In terms of beauty, you can't beat me

"Nightmare? That's better than nothing."

Xi Yu shouted outside: "Where is Your Highness going to rest tonight?"

"I'm going to take a look outside, you don't have to follow!"

"Come, come, put my things in that carved cabinet, I tell you, you must be careful, the things inside are priceless, if you break a little bit, I will cut off your heads!" Xia Xun He commands my servant extremely skillfully.

It's already the second watch, and apart from me, who is now homeless, the only thing on the street is the familiar crowing.

When he was about to find an inn to clean up for a while, he was blocked by a few people who didn't wink.

"Today, there is an order to invite His Royal Highness King Qin to enter the palace immediately!" Several people knelt down in unison, and I knew that tonight would not be clean again.

Followed the crowd to the gate of the palace, just in time to meet Liu Xiang's sedan chair coming out of the palace swaggeringly, everyone hurriedly retreated to one side and lowered their eyes, only I, the king of Qin who had no real power, was standing in the middle of the road, blocking the sedan chair where to go.

The two sides stalemate for a while, Liu Xiang finally got off the sedan chair, cupped his hands and said, "So it's His Royal Highness King Qin, I thought it was some short-sighted guard."

The lantern in the guard's hand flickered on and off, creating a strange atmosphere.

I smiled and said, "My king hasn't seen Liu Xiang for a long time, and I was negligent for a while, so I hope Liu Xiang will not take the blame."

"A few days ago, I had a quick glance in the Hall of Qinzheng, and I will greet His Highness in the future, and I hope His Highness will forgive me." Liu Xiang walked up to me and stared at me.

"You and I are both servants, and the most important thing is to be loyal to the Holy Majesty." I took a small step back unobservably, and opened the distance between me and Liu Xiang.

"His Royal Highness King Qin said that. As a courtier, loyalty is the most important thing." He said and took a step forward: "However, I haven't seen you for more than two years, and your Highness has become more and more obvious."

I took another step back, bowed my head and said: "This king is not as capable as Liu Xiangneng. I have to work harder, so I can only work harder on these useless places."

This time Liu Xiang didn't go any further, but looked straight at me with an almost mocking look: "At least being good-looking can seduce people, just like your mother's empress."

Unpreparedly mentioning my mother almost threw me off my feet. I tried to calm down and said, "My mother has already passed away. I hope Mr. Liu will keep her in Germany!"

Liu Xianghun smiled indifferently and said: "Although you have inherited her skin, your temperament is completely different from hers." As he said that, he took my hand in my sleeve: "It's a pity that you, as a man, have many I can't do anything. Do you like the person who gave you the gift last time?"

I looked at the two people holding hands and said: "I like the things Liu Xiang likes naturally, but unfortunately that person is too impatient and can't learn the principle of taking things slowly. This makes me quite regretful." .”

"If you can't please His Highness, you should die if you die."

An extremely indifferent sentence disregarded a human life. I stood at the gate of the palace looking at the boundless night and felt a little bit embarrassed. I pulled my hand from his palm and said, "This king has to go to the palace to meet the Holy One. Be careful on the way Liu Xiang."

"Of course it can't be too late to meet the Holy Majesty, the truth is going back home." After he finished speaking, he patted me on the shoulder, and there was still a smile of unknown meaning on the corner of his mouth, which disgusted people watching.

I lowered my eyes and said, "Okay."

Liu Xiang swaggered away in the sedan chair, and I followed the palace guards all the way to Xianning Palace, and it was past the third watch.

As soon as he arrived outside the Xianning Hall, a hoarse voice came from the room: "It's the emperor's brother, why don't you come in?"

Pulling up the clothes and entering the palace, there were no palace guards in the palace, and the palace door creaked and was firmly shut by the palace guards outside the palace.There are so many candles in the temple, and the evening glow is like the glow of the sunset, but it is brighter.Today, he wore a homely light-colored cotton robe, and only half of his hair was tied with a sandalwood hairpin, while the rest floated behind him.

Now Shang is concentrating on the chess game in front of him, the chess piece does not distinguish between black and white, only white and green, and it is carved and cast from high-quality jade.

"Chendi..." Before he finished saluting, Jin Shang interrupted: "Come and see how this game should be solved!"

"Yes, Brother Huang!" I sat across from Jinshang, lowered my head and thought about the chess game carefully.

This was a dead end!

Today, there is only one white piece in the master's hand, and the rest are all green pieces. Even if he has the skills to reach the sky, he will be powerless. Why play it in a game that is doomed to lose?

Looking up at me today, he said: "Is there any way for the emperor to save the orphan?" There was a rare weakness in his eyes.

I know him by myself, and I seldom see him so down and down. In my heart, he will always be the one who plans the world between glasses of wine. Now is he asking me for help?

I'm a little soft-hearted, after all, he is my only relative in this world now, and I can't help him in the government and politics, but it is still possible to solve the dilemma of the chess game in front of me.

I picked up a green piece from the chess box, ate the green piece trapped around the white piece, and put it back into the chess box: "My brother is incompetent."

Imakami's eyes lit up, looking at the chess game that came alive in front of him, he said, "I know you have a way!"

"My brother has always been not good at chess, brother Huang doesn't dislike these little tricks."

"Did the younger brother meet Liu Xiang when he entered the palace?" Jin Shang looked at me with deep meaning.

People are like this, you just solved the chess game in front of him for him, and he is thinking about finding your fault.

I bowed my head and knelt on the ground: "Yes."

"Liu Xiang and Gu talked about the relationship between the emperor's younger brother and the third prince of Xia, and Gu also heard that the third prince of Xia has moved in." Jinshang stood up and stopped in front of me.

Because I lowered my head, I couldn't see his expression. I could only see his new cotton linen walking shoes pacing back and forth in front of me.

It seems that today is indeed the same today, I was thinking too much just now.I replied: "Chendi has no contact with the third prince, and as for him moving into Chendi's residence, I also feel puzzled."

Jin Shang stretched out his hand to help me, and said with a smile: "It's related to the state affairs of the two countries, and there are many things that I have to ask." After a pause, he said: "Since the third prince stayed at the imperial brother's mansion, the imperial brother will stay here tonight." Stay overnight here in Xianning Palace, and think about it tomorrow alone."

"Thank you, brother, for your kindness. My younger brother wants to go around the palace." Now that the wives of the emperor have already gone to bed, and there are so many guards in the palace, I think there will be no accidents.

It was only half an hour ago before he said, "I will accompany you alone."

This was a bit beyond my expectation: "Brother Huang will go to court early tomorrow..."

"Morning morning is the same as tomorrow this time." As he said that, he put on his clothes and found a thick fur to put on me: "It's freezing cold, why don't you remember to add more clothes when you go out?"

"The younger brother was careless when he went out."

The palace people on both sides of the door handed over the palace lanterns, I just wanted to take them, but Imam took the palace lanterns one step faster than me, and the palace people beside me trembled in shock.

Imakami walked in the front right with a lantern on, and I walked slowly behind. The entire palace became more and more lonely under the shroud of night.

It has been two and a half years since Qi Rong and he ascended the throne, but every bit of the palace still retains the original appearance of the former emperor. When he arrived at the gate of Mingyuan Palace, everything was as before, as if the emperor had never left.After the death of the emperor's brother in Mingyuan Palace, the first emperor ordered people to fill the lock with molten iron so that it could not be opened again. In the following years, I heard from the palace people that there were often men crying in Mingyuan Palace at night, and then no one wanted to step into it. right and wrong.

Even the bare peach tree by the door is no different from before.

I planted and watered that peach tree with my own hands, and I look forward to it blooming and bearing fruit every day.It's just that it hasn't germinated in the spring of the second year of planting, and there is no movement in the spring of the third year. Now it is still standing with bare branches in the bleak north wind.

I broke off a dead branch: "I'm afraid this tree will never bloom."

Jin Shang said: "If you want to see peach blossoms, how about Gu Gu planting peach blossoms all over the palace next year?"

I turned to face him, as if looking at another person: "The other flowers and plants are so innocent, this peach blossom can't stand the wind and frost, why should the emperor bother about the unworthy minister.

"Are you resentful?"

I easily crushed the peach branch: "When my brother moved it from another place, this peach tree was burning brightly. It's because my brother shouldn't have delusional thoughts, and it wasted its lifespan for nothing. Now It's dead, why do you keep it, Brother Huang, wouldn't it be better to plan it out earlier and plant some easy-to-grow flowers and plants?"

Brother Huang said: "Is it really dead? Gu is still looking forward to it continuing to bloom and bear fruit next spring."

"Really dead." I replied.

Imakami frowned in displeasure: "If Gu says it's not dead, it's not dead!" The words were a bit rude.

I repeated casually: "I said he is not dead, he is not dead." After I finished speaking, I felt happy, and looked at Imam with a smile: "What the emperor said is true."

Today I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in my gourd, but seeing that I am happy, I don't pursue it, I just whispered: "Is there any other place you want to go?"

I looked at him deeply, and nodded lightly: "Mother's Zhixiang Palace."

Jinshang looked at me worriedly, and I said again: "The plum blossoms in the Empress Zhixiang Palace are the best in the whole palace, Brother Huang, have you seen them?"

Brother Huang was silent.

I feel sorry for the people in front of me. I sit in a high position and look down on all living beings, but I can't even take a second look at the plum blossoms that bloom in winter.

I took the palace lantern in his hand, looked forward to illuminate the road, and took a shortcut along the path very skillfully. In the blink of an eye, I arrived at the lotus pond full of dead leaves. The stones beside the pond did not change at all. Sitting there facing the spring breeze with a book in his sleeve, he read the Protestant articles of his master. He heard my footsteps and smiled at me: "Siyi, come here."

The fragrance of lotus overflowed beside the lotus pond, and the green leaves and white flowers set off the blue shirt of the emperor's brother, which was extremely elegant.

Unconvinced, I sat beside him and shook my sleeves: "Brother Huang is like this every time! It's not fun!"

Brother Huang wiped off the sweat from my head with his sleeve, and looked at me tenderly: "Where did you go to play again, why didn't you follow me?"

I didn't diverge: "You guys just say: Your Highness, you can't go here, and your Highness can't do that, it's very boring, and it's very restrained, so I threw them all away."

Brother Huang put the scroll in his hand aside and said: "We also care about you."

I looked at the pond full of lotus flowers and asked, "Brother Huang, do you like lotus flowers very much?"

Brother Huang got up and picked a budding lotus: "If you say you like it, you like it, and if you say you don't like it, you don't like it either."

I frowned and asked, "What do you mean if you say you like it and you like it, and if you say you don't like it, you don't like it?"

Brother Huang embraced the flowers and looked back, with a look of loneliness I had never seen before: "I like it because I like it from the bottom of my heart, and I say I don't like it because I can't keep it as my own, so I know it's best to let go."

"But Brother Huang, will you hold it in your hand soon?"

"Folding flowers to fill thoughts is not the right way."

"Brother Huang is talking more and more like his father." I muttered, the breeze blew, and the corner of the scroll was blown, and I had an idea: "Brother Huang's birthday is the third day of March, and then I will give him a piece of paper." How about a big gift?"

Brother Huang leaned down and put the broken lotus back into the pool, looked at me and said, "You, you have the most ghostly ideas!"

Brother Huang's birthday, the third day of March, is a very auspicious day, when the peach blossoms are in full bloom and everything rejuvenates.

"Folding flowers to fill thoughts is not the right way." I repeated in a low voice.

"What?" Imakami asked from behind me.

"Brother Huang, if you like a kind of flower, should you cut it off or let it go?" I asked concentratingly.

"Gu will neither break a flower nor let it go. Even if he can't be with him all the time, he still has to watch it from afar, watch it bloom, and watch it wither." Imakami is full of confidence.

The answer is expected, and therefore not surprising.

After a while, I arrived at Zhixiang Palace, where my mother was, and I walked around the courtyard wall of Zhixiang Palace, and Imakami followed behind me in a circle in silence.

It's not time yet, and the queen mother is holding the unopened winter plums that I have folded, so it is inevitable that I feel a little disappointed.

"Is there any unresolved thoughts, brother?" Jinshang asked behind him like a ghost.

"Brother Huang accompanied my younger brother to walk all the way today, and my younger brother's wish has been fulfilled." It was a bit like asking for the funeral.

Maybe I was tired from walking today, so I rolled up my clothes and sat on the floor, and I followed suit and sat opposite him.

There is silence all around, and one or two stars are twinkling in the sky, and there is nothing else to say between me and today.

"Imperial brother, I need you alone!" Jin Shang finally said.

After waiting all the way, Jinshang finally said these words, and I looked at the slightly dim star in the night with relief: "Brother Huang is in a high position, above tens of thousands of people, what do you want me to do?"

"You know Gu's current situation, Gu is just a puppet king."

Xingzi was covered by the dark clouds, and I turned my gaze back to this stranger in front of me, and said with a smile: "Brother Huang worked so hard back then, but now he is seeking benevolence, so why do you complain?"

The candles were extinguished suddenly, and darkness returned to the sky and the earth.

Someone whispered in my ear, "I have borne all these sins for you."

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