It was about seven or eight o'clock, the ancients had no entertainment activities, and they rested very early, and generally at this time they were already nesting in the quilt thinking about their own life plans.

Before going out, oh, it shouldn't be before going out of the window, Yan Shu looked up at the dark sky without stars and moons, and this sentence suddenly popped up in his mind: The moon is dark and the wind is high at night, when killing people and setting fires. Suddenly, I felt a chill on my back, and shook my head to drive this idea out, and it was better not to have such a terrible thought before going out at night.

In fact, it is not so much that Yuwen Yanshu is interested in Dugu Rong's friend, but that she is interested in Shen Huishu himself. In the deep palace for decades, he once favored the harem, no one can match, and after entering the cold palace, he can still be unharmed, and he can still read and play chess freely. If Concubine Shen didn't have a force behind her to support her and kill her, she wouldn't believe it, with a red face and white hair, and a deep palace grudge, could Concubine Shen have broken away from the red dust and cut off seven emotions and six desires?

In the distance, I could see the pale yellow candlelight shining through the gaps in the shadows of the trees, as faint as fireflies, as if it would disappear when the wind blew. The graceful and slender figure was reflected on the window paper, and Yuwen Yanshu saw her holding a hairpin and fiddling with the wick of the candle, and the flame jumped suddenly, as if a candle flower had burst.

This picture reminded her of the last time she saw Dugu Rong, it was also late at night, and she woke up in a hurry, because she was still young and had no way to solve it by herself, so she searched everywhere for her mother. That night, Dugu Rong wore a white middle coat and sat quietly at the table, there was only a lit candlestick on the table, and her mother looked at the little light as if she had blended into another world. Yuwen Yanshu will never forget that picture, the beautiful woman shrouded in gentle candlelight, sitting alone at the table despite the cold of the night, frowning and bowing her head.

As soon as he walked to the wall, a black shadow flashed out, and Yuwen Yanshu, who was already nervous, almost screamed in fright. When I looked at it, it turned out to be the dumb woman, and the old woman didn't seem to notice her, so she came out to look at it and turned back.

Yuwen Yanshu rubbed his chest with his hand fiercely, and exhaled deeply, slowing down the speed of his heartbeat.

She glared at the old man who was staggering in front of her hatefully, if she hadn't seen that she was deaf and dumb, she really wanted to beat her up. Even if you are scared to death, you don't need to be so scared, you are disabled in the middle of the night, you should go to bed early, and it is good to scare people and scare cats and dogs.

stepped on the footprints of the dumb old woman, and walked in with resentment one step at a time.

If the cold palace during the day has a bleak taste, then at night it is a deep ghostly feeling, and the phantoms of dead branches and fallen leaves alternate between deep and shallow. The worst thing is that there is no moon, if there is a moon to comfort yourself it is just the shadow of a tree, if there is no moon looking at the mottled marks on the ground, how would it feel?

Finally arrived in front of Concubine Shen's door, Yuwen Yanshu didn't care about any etiquette or etiquette, and rushed in from the old woman like a frightened rabbit. The old woman, who was originally as heavy as stagnant water, was also frightened by her sudden move, and her old eyes, which were squeezed by the folds on her face, also showed a black slit.

Shen Huishu saw the little man who jumped in, not only was he not frightened, but his face was gentle: "It's here." ”

The soft voice caressed, and Yuwen Yanshu's fluttering little heart immediately quieted down. Standing on his feet and holding his hands, he said in a proper manner: "Let Concubine Shen smile." ”

Concubine Shen chuckled: "Don't be a mother, a mother, but I'm rusty, come and sit." Shen Huishu pointed to the chair on the left and motioned for her to sit down.

Yuwen Yanshu walked over slowly, sat down slowly, and the standard was a lady who kept the etiquette, and the people who didn't know it were fooled by her like this. Shen Huishu watched her every move, a satisfied smile appeared on her soft and chaste face, and sighed: "Rong Rongquan has knowledge, and she will sleep with a smile." ”

The little face was gloomy for a moment, and it was one thing for me to think of my mother, and it was another thing for others to mention it, as if the hidden pain in my heart had been dug out. Yuwen Yanshu smiled a little unnaturally: "Auntie, is there something wrong with me so late?"

Shen Huishu's clear eyes fell on Yan Shu, and he looked at her without blinking: "You and your mother are really printed in the same mold, and I can't help but think of her when I see you." ”

I had already heard the queen say this when she first entered the palace, but now that she heard it again, even if the other party was her mother's best friend, Yuwen Yanshu muttered in her heart: "It's not because of this late night that you pulled me here, look at Concubine Shen is quite a sober and transparent person, so she won't have an abnormal head, God, you are not fair." ”

"I think back then, when I saw your mother for the first time, we were still little girls pulled in the hands of the nurse, I didn't expect the time to be so dangling, Rong'er's second child was so old. Shen Huishu slowly sighed from the bottom of her heart, as if something like cotton wool was blocked in her chest, she couldn't finish spitting, coughed violently a few times, a red tide surged up her cheeks, and her body trembled uncontrollably a few times.

"Niangniang, what's wrong with you?" Yuwen Yan hurriedly walked to her side, grabbed her trembling hand covering her lips, patted her back gently, and calmed her down, but she forgot, she was only ten years old, how could she have so much strength to give an adult a good breath.

Concubine Shen smiled and waved her hand, letting her sit back in the original place: "It's old, it's okay." ”

Yuwen Yanshu didn't say much, and from the meaning of Concubine Shen's words just now, he probably wanted to tell her about the past. The early death of her mother is actually a regret in her heart, she gave birth to her and gave her a second life, maybe it is gratitude, maybe it is out of blood ties, maybe it is because her mother in her previous life also went too early, so Dugu Rong has actually become one with her mother in her previous life in her heart, and she is her only mother. She has been trying to understand this mother through various channels, but because Dugu Rong has never been out of the door, there are very few people who really understand her, and people from the outside world also know a few words of gentleness and quietness, knowledge and courtesy, and everyone is beautiful.

The dumb old woman came in and added tea, the color of the water was a faint yellow with a little green feeling, and she frowned imperceptibly when she tasted Yuwen Yanshu, and there was a faint musty smell.

Shen Huishu didn't realize it, and took a sip, and suddenly his slightly dry lips became moist as if they had been smeared with honey.

"The first time I saw your mother was the Lantern Festival when I was eight years old, the emperor celebrated with the people, imitated the folk lantern festival, made lanterns to guess lantern riddles, and ordered civil and military officials to bring their families into the palace to have fun. That year, your mother was as old as you are now, wearing a rare white fox fur, with two night pearls of Goryeo tribute on her buns, and bright big eyes, so quietly following your father. Let your father lead her around, and everyone present will praise them as golden boys and girls, a pair made in heaven. At that time, although I was young, I could see that your father loved your mother from the bottom of his heart, and protected your mother all the time, for fear that she would bump into it, no matter what fresh gadgets, as long as your mother looked at it twice, your father would try his best to make her laugh. These pictures are now thinking about it, and I don't even realize that they are fake. ”

Speaking of this, Shen Huishu stopped, as if thinking of what happened later. Expressions of anger, disgust, hatred, and pity blended into a complex expression that flashed across her fair face.

Yuwen Yanshu was thinking, it turned out that the relationship between his father and mother was so good, childhood sweethearts, and the two had no guesses. But is that love? Maybe it used to be, when the love of ignorant teenagers first opened, and teenagers and girls were close to each other. It's just that the long days of waiting have grinded it into a bland family relationship, without the excitement of love, without the mystery of two people. Even if the red candle is shining, the couple at the end of the high hall mirror, even if they raise their eyebrows, it is difficult to calm down in the end.

"We envied your mother at that time, and we always felt that God was really unfair, and he gave all the advantages he could think of to your mother.

"Our Shen family is also a scholarly family for generations, and there have been several great Confucians, and my grandfather is a civil official with a pivotal position in the court. Lord Dugu used to be my grandfather's protégé, and he had a close personal relationship with my father. ”

The Dugu family and the Shen family still have such a relationship. Yuwen Yan soothed the slightly throbbing forehead, Daxing's official website is simply more terrifying than the Internet, I don't know how many related windows can pop up with a person's hyperlink. Born afraid of trouble, she at this moment is extremely nostalgic for the northern frontier where the sky is high and the mountains are wide, and the distant mountains are continuous, and she can ride a horse and run freely.