[Rebirth] Chronicle of the Two Capitals

When winter came, the snow in Yanjing seemed to never melt again, and it came over the mountains and ridges from the north of Saibei in a threatening manner, and the wind was blowing, and the snow was falling in a rustle.At dusk, migratory birds fly south, and at dawn, when the door is opened, there is a vast expanse of white eucalyptus and Qiongzhi.

The snow in the courtyard is cleared every day, but at night, it is unknowingly filled with white jade-like snow.

As Zhengdan is approaching, red lanterns have been hung in various palaces in the palace. The shofar lamps used to guide the way are covered with a layer of red gauze. It's the swimming fish glowing with glowing waves.But in a short time, it was dispersed by the deep and shallow footprints, turning into dirty snow water.

Chi Zai was holding a horn lamp and was leading the way for Tang Yu. The two of them walked quickly all the way, only trying to walk fast, not steady, even if the snow in front of them was not clear, they stepped on their buckskin boots and walked over.

Passing through the Moon Gate, Chi stepped inadvertently into the snowdrift that barely reached his calves. When he grinned and moved his legs one after the other, he didn't care to shake off the residual snow. When I looked up again, I saw that the master had long since disappeared.Chi said "Ouch" again, sweating profusely with anxiety, and hurriedly strode forward to chase after him, and he couldn't stop begging all the famous Bodhisattvas and Buddhas from the east, west, south, and north, and only hoped that the Queen Mother would pass. After this night, the high fever will subside safely.

The queen mother was ill a few days ago, and the illness was not sudden.When the autumn wind blew up, she felt very afraid of the cold, and often coughed. Although the palace hadn't reached the time for the earth dragon charcoal fire, the Changle hall was already warm.Even so, a few days ago the winter sun came suddenly, during the day, she basked in the sun in the garden for a while, and when she came back she was fine, but at night she suddenly had a high fever.

In the past few days, the imperial physician prescribed medicine to recuperate, and Tang Yu stayed with her every step of the way. If she hadn't seen her complexion yesterday and the queen mother drove her back, she might have moved the imperial case to the Changle Hall.However, the tension in her mind has not been relaxed yet, when she was about to go to bed in Xuanshi Hall, a palace official from Changle Hall suddenly came to report that the Empress Dowager's condition worsened.

When Tang Yu heard this, he immediately lifted the quilt and got up on the bed, grabbed his boots and socks and put them on, and went straight out.She was in a hurry, Chi Zaiben followed her, seeing that she was really thinly dressed, he hurriedly turned back, and while chasing her, he put on a cloak for her.

This time, my son was lost again.

Chi Zai chased after panting to Changle Palace, but saw Liandong and Qingdai sending Yizheng out, and even brought Yizheng to the gate of the palace.Chi Zai didn't know why, and didn't dare to rush in, so he followed the three of them with a horn lamp. Yi was talking to Lian Dong, and he understood six or seven points in bits and pieces.The general idea is that His Highness has a lot of worries, depression, and eye disease has dragged down his physique, so now his body is weak and he is easy to get sick.

One or two doses of medicine can't cure it, but you can't eat medicine as food. You can only strengthen your foundation and cultivate your vitality. The most important thing is to untie the knot in your heart.

These words, since the treatment of eye disease, Liandong has heard calluses in her ears, now she only cares about when the high fever will subside, so she interrupted Yizheng's words: "My lord just said that His Highness will be able to reduce the fever when he wakes up tomorrow? "

The doctor paused slightly, looked around, then sighed, and said frankly: "I'm dying, so why not speak up. What I just said is only half a sentence, and there is another half sentence. If I say it on the spot, I'm afraid Your Majesty will be in trouble." Yan was furious and disturbed people's hearts."

Everyone stopped their steps, their breathing was slightly stagnant, as if they were hit by a blow, they didn't know how to deal with it.Chi Zai still didn't understand, but Liandong's eyes were red in an instant, seeing her like this, Qingdai knew that she felt uncomfortable, even though her heart was like a mirror, some words couldn't reach her ears, so she could hear them clearly.Therefore, Qing Dai led Yi Zheng to a place and asked him what the other half of the sentence was.

Heaviness and regret appeared in Yizheng's cloudy eyes, and he lowered his voice, looking more and more vicissitudes: "If I can't wake up tomorrow, I'm afraid... oh..."

Changle Hall.

There was no one else in the hall, and even the maid who was serving the bed was shunned away.

The Empress Dowager was lying on the couch, her thin face was reflected by the bright candlelight, her lips were pale, but her cheeks were unusually rosy. The days of illness had tortured her body, which had recuperated, and made her very weak.She closed her eyes tightly, and there were occasional ravings in her mouth, but she couldn't make out what she said, at least not like Yanjing's official language, but like Wu Nong's soft language, lingering and charming.

Most likely, it's Jinling dialect.

Thinking like this, Tang Xi took a breath of warm air into his palm, took out the queen mother's hand from the quilt, and carefully nestled it into his own palm to rub.It wasn't until her cold hand warmed up that she put it back into the quilt again, and then took out her other hand to help her warm.

When putting her hand back into the quilt, Tang Yu stood up, tucked the corner of the quilt for her, and touched her cheek inadvertently.The scorching body temperature made Tang Yu's heart tense. She froze in place, staring blankly at the empress dowager's flushed face. She didn't notice the sore nose, and tears fell down one drop after another.

It turned better yesterday, but suddenly worsened today, which is not a good sign.Shicai doctor was hesitating when answering, with a look of hesitation on his face, what it meant, Tang Yu knew very well in his heart.However, it is one thing for her to understand, and it is another thing for others to say it. As it is now, she does not know whether it is anxiety or worry, but she is crying, and wipes away her tears, kneeling in front of the couch and forcing a smile:

"Aniang, you know that I can't hold back things in my heart. I have wanted to say something for a long time, and I am afraid that you will scold me after I say it. It doesn't matter if you scold me. I like to be scolded by you. I'm afraid that after I say it, you won't let me say it." did it."

Tang Yu rested his hands on his knees, his long hair was scattered behind like a waterfall, and a few strands of broken hair on the sideburns were stained with tears and stuck to his white jade-like face.The flickering candlelight reflected her starry eyes. She smiled slightly, but her voice was already choked up: "Now that you are sleeping soundly, it doesn't matter if I say it. Are you right? If you don't speak, I just acquiesced, I really said it—"

She straightened her back, her eyes were only filled with the appearance of the Queen Mother, the deeper the arc of her smile, the more she wept uncontrollably: "I want to take you back to Jinling, and I have mentioned it to you several times, but you are always unhappy. Beijing, why have you ever been happy? You can always guess what I was thinking. Knowing that I intend to move the capital, I pretended that I didn’t want to go home and Jinling. Even the four seasons map of Jinling was removed from the wall. come down."

"I just hate that I made a late decision. I don't know when Yuan Bi will be in Jinling. If it had been earlier, wouldn't we be in Jinling now? Auntie, is the winter in Jinling warmer than here? Where are you?" Does resting in peace mean that you won’t catch cold, get sick, or lie here and suffer?”

There was silence in the hall, and the only response to her was the sound of crackling lanterns.

There was silence in the hall, and the only response to her was the sound of crackling lanterns.

Tang Yu didn't want to cry at first, but when his emotions accumulated to a certain level, it was like opening a gate to release a flood, and he couldn't get it back.It was at this time that she discovered that all her weaknesses in the past and present had been handed over to the person in front of her.She talked intermittently for a while, then wiped away her tears, sniffed her nose, trying to think of some happy things from her chaotic mind, so that she could stop crying and feel better.

After all, to mourn so much, as if something bad is about to happen in a moment, doesn't have a good meaning.

She never believed in supernatural powers, but right now, even if she could earn some hope from the paint-splashed darkness, she wanted to try it.

Tang Yu staggered to his feet, held a lamp by himself, and walked to the desk.There are the Four Treasures of the Study and a few volumes on the book case. She knows that although A Niang is blind, she usually asks the literate palace servants to read poetry anthologies or Buddhist scriptures to her. Send books over.

There must be Buddhist scriptures on the desk.

Tang Yu put the lamp aside and rummaged through it.Fortunately, after a while, she found it.She wanted to take the Buddhist scriptures, pen, ink, paper and inkstone to the bed to copy the scriptures, so that she could take care of A Niang at any time.Although sincerity leads to spirituality, she really doesn't know if Bodhisattva Buddha would take her in and listen to her wish when she became a monk halfway.

Thinking about it, she picked up the Buddhist scriptures and wanted to leave, but accidentally knocked down the bamboo slips piled on one side.She ordered craftsmen to carve these bamboo slips, she was very familiar with them, and when they were knocked down, she rushed to the bed without looking at them.The bamboo slips fell to the ground, one corner of which was spread out with the back facing up, and a solitary lamp was still on the desk, dimly lit by the candlelight, obviously weak, reflecting the delicate skeleton on it, but the slightly rusty inscription:

Three wishes are like Liang Shangyan

岁岁

There should be words on the back, but they are hidden by other bamboo slips, so they can't be seen.

Tang Yu didn't know this, and there was no desk in front of the bed, so she knelt on the ground and copied the scriptures, paying attention to the queen mother while copying.About every half a cup of tea, she got up, checked the Queen Mother's temperature, fed her water to drink, and felt that she was cold, so she got into the quilt and warmed her body.When she was raving in her sleep, she would talk in her ear to coax her, to comfort her, she almost never did this to the queen mother, maybe because she was unfamiliar, she coaxed and coaxed her, and it turned into a threat:

"Aniang, if you don't wake up again, I will set fire to the palace treasury and burn it clean."

……

"Aniang, if you don't talk to me again, I will dig up Yan Xun's ancestral grave." Yan Xun's ancestral grave is naturally the ancestral grave of the Yan family in Jinling. Besides, she is a person who has entered Buddhism halfway, and if she has something to ask for, How could it be so inhumane? Thinking of this, she made this threat without confidence, and in the end, she wanted to change her words.

"Auntie..." The sound of the court drum suddenly resounded through the palace. Tang Yu was startled when he heard the sound, and looked out of the window, only to see that the sky had already become clear.Her heart was like a huge boulder suddenly falling to the ground, and it was also like a thunder on the ground, it was indescribably complicated.After a long time, she stared at the void in front of her eyes, and said slowly, "Aniang, if you sleep forever, I will go with you. If you want to be ahead of you, you must pass through Naihe first and reincarnate first. You must be older than you." , so that I can justifiably take care of you for the rest of my life."

"What are you talking about...cough..." The voice was very weak, as thin as a mosquito, if you don't listen carefully, you might miss it.

Tang Yu really didn't hear it, but only noticed that the fingers she was holding tightly moved. She looked back and almost jumped up from the couch in surprise.She first reached out to check the queen mother's temperature, and then happily said: "Mother, you are awake! The high fever seems to have subsided, I will call someone! Ask someone to take your pulse, be safe!"

With that said, she wanted to stay in bed.

The queen mother called her: "Xiao Qi, sit down first."

Tang Yu hesitated for a while, then stayed as promised, but did not sit down.He asked her if there was any discomfort, asked if she wanted to drink water, and tucked her in the quilt. Her whole body was spinning like a top, and she couldn't sit still no matter what.

The Empress Dowager left her here because she had something to say, she coughed for a while, and then she said softly, "Recently, I always have some strange dreams. Like Shicai, I was walking in a dream. The road was very dark, and the surrounding They are all strangers. People often talk to me, saying that my daughter is not good and doing bad things, and urging me to go back and watch my daughter. I don’t believe it, saying that she is very good.”

Her breath was very weak, and she coughed and said a few words, and coughed again and again.

"And I don't know the way, how can I go back? At this time, the flood came from nowhere and completely submerged the surrounding area. Although I am good at water, I couldn't float in the water anyway. It was very strange. I struggled for a while , seems to have escaped from the water, and your voice is next to my ear, and you are actually saying some stupid things..."

"Auntie..." Tang Yu was so guilty that he didn't dare to sit down anymore. He stood up, drooping his head, and his attitude of admitting his mistake was very sincere.

The Queen Mother ignored her, but fortunately she had no intention of reprimanding her, but said to herself: "Then, she woke up. Now that I think about it, that road should be Naihe Bridge. I pretty much know what it is.”

Tang Yu tugged at the corner of his clothes, and asked in a murmur, "What is it?"

The queen mother coughed for a while, but her face was bloodless, she said hoarsely: "Come here, come before my eyes."

Her voice was hoarse, but she had an unusual allure, making people have to do what she wanted.Tang Yu then sat down, moved closer to her, and probed over: "Mother?"

The Empress Dowager reached out and touched her face until her red and swollen eyes remained, and said firmly, "Did you cry, did you shed a lot of tears? No wonder there was a flood in my dream. I'm afraid everyone in the underworld will be afraid of you, you crybaby." gone."

"I..." It was very difficult to admit this kind of thing, Tang Yu insisted, "I didn't cry, my eyes were swollen because I copied Buddhist scriptures."

While she was talking, she didn't realize that the queen mother's white and slender fingers had already moved to her lips.

While she was talking, she didn't realize that the queen mother's white and slender fingers had already moved to her lips.

Tang Yu was still awkward, and muttered, "I'm not a crybaby."

Suddenly, the Empress Dowager raised her head slightly, planted a kiss on her lips, smiled palely and said: "The mouth is not hard, it is very soft."

Tang Yan was stunned at the moment, petrified and motionless, but his cheeks were blushing and honest, and his joy hung on the corners of his slightly raised lips.Happiness hangs on Wei Yang's lips unabashedly.After a while, she lowered her head, shy and coquettish: "Mother—"

Before she finished speaking, she was embraced by the Queen Mother.The queen mother put her arms around her and whispered in her ear: "Xiaoqi, with you here, how could I be willing to die?"

This time her life was hanging by a thread, and the last time she fainted, she had seen it very clearly in her dream. So far, why haven't she faced her heart honestly?