Chapter 265

"With regard to the post disaster treatment of LAN Province, the first batch of relief grain has been delivered. I think it can calm the panic of the local people in a short time. The dam originally built has been washed away by the spring flood. Instead of increasing the income of labor, it is better to consider providing work for relief and encourage the victims to participate in the post disaster reconstruction through the distribution of relief grain and money, which can not only reduce the complaints of the people caused by the increase of labor, but also reduce the disaster The turbulence of the local people during the chaos. "

Ten years later, the green little emperor was talking in the hall. His eyebrows and eyes were full of young people's spirit.

The courtiers at the bottom could not help nodding their heads as they listened to Emperor Jingning's handling of the once-in-a-century flood in LAN province.

Time not only made him fade from his childhood, but also made him more and more like an emperor.

At the beginning, Emperor Chengqing issued an edict to punish himself, which caused an uproar when the merchants admitted their crimes against the loyal Yan family, especially in the northwest. They were the people who were most favored by the Yan family. When the accusations of the Yan Family collaborating with the enemy, treason and treason were spread, the people in the Northwest were suspicious and triggered a great □□□. It was only by sending troops to suppress that the disaster was eliminated, Now, Emperor Cheng Qing admits that he was responsible for all the crimes of the Yan family. At the beginning, the people who did not complain about the Yan family could not sit still.

Or Zong Zhengqing Qi issued several imperial edicts one after another, which barely calmed the people's resentment.

It is an imperial edict to collect the bones of Yan's people and rebuild Yan's ancestral tombs.

The second imperial edict established Yan Zhaonan's memorial position in the Hero Hall. Since the founding of the great business, only a few people have been able to enter the Hero Hall. These people are great men with great achievements recorded in historical books.

The hall of heroes is set up in the imperial temple of the Zongzheng family. However, all the officials who enter the hall can be incense and shared the blessings of the royal family.

The third imperial edict sent the supreme emperor to the imperial mausoleum. He will stay in the imperial mausoleum for the rest of his life.

There is no precedent for such a severe punishment of a former Emperor.

Although the emperor broke the law and committed the same crime as the common people, but often when the emperor broke the law, he would only prevaricate and cover up the past for a variety of reasons, and would never sue the world like this.

Zong zhengqingqi's practice has attracted the attack of many pedantic sour scholars. Similarly, it has won the favor of many people. Those years are indeed the most turbulent years of chaotang. He has made qualitative progress in those years.

Now, it is different from the past.

"Teacher, what do you think of being alone?"

Looking at the thoughtful expression of the courtiers below, Zong Zhengqing Qi slightly turned over and looked at the lower left corner, the slightly feminine man who was detached from other ministers and sat in the Taishi chair.

Perhaps because of his serious injury in his early years and the toxicity of those messy pills, Yan Chu's body has become more and more corrupt in recent years. Half of the time in a month is absent from the early morning.

At the moment, the man sitting in the master's chair is thin and his lips are pink. Although he is haggard, he does not hide his unique temperament.

He twisted a string of sandalwood Buddha beads in his hand and wore loose and comfortable clothes, which was not very integrated with the serious atmosphere around him.

With the gradual growth of the little emperor and the deterioration of Xiao Chu's body, the situation in the court also changed a lot.

After all, Xiao Chu is a eunuch. After ten or twenty years, he may be very beautiful. But after a hundred years, it will be the patriarchal royal family who will be in power. Not to mention whether Xiao Chu's body can last another ten years.

With such a master without a future, the risk is great.

In the early years, the little emperor was still young and couldn't see his temperament. It has been different in recent years. As the little emperor began to intervene in the government, people with a clear eye can see that in the face of Xiao Chu, who hindered him from fully taking power, one of them will die sooner or later.

Either Xiao Chu lost, or the little emperor lost. In terms of the current situation, the former is more likely.

Looking at his body, it seems that he can't last for many years.

"Does your majesty want to hear the truth or the lie?"

Yan Chu looked at the young man sitting on the high platform. He was in a trance. Although he lacked all the hardships of the previous life, the young man in front of him still overlapped with him of the previous life.

Yan Chu's mood is very complicated, and Zong Zhengqing Qi is not.

At first, he hated the man sitting in the master's chair, but over the years, Zong zhengqingqi gradually changed his outlook on him in every bit of getting along with each other.

That man is complicated.

He seems not to be greedy for power, allowing him to learn a lot of imperial skills, and when he grew up, he didn't care about getting in touch with the imperial government. At the same time, he still firmly grasped the killer mace of the royal guards and cultivated his followers in the Imperial Hall as an eunuch.

He seems to be very friendly to him. For example, he will take him out of the palace in micro clothes and take him to learn many useful knowledge that teachers can't teach. At the same time, he is indifferent to him. For some time, he wanted to be close to him, but he always kept a strange distance from him, as if the connection between them was only in teaching.

Such an elusive man, let Zong Zhengqing Qi can not help but explore, worship, the same, there is deep fear.

Just because he is too elusive, Zong Zhengqing Qi doesn't know what the other party will do next second. What's more, as a 20-year-old emperor who has been married and has children, the imperial power is not completely in his own hands. It's too bad to sleep and eat well and always have a knife around his neck.

The counselors around him have asked him to start with Xiao Chu more than once. Zong zhengqingqi has been hesitating because he found that even if he was afraid, he could not start with each other.

But with such hesitation, Zong Zhengqing Qi didn't know how long she could last.

"The truth, lonely nature, listen to the truth." He looked at Xiao Chu and smiled.

"Well, your majesty, there is already a shadow of Mingjun." Yan Chu nodded. He had nothing to teach him. He needed to figure out the rest by himself.

For the first time in history, Xiao Chu praised him in front of all the courtiers. Zong Zhengqing Qi, who had long been used to not showing his happiness and anger on his face, couldn't restrain the smile from the corners of her mouth. All of a sudden, her back was straightened, her chin was raised, and she looked like a child praised by her elders.

Such expressions are fleeting, but they are still captured by some sensitive ministers.

Xiao Jiuqian's way of getting along with the emperor doesn't seem to be as tense, strange and strange as they think.

The early Dynasty soon dispersed. Instead of returning to his palace, Yan Chu let the grown-up eunuch who had been taken in by him walk towards the inner hall of Qianqing palace.

"I wonder if your majesty will honor me and accompany me out of the palace."

In private, Yan Chu always claimed to be me in Zong zhengqingqi, and Zong zhengqingqi himself was used to it, just as he never claimed to be alone with Yan Chu in private.

In the past two or three years, Zong Zhengqing Qi never went out of the palace with Yan Chu again, because at that time he had begun to contact the court politics and began to cultivate his new forces on the court hall.

People around him told him to guard against Xiao Chu, afraid that the other party would do something to hurt him in private.

Suddenly, I heard the other party say that she asked him out of the palace together. Zong Zhengqing Qi was not used to it.

"Your Majesty."

The Chamberlain behind Zong Zhengqing Qi gave a nervous cry. Now the voice of the court asking Xiao Chu to return his power is getting louder and louder. Who knows what the other party's idea is to ask his majesty to accompany him out of the Palace this time.

After all these years, we can't fall short at the last minute.

"OK."

In Yan Chu's eyes, Zong Zhengqing Qi agreed.

*****

"You're talking about my father. He died the year before last."

In a farmer's home, Zong Zhengqing Qi and Yan Chu, dressed in regular clothes, sat around an old wooden table with a missing corner and had lunch.

Miscellaneous grains, pickle porridge, chicken soup with a layer of chicken oil, Zong zhengqingqi's thoughts suddenly returned to ten years ago.

As like as two peas, the only old farmer who sat with them at this table turned into the son of an old farmer. The three old thatched cottages that had been slightly worn out at the beginning became the five bright clay houses.

Zong Zhengqing Qi chews the coarse and dry grain nest in his mouth. He is still not used to this taste, but now he can chew sweetness from inside and talk freely when talking about farming with this farmer.

"Your father and son have a good relationship."

The baby with a gaping tooth has now got married and had children. He has become a bright young man. He holds a baby with no teeth in his arms, uses chopsticks to dip chicken soup to feed him a taste of fresh food, and says with a smile.

Father and son?

Zong Zhengqing Qi looked at the old man beside her. Her heart was soft and didn't say anything to refute.

"I still remember when you ate one of my candied haws."

When he returned to the palace, Zong Zhengqing Qi specially bought a string of candied haws. This taste has always remained in his heart, but he has never tasted the taste of candied haws since that time.

"Well - a little sour."

Zong Zhengqing Qi took a bite of sugar gourd and was frowned by the Hawthorn inside. Is this really the delicious food he missed for a long time when he was a child?

In his heart, he doubted his childhood taste. Zong Zhengqing Qi handed the remaining sugar gourd to Yan Chu.

This is what he once owed him.

Yan Chu looked at the little emperor's tight hand and smiled.

"It's my wish to ask your majesty to accompany me out of the palace today. My body can't last long. For the rest of my life, I want to visit the beautiful rivers and mountains of big business. At that time, I'll find a place with the best scenery and bury myself."

He returned the two strings of candied haws. Should he also return the regime of the owner? That's what the little emperor wanted to express.

Yan Chu understood each other's mood very much. Moreover, he really planned to leave.

He trained a Mingjun for big business. What he owed all his life has been made up in this life.

"Leave?"

Zong zhengqingqi's hand trembled. Yes, it's the best choice for the other party to leave. If he was still in chaotang for a day, his once factional forces would not give up.

And only when the other party completely leaves the court can he really rest assured of him.

Such an idea is very despicable. Indeed, the best choice for them is better than one day, when he becomes a real emperor and can no longer tolerate each other's existence.

"I'll send a team to protect you."

"No need."

Yan Chu looked at the emperor with some tension between his eyebrows and eyes. Whether the role of the team was to protect or monitor, his expression was written on his face.

His careful thinking was seen through by Yan Chu. Zong Zhengqing Qi was also a little annoyed. In fact, the other party's body had been corrupted like this. What else could he be vigilant about.

"Take care all the way."

Without the interest dispute, Zong zhengqingqi felt that he had put down a huge stone in his heart. From now on, perhaps he could only look at the man in front of him with simple appreciation and admiration.

No matter what he has been, at least for him, he is a good teacher.

*****

"Are you leaving?"

After emperor Chengqing died in the imperial mausoleum, Wan Qilan had been waiting for Yan Chu to leave.

Ten years later, Wan Jilan has become a grandmother. Once strong feelings have gradually accumulated. She has become more wise and lasting. Similarly, she is no longer young.

"Well, it's time to go. If I stay in the palace, I'll let you choose between two."

At this time, Zong Zhengqing Qi was ready to become an emperor, but not as cruel as the emperor. In a few years, as the courtiers guessed, one of them eventually came to a miserable end.

"You've been hiding from me for ten years. You can't hide from me in the next days." Wan Jilan looked at the man not far away and smiled.

The meaning of the words is to leave the palace with Yan Chu.

"This time, you chose me?"

Yan Chu smiled. In a trance, Wan Jilan returned to more than 30 years ago. At that time, his smile was like this now, not mixed with any complex emotions, but simply happy.

One of his original two wishes was to make the big business people live in peace. He did it. He helped the patriarchal clan manage the country for more than 20 years and cultivated a wise monarch for the people.

The second wish is that the original owner wants to be selected by wanjilan once.

In his last life, he had countless opportunities to win Zong zhengqingqi, but he still lost in the end. Did he really lose to the northwest king? No, he just lost to wanjilan and his best memory.

This time, he also wants to be selected by wanjilan once, no matter what reason, just once.

Now Wan Jilan chose to give up her status as empress dowager and became the emperor's son. She left with Yan Chu. Her original wish has been achieved.

"I'm tired."

After the laughter, Yan Chu shook his head gently.

"In the first half of my life, I live for revenge. In the second half of my life, I live for the big business people. For the rest of my life, I just want to live for myself."

Yan Chu looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the palace wall, "The girl I like is the girl with long braids and riding on the back of the deer. What you like is the upright and cheerful general Yan. Now we are not what we were. What we like is really the changed us or the shadow that we constantly beautify and recall."

Yan Chu turned around and smiled with relief at the puzzled and confused eyes of Shang Wan Jilan.

"Empress dowager, in the future, we will cherish each other."

Yan Chu gathered his cloak in front of his chest and turned away under the bleary sight of the other party.

*****

"Nine thousand years old, are we really leaving?"

The little eunuch, who was lucky to be left by Yan Chu, looked at the drifting red palace wall and was slightly reluctant to give up.

You said that he managed to climb to such a high position. What could he do? He followed the governor out of the palace. When he left the Imperial City, he would be nothing.

"If you can't bear it, you can go back now."

Yan Chu sat in the carriage, took a book and said slowly.

"That won't work." The little eunuch answered without thinking. He has been serving the governor for more than ten years. How lonely it would be to be away from him. He also has a conscience. If the governor treats him well, he should also know how to repay him.

Isn't it a pity that he didn't pack up his treasures, but the gold, silver and jewelry they brought when they left the palace are enough for them to be a natural and unrestrained rich man outside the palace.

Considering the precarious life in the palace and the increasingly tense situation, it seems that this is also a good choice.

The little eunuch didn't want to drink so much. Seeing that the tea on the governor's side was finished, he quickly filled it up.

The imperial doctor said that the governor's time is running out. He can't show his bitter gourd face in front of the governor. He should be happy every day. Maybe the governor is in a good mood and can prolong his life.

Not all the words of those imperial doctors can be trusted. Why can't a good governor live a long life.

The little eunuch cheered himself in his heart, and the carriage gradually drove away from the imperial city to an unknown place.

*****

"Unexpectedly, after all, I sent you away first."

In the Yan Family's ancestral grave, there is a newly repaired grave with the name of Yan Chu written on the tombstone.

Wan Jilan dressed up and knelt in civilian clothes in front of the tombstone. At this time, she is even older than she was three years ago.

Before his death, the other party asked her to bury him in a place with good scenery and don't pollute the Yan Family's ancestral grave, but his last wish, Wan Jilan, failed in the end.

When he was alive, Yan Chu was unwilling to admit his identity and made the world laugh at the Yan family. After his death, he should return to the place where he should stay most. There are his parents, siblings and relatives.

When Yan Chu's body was buried, Wan Qilan also put a booklet describing his life experience in the coffin.

Perhaps one day in the future, when there is no big business, no royal family and everything becomes more enlightened, this booklet will be found. At that time, people can better evaluate his mistakes in his life and return his real identity.

There is nothing to laugh at in his life. He is a hero.

"Mother, it's time to go back to the palace."

The only old woman who knew wanjilan and Yan Chu's past was still hale and hearty. She looked at the time and whispered to wanjilan.

Wan Jilan stood up with her help, and her knees had already knelt numb.

"I still can't understand what you said when you left."

Wan Jilan slowly opened his mouth to Yan Chu's grave: "but don't forget to wait for me when crossing the Naihe bridge. At least in the next life, we won't miss it again."

"Mother, it's time to go."

The old mammy couldn't bear it. The imperial doctor said that the empress was worried. Since the news of general Yan's death came, her body collapsed. I'm afraid she won't last long.

She couldn't persuade her mother. Fortunately, she was old enough to serve her Princess on the huangquan road.

The two figures grew longer and longer in the afterglow of the sunset until they disappeared.