “Your Majesty means that if I hadn’t listened to Gu Taifu and taken you to the Beiting Frontier Command, we could have escaped.”
Chou Wen was silent for a moment, with a trace of bitterness on his face: “maybe I can’t get to the border, and maybe I’ll be killed by an assassin on the road in a day or two. If you hadn’t listened to Gu Taifu, I really wouldn’t have to go back to this Forbidden City.”
I did not think that the truth of the matter is like this, I hold the most sincere heart to save Zhou Wen, but personally sent him back to the Forbidden City where he sacrificed his life to escape. Seeing that my eyes were red,
Zhou Wen took hold of my hand and said, “Ling Dang, it’s not your fault. Before I went to the Frontier Command, I hesitated to remind you that the Frontier Command was a trick of Gu Taifu. Would you like to fight to the death and escape to a dangerous but free place?”. I toss and turn, to the end, I found that I dare not take your life to gamble, in my heart, nothing is more important than we all live well, as long as we are still together. I can continue to think about the machinations, and I can continue to do the monster who defends the country.
Zhou Wen is sincere and his words are very reasonable, but I don’t know why, at this moment, I can’t believe him 100%.
Zhou Wen is too unfathomable, too beyond my imagination, I can not tell how much of his love for me is true, and how much is acting.
In the end, I felt exhausted and nodded to Zhou Wen: At the beginning, Xiao Shisan let Your Majesty go because he believed in me. Now I have broken my promise. After all, I owe Xiao Shisan my life. Now, Ling Dang has nothing to ask for but Your Majesty to spare Xiao Shisan’s life. In exchange, I will accompany Your Majesty to be trapped in this Forbidden City for the rest of my life, OK? After hearing this
, Chou Wen was silent for a long time, and finally uttered a few words softly to me: “I promise you.” In the
imperial edict prison, small thirteen face withered, sitting in the corner in a daze, even I came in, he did not notice. I sighed deeply and knocked on the wall. Little Shisan finally raised his head to look at me. As soon as he opened his mouth, his voice choked with sobs: “Sister Bell..” I was wrong about my brother. I was very surprised by
Xiao Shisan’s words. Later, I learned that GongSunCe and TuBo contact, Zhou Wen had mastered, if not Zhou Wen thunder means, I’m afraid GongSunCe would have led the wolf into the house, by then, the country will not country, small thirteen estimates will become a sinner through the ages.
I frowned slightly. “So you opened the gate and let Chou Wen into the city?”
Little Shisan shook his head. “Brother Huang’s calculation is far superior to mine. In fact, Gu Taifu’s men have been in the imperial city for a long time. On the surface, Brother Huang sent someone to persuade me to surrender, but in fact he let me know his strength. He persuaded me to surrender just to give me a step. If I insist on not obeying, he has other ways.”
I tugged at little Shisan’s sleeve and told him to cheer up. “There’s no point in saying that now. Your brother has promised me to let you out of the city. You can go with me.”
Xiao Shisan obviously couldn’t believe that Zhou Wen had agreed to let him go. He shook his head and smiled, “Sister Ling Dang, I have done something very wrong. Where do you want me to go?” In a hurry
, in order to save little Shisan’s life, I could only give her good advice: “Shisan, the princess is still waiting for you outside the city. I’ve already seen her today. She said that if you die, she will never live alone. Even if you have a great sense of guilt, is it not worth a living life?”? You can’t leave the princess waiting.
Thirteen heard the princess, his eyes had a different kind of brilliance. After a moment, he nodded at me: “Sister Ling Dang, I’m going with you.”
Zhou Wen’s palace, a total of nine palace gates, out of the outermost Danfeng Gate, is a lively street life.
Little Shisan followed me to the Danfeng Gate and suddenly stopped. With a childish smile in his eyes, he said, When I was young, my brother used to bring me here to play. He said that if you look down from here, you can see the most complete Chang’an. Sister Ling Dang, I’m about to leave here. Can I have one last look at Chang’an?
Perhaps it was because I had read too many notebooks that I was very wary of Little Thirteen’s every move: “You don’t want to climb up and jump down again, do you?”? I’m telling you, it’s not going to happen.
Little Shisan couldn’t help chuckling: “Sister Ling Dang, where are you going?”
Little Shisan sat on the gate of Danfeng Gate for half an hour. After half an hour, he seemed to have made some decision to go out of the city with me in a carriage. Outside
the city, the parrot and the princess were still waiting for my news in the inn. Seeing that little thirteen was coming, the princess could not resist rushing up at once. Parrot and
I were confused by such a posture, thought the county and small thirteen sweet for a while, but unexpectedly, the princess backhand is a slap in the face of thirteen, unexpectedly wailed, she blamed small thirteen didn’t come to her in time, more blame small thirteen was going to marry GongSunCe’s daughter, let her a person back to Xizang.
Little Shisan let the princess beat him. After a moment, he took the princess’s hand and held her in his arms. He whispered to her, “This time, I’ll go with you. We’ll never go back to Chang’an again.”? Is it all right?
The princess nodded, and finally the bird lay in the arms of little thirteen.
At this point, the parrot and I looked at each other and realized that the matter had been settled satisfactorily.
I had an appointment with Zhou Wen and didn’t want to stay outside for a long time, but the parrot tried to persuade me to finish the evening’s practice banquet before leaving.
Seeing that I hesitated, the parrot smiled softly, “Do you think you are stupid? What’s good about the palace?”? When the palace gate opens at night, it’s like a ghost town. You’ll be there for the rest of your life. Now that you have a chance to be happy outside, why don’t you seize the opportunity? As
he spoke, he leaned close to my ear and said, “To tell you secretly, the princess has buried a lot of fine works of Tubo here, and they will come to meet you tonight. They have the most authentic highland barley wine there.”
Seeing that I was silent, the parrot was a little unhappy. “Girl, do you think I have a bad idea about you and deliberately pull away from me?”? Brother is the kind of person who is not free and easy? You go! My brother won’t keep you.
Seeing that he was in a hurry, I quickly grabbed his cuff and said, “Don’t be angry. It’s not what you think. I’ll stay and eat before I leave.” Ungrateful,
the parrot put on airs and said, “Forget it!”! He hesitates after a meal. He really doesn’t want to be angry.
I squeezed out a wry smile and said from the bottom of my heart, “Actually, I’m afraid..” I’m afraid I’ll be too happy here, so I don’t want to go back to the palace. When
the parrot heard me say this, he was obviously stunned. He took my hand and said, “Girl, do you know what you mean by that?”
I didn’t understand why the parrot was asking this question. I told him frankly, “It’s the literal meaning. Where did you hear the other meaning?”
The parrot blushed and did not know what he was thinking. He held his breath for a long time, but finally he did not say anything. He only sighed, “That’s all. It’s meaningless to pursue this now.”. Go! My brother will take you to drink! The number of people on the
wine table, more than I imagined, originally, because of the means of Gongsun Ce, Tubo forces did not withdraw from the Central Plains, but infiltrated into many important places. There were many Tubo people in disguise who came to meet the princess at the wine table
that night.
This night was an unforgettable night. The princess drank happily and even danced the Tubo dance in public. Xiao Shisan pulled her to sit down helplessly while toasting all the Tubo dignitaries. In this cheerful atmosphere,
I was slightly drunk and looked at them with a red face and a giggle, while the parrot looked preoccupied.
“Girl, I found a serious problem.”
“You say.”
“Little Shisan, he didn’t give you a toast tonight.”
Hearing what he said, I almost sprayed the parrot in the face with a mouthful of wine: “Stingy, I am a civilian girl, how can I be toasted by Wang Ye?”? It’s no big deal to be disrespectful.
The parrot shook his head. “No, you saved him tonight. Although I don’t have much contact with Wang Yeh, I can see that he’s much better than Chou Wen. He’s the kind of person who treats people with sincerity.”
Hearing the parrot say this, I was half sober: “Who arranged the farewell dinner tonight?” When
the parrot heard this, his face turned pale. “I heard that it was the Thirteen Princes who thanked everyone for taking care of the princess these days, and specially wanted to hold a farewell banquet with you..” As soon as
the parrot’s voice fell, I thought of the appearance of thirteen sitting on the gate tower, and began to have a very bad feeling in my heart.
But before I could make the next move, a Tubo man vomited blood and fell to the ground. Then, the dance music of the banquet became torn and noisy, more and more people began to poison hair, until the smell of blood filled the whole dinner, the princess did not react to what had happened. In the midst of the
chaos, little Shisan looked steadily into my eyes and said, “Sister Ling Dang, I have a message for you to bring to my brother.”
He took a deep breath and said slowly, “When I was nine years old, my brother took me to the Danfeng Gate to see the city of Chang’an. He once told me that the descendants of the royal family were worshipped by the people all over the world, so they should shoulder the responsibility of protecting the common people. Thirteen has done wrong, but Thirteen will not continue to do wrong.” When
Little Shisan said this, blood began to flow from the corners of his mouth. The princess looked at the blood flowing from the corners of Shisan’s mouth in disbelief. “Did you bring them here?”? Do you deliberately work for your brother, the emperor, except for the Tubo who are buried in the imperial city?
Thirteen did not respond to the princess’s question, but whispered the princess’s nickname: “Manman, I really want to go back to Tubo with you..” But I’m not qualified to be alive.
Watching little Shisan’s blood fall in big drops, the princess was already sad to the extreme, but she still tried to suppress it: “Blame me. I should have thought that Chou Wen wouldn’t let you go so easily. You are such a rotten good man, and you are easy to feel guilty. How can my heart be so big that I have no doubt at all..” Chou yuan, when these losers die, they die. I don’t blame you. Just hold on and I’ll take you to the doctor.
Said, the princess will pick up small thirteen, parrot and I saw, hurriedly to help, but unexpectedly, just hand, they noticed that the breath of small thirteen is getting weaker and weaker. If you go on
like this, you will die if you can’t wait for the hospital.
Thirteen took the princess by the hand and kept trying to say something to her, but the princess stopped him bluntly: “Don’t make it like a confession. Who allowed you to die?”? Tell me what’s on your mind when you see the doctor! Now carry it to death!
