Chapter 2: The Cold Palace
I looked at him calmly, my eyes narrowing slightly: "My own business, why do you ask more." ”
"Your business?" Qi Ye asked rhetorically, reaching out to clasp my chin, and slowly pressing his gaze towards me, "If this is really just your own business, why should I be so angry! Gao Xiyue, why do you torture me so much? If you really don't want to conceive my flesh and blood again, then you can tell me honestly right now!"
Silence engulfed us silently after his words fell.
"To this day, you still ask me why? Qi Ye, in fact, you already know what will happen if I conceive your child again. "For a long time, I looked at him, my eyebrows and eyes darkened.
Qi Ye's thin lips tightened into a line, avoiding my gaze, and asked, "What is the result?"
"I will not let my children embark on this long road where countless lives have been buried, and the throne of the king does not belong to me or to you. I will not give birth to him, let alone make him a soul who has died in the struggle for power like my first child. ”
Qi Ye sighed: "Yue'er, the country cannot be without a king for a day. ”
"Then I'll hand it over to the clan relatives!" a hint of hope flashed in my eyes, "You once said that only a sage can do this. ”
Qi Ye stared at me for a moment, and after a while, he asked me, "Then you tell me, am I considered a sage?"
Once again, there was silence, and I suddenly understood a word called "harboring a ghost".
At night, Sijiu came to ask if I needed to hold another wedding for me at the behest of Yuwen Qiye. Looking at Sijiu kneeling upright, I understood for the first time that someone who was once close to me would become alienated from me overnight.
"Why do you want to make up the wedding?" I asked, "go back and ask the Lord Regent, did he not count anything last time because of his absence?"
Forty-nine: "Your Majesty, what the prince thinks, the slave can't guess." The minions only came to ask His Majesty's opinion, and I hope that His Majesty will not embarrass the minions. ”
I couldn't help but snort coldly, my eyebrows and eyes were full of mockery, "It seems that you are doing things under Yuwen Qiye now, which is very appropriate." This palace has been entangled in political affairs recently, and there is no way to think about marriage, so you let him come back next month to ask for instructions!"
Sijiu looked up at me as if he was looking at a stranger, and bowed over and said, "Yes." The minions obeyed. ”
There was silence in the huge Zichen Palace, and everyone walked quietly with their heads down when they entered and exited, without a sound. As the night fell, little by little spread in the main hall, and I sat high on top of the hall and watched the crowd pass by, but I could not feel a trace of breath. In their eyes, I became the one they feared.
"Father-in-law stays. In the roundabout corridor, I shouted to the back of Sijiu leaving, and walked in front of him in a few steps, "My father-in-law came to my Zichen Palace, he is a former old man, aren't you going to have a cup of tea before leaving?"
When Sijiu heard this, he said: "The prince is waiting for me to go to the cold palace to visit the girl in the city, and it is inconvenient for His Majesty to bother more, so the slave thanked His Majesty for his kindness." ”
I looked at Sijiu quietly, for a long time, but I still took off my blunt and polite tone, and finally asked the question in my heart: "Sijiu, why are we like this today?"
A hint of relief flashed on Sijiu's respectful expression, and he said: "Your Majesty, you are the master of the slave, and the whole life of the slave is yours, I don't know why Your Majesty cares about this." His Majesty's daughter's body, compared to a minion, really tormented the minion. ”
I stared at him and asked, "Are you still obsessed with my words that day?" Is that just a way to protect you in a hurry, if I don't be ruthless, with your temperament, how can you just say to leave? Or do you really believe in my relationship with immortality?"
"Changsheng is dead, and His Majesty is hiding it from me. Now that there is no proof of death, what Your Majesty says, the slave will believe it, this is Sijiu's duty to be a slave, and it is also the slave's respect for Your Majesty. ”
My heart didn't tighten, and I didn't know what to say.
After a long pause, Sijiu spoke: "Your Majesty, I told you the location of the organ that day, why didn't you take Bi Yan with you when you escaped from the chaos?"
I was stopped by his sudden question, as if a sleeping ancient bell in my heart had been awakened by a fierce ring, and for a while it swayed and hung in the air. Why don't I save Bi Yu? Why? In that case, can I let Bi Yu escape from the burning sky with me?
I fell into silent thought, Sijiu observed the change in my expression, for a long time, sighed: "Your Majesty has forgotten or can't answer? Do you need a slave to help Your Majesty think about the bowl of saffron that once asked for the life of the fetus in Bi Yan's womb?"
"How do you know?" I asked in surprise, I hid this matter from Zhizhi very well, although I also let Jinglan know about it later, but I never thought that I would omit Sijiu, "If you see ugly things, this palace doesn't mention it." ”
"It turns out that in the eyes of His Majesty, this is just a scandal, but what does that mean to Bi Yu, doesn't Your Majesty know? Your Majesty didn't want Bi Yu to give birth to the emperor's dragon son from the beginning, and that day to find a slave to take you to Hanyuan Palace, whether Your Majesty is to protect Bi Yu's mother and son or want to borrow a knife to kill people is unknown...... Your Majesty, you sit on the high position of the Zichen Hall every day, have you ever been stable?"
Every word and sentence of Sijiu slammed into my heart, my hands began to tremble unconsciously, desperately gritting my teeth, trying to make the expression on my face look less distorted, I could only look up at the night sky, the moon in the distance, the cold silver glow poured on the surface of the blue river, and the blurred waves.
"Now that you're in the Regent's Palace, are you still safe?" I asked.
Forty-nine: "The prince lives in my heart the princess who has long since died, and I will be stable when the prince is stable." ”
"Yes, she died...... Looking at the night sky, I sighed, "Died in Fengming Mountain, died in Jianmen Pass, died in Liangzhou City, died in Hanyuan Palace...... Once at a time, she was alive, but she had already died a million times. ”
Who is in this skin bag now may have been unrecognizable. Yuwen and I are at night, thousands of years later, maybe no one will recognize anyone.
"Let me out......"
"I want to see the emperor...... The Emperor ......"
"Uh......h Woo......"
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The dim moonlight of the afternoon shines through the dilapidated beams on the moss-covered stone walls of the cold palace, seeping into the bone marrow, reflecting an eerie chill. The air was filled with the smell of dampness and mold, mixed with a heavy smell of rot and blood.
Walking on the rugged and crooked road, occasionally one or two women with disheveled hair and crazy people came running when they heard the voice, "The emperor is here! The emperor is here!" Behind him, Jin Wuwei immediately stepped forward to block it, and the long knife in his hand reflected the cold light, which frightened several women to flee and beg for mercy, "It's not the emperor, it's the demon girl! The demon girl is here!"
Several cold palace women kept calling for help and waving their bony arms, their voices were terrible, with crying and whimpering. The crazy words in their mouths made the atmosphere fall into a delicate state, and Jin Wuwei on one side observed the expression on my face for a while, and asked, "Your Majesty, how to deal with these wastes?"
I recalled for a moment, the moment the light of the knife reflected on my face, I seemed to see Yu Ruo, those unwilling eyes in the resentment I always remembered, even if I looked at me for a few seconds, I couldn't hide the bitter hatred in my heart.
"Since you say they're wasters, let's make them real wastes. Liu Tongwei, if you have any nightmares at night, remember that you hurt others by making a momentary gaffe, and you can't complain about others. As I spoke, I walked deeper into the room, my expression faint, "Let's do it." ”
When he turned around, the desolate moonlight illuminated the whole house a little clearer, and the sound of swords rising and falling came from his ears, and a faint cry for help floated in the palace wall as deep as the sea, dyeing the moonlight a little red.
"Moonlight, sad heart......" There was a clear singing voice in the deep room, which made me standing at the door frown, and the song stopped abruptly, at this time, a woman's voice came from inside the door, "Princess, you are finally here." ”
Pushing the door in, Allure wore his hair and waist, sitting beside the tea case, his body was dusty, and everything around the cold palace was extremely incommensurate, but it was extremely harmonious.
"Hongu kept his promise, so he came here today. If you are not accustomed to this place, then the palace will find another place for you, the palace has long been unable to accommodate you, after leaving the palace, if you are afraid of being manipulated by the Turkic Helan again, the palace can send you to the south to spend the rest of your life. ”
When Allure heard this, he suddenly smiled: "Princess, are you going to send me away?"
I raised my eyebrows and looked at her: "Otherwise, what do you think this palace can reward you? Continue to let you live a prosperous and rich life as a concubine in the palace? Or give you the three-foot white silk that was not handed over to you on the day of the funeral?"
"The princess wants to send me out of the palace, aren't you afraid?"
"Afraid?" I got up to look at her, "If you're afraid, I'll be afraid wherever you go." Since you have spared your life, why do you need to say more? While this palace has not changed its mind, you had better cherish the opportunity. ”
"Some people want to be safe, some people are used to going with the flow, but these are not what Allure wants. If the princess had arranged for me to live in the afterlife, I am afraid that I would have lived up to this kindness. ”
I also laughed when I heard this, and asked with great interest: "Then you don't want to know how this palace will punish you if you live up to Bengong's kindness?"
"You won't. Allure said, "You let me go, but it's taboo that I'm in the palace, and it's taboo that I'm close to the ninth master." But if I tell you a secret between me and the Ninth Master, I'm afraid you will only obey my arrangement in the future. ”
Such presumptuous and arrogant words slowly spat out from Allure's mouth, and the soft smile was dazzling in the pale moonlight projected into the dark room, and I stared at her like staring at a pill of poison, trembling and stretching out my hands to know whether to take it or not.
"Then let's hear it. ”
"Princess, Allure wants to be the queen of the Great Zhou. ”