Chapter 642: Disheartened
Chapter 642 is disheartened
When Feng Wan saw Chen Shuda for the first time, she felt very familiar, but in the hunting ground, she did not come with a public identity, but just pretended to be a small soldier under Wang Shichong. So it was far away from Chen Shuda, just watching from afar. But even though it was far away, she was still very sure that this person was familiar to her.
When she returned, she thought about it, and finally remembered who this person was.
When she was in Lingnan, Feng Wan had the best relationship with her aunt Feng Di, and she often stayed by her aunt's side to be taught since she was a child. And in her aunt Feng Di's bedroom, there was a painting that had been hanging there, and had been there for as long as she could remember. And the picture in the painting is a young man, a young man in fine costumes of sixteen or seventeen, chic and handsome.
Feng Wan remembered that when she was a child, she once asked about her aunt's personal maid, and the maid Ah Man told her that when her aunt was young, the Chen Dynasty had not yet perished. Our Lady is also still alive, and the queen of the Chen Dynasty has not yet succeeded to the throne. It was still Emperor Chen Xuan's reign, and in order to strengthen his control over Lingnan, Emperor Chen Xuan decreed that his sixteenth son, the ten-year-old King of Ngee An, Chen Shuda, would be married. The woman who gave the marriage was the granddaughter of Our Lady of Lingnan, Feng Di, who was three years older than King Ngee An.
In the same year, Chen Xuan died, and then Chen Shuda was the first emperor to keep filial piety. When Chen Shuda was full of filial piety and was about to marry Feng Di, Feng Di, the son of Our Lady of Lingnan and Feng Di's father, Feng Fu, died again. Feng Di kept filial piety for his father and had to postpone the marriage. It was another three years of filial piety, but the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Sui Dynasty had already attacked along the Yangtze River, from west to east. Chen Guo was in chaos, and the marriage between the two had to be postponed again.
As a result, the two never had a chance to get married.
When Chen Shuda was seventeen years old, Jiankang, the capital of the Southern Chen Kingdom, was breached, and he was escorted to Chang'an as a royal family of the Chen Dynasty.
After the Holy Mother of Lingnan led Lingnan to join the Sui Dynasty, she married her granddaughter to the eldest son of the contemporary head of the Xian family. But Feng Di's life was too bumpy, just a few days before all the premarital matters were negotiated with the Xian family and ready to be greeted in person, her fiancé Xian Gongzi fell from a horse and was seriously injured after drinking. The Xian family married Feng Di as scheduled, hoping to be happy, but on the day of the marriage, Feng Di's husband died, and the two didn't have time to come to the cave room.
Since then, Feng Di has been widowed and has never married. But unlike the husband who died just after getting married, Feng Di had met Chen Shuda. In the last year of the Sui Dynasty's attack on Nanchen, Feng Di once escorted a batch of supplies to Jiankang City with his grandmother, Our Lady of Lingnan, Madame Xian. That was the time when she met her fiancé Chen Shuda, who had been engaged for many years. That time, she stayed in Jiankang with her grandmother, and it was during that time that she met Chen Shuda many times. At that time, Feng Di was nineteen, and Chen Shu was sixteen. One is a mature Lingnan girl, and the other is a graceful and graceful young prince.
It's a pity that the Chen Dynasty was later destroyed by the Sui army, and the fate of the two was also separated. But Feng Di has never forgotten the fiancé who once made her heart pound, before agreeing to marry the Xian family, he once painted the portrait of Chen Shuda, and has been hanging in her room since then.
Feng Wan didn't know that the person in the painting was still alive, and she had sighed for her aunt. This time, she saw a real person in the hunting ground, and when she returned, she finally remembered the person in the painting. She inquired around and finally knew that this person was indeed Chen Shuda on the painting. At this time, not only was he still alive, but he also became Li Yuan's subordinate, the official title of the chief secretary of the General's Mansion, the prince of Handong County, and Wen Daya in charge of Li Tang's secrets.
Feng Wan wanted to get close to Chen Pojun and asked Chen Pojun for reinforcements, but she never had the opportunity. When she was looking around about Chen Shuda tonight, she unexpectedly found out that at dusk, Li Yuan's father and son were discussing the confidential affairs of the ministers of civil and military affairs. It's a pity that Li Yuan is very well prepared, although she found out that they were discussing, she didn't know what was being discussed. But she was naturally sensitive, and when she contacted Chen Pojun to humiliate Li Shimin during the day, she keenly guessed that Li Yuan's father and son were probably plotting against Chen Pojun. …,
Li Yuan's cunning and cunning are admired even by her father Feng An, who told the Feng family more than once about Li Yuan's cunning when her father returned to Lingnan from Hedong. How could such a cunning person be so willing to surrender to the hands of Chen Pojun, the former life-and-death enemy, when there are still two fortified cities of Taiyuan and Shangdang, and more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the two places.
After some thought, she would immediately take advantage of the night to meet Chen Shuda. The Nanchen Holy Decree she read earlier was also true, this Holy Decree was originally sent by Shen Faxing to his daughter Shen Luoyan, wanting him to use this to plot against Chen Shuda. At this time, it became a prop for her to get close to Chen Shuda and gain his trust.
"Before my aunt died, I was always by my side. In the last few months of my aunt, I didn't see many people, but she still cried at the portrait of Uncle Chen on the wall. And in the days before the last departure, before she fell into a coma several times, my aunt had been reading Uncle Chen's name in a coma. When she finally left, she was already delirious, holding my hand, but she asked me again and again why I didn't come back to her until I left the West. ”
Chen Shuda was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but think of the scene in Jiankang City back then.
With a long sigh, "Can you tell me about Adi?" After entering Chang'an in the west, because it was a royal family of the dead country, it was necessary to keep a low profile at all times, and there were many restrictions on entry and exit. Although he was also worried about Adi, he didn't dare to inquire about her. ”
Feng Wan briefly recounted what happened to her aunt Feng Di for most of her life, and Chen Shuda, who listened to it, burst into tears, hammered his hands, and sighed to make people.
"Uncle Chen is afraid that he hasn't returned Jiangnan for almost thirty years, right?" Feng Wan saw that it was not early, so she had to change the topic.
"Yes, in a blink of an eye, it has been almost thirty years, when I entered Chang'an at the age of seventeen, but now I have buried half of my body in the loess, and I am not confused." Chen Shuda let out a long sigh, looked at the waves that kept shaking by the side of the boat, and sighed.
"Uncle Chen, it's been 30 years since you went to China, why don't you go back to Jiangnan again? After my aunt died, the family buried her in Jiankang City in accordance with her last wishes. Uncle Chen, why don't you go and see your aunt, she still misses you before she dies, and she can't wait to see you again. ”
"But now that I am Li Tang's minister, how can I go back to Jiangnan." Chen Shubao smiled bitterly, floating for half his life, if he had the opportunity, he still wanted to go back to Jiangnan again, the older he gets, the more he has this idea of returning to his roots. ”
Feng Wan shook her head, "Uncle Chen, although the Li family seems to have a glimmer of life, in fact, since the defeat of Longmen, they have no chance to turn over. Uncle Chen followed them, and there would be no way out. Uncle Chen is reluctant to go back to Jiangnan, does he have any plans to go to Hebei, I know that Chen Pojun in Hebei is also Uncle Chen's nephew. ”
Thinking of the plan of the Li family's father and son tonight, Chen Shuda hesitated. Tonight is the Li family's last chance, but he is worried about the success or failure of the plan, and he doesn't have much hope. At this time, when he heard Feng Wan mention Chen Pojun, he couldn't help but be silent.
"Although Chen Pojun is indeed my own nephew, he doesn't even recognize Lao Tzu, how can he recognize me as an uncle. What's more, I don't know how many more days he can live, so how can I vote for him. In front of Feng Wan, who was similar to Feng Di, he didn't have much defense in his heart, and accidentally told some secrets in his heart.
Feng Wan's expression moved, and she immediately grabbed the words in Chen Shuda's words, and hurriedly asked, "Why can't Chen Pojun live for a few days?" Uncle Chen? ”
Chen Shuda knew that he was speechless, so he refused to say more, but just shook his head.
Feng Wan just begged, and acted as a little girl, grabbing Chen Shuda's arm and shaking it from side to side.
The small boat swayed one after another, and with Feng Wan's swaying, it also followed the rhythmic swaying, causing a large ripple. In the water village, the building ships and battleships of the Hebei Navy Division were squatting there with their mouths open in the dark night, like hideous monsters. …,
The drums that sounded from time to time told the time one by one. Compared with the long slip on the embankment on the opposite bank, the water village at this time seems too peaceful. Tomorrow, the sailor will pull out the village and return to Hebei, and tonight is the time for the feast of the three soldiers of Chen, Zheng and Tang.
Not only did Chen Pojun set up a banquet in Mengjin City to invite Li Yuan, Wang Shichong and other Tang and Zheng ministers, civil and military, but also other soldiers and soldiers, and they also received a lot of money and rewards, and they were given a half-night vacation. Except for a few soldiers who stayed behind, most of the soldiers had already happily gone ashore and squandered their pleasures in the Qinglou, a wine shop.
Another drum sounded, and the wind on the river sent the smell of wine and meat in the distance, as well as the noise and singing, to this small boat wandering in the quiet night of the water village. Chen Shuda took a deep breath, thinking to himself that Chen Pojun's banquet had already begun at this time.
It is estimated that at this time, Li Shimin was staging a bitter drama of pleading guilty, in front of the three generals, dragging his broken leg to plead guilty to Chen Pojun and Wang Shichong, loudly denouncing his past wrongdoing, and asking them for forgiveness. Maybe the complacent Chen Pojun and Wang Shichong had already drunk the violent poison that was colorless and tasteless, had nothing to do for three days, and would kill people on time after three days.
Thinking about all this, Chen Shuda suddenly felt a burst of irritability. Time passes, the world ups and downs, and under this dark night, how many conspiracies and tricks are there to deceive me. How many joys and sorrows, laughter and scolding. Everything made him disheartened.
That's it, that's it, he's tired. Just let them continue to roll like this, he is tired, today he saw Feng Wan who was so similar to the shadow in his heart, and listened to so many things about the person he had been hiding in his heart, he was completely tired. He has already made up his mind, whether he is Li Tang in Hedong, Chen Chao in Jiangnan, or his nephew in Hebei, leave it behind. On this flat boat, a thin horse, went south to the south of the Yangtze River alone, to meet the woman who had been thinking about it for a long time and was unforgettable. Then he married beside her grave and accompanied her to the end of his life.
Turning his head, looking at Feng Wan still looking at himself expectantly, he smiled, "I can't accept this will, I have decided to go down to Jiangnan and be her companion." However, before I leave, I would like to tell you one more thing, and I am grateful for all that you just told me. As he spoke, he looked back at the brightly lit Mengjin City, turned around and sighed, and told her the Li family's father and son's plans for tonight.