In a side hall of the Hall of Political Affairs.
Although this side hall was located in a remote area, there was a palace maid cleaning it every day, so there was not a trace of dust.
A woman who was like a mother to the world stared blankly at the two paintings on the wall. They were a middle-aged man and a boy. These two men were extremely important to her.
This woman was Empress Zhangsun. The two paintings on the wall were both drawn by her.
She treasured these two paintings very much and would never let the palace maids touch them. All the maintenance and cleaning of the paintings were done by Empress Zhangsun herself.
In the first portrait, a middle-aged man with sharp eyes was holding a silver spear and riding a warhorse. He looked like he was on a battlefield. This was Zhangsun Wugou's father, Zhangsun Sheng.
Zhangsun Sheng died young, so Zhangsun Wugou only remembered seeing his father when he was young.
"You miss father-in-law again? I plan to give him the title of Sikong next year and personally lead the civil and military officials to pay their respects to him.”
Li Shi Min came to her side quietly and looked at the middle-aged man who had passed away in the portrait.
What kind of person was he? He immediately knew that the words " Zhangsun Minzhi " had touched the Empress.
but for some reason
Zhangsun Sheng, Zhangsun Minzhi
However, his gaze shifted to the portrait of the innocent and cute boy.
Wait a minute!
Li Shimin suddenly noticed that beside the boy character, there were four big words written: Zhangsun Minzhi.
"Zhangsun Minzhi is your brother?"
But didn't the Guanyin maid's youngest brother die a long time ago?
Why was he selling fat otaku water in East City?
Hearing these words.
Instantly, Empress Zhangsun's body trembled, and tears flowed down uncontrollably. Li Shimin rushed forward to hug her, only to find that her body was shivering.
Li Shi Min panicked and thought that he was having a fit of anger. He ordered sternly,
"Imperial Physician Xuan!"
However, Empress Zhangsun finally could not suppress her emotions and sobbed as she recounted the past.
"Sob sob sob, Min Zhi, my little brother!”
"That year, I was thirteen, and my brother was five. That day, I happened to go up the mountain to pick herbs. At the top of the mountain, I said that I wanted the snow lotus that bloomed on the cliff. I was just saying it. I didn't expect him to really climb up the cliff and get that flower for me.”
"I still can't forget the look in his eyes when he fell off the cliff.”
"It's all my fault."
Empress Zhangsun covered her face and cried, speaking incoherently. She was very emotional.
Zhangsun Minzhi had picked flowers for her when she was five years old. She had stupidly climbed up a steep cliff because of her sister's words.
All of this started fifteen years ago.
At that time, the thirteen-year-old Zhangsun Wugou and his five-year-old younger brother Zhangsun Minzhi were picking herbs on the mountain.
It was almost noon. She had just picked a basket full of herbs and was about to bring her brother down the mountain.
Unexpectedly, his younger brother had already disappeared.
Recalling the joke she made this morning, she threw away the basket full of herbs on her back and searched frantically.
However, he found a small figure on the cliff. Her small hands were holding onto a rock as she moved toward the snow lotus.
This scene frightened her.
"Sister, am I powerful?"
The boy firmly held onto the rock with one hand to stabilize himself, while his other hand twisted the root of the snow lotus and shook it at the girl. His proud little face was full of pride.
"Amazing! Amazing! Come back quickly!"
The girl's trembling voice echoed on the mountaintop. She was afraid that she would scare him off the cliff if she was too loud.
Heavens! How could Min Zhi take her words seriously?
She was just joking when she said she wanted the snow lotus this morning.
He didn't expect Min Zhi to remember this sentence in her heart.
Only now did she realize that what she wanted the most was not the snow lotus on the cliff, but her younger brother who had been following behind her with a runny nose.
She hated herself for making a joke that made her brother risk his life to climb the cliff.
However, she soon heaved a sigh of relief. She saw her brother holding a flower in one hand and climbing the rock with the other to return the way he came.
a hundred meters
fifty meters
twenty meters
They were about to reach a safe place.
The girl's face showed the joy of surviving a disaster. She smiled, but the more she thought about it, the more afraid she became. She cursed hatefully,
"Zhangsun Minzhi, I'll definitely make your butt explode later.”
However, cursing was a kind of sweetness. Her younger brother actually went through a mountain of knives and a sea of flames to get the flowers for her.
Who in this world could do this?
Could her future husband, Li Shimin, do it?
Could her brother Zhangsun Wuji do it?
The boy also revealed an innocent and cute smile. He had picked the snow lotus that his sister had been thinking about day and night. He wondered how she would reward him.
Perhaps she would make a plate of vegetarian chicken for herself. Thinking about these boys, she was a little distracted.
Suddenly!
A gust of wind blew across the mountain peak.
The snow lotus flew out of his hand, floated in the air, and then slowly fell.
"My flowers!"
The boy's sharp and panicked voice rang out. His empty hand grabbed the air as if he was grabbing the plate of vegetarian chicken that his sister had rewarded him with.
"No!"
"Min Zhi, come back quickly!"
"Let's not spend it anymore!"
The girl screamed and stood at the edge of the cliff, reaching out to grab him.
However, the boy's expression was already flustered. Seeing that the snow lotus that he had painstakingly picked had already fallen, he pounced on it unwillingly and left the cliff with both hands.
He caught the flower, but the boy fell quickly. He looked at his sister on the cliff in confusion.
"No!"
The girl lay on the edge of the cliff, looking at her confused brother and letting out a hysterical scream.
The mournful cry of a bird echoed on the mountaintop, followed by waves of sorrowful cries.
Everything was impossible. She had caused her brother's death.
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