I didn’t eat or take medicine, Yong Niang brought the medicine, I tried my best to knock over the medicine bowl in her hand, I just wanted A’Du. I can't stay in this East Palace for a whole day, I want A'Du, I want to go back to Xiliang.
I slept groggyly all day and had nightmares. I dreamed of my mother, I dreamed that I shed a lot of tears, I dreamed of my father, his rough hand touched the top of my hair, he said to me: "child, I have wronged you."
I'm not wronged, I just feel exhausted and can't struggle anymore. Like a fish, about to suffocate; like a flower, about to wither.
Li Chengyin and Donggong are the heaviest shackles in the world, and I can no longer bear them.
Later, Yong Niang gently shook me awake, and she told me, "A'Du is back."
A'Du was really sent back, still lying unconscious on the bed, and he didn't know how Li Cheng Yin would change his mind.
I touched A'Du's hand, her hand was hotter than mine, she had been having a high fever, but as long as she was here and I could accompany her, it would be fine.
Yong Niang didn't say anything, only said: "A'Du is back, the Crown Princess should take her medicine."
I drank the big bowl of bitter medicine in one breath, it was really bitter, I didn't even eat the apricots that pressed the medicine. I smiled at Yongniang, but she suddenly burst into tears inexplicably.
I thought it was strange and asked, "Yongniang, what's wrong with you?"
Yong Niang didn't say anything, she just said softly: "Prince Concubine's hair is messed up, this servant will re-comb it for you."
The rhino comb is comfortable in the hair. Yong Niang's hand was light and warm, like A Niang's hand. While combing my hair, she said slowly: "I remember that when the Crown Princess first arrived in the East Palace, she became very ill, and she was burning hot. The imperial physicians did not dare to take any medicines casually, for fear that there would be something wrong. The slaves were by your side. At that time, you didn't speak the Central Plains dialect very well. In the dream, you kept crying for a son and a son. Later, the slaves found out that the son was the aunt in Xiliang dialect."
I forgot all about it, I just remember that I was sick once when I arrived in the East Palace, and it was Yong Niang and A’Du who took care of me until I recovered.
"You were only fifteen years old that year." Yong Niang helped me gently pull up my hair, "Three years have passed in a flash."
I turned my head to look at her, and she smiled at me: "Niangniang's Fangchen, I forgot in the palace, and Your Highness also forgot, today Niangniang is eighteen years old."
I really forgot about these things, A'Du was dying of illness, how could I remember to celebrate my birthday. Ye Ting in the palace should remember these things, but it is said that the palace is very chaotic now, something happened to Concubine Gao, and the rest of the people must not care about such trivial matters.
Only Yong Niang still remembers.
She carefully tucked my hair on both sides of my temples with a grate: "From now on, the Crown Princess will be an adult, and she can't make fun of it any more."
Willful nonsense
I think these four words are so far away... The wayward me, it seems that I have long since disappeared. Three years ago, she died in the divine water of Wangchuan, and I just used her body to stay in a daze, and another three years passed. I forgot everything, I forgot my blood feud, and I followed my foe for the past three years. Until I fell in love with him again.
He will never think of me.
Fortunately, I also wish he never thought of me.
By the time A'Du's injury was getting better, the summer was almost over.
While recuperating, she gestured to tell me something, such as how Gu Jian saved her. It turned out that the first time, because I wanted Gu Jian to save her internal injury, Gu Jian lost half of her internal strength.
If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have died in the arrows.
A'Du is as stupid as I am.
I slowly gestured out a sentence, and I asked her, "Do you like him?"
A'Du didn't answer me, there was a light mist in her eyes, she turned to look at the lotus flowers outside the window, and after a while, she turned back and smiled at me again.
I knew she was crying.
This girl, like me, smiles at people even when she cries.
From A'Du, I learned a lot of things. For example, the first time Li Cheng Yin was assassinated, A'Du went out to chase the assassin and was seriously injured by the assassin. I always thought that it was really someone sent by the Queen, but in the end A'Du found out that it wasn't.
"It's from His Highness." A'Du wrote on the paper, "Sun Er is the leader."
I was completely blown away by this name. Sun Er? If Sun Er is Li Cheng Yin's person, then the queen is wronged? It wasn't at all that she sent someone to assassinate Li Chengyin, but Li Chengyin's own bitter plan? When I was in Mingyufang, it was Sun Er who led people to splash ink to make trouble, and led me and Li Chengyin away. All the conspiracy in the middle had nothing to do with Li Chengyin
What the hell did he do? Li Chengyin, what the hell did he do... A'Du wrote stroke by stroke on the paper, and told me intermittently: She felt that the situation was not right outside Mingyufang that day, so she followed Sun Er away, wanting to check a After all, she didn't want to be discovered by Sun Er, because Sun Er's people were all very skilled in martial arts, and she was outnumbered. In the end, those people didn't kill her, but kept her in a very secret place. Fortunately, Gu Jian rescued her a few days later and took her to see me at the broken temple. She questioned Gu Jian why he hid me in the ruined temple, only then did she know that Gu Jian and Sun Er were both ordered by Li Cheng Yin. Originally, Li Cheng Yin asked Gu Jian to hold His Majesty in order to make His Majesty mistakenly believe that someone was obstructing him from pursuing the old case of the Chen family. Who would have thought that I would rush out and voluntarily become a hostage, so Gu Jian would take me away.
I no longer dare to think about it, and I don't want to think about it. I just feel that every time I think about it, it is like the middle of winter on March 9, and my heart is cold for a while. Li Cheng Yin is now a complete stranger to me, a terrible stranger, and I can never think of anything else he could do. Everything he did three years ago was as terrifying, and three years later he was even more terrifying. He set a trap to kill Gu Jian, did he want to kill him? Gu Jian is obviously his cousin and has done so many shameful things for him. Li Chengyin didn't even care about A'Du, did he never want me to know something
I feel completely cold inside, what the hell is he doing? For the first time, I felt that people in this world are so terrible, this East Palace is so terrible, and Li Chengyin is so terrible.
Terrible to the point where I shuddered.
A'Du and I are still under semi-house arrest, and now I don't care. In this lonely East Palace, only I and her depend on each other.
Yueniang visited me several times, and I said to her, "Be careful when you are alone in the palace."
How can the love of the emperor last. The emperor brought her into the palace, and just used her name to overturn the case for the Chen family. There are so many beauties in the palace, I am afraid that there are more than the East Palace. Concubine Gao died of a sudden illness, and it was said in private that she swallowed gold and committed suicide because she lost power. Things in the palace always spread quickly in the East Palace.
I know that Yueniang's situation is very delicate. Although the emperor still loves her on the surface, she was born in Goulan after all. Now the new forces in the court have re-formed, and His Majesty has accepted a new concubine. The ministers persuaded him to appoint a new queen, but His Majesty still seemed undecided.
If there is a queen, I wonder if Yueniang will be jealous of the new queen. Yong Niang told me about Concubine Lan of the previous dynasty. She was framed and killed by the queen because of her bad background. I really don't want Yueniang to end up like that.
Yueniang smiled sweetly: "Don't worry, I can handle it."
She played a tune for me.
"Picking lotus in Nantang Autumn, the lotus is bigger than the head. Lower your head and play with the lotus seeds, the lotus seeds are as clear as water..."
Yueniang's voice is really nice, like soft fog, like dew rolling on lotus leaves, more like a gust of wind, blowing over the high palace wall, over the swing frame, over the blue sky. In the sky, the white clouds have blown... There is a bird in the blue sky, it keeps flying, it keeps flying, it goes west, and returns to Xiliang, although Xiliang does not have such a beautiful lotus pond, nor is there a beauty who picks lotus, But Xiliang is my home.
I think of the days when I was in Mingyufang, how happy, carefree and joyful I was at that time.
I sighed: "I don't know when the next time I will hear you sing."
Yueniang said, "I will come to see you again."
I didn't speak, I was determined to go back to Xiliang.
A'Du's injury is healed, and the two of us can go together.
Li Chengyin ordered Pei Zhao to choose a number of people to follow me, nominally to protect me, but in fact they were guards. Those people were very closely guarded. If I and A'Du forced my way out, I don't think it would work. So just act by chance.
The Qiqiao Festival on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is a big and lively day for the palace. Because His Majesty's Longevity Festival also happens to be this day, so from half a month ago, the palace has been decorated with lanterns, gardens, and new boats. This day's banquet was held on Qiongshan Island in the south BbSjoOyOO?Net Garden Pool. There are Huacalyx Tower and Qianlu Pavilion on the island, which are good places to cool off the heat near the water and the wind.
Li Chengyin entered the palace early in the morning, and I was a little later than him. On the Longevity Festival, as usual, His Majesty will give a banquet to the ministers, so there is also a feast in the Chengde Hall. The banquet in the harem was presided over by the virtuous concubine of His Majesty's new book, and the arrangement was extremely appropriate. I boarded the boat from the back of the Ganlu Palace, and on the boat I heard the faint sound of music coming from the water. Those were the music troupes arranged by the concubine Xian under the shade of the trees by the pool, playing silk and bamboo. Through the sound of water, the misty sound is like fairy music.
The official banquet started at dusk. The Nanyuan Pond was full of white lotus flowers. The petals of these lotus flowers were white, and the layers overlapped, but there was no fragrance. Concubine Xian ordered a lotus lantern to be placed in the water, and there were fragrant cakes in the lotus lantern, which were placed on the candle with copper plates. Incense has to be compared. On the pavilion near the water is the new line of the club's Lingbo Dance. The dancer wearing a long green dress is like a lotus leaf fairy, dancing in Lingbo. The lamps and candles in the pavilion are reflected in the waves on your water surface, and the streamer light shines like a broken star.
His Majesty was very satisfied with this arrangement, and he praised Concubine Xian for her ingenuity. Especially when the lotus lantern was placed on the incense, Concubine Xian said with a smile: "Where did the concubine come up with this, but the concubine said that the beauty of the lotus is a pity that there is no incense. Aman, the female official beside the concubine, has always been dexterous, and finally If you come up with a way to order someone to make this lotus lantern, it is indeed Aman's fortune to be praised by Your Majesty.
That female official named Aman, only sixteen or seventeen years old, came out slowly, and gave a salute to His Majesty. Even better. Everyone felt that she was extremely beautiful, like a white lotus. His Majesty seemed to be surprised by her beauty, and was taken aback for a while, and then ordered someone to reward her with a pair of jade bottles and a box of incense. I thought that His Majesty would make her a concubine again. Who knew His Majesty suddenly said to Li Chengyin, "Yin'er, what do you think of this woman?"
Li Cheng Yin was sitting across from me. He was probably tired and didn't speak much. Now that he heard the emperor suddenly ask him, he just glanced at Aman and said lightly, "She's a beauty."
His Majesty said: "You don't have anyone around to serve you. Why don't you ask Aman to go to the East Palace, and I will order Ye Ting to choose another person to serve as a female official for Concubine Xian."
Li Chengyin said: "My son is not short of people to serve you. Thank you for your kindness."
I couldn't help but move, and His Majesty asked, "What does the Crown Princess have to say?"
I said: "Father, Your Highness is thin-skinned, I'm sorry to ask for it. Aman is so beautiful, he doesn't want me anymore, ask Your Majesty to reward me with Aman."
His Majesty laughed and agreed.