Remembering each other
step by step for the battalion
commander: After Princess Chang was reborn, she was engaged in her career
again. The sun slowly rose to the sky, and it was time for the next court. Outside the
Hall of Supreme Harmony, the officials left in an orderly manner, whispering in twos and threes on the way. Xu Guangsi, a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, paced up to Zhai Wentao, the editor of the Imperial Academy, and whispered, “Brother Wentao, I’ve heard that Lord Xie of the Ministry of Rites is going to be promoted again.”? It is said that the imperial edict has been drawn up and is waiting to be read out. The drafting of
all imperial edicts should go through the Hanlin Academy, and Zhai Wentao naturally has first-hand information here. What’s more, Zhai Wentao is the legitimate son of the Minister of Rites.
Zhai Wentao glanced at him and said, “Where did you hear that?”
Just.. I heard! Hearsay. Xu Guangsi touched his nose, slightly embarrassed.
He is the same age as Zhai Wentao. The so-called same year, that is, the same year of the imperial examination and the first, into the court officials. Because the family was quite powerful, both of them were promoted quickly, but in three years, they were promoted from the seventh grade to the sixth grade, and they had a good relationship on weekdays.
Of course, Jaffe is also the same year as them. “Is Xie Yingzhan going to be promoted to the fifth grade of herbalist?” Said
Xu Guangsi? Twenty-one-year-old herbalist! I’ve never heard of, never seen!
“What’s so strange about that?” Zhai Wentao said, “He just helped the emperor solve the problem of paying tribute to the northern desert. If he doesn’t get promoted, who will?”
Xu Guangsi was puzzled: “When he was with you in the Imperial Academy, he was a close minister of the emperor who often went in and out of the palace.”? I can’t imagine that the new emperor would dare to put him in an important position.
“Don’t try to figure out the divine will.” Zhai Wentao frowned and lowered his voice.
Xu Guangsi saw that he was a little unhappy and immediately shut up.
They have known each other for a long time, and they actually have a good relationship. Zhai Wentao was originally a cheerful man, but also keen to discuss gossip, but since the new emperor came to court, his character suddenly changed a lot, no longer as wanton as before.
Xu Guangsi can also understand his transformation. Zhai Wentao’s own aunt was the late emperor’s virtuous concubine, one of the four concubines, status and favor are not lacking, of course, also died in the palace change. The new emperor had no trusted followers to use for the time being, and none of the six ministers had moved for the time being, so Zhai Wentao’s father was still sitting in the position of Minister of Rites. But how much longer you can sit there is anyone’s guess.
At this time, the most popular one in the Ministry of Rites is Jaffe.
Hsu Kuang-si shook his head and said, “Well, after all, Hsieh Ying-chien is a double champion. He hasn’t been able to produce one in many years.”. What’s more, the annual tribute that Beimo originally wanted was twice as much as it is now. I don’t know how Hsieh Ying-zhan talked to those Beimo people, but he was able to use seeds instead of gold, silver, and cloth, and abruptly reduced the amount that Beimo originally wanted by half. Ah, brother Wen Tao, when he was still in the Hanlin Academy, were you familiar with him?
“He doesn’t know anyone well.” Zhai Wentao said, He has no friends, no hobbies, and even no expression. When I talked to him, he completely ignored me. Later, when he asked to be transferred to the Ministry of Rites, I was very surprised. It didn’t feel like his style.
“Then you’re wrong on one point.” Xu Guangsi said.
“What’s wrong?”
“He is not entirely without interest.”
“Huh?”
As far as I know, Lord Hsieh has been particularly fond of buying jade this year, and when he takes a rest, he will go to the workshop in the street market to learn how to carve jade hairpins. I ran into him when I went to pick up an ornament for my wife. The workshop master told me that he had been carving a hairpin in the shape of an auspicious cloud and had wasted a lot of good material.
「……」 Don’t
you think this hobby is very special? I’ve only heard of dignitaries who love to collect jade. At most, they’re big gamblers who love to play with stones. Most people really haven’t seen their own..
Zhai Wen-tao tugged at the corners of his mouth and said, “Hsieh Ying-zhan is not an ordinary person either.”
“Hey, yeah.” Xu Guangsi touched his head. The
two men chatted and walked away. Five years
of Huaihua.
Chen Yan has been on the throne for five years, and the government and the public have already shuffled their cards. Over the years, the Huo family in Langya came to the fore, and Huo Xuancheng was put in an important position as a doctor of Guanglu. Two years before
Chen Yan ascended the throne, because of the unstable situation in the court, he did everything himself, but later he gradually left things to his trusted courtiers, and now he didn’t even go to the court, and only summoned his trusted followers in the palace.
Three years ago, the ministers in the court asked the emperor to recruit a wide range of people from the imperial harem on the grounds that “the country cannot be left without a successor.”. Chen Yan agreed.
Unexpectedly, one of the selected imperial concubines was favored by the emperor and was directly named the imperial concubine.
The imperial concubine came from the Qin family, and her father was the Duke of England. But the elder sister of the British Duke and the aunt of the imperial concubine Qin turned out to be the first mother of the empress Dowager Chen Yan.
According to legend, the relationship between the first queen mother and Chen Yan’s birth mother was not good, so the Qin family was not ready for their daughter to enter the palace. But somehow, on the day of the draft, Chen Yan only took a look at the Qin girl and immediately chose her.
“Your Majesty may have fallen in love at first sight.” “After all,” Huo Xuancheng said to his colleagues, “the Chin girls are beautiful.” Has
Lord Huo ever seen the imperial concubine? How beautiful it is! Someone asked curiously.
“Well, I think I’m not far behind Princess Huayang in those days.” Huo Xuancheng stroked his beard.
Princess Huayang has been dead for ten years, and most of the people present have not seen her charm, but as long as the name is mentioned, everyone can think of the name of the first beauty in the capital.
Can match the first beauty, want to think of that imperial concubine empress, nature is extremely beautiful.
“Not right?” Huo Xuancheng suddenly frowned. As soon as he changed his
mind, he said, “This imperial concubine seems to be the cousin of Princess Huayang.”? Yes, they are more than twenty years apart, but they are really cousins.
“They were all beauties. No wonder the emperor was fascinated.” The man next to him nodded repeatedly. Since the imperial concubine
Qin entered the palace, she has been greatly favored. Chen Yan to other imperial concubines already could not use the snub to describe, almost did not take the eye to have looked.
Unfortunately, since ancient times, many beauties were unlucky, and Qin Guifei followed in her cousin’s footsteps and left at a young age. It had been only two years since she had entered the palace, and she had not even left a single heir.
Since the death of the imperial concubine Qin, Chen Yan has never been to court again.
Originally, when the imperial concubine Qin was there, he stayed in the harem and stopped asking about many things. With the decentralization of Chen Yan, Huo Xuancheng’s power like spring weeds wanton crazy rise, in the court has a dominant trend, in addition to the viceroy of the capital guards Lu Zhiyuan, no one can contend with him. In the year after the death of the imperial concubine
Qin, Chen Yan seemed to be crazy and sent Lu Zhiyuan to look for a woman who looked like the imperial concubine Qin all over the world, and he was almost indifferent to the government.
Now the emperor is not very good, and there is no heir, it is not easy to stabilize the situation, and there are new variables. Under the
surface calm, the undercurrent is constantly surging. There are a group of new people in
Ye Youting.
Let go of me! Let go of me! A rather beautiful woman was shouting indignantly, and her hands were being cut behind her by two people.
“If you are not honest, you will be whipped here!” One of them pressed her humanity.
Bah! Do you know who I am? I work for Viceroy Lu! If that crazy woman hadn’t set me up when the governor wasn’t home, I could have come to a place like this?! The woman said ferociously, “You let me go quickly!”! Otherwise, when Viceroy Lu comes, you won’t have any good fruit to eat! Of course
I know who you are. The list of your people has already been handed over to my aunt, and your name is naturally on it. Your name is Hua Rong, right? She used to be a servant girl of the Lu Mansion. Her hands and feet were not clean at home. She was sent to do hard work in the secluded courtyard. To tell you the truth, there are several of you who are sent here every year, but none of you have ever gone out. I advise you to be obedient, so as not to make your aunt angry. It’s not a matter of whether you can eat the good fruit or not. The
speaker’s name was Chunxing, and together with Chuntao beside her, she was responsible for teaching the new servant of sin the rules in this secluded courtyard.
In fact, there is nothing to teach the rules, nothing more than two words: obedient. The servants who
come here do the most inferior work. Originally, the court only accepted slaves who had made big mistakes in the palace but did not die, but when the emperor ascended the throne, he sent all the inferior eunuchs and palace maids who had served the late emperor and the imperial concubines, so it was a mess.
“I don’t know what’s going on, but in the past two years, the servants of the big families have been sent to us, and the emperor has no opinion at all. It’s really strange.” Chunxing Road.
She quickly stuffed a folded piece of cloth into Huarong’s mouth, so Huarong could only make a resentful “whine” sound and could not shout a word. How can
the emperor have time to take care of such a thing? The emperor is busy thinking of the imperial concubine Qin. “Come on,” replied Chuntao. “Those who came before are similar to her, but with their aunts, they are not all obedient in the end.”
“Yes, with my aunt here, there won’t be any chaos in this secluded courtyard.” “When we can get a face in front of my aunt and be a little steward, we won’t have to do hard work every day.”
“Don’t daydream,” Chuntao immediately poured a basin of cold water on Chunxing. “We haven’t seen our aunt for ten days and a half months. If we think about it, how long will it take? Take care of this for now.
Hua Rong was still whining, with a resentful look on her face.
According to the rules laid down by the aunt in charge of Ye Youting, new entrants to Ye Youting, regardless of gender, are trained by Chunxing and Chuntao for a month. When their minds are calm, the eunuchs in charge of each group come to pick up people and decide where to go.
Spring apricots and peaches are just routine. Huarong is the most disobedient of this group, but it is not the first disobedient. They treat it according to the precedent, but they should be punished. After suffering for a few days, Hua Rong finally knew that this place was not the Dudufu, and that he could not get things done by shouting twice, so he began to swallow his pride.
Who knows, Lu Zhiyuan really came to the secluded court to ask for someone. It
was really the first time that the host family came to the secluded courtyard in person. Those who were originally sent were useless even if they shouted out their throats. There were also bold people who bribed the eunuch in charge to deliver a message to the outside of the palace, but there was no response from the outside. This flower is really capable, unexpectedly really let the viceroy of the land to find?
Who dares to look directly at the second-grade officer in charge of the imperial guards in the capital? What’s more, he is tall and big, looks like the King of Hell, and his face is somewhat indescribable evil, which makes people dare not look at him.
All the people knelt on the ground, silently bearing the monstrous anger of the viceroy. As soon as
Hua Rong saw Lu Zhiyuan, he got into his arms, pinched his voice and cried coquettishly, and kept shouting to go home.
“Why is this woman like that Qiushui?” Bluegrass knelt not far away and muttered in a very low voice.
The bluegrass thought of the autumn water four years ago. After Wang Jin was transferred, Qiushui lost his backing and his position plummeted. Later, somehow, he was driven mad by his aunt with a few words and shut himself in the house and refused to come out. The aunt directly ordered to lock the door and never let anyone look at her again. Later, when someone went to see it, the body was cold and the door was covered with blood from fingernails.
“What happened?” At that moment, a young woman’s voice sounded from far to near. As soon as
Lan Cao looked up, she hurriedly shouted, “Auntie is here!”
Everyone’s eyes converged on the bluegrass, including the crying flower and Lu Zhiyuan holding her.
Lu Chih-yuan frowned and looked at the woman whom everyone called “aunt.”. As soon as he walked in, he heard someone shouting, “Go and tell Auntie.” With his knowledge of the palace, he could be respectfully called “Auntie.” He had usually served in this palace for more than ten years, but he had never thought that the woman in front of him was so young.
The woman was dressed in blue, and her long hair was simply tied up, revealing a smooth forehead and slender eyebrows. Further down, is a pair of very indifferent eyes, but as bright as glass. Below
her left eye, there is a small lachrymal mole, which adds a bit of breathtaking charm.
Lu Zhiyuan involuntarily let go of Hua Rong.
“My Lord..” Hua Rong is still a little confused.
Lu Chih-yuan, however, walked toward the woman without looking back. “What’s your name?”
The other person didn’t seem to have any intention of answering his question at all. Instead, he looked straight at him and said, “I haven’t had time to ask this adult, what’s his name and why he broke into the palace.”
Lan Cao tugged at her clothes and said, “Aunt Yunzhi, this is Lord Lu, the military governor.”
“Your name is Yunzhi?” Governor Lu lowered his head and looked at Sheng Yunlin’s face very closely. “How can such a beautiful woman be an’aunt ‘?”
“Lord Lu, please respect yourself.” Sheng Yunlin gave way quietly. There was a little more panic
on Huarong’s face, and he knew very well that Lu Zhiyuan was a man of uncertainty, especially. When facing the prey.
“You know, Hua Rong is a member of my family.” Lu Chih-yuan’s tone was somewhat dangerous. “How dare you treat my people like this?”
“Lord Lu.” Sheng Yun-lin looked straight into his eyes and said, Every year, as soon as you come in, you say you have a backer. There are eight if not ten. I can’t check one by one and offer one by one, can I? There are hundreds of people in this secluded courtyard. If I set a precedent, how can I control them later? It’s like having a young master from a family of high officials and nobles in your guards. You can’t just ignore military discipline and regulations for them, can you?
“There is some truth in what you say.” Lu Chih-yuan grinned, and the evil spirit on his face was even stronger. But the next second, his smile quickly pulled away. “But I don’t like people talking to me like that.”
Sheng Yun-lin no longer looked at him, but said to Lan Cao beside him, “Lan Cao, take a copy of the release document and ask Lord Lu to sign it.”
“Yes.”
“Release Instrument?” Lu Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows.
“Didn’t you come to ask for someone?” Sheng Yun-lin’s expression did not change. “Since it was sent by your family, it’s not a sinful servant in the palace. If you want to go back, it’s all right. Just sign a document and leave a record. Otherwise, it’s hard for us servants to do it.”
“Oh, I don’t want it now.”
Sheng Yunlin frowned. “My Lord,” exclaimed
Hua Rong, “you..” With a sneer,
Lu Zhiyuan hugged Hua Rong and looked at Sheng Yunlin. “I want to come and see her every day.”
“Help yourself.” Sheng Yunlin shook his sleeve and left without looking back. The
smoke is dense and the tea fragrance is overflowing. Sheng Yunlin and Xu Shanggong sat kneeling face to face, with a teapot and a chessboard on the table in front of them.
This is the residence of Shang Gong, and it has been two years since Aunt Xu was promoted to Shang Gong. At that time, Sheng Yunlin was only grateful and took the initiative to do something for Aunt Xu, and gradually established the system of Ye Youting, so that the responsibilities of each group were clear. Unexpectedly, when Aunt Xu was promoted to Shanggong, she was specially ordered to be the next aunt in charge of Ye Youting.
“I heard that Viceroy Lu has been coming to your place a lot lately?” Xu Shanggong dropped a chess piece.
Sheng Yun-lin looked down at the chessboard. “There is such a thing.”
“This man is not a good match, but you have to think about it.” Hsu Shang-kung said with a straight face, “But it would be nice to have a chance to leave the palace.”
“He won’t do that.” Sheng Yunlin shook his head.
Lu Zhiyuan’s most important task at the moment is to find a person who looks like Qin Guifei for Chen Yan, and the more like the better, in order to alleviate the pain of Chen Yan’s lovesickness.
Lu Zhiyuan is Chen Yan’s trusted minister, if he wants a woman to enter the house, it is bound to alarm Chen Yan. If Chen Yan was curious and asked to see himself, Lu Zhiyuan would not know what to do.
What’s more, isn’t it more worthwhile for Lu Zhiyuan to give her directly to the emperor?
But she dares to gamble, Lu Zhiyuan is reluctant to give up.
He can only be indecisive, day after day, but can not make up his mind.
In fact, Sheng Yunlin and Qin Guifei are not particularly similar, but their eyebrows and eyes are slightly similar. The common people all said that the imperial concubine Qin was lucky, even if the beauty was unlucky, she also got the emperor’s extreme favor. But only Sheng Yunlin knew that Qin Guifei was just a stand-in. When
a stand-in dies, there’s a rush to find the next stand-in.
Sheng Yunlin does not need to look like a stand-in, she is more like the person Chen Yan really thinks about day and night-Princess Huayang. Had it not been for her careful investigation of the palace’s secrets over the years, she would not have found that Chen Yan and her mother had such a past.
“That’s all right. You always have an idea, and I don’t like to ask questions.” “Just take care of yourself,” said Hsu Shang-kung.
Sheng Yunlin does have an idea.
She ignored Lu Zhiyuan at first. Lu Zhiyuan came to the secluded courtyard in the name of looking at the beauty, but she didn’t see it at all and only did her own thing. Lu Zhiyuan was very angry about this, but she was still very cold. She told Lu Zhiyuan that she was a person in the palace, and Lord Lu was not qualified to punish him. If Lord Lu really wanted to punish himself, please go and complain to his boss. By the way, she showed him the way to Xu Shanggong.
Lu Zhiyuan, of course, did not go to complain. If he went to the small house where Sheng Yunlin handled his affairs, Sheng Yunlin would hang him out, but sent Lan Cao to make a pot of tea for him to drink. Lu Zhiyuan thought the tea she had here was too bad, so the next time she came, she brought the new tea of this spring and asked Sheng Yunlin to replace all the tea in the house.
Sheng Yun-lin, however, asked Lan Cao to put away all the tea. “When your excellency comes,” he said, “just take it out and make it.”
“How can you be sure I’ll come back?” Lu Zhiyuan asked her. Without even looking at him,
Sheng Yun-lin said, “Lord Lu is busy every day, and on weekdays he is stared at by countless pairs of eyes. He came to me just to find a quiet place and steal half a day’s leisure.”
Her words, if spoken by another person, would seem to be a compliment to Lu Zhiyuan. But her tone was as clear as plain boiled water, as if she were just stating an established fact.
Lu Zhiyuan had to admit that he really liked to listen. Even if he never lacks compliments.
But Sheng Yun-lin rarely says such “nice” things. Most of the time, Lu Zhiyuan drinks tea and Sheng Yunlin does his own thing.
On one occasion, Lu Zhiyuan went to see what Sheng Yunlin was writing, but found that she wrote a very beautiful small script. It is not as soft and graceful as the small regular script of hairpin flowers practiced by ordinary boudoir women. Sheng Yunlin’s handwriting is neat and beautiful, spacious and beautiful. At a glance, he knows that he has worked hard.
He suddenly pulled out the book that Sheng Yunlin was writing and turned over a few pages. It was a record of some business arrangements, but it was so well-organized that the six main books could be ashamed of themselves. “What did you do before you went into the secluded courtyard?”
Lu Chih-yuan’s tone was ambiguous.
Sheng Yun-lin said, “I worked in the Empress Dowager’s palace.”
No matter how big the lie is, after five years of gradual polishing, it should be seamless. Lu Zhiyuan then asked several questions, and Sheng Yunlin answered them one by one, without a trace of abnormality. Only then did
Lu Zhiyuan return the book suspiciously.
He felt that everything about Sheng Yunlin was a mystery. Her face was similar to that of that imperial concubine Qin, but she was more beautiful than her. She was the aunt in charge of the secluded court, but she seemed to be inferior. More importantly, she seemed not to be afraid of herself at all. No matter what tone she used to speak to her, she would respond with the same manner and manner. Who the hell is
she? More than
a month later.
Sheng Yunlin was reading in the room, but Lu Zhiyuan came in with sad eyes.
Seeing that his expression was not right, Sheng Yun-lin showed some rare “concern.” He took the cloak he had taken off and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“That old Huo Hsuen-cheng!” Lu Zhiyuan cursed in a low voice.
Sheng Yun-lin said, “Oh.”.
“What’s wrong?” Lu Chih-yuan glanced at Sheng Yun-lin. “Do you have any ideas?”
Sheng Yun-lin shook his head. “It’s nothing. It’s just that it’s not worth it for adults.”
“Oh, isn’t it worth it?” Lu Chih-yuan was a little amused. “Tell me, how can it be unworthy for me?”
“Your Excellency is in charge of the military, and has made great contributions to the emperor, but Doctor Guanglu dares to collide with you.”
Lu Chih-yuan snorted coldly, “He thinks he’s a first-grade officer, and I’m a second-grade one, so he dares to tell me what to do!”
“That’s why I’m not worth it for adults.” Sheng Yunlin said leisurely, “In terms of merit, you are above him, but his rank is higher than yours. Why?”? It’s just the emperor’s art of balancing.
「……」 Lu Zhiyuan’s face was even worse.
“Oh, yes, there is one more thing that adults may want to know.” Sheng Yunlin said.
“What is it?”
I heard from the Empress of the Shang Palace that there was a new Taoist priest in the palace who claimed to be able to cure the emperor’s heart disease with elixirs and help the emperor meet the deceased in his dreams. Perhaps the emperor felt that the matter of inviting the Taoist into the palace was not pleasant to hear, so he did not disclose it. But this elixir has not been a good thing since ancient times, has it?
「……」 Lu Zhiyuan listened, silent for a while, suddenly raised his hand and pinched Sheng Yunlin’s neck.
Cough, cough, cough.. Adult Sheng Yunlin couldn’t stop coughing.
Lu Chih-yuan’s exertion was not small. He pressed Sheng Yun-lin against the wall, his eyes darkening: “Who told you to tell me this?”
No.. Ahem. No one..
Sheng Yunlin’s face began to turn blue. Her breathing was extremely difficult, and she felt that she was going to die in this place in the next second.
She closed her eyes.
Lu Zhiyuan suddenly let her go again.
Her legs went limp and she sat down on her knees.
For a long time, Lu Zhiyuan asked, “Why don’t you struggle?”
Sheng Yun-lin touched his aching neck and raised his head. “Is it useful to struggle?”
She is still the same as before, not afraid to look at Lu Zhiyuan. Her pupils were bottomless, as quiet as a pool of water.
“You’d better not lie to me.” Lu Zhiyuan’s tone is very dangerous.
Chen Yan invited the Taoist, of course, can not hide. When he came in, he
became more and more lethargic, and whenever the minister who went to the palace to pay his respects asked about it, the answer he got was, “The emperor is taking a nap, please come back later.”. After a long time, some people became suspicious, and as long as there was an eyeliner in the palace, it was easy to know what had happened around Chen Yan.
Lu Zhiyuan is no exception.
But Sheng Yunlin gave him the earliest news, earlier than everyone else.
Also do not know that Taoist is how to do, Chen Yan seems to be able to really meet the old friend in a dream, so that the initiative does not want to wake up, every day to take tranquilizing drugs, the palace has been lit to help sleep aromatherapy.
Lu Zhiyuan bribed the imperial physician who asked the emperor for a safe pulse. The imperial physician said, The emperor’s health is getting worse and worse, and there is a faint tendency that the lamp will run out of oil.
The Imperial Physician also said that in his sleep, the emperor did not seem to be calling the imperial concubine Qin, but a name called “Wan Wan.”.
Lu Zhiyuan read the name silently several times, but did not remember that there had been such a number one person.
Lu Zhiyuan went to the secluded courtyard again.
Only this time, as soon as he arrived outside Sheng Yunlin’s house, he heard Sheng Yunlin talking to the bluegrass.
“Auntie, forgive the maidservant for speaking frankly. Viceroy Lu is restless. You almost died last time..” Why do you still want to find out information for him? What’s more, he doesn’t necessarily believe it. It doesn’t matter whether
he believes me or not. Anyway, if I remind him, he will always look into it.
“He has not been good to you.” There was something reproachful in Lan Cao’s tone. “I didn’t mean to take you out of this secluded courtyard.”
「…… He helped me before.
“What?” Lord
Lu once accompanied Lady Lu to the palace to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager. When I first arrived at Shoukang Palace, I was always bullied, and I happened to be bumped into by him that day. He drank off the maids who bullied me for me. Sheng Yun-lin narrated slowly, “Of course, he certainly doesn’t remember.”. A little maid of honor is an insignificant existence.
“With his personality, how could he offer to help you?” The bluegrass seemed surprised.
“He wasn’t like this before.” Sheng Yunlin said, But his parents left early. When he was a teenager, he shouldered the burden of the entire Lu family. If he were as kind as before, the Lu family would only be bullied by others. Had he not been the first to stand up for the emperor and hand over the military power of the Lu family, the emperor might not have been able to grasp the situation so quickly. But the emperor doesn’t feel that way.
“And for this reason..”
“Most ruthless of all, the heart of an emperor.” Sheng Yunlin sighed, “That’s all I can do for adults.”. Speaking of it, maybe it’s really fate. I recognized him at the first sight when I saw him in Yeyouting, but he may never remember me in his life.
Lu Zhiyuan stopped for a long time.
Eventually, instead of pushing the door open, he left.
……
After Lan Cao had made sure that the man was far away, he asked Sheng Yunlin softly, “Will he really believe what we just said?”
“I don’t know.” Sheng Yun-lin shook his head. “We’ll find out in a few days.”. Just look at his reaction.
Lan Cao hesitated for a moment, then asked, “Yun Zhi, what happened to him in the past..” How do you know that? But
Sheng Yun-lin said, “Don’t ask too many questions about some things.”
The bluegrass frowned.
At that time, Aunt Xu, now Xu Shanggong, also told her not to ask too much about Yunzhi, she said what to do.
But what Sheng Yunlin asked her to do this time was too dangerous. She actually joined hands with himself to cheat Lu Zhiyuan, who was the second-grade viceroy in charge of the imperial guards! If they find out, ten heads won’t be enough!
As if seeing Lan Cao’s uneasiness, Sheng Yunlin said to her, “Do you still remember what I asked you two years ago when Empress Shang Gong pointed out that I was the successor to Aunt Ye Youting?”
Without waiting for Lan Cao to answer, Sheng Yunlin went on to say, “I asked you at that time, ‘I was favored by you, so I didn’t die here. But now it’s me who has risen, not you. Do you blame me?'” You replied, ‘What if I become an aunt in charge? Not to be trapped in this place for the rest of my life. If you feel a little sorry or grateful for me, then when you have a chance to go out of the secluded courtyard, put me on too. I promised you.
“It’s about time.” Sheng Yunlin said faintly, “I am a man who keeps his promise. I will take you out.”
Lan Cao doesn’t know why Sheng Yunlin can be so confident.
But over the years, Sheng Yunlin has been beyond her expectation.
Finally, Lan Cao gritted his teeth and said, “OK, I’ll gamble with you!”! You mustn’t lose!
Hearing these words, Sheng Yunlin was slightly stunned. She suddenly felt a little familiar, as if someone had said to her many years ago: “You will not lose.”.
She could not remember who had said that under what circumstances, but she always remembered the four words.
“I won’t lose.” “Never,” she said to the bluegrass. It’s late
at night. The gate of the palace had already been locked, and the eunuchs on night patrol, carrying lanterns, shuttled back and forth on the broad road.
Sheng Yunlin is walking a road that she has walked countless times over the years: the road from the upper study to the secluded courtyard. She just routinely came here late at night to pick up some books, and she was familiar with avoiding the patrol, and she had never made a mistake in many years. But this time, a pair of big hands suddenly covered her mouth from behind her and pulled her into the lane next to her. As soon as
they disappeared, a group of men on patrol came around the corner, as if they were ghosts. After
the man left, Lu Zhiyuan’s deep voice came from behind Sheng Yunlin: “Why are you running around in the middle of the night?”? I don’t know how to be careful! There was a hint of reproach in
his words. “Isn’t your excellency here in the middle of the night?” Asked
Sheng Yunlin.
“I have an order from the emperor to stay in the palace tonight.” “The emperor hasn’t been in good health lately, and his suspicions are getting worse. The number of people on patrol at night has doubled, and now he goes to places he didn’t go to before.”
「…… Thank you for your help.
In fact, without Lu Zhiyuan, Sheng Yunlin admitted that he would not have been discovered. But at this time she wanted to know when Lu Zhiyuan began to follow her.
He found himself in the upper study? And you brought a book? “Don’t you ask me why I’m here in the middle of the night?”
Sheng Yunlin asked tentatively.
But to no one’s surprise, Lu Chih-yuan gave her a “ha” and smiled at her, with a hint of interest in his eyes: “It’s nothing more than asking for information for me, isn’t it?”
「……」 It seems that I think too much. Sheng Yunlin thought.
But she really didn’t expect that Lu Zhiyuan would be so easy to fool.
“Now I have a more important thing for you to do, but it may be fatal. Would you like to do it?” Lu Zhiyuan asked.
“Good.” Sheng Yunlin answered without thinking.
Lu Chih-yuan frowned. “You didn’t even ask what it was about, so you just agreed?”
“I’ve known your excellency for half a year, and this is the first time in half a year that your excellency has asked me to do something for you.” Sheng Yun-lin said calmly, “That means the adults are beginning to trust me.”
Lu Zhiyuan narrowed his eyes.
For a long time, he said, “Good.”. If you succeed at this time, you will become one of the most honorable women in the world.
「……」 Sheng Yun-lin sighed. “Lord Lu, I’m not even afraid of death. Naturally I don’t care about that.”. Come on, what do I have to do?
Lu Zhiyuan possessed himself and whispered in her ear, “I want to present you to the emperor.” During
the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Yan hosted a banquet in the palace as usual. Inside the main hall, singing and dancing promoted peace, and the graceful palace people dressed in flowing clouds and wide sleeves added good wine to the table, while the princes and ministers pushed a cup for a change, in a lively and jubilant state.
Jaffe’s seating order is not low. He was released for three years, and his performance appraisal was the best every year. When he returned to the court, he had already been promoted to the fourth grade official, and it was just around the corner to enter the third grade. People of the same generation are guessing when his next promotion will be, and the noble family all lament that the generation of the Xie family has really produced a talented person. With Jaffe alone, the prosperity of this scholarly family can last for at least three generations.
Perhaps the only drawback is that Jaffe is too cold and unsociable. Even on the occasion of such a palace banquet, a person drinks alone, and no one’s wine is respected.
It can only be said that the Xie family has always been noble and has the capital of indifference. What’s more, the emperor doesn’t care about him, and the people around him are not surprised. At the
palace banquet, the dancer was performing on the stage. Fairy flutters, jade liquid purges gold, just like the posture of heaven and man, all the audience applauded, even the emperor who said he had been ill for many days was also interested, while drinking, while staring. Just then
, the two dancers opened a long blank scroll from both ends, and suddenly a woman with a blue veil came from behind. Her dress is different from others, it is more conspicuous three points, and that pair of smart eyes, but also in the room full of lights appear to look bright. The glass
in Jaffe’s hand stopped. The
woman on the stage holds a pen in her hand, spins it to the front of the long scroll, splashes ink and writes eight big characters: Heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, the four seas are peaceful.
At this time, the sound of the instrument will be fixed. At the end of the dance, the applause from the audience was thunderous, and the lanterns on the stage were all extinguished in the next second.
Jaffe’s glass slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground. Just because of the hubbub of people around him, no one noticed his little accident.
The emperor was stunned.
He called the big eunuch beside him and asked, “Who was the last woman who wrote?”
The big eunuch replied, “The maidservant will go and ask for the emperor.”
“When you find her, bring her to me!”
Jaffe left the table early without saying hello to anyone.
He went straight to the side hall where the dancers were resting, but Mammy at the door was so frightened that she quickly stopped him. “Sir, don’t trespass here!”
“Get out of the way!” Jaffe, however, shook off Mammy and took his hand.
He was originally a person who practiced martial arts, but when he really used his strength, Mammy naturally could not resist and was thrown aside. Only then did Jaffe realize that he seemed to have lost his mind, but he still rushed in without changing his face.
The side hall was full of dancers who had just danced. They suddenly saw a man dressed in official clothes, even a little pale, and they were too frightened to move for a moment.
Jaffe glanced around quickly, but did not see the person he wanted.
“Where was the woman in Tsing Yi just now?”
“There aren’t any girls in Tsing Yi here?” Replied Mammy.
Jaffe looked around again, confirmed that there was no one on the stage just now, and immediately left without looking back.
No, he can’t be wrong.
Even if the half of the face covered by the veil was wrong, he would not admit his mistake. It was a good word that he had carefully circled and pointed out one by one. How could he admit his mistake! After
all these years, it was the first time that Jaffe’s heart beat so fast. The sound of the people and the wind around him seemed to be automatically blocked, and his world was silent, leaving only the drums in his chest beating down intensively.
She’s still alive.. She must still be alive, in this palace! At the
banquet, the big eunuch replied, “Your Majesty, the dancing troupe said that the dancer who was supposed to write was ill, so they temporarily found a maid who had practiced calligraphy to replace her, but she didn’t record it. I’m afraid it’s hard to find her at this time..”
The maid of honor? Then you can check out all the ladies of the court! Chen Yan is not pleased.
“Yes.” The big eunuch replied with his head down.
On the other side, Sheng Yunlin had already returned to Yeyouting.
Lan Cao was taking off her makeup and whispered, “The emperor has begun to send people to look for you. When are you going to go out?”
“Take your time.” Sheng Yun-lin says, “When it’s time to play hard to get, don’t show up too early.”
Yes, too. If you get something too easily, you will not cherish it. Lan Cao sighed, “But I really didn’t expect that you actually intended for the emperor.”. I thought you would let Lord Lu take you out of the palace.
Sheng Yunlin is silent.
She was not prepared to correct bluegrass, because no one could know what she was going to do.
She needs allies, but she is doomed to have no real allies. Apart from Chen Yu, all the people around her are just the difference in the size of the chess pieces.
Sheng Yunlin did not expect that Jaffe would find Ye Youting.
In fact, she saw Jaffe at the palace banquet that day. Somehow, she saw him at the first sight when she came out. Sheng Yunlin was fourteen years old and Jaffe was seventeen years old when they first met at the Zhuangyuan banquet. She remembered that Jaffe’s back was straight and his temperament was cold, but his eyebrows and eyes were still the shadow of a young man. Now more than six years have passed, Jaffe on the table has matured a lot, and even the ice-like temperament seems to turn into cool jade.
Now the old man is outside the secluded courtyard. The person who informed him was Lan Cao. In fact, she didn’t know Jaffe. She only described to Sheng Yunlin: The man looked young, but he was wearing the Mandarin duck clothes of a fourth-grade official. And his face was really a little too good-looking, but it looked cold and not easy to get close to.
Sheng Yunlin almost instantly realized who it was. She wanted the bluegrass to refuse, saying that she was not there, but on second thought, since Jaffe could find Ye Youting, it must be confirmed that she was here, she simply could not escape.
Also do not know why, she these years most afraid of things, should be found identity; and now Jaffe found her, she is not the slightest worry or fear of emotion.
She finally let Jaffe into Yeyouting.
It is the ugly time, the time of the day when the sun is at its peak. The moment Jaffe pushed the door open, the golden sunshine flowed down his long hair, plating a trace of warmth on his cold face as before, like a moment spanning more than six years, the 17-year-old Zhuangyuan Lang became the present Lord Xie.
“Long memories.” Jaffe called out her title.
Sheng Yun-lin smiles: “No one has called me that for a long time. I’ve almost forgotten.”
You.. Have you been here all this time? For the first time,
Sheng Yunlin heard hesitation in Jaffe’s voice.
She gave a “hum,” but was a little afraid to look Jaffe in the eye.
She didn’t know what she could read in Jaffe’s eyes. Could it be sympathy? Her Royal Highness, who had been so spoiled and so self-willed, was now reduced to the most inferior servant in the palace.
Sheng Yunlin suddenly had some unexplained happiness. Fortunately, Jaffe saw himself at this time, still retaining the last trace of decency, rather than way she had just entered the secluded courtyard.
They were silent for a while. Suddenly, Sheng Yunlin heard Jaffe say, “The emperor called the Taoist priest into the palace. It was you who planned it.”
That is not a question, but a statement.
Sheng Yun-lin raised his eyes and said, “No, I don’t have that ability. I just added fuel to the fire.”
You gave Hsu Shang-kung the idea. I have checked, and she was in charge of Yeyouting.
「……」 Sheng Yun-lin tugged at the corners of his mouth and said, “It’s true that you’re Lord Hsieh. You really understand what you’re looking for.” The dance at the
palace banquet was also your plan. You deliberately let the emperor not find you, waiting for the right time to appear, right?
“So what if it is?” Sheng Yunlin frowned. The smile on
her lips faded and was replaced by a hint of impatience.
“I thought Lord Hsieh was here to talk about old times, but I didn’t realize that he was asking for punishment.” “Why, is Lord Hsieh going to arrest me?”
“Come with me.”
「…… What?
“I will take you out of the palace.” Jaffe’s voice was low and hoarse.
Sheng Yun-lin raised his eyebrows. “Where can you take me?” People who
hide in secluded courtyards don’t get much attention in the first place. One more of you is not much, and one less of you is not much. Since you have the ability to hide in, naturally you also have the ability to leave. You can pretend to be ill and be carried out, and I will arrange the rest.
Sheng Yunlin was stunned by his long string of words. He was stunned for a long time before he said, “Have you thought about it all?”? But why should I listen to you? Lord Hsieh, of course you should know that since I have the ability to arrange all this, of course I won’t go out in vain.
You have arranged enough. Now that the emperor has only a few years left to live, it’s not too late for you to withdraw.
Withdraw? Then what? Where is Lord Hsieh going to put me? Sheng Yun-lin didn’t have a good breath. “Let me leave the capital and find a place to live in seclusion?”? From now on, I will never see the world, and I will forget my blood feuds and everything that belongs to me.
“If you don’t want to live like that, you can stay at the Hsieh Mansion.”
“At the Hsieh Mansion?” Sheng Yun-lin interrupted him. “Are you kidding me?”
She seemed to have heard a very absurd thing, and even her eyes became sarcastic: “Does Lord Hsieh want me to do this for you?” “Are you willing to commit yourself to Lu Zhiyuan?
” Jaffe finally said angrily.
「……」 Sheng Yunlin was stunned again.
Yeah, too. Since Jaffe can even find out what she did, she can naturally find out her connection with Lu Zhiyuan in the past six months. That’s not surprising.
She felt a chill on her body. She suddenly found that she didn’t seem to want Jaffe to know about it any more than she did about the past in the secluded courtyard.
But Jaffe already knows.
She raised her eyelids, but there was no expression on her face. “Lord Hsieh is so clever that he naturally knows that the military power in Lu Chih-yuan’s hands is part of my calculation.”. If I want to use him, I have to pay a price, don’t I?
“Sheng Yunlin!” Jaffe shouted.
“Hsieh Ying-cham!” Sheng Yunlin was also very angry. There was a sudden tension between the
two men. Sheng Yunlin clenched his fist, his fingernails pinched into his flesh, his knuckles pale, and his face pale. She gambled on her last self-respect and held on, refusing to take a step back.
If she backed off, all her planning, all her suffering over the years, would have been in vain.
In the end, it was Jaffe who turned his face first.
“Just.”. Do what you like. His voice was husky.
Sheng Yun-lin said with an expressionless face, “Lord Hsieh has nothing else to do, so please go back. If you stay in a place like the secluded courtyard for a long time, it’s easy to stain your eyes.”
She’s already giving her marching orders.
Jaffe took a deep look at her, and there was a very complicated emotion in his eyes. Sheng Yunlin avoided his eyes.
After a while, Jaffe turned and left.
Sheng Yunlin looked at his back gradually away, until disappeared, and then suddenly a weak legs, she subconsciously held the door, but still slowly, slowly collapsed down.
「…… In a few months, it will be six years. She murmured to herself, “I’ve been in this hellhole for so long.”
Sheng Yunlin lowered his head.
Her tears dropped on the ground, and her vision gradually blurred.
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