Chapter VIII. Mother of the world
I don't know why I feel so tired at the moment of the dormitory door. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 It seems that the first and perhaps the last meeting with her parents this time has consumed all her energy. After the maids retreated. Le Yi lay on the bed thinking about what had just happened.
Although my parents didn't feel much sorry for abandoning me, I don't know why the hatred for them disappeared. Such a person who puts the lives of his people above his own dignity, and such two people who regard the future of the country as more important than anything else, Le Yi feels forgivable.
At this time, someone called out softly to the fourth princess at the door. Princess Le Yi replied inside, "Who's outside? “
"Back to the princess, she is an old slave, who came to measure the princess and make a wedding dress."
The princess opened the door, and the woman who looked to be in her forties came to the door, with fair skin, delicate and warm eyebrows, and a very gentle look. With a slender figure, she looks like she doesn't eat the fireworks of the world. And strangely have a natural affinity for her.
It is worthy of the palace, and it is really beautiful. Mei Xin thought about it and glanced at the comer, and the maid said, "The slave maid is the peach blossom who is responsible for making wedding dresses for everyone in the palace. Princess, please open your arms straight and let the slave and maid measure their bodies. ”
Le Yi got out of bed and measured her clothes according to the instructions. I suddenly remembered that my uncle had said that the nurse who sent me to my uncle's house at that time was called Peach Blossom. glanced at Peach Blossom and asked tentatively: "Do you know Zhang Ke?" ”
Peach Blossom paused for a moment and replied, "Yes!" ”
"Then you are my nurse Peach Blossom?"
"Exactly." Peach Blossom said, and there was not much emotion in her tone. A faint feeling.
Le Yi seemed to have found a relative in this strange place, but this faint attitude made Le Yi's heart cool a lot, and the words that were piled up in her chest were swallowed back before she could say them.
When Peach Blossom was about to go out, she saw Princess Leyi's lonely and aggrieved expression, and suddenly felt unbearable, so she turned around and closed the door. Look at the princess standing in the doorway.
Princess Le Yi's aggrieved face became clear in an instant, "Come and do it here, drink tea and drink tea!" As he spoke, he took Peach Blossom's hand and sat down at the table.
Peach Blossom looked at the princess's change and thought that she was still a child. Suddenly inspired the hidden mother's love, and remembered the days when she had taken care of her. looked at Le Yi lovingly and said, "My poor princess, have you been happy all these years?" Are you still used to coming to the palace suddenly? “
Life has changed so much in the past few days, and the future is unpredictable, Le Yi has always been a ninja without complaining. But at this time, such a gentle and caring tone suddenly burst out of his eyes. I cried for a long time while holding my nursing mother.
Le Yi, who hasn't cried much since she was a child, cried twice today, and there are so many things that have happened these days, and many emotions have finally exploded and released today.
After calming down, Le Yi asked how she was sent out of the palace, and when Peach Blossom answered Le Yi, her thoughts drifted to the year when Le Yi was born more than ten years ago.
At that time, the nurse Peach Blossom, who was still very young, looked at the sleeping little princess Le Yi, why is this child's life so bitter, her parents, King Dongping and Princess Dongping, have not come to see her for a long time. Pray that God will make her happier in the future.
Seeing that the New Year is coming, the Nanlanling with light rain is a little cold. The Dongping Royal Mansion is even more deserted.
When the sixth brother of Emperor Xiao Yue of Western Liang and Xiao Qi, the king of Dongping, was dying, Princess Dongping was sitting at the head of the bed and watching her husband wash her face with tears. The attendants in the palace did not dare to speak loudly. The whole palace was deserted and desolate. The little princess Le Yi is only 1 year old, and she seems to be able to feel the cold and depressing atmosphere in the house, lying quietly in the arms of the nurse Peach Blossom, looking at her nurse with round eyes.
This cold and oppressive atmosphere lasted for two months, and finally it was the beginning of spring. In the season of recovery, King Dongping was finally liberated and left the West. Princess Dongping looked at her husband's body that had become cold, and looked at his face with a relieved expression. I don't know how I'm going to live in the future. She was so numb that she left her husband's room, and the tears had not stopped for months, and she couldn't even cry at the moment.
Walking out of the room for the first time in months, the servants who hadn't seen her for a long time were startled. Compared with the energetic woman a year ago, although this woman still has neat hair and neat clothes, she no longer feels any vitality. His eyes were vacant, his cheeks were deep, and his skin was as white as paper. The whole person seems to be floating and moving.
Princess Dongping, with the assistance of the old servants of the palace, handled the affairs of King Dongping. The experienced old servants all privately said that the princess had hung up her dead face, and I was afraid that time was running out.
Sure enough, a month later, the princess of Dongping, who was bedridden, struggled to sit up one bleak morning, summoned the servants to the door, and asked the bookkeeper to divide the few gold and silver money left in the house to everyone and send them off to a certain way of life. specially left the nurse peach blossom and asked her to take the little princess to see the current Emperor Xiaoming, explaining that her husband and wife are no longer alive.
Peach Blossom nodded with tears in her eyes. At this moment, Princess Dongping quietly closed her eyes.
Peach Blossom simply buried Princess Dongping for the princess, and packed her things and took the little princess Le Yi on the way to the palace.
Looking at the road in front of her, Peach Blossom remembered that she had brought her little princess to Dongping Wangfu a year ago. I didn't expect to have to go back the same way so soon. Thoughts drift back to a year ago.
It was also a cold day, and February in the south was unusually cold. The sky was sleet, and everything was icy and cold, so people didn't dare reach out and touch it. On such a cold day, Empress Zhang gave birth to a daughter. There was tension in the palace.
The next day, it was said that Empress Zhang died, according to a custom in Jiangnan, children born in February are not good to survive, and children who survive in this harsh environment must be hard-fated, which will bring bad luck to their parents.
After inner struggles, in order to avoid bad luck, the emperor decided to send the little princess to the emperor's sixth brother Dongping Wang and his wife. It will definitely give my daughter a good environment to grow up in. The palace maid Peach Blossom is in charge of sending her away and taking care of her as the princess's nurse in the future.
In this way, the newborn little princess became the daughter of King Dongping, Princess Dongping has not given birth to children since she got married, and she is naturally very happy to see this daughter who fell from the sky. But thinking of the ominous legend that the child born in February brought back to his parents is still a little uncomfortable. Thinking that because King Dongping had offended his brother Emperor Xiaoming before, it is not impossible to say that he did it on purpose.
After the little princess came to the palace, the life of the king and his wife in Dongping had a lot of fun. Princess Dongping also named the little princess - Princess Leyi, hoping that she can be happy when she grows up. And made a lot of small clothes for her with his own hands. The little guy also likes Dongping Wang and his wife very much, and he giggles when he sees them. The family and Lele have forgotten the spell of the Jiangnan proverb.
The good times didn't last long, and when the little princess arrived in the palace for about half a year, King Dongping suddenly contracted a strange disease, and invited many doctors to see it, but they didn't see the reason.
The so-called rush to the doctor, the princess invited a Taoist priest at the last moment. The Taoist priest looked at King Dongping's face and shook his head and said that there was no cure. The princess sent the Taoist priest out as usual, but she didn't expect to meet the nurse Peach Blossom holding the little princess passing by on the way out of the Taoist priest, and suddenly stopped and said to the princess: "The princess has a halo on her head, and she has the appearance of a mother in the world, and she will be great in the future." ”。
The princess was so confused that she didn't take it seriously at all. Hurriedly sent the Taoist priest back. But the princess nurse Peach Blossom listened to it in her ears and put it in her heart.
Speaking of this, Peach Blossom pulled back her thoughts and said to Le Yi, who had grown up: "That crazy Taoist priest said that you are the face of the world, and I have never forgotten it. Please princess never give up hope at any time and follow the choice of her heart. I believe that God will not let a person live so hard for the rest of his life. “
Le Yi listened to Peach Blossom's eloquent words, and endured without interrupting her, and finally had the opportunity to express her doubts at this time: "Nurse, you said that my mother Empress Zhang has passed away, so who is this queen now?" “
"This is your mother's personal maid back then, and your mother is like a sister, after your mother died, she accompanied your father to mourn her through the difficult time of losing his beloved wife. So she was named queen. When Peach Blossom said this, she was deeply sympathetic to Le Yi's tragic life experience.
The two talked about a lot of other things, and Peach Blossom had to go back to make the wedding dress.
Le Yi imagined her mother who died early before they even met. The reason why my mother has not contacted my uncle, aunt and me for so many years is not ruthless, not ruthless, but incompetent. It's embarrassing.