The nine princesses of the East Palace

I have no time to think so much, I just want to save A Niang.

By the way, write back!I haven't replied to Li Chengyin's letter yet, it should be too late for me to ask him to save A Niang.I thought, bid farewell to the Empress Dowager, and returned to the East Palace.

I spread out the rice paper, dipped the brush in the ink, and started writing in a state of confusion.On the way back to the East Palace, I thought a lot, but when I was about to write, I was a little incoherent. In the end, I only wrote the big characters "Be sure to save my mother". The handwriting is ugly, but I don't care about it anymore. Quickly hand it over to the guards of the Habayashi Army and let him send it out as soon as possible.

I don't know how long it will take to send the letter to Xizhou, I just told the guards of the Habayashi Army to send it urgently.After sending the letter, I have been restless.Worried about being intercepted halfway and not being able to deliver it to Li Chengyin, and also worried that he would ignore the letter after seeing it...

I waited anxiously for fifteen days before the guards of the Habayashi Army delivered Li Chengyin's reply letter.I opened it nervously and impatiently. He didn't say anything this time, and only said a few words: "The person has been rescued, don't worry!"

I read these words several times, and tears filled my eyes.Yong Niang hurriedly handed me the handkerchief.

After that, Li Chengyin didn't write to me again for two months, and there was no news at all.I tried to write something several times, but I always backed down.

I miss him very much, during the day and at night, I think of his sly way when he teased cats, the look of expecting me to eat more when he brought me delicious things, and how he taught me to write and count I felt helpless at the time, thinking of him coaxing me tirelessly, thinking of him kissing me tenderly...

Yongning and Luoxi knew that I was afraid of being alone, so they always came to the East Palace to play with me.I learned about Zhao Sese's situation from Yongning. She said that she was the one who assassinated me and I went crazy after being imprisoned. I kept emphasizing with the people in the Ministry of Punishments that she was Liangdi of the Eastern Palace, Li Chengyin's concubine, and her Her father was Marquis of Zhenbei, a general of Fuguo, this matter reached the ears of the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager even went to see her for this, and she did not know what was discussed, so she was given to death on the same day.

When I heard about it, I felt very embarrassed. Although I didn't like her, I never expected her to die.Yongning said that she deserved what she deserved, and that the guards found many villains with needles in her room, with my name written on them, and they wanted to curse me to die early... I don't believe in such witchcraft, but I don't Feeling extremely chilling, it turned out that I was so annoying that she wished for my death all the time.

"What are you thinking about? Let's go enjoy the flowers together." Yongning pulled me up from the chair and was about to go outside.

"What flowers are you enjoying?" I asked.

Yongning said: "Lotus! There is a manor in the eastern outskirts of the city, and it is full of lotus, some are pink, some are white, and the leaves are green, which makes the flowers more beautiful."

"Really? I've never seen a lotus before. Let's go now." I was amazed when I saw the peony last time, and the lotus must be quite beautiful. I like to see all the beautiful things, such as flowers, It's really pleasing to the eye, I was in a bad mood, and suddenly got better.

But before we went out, we were stopped by Guo Da.Guo Da is the chief guard of the Yulin Army, the person Li Chengyin left behind to protect me, he is about 40 years old, has high martial arts skills, is upright and serious, and is harder to speak than Pei Zhao.

Guo Da was wearing armor, standing straight on the side of the door, and said seriously: "Crown Princess, Your Highness has explained that it is dangerous outside the palace, and you are not allowed to leave the palace."

Sure enough, it was this sentence again. I have heard it countless times in the past few months, and my ears are almost callused, "General Guo, let's go out to look at the flowers, and go out pretending to be ordinary men, there will be no danger .”

Guo Da said: "Princess Concubine, the general will not dare to neglect the matter that His Highness has given you. If something happens to the concubine, not only will the general lose his head, but the entire East Palace will suffer. Please be considerate and understand the embarrassment of the Yulin army. "

I sneaked out a few times before, and Guo Da stepped up patrols and guards after he found out. I wanted to sneak out again, but it seemed impossible, so I had to say: "But I stayed in the East Palace all day, and I was suffocated to death. You guys Looking at me is like looking at a prisoner, if I get sick from boredom, you will suffer as well."

Hearing what I said, Guo Da felt a little embarrassed for a while, and didn't speak for a long time.

"That's right, General Guo, if Fifth Sister-in-Law is bored to death, Fifth Brother won't reason with you. Not only will you suffer, but your wife and children will suffer too." Yongning said, "According to me Look, you might as well send a few more people to follow us, this will not only ensure our safety, but also allow us to enjoy the flowers happily, killing two birds with one stone, anyway, as long as my fifth sister-in-law is fine, Fifth Brother will not offend you."

Guo Da thought for a while, and he actually agreed. However, he personally brought people to follow us. It is not free to go out this time, but the lotus flowers in the suburbs of Dongcheng are really as beautiful and colorful as Yongning said. likable.

"In a blink of an eye, Fifth Brother has been away for almost four months, and I don't know how the battle is going. That Gao Xian is really abominable. He is hiding in Tibet and running around. The last time he ran to your Xizhou Zhanshan He is a bandit, this time I heard that he fled to the land of the southern barbarians again, if he really escaped, the consequences would be disastrous." Yongning never mentioned state affairs to me before, and she always brought it up intentionally or unintentionally during this period, which shows that she is really serious. I was very worried about Li Chengyin.

I've never been to the south, so I don't know what it's like there. Whether the weather is bad or not, Li Chengyin can't stand it. He said before that he would come back in half a year at the latest, and now it's been more than half. He was full of confidence, but now he was worried. He often had nightmares at night, dreaming that he was dripping with blood.

I didn't speak, and even the bright lotus was not in the mood to look at it for a while.

"Oh, Yongning, what nonsense are you talking about. My fifth elder brother Wentao Wulue has been very intelligent since he was a child, so he can definitely win Gao Xian." Seeing my silence, Luo Xi immediately said, "Xiaofeng, next month will be the Qiqiao Festival Well, maybe Fifth Brother can come back before the Qiqiao Festival and spend the festival with you."

Qiqiao Festival, the seventh day of July, is the day when Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet. On this day, loving men and women in the world will meet together to sit and watch Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and pray to the night sky for a happy marriage.

Begging for children by planting seeds, eating clever fruits, begging for cleverness through needles, and begging for cleverness by spiders are all customs of the Qiqiao Festival.

Naturally, I also hope that Li Chengyin can come back to spend the festival with me, but I waited and waited, July has already arrived and he still hasn't returned, there are still rumors that he was seriously injured and died, the whole East Palace, even the whole palace is full of hearts Panicked.

They were flustered, and I was also flustered, but I wanted to pretend not to be flustered, lest everyone get into a mess.

I took out the few letters that Li Chengyin wrote to me and read them over and over again. I don't dislike the ?I used to be impatient to answer the irrelevant questions mentioned in his letters, but now I have to write and answer him every day.

However, the letter was written and sealed, but I didn't know where to send it. No one knew his exact location, and no one knew whether he was safe or not.