Who is the white moonlight these days? We are just following the plot

In Yonghe Palace, Wen Yuan sat on the bed, keeping his eyes open until dawn.

There was a quarrel outside.

"Father-in-law, my queen hasn't gotten up yet and can't be disturbed." Sakura said anxiously.

"I am following the emperor's orders, Miss Xiaoying. It's urgent, please go and call the empress." The person who came was eunuch Zhou who served the emperor.

Xiaoying was sweating coldly. The Empress had told her yesterday that the door could only be opened at 3:00 PM, but it was only 9:00 PM now. What if the Empress hadn't come back yet?

The two sides were in a stalemate and neither was willing to give in.

"Creaky." The door opened, interrupting their argument.

Wen Yuan, dressed in plain clothes, stood inside the door.

It was a sunny day today, and the sunlight shone on her, as if she was covered in a layer of golden light.

All her hairpins and head ornaments were removed, and her jet-black hair was tied back with a white ribbon.

"Greetings, Imperial Concubine." Eunuch Zhou greeted her.

Wen Yuan was not the emperor or empress, but the aura around her told everyone that she was the crown princess who accompanied the emperor from the East Palace into the Suhe Hall.

"Let's go." Wen Yuan said.

Eunuch Zhou was slightly surprised. He hadn't read out the emperor's decree yet. How did the imperial concubine know that she was going to be sent out of the palace?

The imperial concubine was confined to her house by the emperor, and her food, clothing and other expenses were no different from before, but in the eyes of others, this punishment from the emperor meant that the imperial concubine had fallen from power.

Faced with the punishment of house arrest, the imperial concubine did not feel a bit wronged, obeyed the rules and did not step out of Yonghe Palace.

In the past half month, Eunuch Zhou heard a lot of gossip from servants, and even such outrageous words as demoting the concubine to a concubine were spread.

Eunuch Zhou immediately punished several of the loudest servants with a stick, and the palace became quieter for the next two days.

But who would have thought that something unexpected would happen in Ruiping Palace again.

Princess Ruiping passed away last night. When the Emperor learned about it, he allowed the Imperial Concubine to leave the palace to pay her respects, taking into consideration that they had been good friends since childhood.

What Eunuch Zhou was worried about was that he hadn't told the imperial concubine about the emperor's decree yet, so how did she know about it?

The carriage was waiting outside Yonghe Palace. Before getting on the carriage, Xiaoying held a fox fur cloak and put it on Wen Yuan.

"My lady, the weather is cold and gloomy, be careful not to catch a cold."

This rare white fox was hunted by Li Zhao himself.

The snow that year was so thick that it reached up to his ankles. He grabbed the white fox by the scruff of its neck, held it high, and said excitedly, "This is a birthday gift for Ayuan."

After returning to the palace, the Shangyi Bureau transformed a whole piece of white fox fur into this unique cloak in the world according to Li Zhao's instructions.

The harmonious sounds of the zither and the harp produce beautiful music, and the phoenix and the crane live side by side in the peach forest.

The Crown Prince and Crown Princess at that time were a loving couple whose reputation spread far and wide.

It’s not like today, where there is resentment between them.

Since their last quarrel, the imperial concubine was punished and confined to her house, and the two have not seen each other for half a month.

The carriage started shaking.

This was the emperor's carriage. Thick curtains kept the cold wind out. Inside, there was a tiger-skin carpet, a stove burning, and incense lit, making it very warm.

Wen Yuan looked blank, and somehow she recalled the first year when she and Ji Xingyao traveled through time.

The old emperor Li Taiming was bewitched by treacherous ministers and banished the brothers' biological mother, Concubine Gao, to the cold palace. The crown prince Li Zhao was confined to the Eastern Palace, and the fifth prince Li Heng was about to be exiled to the border.

It was at this time that Wen Yuan and Ji Xingyao accepted the system tasks and married the crown prince and the fifth prince respectively.

The old emperor had already drafted the imperial edict to depose the crown prince, but it was stopped by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and not announced.

The Eastern Palace suddenly became a place of plague and no one dared to touch it.

All the slaves were imprisoned or dismissed, and in the end, not a single one was left.

It snowed heavily in winter and there was no charcoal in the East Palace.

Wen Yuan rolled up his sleeves and went around the East Palace collecting dead branches. But within a day, he got chilblains on his hands.

Fortunately, there was a fire starter in the kitchen, otherwise Wen Yuan would have to learn from the ape-man how to make fire by rubbing two sticks together.

There is fire, but no rice.

The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess hugged each other to keep each other warm. They were so cold and hungry that Wen Yuan thought they might not survive the winter.

After shivering for several days, he was so hungry that he could not walk. Suddenly, a stone fell by the window.

Then two, then three, finally caught their attention.

Li Zhao and Wen Yuan walked out and saw Ji Xingyao clinging to the wall and grinning foolishly.

"Ayuan, it's me, it's me." Ji Xingyao waved at her, and she almost fell down because she didn't stand firmly. Fortunately, she quickly stabilized her body and clung to the wall again.

"Xingyao, why are you here? Is there anyone outside?"

Wen Yuan was shocked. Climbing the wall of the East Palace without permission at this time would be a capital crime.

"There's no one here now, but I can't guarantee there will be anyone there later. Come on, continue."

Ji Xingyao struggled to throw in a few packages from outside.

"There's rice, steamed buns, bacon, and some charcoal in there. It's too heavy, so I can only take this much. You guys use it first, and I'll come back later."

The two of them smiled at each other across the wall, and Ji Xingyao quickly jumped off the wall. They didn't even have time to ask each other about their situation.

Later, Wen Yuan found out that Ji Xingyao gave money to the guards guarding the East Palace outside every now and then, and they turned a blind eye and allowed her to climb over the wall to deliver food.

Ji Xingyao brushed it off with a few casual words, but Wen Yuan understood the hardships involved.

After the two married the prince who was in danger of losing his own life, they cut off contact with their family the day after their wedding in order to avoid implicating their mother's family.

The Crown Prince was under house arrest, and although the Fifth Prince was free, he was actually no different from ordinary people.

Her life was in the hands of others and she was restricted in every way, not to mention spending money to help. The money used to help the Prince's Mansion was exchanged by Ji Xingyao with her dowry.

Without Ji Xingyao, Wen Yuan and the prince might have starved to death in the Eastern Palace.

They endured five years of hardship.

The first two years were short of food and clothing, and the next two years were filled with palace fighting and family quarrels. In the fifth year, the two brothers overcame all obstacles, Li Zhao ascended the throne, and Li Heng was named King of Ruiping.

It should have been a happy ending of sharing wealth and glory.

Unfortunately, they forgot that human hearts are the most unpredictable.

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The carriage wobbled to a stop, and Wen Yuan withdrew his thoughts.

"Your Highness, we have arrived at the Ruiping Palace."

Wen Yuan was helped out of the car by Xiaoying.

It was freezing outside. Wen Yuan buried half of his face in fox fur, revealing a pair of ruthless and desireless phoenix eyes.

Ruiping Palace, a white curtain hangs on the plaque.

A group of servants were at the door, kneeling to welcome the imperial concubine.

When I entered the Ruiping Palace, I saw servants from each room running back and forth, some holding white cloth in their hands, and some holding bright red silk in their hands.

Some of the red cloths hanging in the corridor had not been taken down yet, and the red mixed with the white looked really funny.

Yesterday, Prince Ruiping married his concubine Su Jinyun in the highest standard ceremony, with three books and six ceremonies, a sedan chair carried by eight people, and a wedding procession stretching for several miles.

The Ruiping Palace was full of guests, and people came to give gifts and congratulations in an endless stream, almost trampling down the threshold of the palace.

It is said that the betrothal gifts filled dozens of carriages.

If you don’t know, you might think that Prince Ruiping married his principal wife.

When Ji Xingyao married Li Heng, she only had a carriage and the only betrothal gift was the ancestral jade bracelet left by Concubine Gao.

The only beloved daughter of General Zhenguan, with full of love, married the fifth prince Li Heng, who was about to be exiled to the frontier, in such a shabby and uncomfortable way.

Li Heng once promised to love only Ji Xingyao in this life, but in the blink of an eye, he married his beloved white moonlight Su Jinyun.

Wen Yuan sneered.

In Yaohua Garden, white curtains covered the sky. A black coffin was placed in the center of the mourning hall, and people were kneeling on the ground around it.

The man in the lead stood in front of the coffin, looking down at the person inside, motionless.

"The royal concubine has arrived."