Chapter 299: Born in a Royal Family
"I've been having dreams a lot lately."
Hearing Li Zhaonian's voice, Shen Yu turned around and looked at him, "What did you dream about?"
Li Zhaonian smiled and said, "They were all wild dreams. I can't remember many of them clearly. I only remember that I had a home at the foot of a mountain. There was a field of larkspur in front of the yard. Every spring and summer, the flowers would bloom all over the ground."
As he described, Shen Yu also laughed, feeling yearning, "That must be beautiful."
"Well, in autumn, friends come to visit, and in spring, magpies sing."
"What about winter?"
"In winter, I watch the snow alone." Li Zhaonian choked up and said, "Let's go back. He must be waiting anxiously."
Chen Yu glanced at him sideways, and suddenly reached out to open the curtain to take another look.
She asked the imperial physician about Li Zhaonian's condition. No medicine could cure him. It was a miracle that he had survived until now. Today's farewell would be forever.
Li Zhaonian did not stop it.
If she wanted to see his current exhausted appearance, he would not stop her, but he still wanted her to remember the old Li Zhaonian.
He just watched quietly, watching her raise her hand and then put it down again.
"You..." Chen Yu hesitated, "Do you still have regrets or requests?"
"I have too many regrets and too many wishes. If I had to choose one."
Li Zhaonian paused, "If possible, please spare my son's life. The sky is high and the sea is vast. You can send him anywhere, a farmer, a servant, a blacksmith... as long as he is not a descendant of the Li family. It is his misfortune to be born within this palace wall. Let him... let him live a plain life."
Shen Yu nodded, "Okay, I promise you, anything else?"
Li Zhaonian stared at the figure behind the curtain and said, "No more."
Chen Yu's throat and eyes felt sore. She stood up with difficulty, put on a fox fur coat and was about to leave.
Li Zhaonian watched her walk to the door, suddenly supported himself on the bed, leaned over and grabbed the curtain, but never opened it.
"Ayu."
Chen Yu stopped and looked back, and saw the shaking curtain.
Li Zhaonian smiled gently, "It is my honor to have met you. I think my life is not in vain."
"Yeah, me too." Shen Yu smiled back at him, not knowing whether he could see it.
She turned quickly and stepped out of the hall before she burst into tears.
The wind and snow continued, and the palace maid held an umbrella to see Shen Yu off.
The square in front of Xuanhui Palace was once covered with bloody corpses, but now it is silver-white again.
"Princess, princess."
A palace maid ran after him in the snow.
The palace maid who had just served Li Zhaonian in the palace.
Shen Yu stopped and asked, "What's the matter?"
The maid knelt in the snow, holding a palm-sized brocade box in both hands and said, "Your Majesty has a gift for the princess. It is a gift for the baby in your belly. Please accept it."
Shen Yu reached out and took it.
Just as she was about to open it, the maid said, "His Majesty said that you should wait until the princess leaves the palace before reading it."
Chen Yu clenched the brocade box in her hand and glanced at the closed door of Xuanhui Palace.
The maid watched Chen Yu leave and then turned back. As soon as she stepped into the palace, she opened her eyes wide in surprise.
"Your Majesty, can you get up now?"
But it took her only a moment to realize what it was.
Li Zhaonian was sitting on the edge of the bed, fully dressed, with his black hair held up high with a wooden hairpin.
"Your Majesty, would you like to wear a crown?" asked the maid.
"I am no longer Your Majesty."
That title was a shackle, a fetter that bound him in this cage. Now that he had taken off the crown, he felt relieved.
Li Zhaonian waved his hand and said with a smile: "Give me my cloak. I want to go out for a walk."
The gate of Xuanhui Hall was wide open, and the snow was blown to the door, fell to the ground, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Li Zhaonian reached out to catch the falling snow. He raised his head in the snow and let the snowflakes caress his eyebrows.
"Let's go to Jiangzi Pavilion." He said happily, "You can see the whole Shengjing from there. I often watched the snow there when I was young."
He pushed away the palace maid holding an umbrella, took the eunuch's arm and walked slowly in the snow. Every step he took in the snow made a crackling sound, which suddenly seemed so pleasant to the ear.
Chen Yu stepped out of the first palace gate and saw Xie Tingzhou waiting at the door.
He walked towards her, took the umbrella from the maid, held Shen Yu in his arms, lowered his head and asked, "Are you cold?"
Chen Yu shook her head, "Strange, this winter doesn't seem to be that cold, let's go for a walk."
Xie Tingzhou gathered her into his cloak, leaving only her head exposed, and said, "Let's go."
Two sets of footprints were left on the ground.
The railings of Jiangzi Pavilion were stained with wind and snow.
The eunuch lowered the curtain, and Li Zhaonian had someone open it again.
He leaned over the railing, letting the breeze blow over his body. He wanted to take another look at her, and another look at this world.
I wonder if in five or ten years, will the government be stable and the people be harmonious? Will there be peace and prosperity?
The world is all white. Looking back on this life, I have many regrets.
Chen Yu asked him if he had any wishes, and he lied to her that he didn't.
.
In his entire life, he had never even had the courage to hold the hand of someone he loved.
"What's in your hand?" Xie Tingzhou's eyes swept over the brocade box in Chen Yu's hand.
"I don't know." Chen Yu held it tightly, "It's a gift from Li Zhaonian to our child. He said he would open it after leaving the palace."
Xie Tingzhou looked forward and said, "We have arrived at the palace gate."
The long wind puffed up Li Zhaonian's sleeves, pouring the heaven, earth, wind and snow into his body, almost melting into it.
Li Zhaonian looked at the vast world and murmured, "I still have three wishes."
"I wish for peace in the world."
"Second, I wish for peace and tranquility in the sea and rivers."
"Thirdly, I wish you everlasting peace, and I'll see you in the next life..."
He suddenly let go of the railing and went against the wind and snow.
The sound of the wind whistled in my ears.
He closed his eyes and wondered if he could fly outside the palace wall with the wind.
Chen Yu stood in front of the palace gate and slowly opened the brocade box. She suddenly looked back in the direction of Xuanhui Palace and heard the sound of the funeral bell in the wind and snow.
The brocade box was spread out in her hands.
Inside was the last medicinal ingredient they were missing.
…
“Kneel! Knock!”
"According to the will of the late emperor, I am the heir of the great foundation with my virtue, but I am not in good health and cannot carry out the will of my ancestors. Now I have the King of Beilin, Xie Yun, to drive out foreign enemies and eliminate internal troubles..."
"Arise!"
There were cries everywhere and the death knell was ringing.
The wind and snow have stopped, and a bright sun is hanging in the sky.
Li Jifeng demoted himself to a commoner at the gate of Shengjing and opened the city gate to welcome Xie Tingzhou into the capital. He was no longer the crown prince of Da Zhou and had no right to see Li Zhaonian off.
He turned to look at Chen Yu beside him and asked, "Do you want to see the remains?"
Shen Yu's eyes were red, but she had not shed a single tear since Li Zhaonian's death.
Perhaps because she has seen off too many people, she has become accustomed to parting.
"No." Chen Yu said softly, "The last time we met, there was a curtain between us. He doesn't want me to see it, so let's not see it."
As long as she didn't look at him, he was still the handsome man she remembered.
"It's a pity to be born in an imperial family." Li Jifeng looked up at the sky.
"He likes poetry and Confucius and Mencius. As long as he is not born into an imperial family in his next life, he can travel the world and live a carefree life in the secular world."
Chen Yu nodded slowly, "Let's plant a patch of delphiniums in front of the imperial mausoleum. When spring and summer come together, the flowers will bloom all over the ground. He will definitely like it."
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