Ling Ruo hesitated, but still let him lead the way in front, Mo Er said uneasily: "Master, you better not go, the Nian clan has been abolished, there is nothing to see, besides, if you get sick, how can you live." ”

"It's okay, the main palace is far away, it's not so easy to be infected." Ling Ruo didn't know why Lu Dao had the idea of seeing Nian's family.

Soon arrived at the house where Nian's lived, and before entering the door, he heard a violent cough from inside, Ling Ruo was about to enter, but was dissuaded by Zhou Minghua: "Niangniang will wait here for a while, and wait for Weichen to open the doors and windows and ventilate it." ”

Ling Ruo silently agreed, and after Zhou Minghua had done all this and signaled that he could, he stepped inside, at this time, Nian's no longer had the grace and luxury of the past, his long hair was draped behind him in a mess, and a thin quilt that could not be seen in the original color was covered on the skinny Nian's body, she covered her mouth and coughed, but her eyes kept staring at Ling Ruo, and after the coughing stopped, she put down her hand and said slowly: "Why did you come to the cold palace?" Without waiting for Ling Ruo to answer, she suddenly said coldly: "But the emperor doesn't want me to live anymore, so you let you kill me?" ”

When the word "kill" was mentioned, she seemed very calm, and there was nothing unwilling or afraid.

Ling Ruo stared at Nian's family, shook his head and said, "No, the emperor didn't order you to be killed, I just came to see you." ”

Nian covered his mouth and coughed a few times, and said sarcastically: "Heh, is it that the emperor didn't want to kill me, or did he forget me at all?" ”

Ling Ruo asked lightly, "Is there a difference?" ”

Nian Shi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and chuckled, and turned his head to look at the snowflakes fluttering outside the window, "Yes, is all this different for me?" No, the months of being locked up here finally made me understand one thing, it turns out that the emperor has no affection for me at all, everything is good or bad, it is because of the prosperity and disgrace of my family, I thought that the emperor had true feelings for me before, but now in retrospect, it is really ridiculous. ”

Ling Ruo was silent, and for a while, Fang followed Nian's gaze and looked at the snowflakes outside, "I didn't expect you to figure this out. ”

"Do you think I'm going to accept the reality?" Nian smiled sadly, letting the cold snowflakes blow on his face, "Yes, from the day I married into Baylor Mansion, I never thought that I would one day be deposed in the cold palace. Those who have not been here can never imagine life here, eating spoiled food, covered with such a thin layer of quilts that are not warm at all, and what is even more terrifying is that there are often crazy people who break into your house and make a lot of noise, and even they will run in and choke your neck while you are asleep. At one point, I almost strangled to death. ”

Ling Ruo didn't know what to say, she just listened quietly, Nian Shi talked about her in the cold palace, and no one had listened to her for a long time, so although she coughed very much, she still kept talking.

The snow seemed to be falling a little heavier, drifting in like catkins and falling on Nian's hair, Ling Ruo said softly: "Yang Hai, you close the window." ”

Yang Hai agreed, and when he was about to go to the pass, Nian Shi had already said: "No need, let's open it, I don't know if I will have the opportunity to see such a snow scene again in the future." Saying this, she suddenly laughed, although she was skinny and her face was extremely poor, her facial features were still contoured, and she was still eye-catching when she laughed.

Ling Ruo didn't expect her to be able to laugh in such a situation, looking at her with some surprise, Nian Shi seemed to sense her thoughts, raised his eyes and said, "It's strange, even I didn't expect to be able to laugh, just like I didn't expect to be able to talk to you so calmly." Niu Hulu Lingruo, from the first time I saw you, I didn't like you, so I fought for you everywhere, suppressed you everywhere, and never gave up for more than 20 years, but in the end you still became Concubine Xi and became the person the emperor cared about the most, and I sent myself to the cold palace. ”

Looking at the vast snowflakes outside the window, Ling Ruoyu said quietly: "The person the emperor cares about the most is neither you nor me. ”

"I know that it's Nalan Mei'er, but she is already the Blessed Jin, and she can't fight with us anymore, so I just blindly fight with you and those people, but I never thought that the queen was the one who bit the hardest, and my two children died in her hands!" Speaking of the last sentence, Nian clenched his hands tightly, allowing his long nails to leave deep pinching marks and sharp pain in his palms. After a long time, she slowly let go of her hand, looked at the mark in her palm, and said with a hideous face: "When I stabbed her with a knife that day, I already expected that there would be today's end, left and right Hongsheng is dead, even if I live, I am just a walking corpse, no different from death." The only regret is that I didn't kill her, I didn't kill that Jian person! Ahem, ahem! ”

In Nian's violent coughing, Ling Ruo said slowly: "Maybe it's really a good person who doesn't live long, the scourge lasts for thousands of years, from the hidden mansion to the harem, so many people have died, only she has always been standing." ”

After the cough gradually subsided, the room fell into a long silence, only the sound of wind and snow whirring in his ears, I don't know how long it took, Nian's eyes flashed, fell on Ling Ruo and said, "Why did you come to the cold palace to see me?" ”

Ling Ruo shook his head and said indifferently, "I have been ordered to execute a person. ”

"Who is it?" Nian asked suspiciously, although she and Wen Rutian were in the same cold palace, they had never seen each other.

"Warm as a tilt." When these three words came out of Ling Ruo's mouth, she suddenly said, "Concubine Hui's sister? Why was she sent to the cold palace, Concubine Hui, I remember that she loved this sister very much. ”

"Concubine Hui is dead, she was killed by Wen Rutian!" Ling Ruo simply said the matter, and after listening to it, the Nian clan let out a sigh of relief, shook his head and said, "I didn't expect so many things to happen during this time, the Queen Mother, and Concubine Hui have all died one after another." Wen Rutian not only harms people, but also dares to commit adultery with others, which is really innocent. ”

After a moment of silence, Ling Ruo got up and said, "I should go." ”

"Concubine Xi!" Nian suddenly opened his mouth and called Ling Ruodao, "Can I ask you something?" ”

Ling Ruo stopped and turned around, "What? ”

Nian Shi said a little nervously: "How is my brother and his family, has the emperor embarrassed them again?" ”

Looking at Nian's face, which was as white as snow, Ling Ruo felt a trace of compassion in his heart inexplicably, "There is a minister who impeached Nian Qianyao again, the emperor has transferred Nian Qianyao back to Beijing from Tibet, and now the people of Nian's family have been imprisoned in the Criminal Department for punishment, waiting to be released." ”

Tears fell silently from Nian's eyes, and he said sadly: "Your Majesty, he ...... After all, he still refused to let go of his brother. ”

Ling Ruo sighed lightly and said insincerely: "Maybe the emperor will remember the military exploits that Nian Qianyao made in the past, and you don't have to worry too much." ”