Chapter 20: Truth and Falsehood

One by one, the people retreated from the main hall, but the queen was left alone in deep thought. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the theory of ghost possession is absurd, it has set off her long-term memory. She has not only seen 'that person' in everyone's mouth, but also the old owner of Kun'an Palace, Li Haotian's biological mother, Ning Guifei, the emperor's favorite concubine.

Ning Guifei's coquettishness and 'that person' are almost stupid and simple, the appearance of those two people is not at all similar to Lin Zitang, but she always faintly feels that there seems to be some kind of connection between them. All three of them are different from others.

Or, Kun'an Palace is really a knot in Li Haotian's heart that can't be untied, and his two dearest and loved ones have died there.

It's just that when he decided to let Lin Zitang live in Kun'an Palace, did he foresee this? They hadn't even met at the time.

Or, Li Hao naively fell in love with Lin Zitang, just because of the fate of Kun'an Palace. Just like the emperor's infatuated mother Ning Guifei, just like no one thought that at the age of sixteen, he would actually fall in love with an ordinary-looking palace maid who guarded Kun'an Palace, and ran to talk to "that person" every night.

However, can they escape the fate of Kun'an Palace? Thinking of Ning Guifei's early death, when 'that person' suddenly suffered a catastrophe, and the blow Li Haotian received, Queen Wang suddenly felt a chill in her heart.

Don't do it again!

Although since entering the palace, she has constantly warned herself: don't fall in love with the emperor, and carefully maintain a respectful relationship, but after more than ten years of court life, she has been accustomed to paying attention to her husband's joys, sorrows, and sorrows. Let's live an ordinary life, don't get involved in that hurtful invisible love and hatred!

She read silently in her heart.

Let everything that should be gone pass, and bless everything in the palace to be safe. Bless him......

The queen knelt in front of Guanyin and prayed sincerely.

Don't do it again than ten years ago!

In the Empress Dowager's Palace, in front of the same Guanyin statue, there was a white-haired noblewoman kneeling, praying as devoutly.

In Kun'an Palace, Zitang took a self-portrait in the mirror, and after a long time, he asked Yu'er behind him: "Am I like?" ”

Yu'er shook her head and couldn't help but persuade: "Miss, don't listen to those rumors, they are all made up by those who are jealous of you!" ”

Zitang shook his head slightly, adjusted the hairpin on his head, and let the long hair pour down.

Yu'er didn't understand that she didn't really listen to the rumors and thought that the emperor thought she was someone else. She just wanted to make her mind clearer and calmer.

All of this may be just an illusion, but why is it so moving?

Every night in her dreams, she dreamed that she was trapped in an endless swamp, and the more she struggled, the faster and deeper she sank.

No one sleeps at night.

The same night more than ten years ago is not as quiet as it is today.

The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, but is this wind and rain still the wind and rain more than ten years ago? Are all the rumors and speculations true or false?

Perhaps, only the people who manufacture and design this storm are clear!

In early summer, on the night of the full moon on the fifteenth, the palace feast.

Although Lin Zitang has been in the palace for more than half a year, he has never adapted to this kind of harem banquet, and even feels more and more tired.

Usually this kind of gathering is organized by the queen mother or queen, or by celebrating the birthday of one of the queens, etc., these lonely ladies in the harem take the opportunity to get together.

In Zitang's heart, the masters in the harem participate in these gatherings just to show off their beauty, jewelry, clothing, and talents, and in addition, they are intrigues and gangs.

Of course, the main thing is to compete to see who is more favored by the emperor - once or now or in the future.

Not only the jewelry, cloth and clothing that the emperor once favored, but even children have become a major part of showing off.

"Sister Guifei, look at the eyes of the little princess, do you look like the emperor?"

Concubine Wen smiled and brought her infant daughter close to Lin Zitang, as if she was afraid that the other party would not be able to see clearly, and she got closer and closer, until the little princess was about to blow on Zitang's face with her teeth.

"You see, here, here, exactly like her father. Well..... Just as good-looking. And here......"

Concubine Wen was still smiling, the corners of her mouth were curved, gentle and elegant, and she couldn't see her true intentions.

"Her mouth is like mine...... The emperor once said that he likes my mouth the most...... Oops! ”

She seemed to suddenly realize that she had missed her mouth, blushed with shame, and was delicate, and her cherry mouth was tightly pursed.

Zitang agreed casually and looked at her absentmindedly.

Concubine Wen is very beautiful and has a soft and demure temperament. It is no wonder that the emperor liked this woman, and even let her give birth to one of his few children.

Such a woman should be left in the house to be painful, and should not be in such a place to talk to another woman, to show off her coquettishness, to show off his sweet whispers, or even to tease her and his daughter.

The little princess is not yet a year old, and when she calculates the time, it should be that soon after she gave birth to her daughter, the emperor began to look for a new person with great fanfare.

I saw the new people laughing, but I didn't see the old people crying. When the newcomer becomes the old man, the glory of yesterday is gone, and the building is empty, how lonely and unbearable is it?

Zitang suddenly felt a little sympathetic to her, and the sourness in her heart faded a lot.

Raising his head, he glanced at the ladies who were full of flowers and branches, but turned his head and saw the eyes of the queen, and suddenly Zitang understood what the queen said when he first entered the palace: The Son of Heaven cannot be loved. He belongs to the world, he belongs to the people, he belongs to the country, the dynasty and the royal family, but he will not belong to a woman.

Or it is because Queen Wang deeply understands this sentence that she can live in this harem for nearly 20 years and be safe and sound.

What a realization! Is she, like her and Concubine Wen, has experienced too many abandonments and abandonments, so her heart is dead?

"Concubine Lin!"

The Queen Mother, who was sitting next to the queen, suddenly opened her mouth to call her, which startled her.

"Queen Mother?!"

"How long have you been in the palace?"

"It's been eight months."

"I heard that the emperor has been in the Kun'an Palace for more than half a year. Don't know if there's any news about your body? ”

“......”

Zitang's face turned red. Even if it's a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, they are all women here, so you don't have to be so straightforward to speak!

"I ......"

"The mourning family doesn't blame you, it's just that the emperor's heirs are difficult, and he blindly coldly dislikes the harem, and in the year of establishment, the crown prince is still empty, and it is rare for the emperor to value you, you have to be careful!"

"Yes."

Zitang lowered his head and replied in a low voice.

The Queen Mother no longer made things difficult for her.

Although many concubines came to complain, she didn't want to ask who the emperor liked. Even if Concubine Lin is favored in the harem, she is innocent, and she has not done anything out of the ordinary, she can still tolerate it, but if she is just a hen that can't lay eggs, occupying the pit...... That's a different story.

"Yes, yes, sister concubine, you have to seize the opportunity, don't be like me, your belly is not angry, you missed the opportunity, and the emperor hurt for nothing!"

It was Concubine Xu, who had always been hot-tempered and straightforward, a concubine who was nearly thirty years old.

The scathing words made the air in the hall seem to freeze.

If strictly speaking, the women in the room, including the Queen Mother, are all women with uncompetitive bellies. It's not that I haven't given birth to a child in one and a half stars, or I have only given birth to a princess. Concubine Xu's sarcastic words about Zitang turned out to be sarcastic of people in a room.

"Ahem! Cough! The Queen Mother suddenly coughed twice.

At this embarrassing time, He Shun suddenly came to the front of the hall:

"Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother: The emperor stopped at Kun'an Palace and summoned the noble concubine Niangniang to see him."

The Queen Mother was relieved: "Concubine Lin, since the emperor summoned you, you should go back quickly." ”