I am Concubine De, and the emperor does not know the first few wives

Author: Hongdou Rice/Zhihu

I am Concubine De, the emperor does not know how many wives, I was only fifteen years old when I entered the palace, now it has been ten years, I am twenty-five years old.

Unflattered, you say?

Let me tell you, the more favored the concubine in this palace, the more miserable the death. Take the sister in the next room when I first entered the palace, the daughter of the Shang Shujia, Beier has a face. It looks good and has a big chest. Not long after entering the palace, she was made a concubine and became a favorite concubine. The emperor's son was young, in his twenties, and it didn't take long for her to become pregnant. I was next door to her, and when I heard about it, I went to see her, and she grabbed me a handful of golden melon seeds. I also brought me a lot of osmanthus candy and date mud cake, I have loved to eat sweet since I was a child, and from that day on, I ran to her house when I was fine, and she would give me endless date mud cake every time. Once I saw her morning sickness, it was so torturous that I almost vomited out bile. I saw that she drank the medicine so hard, so I didn't covet her jujube mud cake.

At night, I slept until midnight, and I was suddenly woken up by the movement in her house, I thought she was going to give birth, but I didn't think about it, she was only four months old. I looked out of the window in my clothes and saw that her house was brightly lit, and there were about forty or fifty of the grandmother's palace maids.

After a while, even the queen mother came, and I was egged on at that time, this must have been an accident. I was still wondering if I should go out and stand with them, when the Queen Mother announced that I was over.

As soon as I entered the house, I smelled blood, and my heart was even more bottomless. The queen lady was very grand, she asked me to sit down and said that she had a few words to ask me. I nodded, don't care what I asked, I knew everything.

Seeing that I was nervous, the queen mother asked her to bring me a glass of milk to warm my body, and indeed, my teeth were trembling. I drank most of the lamp in one gulp, fixed my mind, and asked the queen concubine what was wrong. The queen mother said that Ning Concubine's child was gone. The unfinished milk in my hand turned over at once, and I was annoyed and wasted, and my hands were shaking. The Queen Mother did not blame me for the gaffe, she said, you and Ning Concubine are close, but do you have any clues?

Clue? What clues? Isn't Ning Concubine's child gone, why did the Queen Mother ask me for clues, and I cried as soon as I was scared. The queen mother didn't say anything more when she saw me like this, she waved her hand, and said you go back to rest first.

I was half-carried back to the room by several palace maids, and Grandma Zhao was frightened when she saw me like this, and asked me if the queen maiden had scolded me, and I shook my head and said that the queen maiden treated me very well and gave me cow's milk to drink. Grandma Zhao thought I must have been terrified, and scalded my feet again to put me to bed.

But where can I sleep? There was chaos outside the house, and I could still hear Grandma Zhao sighing and saying, Ning Concubine this child is really pitiful. As soon as I heard the tears, I couldn't stop the tears, Ning Concubine is very good compared to several other nobles, and she does not treat me harshly in this palace, nor does she trouble me, where to find such a good lord of the first palace in the future. I thought about it and thought of what the empress asked me, could it be that Ning Concubine's child was really killed by someone else? But with so many people in the palace, who harmed them? With tears in my eyes, I fell asleep again.

When I got up the next day, there was no movement in Ning Concubine's house. Grandma Zhao and Cuicui covered me up so that others could not see my swollen walnut-like eyes.

In the afternoon, there was no movement in the room at all. I couldn't sit still in the house, and I usually talked with Ning Concubine at this time, and I didn't know how she was now. Grandma Zhao saw through my thoughts, and she said my ancestor, you will be no one in that room in the future, and don't go again. I didn't understand, I asked my grandmother why. Grandma just explained again and again, saying that she couldn't go, and she was angry. But I think Grandma Zhao is also too snobbish, when Ning Concubine was favored, let me accompany her to talk every day, oh, now that people's children are gone, I will ignore others, then who have I become.

Grandma Zhao is old but not confused at all, she looks at me when she has nothing to do, and I don't look for any opportunity. That afternoon, the palace maid in the queen's palace came to pass on the word, saying that the lady was looking for me to drink tea. As soon as I heard what a good thing this was, except when I first entered the palace, I went to visit the maiden, and at other times we low-ranking concubines could not go. Last time, Liu Guiren also showed off to me, saying that the dim sum in the Empress Palace was the most delicious in the world, and the imperial dining room could not compare. Now the opportunity has finally come, I can also eat the dim sum in the queen's palace, and when I see Liu Guiren, I will also show off to her, saying that I not only ate dim sum, but also drank tea.

Along the way, Grandma Zhao talked to me vigorously, saying that if the empress asked about Concubine Ning, she would say that she would not know anything. I perfunctory that she knew, and all she was thinking about was the pastries in the queen's palace.

When I arrived at the Empress Palace, I found her dozing, and I was embarrassed to call her, so I just stood there and waited. After a while she finally woke up and asked me why I didn't call her, and I smiled at her, saying that the lady must have been exhausted these days, and I was usually very idle, and it was nothing to stand for a while. The queen lady served snacks and tea, and chatted with me while eating. While speaking, she suddenly asked me, who do you usually befriend Concubine? I thought about it and said that Ning Concubine has a very good personality, is kind and kind, treats me very well, and often gives me jujube mud cakes to eat. The queen paused, have you ever eaten the date mud cake in her palace? I replied yes, I go to eat every day, I paused, but unfortunately now she is sick, let alone eat date mud cake, I can't even see her face. The Queen Mother smiled, you are a kind-hearted person. I heard her praise me and I was happier, saying that the pastries in the queen's palace were much more delicious than date mud cakes, and the queen said that if you like to eat, you will take some with you later. I almost jumped up when I heard it, hahahaha now look at how Liu Guiren is still angry with me, I not only ate but also brought it back.

As soon as I left the queen's palace, I met Concubine Shu's car, and Concubine Shufei didn't even give me a look as if she hadn't seen me. I shrugged, it didn't matter, she didn't put it in her eyes when Ning Concubine was favored, not to mention that I was a small talent.

I was a little sad when I thought of Ning Concubine, Grandma Zhao went to the Shangyi Bureau to get winter clothes for me, just in time, I could secretly go to see Ning Concubine and bring her some snacks from the queen's palace. Thinking like this made my whole body fly.

I knocked on Ning Concubine's door and no one paid attention to me, and I knocked for a long time before a palace maid opened the door for me, and I asked her, what about your maiden. She led me to Concubine Ning's dormitory, which I had also been here before, and it had only been a few days before it fell to ashes. The room was very quiet, and I also lowered my voice, Ning Concubine? Concubine Ning?

Concubine Ning was lying weakly on the bed, her eyes open but not looking at me. I hesitated, but walked over. Tell her that I just went to meet the Empress Niang and brought her snacks from the Empress Palace. When I handed her the paper-wrapped pastry, she suddenly knocked it over and told me to roll in a fierce tone. I was frightened by her, I had never seen such a concubine like Ning, she was the most gentle and knowledgeable before! The emperor praised her. I stood up helplessly and asked her what was wrong and why she had knocked over the pastry I had given her. She suddenly laughed and said Wei Yunsheng, why are you so not afraid of death? Whoever gives you everything to eat? Eat even if there is poison in it? Why are you so stupid?

I yelled at her, what are you doing, you, I was kind enough to bring you pastries and you didn't eat it, even if you scolded me, this pastry, I myself am not willing to eat. Why are you scolding me. She stopped talking and lay back in bed, at first just crying, slowly starting to cry, and then turning into a howl. I heard her cry so heart-wrenchingly, and the tears fell with it. I apologize while crying, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have killed you, you just lost a child, I shouldn't have done this to you. Ning Concubine called me over, she grabbed my hand, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for you.

I said, it's okay I forgive you, you don't have a child uncomfortable I know, she grabbed harder and harder, no, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for you. I was confused by her and asked her what to say, Ning Concubine said, do you know how my child is not, I shook my head, she said, someone else fell in the date mud cake. My mouth widened, how could it be? She nodded while crying, yes, yes, at first I was afraid that others would drug me, so I gave you food every time, and the piece you didn't eat that day was drugged. I'm sorry.

My tears fell directly like beads, you treat me as a test chopstick?

Ning Concubine bit her lip, sorry. I looked down and didn't look at her, and after a while, I said, you have a good rest, I'll go back first. When I was about to go out, I said to her, the queen asked me today, I said that all the date paste cakes are eaten by me, and you have never eaten a bite.

I cried all the way out of her house, back to my own room, and buried myself directly in bed. When Grandma Zhao saw me and asked me what was wrong, Cuicui told her everything Ning Concubine said. Mother Zhao comforted me while counting the concubines, they all entered the palace together, how can the heart be so poisonous, the little master should not interact with her in the future, there is such an end. When you get along with others in the future, you have two more heart eyes, and your brain is a little more active, and if you leave two distractions, be careful of being used by others. I was too busy crying to hear Grandma Zhao's words.

Later, I really didn't go to Ning Concubine's house, and I heard that she was sluggish after she had no child, refusing to clean herself up, and not seeing others, but I couldn't laugh at all when I listened to Liu Guiren and them mocking her. Liu Guiren also said to me, you see, at that time, we entered the palace together how energetic she was, the eldest lady was born, and she had read books, and she could enter the eyes of the emperor, you can see now, the emperor can come to see her after she has no children.

My hands were twisted in my sleeves, and when Ning Concubine was favored, it was everywhere how good and affectionate the emperor was to her, and now, it has all become that she was abandoned by the emperor and she fell out of favor.

I have never received a holy grace in my life, and naturally I have never lost favor, so I can't understand the feeling of falling from the sky to the earth, but I feel uncomfortable just listening to them.

Winter is coming, everyone hides in their houses to keep warm, during the day I have nothing to do, I and Grandma Zhao Cuicui around the stove, I read to them, speaking of reading, I don't know a few words, most of them are still learned from Ning Concubine. I don't know how she is now.

I passed by her house that day and heard someone coughing inside. I paused and secretly opened her palace door. I saw a palace maid burning branches in the yard. The smell was still big, choking the palace maid's face full of black smoke. I saw that there was a little unpleasant feeling in my heart, and Cui Cui pulled me away, and she said that Grandma had explained to her and told her to take good care of me and stop running where she shouldn't run.

At night, Grandma Zhao washed my feet, and I secretly asked her, is our carbon fire enough? Grandma Zhao sighed, saying how my little master cares about this matter, usually throwing his hand at the cabinet. I smiled and said no, that is, today compared with others, I found that my life was not particularly bad, some people, grandma, I tell you, you don't know that there is no carbon fire in winter can only use branches, poor no? Mother Zhao snorted heavily, little master, I know what you are fighting, I tell you, no! No way! We are still living this winter tightly, where will the extra relief for others come from?

I pouted, good grandma, good grandma, I know that you hurt me the most, and Ning helped us a lot when she was favored, but? She is living so miserably now, let's pay her back, and after paying it back, we have been clear for a long time, and the grievances have been written off, and there is no follow-up.

Grandma Zhao finished wiping my feet, looked at me and sighed, little master, we are in the palace, the palace can't take care of itself, do you still have time to take care of others? You are such a soft heart, sooner or later you will suffer. I hugged her waist, good mama, I knew you would say yes. Grandma Zhao said, okay, okay, little master, I can say okay, if you give her carbon, you won't have Tang Pozi to use in the future. I sighed, but after thinking about it, I still said, okay, give it to her, I still have Grandma and Cuicui. Cuicui brought me a cup of hot milk at this time, and the little master called me!

I had a dream this night, and it was very warm in the dream, like holding a big soup mother-in-law, and I didn't feel cold at all.

The next day, Cuicui and I put the carbon at the gate of the Ning Concubine Palace, and nothing happened. Cui Cui said to me, Little master, I find that doing good deeds makes people happy. I rubbed my hands and smiled, huh?

I heard that this year was a bumper harvest year, and the emperor wrapped a big red envelope for each of us in the New Year. At the New Year banquet, Princess Guyang recited a poem to the emperor and happily rewarded her with a pair of jade ruyi. I sat far away and could not see the emperor. Cuicui said, all said to let you read a little farther away, now the face of the emperor does not remember, see how to recognize the next time you see. I interrupted her, okay, okay, are you going to become the second Grandma Zhao?

When I went back with Liu Guiren at night, I passed by the Zhong Zhi Palace, and I heard that this palace used to live the favorite concubine of the first emperor, but then I didn't know what happened and hanged in it, and this palace also became a cold palace, and no one usually came. If the snow hadn't blurred people's vision, we wouldn't have turned onto this road. Liu Guiren was very timid, pulled me and said, you can go faster, I will definitely not help you when I encounter something unclean. I was walking and suddenly stopped and startled her, what are you doing, she asked me. I turned my face stiffly and brought my face closer to hers, Liu Xin'er, you look at me, look at me. When asked by my yin and yang strange voice, she suddenly became calm, you want to die, Wei Yunsheng! I pressed her against the wall, rolled her eyes, and licked Baihuahua's teeth by the way, I have been waiting for you for a long time Liu Xin'er. She screamed and pushed me away, ran forward and accidentally fell to the ground. My stomach hurts when I laugh, Liu Xin'er, you are too hahahahahaha too timid. At this time, there was really a strange sound behind me, save me... Help me... Please.

Liu Guiren and I looked at each other and then screamed. The startled night owls all whined. But shouting and shouting, I found that something was wrong, walked in the direction of the sound, Liu Guiren grabbed my wrist, I tell you, if you pass today, don't want me to talk to you, there are no snacks in the queen's palace, not a piece. I covered her mouth and said shhh Then he continued to follow the sound and found that the voice came from inside the Bell Palace. Liu Guiren is about to cry, I'm leaving, I'm really gone, Wei Cairen, I'm really gone. After speaking, he ran without looking back. Cui Cui and I laughed, and then I casually pushed open the palace door. As soon as I opened the palace door, I was startled by the two of us, because there was a person lying on the ground. Cui Cui illuminated his face with the lamp in his hand, saying that it was a eunuch. I watched him lie here and probably freeze to death tomorrow, and then we both worked together to drag him to a side hall in the Bell Palace.

The first time I came to the Bell Palace, Cuicui lit the candle with a fire, and only then did I see the outline of the little eunuch, which was quite beautiful and good-looking. Then I looked around and saw a painting hanging on the wall, with a woman with a beautiful face and a peony twisted in her hand.

Who are you?

Cuicui and I were taken aback by this sudden sound, and then saw that it was a palace maid, who should be in her thirties. After she listened to us, she said that this is not the place where the little master should stay, let's go. Cui Cui and I saw that she was extraordinary, so we hurried out.

When I came out of the Bell Palace to the corner, I was startled by the figure that jumped out. When I saw that it was actually Liu Guiren, she saw that I grabbed my wrist and walked forward, as if there was a dog chasing behind.

Coincidentally, Liu Guiren and I both fell ill the next day. The emperor was advised by the empress to prepare to spoil the newcomer, so this good luck fell on Fang Cairen. Liu Guiren hated me so much that his teeth itched, saying that Wei Cairen blamed you, let Fang Cairen's little hooves succeed, if she is at the same height as me, I will not let you go!

Then just a month later, Fang Cairen was given death for saying the wrong thing before the Holy Church. Liu Guiren was still bickering with her the day before, and this time she was scared and sick again, and she hadn't been out of the house for two months, and this time it also surprised me. That talented person really loves to be able to do something, but what can she do to make the emperor so angry? Originally, Grandma Zhao also complained that I ran around and made myself sick and missed a good opportunity, and I heard that Fang Cai was dead. She patted her heart and said that it was all life, little master, it seems that your life is good.

I smirked, sorry I didn't notice.

I went to see Liu Guiren, and she said while eating the pastries I brought her, Fang Cairen didn't know what was wrong and let the emperor open the net to the seventh emperor's uncle, she is a small talent, nothing to mix with any court affairs. I touched my neck and said that it would not give death, and the emperor was really cloudy. Liu Guiren scolded me what do you know, the emperor wind god Yuxiu is extraordinary, so he is not the kind of unreasonable person. I laughed at her that you had a deep affection for the emperor before you slept. Liu Gui ignored me popularly. After a while, the weather warmed up in the spring, and I could finally take off my winter cotton jacket, but Grandma Zhao stopped me from saying that the weather was easy to return to the cold and I couldn't take off my cotton clothes. So I became the fattest of the warblers and swallows, and Sun Guiren asked me, are you very afraid of cold with rheumatism? My mother is the same, often dressing thicker than our children. I smiled, but no, I was just a little afraid of the cold. Listening to them, the emperor recently took a fancy to a palace maid in Slefang, who was sealed two days ago, and the scenery is beautiful. This "scenery" is envious, some yearning, some curious, and some ironic. Liu Guiren belongs to the latter, she comes from a good background, and she can grow up, but unfortunately she has not been able to sleep. She complained to me that my father was a grandmother of the second rank and had to pass the commandment! Since childhood, he has learned qinqi calligraphy and painting, and when he grew up, he even learned to ride and shoot. I don't know where I am bad, why the emperor does not favor me, but favors those women who do not have ink in their stomachs. She grabbed my clothes and asked her and Concubine Shu who looked good, I pulled out my clothes and said, Concubine Shu Niangniang fairy daughter, you are also a fairy daughter, but you are drinking dew, and the other is eating wild vegetables. Liu Gui turned his head and left.

One day to catch the Empress Niangniang's birthday, we all have to go to the Phoenix Palace to congratulate her on her birthday. I held my private money and cried and smoked, as if Grandma Zhao was a bully who robbed the people's daughter, she broke my hand and said little master, everyone gives gold, silver and jade, you also bring a similar bracelet gold medallion, right? I couldn't hold out my tears, watching the brocade bag being taken away by Grandma Zhao, thinking when I could wear these myself.

On the way, Liu Guiren's eyebrows fluttered, she told me that her family bought her a set of all-gold jewelry from Fanbang, so magnificent that it could blind people's eyes, and I hugged the lonely brocade box in my arms, thinking that this is the gap. When we arrived at the Fenglun Palace, the queen maiden went to change clothes and arranged for us to sit in the courtyard to admire the flowers and drink tea. Liu Guiren raised his chin when he saw Wancairen. I followed her and saw a gentle and gentle woman sitting there. Liu Guiren leaned over my ear and said, a small talent actually asked the emperor to personally propose a title for her. She was too close to me to make me uncomfortable, so I avoided a little, people are not rightly favored. As soon as the voice fell, the queen mother came, and she wore a peony dress embroidered with gold silk, which was beautiful and luxurious. The concubines present should immediately praise and praise. I think it's good-looking, but it's not as elegant as usual. They said theirs, I concentrated on eating the pastries on the plate, and I was still thinking of wrapping a few in a kerchief and taking them back for Grandma Zhao to eat. When I looked up, I just ran into the sight of Wancairen, and she smiled softly at me, and I was embarrassed to make a cold face, so I also smiled.

I thought this was the end, but I didn't expect that something happened in the end, and when I came out of the toilet, I heard someone arguing outside. Liu Guiren grabbed a little eunuch and asked which lady it was. The little eunuch received the money and said that it was Concubine Zhen and Wancai. When Liu Guiren and I arrived, we saw Wancairen being surrounded, and tears couldn't stop falling. Jane snorted, crying and crying, and knew that crying, stealing other people's things and crying with her face? When Wancai heard this, she wiped her face with a kerchief, thinking that it was also strong. The queen mother asked, can you find evidence? Liu Guiren and I asked Sun Guiren and Jiang Cairen what had happened, and Sun Guiren said that Concubine Zhen said that she had just changed clothes with Wancairen in the side hall, and the tassel that the emperor had rewarded was gone. Jiang Cairen added, saying that Wancairen stole it.

We turned to look over there again, only to see that the tassel was found from the body of the intimate maid of Wancairen, and Wancairen almost fainted and was supported by the palace maid beside the empress. She knelt and kowtowed and said that she had not stolen anything because she had been wronged. The queen maiden saw that all the stolen goods had been found, so she punished her for two months for not being under her control, and the palace maid beat thirty boards and sent her to the cold palace as a errand. When the matter settled, I walked out with Liu Guiren, Sun Guiren, and Jiang Cairen. I happened to meet Concubine Shu's car, her eyes swept directly over us, followed by Concubine Zhen. Jiang Cairen said, in fact, everyone knows what's going on. The three of us looked at each other and didn't speak.

I said, Wancai is getting the grace, isn't Concubine Zhen afraid that she will tell the emperor? Liu Guiren said, no, no matter how favored she is, she is just a talented person, what can she do? Identify a concubine and say she framed herself? Sun Guiren said that the emperor disliked the women in the harem the most noisy, who dared to tell him this. Jiang Cairen added, no, that one dares. I think she said Lady Lady. I live in Xianfu Palace, Liu Guiren lives in Changchun Palace, and Sun Guiren and Jiang Cairen live in Yanxi Palace. We chatted for a while and found it speculative, so they invited us to sit at the Yanxi Palace. Sun Guiren and Jiang Cairen have a particularly good relationship, and both of them are the first and second tallest in the harem, Jiang Cairen is thin and tall, and his hometown is in Jiangnan. Her fish soup is particularly delicious, she said that the south prefers soup, the north loves pasta, I said no, I like both. So everyone laughed.

After two days, Wancai moved to Xianfu Palace. She lived far away from me, but it didn't matter if she was near or far, and I wouldn't talk to her, because I really understood the word avoidance.

Summer is here, and the sun is so hot that people can't open their eyes. I lay down on the mat, and my grandmother fanned me on the side, saying that the little master's heart was calm and naturally cool. I think this is all coaxing children, heat is heat, what is the use of calming the heart? I muttered, I really want the ice maker in the queen's palace, Grandma you know, the ice below, the fan above, as long as people shake it, the ice gas will rush to the face, not to mention how cool it is. Mother Zhao said, since the little master is like this, you should hurry up and go to bed, Sun Guiren has now gone to bed, among these people who entered the palace together, is it left with you and Qian Cai. I pouted, where I want to serve the bed, the emperor does not summon me, what can I do? Grandma Zhao also sighed after hearing this. At this time, Cuicui came in and said that the little master came quickly, the mung bean soup that the slave had just cooked, I put it in a bamboo tube, and soaked it in the well water, and quickly drank it is not cold and silky. After I drank it, I shoved her to my grandmother's mouth, and my grandmother tasted it quickly, it was cold.

A few days later, good news came from the palace that Concubine Shu and Wancai were both pregnant. Xianfu Palace has returned to the appearance of Ning Concubine's original appearance, and the door is like a city. Following the flow, I have also been there twice. Wancai is now a nobleman, and his position is higher than mine. Liu Guiren hates that iron is not steel, you, you really don't argue at all, a palace maid can now climb on your head. I said, what does this emperor's seal have to do with me, can it be that I want to be a concubine and the emperor really named a concubine to me. Liu Guiren glanced at me, no interest, I will be the one who wants to be a concubine in the future. I tell you, don't be a talented person and lose my face by then. I smiled, yes, yes, my mother, can the mother be a concubine first, no matter how bad it is, she can learn to be gentle and noble, and conceive a child? Liu Guiren scratched my ribs with his hand, and you stinky girl actually mocked me.

At the beginning, I felt that my life would be a little tighter at most if I was in a low position, but I didn't expect that when the heat came, the emperor took a few concubines to Penglai Island to escape the summer. Of course, no my name. Liu Guiren is now close to the empress, and Sun Guiren and Jiang Cairen also have a good relationship with me, so they begged the empress to take me with them.

The scenery of Penglai Island is good, the room is very shady, I sleep much more peacefully.

One day, Liu Guiren went to find the Empress Niangniang. I walked around the garden alone. Then I saw a large field of peony flowers in a garden, and I was in a good mood, so I went in and twisted one in my hand, and I secretly asked if the statue was like the woman in the painting. Cuicui nodded, like, the little master is so good-looking. However, she thought about it and said, it's a pity that the little master is so good-looking, and the emperor does not summon you. I forced a smile, I'm probably the worst concubine, right? I tease Cuicui, you don't understand, my mother said, the best things are left for the end, maybe one day I will also be a concubine.

After another moment of joking, I plucked a handful of peonies and went back. Liu Guiren was very frightened when she saw it, and she said, do you know whose garden it is? What did I say, she said that it was a garden set up by the first emperor for the most favored concubine, and the peony flowers in it could not be picked, how come you were not seen. I handed the flowers to her, there was really no one, so I picked them, I thought they were ordinary flowers.

I think I must not be favored because I am too lazy, the emperor does not come to me, and I do not go to him. Because even on Penglai Island, they worked hard to stand in front of the emperor. I heard that two days ago, a talented person met the emperor in the garden, and the emperor was very happy, not only spoiled her, but also directly sealed the concubine, Qing concubine. I was stunned, soaring into the sky, this is, directly promoted to the main throne of the first house, presumably it must be a big beauty. Liu Guiren is not convinced, don't be like you have never seen a beauty, just her appearance is beautiful at most. I said, that guy just has something special. I comforted myself, maybe one day I will also soar into the sky and directly seal the concubine. Liu Guiren, what about dreaming? If you become a concubine, I will be the queen mother. I said, will you let me marry your son? Liu Gui is popular and wants to hit me.

I may have been an unknown person who made a background board for the palace in this life, and it is estimated that there is not even a name in the history books, and it is directly Wei Cairen, who entered the palace in such and such a year. Maybe I don't even bother to remember the date of my death.

When I made Wei a nobleman, it was because the empress concubine gave birth to a concubine, and the world was amnestied.

Before that, I had been a talented person for five years. It's really miserable to look at directly.

It was soon mid-autumn when I came back from Penglai Island, and Cuicui and I learned to make mooncakes and gave some to the Empress and Liu Guiren. But she said she wanted to stay in shape and not eat sweets. Despite this, she accidentally ate half a box and cried that I had let her indulge. But that's what I love to do, which is to make pastries! I used to like to eat too much, but now it's not difficult to learn to do it, so every day Cuicui and I nestled in the kitchen, and Grandma Zhao just sighed when she saw it.

Just in time for the New Year's Eve, on this day, my grandmother and Cuicui were baking around the stove, and suddenly someone knocked on the door, and it was very urgent. As soon as Cui Cui opened the door, the man knelt all the way to me, she said that she was the child of Wanguiren, and begged me to go to Wanguiren. Mother Zhao refused her, our little master is a talented person, he has never even seen the emperor's face, and he can't help your mother. But the palace maid has been kowtowing to me, and after Ning Concubine's affairs, I don't want to be involved with a pregnant concubine anymore.

I told the maid that I couldn't help her. Grandma Zhao looked at me with relief and personally sent the maid away. I couldn't sleep at night in bed, and the maid knocked on the door again. Mother Zhao is angry, why didn't she knock on other people's doors, and Xianfu Palace didn't live with our little master. I sat up and said to Grandma Zhao, Grandma, change my clothes.

When she arrived at Wanguiren's house, she was already soaked with sweat, and there was water under her body. Mother Zhao had enough experience and said that Wanguiren's amniotic fluid had broken, and she needed to call the midwife and the imperial doctor. Lady Wan stopped me in weakness and said no, don't call the doctor. I said why, your child will not be able to keep it. She said, I lied about the month because I was not at ease, and now they all think that I am next spring, you don't go to the doctor. I don't know what to say about Lady Wan's behavior, Mother Zhao said, the little master should go to the outer hall to stay for a while, give birth to a child with heavy blood, and the slave has experience, so he can help her. I listened to my grandmother's words, waited in the outer hall, and now that I am seventeen years old, I understand some things, I think, since Lady Wan doesn't want others to know, why did she come to me? And I can't deliver babies, what do you want me to do.

Almost two hours later, Grandma Zhao took out a small baby, crumpled. Mother Zhao said with a smile, the little master, is a prince. Grandma Zhao and I helped her clean up the following things again, and then went back, and I stayed up with her for so long, lying in bed and falling asleep immediately. Early the next morning, Liu Guiren came to me and told me that Wangui had given birth to a little prince. I nodded, knowing that I was there yesterday. She said, you too? Did you deliver her? I was still sleepy, so I told her everything about yesterday. She was a little angry after hearing it, she didn't expect that a palace maid in Slefang was so scheming, and she also concealed the month, and now everyone in the palace thinks that she was born prematurely. Even the emperor took pity on her and was ready to make a concubine. I stuck a thumb out of the bed, awesome.

In the spring of the following year, Concubine Shu gave birth to a princess, and Lady Wan also made a concubine, but she fell ill not long after being made a concubine. I was a little surprised, why did she get sick? Mother Zhao said that it is normal for people to get sick eating whole grains. And Concubine Wan's children were also sent to the Empress Concubine to raise.

This year, Liu Guiren finally became a favorite concubine as he wished, and another more favored one was Qing Concubine. Liu Guiren has been drinking partial remedies lately, and she won't let me say it because she wants to have a child. When it was hot, the emperor took us to Penglai Island again, and Liu Guiren was with the emperor every day, and I saw her less often, and occasionally met me to complain to me about how Qing Concubine behaved as a demon.

I walked around the garden and came to the place where the peonies were blooming. I twisted one and held it up in front of my eyes, and the blue sky reflected the peonies even more delicately. I sighed and said that I had been in the palace for three years, and I had never even seen the appearance of the emperor, was it particularly miserable. Cui Cui didn't know how to comfort me. At this time, there was a gorgeous figure in my sight, I put my hand down, and I saw a person in brocade clothes and jade boots standing in front of me, my forehead suddenly jumped, and my mind was spinning many bridges on the stage.

He came over, and I knelt down with hindsight. I thought to myself, do I mean "courtiers and concubines ask the emperor for peace" or "the emperor is blessed with peace and peace", these two sentences have been memorized for a long time, and I have not used them once. The emperor looked at me condescendingly like this, saying, after entering the palace for three years, I can't bear to be lonely, so I use this trick again?

I listened to this is really wrong, I raised my head and crashed into his indifferent eyes, I blurted out, the emperor forgives sins, concubines, concubines...

But I really didn't know what to say later, so the emperor ignored me and walked directly past me. I knelt in place for a while, and then I raised my head, and the peony in my hand had fallen to the ground, and it was not like someone was stepping on. I had a bad feeling in my heart, but I didn't know what was going on. Lost soul back to the house, Liu Guiren had already come, she grabbed my arm and asked what happened? She met the emperor at the empress and the queen mother, and heard that the emperor said that she met a talented person in the peony garden, and even used this kind of encounter to compete for favor.

My tears flowed down my face, and I said what to fight for favors. Liu Guiren said, what are you crying about, if you want to compete for favors, don't use the methods used by others? Do you know that since Qing Concubine met the emperor in the Peony Garden last year, how many concubines have squeezed their heads and run to the Peony Garden this year, and the emperor has long been impatient. I said, I didn't, I didn't run into him on purpose, I just passed by. Liu Guiren, the emperor thinks so, there is no way! The queen maiden said that she would send you back to the palace first. I sat on a stool, my chest heaving and heaving, both aggrieved and afraid.

I thought, I can't be favored, but why is it more backwards?

After being depressed for a long time, Grandma Zhao comforted me and said, little master, let's not compare with others, let's live our lives behind closed doors, there is no grace without grace, we just need to be good. I didn't shed tears at this time, because I couldn't shed them.

Since then, Liu Guiren has rarely come to me, only occasionally sending me some clothes and pastries. I heard that I had been the laughing stock of the palace for a long time, and then the virtuous concubine came forward to say a few words for me. Mother Zhao said, only when she was downcast did she know what people's hearts were like, and in the past, one or two liked the little master, and the little master's sisters and sisters. Today, you can't even see the corners of your clothes. Especially Liu Guiren, no, now Rui Concubine Niangniang, the scenery is gone, and the previous love is gone. I don't refute Grandma Zhao anymore, because I see that her sideburns are white. I spend every day in the house either making pastries or reading, and the quiet is scary. Actually, I don't feel like I'm down, because I've never seen it before.

On my nineteenth birthday, Concubine Rui came to see me. Grandma Zhao's face was not good, but she didn't say anything. I asked Rui Concubine if there was anything wrong, and she sat down and said, Wei Yunsheng, I am the Empress Niangniang's person, I want to follow the Empress Niangniang's wishes. I looked at her, so do you also think I'm to blame? Rui Concubine said, it doesn't matter anymore, you have to know, he is the emperor, he doesn't like a person and others will follow and dislike. My grievances are all rushing up my throat, I said, so you choose not to like me? Rui Concubine was silent for a while, Wei Cairen, I know that my personality is difficult to get along with others, but I will never harm you.

After Rui Concubine left, my tears dared to fall, everyone has their own position, Liu Xin'er wants to go to a high place, I can't stop her, and I won't stop her. Like she said, I'll never hurt her either.

I finished a large bowl of longevity noodles in tears, and I wiped them as I ate, telling myself that I would never shed tears again, never tears again.

The empress gave birth to a concubine, and the emperor granted amnesty to the world. I have been in the palace for five years, and even if I have survived the seniority, it has come to me. So I was taken with the title of nobleman. I heard that the virtuous concubine was named a virtuous concubine, and I met her at the ceremony, she was very beautiful and gentle. After sealing the nobles, I still stayed in my own house, and the newcomers entered the palace, because Xianfu Palace had a child and a concubine killed in a row, and there was a nobleman who was named and criticized by the emperor, and this became an obscure place. No newcomer wants to live here, so I alone became the lord of the first house. I found spiritual habitats, books. I began to read a lot, since I was a child I was lazy and did not like to read, my mother was useless no matter how to fight, now I can not only read it, but also love books.

The palace is lonely, and there is no shortage of palace female eunuchs who eat or something. There are also heavier flavors, eunuchs and eunuchs. I thought it was just like this, when I first entered the palace, Liu Xin'er told me that there were palace maids and palace maids in the palace, which was really beyond my understanding, I said how can the palace maid and the palace maid be together? Liu Xin'er rolled her eyes, how do I know. Recently, rumors in the palace have begun again, but this time the objects are Sun Concubine and Jiang Guiren. (Previously Sun Guiren and Jiang Cairen). I don't make a fuss now, I feel that anyone can be with anyone, as long as I am happy, my heart can find comfort. But others don't think so.

Rui Concubine and I eased their relationship, she said, the emperor personally asked about this matter, but the relationship between women and women is already close, if you want to say that the two of them have something beyond gender, who can prove this? I said, the two of them are kind, how can people say this? Rui Concubine said, Sun Concubine's appearance and figure have always been the best, and the emperor favored her, and she pushed off three times and twice. Who can stand it? People who are jealous of her can stare closely. I heard that later Jiang Guiren was dragged into the Internal Affairs Office and suffered a lot. Sun Concubine knelt in the emperor's Yangxin Hall for a night, and the emperor was furious, and this matter was regarded as entering a stalemate stage.

One day passing by Yanxi Palace, I knocked on the palace door with a move. Sun Concubine was ill, did not clean up her appearance, I saw even more pity, I accompanied her to talk for a while, I asked her Jiang Guiren is really so important? She laughed so much this time that she even laughed out of tears. More important than life, she said. I think the rumors in the palace are not all false, at least this love is difficult to have even between men and women. I patted her hand and didn't speak.

On this day in the Phoenix Luan Palace, the empress was educating newcomers with the example of Sun Concubine and Jiang Guiren. Concubine Xian said that the feelings of the world are difficult to ponder, sisters support each other in the palace, experience wind and rain, not relatives are better than relatives, how can this kind of affection be dirty.

I opened my mouth, and what the virtuous concubine said was that each of us has good sisters in the palace, and if one day it is also identified that the relationship with the sisters is dirty, then how can we get along? It's already difficult, why do women suffer for women.

Concubine Shu listened and disagreed: "You are really naïve, the two of them are not simple sisterhoods, sending love poems to each other, sleeping in the same bed, this kind of love I have never seen in my life."

Concubine Zhen said, the most afraid is people like you, maybe one seduces the other, we don't have such a hobby, we are afraid that the people around us have, what if they are seduced?

Everyone had their own opinions, and later the empress dowager came forward in this matter, she said that it made the world laugh, so she separated Sun Concubine and Jiang Guiren, one lived in the southernmost part and the other lived in the northernmost part, and they were not allowed to see each other.

It's like the Queen Mother Mother rowing the galaxy.

I heard that I have entered the cold palace in the follow-up, reversed, right? Not only because I spoke up for them in the Phoenix Hall, but also because I and Concubine Xian were on the same side. Neither the empress nor the concubine will let the concubine grow snobbishly and form a tripod. There are many newcomers in the Phoenix Hall, and the next day there will be talented people and nobles to show favor to Concubine Xian. Concubine Xian is the daughter of a general, her father has distinguished himself in the army, and her brother and younger brother are now quite successful in the army. It is difficult to say that it will not come to the step of the noble concubine and the imperial concubine in the future.

These are all things that I have already figured out while standing in the cold palace, I am the chicken that kills chickens and monkeys, my father is just a petty official, there is no foundation in the family, and it is easy to handle.

And the trigger of the whole thing was that day I met Han Duo, a scholar outside the imperial study, and he asked me who I was, and I casually said that it was the palace maid of Xianfu Palace. Seeing that the book in my hand was relatively unpopular, he casually asked a few words, and after talking, he found that the two were very speculative. Later, the Empress called me over and asked if I was loyal to the Emperor? I replied, life and death are faithful.

The empress asked me to take a copy of the women's ring and copy it thirty times, and I thought that someone should have bumped into me talking to Han Duo, which was really chasing the wind.

I didn't know what happened later, but I was told by a group of palace female eunuchs that I had been beaten into the cold palace.

Grandma Zhao and Cuicui were not by my side, so I made the bed alone and sat like this.

Only at night were Grandma Zhao and Cuicui thrown into the cold palace, and Cuicui was covered in injuries. I carried her to the bed and cried and asked who and who did it. Mother Zhao, said that Concubine Shu said that the little master did not abide by the way of women, lost the royal face, and beat Cuicui to twenty boards. I am an old man in the palace, and I have served in the palace of Concubine Li, and she dare not touch me. I held Cuicui's hand and tears fell on her wounds.

All the meals in the cold palace are very different from before, and I use all the money to treat Cuicui. Those who live in poverty can no longer be poor, and the cold palace is inhabited by old people and concubines from before, they are very quiet and do not interact with me.

Once I found that the vacant land not far away had been cultivated with cyan vegetable leaves, and I knocked on the door of a palace. An old lady opened the door, and I asked if she could give me some fresh vegetables, which I would buy with money. She snorted, I'm dying for money. A voice came from inside, as if it was asking me to pass. The old lady glanced at me and led me inside.

The room was elegant and sober and lit with an incense. There was a concubine sitting on the collapse, she looked at me motionlessly, and when she walked in, she found that her eyes were out of sight. She asked me, can you read? I said yes. She asked Grandma to bring me a letter and said you read it to me. I was a little baffled, but did as she told me anyway.

I only wish that your heart is like mine, and I will not live up to my love.

I finished the last sentence and looked at her, and her withered eyes showed girlish shyness. I think it must have been given to her by a lover. She told Grandma to bring me some vegetables. After I went back with the vegetables, Grandma Zhao was startled and asked me where I came from, so I told her about the concubine, but did not say the content of the letter. Mother Zhao thought for a while and said, I know, she is Concubine Qin.

In the evening, Grandma Zhao told me about a palace Mi Xin, the favorite concubine of the first emperor, Concubine Li, and the Qin nobleman who was also a concubine had a love beyond women.

Concubine Li looked overwhelming, and she had never seen such a stunning woman in the harem. Not only did the Xian Emperor love her, but no one in the harem concubines was jealous of her, and they all liked her very much. Concubine Li's reputation spread far and wide, even Fanbang heard about it, and they said that they did not want to be a princess who was close to her, just a concubine who fell in love with the country.

And then what? I asked.

Mother Zhao went on to say that of course the first emperor did not allow his women to be coveted, so he led an army to attack Fanbang, and the person who led the army was the current saint. Concubine Qin was also a beauty back then, but it's a pity that Concubine Li is too beautiful, and under her beauty, she can't see other beauties. It's just a pity that such a good person was finally buried after the first emperor went.

After listening to this amazing story, I felt very uncomfortable. I asked Grandma Zhao, do you believe that there is real affection between women? Grandma Zhao said, I don't know. But people live very hard, it doesn't matter if you like men or women. But little master, you must not like those people in the harem.

I said, oh.

There is nothing that I can't get used to, I have a good adaptability, and I quickly dealt with the old people of the cold palace, and they are all curious about the first person in this generation to enter the cold palace. I followed their example and cultivated wasteland, and with their help I succeeded in growing sweet potatoes.

Rui Concubine stood outside the cold palace and looked at me from a distance. She was dressed in li, and I was in coarse cloth. I asked her, what are you here for, and the queen mother knows what to do. Rui Concubine was red-eyed, but her mouth was unforgiving, she said what do you see you have made yourself look like? Wei Yunsheng, you are so stupid, I don't even want to say that I know you.

I scolded her back, get out of here Liu Xin'er, who let you come to see me, I haven't settled the account with you!" What a sister you are! Is it who came to the ground!

Rui Concubine saw me cry and cried herself, Wei Yunsheng you are a pig, I hate you, you deserve it the way you are today! She walked up to me excitedly, pointed to my nose, you will stay in the cold palace for a lifetime, no one will help you!

We both laughed and understood each other. She shoved the silver ticket into my hand, but on the surface she said, I just came to fall into the well, you have the ability to come out and beat me!

I said to her back, Liu Xin'er, you have the ability not to go, single out! When she walked away, I clutched the silver ticket in my hand, laughing and crying.

I live in the cold palace for two years. When they knew I could read, they asked me to read to them. Sometimes on nice days, they would sit alone in the courtyard basking in the sun, and I would read some poems or play books with yellowed pages. When they heard that I had not slept in the palace until now, their jaws were about to laugh, and among them, Mother Xing was the most naughty, and she even found out the Spring Palace map to show me, saying that this book was difficult to find among the concubines back then.

Concubine Qin didn't like to talk with us, but she had to listen to me read the letter every day.

Cuicui's injury has also healed, and every day we clean up our vegetable field, turn the soil, and water it. Although Grandma Zhao's health is not very good, her mental head is not bad.

That night, Mother Xing knocked on the door and said that Concubine Qin was about to die. When Grandma Zhao and I arrived, she was breathing shallowly, and I came up to her to ask her if she had any wishes, and she said, read it again, read it again. So I found the letter and read it to her word by word.

I only wish that the king's heart is like my heart, and I will not live up to my love.

She grabbed my hand with a look in her eyes that I had never seen before.

She said that no one else knew that I had entered the palace for her. When I was fourteen years old, I followed her all my life because I saw her on the lakeshore.

Tears welled up in her shining eyes, Concubine Li.

The last sentence was loud, and everyone present was left in tears. I felt her hand slowly release and then slip out of mine.

I grit my teeth, sis?

Concubine Qin is gone, and I haven't slept this night.

Two days later, at night. The emperor is coming.

I haven't seen him for a long time, and he is still so noble that people dare not look at him directly. He seemed to have drunk some wine and stayed alone in Concubine Qin's house. Let no one come near until the eunuch announces me to enter.

His back was immersed in the night, like an ordinary person. No, he was originally an ordinary person, but he had a shell in front of everyone. None of us spoke, and after a long time, he said, "No one can tell me about her anymore."

My eyes moved slightly, and I couldn't believe it, the emperor said to Concubine Li?

There will be an undulating mountain on his back, and he said to me, you talk to me, talk about her.

I stood quietly in place, my mind spinning, the sound of the emperor's heavy breathing after drunkenness in the air, and after thinking about it, I read the letter to him. He didn't react until my feet were numb, and I stepped forward to check on him. Oh, just asleep.

I looked at the blue moonlight outside the window and sighed softly, wondering if I knew too much and would not be silenced.

A month later, I was taken out of the cold palace and made a concubine.

Just like others don't know how I seduced the emperor in the cold palace, I don't know what kind of inner struggle the emperor went through for this decision. After all, knowing the emperor's secret, and this secret is not guaranteed to be beheaded one day, I feel a cold sweat breaking out down my spine.

People came and went to give gifts and congratulations, but I didn't see Rui Concubine, I asked Sun Concubine, she said, Rui Concubine was known by the emperor a few months ago fake pregnancy, and now she has been reduced to a talented person without the title.

I rushed to the Changchun Palace non-stop, and Liu Xin'er opened her mouth when she saw me, you stinky girl is really capable, and she can still come out of the cold palace alive. I stepped forward and hugged her, and she said, "Hey Concubine De, you're about to strangle me." I asked her how you could fake a pregnancy? Liu Xin'er's eyes immediately filled with tears, she said, my child has fallen, I can't help it. I said, how come? She said, my father has committed an offense, I need this child, and if I don't have this child, I will be the abandoned son of the queen mother. She saw me in tears, and suddenly said seriously, don't come in the future. I shook my head and refused, no. She straightened my face and said, Wei Yunsheng, you don't want to come in the future, you are not Wei Cairen nor Wei nobleman, you are a concubine brought by the emperor from the cold palace, I broke off friendship with you in the cold palace as early as two years ago, and today you come to see me is just a stone.

I shook my head, no, I don't promise you, Liu Xin'er, who do you think you are, why do you ask me.

She also cried, I said seriously Wei Yunsheng, don't be stupid, do you still want to go back to the cold palace? Haven't you stayed enough? Listen to me, don't come again after going out of this door, you are a concubine, you are the favorite concubine in this palace, you still have a good way.

I said that the emperor did not love me at all, and that he had brought me back for other purposes.

She continued, who cares? They only know that you entered the cold palace and came out again, and you also sealed a concubine. I know you're not stupid, you're not stupid at all, you can do it. You can seal the concubine, you can wear the red palace dress, let the empress and the old woman of the concubine look at it, and hit them in the face.

I asked her, did the empress already know that you were fake pregnant, and did she report you to the emperor as a concubine?

She said, not Concubine Shu, but Concubine Xian.

I said, Concubine Xian and you have no grievances...

She interrupted me, not without injustice, my brother killed her brother, and her father exposed my father. Who can say for sure, now all the mistakes need to be borne by one person, but I must protect the rest of the family from being implicated.

Coming out of the Changchun Palace, I walked on the long palace road, and I only felt that the road was so long and long. I could see the golden tiles in the distance, stretching endlessly.

I didn't go to Liu Xin'er since that day, and one day a month later, Grandma Zhao told me that Liu Cairen had died.

Even if there is no matter of the court, she will not let her go if she is pregnant, after all, she is the empress's person, and she can make a big fuss by saying anything casually. But the queen's mother family suppressed their family, if she said, the queen's family would not extend a hand to her family.

The harem of the court looks irrelevant, but it is also inextricably linked. One prosper, one loss.

I began to practice writing and meditating, and the emperor really treated me as a decoration. Come to my place to rest a few times, and the attitude is light, and so do I.

After all, the little wife who likes her father is a very disgraceful thing to say. I'm really curious about what kind of charm Concubine Li has.

On the Empress Dowager's birthday, the gold, silver and jade objects sent by others were piled up into a hill, and I put the Buddhist scriptures I copied by myself with sandalwood incense and put them in a brocade box.

The next day, I went to her old man's house to ask for peace. The Queen Mother is low-key, not only does she not see outsiders, but even the concubines in the palace are difficult to meet.

The palace maid actually took me in after informing me.

The Queen Mother was concentrating on the Buddha, so I obediently stood aside and waited. Wait, wait, wait, she finally remembered that I was coming. She asked, did you give that Buddhist sutra?

I said yes.

She said should I say that you are smart or stupid, knowing that I worship Buddha, so I spent time and effort copying Buddhist scriptures, but there are typos in this Buddhist scripture. I smiled, the concubine is stupid, the first time to copy, the words are raw, not powerful, next time it will not be. She glanced at me, she looked very good, no wonder the emperor took you out again after entering the cold palace. I knelt down, the Queen Mother forgave the sin, and the concubine did not seduce the emperor. She smiled and said what are you nervous about, and the mourning family has not said anything. I replied to her, since I came out of the cold palace, there have been many rumors in the harem, and I am afraid that the Queen Mother will think the same. The Queen Mother said, although I don't ask about harem affairs, I am not old and confused, what is true and what is false, I can still see clearly. I replied, yes, Queen Mother Shengming. She said again, the words are too small, come, read this sentence to the mourning family.

I held the book in both hands, knelt on the ground and read it.

Out of Shoukang Palace, both of my knees were numb. It's not easy to walk. The aunt beside the Queen Mother said that if the Queen Mother did not like her, she would not be allowed to come. The Queen Mother closed her eyes and raised her mind, this girl, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

Cuicui went back and applied my knees with a hot towel, and she said, the Queen Mother is really ruthless, and she even let the mother kneel to finish reading a book.

But I said happily, she is testing me, I can't stand this pain, how can I serve in front of her in the future. Cui Cui was puzzled why Niangniang had defected to the Empress Dowager.

I said, I am not defecting to the Empress Dowager, I just want to protect my life, I know the secret of the emperor, but this secret is disgraceful, I have no money and no power, and this grace will dissipate one day. So I have to find a backer for myself, at least in the future, before others move me, I will weigh it.

From that day on, I went to the Queen Mother's Palace every day to read to her, or served her to get up and eat. Slowly, she also acquiesced to me entering and leaving Shoukang Palace. After that, I also lowered my profile, usually walking in the palace and being gentle and not rubbing with people.

When I saw Concubine Xian again, I didn't know how to face it. I used to admire and like her. I think she is very attractive no matter what she says and does, and she is not a layman. But after Liu Xin'er, my good impression of her is gone.

That day when I left the Phoenix Palace, she stopped me and said if she wanted to go to her palace for a cup of tea. I paused and said yes.

Concubine Xian has no children under her knees, and I think the emperor will not let her give birth to a prince. The two of us don't usually get in touch, and the topics are just that, so after a few polite words back and forth, I asked her, does the virtuous concubine have anything to say to me?

She smiled, I know that you have a good relationship with Liu Cairen, that is between me and her, I have no grudge with you, and I will not be your enemy. I said, yes, we're all sisters. She just brought the words and didn't say anything more when she saw this.

After the concubines were changed, they were replaced by empresses, and I think they were just trying to win me over one after another. The queen knew my taste and prepared milk and pastries.

I told the Empress that after staying in the cold palace for too long, I no longer like sweets. The Empress Concubine paused, then smiled and said, Change a Biluochun for Concubine. She added, in fact, speaking of that incident back then, it was really a misunderstanding. At that time, I was with the emperor, and I asked the emperor what he thought of the concubine's relationship with foreign ministers, and the emperor only said that the most important thing for concubines was loyalty, and if they had two hearts, it would be better to send them to the cold palace. The main palace guessed the wrong meaning at that time, because afterwards, the university scholar Han Duo heard rumors and explained to the emperor that he had just met a small palace maid. It's all a misunderstanding.

Misunderstand?

I sneered in my heart, yes, I am a small, insignificant nobleman, so you can send me to the cold palace in a few words? I think of that honorable man, whether it was the peony incident or the foreign minister incident, he never asked, only regarded himself as the center, and never considered the feelings of others. Also, if I stood in such a high position, there would be no one else in my eyes.

On second thought, the empress's words are too obvious and provocative, if I love the emperor, I will be sad to hear it, if the emperor loves me, I will hurt the emperor if I hear it. But neither I nor the emperor are either.

I said to the empress that if it were not for a misunderstanding, the emperor and I would not have met, let alone loved each other. So it's a blessing to know.

The Empress smiled.

The emperor is in his prime, and there is a steady stream of concubines in the palace. There are good family daughters, family daughters, and beauties who pay tribute from Fanbang.

I don't move around with others much, and I remember individual names, also because of outstanding appearance, or outstanding personality. Or, it is the one who is active, shows favor to me, and gives me gifts every New Year's Festival.

But to talk about this year's most favored, is the exotic beauty Portuna, she has some red hair, high nose and deep eyes, and a warm personality. Other women entered the palace and did not dare to speak loudly. And when she saw the queen for the first time, she stared at her and said, you are so good-looking, I like you.

The queen has never seen such a bold woman, but others are praising her, she also smiles, you are also very good-looking. Portuna was named a concubine, she is really a woman who makes people happy to see, passionate and sincere.

One day, I passed by Chonghua Palace, she stood at the door, and the palace maid did not pull her in. I went up to her and asked, Portuna, why don't you go in so late? When she saw it, she immediately ran behind me and said, I don't want to go back, can I go to you. I glanced at her palace maid and nodded.

Back in the palace, I warmed her a cup of milk and some snacks. After she ate and drank, she said, there are dead people in the palace, and I don't want to go back. I remembered that the money from Chonghua Palace went a few days ago. I said, this palace is so big, there are so many people, it is not strange that there are dead people. She shook her head, it's terrible, don't you all think it's scary? Yesterday I was talking and laughing with you, and today she died. I choked and didn't know how to answer her, for this simple woman who grew up on the steppe, I definitely couldn't understand the indifference in this palace. She grabbed my arm, can you let me stay for one night, today I don't want to go back. I looked into her clear eyes and nodded.

Later, I told Portuna that if you want to live for a long time in the palace, you must be calm, don't report to the group to isolate others, and learn to be a person and not be isolated by others. Portuna said, you are so powerful, I see that you seem to be alone, will not be alone.

How to say, a few years ago, I would, and then I desperately got together with others, even if what others said already made me very upset, I still didn't have the courage to leave. But not now, I don't want to hurt anyone now, and don't take me with you if anyone else does it.

I thought about it and said, loneliness is too ethereal, I don't like to think about it.

Someone in the palace is pregnant again, I heard that it is a newcomer Yao talent, just diagnosed the happy pulse and sealed the nobleman, the emperor rewarded a lot of things, the harem concubines also sent a lot of gifts later, the little girls are usually very affectionate, and then saw that the noble mother of Yao was so concerned about her son, and her heart was sour.

Yao Guiren is a family girl, who has lived in the high gate since she was a child, and her mind is delicate. Since she became pregnant, she has rarely come out to hang out, and she has not even drunk the tea in the Empress Niangniang's palace.

On this day, I went to her palace to see her and gave her some small clothes that I made myself. Jin Cairen and Lin Guiren, who have a good relationship with her, are also there, and there is another one, which I am more face-to-face, and it seems that he is also a talented person. Jin Cairen asked me how the ejiao I gave to my mother last time was eaten. I replied to her, and it was really a good thing, so that Jin Cairen broke the bank. Jin Cairen waved his hand, it's okay if the mother and mother finish eating and tell me, I will let my grandfather send it to the palace again. The noble man Yao said, well, you have something delicious and don't call me. Lin Guiren also hummed, really not meaningful. Jin Cairen retorted, usually which of you two eats less of my food. We laughed out loud, and during the time I looked at the talented man, she was very quiet, did not speak, and laughed when she saw us laughing. At this time, Jin Cairen talked about Wan Xiangzhai in the capital, and she said with a smile, My father used to do things in Wan Xiangzhai, and the dim sum in it was delicious. Jin Cairen said to Lin Guiren as if he hadn't heard, isn't it, the rose stuffing is delicious. She bit her lip and fell silent again, and I looked at Jin Cairen again, but still didn't put her in my eyes. I laughed and said, then your father must be very good at making snacks. She looked at me in surprise, yes, yes. My father made dim sum very deliciously, and the owner of Wan Xiangzhai praised his craftsmanship. At this time, the Yao nobles stopped talking, and Jin Cairen smiled lowly and exchanged eyes with Lin nobles.

I took in everything and kept a polite smirk on my face. The little girl's mind is too obvious!

When I came out of the Yao Noble Palace, the talented person stopped me just now, and she gave me a big gift, saying that the concubine was a Qi talent and had seen the concubine. I nodded lightly and got up.

She hesitated and said, Thank you for talking to me just now. I wondered, did you offend them in any way? She said, I am used to it, I am from the country, and it is already my blessing to be able to enter the palace. They are all ladies from big families, so naturally they don't like me. Qi Cai had no resentment on his face, but was very shy.

I really smiled at her this time, you are very good, you don't need to feel any different from them, everyone is just a concubine when you enter the palace. Qi Cairen laughed out two pear vortices, thank you, Niangniang.

Oh, I just remembered at this point in the story, I don't seem to have introduced the emperor? I'm sorry, because the emperor's presence here is too low. He rarely came to my palace, and when he came, he slept with me routinely, and there was no ambiguity. I dare not guess about this situation, and I dare not ask. In case the horse's ass is photographed on the horse's hoof, it is still me who is unlucky.

Well, back to the topic, the emperor is called Gao Yan, how does it look? It's really hard for me, because I haven't come into contact with any men, and I don't know what kind of handsomeness, but from my aesthetic, it's pretty good, with thick eyebrows, a very straight nose, and I'm not short.

I heard them say that the emperor is very talented, both civil and martial, and has more majestic strategies than the first emperor. What is the personality? Hey, how to describe it, it's very high, emperor, if anyone can understand his character, he is too failed.

Spring has arrived, and the emperor is going to Chunlu and has to bring some concubines. Originally, the low-ranking concubine did not have the opportunity to go, but I thought that when I was still a talent, I couldn't even go to Penglai Island, which was too pitiful. So I summoned up enough courage to speak to him, and Gao Yan asked me after listening, do you know how much it costs to bring so many concubines? I..., I retreated and said: The concubine just said casually, and the emperor didn't have to take it to heart. He looked at me again and didn't speak.

Originally, I thought that this matter would not follow, but later in the Phoenix Palace, the empress said, Your Majesty misses us, and everyone will go together this time. After saying that, my gaze also came to me, and I smiled dryly, Your Majesty Shengming.

Yao Guiren was about to give birth, and the empress was worried that she would not be able to eat enough so that she did not have to follow, but she refused, I think she is smart. Because the emperor and empress are gone, and the queen mother is a person who does not care about the world, in case something happens, she can only ask God. Just like that, we got into the carriage in colorful clothes.

The high-ranking concubines did not like to huddle with the low-ranking ones, and the virtuous concubines, concubines, concubines Zhen and I sat in a carriage, and the other concubines filled the remaining carriages. But I'd rather stay with Portuna and them.

Sure enough, not long after getting in the car, Concubine Shu said, I heard that this time it was Concubine De who spoke to the emperor? Originally, two people and a car were very generous, but now they have to squeeze four people. Concubine De is really self-sacrificing. I laughed, and Concubine Xie complimented. Concubine Shu's smirk was gone, she said, I can't understand good or bad words? I said, didn't the lady always only say good things? The emperor has praised you for your extraordinary speech and understanding of appreciating people. Concubine Xian and Concubine Zhen both laughed. When she wanted to say something, I held up a box of pastries in front of her, was the lady hungry? I did it with my own hands. She dislikes pushing away, I don't want it. I shrugged my shoulders, divided some for Concubine Xian and Concubine Zhen, and ate some myself.

After a few days of bumps, we finally arrived at Xiangshan, and the one who came to pick us up was the great general He Zhou, dressed in black armor and looking very energetic. Concubine Zhen said, Concubine De likes to see foreign ministers so much. I lowered the curtain and said headlessly: No, I just saw such a big hunting dog outside, and before General He could speak, she was watery, watery, and funny. Jane was speechless, how I didn't hear. Concubine Shu looked at her with a very bad face, and Concubine Xian and I looked at each other and got out of the car first.

The emperor's tent is the largest and most gorgeous, in the very middle. And ours was next to him, with small tents. Before I went in, Jane ran angrily and said, you just called me a dog? I was puzzled, no. I really saw it, she is still there, she has been watering, and the palace people can't pull it. Jen took a step forward angrily, and I took a step back with interest. Concubine Shu walked up to her at this time and said, OK, let people see the joke. Then walked past me and bumped me on the shoulder by the way. It doesn't hurt, but it's really provocative.

Most of the concubines are weak women who do not go out of the door, well, me too. I can only sit on the platform and watch the emperor and princes race horses and shoot arrows.

But this is Portuna's paradise, and she rides a white horse across the vast grasslands, so that only her long flowing hair can be seen. I admire Lin Guiren, no man will not like a girl like Portuna. Lin Guiren's mouth said yes, but his eyes glanced at the emperor.

I drank too much water during the day and had to get up to go to the toilet at night. But it was too dark, and I forgot to call Cuicui to walk and find the way. At this time, I suddenly heard a more familiar voice, the night was dark and the wind was high, and I walked along with the sound as soon as my heart moved.

Behind a tent, I saw a man and a woman talking. I regret in my heart, I have long known that I listened to Grandma Zhao's words and paid attention when reading a book, and I couldn't see my face clearly so close. Just as I was preoccupied, someone suddenly tapped me on the shoulder, startling me, and I looked back to find that it was actually Han Duo. He was cloaked and apparently got up at night to go to the toilet. He asked me what I was doing, and I pulled him aside and hissed at him. So he listened to the noise with me, until a woman in a cloak walked past me. I looked back and saw that Han Duo was still looking at me suspiciously, so I coughed and said, curiosity kills the cat, adults hurry back to sleep. Without waiting for him to answer, I tightened my cloak and walked away.

On the last day of Chun Min, a grand banquet was held, and Portuna performed a dance at the banquet, which surprised everyone. King Yan actually gave her the blue dance clothes that he had treasured for many years, this His Royal Highness King Yan was the dream lover of the daughters of the capital, it was said that he had a fiancée, but unfortunately died of illness before passing the door. King Yan is also an infatuated person, and has not made a marriage contract to this day.

Portuna smiled when she saw the clothes presented by the palace people, and she saluted King Yan and thanked him for the gift. I could see clearly on the platform, and King Yan's eyes were exceptionally bright when he looked at Portuna.

Finally set off to return to Beijing, Yao Guiren's stomach was a little uncomfortable, so I changed carriages with her.

We were falling asleep on the road when we were suddenly awakened by the carriage, and I opened the curtain to find that the carriage was surrounded by an unknown group of men in black. Jin Cairen immediately screamed, and I covered her mouth. I looked around at the people in the car, Qi Cairen clutched the clothes on his chest in horror, Portuna took out a dagger from his boots, and Lin Guiren was unusually calm. I had a bad feeling right away, and I asked her, Lady Lin, the wind is not strong today, why are you wearing a cloak. Lin Guiren hung his head silently, when the carriage suddenly opened from the outside, and a masked man said to Lin Guiren, Xue'er, let's go.

I didn't know how to express my feelings, so I stopped Lin Guiren: Do you really think about it? Lin Guiren looked back at me and was about to open his mouth to speak. The masked man was suddenly shot with an arrow, and she shouted: He Zhou!

At this time, the soldiers outside were fighting each other, Jin Cairen hugged me and cried, Portuna dragged Lin Guiren back, but Lin Guiren cried to jump out of the carriage, I signaled Potuna to hold her. Then he said to her, you can go away with him, but what about your family? Will curse the Nine Tribes.

Lin Guiren covered his face and cried.

I sighed and looked out of the car again, just in time to see Han Duo, and I stopped him. He asked the lady what her instructions were, and I said did you see He Zhou yesterday? Han Duo nodded honestly. I said, did the emperor already know? He said, knowing, but not knowing that it was He Zhou. As soon as the voice fell, another group of people appeared, and the scene fell into chaos again.

I wailed in my heart, does God blame me for being too lazy to incense him!

There was still a scuffle outside, and there was even a blood stain splashed on the curtain. I swallowed my saliva and realized at this moment how good it was to be alive.

I said to Lin Guiren, if you love him, you should not harm him, nor should you let innocent people bury you for you, your family and his family will be cursed for this. Now you also see that there are unknown people outside who are taking advantage of the fire, but will the emperor listen? He will only think that it is He Zhou's fault, under the whole world, it is the kingdom land, where can you go with him.

Lin Guiren cried more and more fiercely, and she asked me, Concubine De, what should I do.

I said, make up for it, if He Zhou can kill those assassins today, he still has hope. It's just that you can't go with him either.

Jin Cairen cried, Lin Xue, can you not be so selfish, there are still people outside killing us! You let He Zhou go, do you want us all to die."

Portuna said that she was wrong to want to be with her beloved?

Jin Cai humane, how she loves is her business, may not be able to take us!

I interrupted them, okay, don't say it, Lin Guiren, all this is your choice, I just show you a clear way, see if you want him to live or die.

Lin Guiren bit his hand and said for a while, I know. Then he lifted the curtain and shouted outside: He Zhou! I'm not going with you! I won't go with you! He Zhou moved to the curtain and said, why. Lin Guiren saw that he was injured and burst the embankment, stop He Zhou, I don't go with you, you will die, I don't want you to die, if you kill those assassins, you can make up for it, please He Zhou.

When He Zhou heard this, I knew.

I sat in the carriage and waited, I don't know how long it took, the outside finally calmed down. Han Duo said outside the curtain: Please move and change the carriage for you next.

After getting off the carriage, I found Han Duo and said, since you didn't tell the emperor about them in the first place, don't say it now.

Han Duo pondered for a moment, and Chen weighed it himself. Seeing this, I didn't say more, and followed the palace people to another clean carriage. It's just that wave after wave has risen, and the Yao nobleman is about to give birth because he heard that an assassin has moved the tire gas!

The palace people quickly moved her to an empty carriage, and her mother helped her deliver the baby. But due to the lack of manpower, it was impossible to panic for a while. Jin Cairen heard the voice of Yao Guiren holding me and crying again because of the sound of screaming in pain, then Qi Cairen volunteered to say that when my mother gave birth to her sister, she was also present and should be able to help. The queen did not care about her identity at this time, as long as she gave birth smoothly, she agreed.

After returning to the palace, everyone slept in their own house for several days, and even if Yaogui gave birth to a prince, there were not many people to congratulate him. I heard that Lin Guiren later contracted hysteria and did not get better after recuperating for half a year.

I don't know how He Zhou is, but after the wind and waves have been calm for so long, Han Duo should have hidden it for them.

Because of his merits in helping the Yao nobleman deliver the baby, Qi Cairen made an exception to promote the Qi nobleman, and the Yao nobleman was promoted in one day.

The palace has been cold for a while, but it was quickly diluted by the joyful atmosphere of the New Year. One day, when I went to the Queen Mother's Palace to chant for her, she suddenly asked me: What happened to Lin Guiren during the Spring Festival. I thought about it and told her the truth. The Queen Mother chuckled: Do you know what will happen to the emperor when the mourning family tells the emperor these words? I immediately knelt down: the Queen Mother was kind, and the concubine knew that this was the crime of bullying the monarch, but Lin Guiren was young, and it was difficult to guarantee that he would not go astray for a while, and asked the Queen Mother to have mercy. She held the Buddha bead in her hand: Sometimes the mourning family doesn't know what to say about you, and when you are smart, you are smarter than anyone else, but you are not at all ambiguous when you commit stupid things. If you were willing to put these thoughts on the emperor, would you have come out of nothing so far? My forehead is still against the floor: Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother took a sip of tea: Don't think that you will get the death-free gold medal after serving the mourning family in a few days, and don't try to trust the mourning family, everything depends on yourself.

I said, "Yes, Queen Mother."

After the New Year, I went to see Lin Guiren, her originally beautiful appearance is now thin and dull, sitting in the hall without saying a word. I took the things in Grandma Zhao's hand to her maid, and were silent with each other for a long time before saying: General He escorted him to the border as a vanguard. This life was saved, and whether he could return to Beijing was entirely up to him. After saying that, I got up and left. Grandma Zhao told me that my mother should not take care of other people's affairs. I looked at the red sunset in the sky, smiled, and said: "Grandma, I am just too idle, idle panic." Grandma Zhao said: Niangniang, it's better to give birth to a little prince. I shook my head: I don't like children. Grandma stopped talking.

After a few more months like this, another incident happened in the harem, and Ning Concubine regained favor.

When I heard the news, I was sitting in the Phoenix Palace, and everyone's expressions were different. Jin Cairen asked me in a low voice: Concubine De, who is Concubine Ning? I thought about it and said, not very familiar.

I don't think it's surprising at all, Ning Concubine is smart and beautiful, as long as she can figure out the shadows, she will definitely return to the scenery, and setbacks are also a good thing. I heard that many people went to give her congratulatory gifts, and I also sent a hairpin with the flow. Speaking of which, this hairpin was still given to me by her back then, and now it is also considered to be the original owner. When I didn't understand it when I was a child, I felt wronged, and now those things have long been blown away by the wind. One of the great advantages of me as a person is that I don't look back.

Seeing Ning Concubine again was at the first birthday banquet of Yao Concubine's son, and the concubines had special feelings for this little guy, which was born by everyone's own eyes. Now Jin Cairen and Yao Concubine have a much better attitude towards the nobles, especially Yao Concubine, who treats her like a sister. I also hugged the little guy, very strong, long and cute, and I put a gold lock around his neck, saying that it was for his first birthday. Ning Concubine ate some wine and left, and I didn't talk to her, but I felt that her eyes were much more resolute and soft now.

On this day, I was reading a book after bathing, but Gao Yan came. I saw it so late, what did he come to do. I went out to meet him and found that he had drunk too much. I asked the palace maid to undress him and put him to bed. I sneaked up to change my clothes myself, and when I came back he was already asleep. Seeing this, I continued to read my book. After a while, he muttered dream words in his mouth, and intermittently, I only heard one "Concubine Li" clearly.

The Queen Mother has been ill recently, and we take turns to visit outside the dormitory in the morning when we ask for peace. When I arrived, there was an empty seat next to Ning Concubine, so I stood over.

She spoke first: Now these faces are not familiar to me.

I laughed: How quickly the palace is renewed, and in two months there will be another draft.

She also smiled: In the blink of an eye, we have been in the palace for almost ten years.

I didn't answer her words, only looked up at the blue sky.

I was reading in the house in the afternoon and heard a mess outside. Mother Zhao said, Niangniang, it is a newcomer who has entered the palace, and we have lived in several people in Xianfu Palace. I looked out the window and could only see silhouettes.

Just after a little more than an hour, someone came to ask me for peace. The first one I remembered was Zhang Cairen, with a dignified demeanor and a girl from a big family. Two more came later, both with beautiful appearances. I took the attitude of my seniors, chatted with them casually, and rewarded them with some silver.

I wanted to say that I could finally read a book quietly at night, but who knew that there would be a flute sounding again. I put down the book in a frustrated manner, and Mother Zhao saw that I was unhappy and said: It's Meng Cairen, all the new people who entered the palace today have come to invite An, just she didn't come alone, it's really unruly. I said to Trish: Take the pastry and tell her to rest early in the evening. Originally thought it had stopped, but who knows that it didn't take long to blow again. Cuicui said: I didn't want to annoy the lady with this little matter, but Meng Cairen saw me with a cold attitude, and even the maid next to her answered for her. I asked: Whose daughter? Mother Zhao said: I heard that she is the daughter of Lord Yushitai Meng, and her grandfather is still the champion hand-picked by the first emperor. I didn't have the heart to read, so I said: change clothes and sleep.

This Meng Cairen is really a talented person, and within a few days, everyone in the palace has known her, and even the empress does not like to see her very much. Living in this harem is a personal affair, and her attitude of not putting anyone in her eyes made me want to laugh when I saw it. Okay, go further and further on the road to death.

However, she had an accident faster than I expected, and one day she and Jin Cairen had friction, and the two scuffled regardless of the image, and I heard that the Qi nobles were injured on the side. Potuna was also there, and she also slapped Meng Cairen.

I originally thought that the Empress would punish her this time, but who knew that she would wait for the punishment of Portuna and Qi Guiren. It turned out that Meng Cairen did not obey the discipline, cried and made trouble in the Yangxin Hall, kneeling outside the hall for two hours and asking the emperor to be the master. The emperor was upset, and glanced at her casually when he came out of the palace, but he didn't expect that this glance would be bad.

I think it's very inexplicable, when it comes to growing good, Ning Concubine, Sun Concubine, Yu Concubine, Concubine Shu, and Concubine Xian are all not spared. Meng Cairen I have seen once in the Phoenix Palace, and his appearance is beautiful, but he is not so beautiful that he is shocked.

But the emperor was like a demon, directly named her a nobleman of Xiang, and personally punished Jin Cairen and Portuna for her. I was surprised by the emperor's sudden report, as did the rest of the harem. The emperor is not like a womanizer, and no one can make him lose his mind. I had a bold guess, I asked Grandma Zhao: Do you remember what Concubine Li looks like? Grandma Zhao replied: I have never seen a few in my life that can affect her appearance, so naturally I remember. I said: Tomorrow Phoenix Palace, you go with me and recognize that Xiang nobleman.

On the second day, when they arrived at the Phoenix Palace, everyone muttered. And Portuna and Jin Cairen could not come because they were grounded. And Qi Guiren also sprained his foot last time, and he didn't come today. As soon as I entered, I saw Concubine Shu's unfriendly face, but I believe she was not in the mood to talk to me at all.

The Xiang nobleman is just a nobleman, but he is long overdue. Her eyebrows are very energetic, but this aura is very sharp and not liked. Concubine Shu spoke: What a credit to Xianggui, let so many people wait.

The nobleman of Xiang dismissed: The emperor said that I didn't use to invite An, but just thought that the sisters were sitting together drinking tea and chatting happily, and this is when I came.

As soon as these words came out, the empress's eyes immediately became cold: It is our blessing that the emperor favors us, but we cannot rely on blessings to be proud. Lost the duty of being a concubine. As soon as these words came out, everyone did not speak, and even Concubine Shu felt relieved. The nobleman of Xiang smiled: Empress Niangniang, what the concubine said is true, it is really the emperor who does not let the concubine come. Oh yes, the emperor also said that he would come to the courtiers and concubines early in the morning, and the courtiers and concubines retired first.

As soon as she left, the concubines muttered again.

When I returned to Xianfu Palace, I asked Grandma Zhao: Is it like her? Mother Zhao thought for a moment and said: The appearance is not like it, and the temperament is even less like. However, these eyes, ah, are really similar. I asked: How much do the eyes look like? Grandma Zhao said: There are six or seven points. But Concubine Li's eyes are as tender as water, her eyes. Grandma Zhao shook her head: There is nothing in it.

I think this makes sense, besides Concubine Li, who else can make Gao Yan so crazy?

This is just the beginning, I heard that the empress said a few words bluntly in front of the emperor because of the affairs of the nobles of Xiang, and was seriously reprimanded by the emperor. The empress was disheartened, after all, since she and the emperor became married, the emperor has always respected him and never interfered in the rights that belong to her, and she has always thought that the emperor is a good husband and a good emperor, and now she is actually like other emperors, favoring the concubine after the extinction. I think the empress has too high expectations for Gao Yan, and Gao Yan is actually very paranoid, and he didn't show it because he didn't meet that person.

In just three months, the Xiang nobles have been able to seal concubines all the way, which makes the harem concubines tremble, so pampered, it is the first time in so many years!

The Queen Mother called me to her palace, and she said: You only tell the mourning family that you want to be a concubine?

I said, the concubine thought.

The Queen Mother said: Okay, but there is a price to pay.

I know: Is it to clean up the mess for Concubine Xiang?

The Queen Mother's eyes showed appreciation: Yes.

I don't know how the Empress Dowager persuaded the emperor, but after the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, I was made a concubine. Concubine Xiang did not want to move out of Xianfu Palace, so I could only move. Grandma Zhao couldn't help but say: We have lived in Xianfu Palace for ten years, and Concubine Xiang let us move out as soon as she liked it, this grace is really ... I didn't care, and said: Grandma helped me keep an eye on the book, and carefully left the orphan book.

I am Concubine De, and it took ten years to go from talent to concubine. I put on my red concubine dress and walked up the long stairs of the Martial Arts Hall. When I was a child, I fantasized about being a concubine, and I couldn't sleep excitedly in the bed. But on this day, my heart was very calm, and I finally became the person I wanted to become, and my heart was more determined about the future than happiness.

That night the emperor came to the Yonghe Palace, and he walked all the way into my inner hall, and I asked Cuicui to bring him hot tea and snacks, and he pinched the cup and did not drink, and when the palace people went down, he said to me: I still underestimated you, and even let the queen mother speak for you. I quickly calmed down: the concubine was terrified. He suddenly smiled, with an expression that he had already seen through. He put the cup on the case and said to the outside: "Pavilion, come in."

A eunuch came in from outside, kneeling before us. The emperor said to me: I heard that you changed the palace room, did not find a suitable eunuch in charge, and the continuation pavilion was astute, and you will not betray the master. He paused: "Let me give you a concubine gift." I looked at the eunuch kneeling on the ground and felt half cold in my heart, which is to give it to me, it is simply surveillance, and it is so blatantly warning me not to go to the Queen Mother again. I chuckled: Emperor Xie. He gave me a faint look, got up and left.

I said to the eunuch on earth: Arise. He stood up when he heard this, and I paused at the sight of his appearance. Isn't this the eunuch I met in the Bell Palace a few years ago? It's just that he now has a clean face and decent clothes, which is much more imposing than he did at the beginning. I said: Grandpa Jiuting is a person close to the emperor, and the palace will not fail you, Grandma Zhao, lead the father-in-law down, familiarize yourself with the Yonghe Palace. Grandma Zhao Ying, yes. The continuation pavilion maintains an attitude of not being humble or arrogant: the slave retreats. When he went out, Cui Cui said, "Niangniang, I'm not mistaken, right? I took a sip of tea: It should be. But I don't have time to think about this in my heart now, the Queen Mother asked me to carry a little Xiangfei, but the emperor spoiled her so much, and disdained me, and I was afraid of touching the tiger's butt at that time. I'm left and right, so let's wait and see for now.

Jin Cairen, Qi Guiren and Portuna came to congratulate me, one is a concubine, and the second is a housewarming palace room. I made a table of dishes in the kitchenette and had some wine with them.

Jin Cairen: I am getting more and more unaccustomed to her now, you say which bodhisattva she worshipped, rush to worship me too, and ask the bodhisattva to let the emperor see her true face as soon as possible.

Portuna said: I have never seen such a person who reverses right and wrong, last time it was clear that she bullied Qi Guiren, but said that the three of us were so powerful to bully her, and even the emperor believed her, it was really too much. Finish with a glass of wine.

Qi Guiren only said: It's me who has involved the two of you, I'm sorry. Jin Cairen immediately interrupted her: What are you sorry for, you are not the emperor.

I smiled when I saw this, they must be holding back these days when they are grounded. But when I caught a glimpse of the pavilion, my smile faded, and I said to them: Now my palace is not airtight, and I have almost eaten today, so let's disperse first. I'll ask Cuicui to wrap some snacks for you to take back. Jin Cairen: Okay, lady, let's come back next time. Qi Guiren carefully saw the continuation pavilion in the distance, pulled up Jin Cairen and said: Jin Cairen is drunk, I will send her. I said to Portuna, "You have drunk some wine too, and let Cui Cui give it to you." Portuna refused: Your wine here is like water, even if I drink ten cans, I will be fine. I smiled: Okay, send someone to send me a letter when I go back to the palace."

I heard that the empress has been in a bad mood recently, and I think she has not been happy since Concubine Xiang was favored. A few days ago, the empress patiently advised the emperor that the rain and dew should be evenly wet, and the emperor did not even give her a polite word, "I know".

On this day in the Phoenix Palace, everyone was still talking and laughing, and no one spoke as soon as Concubine Xiang came in. She was followed by two talented people who lived together in Xianfu Palace, Huo Cai and Xiao Cairen. The empress had just been angry at the emperor, and her eyes did not look at her, so she said: "That's it for today, go back first."

Out of the Phoenix Palace, Jin Cairen immediately ran to me and said: Niangniang, how can a person like her have friends, how can there be concubines willing to associate with her." I told her: You have a holiday with her, no one else has to. At this time, I suddenly heard the chaos in front of me, and approached to find that it was Concubine Shu and Concubine Xiang.

When Jin Cairen and I arrived at the scene, the two were already facing each other. Concubine Shu has always been the most favored person in the palace, and now a junior has come to suppress her, and this junior does not know humility, she has long wanted to establish power.

Concubine Shu's palanquin changed direction, so that she could face Concubine Xiang. She spoke: Think that you can walk a palace road at the same level as the main palace, a slave who does not have long eyes. Concubine Xiang is not afraid of her: Is Concubine Shu scolding the palace through a slave? The road is facing the sky, each side is on the side, not to mention that the slave is careless, even if it is intentional, what's wrong? Do you have the right to rebuke the minions of the main palace? The steps on Concubine Shu's head shook as she turned her head violently: Oh, a slave is a slave, as long as it is in this palace, you must obediently call the palace a maiden. Come, drag the short-eyed slave to the palace into the internal affairs office. Concubine Xiang does not budge: Who dares! Concubine Shu said: Press Concubine Xiang to the main palace. After all, Concubine Shu was an old man in the palace, and her temper was not very good, so at this time, the palace people listened to her orders and pressed Concubine Xiang. She got down from the sedan chair and pinched Concubine Xiang's face: Don't say it's a slave, it's you, what if the palace fights?

I stood not far away and could see all this clearly. After all, Concubine Xiang was still frightened back by Concubine Shu's eyes, and Concubine Shu indifferently swept over the people watching the play and fell on my face. She took two steps: Concubine De still loves to watch the play as always. I smiled faintly, and she got closer and closer to me, at eye level with me: Not only Concubine Xiang, but also you. One day under the main palace, forever under the main palace.

Concubine Shu is really angry today, I looked into her eyes: Angry hurts, Lady Shufei is talking to who is ruthless. She didn't answer me, turned around and got into the palanquin. I glanced at Concubine Xiang, she didn't have a good face for me, and took the palace people in another direction.

Jin Cairen's face collapsed: I just don't like Concubine Xiang, I'd rather be favored by Concubine Xiang. I listened and didn't speak.

This matter obviously has a follow-up, in the evening I changed my bedding clothes and was reading, Grandma Zhao said: Concubine Xiang complained to the emperor, and the emperor grounded Concubine Shu in the palace and asked her to copy the Diamond Sutra and meditate. I nodded and asked, "How is Ding Jiting doing?" Mother Zhao said: The people around the emperor are very capable, and they never say much, nor do they have any contact with others.

In a blink of an eye, it was almost the New Year, and Cuicui told me that Grandma Xing was about to die. I put down what I was doing and went straight to the cold palace. I had proposed to her before to take her out, but she refused. Saying that the outside is not clean in the cold palace, she has a bad temper, and she doesn't want to see the warblers and swallows outside. When she arrived at the cold palace, Mother Xing was lying on the bed, her lips white. Seeing me coming, she insisted on sitting up. I asked, "Does Grandma have anything to say to me?" Mother Xing looked at me: I won't take that letter with my wife, leave it to you, maybe it will be of great use. I didn't understand what she meant, and she didn't explain, and said: I should have gone with her when the concubine went, and now that I have lived for so long, it is enough. She patted my hand: Niangniang, harem life is simple and simple, don't want anything, this life will pass. It's hard to say, no one wants to give up their rights. Fight all my life. Niangniang Neixiu, you should understand what I mean. I nodded: I know, Mama.

After Grandma left, Cui Cui brought me the letter, and I looked at the old paper thoughtfully. Ding Jiting is outside, the most correct thing for me to do should be to burn it, the emperor only keeps me because I know these things, if he has other thoughts, will he give up on me. I put the letter on the stove and waited for a long time without throwing it down.

It was cold, so I didn't want to go out. Woke up in the morning and came to me and asked me to go ice skating at Taiji Lake together. She was wearing a mink, and I heard that it was a winter coat sent from her hometown: Niangniang, come with me, it's really fun, I've been playing with Jin Cairen for two days. I tightened the quilt: No, no, no, I'm really not going, it's too cold outside, you guys go play. Potuna saw that she couldn't pull me, so she had to give up.

I ate a lot of dinner and a braised duck palm was very suitable for my appetite, and I instructed my grandmother to make more tomorrow for Jin Cairen and Portuna. Mother Zhao was listening to the palace maid's prayer, and she came in and said: Niangniang, Jin Cairen, she fell into Taiji Lake, and she has not been fished up yet.

I accidentally burped and my head was in a bit of a trance, and I said: What's going on?

When I changed my clothes and rushed to Taiji Lake, the eunuch was still salvaging. I asked Lin Guiren how he was, and Lin Guiren was already crying red eyes: It's been two hours, not yet. I patted her on the back and calmed her for a moment. The weather was too cold, and by the time Jin Cairen fished it up, his whole body was stiff and he couldn't breathe. Lin Guiren wanted to step forward but did not dare, standing in place and crying. My face was a little wooden, and when I stepped forward to check it, she was blue, her shoes were no longer found, and her hair was scattered on the ground. I suddenly felt my stomach churning, covered my mouth and ran to the side to vomit. Ding Jiting handed me a clean kerchief: Niangniang better go back to the palace first.

I didn't close my eyes that night, and as soon as it was dark I got up and changed. When she arrived at the Phoenix Palace, the empress said that the Jin Cairen had already gone, let us mourn, and pay more attention to our own safety on weekdays. I went to Portuna when I came out of the Phoenix Palace, she also fell into it last night, but she can swim, so she is luckier. She grabbed my hand: Niangniang, that ice surface is usually fine, I played with Jin Cairen for a few days and was fine, but yesterday it suddenly cracked. I said, "Who are you arguing with these days?" Portuna thought for a while: No, it's just that once I met Concubine Xiang when I was playing with Jin Cairen, and she also wanted to play, but Jin Cairen said that the skating tools were all ours, and I didn't give it to her. I saw the way she coughed: I brought some supplements over, you take care of them, don't leave the root of the disease. Portuna shook her head: No, our steppe daughter is in good health.

Coming out of Portuna, I went around Taiji Lake. Since Jin Cairen's accident, no one has come here. I let go of Cuicui's hand and walked onto the ice alone, and she said urgently: "Lady." I stood on the ice and said, "I'm fine." Then he went to the surrounding area and moved back a large rock and smashed it the ice. Cui Cui pulled me back in fright, but I smiled and said to her: You see, this ice surface is so thick, how can it crack when you walk." Cui Cui said: Niangniang means... I turned away: unless it was artificial.

The emperor now favors Concubine Xiang, I don't know what heaven and earth are, even if there is evidence at this time, what to say, Gao Yan does not necessarily know what will happen to her. I don't press it.

At the beginning of spring next year, the ice of Taiji Lake has melted, and the spring color is pleasant, so everyone will come to enjoy the flowers again.

I met Qing Concubine in the pavilion, and I didn't have much friendship with her, I couldn't say a few words, and sometimes I didn't say hello to each other when I met. I think she and Liu Xin'er were so favored at the beginning, but now one is dead and the other is lonely.

I smiled at her faintly, and when I was about to leave, she stopped me. She said: Would the lady mind going to my palace for a cup of tea? Whoever has nothing to do will invite unfamiliar people to go to the house for tea and chat, then there must be something to say, I nodded: Qing Concubine is gracious, how can you mind.

When I arrived at the palace, she really tasted tea with me for a long time, and when it was about the same time, she dismissed the palace people and said to me: Does the lady think that Jin Cairen's death was an accident? I said: The queen sent someone to check it out, and said it was an accident. She lowered her head: That day I met a passerby, saw Concubine Xiang arguing with Jin Cairen, and when I came out from Sun Concubine, I happened to meet a slave next to Huo Cairen secretly tinkering with something on the ice, and my palace people inquired and learned that he was looking for the master's earrings. So I left, not expecting something like that to happen the next day. I heard the rumor, maybe he was looking for the master's earrings. Qing Concubine said: Who told me to be unpredictable on weekdays, maybe it was the mother who said. She took a sip of tea.

It's not that I don't believe Qing Concubine, it's just that she took the initiative to find me today, and took the initiative to tell me that these things are nothing more than letting me doubt Concubine Xiang, not to mention that Sun Concubine's Yanxi Palace is not close to Taiji Lake, how could she be so coincidental. And Huo Cairen is just an unfavored talent, how can she recognize her slave? I also took a sip of tea to hide my musings.

Not long after, Yao Concubine's son Xiao Gao Oak ushered in his third birthday, he grew longer and more cute, and his facial features were at first sight, and anyone who saw it couldn't help but kiss and hug him.

During the banquet, I saw Lin Guiren, she was not much better than three years ago, she was still depressed. While eating wine, suddenly the grandmother said that the fourth prince had disappeared. Everyone quickly shouted names and got up to look for them. I thought I was playing in a flower bush somewhere or stuck in a corner. But after looking around and not seeing it, Yao Concubine cried urgently, that was her lifeline.

At this time, a palace man suddenly said: I saw that the fourth prince was taken away by Concubine Xiang. Yao Concubine almost didn't mention it in one breath, and she hurriedly chased to Xianfu Palace. When I accompanied her to Xianfu Palace, Gao Li was sitting in Concubine Xiang's arms eating, and saw Concubine Yao and said with a smile: "Mother concubine." Yao Concubine hugged him, and tears fell straight down her face: You scared the mother concubine to death. Concubine Xiang stood up: I saw him outside Xianfu Palace just now. I saw that although Concubine Xiang was awkward, it didn't seem like lying, and I said: Little high oak, why is it running around again, and I don't want to thank Concubine Xiang for her pastries. Gao Que said in a milky voice: Crab crab, Xiang Niangniang. Concubine Xiang's smile was a little more coquettish than usual, and there was no sharpness. Seeing this, Concubine Yao also thanked her: Thank you Concubine Xiang, the concubine retired first. Concubine Xiang glanced at Gao Li reluctantly: Hmm.

Only a few days later, I don't know how the emperor agreed, and let Xiao Gao Li live in Xianfu Palace. I didn't see it, I only heard that Yao Concubine hugged Gao Que tightly that day, crying life and death. Mother Zhao said: The fourth prince was born by her with great difficulty, and she was spoiled on the tip of her heart, and this time she was sent to Xianfu Palace, but she didn't want Yao's life. I sighed, seeing Concubine Xiang's appearance towards Gao Oak that day, I must have liked it too. Just like it, how about it, just take it away from your birth mother. I instructed Ding Jiting to send some supplements to Yao Concubine, and sure enough, within a few days, she fell ill and cried every day pinching Gao Que's clothes.

The next day when she came out of the palace of concubine Yao and met Concubine Xian, her face was a little tired, and she looked at each other and passed, Cuicui said: I heard that Concubine Xian's father died, and these days she wore mourning clothes in the palace and was known by the emperor, and the two made a lot of movement in the Yangxin Hall. I glanced sideways in the direction she was going, and the woman who came out of the door always had a rebellious spirit, and the emperor was jealous of her family and did not let General Li be buried, so she wore mourning clothes in her palace to rebel against the emperor.

After more than a month, Portuna was diagnosed as pregnant, and she said excitedly: I will write to Aggie and my brother now to tell them the good news. I held her down: You rest and rest first, pregnant people can no longer be as casual as before, eat and use carefully. Portuna nodded brightly in her eyes.

Later, Portuna came to me and told me about what had happened in her hometown recently, and she said: Aji wrote that the emperor suspected that we were colluding with General Lee, and now that General Lee is dead, he will also kill my brother. I didn't know what to say to comfort her, and she threw herself into my arms: Concubine De. It's just that my family is insignificant in the court, and I can't help her find out anything.

After some time like this, news suddenly came from Xianfu Palace that Xiao Gao Oak had died because he had eaten glass beads by mistake. I was heart-wrenching when I listened, not to mention Yao Concubine. When a group of people arrived, Yao Concubine was about to vomit blood out of her body holding Gao Li, and she shouted bitterly at the door: Concubine Xiang, you return my child. Some people say: Little Gao Oak is just the age of playfulness and activity, what kind of heart is she safe, actually give him such a dangerous thing, and still not optimistic about him. Immediately someone continued: That is, I think she did it on purpose, so small children can get their hands on it. It's really vicious. Huo Cairen whispered: "What evidence do you have that it was made by Concubine Xiang, this glass bead was eaten by the fourth prince by mistake, and it was not forced by the concubine to swallow it." Yao Concubine suddenly let go of the high oak, she looked around blankly as if she was looking for something, suddenly she smashed the placed vase, took a fragment and walked towards Huo Cairen. The people around pulled Yao Concubine: Yao Concubine Niangniang, you calm down, Yao Concubine Niangniang. Huo Cairen was so frightened that he quickly ran out the door, and just when he met Concubine Xiang who walked in, Concubine Xiang glanced at Huo Cairen, and then turned to look at the concubine at the front: I didn't mean to do anything about the fourth prince. Yao Concubine originally calmed down, and after hearing this, she was stimulated to raise the porcelain piece of the mobile phone, and before everyone could react, she had already cut through Concubine Xiang's clothes, revealing a blood stain. Portuna stepped forward and grabbed her wrist, stopping her from making another move. I reached out to grab the porcelain chip, and Yao Concubine shook it away, and I fell to the ground, blood was cut out of my palm. Everyone followed the twists and turns, and the screams came one after another. I was picked up by Cuicui: Yao, Que Er is still watching you inside. She listened and stood in place and cried: Oak, my oak. Then the body fell down as soon as it was soft. When the emperor and the empress were about to set up a concubine, the empress looked at the mess and immediately asked: What happened? I watched as the emperor's eyes swept over us, and then fell on Concubine Xiang's wound. He said: Xuan Tai Doctor. I don't know if it's for Concubine Yao or Concubine Xiang.

When the imperial doctor came, the empress asked irrelevant people to go back to her palace first, and as soon as she walked halfway there, she heard the news that Concubine Xiang was pregnant. I paused and looked at the palace gate under the dark blue sky behind me. Ding Jiting called me to my thoughts: Niangniang should also declare a doctor. I followed his gaze to my bloodied palm: Hmm.

The empress said that Yao Concubine's mood was not good, she needed to recuperate, and others should not step into her palace if they had nothing to do. I looked at the empress with sadness in her eyes, maybe as a mother, I felt the same way, or maybe my heart hurt because the emperor connived at Concubine Xiang.

I have been with Portuna lately, and two days ago Little Tall Oak left, and in the past few days she has received a letter saying that her brother has also died. I comforted her: It's all going to pass, your brother is watching you from heaven. She said: Concubine De, why don't the children in the palace grow up? I said: You may not know outside the palace, many children die every year, my family used to have an older brother, who died before the full moon, and several of the children born to my aunt did not live to adulthood. Therefore, regardless of whether it is inside or outside the palace, there are always so many unsatisfactory. Portuna nodded: I see, Concubine De.

This winter was still not destined to be good, and Lin Guiren quietly left on a cold night. I, Qi Guiren and Portuna hid it from her for several months, and He Zhou had already died on the border. Qi Guiren said: I went to see her a few days ago, and she was still waiting for General He to return to Beijing, and she said that she did not want to be with him anymore, as long as General He could be safe, even if she married a wife and had children in the future, she would be very happy. I looked at King Yan walking in the snow and said, "Feelings are really incomprehensible." I don't know if King Yan has feelings for Portuna, but just sending her things under the guise of him makes people think that he has an ambiguous attitude.

Portuna gave birth to a young prince the following summer, and the emperor decreed that she be concubine, but at the same time her tribe also fought a war with the border, and Aji became seriously ill. She cried and knelt outside the Yangxin Hall, begging the emperor for mercy. The door of the Yangxin Hall was closed, and the emperor's figure was not visible. I picked her up from the ground: You just gave birth, you can't be so emotional. She grabbed my arm and said to the inside of the Yangxin Hall: "Emperor, I will not be a concubine of Yu, please spare my Ahan's life." Please. I feel sorry for her, and I am even more anxious about the emperor in the palace. Ding Xuting said next to me: Niangniang, persuade Concubine Yu Niangniang to go back, otherwise the emperor will be angry... I interrupted him: You go and pass it on again. Ding Jiting was silenced in front of me and did as I was told.

The weather is hot, and the air outside the Yangxin Hall is hot and burning the skin. In the end, the emperor only saw Portuna alone, and I met Han Duo while waiting for Potuna outside the palace, and I heard that he was now valued by the emperor at a young age and promoted to the position of imperial envoy of the left capital. After greeting each other, he asked me: Is there a concubine inside. I answer: Yes. Then I said: Lord Han is different now, presumably he also knows the inside story, but Ahan, who doesn't know Concubine Yu, really can't intercede? Han Duo thought for a moment and said, "I heard about this. Now that the border is changing, killing the leader of the Temba tribe is only to deter the surrounding tribes, and the emperor has no reason not to kill him. I was silent for a moment: Thank you, Lord Han. Then he said: Concubine De is also different from the past, some words can be said, and some words cannot be said. Concubine De should not ask about this matter. I don't speak, I have a weak background and no heirs, and it is not easy to get to this day. However, because of the long life without talent, it may be jealous to mix with political affairs.

Concubine Yu didn't know what to say to the emperor, and when she came out, her face was grim, and I said with concern: Don't talk yet, let's go back to the palace. Her tears fell: Concubine De, my hometown is gone. I couldn't speak.

A few days later, I went to the Empress Dowager's palace and happened to meet Qing Concubine coming out. I visited the Empress Dowager, served her with incense, and then returned to the palace. On the way, Grandma Zhao said: Why did Qing Concubine come to Shoukang Palace? I was upset: the palace is so big, she can go wherever she wants. Just now at the Queen Mother's place, she said: Being a concubine is still fearful, and now a lot of things have happened. The mourning family didn't see any movement from you. I admit that I don't want to do it, the Queen Mother doesn't know the emperor's mind, but I have to worry, and I move Concubine Xiang how to live my next life. As for Qing Concubine, she also has a princess now, who is safe and rich in the harem, but she still wants to ask for another floor.

When I went to Penglai Island, Portuna changed into a personal maid, which I had never seen, but I didn't ask her. One night I was falling asleep and was woken up by a commotion. Ding Xuting said: The emperor has been assassinated. I was taken aback, and it was no longer hot in an instant. In the middle of the night, Ding Xuting replied: I caught it, it was Concubine Yu's person. I immediately thought of the maid with a dark face, her skin was dark and tall, and there was a fierceness in her eyes. When I arrived at Portuna's palace the next morning, there was already a circle of royal forest troops around me. They stopped me: No one is allowed to enter or leave. I glanced at the closed palace door again, turned and went to the emperor. Seriously, I rarely took the initiative to go to the emperor, and after informing me for a while, they let me in. I didn't find a suitable opening scene when I thought about it, but Gao Yan said first: If it is the matter of Concubine Yu, there is no need to talk about it, someone has already interceded for her today. Seeing his impatient expression, I knew that it would be counterproductive to say more, and I paused: Yesterday the emperor was assassinated, and the concubine was very worried, so she personally made some pastries, and asked the emperor not to dislike the craftsmanship of the concubine. He put down his pen and glanced at what the palace people had brought him: Concubine De had worked hard. I smiled again, saluted and left. In fact, this pastry was originally for Portuna.

When I came out of the emperor, my face sank: Go and ask who met the emperor this morning. Ding Xuting spoke: It is Qing Concubine Niangniang. I glanced at him unexpectedly, and I actually grasped the information in advance. But then she smiled, Qing Concubine, she really couldn't wait, deliberately came to intercede with Portuna, even if it was calculated, I would also come, and then upset the emperor. I wasn't in the mood to eat when it was hot, so I ate some melons and fruits casually at noon. At this moment, I am not only worried about Concubine Yu, but also worried about the fifth prince.

When it was finally time to return to the palace, I bought off the guards and went to see Portuna. She was sitting in the palace with her hair draped, and when she saw me coming, she immediately stepped forward and hugged me. I stroked her back: It's okay, it's okay. She looked at me: "How is Gen'er?" I laughed a little: I keep it in the queen's palace, I go to see it several times a day, and it's good. She nodded with satisfaction: Thank you, Concubine De. I motioned to her that it was okay and asked, "How could you do such a stupid thing?" She looked sad: It was my uncle's decision that he sent me assassins and told me to kill the emperor. I feel anxious: Assassinating the emperor is very dangerous, and you know the consequences. Something suddenly occurred to me: Wait, how did that assassin get sent to the palace. Her voice lowered: It's His Royal Highness King Yan. I was even more shocked: This is known, you two are colluding, and he will also be considered a rebel. Portuna shook her head: I don't understand, I don't understand. The emperor killed my people, there are still many innocent people there, why doesn't he want to think about it. I was silent and then said, "I'll do my best this time." Botuna took my hand: No, Concubine De, I will trouble you. I said, "Don't say that now." She interrupted me, knelt down and said, "Concubine De, I beg you for one thing." She insisted that I couldn't pull her, and she looked into my eyes: I must be less fierce this time, and when the time comes, I will ask my mother to take care of my yuan'er for me. After speaking, he seriously kowtowed his head.

I finally pulled her up this time: It's not there yet, save yourself, okay? She smiled: Hmm.

Back in the palace, I removed the ring, felt a pain in my temple, and went to bed early. I couldn't sleep at night, so I got up and opened the jewelry box, took out the letter that Grandma Xing handed me from the dark grid, and I read it again word for word. It's just that this time I found a shallow drop in the lower right corner, which I hadn't noticed before. I looked at myself in the copper mirror in shock, breathing heavily.

The Queen Mother was ill these days, so I went to serve soup medicine every day, and occasionally met Concubine Qing once or twice. On this day, as soon as I entered the inner hall of Shoukang Palace, I saw the emperor, and I saluted him, searching for the figure of the empress dowager with my eyes. Mother Leng beside the Queen Mother said: The Queen Mother is changing clothes in the dormitory, and the emperor and Concubine De wait for a while. So I sat with Gao Yan, each silent during the period. The Queen Mother came out and saw that the two of us did not even make eye contact, and said: This Shoukang Palace of the mourning family is not the Longtan Tiger's Den, how can Concubine De look unhappy. I said: The Queen Mother teased the concubines, and the concubines were worried about the body of the Queen Mother. The emperor looked at me and did not speak. The Queen Mother chuckled: When you are old, you will have more pain. Gao Yandao: The queen mother is blessed deeply, and it must be unhindered. The Queen Mother also knew that she was comforting her, but she was also relieved in her heart. After chatting a few more words about the emperor and important matters, he left, and the queen mother was also tired, so I took the initiative to say: Concubine help the queen mother to rest. The Queen Mother did not refuse, and let me help her lie on the bed. I looked at the landscape painting hanging on the wall next to me and asked the Queen Mother: This painting is so beautiful. Mother Leng said: It was written by the Queen Mother herself. The Queen Mother replied: If you draw two strokes at will, you can't take it out to see people, so you put it in the dormitory and watch it yourself. I looked at the flowing brush and could imagine that the Queen Mother was also a wanton woman. I looked down at the nickname of the falling model, and my eyes froze.

Cangmei Jushi.

But before I could figure out the ins and outs, something happened to Portuna. I hurriedly came out of the Queen Mother's palace, and Cuicui told me: The emperor not only found out that the person was sent into the palace by the king of Yan, but also signed the name of the king of Yan on the items that were sandwiched in the list of concubines on weekdays, but it was for Concubine Yu. I closed my eyes, and my sister married a subordinate of King Yan's side, so she put what she wanted for Portuna in my belongings. I said, "King Yan is a man now." Cuicui said: I was called to the Yangxin Hall by the emperor. I stopped at the Temple of Nourishment, no, I can't go now. If you rush over now to explain, it will only make the emperor feel that he wants to cover up. I said: Go back to the palace.

I waited nervously, paying attention to every move of the Yangxin Hall, and finally at night, the emperor came to my palace. I quickly changed my clothes, removed the ring, and only pulled in a loose bun to meet it. The emperor went straight to the inner hall and sat down, signaling the others to go down. I asked as often as possible: Why didn't the emperor let anyone report today? Gao Yan's face jumped with candlelight, which made me illusion that he was also ordinary. It's just that the falling cup of tea instantly sobered me up, and I stood firmly in place: Why is this emperor? He approached me and forced me to look at him: You are greedy for wealth, but I didn't expect that you were so ambitious that you would collude with King Yan. I was thrown to the ground by him and hurt my elbow. I looked up with difficulty: The concubine did not understand what the emperor meant, and the concubine did not know King Yan and had never colluded. He smiled disapprovingly: Concubine De, are you really stupid, Lin Xue and He Zhou's elopement is also hidden by you for her. Han Duo doesn't say it, someone will say. These words were like a basin of cold water pouring me from beginning to end, and I gritted my teeth: The emperor has never believed in concubines, and he has never believed in concubines for a moment before and now. He looked at me indifferently: Why should you be trusted?

Yes, why should he trust me. In front of him, I was just an ordinary concubine, neither a courtier with a talent for governing the country nor his beloved favorite concubine, and my existence was nothing more than a matter of turning over his hands.

I got up: No matter what the emperor thinks, what the concubine has not done, is just nothing. Not before, not now. The emperor's attitude towards the concubines is known to the concubines, and has always abided by their duties, not hurting or harming people. Lin Xue and He Zhou's concubines know, but what does the emperor want concubines to do? Tell the emperor, and then kill them? Does the emperor have to know about this kind of dishonorable thing, if he considers the problem of royal face, will he silence everyone? At that time, the rumors will be even more exaggerated, and they will not burn out. As for the matter of King Yan...

I paused, not going to say Portuna: The concubine did not.

The emperor looked at me: The crime of bullying the monarch was exonerated by your words, Lin Xue was not on Chun Yu's list that day, it was you who spoke to Yuan. How, forgot?

I replied: If the concubine helped her, how could she watch her die of depression? The concubine would let her go with General He on that day. ”

The emperor's eyes turned cold: Did you think highly of yourself or underestimate Yuan? If they escaped, within two hours they would turn into two corpses and carry them back to the palace. Gao Yan's gaze was too cold and sharp, and I couldn't help but take a step back. I believe that he did it, a prince who led an army to attack Fanbang at the age of sixteen, swept all the excellent princes to this throne, and who are our opponents? He continued: "We don't care what you have in your hearts, whether you are sincere or not, but remember one for you. He followed my footsteps and looked me in the eye: If you do something that shames you, you will not spare it.

I took a deep breath and stared into his eyes: Emperor, the concubines have been in the palace for decades, and the concubines have long ceased to care about what kind of prejudice they have in their hearts. You are asking for decency in the history books, and so are concubines. The last four words I aggravated my tone and said them quite hard, enough to silence the air for a few seconds.

Gao Yan was silent for a while, and then said as he walked: From now on, Concubine De will be grounded in the Yonghe Palace, and she cannot take a step without the permission of Yuan.

I looked empty ahead.

Grandma Zhao and Cuicui came in and checked me in, carefully asking why the lady had a dispute with the emperor. I didn't answer, and walked to the dormitory. It wasn't until I heard the sound of them leaving that I fell tiredly on the edge of the bed, remembering the conversation I had just had with Gao Yan, and I didn't feel regret in my heart.

I slept for a long, long time, and every time I opened my eyes, I would ask Cui what time it was, and each time it was only two or three hours since the last time. Cui Cui asked: Would the lady want something to eat? But I wasn't hungry at all, and I replied to her: Okay. Only after eating will you have physical strength, and with physical strength, you can continue to wait.

The emperor has not come again since that day, saying that I should be grounded, but he does not say that I have made any mistakes. On the second day, Cuicui brought back news that the ministers had actually brought out the matter between me and King Yan in the court, and my reputation plummeted, and some people even proposed to lower my position. I was furious to think that my father heard these rumors, and my heart was extremely unpleasant. The women in the harem are really small fights, and the men in the hall play with their minds to be the real sword and sword shadow. Five or six days passed like this. On this day, I sat under the window and read a book, and I didn't turn a page in my hand for a long time. Ding Jiting stood behind me: Niangniang. I didn't move: Say it. He paused: Concubine Yu hanged herself in the palace yesterday, and before she died, she confessed that she alone had done the assassination of the emperor, and had nothing to do with everyone. I looked back in surprise, and Ding Jiting continued: King Yan has also denied colluding with Niangniang, and the Yan King's party is still insulting Niangniang in the court, which must be your frame. Emperor...

I held my breath: Yu Concubine her, dead? Ding Jiting was silent by default, and my turning action was unintentional to sweep down a cup of tea, the white porcelain pieces were torn apart on the ground, and the piping hot tea was still steaming. I couldn't tell what it was like in my heart, and I opened my teeth for a long time and asked him: How is my mother's house? Ding Xuting said: It's fine for the time being, but Wei Xiaogongzi canceled the originally scheduled marriage. My eyes and chest were a little sore, and I said to him: Go down.

I don't know what it is, but Grandma Zhao walked in and said softly: The lady has not yet had dinner today, and the slave has warmed you a cup of milk. I sat in the unlit hall and shook my head at her: No Grandma, I don't want to drink. Mother Zhao felt sorry for me and said: I didn't expect that King Yan to be so unresponsible, but he threw a rake, and now the rumors outside are really ... I chuckled: No, he did a good job. If he defended me at this moment, he would be confirming those rumors. If we accuse each other, regardless of feelings, it will make people think that we are not involved. Grandma Zhao sighed and said nagging in her mouth while lighting the candlelight. I looked at her wrinkled face and thought of my father and mother. When my brother died early, I became the eldest daughter in the family, but they never asked me to do anything good for the family, they just wanted me to be happy. Although I am an older sister, my younger brothers and sisters are very supportive of me, and they will cling to me if there is anything delicious and fun. The Queen Mother is right, I am smart and stupid. Every time it is auspicious and auspicious every time, I don't think so, but there is so much luck in life. Once upon a time I entered the palace inexplicably, with no direction, no things to ask for, and no loved ones. I feel so pitiful, but now I find that love is unattainable, but family affection is not, everyone has it, but everyone ignores it. Grandma Zhao was shocked when she saw my tears: Niangniang, what's wrong with you. I smiled, but the tears kept flowing: It's okay.

After a few more days, the seething remarks finally slowly stopped, because this time the main problem was the Tengba tribe and Concubine Yu. I heard that some people support taking the Temba tribe in one fell swoop, and others support reforming with the demeanor of a big country. For a time, there was a stalemate, and someone above the main hall proposed that Concubine Yu should not be buried in the concubine mausoleum, and Gao Yan placed her in Rushan Mountain, three hundred miles away from the concubine mausoleum. And I didn't leave the Yonghe Palace for half a year because of his "grounding". For half a year, I watched the plane trees in the yard go from leafy to yellow, and finally stood still in the snow. I stood under the eaves, the cold whizzing wind constantly pouring in through my collar. In the past few months, I have been constantly thinking about everything before, everyone, thinking about it, my head has gone blank. Thinking of the end, everything is as clean as this white world.

I don't feel sorry for myself, but the more Grandma Zhao and Cuicui are worried about this, the more they must gossip with me every day, such as the mother-in-law in the kitchen is lazy and does not boil water, the melons and fruits sent by the eunuch are not fresh, and the prince who gave birth to the prince in Xianfu Palace is in the limelight for a while, and Grandma Zhao is more sensitive to words than me, especially words such as "immeasurable limelight" and "vigorous". Speaking of this, she was immediately silenced, but I smiled at her: Grandma has not been accustomed to seeing people in the palace for so many years. I used to take it for granted that feng shui rotated, and I was indeed biased against her. I looked down and smiled, in fact she lived very well, not for a moment, but all the time.

Near the end of the year, red lanterns were hung everywhere in the palace. Mother Zhao also found out last year's coping, which did not make Yonghe Palace seem so deserted. Chinese New Year's Eve night, I saw red spots in the sky from the four square heavens of the Yonghe Palace, and Cuicui stood in the courtyard and sighed: Niangniang, what do you want to write on the Kong Ming lantern? Before I could say what I had considered, Ding Jiting said, "Niangniang, the queen maiden is here." I looked at the situation and saw the queen standing not far away with the fox's hand covering her hand.

I ushered her into the inner sanctuary, ordered someone to serve tea, and brought her a fireplace. After doing everything, he waited silently for her to speak. The empress looked ahead, and after the palace people retreated, she said: Today, Chinese New Year's Eve, the emperor was happy in his heart, so he rewarded a lot of things in each palace. Also say, your grounding is lifted. She picked up the tea and saw that the inferior tea inside paused for a while. I met her gaze: Empress Xie told the concubine that Empress Lao was bothered these days. She smiled politely: The main palace is the queen, naturally she wants to take care of everyone. She quietly put down the tea cup: Concubine De, since the matter has passed, it will be more dedicated to serving the emperor in the future. I said: Yes. The queen glanced at the tea again: This year's new tea is good, Ming Japanese Palace will let you taste it.

After Chinese New Year's Eve, from the first to the eighth day of the first year, there is no need to get up early to go to the Phoenix Palace to ask for peace. At this time of year, the concubines gather in the warm pavilion to chat and drink tea. Now that I'm being left out in the cold, no one has invited me to join me. The first person to come to Yonghe Palace was Qi Guiren, who brought me her own pastries. I tasted a piece of horseshoe cake and nodded to her: It's delicious, I haven't tasted your craft for a long time. Qi Guiren lowered his eyes and smiled out of the pear vortex: Concubine De Niangniang likes it, and this Taishi cake, the taste is also good, Niangniang tastes it. I looked at her gentle face while eating, and after half a year, she was even thinner. I said: Your face is tired, is it cold and cold? The movement in her hand stagnated, and she shook her head in denial. I said again: In the past six months, has Concubine Xiang ever troubled you? Qi Guiren shook his head: She gave birth to the prince, and her honor and favor rose to the next level. The emperor said that when the spring came, he would make her a noble concubine. The people in the palace welcomed her to her, and she had no intention of coming to trouble me. I replied to her: How is Yuan'er? She nodded: Yuan'er is very good, I will go to the queen's palace every day to see him, he is beautiful, and his eyes and nose are very similar to Concubine Yu. At the mention of Concubine Yu, she paused: It's a pity that Concubine Yu is such a good person... I patted her hand as a sign of comfort, and she smiled at me with a lonely expression.

On the third day of the first year, the Queen Mother asked her to send a jade bodhisattva. Mother Leng said: This was requested by the Queen Mother's family from the Hanshui Temple in the early years, and it didn't take long for the Queen Mother to give birth to the emperor, and the Queen Mother was auspicious and transferred it to the Empress Dowager, and the Queen Mother did not disappoint the Queen Mother's wishes. I knew the intention of the Queen Mother: Thank the Empress Dowager for the reward, and the grandmother will stay for a cup of tea before leaving. Mother Leng smiled and refused: Concubine Xie De's kindness, the slave still had to serve the Queen Mother to drink medicine, so she did not stay. I asked: Is the Queen Mother sick? Mother Leng replied to me: After winter, it will be intermittent, and the doctor said that it is not a big problem. The maiden didn't have to worry, the slave retreated first. I asked Grandma Zhao to send her, and turned to Ding Xueting: Put it in the inner hall, and tell the cleaning subordinates to be careful. Looking at the white and smooth jade body, I thought, child, maybe not.

In the next few days, Concubine Xian and Concubine Ning sent some gifts, and I didn't shirk it, and I accepted them all. The ninth year of the first year must go to the queen's palace to ask for peace, and I haven't walked out of the Yonghe Palace for a long time, the sky is still so blue, and the palace road is still so long. When I arrived at the gate of the Phoenix Palace, I happened to meet Concubine Xiang who was sitting in a sedan chair, and her status and style were complementary, she was gorgeously dressed, delicate, and the spirit and confidence nourished by her eyebrows were extremely dazzling. I retracted my thoughts and consciously stopped making a scene. And as soon as she got off the sedan chair, she attracted everyone's attention, and the young concubines looked at Concubine Xiang's eyes, full of desire and adoration.

Who wouldn't want to be like that.

As soon as I sat down in the inner hall, I saw Concubine Qing and Concubine Ning, and I looked at each other one by one, and Concubine Xian and I were in a position apart, and they also smiled politely at each other. Today, the person who came late was Concubine Shu, and her face was not friendly when she walked in, and the empress symbolically asked her if she was unwell, but she turned her gaze to Concubine Xiang and said indifferently: Empress Xie is concerned, and the concubine is not hindered. I watched Concubine Xiang smile at her without showing weakness, and I felt a little clear in my heart. Qi Guiren approached me and said: I heard that last night Concubine Xiang used the Seventh Prince to summon the emperor from the Shufei Palace, but Concubine Shu refused to accompany the emperor together, and waited in Xianfu Palace for most of the night, and finally the emperor returned to the Yangxin Hall after seeing the Seventh Prince. I tacitly took Guiren Qi's eyes, glanced at the atmosphere surging between them, and did not speak.

When he came out of the Empress Palace, he met Qing Concubine and Ning Concubine again, and Cuicui said: I don't know when these two got so close. I smiled lightly: Where do we take care of other people's affairs? It's just that I still pay attention to this matter in my heart.

After the spring opened, Concubine Xiang was promoted to a noble concubine. The emperor favored her and renovated the Xianfu Palace. No one in the harem can cross her honor and favor. Sometimes I go to the queen's palace to see Yuan'er, his eyebrows are very beautiful, anyone who sees it will like it. The queen's Princess Guyang has also become a big girl, the princes of the Fengluan Palace have all entered the prince's study, only Yuan'er is still learning to speak, Guyang also likes to tease him when he is idle, back and forth, my relationship with her is not bad.

On this day, I saw that the weather was good, so I and Guyang held Yuan'er in the imperial garden to bask in the sun, and happened to meet Xiang Guifei with the seventh prince. The two children were about the same age, so they let the nurse hold each other and tease. Xiang Guifei and I did not have a good relationship, and we also saved each other small talk. At this time, Yuan'er reached out and grabbed the sachet on the seventh prince's body, and Guyang pulled it out of his hand: Yuan'er is obedient, sister go back and embroidery one for you, okay? Yuan'er obediently put it down, and I handed it to Concubine Xiang, but she said: "If the sixth prince likes it, take it, last time Ning Concubine gave Chuan'er two." I saw that Yuan'er's eyes were still staring at the sachet in my hand, so I said: Thank you Xiang Guifei. Gu Yang said after she left: I didn't think that she became a mother and changed sex, she was never so good at talking before.

Three days later, I was embroidering clothes for Yuan'er in the palace, when Cuicui came in and said: An hour ago, the Seventh Prince was caught in the imperial garden by a wild cat and scratched his eye, and the imperial doctors were doing their best to heal him. I stopped my hand movements: How so? Cui Cui shook her head: Concubine Xiang is now crazy, and the emperor immediately rushed to Xianfu Palace after hearing about it. I looked at the small clothes in my hand and didn't speak for a while. The people in the palace always paid attention to the movements of Xianfu Palace, and after about an hour, news came from Xianfu Palace that the Seventh Prince could not be completely saved. The next day, the concubines of all palaces went to Xianfu Palace one after another to visit, and I and Qi Guiren also went together, but it was not as good as going, and as soon as I arrived, I saw the slaves standing in front of Xianfu Palace standing half of the courtyard, and Ding Xuting asked about a few eunuchs and told me: Hui Niangniang, the crazy cat caught today is Lady Shufei's, and the emperor and all palace ladies are there at this moment. I nodded, and when I walked in, I saw all the concubines looking at each other, and none of them spoke. And Concubine Shu stood alone, and the atmosphere was a little tense. This is the first time I have seen Gao Yan in more than half a year, and a familiar aura rushes to my face.

Concubine Shu was very frank: Emperor, this obstacle was lost before Chun Yu, and the concubine definitely did not lie, nor did she try to harm the seventh prince. Concubine Xiang half leaned into Gao Yan's arms, and immediately retorted when she heard this: Concubine Shu, I know that you are angry with me and I don't deal with you everywhere, what are you rushing at me, why are you angry at my child, do you know that the beast has harmed Chuan'er for a lifetime, you are also a mother, why is your heart so vicious! After speaking, tears rolled down her face. Huo Cairen next to him said nonchalantly: Poor Seventh Prince is not yet one year old, and his eyes are... He choked up as he spoke. Concubine Shu was choked, Xu was accused of being vicious in front of Gao Yan, and also said aggrieved: The palace swore with Ruyang that it had never harmed Chuan'er, and had never had the intention of harming her! Chuan'er also felt heartache when she lost an eye at a young age, but it really had nothing to do with concubines! The empress glanced at Gao Yan, who had not spoken, and did not speak. Everyone saw her whispering like this, some people said that Princess Ruyang was the person on the tip of her heart, it didn't look like a lie, and some people said that swearing something was the most fake, and nothing could be proved except bluffing. Concubine Zhen stood up and spoke for Concubine Shu: The emperor, the empress, and Concubine Shu have always been gentle and virtuous, how could they harm the seventh prince, and who doesn't know that it is Concubine Shu who is full of people in the palace. Gao Yan said to Concubine Shu: I have seen the cats in your palace, docile and well-behaved, both have a crazy disease, so many people come and go in the imperial garden, how come I have never heard of anyone being scratched? Concubine Shu was blank for a few seconds, and then said, "Emperor, are you doubting the concubine?" How did the courtiers and concubines know that it pounced on the Seventh Prince, and how could a cat be arbitrarily dominated like a human. But what Gao Yan said is indeed the point, why is it the Seventh Prince? I had no intention of catching a glimpse of Ning Concubine, I saw that her eyes were full of contempt when she looked at Concubine Shu, I hadn't seen her show obvious emotions for a long time, so I observed for a while, but I didn't expect Qing Concubine to notice my sight, so I smiled politely at her and withdrew my gaze. At this time, there was humanity in the crowd: Did the Seventh Prince wear something that attracted cats, pompoms, threads, or sachets? The empress nodded and said, "Cats seem to be extremely sensitive to this kind of things, Xiang Guifei should think about it, has the seventh prince ever worn these things?" At this time, everyone looked at Xiang Guifei, she stopped crying, but flew her eye knife towards Ning Concubine in the crowd, but Ning Concubine was unmoved. I seem to suddenly understand, that sachet...? It's just that Ning Concubine is cautious and should not do obvious things.

The imperial doctor checked the sachet that Xiang Guifei took out and said: "No problem, it's just wormwood and other insect repellent herbs." Concubine Xiang was visibly relieved, and then looked sharply at the person who had just spoken: Zhang Guiren, what else do you have to say? Zhang Guiren was neither humble nor arrogant and said: Concubines have nothing to say. Xiang Guifei seems to be a person who treats her as a group of concubines, I glanced at her a few times, if memory serves, she is the Zhang talent from before. The empress continued: "The emperor, a crazy cat, really can't be judged to be instructed by Concubine Shu. Gao Yan looked at Concubine Xiang in his arms: One is that a crazy cat openly appeared in the imperial garden, desecrating his duties for the eunuch in charge, and second, so many milk ladies and palace ladies did not protect their masters well, because they were incompetent and useless, and third, Concubine Shu's cat was not strictly guarded, even if it made this big mistake, it was a crime of neglect. After Gao Yan finished speaking, the room was extremely quiet. He looked at the side face of the empress: As the lord of the middle palace, the empress will not overstep her duties, everything is decided by the empress. The atmosphere was suddenly a little delicate, and the empress said in his gaze: All the relevant steward eunuchs were dismissed, and the eunuchs who were on shift that day were thrown out of the palace with thirty large boards; The lady of the palace was beaten with twenty boards and sent to the Prudential Punishment Division as a coolie; As for Concubine Shu, she was fined for one year. After speaking, she met the emperor's eyes, and then looked away and said to everyone: The seventh prince needs to recuperate, you go back first, and come to visit another day. Everyone: The concubine retreats. I looked up from the crowd and glanced at the queen and the emperor, who were obviously sitting very close, but they gave people a very long distance.

When I came out of Xianfu Palace, it was not early in the morning. Since the road to Yonghe Palace is close, Qi Guiren stayed in my palace for dinner.

After sending off Guiren Qi at night, I was bathing and washing and was about to go to sleep, when Grandma Zhao came in and said, "Niangniang, the emperor is here." I moved heavily, turned my head and saw Grandma Zhao's face full of joy.

Gao Yan came faster than expected, and he was wearing a plain and apricot-colored robe today. He skimmed over me and naturally went into the inner sanctuary and sat down.

In the past, although I couldn't talk about intimacy with Gao Yan, I could barely perform a little concubine affection, but now, I feel that every inch of air is condensed, well, it's okay, I comfort myself, maybe he is here to fight the autumn breeze.

I followed behind him and poured him a cup of tea at my mother's beckoning. I smile: The emperor tastes this year's new tea. Gao Yan sighed "um" and took a sip. The candlelight on the table flickered, giving me the illusion that I was back a few years ago. He didn't speak, too, and I observed him and didn't speak.

After a while, he put down the tea: Go down, I have something to say to you. I watched the palace people retreat in turn, and my uneasiness deepened. He looked at me and spoke: I haven't come to your palace for a long time, and the tea is still just as bad. I smiled and thought that it was all distributed by the Shang Food Bureau, and I had never drunk it. I watched him scan the pastries on the table and said to him, "Emperor taste?" It was all done by the concubines themselves. He picked up a piece of osmanthus cake and put it in his mouth, and I also picked up a piece and put it in my mouth, wondering when I would end this eerie silence. After Gao Yan tasted another piece of horseshoe cake, he wiped his hands with a kerchief and said, "I have something for you to do."

I immediately put down the pastry in my hand: Emperor, what's the matter?

At night, I closed my eyes lazily in the nagging of Mother Zhao, "Why don't you keep the emperor for the night". In my mind, I went over and over what Gao Yan had just said to me.

He said: "The seventh prince is the son of Shu, and now he is blind in one eye, and his heart is also very uncomfortable, and it is difficult to interfere in the affairs of the harem, so today you start to investigate, no matter who is found on the head, Shun will not forgive."

I said, "Is it a secret decree?"

He looked at me, "Dictate."

I sneered in my heart, it was really a bad bone to throw at me, and now above the concubine position, I am not only not eye-catching, but also able to speak in front of the Queen Mother. Even if the empress finds out, she will feel that it is the meaning of the empress dowager, and will not think of him.

Looking at his calm eyes, I said, "What is the benefit of having a concubine?"

Gao Yan's eyes narrowed for a moment, but they were quickly replaced by his usual shallow smile: "Shun can promise you glory and wealth, and the Wei family will be promoted to official and rich."

I knelt down: "Concubines lead the order."

Thinking of this, I lay on the bed and tossed and turned, should I tell the Queen Mother about this?

When she went to the Empress Palace on the second day to ask for peace, Concubine Xiang was really not there. In the past, the queen's face was not very good, but today she is radiant and radiant, and she looks more energetic than before.

However, except for Xiang Guifei, Ning Concubine's position was also empty. After going back and forth, I saw that Qing's gaze overlapped with mine, and wherever I looked, she looked. My heart suddenly beat a small drum.

Qi Guiren echoed: "Sister Concubine De and Concubine Qing are very familiar?"

I replied to her, "Not familiar."

She added, "I see that she always stares at her sister from the moment she enters the door."

At this moment, Qing Concubine and I intertwined our eyes, smiling at each other and nodding.

"It's not familiar, but I have also been called sister Daoist sister in the palace for more than ten years."

When I came out of the queen's palace, I deliberately slowed down my pace, and sure enough, I didn't go far before I was stopped by Qing Concubine.

"There is a new Tie Guanyin in the concubine palace today, how about Concubine De come and taste it together?"

At this moment, I think of her invitation by Taiji Lake back then, and my intuition makes me very sure that Qingxian must know something, whether it is Jin Cairen or Xiang Guifei.

I said, "Concubine Qing is so gracious, the palace can't refuse."

Qi Guiren pulled my sleeve worriedly, and I patted her hand, meaning it was fine.

In the Shuanghua Palace, Qing Concubine and I sat down and drank tea, which can be regarded as happy.

"Speaking of which, Concubine De has been in the palace for twelve years, right?"

I replied to her: "Qing Concubine has a good memory, this year is just the twelfth year."

She seemed to be caught in memories: "I think that I was also one of the many show girls, and once I was favored, I thought that I would sit back and relax in this life, and I was a good person."

She shook her head: "Who knows, grace is like a gust of wind blowing, come when you say, and go when you say it."

"I still remember that you and Liu Xin'er had the best personal friendship, and someone like her who was speechless could actually have a good sister like you."

Hearing Liu Xin'er, my eyebrows twisted slightly, and I didn't plan to go around in circles with her: "Since Concubine Qing is not here to invite the palace to drink tea today, I will make a long story short."

Concubine Qing looked at me and stroked her sideburns: "I want to make a deal with me."

Deal, another deal that kills a thousand cuts, although I am impatient, but still ask: "Oh? What deal? ”

She skimmed the tea foam: "I tell you who harmed the Seventh Prince, and you help me make a concubine."

I snorted and laughed: "Qing Concubine, you also look up to me too much, right?" Now no one in the palace knows that although I am a concubine, I am not allowed to be holy and have nothing to do under my knees, and my life is not as good as that of your concubine. ”

Qing Concubine smiled disapprovingly: "It is precisely because you are childless and ungraceless that you cannot pose a threat to anyone, so whether it is the emperor, the empress, or the empress dowager, they are happy to have your satisfactory knife."

I couldn't laugh anymore because Qingxian was right. That's why I've always been reluctant to have children, and any party can use them without scruples.

I looked at Tie Guanyin in the cup and said, "Do you know that eating a hundred family meals will be devoured."

Concubine Qing was visibly stunned, and then I put down the cup: "I promise you."

When he returned to the Yonghe Palace, Qi Guiren was also there. After watching me finish the meal, she asked, "What did Concubine Qing tell you?"

I looked at her worried look and couldn't help but touch her face: "I had a good sister when I first entered the palace, she has the opposite personality to you, domineering and proud, but she treats me very well."

"And then?"

"She's dead."

I stood up and pushed open a window, the cool night breeze made me shudder, and I closed my eyes.

"Later, I met a little girl who was very similar to her, and she was also the temper of the eldest lady, who liked to eat and play, and never thought of harming people."

"Then she..."

"She's dead too."

"I only found out today how she died."

I told Qing Concubine: "I promise you, but I don't want to know who killed the Seventh Prince, I want to know who killed the Jin Cairen."

Qing Concubine raised her eyebrows in confusion, but still said, "It's the empress."

"The empress wants to use the death of Jin Cairen to blame Concubine Xiang."

"Then let me say something inducing in front of you and doubt Concubine Xiang."

I smiled, "The Queen Mother really looks up to me."

"Since you have done things for her, you can ask her to help you become a concubine, wouldn't it be a sacrifice to find me."

Qing Concubine said coldly: "I used to think so, but later I found out that she just used me and didn't care about my life or death."

"Why are you obsessed with the concubine position?"

"Then why are you obsessed with the concubine position?"

I finally stopped asking, everyone has a reason in their hearts that must be done, and it is not necessarily empathetic to say it.

Qi Guiren said behind me: "My father told me that people live and actually suffer all their lives, but as long as there are one or two sweet things in a lifetime, it is enough."

I opened my eyes, yes, living in peace is the best gift.

Two days later, I personally knocked on the door of Yufang Hall. Along the way, Cuicui was still saying that if Grandma Zhao knew that the mother came to find Concubine Ning, she would definitely be able to vomit blood angrily. I laughed and scratched her nose, "Let's not tell her."

Ning Concubine didn't expect me to come to her, and didn't react for a while. I stood in front of the door and said, "My sister won't invite me in for a cup of milk?"

She finally nodded: "Come in, Rong'er, bring milk and pastries."

I saw that the furnishings in the house were no different from those in Xianfu Palace. I sighed in my heart, she couldn't get by that thing.

I understand Ning Concubine's nature, gentle and virtuous on the surface, but so stubborn inside.

"I didn't know that Concubine De would one day step on my threshold." Her words were full of vicissitudes.

I took a sip of milk: "After so many years, it is still the milk and date mud cake in your palace that I remember the most."

Concubine Ning looked at me: "Concubine De Niangniang is here to settle old accounts today?"

I lowered my eyes: "I'm not here to be sarcastic, I'm here to let you stop."

"The matter of Xianfu Palace is done by you."

I looked directly at her, not inquiring, but affirming.

I don't know if Qing Concubine was deliberate or what, even if she didn't say it, I could suspect that she was so close to Ning Concubine a few days ago. Qing's mind is too active, but I still can't sink my heart to explore her person.

Concubine Ning opened her mouth, intending to deal with me, but was choked by the sachet I took out.

"You should be no stranger to this sachet, Concubine Shu's cat will go crazy, you mixed the rotten cage grass into it." I asked Cui Cui to present it to her.

That day, Yuan'er left the sachet in the Yonghe Palace, and inadvertently broke the secret inside by me and Qi Guiren. Qi's grandfather was a township doctor, and he knew a thing or two about this medicinal material, so he went back to check the classics to understand what was going on. This pitcher plant is also called cat pitcher plant, and the countryside people like to use it to tease cats, but a large dose will make the cat crazy and addicted.

Presumably, she put the pitcher plant into the cat's diet, and used the sachet around the neck of the seventh prince to attract it. But the doctor didn't detect this, and I have been very confused.

At this time, Ning Concubine suddenly smiled: "Hehe..."

The longer she laughed, she couldn't stop. There was bitterness and madness in the laughter, and I looked at her expressionlessly, and for so many years, she had been obsessed with it to this point.

She said hatefully: "Has Concubine De ever heard a word?"

"It is called not persuading others to be good without suffering others."

I looked on coldly: "You and I have been in the palace for so many years, even if you want to go back and do good, there is no chance, and now if you don't stop, it will not only affect you, but also your parents and brothers."

She looked at me with tears and fierce eyes: "When the child is not there, where is my family, when I was snubbed by the emperor, where is my family, when life is miserable, where is my family!"

"They only want daughters with infinite scenery, not ashen faces, daughters who have lost their grace."

"I don't have such parents."

"You don't even pity yourself?"

She looked up at the roof, tears running down her neck.

She said: "From the moment the child did not exist, my heart was already dead, and every day I lived in the future was for revenge."

I knew that she was "terminally ill", and it was useless to talk more, so I only sighed and sighed, lamenting that the Ning Concubine who smiled shallowly and spoke softly was gone.

"I still call you sister, it means that I have put down the things back then, and the past of being used will only make me understand that I should not trust others easily in the palace, and now you are a stranger in my eyes, and you don't have to worry about me turning over your old accounts."

"Besides, being hostile to you today will only make me feel that I have not grown in the past ten years."

When I knew the truth, how could I not hate, I hated it to death. If I were unlucky, there would be no concubine De today, only nameless souls underground. But no matter how much I hated it, I never thought of treating her to death. It's not that my heart is kind, it's really that, she made me completely understand the word trust when I just entered the palace, and now even if I want to retaliate with a tooth, what can I take away from her? My growth, my strength, not for revenge, but for being higher than who I once was.

As I tried to get up and leave, she stopped me.

"Yun Sheng, I beg you for one thing."

"It's not good for me to do well, if Concubine Shu doesn't die for a day, I won't be at peace for a day." As long as she dies, I will admit it even if I go to hell. ”

I asked her, "How much has Qing helped you with this?"

She flatly denied, "No, I did it all alone."

I sneered inwardly, not believing her words. I wanted to cheat her, but when I thought about it, why bother. Since Qing Concubine wants to trade with me with this matter, it means that she is determined to intervene.

For the next few days, I stayed in the Yonghe Palace. One is to watch the fire from the other side, and the other is that I am really tired.

Mother Zhao asked me: "If I want to say that Concubine Ning has the ability to overthrow Concubine Shu, I really have some doubts." After all, in the eyes of Mother Zhao, Concubine Ning is a soft-spoken lady who has read a lot of sage books.

My fingertips ran lightly across the pages of the book, and she had. The power released by so many years of resentment is terrible, and she still has the mentality of dying together.

I said, "Or shall we make a bet?" What do you think, Cuicui? ”

Cuicui pointed to herself: "I, I don't know." But I think Ning Concubine has changed a lot now, and I don't dare to look at her when I don't laugh. ”

I asked Ding Jiting, "What do you think?"

Ding Xuting didn't have any expression: "The slave thinks it can."

I nodded: "Those who lose remember to take the money out."

Cuicui handed me a cup of hot tea: "Niangniang, although I don't like Concubine Shu either, I just let Concubine Ning fight with her like this... Is it really good? ”

I skimmed the foam and reported it one by one. She had harmed her child, and she had come to claim her life. But think about it, Concubine Shu is not only harming her children, but also her originally smooth life. I remembered that day Ning Concubine said, without suffering others, do not persuade others to be kind. The first half of her life was too dazzling, her birth was eminent, and she was favored by the emperor. Therefore, when you are frustrated, you will be particularly indignant.

The plane tree in Yonghe Palace has sprouted, and I was sitting under the tree to take a nap this day, and Cuicui said: "Niangniang, the empress asked you to go to the Phoenix Luan Palace." She lowered her voice: "Concubine Ning sued Concubine Shu for maiming the prince, and everyone in the palace went, and even Concubine Xian was invited over."

I opened my eyes: "Dressing up."

In front of the gate of the Phoenix Luan Palace, Qi Guiren seemed to have waited for me for a long time, and when he saw me, he immediately grabbed my hand: "Sister Concubine De, just now Concubine Shu Niang was taken off her clothes and shoes by the palace people and locked up in the cold palace."

Presumably, she hit her in the scene just now, and I patted her on the back: "It's okay, let's go in and have a look."

As soon as he entered the hall, he felt the silence that rushed to his face, the queen and empress's face were not good, and Xiang Guifei's eyes were cold as she held the child. The other concubines could only show their roughness a little. I saluted and found a place to sit down.

The empress looked around for a week, then looked at the emperor and said: "This matter ends here, it is indisputable that Concubine Shufei's heart has been beaten into the cold palace, I just hope that the harem sisters will take caution and do not follow in the footsteps of Concubine Shu."

With our own thoughts, we said in unison: "The concubines abide by the teachings of the empress and concubine."

When everyone came out of the queen's palace, they all talked to each other in twos and threes. Qing Concubine caught up with me: "Today is a good show, but it's a pity that you missed the climax."

I didn't care: "Oh? Is it. It seems that it is indeed a good show, otherwise Qing Concubine would not be so smiling. ”

Concubine Qing said, "I'm happy because I'm going to be a concubine, not because that person ended up like this." I turned to look at her and saw her ambition full of smiles.

"Qing Concubine trusts the main palace so much?"

Concubine Qing said, "I naturally believe you, otherwise I wouldn't tell you about the empress."

At the fork in the road, I stopped: "Aren't you afraid of one day destruction when you maneuver around all sides like this?" The implication of my words is that she fawned over the Empress Dowager and did things for the Empress, and it is not known whether there is an emperor among them.

At this time, Concubine Xian passed by us, and Concubine Qing looked at her and said to me: "What am I afraid of, those people above us have seen it clearly, we are just tools for the game." Concubine Xian only worked for one party, and in the end, even her own family was not saved. ”

I became vigilant, how did Qing Concubine know so much. But what I investigated was that she revealed it to me like this, trying to arouse my curiosity? Or do you want to deliberately woo me?

I said, "The chess pieces must also have the consciousness of the chess pieces, whether it is a virtuous concubine or whoever it is, it has nothing to do with me."

Qing Concubine naturally understood my words and stopped speaking.

A month later, I presented the sachet to the emperor, who was not satisfied with the result, but did not say anything, but fulfilled his promise. However, I said, "The courtiers and concubines are already blessed by heaven today, and they dare not covet wealth anymore, and the harem sisters have served the emperor together, for so many years, and they have done their best." Give this grace to others. ”

Gao Yan is so smart, he knows what I mean as soon as he hears it. He asked me, "Who do you think should be given to?"

I replied: "Concubine Qing, Guiren Qi, and Guiren Zhang are all people who do their best, and everything is still decided by the emperor."

March later, it was summer. Two things happened in the palace, one was that Qing Concubine was made a concubine, and the other was that Ning Concubine committed suicide.

I didn't go to the icing on the cake on the day of Concubine Qing's concubine, but on the day that Concubine Ning was secretly given death, I went to see her.

I couldn't say goodbye, but I was unilaterally watching her from a distance. She was like the first time I met her, and her eyes were full of tenderness.

At that time, she told me: "My daughter's family should also read more, read more books to know the heaven and earth, know that there are countless mountains and endless rivers in the world, so that she will not be intimidated by the tribulations in front of her."

But she didn't do it herself.

Three years have passed before I know it.

At that time, I was on Penglai Island, passing by Peony Garden and taking a detour. Because I saw the ceremonial battle between the emperor and the Xiang noble concubine, I immediately felt how far I could avoid it.

I chose a secluded path and rested as I went. Unfortunately, I was attracted by a noise. Not far away, a maid was scolding a maid with a black charcoal face.

"Little hooves, how similar to Xiang Guifei can fly on the branch? Bah! You deserve it too! Everyone is a slave life, and one day with me, you will not want to seduce the emperor! ”

The scolded maid forced back tears, looked at her resentfully, and did not return the mouth after all, maybe she would be beaten even more if she returned the mouth.

This kind of bullying of the little palace maid by the big palace maid is very common in the palace, and I just don't see it, but I won't stand by and watch if I bump into it today. I gave Ding a look, and he immediately understood. I saw that he used to slap the palace maiden and said, "Things that don't have long eyes, Concubine De's driving dare to disturb." The palace maid below made a few more confessions, but they were blocked back by Ding Jiting. After a while, he led the little palace maid towards me.

The little palace maid was a person with eyes, and when she saw me, she knelt down: "Concubine Xie De is a great kindness." I said, "Don't thank the main palace, this time I hid, and next time, you should think for yourself, whether to endure it all the time, or fight back." The little palace maid's eyes lit up, and she kowtowed a few more times: "Ask Concubine De to have mercy and give the slave a way to live!" The slave will swear to follow in the future! "I didn't speak, I just wanted to relieve her, but I didn't expect to be used as a lifesaver.

Seeing that I didn't move, she immediately wiped the black carbon off her face with her sleeve, and the moment I saw her true face, I suddenly changed my mind.

"What's your name?"

"Ye Qiuling."

The days go by quickly, and it has been a year since I opened my eyes and closed my eyes. Concubine Xiang is still high-profile, and few people in the palace look at her pleasantly. Concubine Xian still did not leave the house, Concubine Qing temporarily retracted her edge, the empress could not see the calm, and the Huo Cairen Xiao Cairen Zhang Guiren, who had a lower rank, were also small fights on weekdays.

The weather became cold, and the Queen Mother's health became worse and worse. But even so, she still bathes and fasts every day, burning incense and praying.

I saw that her knees were not good, and it was not appropriate to kneel for a long time, so I persuaded: "Queen Mother, let the concubines replace you, the underground is cold, otherwise you will have to add a few more medicines."

The Queen Mother closed her eyes and said for a long time: "What the Buddha sees is sincerity, and if I come personally, my heart will always be more peaceful." I stopped talking and stayed by her side. Later, the Queen Mother said to me, "Do you know why the mourning family is like this every day?"

I replied to her: "The Queen Mother has the emperor in her heart and the people of the world, so naturally she sincerely prays to the Buddha."

The Queen Mother shook her head: "No, I am here to atone for my sins." After being an empress for so many years, although I am not a bad person, I am definitely not a good person. Those dead concubines, children, many of them because of my acquiescence and inaction. I watched them fight each other from the queen's throne, provoking them to fight each other. Although I didn't do it, it was no different from doing it. ”

I looked at the eyes of the Queen Mother, and on the wrinkled face, a pair of eyes were dazzling.

I suddenly understood something, as the lord of the harem, Concubine Shu harmed Ning Concubine's child, the empress really didn't know? Liu Xin'er's death, she also did not instruct? And is the accident of the little tall oak really an accident...

She seems to stay out of the matter, but is this really the case?

Concubine Qing mentioned that Concubine Xian only worked for one side, and now it seems that that person is the emperor. Otherwise, the empress would not have sent me to the cold palace back then.

At the New Year banquet, the emperor drank two more cups, and the shelf was more lazy. The empress smiled and whispered to him, and Gao Yan nodded when she heard it. I looked at Guyang, who was sitting next to me, watching the song and dance happily at this time, and talking to Yuan'er from time to time.

Yueyu, the emperor issued a decree to marry Princess Guyang and the grandson of Cheng Taifu, and the marriage was completed within the year.

I asked Guyang, but I like that Cheng Jiaerlang. Gu Yang was dazed for a moment and said: "The queen mother said that he is very good, I have known him since childhood, and it is better to marry him if we marry a stranger." I feel a little sad, Guyang is a concubine, her status is noble, but she also marries involuntarily.

The Queen Mother's health is getting worse and worse, and in previous years she was only prone to coughing. Now it is three or five days of illness, and once ill, I have to stay in bed for a long time. I asked the Empress for peace every day, and spent most of my time in the Queen Mother's Palace. One day when the Queen Mother was taking a nap, I was flipping through Buddhist scriptures outside, and when I looked up, I saw the landscape painting of Cangmei Jushi.

Seeing my lingering eyes, Grandma Leng said, "Does the lady like this painting?" I replied: "yes, the brush is flowing, and you can't help but immerse yourself in it." Cangmei Jushi is the name of the Empress Dowager. ”

Mother Leng said, "When the Queen Mother was young, there were many elegant names, and I don't know if it was or not." I nodded and didn't ask any further. After a while, the Queen Mother woke up, and I served the soup medicine and left.

On this day, I was boiling the syrup according to the method in the book, and Qi Guiren came to me, and as soon as he sat down, he said: "Sister, Xiang Guifei has met again with joy." I looked at her with an uncertain look, Xiang Guifei is really protected by heaven, and there are continuous heirs. She just gave birth to a princess last year, and this year she has another one. Qi Guiren continued: "The emperor is extremely happy, and now it is a reward and a state abbot, and everyone outside the palace knows about it." I dipped a little syrup in a spoon for Qi Guiren to taste: "How is it, sweet or not?" Qi Guiren nodded: "Sweet." She felt strange when she saw that I didn't react: "My sister doesn't seem interested at all?" In the past, I must have listened to the things I met with Xiang Guifei, but now my attitude is light.

I turned off the fire and looked at Qi Guiren: "Because I think she is a pitiful person, and in the future, it will only be more pitiful."

Then I suddenly asked Grandma Zhao, "Grandma, what day is it?"

Grandma Zhao stopped what she was doing: "Today, it's May 27." I looked at Qi Guiren with my cheeks up: "Look, the draft is about to start again."

There are more show girls entering the palace this year than in previous years, one is because Xiang Guifei is too popular, which has inspired people's vanity. Second, because the prince is now undecided, all forces want to fight.

Yonghe Palace sent in a talented person and a nobleman. My family heard that they stuffed a lot of silver tickets into me, but I returned them all to themselves. On that day, I said to the two of them, "Money in the palace is not a pass, but a duty." The two of them looked at me with little eyes that they couldn't hide, then at each other, and replied, "Yes, Concubine De." I don't like to be a good teacher, but maybe I'm really old, and I can't bear to think about it when I see their ignorant looks.

The most graceful and outstanding in the harem is Concubine Xiang, and no one will cross her even if a newcomer enters the palace at the moment. Therefore, everyone didn't care who was the first to sleep, but until this grace lasted for five days, the people in the palace slowly couldn't sit still. Five days later, even Concubine Xiang was alarmed, and rumors flew in the palace for a while. It's not on the side, it's just that this talent is too similar to Xiang Guifei. The genuine Xiang Guifei was annoyed and angry for a while, and led someone to kill her dormitory.

It is said that this show girl named Su Miaoniang is just a beauty recommended by Qingzhou Hejian Mansion. The sense of existence in this batch of show girls is not too high, but when she changed into brocade clothes and jade, everyone was amazed by her beauty. And for Xiang Guifei, Su Miaoniang is always smiling, making people feel like a spring breeze, and the palace people can't find anything wrong.

I heard that on the sixth day, the emperor rested in the queen's palace. Maybe I was afraid of being tossed by Xiang Guifei during the day, after all, she was pregnant and shouted and killed with her mouth full. Concubine Xiang was frustrated, and the empress was happy. Within two days, the empress took the initiative to persuade the emperor to make Su Miaoniang a nobleman, and the emperor had long intended this, so that the empress was not only angry with Xiang noble concubine, but also eased the relationship with the emperor a lot.

I don't like to be close to living people, so I deliberately pretend to have a strange temper in front of the two newcomers in Yonghe Palace. And said to them: "Yonghe Palace is just the starting point for you to enter the palace, what ideas and skills you have, make it yourself." The palace will not stop you. As soon as these words came out, the two newcomers did not come to invite An for a few days, and on the fourth day, I heard Ding Xuting say that the two had moved out of the Yonghe Palace, and I just happened to be clean, so I laughed away.

After another half month, it was the day when Princess Guyang got married. Because of Yuan'er, I have a good relationship with Guyang. I knew she was a good boy, but unfortunately the queen only had her son in her heart. On the day of marriage, Gu Yang was still talking and laughing with us at first, but when it was time to cover the red cloth, she suddenly shed two lines of tears. The emperor and empress could only watch her from a distance because of their status. Gu Yang stood in place for a while, before trying to evoke a smile, and then walked to the palace gate in a big red.

The emperor still had a fixed yang in his heart and set the wedding banquet in the palace. On this day, all the princes and nobles in the capital were present, and it was very lively, but only those above the concubine rank could enter the table, and the others could only sigh and look at the high wall.

Halfway through, I met Han Duo. He now plays a pivotal role in the court and is the emperor's right hand man. Some say that in less than five years, he will be the next first assistant. Han Duo did not beat around the bush, and after a few words, he said, "Why did Concubine De privately investigate the Liu family and the Empress's mother's Wu Mansion?" I smiled: "Lord Han's news is really well-informed, and I can't hide anything from you." He didn't smile, but said seriously: "The minister doesn't understand the affairs of the harem, but the lady's move is very dangerous." You can obviously be left alone, so why provoke these? ”

I rubbed my fingers against my satin sleeves, and for a moment I didn't know where to start. I have known Han Duo for many years, and we are neither friends nor enemies. How to say something, how much to say, is all measure. I thought about it for a while, but still said, "Lord Han, it's not that I obviously can't or can't. I'm just a pawn, a knife, a glass of poisoned wine, just a tool for the superior to point out where to fight. Han Duo was shocked by my relaxed tone, and only after a moment said, "It's the minister who said more." I smiled, "It's none of your business."

"To this day, no one will stop."

After the banquet, I returned to Yonghe Palace. Under the lamp, Grandma Zhao was squinting her eyes and mending clothes. I unloaded the shelf of the defensive and concubine and leaned next to my grandmother. Grandma laughed at me: "How many glasses of wine did the lady drink today?" Drunk like this. I smiled and leaned my face over: "I'm not drunk, I'm not drunk, Concubine De is not drunk for a thousand cups." Grandma shook her head, ignored me and didn't push me away. I looked at the stitch and thread in her hand, if I left silently one day, then the people around me, who will shelter them?

Not long after Princess Guyang's happy event, a not very honorable thing happened in the palace. It turned out that Concubine Xiang Guifei collected money to help people promote positions, and several talented people in the palace were already exposed. The emperor has always connived at Xiang Guifei, but this kind of thing in the previous dynasty is to buy and sell officials, and it is a matter of chaos and chaos. Gao Yan had not really fainted, so he grounded Xiang Guifei in Xianfu Palace and investigated the Meng family and others. Concubine Xiang was frustrated at this time, so she gave Imperial Concubine Chen a chance.

The empress had been eager to find an obedient concubine to replace Xiang Princess, so with her push, Chenguiren sat on the concubine position faster than Xiang Guifei back then.

The direction of the wind in the palace changed and changed for a while.

When the concubine came to my palace, the first thing she did was to bow down and thank you. She said, "Without Niangniang, there would be no Autumn Ling today."

That day, when I saw the face of the little maid under the black charcoal, my heart moved slightly. If Xiang Guifei only has four concubines, then she has a full fifty percent, and if she practices a little, she can even get sixty percent. After I told her that the benefits and harms were clear, she did not hesitate at all: "Opportunities are for people to seize, and my face buried on Penglai Island is also bullying, so why not give it a go." Even if it is death, I also confessed, at least I fought. The face is given by my father, who looks like it, it's not my fault, why should I be bullied by them in vain, I'm fed up! ”

So I took her out of Penglai Island and changed her identity to Qingzhou Su Miaoniang and entered the palace.

Looking at the concubine in front of her with flowing eyes, and the difference between the unkempt maid Yun Mu before, even I felt amazed: "The palace is still that sentence, no need to thank you." You get what you want, I get what I want, the two of us don't owe, it's a win-win situation. ”

Concubine Chen smiled, bright as a peach blossom.

After she left, I murmured to my grandmother, "Just a little similarity, I feel that I can't take my eyes off, what a glorious concubine back then." Mother Zhao said with pity: "The old slave only saw a few times from afar, and he can remember it for a lifetime, how can those who are close to her forget it."

In the following months, Concubine Chen became the second Xiang noble concubine in the palace with the momentum of stars and moons. However, she was modest, and the voice of jealousy in the palace was much smaller. The empress gradually felt a little uncomfortable, but the concubine's posture was too good, and she had nothing to attack.

The concubine Xiang, who was grounded, not only did not repent, but made a big noise in the Xianfu Palace, and must see the emperor. She was pregnant, and the palace people couldn't make up their minds, so they told the queen mother. And the queen naturally did not like to touch her moldy head, so she handed this matter over to me. I had a headache for two days, but I finally took Qi Guiren with me.

Xianfu Palace I have always been familiar with, but this time I was surprised that the palace people actually slackened to this point, and the fallen leaves on the road were already very thick and no one cleaned them. I approached the inner hall, and Concubine Xiang was holding the princess and scolding a palace maid, and the seventh prince stood there dumbfounded.

Seeing me coming, Concubine Xiang stopped scolding. After packing up my appearance, I was led to the side hall. I told her with a businesslike attitude: "The emperor has every opportunity, and there is really no time to come to Xianfu Palace recently. You can raise the baby with peace of mind, and wait until the birth of the prince. ”

Concubine Xiang snorted coldly, stubbornly did not let the tears fall: "In the past, the emperor also had every opportunity, but he could still accompany me every day, but now he is just seeing each other, and he can't spend a cup of tea, he is not willing to come." Surely you guys are ghosts, aren't you jealous of my usual favor, and now that I have made a mistake, you just step on a foot alone to get out of anger. I tell you, the emperor's favorite person is me, this time he is sorry for me, when I give birth to the little prince, I am still the former Xiang noble concubine, you still have to bow down when you see me. ”

I looked at her, pitiful and hateful, and only nodded: "No need, you are still a Xiang Guifei, whatever you want, just say, the emperor is just grounded and did not treat you harshly."

After saying something painless, I got up and left. When I went out, the Seventh Prince grabbed my clothes, blinded one eye, and covered it with a mask made of gold. He asked me, "When is Father coming?"

Qi Guiren and I sighed, neither of us spoke, adults are adults, children are children. Finally, I patted him on the head: "It's fast, if there is anything you want to eat and play in the future, just go with the palace ladies, your mother concubine is pregnant with a baby, don't be naughty, get it?" The Seventh Prince still stubbornly pulled my clothes, and he didn't let go until Concubine Xiang yelled.

In winter, the people of each palace are preparing cotton clothes and carbon fires, the snow seals the door, and the concubines rarely go out when they have something to do. It was late on this day, and I was copying the scriptures written to the Queen Mother around the fire. Ding Xuting came in and said, "Concubine Xiang is dead."

The eyes in the room looked at him in unison, and Ding Xuting continued: "Holding the newborn little prince, he set himself on fire in the palace."

I didn't pay attention, the ink dripped on the handwriting, and I lost my expression for a while, and when I saw her that day, although she fell out of favor, she was still arrogant. What made her instantly lose the will to live, in such a tragic way as self-immolation.

On the second day, the empress called all the palace people, apparently for the sake of Xiang Guifei, she said: "Xiang Guifei is dead, and it is really heartbreaking to bring the little prince who has not yet reached the full moon. When the Queen Mother heard about this, she couldn't afford to get sick. The emperor has ordered her to be buried and will not pursue the rest. ”

She pressed her face: "In any case, the imperial heir is the eldest one, and no matter what complaints there are, he should not take the child, but the seventh prince has no biological mother at a young age." As the lord of the harem, the main palace has the responsibility of neglect, punishes himself for half a year, and from today he will pray for the blessing of the little prince in front of the Bodhisattva for 7749 days. ”

Everyone listened with bated breath, and then said: "The queen maiden is kind-hearted, and the courtiers and concubines are ashamed of themselves."

The Queen Mother was already ill, and when she heard that the little prince was killed in the fire, she couldn't help but aggravate her illness. When I went to her bedside to serve, she grabbed my hand and said, "The young son is innocent, and the mourning family thought that sincerity could be seen by heaven, but they still lost another imperial grandson." I comforted the Empress Dowager and said, "The Empress Dowager mourns on her day, maybe God has taken a fancy to the little prince's immortal root, and stayed by her side as a personal child."

The Queen Mother coughed lightly: "I only wish so." Concubine De, the emperor now has a concubine, which does not mean that other princes are not important. Do you understand? The royal heir is the most jealous of withering, and now that these princes have no biological mother, the mourning family is really worried. ”

My eyes moved slightly: "The Queen Mother can rest assured and recuperate, Your Majesty and the Empress will be able to protect them thoroughly." Whatever the Queen Mother wanted to say, it all turned into a silent sigh in the end.

The strangeness of Concubine Xiang's death, the smart people in the palace have seen some of it. But no one will be stupid to commit this taboo.

This year's snow is heavier than usual, as if it is going to swallow people alive. Zhang Guiren accidentally broke his leg because of a slippery road, so the empress ordered us to change the daily invitation to a three-day invitation.

After the snow stopped, it took a long time for the palace people to clear the snow, and they could not sit in the palanquin, and the concubines walked tightly wrapped in the palace road while complaining.

The emperor and empress missed Guyang, and took her into the palace to live for a while after the year. Maybe it's the boring life at home, and I see that her face is much tired.

We went together to ask the Queen Mother for peace, and on the way she looked at the busy palace people and said with a smile: "I used to look forward to this high wall, but when I went out, I knew what it was like outside." It's just that the high wall is replaced with a low wall, and there is no difference. ”

I said, "The horse comes from a famous family, and has been cultivated by etiquette since childhood, so it should be excellent to treat you."

She glanced at me: "Naturally it's good, the whole Cheng Mansion is good."

I think there are words in her words, which seem bitter, but bright. I can't taste anything either.

"But Niangniang, what is the truth?"

She smiled a little, as if she shouldn't have asked me, but then asked.

"If the queen doesn't answer me, I can't ask my father." Lady, once upon a time I thought we were the noblest and had the most. Now it seems not. I've never tried to like someone, and I thought I should like whoever I married. But I never thought that the person I married would like me and should like me. Maybe he has someone else in mind, someone else alive. It's not people like us who bury all our feelings in our hearts and are not sad or happy. ”

I gently ruffled the broken hair on her forehead, and she looked up at the sky: "But the queen also does this to her father and emperor."

I can't answer Guyang because I'm a person who has never had love.

I don't know if the Queen Mother contracted the wind and cold, and I fell ill after the spring. People who rarely get sick are menacing as if they are overwhelmed.

In order not to infect Qi Guiren again, I didn't let her come to the door. The Queen Mother also sent me a lot of medicine, and when I sat in front of the mirror, I found that I had a lot of gray hair.

I laughed in surprise and said to Cuicui, "Well, now I can't lie to myself that I'm a twenty-eight girl."

Cuicui covered her mouth and smiled: "Niangniang has been ill for a long time, and she still looks like she is still twenty or eight years old on weekdays."

I smiled away.

I thought I wouldn't be able to catch up with this year's Spring Festival, but I dragged myself out before the Spring Festival. The Queen Mother's body was still the same, but she didn't care, and turned her head to prepare Chun Yu's things. Gao Yan persuaded her, but when he came to my palace, he said: "The Queen Mother is old, so you must take good care of you on the road." I should: "Yes, the concubine understands." He sat for a while and gave me a lot of rare things. Then he said: "In this year's spring examination, the Wei family children are on the list, and he has good qualifications, but he can have great achievements." Sixth brother, I finally showed a sincere smile, and I also understood what Gao Yan meant, as long as my family can be well, I can do anything.

The Queen Mother talked and laughed with me in front of Chunyu, laughing and laughing, and then vomited a mouthful of blood. She shook her head at me: "Okay, don't beat yourself. I know my own body, and you don't tell the emperor. This is probably the last time I see the grassland. Concubine De, don't look embarrassed, the mourning family is still panting. ”

I plopped down on my knees and wordlessly knocked my head.

She raised her hand to signal me to get up, and then pointed to the painting on the wall: "Every time you come, your eyes can't leave this painting." The mourning family knows that you want to ask, and will solve some mysteries for you today. ”

I glanced at Mother Leng and then at the Empress Dowager, not knowing what to say: "Empress Dowager, in fact, the courtiers and concubines don't know a lot, and the courtiers and concubines are... Know a little, really just a little. ”

The Queen Mother smiled, and she asked Mother Leng to see my lifeless appearance, and said, "This painting is not painted by the mourning family." In fact, Mother Leng didn't know that this painting was made by my sister, Zhang Yun, who went out with me. ”

"Have you heard of Concubine Li."

I nodded: "Concubine Li has a matchless appearance, and the concubine has heard of it."

The Empress Dowager said slowly: "Back then, the Zhang family had three sons, and each room had a concubine, and it stands to reason that the empress should be the concubine of the long room. But my sister Zhang Han is different from ordinary women, she shows people in men's clothes when she is young, and everyone outside hears the name of the concubine of the long room, but no one has ever seen it. She was young and wanton at the time, and relieved a young lady at the banquet, and the two have cherished each other ever since. But after all, this is not tolerated by the world. Later, I married Emperor Xian, and my sister was forced by my father to marry a Xiucai, far away from the capital. She is a fierce son who breaks one of Xiucai's legs and is about to elope with the young lady, but learns that the young lady has died of illness. She cried for a day and a night on the Broken Soul Slope, turned her head and shaved her home, and escaped into the empty door. ”

After listening to it for a long time, I couldn't calm down, and asked for a while: "Should that young lady be Li... But she..."

Mother Leng interrupted me: "Queen Mother, herbal tea is not good for your health, slave maid pour you another cup."

I glanced at the Queen Mother, who had nothing to do, and then took a deep look at the painting on the wall.

I see.

This year's Spring is not interesting, along the way, Qi Guiren saw that my face was not good, and asked me if I was still sick. I shook my head and didn't speak, but I was still thinking about things.

When I arrived at my destination, I slept in a tent and didn't want to go out, and the bones on which I sat in the carriage were going to fall apart. But I really underestimated the Empress Dowager's physical strength, and after a while, I asked Grandma Leng to pass me on and let me go to the stable with her. I paused and asked, "I didn't bring a riding suit?" Mother Leng smiled: The Queen Mother has prepared it for you. I:... When I arrived, I saw the Queen Mother in a riding costume carefully selecting the horses, and the Queen Mother saw me looking me up and down: Not bad, it looks much cooler than usual. I watched stiffly as she selected two dark horses and asked, "Queen Mother, you won't want to get on the horse, will you?" The Queen Mother looked at me as a matter of course: Otherwise, why would I call you to come? I hurriedly said: Back to the Empress Dowager, concubines can't ride horses. The Queen Mother said: It will not be something that can be learned, Duke Song, give this horse to Concubine De. I looked at the big black horse in front of me with the saddle to my waist and couldn't help but feel weak in my heart. But the Queen Mother was already helped to the horse smoothly, and Song Gonggong next to her smiled and said, "Niangniang, please."

When I returned to the tent at night, I found that the roots of my thighs were frayed and red, and I couldn't help but admire the Queen Mother. Although she was only led around twice, the brilliance in her eyes could not be blocked. On the second day, when the Queen Mother heard that my leg was bruised, she did not let me get on the horse again. So I sat with Qi Guiren under the tent and drank tea while watching the children of the sect compete in archery. Later, from a distance, I saw the figure of Concubine Xian alone. After a while, Gao Yan appeared in the picture, and he couldn't hear the sound, but he only saw Concubine Xian saluting and turned around and left, leaving him alone to stand in place. Gao Yan turned his head and bumped into my line of sight, I calmly looked away, and I didn't see anything to do.

This year's Spring Festival banquet is very lively, and people are almost overlooked. King Qin's appearance is different, and the subservience of the steppe tribe is all under the brilliant fireworks, which seems to make people feel so calm all the time. During the banquet, the Yuelu tribe presented a dance, and the woman leading the dance was Sera, known as the "Pearl of the Grassland". She has delicate facial features and a soft figure, which attracted everyone's attention as soon as she appeared. I can't help but think of Portuna, who is also good at singing and dancing, beautiful and charming. I saw that the leader of Yueluo had been observing Gao Yan's expression when he looked at Sera, his eyes ambiguous. When the song was over, the leader really stepped forward and said that he was willing to give this grassland pearl to His Majesty. The queen was dignified and could not see her joy and anger, and Gao Yan said: A pearl cannot be seen in a box of jewelry, and it can only bloom a little on the grassland. The girl named Sera said, "Do you think I'm not good-looking?" Gao Yan did not speak, she continued: Your vision is really bad, I think I am more beautiful than all your concubines, even in a box of jewelry, I am the most brilliant and moving. Gao Yan smiled lowly, but I tasted the danger. Then he waved his hand and let people drag Sera down. The leader of Yueluo asked inexplicably: What is Your Majesty going to do? Gao Yan said coldly: Shun said that she is a pearl is a pearl, and saying that she is a fish eye is a fish eye. Everyone fell to their knees for an instant. At this time, Han Duo came out of his position and said something round. King Qin joked: "Brother Emperor, why be angry. If you really don't like to reward the imperial brother, you know, the imperial brother can't see the beauty of the fragrance the most. ”

The corners of Gao Yan's mouth hooked a smile: "Drag it down."

The smile on King Qinwang's face suddenly became cold, and there was a strange silence on the field for a moment.

Gao Yan said: "Imperial brother, it's just a pearl, if you like it, how about the imperial brother rewarding you."

King Qin pinched the cup and recovered his face, but his eyes were still cold: "Okay, the imperial brother is waiting for the reward of the imperial brother."

For a while, the silk and bamboo instruments began to blow and play again, and the people on the field began to mingle again, as if the confrontation just now had never happened.

I glanced at the empress's affectionate look, and then at King Qin, who was chatting happily with others, and shook my head in my heart.

At this time, with the strings of the steppe, a whispered song came to my ears, as if someone was humming a minor tune. I turned around and didn't see it, thinking I had drunk too much. But this voice is becoming more and more obvious, accompanied by the high-pitched singing of the people on the field, this echoing minor key seems so soft and loving.

I took advantage of the sobering up to circle back to my seat from the other side, and when I passed by Qingxi, I found that her hand holding the wine glass was rhythmically tapping on the wall of the glass.

A lot of things suddenly exploded in my head -

I didn't fall asleep at night, and I came out of the tent to breathe, and happened to meet the virtuous concubine who was drinking alone. She seemed to have drunk a lot of wine, her face was as usual, but her eyes were a little confused.

When she saw me, she didn't care: "I thought I was the only one who couldn't sleep."

I learned to sit under the tree and look at her side face that did not apply powder: "You are probably not in accordance with the rules, after all, it is on the prairie, and many eyes are watching."

She smiled: "Maybe there were many pairs of eyes in the past, because I was General Li's daughter." But now there is none. She looked me in the eye, "I'm just an unfavored concubine of the emperor now." ”

I thought of the way she shook her face at the emperor during the day, and I couldn't help but want to laugh. Seeing that I was thoughtful, she said with a smile, "I really don't like you very much."

I shrugged: "Why."

She doesn't look at me: "Maybe because you don't have feelings."

I cried and laughed, but I didn't speak. She said, "This is good, it's like I was used by that person and lost the whole family."

At this time, a person came in the night, blue clothes fluttering. When he saw that it was me and Concubine Xian, he was not surprised, but just reminded: "The night is dewy, the two nobles should go back and rest quickly."

Concubine Xian and I glanced at Han Duo and left with interest. After taking a few steps, he stopped Concubine Xian and lowered his head to say something.

The Queen Mother has always repeated these days, and the doctor said that it is better to return to Beijing as soon as possible. Gao Yan listened and took it to heart, and was ready to get up and return to Beijing.

At the banquet before leaving, Concubine Qing could not attend due to physical discomfort, and the empress was also unable to attend because of the sudden arrival of the moon. And King Qin and the people of several tribes were also low-key, as if they were waiting for something.

At this time, the leader of Yueluo sent someone to present a beautiful box, saying that it was a parting gift for the empress.

Gao Yan was defenseless, until the man pulled out the short sword hidden at the bottom of the box, everyone panicked.

I don't know who shouted "Escort--" The guards and eunuchs rushed to block in front of Gao Yan.

Before this, King Qin had already calculated, his position was only a few steps away from Gao Yan, and when people reacted, he had already taken Gao Yan's key point.

Gao Yan's clothes were heavy, and he could not fight with the Qin Wang in civilian clothes. His arm had been cut off, and when this was the moment, someone blocked the fatal blow for Gao Yan. I think he probably won't be able to forget her in his life, and the blood in Concubine Xian's abdomen flowed out, and Gao Yan lost his voice: "Concubine Xian..."

The Queen Mother was not their target, so she was unscathed, I was closest to the Queen Mother, and when I picked her up, I happened to see that there were no soldiers behind King Qin.

I Wei Yunsheng have eaten pork, chicken, fish, and beef in my life. I've seen them alive, and I've seen them lying dying on the ground after being killed. But I've never tried to insert a sharp weapon into a person's body.

My father gave me this hairpin, and I clearly remember him drawing a pattern on paper with his own hand and showing it to the goldsmith. He said that he was beating his daughter who was about to enter the palace. He has been an idle errand all his life, and there is no oil and water, which is the only thought he can give his daughter.

I was kicked out of the way by King Qin, rolled off the mahogany table and finally fell under the steps, I felt a part of my body break, maybe a leg or a hand, my throat was fishy, I could hear the Queen Mother's exclamation, and Cuicui's tearing scream.

Before I closed my eyes, I felt someone holding me up, and I knew that I must have been rescued. Because my tears flowed in the palm of the man.

I had long dreams, first nightmares, and then nightmares.

I dreamed that when I was a child, my father and mother quarreled, and I stood outside the door with my younger siblings and did not dare to speak. I also dreamed that I took my third brother's gold collar and made it into a pair of earrings. Being an older sister is really lacking in virtue.

I also dreamed that I went out with my four sisters and five sisters on the day of the last Yuan Festival, wearing masks, and saw fireworks and fire-breathing jugglers. The fourth sister was also squeezed away by the crowd, but fortunately a son sent her back. From then on, she secretly promised that Gongzi Fang, but she didn't expect that because I fell out of favor in the palace, the marriage she had finally made with her sweetheart also broke up.

And my mother, she asked me to take good care of my younger siblings, I didn't. I also want my second brother to say like a little adult, sister, the Wei family can just have me.

I dreamed of many things from the past, and I wanted to call my father and mother, but I couldn't make the slightest sound.

Finally, I dreamed that I was pulling a book in the imperial study, and a man in blue asked me, "Are you a palace maid here?"

I didn't look back, "Yes, yes, yes, what are you going to do?"

He said, "That's right, my Yupei is lost, do you see it?"

I closed the book and looked back to see a handsome son.

I looked at it several times, but I still couldn't remember where I had seen him.

…

I woke up on a bright morning, I felt like my bones were going to fall apart, Cuicui and Grandma Zhao saw me open my eyes and tears flowed: "Niangniang, Niangniang, you finally woke up." It took me a long time to make a hoarse voice: "Silly girl."

King Qin rebelled, and now he has been imprisoned in heaven and beheaded after autumn. Concubine Xian died to save the emperor and was posthumously named Concubine Huixian. And I was able to save the car, so I was promoted to my father's official position, and my reward will be dealt with after I wake up. The Queen Mother's health is even worse after this, and I have heard a lot of rumors during my recuperation, saying that she can't stay up for long.

When I was able to get out of bed, I went to see the Queen Mother and her old man's house. She looked at me and said, "Concubine De is blown away with a thin breeze right now." But I see that the same is true of the Queen Mother, who has reduced more than a little. She asked me if I had any wishes, and I shook my head: "The concubine is very good, very good, I don't want anything." She said, "You have merit this time, leave a child by your side."

I shook my head stubbornly: "Concubines are clumsy, they can't even feed flowers and plants..."

The Queen Mother raised her hand and interrupted me: "The deep palace is dangerous, if you can, it is good to go to the fief with the child."

I don't talk anymore.

When the emperor heard that he was also sick, he was hidden from the whole palace, and even the empress dowager did not know. Qi Guiren said that day: "I heard that the sword was coated with poison, otherwise Concubine Xian would not have been able to save it." I looked at her in disbelief, and then I looked at her again: "Then the emperor..."

Qi Guiren sighed: "No matter what, the imperial doctor in the palace will protect his life."

After some days, the emperor named the second prince as King Zhu and the sixth prince as the king of Qibei.

Gao Yan is not a big grade, but he separated the prince early, and there were rumors about his poisoning. But the position of crown prince has not yet fallen, but it is not a big deal.

There is something that has been in my heart for a long time, and when I woke up, I couldn't have time to dig deeper, but now I dig deeper, but it makes people chill behind my back. So when Gao Yan came to sit with me, I told him my conjecture. It's funny to say, after this incident, the two of us seem to have a little friendship in common tribulations, and if nothing else, the disease that I cannot conceive in this life is indeed left for him.

He asked me coldly: "Who do you think can bear the position of prince?"

I said, "Does the emperor think I've lived too long?"

He looked at me speechlessly and stopped asking. I observed his lip color, which was really not very good, although he was already trying his best to hide it.

Every time it was like this, we were silent as we talked, so we had to take a sip of tea from the cup.

Just after the hot summer, Qing Concubine was suddenly imprisoned. At the Spring Banquet that day, she was the one who hummed the tribal minority. Gao Yan did it very carefully, and the concubine Qing in the palace fell seriously ill and died. And in the prison of Dali Temple, there is a foreign girl named Loshna. She is a mixture of Central Plains people and Biansai people, so she is easily unnoticed, and she is also one of King Qin's eyeliners in the palace. The empress did not come that day not because of the lunar affairs, but because King Qin ordered Qingqing to drug her, and as for what, only they themselves knew.

The day of Loshna's execution was in front of King Qin, and she also played a final role before her death to completely break the empress, who had always looked like a god.

The empress blamed herself for the absence of the Spring Banquet, as the mother of a country, she disappeared out of thin air at the moment of danger, and she could not convince herself without waiting for the suspicion of those conspirators.

But by the time the letter reached her, she was completely devastated.

She returned to the palace late at night wearing a cloak, and Gao Yan was already sitting in the Phoenix Luan Palace waiting for her.

When I went to invite An on the second day, the entire Phoenix Luan Palace was empty, and the empress smiled lightly: "I informed the people of the palaces that there is no need to invite An today."

Only did not inform me.

I had a premonition, stopped talking, and respectfully brought her a cup of tea.

She raised her hand and slapped me, and the cup of tea fell to the ground, crushing my bones.

She said to me, "You know right, the emperor favors Concubine Xiang and Concubine Xiang, all because of that one." You all know, and the Queen Mother also knows, only the main palace is kept in the dark. He and I were married as teenagers, always thinking that I was the one who knew him best, but I didn't expect that in the end, I was the stupidest. ”

She pulled me closer and pressed me step by step: "Are you happy to keep watching my jokes, right?" I've been thinking about why the empress is so pitiful, I didn't know that the emperor liked the concubines of the previous dynasty, and I didn't know that the emperor had actually hated me for so many years! ”

I lowered my eyes: "Queen Mother, never."

She laughed out loud, sad and hateful: "You all lied to me."

She let go of me, turning around a little unsteadily.

I kowtowed and repeated, "Queen Mother, never."

I know that she is not a good person, and there will not be too little blood on her hands. But who in this palace is nobler than anyone?

She said lightly: "Concubine De, you are really a hypocritical person."

I froze, who did I mean by "never"? What does her "hypocrisy" refer to? As if the wind was blowing, I couldn't tell the difference between the piles and piles of the past.

The Queen Mother fell abruptly on an autumn day, just like the ginkgo in her yard, and it fell very beautifully. Grandma Leng's hair was all white, and she held the painting and handed it to me: "Niangniang, the Queen Mother said, don't dwell on the past."

That day I hung the painting in front of my bed, looked at it and fell asleep. It was as if there was a fire burning and burning, burning all the dust of the past.

Luoshina told Concubine Xiang about this, so she held the newborn little prince and set herself on fire in the fire. She told the empress about this, and the empress changed from a person who loved life and hate from praying to heaven to let Gao Yan live, to a death charm that accelerated Gao Yan's death.

Gao Yan often comes to me. Look for me and don't talk. Always sit quietly and wait for a cup of tea to cool. When it's cold, let me add hot tea. He had a lot of words and knew that I was not the right person, so he said to me silently in his heart.

I asked for a reward for Chun Minli's merits and married Cuicui as a female official in the palace. I should have thought about her a long time ago, and let her stumble with me for so long in vain. Grandma Zhao and I personally dressed her up, and her tears couldn't be wiped clean. I smiled and said to her, "So Cuicui, the bride is crying, and she scares the groom when she is careful of the cave."

Cui Cui kowtowed to me: "Niangniang, Cui Cui will never forget your great kindness."

After Cuicui left, there was only Grandma Zhao left by my side. Her dazzling was so severe that threading became difficult, and every now she would say: "When the slave was young, the embroidered flowers and butterflies were famous, and it was because of this that she was chosen to enter the palace." Later, I was favored by the nobles and became a palace maid, in my life, I have served so many ladies and masters, and I will wake up laughing when I think about it..."

Eighteen years of Feng Le. Gao Yan's health was getting worse and worse, and he didn't let the old ministers urge, and soon made the third prince the crown prince. Those old ministers felt even more guilty in their hearts when they saw this, but they had to face sooner or later when they changed dynasties.

Gao Yuan, who is far away in Mobei, wrote to me, saying that he was willing to take me over to enjoy his old age, and there was still a chance to walk out of the palace in this life, and I was still a little girlishly excited.

It was a sunny day, and Gao Yan called me over for tea. He couldn't move, so he opened the window, trapping the garden full of red flowers and green willows in every inch.

He wasn't old at all, exactly the same as when I first met him. But one is when the mood is high, and the other is when there is nothing. No, he is the emperor, what can he lose.

Gao Yan took a sip of tea and thought thoughtfully: "At this time, you are still silent, shouldn't you please Shun more."

I said, "Come, the concubine will pour you another cup of tea."

Gao Yan: "..."

When he came out of the Wanfu Hall, he happened to meet Han Duo. He is now dressed in gold and purple, and he is already in the position of minister. Through the spring light and the willows, I faintly exchanged a picture with him, and I asked him to advise the emperor to take the dragon body seriously according to the duty of the palace concubine, and he returned to my mother according to the duty of a courtier. If there is more, there will be none.

This year's Spring Festival was canceled because Gao Yan was unwell and could not travel by car. For a long time, he stopped summoning me. Goodbye, it is the time when all the courtiers and concubines bow their heads and cry bitterly. Crying their wise young emperor, why did they leave so early.

The empress maiden sat on the edge of the bed and said to everyone: "When the emperor dies, the country cannot be without a monarch for a day, and I hope that the crown prince will ascend the throne as soon as possible and stabilize the Jiangshan society."

After speaking, she fainted.

In a few days, it should have been the best weather. But Gao Yan's death cast a sad shadow over this palace. The Empress Niang fell ill, and only I was the oldest in the concubine throne, so I temporarily managed the six palaces. During the national mourning, Princess Guyang and the staff of the horse left for a personal relationship, and when the palace sent someone to inquire, she actually took back a baby girl who was less than a month old.

The queen pointed to the child in sickness and said, "Flood her in the main palace." Guyang did such an insulting thing to the royal family, and he should have died for his crime. Now this evil beast is still born! Come on, drown her! ”

I was shocked, and hurriedly knelt down and pleaded: "Guyang is not an unreasonable child, this matter may have other hidden feelings, the queen mother is angry."

The empress sneered: "Concubine De said this as if Guyang is your biological daughter."

I replied, "The queen and concubine forgive the sin, but the concubine does not dare." Guyang is the favorite princess of you and the Xian Emperor, and now that the First Emperor is dead, if something happens to Gu Yang..."

The queen calmed down, and she glanced at the child: "Take it to the main palace and take a look."

Probably blood is thicker than water, and the queen held the child for a long time without speaking. This child was also naturally docile and well-behaved, with big eyes looking at the queen innocently.

She finally said: "Send it to the royal temple to raise, from today she is not the daughter of Guyang, and she does not have the slightest blood relationship with the main palace."

For a while, everyone knelt down: "Yes, Empress Niang."

Qi Guiren and I planted a ginkgo biloba in the yard, and I heard that this tree needs a long wait. Only after a hundred years of wind and rain can the branches and leaves bloom, and there are no figs and fruitless for a lifetime, only brilliant leaves rippling in the wind. From a distance, it is a bright and shaky piece, which has its own charm.

I am going to take Grandma Zhao to Mobei Yuan'er's fief and spend the second half of my life there. But the queen did not want me to get my wish.

She ordered concubines above the concubine position to be buried with the first emperor.

After the palace people read the will, they placed a row of self-killing tools in front of me.

"The queen maiden is kind-hearted, and Concubine De can choose by herself and leave decency."

I laughed, is this giving me a choice? Obviously there is no choice.

I felt my limbs tremble, and this time I was really facing death, more terrifying than when I faced King Qin on the grassland. One seeks to live, the other seeks death.

My body stiffened for a long time, and the palace people were extremely patient and waited all the time. I heard the hoarse cry of Mother Zhao outside the palace, pity her for being so old, and being pressed to the cold ground by the eunuch.

The palace people at the head spoke: "Niangniang, good times do not wait for people, the first emperor must be very lonely underground, and I hope that the maiden will be sympathetic to the first emperor and sympathetic to the slaves."

She opened a pill bottle and forced the pill into my mouth. The palace ladies grabbed me hard and didn't let me spit out. They didn't let go until the pills melted in my mouth.

My bun was a little disheveled, and they helped me to the bed and lit incense, and my eyes gradually blurred, leaving only a few silhouettes.

Finally, I seemed to hear a familiar voice.

Some empty, some sigh.

On the Broken Soul Slope on the outskirts, Han Duo stood in front of the carriage and said to me through the curtain: "Niangniang, go where you want to go."

I didn't say anything.

Only a jade pei was handed out from behind the curtain.

I couldn't see his expression, only the wind blowing in my ears.

I wondered, is he wearing a blue suit today?

I laughed again, it didn't seem to have anything to do with it or not.

As soon as the coachman "drove", I rubbed shoulders with him in a rocking manner.

This is the real goodbye.

A warm light shone into the imperial study room and hit the man's robe. He asked me with a serious look.

I paused for a moment and said, "No, no, you go ask someone."

He smiled shallowly: "Disturb the girl."

The pages in his hand turned unintentionally, but his eyes hid behind the mahogany shelf and looked at him.

It's so familiar, where the hell have I seen him?

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