The red leaves are frosted, the west wind is swept away, the autumn coolness is wrapped in the corners of the palace, the vegetation is withered and yellow, and it has the meaning of "the sycamore trees fall in front of the court, and the hibiscus blooms at the water's edge". The palace maid exhaled the cold air, and the broom in her hand circled the pile of dead leaves in the center, and the mist and water remained on the leaves and refused to leave, and the broom shook and the dew rolled down and wet the ground.

The days have come to the third autumn, and ordinary thick clothes are not warm, so the palace maid is still wearing a sprinkled hemp cover outside her skirt, so her hands and feet have become inflexible, and there is no way. The palace maid was focused on cleaning the courtyard, and she didn't hear the rustling of her skirt behind her, until she stood behind her, and she suddenly noticed it.

"Concubine Shen." The palace maid bowed in a panic, Shen Shuzhao smiled lightly after looking at each other, she bowed her head slightly to signal the other party not to be nervous, the last palace maid in charge of the outside of the palace dared to raise her eyes to peep at her, and saw that Shen Shuzhao was wearing a plain long skirt and a candied cloak, which was extremely beautiful on the ground, and the whole person seemed to be integrated with the autumn scene. The palace maid couldn't help but guess that such a light temperament was what attracted the emperor.

Shen Shuzhao looked down at the falling flowers on the branches, and unconsciously sighed: "The cold autumn is already so deep. ”

The palace maid smiled: "It is early autumn when Niangniang enters the palace, and it is already the end of autumn in a blink of an eye, and the days go by really fast." ”

"Yes," Shen Shuzhao stretched out his hand to stroke the desolate branches that hung his head, "It's been nearly two months, the leaves have fallen, and the beautiful scenery has disappeared." ”

"Niangniang's thought is too pessimistic, Gu Shiyun's autumn weather is sad and inevitable, and the light cold is a lovely day.' The slave maid felt that the autumn was high and refreshing, and it was not unappreciated. ”

"Have you read the Book of Songs?"

"Ah...... The slave and maid are showy, and they only understand superficially. ”

"Literacy is a good thing."

The autumn wind blew the dresses of the two up, and the palace maid hurriedly said: "Why did Niangniang come to this bleak backyard place? Hurry back to the temple, don't catch the wind cold. ”

Shen Shuzhao looked at the concerned appearance of the palace maid in front of her as gently as water, "Okay." The palace maid breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and bent down to send her master away. Shen Shuzhao turned around and walked towards the courtyard gate, in fact, the voice and name of the palace maid had already appeared in front of her a hundred times, and she didn't remember to come when she met today-

It was one of his loyal confidants in his previous life, and he was assigned by the Internal Affairs Office only a few months later, but because of the same conversation as today, he accidentally noticed it, so he transferred this person from □□ to the palace, and after repeated contacts, he was promoted to a palace maid who served closely. accompanied for two whole years, until the queen mother was forced to protect the lord with her life, and after losing her loyal servant, she was completely exhausted by the queen mother, and became calm to face life and death.

In this life, I thought that I would never see each other, but I didn't expect that the soft place in my heart would still be soft when I met again.

Everyone is alive and well now.

Thinking of this, she felt a little relieved.

The queen mother's sealing of the palace, the scattered snow on the winter solstice, the betrayal of the trusted person, and the poisonous wine that is red and dripping blood, these things seem to sink in broken time, and they are like a dream, and they often feel that it is just a nightmare, and when they wake up, they all become familiar and unfamiliar. The living are all arrogant, the dead are all in the loess, the king is defeated, in the previous life, in fact, there is nothing worth nostalgia.

"You're thinking about things again." Wei Yang sighed beside her, and the withered yellow □□ was blooming behind her. Shen Shuzhao originally came to see her, but she only remembered that there was an old man, so she chose a long way to come, and now they are enjoying the scenery in the pavilion. Shen Shuzhao smiled mysteriously and was silent, picked up the wine bottle and drank it all. How can I say that I feel sad because I have reunited with my confidant in my previous life?

Wei Yang couldn't put her mind at ease, □□ the wine reflected her eyebrows, and after two or three mourning leaves broke away from the trunk and disappeared with the wind, she asked carefully, "You...... But don't feel comfortable staying here? ”

"No, I'm comfortable here."

"If you don't want to stay here, you can go wherever you want."

"It's cold and cold here, sparsely populated, there are no other concubines, and there are not many people coming and going, I have a very comfortable life, this is the best place after leaving the Shen Mansion and Changle Palace."

"yes, I'm afraid you don't like this."

"I wouldn't dislike having you there. Don't you notice——? After she finished speaking lightly, she pretended to take a sip of wine without a smile, revealing a natural style in her demeanor, but she secretly took the opportunity to glance at Wei Yang, and saw that her ears were pink, and she was a little overjoyed, feeling that she was becoming more and more accustomed to the method of teasing Wei Yang. The noodles are still flat, and the cup is placed naturally.

Wei Yang said after a long time: "I know. ”

"It's good to know, so you don't have to ask in the future. Where you are, I will be. Shen Shuzhao's tone was not turbulent, but his affection was very clear and obvious.

Wei Yang really didn't say anything more. In this conversation, she took the upper hand.

"What have you heard lately?" Shen Shuzhao would ask her about the emperor every once in a while.

"The court is calm, and the emperor has begun to focus on handling government affairs, which should be able to be quiet for a few days. What about you? ”

"The Queen Mother gradually withdrew from the curtain to listen to the government, and the cabinet never summoned ministers again, but ...... She began to frequently summon women to the palace, as well as those concubines who had children, and although they were called companions to relieve boredom, I always felt faintly uneasy. ”

"You're right to be uneasy, the queen mother has a knot in her heart that has not been resolved, and she will not stop until the source is found."

Shen Shuzhao heard for the first time that the Queen Mother had a knot, so she was very surprised and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Wei Yang shook his head, slightly regretful, "I don't know." If I knew, it wouldn't be what it is now. ”

"How did you know she had a knot?"

"The queen mother must have it, because ......" An autumn leaf fell from Wei Yang's hand at this time, causing the wine in the bottle to sway, and the face reflected in it was scattered. She recalled the past and replied seriously: "The queen mother is always like you, thinking about things alone. ”

Hearing her say this, Shen Shuzhao felt sad, she couldn't see Wei Yang like this, but how could outsiders interfere in family affairs?

"Since I was a child, I looked at her from afar, thinking who she was thinking, but I couldn't tell. I thought it was because my father wanted her to do this, but it didn't. Later, many times when I tried to ask about my mother's past, she always avoided her, and I only knew that she was sad, but there was no way to comfort her. The more she is like this, the more she will chase power to the point of madness in the future, and the queen mother ...... That's probably how it has changed a little bit. ”

"Could it be...... Did the Queen Mother ever have people and things that she couldn't let go? ”

"Even if she had, she would never sue me." Wei Yang laughed at himself, "Because I am her relative, the past will never be revealed to me." The queen mother protected herself so well that I couldn't get close. ”

"I always thought you guys were good...... Have you been estranged from her since childhood? ”

"It's better to say that there are scenes that can't be resolved in a lifetime."

Shen Shuzhao instantly understood, Mo said that his biological father snubbed his biological mother, and she washed her face with tears every day to make herself hate him throughout her childhood, and even the reckless husband in the ordinary people's family beat his wife, which would affect the child's childhood. What's more, this is a case in the emperor's family, where the biological mother murdered the biological father.

It's not easy.

"You are by her side, and you have more opportunities than I do to know what the queen mother's heart is. Only by untying this knot can the queen mother open her heart to me and the emperor. ”

"I'll try to do it, but you ......," Shen Shuzhao paused, "You still have to tell the emperor to be cautious, after all, the queen mother doesn't seem to like the emperor very much." "What kind of Cheng dù she doesn't like, she can see it clearly in her previous life, the queen mother has never treated the emperor as an emperor at all, let alone an adopted son. That's just a puppet, a puppet who supports herself to become the queen mother's pinnacle, a puppet who manipulates and manipulates to guide the country.

"The Queen Mother treated him well when she was a child, but later, she suddenly changed her temperament and wanted to compete for the world."

"It's really strange, since you don't want to support him as the emperor, why do you want to adopt him and raise him?" Shen Shuzhao was puzzled, "Why does the mother-son relationship have to be tossed so far, is it possible that the calculation of usurping the throne has been made from the beginning?" Alas...... But fortunately, the emperor knows the queen mother's thoughts, and he doesn't know whether it is fortunate or unlucky. The Queen Mother's thoughts are always unpredictable, and others have no other use than sighing. ”

"It's a blessing." Wei Yang looked at the falling flowers all over the courtyard and said, "At least he no longer has the desperate and disappointed eyes when he first found out that the queen mother was plotting against him." He was much happier here than he was then. ”

"You really did it to him like a sister. No wonder the emperor respects you, if I were him, my adopted son would be treated like this, and he would like you. ”

Wei Yang tasted a wine, and the wine in her hand was fragrant, which made her eyes helpless and cold, "He was born a few months after me, and I was only a few months old when I was brought in, and I was really a relative who grew up since childhood." I treat him like my own brother, he respects me as my eldest sister, and it is better to have no blood than blood. My father would come to see us in the palace every day, take him on horseback, and test me to memorize poems, while the queen mother looked at us with a gentle smile on the side. Later, as for the aftermath, I don't know how it became like this. ”

Shen Shuzhao swallowed half a glass of wine, but felt a few points more bitter than before. In autumn, there seems to be no part of the imperial city that is not stained with sorrow. After a while, Xilu came to the pavilion and leaned over to her and whispered: "Niangniang...... The concubine is here. ”

"Good concubine?"

"Yes, and she's already outside the dormitory, so do you want to meet her? If you don't want to, the slave can also excuse you. Cherish Green glanced at Wei Yang and the wine bottle between the two of them.

Shen Shuzhao felt at a loss, she felt that the number of times the concubines had come to Bailu Palace recently was really a bit diligent.