My historian is dying every day

Chapter 115 [Twilight Spring Rain]

The morning sun has not yet risen the next day, and the rain in late spring is lightly sprinkled, and the morning light is finely scattered on the dust and mud, and the quiet haze is thinly gathered.

Li Gengnian was wearing a black shirt with arrow sleeves. He came out of the Guard's Mansion with a plain cloth package on his back and a worn long sword with a wrapped handle on his waist. He walked out of the capital through the west city gate leisurely. Along the way, he met one or two people carrying fresh fruits The village girls came down to play with the girls and bought some seasonal fresh fruits and put them in their rucksacks. Then they got on the saddle and hummed a song as they walked across the peach and pear blossoms that lined the road outside Jingxi City, and entered the concubine garden at the foot of Zhiwu Peak. .

The concubine garden is a cemetery. According to the system, it should be called the mausoleum of Princess Cixuan Zhongxiao. It is the resting place of Princess Zhennan. However, she pursues the last wish of Princess Zhennan. Title, so when the cemetery was built during her lifetime, an order was issued, and only the concubine characters in her name were taken, and a garden with mountains and rivers behind it was built. There are peach tangs in spring, lotus in summer, maple chrysanthemum in autumn, Winter contains pine plums.

She just wanted to be peaceful when she was reborn, but she didn't expect that the first person to be buried in this cemetery was her son who had been precious for more than 20 years.

Li Geng was young and familiar with the road, and got off the saddle and tied the horse at the entrance of the concubine garden. Inside, the old gardener Gui Ye was sitting on the opening and smoking a dry cigarette. Seeing him coming, he beat his back with his back and shook off the ash, stood up and laughed hoarsely: "Niannian , come to see the young master again?"

Halfway through the talk, the old gardener coughed violently, Li Gengnian took out a fruit from the cloth bag and handed it to him: "Hey, Lord Gui, I'm 27 or [-] years old, and you still call me Nian Nian, don't you feel sore teeth? Stop smoking, the stele of Lord Hou will soon be blackened by you."

The old gardener immediately turned angry, and raised his cigarette stick to hit him, "Little brat! How dare you teach me a lesson! Even the princess has never taught me a lesson, so it's your turn!"

"I'm going to ask the godmother for instructions." Li Gengnian laughed and avoided, and ran into the garden in two steps, "I'll ask her to come and discipline you tonight!"

Mrs. Gui was so angry that he forgot to talk about the business, and when he remembered that he wanted to catch up, Li Gengnian ran along the garden road and disappeared, so he gave up, lit a cigarette and knocked on the foot of the stone lion at the entrance of the garden: "Tsk, next time It's not in shape..."

On both sides of a road in the garden, Qi Zheng sleeps on the south side, which is more sunny, and Princess Zhennan sleeps on the north side, which is more clean.Li Gengnian first entered the South Garden on the way, and while taking off his bag and sword, he put them on the tomb platform in the middle, and swept the fallen flowers and leaves on it, and said with a smile: "It's me again, Lord Hou, don't you all Tired of watching? Hahaha."

He sat cross-legged in front of the tomb, scratching his head and persuading, "Hey, I know it's not polite to see you first, but are you always on the way here? I'll go see my godmother later, ah." He took out a paper bag from his rucksack as if offering a treasure, sniffed it, and said, "Look, the Korean fish cake that the godmother likes to eat, I brought some better ones this time during the Korean pilgrimage, I brought all the ones that the emperor rewarded me, The godmother will be very happy."

After finishing speaking, he pulled out a bigger paper bag from his rucksack like a finale: "Damn! Hou Ye, your favorite! Tang Zhouji brown sugar pancakes! Hahahahahaha!" Before he finished speaking, he hugged the big paper bag Bao Xiao fell to the ground, unwrapped the paper bag, took out one and took a bite, said vaguely: "Tsk, look at you, you can't eat it right now, my guard is kind enough to show you!"

At this moment in my memory, when a boy with a pale face anxiously sat in front of him and grabbed the pancake with his hands to bite, the two of them laughed and fought together, but now it was just him laughing and lying on the flower and leaf lying sideways on the ground In the middle of the night, he chewed the whole pancake, and babbled to the long-sleeping person, saying that the orphan Shantang in the north of the city has kind people helping him, and the granary has been prepared for the dolls. The emperor saw a warmer this year Hey, Yuanwai Wen is Mrs. Wen’s precious son. Yuanwai Wen is so handsome and knowledgeable. The entire Imperial City Department is obsessed with Yuanwai Wen. The emperor wants to resign for Yuanwai Wen. The emperor also prepares for Yuanwai Wen. I got a huge dowry gift...

"Yes, this year I also met a new Gong Zhiyuan, who is a friend of Member Wen. That kid is so funny!" Li Gengnian slapped his thighs and sat up laughing, gesticulating with his face, "He looks like a monkey. I met a beautiful woman and was regarded as a female ghost by Wen Yuanwai, and now I know that the female ghost is Princess Goryeo hahaha and she is making a marriage... But he is filial, hey, just like you, his mother can’t see even if she can’t walk, this Kiss me and see if it's a deal..."

"...I also met Fang Zhitong. That guy is also a friend of Mr. Wen. They are all thieves of scholars. He is Tong Yesheng who made fake paintings. He is amazing... Ah, I also took in an apprentice, a girl named Yunzhu, the little girl who was taught by a scholar is amazing. I was scared by her. Ah, there is also Tan Yiqiu, the son of Governor Tan—no, Governor Tan was involved in a corruption case, the official gave it to him, his son I'm still in the exam room now, I don't know what kind of flowers I can get out of the exam..."

"...Actually, I met someone who has a big business, but is rich... well, let's not mention him." Li Gengnian waved his hand casually, and placed the paper-wrapped pancakes in a row on the tomb platform. , put on the porcelain cup, and pour the wine, "Come on, the number one country you like. Hey, this name doesn't sound good, and the taste is not good, just like you who love pancakes, tsk. Drink, drink, go Empress... Hou Ye, I probably won't be able to see you every year..."

"I'm leaving for northern Xinjiang in ten days." He shook his hands and dropped a glass of wine on the ground in front of the tomb, picked up his sleeves, wiped his face, sniffed and smiled, "I told you earlier, I can do it Supervisor, you lost your bet, hahaha! I am now a supervisor, just like the eldest son of the Wen family, tsk, am I very promising?"

"... Hey, are you laughing at me? Tsk tsk, you are boring." Li Gengnian was a little discouraged, and his fist touched the cold turquoise tombstone, as if hitting someone on the shoulder, "One's life should be chasing glory, wealth and fame. Lilu, if you want to be like you, then you have to become a fairy, it’s boring. I just like fame, I like golden mountains, silver mountains, good fields and beautiful concubines... Forget it, beautiful concubines have to be raised, it’s a bit troublesome, good fields It becomes..."

He also poured a glass of wine for himself, and when he tilted his head up, his Adam's apple dried up slightly, and the old smell of alcohol diffused from his cavity, instantly scalding his whole body, as if it melted the lumps in his chest and drained away , Those hard rocks that cannot be melted seemed to be paralyzed for a moment, causing him to shudder and exhale: "Wow... I didn't feel it before, this wine is really exciting."

"—Is there anything bad about Master Ben's taste?" Someone patted the table next to his ear, and raised his eyebrows in a resolute tone.

Li Gengnian shook his head in a drowsy state, opened his eyes, the burning heat of the liquor dissipated for a moment, and there was nothing but the boundless spring breeze around him at this moment.

He stared blankly at the inscription on the tombstone, smiled sadly, and said in pain, "Why is it almost five years..."

This time is too fast, so fast that people can't grasp the clothes, and can't stop the feathers.

In the smoky cotton rain, Li Gengnian neatly retracted his legs and knees, sighed with pain in his eyes, folded his hands and bent down in front of the tombstone, read silently for a while, then bowed, bowed again...

"Master Hou, I'm sorry for you."

"……sorry."

Under the begonia, the breeze passed through the branches, and the trivial whispers, like quiet voices, blew gently past Li Gengnian's ears.He raised the back of his hand and rubbed his eyes, got up from the ground and collected the objects placed on the tomb platform one by one, then knelt down, bowed again, kowtowed again, spoke again, finally, took a step back, got up and exited the South Garden.

To the north of the path, the Qionghua green trees along the way are more quiet and beautiful. Li Gengnian brushed away the willow branches and entered the North Garden. While holding the happy head of His Royal Highness, he put a bag to touch the Korean fish cake. At this time, I walked to the tombstone of the princess and glanced at it, and saw a mahogany box from nowhere on the tomb. Simple and elegant.

"Eh?..." Li Gengnian opened his eyes wide and knelt down in front of the tomb to pick up the mahogany box. The mahogany box was quite big and heavy, "Godmother, I can't see it. You are still like this and still have a good friend." Look at you, tsk tsk, your charm is still the same as before. Come, let me see what's inside for you, ah."

Li Gengnian sat cross-legged, and opened the mahogany box, and saw that the colored glaze and carved lacquer inside the wooden box was gorgeous and exquisite, and there was nothing else in it, but it was exactly the same Korean fish cake that he had brought. More refined and more flavorful than what he brought himself.

"I seem to have seen this box at the emperor's court case..." Li Gengnian raised his hand and squeezed a fish cake into his mouth, and said in surprise: "It's still hot, godmother, did it come from the emperor?  … ...No way, the emperor stayed at Mr. Wen's mansion until midnight last night before returning to the palace, and this morning he has to meet His Royal Highness, how could he be as obedient as I am to honor you, right?"

He laughed and chewed the fish cakes, wondering who else in Beijing could bring Korean fish cakes to visit the princess's grave, his eyes lit up when he was thinking about it, and he shouted, "Ah, then it can only be..."

He re-examined the glazed mahogany box in his hand, only to feel that it was bigger than any mahogany box he had seen in the imperial study, "Tsk tsk, what a great hand... Godmother, it can be said that you married the wrong one back then." Come on, this is simply a lover..."

"...You are a love saint, old five? Are you crazy?!" The king heard the shocking news as soon as he returned to Beijing, and he couldn't care less about etiquette. The handrail stood up and scolded angrily: "You are going to resign from the palace because of a broken sleeve. Where do you put the Qi family?!"

"Then what position does the Qi family put me in?" Qi Yu smiled faintly and looked down at him, not afraid of tearing his face even now, "Admit it, Brother Huang, don't you just look forward to Jue'er's ascension to the throne? You have wanted this day for a long time. You have been secretly chasing and killing King Kang for many years, and you have raised many dead soldiers, so you are afraid that the slightest detail will affect your son's throne! I will give it to you right away. Is it hot?"

King Xian was beaten up by his words, and said indifferently: "...Old Fifth, I took you to run and hunt and shoot arrows with you since I was a child. This love has been counted to this day. So that's how you see me!"

"Then tell yourself." The smile on Qi Yu's face did not change, he stood up calmly, and looked down at the virtuous king with his palms on the imperial case, "If I hadn't traded this position with you back then, it would have been a contest At that time, will you really leave my life? Or will you just leave me alone?"

"I watched you grow up, and took you to the Imperial College to go to the Saibei battlefield. How could I have the heart to kill you!" Xian Wang walked up to him with two steps, and the veins on his forehead were faintly visible. At that time, it was also the time when I was about to admit defeat with you, but do you believe me if I sincerely admit defeat? Fifth, you have always been suspicious and resolute, and you have long regarded me as one with King Kang. Do you think I have something in mind, do you believe that I will give up the matter of seizing power?"

"...What did you say?" Qi Yu straightened up and took a step back, frowning, "Then you have always promised Qi Jue—"

"It's all a cover!" The Xian Wang sighed deeply, almost crying in anxiety, "Old Wu, Lao Wu, you are such a good emperor, why are you... Hey, you have always been a horny man since you were a child, Prince, Kang Wang is not a good brother, what about me? After all these years, don’t you think of me as your brother?”

Qi Yu sighed, "Forget it, Brother Emperor... Even if I was wrong about this matter, and it's a major issue, let's let this matter go for now, and let the two of us relax in the future."

"What are you going to do now?" King Xian sat back down on his seat, covered his face with his hands and rubbed his hands, "Yes, you said that Jue'er would be the emperor in the future, but now it's too sudden , Jue'er is still too young, I, I'm afraid that he—”

"What are you afraid of, brother?" Qi Yu also slowly sat back on the dragon chair, looked at him and said, "With Wen Xi here, with me here, with you and King Yu here, Jue'er's throne is stable , if it is not like this, I will not accept concubines in a few years, and there will be some inappropriate rumors in the world, and this country will be even more precarious."

"Isn't it all right for you to accept a concubine?" Xian Wang held his head in a broken state, "Why are you pretending to be a good person?"

Qi Yu laughed, "Brother Huang, your mother's queen, my mother's queen, the Zhennan Huanggu back then...there are so many women in the harem, how about your concubine now? Don't you see enough?...This golden concubine It's not a good place to be in a silk cage. Since there is no affection, why would I want to ruin other people's life at will."

Xian Wang said bitterly: "Then have you thought about Jue'er again? Is Jue'er going to live in this golden cage?"

Qi Yu sighed softly, looked at the sky light spliced ​​by the corners of the verandah outside the imperial study, and said with a smile: "Brother Huang, think about it, what was caught at Jue'er's full moon banquet... the first time he entered it... When the palace sat on the lap of the former emperor, what was the first sentence... Last month, when the imperial garden gave a banquet, a group of younger generations of the emperor's grandson stood on Jingshan and looked out of the palace. Others said they saw the morning bell and evening drum, and saw the bustling city dwellings Do you know what your son said?"

Xian Wang was stunned: "What did he say?"

Qi Yu pursed his lips into a smile, raised his eyebrows and said, "Jue'er said that he saw my country."

King Xian's eyes turned red, "Jue'er..."

"I have always believed that the emperor's dragon veins are innate." Qi Yu raised his hand and brushed a pleat at the shoulder and elbow of his dragon robe, and said in a deep voice: "Some real dragons are on the body, in the brain, and some real dragons are in the brain." In the bottom of my heart. Brother Huang, just wait and see, Jue'er will be a good emperor."

The author has something to say:

The way the king of Koryo calculated his friendship: send a mahogany box, the size of which determines the degree of affection hahahahahaha.

Your Majesty: ... my box is so small, it can't even compare to the emperor's aunt's.Hey, I'm engaged in diplomatic relations anyway, can you have some snacks, Monarch!Everyone is a lover, why are they treated so differently!

Rouge: It's okay, Hani, I have a lot! (display box)

Your Majesty: My god...why do I feel more cruel...