Chang'an [Rebirth]

Zhao Qian had seen Chai Zheng lying on the bed sickly and dying, but he didn't pay attention to it at the time. He simply felt that he had grown up a lot, his brows and eyes were less childish, his outline followed Chai Yuandao's, but his facial features were more like Zhao Linlang's. ... even somewhat like myself.

But at this moment, Chai Zheng was a little blind. The monocle she bought to show Xiao Ruan on her nose was still being processed in the goldsmith's shop. Her ears had almost recovered, though not as good as before. The ants outside can hear it on their tiptoes, but it doesn't delay their normal speech. At least they don't have to amplify the volume next to her ear at a close distance, so that Chai Zheng can hear everything clearly.

She was holding a plain palace lantern in her hand, and she was squatting in the courtyard with the maid next to her, as if she was looking for something. Not far away was the stove for decocting medicine, and a little eunuch was urging, "Have you found it? Have you found it?" ?”

"The emperor is here!" Li Duan yelled standing at the door. When it comes to the emperor, you have to kneel down first.

Only Chai Zheng stood up subconsciously. She raised the lantern, squinted her eyes, and looked out for a while, until she really saw Zhao Qian, and then she knelt down.

Li Duan was so frightened that he broke out in cold sweat all over his body. Over the years, he was closer to the current emperor than anyone else, so he practiced a unique skill - eyeballs looking straight up, but he could catch even the slightest change in Zhao Qian's face from the corner of his eye.

Just now, the corners of Zhao Qian's mouth were slightly tightened, half of his eyelids were closed, and his whole face was covered with dark clouds. This was a sign of the emperor's hidden anger, but after a while, Zhao Qian calmed down his anger again, and even broke up. Pulling out a bit of amiability, the wrinkles in the corners of the eyes are rippling.

He said, "Get up...the queen mother is still sick, what are you messing around in the yard?"

The eldest mother took care of the queen mother in the bedroom, and there were some young maids with very short qualifications in this courtyard. Zhao Qian would completely change the people around the queen mother every year. Even the elder mother was selected by Li Duan for him to choose, but at this age There are not many people who are still in the palace, and they are replaced every three years at the longest.

The eldest mother is smart and sensible, but the little maid is clumsy and scared.

No one in the yard dared to speak, Chai Zheng sighed inwardly, and said, "I report to the emperor, there is a medicinal herb called fen, although it is a grass root, it leaves when it is hot, and the stove is forgotten and lost... At this time, it is too late to go to the Tai Hospital to catch blindness again, so I brought someone to look for it."

"What's going on?" Zhao Qian's eyes suddenly fell on the little eunuch who was fanning the stove.

The little eunuch was so scared that his legs trembled, and he immediately lowered his posture, knocking his forehead on the hard ground, "The emperor spares my life, the emperor spares my life..."

"..."

Even in Liangzhou City, where the birds don't shit, and robbers and robbers can't be seen at all, human life is not so despicable.

The government can't control it, but there are non-governmental organizations like Mr. Shang. Even large-scale armed fights have regulations not to hurt innocent people. Why is it so cloudy and sunny in this palace?

Losing a medicine is not a damn big deal, the imperial doctor also said that "Peng" can detoxify the poison of dampness, and if it is missing, it will not affect the efficacy of the medicine, so the little eunuch was asked to decoct the medicine while Chai Zheng searched for it with a lantern and found it. Even better, you can't find or delay the time to drink medicine.

He was fine just now, but when Zhao Qian came, it seemed as if he was about to be executed, and everyone was worried that he would be killed.

As a last resort, Chai Zheng, as a "predecessor" who had already died once and was destined to be hated by Zhao Qian, said again, "I was ignorant. I opened the lid out of curiosity when I was just decocting the medicine."

Suddenly, a quiet needle drop could be heard throughout the yard, only the firewood in the stove was cracking.

After a while, Zhao Qian suddenly laughed "haha", "Since Xiaozheng was curious for a while, then forget it, and you should watch carefully in the future, so that such things don't happen again."

The little eunuch's head had already been knocked out, and at this moment he lay down on the ground as if he had received an amnesty, and said in a trembling voice, "Thank you, Lord Long En, thank you Lord Long En."

Li Duan also heaved a sigh of relief, any servant in the palace who made a mistake would end up in his hands, and if Zhao Qian was really unhappy, he would inevitably be hanged.

"Xiaozheng, let these servants find the herbal medicine, you and I go in first." Zhao Qian said again, he stretched out his hand quite familiarly, waiting for Chai Zheng to take it.

He said again, "Is it fifteen this year? Shouldn't it be time for a husband's family?"

Chai Zheng thought to himself, "No, no, no, I voluntarily expand the territory and guard the border, and you can just return my military adviser. There is no need for my in-laws and the like. To be honest, there is no one in Chang'an City who can support me." Get me."

But he said, "Thank you for your concern, my sage. My temper is too wild. If anyone marries me, the whole family may not live in peace. My father and mother despise me for making trouble, so don't harm these handsome young men in Chang'an City."

"Nonsense, Xiaozheng'er has been smart since she was a child, and she's my niece. Who would dare to think you're making a fuss?" Zhao Qian insisted, "Could it be that after staying in Liangzhou all these years, he has someone in his heart? That place is extremely desolate, You probably won’t be able to produce a hero, so why don’t you make the decision for your uncle, and you can choose from all the young talents in the world.”

"..." Is this a plan to buy and sell by force?

Chai Zheng pursed his lips and listened to Zhao Qian boasting about himself, "I haven't seen you for many years, Xiaozheng is getting brighter and brighter. I don't think there are any daughters in Chang'an who can compare." Then he asked, "Health is better. Is it? When I saw you before, I was dying, and the imperial physicians said that it was bad luck, but now it is better, but is there any sequelae?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern." Chai Zheng was full of thoughts, "Are you willing to ask this against your will?" She had to perfunctory with a gentle face, "The doctor said that the eyes, ears and tongue are all affected and need to recover slowly. I am now Half-deaf, half-blind, poor little eater."

Zhao Qian seemed to be amused by her, and asked after a while, "Do you know who did it? Uncle must find out this person and avenge you."

Originally thought it was just a cutscene greeting, but who knew that Zhao Qian's conversation could involve the person who poisoned him.

The poison was born by Gu Hensheng, of course Zhao Qian knew it well, and Gu Hensheng was in Chai Guogong's mansion at this time, if Chai Zheng said "know", it would not only push Gu Hensheng out, but would even reveal that he had been playing dead all along.

After all, if Chai Zheng really had only one breath left, the person who poisoned him would not be so happy. I'm afraid he would have been forced to die to apologize.

And saying "I don't know" will inevitably arouse Zhao Qian's suspicion. Zhao Linlang and Chai Yuandao are both careful and protective people. If their daughter is seriously injured, they must investigate openly and secretly, and they will eventually find some clues.

Chai Zheng froze, the string in her mind tensed instantly, and she said, "I have always suspected that it was Master Sun of Sun Qi's mansion. I was poisoned only after meeting him, and he has always looked at me disliked, and tried to Forging imperial edicts to seize military power."

Misfortune is brought to the east, anyway, the dead can't speak, so Chai Zheng can make up whatever he wants.

She continued, "Who doesn't know that the imperial decree of the current emperor is very special, and ordinary people can't imitate it at all. He made it quite similar, but the words on it are too sharp, and you are my uncle, my mother's brother, and I Father's best friend, why would you send an unknown person in the court to seize military power for no reason?"

The flattery was flattered, and the three mountains of "uncle", "brother" and "best friend" were suppressed. Zhao Qian could only put a smile on his face, and pushed this stupid account to Sun Qi's mansion. body.

It's just... Zhao Qian couldn't tell for a moment that Chai Zheng was pure-hearted, so he could say these words, or he had practiced it thousands of times, so the opening was airtight.

But if you go further in, you will find the warm pavilion of the old man, and the two of them can't fight each other anymore, so they each put on a smile on their faces. Apart from being too stiff, there is nothing wrong with it.

The old lady was lying on the bed with a slight cough. She was so sick that it was difficult for her to turn over. The age of the old man was different from that of Chai Zheng, who was young and vigorous and still practiced martial arts. Zhang Xingzhong predicted that Chai Zheng would have to lie down for at least two months before getting up. It didn't matter if she went to the ground in ten days or so, Zhang Xingzhong I Yingming didn't know whether to be happy or break her leg and let Chai Zheng lie down for another two days.

It was hot and dry in the warm pavilion, Zhao Linlang was accompanying the queen mother, the mother and daughter talked occasionally, and Zhao Linlang probably talked a lot, it took a long time to hear the old queen respond slightly.

"Is Zheng'er here?" After a long time, the old lady could hold back a complete sentence, "She has been to Mobei for a long time, and she is only this old in my memory..."

The old lady stretched out her hand and gestured, "It's still a child who can cry."

"Here I am, I'm decocting medicine for you outside the door," Zhao Linlang smiled, "Now that she has grown up, her skin is thick and her flesh is very strong. She found a job in the Mobei Army and helped Yuandao .”

"This kid's temperament is just like yours." The old lady's eyes were bright, "He has a wild temper, and it is difficult to be trapped in a square inch for the rest of his life. He is different from someone like me... You too, you have to learn to fly when you are four or five years old. Jumped off the city wall and nearly fell to his death."

Zhao Linlang's smile deepened, "Mom, if I were to be someone else's daughter, I would be severely disciplined the day I broke my leg, but you are different, you think I like to fly, it's better to look at me than to be afraid of danger all the time." Find someone to teach me, as long as I can bear the hardships, I can really fly out of the palace walls. Mom, luckily it's you."

"Stupid boy," the old lady patted the back of Zhao Linlang's hand, "As a parent, you always have to find a way out for your children. My life is worthless, but neither you nor Zhao Qian, even if you two will eventually go your separate ways." , but I finally got what I wanted most, my mother is very happy."

While talking, Zhao Qian pulled Chai Zheng to open the curtain of the warm pavilion, and the old lady fell on Chai Zheng at first glance.

Chai Zheng was much older than he remembered, and already looked like a little adult, but the old lady could recognize the little girl as her precious granddaughter at a glance.

"Is it Zheng'er?" she asked, "Come here and show grandma."

Chai Zheng agreed and sat beside the old queen.

The situation in Chai Zheng's family is too complicated. In her previous life, she was so focused on making troubles that she was locked up for ten and a half months. I just saw my grandmother, and it was when the old queen was about to die, so my feelings were not deep.

But at this time, Chai Zheng suddenly became nervous. She pulled her clothes and ironed herself. A pair of big eyes fell on the old queen, and she sighed from the bottom of her heart, "Grandmother, you are so beautiful."

The old queen is already old, and the city of Chang'an is full of flowers. Of course, she can't compare her appearance with the young people, but she has a kind of gentleness accumulated over the years, a woman like water, everything in the world, right and wrong. Being able to tolerate, thousands of evils and goodness flow to her, making her tender from the bottom of her bones.

Chai Zheng even suspects that her old grandmother is a reprint of Wu Hengluo. These eyes have seen too many rebellions, betrayals, and quarrels... Knowing that there are too many dirty things hidden in human nature, they can still see the good things. part.

Even if a person lived his whole life, he was always as confused as the first emperor, so it can't be said that this life was full of mistakes. At least he was wise when he was young, and he gave birth to Zhao Linlang, and protected the Dajing country through the stormy years.

Hearing Chai Zheng's words at first, everyone in the room was stunned, and then laughed again after a while, even the nanny who dared not slack off in the slightest pursed her lips.

Zhao Qian said, "I thought that the windy and sandy place would raise people rough, but this mouth is sweeter than soaking in a honey pot. No wonder people in the capital say that granddaughters are the favorite of the elderly."

"Yes, Zheng'er has the sweetest mouth," the old lady reached out and brushed Chai Zheng's forehead hair, "A child of your age is the most beloved, and grandma can't wait to hold it in the palm of her hand...but why does your face look like this? Pale, and there is no flesh on his body, is it because the Duke's mansion didn't eat well?"

"How could it be?" Chai Zheng said coquettishly, "I just came back from Mobei, and I'm a little acclimatized. Grandma, I'm very rough. I'll be fine after a couple of days."

The old queen did not believe it, but she still smiled and did not expose it, "Okay, if you are not used to the food at home, you can come to the palace to find your grandmother, and your grandmother will prepare the best for you."

"En." Chai Zheng's nose suddenly turned sour, and his eyes turned red, "Grandmother, you are so kind, I should have come to see you in the palace earlier."

The old queen passed away at the autumnal equinox of this year. From today onwards, her illness will become more and more serious, and her sober days will become less and less.

Chai Zheng sometimes suspects that her old grandmother knew that after her death, both children would die badly, so she was dragging a serious illness and refused to get rid of it... The imperial doctor said that her illness was called "Bone Pain Syndrome". , the whole body hurts like a hob, and the best doctor can't cure it.

To live is a long-delayed punishment for her old man.

"Silly boy, it's not too late for you to come to the palace often." The old queen touched Chai Zheng's nose, and asked a question that the elders in the world often care about, "Is there someone in my little granddaughter's heart? If so If you don't have any, don't worry, your mother was not young when she married your father, and with my protection, no one dares to say anything."

Chai Zheng had Ruan Linshuang in his heart, Chai Zheng knew it, and Zhao Qian also knew it, so the latter's face changed slightly.

"Yes, yes," Chai Zheng said with a smile, "but don't worry, grandma, I'm already an adult, and I can fight for myself."

The old lady nodded, "It is true that you are a young adult who can say these words, but in my eyes, you will always be just a child, don't be brave in everything, do you know that?"

Her voice became lower and lower, her eyelids drooped uncontrollably, and the nanny who had been standing respectfully beside her said, "The Queen Mother is sleepy, she has been sleeping longer and longer recently."

"But I think the queen mother's spirit is not bad, why did you suddenly send someone to my palace to spread the word that she is going to die suddenly?" Zhao Qian asked suspiciously.

Although this nanny is more courageous than the little maids outside and is more tactful and considerate in handling things, she is still elusive to the emperor's temper. At this moment, she hurriedly knelt down, "Earlier, the empress dowager did get sick, and she tossed and fell asleep in pain. No problem, I asked the imperial physician to come and see, and said that there was nothing I could do, so I sent someone to invite the Holy Majesty... Who would have thought that the Empress Dowager would heal a lot when she saw the Eldest Princess."

Zhao Qian's temper is simply inexplicable. Even if the queen mother is not ill, but just wants to see her son who is busy with everything, there is nothing wrong with sending someone to shout, but he has already angered others twice in less than half an hour. I feel that Zhao Qian is purely acting, he just wants his sister and niece to see that the world belongs to him, and he can take people's lives anytime and anywhere.

"..." Chai Zheng felt very sick and didn't want to talk to him.

Although Zhao Qian in his previous life was somewhat like a faint king, most of them were tormenting officials big and small, and there were relatively few neurotic difficulties like this. Chai Zheng even suspected that his brain was completely broken, and his actions were out of control.

Regardless of whether Zhao Qian's purpose is to shock or just to show off, this nanny is innocent after all. Just as Chai Zheng was about to speak, the old lady lying on the bed closed her eyes and suddenly said, "Don't blame her, I asked her to send her Someone went to invite you...Although you come to greet you every day, I always fall asleep and I haven't seen you for two months, so I can only take advantage of this illness and call you and Lin Lang to my side."

"Mother's queen..." Zhao Qian stood with his head down, looking very filial.

The old queen said again, "This may be the last time I see my sons and daughters in the same house," she sighed, "I thought it was better to have one son and one daughter than two sons. When fighting for power and profit, the grievances and hatreds are unclear. Now that I think about it, both of you are better than ordinary men, so it's inevitable..."

Hearing this, Chai Zheng was jumping left and right on the wire rope, as if he was about to say, "Lin Lang, if you think of soldiers, raise your troops."

Fortunately, the old queen stopped the voice in time, and Chai Zheng was already in a cold sweat.

She did understand why the old lady would suddenly say something like this——

In recent days, there have been rumors that the late emperor's edict was born and entered Chai Guogong's mansion, but no one dared to confirm it.

Zhao Linlang sat on the edge of the bed the whole time, neither looked up at Zhao Qian nor spoke to her, Chai Zheng saw her as a sculpture.

"My whole body is a disease of fratricide. It hurts my body and my heart, but I don't care what the result is. I want you brothers and sisters to promise me one thing."

The old queen finally opened her eyes. She first took Zhao Linlang's hand, and then signaled Zhao Qian to put her palm on it. Finally, she held the two hands tightly, "Mother is not long to live, don't let me Seeing that day come."

"Queen, what are you talking about?" Zhao Qian broke free from his hands and pulled the quilt over the old lady's body, "After the medicine is ready, drink it quickly, don't talk nonsense, and you..."

Zhao Qian's eyes suddenly fell on the nanny, "Just now the queen mother begged for you and you can still live, but now you can only die, come here! Drag it out, cut off your tongue and stick it to death!"

That nanny was a sudden and innocent disaster, but she didn't kowtow and shout "The emperor spares his life". Only after staying in this palace for a long time did he know that the emperor will not spare his life. When she heard the old queen say these words, she immediately There is no doubt that he must die.

The eldest mother was quickly dragged down, and no one in the warm pavilion spoke. At this time, no one could stop Zhao Qian. After a while, Zhao Qian laughed first, "Mother, you rest first, and I will arrange someone to come and serve you later. If you have something to say to Lin Lang, please leave first."

Chai Zheng regards herself as an inseparable ornament, and follows behind for a moment, in case her own mother suddenly kills the king or Zhao Qian grabs a handful of poisonous powder and dances over...

Although the current emperor and the eldest princess are not so childish, no one can say for sure.

The sedan chair carrying Zhao Qian was parked outside the courtyard, but Li Duan would look at his face and see that the Holy One came out with the eldest princess, so he waved his hand and asked the sedan chair to follow behind, leaving a distance of several feet to ensure that Zhao Qian I can't hear every word, unless I yell loudly in place.

Li Duan admitted that doing so was risky, but it was better than being dragged down and cut off his tongue and beaten to death directly.

Chai Zheng is relatively close, she has already got involved in what she should listen to and what she should not listen to, and even what she should participate in and what she should not participate in. Besides, Zhao Qian is almost stripped in her eyes at this time. Only a pair of underpants left to hide his dirty secrets.

The palace is paved with bluestone bricks. The road is wide and deep, with forks on all sides. People who are not familiar with it can easily get lost. However, the two people in front of them grew up here since they were young, and they can remember clearly where there are spots on the wall. It is even more impossible to make a mistake on the way to the imperial study.

Probably because she didn't know where to start, Chai Zheng yawned in the back, and her two elders just walked forward with their heads down, as if they were in a hurry to go to the market. After a while, Zhao Linlang stepped on a bluestone brick It stopped suddenly, the bluestone brick was shaking a little, it rained a little today, when you stepped on it, water splashed out.

The bricks were stained with dirty water, and Zhao Linlang's clothes were stained black in an instant, but her face was not filled with remorse, but nostalgia, "When it rained when I was young, I was restless, and I had to drag you to step on these loose things." The bluestone bricks, I hide quickly, so every time I go back, you are covered in muddy water."

"Then I took the board from my husband to beat my palms, and many princes attended the class together. I was the one who was punished the most because of you." Zhao Qian's eyes also softened. , if it wasn't for my third brother and I pulling you, you would have plucked off Mr.'s beard and eyebrows, which is unreasonable."

After a pause, Zhao Qian said again, "Let's find a craftsman to repair these bluestone bricks tomorrow. After all, they are broken. They have been left for so many years and should be replaced."

"That's right," Zhao Linlang nodded, "Among the imperial brothers, the third elder brother is the most docile. He was born tall and is a legitimate son, but he didn't want to sit in such a high position, but he still had one eye broken at the age of 13. Died of a sudden illness... this bluestone brick should be replaced."

The two sentences before and after sounded irrelevant, but there was a faint smell of gunpowder smoke in the air, Zhao Qian stopped in his tracks, "This is Chang'an City, I am the current emperor, and I can kill you at any time."

"Really?" Zhao Linlang didn't seem to be afraid at all, "Brother Huang, I have known what kind of person you are since I was a child, so I never took chances, but I always wanted to help you correct you, but these years I Just in the city of Chang’an, how many times have you talked with me? How many times have you listened to the advice of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, asking you to change the old system and establish a new policy? How many times have you listened to it? Governing the world is not based on conspiracy, brother, for more than ten years. You worry every day that someone will drag you off your seat, but have you ever done anything else?"

For more than ten years, even if a dog is taught to talk every day, the dog should open its mouth to scold its mother, but Zhao Qian, the emperor, did it for nothing. After such a long time, all the systems have been inherited from the previous dynasty. There has been no improvement, and the entire Dajing has a tendency to stagnate and be overtaken by the surrounding small countries that are striving to become stronger.