After Wan'er left, I didn't speak to Wei Huan for a long time.I was very depressed.It's not just because my mother was so determined to punish me, but because today's reality really gave me a strong sense of powerlessness.The various abnormalities of my mother these days seem to be some kind of ominous sign, and a thick layer of haze hangs over my heart.I vaguely felt the reason for this haze, but every time I wanted to think about it, I couldn't figure it out at all.Maybe my life in the first 12 years of this world was so smooth that I have completely forgotten how to study and think, or maybe I was born too dull, no matter how hard I try, I can't comprehend the layers that surround me The treacherous situation.

Seeing that I was not happy, Wei Huan took the initiative to ask me: "What did you tell His Majesty? Today's matter is so lightly let go?"

I said, "It's okay, I just hugged her and begged for mercy."

Wei Huan was surprised: "That's it?"

I nodded and said, "That's it, I didn't say anything about calling you into the palace, I just begged."

Wei Huan muttered "strange", and I said, "What's so strange, I'm the youngest daughter of her direct relative. Is it difficult to ask her for a favor?"

Wei Huan didn't speak, just tilted his head thinking about something.

I was also thinking about my own thoughts. I don't know how long it has passed, but I just know that I was sleepy in a daze. I nodded my head, tilted my body, and almost fell to the ground. My head and face were on the ground, and when I broke out in a cold sweat, someone had already come out from the entrance of the hall. Wei Huan tugged at my sleeve, and I hurriedly knelt down, facing the front seriously, with only my eyes following the person. His shadow turned, trying to see who was coming—this person was alone, without any followers, and his figure didn't look like Wan'er or those little palace people, and his gait didn't look like those who hunched all day long. The elderly female officer, she walked very slowly, stopping from time to time to look into the distance, sometimes with her head down and her hands behind her back, as if she was thinking about something.

I couldn't help but quietly asked Wei Huan: "Do you know who that is?"

Wei Huan said: "You just have to kneel down, what do you care about?" I heard her say this, so I had to turn my eyes to the front, and after a while, I felt bored again. He tilted his head and stretched his neck, who was it that he looked at.

I patted her and said, "Look again for yourself."

Wei Huan hissed and said, "It's the Queen of Heaven."

I was startled by her, so I quickly straightened my body again, and then I looked at the figure of that person, isn't it my mother?It's just that none of us thought she would come out in person before, so we didn't recognize her.

Wei Huan was very nervous. I could hear her heavy breathing from a step away. She straightened her body straighter than the palace wall, she didn't look like someone who had just been tortured.

When my mother got closer, I realized that her hair was loose, she was wrapped in a cloak similar to the one I was wearing, and she was wearing shoes, as if she was waking up at night with her clothes on—it was this hour, and she was still wearing her clothes When I got up, I must have been thinking about me in my heart, my eyes immediately became hot, and I was about to call "A Niang", but I held back until she came to the front, and then I fell on the ground and saluted, saying: "Your servant Taiping sees the Queen of Heaven. "

Mother bent down slowly, touched my head, and said, "Get up, is it cold?"

I was able to hold back just now, but now I feel that there is no place in my body that is not occupied by grievances. When I want to get up, my legs are a little numb, so I simply throw myself into her arms, shouting "Aniang", tears are like springs It gushes out, all on the mother.

My mother hugged me and patted my back gently. After a while, when I calmed down, she helped me up and said to Wei Huan and the others: "I'm talking to Princess Changle."

Wei Huan walked away with the two palace men knowing each other, and quietly went to a place that I couldn't see. There was a huge square behind the Zichen Palace, except for the imperial guards who were watching the night, only my mother and I were left.

I wiped away my tears and asked my mother, "It's so late, isn't Mommy still asleep?"

Mother smiled and asked, "Are you tired?"

I shook my head, and my mother took my hand and walked slowly towards the Zichen Palace. While walking, I looked up at the sky and said, "Today's moon is very round."

I also looked up and saw a huge moon hanging in the sky, red, like a piece of scone covered by fire and dust, my stomach growled at the right time, making a hoarse noise, my mother looked down at me , My face was slightly hot, I rubbed my belly, comforted myself and said, "Get up early for dinner tomorrow."

My mother didn’t say a word, she led me up the steps, there was a plate, there was a lump of what it was, my mother sat down on the steps, picked up something from the plate, and handed it to me, only then did I realize that it was some dry food Crude pancakes, I thought that what my mother gave me would not be a bad thing, and I was very hungry, so I took it, took a bite, and almost spit it out-this thing is cold and hard, and it smells of old age. Sour taste, let alone me, even my palace servants, I'm afraid they don't want to eat such pancakes.

However, this is a gift from the emperor. If I really spit it out, I would be disrespectful to my mother. I was punished. I dare not be so presumptuous. I can only hold this thing in my mouth and look at my mother with teary eyes that I have just cried.

My mother has been paying attention to my movements, and seeing me vomit and hesitate, she chuckled, put her hand around my mouth, and said, "Spit it up."

I hastened to pick out the pickled things by myself and threw them far away. My mother looked at me and smiled, then turned her head and looked into the distance, and said lightly: "Your sister used to rely on such cakes." Lived until the age of six."

I didn't find the handkerchief, and was secretly wiping my hands by my side. When I heard what my mother said, I was startled for a moment, and said strangely, "Elder sister is also a princess after all, so I can't let it go." My father loves my mother so much, no matter how much my mother's children don't like the Queen Mother. Let's see, it's not like I can't even eat... right?

Mother laughed again, this time she smiled coldly: "The deposed queen lost her power back then, and in the end she didn't even have such cakes. Your sister is just a princess, why not?"

I was speechless, but unknowingly turned my eyes to the plate of cakes again, feeling astringent in my mouth, the place where my hands touched the cakes was getting hot, and my face was getting hot too, I lowered my head, gently He said to his mother, "Aniang, I'm sorry."

My mother closed her eyes, and from my side, I could only see her eyelashes blinking, and heard her snort softly, as if she was about to cry, but in the end she smiled and said: "Sir, your prince Brother, Liulang, you, me, and our family are the most powerful family in the world, but also the most dangerous family in the world. When you are powerful, everyone in the world will come to worship you and go through fire and water for you However, once you lose power..." She looked at the plate of dry biscuits, tore off a piece from it, stuffed it into her mouth, and chewed slowly, as if she wanted to remember the taste of every crumb in her heart like.

Seeing my mother like this, I also grabbed a piece of cake and put it in my mouth to bite—this is really unpalatable food that I have never eaten in two lifetimes. When I swallowed it, it was like a stone sinking into my stomach. How did my sister, who only lived to be six years old, use this kind of thing to wrap her stomach? It is even more unimaginable that she died of a heart attack instead of starvation or stomach problems.I suddenly felt a bone-chilling chill. I pulled my mother's hand and asked her to hug me. My mother let me lean on her lap, combed my hair with one hand, and said slowly: "Since then, I swear not Will let my sons and daughters suffer like this again, who knows that this will raise you too comfortably, never knowing the hardships and dangers inside! Your prince brother has only been in charge of the country for a long time, and then compiled "Nvvirtue" and " "Girls' Training" is about asking to be crowned King of Bohai. Liu Lang only knows to hang out with little girls all day long, and doesn't care about family and country affairs. You are the smartest of the three, but you are also a daughter."

The mother suddenly stopped, sighed, and continued: "Your father thought that his daughter would not have to learn these intrigues, but he didn't know that in the palace, it is more difficult to be a woman than a man." She came to shoot me again I grabbed her hand tightly and pressed my face into her palm. I felt uncomfortable and didn't know what to say, so I could only call "A Niang" one after another.

My mother shook her head, and one or two tears fell from her face and onto mine. When I tried to wipe her tears, the tears stopped. My mother looked down at me and said word by word: "Taiping , you should grow up."

Her voice was extremely soft, but I heard every word in my ears. My whole body seemed to be scratched by something, and I trembled without listening to me. Suddenly, the light came on in the toilet behind me, and my father was wearing clothes. Holding Yang Zigao's hand, he came out with sleepy eyes and called out, "Qiniang, why aren't you sleeping?" Seeing me there, he said in surprise, "Why aren't you sleeping? Why are your eyes still red? Qiniang , you said her again?"

I remembered what my mother said just now, and I felt a little alienated from my father. I lowered my head and didn't answer.My mother put her arms around me and said to my father: "I beat her and punished her to kneel until now, she is angry with me." She patted me on the shoulder and said: "It's night, I will sleep in Zichen Palace Come on, let Wei Huan accompany you."

When my father heard that I was kneeling up to this point, he gave my mother a disapproving look, hugged me affectionately, and coaxed me: "My mother has caused my son to suffer such a big grievance. Is it okay for Aye to compensate my son on behalf of my mother?" Si be good, don’t cry, Aye has made an order, if you want to go out in the future, you can go out as long as you bring all the people, don’t be so sneaky, okay?”

My father's hands are as warm as usual, and those nagging are no different from an ordinary father who loves his daughter, but I always think about what my mother just said to me, and when I was brought in by my father, I unconsciously I often look back at my mother, but I see that she walks peacefully, has a kind face, and smiles as usual.

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