Imperial Industry (9)

The empress stayed here, and Situ Hehuan and her father felt very comfortable. Because I could still tell some stories or something before going to bed, I could chat or something, but when the empress was so involved, I suddenly found that I couldn't chat at all. The empress carried her to the bed by herself, and then sent their father and daughter directly to the inside, while she slept on the outside, regardless of whether Situ Hehuan and his daughter wanted to sleep or not.

"Huan'er, Xuqing, don't resist. You'll get used to it in the future. And time will prove that I am for your good. Whether it's the emperor or the imperial concubine, it's nothing compared to you now. You can say that I am not a good person, nor am I a good emperor, and I have done a lot of wrong things over the years. But I hope to be appreciated by you in the future. All right? I'm not going to do anything tonight. The Empress said helplessly. Even I have become me.

Situ Hehuan turned around and leaned into his father's arms, leaving a back for the empress. It's not that the empress isn't sincere enough, but because the memory of the original owner is too deep. In the past, the empress also said that she wanted to give her a good future. But in the end, I saw her die tragically, and I was unmoved to see her being used as a pawn. From then on, she would never believe anything the Empress said.

Because she couldn't believe it, the room was quiet, and the empress finally sighed and closed her eyes. Situ Hehuan gradually fell asleep under the comfort of his father. Sleep peacefully, and when I got up in the morning, I found that my father had already gotten up, and the empress had already gone to the court. She touched the cold quilt beside her and blinked. Some trance.

"Father, what's wrong with the Empress? Isn't the struggle between the imperial concubine and the imperial monarch fierce enough? Why is there still time to come and count us, we are already pitiful enough. Why should you be so cruel to us, it's just unbearable. Situ Hehuan said with some righteous indignation.

Father sat beside her and touched her angry little face. smiled and said, "Huan'er, my father knows that you don't like the empress, and you don't want to admit that you have such a mother." But Huan'er has to think for herself. Since this mother is not a choice, and our identity as pawns cannot be chosen. So why don't we enjoy the process? And the Empress may not really want to make amends this time. Otherwise, there is no need to waste two months of sincerity for us to trample on. ”

When the words fell, Situ Hehuan immediately retorted: "What is two months, she is the empress and has her own purpose." Everything you do is for profit. The so-called love or something can almost be discarded. Emperors are ruthless people. Could it be that the father has been moved by the empress? Think the Empress is a good person? Emperors often can do ten years or even more in order to achieve a goal, and two months is nothing at all. ”

Remembering the suffering of the original owner. Situ Hehuan did not doubt that the empress was a scheming person at all, and would not agree with her favor at all, and the so-called compensation might be a calculation in the end, and it might be a disaster for life. So she won't believe. I can't believe it.

Her voice fell. Suddenly, I heard the sound of stumbling footsteps in the outer room, and I could hear the palace attendant whispering to His Majesty. She looked dignified, although she had always been not very interested in this empress, and sometimes she would rely on the favor she was giving now, but when she really said it in front of her, she was really worried about being killed.

Just when she felt that her head could not be saved, the footsteps outside faded away. She felt a false alarm. Because in front of the emperor, she still felt a little afraid. She was worried about being under the covers. looked at his father's somewhat gloomy face with some apprehension. Only then did I realize that I had said the wrong thing. In fact, it is not that he said the wrong thing, but that he said the wrong occasion. That's all.

"Father, I was wrong, I won't be so reckless next time. I'll explain to the empress later, don't be angry, don't be angry, believe Huan'er is okay? Huan'er is worried about her father, and Huan'er is afraid. Situ Hehuan tugged at his father's sleeve and pleaded in a low voice. In front of her father, who has pampered her for seven years, she is worried about falling out of favor. It was a feeling of being abandoned by someone you loved.

Her pitiful appearance, her father couldn't condemn her, so he had to whisper: "Huan'er, this time you are really too impulsive." Father doesn't say anything about you, but you can't be so impulsive in the future. My father knows you want to be crowned emperor. And your father won't stop you. But since you want to win the throne, you can't be so capricious anymore. You know? ”

After his father finished speaking, Situ Hehuan nodded eagerly. She said, "I know, father, not in the future." When I get up, I'll go and apologize to the Empress. Although I know that the evidence is ironclad. But Huan'er has hope of being forgiven. ”

Her crisp and confident words made her father smile and nodded her head: "Okay, my father knows that Huan'er is a very capable person, and he also knows that Huan'er's future is not limited to this." But it's time for you to get up, Huan'er. The other princes and princesses have all gotten up to study, and you are still relying on it. ”

Situ Hehuan got up a little shyly when he said this. She was really negligent sometimes. I thought that after accepting the memory of the original owner, I could do anything wrong. With the original owner's memory, you can let go of your mind. But sometimes it's a mistake to take it too seriously. It's a mistake.

After getting up, Situ Hehuan wanted to go to the empress to apologize. But he was stopped by his father. The father said that this was a fate to die and be born, and it was an opportunity to test whether the empress really favored them. If the empress really loves them, she won't bear to criticize them for so long. If the empress wants to punish them, see you when the time comes. Her father knew that she was very prejudiced against the Empress. That's why she was given a chance to eliminate prejudice against the Empress.

Of course, whether it can be eliminated depends on the performance of the empress. If she had punished them directly, they would have woken up in the gentleness of the Empress. If the Empress really rebukes them, then she doesn't care. Because they don't care, they will no longer want to be respected by the empress, so they can also be a chess piece with peace of mind.

Although Situ Hehuan firmly believes that the empress does not love them. But I couldn't resist my father's invitation. So she could only accompany her father to hi together. Today's time is particularly difficult. Because the empress has not sent news, she has not punished them, and she has not said that she will forgive them. Although to say that no news is the best news. But I always feel like something is missing.

In the evening, the empress did not appear at the dinner table, and Situ Hehuan felt a little unaccustomed. and his father are relatively speechless. Eat silently and sleep silently. The Empress once appeared in their stories, but disappeared again. The struggle between the emperor and the imperial concubine continued. The Empress has been living in her own bed lately. I will never go to Situ Hehuan's palace again.

The empress's favor was not given to anyone, which was extremely good news for the concubine and fair to everyone, so the imperial concubine and the emperor could fight with peace of mind. Although it has been a lose-lose situation. But you still continue to fight, you live and die. The situation in the palace is changing, and some concubines rely on their own princes or princesses, and they will come over to mock Situ Hehuan's father and daughter when they fall out of favor. Or even fall into the well. But the strange thing is that in the end, these palace concubines were inexplicably demoted or thrown into the corners of the palace.

Since then, no one has dared to do anything to Situ Hehuan's father and daughter. You can't even say a bad word. Without the interference of the empress and concubine. Situ Hehuan and his father continued their previous life in a small dilapidated house. Study every day, and by the way, talk about national events or something. Because my father's mother used to be a general. Fight in all directions. Therefore, he has an excellent understanding of the geographical location of the country, and can also draw avenues and paths.

Although it is said that my grandmother is dead, and the paintings she painted are gone. But his father's ability to never forget still gives Situ Hehuan great convenience. Because she got the blueprint drawn by her father. Draw mountains and rivers. Everyone knows how important geography is to an emperor. This will be related to her getting a head start when she leads the troops in battle in the future.

Situ Hehuan's father and daughter didn't bother to pay attention to the rumors outside, and just paid attention to how far the imperial concubine and the emperor were fighting every day. The forces of the DPRK and China began to reshuffle, and some of the emerging forces began to move into the court. At first, I didn't think there was anything, until the emerging forces began to gradually occupy an important position in the court, and half of the officials above the third rank began to be emerging forces. The imperial concubine and the imperial monarch's family only discovered the power.

The emerging powers do not belong to the empress, because they have their own independent minds and are not attached to the empress. The emerging forces are not from high-ranking and aristocratic families, and they do not belong to the heirs of the old school. It seems that the emerging forces have emerged. It didn't even give people time to react. And it also occupies an important position in the court.

The empress and the imperial concubine struggled for half a year, and finally found that the struggle was useless. Because both sides have been defeated. Capable members of the family disappeared from the court and were either exiled or dismissed. And those left in the court are the wine bags and rice bags in the family. The prestige of the family can no longer be sustained. The imperial concubine and the imperial monarch found out how powerful it was.

So the two of them began to join forces to let the concubines in the palace who rose up while they were fighting, start to criticize their family. For a time, the struggle between the parties in the palace was extremely serious. It has reached the point where the melee begins. The partisan struggle was not only in the palace, but also in the court. The struggle did not extend to the emerging powers. This gives the emerging powers a chance to rise.

The struggle lasted for several years, and in the past few years, the palace gate of Situ Hehuan and his father has not been opened, and the empress seems to have forgotten this person, and it seems to have forgotten Situ Hehuan's father and daughter. It may be that this piece does not need to be used again. The father and daughter lived in seclusion, and no one knew what they were planning to do.

Struggles in the palace and in the court often lasted for a long time. It continued until Situ Hehuan was thirteen years old. But no one knows what has changed in the past six years. During these six years, no new children were born in the palace. And the palace concubine has not been promoted again. The position of the father is still a talented person, a talented person who can be ignored at any time. So give them a chance to save their lives.

Because the struggle in the palace itself is extremely fierce. So the prince and the princess died a lot in this struggle. Survival of the fittest, nothing more than that. Because in the survival of the fittest, Situ Hehuan did not participate, so there was a glimmer of vitality. And those princesses who are still participating in the struggle may have fallen behind because the struggle was too fierce. Mediocrity.

And the emerging forces, after six years of development, have now become the mainstay of the court. It's no longer the force that can be bullied casually. They are united and seem to be for a common faith. They are mysterious because no one knows who their owner really is. As a result, no one dared to start easily.

It wasn't until six years later that the door that had been closed for six years in Situ Hehuan and his father's palace slowly opened. In the past six years, the forces outside have begun to change a lot. Because it was a struggle, everyone was evenly matched. The forces in the palace are almost all comparable. The power of the court also gradually began to change blood. The princesses and princes are all doing nothing.

Now, six years later, the imperial concubine and the imperial monarch are just an identity, not a person to be feared or admired. Today, six years later, the envoys of the Western Regions came to the court and began to pay tribute, and the envoys who came to the court, the leader of which was the great prince of the Western Regions, Yeluqi. It is said that he is a man who knows how to calculate and is still a man with wolf blood. Seeing the decline of the imperial daughter of the Celestial Empire, she wanted to occupy the entire Celestial Empire.

So, when Yeluqi came over, the surviving princesses of the Celestial Empire were all dragged to the banquet. The third and fourth princesses, who lived in seclusion, as well as several living princesses, were ordered to participate. Even Situ Hehuan was taken to participate, and the six-year struggle made the faces of these princesses a lot more calculating and utilitarian, but the most was numb. He was numb when he saw his sister and brother die.

At the banquet, Situ Hehuan and his father attended in full costume. I still wear my own modified clothes. Although it is out of step with this era. But it still feels very comfortable. It's been six years since the last time I was in front of everyone. What was once a calm child is now beginning to have the ability to be convincing. The dignity of the whole body is something that other princesses can't get no matter how much they calculate.

Before she appeared, Yeluqi expressed great disdain for the other princesses who had already appeared, and also made provocative remarks. This made the empress's face change many times, and she wanted to find a crack to hide all her daughters. lest you be embarrassed. But when Situ Hehuan appeared, the empress began to find her own dignity.

Because Situ Hehuan's dignity and elegance are incomparable to her as a royal daughter. She is destined to be a wise gentleman, destined to be a superior person. And she found that when Situ Hehuan entered the door, the forces of the emerging faction were very excited. It's as if I've seen my master.

She had always wondered who was behind the emerging forces, and now she seemed to have the answer...... And this answer made her a little excited and a little sad...... (To be continued......)