King's man

Chen Huilan didn't leave, instead she went to meet Yang Xian, leaned over and hugged Yang Xian.Tears couldn't stop streaming from her eyes. "When Your Majesty doesn't need your concubines, your concubines will leave." She lay on his chest, and she was choked up before she could speak. "Now that you are sick, I won't leave. I don't worry about who will take care of you. No, I won't leave! I won't say anything..." When he spoke again, he was no longer called "Your Majesty", but you and me In this way, the layer of etiquette that has been separating them has been pushed away, and they appear to be intimate, like ordinary couples in the folk.Yang Xian had never seen her lose her composure like this, and had never heard her say such gentle and caring words. Surprised, his cold heart gradually softened.The sound of the piano is melodious, melting and soothing, and tender and tender.Yang Xian was suddenly moved.He stretched out his arms and hugged her.

The end of the song.Yang Xian lay still.Chen Huilan didn't move either.The tear stains on her cheeks have dried, but there are still gentle ripples in her heart.This is what she longed for.She remembered the opera "Farewell My Concubine" sung by Qingping during the Mid-Autumn Festival of that year.When she saw Yu Ji slashing her own sword and dying in Xiang Yu's arms, she felt infinitely sad, and she envied her.Now, holding him like this, even if it's just a moment of warmth, makes her yearn for it.I wish the piano would keep playing.I wish it would stay dark.

Outside the palace, Qingping, who had regained her freedom, was not happy.Those people in the palace still flashed before his eyes from time to time, and those past events still hovered in his mind one by one, as if they happened just now.Even when he fell asleep, he still refused to let him go, and still wanted to fall asleep.Chu Xi's body became smaller and weaker, she looked younger than her age, like a young girl in cardamom age, she opened her eyes, her eyes were clear, bright and pure, she looked at him, then turned her head away again.She didn't know him, and he was in a trance for a moment.She walked away gracefully, and he called her, but she didn't look back, and the lonely figure gradually drifted away... Yang Xian sat alone on the Albizia julibrissin tree, looking at the Wuxiu Mountain in the distance, in the dark night Wrapping him, a round of autumn moon hung alone behind him.I went to see him again, only to find that he was getting smaller and smaller, and turned into a six or seven-year-old boy, still sitting so quietly, his figure as thin as a piece of paper, alone.A gust of wind blew by, he swayed a few times on the branch, and suddenly fell headfirst... Qingping cried out in surprise, and sat up in shock, her clothes were drenched in sweat and stuck to her body.Ji Kuan, who was lying beside him, was woken up by him, got up and poured him a glass of water, "Are you having nightmares again?" Qingping took the water silently, and drank it.Still feeling flustered.

"Actually, you can't let him go at all." Ji Kuan looked at him and said.Should I tell him? Ji Kuan hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Brother, there is something I couldn't tell you, but we have been friends for so many years, I can't bear to see you like this. The emperor is ill. I heard that the imperial doctor I looked all over and couldn’t find any disease.”

After Qingping heard this, she thought about how Yang Xian treated him well in the past, and she felt guilty, uncomfortable, and distressed for him.Lie down again, where can I still sleep.At that time, I didn't feel anything when I was by his side every day, but now, it's hard to see him.Even if he knew he was sick and wanted to take a look, he couldn't.In this way, on the contrary, I want to see more and more.Thinking about it, Qingping's heart was full of twists and turns, and it was even more difficult to get rid of the many knots in her heart.

Qingping is like this, but it is Ji Kuan who suffers.Ever since the senior brother came back, the sound of sighs has been heard endlessly.Concerned about his senior brother's depression, he took him to various celebrity gatherings, such as visiting Zhuang Wanwan, meeting with Brother Murong, riding a horse, and fishing in the South Lotus Pond. At first, the senior brother was quite cooperative, but he was muddled and lacking energy. He simply didn't go out again, and kept himself bored in the house all day long.Now he has discovered that Brother Murong can still sing, drink and be romantic when he is frustrated, and his senior brother is not even half as chic as he is. Depressed outside.

It was autumn again in a blink of an eye.The grass in the garden is dry, and the yellow leaves are falling.The whole Yidu was shrouded in a bleak and melancholy atmosphere.The emperor's condition has improved, but he is still unable to go to court. The concubine Mei has been pregnant for ten months, but has not yet given birth.All the officials in Chaodi court are full of worries, and everyone has deep thoughts.Such days dragged on for a full month before Lin Mei finally gave birth to a baby girl.The officials were delighted when they heard it for the first time, and then became worried. For a moment, they had mixed feelings of joy and sorrow, and it was surprisingly consistent with Lin Mei's reaction when she knew she was pregnant with a princess.

Yang Xian is different.His mood is obviously much more complicated.When he heard the news that Concubine Mei gave birth to a princess, Yang Xian was walking in the courtyard of the Hall of Cultivating Heart accompanied by Chen Huilan.He stopped for a moment after hearing this, and suddenly he was walking toward Meixia Garden like the wind was blowing under his feet. Chen Huilan followed all the way, already out of breath, but Yang Xian stood in front of Lin Mei's bed as if nothing had happened.Everything is in order.Lin Mei was lying on the bed, her face was pale, but her breathing was very even.For a while, Mrs. Wen came over with a baby girl in her arms, and it was the first time Yang Xian saw a newborn baby. He thought that this was Qingping's child, and wondered if he could see his shadow.When I took a look, I couldn't help but be disappointed.The face of the baby in swaddling is wrinkled, the eyes are open, but small, the nose and mouth are so small that they can hardly be distinguished.Why so ugly?He thought, frowning.The baby seemed to feel his dislike, and opened his mouth to cry, but his voice was very loud.Chen Huilan hurriedly took it and hugged it. She looked at the baby in her arms softly, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, clearly showing joy.Yang Xian wondered again, looking at this ugly baby, how could she be so happy?Chen Huilan looked up at him, with a smile on her red lips, "Your Majesty doesn't know, newborn babies are all wrinkled like this, and they will bloom in two months, so I don't know how to be as cute as carved jade." !"

Yang Xian looked at Chen Huilan's expression of smiling at the baby, her whole face was serene and gentle, exuding the pure brilliance of a bright moon, his heart moved, and he said, "Is this child to be raised by you, okay?" Chen Huilan looked up at him , his eyes were burning and shining, and his spirit was shining. "Is Your Majesty really going to give the child to the concubine?" She asked, but her eyes gradually dimmed, and her expression was rather hesitant.

"Why, you don't want to? I see you are so happy holding her, and I think you like her."

After hearing this, Chen Huilan stared at Yang Xian, her eyes were half grateful and half sad. "The concubine wants to have a baby, even in her dreams, how can she not like it!" She lowered her head, kissed the baby's small face lightly, and said, "But, Lin Mei also wants to have a baby." .I can't take her baby away." Two tears fell from her cheeks and dripped down the baby's neck. The baby didn't know what happened, and opened its eyes in a daze.Thinking back to the beginning, Chen Huilan still felt a piercing pain in her heart, the pain was so clear and deep, and it never diminished at all.

"This matter is settled like this! I will write an imperial decree later, and she can't help but not listen." The baby didn't know that her fate had been decided between words.She had closed her eyes and fell asleep.

As Yang Xian said, he turned and left without even looking at Lin Mei.Chen Huilan hurriedly followed him back to the Hall of Cultivating Heart.

Lin Mei opened her eyes. What was waiting for her was not her daughter who was waiting to be fed, but a cold imperial decree: Since I became the throne, the empress has been in charge of the harem with all my heart, and I have served the empress with respect and humility. De, the princess was handed over to the queen to be raised...Yang Xian's long and narrow eyes were gloomy and majestic, while Chen Huilan's eyes were round, empty and lifeless. , overflowed.A tear slipped down, it was her tear.Lin Mei's heart constricted, excruciating pain.Why is my heart hurting so much?Tears fell down again.She actually remembered the situation of that day, that day Huang Ying ran over early in the morning and told her about the Queen's body being poisoned and losing the fetus in her womb, how happy she was laughing then!She was so happy in her heart, as beautiful as the wind and the sun, the flowers bright and the willows charming.After Chen Huilan returned to the palace, she went to Lanxiang Palace to see her, and saw her eyes were empty, big and lifeless.She loathed her the way she looked.Only now did I know that she was in such pain at that time.It turned out that losing a child was such a painful thing. My heart seemed to be twisted one by one with scissors, and my throat seemed to be tied with a rope, so I couldn't breathe in pain.When she was just born as an innocent baby, when the man named Lin Chengxiang wanted to throw her away, did you feel any pain in your heart?

Lin Mei threw off the brocade quilt, sat up stubbornly, and let the palace maid help her stubbornly into the courtyard.Meixia Garden is desolate, the rose garden's branches are bare, exposing the yellow land; the palace wall is high and cold, looking outside the wall, the world is empty, naked and cold, empty and ugly, without any greenness, There is no life at all.Lin Mei sat on the steps and burst into tears.Why does the winter world look uncomfortable?Why does losing a child hurt so much?Is this love?She has always lived as she wanted, she has never loved anyone, and she doesn't know what love is.Is this love?Love is wanted, love is reluctant, love is missed when you can’t see it, love is painful when you lose it... But, how can love make people so painful?

Lin Mei wept until the sky was dim in front of the steps, and the crying sound spread to Yu Fengyuan on the opposite side, and Chu Xi couldn't bear to hear it.She walked to the front of the hall and looked out of the courtyard, the sky and the earth were cold, everything was chilling, and it was winter again.She is most afraid of the cold.She dislikes winter the most.A gust of wind blew, and the chill penetrated through the robe to the heart, and the delicate body shivered under the clothes, every inch of skin and every strand of hair was soaked in the cold.She didn't like the woman in Meixiayuan, especially after hearing that the child belonged to Qingping.Out of some kind of hatred, she never even went to Lanxiang Palace to see that child.

Yang Xian from the Hall of Cultivating Heart also heard the cry from Meixia Garden. The voice was so miserable that it reminded him of the cry from Leng Gong when he was a child a long time ago.I don't know which deposed concubine it was, she kept crying every day and night, crying so much that he didn't dare to climb trees for a few days.After a few days, the sound suddenly disappeared, and the night was very quiet again.He quietly climbed to the silk tree and looked in the direction of Leng Gong.The silence was so unnatural that it frightened him.There was the sound of human footsteps under the tree, and the two princesses who got up at night were involved. "Finally I can't cry anymore. I was so noisy a few days ago that I couldn't sleep!" "I lost my tongue, so why cry! I heard that the emperor ordered the palace servants to pull out her tongue in the afternoon. It's so miserable!" He felt dizzy for a while. , the hands and feet holding the branch became weak for a moment, and in a moment, he fell, filled with fear, and fell.Yang Xian waved his hand in annoyance, making all the maids step down and disappear from his eyes.The crying continued, and the crying made him distraught.If Lin Mei's tongue is cut off, will her eyes still be charming, Yang Xian thought gloomily.

Suddenly, the crying stopped.And no one heard her cry again.Lin Mei stood up staggeringly, insisting that she wanted to see the child, and she passed out after taking two steps.When she woke up again, she was very quiet.She eats very seriously, sleeps very seriously, and is in a daze very seriously.In the silence of Meixia Garden, Lanxiang Palace became noisy.

The emperor announced to the world that on November [-], the ninth year of Xihe, a princess was born, named Yang Si, and named Changning.Since then, the whole world celebrates together, and the sun and the moon rejoice together.Everyone had forgotten the embarrassment of Princess Changning's identity caused by Lin Mei, as if she was the daughter of the empress and the emperor, as if she had nothing to do with Lin Mei.Then they recalled the scene of the empress's pregnancy back then, that kind of grand event where the whole country was happy and the world was peaceful, as if it continued at this time, as if there was no accidental poisoning incident, as if the intervening years had not happened or passed.In the Lanxiang Palace, noble ladies gathered for a while, coming and going, bustling.

When Princess Changning was full moon, Yang Xian held another feast of flowing water.For ten days and ten nights, there will be endless banquets, singing and dancing.The banquet was just coming to an end, and within a few days the Chinese New Year continued until the Lantern Festival.In the noisy palace, sweet singing, cheerful laughter, and resounding congratulations can be heard endlessly; crystal clear wine, bright lights, wonderful music, and gorgeously dressed singers greet the eyes.In this prosperous and prosperous age, Chen Huilan is proud of the spring breeze, with a splendid appearance.She smiled like a full moon on the fifteenth day, like a flower in March.Yang Xian felt particularly lonely.

On this day, Lan Ling took Du Jinghong to Lanxiang Palace to see the little princess again.Entering the hall, the emperor is also there.Lan Ling leaned over to have a look.Yang Xian also followed his gaze towards the baby girl in Chen Huilan's arms.She has been more than two months now, and the longer she grows, the more beautiful she is. Her whole body is white and tender, her little face is pink, and her eyes look at the visitor with watery eyes, much like Lin Mei's eyes.Thinking that this is Qingping's child, Yang Xian's mood is quite complicated.Sometimes he wondered if the person outside the palace would also want to see this child, then would he also want to see him.Sometimes he would think angrily, if he really wanted to see him, there must be a way to get into the palace, but he didn't.Since he left the palace, there has been no news.He even occasionally thinks that he can travel in low clothes, just like back then, to visit him in Tan Qing Garden.After thinking about it, I can't get around him.

Du Jinghong saw Yang Xian's expression looking at the little princess, and wondered how he felt.Shall I tell him?she thinks.But he was secretly hesitating in his heart.Before Qingping left the palace, she only confessed to her one thing, and that was the identity of the little princess.She should have said something, but seeing the queen's happy and satisfied expression, she couldn't speak again.Fortunately, the emperor didn't pursue it. Let's find a chance to tell him about this matter in the future.Du Jinghong thought, and also went to see the baby.Lan Ling pouted to tease her, and she smiled.

At this moment, footsteps sounded again in the courtyard, very lightly. "Sisi, look who's here again!" Lan Ling was still teasing beside the baby.When they saw Lin Mei walking in, everyone in the room was secretly startled, especially Chen Huilan, who froze there with the baby in her arms.Lin Mei didn't look at the crowd, and didn't say hello, she went directly to Chen Huilan, and picked up the baby. The baby girl was having fun with Lan Ling, but now she was picked up, and laughed again.Seeing her daughter smiling with her, Lin Mei's heart softened instantly, and she also smiled gently at her, muttering, "Si'er, Si'er, if the two places are separated in the future, don't think about it, don't think about it. "Before he finished speaking, his heart ached again.Too late, unfortunately, everything is too late.If her daughter had been by her side since birth, how could she be willing not to let her go!Look at how cute she is, a little person carved in pink and jade, with watery and lovely eyes, she really looks like herself.No, she is luckier than myself, she was born to be loved by others, she is the princess of Changning, and she will live in peace for the rest of her life.I can't give her anything, I just hope that she will never be like me.She glanced at her daughter again, handed her to Chen Huilan, turned around and left.

Du Jinghong followed Lin Mei out.When she first saw her coming in, Du Jinghong was still worried that she would make trouble, but after looking at her words and deeds, she was too worried, so she couldn't help but have a little doubt in her heart. "You clearly know that the emperor misunderstood, why didn't you tell him the truth?" Du Jinghong asked when she caught up with Lin Mei.Lin Mei turned around and glanced at her, her icy blue eyes were still astonishingly beautiful.She used to be jealous of her, but now, she doesn't feel anything anymore.For her, nothing is important, and there is no difference. "It's not important anymore." She said, giggling as usual, her eyes were like silk, and her expression was alluring.

Du Jinghong watched Lin Mei walk away enchantingly, and was surprised.No matter how wild and grotesque words and deeds are, they are all inappropriate for her, but they seem to be as natural as flowing clouds and flowing water.There is someone who lives so recklessly, what kind of strange woman is she?