limited backtracking

As soon as Baili Fang entered the political affairs hall, Eunuch Su, who had been with Bailiyi the longest, handed over a letter.

"Your Highness, this is a letter from His Majesty to His Highness, so His Highness must read it."

Bai Lian walked forward, and casually agreed: "Leave it alone, I will watch it later."

Eunuch Su: "Your Majesty said, you will not regret it if you have to read it as soon as possible."

Bai Lian took the letter and said perfunctorily, "Okay, I understand, let's go down."

"Yes, the slave will leave."

The door of the political hall was closed.

The letter was thrown on the table by Bai Lian, and he stood on the high platform, "I invite you to come here today, you must know what I want to talk about, you adults may wish to talk about it first."

Doctor Yushi: "Your Majesty passed away suddenly. According to the law, the crown prince should succeed, but His Royal Highness seems to be..."

The prime minister sighed, and said: "His Royal Highness is still young, so you can understand if you don't want to succeed. But this is not reasonable..."

"With the death of the emperor, the situation in the court is bound to be chaotic, and with the coveted eyes of the Great Liang, the new emperor's ascension to the throne cannot be delayed." Bai Lian saw that the third envoy seemed to have something to say, "What does Master Xu want to say?"

"Your Highness, only His Highness and the Crown Prince can take on great responsibilities under His Majesty's knees. Although it is against the rules, if His Highness the Crown Prince really doesn't want to, His Highness will ascend..."

"Shut up!" Baili An's face changed suddenly, and he said sharply.

The three adults hurriedly knelt down, "Your Highness, calm down!"

Bai Lian frowned, and said coldly, "Don't let me hear such words a second time."

The third division envoy shivered, "Yes."

"I'll take care of the prince. The prince will ascend the throne in front of his father's spirit tonight. In the future, you need to help the prince well."

"Your Majesty understands."

Jiang Weiyan waited outside the hall, and it was a long time before he heard the door behind him being opened, and the three adults came out from the political affairs hall, and bowed their hands to salute after seeing him.

"I've seen Young Master."

"My lord, you are being polite."

The third envoy: "By the way, the marginal military salary that the young master asked earlier has been fully distributed, and it will arrive in a few days."

"Thank you, Mr. Xu."

"Little Marquis, you are being polite, it's what a lower official should do." The third secretary said, "If there is nothing else, the lower official will leave first."

Jiang Weiyan: "My lords, go slowly."

Bai Lian was still in the political affairs hall, looking down at the letter with a calm expression. When he saw a certain sentence, his pupils shrank slightly, and his hand holding the letter paper unconsciously tightened.

He pondered for a while, folded the letter and put it back in the envelope, then put it on the candlestick and lit it.

Tongues of fire quickly devoured the letter, and clusters of flames danced in Baili's eyes, reflecting his quiet side face.

The rest was thrown to the ground by him and turned into ashes.

People were kneeling inside and outside the Shouhuang Palace, and Baili Xi knelt at the front, looking at Bailiyi's coffin.

Bailixi's eye circles were still red. He had never encountered such a thing before. All the responsibilities were on him, and it was inevitable.

He still had to pretend to be calm in front of other people, and only dared to get discouraged when he saw Bai Lian, and he could vent and cry like a child with his brother.

He reached out and grabbed the corner of Bai Lian's clothes, "Brother..."

Bai Lian gently touched his head, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

"Eunuch Su." Bai Lian called out the door.

Eunuch Su came in with the imperial edict in both hands, and stood still in front of everyone.

Bai Liyan lifted his robe and knelt down: "I declare the decree."

Su Gonggong unfolded the imperial decree: "The first emperor's edict. The crown prince Baili analyzed the value of character, and he deeply bowed to me, and he will be able to inherit the great order. After I ascend the throne, that is, the emperor's throne, that is, follow the public system, hold on for 27 days, release Obey the notices both at home and abroad, and the salty envoys will hear about it."

Baili Xi froze in place, motionless, Su Gonggong urged: "His Royal Highness, please accept the order."

"No...brother..." Baili Xi looked at Baili An and said in panic, "I don't want to..."

Baili Eucalyptus was unmoved, and said in a deep voice: "Father's imperial edict, you must not resist the edict."

Eunuch Su passed the imperial decree forward, "His Royal Highness..."

Baili Xi stared at the imperial decree for a long time before accepting it tremblingly, "My son... accept the decree."

He stood up slowly, the imperial decree in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand catties.

There are endless discussions around.

Bai Lian was the first to bend down and kowtow, and said loudly: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live."

Then everyone shouted in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

The overall situation is settled, and there is no way out.

After the child's hour passed, Baili An asked everyone to disperse, leaving only the two brothers in the Shouhuang Palace.

It was chilly in the late autumn night, and the window lattices were creaked.

Bai Lian looked at the waning moon outside the window and asked, "Go for a walk?"

Baili Xi turned his back to Baili'an, his hand holding the imperial decree was bulging, and he asked in a low voice, "Why?"

"what?"

"I don't want to be the emperor."

"Why not? You have the ability to become emperor."

"But all this should belong to my brother..."

Bai Lian was silent for a moment, sighed, and said another thing: "You know what? When you were very young, I used to think, how annoying, if only you hadn't been born."

Baili Xi was taken aback, then turned to look at him.

"I always wonder, without you, would my father like me more? Would my mother be happier? Especially when I saw my mother hiding in the bedroom and crying secretly, I hope you never Unborn." Baili Eucalyptus said calmly about something hidden in the dark part of his heart, "Nurse is playing with you in the imperial garden with you in her arms, call me and let me see you. Run away. Why, why did you get the favor of the emperor, but all I got was scolding and neglect. I really hate you."

"Brother..." Baili Xi wanted to grab his hand, so he stretched it out and then retracted it.

He dare not.

"At that time, I selfishly attributed everything to you. Your fashion was still in its infancy. I threw away the hand that wanted to grab me. I only gave you a bad face when I smiled at me. I don't know when to develop it. It’s really stupid to think about it now.”

Bai Lian laughed at herself, "It didn't take me long to figure it out, what's wrong with a baby who can't even speak? What I hate is the indifference and indifference of the father. An innocent child involved. I want to tease you with guilt, but I don’t know what to do. As long as I see you, I will think of the unreasonable hostility towards you before, which makes me uncomfortable, and I feel that I am a heinous person. sinner."

He stroked Bailixi's head, smiled slightly and said, "I'm very lucky now. Fortunately, you didn't remember anything at that time, and fortunately, you didn't say those things that hurt you. Otherwise, you will be farther and farther away from me these years." .”

After hearing these words, Baili Xi lowered his eyelids, "But I have always envied my brother."

Bai Lian was a little puzzled: "What are you envious of?"

"I envy my brother to have such a good mother as the empress." Baili said lonely, "Mother concubine has never treated me as well as the empress empress. I often wonder if I was born by my concubine mother, she will only tell me How to please the emperor, how to be praised."

Obviously should be the closest person, but there is always something separated.

He has fought hard and tried hard, but what he got is still nothingness.

He had seen Mu Jingyan look at Bai Lian with a smile in his eyes.Sometimes Bai Lian would blame him after being injured, but after the reprimand, he would still hug him distressedly.

These are things he never had with his concubine mother.

Only Mu Jingyan treated him as her own son, and treated him no worse than Bai Lian.

So after the incident happened three years ago, both the royal father and the concubine mother said that Mu Jingyan and Bai Lian had killed him, but he didn't believe a word.

He wanted to ask the truth of the matter, but there was no one to ask.

The queen empress who loved him was buried in the sea of ​​fire, and the respected brother fell into a coma.And he can only be at the mercy of others like a marionette.

He wanted to intercede with Bai Liyi for Bai Lian, but in the end he returned without success.

But when Bai Liyi acquiesced that he could go out of the palace to meet Bai Lian, he flinched again.

Mu Jingyan's death, Baili's three-year confinement, his crown prince...

Everything made him afraid to step over and afraid to face it.

When he saw Bai Lian a year ago, he just took a long look at the door and left immediately.

He saw that the originally high-spirited person was now sickly sitting in a wheelchair, his face was pale, and he didn't even have the strength to reach out to catch the falling flowers.

It was as if his arrogance had been taken away abruptly.

The river dried up, the sea dried up, and disappeared.

It shouldn't be like this.

Baili Xie let go of his hand, and the imperial edict fell to the ground.He grabbed Bai Lian and said anxiously: "Brother, I never wanted to take anything away from you, really nothing!"

"I know." Bai Lian replied with a reassuring smile, "I'm not blaming you."

"I don't want to be the crown prince at all. They all said that I stole my brother's crown prince position. It is also because of me that my father hates my brother so much..."

"Nothing." Bai Lian interrupted him, "It's not your fault, you don't care what others say, if I say no, it means no, understand?"

"Listen, I understand..."

Bai Lian: "Then can you go out with me now?"

"Yeah." Baili Xie followed behind Baili'an, "But I still want to know why I must be the successor, obviously my brother is more suitable than me."

Baili Eucalyptus walked along the edge of Xuanming Lake. The surface of the lake was calm late at night, and occasionally koi swam by, leaving a little ripple.

He was quiet for a long time, closing his eyes and wondering what he was thinking.After a long time, he stopped and said softly: "In the future, you will understand that not everything can go as you want."

"Really... there is not much time..." Bai Lian sighed softly.

Baili Xi frowned, "Why don't you have much time...why can't I understand?"

Bai Lian smiled, "It's nothing. All in all, now that the heavy responsibility is entrusted to you, you have to shoulder it, and there is no way out."

Baili Analysis nodded in response: "I see."

"I'm leaving, go back and rest."

"it is good."

Jiang Weiyan was still waiting outside the Shouhuang Hall, Bai Lian saw Jiang Weiyan looking into the hall, not knowing what he was looking at.

"What are you thinking?" Bai Lian stepped up the steps and stood behind him.

Jiang Weiyan turned around, looking back and forth at his face, seeing that he seemed not as unhappy as before.

He took a step forward, took Bai Lian's hand, and said softly, "Do you want to go home?"

"Ah."

Jiang Weiyan twisted his fingers and intertwined with Bai Lian's. He asked, "I didn't bother to ask before. Before leaving the Zhengshitang, what were you looking at? Why did you burn it?"

Bai Lian paused, and wrote lightly: "It's nothing, it's just an insignificant letter, looking upset, I simply burned it."

No one knew that before he left the Zhengshitang, he glanced back at the plaque hanging above it.

The plaque reads "Jianji Suiyou".

And behind the plaque is a will that will never be known and will never be published.

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