Chang'an ancient meaning

When the emperor entered Baifuyuan, two imperial physicians were sitting on the porch sheltering from the rain and gossiping. Seeing him, they hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, ten thousand years!" How about Sheng Gong?" An imperial doctor replied: "I see improvement today, and I am at peace. The Supreme Emperor was exposed to the wind and cold in the rain that night, and he was worried too much, so he had this disease. Now the solar term wind and cold are easy to disperse. It’s just that the worries in my heart still need to be slowly resolved, so that I can recover.” The emperor pondered for a while and said: “Increase the dose of the prescription for calming the nerves that day, and prepare another portion.” The imperial doctor said: “Now it is necessary For recuperation, there is no need to increase the dosage..." The emperor turned cold and said: "I am asking you for advice?" The priest was startled, deeply regretting his talkativeness, and quickly shrank his neck and said: "Here."

Although they were speaking in a low voice, the Supreme Emperor heard him inside, and hurriedly got up and asked, "Is Sanlang here?" Li Chengqi rushed out to greet him.The emperor put on a smile, stepped forward to stop Li Chengqi from saluting, and said: "These three days are too busy in the middle of the court, and there is a lack of Ding Xing, so I have to thank you, brother." Li Chengqi didn't care about gossip, and said: "Father is in a hurry, aunt has gone down the mountain. Is it?"

After retiring from the court that day, Li Chengqi was sent here to take care of the Supreme Emperor. For two days, the Baifuyuan was tightly surrounded by Yulin, and it was difficult for him and the Supreme Emperor to communicate with the outside world.He repeatedly sent people to invite the emperor, and always reported that the emperor was busy with the counter-case and would come as soon as the important event was over. This sentence "immediately" trapped Li Chengqi and his son in the courtyard for two days.The emperor took a quick look at Li Chengqi, saw two deep blue shadows under his eyes, and his complexion was extremely pale. He thought that he had to serve his sick father and worry about the outside world in the past few days, so he must be physically and mentally exhausted.He smiled slightly, gently took Li Chengqi's hand and said, "Brother, follow me in and talk."

When they entered, they saw that the Supreme Emperor was being supported by the palace servants to stay on the couch. The two brothers rushed forward to support him. Where? If it's not convenient for her to enter the palace, how about letting me go and see her?"

Seeing that there was still half a bowl of soup on the small table beside the couch, the emperor suddenly felt a little sour. He had never been happy at his father's knees in his life, nor had he personally fed his father a mouthful of soup. I am afraid it will be difficult to have it again in the future.The blood relationship between him and his father was separated by the palace wall of Luoyang Palace. The ten-year separation was too long. Father, emperor's heir, became a word in the mouths of others. It was extremely important, but it was extremely nihilistic about the fortune of the Tang Dynasty. So much so that on the day of reunion, they will feel strange when they meet each other, as if there is an extra father out of thin air.This is the shortcoming between them, although there will be a long time in the future, I am afraid that after today is over, God will not give him any chance to redeem.

He waved his hand and ordered everyone in the palace to retreat, and said with a smile: "Just now the imperial physician said that Daddy should not be in a hurry. My son will wait for you to finish the medicine first. There are too many things going on over there, so let's talk slowly." The medicine bowl came, and he handed the little golden spoon to his father's mouth.But the Supreme Emperor pushed his hand away and said: "Sanlang, I just want to ask you, where is Taiping now, why don't you answer? Why don't you allow your elder brother to leave the palace? What are you hiding from me?"

The emperor saw his father's old and feeble hand, but it was the other side that resolutely pushed his hand away. In a flash, a few drops of the medicinal juice spilled on the emperor's sleeve, and a piece of blood oozed from the newly changed robe. Comes with a beige stain.Suddenly strong loathing surged in the emperor's heart, and the corner of his mouth smirked, he put down the medicine bowl, took out a roll of yellow silk from his sleeve, and said, "I came today to ask daddy to use the seal, you issued an edict , the son can also take care of the mourning behind the aunt."

The Supreme Emperor had just received the silk scroll and hadn't opened it yet. Hearing these words, both Li Chengqi and Li Chengqi were terrified and asked in unison, "What did you say!" She committed suicide and apologized, and her third son Zhen also issued an edict for her father to die in prison. Please sign this edict and file it..." Before he finished speaking, Li Chengqi cried out in pain: "Daddy!" The Supreme Emperor has already softened Li Chengqi slumped on the couch, supported his father, and said in a trembling voice: "Sanlang! Did you really kill my aunt?" The emperor looked coldly and said, "Daddy should have issued this edict a long time ago."

The Supreme Emperor leaned on Li Chengqi and murmured: "Nizi...Nizi...how did you respond to me that day? You swore to me, you swore to your ancestors that you would not hurt your aunt's family..."

The emperor straightened up on his knees, looked directly at his father, and said word by word: "On the day my father came to the throne, he also swore to my ancestors of the Li family to protect the sacred artifacts of the country! The traitor in the court is in power, and my sister is in power. Dad is powerless to eradicate , I should get rid of it for the ancestors!"

The Supreme Emperor gasped for breath and was speechless, that powerless hand was drawn towards the emperor's face, but he was extremely weak at the moment, this slap was like gently caressing the emperor's cheek.Feeling strange in the emperor's heart, he smiled and lowered the horsewhip with the coral handle on his waist, cupped it with both hands and said, "Please punish me, daddy."

There was a void in Li Chengqi's heart, he couldn't even understand the conversation between the two of them, and all he could think of was messy past events.Taiping took him and Hua Nu to the mountains to escape the summer heat. Their chariots and horses walked leisurely on the mountain road. Hua Nu always refused to be honest when sitting on the horse, sometimes pulling his sleeves and sometimes grabbing a piece of grass that passed by. willow leaves.In the sparkling pool, Hua Nu's soft and slippery body rubbed up and said, "Cousin, wipe the bath beans for me."

These scenes have been chewed by him for many years, and the time has been blurred, as clear and vivid as yesterday.Are these people gone?How could the world be changed so quickly? Is it the boy on the horse who is in the dream, or the boy at this moment is in the dream.He heard his father crying while panting: "You, why are you so cruel! Taiping, she has been kind to our family and Sheji, how can you do it!"

The emperor sneered and said: "Her great kindness is for the elder brother. If it weren't for the elder brother who is dark and easy to control, and if it wasn't for the affair between him and Xue Chongjian, why would Taiping advocate making him the crown prince!" The Emperor Taishang finally gathered his strength and sat down He got up and said, "Do you know how much your elder brother has suffered for you?" The emperor also said with tears in his eyes, "What about my mother? What about the two younger sisters of Yuzhen Jinxian? You only have peace in your eyes, only you My own filial piety, have you seen the suffering my Li Tang clan has suffered!"

Li Chengqi finally understood the meaning of the emperor's words at this moment, he slowly raised his eyes to meet the emperor's gaze, and said: "Sanlang, it's okay for you to treat me, you can't treat daddy like this, daddy endured humiliation all his life for us. The emperor stood up angrily and said: "For us, he should rise up and reorganize the country. Killing [-] old women is more difficult than watching his own wife die! If it weren't for your incompetence, how could I let you die?" Li Tang's clan was wiped out, how could a loyal person like Xu Jingye die in vain!"

Li Chengqi gently put his father on the couch, and stood up. It was the first time that he could clearly see the resentment in his younger brother's heart.He doesn't really blame him, now it's irretrievable and irresistible, his life was bestowed by his aunt, Hua Nu, and he has made Hua Nu lonely for too long, so he can't be lonely there too.Perhaps San Lang was right, it was his own weakness that brought his aunt and Hua Nu to death step by step.He said softly: "I have committed a heinous crime, so I will definitely apologize to you. Daddy is old, and I beg you to take good care of him. His troubles throughout his life are all because of us."

The emperor smiled coldly, raised his hand and flicked the teardrops from the corners of his eyes lightly, and said with a bit of teasing in his tone: "Brother, you don't have to rush to die for love, he is not dead yet, I just moved him to Puzhou. Brother, I did it for You are the one who spared his life." Li Chengqi didn't know whether to be happy or sad, and trembling violently, he staggered towards the door, the emperor stretched out his hand to stop him, and said with a smile: "I sent him far away from the capital, so it was In order to protect the eldest brother's name, the eldest brother does not appreciate it? Then can you tell me, what do you two men do when you sleep together every night?" Li Chengqi looked at the rain outside the door indifferently, and felt that his heart was also As chaotic as the world is, the emperor smiled again and said, "I can't say it? It's too cheap, isn't it?"

He turned to the Supreme Emperor, with a look of arrogance flashing in his tears, and said, "Father, you can see clearly that this is your Yuanzi, even if you become the emperor, he is just someone who wants to hand over the country to his pets." Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty! I risked my life to take this world back from the hands of treacherous ministers and evildoers, don't say what he told the world!" He finally said these words, only to feel a pang of pain all over his body, and he put their father, son, and brother together. The wound between them was torn open, and the blood was slit, and the blood gushed out. If not, he was afraid that he would suffocate himself to death.

The Supreme Emperor shook his head and said, "I am the one who is sorry for your mother and son. I would like to make amends with my own body. Just let your elder brother and Hua slave go."

The emperor went to the couch and knelt down again, gently wiped away the tears on the face of the Supreme Emperor, and said: "What did Daddy say, Daddy will always be Daddy, and Eldest Brother will always be Eldest Brother, I will see that for the sake of Daddy and Eldest Brother, I will not Make things difficult for Xue Chongjian." He raised his head and said to Li Chengqi, "He has already left the city."

Li Chengqi paused for a while, but still walked out in a daze, the wind and rain woven the sky and the earth into a net, and it hurt him when it hit his face and body.He only has one clear thought at the moment, he wants to see Hua Nu, too many things make him afraid to face it, he thinks Hua Nu is the same, only when they hold each other together can they regenerate the courage to survive.Habayashi guarding the outside got the emperor's will and no longer obstructed it. They were all surprised to see His Royal Highness Song Wang alone, walking like a wandering soul into the world that was tilted by the wind and rain.

Li Chengqi did not bring any attendants, and walked out of the palace gate from Baifuyuan alone. The weakness and fatigue of not sleeping or eating for several days had hollowed out him, and even such raindrops seemed to smash him into powder at any time.Although he was blinded by the stupor, he was still able to discern the direction intuitively. This was the road that Hua Nu took to run for his life that night, and that rockery where they hid behind to confess their love. This world is a flower. The slave shaped it for him, and he didn't know what the world would look like without the Hua slave.

He reluctantly walked to the gate of Zhongshu Province, only to see the official holding a horse and holding an umbrella and preparing to resign. He stepped forward to take the rein and grabbed the whip. Jump and bow down quickly.Li Chengqi was also powerless to speak, he gritted his teeth, stomped on the stirrups, rolled over, whipped his horsewhip hard, and rushed straight into Chang'an City Square under the rain.

It has been raining for a while, and there are few pedestrians on the street. In the gray world, only the willows along the road show a patch of green.He suddenly hated that kind of willow people, why is this willow tree also in Luoyang Forbidden Garden, why is there also such a willow tree on Rapture Soul Bridge, why is this willow tree also in Furong Garden.Liu Zhe, Liu Ye, if there were not too many partings, why should we plant so many retentions.Trees are like this, and only trees are like this.At that time, they stood by the Wei River and watched others break the Liuyang Pass, thinking that it was someone else's sorrow. He said to Hua Nu, Wanliguan Mountain, I always let you go.

He made too many vows to Hua Nu, and he used these oaths to deceive Hua Nu into enduring grievances, pain, and parting again and again, deceiving him to sacrifice and give, until their future road was cut off, blocked, and became It became a silent river of Styx, and even the lightest hope was swallowed up.So the oath never had a chance to be fulfilled, and the bloody face of the lie was finally revealed.

He felt that with the bumping of the mount under him, bloody air really surged up in his abdomen, and his stomach also felt cramps.He was a little anxious, so he beat the horse repeatedly. He was not afraid of death, but he was afraid that he would not see Hua Nu before he died.He wondered what Hua Nu should do. Hua Nu lost his mother, and he was the child who was most afraid of being alone since he was a child. Hua Nu shrank back and said, "Will my cousin and mother not want me anymore?" The curse of the world To honor them one by one with the most ferocious face, if you don't go to see him right now, it will make him think that even you have abandoned him.

He crossed half of Chang'an, and finally came to the Chunming gate. The guards couldn't see who was coming in the rain and fog, but they saw a horse galloping forward, and shouted with a horizontal halberd: "Who is it, get off the horse!" Li Chengqi reined in the horse and said: " I am the King of Song, open the door, I want to leave the city." A general guarding was taken aback, stepped forward to take a closer look, and then recognized Li Chengqi, and hurriedly bowed and said: "Your Highness is a thousand years old, and I obey His Majesty's orders. Martial law is in place to search for rebels, and no one is allowed to leave the city unless His Majesty personally writes an imperial decree. If His Majesty has something urgent, can you send someone to ask His Majesty for an decree?"

Li Chengqi sternly shouted: "Open the door! Or I'll kill you!" It was the first time he used his identity to intimidate others. Only he knew how urgent his time was, and bursts of blood had poured into his chest, and there was intense pain in his abdomen. It made his eyes dark for a while, and Hua Nu was on the other side of the door. He heard the rain in the night, like the continuous raindrops, and heard a child whispering in the pattering rain, "Cousin, beat me!" shoot me.

The general knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Highness calm down, I dare not disobey His Majesty's will!"

Li Chengqi raised his head in a daze, and the vermilion door was washed bright by the rain, as if it had been stained with blood.He knew he couldn't kill anyone, and he didn't have the strength to open the door.When he was trapped by a door, Hua Nu could climb over the high wall to see him, but now he can only sit and listen in the rain.The sweet smell that he had suppressed before kept suffocating in his chest, and finally he was unable to suppress it in despair. With a sound of "Wow", a mouthful of blood was sprayed on the ground.

The general bowed his head and knelt anxiously for a moment, never hearing King Song's words, raised his head slightly in surprise, and wanted to sneak a look at his expression, but unexpectedly, a fishy smell rushed past his nose, and a pool of bright red was thrown directly in front of his eyes. When it landed, it was washed away by the rain, and it seemed to be unwilling to meander towards the direction outside the door.He heard the exclamation of people around him, King Song had fallen off his horse.