Chapter 46 2. Hitting golden branches

It was almost Haishi, and the Daming Palace gradually became quiet.Over the past few years, Shengshang Xingfo built the temple, and he has become more and more fond of quietness. Therefore, the servants and palace maids in the palace have learned to walk as lightly as walking on brocade gauze, and speak as lightly as the rustling of spring rain. Strictly and methodically inspected and defended to the inner hall of Zichen, all the inner flying dragon envoys on duty saw his figure and bowed their hands in salute from a distance.As the envoy of the Inner Flying Dragon, he no longer needs to patrol every day. However, he has served as an envoy of the Flying Dragon for nearly twenty years and has spent thousands of long nights. If he does not patrol, what should he do?He is already used to this. Everyone in the world says that the Nine Heavens Tower is infinitely good, and how many people know that the high place is extremely cold.In the inner hall, the lights are faint, and the low-pitched cough is intermittent.He thought: All I can do is to stay with him; when everyone is slowly leaving him, I will still be with him.

He stood under the jade steps, raised his head, there was a full moon tonight. "Master Yan, Your Majesty has summoned you." The servant called him from the side. He knew that with such a moonlight and such a night, His Majesty, he must not be able to sleep. Yan Ming stepped into the inner hall lightly, and heard the familiar voice of the Holy Majesty: "Come, Yan Ming, let me talk to you." The Holy Majesty leaned on the brocade couch, his face was burnt, said something, coughed halfway, and signaled Yan Ming to sit down. Going to the front, he said: "Speaking of which, you are older than me, but you are getting stronger every year. I am not as good as every year." Yan Ming felt sad in his heart, and forced a smile: "Your Majesty is joking—" The Holy Majesty waved his hand and took it in his hand. Taking a small cup of soup and medicine, he drank slowly, and said: "Actually, the children are all grown up, and I have nothing to worry about. Yan Ming, do you still remember how it was when you saw her for the first time—"

Yan Ming suddenly felt a liquid rushing to his eyes.He said: "How could I not remember? At that time, I accompanied His Majesty on watch in the teahouse opposite Shen's Mansion. The sun was just right that day, and the vermilion lacquered gate of Shen's Mansion opened with a bang, and I saw her—in fact, it was far away." Far away, even though I have martial arts and sharp eyesight, it is difficult to see the empress's beautiful face clearly, but I saw the light in His Majesty's eyes, as if the essence of heaven and earth gathered in front of His Majesty—" Hearing this, the Holy Majesty's words The brilliance in the eyes also gradually increased, and he smiled and said: "Your words are not true, I don't believe you didn't see her face clearly." Yan Ming replied: "I dare not."

The Holy Majesty smiled even more, with a playful tone, "Don't dare?" He frowned again, and asked the side: "I am old and deaf, who is making noise outside the hall?" Only then did the servant dare to report back: "Princess Shengping is asking Your Majesty to see you." The Holy One sighed, tunnel: "Let her in." Shengping rushed into the hall, threw himself into the arms of the Holy Father, and cried loudly: "Father, Father, I was beaten by that kid Guo Yan, you have to make the decision for me!" On the side, wiping tears and slowly squatting down to his father's feet, but Li Hua looked at his father pitifully.

Looking at Shengping from this angle, she looks very much like her mother.However, when did Pearl throw herself into her arms like her, begging for help coquettishly?She almost always endured that tear, sometimes in the corner of her eye, sometimes in her heart, he will reflect on her pain one by one after a long time, in the long seventeen years, so her pain Pain soaked into his bone marrow.Cold is born from the bone marrow, coldness is born, maybe it is like this, his cough disease has been incurable for a long time, and it is getting worse and worse. He couldn't help coughing again and again, Shengping was so anxious that he beat his back and stroked his chest with his hands, calling "Father Emperor" in a voice.After finally calming down, his complexion became a little gloomy.He slowly raised his hand, stroked the wisp of hair from his daughter's temple, and said, "Shengping, Father will not be able to protect you for the rest of your life."

He said so helplessly, with sorrow in his heart, Shengping put aside his grievances long ago, and burst into tears: "It's all because of Shengping's fault, even small things bother Father, Father, Father, you It's bound to get better." He smiled, "This is very good, your temperament is finally a bit like your mother. Your mother, at your age, was already famous in Chang'an..." "But, mother, she, why is she!" Knowing that his mother was tabooed by his father, Shengping still couldn't help but angrily said, "Could it be that she didn't know that his father was sick? In the past seventeen years, she has never returned to the palace. I don't even know what she looks like, she has never done her mother's duty, I, I," she choked up for a moment, "I never dare to blame her, but if she doesn't come back soon, I will hate her, hate her !"

"Shut up!" He was really angry, and when he waved his sleeves, there was a sound of gold and jade falling to the ground, Yan Ming hurriedly stepped forward to help him, and sighed: "Your Highness, the old minister shouldn't have interrupted, Princess, you have made the Holy Majesty feel sad—" Shengping was horrified, but stubbornly bit his lips, and said, "Father, I am not wrong. I believe she must still be in the world. The great rivers and mountains she traveled, didn't father work hard and work day and night to be safe all over the world? She Why do you just not want to come back, no matter how many misunderstandings and barriers there are, can it be worth the seventeen years of waiting for the emperor?"

He suddenly heard the words "still in the world", his heart ached like he was twisting, his breathing seemed to be stagnant, and he couldn't say another word for a long while. Shengping was also startled by a slip of the tongue, she stood up hastily, her long sleeves dragged to the ground, and looked at her father - he once galloped all over the world, looked down on all the heroes, and regained the rivers and mountains, he once drank thousands of cups, and was so romantic, far beyond the world.In fact, he can only hope for the beautiful woman Xitian, how lonely he is. Finally, I heard a servant report: "The king of Fenyang County tied up his son-in-law and knelt outside Xing'an Gate to plead guilty."

"Go, Shengping." He said: "No matter what, you have to be brave enough to take responsibility for yourself. When you grow up, everything that the emperor can give you has been given to you. From now on, the joys and sorrows of honor and disgrace are all up to you." Shengping seemed to understand but didn't understand, bowed his body to salute, and retreated to the hall. He never dared to pamper her and his pair of children.Handing over the world with one hand, and entrusting the most trustworthy and loyal ministers with the other, the only thing the emperor worries about is what happens after the death.

He slowly sat back on the couch, and said to Yan Ming: "Let's continue talking—"