"Sister Yulian, you admit it wrong, I am not the wife of Si Bing." Hua Qingxue smiled awkwardly: "Although I also like her very much, I really am not, no, no."
Yu Lian was frustrated for a moment, but the little girl was optimistic: "It turns out not to be the case, but you have the same name as Mrs. Si Bing. You are so smart, you even know this method, I admire you very much!"
Hua Qingxue reached out and rubbed her hair: "It's okay. Just work hard and go to Shengjing to find Mrs. Si Bing. I think she will definitely like you."
"Really?! You actually said that Mrs. Si Bing would like me? But I'm so ordinary and humble." Yulian was not confident.
Hua Qingxue shook her head: "You forgot that I told you that where sincerity leads to gold and stone, as long as you have a goal, you will achieve it one day."
"Yeah." Yulian nodded heavily.
The water at the bottom of the cabin needs to be cleaned up. The Yulian siblings and Qi Liancheng began to clean it up. When Hua Qingxue saw Xiao Han walking towards her, she would definitely say something else.
She didn't have the time to deal with him. Hua Qingxue wanted to leave, but suddenly found that the surroundings were shaking.
And it's shaking so hard, what's going on? !
Could it be that the hole had been opened again and the ship was about to sink... Before Hua Qingxue fainted, there was only one thought in her mind.
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Shengjing City, the Imperial Palace.
The fire clouds rolled in the sky in the evening, reflecting the colorful light on the glazed tiles of the palace, which was very bright and bright.
But under this bright dome, each palace was already dark, and the palace people who lit the lanterns began to light the palace lanterns in the verandah one by one. They were crisscrossed and orderly. If seen from a distance, they looked like an invisible lantern. Hands, using dim candlelight to draw the floor plan of the palace.
Magnificent and colorful, yet silent.
Yes, all intrigues and ambitions are silent.
They come and go without a trace, quiet but thrilling.
There is a palace near Cining Palace. It has been abandoned for a long time in the past years. Recently, palace maids and eunuchs have inexplicably tidied it up. It seems to be inhabited by people, but no news has been leaked.
Only the Queen Mother's Yuhu would visit from time to time. If you didn't pay attention, it would be easy to think that the Queen Mother just chose a house in the harem as a place for recreation.
The palace attendants, neatly dressed and walking in unison, carried gorgeous lanterns to clear the way. Jade Lotus followed slowly. The night breeze blew the gauze curtain as thin as cicada wings, and the beauty inside was like a shadow.
Judging from the outline of the figure, she was sitting upright like a statue, but only she knew that as it was now, she was nothing more than a walking body.
What is one's true nature has been lost as early as the beginning of entering the palace.
"Are you here?" The cold voice revealed a bit of laziness.
Zi Wan immediately replied softly from the side: "Soon, Queen Mother."
"Why do I feel like I've been gone for a long time?" Zheng Shuwen said lightly, and at the end, she sighed softly.
It arrived very quickly indeed.
I chose this place at first because it was not far from me.
There were guards guarding the door in shifts. They looked at the Queen Mother's Yuhu from a distance, then opened the palace door and waited.
Yu Chu stopped and Zi Wan quickly stepped forward to help him.
Stretching out her slender white wrists, she slowly got out of the car. The graceful woman wore a gold-embroidered phoenix harem, and her makeup was even more exquisite and elegant, making her already gorgeous face look much sharper and more flamboyant. But even though No matter how dazzling it was, no one dared to stab her.
After all, this is the most noble woman in the entire Qi Kingdom.
Although this palace has been tidied up, it still looks dilapidated over the years. Behind the palace gate, the flowers and trees are somewhat withered, there are incomplete stone tables, a drafty pavilion, and the corner eaves are not complete with bricks and tiles.
The door to the main hall was tightly closed. If it weren't for the faint light shining through the broken window paper, it would be hard to believe that someone was living inside.
"Go down." Zheng Shuwen ordered softly. The plate of aster stopped in response and then slowly left.
Zheng Shuwen took a deep breath and walked up the steps.
There was a squeak.
The huge wooden door was pushed open by her, and everything inside was the same as every time she came here before.
A huge iron railing separated the middle area. The young man inside looked a little thinner, but he was full of energy. He was sitting on a straw mat. There were a few books and a kerosene lamp on the low table in front of him. It was the only light in the entire palace.
He was reading quietly, seemingly unaware of the Queen Mother's visit, or perhaps he was aware of it, but had no intention of paying attention.
"Your Majesty." Zheng Shuwen finally sighed again.
Li Jingnan's hand while turning the book paused, but it was only a pause, and then nothing happened.
Time passed by, and the two people in the room became as motionless as sculptures. The Queen Mother just looked at him and he read the book.
"What has your Majesty read recently?"
Like a compromise after a confrontation, Zheng Shuwen bowed her head first, intending to start a topic.
Li Jingnan did not raise his head, but replied calmly: "I am watching the deeds of the Fifth Patriarch."
"Huh?" Zheng Shuwen was slightly surprised. She never thought that Li Jingnan was reading Buddhist scriptures. Then she remembered that the late emperor was also fascinated by this, and for a moment she felt faintly worried.
"Buddhist scriptures are very good. Buddhism pays attention to cultivating the mind and character, and the emperor's temperament does need to be tempered."
Li Jingnan looked indifferent: "If the mother said it is true, the child does have some understanding now."
"Oh? What have you learned? Can you share it with your mother?" Zheng Shuwen smiled faintly, trying to look softer.
Li Jingnan couldn't see her expression, because he never raised his head from beginning to end.
"The Sixth Patriarch immediately became a Buddha because of a poem. This poem made me realize a lot." When Li Jingnan said this, he stopped talking.
Zheng Shuwen's inner worries gradually grew, and she couldn't help but ask: "What poem?"
Li Jingnan finally raised his head, with piercing eyes. He said calmly: "Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a stand. There is nothing in the first place, so how can it be stained with dust."
"..." Zheng Shuwen pondered, speechless for a moment.
"So, Queen Mother, you have worked so hard and hard, but in the end you may only get the sorrow of having nothing. Please take care of yourself." After Li Jingnan finished speaking, he lowered his head again and buried himself deeply in the world of books.
It was night, and I had no intention of talking anymore.
"..." Zheng Shuwen was in a bad mood all night after being choked, but she had no way to vent her anger.
However, the lingering worry in my heart was relieved. Although I was reading Buddhist scriptures, I was still angry with myself. It seemed that I was not as obsessed as the late emperor.
After Hua Qingxue rescued Li Jingnan, she became deeply uneasy. After Li Jingnan came back, she monitored him even more cruelly. Not only did he have to be within her sight and control, but a strong iron cage was also built inside the palace. .
It is something that no one can imagine, much less imagine. This matter is kept secret even within the palace.
The palace people only knew that the emperor and Eunuch Xiaodouzi had been in the imperial study.
For the rest, not even a single word is known.
Zheng Shuwen is close to madness, but she doesn't know it.
Aunt Ziyuan, on the other hand, had been jealous of the Queen Mother several times in order to get better treatment for the Emperor.
But in the end, it was just helpless.
"I want him to know that without me as his mother, he is nothing!" Zheng Shuwen once again dug her nails into the flesh of her palms. New and old wounds were piled on top of each other. It was painful but she didn't know it.
After the Queen Mother left, the palace returned to deathly silence, with only the guards at the door patrolling from time to time bringing a little bit of life.
It was dark, and the eunuch carrying the palace lantern slowly approached, but was blocked by the guards.
"Stop! What are you doing?" The tone was cold and hard.
The father-in-law held the food box and replied respectfully: "The younger one is here to deliver food."
"Brand?" The guard extended his hand, looking businesslike.
"Hey." The father-in-law took off the sign from his body and handed it over. The guard looked at it and then let him go: "Go in."
The father-in-law nodded and ducked in.
"Your Majesty, this servant has brought you food." The father-in-law entered the inner hall, his tone and attitude becoming more friendly.
Li Jingnan put down the books in his hands and stepped forward to take the food box, which contained only a bowl of cold porridge, two steamed buns and a pile of dried vegetables.
This was the case for three meals a day. He took it silently and ate it quietly.
The father-in-law still had to wait for the emperor to finish eating and leave with the food box. When he saw that the emperor lived in a shabby house with only straw mats and ate food that was worse than that of their second-class eunuchs, he felt a wave of emotion in his heart and couldn't help but cry. stand up.
Li Jingnan's calm face suddenly darkened, and then he looked up.
Today, the food eunuchs were replaced again. The Queen Mother seemed to be afraid that the emperor would win over the servants again. All the eunuchs who came in would be replaced at intervals, which was not surprising.
The eunuch cried uncontrollably, but he just paused and continued eating.
A kind of indifference and indifference that is beyond ordinary people.
Li Jingnan finished eating in silence, then stepped forward and handed the food box out. The eunuch reached out to take it, but for some reason, his hand slipped and the food box fell to the ground with a clang, as if by some chance, the eunuch suddenly Hug my head and cry.
The words "Dou Gong Gong, Dou Gong Gong" are hidden in the yin ying sound.
Li Jingnan's heart seemed to be grasped by someone. He stepped forward with a pop and reached out to grab the little eunuch's collar: "What's wrong with Xiaodouzi?"
The father-in-law heard the emperor's question and did not dare not answer, but he cried too hard, so he spoke intermittently: "Your Majesty... Eunuch Dou has gone... gone..."
died.
Li Jingnan finally took a breath and smiled coldly: "Yes, I dreamed of him last night, so I was wondering why I dreamed of him, why...
"Your Majesty..." The father-in-law was out of breath, but he still had something important to say: "Your Majesty, Eunuch Dou... I have something to say... I have something to say..."
He cried so loudly that he attracted the guards at the door.
"Bold eunuch! Is this a place where you can speak?" the guard scolded as he walked in.
Li Jingnan was a little angry, but more compassionate, and couldn't help but interrupt him: "Stop talking! Leave quickly!"
Don't stay in this place of right and wrong!
"No, no!" The eunuch looked back and saw that the guards were close at hand. He said quickly, fearing that he would be too late: "Your Majesty, I must tell you, Eunuch Dou said... said... he didn't cry... no... no Throw it to you..."
No shame for you.
He didn't cry until he died.
The words that followed could no longer be heard, but they could be guessed.
The little eunuch had been dragged out, and a piece of cloth was immediately blocked over his mouth. He shouted loudly, but nothing could be conveyed.
Li Jingnan stood in the cage, as if his soul had been pulled out.
He always thought that Xiaodouzi was embarrassing, cried ugly, had no long memory, and was stupid.
It turned out that he had always remembered what he said, every word.