The queen is sober in the world, and she is winning every step of the palace fight.

Seeing that the emperor's face showed more fatigue than anger, and that he had obviously gotten over his anger towards Zhishu, Fei Wan couldn't help but secretly praise Zhishu's quick wit.

Turning around, Fei Wan nodded to Xie Weizhou who was standing in the distance.

"I'm sorry to have made you laugh, Lord Xie."

"Your Majesty, your words are too serious."

Xie Weizhou bowed.

He turned and bowed to the emperor. "Because of me, I have caused Concubine Ying to fine me. I am guilty. I am still young. When I was a child, my mother asked someone to tell me that I should not be engaged before the age of twenty, nor should I get married before the age of thirty, otherwise it would affect the continuation of my family line. Before my mother passed away, she solemnly and repeatedly warned me about this. Although I don't believe it completely, I dare not disobey my deceased mother and let her rest in peace. It is all my fault. If I had told her this earlier, Concubine Ying would not have been so cruel... Please punish me, Your Majesty, for concealing this matter!"

As he said this, he knelt down on one knee.

Bow your head and accept punishment.

The emperor frowned when he heard this.

After a while, he said calmly, "Is that so? Since you want to be filial, I won't force you. Otherwise, I really think there is a daughter who is worthy of you."

Xie Weizhou said, "It is an honor for me to be chosen by Your Majesty. The person Your Majesty has chosen is certainly correct. However, I am unlucky and dare not delay the appointment of that beautiful lady. Your Majesty's court is full of talented people, and the capital is full of young talents. I am just lucky. Perhaps my sincere desire to serve Your Majesty has been blessed by heaven, and I have achieved this small achievement. I believe that the beautiful lady will find a good match and live happily together. Your Majesty's grace in choosing a husband for her will not be in vain."

The words were spoken with great sincerity and gave the emperor enough face.

In addition to Zhishu's recent commotion, the emperor completely lost interest in granting Xie Weizhou a marriage.

Regardless of whether Xie Weizhou's deceased mother's last words were true or false, if he did not want to accept the arranged marriage, the emperor would not force it on him.

Otherwise, the original intention to win over and restrain Xie Weizhou would turn out to make him unwilling, which would affect the close relationship between the monarch and his subjects and would be bad.

So he smiled and asked Xie Weizhou to stand up.

Queen Yan felt relieved at this moment.

Smiling, he tried to smooth things over: "Weizhou, since you are not blessed enough to accept His Majesty's gift, why not say some nice words and ask for more rewards from the ladies present, so that your trip will not be in vain."

Xie Weizhou took advantage of the situation and said, "Empress, I'm not good at talking, so why don't I show you a set of boxing for your Majesty and you all to enjoy. If you enjoy it, besides promising to provide more clothes and armor for my army, you can also reward me with more gold and silver. If I accept the reward, it will also allow the soldiers in the army to have more meat. Our entire army will be grateful for the kindness of your Majesty and you, the Empresses!"

"Haha, Lord Xie said that he can't speak. I think he speaks very nicely." Concubine De smiled.

Concubine Shun said, "Yes, I haven't even seen Lord Xie boxing yet, and I can't help but want to give all of next month's salary to his soldiers."

"Then I would like to thank you, Your Majesty." Xie Weizhou clasped his fists towards Concubine Shun. "If Your Majesty is pleased with this, you can give me your salary for the next month."

Empress Yan scolded him: "If you want to fight, do it faster and stop talking nonsense!"

Everyone in the hall started laughing.

Xie Weizhou flew onto the stage and performed a set of long boxing with great vigor and his body was extremely graceful.

The emperor, empress and concubines all watched with great interest.

Even the palace maids standing on duty outside the hall tried their best to look inside the hall through the open door curtain that had not been closed after the arrow shooting, by tilting their necks.

But there were not only palace ladies in the courtyard.

And Zhishu has never left.

She was taken out of the hall and vomited for a while in the yard. She didn't vomit anything, but just kept dry heaving and couldn't even get into the warm sedan chair.

The palace maid was going to call the imperial physician for her. She stood in the yard, vomiting and waiting, and through the open palace door, she saw the agile figure flying in the field.

Watched it for a while.

But it was only a moment.

After a set of punches, Xie Weizhou left the arena and went to talk in front of the emperor. From Zhishu's perspective, he could not be seen.

Zhishu was silent for a moment, but ultimately stood still and did not move to where she could see him.

She looked up at the sky.

The winter night sky is so deep, and the stars are shining with a cold light. The starlight chills the eyes but not the heart.

I still remember the sunset at the pavilion by the stream, I was so drunk that I didn’t know the way home…

It’s been about seven or eight years.

That spring evening with rosy clouds and warm breeze was not in the depths of lotus flowers, but in the apricot forest, in a thatched pavilion by the winding stream. She and he played slingshot for the entire afternoon.

A little girl from a commoner family, and a young master from a noble family.

They met by chance, competed with each other unwillingly, and finally got to know each other through fighting. In just half a day, they became good friends.

He also gave her a jade pendant.

It was said that it was left by his deceased mother and would be given to his future daughter-in-law.

She used the amaranth grass found by the roadside to weave a tall horse, made a saddle out of flower petals, and gave it to him.

"I'm not going to marry just because I receive a gift. If you want to marry me, you have to ride a horse and become a general, and come to pick me up with drums and gongs. Didn't you say that your ancestors were generals? It would be unreasonable for you not to be a general, right?"

He took it with care, put the horse in his arms, and said that he would become a general in the future.

"Little girl, come back here tomorrow and have a stone throwing competition!"

"Okay, who's afraid of who? I'll definitely beat you!"

Zhishu tilted her head back and smiled faintly in the starry sky.

"My lady, why are you crying?"

The maidservant beside her exclaimed in a low voice.

"...Oh, my stomach is upset."

Zhishu raised her hand to wipe away the tears dripping from the corners of her eyes.

tomorrow.

There is no tomorrow.

When I got home that day, I found that something had happened at home.

Her small business offended the local tyrants, and her father was imprisoned, her mother was beaten, and she was also taken away and forced into slavery. It was only after her mother knelt on the ground and banged her head that they begged for mercy, and they did not make her a prostitute, but only a slave.

After being sold several times, she entered the palace and became a lowly palace maid.

The jade pendant was forcibly taken away and sold shortly after she returned home. It was pulled around and no one knew where it fell.

At that time, I was young and ignorant, and I just thought that the jade pendant was a fun thing. Later, after seeing it more often in the palace, I remembered that it was not ordinary jade, but must be worth a lot of money.

But I never had the chance to see him again.

"Xie Weizhou, you must have long forgotten the little girl who happened to accompany you for an afternoon many years ago."

When they met formally in the palace just now, his eyes swept over her without any reaction.

I wonder if he went to the suburbs full of blooming apricot blossoms to keep the appointment the next day.

She didn't know if he would occasionally think of her and think she was a liar who stole the jade pendant.

Now he was finally going to ride on a horse and become a general, but he was definitely not going to marry her.

"It's because of my bad fate, my hopeless future, and my bleak days that I keep recalling the past and can't forget you. It's ridiculous that I've remembered the children's jokes for so many years."

Zhishu lowered her eyes.

The starlight in his eyes was completely extinguished.

The doctor is here.

She held the hand of her maid and boarded the sedan chair.

"I don't feel like vomiting anymore. Let's go back to Chuixue Palace and check my pulse."

After lowering the curtain of the sedan chair, she didn't look back at the Fairy Moon Palace.

I heard that the northwest border is bitterly cold.

Traveling north in the bitter winter is really hard.

The road ahead is dangerous, please take care.