Fragrance in the wind

Jian Zicong galloped all the way against the morning wind, Zizhou saw the surrounding greenery from the slits of his eyes, and the birds were singing in his ears. A burst of strange fragrance spread his senses, and he fell into a coma again.

At some point, Zizhou wakes up in a daze and finds himself lying in a strange room. It is more accurate to call it a stone house rather than a room, because the walls of this room are all made of stone.

The light in the stone house was dim, and there were two indistinct figures standing with their backs to the kang through layers of veils.He couldn't see the other person's face, and he could confirm that one of them was Jian Zicong just by his figure. He didn't know what Jian Zicong said, but the other was silent for a while, and Fang sighed: "It's too late!"

Hearing his sad words, Zizhou couldn't help but tremble. Although this person's voice had never been heard before, his figure reminded Zizhou of a person.

After Jian Zicong left, the man walked to the kang, lifted the veil, his face was clearly reflected in Zizhou's pupils, and he said, "You're awake!"

Zizhou nodded numbly.

He caressed his forehead hair: "Child, you have suffered!"

Zizhou didn't say a word, but just quietly looked at the strange face in front of him. The eyes of this person had the frivolity he was familiar with, and his nose was similar to that of his father, but different from his father's sternness, but with a little more charm. It is not too much to say that he is a handsome man in Yushu Linfeng.

"What are you doing looking at me like that?" He raised his eyebrows and smiled.Zizhou raised a hand to cover his eyes, carefully observed his eyes through the gap between his fingers, and replied with a smile, "Because you look very kind."

It was said that he didn't respond but just walked towards the smoke cage.

Zizhou sat up and looked at the stone house. The basic living facilities were complete, including doors, windows, lampstands, stone tables, storage rooms, a stove, and a stone ladder leading to the next floor in the southwest corner.

"What time is it now?"

He lowered his head and poured him a cup of hot tea with the kettle in his hand, "I thought you would ask where this is and who am I?"

The tone of the speech showed a sense of loss, and he turned around and held the teacup to Zizhou, with the same expression as before, Zizhou took it with both hands, nodded and said: "Thank you!"

"Xiao Zi, why do you and I still have to be so polite?" He watched him speak up suddenly, annoyed at the other party's distant and polite attitude.The latter also slowly focused his eyes on him, and smiled at him: "Master!"

Huan Xinghong laughed loudly, couldn't help pinching Zizhou's face, looked at him deeply and said: "Master knows nothing but we can't hide it from our smart little Zi!"

After Zi Zhou took a sip of the hot tea, he shook his head and said, "Master never intended to hide it, so Xiao Zi recognized it so quickly."

After finishing speaking, he put on his shoes and got off the stone kang, put the teacup on the stone table, came under the window lattice again, opened the window and door, and the river and mountains are as picturesque as you can see. The room in the grotto, leaning on his dark purple single clothes, is peaceful and serene.His black hair was slightly tilted, and he looked back at Huan Xinghong, his eyes were silent, "Master, tell me your story!"

Huan Xinghong was dazed for a long time looking at this picture scroll, until the person in the picture suddenly spoke, he lowered his head in thought, Zi Zhou couldn't help but smiled and said: "Let's start with Xiao Zi's mother, it seems that there is still No one has ever told Xiaozi about her mother's past."

Huan Xinghong raised his head, obviously surprised by what he said.Zizhou turned his face sideways, looked away from the master, looked at the white mist he exhaled in the cold air, and explained in a leisurely manner: "Because the master occasionally looks at Xiao Zi's eyes, he will send some unclear Affection, I am afraid that this kind of affection was not formed in a short time, so I guessed that the master was looking at a person who was very similar to me, and in this world, I am afraid that I am most similar to two people, it cannot be the father, that is Xiao Zi's ​​mother."

As if to tell the truth, Huan Xinghong was silent for a moment, then called out the queen's boudoir name "Yuzhen!" with a look of infatuation, and a look of nostalgia appeared behind him, and he narrowed his eyes slightly as if recalling, "She is a Dare to love, dare to hate, a woman with a strong temperament, but sometimes she is too extreme in love and hate, so she and Chun Yufeng came to a dead end. At that time, Prime Minister Zi doted on this little daughter very much, as long as it was what she wanted, someone would give it to her with both hands , Over time, she has developed a temperament that won't be tolerant or hidden. But it's also her cuteness."

"It turns out that what mother and Xiao Zi expected is similar."

Huan Xinghong picked up the small stove in the tavern and came to Zizhou, handed it to him, and said warmly: "The weather is too cold, and you are wearing thin clothes. It is difficult to recover if you catch wind and cold in this season." After Zizhou took it , he put the cloak on Zizhou's body again.

Hande for 49 years.The first emperor Wendi restored Taixue.That year Huan Xinghong was thirteen, and Yuzhen was only ten.Emperor Wen ordered all officials from the general down to six hundred to send their sons to accept employment.It is also stipulated that two township shooting ceremonies will be held in spring, March and autumn and September every year, and ether students will act as ceremony students, which is an unprecedented event.But Yuzhen, a female companion and a male, entered the Taixue.

Yuzhen was born with a different personality, lively and lovely, arrogant and unrestrained, and it was not long before she was discovered that she was a daughter. The matter was reported to the Emperor Yuqian, but he did not offend the Zi family because of his love of learning. Women's identity continues to study.The world heard about it, and everyone lamented that today's sons cherish talents, wanderers are getting more and more popular, and the number of students has soared to more than 1. The young daughter of the prime minister's family, Yuzhen, has become a household name because of this. God is my refuge, and there is no disaster or harm.”

At this time, the sun was setting and the sky was dark.Zizhou half turned around, leaned against the window lattice, hugged the stove in his arms, his eyes shone slightly, as if he saw some of his mother's expression back then, but when he thought of what happened later, his heart ached beyond measure.How did she love that person so deeply that such a bright girl was eroded by hatred in just a few years?

After a long time, he asked, "When did mother meet Chunyufeng?"

Huan Xinghong closed his eyes, let out a long sigh, and kept speaking at the original speed...

"The third sister entered the palace as a concubine, and for decades she had nothing to do. The former emperor Wendi took pity on her for serving for many years and kept her duty, so he adopted the thirteen princes whose mother died young in a lowly way."

"That year was the master's 15th birthday. The third sister brought the thirteenth prince to the Huan Mansion for the first time to attend a banquet. Yuzhen was also there at that time, and the thirteenth prince followed behind the third sister without saying a word. The children of the family have been playing games since they were young, and suddenly a strange prince came, no matter how much he teased him, he would always look at you with a blank expression until he was bored watching you."

"Although everyone said nothing on the surface, they laughed at him as a cowardly person who was afraid of seeing people, but what they never expected was that this cowardly person who didn't like words saved everyone in the banquet."

"What happened?" Zizhou was fascinated by what he was listening to, and couldn't help asking.

Huan Xinghong looked back and signaled him to calm down with his eyes, and Zizhou was startled that his reaction was too obvious, and he lowered his head in embarrassment.

The corners of Huan Xinghong's lips tightened unnoticed. Every time he recalled the birthday party when he was 15 years old, the thirteenth prince who was hiding in the corner, kept silent, and looked coldly at everyone with those deep eyes, It will be the end of their family.

Father Huan was fond of raising some wild animals, and in his spare time he spent time watching animal fights, so he enclosed a piece of land in Huan's mansion to build a small arena. The hungry wolf went crazy, bit the animal trainer, broke through the fence and rushed towards the crowd. In the chaos, Chunyufeng strangled him. He was only ten years old at that time.

Just when everyone was still in shock, Yu Zhen pointed to the thirteenth prince, Chun Yufeng, and said to Prime Minister Zi firmly, "Father! When my daughter grows up, he can only be the one to marry her."

People are often easily attracted by different kinds, but they never think about whether they are suitable for them.Looking at it from the perspective of a bystander, one is as cold as ice, with deep scheming; the other is flamboyant in nature and pure in nature.What's more, if one person is calm and the other is tempted, the mother loses this love contest from the very beginning.Thinking of this, inexplicably touched Zizhou's feelings, a romantic ending has been doomed to a tragic end from the beginning.

"Maybe it's fate, but the company I've been with since I was a child can't match the emotion of that look." Huan Xinghong muttered to himself, with desolation in his eyes, he went to the stone table and poured a cup of hot tea, took a sip alone, as if Continuing without incident: "You already know what happened after that. After Yuzhen got married, I left Huaixi and began to experience a period of days where I didn't know where to go or where to live. Until I traveled all over the world, I made a lot of friends along the way. A good friend who has lived and died for a long time, only then did I feel that I was narrow-minded at the beginning, always sticking to one gain and one loss, but now that I think about it, compared to your father, I have lived more freely and freely in those years."

Zizhou looked at the master, if his mother chose the master at the beginning, maybe he would not have everything later on, let alone the current self, Chunyufeng might not be the current Chunyufeng.

"When did the master come back? Why did you disguise yourself later?"

"It wasn't until my father passed away that I returned to the past. At that time, the government was in chaos, people's hearts were in turmoil, relatives and eunuchs alternated in power, and the scholars in the Imperial Academy were also undercurrents. Facing the situation of being besieged on all sides, I decided to stay. Help Chunyu Feng to support the government and rectify the government. Disguise is also convenient for doing things, and it is inevitable to get used to it after a long time."

When Zizhou heard this and thought about it carefully, his heart immediately became clear. At that time, the Huan family and the Zi family jointly sent Chun Yufeng to the throne, but after that, the Huan family suddenly kept a low profile, and the master had been hidden in the rivers and lakes for decades. Feng Bian used his master's influence in Jianghu to establish a mysterious organization, and this Jianghu influence played a role that cannot be ignored in the subsequent success of Qi Huan's disaster.

Unknowingly, several servants came and filled the stone table with food, and then the two sat on the ground beside the stone table.Zizhou looked at it and saw that it was his favorite vegetarian food.Huan Xinghong stared at Zizhou, already looking weak, "After Qi Huan's misfortune, I went to Yuzhen, but she..." After a short pause, he changed his words: "Eat quickly! Otherwise, the food will be cold , I haven’t eaten all day, so I’m already hungry!”

Zizhou stared at him fixedly, as if thinking about something, and then nodded slowly after a long time.