Also saw the spring breeze into the palace
, the old friend sighed: “Do not ask the end of the song, people gather and disperse
, become the prince’s exclusive chat, I have nothing to do with myself, do not open my mouth, shake my head three do not know.”.
Unlike my dull and boring temperament, my sister Shen Muyun is talented and skillful, and can always talk happily with the prince.
So a year before I was about to marry the prince, the prince finally fell in love with her.
Well, I’m not surprised by the result..
I am the crown princess who was married by the crown prince, and I will marry him in a year, but he fell in love with my sister Shen Muyun.
In fact, this matter is not sudden, since the prince more and more frequently pulled me to chat, but also every time let Shen Muyun accompany, my heart will have a bit of success.
Every time we meet, Shen Muyun is always dressed in a pure white fairy skirt, eyebrows like distant mountains, fairy posture, as if nine days Xuannu from the pure white sea of clouds Yingying out.
She was proficient in music, talented and thoughtful, and could always talk happily with the prince.
And I deserve to sit on the side, do not open my mouth, shake my head when asked, and act as a qualified wooden beauty and witness of touching love stories.
This is not to blame the prince, are all sisters born on the same day of the same year, Shen Muyun is talented, but I am dull and boring, anyone will choose like this.
Don’t get me wrong, Shen Muyun and I are not twins, but her aunt took oxytocic in order to give birth to her eldest son before her mother.
Unfortunately, nine times out of ten, my beloved concubine mother finally gave birth to a weak and sick baby girl, who had been damaged by strong medicine and died in a fit of pique after giving birth to Shen Muyun.
On the same day, the mother gave birth to a pair of dragons and phoenixes in an orderly manner under the escort of the imperial physician in the palace. I
was born into a noble family, married into a powerful family, and had both sons and daughters. Such a life, written in the script, would be lambasted as boring, but the most powerful woman in the Dynasty said to me sincerely, “Your mother is really a model of a lady, a model of a famous lady.” How did I answer
at that time?
I seemed to smile like a lady of a good family, and then I said flatteringly to the head of the palace, who was from a humble background, “The empress is really a model for all the women in the world!”
At that time, I was too young, and I thought that I could easily finish my life by virtue of my family background, but I didn’t know that people’s hearts were turned upside down, and I had to do my best to seek mutual respect.
One more year and I’ll be married.
It was the Shangyuan Festival, and the empress announced that my mother and I would go to the palace for a banquet.
It is said that food is the first necessity of the people, in fact, the dignitaries are the same. Most of the
so-called auspicious joy is conveyed by the aroma of frying and frying, as if these people have forgotten what it is like to be really happy.
It was only noon, and the banquet had not yet begun. My mother and I were sitting in the queen’s bedroom, chatting about the topics that the aristocrats often talked about.
The queen suddenly thought of something, opened the dressing box, and took out a bracelet with the pattern of ten thousand bats and even clouds. She turned around and grabbed my hand. Smiling, she said, “Let’s have a banquet in the building today. My son should dress up with all his heart.”
I lowered my head shyly, wondering, but not caring. Whenever the prince appeared, the queen could not avoid telling me so.
The queen looked at me and nodded cleverly, as if she were very satisfied.
She took my hand and put the solemn and beautiful bracelet on my wrist with a smile. Then she suddenly thought of something and asked her mother, who was sitting quietly beside her, “Why didn’t the evening cloud come?”
The mother put down the teacup in her hand and stood up respectfully. Then she said, “Thanks to the care of the empress, the child had a cold today and said he would stay in the house to rest.”. My wife has paid her respects to the empress on her behalf. When
the queen heard this, she seemed noncommittal, but she did not ask again.
She motioned for her mother to take her seat, then looked at me with a smile and suddenly said, “That’s very nice.”
I was slightly surprised, wondering if the queen had noticed anything.
Although the association between Prince and Shen Muyun has never been deliberately concealed, it will not be too big, and no one has ever revealed anything in front of my mother and me.
At this time, the female officer came in with the dress in her hand.
I quietly breathed a sigh of relief and got up with my mother to retire. Coming out
of the queen’s bedroom and bypassing a rippling lake, it is the yuanxiang Pavilion.
Mother told me not to be late, and then I went to change my clothes first.
I had planned to spend some time here, and then went directly from the back hill to the drinking platform, but unexpectedly saw a figure. The
prince was dressed in a dark blue robe, and his long brown hair hung down to his waist, floating slightly with the wind.
He was staring at a thin plum in the corner of the eaves, as if he were in a trance. Just as
I was hesitating to retrace my steps, the prince said, “Come here.”
From winter to early spring, this is the first time I have seen the prince.
Shen Muyun is a weak disease brought out from the womb. It is the most difficult to endure when it is cold. The prince hardly summons her in winter, so I have no place to use as a foil. Months passed
like water, and the prince was hardly different from the last time he met, except that his temples were worn sharper.
I walked up the steps with my skirt, only to find that there was a messy chess game in the pavilion, which seemed to have been brushed by someone.
I crouched and saluted without squinting.
The prince did not raise his voice. He turned around and lifted his robe and went to sit down in front of the scale. Then he said, “Miss Shen, how about playing chess with Gu?”
I frowned slightly, but I answered respectfully. The
cool fingertips touched the chess pieces carved by cold jade, which made me shiver.
Just as he was about to start cleaning up the mess, the prince reached out to stop it. With a
deep sigh in my heart, I knew he was going to be difficult again.
Sure enough, the prince gently rubbed a white piece and said in an inaudible voice, “There is no need to restore it. You and I will try to restore the chaos.”
My heart secretly scolded, this chessboard messy, a look is someone wantonly vent. When all the pieces are out of place, how can they be restored?
The evening breeze is blowing softly, and the subtle sound of water is gently rippling in my ears.
I took a deep breath, quickly adjusted myself to the state of chatting with my superiors, and then stared at the chessboard and thought. Under the
cold tea and thin plum, only the sound of chess pieces beating on the chessboard is sometimes absent, sometimes light and sometimes heavy.
I don’t know how long it took, but I noticed that the sound of the chess pieces falling was becoming less and less. The prince,
who was sitting opposite, stopped.
He stared at my right hand quietly, as if he were very attentive.
I just didn’t know and continued to stir up trouble among my subordinates.
Although after half a stick of incense, I realized that the game could not be restored, but in order to show that I was doing my best to complete my life, I kept moving my chess pieces in a meaningless way.
“Gu and Miss Shen both have a predestined relationship with this lake.” I do not know how long, the prince finally broke the silence. With a sigh of relief,
I quietly put down my sore wrist and replied in a gentle voice, “Your Highness is a man who will be blessed.”
That’s true.
When the prince fell into the lake carelessly, he was only a child.
It is said that the winter of that year was extremely cold, and several places in the north suffered a great disaster. Even the glazed tile eaves in the palace were densely decorated with ice edges.
Had it not been for the fact that the mother who went to the palace for the banquet happened to pass by, and regardless of her pregnant body, she made a prompt decision to go into the water to rescue her, perhaps the prince would not have had the chance to make a promise with Shen Muyun today.
I smiled faintly, not knowing why the prince suddenly mentioned it, but I was too lazy to think about it.
At present, it is the intersection of Yin and Yang, and the sunset glow flowing between heaven and earth reflects all things in a bizarre way. Seeing that it was getting late,
I was about to get up and retire when the prince suddenly said, “Why are you so obedient to the arrangement of the family? Don’t you want to marry the person you really love?” Startled,
I raised my eyes slightly and glanced at the prince.
Against the light, his eyebrows and eyes were blurred, only to see his thin figure illuminated by the bright rays of the sun, as if he were bathed in fire.
That year, the mother was pregnant and saved the prince who fell into the water. The emperors and empresses made a promise that if the mother gave birth to a daughter, she would marry the prince, and the two families would marry each other forever.
Later, when my mother gave birth to my brother and me, my father called all the doctors to the yard of Shen Muyun’s mother. Had it not been for the imperial physician’s order to take care of her personally, perhaps it would have been difficult for her mother to give birth to twins safely and smoothly. The saving grace of the
past can be written off as early as when my brother and I came to the world safely. This engagement can last, in the final analysis, because of the generations of the ancestral family and the family of the Shen family.
I knew this, so I never showed any gratitude in front of the prince, and the prince seldom talked about my relationship with him.
Unexpectedly, for the first time, the prince spoke so bluntly.
At this time, just in the early spring season, the snow on the edge of the waterside pavilion has not melted. But I suddenly felt a burst of unexplained stuffiness, and my palms were slightly sweaty.
Over the past few years, every time he and Shen Muyun met, they would pull me as a cover.
The prince has always been thoughtful, naturally will not do to find a sick concubine private tryst, and I am not the same, after all, I am the future crown princess of his marriage.
He was so concerned about rules that he didn’t want to give anyone a handle, but he wanted to talk to me about “sincerity.”.
I hesitated for a long time, and the prince looked fixedly at the water and withered lotus for a long time.
His eyebrows were dark with fog, but his eyes were still as clear as the moon, like a green lotus in a sudden shower, which not only did not damage the state of the pavilion, but also became more and more lonely and meaningful. With a deep sigh,
I thought about it and decided to answer truthfully.
“Because no matter what the head of the Shen family thinks of me, the Shen family has protected me and brought me up safely.”
“Your Highness, don’t laugh. The whole area is vast. Apart from the hustle and bustle of Shangjing, there are many other places with their own difficulties. Naturally, there are also many people struggling to survive.”
“Perhaps in my father’s eyes, he had only one child, Muyun, but after all, he didn’t expel me from the family tree.”
“Your Highness knows that having a stable home, being educated in clan studies, and being able to eat fresh food every day is already a better origin than most people.”
…… The gentle
wind of the water blows over, and there is nothing to say for a moment.
The prince threw down the chess pieces in his hand and leaned forward slightly, as if he wanted to say something.
At that moment, a young girl dressed in a Shen Mansion blouse suddenly came over. She knelt down at the bottom of the steps and said timidly, “The young lady has been feeling a little uncomfortable since she argued with Your Highness. Please go to the pavilion to warm up for a while.” The crisp sound of the
chess pieces falling on the grain scale buzzed away, and I sat up with my eyes down, neither asking how Shen Muyun, who claimed to be ill in bed, came to the palace, nor why the prince and the two of them had a dispute, but concentrating on enjoying the teacup at hand.
The prince took a deep look at me and then got up and went in the direction of the warm pavilion. On the
night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, officials above the third grade gathered with their families to drink on the platform. Men and women who have a marriage contract in
my court often put a lantern together on the Shangyuan Festival, praying for the white head to return together and heart to heart.
At this time, the capital city was ablaze with lanterns.
The emperors and empresses, in order to express their desire to share happiness with the people, held a banquet on the towering drinking platform, so that the common people could have a distant look at the Tianjia banquet while enjoying themselves.
The drinking platform is the place where emperors and empresses are in love. Here you can look up and pick up the stars. The moon is like white practice. It seems that one step forward is the Qiong Palace, and one step back is the abyss.
At this time, the stars and the moon are already present, and the night breeze on the stage is slightly blowing, which is as cool as water.
I was dressed in beautiful clothes, sitting with my eyes down, watching the hot air of the dishes in front of me flowing clean in the moonlight, while the emperors and empresses on the high platform still seemed to have no intention of opening the banquet, and I couldn’t help sighing in my heart.
At this moment, there was a sudden commotion from several ladies during the banquet, and then everyone looked at a turret in the southeast. I remained calm, and when I saw the empress also got up and left her seat, I followed the crowd to the terrace for a few steps. At
a glance, I couldn’t help holding my forehead and sighing, knowing that I couldn’t eat this meal today.
It seems that the terrain is too high is not good, many buildings in the palace in the eye, will indeed let some people float, but will also let a lot of tacit embarrassment nowhere to hide.
Like this moment. On the crane tower in the
southeast corner, the glittering lights fluttered, as if the earthly fairy spirits were slowly returning to the Moon Palace. In the
dense streamer, a figure in black clothes and ribbons was snuggling up to a young girl. They held hands and sent a lantern to the sky, then looked at each other and smiled. It seems that a good couple is natural, and it is pleasing to the eye.
I raised my jaw to enjoy it for a long time, and suddenly noticed that everyone’s eyes fell on me in a dark way, and even the queen looked at me several times.
I was stunned for a moment before I realized it.
Oh, so this couple is my fiance and concubine.
I realized why the emperors and empresses were reluctant to open the banquet, as if they were waiting for something, and vaguely guessed why the prince and Shen Muyun had a dispute, which caused a mess. On the night
of Shangyuan, the lanterns were as bright as day. It was supposed to be a day for lovers to get together, but the queen’s banquet disturbed their plans.
I heaved a deep sigh from the bottom of my heart, but my face was still calm, as if I had not heard the whispers around me, nor had I felt the eyes of others or ridicule or pity.
At this time, my hand was gently clasped.
I looked up and met my mother’s concerned eyes.
As if a huge stone had run over my chest, my heart, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly felt a pain.
Mother was born in a famous family and had a distinguished life, but she had to suffer such embarrassment in public because of her children’s affairs. Taking a deep breath,
I stood up and bowed to the emperor and the empress. I tried to keep my voice steady and said, “I have painted a prayer lamp for Your Majesty and the empress. On it is a copy of the Amitayus Sutra. May Your Majesty and the empress live a long and happy life.” After a slight pause,
I silently repented to the Buddha for my oral karma, and continued to lie with my eyes open: “Your Highness, the prince, is pure and filial in heart. He wanted to release the lantern with his own hands, but unfortunately his daughter was afraid of heights, so my sister accompanied him.” After
a moment’s silence, His Majesty suddenly smiled and said, “That’s very good. You two have a heart.”
The queen also reacted to come over, the face showed a look of relief, hurriedly ordered to give me a lot of rewards. The once frozen atmosphere at the
feast became lively again, and everyone stopped looking at me, but made fun of the queen’s words. In their words, the prince and I served respectfully, with pure filial piety in mind, as if we were a good couple made in heaven. With a smile on my face,
my mother responded to the greetings and compliments of other ladies, and introduced me to several noble ladies. I don’t know who is happier when the people at the
table are drinking but not saying a word of truth, and when the young man outside the table has a tryst with his sweetheart but can’t justify it. After the
feast, when my mother and I returned home, Shen Muyun had already come back.
She was still dressed in dusty white, but there was a blush on her beautiful cheeks, which made her more lovely.
My mother motioned to me, and I had to bite the bullet and say, “How are you, sister?”. The dew is even deeper, and my sister is still cold. Why don’t you go back to your room and rest first?
Shen Muyun smiled and said softly, “Although I am weak, I know the truth of being a child. I dare not retire first.”. Why does the younger sister look down on her sister? As soon as
my scalp was numb, Shen Muyun was brought up by her father in the front yard since she was born, and her mother had never set any rules for her. Now she stayed in the main hall in the middle of the night, and if her father knew about it, she was afraid that her mother would eat it again.
The mother obviously knew this, too. She said lovingly, “Muyun, I know you are filial, but you still have to take care of yourself.”. I’m tired at night. I’m going to rest first, and you sisters go to bed quickly.
Shen Mu-yun didn’t say anything, either. She played with a pair of jade bracelets in her hand for a while, and then said with a smile, “I heard that the empress has given something to our girls. Why is my sister still hiding it?” It was really not polite to
say this, but I breathed a sigh of relief.
Shen Muyun is willing to show the purpose, at least I can be prepared. When she was
nine years old, Shen Muyun sat in the main courtyard for a long time as she does today.
At that time, I was about to be ordered by the Empress Dowager to enter the palace to serve the disease, but I didn’t know the purpose of my visit, and I didn’t dare to ask each other directly. After saluting and answering, I left in a hurry.
Later, Shen Muyun fell ill from the wind, and his father never entered the main courtyard again. Every time
her mother went to the palace for an audience, she would arrange horses and carriages in advance to pick up Shen Muyun in the front yard.
Think of the prince and Shen Muyun resulting from the evil fate, I can not help but sigh. After
respectfully seeing my mother back to her room to rest, I quickly got up and said to Shen Mu-yun, who was reclining under the lamp, “The empress’s reward has not yet been put into the storeroom, but I’d like to ask my sister to pick out some things she likes to enjoy.”
Today’s empress was born in a humble family, and when she was in the boudoir, she was just the daughter of an umbrella vendor.
I heard that in her early years, because of her humble family background, she had been suppressed by several concubines. It was not until she gave birth to the prince and befriended her mother because the prince fell into the water that the situation got better day by day.
Perhaps because of the experience of street life, the rewards prepared by the empress are often somewhat special.
Or extremely gorgeous and expensive, wearing can not hide its brilliance, or too approachable, there is no trace of court craftsmanship.
Such a reward is not to Shen Muyun’s taste.
She always felt that expensive things were too gaudy, and that street things were too mean.
I couldn’t figure out why Shen Muyun suddenly changed her temper, so I had to deal with all the changes with no change, and ordered the servants to pile all the rewards on the table for her to enjoy.
Unexpectedly, Shen Mu-yun stopped and looked around, but suddenly looked back and said to me with a smile, “Please pick one out first, and the rest will be taken away by my sister.” “Thank you for your kindness, sister,”
I said humbly. My hands and feet are clumsy, and I don’t often keep these delicate objects in my room, so I asked my sister to bring them back for collection, so that I could live up to the wishes of the empress. When
Shen Muyun heard this, she giggled. Then she raised her eyes and said angrily, “The empress has a reward. How can elder sister monopolize it? Is the younger sister trying to trap the elder sister in injustice?”? Just pick one or two and go play with them. After that
, Shen Muyun stopped looking at me and sat down to drink tea.
I had no choice but to bite the bullet and look at the rewards on the table. I saw a pile of glittering things. Sure enough, there were several sachets, wooden hairpins, clay dolls and other things. The workmanship and materials were very rough. I think the queen ordered people to buy them on a whim when she recalled the past.
I expected that Shen Muyun was quite elegant, but he looked down on these vulgar things, so after a tour, he picked up one of the most inconspicuous wooden bracelets.
“Then the younger sister will take this bracelet, which is not easy to break, and let the elder sister enjoy the rest.”
Shen Muyun carelessly put down the teacup and did not look at what I had taken, but lazily looked at the things on the table. All of a sudden
, she seemed to have discovered something extraordinary. “Why,” she asked in surprise, “there was a wooden bracelet here just now. It was very skillfully made. Why did it suddenly disappear?”
My heart is a tight, hurriedly looked at the bracelet on the hand, see it is not carved, nor painted, the touch is also very rough, the heart will be a little uncertain.
Shen Mu-yun picked up her handkerchief and looked around. Then she looked askance at me and said, “Mother runs the family strictly. She is well-known in Beijing. How can someone steal something under my nose?”
My heart is no longer lucky, the heart said that sisters for many years, this is the first time the heart has Lingxi like the same thing, I do not know whether to say coincidence or bad luck.
“My sister really has a good eye, and when my sister was picking something out just now, she thought the bracelet was very good, so she picked it up and looked at it.”
With these words, I hurried forward and gently handed Shen Muyun the wooden bracelet in my hand.
Shen Muyun did not reach out to pick it up, but he no longer squinted at me. He just sat down and asked someone to change the tea. I
stood where I was, feeling sleepy, hungry and tired. Although I felt a little embarrassed, I quietly withdrew my raised hand and put the wooden bracelet back on the table.
Shen Mu-yun seemed to suddenly remember that there was still such a person as me. As she skimmed the tea foam, she said impatiently, “How can you choose something so slowly?” With
a wry smile in my heart, I saw that there were several sachets on the table, the materials were plain and the styles were similar, so I picked up the most inconspicuous one and asked Shen Muyun to palm his eyes.
Shen Muyun took the sachet lazily and said in surprise, “Sister is really good at picking. This sachet and the other one are a pair.”. Or does my sister prefer to do things like this that take people apart?
I heard the insinuation in her words and sighed in my heart, but on my face I said submissively, “The empress has given me all the good things. My sister was dazzled by them for a moment, and she laughed at them.” Just as
Shen Muyun was about to speak, a little girl came in from the curtain, saying that the night was deep, and that her mother knew that Shen Muyun had a weak stomach, so she asked the kitchen to stew a blood swallow and let her drink a few mouthfuls before going to bed. When
Shen Mu-yun heard this, she impatiently picked up a hairpin and gave it to me. “I think this hairpin is quite good. Sister, take it.”
Then, without a word, she served tea and motioned that I could go.
I knew that she had always been afraid of things related to the main courtyard, and I was afraid that she would not be able to handle the blood swallow here, so I quickly nodded and went out.
Just as I was thinking about what snacks to eat in my room later to fill my stomach, Shen Muyun’s faint voice suddenly came behind me.
“Today the prince gave me a pair of jade bracelets, and he said they must be better than what the queen gave you.”
I do not know what kind of taste in my heart. But think of the words involved in heaven’s preferences, it is easy to make a taboo to reply rashly, or go without looking back. On the second day of the banquet on the
platform, the prince asked His Majesty for a decree and began to prepare for my wedding ceremony with him.
Our Dynasty was founded less than a hundred years ago, and most of the ceremonial events were adapted from the old practices of the former Dynasty. And the prince’s wedding process is cumbersome, without a year and a half, it is really difficult to have a specific charter.
Mother was very gratified and felt that the prince still attached importance to me.
I am also glad that men and women should not meet before the big wedding, which means that I can finally temporarily end the chat work and have a leisurely time of my own.
The queen was even more pleasantly surprised, thinking that her son, who had been lukewarm about the engagement, had finally figured it out. She began to frequently summon the female dependents of the Shen family and the maternal family to the palace to talk, but deliberately let me stay at home to prepare the dowry.
Shen Muyun said that he was not ill.
So, as usual, the precious medicinal materials like running water were sent into her yard. As usual, she did not use it at all, but opened the box and threw it into the brazier.
Half of Shen Fu is the cool and light fragrance of medicinal materials after burning.
Father checked the people who had handled the bowl of bird’s nest last night one by one, and again asked the famous doctor in Beijing to check the residue. Although no problems were found, an order came soon after that the main courtyard was not allowed to send things to the front yard.
So after another month, after the severe winter, the flowers and plants have been growing vigorously under the infiltration of snow water.
I also happened to have consumed almost all the words I had saved, so I asked my mother to go to the hot spring Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing for a few days, where the climate was warm and moist, and it was most suitable for enjoying flowers in mid-spring.
The palace is deep, after marrying into the East Palace, it is very difficult to have the opportunity to walk around at will, so although my mother hesitated, she finally agreed to me.
On this day, the spring scenery is very good, and the wind blows the breath of vegetation growth, which makes people feel happy.
I had the feeling of the last freedom, so I took off my dignified palace dress and went out briskly in a sky-blue curly dress.
Just as I was about to board the carriage with my skirt, I saw an unexpected figure.
I saw the prince dressed in a purple straight court clothes walking quickly, a hair lazy and loose, the whole person with a solemn but haggard contradictory breath.
I was stunned for a moment and quickly reacted.
For the sake of convenience and neatness, I usually wait at the corner gate when I prepare my chariots and horses at home, so it’s normal for me to appear here.
As for the prince, he stayed at the wide front door and sneaked around the corner door alone. Naturally, he made an appointment with someone he couldn’t see openly.
Thinking of this, I was suddenly enlightened, so I gave him a slight blessing and went on happily preparing to board the carriage. When
the prince met me, he was stunned. When the servant girl lifted the curtain and turned around to help me, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the reins as if waking up from a dream. The driver was so
frightened that he knelt down tremblingly. I sighed in my heart. I had to turn around and said, “I wonder if your Highness has any advice?”
The prince was wandering again for a moment. Then he frowned and said, “You..” Going out?
I bowed my head and my heart said, “Isn’t that obvious?”?
The prince, however, was suddenly a little worried. He moved his lips and said as indifferently as he could, “I heard that the eldest lady of your house is ill, and I have come to see her specially. Please spare some time to accompany her.”
Although there was a guess in my heart, I was slightly stupefied by the prince’s frankness. Not long ago,
these two people got together at the Lantern Festival, which made the full house of ministers wait for a long time without a banquet. Today, they can’t restrain themselves. Do they want to go down to the court and catch up with each other in a hurry?
Feelings are hard to restrain, feelings are hard to restrain..
I chewed these words several times between my lips, but I still felt at a loss.
When I am treading on thin ice for a marriage contract that I was born with, is it true that someone is in love?
It’s not mutual support, it’s not a deal of equal value, it’s just a teenager who can’t wait to see his sweetheart, that’s all.
I quietly looked at the prince’s eyes, want to comfort, but also feel hypocritical, want to explain, but do not know where to start.
In a dilemma, there was an impulse to board the carriage and go away. The man
in front of me is my future husband and the future monarch of the Shen family.
I dare not have the slightest mistake, leading to marriage and enmity, but I can not rack my brains to please him, because all my decisions can not change the reality.
There was nothing I could do, so I was speechless.
The spring breeze is blowing softly, and there is nothing to say for a while.
Just as the horses were hissing impatiently, the mother, who had received the news, finally sent someone to the rescue.
Your Highness is here, and the Shen family is far away to welcome you. My Lord has not yet returned to the mansion. Your Highness might as well go into the mansion and sit down for a while.
The servant smiled carefully, and the prince and I breathed a sigh of relief when we heard this.
The prince nodded and, without saying a word, followed the attendant into the mansion from the corner door.
I looked at all the carriages and horses in front of me, but I couldn’t move for a moment. Mammy Soong, who was beside
my mother, also came out to greet me. Seeing that I was in a daze, she quickly reminded me, “Miss, you can’t go at this time.”. The prince visited alone, and the master went to the outer house after going to court. If you were not there, there would be only two serious masters in the house, the lady and the young lady. The purpose of the prince’s coming. It’s too much to imagine.
I nodded silently, but still looked at the direction of the southern suburbs, standing still. Mam
my Sung followed my line of sight and could not bear it, but she gritted her teeth and said, “Madam, even if you don’t care about the public opinion, you can’t help but take the face of the royal family to heart.”
Yeah, the face of royalty. I chuckled from the bottom of my heart, but I took my time to answer, “Mammy has misunderstood me. Of course I won’t leave. I’m just leaving a little space for the prince and his eldest sister.”
Song Mammy breathed a sigh of relief, as if she was afraid that I would go back on my word. She hurriedly ordered the people to unload their packed luggage from the carriage.
I watched quietly as all the horses and chariots in front of the door returned to their positions. Then I took a deep breath and turned to walk to the mansion.
The world is like a cage, what can be removed is the beautiful clothes, but what can not be removed is the shackles.
Walking to the Spring Tree Pavilion, I walked westward through the screen wall to reach Shen Muyun’s residence in the front yard. I was worried that it would disturb the interest of the prince and Shen Muyun in talking, and I was really bored, so I stayed in the garden for a while. There is a lot of water in
Shen Mansion, and the waterways are winding everywhere in the mansion, occasionally dotted with small pools with clear waves, like a lady’s hairpin and flower bun, which is full and deep.
The prince was actually a little afraid of water when he was young, and every time he came to pay his respects at Shen Mansion, he was somewhat imperceptibly nervous. At that time, I never moved, but I would prepare some poems, books, calligraphy and paintings in the flower hall next to him, dragging him to discuss in the room.
As soon as I read this, I suddenly felt like a dream.
It is said that Shen Muyun’s birth mother was a Jiangnan woman who was born in a water town. She fell in love with her father, who was already engaged. After that, her father modified Shen Fu’s backyard according to the pattern of Jiangnan town.
Now, the world seems to be repeating itself, but unfortunately her daughter’s lover does not have such willful power. As
I walked around the scattered pools, it was hard to imagine what my mother, who was still a new bride, would do when she saw all the traces of another woman in her home. It doesn’t matter
how to deal with it, because as far as the result is concerned, it is obviously impossible to shake half of the father’s affection for that person.
Over the years, a woman born in the south of the Yangtze River became my father’s outer room, but he refused to set foot in the sad old place, leaving me and my mother guarding the waters every day, unable to touch or change.
However I couldn’t help smiling in my heart. Fortunately, Shen Muyun was still alive.
It is said that the living can never compare with the dead, and my situation is much better than that of my mother. If not, even the mother of the noble daughter model can not handle things, how should I place it? Thinking
like this, God seemed to refuse to let me have a moment of peace of mind, only to see a little girl running over in a hurry.
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“Second Young Lady, no good!”! After talking to the prince, the eldest lady suddenly fell seriously ill and fainted. Her ladyship went into the palace and handed over a sign to ask for the imperial physician. The master is already on his way to the mansion. You should go there as soon as possible. As soon as
a word is spoken, the soul is frightened.
I nodded numbly and followed her to the front yard like a walking corpse, only to realize what had happened halfway.
For a moment, the unusual visit of Shen Muyun on the night of the yuan Dynasty, the abnormal blush on her beautiful cheeks, and the haggard appearance of the prince when he came in a hurry all slipped through my heart like a merry-go-round, which made me suddenly feel a sense of foreboding.
I don’t know whether it is the coincidence of God’s will, but in mid-spring, the warm and soft wind suddenly becomes fierce, the vast sea of clouds in the blue sky suddenly changes, and the dark clouds replace the red sun. Almost instantaneously, the rain came down in torrents. When
I arrived at the front yard, my father had already mobilized the bodyguards to surround Shen Muyun’s residence layer by layer, saying that he wanted to find out the person who had assassinated her. The imperial physician in the
palace was sitting in the side room, accompanied by Mammy Song.
I did not see the prince’s figure in the thick rain curtain, so I had to take a few steps under the eaves to avoid the cold rain.
As soon as I reached the corridor, I heard the Imperial Physician’s Order say to Mammy Song, “When you are young, you have a slippery fetus, and you have a deficiency of both Qi and blood.”. My
heart was like a heavy drum, and I almost shouted out.
Song Mammy saw my figure, hurriedly stopped the words of the doctor, let people go in to serve the pen and ink.
Then she walked out quickly and pulled me into the warm pavilion.
I followed Mammy into the room in a muddle, and the rain dripped slowly down the skirt, as if in tears. Why did the
young lady come here all wet? That’s all. The young lady, like her mother, doesn’t live up to her reputation. Don’t be too anxious.
I moved my dry throat and tried to ask in a flat tone, “How is my sister now?”? I heard some unclean words, and I asked Mammy not to hide them from me, so that the whole family wouldn’t lose face. Mam
my Sung sighed. She went outside the door and asked a little girl from her mother’s room to stand guard at the door. Then she turned to me and whispered, “The doctor said that the eldest lady is pregnant for a month.”. She must have had a low-grade fever and fallen red, until today she suddenly bled a lot.
One month?
That was the day of the platform banquet.
I stroked the bracelet on my hand and slowly turned around. Suddenly, I felt a chill. My legs and feet were weak. I wanted to fall down. I held the edge of the couch and managed to stabilize it.
“Go inside and take care of Mammy. Be sure to do your best.”
Song Mammy reached out to help me, as if to say something, and finally sighed and stepped down. I
tried to ignore the sticky and cold touch of my wet clothes. I steadied my voice and whispered to the back of the shelf, “I’m bothering the prince. Please come out and sit down.”
After a while, a thin figure slowly walked out from behind the Bogu shelf beside the wall.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and when I held the pillow on the edge of the couch, I felt the tentacles were very warm, presumably because someone had been sitting here for a long time.
And this scene will appear here, only the prince.
Perhaps it was so cold that my lips and teeth tingled. I didn’t know what to say for a moment, so I had to stand where I was and let the drops of water on my bun fall slowly.
The prince was also sitting in silence. After a while, he looked up and asked me, “What happened to Muyun’s mother?”
I was stupefied, knowing that he had heard what Mammy Song had said. After a moment’s deliberation, he said, “It seems that my sister’s birth mother had taken medicine carelessly during pregnancy. Mammy said that because she hoped that my sister would cherish her body..”
“I know!” Before I could finish, the prince interrupted me with a strange smile on his face. “That woman took oxytocic medicine, and she’s been sick since she was a child.”
I hung my head and said nothing, but it was not surprising that the prince knew about the back house of the Shen family. After all, the two of them had a close relationship.
“Women are like this. They don’t care about the lives of their children for the sake of their own power and position.” Prince, however, seemed to be in a turbulent mood, and his eyes were dark for a while. For a moment,
I felt that there was something in the prince’s words, but I couldn’t go along with him in order to insult his concubine mother, who had died early. So I had no choice but to follow the script I had made before and said, “My sister is a blessed person, and with the protection of Your Highness, she will be able to save the day.”. When my sister is ready, your Highness will choose a good opportunity to accept her in the future. There will always be children.
The prince did not seem to have expected my words, his lips moved, and finally did not say anything, leaning on the pillow closed his eyes and raised his mind.
I breathed a sigh of relief and silently withdrew from the warm pavilion.
The rain was so heavy that it splashed snow-white waves on the ground for a moment.
My wet body nestled in the back room and waited for the news. For a moment, I felt dizzy and my body was hot and cold. Unconsciously, I was confused. When I opened my eyes
again, it was already cloudy and rainy. Still dazzled,
I struggled to get up and smoothed my wrinkled clothes, but the door was suddenly pushed open. With a solemn look on her face, she said, “Miss, I can’t. I want to see you for the last time.”
I opened my mouth, but found my voice hoarse and speechless, so I had to follow her to the inner room.
The bedroom was magnificent, but there was a faint smell of blood.
The father was not there, saying that he had cried and fainted, and had gone back to rest. Only the mother was sitting in a chair by the door, and her eyes were black.
Seeing me come in, my mother nodded and left with all the servants.
I hesitated to go to Shen Muyun’s bedside and sit down, and found that her face was pale, but her eyes were bright.
“It’s not that I can’t compete with you, it’s just bad luck.” Her tone was flat, as if stating a fact.
I was so confused that I had to hold her hand and not speak.
Shen Muyun stared at the top of the tent with a smile and said with some self-mockery, “I always thought my mother was a stupid woman with bad luck, but I didn’t think I had worse luck than her.”. Even though she took medicine and got pregnant, at least she gave birth to the baby before she left. I
was startled, and I didn’t want to have such a reason in those days.
But Shen Mu-yun said, “Yes.” Could it be..
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“On the day of Shangyuan, Your Highness drank wine, and I took the secret medicine in advance. Everything went smoothly, but it was a pity that my body could not protect the child after all.” Unable to suppress my doubts,
I asked in a dumb voice, “Where did my sister get the medicine, and why is she in such a hurry?”? My aunt wanted to give birth before my mother, but now that the prince and I are not married, what are you going to do if you are really pregnant? But
Shen Muyun sneered, “The medicine, of course, is from my mother’s belongings.”. As for being anxious. Why do I have to watch you get married to make plans? Can’t I fight for what I want?
I can’t speak. But
Shen Mu-yun went on to say, “They are all daughters of the Shen family. What does it matter if they are concubines?”? Some people aren’t even officials’ daughters, but aren’t they in the East Palace?
I looked out of the room and sighed, “I heard that the empress had suffered a lot in those years.”
Yes, but she’s lucky. Having a child, he pushed the child into the water, got on the line of Mrs. Shen, and made friends with the women inside and outside. As for me, I just wanted to try, but it cost me my life!
I was startled, did not expect such a royal secret Xin Prince and Shen Muyun also said. Suddenly, she recalled that her mother seemed to have mentioned that she had been rewarded by His Majesty, and that it was indeed the queen who insisted on facilitating the engagement.
Shen Muyun finished speaking freely and seemed to exhale a long breath. She closed her eyes wearily and said, “Go. I want to talk to your Highness.”
As I said, I stepped down and walked out of the front yard before I stopped blankly. After the
prince and Shen Muyun had a friendship, I always abide by the etiquette when I get along with him. But when I was young, I also held his hand and comforted him to walk through the waterside pavilions of the palace.
It turned out that I couldn’t warm his hand no matter how hard I tried. From the moment he was pushed into the water by his own mother to get the engagement, I drifted away from him.
He could only lick each other’s wounds with Shen Muyun, who had also been hurt by his mother, but now Shen Muyun had gone.
Listening to the sad cry behind me, I lowered my head numbly and looked at my palm.
Obviously, the line in charge of life is still so long and tortuous, but I have no courage to go on.
Shen Muyun passed away in mid-spring, and it was also at this time that I married the prince.
When I sat in the room for half a night with impeccable manners, but the prince still did not appear, Mammy Quanfu, who was sent by the queen, finally let me wait for a moment, while she went back to the palace to reply.
That night’s candle tears did not stop all night, I heard that the prince also stayed in front of Shen Muyun’s grave for a night. Every day
after that, I was filled with the tedious affairs of the East Palace. Apart from occasionally listening to the Queen’s urging for her children, there was almost no prince in my life. On the day of
his death, it was a cold and snowy day. I knelt in the palace, almost all the people in the East Palace scattered out to look for the prince, but there was still no news. He didn’t seem to realize what had happened
until the female official of the East Palace, at my behest, dragged back the prince who was drunk by the tomb of Shen Muyun.
The prince burst into tears in front of the spirit of the late emperor, saying that he was young and ignorant and did not fulfill his filial piety in time.
I have been kneeling for a long time, but my heart is clear and bright. The late emperor can protect his beloved woman to ascend the throne, but the prince is. There was no courage then, and now there is no chance.
The world is impermanent, how can weeping turn around. After
I received the title of queen, the queen mother had already lost the confidence to urge me to continue to have children as soon as possible.
When I accompanied her, we talked about the affairs of the palace, the Buddhist scriptures, and what kind of beautiful girl would win the favor of the emperor. After
the prince ascended the throne, he never went to Shen Muyun’s tomb to mourn, but he no longer accepted any concubines. In the
rainy weather, he would come to my palace, invite me to have a drink, and then find an opportunity to lead the topic to Shen Muyun. I was
still a qualified chat companion when I was young, with a tight mouth and few words. Only when he tried to say that he wanted to start with me again, I would excuse myself for busy business.
When Shen Muyun passed away, I thought we were all going to live in suffering and depression.
But now, the only thing that sustains my words and deeds every day is my identity and responsibility. I am no longer sad, but I can no longer warm others.
Close and distant couples, perhaps this is the case.
Today is a gentle spring day, the emperor finally chose the future prince candidate in the imperial clan, and asked me to pick him up in person.
I walked on the long palace road, feeling that I was a withered bone with a full head of hair, half of my body smoke and dust, dying.
But the palm of the young son in his hand is warm and steadfast, and seems to contain infinite vitality.
(End)
Author: Lu Li
Record No.: YX01jj78jo5aZAk9R
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