Conclusion: My father was a great traitor, and I was a tool man of his glory and wealth

She wanted Xiao Yun, who was as cold as a fairy, to fall off the altar and into darkness; he had been thinking of the girl for many years, and he was willing to sink.

Love is not a coincidence, it is a long-planned plan.

"Beauty Makeup Tears" is over

Volume 1

1

I am Song Shallow Lotus, Shallow Shallow, Lotus Lotus.

My father Song Min was the first assistant of the cabinet, and he relied on imperial power in the court to stir up the storm, and there were not a few unjust souls who died between his lips and tongue over the years.

Folk often circulate his song, "The great adulterous head, the old ghost of Song; the loyal subject, the last descendant." ”

My father did not take a concubine, and my mother gave birth to me alone.

I rarely saw him at home, and even when I did, he often stared at me with a cold and serious look, as if to ask, "Why are you a daughter?" "What he wants is to be able to support the sons of the entire Song Dynasty and continue to prosper."

Fate is strange to say, my mother is a bodhisattva heart, she eats fasting and praying Buddha, in the summer in front of the house to give herbal tea to pedestrians, in winter to the poor people to support the porridge shed porridge. If there was a flood anywhere, or if it was a famine year, she would donate most of the silver she had saved during the year.

I was raised by my mother's side since I was a child, and she stroked my head, "With such a father, it will be difficult to stay away from power struggles in the future." It really hurt my Aho. ”

At that time, I could not understand my mother's words, and I was eating a pastry on her knee, and I only asked vaguely, and then I heard her low sobbing.

When I was ten years old, after my father framed the humerus minister of the DPRK and deceived the king, so that his whole family was connected to the Nine Tribes, my mother's last love for him was also consumed. She has since left home and escaped into the doorway.

The mother and father practiced in the Miao'an Temple on Yuping Mountain, and the Dao number retreated.

I pinched the corner of her coat and refused to let go.

She still smiled softly, "Ah He, go back, the mother is much more comfortable here than in the house, and she should be obedient." ”

The servant came up and took my hand away and led me away.

I moved my steps, I couldn't help but turn my head, the smoke and rain were hazy, and my mother and father stood under the green color of the mountains, already in tears.

When the mother left, My Father's face became more and more gloomy, and he turned white overnight, like he was ten years old.

I resent him, I am even more afraid of him, and I can hide at home on weekdays.

Maybe I have a lot of heart, and I feel that my father doesn't want to see me.

On the days when my mother was away, fortunately, I had the Xu family sister accompanying me, and it was not too stuffy.

Her name was Xu Jiaojiao, and she was the daughter of General Xu Da.

On that day, I went up to the street to pick up fabrics, and the money bag of the beard was stolen by a thief, and I was about to say it, but I saw a woman dressed in red carrying a light skill, flying forward to stop the thief, and the soft whip in her hand was thrown, and the heroic posture was refreshing.

Xu Jiaojiao threw the money bag to me, but asked me to invite her to dinner, she said that although she Xu Jiaojiao was a heroine and a hero and a righteous warrior, she was not a fool who did not want to return the favor.

At that time, Xu Jiaojiao was gambling with her family and running away from home, and she did not read the jianghu script on weekdays, and she fantasized about leaving this rich and strict imperial city one day and living the life of a heroine who robbed the rich and helped the poor.

There was no official in the capital who dared to interact with the Xu family's sister, and her things that were throwing around and rolling around to break through the rivers and lakes but being caught by her father and brother every time and beaten up were spread all over the city, and it had long been the laughter of the people after tea and dinner.

The Xu family's sister's fearless nature was spoiled by General Xu's family, and I was very envious. Earlier, when my mother was in the house, she took good care of me in every way, but she told me to be careful in everything, for fear that I would do the wrong thing and say the wrong thing.

Later, the Xu family sister often came to play with me, she also had a brother like a small tail to follow, her brother was round and lovely, the mouth was as sweet as honey, a sound Song sister long, Song sister short, called me angry, called Xu Jiaojiao goosebumps fell to the ground.

When I was thirteen years old, Brother Xu's wife was pregnant, and Xu Jiaojiao came to me every day to discuss what secret recipe for raising a fetus.

The girl who was not out of the cabinet was blushing with annoyance from her, you said what is this called, but she was still nervous, and estimated that she was more concerned than Old Lady Xu.

But in that year, ansheng's days came to an end.

My father made it again.

He framed General Xu for plotting a rebellion, and Shengshang Longyan was furious, and within a day, Xu Mansion was raided.

Less than three days later, General Xu, Elder Brother Xu, and Little Brother Xu were beheaded and paraded in the street market. The wife of The eldest brother Xu fainted in grief, and the child in her womb was gone, and she committed suicide by hanging herself on the beam with Mrs. Xu on the same day.

Five days later, it was the day when the female dependents of Xu Fu were accepted as official slaves and entered the court.

It was raining heavily that day, and I was in the crowd watching the Xu family's female relatives wearing blackened prison uniforms and wristbands on their hands.

"Sister," I shouted at her, rushed out, and shoved a bag of silver money into her hand, "you take—"

Before I could finish speaking, she threw the burden on the ground, her eyes cold to my heart numb, she said, "Song Qianhe, I am a good sister." ”

She said, "I have nothing left, father, mother, big brother, sister-in-law, brother, they are all dead." ”

With that, she pushed me hard and I fell into the mud.

I don't know whether it was rain or tears that obscured my vision, and her behavior angered the officials, and one whip fell on her.

Xu Jiaojiao bit her pale lip, just refused to cry out in pain, her once lively and agile eyes, staring at me at the moment, as if eager to tear me apart.

"Song Qianhe, sooner or later your father, a traitorous minister, will have retribution!" The fate of his day in your Song Mansion will be even worse than that of my Xu family! ”

Xu Jiaojiao's words lingered in my mind and lingered.

For the first time in my life, I blocked my father's way out of the house and cried, "Father, you are a villain who does not distinguish between good and evil, and turns black and white upside down, and you have harmed the Xu family's sister's family." ”

He smiled rarely, "Do you understand what good and evil are black and white?" The gong gao zhen lord surnamed Xu, who is jealous of the saints, is the greatest evil! ”

"What about Xu Jiaojiao?" What about the innocent people in Xu Province? ”

His hand was on my shoulder, and I wanted to dodge, he said, "The family has always been like walking on thin ice, pulling a hair and moving the whole body." Do you really take Xu Jiaojiao as your friend? If you don't cut the grass and remove the roots now, maybe in the future she will block your way! ”

I didn't understand Daddy.com. "She won't. Daddy begged you to let her go. ”

"Ah He, you were born a woman who could not enter the court, and the vein of the Father was broken in your hand. To give birth to a good look and cultivate a good temperament is to wait for you to enter the harem in the future to consolidate the glory of the Song clan! Because you were born in the Song Dynasty, you were pampered and enjoyed all the food and clothing, and you should know what you are carrying on your back. ”

Dad said more to me that day than he had said to me in a month.

I remember that when I reacted, I actually lost my soul, did not let the maid follow, stumbled to Yuping Mountain, walked to Miao'anGuan, walked to my mother-in-law' body, and hugged her.

"What's wrong, Aho?"

There was a good smell of incense on my mother's body, and I fell into her arms and cried for a long time, crying until it was dark.

In my narrative, she knew the cause and effect, and she sighed continuously, making it more difficult to say something.

Before leaving, my mother said to me, "Ah Ho, your father is bound to involve you in the power struggle." But in the future, what position you choose to take and what to do, that's something you can decide. ”

When I looked back again, compared to when I was ten years old, my mother-in-law had grown white hair, and this time she did not cry, and she seemed to be calm enough to merge with the mountains behind her, and at that time I did not know that my mother-in-law's words had to be realized in a lifetime.

2

On the way back from Cuiping Mountain, a group of masked men abducted me. I heard one of the people at the head say something like "Don't hurt her and wait to take her to exchange miss with Song Lao Ghost", and then I was stunned by the drug.

When I woke up, I found myself in a small boat on the river, and it was getting dark. Next to him was a young swordsman dressed in white, holding a sword and standing at the bow of the ship.

"Are you going to take me for the Xu family's sister?" The effect of the medicine made me feel powerless, and the sound was so small that I couldn't hear it clearly.

"Who is the Xu family's sister?" He tilted his head and pulled the corner of his lower lip, "Rest assured, the bad guys have all been beaten away by me." ”

"Go back... Go back..." I propped myself up and sat up, picking up the pulp next to me to swipe it back.

The teenager crouched down to look at me, "You little girl is so funny, I haven't seen anyone rushing up to be kidnapped." ”

"It was I who killed her without relatives, and she had to be enslaved and suffer!" I went to beg my dad, but my dad wouldn't let her go..." I cried, eventually unable to speak.

"Hey, or am I being nosy?" He had already taken the pulp and stroked it back, while saying, "You are talking about the daughter of General Xu Shida, it is indeed a bitter fate." ”

When we reached the shore, the masked men immediately took up their swords, and the atmosphere was tense.

The boy who saved me took a step forward, and they took a step back, as if they had seen a monster.

"I sent this little girl back, and she was voluntarily kidnapped by you, saying that she was going to exchange herself for her sister Xu."

I walked toward them, and the swords in the opposite row shone with silver light, and I trembled with fear, and in the afterglow I looked at the white-clad teenager, who was smiling and watching the play.

"Okay, don't do it."

My wrist was pulled, and the next second the soles of my feet were dangling, and he took me back into the distance.

The masked man looked at each other, "Is this playing us?" Angrily brandishing a large knife.

I was so frightened that I quickly closed my eyes, only to hear the chuckles and sighs around me, "So timid? ”

"This girl was saved by Xiao Ye, and I can't leave it alone." Now you can go to Song Min to negotiate the terms. The white-clad teenager threw them a token, "Talk about it, take this sign to Tianji Mountain, and I will send her back." ”

Three days later, a horse-drawn carriage stopped in front of song house alleys.

"Brother, when will I be able to play with you again?"

The teenager smiled and rubbed my hair, "Soon, but Ah Ho is going to keep it a secret and not to tell anyone else about it." ”

I nodded vigorously, thinking I must remember the agreement, but forgot to ask his name.

I got home, and my dad hurried out of the study to see me, and after confirming that I was okay, he was furious. He ordered someone to bring the family law and said that he would punish me for not taking the maid out of the house without permission.

The first beating was very painful, but I felt that it was worth it, after all, Sister Xu was saved, and there was only so much I could do.

Later, my father did not allow me to leave the house, and he found a Grandma Chen from the palace to come to the house and teach me etiquette. As he hoped, I practiced piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, embroidery, and embroidery, only to be used by him as a tool to stabilize the Song Palace in the future, and I was sent to the high-walled palace.

In my spare time, I always wondered when my white-robed brother would come to me, and the three days he had been in Tianji Mountain were very novel, and I saw many students practicing swords in the open space at the gate of The Mountain. The white-robed brother who saved me did not join them, saying that he was his master's closed disciple, and he had learned almost all these regular lessons.

I waited blindly, and when spring came and autumn came, he forgot his promise to me.

Just when I no longer had any hope, I met him, but he was not the white-clad young swordsman I remembered, but Xiao Yan, the sixth prince of the dynasty.

On the first day of the fourteenth year, the lights would be lively, and I was scattered with the squirrels who came with me, and I was a little flustered.

"Catch the thief—"

Not far away, the voices of the people were boiling, and I suddenly remembered the woman in red I met as a child, and when I was stunned, the crowd was agitated, and I couldn't help but take a step back, but my back was resting on a warm chest.

I hurried away, far away from him.

"Girl—"

Before I could see him, a group of thieves broke through the street, and between thrusts, I was unstable, leaning forward, but I fell straight into his arms.

His arms were tight, but he didn't let go, and I was ashamed and annoyed, what kind of disciple was this?

After the people passed, the street returned to calm.

He let go of his hand and coughed, "Girl, there is more offense. ”

"You..." I have been so humiliated, I am still young, I can't say a word with my head down, my nose is slightly sour, and I am about to cry when I see it.

People around me saw me, thought I was being bullied, and they all gathered around.

"Girl, be reasonable, if I hadn't hugged you, you would have fallen to the ground."

I don't see the pointing of others, I just know that I'm finished, when the street is lightened by a strange man, what to do with the reputation of my Song Dynasty? The more this happens, the more I am aggrieved.

"What are you looking at?!" The officers and soldiers dispersed the onlookers, and the first one said, "Sixth Prince, it is late to come down, and the thieves have been captured!" ”

The sixth prince, I felt a meal in my heart, and when I looked up, I saw that the man was handsome and beautiful, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and his face was as clear as a carving, and there was a kind of indescribable awe-inspiring heroism, which gradually coincided with the person in my impression.

"Brother?" I opened my mouth tentatively.

"Be bold! Dare to speak up! The officers and soldiers on the side scolded.

"See the Six Princes." I hurriedly lowered my head and performed a salute. How could it be, the white-clothed brother was on the Tianji Mountain, who would become a prince.

He reached out and put the white veil in my hand, "This is yours, it just fell off." ”

I didn't know what to say, the veil in my hand was hot.

He smiled and his tone of voice teased, "I haven't seen him in a year, I didn't think ah he was still a little crying bag." ”

I looked at him in amazement, and Xiao Yan raised his hand to make the officers and soldiers around him retreat.

"Liars, liars, say they'll come to me to play." I was very aggrieved and complained.

"I'm sorry, is it okay for Ah Ho to forgive his brother?" Xiao Yan leaned over and rubbed my head.

I sucked in my nose, "Then don't miss the appointment again, Ah Ho is waiting for you every day." ”

"Of course."

At night, the cold wind blows, slightly cold. He took off his black fur cloak and wrapped it around me.

I obsessively asked, "Brother, how did you become the sixth prince?" ”

Xiao Yan, a sixteen-year-old teenager at the time, smiled, "Silly Ah He, I was originally a prince, but I was sent to Tianji Mountain to study and learn art very early, and I only recently returned." ”

After a while, a guard came up to him and whispered in his ear, and he nodded.

"Ah Ho is waiting here, and the people from the Song Mansion will soon come to pick you up." I still have something to deal with, next time I will go to Play with Ah Ho. ”

I was worried that he would break the contract again, and I was busy pulling the hook with him before I was willing to let him go.

He and the officers and soldiers left, and not long after, my close-knit maid Bai Zhi found me, and she was so anxious that her brain was full of sweat, and she couldn't catch her breath, "Miss finally found you." Miss? What are you laughing at? ”

"Where is it?" What nonsense? ”

After that, the fact that I met the sixth prince on the First Yuan Festival somehow passed into my father's ear, and he punished me for being grounded for a month, saying that Xiao Yan's hippie smiley face was not worthy of his son-in-law.

Son in Law? How did you get to this point. My cheeks were hot, I took out the black fur cloak and looked at it again, depressed for many days, thinking that I was grounded, and it was estimated that my brother in white would not come to the door.

There was a loud noise in the courtyard that day, and I went out of the room, and the slaves said that the movement was probably made by wild cats, so they went back to do things.

But as soon as I returned to my room, my mouth was covered from behind.

"Little crying bag, don't come unharmed." Xiao Yan smiled.

In the next two years, Xiao Yan always came to me from time to time, and even took me out of the house, we went to the mountains to enjoy the wild game of the moon, went to the bustling street market to watch the artists selling art, and he also took me into the palace, visited the royal garden, and stole pastries from the imperial dining room.

When I was a girl, there was such a person who took me out of the confinement of the palace, held my hand, was dashing and relaxed, endlessly romantic, and also made me ignore the murderous dark guards he usually raised, and ignored the rumored means of the six princes to seize the wife.

He was not an idle prince, he was an ambitious man.

But what does that have to do with me? I was immersed in the days of looking forward to seeing him, as soon as he appeared in front of me, it must be the gentle and personable brother Yan.

I think that Xiao Yan at that time should have been pleased with me, but he was not as good as his father said, he would only smile hippie. He was highly skilled in martial arts, and every time he came to me, he could avoid the guards in the palace. He was also clever, and he used some small tricks to buy my personal maid to cover for me, and he could hide the sky every time.

However, it is not without flaws, Grandma Chen knew about my dealings with Xiao Yan very early on, but she chose to turn a blind eye, and even repeatedly helped me cover up, and did not report to my father.

Once when I asked her, she actually said, "I serve the young lady, and naturally the lady is the main one." Thinking of this, my gratitude to Grandma Chen in my heart became deeper and deeper, and I regarded her as the elder of my relatives.

When we were sixteen years old, Xiao Yan and I climbed the hill under the moonlit night.

He kissed my forehead, "Ah He, you love to cry and be simple, it is inevitable that you will be bullied in the future, it is better to stay with the king in the future, the king is still ... Missing a princess. ”

The evening wind blew and blew the ends of my hair, and his words echoed in my ears.

"I don't know."

He laughed, "I don't know what it is, ben king counts three times, if you don't make a sound, you should agree." ”

If my father, who was a traitor, knew that his daughter had simply made a lifelong relationship with another man, it would have fainted.

I comforted myself that even if my father didn't look at Xiao Yan well, Xiao Yan was also a prince, and who I married was not married, and the future that my father planned for me should be similar.

I felt at ease, until one day my father, who had not set foot in my hospital for many years, suddenly pushed open my door in a fit of rage.

"Today, the sixth prince asked the saint in the court for marriage and said that he wanted to marry you, when did you hook up with him?"

Seeing that my father was rarely angry, I was accustomed to obedience, and I inexplicably felt a burst of pleasure in my heart, so I stimulated him, "From the beginning of meeting him, my daughter often interacted with him." ”

Daddy was angry, however, slapped me, and then his eyes were also surprised, "You cut off this idea early, because your father has desperately refused this family affair, and the person you marry must be a prince who can succeed to the throne!" ”

"Dad, you're too greedy." A fiery pain came from my right cheek.

"Without greed, how did your father get to where he is today?"

I was obedient, but in those days it seemed that I was going to use up the backbone I had accumulated in my life, and I didn't eat or drink, nor did I see anyone, trying to force my father to do it.

But who is my dad? How could I ignore my wayward behavior.

The door was locked, and no one was seen, so it was knocked open.

If I didn't eat or drink, I would let the maid of honor escort me and pour me rice porridge.

I said, "Dad, aren't you afraid that I'll kill myself?" ”

He said, "My daughter Song Min, if she is trapped by love, she will have to find death and find a life, then she is not worthy to stay in the Song Palace, and the Song Palace will thus cut off its future." ”

When I saw Xiao Yan again, it was half a month later, and he jumped in through the window.

I got up from the bed, and the guards outside couldn't even fly in, "Brother Yan, how did you get here?" ”

But he just hugged me, almost making me breathless, "Ah He, your face is so pale, you have lost a lot of weight, I am not good." ”

He told me that he had a way to take me far away and fly high, take me to Tianji Mountain or somewhere else, hide me for a while, and my father would definitely have to let go.

I didn't agree for a long time, and when he saw that I was embarrassed, he let go of his hand and asked softly, "Doesn't Ah He want to go with Brother Yan?" ”

"Mother-in-law... I want to bring my mother-in-law. "Thinking that after leaving with Xiao Yan for a long time, I won't see my mother-in-law for a long time, and I will also make my mother-in-law afraid, I can't help but feel sad in my heart."

"Don't worry, I'll send someone to pick her up." Xiao Yan's black eyes shone with light, "After seven days, someone will come to treat you, at this time you change into the clothes of a medicine boy and follow out, and I will wait for you on the carriage outside the Song Mansion." ”

Thinking of escaping from here with my mother and brother Yan, I rejoiced, "Well, one word is certain!" ”

3

The next day after the agreement with Xiao Yan, I and Grandma Chen softly and hard bubbles, saying that I wanted to kiss my mother. Grandma Chen was already distressed that I would not eat or drink for several days, and when she saw that I was willing to eat, she immediately agreed to anything. She personally went to tell my father that my father saw that I was soft and agreed to go to Cuiping Mountain to meet my mother-in-law.

I withdrew from the people around me and told my mother-in-law about Xiao Yan's plan.

My mother also knows Xiao Yan, and I often mention it to her.

"Okay. Ah He is happy, and the mother is happy. ”

Originally, before coming, I also prepared a set of words to persuade her, but I did not expect that the mother quickly agreed after a little thought.

I was bitter in my heart, after all, this was to let my mother leave her familiar and stable environment and live an unknown life with me and Xiao Yan.

"Children are not filial."

"Although Xiao Yan is said to be a prince and has a noble status, he respects you, loves you, pities you, hurts you, and protects you, and you have this good relationship with him, and you do not pray to the gods day and night."

"Xie Niang's mother is perfect." I hugged my mother-in-law and cried with joy.

My mother patted me on the back, "It is best to escape the fate arranged for you by your father." ”

I made an appointment with my mother-in-law, and Xiao Yan's people would come to pick her up in the morning of the sixth day, and when the time came, I would let my mother-in-law leave a letter and pretend to go out on a cloud tour.

For several days, I was quietly packing my bags, thinking that I would soon be reunited with my mother and brother Yan, and I was full of joy.

On the night of the fifth day, I was so nervous that I couldn't sleep, and tomorrow the news that my mother was going out on a cloud tour would reach the Song Mansion, and I would not be able to show my flaws at that time.

It wasn't until it was dark that I fell asleep.

Soon, I seemed to hear noisy footsteps, and someone pushed open the door and shook me awake.

Bai Zhi, the personal maid, cried, "Madame. Madame suddenly had palpitations last night, Madame is going to die, Miss go and see Madame! ”

My head exploded like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

The moment I arrived at Miao An Guan, my mother was already powerless to return to heaven and was lying on the bed dying. Dad knelt in front of the bed and clasped his mother's hand in his hand.

"Song Min, in this life, I have done good deeds for you, and I hope to alleviate some of your sins."

"Yan Yan, Yan Yan," my father, who was more than half a hundred years old, cried and called to her, "don't you go well." ”

Feng Yan is my mother's maiden name.

"Yan Yan, over the years, I have never changed my heart for you."

"Song Min, promise me something, if one day Ah Ho wants to leave, you will let her go."

I held my mother's hand and cried so hard that I couldn't help myself.

Dad and the attendants were out, and I couldn't catch my breath: "Isn't it... Is it because of me, is it me... It only happened when the mother left. Daddy knew, it was he who did it, right?! ”

"Not him." The mother-in-law was as angry as gossamer, "Silly Ah He, what does this have to do with you?" The blame is on the mother's blessing. ”

"I don't believe that my mother didn't have a heart disease before. Mother-in-law do not abandon Ah He, please do not abandon Ah He. I pleaded bitterly.

"The mother has a few last words to explain."

I brought my ear close to her," Ah Ho was listening. ”

"In the days to come, it may be difficult to do everything as you can, but don't let the power swallow your meekness."

"Don't admit it, Ah Ho, what position you choose to stand on and what to do, this is something you can decide."

"In the future, if you can get free, you will go to Tanshui County, your mother's hometown, and your mother will miss home."

"Ah Ho, my child, the mother really wants to do it again....... Take a look at you. ”

According to her mother's instructions, the Taoist Temple performed a ritual for her, cremated her, and sprinkled ashes on the mountains, and she did not want to return to the Song Mansion until she died.

Xiao Yan had been hiding in the shadows, and I had noticed him earlier, but he didn't come closer.

He didn't show up until there was only Bai Zhi left around me. Bai Zhi went to the front to guard the wind for us.

"I'm sorry I didn't take your mother away sooner."

I looked up at him blankly with red eyes, "Brother Yan, I don't have a mother," I don't have a mother." ”

"Ah Ho, you and I, I will never leave you." He embraced me and pressed his chin against my head, as if to rub me tightly into his body.

I ended up crying in his arms.

Before bidding farewell, Xiao Yan said, "Ah He, don't forget that tomorrow is the day we agreed, and we will be able to leave this place soon." ”

When I went, it was still early in the morning, and when I returned, it was late at night.

As I got out of the carriage, Dad stepped forward, and I held his hand, when we touched his thin, bulging hand bone. Looking closely, he was older and weaker than his age, and the great traitorous father I was afraid of when I was a child was just an ordinary person.

Daddy's sigh seemed to carry the bitterness of most of his life, "Now Daddy is only you, daughter." ”

The next day, the imperial doctor in the palace was ordered to visit me, and it was Xiao Yan who bought it.

But I rebelled, and handed a letter of determination to the man, saying that the sixth prince would stop thinking about me and would not have to worry about me anymore.

The carriage outside the Song mansion waited until dusk, and no one drove it.

Dad knew about it, and he was asking me to choose.

I walked into my father's room, and when he saw me, there was a little joy in his cloudy eyes, "For the father knows, for the father knows, you will certainly not abandon the future of the Song family." ”

"Did you kill the mother?"

"What do you say?" Dad looked incredulous, and he stood up, "Ah Ho, what did you just say?" ”

"Nothing. I couldn't accept that my mother had gone so simply. ”

My father stepped forward and pulled me to sit down, sighed a long time, and his eyes were wet, "Daddy didn't expect you to be her.... Father is also old, in the future the Song Dynasty will rely on you, marry the prince, glorify our Song Palace! ”

"Prince, the prince of the palace." I smiled and said to my dad, "If I'm gone today, what will I do?" ”

"It must be impossible to explain to His Highness the Crown Prince, Father will go to the Sixth Prince's Mansion, go to the palace, go to the Holy Lord, and ask for it, and will spend all his strength to find you!"

I sneered, "It turns out that you didn't intend to let me go according to your mother's will, Father, have you ever thought that if you go to the Sixth Prince's Mansion and go to the palace to ask for help in front of the Holy Lord, and make a big deal out of it, then His Highness the Prince will want me?" ”

"Ahhh, what you're saying is that you owe consideration to the Father. Don't go, look at the Song Mansion that gives you food and clothing, you should know what you are carrying. ”

I felt something in my heart slowly collapse and said quietly, "I won't go." ”

Dad told me a lot that day, and for the first time in my sixteen years, I became close to him.

He told the story of his mother, who was a child of a poor family, met as a child, and had set up a doll kiss early. Later, he won the list of people, and many official women could not look up to him, and even the princess dared to refuse, even if he offended the emperor, he had to marry his mother.

Later, he found that the officialdom was as deep as the sea, the party struggle was continuous, today's glory was great, tomorrow it could also be beaten into hell, blindly upright and straight, it was difficult to walk, only deeper than others' minds, more ruthless to have a way out.

However, when he sat in the position of the first assistant and the power was tilted to the opposition, his hands were already stained with the blood of too many innocent people, and his mother had already left his heart, and his waist rod in front of the emperor and the snake could not stand up straight.

"Ah Ho, in this lifetime for his father, has been trapped and cold-eyed, and the organs have done everything to reach this step. The higher the Song Mansion now stands, the more it will be crushed to pieces if it is lost, how many people hate me, without power, you and I are lambs to be slaughtered, for the father can only go up, there is no reason to retreat. ”

I lowered my eyes, "From now on, I will listen to My Father's arrangement." ”

I forgot how I got back to the room, but I remember crying all night that day, stuffing all the gadgets that Xiao Yan had given me into a box, including the black fur cloak that carried my girlish feelings, and finally putting the box under the bed and never seeing it again.

"I'm sorry, Xiao Yan, I must forget you."

It is ridiculous to say that when I was young, I had not yet fully understood the love words, so I began to learn to be desperate and hurt Xiao Yan's heart in the most clumsy way.

When Xiao Yan came back to my room, I opened my mouth to shout, and the guards in the palace heard the sound. After that, Xiao Yan's wind evaluation in Jingzhong added four words of frivolity and arrogance, and he heard that the emperor had punished him with thirty rods for this.

In short, he did not come back to me.

Once, once at a banquet, he was so drunk that I couldn't look down and left early.

But he stopped me at the corner of the corridor, "Ah Ho, you are still angry, angry that I didn't pick up your mother-in-law earlier, and I didn't really mean you when you rejected me, right?" Do you like me a little bit? ”

"Your Royal Highness, please respect yourself."

"You answer me." His eyes were red, and his bony hands clamped down on my shoulders, making it impossible for me to escape.

"No, not at all." I heard myself say this.

As if he had been sucked out of his soul, he leaned on the wall behind him in frustration and laughed sarcastically, "Ben Wang originally thought you were different from others, but you are Song Min's daughter after all." Rest assured, the power you want, the king will give you. ”

I sneered, "Xiao Yan, look at the way you look now, don't let me look down on you." ”

I don't know if Xiao Yan was because of my words, he took the initiative to ask for help, went to the northern Xinjiang town to guard, and put down the rebellion.

He had been gone for more than half a year, and when he returned, he had made great achievements in battle, and he was already the prince of the Seven Pearls.

At the end of the year, at the end of the year in the palace, my father arranged for me to dance.

"This dance is an opportunity for you to move Kyoto, whether you can be favored by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you must not lose anything in this move."

Nowadays, the court is divided into two parties, one is to support the growing voice of the sixth prince Xiao Yan, and the other is to support the current Prince's Highness, the fourth prince Xiao Yun. My father joined the camp of supporting His Royal Highness the Crown Prince early, and it is no wonder that he reacted so much to me and Xiao Yan at that time.

Xiao Yun, when he came to the house to discuss with his father, I had seen it twice.

If I hadn't known my father's heavy heart at the beginning, I think I would have been more unrestrained when facing Xiao Yun.

He's the kind of guy I envy.

Obviously, he was in the center of the battle whirlpool, but he was the most insulted and light-hearted person. He was the same age as Xiao Yan, but the pattern in his chest was gully, and Xiao Yan could not reach it.

I laughed at my father in my heart, could I win the heart of such a character by dancing?

I haven't measured myself up to this point, but there is no way back, just do what my father tells me to do, and do my best. As for the matter of taking the initiative to flatter and please, I can't put aside my face and don't say, if I do, then who is immortal Xiao Yun can see through my mind at a glance, how much should I respond?

The dance requires barefoot dancing on a three-foot glass platform.

In the month near the end of the year, the weather was freezing cold, I practiced the flowing dance, and under the toss of several cold and fever, I finally had some results.

After that, I seemed to have changed, no longer the child who was lying on the lap of my mother without worry, nor was she the beauty in Xu Jiaojiao's dreams, nor was I no longer the little crying bag that had been rubbed by Xiao Yan. It is no wonder that they are no longer there, or they have been pushed away by me, so I have no reason to stay where I am, I want to go forward, for myself, but also for what I want in my heart.

At the end of the year, the cold of the glass platform went deep into the bone marrow, and I had long been used to it. I danced under the gaze of various eyes, or admired and admired, or looked curiously, or looked at it with bad intentions, and made me feel as if the tulle pink dress on my body seemed to be stripped away by different eyes.

Xiao Yun's face not far away was still the usual peace, but a shallow smile appeared on his lips, which was almost the same as I expected, but it made my heart settle down a little.

The song ends, "Good! The applause at the banquet was thunderous, and the saint was very happy and ordered a heavy reward.

I bowed my head in thanksgiving. As my father wished, after this dance, I will move the capital. But in my heart, I have already collapsed. Although I had been dodging, the moment I looked at Xiao Yan, I stepped on the wrong beat.

4

He returned from northern Xinjiang, his skin was tanned, and the teenager of the past was much more mature and stable, quite heroic, and very manly.

He stared at me, staring intently, as if to say, Ah Ho, you have changed, and now you understand israel?

I left the feast for some reason, and I could bear any sight, except for him.

"Song Qianhe", Xiao Yan chased out and called me behind me.

I secretly took a deep breath and turned to salute, "See Your Highness the Sixth." ”

"No courtesy."

My heart darkened, and it turned out that he and I had been separated from each other.

He approached me slowly, "Who are you going to marry?" Is it the prince? ”

His Highness said cautiously. If nothing happened, the courtesan retreated first. ”

He grabbed me by the wrist suddenly, "The king said that he gave you the power you wanted." ”

"Even if Your Highness is already the Prince of Qizhu, will he really be able to keep my Song family from falling in the future?!"

He was furious at my questioning, "You really deserve to be Song Min's daughter!" True love is like grass in front of your eyes, and only power is what you want! ”

"Does Your Highness know?" This is the case with courtesans. ”

Xiao Yan calmed down and said firmly, "I don't believe... Whatever you say, I don't believe you seek power alone. ”

There was a sharp pain in my wrist, and I had to endure it, but now was not the time to cry.

"Sixth brother, stop."

Xiao Yun's face was slightly dull, and he rarely saw that his face was not good, so he pushed Xiao Yan away and blocked in front of me.

"Sixth brother, how can you bully a weak woman in the palace?"

I could only look down and hide behind Xiao Yun, my look now was definitely very sad, I didn't want Xiao Yan to see.

I heard Xiao Yan's laughter, "Tang Suddenly, the disciple is not as good as the fourth brother you pity Xiang Yu." ”

His footsteps drifted away.

Xiao Yun turned around, "Miss Song, are you okay?" ”

"Thank you Very much for your concern." I touched the tears in the corners of my eyes.

"The sixth brother of this palace, who had previously asked for marriage for the two of you in front of his father and emperor, and had heard that he had broken into your boudoir and disturbed you, had he been pestering you all along?"

I lowered my eyes, "No, I have nothing to do with Your Royal Highness." ”

"Then you guys... Previously recognized? ”

"There have been several sides." I was lying, but I believe Xiao Yun must have seen it too.

He untied the white fox draped over me, "Miss Song, the banquet is too stuffy, is it okay to accompany the palace?" ”

"Yes."

The lake in the palace was frozen, and the road to the pavilion was covered with snow, quiet and quiet.

I glanced obliquely at the man next to me, although he was a prince, except for the upper court, he rarely wore xuan-patterned cloud sleeves. He is often dressed in white, with black hair tied up, which can always give people a feeling of fluttering outside, not stained with dust, but he is also the center of the power struggle, the city government is extremely high, so contrasting, sometimes really make me trance.

"Miss Song, your dancing style today is very beautiful, and you are also very beautiful."

When these words came out of his mouth, they were somewhat sacred.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has praised it."

"You don't have to be so strict with hongu, and when you face your sixth brother, that's not the case."

I smiled suddenly, but my heart was a little more relaxed, just like this vast snow scene, there were many chaotic thoughts blank.

"Can I ask Your Highness one thing?"

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Your Highness gives me the feeling that I am not a person who likes to quarrel, so why would I participate in the struggle of the court all day like my father?"

"Miss Song, this palace does hate power, but this palace hates being oppressed by power even more." Although the palace was born in the middle palace, the mother and queen of the palace did not please the father and emperor, and later the mother queen was killed under the trap of the father's favorite concubine. Although there was no evidence, the Father remained silent when he knew who had done it. ”

"No amount of innocence and grievances can be defeated in the palace by my father's refusal to pursue a single word."

"The details of it, the girl is not a palace person, there is no need to know too much about me. It only needs to be clear that later, under the conspiracy of this palace, the wicked were duly punished. ”

His words could not help but make me feel a little sad, I said, "My mother once said that there are inevitably many shortcomings in this world, we just try our best, but don't let your heart become cold-blooded." ”

His slender peach blossom eyes had a smile in his eyes, "Hongu wrote it down." Speaking of which, isn't every step you and I take doing our best? ”

"Including my father's intention to give me to His Highness." As soon as the words came out, I calmly waited for Xiao Yun's response.

He smiled lightly, "There is such a thing." ”

He walked forward, and only a few words vaguely came into my ear, "But Hongu is not against his heart in this matter." ”

I said, "Your Highness is a person who has become a big thing, and naturally does not stick to small love." ”

"What about you?"

"If you can serve Your Highness, Ah Ho is willing." But His Highness also knows that my father regards me as a pawn, and he does not want the pawn to have any emotion. ”

Unconsciously, I walked to the Huxin Pavilion, and a guqin was placed in the pavilion.

"I heard that the girl's piano skills are very good, can hongu have the honor of having a pint?"

I couldn't get away with it, sat down, stroked the strings, and said, "Then it's ugly." ”

From my observation of Xiao Yun, I chose to play a small song of Qingya and did not intend to show off.

At the end, Xiao Yun really praised, "Honggong feels that this piano song of The Song Girl is ten thousand better than the dance of Fang Cai, and it is the girl's voice that wins this song, not the best effort." ”

I understood his words and laughed, "That's nature." ”

He took out the jade reed from his waist, can I Xiao Yun have the honor of playing a song with The Song Girl?

At that time, Xiao Yun and I both forgot each other's identities and power, and we were on this white lake, playing music and laughing, and for a time we cleared away many unpleasantnesses in the past.

When I came back, I returned the white fox on my body to him, and he was stunned, and finally did not say anything.

"Thank you." I stared at him, and there was shyness in my eyes.

Xiao Yun looked indifferent, only the roots of his ears were red.

In March of the following year, the emperor married Xiao Yun and me.

In June, I came down from the sedan and Xiao Yun reached out to help me.

Today, he is dressed in red robes and crowned with zhu jinyu, but he still gives people a sense of elegance, not great wealth and nobility.

It's really weird, anyone can be vulgar, and he alone is fairy.

"Do your best." He chuckled.

I got into his car, and then we all let go of our hands in silence.

Next, there was the solemn and grand wedding ceremony of the prince. In front of them were hundreds of steps, and manchu Wenwu stood on both sides to watch the ceremony, while on the stage was the empress.

As I stepped on each step, the images of the past seventeen years appeared in front of my eyes one by one, turning into silhouettes, skimming by quickly, and my nose was slightly sour.

On the stage, the great traitor's father stood at the side of the emperor, he was now full of hair, but he still had a straight face.

Don't even laugh when your daughter gets married? I grumbled.

If Xiao Yan is not present, it is better if he does not come, and it is best if he does not come.

In just one day, I completed the big things of my life. Father and Song Fu expected me, I did it, or so to speak, I did it.

In the night, Xi Niang put a red hijab on my head, and after chattering for a while and saying some auspicious words, she closed the door and left.

I left Grandma Chen alone, "Grandma Chen, where did you serve in the palace before?" ”

"Back to the Crown Princess, the old slave served in jiaolan Palace, and since then he has worked as an errand boy in places such as the imperial dining room and the imperial doctor's workshop, but the time will soon be there."

"This East Palace, have you often come here before?"

Aunt Chen was terrified, "The Eastern Palace is heavy, how dare the old slave step in without being summoned!" ”

I smiled reassuringly, "I just asked, I don't mean anything else." After my mother left, Grandma Chen, you are my closest elder. Having you with me also gives me a lot of peace of mind. You've worked hard all day, so go and rest. ”

After a long time, the door creaked, and every step of the visitor sounded like thunder, and I couldn't help but squeeze the skirt.

Song Qianhe, up to now, do my best, I keep saying this to myself in my heart.

After not seeing any movement for a long time, I stood up and carefully performed a salute, "The Prince's Palace-"

Before I could say anything, he reached out and pulled me into his arms, and before I could react, I was pressed against the wall, and my lips were covered with a fiery heat across the cover.

Xiao Yan's familiar rosewood struck, making my tears burst out in an instant, and old things came to my heart.

"This girl was saved by Xiao Ye, and I can't leave her alone."

"I haven't seen him in a year, and I can't imagine that Ah Ho is still a little crying bag."

Whether it is the white swordsman at the first sight or the prince at the reunion, he is as bright as the breeze and the moon, which makes people's hearts move.

Xiao Yan hugged me tightly again, making it difficult for me to break free.

"Ah He, you love to cry and be simple, and you will inevitably be bullied in the future, so it is better to stay with the king in the future, and the king is still ... Missing a princess. ”

Last year, a man made a promise to me that now things are not human.

I gradually gave up the struggle and became quiet, and Xiao Yan's offensive also shifted from the domineering possession at the beginning to the gentle and tight.

The breath intertwined, my mind went blank, and it wasn't long before he left my lips.

He lifted my red hijab, "Little crying bag, I'm late." ”

"Brother Yan."

"Is it okay to follow me?" Go to Tianji Mountain to retreat, and don't ask about the world in the future, it's not too late. ”

I restrained all my thoughts and pushed him away with what little sanity remained.

He knew what would happen to me and him and song fu if I went with him, not to mention that my heart had already made another measure.

Xiao Yan let go of his hand and said lonely, "The day your mother left, I told you that 'I will never leave you', and I always remember this promise." ”

The moment he left, I finally cried.

Xiao Yan, I really want to promise you.

But I can't hurt you, I choose the path I choose, I can't turn back.

It was then that I truly understood what I had lost.

5

Xiao Yan's sudden visit made me lose the weapon of drama in an instant. I pray that tonight the prince will stay in the study or in the room of the concubine, and will not see my wretchedness and cowardice.

Contrary to his wishes, Xiao Yun pushed the door in, and he approached me, and the smell of wine was thick.

"Why are you crying?" He asked softly.

"It's all right." I helped him sit down, lest he see through his mind.

After who was drunk, he was almost the same as usual, except for his face with more redness. He leaned forward and was about to kiss me, but I subconsciously avoided him.

"Ah Ho, you still can't accept Hongu?"

"I..." As far as the identity of the princess is concerned, it is absurd not to be married. At this point, there is no room for turning.

Xiao Yun said, "Then honggong will wait." ”

"Xiao Yan spent two years to make you like him, and the palace can spend five years, ten years, twenty years, or even a lifetime for you to forget him."

"What's wrong? The Crown Princess was moved? Then help Hongu freshen up. ”

"I... The concubines went to prepare. ”

Relieved, I walked out the door and instructed the ladies to bring water for their grooming.

When I entered the room again, I turned my back in an instant, and Xiao Yun's guy was taking off his big red dress and revealing his smooth back.

Amitabha, I meditate in my heart.

"Aifei, it's not okay to be so shy."

I got goosebumps and fell to the ground, how much did this Xiao Yun have to drink tonight, which tendon was wrong?

There is no one else here, and there is no need to do everything so "do your best".

Suddenly, a pair of hands changed from behind to my waist, and who's face rubbed on my shoulder like a kitten.

"Your Highness, do your concubines still want to help you freshen up, Your Highness?"

But he didn't move, and I was really a little annoyed, "Xiao Yun! ”

"Call the husband," he said in my ear, "or don't give up." ”

"Husband." I was very jerky.

He smiled like a child, "Lady. ”

If you are really drunk, you like to make people happy, and I feel that I should not treat the drunken Xiao Yun as xiao Yun in ordinary days, so I coaxed, "Can Na FuJun obediently walk to the bedside by himself?" ”

"Okay." He had changed into the white shirt he usually wore and lay down obediently on the bed.

It was so hard to see him, and I cried and laughed, dipped the handkerchief into the water and wrung it out.

I sat down next to him and wiped his face with a handkerchief when I noticed that his forehead was burning.

Is this getting wind chilled?

I was about to get up and go to the imperial doctor when he pulled me aside, "Don't go, don't make a mistake tonight." ”

It turned out that he had not completely lost Xiao Yun's thoughts, and if it was rumored that the prince had asked the imperial doctor in the middle of the night, it might really cause quite a lot of criticism from others.

"Then please lie down your highness."

"It's a husband." He frowned and corrected.

I watched over him, wiping his face with cold water every quarter of an hour.

He may have been asleep, confused and muttering something about the queen, the father emperor, Xiao Yan, and even... Aho.

"Aho you know what? Hongu has already seen you. ”

"That day Xiao Yan led you into the palace secretly, you were still young at that time, but you were already a sister with a water spirit, more cute than any princess in the palace."

"You are cowardly around Xiao Yan, and Hongu really wants to pinch your little face and bully you."

"Xiao Yan's mother concubine killed my mother is not enough, why, even you, should like him?"

The hand I was wiping for him froze and stopped in the air.

When I woke up the next day, I was lying on the bed.

Xiao Yun stood in front of the bed, dressed in a dark princely court dress, "Awake? Freshen up quickly, and later enter the palace to greet You. ”

"Okay." I replied, not daring to mention what he said last night, those words, I should have never heard.

"Are you getting better at wind chills?" I asked him.

Xiao Yun approached me, "The Crown Princess touched it." ”

"Aren't you drunk and awake?" I hesitantly put my hand on his forehead, "Well, it's much better. ”

"That's fine." He smiled, peach blossom eyes bent.

In the two years after marrying Xiao Yun, I learned that this immortal was more like a well-behaved and innocent kitten. He always found every opportunity to take advantage, but when he saw my face darkened, he immediately obediently shrunk his claws.

Ignoring this and Xiao Yun's annoying energy, it was also pleasant to get along with him. He is good at poetry, good rhythm, funny and humorous, and we can always talk about endless topics together.

But in front of me, Xiao Yun, who was like a kitten, was more like a tiger in his fierce style outside.

Many times, Xiao Yun did not seem to have done anything, and had quietly eradicated Xiao Yan's henchmen one by one, and gradually regained Xiao Yan's military power in the northern region.

In just two years, there was not much bloodshed and sacrifice, most of the officials had been replaced in the court, and the pattern that Xiao Yan could compete with him was gone.

He ascended to the throne of God without any suspense.

In the spring of the year I was nineteen years old, the former emperor died, Xiao Yun ascended the throne, and I became the empress.

My father continued to assist Xiao Yun's side, but it could be seen that he was also a little powerless in the face of Xiao Yun, who had a strong wrist.

Xiao Yun was a good emperor, he would not be suspicious at will, nor would he allow the powerful ministers to play with power tricks and fake tiger power.

I have repeatedly told my father to take over his hand as soon as possible and ask for a spare time to recuperate in his old age. However, he became more and more stubborn and did not listen to persuasion, still thinking of making Xiao Yun as good as the former emperor.

I had a vague premonition in my heart that the Song Mansion was sinking, and as my mother had said, I had never been able to stop my father's decision. After all, he had chased the power of a lifetime.

"I just hope not to involve the innocent people of the Song Dynasty."

I said this to Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun took me in his arms, "Ah He, You won't let anyone hurt you for half a minute." ”

I pinched his waist, and he let go of his paws playfully.

Xiao Yan became an idle prince with no real power, and when he heard that he was fine, he was locked up in the palace all day, drunk and dreaming of death.

Xiao Yun was still jealous of him, often looking for him for three days and two ends, the kitten would blow up in Xiao Yan's matter, if I was persuaded, Xiao Yan's punishment would be even heavier.

That day the rain was very heavy, Xiao Yun was cold and cold in those days, often coughing, I made boiling medicine to send him, he was always willful, if he was not under my supervision every day, he would play not to drink medicine, a small wind chill, hard to drag into ten days to good.

"Empress Dowager, let the slave maid send it."

"It doesn't matter," I looked at Bai Zhi, who was holding an umbrella next to me, "no one is staring at the emperor drinking medicine, and the palace is not at ease." ”

"Niangniang really has a deep affection for the emperor."

I smiled on my face, but in my heart I said, don't you say it, it's not because the sick cat is even worse to take care of.

Far away, the straight figure in the rain curtain was hazy.

My eyes were wet, "It's raining, so who is still kneeling in front of the temple?" ”

"Lady Hui, it's Prince Yan."

"Did he do anything?" I rubbed my eyes.

"Hearing that today the Saint was not satisfied with the tribute of the Siamese kingdom, he punished Prince Yan, who was in charge of the tribute of the kingdom."

"The emperor really loves to fool around."

"Only The Lady Dares to Say So Holy."

"You send the medicinal soup to the emperor, be careful not to spill it."

I walked over to Xiao Yan alone with an umbrella, "Sixth brother." ”

He smiled, "Niangniang is really not suitable for calling Ben Wang like this." ”

"Xiao Yan, you should offend the emperor less." I know that my words are actually useless, Xiao Yan does not say hard bones, Xiao Yun always likes to provoke.

"Are you doing well?" he asked.

"The emperor is very kind to this palace, don't bother you."

"Really? So why are you still thinking about me today? ”

"Xiao Yan, cheer up, don't get drunk in the house all day, don't let me look down on you."

"All right, the king listens to you."

"Empress Niangniang, the emperor asked Niangniang to go in quickly, Niangniang's weak body was weak and careful not to get wet with rain." Duke Chen, who was beside Xiao Yun, came to help me, "Also, Prince Yan doesn't have to kneel, go back to the palace and reflect." ”

"Xiao Yan, you are good at it." I left only one word, but there were a thousand words that I wanted to say to him.

"All back off." Xiao Yun saw me and stepped back.

"The queen came to drink the medicine?"

I threw away his hand, "The emperor loves to drink or not, and the concubines can't control it." ”

"You listened to Xiao Yan's explanation, Xiao Yan did indeed commit a crime today, he did not admit his mistake, and he dared to confront him face to face."

"Did the concubine ask About Prince Yan?" I asked rhetorically, "Isn't it true that the emperor is weak-minded?" ”

I ignored Xiao Yun for three whole days, let him grind hard bubbles, and I finally waited coldly.

Later, Xiao Yan took the initiative to ask for orders, took in several tricky things in the dprk, and the errands were so that Xiao Yun could not pick out any thorns, after all, Xiao Yun was also an emperor with a clear distinction between right and wrong, and rewarded him as usual, and stopped for a long time not to go to him for trouble.

6

One day, Xiao Yun sent me to the study.

Xiao Yan was also there. He stood up straight, and when he saw me, there was a little surprise in his eyes.

What kind of medicine is sold in Xiao Yun Gourd?

I was about to perform the salute when Xiao Yun took my hand and sat down on the seat.

"Sixth brother," he said, "the position of concubine in your house is still lacking, not even a concubine." People say that the eldest brother is like the father, and the elder sister-in-law is like the mother. ”

"Empress, do you think you should help the sixth brother Zhang Luo in this matter?" He said this by looking at me with a shallow smile.

I said softly, "That's what the emperor said." ”

Xiao Yun nodded satisfactorily, "Sixth brother, after thinking about it for a long time, Zhongshu made Fan Xuan's concubine the most compatible with you, and chose the day to marry you and Miss Fan Family." ”

"The brother is unwilling."

"Is it true that the sixth brother wants to disobey his orders?"

"The courtiers already have a heart. The woman had promised to be a princess of her brother's brother and stay together for the rest of her life. ”

I was nervous, avoiding Xiao Yan's burning gaze.

"Ke Yuan and the empress were also married by the former emperor, and now they are also with he and Meimei, with deep affection," Xiao Yun put his arm around my shoulder and said softly, "Empress, what do you think?" ”

"The emperor sympathized with the sixth brother for going out on expeditions all year round, found a good family affair for the sixth brother, and thought of going with the concubines." I calmly replied and stood up, "It's just that the concubine is unwell today, so I will retire first." ”

How could I not know that Xiao Yun's intention today was to force me and Xiao Yan to break off their relationship.

Xiao Yan did not receive excessive punishment for resisting the will, and was punished for a year, and was grounded in the palace.

And my performance that day made Xiao Yun angry, but he couldn't have a seizure because what I said didn't go wrong.

Except that Xiao Yun no longer came to my Fengqi Hall, it was as usual.

The palace people said that the queen was snubbed by the saint and spoiled other palace concubines.

Only I was relieved in my heart, and finally I didn't have to deal with Xiao Yun's uncontrollable claws.

However, Xiao Yun's sending people every three to five minutes to talk loudly at the door of my palace is really sinister.

"Saint Shang was scratched by the cat in the Imperial Garden today!"

"The holy one has a headache again!"

"The saint is coughing up blood again!"

......

Whenever I sent someone to see him, he never saw him, and the things he sent were returned.

After a month of silence, I thought that I was a little too unwilling to go, and my conscience was uneasy, so I prepared to bring my own pastries to see him.

The ladies and ladies of the Fengqi Hall knew about it, and somehow they were very excited, and the festive look on their faces seemed to make me think that it was going to be the New Year.

"Hongu is just going to see the emperor, why do you react so much one by one?"

I have always gotten along well with the people in the palace, and there are not so many rules and barriers.

"The empress dowager finally wants to open!"

"Niangniang, if you find a saint to serve a soft, you will be able to recover as before."

"Niangniang, if you don't fight for it again, the Concubine Fang Guifei next door will really ride on the head of our Fengqi Hall."

I laughed and said, "What to do, listening to you say this, I don't really want to go." ”

"Motherfucker!"

Most of the people in my palace are older than me, and when they see that I don't argue, they all maintain me tightly, and they all hate iron and steel.

I left the Fengqi Hall and was stopped in front of the imperial study.

Grandma Chen, who was with me, said, "Bold, I dare to stop the empress dowager." ”

I raised my hand to stop her, "Is this the emperor's will?" ”

I had some doubts in my heart, Xiao Yun should not be such a stingy and awkward person, if he did not want me to come, then why send someone to "report" on his recent situation in front of my palace gate every day?

The little eunuch who stopped me only promised, "It's the emperor... The Will of the Emperor. Empress Niangniang, Fang Guifei is inside. ”

"Hongu made pastries, afraid that it would not taste good later." Motomiya will wait here first. ”

The sun is poisonous, the sun is hot, I didn't want to wait, but Grandma Chen around me has always given me a look, for Grandma Chen, I have always respected and enhanced.

Wait, the harem women's competition for favors is like a Shuluo field, and it is estimated that Xiao Yun's head is not good.

Recently, as the day of the new emperor's draft approached, Concubine Fang Guifei may have been pregnant, and brushed her eyes in front of the emperor, worried that the newcomer would be separated and pampered after entering the palace.

Fang Guifei was arrogant and arrogant, and was Xiao Yun's cousin. She was a year younger than me, but she married Xiao Yun a year earlier than me.

Unlike my scenes, Concubine Fang Guifei was really in love with Xiao Yun, and when she heard that she was still in the middle of the word, she secretly agreed with Xiao Yunfang.

Later, when she got her wish, although she only became a side concubine, the vinegar jar was often overturned, and she wished that Xiao Yun was only a woman.

Xiao Yun may have some pity for her obsessive affection, and if Concubine Fang guifei didn't do it too out of line, he would always turn a blind eye.

So do I. All along, I have helped him maintain the peace of the harem and take care of the affairs of the harem.

I often need to reconcile the incidents caused by Fang Guifei's jealousy, she either scolded and ridiculed which concubine, or embarrassed which spoiled little palace girl, and the defendant sued me. I persuaded her one by one and gave Fang Guifei a punishment warning, but it was not too heavy. Then make up for the suffering lord and reward something.

Indeed, I am a peacemaker.

The palace concubines respected and obeyed me, except for Fang Guifei, whenever she saw me, she always looked cold, and I did not punish her heavily, which was really puzzling.

After half an hour, the July heat made me feel tight in my chest and my legs were a little weak.

"I can't wait."

I was about to turn away when I suddenly felt my eyes go black and I leaned forward.

"Empress Dowager!" Aunt Chen held me.

Before the consciousness disappeared, the surrounding area was filled with the noisy exclamations of a palace eunuch.

When he woke up, Xiao Yun sat down on the edge of my bed and held my hand tightly, he hadn't seen him for a month, he seemed to be emaciated, and there was also a little haggard in the eyes of the amorous peach blossom.

"How do you feel? The doctor said you were heat stroke. ”

"Much better." I pulled my hand out, "How did the emperor come?" ”

He did not answer me, but said, "I have given the order, and no one will be able to stop you from entering the imperial study from now on." ”

Listening to his tone, I was afraid that this matter had something to do with Concubine Fang, and later confirmed my suspicions.

Princess Fang Guifei relied on her favor and privately bought the little eunuch to stop the other concubines from seeing the emperor, and the little eunuch may have seen xiao Yun snubbing me a little recently, so he even stopped me.

Hearing that on that day, Xiao Yun was extremely angry, and he was indifferent, his body was filled with a cold breath, and he ordered expressionlessly to kill the little eunuch and demote the pregnant concubine Fang Guifei to a nobleman and demote her to the cold palace.

"No," I said, "your cousin is pregnant with your flesh and bones, can the child stay when he goes to the Cold Palace?" ”

Xiao Yunsu held the cup in his hand and looked down at the tea, "What about the empress?" ”

"This time, she dared to stop the palace concubine from seeing the saint, it was really out of line, and since you degraded her position, then punish her with some more monthly punishment." However, the punishment for being degraded to the cold palace is a bit heavy. ”

Xiao Yun stared at me and knocked on my forehead, "How can the empress be so unneeded?" ”

I shook my head, "The temperament of a concubine is not in these things. ”

He laughed, "Too." ”

7

After that day, Xiao Yun seemed to have changed slightly to me, he stayed in the Fengqi Hall more often than before, and it was much more difficult for me to get overwhelmed.

After marrying Xiao Yun for two years, being an empress but still not sleeping, I understood that this was Xiao Yun's connivance with me, but at the same time he was also evading. As long as my powerful traitor father was still there for a day, Xiao Yun would not allow me to give birth to a dragon child. Xiao Yun and I tacitly agreed, and since he couldn't bear to hurt me, I could also pretend to be confused and not mention it.

Soon it was close to Xiao Yun's first draft ceremony after he ascended the throne, and the current empress dowager was not Xiao Yun's biological mother, and she was not very close to him, and usually the empress dowager was a person who did not ask about foreign affairs, so this time the draft girl was Zhang Luo by me.

A bunch of portrait files of showgirls were carried into the Fengqi Hall, and I tried them day and night, although these affairs could be entrusted to the people at the bottom, but I was still willing to do it myself, worried that if it was handed over to others, it would be difficult to keep the people with hearts to install forces from it, which would lead to a wave of palace disputes.

At night, Xiao Yun reclined on the soft collapse and supported his chin with his hand, "The queen is coming to sleep with her." ”

I glanced at him, accustomed to his usual verbal provocations, and I slept in the same room with him, but Slept separately.

I casually asked, "What kind of woman does the emperor like?" Concubines can help the emperor pay more attention. ”

"I like the beauty who watches the scrolls under the lamp late at night." He smiled lightly.

Knowing that he would not answer seriously, I sighed in my heart.

On the day of the draft ceremony, I looked at a show girl with a water spirit, and my mood was quite comfortable.

Xiao Yun sat next to me and said lightly, "The empress looks much happier than Yuan." ”

The process of drafting is very simple, meet the eye-catching to leave people for the hairpins, the hairpins are also divided into grades, representing the degree of preference, from high to low, respectively, gold hairpins, silver hairpins, jade hairpins.

Xiao Yun was obviously not very interested, and only gave two jade hairpins at the end of the day.

So most of the time only I can manage, I help Xiao Yun to select women, character is only three are assessment standards, more stringent, but there are really a few show girls let me marvel.

After the end of the draft, a total of more than a dozen show girls were left behind, and after each of them was sealed, they lived in the palace.

Because of my status as a queen, I needed to give them some admonition and teaching, and after I finished the belly draft I had played earlier, the stone in my heart fell, and I finally completed the task of drafting successfully.

"What does the emperor want to say?" I asked him symbolically.

Xiao Yun said in his usually cold voice, "If you have the slightest disrespect for the empress in the future, you will not be spared." ”

The air froze for a few seconds, and the showgirls all knelt down, all of them pale with fright.

"Back off." Xiao Yundao.

I was still in a daze when Xiao Yun grabbed my hand, "Send you something." ”

When he was finished, he walked away in a fluttering dress.

When I opened my palm, I saw a golden hairpin shining brightly.

It's autumn and the weather is much cooler.

I have nothing to do, and I like to move a wicker chair to the window and do some needlework embroidery in my hand.

A few days ago, Xiao Yun saw it and asked me for a sewn purse. This time I only have a few small pieces of kung fu left, and I can finish embroidery.

Aunt Chen entered the room, put the tonic on the table, smiled and groaned, "The old body has sent the tonic, and the mother's body is well nourished, and maybe there will be a little prince and little princess in the next year." ”

I looked up and smiled faintly, not caring as usual.

Aunt Chen was used to seeing me like this, walked over to me, and whispered, "The old man has been in the deep palace for most of his life, and he knows that it is not easy for our women's family." Like you, you have another person in your heart, and the old body has seen a lot. ”

"Oh? Could It be that Mamma is a roundworm in the belly of the palace? I laughed and said, "Who's it?" Let's hear it. ”

"Niangniang knows it in her heart." Chen Mo only sighed when I was joking, "The most important thing for a woman like Niangniang is to double her kindness to her husband." What the past is rotten in the stomach. ”

The work in my hand stopped, "Grandma Chen is blaming the palace for not paying attention to the emperor?" ”

"Niangniang, the impeachment of the Central Palace is piled up like a mountain." When Aunt Chen saw that I didn't seem to understand it, she squatted down and pulled the back of my hand, "But the emperor pressed down one by one, and ordered the palace not to discuss this matter anymore, for fear that Niangniang you will be sad." ”

"Talking about the heirs on the surface, I guess you don't believe that Xiao Yun can give me a chance to give birth to an heir." I scoffed, "It turns out that Grandma said so much today, is it to tell the palace to recognize Xiao Yun's goodness?" When did you need to be so twisted and turned when you spoke to me? ”

"Niangniang is really smart." Aunt Chen smiled and shook her head, "The emperor's intention is quite sincere, it is rare in the world, but you should decide this matter yourself." If you still can't let go of the one in your original heart, you have chosen not an ordinary woman to settle down in the mansion, to be content with the path of fu gang, in order to uphold the true feelings and sincerity, but how many people in this world can understand? ”

After Aunt Chen said these words, she withdrew.

I didn't think about it so much, and I felt a lot at the next time.

I slowly closed my eyes and leaned against the windowsill.

Power, Xiao Yan thought that I left him because of power, Xiao Yun could not have no reservations about me because of power,

No one knows, I'm not passionate about power.

In the past two years around Xiao Yun, I felt more and more that the power that my father was chasing and chasing the road that made the Song Mansion stand firm was wrong. The only thing that can preserve the glory of the family is merit, not intrigue.

Father may have forgotten, the world may have forgotten, that the great traitor song old ghost, before being scolded by the people of the city, was also the top pillar of the dynasty, he implemented the law change, eliminated the ills, he helped the former emperor to fight the power of the subordinates, consolidate the imperial power.

Unfortunately, later, the former emperor grew older and fainter, and many things depended on my father, and my father did everything absolutely, he reversed right and wrong, slandered Zhongliang, and even connived at my cousins to do some things that bullied men and women, embezzled and accepted bribes.

The Song Mansion fell into Xiao Yun's hands, and he was bound to dispose of it. And what can I keep?

What happens when things come to this point? I don't know.

Mother- and toe, the daughter is tired, and the daughter misses you.

Later, When Xiao Yun came to my palace, I gave him the embroidered purse, and he smiled and gave him the hand-sewn purse, that is, he loved him, and he was sure to keep my love.

I laughed angrily at him, "Lord Who Immortal's face is thicker, and outsiders at the end can't see it." ”

"Of course, only the insiders can see it."

Okay, I can't win him over the verbal kung fu, so I stopped talking, stroked the strings, and ignored him.

Late at night, when I was confused, in the darkness, a pair of powerful hot bracelets wrapped around my waist from behind me.

As soon as I woke up, I heard a heavy breathing sound in my ear, "Emperor, what are you going to do?" ”

He teased slightly, "What did the Empress say she was going to do?" ”

The heat on the bed seemed to burn me, and although I knew in my heart that there would be a day sooner or later, I still felt afraid and frightened when this moment came.

I froze motionless, fixed my mind, and tried to be as calm as possible, "Xiao Yun, I don't like you." ”

"I know." He whispered in a low voice, "But Ah Ho, I want you." ”

His hands untied my belt, and his lips and teeth nibbled between my necks.

In a word, I could not show resistance, even if a strong sense of disgust rose in my heart.

I turned around and kissed him on the lips, and Xiao Yun got a response, and the hand that was wandering on my body was stronger.

The darkness of the night seemed to spread like an endless despair, crushing me into a dream.

"You must understand that He was never a saint."

I had a sleepless night, and in the early morning, Xiao Yun left a kiss on my forehead before leaving.

I forgot what he said, only to feel that everything was no longer important.

I got up, untied, and felt a chill in my bones.

Walking to the bronze mirror, the red marks on my fair skin were particularly glaring, as if to remind me of the impossibility and damage that happened last night.

8

After that, Xiao Yun still often came to my temple, listening to the piano, playing games, writing, and whenever he was close to me, I obeyed and obeyed, and no longer rejected him. But even so, he knew that there were many differences between us, as if there was a wall that separated us.

Like the empresses of every dynasty, we respect each other as guests, as if in harmony.

"Ah He, I'm going to go on an autumn hunt in a few days, and I'll only take you with me, okay?"

I looked down and rubbed his shoulders for him, "Emperor Xie." ”

"Ah Ho, when are you going to accept yuan?"

"Concubines don't dare."

Unconsciously, it was close to the end of autumn, and Grandma Chen in the palace helped me to pack some clothes for autumn hunting in the western suburbs.

"Mother-in-law," she closed the window, "it's cold, be careful of the cold." ”

I answered, copying the post in my hand, "Grandma Chen, why didn't the incense given by the emperor come to light?" ”

... The old body was put away. ”

"Take it out," I said lightly, "and burn it." ”

Among the incense that Xiao Yun gave, there was a smell of musk, and he did not want me to conceive his flesh and bones.

He meant it, and I did it completely.

"Mother-in-law, it really hurts you." Aunt Chen sighed.

I put down my pen and smiled, "No problem. ”

The maple leaves in the western suburbs had begun to wither, and I looked out from the carriage, the first time I had seen the outside world since I entered the palace.

Xiao Yun held my hand, and when he saw me looking out the window, he said, "I will go around with you." ”

"The emperor's kind concubines received their hearts, but the concubines wanted to rest for a while."

"Hunt you a few little rabbits."

"Thank you Emperor."

The autumn hunt was a major event of the year, not to mention, this was the first autumn hunt since Xiao Yun ascended the throne, and all the officials of all sizes in the dynasty had to accompany him, even Xiao Yan, who disobeyed the order and wore the crime.

I saw my father, who hunched over and shouted respectfully to me, "Empress Niangniang." ”

I was a bit gagged, and it took me half a day to say goodbye.

I felt weird, but I was also more sad.

Xu is Xiao Yun deliberately arranged, I have not seen Xiao Yan, but what can I do if I see it?

Although the western suburbs are royal hunting grounds, it is not forbidden for ordinary people to set foot, and even more people have permission to operate inns in the western suburbs. Xiao Yun was worried that I was not used to living in the tent, so he stayed with me in the inn.

These days of autumn hunting, I am in the inn, and I do not go out and move around at will.

Although Xiao Yun was busy, he came to see me every day, and really sent a few rabbits to raise me to relieve my boredom.

One day, I was teasing these white rabbits in my room. Aunt Chen hurried into the house and withdrew the squirrels.

Aunt Chen whispered in my ear, "Niangniang, last night the emperor spoiled a girl in the inn." ”

"Who is that girl?" I wondered, no wonder I didn't see Xiao Yun last night.

"I heard that it was a miscellaneous servant in this inn, who came from an ordinary family."

"What did the emperor say?" I smoothed the white rabbit's hair.

"The emperor means to bring her back to the palace for the time being."

"Got it." I said lightly, there are not too many waves in my heart.

Aunt Chen closed the rabbit cage and took it to the side, "Niangniang, you need a snack for this woman." ”

I smiled helplessly, "The emperor likes it, what can this palace do?" ”

"Niangniang didn't know, the old man went to the girl's room today and found this." Aunt Chen took out a teacup from her sleeve, "Niangniang, the edge of this teacup is coated with a layer of aphrodisiac acacia incense." ”

"If you can find out, how can the emperor not find out?" He did not pursue, and the palace naturally had no reason to ask. ”

Aunt Chen saw that I had a cold attitude, retreated, and was about to leave the room.

I pondered for a moment, but still said, "Bring that girl over to hongu to see." "Although I don't care what position the girl will be given, it's just that this disgraceful means needs to be tapped twice, so as not to do something more out of the ordinary in the future."

Soon, Aunt Chen led a woman with a beautiful body into the house, and the woman was afraid, bowed her head, and knelt down in front of me.

"Lady Xu Yue'er, see Empress Niangniang."

But she did not get up, but still maintained a kneeling position.

I was slightly displeased and said, "Look up." ”

She slowly lifted her face, and under the willow eyebrows was a pair of feminine and gentle eyes, staring at me with integrity, without the fear and cowardice she showed.

I heard my voice tremble a little, "Hongu is going to talk to this girl alone." ”

Although Aunt Chen was puzzled, she also led the others to retreat.

The moment the door closed, the woman in front of me stood up and looked at me condescendingly.

"Petite, how have you been doing all these years?" My heart was flooded for a while, the scene under the rain curtain of that year was vividly remembered, and Xu Jiaojiao's hateful eyes would still remind me from time to time after many years.

"You ask me how I've lived all these years?" There was a sneering smile at the corner of her mouth, "The only thing that can support me to live is to seek revenge on you Song Mansion." ”

"What do you want to do?" I know that she has changed, the woman in front of me is full of flattery, I can't see a little bit of the former Xu Jiaojiao's arrogance, this strong difference makes me a little difficult to adapt.

"You are willing to be a hostage in exchange for my life, I will not kill you, but your father, you Song Mansion, are bound to go to hell to give me Xu Mansion people kowtow and admit their mistakes!"

"Then what is your intention in approaching Xiao Yun?" Do you know that if you provoke him and enter the palace, it will be another muddy water! ”

I was full of anger in my heart, Xiao Yun must have seen that she had a plan, and then I would go along with her wishes and want to see her next action.

"You don't have to pretend to be kind, just know that I entered the palace to take away everything from you."

"Xu Jiaojiao, why do you have to-"

Before I could finish speaking, she slammed the teacup that Aunt Chen had placed on the table, and then fell to the ground, her hand stabbed hard into the fragments, and the blood flowed unceasingly.

"Empress Niangniang, please forgive your sins, the people's daughter was also difficult to refuse the Holy Will yesterday!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" I was about to reach out to help her, but I was stopped by Xiao Yun.

"Be careful, don't go over." Xiao Yun said to me, and then picked up Xu Jiaojiao and sent her to the doctor.

I slumped in my chair and jumped sharply at my temples.

I wasn't worried that Xiao Yun would really like Xu Jiaojiao, but I was afraid that Xiao Yun had no intention of her, just to wait for her to reveal her intentions.

Xu Jiaojiao was originally a simple-minded person, and even though she decided to plan something because of her hatred, her tricks were too childish.

At dusk, I could not rest assured of Xu Jiaojiao's injury and sent a maid to inquire.

The maid returned to report, "Lady Xu's mouth is not cut deeply, but her body is still empty, and the emperor is by her side." ”

I was relieved, it looked like Xiao Yun wouldn't come over tonight.

"The Queen Mother."

"Who?" I turned around and saw a man pushing the door in, and I had a hard time with him.

"Empress Dowager, Lord Shoufu, please borrow a step to speak."

I asked incredulously, "What about Grandma Chen?" ”

"Little don't know, this matter is very important, and please don't let others know."

"Why does Hongu believe you?"

"Niangniang, Lord Shousuke has something extremely urgent to tell you, and he is inconvenient to come to see you, so please move."

"If it's urgent, why don't you send a letter to the palace?"

The little boy was speechless, but he was getting closer to me.

"Unbridled! Come! ”

He immediately struck me the neck, and my eyes went black.

In the chaos, the biting coolness woke me up.

My ankles were tied to heavy stones, carrying me down and down, the cold water choking into my nose, unable to speak or exhale, despair and fear gripping my heart.

Is this the end of my life?

Mother, Ah Ho is coming to accompany you.

I slowly closed my eyes, as if falling into a silent dark hole, losing consciousness.

"Aho, Aho!"

It was Xiao Yan's voice, so unreal.

As the water in my chest spat out, my consciousness gradually became clear.

"Shaw... jewel. ”

"I'm in." His handsome face gradually became clear in my vision.

I was pressed tightly into a warm chest, "Ah Ho, who the hell is going to kill you with such a vicious hand?" ”

Hearing Xiao Yan's gentle voice, my nose was sour, both aggrieved and afraid. Just like the little crying bag in the green years, sobbing in his arms. Perhaps only by facing Xiao Yan can I truly remove all disguises and defenses.

I don't know how long it took me to stop crying, where is this place?

Xiao Yan shook his head, "Someone sent me a letter saying that you were in distress in the woods in the western suburbs, and I saw that you were held hostage by a group of black-clad people and chased after you, and when they came to this time, they exchanged hands with me, and later another group of people helped me to break through the siege." ”

"You're injured." I saw a knife wound in his arm that was oozing blood.

Xiao Yan's face was pale, but he said, "It's just a small injury." ”

It was late, this place was remote, and there was some distance from the western suburbs, and Xiao Yun and others were afraid that they would not be able to find this in a short period of time.

Xiao Yan and I settled down in a nearby cave.

He started a fire.

"Don't move." I said, and then tore a strip of cloth from his tunic and bandaged his wound.

I saw that the knife mark was so deep that no matter how hard I tried, I almost couldn't stop the bleeding.

"If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been hurt."

"Little cry bag, don't cry." Xiao Yan wiped away my tears and scraped the tip of my nose again, "Take off your clothes." ”

"Huh?" My cheeks were a little hot.

"Don't get me wrong, your clothes are soaking wet, and the lake is cold." Xiao Yan looked away a little uncomfortably, "I promise I won't look at you." ”

As if to prove that he had no ill intentions, he went farther away from me and sat down with his back to me.

I loosened my belt and the tunic on my body fell off and landed on my ankle. I took off the hairpin on my head, and the green silk hung on my chest.

Not far away, Xiao Yan's ear roots were red like blood, and I approached him, leaned down, and put my arms around his neck.

"Ah Ho, you've changed." He took my hand to help him undress.

"I'm sorry to put you in this trap too."

Xiao Yan was silent for a long time, he knew that after tonight, the empress and the prince were both missing and found, and how many scholars and doctors would impeach the two of them in the DPRK, this trap was indeed poisonous.

"Ah He, they want to stain your innocence, and they want Xiao Yun to respond to you."

"I know, but that's it, no matter what we do tonight, the result will be the same." I kissed him on the lips, "Then let me sink, I have always been indebted to you." ”

Xiao Yan reflexively pressed me to the ground, his eyes burning, "Do you really not regret it?" ”

"I want to really belong to me once, and I want to belong to you."

His eyes darkened, he clamped down on my hands, his lips falling on my collarbone.

That night, I completely faced my true heart, but Xiao Yan thought that he had made a mistake.

9

When Xiao Yan and I were found, it was already the afternoon of the next day.

Xiao Yun's face was cold, and the moment he saw Xiao Yan, the sword in his hand pointed an inch in front of his throat.

"Emperor, it was Xiao Yan who saved me." I held Xiao Yun tightly.

"I know." He looked cold.

After a stalemate, Xiao Yun put down his sword and led me away.

The autumn hunt ended prematurely, and I and Xiao Yan spent the night outside without a hitch.

For a time, rumors spread in the DPRK and China, and many courtiers impeached me and Xiao Yan entangled.

The culprit who murdered me that day had been caught, it was Fang Guiren, she fell into position because of the previous incident, by Xiao Yun's cold eyes, grief- and shed a child, so she held a grudge against me and hired a killer to kill me. Xiao Yun gave her a white silk.

On that day, the gang that went to Xiao Yan to deliver a letter and helpEd Xiao Yan break the siege could not be found, and there was no clue.

But in my heart, I already have the answer.

"Yue Gui, no matter what kind of purpose you have, thank you."

Xu Yue'er took a sip of cold tea, "I said, I don't want your life, but I want to take everything from you." ”

She only informed Xiao Yan to come to my rescue in order to create rumors and force Xiao Yun to dislike me.

No matter what I did with Xiao Yan that night, the next day I would still be criticized, and this was Xu Yue'er's attempt.

Before I left, I said to her, "I will let Xiao Yun be completely dead to me, the rest of you are good for yourself, and there are more roles to deal with in the palace." ”

Later, I knelt in front of the imperial study with my hair off and begged Xiao Yun to abolish my rear seat.

After a while, he pushed open the door and pulled me into the imperial study.

The eunuch maid saw that his body was emitting a solemn breath, and hurried out one by one.

"Ah Ho, what are you doing?!"

"The concubines asked the emperor to depose the concubines as empresses."

"You don't think about it."

"I believe that you didn't do anything deviant with Xiao Yan," he grabbed my shoulders and waited for me to respond, "You talk, Ah He, you didn't do it, were you?" ”

I was silent, and finally confessed to Xiao Yun, "I like him, before I got married, I liked him, I liked him for many years." ”

Something was collapsing in Xiao Yun's eyes, and his palm seemed to crush my shoulder bone.

When the wind and clouds were light when they first saw, they were gone.

"Why?! Do you still like Xiao Yan? You are the wife that the Ming Dynasty is marrying. For more than two years, Shuo likes you, but why is your heart always on Xiao Yan? ”

"Xiao Yun, I knew from the beginning," I said calmly, "that you don't really like me." Before you and I became parents, we had very little intersection. It was because you hated Xiao Yan's mother concubine for hurting your mother, and it was because you envied Xiao Yan and wanted to steal the things around him, that you thought you were interested in me. ”

Xiao Yun let go of me, and he took a small step back and smiled bitterly, "Ah He, what do you say you are going to do with you?" ”

"You are gentle and virtuous, and you are kind to everyone, but you are also as dull and desperate as a stone."

"If Ruo Shuo really likes you because of Xiao Yan, then it will be fine."

The next day, Xiao Yun's posthumous will came down.

"Empress Song, the middle palace has no output, and the character is not good. Today, the throne of empress of the Song clan is abolished, demoted to a concubine, and moved to Jiaolan Palace. ”

Jiaolan Palace, is the cold palace.

I knelt down, bowed down, and prostrated my head heavily, "Concubines take command." ”

Almost all the palace people in the Fengqi Hall were transferred, and before they left, I rewarded some jewelry. They were all more miserable than I was, crying.

I went to the Cold Palace, and I only took Grandma Chen with me, and Bai Zhi, a personal maid who married me, Bai Zhi was thin and small, and she was an orphan bought by the Song Government.

On the day of entering the Pepper Orchid Hall, Aunt Chen sighed for a day. And Bai Zhi cried for a day, she said, she cried for me.

I was also sad, but not for myself, but For Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan knew that I had been beaten into the cold palace, so he actually went into the palace to question Xiao Yun, and took all the responsibility on him alone.

I heard that the two had an argument in the study.

Xiao Yun could not punish him, so he confirmed my private affair with Xiao Yan, and the royal family still wanted this face. Only another inconsequential reason was found, and he was sentenced to fifty lashes and grounded in the palace.

Early winter came, it was snowing, and Jiaolan Palace was very cold.

The palace people withheld the charcoal allocated to the Jiaolan Palace, and Aunt Chen was old and could not stand the cold, so she was sick for many days.

When Bai Zhi went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the third time and failed to do so, I put down the brush for painting and said, "Hongu personally went to visit." ”

"Niangniang put on a big hat, be careful not to freeze." Bai Zhi's nose was frozen red, but it was a sharp mouth, and he scolded indignantly, "The group of dog slaves in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the past, could not stick to it, and now they always bully us Jiaolan Palace, and the degree of food and clothing given to them is deducted, and even the charcoal is also deducted, which is how do we survive this winter?" ”

"The palace is still wearing a sinful body, and it is normal for the palace people to be snobbish. When will you, the, adapt to the warmth and cold in the palace? ”

Bai Zhi gave me an umbrella, "Not everyone is snobbish, Niangniang, the few people in our palace who used to be little Guizi often sent us food and clothing." ”

"You dare to hide from this palace, and you have a long skill."

"If the lady knew, she wouldn't want their stuff." Bai Zhi's voice was weak.

"They have no relationship with the palace, and they will be sent later, and if you dare to accept them, it is no wonder that the palace will not keep you."

"Yes. Mother-in-law, you are kind in heart, afraid that their master will blame you. ”

I glanced at her obliquely and did not talk to her again.

In the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gonggong Qian, who was in charge, was very surprised to see me, and Xu did not expect that a concubine would personally come to get charcoal in order to get charcoal.

I didn't embarrass me too much, only said that I would send it to Concubine Song later.

There was more laughter from the palace people around, and in today's day, this matter would spread all over the palace, and Concubine Song of jiaolan Palace was already so embarrassed that she wanted to personally go to the Internal Affairs Office to beg.

When he returned, Bai Zhi stomped his feet in anger and scolded the bullying dog slave a hundred times.

My ears were almost cocooned, "If you speak again, Hongu will seal your mouth." ”

Bai Zhi said aggrievedly, "Niangniang, this matter has spread out, Niangniang's face..."

"Is it important to have a face like Grandma Chen's illness?" Face is important, but in the end it is no match for human life. What do others say, that is the business of others, and what does it have to do with the main palace? ”

"I didn't expect Concubine Song to be so tough." In the distance, I heard the soft and gentle laughter of a woman.

A few days ago, Xu Yue'er was pregnant and had just been promoted to concubine, which could be described as a spring breeze.

I had no intention of talking to her and was leaving.

"Stop," Concubine Yue pulled me aside, "what are you doing now?" Is it difficult to open your mouth to the emperor? ”

"When do you need to take care of the affairs of this palace?" I smiled and stroked her pretty face.

"Song Qianhe, you have become different." Xu Yue'er whispered.

I whispered in her ear, "Either you do Hongu a favor, or Hugh blames Hongu for revealing your identity." ”

"You! Do you think anyone will believe it? Her eyes were full of sullenness.

"Even if you don't believe it, some people will doubt, do you dare to take this risk now?" Besides, the palace wants you to help, The little one. ”

"Say something quick." Xu Yue'er said impatiently.

"Ask a doctor to see Grandma in this palace."

I left without waiting for Xu Yue'er to react, so I didn't want to see her taunt me.

After the doctor came to see her, Grandma Chen's illness was still good, and she could get out of bed after three days.

Without waiting for me to breathe a sigh of relief, Xiao Yan went to the northern realm.

The 100,000-strong army of the Northern Great Central State invaded, the situation was menacing, the weather was cold, and most of the soldiers who came to support them could not withstand the cold, and several generals in succession suffered defeats.

Morale plummeted, and five cities had fallen in the north.

After all, it was too comfortable for a long time, and the atmosphere of emphasizing literature over martial arts was so great that for a time, there was no general in the DPRK, and if the family of Old General Xu were there, it would certainly not be the situation it is now.

At this time, some courtiers risked their lives to persuade Xiao Yan to be the commander of the Zhenbei Army and regain control of the Northern Territory.

At present, the great enemy can not be seen in the future, and no one in the DPRK and China opposes it. Xiao Yun handed the Tiger Charm back to Xiao Yan, crisply and neatly.

This undoubtedly gave Xiao Yan an opportunity to threaten the imperial power.

I was not surprised that Xiao Yun was strategizing, and he was the one who knew Xiao Yan's temperament the most.

Xiao Yan, who participated in the conquest in his early years, although his means were tough and sharp, he had a kind of pure arrogance in him, and he disdained the sinister schemes proposed by the strategists' staff.

In fact, Xiao Yan was not suitable to be an emperor, he was more suitable for being a courtier.

He was proud and straightforward, writing his joy and anger on his face, treating his feelings as the only one, but also thinking about things innocently, and he was doomed to be unable to compare with Xiao Yun's deep and meticulous planning.

Although Xiao Yun hated him so much that after pulling out his dangerous fangs one by one, he did not choose to kill him.

It is not so much because of the unpredictable brotherhood, but rather because Xiao Yan's heart is too rare.

His fortitude and integrity are like a light shining into the dark quagmire in the middle of the dynasty.

Unfortunately, the situation left by the former emperor was a pile of mud, how about the light? Maggots and rats are still growing wantonly, eating the deep foundation of the imperial industry.

Even if Xiao Yan had a bad heart and was repeatedly humiliated, he would never allow himself to become a rebel thief, carrying the name of conspiracy and rebellion, and was commented on by posterity in the history books.

This is the limitation of Xiao Yan's destiny, and it is also the bright place where he is like a jade.

I pray day and night, Xiao Yan, you will be triumphant, you will be safe.

10

Near the end of the year, due to the tense war in the north, Xiao Yun ordered the cancellation of this year's end-of-year banquet to save money and supply the soldiers in the front.

The old New Year's bustle in the palace was gone, and there was no difference between this and the Jiaolan Palace.

The so-called New Year's Festival in the Cold Palace is different from the usual day, and there are two or three more meat dishes in the meals sent.

Although Xiao Yun did not ground me, I planned not to step out of the door this winter and concentrate on teaching Bai Zhi to read and write in the house.

As my personal maid, Bai Zhi used to attend classes with me when she was young.

But this lady is obviously not the material for reading, when she was scolded by Mr. Teaching and wept bitterly, I broke the sky and said, "Bai Zhi is not willing, then it is better not to learn." ”

At that time, my father didn't care about the small things in the family, and my words were very useful.

Therefore, now Bai Zhi can't read one of the big characters, and I have a few points of guilt.

I held the mentality of making up for it, and patiently taught Bai Zhi.

But my family Bai Zhi is really worthy of being blown by Mr. Private School's beard and staring, shaking her head around her neck and scolding the character of "unteachable", I have not seen much progress in a month, but I have made a basket of jokes, and her straight appearance often makes me laugh with a veil.

Seeing that she was so tired, I simply came up with a way to memorize a poem and draw a circle for her in the book, and as many circles as there were every month, I would give her a reward, or a shortbread snack, or gold and silver jewelry. Unexpectedly, this trick actually made Bai Zhian divide a lot and learn carefully.

I was very relieved, and the haze that had been squeezed in my heart had cleared away a lot.

After Grandma Chen was well, I thought that this trick of coercing Xu Yue'er was really easy to use, so I simply asked for more materials and goods.

Without relying on the shrinking degree of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Grandma Chen changed her methods to make various dishes day by day, and Bai Zhi made me laugh, except for the quiet of midnight when I was still worried about the Xiao Yan who was out on the expedition, I had a very comfortable life in Jiaolan Palace.

Chinese New Year's Eve, Grandma Chen and I wrapped dumplings in the kitchen, and Bai Zhi carried a book on the side, glancing at the steaming pot from time to time.

"You are not allowed to eat until you have finished your back." I didn't even have to look at her to know how wronged she looked.

Bai Zhi smiled and said, "This is not possible, the slave maid can finish carrying it, just wait for the lady to draw a circle on the book for the slave maid." ”

Aunt Chen put a plate of wrapped dumplings out of the pot and smiled, "Niangniang doesn't have to be so harsh, big New Year's Day." ”

"Mama, your temperament is really getting softer, and when you used to teach the etiquette of the main palace, you didn't have such a good temperament." I scoffed.

"Yes, a few years have passed, and Niangniang has really grown into a Tingting lady." Mamma Chen's eyes were filled with heat, as if she remembered the past.

At night, Jiaolan Palace was originally only three of us masters and servants, and when we closed the door, we did not care about any dignity and inferiority, and sat at a table to eat. Bai Zhi brought a pot of fruit wine and said that she wanted to get drunk, but I couldn't help but dislike it.

"If you want to drink, drink a big one." I said.

Bai Zhi looked at Grandma Chen, and Grandma Chen actually nodded, so Bai Zhi brought a jar of genuine wine.

That's something I didn't expect.

. Aunt Chen said, "The old slave doesn't restrain you today, how happy you are." ”

She looked into my eyes, heartache and love, I knew that Grandma Chen had been in the palace wall all her life, unmarried and had children, and later my father came to teach me etiquette, but she treated me as her own daughter.

"Mama, I am not sad, nor am I lost, I have you and Bai Zhi with me on the New Year's Day, this is enough."

I knew the amount of wine I drank, and only drank a few glasses of wine, while Bai Zhi did not know the depth and drank herself into old drunkenness.

She lay on the ondol, blushing like a cooked shrimp, and slept so deeply.

"We still have to keep the age." I complained, but I also took off my shoes and got on the ondol.

Aunt Chen finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks and entered the house, "Yo, Bai Zhi is asleep." ”

I poked Bai Zhi's cheek and played, "I said I wanted to test her homework, she fell asleep, it was really boring." ”

"Why doesn't Niangniang still look like a child?" Aunt Chen sat down next to me, "Do you want the old man to tell some stories to relieve his boredom?" ”

"Talk fast, talk fast." I leaned on her shoulder and urged.

Mamma sighed faintly and ran her hands around my long hair.

In the deep palace, the most important thing is the story.

Many years ago, there were cousins of noble birth who were married to the emperor.

My sister became empress, and my sister became a noble concubine.

The queen is gentle and dignified, but also fragile and loves to cry.

The noble concubine was beautiful and moving, and when she was young, a shocking dance won the emperor's heart early.

The emperor did not like his sister's soft and weak personality, but instead liked his sister's bold and delicate nature, spoiling his sister to heaven, but not very enthusiastic about her sister.

However, the emperor was very appreciative of the prince born by his sister, who was born like a fairy, with a very good appearance, and at a young age, he talked elegantly, behaved extraordinaryly, and the key was also intelligent.

The noble concubine was very jealous, she also had a prince, and she also wanted to compete for the position of the future nine-five.

In fact, the prince of the noble concubine was also very outstanding, quite talented in martial arts, worshiping under the martial arts master of Tianji Mountain, and later being appreciated by the emperor and becoming a disciple of the closed door, which was a great honor even for the royal family.

The noble concubine hated the queen even more, and she thought that the only thing that stood in the way of her children's seizure of power was the difference in identity between her and the queen. If she can be an empress, his children are from the Middle Palace, and there is no distinction between concubines.

As the days passed, the empress's children became more and more pleasing to the emperor, and even the emperor often went to the empress's palace.

The fire of jealousy eventually annihilated the old sisterly affection.

The noble concubine did something to the queen, who was pregnant at the time, and she first lost her child by drinking the slippery tire medicine, and married the queen who boiled soup every day, and then buried the witches in the queen's palace, framing her for causing trouble in the harem with witchcraft.

Although the emperor did not believe that the empress's nature could do these things, this succession of events made him completely lose trust and patience with the empress, deposed her and beat her into the cold palace.

The noble concubine was very proud, full of hope that she would be admitted to the middle palace, and did not go to see her sister.

But when the emperor was older, Xu saw clearly some things, and instead of appointing a noble concubine as a queen, he set up an inconspicuous concubine for the sake of the harem and tranquility, and there was no dispute.

And gave her sister's crown prince to the future empress to raise, and at the same time gave her sister in the cold palace a white aya.

At this time, the noble concubine woke up, she did not really want her sister to die, she heard the news, and rushed to the cold palace.

Sadly, her sister's body was cold.

And the noble concubine trembled and trembled, and lived all her life in the desire to seize power and the guilt of her sister.

When I heard this, sadness was like a thin and long thread, wrapped around my heart, and it became more and more chaotic.

"Say something lighter, Hongu wants to listen to mythological stories," I said on Grandma Chen's lap.

Aunt Chen smiled and responded, but I couldn't listen to her next sentence.

I forgot that I was still watching the age, drifting off to sleep, and when I woke up, it was dark all around.

Bai Zhi was snoring beside me, her mouth muttering one by one.

Aunt Chen maintained her original posture and fell asleep with her back against the wall. I covered her with a blanket, and the charcoal fire in the house crackled and burned vigorously.

I crept down to the ground and took a large piece of the bed and draped it over my body.

He probably didn't expect me to push open the door, standing under the plum blossom tree in the courtyard, he was obviously stunned, and then he smiled and called softly, "Ah He." ”

"Is there anything wrong with the Emperor?"

"Nothing, Just suddenly remembered the New Year of the previous two years, there was Ah He by his side."

Under the moonlit night, Xiao Yun's body was covered with a layer of clear light, hazy like a fairy in the middle of the moon who had strayed into the mortal world, and the next second it was going to rise up.

"Isn't it cold?" I asked.

"It's cold, it's been cold all the time." His beautiful peach blossom eyes are like dot paint, deep and invisible.

Next, he resumed his previous nonsense.

"So Ah Ho wants her husband to go in and sit down?"

"Bai Zhi and Grandma Chen both rested."

My implication was to send a guest, but Xiao Yun understood, "Indeed, there should be no one else to get along with Ah He." ”

The cold wind blew, and I froze stiffly, sneezing, "Go to the concubine's house." ”

Xiao Yun had an unclear smile on his face, was Ah He in——""

"Nope!" I interrupted him and invited the Buddha into my room.

I inadvertently touched his fingertips, and the coolness had reached my bone marrow.

"The concubines went to give the emperor hot water."

Xiao Yun nodded and lay freely on my bed, like a golden and elegant cat, "I'm hungry." ”

I looked back at him, and this Buddha had been invited in the door by himself, and he had to wait for him to kneel.

"Wait." I said helplessly.

Not long after, I brought a bowl of steaming noodles, "In the middle of the night, the emperor will order it." ”

Xiao Yun sat down at the table, after eating most of it, he put down his chopsticks and did not forget to comment, "It's not bad, it tastes too light." ”

"Before, Empress Wang was demoted to the Cold Palace, and it was jiaolan Palace that lived, right?" I stared at his face.

Xiao Yun didn't have any waves, "Yeah, are you used to living?" This is the prison in the memories of the year when she was eight years old, and it was here that her mother and concubine were given death by her father. ”

He was as calm as if he were talking about a sparse and ordinary trifle.

Then he said, "Ah Ho, are you afraid?" But it wasn't meant to scare you. I think that if you live here and like you, you will naturally not be afraid of eating people's Pepperland Temple. ”

Then he embraced me and said, "Ah Ho, don't leave me like a mother-in-law. ”

"You promised to go, okay?"

"Okay?"

I didn't answer, leaving him to ask questions again and again.

I laughed and said, "My mother also left me and left, and Your Majesty wants to warm up with the two people who are sick and pity each other, but unfortunately, after my mother left, my heart could not get warm." ”

Xiao Yun heard the words, his face was a little dark, and he walked away without a word.

11

In the new year, when I was twenty years old, I was a Concubine Song who lived in the Jiaolan Palace, but I was no longer a Concubine Song who lived in the Cold Palace.

Because, Xiao Yun ran here at both ends for three days.

The days seemed to return to the original mode of getting along with Xiao Yun, we talked about music theory in the courtyard, and wrote poems against each other, but did not mention love and being loved.

My eyelids have been jumping since the beginning of spring, and I am worried about Xiao Yan.

Although I can often see Xiao Yun, if I ask him, it will undoubtedly make Xiao Yan fall into a more difficult situation.

"Ah Ho, it's your turn."

I looked back and grabbed a sunspot and landed on the chessboard.

Xiao Yun smiled lightly, "You were absent-minded today, how many times have you been caught?" ”

"Some of the concubines are unwell." I prevaricated.

"Discomfort? Then rest. Xiao Yun stood up, as if ready to leave.

"Emperor Xie." I got up and performed a salute, "This chess game has to be played with the emperor on another day." ”

"No, Aho, you've already lost." Xiao Yun pointed to the chessboard and smiled, "You see, you didn't realize that Baizi didn't show the mountains and didn't show water, but he could besiege Kuroko a few more times, and Kuroko was already in a desperate situation, and there was no chance to turn around." ”

There is no chance of turning around. These few words Xiao Yun said were particularly heavy.

"Xiao Yan, did he mean Xiao Yan?"

As soon as Xiao Yun left, I pulled Bai Zhi and asked, feeling inexplicably panicked, as if something had fallen.

"Niangniang, the emperor is just playing chess with you." Bai Zhi helped me sit down and poured me a cup of tea, "Niangniang, you read that one every day, so that you can think of him in everything." ”

"Hongu Xu is a demon," I rubbed my temples, "but Hongu is really more at ease with him, it is reasonable to say that winning a battle and losing a battle should have a quasi-letter, how can there be no news at all." ”

"The only thing Niangniang can do now is to wait." In this palace wall, if someone deliberately blocked the news, Niangniang could not do anything. Lord Song could not help Niangniang inquire. ”

My dad couldn't count on it, but there was someone who could. I finally settled on the previous inner wobble.

"Why should I help you?" When Xu Yue'er said this, her hand was propped behind her waist, and she held up a big belly, "Help you, what good do I have?" ”

I had already seen from the last autumn hunt that Xu Yue'er must still be hiding a force that could be used by her and help her to contact the outside world, so I found her.

"I can keep the fetus in your womb safe."

Xu Yue'er seemed to have heard some funny words, "You protect me? It's good if you don't hurt me. ”

"Then I can't do anything to the fetus in your womb, and if you don't appreciate it, I'll poison it."

Threats always work.

Xu Yue'er listened to the words, the smile on her face froze, even though she wanted to look as peaceful as possible, but her face was still a little pale.

"This is a dragon species, aren't you afraid that the emperor will question you?"

"You can try."

I mean, you can try to take that risk, but it's not worth the loss.

Later, Bai Zhi told me that when I said this, she heard my taste of pampering and arrogance, and thought I was showing off.

The words do not meet the expectations, but fortunately, the effect is still there.

"Help you once!" Xu Yue'er gritted her teeth.

After waiting for three days, I waited for Xiao Yan's news.

The two armies fought and stalemate, and Xiao Yan gradually regained the original lost power, recovering the fallen city along the way.

In the key battle, the State of Dayang besieged Yanguan City, which was a fortress southward for Dayang, and if it could be captured, it could be used as a stronghold to radiate around. If it could not be attacked, it could use delaying tactics to consume the main force under Xiao Yan in the city.

Therefore, the Great Yang State poured all its strength into attacking the city.

Reinforcements had not yet arrived, and the city was short of food and grass, and it was almost exhausted.

Xiao Yan finally chose to lead the army to break through and face the enemy head-on.

It was something he could do, and he would rather fight with his life than sit still.

He gambled and won, and the soldiers trapped in the city fought a battle against the water, counterattacked in a desperate situation, supplemented by Xiao Yan's excellent military layout, with less victories and more victories, the Great Yang State was defeated, and the troops retreated.

When commander Xiao Yan stood under the military flag, people found that the body of the mighty shore was already full of knife wounds, and a feather arrow was stabbing him in the chest.

Xiao Yan fell, and he was in danger.

When Xu Yue'er's secret agent came to report, I couldn't stop trembling, and Bai Zhi rushed to support me.

"The Great Yang State has done its best to attack, how can Xiao Yun despise it, who believes that reinforcements have not arrived?" Xiao Yun deliberately forced him into a desperate situation. "I almost lost my cool," Bai Zhi, I was so worried about Xiao Yan. ”

"Niangniang is cautious, these words fall into the ears of people with hearts, and the consequences are unimaginable." Even if Bai Zhi had a simple mind, he knew that passing out these words was a big sin of losing his head.

But I didn't care anymore, Xiao Yan's weight in my heart had already surpassed everything, and I was afraid of losing him, very afraid.

"Has the imperial doctor in the palace seen it?"

The secret agent nodded, "But the situation is not optimistic. ”

"Tianji Mountain, Master Tanyue of Tianji Mountain, Master Xiao Yan will definitely have a way!" I suddenly thought, hurriedly said, "Xiao Yan, did you send someone to please?" ”

"This little man has not heard that Prince Yan's palace has not moved for a few days."

After the secret agent withdrew, I repaired a letter and handed it to Bai Zhi with a token, asking her to find a way to find Zhuo Yang, the commander of the Forbidden Army. Zhuo Yang is Xiao Yan's brother in Tianji Mountain. In the past, every time I sneaked into the palace with Xiao Yan, I always relied on his protection and had some friendship.

Bai Zhi came back in the evening, and she took off the palace maid clothes of the Shangyi Bureau, "Niangniang's affairs are done." Thanks to the old people who used to serve in our temple, I found Lord Zhuo Yang under the pretext of measuring clothes. ”

"That's fine." Bai Zhi was quick to do things, and my heart was slightly stable, and I asked, "Does Zhuo Yang let you bring words?" ”

After reading the letter, he said that Prince Yan's palace had secretly invited Grandmaster Tanyue earlier, but he did not make a public announcement. At present, Prince Yan is seriously injured, and he is almost scattered. This golden creation was a tribute to the southern kingdom, and a group of old courtiers wrote to the emperor to ask for medicine, but the emperor did not respond..."

In the evening, Xiao Yun came to Jiaolan Palace for dinner, and I asked a group of maids to retire and poured him a glass of wine.

I said, "Yanguancheng was besieged for half a month, the commander led the crowd to break through, and the great victory was injured, which solved the crisis in the north." If His Majesty did not even want to give him a life-saving Golden Creation, and was he not afraid of chilling the hearts of the frontier soldiers and courtiers? ”

Xiao Yun's slender fingers lifted my chin and approached, "So you can speak the Tao, and sure enough, when it comes to Xiao Yan, your gentleness and obedience, and your subtlety and clumsiness are gone." ”

"Xiao Yun, please save him."

"How can you be stingy with the tributes of the southern kingdom?" He smiled, "But Ah He, everything has a price, you should take the form of asking for someone." ”

I whispered, "What do you want me to do?" ”

He choked my jaw, "I want you to have only one person left in your world, and I want you not to leave this life and this life, and from now on you will become a canary in a cage." ”

"Xiao Yun, you are really ridiculous now."

"Ah He, you should know that Shuo likes you, and Shuo has never been able to get anything." He nibbled at my lips, "But you don't know what to do again and again, what can you do, kill you?" I don't want to. ”

I wrapped my arms around his neck, kissed him behind his ear, and whispered, "Okay, back, we're together." ”

Xiao Yun heard my answer and seemed extremely excited, and he called my name over and over again and held me tightly in his arms.

Well, after that, we fell into the darkness together.

12

Outside Prince Yan's mansion, carriage.

Xiao Yun hugged me from behind and pressed his face to my shoulder.

"It's here." I couldn't break free.

"So fast?" Ke Shuo was still reluctant to let you go and say goodbye to Xiao Yan. In a provocative tone, he bit down my neck, his slender fingers flicking back and forth across my shoulder line.

I held on and didn't move.

After a long time, he let go of his hand and threw Jin Chuangshan to me.

I straightened my clothes and took the hat I had prepared earlier on the carriage, but Xiao Yun sneered, "Put it down, let Xiao Yan take a good look at Ah He." ”

I lightly touched the red mark on my neck and understood Xiao Yun's intentions, and the tears of humiliation slipped silently at the moment.

Xiao Yun handed over a handkerchief and said softly, "How to cry, Ah He, you can also choose not to go." I didn't force you. ”

I didn't answer and got out of the car.

Just a few steps out, the dark guards of the palace stopped me.

With a dagger attached to the back of my neck, I settled my mind and said, "I'll come to see Prince Yan." ”

Xiao Yan's dark guard saw clearly that it was me, "Miss Song, come down with your subordinates." ”

After the dark guard led me into the courtyard, I disappeared ghostly, and in my hurry, the butler of the palace greeted me, "Concubine Song Niangniang." ”

"What about the prince?"

"Niangniang waited a little while, Grandmaster Tanyue of Tianji Mountain was in the house to heal Wang Ye's wounds."

"How is he injured?"

"It's not good, but with Grandmaster Tanyue here, don't worry." The butler said, "In the next step, lead the lady to wait outside the prince's house." ”

I followed him through the corridor in the courtyard, "Why are there so many fewer people in the palace?" ”

He Butler smiled bitterly, "Today's Wang Ye is no longer the Prince of the past." ”

When I got to the door of Xiao Yan's house, I gave the medicine bottle to He Butler, "This is Jin Chuangshan, put it on Xiao Yan." ”

"Jin Chuangshan?" Butler He was astonished, "Niangniang asked Your Majesty for help..."

I nodded, "I'll go first, don't tell Xiao Yan that I've come." ”

"Didn't Niangniang come to see Wang Ye..."

I was about to turn around and leave when the door behind me was opened, "Concubine Song, since you came, why don't you go in?" ”

I looked back and saw a crane with a childlike face, and an old man with a strong spirit caressing his long beard and smiling kindly.

I performed a slight salute, "Master Tanyue, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

So, I entered the house and saw Xiao Yan.

He sat on the bed, leaning against the wall, with a layer of white gauze wrapped around his chest, and the contours on his face were a little deeper.

He moved his dry lips and said unnaturally, "Concubine Song." ”

Tan Yue laughed and patted him on the shoulder, almost touching his wound, and I was shocked to see it.

"You boy, do you still want to hide from the teacher?" Tan Yue pointed at me, "Ah Yan, when you were clamoring to go down the mountain, it was for this girl, right?" ”

"Master!" Xiao Yan's pale face was a little more bloody.

"It's said that the center is not happy?" Tan Yue looked at his chest with a look of understanding, "For the master, there is still something to do, go first." ”

After the Grandmaster left, Xiao Yan looked at me, and the room was quiet.

"Is your injury okay?" I asked.

"It's all right," he looked away, "just what my master said, don't take it to heart." How did you get out of the palace? ”

"I'll give you the gold creation."

Xiao Yan frowned, "How could Xiao Yun give it to you, what conditions did you promise him?" ”

I lowered my head, I could still feel the deep gaze of Xiao Yan's eyes, he did not speak for a long time, Xu noticed the marks on my neck.

"It's not worth it." He paused, his voice low, "Ah Ho suffered a lot, didn't he?" ”

I just felt a sour throat and lowered my head and said, "I'm not afraid." ”

"But I'm afraid." There was an indissoluble bitterness in Xiao Yan's words, "After the last autumn hunt, Xiao Yun abolished your back seat and demoted you to the Cold Palace, if he didn't think about it..."

Suddenly, he coughed violently, and I was about to go up to help him breathe, but he raised his hand to stop it and wouldn't let me get close.

As I listened to him, my heart felt like it had fallen to the bottom.

"When you were young and crazy, Xiao Yun snatched you from me. I couldn't swallow that breath since then, Ah Ho, I like you, but I'm sorry for you. The corners of Xiao Yan's mouth smiled bitterly, "I know it's a fire pit, but I still lure you forward step by step." ”

I shook my head with tears in my eyes, I wanted to say that this was not the case, even if it was poison, I was willing to eat it.

"Ah Ho, I regret it." He closed his eyes and whispered, "I shouldn't have asked for too much, I shouldn't have hurt you." ”

I was in a trance, remembering the bright teenager, the handsome teenager who took me out of the dull mansion and was carefree.

"Brother Yan, do you want to be emperor?"

"I don't want to." He opened his eyes and pulled out a smile, "Ah Ho don't do stupid things, Brother Yan only wishes you well in this life." ”

"Xiao Yun already hated you, and now that you hold the military power in the Northern Realm, he certainly can't tolerate you."

Xiao Yan wanted to reassure me and comforted, "The only thing he can do is suppress, if he wants to take my life, he will have already done it." ”

"But—"

"Promise me, you must save yourself, otherwise Brother Yan will go to Xiao Yun to avenge even if he fights for his life." Xiao Yan said in a warm voice, "In the future, Ah He will not come to me again." Two months later, it was my big wedding day. ”

Before noon, I left the house, and the sun was so harsh that I couldn't open my eyes.

The carriage was parked there.

I lifted the curtain and there was only one person in the car.

His face was like white jade covered with a layer of light powder, and a pair of deep and dark eyes were cold and indifferent, stained with some emotions, and his face was cold.

For a moment there was silence all around, and I got into the carriage, and my heart was like ashes.

"Ah Ho, how did you go so long?" Is it talking to Xiao Yan about love, and it is difficult to give up? Did he touch you? ”

The moment the curtain was lowered, Xiao Yun slammed me hard into the carriage board.

I looked at him coldly, and the handsome face in front of me looked like a demon from hell. He immediately pressed my lips fiercely, repeatedly tearing and biting at my lips, as if he had set his long-twisted and sickly love on fire and burned it hot and crisp.

No longer rational, Xiao Yun tore at my shirt and occupied every inch of my body.

"Did Xiao Yan tell you that he didn't refuse to marry him this time?" He buried his face in my neck socket, and his voice was dull, "Soon Xiao Yan will forget you, Ah He, you see, Xiao Yan doesn't want you, your father doesn't want you, it's really pitiful." ”

"Isn't It the same with Your Majesty, there are no two people around who treat each other sincerely."

"But in the future, I will have you by my side."

I said contemptuously, "Emperor, the heart of the concubine is gone, and everything else can be handed over to you, even if it is a life." ”

I suffocated into the waters of his deep pool, once again covered by his lips and tongue.

I did not return to Jiaolan Palace.

Xiao Yun locked me up in a dimly lit palace, and I didn't know where it was, or even the hour.

Everything was isolated from the outside world, and I didn't see anyone except Xiao Yun. Little by little, my heart was worn away, and I pounced on the strange palace people who came to deliver the meal, and they pulled me away coldly and politely, "Niangniang, please use it slowly." ”

I became timid and vulnerable, so sensitive that even the slightest noise would be startled into tears.

I also became sleepy, opening my eyes and closing my eyes to Xiao Yun.

"Xiao Yun, you accompany me, okay?"

He kissed my forehead softly, a little puzzled, "It's time to go up early, and I'll see Ah Ho later." ”

When I heard him refuse, I couldn't stop crying, and I would even go all day without eating, and at the end of the day, he had to stay again and again.

After Xiao Yun left, every day I secretly extinguished the incense that the maid had changed.

After familiarizing myself with the dim light of the palace, I found a box of old spices in the temple to replace the incense that made me dizzy.

He didn't know that shortly after being imprisoned, I had discovered the problem of incense in the temple.

If he wants me to be obedient, why bother?

I began to disguise myself perfectly, pretending to be inseparable from him, pretending to be deeply attached to him.

It is ridiculous that he was so obsessed with me like this.

When he fell asleep, my slender fingernails touched his heart, thinking that if I stabbed the knife into it, xiao yun, who was immortal, and xiao yun who was strategizing, would die.

He probably felt a slight itch and shook my hand and called my name.

I smiled and lay on his chest, and walked to this step, Xiao Yun, who is imprisoning whom?

If Xiao Yun came to see me every day, and every time he came, I carved a trace on the bed board, then it would be more than two months after I saw Bai Zhi again.

"Niangniang, Niangniang, Bai Zhi hugged me, crying uncontrollably, Bai Zhi missed you so much."

But I was in a trance for a long time without speaking, and I said, "Are you Bai Zhi?" ”

She pumped and responded.

The drowsiness of the past few days made me unresponsive, and after a while I regained consciousness and hugged her tightly, "Are you okay with Grandma Chen?" Have you been dragged down by me? ”

"Niangniang, Slave Maid and Grandma Chen are also still in the Jiaolan Hall." They all said, Niangniang, you were imprisoned by the emperor in the court, and the slave maid and the grandmother did not believe it. The slave maid did not expect to go to Xu Yue'er, did not think that Xu Yue'er actually sent someone to inquire, and learned where Niangniang was imprisoned. ”

"Tuck the court?"

Why did Xiao Yun make up that I was in the court?

I said, "Bai Zhi, do you have any news about Xiao Yan?" ”

Bai Zhi shook her head blankly, "Slave Lady only heard that Prince Yan was taken to Tianji Mountain by Master Tanyue to heal his wounds." ”

"When did the news of my admission to the court spread?"

Just a few days ago, no one knew where Niangniang had gone, and the palace people even thought that Niangniang had been secretly killed by the emperor. But two days ago, the news in the palace about Niangniang being imprisoned in the court somehow came out again. ”

A voice suddenly appeared in my ear, "You must save yourself, otherwise Brother Yan will go to Xiao Yun to avenge even if he fights for his life", and at the moment it is like a heavy stone pressing on my heart.

I thought of the worst possibility, all this is not a coincidence, it is Xiao Yun's intention.

"Bai Zhi, this matter may be deceitful. I wrote a letter to Xiao Yan, and you handed this letter to Zhuo Yang, the palace guard in front of the palace, who had always made good friends with Xiao Yan, and you told him that this letter was related to Xiao Yan's life, and if he believed it, he could open the letter and check it, but asked him to personally hand it over to Xiao Yan. ”

Bai Zhi saw my nervous look and busied herself with the promise, "Wrap it around the slave maid." ”

Soon, Bai Zhi left with my letter.

In my letter, I briefly reported peace and reassured Xiao Yan not to act rashly.

Xiao Yan's military power, Xiao Yun will definitely take it back, but in what way he wants to take it, it is unknown.

Vaguely, I felt that Xiao Yun was gambling, and he set a trap to bet that Xiao Yan would come to rebel once, then he could naturally remove Xiao Yan and his henchmen clean, and he would not be stained with a little stigma.

I suddenly thought, how did Bai Zhifang enter the house?

A doubt arose in my heart, it was reasonable to say that there should be guards and palace maids outside the palace, and Bai Zhi was the maid beside me, and it was impossible to enter the temple door so easily.

I thought about it, and she didn't mention how she got in.

Are all the guards outside gone? Waiting for her to come to me?

In addition, it was Xu Yue'er who sent someone to find out about this place. Xu Yue'er would not harm me, but Xiao Yun dared to keep her around, and she must have planted eyeliner. Didn't Xiao Yun know about this?

I was so distraught, so weird, that everything was so easy that someone had deliberately designed it.

I was worried, I wish I was worried about it, Bai Zhi must not be in trouble.

13

Every minute and second here is very difficult.

I didn't think that I hadn't waited for Xiao Yun that day, but another person pushed open the door of the temple.

He was full of white hair and a thin face, and respectfully performed a salute, "Concubine Song Niangniang." ”

I looked at him, he was getting a lot older, "Daddy. ”

A little smile appeared on Song Min's cold face, "Ah He, you stay here in peace, in a few days, as soon as Xiao Yan dies, the emperor will be able to treat you wholeheartedly and give you the supreme honor." ”

"What happened to Xiao Yan?" I was fiercely together, and suddenly my eyes were black.

Song Min helped me, "Concubine Song, the courtiers have spoken to the emperor and released your false news in the court, and you said that Xiao Yan intended to rebel because you would break into the palace gates?" ”

"You really... Is it my dad? I looked at him in disbelief, and suddenly a spirit of excitement, "What about Bai Zhi? What happened to bai zhi? ””

"Don't worry, I also brought Bai Zhi's head." He shouted outside the house and brought it in.

Bai Zhi was covered in blood from the execution, and she was carried by two guards and thrown to the ground.

I pounced on her, knelt on the ground, and caressed her skinny little face, "Bai Zhi, Bai Zhi," I called out to her in a loud voice.

"This lady has a hard mouth, and why won't she tell me what the identity of the concubine who has helped you so many times is?" Song Min held my shoulder and said, Bai Zhi swallowed for a long time, and the body began to decompose.

"Concubine Song, when the councillors are waiting, they will send someone to drag her out to feed the wild dogs, and they will not stain Niangniang's eyes at all."

"Song Min, be cruel to your heart," my voice trembled, "do you remember that I am your daughter?" ”

"Ah He, you have upset the emperor, deposed your throne, and been relegated to the Cold Palace." What use does your father want a daughter like you to pave the way for the Song Dynasty?

Do you know how much effort your father had to put into you and how many things to plan in the previous dynasty to save the Song Dynasty from the mistakes you committed willfully? ”

"You're not my father, you killed Bai Zhi, I can't spare you!" The moment I pounced on him, the guards pressed me down, and Song Min told them to be careful not to hurt me, and told me again.

I don't know how long it took, Song Min had already left, and a maid came in to take Bai Zhi away.

I held her deadly and did not let go, and I lost the biggest temper in my life, and I told them not to come close, even to death.

Under the stalemate, I was hit in the back and fainted.

When I woke up, I was lying on the ground, the room was still pitch black, it was a dream, and I told myself over and over again that it was a dream.

However, Bai Zhi's handkerchief fell next to me, and I slowly picked it up, and there was Bai Zhi's blood on it.

She could read and write, and she drew a circle crookedly on that handkerchief, replacing ink with blood.

When I taught her to learn to read, I had agreed with her, circle, represent the completion...

She delivered the letter, but she never came back.

I held the handkerchief tightly, and my heart was like a knife.

Until Xiao Yun came, I didn't even notice it, and he hugged me into his arms and was silent.

For the first time, I knew that someone's arms could be so cold.

I couldn't stand the blow and sat in bed all day with a blank in my mind.

"Concubine Song, the slave maid was ordered to take Concubine Song out."

Princess Song?

She was calling me, and I looked at her blankly and said, "Bai Zhi? ”

"The slave is a tea face." She did not move, "The slave maid came to take Niangniang out on the orders of the emperor." ”

Seeing that I did not respond, Cha Yan motioned for the two maids to lift me up.

That day I saw the sun outside the house again, but I could no longer feel the warmth, as if I was in an ice cave.

I returned to Jiaolan Palace, and when Grandma Chen took my hand, I said to her, "Grandma, Bai Zhi is gone." ”

I fell on my lap and cried so hard that I couldn't help myself, and she sighed and stroked my hair over and over again.

There were more unfamiliar faces coming from Jiaolan Palace, which made me very uneasy, and I would throw something and tell them to go out.

Aunt Chen took full care of me, and the new maids were also arranged by her to do some chores to sweep the courtyard.

Xiao Yun came to see me, and every time I saw him, I instinctively wanted to back down. As long as he approached, I was even more reminded of the endless darkness, trembling for no reason.

But whenever he appears, it always makes me sober up a lot, remembering that I played him in the applause, I should not be depressed and destroy everything I had planned before.

I still acted out to be attached to Xiao Yun, but Xiao Yun was not satisfied, and he wanted me to change back into the gentle and smiling Ah He who had been before. He tried so hard to be nice to me, as if hoping that I would simply forget the memory of that period of captivity, and only remember that I "loved" him.

On my twentieth birthday, Xiao Yunminggong brought four or five boxes of jewelry.

In the evening, I set up a banquet in the palace.

Xiao Yun came early, "Ah He, do you like the things you sent you?" ”

I nodded lowly.

"Today is your birthday, Ah He, why are you not happy, why don't you smile?" Xiao Yun took my hand and touched my face, "Is it because there are too many people, you are afraid?" It was not noticed. "Saying that, he retreated to the palace maid beside him,

I suddenly caught his eye, "I think I'm a mother." ”

Xiao Yun was slightly embarrassed, so he smiled and hugged me into his arms, "Today is Ah He's birthday, and your mother and father should be very happy." ”

"You said it would be nice if she was still around."

"It's all gone, Ah Ho, now you have the Fallen." He kissed my hair.

I broke away from his arms, gave him a dish, and filled him with wine.

He touched the wine glass to his lips and stared at me for a moment, then his fingers loosened.

The glass landed, and I was unusually calm and smiled, "What's wrong?" Afraid I'll be poisoned? ”

"How? Just didn't hold it steady. Xiao Yun poured a glass of wine again and drank it to make amends for my sins.

I laughed and said coldly, "No wonder you said that in the past, people are easy to spare themselves for their sins, aren't they?" ”

A trace of sadness flashed across Xiao Yun's face, and he laughed like a dream, "I hurt your mother, you have always hated me, how can you have any sincerity towards me?" ”

"Yes, I hate you." I picked up my glass, "Your glass of wine today was indeed poisoned, but then I thought that living might torture you even more." ”

As soon as I finished drinking, my eyes quickly blurred.

When I woke up, Grandma Chen was standing by my bedside.

"How does The lady feel?" She poured me a glass of water and brought it to me.

"I forgot about you." Grandma Chen, it was you who changed my wine. I said, "You have taken good care of me over the years, almost making me forget that you are Xiao Yun's person." ”

, you... Turns out you all know... But the old slave had always been loyal to the mother-in-law. ”

Halfway through her speech, she suddenly choked up in her throat and couldn't say anything.

Candles flickered in the house, and large shadows appeared on the walls.

"Niangniang can punish the old slave in any way, and ask Niangniang not to drive away the old slave, so that the old slave can stay by Niangniang's side and wait to make up for her sins."

I said coldly, "You must remember that in the future, your master, I am alone." ”

"Yes yes yes, don't be angry." Aunt Chen hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "Niangniang, you are a month pregnant." ”

"Does Xiao Yun know?"

"As early as when the doctor saw Niangniang, the emperor knew about it."

"Mama, why are you crying?"

"Nothing, the old body is happy." Aunt Chen obviously looked at the sad qi, but she pulled out a hard laugh, "This child..."

Looking at the way she wanted to talk and stop, I said, "He is innocent." ”

"Tomorrow you will call the new maid to me, and I will personally arrange the affairs of the Jiaolan Temple."

The next day Xiao Yun came.

He begged me to look for the sake of the child, not to seek death, otherwise he would let the whole Song Mansion give me a funeral.

I looked at him coldly and let him say anything I ignored.

Suddenly, he grabbed my hand and approached me, "Ah Ho, you know what? Xiao Yan rebelled and was imprisoned. Do you want to go and see him? ”

"Xiao Yan?"

He laughed, "Yes. ”

In the drowsy death row, Xiao Yan was shackled, and even though he was injured, he still had a straight posture.

"Sixth brother, you see that Concubine Song has come to see you."

Xiao Yan saw me, and her eyes were full of pain and reluctance, "What did you do to her?" ”

In an instant, he was pressed down hard by the guards, "Xiao Yun! Is this how you treat your loved ones? ”

"It's all because of you." Xiao Yun said lightly, and ordered his father-in-law to send a cup of poisonous wine to Xiao Yan.

I saw Zhuo Yang standing next to Xiao Yun and instantly understood my innocence. Even if Bai Zhi's letter was sent out, could this high-powered dui Zhuo Yang, relying only on the friendship of learning art when he was young, give up this opportunity to make a contribution to Xiao Yun and pass the letter to Xiao Yan?

I weakly knelt on the ground and pulled on Xiao Yun's shirt, "Xiao Yun begs you not to kill him, okay?" You let him go, let me do anything? ”

"Does that make you like Shangyuan?" Above my head came Xiao Yun's voice with pity.

"I'll work hard, Xiao Yun, Ah Ho begs you."

"Boom—"

The sound of the wine glass falling to the ground was crisp.

Xiao Yan had already drunk the poisonous wine——

He raised his chin and smiled lightly, "Ah He, if there is an afterlife, I would like to marry you and find a village pastoral, I will be a chai man hunter, you sew clothes and weave cloth at home, we are white-headed and old, until death." ”

I cried out with tears in my heart, "Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, don't leave me alone." ”

He was endlessly gentle in his eyes, as if to say, little crying bag, don't be sad, this is my ending.

"Come, send Concubine Song back."

I was sick, I was sick all day, I always dreamed of those warm years in the past, my mother would make me my favorite mung bean cake, Bai Zhi would play tricks with me, and the teenager Xiao Yan handed me sugar gourds, and we walked around the lively street market...

Everything in the dream was so beautiful that I didn't even want to wake up.

"Ah Ho, drink the medicine."

I leaned against a thick chest, and Xiao Yun said softly, "Well, drink the medicine." ”

I slowly raised my hand and slammed the medicine bowl on the ground with all my strength, "You go, I don't want to see you again." ”

The medicinal juice splashed on his snow-white robe, and even though he became emperor, he rarely wore imperial clothes except for the upper court.

Xiao Yun didn't have a hint of anger, "It's not okay to be so foolish, Grandma Chen is old, Ah He, you said that she still has to take care of you is very hard?" ”

I looked up at him, "What do you want to do?" ”

"Ah He is disobedient, and he is reluctant to punish Ah He, so what should he do?" A smile flashed on his lips, leaving a shallow kiss on my forehead.

"I drink."

He raised his hand satisfactorily, and when the next person brought a bowl of black soup again, I snatched it up and drank it all.

Bitterness spread between my lips, and a little bit of medicine flowed down my neck.

"Slow down." Xiao Yun patted me on the back.

"Xiao Yun, now I'm only left with Grandma Chen." If she's gone, I'd rather die. ”

"As long as you obey, you won't touch her."

He laughed in vain, "The people you care about have never fallen." ”

Xiao Yun left.

I looked at his thin back, the long belt behind his waist moving with the gentle movement of the steps, and the outlined body became more and more ethereal and moving, not blasphemous, like a fairy.

But only I knew that he had already become a fallen immortal, a morbid and twisted demon.

14

As the days passed, I was seriously ill, and I just happened to have a few clever maids by my side, and deployed the Jiaolan Palace much more tightly, and everything sent by the palace concubine had to be carefully examined layer by layer. As for the daily food, Grandma Chen is all responsible.

I acted very normally, but I was no longer willing to pay attention to Xiao Yun.

Taking into account my childhood feelings, I took good care of Yue Concubine, allocating seven or eight people to take care of Yue Concubine, and at the same time sending nourishing medicinal materials.

The last time I helped Bai Zhi to hear about my detention, Xiao Yun did not punish her on the surface, but in fact, she had already forced her into a desperate situation. He reduced a large number of the palace people in her palace, not to mention, but also cut off her prescription for fetal safety. Xu Yue'er's physique is weak, and giving birth to her is a ghost door, and there is no need for tonic hanging, which is equivalent to directly killing her.

I asked people to watch her and not let her walk around the temple door.

So careful, but she still had an accident.

On the day of Xiao Yun's birthday, Xu Yue'er personally made a bowl of longevity noodles to send, and when she returned, she was actually hit by a small eunuch in the imperial garden, fell to the ground, and most of the blood flowed.

Xu Yue'er was inevitably premature.

When I arrived at her temple, there was already a stable wife trying to help her deliver the baby.

Xu Yue'er was sweating in pain and screamed uncontrollably.

I took her hand and said to her, "Xu Jiaojiao, you give me persistence and long ambition." ”

The room smelled of blood, the hot water was changed in a basin, and I pressed the discomfort and nausea.

Suddenly, Wen Po picked up the scissors and stabbed xu Yue'er's stomach.

"Unbridled! What are you doing? ”

I kicked the mother-in-law, and she was so frightened by me that she fell to her knees and prostrated her head on the ground, "Concubine Yue is difficult to give birth, according to the rules of this palace, of course, it is to ... Dragon species come first. ”

"Ridiculous! If concubine Yue dies of difficult childbirth, then you will definitely not live today. ”

"If the child is not blessed to survive, it is fate, and the palace will persuade the emperor to say a few words and take full responsibility."

"Do you understand?"

The stable mother said yes again and again, and got up to continue to work.

Until sunset, I didn't see Xiao Yun's figure, and I was cold to him.

Xu Yue'er's child was not saved after all.

"Song Qianhe, thank you."

When I was about to leave, Xu Yue'er stopped me, and the afterglow of dusk dispersed into the house.

When I grew up, I saw her see for the first time that there was no hostility or hatred in my eyes, and she laughed weakly, "I really didn't expect that the last person who stayed with me would be you." ”

"I thought he had some affection for me, but I didn't think that I was just a hole card in his hand to contain Song Min."

I stood quietly where I was, listening to her.

"You say, I'm Xu Yue'er, no, it's Xu Jiaojiao, wouldn't it be ridiculous?"

"Song Qianhe, I was originally jealous of the emperor's favor for you, but now I am not jealous at all, you are also bitter, and maybe you will suffer for a lifetime."

"I will soon see my father and brother, but before that, I will rehabilitate Zhaoxue for Xu Fu, who died unjustly, and sacrifice the bones of my loyal servants of Xu Mansion with the death of the wicked."

"If you're still thinking about some of the sisterhood of the old days, don't meddle in what I'm going to do next."

On the way back to Jiaolan Palace, I met Xiao Yun, he grabbed my hand, looked at the red and purple nail marks on it, he was displeased, "You are also the one who wants to be a mother, why are you still so simple-minded?" ”

For the first time these days, I spoke to him, "Emperor, why didn't you go to see Concubine Yue today?" Did you know that her life was almost lost? ”

Xiao Yunfeng smiled lightly, "Today, the envoys of the Great Central State have come to discuss peace, and the matter is so big that they really can't leave." ”

"If a concubine encounters state affairs when she is giving birth, the emperor should of course also attach importance to state affairs, and the concubines will never dare to blame them."

He thought I was just playing with my temper, and coaxed softly, "Of course, Ah He is different from other women, even if there is a big thing, in any moment when you need to be born, you will be there." ”

His words seemed to be as sweet as a layer of honey, but I saw the sharp knife shining cold under the layer of honey.

Xiao Yun was only gentle and spoiled when he faced me, but I should not forget that he should be a cold-hearted and very skillful person to get to this day.

To Xu Yue'er or other concubines, his exclusive favor for me is undoubtedly as cold and ruthless as arsenic.

People always pursue things that they can't get, if there is no mother-killing vendetta between me and him, I like Xiao Yun, if I go to the point of looking at each other and hating each other, will he not hesitate to hurt me more deeply?

Xu Yue'er was as direct and brave as her nature, and she broke into the palace early one day.

Because the officials and officials are protective, if she hands over the evidence of the crime to the Dali Temple or the Punishment Department for trial, it is difficult to ensure that there are no Song Min's manpower, he can mediate from it, and keep this matter secret, and in the end, I am afraid that it will be difficult to overturn the case, but it will hit the grass and snake.

If Xu Yue'er uncovered in front of all the courtiers that Song Min had framed General Xu for plotting rebellion, those courtiers who had befriended General Xu in the past would not have allowed this matter to pass like this.

Xiao Yun ordered the guards to take her down, and she tried her best to break free, "The concubine is Xu Jiaojiao, the daughter of Xu Shida, who is in front of the palace today to settle her father's grievances!" ”

As soon as her words came out, there was a small sound in the hall.

Song Min stood up and preemptively attacked, "Your Majesty, this woman should be arrested and interrogated carefully, if she is a rebel thief, she should be removed quickly." ”

Xiao Yun motioned for the guards to let go of her and smiled, "The harem must not interfere in the government, and those who violate it will be killed." Concubine Yue, have you thought about it? ”

Xu Yue'er presented the evidence of the crime, "Song Min, the first assistant at that time, framed Zhongliang for plotting rebellion, and asked the emperor to make a clear note. ”

Xiao Yun was not surprised, and turned the wrench with interest.

I guess that during the autumn hunt, Xu Jiaojiao first found Xiao Yun, and gave him this incriminating evidence, which was evidence that Xu Jiaojiao had contacted General Xu's remaining subordinates over the years, worked hard, and died many lives, and only then did she get the evidence that Song Min had privately joined forces with General Xu's deputy general to frame a rebellion. Perhaps Xiao Yun at that time gave Xu Jiaojiao promises and hopes, and actually used her as a chip in his hand.

Song Min scolded, "Ridiculous! Your Majesty, how can this woman prove that she is Xu Shida's daughter, her words cannot be believed! ”

"I can testify."

In full view of the courtiers, I walked over to Xiao Yun and knelt down.

"The sinner, Song Qianhe, has known General Xu's daughter since childhood and can testify."

A dark tide surged in Xiao Yun's deep eyes, "Concubine Song, do you know what you are talking about?" ”

I brought up the little eunuch who had rushed into Xu Jiaojiao that day, "After investigation, the sinner knew that this person was instructed by Song Min to deliberately rush against Yue Concubine, causing Yue Concubine to have difficulty giving birth, and even sent a stable wife, hoping to take advantage of the opportunity to kill Yue Concubine." ”

On that day, the sinner took down this person and the stable woman at the first time, otherwise they would also be killed by the killers sent by Song Min.

As a foreign minister, isn't it suspicious that Lord Song is so targeted at a harem concubine? ”

Song Min pointed at me in shock, and what made him even more unpredictable was my next words.

"In the seventh year of Jiakang, the criminal minister Song Min was responsible for building the Yellow River embankment, and the supervision was ineffective, and the tariff was deducted, resulting in the collapse of the Yellow River embankment the following year, resulting in the displacement of the people and heavy casualties. Song Min blamed local officials and was not held accountable.

In the thirteenth year of Jiakang, the criminal minister Song Min connived at his nephew Song Teng to forcibly occupy the people's real estate in Binzhou, for the evil countryside, bullying men and women. Song Min sent people to brutally kill the people of Binzhou who had filed a complaint against the emperor in Shangjing.

In the fifteenth year of Jiakang, the criminal minister Song Min framed the former Rebbe Shangshu Lin Yuan to deceive the king...

The sinner presented the evidence of the guilt of the sinner Song Min, and the sinner did not say a single word, and asked His Majesty to clarify the grievances, strictly enforce the law, and order a thorough investigation of song Min, the head of the cabinet. ”

In the main hall, my voice echoed for a long time.

"The subject agrees."

"The minister also agreed."

Half of the courtiers in the court knelt down.

"Nonsense! Your Majesty, someone deliberately framed his subjects! Song Min collapsed and went manic, he knelt on the ground, bowed his waist and moved forward, "It is the anti-thief Xiao Yan, Song Qianhe has an affair with him, must have been seduced by Xiao Yan!" ”

Xiao Yun snapped, "You also deserve to call Concubine Song by name and take it down." ”

When the Royal Forest Army subdued Song Min to the ground, he cried, and I seemed to see a building collapse, and Lord Song, who was standing in a high position, probably would never have dreamed of a day when he personally pushed him down as his only daughter.

15

On that day, I went to the palace to see Xiao Yan, and before leaving, Grandmaster Tanyue stopped me.

"Grandmaster, don't you think it's naïve for me to personally uncover the mistakes committed by my father and personally push the Song Mansion into the fire pit?" I smiled bitterly.

"Miss Song, the evidence is in your hands, what you want to do is your business."

Tan Yue stroked his beard and said, "The traitor Song Min is too evil, the complaints are full of complaints, and Heavenly Reason is intolerable, Tianji Mountain makes an exception to collect evidence that can bring down Song Min." Although Tianji Mountain was important to cangsheng, it had already made rules and did not participate in the affairs of the court.

Old Decadence originally wanted to give the evidence of the crime to Ah Yan, but now that he was unable to protect himself, Old Decadence and The Song Girl had a chance to meet, so they entrusted it to the girl. ”

"Why do you believe in me?" If I destroy this evidence, isn't what you are plotting a void? ”

Tan Yue sighed, "That is the cause and effect of fate." In today's court, incorruptibility, people are being ridiculed for not being flexible, and forming parties for personal gain is regarded as the golden rule, but what about human life? In the eyes of dignitaries and dignitaries, it is just a being like an ant, no matter how many people are killed, it does not matter.

Under the power, can the bloody souls find an outlet? Everyone says that the world is like a dyeing vat, but this world is wrong, and people have to be cold-blooded and ruthless. But what is the way of the world? The way of the world, the people of man. Man is righteous and the world is clear.

Miss Song, do you believe in the right way in the world? ”

Kneeling next to me, Xu Jiaojiao said softly, she had endured for many years, and finally cried, and before I could realize it, she had crashed into the pillar of the main hall, and the blood was not stopping.

Xu Jiaojiao, you can be reunited with your family with peace of mind. I sighed silently.

While thinking of my Bai Zhi, Bai Zhi I avenged you, under the Nine Springs, you can rest in peace.

In the autumn, the day before Song Min was about to be beheaded, Xiao Yun accompanied me to death row.

My lower abdomen was already slightly raised, and Xiao Yun carefully supported me and said, "Be careful under your feet." ”

In the dark, damp depths of the prison, there was an old man with his hair loose and his face hanging low.

"Emperor, the concubine wants to talk to my father alone."

Xiao Yun couldn't help me, so he had to order the jailer to look after me and go out of the prison door first, he said, "Waiting for you outside." ”

I slowly approached the cage and stopped a few feet away.

"Daddy, I called, Ah Ho is coming."

The old man slowly raised his head, his cloudy eyes looked directly at me, and suddenly smiled, "Is it Ah He, Daddy take you to the street to buy mung bean crisp?" Daddy remembers that you love to eat mung bean crisp the most, but you have to hide it from your mother-in-law, she is worried that your teeth are broken, and you are not allowed to eat more. ”

"Ah Ho, what gift do you want for this year's birthday?" Is it a night pearl the size of a pigeon's egg? Or do you want splendid satin? ”

"Ah Ho, why don't you listen to advice?" You are going to marry the crown prince in the future, you are going to be an empress, how can you not listen to Grandma Chen's words? ”

"Ah He, Xiao Yan's hippie smiley face is not worthy of being my son-in-law of Song Min, let's die that heart early."

I left two lines of clear tears, knelt down and said, "It is my daughter who is not filial piety." ”

He seemed to panic, "Ah Ho, what are you doing?" Crying for what? ”

"Daughter bid farewell to her father."

I gave him three heavy nods, and the sound was particularly clear in the quiet prison.

I got up and left, leaving Song Min's angry rebuke behind me, and he threw himself into the fence with shackles, "Ah Ho, where are you going?!" Come back, don't go with Xiao Yan! Come back! Don't you care about song house?! ”

I didn't take a few steps, and I felt a smell of blood in my chest.

"The mother-in-law vomited blood!" Come on people! ”

Xiao Yun rushed in and picked me up, "Pass on the imperial doctor!" ”

Inside the Jiaolan Palace, Grandma Chen's eyes were red, and I gave her a reassuring look.

Dr. Sun Tai held my pulse for a long time, and there was a fine sweat on his forehead, and his face was heavy.

"How about Concubine Song?" Xiao Yun asked anxiously.

Sun Taiyi was shocked, and hurriedly knelt down, "Emperor Qi, Niangniang's body is too worried, her body is weak and cold, resulting in today's hematemesis, and it is necessary to calm down and adjust in the future."

furthermore...... furthermore...... ”

"Speak quickly!" Xiao Yun was furious.

"The fetus in the womb of the mother... I am afraid that I am stillborn, and I am afraid that I will not be able to conceive again in the future. ”

"Niangniang, have you been in contact with musk safflower for a long time?"

"There is Dr. Laosun," I said, "Cha Yan, send Dr. Sun Tai for the palace." ”

Dr. Sun Taiyi thanked him like a general amnesty and followed Cha Yan away.

Aunt Chen also led the maids to retire.

"Ah Ho, I didn't expect that..."

"Yeah, you didn't even think of it, you didn't expect to change my mother's medicine patch, I will detect it, and then hate you to the bone."

Xiao Yun's eyes turned red, and he took me into his arms, and in his voice was a sadness that could not be dissolved, "Ah He, I am sorry for you, how do you compensate you?" ”

"I want Xiao Yan."

He wrapped his arms around me in vain and coughed violently, and I saw the blood on his veil.

I slowly closed my eyes, "Concubines laugh with you." ”

"The concubines are tired and want to leave, so they go to Tanshui County, their mother's hometown."

"Then Aho, are you coming back?"

"Don't leave it behind, okay?"

Xiao Yun seemed to be crying, crying very sadly.

When I was twenty-one years old, Princess Song, who was once favored in the palace, was given a white silk by the emperor, and she died, and people said that the daughter of the Song traitorous minister, Dayi, was killed, but in the end it was still difficult to escape the ruthlessness of the emperor.

When I was twenty-one years old, I was free, and on the day I left the palace, Xiao Yun did not come to send me.

I took one last look at the high palace wall, the wind blowing, and the young leaves of spring shaking.

"Mother-in-law, it's time to go." Aunt Chen said.

"Concubine Song is dead, and I am no longer a lady." I took the burden from her shoulder, "Grandma Chen, take care, I won't take you on this trip." ”

"Miss." Aunt Chen cried, "The old man can't bear miss." ”

She took my hand and held it, "But the old man can't let go of the young lady." ”

I want to cut off all the connections with this palace wall, and I will take care of myself.

I laughed and said that my mother's will, Xu Jiaojiao's dream of the jianghu, and Xiao Yan's long-cherished wish to return to the countryside are still waiting for me to practice with my whole life.

The carriage slowly drove away from the solemn and thick palace walls, away from the bustling Kyoto, and away from the warmth and sorrow of my past twenty years.

The wheels run over without leaving a trace.

The journey was bumpy, but I slept comfortably, and before I knew it, it was night.

Outside the window is a scene of desolate wilderness, and the car is still slowly moving forward.

This is not the way to Tanshui County.

I took out the dagger in my bag and squeezed it tightly in the palm of my hand, trembling all over my body.

Remembering that before leaving, Aunt Chen said, "Your coachman is a jianghu chivalrous guest, named Li Yan, he is collecting money to escort you, but after all, I don't know the details, Miss, or let the old body follow you, right?" ”

I didn't pay attention to it at first, but now I can't help but be a little scared.

I lifted the curtain, shook my hand, and pressed the cold dagger to the back of his neck, "Who are you?" What is your purpose? ”

The man, carrying a bucket hat, did not say a word, but stopped the carriage.

He smiled lowly, and his clear laughter gradually coincided with the teenager I remembered.

He said, "Little crying bag, don't come unharmed." ”

Volume 2

At the age of eight, the queen mother was deposed.

The Father Emperor beat her into the Jiaolan Palace, ignored her, and left her to fend for herself.

"Yun'er, the mother concubine has never harmed anyone, so why does your father and emperor not believe me?"

She leaned on her side on the soft collapse and coughed several times, her face was weak and pale.

"I gave him all my life, but he regarded it as a mustard."

When my mother said this, she looked at the tender willow buds that had just been pulled out of the window, without a trace of resentment, as if she was just blaming her own wishful thinking.

"Mother-in-law, you wait, the child will go and find the father and emperor."

I said, and I rushed out of the temple door.

"I'm looking for my father." I was fair to the court in front of the royal study.

"Fourth Highness, today the sixth prince returned from Tianji Mountain, and the saint went up to the noble concubine Niangniang to see the sixth prince."

I walked sadly to the noble concubine's residence, and when the next person saw that it was me, Xu did not care much, did not stop me, and did not communicate.

In the courtyard, Xiao Yan was dancing swords, he was a good material for practicing martial arts, and he had made great progress since he entered the Gate of Tianji Mountain last year.

The Father took the hand of the noble concubine and watched with great relief, not noticing me.

Xiao Yan spotted me, put his sword behind his back, and smiled at me, "Fourth brother." ”

"Old Four?" The Father Emperor frowned slightly, "What are you here for?" ”

Since my mother was deposed, my father's attitude toward me has weakened a lot.

I performed a polite salute and explained my intentions.

The Father Emperor's face was cold and silent. The concubine leaned into his arms and smiled, "Concubine Asked to visit her sister yesterday, she did get a little wind and cold, the concubine has sent someone to send some soup medicine, Your Majesty is not at ease to go and see." ”

The Father Emperor looked at the beauty in his arms with pity, "Princess Ai has a heart." ”

The coldness spread in my heart inch by inch, and the father and emperor did not look at me again that day, and put their arms around the noble concubine and entered the palace.

"Four brothers, four brothers." Xiao Yan tugged at my sleeve, he was the same age as me, and we used to play together as a child.

"I haven't seen you in a long time. What happened to the Empress, she is important? ”

The mother-in-law took good care of him, and he also liked the mother-in-law.

"What does this have to do with you?" I shrugged off his hand indifferently.

At that time, when the emperor chose Xiao Yan instead of me as a disciple, to the surprise of the palace people, the emperor once said, "Although the fourth prince was wise and wise, he thought too much, and the old and decaying protégé must be a person with the purest heart." ”

I never cared about fighting for any imperial disciple, nor did I care about what kind of Tianji Mountain gate was, but why with this single word, others could deny me.

People are fearful, Xiao Yan is the purest heart, so what am I?

I obviously didn't do anything, but in the eyes of others, I became a person with an unhealthy mind.

Even though Xiao Yan vigorously defended me in front of outsiders every time, I still hated him, as if only in this way could I find an excuse to deceive myself and blame him for the cold criticism I received, rather than the desperate love of my father and emperor.

I don't like winter, in winter, Jiaolan Palace is like an ice cellar, lifeless.

The mother's body was losing weight day by day, and the man she had been waiting for for a long time gave her a white silk on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

"The sinful concubine Wang Wan, the snake and scorpion in her heart, first harmed Concubine Ying guifei prematurely, and then practiced witchcraft in the palace, cholera palace. The holy one has compassion and gives a white aya, leaving the whole body. ”

"Why?!" I stopped the eunuch who had proclaimed his will, "Earlier, Dali Temple found out that the fetal tonic sent by the mother concubine was non-toxic!" Also, in the later witchcraft, can the crime be convicted based on the mere search for poisonous villains in the palace?! ”

The eunuch was the father-in-law of the father's side, and he smiled and said, "Fourth Highness, don't worry, the emperor has not implicated you, you will be raised by the side of the next empress in the future, and you will still be the only one born in the middle palace." ”

I forgot everything, I just knelt down and muttered, "Please, my mother-in-law can't die, she's innocent." ”

The father-in-law of the general manager squatted down and gently broke the hand that I was holding the hem of his clothes, "The fourth prince has tormented the slave, what about the grievances?" It was the emperor who wanted Wang Shi to die, and when she died, many things could be explained. ”

I cried out in sorrow and fell to the ground.

"Yun'er," said the originally silent concubine, she said plainly, "get up." ”

Earlier, when I was young, my mother-in-law was docile and used to not knowing how to fight for the wind and be jealous, but she was obsessively fond of her father and emperor, and always secretly wept. Later, when her father broke her heart, the mother's tears also dried up.

She asked her father-in-law to take me out of the room, and she said with relief, "Yun'er, live well." ”

Chinese New Year's Eve that night, the palace was lively and peaceful, and no one cared about the death of a concubine in Jiaolan Palace, including the father and emperor.

I knelt in front of the door of the mother's room all night, and when the sky was dark, the palace people came to accept it.

Later, they swept her body on a straw mat and threw it into an unknown wilderness.

The woman was once a gentle and delicate lady in the famous gate of Beijing, she had a good piano skill of playing Yangchun White Snow with one hand, and there was also an elegant and elegant mountain and water show under her brush.

The woman had been the unpopular queen in the harem, her husband was tired of her weakness and deceitfulness, and her sister was jealous of her status.

The woman was my mother-in-law, and in the twenty-sixth year of her life, she died under the affection and selfishness of the emperor.

The mother concubine never taught me to fight for power, but at that moment, I deeply saw the power of cannibalism in this palace wall, it would harden people's hearts and intestines, but without it, life and death would be in the hands of others, and without it, you would be defiled and accused.

No one cares what the truth is, they only care about whose power is in their hands, and those who are unjust are only in the hands of those who have the right to speak, and they can make up a sentence or two at random to round up the ugly and selfish inside.

So I want to seize power, I want to make those who have hurt my mother-in-law pay the price, and even, I want to stand in a high position, I want to see the struggle of the ants under the absolute power.

That morning, the noble concubine came, she looked very shocked, she looked at the mother concubine's cold body in a daze, half a day said, "I didn't think... I didn't ask her to die, sister, I didn't... ”

Xiao Yan was wearing new clothes, and the father gave him the jade pendant he carried with him, and he tied it around his waist. He pounced forward, already crying into a tearful person, "Wan Auntie, Wan Auntie." ”

I suppressed the nausea and discomfort in my heart, and I walked over to Xiao Yan and gently comforted him by patting him on the back.

Although my face was also sad, I did not cry, for a moment Xiao Yan seemed to be more like my mother's own child, I felt ridiculous to the extreme, no one knew that he was the son of my mother's enemy.

The mother-in-law was eventually dragged away with a perfunctory roll of straw mats, and I watched her, so I put on my mask.

"Old fourth, aunt did not ... The death of my sister... I'm also sad. You have to believe me, my sister's death, it's really not my fault. ”

The noble concubine wanted to come over and take my hand, and she looked very frightened, and at the same time seemed to be convincing herself.

I hugged the enemy I hated to the bone, "How can Xiao Yun blame his aunt?" In the harem, Xiao Yun was left with only six brothers and two aunts, relatives. ”

"Good boy," the noble concubine seemed to grasp the straw of life, "good child, after the aunt ... Will be good for you. ”

Father Xu was old and saw clearly some things, the new empress was a human duty, the daughter of a scholar of Hanlin University, the family was meager, it was difficult to cause trouble, and it was not a threat.

The more obedient and intimate I behaved to the noble concubine, the more indisputable I behaved, and the deeper the apology in her heart, the more she stopped dealing with me. During the time when Xiao Yan went out of the palace to study, I often accompanied her and used her to regain the favor of my father and emperor.

Xiao Yan was upright in nature, and there was a youthful spirit in his bones, and he was not accustomed to his father's old age and dimwitting, and he obeyed the treacherous minister Song Min's words, so he often disagreed with his father and had disputes.

I took this opportunity to mediate from it, I always helped Xiao Yan speak, but in fact, in some small words, the father and emperor were even more jealous of him, and trusted and relied on me.

When I was fourteen years old, I was crowned crown prince and entered the Eastern Palace.

The noble concubine found out that she was a tiger, and she came to me and accused me of being ungrateful.

I smiled and took off my mask for the first time in six years, "Auntie, how did you treat my mother-in-law?" ”

"You and my mother are cousins, but you were born of a concubine, and your mother died less than a year after you were born. Your family beats and scolds you at every turn, and even wants to marry you to an old and adulterous courtier as a concubine. ”

"It was my mother who went to her mother and knelt at her mother's door for a whole day so that you could pass under the mother of the longhouse."

"How hard did she put into getting you out of that affair?" However, her good sister boldly danced a thrilling dance in the courtyard to seduce her brother-in-law when the prince at that time came to her door to propose to her. ”

"Don't say it! Stop it! She slammed the table on the floor and covered her ears.

As I approached her, the concubine panicked and retreated.

"My mother-in-law has become a joke because of you, and she has been ignored by her husband all her life, do you know that she has never blamed you?" She said you were her dearest bloodline. ”

"But her sister pressed forward and pushed her to death with her own hands."

The noble concubine sat paralyzed on the ground as if she had lost her strength, and she pulled on the hem of my clothes and cried, "I am sorry for my sister, I am sorry for her, old fourth, my life is for you, you don't involve Yan'er, that child doesn't know anything." ”

It was funny that I had once begged someone not to kill my mother-in-law as she had been.

I kicked her hand away in disgust, "If you want to forgive your sins, you have personally destroyed your own face." Otherwise, in the future, I will definitely let Xiao Yan experience the pain and suffering I have experienced. ”

Later, the noble concubine who had been favored for many years in the palace went crazy overnight, and she took a knife and cut several deep cuts in her delicate and beautiful face.

The Father was furious and slammed the stone platform of the imperial study on my forehead, and the blood flowed down, and I did not say a word, but just looked at him fixedly. He finally waved his hand and told me to go out.

At the moment of turning, I smiled, knowing that in this confrontation with my father, I had won. Of a disfigured concubine and a satisfied heir, he apparently chose the latter.

Years later, I wonder if my father, who was bedridden and unserved around, would regret his decision that day. I don't mind helping him remember the melancholy of his life, but he shook his old hand and pointed at me without uttering a complete word, with resentment, sorrow, and fear in his eyes.

The noble concubine was completely out of favor, and while I blocked the news exchange between the palace and Tianji Mountain, I began to prepare to overturn the case and clear my mother's grievances. The Father turned a blind eye to me and entrusted the case to me.

As soon as the incriminating evidence in my hand was presented, the noble concubine could not escape death, but I dragged on time and tortured her little by little. She was kept in a damp and dark prison, where no one went to see her and it was difficult to find her.

When Xiao Yan returned, it was nearly a year old, and when he heard the news, he was furious, and the sword was taken down by the guards, and I reported the matter to my father and emperor, and Xiao Yan suffered some hardships.

He was tied to a pillar in front of the East Palace, and after he had been flogged for fifty years, I told him all about the old things, and he looked very astonished, he still did not believe my words, did not believe his mother so badly.

I showed him the evidence, and he was silent for a long time, his eyes red, "Fourth brother, I want to see her." ”

That year, Chinese New Year's Eve, a cup of poisoned wine was given to the noble concubine in prison. The sixth prince knelt outside the prison for one night, just like I had done.

Chinese New Year's Eve that night, the palace was lively and peaceful, and no one cared that the noble concubine who had once been favored for a while died, including the father and emperor.

Xiao Yan broke with me. I don't know if he can have my original understanding of power, but he began to fight for power.

In the hall, a small part of the wind gradually turned to him.

But in my opinion, Tianji Mountain and the Emperor Master could teach him exquisite martial arts and the way of the sages, but they would not teach him to be scheming, but let him miss too many opportunities because of the years outside the palace. At this time, he is like a battle of trapped beasts, as long as I am willing to deal with him, with all the things he has accumulated so far, he will be vulnerable. But I didn't mind letting him continue to run the business, because I would like to see the day when the six princes who had a smooth ride on the road also fell off the high altar than the throne.

When I was sixteen years old, outsiders thought that Xiao Yan had formed a situation of confrontation with me, but in fact, his henchmen were held back by me at every turn. Xiao Yan's heart became impetuous, but I became more and more careless. He looked at me the same way I looked at him, jealousy mixed with a little inferiority.

I was able to be so relaxed and at ease in the party struggle, and to a large extent I relied on the old fox Of Song Min, who fell into my camp very early on, and having him do things for me really saved me a lot of effort. But I also understood that he was an insatiable adulterer.

Song Min wanted to give me his only daughter at a clear price, and I laughed and said that her daughter married into the East Palace and could only be a side concubine. He was very angry, but he still did not dare to give up this opportunity to bind Song Fu and me.

Daughter of the Song family? What good daughter can Song Min teach? One day when the Song Dynasty fell, I might send the concubine to Huangquan Road without thinking.

Even so, I had to prevent that I would insert a trusted grandmother in the palace into the Song Mansion to discipline Miss Song.

Later, Grandma Chen came to report that when Song Min's daughter and Xiao Yan met at the Shangyuan Lantern Club, I did not pay attention to it. Even Miss Song and Xiao Yan secretly had a relationship, secretly exchanged things, and even let Aunt Chen help the two of them to have a private meeting, so that Xiao Yan would suffer more deeply when she lost her beloved in the future. Also in order to get a chip to blackmail Song Min in the future.

At that time, I would never have thought that the daughter of the Song family would become the white moonlight of my life, and in the future, I would hate myself for not being able to meet her sooner in countless midnights that I loved, and I hated why I had watched her gradually fall in love with Xiao Yan, irreparable. She was my woman, and she should have belonged to me.

Seeing Song Qianhe in the palace that day was just a coincidence.

"The sixth brother is also too bold, and casually brings a girl he doesn't know into the palace."

"If you tease that girl, maybe the sixth brother knows how to punish you."

"Does he dare? If he dared, I would tell my father, who hurt me the most. ”

"You, you, you, you really love to do some ridiculous things."

On the palace road, the two sisters who came to me greeted me seemed to mention Xiao Yan in a few words.

I asked, "Kangning, Qingping, what have you caused?" ”

Kang Ning was favored since childhood, arrogant and indulgent, but later stuck to me tightly, she pulled on my sleeve and coddled, "Brother Prince, if the sixth brother wants to trouble Kang Ning, you must protect Kang Ning." ”

Another princess was named Qingping, she explained the original reason, Xiao Yan took a strange girl into the palace without authorization, and she was summoned by the emperor in the palace, leaving the girl in a secluded place in the palace. Accidentally, he was bumped into by Corning, insisted that the girl play with him, and tricked her into the rockery in her palace.

Qingping said, "I also just met Corning." Now that it was dark and cold, if it was convenient for the prince's brother, he still sent someone to inform the sixth brother of the sound and ask him to go to the rockery to pick up the girl. ”

"Cut, don't let the sixth brother find the best, let him die quickly," Kang Ning said quickly, she did not deal with Xiao Yan.

I smiled and responded, I didn't intend to meddle in this matter, but somehow, I suddenly had some curiosity in my heart.

The rockery next to the Dieyuan Palace was remote, and there were not many people passing by on weekdays, even so, if the girl shouted, there would definitely be a palace inspector who would notice.

I walked around without finding her, and was about to leave when I heard a slight sob.

Following the sound, I saw her. In order not to let the palace people find out that it was causing trouble to Xiao Yan, she hid herself in a hidden place under the rocks of the rock.

Many years later, I still remember the dreamy silhouette under the moonlight.

Dressed in a pale blue dress, she sat on her knees in the corner, her dark hair hanging down her shoulders like a cloud. Her apricot eyes were slightly red, and the tear marks on her white cheeks were looming, and I saw pity.

The purity and clarity of her body seemed to condense time, and together with the clear light of the moon, it shone into an invisible place in my heart.

The more obscure I became, I always stood in the shadows, not daring to go near her, but almost wanted to keep her here forever, to stay with me.

Complicated emotions are intertwined, but the moment I saw Xiao Yan embrace her, that emotion became a kind of warm jealousy, even in the past, I had never hated Xiao Yan so much.

The girl looked up and saw Xiao Yan, and the next second she hugged him, her voice was soft and soft, with a little stunned tail, "Brother Yan, I knew you would find me." ”

"Ah He," Xiao Yan called her name, smiling and patting her back.

From a distance, the pair of bi people hugging each other under the moon seemed to be bounded by the surrounding palace walls, and they were too beautiful to be true.

I moved away, Xiao Yan and I had obviously lost our closest relatives, and we had obviously experienced the warmth and hypocrisy of human feelings in this palace, so why did he still have someone to snuggle up to?

But she should have belonged to me.

I can't help but think of her from time to time, obviously I have only seen her once, but it seems that I have carved her figure in my heart, some inexplicable familiarity and nostalgia.

I couldn't figure it out.

I began to get to know her.

She was most worried about her mother-in-law, and always secretly went out of the house to meet her mother-in-law at the Taoist Temple on Yuping Mountain.

She is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she is exquisite in embroidery and is quite famous in Beijing.

She had many admirers, and the matchmaker sent by the noble sons of the family quickly broke through the threshold of the Song Palace.

It was another winter day, and I was out of the palace to run errands, and a thick layer of snow had accumulated on the street.

When I passed Rouge Lane, I remembered that she liked to eat the mung bean pastry of Li Ji's pastry, and when I reacted, my men had already listened to my instructions and bought it back.

I can't help but laugh at my own stupidity, and I don't know her, how to give it to her?

I don't like sweets, and I don't want to send them to the attendants around me, so I ask people to turn the direction of the carriage and go to the Song Palace.

The carriage stopped outside the Song Mansion and I did not get out of the carriage.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the Song Dynasty set up a porridge shack outside the palace gate today to give porridge, and It is inconvenient for Your Highness to visit suddenly." Nangong, who was accompanied by the attendant, reminded.

I bowed my head slightly, and I couldn't imagine that Song Min's old fox with false benevolence and false righteousness would also care about his reputation among the people.

"Your Highness, it is the custom of the Song government to give porridge in winter, and I heard that it was left by Lady Song. After Lady Song escaped into the daomen, it seemed that Miss Song was in charge. ”

I laughed in my heart and said, "She's still so young, and she's a girl's family again." ”

Nangong thought I was dissatisfied, and indeed, everyone showed their faces, which was really a loss of identity.

I lifted the curtain and looked out, and she and the maids were distributing the good porridge to the poor families.

In the white snow, she wore a goose yellow jacket skirt, her small face was frozen red, but her smile was particularly gentle and moving.

It was a little noisy outside, but I saw a mother and son in tattered clothes kneeling in front of her.

Seeing her reaction, she seemed frightened.

"Miss Song, please accept our noble son as a household servant, we can't get by anymore."

The woman cried and prostrated her head, and the maids tried to help the woman, but the woman did not get up, but still pleaded vigorously.

As I watched the boy pull at her skirt with his dirty hand, I seemed to remember something from the past, and I remembered that I had begged so humbly.

She squatted down, looking at the boy at the same level, without the slightest displeasure on her face, but without pity, but asked him very unusually, "Would you like to come to the Song Mansion?" ”

The boy obviously didn't expect her to ask him like this, and Han Yan couldn't speak, and his mother couldn't help but pinch him, but he still gritted his teeth.

She smiled faintly, gently broke open the finger that had pinched the corner of his skirt and held it in the palm of her hand, "Don't you want to?" ”

The boy nodded with red eyes, "I want to be a reader like my eldest brother, I don't want to be... manservant. ”

She laughed and said, "Good. ”

Then he instructed the maid to take some silver and put it in the boy's hand, and there was a bit of determination in his words, "This is the path you have chosen for yourself, do your best." ”

At that moment, I fell in love with her.

Once upon a time, when I seemed to be in a rout, I thought that someone could help me and redeem me from the struggle of decay and darkness, and I missed the comfort and stability brought to me by my mother-in-law.

And the woman in front of me, she has the same talent as my mother's concubine, but she has the most powerful tenderness I have ever seen.

Father Emperor, you are wrong, gentleness is never cowardice and crying, but kindness and empathy.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" Nangong called me, "Do you want to go back?" ”

"You get out of the car and get a bowl of porridge and give her this mung bean pastry as a thank you gift."

I couldn't miss her, so when Xiao Yan proposed in the court that his father marry him and the concubine of the Song Dynasty, I stood up against it and made the father dispel this idea.

I learned from Grandma Chen that Xiao Yan was going to elope with her and seemed to be ready to take her cultivating mother-in-law with her. I was so anxious that I did the wrong thing and bought someone from Guan Li to steal her mother's medicine sticker. In the end, the death of her mother-in-law left her to stay.

She cried very sadly, she no longer interacted with Xiao Yan, she accepted Song Min's arrangement to use her as a chip.

I know that I am mean, but I will marry her, and I will be good to her, and I will be good to her.

I swear.

The first time I officially met her was when I went to see Song Min to discuss things, and she made tea from the side.

What Song Min said, in fact, did not enter my ear, and my eyes fell on her alone without a trace.

She smiled lightly and handed me a cup of tea, circumspect and distant.

Seeing that I didn't take it, she called out softly, "Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" ”

When I took it, I touched her fingertips, and it was a little warm.

She looked shyly and bowed her head, and that look made my heart flutter.

Later, Song Min's old fox wanted to force her to dance at the end-of-year banquet to win the best name in Beijing, or let me like his daughter more. Despite my repeated hints that he didn't have to, he was still stubborn.

Through Aunt Chen, I knew that she had been practicing dance on the glass cup in those days, and she had suffered from typhoid fever several times, and I was so distressed that I had to search for the best cold repellent formula in the palace to send.

On the day of the year-end feast, she danced on the transparent glass cup, and the dark fragrance floated, and the style was varied. Qingli's face was smiling and waiting to be released, wanting to say goodbye. The green silk rolled up, her moist jade neck revealed a beautiful fragrant shoulder, and the thin white waist under the light pink tulle loomed, invisibly like a bone scraper, dangerous and charming.

Why? Obviously a famous girl, obviously simple and ignorant, but had to disguise to please people, cheap those dirty eyes.

I could see her disobedience and struggle, especially at the moment when she looked at Xiao Yan.

Soon, she left the table on the pretext, and I saw Xiao Yan chasing her out.

Xiao Yan questioned her, she seemed to be politely distant, but her expression could not convince me.

I helped her out. When Xiao Yan walked away, the tears in the corners of her eyes quietly slipped down.

She turned over imperceptibly and bowed her head in thanks.

She was indeed a beauty, and when she looked closely, her skin was like snow, and there seemed to be a layer of crystalline brilliance flowing under the jade skin.

I untied the white fox and draped it on her, "Miss Song, the banquet is too stuffy, is it okay to accompany the palace?" ”

On that day, the ensemble with her in the Pavilion of the Lake was the most relaxed moment I had since I was eight years old, and it strengthened my desire to keep her by my side.

In June of the following year, she became my princess.

That night in the cave room, I saw Xiao Yan outside the house.

"Fourth brother, will you accept you today?"

"What did you do to her?"

"The courtiers are nothing more than reminiscing about their old feelings with her, after all, in her heart, she can't forget me."

The corners of my mouth smirked, "Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan, aren't you the most tired of scheming?" ”

Xiao Yan deliberately went to arouse Ah He's reluctance on the wedding night, just to make her feel bad with me.

"So what?" He looked over with a pair of eyes coldly, stared at me word by word, and said, "The fourth brother's means, the minister brother has already learned." Now, it's just a matter of learning the skin. ”

On a cool summer night, I drank alone outside the house and drank a lot of wine.

She is now my princess.

You can make her die for you for two years, so why can't I accompany her for a longer time and make her like me?

I pushed the door in.

She had tears on her face, and when she saw me, she had a little horror on her face.

Why did she cry every time because of Xiao Yan?

I lifted her jaw close to her lips, and she ducked away, and this knee-jerk reaction stung me.

I smiled and let go of her, "Ah Ho, you still can't accept Hongu?" ”

"Then Hongu will wait."

Xiao Yan spent two years to make you like him, and the palace could spend five, ten, twenty, or even a lifetime for you to forget him.

I felt dizzy, "What's wrong? The Crown Princess was moved? Then help Hongu freshen up. ”

That night, she wiped my hot forehead over and over again with a handkerchief, and her movements were soft and soft, as if to bring me back to when the mother-in-law was still there.

I haven't slept so soundly in a long time.

In the next two years, she may have felt guilty, Xu really regarded me as a friend, she was very kind to me, she accompanied me to talk about poetry and painting, play chess, enjoy flowers and boil tea.

I hadn't told her I didn't like sweets, so she always gave me some every time she made pastries.

She would take care of me at the bedside for the night when I was sick, staring at me and drinking the bitter soup medicine.

She would watch with me every Chinese New Year's Eve night and light fireworks in the courtyard. Those apricot eyes were full of gentleness, and she smiled, "Your Highness, Happy New Year." ”

If I hadn't seen her occasional look of loneliness, I would have even lied to myself that she was actually pleased with me.

In addition to not loving me, she can also be called a virtuous wife. She has a lot of style, handles the affairs of the Eastern Palace, calms the quarrels between the concubines, and treats each of my children as her own.

If I could always get along with her like this for the rest of my life, even if I could not get her heart, I would have her sincere companionship and tenderness.

But as a young man, I obviously wanted more, and I couldn't see that she had another man in her heart, and I couldn't see her heart beating her heart for the man's punishment.

Gradually, I lost my original intention to be good to her, and I also lost the promise that waited for her to accept me.

In the darkness, I put my arms around her waist, and her body stiffened.

She said, "Xiao Yun, I don't like you." ”

"I know, but Ah Ho, I want you."

I listened indifferently to her cries, and I untied her belt and nibbled at her smooth and delicate neck.

The longing that had been trapped for a long time drove me to crush her under me, and the jealousy of Xiao Yan disintegrated my respect and pity for her, and I couldn't help but invade every inch of her body.

She couldn't resist me, she didn't cry out in pain, her body trembling sensitively from my touch. Her face was slightly red, and her eyes were filled with moisture.

I gasped at her and kissed her sideburns, "If Xiao Yan saw Ah He's appearance, would she think Ah He was dirty?" ”

The look in her eyes was heartbreaking.

I knew that my words were cruel, but I was still like a knife cutting her heart, "So, is it okay for Ah He to let Xiao Yan go?"

From now on, it will belong to only one person. ”

She knew my intentions, and a layer of ice seemed to float under her eyes, and she said, "I have long ceased to have extravagant hopes for him."

But Xiao Yun, you remember, I belong only to myself, from beginning to end. ”

I hugged her tightly, and I was close to her, leaving no gap, as if so, I could blend with her and never be separated.

From the moment I decided to touch her, I knew we couldn't go back to being honest with each other.

But I don't regret it, I can't have no desire for my beloved, and I can't blindly give and don't take.

Most of the love in the world is selfish, the father and emperor are selfish, the noble concubine is selfish, Xiao Yan is selfish, Ah He is also selfish, my mother concubine is not selfish, but her fate is so desolate.

So why do you ask me to be a saint? Why do you ask me to continue playing the gentleman's game?

The next morning, when I woke up, the white skin of the woman next to me was the madness of last night. I stroked the red marks, and I couldn't bear it.

I wanted to beg her forgiveness, but when the words came to my lips, I felt ridiculous, I am the emperor, she is my queen, why should I apologize to her?

So I kissed her lightly on the lips and smiled, "Ah Ho, you will be good to you." ”

She was awake, but she didn't want to see me, and she kept her eyes closed. Until I walked out the door, she didn't respond.

It's raining outside, autumn is accompanied by rain, and it's a little cool.

Nangong, who was accompanying me, came up to hold up an umbrella for me and said, "Your Majesty, why didn't the Empress Dowager send you today?" ”

"Nangong, there is nothing wrong with it."

When he saw me, he said no more.

Later, she no longer refused my closeness, and was obedient and respectful, not asking anyone to pick out a mistake.

"Ah He, I don't need you to feel guilty, I want your sincerity."

When she heard this, she lowered her face even lower and said lightly, "The concubine is convicted." ”

She looks weak and indisputable to anyone, but she has a heart as hard as stone.

But I was still infatuated with her and went to please her.

When Xu Yue'er found me, it was one night of autumn hunting.

She presented evidence of Song Min's crime of framing Zhongliang and begged me to overturn the case for her.

Song Min still has use value for me, I need him to transition the situation for me, not to mention, I can't let Ah Ho be hurt.

When I didn't plan well, Xu Yue'er couldn't spoil my plan, and the evidence in her hand could only be in my hands.

In this way, she could not stay.

When my hand pressed the hilt of the sword at the waist, the woman seemed to see through my movements and kissed me.

Although she has a plain face, she is very delicate, as if she is born with a feminine bone.

I sneered in my heart, and I was a woman with a heart.

Her soft body pressed against mine, and she smiled in my arms, "Why is Your Majesty obsessed with guarding Song Qianhe?" There was only Prince Yan in her heart, and Prince Yan was thinking of her in her heart. ”

"You are very bold, I heard the inadvertent hatred she had when she called Ah He's name, and laughed, so according to what you said, what is the matter?" Is it going to kill Xiao Yan, or is it going to kill xiao Yan, empress? ”

"How dare Your Majesty's affairs Yue'er beaked?" The jade finger gently stroked on my chest, and she said, All Yue'er can do is to dedicate everything to Her Majesty. ”

She is indeed a master of seduction, just like the noble concubine of the year, writing desire on her face.

It seemed more interesting not to kill her, and I was curious about what she did next, and also about Aho's reaction.

My eyes darkened, and I carried the woman to the bed and lingered all night.

The next day, I handed Grandma Chen a cup coated with acacia incense, and I wanted to see if Ah He would care.

My temptation was childish, but what was even more ridiculous was that I hoped that she would be a little jealous, a little angry. Unfortunately, she was not moved, and instead of punishing the woman, she concealed her identity for her because she had known her as a child.

Silly Ah Ho, do you know her means?

She knew in advance that Fang Guiren was going to kill you, but she only told Xiao Yan to save you, just so that I could respond to you and alienate you.

The night you disappeared, I searched the western suburbs and found only a pool of blood, and the fragments on your dress, and I was going crazy.

Xiao Yan was also gone. I hope he saved you.

But when I think of you and Xiao Yan together, my heart seems to be full of the feeling of powerlessness I had when I first saw you, and you quietly hugged him, his eyes were all him, but I couldn't see me in the shadows in the corner.

The next day, I found Ah Ho and took her back to the palace.

I didn't say anything about her and Xiao Yan last night, and called the Tai Doctor to consult her.

At the end, confirming that she was not in serious trouble, I removed her clothes and picked her up and put her in the bath tub, "Ah He, don't let the traces of Xiao Yan stay on you." ”

She was slightly stunned and cried silently.

I kissed her forehead lightly, "Well, obediently." ”

Rumors were rife in the palace, I suppressed all the impeachment of her, Song Min came to me and spoke like a spring, I let him have this kung fu than to think more about how to calm the rumors.

I knew that this was just Xu Yue'er's poisonous plan, and I tried my best to protect her, but I didn't think that she actually knelt in front of the door of the imperial study in front of the imperial study with her hair off in front of the public.

I was obviously going to deceive myself and turn a blind eye, but she seemed to be retaliating against me, acknowledging her intransigence with Xiao Yan and begging me to depose her post.

I had ten thousand reasons to kill her, but I couldn't find a reason to exonerate her.

I finally fulfilled her wishes and degraded her to the Jiaolan Palace, the cold palace where I lived when I was eight years old.

Ah Ho, if you can understand what kind of place I stayed in in the past, will you have a little understanding of me now?

Do you know? Xiao Yan, who generally exists in your eyes, is already like me, and he also has selfish intentions when facing you. It's just that he's not bold enough, it's just that his mind is too clumsy to see through at a glance.

Xiao Yan found that you had difficulty, why didn't you notify your subordinates to search and rescue together?

Why are you found so far from where you fell into the water?

Doesn't Xiao Yan know what kind of situation you will be in when you spend one night with him?

There are so many flaws, are you too stupid to see it, or are you willing?

He came to beg me to spare you, and to blame him alone.

"Fourth brother, don't ask Ah He to follow in Aunt Wan's footsteps."

"Roll!" I said angrily, "What right do you have to say this?!" ”

He smiled, "Fourth brother, brother Chen, in the future, I no longer want to take you down, nor do I want Ah He anymore, you can be good to her, that is the only thing I want." ”

Every day I heard from the palace people about Ah Ho, although I did not restrict her movements, but she could not go out, and the only time she went out was to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to ask for charcoal for the next person. She is not humble, and even if she is seen and discussed by others, she does not come to me.

Chinese New Year's Eve late that night, I paced to the Jiaolan Palace, and hesitated to knock on the door in the courtyard.

But she pushed open the door, and when she saw that it was me, she smiled lightly, "Is there anything wrong with the emperor?" ”

In the love of the world, whoever falls in love with each other first is the first to be in the ascendant.

This cold war, which ended without a problem, finally I surrendered my weapons.

I'd rather she just treat me as a friend who doesn't talk about the wind and moon, rather than her continuing to alienate me. She likes to talk about poetry, like to play the piano, like to play, I can accompany her.

The only condition was that Xiao Yan would disappear into this world forever.

Xiao Yan went to the north to meet the enemy, and in the final crucial battle, he was trapped in Yanguan City, but I let the reinforcements stay a hundred miles away. Xiao Yan did not endure the difficulties, he would definitely go out of the city to fight a battle, I think he died on the battlefield, and then let the reinforcements come forward to surround and suppress the enemy army. However, he was hard-hitting and broke the siege, but he was also seriously injured, and his life was hanging in the balance.

I blocked the news from the palace, and somehow I was afraid that Ah Ho would know everything.

Maybe I looked down on the woman Xu Yue'er, and she actually told Ah He about Xiao Yan.

Later, Ah Ho went to du Wei Zhuoyang and inquired whether Prince Yan's palace had invited Grandmaster Tanyue of Tianji Mountain. She was really naïve, and Zhuo Yang blinked like I had repaid everything.

Xiao Yan was seriously injured, and he wanted to heal the almost golden wounds. I expected Ah Ho to talk to me, she was worried about Xiao Yan, I seized this opportunity, let her give up her freedom, willing to stay by my side for the rest of her life, at my mercy.

In order to show off this to Xiao Yan, I took Ah He to Prince Yan's mansion. I left a lot of kiss marks on her neck, and Aho got out of the carriage with tears in her eyes.

In the process of waiting, I gradually became mad, I could not control my jealousy, and began to regret my impulse to let the two of them meet privately, what were they doing? Is it difficult to appeal to the heart?

When Ah Ho returned, I lost my mind and treated her roughly, as if I wanted to tear her apart to relieve the hatred in my heart.

I am the king, I gave her the power she wanted, I kept the song palace safe, but why can she always be ignorant and can't like me?

I buried my face in her neck socket and said in a dull voice, "You are so selfish, you love you so much that you hate you." ”

She said, "Emperor, the heart of the concubine is gone, and everything else can be handed over to you, even if it is a life." ”

I locked her up in one of the most remote parts of the palace, and I covered all the windows with a black cloth, and sent a palace maid to guard her outside the house, but did not let them talk to her.

I went to see her every day, and at first she was still able to support herself with her will, and she barely seemed calm.

After half a month, she gradually began to be restless and anxious, and gradually began to hurt herself, hurting herself, and I put away all the sharp items in the palace and warned her that if she wanted to die, I wouldn't mind letting the whole Song Mansion and Xiao Yan be buried with her. She was always curled up in the corner, crying uncontrollably.

She also clung to me, threw herself into my arms when she saw me coming, grabbed the hem of my coat and wouldn't let me go when I left.

I knew that I was destroying her little by little, and my heart ached so much that I had a soft heart to let her go, but I was also worried that one day when she was out of here, she would no longer be attached to me and regard me as the only one.

Song Min seemed to have sensed the decline of the Song Mansion in advance, and he understood that only if he still had use value, he was the foundation of his life.

He said, "Xiao Yan's reputation is very strong, and if Your Majesty wants to get rid of it quickly, he will inevitably bear some people's grievances." Wei Chen had a plan to force Xiao Yan to rebel and then wipe it out. ”

I shook my head, "I know Xiao Yan's temperament, what ability can I force him?" ”

"Just let Concubine Song suffer some hardships, Song Min bowed down and said, he knows that Ah Ho is in my hands."

I chuckled, "Song Min, she's your daughter." ”

"Wei Chen knows."

I couldn't see Song Min's expression of bowing his head clearly, and he only felt a little sad.

"Song Min, you don't have any intention to give your daughter to me, you are not a rare Ah He, and you are very distressed."

He knelt down, his hanging face almost touching the ground, "In the future, how about the Song Palace, please remember what Your Majesty said today." ”

There was silence, and he leaned down, and a low sob sounded in the imperial study.

I waved my hand, "Get out." ”

I released the news that Concubine Song had been beaten into the court, and it spread throughout the palace.

One day I planted eyeliner in Xu Yue'er and told me that Ah He's maid was inquiring about Ah He's whereabouts. I didn't move and let the eyeliner continue to stare at them.

Later, Ah He actually wanted to report to Xiao Yan through Zhuo Yang that he was safe, and Zhuo Yang still handed the letter to me.

Soon after, Xiao Yan rebelled. He gave his all and led his troops into the palace wall.

I had already set up a siege and waited for him to cast his net.

When the dust settled, Xiao Yan was tied up and knelt down in front of me, and he smiled and said, "Fourth brother, you don't have to do such a great job to kill your brother." ”

As soon as Nangong raised his hand, the guards punched him several times in the face, and Xiao Yan was still smiling, "You want your brother to rebel, how can your brother not disobey the fourth brother's wishes?" ”

His chest was kicked hard, and he fell down in pain, but suddenly straightened his waist and smiled, "You can't let Ah He into the court, you won't." ”

I stopped the guard with a loud voice and said with interest, "Ah Ho is not in the court, but she is better off alive than dead." ”

"What did you do to her?!"

The bodyguard pinned him down, Xiao Yan struggled to break free, his eyes were red, and he kept shouting, "Xiao Yun, you rushed to me, you killed me!" ”

His reaction was very satisfying to me, and I had him dragged to death row.

Nangong, I commanded, "I have unblocked Concubine Song." ”

When I went to Jiaolan Palace, she was wrestling with things in the house to keep the maid from getting closer.

Aunt Chen told me that the maid was going to change her clothes, but she lost her temper.

I shrugged off everyone and was about to approach her.

"Don't come here!

Go away! ”

A candlestick fell on my face, scratching my cheek and oozing blood.

She suddenly screamed, hid in the corner, and covered her ears.

"It's all right," I stroked her trembling shoulder, "Ah Ho, it's me, calm down." ”

I wrapped my arms around her, but she kept trembling, and tears wet my shirt.

"Xiao Yun, Xiao Yun," she cried and hugged me, "don't go." ”

I was in a trance, and the woman who haunted me when I was young was in my arms at the moment, and I felt very relieved that we would never be separated again.

The imperial doctor told me that Ah Ho was pregnant.

I didn't intend to tell her about Xiao Yan, but on her birthday, she mentioned her mother-in-law.

I was overwhelmed.

The thing that scared me the most happened, she already knew that I was manipulating everything behind my back, I once killed her mother, broke her and Xiao Yan.

She didn't like me, everything was just her disguise. The real her made me strange.

"Yes, I hate you so much. Your glass of wine today was indeed poisoned, but then I thought that living might torture you even more.

The moment she fell, I felt unprovoked fear.

Fortunately, Aunt Chen knew about this in advance and replaced the wine in her glass.

Later, I sincerely went to repent to her, but she was cold as frost, and when I approached her, her body was uncontrollably stiff and cold, instinctively rejecting my touch.

No matter how hard I tried, she hated me and hated me.

After the despair, I lost my sense of anger, and I brought her to Xiao Yan's face, and her beautiful and plain face had waves.

"Xiao Yun begged you not to kill him, okay?" You let him go and let me do anything. ”

I was shaken for a moment, "Including making you like Shangyuan?" ”

She knelt at my feet, pulled the hem of my robe and begged, "I will try, Xiao Yun, Ah He begs you." ”

Xiao Yan did not give her this opportunity, he drank the poisoned wine and slowly fell down in Ah He's frightened and mournful eyes.

"Don't leave me behind," she tore at her heart, as I had said to her more than once, but she never responded to me, and showed absolute disregard for my sincerity.

Xiao Yan died, but my heart was not happy.

Remembering Ah He's appearance just now, I leaned down and sent the antidote into Xiao Yan's mouth.

"Your Majesty, no," Nangong stopped me in a loud voice, but it was already too late.

Being left in this world, my pain is ultimately unwilling to let her bear it.

"Nangong, throw Xiao Yan to Tianji Mountain, and tell Tan Yue not to ask him to appear in front of Yuan in this life."

Otherwise, He would still kill him. ”

Ah Ho had a serious illness for her, and her body was weak, but she refused to drink the medicine.

I could only coerce her, and sadly, in the end the only way I could take her was coercion.

Her eyes were full of indifference and determination, Xiao Yun, now I am only Grandma Chen by my side. If she's gone, I'd rather die.

Even the chess pieces that I had placed around her for seven years could occupy a place in her heart, but I, she never cared.

I was afraid that with her hatred for me, she would not leave the child behind, but she was unexpectedly calm, no longer caught up in the previous sad and frightened emotions, but began to deploy the affairs of the Jiaolan Palace, as if she really wanted to protect the child.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Song sent someone to guard Concubine Yue, but you want your subordinates——""

"Ah Ho, she loves to toss and turn with her, don't provoke her anymore." Moreover, even if he didn't shoot, Song Min would never let Xu Yue'er go. ”

Gradually, the father and daughter stood against each other.

That's what I want to see, too. Only in this way can I pluck her out of the sunken Song Mansion and keep her safe.

But I never thought that she chose to uncover her father's incriminating evidence in the courtroom.

Obviously, there are countless paths to go, and the gentle woman finally chose the one that left no room.

Undoubtedly, it is a lose-lose situation, and there is no way back.

Her torment and pain, in the middle of the night, would turn into nightmares haunting her.

I accompanied her, raising my hand to embrace her as she unconsciously struggled and moaned every night, tapping her on the back and soothing her.

She would slowly fall into a calm sleep, and one time, I heard her whispers, and she called, "Brother Yan." ”

I didn't make a sound, I was afraid of destroying the warmth of the moment.

As long as she depends on me, that's enough.

When she was awake during the day, I often visited her, "Ah Ho, have you forgotten about the past?" We'll be together in the future. ”

She replied lightly, "Good. ”

But she was getting haggard and emaciated, and her anger seemed to be irretrievable little by little.

The day before Song Min's execution, she insisted on visiting the prison.

I was blocked out of the prison door by her, nervous.

I broke in and picked her up, "Pass on the Imperial Doctor!" ”

Words are like knives, as if they were cutting in my heart.

Once, I snatched her away from her sweetheart and killed her mother-in-law;

I broke my oath to her and forced her, but I could not resist the jealousy of the emperor and added musk to the spices that were given to her.

I was jealous that she always had Xiao Yan in her heart, imprisoned her in a dark place for three months, destroyed her will, forced her to learn to be afraid, to learn to be humble.

I may have forgotten how bright and moving the girl I first fell in love with was.

I took her into my arms and said with a heartache, "Ah He, I'm sorry for you, how do you want to compensate you?" ”

Going around, I shouldn't have asked, and at that moment my chest was dull and painful, and I coughed up blood.

Suddenly, she said angrily, "Concubines laugh with you." The concubines were tired and wanted to leave, so they went to Tanshui County, the mother's hometown. ”

My eyes were hazy, and I lowered my head to press my lips to her hair, "So Ah Ho, are you back?" ”

I begged over and over again, holding her tighter and tighter, and she still didn't answer me.

The day she left, I didn't go to drop her off.

I sat in the Jiaolan Palace for a day until late at night.

That's when she asked, "Isn't it cold?" ”

It's cold, it's been cold.

But I never told her that she was the one who brought me warmth.

The three years I stole were a dream.

When I stepped out of the Jiaolan Palace, the palace behind me fell into a sea of fire.

Mother Concubine, Ah Ho, all said goodbye to me once and for all.

Now, it's time for the dream to wake up.

extra:

Ten years later.

Nangong got the emperor's secret order, and went to Tianji Mountain to invite the lady in charge to enter the palace but ate the closed door soup. He only got a golden hairpin and said that he wanted him to take it back to him.

He still wanted to fight again, but he knew that the king in the palace was running out of time, so he had to go back to his life in a sullen way.

The mountain breeze was gentle, and Song Qianhe stood tall, staring at the distant carriage for a long time.

Xiao Yan tied her cloak, shook her hand, and said, "Ah He, go and see him." ”

"Brother Yan, that's enough." She said softly.

She hadn't told Xiao Yan what Xiao Yun had done. The past was like a nightmare, and she didn't want to think about it.

Xiao Yan hugged her silently, as if he had spent the rest of his life tenderly, and the geese crossed the Pingchuan River.

Inside the sleeping hall, the smell of medicine lingers.

A beautiful man with black hair was leaning on the bed, his face as pale as rice paper.

In his hand was a golden hairpin, and when he rubbed it carefully, the hairpin shone with luster.

He smiled in vain, remembering that when he had taken away her eyebrow pencil and had to draw her eyebrows, she had protected her distant eyebrows.

"Why not?" Xiao Yun asked, "You are my mother." ”

She didn't care, at that time she still had no barrier to him, and said, "You have to be able to do it." ”

He smiled half-truthfully, "I like you." ”

She was a little stunned, and only then did she whisper, "My heart is a stone, and I can't turn it." ”

He withdrew from his memory and slowly closed his eyes, but there was a smile on his lips, and so did I.