Wishing You Eternal Happiness - Chapter 78

After a few days, the civil and military officials of the Manchu dynasty knew that the emperor frequently called Pei Youan into the imperial study to discuss matters. This is a sign that he has been in the funeral for less than half a year.

Such a prestigious honor, but once again verified one thing that has always been: the emperor’s reliance on and trust in Pei Youan is extraordinary.

After Pei Youan returned to Beijing, he remained low-key. Apart from being called into the palace, he seldom interacted with his colleagues and stayed behind closed doors in the mansion most of the time. There has always been a rumor that he has friendship with Han Zhen Zi Xiang in Bai He Guan. In addition to treating that female Guan Zi’s brother, he also has a graceful past with Shi Ying Fu. This time I will return. Jing has also been seen in Guanzhong.

One is a legendary woman with a fragrant jade bone and a different vulgarity, and the other is a stunningly talented and powerful and respected suave man. It is inevitable that Pei Youan is also not exempt from vulgarity, and everyone mentions it with envy.

In Baiheguan, Pei Youan turned to the front of the book and dipped the ink for Chi Hanzhen.

I haven’t seen him for a long time. The real Chi Han is weaker than Huang Hua. He is weaker than Huang Hua. Just now because of the severe cough, the blush on his cheeks has not subsided. I was ill for some time, but I saw a few doctors, but I didn’t see any improvement, but the illness became more lingering. The broken body is not a pity to die, but if I have a bad one, leaving the younger brother unattended, I have to be brazen and annoy the adults again.”

Pei Youan wrote the prescription, and after the ink dried, handed it to the other little Taoist who was standing beside him, turned to Chi Hanzhen, and said softly: “Why did you say this? I told you before, no matter what, if you have Just come to find me, let alone your body? Your illness is not light this time. In addition to your weak body, you are also too much to think about it. If you interact internally and externally, you can’t afford it. In addition to taking medicine according to the prescription, you need more. Relax and don’t think meaninglessly.”

Tears flickered in Chi Hanzhen’s eyes and nodded in agreement.

Pei Youan looked around and saw that the four walls were in vain, and the furnishings were much empty than before.

“When I just entered the temple, I heard the Taoist Taoist clearly say that you have become a lot of objects recently?”

Chi Hanzhen said: “This is a female outlook. My brother is in good health. After all, there are differences between men and women, and I also send them under the fence, so I told him to move out and entrust him to a fellow villager. People are extremely trustworthy. I need to spend some money to eat and wear daily, so I don’t have much savings on hand, so I packed up some extras, or put on or wore it, and made adults laugh.”

Pei You’an said, “Do you need me to be one or two?”

Chi Hanzhen hurriedly shook his head: “Adults must not. I just don’t want to receive feedback from outsiders anymore. That’s why I am a mess. Adults have helped me a lot. I only hate thanking me for nothing. Do you want an adult to help me?”

Pei Youan nodded slightly: “Qing is pure and clean. Fortunately, I will not force you to insult you with vulgar things. But in the future, if you are really difficult, you don’t need to be reserved, just let me know.”

Chi Hanzhen lowered his eyebrows and thanked him deeply.

Pei Youan packed the medical box he had brought and said goodbye. Regardless of his physical weakness, Chi Hanzhen personally sent him to the hospital.

Pei Youan asked her to stay, and took a few steps on her own. Suddenly he thought of something, he hesitated, turned around, and whispered: “Your grandfather used to be a master of calligraphy and painting. I remember that Emperor Tianxi once made a postscript and overwritten the private seal of the first emperor. . I don’t know those calligraphy and paintings, can you still keep them now?”

Chi Hanzhen recalled the past with a melancholy expression: “It’s hard for an adult to remember his grandfather’s calligraphy and painting. There was an accident in the house, and people could not protect themselves, let alone other things. At that time, his grandfather was also grateful for the grace of the emperor, because there were emperors on those pictures. The imperial pen, so I kept it in advance, and quietly entrusted it to a close friend. Now I have returned to me. There are only a few calligraphy and paintings left, so I can think about it. I don’t know what the adult asked, why? If you need it, please wait a moment. , I will take it, the adults will take it.”

Pei Youan smiled and said: “You have misunderstood. I saw you as a weak girl, looking after your younger brother alone. The situation is difficult, and you don’t want to be favored in vain, so I want to remind you that the few calligraphy and paintings with Xiandi’s inscriptions If it is, you will keep it safe, and in the future, it will be hard to get a lot of money.”

Chi Hanzhen’s eyes were puzzled: “I am a little puzzled by what an adult means. Why is it that in the future, it will be hard to find money?”

Pei Youan smiled slightly: “You remember what I said. I’ll say goodbye. After you take the medicine, if your condition returns, don’t worry, just ask someone to tell me.”

He nodded towards Chi Hanzhen, then turned and left, flicking his clothes and walking calmly.

Chi Hanzheng fixedly looked at the fading figure in front of him, and gradually showed the painful color, which was actually silly.

…

In June, the Shanglin Yuan Supervisor was playing. Four new gates were opened in Shanglin Yuan. The expansion has been completed. Now it occupies an area of ​​more than hundreds of kilometers. Everything is complete, only wait for the emperor’s imperial driver to come in person to check the results.

Shanglin Garden is located in the west of the city, dozens of miles away from the city, and its management is extremely strict. It is stipulated that one person should not be encircled for hunting without permission, and it is forbidden to commit crimes. Xiao Lie liked shooting hunting when he was young. He still remembered that when he was sixteen, he secretly took a few pros and went hunting in the garden. Loved this young son, but to be wary of imitation, he had to be punished according to the system. The circumstances at that time, many shame, became the laughing stock of brothers, until he was twenty years old, after being sent to Yunnan, for decades, every time he was depressed, he often To shoot and hunt to send arms. Now that he became the emperor, he was appointed to innovate, and he worked hard to govern. In a flash, he was busy for nearly two years. He was so busy and couldn’t be free all day long. Seeing the report on this day, I got a moment of interest. When they entered Beijing one after another, they chose a day and ordered the martial arts hall to be moved to Shanglin Garden for a trial. All officials with Grade 4 and above in Beijing are both hunting and assessing scholars, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

After Xiao Lie became the throne, he was diligent and indifferent, regardless of the cold and heat, almost every day, tired civil and military officials also followed like a spinning top, got up every day, and prepared for the early dynasty of May. No peace, the emperor called to go immediately, did not dare to relax a little, listened to finally be able to give up the day, safari in Shanglin Garden, all happy, on the night before departure, all relaxed, accompanied by the ministers, each prepared to go with the emperor tomorrow The guards began to settle in Shanglin Garden a few days ago. The Dahan Generals, the avant-garde guards with swords and the Shenshu camp, etc., led their commanders, commanders, and their subordinates to clean up the hunting grounds and schools to prepare for the emperor’s driving.

The moon of this night was a bit strange, such as a night of snow in June, and the white moonlight sprinkled on the glazed tiles of the East Palace, giving a cold gloom of resentment.

That night, Prince Xiao Yintang’s heart seemed to be cut into two by a sharp edge. Half of it was like fire, agitating, jumping, and burning, making the bottom of his eyes glow red, and the blood in his veins was surging, and half was like the moonlight on the roof of this tile, making people feel resentful and cool deep in the heart.

His father Xiao Lie, the supreme emperor of this empire, finally disappointed him completely.

That night, he had brought the news to him with an excited heart for good. But his reaction disappointed him, even resented him.

Before that, he had never thought that his father, the emperor, had really moved the idea of ​​giving up the throne to others. Even after that night, he still couldn’t believe it. After thinking about it carefully, I even thought that it might be just a kind of temptation for him at that time.

Until that day, the crown prince turned the meeting between the female Guanzi and Pei Youan, as well as all the words he had said, to him.

Why does Pei Youan remind the crown prince to keep the calligraphy and paintings written by Emperor Tianxi? He said that in the future, these paintings will be hard to find. What does it mean?

If you want to understand, everything will be solved suddenly.

Xiao Yu is still alive. As an old minister of the Tianxi court, Pei Youan not only had a close relationship with him, but also had a feeling for Tianxi court that no one could understand.

Most likely, he was lobbying Xiao Lie to honor the original promise and welcome the return of the young emperor.

Xiao Yintang was not sure whether his father was really moved by him, but Xiao Yintang believed that, as he knew in his dream, the emperor’s affection for Pei Youan, an unknown son, was far away. Surpassed myself. The emperor’s trust and reliance on this son is beyond ordinary people’s imagination.

Taking Pei Youan’s city mansion, he shouldn’t urge the emperor to abdicate himself. But if he spoke before the emperor for a long time, persuading the emperor to designate his successor as the young emperor, so as to gain a good reputation in the history books, and the eternal life, this may not be without the slightest attraction to the emperor.

Xiao Yintang knew that Pei Youan could not tolerate himself, just as he could not tolerate him. Between the two, you die and you die. They know this very well in their hearts.

Once, Xiao Yintang thought he was just the emperor’s only son. Now he knew that it was just a joke.

Over the past two decades, the emperor has not only had another son he really loves, but perhaps more sons in the near future.

Even if Pei Youan didn’t get his wish in the end, after the emperor had those sons, how long could he sit still as a prince with the renunciation of his father and son today?

Xiao Yintang was in a cold sweat.

Everything today is completely different from the scene in his dream.

But he stubbornly believed that everything he had seen in his dream was what he should have been in this life.

Zhen Shi was indeed his woman, and he was indeed the emperor of the world.

Everything is different in reality, and the only variable lies with Pei Youan alone.

It was he who took his woman, and now he is going to take away his throne.

In this world, the only person who can let Pei Youan fight against himself is the emperor.

As long as the emperor is gone, Pei Youan in this life, waiting for his end, will only be alone, poisoned by a bowl of poison outside the Great Wall.

Right now, the emperor and his son were sharpening their knives and approaching themselves.

There is not much time left for him. He must fight for himself.

In the killing of the emperor, Pei Youan and his three people, just as he had made known to him in his dream, he was the one who had the last laugh.

…

The next morning, when the capital was cleared, the guards guarded the emperor under the leadership of An Yuanhou and the Chinese military governor Liu Jiu Shao. A hundred officials followed behind, and in the presence of the people on the side of the road, they bowed formidable and went out of the city to Shanglinyuan.

Pei Youan also drove with the emperor, but from the past few days, Chi Hanzhen’s illness has worsened again. He had a high fever last night and he was unconscious. The situation is extremely dangerous. Pei You’an heard the news and told the emperor that he had a problem, so he called. An imperial doctor rushed to him himself, without sleep all night, until this morning, Chi Hanzhen’s high fever finally subsided, but the person was still awake.

The imperial doctor was very old and stayed up all night, exhausted early at the moment. Pei Youan asked the imperial physician to rest, and walked to a stone pavilion in the courtyard by himself.

The stone pavilion is neat and tidy, with a stone table and a stone drum. There are several volumes of yellow scripture on the table, and there is a pair of pen, ink, paper and inkstone next to it. I think it’s another place to read and write in the time of his leisure.

Pei Youan went to the stone pavilion, took the scroll of the Taoist scriptures, flipped through it for a moment, and then put it down. As if he was excited, he began to slowly spread the paper, grind it, picked up a silver pin placed on the pen holder, and dipped it enough. Ink, the book hangs on the wrist.

He stayed up all night, with a few shallow bloodshot eyes covered in his eyes, but his figure is still like a bamboo in the snow, tall and clear, without any fatigue, standing only by the stone table, bowing his head slightly, waving a few ink, and writing intently. .

The morning sun was slowly rising, and a ray of golden light suddenly passed through the oleander branches by the pavilion, projected into the pavilion, and shone on him. A tube of sleeves, the arm that moved with the wave of ink, fluttered slightly in the cool morning breeze.

Chi Hanzhen stood quietly behind the window and looked at the man in the pavilion with his sleeves full of breeze. He couldn’t help it anymore, and the little girl twisted the icekerchief on his forehead with a pull. With a sound of “Hua La”, he opened the door and walked quickly towards Shi Ting under the surprised gaze of the little Taoist aunt.

She was really ill, her face was sallow, and she walked this ten-step walk, with cold sweat on her forehead, stretched out her hand to support a pavilion pillar, took two breaths, and said, “Master Pei, you don’t care about me. Now! Go wherever you should go today! Don’t delay major events because of me!”

Pei Youan glanced at her without stopping, “Are you awake? Go back to the room and rest.”

“Master Pei!”

Chi Hanzhen’s expression was anxious, and he raised his legs and walked, his legs softened, and he fell on the steps of the pavilion, struggling to get up, and said, “Master Pei, go quickly! Leave me alone!”

Pei Youan didn’t change his expression. After writing the last word, he read it again and slowly put the pen tube back on the pen holder. Fang turned and looked at Chi Hanzhen, who was kneeling on the stone steps. His expression was calm and he didn’t say a word.

“Master Pei, I don’t want to lie to you anymore. A few days ago, my younger brother was taken away. Someone threatened me with him and asked me to spy on you. I was ill. I soaked myself in ice water and did not take the medicine you prescribed. A few days ago, I was told again that I must keep you in the view today and cannot tell you to leave for half a step. It will die…”

Chi Han really burst into tears.

“That person is the princess?” Pei Youan asked lightly.

Chi Hanzhen closed his eyes: “Yes!”

“Everyone extols my integrity, but no one knows that there is mud and muddy water in my heart. I am not willing to spend my whole life on Taoism. Although I hesitated when the crown prince came with me, but in order to raise my value, I still refused to cut off the red dust. Unexpectedly, I am now a cocoon, where I am today!”

She burst into tears.

“…Master Pei, you called me pure and clean that day, how can I deserve such praise? You thought about the friendship between my grandfather and your teachers and students, and treated me with the most affection and nature, but I was so deceived. You! Hurry up, go wherever you should go today! If you don’t go again, I’m afraid something will happen!”

She threw herself on the steps, weeping in sorrow.

Pei Youan looked down at her for a moment, got down from the pavilion, and walked out.

After a long time, the little Taoist finally approached with courage, lifted her up from the ground, and sat on the stone drum nearby.

Chi Hanzhen looked at the ink on the paper still lying on the stone table.

“Poems in thousands of scrolls, wine and wine. I have been looking at King Hou, the Yulou Jinqueyun returned, and the plum blossoms were drunk in Luoyang.”

“Hou Qiancheng, King Wancheng. The wind is blowing, the jade flute, and the plum blossoms are beginning to fall, the wine is full of golden bottles and the moon is still young.

The first half is taken from Zhu Yanhe’s partridge, and the second half is taken from the former Tang Liu Chang’an’s Spring Eve legacy.

A ray of morning sun sprinkled on the dripping handwritten ink that still hadn’t dried out, the words were vigorous and calm.

Chi Hanzhen’s eyes were hazy with tears, and he muttered, turning his head and looking for the figure again. The figure had already disappeared outside the courtyard gate.

…

On the same day, a news shocked the ruling and opposition parties.

Today, he hunted in Shanglin Garden and tried martial arts, but he was assassinated by an assassin. The situation was extremely dangerous. Fortunately, Liu Jiushao was so careful that he was told to detect the plot in advance. Before the assassin was close, he was captured by Liu Jiushao, the emperor. Frightened, he ordered a preliminary trial on the spot, and learned that it was actually the work of the King Yudang of Shun’an. He returned to the palace furiously. Then he stopped the court for three days. Just as the officials were panicking and guessing, three days later, the emperor unexpectedly committed a crime against himself. Edict.

The guilty edict said that I and King Shun’an were brothers, and the same ancestors and fathers, connected by blood and blood, but unexpectedly the brothers forced me at the beginning, and I did not consider Quantangdi’s love, so that the misfortune was deep and the clan was embarrassed. Last night I dreamed of my ancestors scolding, and I woke up terrified, fearing that I would lose face in the future to see my ancestors underground. I should have personally returned to the ancestral ground of Gengzhou to guard the mausoleum. , As a common person, on behalf of his father, return to the ancestral land to guard the tomb, with full filial piety.

As soon as this guilt came out, the whole country was in an uproar. Zhang Lao and Zhou Xing begged to see the emperor. After they came out, their faces were as pale as earth. They could hardly walk unless they were supporting them.

In two days, Zhang Lao asked to sue the old man to return home on the grounds of aging and physical decline, and the emperor allowed him to play. Zhou’s family was not so lucky. Zhou Jin was deposed for being a cronist, and then he was afraid of crime and committed himself to prison in Dali Temple. In this case, dozens of officials were implicated.

In less than half a month, the court has undergone such an earth-shaking drastic change. For a while, there are rumblings, civil and military officials, and everyone is in danger. On the surface, they have buckled up, echoed their sins, and praised the prince’s filial piety, but in reality, the terrible news is in secret. Deliver quickly.

It is said that the assassination of Shanglinyuan that day was found to be the accomplice of the crown prince and Zhou Jin. The emperor was so angry that he killed Zhou Jin, abolished the prince, and ordered a prisoner in the ancestral land. During his lifetime, he was not allowed to take half a step.

This is the emperor’s death order, and there is absolutely no possibility of change.