She asked this sentence casually.
Nan Huai was slightly taken aback.
The queen continued: "I heard that Ayun has never taken a concubine... You should have a good relationship. She is a good child and will not wrong you. From now on, you should live a good life."
The young man raised his thin lips coldly, and instead of answering, he said softly: "A few years ago, servant Xiao Gui was also bestowed to death by you."
The empress looked calm: "Do you still remember him? He married into the palace, contacted his mother's family, and spread the news privately... According to the palace rules, he should be executed."
"Is it?"
The boy lowered his eyes a little funny, "Is it because he violated the palace rules, not because he is useless?"
The queen paused.
"When he can help you, you give him the greatest favor and dispose of my father casually."
The boy said softly.
"At that time, Xiao Guishi was also in contact with the outside of the palace. My father bumped into him and wanted to kill him to silence him. My father had no choice but to throw something in a panic and hit him."
The queen looked at the lake calmly.
"You know everything, but because Xiao Guishi is useful and my father is useless, so you don't even leave his body for him."
When the young man mentions these things now, his tone is also calm and breezy, and the end of his voice is even a little curious.
"Your Majesty, I've always wanted to ask, have you ever regretted how you handled things like this back then?"
After a few seconds.
The woman in the dragon robe said softly: "Ah Huai, based on these words, I should punish you for disrespect. Be careful in your words and deeds in the future."
She turned around and left with a calm tone: "As for regrets... I don't even remember your father's name, what is there to regret?"
The young man stood there with cold eyes, looking at the slender and majestic figure.
After a while, he sighed softly.
…
After returning to the palace.
The empress looked indifferent, she waved her hand away from the surrounding palace servants, and walked to the study alone to read the memorial.
There was no one else in the study.
Quietly.
It has been so silent and empty for so many years, and at night, it is only accompanied by candlelight.
Sometimes when I looked up after reading the memorial, in a trance, facing the silence in the room, I would think that she was the only one existing in the world.
Back then, things were indeed as the child said.
She knew that Xiao Guishi was communicating with outside the palace, and she also knew that that person was innocent.
She knew everything, but ordered his execution.
He even cared about Xiao Guishi's mood, and burned his body with a big fire.
clean.
The proof of this person's existence in the world seemed to have passed without a trace, and was wiped clean by her.
It was like he had never lived in this world, nor in her life.
…
But memory doesn't lie.
She knows, she still remembers clearly.
Back then, the two met for the first time, by the lake of Yangliu Yiyi, the empress who was visiting privately in disguise, saw a pure white figure under the tree, Zhilan Yushu.
After she approached, the young man at that time turned his head, his eyes were bent, his smile was full of tenderness and purity.
She clearly knew that he would never come back.
Just like when she saw such a similar figure by the lake just now, she was in a trance for a moment, thinking that she was back under the tree that year.
But the people there turned around.
But his eyes are thin and cold.
He was no longer the person he was back then, with a gentle smile.
…
No one smiled at her like that again.
…
Before he died, the last words he said - he didn't finish, but she knew it.
That was the first time when the two of them were in love. He had just learned her identity, but he was not afraid at all. He was full of satisfaction and pure joy.
She was busy with things at that time, and she didn't have time to give him a wedding, so she just passed the scene in the folk.
On the wedding night, the young man in white lowered his eyes shyly, but said seriously:
"Although I have nothing, no family background, no identity, but I like you the most, more than anyone else."
He said the same thing before he died.
The exact same sentence, but this time, only the first half of the sentence was said.
She still remembered that in the cold palace, before she dragged him down, she saw those pair of clear eyes, looked at each other for a moment, and then he lowered his head.
He didn't even look at her until he was dragged away.
She just frowned.
But now I understand, does that mean that a person's liking is completely gone
It's like waking up in the middle of the night these years, feeling lonely and silent, and clearly realizing that the person who loved her the most is gone, lost in this vast world.
no more.
It was the corpse that she ordered to be burned, and he didn't even leave a tombstone, so so many times later, my heart ached, looking at the empty world, there was no place to hang on, and there was not a single grave.
…
The queen suddenly coughed, her head hurt, and her face became paler.
Do you regret it
sorry. Of course I regret it.
Heartbreaking.
It was she who buried this love with her own hands.
A big fire, clean, and the geese passed without a trace.
From the sky to the earth, the blue sky and the yellow spring, I can't find it again.
(end of this chapter)