don't want to be emperor

The inside and outside of the palace are completely two worlds, the people inside are in a mess, and there are people running around in a hurry carrying buckets and other utensils.Li Yi had been to the palace twice during the imperial examinations last year, and now it was night, and he was in a mess. He didn't know where Xia Mingqiu was, so he could only follow Xia Mingqing.But two-legged is not as fast as four-legged, plus he is a weak scholar, it is only a matter of time before he loses Xia Mingqing.Fortunately, Li Yi was not stupid, followed the court lady and eunuch with a bucket full of water, and found Xia Mingqiu after a while.

The sky was dry, and there was a wind at night, and it was in the study room. When everyone found out that the fire had started, the fire was already unstoppable.Xia Mingqing directly poured a bucket of water on himself and rushed into the study room. He was dragged out after a while. When he tried to rush in again, a group of people were already kneeling at the door to stop him.When Li Yi arrived, he saw such a scene.Seeing Xia Mingqing's performance, his heart felt as if his eardrums would burst, but he looked around unwillingly, and indeed he didn't see the familiar bright yellow.There was such a commotion here, if he wasn't in the study, he should have come out long ago, and it is impossible for King Anping to rush in!In the blink of an eye, Li Yi had already moved his hands faster than his brain, and poured water all over himself and ran to the study.Before he ran in, King Anping yelled "stop" and blocked him from the door.Li Yi was stopped aside and couldn't get rid of it at all, so he could only stare at him fiercely.He hated Xia Mingqing for stopping him from going in to find Xia Mingqiu, but his rationality told him that going in by himself would be useless, he came too late...

Under everyone's concerted efforts, the fire... finally gradually extinguished.The imperial study room, which used to symbolize wealth and imperial power, has also become a pile of scorched black shabby houses with black smoke and air leaks everywhere.It was approaching the time of Haishi, and the fire burned for five to six quarters of an hour... Even if the people inside were not burned to death, they were suffocated to death... Li Yi felt as if his chest was stuffed with cotton, and he sucked it up The water in his body was drained, and now his whole body was in pain, and his eyes were dry... He suddenly felt that he regretted... Why did he follow those etiquette foolishly back then, why couldn't he accept him? .Why didn't I discover his thoughts earlier, why couldn't I let myself fall in love with him first...

Like a drunk, he staggered behind Xia Mingqing into the scorched imperial study.

The outside room was burned to the point that there was basically nothing left, but the inside... Li Yi covered his mouth when he saw the inside room, he had to bite his fist tightly in his mouth to hold back the sob voice came.The person he likes... is lying quietly on the couch... The difference is that the body that used to be icy and muscular is now charred and shriveled. Material clothes wrap tightly.

There is still the smell of burning various materials in the room... including the smell of meat... Li Yi can't help but want to vomit, wanting to vomit out that painful heart and bury it here. It hurts so much.He followed Xia Mingqing and took two steps forward, and saw more clearly a horizontal wound on Xia Mingqiu's neck, and the flesh on both sides had been slightly rolled up.I don't know if I should be thankful, but the person I love should have lost my breath long before the study caught fire, so I don't have to suffer from the fire.

Li Yi stood one step away from Xia Mingqiu, no matter how close he was, he didn't dare to look at it. The contrast between the past and the present was too strong, and Li Yi couldn't accept it.He could only stand there with his head bowed and his fists clenched.On the contrary, Xia Mingqing, the military life in the past made him calm down quickly after the early shock, and looked around in the study.

Finally, on the burnt and blackened book case, I found the half-burned "Sinner's Edict". It seems that it has not been finished yet, and there are still many blank spaces on the paper. Turned into a blurred blob of ink... If you look carefully, you can still see a little bit of blood.Presumably, he was assassinated when he was writing the Edict of Guilt, and then he was placed on a couch in the inner room. At the junction of the inner and outer rooms, there lay a burnt black eunuch. A heavy beam fell on him. Xia Mingqing tore a piece from the cuff of his obscene clothes and pinched it with his fingertips to look at the corpse. If nothing else, it should be Xia Mingqiu's personal eunuch Xifu. A teacup with several petals.Seeing that there was nothing to search here, Xia Mingqing entered the inner room again.

In fact, he knew that Xia Mingqiu liked to hide things in the dark box next to the bed the most, but he kept pretending not to know, and never searched here.Xia Mingqing refrained from looking down, and only focused on knocking on the head of the bed, looking for a hollow place. He didn't know where he touched it, and suddenly a drawer popped out from the head of the bed.Because of the special nature of the wood, the contents inside are actually intact.Xia Mingqing carefully took out the drawer and placed it on the floor next to the bed to check the contents.In addition to some story books, there is also a sachet.

When Li Yi saw Xia Mingqing take out the sachet from the dark box, he couldn't stop trembling. He took a step forward, grabbed the sachet, held it in his hand and observed it carefully.this!Sure enough, it was the sachet that I gave him during the Dragon Boat Festival, with a golden blessing embroidered on a red background, but unfortunately, this blessing did not bless him at all... Door····

The sachet in Xia Mingqing's hand was suddenly robbed, but he didn't take it for granted. He continued to search, and finally found a small dark layer at the bottom, which was stuffed with what Xia Mingqing needed - "Edict of Abdication".

Li Yi didn't know what happened afterwards. He only knew that he had a fever after returning home. After two or three days of fever, he fell into a coma for two or three days. When he woke up, he found that he was still clutching The elder brother and sister-in-law said that they were still clutching the sachet tightly when they were unconscious, and they couldn't take it out at all. It was probably an important thing, so they simply gave up.

This day my eldest brother came to give me medicine and told me what I had seen and heard in the past few days. "The first emperor was assassinated and had a great funeral. The first empress dowager couldn't bear the blow of the black-haired man in vain, so she followed in the emperor's mausoleum. There were two great funerals in succession. The whole city was completely deserted, and all entertainment was banned. In the past two days, the surrounding temples The Taoist temple rings the bell day and night. A few days ago, I discovered the imperial edict of the first emperor. The Zen was located in King Anping. After the enthronement ceremony, it was renamed Emperor Xihe, and after the new year, it was changed to the first year of Xihe. Also added to the first emperor The posthumous title——Chonghuai. Both the mansions of Li Taishi and Zhongshuling were confiscated. The reason was that because they lost their sons and hated the first emperor, they secretly found someone to kill them. It was leaked. Later, when they ransacked their homes, they were taken from their mansions. Dozens of boxes of treasures were confiscated, as well as countless land records. King Anping ordered the officials to investigate them in a rage, and found out a lot of evidence of their crimes. In prison, we will only do it after King Anping ascends the throne."

The younger brother was still drinking the medicine with a blank expression on his face. The person who used to hate drinking these soups and medicines the most did not even frown now.He didn't know what his younger brother had gone through, but he could always feel the sadness soaked in his younger brother.

He secretly cheered himself up in his heart, and tried to say in a lively tone, "Okay, let's not talk about this. Let me tell you a little easier. I didn't expect that Li Taishi and Zhong Shuling would join forces with Prince Shunhe to plot against him. Originally, Prince Shunhe I have already arrived in Jianzhou under the banner of "King Qin", but I didn't expect the two court officials to fall so quickly. King Anping issued an edict again, roughly meaning that Shengjing has been calmed down, the evil leader has been found out, don't bother Shunhe The prince went thousands of miles to the King of Jingqin. That was very smooth and the prince immediately withdrew his troops back to his fief after receiving the order. You say this is ridiculous, hahaha."

Unexpectedly, the laughter spread all over the streets and alleys. When it came to the second brother, there was not even a trace of laughter here. Brother Li laughed dryly, fed the medicine quietly, packed up his things and left in embarrassment, saying that he would come to see him at night.

Li Yi looked at the sachet in his hand quietly, and felt that things were a little hot, as if they were burning, and wanted to throw them away, but Li Yi knew that this was just his own illusion. The sachet was still soft and dry in his hand , Take a sniff at the tip of the nose, you can still smell the smell of vanilla inside, and there is also a faint aroma of ambergris, which is even more addictive.

Li Yi forced himself to get out of bed, and Qian Mo hurried in when he heard the movement, and followed Li Yi's wishes to help him into the study. Seeing Li Yi waving at him, he sensibly took him out of the door.

Li Yi suppressed his excitement and reached out to take down the box on the top shelf.Unexpectedly, due to the recent fever, the physique is relatively weak, the arm trembled, and the wrist hit the bookshelf. The wooden box, which was originally not light, fell directly from mid-air, and the contents inside fell to the ground in disarray. Li Yi's heart ached. It also fell heavily.

He quickly squatted down and picked up those familiar things into the wooden box.There are books sent by Xia Mingqiu, paintings drawn by Xia Mingqiu, chapters engraved by Xia Mingqiu, trinkets of Xia Mingqiu...all are rewarded by Xia Mingqiu.Li Yi squatted on the ground, played with them one by one, and carefully put them into the box one by one.

Li Yi's zodiac is engraved on this seal, a playful and lively little snake, looking towards the light, vaguely seems to see a line of small characters along the curve of the little snake's body, Li Yi leans over to take a closer look, it turns out that it is really A line of words "The wild geese are in the clouds and the fish are in the water, so it's hard to express my melancholy" (Yan Shu's "Qing Ping Le").A white and tender boy appeared in Li Yi's mind, hiding in the study alone with a bare face and pursing his water-red lips, engraving these embarrassing love poems, wanting to express his hot love but fearing that others would find out, I can only lean on it and engrave the small characters in an unobtrusive place, hoping that the other party will find it inadvertently...

Li Yi guessed that there should be many such verses, so he carefully flipped through each gift, and sure enough, it was in the very first "Politics and Economics", quietly written on the back cover with a pen of the same color as the book, without reading it by himself I can't see it at all, it's a familiar poem-the mountains have trees and trees have branches, and the heart is pleasing to the king, you don't know... Touching these inconspicuous and beautiful characters, Li Yi suddenly broke down in tears, and the tears were big and big. Dropping on these careful loves, the ink is smudged away with tears, just like the burnt mind...

Brother Li didn't know what happened to the younger brother, he only heard the hoarse crying from the study, he was terrified, and he couldn't control the tears, as if he was infected with the sadness... He couldn't bear to disturb So he came quietly and walked away quietly.

"Second brother, elder brother doesn't know what happened to you, and he can't help you. If you are willing to talk, elder brother is willing to listen. It's just that you can't go on being so decadent. You have always been a resilient person since you were young. , no matter what happens, you can take care of your mood. So I hope you can clear up your mood and go to work as soon as possible, or you can go out to relax. My brother made some money from business, which is enough for you to go out and play for three months. It's been two years, but...don't forget to go home and look outside."

"Brother... I... I want to resign."

"But you've been studying hard for ten years... It doesn't matter! Since you're not happy, let's stop being officials like this shit. One day, the elder brother will settle all the affairs here, and take you and your sister-in-law back to our hometown !"

"Brother!" Li Yi stretched out his hand to hold Brother Li, "Brother, I know how much you love my little brother, but it took so much for you to gain a firm foothold in Shengjing. It's a pity that you give up like this, and my little brother doesn't care about you." I'm happy to see you like this. It's just... Shengjing has become a sad place for me. I want to go out for a walk, take a look, wait for me, wait for me to calm down, maybe I can still Will be back again."

"You have always had ideas since you were young, and my eldest brother also believes that you can change back to the old Li Zhihui as soon as possible!"

"Li Chuanlu, what do you mean?" Li Yi's Shangfeng looked at Li Yi's resignation letter in confusion.

"Master Shangfeng, I'm leaving soon, don't call me Chuanlu again in the future."

"You, you wait, Your Majesty, I told you that you must notify the old man of your position change." Said Shangfeng, he bowed far away in the direction of the palace.

Li Yi's heart skipped a beat, "Your Majesty? Which Majesty is it?!"

"Ah? It's the one who is in the palace now. Oh, yes," Shangfeng said empathetically, "The previous one has passed away, so you don't need to be so frightened. In the future, if this master is the emperor, I will I can live a peaceful and happy life!" Seeing that Li Yi was about to leave, Shangfeng quickly stopped him, "Li Chuanlu, oh, no, no, Li Zhihui, Li Zhihui, wait a moment, my little one, go to the palace now. Li Tong reported, please also bear the responsibility for the sake of your former colleagues."

Li Yi knew that this was not a good thing to embarrass others, so he nodded and stood aside.When Shangfeng saw him, he immediately ran to deliver the message.

It didn't take long before I saw two people coming on horseback, one of them was his own Shangfeng, and the other looked pale and beardless, and seemed to be someone from the palace.

"My slave, Shen Yu, has met Li Chuanlu." Shen Yu got off the horse gracefully and greeted Li Yi.

"Zhihui has seen the father-in-law."

"Li Chuanlu, our family is here to pass on the words of the Holy Master. Please also salute Your Majesty."

After hearing this, Li Yi hurriedly paid five respects in the direction of the palace.

Seeing Shen Yu, she smiled and said, "The widow said that Li Yi, the former Hanlin editor, is loyal, kind, and knowledgeable. When the new dynasty employs people, Li Yi will be transferred to the county magistrate of Zhejiang Province. He will be on the sixth rank. Eight days later. There must be no mistakes in starting the journey, and I hope that Li Qing will be an official, benefit the other party, and not disappoint the expectations of the widows, I respect this. Li Chuanlu, why don't you thank your majesty quickly."

Li Yi was taken aback by the sudden expatriate appointment. He obviously resigned, so why did he resign instead?Li Yi raised his head, and just about to say something, was cut off by Shen Yu, "Lord Li, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. How many people want to get the reward from His Majesty, but they don't have it. Congratulations to Master Li for taking office first. The future looks like a mirror."

Li Yi understood Shen Yu's meaning, so he could only sigh secretly and thank him.

Shen Yu nodded in satisfaction, pulled Li Yi up, and stretched out his hand to dust off the dust on his body, "Master Li is indeed a smart person, dealing with smart people is really a blessing for a slave, transfer order and official seal, official Wait for all the items, and then send them to your lord's house, please wait a while. This servant will not delay your lord, this servant will go back to the palace first, and take your leave, lord Li."

Li Yi arrived home with a heavy heart, and sure enough, he found that everything had been delivered to the house, and his brother and sister-in-law stood aside, looking worried.Li Yi smiled at them reassuringly, and tried to explain to them so that they don't worry, then went back to the room, and asked Qian Mo to start preparing the equipment, and went south to Zhejiang River to take up his post.

Xia Mingqing carefully read the memorial and the official evaluation form submitted by the Ministry of Officials, and felt that he really did not choose the wrong person. Li Yi started to rectify the local river problem two years after he arrived there, and calmed down many enemies. The wrong case was called "Li Qingtian" by the local people, but it was a pity that Xia Mingqiu didn't know about it.

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Now is the time when the spring and summer of Xihe's second year are handing over, and Li Yi calculates that he has been working in Zheshui for almost three years.Three years can be said to be long or not fast. Three years have allowed Li Yi to fully integrate into the life of Zhejiang Province. Only the occasional midnight dream, always dreaming of that burning night, dreaming of painful neighing It came from the resplendent and resplendent study.I stood at the door, shouting anxiously, knocking on the door, but the door never opened, and it gradually turned into scorched black in front of me. With my own light touch, the whole study suddenly disappeared like ashes in the whistling north wind. Middle... Every time at this time, Li Yi would wake up from his dream profusely in sweat.

However, today's dream seemed a little unusual. Li Yi knew clearly that as long as he touched this door, the whole dream would shatter. Open, the raging fire disappeared in an instant, Li Yi ran in quickly, but there was nothing inside, no furniture, no... people, it seemed that this was an independent pure white space.Just when he was at a loss, he seemed to hear a chuckle, and then he seemed to say something, but his ears seemed to be soaked in water, and he couldn't hear clearly. Li Yi woke up in a hurry.

After waking up, he found that the sun was already high. Li Yi didn't expect to sleep for so long today. Fortunately, today is Xiumu.After Li Yi washed up and tidied up, he simply ate something and went out.

Today he plans to go to the outskirts of Zheshui to have a look.It is adjacent to the Chunjiang River, and the Zhejiang River is in the south. It rains continuously in summer, and if it is not done well, there may be flood disasters. But if it can survive safely, this year will be an absolute bumper harvest year.Therefore, Li Yi never dared to be negligent, and often used the rest time to check the dams, discover deficiencies in time and rectify them.So far, Zheshui has safely passed the two-year rainy season.

The outskirts of the city at the transition of spring and summer are the time when the scenery is the most beautiful.Coupled with the neither hot nor cold weather, accompanied by the gentle breeze, many people came to play, drinking tea and chatting under the peach trees full of pink flowers, two groups of people in the green grass Flying kites on the grass, to see whose kite is the most beautiful, to see whose kite flies the highest, as well as literati and scholars gather together, sit on the ground by the stream, bend the water, throw pots and shoot arrows.The scene of prosperity made Li Yi slightly cheerful.

Many people on the road recognized this "Li Qingtian", and when they passed by, they would greet him with a smile and salute him.Li Yi also returned the gifts one by one.Going up the embankment, the trees are denser here, but there are also a lot fewer people.Li Yi saw what seemed to be a wealthy family's carriage parked under a tall peach tree. He wanted to avoid this place so as not to disturb his elegant mood, but he was attracted by a voice.

"Master, we have arrived at Madam's hometown." The voice sounded unfamiliar but familiar. Li Yi felt as if he had heard it somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it at all. He just looked there blankly and forgot. What is "don't listen to evil, don't see evil".

"Yu Fu, quickly help me down to feel the feeling, I seem to smell the fragrance of flowers." As he spoke, a white and tender hand stretched out from the car curtain, and the hand lined by the dark blue brocade car curtain was even softer and whiter, as if on the A good ointment melts with one touch.Li Yi suddenly felt his mouth dry and his heart pounding, as if he was about to knock out of his chest. There was a voice in his brain telling him, it was him!It's him!

Li Yi stared intently, everything in front of him was in slow motion.First, a white and tender hand stretched out from the car curtain, and then a breeze blew the car curtain, revealing the lower half of the moon-like face inside, and then a thin and powerful left hand moved from the side. Opening the curtain, the longing face was gradually revealed, but for some reason, there was a two-finger-wide brocade cloth on the small palm-sized face covering those agile eyes.Li Yi was heartbroken, but he couldn't help running towards him. Before everyone had time to react, he had already embraced that flexible and sweet body.

"There's an assassin! Protect...protect the little master!" Yu Fu was taken aback, and almost said the word "escort". When Yu Fu took a closer look, it turned out to be Li Yi, and he hurriedly broke up. , let Yu Jiu quickly stop the sword that was about to hit Li Yi's neck.

The little boy was panicked and dazed. It wasn't until the warm water droplets soaked through the thin clothes that he suddenly realized that he tentatively raised his hand and put it on Li Yi's back. What he got was a tighter hug. The little boy felt that he was He was about to be unable to breathe, and wanted to push Li Yi out a little, but the slightly trembling body of the other party made him unable to do anything at all.

After a long while, I felt that the person holding me calmed down my excited mood, and then I lowered my head and took a deep sniff at my neck. The little boy's face was immediately burned red, as if a wave of heat evaporated from the top of his head.

"Your Majesty..." The hoarse voice rang in his ears, and the warm breath he brought entered his ears. The little boy felt that he might be burned and melted in the next second.

"Hugh... Hugh's nonsense, I... my name is Yu Chunjiang." Wen Run's voice trembled slightly.

"Okay, Chun Jiang, I'm Li Yi, Li Zhihui."

The author has something to say: I am going to write a short episode to explain some things a little bit.

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Li Yi Diba didn't want to watch it either, and excitedly led Yu Chunjiang to his mansion. Yu Chunjiang responded with a smile, and sat back in the carriage again.

The carriage drove very slowly along the way. Li Yi sat in the narrow carriage and was extremely nervous. In the sweet smell of bondage all over his body, he became even more nervous when he thought of who uniquely owned this smell, and he didn't know how to put his hands and feet.Even when getting out of the car, I feel a little uncoordinated with my hands and feet.

After Li Yi helped Yu Chunjiang get off the car, he went to his home first, and searched for the best tea leaves. Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out, "My lord, my lord, what are you looking for? Look at you." Turn all this into a mess." As he spoke, Qian Mo pouted a little dissatisfied.

"Where's the tea I bought last time?"

"Hi! I thought you were looking for something, I'll leave it to the little one, the guests at the door are still waiting for you to entertain!" Qianmo hasn't seen Li Yi so happy that he lost his temper for a long time, and he was also happy for him. I even hummed a song when I had tea.

"I, I, I, I'm a little too excited." Li Yi ran up to Yu Chunjiang panting, "You don't mind, please come in and sit." Yu Chunjiang smiled slightly, "It's okay", showing two lovely eyes Little Huya, and then gently put his hand on Li Yi's shoulder.Li Yi felt that his whole body seemed to be soaked in honey water, and there was sweetness everywhere, but the poor shoulder was as stiff as if he had lost consciousness.

Li Yi helped Yu Chunjiang to the lobby, placed a chair for him, and beckoned him to sit down.Looking at his pretty side face is very cramped.There are many things in my heart that I want to ask him, how did you come out?Why is your surname Yu?Most importantly... what happened to your eyes?Thousands of words were stuck in my heart, and finally came together to say "Yu, Mr. Yu, please have some tea."

"Pfft..." Qian Mo couldn't hold back his laughter when he heard his young master's blushing and uttered such a sentence. When he noticed Li Yi's stare, he secretly stuck out his tongue and went down.

Yu Chunjiang was also very nervous at first, and his two white and tender hands kept buttoning the pattern embroidered on the clothes under the wide sleeves. , Looking at Li Yi: "I... I am now taking my mother's surname. My mother is from this place. She named me Chunjiang, hoping that I can be as free as this Chunjiang water, and that I can often appear in her like Chunjiang water. in front of my eyes."

"Then, where are your eyes?" Li Yi felt a bit of bitterness in his heart when he saw that those eyes that were originally very agile were now covered with a wide cloth.

"Ah, it's okay. Some time ago, I went to the extreme north to see the snow-capped mountains. At that time, I didn't listen to dissuasion. I didn't wear black gauze to cover my eyes, so I got snow blindness. The doctor said to apply ointment on time, usually wear eye masks, and pay attention to eye protection. After a while You can recover."

"That's fine, that's fine."

"Ah."

Seeing that Li Yi was going to be cold again, he scratched his head and scratched his head, and finally remembered, "Then, when you come back this time, where will you live? Are you still leaving?"

"I live with my mother's natal family. Their home is the famous Yu Mansion in Zheshui. I, I will stay there during this period of time."

"Then can I see you?"

"Yeah." Yu Chunjiang lowered his head, the blush burned from his neck to his cheeks.

Yu Fu really couldn't bear to see, so he winked around, closed the door and went out together, leaving this space for the two reunited after a long absence.

The door was closed suddenly, the light was blocked, and the hall was dark all of a sudden. The dim light gave Li Yi a bit of courage. He gritted his teeth, and quickly stretched out his hand to hold Yu Chunjiang's hand tightly. As soft as it looks, and as gentle as jade, Li Yi was reluctant to let go, but fortunately, the hand only shook at the beginning, and then he held it tightly.Yu Fu's action finally broke the tension in Li Yi's mind. He stood up and hugged Yu Chunjiang as tightly as if he wanted to melt into his body, "Can you, can you do it for me? , don't go anymore... If, if you want to travel, tell me, I can accompany you, no matter where."

"Okay!" Yu Chunjiang raised his head, put his chin on Li Yi's shoulder, and hugged him tightly.He thought, this person is finally mine, just like the play in Romance of the West Chamber, finally got this happy ending.

The author has something to say: This novel ends here. Although there are various shortcomings and imperfections, I think it is a kind of progress and reward for me to finish this brain hole.I am also very grateful to have a little cutie who can accompany me all the way here. Although I didn’t get a single comment, seeing the number of clicks, even if there are only one or two people sometimes, it gives me endless motivation. I hope I can continue to work hard!Hope to see you all again~