Everyone loves Huo Qubing

The welcoming team stopped at the gate of the Wei Mansion, and the second uncle of the groom's officer helped the bride in a red hijab off the sedan chair, and when they entered the main hall, everyone was stunned.

Sitting on the honorable seat of the husband's parents and seniors, was a tall man with a black crown and plain clothes.

The emperor who arrived unexpectedly had two banquets in a row today - he had just sneaked out from the large wedding banquet held by the emperor's sister, Princess Pingyang, and Ruyinhou Xiahoupo at the Ruyinhou Mansion in Chang'an City.

Because of the witchcraft, the inner palace has been protected by layers of guards for a long time. Now that the martial law in Chang'an City has been lifted, the restless emperor will run around whenever he gets a chance.The second uncle went back to the Wei Mansion to pay filial piety for his elder brother and sister-in-law, and entrusted me to the emperor to take care of him. However, I thought that the person who needed to be taken care of was not me, but the emperor himself who was like a headless fly after leaving the second uncle.

There was a flurry of ups and downs in the Wei mansion, Uncle Su hurriedly dismissed the ready-made banquets and sent away the guests, leaving only acquaintances.Fortunately, it was a small-scale wedding banquet, and there were not many invitees. The emperor wisely brought his own bodyguard this time, and dressed in a low-key and restrained manner. At first glance, the person who has never seen Longyan is just a plainly dressed Chang'an son brother.

When the performer sang "sent to the bridal chamber", the emperor's eyebrows jumped several times.His gaze has been closely following the red figure supporting the beautiful woman, watching that figure bowing his head, bending over, and prostrating slowly in front of him together with the bride beside him;

When he raised his head and watched the two leave, the figure just turned around.The air fluctuated violently for a moment, but it quickly returned to calm.

"An elder brother is like a father, and his will is hard to disobey. Besides, your majesty has no prince under his knees. This is all the fault of the minister. I can't delay your majesty any longer. Please put the country and the community as the most important thing, and please grant me this marriage." Before the wedding date was confirmed, the second uncle knelt in front of the emperor and kowtowed to the ground. His voice trembled slightly at first, but at the end he was determined after careful consideration.

In the past six months, one was trapped in the palace and the other was busy outside the palace. The time for the emperor to meet his second uncle suddenly decreased a lot.Once the life trajectory diverges, the relationship between people also quietly and subtly changes.

The second uncle helped the bride into the inner room.The emperor stood still, looking at the corner where the couple disappeared.

"What a 'Jiangshan Sheji is the most important'." The thin lips parted lightly, and the emperor sighed softly.

"Your Majesty, please name the new couple's stepson for auspiciousness." Uncle Su tried to turn the emperor's attention back.

I stared at the two chubby hands in Aunt Su's arms waving towards me.Standing between the emperor and the second uncle was Su Jia, and between the second uncle and me was another—our cousin Wei Xuanchun who survived the catastrophe.

The emperor withdrew his gaze, pondered for a long time, and said slowly: "The husband and wife of the Changjun and the Su family protect the youngest son with their bodies against arrows. Such affection is so affectionate that we can sing and cry. I specially named Wei's nephew the word 'husband'. "

***

"A lover will finally get married, so why is Young Master Wei so unhappy?" The master father Yan approached me who was hiding in the corner with two glasses of wine.Normally, Xuanshidian bows his head and does not look up, but tonight this colleague took the initiative to talk to me for the first time.This person is now a popular person in front of the emperor, his official position has been promoted again and again, and he wears rich clothes all day long. He was tied up by a young boy and thrown back to Jiaodong country. How could he forget such a shameful humiliation.

"My mood has nothing to do with you." I tried to avoid him, but was blocked by Su Wu who was lying drunk on the other side of the wine table.

"Mr. Wei's temper is still as hot as before. However, your eyes betrayed your melancholy." Master Yan leaned over and handed him a wine glass. how?"

"Master, father, the doctor praised you." I brushed off his hand on my waist.

I was surprised that the father Yan offered to clear his suspicions.What surprised me even more was that I thought I was hiding my thoughts without leaving any traces, but unexpectedly, an outsider spotted it at a glance.

The second uncle is now married back to Erjinniang, with his cousin, Mrs. Wei, who is an oil bottle. The exclusive favor from the second uncle that originally belonged to me is like cutting my favorite dress into several pieces of cloth. People split up and left.It has been half a year since no one taught me how to dance the sword in the morning, and no one looked up at the starry sky with me at night.On a summer night, I sat alone in the empty and lonely courtyard, watching the Suzaku slowly move across the sky, watching the brilliance of the Sirius gradually being swallowed up by the day, and the only thing that accompanied me was the little dog left behind by the dog prison.

Looking back, the person sitting next to him had changed at some point.

"The master father Yan has already been sent away by me." The emperor suggested with a smile, "Even he can see that you are in a bad mood, and it happens that I am also in a depressed mood. There is Captain Su here to take care of you. Let's go back to the palace and continue drinking."

"Okay." I picked up the wine glass my father left behind and drank it down in one gulp.

***

On an autumn night, the sky is high and the stars are clear.The wine bottle in his hand contains the carefully filtered jade wine in the palace. When it is shaken gently, the stars and the moonlight are shining, all of which are shattered into a piece of brilliance in the wine.

The aroma of apricot blossom wine has never been so intoxicating. The sweet and slightly spicy wine slowly slips through the throat, leaving a feeling of numbness after the burning pain disappears.

"Drunk like this after just a few drinks? Nephew needs to practice his drinking capacity. When you really enter the court and become an official, I will no longer be able to hold back the entertainment wine for you." The emperor smiled lightly and motioned for the servant to fill up the wine bottle in my hand .

Yes, it's rare to have someone to watch the stars with me tonight. However, the person sitting next to me doesn't seem to be the person I was looking forward to.Suzaku will turn around, Sirius will disappear, and even the brightest Taibai star will change from east to west, unpredictable.The black curtain is covered with countless stars, as always, eternally unchanged, but there has always been only the string of shining Big Dippers at the end of the sky.

"My nephew's worries, can you share with me?" The emperor slowly got up with a wine bottle in his hand, and moved to sit next to me.

The shadows of the whirling trees in the courtyard danced against the candlelight, and the drunkenness hit me, and the stars in the sky were blurred in front of my eyes.

"I've lived in Wei's house for so many years. At the end of my stay, I'll have the illusion that I'm my uncle's child." After drinking the whole glass of wine, I opened my mouth.As expected, he had changed, and even Du Kang, who was always disliked, didn't resist so much.

His Majesty pretended to suddenly realize: "It turns out that I and my nephew share the same disease."

I ignored the emperor, and continued to say to myself: "I ran away from home privately, and followed my uncle to the capital to join him. He could definitely drive me back to Chen's house, but he didn't say anything. Later I I was almost led back to Taiyuan by Chen Zhang, and he was the one who blocked it for me."

"Zhongqing can indeed be called a good father." The emperor took the wine pot from the servant and filled it up for me. "He treats you very well, I can see that."

"The more than one year in the palace was the happiest time for me. In the morning he would accompany me to practice swords, and in the evening he would accompany me to play football and watch the stars. If possible, I hope that my days will continue like this forever." I closed my eyes Close your eyes, take a deep breath, "I was worried that the good times would be gone one day, but I didn't expect it to end so unexpectedly. I thought I could always occupy his heart and mind, and treat him childishly willful , to be unique to him until the eternity of time. But I was wrong, I did too many capricious things, now he has Su Jia and Mrs. Wei, so he doesn't want me anymore."

"Silly boy, that's not your fault." The Emperor comforted me by wrapping his arms around me from behind, and wrapping me in his generous arms.

"He really doesn't want me anymore. He left me alone in the palace and adopted Wei Wei as his adopted son." I raised my head to look at the emperor, and unconsciously raised my voice, "You all feel that my cousin is unfortunate, but in In my eyes, my cousin is the happiest person in the world."

The emperor's hands tightened.

I broke away from him, picked up the wine bottle on the table, and downed the whole glass.

"I once swore that no matter what my uncle decides, I will stand by his side and never leave. Now I keep my vow, send him my blessing, and pretend to be indifferent to everything in front of me, but I I feel sad."

"Oh, it's the first time I've heard you talk so much." The emperor turned sideways and let me lean on his shoulder, "Cry when you're sad, it'll be better if you cry."

I close my eyes.Su Jia was holding the hem of the bride's dress with both hands, wearing a red hijab, and rushed out from the gate of the Su Mansion; the second uncle was holding Su Jia's hand, and their backs gradually disappeared; Mrs. Wei held up two small fists, Smile at me happily.All these scenes flooded my mind and took my breath away.

"I can't cry." Opening my eyes again, I stared blankly at the dancing candlelight.

He thought for a while: "Do you still remember the song "Zijin" that you sang in the music exam?"

I nodded.

He tapped the stone table with one hand and started to tune for me. I continued to tune and stopped after humming a few words.

"Forgot the words?" He smiled in my ear.

"No, it's just that I suddenly don't want to sing anymore." I stared at him and said unconvinced.Suddenly, the blurred halo flooded in my eyes, like water from a flood gate, and it was out of control.

The emperor looked back into my eyes, and after a moment's pause, he suddenly sighed: "You really look like him."

"You are not the first to say that I look like my second uncle." I frowned and complained.

"Oh?" He raised his eyebrows and asked me, "Has Zhongqing mentioned to you how I met him?"

"Isn't it Pingyang Mansion?" I wondered.

He couldn't help laughing, shook his head and said: "The first time I saw your uncle, it wasn't in Pingyang Mansion."

When he spoke, he did not use the self-proclaimed '望'.

"The year before I ascended the throne, my father was seriously ill and stayed in the Ganquan Palace all day to escape the summer heat. I, the prince, often stayed by his side. That year, Pingyang Marquis Cao Shi's health was not so bad. Cao Xiangshang When she was still in her infancy, Pingyang’s sister and her family came to Ganquan Palace in a carriage to visit her father, who was recuperating.”

"I remember the morning when they arrived at Ganquan Palace, there was mist everywhere in the mountains and forests. The carriage from Pingyang Mansion drove towards me so slowly from that bamboo forest." The emperor looked into the courtyard The whirling tree shadow made a gesture from far to near.

"At that time, Zhongqing was about the same age as you. He was wearing a coachman's coarse clothes and tied his horns. He was very ordinary, very small, and even inconspicuous. However, when he raised his head, everything around Overshadowed."

The Son of Heaven covered my eyelids with his thumb and wiped away the water from the corners of my eyes.His fingertips, like the wings of a bird, lightly landed on my eyelashes.

"His pupils are like sweet spring water, and his eyes are like electricity under a rock. I have never seen such a pair of clear and beautiful eyes, which are as dazzling as the stars in the sky. Looking at him, it is like seeing a palace hanging on the wall. A Taoist fairy painting, even the servant's clothes are set off by his whole body, which is luxurious."

I closed my eyes, let his fingertips caress between my eyebrows, and followed his words to recall the scenery of Ganquan Palace, and recalled the young second uncle who had the same horn as me.

Speaking of which, when the second uncle stands side by side with the emperor, they are about the same height. If the emperor didn't often wear the veiled crown, I would think that the second uncle is slightly taller than the emperor.

The emperor continued to immerse himself in memories.

"Soon, I saw Zhongqing again. That day I only brought a bodyguard and sneaked out of the palace to go hunting. Halfway through, I was forced back by the black bear in the mountains, and I was in a panic. Seeing that we were about to become dinner in the belly of the black bear, Zhongqing seemed like a divine soldier descended from the sky, galloping towards him on horseback, and slashed the dagger at the black bear's neck." He stretched out his left hand, and drew a line in the air with his backhand, to my surprise, he was so arrogant in his daily life. At this time, the man showed a shy look, "I asked him how he did it, and he told me that when he was young, he was herding sheep in the north, and the danger of tigers and wolves was commonplace."

My second uncle once told me many interesting stories about the northern border, but I never heard him mention the Ganquan Palace.But before I went to Ganquan Palace, he repeatedly told me to follow the big troops when walking in the mountains. It turned out that there was a reason for this.

"After I ascended the throne, all the Tiger Talismans of the Northern Army and the Eastern and Western Imperial Army were in the hands of the Imperial Grandmother. She prevented me from reforming and forbidding me to go north. I was determined to build my own army. At that time, I already had a candidate for the leader in my heart. He withdrew his fingers and looked into my eyes again, "A pair of clear eyes, a superb imperial skill, and a brave heart, each of these three things made me deeply intoxicated and unable to extricate myself."

"So, the Qimen Army's tiger talisman is a bear?" I couldn't help but smile when I thought of the half of the tiger talisman that I suppressed by the pillow mat for a year as copper.

"That's right." He nodded, "I went to Pingyang Mansion to discuss employment matters with the emperor's sister. But at that time, I found that the eyes of the emperor's sister Pingyang looking at Zhongqing are the same as the way I look at Zhongqing."

I gave him a look of "in fact, I have discovered it a long time ago".

"We are sisters and brothers, with the same heart, and we fall in love with the same person at the same time. It's ironic, but very realistic." He looked at me and let out a self-deprecating smile.

"Princess Pingyang and her second uncle got married on the same day, did you arrange it on purpose?" I smiled through tears.

"It's really a ghost, these things can't be hidden from you." The emperor who successfully dug out the corner of the emperor's sister had a proud expression on his face.

***

I don't know how many drinks I had or when I passed out, I just remember being haunted by a lot of messy dreams.

In the dream, someone took off my boots for me, hugged me and lay flat on the couch, and untied my belt.

The man's breath pressed down, pried open my lips, and lingered domineeringly between my lips and teeth.He exuded a familiar aroma from his body, the fragrance of styrax from the palace mixed with the aroma of apricot blossom wine, which made me dizzy.

One of his hands reached into the skirt of my shirt, and kept walking between the two sensitive points on my chest, while the other hand slid under me, lifted the hem of the jacket, and rubbed it between my legs.I hesitated and wanted to avoid it, but his hands were always gentle and comfortable, gently stroking the skin under my body, the rough palm covered with calluses lingered between my legs, teasing my front end, bursts The numbness swept over me like a violent storm.I clung to his shoulders like a drowning man clinging to a piece of driftwood, or an island in the midst of an ocean.

"It's not someone you like, so you can't touch this place." My second uncle once told me.

But what if the person who touched me was my second uncle?

"Uncle." I called softly, straightening up my lower body instinctively, cooperating with the hands walking around my body.The feeling of being kissed brings me the satisfaction of being valued, relied on, and needed, the intimacy, the distance between lips and teeth, what fills the emptiness, and what comforts is loneliness.

The man's movements stopped, and the lingering between his lips and teeth and the heat of his fingers withdrew at the same time.

"I'm sorry." He whispered over me.

"No, Uncle, I want more." I went up to meet him, blindly searching for the heat source that had long gone.

The man stuck up from behind again, held down my hands and feet that were waving wildly in the air, and held me in his arms.

"Don't move, just let me hold you like this." He ordered softly but firmly in my ear.

The author has something to say:

Jinjiang is even slower here. If you are interested, please move to Changpei.