Chang'an dark night. The rain was pouring, and the wind and rain were suddenly chaotic. The palace lanterns hanging under the eaves wobbled and flew sideways in the wind and rain, the golden tassels on the lanterns were tangled, and the dark red lights were dimmed and dimmed inside the glazed lampshade, as if that bit of brightness was about to fly away with the wind. The maids on vigil hurriedly got up to close the windows, and the sound of slight footsteps echoed faintly like water waves in the hall. This slight noise woke up E King Li Run who was sleeping in the inner hall.He came out of the inner hall, watching the white curtains flying across the sky like floating clouds under the flickering light.He passed through these thin floating clouds, walked to the gate of the hall, and looked out.

All the palaces in the palace stood silently in the furious wind and rain. Amidst the noisy sound of rain, suddenly there was a sharp and extremely sharp sound, piercing through the rain in the cold night. It was so sad that Li Run felt as if someone was tightly strangling his neck, and even his breathing stagnated for a moment. As if he couldn't believe that the shrill voice came from the person he was most familiar with, he could only subconsciously ask: "Is it... the voice of the concubine mother?" "Yes..." The maids behind replied timidly. Li Run ignored the person behind him who was holding an umbrella for him, and ran into the pouring rain outside, and ran straight through the rain curtain towards the small hall where screams came from.

The hall was brightly lit, and the subtle and chaotic footsteps of the maids came and went.Yueling, the female officer next to Li Run's mother, was coming out of the inner hall. When she saw him, she hurried up to salute him, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, don't worry, the concubine is haunted by a nightmare. Someone has already been sent to invite Dr. She. After smoking the secret benzoin, the concubine will be able to rest in a short while." He nodded and went into the inner hall to have a look. His mother was suffering from hysteria.She was hugged by two strong servants, and there were four other maids looking after her, so she couldn't move, she could only scream in her mouth, her cheeks were pale, her lips were black and purple, her temple hair was messy, and her eyes were deeply protruding.

Li Run sighed, sat next to his mother, and called her in a low voice: "Mother Concubine." She stared at him with terrifying and fierce eyes, and after a long time, she finally recognized her son. The struggle gradually slowed down, and she struggled to squeeze out two words from her dry throat: "Run'er..." Li Run breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand to caress her forehead, helped her brush up the loose hair on her forehead, and said, "Concubine Mu, it's me." She asked hoarsely, "Why are your clothes and hair wet?" "It's raining outside, I ran across the yard." He let Yueling wipe his hair and shoulders for himself, only looked at his mother and whispered, "Mother Concubine, if you have a nightmare, the child will sleep with you Come down."

The concubine nodded slowly, leaning tiredly on the pillow, curled up. Li Run asked people to move the couches under the bed. He leaned on the couches and closed his eyes, listening to his mother's rapid breathing gradually calm down in the benzoin. The rest of the people retreated, and most of the lights went out, leaving only three or five warm orange palace lanterns peeking in from outside the curtain. The torrential rain was still falling in the dark night, and it seemed as if it would never stop. While drowsy, Li Run suddenly heard his mother's voice calling him: "Run'er..."

He opened his eyes and replied, "I'm here." Mother's voice sounded soothing and calm for the first time in years.She asked slowly: "Run'er, where is your father?" Li Run said cautiously: "Father passed away ten years ago." "...Oh," she said in a low voice, as if raving, "Ten years?" The mother who had been delirious for ten years suddenly calmed down, which made Li Run feel strange.He got up and sat on the edge of her bed, leaned over to look at her, and asked in a low voice: "Mother Concubine... don't you want to sleep a little longer?"

"I... have something for you." She didn't answer his words, but slowly stood up, opened the bedside cabinet, and took out a small dowry placed in it. This dowry was painted with black lacquer and inlaid with mother-of-pearl cut into flowers. The color was old and not necessarily expensive.Li Run saw his mother opened it, and the bronze mirror inside had not been polished for a long time, and it had turned black, and the face reflected was vague and very strange. Mother removed the bronze mirror, and there was a piece of folded tissue paper hidden in the crack behind the mirror.She handed it to Li Run, and looked at him with extremely excited eyes, as if she was a child who was expecting praise from others: "Look, Run'er, this is painted and hidden by my mother so hard. You must pay attention to it." Keep it well... this is a major event that affects the survival of the world, remember! Remember!"

Li Run silently took the paper and looked at it.It was a piece of tissue paper where the maids painted clothes, and I don't know when she hid it.Two or three balls of black ink were scrawled on it with eyebrows. The shape was irregular and the lines were messed up like a mess. It really didn't make any sense. Seeing that it was an inexplicable stick figure, Li Run didn't say anything, just folded it as it was, put it in his sleeve, and said, "Yes, my child, remember it, and it must be kept properly." The concubine leaned halfway on the pillow, and when she saw him put it away, she breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a hoarse voice, "Run'er, you must remember that you must not get too close to King Kui..."

The sound of rain outside the window was extremely noisy, and the whole world was full of rushing sounds.The light of the palace lantern deflected in the rain and wind penetrates through the window like a phantom, which is even more blurry through the gauze curtain.The emaciated concubine's complexion was as pale as snow, with a slight blush, like peach blossoms after a long rain, making people vaguely imagine her youthful youth. Li Run looked at his mother silently, but the concubine was just staring at the circulating lights in a daze.After a long time, she laughed again. At first, it was squeezed out of her throat, like a snickering "chichi" sound. Later, the laughter became louder and louder, and she couldn't restrain herself, and it turned into a crazy laughter.

Mother's stern laughter in the dark night made Li Run's back slightly numb.He raised his hand to hold her hand, and said in a low voice, "Mufei, you are tired, it's time to rest..." Before she finished speaking, the concubine's hysterical laughter suddenly stopped, and she jumped up from the bed with tearful eyes, and pressed his shoulder with disheveled hair: "Run'er! The Tang Dynasty is about to perish! The country has changed hands! You As the royal family of the Li family, don't you hurry to turn the tide? The country has changed hands..." Seeing that his mother had fallen into madness again, Li Run had no choice but to get up and open the door. Regardless of her beating him like a mad tiger, he only signaled the servants to come up and hold his mother back.He stood outside the hall, waiting quietly for his mother's roar to gradually subside.

After a long time, Yueling said that the concubine had already rested and advised him to go back, only then did he slightly nod his head, and in the bright sky, watched the rain curtain and slowly walked back. The tissue paper in the sleeve is soft and light, and something with unknown meaning is drawn on it.He walked to the corner, intending to take it out and tear it off, but hesitated for a moment, still kept it in his sleeve, and walked back slowly along the curved corridor. The torrential rain shrouded Chang'an in Tang Dynasty.The most prosperous capital city in the world is hidden in obscurity, full of unpredictable trends.