I heard my brother is a tyrant

Thinking about it this way, the little girl couldn't help but hesitate.

"Brother, don't be angry, I... I was wrong. Actually, I didn't think so, how could I despise you." Ye Chu mumbled.

"It's good to know that you are wrong, little heartless." Xie Tan said, "Of course I am also at fault. I came back late tonight. I left you at home during the Chinese New Year and let you think wildly alone. It is my fault. .”

Ye Chu understood this, and she understood the reason why officials can't help themselves, so she said, "You can't blame brother."

"I'm an elder brother, I'm older than you, if you want to blame it, blame me." Xie Dan pointed to the outside, and said warmly, "Listen, the firecrackers have started to be set off, and the New Year is here. An'an, auspicious New Year!"

"Brother, happy new year."

The hourglass of the copper pot was past midnight, and there was a sound of firecrackers outside, filled with the hustle and bustle of human fireworks.Xie Dan held her hand and got up, took the cloak and put it on her: "Come on, let's go out and have a look."

Ye Chu didn't notice that the topic was changed again, she followed Xie Dan across the threshold and walked out.The snow was getting bigger and bigger, and the two stood under the eaves, looking at the vast snow between the sky and the earth.

"Have we set off firecrackers in our house?" Ye Chu asked after listening to the sound from the front yard.

"Yes, Chang Shun and the others set off firecrackers at the gate and the main hall in the front yard."

Regardless of the official residences or private residences in the capital, there is a sound of firecrackers at the moment. The denser the houses, the louder the firecrackers. The surrounding area of ​​Baima Lane has been almost emptied by Xie Dan, and the armored guards staying here are not like ordinary people's homes for the New Year. There are relatively not so many firecrackers.

Ye Chu seemed to have never seen such a heavy snow before.Even if it snows in Luzhou, it's just sporadic light snow, which melts before it hits the ground.Seeing the master came out, there were already two women with brooms to sweep the snow, Ye Chu quickly stopped them.

"Don't scan it yet, it looks good like this."

"Let's all back down. Since the girl likes it, don't be in a hurry to sweep the snow in the courtyard. Tomorrow morning the snow will stop and you can just sweep a path." Xie Dan said.

After the master spoke, the servants retreated back to their rooms one after another. Ye Hui stood at the door of the east wing, looked at the two masters, and thought that this is coaxing?The girl didn't seem very happy all afternoon, she couldn't coax her well, it really depends on His Majesty.

Now that the two masters are safe and sound, Ye Hui turned around and entered the east wing, and closed the door.A wave of dense firecrackers sounded, the world gradually quieted down, and the huge courtyard became more and more quiet, leaving only the two of them.

Ye Chu supported Xie Dan's hand, curiously walked down the eaves, and stretched out her feet to step on the snow on the ground. She was wearing soft-soled cotton shoes at home. Xie Dan stopped her and promised that if tomorrow would be sunny , took her to the garden to see the snow scene.

The two returned to the room and sat down on the slum.A charcoal basin was placed next to it, covered with a smoke cage made of copper wire. Xie Dan held her little hand and put it on the smoke cage to roast, to drive away the cold air brought back from the outside, and continue to watch the new year.The old rule is to keep watch until dawn.

"Brother, you said you wanted to tell me." Ye Chu hesitated and asked, "That's right, why aren't we real siblings?"

She remembered that the nanny said that she was born to her mother, who only gave birth to her one child, and her brother also said that she looked like her mother.So, where did brother come from?

When Ye Chu was thinking wildly, he even wondered which of the two of them picked it up.

The reason she could think of was that one of them was picked up or adopted for some reason.Those two were, of course, serious brothers and sisters.

Unexpectedly, Xie Dan told her a completely different story.

Xie Dan said: "Our mothers knew each other. When we were young, we had some boudoir friendship. Before you were born, my mother ordered me to visit your mother, Mrs. Ye, on her behalf. Your mother lived in Zhuangzi at that time. As a result, I never When I came back from Zhuangzili, I learned that my family suffered a sudden disaster. Both my parents were killed by the enemy. I escaped my life by accident. I had no choice but to go back to Zhuangzili. Mrs. Ye took me in and took me I hid, took care of and protected me. Then I watched your birth in Zhuangzi, and we have been together ever since."

Is that so?

So she naturally believed that he was her brother since she was a child?

Aren't they not even righteous brothers and sisters, foster brothers and sisters?This cognition made Ye Chu feel a little frustrated.

"Later, when you were more than two years old, Mrs. Ye fell ill and passed away. She entrusted you to me at the end of her life. She asked me to try to send you to Suizhou to be raised by your aunt. But at that time, the Suizhou border was not peaceful, and there was a war, and you You are too young. I waited until you were nearly six years old before I decided to send you to Suizhou. As a result, in Jiangzhou, your nanny and maid secretly took you away while I was away. I was anxious to look for you everywhere. Shen leaked his whereabouts and was suspected of his identity, which attracted his enemies to hunt him down."

Xie Dan's story started 13 years ago.

He was ten years old at that time, the eldest son of Zhonggong.His father had not had many heirs, he was crowned the crown prince when he was just one year old, enlightened at the age of three, practiced martial arts at the age of six, and was held by his father on his lap to handle political affairs at the age of five.

Before he was ten years old, he received the most orthodox prince education.

When he was ten years old, his father went out to Beijing to inspect Huainan River Affairs, and he stayed in Beijing with his mother.At that time in the palace, Concubine Chu was favored, and she gave birth to a two-year-old second prince, who was aggressive, and the mother and father separated the husband and wife.Uncle Rui Wang came to the palace to pay his respects to the queen mother, and urged him to take the scriptures copied by his mother's hand to Huguo Temple as an offering to Buddha, and to offer incense to his father and mother to pray for blessings.

As a son, he naturally wanted to go after hearing this, and the queen mother also agreed.The queen mother told him that she would visit Mrs. Ye Zhen when she came back.

The queen mother and Mrs. Ye had some boudoir friendship when they were young.Mrs. Ye is also the wife of an important minister, so naturally she has to take care of her.As a queen mother, it was inconvenient for her to leave the palace, so she asked him to bring two centuries-old ginseng to Madam Ye for delivery.

At that time, the queen mother probably had some sympathy for Mrs. Ye.The queen mother said that Mrs. Ye had turned against Dingbeihou and his wife, and her natal family was helpless. She had a temperament that would rather be broken than jade. She moved to live in Zhuangzi by herself, and she was pregnant.The Marquis of Dingbei was at the border, and Mrs. Ye didn't even have anyone who could take charge.

As a crown prince, his every move attracted attention. Mrs. Ye was considered an elder and a female relative, so Xie Dan couldn't go there with the crown prince's honor.He was still young and playful, and after he finished offering incense at the Huguo Temple, he ordered the prince to go back the same way, while he quietly took the little eunuch and two guards with him, went down the mountain from the back gate of the Huguo Temple, and rode in modest clothes to Ruyi. Xiao Zhuang.

Originally, he ordered the guard of honor to wait for him at the long pavilion ten miles outside the city. After he visited Mrs. Ye from Ruyi Xiaozhuang, he would drive back to the palace in the prince's car.But when they came out of Ruyi Xiaozhuang, they didn't see the guard of honor. They sent people to inquire for a while, and they heard that the prince was assassinated on the road, the city gate was blocked, and Prince Rui sent troops to arrest the assassin.

The situation was unclear, Xie Dan was isolated and helpless, and he didn't dare to act rashly, so he had to quietly return to Ruyi Xiaozhuang.Mrs. Ye was vigilant, so she immediately hid him and sent someone out to investigate.

King Rui originally set up an ambush to assassinate Xie Dan on the way. They planned to hit the carriage with huge boulders on the mountain road. If they missed the hit, they took advantage of the chaos to startle the prince's carriage. As a result, the dead soldiers destroyed the carriage and found that the carriage was empty. .King Rui was shocked and believed that there was a traitor around him who had tipped off the news. Xie Dan got the news and fled ahead of time.King Rui was the first to launch the palace coup, using the pretext of capturing the assassins to block the city gates, while sending people to hunt down and kill Xie Dan, while leading troops to control the palace city.

After tossing all day and night, King Rui, who was on the verge of death, had no way out, so he brazenly launched a palace coup. First, he set fire to the East Palace, pretending that the little prince was buried in the sea of ​​flames, and then killed the king and seized the throne step by step. Empress He in the palace also died unknown. Not in vain.

More than half a month later, Xie Dan witnessed Ye Chu's birth in Ruyi Xiaozhuang.It's just that this premature baby was very weak, and his face was blue when he was born. The doctor said that nine times out of ten he would not be able to survive, so he had to be carefully raised until he was two or three years old, with a faint green look on his face.Mrs. Ye named her Ye Chu, nicknamed An An, hoping to raise her safely.

Not long after Ye Chu was born, King Rui killed Concubine Chu on the charge of murdering the prince, and took away the second prince born to Concubine Chu. After that, no one saw the child again. King Rui would not leave any hidden dangers. He was killed. In order to silence the public, he announced that the second prince died after two years. This is a later story.

Even if the second prince did not die, the queen mother (the present empress dowager) would not dare to let a two-year-old child sit on the throne, so it was logical that the next month after Emperor Sejong's death, King Rui ascended the throne with the queen mother's decree .

Mrs. Ye has a bad pregnancy, depressed mood during pregnancy, and hurt her body during childbirth, so her health has not been very good.After Mrs. Ye gave birth, Xie Dan was going to leave, but Mrs. Ye tried her best to keep him.There are people searching and chasing him everywhere outside. Mrs. Ye is nominally Mrs. Dingbeihou, and Dingbeihou is in control of the military. Although people have searched the village, they dare not be too presumptuous.

Zhuangzi is safe anyway.Mrs. Ye hid him in the villa, and only told the servants that Xie Dan was a distant relative of her natal family, and she personally taught him to read and practice martial arts.The young man bears the hatred of the country and the family, and is full of hatred and hostility.At his age, what can he do when he goes out, he can only hibernate first.

He was not very good at taking care of her at that time. Occasionally he would hold the baby in the swaddle and worry about such a little sister whose cartilage was in the midst of winter and whose skin was as white as jelly, and he didn't dare to touch her at all.

Xie Dan hid in Ruyi Xiaozhuang for more than two years.The life in Zhuangzi was very ordinary, Mrs. Ye took her daughter and Xie Dan to live peacefully all day long, as a female family member living alone, she had enough reason to close the door to thank guests and not see outsiders.It takes a lot of energy to raise a premature child, and Ye Chu is too young to take her out. By the spring of the second year of Ye Chu's birth, Ye Chu, who is less than two years old, has already learned how to babble and is healthy enough to take her with her. After going out, Madam Ye decided to leave the capital and go to Jiangnan.

Mrs. Ye has always had this plan.Misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, Wuyue style, and relatively open folk customs, suitable for her and her daughter to raise their bodies, far away from the capital and the Dingbei Houfu, and also took the opportunity to send Xie Dan out of the capital. Emperor Yanshi's eagle dogs have been chasing and killing him. If it is not guaranteed, the young man cannot always be trapped in this square inch of Zhuangzi.

Mrs. Ye sold Zhuangzi, sold the dowry shop and other belongings that could not be taken away, quietly left Zhuangzi, and took a boat all the way south from Yizhou.They settled down in the small town of Wuzhong, bought a house, and Xie Dan also began to plan his own future.

However, Mrs. Ye has already hurt her foundation. No matter how long the journey is, she has been ill since she settled in Jiangnan. Xie Dan didn't dare to leave, so she stayed to protect Mrs. Ye's mother and daughter.Mrs. Ye fell ill that winter.

Ye Chu was born prematurely with congenital deficiencies, and she just learned to call her mother at that time.Under the winter sun, Mrs. Ye was wrapped in a thick fox fur, hugged Ye Chu, and said to her with a gentle smile: "An'an, you are still so young and don't understand anything. Listen to your brother."

Madam Ye didn't expect Xie Dan to raise Ye Chu.He himself is still a half-grown boy with a special background, how can he raise a frail child who is less than three years old.Mrs. Ye made arrangements early in her illness, and when she passed away, she asked Xie Dan to send someone to send Ye Chu to Suizhou to be brought up by her younger sister Ye Yu.

Mrs. Ye was worried at that time that if she was gone, Ye Chu would be sent to the Dingbei Hou Mansion, or to her natal home in the capital.Mrs. Ye was determined not to let her daughter be brought up by these two families.

After all, this woman who would rather be broken than jade is stubborn and refuses to let go.

Thirteen-year-old Xie Dan became the head of the family in this small courtyard.After taking care of Mrs. Ye's funeral, he picked up Ye Chu, closed the door and continued to live.From then on, he bears not only the hatred of the country and the family, but also a weaker woman who needs him.

In this world, he finally has a bond.

From then on, he was no longer alone, forcing him to have a tough heart, not to be decadent, not to lose his heart due to hatred, and not to dare to talk about life and death lightly.Support him all the way to become stronger.

They said they wanted to send Ye Chu to Suizhou, but at that time there were frequent wars in the northwest border, and it was not peaceful. The road to Suizhou was far away, let alone Ye Chu was young and weak, and it was not easy to go all the way to Jiangnan by boat. The road is much harder.Xie Dan never dared to send her out easily.He thought, wait a few years, wait until she is older.

This wait was another three years, Ye Chuxu was six years old, and Xie Dan, who was 16 years old, also began to prepare to take on his own mission, no matter what, no matter what his fate was, he had to avenge his parents.

The people who escaped with him at first were one of his personal eunuchs and two bodyguards since he was a child. In fact, they were the hidden guards placed by his father. He had quietly sent one of them back to the capital as a contact and spy information.

Xu Qi, the remaining hidden guard, volunteered and said, leave the girl to him, as long as he still has this life, he must take the girl to Suizhou safely.

But in such a world, with their identities, what is a life worth?

Xie Dan looked at the little sister in his arms. Ye Chu, who was less than six years old, was a little thin, his small face was a little too fair, and his eyes were very big. He was looking at him with grievances, and his eyelashes fluttered when he blinked. Drop teardrops.

"Brother, I don't want to go, I don't want to be separated from you."

"Hey, you go first, and when my brother finishes his work, he will pick you up right away."

Xie Dan was also reluctant, but he had to send her away, the road he was going to take next might be a mountain of fire, and he couldn't take her with him at all.The little man cried so heartbreakingly, Xie Dan couldn't rest assured that others would send her off, so he decided to personally escort her to Suizhou.

He thought at that time that Mrs. Ye entrusted her to him, so he had to send her to Suizhou and entrust her to her aunt with his own hands.They pretended to be ordinary people going to visit relatives in the northwest, and first took a boat from Wuzhong.

As a result, as soon as they set off, they heard people on the pier saying that the Dingbeihou's mansion was looking for his wife and daughter who had been lost. He also brought a small portrait of Mrs. Ye with him.

Xie Dan turned around, dressed Ye Chu as a boy, and took her to the north.

There was a lot of commotion in Dingbeihou's mansion looking for someone.Mrs. Ye walked away resolutely and suddenly. Dingbei Hou Guo Yu returned to the capital from the border after four years of separation. What he faced was the end of his wife and daughter disappearing out of thin air.It is said that the Marquis of Dingbei couldn't believe it, and was so anxious that he vomited blood.

The people sent by the Hou Mansion have been looking for it for a year or two, but they only found out that Mrs. Ye boarded a boat from the Weizhou Wharf and went south, and there is no other clue.

In desperation, Dingbeihou offered a heavy reward and sent people along the way to inquire about clues about his wife and daughter.It is precisely this great reward, as well as the glory and wealth of the Hou Mansion, that made the nanny think differently.