One Dendrobium Bead
Fanghua Complaint: Fireworks are easy to be cold. For whom do I bow
? I crossed three days ago.
The identity is not a noble lady, a royal princess, but an ordinary fake eunuch.
I thought I would probably go on doing nothing until I met the notorious factory official at that time.
Ming and Zong Changping three years, because of an accident, he sat in the long night hall, cold eyebrows slightly raised, called me to come over.
Three days ago, I went through it. I don’t know which novel it is. Anyway, what I saw when I opened my eyes was not the ceiling of the 21st world. My first reaction was that I won the lottery.
When I got up, I slapped myself and it hurt.
Okay, now we can be sure.
But soon I found out something else.
This is supposed to be an ancient novel, and I’m dressed as a fake eunuch.
Do you think I didn’t get the script of the female protagonist?
I don’t believe it.
Anyway, as an inferior eunuch, I had been squatting in the Huanyi Bureau for a month with my mind. Heaven paid off. Finally, I waited for a piece of news from the eunuch pile, which was not gossip. Cao Anshun, who was beside the governor of
the East Factory, died suddenly two days ago. The higher authorities hinted that the governor wanted to promote a new person.
When the sun was hot, I washed the last clothes and wiped the sweat on my forehead.
“Ah, I heard that Grandfather Tsao didn’t die a sudden death, but was allowed to be the governor..”
“Keep your voice down, you don’t want to live!” Ignoring
the two gossiping eunuchs, I silently got up and picked up my basin of clothes and went back.
Rong Shi Du Zhu..
My eyes darkened. Although
I can’t remember what the plot of this novel is about, the only thing I can be sure of is that
the Ming court seems calm on the surface, but there are careerists hidden under the pink walls and Daiwa.
And this Rong Shi Du Zhu is the villain of the whole text.
They said to choose eunuchs under the age of eighteen. There were thousands of eunuchs in
the East Factory, and at least hundreds of them were finally picked out.
But it happened that he heard that the moody governor only liked people with beautiful faces to be his subordinates.
As a result, the higher authorities strictly controlled it, and in the end, there were only more than 20 people left.
Fortunately, the “little eunuch” I wore looked pretty good, and according to the old eunuch who summoned us, I was the youngest of the more than 20 people, only 16 years old.
Like tender, but also like to grow well.
I guess in my heart that the governor had better not be an ugly old pervert. An old eunuch
over there suddenly pinched his voice and said, “Little Six!”
Hiss, it’s finally my turn for this awesome interview.
I quickly got up and walked respectfully to the study in front of me, passing by the little eunuch who had gone in before.
He was pale and in a cold sweat. After
a brief pause of two seconds, I secretly withdrew my sight.
By this time I was already standing at the door, suppressing my fear, and I said in a low, submissive voice, “Governor.”
The governor did not respond to me immediately, but after a short time, a languid and cold voice came from inside: “Come in.”
Strange, this voice does not have the eunuch’s hanging voice at all, on the contrary, it is as clear and pleasant to listen to as a pebble hitting jade.
But I still didn’t dare to look up at him, and I kept looking at my toes after entering the door. “Keep your head up,
” Yung said to me in the same tone.
My eyelashes trembled and trembled, and I finally looked at him. Completely different
from what I thought, there is no extremely ugly old eunuch, even if this person is said to be the posture of heaven and man, it is no exaggeration.
I saw Rong Shi sitting in front of the table, tall and straight, with a face like a crown jade, dressed in a gold-woven red flying fish suit to line his elegance, and stepping on gold-edged python soap boots with extraordinary bearing.
Time seems to have stagnated at this moment, and all things in the world, flowers, birds, fish and insects have nothing to do with me.
Seeing me staring at him, the man’s cold peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly with arrogance.
“Haven’t seen enough?”
Leng Qingqing four words, from his thin lips slowly spit out, but like an alarm bell severely hit in my heart.
I suddenly knelt down, with a cold sweat on my forehead, and said, “Forgive me, Lord.”
Rong Shi seemed to make a light “ha” sound.
The room was very quiet, and in front of the case came the sound of his impatient tea, but he did not say a word.
I bit my lower lip to myself, and to tell you the truth, I was completely overwhelmed by his reaction, and I knelt there with a burning pain in my heart.
Finally, I do not know how long to let me kneel, Rong suddenly threw a dagger to my feet.
At the same time, he said to me, “If you want to stay with us, kill a man for us.”
My heart was in my throat for a moment, but I didn’t dare to refute him at all. I had to ask with great trepidation, “What the Governor is referring to..” Who?
“The eunuch who eats and lives with you.”
Lee Sam-soon?
I had a lot of doubts, but I didn’t dare to ask.
Burying myself in picking up the dagger on the ground, I nodded hurriedly and got up to leave the place immediately.
“Hold on.” He suddenly stopped me.
I pulled the corners of my mouth reluctantly. “What else does the governor want?”
Rong Shi did not answer me, but suddenly got up and came to me.
It was really strange that the doors and windows of the study were closed, but I felt colder and colder.
The dragon snake soap boots made a fine sound on the ground, and the flying fish suit crashed into my field of vision. Suddenly my chin was clamped and lifted, and then I was forced to look into his terrible but extraordinarily beautiful eyes.
When his eyelids closed slightly with the contempt of his eyes, he asked me, “Why don’t you ask the reason?”
Even though the knife was in my hand, my teeth were still chattering.
I said, “What the Lord wants the slave to do, the slave should do.”
He stared at me with his icy eyes, as if to pierce through all my fears to judge my loyalty to him.
I used all my strength to squeeze out a normal expression.
The next second, the jaw was loosened and even the person was thrown aside by him.
Yung Shih sneered, “That’s a good dog.”
He wiped his hands as if he had thrown something dirty, and the veil was thrown on the ground at random.
Rong Shi swept past me and rushed out of the door. At the last moment of his
departure, he turned his face slightly sideways and said to me, “When it’s done, someone will be sent to pick you up tomorrow night.”
I looked in the direction of his departure and slowly clenched my hands.
3
The next evening Shen Shi. With a bloody dagger,
I followed the two chamberlains to the north side of the East Gate in a hurry. It seemed that someone had been waiting at the gate of
the East Factory for a long time. I bent down and bowed to all the attendants in the East Factory.
Just as he was about to step in, he was stopped by an old eunuch who raised his hand. When
the whisk was placed in his arms, the old eunuch said in a deep voice, “The governor has ordered me to move to the side room and clean it. When it’s clean, it’s not too late to see the governor again.” There was a trace of strangeness in
my mind, but I didn’t think much about it. I just thought that the dead eunuch had some serious cleanliness.
But when I finished bathing, I suddenly found that the clothes hanging on the screen had disappeared, replaced by a long-sleeved skirt with flowing yarn.
Or, the kind with extremely thin material.
I lowered my eyelashes and stared at the light skirt in my hand.
So, did he find out that I was a fake eunuch long ago.
I clenched the material of the clothes little by little, and my heart was in a panic. What the hell is
he.. Someone
at the door called me, “Grandfather Xiaoliu, but is it all right?”
I took a deep breath, held it, and exhaled.
All right, I can only bite the bullet now.
I don’t know when, except for the old eunuch who led the way, there was no one around the huge East Factory.
The old eunuch was not surprised to see me dressed like this from the beginning to the end. With a wave of
the whisk, he smiled and said, “Grandfather Xiao Liu, please.”
Then he stepped back behind me and disappeared.
The cold moon is shining, the whole body is quiet and treacherous, and the cold wind blows my skirt to make waves of clouds. When
the wind was blowing, I saw the candlelight flickering in the room, as bright as day, but when I looked up, I could not see through the deep courtyard of the East Factory.
The next moment, I heard the clear sound of evening drums and morning bells coming from the magnificent room like a palace. “Come in, Yin Liu,” he said lazily, with a natural sense of alienation and nobility. It was a little different
from yesterday. This time, he called my name. As
I approached, I saw that there was only one person in the room, lying on his side with his eyes closed.
At this time he did not wear formal clothes, perhaps also just finished bathing, white clothes such as immortals, hair such as waterfalls, but he gave birth to a handsome face of demon governance, every move is charming. “Greetings to the governor,”
I said, turning over my body.
He did not open his eyes, but opened his thin lips and said to me, “Come here.” My
heart tightened and I said, “Yes,” and I was about to go over, but I heard the eunuch say, “Did you come over?”
Is this, want me to kneel to go?
I pursed my lips and suppressed the fire in my heart. “Yin Liu knows he’s wrong.”
Kneeling down, knees kneeling on the Luo skirt on this Lu Mu gold brick bit by bit to move forward, when I finally knees to the front of the bed, he has been closed eyes slowly opened.
This pair of extremely cold eyes hides the abyss that the candle can’t shine into. He looked at
me, and the corners of his beautiful mouth were slightly raised: “It looks like..”
His words were too light. I was wondering what he meant when he suddenly asked me, “Did you kill him?”
To be honest, his tone was very strange, as if he didn’t care if I really killed Li Sanshun.
Could it be.
I took the suspicion out of my eyes and answered him, “Of course I killed him.”
“Really?”
He bent his fingers against my chin and forced me to raise my face. “Yin Liu, do you know what we hate most?”
The whole body began to be cold, and his tone had obviously confirmed the idea in my mind.
Sure enough, the next second I heard something outside, and then I saw a Chamberlain tied up a man.
No, it can’t be called a person anymore. It should be a person, to be exact.
The Chamberlain pulled back his messy hair, revealing Li Sanshun’s bloody face.
The whole room was filled with the smell of blood, and I collapsed in front of the bed in an instant, my mind was empty, and I couldn’t say anything.
“This is the result we want.”
Rong Shi’s clear and gentle voice whispered in my ear, but at this time I was suffocated like an evil ghost.
I don’t know whether he is talking about Li Sanshun or me. As soon as
Rong Shi waved his hand, the eunuch immediately took Li Sanshun, who had fainted, down like a puppet who had lost his five senses.
At midnight, the incense burner was filled with smoke, and all of a sudden, only Rong Shi and I were left in the hall.
My lips are trembling, but I dare not have the slightest intention of running away.
Seemingly pleased by my reaction, he gave a low laugh, pressed his warm palm against my neck and pushed me forward in his direction. “Are you afraid?”
He hissed.
“Why..”
“He and Tsao Shu-te were the spies that Si Lijian had planted with me. They should be killed.”
But you, Yin Liu, the transfiguration, the fake eunuch, keep people under the sword, deceive me, what else do you have that I don’t know? Which of those twenty or so people is bolder than you? Rong Shi’s fingers ran down my chin and his thumb rubbed back and forth against my throat.
He chuckled sadly. “Which of these things isn’t a capital offense, eh?” At the moment when
the coda rose, my heart suddenly shrank like a needle prick.
“Yin Liu knows his mistake and asks the governor..” Cold sweat ran down my cheeks, and my teeth chattered.
He seemed careless and asked me, “How can I forgive you?” Held hostage
by fear, I lowered my eyes in a trance, and could faintly see his slender hands like jade. Like him, he was beautiful, but dangerous.
How to forgive? Only
now do I really understand that tonight’s scene, I am afraid, has been properly arranged since I took the dagger yesterday.
And he had already given me a hint of what he wanted.
At that moment, in order to survive, I can forget anything.
I never thought, this huge palace, thousands of eunuchs, in addition to me, Rong Shi unexpectedly-
also, is, a, false, too, prison! Does the eunuch in the
clean room eat rice?! At the last moment before I
closed my eyes, I felt vaguely that I was looking at myself, but I had no strength to delve into his eyes, and I turned my head and fell asleep. When I woke up
the next day, I was sore all over.
Aware that Rong Shi was still by my side and had not left, I trembled in my heart and wanted to pretend to sleep and get up when he left.
But he seemed to see through my trick. The
thin lips were close to my side face, and I immediately opened my eyes.
“Wake up?” He asked slowly. Half of
my face was buried in the brocade cloud quilt. After a long time, I waited for the feeling of shame and indignation to pass, and then I gave a discontented “um.”.
“Then get up.”
Perhaps because I was inside, Rong Shi did not call the eunuch to change his clothes for him.
Also completely do not care about my eyes, when the first to get out of bed, self-care exposed Xin long fine naked back.
The man’s backbone is tall and straight, his complexion is like jade, and his movements are as elegant and gentle as flowing clouds and running water when he wears clothes.
What a natural false and noble style.
“Can’t pay?”
My heart says: What to start!
However, Rong Shi seemed to be able to read minds, and his cold peach blossom eyes came to me, and the end of his eyes threatened me.
I was so excited that I rolled and crawled out of the bed with pain.
At this time, Rong Shi has finished wearing.
Today, he chose a moonlight dragon suit, with only one Hetian jade on his narrow waist. It
was clearly a tasteless costume, but it did not reduce his bearing at all, but made him more handsome and beautiful.
Sitting back on the edge of the brocade couch, Rong Shi casually played with the sapphire finger on his thumb, while Shi Shiran swept me a playful look. There
was no screen here, and he obviously wanted me to change clothes in front of him.
I gritted my teeth to myself and cursed this shameless dead castrated dog countless times in my heart.
Nevertheless, I dare not neglect my hand movements at all, close my eyes, and try to change back to a new one as quickly as possible. Eunuch suit.
After waiting for me to tidy up, Rong Shi’s face did not change, but he raised his hand to me lightly.
I was a little reluctant, but I could only walk over and kneel down in front of him.
I looked down at the celadon on the ground and asked him, “What do you want?”
Rong Shi did not answer, but raised my jaw with his well-proportioned hands. His eyes were always mixed with a little coolness and banter, which made me wonder what he was thinking.
My eyes drifted to the side, and he seemed dissatisfied, pinching my chin with his fingers. I had tears in my
eyes and gave him a hard look.
He seemed to be satisfied, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly and smiled heavily.
Hateful.
I was at a stand-off with Rong Shi when I heard a Chamberlain outside hurriedly reporting to me, “Tell the governor that Gao Yong, the minister of ceremonies, wants to see you.”
Rong Shi pounded the bottles and cans on the table slowly.
His hair today is not tied in a bun as usual, but tied high with only a red tassel knot.
With his movements, a few strands of hair fell on his delicate side face, and the warm light outside the window lattice melted on his body.
Such a natural family childe appearance, at first glance, who would have thought that he would be the East Factory that ruthless Rong Shi Duzhu? It had been half an hour
since the Chamberlain had come to report.
I pursed my lips slightly and glanced at Rong Shi. I made a mistake
before. Now the head of the eunuch in the palace is not him. Gao Yong, the head of the ritual supervisor, is the head of the emperor.
Rong Shi is so bold that he dares to hang others out. After much
hesitation, I asked Yung Shih tentatively, “Won’t the Governor go to see Grandfather Kao?”
He held a red pen in his hand, his eyebrows and eyes showing no sign of anxiety. “It doesn’t matter,” he replied faintly.
Tut, the big eunuch is not in a hurry and the small eunuch is in a hurry.
I shrank my neck, and it was not my fault to blame me.
Just ignore that Gao Yong, he did mention another stubble.
“From whom did you learn transfiguration?” Startled,
I looked up subconsciously and was caught off guard by his eyes.
I saw Rong Shi’s long eyelashes drooping slightly, and his black and brown eyes were full of treacherous light.
I swallowed and said to him, “I was taught by an old man before I entered the palace.”
Rong Shi’s eyes narrowed slightly. “Why did he teach you?”
I lowered my voice to make myself sound as pitiful as possible: “When I was twelve, my father wanted to sell me to my younger brother for food. I ran away and lived on the street. Then I met this old man.”
“He’s a quack healer, and I wanted to stay with him, but he was too old to keep me, so I begged him to turn me into a man and send me to the palace.” “You could have chosen to be a maid of honor,” said
Rong Shi in a low voice.
I shook my head. “I was young at that time, and I just thought that being a man must be easier to bully.”
“But I guess the father-in-law of the cleanroom must have known this old man, so he was willing to make an exception and let me in.”
In order to make the story sound more realistic, I secretly pinched the thigh meat and forced out a few tears.
“Is that charlatan surnamed Ho?” He asked.
I changed my mind and sighed softly, “I didn’t tell you.”
Rong Shi raised his eyebrows lightly, with a thin cocoon palm around my side face, and Ruoyu’s thumb gently rubbed the corners of my eyes, endless tenderness.
Seeing that he did not speak for a long time, I was afraid, but I did not dare to show it.
I pretended to be wronged and whispered, “Lord, don’t you believe me?”
“How?” His beautiful thin lips drew out a dense smile.
At this time, Rong Shi’s back was facing the light, and half of his cold white face was trapped in the shadow, which was dark and dangerous.
“Of course we believe in Liuliu, but if one day Liuliu is not good, then we will personally teach you how to be a good child.”
Li Sanshun’s bloody appearance yesterday reappeared in my mind.
I smiled, but my back was all wet.
Rong Shi said this obviously to remind me again and again not to disobey his orders. What’s
he afraid of? I can’t run away.
It was after this threat that Rong Shi put down his guard against me a little.
Lifting my face, he began to transfigure for me himself.
Zhu Yu’s brush was held by him, and he bent over to trace my eyebrows and eyes carefully. I was so close to him
in this shadow of being trapped by him that I couldn’t help suggesting, “Lord, I could have come by myself.”
He glanced at me with a cold fragrance, but his words were not pleasant to hear: “We have never seen such a clumsy technique as yours before.”
「……」
I am a fake, and this thing is different from makeup, can I compare with you!
But in this way, it is not difficult to explain why Rong Shi knew I was a woman first time he saw me.
Apparently, the castrated dog is a master of transfiguration himself.
I silently rolled my eyes and decided to close my eyes and play dead.
Facing each other, the room was silent.
I do not know how long passed, I almost fell asleep, Rong Shi finally stopped writing. The
ink pen of Zhu Tan Wolf fell on the inkstone and collided with a clear sound. I opened my eyes bleakly, but what I saw in the mirror was a face that was only three parts like my original body. She is
not a girl, but a man. I
opened my eyes wide and said, “The governor’s pen is so wonderful.”
Yung Shih tapped my forehead with his index finger and grinned, “This cream melts when it meets water. Remember, you can’t show your face to a woman outside.”
It seems a little too intimate.
I touched the forehead he had touched and smiled unaccustomed: “Yes.” After
grinding for so long, Rong Shi finally took me out and walked into the East Factory Hall, but he didn’t want Gao Yong to be there.
A cold cup of tea fell in front of Rong Shi, splashing debris and water.
I stood behind Rong Shi, although I could not see his expression, but I saw that Rong Shi was silent for a moment, and then smiled with ice in his face.
To the man in the room, Rong Shi unhurriedly said, “My godfather is very angry.”
Above the hall sat an old eunuch with thick white hair.
Dressed in a black and red python robe and wearing a three-mountain hat, when his narrow triangular eyes caught a glimpse of him, a feminine cold hum rolled out of his throat.
“So Yung’er still remembers having such a godfather in our family.”
Rong Shi took me Shi Shiran into the hall. With a wave of his long arm, the cloak and robe behind him were blown away.
Sit on the right side and take your time.
Rong Shi smiled at the corners of his mouth, and his eyes were cold. “My godfather is joking.”
These two treacherous foxes talk back and forth, with needles hidden in the cotton. Seeing that
I had nothing to do with myself, I bowed my head and poured tea for Rong Shi.
Rong Shi has always been extremely extravagant, and the fragrant tea used to entertain guests is a first-class product, not to mention this set of spring jade tea sets with color.
It’s a pity that Gao Yong smashed one just now.
Tut, it hurts to think about it.
“I haven’t seen you for a few days, but Yung’er has a new face around her.”
Just now I was still being polite, but I heard that Gao Yong suddenly changed the subject and went around to me.
I woke up, secretly glanced at Rong Shi, and saw that he was quietly and elegantly drinking tea with low eyes and did not speak.
I had no choice but to make a bold bow to Gao Yong. “Slave Yin Liu, I’ve seen Grandfather Gao.”
Kao Yung hung his eyes and said “hum” calmly.
I thought I had nothing to do, but then I heard Gao Yong say to me, “Come closer. We can’t see clearly.”
Earlier, I heard that Gao Yongsu was a pervert. The older he got, the heavier his taste became. He liked to raise a comely child to play beside the bed. The corners of
my mouth stiffened, and my heart suddenly regretted that I had been painted ugly.
I hesitated to take a step here, and Gao Yong’s puffy white face gradually became ferocious.
Today, because Rong Shi was not feeling well, when he saw that the attendants around him were not taking him seriously, he immediately slapped him heavily in front of the table: “Our family asked you to come over!”
I was so scared that I shivered.
Just as he was preparing to go over, Yung Shih, who had not spoken, finally said leisurely, “My godfather has a lot of people. Why should I embarrass a little eunuch?”
“Oh?”? When did Yung’er see me embarrass him?
When Kao Yung saw Yung, his evil eyes lit up: “Our family is just worried about Yung’er. We’ve lost Grandfather Cao and found such a disobedient dog slave!”.
The emerald teacup is not as smooth as his fingers, and the corners of his beautiful mouth are indifferent: “Tsao Shun-te is good, but it’s a pity that he’s blind and doesn’t know who his master is.”
“As for her..” He raised his eyes toward me, and his lips gradually brightened into a smile. “I’m really not very obedient,” he said. “My son will teach me this personally, so I won’t bother my adoptive father and meddle in other people’s affairs.”
The last four words, bite clearly, clearly.
My heart tightened and I quickly looked down at my toes.
Sure enough, Gao Yong was furious: “You –”
Rong Shi was not moved. The teacup was casually and elegantly put aside by him. Instead, he lowered his eyes and played with his own sapphire finger wrench.
Gao Yong punched the cotton, and his face was even worse.
Nodding his head, he smiled ferociously twice, but immediately returned to calm for a moment, leaving only the eyes under the eyes as if they had been quenched with poison when they were biting.
“It seems that Yung’er has grown up after all, or that our family is old and confused.”
He snorted sullenly, “But in our dreams these days, we often see the days when Yung’er was still with us in the early years.”
Yung Shih turned his fingers, but soon he looked as usual. “I have a lot of dreams at night,” he said. “It seems that my adoptive father needs to find a doctor to see him, so as not to hurt his lungs.”
Kao Yung smiled, as if he no longer had the patience to say, “Our family won’t argue with you. Today I came to our house to ask you for the last time whether you will help me after the Qionglin banquet.”
“Hasn’t the adoptive father seen clearly what the son is doing?”
Kill the eyes, help the new people, tit for tat.
That’s no help.
“Good, very good.”
Gao Yong smiled coldly and turned over his sleeves to go.
Yung Shih’s eyes closed slightly, and he suddenly added coolly behind his back: “My adoptive father is anxious to form a clique. It would be better to think more about the cause of the Biancheng Uprising a few days ago.”
Gao Yong’s fat figure stiffened when he heard the words, and soon he hurried away.
Since Gao Yong left that day, five days have passed in a flash.
Originally, looking at the two eunuchs at daggers drawn, I thought Rong Shi would make some moves anyway.
But he didn’t. Instead, he was very calm. His daily work was still to intimidate others everywhere. Although I can’t say I’m busy
these days, I’m certainly not idle.
To be exact, I was promoted from an inferior eunuch to a follower of Rong Shi and. Personal book boy.
If say the biggest advantage, probably is the salary to become more.
On this day, as usual, he went back to his study to correct the detective documents.
I stood beside him, adding water and grinding ink for him.
At first, this fellow was extremely demanding, and he could tell at a glance whether the ink I had developed was thick or light. After
distinguishing it, he was very disgusted and refused to use it.
But the most annoying thing is that he would rather find a new ink table to grind himself than let me go!
Only sigh that people have to bow their heads under the eaves.
I endured the pain of my wrist, rubbing it day and night, and grinding half of the first-class ink ingots that were hard to buy. Only then did I get the favor of the castrated dog.
Just, very angry. Only I and Rong Shi are in the
study on weekdays.
I bent my head to polish the inkstone and pursed my lips. “Lord, I suspect you did it on purpose a few days ago.”
Rong Shi held a pen and paused for a moment. When he heard this, his long and narrow phoenix eyes narrowed slightly and said to me, “What did you do on purpose?”
The tone is not good, although it is not revealing, but it has hidden three points of danger.
“Of course!” I cleared my throat, ready to accept good advice. “Of course it’s a deliberate attempt to sharpen the minions.”
Me: “This grinding seems simple, but in fact it is the knowledge of cultivating the mind.”. Presumably, the Governor must have seen the flaws in me, and that’s why he took such pains to test me. After a pause
, I smiled at him and said, “This’kindness’ of the Governor has been written down by the slave.” When I
looked up, I found that Rong Shi was bending his arms and seemed to be looking at me with his head all the time. In
that pair of soul-stirring eyes gathered a little streamer dark awn, shallow, the figure inside congealed into my appearance. I have been
with him for a few days, and I know that when I look at people, it is always cold and gloomy. Even when he holds me in his arms at night, there are few times when he is so gentle and quiet.
I blinked my eyes confusedly, and for a moment I couldn’t figure out what he meant.
But see his long eyelash droop pressure, beautiful lips gradually wipe out a little slight smile, like a very sunny spring in March, snow melting flowers like that scene.
Most of the time, I don’t think Rong Shi knows that he can kill people easily.
Trembling at the tip of my heart, I lowered my head and quietly pinched the palm of my hand that fell down on my side. In
that compartment, Rong Shi shook his head gently and murmured something to himself.
It’s just that the whisper was so soft that I didn’t hear anything.
In the evening, the Chamberlain outside came to report that he had a guest to see.
Just a lobbyist, not a name. Just as
I was wondering, I turned over a scroll and asked, “How many people are here?” “Three,”
the Chamberlain replied respectfully.
“I see.”
Rong Shi lowered his eyes, put down the book with his long fingers, flickered the candle, and when he raised his eyes again, his dark pupils flashed a sly light. As soon as
he stepped out of the door in his brocade soap boots, I grabbed the waiter who had come to report. “Do you know those three people?”
Now that I am in a high position, ordinary little eunuchs dare not lie when they see me.
I just don’t know why he looks at me with a strange expression.
I pretended to be fierce and glared at him.
The little eunuch shook his head and obediently said to me, “I don’t know all about it, but I was lucky enough to meet one of them at the banquet at the beginning of the year. It was Grandfather Liu, the imperial supervisor.”
At this critical juncture, what else can eunuchs do to find eunuchs? After
the waiter left, I stood alone in the doorway for a while.
According to Rong Shi’s reaction just now, he obviously already knew who the three men were.
In other words, Rong Shi may not have no action these days, but he is sure that those people will come, so he waits leisurely.
Oh, scheming dog! Can
this Gao Yong fight?
I sighed, thinking that they must be secretly plotting something, so I decided to turn around and eat by myself when I couldn’t wait.
As I expected, the crescent moon at the corner of the pool was in the east, shaped like a hook, and the curtain of the sky was about to fall at night, when it was time to walk slowly to the bedside of the bedroom.
He was so pleased with Jai that he had bathed and changed before he came back.
I slept in a daze, vaguely feeling that I was being peeled out of my clothes.
By this time, my sleepiness had long disappeared, and I naturally remembered the embarrassment I had discovered tonight.
I pushed his face away, frowned, and asked, “Why didn’t the governor tell me in the daytime that I had ink on my face?”
No wonder he looked at me and smiled, and the little eunuch, I said how strange his eyes were.
Rong Shi’s thin lips were slightly hooked, and his long fingers lightly picked out a few strands of hair on his face for me: “What’s the harm if I don’t tell you?”
I was choked by his shameless reply and turned over to ignore him.
Rong Shizi won’t let me succeed.
Holding my shoulders, he broke me over abruptly, and the tall figure pressed down. “How dare you get angry with me?”
He asked with a half-smile. When I looked at Yung
quietly, I imitated his tone and hissed, “It’s normal to rely on the Lord’s love, even if you grow three points of arrogance.”
The night is always easy to give birth to ambiguity.
Ten fingers fit and interlock with him. At the last second of the
kiss falling on my face, I vaguely heard him say, “It’s really normal.” On March 18, the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Hezong Changping of the
Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wei Hengyu held a dinner in the Qionglin Garden of the Imperial Palace for the new imperial examination candidates after the imperial examination.
Rong Shi, as an official in the court, was appointed by the emperor to attend the banquet.
Apart from the officials in charge of the court, such as the invigilator and the book keeper, they were naturally accompanied by Zhao Jingzhi, the head of the cabinet, and Gao Yong, the eunuch in charge of the seal. In the middle of the
moon, the Chinese music rises, the table is full of delicacies, the wine is crisscrossed, and the guests are full.
I stood behind Rong Shi and looked up quietly, knowing that all the people sitting here now should be the people who call the wind and rain in the morning.
Although they were all friendly on the surface, they were afraid that they would have a bloody fight in private.
And Rong Shi can be in the top three, weighing the aristocracy, I think the rights they have are monstrous.
As he lowered his eyes and pondered, Wei Heng-yu, who was sitting in a high position, asked in a deep voice, “The banquet has begun tonight. Where are the Jinshi?”
I looked and saw three men in turban hats and blue robes coming out of the banquet center unhurriedly.
In previous years, most of the Jinshi in the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty were in their forties, but this year, there is one person who is very exceptional.
Head of the people, but about twenty years old, bow and stand, star eyebrow sword eyes, Qingjun extraordinary.
Just to stand there, it becomes a landscape of its own, and this person is Liu Runian, the new champion.
With such a demeanor, the emperor looked askance at Yung from the 12th hour and said, “Yung Gong, what do you think of this man?”
“I’ve long heard people say that the sons of the Liu family in Bian Cheng have extraordinary talent. Although we’ve never met the Number One Scholar in the past, we know a little about that folk song.” The head of
the cabinet drank in silence, and Gao Yong’s face was expressionless and his eyes were gloomy. When
the emperor heard this, he was naturally interested. “Tell me about it, Lord Rong.”
Rong Shi smiled, and then slowly read aloud: “The first immortal among the five hundred people can easily walk up to the sky.”. At that time, it was not surprising that people ascended the imperial examinations early, and the jade trees, orchids, and willows were like years old. When the
silver cup was filled with wine, Yung Shih looked at Liu Ru-nien in the audience and said, “Number One Scholar, are we half wrong?”
Liu Ru-nien held each other in respect with a silver bottle, and the corners of his mouth melted into a shallow smile: “Lord Yung, please do me a favor.” As soon as
they sang together, the emperor was so pleased that he gave the emperor another cup of wine and ordered all the ministers in the banquet to enjoy themselves tonight.
But after all, they are sitting, eating, drinking and playing. Pity those of us who are slaves. Our ankles are really sore after standing for a long time.
My arm was touched quietly, and I looked sideways. It was a small palace girl who was blinking at me.
Seeing me and her looking at each other, she smiled shyly, and then quickly stuffed a red fruit into my arms.
Hiss, this..
I scratched my head, thinking that Rong Shi had made her misunderstand me by turning me into a man.
But this is the first time I have received a small gift.
I pinched the red fruit and smiled at her in a friendly way, but when I turned around, I suddenly found that Rong Shi was squinting and looking at me in a very unfriendly way.
Tut, this castrated dog is probably jealous that I am more popular with women than him.
I wrinkled my nose and smirked at him. In the middle of the
feast, I couldn’t stand it any longer. When I
was calm, I stole two plates of cakes from there, and I used his identity to find an excuse to squat out and eat them.
But do not want to, although this imperial garden is big, I squat squat, unexpectedly still was discovered. In front of the
line of sight was a clean blue robe, which looked up along the length of the comer and happened to bump into a pair of brown pupils washed by autumn water.
“Willow, willow, willow..”
Liu Ru-nien hung his head and smiled. “Little father-in-law, how delicious is the food?” A little
debris fell from the corners of the mouth.
I lost my balance and sat down on the ground.
After some explanation, I knew that it was the champion who came out to breathe and got lost carelessly.
I gasped in my heart, as long as I didn’t come to arrest me.
But in ancient times, there were also people with high scores and low abilities?
I saw that Liu Ru was so old that he was really charming and pleasing to the eye. I couldn’t help but volunteer. “Why is it so difficult?” I answered with a heroic voice. “My father-in-law will take you back.”
Liu Ru-nien was gentle and polite, and replied in a gentle voice, “Then I’ll bother my little father-in-law.”
I quickly waved my hand at him and said, “Liu Zhuangyuan has killed the villain.”
In fact, the place where we were was not far from the banquet center.
It’s just that this Qionglin Garden was originally an imperial garden, which was full of beautiful things, many and complicated.
Now that the night is deep, it is not surprising that Liu Runian, who has a bad sense of direction, gets lost.
I led the way for Liu Runian. It was fine at first, but then it became more and more wrong as I walked. When I came out
just now, the back of the forest garden was deserted, but at least a few palace people were arranged to light the lamp and keep vigil.
Now, however, looking ahead, there was no one except me and Liu Runian.
I couldn’t help walking a little more gently. “Liu Langjun is just now. Have you met anyone else?”
Liu Ru-nien paused and said, “It’s because I didn’t meet you that I..”
His voice went down, and I turned my head and looked at him. In
the windless night, there was a rustling sound in the Jasper forest, and the next moment, I saw a cold knife falling from the sky to Liu Ru-nian. “Watch out!”
I shouted.
Fortunately, Liu Runian withdrew in time and quickly took two steps back, which could escape the fatal blow of the black-clad thief. The road paved
with pebbles and agates was cut by a heavy knife with a half-finger-deep mark.
Seeing that the first assassination failed, the thief stood slowly with a knife. Under the cold moon, between minutes and seconds, he saw that the human body was like lightning, approaching Liu Ru-nian again.
Fortunately, although Liu Runian is a liberal arts champion, he has some self-defense skills.
But the enemy’s moves are fierce, and his skill obviously won’t last long.
Liu Ru-nien struggled to deal with the situation. He turned to me and shouted, “Why don’t you go and ask someone for help?” I was scared out of my wits when he came out
just now, and it was only when he shouted like this that I was enlightened: “I know, I know, Liu Ru-nien, hold on, I’m going, I’m going!”
I am anxious and afraid, trembling two thighs while shaking and running, but how can thief let me easily move reinforcements?
Qinggong touched the ground, swept his legs and kicked him with a thunderbolt. I was caught in the back as expected.
Unexpectedly, however, I flew straight into the yuanting Lake on my right hand side.
However, I don’t know water.
In March, the overwhelming chill spread all over my body. I held back the severe pain in my viscera and struggled to grasp something.
But even though I waved my arms vigorously, I only let the splashing water confuse my eyes in the end.
Tinnitus buzzing, I seem to hear Liu Runian calling me, but it seems not. Choking water in
the nasal cavity, coughing up blood in the throat, tasting the fishy and sweet taste between the mouth and teeth, I began to feel that the strength I could use was getting smaller and smaller. I
was on my back as far as I could go, fighting for the last bit of air.
But the feeling of suffocation that I couldn’t breathe still came, like a water ghost in a pool who found prey and excitedly dragged my broken body to my death.
Maybe, just die like this. The
older generation said that people will have a merry-go-round before they die, and they will recall every important part of their life. I was in a trance
as if I had really seen it, but it was a story before I had crossed it-
like sitting alone in a cinema hall, watching a not very happy movie on the screen.
There are parents’quarrels, divorces, white wards, doors splashed with paint, relatives’ avoidance of suspicion, countless pills, chemotherapy that hurts so much that they can’t breathe, and a lot of tears.
I’ve probably been here for so long that I’ve forgotten that I died in my last life because the doctor finally gave me a death notice.
At that time, my parents had divorced, and at first they would take care of me, but later they all had new families.
So I’m the only one who knows the news.
I am so afraid of death, how can I easily let the pain take away my life?
So I killed myself.
Just really did not expect to hit the big luck through, this life unexpectedly also died so hastily. After the
film was shown, the end of the film was deserted. At the last moment of
the merry-go-round, it is said that you will see the most important person.
I felt vaguely that there was indeed a person who hugged himself slowly.
But when I tried to look back at him, I couldn’t see anything except darkness.
I opened my eyes and looked blankly at a square of Babaohua tent above my head.
Close your eyes, open them again, and the line of sight is still clear.
I can’t believe you’re not dead.
I moved my body slightly, and the pain of my viscera was entangled in an instant, so I couldn’t help sobbing.
Someone held me down and said, “Don’t move.”
I frowned and struggled to look at it, and when I saw it, I sat on the edge of the bed with a bowl of soup and looked at me quietly.
In the magnificent hall, twelve gilded sparrows were curling with tobacco, and when they were allowed, their eyelashes were lowered, their movements were gentle, and their white fingers were silently fiddling with spoons.
I feel pain with every breath. Turning my
head back, I said with difficulty, “I thought I would never see the Lord again.” The sound of
jade and porcelain clashing was particularly obvious in the silence. The lights were flickering, and when they were allowed to speak slowly, they said, “Your life belongs to us.” I
try to recall the day I fell into the water in a trance-
shouting, suffocating, cold, despair..
I opened my lower lip weakly: “Liu Ru-nien, he..”
The decoction is already warm.
Rong Shi brushed his sleeves and slightly bent over to pass the jade spoon to my dry mouth. When
I drank it, my whole face wrinkled up.
He patiently wiped the corners of my mouth. “Nothing happened to Liu Ru-nien.” When
his eyelashes fall, he always leaves two pieces of shadow, but when he looks at him like this today, he is surprised to find that there are two faint blue shadows in his eyes.
The spoon was passed to my mouth again, and before I could taste it, the mere smell made my scalp tingle.
However, the person who fed the medicine was allowed to be stared at by his lukewarm expression. I was entangled again and again in my heart, but I drank it with my eyes closed.
I finally finished it.
I swallowed the acid regurgitated gastric juice in pain and felt a momentary burning sensation in my esophagus.
Rong Shi silently put down the small bowl, which was reasonable, and stuffed a piece of rock candy into my mouth. After the decomposition of saliva, the
sweet taste quickly bloomed between my mouth and teeth, and my furrowed brows gradually opened.
I don’t know what elixir Rong Shi fed me, but after a while, the heart-wrenching pain was much better.
I breathed a sigh of relief and then remembered to ask him, “Lord, what else happened that night?”? I remember that after I was kicked down, the assassin was about to kill Liu Zhuangyuan. After the
medicine was fed, Rong Shi twisted a clean square handkerchief to wipe my cheek. When he
lowered his head, the hair on his temples fell, and the luster of the tassel beads on the bed curtain faintly reflected his noble side face.
“That day I saw that you hadn’t come back for a long time, so I came out to look for you. I happened to meet Liu Runian fighting with the assassin.”. Then I dragged the assassin, and Liu Runian turned around and jumped into the water to save you. Can
Liu Runian save me?
I was stunned, and suddenly I thought of something: “Well, then didn’t he find me..”
Rong Shi Lengbulingding raised his eyes, and under his thin eyelids there was an undisguised coldness and depth.
I shivered all over with cold. He did treat me very well
some time ago, but I never forgot the fact that he was a perverted villain.
Those good, just take me as a pet, nothing happened before, he let me act like a spoiled child, protect me.
Now I-no, no, at this time not only I have against the will of Rong Shi, there is a thorny matter-Liu Runian must now know that I am a woman.
If he reports to Si Lijian.
I was greatly shocked: “Please ask the governor to keep the life of Yin Liuyi.”
“Liu Ru-nien said he would come back to visit you another day. You are now the new Number One Scholar. We can’t kill you.” Burning with
anxiety, I didn’t hear anything else in his words for a moment. I only remembered asking him, “What about others? Did anyone else see me after I fell into the water that day?”? Did you catch the thief? Did he see it? The Governor..
Rong Shi sealed my lips with a finger.
His face was heavy, and he did not know whether he was happy or angry. He only gave me two words: “Noisy.”
I blinked innocently, and just as I was about to open my mouth to defend myself, I was stared back by a knife eye.
“What are you panicking about? We say your life belongs to us. We want you to live. Who dares to let you die?”
His cool fingertips gently traced the shape of my lips, and his cold voice was pleasant but not tender: “The thief was sent by Gao Yong to kill Liu Ru-nien.”
He was originally from the Liu family in Bian Cheng. A few days ago, the Liu family was one of the main forces in the Biancheng Uprising in Jining because of Gao Yong’s insatiable greed. Although I knew it was only a matter of time before Liu Runian was assassinated, I didn’t want my adoptive father to become more and more useless as he grew older, so I couldn’t hold my breath and wanted to do it at the Qionglin banquet.
I moved my lips. “So, what about Gao Yong now?”
“Now?” Rong Shi sneered, “What else can he have now?”? I caught the thief and took him to the banquet court to identify Gao Yong. At first he quibbled that he had no quarrel with Liu Runian and that he must have been framed, but Liu Runian, who had escaped the disaster, identified Gao Yong’s crimes in Biancheng.
The next day, when the eunuch in charge of the seal of the third department saw that Gao Yong had fallen, he naturally had to seize the opportunity to expose what Gao Yong had done in private. We have been ordered by the emperor to go and search the Kao Yung residence. Can you guess what’s inside?
“In addition to the millions of taels of gold and silver, the fake seals, and the jade belts that were found in the eunuch’s house, there were 13 catamites in the basement of the eunuch’s house. Each of them had bloody wounds on his body. Three of them could not walk because of the festering wounds, four of them were dead, and the rest were chained up and shouted at anyone they saw.” As he spoke
, he seemed to be lost in memories of the past. He asked me softly, “What do you think Gao Yong would do to those chained children?” I
tried to imagine those images, and I couldn’t help but feel sick in my stomach.
“I remember it was winter when Rong Li died. He said to me, ‘Brother, don’t save me.'”
At that moment, I don’t know why I felt that this Rong Shi, who spoke softly and was extremely fragile, was the real one under the name of Dongchang Rong Gong, who had taken off his crimson flying fish suit.
Rong Li.
He had a brother who died young.
My palms hurt so much that I couldn’t help asking, “But you shouldn’t have been in charge of Gao Yong before he was executed, should you?”
He raised his eyes and smiled. “Liuliu, do you know who I am now?”
Gao Yong was arrested, the West Factory was vacant, the Royal Guards took orders from the East Factory, the three eunuchs socialized with him, and no one took the lead in the twelve supervisors of the Ming Dynasty. When
I suddenly stared at Rong, I saw that under his bright eyes were dark clouds that could not be hidden, and the wind and rain wanted to urge him.
At this time, there was a little servant outside the East Factory Mansion who pushed the door with a washbasin, but it seemed that he didn’t expect the master to be in the house at all.
Hurriedly he knelt down, only to hear him exclaim, “Nine thousand years old!”
Rong Shi did not pay attention to the man, but insisted on telling me, as if inviting me to his joy: “I will surely peel off his skin, pull out his tendons, and break every bone before he dies.”. If he is thirsty, let him drink his own blood, and if he is hungry, cut off his own flesh, and put honey on his wounds so that insects and rats can gnaw at them, and when he dies, dig up his body, crush his bones, and raise ashes.
“Yes, there is one more thing,” he seemed to suddenly remember, and his eyes were happy. He leaned close to me and whispered softly to my ear, but what he said made me shudder.
“Liuliu, don’t get too close to Liu Ru-nien. At least you’re mine until I get tired of it.”
12
It was only after that day that I learned from my subordinates that seven days had passed since I was injured and unconscious until I woke up.
I was attacked, and the kick broke five of my ribs. I fell into the water in March and had a high fever the night I was rescued.
At that time, all the ministers and emperors were shocked by the matter of Gao Yong, and Liu Runian, as a witness, had to stay and confront him face to face. After
Rong Shi ordered the Royal Guards to stand by, he snatched me from Liu Runian’s arms. In order to deceive people, the white fox took me into his arms with a wave of his sleeve and left in a hurry. I was
seriously injured, and when I returned to the East Factory, I was already unconscious and unable to tolerate it, so I had to call Chang Taiyi, a wonderful doctor in the palace, to treat me.
Only When
I saw the little eunuch who was taking care of me huffing and puffing, I asked him, “Just what?”
The little eunuch frowned and said in a low voice, “I heard that night when the doctor saw you, Grandfather Six, he was so frightened that he fell down.” After
a pause, he added, “The slave also heard that after Chang Taiyi finished his treatment, the governor did not let him go back directly, but only released him after the third watch.” “Why?”
I asked in surprise.
The little eunuch shook his head. “I don’t know.”
Just, he is a new person, the palace knows not many things.
Rong Shi sent him to take care of me and chat with me to relieve my boredom. At most, he just relayed what he heard and saw to me. If
Rong Shi really wants to hide something, we can’t get useful information with our identity.
Waving the little eunuch down, I rolled over and stared at the curtain for a moment.
In fact, Rong Shi is kind and righteous to me.
As the saying goes, a hundred days after I was injured, he didn’t find a new lover, and he specially found someone to take care of me.
He is busy on weekdays, but he will remember to make up for me before going out, and when he comes back from bathing at night, he will personally wipe my body carefully.
To be honest, I don’t know why he’s so nice to me, a pet with half a life.
From the day I woke up, knowing that I was good for nothing, I felt that one day he would be bored and abandon me.
But I was ready to wait day and night, but the day did not come. The medical skills of
this era made my wound heal very slowly. After two months, I could barely walk on the ground, but I still needed help.
On this day, I was enjoying the cool under the old vine tree in the backyard. The little eunuch who took care of me told me in a low voice that Liu Langjun had come to visit me.
I opened half my eyes.
Who? Come in
two months? I’m almost cured of
this disease.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but naturally I can’t let Zhuangyuan Lang wait outside the door.
I struggled to get the little eunuch to help me get up and go to meet the guests.
“Little father-in-law doesn’t have to make a big fight.”
Behind him came a clear and bright voice.
I turned my head and saw that it was Liu Runian, who had welcomed the breeze and worn the bright moon at the Qionglin banquet and was very famous.
Seeing me look at him, Liu Ru-nien smiled and bowed with his hands: “Liu broke into the East Factory without permission, hoping that his father-in-law would atone for his sins.”
It seems that the East Factory is run by my family.
I pursed my lips to suppress a smile.
Liu Runian looked faintly at the little eunuch beside me.
I know in my heart.
“You go down first.”
The little eunuch hesitated and said, “Grandfather Six, the Governor has said..” I’ve been bored out of my mind since I haven’t seen a few fresh faces
all day.
Anyway, Rong Shi wasn’t here today, so I waved my hand and said, “If the governor asks, I’ll tell him.”
The little eunuch was aggrieved and turned back three times in one step. “Miss Yin’s posture is really great,” said
Liu Ruqing with a light smile.
I was so proud that I grinned and was about to open my mouth when I suddenly felt something was wrong.
Liu Runian called me. Miss Yin?
The breeze blows the clothes, and the afternoon sunshine is shallow, lukewarm and dry.
In the face of my dumbfounded, Liu Ru-nian’s clear eyes gently curved.
“You even know my name.”
I felt guilty and touched my nose.
“It was Liu’s fault to come to visit Miss Yin after two months. Please don’t blame Miss Yin.”
He was somewhat embarrassed to call me Miss Yin. After all, I had been a eunuch for a long time, and I was still used to being called my sixth father-in-law.
I coughed, “Since you knew I was a woman, didn’t you want to report me as a fake eunuch?”
Liu Ru-nien shook his head and said in a gentle voice, “Miss Yin saved her life. How could Liu bite the hand that feeds him?”
I quickly waved my hand and said, “I can’t say that I saved my life. I didn’t save you at that time, but you saved half of my life. You are the one who saved my life.”
Liu Runian lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then his chest was washed out with a smile. “So the girl and I should be each other’s saviors.”
“Exactly, exactly.”
Liu Runian has no high official airs, and there is a degree of relaxation between talking and laughing. There are a lot of rules and regulations in
this palace, and talking to him like this makes me feel close to him. After
thinking about it, I asked him again, “Well, since Liu Zhuangyuan is all right, why did you take so long to visit him?”
He approached me and leaned over slightly. The scent of the
wood lotus lingered on my nose, and I was stunned to see that his angular jaw skin was as white as snow, his throat beads were rolling, and his collar was neat.
“It’s not that Liu doesn’t want to visit the girl, it’s that the big boss of the East Factory doesn’t open the door for Liu.”
Liu Runian’s back is shining, the sky is the background, and his handsome features are particularly clear.
He straightened up and took a vine leaf that had fallen between my hair. Being in the middle of it, the
girl must know better than I do that the East Factory is a place of right and wrong after all. After breaking the girl’s secret that day, Liu had been thinking about it all the time. This time, he finally waited for the opportunity to see the girl, just to ask the girl if he would like to leave with Liu. My
dry voice squeezed out of my throat and I asked in disbelief, “You..” Can you really take me away?
Liu Ru-nien brushed away the withered leaves, and her light brown eyes were clear to the bottom: “If the girl is willing, Liu will do his best to rescue her.”
I finally did not choose to go with Liu Runian.
Not only to protect himself, but also to protect him.
Rong Shi warned me a long time ago to stay away from Liu Runian.
Liu Runian has a kind heart. He only met me once, but he was willing to take risks for me. I really feel grateful.
But from another point of view, Liu Runian is only a new person in the court at present, and compared with the wily Rong Shi, he is just a stone that can’t stir up water. Ten thousand steps
back, if I really cooperate with Liu Ru-nian, I can save us at the beginning, and naturally I can kill us.
I am alone and no one cares about me, but I can’t let Liu Runian fall into it for me.
He has his cronies and his family behind him.
He can take a broader road, and there is no need to bow down for an insignificant person on a dead end.
As for Rong Shi and me. Blowing out the candlelight
at night, he lay beside me and slept quietly.
Yuehua outlined his eyebrows and eyes, and a thin layer of delicate and white skin covered his beautiful bones, showing a beautiful posture like a banished fairy. He always seems to be very busy
these days, leaving early and coming back late has become the norm. I put my
head on my arm in a daze, and I slept a lot during the day, but I didn’t feel sleepy at night.
Staring at Rong Shi’s face for a moment, I couldn’t hold back and gently touched his long, soft eyelashes with my fingers.
Rong Shi did not open his eyes, and his voice was a little dull and hoarse. He asked me, “Don’t you sleep?” Silently,
I withdrew my fingers and told him frankly, “I don’t want to sleep yet.” There was a sound of the
bedding turning over.
Rong Shi turned sideways, and by the faint moonlight, I noticed that he had opened his eyes and was looking at me.
A moment of silence. “Liu Runian came to see me today,”
I said.
Rong Shi did not speak. “He said he could take me with him,”
I added. “Tell me all about it. Aren’t you afraid we’ll kill him tonight?”
Rong Shi sneered.
“Yin Liu thought that the governor had known about it long ago.”
The whole imperial city is his eyes, how can he not know?
But he was noncommittal and asked me coldly, “So?”? You ask us to let you go?
I shrank into the quilt, hesitated for a moment, or slowly raised my hand around the waist.
“Yin Liu didn’t have any relatives. When he first chose to stay with the governor, he was really unwilling. But people’s hearts are made of flesh. Although the governor sometimes really frightens people, Yin Liu knows that the governor has never hurt me.” With
my forehead against his warm chest, I closed my eyes and continued softly, “Yin Liu doesn’t ask for anyone’s love. He tasted the fickleness of the world when he was young, but now he never thinks of getting anything.”. Leaving the palace or not is not important to Yin Liu. What Yin Liu really wants is to have a place to settle down.
Silence for a long time, Rong Shi did not respond to me.
Uh?
Come on, I finally decided to talk to him. Did he fall asleep?
As soon as he twisted his body, he heard a slightly tired voice coming from the top of his head.
“Don’t move.” He said. So
I hurried back obediently.
Rong Shi’s five fingers were open and pressed behind my head, and his thin chin slowly pressed against my forehead.
His heart beat steadily, one after another. He
didn’t talk to me again, and this time he seemed to be really asleep.
In fact, for the first time, I have imagined that I would be touched by the deer or something, but obviously he is very calm.
But when I was held in his arms, my sleepiness gradually infected me.
Closing my eyes, I thought in a daze-is it true that all people whose hearts are cold can be as gentle as he is? The
injury was almost healed, and most of the year has passed in a twinkling of an eye.
In the evening, when Rong Shi returned from the bath, he read the official documents on the back of the bed.
The man’s body is still a little wet steam, white wide sleeves, hair is not tied up, fine eyelashes with the natural fall of Dan ink.
People are pleasing to the eye, but it is also very boring to watch for a long time.
I rolled over and played with my hair on the bed.
Three fingers pass through a wisp of smooth black hair, turning, winding and knotting.
Hiss. Nice braids.
I nodded with satisfaction.
Rong Shiruo felt something and looked sideways at the small braid from the book. His beautiful peach blossom eyes were not good at squinting. He gave me a cool look.
I smiled shyly and quickly released him.
But it’s really boring.
I rolled around several times wrapped in soft clothes.
Rolling, but for a long time, the eyelids began to fight.
These days really some lethargy, think perhaps is the so-called autumn sleepy … …?
I thought silently, my eyelids getting heavier and heavier.
Half asleep and half awake, I seem to hear the voice of Rong Shi.
He asked me, “Tomorrow is the Chinese Valentine’s Day. Would you like to go to the garden to display lanterns?”
I struggled on the edge of dream and reality, and my head was dazed like lead.
His eyes were barely stretched out, and I asked him angrily, “Are you going?”
Rong Shi brushed away the broken hair in front of my forehead, flicked my long fingers, moved gently, and hid a few casual tenderness in his eyes: “Do you want to go to our seat?”
I held out my arms in a blur of consciousness. Without saying a word,
Rong Shi took me into his arms.
The whole person is surrounded by the familiar breath, I squeezed, stepped on his thigh, buried in his neck. I
opened my mouth and bit his ear. I took advantage of the darkness and whispered to him, “I want you to accompany me.” In the
quiet room, he smiled and said, “Yes.”. On
the second day, before the curtain of the sky gradually sank, Rong Shi came late. The moment he
opened the door and saw me, his long and narrow peach blossom eyes flashed a slight dark awn. In fact, I am a little uncomfortable to be looked at by
him.
But the skirt was clearly given by him. The glow on the
horizon burns the clouds, but I feel my cheeks burning with it.
I coughed and reminded him, “Lord, you haven’t changed my face yet.”
“Not today.”
Rong Shi approached me with a clear and shallow voice.
Standing in front of me, very close, the charming handsome face is close at hand, and the crescent cloud brocade dress is elegant and noble. He
looked at me and hesitated for a moment, his eyes shining faintly: “What should I do? We suddenly don’t want to go out very much.”
I was surprised: “What..” Before he
had finished speaking, he picked me up and put me on the desk.
He bowed his head and kissed me.
When he had had enough, the kiss was over. I
don’t need to look at it to know that the clothes and the headdress must be out of order. Annoyed,
I said, “Lord!”
Rong Shi’s forehead was against my shoulder, and he was not much better. Yes, he sprayed hot air at my neck again and again.
He asked me, “Do you really want to go?”
I said, “Of course.” After
a while, I heard a light sigh after his entanglement. Holding
me down, Rong Shi frowned with displeasure and said, “There will be a lot of people in the garden festival. You must not leave our seat at that time.”
I quickly followed Mao and grabbed Rong Shi’s hand to show my sincerity: “Where is the Governor going? Where is Liuliu going?”
His eyes stayed for a brief moment, turned the tables and wrapped my hand in his palm.
“If you say something, you must do it.”
I smiled and kept up with him.
“That’s natural.”
Although there was no transfiguration, Rong Shi drew a white veil for me before going out.
He lifted his chin. “Don’t take it off.” Without a word,
I held his palm and winked at him.
Rong Shi stood with his hands on his back and winked at the shadow guards disguised as boys behind him.
Those people nodded, no longer followed us, scattered and gradually hidden in the crowd.
The folkway of the Ming Dynasty is open, and the Lantern Festival banquet is held on the Tanabata Festival. Beautiful women and gifted scholars can boldly and happily invite their favorite objects out to recite poems, go shopping and play, make wishes and put lanterns to show their hearts.
Of course, there are far more beauties and talents happy on the day of Tanabata.
In fact, outside the capital tonight, the ten-mile long street is crowded with people, vendors and shops are constantly shouting, and teahouses and restaurants are full. The poets who passed
by by boat drank and talked happily, and the lanterns of lovers were woven into flowing silks and satins like sparks to light up the dark night. The
lively atmosphere can infect people.
When I saw the peddler who sold sugar, I was so happy that he took me to buy it.
I followed the crowd and looked at the street jugglers. Curious, Rong Shi picked me up and let me see.
By mistake, I walked into the place where people guessed riddles and had a blind date. As soon as I went in, I attracted the attention of all the girls. I laughed in my heart and immediately pulled him away.
Street stalls are rich in variety, with a wide range of delicacies and silks.
Sweet osmanthus cake, buy.
Egg noodles, buy.
Pretzels, buy.
Roast chicken slices, buy.
Crystal steamed stuffed bun, buy.
Sesame cake, buy.
Butterfly roll, buy.
Babao, steamed bun, buy.
Almond Jelly, buy.
Tuckahoe cake. “That’s enough,”
said Yung Shih, holding me back and frowning.
I exclaimed, “Lord, why didn’t you take anything?”
Rong Shi raised his hand and rubbed his forehead. “The Dark Guard will send you back to the East Factory later.”
I felt as if I couldn’t resist buying too much at once, and it was a waste if I couldn’t finish it.
So he closed his heart and started to scatter slowly.
It’s just that Rong Shi doesn’t seem to be very happy. After
thinking about it, I turned around and asked him, “Is the Governor tired?”
Rong Shi was noncommittal. “If the governor is tired,”
I said thoughtfully, “let’s go back.”
His long eyebrows gathered a few wrinkles, a pair of delicate pleats peach blossom eyes staring at me, light spots undulating, in addition to the daily indifference and coldness, today accidentally contaminated with a little mortal fireworks. “I don’t usually have many chances to leave the palace. You can buy something else besides food.”
Rong Shi’s thin lips opened slightly.
I suddenly realized, “Thank you, Governor, for your advice.”
Then hurriedly pulled Rong Shi to run to the front of the stall selling the book.
Me: “Boss, I’ll take the car.”
The boss is overjoyed.
Rong Shi was furious.
Half pulling and half pulling, he dragged me to another small stall and gave me a push in silence.
I raised my face, and my eyes were full of the girl’s jewelry.
Hiss.
I wanted to retort, but when I was cold, I said, “Pick.”
I trembled, and my grievance silenced me: “Oh.” When
the landlady saw the visitor, she was overjoyed and warmly recommended it to me.
I looked at a table of jewelry dazzled, completely do not know which is suitable for their own.
In a daze, I had to grab a pair of earrings and count them as the end of the selection. Early in the morning,
the landlady noticed the man behind me, and when she was looking for money for me, she said to me with a smile, “The young lady is so lucky. Where did you find such a handsome husband?”
I scratched my head and laughed.
Rong Shi stepped forward in silence, lowered his eyes for a moment, and picked up one of the hairpins hidden in a group of jade pendants with his slender white fingers. Seeing this,
the proprietress was stunned, and immediately smiled and narrowed her eyes: “My husband really has a good eye. On the day of the Chinese Valentine’s Day, I gave this lake blue sparrow feather hairpin to your young lady. I think in the future I will surely be able to love her and grow old together.”
What and what! Just as
I was about to put aside the subject, I raised my eyebrows with interest and asked, “What do you mean, aunt?” “Don’t you know, Mr. Lang?” Asked
the proprietress? The hairpin is a single strand, which means that the lovers make an appointment for love, and the hairpin is a double strand, which means that the husband and wife leave each other. In the Ming Dynasty, if a man gave a woman a hairpin, it was a token of love, meaning to tie the hair, in order to get the woman to be his wife. After listening to this string of explanations,
I thought that Rong Shi would certainly be dismissive.
However, he nodded thoughtfully and turned to insert the hairpin into my head. “I know now,” he said demurely.
He untied his bulging purse and gave it all to the landlady.
The landlady was tongue-tied: “Lang Jun, this money..” “You’re right. I’ll give you a reward,”
Rong Shi said as he pulled me away.
The red cloth was tied with thousands of knots, which allowed me to walk slowly through the old temple of the moon and the marriage tree.
I stood still and said, “Lord, we cannot put the lantern.”
Rong Shi looked at me.
I bit my lip and looked down at my toes. Hairpin. There is no money.
Rong Shi gave a hum lightly.
My heart is shaking.
Holding on to the skirt, I said shyly, “Why did the governor do this?”
“Didn’t the landlady make it very clear?”
“Do not play with me, Governor.”
Rong Shi stood quietly by the river, looking from a distance on the river, the residual shadows of lanterns and sparks, like the stars of the Milky Way falling into the water, were within reach.
For a moment, Rong Shi turned to look at me.
At that moment, the sky was full of stars, rivers and flowers, the night sky was his background, and the brocade clothes were not as noble as his body.
Rong Shi’s dark eyes were full of light and deep, and there was an emotion that I couldn’t understand.
But he said, “Liuliu, you are the only person I have ever thought of giving a hairpin to.” When
the breeze blows, the red ribbon flutters on the marriage tree.
Fire trees and honeysuckle flowers fly up to the sky and burst into splendor, like my broken heart.
That day, I thought I got love.
But I didn’t know all this until two years later, but I thought. In the spring of the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Hezong Changping of
the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wei Hengyu held a three-year official talent show in accordance with tradition.
The imperial court issued an order to summon the beautiful girls from the counties, prefectures and prefectures of the Ming Dynasty to enter the palace, and selected them by the name of Rong Gong of the East Factory and Liang Yucai, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites. At the beginning of
February, it was snowing, and there were visitors from the East Factory.
Rong Shi rarely didn’t let me do anything to cover up. Before he
took me out, he looked at me quietly for a long time. It was snowing outside the
house.
I turned around and gave Yung Shih a black sable fur coat to put on. I tilted my head and said, “What’s the matter, Governor?”
Rong Shi’s eyes seemed to be suddenly burned for a moment, rarely avoided my sight, and his face looked very bad.
Uncomfortable, I guess.
A few days ago, after he came back from outside the palace, he accidentally contracted a cold. Although I gave him medicine on time, Rong Shi’s condition has not improved.
The original crimson lip color is still light, in recent days, the handsome face is tired with the meaning of illness, the lingering blue shadow under the eyelashes is heavy, lining its complexion is more pale. The little eunuch, who was waiting
outside the door, urged him again, “Governor, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites wants to see you.”
I pulled Yung’s hand and said, “Lord, if you really don’t feel well, why don’t we meet again another day?”
Rong Shi’s eyes slowly fell down, and the cold weather in February was not as cold as the bleak sarcasm at the corners of his mouth.
Rong Shi closed his eyes gently and held me in his arms, very tightly.
I do not know if it is my illusion, when the cold and deep voice with a little choked.
I felt his cool cheek in wonder. “What’s the matter with you today?”
Rong Shi covered my eyes with one hand and held my finger on his bloodless lips with the other.
He seemed to be trying to hold back something, and I raised my hand to push aside the obstruction.
Then I saw that this man, who had always been insufferably arrogant and superior, was already red-eyed.
「……」
My heart began to cool little by little because of some absurd idea.
But I still pretended that I didn’t know anything about it. I smiled at Rong Shi and said, “Governor, if you don’t go, you will really neglect the guests.”
For a long time, when I thought that Rong Shi might not really go to see the guests today, he finally relented.
He said, “Okay..”
When his lips trembled, he clenched my hand and slowly fell to his side.
He led me out, and because of the lack of courtesy, the chamberlains all bowed their heads and turned a blind eye to the places we passed. The corridor from the
inner courtyard to the outer hall of the East Factory was not short when I first walked two years ago.
I’ve always been lazy. When the
time comes, I will follow suit. In the absence of
time, I will never leave home.
In the past, I always disliked this road, which made my feet sore. The wind and snow are blowing on my face
today, and my whole body is freezing cold. When
I looked at him, he was the only smudged ink in my eyes in the daytime.
I suddenly had no reason to hope that this corridor could be longer and longer.
But hope is hope after all. When Liang Yucai, the assistant minister of the Ministry
of Rites, saw me for the first time, he stood up directly and hurriedly.
Liang Yucai’s two beards trembled above his lips: “The man your Highness is referring to..” Is that her?
Rong Shi kept silent, but let Liang Yucai pull me to the front and look at me carefully. An old man in
his sixties, with sharp eyes, kept nodding as if he were looking at a fake: “Yes, too much.” “Of all the concubines in the palace,”
he said with a deep sigh, “the concubine of Qi, who looks like a girl of the Yan family, can win the emperor’s favor for five points. At first glance, the old man who the prince found thought it was that person who had come back from the dead. Even if you look closely, you can’t say it’s exactly the same, but it’s more than enough to look like seven or eight points.”
The chill permeates little by little from the fingertips. “Why do you say he is a prince?”
I asked softly.
Liang Yu-tsai looked at her and said, “Didn’t the prince tell her?”
I looked down Liang Yucai’s eyes, and Rong Shi clenched his fingers silently, and his joints turned white. “Is there any need for that?” He sneered, his eyes
dim and his lips bloodless.
Liang Yu-tsai stroked his beard and shook his head. “That’s not true. Since she’s on our side, naturally it’s better to know something about us.”
He looked subtly between me and Rong Shi: “But … …” Since the prince doesn’t want to tell her, let the old man tell her.
Liang Huaicai said to me, “Listen carefully, young lady. The man standing in front of you is not the governor of the East Factory. He is Li Huaiyu, the legitimate son of the Marquis of Jing’an in Daye.”
Daye, the name of the former Dynasty.
My throat is dry. “So what do you want me to do?” “Of course,” said
Liang Yucai, “I sent you to the palace to get close to the emperor and help me get revenge.” When
I asked Yung, I asked him, “Is what he said true or not?”
Rong Shi did not answer.
I walked up to him myself.
I grabbed him by the collar and asked him, “Is what he said true or not?” For the first time, the Lord, who
stood high above the masses and never wanted anyone to bow his head, was so vulnerable in front of me.
Just opening his mouth was like using up all his strength.
But he told me anyway. He said, “I’m sorry, Liuliu.” When
I let him go, I slapped him directly.
Blood marks were particularly evident on his pale face, and the corners of his mouth were bloodshot, and his dark eyes were dim and eternal. At the beginning of
February, the plum blossoms fall under the pressure of snow. It should be the beginning of spring, but my heart is like being penetrated by the ice in December.
I hissed and asked him, “Why are you?”
I staggered back and turned to leave, Liang Yucai seemed to have seen through it, and ordered someone to take me down. Kneeling on the ground with his knees pressed
hard and protected for a long time, he did not realize for a long time that he was just a slave under the control of others.
I giggled, and tears kept falling down in big drops.
From the beginning to the end, Yin Liu, Yin Liu, you have been cheated from the beginning to the end!
Two years? I think it’s just his pastime. What are you? Everything is just your own self-deception!
Rong Shi crouched slowly in front of me. I cried out of breath. His pale and slender fingers gently wiped away my tears.
He lowered his eyelashes and called me softly, “Liuliu..”
I turned away and sneered, “Don’t call me that. It’s disgusting.”
Liang Yu-tsai stood behind Yung Shih with a heavy face. “You are a girl who doesn’t know the depth of heaven and earth. Previously, I saw that you and Your Highness were somewhat affectionate and old and tolerated you, but if you continue to make trouble out of nothing..”
He clapped his hands and said, “Somebody, bring it up.”
The Chamberlain came forward with an object, opened the sandalwood box, and saw two white insects, one big and one small, lying in the red brocade.
Liang Yucai picked up the dagger, the tip of which was cold and rustling.
He rustled with a smile and said, “With this thing, is the prince still afraid that she won’t listen?”
Suddenly I felt as if I had fallen into an ice cellar: “No … …” Put it away, I beg you, I beg you, I don’t want it, I don’t want it! Unmoved
, Liang Yu-tsai could not help saying, “Prince, you have not avenged yourself. Don’t make a big mistake because of your love for your son!”
Rong Shi’s thin lips were tight and he looked at me. There was sadness in his eyes, but he could not resist the hatred in his heart. With a dumb cry,
I grabbed his sleeve and said, “Please help me..”
Liang Yucai shouted, Prince! After the fall of Daye, there are more than a hundred lives in the mansion of the Marquis of Jing’an, and none of them are alive except for you. Isn’t all this more important than this woman?
“Don’t forget that before Wang Yeh committed suicide.”
“That’s enough!” Rong Shi’s eyes were flushed and his chest rose and fell. “Teacher, these..” Huaiyu knows all about it.
Liang Yu-tsai looked at me and snorted coldly, “The prince has always been intelligent. What should he do? There is no need for him to talk too much.” “Huaiyu, I know,” said
Rong Shi in a trembling voice.
The long eyelashes gathered down and held me in his arms, covering my eyes with his long fingers.
I was trembling and my teeth were chattering: “Don’t let me..”
Rong Shi hugged me tightly: “Liuliu, don’t be afraid.”
The pain came as scheduled, and I felt a cut in my arm, warm, and a steady stream of blood gushing out of my skin. Something
entered my flesh and blood, and I screamed with the pain that pierced my heart to the bone.
Rong Shi’s palms were already wet from my tears, and I struggled and twitched in his arms until I exhausted my last bit of strength and fell down weakly. Something
came crashing down, something shattered all together.
Rong Shi buried himself in my neck and pecked and kissed me to comfort me. His face was wet, too. I didn’t know whether it was my tears or his.
But even if it’s his, so what?
I only feel endless desolation.
Gradually, my consciousness began to blur.
Along with wounds, pain, kisses and tears.. With my last ounce of strength,
I moved my lips slightly.
Rong Shi immediately bent over to listen.
I pulled the corners of my mouth and pulled away a touch of ridicule.
“It’s all fake.”
His tears mixed with the blood from the corners of his mouth fell on my forehead. He shook his head and choked with sobs: “No, no..”
The sky was a vast expanse of whiteness, which was quite dazzling when looking at the past.
I loosened the frown I had been frowning in pain and slowly closed my eyes.
Perhaps, I should have read in the eyes of Rong Shi-
some feelings, eventually come to an end.
Three
days later, Wen Xiangbao, a minor official in Longxi in the south of the Yangtze River outside the capital, carried a soft sedan chair with tassels into his house at night.
The next day, as the wife and daughter of Wen Xiangbaozheng, Wen Ningshun accepted the intention of entering the capital to run for Xiu Nu.
I pushed open the red wooden windows in the house, and there was no snow in the courtyard, only light rain. The warmth of water and soil in the
south of the Yangtze River was a little wet and cold before spring, but it was far less cold than day when snow fell in the imperial city. “I heard you weren’t in good health when you came,” said
Min’er. “You’d better not stand outside now, lest you catch a cold.”
I quietly looked out of the window and said, “What month was the day you sent me to the palace?”
Min replied, “The eighth day of the second month.”
it was the eighth day of the second month.
My palms slowly tightened.
‘Yah! Wen Niang, why are you bleeding again? Miner suddenly gave a cry of surprise.
She grabbed my hand and pushed it away, only to see that the palm, which had already had four scabs, had torn a new wound. The
warm blood could not stop flowing from the bloody hole and stained the clean sleeve along the lines of my palm.
Min-er sighed and bandaged me. “Lady Wen, what on earth do you want Min-er to do?”
I dropped my eyes in silence, thinking that the wounds on my body in the past two years were not as many as those in the past few days, and I could not help sneering.
Min’er raised her eyes doubtfully. “Lady?”
I shook my head and looked away.
“Wait a moment and get a pen and paper ready for me. I want a letter.”
Min’er was stupefied. “Who do you want to give it to?” She asked.
I pulled back my palm and gave her a cold look.
Min’er kept silent for a moment. Her eyes dodged and she bowed her head and said, “In that case, then, then Min’er will step down first.”
I leaned against the window and did not answer until Miner’s footsteps faded away.
Rain is still falling, I do not know whether the snow in the imperial city has not stopped. “I don’t know if it’s too late..”
I sighed. On the
eighth day of the first lunar month, the people sent by the Imperial City sent a message in advance to the officials of the Longxi County Government to pack up their clothes and bags and prepare to leave home today.
Wen Fu’s family had no children. A few days ago, I had a free daughter out of thin air.
Now into the palace, if the future really became a concubine, is bound to be a glorious stroke in the family tree of Wen Fu.
So that day, Mrs. Wen was full of joy and got up early to dress me up.
I have never smeared the red makeup of my daughter’s family, nor have I ever been deliberately dressed up for me. Mrs.
Wen’s technique is skillful and ingenious. As soon as she combs her hair to the end, she divides it into strands and ties it to the top. Between her hair, she embellishes it with a swallow silver hairpin. The broken hair in front of her forehead falls naturally, and the color of her eyebrows is similar to that of her lips. The size of the
skirt seems to have been tailored for me long ago, with a scarlet brocade jacket and a goose-yellow gardenia skirt. The style is elegant but not vulgar. Mrs.
Wen put her hand on my shoulder and smiled: “The six girls are so lucky to have the help of a noble person. Not only are they beautiful, but even the clothes and jewelry they send are made of materials that have never been seen in Jiangnan.” I looked
up at myself in the bronze mirror. “Madam,” I asked with an indifferent expression, “are there any guests coming today?”
“Why did Miss Liu ask the old man this question again?” Mrs. Wen frowned strangely. “If someone really came to visit, how could the old woman, as the mother, not know?”
I bit my lower lip unwillingly, and the figure of the clear wind and bright moon flashed through my mind. “Not a single mistake?”
I asked. Mrs.
Wen thought about it carefully and nodded. “There is no mistake.”
Okay, okay..
I close my eyes. When Mrs.
Wen saw my strange reaction, she wanted to open her mouth and say a few more words of concern, but suddenly she heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside the house.
He is a servant of Wen Fu. “Madam,” said
the servant hurriedly, “we have a visitor. Your lordship wants you to hurry over.”
Hearing this, my wife said, “Eh,” and looked at me in surprise.
My heart, which had been dead for days, could not help but beat faster in an instant.
But as soon as I stood up, the boy hesitated and said, “Miss, the master said..” Just let me call my wife.
Why? The smile on
my lips gradually stiffened.
The two figures marched out of the room.
I fell back to the dressing table, and the chill in my heart began to grow like weeds.
I hugged myself and kept comforting myself that it wouldn’t be what I thought. No, it won’t.. Absolutely not! There’s no way
he’s coming.
He was in the East Factory. If he came to see me in such a grand way, wouldn’t he be afraid of being recognized by the officers and soldiers to arouse suspicion?
Besides, that letter, I clearly. There was a slight sound of footsteps in the
doorway, and I raised my head and looked slowly.
Kirin soap boots on the ground, scarlet four-clawed python gold brocade clothes on the body.
Rong Shi’s temples are meticulous, and his hair is black, but his complexion is a little sickly pale. Only the thin lips are red like blood and coquettish, and the eyebrows and eyes are as beautiful as the beautiful ghosts in the picture. The
thin white morning light fell into the air, and the dust rose and fell quietly.
Rong Shi looked at me quietly and raised his hand from behind to in front of him.
Loosened, two fluttering, crumpled letters fell like withered leaves.
He said, “Liu Ru-nien cannot save you.”
I smile, my heart is dead.
“Please come to me in person.”
Rong Shi tightened his jaw and kept his eyes on me, but he didn’t say anything after all.
I turned around with a cold sniff.
“That’s all right. Since you’ve come in person today, I’ll just give you back what I have here, so I won’t have to crowd around here and get in the way.”
I opened a black wooden box on the dressing table, in which lay the sparrow feather hairpin that Rong Shi had given me two years ago. I left in a hurry
that day, and I didn’t pack it myself. I think it was a servant who saw it at the head of my bed and stuffed it in at random.
Holding this thing, the picture of that night two years ago kept flashing in my mind.
Heh.
I clenched my teeth and loosened them, and walked step by step in front of Rong Shi.
“Take it back.” Holding back the sour feeling in my heart, I said in a cold voice, “I don’t want this anymore.”
When the eyelids fall two cut shadow, it seems that even the figure is thin three points.
He whispered, “If it is given to you, it is yours.”
“Mine?” I almost gasped in my chest as I stared at him. I asked him in a dumb voice, “If it’s really mine, then it’s obvious that you didn’t want me first, didn’t you?”
Rong Shi raised his face, and his eyes turned red. “I didn’t..” he murmured.
“Liar!”
I threw the hairpin into his chest and staggered back two steps.
Rong Shi hurriedly stepped forward to support me, and I brushed my sleeves and pushed him away.
Staring down at the red shoes on my feet, I laughed sadly.
I asked him, “Haven’t you heard?”
Rong Shi’s breathing was light and shallow. “Hear what..” My
eyebrows and eyes curved and I told him, “You are not the only one who has come to see me on the eighth day of the lunar calendar.”
Pulling at the hem of my skirt, I smiled at him and said, “Lord, does the skirt you sent me look good on me?”
「……」 I don’t know when he picked up the hairpin
that fell to the ground. The beautiful bird feather was gouged into the palm of his hand. There was blood. Drop after drop fell to the ground along Rong Shi’s clenched hand. The
smile at the corners of the mouth gradually withdrew.
Silence, silence.
I looked down at the bloody flowers and said softly to Yung Shih, “Yung Shih, did you know that two years ago, under the marriage tree on Chinese New Year’s Eve, I really wanted to be with you for the rest of my life?”
“Liuliu–”
Rong tried to grab my hand in a panic.
I gathered my eyes and brushed past him. I will do what I
promise you, but listen carefully. This is just for my life. It has nothing to do with your family and country. If it is done, I will be a wife and you will be a minister.
I took a deep breath, and my eyes were sour. “Between you and me, we have broken up.”
Ming and Zong Changping on the tenth day of the third month, appropriate to marry, appropriate to enter the house, appropriate to sacrifice, appropriate to go to office.
Zhao Hengyu, regardless of all the ministers, conferred the title of imperial concubine on me in a short period of one year. I was nineteen
that year.
I hooked the soul of Zhao Hengyu, and became a demon concubine who helped a tyrant to do evil under the momentum of the power of the government and the public. In the eighth year
of Changping, Baiwubashi, the leader of Waci, seized the throne of Khan. In just a few years, he annihilated the Tartars and greatly increased his strength. After the death
of Baiubashi, his son Tubuta succeeded him, and the territory of Waci expanded unprecedentedly.
In April, the imperial court received the battle report, and Waci had divided into four routes to attack the Ming Dynasty.
All of a sudden, the flames of war were everywhere, and the war was imminent.
That night, the spy placed by the East Factory in Chenggan Palace sent a tip-off. There was no one in
the bedroom, so I lowered my eyes and unfolded the note to see what was inside, and threw it into the incense burner.
The next day.
Yellow glazed tiles, double eaves, and sixteen white marble platforms lead directly to the Palace of Heavenly Purity.
“Empress Gui An.”
I lowered my eyes and glanced at the little eunuch who had been taking care of me in the East Factory. “Are Your Majesty and your master inside?”
The little eunuch nodded. “Inside.” The two maidservants
behind him stood consciously on both sides of the doorway.
As I moved, the little eunuch hurriedly called out, “I’m afraid the empress is like this.”
I leaned back slightly and said, “What are you afraid of?”
The little eunuch confronted me for only three seconds before he lowered his head in a panic and suddenly made a sound.
I withdrew my line of sight and stepped into the Palace of Heavenly Purity with gold bricks and jade tiles. I’ve never been here
before.
As far as the eye can see, there is a square platform in the center of the huge palace, on which there is a golden lacquer carved dragon throne symbolizing imperial power and five gilded screens. In front of the
throne, there is an end, a crane and an incense tube, and in front of the platform, there are four copper enamel incense burners for burning sandalwood. Apart from me, there are only two people in
the main hall, Zhao Hengyu and Rong Shi. When my
hair curled up and I raised my eyelashes and walked slowly, I stepped on the steps and threw myself into Zhao Hengyu’s arms.
As I expected, Chao Heng-yu didn’t blame me for trespassing into the Palace of Heavenly Purity. He just hugged me and asked in a gentle voice, “Why is Ning Er here?”
I sat on Zhao Hengyu’s lap and snorted, “Your Majesty, you haven’t come to see me for a long time.”
Chao Heng-yu pinched my face. “Does Ning Er miss me?”
I lifted my eyes from Zhao Hengyu’s neck and looked carelessly at the crimson figure in the center of the hall. I
hooked my lips and said, “Ning’s heart is full of your majesty.”
Zhao Hengyu’s eyebrows and eyes were like this, and Bai Yuqing’s face bent over and gently whispered a secret word in my ear. “Your Majesty, how can you do this?”
I asked shyly in a coquettish voice.
Chao Heng-yu laughed at my embarrassment. I covered my face and bit his ear. “Bad guy.”
Just as Chao Heng-yu and I were mixing the oil in the honey, a cold voice rang out: “Why don’t the empress leave first, and wait for Your Majesty to finish his business..” “Why should I leave?”
I interrupted.
Rong Shi’s face was calm, and his thin lips were tight but suddenly loosened. He closed his eyes and said, “Empress, Your Majesty is handling official business.”
I hooked Zhao Hengyu around the neck and frowned. “When will it be your turn to tell me what to do?” The corners of my mouth pouted. I turned my head and shook Zhao Hengyu’s bright cuff. “Your Majesty, do you want Ning Er to go?”
Chao Heng-yu touched the tip of my nose and said, “If Ning wants to stay, then stay.”
“But your majesty–”
“What’s wrong with Rong Gong today?”
Zhao Hengyu raised my chin and said impatiently to Rong Shi, “Ning’er came here specially to accompany me, not to trouble you. Where did you get so many opinions?”
I slanted my head, opened my lips slightly, and took Zhao Hengyu’s fingertips in my mouth. “Your Majesty is so kind,” I said softly.
Zhao Hengyu pointed to the bright, wet and hot abdomen and looked at my eyes gradually darkening.
I smiled, and out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of Rong, his fists clenched and his face as pale as paper.
My eyes are cold, and my heart can’t help giving birth to a twisted pleasure. My
fingers fiddled idly with the gold and silver thread on Zhao Hengyu’s dragon robe. I said in a lazy voice, “Your Majesty, hurry up with your official duties. I’m waiting for you to go back for dinner.”
Chao Heng-yu took my hand in his and kneaded it. “Ning’er is right,” he said in a hoarse voice.
He then raised his head and continued to discuss the war with Rong Shi. Although Rong Shi’s face was like December frost, he had to calm down and analyze the current situation with Zhao Hengyu.
According to Rong Shi, the Waci tribe is now rampant and has attacked Liaodong and Ganzhou from the east and west respectively.
The middle road was divided into two branches, one of which was commanded by the Arat Special Service to attack Xuanfu and encircle Chicheng, while the other was led by Chuoluosi to attack the northern fortress of Datong.
This time Waci planned carefully and acted decisively, and he must have come prepared.
However, since the Ming Dynasty, he has been advocating civil rule. For so many years, he has been using awards to consolidate the relationship between the two sides. No one thought that Waci would launch a surprise attack on the Ming Dynasty.
The current border war situation is tragic, many state granaries are in deficit, the soldiers have been exhausted in the past few days to defend the city, the urgent need for the court to send troops to support the frontier.
Otherwise, once the Waci tribe goes south, the consequences for the people of the Ming Dynasty will be unimaginable.
Zhao Hengyu raised his jaw slightly and said, “Rong Gong has come to me in private to discuss this matter again. He must have had other ideas.”
Your Majesty is wise. The situation is urgent, in addition to the problem of hay and troops, the morale of the soldiers must have been scattered. They thought they were going after the Waci tribe in order to save the Ming Dynasty. “
Yung Shih waved his sleeve and opened his scarlet flying fish suit. He knelt on one knee and said with an awestruck face,” I implore Your Majesty to command the army to go on a personal expedition, stabilize the morale of the troops, and protect the peace and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. ”
Zhao Hengyu’s eyes moved slightly.
I frowned and stood in front of Zhao Hengyu’s eyes. “Your Majesty, I don’t agree with what the governor of the East Factory said.”
Rong Shi looked at me from the bottom up, with a cold fire in his dark and deep eyes: Oh? What does the Empress mean by that?
Chao Heng-yu seemed to feel that there was something wrong with what I had said, and he could not help frowning: “Ning’er, this is about me..”
I pressed Zhao Hengyu’s hand and looked at him to comfort him. After hearing what Your Majesty and the governor of the East Factory had said
just now, although I was only a woman in the harem, I was also concerned about the safety of Daming. However, not to mention the long journey this time, your Majesty must know more about the dangers than I do. Although
I know that Your Majesty is a real dragon and the Son of Heaven is wise and powerful, the country cannot be without a monarch for a day. Although the Waci tribe has a fierce momentum, it has not been able to completely capture our city of Daming, which shows that the enemy is just so so.
“So I thought that Your Majesty could choose an important minister in the court as a representative of the March and go to the north with Your Majesty’s imperial edict and the assistant minister of the Ministry of War to support our army.” When
Chao Heng-yu heard this, he hesitated for a moment and said, “What Ning Er said is really reasonable.” “Does the empress have any suitable candidate in mind?”
Rong Shihan murmured.
I gently turned sideways, and my eyes climbed up Rong Shi’s face quietly. When I looked at
him, I did not hide or refuse, but smiled at me, with two thin red lips slightly curved.
Chao Heng-yu lowered his head and called me, “Ning’er?”
I put aside my face, lowered my eyelashes, and said indifferently, “I think this is the most suitable candidate for the head of the cabinet, Zhao Jingzhi.”
“Zhao Jingzhi..” Chao Heng-yu wonders, “Why did Ning Er choose him?”
I pretended to be sleepy and yawned. “I’m tired. If your majesty really wants to know why,” I whispered to Zhao Hengyu as I climbed onto his shoulder and winked. “Come to my Chenggan Palace. I’ll tell you myself.”
Zhao Hengyu black eyes water light, almost without a moment of hesitation immediately agreed to come down.
He held me down from the high platform.
I paused, put aside Zhao Hengyu’s arm, and walked to Rong Shi. I turned my head
slightly and bent down to look at him closely. “I’ve always been curious,” I said in a gentle voice. “Have you never seen a woman or something? Why have you been staring at me since I entered the Palace of Heavenly Purity?”
Rong Shi hung his head, but the elegant and noble breath of the whole body could not hide the Yin and paranoia that flashed through his eyes.
The line of sight secretly staggered, such as ghosts seduce the soul, when the eyes bite me tightly, as if I want to peel the skin and bone into the abdomen. On the surface,
however, he was gentle and respectful, saying, “The empress is wrong, and I dare not disrespect her.”
Chao Heng-yu came over and explained, “Ning’er doesn’t have to think too much. Rong Gong is busy with his daily affairs, and I think he’s looking at you, so he can’t help looking at you.”
I stood up coldly. “I hope so.”
Leaning into Chao Heng-yu’s arms, I looked at him and grinned. “I heard there was a story about food in the palace. I just thought this eunuch was missing a woman.”
With his long fingers folded in a bow, his thin eyelids closed slightly, he said, “The empress is observant, and I can learn from her.”
Chao Heng-yu bent his fingers and tapped me on the forehead. “Don’t talk nonsense. Why don’t you apologize to Rong Gong?”
Although it is partial to Rong Shi, but Zhao Hengyu blamed me for the tone of only spoiling.
I pouted as if I hadn’t heard the words, turned around and took Chao Heng-yu’s arm in front of him and said coquettishly, “Your Majesty doesn’t love me anymore.”
Chao Heng-yu raised his eyebrows and said, “Don’t I love you?”
“Then Your Majesty will come with me to Chenggan Palace now. I’m hungry and I want to have dinner with Your Majesty.”
Zhao Hengyu likes me to act like a spoiled child to him in the tone of my little daughter’s family.
Even though I have never been such a person, but with his side for so long, this kind of delicate character I have long been able to do well.
Sure enough, the next moment, Zhao Hengyu promised.
I pulled Zhao Hengyu to leave contentedly and stepped out of the last step of Chenggan Palace. I looked back slightly. In the
false perspective, that person is silent, standing alone quietly in the corner of the resplendent hall, without making a sound.
It’s not like him.
I slowly withdrew the last glance that fell on Rong Shi, and raised the corners of my mouth quietly.
Even if the official position is big, so what? So what if
the flying fish suit is publicized again?
Now I am the master and he is the servant, and if I want to, he must be forgotten like a wild dog. In the middle of
April, Zhao Hengyu made great efforts to rectify the army, removed the power of the general guarding the city who fled from Ganzhou, and dispatched the general guarding the city of Liangzhou, Li, to support him.
At the same time, the court sent eighty thousand troops divided into four groups, led by the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, assisted by Zhao Jingzhi, the head of the cabinet, and went to the front line of the war with the imperial edict to console the soldiers.
On the day of the trip, I boarded the head of Bauhinia City alone, and as far as I could see, there were dark heads in all directions.
“Won’t the Empress accompany Your Majesty to see him off?”
Before I turned around, I heard the sound and knew it was Liu Runian. “I’d better not go,” I said in
a faint voice. “These ministers all say I’m a demon concubine. If I really go, it will add to their hearts.”
“Miss Yin is just Miss Yin, not a demon concubine.” With an expressionless face,
I turned to Liu Ru-nien and said coldly, “I’m afraid Lord Liu isn’t in a daze. There are only two people here, you and me. How can there be a non-existent Miss Yin?”
Liu Runian’s lips moved slightly, and his eyes flashed a trace of intolerance.
For a moment, Liu Runian hung his head and whispered, “The empress atoned for her sins. It’s Xiaoguan..” Abrupt.
I frowned coldly and looked down at the young man in front of me, who was wearing a black gauze cap and a bright red round collar and a Mandarin duck square court dress. For a moment, I could not match the appearance of the blue-robed scholar at the banquet in my mind.
But also.
I gently brushed the golden silk on the cuff, and the wind in the imperial city was so strong that things had changed in the past two years.
Now that I have been able to jump from the East Factory to become an imperial concubine, he is naturally not just the son of the Number One Scholar who was alone at the beginning.
ChengTou military forces stepped out of the orderly footsteps, the wind blowing big Ming flag hunting sound.
I looked at them and said to Liu Runian, “Now everyone in the court knows that I recommended Zhao Jingzhi to the emperor to go to the border. Today you came to see me, didn’t you come to ask for punishment for your teacher Zhao Jingzhi?”
Liu Ru-nien shook his head slowly. “Lady, the teacher didn’t mean to blame me.”
He came forward and stood in line with me and looked down at the crowd.
Hsu saw Chao Ching-chih, who was leading the troops. Liu’s gentle, bright voice was a little deeper than he had ever noticed: Two days ago, the teacher received a decree from Your Majesty at home. Without the slightest hesitation, he was ordered to receive it. However, the teacher and I both knew that going there this time would be a narrow escape from death. The clear tears in
his eyes flickered, and he looked at me, as if he had already seen all the darkness hidden behind him.
“When he wins, he does not return. When he loses, no one returns.”
Liu Ru-nien raised a reluctant smile and said, “What Xiaoguan said is what the person behind the empress wished?”
「……」 The
wind and sand got into my eyes and made my conscience hurt. The fingernails
hidden in the cuffs pierced the flesh, and I almost exhausted all my strength to keep my face aloof and dignified.
I closed my eyes, gasped, and then opened them again. “It seems that Lord Liu is really in a daze today. I can’t even understand what he’s saying.”
I smiled and said in a vicious and sweet voice, “Actually, to put it bluntly, there are so many people in the court that I let Zhao Jingzhi go, simply because I can’t bear to see this old man saying in front of the emperor all day long that this palace confuses the emperor’s heart and deceives the public with fallacies!”! This palace dreams of letting him suffer some retribution, and now you see, God is for this palace.. “Miss Yin, how long are you going to work for him?”
Liu shouted.
“Shut up!” I was furious, and the silver chain and tassels on my bun shook and tinkled. “I’ll tell you again, there’s no Miss Yin in this palace, and!”
I grabbed Liu Runian’s court clothes and stared at him ferociously. “I can do whatever I want,” I said. “I don’t need you to be a poor five-grade official.”
Liu Ru-nian’s face is full of pain. When I loosened my
fingers, I pushed Liu Ru-nien away and said in a cold voice, “For the sake of Your Majesty’s talent, I would like to give you a special piece of advice: Don’t overreach yourself by hitting a stone with an egg.” On the way
back to Chenggan Palace, I met Rong Shi on a narrow road.
I wanted to skip him and go straight away, but I was suddenly grabbed by his sleeve.
Fortunately, all the servants on the palace road were from the East Factory, and when they looked up, they automatically retired. I
saw that his palm was still holding my arm.
I sneered, “How dare Lord Yung!”
He didn’t seem to understand the sulk in my words. He just asked me in a deep voice, “Did you just meet Liu Runian?”
Although he asked me, his tone was clear and firm.
I suddenly waved his hand away forcefully and gave him a defensive look. “What’s it to you?”
“I gave you a secret letter that day, and we both know that the man who should have gone to war today was not Zhao Jingzhi.” “Liuliu, are you protecting him?”
He gazed at me.
“So what if you protect him?” I was flustered, but I showed no sign of weakness.
I said sarcastically, “If I don’t protect him, can’t I protect you?”
Rong Shi’s face turned a little white and looked a little fragile. “Do you like him?”
He asked.
The voice was so pale that it was about to break.
I don’t talk.
It’s like a kind of acquiescence in silence.
Rong Shi smiled sadly and said to himself in a low voice, “That’s right. When you wrote to him to save you, that’s right..” The jealous and deep eyes of Rong Shi made
me feel cold behind my back. I wanted to go, but I didn’t want him to be so bold. Suddenly, a few steps forced me to retreat to the palace wall.
Rong Shi bent over and trapped me in his shadow, and his long white fingers gently twirled a drop of cold sweat from my forehead.
I stood on my head behind me and exclaimed, “Don’t go crazy here!”
Rong Shi gently lifted his long eyelashes, his eyes were scarlet, and his pupils were black and did not hide the darkness and paranoia that could not be melted.
He smiled, as if he had broken down, and the beauty was shocking but like a fierce ghost demanding his life.
Rong Shi leaned close to me and whispered, “Liuliu, I’ve already gone mad.”
Although Rong Shi did not embarrass me any more after that day, near the end of the month, the East Factory was uncharacteristically quiet all the time, and no one sent me the medicine to suppress the blood evil.
As the days passed, the pain increased unexpectedly. The
hungry son can not get supplies, buried deep in my flesh and blood began to bite me more and more.
Just like two years ago.
I know this is Rong Shi forcing me to bow to him. Once
the pain can not be alleviated, it will only be more cruel to tear every inch of my blood and bones day and night, so that I can not survive or die.
But I still refused to ask him.
Zhao Hengyu has long been aware of my strange, in order to avoid his heart, I had to release the news, said the disease refused to meet anyone. There was only one day left
before the beginning of the month, but I didn’t get through it in the end. My stubbornness was torn apart by the despair of the
knife cutting the bone. I broke down and drove everyone away. I screamed and cried and smashed everything in the bedroom. Like a dying wild dog in the ruins, I could only curl up into a ball and tremble with tears.
The line of sight flickers on and off, the consciousness also becomes delirious, in a trance, I can’t tell whether I am dead or not for a moment.
Until the blurred vision touched a faint white light outside the red lacquer door of the bedroom, I saw the man walking slowly towards me.
He picked me up and put me on the bed.
The mother and son seemed to interact with each other, and the pain stopped for a moment as soon as he got close, but it was replaced by a sudden and tyrannical bloodlust in his body. When
I stared at him with scarlet eyes, my eyes were full of desire for the blood flowing in his body, like addiction.
Exhausting the last remaining bit of reason, my rough voice pressed down my throat and forced out a threatening “roll” word, as if it had been roasted by the fire, hoarse and ugly.
Rong Shi kept silent, as if he didn’t understand.
He raised his hand and slid down his sleeve, revealing a long, slender forearm covered with knife scars.
Those injuries never happened before.
The son is hungry, and the mother is fed.
I knew it was because he sent me medicine every month. There was a mess in the
bedroom, and all the elegance was smashed into ruins. Holding a dagger in his hand,
Rong Shi stared at me almost morbidly and asked softly, “a knife for a kiss, OK?”
The heart is like crawling on thousands of leeches and biting them closely.
I said, “Crazy.” When
he laughed, he was full of pride and dignity, like a ghost willing to fall into the hell of Ah Bi, but he was willing to hold the knife in my hand.
Rong Shi leaned down slowly and hissed in my ear, pleading, “Liuliu, either save me or kill me.”
Hatred surged, and I gritted my teeth angrily, turned over and pushed him down, strangled his neck, brandished a dagger and stabbed him suddenly.
However, when the tip of the knife was only a hair away from the pupil, it stopped. There was no fear in his eyes when
he looked at me, and he did not blink.
He wants to die.
「……」
Crazy. Oh, crazy.
Tears fell down drop by drop and fell on Rong Shi’s face. “I will never forgive you,”
I said. Tears welled up
in Yung Shih’s eyes and ran down the end of his red eyes, as if the gods who had abandoned him for a long time were finally willing to take pity on him. Yung Shih cried and pulled up a smile that was about to break. “Liuliu, I don’t care,” he said in a dumb voice. Winter of the eighth year
of Changping.
Waci’s military strength was strong, and Daming fought to the death for several months and finally won a great victory.
However, Zhao Jingzhi, the head of the cabinet, was captured by the enemy. Because he refused to be used as bait to surrender to the city, he was strangled by Waci, and his body was gone.
Emperor Zhao Hengyu was physically and mentally exhausted, so he pursued Shi Jingjie and rewarded his family as a consolation.
In the same month, Zhao Jingzhi was a big blow to Zhao Hengyu. It was obviously a very small thing to catch a cold in the middle of winter in December, but somehow his health has not improved since then.
Gradually, I don’t know who spread rumors in the court, saying that when I, the demon imperial concubine, fornicated with the governor of the East Factory, I secretly got in the way and intended to rebel.
The courtiers, led by the Qi family, went to the court one after another to remonstrate with each other about killing the demon imperial concubine.
The emperor did not know this when he was ill, and the memorial was handed over to Rong Shi. In
the Chenggan Palace, he burned a big fire in front of me. At the beginning of the ninth year
of Changping, Rong Shi went in and out of Chenggan Palace more frequently, and the emperor’s condition went from bad to worse.
On this day, I went to deliver the decoction to Zhao Hengyu as usual.
He seemed to be asleep, talking about something in his mouth all the time. I lowered my eyes and put down the medicine bowl and bent over to listen.
Zhao Hengyu shook his lips weakly and called out two words one by one: “Ning’er.”.
I raised my head slightly and looked at his face, which had been thin and sunken in just two months. There was a luminous pearl in the dragon bed, but the bright luster could not moisten his haggard and decaying face.
I hesitantly asked him, “Are you talking about the imperial concubine Ning’er or your Crown Princess Ning’er?”
Too bad he’s too sick to hear me.
I tucked in the corner of the quilt for Zhao Hengyu and got up and walked out of the bedroom.
“Empress.” Someone called me
behind me.
The servant took the medicinal food box in my hand and stepped down silently. I turned around and stood opposite Liu Runian.
I glanced at him lightly and said, “Your Majesty has just fallen asleep. If Lord Liu has come to visit your Majesty, please come back.”
I strode past Liu Ru-nien, but he didn’t move. “Does the empress really want to go her own way?” He asked me.
“Oh.” I pulled the corners of my mouth and looked straight at the day outside the palace, but my voice was as cold as ice in the room.
I lowered my voice and said softly, “Don’t say anything more, Lord Liu. Otherwise, I’ll kill you too.”
In the evening, dark clouds cover the waning moon, and Rong Shi walks into my bedroom as usual. The
bedroom was very quiet except for the slight breathing of the two of us.
I leaned against the pillow, and I said, “I am cold.” “I will go and get the quilt for you,” he
said. “It’s not that my hands and feet are cold,”
I said. I covered my heart and gradually curled up into a ball. “I have a cold conscience here.”
Rong Shi stopped in the dark. In
an instant, he hugged me more tightly, choking between his throat and covering my cold hands, and pressing his warm chest tightly against my back, as if he wanted to “thaw” me in this way.
But it’s no use, I’m still cold, just like he and I know that some things can’t go back at all.
An illusion is an illusion, and no one can fool himself. I believed him
three years ago, but now I didn’t realize that he was actually more stupid than me. He was obviously smarter than anyone else, but he was still trapped in it, deceiving himself and others.
21
In February of Changping, the emperor was about to die and could not go to court early. In
the court, a large number of officials began to defect, and the rest of the generation did not dare to speak in order to protect themselves.
Qi Taishi put up a desperate fight and was placed under house arrest when he cursed Rong.
Liu Runian plotted to lead his troops to rescue the emperor. However, Rong Shi openly led the Royal Guards in the name of “escorting”, reversing black and white, and catching all the people, including Liu Runian. When I came out
of the emperor’s bedroom, I saw bodies all over the floor.
Rong Shi stood in front of the hall, pulled out a sword from the chest of a bodyguard, and blood splashed on his white jade face.
He stepped on the pink and white soap boots toward Liu Runian, but for a moment, the cold blade had crossed Liu Runian’s neck in the air.
“Rong Shi!” With an exclamation of surprise,
I hurried forward and hugged his arm tightly. “No!” I said.
Rong Shi looked at me gently. The drops of blood on
his face slid down the cold outline, and a pair of beautiful eyes seemed to be puzzled, but soon turned into a fierce and jealous fire, which surged and burned.
He said, “Why?”
Cold sweat seeped into my eyes. My eyes were red and I shouted, “Let him go!”
Rong Shi clenched his jaw.
In a moment, the sword fell to the ground.
I quickly blocked myself in front of Rong Shi.
I looked at Liu Runian, who was kneeling on the ground. He opened his mouth and sneered without making a sound.
But I know that he said two words to me-the demon concubine.
「……」 I opened my eyes in
silence.
The well-trained Royal Guards quickly set up the corpses and took Liu Runian away.
After a while, Rong Shi and I were the only two people left here. The smell of
blood lingered in my nose, and I finally couldn’t help but vomit, and completely fainted in the panicked eyes of Rong Shi. When I
woke up, I was told that I was half pregnant.
The Imperial Physician quaked out of Chenggan Palace in Rong Shi’s eyes. I touched my stomach in a trance. For a moment, I couldn’t tell whether it was a reality or a dream.
“Let me..”
Rong Shi hugged me gently and cherished me very gently, like a man who had been hobbling in the snowy night for many years and finally found an open fire belonging to him, carefully protecting himself with his body, for fear that the overwhelming wind and snow would extinguish the last warmth.
He put his forehead on my shoulder and called me “Liuliu” over and over again.
My heart suddenly kept thinking, is not in addition to me, there will be no second person in the world to know, he is such a powerful and murderous treacherous court official, unexpectedly can also have such a soft side?
I looked over Yung’s shoulder at the snowflakes falling outside the house. After a moment’s
silence, I said, “Yes, they say there will be peach groves all over the mountains outside the capital at the beginning of spring.”
When the kiss fell on the corner of my mouth, “When spring comes, I will take you.”
“Will you break your promise?”
“No.”
“Liuliu, when all is said and done, I want to marry you.” With the pain of the knife across my
heart, I bit my lips and slowly buried my head in his collar, but there was no response. The matter of the
child added fuel to the flames, and I finally gained the trust of Rong Shi completely and took the opportunity to steal the antidote.
But things are far from as simple as I thought. I was stopped on the way to the Palace of Heavenly Purity. Liang Yucai, the assistant minister of the Ministry
of Rites, led his troops to hold me. He grinned grimly. “Hum, I said long ago that this woman can’t be trusted. If I hadn’t secretly sent someone to watch her, your life and mine would have been in danger long ago!”
The dark guard moved to both sides, and the man walked slowly in front of me. My long,
slender fingers cupped my face, revealing a smile uglier than crying: “Why?”
“As I said, I will never forgive you.”
His eyes were scarlet, and there was a sadness in his eyes as if I had killed him ten thousand times.
I lowered my eyes and smiled miserably. “You know what?”? I have dreamed many times in the past few years that the people you killed were not killed by me, but they had to come to me for their lives. I kept running, I kept running, but I was caught. In my
dream, someone forced me to open my eyes, and all of a sudden I saw Chao Ching-chih lying in front of me, covered in blood. A lot of people surrounded me. They beat me and scolded me. No matter how I cried, no one came to save me.
He hung his head and could not see clearly, but tears suddenly fell down and wet my sleeves.
Liang Yu-tsai threw down a long sword behind me and Yung Shih. “Huaiyu,” he shouted, “I’ve ordered you to kill her!”
I curled up my wet eyes and asked, “Do you think it looks like three years ago?”
He took a deep breath and said in a trembling voice, “Like.”
“Then this time you..” I bit my lip and suddenly lost the courage to go on.
Rong Shi picked up the sword. The self-mockery in
my heart, sure enough.
I thought he was going to kill me, so I put my face aside and closed my eyes to get it over with.
However, the pain did not come.
Instead, wait until he whispers,
“I choose you.”
I suddenly stared, but Rong Shi had already hugged me and waved his sword to split a road for me.
Liang Yu-tsai obviously did not expect Yung Shih to make such a move. He shouted in a harsh voice, “Disobedient!” With a ferocious face,
he held the token and asked the dark guard to catch me back immediately.
Rong Shi is alone in front of me. “I’ll see who dares to hurt her today,”
he said.
I escaped after all.
In fact, he clearly knew what would happen if he let me go. He clearly knew
. He looked back at the man in the scarlet flying fish suit behind him. Unwilling, I shouted at him, “Wait for me to come back!”
He seemed to hear it, but he didn’t seem to hear it.
My tears are dry and wet in the wind.
I rushed to the Palace of Heavenly Purity and pushed open the door of the emperor’s bedroom. Zhao Hengyu was dying
on his bed.
But very strange, obviously he has the appearance of dying, that pair of eyes that only open half Que is unexpectedly clear and bright.
I said, “Zhao Hengyu, I can save you.” But
he didn’t seem to care. He stared at me and suddenly said, “Actually, I remember you..”
“Three years ago, at the Hairpin Banquet, no matter how quickly Rong Gong covered it up, I..” Ahem. I saw you at a glance.
I squeezed the bottle. “So you’ve always known what I’ve done?”
Chao Heng-yu smiled silently. “I’ve always known.”
He was never fit to be an emperor.
Emperors can’t put tenderness in their hearts.
But the matter has come to this point, I do not care so much.
I picked him up and said, “I’ll give you the antidote in exchange for letting him go.”
Zhao Hengyu was silent for a long time, until I thought he had passed out again. Then he hissed to me, “I promise you.”
“But I want you to stay forever.” “Chao Heng-yu,”
I said with a cold face, “now that your life is in my hands, why are you negotiating with me?”
“Does Ning’er really think I’m stupid enough to be trampled upon?”
Zhao Hengyu’s eyes were blue and dark. He lifted the cracked corners of his mouth and raised his thin fingers to gently touch my side face.
“As long as I die, the capital’s 800,000 imperial guards are ordered to besiege the city and hunt it down. How long do you think he will live?”
「……」
My mind suddenly went blank, and it took me a long time to put together three words in a trembling voice: “..” Why?
Zhao Hengyu sighed and held me completely frozen in his arms, letting my broken tears wet his skirt.
As if to an unrepentant child, he patiently said, “Ning, I just want to keep you.”
Liar.
Liar!
……
When spring comes, I’ll take you there. Will
you break your promise?
[No.]
Liuliu, when everything is settled, I want to marry you.
……
I hid my face and sobbed loudly until I couldn’t help myself. After
that day, the emperor was rescued, and the rebels of the former Dynasty, led by Rong Shi, were all captured.
In the same month, Zhao Hengyu returned to the government and appointed Liu Runian as the head of the new cabinet to assist him in rectifying the position of officials.
And I’m under house arrest. I couldn’t get out of Chenggan Palace
by all means, so I could only get some news about Rong Shi from the lower population.
It was only said that he had not been exiled and was now in a dungeon, where he was tortured to find out whether there were any accomplices, but he never opened his mouth.
I listened without shedding a tear the whole time.
As time went by, I became more and more dull.
Zhao Hengyu came back to see me every day, sometimes sitting for a long time, sometimes eating with me.
Chao Heng-yu asked me, “Don’t you care anymore?”
I just stared at the scar on my arm and didn’t say anything. The day
he was exiled was the third day of the third month. At the beginning of spring, there were really peach groves outside the capital, but I still couldn’t see him.
Zhao Hengyu lifted my ban, and once again I went to the head of the Bauhinia City alone.
The world is boundless, and the cold wind makes my face ache.
Climbing at the top of the wall, I knew what I was looking for, but I also knew I couldn’t find anything at all. On the way
back, I met a little eunuch who had been wandering for a long time outside the palace gate. It was
none other than little eunuch who had taken care of me in the East Factory.
He gave me a small box and told me in a low voice that there was something in it that Rong Shi wanted to give me before he was caught. I was so distracted
that I didn’t have time to say thank you. I staggered back to the palace and waved back all the servants. I locked myself in the room alone.
When I opened it, there were only three things in it-
a letter on a piece of paper with the method of removing the blood evil;
a broken hairpin with blood on it;
and a wooden carving. And I like very much like, it seems that the carving is the Tanabata Festival that year, I wear a hairpin flower, in front of the old temple on the moon under the tree looking at his smile.
I felt that there was a small inscription on the back of the wood carving, which said, “On the eighth day of the second month of the sixth year of Changping, birthday, when presented.”.
He knew, he always knew.
That night, I covered my heart and cried from silence to heart-rending.
I began to have recurring nightmares, in which another self always asked me, “
Isn’t this your own doing?”? You
said you would never forgive him. You hate him deeply. What is there to be sad about now?
It was you who took the antidote, it was you who promised him, it was you who saw him rise and overthrow everything with your own hands!
At the same time, another voice asked me, “
He gave up everything and chose you, but what about you?”?
You betrayed him. When I
woke up, I had abdominal cramps. The palace people quickly called the imperial physician overnight. The diagnosis was that my unstable mood caused fetal movement.
Zhao Hengyu sat at the head of my bed and watched me quietly.
For this child, he did not show much disgust, naturally not to mention like, just accept it.
He tucked in the corner of the quilt for me and said in a deep voice, “The child is innocent. You are his mother. You have the responsibility to protect him.”
I raised my arm across my eyes, but tears still wet my temples.
I said, “Okay.”
In order to save my body, I used the way of removing the blood, but the sequela was that my eyes began to become blurred.
Later, when the child was born, it was a boy, and Chao Heng-yu, with a rare smile, named him “Yi.”.
That day, I took the initiative to ask Zhao Yuheng to live in the cold palace.
Zhao Hengyu’s smile faded, but he didn’t ask me to stay. He said he couldn’t wait for a man whose heart was dead.
A month later, I entered the cold palace as I wished, and Qi Fei was still the emperor’s favorite concubine. The imperial concubines in the
cold palace were not favored, and now I was blind, and the slaves around me had no hope, so naturally they became more and more acerbic.
Fortunately, a new minion came after that.
Although he was a mute, he took good care of me and Yi’er.
So I dismissed the other palace people who took care of me and left him alone. In
a flash of time, Yi’er grew up to the age of reading and writing.
He is gifted and intelligent, and he has his own unique views when things happen at a young age. After
Zhao Hengyu knew this, he discussed with me to take Yi’er away.
I agreed.
Because Yi’er told me very early that he wanted to leave here.
I asked him, “Is it because you dislike your mother?”
He held me in his arms and said earnestly, “No, my mother. My son wants to fight for it. If he becomes the crown prince in the future, he will be able to take my mother out, and no one will look at me coldly.”
I touched his head, and now I could not see what he looked like, but I must have had something in common with that man. My
eyes were moist and I said, “Well, my mother will be waiting for you.” After
Yi Er left here, only the mute eunuch was left to accompany me all the time.
In spring, summer, autumn and winter, the clouds roll and relax, year after year.
Unfortunately, I didn’t wait for the day when Yi’er came back to pick me up. Before I
died, my body was not very painful, but I felt very tired.
My mind was in a daze, and then I felt vaguely that someone came to me and took my hand.
Very strange, and very familiar feeling.
May be dying, even the idea has become fantastic up, I actually asked a trance: “Is it you?”
No one answered, but my hand touched the tears on the man’s face, my hand touched the facial features, and slowly pieced together a person’s appearance in my mind.
I smiled weakly and tears began to run out of my eyes. “You know what?”? I once heard a man who knew transfiguration say that his transfiguration cream melts when it meets water.
He covered my hand and cried loudly, because he could not speak, his throat could only make a rough and ugly sound, but so many tears seemed to pour out all the silence of the past thirteen years to me.
But he and I both know, both know, it’s too late.
“Yung Shih, I don’t know if that year you said you would marry me.”
He wept bitterly, choked and nodded.
But I have no strength to answer him, the body is more and more tired, more and more tired. Probably
this time, I really have to leave.
[Extra]
I was woken up by Rong Shi, crying and crying. There was no light at night, but I could still feel his worried eyes. I
felt so wronged that I rolled over into his arms and sobbed.
“What’s the matter?” He touched my head.
I cried and told him, “I had a nightmare. I dreamed that you were a very annoying eunuch.” His
body stiffened, and he did not know whether to laugh or cry. “Can I hope your husband feels better?”
“But you were really mean to me in my dream..”
I retold the dream to Rong Shi intermittently, and even though it didn’t really happen to me, the tingling sensation in my heart was still surging up layer after layer.
After a while, Rong Shi reached out to wipe my wet cheeks. “Liuliu,”
he sighed, “dreams are all reversed.”
He hugged me and gently kissed my lips. “You know I love you more than I love myself.” When it
comes to me and Yung, we have nothing to do with each other.
My ancestral home is from Qinghe County, Dingzhou. The youngest of the Yin family is the sixth, so my elder sisters and brothers are used to calling me Liuliu.
But Rong Shi is different from me. He is the young son of a family of shipping kings in Yangzhou. He has been gifted, intelligent and extraordinary in appearance since childhood. When
he was twenty-three years old, he won the first prize in high school in Beijing.
But it was only because he followed the wishes of the elders in his family that he came to the exam, and he had no idea of it.
The emperor cherished his talent and tried every means to keep him fruitlessly. In a fit of pique, he forced him, the new champion, to Qinghe County to be a small county order with the intention of humiliating him.
Who would have thought that he had the talent to be a parent official.
Came here only a year, not only vigorously cleaned up a lot of mess left by the former county magistrate, but also rectified the people’s farmland cultivation system. Broken silver at the end of the month and rice porridge at the beginning of the month have brought prosperity to our poor and small land in a short time.
And the interesting thing is that although this person is a good official, but the expression is always cold, born with a good skin, but always with an inhuman look.
However, the more so, the more curious people are about this person.
So naturally, this person has become a frequent visitor in the mouth of the storyteller. I don
‘t like to stay at home. I’ve heard his name long before when I go out for a walk. When
people listen to his story, it is always a pity that he did not stay in the court when he passed the examination.
I knocked melon seeds and thought leisurely in my heart: what good is it to go to the capital to be an official? It’s better to be an idle cloud and a wild crane in the world.
Later, I really saw this cold-faced and warm-hearted (?) Rong Shi, the county magistrate, is because of my brother.
He actually knew Rong Shi and introduced him to be a guest at home. It was a big event for
the county magistrate to come to his home. His father and mother hurried to welcome the guests, and his brothers and sisters, unable to bear loneliness, naturally all swarmed to look at him secretly.
But the more rare this person is, the more I am too lazy to go.
Stealthily took this book nest on the cool chair, I hid at home under the peach tree fishing to enjoy the cool. The
afternoon sun is soft and soft, slowly sleepy, but unconsciously fell asleep.
Later, when I felt someone moving on my face, I opened my eyes half awake and saw that a peach blossom in March had been picked up from my lips.
I haven’t seen him, but I know it’s him.
I smiled back in a daze.
The man looked at me steadily, and the gentle wind ruffled the spring water along the river. It was said that the man with a frosty face was smiling with flowers. At the
end of the memory, Rong Shi was dressing me. “My husband,”
I said, “the ladies told me that it was the wife who dressed him at home.” “We don’t need it at home,” said
Rong Shi.
I deliberately asked, “Why not?”
He leaned over and pecked the corner of my mouth and raised his eyebrows. “Just don’t.”
I looked at him for a moment and hugged him as he turned around.
He said, “What’s the matter?”
I said, “I love you so much.” “Just because I didn’t ask you to dress for me?”
He laughed.
I rubbed my head against his back. “Yeah.”
He turned and pinched my face. “Then you are easy to please.” When I got off work
that day, I saw my favorite osmanthus cake on the street, so I went to buy it. Under the big banyan tree
next to the stall, a white-bearded storyteller is telling stories to children vividly.
“Let’s say that the demon imperial concubine was in power, and that she and the governor of the East Factory had violated the court, but few people knew that these two people had already used a hairpin under the marriage tree three years ago..” The proprietress who
sold the sweet osmanthus cake packed the things for him and let him come to his senses.
He remembered the dream I had told him, and somehow, like that time, he felt a strange palpitation in his chest as long as he listened to the story. It’s better to
go far. Rong Shi frowned and looked back at the old man again.
Moments later, he shook his head and walked home.
He said to himself, “That’s all right. It’s all mundane. It’s important to go home early and bring food to the little ancestor.”.
He put the sweet osmanthus cake into his bosom, and the warmth from his heart gradually overturned everything.
[End]
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