Chang Anqing

Chapter 272
Just like in the previous life, after the death of Emperor Yuancheng, the remnants of the Shangguan family had already been wiped out. Because Emperor Yuancheng had no children, Taiwei Yang Chongyuan ordered to recruit the current king of Liang, the nephew of Emperor Yuancheng. At that time, Chen Yun, who was only six years old, entered Chang'an to preside over the funeral of the emperor.

However, everyone knows that King Liang is only a child with a slender hair, so how can he have the ability to preside over the funeral ceremony of the emperor?It's just that he borrowed his reputation as a royal heir, and the Zhongshu ordered Li Zhang to lead the various ministries in charge.

Since ancient times, the new emperor had been ordered to preside over the funeral for the deceased Emperor Daxing, and now that the King of Liang was doing this, it had long been tacit understanding who the next emperor of the Great Zhou would be.

But whether it is a blessing or a curse, no one can tell for a while.

By the day when Emperor Yuancheng's coffin was put into the imperial mausoleum, Chang'an had already entered the rainy season at the end of May. In the early morning, Chang'an had already started to drizzle lightly. With the rain and mud sticking to the ground, falling in this lonely alley, it looks rather desolate.

Seeing that the rain stopped gradually, it was noon unconsciously, and the Yuqing Temple after the rain looked empty in the sky and earth at this moment, just like a beautiful landscape painting, the green green hills were faintly hidden behind the veil-like mist Occasionally, you can hear the sound of the waterfall flying straight down, and see a pair of wild cranes jumping up from the mountain stream, fluctuating a pool of spring water, which feels like a fairyland in Penglai.

On the wet slate and blue bricks soaked in water marks, a group of people were climbing up the stairs. After passing through the vestibule, they came to the quiet backyard. The woman in white at the head stopped silently. Like spring, without applying powder, it blends with the empty mountain after the rain, cool and quiet.

"princess."

Hearing a soft call, Li Suiqian, who was originally standing outside the courtyard, moved his eyes, looked at Niannu who was reminding him beside him, and finally lowered his eyelids, and walked in.

When they came to the corridor and saw Li Sui coming, the maidservants in front of the corridor looked at each other with strange expressions. Compared with the cheerful appearance before, they seemed a little more worried.

Almost as soon as Li Sui walked down the steps, Huichun who was in the house opened the curtain and came out, and the moment he saw Li Sui, his expression was indescribably silent.

"princess."

Before Huachun went down, Li Sui had already helped her up as usual, looked at the door behind her and said, "I'm here to see Aunt."

Hearing Li Sui's words, Huichun's eyes seemed to be suppressed, he couldn't bear to avoid it, and finally said: "The fairy master has already fallen asleep, the princess will come back sometime."

As soon as these words came out, Nian Nu and Yu Nu behind them were all shocked, and immediately looked at Li Sui in front of them with concern.

However, Li Sui who heard these words was unusually calm, as if Hui Chun in front of him was just talking to her normally.

In two lifetimes, A Niang has never turned her away.

How could she not hear the scene where Huichun didn't want to hurt her heart.

After all, Auntie was angry with her.

She should be angry too.

Because the moment she cooperated with Yang Chongyuan to design Emperor Yuancheng and Pengcheng, she had brought the entire Li family to stand against the Chen family.

But now, the Chen family was defeated, Emperor Yuancheng died, and Pengcheng would never return to Chang'an.

For A Niang, the relatives who had the deepest and most inextricable relationship with her were all destroyed because of her, because of the Li family.

"Then let Auntie sleep peacefully."

Hearing Li Sui's calm words, which fell without a trace in the wind, Huichun couldn't help but be stunned. The words that were originally weighing down in his heart had already reached his lips, and he instantly swallowed back the comfort.

However, just when Huichun, Niannu, and Yunu thought that Li Sui in front of him was just accepting this fact so calmly, with the rustling of his dress, Li Sui, who had always stood wantonly in the world, and even the emperor had never bowed down It was Mo Ran holding up her skirt, Huo Ran kneeling on the wet stone slab in front of the porch.

"princess!"

Almost at the same time, Huichun, Niannu, and Yunu all wanted to help, but at the moment they stretched out their hands, Niannu and Yunu, who had followed Li Sui since childhood, suddenly remembered their master's temperament and determination, and couldn't help but Withdrawing his hand slowly, he also knelt down.

"Princess, you are a noble jade body, how can you kneel here—"

Seeing this, Huichun persuaded him nervously, then went to support him and said anxiously: "It's cold in the mountains, and the floor tiles are the coldest to the bone. If you hurt your knees, what should you do? Get up quickly—"

However, no matter how Huichun tried to persuade her, Li Sui did not move after all, but calmly held her hands with both hands, and looked at each other, with a friendly and soft smile in his eyes, but he always taught Huichun to see many things in the world Helplessly sad.

"Chun Niang, you watched me grow up, and you also know me."

While speaking, Li Sui followed her to look at the concubine Xiang's bamboo curtain who was covering her and said: "I came today to visit Auntie for Aye and myself, and to plead guilty for myself."

"princess--"

Hearing the stagnation in Huichun's throat, Li Sui lowered his eyelids silently, then folded his hands, bowed his head and knelt down, touched his forehead piously on the cold stone slab, and said calmly: "Aman is not filial, I dare not ask grandma for extravagance." Forgive me, I hope that my mother will be healthy and peaceful forever."

"Ah Man, willing to lose ten years of life—"

"princess!"

Hearing Li Sui's words, Huichun immediately interrupted anxiously. Seeing that the thin woman in front of her was still stubborn in her bones, Huichun immediately stood up, hurriedly lowered her head to wipe away the tears on her face, and rushed in.

It was not until the last curtain that Huichun tidied up his clothes and walked in.

"Princess."

Seeing Mrs. Chen sitting alone under the window, wearing a thin Taoist robe, returning to the silent and desolate appearance when she entered Yuqing Temple, Huichun couldn't help but choked up and said: "Princess is kneeling in the courtyard. Before, bear the thorn and plead guilty."

Hearing Hui Chun's words, Chen Shi twisted Bai Zi's hand imperceptibly, but his eyes were still extremely calm.

"If she wants to kneel, let her kneel."

"Princess--"

Huichun couldn't help but raise her head worriedly when she heard the words, but unexpectedly, the Chen family under the window smiled suddenly, like a broken glass beauty, beautiful is beautiful, but she has no human feelings anymore.

"The emperor is gone, and the Chen family's country is about to change hands. What kind of princess is there?"

Hearing Chen's lonely and desolate words, Huichun's words stuck in his throat after all, and he couldn't speak any more.

The weather in May and June is always changeable, especially in this cloud-shrouded mountain.

Vaguely, hearing the rustling of rain outside the window, the anxious Huichun looked at the Chen family who seemed to be immersed in the chess game, but his chess moves were in a mess, and finally couldn't wait and quietly retreated.

The moment she lifted the curtain, she saw Li Sui in white, whose back was like a bamboo, knelt motionless in front of the court amidst the misty rain on the majestic green mountains. her light shirt.

"Princess, you, you—"

Huichun wept bitterly, opened her umbrella and knelt down to shield Li Sui from the wind and rain, but she couldn't say anything to comfort her.

"Chun Niang."

Hearing Li Suirou's call, Huichun quickly responded, but Li Sui just turned his head to look at her, smiled very softly, stretched out his right hand to hold her umbrella and said: "Go in and accompany Auntie. "

"princess--"

Before Hui Chun's words choked up, she was interrupted by Li Sui shaking her head, and she looked up and said in a low voice, "At this time, she is a thousand times more sad than me."

After finishing speaking, Huichun felt the umbrella in his hand was gently pushed away, and Li Suiji whispered in his ear.

"Go."

Seeing Huichun sobbing and dragging his heavy footsteps in, Li Sui knelt there all the time, even though he felt the exhaustion of sleepless nights since his sister passed away, at this moment, he suddenly hit her like a gust of wind , Even if she felt the cold wind in the mountains penetrate into her bones more and more, even if she felt that the rain falling on her body was getting heavier and denser, she did not waver at all.

Because she knew very well that as a child of the Li family, as a sober player in the game, everything she did was undoubtedly right, and she would not regret it, nor would she tolerate it.

But as A Niang's daughter, as a descendant of the Chen family, she is undoubtedly a betrayer, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Ask yourself, if she is A Niang, if she stands in the position of A Niang, facing her husband who betrayed her, her sons and daughters, and the family that has collapsed, how can she accept all this with peace of mind and live the years peacefully.

In the sound of the rain that was gradually falling, Li Sui closed his eyes silently, sadness and helplessness welled up in his heart at the same time, tears rolled down from the warmth in his eyes, combined with the cold rain, he couldn't see anything.

Whether in the previous life or in the new life, in this situation in Chang'an, only the Chen family, the Yang family and the Li family have always faced each other.

This is a deadlock that has never changed for thousands of years and cannot be both.

Even if she knows everything, even if she walks through it countless times, she can't change it.

"Princess, please—"

Hearing the torrential rain beating on the pane outside the window, Huichun couldn't wait any longer, cried sadly and knelt down in front of Chen's knees and said: "It's cold in the mountains, the rain is so heavy, it's going to hurt your body." Yes, please see the princess—”

While speaking, Huichun couldn't help crying, and kowtowed to Mrs. Chen again and again.

It took a long time, so long that Huichun couldn't bear to disobey Chen's wishes, and when he went to help Li Sui in, he finally heard a calm voice.

"Let her in."

As soon as these words came out, Huichun got up crying with joy, and when she saw the blurry figure standing in the wind and rain, she almost rushed to help Li Sui, who was getting thinner and thinner, and worked together to help her into the In the house, I personally served her to change her clothes, toast her wet hair, and drank ginger soup.

When Li Sui finally entered, Mrs. Chen who heard the voice did not look up, but just lowered his head to play chess and said: "If you see me, go back."

"Auntie."

Hearing this hoarse whisper, Chen's hands paused slightly, and when he looked up and saw the lonely and pale daughter, no matter how much he restrained his heart, he still couldn't help being pulled and hurt.

"I'm very good."

In the silence, Chen looked at the emaciated daughter in front of her coldly, and said word by word: "After today, you don't have to come and see me."

As soon as these words came out, Li Suifang's warmed body suddenly turned cold, and almost at the same time, Li Sui, who had experienced two lifetimes, also showed unprecedented fear and panic and murmured: "Aunt, do you want me? "

Like an abandoned child, listening to these words, Mrs. Chen couldn't help thinking of the day when she left the Duke's Mansion, chasing her to run countless corridors, countless courtyards, and still get up after falling down countless times. In a blink of an eye, she would disappear, that little Ah Man who was crying heart-piercingly for A-Niang.

In her entire life, she has never been a competent mother, nor a competent daughter, nor a competent princess.

Her life has been a complete failure.

"You go."

While speaking, Mrs. Chen withdrew her eyes silently, looked sideways at the shower outside the window, and said calmly as if telling a story: "Chengzu, my elder brother, your uncle, after I was born, he once hugged me with his own hands and supported me. He taught me how to walk, folded my little clothes for me, took me away from the paper kite, he taught me how to ride, he taught me every lesson, even my husband-in-law, your Aye , it was also after he knew what was on my mind that he quietly asked your grandparents for me."

At this moment, listening to the words in his ears, Li Sui saw an inexplicable tranquility pushing away from A Niang's face, as if nothing had happened yet.

Everything is enough to change.

"Brother, when he was dying, he who was always strong and refused to give in, was the first time he quietly shed tears in front of the couch. He held my hand and told me that the sky sometimes ends, and people sometimes end. He is not afraid of life and death. Worried about the two children left by Auntie, so he is the emperor, but he begged me to take care of them for him, watch them grow up, and watch them take care of themselves."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Chen slowly turned her head, looked at Li Sui, who was listening calmly, and said, "I watched the first emperor and Emperor Daxing grow up, and I watched with my own eyes. I worked hard to train them into adults day by day, but even so, I still broke my promise. I am ashamed of Mrs. Chen, my elder brother, and my sister-in-law, because my son-in-law, my child, my son-in-law, Join forces with the Yang family to defeat them and imprison them to death."

"Even the Chen family's world is about to collapse—"

Speaking of this, Chen closed her eyes silently and shed tears.

"In my whole life, I regret meeting you Aye, regret being tempted, regret not being cruel."

After all, the members of the Chen clan smiled and said, "If I could do it all over again, I never want to meet him, never fall in love with him, even if it's a lonely life, it's better than trading the Chen clan for those few years of hypocrisy." .”

Seeing Chen's mournful silence, Li Sui's heart was like a hot iron flow being put into ice water, condensing and cooling bit by bit.

She knew that she couldn't untie A Niang's heart knot, just as no one could untie her heart knot.

In a daze, Li Sui silently knelt on the ground, once again like a big festival day, bowed his hands heavily, and kowtowed three times to Mrs. Chen once, once, and again.

"Aman is not filial, I hope Aniang will take care of her health and stay peaceful."

While speaking, Li Sui bowed his head to the ground for the last time, and it took him a long time to say the last sentence.

"I know, Auntie's suffering, Auntie's pain. Like you, Sister is to me the closest family member besides you and Aye, who can't bear to be separated the most."

Speaking of this, Li Sui's throat seemed to be swallowed with thousands of needles, choked, dumb, and painfully said: "Brother and Princess Pengcheng join forces with Shangguan, or beware of Mrs. Li, what they should never do are two things , Yu Guo, they shouldn't have disregarded the lives of the people, conspiring against the Turks, and seeking skins from tigers."

"Personally, I shouldn't have killed sister's child and made sister commit suicide in despair."

As soon as the words fell, even the seemingly calm Chen family trembled and turned his head in disbelief.

When she saw the uncontrollable coldness and indifference in Li Sui's eyes, she suddenly understood.

I understand why this child who knows righteousness and right and wrong in front of me is desperately going to Yang's side——

That's what it is, it's what it is——

At this moment, Chen suddenly felt relieved, but the desolation and bewilderment after Qianfan still came with the wind, and she couldn't help closing her eyes and shedding tears.

Perhaps, this is God's will.

Perhaps, this is the general trend.

When Li Sui stood up silently, and bowed to Chen Shi who was smiling wryly in a daze for the last time, he turned around and walked out step by step.

Seeing the bamboo curtain fall, that clear figure completely disappeared in front of her eyes, Chen suddenly clutched the front of her clothes, and the pain of suffocation hit her almost mercilessly.

The moment he walked out of the house and the yard, Li Sui walked blankly in the heavy rain, pushing away the umbrella that Nian Nu and the others brought up, like a lonely person in the world, walking out step by step.

Gone, all gone—

Auntie is gone, and Auntie is leaving too. After going round and round in this life, she is still the same after all.

Lonely.

In the heavy rain, Li Sui walked forward as if he lost his soul, until he reached the bamboo forest outside the courtyard, and saw a person holding an umbrella in the misty rain, running towards her.

"The princess?"

When Zhao Yi's face gradually became clear in the torrential rain, he saw Li Sui's frail and precarious figure, with a lonely smile on his lips.

"Zhao Yi, Auntie doesn't want me anymore."

Looking at Li Sui, who has always been decisive in killing, standing in the sky and earth, and unwilling to give in even if he begged to die, he smiled wryly at him like an abandoned child.

Zhao Yi's heart ached as if being pulled tightly by someone.

He knows very well what a heart full of holes lies under this strength.

When he saw Li Sui's pale lips and her gradually changing face, the next moment Zhao Yi held an umbrella to shield the two of them from the wind and rain, and put his hand on her forehead.

When the scorching heat hit the cold and wet back of his hand, Zhao Yi, who was able to remain calm even in the face of defeat on the battlefield, turned against the wind, suddenly tightened his hand at this moment, and handed the umbrella to Zong Ming beside him. Let Zong Ming hurriedly hold an umbrella for them.

The next moment, he lifted the dazed Li Sui into his arms with one hand, and at that moment, he was shocked to realize from the touch of his hands that she was so weak in his arms.

Like a gust of wind, it will be blown to pieces——

Just when the pain in his heart was unexplainable for no reason, he felt the person in his arms let go of his hand suddenly, and fell tremblingly in the air, without any support.

"Aman, Aman!"

Shocked and panicked, her voice trembled in her ears, but Li Sui, who was gradually falling into a coma, seemed to be drowning in the deep sea, suffocated by waves of exhaustion and pain. No matter how hard she tried, she would eventually open her eyes Do not open the increasingly heavy eyelids.

The moment when it was completely closed and plunged into darkness.

She seemed to see Zhao Yi, seeing the panic he had never felt before.

Just like Yang Che's painful and restless appearance the night she jumped off the tower.

is her,

Did you read it wrong...

(End of this chapter)