This is the twelfth time that my sweetheart has come to my house to propose marriage, and the twelfth time that she has proposed marriage to my eldest sister. When
Lu Jinghan came, he was tall and high-spirited. When he looked at my elder sister, his eyes were full of tenderness and tenderness.
In the past, when he came to propose marriage, he was always fobbed off by his father in a few words, but now it’s different. He has become the new champion, the top of the palace examination, and a solid student of the emperor. The first thing
Lu Jinghan did after receiving the title was to come to my house and swear that he would marry my elder sister with ten miles of red makeup. The daughter of a
rich family always looks down on the children of these poor families, but my elder sister is different. She really likes Lu Jinghan. I once secretly saw them telling each other their hearts under the moon. At that time, they had known each other for half a year, and I had secretly liked Lu Jinghan for five years. There is no
such thing as first come, then come.
His father refused to marry Lu Jinghan, although he was already a high school champion, but the elder sister was the daughter of General Chaoyun. His father held two hundred thousand troops in the north, and even the prince came to give him three thin noodles. Naturally, he looked down on a champion who had no foundation. In her father’s words, Ah Jie should be the most noble woman in the world in the future.
The father wants the elder sister to be the queen of the future mother-instrument world.
But Ah Jie was determined to marry his Lu Lang. After her father ordered Lu Jinghan to leave,
Ah Jie knelt down in the ancestral hall and did not eat or drink for two days and two nights. My father was very angry but had no
choice but to let me send some food.
I prepared my sister’s favorite jujube paste cake, but she couldn’t
eat a mouthful. She only took my hand and said that if she couldn’t get rid of Lu Jinghan’s friendship for her, she would
rather kneel down in the ancestral temple to die.
I relayed the exact words to my father, who sat alone in the study all afternoon and finally answered
Lu Jinghan’s proposal. Jiang’s glory, which
his father valued, could not compare with his favorite daughter after all. When
Ah Jie heard the news, she wept with joy. She hugged me and said,
“You don’t know how happy I am.”
I patted her on the back and asked her to rest first. After two days, she lost
a lot of weight.
From the moment my elder sister knelt down in the ancestral temple, I knew that this thing would always be done.
The elder sister’s mother was her father’s first wife. After giving birth to the elder sister, she lost both blood and blood and died in a few days
.
For the elder sister, the father always has a loving heart, and compared with the daughter’s life, the noble and incomparable position of queen has become unimportant.
As for me, I was just the product of my father’s mercy after drinking. My mother was a happy woman in the general’s mansion. After she was pregnant with me, she was taken as a concubine.
Sister’s name is Jiang Yu, who is the most dazzling pearl in the whole General’s Office.
My name is Jiang Xia, which was hastily chosen by my father when he was still immersed in the grief of his wife’s death.
Beautiful jade is flawless, and I am not that beautiful jade after all.
I was about the same age as my elder sister. My father didn’t like my mother very much. He just raised her in the house. Naturally, he didn’t care much about me. But my elder sister was good to me, so even others didn’t dare to look down on me. After the death of
my wife, my father lost his thoughts and devoted himself to the court. For so many years, there were only two daughters in the General’s Office, my elder sister and me, and there was no one to inherit the family business.
So when the elder sister became the queen, it was the only way for her father to keep the Jiang family prosperous forever.
Now should Lu Jinghan’s proposal, the elder sister is happy, although the father is not very willing, but also began to prepare the elder sister’s dowry. Rare treasures like
running water and land deeds were sent to the elder sister’s room, and the grand occasion did not stop until two days later, when the prince came to the door in person. While the prince and my father were discussing the matter in the front hall, I was accompanying my elder sister to embroider a veil in the style of a Mandarin duck.
When the Mandarin duck was half embroidered, my father suddenly sent someone to call me to the study.
When I entered my father’s study, the prince had disappeared, replaced by Lu Jinghan who came
in a hurry.
Lu Jinghan sat aside, his face livid, one hand holding the teacup tightly, the veins
on the back of his hand showing, and when he saw me go, he just nodded to me hastily, completely losing his previous
calm posture.
I took a salute to my father and asked what was wrong.
Two people look different, no one answered my words, so after a long time, Lu Jinghan
put down his teacup, got up and told his father in a loud voice that if he could not marry his elder sister
, he would rather not marry for life. Angry, the
father raised his voice and asked,
“Isn’t she my daughter?”
“Lu has always treated his children only as his younger sister!” I felt
a chill in my heart, and then looked at Lu Jinghan, who was clenching his teeth, and suddenly reacted.
My father wants me to marry Lu Jinghan for my elder sister.
The confrontation of three people finally broke up, and Lu Jinghan left in a huff, leaving
only my father and me in the room.
Father sat in a chair with a rare bent figure. “Just now the prince came to ask me to marry a legitimate daughter of the Chiang family.”
East palace prince to marry the general’s daughter, if put in the book, how to look at is a
story that can be handed down for generations.
Father wants me to marry Lu Jinghan, as long as Lu Jinghan nodded, the elder sister there will naturally
be able to die, and then marry into the prince’s mansion in style.
But even my father’s threats and inducements, together with my friendship with Lu Jinghan for many years, were not worth
his sincere heart to Ah Jie.
The father sighed and went on to say that the matter of the prince seeking the daughter of the Jiang family had been settled in the palace
. Now Lu Jinghan refused, and the elder sister naturally refused, so I was the only one who married into the prince’s mansion for the elder sister
.
But I’m just a concubine.
My father said that if I was willing to marry the prince, he would take my mother as his wife. From then on, I could enter
the ancestral hall and enjoy wealth, and I would become the second
daughter of General Yunyi.
I looked at my father in amazement and asked him what if I refused.
My father’s eyes were as sharp as fire, and he seemed to ask me why I refused.
“You are the daughter of the Kang family.”
If the prince does not come, my father may also find a good marriage for me, so that I can stay in the
capital for a stable life. But the prince just came.
Father asked me to go back and think about it clearly, but I thought about it for a long time,
and I really couldn’t think of another way.
I muddled out of the study, but met Lu Jinghan on the way.
He said he was waiting for me.
He said he had no choice but to ask me.
He said that Yuer was weak and could not stand such a blow.
He said he wanted to ask me to marry the prince.
My father and Lu Jinghan came up with the same idea for my elder sister.
I still remember that when I was eleven years old, I had a serious illness and was sent to my hometown in Huaining by my father to recuperate
. From then on, I met Lu Jinghan, who was fourteen years old.
At that time, my face was covered with red rashes, and my peers regarded me as a monster. Only Lu Jinghan
gave me a pigeon to amuse me. That day, Lu Jinghan smiled gently, and I plunged
in and never came out. Lu Jinghan has never asked me for anything for
so many years, but now for the first time he begs, it
‘s like this.
I was silent with him for a long time. My throat was dry. I left him in silence and
hurried back to my room. Sister was still waiting for me in the room. When she saw me go in, she raised her veil and asked me to see the
Mandarin duck she embroidered. She said that she could not always embroider the tail of the Mandarin duck well and asked me to help her see how
to change it.
I held the veil in my hands and looked at it twice. A drop of tears hit it hard and soaked
a dark color on the veil.
Sister stood up hurriedly and held my shoulder and asked me what was wrong.
I shook my head slightly.
“Sister, will you be happy to marry Lu Ching-han?” I leaned on my sister’s shoulder, just
like when I was a child.
“Happy? Of course I’m happy.” When Ah Jie heard Lu Jinghan’s name, her eyebrows and eyes curved
.
“If you are happy, I will be happy for you.”
I told my father that I would marry the prince.
I got married half a month earlier than my elder sister. On the day I set the date, my elder sister rushed into
my room and asked me if my father forced me to marry.
I was combing my hair, and my long dark hair was combed to the end.
“No, it’s my own wish. I like the prince.” I put my comb on the dressing table
and pulled Ah Jie to sit down at the table. “Isn’t it difficult for Ah Jie not to want me to marry?”
The elder sister scraped my nose and said that I didn’t have a proper shape. I chatted with the elder sister for nearly a night. From the character of the prince to his hobbies, from the various matters and rules to be dealt with when entering the prince’s mansion, the elder sister told me all over.
She asked me when I fell in love with the prince. I thought about it for a long time, but I found that the number of times I had seen the prince over the years could be counted on my fingers.
The elder sister was still waiting for me to answer. I held back for a long time, so I had to say that it was the polo club a year ago. I went to
the polo match, and that was the closest I got to the prince. My sister and
I frolicked all night, and when it was almost dawn, we lay in bed and fell asleep in a daze. Soon after a long talk
with my elder sister, I sat in the bridal sedan chair and was sent to the prince’s mansion. My mother, who had been a concubine for
many years and had accompanied my father for more than ten years, was promoted to be a wife the day before I got married, and finally became proud and elated.
And I married Han Yunting and became the prince’s concubine.
2.
It is reasonable to say that the first daughter of the Jiang family is qualified to be the crown prince’s concubine, but my mother is only a continuation, and I just have the name of the first daughter, so it is the most appropriate arrangement to let me be the side concubine.
The wedding procession was followed by the dowry my father prepared for me. My father didn’t care about me, but he never treated me badly.
I was helped by Xi Po into the Prince’s Mansion from the side door. There were very few concubines in the Prince’s Mansion, and there was no Crown Princess, so I didn’t even have to offer tea, so I was sent directly to the wedding room.
I had thought that one day my husband would marry me in three books and six ceremonies, worshipping heaven and earth and worshipping my parents, but I failed to do so after all.
According to the rules I learned before I got married, I sat upright on the edge of the bed, covered with a red veil. I could only see the round fan in my hand and the wedding dress embroidered with complicated patterns when I looked down.
I heard that because of my father and the prince, there were many guests outside, most of whom were prominent people in the court. I was sitting in the wedding room, and the happy woman and the servant girl were watching beside me. They were all obeying the rules, and there was no sound at all.
It was not until it was dark for a long time that I heard the door being pushed open, followed by the sound of people saluting and retreating. I don’t know who closed the
door again, someone came to me step by step, boots on the bricks and stones, so that my heart also jumped.
The pair of boots embroidered with auspicious clouds stopped in front of me, and the owner of the boots raised his hand and lifted my red veil.
My palms were soaked with sweat, and my hands were raised to block the fan in front of me. The old Mammy who
taught me the rules said that it was called covering up shame.
“Are you hungry?”
The prince was not busy pushing aside the round fan, but asked me softly if I was hungry. I have never spoken to the prince, and I used to think that his voice would be full of the arrogance
of the superior.
But his voice was gentle, like a quiet spring.
I shook my head, and he took the fan out of my hand and held out his other
hand to me. In the palm of
his hand he placed a few cakes, padded with silk handkerchiefs, which seemed to have been
brought from the main hall.
“I heard that the bride has to follow the rules all day and can’t eat anything, so
I brought you some.”
The prince sat beside him and handed the snack to me again.
My stomach was really empty, and I didn’t know how many times it rang quietly, but looking at the snacks in front of me
, I could only smile and say that I was not hungry.
Father said that if you marry into the prince’s mansion, you have to abide by the rules thousands of times more than when you are at home.
“Concubine, wait on the prince and rest.”
I stood up and saluted the prince, and then I planned to squat down and take off the prince’s boots.
But before I could squat down, I was supported by him, and he
stuffed a snack into my mouth. The sweet taste of peanuts and red dates made me unable to react. Stunned,
I looked up at the prince, and in the light and shadow of the red candles in the room, I saw the smile on his handsome
face. “I’ve brought them all. What if you eat two pieces?”
Under the gaze of the prince, I finally ate up all the snacks.
In the past, my mother said that whether it was a big family or an ordinary family, if you were someone else’s
concubine, you were just a slave with a better name.
So after I promised to marry the prince, I was ready to serve the prince, but he
didn’t seem to need me at all, and even wiped the crumbs from my mouth.
The prince said that he was sleepy.
The prince also said that he would go to the morning court tomorrow, so he had to rest early. All the rules
I had learned to serve people were forgotten when he approached me and sealed my lips
with his lips.
When the bed curtain was hanging down, I clenched my hands tightly because of fear, and
my nails sank into the flesh to make me feel sober.
“Are you afraid of me?”
The prince clung to my ear and suddenly stopped moving.
“Concubine..”
“If you are afraid, I will not force you.”
I stiffened and stared at the pattern of the bed curtain, so the prince pulled the quilt and slept
next to me. I wondered if I had annoyed him, so I turned to look at him secretly.
The prince closed his eyes, so that people could not see the joy and anger.
I grabbed the quilt with my hands, not knowing whether to be happy or afraid.
“You don’t have to be a concubine anymore. Originally, you should be my wife.” On the
wedding night, I didn’t consummate my marriage with the prince. The prince not only didn’t get angry, but also said that I was his
wife.
Because of this sentence, I slept all night with my eyes closed, and I couldn’t sleep.
At daybreak, he slept in a daze for a while, and when he woke up again, the prince had disappeared
, and his position on the bed had cooled down.
I got up in a hurry and asked the maid who came in to take care of me what time it was.
The maid hung her head and told me it was time.
Before long, the prince should go back to the mansion, and I just got up.
I sat in front of the dressing table, and the maid unhurriedly held my hair in a bun for me. Seeing that I was a little
restless, she comforted me by saying that the prince had told me to sleep a little longer and let others
come to pay their respects when I woke up.
“Greetings?” I looked at the figure reflected in the bronze mirror and was full of questions.
I am a side imperial concubine, so I am not qualified to go to the palace with the prince, but let other people give
me a side imperial concubine to pay their respects, where is the rule.
And no matter who makes the rules, people do come. Most of the women in the backyard of the
prince’s mansion were daughters of an official family, and although they were sent in without a serious name, as long as they entered the prince’s mansion, there would always be benefits for the prince to ascend the throne in the future.
Now it seems that my side imperial concubine is actually the most serious female family member in the backyard of the prince’s mansion.
I sat on the main seat and looked at it. There were five people in total. I heard the maid say that one of them was sick yesterday, so he couldn’t come.
I met the crowd face to face, asked the maid in the room to hand out all the gifts that had been prepared, and then ended the greeting with a stiff smile in the compliments of the crowd.
I rubbed my stiff neck and checked the names and faces of those people in my mind. It was only then that I realized that the one who had not come was from the Qing yuan, the third Miss of the Shangshu Mansion, who had entered the Prince’s Mansion seven months earlier than me.
After dealing with this circle, the prince went home before I could sit down and catch my breath.
The prince’s little fellow came to pass on, saying that there was a flood in Jibei, so as soon as the prince came back, he went into the study to discuss with his aides, and I had lunch alone.
3.
The prince was busier than I expected. The maid said that before I got married, the prince had not stepped into the backyard for almost a month. He was either busy in the study or
busy in the palace.
I had nothing to do in the yard, so I had to stay in the room alone to copy. I had copied a few
pages, and I was just engrossed in my writing when I heard a male voice at the door saying,
“Do you feel bored staying in the house all day?”
It’s the prince.
I hurriedly put down my pen and went to the table to salute. The prince seemed to be in a good mood, but
when he picked up the words I copied on the table, his expression was a little complicated.
My handwriting has been ugly since I was a child, and I have practiced it for so many years, but I can barely see it.
“My concubine’s handwriting is so ugly that it makes your Highness laugh.” I was so surprised that I almost broke
the veil in my hand.
“I told you yesterday that you didn’t have to be a concubine. Why? Don’t you listen to your husband?” The prince
‘s eyes were glued to the rice paper, but he spoke steadily: “Since you have married me, we
will be husband and wife in the future.”
The prince’s words were so natural that I was in a trance for a moment. I wanted to tell the prince
and his wife that they were referring to his wife, but under his steady look, he stuck the words in
his throat. He could only stand aside without saying a word and let the prince read my words.
The prince looked at the words written on the paper and suddenly asked me if I had any small words.
I shook my head and told him no. My father was born in the ranks, and although he is now a very important minister, he has never cared about
such trifles as women’s small print.
“How about I give you a small print?”
Prince is my husband, to give me small print, naturally nothing wrong, I nodded,
he let me go over, took my hand, wrote down the word on the paper. The word of the
prince is square, and every stroke is full of strength.
He said, “There are rabbits and pheasants.”.
He also said that he hoped that after I married him, I would be comfortable and happy.
Prince’s palm is a little warm, let my hand suddenly, the paper was dyed with a thick
ink.
I turned my head gently and looked at the prince’s eyebrows and eyes, and my heart suddenly missed a beat.
I have seen him talking to others. At that time, he always called himself Gu, the crown
prince of the East Palace and the crown prince of the country.
But he was never lonely when he got along with me. In a trance, I felt that he was just an ordinary
person, just my husband.
I pinched myself quietly and let myself suppress these inexplicable thoughts
.
Since the small print, the prince only called me, he worried about government affairs, other matters in
the house, in the third day I entered the house all to me, I am afraid I
can not do well, he let me show momentum, everything has his support for me.
I was confused by the prince’s attitude, and for a moment I couldn’t tell whether he valued my father or really threw out a sincere heart to me.
But the maid was telling the truth that the prince seldom set foot in the backyard, and even spent several nights in the study. The flood
in Jibei became more and more serious. It was said that the minister who went to relieve the disaster was a disciple of the prince, but before he arrived in Jibei, he was reported to the court, saying that his brother had forcibly occupied the fields in the suburbs of Beijing and had killed people.
The memorial to the throne was handed over to the dragon case, and he acted recklessly at the foot of the emperor, causing a case of human life, and attempting to deceive the world. The emperor was furious, and even the prince was reprimanded. He knelt down in the hall of diligence for half an hour. I can’t help you in the
court. I can only manage the backyard with the spirit of twelve points. Fortunately, we are not difficult people to get along with. People who entered the house earlier than me also saw through that the prince didn’t care about the boudoir. They have their own ways to deal with the usual days.
But there is only one person, I entered the house so far, even a face has not been able to see. Liu Yuying, the third lady
of Shangshu Mansion, the only daughter of Liu Shangshu, is the apple of her eye.
A few days ago, I said that she was ill. This illness lasted for more than ten days, and I sent a lot of medicine to her, but she never got better.
I thought she was really ill, but I didn’t expect to bump into her in front of the prince’s study. Prince knelt in the palace for more than half an hour, I let the small kitchen stew soup, want to send to the prince
, but at the door of the study and Liu Yuying bumped into one.
Had it not been for the maid’s reminder, I would not have recognized the man in front of me, whose face was as bright as the moon
, as the one who had been sick all the time.
She also brought a soup cup, and it seemed that she had come to see the prince. When I arrived, she was already standing at
the door, a little earlier than I was. Looking at each other in
pairs, she just glanced at me, hastily took her clothes, and then withdrew her eyes
. She and
I stood on the left and on the right, and waited for a long time. After the prince’s aides
in the study left, a boy came out and took away the soup cup that she and I had brought. Does
the prince not want to see other people? When
the soup cup was taken away, Liu Yuying’s reaction was faster than mine. She told the man to take good
care of the prince and turned away.
Finally, the young fellow saluted and told me that the prince’s study never allowed women to enter, and I
realized that I had come over and returned to my own yard.
I thought the prince was going to sleep alone again today, but I didn’t expect that the prince would come to my room
that night. The light was still turned off and the two of them were lying on the couch sleeping peacefully. As
I listened to the prince’s steady breathing and was about to fall asleep, half asleep and half awake
, I suddenly heard the prince say,
“Today’s soup is very delicious.” Then my hand was held by the prince and patted by him.
The next day I was looking at the account books in the mansion, and the post of Ah Jie and Lu Jinghan’s wedding was sent to
the Prince’s mansion. I had prepared the
gift for a long time, and I had known the news for a long time, but looking at the two names written in gold foil on the red
wedding invitation, I still had an illusion that it was like
a lifetime ago. The night before
Ah Jie got married, I went back to Jiang’s house to dress up for Ah Jie. There were only two daughters in Jiang’s family, me and
her. Now they are married separately. The most uncomfortable one should be my father.
I used a sandalwood comb to comb the elder sister’s soft black hair. The elder sister, who had always been generous,
showed a rare shyness on her face.
She asked me in a whisper if the prince was good to me.
I said yes, and the prince was very kind to me. Although
he was busy, he always kept me in mind and often brought me some clever gadgets
. Two days ago, when he was free, he took me to a suburban horse farm to relieve my boredom.
She lowered her voice a little more and asked me if the boudoir secrets taught by Mammy were true
.
I am stupefied, elder sister thinks I am bashful only.
In fact, I don’t know anything about what Mammy said. The prince was afraid of me.
Except for the wedding night, when he came to my room on other days, the closest thing he did was
to sleep on my shoulder. When Ah Jie got married on the second day, her father emptied half of the General’s Mansion and prepared a dowry stretching for dozens of miles
to send him Yu-er, a beautiful jade, to get married.
Lu Jinghan personally came to welcome the bride, all the way blowing and beating is not lively, my cousins
are blocked at the door, Lu Jinghan and they entangled for a long time, before coming in to pick up the elder
sister.
Passing by me, Lu Jinghan suddenly stopped and said to me, “Thank you for my help.”.
I lowered my eyes, took a step aside, and did not speak again.
I had thought about whether Lu Jinghan understood my mind, but in the end, I found that whether
he understood or not, his heart was already full of my elder sister, and there was no room for others
.
People always have to look forward, and it doesn’t matter what is fulfillment. When
my elder sister got on the bridal sedan chair, I followed my father and watched his eyes turn red quietly.
And my mother finally stopped being humble and began to have some confidence to help greet
the guests.
Prince did not come in person, but also prepared an extra gift, not only the prince, the three princes
also sent a gift, posture and battle array do not lose the prince mansion.
Mother said that this was because his father was valued in the court.
I know my father has always been on the side of power.
But I also know that the three princes have always been covetous of the crown prince. Four.
Father accepted all kinds of gifts. For this marriage, most of the capital became lively
.
Until I returned to the Prince’s Mansion, I could still hear the sound of drums.
Today, instead of working in the study until midnight, the prince came to my room to draw.
The empress has long been famous for being good at painting. The mother and son are in the same vein. The prince’s painting is also wonderful.
He paints red plum in the snow, fights the snow with the cold, and the jade bone is clear.
I stood beside him grinding ink, a cinnabar fell, and the plum blossom on the paper had a spirit
.
“I heard that the third brother also sent a gift to the general’s office today.”
The prince spoke, but the pen did not stop.
“Gone.” I grinded my hand and told the prince all the things on
the list of gifts for the three princes that I saw today.
“I’m just asking casually. You don’t have to worry about such trifles.”
Prince’s mouth with a refined smile, the last stroke fell, the brush was also put
on the penholder by him, the plum blossom on the rice paper Lingxue opened in the corner of the palace, it is not too much to say that it is lifelike
.
The painting was hung in my room, and the prince said that when winter came, he would take me to the
plum garden in the palace, where the plum blossoms were in full bloom.
“Have you ever been to the palace?”
“Yes, just a few years ago.” I had just been taken back to the capital
that year. The emperor held a banquet for all the ministers on the Lantern Festival. My father was going to take my elder sister there, but she caught a cold and asked my father to take me to the palace.
It was the first and only time I went to the palace, and everything I saw was fresh. My father noticed that I was looking out all the time, so he told me in a low voice that if I was drunk, the maid in the palace would take me out to sober up.
On the Lantern Festival, fireworks can also be seen in the palace all over the city. I stepped on the snow all the way and walked a long way unconsciously. I also got separated from the maid who led the way.
Finally, on a narrow palace road, I met a little eunuch. I relieved him. He showed me the way, and I returned to my father with no danger.
The prince made a promise to take me to the palace to enjoy the plum, but before I could wait for the winter, an imperial edict grounded the prince in the mansion, and even the prince was supervising a matter, all moved nearly half to the three princes. It was
still a matter of disaster relief in Jibei. The adult who was sent to relieve the disaster was not only the black sheep of his family, but also drank and prostituted with officials along the way on the way to the disaster relief, which almost delayed the event.
This time the emperor was really angry, and ordered the prince to be grounded for half a month on the charge of not knowing people and appointing people by favouritism. Even the empress in the palace asked herself to take off her hairpin and copy the scriptures because she had been reprimanded for failing to teach her son.
Prince visible to the naked eye of the decadent go down, the mansion staff in and out of the study many times without a result, and finally the prince smashed the inkstone, all the people are driven out.
This time, Liu Yuying went into the prince’s study.
I don’t know what she said to the prince, but the next day Liu Shangshu recommended Lu Jinghan and asked him to supervise the disaster relief again.
Lu Jinghan is my brother-in-law, and now the prince is also a brother-in-law, lost an old minister who is not enough to succeed, help up a relative of the new rich, how to look at the prince is also beneficial. Compared
with Liu Yuying, she is much better than me.
But the only thing I didn’t expect was such a new person, a good fat job in front of the emperor, the three princes did not compete with Liu Shangshu, so they acquiesced in Lu Jinghan. When
the prince was still grounded, Lu Jinghan left the capital for Jibei.
Sister felt bored staying alone in Lufu, so she often asked me to accompany her.
Two people get together, nothing more than embroidered sachet, talk about which family in the capital recently and what interesting things have been born.
My sister’s sachet was embroidered with a pattern of Mandarin ducks playing in the water, and the spices inside smelled unique. I asked my sister if it was a new popular spice in Beijing, but she told me she didn’t know. “It was given to me by Jing Han before. I’ve never seen it before, but it’s great for calming the nerves and
helping you sleep. If you like it, I’ll give you some.” I
went to see my elder sister, but instead I took half a box of spices back from her.
I want to make a new sachet for the prince. He can’t sleep well recently, and now he’s
black and blue. While
I was making the sachet, the prince was reading. He
said he was always busy before, but now he is grounded, so he has time to accompany me.
Speaking of grounding, the prince always thought of the empress in the palace, and when he spoke, he was
somewhat unbearable and self-deprecating. My father didn’t like me
since I was a child, and I can’t even count the number of times my mother has been scolded by my father
for all kinds of trivial things. My father loved the imperial concubine Jin, and even my mother’s bedroom
was rarely visited. Although I was the crown prince these years, But I’ve always been cautious and careful
, and my mother is treading on thin ice in the palace. I didn’t expect that now that the two sides are separated, it’s really me
who’s got her into trouble.
The scroll was held by the prince in his hand, and it looked a little yellow under the flickering candle.
Jin Guifei is the birth mother of the three princes and the emperor’s favorite concubine. Because of Jin Guifei,
the emperor is really full of fatherly love for the three princes.
Over the years, although the three princes are not legitimate, they are deeply indebted to the emperor, and they are not left behind everywhere.
To be able to stand up to the prince in the court, naturally the emperor’s favor is indispensable.
“Your Highness is the blood and bone of the empress. The empress won’t blame your Highness. It is precisely because of the separation between the two sides that your Highness has to take care of his health.”
I embroidered the sachet, took out the spices my elder sister gave me, and wanted to put some in it. Although the fragrance of this
spice is elegant, it is really far away, which makes people feel calm when they smell it, and even the prince beside them smells the fragrance. Is
this the new spice of the house?
No, this is what Ah Jie gave me today. Sister has been weak ever since she was a child, and she often can’t sleep well. She said that this spice was good for sleeping, so she gave me half a box.
I sat down at the table to tidy up the sachet, and the prince put down his scroll and walked over to me. He twirled a grain of incense under his nose and sniffed it. “It’s a foreign spice,” he said
lightly. “It’s called white glue incense. It’s said that the process is complicated, and only a few boxes are paid in a year. After it’s sent to the palace, it’s usually given to the empress and the imperial concubines.”
The white glue incense was still in front of me, but my heart beat suddenly like a drum. There was only one imperial concubine in the
palace, Lu Jinghan was a foreign minister who could not enter the palace, and there was no white glue incense in the prince’s mansion, so where did his white glue incense come from.
The sachet was pinched in my hand, and the white glue fragrance in the sachet was crushed, bursting out a violent fragrance, which filled my whole nasal cavity.
No wonder, no wonder Lu Jinghan went to the disaster relief, the three princes did not say a word. But if Lu Jinghan really secretly worshipped the three princes and calculated my Jiang family, what about my
elder sister and my father.
That in charge of two hundred thousand troops, has been standing in the party struggle between the impartial cloud under the general
office.
5.
The prince sat opposite me and gently took away the sachet that I had buckled in my hand. As soon as my
hands were empty, my heart also hung in the air.
The sachet was played by the prince in his hand, and the fragrance of the white glue came out, which made people bump into
it.
“If one day Lu Ching-han and I were to confront each other, who would you help?”
「…… Your Highness, what does that mean?
I grabbed the hem of my clothes and breathed a little faster.
“I just want to know who is more important in your heart, me or Lu Ching-han.”
The prince’s eyes were still soft, but they made me feel invisible.
He seemed to know very well that I had loved Lu Jinghan, but I couldn’t figure out how he knew about
it. Under his inquiry, my mind turned into a mess. I was silent for a long
time before I answered: “Your Highness is my husband. If that day really comes..” I will help your Highness, but
my sister is innocent.
“What if I go that far with the Chiang family?” There was an evening breeze blowing through the bamboo forest outside the
room, making a series of rustling sounds. Between
the prince and Lu Jinghan, I have no choice.
But I can’t make a choice between the prince and the Jiang family.
So I was silent, and even the hands holding the clothes became incongruous.
“I guess if that day really comes, you won’t help anyone. If it’s hard to get both
sides, no matter which side loses, you won’t live alone.” The daughters of the
family, from birth, and how many are able to follow their hearts.
The prince was really right, and every word was hammered in my heart.
“So whether it’s Lu Ching-han or the Chiang family, I won’t let you face such a dilemma
.”
The prince bent his back slightly, stretched out a hand to the side of my face, and gently
rubbed my eyes with his thumb.
I looked at the prince and saw only my own reflection in his eyes.
I felt for no reason that he was telling the truth, the truest truth. “Your Highness seems to know me very well.” She
even knows me better than my elder sister.
Yes, I understand. Apart from my
third brother, you are the only person in the world that I have spent so many years getting to know.
I frowned, a little confused.
“Many years ago you went to the palace for a banquet and met a young eunuch on the palace road. You even scared
away the eunuch who insulted him for him. Do you still remember his name?”. I do remember
things, but the names are a little vague. After
thinking about it for a while, I said a name that I wasn’t quite sure about:
“Little Pavilion?” As soon as the
words came out, I was stunned.
That night I deliberately pretended to be arrogant and domineering to drive people away. After scaring the crowd away, there should
be no one else around. How did the prince know.
Han Yunting, Xiaoting, Han Yunting, Xiaoting.
I whispered the two names several times, and then blurted out to the prince,
“Are you the pavilion?”
“Doesn’t it look like?” A rhetorical question is the acquiescence.
The prince said that before the Shangyuan Palace banquet that year, the palace suddenly found out that someone was tired of winning, causing
the imperial concubine Jin to be seriously ill, and finally found out that the maid in the palace of the empress had cursed
her.
Even if the queen explained many times, but the emperor was still very angry, the queen circle in his
own palace, not only do not allow people to visit, even the palace banquet is not allowed to attend, the prince also lost the favor because of this
matter, was almost deposed the crown prince. Another three princes were appointed as the
head of the East Palace.
It was a family reunion day, but the mother and son were separated, so the prince quietly left the table, dressed
as a eunuch in the kitchen, and wanted to take the opportunity to see the queen.
He took the food box and walked along the path, but met several other eunuchs on the way. He was framed
for stealing the food for the palace banquet. Not only was he robbed of the food, but he was almost seized and sent to the imperial
office.
Entangled with each other, it was my sudden appearance by mistake that relieved him and scared the eunuchs away by relying on my
identity as a general’s young lady.
He said he was a little eunuch in the kitchen.
I said I was the second lady of the Jiang family.
He said thank you.
I said that if I was bullied with a soft temper, I would fight back with my fists.
This is what my father taught me and my sister.
Later, he sent someone to inquire about me and saw me several times, all looking at me from a distance.
I lived a plain life in the back house of Jiang Mansion, and he was frightened step by step in the court. The faces he saw in his spare time knew that I was well, which was his affection.
I remember that at that time I thought I had met a bully, and in a moment of anger, I stopped him, but I didn’t want the man who had been hanging his head and hiding his figure in the dark, claiming to be a small pavilion, to be the prince.
“I was robbed of everything in my food box that day, and you gave me some snacks to put in it.” In fact, I secretly hid
those snacks and planned to take them back to Ah Jie, but I thought he was really pitiful. If he couldn’t finish his job, I was afraid he would be punished, so I gave him more than half of them.
“So on our wedding day, Your Highness gave me a snack wrapped in a veil, which was actually a hint to me?”
“I guess so, but the peanuts and red dates in the dessert are based on the good intentions of giving birth to a son early.”
“Your Highness, why don’t you just say so?”
“I always feel that you still have Lu Ching-han in your heart. If you want to compete with him in your heart after you get married, naturally you won’t talk about what happened that year. Besides, what happened that night was really too embarrassing.” I did have Lu Jinghan
in my heart for many years. But from bumping into him and elder sister promise each other for life, from the beginning of my marriage to the prince, this love
will no longer exist, nor should it exist again.
The prince’s eyes were bright and bright like the morning stars in the sky, which made me suddenly feel a little hot in my ears.
I said I was afraid I would let him down.
He asked me if I believed he was sincere.
“I have thought that your Highness is good to me, perhaps because I am the daughter of the Jiang family, but there is always another voice in my heart
telling me that your Highness will not lie to me.”
I believe that the snack he gave me on the wedding night was sincere.
I also believe that the small print he gave me is sincere.
In this world, my father wants me to live up to my family, my mother wants me to be gentle and sensible, and my elder sister feels that
I will never grow up, and I will always be the little sister behind her.
Han Yunting is the only one who wants me to be comfortable and happy.
“I’ve been in the palace since I was a child, and I’ve been flattered and looked at coldly. I’ve been immersed in the desire for power and planning for many
years. Every bit of my sincerity is more or less the product of weighing the pros and cons. But
what I give you must be the truest one I can give.” Even if you grow up
in an ordinary family, you can’t avoid fighting and worrying, let alone in a big family
or in a royal palace.
I still have elder sister to protect, but he has nothing, everything has to rely on their own to
fight, is the imperial power at every turn, the blade will hang down. Very sincere, how many people in this world can take out.
He said that what I was worried about would not happen.
He also said that no matter what happens in the future, let me not be confused.
I said yes.
I believe in him, and I also believe that my father will protect my elder sister and will not easily gamble on the whole Jiang
family.
With his advice in advance, when I saw Liu Yuying go in and out of the Prince’s study several times, I
didn’t seem to be surprised.
Liu Shangshu is the mainstay of the court, it is hard to avoid being relied on, now the prince is more constrained
, it is normal to rely on the Liu family.
I often meet Liu Yuying in the garden. It has become a common thing for her to come and go to the study. When she meets me
, she just nods and nods, and then goes her own way.
Soon the prince’s confinement period passed, and the weather gradually entered the late autumn, which often made people feel
cold.
Lu Jinghan went back and forth to relieve the disaster, and became a red man in front of the emperor, and even the Jiang
family had a bright face.
I watched for many days, and finally, after the story of Lu Jinghan and the three princes having a long talk
all night spread all over the capital, there was a rumor in the prince’s mansion that I was out of favor. Everyone knows that I’m just the unloved
second young lady of the Jiang family who got married in order to deal with the prince.
Everyone felt that the prince was spoiling me for the sake of my father.
Now my elder sister’s husband and the three princes are getting closer and closer, and the situation of the prince is becoming more and more difficult. Of course
I shouldn’t be spoiled any more.
Just as the rumors were spreading, the prince came into my
room quietly in the middle of the night when no one was there.
I saw that his eyes were red, like a wounded cub. It’s not all lies to
say that I’m out of favor. It is true that
the prince has not been in my yard for many days, but now goodbye, it is the
dead of night, when I am about to fall asleep.
I put on my clothes and lit a lamp again. In the flickering candlelight, the prince
closed his eyes heavily. When he opened them again, he had lost his appearance just now.
“Your Highness, what has happened?” I asked, tightening my clothes.
“Have you heard all the recent rumors about Lu Ching-han?”
I nodded my head.
Sister sent me a lot of silks and satins two days ago, saying that she would make new clothes for me. I found a letter in the silks and satins. It was written to me by my elder sister. She asked me how
I was recently. The words were mostly apologetic and helpless.
Even my elder sister listened to it in her heart. I’m afraid no one in the capital knows it anymore.
“My father has issued a decree today to transfer Lu Ching-han to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.”
“Ministry of Civil Affairs?” I raised my voice slightly
because I was surprised. In the
rumors, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the three princes joined hands with Lu Jinghan, and used
Liu Shangshu to put the prince together, so that the prince lifted Lu Jinghan and made a wedding
dress for the three princes.
In the final analysis, this is the prince was calculated, even if Lu Jinghan meritorious service, now the holy family is
thick, no matter how should not be directly transferred to the Ministry of officials as an important position.
“My father is going to pave the way for Han Yunche. I thought he was just being partial and
didn’t care about me, but I didn’t expect that for so many years, in his heart, I would only be a grindstone for him to train
Han Yunche.”
Han Yunche is the name of the third prince.
Since it is a grindstone, the knife is sharpened fast enough, and the stone is no longer needed.
The words were spoken by the prince himself with self-mockery, which brought a sense of pain to his heart.
Father and son were at loggerheads, and brothers turned against each other. The last thing the prince said to me was, “I want you to help me.”
Lu Jinghan emerged, the three princes were in the limelight, the news from the palace always said that the emperor
‘s health was getting worse and worse, coughing all the time, but also avoided two days in the morning.
Since Lu Jinghan was transferred to the Ministry of Personnel, the prince relied more and more on the Liu family, and there were rumors in the
mansion that the prince would soon help Liu Yuying to be a side concubine. Once
some things are opened, there will always be people talking about them.
So even if I was just sitting in the garden, I could hear a servant girl muttering. It’s the first time I’ve run into someone with a bold mouth in my time as
a housekeeper.
So I picked a place where the sun could not shine, and let someone press the two maids, each slapping their mouths fifty times in
front of me. A
crisp slap went down, and the servant girl’s tears came out.
After another slap, Liu Yuying passed by the garden as usual.
Liu Yuying seemed to smile and let me forgive others.
I glanced coldly at her and said,
“When will it be your turn to be a talkative person who has no name and no credit?” No matter how bad
I was, I was carried in in a bridal sedan chair.
This is Liu Yuying’s unspeakable sore spot, so in front of everyone, I stepped on it.
So she and I lost our identities and began to argue and push each other in the garden.
She was the daughter of a civilian Qingliu family. Naturally, she couldn’t beat me, who was the head of the general’s mansion. Under the dispute, I accidentally used a lot of strength and pushed her directly into the lotus pond.
That afternoon she launched a fever, and I was also scolded by the prince, even in front of Liu Yuying, directly overturned me to the ground.
So the prince and I broke up.
The prince was so angry that he sneered and said that he was very good. He said that I was so capable that I had turned the world upside down in the prince’s mansion. I might as well go back to my Jiang family.
Naturally, I cried so hard that I couldn’t control myself. I said at the top of my voice that the prince married me for the sake of my father’s power. Then I turned around and left Liu Yuying’s yard crying.
Before long, after I fell out of favor, I was so jealous that the prince’s house was restless. The news that I was rejected by the prince would spread all over the capital, even into the palace, and become another handle for others to attack the prince.
The prince wanted me to go, so I went back to Jiang’s house in the name of my mother’s illness. When
my mother saw me, she was very angry and said that I was too careless to bring trouble to my father.
On the contrary, my father didn’t say much. He still had a cold face. He met me and let me stay first. The only connection between the
Jiang family and the prince was broken with a bang.
This time the prince, is really can only rely on the Liu family.
Sister came back to see me and said that she had not talked to Lu Jinghan for many days. She thought she had married a good man, but she didn’t want to push the Jiang family to the side of the three princes, and also involved me.
I took my sister’s hand and told her to wait.
Sister asked me what I was waiting for, and
I said that when winter came, foxes would come out to hunt ahead of time.
The elder sister and Lu Jinghan quarreled and went back to the general’s office, intending to stay for a while. I knew that the elder sister was unhappy, so I packed up my things and moved to her yard to accompany her.
When my father came back, he said that in the early morning, the court had begun to argue about which prince should take the place of the emperor, who was still ill.
In reason, this is what the prince should do, but someone wrote that the prince has repeatedly made mistakes in recent months, the year-end sacrifice should be done by the virtuous, inside and outside the words, said that the prince is not good, should let the three princes.
Originally the two sides have their own words, said that they are reasonable, the dispute for two or three days, and finally Liu Shangshu stood out, the sound of the recommendation of the three prince Han Yunche.
Six important ministers, for several years and the prince close relationship, his daughter is still in the prince’s mansion, unexpectedly so bright stand in the side of the three princes.
Seeing that I, the side concubine who maintained the contact between the prince and the Jiang family, had fallen out with the prince, the fox dared to stick his head out of the hole and reveal his ambition.
With Liu Shangshu’s impassioned speech, the people of the year-end ceremony finally decided on the three princes.
All of a sudden, the people in the court were spreading everywhere that the emperor preferred three princes and planned to set up another crown prince.
Such a dispute was moved into the Fengtian Palace, directly in front of the emperor to fight for the division of the concubines, on the order of the old and the young. There was a lot of noise in
the Fengtian Hall, and the emperor, who had just recovered from his illness, was so angry that he fell on the steps of the Fengtian Hall and fainted on the spot. After the
emperor was moved back to his bedroom from the Fengtian Palace, he never woke up. People in the court were in a panic, and his father did not go to court for several days. When I play chess with my elder sister
at night, I can always hear the sound of the lute, which is played by my mother.
My mother used to be a musician who played the lute, and the song she was best at playing was Guan Shanyue, a garrison who looked at the border cities and thought of returning home. In the past, when my father went to war, my mother often sat alone in the yard and played this song.
I always felt that my mother liked my father from the bottom of her heart, but she refused to say. Since my elder sister and I got married, my father and mother spent more time together, quite
a bit of companionship and dependence. When my mother played music, my father listened.
Today, the sound of the lute came to my ears, which made my hand shake. I made a mistake and lost the whole
game.
“The song Auntie Wo is playing today is Ambush on All Sides. It sounds strange. Are
you scared?”
My mother’s name has a word “He” in it, so my elder sister called her “Aunt He”.
I forced a smile and didn’t know how to answer.
“Flaw, are you worried about the prince?”
The elder sister locked her brows, and her plain face was full of sadness.
I know that although the elder sister and Lu Jinghan made a scene, but her heart is still thinking about Lu Jinghan
, said I am worried about the prince, also said that she was worried about Lu Jinghan.
If the emperor is really sick, the prince and the three princes fight each other, no matter which side is
defeated, she and I will always be involved.
“Ah Jie, don’t think too much about it. I think you’ve lost weight recently. I just saw
the King of Pingyang come to the capital today, and a group of cavalry on the street, and I was a little scared.”
Pingyang king’s fief in the city of ye, ye city has thirty thousand defenders, unless the emperor summoned, otherwise
the king of Pingyang generally will not return to the capital, this time the emperor is seriously ill, he took a group of cavalry rushed
back to the capital, in the long street swagger through the city, also don’t know who is giving a blow. There was no movement in the
palace for several days in a row. I stayed in Jiang Fu for several days before I suddenly heard that the emperor had been framed and poisoned by a villain.
The empress purged the harem with a thunderbolt, turned out poison in the palace of the imperial concubine Jin, and hanged more than twenty palace people on the spot.
Its action is as fast as when the queen was punished by the art of pressing victory in the palace. Crying in the
palace, Jin Guifei shouted at the top of her voice that it was the empress who framed her, and said she wanted to ask the emperor to make decisions.
Unfortunately, the emperor was unconscious, the palace door was closed, and even the three princes could not get in. At the
critical moment, Jin Guifei suddenly took out a wooden box and said that it was the imperial edict left to her by the emperor. Whoever dared to touch her was deceiving the emperor. In full view of the
public, the empress took out the imperial edict, which was still covered with the imperial seal of the emperor, and clearly stated that the prince was in charge of the country.
From that day on, the imperial concubine Jin was imprisoned in the bedroom hall by the empress on the charge of madness, and she was allowed to cry and howl. Later, she made a scene that the empress tampered with the imperial edict to kill the emperor and her husband, so the empress withdrew all the people in the bedroom and did not allow anyone to visit her. No one dares to believe what
a madman says.
The emperor’s imperial edict was known to the world, and it was a foregone conclusion that the prince would supervise the country. His father asked his mother to play a song of ambush on all sides for him, saying that tomorrow, he should enter the palace.
In the sound of ambush on all sides, Ah Jie told me that Lu Jinghan was ill and could not get up. The doctor who went to see him said that he had fallen ill during the treatment of the flood in Jibei. Sister seemed to want to go back and take care of him, but she was so confused that she didn’t know what to do.
I made up a reason casually to hold my sister off first. After she went back to her room to sleep, I stood in the
yard for a long time. Suddenly I heard two birds singing. Then a masked man in black
jumped down from the roof and landed lightly in front of me. Half kneeling on the ground,
he handed me a letter.
I opened the envelope, and inside were some deeds and silver notes, and a piece of paper in the handwriting of a prince.
The prince said that tomorrow was dangerous, and he could not rest assured all the time, so he prepared his chariots and horses outside the city.
I could leave first. If he succeeded, he would take me back. If he failed, I would hide
my name. What he left me could also keep me safe all my life.
He still left me a way out.
I don’t know whether this is a test or a fulfillment, or both.
Looking at the four words on the letter paper, I did not leave after all.
I told the masked man who was still waiting for him to tell the prince that he was husband and wife, and that I would accompany him regardless of
success or failure.
I sat in the yard all night, and the candle in my sister’s room was lit all night.
The next day, my father did not rush to the morning court. Before going out, my elder sister and I found that my father had
put on his own armor, which was very majestic.
“Father.” The elder sister called out, and her tone was full of puzzlement. I took my sister’s hand and saw my father turn around. My eyes turned
around between me and my sister, and then I held my sword again.
“You two sisters stay at home. As a father, you will protect your husband
.”
His father was determined to leave, and the door of Jiang Fu was closed after his father left, isolating
everything outside.
“Flaw, what does father mean?”
Sister pinched my palm and seemed unable to react.
“Sister.” After a pause, I asked, “If Lu Ching-han were to die, would you live
alone?” As if struck by lightning,
Ah Jie stared at me for a long time, then shook her
head slowly:
“No.”
“Ah Jie, in fact, I went back to the mansion to make a scene with the prince. It was just a scene that I and he made for Liu Yuying to see
. The purpose was to force out Liu Shangshu, an old fox, so that the third prince would think that the Jiang family had nothing to do with
the prince.”
“So my father went to the palace to help the prince?”
“Yes, although my father is neutral on the surface, he has been in contact with the prince for a long time.” At that time, the three princes had the king of Pingyang, and the prince had secretly visited him several times. After many setbacks,
he subdued his father.
“What about Jing Han?” Sister stared at my eyes, which were full of anxiety.
I lowered my eyes and said calmly,
“Actually, he has always belonged to the prince, and the news that he befriended the third prince was also released by the prince
.”
Lu Jinghan met the prince earlier than I had imagined.
Before he moved to the capital and showed his talent, the prince knew
Lu Jinghan indirectly because he sent someone to investigate me.
Two people have the same ambition, both have a cavity of ambition, for the great cause of the prince, Lu Jinghan in the capital
of small and medium-sized fame after pretending to be close to the three princes at the height of their power.
In the words of the prince, the three princes inserted several people on his side, then he put a
Lu Jinghan in the past, but also not a loss.
Lu Jinghan and the elder sister were engaged in a private life, and after passing the examination, they came to propose marriage. During this period, because of
his father’s power, there were not a few people who wanted to ruin the marriage. Thanks to the three
princes, Lu Jinghan and the elder sister finally got married.
The third prince thought that Lu Jinghan had married Ah Jie, so he roped in Jiang Fu. In order to make him not
suspicious, the prince also hurried to Jiang Fu to propose marriage, saying that he wanted to marry his own daughter.
Said to be a legitimate daughter, in fact, is just to add a layer of planning, just to marry me in
the past.
So he married me fair and square, the three princes there will not be suspicious, Lu Jinghan and elder sister also finally got married, the Jiang family is still neutral, four birds with one stone, is his real calculation.
Even the minister who had gone to Jibei earlier for disaster relief was the one placed by the three princes beside the prince.
Involved in his brother’s case of invading the land in the suburbs of Beijing, the hidden stake was pulled out after the death. The prince took advantage of the situation to fall in the mansion, and then pushed Lu Jinghan up by the power of Liu Shangshu.
On the surface, the prince was frustrated everywhere, but in fact, the so-called wedding clothes for others eventually fell into the hands of the prince.
He originally wanted to disintegrate the power of the three princes step by step and win the throne without bloodshed, so when Lu Jinghan was in the limelight, the two released the news of Lu Jinghan’s friendship with the three princes.
This move is to make the news into the palace, let the emperor know that these years the three princes want to give him a lot of stumbling blocks, if the emperor is wise, will naturally begin to mediate the situation in the court.
But the prince did not expect that the emperor only regarded him as his beloved son’s grindstone, not only did not mediate, but let Lu Jinghan go to the Ministry of Personnel. The empress, who
lived in the palace, also found the imperial edict written by the emperor himself to pass the throne to the three princes after his death.
The so-called prince, the queen of the palace, after all, than emperor’s heart preference. When the prince slipped into my room
that night, he had already abandoned all kinds of concessions, and what he left behind was all killing moves.
I hid what had happened in the palace and told my elder sister what I knew. She could not recover for a long time. She sat on the stone bench in the courtyard for a long time and asked me why my father brought a knife into the palace today.
“Today the prince is the first day to supervise the country, and the three princes will not easily hand over the throne to him. The king of Pingyang returned to the capital with thousands of troops stationed in Yecheng, in order to help the three princes wash the temple of heaven in blood today. Today my father went to the palace to help the prince put down the rebellion.”
“Thousands of Yecheng troops!” The elder sister rose to her feet, and her voice became more and more urgent. “The Yecheng army is brave and skillful in battle. My father has only a few thousand soldiers. How can he fight against the Yecheng army?”
Sister grabbed my arm with two hands, and her voice was full of tears, which made my heart tighten.
This was supposed to be a good show to invite you into the urn, but the King of Pingyang came back.
The third prince didn’t pin everything on my father after all.
The prince held the imperial seal in the Fengtian Palace, and the three princes and the king of Pingyang led troops into the palace with tokens, trapping the prince and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. When
my father entered the palace, he wanted to delay time, follow the prince to fight, and kill the three princes by surprise.
But the elder sister is right, compared with the Yecheng army, the prince and his father really have little chance of winning.
I moved a chair and sat in the middle of the courtyard. Today, the capital seemed to be very quiet. The sound of war in the palace could not be heard. From a distance, I could only see the overlapping eaves of buildings.
It was not until the sun moved to the top that I heard the sound of a horse’s hooves shaking like an earth-shaking mountain. The sound of the horse’s hooves was orderly from far to near. I stood up and let the young man guarding the door open the door. A group of guards had already stood
outside the door, protecting the whole Jiang Mansion. The rest of the soldiers were driving in the direction of the palace. Someone turned over and dismounted and stood in front of me.
It’s Lu Jinghan.
“How is Yu-er? Is she all right?”
Lu Jinghan was covered with dust, which should be the reason why he pretended to be ill and took the soldier’s amulet on his way overnight, and went back to Beijing without stopping for a moment.
“Ah Jie is in the backyard with my mother, and everything is fine in the Chiang family.” Lu Jinghan and
I met in a hurry, and he got on his horse again and rushed all the way to the palace. The
door of the mansion closed again, but after a while, there was a commotion outside, with the sound of hooves and cries, but mostly a few muffled sounds, and then there was no more movement.
I was still sitting in the courtyard, the sweat on my temples soaked my forelock, and when the wind blew, I suddenly felt cold all over.
Until the sun sank to the west, the heavy door suddenly sounded a rapid sound of knocking on the door, the door was opened, is the father with a heavy knife.
Watching my father step in, his armor covered with mottled blood, I suddenly took off all my strength and tried to stand up, but my legs were weak and I almost fell to my knees.
“Father.”
I grabbed my father’s arm and looked up and down several times before I was sure that the blood on my father’s body was someone else’s.
My father came back in one piece.
My father also said that my sister’s husband and I were also intact and were now stabilizing the situation in the palace.
“Sister and mother are in the backyard. Father, go and see them.”
I pointed to the direction of the backyard, and after my father left, I stepped out of the house and saw the scene on the long street.
There were dead bodies, broken blades, and pools of blood, but the thickest smell of blood came from the direction of the palace, surging up the long street one by one, making people’s stomachs churning and nauseating.
That night Lu Jinghan also came, his face added a moderate scar, elder sister cried sadly, to Lu Jinghan hammer and complain, I am not good to stay around, went to the gate of Jiang Fu. Lanterns were hung in the
doorway, and when the wind blew, the lanterns swayed.
“Cong Cong.”
When I heard someone calling my name, I turned around and found that the prince had come.
I looked at the prince, he should be changed into a brand-new robe, nothing missing,
nothing missing, so completely standing in front of me.
“Whoa, whoa, I won.”
It’s a win.
“There’s no need to be afraid.”
Don’t be afraid.
He waved to me, and my nose was sour, so I rushed over, buried my face in his
chest, and grabbed his robe with both hands.
I’m really scared.
From the moment he told me his plan, from the time the King of Pingyang entered the capital, from the time Lu Jinghan pretended to be ill, and from the time my father
left the house, I began to fear, and every moment I was so scared that I almost went crazy.
The prince encircled my waist with one hand and patted my
back with the other.
I felt my tears on his clothes, and when I moved my face, the clothes on his chest were two pieces darker.
The prince wiped away my tears and suddenly told me that he was afraid, too.
“What are you afraid of?” I blinked and held back my tears.
“I’m afraid that if I manage to marry you back, I’ll ruin your whole life.”
The prince waved his hand, and several scrolls were sent by the attendants behind him. I opened the top one, only to find that it was a picture of the snow scene of plum blossoms painted that day, but I don’t know when a figure was painted on it. The man in the
painting was wearing a big cloak and a double ring bun, and he looked like he was running forward in a hurry.
“Is this me?” I took the scroll and looked at the prince.
“Yes, I went back to the prince’s mansion to get this. It was the first time we met. I showed you the way. I looked at your back and thought how nice it would be if I could marry you in the future.”
I flipped through the other scrolls, all painted by the prince, although not many, but also painted by me.
That night I looked at the picture scroll and said a lot of words to the prince in the room.
He told me that when I first met him, everyone looked down on him and rushed here to curry favor with the imperial concubine and the three princes. Even he felt that he could not compare with Han Yunche. He also told me that he had brought the snacks to the empress that night and finally ate them all.
I didn’t drink, but I always felt a little drunk. I can’t
remember the rest. I only remember that when the red curtain was low, he called me.
I put my arm around his waist and whispered his name many times. A few days after the
palace change, because the outside was not peaceful and the palace was still being cleaned, my elder sister and I
still lived in Jiang Fu. Cut a lot of people outside the
Meridian Gate, bloody gas for a few days, Liu’s family is also among
them, the whole Liu family, only one is still under house arrest in the prince’s mansion Liu Yuying. The gates of the
whole city were closed, even a fly could not fly out, his father said that the palace changed that day
, Han Yunche was broken by his father, and later escaped from the
palace in the melee.
Now Han Yunche disappeared, so he closed the gate, the soldiers are going door to door
search, should be able to catch him in a few days.
Because of the remaining evil fled, Jiang Fu also strengthened the guard, I and the elder sister
were bored every day, so I asked my mother to teach me and the elder sister to play the pipa. My elder sister and I have been learning the things that women in
the boudoir need to learn since childhood, but only
music and dance, and we have not learned anything.
Especially the dance, the elder sister is too weak to learn, I simply how to learn also can not learn
, then my father can not bear to see, simply called a few masters to hand me and elder
sister martial arts, let me body building and physical fitness with her.
But the elder sister’s body is still weak, on the contrary, I have not been ill since I was eleven years old, and I have barely learned some kungfu with my master. My elder sister and
I learned pipa for two days, and the guards of the Prince’s Mansion suddenly came to Jiang’s Mansion and told me that Liu Yuying had drunk poison and wanted to see me before she died.
Hearing the word “drink poison”, everyone gasped.
“Where did she get the poison?” I furrowed my brows and questioned the arraigned man in front of me.
“It’s the medicine used by the Qing yuan to poison rats and ants. By the time the slaves rushed over, she had already vomited blood several times. The doctor said it was a spent force.”
When I put down the lute, Liu Yuying’s beautiful face appeared in my mind, and my breathing was a little unstable for a moment.
“Go and have a look.” My mother arranged the lute for me. “It’s not peaceful outside,” she continued. “Bring more guards. Besides, there are guards in the prince’s mansion. She doesn’t dare to play any tricks.”
9.
The interrogator said that the doctor had given Liu Yuying two doses of strong medicine and was now waiting for me to go back.
When I arrived at the courtyard, Liu Yuying, dressed in a bright red wedding dress, was sitting in the room waiting for me.
The wedding dress was embroidered with gold peonies, red and bright, like a cluster of fire. Although she had applied makeup and mouth fat, she still could not cover her grey face.
“You wanted to see me?” I let the maid stop at the door and stepped into the door alone.
“Do I look good in this wedding dress?” Liu Yuying raised her head and pulled out a decent smile.
“Good looking.”
Liu Yuying is the only beautiful person I have ever seen who can be compared with my elder sister. Sometimes she is even better than my elder sister, so even now, she is still moving.
“I embroidered this dress with my own hands. I used to think that I would marry Han Yunting in this dress, but before I finished, you got married.” Liu Yu-ying’s eyes fell on my face like two sharp swords: “But I don’t care about you. I know he married you just for the power of the Jiang family, and he spoils you for others to see. You’re just a side concubine, a thing. But I’m different. One day when he ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, I’ll be the woman who can stand beside him and look down on the world with him.”
“But your surname is Liu, and you are the daughter of the Liu family.”
She was the daughter of Liu Shangshu, who had already taken refuge with the three princes.
When Liu Yuying heard the word Liu Jia, she suddenly burst into a more gorgeous smile.
“That year I begged my father to send me to the prince’s mansion. Before I entered the mansion, my father and brother told me that I must serve the prince with all my heart. I really thought that Liu and the prince were one. If I accompanied him to the supreme position, one day he would see me.”
“Don’t you know that the Liu family has already submitted to the three princes?”
I am a little surprised, so long, I have always thought that Liu Yuying is also a spy sent by Liu Shangshu.
Liu Yuying heard my inquiry, gradually issued a burst of desolate laughter, until he could not suppress the cough up, before stopping.
Do you know what’s the easiest thing in the world to take advantage of? It was my father and brother who took advantage of my sincerity to Han Yun-ting. It was Han Yun-ting who took advantage of my sincerity to him. From the moment I prayed to my father to send me to the prince’s mansion, I became a pawn of the Liu clan.
Liu Yuying pointed to her chest, and when the word “chess piece” overflowed from her mouth, she was already in tears.
I listened to Liu Yuying’s words quietly, but my heart was dull and uncomfortable.
Liu Yuying went on to say,
When I was sixteen, I met Han Yunting for the first time at a poetry festival. He wrote a poem. From then on, I fell in love with him. I knew my father was loyal to him, and I knew he was in a difficult situation. So I tried my best to get to him. Before you married him, He was in high spirits, but when you got married, everything changed.
Liu Yuying suddenly raised her voice, stood up on the edge of the table, and even knocked down the tea set on the table with her sleeves, and the teacup fell at my feet, splashing debris.
“After you got married, he was beaten everywhere. I thought you were a disaster, a disaster sent by the Chiang family!”. Liu Yuying put one hand on the table and pointed to me with the other. Her voice was more broken than a teacup: “But you lied to me together. You all know the truth, but I don’t.”
In Liu Yuying’s cry, I saw a dark red blood gushing from the corners of her mouth, and her face became more and more ugly.
Everyone is a chess piece, but everyone has played chess, only she has never seen it clearly.
“Jiang Xia, what did I lose to you? Was it family background, talent, or appearance that made him never treat me sincerely?”
“It’s the family background, and there’s still time. My father chose the crown prince as one of them, and..” I paused in Liu Yuying’s questioning eyes and then said, “When I met him, he wasn’t what he is now.”
Liu Yuying stopped her voice, first wiped away her tears, then wiped away the blood on her lips, and the blood stains rubbed against her face, like a plum petal falling in the snow, which would be buried by the snow in an instant.
My heart gave a sudden pause.
“With the prince’s disposition, the affairs of the Liu family won’t involve you.”
“If he doesn’t implicate me, can I throw myself at the feet of the enemy and live on his mercy? If it’s you, can you do it?”
I can’t do it, proud as Liu Yuying, I can’t do it. “I know you must be wondering why I waited
until today to drink poison, since I wanted to die.” Liu Yuying approached me step by step, her footsteps staggering, but her voice
was gentle and soft: “Because you set me up. Since I’m going to die, of course
I have to set you up.”.
I looked Liu Yuying in the eye and suddenly felt a little nervous. I could only pretend to be calm and asked,
“What do you mean?”
“Han Yunche has been missing for so long. Why can’t you find him
after searching the whole city?”
“You hid him in the prince’s mansion?!”
“You don’t have to be so nervous. He’s not here now, but guess what. The guards
from the General’s Office have followed you to the Prince’s Office. If Han Yunche wants to take hostages out of the city and avenge his
death, who should he go to?”
Liu Yuying spoke softly, as if she had quenched the poison.
Sister.
It’s sister.
I was almost stunned. Before Liu Yuying had finished speaking, I pushed her away. I
turned around and ran out. The maids and guards followed me. The sound of footsteps
was all on my heart.
I ran to Jiang Fu in a panic, and when I stepped down the steps, I missed my foot and fell straight down. Beads and hairpins were scattered on
my head. I asked the guards to hurry back to the house in a harsh voice. Then I got up and cut off the rope that tied the horse on the carriage. The horse galloped back.
I arrived with the patrol officers and soldiers almost at the same time, Jiang Fu was surrounded, inside the cry came out over
the fence, let me fall off the horse directly.
I was escorted to go inside. There were a lot of corpses in the yard. Most of them were familiar servants
. I grabbed a man and asked him if Han Yunche had come.
He nodded, looking as if he were frightened.
Han Yunche suddenly appeared, with the rest of the evil into the backyard, is now trapped.
I took people to the backyard, and sure enough, there were more bodies.
I saw a broken palm of Han Yunche and his few remaining followers surrounded in the backyard, as
long as the order was given, the soldiers around me would rush up and chop him into meat sauce.
But he kidnapped my elder sister, he imprisoned my elder sister in front of him, the knife covered with blood
was on the neck of the elder sister, so that the elder sister did not even dare to move.
On the steps behind him, I saw a corpse with a knife in its chest
, and the blood was still trickling out.
“Mother..” I opened my mouth and uttered two almost tuneless words. The person
in front of me was pushed away by me, and I wanted to go forward crazily,
but I couldn’t cry.
That’s my mother, the one who hasn’t taught me the lute yet. The elder sister is also crying, still clenching her teeth bit by bit and asking me not to go there.
I was held back, and then I got even crazier, screaming for them to let me go.
Finally, my father and Lu Jinghan came back first. My father clasped my shoulder and pulled me back
. I turned my head and saw my father’s sad face. Half kneeling on the ground,
I pointed in the direction of my mother, opening my mouth to say something, but I
could only make a sound. It was not
until my father called my son that I finally cried out,
“Mother, mother is still there, I want to go, father, you let me go..”
It was my father who stopped me behind me. I watched my sister’s neck being scratched with blood. Lu
Jinghan held the knife in his hand and wished he could go up and cut Han Yunche into pieces.
Han Yunche said that he wanted a fast horse, a silver ticket, his mother, Jin Guifei, and his father to open the
gate and send him out, otherwise he would kill Ah Jie.
My father did not speak for a long time. I could not see his face, but I could see his hands
trembling gently. There was his favorite daughter and his sworn enemy.
My brain hurts a little, and I feel like I’m spinning around.
“I’ll do it.” I wiped away my tears and stopped crying. I got up from the ground
with difficulty and stood beside my father. I said to Han Yunche, “I’ll change my elder
sister.”
Han Yunche’s eyes were gloomy and did not seem to waver. “I’m the prince’s concubine. From the beginning, the prince liked me, and I acted with him
. If you tied up my elder sister, you could only threaten my father, but if you tied up
me, you could threaten the prince.”
I tried to keep my voice steady. Han Yunche’s hand shook. I knew
he was shaking. After a long
stalemate, he asked me to walk over, and I followed his words and stepped forward step by step
.
“Don’t!” With a cry, it was my elder sister who stopped me. When I took the first
step, my father also took my hand.
Father’s palm has a thick cocoon, which is heartbreaking. After all,
my father didn’t want to trade one daughter’s life for another.
At the moment of holding my hand, my father and I looked at each other and their faces changed slightly.
“I’ve already lost my mother, and I can’t lose my sister again.”
Under the cover of wide sleeves, I spoke in silence, wrote a word gently on my father
‘s wrist with my finger, and then broke away from my father’s restraint.
10.
At the moment of approaching Han Yunche, I could almost see the bloodlust and madness in his eyes. Han
Yunche’s arm had been bandaged, and the arm without his left hand was particularly terrible.
Sister sobbed and watched me get closer and closer, and finally I grabbed her and pushed her to Lu Jinghan. At the moment when
Lu Jinghan hugged Ah Jie, I was also locked in the crook of his arm by Han Yunche. The cold blade stuck to my neck. He exerted himself slightly, and I felt a great pain in my neck. Then there were warm blood beads flowing into my clothes along the skin texture.
Father sent to prepare the horse, go to the palace to tell the prince, Han Yunche holding me, with subordinates surrounded by people step by step, from Jiang Fu to the long street, from the long street to the city gate.
Prince did not come, no one dare to open the gate, two people will follow such a stalemate.
Han Yunche’s breath magnified infinitely in my ear, and the hand that strangled me became tighter and tighter.
“Are you afraid?” I leaned back as hard as I could, but I couldn’t ignore the pain in my neck.
“Shut up.” The knife was closer and harder, and Han Yunche breathed heavily, his body standing in place like a pillar stone.
“The three princes, who grew up with rich clothes and rich food, were once defeated and became traitors. They hid here and there for so long Xizang, and now they have to go into exile in a precarious situation. Apart from fear, they should not be reconciled, right?”.
“I told you to shut up!” Han Yun-che gritted his teeth and said these words, and even the hand holding the knife trembled slightly: “If you say one more word, I’ll kill you right now!”
“You won’t kill me.” I couldn’t tell whether the place where my clothes were soaked was sweat or blood. Under the gaze of the crowd, I maintained a superficial calmness and continued to whisper: “Kill me now, and you’ll never be able to walk again. You’ll have to kidnap me to get out of the city, and you’ll have to rely on me to get back the imperial concubine. Even if you want to kill me, you’ll only drag me along with you, and wait until there’s no one there to kill me.”
Blood feud, whether Han Yunche is holding me or elder sister, as long as he is out of trouble, it is impossible to let the hostage go back alive.
Han Yunche did not answer, I can not see his look, can only feel his knife hand more and more unstable, especially when I heard Jin Guifei.
During the interval of Han Yunche’s breathing, my hand hidden in my sleeve became tighter and tighter, and at the critical moment, the prince arrived.
In front of the towering city gate, I saw the prince on horseback across the crowd, as the prince’s figure is getting closer and closer, Han Yunche also completely sober up.
I stopped moving.
Prince scarlet eyes, ran to the front, even more than my father, he angrily let Han Yunche let me go.
Han Yunche seemed to enjoy the feeling of making the prince lose his temper, and the bloodstained knife almost cut directly into my neck, which made me finally gasp.
“Han Yun-che, if you dare to hurt her, I will find you and cut you into pieces!” The prince mercilessly waved his sleeve, and the whole person’s expression was distorted.
“My concubine, if you want her to live, open the gates, prepare a fast horse, and trade it for my concubine.”
Han Yunche shouted, and someone at the other end brought a carriage. The prince said that the imperial concubine was in the carriage. When the curtain was lifted, he could see a woman sitting inside.
But Han Yunche did not buy it, must let people open the door first.
Under the command of the prince, the city gate opened, Han Yunche dragged me back to move, a short distance, unexpectedly let a person feel infinite long. All the fast horses
Han Yunche wanted were brought in, and the carriage with the so-called brocade imperial concubine stopped opposite.
“I will give you everything, and you will let her go.” The prince raised his hand and pointed to me.
“Let my mother get out of the car and let her walk by herself.”
Is a stalemate, the woman on the car was helped off the horse, although the description is haggard, but still vaguely can see the original elegance.
The prince once said that the brocade imperial concubine is the most favored, usually even a little blood emperor will not allow her to see, now I see her for the first time, it is such a scene.
This is the imperial concubine who has been spoiled and loved by the emperor for a lifetime, and even the rivers and mountains have to be sent to her son.
“Mother!” Han Yunche shouted, and Jin Guifei followed with tears.
Both sides are hostages, and both sides refuse to release them first.
Jin Guifei cried for Han Yunche to leave by himself, but Han Yunche just wanted to take her with
him. Someone clasped Jin Guifei’s arm and let her cry.
Under the gaze of the crowd, the brocade imperial concubine suddenly shouted to Han Yunche Yunche my
son, and died alive under the knife edge.
Blood spattered from the wound and scattered all over the floor, reminding me of
my mother who had fallen silently on the steps for no reason.
My hands and feet were cold, and what sounded in my ears was Han Yunche’s heart-rending cry.
This time, it was beyond everyone’s expectation.
Jin Guifei cut off all the worries of Han Yunche with her own life, and all the fast
horses were sent to Han Yunche after all.
Someone hurriedly covered up the body of the brocade imperial concubine, but Han Yunche did not get on the horse and leave
.
He seems to be crazy.
“Your Royal Highness, my good second brother, do you like this woman very much?”
Han Yun-cheh laughed and cried, “In that case, if you pull
out your sword and destroy your right palm, I’ll spare her life first. If you don’t dare, I’ll kill
her now.” My tingling flesh seemed to be numb, and my ears were tingling.
The prince has always been wise, and the hostage is almost certain to die. I know this, my elder sister
knows it, and my father knows it, so he will not fail to understand.
But he was just stunned for a moment, then pulled out his father’s sword with his backhand, holding it in his left hand and raising it in his
right hand, and the blade of the steel knife with cold light was against his wrist, and even his father did not have
time to stop it. People
around him are calling him prince, and they are making him think twice. All
he asked was,
“Do you mean what you say?”
Han Yunche can’t do it. I want to shake my head, but I can’t make a move.
With the movement of the prince, Han Yunche’s arm shook, and the knife seemed to be farther away from my neck
.
I saw that under the steel knife, the prince’s wrist had been blotted with blood, just like my
neck.
I’m watching, and so is Han Yunche. There was a rusty, sly laugh in
his voice, and his arms
were shaking.
I looked at my father, and when my eyes crossed, I suddenly clenched the gold hairpin in my hand and plunged it
into Han Yunche’s thigh.
This is the gold hairpin that fell on the ground when I fell down in the Prince’s Mansion. It was a birthday gift from my mother.
Now most of the gold hairpin was submerged in Han Yunche’s leg, and he retreated in pain. I pushed his stiff arm away, and he locked his shoulder again.
Relying on the kungfu that I was not proficient in, I got entangled with Han Yunche.
“Father!”
I gave a long shout, and in a flash of lightning, an arrow carrying the power of ten thousand Jun came through the air.
The arrow grazed my cheek and hit Han Yunche in the head, and there was a great pain in my chest.
My father was an invincible and invincible general. He once told me and my elder sister that when they were bullied with a soft temper, they would fight back with their fists.
Han Yunche fell on his back with a muffled sound, a lot of dust, and his eyes wide open.
As more arrows were fired at the leaderless remnants, the soldiers, who had been forced to stay put, rushed over.
I heard many rapid footsteps behind me, but I didn’t have the strength to turn around.
I hung my head feebly and looked at the knife inserted by Han Yunche in my chest. Blood was pouring out quickly. I only lowered my head for a moment, and my clothes were already dyed. Some people call me a flaw, some people call me a flaw, but I can’t speak, I can only fall down in the same posture as Han Yunche
. There are birds flying in the
woods, and the pearls and jade are shattered.
It was the prince who picked me up. He trembled so much that he could not say a complete
sentence.
Han Yunting.. I’m in pain.
It turned out that my mother was so painful before she died.
11.
I woke up at noon one day. Sunlight came through the window, then through the yellow bed
curtain, and finally turned into a soft light on the brocade quilt. My
throat was so dry that I was about to speak when someone approached the bed and sat
beside me.
“Sister..?” I half closed my eyes and tried to adjust to the light.
“It’s me, I’m here.”
The elder sister wrapped my right hand with two hands, her palm was a little cold, and her voice was
very light.
I wanted to get up, but the elder sister did not allow me to get up, only waved to summon the maid, let her go to
ask the doctor and the emperor.
“Your Majesty?” I was a little surprised, but I didn’t want to touch the wound, and the pain made my face white in an instant.
“Don’t move. This is the Zhaochun Palace.” Sister tucked me in and said, “The late emperor died a few days ago, and the crown prince has already ascended the throne.”
“All I remember is that I fainted, but I didn’t expect to faint for so long.”
“You’ve been in a coma for almost half a month, and the Imperial Physician said you were badly hurt. The emperor carried you back to the palace that day, but he almost couldn’t save you. These days everyone is waiting for you to wake up. Now that you’re awake, my heart is at ease.”
The elder sister smiled with tears and said as she cut my hair for me.
Father is a foreign minister, can not always enter the palace, elder sister these days has been staying in the palace to take care of me, people are thin a circle.
The elder sister said that the rebels had almost been cleaned up, and the city was restored to peace.
The elder sister also said that my father had told her that day when he touched the gold hairpin in my palm and I wrote the word “bow” on his wrist.
Father had a hundred paces through the poplar, a heavy bow in thousands of troops to take the enemy’s life, I believe in my father’s archery, my father also believes that I will not let Han Yunche leave.
“First Auntie Wo saved me that day, and then you saved me, and I..” “If Auntie Wo hadn’t pushed me away, the knife would have stuck in my body.”
My heart suddenly fell a little, pulling my heart, liver, spleen and lungs all hurt. I tried to recall my mother’s usual appearance. She was always thin and soft-spoken.
Occasionally, when she appeared beside my father, she looked at him in silence, like a shadow cast by willow branches in the back
house. A little wind and grass would frighten her.
“Since my mother saved my sister, she must have wanted her to live well.” My elder sister
and I folded our hands together, and the heat between our palms was flowing.
“Auntie Wo has been buried in the land of the clan. In a few days, when you are better, we will go to worship her together
.”
I nodded gently, and the tears that slid down the side of my face also went into my hair
.
The elder sister fed me a few mouthfuls of warm water, and then told me little by little what had happened
recently. I was a little dizzy. If it hadn’t been for the sudden sound
of greeting and kneeling outside, I almost fell asleep again in the voice of the elder sister.
The prince ascended the throne, and now I should call him the emperor.
He took great strides, followed by the Imperial Physician.
The elder sister moved her seat and he sat on the edge of my bed.
He has also lost a lot of weight, and his eyebrows and eyes are heavy with fierce and haggard.
“Oh, I’m coming.”
He bent down and smiled at me, but there was all kinds of sadness in his smile, which was really
not good-looking. The Imperial Physician also came forward to feel my pulse, looking, listening, asking and feeling. When I was lying in bed, I could see
sweat sliding down his forehead.
Empress.. Empress, she..
“But it doesn’t matter. I won’t blame you.”
The emperor took my hand at his side. He asked the doctor with a calm face, but his hand became tighter and
tighter.
I caught a glimpse of the cut on his wrist, which had turned into a pale pink mark.
The empress was seriously injured before, but now, although she has come to her senses, her heart is weak, and her pulse is weak and thin. In the future
, I’m afraid she can only do her best to nourish herself, and she has little movement, so she can barely.. Barely enjoy the life of ordinary people
.
A word must be, the head of the doctor also directly against the floor tiles, eager to find a hole to bury themselves
.
The emperor’s brows were locked together again, and seeing that the doctor’s body was shaking more and more,
I had no choice but to pull the emperor’s hand and say,
“It’s all right. The doctor said that. I’ll write it down in the future and take good care of it.”
He waved his hand, and all the people around him retreated, and even Ah Jie left
with him.
The whole inner hall was empty and quiet.
The emperor reached over and rubbed his cheek. Suddenly he asked me, “Does it still hurt?” I smiled and shook my head.
“You can rest assured that with me, I will find
the best medicine and the best doctors in the world, and I won’t let anything happen to you again.”
I smiled and asked him to bend over.
When he bent down in front of me, I raised my head slightly and
kissed him on the lips.
“With you here, I have nothing to worry about.” The medicine prescribed by the
Imperial Physician is always surprisingly bitter. I didn’t feel it when I was dizzy before, but now I wake up
and drink it one mouthful at a time. It’s often so bitter that I can’t recover for half an hour.
The emperor would always collect all kinds of ointments and send them over, saying that they could fade away the scars on
my neck. Perhaps he was afraid that I would be oversensitive, and said that it didn’t matter if I couldn’t fade down, so he just made up
a pair with him. After all,
the elder sister is an alien woman. Now that I wake up, she can’t live in the palace for a long time. When
I can get out of bed and walk around at will, the elder sister also proposes to leave the palace and go home. My elder sister and
I left the palace together and went to worship my mother first.
Mother’s tomb and the late lady’s are not far away, the tablet is engraved in addition to the mother’s name
, there are four words of Jiang Xie’s dead wife.
Jiang Xie is the father’s name, the elder sister said, this is the father let carve. I stayed in front of my mother’s grave for a long time, thinking of my mother’s appearance
of playing Guan Shanyue before, but I couldn’t remember it clearly. It was not until the sun went down that my elder sister and I were
taken back to Jiang’s house by the people sent by my father.
Father was still quiet and unsmiling, like a tiger.
It’s just that the tiger’s temples also have white hair. The three of
us sat together and had a reunion dinner, which was not a reunion. My father
didn’t say much, but asked me to take good care of myself in the palace.
Father did not mention the prosperity of the Jiang family, bid farewell to me and my elder sister, and when he entered the house again, he did
not look back.
Sister went back to Lu Fu, and I also went back to the palace.
The elder sister is not here, my day is more and more boring, the queen mother has summoned me several times, let me
live well, also beat me to let me abide by the rules of the palace.
The emperor often came to accompany me, but he didn’t sit for a long time. Sometimes he went back to the Qinzheng Palace before
a game of chess was finished.
I learned a lot of new things about arranging flowers and ordering tea. When I was bored, I would go out to see
the little ladies in the palace kick shuttlecocks against each other. The shuttlecocks flew and they laughed, which made me happy
.
I do not know how long passed in the palace, the former court suddenly came the news of his father’s resignation. Two hundred thousand troops on the
border, after all, is the royal, not the ginger. The emperor promised his father a leisurely Marquis. Speaking of it, he is also a relative of the emperor. I can’t
take care of the affairs of the former Dynasty. I still drink those bitter medicines every day.
The emperor said that preparations for my grand ceremony had already begun, and that I would be his real wife after the grand
ceremony was held at the end of the year. He wanted to make up for the things I lacked when I
married into the Prince’s Mansion.
Soon, the first snow of this year began to fall in the capital. Snowflakes were falling
all over the place, and the red walls and white snow were very beautiful. When
I was enjoying the snow at noon, the emperor suddenly came and said that the plum blossoms in the palace were blooming. When the snow
stopped, he asked me if I wanted to enjoy the plum blossoms.
He said he would take me to see Mei, and now he has got his wish. Wrapped in a thick cloak and holding the stove in my arms,
I walked slowly to the Plum Garden with the emperor.
Dozens of palace people are mighty, and people are sweeping snow everywhere. At
the entrance, the emperor asked others to wait outside and only took me into the Plum Garden. The garden
is full of red plum blossoms, the branches are filled with snow, and the fragrance comes to the face, which is
really good to smell.
“In the future, I will send someone to build a pavilion here, and it will be even more convenient
for us to come and admire the plum blossoms.” The emperor pointed to the open space not far away and tightened his cloak for me.
He said it would be a good time in the future. I wanted to fold two plum blossoms and take them back, so he asked me to stay where I was and wait for him. The snow
in the plum garden was too thick, so he folded them for me.
I looked at his back among the plum branches and snow shadows, Qingjun Xiao Su, long as jade. The man
in front of me is the emperor who planned life and death in the former Dynasty, and also the husband who took me to walk in
the snow and broke a red plum for me.
He once said that his sincerity should always weigh the pros and cons first, and he also said that what he gave me must be
the most genuine.
Life is like this, you can’t ask for more.
I turned sideways and looked at the past in the sudden fluttering snowflakes. The walls of the palace were towering and magnificent
. I really couldn’t see the scene outside the palace.
There are rabbits and pheasants leaving Luo. After all,
I can no longer be comfortable, but fortunately, I am willing.
