When I first met her, a faint melancholy enveloped her eyes.

The cousin, whom I had never met, was sitting in the position of the fourth concubine at this time, looking ahead intently.

At the queen mother's family banquet, she let her side face carefully gather a sorrow in the shadow of the candlelight in the singing and dancing. Although I had no intention of finding fault with the palace concubine, I still inadvertently captured that fleeting look. I drank a glass of sake from a white jade goblet, hoping that this young cousin would make fewer mistakes.

Today, as usual, she is wearing a long dress with white silk sprinkled with flowers, covered with a flower-sprinkled smoke shirt faintly embroidered with plum blossoms, and the whole person is like a lonely and blooming lonely plum in the snow. The clothes look boring, but the unprominent face has a unique temperament, probably a negative and tired temperament that is different from the people around him.

She is the niece of the noble Queen Mother.

People always say that.

But when the emperor's brother was silent in the cabinet that day, and finally said with difficulty that "I don't want to marry the daughter of the Shen family", his eyes were darker than the long night outside the window, and I knew that she was destined to not be truly favored by her husband from the beginning of entering the palace.

It is such a tragic woman that makes me pay special attention.

In the same month, when the war in the north was won, and the son of the Xiao family made great contributions, and asked to be named the general of the Great Sima, I put down the military book in my hand and scoffed at it.

Wielding a sword under the moon, I stabbed the scarecrow in the chest with precision, and I could catch any movement in the dark. The experience of being assassinated at a young age has made me unable to stop practicing martial arts in order to protect myself.

It's a pity that Yang'er is a daughter.

The queen mother and the master always said this.

、…… I am familiar with it by heart, and even the long-lost Jiang Ziya's writings, the queen mother ordered someone to find them for me to read.

I always hope that one day I will ascend to the court not as a princess, but as a female military attaché, but I also know that it is an unattainable dream.

The heavy dark yellow Zhai Feng Izumo dress, and the four gold-inlaid jade phoenixes on his head spread their wings and swayed, which made me breathless. The queen mother's hope is that I can marry peacefully and give birth to a lovely lord and a son. Although she is the queen mother, her marriage is not perfect, this is what I know. So she hopes that I can find a perfect son-in-law, preferably before the winter solstice this year.

I know that when I first woke up from the dream of sacrificing my life to defend the dynasty, the Loess Plain far away on the border would eventually be poor and would have nothing to do with me for the rest of my life. So I was distraught about it, and I danced my sword in the empty courtyard, which was the first time my cousin approached me.

In the dark, her shadow coming from behind coincided with the assassin from her childhood nightmare, and she was stunned when I turned and coldly slashed my sword. I wouldn't hurt her, but I hated it when someone came to disturb me while I was practicing, so I watched her kneel and said in a panic:

"The eldest princess forgives her sins!"

I lowered Kenshin and said, "Get up." ”

She got up, and her face was a little clearer than it had been before. "Why did my cousin come to the place of solitary practice by chance?" I asked, but she didn't answer. I saw her look into my eyes for a long time, her eyes full of stars in the sky, and she was speechless for a while.

I frowned, she reacted immediately, and immediately said: "The concubine came back from the queen mother, passing by this remote place, I never thought that the princess would practice swords here, there is a lot of disturbance, and I hope the princess will not be strange." ”

From the Queen Mother? I looked at her, she had to be summoned by the queen mother so late, I only knew that the queen mother often summoned people to plot matters in the middle of the night, because the plan in the palace was always changing at any time, which showed that she was a person who was appreciated by the queen mother.

"Let's go back, it's not too early." I say.

"Yes, the concubine is retiring."

However, after she walked away, she always turned back in five steps, I really don't know what I have to see as the eldest princess Xi Jian, I hope she won't crash into the railing in front of her.

But unfortunately, as expected, there was a "bang", and I heard her forbearant cry, and I knew that the corner I had almost hit the corner the first time I passed by when I was young, but that was because I was too young, and now I didn't know that there was anyone who was already married to Sheng and □□ could also bump into it.

I walked over and asked, "Does it hurt?" ”

Tears sobbed in her eyes: "......"

Seeing a drop of red slipping off my forehead, I wiped the sword, and then withdrew my waist, I couldn't bear to let her go back alone, so I said, "Do you want to go back to Weiyang Palace?" ”

"Hmmm......"

"I'm leaving you alone."

“…… Huh? ”

I said, "You don't have to be so surprised. ”

"No," she replied, her face crimson, "the concubine has the golden body of Princess Lao, it is really ......"

"Okay, don't talk about it." I pulled her up, "The blood is going to run out." ”

A sentence made her face pale in an instant, and she raised her hand to touch it, only to find that there was a steady stream of liquid flowing out from the side of her head. I went back to the same place, took out the white cloth that I had bandaged after the trauma I had suffered during my usual martial arts, and pressed it to stop the bleeding for her, and then I told Mo Forget and the others to go back directly, and sent my cousin, Concubine Chun, back to her Weiyang Palace.

Changle Weiyang, these are the two major palaces of the harem, and they are the closest to each other. Before leaving, she shyly thanked me, and the palace maids thought that she had just encountered something bad when she saw her appearance, and that she was a palace concubine with bad intentions, or a killer who committed assassination, but under her pleading gaze, I was really embarrassed to say that she fell by herself.

"I accidentally injured her while practicing martial arts." I said with a blank face.

Everyone believed it.

"Be careful next time." After I finished speaking, I turned around to leave, but my cousin hurriedly grabbed my sleeve and asked, "Your Royal Highness, can you see you again tomorrow?" ”

I said, "It depends on fate." ”

"Why?" She was surprised.

"Because Lone is always uncertain." I said seriously. The emperor always needs me to do something for him secretly, and I want to do it so I won't refuse. I know that today's Son of Heaven is a good emperor who loves Li Min and has a strong ambition to be domineering, and I willingly assist him in order to defend the dynasty and the people.

The cousin's eyes darkened: "The princess walks slowly, and the concubine is here to send off the princess." ”

The next day, I went to the palace to run errands.

It was only at night that I returned to my dormitory in Changle Palace, and the palace maid came to say that the Queen Mother had summoned me, so I dragged my tired body to the Yongshou Palace, and saw a pair of familiar eyes beside the Queen Mother, it was her. She's writing something for her mother, but I don't think it's going to be as simple as practicing calligraphy. She smiled at me, then hung her head.

The queen mother wanted to know what the emperor asked me to do today, I told the truth half, concealed half of it, and after finishing speaking, her things were also written, and she respectfully presented it to the queen mother.

After taking it, the queen mother said with a smile: "Ah Shu's handwriting is getting better and better, the mourning family is very pleased, your cousin is the best at writing, a pavilion in Changle Palace is full of words with her hand, the plaque is written by her personally, you can ask her more for advice when you learn to write in the future." ”

So she looked at me shyly, and I said, "My cousin can practice calligraphy anytime." ”

But the beginning of this sentence was when she came to my dormitory endlessly to look for me.

Because of the relationship between the queen mother and her frequent summons, even if she sometimes can't find me one day, she can still see me the next day.

I looked at her smiling in front of me, and I was very curious: "Why are you melancholy in the past?" ”

She smiled and said, "Didn't the princess secretly observe the concubine before?" ”

I pondered for a moment before replying, "Occasionally." ”

Slender Scallion pointed at the jade snail, and she smiled casually and said, "Look at what the princess is so serious, the concubine just asks casually." The concubine will not be proud because the princess is too concerned, the queen mother has told the concubine, and there is such a high position in the palace, just like a bird on the cusp of the wind and waves, when doing everything, you have to follow the light and keep the obscurity. If the princess has been paying attention to the concubine, it means that the concubine is not good enough. ”

I nodded and said you understand. For some reason, there was a faint layer of melancholy behind her eyes.

When one person is depressed, it is easy to give another person depression.

Fidgeting, I said, "What are you thinking?" ”

She said: "Once upon a time, the concubine also looked forward to being able to keep the single-mindedness of the person she loved, and the white head was inseparable, but now, it is just a distant dream." ”

I was very sad to hear her say this, because I knew that the imperial brother had been in the palace for more than three months since she entered the palace, but she had not stayed in her Weiyang Palace for a long time.

No matter what, in life, who has never had something unwilling.

Now for the great ambition in the heart, Ming for the good fate of the frustration, before not half a foot into the wooden coffin, everyone has greed in the heart of the agitation.

Remembering what I couldn't achieve, I poured a jug of wine and said to her, "There is a lover in the world, and this hatred has nothing to do with the wind and the moon." ”

Unexpectedly, she picked up another long cup, drank it all, and then replied: "You have to see all the Luoyang flowers, and it's easy to say goodbye to the spring breeze!" ”

I was amazed at her ability to learn, she had rarely studied before she entered the palace, and now she was able to answer questions fluently.

"Why are you studying poetry so fast?"

"It's just because the poem is a little sadder."

"You're still depressed after all." I sighed.

She looked at the sunset for a long time, and said after a long time: "If you have less heart, the concubine doesn't have to be like this." ”

"Cousin, what are the reasons for your heart?"

She looked at me and didn't say anything.

Soon it will be time for her to return to Weiyang Palace.

In the twilight, her parting was not worded.

And I seem a little depressed because of her melancholy, probably because I also have countless things on my mind.

That's why I went back to the Qingyu case again, and when I picked up the pen to practice calligraphy, every stroke I wrote down made me feel so melancholy.