In the dark night, the north wind howled, the snow was flying, and the air was cold and damp. Even wearing a leather jacket would feel that the wind and cold could not be blocked, but the Wuling Palace where the emperor lived did not even burn the earth dragon. , only one lamp was lit alone, and the whole palace seemed very empty and lonely.
Surrounded by two court ladies, Sun Guiren came down to the gate of Wuling Hall, and said gently to the two eunuchs on duty, "I heard that Your Majesty has had a cold these few days, and I am really worried, so I cooked the tremella myself." Sydney soup, I want to serve His Majesty to drink it, please let me know." Of the two maids who followed, one was carrying a food box, which obviously contained white fungus soup, and the other quickly took out two pieces from his sleeve. Handing a purse to the eunuch, the meaning is self-evident.
The eunuch Sanbao didn't even look at the heavy purse, but instead stared at Sun Guiren with a smile for a long time, with sharp probing in his eyes, Sun Guiren couldn't help but blushed, then turned pale..., and finally stood aside The eunuch Gao Zhi couldn't stand it anymore, and poked the three treasures with his arm to signal him that enough was enough, then turned his head and smiled at Sun Guiren, and said, "Sun Guiren wait a moment, this slave is a general report."
But after a while, Men Gaozhi came out with another eunuch Ruifu, Ruifu said blankly, "Your Majesty Xuansun."
Sun Guiren was simply overjoyed, everyone said that the emperor was very difficult to get along with, and he was moody, and he thought he was just doing nothing. Zhong waited for the emperor's fortune, but he took the first step. He only felt that his move seemed bold, but it was also very safe.
Thinking of this, a complacent expression appeared on her face, as if she would immediately be favored as soon as she stepped into this place, and then live a life envied by everyone. She wanted to see the emperor urgently, and her footsteps were somewhat eager But he forgot to thank Gao Zhi, so he didn't see Gao Zhi's sharp eyes with a bit of pity, and the ironic cruelty in San Bao's eyes.
Sun Guiren was taken by the eunuch Ruifu to the inner room where the emperor lived, and then he was locked in the house by the two doors of red sandalwood and inlaid with glass.
It was quiet inside, bitingly cold, but there was no brazier. Although Sun Guiren was surprised, he forced himself to calm down. He endured the cold and walked in. When he walked around the screen, he saw a young man sitting on a couch in the middle. , he is drinking by himself, the slender and beautiful one is holding an ice-cracked blue and white porcelain wine glass with ten fingers, representing the most noble bright yellow dragon robe in the world, enveloping the man's tall and straight figure, and his beautiful profile is hidden in the dark light..., hazy Candlelight and dark lines all portray this scene like a painting.
Sun Guiren almost held her breath. She had heard that the emperor was praised as the most beautiful man in the Han and Zhen Dynasties before he ascended the throne. At that time, she thought it was just the praise of the world. People are fascinated.
Her heart couldn't help but pounding.
After a while, Sun Gui gathered up his courage and walked over with the food box, and blessed the emperor gracefully, and said, "I have seen Your Majesty."
The emperor raised his head and glanced at Sun Guiren, but this glance made Sun Guiren's hands and feet stiff. The emperor's eyes were as cold as ice, and there was an invisible pressure.
"Come here and pour wine for me." The emperor's voice was also flat, but it was deep and gorgeous, very pleasant to the ear.
Only then did Sun Guiren come back to his senses, took a deep breath and stepped forward to pour wine for the emperor. The emperor only drank and did not speak. Seeing that the emperor was majestic and natural, he was not so difficult to get close to, so he dared to hold the emperor Seeing the emperor eating the dish again, he brought out the white fungus pear soup he had boiled with a little excitement in his heart, and said softly, "Your Majesty, this is the soup I made with my own hands. I heard that your Majesty has had a cold these days. Therefore, the pear soup can clear the lungs and relieve cough, although this technique is not good, but it is my heart, please taste it.” After speaking, he shyly brought the colorful lotus pond kingfisher soup bowl to the emperor.
The emperor smiled faintly, but the eyes were too indifferent, which made people feel that this smile was more chilling to the bone than not smiling. She really didn't understand how such a handsome person as the emperor could only be alone. A look was full of such evil spirit, and he took a step back timidly.
"Since it's your wish, let's present it to the empress dowager first."
Sun Guiren thought of the Empress Dowager who said she was sick all the year round, and she was quite puzzled. Could it be that she was sent to the Empress Dowager's Hechun Hall
The emperor's eyes were filled with cruelty, and there was a kind of excitement flickering. He pointed to the rosewood canopy bed carved with dragon and phoenix patterns, and said, "The queen mother is over there, just take it over."
The queen mother is in the emperor's Wuling hall in this night? Or lying on the emperor's dragon bed
Sun Guiren had a bad premonition, but in the eyes of the emperor, he could only bite the bullet and walked over with a soup bowl. The canopy bed was covered with thick hibiscus-colored satin curtains, layered on top of each other. She only vaguely saw a person lying inside, she just felt that all of this seemed very strange, she glanced at the emperor uneasily, but saw that his brows were stern, with a kind of sharpness without anger, which scared her There was a chill in my heart.
"Sun Guiren?" The emperor's voice was neither high nor low, but it was like a sharp sword piercing through the body, which was terrifying.
Sun Guiren gritted his silver teeth and lifted the curtain tremblingly.
The snow outside was getting heavier, there was not even a single lantern under the eaves, and the entire Wuling Palace seemed empty and dark. Suddenly, a woman's sharp cry came from the silent Wuling Palace, as if it came from the depths of the soul Gao Zhi and San Bao, who were guarding the door, looked at each other, showing a clear expression, but it startled the two maids who stayed outside, and couldn't help asking tremblingly, " Father-in-law, that seems to be our mother's voice..."
Sanbao smiled evilly and said, "If you want to survive, forget about what happened tonight."
The two court ladies knelt together, their lips trembling, but they dared not say a word.
They unconsciously remembered the rumors about the emperor. It is said that he was able to ascend the throne by killing his father and brother. His methods were unprecedentedly cruel. He made all those who opposed him into human pigs and imprisoned them in water prisons, and then put poisonous snakes in them. , tortured every day, bit by bit to death, this is not cruel, what is more vicious is that he likes to suck human blood, many concubines entered the Wuling Palace, and when they came out, they were a mummy, even if they were lucky enough to survive If he came out, he was thrown into the cold palace by the emperor and became crazy after being frightened to death... Then, Mrs. Sun, could it be that the disaster is already too bad
Are those rumors true? So after witnessing all this, is there still a way out for them
There was a thick layer of snow on the ground, and if you stepped on it, your entire ankle would sink in. Just when the two maids thought they were going to kneel to death here, the door of Wuling Hall opened with a creak. Ruifu helped the pale-faced and disheveled Sun Guiren to come out. In fact, it is more appropriate to use the word drag rather than support, because Sun Guiren was almost hanging on Ruifu's body.
Sun Guiren's eyes were dull, like a person who has lost his soul, and there were even bruises and blood on his white wrists. The eyes of the two maids turned red when they saw it, but they didn't dare to cry, for fear of offending the eunuchs. Even more afraid that the emperor in the Wuling Hall would be angry, he stepped forward to take Sun Guiren from Ruifu's hand and quickly thanked him, "Thank you, father-in-law." Then he seemed to remember something, and hurriedly took out his purse from his cuff, perhaps it was too much Eager, or trembling because of fear, he pulled out four or five purses all at once, and put them all in Ruifu's hands.
The two court ladies supported Sun Guiren and walked out. His slender back cast a long shadow in the snowy night and disappeared after a while.
Sanbao looked at Sun Guiren who was going away, and said coldly, "She's really lucky." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Ruifu glanced at him with gloomy eyes, and immediately stopped talking.
When Ruifu returned to the inner room, the emperor was standing by the window with his hands behind his back. He glanced at the dragon bed beside him. The curtain had been lifted, and intermittent painful groans could be heard from inside, and wine glasses were scattered on the ground. The dishes and a big puddle of blood were in a mess, but he looked at his nose, nose, and mouth without any ripples in his eyes. He tiptoed up to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, it's late at night, you'd better go to bed early."
Ruifu said it three times before the emperor turned back. His handsome face was faintly visible in the night. Because his face was stained with blood, he looked extraordinarily hostile in the darkness. He suddenly said, "Ruifu, what do you think I am doing recently? Can't sleep all the time?"
Ruifu's eyes were a little more worried, which was quite different from the cold expression before, and he said in a softer tone, "Your Majesty has been suffering from cold for the past few days, but he didn't take medicine on time, so it's hard for him to fall asleep if he can't stand it. Then he glanced at the cold surroundings, wanted to say that the earth dragon should be lit, but finally swallowed the words, and said in another word, "Your Majesty is the Ninth Five-Year King, please put the dragon's health as the most important thing."
The emperor smiled faintly. Although his eyes were a bit ironic, Guanghua had a restrained and noble temperament, which was incompatible with this blood-stained scene. When Ruifu waited with bated breath, he said, "Just listen your."
Ruifu breathed a sigh of relief, and had already asked his servant to tidy up the other side hall. The earth dragon was burning hot, and the burning incense exuded a fresh lily fragrance. The emperor went to bed after washing, and Ruifu gave Tucking in the quilt, the emperor pressed a peachwood box beside the emperor's pillow, and said, "This is the safety button that Master Huizhen consecrated to His Majesty last time."
The emperor glanced at it and then quietly closed his eyes.
Unlike before, this time the emperor quickly fell asleep, but what surprised him was that the dream seemed a bit too strange, because there was a bronze mirror directly opposite him, and his own figure in the bronze mirror could be a stone .
The emperor stared at the bronze mirror intently for a long time, his eyes gradually turned into a look of surprise, and after a while he closed his eyes in disbelief, who knew that when he opened them again, they were still in the same place, the blurred bronze mirror The white stone reflected in the mirror exudes a mellow luster under the moonlight. It is a very beautiful Yuhua stone. His eyes became deep and he moved his body vigorously, and then he saw the stone in the mirror also clang. Moved, his heart sank.
What kind of sorcery is this? Or is it dreaming? The emperor was shocked, bad premonition filled his thoughts!
The emperor's gaze quickly looked around. In fact, he could only see the opposite side of the wall, but because of the reflection of the bronze mirror, he could see the general outline of the entire room. This was obviously a boudoir for a woman, although The furniture is old, the paint on the window sills is all peeled off, exuding a feeling of defeat, but it is still a very regular interior decoration.
The inner room and the outer room are separated by a floor-to-ceiling cover. In the inner room, there is a red lacquer carved Babu bed, covered with a pink-yellow silk curtain. In the full moonlight, one can see that there is a person lying in the tent inside. Unknown to him, it seemed that he could still hear the woman's shallow breathing.
This is where? who is she? How could he turn into a stone? Many questions came to his mind in an instant.