Ten years of dedication to the king

This time, it was another year since Chu Xiran left.

As the sun changes and the stars move, I don't know what kind of scene it will be after spring and autumn.

It's as if Chu Xiran's harem is gone, and the triennial draft is still under the tradition of previous years.It turns out that it has been six years since the two met. The truth is that the years do not know how people grow old, and the traces of time have been added to the once flying face.

The day when Chu Xiran returned triumphantly was the day when the emperor and the imperial concubine were re-selecting the best girls in the imperial garden. When the emperor heard that Chu Xiran had returned to the palace, he hurriedly left the throne without saying "Nalan is the master". Run to the imperial study room.

A group of women who were still waiting for the favor of the emperor just watched the energetic emperor disappear in an instant.

Nalan couldn't help but covered his mouth and smiled, and at the same time told the personal maid next to him, "Get someone to take care of the Yonghe Palace quickly, and don't let Xiran go in and eat ashes."

"There's no need to clean the palace. The emperor sent Xiao Linzi to watch it every three days, and even a dead bug can't look at it!"

"You'll be talkative, I've been used to you all these years, and the slave is no longer a slave!" Nalan looked at the maid who had been with him for so many years with a funny face.

"My good lady, please forgive Lan'er."

"Presumptuous, this occasion is becoming more and more unruly!"

"Yes, yes, empress, it's time to breastfeed. Is it okay for the servant to go and see the little prince? By the way, I will definitely let people take care of everything in the Yonghe Palace, food and clothing, and nothing will be wronged. Xiran master."

Lan'er stuck out her tongue, and then stood up from Nalan's ear, and instantly resumed the rigorous look of a personal maid, and said to the little eunuch and maid on the side with a straight face: "Serve my mother, call me if you have something to do."

On the other side, when He Lan rushed to the imperial study room, he was in a hurry. He turned back to look at Xiao Linzi behind him in doubt, and saw that he was extremely wronged and said, "Your Majesty, I just heard from the guards that Chu Xuan is going back to the Yonghe Palace to take a bath and change clothes." gone."

"Alright, did he come back alone?"

"Going back to the emperor, it is true that the army is still outside the city gate, waiting for the emperor's order before they dare to enter the city."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Linzi handed over the soldier amulet that Chu Xiran sent back.

He Lan regained his composure, and laughed at himself: "He knows what to do to make me feel at ease, that's all, he ordered the general of the Xuan Mansion to go out of the city immediately to lead the troops."

"Slave complies with the order!" Taking the emperor's hand letter and the military talisman, Xiao Linzi retreated cautiously. This time, no matter how you say it, he had to run errands by himself.

An hour later, the sharp voice of the eunuch outside the imperial study room came into the hall.

"Chu Xuan, please see me!"

"Xuan Chu chooses to enter the palace!"

After going back and forth, when Chu Xiran stepped into the threshold of the imperial study, He Lan had already recovered the clarity of the king, sitting upright on the top seat, and there was nothing unusual about it.

"I have met the emperor, my majesty is blessed!" Chu Xiran saluted, and then gave the eunuch with the letter of surrender in his hand.

He Lan took the letter of surrender from the eunuch, read it carefully for a moment, and then smiled and said: "Sure enough, you can't underestimate the Chu family's major general."

"The thieves have not yet been dealt with, everything depends on the emperor's decree. As for the Turkic Khan Manduo, he has also sent envoys to come to make amends for the "rogue bandits"."

"Back then, I really shouldn't have let the tiger go back to the mountain!"

"Your Majesty, although Turkic's vitality has been severely damaged this time, Manduo's ambition cannot be underestimated. Will the Emperor consider sending more troops to support the border to prevent further accidents?"

"I'll take care of these myself." He Lan Ruoming put down the surrender letter in his hand, stared at Chu Xiran who was wearing a red shirt, and said, "Do you have anything else to say?"

"Of course." Chu Xiran looked straight into his eyes at Shang Helan, and said clearly: "The emperor will not forget what he promised his concubine a year ago. Now that the concubine has returned in triumph, the emperor should honor it." promise!"

"The successor of Tiancheng? Xiran is sure you want me to fulfill this promise?"

"The concubine is sure!" Chu Xiran smiled. The red robe set off such a resolute smile. After more than a year of border life, he was reborn in the flames of war, and he already looked like a heroic man.

He Lan Ruoming didn't reply, but made everyone back down, and only he and Chu Xiran were left in the entire imperial study room, only to see him step down step by step and come to Chu Xiran's side.

He Lan's hand reached out to Chu Xiran's waist, pulled off his belt, and took off his shirt.

In Helan's memory, the once delicate and smooth skin has become a bit rough, and there are still many scars, some of which are not big or small. Although new flesh has begun to grow, which is close to the skin color, it can make people see the tragic .

"Aren't you ugly?" Chu Xiran felt He Lan's fingers brushing over his scars, the heat from the fingertips made his heart tremble slightly, it was so familiar that he expected the warmth of He Lan's embrace, but he held back , still unmoved.

"Your majesty, I know that the body of a 22-year-old adult man is no longer comparable to those soft and boneless beauties, not to mention that his body is already full of scars, and even if he sits on the emperor's couch, he will hurt the emperor." hands, not to mention being compared with countless young and beautiful women in the imperial garden. If such a person wants to be a queen, the emperor may feel embarrassed, but, after all, this is what you promised your concubine back then, please The emperor kept his promise."

"Chu Xiran, do you know how many "concubines" you have used today? You have been calling yourself a concubine since you negotiated with me." He Lan withdrew her hand from Chu Xiran, and at the same time Feeling the pain in his heart, he turned around and sat back on the throne, watched Chu Xiran put on his clothes again and put on his belt with cold eyes, before continuing: "I will naturally do what I promised you, go back to Yonghe Palace and wait for the imperial edict."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After all, he can only call himself "I" to him.

After exiting the imperial study, Chu Xiran heaved a sigh of relief when the door closed, and suddenly there was a sound of cracking in the room, and something was smashed.Chu Xiran stopped in his tracks, and just stood at the closed gate of the Imperial Study Room. He didn't leave until the inside finally became quiet.

He should not stay, only by continuing to move forward in this way can he find the courage to live.The dead father, the lost mother and sister, and all the Chu clan members who are suffering.In all of this, whose fault can it be said?

Three days later, Chu Xiran, who received the imperial decree, was not too surprised, but calmly received the decree to thank him, and asked Xiao Shunzi to reward the little eunuch who delivered the decree.

It's not that he doesn't know how He Lan Ruoming forced him to abdicate in the Golden Palace, in exchange for a group of old courtiers who acquiesced to such absurd canonization.

Entering the central palace as a man, mastering the seal of the phoenix and the world of motherhood, even he himself finds it ridiculous when he thinks about it, but there are people who are willing to accompany him crazy and let him mess around.But all of this is due to an exchange, a result of mutual utilization.

He wanted to laugh, but couldn't. He wanted to cry, only to realize that the tears had dried up.If possible, he would like to go back to the beginning, without entering this harem, without experiencing all this.

So now, have you died under the guillotine together with your father, and you no longer feel pain?However, in the eyes of the world, Chu Xiran is the lucky one who is favored by the emperor and can make him the empress against all opinions.

Such a man made Fendai of the harem lose color, let three thousand pets gather in one body, and moved everyone in Tiancheng to the deep affection of the emperor and queen.

How can it not be ridiculous?

The post-sealing ceremony kicked off amid intensive preparations.

On this day, the weather was sunny and sunny, and Chu Xiran returned to the day when he and He Lan got married in a daze, and it was so quiet and peaceful.

However, from a nobleman to a virtuous concubine to being demoted as a servant, and finally stepping on the position of queen, along the way, his state of mind is no longer as clear and clear as before.

Chu Xiran changed into the empress's phoenix robe at the canonization ceremony in the Yonghe Palace, and saw eight colorful phoenixes embroidered on the dazzling golden silk and satin, with several peonies interspersed among the colorful phoenixes. The colorful phoenix is ​​extraordinarily bright.

The phoenix crown with nine dragons, four phoenixes and three temples on the head is even more gorgeous. The dragon is hollowed out with gold wire, and the phoenix is ​​pasted with kingfisher feathers. , more than 150 gems.

"It's so heavy!" With such a big burden on her head, Chu Xiran shook her head impatiently, reaching out to grab it.

"Your Majesty, don't move. You are called Fengguan Xiapei, and you are much more beautiful than before." The maid in charge of changing Chu Xiran smiled and straightened the Fengguan for Chu Xiran.

Chu Xiran laughed at himself and said, "Naturally there is no comparison."

After everything was settled, I heard Xiao Linzi's voice from outside: "The Empress confers the letter, Baowen."

The palace door was pulled open from the outside, and Xiao Linzi was seen kneeling at the door holding a brocade tray padded with red velvet cloth. On the brocade tray were the queen's books that the emperor had read in the royal palace according to the rules. , Baowen, nothing more than some cognition after the confrontation and the requirements for the queen.

Holding the documents and looking at them for a while, I heard another eunuch shouting outside: "The auspicious time has come! Let's drive to the Hall of Supreme Harmony!"

A group of people moved to the Hall of Supreme Harmony in such a mighty way. When Chu Xiran walked on the long red paved floor to He Lan Ruoming at the head of the hall, he started to feel dizzy.

Looking down at all the civil and military officials and listening to the priest's long and lengthy sacrificial speech, it must be said that it was a hard job for the top-heavy Chu Xiran.He was restless, but he felt that someone was gently holding his hand beside him. Although he couldn't look down, he could still realize who was holding his hand tightly under the cover of the wide sleeve.

Gathering his mind, Chu Xiran let the hand hold him, but his eyes stopped on the body of Prime Minister Murong below, and he just stared at it until he felt the tingling pain from the palm of his hand, so he withdrew his eyes .

And that side also let go at this moment, Chu Xiran suddenly felt that all the strength in his body was drained, he turned his head to look at He Lan Ruoming, the young emperor stared at him meaningfully, smiled softly, and moved away out of sight.

But at this moment, the entire Hall of Supreme Harmony resounded with the voices of the ministers: "Congratulations to the emperor, long live the emperor! Congratulations to the empress, the empress is a thousand years old!"

By this time, the post-book ceremony was basically completed, leaving only the subsequent wedding banquet, but Chu Xiran, as the queen, did not need to attend.

Chu Xiran, who has been conferred the queen, naturally cannot return to the Yonghe Palace. The wedding room of the emperor and empress has always been the East Nuan Pavilion of the Kunning Palace.After entering Kunning Palace and East Nuan Pavilion, Chu Xiran let out a sigh of relief, and watched the maid remove the phoenix crown, and only tied up her hair casually.

He hadn't eaten since he got up, and he was already very hungry. Looking at the pile of pastries and dishes on the table, he used them unceremoniously.When he was seven or eight percent full, he held the wine glass again and looked at everything in Dongnuange.

The bright red dragon and phoenix double happiness brocade quilt, the curtain is a red happiness picture, there are Ruyi in the four corners of the wedding bed, there is also a big vase on the table next to the wine pot, pearls, gems, money, silver, gold, Ruyi, silver, Ruyi, gold, silver, and gold. Silver Eight Treasures, and at the other end is a big red candle with golden happy characters on it.

All of this is exactly the same as the wedding room in the Yonghe Palace back then, really the same.

Even the red in the room is too much to catch the eye.

As Chu Xiran drank the wine, his thoughts gradually drifted away. Every bit of the past six years was vividly remembered.

Every plant and tree in the Yonghe Palace, everyone smiles, looks at each other and embraces each other, and the entanglement on the bed every night, the familiar body temperature and embrace.

Even if every morning when we woke up together, that person would always say with a smile on his mouth, kissing his earlobe dotingly, "I'll go to court first, you can sleep a little longer and wait for me to come back."

At that time, I would blushed and nod, then drowsy and drowsy, and waited after waking up, waiting for him to go down, waiting for him to come to eat, and waiting for his personal eunuch to tell me that tonight the emperor Sleep in another palace.

Thinking about it, my heart hurts, and I can't burn the pain after drinking a glass of wine. It seems that the good nightmare once invaded my brain, and it was reproduced one by one, appearing in front of my eyes alternately, bloody The ground makes people dare not look directly at it.

How can someone who spoils him like that be willing to let him hurt?How could he be so cruel to kill him?How could he kill his father resolutely regardless of his feelings?

Does he really have no heart at all?If that is the case, why not let him go, why not let Chu Xiran be exiled to a far away place, at least, he can follow his mother and sister to take care of them instead of being helpless and not knowing where they are.

At least, that kind of distance can make him forget everything in the palace, and when he stops thinking, it will hurt at most, instead of being so unstoppable now.

He doesn't know if there is love, but such an unforgettable pain, but it will not be a little bit less because of love or not.

Chu Xiran was drunk, and fell down on the bed with red eyes, lying sideways, and buried her face in the quilt sobbing.

It wasn't until He Lan Ruoming entered the East Nuan Pavilion and looked at the man who was so drunk that he was in a mess, that he asked someone to put away the things on the table.

"Xiran, Xiran, can you give me the jug?" He Lan carefully tried to take the jug out of Chu Xiran's hand.

"If I don't give it, I won't give it to you!" Chu Xiran played a childish temper in a daze, and moved the flagon to her bosom.

"Hey, give it to me, okay, we'll have a drink tomorrow, huh?"

"No!" Chu Xiran shook her head stubbornly.

He Lan had no choice but to forcefully break Chu Xiran's fingers, took the jug and gave it to Xiao Linzi to take away.

After Xiao Linzi put away his things and closed the door, He Lan turned around and saw Chu Xiran who was sitting up and staring at him with squinted eyes.

"Why are you here? Didn't you go to Concubine De today? If you don't go to Concubine De, then you can go to Concubine Mei, or some concubine or some beauty! You should go, why come to my Yonghe Palace, let me tell you , I don’t care! Anyway, you are the emperor, besides me, you will like others, so I won’t feel sorry for you!”

Before he finished speaking, Chu Xiran fell down again, grabbed the quilt and put it in his arms, while rubbing his face, he said childishly: "Anyway, you said that you don't love me, don't touch me if you don't love me! Don’t touch me, hum, a beast that only thinks with its lower body, He Lan Ruoming, you idiot, fool, bastard, pervert!”

Hearing that Chu Xiran was drunk and still cursing herself, He Lan Ruoming burst out laughing, and lovingly stepped forward to take off Chu Xiran's shoes, widened his robe, and took off his own, then hugged Chu Xiran Xi Ran nestled on the bed.

Chu Xiran, who was only wearing white underwear, was already dead drunk, and it was rare that his red face was no longer so cold.

"You, it's great to be like this forever!" He Lan Ruoming put his arms around Chu Xiran, carefully looked at this face that he hadn't looked at carefully for a year, but was stunned when he noticed the crystal in the corner of the man's eyes.The person in his arms opened and closed his mouth and muttered softly.

He Lan Ruoming put his ear to his mouth, but he heard Chu Xiran muttering to himself.

"Ruoming, it doesn't matter if you don't love me, it really doesn't matter, I will still stay in Yonghe Palace obediently, I will be obedient, I will never lose my temper again, return my father, return my father, okay?"

He Lan Ruoming's mind went blank at that moment, he quickly withdrew his hands, carrying the quilt and wanted to escape, but found that the corner of his clothes was being pressed by the drunk man.He just half sat on the edge of the bed, turning his head to look at Chu Xiran's sleeping face.

With the frowning eyebrows, eyelashes stained with tears, and lips pursed in aggrieved dream, He Lan's heart suddenly softened, and he couldn't help but want to shake Chu Xiran awake, and cry together with him.

Turning around and bending down, fingers stroked Chu Xiran's eyebrows, wiped away the tears that were still wet from the corners of the eyes, and then came to those pink lips, stroking gently, back and forth, like a demon, and couldn't let it go.

How long has it been since you kissed him?After the incident with the Chu family, he deliberately left the Yonghe Palace in the cold, and deliberately stopped seeing his pale face every day.The person who would be self-willed, coquettish, and angry with himself has been replaced by a fiery coldness.

Thinking about it, He Lan unconsciously moved closer to those lips and covered them, the four petals touched, and a tingling sensation spread all over his body. It raged on Chu Xiran.

It's just that only he, He Lan Ruoming, knows all the pain at this moment, while the other person is too drunk to wake up.

"What should I do with you?" He Lan kissed Chu Xiran's collarbone, gnawed on it with nostalgia, imprinted each and every one of his own marks, wishing that he could never wash them off for the rest of his life.

"Don't, don't touch me!" Chu Xiran, who had her eyes closed, suddenly struggled, and stretched her hands into the distance, "Take your dirty hands away! Don't touch me! He Lan Ruoming, you are so cruel!"

He Lan Ruoming hugged the frightened person tightly, kissed over and over again and repeated: "Xi Ran, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

The drunk man seemed to realize something, and finally calmed down gradually. Following the habit of the two when they were in love, he stretched out his arms to grab He Lan's arms with his eyes closed, and his open legs were also hooked on He Lan Ruoming's arms. waist.

With every entry and exit of the other party, moans slowly broke from the corners of his mouth.

After a night of ups and downs, the sound of panting made people blush, Xiao Linzi and Xiao Shunzi who were guarding outside the house looked at each other, smiled, and temporarily let go of their worries for a whole day.

The bright red wedding candles burned to the end, the sky gradually turned white, and Dongnuan Pavilion was dimly seen through the windows.

The room was still a piece of red, and there was still a faint smell of ambiguity and lust from last night.

Chu Xiran opened her eyes in a daze, looking at Bai outside the window out of focus, and the diffused light invaded her body little by little, as if shouting something.

In fact, when He Lan entered his body last night, he had already been awakened by the pain. After all, he hadn't had intercourse for so long, and his tight body made it impossible for him to accept it.He could feel He Lan's careful penetration, and he could feel He Lan's crushing kisses burning his whole body.

So he pretended not to wake up, and let the night be absurd and indulgent, listening to He Lan's heavy panting and his own moaning intertwined.What's more, he is his queen. Could it be that he can jump up and kick people out of bed?Since it's embarrassing to be awake, it's better to pretend to be drunk, and then deceive yourself to enjoy the long-lost intimacy.

However, He Lan left before the night passed.As if waking up all of a sudden, he hurriedly retreated from his body, put on his clothes, and took Xiao Linzi away without any hesitation.

The room suddenly became deserted, and he heard Xiao Shunzi trying to call him outside, but he didn't answer, but just waited quietly.Wait for the dawn, after dawn, the heart will not hurt, it will be meaningless, and you can continue to smile gracefully and desertedly.

When the sun finally showed his face, Chu Xiran asked Xiao Shunzi to fetch hot water.In the past, He Lan would always gently wash his body after each affair, and would never leave him alone, but this time, He Lan just left.

The body is still sticky, and the marks left by the cloudy white liquid on the private parts and between the thighs have dried up.

After Xiao Shunzi exited the room anxiously, Chu Xiran supported the bedpost to get up, moved off the bed little by little, and stepped into the bathtub.The moment her sour body touched the hot water, she trembled, and her private parts felt burning pain from the hot water, causing Chu Xiran to curse "Bastard"!

After washing his body and putting on a new underwear, Chu Xiran called Xiao Shunzi back into the room to help him change.

Immediately, the originally deserted East Nuan Pavilion became lively again, with eunuchs and maids coming in and out, washing and dressing the male empress who was number one in Tiancheng.

The tradition of Tiancheng is that the emperor goes to court, and the queen listens to the government behind the curtain.

Tian Chengren felt that the empress is the emperor's wife, the mother of a country, and she also has to worry about the country's affairs, to relieve the emperor's worries and the people's problems.It's just that women have always been queens, and it doesn't make much sense to listen to politics behind the curtain. Now that it's a man who is the son of a criminal minister, that's another matter.

However, regardless of the doubts of the officials, He Lan Ruoming still insisted on letting Chu Xiran listen to the government behind the curtain, which was what he had agreed to at the beginning.Because only when he really joined the court, could he, Chu Xiran, find a chance to stumble the Murong clan.

But on the other hand, after He Lan Ruoming returned to his Qianqing Palace in the second half of the night, he also had a sleepless night.

The days and nights when Zeng and Chu Xiran slept together in the Yonghe Palace were lingering in his mind, and the unbearable lust for Chu Xiran just now made him understand how much he wanted to be able to hug her. He never let go.

But, is Chu Xiran willing?

He still remembered that in the days when they were most in love, when the two of them flew a kite together, Chu Xiran would always hold the string in his hand in a daze, look at the kite in the sky enviously, and said with a smile that he used to be free in the outside world.Then, he said how he was punished by his father to stand because of his playfulness, that he rode a horse and hunted in the forest with his friends, and said that he caught fish in the stream and played around.

At that time, Chu Xiran was the most real, yearning for freedom, yearning for flying, and would sigh and say, "It was your enemy who forced me to enter the palace to suffer this burden."

He knew what Chu Xiran really wanted, if it wasn't for the death of General Chu, if it wasn't for his mother and sister, maybe Chu Xiran would never come back to be a queen after going to the battlefield .

And he, the emperor of Tiancheng, the king of a country, what qualifications does he have to let him stay?

He used and deceived again and again, even to this day, in order to get rid of Prime Minister Murong's big worry, and put Chu Xiran in the position of queen.

Let me ask, how embarrassing would it be for a man to become the mother of a country?What's more, is it the stubborn person?But this is a chess that has to be played, one for revenge and the other for the throne.

He Lan didn't know if the country was really that important, but it was a responsibility that had been deeply rooted in his heart since he was a child. No one in his education as a king told him how to choose when Ruoai and Jiangshan were in conflict.He abided by his consistent principles and ruthlessness, and allowed things to develop to this point, only to realize that he was the one who suffered the last pain.

If I had known this earlier, would I have nodded the first and only time when Chu Xiran asked him if he loved him?But will this change?The Chu family will still be eliminated under Prime Minister Murong's plan, and the trajectory of everything will not change.

"Has the queen got up?" He Lan asked Xiao Linzi who was waiting for her to wash.

"Go back to the emperor, get up."

"En." He Lan Ruoming nodded, then suddenly said: "Someone add a cushion to the phoenix seat."

"The slaves have been added." Xiao Linzi lowered his head and suppressed a smile.

"You're getting more thoughtful."

"Anyway, the servant has served the emperor since he was a child, how could he not be so thoughtful?"

Xiao Linzi twisted the last button for He Lan, and suddenly fell silent, He Lan was wondering, but he heard Xiao Linzi say: "The servant just doesn't understand, since the emperor loves the queen, why didn't he spend the night in Kunning Palace last night, but asked Going back to Qianqing Palace? How should I put it, yesterday was considered the empress’s big wedding, leaving the empress alone, there may be some rumors in the harem, and it will be the empress’ master who will be wronged.”

"Xiao Linzi, you have to understand that in this palace, it is safer to be wronged. I would rather wrong him than want him to suffer the slightest injury. What's more, he didn't want to be the queen for me. What difference does it make to him whether I stay or not? Besides, that old villain Murong is in a hurry, so I want to make him feel at ease, right? Otherwise, how will the queen take revenge?"

"Your Majesty, are you going to turn over the cards of Empress Concubine De tonight?"

"You really know everything! Hey, Concubine De, I don't know what the trouble is going to be!" He Lan thought of Murong Zhaohua, who was always pear blossoming and raining because of the concubine, and felt irritated for a while.

"Your Majesty, after getting rid of Prime Minister Murong, will the Emperor and Empress be as good as before?"

"I don't know either." He Lan took a deep breath and said, "It's time to go to court."

"Let's drive to the Hall of Supreme Harmony!" Xiao Linzi opened the door and shouted outside.

The eunuchs passed on one by one, and when the voice reached Kunning Palace, Chu Xiran, who was already dressed in court clothes, stepped into the soft sedan chair accompanied by Xiao Shunzi, and headed for the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Tiancheng Meiji ninth year, autumn.

Tiancheng's only male queen since the founding of the country embarked on the road of listening to the government behind the curtain. From then on, one king and one queen presided over the government, and people called it the prosperous year of Tiancheng.As a result, more beautiful love stories have been circulated among the people.

But only two people remember that this year is the sixth year of their acquaintance, and it is also the sixth year that their relationship has completely changed.

One season of autumn is like six years ago.

The sky is getting colder, the leaves are falling, the maple is red, and the new show girls have also entered the Chuxiu Palace.

Everything continues to repeat itself according to the original track, making people sad over and over again.

On the second day after the Empress Sealing Ceremony, the emperor turned over the cards of the Concubine De, and stayed with Zhongcui Palace for three consecutive days.

Rumors spread everywhere, and everyone in the harem whispered that the emperor conferred the empress title purely because the empress empress was a general and had made military achievements, so the emperor gave him special grace to appease the Chu family's extermination.Some people even snickered, saying how can this clanking man compare with a woman?What's more, the empress is already in her twenties, and she is no longer soft and soft, unable to distinguish between male and female when she first entered the palace.

And since then, He Lan Ruoming and Chu Xiran have also maintained their days of being tepid and respectful to each other.Only when approving papers in the Imperial Study Room, would he occasionally smile knowingly, two identical replies in one memorial, how could it not make people happy?

He Lan Ruoming liked to see Chu Xiran at that time, with a sly smile and slightly curved mouth corners, very much like the appearance of putting on airs after adding salt to his tea by trickery.

He Lan would occasionally stay in the Kunning Palace, just chatting gently, without pain or itching. Gradually, it seemed that apart from the government affairs, they could no longer talk and laugh like they used to. They could only hug each other and roll on the bed. Where is true and where is false.

Once He Lan wanted to wipe Chu Xiran off afterwards, but saw Chu Xiran dodge his outstretched hand and stopped him, saying, "Your Majesty, you are the king of a country, so it's inappropriate for a concubine to come by himself." good."

So, watching Xiao Linzi call someone to carry hot water behind the screen, watching Chu Xiran walk in naked, watching the figure behind the screen swaying and swaying, mixed with candlelight.

He Lan turned his back and closed his eyes, he thought, go to sleep, wake up, they are still an emperor and a queen, not the former Ruoming and Xiran.

When Chu Xiran returned to the bed, He Lan had already breathed evenly, her side face turned away was still pretty and handsome, just like the first time she saw her back then, it made people fascinated.With a soft expression, Chu Xiran just looked at He Lan's sleeping face.

It was the same way back then, when I woke up in the middle of the night, looking at this man who was aggressive but caring and gentle to me, I couldn't help but rub into his arms, and He Lan Ruoming, who was sleeping, would always hug him tighter as if he had a feeling , so tight that he could hear his steady and powerful heartbeat, beating in his ears, endlessly.

Chu Xiran, who came back to his senses, sighed, rubbed his hot face before climbing onto the couch.

He couldn't help getting closer to his back, rubbing against his head, inhaling deeply and exhaling again. After repeated repetitions, he felt that his eyes began to turn red and his heart began to ache, so he stopped such movements.

"Why does it still hurt?"

Chu Xiran laughed at herself, and finally turned around, turned her back to He Lan Ruoming and closed her eyes.

That is to say, after that, He Lan never helped Chu Xiran wipe her body with her own hands again. Often when Chu Xiran stepped out of the tub, He Lan would have already fallen asleep, and even disappeared afterwards.

Only Chu Xiran was left alone in the East Nuan Pavilion, facing the night, waiting for the dawn, then calculating the government affairs, watching the turmoil in the harem with a smile.

The resplendent Kunning Palace was actually colder than the Yonghe Palace.

At the end of autumn, the green head cards of the beautiful women in the Chuxiu Palace were also listed, and they really joined the competition in the harem.

The batch of beautiful girls selected by the imperial concubine Nalan for the emperor did not cause much disturbance in the harem, and some of the emperor favored them for a few days, but only Shuyi was canonized.

The emperor's interest was completely on the little prince born by Concubine Nalan, and it was often seen in the imperial garden that the emperor was holding the half-year-old prince, with only Nalan by his side.

"If the emperor has time, he should visit the empress." Nalan took the sleeping baby from Helan's hand, turned around and handed it to the nurse.

"Nalan, are you chasing me?"

"The concubine dare not." Nalan said dare not, but there was no trace of panic on his face.

"Since you became the noble concubine, you have been so reluctant to me. If it were someone else, I'm afraid you would have died thousands of times earlier."

"Your Majesty, the heart of my concubine is no longer in this world of mortals, you understand."

"But you still can't let go of Xiran, can you? Otherwise, you wouldn't have given birth to a prince for me, and you wouldn't have stayed by my side and tried your best." He Lan said with a wry smile.

"It's a pity that because of the emperor, he and I have become estranged." Nalan sighed, "Xiran has too many knots in his heart. Whether his heart is cold or dead, I don't know for sure, Your Majesty. Just ask yourself to be blessed."

"Let's wait for a while, that old guy Murong has been doing a lot of things in private lately, Xiran is pretending to be confused on the surface, I'm afraid he's about to start acting."

"What about the emperor? Just watch the show with a cold eye? Then sit back and reap the benefits? It's just like the Murong family framed the Chu family back then. When the dust settles, another imperial decree will make people die forever?"

Nalan sneered: "Your Majesty, Nalan understands it, Xiran understands it even more clearly, why do you think he is estranged from me? It's not because the concubine has a prince, and it's not because the concubine has the title of noble concubine!"

Nalan looked at the silent Helan, and finally softened his tone, "Before the expedition, he came to look for my concubine, and he said three words to my concubine that day—"I'm sorry".

Seeing He Lan's instantly stiff expression, Nalan turned around and walked out of the Imperial Garden. Her voice still reached He Lan's ears slowly, and she said, "Your Majesty, he knows everything in his heart."

Tiancheng Meiji ten years, Xia.

Prime Minister Murong was beheaded for the crime of collaborating with Nanzhao for treason, implicating nine clans and hundreds of lives, instantly turning into a river of blood.

It is said that the current empress personally imprisoned her for the sentence, and when she returned to Kunning Palace after dusk, she suddenly fell ill and lay on the bed for a month before gradually recovering.

According to folklore, it was the empress who was killed by the spirit of killing, so she broke her body, but I don't know how fragile it will be when the tense heartstrings suddenly collapse when a person kills an enemy with blood.

During the month when the queen fell ill, the emperor only visited the queen once.

The emperor's face was pale when the sun came out of the Kunning Palace, and the sweat from the forbearance was densely packed on his forehead, and his right hand, which was firmly protecting his left arm, was stained with blood stains in his clothes.

The emperor strictly prohibited the gossip and rumors that spread that day, so no one knew what happened in Kunning Palace that day. They only guessed that the emperor was injured, but he didn't know where the injury came from or who it was.

At the end of summer, the recovered Emperor Tiancheng suddenly announced that he would go to the south of the Yangtze River.