Spirit of the Phoenix: 13. Suicide

The little prince woke up in a daze after sleeping until midnight. His chest was itchy, which made him very sad.

He looked down, only to realize that it was the little piece of paper Tai'an lying quietly on his heart.

"Huh?" The little prince cleared his throat in embarrassment. Tai'an immediately raised his head alertly, bluffing the little prince.

"What's going on with your face?" The prince grabbed her and looked up and down with a frown.

"What's wrong with my face?" Tai'an subconsciously touched his own face, but it was wet and slippery.

Oh, it turned out that she was lying on his chest just now, and her face was stained with blood from his wound.

Tai'an breathed a sigh of relief, but then ouched again, looking at himself suspiciously.

She seems to be... taller?

It is indeed a little higher. The cardboard figure, which was no more than the size of a palm, is now more than a foot wide, occupying half the length of his chest.

The little prince was silent for a while, reached out to gently wipe the blood on her face, and said to her who was still suspicious: "It's okay...you are a ghost, raised by blood essence. Maybe you just stained my blood The blood, nourished by the blood energy, has grown in stature."

"Again," he frowned, "what are you doing lying on my chest?"

He thought for a while, and then he had a flash of inspiration: "Could it be to listen to my heartbeat and see if I'm dead?"

As soon as he guessed right, Tai'an was embarrassed, he laughed, and talked about him from left to right.

The little prince had twitching veins on his forehead, wanted to get angry but felt like making a big fuss, so he could only watch her offering a glass of lukewarm water like a dog's leg offering a treasure.

Well, it's somewhat conscientious.

The little prince let out a sigh of relief, held back the pain in his chest, turned his face slightly, and took a small sip.

The mouth is slightly warm, but the taste is a bit strange. The little prince was suddenly alert, and his eyes flashed: "Where did this water come from? Didn't I tell you that the servants in the Eastern Palace can't be trusted?"

Tai'an calmed down and put the water glass to his mouth again: "Don't worry, I found this in their room while the servants were asleep."

She was small and weak, and couldn't carry the kettle on the table. In a hurry, she climbed up the washbasin stand by the door, holding the inkstone on his table to fill water again and again.

The inkstone drop was shaped like a carp and the size of a thumb. I don't know how many times she went up and down, before she slowly collected this small half cup of warm water.

Moved and angry, the little prince didn't know what mood he was in for a moment, and after a long time he smiled wryly and said: "...Would you give me the maid's washing water?"

Tai'an is confident and confident: "I can assure you that the face water is not poisonous. Han Xin can suffer the humiliation of sex. Gou Jian has lived his life and tried his best to keep quiet for ten years. He is a man who wants to achieve great things regardless of small details..."

She was still talking non-stop, but the little prince suddenly turned his face away and drank the remaining water in her glass in one gulp.

"You're right." He smiled slightly, "Jin Peng hangs his wings and asks, and he will eventually be able to flourish. The humiliation of life is tempering, whether it is extreme or not, it is the norm of the Tao."

"The great revenge has not been avenged, and the treasure has not yet been ascended. What is the suffering that I can't bear?" He lowered his eyes lightly, and put his right hand on his heart, "I'm not afraid."

A thirteen-year-old boy is already so tenacious and forbearing.

Tai'an was filled with admiration, and while touching his forehead to test the temperature, he sighed softly: "If you were my father's son, how could my Dayan have Li's rebellion?"

He heard the rare sentimentality in her tone, but he was a little surprised. He paused for a moment before speaking: "If I'm really the son of Zhongzong, I'm afraid I'll be spoiled by him as a dandy."

"Gao Zong is benevolent, but heirs are not abundant. There are only two adult princes, Zhong Zong and Ding Wang Lu Qi. Zhong Zong is cowardly and mediocre, but Ding Wang is talented. Gao Zong hesitated for many years, but in the end it was because of your father's status as the eldest son. , choose Zhongzong to succeed."

The prince considered his words and continued: "Zhongzong is cowardly and tolerant. He treats ministers and siblings preferentially. He is devoted to his wife and children. He is a really good man."

But he is not a good emperor.

Tai listened quietly and completed the sentence for him.

After a life-and-death situation, when she looked at the court situation in those years, she already understood that the tragedy of their family was predestined, and it was her own fault.

"If the Li family had recommended me to be the imperial concubine, I would have accepted it without refusing, maybe they would have no excuse for a change in the palace?" She whispered the unwillingness in her heart. .

"Childish!" The little prince said simply and affirmatively, "If you really recognize the empress dowager, you might not be able to save a whole body like your brother. If you really want to talk about tragedy, it was as early as your father The decision was already made when Li Yanxiu, the second son of Duke Fu, was chosen as his son-in-law."

"The son-in-law was not chosen by my father!" Tai'an interrupted him, with a muffled voice, "I want to marry myself."

Unclear, she paid for love by mistake, did not listen to father's advice, and was bullied by thieves.

The little prince sighed: "It may not be true that he has never been tempted."

He hesitated for a while, but he still didn't tell her the situation of the son-in-law after her death. Instead, he turned around and talked about their current situation.

"Even though my father released me from the confinement, the court must not take it lightly. The Taifu tried his best to keep his reputation clear, and he also drew a clear line with me. The pure minister behind the Taifu, Qingliu, is now using Zhongshu to order Pei Junzhi Headed."

He gouged out a piece of flesh and blood on his chest in exchange for the reputation of pure filial piety, and his father had just recovered from a serious illness. Even Pei Junzhi would not choose to insist on abolishing his crown prince at this time.

But if we wait for a little longer, the storm of father's serious illness will pass, and the abolition of the crown prince is very likely to be put on the agenda again.

"For Mr. Pei, there is almost no solution. Since they have offended me, they can only take the abolished prince all the way to the black. But after the death of the Taifu, Qingliu's party is not monolithic. Father Emperor At this time, there are no other heirs, and the abolition of the crown prince may not necessarily get the support of all the pure ministers." The little crown prince said.

"So, this gives me one last chance to fight back."

Tai'an was still ignorant, and asked: "How to fight back?"

But the little prince slowly closed his eyes, with a look of reluctance to talk: "I'm sleepy."

Where is Kenyi from Tai'an, he jumped to the side of his pillow, poking his face with a thin stick like his little finger.

The little prince was so disturbed by her that he didn't even bother to lift his eyelids, so he said in a muffled voice: "If Pei Junzhi insists on impeaching the prince for immorality, and wants to abolish my position as prince, with his prestige, even the matter of abolishing the prince No, I'm afraid Pei's family will oppose me from now on."

"Unless...someone is willing to stand up and speak for me," he said.

Tai'an opened his eyes wide: "Who?"

The little prince let out a long breath, and said word by word: "Pei Ansu, the daughter of the prince's grandfu Pei Xianzhi, and the future princess concubine."

After the Mid-Autumn Festival incident with the Yang family, if anyone in this world is in a more embarrassing situation than Prince Lu Rui, Pei Ansu is probably the only one.

The emperor is over 30 years old, but there is only one son under his knees, who is about to grow up, and that person is usually benevolent and filial, and respects his father and tutor. From any point of view, he is a rare good match .

The wedding date has been announced to the world, and it is scheduled to be married after next year. After Pei Ansu decided on the application period, she has stopped the banquets in the palace and concentrated on getting married.

But the situation changed overnight, the prince lost his morality and forced/raped/the nurse, his father impeached and splashed blood on the Golden Temple, half for the wrong teacher-student relationship, and half for the beloved Pei Ansu.

The unvirtuous prince will be deposed sooner or later, how dare he marry? She felt sad and cried earth-shatteringly, but she could only honestly put on the white filial piety and pray for her father.

"After Taifu's death, Ms. Pei's family needs to keep her father's filial piety for three years." The little prince slowly opened his eyes, stared at the vermilion ceiling, and continued, "Naturally, the wedding date will no longer exist, but the key is... Can this marriage still be done?"

Tai'an is in the court, so he naturally understands the key points. He nodded and said: "The parents ordered the matchmaker to say that the marriage is a good marriage between the two surnames. The Taifu is not satisfied with your intention to withdraw the marriage. It is true that you need to act a little too aggressively to achieve it." Purpose."

That's why the impeachment was so fierce, and that's why the blood was splashed on the Golden Temple to break up completely.

But it's not right! As Tai'an was talking, he suddenly figured out some other meanings.

After Taifu died, Pei Ansu was in such an embarrassing situation. If the crown prince is successfully deposed and the grand tutor dies, who will preside over the overall situation and help her withdraw? If the prince has not been abolished, what reason is there to withdraw the marriage? Is she going to marry the prince who already regards the Pei family as enemies? Even if the crown prince is really deposed, she is able to retire due to the emperor's favor. After three years of filial piety to her father, she will be eighteen years old and already a big girl. He was also engaged to the immoral prince, who else would be willing to marry him? Will Da Sima be able to watch her change from a useless child to a married couple again?

The more Taian thought about it, the more frightened he became. Difficult to advance and retreat, in a dilemma, Pei Ansu clearly felt as if he was walking on top of thousands of buildings, if he made a wrong move, he would fall into the abyss.

As a woman, she is too aware of the choices Pei Ansu can make at this time.

There is only one trick, which is simple and clear.

Kill yourself.

Only by her self-inflicted suicide can she revive the sound of impeaching the prince that had subsided, and avoid being humiliated by the prince when she married into the East Palace, and only then can she contribute to the rise and fall of the family, and maintain the Pei family's dignity among the pure ministers. prestige.

But this is wrong! Really wrong!

Tai'an's eyes widened suddenly. The little prince once said that the Taifu only got such a young daughter at the age of forty. The treasure is like a jewel in the palm of his hand. Married to a sanctimonious scum who forced/raped/nurse.

How could the Taifu, who cherishes his daughter so much, put his beloved daughter in such a situation where he had to die?

Unless...Tai'an took a deep breath and grabbed the hair on the side of the little prince's face: "That day, did the Tai Tuo hit a wall and died on the spot, or did he die after consulting the doctor?"

The little prince's eyes were dim, and he nodded his chin slightly: "The grand master touched the wall, blood poured from his forehead, but he was still able to stand up on his own. How dare you let him stand in the court hall with blood on his face like this? Please ask the imperial doctor in the palace to treat the Taifu, apply the incense ash from the wall to the forehead, and then wrap it in layers of thick cotton cloth to make it airtight."

"Not long after returning home, Taifu had a high fever. Less than two days later, his jaw was closed and his facial muscles were convulsed, his neck was stiff, and he died from bleeding from his mouth and nose." The little prince said.