miscalculation

During the Lantern Festival, Xiao Yi sat alone in the Li Garden, looking at the pear tree, pouring himself a drink.He was a little drunk, and said: "Brother Huang, I wonder if the heavens are going to punish me for my misdeeds against you, so that Ban Lin and Jue'er have the same thoughts. They have the same wish and violate the rules. They should both be executed But I can't kill you, and I'm not qualified to do so. If the emperor knew my feelings for you back then, I'm afraid I would die. I really don't know if it's a coincidence, or some kind of retribution, no matter what kind , They all have a good place to go now. You are under Jiuquan, you are afraid that you will blame me for being incompetent in teaching, and let Banlin go this way, just like me before. But Jueer is really promising, and he is better than me. His imperial brother would rather give up the world and ignore it, but I couldn't do it back then."

He stood up, walked to the pear tree, poured all the pot of wine at the root of the tree, then took three steps back, and continued: "I want to come to the emperor, you will be accompanied by the princess, so you won't be lonely, I'm afraid there will be more You hate me. Xiao Yi promises you that you will never set foot in Li Garden again in this life, and I hope Brother Huang will forgive me for all the troubles I have had in the past few decades."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the garden gate step by step, without looking back.It seems that the voices of the two brothers talking and laughing freely when they were young are still ringing in their ears, but that was more than 30 years ago.

When Zhang Le waited for him to get on the chariot, he asked: "Your Majesty, are you going to announce someone to sleep tonight, or go to some palace to rest, is it a flop or...?"

Xiao Yi said: "Go back to my bedroom."

Zhang Leshi didn't dare to say any more, so he had to say yes again and again.Everyone carried the chariot back to Xiao Yi's sleeping hall, and all retreated.

After Xiao Yi took a shower and changed his clothes, he lowered the bed curtain and covered him with a quilt.Lying on his side, he muttered to the jade pillow: "It's late today, don't be angry. I promise you, I will never go to Liyuan again, and I will only be with you. I should have buried you under the tree , but I don’t think it’s right. They say that the lights are off when people die. The lights in my house have never been turned off after you died. If this is the case, your soul should still be near the palace. You see, I stopped the draft, Several concubines have passed away one after another, it is really lonely. You must be laughing in your heart now, I was originally a lonely family, and now it is worthy of the name, and there is nothing wrong with it."

He smiled, gently stroked the jade pillow, put his forehead against the cold pillow, and continued: "In the past two years, my fourth concubine has all died unexpectedly. Although Concubine Chen is domineering, she is physically weak and can't bully you. I'm afraid Concubine Shu is the only one, but she has an unknown enemy and she is ashamed of me, so she shouldn't make things difficult for you."

He stopped talking, and after a while, he said: "I was wrong, your martial arts are very high, but you have no internal strength, so you should not be bullied by weak women. They all say that I am the ninth five , with the dragon spirit, ghosts and gods do not invade, will your three souls and seven souls not even enter the palace gate? I heard that Erhai does not believe in the Central Plains. You are from Erhai, and you should die from Erhai Ghost, you shouldn't be afraid of my dragon spirit."

He lightly touched the jade pillow with his lips, and said: "Look, I was wrong again, you are already my man, my ghost, and have nothing to do with Erhai Lake."

When he said this, he only closed his eyes tightly, letting the tears wet the jade pillow, but sighed softly: "I am Xiao Yi now, not the real dragon emperor. Wuzhi, if you want to be my Xiao Yi Man, would you like to come into my dream tonight, let's drink and play chess, make tea and watch flowers. Why on earth have you refused to come to see me for so long, and there is no trace in your dream. Back then you were clearly Admit it with your own mouth and say that you don’t hate me anymore, but you are not allowed to go back on your word.”

As he spoke to himself, he slowly sank into dreamland, but there was nothingness.

Xiao Liang and Xiao Zheng were extremely busy for several days with regard to the imperial examination. They went to the Ministry of Officials every day, and most of the time they rested in the Yin Mansion.One is that King Qin's mansion is too far away from the officials, and the other is that Xiao Jie is in Yin's mansion, making Xiao Liang reluctant to leave every day.Ji Lan has no official position now, so he has to go to Yin's mansion to wait for him to come back.

Xiao Jie finds Ji Lan not pleasing to the eye, and often asks him to use force, saying that he wants to compete.The wound on his right shoulder hadn't healed, and Ji Lan already knew his identity, so he couldn't enjoy himself after using force several times.No matter what, Ji Lan didn't dare to be serious, for fear that he would make a mistake and Xiao Liang would blame him.

Xiao Jie saw what was on his mind and became more and more annoyed. While Xiao Liang and Xiao Zheng were going out that day, he said to him: "Most of my injuries have healed, and I will leave Beijing with the army in a few days. We don't need to compete today. The sword is only better than the stick method, so as not to hurt each other and make Feng Mian sad. But you have to do your best, if you win, I will agree with you and Feng Mian."

He knew very well that Xiao Liang's heart was completely attached to this person, but he was not happy in the end, he always felt that his younger brother was tricked and abducted by him, and he must have a fight before he is willing.

Ji Lan had no choice but to let him know that it was not good, so he could only hold a stick with him and fight in the courtyard.In detail, Ji Lan's boxing skills are naturally slightly better, but he dare not win too easily, otherwise it will inevitably embarrass him.He had to try his best to play in a dangerous manner, and no matter how lucky he was, he would be able to win the game.When he thought of this, he was careful everywhere, but Xiao Jie seemed to see that what he was thinking was coming directly at the door.

Ji Lan was caught off guard, and with a self-defensive backhand blow, Xiao Jie was knocked to the ground.He was startled, and hurriedly pulled Xiao Jie to stand up, and said: "Dian... is brother Zhao injured? I'll send someone to invite the doctor."

After Xiao Jie enlisted in the army, he changed his name and surname to Zhao Xinquan, so everyone in the house called him by that name.Hearing Ji Lan's words, he barely stood up, stomped his feet and said, "You must have done it on purpose!"

Just as Ji Lan wanted to refute, he was dragged into the room by him, before he could speak, he saw Xiao Jie took some plaster and wiped it on his face.He wanted to dodge, but was dragged tightly.

Xiao Jie was in a hurry: "You can win me clearly, so why pretend to be a narrow winner? This is good, but it's bad face. Feng Mian will definitely blame me when she comes back and sees it!"

While talking, he had already applied medicine to the wound on Ji Lan's face. Only then did he feel that his waist was in severe pain, so he pulled up his clothes and said, "My waist hurts badly, please wipe it off for me."

Ji Lan hurriedly took the medicated oil to rub it, and saw that his waist was red, and said quickly: "This medicated oil doesn't work, I'd better wait for me to send someone to Jing Taiyi to find a plaster for a few days."

Xiao Jie said angrily: "You are really scheming, no wonder Feng Mian fell for you. You are hurt on the face, if he sees you, he will be anxious. But I am hurt on the waist, he can't see it at all. Blame me for hurting you."

Ji Lan couldn't argue, and was speechless for a while, so she had to say: "This... let's not mention it for now, it's better to ask the imperial doctor to take a look."

Xiao Jie said: "Look what, I stayed in the army for two years, and I was injured from time to time, how can I be so expensive? Don't make a fuss, if Feng Mian comes back and sees it, she will be anxious, and the tears will burst into tears again. Take it Just apply the medicated oil, and when they come back at night, the smell of the medicine will almost disappear. You can go back to the house later, just say that you have something to leave, and don't let him see your face, it will be fine."

Ji Lan didn't dare to refute, so he nodded in agreement, and then pulled his skirt to apply the medicated oil. He had just finished wiping, when he heard a startled voice coming from the door.

"Brother Zhao, why are you here?"

The owner of the voice was a young man, only about fifteen or sixteen years old, he was full of travel and dust, and there was a young woman standing beside him, they were looking at him and Xiao Jie.

The woman's face was flushed with shame, and she had already turned away, while the young man's eager eyes turned back and forth on them.

Ji Lan quickly put down Xiao Jie's skirt, and said, "Who are you? How did you trespass on Yin's residence?"

The young man said: "Who are you and why are you in my house?"

It turned out that the young man was Yin Qifeng's only son, named Yin Yuguang, who was returning home with his father and cousin for the funeral.Yin Qifeng was carrying luggage with the housekeeper, and the two went into the wing room by themselves, but bumped into Ji Lan and Xiao Jie who were arguing.

Xiao Jie quickly stood up from the bed and said, "Brother Yin, since you are back, it would be great. I injured my hand just now, so I asked this brother to apply the medicine for me. This is Mrs. Ji's Grandson, Ji Lan, I think you should have heard of his name."

Yin Yuguang quickly said: "I heard from the butler that there is a distinguished guest of my cousin living here, but I didn't expect it to be you. Sister, go and tell Dad that Brother Zhao is staying at our house. It's really great."

Ji Lan looked at Xiao Jie and Yin Yuguang, a little confused, but seeing that Yin Yuguang seemed to be quite hostile to him, it was hard to say anything.