A crescent moon hung in the sky early, bright and hot on this midsummer night. Ling Xi sat in the pavilion in the courtyard of the apse, looking at the lotus flowers blooming in the pond in front of her, she couldn't help but think of the lotus flowers in the courtyard of Qingfeng Garden, I don't know which one is more delicate compared to the lotus flowers in the Jiaofang Palace?

She has been away from Qingfeng Yuan for a while, and Xiang Hongxuan has not been to Jiaofang Hall once, maybe because Xiao Xiangxiang is pregnant, Xiang Hongxuan can't remember Jiaofang Palace, maybe because Jiaofang Hall is too far, so far that it is extremely difficult for Xiang Hongxuan to take a step. Ling Xi lowered her head and smiled bitterly, she picked up the wine glass on the stone table and drank the peach blossom drunk in the wine glass happily.

A gust of evening breeze blew, a trace of coolness wandered on Ling Xi's body, she couldn't help but get up and walked outside the pavilion, maybe it was the breeze to relieve the heat, maybe it was this slight drunkenness, Ling Xi raised her wine glass again, she turned her head to look at the shadow behind her, stretched out a hand to hang in the air, and carefully touched her shadow.

As soon as she raised her head, she drank another cup of peach blossom drunkenness, she took a little swaying steps, walked a few steps, looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, and couldn't help but say loudly: "Raise a glass to invite the bright moon, and the shadow becomes three people." ”

"It's not three, it's four, no, it's five, and my shadow."

A crisp voice came from the palace wall, Ling Xi was startled, turned sideways and looked at the high palace wall, only to see Bai Rosary sitting on the palace wall in the apse courtyard, Bai Rosary jumped over, and lightly jumped from the palace wall to Ling Xi's side, looking at Ling Xi with a smile.

Ling Xi froze down, put away the demeanor that had just been a little out of order, smiled slightly, and quipped: "I didn't expect that Miss Seven of the Bai family would fly the eaves and walk the wall like this, this harem in the dead of night, I'm afraid that Miss Seven has seen a lot of beauty." ”

Bai Rosary was stunned, Ling Xi's drunken words seemed to be very different from the well-behaved queen mother during the day, but it made her feel very cordial, she said with a smile: "The harem is too big, I really don't have time to see it, but the lotus flowers here are really beautiful, and I will come to the flowers here at night." ”

"How can you enjoy the flowers without drinking, why don't Miss Seven have a few drinks with the palace?"

"I can't ask for it."

Ling Xi and Bai Nianzhu looked at each other and smiled, they came to the pavilion, Bai Nianzhu drank a cup of peach blossom drunk in one gulp, she nodded slightly, and said, "It's not bad." ”

"To be praised by Miss Bai, it seems that the peach blossom drunk made by the girls in Jiaofang Hall is still good. Of course, it can't be compared with the Bai family's wine. ”

"The good wine of the Bai family has been sent to Dongyu's harem, and Niangniang can drink it at any time if she wants to, but Niangniang drinks this peach blossom drunk alone at night, I think Niangniang is not drinking wine, it is the past."

Bai Rosary's words made Ling Xi a little in a trance, her heart trembled, Bai Rosary is a delicate and intelligent woman, but she lives a little too freely, free and easy. In fact, there is nothing wrong with this, Bai Rosary is just living a little more real, who doesn't want to live like this? She began to like the white rosary a little.

"The world says that the Bai family in the East China Sea has three treasures, wine, tea and silk, and today the palace knows that the young lady of the Bai family can also do martial arts, which should also be

Count it as a treasure. Ling Xi picked up the wine glass and deliberately diverted the topic and said.

Bai Nianzhu slowly drank a glass of wine and said softly: "In addition to the Bai family, except for my martial arts, my five brothers and sixth sisters can't, and I am different from them in the Bai family." ”

Ling Xi remembered what Bo Baoling said to her in the afternoon, Bai Nianzhu was actually born to the maid of the Bai family, saying that the eldest princess Jinglan adopted Bai Rosary as her adopted daughter, and Bai Rosary became the young lady of the Bai family, but Bai Rosary's biological mother was the maid of the Bai family, and Bai Rosary's biological father can be imagined.

Ling Xi thought of Bai Rosary's merciless refutation of Yu Qingshan during the day, she smiled slightly and said, "It's really different, the sixth miss is much more gentle, and the seventh miss is more imposing like a female general." ”

"I don't want to be a female general, if I can, I want to be a chivalrous woman, hold the sword in the world, and enjoy the rivers and lakes." Bai Rosary said excitedly.

"Coincidentally, I've really seen a woman in this palace."

"Really? Who is this woman? Bai Nianzhu's eyes showed envy and asked eagerly.

Ling Xi slowly poured a glass of wine and said: "Her name is Ding Lufu, she is the orphan daughter of General Dongyu, she also saved the life of the palace, and then she went to the Pingcheng military camp, if she can, the palace doesn't want her to go to the military camp." ”

"The chivalrous woman has entered the barracks, and it will be even fresher if she becomes a general. Isn't this more comfortable than being trapped in a high gate and deep courtyard? Bai Rosary asked puzzled.

Ling Xi shook the wine glass in his hand, the pale red wine swayed up and down in the white porcelain wine glass, and the pale red slid down the wall of the glass with difficulty, and it seemed that every drop fell to the bottom of Ling Xi's heart.

"Bengong just thinks that the battlefield is too bloody and cruel, and if she enters the barracks, she will have to take on the responsibility of her family and country, isn't this too heavy for her? And if even women have to go to war, then is the country at the point of life and death? Ling Xi said with a slight frown.

Bai Nianzhu was indeed stopped by Ling Xi's words, she didn't think about these things, and it wasn't something she could think about, she looked at Ling Xi with a heavy expression in front of her, and said: "Niangniang, you don't look like a harem woman, you are like the person in the Golden Palace, worrying about the country and the people." ”

Ling Xi couldn't help but clench the wine glass in her hand, Bai Rosary was always in a word, which made people like it and had some scruples, she smiled bitterly, picked up the wine glass and drank it herself.

Bai Rosary looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, she remembered that at night in Baijiazhuang in the East China Sea, she often accompanied her mother Jinglan to admire the moon, inadvertently, she was a little in a trance, and said: "Niangniang is somewhat similar to her mother." ”

"Where's the like?" Ling Xi raised his wine glass and asked with interest.

After Bai Rosary respectfully exchanged a drink with Ling Xi, she said quietly: "You and your mother have the elegance of the royal family, just like the helplessness between gestures. ”

Ling Xi smirked, surrounded by the smell of wine, she slowly got up with drunkenness, and came to the moon, she looked around the Jiaofang Hall in the silent night, a little starlight shining in the courtyard, even the boundless night could not hide the majesty and magnificence of the palace.

"This palace is not as blessed as the eldest princess, with both children and daughters

All and far from strife. ”

"When Emperor Wen Zhao died, his mother was only 2 years old, and her biological mother also buried Emperor Wen Zhao, her mother grew up under the knees of the former emperor Empress Bo, although she was the sister of the first emperor, but in fact, the first emperor raised her mother as a daughter, and when her mother was fourteen years old, Queen Bo died violently, and her mother said that she had no mother again."

Bai Nianzhu also slowly came to Ling Xi's side, she handed a wine glass in her hand to Ling Xi, and continued: "Back then, Emperor Wen Zhao married his mother to the grandson of the old lady of the Bai family, but unfortunately my cousin died at a young age, and this marriage should have collapsed, but the first emperor wanted to fight in the south, and the treasury was tight, so the first emperor made the decision to marry his mother to the second son of the old lady Bai, that is, my father. When her mother married into the Bai family, she was twenty-eight years old, and her husband was old enough to be her father, as well as the three young sons born to Mrs. Bai before, as well as the crime of forcing the mother and wife to die, the rise and fall of the family were all buckled on the shoulders of the mother, since she stepped into Baijiazhuang, she has never been out of Baijiazhuang, Niangniang, you say, is this kind of life a blessing? ”

Maybe it was drunk, Ling Xi staggered a few steps, staggered, and slightly sideways to get close to the white rosary for a few steps, she whispered a little tentatively, "Miss Seven, then what do you think is blessed?" ”

Bai Nianzhu looked down at the wine glass in her hand, slowly picked it up and drank it, smiled lightly, and said: "I don't know, but I have heard my mother say that she did not fantasize about the future life before she got married, she thinks that even if she marries a white student, no matter whether it is a high door or a humble room in the future, the two of them have two horses, three meals and four seasons, and they have traveled through the north and south of the river, and it is also a peaceful day, I think happiness is probably like this." ”

Ling Xi was stunned, she looked at the indifferent white rosary in front of her, she was in a trance again, she remembered the rumor about the Bai family that Bo Baoling told her in the afternoon, it is said that when the eldest princess Jinglan was pregnant with the fifth young master of the Bai family, Emperor Xuanwu once said to the outside world that if the Bai family gave birth to a daughter, she would be the crown princess, before Xiang Hongxuan's wedding, the eldest princess Jinglan had taken her daughter into the palace, but then she suddenly left Yicheng, since then, there has been a rumor in Yicheng that Emperor Xuanwu belonged to the Bai family daughter as Xiang Hongxuan's queen before his death.

In Bai Rosary's mouth, whether it is the eldest princess or the Bai family, they don't seem to be interested in the harem, so why do you want to send your daughter into the palace? And it's two. Ling Xi sneered, she swayed a few steps, returned to the pavilion, picked up the wine jug, turned around and slowly came to Bai Nianzhu's side, and said tentatively: "Miss Seven is afraid that she is drunk, and she has begun to talk drunk, how can the noble family have such an idyllic situation, otherwise how could Miss Seven and Miss Six enter the palace?" ”

"If it weren't for the leak of Nanxijun's report, I don't think the Bai family would have sent their daughter into the palace, whether it was clinging to it or begging for favor, the glory and disgrace of the Bai family would have fallen on the daughter of the Bai family, could she not enter the palace?" Bai Rosary said lonely.

Bai Rosary took the wine jug in Ling Xi's hand and drank it to herself, as if she was not drinking wine, but the clear water.

"Niangniang, I have seen the beautiful scenery of Dongyu's harem, and I have also come to the Jiaofang Palace, where my mother once lived, I think it's time

Time to go. ”

Ling Xi was stunned for a moment, Bai Nianzhu said that the wind was light all night, she should be a little drunk and false, but she didn't want to tell the truth. Ling Xi couldn't help but wonder and asked, "Since you are leaving, why do you want to come?" ”

Bai Nianzhu's hand holding the wine jug trembled slightly, she stared at the night, and said softly: "I just want to see what the place where the sixth sister will be trapped for the rest of her life will be like." ”

Ling Xi stood side by side beside Bai Rosary, she also looked at the dark night, for a while she felt the deep sadness of Bai Rosary from the bottom of her heart, she couldn't help but think of the struggle before she entered the palace, and in the end she was still invincible to fate, she said helplessly: "This is her life, she has to admit it." ”

Bai Rosary lowered her head and muttered to herself, "What if it wasn't her life?" ”

"What?"

Bai Nianzhu immediately turned her head and looked at Ling Xi, her face was no longer lonely just now, and she said excitedly: "Niangniang, I will leave the palace tomorrow morning." ”

"Are you going back to Baijiazhuang?"

"No, I'm going to the north, my mother said that the grasslands in the north are bigger than any horse farms, and I want to go to the grasslands in the north for a good run."

Ling Xi lowered her head and smiled, in the eyes of the white rosary, she saw the innocence and expectations of a young girl, once upon a time she also had it, but under the erosion of the years, in this cold harem, I don't know when it will be exhausted.

Suddenly, Bai Rosary jumped up, she jumped onto the palace wall again, and she said to Ling Xi under the wall: "Niangniang, do you know? The moon should be viewed from this high place. ”

"Why?"

"Some people say that this way you can get closer to your thoughts."

(End of chapter)