A month later, the Forbidden City welcomed its first snow.

The wind blew, filling the sky with cold white snow. Snowflakes as big as goose feathers fell one after another, covering the red bricks and golden tiles, and embellishing the slanting silver branches.

In each palace there were incense burners and heating stoves, and red charcoal from the Ministry of Internal Affairs was continuously delivered to the bedrooms of the empresses.

The north wind is howling outside, but it is warm as spring inside the house.

Hai Lan made hand warmers for the little princes and princesses in the palace. The ones for the princes were blue and the ones for the princesses were pink. So when the children went out, they held small hand warmers in their hands.

Gao Bin sent more than a dozen white fox furs to Concubine Hui, and Xiyue asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to make scarves for each concubine in the palace.

Fu Cha Langya specifically instructed that in addition to the charcoal quota for each palace, the amount of charcoal for concubines with children should be doubled.

So this winter, the Forbidden City is warm from inside to outside.

These days, Mu Ping often brought the tenth prince Yongheng and the twelfth prince Yongji to Chengqian Palace to see Jingsi. Occasionally, Ke Da Ying and Ying Da Ying from the side hall would be seen coming to the main hall to pay their respects.

Eyinzhu is not a narrow-minded person, and sometimes he would keep the two of them to talk.

But Lu Muping didn't like the two of them, and would always turn her head away to tease Jingsi, pretending not to see them.

Later, Lu Muping thought that they were making things difficult for Yan Wan because they didn't know how good, kind, and outstanding Yan Wan was. She wanted to clear Yan Wan's name.

So, she conspired with Eyinzhu.

The next day, when Lu Muping saw Ying Da Ying and Ke Da Ying again, she took the initiative to talk to them for the first time.

Mu Ping wrote a note in advance and talked to them about Yan Wan's beauty and virtues. In her position as a concubine, she asked Ying to promise to recite the entire text and copy it every day until they could recite the entire text.

Ying agreed to learn from Mu Ping bit by bit about Empress Ling, whom they once looked down upon.

It was as if they had broken through the cold iron cage that enveloped them and finally came into contact with the real world.

They once laughed at Concubine Ling for pretending to marry Lan Cui, but in fact, secretly, the land that Concubine Ling bought for Chun Chan and Wang Chan was enough for them to spend until the next life.

They once scolded Concubine Ling for learning Kunqu Opera to win favor, but in fact, it was Concubine Ling's own intelligence, ambition and unyielding personality charm that attracted the emperor.

They used to use her family background to ridicule Concubine Ling, but today, Concubine Ling has single-handedly lifted up the entire family's banner. Even with the efforts of Concubine Ling and her sister-in-law, the Wei family has already produced two sons who have made military achievements.

Ying agreed and Ke agreed and copied the note written by Mu Ping wholeheartedly, and Mu Ping was very satisfied.

Lu Muping took the two princes back home. Today, she asked the imperial kitchen for fresh milk. She wanted to make delicious black sugar milk tea and give some to her sisters.

In a corner of the Forbidden City, there is a world that is incompatible with this harmonious atmosphere and is instead filled with resentment.

That is the side hall of the Yikun Palace.

When Ruyi was conferred the title of Princess Heshuo Heyi, she learned that the Emperor had given Jingsi to Concubine Yu to raise.

Ruyi felt warm in her heart.

The emperor deliberately ignored her in order to protect himself, and Jingsi's titles were all earned by her house arrest.

Ruyi smiled at the locked vermilion palace gate in the heavy snow. She moved a chair to the door of the side hall in the deep courtyard and sat down, her eyes cast on the empty vase on the table.

The vase is empty, but the flower picker can't deliver any flowers.

Ruyi's face was gloomy. She said to Sanbao who was shivering in the corner:

"Sanbao, do you know what day it is today?"

Sanbao shook his head. He was almost unable to bear the cold. He used the only bit of charcoal in the palace to light a hand warmer for his master and held it in his arms.

Qiu Wen, who had caught a cold from washing clothes with cold water, was now sleeping in the veranda.

Ruyi smiled and dragged out the last line of the sentence, "Today is Ling Yunche's wedding day~"

Outside the palace, there is a house.

Because the Rong family was the only family on this street with a daughter household, and the marriage was arranged by the emperor, there were a lot of people who came to join in the fun.

There were not only ordinary people inside, but also Ling Yunche's colleagues when he was a guard. Ling Yunche did not invite them, but they all came anyway.

Everyone wanted to see what a joke Ling Yunche was, who jumped from a guard in the cold palace to a royal guard, then jumped to Mulan Paddock, then jumped back to the palace, and then jumped to become a eunuch.

Today is the wedding, and Rong Pei invited people to play gongs and drums, and arranged for the house to be filled with red silk. She wants to celebrate, to celebrate that she has become the female head of the household, and to celebrate that she can beat Ling Yunche when she has nothing to do in the future.

Rong Pei glanced at Ling Yunche. Ever since he was cleansed, he had never taken off the bib around his neck, and now a foul smell was wafting out of it.

The entire lower half of his face was strangely sunken, and with his pale, expressionless face, he looked like a dead person wearing makeup.

What was even uglier was Ling Yunche's demeanor. On his wedding day, he hunched over like a boiled red shrimp.

Rong Pei took a deep breath. In front of so many people, she did not slap anyone. Instead, she took a silver needle and stabbed Ling Yunche with a "puff".

The stinging sensation suddenly made Ling Yunche change his expression, and Rong Pei threatened softly:

"With so many people here today, don't force me to slap you in the face. Smile, smile for me!"

Ling Yunche forced a stiff smile and endured the pain to complete the wedding.

After worshipping heaven and earth and everyone leaving, Rong Pei pulled off the tassel pendant on her head.

Ling Yunche slumped in the chair, staring at the jade ruyi on the table, looking sad and frustrated, which made Rong Pei angry.

Rong Pei sneered and cursed, "You have such a good life, but you have to be a jinx. Let me tell you, today is our wedding, but it's actually a celebration of me taking charge of the house. This house is mine, and I'm already giving you a place to sleep. From now on, you have to serve me obediently."

Ling Yunche couldn't accept the change of identity for a moment. He snorted through his nose, the sound as small as the buzz of a mosquito.

He stroked the pair of jade ruyi and admired the bright and lustrous light on them.

"You are my wife, I will naturally respect you."

Rong Pei walked up quickly and kicked Ling Yunche's lame leg.

"Who is your wife? You're dreaming. I'm the head of the Rong family, your patriarch. You have to recognize your position! I'm telling you, you have a job in the palace now because you're my man. You rely on me to have enough food."

Rong Pei patted the jade ruyi on the table and said, "This is the dowry given to you by Concubine Xian. Now that you have entered my house, it belongs to me. Don't covet my things. Also, since you have been castrated, you are useless and you don't have to sleep with me. You can sleep outside the door on the corridor and watch over the house at night."

Ling Yunche's face turned pale, and he asked Rong Pei: "How could you do this to me?"

Rong Pei slapped Ling Yunche in the face, knocking him off the chair and onto the ground.

"Who are you talking about? Call me Master! Do you think everyone is like Concubine Xian and needs to bow and greet you in a loving way?"

Ling Yunche thought of Concubine Xian and felt so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe.

He began to recall that every time he got close to Ruyi, he suffered endless pain.

When he was in the cold palace, he helped Ruyi and lost Yanwan.

When he was a royal guard, he allowed Ruyi to enter Anhua Palace, the Ministry of Punishment, and Mulan Paddock.

This time, when he saved Ruyi, he directly lost his dignity as a man and became a crippled eunuch.

why why.

He asked himself if he had done anything wrong to Concubine Xian, and Concubine Xian had no reason to harm him. Could all this be just a coincidence?

Ling Yunche clenched his fists tightly and his whole body couldn't help but tremble.

Rong Pei dragged the quilt out from under the bed and threw it on Ling Yunche, saying with a smile:

"Look, this is what Concubine Xian gave me. She said that you must sleep with it covered by her. Smell it and see if there is her scent on it."

Ling Yunche took the quilt, and a smell of rotting and juicy rotten apples penetrated his nostrils, making his forehead numb.

Ling Yunche hugged the quilt, pushed open the door, and walked into the cold night.

He found a corner in the yard where there was no snow, spread half of the quilt on himself, wrapped the other half around himself, and lay down.

"what!"

A cry of pain resounded through the sky in the silent night.

Ling Yunche rolled over in pain. He stretched out his hand and pulled out two shiny thick needles from his waist.

In the moonlight, he stared at the stinking quilt and saw a faint silver glow in every embroidered spot on the quilt.

A gust of north wind swept in, making the doors and windows rattle. Rong Pei sat by the fire in the warm house and shouted to the outside:

"Hey, you loser, get up and hold the door shut. The noise is disturbing my sleep!"

Ling Yunche lay on the cold ground, curled up in a ball with the quilt in his arms, and began to cry.

Rong Pei, this bad woman, is really too cruel. Now he can neither beat her nor run away. He has no way to deal with Rong Pei.

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