The happy life of the devil and the devil

No matter how entangled and annoyed he was, Yuan Shao could only sit there watching Ling Yucheng's sleeping face until dawn, and then obediently rolled to court.Just kidding, he has been away from the capital for four or five days, and he has never been in the mood to deal with government affairs. The capital has been messed up these days, okay?

If Ling Yucheng is well, he can still share the work, but now, he can only work alone, and there is no one who talks, laughs and discusses.

Alas, if you don't deal with the government affairs, the country will be in chaos, and the country will be in chaos...

He can't afford to support his queen.

Giving death and abolishing the prince is a clear signal to the court.In the memorial sent to him today, there is much less content about interceding for the deposed prince, accusing someone of being framed behind him, or plotting to seize the heir apparent.The few books that were pressed down were all sent out more than ten days ago, because of the long distance, they were only delivered now.

On the contrary, there were two piles of memorials accusing the deposed prince of all kinds of bad deeds, proposing to strictly investigate his henchmen, and even proposing to appoint the eleventh prince as the heir.Among them, taking bribes and perverting the law, bullying men and women, licentiousness, and all kinds of appalling deeds, one by one, makes people think that this person is not only unsuitable to be a prince, but should be sent to hell early in order to be able to go to heaven , Xia'an Limin.

Yuan Shao couldn't help but sneer slightly.

The prosperity of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.If his son is really that miserable, why didn't you say a word before?Those who lure him to do bad things, those who lie on him to suck blood, and those who rely on him for profit are not all of you!

Those involved in the case, those who may have been suspected in Ling Yucheng's assassination!Those East Palace officials, those sharpened heads who sent money and gifts to concubines in the abandoned prince's mansion!

Check everything!Check hard!When the problem is found, you can ask the crime as you want!

In anger, Yuan Shao wrote with a pen like a knife and an axe, and a little bit of cinnabar fell on the memorial, which was as shocking as blood.

This depression lasted until noon.Throughout the morning, the courtiers who came to answer his questions were all very careful. As for the Jinwu guards standing in the corridor, and the servants who came in and out delivering things and pouring tea, they held their breath even more. The rustling sound of the cinnabar ingot being ground on the inkstone was also clearly heard.

After scolding the three courtiers away and ordering the death of five former Eastern Palace guards involved in Ling Yucheng's assassination case to deliver news for the deposed prince, Yuan Shao let out a sigh of relief and began to comfort the Wu Zang Temple, who was already screaming weakly.As soon as he picked up his job, the deputy head of Zhaoxin Hall hurried in, knocked his head on the ground, his eyebrows filled with joy:

"Congratulations to Your Majesty! This morning, Her Royal Highness the Princess is happy to have a son! Both mother and child are safe!"

After counting, on the day I was shocked to learn that Ling Yucheng was assassinated, I was anxious about my precious daughter who was due to give birth three days ago, but she didn't start it for a long time.The past few days have been tossing and turning, full of worry, and the imperial doctor staying at the princess's mansion reported every day, but there was no good news for a long time. Until today, there is finally the good news that both mother and child are safe!

For a moment, he didn't even care about the job in his hand, and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay! Reward—heavy reward! Did the child have a name? Wait, I will name it, and you will take it with you!" "

If it weren't for the fact that there was still some sense left, knowing that his daughter had just given birth and it was not easy to see him, even if he went, he would not be able to rush directly into the delivery room. Yuan Shao might have already rushed out of the palace gate, pulled on a horse and galloped away. Out of the palace, right now he can only focus on naming his grandson. He put down the bowl and chopsticks, and rushed to the front of the case. The jade pen dipped in thick ink, I respectfully present it.

Yuan Shao pondered for a moment, then wrote half a word, then frowned and rubbed it away.Obviously, he had chosen countless names when he knew his daughter was pregnant, but now it seems that he doesn't like half of them.

I want that child to be smart, but also want him to be persistent and hard-working. At one moment, I feel that it is best to travel thousands of miles, and at another moment, I feel that the royal family can't give me any wealth. It is best for the child to choose a name that is safe, healthy and good-looking. .This word is too plain, this homonym is not good, this word has been used by someone in history, and the person who used it did not end well... This...

When it's time for a cup of tea, all the balls on the ground here and there are big red paper balls shining with golden spots.

The poor eunuch who delivered the decree waited and waited at the door, his back almost bent, before he waited for a hard-won Dou Fang to come out inside.Watching the servant rushing out of the palace with a thick stack of reward lists and several carriage-sized items, Yuan Shao let out a long breath, finally feeling that there are more than just bad things in this world.

Thanks to this good news, he only lasted the whole afternoon, and at least he didn't get angry when he executed the death row prisoner.In the early winter, the days were short and the nights were long. As soon as it got dark, Yuan Shao got up and went back to his bedroom.The more he walked, the faster he walked, but when he reached the door of the bedroom, he gradually slowed down and hesitated to enter the door.

The warm warmth rushes towards the face through the door curtain, but is the state of mind of the person in the room like the bedroom with the fire wall at the moment, or is it like the night in late autumn and early winter?

He stood there wanting to move forward, but the servant at the end of the corridor took a look and bowed his head silently, but the Xuanjia guard in the room was more daring, and when he called out "Your Majesty", Yuan Shao could only take a step no matter how nervous he was. enter the room.Ling Yucheng was leaning against the head of the bed and slowly sipping warm water, and he looked much better. When he saw him coming in, he leaned over and called "Your Majesty", reflexively getting out of bed and saluting.

"Changsheng!" Yuan Shao rushed forward and pushed him back.With just two words, the servants in the room retreated silently.Under the flickering candlelight, only the two of them faced each other, silent.

"...I am not a good person." After a long silence, Yuan Shao took the water glass in Ling Yucheng's hand, refilled half a glass of warm water from the warm nest, and took a sip before handing it back to Ling Yucheng.Watching Ling Yucheng lower his head and sip in small sips, he casually pulled a chair and sat beside the bed, pondered for a long time, and opened his mouth slowly.

"I won't talk about it before I ascended the throne. When I was the prince, when Yu Xia was traveling... almost all of it was my own temperament. He was so brave and ruthless in the rivers and lakes. How many people have been killed by a disagreement? I can't even remember."

"Let's talk about family members. I was ignorant when I was young, and my parents and queen mothers tolerated them. I didn't care about raising children after giving birth. I always felt that there were biological mothers watching, palace eunuchs serving, and when I was older, my master taught me. Growing up safely. In the end, the children in the palace were born and raised one after another, and now there are only a handful of them."

With the difficulty honed by time in his voice, he spoke while looking at Ling Yucheng's reaction.From the moment he said the first word, Ling Yucheng sat up straight, pursed his lips, and clasped his fingers on the white and smooth porcelain cup.The water mist in the cup rose, covering his clear eyes with some hazy taste.

"Being unkind to a father, being a husband...it doesn't necessarily matter. When choosing a crown princess, you know what I thought? I deliberately picked the one who is soft-tempered and well-behaved...Obviously I know that I am Beiliang. A queen must have a strong temper, and must have enough literary and military skills to provoke this burden when necessary. I let so many outstanding ladies not choose, but I chose her!"

Seeing Ling Yucheng's calm eyes, staring at him as if he was listening to an irrelevant story, Yuan Shao laughed at himself and shook his head: "While choosing her as the crown princess, he also chose her family background and appearance. Because of her Yun's acceptance as a side concubine, a lot of favors... When Namyan was defeated in Xiangzhou, knowing that she was pregnant, he still sent her father to prison. On the one hand, he used his father to threaten his daughter not to move rashly. On the other hand, He also threatened his father with his daughter and unborn grandson, so that he could successfully plant nails in the Huben Guard and split their clan..."

"At that time, there was no idea of ​​spending a lifetime together. What kind of crown princess, empress, is just a tool to seize military power and balance the front and rear palaces. Other women... the better ones are similar to her, and most of them are not even tools. It's just a thing. If it's interesting, just sleep and enjoy something. If you're bored and feel bored, you'll just send it out to the palace. It's ridiculous that you still think how smart you are, and don't mess with politics for personal reasons. It's all in the palm of your hand."

At that time, he was young and frivolous, he was supercilious at that time, and all kinds of cleverness at that time, now looking back, it is all self-inflicted.But never had a chance to make up for it.

"I can't even keep my promise - I swear that I like you, that it's enough to have you alone, but when I turn around, it breaks your heart again -"

The slow and long breath of the person in front of him suddenly tightened.Yuan Shao looked down, and where his eyes fell, Ling Yucheng's hands holding the porcelain cup had been clenched at some point, and his ten fingertips were all faintly white.However, in just a moment, Ling Yucheng leaned back relaxed, his back sank in the thick and soft quilt at the head of the bed, and the waves of the water in the cup gradually returned to tranquility.

After all, he still cared - thinking of last night, Ling Yucheng said to him in a daze, "It's good to see you", and Yuan Shao felt more confident in his heart.He leaned forward, gently took the water glass from Ling Yucheng's hand, put it on the bedside, and took advantage of the situation to hold his hand:

"However, I have always wanted to be a good emperor."

From the time he came in to now, Ling Yucheng's eyes, which had always been calm, had ripples for the first time.

The right hand rests quietly in the palm of his hand, from the tiger's mouth to the palm to the knuckles, there are thin calluses that have been carefully trimmed.The calluses on the center of the palm and the tiger's mouth are extra thick, which are the marks left by the violent rotation and friction of the palm; there is also a hard and thick callus on the first knuckle and knuckle of the thumb, which is caused by drawing the bow and pulling the string; and the one on the side of the index finger Even among the cocoons left by practicing martial arts, the thin cocoon formed by the penholder cannot be ignored at all.

Along the wrist bone, the sleeves of the pajamas were particularly bulging on the forearm, which was wrapped in circles of bandages. Under the bandages, the wound that had been stabbed before had just closed.Although the wound was not very wide because the dagger was thin and sharp, it still affected the circulation of Qi and blood.Right now the fire wall in the room is burning warmly, Ling Yucheng's fingertips and the back of his hands can still feel a little coolness.

"Your Majesty... is a wise king."

Slowly raising his eyes, Ling Yucheng met Yuan Shao's gaze without avoiding it, and spoke slowly.He was recovering from a serious illness and was short of breath, and he uttered every word slowly, but there was no hesitation in his tone:

"It is precisely because His Majesty is a Mingjun that I am willing to bear the stigma and go north with me. In the past three years, what His Majesty has done has never made me regret the decision made that day."

Yuan Shao's tense back relaxed almost immediately.He held Ling Yucheng's hand tightly again, with earnest eyes:

"So, even if you don't believe in my personal virtue, you should still believe that as an emperor, I won't do things that foolish emperors would do?"

"His Majesty?"

"Changsheng, you are a very important subject under my command. Even if you put aside the status of empress, you are still my most important subject in terms of talent, achievements, and everything you have brought to Great Liang in the past and in the future. one."

"If a subject like you can't coexist with the country and start well and end well, who will serve me and my descendants in the future? For a small profit in front of me, to chill the hearts of my subjects and put everyone in future generations at risk. How could you do such a stupid thing?"

The temperature of the two hands has merged at some point, and the fingertips that were slightly cold just now have been soaked with warmth from another person.While talking, Yuan Shao stared intently at Ling Yucheng, his eyes widened slightly in surprise, his chest heaved gradually, and he felt the right hand he was holding began to squeeze back, and he let out a soft breath , with both hands facing each other, put Ling Yucheng's palms together:

"There is also Xiao Shiyi. You are one of his closest people. To him, you are at least as important as me, if not more important than me—how could I risk making him sad and let him The risk of a big change in temperament is not beneficial to you in the slightest?"