last night suddenly dreamed of mountains and rivers

In the 23rd year of Wukang, in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, in autumn, the Queen Mother died of illness.

Everyone said that the queen mother who was dying was finally dead.

For the funeral ceremony, the palace was busy for 49 days before it ended, and the whole country mourned together.A general died within a year, and a queen mother died. Everyone was asking "what happened to Wukang 23", and the mourning was heavier than in previous years.

The emperor stopped court for seven days to keep a vigil for the empress dowager.The members of the royal family wear plain clothes made of fine cloth when they come and go, and the palace people wear white clothes.In an instant, the whole palace seemed to have stepped into winter ahead of schedule, with snow white moving from left to right, and plain to the eyes.

It is a rule to avoid meat in the palace for three months.As a result, the workers who built the North Hall fell from the shelves due to malnutrition and broke their bones.The emperor had no choice but to take a few people out of his busy schedule to send the worker with a broken leg home to recuperate, and posted a recruitment order outside the palace.Busy and busy.

People with high status are different. When they die, the whole country is in turmoil, and it is a waste of people and money.

Lan Jiansu accompanied the Queen Mother for the last part of the journey before she left.Almost everyone in the palace knew about this news.The end is a miracle.It must be known that a few days before the Empress Dowager left, several large wine vats were placed in the Jubilee Palace, that is to say, whoever dares to enter the Jubilee Palace will be cut into human pigs and put into the vats to soak in wine.

Lan Jiansu escaped being soaked in wine, and saw the queen mother for the last time before her death.Everyone thought in their hearts that Lan Jiansu really had two talents.

But the Empress Dowager is not like the emperor who has a precious throne, nor the empress who has family treasures and silver, but some are just a few strings of Buddhist beads and a few broken scriptures.Not many people cared about what happened to her and what she said before she died.So the emperor asked Lan Jiansu a few symbolic questions.Lan Jiansu played it half-truth and half-fake, but the emperor didn't ask further.After all, there is really no valuable news about the Queen Mother.

Lan Jiansu went to see Princess Minwen and asked who the two people who killed Empress Shunde were who she met back then.

Lan Jiansu asked nervously.Getting a traumatized person to recall their most traumatic and brutal events is more of a challenge than going toe-to-toe with the killer.

Princess Minwen's insanity has a cycle, and Lan Jiansu asked about this, which happened to be the beginning of Princess Minwen's madness cycle.

Princess Minwen stared blankly at Lan Jian and Su Shaoqing, but didn't shout.He said nothing, and then released a pack of snakes to bite him.

Lan Jiansu sighed that it was not the right time, and when Princess Minwen was going to be ill, he ran away without leaving a trace.

The filial piety was hung in Prince Yi's mansion, and the filial piety was connected from the east to the west of the mansion. The white lanterns tore the pulp paper, and there was only a leaky bamboo frame hanging around under the eaves.

King Yi was sitting in the pavilion drinking, a ray of cool light fell from the corner of the eaves and sifted on his white plain clothes.

Lan Jiansu asked his servants to lead him to the pavilion, and called out, "My lord."

Yi Wang seemed to nod his head: "Sit down."

King Yi's face was still clean, no tear stains from crying, no red and swollen eyes.The death of the Empress Dowager, like the death of an ordinary person, the death of an unrelated relative, to him, affected him like a broken leaf, like mourning, but not heartbroken.

No one would think that he was a person who just lost his biological mother.Yi Wang's heart was cold, indeed it was utterly cold.

"My lord, my condolences." Lan Jiansu sat down and said.Although the other party may not be mourning much, he still has to be considerate in terms of etiquette.

The flowers in the lotus pond are gone, and the lotus leaves are half dead. No wonder the sun is shining brightly and clear today, and the water is crystal clear.

King Yi poured a glass of wine for Lan Jiansu, and said with a faint smile, "Many people were crying when the queen mother left, but they were not really sad. I don't cry, I just feel relieved for the queen mother."

Lan Jiansu took the wine glass and looked at King Yi not quite understanding.

King Yi said: "Death is a kind of relief for her. You should know it. Hearing about her last journey, you let her have no regrets. This king should thank you for this."

Lan Jiansu picked up the wine and took a sip, the spicy taste engraved on the tip of her tongue: "I'm just doing my best. The Queen Mother has someone she wants to see. I'm not good enough to let her see this. After all, I'm still called the Queen Mother." I have regrets."

Yi Wang's eyes were dark and cold: "The fate between her and Mr. Jiang is over. This is the destiny, and neither you nor I can change it."

When Lan Jiansu was stunned, his hands trembled, and even the wine in his glass trembled.

The relationship between Mr. Jiang and King Yi has been widely spread inside and outside, and everyone who talks about it tacitly knows it. I don't want King Yi to mention this person so calmly.

King Yi took his look into his eyes and said: "I know that people in the world are prejudiced against Mr. Jiang. He disrupted the government, oppressed the people, and his intentions were wrong. That's not good."

"No, I don't think he died badly." Lan Jiansu felt that the expression was not perfect, and hurriedly said, "No, I don't mean that he died well."

Yi Wang looked at him.

Lan Jiansu held his forehead and thought to himself: Why is Chinese so ambiguous.

King Yi chuckled, "That's all. Don't talk about this anymore." He stood up, swept away the setting sun on his sleeve, took Lan Jiansu's hand and said, "I'll show you something."

Lan Jiansu stood up with him and was led away by him.

West Garden.The rain-soaked Runming Begonia blossomed one after another, forming a sea of ​​jade-bone and ice-hearted flowers.In the sea of ​​flowers, osmanthus twigs hold buds, and a paulownia carved piano stands under the branches, reflecting the light from the blue sky and white clouds, which is not as bright as an item of this era.

In fact, it is indeed not an item that will exist in this era.

Lan Jiansu's eyes widened in surprise, "Piano?"

"Yeah." Wang Yi said, "A few days ago I bought a blueprint of a piano from a foreigner, and asked people to look at it according to the blueprint, tried thousands of times, failed thousands of times, and finally built a piano. "

Lan Jiansu stared at King Yi in disbelief, and then at the piano.There was endless surprise in his heart.Surprised that Wang Yi could really make a piano, and Wang Yi always remembered the piano he said.

Yi Wang walked to the piano, swept his fingers over the keys, and at the same time his snow-white wide sleeves.He stood by the piano, looked at Lan Jiansu, and said, "Jiansu, play a piece, I haven't heard you play the piano before."

The shock in Lan Jiansu's heart gradually calmed down, and he slowly sat in front of the piano, tapping on the white keys with both familiar and unfamiliar fingers: "What does the lord want to hear?"

Yi Wang thought for a while and said, "I don't know. I want to listen to those songs you like."

Lan Jiansu's long and slender fingers moved over the piano keys like dexterous butterflies, and said with a smile, "Okay."

After waking up from the lunch break, the new butler of the mansion ran to the door of the wing room, and said in a voice that was not too loud and not too small: "Second Young Master, Second Young Master, come out for a while."

Lan Jiansu got off the bed in a daze, put on her shoes, opened the door and asked, "What's wrong?"

The housekeeper put his hands on his stomach and said anxiously: "My lord has gone to the lotus pond, no matter who calls, he won't come up."

Lan Jiansu frowned: "Go and have a look."

The water in the lotus pond is clear and not very dirty.But the sky is cold and the pond is so cold that ordinary people may not be able to stand for a while, let alone King Yi who has not fully recovered from his illness.King Yi stood in the pond, and the snow-white clothes of his filial piety floated on the water, like crabapple flowers and hibiscus in the garden.He lowered his head to look for something, concentrating on it.The servants on the shore tried to persuade him, so anxious that tears were about to fall.He didn't seem to hear it.

Lan Jiansu said: "My lord, what are you looking for? Come up first, the water is cold."

King Yi shook his head and said, "That piece of jade is very important to me, and I must find it."

Lan Jiansu sighed, and then there was a "puff".

King Yi turned his head and saw that Lan Jiansu had also stepped out of the lotus pond, walking towards him with clumsy steps.

"I'll help you find it together." Lan Jiansu ignored King Yi's dissuasion and groped together in the lotus pond with him.

After touching for about half an hour, Lan Jiansu took out a piece of chicken-blood red chipped jade and asked, "My lord, is this the one?"

King Yi took the jade ring and said happily, "It's exactly this one."

Lan Jiansu wiped the sweat from his forehead, finally heaved a sigh of relief, and asked curiously, "Who gave this gift? I don't think it's very expensive."

Yi Wang looked into his eyes, and the half-wet hair rolled water droplets: "You don't remember?"

Lan Jiansu thought about it for a long time, his eyes rolled down and up again.Seems to remember a little.When the second prince was still the second prince, he made two jade rings.Before he was expelled from the palace, a piece of Yu Jue, who was regarded as the god who summoned Yin soldiers, was smashed by the eunuch.As for the piece he made for the first time, he gave it to King Yi.

Lan Jiansu stood silently.The water was all over his body at this moment, and it actually became a little hotter.

As King Yi approached Lan Jiansu, he suddenly raised his hand and placed it on his temple.

This ambiguous move made Lan Jiansu subconsciously flicker.

Yi Wang paused, and took off the broken leaf on his temple: "What do you think I'm going to do?"

Lan Jiansu said in shame: "No. My lord, I know you are not that kind of person."

Yi Wang didn't say anything.He suddenly pushed Lan Jiansu to the fence of the water plank road, stared into his eyes, and said in a deep voice as if hunting a prey: "You are wrong, I am."