They say it's sick

Chapter 86

Compared with the hustle and bustle of Youzhou Daying, the New Year's Eve in Huai'an Palace is much simpler.

Now that the government is in turmoil and manpower is tight, the officials in the mansion either went to the southwest or were transferred to the palace, and the rest are also in the army for battle preparation, and they don't even have time to go back to the palace.

Even Xiao Duo was not in the mansion—the enthronement ceremony was scheduled for Yuan Shuo Day, and although everything had been arranged already, there was always a need to check again, and because there were only Xiao Yu and her son left in the palace, it was somewhat deserted, so they It was decided to have dinner in the palace and then go back to the house to watch the new year.

Saved the trivialities and worries of having a banquet, Xiao Luo was happy and at ease, arranged the last trivial matters before the year, and awarded a reward to the servants, and asked them to send the drinks and food that had been prepared in advance directly into Li Jian's room. The two of them had a reunion dinner.

In consideration of Li Yan's body, Xiao Luo specially sent someone to hang cotton curtains outside his doors and windows, which are common in the north wind, just enough to block the cold wind that is not too harsh in the capital.

A charcoal basin was placed on each side of the table, and the fine silver thread charcoal was burning vigorously, making the whole room full of warmth.

Xiao Luo took off his thick cotton gown, and only wore a light gown with small sleeves. The light color made his whole body soft and moist like jade, and also made the tattoo mark on his left cheek more conspicuous.

After getting along with each other for a long time, Li Yan has long been used to the existence of that tattoo mark, but today for some reason, his eyes stopped on it unconsciously.

Xiao Luo took the warm wine from the clay stove, looked back at Li Yan's gaze, and couldn't help wondering: "What?"

"Back then..." Li Yan looked at him without blinking, and said in a low voice, "Does it hurt when you get tattooed?"

"How long ago did it happen, I forgot..." Xiao Luo was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head and poured wine for herself as if nothing had happened, "When I saw it for the first time, I pretended as if I didn't see it. ask?"

Li Yan hesitated for a while, took a sip from the water cup, and then said: "A few days ago, I went back and forth between the palace and the Dali Temple to deal with the case of the Zheng family. I passively learned a lot of laws and read a lot. The dossiers from the reign of the first emperor and the emperor, including the conspiracy of the first three princes."

"This kind of file should have been sealed up or destroyed when it involved the dignity of the royal family. But back then, the prince specifically moved this file out in order to avenge the late king..." Xiao Luo lowered his eyes slightly, took a sip of wine, looked up at Li Yan, "Have you gained anything?"

"It's not a harvest, it's just that I have some guesses from those old cases..." Li Yan filled the wine cup for Xiao Luo, "There were too many things a while ago, and now I finally have time to ask for evidence."

"The words are still hesitating for the sake of this..." Xiao Luo watched, "Let's talk..."

"Back then, the three princes' treason case involved a lot, and everyone in the court who had contact with them was involved in it. At that time, because of a letter from an unknown source, the late king was convicted and became an accomplice. Because of the shadow of his ancestors, his family was not wiped out. .But the house was raided, the servants were sold, and a pair of children were not spared..."

Li Mudao, "Emperor...the empress dowager escaped by chance when she ransacked the house because she was young and had a wet nurse to take care of her. The prince, as the only son of the previous king, was over ten years old, so he was sentenced to exile."

"This is not a secret in the capital. Anyone who is a little older in the family will hear about it. It's just that the prince has grown in power in the past two years, and no one in the capital discusses it anymore..." Xiao Luo turned his gaze sideways, "This Is that what you asked for proof?"

Li Yan shook his head, his eyes fell slightly on Xiao Luo's left cheek, and he said slowly: "According to the law of this dynasty, all those who have been exiled will be tattooed, and the servants who are sold are not used."

Xiao Luo raised her hand and touched her face lightly, her expression was a little dazed and a little sad, and finally turned into a chuckle.

"No one has questioned this matter for many years. If the tattoo marks are still there, even I will forget..." He picked up the wine cup in front of him and drank it. The nurse and sister Yu fled from the dog hole in the garden, and I took advantage of this gap to wear his clothes to identify him."

Li Yan pursed his lips, looked at Xiao Luo's face and said nothing.

Obviously it was almost the same as what he had guessed, but at the moment when Xiao Luo said it so calmly, he felt his heart swell slightly, which was indescribably uncomfortable.

"I was young at that time, and I only acted on instinct. I only thought about saving the life of the prince, and I didn't think about the consequences at all. But whether I was tattooed that day or fell ill due to miasma in the southwest, I never regretted it... ..." Xiao Luo's thoughts drifted a little, "It seems that I took the blame for the prince, but he was not happy in those few years in the capital."

Both parents died, and the only younger sister was displaced somewhere, so she could only bear the humiliation and bear the burden of accepting the eunuch as her father. Looking at the culprit who caused the ruin of her family in the palace, she could only grit her teeth and swallow the hatred in her heart, day after day , until one day all the humiliation can be overthrown.

It was probably because of the drunkenness, Xiao Luo rarely sighed, "If I was the one who stayed in the capital that day, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to persist, not to mention the grievances of the palace, maybe even my own life would be hard to save, so today, I know As a result, I have no regrets.”

Li Yan was silent for a while, and couldn't help but said: "But the prince will regret it."

At that time, they were not too old, and they might not understand the feelings in their hearts, but every day after the reunion, the unsightly tattoo marks reminded that in the past years, the beloved loved ones because of what they had done. Suffering.

"My lord won't..." Xiao Luo retorted with a smile, "Because if he were me, he would choose the same way."

Li Yan was slightly startled, but then relieved.

Maybe he didn't understand in the past, but now he probably stayed with Yunzhi for a long time.

In some respects, Xiao Duo and Yun Zhi are the same kind of people, the suffering of the past is naturally to be faced, but there is no need to stick to it, because the more important thing is always the present.

Watching Xiao Luo fill up the wine in the glass again, Li Yan thought for a while, reached out and took the jug over, and filled his own wine cup under Xiao Luo's gaze.

Xiao Luo slightly raised her eyebrows: "I still have a little cough in the morning, I was planning to ask the imperial doctor to show you after the ceremony tomorrow, have you started drinking yet?"

"Running back and forth for a while, it's a bit cold, but my health is much better than before, so it's not a problem. It's rare that you and I have a family reunion on New Year's Eve. Why don't you let me have a drink with you?"

Li Yan picked up the wine cup as he spoke, and looked at Xiao Luo's eyes that seemed to have a little more light than usual, "Little uncle..."

Xiao Luo's eyes slowly widened following the three words, and finally bent again, turning into a chuckle with exclamation: "You even know this?"

"The Juba people who were sent to the capital at that time included the king, relatives and relatives of many important officials. Among them, except the king and his wives and concubines, they were imprisoned, and the adult men were exiled. The remaining women and children were either brought into the palace or given to them. The important ministers in the court are servants, and the Huai'an Palace, as the only king of the opposite sex, naturally has rewards..."

Li Yan took a sip of wine, frowned and swallowed, the warm and spicy liquid fell down his throat into his abdomen, and his body slowly evaporated, "I checked the records of the year in the palace, In addition to several female family members of the Juba royal family, the Huai'an Palace was given to General Juba's eight-year-old brother, Wu Meng."

Wu Shuo made outstanding achievements in the war, but his relatives were weak. Soon after he became an adult, his parents died of illness one after another. His only younger brother lived with his elder brother and sister-in-law when he was young.

Xiao Luo's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she raised her head and drank the wine in the glass: "Actually, I didn't intend to hide it from you. After you entered the mansion that day, I wanted to confess to you, but I didn't know your character at that time. , I didn’t know how to speak in the end.”

He was taken care of by his brother and sister-in-law since he was a child, especially since his elder brother had to go to the army all the year round, so he was cared more by his elder sister-in-law. No support.How could he open his mouth again and say "I am your uncle" to Li Yan?

"I know..." Li Yan looked into Xiao Luo's eyes, his throat was slightly choked, but he smiled a little, "You brought me back, that's enough."

"You..." Xiao Luo closed her eyes, and finally showed a gentle smile, "You look like a sister-in-law, especially your eyebrows and eyes. I wanted to tell you when we first met."

"What about you?" Li Yan asked back, "Do you look like Daddy?"

"Like..." Xiao Luo said softly, "If you want to say it carefully, the facial features are actually not very similar, but as long as we stand together, we can know that we are brothers."

"Then I know what Daddy looks like..." Li Yan looked at Xiao Luo intently for a while, then reached out to fill up the wine for the two of them, "Little uncle, I respect you."

Xiao Luo picked up the wine cup, touched him lightly, then raised her head and drank it down.

Those who go can not be remonstrated, and those who come can still be chased.

All the pain, regret, and guilt of the past dissipate with this glass of wine.

The night is getting darker, and the wine is getting more and more drunk.

Li Yan didn't hide anything from Xiao Luo at all, after revealing everything about the past, he talked about everything.

The two uncles and nephews were watching a table of food that was getting cold, chatting while drinking, it was nothing important, and it didn’t even have anything to do with the present. Interesting stories, and Li Yan's parents.

Xiao Luo hadn't mentioned this to anyone for many years, and even drank more wine when they talked about it, so that when Xiao Duo had dinner from the palace and wanted to make up for a reunion dinner when he returned home, he found that Xiao Luo was rarely seen. Drunk until drunk.

Li Yan drank less wine, and still kept a little clarity in his consciousness, watching Xiao Duo pick him up, he still remembered that Tian Han turned around to get the fur coat outside.

Xiao Duo watched him gently put the fur coat on Xiao Luo's body, recalled the address he heard when he just entered the door, raised his eyebrows lightly: "Have you said it all?"

"Hmm..." Li Yan glanced into Xiao Duo's arms, with a slight smile on his lips, "I'm going to change my name to the prince in the future."

"You..." Xiao Duo raised his foot to kick him, seeing him staggering and avoiding, he couldn't help laughing, "I know that when you left after catching cold the day before yesterday, you were specifically told to rest at home and drink wine, Tomorrow morning is the enthronement ceremony, can you still get up?"

"I can't get up..." Li Gu said, "I have a cold, and I might have a fever when I wake up tomorrow, so I definitely won't be able to go to the enthronement ceremony."

Xiao Duo narrowed his eyes: "Can't go or don't want to go?"

"I've done everything I want to do these days..." Li Yan looked back at him, "So, I really don't want to go to the enthronement ceremony."

Xiao Duo frowned slightly, and before he could speak, Xiao Luo in his arms rubbed his forehead impatiently in his sleep, as if he felt a little uncomfortable.

Xiao Duo glanced into his arms, then looked at Li Yan, and smiled: "If you don't want to go there, then don't go. Let's go, remember to order someone to cook a bowl of hangover soup for your uncle."

The author says:

There is one more chapter...well...

Originally, this chapter was just to let Yun Zhi come back and finish, but after thinking about it for a long time, I felt that some content would have to be summed up in one stroke, which was a bit sloppy and perfunctory, so I settled down and wrote this chapter more carefully.

I really want to hurry up and finish it, but it's not a day or two away, so I have to convince myself to some extent.

Li Yan is indeed a bit cold, but it is not necessary to abuse him at this time, so don't worry.

感谢在2022-09-2022:49:30-2022-09-2114:57:37期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦……

Thanks to the little angel who threw the shallow water bomb: agdash1;