The nine princesses of the East Palace

Before we came out of Shouning Palace, the palace people shouted "Your Majesty is here".The emperor is here, so naturally I have to go forward with Li Chengyin to salute.

The emperor glanced down at me and Li Chengyin, waved his hands and said, "Let's get back on your feet." After finishing speaking, he said to the Empress Dowager, "It's still lively here with the emperor's grandmother. I just got off the court early and I'm a little tired, so I want to see you Seeing Cheng Yin's young couple, I thought they would be here with the imperial grandmother, so I came here, without telling the imperial grandmother beforehand, and please ask the imperial grandmother not to get angry."

"What did your Majesty say? My Shouning Palace is usually very deserted. If your Majesty can come, I will naturally welcome you." The Empress Dowager said, "Your Majesty, please take your seat. Cheng Yin and Xiaofeng just said they would Go to offer tea to His Majesty, now, there is no need to make an extra trip."

"The emperor's grandmother is right." The emperor said, and then sat down on the main seat.He was dressed casually in regular clothes, with only one Eunuch Cao by his side. He didn't look as majestic as before, but looked like a very easy-going father.

Yong Niang prepared all the tea, Li Cheng Yin pulled me forward to offer tea, we knelt on the futon together, Li Cheng Yin picked up the tea with both hands, and handed it to the emperor, "Father, please have some tea. "

The emperor took his tea, took a sip, and ordered Eunuch Cao to reward him with something. After Li Chengyin served the tea, it was my turn. I also passed the tea to the emperor according to the rules, and called him "Father." Emperor".

The emperor took a sip of tea and rewarded me with many things. After rewarding the things, he looked at me and Li Cheng Yin in a daze, and said after a while, "Get up."

We got up and returned to our seats for a while, the emperor was about to leave, Li Chengyin and I sent him to the door, he stopped for a while, and said to Li Chengyin: "Seeing you two walking together, I suddenly remembered After seeing your concubine mother, do you... have any impression of her?"

Li Chengyin replied: "Returning to father, my son was still young back then, so I don't have a deep impression."

"Even you can't remember." The emperor sighed, "That's right, how could you remember, in this palace, only I remember her."

Li Chengyin lowered his head and didn't make a sound.

The emperor was silent for a while, and then said: "Take Xiaofeng to meet her. In a blink of an eye, you will be so old and married. She will be very happy when she finds out."

It took Li Chengyin a long time to respectfully say: "Father, don't worry, my son knows."

"En." The emperor glanced at us again before getting up and leaving.

After the emperor left, we also left Shouning Palace to pay homage to Li Chengyin's biological mother, Concubine Gu Shu.

Concubine Gu Shu was deeply favored by the emperor during her lifetime, so she was buried in the imperial tomb after her death. The imperial tomb is quite far from the imperial city, and it takes half a day to get there by carriage.

Along the way, Li Chengyin didn't say much. It seemed that after the emperor mentioned his biological mother, he was in a bad mood. Others may not be able to see it, but he held my hand, and his hand was always cold. People are also very stiff as if stretched, so I can clearly feel it.

When he got into the carriage, he closed his eyes and rested his mind. No one talked to me, and I was almost suffocated.

I hesitated again and again, but still mustered up the courage to ask: "Li Chengyin, what's wrong with you?"

Li Cheng Yin opened his eyes, looked at me quietly for a while, and said slowly: "It's nothing, I just remembered some old things."

"What's the matter? Can you tell me?" I asked again.

He patted my hand, "It's not a happy thing..."

Feeling that he wanted to reject me, I immediately interrupted him: "Then you also want to tell me."

"Do you really want to hear it?"

"Well." I nodded, "We are husband and wife now, whether it is happy or unhappy things, we have to share and bear together, we must not let you be unhappy alone."

After he listened, he didn't speak, but just stared at me blankly, as if his eyes wouldn't move.

"Am I not right?" I was a little dazed.

"No." He shook his head, "You're right, I was thinking about it, that's why I made a wrong step, a wrong step."

"What's wrong, right?" I couldn't understand what he meant, so I stared at him and asked.

He was silent for a long time, I thought he would not answer, but I heard him say again: "I did a wrong thing that I regret very much, but it's all over."

"It's over? Why do you still look unhappy after it's over? You still ignored me all the way."

"I didn't ignore you."

"But you don't talk to me." I like to talk and be lively on weekdays. I just saw him unhappy. I haven't talked much for an hour. I can only bear it when I see interesting and fun things on the side of the road. No sound disturbed him.

Li Chengyin looked at me and sighed, "I just thought of my mother."

His eyes were a little red, probably because he missed his mother very much. I didn't know how to comfort him for a while, so I didn't make a sound.

"I often think about what it would be like if I had a mother. I think she will love me and love me since she was a child, and she will smile at me. She will coax me when I am unhappy, and she will protect me when I get into trouble. , She will give me gifts on my birthday, she will teach me to write, teach me to draw and play chess, and teach me to respect and love others... But, I don’t have a mother.” He smiled, “I grew up in the palace. In the novel, the queen raised me, maybe everyone envied me, because my father was the emperor, and my mother was the queen, but it was my father who wiped out my mother's clan and caused her to lose her home. It was the queen who raised me who killed my own mother and left me without family members, but I still have to respect them as if I don’t know anything, otherwise, I might be killed.”

He talked for a long time, I was very uncomfortable to hear, he never told me these things, his eyes are so red, he must be very sad, I was a little at a loss, I didn't know how to comfort him, so I had to lighten She hugged him lightly, patted his shoulder, and whispered in his ear: "Li Chengyin, you still have me, I will love you and love you, and will always be with you."

"Xiaofeng..." He suppressed his voice and called out my name, and hugged me tightly, resting his chin on my shoulder, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

The carriage rattled forward, Li Cheng Yin seemed to be asleep, I couldn't even feel the sound of breathing, I felt my hands and feet were stiff, I wanted to change my position, only to find that I couldn't move at all, his arms around me were like iron Like pliers, it is tightly bound.

I want to tell him to let go, but I think he is so sad, so let's forget it, I will ask Timo to rub it for me when I go back.

It was quiet in the carriage, and I gradually began to feel sleepy, and I even fell asleep.When I woke up, I found that I was lying on Li Chengyin's lap, covered with his cloak, he was looking at me quietly for an unknown how long.

I got up quickly, I moved a lot, I knocked his cloak to the ground, I wanted to pick it up, but he picked it up before me, and put it on me again.

"Are we there yet?" I asked.

"Hmm." He nodded.

"How long has it been?" I asked again.

He said, "Not long, an hour."

"Then why didn't you call me?" I probably fell asleep on the way, and after doing this calculation, I actually slept for more than two hours.We came out with guards and servants, and I actually made everyone wait in the cold wind for an hour.

He said, "I called, but you didn't wake up." I was about to say something, when I heard him say, "Maybe I was really tired last night."

I choked, so choked that I couldn't speak.He still speaks the same way, always so annoying, but I still felt sorry for him before, and I felt sorry for him for a long time.