Chang'an ancient meaning

Li Dan has been a prince for more than [-] years, and has been an emperor for a few more years. He has never hit anyone with his own hands. Now he is swinging the board mechanically, but he doesn't know that he is standing on the left side of his son. On the right hip of the son.Li Chengqi was lying there, his right side was in pain like gouging out flesh, and he could hardly restrain himself from turning over to avoid it.When each board fell, I couldn't help but have a thought: the next board, I begged my father, begged him not to play, or begged him to play in another place.But every time the pain fell, he didn't dare to speak after all, so he could only bite hard again.

After more than twenty strokes of the ruler, the red marks on Li Chengqi's buttocks had already piled up one after another, and the right buttock mound, which was beaten the most, gradually showed purple red.He was in so much pain that he couldn't shake, the pain was like a biting bug, penetrating from the surface of the skin to the flesh, and then to the limbs and bones, biting him so badly that every bone in his body ached.Li Dan didn't realize until this time that he didn't hit evenly, so he quickly dropped a few boards on his left hip.Li Chengqi had been crying for a long time and couldn't breathe freely, and he gritted his teeth until his temples throbbed, his chest felt oppressed and uncomfortable, these few times when the board hit the same place, it was even more difficult than before, he couldn't bear it anymore, "Ah!" cried out in pain.

He yelled this, but he was anxious in his heart, he looked up at his father with shame and pain, and met Li Dan's eyes mixed with regret and powerlessness.Li Dan looked at his son's face flushed from the pain, the sweat and tears streaked vertically on his face, his red and purple buttocks, and the sore numbness that had accumulated for a long time on his right arm gushed up like a spring in an instant.He lowered his arms, turned his head and said to Wei Tuan'er: "I have already severely punished Feng Nu, how about Madam returning her life to the Empress Dowager?"

Wei Tuan'er waved the fan again and again to keep cool, and laughed and said: "Zhai family, how many times is this? Haven't you seen Zhai family punishing the sons of the deposed prince? Nunu wants to replace you Lie, you have to not make Nunu too difficult."

Li Dan frowned slightly, and couldn't help looking back at Li Chengqi, seeing that his middle clothes were soaked with sweat, and the soft silk was attached to his body, outlining the skin and bones as if they were naked, even the thin shoulder blades propped up on his back They can all be seen clearly.Thirty strokes of the solid board have been used, and the son's buttocks are already red and swollen, and the skin is faintly purple, just like a half-cooked Jiaqingzi (1). Just by looking at the scars, you can tell how painful he must be. His right arm was so sore that he almost lost the strength to hold the ruler like this.

While they were talking, Li Chengqi was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, and he slumped on the table. He had been tense just now, and all his bones had shrunk to one place. Now if he unfolded it, his muscles and bones seemed to be broken.His buttocks were throbbing with pain, and he really wanted to reach out and touch it. He grabbed the edge of the table for a moment, and finally held back, reached out and grabbed his father's hanging sleeve with hazy tears in his eyes, and gasped, "Daddy, keep beating, I can take it."

Li Dan looked down at his son's hand. Although he was still a young man and hadn't grown into shape yet, the hand was already slender and white, and his five fingers were like peeled water onions.He thought, if he wasn't the son of the emperor and the god emperor, Feng Nu's hand could be used to play the piano and write, and he could take him out of the city of God to see the sea that Wang Bo had described to him.

Li Dan silently removed Li Chengqi's hand from his sleeve, walked a step further, put one hand on Li Chengqi's back, raised his sore right arm, and pulled down the ruler as hard as he could.Once Li Chengqi's tense body relaxed, his neck, fingers and toes would all be sore, and he could no longer gather the strength to endure it.He didn't dare to yell again, so he retracted his left arm and bit it, and tears welled up in his eyes again.

Unexpectedly, Li Dan's strikes this time were ruthless and heavy, and the ruler only hit the buttocks one after another. After Li Chengqi was hit twice, he was so painful that he couldn't breathe, and his whole body was shaking like chaff.After hitting him six or seven times, he was startled and hurt. He didn't understand why his father hit him so hard this time. He couldn't help but reach back and cover his right buttock. The fear in my heart was magnified several times, and I cried: "Daddy! Daddy, stop beating...let me rest for a while...rest for a while before beating..."

Li Dan took his hand away calmly, and pressed it on his back, but the ruler still kept knocking down.Li Chengqi's pain is still second to none. His father's overturned attitude at this moment really made him terrified. He tried his best to turn his head to see his father's face, and cried, "Daddy, are you angry? I won't shout anymore..." just now Speaking of this, there was another burst of unbearable pain, and I had to yell, "Ah", and cried again: "...I didn't mean it, I stopped yelling, dad, don't be angry..." He stopped crying, Biting his lip hard, Li Dan didn't use much strength in the hand holding him, but he insisted on not daring to move any more.

Li Dan beat him more than a dozen times, and saw that a three-inch-wide scar on Li Chengqi's buttocks had turned bright purple. He held his breath and beat him hard again, until a few drops of blood finally seeped out from his flesh.

Li Dan took a deep breath, wanted to raise his sleeves to wipe off the sweat on his forehead, but held back, turned his head and threw the ruler on the ground, and said to Wei Tuan'er indifferently: "Madam, how about replying to the Queen Mother?"

Wei Tuan'er never thought that he, a gentle and elegant person, could be so hard on his son, and said with a smile, "It's hard for Zhaijia. How about sending Nunu to Zhaijia?" Li Dan nodded and walked to At the door, I turned around again, and saw Li Chengqi struggled to get up from the table, but after all his strength was exhausted, and he fell on the table again. His blank eyes searched around, and he murmured: "Daddy?"

Li Dan just ignored it and went out with Wei Tuan'er. After walking a few steps, he heard his wife's mournful cry from inside the house.

Empress Liu rushed into the house, and saw Li Chengqi's red and purple buttocks, she held her mouth and exclaimed, "Tathagata! Why..."

When Li Chengqi waited for the board to stop, his mind cleared up a little, and he also wanted to understand that the reason why his father played so fast just now was to save him from being tortured.After panting in her mother's arms for a long time, she said with a hoarse voice, "Mother...I'm fine...Daddy didn't beat me hard, it doesn't hurt much."

Li Dan went back and forth, and when he heard this sentence, his heart seemed to be broken into thousands of pieces. He quietly wiped away a tear from the corner of his eye, and told the servant in a daze: "Send the prince...to the East Palace..." Empress Liu With a mournful cry: "Zhaijia!" He threw himself under Li Dan's knees and cried, "Let Feng Nu recuperate here. There is no one in the East Palace to take care of him. How can I get sores on such a hot day? Please, Let Feng Nu stay, and let me be a mother for another night, the queen mother is going to beat and kill, and I admit it!"

Li Dan looked down at his wife whose face was full of tears, and heaved a long sigh, the last trace of reason in his heart collapsed immediately.He also really wanted to be able to keep his son by his side, even if it was only for one night, and watch him sleep peacefully with his eyes closed. This longing was too strong, enough to drive all the parents in the world to shatter their bodies.

"Cousin! I'm coming to see you! Did uncle beat you?" Xue Chongjian was wearing silk patterned trousers, but only half-arms on his upper body, revealing two fleshy white arms, rushing into the room in a hurry, He went straight to Li Chengqi's couch.

Li Chengqi had just taken the medicine and was about to fall asleep when he was lying on his stomach in a daze when he woke up suddenly. Li Dan and his wife, who were guarding their son, were also surprised: "Huanu, why are you here?" Xue Chongjian said: "My mother and I Come together, uncle, grandma said you beat your cousin. Cousin is studying very hard, why did you beat him?" Li Chengqi propped himself up on his elbows, and said with a shy smile, "Cousin himself is disobedient. "

Princess Taiping was supported by the maid to the door, and softly called: "Fourth brother." Li Dan and Liu Hou trembled all over, and subconsciously stood up.They haven't met Taiping since Xue Shao's accident. Today, they saw her wearing a yellow jacket with a bird pattern and narrow sleeves, and a long garnet red skirt tied high on her chest, revealing a trace of beauty. Crispy breast.She has been pregnant for six months, her abdomen is swollen, and the large skirt can't hide the changes in her body, so her outfit is quite slow.

Different from Li Dan's haggard face, Princess Taiping obviously decorated it deliberately before entering the palace. The frightened falcon high bun on her head is like a bird spreading its wings in the wind, standing tall in the sky, with more than a dozen pearls, rustling stones, glass, and corals. The finished step-shaking hairpin adorned the bun brilliantly.The emerald tinsel carefully pasted on her face happened to cover several pregnancy spots, and Li Dan suddenly remembered that her sister was similar to her mother in some aspects: the more adversity she was in, the more she could stand proudly in front of others.

Li Dan stepped forward to support his sister hesitantly, and tentatively said: "Have you entered the palace... have you seen the queen mother?" Princess Taiping smiled lightly: "The queen mother is taking a nap, I will leave soon, turn over to see my brother Sister-in-law—I heard about Feng Nu." Li Dan was surprised: "Go? Where are you going?" Princess Taiping said: "Mother asked me to go to Lianchang Palace to escape the summer heat. The car has been prepared outside the palace. Hua Nu wants to His cousin, I also want to say goodbye to my fourth brother." Li Dan was silent, his mother obviously didn't want Taiping to intervene in Xue Shao's case, so she let her leave Shendu, he felt pained and ashamed, and whispered: "Sanlang's Something..." Princess Taiping shook her head, she glanced at Xue Chongjian out of the corner of her eye, Li Dan knew that such a major event had happened, the younger sister still kept it from her son, she couldn't help but remain silent.

Taiping stepped forward and sat beside Li Chengqi's couch, and said softly: "Fengnu, is the pain better? Let aunt take a look." She gently removed the thin quilt covering Li Chengqi's body. Empress Liu was afraid that Li Chengqi's wound would be infected. Li Chengqi didn't even dare to wear pants for him. Li Chengqi blushed and grabbed the quilt subconsciously.Princess Taiping was taken aback, knowing that he was a young man with a thin skin, she smiled and said, "Why, is my aunt an outsider?" Li Chengqi met Princess Taiping's eyes, and his aunt's words and deeds today made him feel strange. The sad but stubborn beauty blooms on her body, which is irresistible.

The thin quilt was uncovered inch by inch, revealing two bruised and mottled thighs. These scars were printed on a child's body, and then set off by the thin white legs like creamy fat, it looked even more cruel and terrifying.Princess Taiping seemed to have a thin string in her pupils, she just stared at the scar and said nothing.But Xue Chongjian's eyes widened in shock from what he saw before him, he opened his mouth in a daze, and then exclaimed in shock: "Uncle, you beat my cousin's ass like an eggplant, it broke!" Recalling the last time I was beaten, Li Chengqi rubbed it for himself and it didn't hurt anymore, so he reciprocated: "Cousin, I'll rub it for you..." He reached out to hold Li Chengqi's butt, but Princess Taiping hurriedly grabbed it He covered Li Chengqi's quilt with his hand, and Xue Chongjian said again: "Cousin, why is your face so red?" Li Chengqi reluctantly said: "I... am a little hot." Xue Chongjian immediately took the fan from his aunt, and was courteous Fanning the ground for Li Chengqi, he said to Li Dan: "Uncle, I want to eat crispy mountain. Cousin won't be hot after eating crispy mountain!"

Li Chengqi thought that he hadn't rescued his uncle after all, so he raised his head and looked at Princess Taiping, with tears slowly welling up in his eyes, and murmured: "Auntie, I..." Princess Taiping held his arm, stopping him from speaking, softly Said: "Good boy, you have suffered." She took out a gold box from her sleeve and handed it to Empress Liu, "This medicine is very good for dispelling silt and relieving pain. My sister-in-law rubbed it on Feng Nu."

Li Chengqi was stunned for a moment, only to realize that Hua Nu didn't know what happened to his father, his heart was stabbed by a needle, and a tear suddenly fell from his eyes.Xue Chongjian stretched out his chubby hand to wipe away Li Chengqi's tears, imitating Li Chengqi's tone of coaxing him in the past, and said: "If my cousin doesn't cry, the pain will stop after a while. Really, I won't lie to you, you can sit or sleep all night." Riding a horse. When you are well, my mother and I will come back from the hot spring, and my father will also come back from Chang'an, and let him take us to ride a horse and play ball!"

He hadn't seen Xue Shao for many days, and his mother always told his father to go to Chang'an for business, and his little heart could still vaguely feel that something was wrong with the people around him, so he asked for proof: "Aunt, is it right? Should we come back first, or will Daddy come back first?" Princess Taiping replied perfunctorily: "It's Daddy who will come back first." Xue Chongjian smiled and said: "That's great, let Daddy pick us up, I want to play with Daddy, It would be great if daddy could bring cousin along..."

The child's clear and crisp voice echoed in the room, and even the invisible air seemed to turn into flaming copper slurry in the three-way hell, licking everyone's skin and lungs hotly.They are all sinners, their tongues have been cut off at this moment, they cannot pray for the mercy of my Buddha, they cannot pray for the mercy of God.

Li Chengqi's heart hurt like a knife, his chest was so choked that he couldn't breathe, so he threw himself on the pillow and cried.Xue Chongjian was startled by him, and carefully brushed away a strand of his drooping messy hair, and asked, "Cousin, what's wrong with you? Are you in great pain?" Li Chengqi choked up, held his hand, I can only nod.Xue Chongjian raised his head and said to Li Dan: "Uncle, you don't want to hit your cousin anymore, and you should hit him gently. I am more troublesome than my cousin, and my father only pats me a few times when he hits me. It won't break."

Li Dan reluctantly pulled the corners of his stiff mouth, nodded and said, "Okay." A lie is protection, a lie is mercy, and a lie is salvation.He thought that if possible, he even wanted to go back to Hua Nu's age of ignorance and let the whole world deceive him.

He lightly pulled his younger sister's sash, brought Princess Taiping to the door, and said in a low voice, "What did my mother tell you?" Princess Taiping lowered her eyes and said, "My mother said that the prince broke the law and committed the same crime as the common people. How to convict him will have to wait until the case is closed." Li Dan didn't know what to say, and after a long time, he sighed, "It's useless to be brother." Taiping twisted the silk belt hard with his hands until his knuckles were blue and white, and leaned against Li Dan. Dan cried softly from his chest: "Fourth Brother, I miss Daddy, if Daddy is still here, this will not be the case."

Li Dan stroked his younger sister's bun with difficulty: "Let me think of a way... Maybe there is a turning point, let me think of a way..." Taipingyuan didn't come to ask her brother for help. She knew Li Dan's hardships and cried After a while, the pain in his chest eased a little, and he habitually picked up Li Dan's sleeve to wipe away his tears.With a sour smile, Li Dan looked at his younger sister who had already grown up, and made familiar movements in the past.He originally thought that there would be one person in their family who could escape this doomed doom.

The author has something to say: The Tang and Song Dynasties called plums Jiaqingzi