illegitimate child

The wind direction suddenly changed, and the flame of the Panlong Candle was bent, almost lifting a section of Emperor Changtong's sleeve.Emperor Changtong frowned and moved away from Panlong Zhu, stood up, bent over and stretched his hands to pull down the window drawer.This is the Qingjing Hall, the meditation place in Emperor Changtong's palace, and no one is allowed to enter without an edict.

Prayer flags are hung layer upon layer on the wall, sandalwood incense is wafting endlessly in the hall, and layers of white smoke can be seen with the naked eye.Emperor Chang Tong put down the window drawer, sat cross-legged among the prayer flags, his eyes fell on a roll of Taoist scriptures, and he muttered something.

"Tuk, tuk, tuk."

The wooden drum placed in front of the hall was sounded, and Emperor Chang Tong stretched out his hand to pull the gold thread hanging by his side without raising his head.

"Dang," a golden chime sounded.

Fuguan entered the hall with his eyebrows pressed down, changed into a snow-white Taoist robe in the outer compartment, sniffed carefully all over his body, and entered the inner hall after confirming that it was pickled by sandalwood.

Through layers of prayer flags, he whispered: "Your Majesty, news has come back that Di Rong's grain and grass have indeed changed."

Emperor Chang Tong stopped chanting, and said in a cold voice: "Let Fan Zhenyue lead the Iron Mountain Riders to retreat to the first-line gorge of Weishan Mountain and wait for Di Rong. Tell him that if Di Rong takes a step across Weishan Mountain, he will raise his head to see you."

There are six prefectures and 32 counties in the Li Dynasty, Liuzhou, Cangzhou, Ganzhou, Xuzhou, Huzhou, Fuzhou, and one prefecture is divided into five counties.Jiangdong and Miaojiang are separate counties and are not subject to the control of the state government.Because Jiangdong Wang's status has always been aloof in Jiangdong County, and the two have achieved each other, how can the state government control it?The imperial court simply stopped humiliating itself, and finally let Jiangdong County directly belong to Shangjing.However, Miaojiang is rarely populated because of the dangerous mountains and rivers.Snakes, insects, rats and ants are everywhere in the territory, there are many murderous people with no end in sight, and there are also strange and unpredictable aborigines in Miaojiang. Although Miaojiang is nominally within the territory of the Li Dynasty, it is actually China.However, Miaojiang is a place where nothing can be pulled out, and the imperial court is unwilling to fight for Miaojiang's great prosperity, and gradually let it go.

At the junction of Liuzhou, Ganzhou, Xuzhou, and Cangzhou, there is a majestic mountain named Weishan. The mountain is so huge that it arbitrarily cuts off the borders of the surrounding areas. It stretches for more than tens of thousands of miles and completely isolates Liuzhou from the outside world.But there is a line in the sky, and there is a broken gorge in Weishan, named Yixian Gorge, which has become the only channel connecting Liuzhou with the outside world. The main reason for Liuzhou's poverty is the inconvenient transportation.

Weishan is a moat and a natural barrier.Across the mountain, outside is Liuzhou, where blood waves and yellow sand are surging, and inside is a prosperous age of books, singing and dancing.

"Your Majesty, do you want the ever-victorious army..." Fu Guan was a little hesitant, and only asked Tieshan to retreat. Do you want to abandon the ever-victorious army and the tens of thousands of people living in Liuzhou?

"Fuguan, you have crossed the line."

Fuguan's back felt cold, cold sweat dripped down his temples, his palms were slippery, and he trembled: "Your Majesty, please punish me." Emperor Chang Tong suddenly raised his head, as if he had just mentioned it casually, "Where is Shi Xiuyuan placed?"

Fuguan heaved a sigh of relief, and said tremblingly: "Shi Xianggong is placed in the suburbs of Beijing, does your majesty want to see him?" Quickly bowed his head, knowing that this was the default.

"Let Fan Zhenyue escort the Cui family to evacuate first, bring Shi Xiuyuan to Qingjing Hall tomorrow, and immediately summon Fu Yu to enter the palace."

Fuguan's ears wished to prick up to the sky, for fear that if he missed a word, his head would drop too.After confirming that Emperor Changtong had no more orders, he backed out holding his breath.

Leaving the Hall of Qingjing, Fuguan exhaled foul breath, turned his head to take a deep look at the ferocious beast entrenched in the night, and murmured: "It's a crime."

Isn't it just a sin, Chang Shengjun is so innocent, Liuzhou people are so innocent, just because they can't forget the old master, they will end up in blood, even an eunuch like him can't bear it.

But for His Majesty, Liuzhou with the surname Luo is not his Liuzhou, and it is really a great thing to be able to use Di Rong's hands to clean Liuzhou up and down without spending a single soldier.As for the common people at dawn, how could the emperor living in the temple see ordinary people like ants.

The little servant came trotting all the way with the hand stove in his hand, "Father!" Fu Guan was startled, stepped forward in three steps, covered the mouth of the foster son, and dragged him away in a hurry, and there was no more peace. Only then did Dian Ying'er let go of his hand, and twisted the righteous son's ear fiercely, "Damn it! Dare to make noise here! If His Majesty's peace is broken, let alone me, you won't be able to keep the good news when the king of heaven comes. Human head!"

"Cough, cough, cough," the little servant's face turned blue, and he almost lost his breath.

Fu Guan gave him a hand, "Tomorrow, the leader of the team will go out and bring Shi Xianggong from the suburbs of Beijing into the palace. Don't look down on others like a dog, treat Shi Xianggong as your father, and please come into the palace properly."

Speaking of Shi Xiuyuan, he also suffered from bad luck for eight lifetimes. He escaped from Di Rong and ascended to heaven with great difficulty. He wanted to report the news to Liuzhou Governor, but because the female slave of Di Rong who was traveling with him was beaten into a spy, he went straight down. In the big prison, no one is willing to believe what he said, it is only to disturb the morale of the army.After many trials and tribulations, it fell into the hands of Emperor Changtong, and his future fate is uncertain.

In the middle of the night, a small sedan chair was carried into the Qingjing Hall from outside the palace, and it staggered out of the palace again at dawn.

Song Ling raised the car curtain and looked out the window at the field stems. The car and horses jolted his stomach like a waterfall pouring out, so he could only use the scenery outside to distract his attention.In a daze, he remembered what happened last night, about Lihua Lane.

Once he goes to Liuzhou in the future, he may never return in this life. His obsession, his hometown, and his dreamland must all come to an end.He was still young when he entered Beijing, and his memory has faded. He only vaguely remembered that he had been away for half a month.Tian Shi smiled strangely, "Ling'er, where do you think Lihua Lane is?"

Song Ling thought for a moment, silently calculated the scalper's footsteps, and said with confidence: "It should be the boundary of Fuzhou thousands of miles away."

Tian took a deep look at him, and asked again: "Then do you still remember the terrain of Lihua Lane?"

"The plain is slightly hilly, and most of the villagers live by picking mulberries." Song Lingzhi was led back to his hometown by asking questions and answering, and fell into the yellow mud along with the fluttering pear blossoms. "The population of the village is about five." Ten and four, one household for butchers, one household for doctors, one household for hunters, one household for longevity, and one household for books."

Tian said solemnly: "It's wrong, it's a big mistake."

Song Ling said in astonishment, "This is impossible." He had always had confidence in his memory, and besides, Lihua Lane was where he often dreamed about at midnight, so how could he remember it wrong?

"Pear Blossom Lane is in the outskirts of Beijing, and it's only a hundred or twenty miles south. It's not a hill, let alone a plain. It's just a valley shrouded in smog all the year round, and the sun doesn't see the sun." Tian said solemnly, "If there is Thousands of miles away, why did the government send a slow-moving bullock cart to pick you up? Although I am a vicious stepmother, I have no interest in torturing my children."

"Back when Su Di went to pick you up, he left early and was supposed to return late, but he didn't come back until fifteen or six days later. When he returned home, he was still in shock. He had to rest on the bed for three days before he could calm down. According to him, he According to the address given by Luo Qingshan, he went all the way to the south, and it became more and more remote, and there was no human habitation. Just when he thought he had gone astray, a mist filled the sky and engulfed the cart in a short time. When he saw the sky again, the thick fog It’s gone, and what comes into view is the Pear Lane of Chu Farm, which is probably the Pear Blossom Lane you mentioned.”

"Although the people in the village like to gossip behind their backs and gossip, they are all kind, but he always feels that his back is hairy, and there seems to be a beast peeping through the gaps in the forest, trying to choose people and devour them. Wait until he takes you out of the valley At that time, he was trapped in the mist, and he stumbled for more than ten days before he got out of the thick fog."

Song Ling was struck by lightning. He desperately wanted to find the Lihua Lane that matched his memory from Tian's narration. As Tian's soft voice continued to narrate, his heart fell to the bottom of the valley, without the slightest similarity.

If memory is false, what is true?

"As for your biological mother," Tian's voice slowed down.Song Ling's eyes lit up, and he looked at Tian's fiercely. With his five fingers together into a fist, he asked urgently, "Miss Song, what's wrong with her?"

"Your biological mother, Su Di said that she seemed to have been on guard against something, hinted at an old servant in Su Di's house by knocking on the teacup, and finally took you into the inner room to talk in private."

"What did she give you?"

Mrs. Song is not only Song Ling's biological mother, but also the source of his suffering, so he always remembers Mrs. Song's every move very clearly, "She gave me a jade pendant." He couldn't help concealing Mrs. Song's curse on him.

"There are some strange totems on it, and the word Ling is engraved on the back." Song Ling said, pulling off the collar to reveal the red rope tied around his neck, and reached out to take it off.A piece of crystal clear jade pendant was exposed in the air, and Song Ling handed the jade pendant to Tian Shi.

"It's the best Dushan Jade," Tian turned the jade pendant over and over carefully, shook it back and forth against the light, and finally shook his head and handed the warm jade pendant back to Song Ling. Something special."

"Sir, I have never had an old servant in my family." Song Ling gripped the jade pendant tightly. From the time he could remember, he relied on himself to manage all his food and clothing. How had he ever seen an old servant?

"Is it not, or have you never found out?" Tian sighed, "After I found out that you were not Luo Qingshan's own birth, I went to "Pear Blossom Lane" to check in person, and wanted to bring your biological mother into the mansion. But Mi Gai The fog in the valley is getting thicker and thicker. When people enter it, they can't see their fingers, they can't see their toes when they look down, they can't see the sky when they look up, and they can't find Lihua Lane."

"It's like..."

The bullock cart stopped violently, and Song Ling's front body leaned forward due to inertia, and was almost thrown out. When he arrived, he raised the curtain and bowed down.

Standing on a bluestone and looking into the distance, I saw a short mountain not far away surrounded by clouds and mist, no birds singing, no insects singing, it was not like the world.

Look at its mountain shape, the upper and lower heads are round, and the middle is wide and long.

Song Ling murmured, "Birdcage."

It's like a birdcage.

The bird trapped in the cage can see the vine cover at the highest and the vine fence at the farthest, but the sad bird thinks that the sky is no more than three feet high, and the earth is no more than seven inches wide.

How ridiculous!

How ridiculous it is to fly and fly in the wind in a birdcage, and how hateful is the person who bound him like a bird in a cage!In the eyes of the bird trainer, he is just a beast, an object that can be manipulated at will, how sad.

Emperor Chang Tong, Song Yunli.Song Ling recited these two titles silently, chewed them carefully between his lips and teeth, and swallowed them with blood and tears.He had an inexplicable and ridiculous expectation for his biological father, probably because Emperor Chang Tong never did anything against him, but instead maintained and cared about him everywhere, which made him always have some illusions.

What if the assumption that Mr. said is really just an assumption?Even if he agreed to his husband to go to Liuzhou, he still has illusions in his heart, what if he loves me?Towards

Now all the delusional thoughts that bloom on the stamens fall downward, sinking into the blackest and darkest soil, turning into roots that cannot see the light of day.

"Duyu what are you doing?"

With the grass root in his mouth, Luo Jinnian jumped onto the bluestone and stood side by side with Song Ling. He tried to put his arm on Song Ling's shoulder very smoothly, but as if he remembered something, he gave a sudden pause and awkwardly put his hands behind his back.He thought he was inconspicuous and pulled a fist distance from Song Ling, but in the end it was not enough, so he jumped off the bluestone, raised his head and asked again: "What the hell are you doing, there is not even a single hair growing in this place? , Hurry back to Beijing, I'll treat you to a drink of flower wine!" After finishing speaking, he silently added a sentence in his heart, drinking my farewell wine.

He hid from Song Ling for many days, and seeing that he was going to Cangzhou tomorrow, he acted like a demon in spite of the many days of rebellion, clamoring to talk to Song Ling.Luo Jinnian couldn't hold back, but fortunately he thought about it half-heartedly, so he just talked about it, and said it for the last time.No, I don't talk enough, and I have to drink, so I won't have a chance in the future.

So he went to look for Song Ling with a cheeky face early in the morning, fulfilling his last indulgence, but he didn't expect Song Ling to go out, he was anxious and annoyed, but Fang Gu refused to let go of the last chance to get along with Song Ling , had no choice but to follow out with a sullen face.

The world was clamoring, Song Ling couldn't hear what Luo Jinnian was saying, only one sentence was clearly heard,

What are you looking at?

The cold wave in Song Ling's eyes almost engulfed him, "Look at the first half of my life when I was fooled, look at my birdcage."