Summer wraps autumn, water keeps wind

There was a drizzle of rain in the night, and the palace servants lit up lanterns to shine in front of him. He had his hands behind his back, expressionless, neither dignified nor angry, but indescribable doubt and disbelief flashed in his eyes.

Neither of them opened their mouths, Bi Xin's mouth moved, and he still forced himself to say as if nothing had happened: "I wanted to go to Cheqiu Pavilion to find you to play the piano, but who knows that you are not here, I have been looking for you in the palace for a long time."

Liu Fu glanced at Du Pin, who was kneeling in the distance, and said, "Brother Huang knew that I was here."

Bi Xin's eyes faltered, his lips trembled and he said, "How could I know where you are?"

"My brother has close friends of the emperor's brother, so there is probably nothing I don't know."

"So what are you doing here late at night?"

Liu Fu closed his teeth tightly, and the courtier and concubine had a private meeting. If he told the truth, Wan Zhao would definitely be dealt with severely, and no matter what he said, his own younger brother would not take his life, so he knelt down and saluted: "It's the minister. Brother threatened Concubine Ning for a private meeting."

"How could she be blackmailed by you?"

"It was Concubine Ning who helped Concubine Chun to break into Zichen Palace at night, and my younger brother found out the relationship and threatened him with it."

"Then why do you want to see her?"

"Of course there is something to say."

"What?"

Liu Fu looked up and saw Bi Xin's eyes were red, staring at him closely, pursed his mouth tightly, panting heavily, trying to calm down his mood.Knowing that Bi Xin trusted him, Liu Fu really didn't want to continue to lie to him, so he gritted his teeth and couldn't bear it: "It's fine if you don't say anything." Then he kowtowed and said: "My brother and Concubine Ning have committed crimes late at night, but I have never betrayed the emperor's brother. Act of."

At this time Wanzhao also came out of the inner room. Looking at the people outside, she fell back a few steps in shock. She regretted letting Liu Fu come to the private meeting. She wanted to form an alliance with him and protect him and help him justifiably, but now But it hurt him.

He stared at Wanzhao in a blink of an eye, his eyelids twitched twice, and said in a calm voice, "Push this bitch aside." Several Sisters of the Punishment Department who had been waiting at the side stepped forward and pressed Wanzhao down. , messing up her bun and making her kneel on one side.

"It's none of Concubine Ning's business, it's my younger brother's recklessness."

"You still protect her! When I don't know who is connecting with you in the court, who is checking for you about the late emperor and noble concubine, and who invited you to come here for a private meeting?" Bi Xin took a few steps forward, Grabbing Liu Fu's collar, tears rolled down from his eyes, dripping on Liu Fu's cheeks and said: "I don't care what you guys are planning, but you, do you really care about this woman so much?"

Seeing him crying again, he panicked and said hastily, "I didn't."

"But you lied to me just now, because you were afraid that she would be punished by me, right? You care about her so much, and you want to lie to me because of her?" Bi Xin became more and more excited as he spoke, and the hem of his clothes became tighter and tighter.

Liu Fu held Bi Xin's hand, shook his head, and hurriedly explained: "That's not the case, I didn't deliberately lie to you, others can't see it because of what I've been through, and we can talk slowly in the future explain."

"Speaking slowly is to continue coaxing me, lying to me, and stepping on my trust into the ground? I believe in you so much, I am not afraid of anyone in the world who deceives me and harms me, and I can't bear the slightest deception from you!"

Bi Xin raised his foot and wanted to kick Liufu, but he couldn't let go of his cruel heart even if he closed his eyes, so he put his foot on his chest, choked up and asked, "How do you feel when your heart is stepped on the sole of your foot?"

Liufu's heart ached like a knife, he held on to his body that was about to fall, tears streaming down his face, he wanted to explain but didn't know where to start, he tried his best to hold back his sobs and said: "I know now I don't want to go after a deal can win over officials. That's not my mind, but I was really shaken just now. I think of you walking on thin ice in the court, and I can help very little. Every step may make you and me irreparable , for a moment, I thought, if bowing to the secular world can save you and me from being criticized, can I really be so cruel?"

He put his feet down and asked, "So what do you think?"

Liu Fu just shook his head and said: "But I can't go against my heart, so I'd rather not do anything."

Bi Xin couldn't listen to these words, and didn't think about what Liu Fu was talking about, Bi Xin only trembled his lips, asking the question that he wanted to ask but dared not ask.

"So the one-hearted person in your heart is not her?"

Liu Fu looked at him with an aggrieved look filled with hatred, his teeth were about to be gritted, he bit the sentence he wanted to say a long time ago, and asked back in a hoarse voice.

"Then who do you want?"

"Bastard!"

Bi Xin pounced on Liu Fu, pinching his face with his hands, the bloodshot eyes and the veins on his neck stretched out.

"She is a concubine, and you are my younger brother! Do you want to see me die here before you are willing?"

"It's my brother who refuses to believe me!"

Just now, he watched Liu Fu enter the inner room with his front foot, and then buckled two servants with his back foot. He could have leaned forward to listen carefully and verify the doubts in his heart, but he didn't dare to step forward, he was terrified Liufu will turn his back on him behind his back.He chose not to listen or to watch, even when he just left the house, he wanted to escape from all this, and even regretted coming here to block him, but the more he suppressed the emotions in his heart, the more painful he felt.

Bi Xin couldn't imagine that the person he trusted the most could betray him, even as long as Liu Fu said that Wan Zhao brought him here to seduce him, Bi Xin would take care of Wan Zhao without even interrogating him.What Bi Xin is most afraid of is that Liu Fu will deceive him and betray him.

Bi Xin slowly squatted down on the ground, buried his head in his arms, and sobbed loudly, as helpless as a lost child.

"You let me... how can I trust you, lie to myself that you never... never saw her in secret? I just watched... I just watched you go in. I can't lie to myself, and you can't lie to me either!"

Liu Fu also knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, the tears rolled down his clothes and wet a lot, he knelt and took two steps to hug Bi Xin, his chin resting on Bi Xin's back.

"Hey, trust me."

Bi Xin's body trembled slightly, and Liu Fu called his name for the first time, that name that everyone in the world needs to avoid, was pronounced word by word by Liu Fu just now.Bi Xin raised his head and pushed Liu Fu away.

He desperately wiped away his tears, gasped for breath, stood up and proclaimed: "Prince Xuan will set off for the Wuhou Temple in Baidi City today to enshrine Zhongxing Gong, rebuild the palace, pray for me, and return to the capital without summons. Concubine Ning Instigated Concubine Chun Min to break the curfew in the palace and cause her death, to assist in the power of the Six Palaces, to deprive her of her title, and to confine her to the Yonghe Palace unless summoned."

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-May.

Xinggong Qingxuexuan hung bamboo curtains to dissipate heat, and the attendants stood a little tired in front of the corridor, trying their best to listen to the endless quarrel outside.Fortunately, there are several pines and cypresses in the small courtyard of the Xuannei, and there is a spring in the ground. The craftsmen dug a well, and people standing in the shade of the trees can scoop up the clear spring water to relieve the heat.

There is a bamboo chair in the courtyard, the kind Liji usually sits on.Liji also lived in the palace for several days, and all kinds of affairs were properly arranged, but this year he is no longer here, so there is a lot of fun in the palace, and he refuses to say a word other than political affairs.Liji occasionally went to discuss political affairs, deal with some official duties, listen to homework every two or three days, and then go to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager, he was happy to have less entertainment all day long.

When Li Jitou came back to the palace, the queen mother was upset and didn't follow her. This year, she put on a posture and brought Rouyan to the palace to escape the summer heat. Qingyang hurt his leg for some reason, and shouted that he couldn't sit in the carriage. If they didn't follow along, it was probably because there was no one in the palace to control them and it was more free.

In Liji's spare time, he copied the "Diamond Sutra" for his mother. He stayed quietly without leaving the yard. Phoebe box.He ordered the servants to wash the ink, and two attendants dressed as bookboys came in to take the ink and went to the yard to fetch water for washing.

Liji dusted off the brown and plain silk shirt, and the jade piece hanging around his waist swayed with his movements. It was a pendant for a child's debate, which was very peculiar and uncommon.He didn't like the harsh sunlight on his body very much, so he walked under the shade of a tree and sat on the familiar bamboo chair.Liji supported the bamboo chair with his hands, leaned on the backrest, relaxed his mind, and spread his legs, unlike sitting upright in front of people.

He watched the two attendants fetch a tub of water and put the books in it to soak and wash. One of them shook his hand and almost dropped his pen into the tub. What, he smothered his mouth and laughed.

A maid took a tortoise shell fan and stood behind Liji to fan it. Liji half closed his eyes and lazily raised his left hand, and the maid handed the fan to him.He took the fan, touched the lines on it, patted the fan half and half, and put his thoughts into the sky.

The attendants carried the incense table to the yard. An elderly palace man skillfully loosened the pine ash, buried charcoal in the ash, and placed mica pieces on the small hole of the exhaust. He picked out a silver spoon Sprinkle the face powder on the mica sheet, and finally wipe the table carefully with a square towel, and then retreat to the side and wait.

There was no other sound in the yard except for the humming of cicadas, and suddenly a few geese were heard from outside the yard, Liji slowly opened his eyes, and squinted to glance outside.Li Pu carried a bagful of things in his apron, and walked into the yard while looking at the big goose behind him.

Liji looked at him with a smile, and leaned back into the bamboo chair.Lipu fetched water from the well, poured all the fruits in his bosom into it to soak, a palace man brought a basin, Lipu washed his hands first, and then fished out the fruits and put them into the basin.Another person brought a white glaze plate, Li Pu wiped the water off the fruit with a towel and put it on the plate, and the palace man put the fruit plate on the small wooden table in front of Liji.

Those few big geese followed Li Pu, and Li Pu made a gesture to drive them out. The geese seemed to have spirituality, and they would not go away no matter how hard they drove them away. Li Ji raised his hand and smiled, "It's okay to keep them."

Li Biao made a face at the big geese, and said, "I'll come to collect debts if I give you some food, go and go." As he said this, he took out a bad-looking fruit from the bucket and threw it out. , Pulled two more weeds from the well and gave them to them.The big geese looked at it, and they didn't really want to eat, so they swayed to Liji's side and poked their heads around his waist.

Liji had a grain safety bag hanging on his body, and the big geese surrounded him probably because they smelled the grain.Liji saw that the goose was not afraid of people, it should be a bird raised by someone in the palace, he stretched out his hand to touch the neck of the big goose, they were not vicious, they only sang twice occasionally, and walked back and forth.

Li Ji tasted two mouthfuls of fruit and said, "Eat to quench your thirst, where did you pick it secretly?"

Li Pu sat on the ground, picked up the fruit from the bucket, threw it into his mouth, and started to chew, then clapped his hands and said, "It's not considered stealing, no one wants the rotten fruit here, and someone cleans up the rotten fruit every day. Our family has been staring at it for several days, but no one wants it."

Lipu said again: "The fruit on the top of the tree is even better, and there are also cicadas. Our family is afraid that the tree will be broken with all our strength, otherwise we will pick them all back."

"Then how did you pick the fruit?"

"It was shaken down."

Li Ji remembers being in the mansion when he was a child, and when he heard children singing songs and playing games outside the wall, he wanted to climb up the tree to see what they were playing.Lipu lifted Liji to his head, and Liji sat on a branch along the tree trunk to watch the children outside the house playing various games, such as Cuju, straw rope weaving, or hide-and-seek.Liji just sat on the tree and watched them play quietly, every time Lipu quietly accompanied him.Until one time when he was seen by children outside and they asked Li Ji if he wanted to play together, he never went to that tree again.

Liji locked himself in the house, hiding in the curtains and weaving straw ropes, but he never left anything behind, and he took them out secretly and threw them into the pond.Once Li Pu saw it, he jumped into the pond and fished out the straw rope that Liji had woven, saying that the one he wove was very good, so why throw it away.

Li Ji told Li Pu not to tell others, Li Pu laughed "ha ha ha", took Li Ji to the small kitchen to pick up a few sheep bone bones, and packed a bag of rice with Li Ji's lotus to teach him how to play.The two of them played in the corner all afternoon. It was the first time that Lipu was so happy to see Liji. Later Lipu taught Liji how to make all kinds of gadgets. He secretly sharpened some iron pieces for him and found some tools. The two of them thought about it. Learn how to make diabolo.After scrapping a bunch of bamboo, Li Ji finally made a decent one, and planned to keep it for Mingling to play with, but in the end, he had to give it to Mingling if he wanted to enter Beijing.

Thinking of this, Li Ji felt uncomfortable, and frowned slightly.Lipu stood up to carry the load of soil, dragged Li Ji onto his back without saying a word, and went out of the yard, smiling: "Let's take my brother out for a walk."