Falling plum

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Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty and Lu Yin have been facing each other for 20 years, and they have jointly implemented the New Deal for ten years. It is common for them to disagree.In retrospect, Emperor Ming Hui couldn't imagine that he could bear Lu Yin's temper.

Lu Yin's temper is stinky and tough, even in the face of the emperor, he is still a stubborn rock.

Lu Yin's temper is different from other people's. He will not confront anyone head-on, and will always be gentle and courteous. But if he does not approve of something, he will say slowly, "I can't do it."

His tone is always gentle, like spring breeze turning into rain, but what he can't do, even if it is verbal, he will not change his words in the slightest.

Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty often jumped his feet in anger, "Are you trying to piss me off?"

Lu Yin shook his head, his eyes were bright, "Kechen, it's Lu Yin."

—— Kechen, it's Lu Yin.

Lu Yin raised his head and looked at his emperor with burning eyes, knowing that if he backed down, he would back down for the rest of his life.

Later, the abolition of the Hu Di slave system was implemented with Lu Yin's insistence. At that time, the monarch and his subjects did not know it. This was the beginning of Lu Yin's fate towards tragedy.

It's just that Emperor Ming Hui came to a conclusion in his heart - Lu Yin is really a person with a bad temper.

But the people around Lu Yin, his colleagues, his best friends, and his students all said that Lu Yin had a good temper in private, so he couldn't tell whether the Lu Yin in his memory was just exaggerated due to memory bias up.

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In the third year after the implementation of the reform, the kings of Fan in the north rebelled, under the banner of "the side of the Qing Dynasty, and the promotion of the king's power".

For the first time, Emperor Ming Hui reflected on whether he had done something wrong.

For the first time, I realized how terrible it is to put Lu Yin in the limelight, and it would probably kill Lu Yin.

Lu Yin willfully hangs his life on his Qianqiu community, but he allows him to mess around, and he can't even stand up to block the arrow that shoots at him for him.

That year, Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty was forced to abolish the New Deal.

When he was young, Ming Huidi was a man who was extremely eager to win. He couldn't accept defeat, but Lu Yin accompanied him and fell off the cliff. He felt that it was not bad to be under the cliff.

A pair of young monarchs and ministers, escaped from open guns and hidden arrows together, waded through mountains of swords and seas of fire together, there is no need to say anything, and they are tacit to each other.

"Your Majesty, there is nothing wrong with the New Deal."

It was the first time that Lu Yin took the initiative to hold the emperor's hand. It was dry and moist, with well-defined knuckles. It was clearly a pair of literati's hands. In fact, it was not a pair of hands holding a knife for the emperor at all.

Emperor Ming Hui would also think that Lu Yin is not even as tall as him, but it is really unfair that he shoulders this huge burden on him alone.There are so many people in these thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, and it doesn't matter if their burdens can be lighter.

He spoke for the first time, "If..."

No what if.

Lu Yin looked at him, full of the most sincere flame in his life, and it never went out in this cold wind and rain. He will always remember this look, reminding him to look at him with the same warm and hot eyes in the years to come. His people, because Lu Yin once loved his people so much.

"Kechen, it's Lu Yin."

He is Lu Yin, so there is no if.

The implementation of the New Deal was abolished three more times. Each time, Lu Yin put all his eggs in one basket and insisted on going his own way. At the last time, even the emperor could not keep him.

The evidence of the Lu party's rebellion is conclusive.

He remembered that on the last night, when Lu Yin came to bid farewell to his emperor, Emperor Ming Hui felt sad and refused to lift the bead curtain.

It was the first time that Lu Yin didn't talk back, he said, "Lantai will never resent the emperor in this life." They have known each other for 20 years, but Emperor Minghui always felt that this down-and-out man has an immortal soul, always sincere and warm , Even if the head was smashed and bloody, he didn't look back.

In the No.15 year of the implementation of the New Deal, all the aristocratic classes finally recognized the New Deal and began to enjoy the dividends brought by the New Deal.

But Lu Yin died, and died in the cold winter of the tenth year.

No one waits for the sick, no one dies.

Lu Yin has struggled and worked hard for this fate and unfairness in his life, and he has lived his best life for this.

He is the kindling that has been dormant in the barren wilderness for a long time, but it has become a boundless wildfire in the palm of Emperor Ming Hui.He used his own strength to pacify the chaos, suppress the bandits, and flatten the fields, bringing the people a peaceful and prosperous age with good weather.

But such a passionate and brilliant person died quietly in the dark prison.

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It was the fifth year after Lu Yin's death that Lu Yin was rehabilitated.

Initiated by his student Liu Wenqing and his son Lu Jianyu, everyone knew that this day would come, but Ming Huidi felt that it was too late.

At that time, the New Deal was stable, the world was peaceful, and Emperor Ming Hui finally took control of the overall situation of the world. Even if they didn't do anything, he would still give Lu Yin justice.

When he looked at the "Haichao Wenzhi" co-edited by him and his students, he wondered what kind of person Lu Yin was, and what did he do to hide it from him and the world?

There is no more Lu Lantai in this world, which in itself is a helpless thing.

Emperor Ming Hui often thought about how he could meet someone like Lu Yin again. Five years after Lu Yin's death, he finally gave up. There is no one like Lu Yin in this world anymore.

However, Liu Wenqing, Lu Yin's student, said, "There may not be a second Lu Yin in this world, but Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty will never hold a second Lu Yin in the palm of his hand."

At the wedding of Lu Jianyu's wife, His Majesty the Emperor suddenly visited. He was very kind this day, and said, "Lu Aiqing is gone, can I sit in the high hall?"

Lu Jianyu and the newcomer naturally invited the emperor to the high hall in fear.

Lu Jianyu was an official in the imperial court. It was the first time that he saw the solemn and solemn emperor lose his composure. He couldn't help feeling a little panicked. The emperor took a sip of the wine glass and asked casually about Lu Jianyu's hometown. Lu Jianyu had no choice but to answer them one by one. .

"I've always wanted to go back to your hometown to see Haiyan and Heqing."

"Are there really many beauties?"

"Is everyone prettier than you?"

The emperor's three questions frightened Lu Jianyu's seven souls to three and a half souls. In the end, he was relieved to hear that the emperor said it was just a joke.

But Lu Jianyu felt that the emperor didn't want to say this to him.

Emperor Ming Hui didn't say anything, but he just remembered that he had often dreamed recently, dreaming that the young man who had been fighting against him all his life never grew old or died, but grew into a never-fading tree on the wall of his hometown in the south. Tree.

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In his later years, Emperor Ming Hui was forgetful and often called the wrong person. Once he accidentally called out "Lan...", the eleventh prince was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know who the "Lan" was in his father's mouth.He searched through the roster in the palace, but he couldn't find the prince or princess who died young, or the concubine in the harem named "Lan".

Emperor Huihui of the Ming Dynasty smiled faintly, I must have misremembered.

That night, Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty once again dreamed of Lu Yin, the debt collector.

In the dream, Lu Yin was still a young man, wearing a green shirt, waving a paper fan, sitting in front of a divination booth, as if he was going to open a fortune-telling booth, but he didn't have any business, so he pulled him away and insisted on marrying him, He laughed, he was the first wife, so he still needs to be considered a marriage?

Lu Yin here shook his fan and said, "Your life is 'bustling and bustling, lonely and widowed for life'." After hearing this, Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty could not help but feel sad from it even in his dream, and the sadness was unbearable.

He remembered an old incident.

On the day when Lu Yin's high school champion participated in the Qionglin Banquet, the young man in scarlet robes and hairpins stood solemnly at His Highness, like a tree of Zhilan Yushu.He got bad intentions, and teased, "The number one scholar is so reserved, does it mean he really wants to marry Gu back as a wife?"

Lu Yin was terrified, "His Royal Highness, I dare not."

"I was just joking, Ai Qing, don't take it personally." He felt that he had finally teased Lu Yin back and avenged him.

Lu Yin said awkwardly, "Of course I won't take it to heart."

He was just a joke, and Lu Lantai wouldn't take it to heart, but he... took it to heart.

In the fifth year of rehabilitating Lu Xiang and the tenth year of Lu Xiang's death, Ming Huidi changed the year name to "Lanrui" somehow on a whim.

Blessings and longevity are long, and Lanrui is boundless.

No one knows why, but such a blessed year name is not bad, and that year was indeed a year of good weather.

It's a pity that Lu Yin can no longer see it.

In his later years, Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty watched the historians compile this period of history, but he couldn't think of how to define the relationship between him and Lu Yin... They were not friends, not masters and apprentices, and they couldn't be said to be "the monarch and his ministers get each other". There is no connection with him at all.

He couldn't think hard, so he could only laugh at himself:

"The only thing that is related is probably my life... when I was fighting against him."