After rebirth, I made the princes cry

As a temporary palace, Yaohua Palace is naturally not as large as Jiankang Palace.

Yingshu climbed up to the high pavilion in Mingyue Garden. Through the clear moonlight that night, she could really see the layout of Yaohua Palace. The front court was indeed more "desolate". At this time, it was submerged in the night and could only see The outline of those halls is actually only one-third the size of the rear court according to visual inspection.

Regarding Dantu Town, Yingshu actually knew some allusions.

During the Soochow regime, this place was actually very deserted, with scattered villages and desolate towns. Later, because the Soochow crown prince once guarded Hailing, he assumed control of the royal power and often visited Hailing in the name of supervising the construction of sea ships. When I was traveling in the county, I passed by Dantu. While I was resting, I saw a charming peasant girl. I wanted to invite her into the palace, but I didn't know that the girl already had a lover, and she refused to follow him to death. The king of Dongwu still had some compassion for her, but he didn't. He committed bullying but refused to give up, so he ordered the governor of Hailing to recruit the woman's lover to serve in the Hailing Yamen Office in the name of recruiting boat craftsmen, with the intention of breaking up the two of them.

Unexpectedly, the woman was also a smart person. She knew that this was the secret plan of the King of Soochow. She was still very strong-tempered and knew that it would be difficult to fulfill her wish, so she threw herself into the river and died. When the King of Soochow heard the bad news, he was so sad that he ordered Dantu built the Yaohua Palace and hired wizards to do it, thinking that he could trap the woman's soul in the Yaohua Palace so that she could often see her in her dreams.

Not long after the Yaohua Palace was built, the Xiahou regime officially declared war on the King of Soochow. The King of Soochow often came to the Yaohua Palace to mourn the deceased, and did not pay attention to the battle of life and death. It was a matter of course that he would die and the country would be destroyed. . Of course, Dantu Town would not thrive because of the decline of the Soochow Royal Court. It was not until the founding of Dayu that more and more pirates started to cause trouble in Linghai County. The pirates landed from Linghai and plundered along the way. Several times they even threatened Jiankang City, so Jiangdong The Gu family united several major families and started a battle against the pirates. In order to prevent the pirates from directly disturbing Jiankang through Dantu, they built a garrison in Dantu, and the town of Dantu slowly prospered.

The construction of Yaohua Palace began with a bad fate, and the fate of Jiang Hao, the king of Eastern Wu who died and his country was destroyed, was attributed by some scholars to sentimentality. Yingshu is now upstairs in this dream house, looking at the moon. Under the bright stars and the corresponding lights in the human market, she suddenly remembered that in her previous life, Sikong Beichen had planned to expand the palace, but did not have time to ask the court, during a family banquet in the palace , talking about this idea over wine.

He also talked about Jiang Hao and the peasant girl whose name was not left in the history books. He was struck by a sudden glance and regretted for the rest of his life. He left behind this palace by the Huai River, and the romantic words that spread to the world. Sikong Beichen probably didn't realize it. This embarrassing affair was the cause of the destruction of Soochow. He even said that Jiang Hao had no other talents and was only worthy of being talked about by the world if he was "passionate".

Sikong Yuehu directly refuted it at the banquet that day.

"Jiang Hao is not sentimental, but he is greedy for beauty. He knows that he is wishful thinking and has killed the people under his rule. Not only does he not have a trace of regret, he even tries to trap the woman's soul in the palace with the help of witchcraft. , such greed, although it cannot be said to be the cause of the country's downfall, can still be regarded as an incurable disease! Your Majesty's expansion of the Yaohua Palace is intended to show Zhang Jianghao's deep affection, and I think it is absolutely unacceptable."

Sikong Beichen laughed and said, "I knew that my fourth brother would definitely stop me from doing such a ridiculous thing, but doesn't my fourth brother think that I really have such a ridiculous idea?"

After that, Sikong Beichen never mentioned the expansion of Yaohua Palace again. Yingshu once thought that Sikong Beichen was just having fun at the family banquet because he drank too much.

She didn't realize at the time that she was actually no different from what happened to the peasant girl, but she was more stupid after all and didn't see through Sikong Beichen's evil behavior of bullying in the disguise of tenderness. She was drugged by poisonous wine with honey added. Gained sanity.

Yaohua Palace should not actually exist, but it has been completed. It looks at each other with Dantu City. The city, which is younger than the palace, represents the new life of this place. Although this palace is not so vast, it is still beautiful. However, the palace witnessed the terminal illness of the regime of one surname.

No undead souls were imprisoned here. Yingshu firmly believed that Jiang Hao could not reunite with that pure and pure soul. A hundred years ago, the monarch who was about to be defeated fell asleep drunk and returned to the tower. All he dreamed about was his ugly desires. So in the pavilion, There are lamps with these various statues of women.

Yingshu actually only lit a lamp. The bronze statue was carved into a woman's delicate eyes, like a fairy floating down, standing by the window. The wick was set in the hollow flower hairpin on the woman's bun, and the shadow of the candle made her eyes blurry. If it is sentimental, it is nothing more than human figment and self-deception.

There are no eaves bells hanging on this pavilion. It seems that the conquered monarch never got his wish and was worried that the ringing of the eaves bells would disturb his dreams. Perhaps he even considered bringing these "goddess lamps" into his tomb. , deserved death and the destruction of the country, without even a single burial object.

The exquisite craftsmanship of the craftsmen creates beautiful artifacts, which should be left for living people to appreciate, and tombs should not be the destination of these works of art.

Yingshu raised her hand and touched the cold cheek of the "woman". Her soft fingers rested at the corners of her eyes. She seemed to feel that there should be tears here, not the grief of the dead, but the sympathy given to the dead by the craftsmen, mourning for such a beautiful woman during her lifetime. Separated from their loved ones, their souls will be imprisoned by a tyrant after death.

Suddenly, in the silent night, sad vocal music came from nowhere, played by a bone flute.

Yingshu listened for a moment. There were no bells hanging on the pavilions, but there was still the sound of the wind. The flute music was the sound of the wind tonight. It came slowly and continuously, lingering around, as if it brought the last song from the Huaihe River a hundred years ago. There is no resentment, because before she died, the singing beauty still only had her separated lover in her heart, and did not bother to accuse the instigator.

I don’t know when the “rumour” will stop.

There was a gray sparrow standing at the window, sniffing out the opportunity.

Yingshu knew that Wenji had followed her to Dantu, and that Wenji could not fly more than a hundred miles away, but it always found a way to hide in a hollow structure somewhere in the chariot, and it also found a way to find shelter in the eaves and beams of the huge palace. From time to time, it would appear to remind her that it had been following her. Yingshu reached out to Wenji, but Wenji ignored her and flew away again.

Therefore, Yingshu was not very surprised when there were slight footsteps on the wooden ladder.

Sikong Yuehu walked up to Guimeng Tower in the dark without holding a lantern. Ying Shu slightly raised the lantern and illuminated his expression provocatively: "You let Wenji follow me? Does His Highness still want to say that he is coming to Dantu's military camp? On patrol?"

The purpose of the "Goddess Lamp" is not actually for lighting, especially if it only lights one by the window, it cannot illuminate the situation outside the lamp. Ying Shu can only use the wind lantern in her hand to see the expression of Sikong Yuehu. And this lamp not only illuminated his face, but also her face. What Sikong Yuehu saw were two faces, the bronze one and the Yingshu one. Both pairs of eyes seemed to reveal ridicule. He suddenly found it quite interesting.

"I have been to Yaohua Palace before." The answer was inappropriate.

Sikong Yuehu walked around Ying Shu and stood in front of the "Goddess Lamp", staring at the bronze statue for a long time: "Actually, Jiang Hao doesn't remember the appearance of the peasant girl at all. The description of these lamps is modeled after Queen Geng. The queen was Jiang Hao's concubine, and was posthumously named queen. She died of depression, and before her death, Jiang Hao had never seen her smile. Queen Geng was arrogant and looked down upon Jiang Hao's mediocrity. He was incompetent and had no choice but to devote himself to the king at that time. He only entered Soochow Palace for half a year and died of depression."

Another woman who cannot be free.

"Jiang Hao once executed hundreds of painters because they were unable to paint Queen Geng's style. Later, it was his first wife who painted the "Picture of the Goddess" which is now collected by Gaoyang Museum. Jiang Hao used this picture as a setting for a total of nine sets of portraits. The lamp is named 'The Goddess Goes to Dream Lamp' and is placed in the Menggui Building. The two women he could not forget before his death were actually the ones he could not get."