"Feng Zhu Luan Hui"

Text/Snow Stepping Feihong

**001 Don't let the pearl be darkened

Outside the window, snow was pouring down the ground, piled up thick in front of the steps. Zheng Yuan stretched out her hand to catch the snow particles that kept rolling down from the window, held them under her eyes, opened a pair of pure pupils, stared at her carefully for a long time, and suddenly asked the second sister Zheng Yuan, who was silently combing her hair behind her: "Sister, it's snowing so hard outside, and I don't know when my father will come back, can I bring an umbrella when I go out this morning?" ”

Zheng Yuan's grate action froze, and the close teeth of the grate broke a few black and tough hairs, and Zheng Yuan "hissed": "Sister, you are lighter, it hurts." ”

"Sister?"

"Sister, why don't you comb it?"

"Sister, you speak"

The drops of water splashed on the scalp drop by drop, warm and warm, Zheng Yuan panicked, turned her face, and hurriedly wiped her tears for Zheng Yuan: "Sister, why are you crying?" Sister, don't cry, don't cry, sister" The five-year-old lady was anxious, but her ten-year-old sister in front of her was far less strong than her at the moment, no matter how hoarse she shouted, she still cried like rain.

Zheng Yuan wept and shouted, trying her best to shake her sister Zheng Yuan, but in addition to her own crying, Zheng Yuan's ears could not hear any sound, the cry drowned out Yuanyuan's shouts, the sound of falling snow and the crows at dusk, seven days ago, the crows had begun to wander in the trees in front of the Xiangguo Mansion, and the people in the house were panicked, and they all said: The crows are mourning. Sure enough. The news came an hour ago: Zheng Chongshu, who was the prime minister of the dynasty, had his head in a different place at three o'clock in the afternoon, and his head was still hung in public. At this moment, the huge Xiangguo Mansion has been surrounded by officers and soldiers, and only the five-year-old sister in the house does not know the bad news, and she is also crying at this moment, crying because she is crying.

Closing her eyes, her father's blood-dripping head above the city gate suddenly appeared in her mind, and Zheng Yuan couldn't cry anymore. I'm afraid that it will be the last time to comb my little sister Yuanyuan's hair, poor Yuanyuan is only five years old, and she has no time to bloom her Shaohua, so she will die in this Shangyuan Festival, with her endless wishes.

After all, she is young, Zheng Yuan can't read the sorrow and sorrow in her sister's eyes, and her crying does not penetrate her intestines and bones, she has the joy of the festival in her heart, and she can't help comforting Zheng Yuan while wiping her tears: "Sister don't cry, sister don't cry, sister promised Yuanyuan before, today I want to accompany Yuanyuan out to see the lanterns, sister, don't cry, it's not good to look good if you cry." As soon as the words fell, there was a faint movement outside, Zheng Yuan listened to it, wiped her tears, and happily pulled Zheng Yuan: "Sister, listen, it's so lively outside, everyone must be rushing to the market to watch the lanterns." Zheng Yuan listened to the words with her ears pricked up, it was a miscellaneous footsteps, from far to near, I was afraid that she was coming to raid her home and ask for her life. The footsteps became more and more rapid, and Zheng Yuan's heartbeat also accelerated.

Zheng Yuan stood up, burst into tears, and clapped her palms up and down: "Sister, go out with me to have a look!" ”

"Yuanyuan, don't go!" Zheng Yuan grabbed it in a panic, but Zheng Yuan didn't give up, and naughtily pushed the door and ran out, Zheng Yuan got up in a hurry and chased after her, until Zheng Yuan, who was running in the snow, crashed into the arms of her mother Gongsun.

The Gongsun clan was the daughter of the king of Linjiang, the lord of Xing'an, and the Linjiang Gongsun clan was a branch of the imperial family. The aristocratic woman is good at staying beautiful, and the Gongsun family, who has given birth to four children and is impulsive, still looks young and beautiful, even if she has just cried and cried off the fat powder, but her haggard face still can't hide her charm.

"Mother." Zheng Yuan raised her head, happily hugged Gongsun's waist, touched the double bun on the top of her head, and her eyes were full of the joy of her youngest daughter's family showing off: "Mother, look, my sister combed it for me, is it beautiful?" ”

Staring at her daughter's doting eyes, Gongsun nodded tearfully, bowed his head and kissed her broad and white head: "Yuanyuan went with her mother, and her mother made delicious food for Yuanyuan." Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Zheng Yuan, Gongsun raised his red and swollen eyes, held back his tears, and tried his best to pull out a few smiles, but the years still left a little frost on the corners of her eyebrows and eyes. She stretched out her hand and beckoned to Zheng Yuan, and called warmly: "Grandma also come here." ”

Calling the two sisters into the house, Gongsun retreated from all the subordinates, closed the door, brought a jade plate, hugged Zheng Yuan in her knee with one hand, warmed her delicate Rouyi with the other hand, and said: "Mother made Yuanyuan's favorite hibiscus cake, Yuanyuan eat quickly, eat a little, let's be together at night." Zheng Yuan clearly saw that her mother's hand holding the jade dish was shaking uncontrollably, and the tip of her tongue was trembling when she spoke.

Gongsun looked at Zheng Yuan with a sloppy gaze again: "Grandma is also coming over to eat." Zheng Yuan dragged her heavy legs and moved two steps, but saw Yuanyuan grab a piece of hibiscus cake, look up and ask her mother with a smile: "Does my mother want to go out with us at night?" ”

Gongsun was stunned for a moment, and nodded heavily: "Hmm" I couldn't bear it for a while, and my tears splashed to the ground.

Seeing that the pastry was about to be delivered to Yuanyuan's mouth, Zheng Yuan quickly rushed forward, knocked it off, overturned the jade saucer, and begged on her knees: "Mother, can you not do this!" ”

Gongsun's love was out of control, and he grabbed Zheng Yuan's neck, tears fell like rain: "Sister, your father is dead, your sister is also dead, your brother is afraid that he will not survive, Xiangguofu has collapsed, and we will not survive, I will send you two sisters on the road first, and I will accompany you immediately." ”

"Mother, let go!" Zheng Yuan quickly crawled under Gongsun's knees, and while vigorously breaking her hand that was holding Yuanyuan's neck, she coaxed and persuaded: "Mother, don't do this!" The order has not yet been given. ”

Gongsun shook his head excitedly: "What if we are spared from death?" After the female dependents of the Xiangguo Mansion were taken into custody, he was not an official slave when he was young, and he was punished as a military prostitute at the appropriate age. Rather than live and be humiliated, it is better to die a heroic death like your sister, all loyal! After that, he tightened Yuanyuan's neck ruthlessly.

"Sister, save me" Zheng Yuan was suffocated, calling for help word by word, waving her little hand at Zheng Yuan in despair.

"Mother!" Zheng Yuan desperately broke Gongsun's hand, "I understand what my mother means, a soldier can be killed, not humiliated." But Yuanyuan is still so young, wouldn't her mother strangle her like this to make her very uncomfortable. Even if we want to die, we have to choose a way to die comfortably! ”

Gongsun let go. Yuanyuan, who had been reborn, quickly slipped off Gongsun's knees, and fell into Zheng Yuan's arms trembling. Zheng Yuan's arm was scratched painfully, and when she wanted to open her mouth, a voice sounded outside:

"Zheng Chongshu, Yu Zhihuan and others agreed to abolish the crown prince Gongsun Xun, and when the first emperor was critically ill, they acted arbitrarily to force the palace, which constituted rebellion. Today, Zheng Chongshu has been afraid of crime and self-judgment, His Majesty Xià remembered his fear of crime and assisted the first emperor, pardoned the Xiangguo Mansion and other capital crimes, and now all the people in the Xiangguo Mansion will be imprisoned, waiting for the future. ”

The person who spoke, named Qu Boyao, is already the new right minister who is proud of today's spring breeze. Under the order, there was a mess of porridge outside, and wailing and mourning were everywhere.

"Humph!" Gongsun's nose sneered coldly, and he sneered: "What a self-judgment for fear of crime!" He turned his gaze to Zheng Yuan again: "Yuan, if you don't want to die, are you counting on the King of Wei to come to our rescue?" ”

Zheng Yuan nodded hesitantly. Gongsun glanced out the window, and said with a smile: "King Wei is now difficult to protect himself, and he can still take care of you, the princess who has not passed the door?" According to my mother, you are actually counting on seeing someone else again! ”

Zheng Yuan shook her head again and again.

"If not, then you're afraid of death!" Gongsun suddenly raised his tone.

Zheng Yuan tightly protected her trembling sister, bit her lower lip, and bit out a mouthful of blood: "Mother, I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to die yet, it's better to die than to live, endure humiliation, and only then can I bear the weight." ”

"If you don't want to die, don't you just want to live?" Gongsun nodded, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he staggered up, as if his soul had been pumped, dragging the heavy clothes, and walked to the door step by step.

"Mother—" Zheng Yuan hissed.

Gongsun stopped to look back at her, his body seemed to be hollowed out, crumbling in the wind and snow, and a sad smile gradually spread on her pale face, like a jasmine made of jasmine meeting boiling hot water, rising from the bottom of a white jade bowl, and blooming enthusiastically for the last time: "Sister, promise me, if you want to live, you will protect your sister well." ”

"Mother, Mother" Zheng Yuan was anxious and got up to chase after her.

"Sister, don't go out." Zheng Yuan grabbed Zheng Yuan fiercely, and her whole body hung on Zheng Yuan's body, sobbing with her small mouth: "Yuanyuan is afraid, my sister accompanies Yuanyuan." ”

Gongsun looked at the man in the court in the brocade hat and ermine fur and standing in the court for a moment, strode forward, knelt under his eyes with a thud, and the low voice could only be heard by the two of them: "Your Excellency, I hope you will remember the kindness you received in the former Xiangguo Mansion, and the respect that your mother gave you when you taught her to solve her doubts, and read it, your heart for her mother, and save her from fire and water in the future."

Qu Boyao's narrow eyes were slightly closed, and the index finger in his sleeve lightly buckled the white jade wrench on his thumb, and there was still an indifferent look on his face.

Gongsun raised his hands together to increase his forehead, solemnly kowtowed, and bowed again, and the hanging beads on the hairpin crown on his head were next to the snow, and he never left.

Hearing the small groan, Qu Boyao lowered his eyes, and the noble county lord held the golden hairpin in his hand, against his chest, and his head fell to the ground. She has never been so low-voiced in her life. At that moment, she turned the nobility of this life into humility.

The plum blossoms in the snow bloomed beautifully, Qu Boyao sighed silently, he clearly remembered that there was an old plum planted next to the Jinjing Wheel in the corner of the courtyard of Xiangguo Mansion. Looking for it, the old trees are still there, but there are no buds and flowers, on the steps of the golden well, the snow is covered with more than an inch, and the red is full of bricks.

Suddenly, a touch of plain clothes into the corner of the eye, parting when she was still the year of the golden hairpin, after three years, the former smart and clever two ladies have been in time, become the young daughter to be married, how many noble children in Shengdu proposed to marry, such as crossing the river carp to break through the threshold of Xiangguo's mansion, Zheng Xiangguo for her to choose the emperor's favorite five sons of King Wei as her husband-in-law, it is said that the elegant and profound King Wei is also her own choice of beloved

Zheng Yuan stood on the curved railing, the unkempt green silk almost wanted to cover her eyebrows, her eyes stared at her mother who was lying on the ground, and her grief was to the bone marrow.

Qu Boyao was stunned, and when she came back to her senses, she had already seen Zheng Yuan at the moment, she hugged her undulating mother, the lord of Xing'an, and held her in her arms, closed her eyes, and stared at Gongsun's peaceful and long sleep for a long time, and carefully put her peach cheeks on her face, as if she was afraid of waking up the person in her arms.

"Qu Xiang," Li Conghe walked under Qu Boyao's eyes, lowered his eyebrows and said: "Almost all the people in Xiangguo Mansion have been taken into custody, except" Li Conghe's eyes quickly turned half a corner, glanced at Zheng Yuan on the snow and the dead Xing'an County Lord, and whispered: "Except, the second lady of the Zheng family and the little lady look at each other, isn't it time to invite the second lady into the palace?" ”

As soon as the words fell, to his surprise, the porcelain-like person Huo Ran raised his head and stared at him, and his eyes were full of boundless hatred. Li Conghe froze, coughed dryly, and hurriedly looked away, as if he was about to be sucked dry by her blood and skinned and eaten meat after looking at her more.

She laughed again, the laughter was so strange that it was not as pleasant as the little ladies of this age, but with a kind of aggressive ridicule, like the rough crow chirping, one by one broke people's hearts, and Li Conghe was uneasy to hear it, and quickly found a reason to withdraw.

The snow is white, and the world is quiet for a while.

She squinted at the man in front of her with the whites of her eyes, biting her teeth, and milky white smoke escaped from her lips: "Qu Boyao, when you left Xiangguo Mansion, I kept you in every possible way, do you remember what you said at the beginning?"

You said that leaving the Prime Minister's Mansion is to practice the ambition of Qingyun.

I really can't imagine that in just three years, you have become a dog of the rebel King Qin!

It turns out that wagging your tail and licking the traitor with the wolf's ambition is to fulfill your ambition! ”

Even if it is the scolding of the head and covering the face, the smell is like a spring hitting the stone, the blue stream runs the jade, the pair of apricot eyes have already become two clear autumn pools, the pool surface is quiet, but the deep stream is impacting the water in the dark, she has the rare calmness of young girls of this age, no wonder someone wants to beat her idea. Qu Boyao's grim face flashed with a faint smile, she said that he was a dog, he didn't think so, where is he a dog, it is clearly a wolf, then Li Conghe is a dog, a dog that can wag his tail. Half an hour ago, he and Li Conghe were still in the imperial study.

Li Conghe flatteringly approached the former King of Qin and today's new emperor and said: "Your Majesty, the traitor Zheng Chongshu not only has thousands of family fortunes that can be used in the treasury, but also a few rare 'palm pearls'. That Zheng Chongshu can be described as scheming, hoarding pearls and waiting for the price to sell, and in the end, one was given to the crown prince who was expected to ascend the throne, and the other was promised to the fifth son of the first emperor, King Wei. Now, that Zheng Chongshu is under Jiuquan, I'm afraid that he regrets not being at the beginning, it's a pity, a pearl has fallen, and the rest is a new master who urgently needs to know the goods——"

The new emperor raised his eyebrows, and he was already moved.

Li Conghe, who was clever and colorful, continued to add fuel to the fire: "The beauty of the crown princess Zheng Shu is well known, and her sister Zheng Yuan is also famous" His eyebrows danced, and the light in his eyes was bright or extinguished: "Your Majesty, now, Zheng Chongshu's second daughter, Zheng Yuan, is in Shaoling"

"Zheng Yuan is the princess of Wei appointed by the first emperor, and after Wending, if she fills the harem, I am afraid it will be inappropriate."

"Qu Qing has always been outspoken." The new emperor did not deny that a pair of harrier-like eyes were as deep as an abyss, "What's wrong?" ”

His face did not change, and he was righteous and stern: "I am afraid that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the people of the world will discuss: brother takes brother and daughter-in-law." so that His Majesty's holy name is defiled. Zheng Yuan - hand-picked by the former emperor - Princess Wei. ”

Li Conghe looked at him frequently, and frequently raised his eyebrows slightly to look at the silent new emperor, and fine beads of sweat oozed from the corners of his forehead.

The corners of the new emperor's mouth were slightly hooked, a faint mockery loomed, and the masseter muscles twitched and twitched: "King Wei? Where is the King of Wei? Well? ”

Li Conghe's round eyes emitted a light of great joy, and he knelt on the ground with the lowest posture, raised his hands in front of his forehead, and said sharply: "Your Majesty-Majesty-Ying-Ming-"

The new emperor rubbed the night pearl in his hand, and his voice rose again: "Since it is a pearl, don't let the pearl be covered with dust." Qu Qing, you are from Xiangguofu, and the affairs of Xiangguofu are given to you with full authority, and Li Qing will help you, don't disappoint me. ”

A good sentence comes from the Xiangguo Mansion, which is clearly testing loyalty.

Qu Boyao withdrew from his thoughts, and did not want to take Zheng Yuan's words to heart, but only respectfully stepped forward and said to Zheng Yuan: "Second lady, Your Majesty specially ordered the prime minister to come and pick up the second mother in the womb." ”