crow

The two walked up the city wall one after the other, and Duan Shiyu stood in front of the watchtower, standing there like a wooden man.

A crow flew over from nowhere and stood not far from the two of them.

Duan Shiyu glanced at the crow and asked, "Why is the crow following me?"

"puff……"

Duan Shiyu turned around and asked, "Why are you laughing, sir?"

Zhang Ziwen said: "The crows eat carrion for a living, presumably these crows saw that there were army horses entering the city, and thought they had food again."

"..." Duan Shiyu's eyes were erratic. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly raised his hand and pressed Zhang Ziwen's shoulder, and asked, "Will there be crows following Gao Zhan when he enters the city?"

Zhang Ziwen looked at Duan Shiyu's face and frightened eyes close at hand, and said, "Yes."

"..." Duan Shiyu breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled after a long absence. He let go of his hand and asked, "Sir, do you think what I did today is right?"

Zhang Ziwen said: "His Royal Highness loves the people, but cannot change the situation."

Duan Shiyu's complexion changed, and he frowned and said, "Then Mr. Gao Zhan can do it?"

Zhang Ziwen took a breath, turned his face away, not looking at Duan Shiyu.

Duan Shiyu stared at Zhang Ziwen, until Zhang Ziwen's face turned red, Zhang Ziwen turned around and said: "He is just what the people want."

Duan Shiyu raised his eyebrows, turned around and put his hands on the city wall, looked into the distance, and said, "Can Mr. Ziwen know fortune-telling?"

Zhang Ziwen didn't know what kind of medicine he bought in the gourd, and said, "It doesn't count."

"Not counting..." Duan Shiyu smacked his lips and remained silent for a long time before saying, "On the day I was born, a lot of crows flew outside the palace room. I heard from the nurse next to the concubine that the crows were all gathered on the tree outside the room." Calling at the door, do you know how a crow calls?"

"..."

"Ga~~Ga... That's how it's called." Duan Shiyu imitated the crow's call solemnly.

Zhang Ziwen looked up at the sky, but remained silent.

"My father is very obsessed with spells. He told the sorcerer Lingshan layman beside him that I was born with a fierce bird, and that I was an ominous son. After my mother gave birth to me, she was demoted from a noble concubine to a concubine." Duan Shiyu said: "I His mother was probably the first woman who gave birth to a son for the emperor, but lowered her status."

Duan Shiyu didn't look sad, but just narrated very plainly.

Zhang Ziwen wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say. After all, other people's family affairs were still the palace's family affairs.

Duan Shiyu was not immersed in the memory either. He turned around and asked Zhang Ziwen, "According to what Mr. said, the crows came here because they ate carrion. Why did the crows fly outside the room to guard me when I was born?"

Zhang Ziwen shook his head, not wanting to get involved in the power struggle in the palace.

Duan Shiyu thought Zhang Ziwen would say something to him, but Zhang Ziwen didn't say anything.

Duan Shiyu asked again: "Where is your family?"

Zhang Ziwen shook his head, his eyes were dark, for a long time, he raised his eyes again, looked at Duan Shiyu, and asked, "Does the coach know who Gao Zhan's mother is?"

Duan Shiyu didn't expect that Zhang Ziwen would mention Gao Zhan, he was very upset, and said coldly: "There are so many civilian husbands in the world, how do I know?"

Zhang Ziwen said to himself: "At that time, the coach probably hadn't been born yet."

Duan Shiyu punched the wall and said, "Of course I wasn't born!"

Zhang Ziwen said: "At that time, I was only eight years old, and he was only 10 years old. Your father just started to be obsessed with magic at that time, probably. Gao Zhan's mother was still in Kyoto, washing clothes for nobles in Huanshafang. "

Duan Shiyu, "..."

Zhang Ziwen looked at Duan Shiyu and said: "For unknown reasons, a nursery rhyme spread in the market, saying that the woman in Huanshafang was pregnant with a dragon species, which was transformed by a real dragon and would replace the emperor in the future. Seeing a monster with a human body and a dragon tail chasing him with a big ax..."

Duan Shiyu grew up in the palace and had heard of it a few times, but what surprised him was that this woman was Gao Zhan's mother. He said: "I know, the monster born by this woman can speak when she was born, and she grows up With two horseshoes, only one hand, and a head like a bird, I didn't expect it to be Gao Zhan's mother, so what does Gao Zhan look like, I only heard from Mr. Qingyun that he is not good-looking, what exactly does he look like?"

Zhang Ziwen was inexplicably sympathetic to Duan Shiyu, he looked at Duan Shiyu as if he was looking at a fool.Duan Shiyu understood Zhang Ziwen's eyes, his expression changed from excitement and curiosity to only curiosity.

Zhang Ziwen said: "That monster died before it was born."

"..."

Zhang Ziwen also said: "The emperor asked Taishiling to divination a few hexagrams. Taishiling has repeatedly divined the ominous hexagrams, and told the emperor that this woman came to the world as a star of the army. If he stays with his family, there will be chaos in the country in the future." That's why the emperor sent people to kill Gao Zhan's mother."

"..."

"Her family fled from Kyoto to Bianzhou and was taken in by my father, but they still couldn't escape the pursuers. My father and his parents were killed by the prefect of Bianzhou."

"..."

Zhang Ziwen seemed to be lost in memory, with compassion in his eyes, he said: "He and his younger brother Gao Bingde and I hid under the stove, and the three of us watched with our own eyes that the soldiers ripped open his mother's abdomen and took out the fetus. Roasted into coke with fire!!"

"Don't...don't talk..." Duan Shiyu stepped back, stood ten steps away from Zhang Ziwen, squatted down, and hugged his head.