The Qinglin Palace, surrounded by wonderful sounds, has not released a song for several months, the woman in white is haggard all day long, and the boring days are only accompanied by two begonias. Ji Yulian stretched out her hand to wipe the dew on the leaves, and the flowers were shy and sad under the touch of Qianqianyu's hand.

Ji Yulian leaned down and looked at the two begonias, which had never changed in a year. In the past few days, one of the begonia flowers has fallen and the leaves have withered yellow, and the Yulian has not improved after fertilizing and watering. Another begonia is slim and blooms beautifully in the sun.

The prince who had left the Jiaofang Palace stopped by Qinglin Palace and looked at the heavily guarded Shengong with a look on his face. From the young swordsman breaking into the palace to the present, the garrison of Qinglin Palace has not weakened at all, and there are often two eunuchs guarding outside the palace gate.

The crown prince looked at Gonggong Wei who came from afar, and Gonggong Wei was a little strange to meet His Royal Highness the Prince outside the Qinglin Palace. The simple greeting is not superfluous, and the prince is only to the point. Watching Gonggong Wei enter Qinglin Palace, the prince's eyes looked directly at a majestic palace.

In this palace, there used to be a favorite concubine of the emperor, the biological mother of King Qi, Concubine Xin, and the sister of the eldest Sima Lin Xie, the daughter of the Lin family in Shuzhong. For more than 20 years, this dormitory has been indisputable in the world, as if which concubine Niangniang never thought that her son King Qi would one day ascend the throne as the emperor.

I remember that when I was a child, my mother was embarrassed, and Concubine Xin was like a pool of stagnant water that could not be shocked by the waves. No matter what means the queen mother uses, Qinglin Palace will not accept or make a move. Even so, Concubine Xin's grace has never diminished, and the father and emperor have no reproach for seeing these things in their eyes. It wasn't until several princes came of age that the queen mother relaxed her vigilance against Qinglin Palace. At one time, it was thought that Concubine Xin had no owner in Qinglin Palace after she died, and the new owner had moved in less than half a year after Concubine Xin's death, and she was a young woman.

The prince looked at the locked palace door without thinking, there was not much he could put in his heart since he was a child. Because of the things he likes, Brother Qi will also care, and he will give away his beloved things again and again, hoping to get the joy of his father and go to Jiaofang Palace a few more times, instead of treating Qinglin Palace as a dormitory.

There are not many things I want to get, and now there is only one country and one woman who is the only one who is sincere. Brother Qi is fighting everywhere, only this big beam is unacceptable, but which attractive woman was personally sent to his father's side by Brother Qi Wang, what can he do if he is unwilling. Just as my father often taught the prince what he said: "Even if I am the Ninety-Five Emperor in the world, I have a lot beyond my power, and I can't ask for it." ”

A person stared at the palace gate for a long time, and walked out of the palace gate in white under the guidance of Gonggong Wei. The entire court is constantly changing, as if the girl in front of her has not changed, and she is still friendly and elegant. Looking at Yulian's figure from afar, he recalled the scene of that night in his mind, it was this weak woman who always walked through the sword of the forbidden army, just so that her brother could live.

The white-clothed Yulian boarded the step, and Gonggong Wei walked on the side. The prince watched the woman in white leave in a hurry, but it seemed to be separated by a country. The prince kept watching Bu Bao disappear as far as he could see, and walked towards the East Palace alone.

Yulian, who was riding from Qinglin Palace, looked back and saw the prince hiding behind the tree and asked softly, "Which one is His Royal Highness the Prince?" ”

Gonggong Wei said: "Back to the beauty, Fang Cai met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince passing by Qinglin Palace. ”

Yulian just glanced back and didn't talk. I was always worried about why His Majesty the Emperor, who had not been seen for several months, would summon him today.

The steps were not fast, and he asked a lot along the way, but Gonggong Wei did not shy away from answering. Many words can still be said, but Yulian asked which one broke into the palace at this moment, and Gonggong Wei didn't seem to hear it. Yulian thought that her voice was small, and Gonggong Wei didn't hear it and didn't ask questions.

It wasn't until the emperor's bedroom took a step down that Yulian looked at this majestic palace and didn't feel amazed, and her heart was even more worried. The first time I came to the emperor's dormitory, I was hesitant. Gonggong Wei lowered his body and said, "Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time. ”

Yulian walked into the dormitory step by step, and saw the old man lying lazily on the couch in the palace. Waiting quietly with light steps, listening to the sound of snoring, Yulian could see that the old man in front of her had run out of oil. The sleeping appearance is very strange, there is no cold in early spring in summer, and the emperor is wrapped in mink and sleeps.

Suddenly, the emperor opened his eyes suddenly, and Yulian clearly saw that the emperor's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and the bedding was covered with sweat. From the emperor's dream, it can be seen that the emperor's expression is not good, and it must not be a good dream. I could still hear the anxiety in my sleep when I muttered before, and it must be what the emperor was most afraid of in my dreams.

Father-in-law Wei handed over a white cloth to wipe off his sweat and said; "Here we are."

Yulian bowed and saluted: "The concubine pays a visit to Your Majesty." ”

With the help of Gonggong Wei, the emperor reluctantly got up and said, "My body is not a day or two without worrying. Yulian waited quietly on the side, if other concubines saw the emperor's current appearance, they would be shocked, a terminally ill emperor, as a concubine is the most terrifying. It was not until the second emperor that the martyrdom system was abolished, and even so, the status of the harem concubines without heirs would plummet. The glory of the first half of his life disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The emperor in his ermine fur lay lazily, as if he would use all his strength if he moved more. said: "You have not been in the palace for a long time, and there are some things you don't understand. This year, my body is not as good as day by day, so I can feel more at ease by listening to you play a tune. It's really hard for you, I know it's not a few days. Speak from the heart, do you want to think about it. ”

To the emperor's great surprise, Yulian said with clear eyes: "Your Majesty's concubines don't want to, I beg Your Majesty to allow your concubines to be with your sisters." ”

The emperor took out a golden silk from the bedside and handed it to Duke Wei, who placed the golden silk in Yulian's hand. Yulian's hands trembled as she looked at the words on the golden silk, and the emperor said: "It's too late to regret it now, this is the royal family's debt to you, and it is also a debt to the Liu family." ”

He dragged the golden silk with both hands and said, "Your Majesty's concubine has already thought about it." ”

Seeing that Yulian didn't accept it, seeing that Duke Wei was just going to take back the golden silk, he said: "That's it, if you insist on this, you will enter Ziyun Temple with the harem concubines, and you can be regarded as having a home." Take this will, if you regret it over there, you won't be embarrassed to take out the secret decree from the new emperor, you just need to hand over this will to Liu Shangshu. ”

Holding the golden silk without moving, the emperor slowly closed his eyes and said, "Go down, when you figure it out, you can take out this will at any time." Until Yulian left, the emperor closed his eyes and thought about his life. When he was young, Liu Ce was always by his side, and after ascending the throne, he wrote to pacify Southern Chu. At that time, Lin Xie resisted several Chu army attacks, Li Shanhai established the first naval army of Daliang, and Daliang Nanjing was magnificent. Liu Ce was only in his early thirties, pacifying the northern tribes and breaking up the powerful Turks.

The military generals of the DPRK and China, led by Liu Ce, wrote to take advantage of the Liang's upright and battle-fighting army to cooperate with Li Shanhai's tens of thousands of sailors to go south in one fell swoop. Liu Ce led 200,000 iron cavalry in Beijing, and only needed the Changfeng army to pacify Eastern Wu in one fell swoop, and 200,000 Liang iron cavalry waved troops south to pacify Southern Chu.

Liu Ce, an upright and middle-aged military general, never mentioned the nobles of Daliang. The nobles who were accustomed to glory wrote to stop Liu Ce's southern expedition. At that time, the national strength of Daliang was fighting endlessly for many years, Liu Ce pacified the north, Lin Xie stabilized Nanjing, and Li Shanhai established a naval division that had hollowed out the national strength.

A generation of celebrities will be suppressed by the Manchu Dynasty can only stoop to the military department, and Zuo Shilang has been sitting idle for nearly ten years. Lin Xie's twelve-year stay in Nanchu Xiran became the head of the generals, and he has always owed Liu Ce a lot. The once heroic ambition seems to have been consumed in time as I get older day by day.

The emperor slowly closed his eyes and said, "Liu Ce is my selfishness that I have given up my childhood ideals. Silver spear and iron horse, charging into battle, waving the army south, together with the Central Plains. The new emperor will give you what you want, and don't let me down. ”

Gonggong Wei lifted the ermine fur to cover the old man's weak body, only to hear the old man mutter: "Liang Tianxia, Liang Tianxia, I will hand it over to you." ”

Back in Qinglin Palace, Yulian kept looking at the golden silk, and the words on it seemed to be engraved in her heart one by one, since she had lost it, how could she get it. Now it's too late, or it shouldn't be. Since entering the palace, hope has been lost, and now there is hope that is not hope, what will the concubine of the former emperor be like when she appears in the general's mansion. A piece of gold silk cuts off the dust thoughts, how to talk about the next life and this life.

Tears dripped on the gold silk, slowly comparing the bloodshot eyes. muttered softly: "Begonia still has its own home after all." ”

One begonia in front of the door is yellow in the scorching sun, and the other does not seem to be so delicate. On this day, the twilight of Qinglin Palace came to an end, and the woman in white who lived alone in the deep palace was like ashes. Stuff the gold silk into his chest, wipe away his tears, and look at the sky, dusk is like a tomb.

Raising his hand to block the dazzling light, he said: "Liu Zhixing, you must not come back this time, just assume that you have never known a woman named Ji Yulian." Live a good life, Yang Luo is a good girl. ”

The red clothes stayed aside, and he had never seen his sister so disheartened. Approached and said, "Sister, it's getting dark." ”

Yulian nodded slightly: "It's already dark, and it will be a good weather for the sun to rise tomorrow." Hongyi felt that her sister was inexplicable.

The prince, who walked all the way from Qinglin Palace, returned to the East Palace, and did not summon the East Palace to stand in a row. Xun Sizhan, the Chinese scholar led by the civil official, and many ministers stood in a row. Zhou Heng did not hesitate to stand beside an empty chair, Zhang Bai was wearing a pair of armor, not among the civil officials, but standing in a row with a group of military generals.

Zhao Ping wore a battle armor with a circle of flying knives pinned to his waist, and the twelve generals were all wearing armor. The crown princess pulled two one- and two-year-old children to wait tightly, and the prince looked at the chair that had been sitting for more than ten years and felt very strange. And the current scene is so familiar, just like the change of my father's palace back then.

At that time, he was not very old, and he was not much older than his current son and daughter. The crown princess really wanted the queen mother of the year, and pulled herself and her second brother to stand by her father's side like this. At that time, next to his father stood the current great Sima Lin Xie, and on the other side stood Liu Ce, the secretary of the military department.

But at the age of seven or eight, I remember very clearly the last words that my father said when he left the palace with his soldiers: "If your father can't come back today, you can judge yourself." The queen mother tightly pulled herself and the second brother who died young, the eldest brother at that time. The delicate queen mother had a lot of strength that day, and her little hands were painfully held.

The prince walked into the palace gate, and all the civil ministers and military generals bowed down together: "Meet His Royal Highness the Prince." (See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince) Zhang Bai stood beside a strange middle-aged man, and next to Zhao Ping stood a young general with a sword, who was not very old.

Step by step, he sat calmly on the chair in the middle, and said in a heavy tone: "Ladies and gentlemen, please take a seat." ”