In the Splendid Palace, the bloodless Weiyang was playing with the lantern that was fished out of the imperial river by the beauty. It was getting late, and Ruyi picked up a bright yellow candle in the dormitory, walked over and asked, "Do you want to make up first?"

Weiyang said: "Forget it, he won't come tonight, after dressing up, it's also in vain." ”

There was a palace maid waiting outside the hall, afraid of being heard, so Ruyi made a look of arranging her cloak, leaned into her ear and said, "It's been nearly ten days, don't we have to do something?"

Weiyang was angry: "No, let it be, now the inside and outside of the Splendid Palace are covered with the eyeliner of Wan Chaozong, what we do will make him suspicious, you just need to ensure that Qinglong is not close to the Splendid Palace." ”

Ruyi said: "I have already managed to remind him. ”

Empress Dowager Wei transferred the palace maid Mallow who served Weiyang into the palace to serve tea, the master and servant returned to normal, Weiyang talked to Ruyi casually, most of them were talking about the boudoir life before entering the palace, there was a match and no match, the two chatted and chatted with nostalgia, as if those things were really their experience.

"He's not coming tonight. ”

"Yes, the slave maid heard that His Majesty turned over the sign of Song Meiren tonight. Mother, why don't you go to bed if the slave waits for you first......"

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"Niangniang, Your Majesty hasn't entered the Splendid Palace for half a month, so you don't have to ...... in a hurry."

"There is no half a month, it is fourteen days ......"

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"When I was three years old, a high monk came to my house to tell my fortune, saying that I was destined to be rich and noble all my life, and I was not allowed to enter the imperial city without the palace gate, so my father raised me in the deep boudoir, from childhood to adulthood, the door did not go out of the two doors, and was served by an old palace maid to the big, saying that this can save my life, but I always wondered what my life was? Is it to enter the palace as a concubine? From this courtyard wall, a sedan chair is directly carried into another palace wall? I really don't understand...... When I was young, my mother often told me that I only wished that I would grow up and marry an ordinary family, and that I could spend my life with my husband who was satisfied, and that I would never marry into an official family like her, although my father treated her very well, but which of the aunts in the family made her worry-free? When the second aunt started, I was still young, she was born in a scholarly mansion and treated me very well, and my mother used to get along well with her, but I only heard the newcomer laugh and not hear the old person crying, and my mother secretly felt how sad ......

"My mother went early, but her wish was finally disappointed, and my father and aunt insisted on sending me to the palace...... In the end, I am married to the most satisfactory husband in the world, but in this palace, many sisters, he wants to be wet with rain and dew, I understand......"

"Mother, you have been wronged......"

"No grievances, really no grievances, I know that I have gotten the best, which no one else has, I not only married the best husband, but also got a bosom friend, this is the most important ......"

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In the Anyan Palace, Xun Shaoling retreated from the palace, and he sat in front of the jade case to read the folds. Mallow imitated and retold the conversation between Weiyang and Ruyi on the side, and he couldn't help but be distracted, the red pen stopped in mid-air, and a drop of vermilion ink dripped down, like a drop of blood that fell from her shoulder on the jade case that day.

When Mallow finished speaking, he stood quietly aside, and he asked, "That's all?"

Mallow replied: "Yes." ”

He asked, "Have you verified what they said, is there anything suspicious?"

Mallow replied: "Back to Your Majesty, the slave has been verified, and there is nothing suspicious. ”

Xun Shaoling put down the pen and closed the fold: "What does she usually do?"

"Concubine Niangniang's injury is not yet healed, so she can only recuperate in the palace, often facing a lantern, and has been in the vestibule until late at night, asking the slaves and maids to put the piano in front of her, but she never plays...... Every day. Mallow replied.

"How's her injury? Is it serious?"

"The doctors said that the poisoning of the mother is too deep, I am afraid it is difficult to completely cure it, the slaves and maids change the medicine for the mother three times a day, and each time the mother hurts to the point of cold sweat, in the night...... I often hear my mother cry out for pain, and I can't sleep because of the pain......."

Xun Shaoling couldn't hold back his distress, clenched his fists tightly, and closed his eyes in pain, "You tell the truth, does she complain?"

Mallow thought of the concubine she was monitoring day and night, even if she was a hard-hearted work, she was inevitably a little moved, she said: "She doesn't complain, she's waiting." ”

Xun Shaoling didn't turn anyone's sign tonight, he walked alone outside the Splendid Palace, it was just evening, but he heard some noise in the palace, and it seemed to be a mess. He walked in, no one heard from him, and no one expected him to come. The palace maid who retreated from the dormitory in a panic with a copper basin almost hit him, and when she saw that he was frightened, she quickly knelt down, and the blood-colored water in the copper basin spilled on the ground.

The other palace people who came out of the inner hall all knelt down and saluted, Xun Shaoling looked past them and looked at the inner hall, the veil was shrouded and he couldn't see the situation inside, but he could hear the painful moan, tugging at his heart one by one.

He asked Ruyi, who was kneeling, "What's the matter?"

Ruyi's teary eyes fluttered: "Back to Your Majesty, the poisonous wound of the mother is bleeding more than ......"

He looked at the blood on the ground and was shocked: "Has the imperial doctor been here?"

Ruyi replied: "After coming, the imperial doctor has nothing to do, just let the slaves and maids change the medicine for the mother to stop the bleeding." ”

Xun Shaoling's footsteps froze, he looked at the inner hall, and was silent for a long time.

Ruyi asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, do you want to go in and see Niangniang?" Niangniang has been looking forward to Your Majesty for a long time......

Xun Shaoling made the most difficult move, turned around and left, "No, Concubine Yan is injured and it is inconvenient to sleep, so I will leave first." ”

He was afraid, he knew that if he went in, it would be difficult to come out again, and he was afraid that he would let go of the defense he had so hard to pick up.

Weiyang on the bed in the inner hall listened to his words clearly, and smiled dismally on his pale face: "Xun Shaoling, you are so ruthless......"

On the other side is another world, a different world.

"Do you hate me?"

"Why should I hate you?"

"Because I've almost killed you several times. ”

"Isn't it all almost? ”

"I don't really want you to kill you, it's just that I'd rather you die than certain circumstances. ”

"So ruthless?"

"Ji Changan, I have never been free......"

"I know. ”

"So, I don't want you to have the same pain as I do. ”

"Well, I accept your cruel excuse. ”

In the Yunlai Inn, the door was closed, they sat opposite each other, and for the first time they communicated calmly and calmly, Jianing finally put his hand in Ji Changan's hand with peace of mind.

Looking at each other and whispering softly, they looked at each other hand in hand, and he rubbed her wrist, intimately attached.

There was a slight smile on the corner of Jianing's mouth, this smile came from the bottom of her heart, which was her rare happiness: "Then will you still drink in the future?"

He replied cheerfully, "No more!"

"Then will you still be angry with me in the future?"

"I'm not angry!"

"Then are you going to leave later?"

His eyes froze, and he was dumbfounded for a moment, this was really a very important decision for him, what should he do in the future? Will he leave? Will he stay?

She seemed to understand, withdrew her expectant eyes, swept the light and shadow under the window, and stopped asking: "It's almost time, I have to go back to the palace to discuss with the elders." ”

Jianing got up and picked up the white cloak on the stool, Ji Changan got up and helped her put it on from behind, she put on the hat on the cloak, turned around, and looked directly at Ji Changan, "Ji Changan, I treat you differently from others." ”

Ji Changan was still thinking about it, and Jianing continued to ask him: "Will you stay? If it's for me? If you still want to leave, please leave as soon as possible, don't say goodbye to me when I need you the most, I don't want to hate you." ”

Ji Changan caressed her side face, lowered his head and kissed her on the forehead, and after careful hesitation, he made a firm choice: "Don't go." ”

Jianing smiled, broke away from his embrace, turned around shyly, and opened the door. After Mo Li, who was waiting outside the door, confirmed that there was no suspicious person in the corridor, he welcomed her out, and the two walked out, went downstairs, and got into the carriage outside the inn.

Behind the corner outside the Yunlai Inn, a beautiful shadow walked out, and in the dark she watched the luxurious carriage wheels driving towards the palace, and after the carriage was far away, she looked sideways at the plaque of the Yunlai Inn, and smiled gloomily under the veil.

A few days later, Jiayi and Changle were free, and they came to Yunlai Inn to find Ji Chang'an, and Huayin also came, and they gathered in a room to laugh and laugh.

Jiayi smiled: "Master, you look much better after quitting drinking......

Changle hurriedly interrupted him, and smiled evilly: "Jiayi, look at you stupid, you still call Master, we have to change our words to brother-in-law, right, brother-in-law of the emperor?"

They laughed and echoed Changle to joke with Ji Chang'an. Ji Changan knocked on Changle's head, and he was also a little proud: "You two boys, you have the courage to make fun of me, and you have the ability to make trouble in front of your imperial sister, see how she treats you? Did your knees still hurt when you knelt last time?"

The two of them were poked in the sore spot and stopped a little, but Huayin continued to laugh at him: "Hero, you have become so fast, a few days ago, you were still-for-tat with Her Royal Highness the princess, as if you were meeting with the enemy, and changed your Highness, but now you are on the side of Your Highness?"

Ji Changan also knocked her head: "What do you know? boys, don't think that you can be lazy in the future training by calling me brother-in-law, I won't spare you, look, you dare to be disobedient, I'll go to your sister and say you, see how she punishes you?"

Changle and Jiayi laughed and jumped up and gave him a military salute: "Yes, chief!"

Ji Changan nodded with satisfaction: "Take a break!"

Huayin asked curiously: "Chang'an Hero, how did you capture the mountain of Her Royal Highness the Princess? That's Her Royal Highness the Princess, the unattainable indifferent and ruthless ......?"

Ji Changan drank tea and glanced at them: "Don't ask around, the secret of heaven must not be revealed, this is my ability, otherwise how can I call it a hero?"

Changle couldn't control his mouth for a while, his hand twitched, and he patted Ji Changan's face: "Do you still need to ask? Master's face is an innate advantage!" After saying this, they realized that something was wrong, and both Jiayi and Huayin felt embarrassed.

Ji Changan was unhappy, gave him a blank look, and opened his hand: "Dead boy! you! Who doesn't have this face?"

Changle realized that he had said the wrong thing, and stuck out his tongue, "Master, I didn't mean that, you are much more handsome than Wu Ziling, Wu Ziling is not as good as you!"

Ji Changan hadn't reached the point of eating this kind of vinegar yet, he just thought of his face, and when he thought of Xun Shaoling, he hated it so much, he was in no mood to laugh with them, drove them out, and then leaned on the window and looked in the direction of the palace.

It is inconvenient for Jianing to leave the palace, and these days, they can only exchange letters. As Changle said, the change between them is really a sharp turn, before they went all out to go on a strange path, and they didn't want to have anything to do with each other, but they pierced their hearts, and then everything was different, love and hate were just between thoughts, and their feelings were at such extremes.

At the very least, they are all happy now, and the previous pain and suffering are over.

Today the pigeon came earlier, flew from the direction he was looking forward to, landed on his shoulder, he opened the note on the pigeon's leg and read, "You will go to the Zhaoming Hall for a while, and burn it after reading." ”

In the imperial study, Jian Ning and Elder Qingyuan presented information to Emperor Nan Cheng, and Jia Ning said: "Father, it is reported that Shangguan Tianyuan has taken over the Wan Dynasty Sect and helped Xun Shaoling confirm his true identity. Now, Xun Shaoling will inevitably prepare for the southern invasion again, and Jianing thinks that we must also step up preparations to meet the enemy. ”

Emperor Nancheng's eyes fell on the gradually sinking sky outside the hall, and he sighed with deep worry: "Eh, I think he Emperor Wen of Liang reigned for thirty years, and he invaded the south six times, disturbing the turmoil on the border of Nanke, and this Xun Shaoling was so impatient to wave his army to the south as soon as he succeeded to the throne...... Jianing, Luo Yunmen really can't pick some incidents from Xun Shaoling's sudden change in appearance to stop him from invading south?"

Jianing replied: "Father, Luo Yunmen has already delayed it, and now the situation has been decided, and there is Emperor Wen of Liang's will, and Northern Liang has already coordinated the soldiers and horses, and it is useless to move this matter again." ”

Elder Qingyuan seconded: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks what His Highness said is very true. The Xun clan covets the territory of my Nanke, the wolf's ambitions, repeatedly offending my border city, the two countries are fighting, a fight is hundreds of years, we can no longer tolerate it, this time Nanke should not just resist, it should be an all-out counterattack......"

They discussed for a long time, and Elder Qingyuan and Jianing both understood that this war between the North and the South was inevitable, but there seemed to be hesitation in the flickering words of Emperor Nancheng.

Emperor Nan Cheng glanced at Gonggong Qi on the side and asked, "What time is it?"

Gonggong Qi replied: "Back to Your Majesty, it's been a moment." ”

Emperor Nan Cheng suddenly remembered something, and said: "Oh, I almost forgot, today is the day when Mr. Tan Chongde entered the Lingyan Pavilion to serve as the prince's concubine, and the princes should have already performed the ceremony at this time." Let's talk about the matter first, and we will discuss it tomorrow morning. Jianing, let's go to Lingyan Pavilion with me to see your younger brothers enter the pan, right?"

Jianing attached a salute: "Yes, father." ”

Mr. Tan Chongde is the first master of Confucianism in Nanke, now over seventy years old, respected by the emperors of the two dynasties as a Confucian saint, but Mr. Tan traveled all over the world to learn in the world rarely entered the palace gate, in these two dynasties, but only invited into the palace to give lectures to the princes for a period of time, the name of the top Taifu temporarily served as the Taifu.

Emperor Nan Ke first Emperor Nan Jin had the most respect for Mr. Tan, and also invited Mr. Tan to Lingyan Pavilion as the temporary prince and concubine, at that time Emperor Nan Cheng was only a prince, and Mr. Tan also chose him to teach for a long time among the princes. Legend has it that Emperor Nanjin specially solicited Mr. Tan's advice when he established the prince, and Mr. Tan recommended Emperor Nancheng so that Emperor Nancheng could ascend to the throne.

Jianing also knew that Mr. Tan's re-entry into the palace today might also play a great role in the matter of establishing the prince, so she naturally wanted to observe. Elder Qingyuan and Mr. Tan were also old acquaintances, so Jianing invited the elder to go with him.