Chapter 614

After the emperor confessed, he looked at Yang Chengqian. He saw unspeakable fear in his son's eyes. The fear disappointed him, although he knew his son was only a child. Such a secret, even if it is told to an adult, will be frightened.

But he was still dissatisfied. In his opinion, the descendants of the Yang family should not have such an expression.

"I know you are still young, but you are already the Emperor..."

He looked at Yang Chengqian and said word by word: "I have mentioned twice before that the descendants of the Yang family should be ready to sacrifice for the continuation of the great Sui Dynasty. No one is exception, including me and you. This is the third time. You should remember that you can't forget a word."

"Son minister..."

Yang Chengqian's shoulder trembled slightly. After a while, he hung his head and said, "my son wrote it down. I won't forget a word!"

"That's good"

The emperor's face eased a little: "go out. Your mother and I still have something to say."

"My son leaves"

Yang Chengqian bowed out and looked at his mother before going out. He saw his mother's eyes gently clinging to his father's face, and his father had lost his old demeanor. Now my father looks like a mummy, but my mother doesn't hate it at all.

He doesn't understand this. After all, he's still very young.

Moreover, at this time, his mind was full of the secret that his father had said before. If the secret that the old Dean told him before going south had surprised him beyond measure, another secret that his father had just said made his heart cold and cold to the bone.

Like falling into an ice cave.

He dared not think or recall what his father had just said in his ear. Those words echoed in his head all the time, making him more and more afraid and upset. After he came out of Dongnuan Pavilion, he walked faster and faster. At last, he began to run wildly, as if there were some wild beasts or evil ghost yecha chasing after him.

So embarrassed.

In Dongnuan Pavilion, the emperor felt the Queen's palm and gently stroked his face. He liked the temperature in the palm. Over the years, he has been used to everything about her. When he is outside, the first thing he reads in his heart is the foundation of their Yang family, and the second is the woman who has been with him for decades.

She seems so beautiful that she never changes. Although there are wrinkles on her forehead and corners of her eyes, although the skin on her face is not as fragile as when she was a girl, and although her figure has slightly gone out of shape, she is always so beautiful in his eyes.

"In fact, before I come back, what I fear most is that I can't see you for the last time."

The emperor rubbed her palm with his face.

"But I'm afraid to come back and let you see that I'm not human or ghost. I'm not willing to leave without looking at you, and I'm not willing to make you more uncomfortable because I looked at you for the last time."

The queen fell down with her head against the emperor's chest. As always, although his chest was wide and warm at that time, it is now as dry and cold as a layer of skin covering his ribs. When he breathed, it was like the sound of a broken bellows. Every breath was very difficult, so it seemed that the fluctuation of his chest was very large, but it was so weak.

The emperor raised his hand and stroked the Queen's hair.

"I know your majesty has pity on me, but your majesty has forgotten that your majesty is your majesty no matter what it looks like, and my concubine is my concubine at any time."

It was a bit awkward, but the emperor understood it.

"If you can..."

The emperor's eyes were confused: "What I think is that it's actually good not to be the emperor. I'll live a light life with you. Maybe I quarrel about trivial things every day, but there may be a lot of things left in my memory. We sit in a daze, worry about what to eat for the next meal, write some pairs for the holidays, paddle a boat and say some common things on the lake But I became an emperor, so I don't have any of these. After becoming an emperor, I don't have many days to remember with you... "

"But I know that your Majesty's heart is always here."

The queen whispered in the emperor's arms, just as it was at the beginning. He was in his prime of life. She was everything to her, and she was his life. Although the emperor was thin and shriveled, she still wanted to find a sense of security from his arms like a little bird.

"It's hard for you to be my wife."

Said the emperor.

His voice trembled.

"My concubine only feels sweet, but I don't know what is bitter. Whether you are an emperor or not, whether you are busy or not, I know that you will come back and lie next to me when you need to rest. That's enough... I'm a woman with no talent and virtue, so I can't help you more. I can only do it without making trouble for you and let you do it steadfastly. Think about it You have no regrets, I have no regrets? "

When Su Buwei died, the emperor thought he had no tears.

But now he was in tears.

"Go out with me. I want to see the pomegranate I planted in front of your palace. I've dug a pit and watered it for more than ten years. I want to see if it's already very tall..."

"OK"

The queen nodded and didn't tell the emperor that the pomegranate tree had been dead for three years. No matter how she watered, fertilized and saved, she didn't stay.

……

……

The queen pushed a wheelchair and the emperor sat on it, covered with a thick blanket. The guards have sealed off where they have passed and no one is allowed to go in and out. After all, the emperor had been dead for a long time in the heart of most people in Chang'an City, and he didn't want to cause any trouble to the crown prince.

"I remember I promised you to build a small lake in this palace, but I haven't done it."

The emperor was trapped in his memory, but he was not miserable, only guilty: "I still remember that year, after planting pomegranate trees, you said you wanted to put paper kites, and I wanted to go with you, but I told you that you were already the queen, the mother of all the people, and the main dignified in the harem. That was a bit against your heart, but I still said it and regretted it for a long time. Since then, you never said such words to me again. I know you don't blame me, but you want to meet my requirements 。”

The queen kept herself smiling, even if tears flowed on her face.

"Didn't your majesty secretly take me to put a paper kite in the imperial garden at night?"

She said with a smile.

"But I still regret"

The emperor shook his head slightly: "you followed me when you were 14 years old. I always asked you to do this and that, but you never asked me to do anything. You are quiet and don't like excitement. I always thought you would be very satisfied to let yourself quietly in the bedroom. Later I learned that you deliberately let people fill the yard with flowers and talk to them because it was too cold and clear."

"So you sent someone to find a pair of precious birds. They can learn human language and make me happy."

Said the queen.

The emperor said, "but how can that be enough..."

"Why not?"

The queen asked.

The emperor had no way to answer, so he had to smile apologetically: "what was the first sentence you taught the bird?"

The Queen's face flushed slightly and shook her head without answering.

"How are you, Siro?"

The emperor took his hand out of the thick blanket and held the hand of the Queen's cart: "although you are also in this palace and I am also in this palace, it is common not to see each other once in half a month. I know you want to ask me how I am, but there is no way to ask, so your words were learned by the clever thing and asked with you... How are you, Siro?"

The Queen's tears flowed silently down her cheeks, but she still smiled happily and contentedly.

"Your Majesty knows."

She said.

"Yes... I know, but I still don't have time to accompany you. I've forgotten that we haven't walked and talked like this for a long time. We're not talking about annoying state affairs, just talking like this."

The queen wanted to tell him that it was seven years, nine months and sixteen days, but she didn't say it in the end.

"I forgot too"

She answered.

The emperor smiled and didn't poke the Queen's warm lie.

"I remember the first time you and I met... You were only fourteen years old in a lotus colored gauze skirt. You stood there timidly like a water lotus and didn't dare to look at me. At the first sight, I knew that you were my man and no one was allowed to take it away. I would fight with anyone who robbed me."

The queen said softly, "what I think is that this man doesn't look as handsome as his father said. His beard is messy, his hair is messy, and his clothes are messy. He looks like a lazy man."

The emperor laughed and coughed up blood.

"Yes, before that day, I drank with several brothers at night until midnight. If Lao Qi hadn't advised me, I wouldn't go to see you... At that time, our brothers still had some true feelings. Our father was still healthy, so their heart was much simpler than later. I still remember that we lost to Lao 61 and Yu Qilin that night... We haven't given it to him yet."

"Because your majesty saw me the next day, he forgot what he promised before."

When the queen was not a queen, she often said such jokes with him.

"Ha ha..."

The emperor laughed recklessly and didn't care about the cough that would be caused by laughing, and the cough would spit blood, and the chest would be painful. There was no pain or worry on his face. The queen still pretended to be nothing and reached out to wipe the blood from the corners of his mouth without saying anything to worry about.

So tacit.

……

……

The two people said something that seemed very casual, and then cried and smiled at will. It seemed that she pushed him slowly along the corridor of the Tai Chi palace. There was nothing urgent, but he and she were anxious to feel the last time they were together.

Approaching the door of the Queen's bedroom, the emperor suddenly smiled and said, "I know that with your temperament, after I die, all you have left is to bear dry, so you won't allow anyone to hurt him... But he is my son and the descendants of the Yang family. There are some things you must face."

"I know."

The queen hung her head and straightened out the emperor's hair disturbed by the wind: "Chengqian is my child. I want to protect him, but he is also your child. How can you harm him? I believe you."

She said.

The emperor trembled slightly in the corner of his mouth and didn't go on.

"When the old Dean accepted Lao Qi as his apprentice, Lao Qi came back and told me that the old Dean was an immortal. At that time, I ran to him and asked him if I could practice outside. The old Dean didn't go out, but told me that living was practice. At that time, he might have seen that I was ill, but he didn't say anything. I was selfish... So I thought later I tried many ways to prolong my life for several more years, so I went to the northwest when the old Dean told me that my life was not long, because only those disgusting insects could renew my life, but I can't do it in the palace. I'm not only afraid that the people below will know, but also afraid that you will hate me... I know, you're most afraid of insects... "

The queen smiled and said, "Your Majesty has forgotten that my concubine likes everything about your majesty."

The emperor was silent for a long time and smiled, "am I not?"

The queen pushed the emperor to the gate of the bedroom. The emperor saw the dead pomegranate tree that had not been removed.

"Push me over and water it."

Said the emperor.

"Your Majesty... My concubine failed to save it..."

Said the queen.

But she found a kettle and took his hand to water the dead pomegranate tree.

"I just want to... Die here."

The emperor smiled.

to one's heart's content.

The kettle landed and splashed her dress.