Tang riddles

The opportunity for Li Jinyue to realize that she would never be able to have a close relationship like Chishi and Lianmai happened in an ordinary school day.At the main entrance of the college, the setting sun above the head stretched the shadows of the three of them long. Chishi was holding a newly caught cricket, urging the maidservant to leave quickly.Li Jinyue stepped forward and asked Maid Lotus what she was going to do next.Lotus Maid replied that she would follow Chishi to the Princess Mansion and do homework together.Then the lotus maid asked her again:

"Mamao, what about you?"

Li Jinyue replied: "Go back to the palace and accompany mother."

That day when she was sitting in the carriage returning to the palace, no one knew that she was crying.

She has always been very strong, she refuses to admit defeat in front of others, and most of them are unwilling to show her vulnerable side in the future.Because even if no one saw it, she could still see it herself.And she doesn't want to see her fragility, she always wants to be strong, strong enough to protect her mother and everything she cherishes.

But that day, she was so sad that she couldn't hold on anymore.She found that even though she had two good friends, she was still separated from them after all.She has no way to freely enter and leave the court, and go to play at her friend's house.Akashi and Lotus Maid are always so close, they even sleep together, tie each other's hair in a bun, and share all the playthings and food that can be shared.But she couldn't do it, no matter whether she was with Chishi or Lotus Maid, she couldn't be so intimate.She always unconsciously puts on the status of the master's family. As the oldest eldest sister, she will inevitably show the concern of the eldest sister to the younger sisters for Chishi and Lotus Maid.But that's not the intimacy she longed for. The relationship between people is too delicate. Although she is young, she already has a taste of it.

That night, she asked her mother if she ever had close sisters with her.Her mother said that she grew up in an aristocratic family, and the intimacy Li Jinyue seeks is a luxury for her, and her words and deeds must be honorable and luxurious, in line with her status.she says:

"Good boy, people like us are doomed to be lonely all our lives, and this will be the case for the road you will walk in the future."

Instead of comforting her, her mother brutally exposed the truth.Li Jinyue stayed up all night, and went to the Imperial College to go to school as usual the next day, but she seemed to have grown up overnight, and after seeing the intimacy between Chishi and Lotus Maid, she would no longer show any envy.

But even though he no longer reveals it, how can he not care about it in his heart.She still cares, the more she wants to ignore, the more she cares.Sometimes she feels that she is dark, but when faced with the pure and innocent Chishi who is like a flame, and the elegant and indifferent lotus maid who is like a white lotus, her inner feelings are still sincere. She really cherishes these two hard-won You never want to be destroyed by your own hidden jealousy.So she suppressed, tried to suppress, and forced herself to forget completely.

Reading, practicing martial arts, practicing calligraphy, and discussing politics, she arranged her life tightly without any free time, so that she would no longer have free time to think about it.In the past, she always felt that time was pressing and every inch was precious, but now she never felt that time was going too slowly. She wanted to grow up. When she grew up, she would be as calm as adults and not care about it anymore. So many things.

If there is no time to get it, it will only lead to delusions.Li Jinyue didn't know that this was the true portrayal of most adults, and she had already stepped into this rank.Just like her father, with too many delusional thoughts, too intense, scorching hot like the scorching sun, he came step by step, trampling his opponents on the soles of his feet, and has been ascending to a high position, enjoying the supremacy in the world.

After the coup d'état in the first year of Tang Long, her father jumped from an unnoticed son of the clan to the master of the East Palace.As for Chishi's mother, Princess Taiping of Zhenguo, because she has been firmly established in the court since the time of Emperor Wu, she also has power in the court.The battle between her father and Princess Taiping has become increasingly fierce.Chishi didn't seem to realize that whenever she was free, she would come to look for Li Jinyue.But Li Jinyue couldn't relax at all, especially in such a sensitive period, she would avoid seeing her in most cases.Not only for myself and my mother not to be suspected by my father, but also for the safety of Akashi.

Who knows what her father will do.She has always been afraid of her father, and all her efforts have come from fear.She entrusted Zhang Ruohan to take good care of Chishi, and don't let her cause disaster unintentionally.Zhang Ruohan is obviously more sensible, with her in control of Chishi, Li Jinyue is finally at ease.But in this way, the opportunities for her to meet her two friends became less and less.At the end of the year, she quit the Imperial College and stopped studying, and her two companions also existed in name only.

In the third year of Jingyun, her father ascended the throne through the abdication of her grandfather and became the ruler of the Tang Empire.And as the new emperor's eldest princess, she also followed the etiquette system and was promoted to a rank, titled "Jin Kingdom".This year has not yet been turned over, and the year name has been changed to Xiantian.

Three years after Jingyun was the first year of Xiantian.And the Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the second year of Xiantian was a nightmare in Li Jinyue's life.That night she spent Shangyuan with her mother.In previous years, during the Lantern Festival, there was a tradition in Chang’an City. The emperor and his concubines would go to the top of the Danfeng Gate tower to watch the lighting of the two tall lamp trees of Qionglou and Yushu, and watch the thousands of people singing and laughing below.But that night, her father had been drinking and having fun in Concubine Wu Hui's palace, without taking a single step.She stayed in the palace with her mother, had dinner together, and drank fine wine, and her mother was in a good mood that night.Every year during the Lantern Festival, they are mother and daughter who accompany each other. She loves Li Jinyue, but Li Jinyue loves her even more.

Li Jinyue was groggy that night, and fell asleep very early, and woke up early the next day, but she first heard the bad news from Princess Taiping's mansion.She ran out of the hall in a hurry, before she could put on her shoes, she ran all the way up to the tall Danfeng gate tower with bare feet.Looking to the east, her eyes were full of scorched earth and black smoke. Her knees softened and she knelt on the top of the city.At that time, a team of imperial guards was thoroughly investigating the traces left on the Danfeng gate tower. Seeing her kneeling here in a daze, they sent her back to the palace.

She sat there blankly for half a day, and she wouldn't talk to anyone who came to see her or talk to her.Not even her mother.The mother obviously also heard about the Princess Taiping Mansion, and she knew the shock and grief in Li Jinyue's heart.But she had never encountered such a thing, and she didn't know how to comfort her daughter.

The mother and daughter are facing each other silently, but they are not guarded. The holy car who almost never sets foot here has come.The queen hurriedly asked the eunuchs and maids serving in the palace to tidy up the princess of Jin, and she hurried to pick her up.

When Li Longji strode into Li Jinyue's bedroom, the maids only had time to put on a robe for the princess, and they didn't even have time to comb their long hair. Li Jinyue was still sitting on the foot table under the bed, her eyes were dull, she didn't move at all. .The queen followed behind with a panicked expression. She couldn't stop Sheng Jia at all, so she hurried around to the front, knelt down in front of Li Jinyue, and kowtowed:

"The concubine didn't know the arrival of the holy driver, and I was far away to welcome her. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"Queen, please get up, I'm here to see the state of Jin." Li Longji stepped forward to help the queen, then bypassed her, and walked straight to Li Jinyue.

A handsome man with a short mustache on his lips, staring at his daughter with anger in his red and phoenix eyes.

Li Jinyue didn't move, nor did she salute.

"You, ran to the Danfeng gate?"

Li Jinyue didn't answer.

The queen was anxious, and motioned for Li Jinyue to answer several times, but she didn't respond at all.The queen couldn't, so she had to answer on her behalf:

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Kingdom of Jin was shocked by the fire in Princess Taiping's mansion, and was disrespectful as a result. Your Majesty, please forgive me."

The emperor ignored the queen, but squatted down, looked at his daughter's pale cheeks, and said:

"You know, Concubine Yin died on the Danfeng gate tower last night, and now the body has disappeared without a trace. No one knows what's weird there, you just ran up there so recklessly, using your status as a princess, Embarrassing the Forbidden Army?"

Hearing this, Li Jinyue trembled slightly between her brows, and finally raised her eyes to look at her father's cold face.She also just heard about the death of Prince Consort Yin upstairs in the Danfeng Gate, which undoubtedly brought another shock to her.

"Confine your feet in the future. Without my permission, you are not allowed to take half a step out of the bedroom." The emperor stood up, stood with his hands behind his back, cast a sidelong glance at Li Jinyue, turned and left.

"Father... did you do it?" Just as the emperor was about to step out of the palace gate, Li Jinyue's voice suddenly came from behind, not loud or small, just right into the emperor's ears.

"Hmph!" After a period of unbearable silence, the only answer to her was the cold snort of the emperor.Immediately, the corner of the dragon robe flashed and disappeared completely at the entrance of the hall.Gao Lishi, the senior official who stayed behind, shook his head and sighed, and said:

"Your Majesty is gracious, Your Majesty the Princess must never speak like this again in the future."

"It's the state of Jin's slip of the tongue, I will discipline it strictly, and ask the senior officials to say a few more good words." The queen said hurriedly.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, this old slave understands." Gao Lishi responded, then saluted the queen and Li Jinyue, and left the hall.Soon after, Li Jinyue's bedroom was strictly guarded by the forbidden army.

"Jinyue! How can you talk like that? Do you want our mothers to be decapitated?" The queen knelt down beside Li Jinyue in grief, and said angrily, "It's a good thing your father doesn't care about you, otherwise..."

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, and hurriedly said: "You must never mention this matter again in the future. Your words will definitely touch his back. If he doesn't deal with you now, it doesn't mean he won't in the future. We must be prepared."

Li Jinyue seemed unaware of her mother's words, but asked softly:

"Aniang, Akashi, is she still alive?"

The queen was dumbfounded for a while because of her sudden inquiry, feeling unspeakably sad, her jaw trembling, and she hugged her daughter into her arms.

"That child has gone far away."

"Will she come back?"

"No, my child. But one day, you will meet. She is waiting for you in that distant place."

Li Jinyue spent two months in a daze, and she was not able to step out of the palace until her father pardoned her.However, there is only one destination for her, and that is the Zhang Mansion, other than that, the accompanying Imperial Army will not allow her to go anywhere.

When she saw the lotus maid on the sick bed, her appearance made her flustered. She didn't know how to comfort her only remaining friend, but when the lotus maid mentioned that Chishi was not dead and left behind the jade pendant that she wore next to her body, she was completely scared. hold her heart.She fled in desperation, and the short journey out of Zhang's mansion almost exhausted all her strength.

Why, why is it like this?The world around her was turned upside down and collapsed overnight.The treacherous haze of Bo Yun crowded in from all directions, trapped her in it, and squeezed the weak air she depended on for survival.Day after day, she tried her best to resist the feeling of hopelessness, but she fell more and more into it.She began to dread visiting her only best friend because it was a constant reminder of how hopeless her situation was.She tried to save the lotus maid, but she finally found that she couldn't even save herself.

I was so weak and helpless, she noticed for the first time.Growing up to the age of 13, she thought she was working hard enough, but in fact she was accomplishing nothing, not even as strong as the lotus maid.She knew that the lotus maid was at least desperately resisting, but she herself had already been crushed by reality.

Such a me, how can I face Akashi, if she is still there, what kind of eyes will she look at me?Sometimes she wonders what the afterlife will be like, so she can know that her best friend is doing well.There were several times when she secretly held the dagger against her heart, trying to push the blade into her chest with trembling hands.But she couldn't do it, she was afraid of death, instinctively.She was afraid that after her death, her mother would have nothing to rely on; she was afraid that after her death, she would have no face to face her friends in the world; in the end, she found that she was only afraid of the unknown and lonely world after death.

Poor and strong, the ambition not to fall into the blue sky... Akashi, it's too difficult, I can't do it...

I don't know if I can stick to the promise of Liu Weihui.

Akashi, my father, is a murderer, and I am the murderer's daughter, the object of your bloody vengeance.

This last thought nearly broke her down.But it was precisely because of this thought that she persisted.

She knew that her friend was watching her from the sky, she had to do something, at least, she should make the murderer pay the price.Perhaps only in this way can she gain some peace in her heart.

After the first day of the next year, there was a rebellion in Tubo, and she asked to go to war.At first, her father was reluctant to let the daughter out, and she had better stay under his watch.But in the end, he still saw the value that could be used in her.Resisting Tubo, stabilizing Hexi, and controlling the military and political power in the northwest, the Lanling Xiao family has always been one of his confidants' serious worries.To stabilize such a serious problem, he needs some strength from this daughter.

A marriage letter linked Li Jinyue and Xiao Sinan, the eighth man of the Xiao Clan in Lanling.Li Jinyue embarked on a long journey from Chang'an to the west with an armored horse as a dowry.She escaped from Chang'an that year, but she had a premonition in the dark that one day, she would return to this cold, treacherous, dark and dark battlefield, and wipe out all evil.

The author has something to say: talk about the title.The members of the royal family of the Tang Dynasty called each other in private, which is actually very common.There are no titles such as father and mother, and the princes and queens all call their father "A Weng" and their mother "A Niang" in private.On formal occasions, the father's majesty, the mother's majesty, and the princes and princesses are not "your majesty" but "your excellency". The title "A Weng" refers to the father, "the family sacrifice is never forgotten to tell Nai Weng", it is Lu You who is talking to his son, not his grandson.It is difficult for modern people to accept, so I usually change to "Father", and those who are more born call "Father", such as Li's father and daughter.