Cold Palace’s Abandoned Consort

"The catastrophe?"

The mother repeated these two words lightly, and the expression on her face showed a little faintness. After a long time, she slowly said, "Qi Chen, this child ... is very intelligent."

"..."

"If the Yan family and Nishikawa can meet him, I won't worry about it."

After saying these words, she looked up at me, sighed, and said, "You already understand it in your heart, but you can't believe it, right?"

I trembled and didn't speak.

I really can't believe it.

A project of this magnitude hides a greater lie than this project, which has been standing at the Sanjiangkou for generations to celebrate. Everyone is pinning their hopes on this dam, hoping that it will bring good weather to Xichuan, but no one knows that the opening of each year makes Xichuan step by step into the abyss.

The mother sighed again, and then said, "Yin and Yang reconcile, the world is smooth, everything is changed, and the Tao is natural. Humans are born in this natural way and endlessly."

"..."

"What happens if such a balance is broken?"

"..."

"It's just that it's difficult for people to see what it looks like after being destroyed, because this change is long and subtle, like rivers flowing, people standing on the shore can only see the turbulent waves, but people standing high can see The direction of the Qingjiang River. "

"..."

"Qi Chen is a rare child. He has eyes that can see the world."

"..."

"It's just that he can see the world, but he can't see the truth."

"..."

"It can only be said-the person who set up this bureau has too much thought. Do you say so?"

In the last few words, she turned her head and said to Pei Yuanzhang.

I also turned around and looked at him who looked paler and more sloppy under the lights. In the face of such an interrogation, he couldn't even say a word. He just knelt there in silence, and his broad shoulders were slightly at this time It shook, as if unable to support anything more.

The mother said, "Your grandfather is indeed a man of too much thought."

"..."

"He sees very clearly. Your father is a gentle and gentle monarch. He is opposed to war. During his reign, he will not use the sword again, and the fighting will start again. In this way, Nishikawa's recovery will become more difficult. However, after a hundred years, the relationship was weak, Xichuan completely separated from the Central Plains, and it would not be so easy to recover the sword soldiers.

"..."

"So, he used this method. After a hundred years, the reigning monarch could almost recover Xichuan without any blood."

"..."

"Good way."

"..."

"So wicked!"

My throat was choked, and I couldn't say a few times when I wanted to speak. After a long time, I said dumbly, "Is this really the case?"

Pei Yuanzhang was pale and didn't even look at me. He just nodded and nodded.

"You already knew?"

"I didn't know at the beginning, but--"

When he said this, his voice was a bit hoarse, and every word was like rough sand and gravel. When he said that, he couldn't say any more.

But I already understood it.

It was after the emperor woke up.

The Emperor Tai was seriously comatose, and his throne was not expected, and Pei Ji would not easily tell the second person about it. Later, he woke up again, the general situation had gone, and many things had already been settled. At that time, he told him the secret.

No wonder he got strange after approaching the Sanjiang Dam.

For a while, the unspeakable sourness poured from my heart, and suddenly I wanted to cry again, and there was a strong urge to cry.

Although I did not see blood in this war, maybe the recovery of Nishikawa will really be bloodless and no one will cry, but I am for those people who have no knowledge, for those who are busy, even if they encounter No matter how many difficulties and hardships, the people who survive are also sad.

They will never know what they have experienced in places they cannot see.

They are struggling hard, but they never imagine that their pain comes from their seeming happiness.

For their survival, to the high-ranking people, they look like ants. Their joy, sorrow, and sorrow seem to be their own, but in fact a smile and a whole body are all manipulated by people.

Heaven and earth are kind, and everything is a ruminant dog.

Sages are kind and treat people as dogs.

In retrospect, when the Great Fire of Jixian Temple was in that year, when I left the imperial city, the sentence Fu Baji wrote to me—

The world is chaotic without chaos.

This sentence, although it is a saying, is not a fact in front of us. The world is in chaos, and the land of Shu is not in chaos. Fu Bazhen is using this sentence to remind me that the world is chaos before it is chaos. Why is chaos first?

Thinking about it, although he didn't see through the secret, he also realized that Shudi was facing a huge crisis.

At the time of the battle of Nian Baoyu, in such a critical situation, Yan Qingchen was still reluctant to deal with the cavalry of the East Chahe Department, but tried his best to let us go to Longnan and borrow troops from Wuwei. I thought He wanted to preserve his strength in the upcoming war, and now I understand.

He is not preserving strength.

He is almost out of use.

Thinking of these years, he dragged his sick body and kept insisting for Xichuan. He said that he was a practitioner, no matter how big things happened, he had to guard the Yan family, protect Xichuan, and remembered his persistence over the years. I just feel sad.

Mother looked at Pei Yuanzhang and said, "So, you just move the people to Xichuan, it is not enough."

"..."

"I said, you've persuaded everyone in this matter, but you can't persuade me."

Pei Yuanzhang was silent, and finally lowered his head, as if acknowledging what he had done, and whispered: "I know."

Mother said again, "But this thing ... don't speak up."

My heart beat and I looked up at her: "Why?"

My mother lowered her eyelid lightly and looked at me and said, "Compared with everything, the human heart is the most important. If the human heart is uneven, the world will be chaotic, and if the human heart is chaotic, the world will be more difficult to determine."

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"Listening to you, the Central Plains has begun a war, then Xichuan must stabilize."

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"Never let them know what they have experienced."

I said, "Can't they know the truth?"

The mother said lightly: "Of course the people have the right to know the truth, but the question is, does it have any effect for them to know the truth?"

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"What has happened, irretrievable things, knowing the truth, just adding pain and hatred to them is not good for you, nor for themselves."

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"Some things, when they break, don't be too kind."

Seeing that my eyes were still a little stunned, my mother looked down at me and said softly, "There are no absolute things in the world. Sometimes, it may not be all good to reveal certain truths."

"..."

I choked and nodded.

My mother smiled at me.

I wonder if it was my illusion. With a smile, her tenderness flowed from the corners of her eyebrows like water, but she seemed to add some old lines to her pale, almost transparent face.

I went back to God, looked around, and said, "So my mother has been here all these years, is it because of this machine?"

She nodded her head and shook her head again.

I looked at her: "What?"

"Yes, but not all."

"..."

"If it were just this mechanism, I might deal with it earlier, but there are still other things that I want to guard."

My throat got stubborn again, and Pei Yuanzhang beside her became heavy in breathing.

I asked, "Because, there are other things that you hide and hide here. So, you are here to protect these things?"

Mother looked up at us lightly: "It seems that you know a lot."

I said: "My mother's innocence jade card, and that Qiankun picture ... Mother intended to leave these to me, didn't she?"

She sighed, and said, "Leave it to you, just to you, I didn't expect that you would really find it here. After all--"

"After all, you have separated that Qiankun picture."

"So you put the drawings together?"

"Yes."

"You found Liu Shizhou?"

"He has passed away for many years."

My mother froze, and murmured, "He ... is gone."

My voice was also a little trembling: "I heard that he used to take, took a few of his children to Xichuan, and had a close relationship with his mother. Later, the mother also sponsored him to go to Beijing to take the test."

The mother's face still had some sorrows that could not be recovered. It seemed that when a person woke up, suddenly things changed. All she faced was life and death parting. This kind of horror was really hard to accept.

After a while, she said, "Yes."

"How much does the mother remember, about him?"

"He ... I don't remember much, I said it was very dense, but after all, men and women are different, but after the erudition conference, he talked to me twice, and each time was accompanied by Fu Bazhen. However, he is a very Interested young people, even if their families are dragged on, do not change their minds. Such a person has a strong temperament. If he is an official, he will be a good official, he will be a good official who is not afraid of power, and even a tough good officer. "

My nose was sore, and he said, "He is."

My mother glanced at me.

She seemed a little puzzled by my sudden emotions, but she didn't ask much. Those clear eyes just looked at me lightly. My eyes were a little red, and my voice was sour: "He is a good official Even after being assassinated, people in Jiangnan still think of him well after many years. "

My mother didn't speak and still looked at me.

I slowly said, "The mother can remember, a little son in his family ..."