Li Longji looked at it infatuatedly. In the night, Mingzhu's skin looked extraordinarily white, as if it had a pearl-like luster. She didn't even have a hosta inserted into her head, but just pulled up her black hair.
Looking at the pearl in front of him, Li Longji felt for the first time in his life that a woman's appearance is not actually the most important, what is important is her grace and bearing!
Just like Mingzhu now, she just lies on her back under the stars, beside the lake, and among the flowers, naturally and freely, letting everything around her become her foil. At this moment, it seems as if everything in the world no longer exists.
, only this pure and unadorned girl in white is real, beautiful, and heart-stopping.
Li Longji forgot his words and just kept looking at Mingzhu until Mingzhu asked leisurely:
"You came?"
Li Longji was stunned for a moment, then realized that Fang Mingzhu was talking to him, and said quickly:
"Well, yes, here we come." He took a step forward and saw a stone outside the pavilion, next to the horizontal railing, so he sat down on the stone. In this way, the distance between him and the pearl was almost
Very, very close.
"You drank a lot?" Mingzhu said.
"yes."
"Wine, wine and beauty, this is the only way to be happy in life, right?"
Li Longji couldn't understand the meaning of Mingzhu's words for a moment. In the past, he repeatedly wanted to make Mingzhu jealous, but now, he did not dare to regard Mingzhu's words as jealousy, because he felt more and more that this
A girl who was as unpredictable as an elf would never be jealous of a mortal like him.
Seeing that Li Longji didn't speak, Mingzhu straightened up and sat up, leaning against a pillar, bending her legs, wrapping her knees with her arms, and staring at the dancing stars in the lake:
"What I said is true. She is the emperor's concubine after all. If you provoke her, you may get into trouble."
Li Longji's face flushed secretly. He really didn't know how Mingzhu could see through the secret between him and Shangguan Wan'er at a glance. Of course he didn't expect that as a girl who was deeply educated by modern costume TV dramas, she would treat him and Shangguan Wan'er
These entanglements between Wan'er are easy to understand.
Li Longji didn't understand the reason. He just thought that Mingzhu was so smart and gifted with a pair of eyes that could see everything, so he forced a smile:
"You are too worried. She and I have nothing to do."
"You can control this yourself, as long as it doesn't interfere with our important affairs." Now, Mingzhu was only thinking about pretending to be a member of the Fang family, so she deliberately made a very arrogant air when she spoke.
Originally, Li Longji came today just to have a deep talk with Mingzhu. But for some reason, he is now reluctant to let Mingzhu bring up such a topic. He would rather do nothing, not think about anything, and just talk to Mingzhu.
Sitting quietly on their knees like this, listening to each other's heartbeats.
Mingzhu waited for a while, but when Li Longji didn't reply, she asked again:
"What? You don't want to mention this?"
Li Longji raised his head and looked at the starry sky:
"You've seen through me again. Why can you always see through my mind?"
"Don't you allow others to guess your thoughts?" Mingzhu asked deliberately, with a slight smile on her lips.
Li Longji shook his head:
"I never thought about it. I just know that no one can understand my thoughts, except my eldest brother."
"Li Chengqi?" Mingzhu blurted out.
"Do you know him?" After Li Longji asked, he smiled to himself, "I'm really surprised. Of course you know him. You know the Tang royal family very well, right?"
"We should understand each other." Mingzhu deliberately let Li Longji continue to misunderstand her. Then, she added, "Your elder brother is very good."
"Very good, you mean?"
"He is a very good man. Such a man will make the woman who falls in love with him happy for a lifetime." Invisibly, Mingzhu revealed the modern standards for evaluating men.
Although he knew that there would be no interaction between Mingzhu and his eldest brother, Li Longji was still a little jealous when he heard Mingzhu praise his eldest brother so enthusiastically. He wanted to ignore these things in a free and easy manner, but he couldn't control himself at all. If so, he blurted out and asked:
"what about me?"
"You," Mingzhu suddenly smiled, "you are also very good. You will be the best lover, and your eldest brother will be the best husband."
Li Longji couldn't tell the difference between the two for a while. At this time, the birds perched on the tree were disturbed by something, and they suddenly chirped several times. The chirping came so suddenly that both of them were frightened. They were startled, but when they realized that it was just a bird, they all found it a little funny.
"Did this bird have a nightmare? It screamed all of a sudden." Mingzhu said with a smile.
"Birds still have nightmares?" Li Longji thought her statement was very interesting.
"Of course," Mingzhu said seriously, "Birds also have mothers. If these little birds just left their mothers and slept alone, they would definitely have nightmares." Mingzhu thought of herself and felt a little sad.
But she didn't expect that her words were like throwing a piece of red-hot coal into Li Longji's frozen heart. Li Longji's heart that had been sealed by ice for many years suddenly suddenly A gap was opened by melting, and circles of ripples spread out, making Li Longji unable to control himself. He suddenly turned his head, looked at the pearl, and asked in a low voice:
"Let me tell you my story, okay?"
Although the night was dark, Mingzhu could still see that Li Longji's eyes seemed to be burning with two fires.
"Okay, you go ahead and tell me."
Mingzhu's clear voice seemed to have some magic power. Li Longji's heart, which had been burning with memories just now, slowly calmed down and he fell into the long river of memories.
"When I was born, Empress Zetian had already ascended the throne. She liked me very much when I was young. Among her many grandsons, she was the only one who looked at me differently. She even conferred a title on me when I was very young. I. At that time, I always regarded Queen Zetian as my dearest person and my idol in my heart."
Li Longji's voice suddenly became deeper, deeper than the night around him:
"But one day, everything changed. My mother was summoned to the palace by Queen Zetian to pay her respects, but she never came back. Later, someone was sent to deliver a letter saying that my mother had offended Queen Zetian and had been arrested. After being executed, I asked my father if he still wanted my mother’s body!”
Mingzhu felt chills all over after hearing this. Although the story about Li Longji's biological mother has been recorded in many history books, it is different now to hear it told by Li Longji himself. As Li Longji's low-pitched narration , Mingzhu seemed to see a child who was only a few years old losing his mother in panic!
"What happened next?" Mingzhu asked. As soon as she opened her mouth, she realized that her voice was choked with sobs.
"My father knew in his heart that my mother was docile and virtuous, so she would never do anything to offend the Queen. Queen Zetian must be looking for excuses when she said this. She wanted to incriminate her, so why bother!
However, my father did not dare to ask for my mother's bones because he knew Empress Zetian too well, and Empress Zetian was always used to using this method to test whether someone was loyal to her and whether they dared to resist."
"Can this be tested?" Mingzhu was puzzled.
"She thinks she can. If she kills the most important person to you, and you are indifferent and don't want to resist, it means that you are really afraid of her, and she can rest assured."
"But, maybe people just don't dare to show their hatred, but they bury their hatred deep in their hearts?" Mingzhu asked again.
Li Longji laughed sadly:
"For Empress Zetian, the hatred buried deep in the hearts of others is ignored. She only cares about the hatred that dares to be revealed." As he spoke, Li Longji's voice became cold again.
"I don't like her." Mingzhu blurted out.
She didn't expect that her unintentional words sounded like thunder in Li Longji's ears. He turned around suddenly, stared at Mingzhu hard, and asked word by word:
"What did you say?"
"I said, I don't like her, what's wrong?"
Li Longji avoided Mingzhu's eyes and whispered:
"It's nothing, it's just that this is the first time I've heard someone say that to me since I was a child."
"Are you unhappy?" Mingzhu couldn't understand the meaning of Li Longji's words, so she wanted to take a look at his expression, but Li Longji buried his head deeply and she couldn't see anything.
In fact, Li Longji didn't dare to look up, because his eyes were burning with heat, and the tears he hadn't seen for many years were pouring out! It had been almost twenty years since he heard someone say this for his mother for the first time.
To be fair, for so many years, even his biological father has not allowed him to talk about this matter, and he has not been allowed to speak half-words about Queen Zetian, for fear that an accidental mistake could lead to death.
But this girl who met by chance in front of him actually dared to express his attitude so directly.
Li Longji only felt that his heart fell into a kind of strange yet familiar warmth. It was the warmth and solidity that animals can feel when they are close to the same kind in the ice and snow. He has never felt this kind of feeling since his mother died.
This feeling, and today, he finally found this long-lost warmth again.
Li Longji suddenly stood up, opened his arms and hugged Mingzhu into his arms. Mingzhu was taken aback, and just as she was about to struggle, she heard Li Longji whisper in her ear:
"Mingzhu, thank you, thank you for listening to my story, thank you for being willing to avenge my mother and me. I am an unfilial son. It has been twenty years and I still haven't been able to avenge my mother. When my mother left,
It was the second day of the first lunar month. From that year on, every New Year, I would lock myself up alone and let God punish me, an unfilial son. It has been twenty years, Mingzhu, and I am so lonely..."