I was born in a brothel, but I was married to four princes by the emperor himself.
I was born in a brothel, but I was married to four princes by the emperor himself.
They all say I’m lucky.
Only I know that I am just a pawn of the emperor and a substitute for Hibiscus Qing.
“The imperial edict has arrived.”
Along with the imperial edict, I, who was born humble, entered the Chenggan Hall.
“The emperor specifically told us that if it is not convenient for your royal Highnesses to kneel down to receive the decree.”
I glanced up quietly, and the man kept a straight face as if he didn’t care about anything. He didn’t say a word or even loosen his expression from beginning to end. On a sunny day in
June, his legs were covered with thick fox fur, and his whole body was precious.
I secretly smacked my tongue.
It is said that the four princes Rong Qi is the God of war, very brave, but I looked at his face delicate and cold, more like the weak Liu Fufeng’s sick beauty.
I am stupefied kung fu, Rong Qi lightly left over, in order not to get Mammy’s whip, I quickly lowered my head, but also missed the surprise in his eyes.
“Your Highness, Miss Qing Qing is yours from now on. Congratulations to Your Highness on the beauty.” Grand
father Huang did not see much reaction from Rong Qi after reading the imperial edict, but when he heard my name, his body trembled. Grandfather
Huang handed the imperial edict to Mammy Ling and left with a group of people, leaving me standing in place to be examined by Rong Qi.
As if I couldn’t see the look in his eyes that he was going to kill, I stuck it up limply.
“Your Highness, Your Majesty said that as long as you take good care of me and give me a place at that time, you won’t have to go back to the Fireworks Willow Alley to let people have fun. You have to feel sorry for the slave family.”
With these words, I lay on his lap, raised my little face and smiled coquettishly, sliding my hand between his legs.
When Mammy Ling’s face turned green with surprise, he pinched my wrist and lifted me away with ease. “Who allowed you to use her face to do debauchery?” Ignoring the murderous intent in his tone,
I smiled shamelessly and said, “Your Highness is joking. My face is a means of making a living. How can I say I am dissolute?” With
a look of disgust on his face, he forced a word through his teeth: “Get out.”
“Your Highness has ordered the slave family to get out of here.” I got up from the ground and unbuttoned my skirt, revealing my white neck. “But it’s the emperor’s will to enter the palace. I dare not do anything to lose my head. In such a big palace, I can’t eat and wear less, can I?” “I’m not afraid to die in the palace, so just stay,” said
Rong Qi, with a touch of cold in the corners of his mouth. Before I
entered the palace, I inquired about him, and they all said that the four princes were generous and kind, loved the country and the people, and wasted their legs in order to open up the territory and expand the territory. Your Majesty granted him special permission to rest in the palace.
But why do I feel that he has nothing to do with benevolence?
“Thank you, Your Highness, for that.”
I lowered my eyebrows and eyes, and the long gauze covered the crimson of my wrist.
I followed Mammy Ling to the residence, where the bamboo leaves rustled, and listened to the three words of Yuxuan, which was elegant.
When I pushed the door and went in, the snow hugged me and stood up to meet me, pulling me around.
“God bless you, are you all right?” Mammy
Ling glanced at us and left.
I sat down and drank two cups of tea from Xueyong. “Are you worried about me?”
She snorted, “Who’s worried about you? I’m afraid you’ll die and I won’t get my two taels of silver back.”
I shook my head and sneered.
Snow hugs this girl, used to be duplicitous.
A month ago, a great man came to Nuanxiang Pavilion.
Mother was so respectful that she wanted to lick her old face on the ground. And
the man came to redeem me by name. Naturally,
I went with him happily, but Xue Yong refused to let me go with tears in his eyes, saying that he would save money to redeem me later.
I do not know whether to laugh or cry, which woman here is not their own difficult to protect? Silver is the lifeblood, and it’s hard for the little girl to say such a thing.
But I have other plans to go with that person. If I can’t survive, there will be no bones left. It’s a road of no return. Why should I take her again.
But the night before she left, Xue Yong said, “The women of Nuanxiang Pavilion have a hard life. It’s a great fortune to be able to leave after a lifetime. Now that I have a chance to escape from this devil’s cave, why don’t I fight for myself?”
I knew she was worried about me, but when I looked at the light under her eyes, I suddenly remembered what my father had said when I was young: “Life also has destiny. How can I walk and sigh and sit and worry?”
Devilishly, I nodded. Before I
went to the Chenggan Palace, I went to see the emperor with the great man who took me to the palace. I pretended to be surprised at their identity and flattered them.
But only I know how much I despise these two people in my heart.
The emperor stared at my face for a long time and exclaimed, “It’s really like that.” When
the prime minister heard this, he replied as if offering a treasure, “Your Majesty, do you know what she is called?”
“Qing Qing, it has the same pronunciation as that one.”
When the old fox called me like this, I got goose bumps all over my body and felt sick.
The emperor smiled faintly with interest. “The fourth brother will surely like this grace.”
Listening to them come and go, I rolled my eyes in my heart with my sore kneeling legs.
“Keep your head up.” “From now on, your task is to stay by the side of the four princes and watch their legs for me at all times, to see if the God of war announced by me is really useless or pretending to be useless.”
I pretended to pander and said softly, “obey the decree.”
Old bastard, the problem of suspicion has not changed.
Even the disabled son can not be trusted, the emperor’s family is really sad. Snow and
I hugged the edge of the yard to count the stars, and I didn’t know how many times my stomach echoed.
“If I’d known the palace didn’t care about food, I wouldn’t have come.” With a smile on my
lips, I looked at the stars in the sky and said, “It will be soon. Just wait.”
Xue Yong looked at me suspiciously and someone came to summon me before I could speak. I have seen
this maid of honor, waiting on Rong Qi’s side. You don’t like
me very much.
“Aunt Ling asked you to wait on your Highness for dinner.” I
said yes, and when I passed by her, she had a cold face and contemptuous eyes: “a cheap, shameless hoof.” I’ve heard
this a lot, and it doesn’t hurt me at all. I’d just laugh it off as usual.
But I came to the palace to be
a tyrant.
“Pow.” Smiling,
I slapped him with my backhand and asked, “People say there are many rules in the palace. I think you’re an old man. Why are you still so reckless?”
She pointed at me with a trembling hand, and her little face was covered with shock and vivid slap marks: “You, you..”
“Pow!”
I shook off my hand again, and my eyes grew cold. “I am a gift from Your Majesty. What kind of thing do you dare to point at me?!”
I took hold of her green finger and felt pity at the bottom of her eyes. The small vermilion mole at the end of her eye became more and more coquettish. “Such a beautiful hand must be even more beautiful with the addition of red. How about cutting it off?”
“Spare my life, girl! Spare my life, girl! It’s the maidservant’s fault.”
The snow hugged one side and let the grass slip from his mouth.
“Your Highness’s bedroom is very familiar to me. I don’t need you to lead the way. My family is hungry. Let’s go to pass on the meal.”
The maid was so frightened that her little face turned pale and she got up and ran away.
Xue Yong looked at me with a lingering fear. “I heard she’s Mammy Ling’s adopted daughter. You’ve offended her. What will you do in the future?”
Scared? If you’re afraid, leave the palace quickly.
“You can’t stand in my way of making a fortune!” When
I arrived, dinner had just been put on the table. As soon as I entered the door, I felt a resentful look. I pretended not to see it and saluted with a smile. No matter whether Rong Qi responded or not, I sat beside him.
“Your Highness really doesn’t care about people. The slaves are starving.” When he was unprepared,
I took his big palm and put it on his flat lower abdomen. For a moment, I felt the stiffness of his body.
He shook off my hand and stared at my side face for a long time. His eyes gradually softened from the beginning of disgust. I knew that he mostly recognized me as Mu Jinqing.
I turned my head and lifted the broken hair on the side of my face to reveal the enchanting red mole. “Your Highness doesn’t taste the delicacies. Do you want to eat me?”
I leaned forward slightly, my breath spitting on his face, and Rong Qi pushed me in disgust.
“Somebody!” His eyes narrowed slightly. “It’s too dirty. Wash her clean.” Those who
rushed up were all old nuns, but they were not easy to fool. I knew I had broken up this time.
They stripped me naked, poured hot water from my head, and my white and tender skin turned red in an instant.
I was pushed into the water and couldn’t move. I don’t know where they found the bath towel, but I think the skin has been rubbed off. When I was fished out of the
tub, I was very conscious because my whole body was burning.
They wrapped me in a quilt and threw it on the bed. I endured the pain to reach for the clothes. As soon as I stretched out an arm, Rong Qi appeared. In a
quick instinctive reaction, I put my hand back into the bedding and wrapped myself tightly, but I didn’t know that my ears and face were already pink.
“I didn’t think people like you would be shy.” After a pause,
I said with a smile, “What is shyness when a slave is trapped in a flower field?”? I’m afraid your Highness is wrong.
“I don’t care what task he has assigned you, don’t bother me, and don’t even think about touching anyone around me.”
He? The Emperor? I turned my
beautiful eyes slightly and chuckled, “So your Highness is blaming me for hurting your little beauty. I said I worked in the palace and raised her so white and tender, but I didn’t want to be your Highness hiding her in a golden house.” In the dim
light, I didn’t see the doubt in his eyes.
“Why don’t you think about me? Maybe it’s more to your taste?”
I thought I didn’t want to die, but I didn’t know which words made the man unhappy. His legs were not easy to move, but he moved very quickly. In a breath, the big hand clamped my neck.
“I told you not to use her face to say such things.”
Rong Qi was really ruthless, showing no mercy at all. The feeling of suffocation made me dizzy, but my face was still smiling. I climbed up the hand and stumbled over it, saying, “If you don’t think about it, you don’t think about it. How can you still be annoyed?”
Xu is facing Mu Jinqing’s face, he really can’t do it. After throwing me away, he went to the side hall.
A big mouthful of air rushed into my mouth. After tossing and turning, the bedding had slipped from my body. I gathered up my clothes at random to cover my body. Tears fell uncontrollably. I bit the tip of my tongue. In a short time, my mouth was filled with the smell of blood, but it just forced me to stop my tears.
After a night of precipitation, I was alive again and began to be a demon again.
At breakfast time, I took the initiative to add porridge to Rong Qi, and when I ate happily, I did not forget to give him some side dishes.
Of course, everything I touched was moved aside by him, and he was so disgusted that he wanted to change tables.
Finally, it seemed that I couldn’t stand it anymore. As soon as breakfast was over, I was sent back. I didn’t come back
all night. When I returned to Tingyuxuan, Xueyong was caught off guard and hugged me. Her eyes were red. After a moment, she pushed me away.
“I thought you were going to die outside. If you die, you die. Don’t forget to return my silver.” The corners of
my mouth twitched, and my snow embrace really had nothing to do with the word “gentle”.
But when her eyes touched the red mark on my neck, her eyes were moist again, and she wanted to touch it but dared not touch it.
“Last night I was eating and drinking at your Highness’s place, and he was okay with me. When Ah Jie is successful, he’ll buy you a house and open a restaurant, and let you count the money until your hands cramp. How’s that?”
Snow hugged away her red eyes and gave a vague “hmm.”.
I pulled her into the room, and the smile on my lips stopped when I saw a bowl of messy rice beside the table.
“Bantang gave you this last night?”
Snow hugged the table full of wolves and said, “How could this girl eat that kind of thing?”
My face did not change. “They made you eat.”
My tone is very positive.
Snow opened her mouth and finally said, “I can put up with this little thing.”
I touched her head comfortingly and turned decisively to go out.
“Nan’er!” Xue Yong was worried that I would do something out of line, so he quickly followed me.
But I didn’t want to meet the smiling face as soon as I went out. “Grandfather Huang,”
I saluted.
“Let us come up here and see if Miss Qing is still used to it.”
I’m afraid you’re here to see how I’m progressing? With a sneer in my heart,
I stretched myself to reveal the red mark on my neck. “Your Highness,” I said, “yesterday I was a slave to death. I can’t get used to this job.” Grandfather
Huang smiled with satisfaction and said, “You have to count on the girl for this. When it’s done, it won’t be difficult to be a master.”
My eyes glowed. “Really?!”
“I wonder if there is any progress in what the girl has done?”
I pretended not to see the contempt in his eyes and rubbed my waist. “It’s really useless. I played tricks on the bed in every way. Your Highness’s leg didn’t respond at all.” When he
got what he wanted, Grandfather Huang exchanged a few casual pleasantries and turned away.
I rolled my eyes at his back, but before I finished, I saw a familiar figure at the corner of the door. I took a breath of the cool breeze and choked my tears. Mammy
Ling pushed Rong Qi to come in. I don’t know what he said to Grandfather Huang. Grandfather Huang wiped the sweat on his forehead and hurried away.
I stood there, not knowing what to say, but grinning at him.
“It’s only been half an hour, and your Highness is missing me?” I probably guessed whether
his legs were useless or not, perhaps knowing that I was not completely on the side of the old emperor, and that the way Rong Qi looked at me was not as bluffing as before.
At least he didn’t want to kill.
He held out his right hand. I don’t know what it meant. He crouched down and put his face in front of him. He was as clever as a pet.
His body stiffened.
Following his line of sight, the arm was wrapped in a blue ribbon, which looked familiar. I used it to tie my hair
yesterday. Came all
the way over here just to return my headband?
I looked up with a smile and said, “I think it is more suitable for your Highness, so I will give it to you.”
Rong Qi stared at me for a long time. I smacked my tongue and said, “Your Highness, don’t look at me. If you look at me again, I’m not Qingqing on the tip of your heart.”
He shook his head and lowered his eyebrows. “She won’t smile like you.”
I stood up and said, “Yes, yes, yes. My smile has made your eyes dirty.”
Rong Qi rubbed the chair with his hand, and after a while he said, “I don’t like to owe a favor. What do you want?”
“Your Highness is a man of his word?”
“One word, nine tripods.” I raised my
lips slightly and said, “I want half of it.”
When the words fell, all three of them looked at me. Snow hugged and pulled my sleeve and shook her head gently. Mammy Ling was only surprised for a moment and then returned to insipidity.
Rong Qi frowned slightly, and when I thought he was reluctant to give up, he asked, “Who is Ban Tang?” “It’s a maid of honor,” replied Mammy
Ling. “She served tea in the temple before.”
Rong Qi looked at me. “Is that it?”
I nodded, then laughed viciously: “But if this man wants to go into my Tingyuxuan, he won’t be able to go out completely. Your Highness can think clearly.” Although
I asked Rong Qi, but has been looking at Mammy Ling’s reaction, do not want to, she is a look of staying out of the way.
Didn’t you say that Bantang was her adopted daughter?
Rong Qi did not answer me, but ordered Bantang to come and serve me before lunch. After
this time, he didn’t seem to dislike me so much. At least when I went to bother him every day, I wouldn’t be kicked out again.
I always love to grind ink for him when he writes poems and paintings, staring at the good words in his hand, and my eyes flutter with the hand that moves the pen, spreading all the way and finally stopping on the face of Zhang Jun.
“Don’t you get bored watching it every day?”
Rong Qi’s face did not change, the last stroke fell, and he handed me the poem he had just written.
I smiled and said, “Your Highness is so beautiful. How can you get tired of it? You can’t wait to look at it every day and think about it every night.” When
I entered the Chenggan Palace, there was no one to guard the door, and the provocative words came at my fingertips. Not only did he, but I myself did not know how true or false the words were.
“You have really lost your talent here.” Rong Qi dipped in the ink and began to draw again. “You should be a remonstrator and wake up those old men.” When I heard this
, I didn’t laugh and tease as usual. I was stunned for a moment and murmured, “Your Highness values the remonstrant very much.”
Rong Qi wrote smoothly, and soon a beautiful image appeared on the paper.
“Well, even if the king’s eyes and hands reach the sky, there are places that he can’t take care of. Only those who dare to speak out can consolidate both inside and outside the country.” With a faint smile,
I said, “It’s a pity that people who were loyal and outspoken in the past didn’t come to a good end.”
Rong Qi looked at me thoughtfully, and I immediately came to my senses: “Qing Qing said something wrong. Your Highness, don’t blame me.” He
opened his mouth to ask something, but I didn’t dare to listen.
I picked up the painting on the table and teased, “Your Highness, which Qing Qing is this painting?”? If your eyebrows and eyes look like mine, just think of it as me!
I picked up the painting and slipped out the door, unruly as usual.
Back to listen to Yuxuan, I stared at the painting for a long time, the person in the painting picked up the skirt and turned around, revealing a charming half face.
But on that face, there are no small moles.
“Let’s eat.”
Xue Yong suddenly pushed the door open, and I came to my senses and put the painting away, reproaching: “Next time you’re so unruly, I’ll be careful not to skimp on your peach blossom cake!”
Xueyong disapprovingly. Only then did I see Bantang following her. After listening to Yuxuan, she began to take care of me and Xueyong’s food and clothing. The sharpness of the past had converged a lot.
She used to think that she was aloof except that Rong Qi didn’t serve the second person. I will let her take care of us in every detail. She won’t know until she
gets a taste of it.
My men, better not move.
Looking at her low eyebrows pleasing to the eye, I think it’s almost the same, listen to Yuxuan or I and snow embrace to stay comfortable, what’s the matter with many outsiders?
Thinking of this, I’m going to tell him the next time I see Rong Qi and let Bantang go back.
Unfortunately, this sentence did not come out of my mouth. When
I came here, it was a sunny day in June, and now it is a year when spring is warm and flowers are blooming, I unconsciously gave Rong Qi more than half a year’s ink.
“Qing Qing, vermilion.”
Rong Qi’s expression was attentive and his command was very familiar. I didn’t hesitate to take out the paint we made together some time ago. With a touch
of cinnabar, a magnificent picture of the landscape seems to be alive. The peach blossoms flying
all over the sky and the grass merge into one, but it just feels like something is missing.
“There are beautiful flowers and beautiful scenery, but there is a shortage of wine and beautiful women.” “Two days ago I found a jar of good wine in the small kitchen, and the snow hugs were clamoring to make it into peach blossom wine. It happened that the peach blossom in your Highness’s courtyard was in full bloom. How about burying it now and drinking it together next year?”.
Rong Qi put down his pen and nodded gently. “It’s up to you.”
I carried the skirt back excitedly to listen to Yuxuan take wine, he asked me to slow down behind me.
In my opinion, this beauty is at least a comfort when struggling in the mud.
When I came back with the wine jar in my arms, there were people kneeling inside and outside the Chenggan Hall. Grandfather
Huang held the imperial edict in his hand, as in the past, and the people behind him were so familiar.
That face, it’s so similar.
Even I was stunned when I saw it.
Opposite the woman did not notice me, her eyes only that touch of black.
Rong Qi clenched the armrest of the chair, always cold face appeared a crack, surprised and happy, eyes are gentle and tender, and occasionally showed love to my face.
I pulled the corners of my mouth.
I should have known. I was a double from the start.
That love, too dazzling.
It passed me briefly, and I wanted to catch the light.
That’s ridiculous.
“Your Royal Highness, this is the imperial concubine who has just been granted the title of the Jade Husband Palace.”
I held the wine jar tightly. Empress
Jin Pin? The
dog emperor’s concubine?
I looked at Rong Qi, a little worried.
Mu Jinqing’s eyes were full of tears, and he stared straight at him, saying in silence that he was sorry.
“Isn’t that enough?” Rong Qi’s voice was trembling. Grandfather
Huang looked over doubtfully, but he only looked at the people outside the door.
“Ask him, isn’t a pair of legs enough?” Grand
father Huang’s face suddenly changed. “Your Highness, be careful what you say!” After
Mu Jinqing left, Rong Qi stared at the ground for a long time.
“I’ve been standing here for a long time and my waist is sore. Your Highness, come and help me.” As
I limped and pretended to fall down, Rong Qi raised his head and put a long finger against my forehead. “Don’t make a scene.”
I pursed my lips and crouched cleverly in front of him.
He stared at me for a moment, then took me into his arms and held me tightly, with the strength to rub me into the bone and blood.
I couldn’t breathe, but I didn’t want to push him away.
I reached out tentatively and stroked his back. He didn’t know that my fingertips were shaking and my nose was sour.
How much I want to go on like this, even if it’s a stand-in, as long as I can be by his side.
At this moment, I was glad that Mu Jinqing had become the emperor’s concubine and selfishly wanted to occupy her seat completely.
Finally, Rong Qi did not accompany me to bury the wine.
That night, the news of the emperor’s Yufu Palace spread all over the palace. The old bastard was also interesting. He picked Yufu Palace for Mu Jinqing. Between
the Yufu Palace and the Chenggan Palace, there is a Tingyuxuan.
He was deliberately trying to alienate Rong Qi.
I don’t know what the effect is, but Rong Qi hasn’t summoned me for a month. In the
idle and moldy days, Xue Yong and I can only bask in the sun.
I looked at the girl’s more and more round face, and the idea of withholding her peach blossom cake came to my mind again.
Suddenly, I fanned my hand, ignored the roar of the snow, took the remaining plate of cakes and went out. The guards
of Chenggan Hall all know me, and all the way in is unimpeded.
Since Rong Qi doesn’t see me, I’ll go and see him.
I walked into the hall and pushed the door of the study door open.
“Your Highness, would you like to try the freshly baked peach blossom cake?”
I smiled brightly, but my face froze when I entered the door.
Rao Shi-jung Qi was used to my lack of discipline, and at this time he kept a straight face: “Be bold!”! Who let you in?!
I was roared back by him, and hurriedly bowed my head and stepped aside. Ignore the blazing line of sight
above.
“South..”
“The maidservant has bumped into the nobleman. I beg your Highness to punish him.” I dropped to my knees and interrupted the man.
Rong Qi looked at me suspiciously, but because there were still people present, he did not ask much.
“Get out!”
I backed out, never daring to look at the man again.
“Taifu?” Rong Qi made a sound and called back the absent man. Staring at the gaffe outside the door,
Li Xuan asked eagerly, “Your Highness, who was the woman just now?”
Rong Qi’s eyes flashed. “It’s just a maid of honor. Do you know Taifu?”
Li Xuan shook his head slowly, as if to convince himself: “She’s just like an old friend, but she’s been dead for many years. She can’t be here. It’s my mistake.”
Rong Qi stared at him thoughtfully.
I went back to listen to Yuxuan with a cold sweat on my back. The appearance of
Li Xuan reminded me of the fear of being exterminated and reminded me of the purpose of coming here.
I was thinking about what had happened at the beginning, and I was absent-minded when I studied ink for Rong Qi.
“My heart has gone to the imperial city. If you don’t want to wait on me, go back.” In front of
Rong Qi was the last landscape painting, and he added a few strokes under the tree.
It’s a woman. She was
wearing a dark blue dress and was burying wine.
I blushed and my heart was filled with contentment.
So he didn’t forget.
“Your Highness has a bad memory. The wine I buried is on the right side.”
Rong Qi smiles faintly: “The painting is skillfully placed in this position. It’s very good.” He handed it to me and said, “Hang it in the middle of the hall.”
I made a movement and stared at him.
“What’s wrong?”
I shook my head and went to hang up.
“It’s getting late. Go back first.”
I smiled and nodded, looking back at the painting step by step.
Hanging here, he can see it every day. Does that
mean..
I patted my face and interrupted my thoughts.
I want to do that thing, is bound to run counter to Rong Qi, if successful, he will not forgive me.
I walked on the palace road, and my expression became more and more gloomy.
Suddenly I remembered that the Rouge that someone had brought to the snow outside the palace had fallen, and I turned back to the Chenggan Hall. The lamp
was still burning in the study.
Rong Qi himself said it was getting late, but now he is secretly working behind my back.
I approached the door, but I heard the voice of Mu Jinqing inside.
Do you really take that woman so seriously? Hanging her portrait in the middle of the hall.
“It’s hard to paint a God. I can’t tell who the person in the painting is, so how do you know it must be her?”. I clenched my fingers
and my eyes were red.
I told myself in my heart.
Open the door and ask him!
But in fact, I held my breath for fear that I would make any noise. Where do
I stand to question him?
Rong Qi loved Mu Jinqing from the beginning to the end.
It wasn’t me.
I ran on the road, and the wind blew fiercely at night, but it could not disperse the blur in front of my eyes.
Suddenly a big hand pulled me to the corner, and I was startled to pull out the hairpin and stab it.
“Nan’er!”
I made a movement and saw the person in front of me.
“Brother..” His hand was shaking as he
held me.
I looked at the surprise in his eyes, but was speechless.
“Why didn’t you come to me while you were still alive?”
I stroked his hand and said, “Brother, you just think I’m dead. I don’t want to get you into trouble.”
“Shen Nan-ching!” No one has called me that for
a long time.
“What kind of entrapment do you and I talk about?” “If I was afraid of being involved, why would I have to work so hard in the court to find a chance to avenge my adoptive parents and the Shen family?!” After a
while, he took a deep breath and his eyes were slightly red. “It’s my brother’s fault. He shouldn’t have been so mean to you.”. Nan’er, don’t be angry.
I looked at him, and the grievance in my heart could no longer hold back. Li Xuan and
I were childhood sweethearts, and the Shen family had a hairpin for generations. He was an orphan picked up by my father, and he learned all my father’s knowledge thoroughly. Unfortunately, the loyalty of the Shen family could not withstand the suspicion of the emperor.
An edict, my father never came back.
That night, I hid in the water tank in the courtyard and watched the Shen family being washed in blood. A fire took everything away, and I woke up again and somehow fell into the hands of human teeth.
Xue Yong looked at me and bought me with two taels of silver. When she returned to Nuanxiang Pavilion, she was whipped by her mother and scolded her for losing money. Only
later did I learn that the two taels of silver were used to get Rouge for the girls, and that it was her fate that a rough maid was not killed for embezzling public funds.
I refused to eat or drink for a long time, until I heard people in the street saying that the Shen family did not respect the imperial power and apologized to themselves, and all the people in the house died.
At that moment, I understood.
Human life is just a word of the dog emperor.
I put steamed bun into my mouth one by one, followed my mother to learn how to hook people, and forgot that I was Shen Nanqing.
My thoughts were interrupted by the coolness of the evening breeze. “I thought my brother was gone, too,” I sobbed.
The elder brother held me in his arms and comforted me softly, “Silly girl, it’s all right. I have everything. You wait for the elder brother to pick you up.”
Looking at the back of his departure, I suddenly thought of running into Rong Qi and him in the study.
I couldn’t sleep all night and woke up the next day with a headache.
If that’s what I think, if Rong Qi and Li Xuan plot to usurp the throne, things will be difficult.
When I went out of the door, I saw Xuehong was busy.
“Where is Bantang?”
“I don’t know. I haven’t seen her for two days. Maybe I’ve gone to see Mammy Ling.”
I nodded, not thinking much.
“The weather is getting hotter and hotter. I put a melon in the well in the backyard. Let’s go and get it this afternoon.”
I shook my head helplessly. “You just want to eat.”
Xue Yong drank a mouthful of porridge and said, “There was a famine in my family, and my parents traded me for a bag of millet. From then on, I had only one ambition, and that was to live well and eat and drink enough.”
I touched her head and said, “Don’t worry, I’ll open a restaurant for you in the future, and you’ll have big fish and big meat every day.” The
midday sun was very scorching. Snow and I were lying by the well pulling watermelons. The melons were so heavy that they splashed water all over us.
We squatted on the ground and looked at each other giggling, and a pair of delicate embroidered shoes gradually came into view.
I looked up and saw a face eight times like mine.
Mu Jinqing was dressed in luxurious clothes, followed by two rows of palace maids and Bantang, whom he had not seen for two days.
She seemed to see something dirty, and her eyes were full of disgust.
Bold! It’s not polite to see the concubines! With a half-smile,
I glanced at the arrogant and domineering Bantang and made a simple salute.
Only then did I remember that listening to Yuxuan was originally a side courtyard of Yufu Palace, the two were separated by a door, and it was not unusual to see Mu Jinqing here.
I didn’t want to cross paths with her, so I pulled up the snow to go back, but I was stopped.
“I hear you’re a prostitute?” She was in a condescending position, with a sarcastic tone in her mouth. “It’s really something that’s not on the table. There are no rules at all.”
I stared at her and said with a smile, “I am a member of the Chenggan Temple, so naturally I follow the rules there. As for the empress.” I glanced up and down at her. “You are a concubine. You should keep a distance from the palace of princes. Be careful to fall into reality.” I want to bite my tongue off after I
say this sentence.
Shen Nanqing,
what do you mean by saying this?
You are jealous of her.
Jealous that she could get Rong Qi’s love even if she became an empress and concubine.
But my words seemed to annoy Mu Jinqing. With a wave of her hand, the palace eunuch behind her held me down.
“When will it be your turn to do something in this palace?” Her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, and her delicate little face twisted for a moment. “You’re just relying on being like me. Why?” Doubts flashed in
my eyes.
She looks like she’s jealous of me. There was a wry smile on
my lips, but it turned into a provocation in her eyes.
“Drag her down.”
I was taken to the Yufu Palace and tied to the ground.
Mu Chin-ching pinched my chin. “You’re just a stand-in, but I’m back. Why is he still looking at you?”
I think she’s probably crazy.
Rong Qi’s eyes are full of her. Don’t
you like to laugh? My palace wants you to cry.
Mu Chin-ching, with needles of varying thickness in his hands, crouches down, laughing crazily: “It’s said that ten fingers connect the heart. I want to see for myself today.”
The fine needle sticks into the flesh, and the pain spreads all over the fingers in an instant. Beads of
blood dropped from my fingertips to the ground. It was very painful, but I was still laughing.
Her face is contorted, and the more comfortable I am, the crazier she is.
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“Tut, tut, tut.” My hands were hanging and my fingertips trembled slightly.
Mu Chin-ching paused and asked, “What do you mean?”
“Ha.” I laughed lightly. “Before, Yung Chi said you were the goddess of the Nine Heavens, unattainable, but I looked at you.” My eyes turned around on her, and there was no text left, only the laughter echoing in the hall.
“Somebody!” She stood up. “Give me a slap!” The movement of the maid of
honor is very quick, a few boards come down my mouth a fishy sweet, painful numbness.
Mu Chin-ching looked at me with a sneer. “Aren’t you very talkative?”? Say it again. Say more.
I lay on the ground, my whole head was numb, my mouth was bloody, and I wanted to reach out and touch it, but I found that the needle in my hand could not be lifted at all.
I don’t know if this face can be raised back later.
Looking at my discomfited appearance, Mu Jinqing was very satisfied. She pinched my chin and forced me to look up.
“Do you, a whore, deserve to mock me?” She stretched out her hand, and the man next to her handed over a dagger. “She doesn’t deserve to look like me.” The coolness of
the dagger turned around my face a few times, and the cold light made my eyes hurt. I held up my eyelids and barely saw. Just as
Mu Jinqing was about to start, the door of Yufu Palace was opened.
I saw Rong Qi come in, his temperament was noble, his legs were still covered with fox fur, and he was very cold, just like the first time I saw him.
Snow rushed over and hugged me, crying out of breath before he could speak.
The girl was so ugly when she cried that she wanted to wipe her tears.
“Your Highness, what does this mean?”
Rong Qi never looked at me. Mammy pushed him over. He picked up the dagger with his long fingers and said softly, “When did the empress play with such a dangerous object? What if she hurt herself?”
Mu Jinqing moved his mouth and did not speak. “It’s a hot day,”
Rong Qi chuckled. “You’d better go to bed early.”
The words fall, just looked at me here, the fundus is the emotion that I do not understand. What are you
waiting for? Take your master away! Mammy Ling said to Xue Yong in a cold voice. As soon as
she picked me up, she was stopped.
“Are you here to protect her?” Mu Chin-ching’s face sulked. “Rong Qi, don’t forget..”
“Ching Ching, that’s enough.”
It has to be said that although he looks gentle, his cold voice makes people feel cold.
He smiled and played with the dagger in his hand. “Aren’t you just not used to her face?” With a flash of light from the
blade, I felt a heat on my face, and the sticky blood flowed down my cheeks. I didn’t even hum when I was just smashed in my mouth, but now I’m in tears. I don’t know if the wound is pulling my heart. It hurts there.
“Happy?” Rong Qi will never be angry with Mu Jinqing, he has been laughing when he speaks.
The whole Yufu Palace was as silent as death. Rong Qi picked me up from Xuehong’s hand and left. In
a daze, I saw the black clothes on his chest soaked with blood, but he was still so calm and indifferent. I
heard that Rong Qi called more than half of the people from the Imperial Hospital to save my life. I don’t know what he thought. The face
he cares about most has been destroyed. Why do you save me? When
I woke up, I drank the medicine and ate the food. I was very obedient.
“The wound on my hand is almost healed, and I have to nurse my mouth for another two days.” In
the past few months, Rong Qi often came to see me, but he never mentioned the wound on his face.
I looked in the mirror secretly, and the scar on the left side of my face was ferocious, and I couldn’t get better.
“You’ve been cooped up in the house for too long. Do you want to go out and get some air?”
I swallowed a mouthful of bitter medicine and said flatly, “Thank you, Your Highness.”
Rong Qi stared at me for a long time and asked, “Are you blaming me?”
I pointed and laughed, “a slave and a pariah, he has no qualifications and no position.”
Rong Qi frowned. He didn’t like the way I was submissive. I kept my head down
all the time, and I was not as unruly as I used to be.
He finally left in a huff, and somehow I breathed a sigh of relief.
Xueyong squatted in front of my bed, and she handed me a hairpin.
The hairpin bead curtain is shaking, which is very beautiful.
This is the stuff of the Warm Fragrance Pavilion, and there is a mystery hidden in the bead curtain.
Xueyong said that the next time he was in danger with it, it might be a way out.
I smiled at her and took it.
Rong Qi asked Xue Yong to accompany me out of the palace to relax. My
face was covered with gauze, and the outside of the house was green before I convalesced, but now my fingertips were slightly cool. Although the
autumn scenery is depressed, it has a different taste. Snow and
I hugged out of the palace gate without a sedan chair, and we strolled through the bustling imperial city without the joy of regaining our freedom.
I stared at the things on the Rouge bed in a daze. I’m afraid I won’t need them anymore.
“All wrapped up.” There was an extra ingot of gold on
the Rouge.
“Brother..”
We went to a restaurant. There were only me and him in the cubicle. Snow hugged him outside the door.
“How did my brother know I was there?”
“I’m the Taifu of the prince and princess, so it’s easier to get in and out of the harem, and it’s easier to ask for anything.”
I lowered my eyes and nodded.
Brother smiled at me and said, “It doesn’t matter. We Naner will always be the most beautiful.”
“I’ll take you away as soon as I avenge the Shen family.” He pursed his lips. “But before that you must leave the palace. It’s too dangerous there.”
“No!” I subconsciously refused.
To get me out of the palace as my elder brother now will inevitably arouse suspicion, and in the end, the loss may outweigh the gain. I can’t let him risk his life.
Besides, I don’t know what I was expecting.
“Be obedient, Nan’er.” I
didn’t bother with this question any more. I asked, “Is the elder brother working with Rong Qi?”
He frowned slightly and shook his head. “He is a man of great uncertainty. He inquired about me earlier, but I refused.”
I nodded. It’s good to stay away from him. What else did
the elder brother want to say? Xue Yong hurriedly pushed the door and came in.
“Your Highness’s men have come. It’s time for us to go.”
I followed the snow to the door and smiled at him. “Take care, brother.”
Back to listen to Yuxuan, I converged a lot, in the palace these days, I basically understand the harem route, the dog emperor’s overnight habits are also clear in mind.
Next, as long as I can seize the opportunity, I will be able to revenge.
But before I could carry it out, a decree trapped me in the palace for the rest of my life.
I was given the title of Fengyi and became Rong Qi’s concubine. Didn’t
you say you had no position to blame me? Then I will give you this position.
I didn’t expect to see this scene when I stepped into the study of Chenggan Hall again. I stared at him in a daze and couldn’t figure out why.
But the decree has been issued, and I can’t refuse.
I’m even a little happy in my heart. I know I’m not promising.
In the final analysis, I am just a tool used by the dog emperor to humiliate Rong Qi. If people like me are forced on him, the effect will surely be doubled. After
this incident, there was no change in my life. I still lived in Tingyuxuan, but there were more palace maids in the house who called me empress. Rong Qi occasionally came to stay, but he never rested with me in the same bedroom.
Xue Yong seemed to have grown up a lot, and his eunuchs were in good order. After seeing Li Xuan
again for more than a month, his straight back finally bent down to Rong Qi.
As soon as I was taken to the Chenggan Hall, I heard Rong Qi’s hearty smile, but inexplicably there was a trace of anger in it.
Maybe I misheard.
He won’t be angry, and he won’t show his emotions.
“Taifu, you should be grateful for your choice today.”
I have a meal.
Brother, why are you here?
I quickened my pace to open the door, and my brother knelt upright in the center of the hall, looking indifferent.
He jerked back, a flicker of consternation in his eyes.
Rong Qi looked at us all the time, and I saluted.
“Come here.” He waved to me and said, “Taifu, look, this is Fengyi from my palace. What does she look like?”
I didn’t dare to look at my brother’s expression. I was afraid that he could not help pinching Rong Qi’s neck when he saw my grievance.
“The empress has an extraordinary temperament, and she is a match made in heaven with Your Highness.”
Rong Qi sneered, “Is Taifu old enough to marry?”? I wonder if there is a candidate in mind? Or, “he said with a smile on his lips, raising my chin.” I can give up what I love. ”
I stared into his eyes and bit the tip of my tongue for fear that I would show a hurt expression.
“Tut, it’s a pity to have such a face. Won’t Taifu dislike it?”
I subconsciously slanted my head to hide the scar, but I saw my brother with his head down and the veins of his hand hanging at his side bulging.
I suddenly woke up, clung to Rong Qi’s hand, and smiled: “Your Highness, there is only one Qing Qing in the world, and it is already Your Highness’s. Don’t embarrass Taifu.”
The elder brother did not speak for a while, and Rong Qi let me go disappointedly.
“My palace is tired. Taifu, please step down.” After
the elder brother left, I naturally gave him a hammer on the shoulder. He took my hand and said, “Qing Qing is really a lucky general. Not long after your decree was issued, the talented person I asked but couldn’t get rushed up to show his loyalty. Are you not a demon?”
I paused.
“Your Highness is a lucky man.”
Rong Qi snorted coldly, “Do you think he can stand in line for you? Can he die for you?”
I looked up suddenly.
Rong Qi is smiling, but the bottom of his eyes is cold.
No wonder.
No wonder he married me all of a sudden.
It turned out to force my brother to make a choice.
Ridiculous. I tried my best to hide my identity. He already knew.
“Taifu’s life is in your hands. Be obedient and never leave me. Do you understand?” At the end of
autumn and the beginning of winter, the yard was bare, and the garden could no longer be seen. In the side hall
of Chenggan Hall, as always, I grind ink for Rong Qi, as if nothing has changed, and as if everything has changed. Mammy
Ling said outside the door that there was a visitor.
Rong Qi waved his hand and asked me to step down.
Outside the door, Mammy Ling and an old man with a wrinkled face were waiting. When I went out, I glanced at him. Although the man was dressed in spirit, his eyes were yellow and cloudy, which made me uncomfortable.
They talked for so long that I fell asleep waiting in the front hall. When I woke up
again, I saw Rong Qi taking a pot of wine.
“Come and dine.”
He poured me a glass of wine. “What is Qing Qing’s wish?” Stay
with the emperor.
I took a sip of wine and said, “Gold and silver, splendor and wealth.”. Didn’t your Highness know about it long ago?
Today’s Rong Qi is particularly strange.
“You’ll get your wish soon.” As soon as the
words fell, I felt dizzy, and his face gradually blurred.
I had a very long dream. In my
dream, my father and mother were all there, and I was still a young lady who was spoiled by them. When I was nine years old, many guests came to the house. I saw the handsome young man at a glance. When I looked at him, we all laughed. After
I died, there was an endless stream of people proposing marriage, but I didn’t like anyone. I stood at the door every day looking forward to his coming, and finally he came.
But not with three books and six ceremonies, but with the armor of the imperial army.
I watched him slaughter my kin, and the last long knife pierced my chest.
I took a sudden breath and my clothes were soaked with sweat. The white curtain
overhead is very strange. Someone was talking outside the
room, and I heard the words “Li Shangshu.”.
This is not Chenggan Hall.
“Wake up?” “It’s good to wake up, it’s interesting to wake up.”
Li Shangshu approached, and I saw his face clearly.
It’s the man who came to see Rong Qi today.
He touched my hand to persuade me not to resist. “You’d better not touch me,”
I said in disgust.
Li Shangshu ignored my words: “I heard you are a prostitute?”? No wonder the four royal Highnesses are so willing to give up, just, for the sake of you look like a brocade concubine, this officer and endure. The emperor’s wife is untouchable, but it’s good to try the wife of the emperor’s son.
I looked pale and smiled at him, and the hairpin that snow hugged in the cuff fell quietly into the palm of my hand.
“If I have a thorn, I will prick your throat.”
By the time he realized it, I had stuck it without hesitation.
But he seemed to be a trainer, and in time he dodged sideways, and the hairpin plunged into his left shoulder.
He grabbed my arm and twisted it with his backhand, and I heard the sound of the bone breaking. Enduring the pain,
I turned around and bit his finger. He screamed and hit me on the top of my head with his other hand. I felt my head buzzing and dazed, but I didn’t let go. The smell of
blood filled my mouth, and I didn’t spit out a mouthful of blood foam until I bit off the finger. My
eyes were blurry, and I felt that I would faint in the next second, but the next moment, a sharp pain came from my shoulder, and my consciousness was brought back.
Li Shangshu stabbed me with a dagger in his hand. Perhaps because of the injury, his knife deviated a lot. His eyes were poisoned. He held the handle of the knife and rotated it. I felt that the flesh on my shoulder had been dug out. The pain made me lean up and the veins on my neck were everywhere.
“Stop, stop, I’m still useful.”
Little bitch! If you break my finger, I’ll kill you!
“Wait!” I breathed heavily. “Do you like Mu Chin-ching?”? But she’s already the emperor’s woman, but I’m different. I’m still a virgin, and no one has touched me, and neither has Rong Qi.
It is said that Li Shangshu’s desire is enough to nibble away all his rationality.
He let go.
I grabbed the dagger and yanked it out, rolled over on top of him, and stabbed him without hesitation.
One,
two,
.. The warmth of the
blood splashed on my face and stained half of my cheek.
Squeak ah-
the door was pushed open, in the moonlight, Rong Qi is not stained with dust, one more step is condescension.
He wiped the blood from my face. “What a mess!”
I looked at him, the dagger in my hand clenched tightly, as if he were the next one lying on the ground.
Rong Qi smiled. He picked up the token on Li Shangshu’s waist and wiped it slowly with a brocade handkerchief.
“Don’t look at me like that, Qing Qing. Your eyes are too bright. I’m afraid I can’t help but dig them out and play with them.” The man in black next to
him probed Li Shangshu’s breath.
“Dead.”
“I’ve already got it. If it’s dead, it’s dead. Deal with it cleanly.”
“Yes.”
If I had a glimmer of hope after my face was destroyed, now the last glimmer of hope in my heart is gone. The answer
I want is already there.
Rong Qi doesn’t love me.
He could have traded me for anything.
For example, in his hand, the minister of war commands the waist card of a thousand troops.
He put his hand on my shoulder, and the numbing pain swept through his body again. Then he leaned over and sighed softly in my ear: “Qing Qing is blaming me, but I don’t like you looking at me like that. My Qing Qing should always have a pair of smiling eyes.”
My remaining consciousness was defeated by the pain, and I fainted again. When
I woke up, Rong Qi was wiping the blood on my hands, bit by bit as if he was wiping some rare treasure.
I withdrew my hand with fear in my eyes.
He paused and smiled to himself. “Don’t be afraid, Qing Qing. This will never happen again. I sent someone to the Warm Incense Pavilion to ask about it. That procuress should have treated you like that. But for the sake of her protecting your innocence, I gave her a good time.”
I’m holding the bedding.
It turns out that all he cares about is my skin.
No wonder he never slept with me. I
just think I’m dirty.
He stared at the scar on my face for a long time.
“I owe you a lot. How can I make it up to you?”
His tone was understated.
“How about the queen?” His eyes danced with joy. “Be my queen, Qing Qing.” I wasn’t surprised to
hear that.
Rong Qi has met many ministers privately in the past few months, and his mind is very clear.
I don’t believe the emperor didn’t notice.
But why didn’t he stop it?
Or there’s nothing he can do to stop it.
I have a terrible headache.
Rong Qi raised his hand to brush away the broken hair in front of me, and I slanted my head and subconsciously avoided his touch.
His hand froze in midair, but he finally withdrew it.
“Rong Qi, please let me go. Let me go.”
The candlelight flickered and our shadows crossed on the wall.
Lonely and helpless.
Let you go? Help you and Li Xuan?!
“You can’t.”
“Shen Nan-ching, I want you to see me sitting on the mountains and rivers, and accompany me to accept the pilgrimage. If you die, you can only die by my side.”
He called someone and said, “Send her back to Tingyuxuan. You are not allowed to pass on the Imperial Physician to her without my orders.”
I looked at him, who was almost crazy, without words.
Back these days, Xueyong cleaned my wound every day, but could not find any medicine. I laughed at her eyes crying like a peach, and she echoed my words.
Softly spoken, unlike her. After
three days, I finally couldn’t stand it.
That night, I had a high fever. I vaguely
heard Xue Yong calling me elder sister.
It must be a dream.
Nan’er? Nan’er, don’t scare me. Snow hugged my hand. “Nothing can happen to you!” Didn’t
you always want me to call you Sister? Why don’t you wake up and I cheer every day? Sister.
Xue Yong has been talking, and I want to say something, but I am too tired, and I want to sleep.
“Don’t be afraid, Sister. I’m going to find someone to save you. I’m going to beg them. You wait for me!”
I mumbled in a low voice.
Xue Yong, don’t go.
These days, I have been in a coma too many times, and every time I wake up in a different environment. I’m familiar with the house
this time.
It’s Rong Qi’s room.
As soon as I moved, I touched the wound on my shoulder. The
wound had been treated, and the room was filled with the bitter smell of medicine.
“Empress, are you awake?”
“Why am I here?”
I stroked my throat and was frightened by my husky voice.
The maid blushed and said, “Your Highness has come with you in his arms. Although your Highness is not in good health, he does not use his hands on others. Empress, you are so happy.”
I always feel uneasy. Where is the
snow embrace? It is the great maid of honor at my side.
She shook her head. “No, maybe I was too tired to go back yesterday.”
My heart is still inexplicable panic, get up to go back.
The little maid of honor ran after me and shouted, “It’s snowing outside. You just woke up and couldn’t stand it.”
She ran out of the hall, and it was already covered with snow.
I didn’t expect the first snow of this year to be so heavy.
I dragged myself back to Tingyuxuan, grabbed the man and asked, “Have you seen the snow?”
No one knows where the snow has gone.
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Have you heard? There were dead people on the palace road, and their bodies were frozen through by the snow. They looked very frightening.
“Where?”
“Outside the Yufu Palace..”
I staggered to Yufu Palace, fell into the snow on the steps and got up again. The long palace road was snow-white. I stopped
before I got to Yufu Palace. There was a small bump
on the side of the road, which was also covered by snow, but it was so striking.
I stared there.
Surrounded by palace maids, the eunuch stopped me.
They said, let me not look. Pulling
me, not letting me pass, I pushed them away and kicked them away.
I knelt on the ground, looking at the corner of the clothes, trembling hands brushed away the snow, and saw the snow embrace.
Snow’s eyelashes and hair were covered with white frost, and the blood from her eyes and ears had frozen.
I held her and looked around helplessly.
“Imperial Physician, pass on Imperial Physician!” I roared at the top of my lungs and hugged the stiff snow to death. The palace eunuch
beside him knelt down and sobbed.
I grabbed the nearest maid and said, “Why are you crying?”! Don’t cry! My snow is all right. Don’t you cry!
I rubbed the face of the snow, and when my eyes were blurred, I wiped it.
“Empress..”
“I beg you, will you go and call the Imperial Physician? Xue Yong is not dead, she is not.”
I hugged the snow for a long time, but she couldn’t cover the heat.
I kept asking them to call the doctor, and the words turned into sobs. Holding the cold hand of the snow,
I threw myself into the snow and roared, spitting out a mouthful of black blood under the depression of my heart. Before I
fell, I kept thinking.
The snow is gone.
But I haven’t opened a restaurant for her yet.
Rong Qi asked someone to bury Xue Yong well. I will never see her again.
Listen to a lot of palace eunuchs accompany me in Yuxuan, but I always feel empty.
“What is that?” I pointed to something on the table.
“It’s a relic of Sister Snow.”
I propped myself up and picked up the medicine bottle on the table, which was not a snow thing.
“Sister Xue has been holding it all the time, and she can’t get it loose.” The bottom of the
bottle was imprinted with the seal of Yufu Palace. I put it on my heart, and the big teardrop broke on the cork.
I called the palace people of Chenggan Palace to ask questions.
They said, “I had a high fever last night, so I begged Rong Qi. I knelt outside the Chenggan Hall for three hours, but Rong Qi didn’t want to see her.”.
But when Mu Jinqing came out of the hall, she told Xue Yong that as long as she went to Yufu Palace with her, she would give the medicine. The snow outside the
house was getting heavier and heavier, and Xue Yong was worried that I couldn’t stand it, so he went with me.
I passed it on to the maid of Yufu Palace, and I knew the person who came.
It’s Bantang.
She looked at me and laughed wildly.
She said that the way Xue Yong knelt on the ground to pray was very humble.
She said that Xue Yong drank the poison handed by Mu Jinqing and stayed in the snow for two hours.
She said that when she threw the medicine on the ground, Xue Yong crawled like a dog to pick it up.
Do you know? The poison that Mu Chin-ching gave her didn’t kill her, but her life was too short, so short that she couldn’t survive the short journey from Yuxuan to Yufu Palace, and she was frozen to death. Ha ha ha- “
” Shut up! Shut up!!
My eyes are scarlet.
Later, she smiled and smiled, and somehow tears appeared in her eyes. I’ve been with Aunt Ling
since I was three years old, and she’s been training me to be your Highness’s housekeeper, but why? Why did everything change when you came?! Bantang’s eyes were full of hatred. “You are like this, and so is Mu Chin-ching. You have taken away your Highness’s love, but that should have been mine!”
She is close to madness.
“You call yourselves to be superior, but I want to see you living in uneasiness.” She looked at me and said, “You say, if your Highness had seen Xue Yong that night, oh no, it should be if he had treated you from the beginning, would Xue Yong not have died?”
I knew she was trying to plant a seed of hatred in my heart.
She made it.
Because I can’t stop myself from thinking that.
“My whole life has been like a joke. The people who raised me don’t want me, and the people I love don’t love me. I’ve spent my whole life making progress step by step, but in the end I’ve achieved nothing. It’s sad and ridiculous.”
Bang
-blood flowed from the pillar, and in the screams of the palace maid, Ban Tang ended her life.
I looked at the limp people on the ground, and my eyes were calm. After the
snow hugged away, I always held the hairpin she sent and stared at the flying snow outside the window in a daze, ignoring everyone.
Winter is coming so fast, I wish it would go slower.
I am afraid to see the spring scenery in the garden, and even more afraid that after the heavy snow, no one will remember my snow embrace.
Rong Qi came to see me every three or five times. He seemed to have forgotten the unhappiness between us. He smiled at me every day and drew pictures in front of the table. He brought it to
me excitedly and asked me how it looked like.
I remember when I first painted him, how I longed for the day when he could draw one for me instead of looking at my face and drawing another person.
Now it has come true, but the heart is not so happy.
I only took one look, and then I deviated from the beginning.
He stroked my hair and spoke to me as if to comfort himself, “Just wait, just wait.”
I don’t know what he’s waiting for.
I don’t want to know. When
my brother came to see me, I was holding out my hand to catch the snowflakes outside the window and let them melt in my hand bit by bit.
“Nan’er, when you get your revenge, will you come with me?”
I blinked my dull eyes and then looked at him.
Brother is really the gentlest man I have ever seen, and he loves me the most.
For as long as I can remember, I have felt that people like him should be as free as the wind.
“Good.”
The elder brother held my hand, and his eyes filled with guilt. On the evening of the
15th
, the wind was biting. I covered my clothes and got up. I was about to close the window, but I saw a familiar figure flashing outside the Yuxuan.
I followed and arrived at the Chenggan Hall.
“Taifu, you can’t find that thing. Give up.”
“Your Highness, you know she doesn’t want to stay in the palace. Why bother?”
“So you want to steal the amulet and force this palace?”
“Nan’er is no match for the throne for you. I have no choice.”
Rong Qi smiled. “Taifu really understands this palace, but the universe has already been decided. Why can’t this palace have both fish and bear’s paw?”
Brother was locked up by Rong Qi.
He was alone, but he was dragged down by me. How do
I save him?
I leaned against the bed and scanned the room helplessly, and finally my eyes fell on the painting in front of the table.
Dust-laden memories suddenly emerged.
“Your Highness has a short memory. I buried the wine on the right side.”
“The painting is skillfully placed in this position, which is excellent.”
I think I know where the talisman is. It’s night
again, but the palace is very quiet today.
I bypassed the inspectors and came to the Chenggan Hall. Strangely, the Chenggan Hall was also terribly quiet tonight. I
didn’t have time to think too much, so I went straight to the peach tree in the front yard and dug according to the position of the painting.
After a while, he actually dug out a jar of wine.
I took the wine out, and there was an amulet at the bottom of the jar.
“Qing Qing, you shouldn’t have come here.” There seemed to be a flash of white light in
my mind. I stiffened and turned around. Rong Qi was behind me with an obscure expression.
I forgot to move for a moment and stayed where I was.
Then.
He stood up and came to me step by step.
I fell to the ground with the amulet.
His legs are really fine. He finally stopped pretending to be disabled. When
he steps forward, I step back.
He put his big palm over my eyes and covered my eyes with fear.
“Be good and give it to me.”
I bit my lip and shook my head slowly. Sighing,
Rong Qi hugged me and said softly, “I told you to wait. Qing Qing is not obedient.”
He stroked my hair, and I just felt scared.
Never mind, you will be my queen soon. Get some sleep, and then you’ll be all right. I had a pain in
the back of my neck, and Rong Qi’s face gradually disappeared. When
I woke up from Chenggan Hall, there was only Mammy Ling beside me. She saw that I woke up without any panic. After pouring me a glass of water, she talked about the past to herself.
I can’t remember the details of her words, but when I ran to the Imperial Study, she said, let me not blame Rong Qi.
“The eldest prince rebelled and was beheaded by your majesty. On his deathbed, he ordered the fourth prince to succeed to the throne!”
I heard Rong Qi’s voice in the corridor.
Daxuan’s God of War is not a sick beauty.
“See Your Majesty off to the sky of the funeral.”
“See Your Majesty off to the sky of the funeral!” Outside the
Imperial Study, the imperial minister knelt on the ground and shouted with Rong Qi.
I tightened my tight side hand and went outside the door.
The prime minister’s head and body had already been separated, and the hall was full of blood and corpses.
The big prince in front of the emperor, hair crown has fallen, flummoxed. With a sneer,
Rong Qi waved his sword lightly, and the big prince fell in a pool of blood.
He then pointed his sword at the emperor, commanding himself.
“Time to hit the road.” He stared at the emperor, saying, word for word, “the emperor, uncle.” Mammy
Ling said that Rong Qi was a poor man.
He was the posthumous son of the former emperor, and now his majesty killed his brother to seize the throne, not only robbed the throne of the former emperor, but also his queen. Before
Rong Qi was five years old, he couldn’t figure out why his mother was depressed all day long. No matter how well he did, she didn’t want to look at him more.
Later, his mother died with a cup of poisoned wine, leaving behind Mammy Ling. When
Rong Qi was ten years old, he sneaked out to play with his friends in the Academy. He happened to meet the official lady’s birthday party. When he came back, he clamored all day long to marry the lady as a princess.
The emperor said that it was the daughter of Shen Jin, a patriarch of three Dynasties, and if he wanted to marry her, he had to show his strength.
Shen Jin and Rong Qi have heard of it.
He was a good official in the south of the Yangtze River and the most outspoken remonstrator in Daxuan.
To prove himself, Rong Qi went to the frontier fortress. When
he came back, he was already the God of war in the mouth of the people.
He couldn’t wait to ask the emperor to marry him, but he received a secret letter.
Rong Qi did not want to be stained with blood and knelt in the Hall of Mental Cultivation for three days. Mammy
Ling knew that the emperor would not see him.
The emperor hated Rong Qi’s mother and concubine, who would rather die than stay. He put all his grievances on Rong Qi.
He hoped that Rong Qi’s life would be worse than death.
So, Mammy Ling brought Rong Qi back and told him all the truth. As soon as
Rong Qi was born, his life was not up to him.
His mission should not be fettered by love.
That night, when the wild wind was howling, Rong Qi broke into the Shen family with an armored army and killed everyone he saw.
The emperor ambushed him on his way to retreat and crushed his legs.
Later, Rong Qi was imprisoned in the palace on the grounds of recuperation. In the eyes of
outsiders, it is a great honor that adult princes can still live in the palace for a long time.
But this is just the emperor’s words to monitor Rong Qi.
The new emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world.
I changed from Fengyi to Xianfei. Mu Jinqing is the concubine
with me. Only then did
I know that Rong Qi’s success this time was partly due to the strength of the Mu family.
Rong Qi asked someone to move my things to Chenggan Hall. He said that this was my palace from then on, and I could do whatever I wanted.
“I want Mu Chin-ching to be buried with my snow. Is that all right?”
Rong Qi was silent.
After a while, he said, “Qing Qing, I can’t touch her now. You wait a little longer. I will give you all the things I have promised you as queen.” Wait
again.
I close my eyes and don’t let him see my tears.
“You let my brother go.” My voice choked with sobs. “I don’t want anything. Please let him go.”
I saw Rong Qi clenching his fist, and he looked at me with anger in his eyes.
“Is he that important?”
I didn’t say anything.
“Okay, I’ll let him go.”
This winter’s snow is really heavy, day after day, like to crush the imperial city.
Rong Qi said that he would arrange his elder brother to a good place far away from the imperial city.
And stay away from me.
I nodded, this is good, without my drag, the elder brother should be very good.
As for me, I may have to stay under the palace wall all my life and hate looking at each other with Rong Qi. When
Rong Qi rushed into the Chenggan Hall, I was grinding ink. As soon as
he overturned the table, the ink scattered on the rice paper and swallowed up the person I had just painted. Without saying a word,
he grabbed my wrist and dragged me out.
I was in a lot of pain, but no matter how hard I fought, it was useless.
When I arrived at the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Rong Qi threw me to the ground. I covered my broken forehead and looked puzzled. In the
main hall, the palace eunuchs lowered their heads one by one, as if they were not breathing.
I saw several disheveled women coming out of the screen, talking and laughing, and saying dirty words.
I feel uneasy in my heart.
“Taifu is clean and upright, always floating outside, unattainable.” Rong Qi stared at me, “You say, if I trample his pride into the mud, he should be very desperate?”
“What did you do?” I got up and grabbed his robe and shouted, “What did you do to my brother?!” As soon
as Rong Qi picked me up, he took me outside the door of the side hall and imprisoned me to see the scene inside through the crack of the door.
The elder brother, dressed in white, collapsed on the ground, his lower body covered with blood.
I’ve never seen him so desperate.
I closed my eyes and shouted, frantically trying to break away from Rong Qi’s hand, but he squeezed it even tighter.
“Open your eyes!” He clamped down on my shoulders. “Why?”? I really want to let him go. Why did you lie to me? “
” I retreat again and again. Why do you still want to leave me?! ” The first time I saw Rong Qi lose his temper like that, his eyes were red. “Didn’t he want to take you away?”! I will crush his legs today!
“Don’t, don’t..”
I shook my head. My brother seemed to hear my voice. He moved his fingers and looked up with difficulty. He told me to go quickly. There was a huge stone
in the room, like a grinding tool, and seven or eight guards lifted it.
I shouted no, and I grabbed Rong Qi’s sleeve and knelt down to beg him.
I forced him! Please don’t. I know I’m wrong.
I said I wouldn’t go, and I didn’t dare.
I give up, I accept fate, I will be with him all my life. The red hairpin on
his head fell to the ground with a clear sound.
He pinched my chin and forced me to look up. Then he said,
“Execution.”
“No.”
The moment the boulder fell, the world turned red, and my ears were filled with my brother’s screams. The man who
used to bathe in the breeze hunched up on the ground and his eyes were bloodshot.
I pushed the door open, ran two steps, fell down and lost my strength. I dragged myself to my brother’s side. I
hold him but I dare not touch him.
I’m afraid he’s in pain.
I brushed his hair away, and big tears hit his face.
The elder brother opened his eyes slowly. His eyes were very beautiful, as if he had hidden all the stars in the sky.
“Nan’er, don’t look.”
My brother tried to cover my eyes, but he found blood on his hands and stopped.
My elder brother is always so gentle.
“Okay, I won’t look.”
I smiled at him.
“When the elder brother gets better, Nan’er will see enough.”
He smiled at the corners of his mouth.
“Can Nan’er promise him one thing?”
I nodded. “Okay, I promise. I promise anything.”
“Kill me.”
I tried to hold back my sobs. I shook my head and silently refused.
“Nan’er, it hurts. Please help me.”
「…… No
“Good Nan’er, please.”
I don’t know how I got back to Chenggan Hall. When I came to my senses, the blood on the hairpin in my hand had solidified. I ran to the water’s edge and washed my hands vigorously.
But how can not wash clean, a pool of water are dyed red, I still feel not clean. Mammy
Ling said that Taifu invited the emperor to drink and adulterate the wine. He wanted to confuse Rong Qi and take me away.
I should have known. My brother couldn’t have left me alone.
I seem to have locked myself in a dark room, unable to see or hear.
I don’t eat, drink or sleep every day, and I just stare at a certain place.
According to the palace people, your majesty is so brave that he has cleaned up many treacherous court officials, and now he is in power.
They said that the Mu family declined and the imperial concubine was sent to the cold palace.
I don’t know how long it took, but a touch of green suddenly appeared in the place I was staring at.
I stretched out my hand, and a ray of sunshine fell on my palm.
Spring is here.
I pushed the door open and blocked the dazzling sunlight with my hand. The people in
the Chenggan Palace have changed again, but I don’t know them.
A little maid with her hair in a bun looked at me timidly.
“I want to go out for a walk.”
The little maid’s eyes lit up and she said, “Good.” The
Imperial Garden was full of vitality. I heard a lot of chatter from the little maid of honor. She said that the flowers were red, but I saw that they were gray.
The girl must be suffering from eye disease.
“Empress, it’s very kind of you to be willing to talk. It just so happens that tomorrow will be the grand ceremony for sealing the queen. Your Majesty must be happy to know.”
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“After the Seal?”
“Yes, how many people don’t envy you and your majesty’s immortal couple?”
The little maid said to herself, “At first the ministers didn’t agree, but Your Majesty fought back and said that you were the daughter of Lord Shen Jin and were fully qualified to be the empress. Your Majesty and the ministers were deadlocked for a long time, and finally they agreed. Empress, you are really very happy.”
I pulled the corners of my mouth. “What is that?”
“It’s peach blossom cake.”
I stood under the peach tree in the garden and stared at the cakes on the table for a long time.
“Go and tell him that the peach blossom wine he buried last year is ready to drink, and I want to have dinner with him.”
It’s night. The first time I saw him, I
put on the blue and black dress, and when I looked for the headband, I remembered that the headband had been given to Rong Qi.
I just let my hair loose and put on Rouge. The scar on
my cheek could not be covered. I looked at myself in the mirror. My mouth was smiling, but my eyes were wet. The jar of peach blossom wine in the
courtyard used to have a share of snow, but now she can’t drink it, but it doesn’t matter, I drink it for her.
I took out the hairpin she sent, and the bead curtain on it shook. I pinched a red bead at the end, twisted it gently, and slipped out a pill.
The pills melt in wine and are colorless and tasteless. It seems that Rong Qi and
I haven’t seen each other for a long time. I think he looks ten years older.
I poured him wine and a glass for myself.
“Your Highness, I propose a toast to you.” With tears in my
eyes, I looked up and drank the wine in my glass.
Rong Qi stared at his cup for a long time before picking it up. “Qing Qing, I’m no longer your Highness.” With
that, he gulped it down. I
lowered my eyes and let the tears fall.
“Your Highness, if I do it again, I will kill you first.” I looked up with my eyes sparkling. What about you? Will you go the same way?
Rong Qi did not answer. He said, “I promised you that Mu Jinqing would be at your disposal when it was done. I saved her life. Qing Qing, you can avenge Xue Yong. Are you happy?”
He paused and laughed. “Will you be my queen?”
I watched him laugh and shake his head, and then he coughed.
Cough up a mouthful of black blood.
I said one more time. I’ll kill him.
But time will not go back, now I do not want to kill him.
Rong Qi hugged my gradually cold body and called the Imperial Physician.
I saw him with a headband on his hand. It looked familiar.
He asked me why I didn’t take him with me.
He said he wouldn’t push me.
He won’t let me be his queen.
He’s letting me go.
He shouted my name.
But I can’t do it anymore.
Rong Qi, your goal has been achieved. Go to keep your throne.
My father and mother came to pick me up.
Author: Jing Jingliang
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