1
He said to me viciously, "Don't start chaos and end up!"
"Carry it down." Expressionlessly, I commanded, "The emperor is drunk and his mind is not clear."
Xie Ziling grabbed the door frame and refused to leave, and tried to threaten me: "Qiao Hao, you rushed away today, don't regret it in the future!"
I sat at my desk and flipped through the pages, indifferent.
The scene froze for a moment.
He suddenly softened his tone again, his eyes were red, and he came over and tugged at my sleeve: "Well, sister, I regret it."
After Xie Ziling woke up drunk, he turned his face and did not recognize anyone, saying that he was already a mature emperor, and last night's spoiling was just an accident, so I did not want to go to my heart.
I smiled very kindly, "The emperor said it very well." Yesterday, Lady Shufei sent someone to pay her respects, saying that her body was not very comfortable, and the emperor might as well go and see her?"
His face darkened, "Is that why the empress wants to drive away?"
I choked up and was speechless.
Isn't that what you mean?
However, everyone's beautiful people cannot be lost, and I still maintain a gentle smile: "It is the duty of the emperor to open branches and scatter leaves, and concubines, as the empress of a country, have the responsibility to advise."
"Queen!"
Xie Ziling looked at me angrily and aggrievedly, and suddenly gritted his teeth and dismissed the people in the palace: "You all go down, you want to talk to the empress alone."
Then, while I was blindfolded, he suddenly reached out and untied the half-dress I was wearing, pulled on my little coat, leaned down, and bit down on my lip.
I froze, "The emperor is a dog?"
Xie Ziling sneered.
"My sister's mouth is so hard, but her body is so soft that it doesn't look good."
I never dreamed that Xie Ziling, who was only seventeen years old, would actually say such a meaty thing, and I couldn't help but feel sad.
"Did the Emperor forget?" I hugged you when you were full moon—"
The words that followed could not be said.
Xie Ziling's slender and warm hands went all the way down from the protruding butterfly bone on my back, causing shivers.
Help, he'll be fine.
"It is also the queen's duty to give birth to a concubine." He saw the emotion in my eyes, a sparkling wave, and suddenly smiled at the corner of his lips, "Today' Rest, you don't have to go up to the court, sister slowly enjoy it."
This proud tone is really childish.
I sighed helplessly, didn't struggle, and closed my eyes.
Silly kid.
He was young, persistent, and energetic, and at odds with me.
It is a waste not to enjoy it.
Xie Ziling and I are green plum bamboo horses.
I am the concubine of the Cabinet Bachelor, and he is the Crown Prince.
Grew up together, it's just that I'm five years older than him.
When Xie Ziling was full moon, I hugged him; he had just begun to speak, I was learning embroidery; by the time Xie Ziling had learned to have a small success under the guidance of the former emperor, my father and mother were already looking for relatives for me.
At that time, the former emperor had been seriously ill for a long time, and the people of the DPRK were unstable, and if it were not for the fact that The Chancellor Yan Xuanting had forcefully pushed Xie Ziling to the throne, I am afraid that the country and mountains would have changed hands.
Xie Ziling's eyes were red when he came to see me at the Bachelor's Mansion: "Is my sister going to get married?"
I turned my head and coughed twice, and said honestly, "I'm afraid I won't be able to marry."
I'm sick.
At first it was just wind chills, but then the high fever did not subside, and he was sick in bed for more than two months.
I was close to the family and came to discuss the matter of retiring from marriage.
Saying that I was sick before I was married, my body and bones must be bad, and I could not pass on incense for his family.
The matter of retiring from marriage and getting sick somehow spread throughout the high gates of the capital.
My affair was so delayed.
Later, my father raised me to the age of twenty, and felt that he could not delay any longer, so he lowered his requirements and helped me talk about a relative, the eldest son of the official waiter's family.
It is said that he is very sorry, so he has not yet married in his twenties.
As a result, in the second month after the marriage was scheduled, the official waiter suddenly went to prison for accepting bribes and participating in the sale of officials, and my affair was cold again.
My reputation was already very bad, and I was also ready for the green lantern ancient Buddha to accompany me for a lifetime, but I did not expect that Xie Ziling suddenly sent a holy will to the Bachelor's Mansion to set me up as the queen.
I was stunned, and so was my grandmother.
Marrying Xie Ziling, who is five years younger than me, or being an empress, is something I would never have dared to dream of.
Duke Cui, who had come to proclaim his will, narrowed his eyes with a smile: "The emperor is discussing with Yan Xiang in the palace, and he will come to see Aunt Qiao later."
In fact, I hadn't seen Xie Ziling for half a year, and I didn't expect that he had grown so tall.
When he came, he was only wearing a light green brocade coat, a teenager of Zhilan Yushu, and that face was like a painting of heavy ink and color.
There is a tired color between the eyebrows, but it does not hide the fierce and cold momentum, the lips are tight, and the knuckles are still splashed with ink spots.
Seeing me, Xie Ziling was slightly stunned, and his expression suddenly relaxed.
I walked over and gave me a salute, and then I asked, "How could the Emperor have thought of appointing me as his queen?"
Xie Ziling opened his mouth, as if he was about to say something, but when his eyes fell behind me, he suddenly stopped.
And he said, "Naturally, my sister is the most suitable person."
I turned my head to see that My father had already come over.
According to etiquette, a girl who is not out of the cabinet at the time of marriage should not be present.
I calmly retreated, and then turned to the back window as soon as I went out and began to eavesdrop.
"He has been on the throne for more than three years, and now the ministers of the DPRK and the CENTRAL Government have been making successive remarks, hoping that he will be able to establish the throne as soon as possible. But the turmoil is still unstable, how can it be relieved? Lord Qiao is a courtier of his father's instruments, and he naturally trusts you. Besides, Sister Zhen and Sister Zhen grew up together since childhood, and they also know the roots."
I get it.
Although my father was a cabinet scholar, he lived in an empty house, but he did not have much real power in his hands.
It would be fitting for me to be the queen.
I have retired from marriage twice in a row, and it is difficult for me to remarry to ascend to heaven, and to be able to become an empress is already the best ending.
In this way, Qin Tianjian picked an auspicious day of the zodiac, and I became married to Xie Ziling.
I sat in the palanquin with a phoenix crown, and the red makeup of ten miles was spread all the way into the palace, and then Xie Ziling appeared, worshiped with me, and entered the cave room.
Hippa picked it up, and I meekly raised my eyes to look at him, and said three times in my heart, "I am the Queen."
2
He was only seventeen years old, the harem was still vacant, and he had never experienced human affairs.
We both had only superficial theoretical knowledge, and could only grope for practice in the bed tent.
Outside, the candles were burning, the clothes were peeling off, and after Xie Ziling took me off to a small coat with only a red embroidered bird, his expression suddenly became tense.
In fact, I was also nervous, but as a virtuous queen, I had to say a voice to reassure: "The emperor should not panic, take your time."
Then Xie Ziling was suddenly unhappy.
He bit into my ear, and the pain came up with the numbness, and I took a breath of cold air, and then I heard him say, "Come quickly."
Fuck, this kid is so rebellious!
I raised my eyebrows in pain, but remembered Mamma's command and did not dare to speak out.
Xie Ziling raised his eyes, saw me frowning, his expression suddenly softened, kissed my lips, and whispered, "Is my sister in pain?" Let's slow down."
At the end of the toss, I lost all my strength, and when I was about to fall asleep, I suddenly felt him grab my hand, put his lips on my forehead, and whispered, "... Qiao Zhen, I finally married you."
The voice was full of happiness and tenderness.
Even with a slight sigh.
It's not at all like Xie Ziling, who is still a twisted child in my eyes.
But, maybe I heard it wrong.
Because just in the second month of my becoming empress, Xie Ziling suddenly found me early in the morning and threw me a thick booklet.
I was halfway through my breakfast and quickly stood up to salute.
He frowned, and his voice was inexplicably a little unhappy: "The queen doesn't have to be polite."
I picked up the book on the table and turned it over, good fellow, a book full of beautiful women of various styles, with names and backgrounds attached next to them.
"The Emperor is..."
In fact, I already understand a little, but I don't fully understand it yet.
Or rather, I may still be expecting Xie Ziling to say something that runs counter to my guess.
Xie Ziling sat down across from me, took a sip of soup, and then looked at me seriously: "I want to choose a concubine."
Oh, man, I just knew.
I almost lost my hand and slapped the booklet in his face.
Reluctantly ticking the corner of my lips, I tried to persuade: "The emperor is still young now, and the matter of choosing a concubine is afraid that it must be considered in the long run..."
Xie Ziling's face darkened, and he interrupted me hardly: "The empress does not need to be persuaded, her will has already been decided."
Okay, I'll shut up.
I said obediently, "The concubines will arrange it immediately, but I don't know what kind of woman the emperor likes?"
"Gentle and lovely, intelligent and generous..." Xie Ziling's eyes suddenly paused on me, "just like the empress."
I couldn't imagine that Xie Ziling's taste was the same as that of those seven-year-old and eighty-year-old people in the middle of the dynasty, and he liked virtuous and virtuous women.
I scoffed, but I still helped him arrange, selected more than a dozen girls of good character to enter the palace, and drew up titles and residences according to their father's official positions, and took them to Xie Ziling.
As a result, he suddenly became very concerned again, and only glanced at the pages and waved them away, but instead hooked my waist and rolled into the bed tent together.
As a virtuous queen, I continued to exhort, "Emperor, it is slightly inappropriate to commit adultery in the daytime."
Xie Ziling did not fight with me as in the past, but just closed his eyes and buried his face in my shoulder socket.
"Sister, I feel so tired."
I moved, my fingers falling soothingly on his back and patting him lightly.
Xie Ziling was busy with the government, I was busy selecting people, I hadn't seen him for several days, and I didn't want him to lose so much weight.
When he was six years old, the first empress passed away, and when I went to visit the palace, he knelt in front of the spirit of the first queen.
Seeing me, he staggered over, his pale little face on my shoulder, and his voice was still crying: "Sister Zhen, I don't have a mother."
I sighed in my heart.
That's it.
After all, Xie Ziling was five years younger than me, and after all, he was still a child, I was already a mature queen, so why bother with him.
"Yan Xiang has great grace for Yuan, but in the final analysis, he has too much power in his hands, and it is not a good thing for Yuan." Xie Ziling whispered, "Sister, I often feel that in yan xiang's affairs, I will take revenge if I am too lenient."
To be honest, I feel too.
But the king played with power, and it was inevitable that he would be sorry for one or two people.
I thought about it for a moment, comforted and suggested, "The art of checks and balances is supposed to be like this, not to mention that the emperor has always relied heavily on Yan Chengxiang." If you really feel ashamed, it is better to compensate him in other ways."
Xie Ziling was silent for a moment.
"My sister said it best."
Then the next day I heard the news that he had given Yan Xuanting a marriage, and it was said that he was still the sister of King Jing'an, named Shen Manman.
There is also a portrait and introduction of her in that book, but the person is not bad-looking, that is, the temperament is too vicious, and it seems that there is still a little unclear relationship with his brother.
...... Say good compensation, what hatred and resentment, this is.
3
The day the concubines entered the palace coincided with the fifteenth.
According to the palace rules, Xie Ziling should have rested in my palace.
It was only a new concubine who had entered the palace, and her father had recently been reused by Xie Ziling, and she was also stained with light and became the first concubine to accept favors.
I am not sad in my heart, but I know very well that this is the torture that I have to endure as a queen.
So I instructed Haruka to set up dinner, planning to go to bed early after eating.
Unexpectedly, halfway through the meal, Xie Ziling actually came.
Dressed neatly, there is no fat powder on the body.
Without waiting for me to inquire, he had already taken the initiative to speak: "Concubine Xian is sick, she has stopped, and she thinks that she has not seen the empress for a long time, so come and see."
After saying that, he took the initiative to sit down to eat, and asked Haruka to serve him a bowl of rice.
"Emperor, if the concubines remember correctly, we slept together last night."
It's just that I didn't finish the decoction last night, so I didn't perform the ritual of zhou gong.
Xie Ziling choked for a moment, put down his chopsticks and looked at me, seemingly unhappy: "Doesn't my sister want to come?"
I smiled politely and said, "The emperor is very happy to be here, and the concubines are naturally very happy."
"Let's all go down!"
Xie Ziling dismissed the palace people breathlessly, and then grabbed my wrist and bullied me forward.
Before I could react, he picked me up and rolled me onto the bed with me.
The skirt made of soft smoke was removed, and the slender fingers stained with ink burrowed through the edge of my coat and grabbed a clump.
I took a slight breath of cold air, and then I heard Xie Ziling's voice ringing in my ear: "Is my sister's decoction finished?"
"You..."
He took a bite in my chest, looked up, and suddenly there was more deep desire in his eyes, "Sister, I miss you."
Just because of Xie Ziling's words.
I tossed and turned with him late into the night and called for hot water three times.
In this kind of thing, I ran all the way with him, so I was particularly in tune.
But when the love was at its strongest, a voice reminded me in my heart that such a young and enthusiastic Xie Ziling did not belong to me alone.
I don't really want to be virtuous and gentle, but my mother has taught me thousands of times that women must be generous and virtuous in order to please their husbands.
Even though she had such a good relationship with my father, my father still took two concubines.
Xie Ziling, as the king of a country, could not mention the word loyalty.
It has always been so, something that does not belong to me alone, I would rather not.
A sudden thought pulled a dull pain in my mind.
Xie Ziling's voice suddenly softened: "Sister is crying?"
His soft, scalding fingers gently rubbed the corners of my eyes.
I suppressed my tumbling thoughts and praised, "The concubines are crying, not because they are sad, but because the emperor is strong."
In the dim candlelight, Xie Ziling's face turned red.
He grabbed my finger and whispered "Sister."
The voice was sticky and sticky, and with a three-point lust, it almost melted my heart.
I closed my eyes.
Male sex is harmful.
Xie Zilingtang, the king of a country, actually used beauty to calculate.
The next morning, Xie Ziling went to shangchao in the morning, and I lay on the bed for a while, and Chun Sakura came in to report that the concubines had come to invite Ann.
By the time I passed, the house was already full of warblers and swallows.
However, under Xie Ziling's preferences and my screening, the people who came in were some girls with gentle temperaments, who behaved in a polite manner, spoke softly, and got along very harmoniously.
Except... Princess Li.
It was written in the book that she was the daughter of the Taifu family, beautiful and gentle.
I didn't think that this little girl still had two faces.
After she left me, she bumped into Xie Ziling in the imperial garden.
According to witnesses, Princess Li took a few quick steps on the spot, her body softened, fell into Xie Ziling's arms, and said in a snort, "Concubines have seen the emperor."
Witnesses also said that Xie Ziling pushed her away at that time, hiding to the side like a frightened rabbit, and frowned and asked: "Madness?"
4
Before Xie Ziling could come over, another party, Li Fei, was already holding a veil and crying and coming to me.
"Concubines and concubines are by no means deliberately trying to disturb the emperor, nor do they want to offend the empress dowager..." She wore a moon-white shirt and a luo skirt, and she cried like a flower in the rain, "Now that the emperor is tired of the concubines, how to be good..."
I drank tea and watched her perform.
Princess Li cried for a while, found that I was indifferent, paused in her voice, and continued: "Niangniang helped the concubines to come up with ideas?"
I said softly, "Concubine Li, you don't know, the emperor likes gentle and virtuous women, and your previous behavior in the imperial garden was really a bit menglang, and it is normal not to be pleasing."
Princess Li looked at me questioningly.
"Go back and copy the Female Virtue and the Female Commandment fifty times each."
Princess Li dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, tearfully took the order, turned to leave, and just bumped into Xie Ziling, who stepped into the door.
I finally saw Xie Ziling, who was rumored to have jumped away like a frightened rabbit.
Li Fei, who had originally subconsciously wanted to pour herself on him, could only stand up straight in embarrassment.
Tears still ran into her beautiful eyes: "Concubine... Quit."
But Xie Ziling had already withdrawn his gaze and did not see her miserable appearance.
I admired it with interest for a while, and then I waited for Xie Ziling to come to me before I returned to God: "Why did the emperor come so early today?"
Xie Ziling paused, and his expression suddenly became serious: "Xiao Jin is back."
I shuddered.
Xiao Jian, the Son of the Marquis of Anyong, was a green plum bamboo horse of me and Xie Ziling, and a year before Xie Ziling ascended the throne, he followed An Yonghou to the southwest fiefdom, and it had been five years.
The next day, Xiao Jin entered the palace to see me, and he was very emotional: "Although the empress's position is the mother of the world, the emperor is still a child in the end."
I smiled softly, "I was the best choice for the emperor at that time; the emperor was the same for me."
During the conversation, Xie Ziling stepped into the door with a black face, and as soon as he entered, he began to drive Xiao Jin away: "It's not too early, Shizi should still leave the palace."
I put up with it, but I still couldn't hold back: "Emperor, the concubines and the son of the world have not seen each other for a long time, can you say two more words?"
"No, you can't."
I want to give Xie Ziling a slap.
Bear child.
In the end, Xiao Jing gave up and promised to take the snacks I loved to eat outside the palace the next time he entered the palace.
After he left, Xie Ziling still sat at the table with a cold face, and I didn't want to coax him, but also sat with him with a smile.
Finally, Xie Ziling spoke, "Sister, do you remember that Yuan's eighteenth birthday is coming?"
The words "eighteen years old" were three words, and he bit very hard.
I was stunned, "Aren't there still seven months?"
Xie Ziling's face was slightly pale, but he was still not very happy: "Shuo said that it is almost here, that is, it is almost here."
I was about to stop laughing: "Just be happy, the emperor."
Xie Ziling was obviously unhappy, because after I said this, he just brushed his sleeve and left.
That night, Xie Ziling turned over The Sign of Princess De.
After that, he flipped the sign of Princess Defei for seven consecutive days, and turned it over to Concubine Li squatting in the grass outside the Palace of Princess De every day to guard Xie Ziling.
I admired Princess Li's insistence and ordered her to copy the palace rules fifty more times.
On that day, news came from the DPRK that the Nanzhou flood was infestation, and Yan Xuanting, the minister of state, asked him to go to investigate the embankment of the Qijiang River.
Accompanying the escort was Princess De's father, a crack soldier under General Xuanwu.
I finally understood Xie Ziling's intentions.
But I can't do what Li Fei did.
Xie Ziling's behavior only made me clearly realize once again that he was the emperor after all, and could never be Xie Ziling alone.
Uncertainty, gain and loss is the norm.
I woke up from the illusions that the years of warmth and love, and even the years of green plum bamboo horses, brought me.
That night, when Xie Ziling came to my palace, I received him politely and strangely, and I could not fault the etiquette.
But when he wanted to make love to me, I still couldn't hold back and pushed him away uncontrollably.
Xie Ziling was stunned and suddenly became agitated: "Sister, what is she going to do?" Don't you want to be close to you?"
"The emperor has not come for a long time, and the concubines have become strangers."
I smiled very decently and took off my coat and coat: "Come on, the emperor."
Xie Ziling looked at me fiercely, the end of his eyes was slightly red, and his fingers rubbed over my naked shoulders, drawing a smile with deep desire: "Sister, rest earlier, go and see Princess De."
I kicked Xie Ziling off the bed.
Originally, I thought that Xie Ziling would be angry, but I didn't expect that he actually turned over and climbed up, and his eyes were shining brightly at me: "I want to go to Princess De, isn't my sister happy?"
"How come?" I folded up my clothes and thought about it, "It's just that Princess De has been sleeping for many days after all, and the rain in the harem is uneven, for fear of causing others to be dissatisfied, so why don't the emperor go to the Palace of Concubine Shu and sit down?"
5
Xie Ziling eventually didn't go anywhere.
But he didn't touch me, but instead called Haruka, added a quilt, and slept far away from me.
Before going to bed, he gritted his teeth and looked at me: "I don't know, my sister is so generous."
I closed my eyes and hid my emotions: "The emperor said laughing, if it were not for the concubine Xianshu, how could the emperor seal the concubine as the queen?"
Day by day, the ground heated up, but Xie Ziling and I began an inexplicable cold war.
It just so happened that he was busy with the government, and he simply entered the harem once in ten days and a half months.
There was still news coming from the DPRK, first the injury of Yan Xiang, and then the old affair between Lady Yan Xiang and King Jing'an.
In the end, King Jing'an was stripped of his knighthood and poisoned to death; Yan Xiang resigned from his official hometown, and Xie Ziling repeatedly retained him, and finally left him in the court and sealed an official position with no real power.
This is probably the best ending that Xie Ziling can think of.
Thinking of Xie Ziling, who was weeping on my shoulder that day, I still couldn't bear it, so I let Chun Ying ice a rose cherry, planning to take it to the imperial study to visit him.
When they reached the outside of the imperial study, they were stopped by Duke Cui.
He smiled at me awkwardly but politely, "Lady, the emperor is not in the study."
I said softly, "It's all right, where the emperor has gone, you tell Hongu that's it."
"The emperor went to the Palace of the Lady Concubine..." Duke Cui stammered, "and the emperor also said that he only went after listening to the words of the empress dowager..."
My smile remained the same: "I know, Gonggong Cui has worked hard."
Then he and Haruka went back home and ate the warm rose cherry himself.
Haruka came to persuade me, "Niangniang don't be sad."
I shook my head, "Haruka, when I was at home, I was Qiao Zhen, the concubine of the Cabinet Scholar Family; when I entered the palace, I was the Empress." No matter what kind of identity I am in, I should not be sad."
I've always been sober.
That was Xie Ziling.
It was when I was seventeen years old that I picked a bunch of camellias for me.
He is also the emperor who now sits high in the dragon chair, is decisive and cautious and suspicious.
His heart, the eyes he looked into me, had always been shrouded in a fog that made it impossible for me to see clearly.
Maybe it's liked, but it's uncertain and it can't be consistent.
Then I simply don't want it.
On the day of Xie Ziling's birthday, it was already deep winter.
He came to my palace early in the morning and hinted in a roundabout way that I was giving gifts.
They are all eighteen years old, and they are still the same as when they were children.
I asked Chun Ying to take the green jade that Fang had carved by hand, and Xie Ziling touched it there for half a day, and finally commented politely: "The carver is not bad."
...... This tone, I want to hit him.
I said expressionlessly, "The emperor doesn't have to force it, if he doesn't like it, he can return it."
Xie Ziling immediately threw himself into his arms, "Whoever said he didn't like it, Shuo Chao liked it!"
I'm satisfied.
Even though I was still in the Cold War with him, I had to admit that Xie Ziling was a good emperor.
On his eighteenth birthday, he did not make a big fuss, but only had a simple meal in my palace, and the concubines of the palace also sent very decent gifts.
Only The concubine, who never gave up, wore a thin dress outside the door in the snowy weather, saying that she wanted to dance for the emperor.
As soon as I let her in the door, and then I turned my eyes to look at Xie Ziling, and his face was a little cold.
Li Fei was dressed in a red dress, and a golden bell was tied around her bare ankles.
She knelt in the room and prayed, and before she could speak, Xie Ziling coldly rebuked, "No rules, no rules!"
After saying that, he threw up his sleeve and went into the inner room in the back.
Princess Li looked at me with tears in her eyes, and I could only sigh, "Hongu once said that the emperor only likes virtuous women, so you must not listen."
"The concubines don't know... Now I have annoyed the emperor again..." She sobbed for a long time, and then saluted me again, "Thank you empress dowager for mentioning the point, the concubine knows what to do in the future."
I asked Haruka to take a thick piece of dagger and put it on and send it out.
After this tossing, I also lost interest in giving Xie Ziling a birthday, and sat down at the table with a cup to drink tea.
As a result, he rubbed out, sat across from me, and hinted at me, wanting to go out of the palace.
I thought about the extra-palace snacks and dishes that I hadn't eaten in a long time, and agreed.
Just as the palanquin had just arrived near the palace gate, some palace people hurriedly came to report that the newly established minister had something important to see, and was waiting for Xie Ziling in the imperial study at the moment.
This is a hurried statement, and I think it is really important.
I subconsciously wanted Xie Ziling not to go, but with one mouth, I still said the usual words: "Even so, the emperor will deal with it quickly, the government affairs are important."
Xie Ziling looked at me.
The wind and snow swept by the ears.
He seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just nodded his head and said lightly, "Let's deal with political affairs first." It was cold and snowy, and it was not very safe outside the palace, so the empress still went back to the Bachelor's Mansion and sat down."
After Xie Ziling left, I went home.
The fierce wind and snow outside knocked on the window ledges, and the charcoal fire inside the house was burning vigorously.
I took the long silver spoon and dialed the charcoal fire, thinking about my thoughts.
My mother sat opposite, wrapped in a towel and peeled an orange, and patiently shaved off the white network on it with a silver hairpin and handed me the orange.
I asked her, "What about Daddy?"
"Aunt Bi's family is sick, so I asked her to pick up some medicinal herbs in the storeroom, and your father went to see them with you." She looked at me and smiled with some emotion, "I never thought that you would marry into the royal family."
I didn't think about it myself.
I was five years old away from Xie Ziling, and it was reasonable to say that I couldn't take my turn.
"Two days ago, Xiao Jin came to the mansion once. He is not married yet, and he was the most suitable with you——""
Before I could finish speaking, I interrupted: "Mother and father are careful, beware of the wall with ears."
Her eyelashes fluttered, and she suddenly shed tears: "You entered the palace only in January, the emperor began to draft, now your life, how can you live better..."
I was silent for a moment, comforting her that I respected Xie Ziling as a guest, and most of the concubines were also at peace with themselves, but it was not too sad.
"I have been living like this for so many years, I am not sad, but what hope is there--Ah Zhen, you were still lively and clever when you were a child, how did you become more and more calm after you got older?" 」
I lowered my eyes, "Nothing, just grown up."
6
When I was not out of the cabinet, I also thought about the days of Qinser and Ming after marriage.
But Xie Ziling and I were separated by too many layers, and the government, the empress dowager, and each other's identities were imprisoned... At the end of the day, that's probably the only way to go.
I sat in the Bachelor's House until dark, and my dad finally came back.
After Aunt Bi gently greeted me, she returned to the courtyard.
I was about to say two words to my father when the next person came to report that Xie Ziling had come to the Bachelor's Mansion to pick up people.
He came into the house covered in snow and wind, and I looked up to see that he had grown so tall.
Xie Ziling had a cold face, spared my father's courtesy, refused the invitation to leave him for dinner, and directly took me back to the palace.
On the way back, the wind and snow outside became more and more urgent.
I thought about it for a moment, or asked him, "What is the matter with the Emperor today?"
This is summation.
Xie Ziling's original tense expression suddenly relaxed, he cocked the corner of his lips, looked at me and smiled: "Nothing... However, the late Jing'an Houyu Dang still refused to die and recruited troops and horses in the Yaocheng area, and He had already issued a decree for General Xuanwu to take people to Yaocheng to dispose of it."
Although the harem was not allowed to interfere in politics, I had heard a little bit about Shen Tongwen about Jing'an Hou before. It is said that the poison on the body of yan Xuanting, the former minister, was under Shen Tongwen.
And Shen Tongwen's death is related to Yan Xuanting's wife, Ye Shuxu.
I looked down and pondered for a while, raised my head, and tentatively asked, "Since the emperor wants to reuse General Xuanwu now, why not... Princess De's position, one more liter higher?"
Princess De is already among the four concubines, and if you go up any further, you are a noble concubine.
Xie Ziling's original laughter immediately collapsed, and he stared at me, gritted his teeth, and said, "He is a subject, and he is a king, and it is only natural that he should be used." let alone...... Is the Queen really so generous?"
"Concubines are only for the emperor's sake."
The tone of my voice when I said this, even I didn't believe it.
Xie Ziling was probably angry, and as soon as he entered the palace, he simply jumped off the carriage and turned his back on me and said lightly, "There is no need to rise again." However, what the empress said was somewhat reasonable, and she would go to see Princess De tonight."
The path was so deep with snow that it was hard to walk, but he walked so fast that he never turned his head back.
Supposedly, I should have paid him a courtesy.
But I opened my mouth, and my tongue curled up in my mouth, and the pain was so painful that I could hardly make a sound.
After returning to the palace, Haruka asked me with a worried face, "Why did Niangniang cry?"
As soon as I raised my hand, I felt a cold hand.
I always say that Xie Ziling is awkward, and I am not awkward to death.
A month later, Xie Ziling never entered the harem again, and naturally did not come to see me.
Chun Ying often returned with some news, such as General Xuanwu leading people to Yaocheng to quell the chaos and annihilating the Jing'an Houyu Party in one fell swoop; for example, Yan Xuanting's sister was about to get married, Xie Ziling specially went to watch the ceremony, and incidentally disposed of an old grudge between her and the children of the Bai family in Quezhou.
In the evening, after Xie Ziling returned to the palace, he came to me.
At that time, Chun Ying had just fried the medicine for me, Xie Ziling strode into the door, saw me drinking the medicine, and there was a little more urgency in his voice: "... Queen, what's wrong with that?"
"Occasionally feel the wind chill, don't get in the way."
"Back at the emperor, Niangniang's wind and cold were deep, and her body weakened, and the doctor instructed Niangniang to take medicine on time."
My voice sounded at the same time as Haruka's voice.
I helplessly supported my forehead and turned my head to rebuke Chun Sakura: "Why do you have to say this little thing to disturb the emperor——"
Xie Ziling sat down opposite me, the teacup in his hand heavily on the table, and said coldly: "Qiao Zhen, even if you are sick, will you not even tell me about your illness, is it really planning not to talk to me for the rest of your life?"
He didn't call himself Yuan anymore.
Chun Sakura beside her had quietly retreated and left the room for me and Xie Ziling.
I squeezed the thin white porcelain medicine bowl, was silent for a moment, and finally said, "Obviously, the emperor has not entered the harem for two months, how did it end up that I didn't talk to you?"
After saying this, I found that my tone was full of resentment, as if I was deeply resentful.
It's ugly.
When I was eight years old, my mother took me back to my mother's house to visit.
I have an uncle who married a wife and took in six concubines in only half a year.
When we arrived, my aunt was crying with tears in my eyes and my uncle, asking him if he knew what the crime of spoiling a concubine and destroying his wife was.
She cried for a long time before her uncle opened the door and said impatiently, "Since you think that your concubine has destroyed your wife, then go to the government office and sue me!"
Since ancient times, men have a lot of affection.
At that time, I thought, it's too ugly.
I would rather be a virtuous wife from the beginning, and if I don't give in my heart, I won't be overwhelmed.
I closed my eyes and said in a harsh voice, "If the concubines are disrespectful, the emperor should not have heard them."
The room was quiet for a moment, and Xie Ziling suddenly reached out and grabbed my wrist.
"Since that's the case, then I'll come to see the empress more in the future, okay?"
Since he was fourteen, he had rarely spoken to me in such a soft voice.
My hard-won heart suddenly softened, paused, or softly responded: "... Okay."
7
The day was getting hotter and hotter, and on that day, I heard Chun Ying say that Xie Ziling had actually summoned Yan Xuanting's wife, Ye Shuxu, into the palace.
Thinking that Xie Ziling had more or less told me about her history before, I couldn't help but be curious.
There were two rose cherries on the ice under the kitchen, and I asked Chun Sakura to take them and bring them to see Xie Ziling.
As soon as he entered the door, he heard him ask with a black face, "Does the Lord of Gaoyang County feel that he does not dare to cure your sins?"
Ye Shu said expressionlessly, "If you dare, you can cure it."
I chuckled in my heart, knowing that this child was looking for something to do again, and quickly raised my voice and said, "The emperor thinks twice!" The lord of Gaoyang County and Lord Yan had a deep affection for the flounder, so why should the emperor be the one who beat the Mandarin duck?"
In a hurry, he spoke somewhat bluntly, thinking that Xie Ziling would be angry, but he turned his head and looked at me brightly: "The empress said yes."
Chun Sakura put something on the table, Xie Ziling pounced on it, looked at it, pulled on my sleeve and said, "Rose Cherry!" Sure enough, my sister knows what I like."
After saying that, he also turned his head and looked at Ye Shuxu somewhat defiantly, as if a child was showing off his beloved toy.
I felt funny again, and my heart was faintly sour, and I watched Xie Ziling drink a rose cherry in one fell swoop, and then said softly, "The empress will go back first, and I will see you later."
In the evening, Xie Ziling really came to see me.
I don't know what he said to Ye Shuxu after I left, sitting across from me and drinking three cups of tea without even speaking, and his expression looked very entangled.
I waited impatiently and said softly, "Is there anything wrong with the emperor?"
Xie Ziling paused, "I think the empress's name is very cute."
Me: "?"
Xie Ziling pursed his lips and said, "Sister Is beautiful and virtuous, she is really cute."
Me: "???"
Xie Ziling is crazy??
Xu was too flat in my reaction, Xie Ziling squinted, and suddenly reached over and pulled my shirt: "It's not early in the morning, so let's rest with the empress."
I don't know if it was my delusion or not, but he served this night very attentively, and I enjoyed it so much that I gave birth to a rare possessiveness.
Suddenly, I didn't want Xie Ziling to go to someone else's palace at all.
After dawn, Xie Ziling went to the upper court, I was carving a piece of jade in the palace, Chun Ying suddenly came to report, saying that Xiao Jin sent someone from outside the palace to send two cups of sour plums to drink, which was my favorite drink when I was outside the palace.
However, as soon as the glass cup was brought to my mouth, Xie Ziling, who looked hurried, suddenly stepped into the door and swept away the cup in my hand with a wave of his sleeve.
The glass glass fell to the ground and shattered in response.
I was stunned, and when I looked up at Xie Ziling, I couldn't help but have a bit of a cold color in my eyes.
Xie Ziling gritted his teeth as if he had been stung, "Do you dare to enter whatever is sent in from outside the palace?"
"This was sent by Xiao Jin."
"What about Xiao Jin?" Xie Ziling was even more angry, "Qiao Hao, you and you are husband and wife, you are full of Xiao Zhen, is it possible that you regret not marrying him?!"
His temper came out of nowhere, and I couldn't bear it any longer, and said in a cold voice, "Since the concubines and the emperor are already husband and wife, I still hope that the emperor will be cautious."
"Qiao Hao, if you come back to Beijing again, Xiao Jin returns to Beijing in advance and also comes to the door to propose to him, will you still marry Yuan?"
I didn't understand why Xie Ziling would ask such a question, and I was slightly stunned, and he had already said in a harsh voice, "I understand."
After saying that, I walked away without looking back.
I turned back and asked Chun Ying to go out and inquire where Xie Ziling had gone today and who he had seen.
Haruka soon returned, saying that after the imperial court this morning, the emperor summoned Ann Yong to wait for the son alone in the imperial study.
Xiao Jin?
What did he say to Xie Ziling, so much so that the child suddenly mentioned the old things and looked angry?
I really wanted to meet with Xiao Jin immediately and ask about the situation, but I was afraid that Xie Ziling would be even more angry, so I had to go to coax him first.
After a few days, I picked a day when Xie Ziling would not go to the early dynasty, and I went to see him outside the door of his palace early in the morning.
Xie Ziling was still awkward at first and refused to let me in, but as a result, I stood in the air outlet and coughed twice, and Cui Gonggong went in again to pass on a word, and Xie Ziling immediately asked him to take me in.
The light in the palace was obscured, and Xie Ziling sat at the table, looking slightly up in my direction.
I fixed my mind and asked, "After such a long time, has the emperor's anger subsided?"
He also hardened his mouth: "I am not angry."
I walked over, gave Xie Ziling a salute, sat down next to him, and reached out to hold Xie Ziling's hand.
The child's face was obviously red, but he rebuked, "No system."
Well, I pulled my hand back at the speed of light and sat up straight.
As a result, his face darkened.
It's hard to serve.
I also didn't bother to be polite with Xie Ziling, and went straight to the point: "What did Xiao Jin say to the emperor that day when he entered the palace?"
Xie Ziling's expression suddenly changed, and a trace of hidden pain crossed his eyes.
Then he gritted his teeth and said, "Nothing... He just wanted to marry him, but he said that he already had an admirer in his heart, and he also said that the other party had already married a human wife, and he was inconvenient to have delusions in his heart."
Ah this.
My first reaction was that Xiao Jin was using me as a shield.
After all, growing up, I never saw any admiration for him for me.
Besides, I had been dismissed from two family affairs in a row, and if he was really obsessed with me to this point, how could he not make any movement at all?
"Is the emperor angry about this?" I said lightly, "But the concubines and Marquis Shizi of Anyong are innocent, and they really don't know how to clarify themselves."
Xie Ziling stared at me with a heavy gaze, half-dazed, and suddenly said, "The question that was asked by the Empress that day, can the Empress now give me the answer?"
8
I was stunned before I reacted to what Xie Ziling had asked that day, and immediately said, "Now the concubines and the emperor are one and the same, and have nothing to do with others." Moreover, the world is uncertain, there has never been a if, and the concubines have never thought about it."
This was a very standard, unquestionable answer, but Xie Ziling was not satisfied.
He suddenly stood up, walked up to me, and then leaned over and stared into my eyes very close to me, the tip of his nose almost touching the tip of his nose, and his breath heated up.
Then he said in a dumb voice, "My sister knows, I don't want to hear this."
I saw a faint pain in his eyes that were close at hand, and I lost my concentration for a moment.
After a moment, I turned back to God and whispered, "Even if An Yong waits for the son of the world to come to the door to propose to him, the concubine... It won't have anything to do with him."
In those eyes that were originally as dark as night, there was suddenly a starlight.
I can't help it.
Originally, Xie Ziling was a very insecure person.
When his mother died, Emperor Xiandi followed The Great Mourning, and his body was already a little bad; later, the courtiers were in turmoil, relying solely on Xie Ziling to pick up the girder.
Although yan Xuanting, the former chancellor, said that he did his best to assist, but the power was tilted toward the opposition, he had to defend.
Come to think of it, I probably... Is it the only person Xie Ziling can trust, right?
I sighed in my heart, hesitated for a moment, and finally reached out and gently hugged him.
Xie Ziling's body stiffened, and then he hugged me back harder, buried his face in my shoulder, and softly called out "sister.".
In fact, when I was young with Xie Ziling, I was much closer than I am now.
Even if he is a prince, I don't think there is anything wrong with it.
What's more, Xie Ziling is five years younger than me, and when I was already the year of cardamom, he was still a child, and he did not pay attention to the defense of men and women.
I have never been in good health, and when I was seventeen years old, I was sick in bed due to wind and cold, took a piece of green jade, and secretly helped Xie Ziling carve a camellia flower as a birthday gift.
In the spring of the following year, Xie Ziling rode all the way to the outskirts of the city, helped me pick up a bunch of camellia flowers, and said that he wanted me to see the spring outside.
It was only after the death of the first emperor that he became the new emperor, carrying too many responsibilities on his back, so that those things invisibly pushed the distance between me and him.
I was caught up in the memory when I suddenly heard Xie Ziling's voice: "Does my sister miss her parents?" Send you out of the palace and go back to your house for a few days."
Early the next morning, Xie Ziling personally sent me out of the palace and back to the Bachelor's Mansion.
My intuition told me that things were not quite right, but Xie Ziling looked as usual, and I couldn't find any flaws.
The carriage stopped at the door, and Xie Ziling and I joined hands all the way into the atrium, and under the banana tree in the hot summer, we met with my father and mother.
"Send the queen home for a few days." Xie Ziling finished speaking to my mother, and then looked at me with burning eyes, "Sister, I will come to pick you up in a few days."
He said this solemnly, as if it were a solemn promise.
At that time, I didn't think about it so much, I only thought Xie Ziling was weird, and even doubted that he sent me out of the palace, whether he had other ideas.
But if you think about it, I have always been virtuous and generous, even if he wants to promote whoever he wants to take, or who he wants to take into the palace, he does not have to act behind my back.
In the end, I attributed this to Xie Ziling's understanding of my homesickness, so he specially sent me back to accompany my parents.
I stayed at home for three days, and on the fourth day, I was carving a piece of jade in my room, when my father suddenly walked in with a dignified look and told me that The Marquis of Anyong was begging to see me in the main hall.
I slipped the knife and jadeite into my sleeve and went out to meet him.
The sunlight outside the window was dazzling, and Xiao Jin was wearing a lake blue brocade robe, standing in the main hall with his back hand.
When he saw me, he smiled softly, "Ah Zhen."
I frowned, "Now that I am in the back seat, on the courtesy of the king, the son of the world should call me a queen." This time Hongu will not bother with you, and next time you must not repeat it."
Xiao Jin's expression froze, "When did you and I become so strange?"
I was silent for a moment and said lightly, "The etiquette cannot be revoked."
Xiao Jin didn't speak, and I asked him again, "The son of the world came today, and I don't know what happened?"
"Just come to the mansion to see the empress." Xiao Jin pulled the corners of his lips, "Now that I see that the empress is safe and sound, the subject is also relieved."
Not knowing why, I heard a deep sarcasm in his tone.
When I looked at Xiao Jin in front of me again, I suddenly felt that he was a little strange.
Thinking about it carefully, Xiao Jin and I had indeed not seen each other for many years.
Before he entered the palace to ask for a meeting, in three words and two words, he provoked the relationship between Xie Ziling and me.
So much so that Xie Ziling suspected that I had an affair with him, and I felt that Xie Ziling was indeed a child, which was too childish.
In addition, Xie Ziling told me before that the Yu Party of Jing'an Hou was very rampant in the Yaocheng area.
Yaocheng, a southwest fiefdom where An Yonghou is located, is extremely close.
Thinking of this, I suddenly asked, "Why did you suddenly send someone to send me sour plums to drink that day?"
After asking, I stared at Xiao Jian tightly, and sure enough, I was caught off guard, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.
「...... On that day, I passed by the shop in the capital and saw it, and I thought that you used to drink before entering the palace, so I bought two lamps and sent someone to send you to the palace."
I smiled and said, "Really?"
Xu was too indifferent, Xiao Jin didn't say anything more in the end, just performed a salute and resigned.
I watched him leave, turned around, and found my father standing behind me at some point, looking at me with a heavy face.
「...... What's wrong?"
"Ah Zhen, it's going to change."
9
The day before I left the palace, Xie Ziling summoned his father in the imperial study.
"Lord Qiao bowed down for me, and he was a loyal general. It's just that Sister Zhen is an empress after all, and she doesn't want to implicate her."
Xie Ziling wrote two lines with a pen and raised his head to look at his father: "Lord Qiao might as well take her home for a few days first, and then personally take her back to the palace when the hidden dangers in the palace are eliminated."
His father said that Xie Ziling found that Princess Li appeared to be peaceful and self-guarding on the surface, but in fact secretly colluded with the Jing'an Houyu Party and the Li people of southern Xinjiang in an attempt to seize the throne.
I thought of the li concubine who wore a thin red shirt in the cold winter and tried to dance to Xie Ziling, and I was deeply puzzled.
She has such a great ability??
The father said in a deep voice, "Since she first entered the palace, Princess Li's purpose has not been to compete for favors, but to order the emperor."
I suddenly had a foreboding feeling in my heart: "The emperor sent me out of the palace..."
"Princess Li, they're going to get ready to go."
At dusk, the sunset that had originally swept half of the sky was suddenly covered by a series of dark clouds, and then the torrential rain came so fast that the entire capital was crushed into a darkness.
I rode my horse and whipped all the way to the city gate.
When the commander of the Imperial Forest Army saw me, he was shocked and hesitantly asked, "Empress Niangniang?"
I raised my chin and threw off the beads of water in my hair, "Hongu is back, open the palace door."
Even if it was getting dark, I could see the sudden and much tighter defense outside the palace gate.
The Imperial Forest Army in the bright place is still like this, and the Janissaries in the dark are not to mention more.
When I reached the door of the main hall, my body was already drenched in rain.
When Xie Ziling saw me, his original sharp expression froze for an instant.
After a moment, he turned back to God, walked quickly to me, and asked urgently, "How did my sister return to the palace?"
"If I don't come back, how long will the Emperor keep it a secret from me?" I stared into his eyes, "Xie Ziling, you have asked me several times what our relationship is—now I tell you, it is the empress, it is husband and wife, and husband and wife should suffer together."
"I'm here to accompany you."
Xie Ziling pursed his lips, "You should stay at home well, you don't need to accompany you."
At this time, this child was still dead duck with a hard mouth.
Obviously, his eyes lit up just now.
I deliberately turned around, "In that case, the concubine will retire."
After saying that, I silently counted three times in my mind.
The third sound was just halfway through, when suddenly a force came rushing over and hugging me tightly behind itself.
I was soaked in rain and cold.
However, when Xie Ziling's arm looped over, the warm touch passed through the thin fabric and went all the way up along the skin around his waist.
Some sporadic images flashed in my head, and my face became slightly warm.
Fortunately, Xie Ziling didn't see it, he only pressed his cheek to my back, and muffled: "Sister, don't go."
"Since you didn't want me to leave, why did you hide all these things from me in the first place and send me out of the palace?" I asked lightly, "Xie Ziling, do you think I can't be trusted, or do you think I'll drag you down?"
"None of them..." He said with a little trepidation in his tone, "Sister, I am afraid that you will not be safe in the palace."
I opened my mouth and was about to speak again, when the door of the main hall was suddenly pushed open, and General Zhou, the commander of the Janissaries, broke through the door and said urgently, "Emperor, those people have come in from the middle passage on the west side of the palace!"
On the west side, that was exactly where the Songyue Palace, which I had arranged for Concubine Li to live, was located.
Xie Ziling, who had originally pounced on my back, immediately stood up straight and said in a deep voice, "I know!" Pass on the order, except for Princess Li and An Yong Hou Shizi, not a single living mouth should be left!"
Xiao Zhen!
Sure enough, it was him!
After General Zhou left, I turned around and looked at Xie Ziling: "When did Xiao Jin collude with the Li people?"
"When the father emperor was already seriously ill, he still dragged his sick body to send An Yonghou back to the southwest fiefdom, because he knew that he had ill intentions." Xie Ziling said, "Moreover, before Jing'an Hou's death, he had secretly sent letters to the southwest many times, and at that time, he sent people to investigate, and found that at that time, Jing An Hou and An Yong Hou had secret contacts with the Li people, and even recruited troops and horses on the southern border."
"These three forces cannot be underestimated, and they can only be broken one by one."
I suddenly understood.
Xie Ziling first summoned Xiao Jin back to Beijing, and then used Yan Xuanting to kill Shen Tongwen, hoping to give Xiao Jin a warning.
It was only when Xiao Jin did not give up that he thought of luring the snake out of the hole, and simply netted Xiao Jin and the Li people who tried to force the palace to seize power.
Thinking of this, I asked Xie Ziling, "What did Xiao Jin put in the sour plum drink that day?"
"He didn't add anything, he was Li Fei's man, and he added the poison of southern Xinjiang to it."
I thought about it for a moment, but I felt wrong: "But that thing is for me to drink, and since they want to usurp the throne and poison me with an empress, what is the use?"
Then he whispered, "Because they know, I... Love you. If my sister is really poisoned, I will definitely be in a big mess, and maybe the probability of them winning will be higher."
10
I looked at him sheepishly, unable to speak for a moment.
Xie Ziling, this child, can be said to be the one I grew up watching.
His personality had always been awkward to death, and because the former empress and the former emperor had gone early, he had to accept the throne at the age of thirteen, and had to restrain his mind to maintain the majesty of being an emperor.
So, this is actually the first time I've heard him say so bluntly that he's devoted to me.
"I never wanted to poison you."
I was out of my mind when a familiar voice suddenly sounded from behind.
It's Xiao Jin.
He didn't know when he had changed into a military uniform, and was carrying a long sword, slowly walking into the hall and standing two steps away from me.
I turned my head and met his smiling gaze.
He said in an affectionate tone, "Ah Zhen, I like that you are not too late, so why would I poison you?" Princess Li made up her own mind, and I will dispose of her myself."
I didn't speak.
"If it weren't for Xie Ziling, I would have married you a long time ago." Ah Zhen, do you think that your two-in-a-row affair is really just your bad luck? If it wasn't for him Xie Ziling obstructing from it, why did you end up where you were before?" He smiled again at the corner of his lips and said softly, "When I take this throne, you will be my queen."
I asked him, "Are you sick?"
Xiao Jin's smile suddenly disappeared.
I said in a cold tone, "I am the empress of Xie Ziling, and the person I admire is also Xie Ziling." In the past, we were friends, but now that you are colluding with the People of Lebanon and are my enemies, can you not be delusional?"
Xiao Jin looked at me in disbelief.
I ticked the corners of my lips, "Or have I pretended to be so virtuous that you forgot what kind of person I used to be?"
As soon as the words stopped, Princess Li suddenly stumbled into the hall.
Covered in blood, her face turned white by the rain, she gasped, "Go fast... Come on! We've hit the jackpot!"
Xiao Jin's expression changed suddenly, and then he violently raised his sword and stabbed at Xie Ziling behind me.
"Xie Ziling!"
Caught off guard, Xie Ziling didn't even have a chance to dodge.
After the muffled sound of the sharp blade entering the flesh, he fixed his movement in place and slowly lowered his head.
At the moment when the tip of his sword could pierce into Xie Ziling's shoulder, the seal carving knife in my hand also inserted it from his heart.
With too much force, the blade even cut a deep hole in my palm, and blood dripped down my wrist and fingertips.
The sound of "bang" was the sound of the unfinished jade jade material smashing on the ground.
Xiao Jin slowly let go of his hand, staggered back two steps, and opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, there was blood gushing out.
"Ah Zhen, I really want to marry you..."
"Don't pretend." I said lightly, "If you really want to marry me, the news of the capital will spread to the southwest, and you will have a thousand ways to come to the door to propose to you." If you really like me, you won't repeatedly provoke between me and Xie Ziling after I get married. When you say this now, you just want to provoke it again before you die, so that the gap between me and Xie Ziling will be reborn, right?"
In the end, I still didn't get Xiao Jin's answer.
Because after I asked the last word, the light in his eyes was completely extinguished.
After Xiao Jin fell, the Janissaries also arrived in time to restrain Concubine Li.
I looked back, and Xie Ziling pulled out the sword that had fallen into his shoulder, called out to his sister with a pale face, and then fainted.
Later, I learned that Xie Ziling had been planning for many days in the camp before he planned to use himself as bait to lure them into rebellion and wipe out these chaotic courtiers and thieves.
It's just that he didn't expect to be hurt.
When Dr. Li Came to examine Xie Ziling's pulse, he bandaged the wound on my hand.
At that time, I had already taken a hot bath, changed into clean clothes, and was sitting in front of the bed guarding Xie Ziling.
"The emperor has been working hard for many days, his heart has been damaged, and the wound on his shoulder is deep, so he must lie in bed and recuperate."
After Dr. Li Medicated the wound on Xie Ziling's shoulder, he retreated.
Haruka advised me, "Niangniang has not slept all night, and she is still injured, so it is better to go to rest first." When the emperor wakes up, the slave maid will wake up Niangniang again."
I shook my head, "You go and rest, I'll stay with the emperor for a while."
Haru sakura couldn't help me, so she had to retreat.
When I sat by Xie Ziling's bed, I kept thinking about one thing.
When, exactly, did I fall in love with him?
Maybe it was the day he picked me a bed full of camellias.
Originally, I was sick, and I drank bitter medicine for many days, and my body was very uncomfortable.
But Xie Ziling came, with the moisture after the light rain in early spring, bringing me a short and vibrant spring.
「...... Sister."
When I was out of my mind, Xie Ziling, who was lying on the hospital bed, suddenly opened his eyes.
Xu was injured, and his voice was soft: "Is what you said last night in the great hall still true?"
I subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when I touched those eyes that seemed to have a light, my heart softened.
Finally nodded.
11
Xie Ziling was seriously injured for several days, and I took good care of him for several days.
As a result, that morning, I got up earlier, and when I rushed over, I happened to hear Xie Ziling and Dr. Li Talking in the room.
There was a hint of helplessness in Dr. Li's voice: "Emperor, your wounds have been healed for three days, do you still want to continue to hide from the empress?"
Xie Ziling coughed twice, "You don't have to care about this, you just need to change the medicine every day, and then tell the empress about the seriousness of the situation."
"Really?"
I heard my heart angry, stepped into the door, and said in a cold voice, "How serious, why don't the emperor and Dr. Li tai say it in front of the concubines."
Xie Ziling was stunned.
Dr. Li Taiyi retreated with a very good look.
I stood where I was, didn't move, just looked at Xie Ziling expressionlessly.
He coughed violently twice, and found that it was useless to pretend to be pitiful, so he began to quickly throw the pot: "This is all learned from Yan Xuanting!"
"He originally sold a miserable feigned illness in order to win his wife's sympathy, and he also learned some..."
The more he spoke, the quieter his voice became, probably because he knew that he was wrong, and finally he actually wronged Baba and said, "If it wasn't for my sister who has been awkward and refuses to tell the truth, how can I make this decision?"
I was all laughed at by him: "You still beat a rake?"
Xie Ziling changed the subject: "Does the Empress want to go and see Concubine Li?" She was captured alive and is still in prison."
I really want to see Li Fei again.
Did she use so hard to compete for favors from beginning to end?
Then her acting skills are inevitably a little too good.
When Princess Li was brought over by the guards, she was dressed in plain clothes and had wounds on her face.
As soon as she saw Xie Ziling, her knife-like eyes snapped over, "Dusk Jun!"
Xie Ziling sneered, "If you didn't succeed in plotting against you, is it the Emperor of Darkness?"
There was a little more hatred in Li Fei's eyes: "If you really regard me as your own concubine, how can I collude with the Li people?" You took us into the palace, but you never touched us—since you had a deep affection for the queen, why did you provoke us?"
I frowned and suddenly asked her, "Did you collude with the Li people after you entered the palace?"
Li Fei was silent at once.
"What's in it?" I sneered, "Your purpose for entering the palace is not pure, do you still expect Xie Ziling to have a deep affection for you, and then you will give up your mission for him, and you two will eventually become dependents?" Don't read too much in the book, right?"
"You!" Princess Li was furious, "That's what you really are, right?" The appearance of the virtuous and virtuous before, but it was all pretended to be coaxed!"
"So what?"
"You also lied to me that the emperor likes a virtuous and virtuous woman, Qiao Hao, you are so dishonest in your behavior, how can you be worthy of the position of empress?!"
When she used to work hard to compete for favors, even if she was acting, she was still a little cute.
But now with such a vicious face and a hoarse voice, I suddenly didn't know what to say.
Xie Ziling took a step forward, pulled me behind him, and said lightly, "What You Like is the Empress, not a virtuous and virtuous person." What a queen is, she likes."
After Li Fei was taken down, I still hadn't eased up.
Xie Ziling turned his head and looked at me a little cautiously: "Sister, are you angry?"
I fixed my mind and asked him, "Princess Li just said that you took them into the palace, but you never touched them."
"Yes."
"Then you went to Princess De, to Concubine Xian—"
Xie Ziling smiled at the corner of his lips, "The tea in Princess De's place is good, and the Sydney soup in concubine's palace is also good, but unfortunately it is not as delicious as my sister's rose cherry."
I finally responded, "You're going to eat and drink from someone!"
Xie Ziling narrowed his eyes, suddenly stretched out his hand, and grabbed me, and the child smiled triumphantly: "What a rubbing, eating and drinking, the things in this palace are originally decayed!"
I pressed his hand on me, frowned, and asked, "But since you didn't intend to touch them, why did you take them into the palace in the first place?"
Xie Ziling was silent for half a moment.
"It's not that I have to take them into the palace, it's just that since ancient times, the former and harem palaces have been related." If you don't send your daughter into the palace, those old-fashioned people may not be willing to do their best... I haven't fully learned the way of kings and balances, so my father and emperor are gone, and I have to do it hard."
Suddenly I couldn't speak.
In its place, seek its own government.
As the king of a country, Xie Ziling did have many things that could not be done.
"Since I sat in this seat at the age of thirteen, even Yan Xiang could not fully believe it." Xie Ziling put his face on my shoulder and his voice was deep, "If it weren't for my sister entering the palace to accompany me, my life would have been extremely difficult."
Originally, I wanted to investigate his deliberate sabotage of my two affairs, but suddenly I couldn't speak.
Xie Ziling really knew me very well, knew what he was doing in front of me, and it was easiest to annoy me.
At the end of the day, he and I are both awkward people.
Tomorrow morning I was moved, but I refused to admit it first.
It seems that whoever speaks first loses the other side.
Therefore, I very childishly maintained the empress dowager of virtuousness and shude, and advised him to be rainy and dewy.
Xie Ziling also used the other concubines to anger me even more childishly, trying to make me speak first.
"When the government is more stable, I will ask their opinions, and if they are willing to stay in the palace, I will be responsible for their food and clothing for the rest of their lives; if they are willing to go out of the palace and remarry, I will prepare a rich dowry for each of them--sister, is this good?"
Xie Ziling said solemnly, and carefully observed my look.
I pondered for a moment and nodded.
Xie Ziling cheered, stretched out his hand to hook my belt, and looked at me with wet eyes: "Since this is the case, it is not too early, why not rest with the empress?"
Confused, I suddenly thought of something and struggled to ask, "By the way... After you summoned Lord Yan's wife that day, your behavior was strange, what did she say to you?"
Xie Ziling made a move, and then leaned over and bit my lip.
He said vaguely, "Originally I wanted to learn a lesson, to see how Yan Xuanting tricked his wife in the first place, but I didn't admit that it was useless." Oh, looking at him, it's just like that, I think it's just that ye shu is too simple to deceive."
I seriously suspect that he is jealous of Yan Xuanting.
However, the atmosphere was ambiguous, and I was not good enough to pierce Xie Ziling, so I had to say, "The emperor said it very well."
Xie Ziling smiled more proudly, and served me harder.
As I enjoyed it, I sighed in my heart.
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