Reborn as King again

The Lenggong is the place where the concubines of the previous emperors lived. In addition to a plague a few years ago, most of the people in the Lenggong died. When He Wenliu moved in, there were almost no living people in the Lenggong. up.

On the first day he lived in the cold palace, the eldest prince Li Chen visited him quietly.Li Chen told He Wenliu that he saw Li Ji push Concubine Ying down the lake with his own eyes, and watched the fourteenth prince Li Qi die before leaving from the lake.Li Mujing did not blame Li Ji wrongly, Li Ji's relegation to Yuncheng was already the best ending.

Li Chen told these things in order to untie the knot between He Wenliu and Li Mujing, but he didn't know that He Wenliu knew about it a long time ago, and he knew his son very well, but he had been lying to himself that Li Ji was innocent, and now Now that Li Chen, a witness, was standing in front of him, He Wenliu had no choice but to recognize the facts.

He Wenliu thought that he could adapt to the life in the cold palace, but gradually he found that after being favored by Li Mujing, it was so difficult to live that kind of transparent life, not to mention the life in the cold palace was even more difficult than the life of being cold in the harem suffer.

There was no one to serve him, He Wenliu did everything by himself, and the little eunuch who delivered the meals only delivered meals every two or three days, which made He Wenliu taste the feeling of being hungry for the first time.Due to the cold body, He Wenliu would add an extra layer of quilt even in summer, but there was not even a single extra quilt in the cold palace.

Half a month after He Wenliu moved into the cold palace, Jia Wanru paid a personal visit.Seeing that He Wenliu's face was very sick, she knew that he had been neglected in Lenggong, so she immediately called Wen Min, the nun in charge of Lenggong, and the little eunuch who delivered food to Lenggong, and interrogated them one by one.

Looking at the environment of the cold palace, Jia Wanru frowned and said: "Even if Concubine Wen stays in the cold palace, but the emperor didn't demote his concubine, then he is the biggest master in the cold palace. It's good for you, look at Concubine Wen's temper." If you bully me well and be so negligent, if I hadn’t come to visit Concubine Wen today, I’m afraid you would have been kept in the dark.”

"Concubine Wan... No, concubine, concubine Wan, please spare me!" Aunt Wen Min and the eunuch Xiao Meizi were so frightened that they kowtowed and begged for mercy, but they couldn't help but mutter in their hearts. Why did the concubine suddenly show up to help Concubine Wen?They have never heard of any intersection between the two.

It is because there is no intersection and no conflict of interests that Jia Wanru came to visit He Wenliu in the cold palace.If one of the concubines in the harem is the one who wins Li Mujing's heart the most and who can understand Li Mujing's thoughts the most, it is definitely Jia Wanru.Jia Wanru could tell that Li Mujing's relegation of He Wenliu to the cold palace was only temporary, and he just wanted to refresh He Wenliu's spirit.

"Both of you go down, and each of you will get twenty boards." Jia Wanru said.

"Yes... yes, thank you, the imperial concubine, for your life..."

Jia Wanru turned her head, sighed, and persuaded: "Concubine Wen, look, the environment in the cold palace is so bad, can you bear it? I remember that your health is not very good. If you get sick, the emperor will feel sorry for you. "

"Thank you, Concubine Wan, for worrying, I can bear it." He Wenliu said lightly.

"Concubine Wen, why are you bothering?" Jia Wanru comforted her kindly, "I don't know why you got angry with the emperor, but the emperor still thinks about you every day. Think about it, you are the mother of the sixth prince." Concubine, the sixth prince did such a thing, you can hardly escape the blame, but did the emperor ask you about your crime? Even the impeachment letter from the speech officer was suppressed by the emperor for you. The emperor has done his best to you, so now Is it so difficult for you to turn around and admit your mistake?"

"Yes...it's really difficult." He Wenliu replied like this.

"Concubine Wen!" Jia Wanru didn't know how to speak.

He Wenliu pursed her lips, raised her head and asked, "It's my minister who is sorry for the emperor, who made him fall in love with me wrongly. I also ask Concubine Wan not to force me anymore. I just want to live in the cold palace."

Seeing that He Wenliu was determined to stay in the cold palace, Jia Wanru couldn't help feeling a little depressed, knowing that it would be useless to talk, so she had to leave angrily, "Then take good care of yourself, and if you need anything, just tell me."

"Thank you, Concubine Wan, for your love."

Jia Wanru walked out of the side room where He Wenliu lived, and saw Aunt Wenmin and Xiaomeizi walking towards here after receiving the boards in the courtyard.

Before the two of them greeted each other, Jia Wanru said, "Take care of Concubine Wen, if Concubine Wen is missing a piece of meat, be careful with your skin!"

"Yes Yes."

After leaving the cold palace gate, Taohong helped Jia Wanru onto the palace sedan chair.The eunuchs carried the sedan chairs and walked towards Baoge Palace.

On the way, Jia Wanru opened the sedan chair curtain and said to Tao Hong who was following the sedan chair, "Go to the Leng Palace later to see what Concubine Wen lacks, and make up for her. Also, go to the imperial doctor to show him. If Concubine Wen is not willing, don't force her, you know?"

"Miss Concubine Wan, why are you being so nice to Concubine Wen? He is in the cold palace, so there will be fewer people competing for favor with you." Tao Hong said unfairly.

"It's not that my palace is nice to Concubine Wen, these are the emperor's intentions," Jia Wanru always knew how to please Li Mujing, "If the emperor can't save face to do it, then this palace will just follow suit."

Tao Hong thought for a while and said: "But Concubine Wen is already in the cold palace, there are so many concubines in the harem, the emperor won't miss him for long, so you better leave him alone."

"Don't worry about it so much, I have my own plans." Jia Wanru didn't say much, and sat in the sedan chair again.

With Jia Wanru's care, He Wenliu's standard of living in the cold palace has improved several levels. The nuns in charge and the few eunuchs in the cold palace greeted him with smiles every time, and no longer neglected him.

A few days later, two people He Wenliu was familiar with finally came to the cold palace, Xinyue and Xiaoluzi.

Little Luzi finally saw his mistress, and immediately lay down at her feet, with snot and tears, she said: "Mistress, the slave is here to accompany you." But Xinyue knelt on the ground without saying a word.

It can be said that Xinyue is the person He Wenliu has trusted the most in the palace for so many years, but what did Xinyue do to betray him to Li Mujing? !

He Wenliu couldn't accept Xinyue's actions, but he could understand that Li Mujing was the emperor, and he asked Xinyue to do things for him. If Xinyue refused, he would die!In all fairness, Xinyue has helped him a lot over the years, and Xinyue handles all the affairs of Qingluan Palace. If Li Mujing hadn't identified Xinyue's identity, He Wenliu would have trusted her forever.

Xinyue knelt at the door of He Wenliu's bedroom for five days and nights without eating or drinking, and almost died.In the end, He Wenliu forgave Xinyue. After all, Xinyue had never really hurt him. The pawn whose identity was exposed would not end well. If he did not keep Xinyue in, Xinyue would really have nowhere to go. .

With the company of Xinyue and Xiaoluzi, He Wenliu seems to have returned to the time when he was in Yiliu Palace, the time when there was no favor, no calculation, and was forgotten. It was also the time when He Wenliu was the most peaceful and had the purest feelings for Li Mujing .

He Wenliu didn't talk much at first, but now he has become even more silent. Sometimes he can't say a word for more than ten days. What he does most is to be in a daze, quietly in a daze. No one knows what he is thinking in his heart.

Thanks to Xiaoluzi's popularity in the harem, he couldn't see He Wenliu getting so depressed, so he sneaked out of the cold palace, found a gardener with a good relationship in the imperial garden, and wanted some peony seeds, but there were some peony seeds in the palace. The only place where peonies bloom is Qingluan Temple, and there is no gardener in the imperial garden, so the gardener gave Xiaoluzi other flowers, such as roses, crabapples, and roses.

After Xiaoluzi got the flower seed, he gave it to He Wenliu.Letting He Wenliu plant flowers and raise grass is better than being in a daze all day long.

Time passed day by day like this, until that day, a few uninvited guests came to the cold palace, and the new young mistress wanted to gradually look like the former favorite concubine.The fate of those two young masters can be imagined, and in the end Li Mujing directly killed Concubine Wen with the stick on the grounds of disturbing Concubine Wen's peace.This is a reminder to all the concubines in the palace, don't trouble Concubine Wen if you have anything to do, the emperor still has a place for Concubine Wen in his heart.

Counting the days, He Wenliu has been in the cold palace for almost two years. Li Mujing said that as long as He Wenliu is willing to admit his mistakes, he will let the past go.But He Wenliu, who bowed his head first every time, refused to give in this time. It wasn't that he didn't love her anymore, but that he couldn't face it, and couldn't find a reason to persevere back then.

He Wenliu knew that no one was to blame, he had no one to vent his anger on, he could only blame Li Mujing for seeking his own psychological comfort, He Wenliu had never been a strong person.

At the Qingluan Hall, He Wenliu grabbed Li Mujing's sleeve and blurted out the sentence "I don't seem to like you anymore", and regretted it the next moment. He didn't know how he would say that. He looked at With Li Mujing's injured expression, he really wanted to apologize and explain, but Li Mujing didn't give him this chance, but asked him to go to the cold palace to reflect on himself.

Yes, introspection, after some introspection in the cold palace, He Wenliu, who was stunned by Li Ji's death, also sobered up, this time he won't bow his head, he won't explain, since he can't face it, never seeing each other is the best choose.

******

The atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the palace this year is really gloomy. It is said that a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor had a big fight with the Queen Mother in the Palace of Compassion and Peace. That night, the emperor didn't attend at all, and the empress dowager's face was also very ugly, and she left after a short stay.

Seeing that the two big figures in the palace were gone, all the concubines had no intention of staying any longer, so they left the table one after another.

Duanmuchen and a group of internal eunuchs circled the artificial lake back to Laiyi Hall, halfway on the way, they heard a noise in the small garden.Out of curiosity, Duanmuchen turned his way to have a look.

In the small garden, there were only three or five internal eunuchs surrounding a little girl. The little girl was about eight or nine years old, wearing a goose yellow brocade palace dress, with a princess bun and an oval face, looking cute and cute.

The little girl said with red eyes: "Brother Dahuang is not here, neither is Su Zhuo, there is no one to play with me, you are all bad guys!" As she spoke, the little girl began to cry.

Three or five inner eunuchs hurriedly coaxed, and explained: "Your Highness the First Prince resigned at the beginning of the dinner because he didn't finish the work of the Ministry of Rituals. As for Mr. Su, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, so Mr. Su naturally wants to go home and meet with you." The family is reunited to eat moon cakes, little ancestor, they will all come to play with you tomorrow, so don't cry... let's play with you today, okay?"

The little girl's eyes were red, and she said with disgust: "You guys are not as beautiful as Big Brother."

"..." The inner eunuchs were speechless, no one in this world who could compare in appearance to the First Prince hadn't been born yet.

"And..." The little girl continued to say with disgust: "Su Zhuo will bring pine nut candy to Bengong, do you have pine nut candy?!"

"..." The eunuchs were asked again, pine nut candy is a folk product, how could there be it in the palace? !A small eunuch quickly said cleverly: "What about pine nut candy? Besides pine nut candy, the servants can find any treasure you want."

The little girl thought for a while and said: "Then you get me a peony flower, I want to see the peony flower."

"..." The eunuchs really can't do anything now, peonies are forbidden in the palace, not to mention the current season, even if they are not forbidden, they should have withered long ago.

Seeing that the inner prisoners were embarrassed, they began to cry again. "You are a bad guy, saying that you want to play with me, but you ca n’t get everything, you all bully me!!!

Duanmuchen frowned when he saw the scene in front of him, and Xiao Lanzi who was beside him quickly whispered in his ear: "The one in front is the fifth princess, Yun'er."

"Of course I know she's a princess." Duanmuchen rolled his eyes at Xiao Lanzi, he was just curious why a princess would be so unreasonable.Duanmuchen remembered that her daughter, Xin'er, had been trained by the foster nuns within three months of being admitted to the palace by Duanmufeng, exuding a princess demeanor in every move.

Xiao Lanzi saw the doubts in the master's heart, and explained: "Princess Yun'er was not like this before. She had a serious illness a few years ago and burned her brain, so she was mentally incomplete, and she got like this."

"It's a poor person." Duanmuchen sighed, and walked towards Yun'er and the others.

The inner eunuchs who were coaxing Yun'er saw Duanmuchen, so they greeted him and said, "Your servant sees the concubine Chen."

"Get up." Duanmuchen came to Yun'er, looked at the little girl, and couldn't help but think of his own daughter. Xin'er is three or four years younger than the princess, but she is much more sensible.Duanmuchen took out a brocade handkerchief from his arms, knelt down and wiped Yun'er, "Don't cry, you won't be pretty if you cry."

"Ji'er..." Yun'er heard someone say that, it was the last sentence Li Ji said to her before leaving that year.Yun'er quickly raised her head, she thought Li Ji was back, but saw a strange person, she who had always been afraid of strangers immediately hid behind the eunuchs who were serving her, and asked timidly, "Who are you?"

"It's the first time we meet, I'm Concubine Chen." Duanmuchen smiled friendly.

"I...I don't know you..." Yun'er was very defensive.

"Princess Yun'er wants peony flowers? Bengong can give you one." Duanmuchen stood up and smiled.

"Really?" Yun'er was overjoyed, poking her head out from behind the inner prisoner, "Did you lie to me?"

"I won't lie to you," Duanmuchen thought for a while and asked, "What color peonies does Princess Yun'er like?"

"White." Yun'er replied without thinking, because her mother and concubine also like white peonies the most.

After Duanmuchen got the answer, he turned his head to the little basket and said, "Go find three pieces of white paper, one piece of green paper, a pair of scissors, a candle, and some paste for Bengong."

"Yes." Although Xiao Lanzi didn't know what the master wanted these things for, he took them quickly.

Duanmuchen took Yun'er to a nearby palace, where there was light, and Duanmuchen could be more convenient.Duanmuchen first folded a piece of white paper several times, the movements are very skillful, then opened the paper, began to cut with scissors following the patterns on it, and then used a pen to draw petal-like patterns on the other two pieces of white paper, Then use scissors to cut it down, apply paste on the bottom of the petals, and stick them together one by one, then fold the green paper to make a flower seat for the green leaves, and finally fix the glued peony flower on the green leaves On the flower seat, a paper white peony flower is ready.

Yun'er, who was still hiding behind the inner eunuch, stared straight at the movements in Duanmuchen's hands, and was attracted by Duanmuchen's skillful hands, so she simply lay down on the table and watched until the peony flowers were ready. She clapped her hands excitedly and said, "Ms. Chen Concubine, you are amazing! This peony flower is just like the real thing."

"This is a river lantern," Duanmuchen introduced with a smile: "Since Princess Yuner likes peonies, I will make a river lantern with peony flowers for Princess Yuner. Princess Yuner, don't cry and embarrass your wife." jailed."

"River lantern?" Yun'er heard this word for the first time, "What is a river lantern?"

Duanmuchen said with a smile: "It is a lamp that can be placed on the river and let it float."

"Didn't there be an artificial lake just now? You can float on it, right?" Yun'er is not afraid of Duanmuchen at all now, she pulled up his sleeves and said, "Ms. Chen, let's go release the river lanterns." .”

So, at Yun'er's strong request, the group of people came to the artificial lake again. Duanmuchen fixed a small candle in the flower core of the peony lantern, and then lit the candle with a torch, and the whole lantern was lit. stand up.

"It's so beautiful." Yun'er looked at the peony flower, her eyes straightened.

Duanmuchen held the river lantern in front of Yun'er, asked her to take it, then pointed to the artificial lake and said, "Just put the river lantern in the water."

Yun'er obediently bent down, and gently put the river lantern in the water. The river lantern floated on the water, and a breeze blew by, and the river lantern gradually drifted towards the center of the lake.

"Princess Yun'er, make a wish." Duanmuchen suggested that when he played with river lanterns when he was a child, he would always make a wish.

"Can you allow two? One is too little." Yun'er said in embarrassment.

"Of course it can." Duanmuchen knew very well in his heart that it was false to say that wishing to Hedeng would come true, but coaxing children is also possible.

Yun'er clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and made a very pious wish in her heart.

After the wish was made, Yun'er was satisfied, he turned around, looked Duanmuchen up and down, and immediately stuck to it, "Ms. Chen Concubine, you are so kind. It would be great if you were not my father's concubine."

"Why do you say that?" Duanmuchen patted Yun'er's head with a smile.

"In this way, I can recruit you as my son-in-law." Yun'er said innocently.

At this moment, the eunuchs serving Yun'er couldn't help but joked, "Princess Yun'er, don't you still want to marry the eldest prince and become a princess? Why do you want to recruit a son-in-law again?"

"Brother Dahuang won't play with me, so it's better for Concubine Chen." Yun'er decided that the first person she likes in the future will be replaced.

"Then I would like to thank Princess Yun'er for her great love." Tong Yan said without scruples, not to mention Yun'er's mental insufficiency, Duanmuchen didn't take it to heart at all, but said curiously: "But Princess Yun'er is really greedy, a river lantern Make two wishes, can you tell Princess Bengong Yuner what wish she made?"

"Yes," Yun'er happily counted her fingers and said, "I hope my younger brother can come back to play with me, and I also hope to meet my concubine."

Only then did Duanmuchen realize that after chatting with Princess Yun'er for so long, he still didn't know which concubine she was born to, "Then who are your concubine mother and younger brother?"

As soon as Duanmuchen's words came out, all the eunuchs following him knelt on the ground, trembling, as if they were afraid of being affected by something.Duanmuchen was taken aback by the scene in front of him, did he say something wrong again?

Ke Yun'er turned a blind eye to this, but replied with an incomparably bright smile: "My concubine mother is Concubine Wen, and my younger brother is the sixth prince, Li Ji."

******

Xiaoluzi returned to the Lenggong discouragedly, and sat in front of He Wenliu's bedroom door, preparing to watch the night.

He Wenliu was about to go to bed, he went to bed, and planned to close the window, but he saw Xiao Luzi sitting under the window, he couldn't help being a little surprised: "Little Luzi, didn't I allow you to go out to play? Why did you come back so early?" In previous years, the Mid-Autumn Festival was always very lively, and there were theater troupes invited from outside the palace, and talent shows again, and Xiaoluzi came to ask for leave early in the morning, saying that she wanted to join join in the fun.

Seeing that her master was still awake, Xiaoluzi quickly got up and saluted, and then explained depressedly: "This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is boring. It is said that the emperor is angry with the empress dowager, and he didn't even come to the dinner party. Naturally, the people in the palace dare not make a fuss. Celebrating."

He Wenliu nodded to show that he understood, and suddenly saw that Little Lvzi was holding something in his hand, and took a closer look, "What are you holding in your hand... a peony?" Are there still peonies in this season?

Hearing this, Xiaoluzi immediately smiled and said, "Miss Wenfei, you read it wrong, right? The slave also thought it was a real peony, and when he saw it floating on the edge of the artificial lake, he salvaged it. When I touched it with my hand, it turned out to be a fake, made of paper." Then, Xiaoluzi came forward and offered the peony flower with both hands, "The servant picked it up, I wonder if you like it, my lady."

He Wenliu looked at this peony flower. If you don’t look carefully, it will be mistaken for real. He stretched out his hand to take the flower. In a daze, this scene and this action are very familiar. More than 20 years ago, Sitting on the bed in the same way, he took a white peony from the man's hand through a window.

That night, He Wenliu put the paper peony next to his pillow and stared at the flower in a daze. He was afraid, he was afraid that after he fell asleep, the flower would disappear when he woke up, just like back then.