"It's been almost ten years since I said goodbye." She spoke slowly, her voice hoarse as that of an old lady in her seventies and eighties. "Is he okay?"

I understood who she was asking. "He's better off than you."

The eldest princess nodded. Asked again. "Are you doing well?"

I was silent for a moment, then replied, "Looks like it's better than all of you." ”

She nodded again, "Among the high walls, where else is there who really can't live well, your good life in the past was not supported by Zheng'er for you, your heart is so wild, in the end, it is just enough to be able to see it." ”

I don't know what to do with it.

The eldest princess was also silent for a while, "Tell me about the palace, what has happened in the outside world over the years." Zheng'er doesn't seem to have changed, it seems to have changed, and Che'er, is he okay now, he and the second lady of the Gao family have been enemies since they were children, and they don't know what happened to Che'er after Gao Shuyao died. ”

Yu Wenche ...... "I didn't know how to sue her, I weighed it for a long time, and I couldn't make up a good story, so I said in a horizontal way, "It's dead." ”

The eldest princess was stunned for a moment, and then slowly put away her frustrated look, and really looked away.

"Not long ago, Nancheng and Beishao almost fought, and Yuwen Che became a key part of it. died in Nancheng, before he died, I had seen him, I saw him die, I saw him die, he asked me, whether Gao Shuyao was killed by me. I said no. He asked me to send his bones back to Beishao after his death and bury them with Gao Shuyao, and I agreed. "I tried to describe that memory in the most bland tone possible.

The eldest princess nodded, and she heard it. "Who is that kid in the Shao Palace now?"

"His name is Chengyu, and he is the child of me and Yuan Ying." I say.

The eldest princess was completely silent.

"At that time, I was pregnant with the emperor, and I was not full-term. Guo Taifu secretly changed my decoction to the death of our mother and son, in exchange for the peace of Yuan Ying, the imperial concubine ordered the disembowelment to take the child, Gao Jinyi wanted to kill me, Huangfu Xuan led people into the Shao Palace and robbed me, at that time they had already taken Chengyu away. When he left Shao Palace, he told me that Yuan Ying was dead. Unconsciously, a pair of red eyes, "Then we were separated like this, and it was five years to be separated, and when I saw Yuan Ying again, he forgot about us." ”

The eldest princess reached out and fumbled, I thought she was looking for something, and reached out to help, but she pulled me and put my hand between her hands.

"Eldest princess, your eyes ......" I realized the strange look in her eyes.

"I can't see it." She was calm. "Fuyin, time is running out in this palace, you ...... Can you let him come to see Hongu, maybe he missed this look, really, he won't be able to see it in the future. ”

But suddenly, my heart twitched hard. I answered, "Okay, you wait for me, and I'll arrange it." ”

"I often dream of him these days, and he is still the same as he was back then, but unfortunately, I can't go back."

Time is a cruel thing, from the time we are born, it is day by day minus the available time, day by day, day by day, day by day.

Some people miss a lifetime in their hearts, and it is likely that a rub of shoulders is goodbye.

Because I was worried about the extraneous complications, I specially rushed back before the sun set. I thought that Takasaki would continue to be stationed, so I didn't have much hope of entering Shaogong through the palace gate. But it was this curious glance that saw this scene.

The guards at the gate of the palace have all been evacuated, and four ordinary guards are stationed on both sides.

The sunset will reflect a certain shadow on the bluestone pavement, the touch of moon white waiting at the gate of the palace, his demeanor is calm, but the thick ink in his pupils is so deep that it seems to be unable to dissolve, I don't know how long he has been waiting, just like spending a season of cold winter, there is a chill all around him, there is no anger, all the feelings are like ice.

When he saw me appear outside the palace gate, the ink in his eyes trembled and blurred.

"I clearly told Yu'er that I went to the eldest princess, even if he is strict, you can detect it before sunset. If you can't rest assured, why don't you come to me and wait here? I walked up to him and found that the chill around him was real, and for some reason he felt a sense of weakness.

Yuan Ying nodded, and led me to the palace.

I slowed down with him as if I were walking, and I couldn't help but turn my head curiously and ask him, "Are you worried?" Worried that I will never come back as soon as I leave Shaogong? ”

He didn't deny it, and was silent for a moment, "Is the eldest princess okay?" ”

"Not so good." I sighed and replied, "I have something to discuss with you. ”

I want to go back to Luoxiang Mountain in person and ask Master Qingyan to see the eldest princess for the last time.

"If it's the matter of the eldest princess and Master Qingyan, you don't care about it anymore, I will send someone to deal with it." Before I could say anything, he had already guessed what I was going to say, and he left no room for a reply.

I pulled him to a stop. "I just want to do something for her, I always feel that she will end up like this, and it has nothing to do with me, I really feel that I can't live with her."

The people who caused this qiē have an inseparable relationship with me. If it weren't for my family affection and tolerating the bad things that person did in the past, the eldest princess wouldn't be so depressed now.

"It's none of your business." After Yuan Ying stood still, all the attention of a pair of eyes fell on me, I could always know what I was thinking, and I would definitely not give me a chance to continue thinking nonsense.

"There's one more thing I've always wanted to ask you. That year in Dongfu, you went to find Shen Yi, can you go to check on my business? "I've been thinking about this question for too long, but no matter how I think about it, I feel that I should suspect that the secret of the imperial concubine is related to me, so I did this.

"Yes." Yuan Ying nodded, "When I heard a lot of news, it was related to the old things in Dongfu, and I found Shen Yi when I was broken and spliced together, I wanted to figure it out before you, but I didn't expect it." ”

Unexpectedly. Indeed, I didn't expect that, I didn't expect that Fu Ang would design to arrest him, I didn't expect that I would take over the task of replacing Fu Ang, I didn't expect that I would let him go, and I didn't expect that the truth would be revealed in such a form later. At that time, I was in Shao Palace, and I hid in the dark and heard the conversation between the imperial concubine and him, and I only thought that what he defended for the imperial concubine was because of their relationship, but I didn't expect it to be for me.

I hated her before I knew the truth. This was originally something that Yuan Ying couldn't change.

"Before Yu Wenche died, he also mentioned Shen Yi." I just suddenly thought, "He reminded me to be careful of Huangfu Xuan, and finally left three words, asking me, check Shen Yi." What do you know? ”

Seeing that I looked distressed and uneasy, he reached over and stroked my cheek. "Don't think about it anymore, just leave it to me to do it, don't think about it anymore."

His hand was so cold that I couldn't help but shiver, but I still held his hand without hesitation. "You promised me that you wouldn't lie to me again, doesn't it count?"

Yuan Ying frowned, his eyes closed slightly, "Do you really want to know?" ”

"Yes." I'm pretty sure.

"This matter is a long story, and it is related to a rumor in the Huangfu family. Do you know the relationship between Huangfu Xuan and the Gao family? Yuan Ying asked me rhetorically.

"The Gao family? Is it Prime Minister Gao? "I've never heard of Huangfu Xuan having anything to do with the surname Gao.

"Huangfu Xuan's mother is the younger sister of Prime Minister Gao. When it comes to seniority, Prime Minister Gao is Huangfu Xuan's uncle, but some people say that it is not, the marriage between the Gao family and the Huangfu family was a few years before the death of the Feng Dynasty. Prime Minister Gao has only one sister, and it is said that the eldest lady of the Gao family at that time had a heart, and she eloped with someone when the Gao family and the Huangfu family were married. The Gao family couldn't afford to be blamed for repentance, so they used a maid to replace Miss Gao and married Huangfu Xuan's father. The Huangfu family didn't know it at first, but even if they knew about it later, because of the power of the Gao family, they had to endure it. ”

The so-called Miss Gao relied on the power of the Gao family to occupy a place in the Huangfu family.

But coincidentally, Huangfu Xuan's father favored the concubine alone and snubbed the eldest lady of the Gao family, who didn't know the truth. The concubine suddenly became pregnant, and Miss Gao also followed closely with the news that she was pregnant. At that time, it was Shen Yi's father, who served as the imperial doctor, who diagnosed the pulse and stabilized the fetus for the two imperial wives.

No one knows whose belly child is real and whose belly child is fake. After the death of Shen Yi's father, no outsiders knew what happened to the Huangfu family back then. I just knew that later, the concubine of the Huangfu family gave birth to a stillborn baby and went crazy, and Miss Gao gave birth to a son safely.

"So what?" This sounds no different from the competition for favor between wives and concubines that will occur between too many court nobles, but the relationship between Huangfu Xuan, the Gao family and the Shen family surprised me a little.

"Shen Yi and Huangfu Xuan should have been born on the same day. As for the rest, I don't know much either. Yuan Ying voiced his doubts.

Shen Yi and Huangfu Xuan, birthdays on the same day?

Probably not. "But I heard that Shen Yi is dead, and now if you want to find out the truth, I'm afraid it's very difficult."

Shen Yi is dead, and the living will not tell the secret. It's just that I can't help but think of what I found when I checked Shaoyi, why there is almost no record of Huangfu Xuan's childhood.

"It's time for us to go back. Later, Yu'er didn't know how to lose her temper again. Yuan Ying said helplessly.

He turned and walked forward.

"Yuan Ying." I couldn't help but call him, his back was so lonely, and he was struggling alone.

He stopped.

I hesitated in my heart, but when he heard that sound and stopped, I couldn't bear to say anything. stepped forward and took the initiative to take his hand, "I think, I'll go and talk to Huangfu Xuan in person after a while." ”

Yuan Ying stood silently, listened to me, slowly turned around, looked at me for a long time, the ice under his eyes was melting little by little, gentle as a pool of water, full of spoiling. Then he sighed helplessly, "Even if I tell you not to go, you will definitely go." ”

He took my hand back and walked on.

"By the way, news came from Nancheng today that the emperor announced that he had killed Concubine Ning and exiled the little prince, and he would never succeed to the throne."

"Isn't he protecting his son?" Like someone, who put his children under house arrest in the safest place before the storm comes, we all know that the final bitter battle is inevitable, and everything must have an ending.

"I'm afraid there will be a change in Nancheng, I asked someone to bring the news to Shaoyi, he should have rushed back to Nancheng at this time."

"Hmm."

Early in the morning, he was woken up by Gong Li, and the genius was bright. I was sleeping soundly with Yu'er in my arms, and Gong Li came to knock on the door.

"What's wrong?" But it was Yuan Ying, who had been in the hall, who opened the door first.

I heard the movement, so I got up and came out.

"Ah Ning is gone." Gong Li was very flustered, "Some people said that she left the palace yesterday, but I didn't see her in the palace, and she didn't come back all night, so it wouldn't be like this before." ”

Condensation? I said, "She said that when she heard the news, she received a letter from the stockade and went to fetch it for me, and at her speed, she would probably be back tomorrow." ”

"Falling Fragrant Mountain?" Gong Li suddenly said, "I'll go find her." ”

Seeing him go away in a hurry, I was a little confused, and asked sideways, "Why do I think Gong Li seems to be too nervous." ”

Yuan Ying's expression was also a little faintly wrong. "Maybe it's because there have been too many things recently, and Gong Li is too nervous."

Will it. I just feel that after this, I am also sleepy, and I will inevitably become worried. "But I still feel that I can't rest assured."

"It's fine. Gong Li had already gone to look for her. Yuan Ying comforted him, but he could detect a different kind of caution in his expression, and said, "Don't worry, if there is still no news from them tomorrow morning, I will tell Qiao Yi to take someone to find it." ”

I just nodded.