Princess Wan Fufang
complained: Fireworks are easy to be cold.
I used to be the most noble princess in the palace. Unfortunately, when the city was destroyed, I became the only favorite of the new emperor. From then on, my life was like a duckweed. When the
palace was in chaos, the maid trembled and tied up my hair in a bun.
I looked at the pale face in the bronze mirror, and my hand went all the way down the bun to the eardrop. As far as I can remember, I have never dressed myself up in such a grand way.
“Your Highness, please hurry up. The emperor and all the princes and princesses are already waiting outside the city gate. You are the only one left.”. I’ve heard that wherever the enemy rebels go, they kill and slaughter cities. They are extremely cruel and violent. If you are not careful, I’m afraid you can’t afford your life.
Now to this point, even the palace people know that the destruction of the country is doomed, to me this has always been favored princess, also no longer polite and euphemistic, wish I could go at the moment.
“Well, what goes around comes around after all.”
I picked up the layers of palace skirts and walked step by step to the gate tower. The weather is very pleasant
today.
If you look up at the cloudless sky, you can’t see the capital full of holes at the moment, what is the collapse of how no dignity, let the alien fighters, trample into.
I stood tall, but I could still hear the horses crowing, and the rebel leaders laughed and insulted my father, accompanied by royal relatives and ministers, and lined the streets to beg for surrender, which was the voice of the first person in history.
Until the man laughed enough and found that one person was missing, so he scolded my father for daring to deceive.
As soon as I stepped forward, I put my hand on the city’s head and looked down coldly at the man wearing black and gold armor and riding a fierce horse.
I saw him suddenly raise his head as if he had a feeling and meet my eyes.
His eyes were like torches that seemed to burn me.
“Your Highness Four!” He was at the gate, laughing freely.
I did not pay attention to him, but stood there, looking at his now complacent, unruly and arrogant appearance, but my heart was calm. How are you recently,
Your Highness? There is a storm on the wall, and you should be careful not to slip and fall. Who can save you now? He was joking, holding the reins and the whip, as if he were joking with me.
“How could it be you?” I asked this so that I felt strange. I knew very early that the rebel was him, but now I have to ask this sentence.
Why can’t it be me? Have you forgotten that I said I would go to Beijing again one day. This moment is only the fulfillment of the oath I made at that moment. Then he said with a smile, “I haven’t seen you for five years. Do you miss me?”? I have been thinking about the Four Highnesses day and night, my soul, my heart, my dreams, and my dreams.
He ruin my reputation by flirting with me so openly. If I had put it in the past, I would have been beheaded by my father.
Only now, my father, who loves me most, can only keep his head down.
I exhaled, put my hands on the top of the wall, and climbed up, rude and discomfited. At
the gate, he suddenly raised his voice and snapped, “Your Highness!”! Come down when you’ve had enough! What does the destruction of the country have to do with you, a woman? Even if you want to die for your country, it’s not your turn! If you dare to jump, all those kneeling here will be buried for you!
I listened to his threatening words, and now I felt a little funny. My
life is mine. What does it have to do with him?
I sat in ChengTou, legs hanging, looked down at the gate. I threw myself forward with
a little force. I closed my eyes tightly and said, “By the grace of the gods, let me die quickly.” The gale in
my ear carried the man’s almost heart-rending cry into my ear: “Xiao Si!”! How dare you!!!
Heh!
I am Shuohe, why dare not!
The reality is not what I wish, I did not die.
His arrow was as precise as it used to be when he made protons in the State of Chen. One arrow nailed me on the long gown I jumped up and pierced my clothes.
I was hung on the city gate until he rode slowly under me.
He gave me a cold scold: “Come down!”
I just fell, and he grabbed me with one hand and buckled me on the horse’s back.
I have no ability to resist, even if I shout for help, it is estimated that my father who surrendered out of the city did not even dare to put a fart.
The horse’s back jolted, and my back was against his armor, which was painful Braised Spare Ribs, and I wanted to move to relieve the discomfort, but he held me tighter, as if he could crush me at any time. So
he rode and held me hostage, stopped all the way to the door of my bedroom, and then carried me until he threw me on the bed.
Fortunately, my bed is so thick and soft that it doesn’t hurt me to fall.
I looked up and saw him glaring at me, and his armor, which still possessed the atmosphere of killing, made him more like a beast of steel and iron ready to go.
I kicked my legs to run, and he grabbed my ankles, and then he was under me.
“So heavy.” I couldn’t help whispering, but he turned a deaf ear, pinched my chin, twisted my face sideways, and looked at him. How dare
you jump off the gate tower? Xiaosi, I won’t allow you to die. Even Yama can’t accept you. His sullen voice made me breathe little harder. The Palace of Hell is
not run by your family.
In my heart, I was still not convinced, but I begged for mercy and said, “I dare not, Liang Yubai, please let me go.” When
he heard me remember his name, his chest shook and he laughed out loud.
“Little Si, you do remember me.” How could
I forget?
A man who has been a proton in the State of Chen for three years is also the only one who dares to call me Xiao Si besides his father and brother.
Hsiao Si, you’ve already died for your country. In the future, His Highness Chen Guosi will be regarded as dead. There will be no Princess Shuo Wo in this world.
That’s true, the country has been subjugated, and I am still the noble four royal Highnesses.
I am very open-minded, the slave of a foreign country naturally has the slave of a foreign country.
“You will be my wife, and I will make you queen.” Liang Yubai’s words made me open my eyes wide, feeling that in this world, there is really no one who is more crazy than him and more presumptuous than him.
Perhaps I put all my eggs in one basket and jumped off the gate tower, which was really enough to scare people. Before Liang Yubai left my bedroom, he threatened me with the life of my blood relatives.
I looked at the tall and straight figure of his departure, as if it coincided with the appearance when he came to say goodbye to me five years ago.
No, he’s taller and more broad-shouldered than he was then.
The former Dynasty fell and the new emperor ascended the throne.
It was going to rain and my mother was going to get married, and I couldn’t stop it.
“What is Your Highness looking at?” Yunqing walked up behind me and took a small hand stove and put it in my hand.
I looked at kebabs raindrops falling from the eaves and asked, “When I asked you to leave the palace, why didn’t you go?”
“Who but a maidservant can serve your Highness well?” Yunqing said thoughtfully. As soon as
I was moved, I heard the sound of footsteps coming from the rain.
“Your Majesty has arrived.” The eunuch’s slightly shrill voice came over. At the window,
I looked at Liang Yubai through the rain curtain. Now
he likes to do more than show his face, but I am keenly aware that he comes with emotions.
“I’m going back on my word.”
I thought he was not willing to treat my father kindly for the sake of my obedience, and my heart tightened and I dared not look at him in the wrong way.
“I cannot give you the position of queen.” What Liang Yubai said was really heavy.
But after all, I didn’t expect any queen, so his breaking his promise this time is really not a big deal for me.
But I have to pretend, I have to pretend to be disappointed, I have to pretend to be sad.
But I can’t act by nature, so I can only hang my head and not let him see the expression on my face.
Fortunately, instead of pinching my chin and forcing me to look at him like last time, he just stepped forward and held me in his arms. At first,
I subconsciously tried to push him away, but when I put my palm on his chest, there was no struggle.
Liang Yubai was quite useful, holding my hand on his chest with one hand and clasping my waist with the other.
I put my ear to his chest, listening to his even and strong heartbeat and his heavy voice like a bell and drum: “My mother was taken care of by my mother-in-law before she died, and she made a marriage contract for me with my mother-in-law’s daughter. I didn’t know that before.”. You know that I was determined to marry you and make you queen. It is useless for the civil and military officials to oppose it. It’s just my mother’s last wish, and I can’t disobey it.
He probably really felt ashamed of me, and even changed his name.
“Then you must double your compensation to me.” When my voice came out, I felt artificial.
He was so much in love that he repeatedly said, “I want you to live a happy life and have no more worries!”
Soon, to seal after the ceremony.
The Yue family already has the merit of following the dragon, and her daughter is heroic and resolute. Although she is young, she can get married at this age, and the winner is the one who laughs to the end.
When the eldest lady of the Yue family became the queen, I was given the title of Concubine Zhen by Liang Yubai.
The whole harem, apart from the fact that when he was young, a Tongfang who had been waiting on him had become a beautiful woman, was really empty and bleak.
Thus, I was the queen ascended the throne, the first to use the operation to establish prestige. Get up
in the morning to meet.
She asked me to serve tea and ink.
In the past these things, I also do, only the object is my father, should be so, now asked me to serve her so, really can not say a willing to come.
“I’ve heard people say that you were criticized for being a phoenix when you were born. Is that true?” Queen a pair of hands, the tiger’s mouth has a thin cocoon, firmly holding a purple hair pen, out of the word is not very eye-catching.
I smiled faintly and said, “They’re all bluffing Taoist priests, my father..” My parents didn’t trust me very much.
The queen grinned and put her pen aside. Then she looked at me and said, “Your father left you alive because he didn’t believe me. Isn’t that the king of the country?”
Seeing that I did not speak, she took out the brocade handkerchief from my hand, wiped the ink on it, and then threw it on the desk and said, “You are so ominous that I dare not believe it.” When
I heard this, my heart tightened, and I immediately understood that the new queen would probably not allow me.
“Since you were raised in a royal temple, it shouldn’t be difficult for you to copy the sutras several times.” Queen Road.
So, I can not rest all night, copy to the second day at noon, is finally waiting for Liang Yubai.
Looking at the Buddhist sutras piled up on one side, he grabbed my hand, which was almost stiff, and kneaded it for me to relax. “When did you become so obedient and honest?” He asked.
“That’s the queen. How can I get away with it?” I was bold enough to let him loosen my bones for me.
“You don’t have to take any notice of her.”
“But the queen said I was unlucky.” I didn’t feel guilty about tripping the queen behind her back.
Liang Yubai raised his hand and touched me. “You are my greatest blessing,” he said. “Who can say you are unlucky?”? Go and rest.
“There’s the queen..” I said hypocritically.
“Are you really stupid?” Liang Yubai pointed at my forehead, and his tone was indulgent.
I haven’t felt this way for a long time. Holding my heart in my arms, I saw in my dream that my father and elder brother used to treat me with all kinds of things. As soon as I turned my head, Liang Yubai carried a head on his neck and waved to me.
“Xiao Si.”
No!
Before I could see who the head was, I sat up in the tent in a cold sweat and dared not sleep again. I heard
from the palace people that the emperor and the empress had some disagreement. I sat in my bedroom, closed the door, and lived my own life as usual. A few days ago,
Liang Yubai told me to go to the sunken building to visit my father. I was very happy. I made arrangements early, packed up a lot of clothes and food, and even prepared a talking myna for him.
Sitting on the boat, I arrived at the sunken building in the center of the lake. Although
Liang Yubai was in love with me, he didn’t trust me very much. He arranged a lot of palace guards to accompany him. It was euphemistically said that he was afraid of not being served well. He was relieved to have more people.
I had no choice but to climb the stairs.
Xiao Si? Xiao Si! Is that you, Xiao Si? The father staggered out in the gloom. Holding his arms,
I saw that in just a few days his temples had turned white, as if he had aged ten years in one night. I couldn’t help but feel my eyes burning. I asked him in a dumb voice, “Father, why are you so old?”.
His father’s chapped lips mumbled for a long time before he said, “It’s like being in prison. How can you feel better?”
I nodded and helped him sit down at the table, and raised my hand to let the palace people who followed me put down their things and leave.
But the palace man put down his things and said, “Empress Zhen, Your Majesty has specifically told the slaves that they must take good care of you every step of the way. If the slaves stand far away, they won’t be disturbed.” I
can’t, I can only agree.
But my father was so startled that his eyes seemed to jump out of their sockets. He pointed at me and said, “Little Si, you are now!” My
face burned, and when I sat down, my eyes dodged.
“Since he’s agreed to let you visit me at the Sunken Building, I’m sure you’ll be able to say a few words in front of him.” As soon as my father’s words fell, it was my turn to stare at him.
My father’s eyes twinkled. After all, he was calmer than I was. “Me too,” he said directly. “There’s nothing I can do.”. They took Yingying away, so I beg you for my father. Now there is only one Yingying left with my father, and I can’t lose her again.
Father, that day I was Liang.. When Your Majesty took it away, you didn’t even dare to let go of a fart. I whispered a complaint for myself. With shame on his
father’s face, he said for a long time, “I did it for my father, but it didn’t ring. You didn’t hear it.”
I closed my eyes tightly and endured it.
Before I left, my father did not forget to tell me to help him get Yingying back. I can only say that I will try my best.
Back in the palace, I went to the Imperial Study first. Liang Yubai was still discussing with several ministers in the palace. I was in a complicated mood and didn’t want to wait any longer, so I asked Liang Yubai’s close eunuch Deshun to inform him.
As soon as Deshun went in, I regretted it. Liang Yu and Bai Xu wanted to think that I was spoiled and spoiled, and that what my father wanted would only be more difficult to do.
Do not want a moment, I will see three ministers from the Imperial Study, Deshun smile will be invited me in.
Liang Yubai sat behind the imperial case and waved me over.
“Did you take Chen Ying-ying into the palace?!” My anger was concentrated on this question, and the hatred in my eyes, which could not be restrained for a moment, was poured into his eyes.
Liang Yu’s white eyes are slightly pursed.
“You hate me?” When
Liang Yubai was a proton in the State of Chen, he was only seventeen years old.
At that time, I was sent to Jici Temple when I was six years old, and I had been raised for nine years. I always go back to the palace
on holidays.
Previously, I also heard that the State of Yan had sent two princes as protons. Apart from hearing that he was handsome, weak and easy to bully, I didn’t go out of my way to inquire about him.
It was not until the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet that I saw the elder brother of the first emperor and the elder brother of the second emperor leave the banquet furtively. I knew that the two of them had always been old but not old. I thought that there was something interesting to steal, so I followed them all the way.
In a hidden corner of the imperial garden, I heard the sound of a punch and kick. “
You’re an abandoned son of the State of Yan, and you still think of yourself as a noble prince?”? Come to Chen Guo, you are a dog! Even if we kill you today, we just need to send a message to Yan! Who cares if you live or die?
Said, is a kick.
Big emperor elder brother then spat a saliva.
“Your face is prettier than a woman’s. It’s really a pity to be a man!”
“What kind of fun do men have?” Brother Da Huang disliked the evil way.
“This woman has the beauty of a woman, and naturally a man also has the beauty of a man.” Two emperor elder brother seems to give birth to the meaning of intimacy. It
never occurred to me that my brother Erhuang, who had always been charming in front of people, had a dirty side like a street hooligan in private.
At that time, Liang Yubai was suppressed by several palace people, sobbing, and even shouting was wishful thinking.
“Take the man back to me.” The tone of the second emperor’s brother was impatient, and he was about to go, but he met me who was blocked on the path.
Xiao Si?! What are you doing here? Brother Da Huang gave a cry of surprise.
The second emperor’s elder brother waved his hand and asked the palace people to hide the tied up protons of Yan.
Such an act of deceiving oneself. The
two royal brothers are in high spirits. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, they specially left the table and came here to enjoy the flowers and the moon. Appreciate the beauty. I laughed.
I ordered people to send Liang Yubai out of the palace, so as not to spoil the festival.
Brother Erhuang can only keep silent and not pursue it. The beginning of this
evil fate was really embarrassing. I thought that when I saw him again, he would not remember me. Even if he remembered, he would thank me.
People should be like this.
Until one night in Jici Temple, when I was praying for the flood in the south and copying scriptures, a sudden dark shadow rushed open the door, covered my mouth directly and threw me against the wall.
The candle lamp also fell to the ground in the confusion.
I stared and was held down by him, and there was no room for resistance, and my breath was full of the cold and muddy smell he brought.
“Xiao Si.” His eyes were fierce.
I was afraid that the short blade in his hand at my throat would cut my neck at any moment.
“Don’t kill me.” I trembled and said, “If I die, you will not live.”
“Isn’t that just right? You, the most noble princess of the State of Chen, have come to bury me with an abandoned son of the State of Yan. I deserve to die.”
I saved you that day, but you will come and hurt me. I said hurriedly.
“You, the Li family of the State of Chen, have insulted me here. How can you be innocent?” He laughed sullenly.
I saw that his eyes seemed to have been poisoned, and I knew that his weak and bullying temperament must be a disguise. He and
I looked at each other quietly until the imperial guards outside the door were approaching, and he and I were too nervous to breathe. What
are you going to do? Your Highness is praying and copying the scriptures inside. If you disturb Your Highness, can you afford this charge? Yunqing just took the scriptures back for me and stopped the imperial guards who were about to break in. When I saw that the imperial guards had
gone, Yunqing was about to come in again. “Go back to your room and fetch me a big cloak, Yunqing,” I said hurriedly.
Yunqing left again.
Liang Yubai looked at me and suddenly let go: “You have a red mole on your body.”
I blushed on the spot, my hands clenched the skirt of my clothes that had fallen off during the struggle, and I wanted to die of shame and anger. “Be a good boy, eh?”
He asked with a smile.
I had the intention to call someone to beat him out, but I knew that the situation could not help, so I swallowed my pride and stared at him until he left.
That night, he was going to abscond from the State of Chen, but he didn’t want to be found halfway and almost died under the sword of the imperial army. Although
the father emperor suspected, but also did not prove, see he is still bullied completely spineless dignity of the appearance, also did not take this matter to heart.
But I knew his nature and face, and when I met him, I would run away, but he came to me and told me many things I had never seen or heard in Yan.
I threatened to turn him in. “That mole of yours is wonderful,”
he said fearlessly, “and you are even more wonderful.”
I picked up the inkstone and beat him out, itching my teeth with hate.
Spring to autumn, he finally in the day after day, year after year of humiliation waiting, ushered in the opportunity to return to Yan.
He said to me, “Xiao Si, one day I will go to Beijing again.”. Then it shall be for me to answer your destiny.
At that time, I just thought he was a fool’s dream.
Over the next few years, I only occasionally heard some news about Yan before I remembered that a prince from another country had sent a proton to Chen for three years. What
Liang Yubai asked now made me feel that he was deceiving himself and others.
“I dare not.” I lowered my eyes and turned away, beginning to regret that I had been too impulsive, and that I could not afford to annoy him.
Liang Yubai breathed a heavy breath, then shouted Deshun roll in, and he immediately went to check where Chen Yingying had gone.
He didn’t know about it.
I suddenly felt a little ashamed and embarrassed.
I sat in his Imperial Study, separated from him, and the whole Imperial Study was so silent that even breathing could be heard very clearly. It was
not until the sky outside was dyed black that Deshun bowed in and knelt down and said, “Your Majesty, Chen Yingying, I’ve found it.”. They were waiting outside the temple, and King Duanwang came with them. “Yu Mo?” Said
Liang Yubai impatiently? Did he take Chen Yingying away? Get him in here for me!
I once heard that this Duanwang was the younger brother of Liang Yubai’s mother.
At that time, there were five princes of the State of Yan, Liang Yu Bai Xing 2, and Duan Wang Liang Yu Mo Xing 5. The former emperor of the State of Yan liked the eldest son of the emperor and did not attach much importance to the two brothers.
Only later, the eldest son of the emperor died of illness, the third son of the emperor and the fourth son of the emperor also suffered accidents one after another, Liang Yumo was a waste, so he had to exchange the city with my father for Liang Yubai.
I clenched my fists and looked coldly at Duanwang, who was completely unstinting.
He dragged the shamefaced Chen Ying-ying into the room, knelt down and said, “Your Majesty, it’s just a former imperial concubine. Just give it to me.”
Liang Yubai raised his hand to throw a fold directly on Duanwang and ordered him to send him back to the sunken building.
But King Duan said, “My brother robbed him of one of his many concubines, but my brother robbed him of his only princess. You and my brother are six of one and half a dozen of the other. Why should Your Majesty care about my brother?”
I sat aside and looked coldly at Duanwang.
Liang Yu-pai had a bad temper and was offended by his own brother’s words. He suppressed his anger and said, “Do you dare to say what I just said?”
Duanwang was silent and knelt on the ground, holding Chen Yingying tightly in his hand.
“Deshun, send Chen Ying-ying back!”
“No!”! I won’t allow it. Let’s see who dares. King Duanwang suddenly got up and pushed Deshun back a few steps, almost falling down.
Chen Yingying covered her face and sobbed, her body was like duckweed, and she was about to break her arm by Duanwang’s violent action.
When I tried to rescue Chen Yingying, Duanwang stared at me angrily and raised his hand to hit me.
I gasped, completely unaware that Duan Wang could not control his temper.
More unexpectedly, Liang Yubai would come forward and kick Duanwang to the ground with a loud bang on the back of his head.
The scene is difficult to end smoothly.
Late at night, I still stay in the Imperial Study.
Duanwang has been escorted back to his mansion, and Chen Yingying has been sent back to the sunken building.
Liang Yubai sat behind the imperial table and said lightly, “Thanks to him, I can go back to Yan.”. I owe him a lot in the past, so I have a lot of indulgence. In the future, I will order someone to keep an eye on him, so that he won’t do it again, and you don’t care.
This matter gets such a result, I also calculate to the father emperor to have an account, should be a happy thing, but also can not laugh out half a minute.
Xiao Si, the State of Chen is in decline. Without me, someone else would have overthrown him. In the past, when I was a proton, you saw all the humiliations in the State of Chen with your own eyes. The men I should have killed are still alive, and you should know why.
Liang Yubai’s voice could not hear any emotion.
But as he sat there, I looked at him and felt that he was very tired and even sad.
I didn’t know how to respond to him for a moment, but now it’s like I don’t hate him, I don’t hate him. After
this incident, Liang Yubai did not come to see me again for some time.
I had nothing to do in my bedroom all day, but I was depressed and fell ill.
7
In a dream.
“Hsiao-si, you are a child of Buddhism. In fact, you are the most hypocritical of all. You want to take my life for the sake of a name.” It was clearly a
juvenile voice, but it only made people feel gloomy and sarcastic.
Half asleep and half awake, I caught sight of a thin, vaguely familiar figure. “Liang Yu-pai, you’re just an ill-bred wolf cub.”
Open your eyes, the sky is bright outside.
I subconsciously called Yunqing, but turned to see Liang Yubai blowing a bowl of soup medicine, to feed me.
“I, a wolf cub that I haven’t raised well, should get to know you well.” Liang Yubai held the bowl in one hand and held my back in the other. He propped me up and sat against his chest.
The medicine bowl was against my chapped lips. I didn’t expect that he would listen to the words in my dream.
“When you are ill and confused, you can’t count what you say.”
He tightened his arms around me from behind, bit me on the ear, and gradually exerted his strength.
I felt a pain and struggled. “It hurts,” I said. Then
he relented and put it in my ear and said, “You said I was a wolf cub, which proves that you still remember what you said to me before.”. If I bite you, I can’t bear the burden of your words in vain. The way
he was so intimate with me made me afraid and ashamed, and I couldn’t even control my heartbeat. The palace people I served in my
bedroom were all punished without exception. Led
by Yunqing, the punishment was particularly severe. Twenty boards went down, almost making her unable to get up for the rest of her life.
I took some medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and asked her where she had gone that day.
Her excuse for burning paper for her dead mother in the daytime was really lame.
I looked at her bloody wounds and advised her not to be too persistent in everything. But
she firmly believed that with me as her “Highness,” there was still hope.
Near the end of the year, there was a heavy snow in Kyoto, and it was covered with snow overnight. During
this period of time, Liang Yubai seemed to have forgotten the existence of a queen, and stayed in my palace for more than ten days.
I thought he was annoying, but he warmed his bed at night, which was good for his body. I was afraid of the cold, so I couldn’t help sticking it on him. When he got up
today, he touched my head and said to me, who was still trying to go back to sleep, “I’ll take you to Yunshan in two days. Didn’t you always like to go to that hot spring in winter?”
I answered him and waved him away, and he just laughed and told me to sleep a little longer. I didn’t get up lazily
until the sun came up. I always feel sleepy
recently, and I haven’t slept enough.
At lunch, people in the palace chatted about gossip.
Said that the queen picked a young and beautiful niece from her mother’s family to accompany her in the palace, and was Imperial Study at the moment, serving your majesty around. I have seen a lot of
such tricks since I was a child, but my appetite has become very bad.
In the evening, Liang Yubai asked about it.
I became angry from embarrassment and said, “If I eat less today, I will eat more tomorrow.”. Even if you are the emperor and you are in charge of heaven and earth, can you still be in charge of how much I eat?
Liang Yubai stared at me for a long time before he said patiently, “Why are you so bad-tempered? If I ask, I’m just concerned.”
Liang Yubai walked to my side and also wanted to go to bed.
I smelled the smell of the incense on his body, but I couldn’t help saying, “Get out of here!”! I will not go to bed with you.
“Xiaosi, what are you doing with me?” Liang Yubai asked with a calm face.
I also want to know what kind of temper I am in.
Seeing that I still ignored him, Liang Yubai left in a huff.
The next day. A lot of snow had melted
outside, and Yunqing’s wound had been raised. He put on his cloak for me and went to the bedroom for a walk.
Face to face, I ran into the queen who was leading her niece to get familiar with the harem.
“Ruyan, this is Concubine Zhen, who is the emperor’s favorite at the moment.” The queen chuckled.
The woman who was called Ruyan raised a shallow smile and saluted me.
I looked at the woman’s face and frowned.
That face is really four or five points similar to mine. It
is also difficult for the queen to try her best to find such a woman!
By going to Yunshan to soak in hot springs, Liang Yubai found a way out for himself.
Seeing that he was sitting upright in the carriage with a little shelf, I moved my position closer to him. As soon as
I showed a little kindness, he reached out and took my left hand holding the stove and covered it in the palm of his hand.
Liang Yubai is still very easy to coax, I thought in my heart.
When I arrived at Yunshan Mountain, I was familiar with this place as before. I found the hot spring with white gas and took off my clothes to soak in it.
It was when I closed my eyes and enjoyed it that I was suddenly touched on my legs. I was so surprised that I opened my eyes and kicked my feet, and the sound of screaming choked back into my throat because of the slip under my feet.
When I was picked up from the water by Liang Yubai, I was so angry that I patted him with all my strength until his chest was red.
“What are you afraid of?” Liang Yubai was not angry when he was beaten. He kissed me with a shy face. I dodged a few times, but he kissed me.
Put me down! I’m going to fall! I frowned and scolded, and when he put me down honestly, I turned my back with my hands covering my private parts.
I listened to Liang Yubai take a deep breath, and then I was hugged by him from behind and pressed against the stone wall. The sound of his heavy breathing was all
around my ears, and I was also red-faced by the hot spring.
When it was over, I leaned lazily in his arms, and he took me out of the hot spring and put me on the couch beside me.
“Xiaosi, you will live with me like this from now on.” Liang Yubai leaned sideways and clung to me.
I have room to refuse? I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. When I turned to meet him face to face, I asked, “Lunar New Year’s Eve day, can I go to the Sunken Building?”
Liang Yubai did not answer me immediately. Instead, he rubbed his chin against my forehead and said, “Well, let me think about it..”
This fellow is more and more not a man now.
I gritted my teeth bitterly. I could only hug his strong waist and said coquettishly, “I miss my father very much. His place is so lonely during the Spring Festival. It’s really pitiful.”. Just let me go. Besides, I’m going to spend Lunar New Year’s Eve with you from now on.
He was very pleased with my words and happily agreed, but he did not forget to tell me, “I will be back before dark. Don’t let me wait too long.” When I came back
from Yunshan, I found myself more and more lazy. Even Liang Yubai laughed at me for living more and more like a child.
“Yes, yes, I don’t have any young and beautiful nieces to accompany me. I just have nothing to do all day. What else can I do if I’m not lazy?”
Liang Yubai was stupefied for a moment. Then he laughed and said, “Is Xiao Si jealous?” Like a cat whose tail has been trampled,
I deny it.
That woman was sent in by her mother-in-law. It’s just a fake. It’s not worth discussing. Liang Yubai explained with a smile.
If it’s a fake, why keep it. I don’t want to say
this, as if I were the jealous woman.
Wait until Lunar New Year’s Eve that day, I went to the sunken building by boat.
The lakeshore is already decorated with lanterns and colored streamers, and every family is waiting for the lively scene of the New Year. And the sunken building is as cold as death. Step by step,
I ascended the floor where my father lived, pushed open the door, and the floor was full of wolves, as if it had just been looted.
“Father.” I looked at my father sitting at the table, hanging his head and sighing.
My father raised his head and looked at me with a flash of surprise in his eyes, followed by a mixture of pain and embarrassment: “Don’t always come to see me. It’s not good for you to arouse suspicion and taboo.”
“It won’t.” I carefully looked at the wolf at my feet, went in, and heard crying.
“What’s wrong with her?” I wondered.
Chen Yingying suddenly rushed out from the inner room, full of tears, describing the scattered, how can there be the beautiful appearance of the original crown harem?
“Is it because I can’t afford to live like a prisoner without seeing the light of day, or is it because you, as a husband, have no responsibility at all, and when you see me humiliated, you only dare to shrink your head?”
I saw my father’s hands gathered into fists, and the blue veins on his forehead stood out, so I could only smooth things over and pull Chen Yingying away.
Father is now in prison, and you are the only one who is willing to be with him. Why doesn’t he want to protect you? When I came that day, my father begged me to bring you back.
Chen Ying-ying, however, was still unrelenting. She pushed me away and said, “You’re having a good time now. All you can do is say something cheap and obedient and coax others!”.
My father couldn’t bear to listen. He turned over the table with both hands and said, “If you don’t want to stay in this building with me, you can leave!”! Let’s see if you can still walk away!
Chen Ying-ying covered her face and wailed, “If I had known this, I would have lived in disgrace in Duanwangfu. It would have been better than looking at each other like this today!”.
I ran away. When I returned to
the palace, I couldn’t afford any energy to deal with the banquet in the palace. I sat there and watched the hall full of wine.
The queen’s niece even danced a song, which attracted a lot of praise. I sat at the bottom, but I couldn’t fit into such a scene. With the help of the empress and her father, General Yue,
Liang Yubai made her niece a beauty. With a feeling of nausea in
my stomach, I turned away from the palace that made me uncomfortable everywhere without even saying hello.
In the end, don’t you want the fake? When I woke up
the next day, I had a big “good news” that I was pregnant. “Your Majesty spent the whole night with you last night,” said the jubilant
palace man. “Your Majesty was so happy that he couldn’t even speak when he knew you were going to have a wedding.”
Yunqing came over with a bowl of milk. After urging the palace people away, he whispered, “How does your Highness feel?”? Would you like to send the Imperial Physician to see it again?
I sat up, took the bowl and drank it. “What did the Imperial Physician say when he felt the pulse?” I asked. “Your Highness has been pregnant for more than a month,”
said Yunqing lightly, “and she is still well.”
I looked at Yunqing, who still insisted on calling me Your Highness. “Yunqing, you are my slave. Do you still remember?” I asked.
Yunqing’s face changed slightly. Then she knelt down on the ground and said earnestly, “The maidservant knows that your Highness’s kindness to the maidservant is as heavy as a mountain. The maidservant must take your Highness’s safety as the criterion everywhere.”
I closed my eyes, and the milk left in my mouth only made me feel sour.
Liang Yubai really values the unformed child in my womb. After dealing with the heavy state affairs
every day, I always come to my bedroom to listen to my stomach. He
had already told him that he could not hear it too early, but he did not believe in evil.
I heard something! Let me hear it again. It seems there really is! Liang Yubai hugged my waist and put his ears on his belly and became excited. I couldn’t stand it any more
. I rolled my eyes and said, “That’s what I’m doing at dinner, not a child.”
Liang Yubai refused to believe it and mistook it for a child moving.
“If he is a son, I will make him a prince.” Liang Yubai’s promise of the crown prince’s position seemed to be selling cabbages. When
I heard this, my heart jumped. I steadied myself and said, “If it were your daughter, wouldn’t you like it?”
If she is a daughter, she will be as precious as you. But I still want it to be a son, so that you don’t have to suffer a second pregnancy. Liang Yubai Road. What does
he mean. I have a guess in my heart, but I dare not say it in my mouth.
I raised the fetus safely in the palace until early summer, during which the queen also came to see two times, in words, nothing more than to knock me not to occupy Sheng Chong, relying on spoiled.
I looked coldly at the queen from the very beginning, but also with a military strength of character, until today, has been devoted to the separation of Liang to white favorite harem struggle, feel that the harem is really the place to bury all women’s nature.
The empress is the mother of the country, and she can’t persuade the emperor. How can my concubines carry more weight than words of the empress? I can’t afford to take on this responsibility. I’m not soft or hard. Go back. “Don’t be too wild,” said
the queen with a sneer.
I thought I was always kind, but I really didn’t want to accept her words. I held my back and got up to see the queen off.
I lay on the bed all night, and I couldn’t sleep. I wanted to drink water at night.
Yun-ching came in to wait on me. After watching me drink the water, he whispered, “There you are, sir, ready for an uprising.”
I held the teacup and almost spilled it on my body, and I couldn’t sleep at all. The “sir”
in Yun-ching’s mouth is actually my third brother, Li Shu. Among the more than
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imperial brothers, the eldest brother likes riding falcons the most. Two emperor elder brother and father emperor are general, love those poems, wine, camellias and beauties. Only my brother, the third emperor, is quiet and easy-going. He likes reading and treats people peacefully. People in
the palace often secretly called him “Sir.”.
“If we had won, we wouldn’t have broken the city earlier.” My words are quite realistic.
Yunqing’s face was blue and red, but he still said stubbornly, “Your Highness, how can you not believe it?”? Had it not been for your Highness’s willingness to commit himself to such vulgar people? That would be the enemy who would destroy the country!
I furrowed my eyebrows, and Yunqing did not understand each other. Jumping off the gate tower
that day, I felt that I had done everything for Li’s blood.
Brother Sanhuang knew that I had private contacts with Liang Yubai in my early years. As early as when the situation of the State of Chen was over, he came to Jici Temple at night and planned with me late at night.
Rather than planning, it is better to say that I want to escape from the capital for him in exchange for a chance of survival.
“Little Si, how has Brother San always treated you?” How can blood of
my Li family be broken? Liang Yu-pai is cruel and vindictive. How could he really forgive the Li family?
“My cousin is not as old as you, and he knows what righteousness is, but as a princess, you don’t know?”
“You were born with the destiny of a phoenix. The courtiers and the people all said that your birth would be a sign of national subjugation. Your father didn’t believe it, and neither did your three brothers. Now that the country is about to be destroyed, how can you say that it has nothing to do with you?!”
…… How can
I bear all these “sins”?
Can only as he said, for the continuation of Li’s blood, bear the responsibility, for the disaster of the destruction of the country, bear the charge.
On the gate tower, I saw the second son of Xuan Wang Shu, who was seven or eight points similar to the third emperor’s brother, kneeling outside the city in the place of the third emperor’s brother. I only felt that in the past, I had misjudged the third emperor’s brother.
He is not a teacher who is equal to all living beings. In fact, he is the one who is selfish and hypocritical.
My cousin and I are just tools for him to confuse the public and steal beams and change pillars.
In his eyes, no one’s life is worth valuing except his own.
In retrospect, I said to Yunqing in a cold voice, “You don’t have to tell me anything about him from now on, and I don’t want to hear it.”
Yunqing shut up, packed up the teacup and retreated.
Soon, the news that there were rebels in the south who were in turmoil under the name of restoring the country spread all over the capital.
The anti-thief leader was once the third prince of the State of Chen, and Liang Yubai soon found out the whole story. The
two imperial brothers and my cousin were sent to prison for investigation, but to the outside world, they said that they were still ill in the mansion.
I sat in the bedroom, and sure enough, Liang Yubai came.
“Get out of here!” He came in full of anger and shouted angrily.
The so-called anger of the son of heaven, I have never seen in my father, but now I am really shocked by Liang Yubai’s cannibalistic appearance.
My father fought against him, perhaps playing chess with heaven, and the defeat was decided early.
Li Qing! How dare you set me up?! Liang Yubai strode forward, pulled my arm and pulled me to him.
I felt as if my arm had been clamped by an iron clamp, and tears of pain would fall out.
Liang Yubai had a pair of eagle-like eyes, and now his eyes showed a fierce light: “Your cousin who pretended to be Li Shu has already confessed everything in prison. If you want to deceive me, I will not let you go easily!”
I don’t know where to start.
You think now that you’re pregnant, I can’t do anything about you, can I? Since you will not open your mouth, your two good brothers will bear for you the crime of deceiving the king. Liang Yu-pai suddenly let go of his hand. “I almost forgot, isn’t there still one living in the sunken building?”
No, no! I beg you, I beg you.. Involving my father, I did not care about any dignity, ran after him, and grabbed his dragon robe with both hands.
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He is too old to do many things. It has nothing to do with him! If you want to get rid of my Li clan, will you put my life against my father’s life? I said anxiously.
Liang Yubai’s face was overcast to the extreme. Why should
your two useless elder brothers, and your fallen king who can only recite poems, be mentioned in the same breath with my child? If you had a brain, you would know what to do and what not to do! Don’t push me! Then
he left and ordered people to keep me in the bedroom.
Without a decree, no one is allowed to enter or leave at will. In this way,
I was detained in the bedroom.
Yunqing was not allowed to enter to serve, except for the doctor who came to feel my pulse every day and the palace people who served me to wash and eat. They all kept their mouths shut and did not reveal a word to me.
I was completely cut off from the outside world.
I don’t know what’s going on outside, and I don’t know what’s going on with my father and my two brothers.
So day after day to wait and worry, the doctor came every day, and I said a lot of words to make me feel relieved to raise the fetus, I also did not listen to a word.
In this way, after more than ten days, the Imperial Physician seemed unable to bear it. Then he said to me, “Empress, except for the sinner who pretended to be the third prince, your father and brother are all right.”. Listen to my advice and take good care of yourself and the little prince in your belly. What else can’t you ask for?
Holding my tired eyelids, I looked at the old doctor with white hair and beard, and finally nodded stiffly. How dare
an imperial physician be sure of this with me.
I sat up, hid my face and wept, but I felt lucky.
At this moment, I just want Liang Yubai’s embrace, only his appearance can make me feel at ease.
But I feel like I haven’t seen him for a long time.
I thought I wouldn’t see anyone else until the southern uprising was completely peaceful, but I didn’t want to see the queen while I was still grounded.
This matter should be permitted by Liang Yubai. When
the queen came, she seemed much kinder than before.
“How have you been eating these two days?” The queen asked softly, as if afraid of scaring someone.
“It’s okay.” I answered truthfully.
“It’s all right if it’s all right. I’ll send someone from the palace to stew the blood bird’s nest for you. You can use it later. It’s all right for you and the children.” The queen’s eyes were fixed on my high belly, and her smile became brighter and brighter. The more uneasy
I am.
I dare not miss to stare at her, a hand reached over, stroked my stomach, just as the child turned over in the stomach, a foot through the belly kicked her palm. “He’s moved,”
she exulted. “It’s good to see that this is the one who has a predestined relationship with this palace. But be obedient; your mother will be with you every day when you come out.
The queen’s words, which seemed to be unintentional, made me sit there as if I were silly.
Until the queen left, I forgot the courtesy and did not get up to see her off.
Liang Yubai, Liang Yubai, how can you.
I covered my stomach with one hand, and suddenly, even my breath was like gravel, so painful that I couldn’t say anything for a moment.
And the bowl of blood bird’s nest sent by the queen was also swept to the ground by my clenched teeth. In
this way, I was confined in my bedroom for more than two months.
It was not until the news of victory came from the uprising in the south that the leader of the rebels fell off a cliff at the Southwest Gorge Pass.
I sat in front of the bronze mirror, looking at Yunqing’s head for me, which was as haggard as a funeral, and even his eyelids were red and swollen.
“Yun Qing, the dead are gone..” I whispered.
Your Highness, sir, it won’t just.. It won’t. The master is the most learned and intelligent man in the world, but the slave doesn’t believe him. Yunqing said, combing my hair to the end and resisting to mention it to me again.
I think she can always get over it.
Approaching the end of labor, I always have a hard time turning over at night. I call out “come,” and want the palace people who keep vigil to wait on me. One hand is already holding my palm in the darkness.
As soon as I touched it, I stopped. I am all too familiar with the rough and thick cocoon and temperature on the
big palm.
My heart suddenly rose a resentment, as if the backlog of emotions in the heart, suddenly opened the gap, is constantly leaking out.
Pulling back my hand, I propped up the bed and sat up bit by bit, but I was stubborn and did not open my mouth.
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“How are you?” Liang Yubai took the lead.
I steadied my mind and emotions and said, “The Imperial Physician feels the pulse every day. You can go and ask him.” There was a stillness between
me and him until I heard him seem to sigh and say, “If you care about yourself, you also care about others.”
“I will bear this child well for you and the queen. I only hope that when it is born, you can send me to the sunken building to be with my father.” When I say these words, my heart is like a knife before it hurts others.
Liang Yubai choked on the word “you” in his mouth for a long time. Then he turned around and said coldly, “You’d like to go to Shen Lou so that your father and daughter can be reunited. Do you think I’m the Bodhisattva sitting in Jici Temple?” I closed my
eyes. I had seen him before, but now I didn’t want to see him again.
I ignored him and slowly lay back on the bed, stroking my stomach sideways. I have my own plans for
some things. You can believe whatever others say, but you just don’t believe me. Liang Yu laughed at himself and left with a sneer.
I just felt bitter in my heart and bit my lip to keep myself from crying.
At the beginning, it was better to die for his country than to endure being controlled by others everywhere for his father, even his own flesh and blood.
Liang Yubai’s love for me is generally the same.
Unbound, I was able to leave the bedroom, with the help of Yunqing, to walk around the Imperial Garden.
In the past, I only felt that the palace was boring, just a Imperial Garden, left but flowers, plants, fish and water, day after day can see what it means.
Now locked up for a long time, even here, are to stay.
“Ah, Concubine Zhen.” Behind him came a voice of pretended joy.
I slowly turned around and saw that the girl who had followed the queen in the past was dressed like Yan, but now she was dressed in beautiful clothes, gold hairpins and pearls, so different that I almost didn’t recognize her.
“It’s a good omen today. When I went out, I met Concubine Zhen.” Ruyan raised his hand and stroked the golden sparrow hairpin on the towering bun, swaying in front of me, looking very unhappy.
I opened my mouth lightly and asked, “Are you a concubine now?”
Ruyan stiffened and then said with a smile, “Concubine Zhen hasn’t been out of the palace for a long time. I don’t know. Your Majesty has already made my concubine Yan.”
is it. A concubine, then do not have to salute with the palace? Is this also a privilege granted to you by His Majesty? I glanced at her, turned around, and continued to look at the carp swimming in the pool.
Ruyan hesitated for a moment and then said with a smile, “I’m not. I was so excited to see the empress that I forgot it for a moment.”. Concubine Zhen, Empress Wan An. Then she saluted, but I didn’t let her get up. After
about a cup of tea, I said, “I forgot you were still doing the ceremony. Get up.”
Ruyan squatted on the ground for a long time, and after thanking me in silence, he got up so hard that his body could not support him and almost fell into the pool.
I watched the golden sparrow hairpin on her head fall to the ground and damage one wing. She hurriedly ordered the palace people to pick it up. Her eyes were full of heartache and she held it tightly in her hand. I
didn’t even bother to talk to her, but when I was about to leave, I heard her say to me, “There’s something that Empress Zhen doesn’t know, does she?”
I stopped and waited for what ivory came out of her mouth.
“It’s said that the man in the Sunken Building was too worried and depressed. Even the beautiful girl beside him couldn’t take good care of him, so he had to take the opportunity to find another one. Oh, what a pity!”.
Ruyan’s taunt I don’t care at all, I only know, at this moment, I must go to Liang Yubai to ask clearly!
When we got to the Imperial Study, Deshun stood guard outside the gate. Seeing me, he didn’t let me down. “The queen is still inside,” he said. “I can’t let you in for a while.”
“Nothing. I’ll wait.” I stood outside the door, looking at the two vermilion doors, and my heart was filled with fear. The cold wind in
autumn has begun to make people’s faces hurt. Wrapped in my cloak,
I can’t resist the cold to the bone now.
After waiting for about half an hour, Deshun looked inward several times, but no one came out. Seeing that I was pregnant and my nose was frozen red, I couldn’t bear it and dared to run into the hall.
Even a palace person, all give birth to the heart of compassion to me, I am to live to what point in the end? There was a loud noise of smashing things in the
inner hall, and Liang Yubai’s voice was even more piercing than autumn wind: “I didn’t see that I was having a meeting with the empress. She is a concubine who doesn’t know her duty. She doesn’t know the weight of her body. She is a spoiled child. She is a bastard!” And
I just stood there and didn’t move.
Now the situation, for me, there is no room for any worse.
“Calm down, Your Majesty. She’s still young, and she’s been spoiled since she was a child. Even if she doesn’t know the rules, she still has to take care of what’s in her stomach.”. Since it’s windy outside, let her come in, so she won’t freeze. The queen’s words are kind and virtuous.
Deshun finally came out of the Imperial Study, carefully invited me in, and told me to step carefully.
I took one more look at Deshun and felt a little grateful.
Walking into the inner hall, I looked at the harmonious scene where the emperors and empresses sat side by side, and my heart was numb. For the first time
in my life, I knelt down to someone other than Buddha and my father.
When I got the word “Qi” from Liang Yu-pai, I thought it was no big deal.
“What is so urgent that you have come to say today?” Liang Yubai looked at me coldly, and his impatient appearance was different from before.
My concubine would like to ask if my father is well now. And tell me the truth, Your Majesty. I said.
I stood opposite him, staring at Liang Yubai, from his words, eyes flashing that moment, I know, that Ruyan did not lie.
“I beg Your Majesty’s favor to allow me to take the envoy of the Imperial Hospital to Shen Lou to diagnose and treat my father.” I knelt on the floor tile again, and my knees hurt, but I could only endure kowtowing and pray to him. What does
this have to do with you? He knows the king of the former Dynasty. Do you still think you are the princess of the former Dynasty? It’s ridiculous to want the Imperial Physician to go and cure you! Liang Yubai said angrily.
But I insisted on holding my stomach and bending my head on the ground. Concu
bine Zhen, are you threatening Your Majesty with the dragon seed in your belly? In the sunken building, there are the remnants of the former Dynasty. If you are lucky enough to extricate yourself from it, you should be completely clean. You should have nothing to do with whether the fallen king is alive or dead. The empress said, “good words to persuade.”.
Yes, the remnants of the former Dynasty. Then how is it that this remaining sin of mine, and this in my belly, is not a remaining sin? I lifted myself up and pulled the hairpin out of my bun, directly to my throat. Concu
bine Zhen! What are you doing?! Why don’t you put down the hairpin! Somebody! Somebody! Escort! The queen shouted loudly, and without waiting for the guards outside the door to rush in, Liang Yubai had thrown a teacup at my wrist. The pain made me release my hand in an instant, and the hairpin fell to the ground with a clear recollection.
“Get out of here!” Liang Yubai looked at me angrily and roared away the guards who wanted to come in.
Good, very good. Li Qing, you’re really, really good. You’ve turned a deaf ear to what I used to say, haven’t you? Liang Yubai laughed back angrily, and even the queen was so frightened that she did not dare to say a word more.
I’m locked up again. I don’t know how long it will be
this time.
Just, the father is in the sinking building, I am in the bedroom, just change a place, the result is actually the same.
I touched my stomach and suddenly got over it.
When I give birth to him, maybe it’s time for me to leave completely.
I sat at the head of the bed, looking at the bright full moon outside, today is half moon, even the moon is reunion, I am alone, but also by the light of the moon. At
dinner, I felt a small piece of paper from the bottom of the bowl. It was Yunqing’s handwriting, telling me that the third emperor’s brother was not dead, and there was still hope for the restoration of the country.
I burned the note in the candle as if I had never seen the words on it. When I
was about to give birth, I couldn’t move freely. The midwife was saying a lot of things, and I didn’t have the energy to hear them clearly, but I caught a palace man whispering to one side: “The one who sank in the building just died yesterday, and today this prince is going to be born. It’s really a taboo.”
“What did you say?” I suddenly grasped the curtain and stared at the source of the sound, only to see the two muttering palace men beside my bed, trembling on their knees. What did
you say? Say it again! I shouted desperately.
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Ouch! Concubine! How can you waste your energy shouting now? Lie down! The midwife said anxiously.
You come here! Say again what you have just said! But I don’t care about that. I have to understand.
The palace man stammered, “a slave, a slave, too. I’ve heard it said..” Said that the fallen king in the sunken building set fire to the sunken building yesterday, and he himself. Also. It’s gone..
I was sad for a moment, and my mouth was open, but I couldn’t say a word.
Empress! Concubine! You have to hold on! The little prince will be born soon! The cries of the midwife were heard.
I bit my lower lip and tried my best. I heard the cry of a baby and took off my strength.
The midwife shouted, “No!”! Empress metrorrhagia! Call the Imperial Physician!
I lay there, looking at the curtain, feeling very tired and sleepy. In
a trance, someone called me Xiao Si again. Although
my father is full of talent and kindness, I have to say that he is really not the material to be an emperor. During
his reign, if his ears were soft, he would easily listen to slander and do countless fatuous things. But he always loves me very much.
Otherwise, I can’t live to the present with a phoenix life that will have the omen of destroying the country.
He loves me more than three brothers.
Although fate is illusory, it happened so coincidentally that even I had to believe it.
Maybe without me, he wouldn’t have come to such a miserable end.
Xiao Si, wake up. Don’t you want to hear what your father left for you before he died? If you were still his favorite little four, would you wake up and listen carefully?
The voice sounds familiar. Whose is it? I closed my eyes and tried to open them, but I couldn’t.
Xiao Si, don’t blame me either. You knew that your father was softhearted, and when he saw that I had no desire to serve him, he allowed me to leave. Life in the Sunken Building is really too hard. I’m too scared to die there. I’m still very young, aren’t I?
Chen Yingying?
Maybe he knows he can’t live anymore, and he doesn’t want to drag me down any more, and he doesn’t want to drag you down any more. Before I left, your father only asked me to do one thing for him, that is, to tell you that he was not a good emperor, and that the destruction of Chen had nothing to do with you. What’s
she doing here?
Your father only regretted that he had lost the inheritance of his ancestors because of his incompetence, and that he had left you without a home. In the future, if you can live well, don’t be Shuo Wo. You’ll just be Xiao Si.
I cried out and opened my eyes. Once again,
I survived. The two palace people who reported the funeral when I gave birth
that day were killed by the rod.
Heard that the two men were dragged to an open space, the harem people all saw, even dead, also did not stop, until beaten into mud. Many people could not bear it and spit it out, and even the queen seemed to have closed her door for two days.
But I can’t have any waves in my heart. When the
baby was born, she was sent to the Queen’s Palace. I didn’t have time to see her.
That’s all right. When we meet, I’m afraid I’ll try my best to protect him. Seeing that I didn’t talk much all day
, Yunqing thought of many ways to tease me. Finally, I was bored and asked her to shut up.
“Your Highness is not as happy as he used to be.” “In the past,” said Yun-ching, “when your Highness was still your Highness, he always liked to be steady. In fact, he loved to laugh in private.”
“Yunqing, I don’t want to be your Highness anymore.” I said lightly.
「…… But your Highness will always be your Highness in the slave’s heart. That’s how you feel, sir. Yunqing stubbornly said.
I glanced at her and said, “Yunqing, there is no royal Highness you want in this palace.”. Why don’t I let you out of the palace and give you enough money so that you don’t have to worry about the rest of your life? “Your Highness is your Highness forever,”
said Yunqing, “and the slave is your Highness’s slave forever.” On the day of the
child’s full moon feast, the queen’s father, General Yue, was detained in the palace.
The reason was that General Yue lost his temper after drinking and interfered with the establishment of the reserve. He was afraid that he would not be a minister.
With such a reason, the court from top to bottom saw the wind at the helm, even several courtiers jointly played, General Yue’s past evil deeds were written into a fold to play up. After being punished for
several crimes, Liang Yubai justifiably took back General Yue’s military power and removed his official position.
I sat in my bedroom listening to the news and smiled faintly. The trick of pushing the
wall down is not uncommon.
When Yunqing saw that I was not happy, he asked carefully, “Your Highness, don’t you miss the child?”
“Think about it, think about it and it will work.” I pretended to be relieved.
The slave heard a rumor that the empress had lost money in her early years and was not good at raising children. So. Said to send the eldest son to the queen there, one is to give the queen to recruit a child, two, even if the queen finally did not give birth, can also have a child of their own. It doesn’t sound like a big deal, but the slave still feels that your Highness has suffered a great grievance. It was your Highness who fought for his life to be born. Why should he hand it over to others?
I couldn’t bear to listen to these words of sympathy and pity for me any more. I raised my hand and interrupted her. Suddenly, I felt that I had lived for so many years, but no one could stay.
At dinner, Liang Yubai suddenly appeared.
I looked at him, a little surprised, but also very calm, got up to worship him, he stepped forward to hold his arm.
“I don’t need your worship here.” Liang Yubai Road.
I’m not such a cheap bone. He said not to worship, so I got up and stood there waiting for him to speak again. It was only after he had dismissed
all the palace staff that he asked me awkwardly, “Do you want to see Zhao Er?”
I had heard that he had named the child Liang Zhao, but when I heard him call up his childhood name, I was at a loss for a moment. There was a hidden awkwardness on
Liang Yu’s white face. He hastily changed his tune and said, “Do you want to see the child?”? I can..
“That won’t be necessary.” I want to be the most cruel mother in the world. I’ve heard that the queen has taken care of her quite carefully. In that case, why should I bother her any more? In the end, I’ll torture myself even more. Your Majesty’s kindness is appreciated.
But Liang Yubai was unrelenting. Holding my shoulder, he said bitterly, “That’s your own flesh and blood. Don’t you really want to take a look?” Yes
, and then what? Give birth to feelings, and then let everyone threaten to humiliate me? I might as well give it up, and I’ll be at ease. I know that my father’s death has little to do with him, but I always have to trace back to the original source, resenting him and myself.
Abandoned? Are you going to abandon him or me? Liang Yubai exerts force on his hand, and I already feel the pain.
“I can explain to you..” He was so flustered that he didn’t even notice that he had changed. The Yue family is so powerful that I can only plan for it slowly. All the things I did to you before were just.. As
an expedient measure, in order to reduce the wariness of the in-laws, even the children were given to the queen by me to please her. Even if you know that she arranged for people to leave her mother and son on the day I gave birth, she is still a very noble queen. You think I and my children are your tools to stabilize the court. What can’t I understand. To be an emperor, no matter how resourceful you are. I can’t blame my father for burning himself in the Sunken Building. He’s not as good as you.
My aggressiveness made Liang Yubai defenseless, and in the end he looked at each other and blamed each other endlessly. I will do what I
promised you. The death of your father is indeed not what I wish. I have ordered him to be properly buried in the imperial mausoleum of the State of Chen, with your mother as a companion. You can go to see it whenever you want. Xiaosi, don’t look at me like that. I can’t stand it. Liang Yubai came forward and held me in his arms. He dared not look at me, so he could only do so.
“Zhaoer, I will let him come back to you. No one can break up your mother and son.” Liang Yubai murmured and swore to me that my heart, which should have been dead, trembled uncontrollably.
I am waiting for Liang Yubai to fulfill his promise to me.
But the more I want, the less I can get. After General
Yue was bitten by a rat in prison, he went mad and died in prison a few days later.
The queen was hit by this, and Liang Yubai gave birth to an unprecedented explosive dispute, during which she heard that the queen even wanted to fight with Liang Yubai, and was stopped by the palace people. After that, she was locked up on the grounds that the queen had lost her mind and was taken good care of by the doctor.
Liang Yubai made an appointment with me that the baby would be returned to me in the next few days. I couldn’t restrain my joy and excitement. I asked Yunqing, an unmarried girl, how to take care of the baby and what to prepare for it.
Yunqing looked at me in embarrassment, thinking for a long time but could not say why.
Finally, in my impatient expectation, Liang Yubai returned Zhaoer, who was still in swaddling clothes, to me.
I tightly hold open white fat, open eyes spitting bubbles of Zhao son, for a moment, the words can not come out, just do not drop tears on him.
“Don’t cry. In the future, I won’t separate you from your mother.” Liang Yubai hugged our mother and son with one hand and wiped away my tears with the other, but he didn’t think it was inexhaustible. “Why are you more like a crying child as a mother?”
I sniffed and whispered an expletive: “What do you know?”
Liang Yubai was scolded also not angry, straight said that the small four unexpectedly also can curse the dirty words, said that also laughed.
I held the baby to avoid him, so as not to give his silly illness to our mother and son.
With Zhaoer’s company, I don’t think the days in the palace are hard. Yunqing brought me a rattle. I lay on the couch and teased Zhaoer. When Zhaoer blinked to sleep, Yunqing called the wet nurse to take her away.
“Something to say?” When I saw that Yunqing hesitated to speak, I asked, “Say what you want to say.”
But Yunqing didn’t say anything in the end.
But she told me with her actions that her husband was the object of her loyalty. And I, the master who had been with her for more than ten years, was betrayed by her.
I stood in the bedroom, looking at this brother who had not seen the third emperor for more than a year. He seemed to have aged a lot. He was only two years older than me, but now he looked like a generation behind me. And his left leg is no longer sharp.
“Give me back my Zhaoer!” I don’t care how he can pretend to be a palace man to get into the palace. I just want to make sure my child is safe now. I want Zhaoer back to me.
Xiaosi, I haven’t seen you for a long time. You’re having a good time. I’ve seen your kid, too. He’s very naughty and cute. I don’t think he’ll want to come back for a while. Li Shu, dressed in the clothes of a eunuch, slowly sat down on a chair and poured himself a cup of tea. “Aren’t you afraid I’ll call someone?”
I said angrily.
“Cry, I will not live, and you think your evil seed will live.” Li Shu sneered. What
are you going to do?! You wanted to run for your life, kill me, cause a riot, stall for time, I did. Do you know that you revolted again, your cousin died, and my father and brother almost suffered? What more do you want now?
I looked at Li Shu’s old God and wished I could jump on him and bite off his flesh.
If Liang Yu-pai hadn’t invaded our state of Chen, why would I have fled? Why would you have died for your country? Why would my cousin have died. You don’t hate him, but you blame me? How can you even commit yourself to him and bear evil seeds for him? How can you face your ancestors? “But now I can give you a chance to atone for your sins. It’s up to you to make good use of it,”
Li Shu continued with a look of charity. You have to figure out whether you want to have a child or you want that person.
My hands were trembling, my teeth were biting my lips until my mouth was full of blood.
17
“Does Your Majesty work inside?” Walking to the Imperial Study, I pretended to be calm and asked Xiang Deshun.
Deshun saluted and said, “Concubine Zhen, your majesty is inside, but your majesty told the slave before that there were no courtiers. If you want to come, you can come directly.”
I smiled stiffly and stepped inside.
“Well, empress, does the waiter beside you look a little strange?” Deshun asked.
I paused and then said, “Yunqing didn’t obey the rules. I’ve punished him. That’s why someone else has come.”
Deshun looked a few more eyes with some surprise and kept his head down. Li Shu, who was following me, did not speak again.
When I entered the inner hall, Liang Yubai did not raise his head. He carefully criticized the folding and asked directly, “Hasn’t Zhao Er woken up yet?”
His words made me feel so guilty that just as I was about to walk over, a short blade was pressed against my waist.
I watched Li Shu raise his hand to give me a food box and slowly reach out to take it.
What’s the matter? Did you send me food? When did Xiao Si become so sweet? Come here. Liang Yubai put down his red pen and waved to me.
But I know what’s in there, how can I send it so calmly. The short blade on the
back was sharp, piercing the waist seal and clothes, and I already felt the sting.
Liang Yubai saw that I had not come forward for a long time, and when I had a small temper, he got up and came over, took the food box with his own hands, took my hand, and went to the couch next to him.
Open the food box, inside is a bowl of crystal white fungus soup.
“Little Si really likes white fungus soup. I don’t like sweet food, but this one from Little Si must be to my taste.” With these words, Liang Yubai picked up the bowl and looked up at his lips to drink it.
I stared, as if my heart was about to come out of my throat!
“Bang!” A crisp sound, the bowl of white fungus soup, has been broken to the ground. The three people present all stared down at the bowl of soup that had been spilled all over the floor.
My hand was still hanging in the air, shaking violently.
“Small, four!” Li Shu came to his senses and looked at me like an evil ghost from hell, killing me with a short blade in his hand. With quick eyes and quick hands,
Liang Yu grabbed the food box and clasped Li Shu’s outstretched arm. When he twisted it, he heard the sound of a “click.” Li Shu’s wrist was already twisted into a strange posture. Immediately after that, Liang Yubai kicked him to the ground and knocked his chin to the ground, which also made people jumpy.
Deshun and a group of bodyguards soon rushed in and took Li Shu down.
Liang Yubai! Bitch thief, you will die a terrible death! Your son is still in my hands, can’t kill you, I let that evil seed be buried with me! Ha ha ha ha.. Li Shu shouted and laughed crazily, and the blood spilling from his mouth made him look even more terrible. Out of control,
I rushed up and was hugged by Liang Yubai and pressed in my arms.
“Zhaoer, Zhaoer is still in his hands!” My face was full of tears, covering my eyes, so that I could not see Liang Yubai’s face at all. I could only beg Li Shu to let Zhaoer go, and I could exchange my life with him.
“Don’t listen to him, Xiao Si.” With a sigh, Liang Yubai stopped me, who was about to fall to the ground, and then said, “Zhao’er is in my bedroom. She just got tired of playing and went to sleep.”. I’ll go and see him soon. Don’t cry. I won’t be able to coax you.
I opened my eyes, let the tears flow down, and suddenly stopped crying, which made me hiccup.
Pushing his bosom away, I stammered, “You..” You, you say, say what? Smiling,
Liang Yubai wiped away my tears and said, “I knew Yunqing was a scourge, so I arranged for people to watch him.”. As soon as she did, someone caught her.
“So you just?!” I was shocked that he was ahead of me and stared at him.
“I used to feel that you didn’t care much about me. That bowl of white fungus soup you broke is very comforting to me.” Liang Yubai laughed wantonly. But
I said to myself that I jumped off the gate tower that day, wishing I could swallow him alive.
Dog man! On the day of
Li Shu’s beheading, I brought the news to Yun Qing, who was already in prison.
Yun-ching just gave a faint “oh,” and then said, “My master has always been a gentleman. He picked me up, who was almost tortured to death by eunuchs, and taught me to read and write. So you have never been my master.
I sighed, “So you were only used by him to supervise all my movements. You didn’t follow me to the gate tower that day to die for me, did you?”
Naturally, it was to prevent you from changing and to give you a push. After all, no one can spoil your master’s plan. Clouds and clear air are like gossamer paths. I
didn’t want to look at her again, so I turned away and walked outside the prison. Liang Yu-pai
was waiting for me on the imperial stage. He reached out his hand and held me in his lap. “Choose an auspicious day,” he said. “It’s time to set up a reserve.”
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