The Story of Leaping from the Dragon Gate

The emperor was still recovering from his illness, half lying and half leaning on the dragon couch, receiving Dugu Empress.

After Dugu Mian bowed down as usual, he reported on the security measures inside and outside the capital, especially the three-day Lantern Festival during the Lantern Festival. There was no curfew, and security was the top priority.

After hearing this, the emperor was noncommittal and didn't ask him to get up.After a long while, he suddenly sighed: "The Lantern Festival is Xiaoyin's birthday, and also... his mother's memorial day. I originally planned to take him to worship his mother on this day, and then have a small birthday party. Wait until the first month On the nineteenth, I asked Zongzheng Temple and Taichang Temple to prepare for the naturalization of the sixth prince."

The nineteenth day of the first lunar month is the day when various departments of the imperial court start work.Now that the sixth prince is lying on the bed, he will not be able to come for two months, so all plans can only be postponed.

Dugu Mian lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, on the 18th day of the first lunar month in the [-]th year of Jingping, during the Lantern Festival, the Sixth Highness and the crown, I have the honor to have honored Master Xuanqing and the new emperor of Jiaozhi at the Suli Palace of Jiaozhi. His Highness Sixth is celebrating his birthday."

The emperor did not expect to hear such an allusion.Slightly stunned, then annoyed.Damn Dugu, is he showing off or sarcastic?As soon as the dragon case was shot, he snorted coldly: "What do you mean?"

Dugu Mian knocked his head loudly: "I know that my crime is unforgivable for deceiving the emperor. I never dare to speak falsely about the life experience of His Majesty the Sixth Highness as you have asked before. Only when it comes to personal matters, is there something wrong with you?" Your Majesty doesn't know about the concealment, but I beg Your Majesty to listen to the reasons. There are thousands of mistakes, and they are all the mistakes of the ministers. Let Your Majesty punish you, and dare not have the slightest complaint."

After waiting for a while, seeing that the emperor didn't object, Dugu started talking slowly.

"His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince met the minister in May of the 17th year of Jingping. The minister was ordered to patrol the country during the flood season and went to the old house in Xidu to fetch some old things for his father. This matter was reported to His Majesty, and His Majesty still remembers it."

Xianhou's old house was stolen, lost the golden seal and jade book bestowed by the Taizu, and found it after a long time. The emperor still remembers it clearly.He snorted through his nose to show that he was listening.

"Just this time, I ran into His Highness the Sixth Highness who was a peddler in Fanfang at that time in Xidu. I fell in love with you at first sight, and I will never forget it."

The first time we met, it was too embarrassing to say anything.Dugu thought to himself, he has bullied the emperor anyway, so let's talk about this, the emperor would never ask in detail.

The emperor cursed in his heart, what is love at first sight, you can't forget it, your kid's prostitution is just like your father's!

"Because of official business, I just left in a hurry. When I traveled to Yongzhou, in order to find out the truth and not be deceived, Mr. Ouyang and I went in two ways. Your Majesty has already known about this. Unexpectedly, a few months later, I On the way, I met the caravan of Mu’s family in Fanfang, Xidu, who was going to Jiaozhou, and His Highness the Sixth Highness happened to be in it. By chance, I also met Master Xuanqing who was traveling in southern Xinjiang, so we went together.”

Hearing this, the emperor snorted again: "I don't think you are going to do something for me, but to play and have fun!"

Knowing that the emperor was angry, he didn't justify his words, and continued steadily: "I want to cooperate with Master Ouyang's itinerary, and I can't always go with them. However, after all, the direction is the same, the routes overlap, and there are intermittents in the middle. See."

At this point, he raised his head and showed a somewhat sad expression: "Your Majesty, the word fate is like this, and there is no way for people to escape."

The emperor was touched by him and didn't respond for a while.

"At that time, no one knew about His Royal Highness Sixth Prince's life experience, but he was a business clerk. However, the more we got along with him, the more frank and cute he felt, touching the soul. I looked for opportunities, revealed my identity, and confessed several times, but he still refused to agree. "

These few sentences sounded quite pleasing to the emperor's ears, so he didn't interrupt.

Dugu Xian continued: "Until the Mu family's caravan rescued Master Xuanqing and Prince Jiaozhi at the border of Jiaozhou, and sent a message to me. Later, Prince Jiaozhi invited the Master and the treasurer of the Mu family to Su Li as guests, and His Highness the Sixth Prince hit it off very well. They are also invited. In a foreign country, we spend the festive season together, and on New Year’s Eve, we exchange our hearts..."

"Slap!" The emperor slapped the dragon table with his palm.It's over, but I don't know what to say.After staring at Dugu for a while, he resentfully said: "If that's the case, why didn't you bring him back when you returned to Beijing?"

If he had been brought back at that time, the son would have been recognized more than a year earlier.

"Why don't I want to, but he doesn't want to. He doesn't want to come to the capital, let alone enter the Marquis's Mansion. Even if... I don't want to, I can't force him. From then on, whenever I have a chance, I will go to the west to visit him. Go At the end of spring at the end of the year, I was ordered to go to the Western Regions to search for people, passing through the Western Capital." Dugu looked at the emperor, "Your Majesty, I have the courage to tell you the truth. The journey to the Western Regions is thousands of miles long, and the road is dangerous. Touched by the impermanence of life, I made an agreement with His Highness the Sixth Highness that if I return safely, I will be with you for life. Who would have expected... Who would have expected that God's will is unpredictable, and good fortune tricks people. I returned safely, but found..."

But he found that the person he was looking for was by his side.

The emperor was sullen and said nothing.

Dugu said: "Your Majesty is wise, there is no need for me to argue, why did you withdraw from the Yao family's marriage, why did you dismiss the inner house overnight."

The emperor glanced at him and said suddenly: "Just tell me how you tricked him into coming to Beijing this time."

Dugu's whole body trembled.The emperor is indeed a master at manipulating people's hearts. With just one sentence, all the previous foreshadowings will immediately fall apart.

"Chen..." Dugu Mian clenched his fists with both hands and propped them on the ground.

He has always understood that from the beginning to the end of the whole matter, all external obstacles are actually nothing to fear.The real difficulty has always come from within.If I deliberately conceal it, the conflict between the two will inevitably become a knot in my heart.However, Song Wei drew his sword and killed himself, intensifying it to the extreme point of life and death.The knot is hard to solve, and there is always a way to slowly knot it.The pressure of life and death makes people feel like walking on thin ice, like facing an abyss, like an endless cold night without a ray of light.

Dugu Mian spent a whole night in front of Song Wei's bed before accepting this fact.After another nine days of kneeling in the Mingsi Hall, he was able to try his best to deal with the emperor at this moment.

"Your Majesty has also seen what kind of temperament His Majesty the Sixth Highness is. No matter when he knows, he will not be willing to go to Beijing with me. I...found that he may be the person His Majesty is looking for, and I am not very sure. I thought it would be so early Forcing him and making him sad, it is better to wait for His Majesty to confirm before making any plans. Therefore, I went straight to the Western Capital and fulfilled the previous agreement. His Highness the Sixth Highness respects friendship and promises, and as soon as I go...he will come too."

For the latter matter, the emperor is a participant, so there is no need to say more.As for how things got messed up, the emperor understood everything now, pointing at Dugu, he couldn't say a word.

Dugu said again: "It's the minister who failed him. You can't have both loyalty and trust, but just as your Majesty said, the family relationship between father and son, the righteousness of the monarch and ministers are here, no matter how serious the children's personal relationship is, they can't go further. I know he will Resent me and hate me, but unexpectedly...unexpectedly...he will be so sad, and I will not be able to absolve myself of the blame..."

The emperor was furious, and swept the inkstone on the dragon case to the ground with one sleeve: "What do you mean, he can't do without you!"

Dugu then kowtowed again: "Your Majesty calm down."

The last time the emperor was so depressed and angry was the imperial physician Li Yi who confessed that what was in Hexi Zhaoyi's belly was not an adulterous bastard, but his own blood.Last time, it can be traced back to the time when Hexi Zhaoyi set fire to her mother without saying hello, and both mother and child died in the sea of ​​flames.

"A hundred deaths are not to blame? Do you think I don't want to kill you a hundred times? You made my child like this, I can't wait, I can't wait..."

Dugu Mian said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, please rest assured. I, Dugu Mian, caused the disaster, and I shall bear the responsibility to the end. I will always guard him and let him go slowly. I thought that His Highness the Sixth Highness is smart and wise, but I just didn't think about it for a while. It works. When he has figured it out, he will never hurt himself like this again..."

The emperor said angrily: "What dirty idea are you planning? Do you still want to openly pester him?"

Dugu's expression was gloomy and gloomy, but his tone became more and more calm: "Your Majesty thinks that after this incident, even if I can always stay by His Highness's side, so what?"

The emperor suddenly became smoother, and an inexplicable revenge-like pleasure surged in his heart: "That's right, he won't forgive you."

Dugu said: "Your Majesty, from the day I planned to bring him to Beijing, I never thought of asking him to forgive me. All I want is to stay by his side. I can no longer fulfill my promise to him, but I can fulfill it." Promise to myself. Whether he is a peddler, a businessman, or a nobleman, a prince and grandson, I Dugu likes him, admires him, and is the only one in my heart. I will do my best to treat him well. I will use my Protect him with all your strength, love him, wholeheartedly, for the rest of your life."

The emperor was stunned.

After a long time, the emperor looked straight at him and said, "Don't forget, you are Marquis Xian."

Dugu Mian also looked straight back at the emperor: "I know very well that I am the Marquis of Xian. I have admiration and admiration for the sixth prince. Could it be that Marquis Xian can't use his affection to be single-minded, lovesick and secretly in love?"

The emperor understood, the feeling of admiration, the meaning of heart, is not the feeling of support, the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers.

An idle prince with broken sleeves, and a powerful general who is good at Longyang, both are good news for the new king in the future.Although the reputation is not good, it is an excellent plan to protect the sixth prince.

"That's what you've been thinking about?"

"Your Majesty has learned from you that I deserve death for my crimes."

The emperor looked at Xianhou for a long time, and suddenly felt a little sad.

"Xiao Ze, think it over. As you said, he will hate you, and even give up. I will still ask him to marry and have children. Do you want to keep your promise and live a life of hopelessness?"

Dugu Mian kowtowed again: "What I love, I have no complaints or regrets. I implore Your Majesty to grant it."

The emperor finally said nothing, but waved his hand weakly, motioning him to back down.

Song Wei really woke up on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month.

He lay in a daze for so many days, and he occasionally had a moment of consciousness in the middle. He felt that he was familiar with the road, and he thought that he had successfully crossed again, and he just wanted to wake up quickly to see what was going on.Reluctantly, his body was heavy and stiff, as if he had entered a nightmare.I waited and waited, endured and endured until I finally had the strength to open my eyes. Before I could see the bed curtain above my head clearly, endless pain spread from my chest. Although I couldn't move my body, all my nerves seemed to twitch.

It's...it's...too...his...mother's...pain...

Inadvertently let out a low and painful moan, which immediately alarmed Dugu Mian who was sitting by the bed.

"Xiao Yin?"

"I……"

Song Wei just wanted to figure out one thing, but unfortunately she was out of strength and could only speak with a breath.

Dugu Mian held his hand and put his ear close to him.

"Dead... no?"

After Dugu heard it clearly, he stared straight at him with his dark eyes and didn't speak at all.

Song Wei could see it clearly: it wasn't a phantom, it wasn't a fantasy, it wasn't going back in time, and it wasn't the rebirth of the original owner.

Cold sweat gradually appeared on the forehead, which hurt.He gritted his teeth and turned his neck, Dugu Mian suddenly bent down, reached out and took out a towel from the copper basin beside the bed, wiped his sweat, and then fixed his head.

The solid touch told Song Wei: The initiative to end life ended in failure.

Not a failure in general, but a near failure, a total failure, a total failure.

Because, he disabled himself.