Twilight GL

The Empress did come the next day, and also on the third day, and everyone came to see her writing on the fourth and fifth day, which was beneficial.

Concubine Shu can't sit still, let her ride a horse and shoot arrows, she can run around the school grounds all day, let her read and write, but it's embarrassing for her.

On the sixth day, the queen saw that her strokes were still crooked, without any improvement, and she couldn't help sighing: "I remember that your elder brothers abandoned martial arts and went to civil affairs, and took the path of civil servants. Why did Marquis Chu ignore you when you came here?"

Those ink-black handwriting on the snow-white paper were crooked, not much better than a new school boy.

Concubine Shu held a pen, heard the words, and muttered: "My father himself is good at martial arts. It's been a long time in peace, and it's hard for military generals to get promoted, so I made my brothers change to writing. I don't need to be an official, and I don't need to seek to be promoted. Entering the rank, my father will naturally follow my temperament."

While she was talking, she wrote another stroke, and before the queen could speak, she was aggrieved: "Empress, my concubine's hands are so cold."

It was snowing outside again, and the chill was soaking into the hall, even lighting the brazier didn't work.

The queen saw that her knuckles were really red from the cold, so she gave her the hand covering: "You warm up first."

Concubine Shu happily took it over.

There is warmth in the hand covering the box, which was just warmed by the empress.Concubine Shu was about to send someone to serve tea, when she saw the queen holding a pen and began to write on paper.

She wrote while thinking, and then she said to Concubine Shu: "You are not good at writing copybooks, why not use my calligraphy. I learned the calligraphy from my father, and it probably suits your temperament better."

Concubine Shu originally came to Mrs. Wei's post. Mrs. Wei's handwriting is naturally good, but it is a little restrained in elegance and beauty.

Taifu Zheng is a free and easy person, although he is in the court, he is not lacking in the leisurely and uninhibited nature of the rivers and lakes.

The queen practiced calligraphy with him, and also learned a bit of character, so she should treat Concubine Shu's temper even more.

Concubine Shu couldn't see any lack of character, but she stood watching from the side, but felt that the queen's writing really made her look more pleasing to the eye and liked it more.

"Your Majesty's writing is better." She said happily from the side.

While writing, the queen scolded her: "I can't compare to Mrs. Shangwei, she is a great calligrapher, and even calligraphers have to learn from her. You, you have to read books occasionally..."

She babbled, if it was someone else, Concubine Shu would have been annoyed by now, but she was not only not bothered by what the empress said, but she also liked to listen to it: "I just think that the empress writes well. I don't know if Mrs. Wei is a master of calligraphy." I think Empress Dowager wrote the best."

"It's useless to say good things, you have to practice." The queen said in a bad mood.

She picked out the frequently used words in poems and wrote them down, and asked Concubine Shu to practice first, and said to her: "You study hard, and if you win in the poetry meeting, I will reward you."

Concubine Shu didn't care much about winning or not, but when she heard that the queen had a reward, she suddenly became motivated to study hard.

For the next few days, the people around her did nothing but bury their heads in writing and reciting poems, which made the queen very happy.

The empress is no better than concubine Shu, she is very free every day, and sometimes she doesn't come when she is not free. Concubine Shu didn't see her when it was dark, so she simply went to the Hall of Renming by herself.

She was carrying a collection of poems on her back, and found a bookmark cut out of a piece of bamboo in the middle. There was a faint fragrance on the bookmark, which was the same as the one on the queen.

Concubine Shu pinched the bookmark in her hand, she couldn't help shaking her head, she raised her head and asked, "Empress Empress, have you read this collection of poems?"

The queen was looking at the account book presented below, upon hearing this, she glanced at her hand, then looked down at the account book again, and said slowly, "I read it when I was studying poetry when I was young."

Concubine Shu sighed in her heart, she was so old that she didn't even know how to recite such outrageous poems, but the Empress actually read them all when she was young.

She looked up and saw the books on the bookshelf full of books, thinking to herself, are those all books that the empress has read?That's why the empress is so gentle and refined, and everything she says makes sense.

She was suddenly very interested in those huge volumes, which she had never looked at before.

Maybe after learning this, she will not be so ignorant and naive when talking to the empress.

Just as she was fascinated by the thought, the queen came over, took out a piece of flower paper from the desk, rolled it into a roll, and tapped Concubine Shu lightly on the head.

Concubine Shu came back to her senses, hugged her head, and said aggrievedly: "Your Majesty, if you knock again, you will be even more stupid."

The Queen looked at her with a straight face.

Concubine Shu was not afraid of her at all, she stretched out her hand to pull the queen's sleeve, and said dejectedly: "Even if I really memorized all this collection of poems, I wouldn't know how to compose poems."

"You carry it on your back first, and you'll know when the time comes." The queen said.

Concubine Shu felt that she was perfunctory like coaxing a child, and she was even more unhappy.

The Empress was helpless, so she asked someone to prepare a cup of milk tea, brought it to Concubine Shu herself, and said to her: "Be good, be obedient."

Immediately, Concubine Shu couldn't care less about composing poems, she only listened to the empress, and she did whatever the empress asked her to do.

In this way, when it came to the Winter Solstice Poetry Contest, Concubine Shu had practiced her handwriting so well that she could read a whole book of poems, and then she really won.

The queen is the judge of the poetry club. After the topic was presented, she walked up to Concubine Shu and bent down, as if to see what poem she had written, but actually read the poem to her in her ear.

Only then did Concubine Shu realize that the reason why the Empress asked her to recite the poems was to let her be familiar with the rhythm, so as not to misunderstand the poems when she read them.

The queen is a master of poetry and prose, and the poems she wrote herself are naturally the best in this small harem, and the leader fell into the pocket of Concubine Shu without any accident.

Concubine Shu had a face in front of Concubine De, and she was in a good mood. The smile on the way back did not disappear, and she complained softly: "Empress Empress, you are the one who wrote the question, tell me the question earlier, and explain the poem to me. Let me memorize it by heart, so I don't have to be obsessed with that book of poems."

The queen glanced at her indifferently: "If I had given you the poem earlier, you would have acted well in front of Concubine De."

I'm afraid Concubine De became suspicious by showing her claws with bared teeth and claws, how can she still maintain that worried look.

Concubine Shu realized that the empress meant that she was shallow-minded.She smiled foolishly, but she was not angry, when she suddenly remembered something, her eyes lit up, and she said joyfully, "Your Majesty..."

The queen looked at her.

Concubine Shu spread her hands: "What about the concubine's reward?"

It turned out that she was thinking about this, the queen smiled: "Tomorrow you will wait in Nanxun Hall, and I will pick you up."

Because of this sentence, Concubine Shu didn't sleep well all night, she woke up early the next day, got up at Maoshi, and waited for the Queen to come by the door.

Chunran kept persuading: "How can it be so early, it's cold outside, the empress should go back to the hall and wait."

Concubine Shu refused, so she waited for an hour, and when the hour came, the queen would arrive.

Seeing that her nose was red when she understood, the queen said, "Why are you so impatient."

He gave her the stove in his hand, let her get on the phoenix chariot, and covered her icy cheeks with his own hands.

Concubine Shu kept asking along the way: "Empress, where are we going? Are we going out of the palace?"

Thinking about the possibility of going out of the palace, she asked again: "Where is there a good view in the palace, do you want to take your ministers and concubines to enjoy the view?"

The queen closed her eyes all the way to rest, ignoring her noise.Concubine Shu felt that she had guessed right, she must be there to enjoy the scenery.

She has been in the palace for more than half a year, and has been everywhere in the palace, but it is obviously different to go with the empress, Concubine Shu has already begun to look forward to it.

When it reached the place, the phoenix chariot stopped.

The accompanying eunuchs lifted the door curtain, Concubine Shu went out of the chariot first, seeing the emptiness in front of her, she was stunned.

"Empress Empress..." she whispered, the light in her eyes gradually dazzling.

This is an extremely open school yard, and the school yard has obviously been cleared, only a few servants are left.

A strong white horse was parked beside it, and it was eating the fodder fed by the eunuch with its head down. There was also a bow placed on the high shelf at the other end, and a pot of arrows was placed beside the bow.

This is the reward the queen prepared for her!

"Do you like it?" the queen asked.

Concubine Shu nodded vigorously, she didn't even have time to speak, she just nodded.

She was eager to try, but held back, and looked back at the queen, waiting for her permission.

"Go..." the queen laughed.

Concubine Shu couldn't wait to run over, took the reins from the eunuch, stepped on the stirrups and got on the horse.

Her movements were extremely smooth. Sitting on the horse, she skillfully stroked the horse's mane to comfort it. The horse soon calmed down. Concubine Shu clamped the horse's belly and shouted: "Drive!"

In an instant, the white horse galloped, and the woman on the horse was heroic and elegant.

The queen watched from a distance, and smiled suddenly, with gentle eyebrows and eyes.

"It's time to prepare her riding clothes, I'm negligent."

The female officer beside her looked at Concubine Shu's galloping figure, and said with a smile: "If it wasn't for your empress' support, I'm afraid that if you lose in the poetry meeting, Empress Defei will make a big fuss, and empress Shu will not be able to lift her head up for a while. "

"With her temperament, if she is so angry, she will be stunned to death." The queen laughed.

"Your majesty also begged for this kindness from His Majesty, and borrowed the school grounds for a whole day." The female officer said again, "You are so kind to Concubine Shu."

The queen's smile faded, and pity appeared in her eyes: "I just think it's pitiful for her to be so flamboyant and enthusiastic, but to be locked in this square cage."

The female officer dared not speak any more.

Concubine Shu galloped over on a horse, cheered and waved to the queen.The queen also raised her hand and shook her.

This was the happiest day for Concubine Shu to enter the palace. She rode on the horse and ran around the vast school grounds, but nothing was enough.

She likes the feeling of sprinting against the wind on a horse, like flying, like the cold wind whizzing by, and the joy of jumping into the air.

She prefers the way the queen looks at her every time she looks there.

That day, as long as she stayed in the school grounds, the queen stayed with her for as long as possible.

She will never forget the eyes of the Empress standing in the wind and watching her in this life.

For many years since then, whenever she thinks about the situation of that day, she feels joyful, and after the joyful, there is endless pain that pierces her heart day after day.

That night the queen fell ill.

She had stood too long in the wind and caught the cold.

When Concubine Shu arrived in a hurry, the emperor had just left. She was guided by Gong'e into the queen's bedroom, and when she walked to the door, she heard the female officer close to the queen talking.

"Your Majesty, you have to be careful in the future, and don't catch the cold again. If you want a child so much, you have to take care of yourself."

The child... Concubine Shu took a meal, she was under sixteen years old, and had never thought about children.

Does the Empress Dowager want a child of her own?

Seeing her stop, Gong'e, who was leading the way, was a little puzzled and called out, "Ms. Concubine Shu?"

I heard it from inside.

"Ah Chu..." came the queen's voice.

Concubine Shu hurriedly walked in.

The queen was lying on the couch with a high pillow behind her, holding a white jade cup in her hand, which was full of medicine, and the smell of medicine permeated the entire sleeping hall.

"Empress Empress." Concubine Shu blessed her body in front of the bed.

"Don't be too polite, come and sit."

Gong'e went to bring an embroidered pier, but Concubine Shu sat down on the side of the couch.

The queen leaned in: "You sit so close, what should you do when you are sick?"

Concubine Shu said in a low voice: "The concubine is in good health, so it doesn't matter."

She knew that the Queen would catch the cold because she accompanied her to ride a horse on the school grounds.

The school grounds are wide and there is not even a place to block the wind, so it is much colder than other places.

She was so happy at that time that she forgot that the queen was weak.

Concubine Shu was full of guilt, she glanced at the white jade cup in the queen's hand, and asked in a low voice, "Does the queen not use medicine?"

The heat from the soup has dissipated, so it should have been completely cooled.

When the queen heard this, she looked at the soup and frowned.

Seeing this, the female officer on the side said: "Our mother is most afraid of suffering, but you are sick, so you can't do without this medicine."

Is the empress afraid of suffering?Concubine Shu listened, for some reason, there was a place in her heart that sank softly.

She saw a jade plate next to it, filled with candied fruit, she held it up with both hands, and touched it in front of the queen: "Your Majesty, hurry up and take some medicine, and eat something sweet when you run out of medicine."

The two persuaded from the side, but the queen had no choice but to take the medicine and drink it up.

The jade cup was empty, and the Queen's brows were also wrinkled. Concubine Shu hurriedly picked up a candied fruit and brought it to the Queen's lips. The Queen bit the candied fruit lightly, and her lips touched Concubine Shu's fingertips. Concubine Shu's fingertips were hot as if they were on fire.

The female officer stepped back holding the empty lamp.

Concubine Shu caressed her fingertips with one hand, feeling a little dazed and panicked.

"Why don't you speak?" the queen asked softly.

Concubine Shu came back to her senses and said apologetically, "It's all my fault. If I hadn't insisted on riding a horse, you wouldn't have caught a cold."

The queen was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Although I have caught a cold, I am very happy to see you galloping gallopingly on the horse. It is worth the cold to be happy for this."

She didn't say any polite words like "it's none of your business, it's not your fault", but she said that she was happy with it, Concubine Shu was dumb for a moment, but her heart was hot.

After a long while, she said: "I won't leave tonight, I will stay by my mother's side to serve my mother."

The queen didn't chase her away, but seeing that she was still depressed, she remembered something and said with a smile: "I almost forgot."

She called the palace servants and ordered: "Bring that pot of wine."

Concubine Shu was puzzled.

The palace man soon came with the jug and took two small wine cups.The wine cups are made of jade, and the queen likes jade, especially white jade, and most of the utensils in the palace are made of jade.

She poured the wine herself, and handed one of them to Concubine Shu: "Taste..."

Concubine Shu took it, took a sip, her complexion gradually relaxed, she said happily: "It's orchid brew."

The queen smiled and nodded.

It was the orchid brew they made together.

On the day they first met, they planted a piece of orchid grass together, and when the orchids were in full bloom in summer, they enjoyed the flowers together.

Then the flowers rotted, Concubine Shu and the Queen collected the rotted flowers together, added honey, made wine, and buried it under the green pine tree in Renming Hall.

Now it is snowing heavily and the wine is finished. The queen brought out the wine, boiled a pot, and drank with Concubine Shu.

Concubine Shu is fond of wine, and she often drinks with her elder brothers at home, and she is usually not drunk.

But today, after just taking a sip and smiling gently at the queen's soft face, she felt fascinated, as if she had just been drunk.

Except for her shoes and socks, she climbed onto the couch and lay on the queen's lap. The queen saw that her cheeks were red, and thought she was not good at drinking, and she was drunk after just one drink. She couldn't help but smiled and shook her head, stroking Concubine Shu's soft forehead .

Concubine Shu looked at her drunkenly: "Empress, I like peonies. Next spring, my concubine will accompany you to plant flowers. Can you share half of the land with peonies?"

"Okay..." the queen agreed.

Later, in the spring, the queen really prepared peony seeds. Half of the field was planted with bluegrass and half with peonies.

When the flowers fail, they still make wine.

Concubine Shu has an amazing capacity for alcohol, and she will not get drunk after a hundred glasses of other wines, but if the empress personally made her mother's orchid brew, just one cup is enough to make her drunk for decades.

She didn't know when her heart moved, and when the feeling was so deeply rooted that she couldn't extricate herself, as if suddenly this person was in her heart.

When it was snowing heavily in the third year, she couldn't restrain herself and leaned over to kiss her.

The queen's complexion changed drastically, and after a while she said: "Concubine Shu respects herself."

Just four words left her covered in bruises, she dared not see her again, even if she met her on the road by chance, she did not dare to look at her.

The past is completely broken.

Until another winter day, Renming Palace sent a jar of orchid brew, she drank one, and wept uncontrollably. It can be seen that half of bluegrass and half of peony.

The queen came behind her at some point, and concubine Shu took her hand and asked her if she had ever been in her heart.

She pressed her step by step, and the queen closed her eyes tightly, unwilling to speak.

Concubine Shu has never been so desperate. She looked at her and whispered: "I am pregnant."

The queen was stunned, she looked down at her lower abdomen, slowly raised her hand, and put her palm on her lower abdomen.Concubine Shu could feel her hands trembling.

She remembered the phrase "It's hard to do whatever you want" that the queen said the first time she met her.

She now understands that not only the queen, but everyone in the harem can hardly do whatever they want.

"How about you just treat this as the child I gave birth to you? Let her call your mother, would you love her?" Concubine Shu asked almost pleadingly.

The queen withdrew her hand, but she didn't say anything.

Until Ming Su was born, Concubine Shu asked her again: "Just treat this as my child for you, okay?"

She remained silent.

Concubine Shu was at a loss, she didn't know what to do, she just felt that the queen had never been interested in her, otherwise why would she refuse to give a soft word.

She grew up with Ming Su, and she avoided the queen more than before. She didn't go to pay her respects, and whenever she met, she avoided it from a distance. She thought, maybe it would be better not to meet again.

It’s just that I occasionally dream back at midnight, thinking of orchid brewing, thinking of the school field, thinking of the words written by the man on the paper, thinking of the poetry meeting, she leaned close to her ear and helped her cheat, remembering that she took medicine, her brows were tightly frowned , Such a dignified person is actually afraid of suffering, thinking of so many things, tearing his heart apart day and night.

Until that day, she took Mingsu to play in the imperial garden, and Mingsu ran away if she missed her.

She chased after her and saw Mingsu standing in front of the queen around the corner.

The queen knelt down and asked her softly, "Are you Mingsu?"

Mingsu was three years old at the time, and she could speak clearly. She was not afraid of the queen, so she looked at her and nodded.

"Where did your concubine go?" the queen asked again.

Minsu still didn't speak.

The queen was not surprised, she straightened Mingsu's clothes, raised her hand and touched her head, called the unfamiliar Gong'e to come forward, and said:

"Take the princess to find Concubine Shu."

Gong Efu said yes, took Mingsu's hand, and was about to leave.

The queen said: "Wait a minute..."

The two stopped again.

The queen walked up to Ming Su, looked at her carefully, reached out to hug her, and held her for a long time before letting go.

Then he said in a gentle voice: "Ming Su has to be good, and he has to be filial to your mother and concubine, understand?"

Ming Su nodded, she smiled and said: "The concubine mother said that Ming Su should also be filial to her mother, just like she is filial to her. Are you my mother?"

The queen nodded, but she didn't speak anymore. Concubine Shu was hiding behind a bush of trees, so she couldn't see her face clearly.

When he returned to Nanxun Hall, Ming Su said: "Concubine Mother, Empress Mother seems to be crying."

Concubine Shu reluctantly bent her lips and asked, "Why do you say that, did she shed tears?"

Mingsu shook his head: "I didn't shed tears, but Mingsu felt that the queen mother was very sad, and the mother's heart was crying."

Concubine Shu hugged Mingsu and leaned on her immature shoulders, tears soon soaked her clothes.

She knows that these years, she doesn't obey the rules and doesn't communicate with the outside world, but she still lives in peace and stability. No one dares to show her a little disrespect. Let her live a peaceful life.

Concubine Shu still couldn't help wondering if she had feelings, but she didn't dare to think about it.

After a few days, she sent Mingsu to the Hall of Renming, and said to Mingsu: "The mother's knowledge is very deep, how about Mingsu studying with the mother?"

Mingsu is very obedient, she never disobeyed her words, she nodded, smiled, and said in a childlike voice: "The concubine mother is also very knowledgeable."

Concubine Shu shook her head: "Concubine Mother only knows superficiality."

"But my concubine reads every day."

"The books that the concubine mother reads are all read by the concubine mother. The concubine mother wants to follow her, but she will never be able to keep up."

Mingsu seems to understand but not understand.

From that day on, she stayed in Renming Hall during the day, and Concubine Shu came to pick her up in the evening.

She never enters the Hall of Renming, but only stands outside, just like the queen sending Mingsu off, never sending her out, only inside the door.

They still haven't seen each other, but have started raising a child together.

Concubine Shu occasionally wonders, when will she get a promise from the empress? Will she think Mingsu is her child?

She thought about it all the time, but felt that she might never get a word from the Queen.

Unexpectedly, that day came suddenly.

When the queen was in distress, someone sent the letter, which contained only a simple sentence.

"Take care of yourself and take care of our children."

She finally gave her the words she had been wanting so much.

Since then, they have been separated from Yin and Yang.

Everything in the palace has changed, the Hall of Renming has been locked, and everything in this world has changed.

Five years later, after the emperor established a new emperor, Concubine Shu went to the Hall of Renming early. She looked at the familiar scenes and objects in the hall almost greedily, but the man never came back.

After asking An to leave, she went to the back garden, and saw peonies and orchids standing side by side in the garden, just like in the past.

She seemed to see the queen standing here back then, looking at her like a child who didn't know the world, and sighed: "I am the queen, so I can't do whatever I want."

She seemed to hear in her ear again, the man said softly: "A Yan, do you understand? I have you in my heart."

Concubine Shu doesn't know how she survived those years, she really has no attachment to this world.

What locked her at first was the queen's words to take care of our children.

How to take care of it, she always thought about this sentence.

Later, Ming Su ascended the throne and fell in love with the queen mother. They made a lifelong commitment and no longer shy away from it. Gradually.

They had everything except their titles, everyone in the palace gradually changed their minds, they no longer referred to them as empress dowagers, they only called empresses, and then even the ministers of the court changed their minds like this.

The world agrees that they are compatible.

In this way, it should be regarded as taking care of it.Concubine Shu went to Renming Hall and dug out a pot of orchid brew under that pine tree.

This is the last altar, which was buried under the tree by Alan back then, and it has not been able to get out in the future.

It has been buried for more than ten years, and it can be called old wine.

However, she didn't know that person was not in front of her eyes, she drank alone, this time could make her drunk for a few years.

She entered the palace with the wine jar in her arms, and left all the palace people outside the palace. She left a letter in Nanxun Palace. Ming Su had read it, and would not embarrass these palace people.

She walked into the bedroom, where she was lying on the empress's lap, poured a glass of wine for herself with a white jade cup, and added the medicine she brought to the wine.

Before her consciousness became blurred, she seemed to see the man sitting beside her, sighing softly.

Empress Empress.she called softly.

The man's face was gentle, with a slight smile in his eyes, he raised his hand to stroke her hair, just like he was back then.

The author has something to say: Well, the full text is over.

This article has been written for a long time, thank you for your tolerance.

However, although I have been writing for a long time, I feel melancholy every time I finish writing. I always feel that it would be nice if an article could never be finished.

It's a pity that there is no permanent banquet, and we still have to say goodbye.

Then we are destined to see you again.