In the past, Yuan Shan, like her family, always called me "Sixteen Mothers", so when I heard her keep calling me "His Royal Highness", I still felt a little sad in my heart. She turned her face slightly and sat upright. Although she didn't seem restrained, I think that the intimacy and casualness of a young girl may really be gone forever.
Lunch is placed in the Hanbi Building, which is facing the blue waves of Taiye. At this time, new lotuses have just grown in the lake, but the tender yellow lotus leaves the size of palms are scattered on the glass-like lake, like a beauty. The golden dimples on the cheeks fluctuated with the wind and waves, as if the dimples were looming.
I couldn't help but bring up the past: "Chaoyang invited us into the palace to play, and a few of us sneaked into the Taiye Pond to row a boat, but no one knew how. The boat floated to the middle of the lake and kept circling in the water. We couldn’t row, but the supervisor, the supervisor, found out later, and sent a boat over before we rowed our boat back, oh, I was really worried about being scolded at that time.”
The sun was shining brightly, a curtain was placed upstairs, and the waves of the lake shone through the bottom of the curtain, making Yuan Shan's face more and more like a lustrous white jade. Her eyes reflected the waves, like bright black gems, but when she turned her eyes, it seemed that a pair of bright eyes had dimmed again, and her tone was still very calm: "Speaking of it, it happened ten years ago."
At that time, we were all still young and didn't understand how big the world is. It turns out that there are so many troubles in the world.
I said, "Why don't we go steal cherries!"
Yuan Shan froze for a moment, looking at me elated. I said, "The biggest purple cherry tree in the imperial garden is still there!" After saying this, Yuan Shan also covered her mouth and laughed. Back then, we always went to pick cherries in late spring, although every year in the palace, we would go to pick cherries. Cherries are rewarded, but where is the stolen sweetness of those fruits? Thinking of this, I always feel very happy. I was waiting for someone to change my clothes so that I could climb a tree. Suddenly, I heard a whisper outside the curtain, it seemed that the girl was talking to someone.
I asked, "Who's out there?"
Seeing that she couldn't hide it, she had no choice but to report back to me through the curtain: "Your Majesty sent someone here."
I froze for a moment and said, "Let him in."
Amu sent a small yellow door, holding a golden plate, which was piled up and filled with the freshest cherries. The little Huangmen said respectfully, "Your Majesty just saw that the cherries were red, so I picked some and ordered the slaves to present them to the lady."
I looked at the plate of red and big cherries and sighed. The little Huangmen saw that I was unhappy, so he boldly took a step forward and whispered: "Your Majesty also said that today, the lady met an old friend, and she will inevitably repeat the same trick, but the lady should not climb trees anymore!"
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and I was very embarrassed. Yuan Shan naturally heard it, but she didn't look away, as if she didn't hear it. I had to give up the idea of stealing the cherries, and ordered someone to bring the cheese and share the cherries with Yuan Shan.
The cherries are very sweet, but I have something on my mind and eat them a little absent-mindedly. I don't know if Amu sent this plate of cherries for me or Yuan Shan
I am always greedy when I eat cherries on weekdays, but I don’t eat much today, but it’s too cold to pour the cheese over the cherries, and the wind blows from the lake upstairs. In the evening, I have a spleen and stomach problem, and I have tossed it for a while. Evening dinner was useless, the imperial doctor came to see him, and after drinking two big bowls of bitter medicine, he fell into a drowsy sleep on the table.
I don't know how long I slept, as if someone gently pulled my temple hair, I just woke up. It was late at night, candles were lit at the bottom of the curtain, and the shadows of the candles swayed. I saw Amu's face. He was only wearing dark clothes. At this time, he half embraced me and asked, "How is it? Do you want to eat a hot one? water?"
"I don't know what day it is?"
Amu wanted someone to see him, but I stopped him again and asked him, "Why are you here?"
"I said you caught a cold, so come and see."
I leaned against him, resting on his strong arms, feeling reassured. The long night was quiet, and only occasionally did I hear a ding or two from the iron Martin under the eaves. I murmured and asked him, "Do you still like Shanniang?"
After a while, he said, "Why do you think of such a thing?"
"Shanniang loves cherries the most."
That was all in the past. Yuan Shan has always acted more prudently than me. Chaoyang and I were together, and nothing would happen. Yuan Shan has always tried to discourage us. The only time he followed us into trouble was to steal cherries.
It is said to be stealing, but in fact it is just picking. It's just that Chaoyang suffers from cough and asthma. She is always worried about her illness when she closes the palace, so she wears one less piece of clothing, and the maids of Ah Jian are like enemies. Chaoyang didn't like to call in front and back, so he got rid of all the servants on this day, and Yuan Shan and I sneaked into the cherry orchard to pick cherries.
Cherry trees are carefully pruned for easy picking. We climbed to the tree with ease, all the cherries sparkling red like countless coral beads on the bottom of the leaves. I sat on the tree picking and eating, and then handed more cherries down the tree to Shanniang, Chaoyang was so daring, she climbed higher than me. The branches and leaves were dense, and I could only see her goose-yellow shawl flickering between the branches. She tucked the corners of her skirt into her belt and tiptoed to reach for the biggest and reddest bunch of cherries.
"Be careful!" Yuan Shan raised her face.
"Come up, Shanniang!" Chaoyang picked the bunch of cherries, turned his head, climbed the tree with one hand, held the cherries with the other and shook it, teasing Yuan Shan.
I kept urging Shanniang, but she refused to climb the tree, she just smiled and picked up the skirt: "You throw it down, I'll pick it up for you!"
Chaoyang and I exchanged glances, quickly grabbed the cherries, and threw them down the tree.
Yuan Shan was dazed by the cherry rain, she laughed and hid, and finally couldn't help but tuck up the corner of her skirt and climbed up the tree: "Such a good fruit, you still waste like this, I won't screw you down! "
Chaoyang and I were laughing and giggling, and we hid towards a higher place. At this moment, Chaoyang exclaimed "Oops" and shouted: "It's broken, it's broken! Palm fan, I see palm fan! It must be Grandpa who is here! It's gone!"
I'm okay, Yuan Shan was in a panic, and she didn't know how to get her feet off the ground. She turned over and fell towards the tree with a "Bah" sound. Chaoyang and I both exclaimed at the same time. Yuan Shan didn't have time to react at all, she just grabbed some branches and leaves. She was about to fall heavily on the ground, when someone suddenly rushed out from the slash, grabbed her waist at the last minute, and caught her lightly and skillfully.
I bowed down on the tree, only to see Yuan Shan's skirt slightly stirred by the wind, like a beautiful flower blooming with light petals, and the man's arms seemed to embrace such a delicate flower, half hugging her in his arms middle. Yuan Shan's cheeks were flushed and her face was infinitely shy. The sunlight cast a clear light and shadow through the branches and leaves of the cherry tree. I saw her slightly drooping eyes, and her thick long eyelashes cast a faint halo in the sunlight, like a frightened Butterflies are generally slightly closed. It turns out that Yuan Shan's eyelashes are so long, I never noticed it.
Amu put down Yuanshan, and then I saw the tall palm fan, and it really was your majesty.
I was very embarrassed to climb down the tree.
Although His Majesty loves Chaoyang, he has always been stern to people. Yuan Shan and I are actually very afraid of him, especially now that we are in trouble. Yuan Shan and I both salute respectfully. When he got up, he called out coquettishly, "Grandpa."
"Who taught you to climb trees?" His Majesty's voice was flat and indifferent. Yuan Shan could probably hear the reproach in it just like I did. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her skirt trembling slightly. His Majesty is moody, and treats his ministers harshly and harshly. No one in the palace is not afraid of him.
Only Chaoyang was not afraid at all, she said with a smile: "My brother taught me to climb trees!"
"That was when I was a child. When I grow up, I shouldn't climb trees." Amu winked at her, "Why don't you come down soon?"
Chaoyang acted coquettishly: "I'm going to jump down too, brother hugs."
"Nonsense." Amu said, "What if I can't catch you?"
"Brother is partial!" Chaoyang pouted, "Brother has grown up now and knows that he likes a good-looking lady. If he can catch Shanniang, he can't catch me."
Yuan Shan blushed with shame, and even Amu's face seemed to have red clouds. I looked at Amu and Yuanshan. They were standing under the cherry tree. Bi people.
From then on, I knew in my heart that Amu liked Yuanshan.
It is a pity that the emperor did not fulfill them.
"Everyone will have regrets, even the emperor is no exception."
Amu's voice was very calm. When he said this, his side face flickered in the shadow of the candle. I felt that he was far away from me, but I couldn't reach out and hold him, I just felt The night was as cold as water, and I couldn't help pulling the quilt up again.
"This is what Grandpa said to me." Amu didn't look at me, but stared at the swaying halo on the candlestick, "Before the crown princess was established, Grandpa called me and said a lot to me. "
"He said, you are the prince, you will be the emperor in the future, the sixth palace, the third lady, the ninth concubine, the twenty-seventh wife, the eighty-one royal wife, you will have many women, but do you have any in your heart? People are different. If you have someone in your heart, I advise you to be kind to her wholeheartedly, and don't break her heart. You must know that a broken heart can't be repaired. Moreover, if you really have her in your heart, Her heart is broken, and so is yours."
"I didn't really understand what Grandpa said at that time. You also know that Grandpa has no favorite concubine, and even has few concubines, so I can't ask him if anything happened in the past. But a man is It's not sad, I can always see it. I asked him what to do if the person I liked in my heart didn't like me. He said, it's too hard, even if you are the emperor, if she doesn't like it You, then there is nothing you can do."
Amu lowered his head slightly, I couldn't tell what it was like in my heart. Amu likes Shanniang, I know it, but what Shanniang means to Amu, I have never thought about it. If Shanniang doesn't like Amu, it is really helpless.
Amu suddenly asked me: "If the person you like doesn't like you, what would you do?"
I answered without hesitation: "Of course, I have used thirty-six strategies and eighty-one methods, whether it's a rogue, a kidnapping, or a stalker, but also to make him like me!"
Amu was obviously choked, he turned his face away, and said, "It's really a child's words."
I was very unconvinced. Amu was a few years older than me, and because Chaoyang and I used to be close, he always treated me as a child. After ten years of husband and wife, he probably spent more time as my brother and less as a husband.
But he will never know that even children will have their own minds.
My heart, I will never tell him.
The night wind blew the curtain slightly, and the candlelight was like a reflection in the water, gently rippling. I remember when I was young, when things always seemed to be separated by the entire Taiye Pond, with the vastness of smoke and water and the fragrance of Hezhi wind and dew, the bright moon shining, the crystal curtain moving and the breeze rising, it was a cup The cherry on the bottom of the bones is the lovesickness on the string, and Amu raised his finger, flicked my forehead, and said jokingly: "If you can't get married, marry me, be the prince. Concubine, no one dares to make irresponsible remarks about you."
What was I thinking at that time, it was about retorting Amu loudly: "Who said I can't get married? I can definitely marry a handsome young man like Han Zhi!"
After all, I married Amu, no one laughed at me anymore, only I was laughing at myself in my heart.
"It's late at night, go to sleep." Amu said softly, patted my back, I lay back on the pillow and closed my eyes.
In fact, if I like a person, he just doesn't like me. I don't have the face to stalk me. Usually people always talk hard and talk strongly, but in fact there is a coward in my heart. YouQi clearly knows that some people will become fond of you if you are not stalking or cheating.
At dawn, I had a nightmare. It was Amu who shook me awake. I was out of breath from crying. He took me in his arms and comforted me: "Brother is here, Shishiniang, Ah Brother is here."
I'm still choking: "No..."
My brother died in the battle against Goryeo. For the government and the opposition, it was a great victory, but for my family, it was a tragedy like a landslide.
Although I have many brothers, the second brother is the closest to me. I followed him since childhood and called him "Brother" in a milky voice, but when he grew up a little, he took errands and wanted to enter Donggong accompanies the prince to study. Fortunately, I can often go in and out of the palace and see him.
When I was young, I was ignorant. Like Chaoyang, I called my second brother and Amu "Ah brother". Chaoyang calls the second brother "Axiong", which is goodwill, and I call Amu Axiong, which is arrogance. But no one has ever corrected me. Most adults look at the innocent girl doll, and they always feel a little bit unbearable in their hearts. Until I grew up and became sensible, I stopped calling Amu a brother.
During the expedition to Goryeo, Amuyao led the commander-in-chief in name, A-xiong was the long-history leader, A-xiong led the army as the marching general manager, and finally died on the battlefield. When my dynasty was founded, there were almost no princes who did not command troops, and Emperor Taizong fought all the way, and won the crown of the prince with his military exploits. Therefore, the princes of my dynasty will personally lead the army into battle.
But Amu was different. The former emperor had only one son. At that time, the former emperor intended to let Amu be the governor of Liangzhou, and he was appointed as the military marshal to conquer Gaoli. The late emperor retreated and asked for the next best thing, and decreed that Amu Yao would lead the great governor.
When Brother A went to war, Amu and I went out of the city to see him off. We never thought that that one time parting would become a permanent parting.
Before A-brother got on the horse, he finally touched my hair and said, "Although A-mu treats you well, don't be self-willed."
Every time I think about it, I feel desolate. The temperature of his palm seemed to be softly scorched on the top of my hair. But I never saw him again. Every time I dream of my brother, I feel sad in my heart. But tonight, I obviously didn't dream of my brother, but I was still sad.
After dawn, I had a fever. Although Amu was worried, he was going to see the DPRK, so he called an imperial physician. Unexpectedly, I have been ill for a long time. The imperial doctor came to the palace every day, and the prescription he prescribed was changed several times.
I would have a high fever at dusk, and it would subside again at dawn, but I was groggy at night, and I had no strength during the day. Yuan Shan heard that I was ill, so she came to see me from time to time, and sometimes she also met Amu. One afternoon, when I woke up from a nap, I heard Yuan Shan's voice faintly ringing in the front hall. I looked out from behind the curtain and found Amu sitting there. Looking out from the inside of the hall, I could only see a corner of Yuan Shan's clothes. Her sitting posture was still dignified, but her voice was clear and clear, like a tactful yellow warbler. Amu had a smile on his face, and he looked different from normal, I can't describe it. That smile is very measured, with a restrained majesty. I don't think he ever smiled at me like that. He has always been so tolerant and even helpless to me with his smile, sometimes reaching out and rubbing my hair, laughing at me for being silly, laughing at me for having silly thoughts.
At that time, I didn't feel anything wrong, and my brothers treated me the same way. But now I know something is wrong. After ten years of marriage, he has never treated me like Yuan Shan, and he has never shown such a smile to me. In front of the person he likes, is it different