The
old friend of the emperor’s uncle sighed: In the middle of
the night, a man sat down slowly beside my bed. I knew he was my emperor’s uncle. As the eldest princess, I want to sleep with my uncle, because my father has been killed by him, and anyone who knows about our scandal has been executed.
I had the same nightmare again. Like a kite with a broken string, I fell off a cliff on my back. At the moment of falling, the waning moon emerged from behind the thin clouds. The cold and pale moonlight tilted down. I looked up and saw a man with no facial features standing on the edge of the cliff, looking at me coldly.
Suddenly, I opened my eyes and gasped for breath, soaked with cold sweat.
Someone picked me up and held me in his arms, patting my back with warm palms, and a deep voice rang anxiously in my ears, “Ah Heng, Ah Heng..”
I buried my face in his chest and took a deep breath of his ambergris. Then I came to my senses and called out softly, “Uncle..” His hand stiffened as
he stroked my back. After a moment, he asked me softly, “Another nightmare?” With a lingering fear in my heart,
I nodded. “Every night I dream that someone is after me, and just now I even dreamed that the man reached out and pushed me off a cliff.”
His voice tightened. “Did you see who he was this time?”
“No, I almost saw his face.” Full of chagrin, I said, “I remember the panic when I was chased, the despair when my body flew into the air and fell into the cliff, the dying feeling when the cold river at the bottom of the cliff poured into my heart..” But I forgot who wanted me dead and why he wanted to kill me.
In his warm embrace, I trembled like a leaf that was about to fall in late autumn. I said blankly, “a crack has appeared in my memory, as if a part of the scroll has been cut off. If it is not repaired, the rest of my life will not be complete.”
He sighed, hugged me tighter, and whispered reassuringly, “I’ll get to the bottom of it.”. Relax and stop thinking about it.
I gave a muffled “hmm”. When the people
of Lingxi Palace heard that I was awake, they hurried in to serve me. When she saw the people around me, she froze in place for a moment and stared in shock.
The man glanced sharply at her, and the little maid suddenly came to her senses. She shivered and kowtowed. “No, maidservant..” I don’t know if the emperor is here. Please. Please forgive me.. She suddenly realized something and said, “I didn’t see anything, I didn’t see anything!”
I sighed in my heart, this palace man is new, too bold.
Sure enough, the man still held me in his arms and rubbed my vest soothingly. It’s just that I can feel the momentum of his whole body becoming cold, which makes me shiver in his arms.
I watched the little maid being dragged out, but I didn’t intercede for her. Catch me hugging him, and shout out like this, she’s going to die.
Speaking of this year, the corpses of the palace people who died because they saw what they shouldn’t have seen and heard what they shouldn’t have heard can be piled up in a room. Quiet was restored in the
hall, candles dragged out long shadows in the dark night, and the mouth of the bronze crane spat out smoke with sweet fragrance. Everything seemed quiet and lonely.
He let go of me and stood up. “It’s late at night. Go to bed early.”
I grabbed hold of his wide black sleeve and looked up at him with a porcelain white face. “Don’t go. I’m afraid to be alone. Will you stay with me?”
He lowered his eyes for a moment and then whispered, “Be good. I’ll come to see you tomorrow.”
I let go of his sleeve.
Yeah, how could he stay the night with me? He was Ye Lanxiu, the eighth emperor of the Zhou Dynasty.
My uncle.
I sighed faintly and said, “Do you know?”? I wish I were still the carefree little princess, and you were still Mo Hsiao-wu. “I will always be your Mo Hsiao-wu, your Mo Hsiao-wu alone,”
he said with a shudder.
The next afternoon, while I was pruning a pot of gardenia in the bedroom hall, my brother Yeh yuan called out, “Sister, sister!” Ran in from outside the temple. There was a fine layer of sweat on his forehead, and he coughed a few times, and his little face was red.
I took out my brocade handkerchief and painfully wiped the sweat from his forehead. “Why are you in such a hurry?” I complained? The cold is just getting better, and you’re coughing again. As she picks up the autumn pear juice on the table, she says, “Ah Jie made it specially for you. It moistens the lungs and reduces noise. It tastes better than medicine.”
“Sister, what is a bastard?” yuan’er drank the autumn pear juice obediently and suddenly asked me. With a shake of my
scissors hand, I cut off a white bud. He steadied himself and asked, “Who did you hear that from?”
“Reggie and Pearl were whispering. I was eavesdropping.” yuan’er is very innocent. “Reggie said that the throne should have been mine, but it was taken by that bastard. Otherwise, he would be a pen-holding eunuch anyway, and Pearl would be the palace attendant’s aunt.”
“And then?” I asked quietly.
“Then Aunt Su came in and scolded them a few words, and they didn’t dare to speak any more.” yuan’er kept on asking, “Sister, what exactly is a bastard?”
I put down the scissors and held him on my knee. He is now seven years old, but because he has been weak and sickly since childhood, he looks thin and small. “yuan’er, that’s a curse.”. Sister has taught you not to look, not to listen, not to speak, not to move.
I nodded his little nose and said, “You can’t talk nonsense in the future. Even if you hear it, you can’t say it out. A gentleman is slow in words and quick in action. We must be cautious and diligent. Only in this way can we grow up to be a man to protect Ah Jie. Do you know?”.
yuan’er nodded vigorously and clenched his little fist. “yuan’er knows. I want to grow into a man and protect Ah Jie.”
“Haoyuan, now it’s just us, brother and sister, who depend on each other.” I put my forehead against his little head with mixed feelings.
My father was the only son of the emperor’s grandfather, but he died young. The emperor’s grandfather had pinned all his hopes on yuan’er, but two years ago he recognized a prince who was living among the people.
When Concubine Qi was pregnant, her grandmother, Empress Xiao, ordered Li Jin, the judge of the Imperial Hospital, to add safflower to Concubine Qi’s tocolytic medicine. Li Jin could not bear to help Qi escape from the palace with fake death pills.
Two years ago, when the emperor’s grandmother died, Li Jin dared to tell the emperor’s grandfather the secret of that year. After hearing this,
the emperor’s grandfather was overjoyed and told the world that he wanted to find the blood of the heavenly family that had drifted among the people. The
irony is that I helped to find the prince who lived among the people.
As a result, Mo Xiaowu, an ordinary citizen, once became the prince Ye Lanxiu. My uncle and yuaner’s uncle. When the emperor’s grandfather died
a year ago, Ye Lanxiu succeeded to the throne with the reign title of yuan Zhao. yuan’er and I have also changed from the emperor’s own grandson to the emperor’s nephew.
Ye Lanxiu declared that he took pity on my brother and sister and left us in the palace. In fact, it is just to keep us as caged birds. After all, yuan’er is the biggest threat to him when he sits on the throne. He imprisons us in the palace, and life and death are only between his thoughts. Naturally,
I can’t speak frankly to the young yuaner. He is the only family I have in the world, and I will try my best to protect him.
I looked at yuaner’s copybook for a while before I asked the little eunuch to take him out to play. When
yuan’er skipped out, I called Aunt Xi, who had been with me for many years, and simply said, “Take someone to yuan’er’s Changning Palace and pass on my message. It’s not good for the people in the Changning Palace to serve their masters. All of them should be killed with sticks.” Dazed, Aunt
Xi asked tentatively, “Where is Su Chin-ho?”? She was sent to the palace by your uncle’s family to serve yuan’er. She’s an old woman, and she’s always been cautious and reliable.
I sneered, “People are sophisticated in the palace, but they forget the fundamentals.”. If the people at the bottom say something like that, it means that she is not strict with her subordinates. yuan’er had a disaster like Reggie around her, and she didn’t want to report it to me at the first time, but she just kept covering it up and calming things down. I picked up the teacup next to me, poked the tea leaves with the lid of the cup, and gently uttered a few words: “She didn’t die unjustly.” Aunt
Xi lowered her eyes and said respectfully, “Yes, the maidservant is going to do it.” I’m the only one left in the
hall. I got up and went to the window. In the garden, yuan’er and the little eunuch were squatting on the ground and fighting grass. Their laughter was as clear as a silver bell.
Once upon a time, I was also an innocent little princess, who only knew romance and did not know the sufferings of the world. Now in this palace, but already obliterated the mind, stained with blood on the hands.
Two years ago, I slipped out of the palace and met Mo Xiaowu, a handsome and extraordinary man, and Xiao Qi, a silly son adopted by his mother’s relatives, the imperial concubine.
That encounter had a beautiful beginning, but eventually slipped into an unfathomable abyss and changed the fate of all of us. Cangyue, a
neighboring country, sent a mission led by Aduqin, the great prince of Cangyue. On the Hall of Golden Bells, Aduqin claimed to be a friendly country and asked to marry the princess of Dazhou.
Aduqin also brought the luminous pearl on the grassland as a betrothal gift to my Lingxi Palace. Because several of my imperial aunts have already been married, and now I am the only princess that Dazhou can marry. After the national funeral of the
emperor’s grandfather, some ministers proposed to recruit a son-in-law for the princess, but they were all rejected by Ye Lanxiu. Now that I am eighteen years old, I am still in the palace, and my position is somewhat awkward.
Gradually there are unbearable rumors, saying that the new emperor and niece have nondescript feelings, but Ye Lan Xiu means rigid, decisive killing, rumors did not spread wantonly.
I understand the current situation in China. Only one year after the new emperor ascended the throne, the Wang clan, my maternal ancestor, as a century-old powerful family who had assisted several generations of emperors in the court, had been intent on letting yuan’er succeed to the throne. Outside, the Cangyue Kingdom is eyeing covetously at the border, wantonly looking for trouble. Under the
internal and external troubles, it is the best choice to throw me out as a hot princess.
So after Aduqin proposed to marry the princess, there was a lot of discussion in the court, and they all felt that it was a sure thing for me to marry her.
yuan-er ran to my palace and cried until his eyes were swollen. “Sister, they say you’re going to marry a prince from the Moon Kingdom. Is that true?”
I held him in my arms and put my head against his little head as usual. “Silly yuan, Sister isn’t going anywhere. She’s going to be with him all the time.”
After seeing yuan’er off, I asked the palace people to invite a Duqin to the Lingxi Palace. I ordered the maidservant to return the luminous pearl to Aduqin. “Your Highness is so generous that I dare not accept it.”. The marriage between Dazhou and Cangyue was a good thing for the country and the people, but everything was decided by the emperor of Dazhou. This palace must not accept your Highness’s betrothal gifts without an order from the emperor. As soon as he entered the gate of the Lingxi Palace
, Aduqin stared straight at my face. He did not take the luminous pearl from the maidservant’s hand. He stroked his chest with one hand and bowed to me, saying, “Before Aduqin came to Dazhou, he only wanted to marry a princess. There was no specific candidate.”. However, seeing the princess at this moment, Aduqin knew that this trip must be blessed by the gods of the prairie, and that you were more beautiful and dazzling than all the jewels and flowers on the prairie. Aduqin is going to tell the emperor of Dazhou that I only want to marry you, Your Highness.
Before I could reply, I heard a majestic, deep voice ringing from the entrance of the main hall. “It’s not the turn of Prince Cangyue to choose the princess of Dazhou.”
Ye Lanxiu strode from outside the hall, his face gloomy, not angry.
A Duqin smiled. “Now only Your Majesty’s niece, the princess of Lingxi Palace, is marriageable. Please think twice.”. If your majesty promised to marry, Aduqin promised to send fat lambs and strong horses on the grassland every year. Aduchin awaits your good news.
After Aduqin left, I dismissed the palace people in the hall, and gently encircled his narrow waist with Ye Lanxiu, burying his head in his strong chest. “The matter of Cangyue’s marriage is known all over the court. Prince Aduqin is determined to win. I’m so afraid..”
“I didn’t say yes.” He said in a deep voice. In front of me, he never called me, “Ah Heng, I won’t let you go.”
Today, I was wearing a crimson tulle palace dress. When I raised my hand, the wide armhole slid down, revealing a part of Sai Xue’s arm.
I stretched out my hand and drew a circle on his chest, and his voice became more and more soft. “Don’t marry me to someone else, OK?”? I just want to be around you, and that’s it. I’m satisfied to see you every day. Between the words, I put my hand into his skirt.
Ah Heng.. We can’t.. As soon as he grasped my presumptuous hand, his tight voice and a bead of sweat on his forehead exposed his restraint and forbearance.
I put my arms around his slender neck and leaned close to his face. I breathed like an orchid and murmured, “Xiaowu, I don’t care what status you are now, how noble you are, and how taboo you are. You will always be my Xiaowu, and I, Ye Heng, will always be my Mo Xiaowu.”
He shook all over and held me tightly in his arms subconsciously.
I pulled him down on the brocade quilt in his confused and infatuated tremor. In the hall, the fragrant mist is dense, and the red candles are flickering out of a charming room.
I reached out and took off the brocade tent, turning this bed into an ark isolated from the world.
His kiss fell on my cheek and neck with a hot temperature.
I was distracted and thought, “Alas, how many people will be left in this Lingxi palace tomorrow?”.
He seemed dissatisfied with my distraction, and his broad palms clenched my slender waist. I came to my senses with a cry and cupped his handsome face.
“Ah Heng..” He murmured my name and looked into my eyes with fascination, “I will never fail you..”
Never fail me?
I lowered my head and bent my lips to show a sarcastic smile. When I raised my face, I looked at him again. I closed my eyes and kissed his lips. I kissed his oath into a vague murmur.
The next day, the silence of dawn was broken by a shrill scream in Lingxi Palace.
Ye Lanxiu opened his eyes and stared at my bed curtain, not knowing where he was for a moment.
“Uncle Huang..” I groveled on the ground, my clothes disheveled, and wept bitterly. “I beg the emperor’s uncle to give Ye Heng a death.”
He rolled out of bed naked, first picked up a dress scattered on the ground and wrapped it around me, then bent over and picked me up. A bright red mark was left on the
bed, and I seemed to be stung by the bright red. I broke away from his embrace and hit the carved bed rail with the determination to die.
He grabbed me and held me down. “Why do you bother?” He asked anxiously.
I gave up the struggle and put my head in his arms and cried, “You let me die. What face do I have to live in the world now?” Big drops of tears poured down, and I choked with sobs. “It was I who was shameless and ignored human relations to seduce the emperor’s uncle. I deserve to die..”
Yeh Lan-hsiu held me tightly in his arms, fearing that if he let me go, I would really die. “What are you talking about?” He said? I was confused and confused in a moment. How is this your fault?
I put my hand over his mouth and looked sad and helpless. “What Uncle Huang said will only make me feel even more ashamed.”. The emperor’s uncle has always been self-restrained and self-disciplined. It was my dirty mind that brought shame to the royal family. I don’t know what happened to me last night. Suddenly I felt hot and dry all over, as if I had been bewitched. I just wanted to keep you, even if I used the most despicable means..
Ye Lanxiu pondered for a moment, turned his head and looked at the extinguished incense burner, his eyes gradually darkened. After the
test, the incense burner really has the help of incense, which can make people fascinated and difficult to control themselves.
I clenched my hands in horror and tore my fingernails into my palms without knowing it? Who is the fan of incense? Who on earth caused my uncle and I to commit incest?
Yeh Lan-hsiu had already put on his clothes, and his face was cold. “I’m afraid it’s not you and me who are the key.”
I thought for a moment, “Before you came, Prince Aduqin was in the Lingxi Palace. Could it be..” I did not dare to go on, shivering all over, and a big cold sweat broke out on my forehead.
Yeh Lan-hsiu said with a sneer, “I don’t know who is planning this. What are you going to do?” “You’ve hidden me deep in the palace,”
I said sadly. “No matter how careful you are, there will inevitably be a lot of people talking. There will always be people who can’t stand it. This scheme has made me lose my virginity to Aduqin. For one thing, it can force me to marry Cangyue, and for another, it can drive me away from you as an eyesore. It’s really a good trick to kill two birds with one stone. That’s all I’m
saying. I’m not naming names. It was Ye Lanxiu who subconsciously looked in the direction of the queen’s Palace of Earthly Tranquility.
Ye Lanxiu married Xu Yueli, the daughter of Xu Wenfeng, the prime minister of the Dynasty, as the empress. The emperors and empresses respected each other. He gave her the wealth of splashing heaven and the glory of the world, but that was all.
Ye Lanxiu lingered in his niece’s Lingxi Palace all day long. Although the palace people dared not say much, there was no impermeable wall in the world. How could the queen, as the head of the harem, not know? If there is anyone who wants me to disappear in the same place, Palace of Earthly Tranquility must be the first one.
I fell on his lap, and tears soaked his robe. “Now Ah Heng has to die to preserve the reputation of the emperor and the royal family.” With a deep sigh,
Ye Lanxiu pulled me up and held me in his arms. Ah Heng, I’m quite lucky about what happened today. Fortunately, I arrived in time, fortunately, it was me. If that Aduchin.. “I don’t dare to think about it,” he said, trembling with fear. “I’ll go crazy. I’ll really go crazy.”
“But how can I live on in the world after all these sins?” I cried pear blossoms with rain.
He kissed my hair on the temples and murmured, “I’m standing in front of you when the sky falls.”. If it’s a sin, I committed it. If you want to punish me, let God punish me alone. I had tears in my
eyes, but I smiled proudly and happily in the place where he could not see.
A fan of incense not only solved my marriage crisis, but also pulled the queen Xu Yueli and the Xu clan to dismount, this business is really not a loss.
5
Ye Lanxiu granted Empress Xu Lingyun, the niece of Empress Xu, the title of her adopted daughter, the imperial surname, the name Ye Lingyun, the title of Princess Mingyue, and the title of Princess Cangyue in the Hall of Golden Bells.
Having broken through the taboo for the first time, Ye Lan practiced eating marrow and knowing taste. Whenever she was free, she went to Lingxi Palace to drill. Sometimes she came over in broad daylight and had to be bored with me for a while before returning to the imperial study.
I half push half, this time to refuse to welcome the gesture more and more lead to Ye Lan Xiu infatuated with sinking, difficult to extricate themselves.
I know how to hold Ye Lanxiu’s heart tightly, how to use the affection of the first encounter outside the palace and his guilt for me. This is the only thing I can rely on in this palace.
Two months later, the water conservancy project of Canglan River was flawed, and a dam burst, flooding a large area of farmland along the river. My uncle Wang Futing reported the crime of dereliction of duty of Xu Honglin, Minister of Works, in the court, and asked the emperor to punish him severely. Xu Honglin is the brother of Empress Xu Yueli. When Ye Lanxiu came to Lingxi Palace after
the next court, he was still worried about this matter. The Ministry of Works did delay the construction period of the water conservancy project, and the allocation of silver was not timely, but his uncle’s accusation to Xu Honglin’an was too big, and there was a tendency to bite him to death.
“Canglan River?” I fingered the broken ice in the ice tray and said faintly, “Is that the river where I was pushed off the cliff and fell into the water more than a year ago?”? If I remember correctly, the Canglan River is turbulent and full of turbulent eddies. I thought I would die here. Fortunately, I was saved by a farmer on the bank. I’ve heard that the farmer’s fields have been flooded. Uncle Huang, please appease those farmers and pray for me.
Soon Xu Honglin was banished from the capital for dereliction of duty.
Guozhang Xu Wenfeng asked the emperor to allow him to retire and return home on the grounds of his advanced age. However, Xu Wenfeng was dissatisfied with his son’s affectation of being demoted, and only waited for Ye Lanxiu to ask him to stay again and again. Unexpectedly, Ye Lanxiu said a lot of words of commendation such as Xu Xiang worked hard day and night for the country and the people, devoted himself to his work and made great achievements. And then it was played.
My uncle asked me to send a message that the Xu clan had fallen under the deliberate pressure of Ye Lanxiu. Now only Empress Xu in the palace was left. She had the position of Empress, but she was out of favor.
The desolation of the Xu family is just what I want. When I was being hunted down and fell off a cliff, the Xu family was very busy. The group of people searching for me in the dense forest was the private guard of the Xu family. I will not spare any of the people who
hurt me, especially the one who pushed me off the cliff.
I am no longer the original innocent, well-intentioned little princess, the cruel reality let me understand that people are ghosts, and then close people can not believe. With a smile on his face, he is probably the one
who stabbed you in the back. Of course, I also understand what my uncle is for. The Wangs have never given up on my brother Ye yuan. When a seven-year-old boy was enthroned as emperor, the power in the court could not be mentioned in the same breath for his consorts and mothers.
On this day, Ye Lanxiu went straight to Lingxi Palace in the morning. I was holding a basin and retching. My hair was disorderly and my face was pale.
He came in quickly, patted me on the back, and raised his voice to let the palace people go to the Imperial Hospital to ask for the imperial doctor.
I took his hand and shook my head desperately.
He was stunned for a moment and waved away the palace people who had rushed over.
I shivered and picked up a bowl of dark soup medicine on the low table next to me, and tears fell into the bowl.
Immediately, I closed my eyes and brought the medicine bowl to my lips to drink it. Next to me, Yeh Lan-hsiu grabbed the medicine bowl and asked in a harsh voice, “What kind of medicine is this?”
I kept silent and tried my best to rob the medicine bowl with him.
He raised the medicine bowl above his head. I couldn’t reach it, so I jerked his sleeve, and the medicine bowl tilted, spilling the juice all over him.
I cried out, put my hands over my cheeks, and curled up into a ball.
He quickly threw away the empty bowl and held me in his arms. So
we hugged each other, and there was only my heartbroken cry in the empty hall.
After a long time, I gradually stopped crying. “When did you find out?”
He asked me in a low voice.
“Half a month ago.” I cried to him, “My monthly letter was not accurate, so I didn’t think about it until I retched every day and couldn’t eat.”. I can’t put it off any longer. I’m afraid..
“Be born!” He suddenly interrupted me.
“What?” I straightened up from his arms and thought I had misheard.
“I said have the baby!” His voice was excited and his eyes were burning. “This is our child. If he were a boy, I would teach him to practice martial arts and swords. If he were a girl, he would be as smart and lovely as you.”
“Are you crazy?” I lost my voice and said, “You and I are..” They are blood relatives, and our children are cursed by heaven not to be born into this world.
“No, listen to me..” He held my shoulder eagerly. “I am the emperor, a real dragon blessed by heaven. Heaven will not curse our child. He will be a healthy baby.”
“Even if it’s a healthy baby, how can you get him to recognize his ancestors?” I smiled sadly. “Maybe you can leave the child in the name of Empress Hsu, so that I can die in peace.”
Speaking of death, he seemed to have been stabbed with a sword. He hugged me tightly and said solemnly, “No, I will never let you die.”. And I will make you queen, so that our children may live fair and square before the eyes of the world.
I seem to have heard a big joke: “If you and I are exposed, we will be condemned by thousands of people, and the crime will be unforgivable. This child is even more evil, and must be forbidden by secular etiquette and law. How can we live in the sun?”.
He lowered his head for a moment and said quickly, In the past, Wu Shi was a talented person of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. When Emperor Taizong died, Wu Shi became a nun in Ganye Temple. Later, he was given the title of Zhaoyi by Emperor Gaozong, the son of Emperor Taizong. Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty admired Yang Yuhuan, the princess of his son Li Mao, the King of Shou, and also let her become a monk. Then she was welcomed back to the palace and given the title of imperial concubine. These two are the wives of others. They can do it, but why shouldn’t we?
I squinted at the sunlight coming through the window and whispered, “Really?”
“Truly, I swear on my life that my heart is not false to you.” He raised his right hand to the sky and swore, “If I fail you, I will be thunderstruck and die a terrible death.”
“No.” I took his hand and looked straight into his eyes. “I want you to swear in the name of Xiao Qi.”. If you fail me, you’ll scare the hell out of Little Qi, and you’ll never be able to transcend life.
I know Xiao Qi is the obstacle that he can’t overcome in his heart. Ye Lanxiu once told me that when he was a child, he saw several little beggars bullying the silly Xiao Qi in the street, so he saved him and brought him back to his home with his mother, Qi Guifei. Concu
bine Qi was so kind that she took in Xiao Qi and adopted him as her adopted son. Later, Qi Guifei died of illness, and he and Xiao Qi lived together.
However, just a few days before Ye Lanxiu entered the palace, the house they lived in accidentally caught fire, and Xiao Qi did not run out.
“Xiao Qi..” Ye Lanxiu murmured his name, his face suddenly turned white, he slumped down his right hand, opened his mouth, but as if he had been banned, he could not say the oath.
People are afraid of ghosts, especially when you feel guilty. On the sixth day of the tenth month of the second year
of yuanzhao, an obituary in the palace revealed that Ye Heng, the princess of the Lingxi, had died.
At the same time, a carriage without emblem and decoration came quietly to take the Tianhe Temple outside the capital.
Ye Lanxiu has arranged everything. I will stay here for a few months, and after the storm, he will welcome me into the palace and give me a new identity, saying only that I am an official woman who looks like a deceased princess when the emperor comes out of the palace. Empress Xu has been deposed. When I return to the palace and give birth to the emperor’s son, Ye Lanxiu will issue a decree to make me queen.
It’s just a clumsy trick of the cicada shedding its shell, playing the world as a monkey. Now that Ye Lanxiu’s imperial power is in hand, he only needs to give everyone a seemingly reasonable explanation.
Ye Lanxiu came out of the palace to see me every three or five times. Far away from the palace, we were in a trance as if we had returned to the time when we first met more than two years ago. I was a little girl who was not familiar with the world. He was Mo Xiaowu, who was handsome in coarse linen clothes.
He would kneel half in front of me and put his ear to my abdomen, not knowing what he could hear. A moment later, he stroked his cheek in disbelief and exclaimed, “He, he kicked me.”
“Really?” I put my hand on my abdomen and really felt the vibration under my palm.
At that moment, we were no different from ordinary couples in the world.
But my deepest guard is still Ye Lanxiu. He can tolerate yuan’er now, for one thing, because yuan’er is young and weak, and he is not afraid of him; for another, it is just to win my favor. He knew that if he touched yuaner, it would be like killing me. I deliberately plan to get Ye Lanxiu’s favor, but also to leave a chance of survival for yuaner.
I placed all my trusted followers beside yuan’er for fear that something would happen to him in the palace.
At the beginning of winter, the epidemic disease began to spread around the capital. News came from the palace that two palace people in the Changning Palace where yuan’er lived were infected with the epidemic because they went out of the palace to handle affairs. But in just two days, yuaner also had a high fever. I was so
anxious that I drove back to the palace quietly, regardless of my pregnancy. The whole palace has been closed because of the epidemic, and no one is allowed to enter or leave.
I broke into the hall with the gold medal in my hand. I sent away the imperial physician and the maidservant in the hall and took care of yuaner myself.
yuan’er’s face was burning red and he was confused. He took my hand and said intermittently, “Sister, am I going to die?”? You’re here to pick me up. That’s great. I miss my sister. We can finally be together.
My heart was like a knife. With tears in my eyes, I put a wet veil over his hot little forehead. “Don’t talk nonsense. Sister still wants to see you marry and have children and live a long life.”
Ye Lanxiu got the news and came like the wind.
He grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me off yuan’er’s bed. “What are you doing back here?” He said angrily? You’re still pregnant. What if you catch a disease?
I shook off his hand and said firmly, “Then I will die with yuan’er.”
I was pregnant, and he didn’t dare to use brute force against me for fear of hurting me, so he could only persuade me, “You go back, and I’ll send the imperial physician to take good care of Gu yuaner.”. You don’t know anything about medicine and pharmacology, so there’s nothing to be done here. When I
heard his words, my eyes lit up. I remember that in the winter of the twenty-eighth year of Taejung, when I was fourteen years old, there was also an epidemic in the capital, and the symptoms of the sick people were quite similar to this one. It was Li Chin, who was the director of the Imperial Hospital at the time, who studied for two months and finally found a way to solve the problem, prescribed the right medicine, and ended the epidemic.
Yeh Lan-hsiu shakes his head. “The Imperial Hospital has a record of the prescription at that time. We tried that prescription, but it had little effect.”
Since it is an epidemic, it must be different from the original epidemic, and the medication cannot be exactly the same. Only by adjusting the prescription and treatment for this epidemic can it be effective. I clung to Yeh Lan-hsiu’s sleeve. Where is Li Chin? If we can find him, yuan’er will be saved, and we will be able to solve the problem of the epidemic in the capital.
Ye Lanxiu was silent, and the expression on his face was unpredictable.
I shook off his sleeve and burst into tears. “Mo Xiaowu, yuan’er is my own brother. I love him and protect him just as you do Xiao Qi.”. If anything happens to him, I, as a sister, will never forgive myself for my death.
Yeh Lan-hsiu’s face was moved. He took a deep breath for a moment and said to his bodyguard in a dumb voice, “Go to prison and bring someone out.”
Under the wonderful hand of Li Jin, yuan’er soon got better. I have been staying in the palace for two days, and if I stay any longer, I will be exposed.
I said goodbye to yuan’er and lit his little nose. “In the future, you have to be obedient. You can’t run out without wearing cotton-padded clothes again.”
yuan’er nodded obediently and then said to me coquettishly, “Ah Jie, you haven’t praised me yet. Did I act well?”? Is it true? Very
good, really good. We yuaner are the best. Smiling, I praised him and hastened to warn him, “You can only say this to Ah Jie, but you mustn’t leak it in front of others, especially not to your uncle, do you know?”? He would be angry if he knew that you were not so ill, and that you were making a lot of trouble.
“yuan’er knows.” yuan’er winked at me mischievously. “I just wanted to see Ah Jie, so I pretended to be seriously ill and let you come back to see me.”
yuan’er did not catch the epidemic, but caught a cold and caught a common cold. After
I got the news, I contacted my uncle and they played a play. It was said that yuaner had an epidemic disease. If not, how could Ye Lanxiu release Li Jin from the prison.
In Tianhe Temple, Li Jin, wearing a black cloak, knelt down in front of me. “Thank you, Princess, for rescuing me.”
I accepted the gift from him. It took me a lot of trouble to get him out of the palace, and even the dark line that had been lurking in the palace guards was activated.
I raised my hand to get him up. “Judge Li doesn’t have to be too polite.”. I also have a lot of doubts about what happened in those years.
Li Jin told me all the secrets in a low voice.
“Are you sure that the prince who was born to Concubine Qi had a red birthmark on his left side?” I asked him in a deep voice.
“I’m sure.” Li Chin looked sure. “The imperial concubine has been in secret contact with the minister ever since she left the palace.”. The minister felt the imperial concubine’s pulse, knowing that she was delicate and weak, and that she was displaced in pregnancy, and that she was too worried, so on the day she gave birth, the minister went to her hiding place to prevent accidents. As I expected, the imperial concubine really had dystocia, and the first thing that came out was the fetal arm. I asked the midwife to send the fetal arm back to the mother’s body, and then asked the midwife to massage the abdomen of the imperial concubine, and turn the fetus to the head before it was born. When the child was born, because the labor process was too long, the whole body was blue and purple, and the minister saved a wick of incense before crying. I could see clearly that there was a red birthmark on the left side of the fetus’s waist, shaped like a plum blossom.
“Have you ever told anyone about this secret?” I asked Li Jin.
“I only told the late emperor.” Li Chin replied, “More than two years ago, the late emperor brought the present emperor back from the marketplace. I also examined the emperor. The emperor had a burn on the left side of his waist, and the location was where the birthmark was.” I knew all too well what
marks Yeh Lan-hsiu had on his body. “I’m afraid those burns aren’t old wounds,” I said with a sneer.
“It’s not an old wound, it’s a new one. The emperor said that a few days before he entered the palace, his house was on fire. When he ran out, he was hit in the side by a burning log.” Li Jin said respectfully, The late emperor was ecstatic at that time, and the emperor was able to accurately tell the location and shape of the birthmark and all the things about the imperial concubine Qi, so I didn’t dare to question it. Only He spoke hesitantly.
“Just what?” I asked.
Li Jin went on to say, “When the prince was half a year old, I felt the child’s pulse. Unfortunately, the child was a little silly because his brain was damaged during childbirth.”. The imperial concubine is sad unceasingly, takes the child to leave does not know the whereabouts, has not contacted with the minister again. But when the emperor returned to the palace, I observed that the emperor’s intelligence had not been damaged at all. “Of course,” he added, “after all these years, it’s possible that I may have been wrong in my diagnosis, or that I may have been blessed by God.”
I already know the whole story, which confirms my original guess, but there is still one thing I don’t know. “I wonder why the emperor didn’t kill you, but kept you in prison all the time.” With a wry smile,
Li Chin said, “I don’t deserve to be a minister.”. The imperial concubine once made a promise because of the minister’s help, “If Li yuan judges that there is a need in the future, the palace will do its best to help.”. If this palace is dead, my son will be grateful, or this palace will be restless. On that day, the emperor did kill the minister, and the minister said the promise of the imperial concubine, so the emperor left the minister’s life and let the minister be thrown into the prison. I thought I’d never see the light of day in my life, but thanks to your Royal Highness, you came to my rescue.
I see. If I were Ye Lanxiu, I would kill Li Jin. I said how he suddenly became soft-hearted. It was the promise of Qi Guifei that saved Li Jin. After all, Qi Guifei’s kindness to Ye Lanxiu was as heavy as a mountain, and he dared not break Qi Guifei’s promise if he still had a trace of conscience.
Li Chin-fu bowed down again. “I owe my life to Your Highness. I don’t know what else Your Highness wants me to do. I will go through fire and water without hesitation.” After sitting for a long time,
I felt a little tired. I got up and walked a few paces. There is a cemetery ten miles outside the western city. You take a few people to dig it up. The man died in the fire that day, but the body was not badly damaged. The person who buried him felt guilty and used the best Nanmu, which would not have decayed too much in two years. If I’m right, there should be a red plum blossom birthmark on the left side of the body.
Li Jin shook all over and suddenly looked up. In addition
, I remember that Xia Youfang, the current judge of the Imperial Hospital, is your student. Let him pull out the medical records of my grandfather and you look at them carefully. Not long after Ye Lanxiu returned to the palace, my grandfather got the disease of wind evil. He was lying on his bed, unable to speak, and died in less than a year. I suspect that he has been victimized.
Li Chin was filled with grief and indignation, and tears came to his eyes. “When I heard the news that the late emperor was ill in prison, I thought it was strange. I had been feeling the late emperor’s pulse, and he was in good health. How could he suddenly morbidity?”.
I interrupted his lament. What’s the use of crying? It’s better to use all your grief and anger for revenge. “I’ll send some good people to help you.”. You must gather all the evidence, and then spread it out among the people in the marketplace. After
Li Jin left, I stood in front of the window and looked at the bright moon in the sky for a long time.
Once upon a time, people’s hearts were as flawless as the bright moon, but they were contaminated with the secular world, contaminated with the desire for power and distorted, so dirty that they could not bear to look directly at themselves.
In that windy and intoxicating summer, the handsome Mo Xiaowu was getting farther and farther away from me.
A few months later, Ye Lanxiu arrived as promised and took me back to the palace in style with half of the queen’s guard of honor.
He took me by the hand and walked through the main gate of the palace. He whispered in my ear, The doctor who felt your pulse just now told me that the fetus in your abdomen is healthy and is a boy. When the emperor’s son is born, I will make him crown prince.
I put my hand on my belly, which was already bulging, and smiled quietly and gracefully. “It’s all up to God.”
To this day, I call him “the emperor” instead of “the emperor’s uncle,” and he is more and more delighted, rubbing my fingertips under the shade of the big sleeves of his robe.
In order to make me feel at ease, before I returned to the palace, Ye Lanxiu demoted Empress Xu to a commoner on the charge of disobedience and put her into the cold palace. Now the queen is hanging in the air, and when I give birth to a prince, I will be able to enter the palace.
Back to the palace the first night, I lived in the Ye Lan Xiu people for me to repair a new phoenix Luan palace, the maidservant is the face of the eyes, the palace familiar with Princess Lingxi is not dismissed from the palace, is inexplicable sudden death. No one calls me princess
any more, and now I am the imperial concubine named by the emperor. Meiru is my new identity.
In the middle of the night, Ye Lanxiu, who was sleeping beside me, suddenly woke up from a dream with a loud cry and was wet with sweat.
I held his cold hand in the dark and asked softly, “Your Majesty, I just woke up in a nightmare and heard your cry. Do you also have nightmares?”
He froze and sighed in a low voice, “Nightmare every night, suffering.”
“Ah Heng,” he turned to me. “Did you see the wicked man who hurt you again in your dream?” I
was silent for a moment. I shook my head and said, “No.”
He breathed a sigh of relief. “I hope you will never see the face of that wicked man.”
What if one day I recognize him? Will you avenge me? I couldn’t help asking him.
His breath was shallow and almost inaudible. After a long time, he said, “Just remember that even if I do all kinds of evil and go to hell forever, I will never harm you.”
I chuckled. “Me too.”
Ye Lanxiu spent more and more time in the court, and often returned to Fengluan Palace to accompany me in the middle of the night. I know that he is now under attack from both sides. In the court, my uncle Wang’s clan has United many ministers to hinder him in government affairs. Xu’s former subordinates also have a lot of dissatisfaction with him. They secretly join hands with Wang. Rumors
suddenly spread, pointing directly to the legitimacy of the royal bloodline. Ye Lanxiu was so angry that he suppressed it by force, but still could not suppress the doubts from all sides. Once rumors rise, they are like torrents, blocking the population, but not the hearts of the people. On February 12, the third year of
the yuan Dynasty, a meteorite fell from the sky and collapsed a corner of the underground palace of the Emperor’s Mausoleum in Xishan. It is said that the impure blood of the
royal family will lead to the punishment of God. Even the fetus in my belly is said to be the reincarnation of a demon child.
When Yeh Lan-hsiu returned to the Feng-luan Palace, he was already physically and mentally exhausted. Seeing that I didn’t look well, he stepped forward to help me sit down and asked with concern, “Are your legs still swollen today?”? What did you eat? Is your waist sore?
The Imperial Physician came over to ask for my pulse. After feeling my pulse, his face was full of worry. “The imperial concubine is too worried. She has a deficiency of qi and blood, and her heart pulse is getting weaker. I’m afraid that when she gives birth..”
Ye Lanxiu was so frightened that he scolded the doctor who asked for the pulse. He pulled all the doctors in the hospital for consultation and asked them to prescribe a bunch of tonics and tocolytics for me. After
watching me drink the tocolytic, Yeh Lan-hsiu took me in his arms, worried. “The sky is falling and I’m here. How can you have so many worries?”
I didn’t get fat during pregnancy, but I lost weight and became more and more fragile. My eyes were wide and blank, and I clutched his cuff nervously. The child has been moving badly these two days. Do you think our children will be born with three legs or six fingers?
He was startled. “What are you talking about?”
“I remember hearing my aunt in the palace say,” I huddled in his arms, “that a child born of the sins of a blood relative would be a freak.”
Yeh Lan-hsiu opened his red eyes and rubbed my hair with a wry smile. “Ah Heng, relax. Our child will never be a freak.” At the time of
internal and external troubles, another battle report came from the border. A Duqin of the Cangyue Kingdom led twenty thousand cavalry across the Tianmo Mountain and occupied three cities on the border of Dazhou. The reason was that Princess Mingyue, who was married, had a low status.
Aduqin claimed that Dazhou had married the daughter of the Xu clan to him. Now that the Xu clan was lonely and Empress Xu was demoted to a commoner, the marriage was a humiliation to him and even to Cangyue. He did not believe that Ye Heng was dead, insisting that the news of Ye Heng’s death was a cowardly and shameless camouflage of Dazhou. Aduqin forced Dazhou to marry the real princess to him, otherwise he would March south and take the capital of Dazhou.
Ye Lanxiu was furious after receiving the challenge from Aduqin in the Hall of Golden Bells, and immediately decided to go on a personal expedition.
“There are so many generals in Dazhou. Why do you want to go in person?” I offered Ye Lanxiu a cup of warm tea and asked him softly.
He took the teacup and drank it down. Then he said slowly, I have only been on the throne for more than two years. My foundation is unstable and I don’t have the support of my mother clan. Many courtiers have questioned my origin, and now there are rumors that I am not the blood of the late emperor. This imperial expedition is to gain fame and prestige. With victory in this battle, there will be no more voices of doubt in the court.
“It is a great taboo for the Son of Heaven to risk his own life.” I looked worried and reluctant to leave.
He looked into my eyes, as if he could see through me, and said with a faint smile, “If I die, there will be no way to verify the lineage, and you and our children will not be criticized by the world.” We had a tacit understanding
at that moment. I know all his schemes, and he understands all my deceptions.
But we didn’t break it. I packed up for him as usual, and he repeatedly told me to take care of myself as usual. We are all tired of
this play, but the curtain has not yet fallen, so we have to do our duty and can not leave early.
The emperor’s personal expedition really boosted the morale of Dazhou’s army, but in two months he recaptured the city occupied by Aduqin and drove Cangyue’s cavalry back to the north of Tianmo Mountain.
However, on the way back, Ye Lan cultivated himself, and the battle report said that it was done by a small group of stragglers of the Cangyue Kingdom left behind in the territory of Dazhou. But I know that my uncle Wang Futing kept a group of private soldiers and followed Dazhou’s army to war. This private soldier is famous for its excellent bow and arrow. On the day
when Dazhou’s troops returned to the court, it rained heavily, and Ye Lanxiu was carried to the Fengluan Palace in the wind and rain. The white cloth wrapped around
his chest showed blood, and his cheeks were sunken and withered. I knew he had run out of oil, but he just came back to see me with his last breath.
Ye Lanxiu waved his hand feebly and held back the imperial physician and the maidservant in the hall. There were only two of us in the empty hall.
Evil is rewarded with evil, the reincarnation of heaven, this is the result I want to see, but I can not feel the slightest joy.
It’s over. He lost the fight, and I didn’t win. We have all lost the most important and precious things, innocence, kindness, faith, inner abundance and peace..
In this struggle for imperial power, we did everything we could, by hook or by crook, were assimilated, corroded, swallowed, and finally lived into our most annoying appearance.
10
The lightning tore the curtain of rain and shone the hall bright.
In the midst of the rumbling thunder, a sigh broke through Yeh Lan-hsiu’s emaciated chest. He said faintly, In fact, when I decided to go on a personal expedition, I already had the idea of going to die. Death is the last salvation for me. When I was just a little beggar living on the street, I saw Xiao Qi being bullied and saved him. Xiao Qi’s mother, Concubine Qi, adopted me as her adopted son and taught me how to read and write. But she never dreamed that she had taken in an ungrateful brute.
He paused to catch his breath and then said, “When my adoptive mother died, she entrusted Xiao Qi to me.”. I promised my foster mother that I would take care of him for the rest of his life. I thought my life would pass like this, but you came into my life like a dazzling light. I peep your identity from your waist card, you are so noble, I dare not expect the dream. I can’t help but be attracted to you, but I know that I am different from you, and I can’t reach it in my whole life. Until one day I learned from the Yamen that the late emperor was looking for the lost prince of the people. The eight characters of his birthday were exactly the same as those of Xiao Qi, and his mother’s appearance was the same as that of his adoptive mother. So I thought about it, and in front of you I used the identity of Xiao Qi, and I took you to the cemetery of my adoptive mother, so that you could see her name on the tombstone.
He grinned silently. “Everything went so smoothly. It was like a dream. I entered the palace and became the crown prince, your uncle, and the emperor of Dazhou.”. But I was not willing to give you up, so I rejected all offers to recruit a son-in-law for the princess, and hid you in the palace, tied to my side.
“Did you kill Xiao Qi?” I finally asked the question that had been torturing me.
He shook his head. “I didn’t kill him, but he did die because of me.”. That day you learned that I had become your uncle and ran away crying. I ran after you and followed you for more than hour. You were out of your mind and didn’t find me. When I came home, I found a fire in the yard. When Xiao Qi saw that I hadn’t come back for a long time, he made a fire to cook and lit the straw on the side of the stove. He didn’t know how to run away. By the time I carried him out of the fire, he had lost his breath.
He closed his eyes guiltily. “I’m sorry that I didn’t take good care of my foster mother and shamelessly stole his identity.”
He continued to repent. After the late emperor took me back to the palace, Hsu Wen-feng came to me and said he could help me ascend the throne as soon as possible on the condition that he would worship him as prime minister and marry his daughter Hsu Yue-li as empress. I knew that my false identity could not withstand scrutiny, so I agreed for fear of a long night and many dreams. I joined hands with Xu Wenfeng to add excessive aconite to the common medicine of the late emperor. After the late emperor took it, it caused the disease of wind evil. His whole body was limp and he could not speak. I was afraid that my identity would be exposed, so I wanted to kill Li Jin. When I raised my sword, he said his adoptive mother’s promise. No matter how crazy I was, I did not dare to ignore my adoptive mother’s promise, so I saved his life and imprisoned him in a secret prison. With a wry smile,
he said, Ah Heng, you are so intelligent that you must have suspected my identity a long time ago. How did you find out?
Now, I don’t have any more need for drama. Every time Xiao Qi talks about Concubine Qi, she calls her mother. She is kind and natural, but you are respectful and respectful to Concubine Qi. You are not affectionate enough, unlike ordinary mother and son. Then there is your attitude towards me. When you found out that you were my uncle, you looked at me with the same burning eyes.
“Ah Heng,” he sighed, “so you didn’t lose your memory. You always knew I was behind you on the cliff, right?”
Without waiting for me to answer, he continued, “You were so worried about the late emperor’s condition that you looked through the records of the Imperial Hospital, copied the prescription, and took it to the pharmacy outside the palace to inquire. I’m afraid you don’t know that the pharmacy you went to was opened by Hsu Wen-feng’s nephew.”. Xu Wenfeng knew that you had noticed the clue, and he was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he sent a servant’s bodyguard to hunt you down when you left the palace. I got the message and I went to rescue you, right on the edge of the cliff, and you looked back and I was terrified. I didn’t push you, really, I swear, I can swear to you with the spirit tablets of my adoptive mother and Xiao Qi, I didn’t push you. You fall back in fear, slip, and fall back. I stretched out my hand to hold you, but I was too slow. I could only watch you fall off the cliff.
At that moment, do you know how regretful and fearful I was? If you die, I want this splashing wealth, what is the use of this throne? Like crazy, I ran to the cliff and searched along the Canglan River, thinking that if you died, I would no longer live alone. Heaven has eyes. You were saved by a farmer, and when you woke up, you lost the most crucial memory.
He laughed in a low voice. “Actually, I’ve been deceiving myself and others all along. I knew in my heart that your amnesia was a fake. You hated me for causing you to fall off the cliff, for killing your grandfather, and for robbing your brother yuan’er of the throne. You stayed by my side to deal with me just for revenge.”. But I am willing to accompany you to play this play and sink into the dream you weave for me. I just want to keep you by my side, even if it’s just to be a part of the play.
He spoke so much that his breath grew fainter and the light in his eyes grew dimmer, like a dying fire. He looked at me imploringly. “Ah Heng, tell me you loved me, didn’t you?”
A tear welled up in my eye, ran down my cheek, and finally landed on his face. I felt as if I had returned to the summer day when the sun was shining and the air was filled with flowers, and the man dressed in cloth captured my heart when he looked up.
“I love Mo Hsiao-wu, who sits under a big tree and weaves straw sandals for me.” The look in
his eyes suddenly brightened, like fireworks in full bloom, and then dimmed again. At the end of his life, he sighed and said, “After I die, bury me casually. I don’t want to go into the imperial mausoleum. I stole the throne, but I..” No regrets.. If I hadn’t stolen the throne, how could I stay with you for two years? Ah Heng.. Take our children and live..
He said the last words, exhaled the last breath in his chest and lungs, and slowly closed his eyes. On the ninth day of the sixth month of the third year
of yuanzhao, Ye Lanxiu died. Before he died, he left me a testamentary edict, in which he made me queen. My
uncle Wang Futing drew up a memorial to honor my brother Ye yuan as the ninth emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
yuan’er scampered into the Fengluan Palace and pointed her little finger at my abdomen. “Sister, when was my little cousin born?”? Can he play with me when he comes out? Smiling,
I took out a brocade handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his forehead. “When he can play with you, I’m afraid you’ll find him annoying again.”
yuan’er patted himself on the head in distress. “No, no, my uncle said I couldn’t call him my younger cousin. It should be my younger nephew.” Smiling,
I stroked my round belly and said, “Uncle is right. I should call you my nephew.”
yuan’er sat beside me and said in the tone of a little adult, “But I heard my uncle tell people around me that it’s better to be a girl, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble.”. But I still like boys, and girls can’t play slingshot with me. If it’s a girl, I’ll make her a princess, and if it’s a boy, I’ll make him a general.
Once upon a time, yuan’er was my dearest relative in the world. However, as the little life in my belly was about to be born and I was about to become a mother, the balance in my heart changed quietly. The love between
brother and sister is not as good as that between mother and son. I have been immersed
in this man-eating palace for more than ten years, and I have long been familiar with the darkness and nastiness of the struggle for imperial power. Is to be the emperor’s invisible sister, or to be the emperor’s birth mother, comparing the two, the advantages and disadvantages of unworthy words. I have a testamentary edict from Ye Lanxiu in my hand. Whether it stirs up the situation in the court or not is only in my mind. There is a bowl of soup
on the table. Recently, the weather is dry, and yuaner has some cough. This is what I specially let the hospital boil to clear the gunpowder. There is a hint of fragrance in the bitter medicinal fragrance.
“Sister, you’ll always be with me, right?” yuaner leaned his little head on my arm trustingly. My hands were shaking when I couldn’t
hold the medicine bowl. After several struggles in his heart, he finally poured the medicine into the flowerpot beside him.
The palace is a treacherous cage, in which people will lose their hearts.
I don’t know whether my choice at this moment is right or wrong, but I don’t want to release my demons and hurt the people closest to me for my own selfish desires and unpredictable future.
I put my arm around yuan’er and said slowly, “Yes, Sister will always be with you.” At the end
of
the text, I first met
the most noble little princess in the palace. The present emperor is my grandfather. Five years ago, my father passed away, and my mother was grief-stricken. She died in a few days and followed my father, leaving only me and my younger brother, who was less than one year old. The descendants of my
Dynasty have never been very prosperous, and my father, as the crown prince, is the only heir of my grandfather. When the prince died young, the emperor’s grandfather looked up to heaven and sighed, and the palace was expanded. There were many young and charming women in the palace for a while. Only a few years later, there was no more little uncle or little aunt in the palace.
The emperor’s grandfather then put all his efforts on my younger brother Ye yuan. Unfortunately, yuan was weak, and the doctor said that it was a focus in the womb, and it was very difficult to remove the root.
Last month, yuan’er was seriously ill again, and the emperor’s grandfather suffered from heart disease under anxiety, lingering in bed for several days. There was a panic in the
court, and the minister began to remonstrate, asking the emperor’s grandfather to choose a person with both ability and political integrity from the royal family to be a prince to protect the country.
The emperor’s grandfather was unwilling, but helpless. Just then, the grandmother of
the emperor, Empress Xiao, died. The court of the Imperial Hospital sentenced Li Jin to kneel down outside the hall holding the official amulet to plead guilty. He brought a shocking secret to the emperor’s grandfather.
Nineteen years ago, the imperial concubine Qi was pregnant, and for the sake of her grandmother, she ordered Li Jin to secretly add safflower to the tocolytic medicine of the imperial concubine Qi. With his conscience,
Li Jin helped the imperial concubine Qi escape from the palace with fake death pills, and later rushed to Qi’s rescue when she had dystocia.
Qi gave birth to a son with difficulty and hid in the capital for half a year. Later, she disappeared with the child and disappeared. When the
emperor’s grandfather heard the news, he was both surprised and delighted. He immediately summoned his officials and said, “I have a son who is living among the people. All the ministers will quickly find this son. It is a matter of great concern to the state of the Zhou Dynasty. There must be no mistake.”
However, after months of searching, I made no progress. I was so busy inside and outside the palace that I naturally had no time to take care of me.
I changed into ordinary clothes and slipped out of the palace to play with my waist tag. In the market, I happened to meet some small hoodlums who bullied an idiot and dragged his hair on the ground. Although
the idiot could not speak clearly, he had a pair of pure eyes like water, as clear and innocent as a child.
I stepped forward and shouted at the men, “Stop!”! In broad daylight, how can you humiliate a mentally retarded person? The
leader was a fat man with triangular eyes. Hearing this, he let go of the tortured idiot and came over to me. “Where did the meddlesome little girl come from? She looks tender and tender.”. Let our brothers let this fool go. Will you come and play with us? When did the princess of the
Zhou Dynasty suffer such humiliation. I stepped on the fat man’s foot fiercely, and while he was holding his feet and crying, I pulled up the idiot on the ground and ran for his life.
“Catch them, don’t let that little girl get away!” There was a whir of wind in my
ears, and I ran out of breath. The gangsters behind me were getting closer and closer, and they were about to catch us.
In the Nick of time, he appeared. He was so good at Kung Fu that he beat the hoodlums and ran away.
He picked up the boy, who had collapsed on the ground, and carefully gathered up his messy hair. He bowed to me and said, “Thank you for coming to my rescue!”.
He is different from the people I have seen in the palace. He has neither the sourness of the literati nor the arrogance of the generals. Handsome and extraordinary, open and generous, a coarse linen clothes, but can not hide the extraordinary bearing of the whole body.
He glanced down at the corner of my skirt and immediately looked away.
I realized later that one of my shoes was lost at an unknown time. I covertly curled up my bare foot and hid it under my skirt.
A woman’s feet can only be shown to her husband, which is what my aunt in the palace told me.
He turned his back, tore off a piece of his coat and handed it to me.
I blushed and wrapped my bare feet in the white sackcloth, then followed them back to their house with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
This is a small courtyard, old and shabby, but very clean and tidy. Under the big tree in the yard, he weaved a straw sandal for me, and his slender and dexterous fingers flew between the straw mats, which was very beautiful. Sitting on a stone bench beside me
with my chin in my hand, I looked at his face and suddenly remembered a line from the “Song of the Divine Strings,” which the female official had taught me: “The stones are like jade, and the pines are like green.”
Chest is like a deer in the collision, live for 16 years, my heart suddenly filled with an indescribable sense of shame.
He told me that his name was Mo Xiaowu, and the idiot I saved was Xiao Qi, who was his adopted brother.
I slowly learned about their origins. Xiao Qiben was an orphan who made a living by begging in the street. Mo Xiaowu saw several little beggars bullying Xiao Qi in the street, so he saved him and brought him home. Mo Xiaowu’s kind-hearted mother took in Xiao Qi and adopted him as her adopted son. His mother died of illness three years ago, and now only he and Xiao Qi are left to depend on each other.
Xiao Qi liked the snacks I brought most, so every time I went to play with them, I would pack a big bag of snacks made by Imperial Kitchen in the palace, such as lotus crisp, apricot cake, tuckahoe cake..
Xiao Qi ate sweetly and nibbled out a face of dim sum dregs. He is mentally incomplete but simple and happy. Although he is two years older than me, I treat him like a brother. He also depends on me, and every time he sees me, he is happy.
I picked up a piece of dim sum carved in the shape of a Chinese flowering crabapple and held it in front of Xiao Wu. “Try it. My dim sum is definitely better than dim sum at Hsinghualou on Ping’an Street.”
He frowned like a crow’s feather. “I don’t like sweet.”
“Taste it, I specifically told you..” Tell the cook at home to put less sugar in it. I persistently held the cake to his mouth.
He took a bite and nodded under my eager gaze. “Well, not bad.”
I smiled and curled my eyebrows, as if I were greatly encouraged.
Xiao Qi finished the snack and circled around Xiao Wu. “Brother, mother..” Mother.. He expressed himself in a hurry, but he could not say a complete sentence.
Wu closes the book he is reading and says, “Today is the anniversary of my mother’s death. We are going to sweep the grave and pay our respects.” Quickly,
I put a few pieces of cake on the plate and volunteered, “You can’t worship without a tribute. I’ll go with you.”
A desolate tomb, a stone tablet, inscribed on the tablet: the tomb of the loving mother Qi Yanrong.
Qi’s Yanrong. Few people know that Yanrong is the maiden name of Qi Guifei. I didn’t know until I accidentally overheard the conversation between my grandfather and the minister of Dali Temple.
My face suddenly turned white. I looked at Mo Xiaowu, no wonder he is so imposing, both civil and military, not like a street man, so he is really a noble.
I made a great contribution to finding the prince of my grandfather who was living among the people. My grandfather not only did not blame me for sneaking out of the palace, but also rewarded me with many rare treasures.
The emperor’s grandfather gave Mo Xiaowu the name of Ye Lanxiu, opened the Fengtian Hall, recorded his name in the royal genealogy in front of the spirit tablets of the ancestors of the Zhou Dynasty, and announced to the world that the prince was recovered.
I’m not happy at all.
I know I have lost my Mo Xiaowu forever.
Record No.: YX01jj78jo5aZAk9R
Published on 2022-08-03 at 11:41. It is forbidden to reprint
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