The night was thick and foggy.

In the Wenlan Hall of Qingwu Palace, there was quiet silence. A group of maids stood behind the heavy purple curtains with their eyebrows bowed, and saw that some of the candles on the candlesticks had burned to the fullest, but no one moved to replace them with new ones. After a while, a few more candles were extinguished, and the hall seemed a little dark, and the air was extremely solemn.

At this time, a small head poked into the door of the temple, looked around, and then squeezed in through the crack in the door, and it turned out to be a girl of five or six years old.

The girl laughed, jumped up and ran to the side of the palace curtain, pointed to the nose of one of the maids, and said, "Why don't you change the candles, the palace is so dim that I can't find my father." ”

The maid was so nervous that she trembled, and she didn't dare to whisper: "Back to Her Royal Highness Princess Qingyu, before His Majesty Emperor Ming left, he ordered me to wait here tonight, not to talk in a private voice, not to cross half a step without permission, and the violator will be killed." That's why I didn't change the candles, and I hope the princess will see it. ”

The girl was not nervous at all when she heard this, and sighed: "Do you mean that the imperial grandmother told you not to move?" Did she just leave? I came from outside the temple, why didn't I meet it? ”

The maid was about to answer, when another maid next to her coughed lightly, signaling her not to speak any more, lest she lose her life. So he shut his mouth and looked at the girl in fear.

The girl looked puzzled and said to herself: "If you change a candle, you have to die, how can my imperial grandmother be so fierce." Where's my daddy? ”

The maid shook her head bitterly.

"If you don't tell me, well, I'll find it myself." The girl left the maids and began to run around, shouting as she ran, "Daddy, where are you, Daddy?" Ling'er is looking for her father. If she doesn't come out again, Ling Er will cry. The shrill voice of the child pierced the entire hall, and it was very clear in the silence of the night.

After a while, a man spun out from behind the huge screen in the hall.

A pine green hosta is inserted in the gentleman's bun, a white robe with pure water patterns, and a colorful Luo Ying is hung around the waist, and there is nothing else.

When the man saw the girl, he took her into his arms and replied, "Ling'er, Daddy is here, here." ”

The girl burst into tears and laughed, touched the man's face and said, "Daddy is playing hide and seek with me again?" It's so strange today, they said that the imperial grandmother had just come here, but shouldn't we go to the Yi Palace to greet the imperial grandmother? I've never seen her come to my mother's Qingwu Palace. ”

The man smiled: "Ling'er has grown up and understands etiquette, Ling'er is right, it's time for us to go and say goodbye to the imperial grandmother." But today, the imperial grandmother came here because she had something to tell her father. You also know now, Daddy has some things to do, and I can't play with you, so can you go back to the palace to sleep today? ”

The girl pouted: "No, if Daddy has something, can't he do it again tomorrow?" Didn't Daddy keep saying that Ling'er's matter was the most important. I'm going to wait here for Daddy, yes, I'm going to sleep with Daddy tonight, hehe. ”

The man's face suddenly became extremely soft, and he couldn't harden his heart to drive his daughter back. At least at this moment, he knew that he might never have the chance to pamper her again, and the moment to hug her now was a matter of seconds.

He took a small green jujube from the fruit bowl on the table next to him, handed it to the girl, and said, "Okay, then you can wait for Daddy here, and when you finish eating this date, Daddy will come out." It's just that your father taught you that to cherish food, you must eat the jujube meat on the core. ”

The girl nodded excitedly, took the green jujube and was about to nibble on it, but the man stopped her and said, "You can eat it after Daddy leaves." ”

The man stood up, stroked the child's head, and said gently: "Ling'er, promise your father that you will study hard in the future, and become a generation of Ming Jun who will not lose to the emperor's grandmother in the future, okay?" ”

The girl snorted, but her eyes were only fixed on the date, hoping that her father would leave soon so that she could start to talk.

The man's eyes were shining, and he didn't say anything, but threw a sentence at the group of maids: "Take care of the princess." And he disappeared behind the thick curtains.

The candle went out a few more, and the girl had gnawed the green dates cleanly, for fear that there would still be places that had not been gnawed, so she took it to the candle and looked at it carefully, and then said happily, I finished gnawing it!

But it's strange that Daddy still doesn't come out.

The girl tiptoed towards the apse, and the maids wanted to stop her, but when they thought that she was a princess, and she was a princess when she made a mistake, she was no better than herself, and if she moved a step, she would really lose her life. So no one thought they had seen it, but just stood quietly.

The girl walked past the screen, went around the back hall, and saw that a side hall was still lit in the distance, so she quietly walked over. There was no one to guard the palace, and there were no maids on duty.

She thought that her father was still doing business inside, and if she went in like this, her father would be unhappy, so she might as well take a sneak look to see when her father would come out.

So he brought an empty flower pot from the side, put it upside down on the ground, stepped on it, and looked out the window.

"Hey, how did my father kneel on the ground. Hey, Grandpa Lu and his mother are also there. In the middle of the night, why were my mother and Grandpa Lu still wearing court clothes. The girl wondered as she watched.

Mother...... Is this crying? Why did the mother cry? What she was holding in her hand was ...... Divine decree?

I only heard an old voice in the room: "Your Royal Highness Princess Jinquan, the holy decree has arrived, don't miss the hour again, please announce the decree." ”

The girl watched her mother slowly take out the holy decree and unfold it, and read word by word: "Inherit the will of heaven and compassion for the four seas." Today, I will give Jinquan a pot of wine to Lu Wenjun, a horse, to pray for the peace of the country and the future generations. Chin this. ”

The man on the ground calmly took the decree and knocked again before he stood up. He smiled at his wife and wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to comfort him for a while, so he had to say softly: "Don't cry, don't cry......"

When the man's wife heard this, she became more and more weeping, and turned away. When I turned around, I saw the pot of wine on the case, and my mind instantly surged with countless bits and pieces of tenderness and warmth in the past six years. Even if he held back his heart like a knife, he couldn't use half the strength in his hand to serve the wine.

Seeing this, the old man on the side stepped forward tremblingly and picked up the wine tray for her and put it on the table next to the couch. The man walked over and sat on the couch, glanced at his wife, then at the old man, untied the Luo Ying around his waist and solemnly placed it beside the desk, and poured himself a cup and drank it.

After drinking, pour another glass. Another cup, another cup.

The matter has come to this, just want to die quickly. In a few moments, the wine was gone.

The man lay calmly on the couch, and slowly black blood flowed from his mouth and ears. After another moment, the eyes began to bleed. Blood stains crawled like scarlet earthworms all over the once gentle face. The girl outside the window was trembling and almost fell off the flower pot. She didn't dare to look any more, so she climbed down the flower pot and curled up under the wall, shivering.

Why? Why did the imperial grandmother order her mother to kill her father? Why did Grandpa Lu kill his father too? Is it that Ling'er will no longer have a father in the future? Could it be that Daddy can no longer accompany Ling'er to the lake to sit on the Mulian? Is it that Daddy can no longer play with himself on his shoulder?

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, the more tears flowed, she just wanted to get away from here, from the two loved ones who had killed her father. But she couldn't wipe away her tears, and she couldn't see the way she came. Mother's Qingwu Palace is too big, and I feel that there are forks in the road everywhere. Hey, there seems to be someone over there, so why don't you ask him how he can get out.

The figure of that man looks like his father.

The girl saw that the man slowly turned around, his face was covered with blood, but she said to her very gently: "Ling'er, promise your father that you will become a generation of Ming Jun in the future." ”

"Ah-------------h

A shrill scream pierced the silence of the night, and Zhu Zhiling suddenly sat up from the couch on the Fuxing Terrace, and the cold sweat was extremely piercing in this cold night. She gasped for air, her sideburns completely soaked with sweat and clinging to her face clinging to her face.

Someone behind her put on a dress for her and asked softly, "Did you have that dream again?" Zhu Zhiling just gasped in horror and did not answer. When she took off the crown of Pisces gold, she was like a weak and fragile deer.

Zhao Wuyun didn't need her answer, this was the first time she had woken up from a dream countless times. For ordinary people, nightmares are not terrible, because dreams are not reality, and they will disappear as soon as they wake up. But Zhu Zhiling's pain is a reality that she has seen with her own eyes, and it has become an eternal nightmare. She couldn't erase the memory, and she couldn't wake up like a normal nightmare.

Reality becomes a nightmare, and it never stops.

Recently, she has been having more and more frightening dreams. She's anxious, she's scared.

Because she gradually learned the secret of Bihai Guozuo in adulthood, and knew the secret of men's immortality. If the fact that men in Bihai Country are immortal cannot be changed, then the inheritance of the unification by men will inevitably cause turmoil and instability in the people because of the frequent replacement of the imperial throne. Therefore, if you want the blue sea country to be as stable as a rock, you must let women be emperors for generations.

But in this world, although it is not difficult for a woman to be the emperor and rule a man for a while, it is not easy to let women control it forever for thousands of generations. Her imperial grandmother was precisely because she expected that among all men, the one who was most likely to threaten the national policy of passing on the throne to women and not men was the concubine, that she would ruthlessly make a secret decree that the prince of the Bihai Kingdom must kill the concubine before ascending the throne.

At first, she didn't understand why the imperial grandmother had such a vicious mind. As she grew older, she gradually understood the reason.

Since ancient times, kings have been men, and there are many people in the harem, and it is not easy to do it if you want the harem not to interfere in politics. If the king is a woman and there is only one horse, the influence on the king will naturally be even more important. Moreover, the spouses of ordinary kings only need to find women with good looks and good conduct. When a woman becomes a king, her spouse cannot just look at her talents and ignore her talents. In this way, those who can be horses are powerful and knowledgeable. After a long time, it is easy to cause trouble around the throne.

In fact, it was precisely because of a palace coup that her imperial grandmother had experienced a palace coup that year that she learned from the pain and came to such a conclusion.