I
still remember that the princess wanted to kill me when
I was in love with Thrushcross, but I had no choice but to swallow the fake death pill.
Who would have thought that the person who saved me turned out to be King Ping, who had an engagement with me. During the ambiguous period, my sister replaced me to marry the prince, which was about to be exposed.
I am the daughter of the prime minister. When I
was born, the Taoist said that I was born with a phoenix destiny.
This word reached the emperor’s ears, and he immediately married me and the prince.
After all, the situation is declining, internal and external troubles, he wants to give the sainted prime minister some sincerity.
His mother died early, and his father soon married the eldest princess.
The long princess is beautiful, but after all, she is a person from the palace, and her heart is not soft enough.
It is said that a motherless child is like a grass, even if I am a noble girl in the capital. In the
troubled times, all kinds of forces are fighting fiercely, and the court is in chaos.
I suddenly contracted a serious illness. The confidant left by the
mother found out that the disease was closely related to the long princess. The maidservant
placed in her courtyard also told me that the eldest princess was determined to kill me.
I clenched the corner of the quilt and coughed so hard that I choked my tears.
It seems that my eldest daughter, who is in vain, is no match for her powerful mother. With tears in her eyes,
Xiao Tao said, “Your ladyship’s favor is in full swing. I just want you to accept your engagement. I’m afraid the prime minister won’t punish her even if he knows the truth.”
My cough got worse and my handkerchief was stained with blood.
Difficult, today’s situation is too difficult. Mam
my Wang motioned Xiaotao to step down.
“Miss, the old slave has a plan.”
I wiped my lips and smiled weakly at her.
“Go ahead, Mammy.”
“It’s a dangerous plan, and –”
she looked at me, her tone calm, but her face was filled with heartache.
“And it depends on whether the young lady is willing to give up the wealth and honor here.” My
eyes were dark, and I smiled bleakly.
“My life is almost gone. What do you care about splendor and wealth?” Holding back her grief
, Mammy whispered in my ear.
Father went home next morning. As soon as
the new emperor succeeded to the throne, his father had a high prestige in the court and made a great contribution in the battle of Miyagi. In order to stabilize the throne, the new emperor attached great importance to him.
I’m so proud of myself.
Partial prime minister mansion is silent, the atmosphere is dignified.
The long princess ran to him in tears.
“Husband, Laner,”
she said, covering her face and weeping.
These months, she tried to prevent my father from coming to see me, saying that my disease was contagious.
The late emperor was ill for a long time, and the king forced him to abdicate. King Ping rescued him, and the prince ascended the throne, with internal and external troubles.
My father was busy with one big event after another, and his body was absolutely unable to collapse, so he never came to visit me once.
Now hearing the sad news, his eyes flashed with grief, but he immediately worried about my engagement with the new emperor.
In the face of family interests, personal life and death are always insignificant.
The long princess covered her smile with a handkerchief, and when the handkerchief was removed, she looked tearful again.
All these years of chaos, we’ve kept Laner in the boudoir, and few outsiders have seen her. And when she was sick, we didn’t publicize it to the public. She looked at her father and hesitated to speak.
“You mean –”
“Shui’er and Lan’er are not very different in age, and they look somewhat similar. Why don’t we switch them? There was eagerness in her tone.
“This is a great crime of deceiving the king.” Although the
mouth said so, the father was thinking about his wife’s words, obviously wavering color. Smiling,
Princess Chang shook her head. You and I both know that the important thing is not the divinatory symbols of the past, but the marriage between Lou and the royal family. What the new emperor needs is not a woman with a phoenix destiny, but the support of the prime minister’s office!
That night, the capital all know, the prime minister’s second daughter Lou Wushui died young, the prime minister grief to the extreme.
However, bearing in mind that the war has just ended, the people’s livelihood is laborious, and the funeral is simple.
Open your eyes, it’s dark.
It hurts! The effect of the
fake death drug has passed, and the throat is full of the smell of blood. There was a lot of crying
outside, and I trembled a little to keep myself from crying. Mam
my Wang said that tears are the least valuable. And now when you cry, you expose yourself. The smell of the
coffin was heavy, with the smell of decay and death, and the space was so small that it could not move at all. Fortunately, someone had poked a hole in the coffin in advance, so I breathed heavily so that I wouldn’t suffocate to death.
However, apart from being able to feel the pain, I am really no different from the dead.
With no food, no water, and a sick soul, drowsiness and nightmares are the best defense against fear.
I don’t know how long I slept with the sad music, but the sound of the coffin shifting woke me up. In my panic, I felt myself being lifted, transported and buried.
Tears fell from the corners of my eyes, and fear came flooding in. There was a louder cry
outside, which made me cover my ears.
A shovel of loess hit the coffin board, like a pair of hands beating.
I clenched the corner of my coat.
It’s cold.
Now it should be buried in the ground, surrounded by the elders of the Lou family, I do not know if my mother is close to me.
Mother, the air hole is blocked, Laner can’t breathe, what should I do! A
dull pain came from my chest, as if someone had pinched my neck, and I was about to cough out my lungs, spitting blood on my face. With
tears in my eyes, I saw the light, but when I reached out to touch it, I could only touch the cold coffin board.
I finally passed out.
I heard the sound of the rain, but when I opened my eyes, it was a broken roof and a strange girl.
We’re in a ruined temple on the outskirts of town.
“Miss, you’re awake!” Her eyes were red, as if she had been crying for a long time.
“You must be Mammy Wang’s adopted daughter.” The corners of my mouth
were salty and bitter, and I sat up, but my body was weak, so she lifted me up.
“My name is Ying Yun. Miss, just call me Yun’er.”
Clouds.
She is not a slave, but she is willing to accompany me to escape. I owe more to Mammy Wang.
I clenched her hand, but my throat was cut like a knife. When
I coughed, I found a man standing at the door.
He frowned. Ben was listening to the rain. When he saw me awake, he turned around and nodded slightly to me.
The man was dressed with extraordinary bearing, and his eyebrows had both the elegance of a scholar and the dignity of a military general.
“He is–”
My eyes flashed.
According to the arrangement at that time, now I should be accompanied by only the cloud and a bodyguard, and this person is like a pair of princes and generals, will never be my bodyguard.
Are we still being discovered?
“Don’t be afraid, young lady. That’s our savior.” Seeing that my face was pale, the cloud quickly stroked my back.
The man also gathered up his sword and came to me.
“Don’t be afraid, Ben.” I’m not a bad person.
The voice is very steady, which makes people feel at ease.
But I still stared at his dark pupils and refused to relax my vigilance.
“Miss, you don’t know that when I opened the coffin, your face was as pale as death, your lips were purple, and your pulse could hardly be detected.”
Cloud began to talk about the danger at that time, her mind is simple, do not know how to avoid in front of outsiders. When I
went to the hospital, the herbalist shook his head, and your bodyguard thought the young lady couldn’t live, so he ran away. I’m alone, and I don’t know what to do.
Cloud said tears fell down, although she is much taller and stronger than me, but the age and I are only teenage girls.
But she immediately smiled through her tears and said,
“It’s a good thing I met this young man.”
My eyes finally softened a little. In fact,
he is not very old, and he has a cinnabar mole between his eyebrows. But looking at his waist again, there was no token hanging.
“Cinnabar touches the eyebrows of Dai Jian, and the east wind blows Huai Yushu.”.
I think of someone. When he
was still in the boudoir, he often heard people talk about his natural and unrestrained pleasure: Fengshen was handsome, his talent was amazing, and he loved the people like a son. He was a young hero of Daliang.
He was the youngest son of the late emperor. After the death of the late emperor, the king launched a palace rebellion that night, and became the emperor. He also imprisoned the crown prince at that time, who was my nominal unmarried husband, and now the new emperor.
He was in the frontier fortress at that time, and when he heard about it, he immediately joined hands with the kings and led his troops back to Beijing. In addition, my father was an insider in the capital, and he died before he could sit on the throne of the king.
This all happened not long ago.
Aware of my scrutiny, he responded with a look of scrutiny, but his expression remained flat.
I looked down and looked out of his line of sight. After a long
silence, I gritted my teeth and knelt down in front of him, my eyes shining with water.
“Thank you, King Ping, for your help.” Just as
he was about to hold my hand, he stopped and smiled unconsciously at the corners of his mouth.
That smile is like a tranquilizing incense, without malice.
“I didn’t know Lou’s young daughter was so clever.”
I glanced at the cloud, this girl how to say everything out!
I can only gamble.
I coughed again and knocked my head heavily on the ground.
“Your Highness has a kind heart. This time I will go back to the frontier fortress through Yangzhou. Please ask Your Highness to take two civilian women for a ride.”
My uncle is Yangzhou Secretariat, although the power is weak, but is the only one who can protect me.
Seeing that he was not moved, my heart crossed, tears fell on the floor, one by one knocking his head, blood oozing from his forehead, so painful.
The cloud also knelt down with me.
“The women of the people know that they have crossed the line, but if Your Highness does not help us, we will definitely not survive for three days.”
“Save us, Your Highness!”
King Ping seemed to be moved.
He turned around with his hands behind his back-obviously not a few years older than me, but he looked so mature.
“If you follow the king, you will only be more dangerous.”
I remembered the token he had hidden. Is he also on the run if he
deliberately conceals his identity? King
Ping was King Ping after all, and he could not bear to see his two half-grown children die in vain.
He turned around.
“But if you are not afraid, the king will not hinder you.” As
he spoke, the rain had stopped.
I was already weak, but now I was hurt again. I felt dizzy, my legs were weak, and I couldn’t stand up.
The cloud hurriedly helped me out of the temple. I don’t know when a group of people gathered outside the
temple, and ordinary people could not hide their evil spirit.
I quickly looked up to see King Ping.
“It’s all right.”
He sensed my uneasiness and comforted me softly.
Those people had no intention of killing, and they all knelt down when they saw King Ping.
King Ping motioned to Yuner.
“You go with them, and we’ll split up.” As he
spoke, he turned and looked softly.
“You and the king go to the hospital.”
I shook my head subconsciously for fear of revealing my identity.
He saw my concern and smiled
. “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “That’s my old friend’s clinic.” As
he spoke, he approached me with a complicated look.
And if you look at your pulse, you’re not sick, you’re chronically poisoned. I know how to get rid of this poison, but I need the medicine from the hospital.
Pulse condition? He felt my pulse?
At home, the herbalist felt the pulse through a curtain and put a piece of gauze on my wrist, so that he could not touch my hand directly. He
I was a little surprised. He turned his head away from my eyes, and his voice was a little guilty.
“Cough..” The situation was urgent, and the king didn’t mean to overstep the rules.
I tried to get on the horse, but I couldn’t reach it. After
much hesitation, he suppressed a smile and gently carried me onto the horse.
I look small, in his eyes, I am just a little girl in the end, not so many concerns between men and women.
The horse’s back was too strong, and I was too weak. Even if I pulled the reins tightly, I still couldn’t hold it down.
He unconsciously put a hand around me.
I froze, not daring to move, even my breathing became unnatural, and the tips of my ears were burning red. I haven’t been held for as long as I
can remember.
King Ping was really a kind-hearted man. Under such circumstances, he accompanied a girl who had never met him to stay in the country hospital for three days.
“It doesn’t matter,” he said softly, seeing that my eyes were full of shame. “The prime minister has done his best for Daliang, and the governor of Yangzhou is a loyal minister. You are the eldest daughter of the Lou family. The king should do his best to protect you.”
He guessed my identity.
“Is your Highness not afraid?”
After all, I am a man of destiny. It would be bad for him to be known to be with the king of peace.
He laughed at my nervousness.
“If you are not afraid, why should the king be afraid?”
Yes, I rubbed my eyebrows. He is a hero in the world. How can he be afraid?
On the battlefield of the horse is fast, not more than five days, we arrived in Yangzhou.
The cloud was waiting for me early.
I’m still a little weak, but I look good and I don’t cough much. Coming down
from the horse, he stood with Yuner in front of King Ping and made a big gift to him. With a smile in
his starry eyes, he left us a soldier and waved goodbye.
I looked at the king who was far away. The sunlight stretched his shadow very long, and the black lines showed the king’s domineering power.
If there is no accident, I will never see him again in my life. I have a birthmark on my
forehead. It’s very small. Others don’t know it, but my uncle knows it very well.
This certificate let me into the Secretariat mansion, I can finally breathe sigh of relief.
Hearing what had happened to me, my grandmother held me in her arms and wept, while my uncle comforted me:
“Don’t worry, Laner, as long as my uncle is here, no one will bully you again.”
I nodded with tears in my eyes.
But in troubled times, how can a stable life last long?
The new emperor made great efforts to make the country prosperous, but his ambition was too great and his means were too fierce. It was good that he intended to cut down the vassals, but the policy was too impetuous.
The vassal king of Yangzhou had already secretly recruited troops and bought horses, elevated the power of the provincial governor, and cut off his contact with the outside world.
My uncle can’t hold him down.
But he did not expect that the vassal king would act so quickly.
That night I felt uneasy and couldn’t sleep, so I put on a dress and went outside to enjoy the moon. Bored
, I heard the sound of scattered footsteps, and before I could tell anyone, there was the sound of weapons in the front yard, as well as the screams and cries of maids.
I took a deep breath of cold air and hid in the bushes before I could escape.
The cloud ran out of the house, as if looking for me, but before she could shout out, she was shot by an arrow. After falling to the ground, she struggled to crawl away, but many soldiers rushed over to her. Repair knife.
Blood is spattering everywhere, and people are dying around them.
Cloud.
I covered my ears and shivered, not daring to cry out.
The soldiers dragged out all the dead people in the house and piled them in the yard.
Hiding here will be discovered sooner or later. With tears in my eyes, I looked around blankly.
They all swarmed into the house to loot.
I tried to calm down, ran quickly into the courtyard, wiped the blood of the maidservant on my body, then pulled out the arrow on the heart of the cloud, clenched my teeth, and stabbed myself in the chest.
It hurts!
The wound is not deep, but it looks fatal.
I just lay motionless in the dead.
When other people’s feet step on me, I don’t say anything.
“Burn it all.”
“Yes!”
The rebels withdrew from the mansion, took the arrow to the mansion to shoot the kindling, the tongue of fire quickly licked the whole Secretariat of the mansion, reflecting half of Yangzhou.
I climbed up, the heat was rolling, and I jumped into the well in the yard with my hair loose. The
cold water soaked through my bloody clothes.
This well is not deep, only up to my waist.
My uncle told me it was a good place to hide.
The chest is very painful, the heart is also very painful. In the light of the fire, I bit my sleeve and cried so hard that I almost choked.
Yangzhou is reversed. King
Ping had long speculated about this, and a large number of troops were quietly stationed in nearby Lizhou, waiting to catch a turtle in a jar.
Within two days, King Ping recovered Yangzhou. The world was amazed. I thought I was dead when I was pulled out
of the well.
“Your Highness, there is a man alive!”
“Bring it here.” In my
nasal cavity was a putrid smell that would not go away, and in my mouth was the bitter taste of blood. I opened my eyes with difficulty, and I was looking at him in surprise:
“Pass it on!”. We haven’t seen each other for
a year, and we have grown a lot.
His king demeanor is also more sufficient.
He remembers me.
I pulled the corners of my mouth, and my eyes gradually fell into darkness. I can
‘t see the fleeting helplessness
on his face, always dreaming.
Dream that now is peace and prosperity, there is no war. I
dreamed that I was the daughter of an ordinary family, and there was not so much intrigue.
I dreamed of him. I dreamed that he was feeding me medicine.
I smiled bitterly. How could this be possible.
But when I opened my eyes, King Ping was really in front of my bed.
“It is the king who has broken his word.” He put down the medicine bowl.
He was referring to the original promise to “protect Lou’s legitimate daughter.”.
I shook my head and couldn’t make a sound. The governor of
Zhao devoted himself to his work and was loyal and righteous all his life. The king has sent someone to bury him. You can’t go back to the prime minister’s mansion, and there is no one closer to you. If you don’t mind, follow the king back to Kaizhou. My
eyes lit up and I thought it was burning.
Seeing my hesitation, he picked up the medicine bowl on the side again.
“I’ll do it myself!”
I quickly squeezed out the sound, but my hands were unable to catch the bowl.
King Ping didn’t care. He just scooped up a spoonful of medicine, put it to his mouth to cool it, and then fed it to me carefully.
Sometimes when the medicine touched the corners of my mouth, he would gently wipe it for me with a handkerchief.
What a gentle king.
The medicine is bitter, but I don’t think it tastes bad.
Kaizhou is far away, and the king does not do anything that is difficult for others to do. Give you time to think.
He carefully covered my bedding and went out.
I became a guest of Prince Ping’s mansion.
I wanted to be the maid of the palace, after all, I came to seek refuge with him.
“Is the first daughter of the prime minister’s family a slave to someone else?” He smiled. “Are you trying to make your father angry?”
“He doesn’t know.” I whispered.
He shook his head in firm disagreement.
I thought there was no princess in the palace, but there should be someone to sleep with.
Can see a circle, even the maid is very rare.
He thought I was wondering about the emptiness of the palace, so he explained,
“The war on the frontier is tight, and the Western Qi are frequently attacking. I don’t live in the palace on weekdays.”
I nodded and suddenly felt a little sorry for him.
Obviously the prestige is outside, the status is so noble, but there is no one around to ask for warmth, and the mansion is so deserted.
“What are you thinking?” When
he saw that I was distracted, he bent down and looked at me. At the moment of
sight, I just felt my heart missed a beat.
He didn’t notice anything different about me.
“If I’m not here, I can treat myself as the master of the palace, and I can be more presumptuous.” The master of
the palace?
I lowered my head for fear that he would see my red face.
The words should be said to the future princess.
King Ping was indeed a man who had never married, and he didn’t pay any attention to what he said! King
Ping has been staying in the palace recently. When I
heard the news, I hurried to the kitchen to cook. The cooks
here can only cook local delicacies, while King Ping grew up in the capital. Like me, he should often miss the taste of his hometown.
“Did you do it?” There was surprise in his eyes.
“Your Highness doesn’t think that all noble women don’t touch the sun and autumn water?”
He did not answer, but stretched out his chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat, tasted it, and smiled.
“I really haven’t had this dish for a long time.”
“Me, too.” I poured him a glass of wine. “A long, long time.”
Two people who can’t go back home are wandering together in Kaizhou, which is the farthest away from the capital. They also have the feeling of cherishing each other when they meet an old friend in a foreign land and a bosom friend when they are drunk.
Maybe the wine is too intoxicating, or maybe I’m already obsessed with ghosts.
I bent over the table and looked at him with a smile. He was also amused by me. He waved his hand in front of my eyes to see if I was drunk.
Looking at his face close at hand, I held out my finger and touched his lips as if I was bewitched. The lips of
such an iron-boned man are so soft.
He was stunned and looked at me in a daze, a little cute.
Realizing that I was out of line, I sneezed, stumbled to my feet, forgot to salute, and walked out of the door.
King Ping stood up.
But after a few steps, I tripped over the threshold and fell heavily to the ground. I was
really hurt. When I
was drunk, I was no longer good at forbearance, and tears flowed down.
I got up from the ground, pursed my mouth, turned my head, and saw his hand hanging in the air, and the undisguised heartache on his face. I haven’t been distressed for a
long time, as if I had met a clear spring after a long drought. With a slight movement
in my heart, I climbed up from the ground and trotted to put my broken hand in front of him.
“You blow.”
I feel wronged.
He froze for a moment, then gently shook my hand, leaned over, and blew carefully.
He looked serious, as if he were treating a rare treasure. My
nose was even more sour, and I hugged him and cried loudly, ignoring the etiquette of the monarch and his subjects. I
had never seen me so weak before. He stiffened for a moment, then slowly put his hand on my shoulder and said in a dumb voice,
“Don’t be afraid.” Tired of crying
in his arms, I fell into a deep sleep.
Staring at my sleeping face, he rolled his Adam’s apple, wiped away my tears with his finger pulp, then picked me up and sent me back to my room.
The next day, I got up with a splitting headache.
“The young lady has woken up. This is the sobering soup that Your Highness has ordered people to make. You’ll feel better after drinking it.”
I took it and took a sip. It was sweet.
“Your Highness has come to see you, madam.”
Look at me?
I put down the soup and saw him come in.
I’m busy saluting.
“Are you feeling better?”
I nodded.
He looked at me and hesitated to speak.
I rubbed my eyebrows. What happened last night was vivid in my mind. He didn’t mention it. I didn’t remember anything in plain clothes.
“Haven’t you been to the market yet?”
I shook my head, but then said,
“Let Chun Er accompany me another day.”
Chuner is the maid he chose for me.
She was originally from the palace, bold and careful, and very good at martial arts, so the queen mother asked her to come to Kaizhou with King Ping.
“Don’t bother. The king will accompany you today.”
I looked at him doubtfully, but my heart was beating fast.
In the boudoir for more than ten years, I have never seen the prosperity of the capital. But I’ve only been in Kaizhou for half a year, and I’ve already seen most of the fireworks in this city.
I looked around like a child, and
the crowd was so crowded that no matter how attractive the gadgets on the shops were, I dared not leave Pingwang. His
wandering eyes always fell on the corner of his sleeve, and he wanted to grab it but dared not.
“Afraid of getting lost?”
I bit my lip and nodded gently.
He smiled.
“Don’t worry, I won’t lose you.” Then he
handed me a bag of coins and said softly,
“Buy whatever you want.” With a gleam of joy in my
eyes, I trotted away happily. Tired of
shopping, King Ping handed me water.
“Laner, I’ll take you to a place.”
It was the first time he called my name.
Looking up, I was looking at his bright eyes.
He took me on a boat.
Boating on the clear water, the green mountains on both sides of the river are picturesque, which is really beautiful.
I put my hand in the river, and the water ran across my fingertips, which was cool and comfortable.
He looked at me and smiled unconsciously.
“Are you used to living in the palace?”
I nodded.
“I always come here before I go to war.”
I turned to look at him, and his eyes were a lake of calm water. I began to fight when I was
fifteen years old, and countless souls died by my sword. My blood must be colder than this lake. He also put his hand in the water.
“You didn’t.” I frowned slightly. “If you were cold-blooded, you wouldn’t have saved me and …” Clouds. He had my reflection in his
eyes.
“That’s not the first time I’ve seen you.” I
opened my eyes wide.
“How is that possible?”
“When my brother was still the crown prince, he ordered me to visit you secretly.”
My eyes opened wider. He chuckled at the big doubt in
my eyes.
“I know it’s not polite, but young people are always curious.”
I remembered that day, at dusk, I stayed under the trees in the courtyard to enjoy the cool. Half asleep and half awake, I was awakened by a very light noise.
When I opened my eyes, I was facing a pair of black eyes on the eaves. Before
I could call out, the boy smiled at me and disappeared.
Then you.. What did you tell your brother?
“I say you are as beautiful as a banished immortal.”
I looked down and blushed again.
“On the day we meet again, were you on the run?”
I don’t look at him. I just play with my head down.
“Yes.”
I sighed and looked at his eyes with pity. I
‘ve always been careful about what I say, and I never ask too many questions. But I’m not stupid. How can I not know how hard it is for King Ping.
King Lin held a large number of troops in the capital and seized the opportunity to rebel. The emperor took advantage of King Ping’s military forces to ascend the throne. While thanking him, he was also very afraid of him.
Keep him in the capital for so long, I guess I’m waiting for an opportunity to kill him.
I picked up a glass of wine on the small table and handed it to King Ping.
The boat moved slowly to the other side.
“King Lin lost his mother when he was young. He was brought up by my mother. We used to have a very good relationship.”
Bitterness spread, and the ends of his eyes became reddish.
“The king, the prince, and I, we had an agreement.”
He shook the wine in his cup and raised it, as if to speak to the man in the ground:
“He is a wise king, you are a virtuous minister, and I will defend the territory for the great good.”
However, he personally killed King Lin and became a disloyal and unjust regicide in the eyes of some of his followers.
And his mother’s brother, not only suspected him, but also had the intention to kill him.
This, he did not say, I also know. When the
boat reached the shore, he drank up the wine in the pot and stood up.
He became the invincible king again.
“Let’s go back.”
“When will you come back?”
I followed closely behind him and asked in a low voice.
He stopped.
I don’t know.. I’m afraid I won’t be able to come back in time for your ceremony.
And the ceremony? He still cares about me.
No. It doesn’t matter.
I forced a smile.
Wanderer, it’s good to have someone to remember my birthday.
King Ping has been gone for more than two months.
Rain in succession, Chuner held an umbrella for me, and I had a beautiful hairpin on my head, which was his birthday gift to me. The rain
this year is a little too much?
I counted the petals knocked down in the yard by myself.
Afraid of my boredom, Chuner told me about the interesting things that had happened recently.
“Miss, I hear there’s been a big event in the capital.”
Her exaggerated tone did not interest me at all. I’m still concentrating on counting.
“What’s the big deal?”
“The great event of the true and false queen.”
I stepped on the air, but fortunately Chuner held me.
The new emperor was a capable man, and after a few years on the throne, he was fully fledged and dissatisfied with the strength of the prime minister. The eldest daughter of
the prime minister’s mansion and the emperor personally inserted a hairpin for her. That was the first time they met.
But after the ceremony, your majesty was furious, saying that they took the false eldest daughter to fool the emperor.
Chun’er has a lot of gossip.
“Your Majesty has a portrait of his eldest daughter, and that portrait was painted by your Highness.”
“Him?”
Seeing my surprise, Chuner was very proud.
“Yes, your Highness was able to climb over the eaves and walls when he was young. He couldn’t bear his brother’s entreaties, so he sneaked off to the prime minister’s mansion and looked carefully at the true appearance of his eldest daughter. He came back and painted a portrait. That’s how he handed in his job.”
“The beauty in the portrait has a birthmark on her forehead.”
And the false eldest daughter, she does have a birthmark, but it’s a different shape and size. Upon investigation, it turned out that it had been stabbed later.
I lowered my eyes and stroked my forehead.
King Ping kept a heart and asked me to cover the birthmark with powder on weekdays.
“Couldn’t something be wrong with the portrait?” I mean shape of the birthmark.
“How can that be? Your Highness is famous for his photographic memory, and his painting is excellent.”
I remembered those black eyes and bit my lower lip unconsciously.
“And how is Your Majesty going to punish him?”
A servant said that his eldest daughter had faked her death and should still be alive. Your Majesty decreed that if the young lady could be found, he could let bygones be bygones, otherwise, he would be severely punished.
“You say Your Majesty is very devoted to her!”
“Love?” I frown, I and the emperor have never met, where is the love. When I
got back to my room, I was holding hot tea, and I couldn’t feel at ease.
According to Chun’er, now Your Majesty has ordered me to be found in Quan Daliang. I want to see people in life and see corpses in death.
After all, with the prophecy of that year, if someone found out that I was with the king of peace, he was afraid that he would suffer again. With
this in mind, I put down my tea and wrote a letter. I have
been in the palace for more than a year, and I really haven’t spent much time with the King of Peace. But he was always careful. That time
I just told Chuner that I was greedy for cherries, but somehow he knew that he had made meritorious military service, not real gold and silver, as long as the emperor gave the best cherries of that year to Prince Ping. When
he was in the mansion, he would teach me to practice martial arts, saying that I could defend myself. When I
went to war, I did not forget to let Chuner continue to urge me. Now I can also use three-legged cat kung fu.
His good, really can not say enough.
I put a perspirant in the food.
The night covered my hot tears and watched the people around me fall asleep. I packed my bags and left the palace. I
rode a long way out of his fief before I dared to go to the local governor. I can’t make up for the
dead, but I will do my best to protect the living. Hearing that King
Ping had won the battle again, I wonder if Chuner had sent him the letter I had pressed in the dressing box.
Sitting on the sedan chair back to the capital, crying into tears, I realized how reluctant I was to part with him.
I don’t know if he will think of me as a crybaby when he looks at the moon in the frontier fortress. After the
blood test, they took me directly to the emperor.
I fell to my knees.
“Are you Lou Wulan?”
“Yes.” Where have you been hiding
all these years?
“My daughter is wandering around.”
“Oh, do you have no fixed abode?”? I thought you were already married!
The emperor’s voice became excited, causing him to cough.
Just, this voice sounds, how a little old?
“I dare not.”
“Heads up.”
He said in a deep voice.
I looked up and was taken aback. Your Majesty is only ten years older than me, but why does he look so old? He has white hair and furrows on his face.
“Yes, it’s true what Chengzhao said. It’s as beautiful as a banished immortal.”
Chengzhao is the king of Ping, whose full name is Li Chengzhao.
Hearing the name, I somehow felt a pain in my heart.
Two years later in the capital, the family has changed.
Xiaotao has redeemed her freedom and has married as a mother. Mam
my Wang was summoned to serve me in the palace-the emperor did not allow me to return to the prime minister’s mansion.
Since ancient times, the emperor’s heart is hard to guess. The emperor took great pains to bring me back to the palace, but he didn’t mean to get married at all. Instead, he made the big prince the crown prince.
Your Majesty married a virtuous concubine at the age of 15, and the prince was only two years younger than me.
These days, the mother of the prince, the virtuous imperial concubine, often comes to see me.
Seeing that I was absent-minded, the virtuous imperial concubine winked, and the servants retired one after another.
“Is Laner guessing what Your Majesty is going to do next?” She picked up the teacup, dignified and elegant.
“I dare not.”
“Laner, what do you think of the present prince?”
“His Royal Highness looks like a man of good fortune.”
“Then it’s not wrong for you to be his wife?”
I didn’t hold it steady, and the hot tea spilled on my hand and burned it red.
“Why are you so careless?” The virtuous imperial concubine wiped me with a handkerchief and said angrily to the servants,
“Are you blind?”? Pass it on to the doctor!
“Empress,” I said in a trembling voice, “is that what Your Majesty means?”
Xian Fei nodded. You have seen
His Majesty’s condition. When King Lin imprisoned him, he used poison. The Imperial Physician was incompetent, and the antidote had never been developed.. Her eyes turned red as she spoke. “Your Majesty’s days are numbered.”
“You are a man with a phoenix destiny, and you are blessed. You will certainly be able to help the crown prince secure his throne.”
A blessed man?
The doctor was in a hurry to rub the medicine on me.
You can’t help yourself, but you are blessed?
11．
Walking on the road, my right eyelid kept jumping. I rubbed my eyes and caught a glimpse of someone coming around the corner.
Anyway, I have the lowest status in the palace, and I’m ready to salute before the man approaches.
“Laner?”
The sound?
I looked up suddenly, and the person I missed day and night stood in front of me.
But why did he come to the capital!
My lips opened slightly, my eyes flashed panic, and then I felt sour. With all the people
around, we can’t say more.
“Laner has seen your Highness.”
I remember what he looks like now with my eyes.
He looked much more gaunt and had new wounds on his face.
The sword has no eyes. How painful he must have been.
I can’t hold back my tears.
He seemed to have a thousand words stuck in his throat.
However, this is not Kaizhou, the palace has many eyes and ears, he can only pretend to be unfamiliar with each other like me, and then pass by.
“Don’t be afraid.” I
thought I heard him say that to me.
The heart is restless, at night, how can not sleep.
As if expecting something, I stood up.
Pushing the door, I saw him outside the door.
The silver light fell on his body and made him a little pale.
I don’t know. How long has he been standing outside.
I covered my mouth, surprised and delighted, and pulled him directly into the room, closing the door for fear of being seen.
“How dare you.” It was obviously a
joking tone, but my eyes were so red.
He gently wiped away the tears from my eyes and hugged me tightly, as if I would disappear in the next second.
“Li Chengzhao, I want to go back to Kaizhou.”
This is the first time I have called his name.
“Laner..”
The tone is full of helplessness and sadness.
The insufferably arrogant King Ping will be powerless one day.
I shook my head and forced a smile.
“It’s all right. I’m just thinking.” Then
I went to look through the medicine bottle in the box and said,
“I asked the Imperial Physician for it. It’s the best.”
Said, all handed to him.
“Go back to Kaizhou now. Go back quickly.”
He was still silent, unsteady on his feet, and seemed a little weak.
“Why..” I held my tears.
Do you want to see Your Majesty for the last time because of your brotherly affection? Now that you have seen it, go back quickly.
He did not answer, but raised his head to prevent me from seeing the tears in his eyes.
“Laner, if I could, I really don’t want you to cry.”
I pouted and made a face at him.
“No, I’m going to cry, whoo!”! Whoo! Whoo! As
he spoke, he pretended to wipe his tears.
He smiled, but dirty blood oozed from the corners of his lips.
He could no longer hold on, half kneeling on the ground, red eyes, looking at me, eyes with thousands of kinds of reluctance.
“Laner, I must bless you, bless you with peace and joy …”
He tried to wipe the tears from my face, but he couldn’t lift his hand.
I saw the light in his eyes dripping with tears.
I felt his breath with my hand in disbelief. It’s
cold, but I feel like I’ve been scalded.
I hugged him and couldn’t cry.
My favorite king has fallen. The attendants
outside were ready, and they took him away despite my tears.
I can’t hold his hand. The hero of his
military life was finally charged with treason and assassination. After
his death, he was put on public display and thrown into a mass grave.
His life is as short as fireworks. There was a flood
in Kaizhou and other States, but the capital refused to relieve the disaster. Instead, he repeatedly sent a secret letter urging King Ping to go to the capital, saying that His Majesty was in bed and missed his own brother. There is no need to say
what it means.
Seeing that the plague was prevalent and the people were starving, King Ping went to the Hongmen banquet after all.
It was not until later that I learned that in the daytime, some attendants felt that we looked at each other in an unusual way, so they reported it to Your Majesty.
“Chengzhao, this cup of wine must be drunk by one of you and her.”
The emperor thought that King Ping would look at him with hatred.
But Chengzhao looked flat, as if he had expected this day. The people of the
south, and Lou’s eldest daughter.. Please, Your Majesty.
He picked up the wine and gulped it down. On the way to
fight for power, he must step on the bones of his blood relatives. He is helping his son to get rid of the big trouble.
The emperor laughed to tears.
Unexpectedly, his younger brother was so stupid.
“One more hour, Chengzhao, I allow you to say goodbye to her.” The prince and
I will get married soon.
Because Your Majesty said to me,
“If I can put King Ping’s head on public display, I will be able to make him immortal.”. Don’t embarrass me.
My heart is like a knife, and I grind my teeth to endure tears.
I still have to vindicate him.
A strong man died, his noble character, can not let the historian slander him!
Less than a year later, the crown prince ascended the throne and I became the queen. When
the new emperor was young, the imperial concubine ruled from behind a screen, and the means were more ruthless than those of the late emperor.
Once again, I woke up crying from my dream, and I saw him in the dim tears.
“Don’t be afraid.”
He said to me. When
the prince ascended the throne, he was only 14 years old, and his consorts interfered in politics, which made the court a mess.
The new emperor looks weak, but I know better than anyone that he is not willing to be a puppet. He wants power.
We quickly reached an agreement-I helped him seize power, and he rehabilitated the emperor’s uncle. I haven’t seen my father for
a long time. Although Lou’s family is not as beautiful as before, the foundation is still there.
The prime minister is not a good father, but he is a loyal minister.
He is responsible for winning people’s hearts in the court.
King Ping’s old troops are still there. The present commander’s surname is Wan. I’ve seen him before. I sent someone to bring him a letter.
Everything is ready except for a fire.
When the Zhao clan wanted to start killing the anti-feather, the court elders were forced to dismiss from office one after another.
Kaizhou also joined forces with several nearby States to put pressure on the rebellion.
The new emperor even personally beheaded the commander of the imperial guards, directly led people into the bedroom, and imprisoned his mother and concubine. Under all kinds of pressure,
the toffee asked his majesty to issue a decree to cut the power of the mother clan.
The new emperor was a man of his word, and he gave Li Chengzhao a good name.
The imperial edict was issued, and King Ping’s coffin was moved to the imperial mausoleum. Thousands of miles away in Kaizhou, people rushed to tell each other, shed tears, and held a memorial ceremony for the souls of heroes. I,
on the other hand, sat alone in the palace, accompanied by thousands of lights in the distance, tasting the wine he had drunk and drinking the poison he had tasted. In
troubled times, after all, we are destined to be powerless.
Li Chengzhao, I don’t want you to bless me.
I’m going where you are.
Author: About to be trapped to death
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