2. Fengyun
The vicissitudes of time, the years are like water, and the palace walls are mottled.
The entire Forbidden City is like a cold pool, lifeless and creepy. The only thing left in the imperial city was the sound of footsteps that was sudden and slow, and the chaos in the middle was obvious.
At the moment of national mourning, the whole country mourns and the whole world knows.
In the first month of the year, everyone wore plain clothes, and according to custom, they wore their hair in a bun and a crescent-colored cloak, and walked among the snow. The spirit curtain hung high, like a snowy scene, and it was particularly eye-catching. Everywhere you look, everyone you see is walking briskly with their heads bowed, and no one dares to speak loudly.
On the contrary, with this season, in addition to a bit of sadness, there is also a little obscurity.
Although the New Year has arrived, it should be a time of great joy to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, but there is no joy at all. The cold wind is blowing in the face, and there is no emotion, the wind is biting, comparable to frost and miserable.
In front of Gaozong's coffin, Wu pressed and knelt in a mourning hall. The crying spirit was nearing the end, and everyone was already exhausted, but they still had to cheer up their spirits. You must know that if there is the slightest mistake, it is a great disrespect to the emperor.
Ruohua knelt at the front, and as everyone carried out these tedious rituals, he was confused, and there was no sadness in his expression. The old man lying in the coffin in front of her had an extraordinarily heavy serenity on his face.
At this time, it was already a moment of time, and the flickering candlelight reflected the red light in the hall, which was very bright. Even so, Ruohua was still sleepy.
This was not her grandfather, but the original owner of her own body.
Strange to say, she couldn't even raise the slightest interest at the moment, and when she looked at this strange place, she was not interested in anything here. If she could, she would just like to get a good night's sleep right away.
Even if the deceased was Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. She didn't bother to pay attention, she knew very well that she wasn't supposed to be here.
It's ridiculous, she was just a translator, and she had never done anything harmful, but God played a joke with her, and she was smashed into a vegetative state by mistake the moment she left the construction site. When she woke up, she was already in the body of the Gulun princess.
Now, she doesn't want to do it allβshe doesn't have the energy to do it all. She felt her mind heavy, as if she was about to pass out.
When she first arrived, she encountered a national funeral, and she was really unlucky, but she ran into a crying spirit, and it was midnight, and she couldn't even rest.
I thought about this nonsense for a long time, and then I finished the ceremony. Ruohua let the two palace maids help her up, sparing her no matter how strong she was, she was also stumbling at this time. After kneeling for a long time, she couldn't bear it.
She was in a daze, and suddenly heard a sentence, it was Concubine Ying who said, "Today...... They should all be lacking. Either way, or not...... Let's go back and rest. β
The voice can be said to contain a sense of vicissitudes, and the sense of old age is also looming. Ruohua suddenly struck a spirit, and unconsciously looked at Concubine Ying, which was also a coincidence, and met the gaze of Concubine Ying. The gaze was extraordinarily calm, like a pool of stagnant water, but also like a clear spring, as if something was changing in it.
Concubine Ying just smiled and didn't say anything, and after a while, she turned around and went out.
Ruohua shook in an almost invisible amplitude, this was the first time she had seen this kind of gaze in her two lives, and she was a little stunned at the moment.
The rest of the old emperors also went out. Ruohua still hasn't gone out, although with her position, it doesn't hurt to be in the lead. But she didn't move, just stood stunned.
"Princess......" A palace maid lowered her head, her voice paused, and she pulled the corners of Ruohua's clothes fiercely, and at a volume that only the two of them could hear, "You should go back, if you don't go back, the blame will fall on the slaves and maids." β
Although he called himself a "slave", there was no sense of respect in that tone.
Ruohua came back to her senses at this time, and didn't hear what she just said, she smiled and said in a slightly embarrassed tone, "That's fine, then...... Let's go. β
The palace maid didn't say anything more, and walked out with Ruohua in her arms.
As soon as I left the palace gate, I heard a voice sounding not far away, "It turned out to be Ruohua's sister, why didn't you say hello when you saw your sister today?" β
"Ruohua has seen the imperial sister." Ruohua was stunned for a moment, frowned, turned to and saluted to her third emperor sister, neither humble nor arrogant, and her demeanor was calm. The third princess raised her eyebrows, showing a look of indifference on her face, but she didn't know that there was already a storm in her heart: What is this? I haven't seen him for half a month, it's like a different person.
It's no wonder she's suspicious, the reason why she thinks this way is because the original owner is too cowardly and flatters her more, and this time today, it's the first time. Of course she didn't know, and it was impossible for her to know that the person in front of her was the original owner, but the soul had already changed.
Ruohua recorded her reaction without any mistakes, and she reluctantly accepted the reality, since she had experienced unfortunate things, then "if you come, you will be safe". Holding on to his sleepiness, he hooked his lips and smiled, "If the imperial sister is fine, go back first." β
The implication is to ridicule her for being "idle and nosy".
"The fourth sister is also the same, and she has become more and more clever when she falls back...... According to Sister Huang, starlings are not as clever as you. The third princess was stunned for a moment, forcibly looked at the anger that the smile inexplicably ignited, and then pretended that it was none of her business.
Ruohua's smile became even stronger, and there was a sudden sharp burst in his eyes, and the cold light burst out was really chilling. But such sharp eyes are really nothing compared to Mo Xu.
Thinking of Mo Xu, she felt a faint pain in her heart. Anyway, everyone is here, so it's time to have some fun.
Don't look at her before, she was usually a quiet girl, but she was very arrogant in her heart, and there were only two friends, Liu Yun and Mo Xu.
"My sister can be compared to my starling, but what about my sister?" The smile on the corner of Ruohua's mouth makes people feel that something is not quite right no matter how they look at it. These three princesses treated the original owner very meanly, so she also took off her indifferent appearance and revealed her "belligerent" nature.
"You ......" The third princess was obviously speechless for a while, she really didn't expect Ruohua to bite back.
Ruohua took a step forward and said, "Princess Heshuo, don't take what you just said to heart, Ruohua was joking with Princess Heshuo just now......"
Because of this title, she is sarcastically saying that she is not from the main palace, but just "Princess Heshuo". The word "Princess Heshuo" means "princess of one side" in Manchu, and "Princess Gulun" is "princess of the world".
The faces of the three princesses turned white to purple, and then to iron blue, and finally returned to calm, which made Ruohua look surprised.
"My sister hasn't recovered from her injuries in the past few days, so she has to go back to rest first, so Ruohua will go back to the palace first." Ruohua saluted again, and then turned his head to look at the two palace maids, "Don't hurry up and help the palace go back." β
"Yes......" The two palace maids were frightened by her actions and hurriedly carried her away.
The third princess was trembling in place, but it was not easy to attack, so she had to sweep the people around her with a cold gaze.
"The third princess is just an unfavored Gulun princess, why should you be angry? You're the emperor's favorite princess, calling the wind and rain, aren't you? β
"Yes, yes, you don't have to be angry, third princess, what is this? She doesn't have any good capital, it's just an empty shelf without any real power......"
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Ruohua only walked out a few steps, and immediately a few people who tended to be inflammatory, came up to talk to the third princess. The third princess's face also looked a little better, nodded, and said angrily, "Let's go, go back to the palace." β
"Yes."
Ruohua heard their words word for word, but there was no response, and he lowered his head and continued to walk briskly. The two palace maids bowed their heads and muttered something, but she couldn't hear anything clearly.
As soon as she left the palace gate of this palace, she couldn't hold it anymore and completely fainted.