At that time, in the dead of night, when the sky was in the morning, the lights of Huanong Palace were extinguished in the morning, and Zhou Tianjiao also went to bed early. However, this day is also strange and lively, shortly after the lights went out in Huanong Palace, there were several palace people to inquire about Zhou Rushui, and the road was to invite Zhou Rushui to enjoy the night lights. Hearing this, Su Ying was naturally unhappy, and only said that Chitose was already bed, and asked them to see Zhou Rushui, who was already sleeping on the couch, outside the door, and sent the maids back.

However, in fact, at this time, Zhou Rushui had already changed into a female official palace uniform, walked out of the palace gate with the palace card of Aocui, and went to Lan Ruo'an outside Yecheng alone to ask to see Lou Hou. And what those maidservants saw was actually lying on the couch sideways, trembling because of pretending to be Zhou Rushui.

In that year, Empress Lou lost her son and mourned, so she avoided going out of the palace and went to Lan Ruo'an to practice with the dignity of the queen. It was after that that Empress Lou no longer paid attention to foreign affairs, she let go of King Zhou's stupidity, and let the court feed become Xie Ji's bag. Since then, they have ignored the two brothers and sisters of Zhou Rushui.

The darkness gathered, the night was getting deeper, and in the cold wind, Zhou Rushui was wet with sweat because of the hurry. She barely got on the last boat in Weishui, and finally arrived at Xiao Penglai when it was dark and the road was blind.

At that time, it was late at night, and the moonlight on Xiao Penglai was sparse and the trees were secluded.

Zhou Ru was covered with gray Xuansha on the water, dressed in a blue-gray female palace dress, pinching a night pearl and winding all the way up the mountain road, as she walked, the knot of Xuansha pulled up at the back of her head was extremely elegant, and her long black hair was even more light in the wind.

After walking for half an hour, Zhou Rushui finally saw two hazy points of light on the mountain, and approached the point of light, which was the main gate of Lan Ruoan. At this time, the door of Lanruoan was closed, and no one came from near and far. Zhou Rushui Pavilion stood in front of the door, and her graceful figure seemed to be Jiao'e in the moon.

However, she herself holds her beauty, but she doesn't realize it.

Finally approaching, Zhou Rushui stared at the lantern swaying in front of the nunnery gently, and suddenly, she thought softly, her mother was arrogant, but how could she be willing to die like this? Thinking about it, she couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, and after a while, she finally stepped forward with her skirt and raised her hand to knock on the door of the nunnery.

After waiting for a while, the knock on the door finally attracted a little Shani wearing a wide waist and wide sleeves, a round neck and a square placket, and a Haiqing robe. Xiao Shani rubbed his sleepy eyes and opened the door of a corner of the nunnery, and saw a sister-in-law standing in front of the door, who was stunned for a while, and then chanted "Amitabha" with his hands together. Immediately afterwards, he stared at his eyes in a daze, and said very perfunctorily, speaking very quickly: "Female donor, there are no guests in the nunnery at night, please come back tomorrow." After speaking, he didn't even bother to look at Zhou Rushui again, and raised his hand to close the door of the nunnery.

Seeing this, Zhou Rushui was willing to let people go, and he was busy raising his hand to block it, but he stuck the door of the nunnery with one hand, pulled the little Shani's clothes, and said anxiously, coquettishly: "Little master, sister-in-law is Zhou's Tianjiao." I took the liberty to come here tonight, not to see the owner of the nunnery, but to see my mother, so please let me know!"

She said it very earnestly, but the little Shani shook her nose and took a step back in dissatisfaction. She frowned and pulled back her own clothes from Zhou Rushui's hand, and pushed Zhou Rushui's hand away, before she flattened her mouth, squinted at Zhou Rushui from top to bottom, and said unhappily: "Female donor, Buddhism is quiet, and all beings are equal." There is no female monarch here, and there is no queen. If you really have something, please come back tomorrow!" When the words landed, Xiao Shani shrank his head back, and with a "bang", he really closed the door mercilessly.

Looking at the closed door, Zhou Rushui sighed lowly, she touched her nose, and her eyes suddenly turned red. Although I also know that I will eat closed-door soup. Although this qiē was all in her expectation. However, Zhou Rushui was still a little uncomfortable and a little sour.

But since she has made up her mind, she naturally will not leave quietly without accomplishing anything.

In this way, Zhou Rushui's pale face still showed a smile, and she stepped forward without discouragement and knocked on the door again. Buckled and clasped, she was even more ruthless, and shouted loudly towards the nunnery: "Little master, God has the virtue of a good life, and Buddhism has the heart to save people." Tianjiao is miserable because of something at home, so he sneaked out of the palace in the starry night to beg his mother. My mother is only leading the cultivation in the nunnery, and the six roots are not pure, so why can't I see them?" Speaking of this, Zhou Rushui couldn't help but feel a little emotional, the sound of the door, not only was the person in the door, but it was also as if she was knocking on her heart. As long as he thought that he was obviously his own biological mother, but it was so difficult to see him, Zhou Rushui's heart was as messy as flying, and tears couldn't help but fall down his cheeks.

In the middle of the night, Xiao Penglai was so quiet that only the sound of the wind remained. The water is surging, and the water waves are turbulent. The breeze blew on the treetops, and the sound of Zhou Rushui gradually spread farther and farther with the sound of leaves, getting smaller and smaller. It was so quiet that the shouts became extraordinarily clear and poignant.

Time seemed to have passed too long, just when Zhou Rushui felt hopeless, but saw that a small crack was opened in the door of the nunnery, and the little Shani appeared in front of Zhou Rushui again with a straight face, as if he was blocked for a breath, and after a while, he sighed and said: "Don't cry, don't cry, it's like I bullied you, can't I report it to you?"

On the willow top of the moon, since the little Shani went, the nunnery door opened and closed back and forth several times, and from time to time there were always some nuns who came outside to secretly watch Zhou Rushui's movements, but they just looked, no one came out at all, and no one talked to Zhou Rushui.

Under the dim light and shadow, inside the door, there was the murmur of nuns. Outside the door, only Zhou Rushui was alone.

Only her, alone under the moon, wandering alone.

Raising his eyes and looking at the sparse moon shadow in the sky, Zhou Rushui thought about his son Mu Sheng, who was kneeling alone in front of the Ming Hall to be punished, thinking that the Xie family was like a big knife hanging in front of their brothers and sisters, and thinking that the prosperous dynasty in the past was already in danger. She seems to have returned to the countless years she had supported alone in her previous life, and now, she can vaguely feel the loneliness and loneliness from her heart. Even, now she is colder and lonelier.

Worried, she slowly knelt down in front of the nunnery. She thought, let her also be punished with her brother in front of the gate of this nunnery! Let her kneel down to her mother who is hiding in the nunnery, and kneel down to the gods of heaven and earth who protect her land! If heaven and earth can hear her voice, will they be willing to fulfill her wish?

As if an hour had passed, the sky was dark, and the dim light and shadow reflected Zhou Rushui's pale face faintly exposed outside the gray veil. After a loud sound, the door was finally slowly opened from the inside out.

Hearing the sound, Zhou Rushui eagerly raised her eyes, but she only glanced at it, and the anticipation and longing in her heart turned into dead silence.

Let her kneel in front of the door, Lou Hou, still did not come.

The person who came was the female official Li of Empress Lou. At that time, I saw Li wearing a black silk skirt, a wide robe with wide sleeves, and a light sweep of Emei. She walked out of the nunnery with a calm face, her eyes as sharp as a torch staring at Zhou Rushui who was kneeling on the cold stone slab. After seeing the veil of Zhou Rushui's face clearly, her slightly frowned brows slowly stretched, sighed, and persuaded in a low voice: "Go back, the master doesn't want to see you." ”

Hearing what Li said this, Zhou Rushui took a deep breath, she only felt like she had been immersed in a winter ice spring, she couldn't help biting her lip, looked at Li without blinking, and said deeply: "Mama, if there is nothing to do, Tianjiao will never dare to disturb her mother without permission." But now, Concubine Xie is alone, the monarch's father listens and believes partially, and without his mother's help, my brother is also struggling in the court. Only today, the monarch's father intended to send the Xie family son to Tianshui City as a general, not only that, but he also forced the elder brother to marry the Xie family's daughter. The elder brother was unwilling to receive the order, so he was punished by the monarch's father and went to Mingtang to think about it. Seeing this scene, Tianjiao Cheng was terrified! I was afraid that in the future, the Xie family would really have to cover the sky with one hand, under one person, and above ten thousand people. As for this, Zhou Rushui wiped away her tears, stared straight at the Li family, and said earnestly: "Mama, Tianjiao has been close to you since childhood, so naturally he won't hide anything from you. Tianjiao came this time to ask the queen mother to return to the palace. After all, the harem can't be left without an owner for a day! Tianjiao and his brother can't be without their mother!"

The Li family and the Zhou brothers and sisters are quite affectionate, and when they heard this, their cold eyes were also dyed with a bit of sadness. But in the end, the main order was difficult to disobey, and the Li family still did not give in. She slowly squatted down, gently stroked Zhou Rushui's black hair, and sighed in a low voice and with pity: "Nujun, you were born in the court, so you should understand even more that the good and evil, good and bad, the scenery is ruined, life and death are taken away, and everything is unwilling. The master's heart is really bitter, she has already said that she is a fan of autumn, she has seen through the world, she has seen the power clearly, and she no longer wants to be wrenched in those worries. In this case, how can you be a child and a strong mother?"

"But ......" Zhou Rushui looked at her, and before the words came to his mouth, Li shook his head first, withdrew his hand, and closed the door of the nunnery. In the end, he just left a sentence behind the door: "The night is heavy, and the female monarch will go back." ”

Watching the door of the nunnery closed again, listening to the heavy sound of the door closing, Zhou Rushui's heart was inexplicably sad, her heart ached, and her eyes suddenly soured and swollen. In his heart, Zhou Rushui didn't think about it, so he put his hands together on the cold stone slab, and bent down to bow respectfully to the closed door.

Slowly, slowly, Zhou Rushui's body shook. After a while, I saw her raise her face, her expression gloomy, and she shouted again towards the gate of the nunnery: "Mother, mother, life is a responsibility in the world! How can you leave Tianjiao and your brother alone because you are discouraged for a moment? Even if you ignore Tianjiao and your brother, you are the mother of the country, and you should also take care of the world! The peace of Tianshui City is all because of the eldest brother's life in the past! Since the death of the eldest brother, the position of the general on the edge of the town has always been empty. Now, it's only been a few years, and the thief has committed it again. The monarch's father wanted to ask the Xie family's son, who had never understood war and was powerless, to occupy the position of general. How can such a general protect the frontier and guard the door?" Saying that, Zhou Rushui was already full of tears, she wiped away the tears that could not be suppressed from the corners of her eyes, and continued to shout angrily: "Mother, you really don't care about Tianjiao and your brother! ignore the dawn of the world! ignore the Tianshui City where the eldest brother protected each other with his life?"

When this sound landed, Zhou Rushui only felt that her throat was astringent, she straightened her back and raised her eyes, looking at Lan Ruo'an, who was still dead and silent, and her picturesque eyes became more and more lonely because of this silence. Looking at it, she finally lowered her face in disappointment, her eyebrows were frowning, tears flowed down her face, and she was as quiet as a half-bloomed peony in the moonlight.

She is not afraid of becoming a joke, she came this time, originally to be a laughing stock in the eyes of the world! It's just that even if she knew that her mother would not come to see her, even if this is the result she wants this time. However, when she was really rejected by her mother, her heart was still as cold as if she was suffering from wind and cold, cold and cold.

Did my mother really not want her and her brother anymore, and what was their fault for being abandoned by their mother?

It was only after a while that Zhou Rushui finally came to her senses, she forced a smile, and after a while, she finally straightened her spine and raised her face. At this moment, her clear and fearless eyes quietly looked at the closed door of the nunnery, and the calm in those eyes was as calm as ever, and it was so clear that only the bright and clear of the water was left.