Sealing Sword

Life is full of misfortunes and fortunes.

The Jingwang Rebellion was turned upside down overnight, and disappeared within ten days. Emperor Chongzhao suffered repeated blows and finally fell ill. A short and bloody purge.

Prime Minister Qin Mingde was originally a member of the Southern Confucianism lineage, so he naturally supported it with all his strength; Cheng Wang Chuyun led troops to quell the chaos and track down the remnants of the chaotic party, so as to show that he had no intention of becoming a big man; Duan Wang Chuyu suppressed the major families headed by Situ, It is wise to be the first bird in this stormy situation.

Impeachment, stalking, stalking, and crimes... one after another memorials were submitted, orders were issued one after another, every family's door was raided, and every individual's head fell to the ground.

The grandson of the emperor, who is under 16 years old, finally no longer bears it after two years of tolerance, showing his sharpness and minions.

However, these have nothing to do with Chu Yao.

Tianlao, this place that he only heard of its name but didn't know the real thing, has finally come here as a guest.No one here knows who this child is and why he was imprisoned at such a young age. The jailer was ordered not to speak much, so he was locked in a cell alone, and did not say a word to him except for the daily delivery of water and food. talk.

Within ten days, the sky prison became very lively. People kept coming in and going out one after another. Some people cursed and cursed day and night, and some people scrambled and bited wildly. The guards beat the prisoners heavily with whips, gradually There are casualties, bloody, rotten, foul smell... All kinds of smells are mixed with all kinds of living beings that Chu Yao has never seen before, like a flood of beasts rushing through the city gate that he has been carefully protected by the princess all his life, raging inside, Submerge all the softness and beauty that you once believed in.

Of course the jailors who knew about it didn't dare to beat him, but they didn't care about him. Chu Yao was sitting on the moldy and damp haystack with his back against the cold brick wall, and the rats were scurrying around, but he was more pitiful than these rats.

"Your Majesty! I want to see Your Majesty!"

"Bold! My official is the imperial censor, who of you would dare... ah!"

"It's the prince who wants to rebel! We're just following orders and begging His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun for mercy!"

"I know I was wrong, I, I know who is still an accomplice, you let me out, and I will go and atone for him myself!"

"..."

Chu Yao covered his ears with his hands, but his voice was still so clear.

In ten days, he lost a lot of weight, his whole body was dirty and smelly, and his hands and feet were covered with scars from grinding on the rough ground.From the beginning of holding on to the iron chain of the gate and crying loudly, to the silence of not saying a word now, Chu Yao has not said a word or eaten a mouthful of food for three days, so quiet that he seems to have lost his soul.

Chu Yao felt that there were many things he didn't understand, and there were many things he wanted to think about, but he didn't know anything, so naturally he couldn't think about it, and he didn't have the heart to think about it until now.

People can say beautiful words, such as being calm and steady, but when things come to an end, who can really think twice before acting?

He wanted to know what happened, but he didn't dare to think about it instinctively. He looked around in panic, and all he saw were hideous and sad faces, but the person he wanted to see never came.

The person Chu Yao wants to meet is at Donglai Pavilion.

This is the study room of Emperor Chongzhao, and it now belongs to the emperor's grandson Chu Xun who is in danger. A meaningful look glanced at them as they passed by.

Putting down the memorial, Chu Xun wore a fine attire and a golden crown with hair tied. It gave people a very different feeling from the noble and gentle boy before, with more majesty that people dare not look at.

Gu Xiao walked up to her, without saying a word, and knelt on the ground with her hem lifted.

He has never bent down a few times since he was a child, and he seldom knelt down. Except for the master, wife and master, only the lives of more than 20 people in Baihua Village are worthy of his kneeling. In front of Chu Xun.

Chu Xun's hand holding the memorial suddenly tightened, and he concealed the fleeting look in his eyes: "Master, what do you mean? It's windy in the middle of the night, and your injuries are still unhealed, so you should get up quickly."

Gu Xiao didn't get up, but cupped her hands and saluted: "His Royal Highness is a thousand years old."

"You and I, master and apprentice, now there are no outsiders, why bother with these vain rituals?" Chu Xun put down the memorial, "Could it be that the master thinks that Xun'er is not qualified to be your apprentice if he sits in this position?"

Gu Xiao raised her eyes: "Since Your Highness still recognizes me as a master, then...can you please forgive me?"

Chu Xun fell silent suddenly, Gu Xiaochang couldn't kneel down.

After a while, Chu Xun let out a long sigh: "Master, you have always been very sensible, so why make things difficult for me now?"

"Those who don't know are innocent." Gu Xiao's voice was hoarse, "Ah Yao is still young, the princess has kept everything a secret, he doesn't know anything."

"Princess Jing, Tang Zhiyin, my Fourth Aunt... Heh, she is really good at destroying the evidence and preserving most of the old documents, and found such a way out for her son, but..." Chu Xun raised his eyes, his tone turned cold, "Why should I let go of someone who hates me as she wishes?"

Gu Xiao lowered his eyelids.

Chu Xun left the case, walked up to Gu Xiao in person, knelt down and pointed at his injured abdomen, and said, "Ten days ago, if Master hadn't blocked it for me, this knife should have pierced my heart... He doesn't know that King Jing is plotting rebellion, but he knows that we forced his parents to death, the enmity is as deep as a sea of ​​blood, I am afraid that if he survives for a day, he will not let us go."

After a pause, Chu Xun said again: "Or, master, go and tell him the truth. If A Yao can figure it out, I, the elder brother, will naturally not necessarily put him to death."

"Your Highness, if Ah Yao knows everything now, even if you let him go, no one else will." Gu Xiao's lips curled up slowly, "In this way, you will indeed give him a way out, but you will have a lot of trouble. People are scrambling to send him to death."

Chu Xun was not annoyed when he broke his plan, got up and said: "Since Master understands so well, why bother?"

Gu Xiao was silent for a moment, then raised her head and said, "Ah Yao's life and death is just a matter of cinnabar for His Royal Highness. The King Jing's rebellion ended in a short time. Although the chief culprit has been executed, the rest of the party is still buried deep, and the situation is tense. , the follow-up can only be figured out slowly, at this juncture, rather than chasing and fighting to expand the situation, His Highness should prefer how to suppress this royal secret, and it must be known that it is better to have a long-term plan than to startle the snake."

"Master's opinion coincides with Lord Ruan's." Chu Xun lowered his eyes, "However, it was the emperor's grandfather's intention to put A Yao in the prison, and it is impossible for me to offend the Holy Spirit at this time because of a person who wants to kill me. Yan Tu is in trouble."

"Your Majesty is seriously ill, and half of the jade seal has already fallen into His Highness's hands. As long as you are willing to forgive him, he will have a way out."

Gu Xiao bent down, her forehead rested on the back of her hands, and she didn't get up for a long time.

Chu Xun's eye sockets turned red at this moment.

He looked at Gu Xiao's low-lying figure. Ever since he met in trouble three years ago, this young but indomitable person is like a master and a father in Chu Xun's heart. Many times when Chu Xun feels that he can't hold on, he will remember That year Gu Xiao took him with the decisive eyes when he jumped off the cliff.

Without this person, Chu Xun might have died.

He thought that Gu Xiao could always live like this with his spine straight and fearless, but he didn't expect that this person also has weaknesses, and also has reluctance, and would kneel and bow his head for others.

"Master..." Chu Xun bent down and reached out to help him, but he couldn't move.

"Being public or private, I know His Highness is in a difficult position. This time, I will pay ten times more for your ruthless request. Your Highness, please... let A Yao go!"

"..."

"Your Highness, I beg you, let him go."

"..."

Hot liquid poured out of the eye sockets, and was wiped clean by one hand. Chu Xun looked at Gu Xiao steadfastly, and finally said after a long while: "Yes."

Gu Xiao raised his head, and Chu Xun helped him up himself, and said word by word: "Master, I agree to you this time, but there are two conditions, and you must agree to me."

"Please speak, Your Highness."

Chu Xun took a deep breath: "First, I will drive him out of Tianjing, and he will not be allowed to return in this life."

"it is good."

"Second... I want you to disable his martial arts with your own hands, and then pour him the secret medicine of the palace."

Gu Xiao frowned.

Chu Xun clenched his fists: "Master, don't blame me for being cruel, letting him die is already the limit, but he has eyesight and hearing and hatred, I can't feel at ease whether he is public or private...I assure you, even if he becomes a dumb idiot Son, I will also make him rich and safe for the rest of his life."

"But if you do this, is it any different from killing him?" Gu Xiao refused to give in on this point, "He is still young, if he becomes disabled, how will he deal with himself in the future? He is no longer the son and grandson, He has nothing, if he doesn't even have that meager martial arts, how can you let him live and work in the market?"

Chu Xun finally waved his sleeves angrily: "Alright, alright, master, you have thought about my position. He has martial arts, and has no disability or mental impairment. If he leaks his identity in the future and colludes with the remnants of the rebellious party What should I do when I make a comeback? Man’s calculation is never as good as the sky’s calculation. This time, there is a time when people help each other to suppress a rebellion. When the time comes, who will help me?”

Gu Xiao didn't say a word, but Chu Xun seemed to have found an outlet for the anger and grievance that had been suppressed in his heart for many years. With a strong wave, the red sandalwood shelf overturned, and the precious porcelain and bronze wares on it fell to the ground, shattering into pieces. I can't fight back to the past.

"My father was murdered by his father, and my mother was scared and sick and lived in the Buddhist hall, leaving me alone to face this imperial palace. I have never tasted the favor of my parents since I was a child, and he is still enjoying the family relationship at the knees of his parents. Le, so carefree that I envy him! His father lied to me for ten years, I treated A Yao like brothers and sisters, and regarded his parents as relatives, but I almost died outside the palace because of his schemes, and even more, I almost became Bei The catastrophe in Xinjiang... Yes, A Yao was innocent when he was young and ignorant. Did I deserve all the suffering? Why did I become like this? Why should I let the enemy's son go?

"Master, you saved my life back then, and later you accepted us as disciples. Even though you knew I had other ideas, you still spared no effort to teach. I respect you and thank you in my heart, but you always consider him more than me. Why? He will always live better than me?!"

Gu Xiao raised her head and looked at Chu Xun standing with her hands on the table. Her body was trembling because of being too emotional. Even her breathing and heartbeat were messed up. Her eyes were red, and although she still kept a smile on her face. , but uglier than crying.

Chu Xun murmured: "Master, what am I...how inferior to him?"

Gu Xiao looked at the memorials scattered on the ground. Apart from the dense lines of text, there were shocking traces of cinnabar brushes. It can be seen that this 15-year-old grandson of the emperor is really working hard to be a prince and become a wise man in the future. the emperor.

All the civil and military eyes of the court fell on him. Chu Xun's performance of advancing and retreating in the past ten days was beyond reproach, but who would have known that he would also cry and bewildered behind others?

It is said that "a man bleeds but does not shed tears", but which person in this world did not start from crying?

Gu Xiao sighed, as if she had aged ten years at this moment.

He finally stood up, took the boy who was only half a head shorter than himself with both hands, pressed him on his shoulders unskillfully, patted the other person's back, and said: "When my master was alive, he often said, 'Ning Que is not lame' ', so she has only one apprentice like me in her life... Therefore, I accept you as apprentices out of my heart and not just because of other things, and I will only have two of you in this life, and there will never be a third person."

After a pause, he softened his tone: "However, I am indeed biased. I can't make a bowl of water between you and him. Said, overcoming sex, but... Xun'er, I know that you are in this position to find something, and there are all kinds of difficulties. I only ask you this time. In the next ten years, I will work hard for you. Regardless of life or death, no name or surname, die with meager strength, until you become a good emperor on your own."

Chu Xun's hands that were about to push away froze in the air.

After a long time, he said in a hoarse voice: "If I still don't want to, Master...will he just leave Tianjing and never help me again?"

Gu Xiao shook her head: "If you don't want to, I won't go back on what I said, and I will help you protect the court, family and country for ten years, and then..."

"Then what?"

"Then, I went to A Yao and said 'I'm sorry', and reincarnated after making up what I owed him, and I will be a good man again after 18 years." Gu Xiao let go of his hand and took two steps back, his eyebrows curved, "When the time comes Ayao and I are young, and you stand in the middle of the year, maybe you will join the common people to wish His Majesty a long and boundless life during festivals."

Chu Xun's nose was sore, he closed his eyes, and there was a battle between heaven and man in his heart.Gu Xiao didn't force him this time, but held his breath and waited for an answer.

It wasn't until the tears on Chu Xun's face dried up that Gu Xiao heard the inaudible words: "I promise you."

A token fell into Gu Xiao's arms, and Chu Xun turned his back, his voice trembling slightly: "Tonight, I will allow you to see him again, and then I will send someone to send him away, and there will be no more people in Tianjing since then." Chu Yao '...Ten years, I can't guarantee that I won't move him for the rest of my life, but I will let him live for ten years, when he grows up, life, death, misfortune and fortune are all his own, and I have nothing to do with it."

After a pause, Chu Xun said shyly, "Master, I remember what you said."

"Xu Jun promises that he will never go back on his word."

Gu Xiao nodded, put away the token and left the Donglai Pavilion, Chu Xun turned around to look at his back, and loosened his tightly clenched fingers little by little.

Tianjing has been raining at night for several consecutive days, and finally there is moonlight tonight.

It's a pity that the moonlight is as cold as water.

Gu Xiao walked very fast, and went straight to the prison after leaving the gate of the palace, and entered this cold and terrifying prison cell not long after.

It was already late at night, and Chu Yao had already run out of energy for three days without eating or drinking. The jailer whipped and reprimanded him, but he couldn't suppress it.

"Beasts! Beasts that betray their masters!"

"Gu Xiao, you running dog, you're going to die!"

"I'm a ghost and I won't let you go!"

"..."

Hearing these scolding voices, Chu Yao got up without knowing where the strength came from, and stared at the prison door.

Gu Xiao turned a deaf ear to these curses, left everyone behind, opened the cell door and walked in front of Chu Yao.

He looked at the child who had lost his shape within ten days, and called softly, "Ah Yao..."

Chu Yao didn't move, just stood there and stared at him blankly.

Gu Xiao forced a smile and said, "I'm here to say goodbye to you."

Chu Yao was silent for a moment, and asked, "Life or death?"

This innocent child seems to have lost all his liveliness and innocence in the past ten days. The way he looked at Gu Xiao at this moment reminded him of a falcon in the dark night. See the prototype of the bone.

He squatted down, looked at Chu Yao at the same level, reached out to touch the dirty face, and said, "You will leave Tianjing and live a new life..."

Gu Xiao's voice stopped abruptly, Chu Yao bit his right index finger with his head sideways, exhausted all the remaining strength in his body, his teeth sank into the flesh, and refused to let go even after tasting the blood, Gu Xiao felt that the teeth were biting on the bone.

His movements froze, he stroked Chu Yao's head lightly with his left hand, and continued: "I know you hate me and Xun'er, but if you can't live well, all of these are meaningless."

Chu Yao finally let go. His mouth smelled of blood, but he was not at all happy. He twitched the corners of his mouth and didn't cry. He just said, "Master, I don't want to live now. Tell me the truth... tell me , all of this is why... okay?"

"It was your mother and concubine who told you to keep you alive." Gu Xiao stood up, "So what if you know the truth? It's just that there is nothing you can do."

Chu Yao clenched his fists.

Gu Xiao looked down at him: "You can't blame us for hating us, but you also need to know the truth of 'teacher is the first disciple', whether it's hatred or hate, you just remember it on me."

"Remember it on you?" Chu Yao raised his head, "Master, I will kill you to avenge... is it okay?"

Gu Xiao smiled, looked at the bloody tooth marks on her fingers, and said, "Okay, this is a mark, and I will give you my life in ten years."

Chu Yao's pupils shrank, and then he laughed, laughing heartbreakingly, and coughing intermittently.

"Give it to me... Oh, master, do you still want to lie to me?" Chu Yao burst into tears, his eyes darkened, "Gu Xiao, you keep saying that you will give me your life in ten years, but life and death in the world are impermanent. Do you think that you are the king of hell who can determine misfortune and fortune, and that what you say will definitely count? You are a lackey of the court, you may die one day, and you don’t know where the bones are left. Where should I find them? Are you seeking revenge?"

Gu Xiao looked at him without saying a word, until a light cough came from outside, it was the jailer reminding him that it was time.

In the end, the thousands of words he had thought up were useless, Gu Xiao just bent his lips, stared into Chu Yao's eyes, and said softly: "If there really is a day, I will find you in a dream even if I am a ghost. If you don’t return your life in this life, you won’t be reincarnated in the next life, it’s just Ah Yao...don’t be afraid of ghosts.”

After saying this, before Chu Yao came back to his senses, he had already walked out.

The cell door was closed again, and Chu Yao woke up with a start. From his throat, he let out a howl like a wounded animal, and rushed up, but only bumped into the cold door.

"Master, master! Come back!"

"..."

"Master! I don't want your life, you come back! I beg you to come back!"

"...

"Who are you? I'm not going anywhere! Master! Master!"

"..."

"Gu Xiao—"

The last cry suddenly rose and stopped abruptly. Gu Xiao had already walked out of the gate of the prison. Hearing the sound, his footsteps stopped, and he turned his head almost stiffly.

It's a pity that all he saw was the dark aisle.

He had an impulse at this moment, but in the end, he chose to turn around and move on.

When there was no one around, Gu Xiao finally burst into tears.

Suddenly, a passage that Duan Qing said to him on the night when he was ten years old when he first learned Jinghong Dao and had to endure hardships echoed in his ears——

"Cold branches drop dead leaves, floating life grinds light dust; this body is like a frightened bird, and disappears in a blink of an eye. One day, you will leave the nest and fly alone, flutter your wings in the sky, lose the shelter of the big tree of Cen Tian, ​​and usher in the bright gun The danger of backstabbing, even the hometown is no longer, the sea will eventually turn into mulberry fields, and you will cross thousands of rivers and mountains, and never see your way back.

"However, you will change from a chick to a goshawk, spread your wings and fight in the sky, and fight through the wind and rain, and you may be so painful that you don't want to go on, but you have to remember both the pain and the joy, and go forward bravely across thousands of miles to find what you want in your life Be at peace."

Aoyama Arakuzuka said:

The palace change chapter is over.

Open the last volume of "Fengyun Chapter".

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