King's man

The chrysanthemums of Danyu Palace are placed beside the road in the courtyard. The Empress Dowager seems to prefer red, and the chrysanthemums placed on both sides of the main road are silver red.The golden color is still on the sides.In fact, there are signs of withering.Standing in front of the door, Du Xuan looked at the courtyard, thinking of her peony garden. Every spring, silver-red and white peonies bloom in large blooms, magnificent and prosperous.When she recalled that night again, was it not the original doubt or fear, nor was there much joy, or was it a little bit more lost?She herself does not know.After so many years, the events of that night are blurred, but what happened next is still very clear.

After a period of time, Tong Meiren's body gradually recovered, and the emperor canonized her as a concubine Tong. Everyone in Hehuan Palace was happy, except for two people.Concubine Tong herself was not happy because she would never be able to conceive again in this life.Du Xuan was also a little depressed, the thing she was determined to forget, obviously the emperor forgot it more thoroughly than she did.Isn't that how it should be? Originally, that incident was just an accident, a farce staged by fate for her.Or lost.But also easy.

It's just her wishful thinking.The drama of fate was not over yet.Two months later, she found out she was pregnant.This time the fear was more turbulent, stronger than the first time.She concealed it more carefully during the day, so as not to be discovered by anyone. At night, she relaxed her tense nerves and faced the pervasive fear.How many times have tears wet the pillow towel, during those years, every time I return to the capital, I consciously skip it.Her belly got bigger day by day, and it became more difficult for her day by day. Fortunately, it was winter and she was wrapped up thickly.The other maids thought she was afraid of the cold, so they laughed at most.In this way, she successfully gave birth to the child, which was a boy.

Then came a few years of hard but fairly stable days.The joy of being a mother made her stop worrying about other things. In those years, she only wanted to raise her child, and she carefully hid the child in a dark room.Thinking about it now, how wronged her child, her little Shitou, must have been back then!Tears could not help but fall from the corners of her eyes.

Fortunately, Xian'er was lucky.One night she woke up from a dream and heard a lot of discussion in the courtyard. She got up to see, under the illumination of the palace lantern, a five or six-year-old boy was lying curled up on the ground, with a trace of blood on his mouth.Isn't that a small stone? She almost fainted in shock.When he stood still, he didn't care about anything else, and went to hug him on the ground, his breathing was weak, and his little hands were cold.He fell from the tree by accident.She was crying so faintly that she woke up Concubine Tong at some point.Looking at Concubine Tong standing beside her, Du Xuan was in despair.Thinking about it now, that woman's eyebrows actually have a hazy beauty in the night.But she couldn't notice these things at the time, she was distraught, and she only felt that Xiao Shi must have died this time.Her child was about to die, and she wished she could die instead of him.She hugged the child tightly for a while, and then crawled at the feet of Concubine Tong, crying and begging her to save his child.Xian'er has a big fate.Concubine Tong helped him.

Concubine Tong not only ordered someone to heal her child, but also quietly told the emperor.At that time, Yang Xin was in high spirits, and his eldest son, Yang Yu, had grown into a young man with extraordinary bearing, and he became more and more stable in handling things.And Concubine Duan added a princess and a prince to him. The princess Yang Ying is cute and cute, and the prince Yang He is very similar to him when he was young, especially pleasing him.So when Yang Xinchu heard that he had another son, he was still very happy, but when he summoned him in the Hehuan Palace, he was rather disappointed: the child in front of him was thin and thin, standing and visceral, not a bit of a prince temperament.This is also understandable.The point is that he doesn't look like him either, with long and narrow eyebrows, like his mother, except for the shape of his face, he can still be seen a little bit of his outline, but he is silent, so quiet that it makes people uncomfortable.For the above reasons, plus the fact that he was born to a palace maid, Yang Xin didn't care much about this son.But in the end it was his son, Yang Xin still recognized him, named him Yang Xian, and entrusted him to Concubine Tong to raise him.

Du Xuan was once again forgotten.It is said that a mother is more expensive than a child, but she is still just a court lady, and her son has become someone else's son.But the child has become a prince, so she doesn't have to live so hard anymore, she is more or less relieved.She also no longer expects anything extravagantly.In fact, Yang Xian was also forgotten like his mother.The prince who the emperor doesn't care about, others don't even bother to pay attention to, even the other concubines in the harem didn't even think to take a look at him, let alone plan.But they didn't expect that this child, whom they didn't even want to look at at the beginning, would finally sit on the throne.They have knowledge under the spring, and they must not be reconciled.It was because they were not reconciled that they all went to Jiuquan.

However, they were still alive and well at the time.At that time, Concubine Xi had already despaired of the queen's phoenix crown, and she began to look forward to being the queen mother and having a prince's son, and this hope was easier.It has not been a day since Concubine Duan has been favored, and her son was named loyal king when he was young, and he is also deeply favored by the emperor. The pet servant will inevitably be arrogant, and he always wants to persuade the emperor to abolish the prince and replace his own son.The mother is like this, and the son is not left behind.Prince Yang Yu has always been in the expectation of an early succession and the worry that the emperor will abolish him. He is cautious in every step, lest he make mistakes, and suppresses it for a long time.But the loyal king Yang He felt that he was no worse than the prince, and he was favored by the emperor, so he raised disciples in private and formed cliques. □□ and the loyal royal party have always been at odds, and they have always relied on Yang Xin to balance left and right to barely maintain the superficial calm.But Yang Xin, the emperor, is stubborn and conceited. He refuses to change what he decides, and he is overconfident in his own ability. He feels that everything is under control, and he is unwilling to deal with it when he sees the two parties fighting.In the end, he also paid for the bitter fruit of his ego.

That year was also a coincidence.First, Yang He happened to be accidentally shot in the chest by an arrow while hunting, and within a few days, he chased the ancestors one step ahead of his father.Soon Yang Xin happened to be ill again.Yang Xin had been ill for half a year, and neither healed nor showed any signs of deterioration. It happened that the autumn rain was falling continuously for another half a month. Yang Yu stood in front of his sickbed and said calmly, "Father, you have been ill for so long. , the political affairs have also been delayed, let my son handle it for you." His army has surrounded the palace.He didn't know that the day before that, a eunuch happened to tell the emperor about the prince's plan to force the palace.Therefore, Yang Xin gave Yang He wine in a rage.

After Yang Xin recovered from his illness, thinking about passing on the throne not only gave him a headache, but also a dull pain in his heart.Boost your spirits, thinking that you will have a long time to come, and you will have a few more lives.Then he was caught off guard again.After he recovered from his illness, he didn't live for two years, so he went to reunite with his two sons.Thus, Yang Xian succeeded to the throne as the emperor without any suspense.

So, I also became the queen mother without warning and obliged.Now that Du Xuan thinks about it, she finds it tasteless.Even if it is the Queen Mother, so what?Others see infinite beauty, but only she knows that youth is gone and there is no future.It was getting dark.Night swallowed day.Standing in front of the window, Du Xuan looked at the sky full of stars, once again feeling the gap in life that cannot be filled, and the loss that will never be filled.Scattered dead branches.Ghosting deep walls.Su's autumn.Silent night.cold frost.Looking back silently, I have no other thoughts, only the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng may be with me for the rest of my life.

In the evening of the same day, Du Xuan was reminiscing about the past in the Danyu Palace, and Chun Wei, the maid of the Xiuxin Palace, was chasing the sun.Unknowingly, Chun Wei lay on the bed for half a month.At noon, I heard some ignorant maids at the base of the wall talking about the emperor beheading several ministers. It is said that one of them shouted to the sky before he died, and his voice was quite tragic.Chun Wei was terrified when she heard it, and at that moment she had a premonition that she was going to die.After that, she lay blankly on the bed, seemingly hopeless.Until the evening, her eyes drifted through the window inadvertently, and she suddenly caught a glimpse of the afterglow of the setting sun. A very strong feeling seized her heart, and she suddenly wanted to go out and look at the sun.Even the sunset.Chun Wei barely sat up with support, and it took a lot of effort to get up and stand.Almost give up.I still want to see the sunshine very much, it is the desire that if I don’t look at it, I will never see it again.The first few steps were always extremely difficult, but slowly he walked into the courtyard while leaning on the wall.There was a light behind the palace wall, she knew there was a sun there, but she couldn't see it.She was unwilling not to see it, and anxiously wanted to go around the palace wall.There is no time, the sun is going to set, and it will never be seen again.No.don't want.Must see.There is no time.She walked faster and faster, like crazy.Panic.stumbled.

Chunwei didn't realize that she had the strength to go so far and climb such a high wall. When she realized, she was standing on the high wall, the autumn city was desolate, and the night wind was cold.The sun had long since faded into the twilight, and darkness swept over everything.There are lights on the streets of Yidu, and the place where the lights disappear in the distance is an unshakable night.South, the direction of hometown.Where is the hometown? The embrace holding her has long been deserted, and the person who taught her to babble is no longer there.Where there is no mother, how can there be a hometown?That her father, is it okay?These years she stubbornly refused to contact them, she stubbornly complained and refused to forgive.She stubbornly didn't care about them and didn't contact her, but stubbornly inquired about them quietly, and then pretended not to care.Even when she heard the news of her mother's death that day, she never shed a single tear.But at this moment, tears had already covered her face.She has always said that she does not complain, and it was not until this moment that she really did not complain in her heart.She found herself loving them so much.But she has no time for love.There is no chance.it's dark.She is going to die.Actually, she didn't want to die.How I want to live!You can also watch the sun tomorrow.Tears wet the corners of his lips, cool and astringent. "No!" A faint voice escaped from between the lips. "You can't just die without knowing why." The voice was still weak, but firm.A life that has been sacrificed cannot be sacrificed forever.she thinks.

So, the next day, she stood in front of the emperor.

Here Chunwei stepped into the imperial study, and over there Qingping left the Hall of Xiuxin and walked towards the Danyu Palace.The stone path along the way is pale and the vegetation is bleak.When the pure sunlight shone on the red palace wall, the red became brighter, and it seemed to have a light and warm feeling.Danyu Palace was very quiet, and the maids did not know where they had gone.When Qingping walked into the courtyard, her eyes were attracted by the green bamboo.Where did those chrysanthemums go?He pondered in his heart and walked to the bamboo forest.Several stalks of pruning bamboo stand upright in the courtyard, facing the sky and the sun, unyielding and arrogant, neither rush nor impatient.How many years has it survived here in this posture?Will it get bored with the constant time?It's cold, why is it not afraid or suffering?Can people live as light as bamboo?

Qing Ping was sighing to himself, but the sound of footsteps behind him interrupted his thoughts, turned his head and saw Du Jinghong came out gracefully, raising his left hand as he walked, as if covering his sleeve to wipe away tears.Then she raised her eyes and saw Qingping, but saw her expression was mournful, with tears in her eyes, and the blue eyes reflected in them became deeper and clearer, the eye circles were reddish, and the light was flowing.Qingping was startled at first, it was the first time seeing her cry.How can a person who is usually so handsome be so sad today.I can't bear it again.Thinking that she should not want him to see her like this, she was at a loss for a while.Du Jinghong only paused for a moment, she seemed to have something to say, but she didn't say a word, and didn't give Qingping a chance to comfort her, she walked over lightly.Qingping watched her go away until her figure turned around the door and disappeared.He stood still for a while, and turned around, no longer interested in facing the green bamboo.

Qingping walked into the room, and saw that the Queen Mother was still tear-stained.The Queen Mother didn't notice him coming in, she sat in a daze, thinking about what had just happened: "Did Aunt really have to be like this?" she asked.She knew that her niece, Bingxue, was smart, with seven orifices in her heart, and she was translucent and exquisite.Ordinary people like to talk about her being arrogant and arrogant, but in fact she is a very careful person.Just like today, she was afraid that she would be depressed about what happened yesterday, so she rushed to comfort her.It's just that she doesn't know that she no longer needs comfort. "Jing Hong, you are very smart, you have a good eye for people, and you see things thoroughly. Recently, the emperor has become more self-willed in dealing with things. If you persuade him more in the future, maybe he will still listen." She was silent in front of her.For a moment, she even felt sorry for her. If she hadn't been a daughter, with her wisdom, she could have done a lot of things.Still saw the shadow of teardrops slipping quietly, from her beautiful face.I have been in the palace for so many years, counting those favorite concubines around the late emperor, there are countless beauties in the harem, none of them can compare to her.She is really beautiful.She felt sorry for her again.It took a long time before I heard her speak. "That's fine. Maybe it's better to leave here." The child said such words in a calm voice with a smile on his mouth, which made her feel distressed.She thought she would not know how to face them by making such a decision.Only now did she realize that from the moment she made the decision, her heart was empty.She still has concerns and will be moved again, but it is no longer for herself, but for them.She has transcended herself.The child left without saying anything.She understood, so she didn't persuade her.This made her both happy and sad.

Chun Wei tremblingly walked out of the Hall of Cultivating Mind, under the watchful eyes of Yang Xian. "Go down," he said, his voice cold.As soon as she left the palace gate, she heard the emperor shout "Prince Wang!" She paused and left quickly.

Wang Quan went in in response, glanced at the sitting emperor, and knew that he was very angry.He couldn't say a word at this time, he thought to himself, and bowed and stood aside. "Call me Hong Yin and Lu Ying from Meixia Garden." Wang Quan cautiously responded and went out, but he was thinking in his heart, looking at the situation, he didn't know what happened.

When Hong Yin and Lu Ying were kneeling in front of them, Yang Xian handed them a piece of folded rice paper, "You guys know this!" His voice was not high, but majestic and stern, and the two of them were already a little timid.When I opened the paper to read it, I was even more frightened secretly.Luying was too frightened to speak, but Hongyin was still a little witty.She quickly calmed down her fear and replied in a calm voice: "Your Majesty, the maidservants can't get in and out of Meixia Garden. They have short knowledge and don't know this."

"Really?" Yang Xian leaned forward in front of the two of them. He wasn't angry yet, but soon.Hong Yin and Lu Ying didn't even dare to raise their heads, they could also feel the emperor's long and narrow eyes on top of their heads, the exposed whites made his eyes look more frightening, piercing them like needles. body.Both of them broke out in a cold sweat from the fright, and dared not move. "How dare you hide it from me!" The voice suddenly raised a lot, and he stopped drinking almost angrily.While the two maids were trembling, he continued, "Have you lived enough?" He stared straight at them, and could see their fear.Then he returned to his seat. "Someone has already told me that if you do it honestly, I won't make things difficult for you. Say it!"

The two of them fell to the ground in fright.They all knew about the beheading of four people yesterday.Human life has become more and more light in front of their emperor.Just one sentence.But they can't afford it.So, how Concubine Mei explained to them, and how they went out of the palace to find someone to write.Yang Xian understood in his heart, and his patience was exhausted. "Come here, lock Lin Mei into the inner palace. Take these two out!"