Deep in the summer palace, the autumn mood is already strong.
In the backyard of a clean and spacious courtyard, on the sycamore tree in the middle of the courtyard, there were only a few sparse leaves that had not yet fallen. In contrast, there was a thick layer of yellow leaves under the tree.
No one cleans.
It's cool in autumn in the Summer Palace. At this time when dawn is approaching but has not yet arrived, when everything in the deep palace is stained with a light layer of frost, even if the courtyard wall is still as red as fire, there is still that coldness that penetrates into the bone marrow. .
This place called "Yiyang Pavilion" is indeed a deserted place to the core. Even outside the courtyard, no matter day or night, there are groups of characters with obvious extraordinary skills guarding them.
There was only one person in the courtyard, an old man who once dominated Yongchang County, Meng Xiaotian.
At the moment, Meng Xiaotian is sitting on a rocking chair in front of the backyard. His gray hair is not tied up, letting it hang freely, and the coldness and hardness that he used to have when he was angry for a long time is gone from his brows and eyes. It feels like my eyebrows are widened and my eyes are drooped, and I feel a little calm like a wild old man in the countryside.
He was swaying like that, quietly looking at the dead leaves of the sycamore tree that were about to fall off, in a daze, until a person's footsteps stepped on the dead leaves all over the ground and made a clicking sound, and he was stopped. Wake up from some kind of thinking or memory.
He raised his eyes and saw a fat man in rich clothes walking slowly, followed behind him by a slovenly man who followed suit.
Meng Xiaotian sneered, and the calm and authoritative thing on his face came out again, "Why, the prefect has so many things to do, and now he has time to come and see me, a prisoner.
Disciple? "
That fat man was naturally the current prefect of Yongchang County, Meng Jiaoyang. When he saw the change in the expression on Meng Xiaotian's face, he subconsciously felt nervous and cowered. He stood still under the bare sycamore tree and waited until he realized the current situation. , but did not panic to cover up, but smiled calmly, "No matter how busy I am, I can always take some time to see my father. It's not that I didn't have time before, but... I wasn't ready."
"Oh?" Meng Xiaotian said mockingly. He glanced at the slovenly man behind Meng Jiaoyang and saw that there was no one else behind them. Then he snorted coldly, "That's enough." It took you so long to get rid of those two people, should I say you did a good job?"
Meng Jiaoyang smiled and shook her head, "Father, I have never done anything well with you."
"That's not true," Meng Xiaotian looked at the unchanging blue sky and white clouds in the yard and said coldly, "You did a good job in betraying me."
Meng Jiaoyang lowered her head slightly indifferently, "After all these days, why should father still worry about that matter? You are old and have done something wrong, so continuing to sit in that position is not in line with most people. Interests, that's all. You have to understand that it's not me, or not just me, who betrays you, but everyone."
"Yes," Meng Xiaotian squinted at the sloppy man behind Meng Jiaoyang, "Even a dog can betray me, who else can't betray me?"
Meng Jiaoyang raised her chin this time, as if looking down at the old man in front of her. At this moment, not only did she not let his
The feeling of satisfaction in his heart made him feel a little depressed, "You don't treat them as human beings, or even us as human beings, so why should they and us take you too seriously? This is probably what you will end up with. The root cause of the complete defeat.”
Meng Xiaotian looked at Meng Jiaoyang with such cold eyes that he could not hide his disgust at all, "You are the most stupid one among all my sons."
Meng Jiaoyang laughed loudly, "Among all your brothers, you are not the worst choice? Otherwise, how could we, Yongchang County, step by step get to where we are now?!"
"Bold!!" Meng Xiaotian suddenly tightened his grip on the handle of the rocking chair, and his veins popped out. He stared at Meng Jiaoyang for a long time, and then squeezed out a few words through his teeth, "Why are you looking for me?!"
Meng Jiaoyang raised her head to look at the few sparse leaves on the sycamore tree, and said in an extremely calm tone, as if she was talking about boring gossip, "Heyu City was destroyed by Nanyi, and Xingcheng was also captured by Yun Bailou.
Lijun's army soon came to Yicheng, and the Yongchang Meng family's 900-year-old foundation was unable to recover. "
Meng Xiaotian stood up suddenly. With a "click" sound, his right hand forcefully pulled a handle off the chair and held it tightly in his hand, "What did you say...?!!!"
For the first time in his life, Meng Jiaoyang looked at the furious Meng Xiaotian so calmly. He smiled faintly, "You have heard it. I say, Yongchang Meng Family, it's over."
Meng Xiaotian stared and gasped, then threw the rotten wood in his hand aside. He thought for a moment and said bitterly, "The Meng family still has two big cities, Yicheng and Zhaoshui City, with tens of millions of people. I
We can put these two cities under military control, kill all those with ulterior motives, and make a desperate move to expel the Li army! " He waved his arm vigorously, and then looked at Meng Jiaoyang, "Are you... afraid?!"
Meng Jiaoyang stared at him calmly without saying a word.
Meng Xiaotian laughed heartily, then looked at Meng Jiaoyang fiercely, pointed at him and cursed angrily, "You trash, the Meng family's trash! If you don't dare, I will go!! How could I, Meng Xiaotian, be afraid of that Luo family?" My son, and the Nanyi rats, what if they lose Heyu City?! As long as they fail in Yicheng and Zhaoshui City, why don't they have to retreat to Shiwan Mountain?!"
Meng Jiaoyang did not respond. She waited until Meng Xiaotian finished speaking and then said lightly, "You can't go."
Meng Xiaotian paused for a moment, then narrowed his eyes and looked at Meng Jiaoyang, looking him up and down, and then he seemed to get to know the person in front of him again, and said with some suspicion, "What are you thinking about? Are you angry?" ...What are you thinking?!" He looked at Meng Jiaoyang for a long time, and then his expression changed as if he suddenly thought of something. He pointed at him, trembling slightly, "You... you......"
Meng Jiaoyang nodded, "I should congratulate you. After all, you are not the last prefect of the Meng family in Yongchang for nine hundred years. Even if the foundation of Yongchang was dug up by your own hands, you will not bear the biggest infamy after all." ," He looked at Meng Xiaotian, who had a sinister look on his face. This time it was his turn to look cold and decisive, "I am the last eunuch whose reputation has been ruined and ridiculed while alive, and who has disgraced his ancestors after his death.
I am also the head of the family who will leave my bones and future for the Yongchang Meng family no matter what. You can rest assured. "
Meng Xiaotian's expression gradually became complicated. Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar fat man in front of him, for the first time in his life, he seemed to feel a little guilty, "It's not the end, why bother..."
This time, Meng Jiaoyang interrupted Meng Xiaotian's words with a wave of his hand impatiently. He turned away, his voice no longer cold as before, "I never expected to hear an admission of mistake from you, but I said more. It's useless. I'm just saying these things to make you feel at ease when you leave. What extra things do you have between you and me as father and son? That's it."
Meng Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, then stunned, frightened, at a loss, and at a loss. He took a step back, but fell back on the rocking chair, letting the rocking chair creak and swing, making the sky move far and wide under this swing. close.
Like a toddler.
I don't know why, at this moment, he actually remembered things that he couldn't remember for most of his life.
Remembered it again.
It seems like where to start.
Where does it end?
That’s it, so be it.
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