The two got off the car in front of the Jihua Gate, he entered the Qianyuan Hall, and she went to the harem to receive the queen mother's banquet.
Such a day is very lively, besides the banquet, the Queen Mother also passed on juggling in the theater troupe. On a thin rope in the mid-air, the two also performed somersaults, somersaults, kneeling down, and standing on top of each other. They saw colorful dancers dancing, dancing in the sky, looking like a fairy, and the female relatives held their breaths and couldn't take their eyes off them. Only Xiangyi paid attention to the flowery throne in the main hall, after a while, the queen mother got up and changed clothes.
Xiang Yi leaned back on the chair slowly, and said to Xi'er: "I'm not feeling well, you can go find Duo Shun quietly and see where the prince is."
Xi'er agreed to go, and came back after a long time, called "Princess" in a low voice, and said: "The prince is not in front, and even Duo Shun has gone, slaves dare not wander around, and dare not ask more questions. , I’ll come back first.” Seeing Xiang Yi’s pale face, she thought she was feeling very uncomfortable, so she hurriedly said, “Why don’t the concubine bid farewell to the queen dowager, and the servants will wait for the concubine to go back first.”
After a while, Xiang Yi nodded slightly.
So Xi'er helped Xiang Yi to stand up, bypassed the screen barrier, went straight to the back of the hall, entered the Chuhua Gate, and saw Qin Song, a fourth-rank internal officer sitting in front of the Queen Mother, sitting on the steps from a distance, seeing the two of them, hurriedly Standing up to greet each other, he saluted with a smile: "I have seen the princess."
"Please pass it on to Eunuch."
"The Empress Dowager has a headache, so she changed her clothes and turned them crookedly. It's a big festival, so I don't want the slaves to disturb people, so I didn't teach the front to know." Qin Song laughed, "If the princess has anything, just tell the slaves."
Xiangyi said: "I'm tired, so I'm here to ask the queen mother to resign. In this case, I just need to annoy my father-in-law and report back to the queen mother."
Qin Songdao: "The maidservant obeys orders, and the princess can do what she pleases."
Xiang Yi then helped Xi'er to go out, but Xi'er had sharp eyes, and saw an official in green clothes poking his head in the narrow passageway, looking out, and saw that the figure was very familiar, it was Zhang Haishan who was standing in front of Prince Yu, but he didn't understand Why is he here? She blurted out to scream, but Xiang Yi pinched her wrist severely. She raised her head suddenly, only to realize that Xiang Yi's face was as white as paper, and her lips were bloodless, and the sable cloak she was wearing was trembling.
Walking out of the Chuihua Gate and walking through the long palace wall, Xiang Yi stopped suddenly. She was walking so fast that Xi'er could hardly keep up. Seeing her stop suddenly, she couldn't help but yelled: "princess."
Xiangyi seemed to take a deep breath, the sky gradually turned gray and black, and everything in front of her eyes could not be seen clearly, only the palace wall, like two red bloodstains, pressed to the bottom of her eyes...
There are earth dragons in the Nuan Pavilion, and a brazier is set up. The window paper is already tightly sealed, and the heavy curtain curtains are closed and drooping, making it more airtight. The room was extremely quiet, and all I could see was a wisp of green smoke, straight and thin pillars of smoke, scattered into the air in the golden tripod carved with clouds on the ground. Rushuang felt slightly sweaty and felt hot, so she took off the brocade quilt a bit, put one hand on her chest, and leaned over to breathe gently.
The breath was blown on the back of his neck, it seemed to be a little itchy, he couldn't help but move slightly.
"Dingluan." Her voice was smooth and greasy, like honey, for some reason, he gave a low laugh. She stretched out her hand to pull his shoulder: "What are you laughing at?"
He finally turned over to face her, too close, his eyes met, he looked away, her long black hair was spread on the pillow, winding like a blue cloud, he casually picked up a strand and entangled it between his fingers: "I laugh at you every time before plotting against me, you would treat me so affectionately. Last time it was because of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and last time, it was because Hezhou was vacant... So I was thinking, what will you plot against me today?" He let go, strands of hair slid down from his fingertips, and fell onto the pillow again.
She stared at him with obsidian-like eyes, but he seemed a little tired and closed his eyes.
After a while, Rushuang seemed to sigh, slowly got up and sat down on the bed, opened the dowry, the small rhombic mirror, only half of her face was reflected, she took the rhinoceros comb casually, and said quietly: "So you always have something in your heart." It was to guard against me, even if I did the tricks, I didn't do the tricks for others—" At this point, she suddenly paused, because she saw a silver light in the mirror, and she stretched out her hand to catch it in a daze. , it was really a white hair, not too white, like the frost stained on the tips of the leaves of decayed grass in early autumn, mixed in the thick hair like black jade, as if she had misread it.
She was stunned for a while, and then called out "Dingluan" again, but he didn't answer, as if he had fallen asleep.
She stood there, it was very warm in the warm pavilion, but she was only wearing a plain silk jacket, and gradually felt cold, the chill around her was like the tide, bit by bit, she slowly pursed the corners of her mouth. Suddenly the fingertips exerted force, and the scalp ached slightly, as if bitten by ants, the white hair had been ripped off.
Cui Wanshi called out from outside the curtain: "Queen Dowager."
She asked: "What's the matter?"
"Princess Yu's concubine has an accident." Cui Wanshi's voice sounded a little far away because of the curtain, "Princess Yu fell outside the gate of Jihua, I'm afraid it's not a good thing."
She turned her head to look at him, he had turned over and sat up, his eyes were also sweeping towards her.
She only had time to say: "It's not me—"
And the look in his eyes at that moment chilled her heart, she stood there motionless, watching him leave in a hurry.
Let go of your hand, there is a row of bright windows facing south in the Nuan Pavilion, the thin winter sun is reflected in the palm of your hand, there is nothing, only your white hair is wrapped around your fingers, it seems to melt under the sunlight.
She was only twenty-two years old, and she had already grown her first gray hair in this lonely palace.
She laughed out loud, and after a while, she raised her hand to wipe away the cold tears on her cheeks.