The Miracle Doctor’s Two-Faced Toddler

The situation in Nanzhao has been frequent in recent days. First, the female monarch made embarrassment in public, losing all face, then the sacred object was stolen, the female monarch failed in duty, and then it was revealed that the son-in-law was King Yan of the Great Zhou Dynasty. All these things made the monarch feel deeply. tired.

What is even more tiring is that the daughter he raised with his own hands unexpectedly became such a cruel and merciless person, he abolished her daughter's position as a female monarch.

Doesn't his heart ache?

Of course it hurts!

But as a monarch, he can't only have his children's love in his heart.

He has to think about the world first.

He didn't think he was an impeccable monarch, and he made many mistakes when he was young, but he knew the big things and the big things wrong.

However, it is precisely because of understanding that my heart is even more bitter.

In order to avoid disturbance from the courtiers and the empress' residence, he took the queen out of the palace and lived in the house he bought.

The little Diji is the empress's flesh and blood, and the matter of deposing her cannot be hidden from the empress. After the empress heard the news, she didn't blame him, but sat in the room and shed tears.

The king felt that he could not breathe.

In the afternoon, he got into the carriage and went to Gu Palace.

The Hall of Gu is as famous as the Hall of the National Master, and is also known as the two peak powers of Nanzhao. The difference is that the Hall of Gu is located in a corner, and the Hall of the National Teacher is closer to the monarch.

But only the monarch himself understands that he treats the Gu Palace and the National Teacher Palace regardless of importance in his heart. Even after the old National Teacher passed away, the only person who can confide in him is Kong Gu Lao of the Gu Palace.

Kong Gu is quite a few years older than the monarch, and has reached an octogenarian age.

He has long been concerned about worldly affairs, and he is content to stay in the Gu Palace for the elderly.

He has a secluded courtyard, and someone will come to clean it during the day and prepare a day's meals for him, other than that, he is the only one in the courtyard.

His body is fairly strong, his eyes and ears are clear, and he is not worried about falling.

When the king came to see him, he was plowing in the backyard.

This kind of thing, just leave it to the servants to do it, Tangtang Gu Palace, how can you lose a bite of food?

As the monarch spoke, he stepped forward, reached out for the hoe in his hand, and helped him back along the way.

Kong Gu always smiled, handed him the hoe, and refused to give up the support.

His hands are full of mud, fearing that the king's dragon body will be polluted.

Kong Gu smiled and waved his hands, signaling the monarch to go first.

The monarch did not insist on helping him, took the hoe and walked out of the backyard, put the hoe in the corner, and did not forget to look back at the old Kong Gu who was slowly approaching.

Kong Gu is old after all, not as steady as a young man, he walks very slowly, a little staggering.

He walked to the water tank, stretched out his skinny hand, grabbed the ladle hanging on the branch, fetched half a bucket of water, washed his hands carefully, and then invited the monarch to his tea room.

The windows of the tea room are wide open and the light is bright.

There is no extra furniture in the tea room, just a cabinet against the wall and a low table in the center.

The floor was mopped spotlessly.

The two took off their shoes and stepped into the tea room.

Kong Gu staggered, came to the cabinet, opened the cabinet door, took out a cushion and handed it to the monarch.

He doesn't often entertain guests here, there is only one cushion, which he usually sits on.

The monarch took the cushion and sat down across from him.

Old Kong Gu propped up the short table with both hands, and sat down slowly.

The monarch saw that he was a little powerless, and sighed: Does the servant only come here when cleaning and cooking? Doesn't anyone stay by his side on weekdays?

Kong Gu didn't like to drink hot tea when he was young, the tea here was always cold.

He picked up the teapot, poured a bowl of herbal tea for the monarch, and said in an old but calm voice: I can still walk, and when I can't move, please ask someone to look after me.

This is not the first time the monarch has persuaded him, and the answers he gets are always nothing new.

So the monarch stopped talking.

Kong Gu took out a food box from under the short table, and opened it slowly with his inflexible hands: Your Majesty is lucky, someone just delivered a box of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes this morning. I remember that Your Majesty loved eating it when he was a child. This, I don’t know if I still like it now.”

Don't eat now. The king said.

After getting old, the imperial doctor would not let him touch sweets. He thought about it a few years ago, but now he has quit.

Ah, you seem to have said it last time, and your memory is not good. Kong Gu took a piece by himself, and ate it with great interest.

The sweet-scented osmanthus cake is soft and glutinous, and melts in the mouth, he likes it very much.

The monarch drank his tea slowly.

Neither of them spoke.

But it doesn't feel awkward.

The monarch felt a long-lost peace in his heart.

After the sweet-scented osmanthus cake was finished, Kong Gu asked the monarch, Is your Majesty's mind settled?

In the past, the monarch sometimes got relief without saying a word, but today, he shook his head: Not yet.

Kong Gu stretched out his arms and said, What's new in the imperial capital recently?

The monarch lowered his eyes and said with difficulty after a while: I have no children in my life. I accept this fate. I also accept that I sent my own flesh and blood out of Nanzhao to protect Nanzhao's luck. But why do children who have been raised with care still die? Let me down?

Kong Gu took a sip of tea: This one is disappointing, isn't there another one? Wait until that one disappoints you, and then act like this desperate.

... I can't answer you when you are always like this.

The monarch sighed, and said: Back then, the old national teacher predicted, 'Nanzhao's strength will be exhausted, good and bad will be born together, pursue good fortune and avoid disaster, or there may be a turning point'. Now it seems that it is really just a 'maybe'.

Kong Gu didn't answer.

The monarch didn't really come here to ask for any advice.

I sat still for a while.

The monarch said: Gu always asks me to find that child back then?

Kong Gu took a sip of tea: I can't get it back.

The monarch has a meal.

I heard Kong Gu say again: See if I can please come back.

The monarch frowned, and was about to explode when Kong Gu opened his mouth with a half-sigh: People are not plants, how can they be ruthless? Hearts are made of flesh. You didn't want her back then, but now you expect her to want you?

... Can you stop choking to death when you keep talking?

The monarch said coldly: I never said I would recognize her!

Oh. Kong Gu took another sip of tea.

At this point in the conversation, the monarch finally felt a little embarrassed, but he was the only one who was embarrassed. At Kong Gu's age, he was no longer disturbed by the secular world, and he was very at ease.

The monarch felt a little stuck in his heart: She grew up in the countryside, who knows what she looks like, and I have a nephew from a side branch, who is no worse than Di Ji.

Kong Gu continued to drink tea.

The monarch sat upright and said: She is the fate of the lone star of the evil spirit, will I take this little disaster star back to bring disaster to the common people?

Kong Gu said in an old way: Your Majesty is not the lone star of Tiansha, and I have never seen that Your Majesty is blessed with many children.

Really, really going to be pissed off by this old guy...

Old Kong Gu said again: The old national teacher said back then that fortune and misfortune are twins. Your Majesty, don't forget that misfortune depends on blessing, and fortune rests on misfortune. The secrets of heaven are beyond your and my mortal womb's ability to understand. Since this The one who brought blessings failed to bless the common people, so how can His Majesty conclude that the one who caused disasters will surely bring disasters to the world?

The monarch could not speak a word.

When the baby Emperor Ji was sent out of Nanzhao, he met with opposition from many courtiers, and Niudan was the one who made the most noise. He said that the world was in chaos, he came to peace, and there was going to be a war. He went to fight, Blame a swaddling doll for what to do.

He didn't listen to Niudan.

Although Kong Gu didn't stop him, his eyes clearly disagreed.

But after that, Kong Gu always seemed to have forgotten about this matter, and never mentioned it again until he abdicated. He thought that Kong Gu had forgotten the child long ago.

Do you always remember her? the monarch asked, Do you also think that I did something wrong back then?

Kong Gu didn't answer his words, but said: Before the old national teacher died, he came to Gu Lao Palace to look for me. Does your majesty know what he said to me?

What did he say?

He said two words.

What word? asked the monarch.

Strange. Kong Gu said in an old way.

strangeness?

Kong Gu nodded his head: Yes, it's strange, but what is he wondering about, he didn't say anything.

The monarch fell into deep thought.

Kong Gu changed the subject and said: The child grew up among the people, I'm afraid he suffered a lot, and his parents don't want her.

For more than thirty years, the monarch no longer remembered what the child looked like, and he didn't even remember whether he had hugged her when she was born.

But he remembered the snow.

It never snows in Nanzhao.

The night she was sent away, there was heavy snow falling all over the sky.

Concubine Yun cried and said, let's send it away later, the child will freeze to death in heavy snow.

The child looked at him with wide, curious eyes.

Xu didn't know that he was going to be abandoned.

I thought I was going out to play, but my calf kicked very vigorously.

He turned around.

The palace door closed coldly.

Outside the palace gate, the heart-piercing cry of the child came.

Not once did he look back.