The two countries made peace, there were no worries, Gu Chi recuperated for a few days, and his body improved, on this day, he avoided the guards and went to Guining Palace alone to find the former emperor's concubine, Concubine Cheng, to ask about the old past.

Although the Guining Palace is quiet, but there are a large number of dense flowers and trees around, and even all year round, the fragrance continues, the mountain spring introduced from outside the palace rushes down from the high wall and the secluded path, and the white mist stirred up will shroud the top of the Guining Palace, which has a unique charm.

Concubine Cheng is one of the emperor's beloved concubines, after his death, he specially told Gu Chi to treat this concubine well, and after Gu Chi ascended the throne, he moved the concubine here, which was also the emperor's wish.

Walking to Guining Palace, Gu Chi dismissed the guards and palace maids, and walked towards the inner hall alone, and saw Concubine Cheng sitting quietly in front of the hall in dark clothes from a distance, sipping tea elegantly.

Concubine Cheng raised her eyes and saw Gu Chi, but she didn't salute, so she said, "You're here?" ”

Gu Chi was not annoyed, and respectfully asked for peace, "Concubine Wan'an." ”

"Sit down." Concubine Cheng pointed to the rattan chair beside her, and said, "Do you have something to ask me?" ”

"The concubine has insight into the world, and she has not reduced the year."

"It's just a handful of loess." Concubine Cheng had desolation in her eyes, "The emperor asks if he has something, and he doesn't have much time to get old." ”

Gu Chi no longer beat around the bush, "Is there a princess left out of the first emperor?" ”

Concubine Cheng turned her eyes and stared at Gu Chi, with some unclear meaning in her eyes, "Since you ask like this, you must already have the answer in your heart." ”

"I want to know, where did the princess go?" Gu Chi looked very anxious.

"Just a princess, it's also worth your tracking?" Concubine Cheng counted the tea leaves in the tea bowl, and didn't care about Chi's demeanor.

"Please let the concubine know."

"If you'll do me a favor, I'll tell you about it." Concubine Cheng was still counting the tea leaves, looking careless.

"What the concubine wants, I will do my best to achieve it, and ask the concubine to tell me about the past."

Concubine Cheng smiled with satisfaction, took a sip of tea, and said: "At the beginning of the first queen's pregnancy, the first emperor was very happy, so far the cold back palace, at that time, Kang Guiren who had just given birth was sick, and the first emperor did not visit, Kang Guiren resented this, so he united with the concubine at that time to secretly poison the first queen, and never wanted to be recognized by the imperial doctor, the concubine was executed, and the first emperor remembered that Kang Guiren had just given birth, so he opened the net, just put her into the cold palace, but on that day, Kang Guiren committed suicide, and the whereabouts of the little princess are unknown. ”

When Gu Chi heard this, he was already frowning, but he was still patient and listened to the concubine, "Later, the first emperor was drunk and inadvertently told me the truth, it turned out that Kang Guiren was disheartened and notified Zhang Qing before committing suicide, that is, the later prime minister, and the prime minister remembered his relationship with her, so he took the little princess away, and the first emperor was afraid of the literati behind Zhang Qing, so he hid the matter until he died. ”

A fishy sweetness surged up, Gu Chi pressed it down with internal force, but his face was iron-blue, "Thank you for telling me, what do you want?" ”

The woman's flowering season passes in an instant, and the man in life nourishes the flowers like nutrients, but the nutrients will eventually pass, and the flowers will wither, and if they are in the breeze and drizzle, they can bloom twice, and if they are dim and imprisoned, they will drift away with the wind.

The concubine said lightly: "I will go to Ninghua Temple, and you will announce to the public that the concubine is dead, and I will have nothing to do with the royal family from now on." ”

"As the concubine wishes, take her leave."

Gu Chi almost escaped from Guining Palace, every step under his feet seemed to be with a hundred catties of shackles, falling heavily on his body, making him breathless, the truth was revealed overnight, the cruel truth sent him into the flames, burning his heart, tearing at his cognition and last reason, he couldn't imagine that his queen was his sister, especially when he was in the cave room, especially when he was happy with Lin'er, every time he thought of these scenes, Gu Chi had a splitting headache and was cold.

Looking at Gu Chi's fleeing back, the concubine shook her head, and after a wry smile, she splashed the tea in the teacup in her hand on the ground and muttered, "Bad fate." ”

In October of that year, the crickets hastily entered the bed, and the first cold wind blew away the broken hair on the forehead and blew away his heart.

"Cheng'er, I'll take you away."

"I'm a palace concubine, how can I go."

"The royal family has been cursed for generations, and the harem is in chaos, what's the good thing about you staying here."

"Hugh is talking nonsense!"

The concubine interrupted him and urged, "You should leave the palace quickly." ”

"Don't come with me!"

"Let's go."

……

He left, and left without looking back, after decades of separation, there was no news, and the concubine's heart also left at that time, and now, the deadline is approaching, and it is also a luxury to see each other again.

In the evening, an inconspicuous carriage drove out of Guining Palace, and quickly disappeared into the night after leaving the palace gate......

The next morning, Gu Chi made a decree in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, "The concubine died of illness and was buried in the mausoleum of the former emperor." "This is probably the shortest will in the history of the Great Past, but it is only the death of a concubine, which is insignificant to the entire royal family.

After listening to the concubine's words that day, Gu Chi's whole person fell into a manic mood, and after using some medicine, he took out the painting that he had given himself a few days ago, and showed another painting according to the steps of that day.

Stretched out his hand, wiped off the blood droplets, and affectionately stroked the person in the painting, and said: "Lin'er, I miss you a little, but now, even thinking about you is a kind of extravagant hope." ”

How long was that, it seems that when I was young, I sat on the largest tree in the palace with high spirits, and every fifteen would look in the direction of the palace gate, because soon, Zhang Qing would take his daughter into the palace to ask for peace to the imperial grandmother, and he could be the first to see the shadow, and that day, Zhang Qing was called by his father to discuss the matter, she was alone, sobbing low in the garden, very pitiful.

"Why are you crying?"

The girl ignored it and turned her head to the side, tears welling up in her eyes.

Shoved the bird's egg he had just picked up from the tree into her hand, "Here you go, don't cry." ”

Holding the egg carefully, the girl began to look at the person in front of her, and after a while, she said timidly: "My name is Zhang Lanlin, I am the little daughter of the prime minister, who are you?" ”

"I'm Gu Chi."

The so-called love at first sight is nothing more than this, the first thing she did after ascending the throne was to canonize her as the queen, many years of long-cherished wish fulfillment, even the wind is the taste of happiness, but now, in the face of the huge truth, those good memories are like rotten minced meat, causing Gu Chi to feel uncomfortable.

Closing the painting, Gu Chi took the pot of wine, raised his head, the strong wine poured into his mouth, the sudden burning sensation in his throat caused a burst of coughing, a pot of wine in the stomach, a little soothing, in a trance, I saw Zhang Lanlin beckoning to himself, Gu Chi threw the wine pot in his hand with a force, but when Zhang Lanlin really disappeared from the fog, Gu Chi panicked and shouted: "Lin'er, don't go!" ”

Gu Chi lay on the cold ground and thought for a long time before getting up and going to the queen's mausoleum alone.