Everyone said that the prince doted on the side of the imperial concubine Guo Shi and sympathized with me, the imperial concubine, who was alone in the empty room. I’m the only one who knows that Guo is still perfect. Guo Shi told me that the prince’s lover was another woman named Wanzhao.
Coincidentally, I am also called the evening photo. In the 19th year
of Xuanque’s reign, two events took place in the imperial court.
First, the struggle between the big prince and the three princes to seize the throne came to an end. The three princes were conferred the title of crown prince. The big prince got the title of Prince Gong and was enfeoffed to the south.
Second, the long-lost daughter of Prime Minister Shang was found-yes, it was me, the new daughter of Dayan, Shangxi Mountain.
The old emperor wanted to add joy to joy and married me to Prince Song Dichen.
My father, who had known me for less than three months, was worried about which unlucky young man I should marry, a girl who was not good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. He got the imperial edict of marriage and laughed so hard that his beard trembled.
I didn’t have the heart to hit him, but finally I couldn’t help it. I tugged at his sleeve and whispered, “Dad, I can’t get married!”
The prime minister was puzzled. “Why?”
Your daughter, I used to be a servant in the palace, and unfortunately I had a love affair with the big prince. The prince and the eldest prince are bitter enemies. If one day he finds out that I’ve been in love with the eldest prince, what can he do?
Prime Minister: “… …”
“Father, let’s find an excuse to get out of this marriage. You can say that I’m lame, or that my brain is not good enough to marry the future king of a country.” I patted the prime minister on the shoulder and made a very sincere suggestion.
“Oh, your majesty’s marriage can’t be withdrawn at will.” The prime minister asked me in a low voice, “Is my son a broken melon?”
“No.”
“That’s all right. Prince Gong has already packed up his things and gone to Lingnan. You two will never see each other again. If I don’t tell you, if you don’t tell me, who else will know?” The prime minister took me by the hand and said in all earnestness, “Son, people go to higher places. Emperor Xuan of Song is a prince in his life. I just found my precious daughter, but I don’t want you to marry so far away.”. Forget the past, you have to put your eyes on the future emperor. Don’t give up easily. Daddy will always be your strongest backing!
I want to cry without tears.
Originally, I wanted to be a side imperial concubine who was not favored. If I could not see the prince all the year round, I might be able to live in vain until the prince ascended the throne.
But the backing of Prime Minister Shang was so strong that I was directly given the title of Crown Princess, and became a vicious main room for beating Mandarin ducks. At the same time, I entered the Prince’s mansion with General Guo’s daughter, who was said to be the prince’s lover.
Yes, the two of them are Mandarin ducks, and I am the stick. Ten miles of
red makeup, the whole world is celebrating. Blowing all the way into the prince’s mansion, after worshipping heaven and earth, I was helped into the room and sat on the wedding bed, with infinite sorrow in my heart.
Compared with how to deal with the difficult triangle relationship in the future, the most important issue before me now is that, according to the rules, the prince must stay with me on the wedding night.
We have to meet.
I was on pins and needles waiting. When the dusk closed, I sat stiffly, and the prince finally came.
The valet retired with perfect propriety and closed the door, leaving us alone in the room. Two red candles flickered, and I saw his figure faintly through the veil, as tall and straight as ever.
“I am Sung Ti-chen, your husband.” Prince is very polite, but also to a self-introduction, the voice is clear and pleasant to listen to, with a bit of a smile, it is really mind rippling.
I unconsciously sat up straight, and the bed was covered with red dates, peanuts, longans and lotus seeds, a few of which rolled under me and hurt my buttocks. I covered my mouth and nose with a red handkerchief and coughed a few times. I said softly, “I’ve been weak since I was a child, and I’m very tired. I’m afraid I can’t serve your Highness tonight.”
The prince picked up the weighing pole on the table and approached, with a hint of joy and anticipation in his voice: “Since I am husband and wife, I would like to give them as a gift.”. Khe San, I’m your husband. Don’t be nervous. I felt goose bumps all over my arm when I heard
his touching and melancholy “Stream and Mountain.” I couldn’t help but shrink back. “There is no one in the waterside pavilion, and spring is lonely,” I said. “Your Highness loves the fragrance and cherishes the jade. Don’t let down the beautiful woman under the willows.”
Guo lived in Qingliuyuan, near the river, where the scenery is good, there are waterside pavilions and pavilions. My hint is very obvious. Please pack your things and go there quickly!
Alas, there is such a magnanimous room as mine in the world. But
the prince laughed out loud, “Is Khe Sanh jealous?”? Tonight, of course, I am here with you. If you pick up a veil and drink a cup of wine, you’ll have to call me husband instead.
I shivered. How terrible this man is, in order to stabilize his position as crown prince, he can ignore his old lover and say such disgusting words to a woman who doesn’t know what she looks like.
Fear turned to shame in his eyes, and his smile deepened, and with a little naughtiness, he nimbly lifted the veil of his new wife. Suddenly
I was curious about his reaction, so I raised my face and smiled sweetly at him.
“I have seen your Highness.”
Song Di Chen’s expectant and excited smile froze on his face.
My relationship with the prince, ah, is really a child without a mother. It’s a long story.
This is my former immediate superior.
Prince, can bring down a group of brothers, including the big prince, to sit in this position, naturally need some unusual means. He has a secret organization called Haiying Pavilion, which is responsible for training secret guards, placing spies, collecting intelligence, and sending some beauties to the big prince as undercover agents, such as me.
Once upon a time, the world was not too stable. My father, a scholar, ran around with the emperor, established the Great Swallow, sealed the prime minister, and turned around to find that his daughter was lost. When I
was lost, I was so young that I only vaguely remembered the temperature of my parents’ arms, but I didn’t remember the names of my parents. I couldn’t find my home and wandered for several years. When I was
nine years old, I was picked up by Song Dichen, the third prince, and entered the Haiying Pavilion. At the age of fourteen, I entered the palace as a maidservant. I assumed the name of North Radius. I was on duty at the place of Chen Guifei, the mother of the eldest prince. I became the most important chess piece for the third prince to ascend the throne of the crown prince. Emperor Xuan of
the Song Dynasty was meticulous and ruthless, but he was somewhat lustful and greedy. I stayed with him for three years and gradually gained trust.
Under my inducement, he did things more and more do not know convergence, and later actually said that the emperor did not make him crown prince is stupid and incompetent such words, provoked Longyan great anger. I handed over the evidence that he had formed a clique for personal gain and embezzled treasury silver to the prime minister who supported the three princes, and ruined the emperor’s dream of the big prince.
The emperor declared that Emperor Xuan of the Song Dynasty was Prince Gong, with a fief in the south of the Five Ridges, and was promoted and demoted. The word “respectful” is the word of killing the heart.
Song Di Xuan didn’t know that I was one of the black hands behind the scenes. Before he left, he came to ask me if I would like to go to Lingnan with him.
I answered, no.
He laughed at himself and said, “I’m a down-and-out prince now, and even the North Radius doesn’t want me.” “You really overestimate yourself,”
I said rudely. “I never took a fancy to you when I was not down and out. It’s all a game. Don’t take it seriously.
It was obviously a man with a son and a daughter, but when he saw a beautiful maid, he would hook up with her. I used a little excuse, and he was full of perseverance until death. It sounded disgusting.
What’s more, I can’t even find out that I’m from Haiying Pavilion. How can I look up to such a stupid man like a pig?
Speaking of, Song Di Chen Longzhang Fengzi, bright and clear, intelligent, progress, is all the dreams of my youth.
I fantasized about marrying him, but after seeing this man’s determination to kill, I knew that loving him was too dangerous. If he wants to be the crown prince cleanly, he probably won’t keep me, and I don’t want to be one of the three thousand beauties.
As a little maid of honor who controls the situation of the world, I had planned to brush my clothes, hide my body and name, and find a rich and idle person to live my life, but I didn’t expect to get married with my former boss.
It’s really a trick of the world. On the
wedding night, I stood on the footboard while the prince sat on the bed. “I sent someone to look for you,” he said sadly. “The people in the palace said you were dead.”
Pooh, Pooh, why do you say something unlucky on your wedding night? I will Chen Guifei think I am a beauty disaster must kill me, the prime minister mansion people will rescue me, I and my father recognize each other and have a new name called Shang Xishan and other things to report to the prince.
How like I used to report to him the news from the big prince! I sighed in my heart that it was rare in the world to enter the bridal chamber like this.
Finally, I said, “Your Highness, I don’t have much to pursue, as long as I can live well.”. If you are willing to spoil Guo Ruren, you can spoil him, and if you are willing to have a few concubines, you can accept a few, as long as you let me eat and wear warm clothes. I will do my part as the Crown Princess and help you take care of things in the house.
How to say, I am now the daughter of the prime minister, for a safe life, food and clothing is no problem? In a
trance, I heard a low sigh from the prince.
He got up to pour the wine and beckoned me over.
I dilly-dally moved to the table. “Are we going to have a cup of wine?”
“Don’t break the rules.”
The prince has always been pragmatic and doesn’t do anything superfluous, and there must be another purpose for “following the rules.”. How nice it is to talk about the rules. It can make the emperor feel that his son is really suitable to be a prince. It can make the courtiers nod their heads and think that the prince must be a wise king in the future. It can also make him keep a gentleman when he plays hooligans. After
drinking a cup of wine, the prince methodically removed the layer of brocade with longans, dates and other fruits on the bed. I didn’t know what I could do to help, so I picked up a few longans and peeled them to eat. They were very sweet.
Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of him pulling out a snow-white handkerchief from under his pillow and spreading it on the bed. My eyelids jumped and I had a sense of foreboding.
Your Highness? Are you, are you serious?
The prince smiled without a word and sat on the edge of the bed waiting for me. I hesitated for a moment, crushed a longan shell, and then moved over. “Your Highness, is this not good?”
The prince smiled gently. “It’s reasonable.”
I sat nervously in front of the bed, he leaned over, soft lips on my lips, the movement is very slow, but can not resist, deep and long. Just
a kiss, I turned my head sideways and took a big breath, thinking that I was worthy of being a prince. We changed our identities so quickly that he could adapt so quickly.
He buried his head in my shoulder and smiled. “You can breathe through your nose, fool.” I
was so embarrassed that I ignored him. But he kissed me all the way down my neck, rubbing my skin with shallow stubble, itching and cool.
Hey?! I looked down and saw that one of the buttons in front of my chest had been bitten open.
That’s not okay! I pushed him away and said with a straight face, “At this point, we have to stop.” After thinking about it, he added, “You said that.”
The prince seemed a little unhappy, but he smiled more deeply and said softly, “This is to teach you to guard against other men, not including your husband.”
His left hand reached over my head and continued to kiss me. I was so dizzy that I felt his right hand climb up my waist and clasp my skirt with two fingers. With a little effort, I heard a few muffled sounds and all the buttons were killed. I cried out in my heart-this wedding dress is so expensive!
The following day, I am holding a waist to climb to get out of bed, in the heart abdomen: Say big prince is lascivious, little imagine the Song Di Chen of handsome appearance, not close to female color just is a hungry wolf that hides not to reveal. What was
even scarier was that early this morning, he thought I wasn’t awake. He held me in his arms and whispered, “You are finally my wife,” and kissed me on the forehead. When has
he ever been so gentle? Is this what a prince can do? I was so surprised by Song Dichen’s superb acting skills that I didn’t dare to move and continued to pretend to sleep for a while. I
changed my clothes and went into the palace to pay my respects to the emperor. In the carriage, I tugged at the sleeve of the prince and asked, “Your Highness, can you give me a definite answer? Can I stay or can’t I stay?”
The prince was so shocked that he said he hoped I could put myself in the right position. Shang Xishan, the daughter of the prime minister, the prince and the future mother of a country, is not a little maid who can decide life and death in one word.
I scratched my head and giggled at him.
It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, as long as I can live.
As the saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger, and it is not easy to make a living around the prince. I used to be an undercover agent, and I learned all kinds of things. The prince seemed to really want me to be a good crown princess, and found several gentlemen to teach me. From then on, I lived a busy life of drawing abacus in the morning, reciting the Six Classics in the afternoon, and recording courtiers in the evening.
The prince threw me aside to be busy and went to dote on Guo happily.
Every day, after a busy day, the setting sun melts gold and the evening clouds merge, I can’t help looking in the direction of the green willow courtyard. The melodious sound of the piano sounded, and the laughter came from the wall, which made me very sad.
I said, “I really envy them. They still have time to cultivate their sentiments.” Yueshu, the servant girl who
served me, said with a bitter face, “Your Highness has only been to our Dangui Courtyard twice this month. The first time you said that the account was not finished and asked your Highness to wait. The second time you held a book and asked your Highness endlessly.”. Empress, if you don’t compete for favor, it will be too late!
I sighed, the little girl is too short-sighted, concubines and concubines are endless, fight down a Guo, there will be three thousand Li Wang Zhang waiting for me, why fight for the favor of the moment? After three months of
diligent study and two broken abacus, I was finally able to take on the responsibility of being in charge of the family. Draw a lesson from the big prince’s bribery, all the accounts of the prince’s mansion must be clean, and I must personally look over them. When I am free, I will also entertain my wife and daughter in Beijing, carry out extensive social activities, and get a glimpse of the situation between Korea and China from her words and deeds.
Song Di Chen saw that my housekeeper was very skillful and gave me the Haiying Pavilion in his hand. I used to be a member of this organization, but now I have become the leader, and my mood is really wonderful. The informants
I placed are all over the place, and I can receive hundreds of messages every day, such as the concubine of the Minister of Rites, and the silver for disaster relief that Tianshui County did not receive on time. I want to read all the news before dinner, classify the information according to the situation in the court, and then dictate the most important things to the prince.
In the eyes of others, although the prince dotes on Guo, he respects the Crown Princess very much and insists on accompanying her to dinner every day.
I have never understood the thoughts of women in the deep courtyard, such as Guo Shi, the prince has half a month to stay in the green willow courtyard, the remaining half a month at least ten days busy with official business, she is a favorite concubine, why should I envy a conscientious housekeeper? I
am a little afraid of the cold, and I must drink sweet osmanthus tea to dispel the cold in winter. There are more than a dozen sweet osmanthus trees planted in the sweet osmanthus courtyard. In autumn, the trees are orange and fragrant. I ordered people to pick a lot of sweet osmanthus to make tea and keep it.
She bribed the people in my courtyard to put slow poison in the scented tea. It was done in secret, but unfortunately, I had learned to make poison, and I knew there was something else in the sweet osmanthus when the hot water was flushed.
I didn’t say anything on purpose. I was bored in winter, so I invited her to drink tea every other day on the pretext of sisterhood. I kept trying to persuade her, “How delicious this osmanthus tea is!”! It smells good, and it dispels the cold. I made it specially for my sister, but she doesn’t drink it, and she looks down on me.
She could not refuse and looked embarrassed. With a sneer,
I aimed at her and threw the tea in my hand on the ground, making her a skirt.
I said, “Sister Kuo, I always pay attention to reciprocity. This time it’s all right. If there is a next time, I’ll pay you ten times as much as you give me.”
Guo turned pale and fled.
I laughed. What about the
general’s daughter? At the age of four, I wandered the streets. At the age of six, I climbed over the dead. At the age of nine, I entered the Haiying Pavilion. At the age of fourteen, I entered the palace as the best undercover agent. At the age of seventeen, I personally sent the promising prince to Lingnan. At the age of eighteen, I became a real Crown Princess. How can a spoiled young lady fight with me?
Later, she made trouble for me several times, but I turned her back. Song Di Chen wants to knock her one time, I did not let, one life always wants a bit of adjustment, two come this thing I still deal with. He turned a blind eye. Half a year has passed with
small waves, and it is the end of the year in an instant.
The first snow of the year came late. On the third day of the twelfth lunar month, I woke up in the middle of the night and heard a rustling sound outside the window, so I put on my clothes and got out of bed and lay on the window to watch. It was dark
outside, and a layer of snow could be seen on the ground. When the wind blows, the snow on the sweet osmanthus tree will fall down and sink into a large area of snow.
Song Di Chen’s sleep is very shallow, was alarmed by me, put on the quilt to get out of bed, stood behind me and hugged me, the thick quilt wrapped us two tightly. Bending slightly,
he put his chin on my shoulder and asked, “How long has it been snowing?”
“It’s been two hours.” He
was silent for a moment. “Seven years ago,” he said softly, “it was the third day of the twelfth lunar month. One snowy day, you were waiting for me under an osmanthus tree. The snow fell all over your body, and even your eyebrows were white.”
I smiled. Seven years ago, I was just one of the dozens of girls in Haiying Pavilion, and it was hard for him to remember.
Shoulders were supported, and then gentle kisses fell, like snowflakes of that year, covering every inch of my face.
He put his arms around my head and rubbed the tip of my nose, which was red with cold.
“Are you cold, Hsi-er?” In fact,
I quite disliked his affectionate appearance, and deliberately said, “Your Highness cares. Naturally, I’m not cold. I just don’t know if Sister Kuo is cold alone.”
His smile froze.
I tilted my head and asked him, “Isn’t Sister Kuo your lover?”
Song Di Chen gave me a sidelong glance, as if disdaining to answer my silly question. I cried out in my heart that the rumor could not be believed. I said curiously, “So the news that you love Guo Ruren was released by the Guo family?”? Or yourself? General
Guo followed the late emperor for many years and made great contributions. Naturally, his daughter wanted to be the empress. It was impossible for the emperor not to understand his tricks, but whether the prince liked Miss Guo or not did not matter. General Guo’s willingness to assist the next monarch was the key.
“Before you married Kuo, I asked Yushitai to write a letter saying that in troubled times, good generals should be used and civil servants should be valued in governing the world.” Prime Minister
Shang and General Guo are in the same position. I shouldn’t have easily sat on the position of Crown Princess. The prince is reminding the emperor that the military commanders are suspected of having soldiers.
General Guo is the first military commanders, my father is the head of the civil servants, others only have these two assistant, the prince ascended the throne smoothly. But how can you rest easy on your way to the throne?
After daybreak, when the prince left, Yueshu brought me a bowl of soup, and I looked up and drank it as usual. “Empress, why are you doing this?” She said with an unbearable look? What if Kuo gets pregnant first?
I sat in front of the window, dressed in the fox fur of the prince, very warm.
“Not yet.” I have heard many times that the
mother is valued by the son, but I never believe it all. Li Shufei, the mother of the seven princes, angered Longyan. What’s the use of having a three-year-old son? He turned around and was sent to Zhou Defei’s palace, but he gave birth to a son for others in vain.
I can’t let such a thing happen to me. It’s not enough to have my father’s strong backing. I have to make myself a valuable person to Song Dichen. There are many women who are
willing to give birth to children for him. There is no shortage of me, but I am the only Crown Princess who can assist him to ascend the throne of God smoothly. Son, it’s not too late to plot later. After
spring, an apricot blossom in the garden is just right, rare leisure, I hold a book sitting under the flower tree to read.
The prince came over and sat with me for a while. Suddenly he became interested and ordered, “In the thin shadow of apricot blossoms, the flute is the best.”. Clouds gather, and bring me my flute.
Yun Lian fetched the jade flute.
The prince’s flute is very good, but the song is a little cold, with the feeling of light fragrance in spring. Lying on a cane chair, I unfolded a book to cover my face and waited for a song. I asked him softly, “What’s the matter? Are you unhappy?”
He hesitated for a moment and then said, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if a good wife could draw a chessboard on paper, and a young son could pick up stones to make chess pieces and play a game with his hands?”
If I hadn’t studied hard recently, I wouldn’t have understood his awkward words. I pointed in the direction of the Green Willow Courtyard. “Go to the Green Willow Courtyard and have a look. I’m sure Sister Kuo will be willing to give you a baby.”
In fact, I know that he won’t let Guo get pregnant. General Guo, together with the emperor, overthrew the decadent former Dynasty. Now the emperor is the ruler of the world. General Guo feels uncomfortable and afraid of disloyalty.
If Guo had children, General Guo would certainly assist his grandson to ascend the throne. At that time, Song Dichen and I will probably not have a good time.
He took the book off my face and looked me straight in the eye. “What about you?”
I’m silent.
The apricot blossoms were falling like snow, and the handsome young prince looked at me with deep affection and said to me in a tender tone, “Hsi-er, our two children must be very clever.”
The apricot blossoms fell for several days, and then the flowers began to grow leaves. I was worried when I saw the apricot trees.
Song Di Chen asked me if I would like to, did he find out that I stole the soup? Why didn’t you scold me when you found it? If you didn’t find it, why did you come out like this without thinking? When green apricots hung on the
branches, I still didn’t come up with a reason. The prince had no time to haggle with me, because the emperor was ill, more confused, less sober, the prince had to deal with most of the government affairs, too busy to go home.
Guo Ruren stayed alone for a few days and felt bored. He packed up his things and went back to his mother’s home.
See, concubine is comfortable, want to go home to go home, I as the crown princess has an unshirkable responsibility, to enter the palace to serve disease.
Everything is done by the palace people, but I just stay in the bedroom to show the filial piety of the prince.
Occasionally, I heard the old emperor sometimes call the queen’s name in a daze. He had hundreds of concubines in his life, but in the end he still couldn’t let go of this man.
Unfortunately, the woman he couldn’t let go, the mother of the prince, had passed away for ten years.
One day, when I was coming out of the Zichen Hall, I ran into Concubine Chen. She looked at me in the face and exclaimed, “North Radius?!”
I saluted and said, “I have seen the imperial concubine, my concubine is the crown princess, and the merchant’s daughter is Xi Shan.”
Chen Guifei was not good to me, she looked down on my identity as a palace maid, if not for the big prince to protect me, she would have killed me. After the big prince failed to seize the throne, I refused to go to Lingnan. Chen Guifei wanted to put me to death and almost succeeded.
That evening, I took a carriage back to the Prince’s Mansion and was stopped on the way. I secretly sighed, did not expect that after so long, Chen Guifei will soon become Chen Taifei, or the original intention does not change. After a long de
tour blindfolded, he was thrown into a room. The place where I was kept was a woodshed with a musty smell, which should not have been used for a long time. I was tied hand and foot and thrown on the faggot.
I waited quietly.
I don’t know how long it took, but the door was opened and I felt someone approaching. When he didn’t speak, I cleared my throat and shouted, “Do you know who I am?”
The black cloth was torn off. In the dark room, Prince Gong, who was supposed to be in Lingnan at the moment, crouched down in front of me and looked at me faintly: Who are you? Are you Bei Ran, the maid of honor who loves me so much, or are you Shang Hsi Shan, the Crown Princess who is going to be my mother?
“Your Highness!” I had long guessed it was him. Chen Guifei wouldn’t have kept me for so long, but she still had to pretend. My face was full of surprise. “Ah Hsuan, how could it be you?” With a worried expression, he said, “Go back quickly. It would be terrible if Song Dichen knew you were in the capital!” There was a flash of
cold light and a dagger was pressed against my neck. He sneered, “How long are you going to pretend?”? Shangxishan, you deserve to die! Do you know how many times I’ve been lost in my dreams? I’ve wanted to cut your neck.
I prefer to believe that when he can’t sleep at night, he is thinking about the throne. Joke, if Song Di Xuan is really a kind of love, for a woman’s betrayal on the risk of death to return to Beijing, do not deserve to be Song Di Chen’s opponent. He must have an intention.
It is not difficult to guess, nothing more than to take advantage of the emperor’s serious illness, the unstable situation in the court, overthrow the prince himself to the throne.
He caught me, not because I once had a long relationship with him, but because I was the wife of Song Dichen, Shang Xishan. With tears in my eyes,
I said with deep feeling, “I am the abandoned daughter of the prime minister, and my life is not up to me.”. Into the prince’s mansion for a year, was left out in the cold, has long been regret. Think of your illness, the north radius knows the sin is heavy, do not ask your Highness to forgive, but ask your Highness. Peace.
Song Di Xuan and I were deadlocked for a moment, and the dagger went down and cut the rope. Emperor Xuan of
the Song Dynasty was busy planning in secret, but he came to see me at least once a day, trying to trap me. As I talked to him about the old days, I tried to get him to say something, and both of them were laughing and talking nonsense. Fortunately, the food was good enough for me to stay. On
the tenth day, I was weaving grasshoppers with straw. There was a commotion outside. I knew that the prince had finally come.
Song Di Xuan rushed in, grabbed me, and put the dagger on my neck. I was dragged to my feet by him and sincerely suggested, “Wang Ye, you’d better kidnap Guo Ruren. The prince cares about her most. General Guo still has military power.” “Did you reveal where I am?”
He said in a harsh voice? How did you deliver the message?
“You really think highly of me.” My face was full of grievances, but what I said in my heart was, Song Dixuan, you looked down on me, you never knew what kind of person I was from beginning to end.
I am not a water plant swaying in the torrent of struggle for the throne, not a weak woman who is snatched by you two men. What I want to do is to be the helmsman.
Catching me is the only wrong move you’ve made in this rebellion, and it’s also your dead move.
The prince appeared in front of him with a sword dripping with blood. At this moment, the most important thing he should do was to order the capture of the king regardless of my safety, but he said, “Song Di Xuan, you let her go.”
Song Di Xuan laughs: “Song Di Chen, Song Di Chen, you care about her!”! Hahahahahaha, I finally found your weakness. Kuo has been a widow for a year, and I knew that the person in your heart was her–Shang Hsi Shan.
My name was pronounced through clenched teeth, and the dagger made blood marks on my neck. With the shadow of death hanging over me, I slowly raised my hand to touch Emperor Xuan’s face and called to him in a low voice, “Ah Xuan..” I don’t know if
I’m the prince’s weakness, but I know that Song Di Xuan can’t kill me. He was greedy for money and lust, and his heart was tied up, so he could not be as decisive as the prince.
While he was in a trance, I spilled the ecstasy with my backhand, twisted my body and escaped. The prince rushed over and took me into his arms. Emperor
Song Xuan quickly slashed his own flesh with a dagger, kept awake, and ordered: “Kill!”
I was imprisoned by Emperor Xuan of the Song Dynasty for many days, and it was not easy for me to hide a person’s amount of ecstasy. The prince held me in his left hand and struggled to support me with his right hand.
A sword thrust at me, I had no time to dodge, he hugged me and turned around, warm embrace blocked the killing and blood, I heard him snorting.
I know. I won. The
winner is not Song Di Xuan, but when the prince, the future king of a country, Song Di Chen. On the seventh day of the fourth month of the twentieth year
of Xuanque, General Guo colluded with Prince Gong to launch a mutiny, intending to support the new emperor while the emperor was seriously ill.
Prince wise, early aware, one side secretly deployed troops, one side sent people to search for prince Gong. In order to avoid the riot, this matter can not disturb the people, I sent the sea shadow pavilion more than half of the people to investigate secretly. Emperor Xuan of
the Song Dynasty hid it in secret and searched for it for several days without success. I deliberately bumped into Chen Guifei and made a move to lure the snake out of the hole, and then a move to go deep into the tiger’s den. Emperor Xuan of
the Song Dynasty watched closely and locked up my people, but he could not stop my news. The prince soon learned where the rebels were.
After a few days, when the time was ripe, the prince let the confidant who was undercover under General Guo put a false message to Emperor Xuan of Song, leading him to force him to abdicate, and then captured Prince Gong’s party in the name of rebellion. When the
news reached Guo Fu, General Guo wanted to lead troops to help, but his well-behaved and docile daughter took off the mask of human skin on her face, revealing a strange face, and told him that your real daughter was still a hostage in the hands of the prince. If you entered the palace, she would die. After the
matter subsided, I asked the prince, why did General Guo cooperate with Prince Gong?
“He wants a puppet emperor, which I cannot be. He wants a grandson of his blood to be the future crown prince, which I cannot give.” After
weighing, General Guo chose Prince Gong as his partner. Before the uprising, he specially sent someone to pick up Guo Ruren back to her mother’s home, but did not expect Song Di Chen had already stolen beams and changed pillars, the only daughter or became a hostage.
I sent Xing Shen to serve Kuo for more than a year. She observed day and night and imitated Kuo perfectly. It was not a problem to hide from General Kuo for a while. Besides, he’s too busy rebelling to care about anything else. The prince chattered as he put medicine on my neck. General
Guo chose to stay put, but Prince Gong could not stand alone and failed to plot a rebellion for many days. The prince demoted Emperor Xuan of Song to a commoner on the charge of rebellion and unfilial piety. Remembering that the Song emperor had declared that Kuo was “a widow,”
I asked tentatively, “Sister Kuo.. You’re not still perfect, are you?
He gave a hum.
I was so shocked that I imagined the scene of two people chatting in the green willow courtyard in the middle of the night, and I couldn’t help feeling sorry for Guo.
No wonder she wanted to eat me alive.
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I wondered, “Why didn’t you touch her?”? Don’t want her to have children? There are other ways to do that, so as not to give up eating for fear of choking.
Sung Ti-chen says, “Kuo’s mind is not right, his words are sticky, he is shallow and ignorant, and his mind is full of asking for favors. I don’t like it.”
I suspect I heard wrong, open prince, marry into the door of the wife and concubine which is not for the great cause? He said he didn’t like it? I became more and more confused: “It’s not all for the throne. There’s nothing I like or don’t like.”. Besides, you don’t like her and you go to the Green Willow Yard every day?
“To fight for the throne, you naturally have to rely on your own ability. If you serve others, what’s the difference between a prince and a prostitute?”. Sung Tei-chen spoke plausibly, “As for going to the Green Willow Courtyard often, naturally it’s to create the illusion that I love the Kuo family and to keep you safe.”
I was speechless and choked. Song Di Xuan wants to rebel, and it is not me who is kidnapped?
“Even if I don’t find Emperor Song Xuan, I’m sure I can put down this rebellion. You don’t have to take risks.” The gauze was wrapped around his neck. He rubbed it gently and sighed with pity. “Pity the neck.”
Nothing ventured, nothing gained? I’m sure I won’t die. I took the medicine and took off his clothes to apply it for him. The cut on my back was so long that the bone was visible. “You shouldn’t have let the Sung Emperor release me.” When the
ointment was applied, he felt pain, his shoulder bones trembled, and a thin layer of sweat covered his forehead, but his tone was still calm: “I’m not sure what he thinks, and I dare not risk you.” As soon as I stopped
moving, I bowed my head and said, “That’s better than being in danger yourself. If something happens to you, what will the world do?”? The more you appear to care about me, the more the Sung Emperor Xuan is able to do it.
I don’t really care about the world. I just want to know why he took the knife.
He turned and stared at me, frowning slightly. “Are you so relieved about Emperor Song Xuan?”? Sure he won’t kill you?
I tied his clothes for him.
“If you don’t rest assured, you can achieve great things. There is no one who doesn’t take risks.” I naturally do not have perfect assurance, but I must make a great contribution, let Song Di Chen respect me all his life, in order to sit firmly in the position of queen. Unrelenting,
he grabbed me by the wrist and asked me, “Shang-hsi-shan, are you still sentimentally attached to Emperor Xuan?”
Is this a suspicion that I colluded with Prince Gong? “Prince Mingjian, Khe Sanh only wants to be with you. He has nothing else in mind.”
“But you called him Ah Hsuan that day.” The prince took my hand and pressed it against his chest. “You only call me Prince.”
I was stunned.
I’m showing my loyalty here, and he’s jealous there?
Khe San, I’ve had to do a lot of things along the way, but there’s only one thing I regret. I shouldn’t have sent you to Concubine Chen, and I shouldn’t have let you meet Emperor Song Xuan. “Don’t worry,”
I said with a slight smile. “I don’t like fools like Song Dixuan. The man I admire must have the wisdom and courage to reign over the world.
I am a tool for the cultivation of imperial power, outstanding in the sea shadow pavilion, a heart is cold and hard, Song Di Xuan a few sweet words how can pry open? Still unhappy,
he took me in his arms and put his chin on the top of my hair. “Why didn’t you ask me for help when Concubine Chen sent someone to kill you?” He asked sullenly.
Why?
Asuka, Lianggongzang, a little maid who was entangled with Prince Gong, why did she stay with the prince? I would rather leave in style than be disposed of by him. Let the North Radius die. I’ll have a new name and start a new life.
Did not expect to turn around and become the daughter of the prime minister, and married to the prince mansion. I have been married to Song Dichen for more than a year, and I have always been conscientious and dare not slack off.
It was probably my diligence that moved the prince. He held me in his arms and said in a gentle voice, “Don’t do this next time.”. Khe Sanh, you are my wife, and I cannot leave you. At the beginning of
September, Song Di Chen ascended the throne, I was the empress, my father was the prime minister, and General Guo retired and returned home.
Guo Ruren asked himself to leave the palace, and I sent Miss Guo away on behalf of Song Dichen. It was early autumn, the sky was high and the air was crisp, and I wished her to find her own happiness in the vast world, but she sniffed at me.
“Hum, Shangxishan, don’t be complacent too early.”. The king is fickle. He doesn’t like me, and he won’t like you.
I have doubts about whether Song Di Chen likes me or not, and I don’t want to answer, so I perfunctory her and take her to the carriage. Seeing that I didn’t believe her, she leaned close to my ear and said, “Do you know that there is someone in Your Majesty’s heart?”
I became interested: “Oh?”? What people?
No one else knows about it, and I heard it from Your Majesty in his sleep, only once, but I heard it clearly. What he called was the evening photo. I asked Yunlian quietly, and he told me that Wanzhao was your Majesty’s favorite girl when he was a teenager, and that she was dead!
I was speechless and choked. Yunlian, what on earth are you talking nonsense about.
“If Miss Wanzhao were alive, you could still hope that one day she would grow old, but she is already dead, and she is the eternal memory of Your Majesty. No matter what you do, you can’t get over her!” Miss Kuo cocked her chin. “I’m smarter than you. I’ve seen through Your Majesty’s mind long ago.”
As soon as I entered the palace gate, it was as deep as the sea, and I could not escape. Then wish Miss Kuo all the best.
I waved my hand and watched the carriage go away.
A line of birds flew across the sky and turned into a few small dots in the blue sky. I stood in front of the palace gate for a long time, watching the sunset, and the gorgeous sunset covered the sky. I
suddenly remembered that ten years ago, probably in autumn, I was wrapped in dirty clothes and huddled in the hibiscus flowers on the street corner, fearing the coming winter. “Who are you?” The
young man asked in a loud voice. “Who are you?”
I looked up and saw that the sunset was like gold powder all over his body, and his handsome eyebrows and eyes were shining in the streamer.
I said, I don’t have a name.
He said, “Shall I give you a name, Evening Photo?”
I asked, “What about you?”? What’s your name?
“I am Song Dichen.” He held out his hand to me. “Come home with me and I won’t let you go hungry again.”
The third prince is a wise man, he has splendor and wealth, high officials and rich salaries to promise, but to a little girl living on the street, he said that he had enough to eat.
I swallowed my saliva, got up, approached, and took his warm and clean palm with my dirty little hand.
From then on, I was no longer a nameless waif, I had many names. I am the dark guard evening photo, I am the palace maid north radius, I am the prime minister’s daughter Shang Xishan.
No matter what the identity is, I am Song Dichen’s person.
Yun Lian is Song Di Chen’s personal bodyguard, and also a member of Hai Ying Ge, my colleague. Later, when I mentioned what Miss Kuo had said to him in secret, he hesitated for a long time before he solemnly said, “I never talk nonsense in the evening.”
He called me Wanzhao, not the empress. Did he speak to the empress as the emperor’s bodyguard, but as Yunlian to the old friend.
There are some words that Yunlian can’t tell me, but I have vaguely guessed. The man who was sent by Concubine Chen to kill me had been bribed by Emperor Chen of Song Dynasty. The prime minister didn’t know where his daughter was until he received the news from him. The emperor pointed out that the daughter of the merchant who married the prince was also facilitated by him.
From the beginning to the end, I was in his hands.
But he said he was afraid of losing me. What
he regretted was not letting me approach Song Dixuan, but letting me become a knife that was too cold. He never mentioned the name “Evening Photo” in front of me, probably because he didn’t want me to remember that once I was just his knife. I
am a cold-hearted person, and I will never fall in love with anyone again. There is only one person who has been tied up all his life and can’t be separated since he saw it at a glance at the autumn dusk when he was nine years old.
He is the deepest yearning in my heart, but I dare not entrust my whole heart to him. I respect him, respect him, and accompany him, but I never dare to say that I love him.
“Empress, you are the queen of the world. Your Majesty treats you best.” Yueh Shu, who was accompanying me, felt that the queen’s back looked too sad, and tried to comfort me by saying, “It’s getting late. I’d better go back to the palace as soon as possible.”
I laughed, threw my sleeve and turned back to the palace.
Before entering Fengzao Palace, I smelled the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus, just like in the laurel courtyard, the long wind blows down, and thousands of trees blossom in autumn. Candles were shining in the
courtyard, Song Dichen set up dinner waiting for me, and a few of my favorite dishes were placed on the small stone table, just like the dinner of countless ordinary couples in the world.
I sat down beside Song Di Chen. He poured me a glass of wine. I raised my glass and said, “I’ve had a lot of things to do recently. I’ve been busy for a few days. I haven’t had time to congratulate Your Majesty on getting what you want.” With a smile,
he raised his glass and said, “I also wish that the queen’s long-cherished wish will come true and that she will own the world.”
Have the world?! I was delighted, but I said, “Oh, what is Your Majesty talking about? It’s not worth it.”
Song Dichen held my hand and said, The world is bustling with people living and working in peace and contentment. This is my world and yours. Khe Sanh, you are different from the other women. Although the court is big, it should not trap you. From now on, I will be a wise king, and you will be a virtuous queen.
What he is willing to give me is not only a small piece of land in the three palaces and six courtyards, but also a vast world and beautiful mountains and rivers.
I took his hand and said with a smile, “Well, let’s work hard to achieve a good story of a wise king and a virtuous queen who will never change their love for each other.” The first thing
Song Di Chen did when he became the crown prince was to visit the prime minister of Shang. First, he thanked him for his years of teaching. Second, he hoped that he would send someone to save a palace maid from Chen Guifei.
“From now on, she will be the young daughter of a merchant.” Prime Minister
Shang stroked his beard and asked, “Is there such a good thing?”? Helping you become a prince and giving the old man a daughter for free?
The gentleman is joking. To tell you the truth, this maid of honor is the one I like, and I want to marry her. She is also intelligent and has the ability to command the six palaces and the world. I want to give her an identity. Prime Minister
Shang thought that each of his three sons was more annoying than other, and it would be good to have a little girl at home.
“When you enter the prime minister’s mansion, you naturally have to take my surname. What’s a good name for this child?”
“She used to be called Wanzhao.” When we
first met, she was sitting on the ground in front of a cluster of hibiscus flowers. Her hair was unkempt and her clothes were ragged, but she could not hide her beautiful eyes. All of a sudden, the young man thought of the words: “Hold wine for you to persuade the setting sun, and leave evening photos among the flowers.”.
Not for anything else, just to see her for a moment.
“Will it be called Shang Wan-chao?”
“No, I need a new name. I’ve already thought of it.” Emperor Sung picked up his pen and wrote down the word “mountain and stream.”. When
I saw you coming, I suddenly felt that the streams and mountains were beautiful. After
he ascended the throne, the first thing Emperor Sung did when he was free was to visit Prime Minister Shang. When he entered his study, he held his forehead and said, “Sir, the people in the court have been urging me to accept a concubine recently. The quarrel has given me a headache. Please help me to suppress it.” Concu
bine Guo asked herself to leave the palace, and now only the empress served the king in the palace, and the courtiers naturally squeezed their heads and wanted to stuff their daughters, sisters, and nieces into the palace. Prime Minister
Shang asked tentatively, “Your Majesty, are you really not going to accept a concubine?”
Khe San is different from ordinary women. I’ve trained her to be too clever. She won’t even do business at a loss. If I want her to have only me in her heart and eyes, I will have to trade myself for it. Song Di Chen waved his hand and said, “Besides, in the past, a Kuo family has given me a headache, and I don’t want to have anyone else.”. The palace is wide and spacious, and it is enough to have a queen. In the autumn of the third year
of Wenjing, the first child of the emperors and empresses was born, a little prince. At the full moon banquet, Prime Minister Shang went to the palace to have a look. The emperor was as happy as a child who had got candy. He held the little prince in his arms and turned around, teasing him: “Muxi, this is your grandfather. Call him grandpa!”
The little prince’s babbling made the old prime minister very happy. “I didn’t think I could pick up a cheap grandfather!”
The queen came out from behind the screen with the help of the maid. The old prime minister said something bad in secret. He spilled the beans and laughed twice. The queen was not surprised, but looked at the emperor with a soft smile.
She’s a smart woman who knows when to play dumb. But she understood his mind.
