[Rebirth] Chronicle of the Two Capitals

There is a long-standing legend of the queen eating the essence of children, which can be traced back to the death of Empress Yan two years ago.

According to legend, Xiao Yanhou was not as good as her sister Yan Hou, so she was neglected by the emperor.Fertility is a woman's instinct. The doctor of the imperial hospital is rejuvenating and reincarnating Hua Tuo. No matter how weak Yan Kuai is, how can she not conceive a child.The jealous younger sister, Xiao Yanhou, disregarded blood and family ties, turned into a silent monster at night, sneaked into Yanhou's dream, woke up the next day, had a miscarriage, and soon passed away with hatred.Empress Yan, who valued love and righteousness, missed her younger sister before she passed away, and begged the emperor to take care of her a lot, and the position in the middle palace fell into the hands of Empress Xiao Yan.

Empress Xiaoyan took power in the Central Palace, and the Sixth Palace was empty, so she naturally shouldered the heavy responsibility of raising the heir to the throne.Although the emperor didn't like her, he suffered from the lack of a better caregiver, so he had to endure it.Unexpectedly, three successive princes were raised in Weiyang Palace, and died of poisoning for no reason. The source of the poison/drug could not be found.Prince Hong, the eldest son of the emperor's elder brother Prince Rui, was only seven years old. The emperor took him to Weiyang Palace and raised him with all his heart.

What he got in exchange was another cold corpse.Smallpox, an incurable disease, cannot be generalized with poisoning.The emperor dubiously visited Weiyang Palace at night, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the big and small servants in Weiyang Palace didn't know where they went.The night wind was blowing, the emperor approached the empress' bedroom, the door was wide open, the empress was dressed in red gauze like blood, she was doing her makeup in the mirror with her back to the emperor, in the bronze mirror, a bloody mouth was vaguely reflected, as if Looking back with a smile.The emperor was frightened, and he could not get up from the couch for one month. It was not until the eighth day of the first month that the government opened the seal and issued a decree for the selection of the heir.

Ten days, a full ten days.

When going to bed at night, Tang Yu slept on a separate small bed in the queen's dormitory of Weiyang Palace. The wet nurse patted her back worriedly, frightening her with the legend that the queen eats the essence of children.The wet nurse probably thought she didn't understand, so she added movements, danced and danced, and occasionally grinned and made ugly faces.Tang Yu, who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, secretly rolled his eyes, propped himself up on the bed with his short hands, turned over childishly, and gradually fell into a deep sleep.

In my sleep, someone approached.

Then, a gentle and friendly hand caressed her back, and patted her from top to bottom with reassuring strength—Tang Yu knew that this was the queen.Tang Yu's mother in this life, Concubine Duan, was a little older than the empress. Perhaps she was burdened by a difficult life, often worked hard, and had little time to get close to Tang Yu.In the previous life, Tang Yu was originally a person with a weak sense of family affection. She was an orphan, and her adoptive parents adopted her from the orphanage. The adoptive mother was barren, and at first they regarded her as their own.A year later, the adoptive mother's illness was cured, she was pregnant with a child, and successfully gave birth to a fat boy for the adoptive father.At home, Tang Yu's status and status became awkward. She was grateful for the kindness of her adoptive parents in nurturing her, and she didn't dare to let herself be trapped in the family relationship world where she competed with her younger brother for favor. Life.Send money regularly every month to honor the adoptive parents, and go home to have a reunion dinner during the holidays. No matter how much it is, it will be gone.

After being reborn, Tang Yu wanted to go back. The reason was simply that he felt that he was too aggrieved to die. How could he die while watching Tianwen Qi?Thinking about it further, even though it has been determined which dynasty she was reborn in, it does not mean that she can live to old age and die in peace, especially when she is involved in the battle for the crown prince for no reason. She has not read many history books , but how much do you know that after losing the throne, you will end up tragically.Even if there are faint signs of integration with modern Western civilization in the present world, it is hard to guarantee that it will not be the same as the closed-door Qing Dynasty. In order to consolidate the imperial power, the world was forced to stay in the feudal society. The feudal society's notoriously deep-rooted concept of women's oppression.

After thinking about it, the reason why Tang Yu wanted to go back was that he couldn't find any trace of family affection.

The queen is actually not very close to her—or, in other words, the queen is not very close to anyone.

Today, Tang Yu curled up her two short legs and played with a tumbler on the couch, and the wet nurse fed her rice paste.The queen was mending clothes with a needle and thread in her hand, and a piece of luxurious pale pink cloth was forged on the table. Occasionally, she would cast a few inches of gaze at Tang Yu. Is she eating obediently?

After a while, a man entered the palace without being informed.

He was wearing an elegant and slim-fitting scarlet official robe, with two delicate and elegant white cranes embroidered on the patch on the chest and back, and the belt was inlaid with gold and jade.Her jet-black hair was neatly tied into a black gauze hat, her right hand was clenched into a fist, and she rested on her chest in a coquettish and unrestrained manner.About thirty years old, with a slight beard, fair face, and slender eyebrows, he resembles the queen a little bit, but lacks a bit of innate aura than her, and a bit more officialdom tainted vulgarity.

The tumbler, Tang Yu was tired of playing in his previous life, but he was just pretending to be a normal child.Curious, she turned her neck and looked at the queen who was not far away. The queen got up from the bed one step ahead of her, gently hugged her into her arms, pointed to the man with a deep smile, and said, "Call 'uncle'."

Tang Xi strongly rejected it in her heart. In her eyes, the so-called "uncle" deserved at most the word "brother" in the eyes of her who still had a psychological age of nearly 30 years old in her previous life.Moreover, although she is going to be adopted by the queen, because there is no blood bond to maintain it, it is very awkward for her to call the queen "mother queen".But, not allowing her to persist, her uncle was very familiar with him, shaking his wide robe sleeves, stretched out a hand, pinched her face, opened his lips exaggeratedly, and induced her to speak: "Come on." ,uncle--"

The man's hands were strong, and Yan Xun had no intention of restraining his strength, so he left two bright red fingerprints on her snow-white and delicate face. The pain caused Tang Yu to instinctively avoid him, and raised his head to look at the queen with teary eyes, feeling aggrieved.The queen didn't say anything, neither comforting nor coaxing, not even a word to blame Yan Xun.Tang Yu was even more aggrieved, and cried out with a "wow", crying so hard that the wet nurse was heartbroken and rushed over to pick her up.One-third is pain, one-third is to escape the embarrassing title, and the other third is real grievance-even if this grievance, Tang Yu thinks about it afterwards, does not know where it came from, she Haven't you been used to being ignored for a long time, why do you feel aggrieved by the Queen's neglect?

In addition to tumblers, there are other toys on the couch, some of which are unheard of among the people.The nurse hugged her, picked out a rattle from inside, taught her to hold it in her hand, and led her to shake the rattle loudly.The wet nurse cared about her, and she could never let down the good intentions of the wet nurse. After crying for a while, she stopped crying, rubbed her sore eyes and sucked her nose. The queen and Yan Xun walked out of the hall, as if they wanted to discuss some secret.Tang Xi stared at her graceful back, and had an intuition in his heart that the queen would look back at her, and the heart buried in her small body was beating with this hope.

The queen really looked back at her, and after only one glance, she looked away, and the figure disappeared from Tang Yu's vision.

Tang Yu was sure that she could see a little guilt from the Queen's eyes, just like the Queen's voice lingering in her ears at this moment:

"Yan Xun, I'm used to being domineering, and I have to obey him in everything." The queen didn't know that Tang Yu had gradually woken up, and she could hear every word clearly.On the contrary, Tang Yu didn't know why the queen told her this.But she carefully discovered that the queen did not say "your uncle" or "my brother", but called him by his first name. The queen is a daughter of an aristocratic family with knowledge of books and etiquette. Logically speaking, this should not be the case.Tang Yu thought of the popular palace fighting drama in his previous life. Once the concubines entered the palace, they couldn't go out again. They all missed their relatives very much. The queen seemed very indifferent to her brother Yan Xun.

Tang Yi didn't have time to think about it, she closed her eyes tightly, and felt the queen put cream on her face.Clear and cool, the queen's breath pounced softly, sending the medicinal fragrance to her nostrils.Tang Yu was a perfumer in his previous life and was very sensitive to smells, especially the smell of medicinal materials.After all, he is not a medical worker, and not all medicinal materials can be used to make fragrance. Tang Yan sniffed it and identified several medicinal materials for removing blood stasis.The queen's warm fingertips pressed against her face, and rubbed the plaster away with a gentle and gentle force.

It was only then that Tang Yu realized that as an infant, his skin was smooth and delicate, and Yan Xun pinched her face during the day, which may have caused bruises, and the queen was applying medicine for her.Tang Yu never thought of himself as a flower in a greenhouse. In her previous life, when she sprained her ankle in a school sports meeting, she would go to the hospital to take a film and register by herself. Her classmates refused to accompany her. I have to pay it back.

Strength and independence are based on sound physical and mental development. Tang Yu's mature soul is imprisoned in the body of this one-year-old child, and he can only obediently obey the queen's care and belated and silent comfort.

The next day, the wet nurse gently picked her up from the bed.Tang Yu didn't wake up, rubbed his sleepy eyelids, put his two lotus-like arms on the nurse's shoulders as usual, raised his legs when it was time to lift his legs, and pushed his butt when it was time to push his butt. The clothes were cumbersome and difficult to wear, and Tang Yu's small fingers could not use his strength, and he couldn't even tie the belts well.

After putting it on, Tang Yu took two crooked steps forward, and suddenly froze.Before moving into Weiyang Palace, all her clothes were old and new ones from Princess Duan. The child grows up fast, so she doesn't pay attention to gorgeousness and practicality.The queen should be a thoughtful person, so she prefabricated several sets of clothes that were ironed and comfortable. However, Tang Yu was short, which was beyond her expectation, and the clothes grew out a bit, making it inconvenient to wear.

Seeing her staring at her pink and tender skirt, the nurse said with a smile, "His Royal Highness sewed it by herself." For more than ten days, she had never seen the queen open her mouth to eat human essence in the middle of the night. Gradually let go of your guard.The rules and etiquette in the palace are taught by the queen's personal servant Lian Dong through precepts and deeds, and she has also made great progress.

When the nanny said this, Tang Yu remembered that when he was playing on the couch these days, the queen was indeed sewing new clothes beside her. The skirts are exactly the same.

Whether it's a pat on the back to comfort her before falling asleep, or the guilt hidden in her eyes when she was wronged, or the timely compensation for her food and clothing... The queen's feelings are hidden deep, like the continuous spring rain, moistening things. silent.

The Empress did not know when she entered the palace, walked to her bed, took her little hand away, looked carefully up, down, left, and right, and then nodded lightly: "It fits." The Empress felt sorry for the child, she knew that the Duan Wang couple had been exiled to the aunt Su's life must have been bad, but he never imagined that he would be as short and thin as bean sprouts, thinner than seven or eight month old children in other clans, and the several sets of prefabricated clothes did not fit him well.

When Tang Yu saw her, there were two haggard bruises under her eyes.The needlework of the train is tight, and clusters of crabapple flowers are embroidered on the edge. The crabapple flowers are in bud, which is unassuming and extremely delicate.Tang Yu knew little about the life of the ancients, so he could only compare the old clothes of Princess Duan to the new ones. He guessed that the queen must have been working day and night to sew a good-looking and well-fitting new dress, so that she no longer had to sew the sleeves and trousers together. A few layers of clothes rolled up.

Tang Xi admitted that she was lucky. Although she was an orphan in her previous life, her adoptive parents treated her very well, but this kindness was more or less mixed with unfamiliarity and politeness.She kept the love and kindness of her adoptive parents in her heart, and she would appreciate and repay her. Gradually, she developed a heart that was not used to receiving favors but was sensitive and considerate.In this world, her biological parents who are far away in Gusu regard her as the apple of her eye, and her stepmother and queen who are close at hand take good care of her. Tang Yu feels that he is very lucky.

Tang Yu's nose was sour, and he reached out to the queen for a hug.A little astonishment flashed in the queen's eyes, she could see that Tang Yi was not very clingy to her, the nanny was simple and trustworthy and came from outside the palace, she was not involved in party disputes, so she let the nanny raise her.The child suddenly threw herself into her arms, and the queen vaguely sensed that she was sensible and sympathetic, so she opened her tiger's mouth and relaxed her strength to clamp her armpits, and held her in her arms facing her, freeing one hand to take care of her Collar turned inward: "What do you want for breakfast?"

Tang Yu was immersed in his gratitude to the queen for her tenderness and meticulousness, and said that it was a matter of course to break through the psychological defense line: "The queen mother..."

The queen was slightly taken aback, Tang Yu's childish voice was sweet and soft, and the words of just two words were still a bit jerky. Unlike the previous few days, this "mother queen" was poured with emotion, which softened the queen's heart.She smiled, turned her face to touch the tip of the child's nose, and teased her: "The queen mother can't eat it."