Let
it go
. Cardamom has been cooked into porridge
. She is not late.
It’s not Zhiwan.
Then know where the night will be! As soon as
I released her, the woman’s face was covered and she was wearing a cloak, so she couldn’t see her figure clearly. Now I found out that it was Tang Haoyan.
She stepped forward, blushed again and whispered, “You …” Are you really the emperor?
Your Majesty. Thank you. Saved the slave family.
I took a step back, and without hesitation, I turned around and threw myself into the cabin. “Your Majesty, Your Majesty, where are you going?” Tang Hao-yan called
eagerly behind me.
“Your Majesty!” There was only a whir of wind in
my ears.
Zhi Wan. Where
is Zhiwan!
Kicking open the doors of the rooms, I felt dizzy and shadowy, only to hear someone say in my ear,
“Your Majesty, don’t worry, your Majesty. A lucky lady has her own destiny. She..”
Your Majesty, take care of yourself! You …
“Out of the way!!!”
Why
? Why? Zhiwan and I have only seen each other for a few days.
She’s been through life and death.
Could it be an act of God. Zhiwan and
I will never meet again.
If we meet, it will be bad for her?
I kicked open another door and looked at the empty room. I felt a sudden pain in my chest. I couldn’t help holding on to the door frame and gasping for breath. Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps behind me. Joy’s anxious voice rang in my ears:
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty, don’t go. Your Majesty, let the Imperial Physician treat you first!”
“Your Majesty!” Holding on to the door frame,
I slowly stood up straight and said, “Where is the night?”
“Do you know where she is?” There was no one
around to answer.
The moonlight was like this, and now it was already flying out of the dark clouds, shining brightly on the ship. My eyes were in the moonlight, but there was no light at all. I said word by word,
“No one has found it?”
“No one saw it?” There was silence
all around.
I felt a sweet smell in my throat, and the moon in front of me became bright and blurred, and Joy’s voice, which was more and more anxious, became indistinguishable in my ears:
Your Majesty! The emperor! Somebody! Somebody help! The emperor “
Your Majesty!!!”
I seem to have fallen into a dream. There was nothing
in front of him but darkness.
Huang? Huang?
Huang? Are you awake?
A voice seemed to be on the horizon, echoing in my ears.
Huang? Huang?
Xu Zhiwan?
I slowly opened my eyes and
a lot of light came in. Everything
around me was shadowy, yellow, green, white, and countless blurred color blocks kept rotating in front of my eyes.
In the middle of a blur of color, a face appeared in a trance.
My mind was suddenly clear.
It’s Xu Zhiwan! Suddenly
I opened my eyes, grabbed her hand, and said, “Know late?”? Are you all right? Naturally,
she said, “What’s wrong with me?”? Ha-ha. It’s you who didn’t wake up just now. I’m worried to death.
I just realized that we were not on the boat at all. The place
we are in has beautiful mountains and rivers, and a bamboo forest is hidden.
Xu Zhiwan said to me with a smile, “Your Highness, are you in good spirits?”
I opened my mouth and said, “Good.” However, he found that his throat was hoarse and he felt some pain when he opened his mouth.
In addition, the body is also wet, clothes tightly attached to the body.
Looks like it just came out of the water. Only then did
I notice that Xu Zhiwan opposite was also wet all over. “This is..”
I said hoarsely.
“Oh, this?” Xu Zhiwan touched his hair and said with a smile, “Your Highness, you just fell into the water. Don’t you remember?”? I came down to save you.
Xu Zhiwan saved me?
I shook my head, trying to wake up a little more, only to hear Hsu Chih-wan say, “Your Highness, did someone just push you into the water?”
Push me into the water?
My vision gradually became clear, and I saw a rare trace of dignity on Hsu Chih-wan’s face. She said,
.. I saw it. It was the prince’s men who did it.
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Prince.
I suddenly woke up. It
turned out to be a dream.
I dreamed about what happened three years ago.
Three years ago, after Zhiwan was punished for copying books and released, the mother held a spring banquet and invited various princes and ministers to the banquet with their sons and daughters.
It is said to be a spring banquet, but in fact, it is a banquet for the princes to choose their relatives.
At that time, I got rid of the lady introduced to me by my mother and stood on the edge of the pool, looking for the figure of Xu Zhiwan in the distance. There were so many people behind me that they were crowded everywhere. Suddenly, I stretched out a hand and pushed my vest hard. When I woke up
again, I was on the opposite side of Xu Zhiwan.
Hsu Chih-wan frowned and said, “Although it was the prince’s men who did it, there’s no way to confirm whether it was the prince who gave the order. Maybe someone planted it..”
“It was the prince who did it.”
I opened my mouth lightly. What happened
three years ago is still vivid in my mind.
The prince started to push me into the water, but pretended to be framed, and pushed the pot on the imperial concubine and the four princes, causing the father to be furious and put the imperial concubine into the cold palace, and the four princes fell out of favor from then on.
And the struggle
between him and me for the throne began when I fell into the water.
But in the dream, Xu Zhiwan couldn’t hear what I said. She said to me, “Fortunately, I can swim. Otherwise, how can I save you?”. Why do you stand on the edge of the pool in a daze? Is there a fairy in it?
At this time, Xu Zhiwan was just a free girl.
She looked at me curiously, and her eyes were still filled with a trace of innocence that she didn’t have now.
I looked at her like this, and my eyes were a little red.
“Well, there are fairies.”
Hsu Chih-wan gave a “hum” and said with satisfaction, “That’s me.”
“Ah Huang, yes, you’re on the right track.”
She raised her head and looked around. “Ah,” she said, “I didn’t expect this little spring pool to be connected to such a small lake. Which way should we go later?”
It was this time that Xu Zhiwan and I went back wet together, showing our bodies, and were seen by the guards and ladies who came to rescue us. Rumors are spreading. In the end, her maiden name was greatly damaged. After
returning, Zhiwan was confined again.
It was this time that she was criticized.
I took off my robe. Want to wrap in her body, but how can not take off, Xu Zhiwan seems to be unable to see my movements in general, still looking around for someone to rescue.
I tried to stop her from calling for help, but I opened my mouth and couldn’t shout.
So, in this dream.
I can’t change anything.
I stopped untying my clothes and called softly, “Hsu Chih-wan?” Without looking back,
she said, “Huh?”
“Did I wake up and not see you?”
“Wake up?” Hsu Chih-wan looked back at me and said with a smile, “So what you just woke up to see was a ghost?” In the
sunshine, her face is sincere and clean. The voice of Sisisuo was heard in the
woods. From a distance, I seemed to hear someone anxiously calling “Your Highness.” Zhiwan looked back at me happily: “Ah Huang, look, someone is coming. We are saved.
It’s saved.
Yeah, I’m saved.
And know late, will fall into the abyss of rumors.
Unexpectedly, even in a dream, the moment of departure will come so soon?
Watching Hsu Chih-wan stand up happily and wave to the trees in the distance, I suppressed the emotion in my heart and asked her softly, “Chih-wan.”
“What wish do you have in your life?”
She stopped. He smiled at me and said, “What’s wrong?”? Do you want to thank me?
I nodded earnestly and said, “I make you a wish.”
Then she frowned in the sunshine of the branches and thought hard. He said to me,
“I don’t want anything.”
“I just want to be free.”
I woke up from my dream again.
This time, what I saw was a slightly lighted cabin.
Your Majesty! The emperor! You’re awake! “Your Majesty,”
he said, “if you don’t wake up, Joy will go with you.”
My chest was still throbbing, and Xu Changsheng’s voice came joyfully and worriedly: “Oh, Your Majesty, you really are. Fortunately, I had given you the antidote pill beforehand, otherwise you..” “Have you found Kou Fei?”
I asked hoarsely.
“This..” Joy was stunned. Then she lowered her head and whispered, “Your Majesty, the secret guards are still looking around.”. The empress must have..
“That won’t be necessary.”
I leaned on the bed rail and asked him, “General Tsao, have you disappeared too?”
Joy stared at me. “Your Majesty, how do you know …” General Cao is also missing. The slave ordered him to go to General Tsao’s wing. At first, General Tsao was still there. After a while, he went to see him, but he was no longer there.
I closed my eyes and said, “I know where they are.” After
I was born, I had no right to choose.
I am the legitimate son of my mother, and the prince is the legitimate son of the former queen.
My mother wanted me to fight for the throne with him, so my father sent me far away. In this way, I became the only prince who grew up outside the palace.
And no one asked me if I wanted to do all this.
Now, I am the emperor.
I still don’t have a choice.
When Zhiwan appeared in front of me, I still felt so sad about all this.
“Your Majesty.”
She called me that.
The emperor.
Not Huang. Standing behind her
, Tsao Hsi-liang looked at me with an embarrassed look on his face. Don’t blame me. All the rooms on the ship were searched
at that time.
Except where Cao Xiliang is.
Chih-wan was standing on the boat in her cloak. Her belly was already very big. She looked at me steadily. I don’t know if I was hallucinating, but I felt that her eyes were a little red. She said to me, “Your Majesty.”
“Go back to the palace.”
Xu Zhiwan and Cao Xiliang fled to the boat together.
At that time, after she was bundled out. It was sent to the wing where Cao Xiliang was.
The matter had been exposed, and there were bursts of shouting outside.
A secret guard rushed in and said to Cao Xiliang, “General, the woman in red has disappeared.”
“Keep the change.”
Hsu Chih-wan said in a low voice, “That man is the young man of the Yi people. I asked him to let me try Huai Jin to make sure that it was him.”
He’s a good swimmer, so he must have jumped over the window and got into the water. I have had a boat put in the back.
Cao Xiliang was at a loss for words for a long time before he hesitated and said, “Your Majesty, he..” It is also for your sake.
“He was really worried about you, so he sent you out of the palace,”
said Hsu Chih-wan, lowering his eyebrows. “I know.”
Tsao Xi-liang raised his eyebrows in surprise, only to see Hsu Chih-wan take a step forward, basking in the moonlight at the window. He whispered, “How could such a coincidence happen that someone would send me to Wei Ling’s boat?”
“It’s just that you’re so impatient that you can’t even think of a good reason.”
You. Did you see it from the beginning?
“I just didn’t expect Ah Huang to come along.”
Her voice in the moonlight could not distinguish her emotions: “I thought he was just trying to find a way to send me to Wei Ling, but that day I accidentally fell into the water, and I knew he was coming too.” “Do you know it’s him?” Asked
Cao Xiliang in surprise.
Hsu Chih-wan turned his head and smiled at him. “How could I not recognize Ah Huang?” He asked.
“But when I saw that he not only wore a hat, but also changed his face, I knew that he didn’t want me to see him.” The noise
outside gradually rose, and the sound of breaking doors resounded through the night sky.
General Tsao! General Tso!
A soldier called and knocked loudly at the door.
“Don’t.”
Hsu Chih-wan grabbed Tsao Hsi-liang by the sleeve and pleaded,
“Don’t say I’m here.”
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“In the beginning, I wanted to draw Ah Huang out.”
“I was really happy to find him with me.”
“So.” She tilted her head to look at Tsao Hsi-liang and said with a smile, “I asked that young barbarian to pretend to be a girl and sing to lure him out.”
“I know he’s going to come out. I’m not 100% sure it’s going to be him, but I know if it’s him, he’s going to come.”
“Here he comes.”
“Then the assassin came.”
Tsao Hsi-liang felt a lump in his throat for no reason. He could only watch helplessly as Hsu Chih-wan held up his cheek to the moon and said, a fortune-teller once said that I was born doomed to many disasters, and that my life would never be peaceful. You see, if Ah Huang goes to sea with me, will he be at peace one day?
“I was damned three years ago, but what about Ah Huang?”
“Is it worth letting him die with me?” “But these days, he’s very happy,”
said Tsao Xiliang with difficulty.
“Is it useful to be happy?” Hsu Chih-wan gazed at the moon and said slowly, “Ah Huang is no longer Ah Huang. He is the emperor.” If something happens to
the emperor, the whole country will be in chaos. What right do we have to let so many people suffer with us?
“I ask myself that I don’t have such a big mind, but I can’t be selfish enough to ignore the stability of thousands of people.”
“Huai Jin doesn’t want to be emperor that much.”
Tsao Hsi-liang looked at the side of her face and said slowly, “He did a good job, but he didn’t want to do it.”
“Is there a difference?” Hsu Chih-wan turned to look at Tsao Hsi-liang and said with a slight smile, “Whether he wants to or not, he is.”
“Your Majesty, there must be a place for the emperor to go.”
“As for Ah Huang,”
“we must also have Ah Huang’s safety.”
I saw Xu Zhiwan step forward again and say to me, “Your Majesty, please go back to the palace.” The wind blows a little strong
at night.
It makes my eyes hurt.
I said, “It’s too late. You’re all right.”
“It’s all right. Let’s go back.” “Your Majesty, please return to the palace,”
said Hsu Chih-wan, stepping back with a slight smile.
The tone is very firm.
The wind was blowing, and I don’t know how I opened my mouth, but I heard my own voice saying, “All right, let’s go back together. It’s safer.”
“Your Majesty.”
She looked up at me and said with a slight smile,
“Your Majesty, as far as the palace is concerned, I am already dead.”
“Just think of me as dead outside.” With
that, she lowered herself, picked up the torch in her hand, and burned the rope connected to the boat.
“Your Majesty.”
She stood in the firelight, looked at me, smiled and said,
“Let go.”
I think of that dream. I’ve had a lot of dreams over
the years. Xu Zhiwan in
every dream is leaving me.
When I left the palace, I had a dream in which Xu Zhiwan stood in the middle of a big fire and looked at me and said, “Save me.”
It turned out that those two words were not to save me.
It’s about letting go.
I watched her ride in the boat, the fire had burned the rope, fell into the river, the boat fluttered, she stood like a jade tree in the bow, the expression was neither humble nor arrogant, as if the first time we met, the charm of its own.
She whispered two words to me.
Cao Xiliang picked up the oar and nodded to me. The wind on the
river is really strong.
I watched Xu Zhiwan standing at the bow of the boat, and gradually went away. Her
eyes gradually blurred and she could not see her expression clearly.
All the big boats rose and fell on the river, and countless lights painted golden shadows on the river. In
the golden color, Xu Zhiwan took the boat, just like that night when Linbo came to me, inch by inch, his clothes turned over and left me far away. Never to be seen
again.
My eyes hurt a little, and I called out, “Joy.”
“Your Majesty.” “Joy is here,” said a worried voice behind him.
I spoke softly, and in the ripples of the river, I felt that I could not even find my own voice:
“Go back to the palace.”
I’m Joy.
Today is the fifth day of my return to the palace with the emperor.
Since five days ago, when we said goodbye to the Empress Kou on the river, we have been driving back to the palace. On the way
back, the emperor fainted twice, both on the case of correcting the memorial. Xu Taiyi quietly told me to put away all the memorials, saying that the emperor was weak, and that the emperor could not stand such fatigue now.
But no matter where I received it, the first thing the emperor said when he woke up was,
“Bring it.” What can I
get?
I have never seen the emperor like this.
“Father Fu.” “The empress has come to say she wants to see the emperor,” whispered Xiaoxia, who was in charge of pouring the tea, handing me a cup of tea.
I hurried out of the door. It was cloudy
outside, with a slight drizzle, and the queen, dressed in a golden robe, stood under the eaves, looking up at the corner of the eaves. Hearing the sound of the door opening and closing, he slowly turned his head and looked at me.
“The empress is lucky.” I hit Qian’er and said, “Empress, what are you..”
“I’ve come to see the emperor.” She smiled at me and said, “I’ve heard that the emperor hasn’t been feeling well recently, so I’ve cooked bird’s nest soup and come to visit him.”
I don’t think: “Empress, the emperor he …” A decree has been given that no one will be seen. The rain on the
window eaves was like a thin thread. The queen listened to my words, but she was not surprised. She just lowered her eyelids slightly and could not see her expression clearly. After a long time, she opened her mouth and said,
“That’s all right. My father-in-law will take this soup in for me.”
I leaned over and said, “It’s natural.”
“And.”
She raised her eyes, looked at me calmly, and said,
“Please tell me that the three-year draft is coming. Does the emperor intend to hold a general election?” How could
the emperor mean it.
I sighed and said, “I’m going to help the empress.”
She nodded slightly and said no more. When I
entered the inner room, I couldn’t help looking back at her. The shadow of
the empress looked at the eaves, motionless. What are you
looking at? As expected, the
selection of the imperial concubine was rejected by the emperor.
The emperor has not yet fully recovered. Day after day, the Imperial Physician Xu went into the temple to give him acupuncture. As he did so, he frowned. Finally, he could not help saying cautiously,
“Your Majesty, I’m looking at you. Why don’t you take a rest?”
“Working day and night like this is not good for the disease!”
The emperor closed his eyes slightly, as if he had not heard him speak. Embarrassed, Imperial Phys
ician Xu threw his eyes at me. Embarrassed, I threw my eyes back again. He sighed and said to the emperor tentatively,
“Your Majesty, think about it. If you do this, you are not letting down the suffering of Empress Kou..” Before
he had finished speaking, the atmosphere in the palace seemed to have chilled. Although the emperor did not move, he opened his eyes slightly and stared at him coldly.
Xu Taiyi immediately raised his hands and said, “Your Majesty, I’m wrong. I’m guilty of death. I’m out of here.” Then
Doctor Xu rolled and crawled to the ground, picked up the medicine box, and knelt on the ground ready to go out on his knees.
“That’s all.”
The emperor sat on the throne and said in a low voice,
“From now on, half of the folds will be removed.”
“Hey!”
I was so happy that I beat a thousand children. Xu Taiyi also got up from the ground. Touching his head, he said with a smile, “Oh, I said it was the Empress Kou who worked..”
“Xu Changsheng.”
The emperor half leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes again, and said with an expressionless face,
“Drag it out.”
“Cane for twenty.”
Today is the eighth day of our return to the palace.
These days, the emperor finally did not change the memorial as desperately as he did a few days ago. But when he did not change the memorial, he stood by the window, looking at a picture hanging on the wall, motionless.
The picture shows the emperor himself, who is leaning on a bench and seems to be asleep. After
Xu Taiyi was spanked, he was very honest these days. When he came in to pay his respects, he also twisted his buttocks. Even if he was beaten to death, he dared not mention the Empress Kou Fei.
“Father Fu.” He whispered to me, “Who painted this picture?”
I also whispered to him, “Let you be punished.”
He covered his mouth and nodded cautiously at me.
The emperor’s body is getting better day by day, but he is still sick to the outside world. I know that the situation is not very good recently, and more and more people come to ask what happened to the emperor.
“Your Majesty.” It was the minister of the Ministry of the Interior who was speaking outside: “Now there are a lot of rumors. They all say that the emperor’s dragon body is not safe, and the court is in turmoil. Your Majesty, you have to make up your mind!” There was a long silence behind the curtain of
beads before a voice slowly came out:
“I’m just having an attack of an old disease. It’s nothing serious.”. What are they panicking about?
“Having said that, it’s not a long-term solution.” The Minister of the Ministry of the Interior was worried: “Now, Your Majesty, if you don’t go to court, there will be rumors that Your Majesty …” When the emperor indulges in women, he says he is ill, but in fact he leaves the palace to indulge in love.
At this point, he seemed afraid to go on.
For a long time, behind the curtain of beads, there was no sound. When the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior raised his head doubtfully for a
long time, the emperor finally responded.
He leaned back slightly in his chair, unable to see the expression on his face. “Stand down.”
Lord Shangshu was stupefied and said, “Your Majesty, this..”
“I am tired. Stand down, all of you.” Outside the
curtain, there was a voice of resignation, and when the last person had stepped out of the door, the emperor’s sneer came slowly from behind the curtain: “Sure enough, I can’t hold back at last.”
I frowned and said, “Your Majesty, look at this..” “It doesn’t matter,”
he said lazily. Isn’t this the moment you’re waiting for?
I don’t know why, but my heart is a little bit. I have served the emperor
since I was a child, and I know his temper best.
The emperor has attached great importance to love and righteousness since he was a child, but he was sent to the Kunlun Mountains by the overlord because of suspicion. When he came back, he was fine with other things, but he attached too much importance to love and righteousness. He
should face his relatives and friends who want to persecute him so coldly and decisively.
Is it good or bad? Before
I could figure it out, a man suddenly came into the palace that day.
It was a woman dressed as a palace maid, but I could see at a glance that it was not a palace maid in the imperial palace.
I was about to go up and stop
a hand, but it held me gently.
“Joy.”
The empress gave me a gentle smile and said, “It’s all right. Let her go in.”
I couldn’t help turning my eyes to the maid’s face. Although
she wore a traditional maid’s bun, she ingeniously put a few pink crabapple flowers on her bun.
His cheeks were red, his eyes seemed to be full of autumn water, and he did not notice me, but looked expectantly at the inner hall.
It’s Tang Haoyan.
How could it be Tang Haoyan?
The empress didn’t say much, but just nodded to me. I couldn’t help but step back and get out of the way. Tang Hao-yan happily went in with a cup of tea. The empress said to me,
“Father Fu, take care of me.”
I bent down hurriedly and said, “I dare not.”
Just for a moment, I understood what the empress meant.
The emperor did not want to choose the imperial concubine, but the former court was quite dissatisfied, the queen’s move, probably just want to push the boat along.
But will the emperor be happy?
I returned to the hall with a heavy heart. Tang Haoyan was already standing beside the emperor. He put a cup of tea on the table and said delicately,
“Your Majesty, this is a Lu’an Melon Seed tea to relieve fatigue. You have been busy all morning. Have some tea.”
The emperor did not raise his head, as if he had not heard.
Tang Haoyan bit her lip and slowly retreated to one side. She accidentally bumped into my eyes. Her eyes were full of grievances
. To put it bluntly, she was also a lady of an aristocratic family. She could have entered the palace as a concubine. When she was not married, she went to the palace as a palace maid. She was already wronged, not to mention that the emperor could not hear her voice.
I sighed and stopped looking at her.
The emperor changed this fold for half a day.
At lunchtime, Imperial Kitchen’s path came up to pass the meal, and a few ladies who bowed their heads and followed behind were about to set up the dishes. Tang Haoyan, who was standing aside, stepped forward gently, picked up a piece of eight-treasure shrimp, and put it on the plate in front of the emperor.
“Your Majesty.” She said, “These shrimps are good for the vital energy and the brain. Try some more.”
At this time, the emperor finally looked up at her.
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“Why are you here?”
The emperor’s tone was so indifferent that he could not hear his emotions, but Tang Haoyan suddenly blushed and said happily,
“Your Majesty..” You, remember me.
She was so happy that she forgot the honorific.
“Joy.”
The emperor raised his eyes, looked at me lightly, and said, “Go down and get the punishment.”
I hurriedly knelt on the ground, and all the people in the palace realized that something was wrong with the emperor and fell to their knees. Only Tang Haoyan was still standing where he was. I nodded my head to the ground and repeatedly said,
“The slave deserves to die. The slave is going to take the punishment.”
Two ladies of the court came up from behind, bowed their heads and walked to Tang Hao-yan’s side. “Girl,” they whispered.
“Please go out.” Only then did
Tang Haoyan feel something was wrong.
She broke away from the hands of the two ladies and rushed straight to the emperor. Staring at him for a moment, her eyes shone like water. She said,
“Your Majesty, don’t let me go.” As she
spoke, she gently pulled up her sleeves and said, “Your Majesty, look.” The sunlight
outside slanted into the window and hit her white and tender hands, which were covered with fine wounds. Some of
the wounds were red, and some of them had thin brown scars, which were obviously from before.
“Look.” Grievously, she raised her hand to show him: “Don’t drive me away, this dish …” I really studied for a long time.
“Somebody.” With an expressionless look on his face,
the emperor said, “Imperial Kitchen for neglecting their duties and letting outsiders take care of things.”
“Send down the order, and the man on duty today will be punished with a rod for thirty.”
“Your Majesty!” “Why are you doing this to me?” Cried Tang Hao-yan.
The emperor didn’t look at her. I hesitated for a moment, then looked up at Tang Haoyan and explained, “Miss Tang, the emperor’s food is very important. It’s about the dragon’s body. It’s a great sin to cook the emperor’s food without permission.”
Tang Hao-yan blushed and said, “But I won’t hurt anyone!”
“Joy.”
The emperor closed his eyes and seemed a little impatient. “Pull it down,” he said. The
maids stopped listening to Tang Haoyan’s cries and hurriedly answered. Holding Tang Haoyan’s hands tightly, they were about to drag him away by force. Tang Haoyan cried out in tears, Your Majesty! I admire you! When I see you that day, I will not forget you. Do not drive me away.
“Your Majesty!”
“Your Majesty!” In the midst of
the uproar, the emperor’s face did not change. He slowly closed his eyes, as if to say something. Just as he was about to speak, a gentle female voice suddenly sounded in midair:
“Your Majesty.”
The empress did not know when to appear at the door, a calm face, holding the curtain.
Seeing the emperor looking over, she was blessed with a low body.
“Your Majesty, forgive me. It was my concubine who allowed Miss Tang into the kitchen.”
I don’t know what the empress said to the emperor. Anyway, Tang Haoyan stayed.
However, no access to the inner sanctum.
She looked as if she were content to stay in the outer hall, occasionally peeking at the emperor with her head, which, though arrogant, was somewhat lovely.
But the emperor did not look at her.
The empress came to the palace every day to see the emperor, and every time she did not go in, she just stood at the door and handed me the food box in her hand.
“The emperor’s body is not at peace. I hope my father-in-law will tell the emperor to take this bird’s nest.” Every time
I picked it up, I would see her looking at me calmly.
“Empress, the emperor is not in good health. That’s why he didn’t summon the concubines.” With a slight bow, I said to her, “There’s no need for the Empress to worry so much. Dr. Hsu is waiting here day and night. There won’t be any difference..”
“I’m just doing my job as a queen.”
She looked at the inner hall and said softly, “Please tell the emperor that the wind is strong at night and the dew is heavy with insects. Don’t be careful.” When
I brought the bird’s nest in, the emperor was talking with the dark guard in the inner room.
“There seems to be a lot of rumors about the turmoil in the border areas, and some people say that the prince is still alive and wants to rebel.”
“Check it out.” The emperor closed his eyes slightly and said slowly, “Who released the rumor?”
“Take these men, do not kill them, and bring them to me.”
“And.” The emperor said, “Send another group of people to spread their rumors as far as possible.” “Your Majesty,” he
said subconsciously, “why is that?”
“Some people want to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, so they give them what they want.”
“Only in this way can fox show its tail earlier.” After
saying this, the emperor seemed to be a little tired. He leaned back on the throne with his forehead propped up and said, “Are there any movements among the ministers of the former court?”
The secret guard paused and said, “General Zuo has often passed on messages to the servants of the four princes these days. The six princes seem to be ready to move. They are actively contacting the important officials in the court these days.”
“My subordinates did not intercept their letters according to the emperor’s orders, but it seemed that
they were not afraid.”
The emperor closed his eyes and said, “Zuo Hanyuan held a grudge against me. His son died because of me three years ago.”. As for the sixth brother, I’m afraid he’s ready to move, not for his own sake.
“Let’s go on with business as usual. Let them relax their vigilance and get it over with as soon as possible.”
Dark guard nodded his head. He quickly disappeared into the night. In the half-
light and half-darkness, I vaguely saw a hint of sarcasm on the corners of the emperor’s lips, and a slight sneer came from the air:
“It’s a brother and a foot, why should it be like this?”
“Your Majesty.”
I bowed my head and said softly, “This is the bird’s nest porridge sent by the empress. I told you to use some.”
“Put it down.” He closed his eyes and said, “Bring up Xu Changsheng’s medicine.”
I answered and took out a bowl of medicinal juice from the food box behind me. Smiling, I said,
“Your Majesty, although your wound is healed, the toxin has not been completely cured, and there is still some residue in your body. Drink some decoction first.” As soon as the
dark decoction was placed in front of the emperor, he frowned slightly, but he drank it down one mouthful at a time. “It’s very bitter,” he said.
I laughed and said, “It has been said since ancient times that good medicine tastes bitter. Only when you drink this bitter medicine will it work wonders.”
He waved his hand and looked for a long time at the door where the dark guard had just left.
“I’m not talking about medicine.”
Tang Haoyan, with all the innocence and liveliness of the women, soon became familiar with the concubines in the palace, and the concubines in the palace were very lonely.
In particular, the newly “pregnant” Empress Yang is said to visit her once a day.
But Yang Fei Empress had long been ordered by the emperor to refuse to receive visitors, and every time Tang Haoyan went over excitedly and came back dejectedly.
“Father Fu.” She asked me, “Why can’t we meet Empress Yang?”
I thought about it and told her, “Concubine Yang is pregnant, and the emperor has no children, so naturally she will take it more seriously.”
She pursed her lips and said, “Since the emperor wants to have children, why don’t he just take a few more concubines?”
I couldn’t answer her question, so I had to smile.
“Father Fu.”
She leaned close to me again, her eyes glistening, and said,
“Tell me, Your Majesty, what kind of woman she likes?” In my
mind, I couldn’t help but see the image of Kou Fei. I immediately shook my head and said,
“I don’t know.”
She pouted, sat back down, and said in a fit of pique, “I know even if you don’t tell me.”. Does the emperor like the woman who was on the ship last time?
“The last time the emperor saved me, it was her name that came out of his mouth.”
I frowned and whispered, “Miss, please be careful. Your Majesty, you have never been out of the palace.”
She nodded and said, “I know the pros and cons. The empress has told me everything.”. I haven’t told anyone, not even my father.
She tilted her head again and said, “Last time that woman seemed to like a green shirt. Grandfather Fu, do you think I look good in a green shirt?”? Compared to that woman?
I bowed my head and said, “I dare not talk about the girl’s appearance.”
She was very unhappy and said that I thought she was ugly. He also said that I had no aesthetics.
With that, she turned and pattered out.
In the evening, she came back and rushed to me happily, saying, “Father Fu, do you think it looks good?”
I looked up and was stunned.
Tang Haoyan wore a green shirt, which was not similar to the dress of the Empress Kou, but matched with an innocent smile on her face.
Unexpectedly, there was a kind of verve of the imperial concubine before she entered the palace.
But if you look closely, there is a big difference. Empress Kou Fei is free and easy to see through the world, while Tang Haoyan is more like a naive person who is not deeply involved in the world.
She turned around a few more times and said cheerfully, “You see, if I go to see the emperor like this, will he look at me?”
I could only smile and say, “I don’t know.”
“Humph.” She glared at me and said, “I know you know, but you just don’t want to tell me.”
“But it doesn’t matter. I’ll go and see him myself.” With
that, she carried her skirt, slightly nervous, and walked step by step toward the inner hall.
I hurried forward to stop her and said, “Miss, you can’t. The emperor has ordered you not to enter the inner hall.”
She looked at me angrily for a moment, and when I refused to move, she pursed her lips and said, “All right.”
“Anyway, it’s not like the emperor is always in there.” After entering the palace,
the Tang Haoyan girl looked much better than one she met on the boat. Although still with a little girl’s arrogance, but still obedient.
Then she squatted down and sat directly by the door of the inner hall, holding her cheeks and looking inside, her eyes full of stars. So
she sat outside, waiting and waiting, from afternoon to dusk, and from dusk to evening. When
she was almost asleep with her cheeks. Suddenly there was a sound at the door of the
inner hall. The gentle footsteps of
a maid seemed to be waiting at the door, and in a moment the door creaked open.
A golden robe slowly strolled out of the door.
“Your Majesty.”
Tang Haoyan stood up hurriedly, probably squatting for too long, his feet were numb, and he seemed to be unable to stand steadily, shaking twice in place.
I stepped forward and gently held her wrist, but she didn’t care. She turned to the emperor, who had just come out of the inner hall. She blushed slightly and opened her mouth and whispered,
“Your Majesty, do you think I look good like this?”
The emperor turned his head slightly sideways.
His eyes passed over Tang Haoyan without any emotion, and then he turned his face and walked out of the hall.
Tang Hao-yan’s eyes were filled with tears in an instant, and she cried out pitifully, “Your Majesty.”
The emperor’s footsteps did not stop.
He walked straight out of the temple door without looking back. He
watched his figure disappear in the doorway.
Tang Hao-yen burst into tears.
She cried so sadly, as if she had never been so sad before when she was about to be driven away by the emperor. As she cried, she wiped away her tears and turned to look at me. She said, “Grandfather Fu, am I really so ugly?”
I looked up at her.
Although she was crying, half of her cheeks were white and tender, and her eyelashes were long, with a bit of sad nifty.
I shook my head and said, “The girl is beautiful and not ugly.”
“You’re lying!”
She wiped away her tears and sobbed, “If I’m not ugly, then why, why won’t the emperor even look at me?”
I thought about it and told her, “Your Majesty is not the only one who doesn’t want to see you.”
Since his accession to the throne, the emperor has not visited any empresses and concubines.
“Why?” She wiped away her tears and said angrily, “Does he like men?”
“Puff.” There was a slight sneer at the door of
the temple. General Cao Xiliang, who
did not know when to arrive, leaned against the door, patted his thigh and laughed:
“Ha ha, crazy girl, I didn’t expect you to be so narcissistic. If I don’t like you, I don’t like women. Ha ha!”
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The night is still. When it was
already midnight, the candlelight in the hall flickered slightly, and all the maidservants retreated outside the door. After the tiredness of the
day, the emperor reclined lazily on the tatami chair. The
candle crackled.
“I’ve already sent her to Wei Ling. The King of Jin has promised to take good care of her. You can rest assured.”
The emperor nodded his head slightly and said, “Of course you can trust the character of the king of Jin.”
General Tsao nodded his head and said, “I’ve come back to see you, so I’ll have to go back. Now it’s time to close the net that you set up before.”
“If you pretend to be ill this time, some people are already ready to move. I’m sure it won’t be long before they give the game away.”
The emperor did not answer him. As the
candle flickered, his voice came in a low voice:
“Was the woman in red last time the unidentified barbarian at Chih-wan’s side?”
General Tsao was stunned. “I didn’t expect him to have such a voice,” he said. “He doesn’t sound like an ordinary barbarian. He’s either a singer or a nobleman.”
“Get rid of him.” The voice of the
emperor could not hear the emotion: “It is a disaster for such a person to stay with Chih-wan.”
“You can’t stay.”
General Tsao frowned and said, “I thought so, too, but when we were sailing back, Wei Ling’s child was strangely ill, and he saved it with his folk prescription. It seems that he is Wei Ling’s savior now, so it’s not good to drive him away directly.”
Following the candlelight, I saw that the emperor was stunned. Then he asked softly, “How are Wei Ling’s children?”
General Tsao smiled and said, “It’s all right. I didn’t tell you because I was afraid you were worried.”
“Anyway, keep him away from Zhiwan.”
The emperor leaned back slightly in his chair, as if he were a little tired. “I always feel that there is something wrong with him,” he said. “Such a man should not be left beside Zhiwan.”
General Tsao nodded and said, “I see.”
“That’s right.”
This Tang Hao-yan, what is the situation? Why did you come to your palace and become a maid of honor?
The emperor closed his eyes and said, “She’s willing to come, and she can also stop the mouths of the former courtiers.”
General Tsao said, “Oh,” and the thief laughed and said, “Oh, it’s not easy to be an emperor. How many concubines you have and how many children you give birth to? You have to be watched. Ha ha. You have to be watched by women.” The atmosphere in the
palace suddenly became cold.
The emperor slowly opened his eyes and looked at him with an expressionless face. General
Cao seemed to feel something was wrong. He stood up and scratched his head and said, “Ha ha, well, actually I have something else to do. Ha ha, I’ll go directly to Wei Ling the day after tomorrow. You don’t have to see me off. Ha ha. Don’t mention it. Don’t mention it. I’m leaving. I’m leaving.”
With that, General Cao immediately rushed to the door.
I couldn’t help laughing and went back.
The emperor leaned back in his chair for a long time as if he were tired. Suddenly he asked me, “Joy.”
“Do you think I’m an interesting emperor?” Early
the next morning, I got up early, and before I reached the gate of the temple, the little mansion hurried over. When he saw me, the worried look on his face eased, and he whispered,
“Master, master, something’s wrong. Something’s happened!” Startled,
I asked, “What’s the matter?”
He took a few steps closer to me and whispered, “Miss Tang, you’re in trouble!” By the time
we got to the main hall, there were already a lot of people kneeling in the palace.
The emperor seemed to have just risen, not even tied up his hair crown, but dressed in a light blue robe. The negative hand stands by the window. Next
to him was Tang Haoyan, who was crying and sobbing.
“Your Majesty.” I hurriedly bowed and walked up behind him. “Your Majesty, what are you doing?” Before I had finished
speaking, I couldn’t speak any more.
On the table by the window was the painting that the emperor had seen in his spare time. On the
screen, the original blank place
suddenly added a woman in a green shirt.
It’s Tang Haoyan. On the
screen, the emperor reclines on the bench, and Tang Haoyan looks at him affectionately from behind the chair. Behind
them, the bamboo forest is faint and the white clouds sink slightly, reflecting the beauty of the emperor.
Anyone who looks at them will think that they are a pair of immortal couples.
“Pull down.” The voice of the
emperor seemed to be too indifferent to hear the emotion:
“Out of the palace, after that, never allowed to enter the palace.” The
two ladies looked at each other, bowed their heads and stood up. They went to Tang Haoyan’s side and were about to reach out to pull him. Tang Haoyan suddenly broke free and stood up. His face, which had been white and tender, was now covered with tears. “Your Majesty, why are you so cruel?”
She said
to the emperor word by word.
Do you know how much thought I put into it for you! I don’t know how to cook, but I know the dishes you like. I went to learn to cook for you, and I burned seven or eight dishes before I made a dish of eight-treasure shrimp.
“I know you like Kou Fei. Although I don’t want to stand in for her, I still want to wear a green dress like her. Do you know that I would rather not have any dignity for you?”
Although she was crying, her chin was still stubbornly raised high, and she said, “…” I was spoiled, in order to enter the palace, do your maid, I fell out with my father … Originally, the last time I went to sea, it was because my father wanted to send me to the palace, and I didn’t want to, so I went out in the middle of the night.
“But when I saw you, I changed my mind.”
“Your Majesty, you have saved me. My life is yours.”
“If you want it, take it.”
“No, you take it too!”
Don’t know why.
I felt the emperor’s eyes, which seemed to be in a trance at that moment.
He didn’t look at Tang Haoyan. He looked ahead. He seemed to be looking at something, but he didn’t.
Tang Haoyan sobbed beside him, and all the palace maids dared not speak.
“If you want it, I’ll take it.” After
a long time, the emperor murmured.
“If you want it, take it.” The people
around him did not dare to make a sound, but the low sobs of Yu Tang’s good face kept coming. Suddenly, an uncontrolled scream almost tore the tranquility to pieces: “Your Majesty!”! The emperor! Blood! Blood! Help!!
I raised my head hurriedly, but for a moment, the hall was already in a panic.
In the cries of countless palace maids, the emperor’s mouth dripped, dripping, flowing blood, down his skirt, rolling on the ground-
the emperor, in the noise of countless cries, such as the collapse of the Jade Mountain, fell straight back.
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