Zhuo Qihua

In the past few days, the officials in Jinzhou Mansion have been extremely busy, and there is no other reason.His Royal Highness King Taiyuan is going to accompany Zhao Taishi back to his hometown to visit his relatives.King Taiyuan went to Qiongzhou with King Chu to "open up wasteland", and was awarded by the late emperor and His Majesty several times.Zhao Taishi was getting old and decided to go to Qiongzhou to settle with King Taiyuan.This time Taishi Zhao may be the last time to return to his hometown to visit relatives.It is said that fallen leaves return to their roots. For Prince Zhao, his roots lie in his only son, King Taiyuan.

This time Taishi Zhao and Taishi Chun went back to the hometown to visit their relatives.Taishi Chun's ancestral home is in Suzhou.At that time, the two eunuchs will go to live in Qiongzhou with their son.

It has been 53 years since Zhao Taishi entered the palace and went smoothly from Baolin to Yaren, and then from Yaren to be conferred as a servant.Zhaotong's natal family, Tongjia, has a different status in Jinzhou Prefecture because of the birth of a 忍俍.The first emperor used the Tong family a lot, and now several men from the Tong family are officials in the court.Zhao Taishi was not the most favored in the palace, but the benefits the Tong family got were real.Now King Taiyuan has gained a firm foothold in Qiongzhou, and many people from the Tong family followed King Taiyuan to Qiongzhou to work hard.It can be said that no matter how the domestic situation in Mata country changes, the Tong family has enough retreat.

The top and bottom officials of Jinzhou Prefecture and the people in power of the Tong family were waiting at the station early in the morning.Zhao Taishi didn't arrive so soon, but their attitudes had to be shown.The two eunuchs returned home to visit their relatives this time, His Majesty and the Empress have made a decree to ask Suzhou and Jinzhou to prepare well and not make any mistakes.

Zhaotai servant Tong Yifeng and Chuntai servant Qi Yiguo changed trains and left when the train entered Jiangnan.At noon, a royal train slowly entered the station of Qinglin County, Jinzhou Prefecture.With the whistle of the steam locomotive, everyone who had been waiting on the platform stepped forward.

The train stopped slowly until it came to a complete stop.The train door opened, and a team of guards came down first.Then, the personal eunuch of King Taiyuan got off the car and met with the prefect of Jinzhou Prefecture and others.Afterwards, King Taiyuan helped his mother and father get off the train, and everyone on the platform knelt down and saluted to welcome His Royal Highness King Taiyuan and Taishi Zhaozu.

Since Tong Yifeng, Zhaotai's servant, entered the palace, the Tong family has taken root in Jinzhou Mansion.Both Tong Yifeng's parents were buried in the ancestral grave built by Tong's family in Qinglin County.The Tong family also built a Tong family ancestral hall in Qinglin County.Tong Yifeng returned to his hometown this time and asked to live in the old house, where he grew up.This is Tong Yifeng's second visit to his hometown after entering the palace.For the first time, the late emperor had just abdicated.In a blink of an eye, the first emperor and Empress Dowager Shun have been buried in the imperial palace for 7 years.

When I left, I was young and young, and when I came back, I was gray-haired.Tong Yifeng supported his son's hand, walked out of the station and got on the train.Outside the car window, the streets in Qinglin County were retreating rapidly, and the lush trees on both sides of the road brought a bit of coolness to the Jiangnan, which was already hot in early summer.

Tong Yifeng said with emotion: "This street tree was just mentioned by Queen Mother Shun casually back then. Now, there are street trees on the roads of all state capitals, right?"

King Taiyuan: "Yes. When my son and the fourth brother built the city in Qiongzhou, they both asked for trees to be planted on the main road. It's just that the trees in Qiongzhou are different from those in the capital and Jiangnan."

Tong Yifeng: "The Empress Dowager Shun likes Jiangnan the most, but the late emperor doesn't like it. He thinks it rains too much and it's too humid."

King Taiyuan was surprised: "The son thought that the father liked it. The father has lived in Jiangnan for a long time."

Tong Yifeng: "But after that, the late emperor will never go to Jiangnan again."

King Taiyuan knew it clearly: "Father, the emperor wants Shun's mother and father to live once and enjoy it, and then they will never come again?"

Tong Yifeng nodded: "The first stop after the late emperor's abdication was Jiangnan, but he will come again after that." Speaking of this, Tong Yifeng said: "Have someone draw a few pictures of Jiangnan today and send them to the emperor's mausoleum. Burn it for Empress Dowager Shun to see."

King Taiyuan: "Good mother and father, I will let someone paint tomorrow."

The Tong family's old house was specially repainted and repaired because Zhao Taishi returned to his hometown.The Tong family now has a new house, not far from the old one.Entering the old house, Tong Yifeng let go of his son's hand and watched as he walked.The last time he returned to his hometown was when he came to the south of the Yangtze River with the late Emperor and the Empress Dowager Shun.At that time, Ming Taishi also went back to his hometown to visit his relatives, and Empress Dowager Shun went with him.Now, Taishi Ming has gone to Qiongzhou first.

At the age of 19, he left home and was personally sent by his father to the carriage to enter the palace in Dongluo City.His tears flowed all the way, and before entering the palace, they were completely shed.

Being sealed in Baolin and asked to serve him in bed, he kept telling himself that he had to work hard to survive in the deep palace that cannibalize people, because in this world, the only one he can love is himself.The only one who can love him is himself.

Tong Yifeng stopped in front of a plum blossom tree: "I planted this when I came back last time. It has grown so tall."

King Taiyuan immediately asked: "Father, do you want to take some branches to Qiongzhou?"

Tong Yifeng: "Take a few branches with you before you leave."

King Taiyuan: "Father, you are tired from the journey, why don't you go back to your room to have a rest and have something to eat?"

Tong Yifeng nodded: "Alright, I'm really tired."

King Taiyuan immediately helped his mother and father back to the room to rest.

Tong Yifeng's personal servant changed his clothes and brought a water basin for him.Tong Yifeng washed his hands and wiped his face, and the palace people brought the master's food and food into the house one by one.

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For the first three days after his return, Tong Yifeng rested in his room.Older, the years are not forgiving.After taking a break, I found that I was very tired.King Taiyuan also specifically ordered the people of Tong's family not to disturb the mother and father, so that the mother and father could have a good rest.On the fourth day, Tong Yifeng met the Tong family in the courtyard where he lived.Tong Yifeng was born in a concubine's room. After he was conferred the title of 伃, his biological mother was lifted up.Tong Yifeng's parents have long passed away, and now the head of the Tong family is the eldest son of the eldest brother, so he wants to call Tong Yifeng an uncle.As a concubine, Tong Yifeng's relationship with his direct brothers is average, but in his status and status, any grievances and grievances in the past have faded away long ago.

Tong Yifeng and the Patriarch of the Tong family talked and chatted with the members of the Tong family, and said goodbye to the younger generation, and rewarded the younger generation with some gadgets that can only be found in the palace.

After resting in Tong's old house for a week, Tong Yifeng dressed lightly and went out.Mother and father wanted to walk around the city of Qinglin County, and the filial King Taiyuan naturally wanted to accompany him in person.

Neither the mother nor the son were in the car. King Taiyuan supported the mother and father. Tong Yifeng looked at the city that had changed drastically, and once again sighed: "When I came back last time, I almost couldn't find my home. This time, I came back again. It's a big change. Mata country, every day changes."

King Taiyuan: "Yes. It's all a great foundation laid by the father. The emperor is as wise and powerful as the father. The Mata Congress is getting better and better."

Tong Yifeng looked back at his son: "Chen Hao, the foundation of the Mata Kingdom today is not only the late emperor and His Majesty's wisdom, but also the achievements of the Queen Mother. You must always remember it, and you must teach it to your children and grandchildren. .”

King Taiyuan: "Son, remember, what your son said just now is inappropriate."

Tong Yifeng shook his son's hand vigorously, and said: "Without the Empress Dowager Shun, you and my mother would have died long ago..."

King Taiyuan: "My son understands." After a pause, King Taiyuan asked something he had never dared to ask, "Mother and father, the emperor dotes on Shun's mother and father so much, why doesn't Shun's mother have any private property? Drive the entire Zhuo family out of the capital?"

Tong Yifeng said coldly: "The Zhuo family's attitude towards Empress Dowager Shun is that they will not starve to death or freeze to death. When Empress Dowager Shun was a child, she had no one to take care of her. Empress Dowager Shun did not have money to buy pens, ink, and books when she was a scholar. Go to the bookstore to read books. Empress Dowager Shun's calligraphy is ordinary, because I didn't have pen and ink to practice calligraphy before."

King Taiyuan came to a sudden: "No wonder the father doesn't like the Zhuo family. Doesn't the Zhuo family know that Shun's mother and father are geniuses?"

Tong Yifeng: "The Empress Dowager Shun was admitted as a scholar at the age of 13, and they didn't realize that there was such a brother like him in the family. The Zhuo family didn't value the talent of the Empress Dowager Shun, but sent him to the palace to pave the way for the first daughter to enter the palace. The daughter of the Zhuo family entered the palace for draft in the same year as her mother and father, and the late emperor reprimanded her in public and kicked her out of the palace, just to vent her anger on the Empress Dowager Shun. Later, the Zhuo family committed suicide, and the late emperor was not lenient."

King Taiyuan didn't understand even more: "Then why didn't the father buy any private property for Shun's mother?"

Tong Yifeng smiled lightly: "To give Empress Dowager Shun money, it is better to cook a few meals for him. The late emperor's decree, and the empress dowager Shun's burial, is not an agreement between them. How can Empress Dowager Shun live alone when the late emperor is gone? Private property is insignificant. The late emperor knew what the Empress Dowager Shun wanted most, so he didn't buy private property for him."

King Tae-won: "Then what does Shun's mother and father want most?"

Tong Yifeng raised his head and looked at the sky in the distance: "He, what he wants the most is that the sky of our country will always be this blue. What he wants most is that the people of our country will live better day by day... …What I want most, our Mata country, will always be strong.”

King Tai Yuan pursed his lips.

give.

WEAT.

alone.

Family.

Tong Yifeng's voice was a little hoarse: "I most want...to be with the late emperor, forever, as a couple..."

King Taiyuan nodded heavily: "My son knows!"

Tong Yifeng: "Let the first emperor and the Empress Dowager Shun sleep peacefully in the imperial palace... None of us will disturb them. I will be buried with Mrs. Chun a hundred years later. In the next life, we will still be good brothers."

King Taiyuan's eyes were red: "Yes, mother and father."

A group of people walked slowly. An old man with a cane in front of him was also supported by someone, and he was accompanied by a childish old man. When he saw their group of people, he stopped immediately, and then quickly avoided to the side.Tong Yifeng stopped when he saw the old man.The opponent lowered his head, trying to avoid it.Even though the old man was wandering the streets today, he actually wanted to see an old friend.

Tong Yifeng stared at the other party for a while, then patted his son: "That old man seems to be an old acquaintance of mother and father."

King Taiyuan immediately gave his personal eunuch a look, and the eunuch stepped forward to stop the old man.King Taiyuan helped his mother and father to a teahouse by the street, and King Taiyuan's attendants brought the old man, his grandson and servants over.

Sitting down in the elegant seat on the second floor, Tong Yifeng let out a sigh of relief: "I'm really old, I'm tired after walking just a few steps."

King Taiyuan: "The journey is not short. Just now, my son wanted to find a place for parents to rest."

The old man, who looked much older than Tong Yifeng, was supported by two people and worked hard to climb up to the second floor and came to the private room.Seeing King Taiyuan and Taishi Zhao, the old man would kneel down and salute.

Tong Yifeng: "Mo Duoli, come sit down. I haven't seen you in decades. You look much older than me."

The old man raised his head, his eyes excited and surprised, he didn't expect Zhao Taishi to be so "kind" when he saw him.

Tong Yifeng said again: "Come on, sit down, it's an old bone, don't stand still."

The old man bowed and saluted: "Thank you."

The old man sat down, and some frightened children hid behind him, and the old man hugged him to his side.Tong Yifeng asked: "Is this a grandson or a great-grandson?"

The old man: "It's my grandson. The old man is not strict in teaching his children, and the youngest son got this child in a dusty place. The child is innocent, so the old man took him by his side and taught him himself."

Tong Yifeng smiled and asked: "You are old and dizzy, how can you teach children. This child looks cute. How old is it?"

Old man: "4 years old."

Tong Yifeng looked at the old man: "I haven't seen you in decades, your back is hunched, and there is no black hair in your hair. I still remember how high-spirited you were sitting in the Tai Chi Hall when you were the top student in high school. Later, you went to Han Is it Jiangfu?"

The old man nodded, avoiding Taishi Zhao's gaze all the time, and replied: "At first, he was sent to Hanjiang Mansion. After six years of service, he was transferred to Nanyue."

Tong Yifeng: "Have you always been in Nanyue?"

The old man: "I worked in Nanyue for ten years, joined the Maritime Affairs Department, and stayed in Kangjing for eight years, and returned home when I was old."

Tong Yifeng: "Being able to go to the Maritime Affairs Department is a testament to your ability, and it is not in vain for your reputation as the champion of the year."

Only then did the old man raise his eyes to look at Taishi Zhao.The two can be said to be the same age, but sitting together now, he looks more than ten years older than the other.The old man wanted to ask, how happy you have been in the palace for decades.He wanted to ask, have you hated me for decades?Want to ask... But he can't ask a word...

Tong Yifeng said with a bit of emotion: "After years, the high spirits of my youth can be regarded as returning. After I entered the palace, I was quite comfortable for the first two years, and then I became more and more busy. It's all thanks to Taishi Jin who has been helping to take care of me. When the Emperor Taihuang abdicated, I was able to catch my breath. Later, I ran around with the Emperor Taihuang and Queen Mother Shun, and now I am going to Qiongzhou, and it is rare to come back in the future."

The old man was shocked: "You won't come back from now on?" He knew that the Empress Dowager Shun was going to Qiongzhou, so he went back to visit his hometown, but you won't come back? !

Tong Yifeng: "Yeah, I'm not coming back, I can't run anymore with an old bone, so I want to come back and have a look before I leave."

The corners of the old man's mouth trembled, while Tong Yifeng was very free and easy: "I didn't expect to see you again. I think you may not be here anymore, or you may be spending your days in the capital. The late emperor refused to go to Qiongzhou when he was alive. I will go to Qiongzhou Just look at it for the late emperor."

In the later period of Emperor Yong'an, the imperial court began to crack down on the faction of the gentry, and the power of the Fang family in the local area was long gone.

The old man's eyes were red, and there were muddy tears in the corners of his eyes.Tong Yifeng stared at the old man's wet eyes full of regret and said: "In this life, I am glad that I entered the palace, so that I can see so many different scenery and find the value of living in this world. I am filial My son, my own career, brothers who love me as brothers, and benefactors who love and care for me, this life is worth living."

The old man burst into tears, and his attendant hastily handed him a handkerchief.

Tong Yifeng: "The past of youth is in the past. Before we leave, you and I can meet again, which is considered destined."

Tong Yifeng drank tea with the old man for half an hour in the teahouse, and then said goodbye to the old man.Back at Tong's old house, King Taiyuan retreated to the left and right, sat down in front of his mother and father, and asked directly, "Mother and father, is that him?"

He knew about the catastrophe that he and his mother and father were almost approaching back then, and the cause was also clear.Tong Yifeng said lightly: "The Empress Dowager Shun once said that first love is beautiful, but it is also the one that is most likely to be full of regrets. Although the first love of mother and father failed, it is also because of this that mother and father know what is true to themselves. want."

King Taiyuan frowned: "Father, have you not let him go yet?"

Tong Yifeng gave his son a cold look: "Is it possible?"

King Taiyuan: "Then why do you still want to see him and drink tea with him?"

Tong Yifeng: "I saw it and avoided it, so I didn't let it go. I have already let it go, and he was just a classmate when I was young. It's human nature to talk and drink a cup of tea together. He obeyed his mother's orders back then. Abandoning me is his loss. It is my luck that I leave a man who is emotionally unstable. You are also a grandfather, why are you so edgy? "

King Taiyuan snorted, "He caused our mother and son to be almost angered by the emperor. My crime of not asking about his presence is already a great crime."

Tong Yifeng: "Someone wants to harm me, even if there is no him, there will be someone else." Speaking of this, Tong Yifeng became a little sad again, and said: "Mother and father are lucky, with the Queen Mother Shun around, mother and father will be happy for the rest of their lives. Encountered one or two bad things. You have to take it as a warning, the house will be restless, and nothing will happen."

King Taiyuan nodded in response.

Tong Yifeng had already put it down. Although King Taiyuan didn't want to see the old man, he didn't bother to find him.After staying in Qinglin County for a month, Tong Yifeng once again boarded the train with his son.This time they will go directly to the port and board a ship to Qiongzhou.This time, it really will never come back.

On the way to the train station with the guard of honor, an old man hid in the crowd and watched the honorable servant Zhaotai sitting in the car leave, with tears in his eyes.Back then, he hid in the alley cowardly and watched this man drive to the capital.Later, when he was in the capital, he was also among the crowd when he saw this man get off the car and enter the Bailao Theater.At this moment, he could only helplessly watch the other party go further and further away.For some things, you can have a chance to do it again.Some things are missed.That person has completely let go of him, but all his life, he has lived in remorse, in the regret of cutting off the thread of love with the person he loves the most.

Tong Yifeng in the car was also uneasy.Homeland is hard to leave.However, he wanted to leave his homeland with his son, and after his death, he would also be buried on overseas continents.

Tong Yifeng couldn't help but hear another person's voice

——When love is out of reach for us and we can't have it, then embrace career.At least, when we are old, looking back at our own life, it will be wonderful and regretless.

——In your next life, you will definitely meet a man who loves you and takes responsibility.Or, in the next life, you can no longer be determined by others.

Looking back in this life, love and men are not necessary.In the next life, even if he doesn't meet the one he loves, he will still live his wonderful life.In his next life, he hopes to meet Zuo Zu again.In his next life, he hopes to have as deep a friendship with Zu Zu as he has with Ming Taishi.In his next life, he hopes that there will be no one else between him and the late emperor...