fluttering night wind

Jinguan City in winter is really lackluster. Not to mention that the hibiscus flowers have withered, even the bamboos in Wangjiang Tower have lost all their leaves.Living at home is boring, looking at the sky covered by the cornices in Changle Palace, only the white figure of Xiling Snow Mountain can be seen faintly.

Behind the "Dian of Chengqian" in the East Palace, there is a newly built pavilion called "Youhuangju", which is modeled after Jiangzuo garden design, with several winding corridors, two pavilions floating on water, flowers, trees, bamboo and stones, all of which are exquisite.The princess lives in this golden house. The clothes and houses are extremely luxurious, and the eating utensils are all skillful.

It has been three cold and hot days since the princess married to Yizhou.The people of Xichuan spent three years stretching their necks and waiting to see the excitement, but the performance of the princess was as lackluster as the winter in Jinguan City.She is not as unrestrained and out of line as described in the rumors, but she quietly stays at the gate of the East Palace, so that many ministers and wives of the imperial capital still do not know if she has a monkey-like appearance. faces.

In the first lunar month, Emperor Tianning came to Youhuangju to see the Crown Princess, and happened to meet an envoy from Cheng Kingdom presenting a festive gift to Bai Xiliu.These gifts should have been delivered before the twelfth lunar month, but it was raining and snowing on the road, and the road to Shu was difficult to walk, so they were only delivered to the palace today.

When Mencius arrived, the envoy had already left.A woman in a Chinese dress with a delicate bun and her hair covered with jewels, emeralds, gold and silver treasures was sitting in the hall checking the gift list page by page.He walked over and glanced casually. Besides gold and silver playthings and brocade jewellery, there were also things like "a bundle of willows folded from the old house, a box of Nanshan plum blossoms" and the like, and he laughed out loud: "Look at your father." , What is there in Xichuan? Baba asked someone to bring it. "

White fine willow happened to open a brocade box at hand, and saw a bundle of willow branches inside tied with ribbons. After a long journey, the leaves were still green and ready to drip, and suddenly felt heartbroken, suppressing tears: "Always a heart, talk Soothe the condolences."

A line of inexplicable small characters caught Meng Ziying's attention. He pointed and asked, "What is this?" Forced to go back.While supporting her waist, she shouted to the outside of the hall: "Come here, bring in the Chunyu that Cheng Dynasty paid tribute to and show His Majesty."

After a while, a palace official came in with a food box full of fans.Mencius Ying couldn't help but laugh: "What the hell? Is this the spring rain?" Bai Xiliu said with a smile: "This is probably my younger brother's masterpiece. When he was young, he didn't like to eat this thing, so I lied to him that it was the spring rain. It was frozen before it fell to the ground, and it was the best food that ordinary people couldn't eat. From then on, he called this thing Spring Rain."

Meng Ziying couldn't help laughing out loud when she heard the stories about her children.He wanted to find a few embarrassing things about the prince when he was a child to make fun of, but if he searched his stomach, there was nothing in the back of his mind.There are only a handful of memories about the prince.And none of those memories were pleasant.

Seeing the blank and unwilling look on his face, Bai Xiliu asked tentatively, "Father, what's the matter with you?" Meng Ziying was startled for a moment, and said, "It's nothing. I came to see you, I always wanted to ask you What happened between you and the crown prince last winter solstice." Bai Xiliu's eyes flickered slightly, and he lowered his head and said, "It's just a slight quarrel. It's my child's fault. I haven't apologized to His Highness, which made His Highness very angry."

The East Palace is at odds. There are rumors that after the last winter solstice, the prince and his wife had a big fight, and the two have not spoken to each other.On New Year's Eve this year, the emperor ordered the prince to toast the princess, but the prince refused to accept the order.Then he withdrew from the family banquet without warning and walked away.Because of the New Year, the emperor is inconvenient to punish.Seeing the first month of the month, Meng Ziying beat up all the people in the East Palace who were close to the prince. Even the prince's favorite side concubine, Zhao Shi, was fined to do hard work in the court.

The emerald green phoenix on her head and the golden skirt on her body are the things that many women dream of, but they are so incongruous when worn on her body.Meng Ziying sighed deeply, walked towards the entrance of the hall, and said: "A Liu, I really never thought that you would marry in Yizhou. I never thought that your father would let you go, and that you were willing to be a prisoner." , stay here in Chengqian Hall."

Bai Xiliu followed his footsteps slowly, Sihe Ruyi Tianhua brocade made a small sound on the ground, she also sighed and said: "If the child doesn't come, His Majesty will have an excuse to raise troops, so the child has to come." Meng Ziying looked back at her no longer childish face, and said with a smile: "If your father led troops to attack Jinguan City today, what would you do?"

Bai Xiliu raised her eyebrows and smiled lightly, and said bluntly: "My boy will persuade you to open the city without blood! You can't beat my father, and you won't fight him."

Her sharp eyes lingered on her face, her eyes didn't blink, and she didn't show any sign of shrinking back. In the end, it was Meng Ziying who lost the battle. "I'm relieved if you do this." After he finished speaking, he left Youhuang Residence without looking back.

Bai Xiliu stood on the white jade steps at the entrance of the hall. In the direction of his departure, a ginkgo tree was falling its last yellow leaves, shaped like a spring butterfly.Winter has arrived, and spring is not far away. "Do you know, Yu Niang, in my former world, in Christianity, butterflies are a symbol of rebirth."

A woman wearing a female officer's attire and wearing a double-ringed fairy bun came out. She held a white fox cloak in her hand and spread it over the body of the princess.Bai Xiliu said softly: "It turns out that he has been waiting for the emperor to come to him, so let's fulfill them." Xie Yu said with a sad face, "Then who will fulfill Your Highness?" Bai Xiliu held her hand, Staring at her, he said, "With you by my side, we are already much happier than the rest of the world."

Xie Yu's heart was pierced by a knife, and he nodded reluctantly after a while: "It's all up to His Highness to decide."

Spring rain, is it between the vernal equinox and the valley rain?This time is really difficult to grasp.

After Mencius Ying left Youhuang Residence, before she left the East Palace, someone came to report that the crown prince had been kneeling on the steps of the main hall of Chengqian Hall for an hour.Mencius turned his head abruptly, his eyes were like knives, and his anger flashed: "It's because of that Zhao Yaoji. Ask him to kneel, I see how tough he is. If a man doesn't shed blood and tears for a woman, is he still a man? "

In the afternoon of this day, a messenger came out of Changle Palace and went straight to Banqiao Alley in the west of Jinguan City.There was a family at the far end of the alley. In the courtyard, a five or six-year-old boy was boxing.There were two people in the main hall, one stood and the other sat, and the person sitting was surprised: "Your Highness has changed his mind again?"

The little boy reined in his fists, ran into the room sweating, and asked, "Brother Han, when can I enter the palace to see my sister and Your Highness?"

Han Qingshang stretched out his hand to hug him on his lap, but he didn't bother to answer his topic, he just said to the palace: "Your Highness wants to exchange the Wanhe Pine Organ for the Canghai Longyin Qin. These two pianos are very similar in appearance. Only The strings are different, so don't make a mistake." The envoy nodded, as if remembering something, and took out a red pill from his pocket: "This is what Xie Sile asked me to bring to the pavilion master. "

Han Qingshang crushed the red pill, took out the note inside, and was dumbfounded after seeing it: "Antifetal medicine?"

In the evening, the sky turned cloudy and the wind was blowing. Mencius Ying read a book on the Qintai after dinner.In his right hand was a lyre with a burnt tail, and for some reason the strings vibrated slightly.Without raising his head, he raised his voice and asked, "What's the matter?"

Turning in from the gate of the hall, a palace supervisor came in, running out of breath: "Your Majesty, the crown prince is still kneeling in Chengqian Hall." Meng Ziying was startled, flipping the pages of the book at random, and said: "He can kneel as long as he likes. The palace supervisor glanced at him, lowered his head and said cautiously: "It's snowing outside, and the princess ordered someone to send fur clothes to the prince, but the prince beat the person who delivered the clothes, and made a big fuss. The empress is about to come to inherit the throne." Your Majesty, please forgive the crown prince and let the crown prince's side concubine, Mrs. Zhao."

With a sound of "crash", Meng Ziying threw the book on the ground and said angrily: "Nizi!" He didn't have time to punish the son, so he hurriedly ordered: "Quick! Go and stop the princess! It's dark and the road is slippery, so tell her not to step out of the East Palace." .I will pardon the Zhao family tomorrow. Hurry up and spread the word!"

The palace supervisor resigned and went to Chengqian Hall of the East Palace to pass on the message.But Meng Ziying couldn't read the book anymore, and was panting with anger.After calming down, I felt that tonight was too strange.He then walked to the entrance of the hall and asked the palace warden on duty who was the commander of the forbidden palace on duty today. After learning that it was Shen Junli, he was relieved.While announcing Xue Xueyi to the Qintai, he ordered people to light Su Hexiang to soothe the gods.

Wrong Jinbo mountain furnace, engraved with the posture of a panlong, correcting the head and half holding the lotus, and green smoke rising from the heart of the lotus.He fell asleep on top of Yan's bedroom with his clothes on.In his sleep, he felt a figure coming to the bed. The man stroked his hair and called him softly in a familiar voice: "Abao, Abao, wake up." He rubbed his eyes and asked in a daze : "What are you doing?" The man said: "Don't you want to see the incense? Come and see."

He got out of bed barefoot, and the man took his hand and led him to the window.In the distance is the pure white figure of Xiling Snow Mountain, and a white jade lion incense burner is placed on the incense stand nearby.In the morning and evening of the wind and moon, hang down the heavy curtains, burn a furnace of Suhe, watch its fine smoke gather and disperse, see its fragrance far away and clear, and dream back to the autumn mountains as promised.

The person on the opposite side tapped his head lightly with a long-handled lotus magpie tail stove, and said with a smile, "It's time to wake up, Ah Bao, how long are you going to sleep for?"

Meng Ziying sat up suddenly, her eyes widened, there was no dream of Meng Ziyou's soul in the bedroom.Even the "A Bao" seemed to be misheard.

There was a creaking sound of stepping on the snow outside the hall, someone rushed in, and the armor on his body clanged.That person walked into the bedroom, as expected, it was Shen Junli.Seeing the thin snow falling on his shoulders, Meng Ziying said in surprise: "It's so heavy? Why hasn't Xueyi come yet?" Xue Xueyi's Taiji Hall is very close to the Qintai, usually only a few steps away, and the road will come again at night. Difficult to go should have arrived long ago.

Shen Junli held the sword at his waist, strode to the couch, and said in a deep voice, "She won't come."

Mencius Ying slipped her cloaked hand, and the cloak fell to her feet.Shen Junli half knelt down, picked up the cloak for him, spread his arms, and draped it over his shoulders.Meng Ziying smelled that besides the coldness of snow falling outside, there was also a suppressed smell of blood on his body.His heart was about to jump out of his chest, and he said tremblingly, "Did you kill her?"

Shen Junli's subordinates didn't stop, wrapping the emperor's whole body in a cloak, revealing only a thin pale face: "Yes, Your Majesty." Mencius slashed at his face with a palm, but Shen Junli quickly caught him. The latter boldly said: "Your relatives in the court have long been dissatisfied with what the head of Xue has done." Mencius smiled back in anger: "You have long been dissatisfied with me, Your Majesty!"

Suhe has been reduced to ashes, but Boshan is still in the clouds.The smell of iron and blood remained in the bedroom where the aroma had dissipated.Thanks for waking me up, brother!This is the original flavor of this palace.

Meng Ziying sneered and said: "You want to force the palace? I don't believe that you can control all the forbidden troops in the palace." Shen Junli pinched the veins of his wrist, looked up at his majesty, and said: "It turns out that you can't. Thanks to this The crown prince has been tossing around in the Chengqian Palace for two days, and it will be the same tonight. Your Majesty has transferred all the elites in the palace to protect the crown prince and princess. This Taiji Palace and the Qintai will have an opportunity to take advantage of."

Hearing the words, Mencius felt like falling into an ice cellar. He remained calm in the face of danger and quickly assessed the situation. Then he looked down at Shen Junli and said with a pleasant face, "Jun Li, you have been by my side since you were 13 years old. It has been almost 20 years now." .I don’t think I’ve treated you badly.” It was precisely because of the person in front of him who had grown up since he was a child that he let his guard down and gave him a taste of betrayal.

"Yes, when I entered the palace, the crown prince was still in the mother's womb, and now the crown prince is married." Recalling the past, Shen Junli gradually showed a gentle and affectionate expression on his face, but he held Mencius in his arms. Ying's hand didn't lose half of its strength.

Mencius Ying pursed her lips and said with a light smile, "Am I wronging others? Are people wronging me? The world has its own judgment."

Shen Junli let go of the hand holding the sword, and he stretched out his hand to caress Meng Ziying's cheek, his fingers lingering, and said: "Your Majesty has karmic obstacles in his heart, and I want to cut my love for His Majesty's Huijian. I would rather bear Your Majesty than the community. "

Mencius avoided his hand in disgust, and said resolutely: "The state is my state, what are you doing?"

"The country is indeed His Majesty's country, but the ministers are the ministers of the country. The counselor of Yu, dare you be foolish and loyal? Your Majesty tolerated the sound of the white goose everywhere, and loved his daughter very much. All the unfavorable and white goose sounds in the court are admonishing His Majesty will ignore it. Those who are mild will stay in the middle, and those who are serious will be convicted for their words, which will chill the hearts of the ministers. At the same time, the Cheng Dynasty has reduced the territory of Xichuan every year and blocked the Yangtze River waterway several times. I would like to ask: In the future, when the sword gate is ravaged and the iron cavalry is approaching the suburbs, can your majesty still be able to dig deep into the palace without being sick?" Shen Junli raised his voice, unable to suppress his excitement.

Meng Ziying only felt that this person looked hideous, and she didn't want to talk any more, so she wanted to push him away and get up.But as soon as he exerted force on his arm, his whole body felt sore and limp, and he couldn't even pull off the cloak. He watched the soft fur slip from his fingertips.He struggled desperately and leaned over, unexpectedly rolled off the bed.

A pair of strong arms hugged him, and as soon as Meng Ziying smelled the blood on his body, she felt sick and retched a few times, her face was completely pale. "Why can't I use my internal strength? You poisoned me?"

Shen Junli said softly: "Your Majesty is too tired and needs to take a good rest. Tonight Chengqian Palace is also the highlight."

"Don't hurt Xiliu." Meng Ziying just said this sentence, and then completely fainted.

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