Chapter 280: Heart-to-heart
Gillian's life after returning to the palace is very simple, basically she is where Liu Che is. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info She followed Liu Che to the Xuanshu Hall after breakfast every day. During the day, Liu Che discussed with the courtiers, and she was either grinding ink or reading on the side. When dusk comes, the two of them will go back to dinner together, and then they should write and rest.
Day after day, Gillian is not bored.
Although Gillian is in the middle palace, she basically didn't ask much about the harem after she came back. What she thinks is that everything on the left and right is regulated, and she just follows the rules. In the harem, as before, all the supplies are given according to their status, and there will never be a shortage of who deserves it.
She didn't want the concubines to wait, and she wouldn't make things difficult for anyone. Even if there are two princes, they never ask. This made the concubines, who were still anxious and afraid that the queen would not get along, breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, they felt a little embarrassed that the queen did not look at her.
But what they think, Gillian won't know.
Being able to ignore them is already the greatest kindness she can do.
After dinner that day, Liu Che finally showed compassion and did not ask Gillian to practice calligraphy, and allowed her to go out and play with the snow lion for half an hour to eat. Gillian was naturally full of excitement and pulled Liu Che out, and the snow lion was even more happy when she saw them come out.
At the beginning, the two also played with the snow lions. But when Gillian was tired and lay down, and the snow lion was still on the rise, she stood under the porch and watched it play with Liu Che.
The autumn dusk sky is particularly tranquil, and the occasional flock of birds pierces the sky, also in a flash, leaving no trace.
The chilly autumn wind swept in, and the dead leaves on the treetop branches fell one after another.
Gillian has always felt that the difference between the four seasons is not only in the flowering and falling leaves, rain and snow, but also in an atmosphere that she can't say.
This atmosphere has attracted countless literati to write sad autumn works, that is, didn't Liu Che also write "Autumn Wind Speech"?
Gillian smiled unconsciously, and then looked at the dark gray thick flowing clouds that emerged at the end of the sky at some point, and called Liu Che: "Come in, it looks like it's going to rain." He turned around and called Xiao Dongzi again, "Spread an extra layer for the snow lion tonight, it's getting colder and colder day by day." β
I don't know if it's a hallucination, Gillian always feels that Liu Che is a little reluctant to go in with her. He lingered for a long time before he came down the porch, and asked her if she wanted to disperse again.
What's the matter, isn't it? What happened in the temple?
Gillian shook her head and resolutely refused, and took him to the inner hall without saying anything.
As a result, when I arrived at the inner hall, there were ten pianos on the ten yellow pear noodles, and the hall was filled with a faint agarwood fragrance unique to the guqin. At a glance, you know at a glance that it must be a peerless famous piano. She was speechless in surprise, and turned to look at Liu Che, who was also full of smiles on his face, and said softly to see if he liked it.
How could you not like it?
She nodded heavily, only to feel that her heart was happy and nervous and almost jumped out. There are so many pianos, she is afraid that she will break them. Gillian slowed down her steps and stepped forward to take a closer look.
The first qin on the left is in the Fuxi style, cut from cedar wood, and the wood is pine yellow. The body of the piano is a small snake belly with broken lines, and this Gillian alone can conclude that this must be a guqin. The second piano is in the Zhongni style, with a cow hair pattern all over the body......
She looked at them one by one, and it took her an hour. Liu Che was not annoyed at all, and watched her with a smile and let out a small exclamation from time to time, only to feel that her heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment.
Gillian was surprised to find that all ten pianos had broken lines, and one of them was broken plum blossoms. It is necessary to know that the guqin is evidenced by broken lines, and it does not last for hundreds of years. Among them, plum blossoms are the most rare, and it is difficult to see them after thousands of years.
A Guqin that can be called a good qin must be from the Warring States Period at the latest, but after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms and the Chu and Han dynasties for hegemony and burned Afang Palace, most of the guqins accumulated before this were destroyed.
Even if many guqins in the world are afraid that they have only heard of them, let alone broken plum blossoms.
Where did he find it? It's too precious to mention, and it's hard to find a good piano. They are hidden in the mountains and forests, or buried in the market, or hidden deep in the high gate and difficult to be known.
After Gillian read them one by one, she was speechless with emotion.
He was always like this, silently doing this for her, as long as she could smile happily, it was worth it.
Gillian wanted to cry and laugh again, but in the end, her eyes were full of tears but she was still smiling at Liu Che. Laughing and laughing, she cried out in the end, but she still remembered that the guqin could not enter the water and catch the tears with both hands first.
Liu Che was distressed and funny when he saw it, he stepped forward and knelt beside her, hugged her, gently wiped away her tears, and coaxed softly: "What's wrong?" Didn't I find you a few pianos? Not yet, not yet. β
Gillian listened to his understatement, and couldn't hold back her tears. She threw herself into his arms and murmured, "It's nonsense again, it's obviously hard to find." Thinking of this, she told him over and over again that she was happy, very, very happy.
"yes, I know." Liu Che picked her up, and all the people in the palace quit at some point. The hall was very quiet, but I saw that the water mist was on the gilded Boshan incense burner. He carried her all the way to the couch, personally twisted a handkerchief to wipe her face, and told her that he was going to build a jue qin palace for her in the palace, and specially put the guqin he found for her in the future.
"That's what you like, I think it's good." In his words, he must have been prepared for a long time, and maybe it was all started to be built.
Why is it so good to her? It's so good that she can't help but want to start arrogant like in her previous life, and start to be jealous and mess around unscrupulously.
Gillian lowered her eyes, remembered all kinds of things, and finally couldn't help but speak: "Don't be so nice to me, I'm afraid I'll change." I will get more and more inches because of your kindness to me. β
The sweet and warm atmosphere of the hall was broken by her, but she still raised her head and looked directly at Liu Che and said the words that had been buried in her heart for a long time.
"Yu'er, I don't need you to pull people behind me. I'm not Empress Lu or Empress Dowager, I'm just Chen Ajiao. Liu Che's eyes were dark and bright, bright and dark. But Gillian still finished the rest of the words in one go. "I don't need the courtiers to stand behind me and guarantee my position, as far as I'm concerned, it's enough for you to be by my side. I don't care if it's brocade clothes and jade food or coarse tea and light rice, I can survive - but there are still the Dou family and the Chen family standing behind me, and the people's hearts are the most long-"
Her words came to an abrupt end here, but Liu Che already fully understood what she wanted to say later.
There was silence in the hall for a moment, and no one spoke.
Gillian finished saying the words that she had endured for a long time, and she only felt full of comfort. But for no reason, there was some boredom in her heart that she couldn't understand, and she suddenly remembered Liu Che's son who killed his mother in her previous life.
Mrs. Gou Yi, who had only been in her twenties for ten years, saw Wei Zifu commit suicide, and knew that Liu Che had the intention to appoint her young son Liu Fuling as the prince, and she was overjoyed and thought that the position of queen was within reach. Unexpectedly, Liu Che made up her mind to let Liu Fuling succeed to the throne, which was her death, and when Liu Che found a mistake with her, she immediately called it down.
At that time, even the attendants didn't react, and Mrs. Hook Yi thought that Her Majesty was just blaming her, and she would just ask for the guilt in the future.
Unexpectedly, Liu Che didn't intend to give her a chance to repent, and what he said was to be beheaded.
When Mrs. Hook Yi was finally dragged down, the desperate pleading eyes were a little unbearable for Gillian to see.
But Liu Che didn't, he really wanted to kill her, and he didn't say anything.
He has always been like this, and he has never said a lie. Whoever doesn't take his words to heart as a joke, such as cultivating Junru and Mrs. Gouyi, has tasted the bitter fruit.
Later generations have mixed reputations when they talk about his murder of his mother and son, but no matter what, they are afraid of his murderous and vicious.
He didn't expect the controversy of future generations, but he didn't care, who is qualified to judge his merits in future generations?
No!
Gillian has always felt that no, it is precisely because of his magnanimity that he was able to take the initiative to talk about it indifferently.
Gillian remembers very clearly, he asked Chuntuo, and asked him if he felt that he was very mean and unkind?
If it was someone else, he would naturally deny it, but Chuntuo served Liu Che in the end, and he understood that Liu Che did not want others to perfunctory his temperament.
He asked, why do you have to kill your mother and keep your son? The prince has no mother, how pitiful.
How did Liu Che answer him?
Gillian remembers it clearly and can recite it almost verbatim.
He said: "When you are in your position, you know the preciousness of the mind. Zhao's heart is not bad, but if she is pushed to the position of the queen mother. And the emperor is still young and trusts her wholeheartedly, and she is bound to receive supreme power and unprecedented dignity. There is no one in the world who is not uncontrollable for this ape-minded horse, and once arrogant and arrogant, it will naturally give birth to disaster. What scared me even more was that at that time, what was the value of flesh and blood affection? Rather than let no one be able to restrain her in the future, it is better for me to never suffer in the future. β
At that time, he was already very old. But his face is still full of perseverance and bravery, and his heart is still full of blood like when he was young.
His words made Chun Tuo fall into deep thought for a long time, and also touched Gillian deeply.
Ask yourself, who dares to say that once you are in power, you can be like a saint?
There was no one, so Liu Che would rather kill the wrong one than let the entire empire take risks.
And in this life, he can rest assured that she will participate in court politics, and even take the initiative to promote her to become her own faction. This is the trust that Liu Che, who hates partisanship in Gillian's memory, and can't share all his strength with him even if it is the queen mother, is already a trust that she never expected, and he has the heart to give her what he values most.
This love weighs heavily on Gillian's heart, which not only makes her feel happy and warm, but also makes her feel terrified.
She was afraid that she would be changed if she kept saying that she didn't need this, and she wouldn't be able to stand his trust.
Liu Che, who had been thinking about something, suddenly stretched out his hands and took her into his arms, and asked her in a very low voice: "Let's hold a child for you." β
Gillian didn't hear it clearly, but she raised her head from his arms and looked at him suspiciously with a pair of peach blossom eyes that made people feel uneasy.
So, Liu Che said it again.
Gillian was stunned and didn't know why he said this, but she still shook her head. It doesn't matter if she will have children or not, she will not raise other people's children. She can't treat it as her own, and she separates life and death from other people's mothers and sons, which is too evil.
Yes, if she nodded, Liu Che would definitely go to the mother and keep the child, and no one in the palace dared to tell the truth to this child.
But she still doesn't, even if she doesn't have any children in this life.
Liu Che had expected her answer, and said softly: "I originally thought that if you agreed, you would make this child the crown prince - if I am here, I will be able to protect you." But if I go before you doβ"
Speaking of this, Gillian frowned again. He smiled and hugged her tightly and said, "Who can not die?" It's not like I'm going to die tomorrow, don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I'm just worried that if there is really such a day, you have no children under your knees, you have been favored for so many years, and there is no one standing behind you, can the new emperor tolerate you? β
Gillian didn't expect that he was planning for her for so long, and after so long, the tide in her heart was rolling and she was choked up. I wanted to say something, but for a moment her mind seemed to go blank, and she didn't know what to say in a daze. She buried her face in his arms, feeling the beating of his heart in his chest to feel a little real.
When he saw her like this, he couldn't help but touch her green silk lovingly, and took off the beads between her buns, so as not to hurt herself in the hug.
"I'm not afraid to tell you, Jiaojiao." Liu Che's voice was extremely light, but it had a warm flow. "I really thought that if I went ahead of you, I would ask you to come with meβ" He paused, but he smiled when he saw Gillian's eyes shining in an instant. "It's just thinking about it, and I'm vetoing it right away! I feel ugly and selfish because I can have such thoughts, let alone how can I bear it! Even if you are reluctant to worry about you, I still can't bear it! β
"What if you can't bear it? Naturally, it has to be planned and prepared for you. Now I plan to wait until I go in the future, and these people behind you will grow into towering trees, then I will be relieved. Jiaojiao, you don't have to worry about anything. β
His words rang softly in Gillian's ears, like thunder, and it seemed that she couldn't hear every word clearly.
It turned out that he tried his best to push Wei Qing and Li Guang behind her, because he wanted her to think about the future. He was afraid that she would be sad in the future, so he wanted her to become the next queen mother who could balance the emperor, and he wanted her not to be slaughtered.
But why wouldn't he want to? If he is not there, what is the point of living alone in this world? This fool, I don't know that she still has a good chance of being born.
When Gillian thought of this, she suddenly remembered something and was startled by herself and bit her lip.
She had a small day the day before yesterday this month, but there has been no movement so far, wouldn't it be-?
No, no, no, there shouldn't be such a coincidence.
Liu Che was startled by her sudden shock and asked, "What's wrong?" β
Gillian suppressed the hope that was shocked in her heart, shook her head and said that it was okay. She was afraid that she would give Liu Che hope, but she couldn't realize it, so that he fell into deeper sadness.
Then she paused, and then said, "It's not a matter of concern, but I really don't like it." I don't like to be surrounded by too many people, and I don't want these people to judge you with me. You know, I've always been stupid. It's fine if it's just an occasional idea for you, but how can I tell the truth from the falsehood of those people? And what if I change in the future? So don't-"
Maybe it's because he's in a hurry, or maybe it's because he's afraid that Liu Che will feel that his hard work has been ignored. She explained in a hurry, and in the end it was a bit upside down.
Liu Che could see that she was really repulsed, so he looked at her and said as if discussing: "Then this first, I won't push you, and you won't run back." Let's take it one step at a time, how do you know if you can't if you don't try? β
Gillian looked at his tender eyes, and could only spit out a good word.
(To be continued.) )