Puppet Demon Princess: Today also to attack the stinky monk (follow-up)

23.

Fu Linche left the palace the next morning on the pretext of returning to Longtai Temple to pray for the blessings of the people on the occasion of the New Year. I was still asleep in the bed when he left, so the beads remained in my hands.

Three days later, in the evening, I called Su Xin to the inner temple, knocked her unconscious with a knife with a very apologetic hand, and then tucked her into the bed, and covered her tightly with a quilt.

Taking off the beads, removing the powder, and changing into the most common palace dress, I took the Buddha beads and hurried to the Tingxue Palace.

Li Cerser's neiying palace maid Xiao Du was already waiting outside the palace, and when she saw me coming, she was not convenient to perform the ceremony, but only obediently whispered, "Noble Concubine Niangniang, please come with the slave maid."

I followed her to the carriage out of the palace, watched her silently hand a bulging purse to the guards at the palace gate, and then the carriage drove slowly out of the palace.

"Niangniang must not delay the time to return to the palace, otherwise the slave maid will not be able to make a difference."

Bidding farewell to Xiao Du, I hurried in the direction of the ferry, and in the distance I saw a monk in a dark red robe standing on the shore waiting for the ship.

I walked quickly toward him, but before I could speak, Fu Linche found me first, and when he saw me wearing a palace maid's dress, he couldn't help but look up and down: "Yo, isn't this a lady, haven't seen me in a few days, so pulled?" How did the little monk's noble concubine turn around and become a little palace girl?"

"The mouth of a bald donkey, a deceitful ghost." I turned my head sideways and ignored him, "Hand to me."

Naturally, he reached out and took me by the hand, and I was startled and tapped my backhand on the back of his hand: "You, you, you... Take your big pig's hooves away, I'm telling you to reach out!"

"Oh? It is the little monk who will be wrong, and it seems that the little monk and the young lady are not tacit enough." Fu Linche put his hand in front of me, "Only in the future the little monk and the lady will have more running-in."

I put the bead on for him, gently tightened the knot on the bead, and then hesitated briefly.

? Fu Linche saw that I did not react, and said helplessly, "Niangniang is holding the little monk's hand like this, but the little monk will misunderstand."

He seems to be... Never called my name. No matter how close I was to him, even when I was most moved, he only called me "Niangniang" with three points of playfulness.

But the more I did so, the more I wanted to hear him call me by my name, in his usual flirtatious tone.

"Fu Linche, what do you call me?"

.

"Change one." I let go of his hand, and there was something rare in his tone.

"Lady Concubine."

"Call my name."

There was a bit of surprise in his eyes, the curvature of the corners of his mouth disappeared for a moment, and then he returned to his former appearance: "Niangniang has begun to play with her small nature again, how dare the little monk call Niangniang's name directly?"

In the middle of the night, an orange dot of light appeared on the dark lake, which was an orange lantern placed on the bow of the boat by the ferry boatman. boat...... It's almost here.

"Niangniang still go back." It was so cold that the little monk was reluctant to let his mother-in-law suffer from freezing."

Fu Linche made a gesture to put on a hood for me, but before his hand could touch the hood, he grabbed my wrist.

I bit my lip and looked up at him, and he looked down at me. I clutched his wrist and tried to wait for him to call my name, helplessly begging for mercy.

But he didn't.

"The lady is angry?" He took a closer look at the wrist that I was holding, and there was a bit of grievance in his tone, "Niangniang is fierce, and lo and behold, it has left a mark."

I let go of Fu Linche's hand and took a few steps back. As weak as a punch thrown with all my might on a ball of cotton, I left the ferry without looking back.

I don't understand what I'm angry about, but I feel like I have to be angry. Fu Linche was always like this, it seemed to be close to the distance, if I was far away, I always thought that I was close to him, but when it was easy to catch up with him, he retreated and pulled away. It was clear that Fu Linche was unique to me, but he didn't even want to call my name.

What's wrong with calling a name, is Lin Baozhu's name so awkward!

I stood still in a huff, neither willing nor willing to just leave like this, and the people I couldn't take Lin Baozhu down? Gritting my teeth, I turned my head and rushed toward the ferry, running and running towards Fu Linche.

As long as I chased tightly enough, he wouldn't have time to retreat.

The boatman had already docked the boat, and the old boatman beckoned Fu Linche to let him get on the boat, he nodded, and walked step by step with his luggage towards the docked boat.

Fu Linche's figure gradually became clear in my line of sight, and before he was about to board the ship, I grabbed his sleeve and pulled him backwards. In his astonished eyes, I grabbed him by the neckline and tiptoed up and kissed him hard.

Ollie gives, build him and it's over!

Xu was too strong, he couldn't help but take a few steps back, but subconsciously afraid that I would fall and wrap his arms around my waist.

My mind went blank, only the touch of my lips reminding me of what I had just done.

"O iniquity." While watching the lively old boatman let out an exclamation.

"What to see!" An eye knife flew towards the old boatman, frightening him into immediately turning around and stopping talking.

I reached out and clamped Fu Linche's chin, looking like a robber who forced Liang to be a prostitute, and said word by word: "Call, I, of, name, word!"

Fu Linche looked at me and blinked, but did not speak, as if he felt that I would be helpless.

So I grabbed him by the collar again and pecked at his lips. He didn't expect me to be so bold, and the shock in his eyes didn't go away for a long time.

"Call the name!"

Seeing that he still did not respond, I simply did not stop, and pulled on his neckline again, intending to tiptoe up... But before I could make a move, he took the initiative to bow his head and put a kiss on my lips.

This time it was my turn to freeze in place.

"This... It's over?" Fu Linche smiled softly, and his bony fingers brushed the corners of my lips, "The little monk thought it would take longer."

I let go of my hand, jumped a few steps in a row, and then crouched down with my back to him next to a tree, covering my red face.

"Fang Cai is still so bold, why don't you dare to speak now?" He walked slowly toward me and tapped me on the shoulder a few times.

With my head down, I didn't dare look back at him, wishing I could dig a grave now and bury myself in it.

"Well, it's all the monk's fault." Fu Linche sighed, half helpless and half flattering, "Baozhu, don't be angry."

I slowly turned my head back, and he was looking at me with a bent eyebrow.

"You've just... What do you call me?"

"The little monk doesn't say it a second time." Fu Linche faded the Buddha bead in his hand and put it on my wrist, "This Buddha bead has the effect of blessing, when the little monk is not in the capital, let it replace the little monk to protect Niangniang Yi or two."

When I looked down at my wrist, he rubbed my somewhat scattered hair again: "It's not too early, the little monk is leaving, be careful on the way to the mother-in-law."

With that, he turned and boarded the ferry, while I stood where I was, looking in the direction the boat was leaving.

The boatman rowed the boat hard, and soon the boat carried the person I had in mind and slowly disappeared into my field of vision.

24.

After following Xiao Du back to the palace, Su Xin was still unconscious in my bed, and it seemed that I was too cruel.

Li Cerser knew that I was going out of the palace, and in order to prevent Fu Linqing from coming to my palace, he deliberately called him to the Tingxue Palace under the pretext of his hand disease and committing another crime.

Su Xin didn't wake up with his neck covered until the next morning, and I made two excuses at random and stuffed a jade hairpin to prevaricate.

Last night, Li Cerser called Fu Linqing over, which annoyed the queen's eyes, so the queen rose up again, saying that her leg injury had recurred, and that Fu Linqing must go over and see it.

Lisse had already given up long ago, without the worldly desire to fight for the wind and jealousy. It just so happened that the queen was trying to get her own favor, and went to listen to the Snow Palace to find a stubble, where Li Cersei had suffered this kind of grievance, kicking the table and howling with the queen.

Today's leg disease is unwell, tomorrow's hand injury is re-offender, it should be a happy and lively time for the New Year, and the whole life of Lieser and the Queen is comparable to mourning.

Only in the end, Fu Linqing was really annoyed by the toss, and slapped the table and scolded: "Roll on!"

Horizontal and vertical Fu Linche left Beijing, I was idle and idle, secretly running to ask Li Seter, "Didn't you already let go of Fu Linqing?" What is the matter with the queen at this time?"

"It has nothing to do with dog men, I just can't get used to the queen." She raised an eyebrow, "You don't understand, men will only affect the speed of my palace fight, there is no man in my heart, the palace fight is a natural god."

Before leaving, I looked at LiSer's hand and said, "I didn't lay down my dead hand, and when everything is over, let your father find a good bone doctor, and your hand will be restored for a year and a half."

Li Cersei was stunned at first, and then looked down at his hand in disbelief: "Lin Baozhu, you didn't lie to me?"

"Lie to you that I am surnamed with Fu Linqing."

"You... I..." She was so overjoyed by the sudden news that she could not utter a complete sentence.

I saw her like this, and without saying anything more to her, I flipped out of the window sill and walked quickly back to the Nanshu Palace.

Looking out the window, I sat on my knees on the bed, but I couldn't stop stroking the beads one by one in my hands, listening to the slight sound of the beads tapping each other.

After playing with it for a while, I put the bead back on my wrist and sighed slightly.

When Fu Linche returned to the palace with his troops, everything would be over, then... After that? In who do I want to live and on what footing?

Fu Linche may become the new emperor of the Great Calendar, or maybe he will give me a new identity.

Even when I was anticipating my worst, I was never afraid. But when I thought about my future with Fu Linche, I was afraid for no reason.

It's like... I and he have always had only the present, not the future.

It's just that there's no more time for me to think about it. The New Year's Festival is approaching, and everywhere in the palace is busy, I live in seclusion, and I am occasionally dragged by Su Xin to the Royal Garden for a few laps.

I sat on the swing in the imperial garden, looking sideways at the green smoke rising above the Hokke Hall not far away.

Fu Linqing rarely came to the Nanxuan Palace, and even if he came, he would just sit for a while and drink some tea, but the reward was day after day. At first, Ming Xin could still make up a few reasons to come out, but later she was too lazy to make it up, scratching her head and saying, "This wave, this wave is the New Year clearance sale."

Chinese New Year's Eve that afternoon, when I was all dressed and waiting for the palace banquet, Xiao Du ran to the Nanshu Palace and sent me a message, saying that Li Cerser had asked me to come over.

I was a little confused by Xiao Du, after all, she should not be such a blind person, a palace maid in the imperial dining room said in front of other palace people that she had obeyed The orders of Li Cerser.

But Xiao Du looked calm, no matter how I made her eyes, she was still that calm and self-assured look, as if she would not leave if she did not invite me over.

I vaguely seemed to feel something, and after returning to the dresser in the inner temple and hesitating for a while, I put the plain silver noodle in my pocket, and then after a little tidying up, I followed Xiao Du out of the Nanshu Palace.

"Mother-in-law, the time has come." Xiao Du whispered behind me.

My heart "clucked" a little, but there was no wave on my face, just accelerated my steps towards the Tingxue Palace. As soon as I entered the inner sanctum, I saw Lisse sitting on a chair, looking like she had been waiting for a long time.

"My father let Xiao Du pass on the news, and tonight they will do it." Lisse looked out the window, and as the sun was about to set, half of the sky was reflected in blood red, "I'm afraid you're running around and losing your life when the time comes." Stay with me, at least my father's Bai Lingwei will definitely not kill into the Tingxue Palace."

I was not polite with Lisse, sat down opposite her, and took a snack from the plate in front of her: "I heard from the palace people that before this banquet begins, fireworks carefully prepared by the palace craftsmen will be set off." Thanks to your father's blessing, no one should want to watch fireworks now."

Li Seter was not dissatisfied with my act of stealing her snack, but instead pushed the plate towards me: "Anyway, we just wait, the group of guards that Fu Linqing has around him can't stop it."

When she said these words, her voice trembled slightly.

After all, it was already close to dinner, so I answered and continued to eat a snack with my head down.

But Lisse was talking a little more than usual, chattering incessantly, as if this was the only way to make her feel at ease. The gossip in the palace that I never knew was carefully told by her, such as what Ming Xin and Li Youcai grew up playing a small piece; and the empress actually did not like Fu Linqing much, and the palace fight was just a fight for breath...

I just listened quietly, Lisse just chattered, and at the end, she brought up Fu Linqing.

Fu Linqing's mother concubine was not born well and had a low rank. When he was a child, he once sneaked out of the palace, and this matter was known to the emperor, and he could not punish his mother and concubine. Those few in the Former Emperor's Palace were not good stubble, and they had even intensified their efforts to fall into the well, and by the time Fu Linqing returned to the palace injured, his mother had already driven him crazy.

Lisse's voice gradually became quieter, and finally she stopped talking, and like me, she bowed her head and ate a snack.

It wasn't until the fireworks outside the house rose and burst out in the air for a moment that Li Cerser said, "Lin Baozhu, I really liked him at that time."

She pretended to smile easily, and then completely lost the appearance of the old lady, and spat out a fragrant mouth: "It is really fucking like."

Faintly, I heard the shouts of the palace people in the distance, as if they were on fire.

Then the sound of fighting, the sonorous sound of swords, the cry for help and the cry of crying sounded one after another. The floating red satin was torn off, the big red lantern was stained with dark red blood, and the clear water of Lake Taihua also fainted red ripples.

The raging fire lit up half of the sky, and the palace ladies who fled in all directions, the concubines whose flowers were discolored, and the eunuchs who begged for forgiveness in their shrill voices. The Bai Lingwei who was supposed to guard the royal city and the rebels attacking outside the palace charged towards the royal city together, while the people in the capital were still stretching their necks to look up at the fireworks burning in the royal city, and the ignorant children "giggled" innocently while pointing at the fireworks in the air.

All the sounds were muffled by the sound of earth-shattering fireworks, and none of the shouts could cross the thick scarlet wall and pass out of the palace.

25.

Until the snacks on the plate reached the bottom and the fighting gradually subsided, I wiped my hands with a towel, then stood up and walked toward the door.

Lisse stopped me: "Lin Baozhu, are you in a hurry to send me to death?"

I squeezed the plain silver noodle in my pocket, smiled at her, and said, "I'll be right back."

After leaving the Tingxue Palace, I walked slowly on the palace road with no end in sight, the rebels and the White Lingwei recognized me, and no one intervened to stop me, but one by one they passed by me and rushed straight to the next palace.

This scene reminds me of the chaos when the Lin family was raided five years ago, when the two sisters-in-law and I were pulled by the hair and dragged to the prison cart, and the women and women were in a mess, and the squatters cried and climbed the wall, hoping to escape by climbing over the blue-gray wall.

Unconsciously, I had already arrived at the Front of the Golden Dragon Hall, and Li Youcai, who was trembling outside the palace, had been controlled, and many Bai Lingwei and rebels were surrounded outside the palace, and when they saw me coming, they all gave way to a few steps and gave way.

A straight road.

When I stepped into the main hall, Fu Linqing was carrying a long sword, and a sword pierced the throat and neck of a White Lingwei. Inside the hall were dozens of corpses lying on the ground, including the White Wing Guard, the rebels, and his guards.

When he saw me coming, he casually wiped the blood on his hand on his dragon robe, held out his hand to me, and said, "Jewel, don't be afraid, come here, Yuan... Protect you..."

Huang Ziqing, Prince, Qing.

I should have thought of it a long time ago.

With a smile, I stepped over the corpse on the ground, just like many years ago in the cold and damp prison, and I walked from the cell step by step to Fu Linqing.

He lowered the sword in his hand, as if anxious to see if I was injured.

Then, as if remembering something very important, he pulled out the red coral bracelet—

The next moment, I fiercely pierced Fu Linqing's heart with the plain silver noodle hidden in my sleeve, and he took a few steps back and fell to the dragon chair behind him. But he didn't look at his wounds, he just continued the movements of his hands, shoving his hands into my hands, like a child who was expecting to please adults.

"Orb, this is your thing." There was no deathly despair in his eyes, and there was even a little joy in his tone, "You are the 'mouse', aren't you?"

Lin Baozhu, A potato, mouse.

I'm a rat, always.

Ten years ago, I met Fu Linqing, who was hunted down and killed after sneaking out of the palace, and took him to evade the Assassins, but the Assassins stabbed me with a sword before they were dying.

Fu Linqing blocked the sword for me, and in order to save him, I stole a pair of red coral bracelets in a desperate situation.

"Wake up, look, we have money, and soon a doctor will come to your rescue."

I shook Fu Linqing, who had already passed out, and he reluctantly opened his eyes, looked at the bracelet in my hand, and asked me where I came from.

But I lied because I was afraid he would not accept it because it was stolen.

"This... This is my mother's thing, anyway you leave it alone... You must hold on, I will find the doctor right away!"

"I will definitely... Redeem it for you."

He said he would redeem the bracelet to me.

I blinked, looked down at what Fu Linqing had painstakingly stuffed into my hand, and then right in front of his eyes, I forcefully broke the red coral bracelet.

The blood-red beads and pendants crackled and scattered on the ground, and Fu Linqing fell from the dragon chair, and then crawled on the ground, picking up the falling beads one by one in a humble posture.

"The beads... bead...... Beads..." He picked up the beads on the ground with his bloodied hands, and then once again shoved the blood-stained beads into my hand with a flattering look, "Jewel, you see..."

see? What to see? Look at the tomb of the Lin family, look at the concubine who died in my hands, look at the rebels who killed in the palace, or look at the bracelet that I have ripped off.

I just think it's ridiculous and ridiculous.

Everything was a little late, the Lin family was destroyed, the palace gate was broken, the rebels were all encircling the Golden Dragon Hall, Fu Linqing waited until everything was irretrievable before saying this to me and doing this.

It's late, I just want to watch him die.

So I lowered my hand, and the beads that had been picked up so easily fell to the ground again.

Fu Linqing also wanted to continue to pick up the beads on the ground for me, but this time, he failed to put the beads in my hand.

He was dead, clutching a hand full of beads at my feet.

A terrible scream came from behind him, it was Lu Xiaoyi's voice. She was first frightened by the corpses in the room and fell to the ground and retreated, and she couldn't stop covering her chest and vomiting. When she noticed Fu Linqing who had died on the edge of the dragon chair, she made several indecipherable syllables, and while she was in tears, she ran to the ground with a rolling belt and hugged Fu Linqing, who was already stiff.

Fu Linqing died, and the only one who could cry for him was Lu Xiaoyi, whom he had abandoned before he died.

And I finally heard the last story from Lu Xiaohuang's mouth.

When Lu Xiaoyi was eleven years old, she accidentally left her hand on the carriage, and by the time she returned to the carriage to look for it, the bracelet had disappeared.

Her father lost her temper and her stepmother poured fuel on the fire, and she was eventually punished to kneel in the ancestral hall for two whole days.

Later, she became more cowardly and more difficult to please her father.

One day a few months later, her grandmother delivered food to her husband, who worked in a pawnshop, and recognized at a glance the bracelet that had been in the storeroom that had accompanied Lu Xiaohuang for nearly a decade.

After the bracelet was lost and regained, Lu Xiaoyi was afraid of losing it again, so she put the bracelet on the shelf until five years later, when she was told that she was about to marry into the Lin family as a concubine.

Lu Xiaoyi once again put on his bracelet, hoping to make his father remember his old feelings, but he ran into Fu Linqing, who came to the door.

After checking all the pawnshops in the capital, Fu Linqing finally knew where the bracelet was and finally found the Lu family.

"Your bracelet... Where did it come from?"

"It was left to me by my mother..."

"It was you!"

Lu Xiaoyi, who had just been driven out of the study by his father, knew that Fu Linqing must have recognized the wrong person. But she didn't have a choice, because she didn't want to marry the Lin family as a concubine, so she lied and admitted this experience that did not belong to her.

I stole her hairpin, she stole my past, fair enough. And the karma of cause and effect in this, I can't figure it out.

This is the evil fate that has been formed in several lifetimes, and it will take several lifetimes to pay it off.

In the vast palace, the cries of the little man who had torn her heart and lungs echoed for a long time, and she cried and read "A Qing" while constantly apologizing to me.

Dropping the blood-stained pliers in my hand, when I turned to leave, I found Fu Linche standing at the door of the Golden Dragon Hall.

As I rubbed shoulders with him, I said, "Master Xuanche, you said... Whose fault is this?"

It was almost dawn, and a fish belly white appeared in the distant sky. The long night finally dawned, a new day arrived, a new year also arrived, just like all the stories disappeared along with Fu Linqing's death.

The little thief in the alley, the prince who stole out of the palace, the lady who stole something, the little monk who witnessed everything but did nothing, and the red coral bracelet that was lost and recovered.

"Nature is..." Fu Linche folded his hands on his chest, "Nature is the little monk's fault."

"Why did the little monk stop the little thief?"

It was as if all the emotions of the past ten years had been squeezed together in my chest, making my eyes red and breathless. What the truth is, what the whole story is like, I don't care anymore.

Now, I just want to listen to Fu Linche's explanation.

I heard him say that the little monk was just an unintentional mistake, and all absurdities were created and manipulated.

"The little monk has already told his mother-in-law." He closed his eyes, and there was no sorrow or joy in his tone, nor did he have any intention of justifying, but he said quietly, "The little monk has no sense of justice, nor does he have the bottom line and principle in the eyes of ordinary people." He always looked at all this with an attitude of staying out of the matter, and the fact that he played the life of others in his hands made the little monk feel very interesting. But..."

I didn't continue to listen, and Mu Ne walked out of the Golden Dragon Hall.

Lisse was standing next to her father, and when she saw me looking lost and discouraged, she stopped me and said, "Lin Baozhu, you are... Oh, don't go, where are you going..."

Standing not far from her, I looked back at her and smiled, "I... I'm going home selling sweet potatoes."

A small shop was set up in the open space in front of the house, with two ovens and a stove frame, and I put bags of sweet potatoes on the grill one by one, turning the noodles from time to time with clips.

The sweet smell of sweet potatoes has filled the streets, and several children have just returned from school, jumping to the front of the store, taking out ten copper plates in a small cloth bag and handing them to me, and milking milk said: "Beautiful sister, give me a big sweet potato!"

I laughed in my heart that it was a child, this sweet potato is actually almost the same, where is the size to pick. But even so, with a smile, I tried to pick two relatively large sweet potatoes and handed them over.

This is my third year in this town, this town is located in Jiangnan Water Town, although it is a little remote, but the local people are simple, so I have made a home here.

The news about the palace coup three years ago, which finally reached the people, has changed.

There was no rebellion or rebellion, only that since the Chinese New Year's Eve that day, the emperor's health was not good, so he was bedridden and handed over all the political affairs to the regent Fu Linche.

Lu Xiaoyi gave birth to a prince seven months later, and when the coup d'état occurred, she was already three months pregnant.

Lisse was taken home by her father, and announced to the outside world that she had died of an acute illness; the empress had not made much movement since Fu Linqing's death, and played card nine with several concubines in the harem every day, while playing card nine, while chanting the words "Seventeen cards, can you second the palace?"

And I live here in seclusion, but in the past three years I have been in correspondence with LiSer, she occasionally writes to me to tell me about some things in the capital, and last month she sent a letter saying that she planned to come to Jiangnan to find me.

Three years later, Lisse had healed her hands, and she knocked on the door of my house with a bunch of snacks in her hand.

"Lin Baozhu, I'm getting married." It was the first thing she said when she walked in the door.

Since she left the palace, the Li family found a doctor with excellent medical skills, Qin Ming, who healed her hand and healed her heart.

Even their names matched well, with the harmonic sounds "Qinse and Ming".

I bowed my hand to her and said "congratulations."

Lisse sat down next to me and began to talk about the gossip in the capital, mentioning her relatives and some former deceased people. For example, in the past, Xiao Du was transferred to Lu Xiaohuang's palace as an errand boy, Su Xin's servant was transferred to take care of the little prince, Ming Xin left the royal city to do small business outside the palace, and Li Youcai crashed to death on Fu Linqing's coffin.

When the words were almost over, she suddenly asked, "Fu Linqing's dog man used to come to your palace every day, did you have a secret passage in your palace that led directly to Lu Xiaoyi's Yuping Palace?"

I heard her mention the old matter, slightly confused, but still nodded, "Yes, there is an inconspicuous cabinet in the inner hall of the Nanshu Palace, and opening the cabinet door is the secret passage." How did you suddenly bring this up?"

"You don't know yet." LiSer sighed, "Lu Xiaoyi is dead."

He's dead? Lu Xiaohuang gave birth to the crown prince, and now she should already be the empress, as long as she didn't think about interfering in the affairs of the court, who would think of harming her?

"Jiangnan is really good here, and it is wet and moist in the autumn, even like the capital, the face will be peeled up." Li Cerser said and poked his own face, "Since the beginning of the autumn, the things that have caught fire outside the palace because of the dry weather and dry things have not been once or twice, or a few days before I set out from the capital, Lu Xiaoyi's Yuping Palace was also on fire."

I thought someone had set the fire, so I asked, "This fire..."

"This fire is accidental. Listening to Xiao Du, the fire was not much, and it is estimated that the windows were not closed tightly, and the night wind blew the candlestick down." LiSer continued, "If Lu Xiaoyi were honest and waiting for the palace people in the inner temple to come and put out the fire... Heck, it was her own brain that made the wrong tendon and ran into the dark passage, presumably trying to escape through the dark passage."

I suddenly remembered the scene where Fu Linqing sealed the cabinet, and my heart tightened, asking, "And then?"

"And then?" Then Lu Xiaohuang was trapped in that dark passage." Li Cerser held his chin and thought for a moment, "It is also her bad luck, the fire has burned the mechanism of the secret door of the Yuping Palace into deformation, and the cabinet at the exit of the secret door of your Nanjing Palace does not know who has locked it... Anyway, by the time the palace people finally smashed open the secret door, Lu Xiaodi was already dead inside."

I was stunned and couldn't speak for a long time.

Lu Xiaohuang was trapped in the secret passage that Fu Linqing had built for her, and from the moment she entered the secret passage, no matter which end she ran, it was a dead end.

There was no reason, as Liser said, because Lu Xiao was unlucky.

Seeing that my expression was not right, Lisse quickly diverged from the topic and talked about her anecdotes in the capital.

It was getting late, and she was getting ready to leave on the last night boat at the port, and I got up and went with her to the ferry. Before she boarded the small boat, she said, "There is one thing I have always wondered, before leaving, I will tell you to hear it, after all, you are much smarter than me."

I stood still and waited for her to continue.

"After the coup d'état that day, my father told me... Fu Linche's troops in this boy's hands can directly tear down the royal city, so why ask you to greet the Li family again? In fact, there is another thing, if Fu Linche wants the throne, why is he only the regent now, and who do you say he is fighting for this throne for?"

Lisse said, waved at me, and sat on the boat with his luggage.

27.

5 years later, Li Seser came to Jiangnan with Qin Ming and two children to find me, she was a little more rounded than in the past, and introduced me to a child in one hand.

Her husband, Qin Ming, stood to the side and nodded kindly to me.

"Are you really going to stay here for the rest of your life?" Li Seser did not regard himself as an outsider, and after eating, he and I worked with me to fetch water and wash dishes by the well, "Fu Linche did not succeed to the throne as emperor, but still acted as a regent to assist the little prince."

I didn't answer, rolled up my sleeves and looked down to wash the dishes.

"This bead is what he gave you." Lisse wiped the bowl with a rag, hating that iron was not a steel road, "Lin Baozhu, you are really stupid and stupid, and you will definitely regret it in the future."

It was very rare that I did not refute Liesther, but only talked about it.

"Alas... You're fighting for that breath." Lisse muttered and walked unwillingly toward the house, "It's been so awkward, and you don't panic." Wouldn't he have to pay you his own life?"

"Lieser." I stopped her and said, "If he were bolder and asked me to go back to being a princess, maybe I would agree to him."

After doing the housework, she sat down for a while and then got up to say goodbye, and Qin Ming led a child toward the ferry, and before leaving, I had nothing to give, so I stuffed a baked sweet potato for each of the two children.

Lisse stood in front of the ship, wanting to talk and stopping.

"What's wrong?" I scratched my head, "You... You want to eat baked sweet potatoes too?"

"Stupid Lin Baozhu." She whispered a scolding, then waved her hand and turned to the boat, "Don't go far these days."

By the time I really understood Liesther's words, it would have been ten days later.

In the afternoon, as usual, I set up my stalls, moved out of the two stoves, and prepared to start business. Sweet potatoes roasted on the stove rack, sugar water seeped down drop by drop, and I took the clip and turned the sweet potatoes over from time to time.

"Girl, this baked sweet potato..."

"Ten dollars a piece." I was in a hurry to turn the sweet potatoes over, and I couldn't even look up, "Will the guest officer come to taste it?" They were all sweet potatoes that had just been dug out of the ground this morning, and they were fresh."

"But the little monk doesn't have so much silver on him."

"It's a foreigner, that's cheaper to sell..." I raised my head, and I looked up at a pair of narrow eyes that were familiar, and the person who had been thinking about it day and night was standing in front of me, and I subconsciously took a few steps back, and for a moment I was a little helpless.

Fu Linche was still wearing the dark red robe, the faint scent of sandalwood on his body, the only thing that had changed was that he had tied up his hair.

"Pour... It's out of business, it's not going to sell..." I put down the clip in my hand and just wanted to escape into the house.

"Many years ago, the girl owed the little monk a favor." I don't know if it was an illusion, but his voice seemed to tremble a little, "The girl said at that time, when the chicken finished eating the rice, the dog licked the noodles, and the little monk's head grew hair, she would come and return this favor."

He held out his hand to me, as if trying to hold me, but in the end it stayed only in mid-air.

"Now that the little monk has grown his hair, the girl is humane... Are you ready to pay back?"

Quietly, no one spoke, only the sweet potatoes on the oven made a "nuisance" from time to time.

Just like I was assassinated by Lake Taihua many years ago, he also held out his hand to me. Fenming has plenty of troops in his hands, even if he doesn't have me in the middle to match the Li family, if he wants to oppose, it will be as easy as it is.

But he saved me anyway, because he recognized me at a glance as the rat of the year.

Is the little monk serious, not at all guilty?

Lisse asked me who Fu Linche had taken the throne for, and the answer to this question no longer mattered.

Touching the string of Buddha beads on my wrist that had been with me for eight years, and holding a Bead hard, I said, "How do you want me to repay you for your kindness?"

"In the Regency Palace, there is a lack of a cook who can bake sweet potatoes."

What a kitchen lady... Lisse was right, I was just for that breath. But I still want to bet on this tone, I want him to be bolder, I want him to get closer, I want to hear him say it himself.

I've been waiting here for eight years, so what if I'm a little more willful?

I watched his outstretched hand, and instead of putting my own hand on it, I picked up a sweet potato from the pile of baked sweet potatoes on the side and put it in his hand.

His eyes suddenly dimmed, and then he forced a smile and said, "The little monk understands."

"There are only two boats here in the morning and evening." I bit my lip to keep my tone as calm as possible, "Let's go after dinner, I won't charge you money."

He nodded slowly and didn't say anything more.

A few plates of light side dishes were accompanied by a bowl of clear soup, and after dinner, Fu Linche and I walked slowly along the bluestone slab road to the ferry and watched him board the night boat.

I took a long breath and went home to tidy up. The next morning, I locked up the house I had lived in for eight years, packed my bags and set out on my way to beijing.

End

Sister Su Xin said that there was a new female official in the palace, and after two days of taking office, she would come to take care of my life and living.

When she said this, her thoughts seemed to drift far away.

"This is Fu Linqing's child?" These were the first words that the Lady Jewel said when she saw me.

"The old woman has done something wrong, and she has to raise a child for him." This is the second sentence.

Lady Baozhu was a very magical person, she was dressed in a scarlet palace dress, bright and concise. On weekdays, she was very strict with me, and when the master came to teach in the palace, she would sit on the side and look at me with her head propped up, and every time I was sleepy, she would hit the palm of my hand with a wooden ruler.

But at night, she would often run into my room and stuff a baked sweet potato into me, who had not yet slept.

Lady Li, who often entered the palace, and the Baozhu female official were very chatty, and the two often looked for the empress dowager in the palace to play card nine, but the Baozhu female official had a poor hand and got a bad deck of cards.

Before my uncle set off for Jiangnan at the beginning of this year, I ran to him and asked him if he was going to Jiangnan to find me an aunt. He nodded and shook his head again, and soon after he returned from Jiangnan, the Baozhu female official entered the palace.

The emperor and the female official of the jewel also seem to have an old acquaintance, the two often meet in my palace, the jewel female official often looks at the emperor, and then gently raises his hand to salute.

But I always felt as if there was a lot of stuff hidden in that eye.

I like to practice martial arts in the courtyard in the afternoon basking in the warm sun, and the Jewel Lady and the Emperor Uncle stand side by side under the long corridor in front of the steps, the Emperor's tall figure blocks the sun for her, and she occasionally makes a sound to my fist.

"Fu Mingming, punching is too slow!" I haven't eaten!"

At this time, the emperor would always look down at the baozhu female official, and did not notice the slightly raised corners of his mouth. They are not overly intimate, nor deliberately alienated, and have always maintained a delicate distance.

A few days ago, Madame Li came to see me in the palace, and I asked Madame Li if anything had happened between Uncle Huang and the Baozhu female official.

Mrs. Li bounced on the door of my head, gritted her teeth and said, "The old lady really broke her heart for the two of them, when will my Sipi be able to sugar!"

What a Sippi... What sugar... I don't understand much of this, but like Mrs. Lee, I hope that Lady Baozhu will be my little aunt.

The master who taught me was a bad-tempered man, and when he was angry, he scolded with his head covered, completely disregarding the face of my successor to the throne. He scolded so hard that I stopped carrying the burden and ran away as soon as I threw the brush away.

And the female official of the jewel can always find me from the corner of the horn, and then carry me to the emperor with my collar, and said in a bad way: "You Fu family's affairs, solve it yourself!"

The baozhu female official is usually unforgiving in her mouth, but she is the most soft-hearted. If Uncle Huang really wanted to hit me, she stopped me and pointed at Uncle Huang and scolded, "What do you do when you beat a child, everyone is stupid."

And I was behind her, pulling on her sleeve and whispering, "Lady Baozhu, in fact, it hurts a lot when you hit the palm of my hand a few times."

She turned her head and glanced at me, "Things that have no conscience, sooner or later they will be struck by lightning."

After being lectured by the emperor, I returned to my own bedchamber with a bitter face, and the baozhu female official said angrily, "How can you take over the position of your imperial uncle like this, a loser?"

Seeing my face weeping, she stopped scolding, turned her head and threw me a baked sweet potato, saying, "There is nothing that can't be solved by eating one baked sweet potato, if there is, eat two."

I held the sweet potato and looked down and took a bite, it was so sweet.

There were occasional palace banquets in the palace, and the female official of the jewel stood next to me and the emperor, adding wine and vegetables to us from time to time. I don't like to eat vegetarian vegetables, so I piled all the green leaves into the emperor's bowl, and the emperor raised an eyebrow and said nothing.

However, the Baozhu Female Official, Willow Leaf, raised an eyebrow, and while clipping the dish back into my bowl, she whispered, "Little cub, didn't you see that your Uncle Huang's face was about to eat green?"

It's okay if the face is green, and the hat is not green. It's just that I didn't dare to say this, for fear that the baozhu female officer would hang me up and beat me.

But even so, the Baozhu female official and the imperial uncle did not take any further measures, whether it was the baozhu or the imperial uncle, neither of them stepped forward to break the almost morbid sense of balance between the two.

Lady Baozhu likes to sit alone in the corner of the courtyard after the banquet, and when she drinks it, it is a whole altar, and I think it is not good to drink, but Mrs. Li pulled me aside and said, "Let her go, she is bitter in her heart."

Her heart was bitter, no wonder she loved sweet potatoes so much.

At this time, the emperor would pick up the drunken orb lady and send her back to the dormitory, extinguish the lights in the house for her, and then stand alone in front of her door with her hands folded.

Mrs. Li sighed and shook her head when she saw it.

I felt that I had to think of a way, so one afternoon I took the hand of the jewel lady and brought her to the emperor, and then folded the hands of both of them together.

Uncle Huang's hand stiffened for a moment, the Baozhu female official's eyes widened slightly, and Madame Li, who was hiding to watch the play, opened her mouth

In the end, I was grounded by uncle Huang for three days, and this wave of blood loss.

The Jewel Lady is very good to me, but the temperament is also a real twist. It rained heavily that day, the Baozhu female official did not bring an umbrella, and when she met the emperor on the road, she did not mention anything about borrowing an umbrella, but just knelt down and respectfully performed a big gift, and then came back alone in the rain.

When she returned, she got a wind chill and lay in bed for several days.

I didn't tell the Baozhu female official, in fact, during the night, the emperor came to visit her several times. I peeked at the window, thinking that Uncle Huang had finally opened the door, but in the end, Uncle Huang only gently held her hand.

Why not get closer.

"Lady Baozhu, are you good to be my aunt?"

I sat down next to the jewel and asked, only to be sprayed with her tea.

In the spring, the baozhu female official had the habit of taking a nap, and often fell asleep on the stone table in the courtyard. When the emperor saw this, he took off the big hat on his body and covered her, and then sat next to her in silence.

The courtyard was quiet, only the birds occasionally chirped a few times, and I looked at the Emperor and the Jewel Lady in the distance, and suddenly I felt that my heart was tight, blocked, like something was squeezing my heart.

Mrs. Lee said she no longer had that worldly desire for sugar.

While the lady of the jewel was taking a nap, I crept to her side, and on her exposed white wrist she wore a string of Buddha beads, and the Buddha beads were engraved with two words- Xuanche.

I knew that it was the Emperor's Dharma name when he was practicing at Longtai Temple.

The female official of the jewel did not love gold and silver beads, and the only jewelry on her body was this pair of Buddha beads, only this pair of Buddha beads engraved with the emperor's fa number. What kind of story did she and Uncle Huang have?

I gently pushed the jewel lady, and while she was sleeping, I asked, "Do you like my uncle?"

"Like." She replied without thinking.

"Does my uncle like you?"

"I don't know." She closed her eyes again, and her voice was very soft, "I really don't know..."

So, I went to the Emperor's palace that night to tell him that in fact, the Jewel Lady was not unintentional to him. As I ran into his yard, he was setting up a stove under the porch with two baked sweet potatoes on it.

When Uncle Huang saw me, he smiled and handed me a sweet potato.

I looked down and saw that the sweet potato was already partially charred.

"Uncle Huang, your sweet potatoes are all scorched!"

He was stunned, then said calmly, "Well... Uncle Huang still can't do a good job of baking sweet potatoes, and if you want to eat sweet potatoes, you have to find a baozhu female official."

"Then why don't you go to the Lady of the Jewel?"

Uncle Huang put down the clip in his hand and stopped talking, looked up at the moon, and then closed his eyes and closed his hands.

Looking at the same moon in the sky in the quiet night was the most intimate thing ever done between the emperor and the lady of the jewel.

When I was twelve, I was confronted by assassins, and the Orb Lady rushed into the inner sanctum and hid me in a cabinet in the corner.

Through the narrow gap in the cabinet door, I saw her kick an Assassin, then snatch his knife, turn around and stab another Assassin in the chest.

I hid in the cupboard and couldn't help but applaud the Jewel Lady.

Seeing that the assassins in the temple were almost solved, suddenly, an assassin who had flipped into the inner temple from the side window stabbed at the female officer of the jewel with a long sword, and when she was anxious to retreat, she stepped on a corpse on the ground, and one stumbled backwards, and the sharp arrow in the assassin's hand was about to stab at her heart.

Just as I was about to exhale, Uncle Huang arrived in time to block the sword for the Orb Lady and quickly took down the assassin.

The moonlight shone into the temple, and the lady of the jewel used a veil to stop the bleeding from the wound on the emperor's arm, and the slender but thin calloused fingers tightened the knot at the wound.

The Baozhu female official trembled and called out my uncle's name: "Fu Linche."

The emperor raised his hand and picked up the hair that fell from the jewel's female official's ear.

It's like everything goes back many years.

But soon, Bai Lingwei hurried to surround several assassins who had fled to the palace, and the female officer of the jewel took me to the Golden Dragon Hall to rest, and the tai doctor stayed behind to treat the emperor.

I thought that this would be the beginning of the ice-breaking between the Emperor and the Baozhu Female Official, but since that day, the Imperial Uncle rarely had any contact with the Baozhu Female Official, and the two only nodded their heads in greeting as they passed by, both tacit understanding and estrangement.

They see each other day and night, they are close at hand, they rejoice with each other, and perhaps if any one of them takes a step first, this strange and indescribable sense of balance can be broken.

The Baozhu female official was still the same as before, holding a copy of the "Three Years of Emperor Five Years Simulation" chasing me behind me and catching me to see the master, while the emperor was alone in the courtyard of the palace drinking tea and reading, occasionally baking a few sweet potatoes that were not delicious.

Lady Li still enters the palace from time to time to play cards with the empress, talking about the past that is no longer known.

"It's better to get up early every day than to go back to the west!" What is good about the master's class, he knows so much and has not seen him become emperor!"

I held the quilt and refused to let go, and the lady of the jewel carried me and my quilt and brought it to the master.

"What makes a qualified emperor?" I asked the Orb Lady.

"The one who won't pestering me to ask this question is the qualified emperor." She replied.

At the New Year's palace banquet, the imperial uncle and the baozhu female official did not attend the ceremony. After the palace banquet, the lady of the treasure pearl stopped me, stuffed a roasted sweet potato into my arms, and said, "Go, bring it to your uncle."

So I happily handed the roasted sweet potatoes to the little eunuch in front of the Emperor's Palace.

"Sister Baozhu—" I took the hand of the Jewel Lady in a flattering way, "you are finally going to be my little aunt."

"What does a little fart child do with so much, has the master's exercises been done, and has the ancient poem been memorized?"

As soon as I heard that she was going to drag me to endorse the book, I ran away without looking back and slipping a cigarette.

At that time, I always thought that Uncle Huang and the Lady of the Jewel still had a long time to wait, and I could slowly think about everything. But just like the Jewel Lady Playing Card Nine, Providence has always left her with only one bad hand.

One winter three years later, the Baozhu female official was in the house watching me write exercises, and Lady Li and the Empress were playing chess in the partial palace. Sister Su Xin ran in with red eyes, knelt down in front of the Baozhu female official and cried, "Niangniang, you should go and see Wang Ye."

The baozhu female official did not say anything, but followed Su Xin's sister out of the palace to the palace.

Three days later, the news of the death of the emperor came from outside the palace, and by the time I begged Madame Li to sneak out of the palace with her to rush to the palace, it was already midnight and three o'clock.

The Baozhu female official was still wearing a dark red female official's uniform, and she leaned against the coffin of the emperor, still holding something in her hand.

I looked closely and it was a sweet potato.

She leaned on the coffin and ate the sweet potatoes without a word.

"Fu Mingming, who made you run out of the palace?" Without waiting for me to answer, the Lady Of the Jewel said to herself, "It must be Lisse, she will cause me the most trouble."

"My uncle..."

"He took a sword for me three years ago, and the sword was poisonous and there was no cure." She raised her hand to touch the lid of the coffin, still carrying the already somewhat old Buddha beads in her hand, "What a fucking misfortune."

I don't know if the Lady Of the Jewel is saying that Uncle Huang is unlucky or that she herself is unlucky.

But I had never seen such a sad expression, she gulped down the sweet potato in her hand, while her eyes were wide open to prevent the tears from falling, and her eyebrows were slightly tightened, looking stubborn and proud.

"Fu Mingming, didn't you ask me how to be a qualified emperor?" She looked up at me, and her tone was irrefutable, "The way of the king is a straight way, there is no looking back, you just have to stride forward."

"Go?" How to go, where to go, when to go?"

"Turn around, go ahead, just now." The Female Officer of the Jewel raised her finger to the wide avenue leading to the gate, "Fu Mingming, go."

I am the Son of Heaven in the future of the great calendar, and there has never been a reason for others to kneel before me in this world. But facing the Jewel Lady, I walked up to her and knelt down, "bang bang bang" three times, then turned around as she said, and walked slowly and stride forward, without looking back.

The moment I stepped out of the gate of the palace, there was a violent crashing sound behind me. The baozhu female official crashed headlong into the coffin of the emperor, still holding half a baked sweet potato in her hand, and died.

I looked up at the sky, and the bright red sun slowly rose, illuminating the dark sky in the distance.

Sky, it's light.

postscript

1. A few Easter eggs about the name: Fu Linche, who wanted to retreat when approaching; Fu Linqing, who only knew the truth before he died; Nanjing Palace, the palace where the heroine lived, nanjing yin was the same as "difficult to save", difficult to recover; Yuping Palace, where Lu Xiaoyi lived, Lu Xiaochen's life "floating and raining and playing Ping"; Li Seser's husband Qin Ming, Qin Ser and Ming.

2. Why Fu Linqing will mistakenly recognize: There is a description of Fu Linqing pseudonym Huang Ziqing, when he saw the heroine, he fell full of blood, and then fell into a coma after being injured, and even did not have the opportunity to observe the appearance of the heroine, the only clue to find someone was the bracelet.

3. Father Lin wanted to marry Lu Xiaohuang as a concubine, so he invited him to extinguish the door.

4. Lu Xiaohuang was not completely unapologetic after acknowledging her past, on the contrary, she was very afraid of this, so she was more and more reluctant to wear a bracelet, which also triggered her and Fu Linqing's first quarrel.

5. The ending of Lu Xiaohuang's death in the dark passage (both sides are blocked and trapped in the dark passage) corresponds to the choice lu Xiaohuang made, whether she admits the bracelet and the past, she cannot get a good ending. Even if she does not recognize the past, there is only the end of helplessness to be a concubine, and her life has been in a dead end from the beginning.

6. What is Fu Linche's mental journey: he has sufficient troops, and he still saved the heroine who was hunted down and killed without the need for the heroine to match. He was not unapologetic about the past, he sensed that the heroine wanted to kill Fu Linqing, so the throne was taken for the heroine. After liking the heroine in the later stage, I did not dare to get closer to the heroine because of my guilt.

7. The heroine's mental journey: She returned to the capital as a female official, in fact, she has already put down the past, but she is still holding her breath, hoping to wait for Fu Linche to take a step first, but Fu Linche retreats step by step because of guilt, which eventually leads to the two missing.

8. In the end, the monk obviously went to find the heroine, why the heroine still did not accept: the monk said "lack of kitchen lady", not "lack of princess", did not speak his heart frankly enough, and the heroine only handed him a baked sweet potato, instead of going back with him to be a princess.

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Author/Bu tong

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