Chapter 57 Chapter fifty-six

Midsummer has long passed, but the prince's temper has not eased due to the heat dissipating, but has become more irritable.When I think of his life in captivity until his death, I feel a lot of sympathy, but then I think that if he is not imprisoned, I am afraid I will marry him. Let me choose between marrying him or being imprisoned, I have no doubts to choose The latter felt that his sympathy was hypocritical.People always think of sympathy after they have settled down. Kangxi and all the empresses, elder brothers, Fujin, and princesses gathered in the Hall of Supreme Harmony to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.The eunuchs and maids on duty are busy, and those who are not on duty also gather together to drink and have fun to celebrate the festival.

I was carrying the food box, and I wanted to go back to the house, but I suddenly changed my mind, thinking that there must be no one in the imperial garden now, and the few sweet-scented osmanthus flowers are blooming just right, so I might as well go there to enjoy the moon, the sweet-scented osmanthus, and drink. Better indoors? It was really quiet.In the cool night, the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus floated. I couldn't help slowing down, took a few deep breaths, and was looking up at the moon when a flute sounded, which made me jump. A little surprised, who is playing the flute here?He was not in a hurry to find it, so he put the food box on the ground, leaned against the big tree, looked up at the full moon, and savored this song quietly.

The plum blossom in the snow, with a clean posture, although not accompanied by a hundred flowers, is swaying in the wind and enjoying itself.I vaguely knew who it was, and with a slight smile, I picked up the food box and went looking for the sound. Before the person arrives, the sound of the flute turns mournful, as if a gust of wind blows up, and the plum blossoms all over the tree are finally knocked down. No matter how unwilling, you have to live with the dust.I was surprised in my heart, when did he feel such pain?Busy pace slowed down and walked over gently. The thirteenth elder brother was standing under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, playing the flute, showing a quiet and dignified demeanor, unlike his usual laughing and unrestrained appearance. "Adept at riding and shooting, the shot will hit the target, and the speed is like flying. Poetry and calligraphy are all neat and fresh, elegant and good at rhythm, and good at the piano and flute." Years of confinement?Thinking about it, my eyes are a little blurred.

Before the end of the song, Elder Brother Thirteen had already stopped playing his flute, looking at me.I cheered up, walked over with a smile, and asked, "Why don't you finish playing? Is it disturbing your mood?" Brother Thirteen smiled and said, "I didn't know it was you, but I thought someone was eavesdropping, so I stopped." I glanced at the wine jar on the stone table and asked with a smile: "Why didn't you accompany the emperor in front of the hall, and left Fujin to come here alone to drink?" He looked at the food box in my hand and said with a smile: "Just Allow you to choose a good place, so I can't come?"

I smiled, did not speak, opened the food box, took out two jugs of wine, and made a gesture of invitation to him.He smiled, sat on the stone bench, picked up the jug and took a sip. I also sat down, picked up the jug, touched him, and each took a sip with my neck up.Shisan leaned on his body, looked at the moon, and said, "It's been many years since we've had a drink together." I sighed, "Eight years!" After a while, Shisan tilted his head and smiled and said, "It's rare to meet you today, and they all bring wine, so let's drink it again, otherwise it might be another eight years."

He said a joke, but he didn't know that it was completely correct.More than eight years?Ten years of confinement, ten years later, I know you will be released safely, but I don't know where I am.If there is a fate, maybe ten years later I can still drink, if there is no fate, then this may be the last parting wine. With grief in his heart, he forced a smile and said: "It's time to get drunk once. Since I was drunk by you last time, I haven't tasted drunk again." Shisan raised his eyebrows, touched the wine pot with me, and said: "Last time, you obviously picked up the wine bag and poured it down, looking like you wanted to pass out immediately, why did I drink you drunk?" ?”

"If you don't take me outside, can I drink alcohol?" I stared at him and asked.As if you dare to say it's not your fault, you try it. He laughed: "Okay! Okay! Even if I got you drunk last time, but today you can remember that you brought the wine yourself, and the person came here by himself. Don't say that I got you drunk in the future." of." The two of them laughed and chatted while drinking wine, and soon the jug was empty, he patted the wine jar on the table with a smile and said: "I still have the foresight." I smiled and said: "Yes, yes!" Two bowls came out.Thirteen smiled and said, "You still like me, you should drink like this, and you are the most impatient to hold a small cup and whine about it." One of them poured a bowl.

The two drank and drank, and they both fell silent. I thought about Thirteen's upcoming fate, my unknown fate, and felt sad.Thirteen didn't know what to think of, and there was a little sadness in the corners of his eyes. The two bumped into each other from time to time, took a sip, each worried.Drinking alcohol is the easiest way to get drunk when you are sad, and both of them have already drunk a lot.At this time, they were all drunk, and suddenly they laughed at each other.Smiling and laughing, I lay down on the stone table and secretly wiped away the tears from the corners of my eyes with my hands.

While lying on his stomach, he suddenly heard a mournful flute sound.It was the unfinished song just now, I looked at him quietly, why is he so sad in his heart? After the song was played, Shisan held the jade flute in his hand, got up and took a few steps, and said slowly: Outside the Chilan Bridge, there are willows and willows, a thousand trees and peach blossoms, and a thatched hermitage. It is spring in March, and the scenery is vaguely like Jiangnan. A piece of moon holds the mountain out of the distant sky, and the sound of the flute is melodious before the evening wind. The white gulls are mighty and the spring waves are broad, and the light boats are stable and shallow.

I propped my head up and said with a smile: "Thirteen people who are 'highly talented' also want to 'make a poem in seven steps'. You have done so many in these three or five steps. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to Cao Zhi?" Thirteen said lazily: " It was written before, but it was just a moment of emotion in my heart, and I just read it out." I watched him silently for a while and sighed: "If you were not born in the emperor's family, it would be great, so you don't have to envy leisure with poetry." He took a deep breath, stood sideways, with his hands behind his back, and looked up at the moon , After a long time, he said: "I don't know how many times I have thought about it. I have always longed for the day when I can ride a horse, carry a flute, and a sword, and roam freely between heaven and earth, shoot eagles in Mobei, and listen to music in Jiangnan. When you are happy, you can sit on the ground, drink wine and dance swords. When you are elegant, you add fragrance to your red sleeves and chant poems under the lamp. But this body has been entrusted to the emperor's family. Even if I can jump out of the cage, there is someone I can't let go of, and I don't want to let him alone In the face of Feng Dao Shuang Jian, although he has his mother and brothers, it is almost as good as not having one."

I just felt the tears fall suddenly, and I didn't even have time to wipe them off. Just after I wiped away the old tears, new tears fell again.Thirteen turned and looked at me silently. Wiping my tears with both hands, I forced a smile and said, "I drank too much, and the wine turned into tears." He pulled the corners of his mouth, trying to laugh, but he couldn't.Walking back to the table, he picked up the bowl and poured it down. I also took a big gulp.Putting his head on his hands, he asked him: "Brother Thirteen, in this Forbidden City, you and I are rare people who think the same. It would be great if we could get together. But it's strange, why don't you like me?" Shisan was drinking, when he heard this, he choked, coughed several times, turned his head and raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "I was still wondering, I am such a handsome person in front of you, but I didn't see you. Do you like me?" I squinted at him, and said mockingly: "Even I, who is locked in the deep palace, have heard a lot about your romantic anecdotes, how many lovesickness debts you have incurred, and it is not enough? How dare you turn back when you are usually walking on the road? " Thirteen wondered, "Why don't you dare to look back?" I suppressed a smile and said, "Aren't you afraid to look back and see your broken heart?" He laughed and shook his head, pointed at me and said, "Each! Each other!" The people looked at each other and laughed. I laughed and said, "I asked first, you answer first." He bowed his head and meditated for a while, and said, "When I first saw you, the deepest impression was that you fought with Mingyu Gege. You were so fierce and fierce. I was shocked. How could it be possible? Like? Er Niang went there very early, but I will never forget her gentle embrace, she will whisper beautiful songs in my ear, she speaks very softly, and when she smiles, her eyebrows and eyes are like water .And you..." He looked at me with a smile and said, "It's so rude!" I nodded and said: "Typical 'Oedipus complex'." He asked confusedly: "What complex?" His wife can treat him with tenderness and compassion like a mother." This is why he doesn't like Minmin.Although Minmin is nice, it is not what he wants. Thirteen was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Maybe right! What about you?" I also bowed my head and meditated for a while, looked up at him and said: "I told you, but you can't tell others." After thinking about it, I added: "Anyone, including the fourth elder brother." He smiled and nodded, and said: "It seems that I am a person with a loose tongue in your heart." I was thinking about it, and said: "I was passive in the relationship between men and women. Then something happened, I became more passive. After entering the palace, I kept my heart firmly in mind. I was afraid that if I was not careful, I would look back on my body for a hundred years. All the men in the Forbidden City have too many wives, and I have been I resist sharing a husband with so many women..." Thirteen looked surprised, I glanced at him, and said helplessly: "You may not understand, but this is what I think deep in my heart, but it is not the most important thing. No matter how helpless and unwilling an individual is, he will always slowly compromise with the surrounding environment. It’s like you didn’t want to participate in the power struggle, but you did. Even if I don’t want to, I have slowly accepted this unchangeable fact .Maybe I still have unwillingness and struggle, but how can I fight against the whole environment?" I smiled wryly and shook my head at Thirteen. I sighed softly and said: "The most important thing is that I long for someone to treat me sincerely, but I don't believe that there will be such a person in this palace. Open up and accept him. Maybe I am too cowardly and too afraid of being hurt. I can’t give first and fight for it like Minmin. I always passively wait for the other party to pay, and wait for the other party to convince me a little bit, and then I will It was possible to open my heart and slowly fall in love with him." Seeing Thirteen's serious expression, I laughed and said briskly, "Now you understand why I don't like you? It's because you didn't like me first." He frowned and said: "It seems that I have to let the fourth brother continue to work hard. Your heart is not easy to be moved. He is also congenitally defeated. He already has Fujin, but fortunately everyone is the same." You care!" Thirteen Xiao and I touched the bowl, the two drank a few sips of wine, he suppressed his smile, and said slowly: "Ruoxi, I don't care what's going on between you and the starling, but now Since you have made an agreement with the fourth brother, you must treat the fourth brother wholeheartedly." I shook my hand and the bowl fell to the ground and shattered.Distraught, he was quiet for a while before he dared to look up at him: "How do you know? Does Brother Si know?" He shook his head and said, "Fourth brother probably doesn't know yet. One is that you hid it really well. Two is that the eighth brother is your brother-in-law. It is normal for you to be closer than others. Third, we always thought that the relationship between the fourteenth brother and you But when I heard Minmin said that you taught her to sing and invited mynah to watch it, and then asked her about it later, she hesitated and refused to talk about it, and she felt so sad. I was wondering. On the day when Brother Ten was arguing about divorcing his wife, you couldn’t even hold the tea because of a stare in his eyes. I was even more suspicious. But I have never been sure. Sure enough." I looked at him sadly, and begged: "Don't let the fourth elder brother know." Thirteen said: "I won't tell him, although there is something wrong with this matter, but you think too much about the fourth elder brother." You're stingy, Zuo Ying can tolerate Minmin, so fourth brother can't tolerate you?" I shook my head and said, "I never think it's wrong for a woman to like someone else before she gets married. Is it true that only men are allowed to marry three wives and four concubines, and women don't even have the right to like someone? I don't think I have done it. What's wrong, of course I don't mind letting him know. If it was Brother Fourteen or someone else, I would have told him, but Brother Eight is the only one who can't." Thirteen asked suspiciously: "How do you say that?" I said desolately: "I have no way to tell you, but really only Eighth Brother can't let him know, maybe he can ignore it now or in the future, but I I can't take a risk, I can't afford to take this risk." After speaking, he sat silently with his head propped up, full of sorrow.Thirteen sighed lightly: "I don't quite understand what you mean, but I believe you, you must have a compelling reason." I couldn't help reaching out and pulling his arm and shaking it a few times, how lucky I am, like ten A friend like Brother San.