Dream Hua Embers Records

"Two years ago, there was a great epidemic in Yanjing, Mr. Dai unfortunately contracted the disease and passed away..."

"What?!" Yan Yi opened her eyes wide and grabbed Yan Tong's wrist tightly.

"Lord Dai has already passed away. My father was afraid that you would be sad, so I never told you. Now the Yanjing Huimin Department is presided over by Lu Qing..."

It turns out... those elders who loved and taught her have all gone one by one... At this moment, Yan Yin felt like a helpless orphan, surrounded by freezing cold, without any warmth.Tears flowed down, but they were also cold, without feeling a trace of warmth.

In the blurred eyes of tears, Yan Tong's mouth was still opening and closing, saying, "Thanks to Xie De's life this time, he noticed some clues and held back until I came back, so he discussed countermeasures with me. It's also thanks to the third brother who taught me I have read some books on identification and examination of corpses, and they all came in handy this time. I got the emperor’s order to open the coffin for autopsy, and I worked with the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to make a clever plan to send someone to pretend to be the father and king to swindle the fourth child. He revealed the truth, made a confession and was charged... In the end, both he and Dr. Peng were sentenced to death, and I...inherited the throne."

Yan Yin sat slumped on the chair, as if all her strength was not enough to support her body.So the elders who can be relied on are gone... I have to face everything alone, and become the third brother and Xiao Wu's support.

"You... are already the prince. The prince is not allowed to leave the capital for a hundred miles unless he obeys the emperor's order. What are you going to do?" After hearing so many deaths in one night, Yan Yin cherished the only remaining brother even more.

Yan Tong smiled sadly and lowered his voice, "Do you know who the new emperor is? He is the eldest of the twin brothers born to Emperor Kang Yuhu of Southern Zhao. They have been raised by Kang Jinling, but Kang Jinling is a ruthless character, fighting for favor all the way. □□, climbed to the high position of imperial concubine, and helped his two nephews win the throne. Now he has been promoted to the title of empress dowager. When he succeeds to the throne, he massacres heroes. No one who has made meritorious service in the southern expedition will be spared ...People say that they are avenging Nan Zhao..."

"The sun and the moon are shining, the golden queen will be determined", Yan Yin has heard such rumors.It is about the two brothers who are in power, with Zhao Guo in mind, and Kang Jinling as the queen, destroying Dayuan.In the past, Yan Yin was always afraid to believe it easily, but now that it came out of Yan Tong's mouth, she couldn't help but believe it a little more.

Unexpectedly, in the laundromat back then, the little girl covered in chilblain covered in scantily-clothed clothes, in the treacherous palace, in the ever-changing political arena, would be like a fish in water, ups and downs like a duck in water.The so-called allure of the city and the country is nothing more than that, right?

However, do the two brothers really want Nan Zhao to destroy Da Yuan?probably not!It's not for reason, they are Prince Dayuan after all.Yan Yin recalled the story of his patriarch Zhilu Gu again. The Emperor Tai|Zu was his enemy who killed his father and exterminated his family, but he was also the adoptive father who saved his life and raised him. After handing it over to him, he has also entered into the responsibility of being a son and a minister... He will not do it for power or profit. If Dayuan is dead, where will these two brothers be emperors?It's just to eradicate dissidents.

Thinking of this, Yan Yin herself felt strange, why could she look at all this from the perspective of a bystander?When I was young, I and my third brother pretended to be foreign envoys to judge the government, which was proposed by myself.Perhaps from that moment on, I have the kind of detached free and easy.

In a hundred years of life, what matters is those who love themselves and those they love, not the illusory power and status, just like Zhuer once said: "There are thousands of mansions, seven feet of sleep at night; thousands of hectares of fertile land, only one day Three meals... Even if you are rich all over the world, in the end you will just bury your body in a handful of soil, even if you dominate the Yellow River and Yangtze River, how many pots of water can you drink in a day?" Peace in the world, peace in the home country, is what everyone wants most What you want, regardless of Dayuan Nanzhao, regardless of Bohai Shiwei...

"You haven't said, what are you going to do?"

"As I said just now, none of the generals in the southern expedition was spared. Even the only daughter of my eighth uncle, who was married and had a son, was sent to Nanzhao for marriage. I... was also sent to Nanzhao as a hostage..."

"What?" Yan Yin narrowed her eyes and paused every word, "Did the emperor order Yi Wang to go to Nanzhao as a hostage?

"Yes..." Yan Tong was puzzled.

"I am King Yi!" Yan Yin said, taking out the will from her bosom.

"Third brother!" Yan Tong read the last edict, tears in his eyes, "Going to Nanzhao as a hostage is a matter of narrow escape. Third brother, you are not in good health and can't bear the suffering there. I can't let you bear it for me."

Yan Yin shook her head, "It's because I've narrowly escaped death that I'm even more asked to go!"

"why?"

"Because... I have suffered from kidney deficiency since I was a child. Although I have been recuperated, it is still difficult for me to have children... There are three unfilial acts. It is the worst thing to have no offspring. You must stay in Dayuan and have an heir for your father!"

"Third brother—!" Yan Tong broke down in tears.

"Xiao Wu..." Yan Yin stroked Yan Tong's hair, and said softly, "Third brother has a heart disease, and he couldn't let anyone touch you, but he treats you like me back then, and he is willing to touch you. This is God's will! God's will let me take over this burden and do something for Dayuan...From now on, the third brother will be taken care of by you, and from now on, you will be his Yin'er..." Yan Yin held back tears, no let it fall.

It's late at night, and a lamp is like a bean.

Under the lamp, there are two sleepless brothers.

Yan Yin worked hard, writing down Yan Ting's daily life, diet, hobbies, and all aspects that should be paid attention to, word by word.When Yan Yin wrote a page, Yan Tong would recite a page. If he recited a mistake, Yan Yin would grab his hands and beat his palms. It was exactly the same as when he was teaching lessons when he was a child.

At dawn, the two brothers, who hadn't slept all night, said goodbye at the gate of the inn, but they had already changed identities.

Wearing white arrow sleeves was Yan Yin, he painted his face black and put on two mustaches, for fear that Yan Ting would see his flaws.Wearing exactly the same Hai Qingyi as Yan Ting was Yan Tong. He and Yan Ting stood side by side holding hands.Yan Ting didn't feel at all that the person he held onto and wouldn't let go of was no longer his voice...

Yan Yin was a little sad. In the heart of the third brother, he might be such a youthful, delicate and handsome shadow, or that shadow has deeply penetrated into Yan Ting's heart. He has lived by that shadow for the past ten years. In the future, it will be the same...

The sun is scorching like fire, and the wind is fierce.

A group of people meandering on the endless prairie, it seems that there is only endless grass in the world, and they will never reach the end, never reach the end.

Suddenly, the car stopped, and Yan Yin asked, "Why don't you leave?"

The leading deputy general of the Divine Blessing Army got off his horse and bowed and replied, "Your Majesty, the borders of Yuan, Zhao, and Shiwei are in front of us. We can't go there. We have to let the arrows out to tell them to come and pick them up." Then rushed to the sky.

"Isn't it closer to take the east road? How did you come to the west road?"

The lieutenant general bowed again, "There are bandits making trouble on the east road. It's not peaceful. Anyway, the emperor hasn't set a deadline. It will take more time to go west. In case the emperor sees the late emperor's edict, he suddenly changes his mind and wants to call Where is the prince going back? Then the prince doesn’t have to go to the south to suffer.”

Yan Yin smiled wryly and shook his head, "No, the two countries negotiated peace. If our country wants to win the trust of the other party, we must show our sincerity. Then we must send the person with the highest title as a hostage. The king of Dayuan, what is higher than the king of Yi?" Don't tell me that there is King Qi, that is the emperor's own younger brother, the emperor is reluctant, the word "Qi" means equal, that is the emperor's most important relative, how can he give up?"

The deputy general scratched his head, "The last general just had such a stupid idea, and he also knew that the hope was slim... The last general and Brother Ling used to be brothers who lived in the same room..."

Is it the second brother's comrade?No wonder you take so much care of yourself.Yan Yin nodded and walked towards the boundary marker.

It was a triangular boundary marker, with four big characters "Yuan", "Zhao" and "Shiwei" written on the three sides.

Yan Yin tightly held the porcelain vase in her arms, and looked up at Shi Wei.The sky in Shiwei is exactly what my mother always talked about, the sky as blue as Ru porcelain.But... Where is the sky not the same blue?There are national boundaries in the world, but the blue sky does not.

Yan Yin knelt down slowly, took out a painting from her bosom, lit a torch, and set the painting on fire.

It was a huge blue and green landscape, depicting the imperial forbidden garden that Yan Yin had drawn but had never seen before: Mingchun Garden.It was originally intended to be painted as a birthday gift for Yan Qisheng, but it was delayed by Yan Ting's injury, and the painting was not completed until he arrived in Bohai.

Those pavilions, those flowers and trees, and those magnificent scenery, were swallowed by the flames, and turned into ashes one by one.Like the ashes that once appeared in Yan Yin's life: the fire in Daliang Shangshu Province, the fire in the Shenwei Camp of the New Song Dynasty, the fire in the map office of the Imperial Academy...the smoke and dust in the ruins behind the car when leaving Daliang, the dust in Xianlu Temple in Yanjing , the dust from the burnt feathers, the light dust from the ruins of the Crane Garden that has never been seen... and the charcoal dust that swirls up with the hot air in the Linglong Stove.

Fog loses towers, moon mazes cross, everything passes away like running water, dust returns to dust, prosperity fades away, and the blue sky remains...

(Finish)

The author has something to say: In the story, Song girls are not allowed to be married by gift, they are not allowed to be second wives, and their sons are slaves.Ganben loves two sons, Minghui, one is the queen of the holy fruit with the Pucha family, that is, Xizong; the other is his own son with the second wife, Dashi, that is, Hailing.Its statement is not sufficient.However, if the two kings practice Zuo, if they are dedicated to revenge for Jingkang: Xizong kills Yu Jin, Gao Qingyi, Liu Si, Nian Wuyue, Pu Luhu, Erlu Guan, Tarlan, Xi Yin, Xiao Qing, and all the generals of the Song Dynasty. There is nothing left; There are hundreds of descendants of Alu, and they indulge their wives, concubines and daughters-in-law without exception.It's strange, ugly, and disgraceful, which has never been heard since ancient times. It's different. ——"Jingkang barnyard history paper evidence" about the children born to the women of the Song clan to avenge the Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty began to YY

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