A Piece of Li Song Changting Twilight

Zhao Pingzhen began to have frequent nightmares.He began to dream of those people who had left him far away, the woman who refused to accept his power and hanged herself, the father who angrily bumped to death outside his door, Yang Yinghua, Yang Tian, ​​Wu Yi...these people have all become The ghost haunted him in his dream and demanded his life.He shouted angrily in his dream: You all deserve it!deserve it!It's you who are looking for your own death, what has it to do with me?I never thought of taking your life! ...but none of that worked, those people haunted him night after night.

He had never felt sorry for Yang Yinghua in his previous life, but in his dream, he was shocked to see the girl who was hiding behind a pillar and smiling shyly at him at the corner of the palace, and suddenly his heart ached beyond measure.He thought that if he could go back in time, maybe he would be nicer to those people.Those who were jealous of him, his cousin Yingying, his father, and...Meng Jinling, were all people who loved him, but at that time he didn't know what love was, didn't know how to cherish it, Therefore, they all report with ruthlessness and ignorance.

Those whom he has betrayed may not have said a single word of hatred to him before their lifetime, but in their dreams they all waved their swords to take revenge on him with their faces covered in blood.He thought his heart was hard, and no matter how many bad things he did, he would never feel guilty.However, his guilt was awakened in this year, when he was 29 years old.Just because it came so abruptly and late, it was extraordinarily turbulent.

A year after Zhao Pingzhen left Beijing, one day he sat in front of the bronze mirror and watched the maid dressing her up, and suddenly felt that he looked different from usual.He went to the mirror to take a closer look, pulled up his hair one by one and took a closer look, only to find that he had grown so many gray hairs in a year.

He'd never dealt with it because he'd been avoiding it all his life, and now he couldn't escape it, and his way of venting it was fighting.Fighting, killing more people, looking at the golden men who fell under his horse's hooves and bleeding in rivers, he sometimes mistakenly thought that he had redeemed himself and avenged those people.Then go back and continue to be haunted by nightmares.

In the capital, Zhao Nanke handed out three gold medals to him to stop, and the envoys of the golden man went to Lin'an twice in three months, and they were almost cornered by him.The money that the Ministry of Finance could mobilize was about to be drained by him, and the old men in the Ministry of War sighed with worry every day.Without Wu Yi, he realized that that guy was indeed not dispensable. Many battles had hurt the enemy one thousand and self-damaged eight hundred, so much so that even the people of the Mu Kingdom were very pale when they heard about King Rui Zhao Pingzhen. .

Zhao Pingzhen may have become a hero.It's a pity that he is a hero who betrayed his relatives.

Sometimes he also wonders how he got from a dandy waiting to die to where he is today.He asked himself whether he loved war, and the answer was no. He would also miss his life before the age of 20. He ate and drank and committed crimes every day, living like a lump of rotten meat with maggots. Consider yourself invincible.

He sometimes felt that he started to have nightmares, probably after leaving Qin Xiaolou.So he began to carry the sachet Qin Xiaolou wore every day, hang Qin Xiaolou's portrait in the middle of the wall of the master bedroom, put Qin Xiaolou's clothes under the pillow, and even the newly built The attic of the Tibetan Military Code in the school was also named Mingdong Pavilion by him.Others talked about him in private as a lover, but he thought in his heart, those people don't understand me.

Those people don't understand him, they don't understand that he can sit for a whole day holding the pillow that Qin Xiaolou slept on just because he is bored; I don't understand him, I don't understand that he always thinks about Qin Xiaolou and insomnia because of his habit of ten years... Those people don't understand him, and he doesn't understand himself either.

He began to write a letter to Qin Xiaolou every month. Sometimes he didn't know what to write and what to write. He wrote about the war on the border, told him that Bianjing had been handed back by the Jin people, and told him that Bianjing had been handed back by the Jin people. The new imperial palace in Beijing started to be built, and he was told to do more dredging for himself at the Ministry of Households. He could allocate as much money as he could, and it didn't matter if the people took a little more money.

Many times, he would forget what he had written after he finished writing the letter.Because those facts have nothing to do with himself, nor with Qin Xiaolou, nor with the matter between the two of them.Until one day when Zhao Pingzhen was drunk, he wrote a longing poem, and filled it with the word "Ming Dong". He sent it out that night while he was still drunk. Speaking of it again, maybe even he himself doesn't remember what he did when he was drunk.

Qin Xiaolou didn't read a single letter from Zhao Pingzhen, but he was always paying attention to Zhao Pingzhen's situation. Apart from inquiring in the court hall, he also wrote letters to ask the officials in Pingcheng.Similarly, Zhao Pingzhen didn't receive Qin Xiaolou's letter, but he kept asking about Qin Xiaolou's situation.

Qin Xiaolou has made meritorious service; Qin Xiaolou has added an official to a noble; Qin Xiaolou's younger brother died; Qin Xiaolou brought down a certain official; Qin Xiaolou's birthday, many officials from the court came to congratulate...

After hearing the news of Qin Chengxue's death, Zhao Pingzhen had another debt collector in his nightmare.Although sometimes he really feels depressed because he doesn't think he needs to take any responsibility for Qin Chengxue's death.

Two and a half years after he left Beijing, a letter came from Lin'an. After reading the letter, he locked himself in the room and did not come out for two whole days.

Prime Minister Wang finally fell.

Qin Xiaolou accused him of fornicating a rich man and betraying his country for glory.Several other people who were close friends with Prime Minister Wang came out to testify that they had heard Prime Minister Wang belittle the current emperor in private, saying that it was a foolish decision to fight the Jinren, and that the weak force of Da Mu was not the Jinren's at all. opponent.

How ridiculous this case sounds. A person who has been the prime minister in the Mu Dynasty for 20 years, with one person under one person and over ten thousand people, still needs to betray his country for glory.When Zhao Nanke saw the testimonial submitted by Qin Xiaolou, the way he looked at Qin Xiaolou changed.But the case still needs to be investigated, and the results after the investigation shocked everyone.

Numerous irrefutable evidences indicate that Prime Minister Wang and the Jinren do have an ulterior connection.A few pieces of gold clothing were found in the prime minister's mansion; a portrait of Jin Taizu was enshrined in the secret passage of the prime minister's mansion; a letter written by Wanyan Zhaogai was found under the prime minister's pillow, and the letter kept claiming that the king was a respected person; Even when the officers and soldiers raided and searched, they found a golden envoy who was sitting in the yard drinking tea from the courtyard of the prime minister's mansion. After being identified by veterans who had participated in the battle, this golden envoy was definitely Wan Yanzhao's close confidant!Before the Jin envoy was taken away from the prime minister's mansion by the Ministry of Punishment, he was still yelling in Jurchen language: You can't arrest me, otherwise Wang Zunren will definitely ask you to throw away Dingdai Hualing!

If these were not enough, then Wan Yanzhao immediately sent someone to Beijing to plead for mercy after the envoy was arrested, and was willing to redeem this person with 200 taels of gold, which may be enough to explain the problem.

Before the case was settled, there were rumors in the capital that Wang Xiang was a relative of the gold master.Qin Xiaolou just started this, and many people took the initiative to take over the burden for him in the follow-up matters. There were as many people as gadflies who submitted evidence to the Ministry of Criminal Justice at once. People who look like Jurchens and Han people have become the evidence of denunciation.

The wall fell down and everyone pushed and beat the dog in the water.In the following period of time, the charges against Prime Minister Wang for favoritism, malpractice, corruption and bribery were not decided. Many incidents were verified to be true, so that no matter whether he was a traitor or not, those crimes added up were enough to chop his head off dozens of times. up.

In fact, Prime Minister Wang was really wronged.It is true that he has done a lot of bad things in the past few decades as an official, but he has not done much. Which high-ranking official in the court is really innocent?It is said that he is corrupt, he is definitely not as corrupt as those moths in the Ministry of Household Affairs; he is said to be selfish, the combined grades of his three sons are not as high as the two sons of the deputy prime minister combined; To please the emperor?As for the fact that he was collaborating with the enemy and traitorous to the country, Prime Minister Wang laughed so hard that he almost died of laughter.But what happened to those evidences, who sneaked into the portrait hanging in the secret passage of his house, who stuffed the envelope under his pillow, who put the golden envoy in the door, he really couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to scratch his head.

Back then, Qin Xiaolou proposed reforms in the court, one of which was to abolish the unwritten rule of not killing scholar-bureaucrats.Although the emperor said it was accurate, no unlucky guy has hit this knife in all these years.Prime Minister Wang became the first one.

Zhao Nanke was actually reluctant to kill Prime Minister Wang.But when he saw that the situation was hard to turn around, he ordered the interrogation of the three divisions to end early, and sentenced a family of the barbarian family to confiscate the family. Considering the impact of the collaborating case was too bad, he was not allowed to investigate further, and implemented a silence policy on Quan Lin'an. No one is allowed to mention this matter again.

On the night when the prime minister's mansion was sealed off and the Wang family was imprisoned, Gu Xiaojun broke into the compound of the Qin mansion and dragged Qin Xiaolou out of his room on a rainy night.

This great Confucianist picked up a sword for the first time in his life. He didn't know how to hold the sword at all. His hands were shaking like chaff, and the tip of the sword pointed at Qin Xiaolou's throat. He asked him tremblingly: "Qin Xiaolou, how can you be so vicious?" heart of?!"

Qin Xiaolou was standing in the boundless drizzle wearing a green shirt, looking as beautiful as a fairy in the Nine Heavens, but his smile was out-and-out magic.He said: "Lord Gu, I asked the emperor, if your surname is Gu or Wang, you won't be implicated by your uncle, and you can still be your bachelor."

The sword in Gu Xiaojun's hand approached him again: "Uncle killed your father alone, you want revenge, if you go to him alone, I dare not complain. There are dozens of people in the palace, what do they owe you?" ?! Why are you so vicious?!"

Qin Xiaolou sighed with a smile: "Master Gu, if you want to listen to the truth, I will tell you the truth. Since I first chose this path, I did it for revenge. But many years ago, I was not for revenge. , I have long forgotten hatred."

Gu Xiaojun's hands trembled even more: "Why is that?"

Qin Xiaolou said: "There is no turning back because of me. Master Gu, have you ever tried this feeling? You chose a road at a fork in the road, and when you walked halfway, you found that you had taken a long way, or even the wrong way. But you can’t look back, walking down is no longer for that destination, but for the road you have walked before. No matter what the end of that road is, since you have chosen it, you have to go and have a look.”

Gu Xiaojun held the sword with both hands, wishing he could slash it down immediately!

Qin Xiaolou suddenly stretched out his hand to hold the blade of his sword, pulled it closer to him, touched his heart with his left hand, and sighed leisurely: "When is the time for retribution. Master Gu, you stab here, lest you won't die with a single stab, I It hurts, and you suffer too."

Qin Xiaolou and Gu Xiaojun started wrestling.The strange thing is that Gu Xiaojun grabbed the hilt and pulled the sword out, while Qin Xiaolou held the sword body and stabbed himself with the sword.The final result of the fight was that Gu Xiaojun let go of his sword and ran out of the Qin Mansion, laughing and crying.

Qin Xiaolou looked at the blood on his hands, looked at Gu Xiaojun's crazy back, smiled and shook his head: "Gu Xiaojun, Gu Xiaojun..." However, he didn't comment on what happened.