Walking outside Chang'an City, the carriage traveled to a dilapidated thatched house, a muddy path, there were a few families scattered in the middle, occasionally in the field, a few shirtless men and women carrying bamboo baskets harvested mature corn, there was a strong fence outside the thatched house, there were old wooden tables in the fence, unknown vegetables were planted in the newly cultivated fields, and there were hens running around in the yard.

Donghua shouted to stop, lifted the curtain, and helped Ruyue to walk down: "The road is bumpy, the princess has a tight chest, and go down to ask this family for a glass of water to drink, you lead the carriage to a place where there is no one in front of you, don't waste the food, I will look for you later." The soldier answered, leading the carriage into the distance.

Donghua stepped forward: "Is there anyone else?" My master is passing by and wants to ask the master for a glass of water, can the master make it convenient? ”

"Here it is." Someone hurriedly came out of the thatched house, dressed in gray and yellow coarse cloth clothes, with her hair in a bun, and a wooden fork diagonally inserted, even this could not stop her beautiful face, the eyes on her face were narrow and bright, and her pink lips like March cherry blossom petals raised a smile, like a beautiful hibiscus rising from the clear water.

The master was also stunned when she saw Ruyue: "Princess-" She hurriedly opened the door in the courtyard and welcomed Ruyue in, her hands cramped and she didn't know what to do.

"I was entrusted by the deceased to come to visit my wife, and now my wife is as safe as the moon."

"But the Queen?" She asked Ruyue.

"I'm afraid it's the entire emperor's harem, except for Empress Xiao, no one cares about the death or life of his wife." When Ruyue was about to leave the Frost Palace, she was stopped by Empress Xiao: "The left and right are out of the palace, how about allowing this palace to be alone?"

Ruyue looked at her suspiciously.

"There is a lush forest ten miles outside Chang'an City, and there is a village through the woods, and the owner of the third thatched house took the palace to ask her well."

"Who is it?"

"One, an old man you also know."

Ruyue was even more puzzled, but Empress Xiao stopped talking, turned around, and recited the scriptures and worshiped the Buddha. Ruyue was inconvenient to ask more, so she had to come to visit, but she didn't want to be the dead Mrs. Xuanhua.

"Back then, Niangniang gave Xuanhua a sleeping pill." Xuanhua seemed to be stuck in a memory, "I came here after I woke up. ”

"The kid?" Ruyue looked at Xuanhua's flat lower abdomen and couldn't help but have some doubts.

"Princess, what if the child is born without a father, or if he grows up unsatisfied with the status quo and relies on the royal blood to behave indiscriminately?"

"She knocked out your baby?"

"Don't get me wrong, princess." Xuanhua shook his head again and again, "At the beginning, Niang Niang was afraid that Xuanhua was used to living a rich life in the palace, and there was always an old lady who came to take care of Xuanhua's daily life. ”

"She actually has such a mind-" Ruyue muttered to herself.

"It was the queen mother who found a corpse similar to Xuanhua's form and replaced Xuanhua, she was sure that the saint would not go to see the dead Mrs. Xuanhua, but the left was covered with a white cloth."

"Why are you so sure?" Ruyue was even more puzzled.

Xuanhua looked at Ruyue's innocent expression, she was different from herself, she seemed to be reborn after the catastrophe, and she no longer wanted to trust anyone, and she, thousands of favors, but she ended up alone, but she still believed that she still loved, and the truth that was about to come out of her mouth, Xuanhua couldn't bear it after all: "Why did the princess come here?" ”

"The Holy One let Ruyue go out of the palace to recuperate." Ruyue looked at the sky and was afraid that the soldiers would see Xuanhua, so she continued, "Madame is now free again, and the people in the palace are once again afraid of disturbing Madame's purity, so Ruyue has taken her leave." After speaking, he took out a money bag from Donghua's hand and handed it to Xuanhua, "These silver taels, Mrs. keeps them to subsidize the family." Saying that, Donghua will help Ruyue to leave.

"Ruyue-" said subconsciously in the end. "It's Xuanhua who can't live with the first emperor—"

Ruyue paused and didn't look back: "I think, my father has forgiven you-"

Starting from her depression in front of Yang Guang, from the fact that she would rather drink the "poison" stabbed to death by Empress Xiao, and from the beginning of her willingness to waste her life here, Ruyue thought that it would be in vain for them to meet each other, and her father was so generous and benevolent, she would definitely not be blamed.

Xuanhua looked at Ruyue's back, and burst into tears again, those Wu Nong's soft words, those who sincerely maintained, those who stayed overnight, in the end, were not for themselves, but they were intoxicated by the emperor's affection not for her, Ruyue, in fact, we are all ordinary people, they are all people who miss us from our faces and can't come back, how glad I am, I am already myself, and you are destined to continue to live in the shadow of that person.

After more than two months of bumpy journeys, Taiyuan finally arrived, and on the day of getting off the carriage, a group of people had already knelt outside the palace, all of them panicked. Ruyue walked in, only to see the dormitory in the cloud top warehouse wood for the sorghum, the night pearl for the lamp, the glass for the curtain, the six-foot-wide agarwood wide bed hanging the brocade tent woven by the silk of the southern shark, can prevent a hundred poisons, the tent is embroidered with a silver line lotus, the stamen is a full pearl,. The bed is equipped with a green jade box pillow, covered with nephrite silk quilt, the ground is paved with white jade, inlaid with gold beads, the ground is chiseled for the lotus, the petals are clear and veined, warm and delicate, even if barefoot, they also feel warm, it is actually chiseled with Lantian warm jade, it is really as magical as a lotus step by step. Push open the long coral window, and outside the window is the backyard, pavilions, rockery and flowing water, and vermilion red doors. Not far away, there were herds of deer walking around.

"Who usually lives here?" Ruyue sighed in her heart, this kind of place can't even be compared to the palace, and it is a story of a golden house.

The person who looked like the head of the housekeeper stepped forward and replied respectfully: "This palace is already there, the setting inside is the holy a few months ago, the princess is cold, glass, pearls, and blue jade are hot things, the princess is quiet, since the night pearl is several times better than the light, the princess likes deer, and the emperor is here to build a deer park for the princess." ”

"But it's hard for him." Ruyue sighed, "It's just that since you know that I like to be quiet, you should know that I don't need so many maids and guards, and I will be sent away for two years' wages, leaving some enough to cope with daily life." ”

After that, he only received the winter flowers, and then pushed the door and went in to rest.

"It's better to light an oil lamp, there is some smell of fireworks in the world." Ruyue commanded.

"Is the princess going to meet the magistrate tomorrow?" Don't be rude. "Winter flowers ask like the moon.

"He wants me to stay here, that is, he wants me not to eat the fireworks of the world, and to be my princess Anle with peace of mind, his palace can't live in people, I'm afraid that no one cares at all, why should I bother to worry about myself? I'm afraid that no one knows that I'm here. ”

"That's right." Donghua lit an oil lamp, and the room was no longer the cold light of the Night Pearl, "If there is news, I am afraid that General Mu would have found it a long time ago." After speaking, he realized that he had said the wrong thing, and quickly knelt down: "The slave should die." ”

"What is this for?" Ruyue hurriedly helped her up, "In the future, we will depend on each other for our lives, and these red tapes will save energy." ”

"Rest the princess." Donghua cautiously spoke, "The slave and maid retreated first." ”

The door "creaked" and remembered, the whole dormitory was quiet, Ruyue simply took off her shoes, walked barefoot on the white jade floor, and did not feel cold, looking at the starry eyes and bright teeth in the bronze mirror, she finally couldn't escape the bleak end of her life.