The Rising Life
of the Abandoned
White Moonlight: “The Empress doesn’t have to ask so clearly, as long as the Empress thinks it’s enough.” Su Wen said softly.
“What if I don’t want to?”
She did not want to ask for anything more, to be able to live in this palace, to see these old friends, for her, is the best outcome.
They don’t have to and can’t hope for her, because that hope. It was extinguished by her own hands five years ago.
“Ah Weng, thank you and Chen Pao-lin for your kindness.”
Su Wen didn’t want her to refuse so quickly. Surprised and unwilling, “Why did the empress say that?”? How does Your Majesty treat the Empress? Does the Empress really not feel at all?
He hurried back from Yu Chongyi on a rainy night for her, specially walked through the imperial road for her, and even more for her not to fall into the hands of the Rong Hua Empress, he did not hesitate to personally go to the Baolin Empress Palace to bring her back.
Why wouldn’t she. Trust Your Majesty one more time?
Qiushui pursed her lips, and the grudges between her and him would not be understood by others, so she insisted on not changing her mind. Unable to persuade her,
Su Wen had no choice but to say to her, “The people of the Autumn Palace over at Heng Shu Yi Lin Xuan can’t go back. Since the people of the Autumn Palace don’t want to serve in front of the emperor, let’s settle down in the Qingliang Palace for the time being. We’ll talk about it later.”
“Promise.”
This is also a way out.
Qiushui promised to come down. There were many people in the
palace, and naturally there were many eyes and ears, but after a night, the story of Zhangsun Qiushui staying in the Qingliang Palace spread all over the fourteen palaces.
If it is said that the last time the king came to Yilin Xuan in the first ten months, it was just a surprise for all the imperial concubines, then this time the matter of Zhangsun Qiushui serving in front of the emperor was enough for them to say more than three days.
Chao Chieh-yu thought about it, but she couldn’t figure out why: “This Chen Pao-lin is really a wild goose hunter, but the wild goose pecked his eyes. He thought he couldn’t get a favor, but he was taking advantage of others.”
“Who says not?” Hsu Jung-hua shook his round fan in a flutter, feeling both curious and relieved. “Oh, it’s Chen Pao-lin who deserves it.”. If she had listened to me last time and sent Zhangsun Qiushui to my palace, there would have been no such thing today. It’s all right now. The king didn’t stay with her, but he took one of the maidservants back to stay for the night. When
Qin Zhaoyi heard what she was saying, he stopped her with a slight cough and said, “I heard that Your Majesty was late and there was no one to take care of him, so Chen Baolin ordered the people of the Autumn Palace to send him all the way back, but it rained on the way and he stayed in the Qingliang Palace nearby.”
“Sister Zhaoyi, do you believe such a thing as fooling a child?”
Xu Ronghua couldn’t stop sneering. How far was the Qingliang Hall from the Xuanshi Hall? Even if someone sent a chariot, he could catch up with it. Why did he have to put a room full of palace servants in the Xuanshi Hall and never use them, but leave a Zhangsun Qiushui beside him? Who is
she? She was a former empress, and she had a close relationship with the king.
But Your Majesty he.. Haven’t you always been estranged from the deposed queen? In the slanting thorn, Yu Chongyi, who was in a low position, opened his mouth carefully.
Xu Ronghua looked at her so upset, really stupid and useless things, asked her to blow the ear wind is not good, now even such stupid words are asked out.
Men who do not see one love one, although your majesty is a king, but also a man, after the abolition of the past may have angered your majesty, but after five years of separation, who can say what your majesty’s thoughts on her? In
the Ching-lang Garden, Hsu Liang-jen was also puzzled: “Why are you doing this?”? It is in vain to make a wedding dress for her. With her cheeks propped up,
Chen pao-lin quietly looks at a growing hibiscus Bush in her yard. “Sister, that’s a mistake. I’m not helping her. I’m helping myself.”
“Help yourself?” Xu Liangren more and more do not understand.
Before that, Chen Baolin came over and said those words to her inexplicably, and she thought that Chen Baolin had figured it out and wanted to win her over. Who would have thought that within a few days, she heard that the people of the Autumn Palace around her had gone to the Qingliang Palace, and then suddenly realized what she was up to.
Can push Zhangsun Qiushui ascension, where is her own ascension cheap?
Chen Pao-lin nods: “Don’t you think the queen has been vacant in the palace for too long?”
Since Zhangsun Qiushui was abolished, in the past five years, the ministers outside have piled up almost one person high, but your majesty has never promised a word. Don’t they understand what
he’s waiting for?
Hsu Liang-jen was taken aback. “Do you mean that Your Majesty wants to restore Empress Zhangsun?”
“Maybe.” Chen Baolin said lightly, even if it will not be restored, but your majesty’s friendship for Empress Zhangsun is not comparable to any of the concubines in the fourteen palaces.
With her, the master of the palace, unless it is her, otherwise, I am afraid it will always be vacant.
This.. Can’t you? Xu Liangren still felt incredible, not to say that your majesty most hated Zhangsun Qiushui? There was such a big movement after the abolition that the Zhangsun clan was in trouble, and now they are going to recover, isn’t it that all the people in the world laugh at your majesty for going back on his word?
“There is no royal land under the whole world, and there is no royal minister on the shore of the land. What does the king want to do? How can he allow his ministers to speak?”
Chen Pao-lin had seen enough of the hibiscus flowers, and in a twinkling of an eye he stared at Hsu Liang-jen and said, “Isn’t my sister ever curious?”? Why has Your Majesty been childless for so many years, from his marriage to the empress to the present full harem?
“This..” How can such a palace taboo call her?
Xu Liangren twisted the veil and dared not open his mouth, saying that it was rumored that your majesty could not make the concubines pregnant, so he would leave the king of Jiangdu in Chang’an twice and three times, presumably to adopt the heir of the king of Jiangdu. Although
Chen Baolin asked, he didn’t think of asking her to answer. Then he went on to say, “Everyone in the world knows that Your Majesty is not the eldest son of his wife. When Emperor Gaozu was there, Empress Yin of the Middle Palace had not been born for many years, so she took the King of Guangling, who was born to Ye Meiren, as her son. Then Empress Yin died of illness, and the eldest grandson was in charge of the harem alone.”. The imperial concubine also had no children, but Meng Changshi, who lived with her in the house, gave birth to two princes, one of whom was Your Majesty. The imperial concubine knew that the king of Guangling was not of the same mind as herself, so she tried her best to support your majesty with the strength of her eldest grandson’s family, so that Emperor Gaozu made your majesty crown prince, and then assisted your majesty to ascend the throne as emperor. Only Your Majesty knows how much he has suffered and how many twists and turns he has suffered, so Your Majesty does not want his children and grandchildren to suffer like this in the future.
“So..”
So Your Majesty has been looking forward to giving birth to a legitimate eldest son, and only the eldest son of the Empress of the Middle Palace can be the legitimate eldest son. Now there is no queen in the palace, Your Majesty. He did not even want his children.
This is also the reason why there are so many concubines in the fourteen palaces, but none of them are pregnant.
This is too absurd!
Even though Xu Liangren had seen a lot of wind and rain in the inner court, he was also shocked by Chen Baolin’s words.
However, on second thought, I realized that what she had said was not entirely true: “If Your Majesty wanted a legitimate eldest son, why did you abolish Empress Zhangsun in the first place?”
This is the only thing that Chen Baolin can’t figure out.
She knew that since the Han Dynasty, the emperors had been afraid of the aristocratic families. The first Guo was abolished, which reduced the power of many Hebei clansmen. Then Empress Yin died, and the Yin family lost its foothold in the court.
After that, is the ZhangSun family, on the ZhangSun queen mother, under the ZhangSun ZaiFu, sitting in the palace is ZhangSun queen, your majesty fear ZhangSun family or can have, but also not to the point of the queen must be abolished. What went wrong
? All the people in
the Xuanshi Hall were in a panic. It was only August, and the sun was still very strong outside. It was so cold in the room that people were almost scared to death.
The king’s face had not cleared up for many days, and Rong Hua, Mei Ren, and Chong Yi, who used to be able to make the king smile, all hit a wall this month.
Even Su Wen, who had won the king’s favor most in front of the emperor, also suffered a lot. I don’t know how much he was scolded by the king.
Others behind the scenes or can say one or two, Su Wen is bitter in the heart also can not say, both sides are stubborn master son, that end is not willing to come over, this side is not willing to go over.
Liu Chang was also very angry. There were so many concubines in the Fourteen Palaces. Which concubine didn’t smile when she saw him? She was the one who treated him like a great scourge.
What, when he can eat her? Hide in the cool hall and not come out?
He is a king, what kind of person does not have, she has the ability to shrink in the cool palace for a lifetime! He had already broken the tube of
his red pen. Su Wen hesitated and stepped forward. He took it down and replaced it for him. “Your Majesty,” he said, “the day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Look at this worship of the moon God..”
“Why do you come to ask me such a small thing?” Liu Chang frowned, impatient.
Su Wen smiled. “My subordinates were confused and didn’t make it clear. Last year they worshipped the moon God. Your Majesty summoned the King of Jiangdu and the King of Huainan to the palace. Is it still the same this year?” There is still a reunion banquet after
the Mid-Autumn Festival to worship the moon God, if the king of Jiangdu and the king of Huainan are not in Chang’an, now for the queen mother, they have not returned to the fief, the total bad not to call over.
Liu Chang thought for a while, but he was worried and had no one to talk to. When Su Wen asked about it, he nodded his head and said, “Then it’s the same as before.”
When Su heard the order, he immediately ordered people to prepare fruits, melons, cakes, and other things. It was rare for the concubines of each palace to meet the festival. They could not only enjoy the moon to relieve their boredom, but also see the king more. They also prepared fashionable clothes early, hoping to attract the king’s attention.
Said Jiangdu imperial concubine Zhangsun Qiuyan that time made a family banquet back, was thinking about when to enter the palace again, change her sister out, who knows a blink of an eye in the palace under the decree, let her no call can not enter the palace, clearly take her as a thief to guard against it. She was so angry
in the palace that she stamped her feet. The king of Jiangdu was afraid that she would make trouble again, so he tried to persuade her. This time, when he saw a decree from the palace, he asked her to go into the palace to worship the moon God. He quickly told her, “I told you that he couldn’t stop you and never let you into the palace. Don’t you think this decree has come?”? You really went too far last time. How could you beat all the empresses? Brother Huang didn’t punish you. He just didn’t ask you to enter the palace. It’s already a great grace. This time we can make a deal first. After you enter the palace, you won’t be allowed to act like you did last time. If not, the Heavenly King Lao Tzu won’t be able to save you.
Who needs His grace? Don’t let me know he’s bullying my sister again when we go to the palace, or I’ll smash his Xuanshi Hall. Zhangsun Qiuyan was not afraid of the threats of King Jiangdu, and even wanted to put the whip on him.
Fortunately, the King of Jiangdu kept an eye on her at all times. As soon as he saw her, he pestered her to pull out the whip and threw it to the attendants. He grabbed her hand and coaxed her to say, “If that’s true, I’ll go and tell my brother to take your sister out of the palace, OK?”
With you? I don’t believe it. Zhangsun Qiuyan said so, but in the end was persuaded, really no longer with a whip.
Husband and wife together into the palace, implicated by the last thing, Huainan princess this time in any case also dare not sit with Zhangsun Qiuyan, only honest next to Qin Zhaoyi talk.
Zhangsun Qiuyan also did not haggle with her, anyway, she did not enter the palace to accompany the princess of Huainan, as soon as she was seated, she saw Chen Baolin go over.
Jiangdu Wang Zi went to sit with Liu Chang. The two brothers had not seen each other for many days, so they had to push a cup for a change and chat privately.
When he saw that his brother was not enjoying himself, he said, “What’s bothering you, brother?” After drinking a few glasses of wine,
Liu Chang hesitated to speak. After a while, he thought carefully and asked, “Shaoling, have you ever had a woman you liked but didn’t like?” When
Liu Xu was stunned by his question, he suddenly exclaimed, “Brother Huang, whose nonsense did you listen to?”? I I have only one princess, and I have never thought of any other woman. How can
such a thing be nonsense? If Qiu Yan heard it, wouldn’t he be in great trouble?
Liu Chang glanced at him and intuited that he had drunk too much and was confused. He asked who was not good, but he wanted to ask Liu Xu, who was afraid of his wife. So he turned his head and looked at Liu Yang, the king of Huainan.
Liu Yang understood much better than Liu Xu, and immediately saw that the king was trapped by love. He suppressed a smile and thought for a moment before he answered: “What women in the world want is nothing but sincerity. If you treat them with sincerity, I think you can always keep the clouds open and see the moon.”
Sincere? Is he not sincere enough to her?
Liu Chang listened without a word, looked up and saw that Chen Baolin did not know what to say to Princess Jiangdu, so that she stared at him, as if she could not hate him.
He sneered and sipped the wine in his glass. She could still enter the palace because he was extra merciful. He even wanted to take her sister away from Chen Baolin. It was a fool’s dream!
“Su Wen, Su Wen!” After a long
night, Su Wen thought the king had gone to sleep, but suddenly he made a sound. He jumped and hurried into the bedroom. “What’s the matter, Your Majesty?”
Liu Chang tugged at his collar with displeasure. “Why is it so hot in the room?”? No ice in it?
Let it go! Su Wen turned his head and looked around. There was still ice in the jade plate.
“Perhaps Your Majesty has just drunk wine, and when the smell of wine comes up, it will be hot.” Su Wen thought and asked someone to fetch the ice again.
But when he saw that the king could no longer bear it, he got up and said, “How long will it be hot?”
He was stupefied for a moment, and then his mind suddenly flashed. “Why don’t you go to the Qingliang Hall for a night?” He said hurriedly. “The painted stone bed there is very cool.”
The moon hangs high in the night sky like a silver plate.
Qiushui turned over and quietly pushed open half of the window, just in time to see the moon from the gap. When she was a child, her mother always lied to her and Qiuyan, saying that there were Chang’e fairies, jade rabbits and osmanthus trees in the moon.
She was convinced at that time, but when she looked at it carefully, she saw that the moon was like white jade, and there was no flaw at all. Where was Chang’e Jade Rabbit?
It was just a lie from her mother.
Now, the silver moon is still there, but the mother does not know where to go, the day of reunion and celebration, she and her parents and brothers and sisters can only express their grief in front of a bright moon, the heart can not be said to be frustrated.
After watching for a long time, she was tired. Just as she was about to reach out to put down the window, she suddenly saw a bright light in the yard outside. She was slightly curious and quickly got up to put on her clothes and get out of bed.
Apart from her, there were only the guards guarding the gate and two small yellow gates. Who came in at midnight?
She was suspicious, and before she could open the door to find out what was going on, the palace lantern was already shining in front of her.
It was Su Wen. “Why did Ah Weng come here so late?”
She asked. As
Su Wen watched her wake up, he breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, “Don’t panic in the Autumn Palace. Your Majesty had a few more glasses of wine at the banquet in front of us today. I didn’t expect the wine to go to my head. He said it was very hot.”. My subordinates were afraid that the Holy Body would be disrespectful, so they waited on Your Majesty to stay in the Qingliang Palace. They were afraid that the people of the Autumn Palace would sleep and disturb the people of the Autumn Palace, but they didn’t want the people of the Autumn Palace to be awake. Is
Liu Chang here, too? No matter how
sleepy Qiushui was, his words drove him away. He looked sideways at the courtyard behind Su Wen, and really saw the king standing there, fanning himself with one hand.
He seemed to be waiting impatiently, so he shouted at Su Wen in a low voice, “Is the house ready yet?”
“That’s good, that’s good.”
Su Wen answered one after another, then turned around and begged Qiu Shui, “Your Majesty is in a hurry, and I don’t have time to bring anyone else. Someone from the Labor Palace is setting up a table for Your Majesty in the courtyard and serving a cup of sobering tea. I’ll go back and bring someone to clean up Your Majesty’s bed.”
“Ah Weng..” As he
spoke, he turned around and walked away. The autumn water could not keep him, and it was not easy for him to stand in the room. He had to put on his clothes and come out to pay his respects to Liu Chang. “I’ve seen Your Majesty.”
Liu Chang just enjoyed the cool air by himself and ignored her. She couldn’t help it. Knowing that he was drunk, she didn’t care about him. According to Su Wen’s orders, she called Xiao Huangmen to go to the house to get a food table and put it in the courtyard. She also made a fire to boil water for him to make tea.
This side of the compartment was busy, and Su Wen rushed all the way back with two attendants.
One is holding the crown suit that the king will wear tomorrow, and the other is carrying a red lacquer octagonal box.
Seeing the king sitting down in the courtyard, he quickly kowtowed to pay his respects, put down his things, and went into the house to make the bed.
Su Wen opened the box, took out all the melons, fruits and cakes, and put them in front of the king one by one. Your Majesty had drunk so much wine with the King of Jiangdu and the King of Huainan before, but he didn’t have time to eat. I think he should be hungry. It was brought from Imperial Kitchen by the order of my subordinates, and it is still warm. Your Majesty should use some more.
Liu Chang looked at the cake and suddenly asked him, “Didn’t you say there was sobering tea?”
“Oh, yes, yes, yes. I’ve asked someone from the Autumn Palace to make tea. I’ll go and urge her.” As he spoke, he went back and saw the autumn water. “Is the tea in the autumn palace ready?” He asked.
Qiushui had just finished boiling the water, and when he came to urge him, he knew it was the other one who couldn’t wait. “Ah Weng, don’t worry,” he said. “He’s coming.”
Then he went to the room again, and according to the memory of the past, he found the tribute tea in the cabinet, heated the pot and warmed the cup, and made a cup. He followed Su Wen and took it out and served it to the king.
Liu Chang took a thin sip, but without saying a word, Su Wen handed him a piece of cake. “Your Majesty, try this. It’s said to be made of lilies.”
Liu Chang took a bite, then immediately frowned and put it down. “It’s too sweet and greasy.”
“Is it sweet?” Su Wen was very surprised, so he took another piece of cake from the plate, and instead of handing it to Liu Chang, he handed it to Qiu Shui. “Please have a taste of it. Is this rose crisp sweet?”.
Palace meals have always been passed from the imperial attendants to the Imperial Kitchen. The Imperial Kitchen put the meals in a box or on a table, and the attendants carried them to the noble’s room. Then the small yellow door arranged the dishes according to the regulations, and after testing and tasting the meals, they could be eaten by the king.
Now the small yellow door is not, and can not let the emperor in front of the regular attendant personally, so from the autumn water is also reasonable.
Qiushui thanked him and took a mouthful of the rose cake from Su Wen’s hand with his handkerchief. “This is sweet, too,” he said, shaking his head. She knew
he didn’t have much of a sweet tooth.
Su Wen had no choice but to give her another piece of osmanthus cake. “The people of the Autumn Palace have a taste of this.”
“The fragrance of the flowers is too strong.”
“What about this piece of red bean cake?”
“Too greasy.”
She tasted them one by one, and finally found a piece of yam cake that was neither sweet nor greasy. “This is just right,” she said with a slight smile.
Liu Chang sat in front of the table, slightly raised his head and watched her taste the same, gentle and elegant, her etiquette, like her needlework, has always been outstanding.
He couldn’t move his eyes until Su Wen opened his mouth and said, “Oh, you’re not too careful over there Imperial Kitchen. I only filled one of the same cakes.” Isn’t it
? In the colorful cloud plate, there was only one piece of cake in one cloud. She tasted it and could not find the same one. On the surface of the
autumn water, she didn’t look carefully just now. If she had known this, she should have cut it open. Now she tasted the
only yam cake that was not sweet, but how could he eat it? If not, go again Imperial Kitchen to go?
She looked hesitant, and before she could say anything, she suddenly saw a hand stretched out from below, but it was Liu Chang who took the cake from her hand.
“This piece is enough.” Then
she ate the mouthful she had tasted.
Qiushui’s face was flushed with shame. Fortunately, the darkness of the night was deep enough to cover up for her, but there were still so many pieces left on the plate, all of which she had tasted. Liu Chang glanced at her with a distant look in his eyes and said, “There are rules in the palace. You can’t be extravagant and wasteful. Since you’ve tasted it, sit down and finish eating.”
This rule was laid down by her for the later time. At that time, there were internal and external troubles, and it was time to make money. The expenditure in the palace was greater than that of the people. In order to be thrifty, she issued this decree. Now
he had admonished her with her words, and she could not disobey them. Moreover, she was not in the mood to eat anything tonight. After a few bites of cake, she was also a little hungry, so she obediently sat down and ate the cake piece by piece.
Su Wen also made tea for her.
The moonlight, like gauze, enveloped the four fields, as well as him and her.
Strange Taoists say that the Mid-Autumn Festival is the best time to enjoy the moon. It turns out that the scene under the moon is really so moving.
The moon is full and people are reunited. He and she have been away for five years and finally spent a Mid-Autumn Festival together.
When the meal was over, the little yellow door in the room also laid the bed, the surrounding jade plate was replaced with ice cubes, and there were painted stones for the bed, so the king finally stopped shouting about the heat.
When Su Wen realized that he had done the right thing tonight, he breathed a sigh of relief and laid down the curtain for the king. He said to Qiu Shui, “Your Majesty is drunk and has gone to bed. Now there is no one in the Qingliang Palace. Since the people of the Autumn Palace are placed in the Qingliang Palace, they will bother the palace people for a night. At least we can talk about it after tonight.”
Autumn water these days in the cool hall, this has been used to, today do not want Liu Chang and Su Wen to come over, more or less do not adapt.
However, she had waited on him for a night before, and knowing that he had slept deeply at night and had no other important things to think about, she thought it was only one night, so she agreed to come down.
Su Wen was relieved, and the two attendants who had followed him were waiting outside, so he went to find a room to rest.
At the end of the morning, the sky was about to break, and the moonlight was still lingering in the sky. Su Wen was already outside calling out, “Your Majesty, it’s time to go to court early.”
However, I do not know if it was because of the king’s drinking last night, he even called a few times, the king did not hear, but the autumn water sleeping on the couch outside the grille was awakened, hurriedly got up and dressed. The
morning could not be missed. She lifted the curtain and saw that the king was sleeping soundly on the painted stone bed. She could not bear to call him softly: “Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Su Changshi outside is calling him up.”
Liu Chang rarely had a good sleep and was aroused by her charming voice. Looking back, he was in a trance as if in a dream. In the
dream, he and she both lived in the Qingliang Palace. When he got up in the morning, he couldn’t wake up because he stayed up late to read the memorial. The chamberlains didn’t dare to call him, so they would beg her, and she would come to wake him up like this. Occasionally,
he was so sleepy that she made him unhappy, so he simply reached out and pulled her to bed and slept with him for a while, but she could not avoid talking for a while, fearing that he would fall into the reputation of a beauty and a disaster, and that he would also fall into the history of a king.
Then he almost stretched out his hand again, and when he saw her green clothes, he realized that she was not in a dream, and that she was no longer his queen. Halfway through, he turned back to support the stone bed, leaned over to look outside, and asked in a low voice, “What time is it?”
“It’s already the end of the day.”
Qiushui was glad that he finally woke up and hurried to one side to get his crown clothes and called Su Wen to change clothes.
Su Wen was impatient. “It’s too late,” he urged Qiushui as he changed the king’s crown. “Hurry up and bring your majesty’s big belt, leather belt, and the crown of heaven.”
“Ah.” Qiushui was urged by him to be in a hurry, and hurriedly took the big belt and the leather belt and tied them to the king. After five years of
separation, she could not remember how to wear the crown dress, but put it on him with a vague impression.
Su Wen was covering his knees for the king, and when he saw the leather belt on his head, he sighed and was about to stretch out his hand, but was stopped by the king’s wink. He smiled shyly and had to pretend that he didn’t know she was wrong.
Qiushui finished the big belt, and then went to get the crown of the sky.
He was much taller than her, and even on tiptoe he couldn’t reach it. Qiushui wanted to hand the crown to Su Wen, but suddenly Liu Chang crouched down consciously. She took a long breath and quickly put the crown on his head. She repeatedly straightened the crown hanging on the crown.
Left and right a look, intuition is not very bad pool, just back half a step slightly bowed to see him.
Seeing that he had already reached the threshold, before he could get up, he heard him ask, “What kind of incense did you light in the house last night?”
Chou-shui was stunned and immediately replied, “It’s Su He-hsiang.”
The fragrance is sweet in nature, can warm and open the orifices, regulate the flow of qi and relieve depression, and is most suitable for dispelling filth and refreshing the mind.
Liu Chang nodded his head and said, “This incense is very good. I’ll light it from now on.”
This is.. What do you mean?
Qiu Shui looked at Su Wen unconsciously. Su Wen had been beside the king for so long that he couldn’t hear anything. But even if he did, he didn’t have time to explain to Qiu Shui. He hurried to wait for the king to go out: “The dragon chariot is already waiting outside the hall. Your Majesty is careful at your feet.”
Liu Chang strode out, intuitively out of sight of the man behind him, and hurriedly untied the leather belt around his waist.
Su Wen also followed him in a hurry, I really do not know what the king is thinking, just know that the autumn palace people tied the big belt and leather belt wrong, tell her that is, why bother to sweat this time? Isn’t it just to save face for that guy? As
soon as the king boarded the dragon chariot, he hurriedly asked the attendants to quicken their pace. The ministers had already entered the palace one after another. It was not good for Your Majesty to be late for the early court.
As for Qiushui.
He sighed. It was true that there was a time in life, but there was no time in life. There were so many concubines in the whole palace, and even if they tried their best, they could not keep the king a step. But this one, who stayed firmly in the secluded palace, could attract the king to come again and again.
“You, you, and you two come here.” With a wave of his tail on his wrist, Su Wen summoned three or four palace maids and attendants, and ordered them to go down one by one. “Send all the things your majesty usually wears to the Qingliang Palace. Be careful. Don’t mess them up.”
The maidservants were all people who were used to serving in front of the emperor, and when they heard the order, they all said, “It’s already the Mid-Autumn Festival, but why are you going to live in the Qingliang Palace?”
“If you are told to go, you will go. Where did all this talk come from?” Su Wen scolded a few times impatiently. When was the
king’s mind left to this man’s speculation? If they were all like him, he might as well let them be the regular attendants. The maidservants were scolded by
him and went away with their mouths pouting.
When Liu Chang came back early in the morning, Su Wen had already settled down, but there was still one thing he needed to tell him: “I’m going to send a few people over to serve you in the Qingliang Palace. Your Majesty, do you think you should ask the people on the tea to go over or..”
Liu Chang had been busy all morning, and now he had to take a break. When he came to report, he raised his eyebrows and said, “Did the people at the tea table do something wrong before?”.
That’s not true. Since the people on the tea have passed by, then.. The man on the needle and thread..
“When has there ever been a shortage of embroidery maids in the palace?”
That’s true, too. Su Wen nods, the person on the tea has, the person on the needle and thread does not need, then the person on the lamp.
He bowed slightly, and Liu Chang closed his eyes slightly. He didn’t even bother to look at him. “You’re a regular attendant. I need to teach you how to place people.”? If that’s the case, take off your hat as soon as possible and go back to your prison.
“Yes, I understand. I’m going to arrange it.”
Su Wen shrank his neck and dared not keep the king in suspense any more. He bent down and retreated, leaving the emperor’s men to wait on him. He took his attendants to the Qingliang Palace with the king’s daily clothes. After seeing off such a great God like him in the
autumn water in the daytime, he relaxed his mind and slept until noon. Seeing that the food table outside had not been taken in yet, he wiped the food table and carried it into the house with the little yellow door as usual.
Little Huangmen had been with her in the Qingliang Palace for many days, knowing that she had a good temperament. As usual, he wondered how he could put such a girl’s home in the Qingliang Palace alone. Yesterday, he saw the king come here in the middle of the night, and his tender eyes were all for her, so he knew that she had an extraordinary background and good fortune.
As soon as he heard her order, he hurried forward and moved the food table, saying, “Auntie, just give me such a small thing later. How dare you work for me?”
Where is there any future?
Qiushui laughed and said, “It’s just one time. It’s been hard for my father-in-law.”
The little yellow door repeatedly said that he dared not. Just looking at the way the king treated her, he could not put it down for one night. In the future, this one could not be said to be an empress. It was not wrong for him to curry favor as early as possible.
This is not, really let him guess, in the evening, the emperor in front of Chang Shi Su Wen led the people to come over, a pass arrangement, then the things used inside and outside are replaced.
Qiushui stood outside the threshold, looking at the palace maids coming and going. Her face was like a plain moon, full of distress. “Ah Weng, what are these doing?” She asked.
Su Wen stepped forward with his tail on his tail. Seeing that she looked fine after staying up all night, he said with a smile, “To tell you the truth, after Your Majesty rested in the Qingliang Palace yesterday, his intuition was that it was still the coolest and most comfortable here. So I moved here for a few days. I’m afraid the people of the Autumn Palace will not take good care of her.” And from the Xuanshi Hall, my subordinates brought the Master of Tea, the Master of Ink, and the Master of Lamps.
Why is this happening all of a sudden?
“Didn’t Ah Weng say yesterday that Your Majesty would only stay for one night and then leave?”
He said so, but what he said could not be said for your majesty, what your majesty wants to do, how can he stop it?
Besides, he wasn’t going to stop it.
However, there were a lot of complications, but Su Wen still laughed and said, “According to the old practice, I’m going to move back to the Xuanshi Palace this time. But as you can see from the Autumn Palace this year, it’s really very hot. It’s already past the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the sun is still like a fire.”. Your majesty is in the prime of life, full of vigor and vitality, the most can not be hot, last night is only two or three glasses of wine, to the night hot all lost their temper, I have no way to accompany your majesty to the cool palace. The people of the Autumn Palace, for the sake of disobedience, will have to be patient for a few more days.
That.. Your Majesty has come. What does it look like for a maidservant to live here?
Qiushui knew that his identity was awkward. In the past, when he was a slave beside Chen Baolin, he did not feel anything wrong, but once he faced him, his mind would always turn up the past, which made people feel melancholy.
Su Wenxin said that it was because she was here that Your Majesty had come, otherwise there would have been no such thing as moving the palace.
But he couldn’t explain the purpose of the king’s visit in this way. Knowing that both of them were somewhat leftist, he said, “Don’t worry about the people of the Autumn Palace. Although there are a few attendants here now, it’s not very helpful.”. Besides, I know what the people of the Autumn Palace are thinking, and I won’t embarrass the people of the Autumn Palace. The people of the Autumn Palace, do you think this is all right? With a slight bow,
he leaned close to Qiushui’s ear and said a few words. At first, Qiushui was somewhat reluctant, but when he heard that he was serving with him, his heart relaxed a little. “Ah Weng, don’t mess with me this time.”
“How dare I insult you?” Su Wen smiled meaningfully.
When the last minister in the Xuanshi Hall retired, the king breathed a sigh of relief and got up. He didn’t even call Su Wen twice, but no one came in. Just as he was wondering, a small Chamberlain who usually followed Su Wen trotted in and said, “Your Majesty, Su Changshi has taken someone to the Qingliang Hall to put something away.”
This dog moves fast!
Liu Chang snorted coldly and sighed that he deserved to be the one who had served her. His mind was really smart. He blinked, and then he knew what he was going to do. It was not in vain for him to stay. With
a wave of his hand, he said to the Chamberlain, “Take your place and go to the Qingliang Hall.”
The chamberlains hurriedly went out to prepare the dragon chariot, escorted by Yu Linlang, and went all the way to the Qingliang Hall.
When Liu Chang entered the door, he saw a lot of flowers and plants in the courtyard. Stone tables and chairs were placed under the trees at the south end, and a beaded curtain was hung on the door. Inside, two maidservants stood with their hands in their hands, not looking at her. As soon as
they saw the king coming, they all hurried to pay their respects and put up the beaded curtain. He entered the door without saying a word. Su Wenye was almost busy inside. He greeted him with a smile and said, “Your Majesty, everything has been arranged. Let’s sit down and have a rest and drink tea.”
He sat down behind the table with a hum. At that moment, someone served tea. He subconsciously turned his head and saw that it was the former tea master in the Xuanshi Hall. His eyes could not help turning back.
When waiting for the meal, the waiter was still the same small yellow door as before. His eyes moved, but he did not say anything.
At the end of the meal, just as he was about to take the scroll, another lamplighter came over and held the lamp. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that they were all the ones who had served in the Xuanshi Hall in the past.
He could not help but sink his face, let Su Wen that dog slave arrange by himself, he really arranged. Who are
these people?
Did he not speak clearly enough, or did he have so many heads that he could not even listen to the king? Distraught
, Liu Chang looked at the scroll in vain. He impatiently pushed aside a pile of bamboo-like things in front of him. He raised his voice and called Su Wen, “Change your clothes and go to bed!”
He wanted to see what kind of trick this slave was doing!
He sat on the painted stone bed for a long time, but Su Wen didn’t come in. He was waiting for someone to take him and scold him. Suddenly, he heard a sound of footsteps, which were so familiar that he swallowed all the words in an instant.
Qiushui came in with his tunic in his hand and said steadily, “The maidservant will wait on your majesty to change his clothes.”
Liu Chang’s anger was suddenly gone. He looked at her and touched her nose unconsciously. He had nothing to say and said, “Why are you?”? Where is Su Wen?
“Back to Your Majesty, Su Changshi has appointed the maidservant to be the master of the bedroom, and he will be on duty with him. The maidservant will be on duty for the first half of the night, and Su Changshi will be on duty for the second half of the night. When the maidservant comes, Su Changshi will go to rest first.”
He will steal time to enjoy it.
Liu Chang hummed in the dark, and seeing that she had something on her mind after all, he stood up and said, “Then let you change your clothes.”
“Promise.”
Qiushui bent his knees and went to put down his middle clothes before he went up to take off the big belt and the ribbon for him.
It was only when his slender fingers touched his waist that she realized something was wrong. When he left in the
morning, the big belt and the leather belt were tied by her, and it was clear that this was not the way to tie them.
Liu Chang saw that she had stretched out her hand but did not move. She was puzzled for a moment, and then she understood. With her intelligence and memory, she must have known that he had tied the leather belt and the big belt again. She was afraid that she would think too much. She hurriedly said, “I had a rest in the Xuanshi Hall after lunch. It was Su Wen’s slave who tied it again after getting up.”
Qiushui bit his lip gently. He was easy to worry when he lied. He used to be and he is now.
The big belt and the leather belt may have really been re-tied by Su Wen, but it was not when he got up from his nap that she must have made a mistake in the morning to ask Su Wen to re-tie them. She
couldn’t help feeling a little nervous. She couldn’t imagine that she had forgotten so many things in only five years. She was afraid that it was just so much between her and him.
Liu Chang gibberish explanation, secretly glanced at her look, see her lips do not speak, also do not know whether to believe his words, unexpectedly some at a loss.
Wanting to say something more to comfort her, she looked at her and tried to untie her ribbon. “I haven’t washed yet,” she said hurriedly. “Go and ask someone to prepare hot water before changing clothes.”
“Yes.” Qiushui promised to go out. As soon as
Liu Chang saw her walk away, he didn’t care much. He hurriedly took off the big belt and leather belt by himself, and scattered the ribbon. He was afraid that she would be unhappy when she saw that the ribbon had been solved wrongly last time. He looked around and stuffed the ribbon under the pillow.
When Qiushui came in with hot water, he saw that he had stripped down to a single coat. He was stunned, but he said, “I’m very hot, so I’ll take it off first.”
She didn’t think much about it, so she twisted the veil and washed him. Since he took it off by himself, it saved her a lot of trouble. She changed his middle coat and said, “The maidservant is resting in the outer room. Your Majesty can call the maidservant if he has something to do.”
“Well, I know.” Liu Chang nodded and watched her go out with the basin in her hand. Her posture was as soft as a willow, but her temper was so stubborn that people were flustered.
He tossed and turned for a long time, and finally he could not help sitting up and saying, “Come.”
Qiushui was full of worries and had not yet fallen asleep. As soon as he heard him call, he hurried into the temple and asked softly, “What’s the matter with Your Majesty?”
Liu Chang coughed and said, “My throat and eyes are a little uncomfortable. I’m afraid the dinner is too salty. Go and get me a glass of water.” Hearing this
, Qiushui meekly agreed and lit a lamp to pour warm water for him.
Liu Chang drank two mouthfuls slowly, and when he saw her standing under the lamp, graceful and graceful, he asked her softly, “Do you still remember the embarrassing things when you were young?”
“Hmm?” Qiushui was puzzled by his question. After a while, she shook her head. “I don’t know what your majesty is asking.”
She had always obeyed the rules, and at home she was an example for her parents to teach her younger sister. When she entered the palace, she was taught by the emperor’s aunt. The older she was, the more correct she was.
When it comes to childhood embarrassments, she has little impression. When
Liu Chang saw her shaking her head, he smiled and said, “I remember one thing. At that time, my mother, Empress Yin, was still alive. When my father returned to the palace in the evening, he led the King of Guangling to pay his respects to his father. When he saw that there was a pen and paper on his father’s desk, he asked the King of Guangling to grind it for his father.”. It happened that the imperial concubine also led me and the king of Jiangdu to pay his respects to the father. Knowing that the father wanted to set up a crown prince from the prince, she also asked me to hold the lamp for the father. I intended to compare with the king of Guangling, so I was careful everywhere, but I still stood in the wrong place and let the father’s last stroke fall empty. When I got back, I was so upset that I didn’t dare to go to see my father for several days in a row. The imperial concubine comforted me by saying that it wasn’t my job to hold the lantern. It didn’t matter if I was wrong. My father wouldn’t blame me.
In the same way, it’s not her job to change clothes. If she’s wrong, she’s wrong. It doesn’t matter.
Her duty is to command the six palaces, the mother of the world, and enjoy the admiration of all the people with him!
Su Wen pinched a little and came over to change shifts with Qiushui. He thought it would be late at night when the king and she should have a rest. He did not want to step into the door. He saw a glimmer of light in the bedroom hall. He stopped in an instant.
Unexpectedly, the sound of footsteps had already reached the room. When Liu Chang finished speaking, he watched Qiushui’s expression gradually slow down, and felt a little relieved. Knowing that she had not slept for half the night, he heard Su Wen coming and said in the room, “Come in.” “Now that Su Wen is here,”
he said to Qiu Shui, “go back and rest.”
“Yes.” Qiushui bowed slightly and retired.
When Su Wen saw her coming out of it, he immediately felt that he had come at a bad time. Who knows if he had disturbed the king?
He felt his neck and felt a chill down his spine. He heard the king call out again. Not daring to delay, he hurried in and said, “I would like to pay my respects to Your Majesty. How is Your Majesty tonight?”
Ann is good for what?
Liu Chang glanced at him and did not know whether it was right or wrong for him to put her on duty. It was reassuring to have her by his side, but also because she was by his side, her every move always concerned him.
Fortunately, she was only worth half a night, and Liu Chang was finally able to have a good sleep in the second half of the night.
When the time came, Su Wen stood up to wake him up, took off his coronation suit, and was about to put it on for him, but he couldn’t find a ribbon around him. He was confused, and suddenly he saw a thread of brocade thread sticking out from under the pillow of the painted stone bed. He couldn’t help bending down and pulling out a piece. “Why did you put it in here?” He exclaimed.
Liu Chang turned to see him and coughed lightly. He pretended not to know, but kept urging him: “Why do you care so much? You’d better hurry up and be careful. I’ll ask you if you miss the time.”
“Yes, yes.” Su Wen repeatedly promised, while he turned around, was about to put on the ribbon, slanting thorn suddenly stretched out a delicate hand, the ribbon took the past.
“Ah Weng, I’ll do it.” When
Liu Chang heard the sound, his body stiffened. He immediately looked back at her and said, “Didn’t I tell you to go back and rest?”
“The maidservant has rested.” Qiushui lowered her long eyelashes and carefully straightened out the ribbon in her hand. “Your Majesty’s admonition yesterday was right. In the past, it may not have been the maidservant’s duty to change clothes. If the maidservant did not do well, it could be excused. But in the future, it will be the maidservant’s duty. If she does not do well again, it will not be justified. Now that Su Chang-shih is here, he asks Su Chang-shih to tell the maidservant one or two, so that the maidservant won’t make a mistake again.
“You don’t have to..” You
don’t have to. It wasn’t your job to change clothes before, and it won’t be your job in the future.
Liu Chang opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but for a moment he did not know where to start. After all, she was now a slave and a maidservant, and was his bedfellow.
He looked at her gentle eyebrows and eyes, feeling sour and bitter in his heart, but raised his arm and let her listen to Su Wen’s instructions to tie the ribbon and the big and small leather belts around his waist.
When Su Wen saw the king coming out of the Qingliang Palace, he kept silent all the way. He knew that something must have happened between him and Qiushui last night, but the king didn’t say anything. He was a slave and couldn’t ask each other. He thought it would be better to go back and explore Qiushui.
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