It was cold, and after a rain and snow, the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet soon arrived, and all the female relatives in the palace were invited to attend the palace banquet hosted by the empress, and I was naturally among the invited.

When I went to the banquet, I passed through the wisp plum garden, and saw the plum blossoms in the plum garden, the red plum blossoms were deceitful and frosty, the snow was clear and the clouds were light, under the thin shadow of the sky, the plum was half contained, the sparse branches were embellished with the jade pavilion and the pavilion was beautiful, the jade shadow was obliquely fragrant, the plum sea was long connected to the clouds, the flowers were brilliant like the fire shadow burning, the plum shadows that were scattered and scattered, piled up, clusters, bloomed brilliantly and brightly like a fire meteor, the red plum reflected the snow, and a cloud of fire was ignited in the snow all over the sky.

In ancient times, banquets generally had to be composed of poems, and this palace banquet was naturally vulgar, and the palace concubines were full of strength to show their talents in front of the emperor and win the king's heart. The plum blossoms in the hazel orchard became the name of their poems, and a group of women showed their talents in the temple with the theme of plums, and began to compose poems in a coquettish voice.

"Zhu Riguang is plain ice, and the flowers reflect the snow. Fold plum and treat the beauties, and welcome the spring moon together. Yan Shuyuan's eyes were horizontal, light and shallow, and her eyebrows were bright on Chen Qian, who nodded with a smile in appreciation.

Then there is Wang Guifei, "Welcoming spring is early, not condensing the cold alone, afraid of falling behind the flowers, and not wanting others to look at it." "As always, heroic and arrogant.

When it was Wan Zhaoyi's turn, she smiled elegantly, "Fold Mei and send it to the Longtou people." Jiangnan has nothing, talk about giving a plum. ”

A cadre of concubines and concubines successively made some plum poems, Kong Guifei fell behind everyone, and it took a long time to chant, "The plum blossoms are beautiful for a while, and the bamboo leaves are thousands of years old." May the pine and cypress hearts shine endlessly. ”

As soon as this poem came out, there was silence in the hall, and everyone's eyes were focused on Concubine Kong, or amazing, or admired, or surprised, or envious, or admired, or jealous.

Everyone only knows that Yongmei's Lingshuang is proud of snow, noble and loyal, but Kong Guifei has a new idea, singing plum Yongzhu, plum blossom glory and thanks, and it is gorgeous for a while, how can it be the enemy of Songzhu's cold and not change? How can such talent not be amazing? No wonder Concubine Kong was left behind, and she didn't move for a long time, she wanted to be a blockbuster. Without the vulgar Yongmei poem in front of her, how can she be the novelty and chic of this red flower?

There is no doubt that Kong Guifei's poems have won full applause. Concubine Kong was in high spirits, swept away the dark clouds suffered by the assassination of Chongyun Palace, and looked at me with a bright face, "Now there is only one sister Hua left, I have heard that my sister is smart for a long time, and I must be very talented when I think about it." ”

"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint Sister Guifei." I smiled quietly, "Qingqiang is from the countryside, and she has never learned poetry and lyrics, how can she be ugly?" ”

Concubine Kong couldn't help but show a disdainful smile on her face, "Why should my sister be humble, Your Majesty loves her sister so much, it must be your sister's talent and beauty that makes Her Majesty's favor, Sister don't want to be lazy and shirk." ”

Is this deliberately embarrassing me? Who in this palace doesn't know that I am from a humble background, I am not good at poetry and singing, and I don't have any other talents, I am purely lucky to be in Chen Qian's eyes. A cold feeling rose in his heart, but there was a faint smile on his face, "It's not that I shirk it, my parents taught me since I was a child, 'A woman is virtuous if she is not talented'." I've always kept it in mind, I can barely read a few words, and I can't even compose poetry, I'm really ashamed, I can't compare to my sister, so talented. ”

I deliberately accentuated the word 'talented', but I saw that Concubine Kong's face turned white, staring at me speechless. A woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and she is so talented, isn't she virtuous? Everyone could hear the sarcasm in my words, and several concubines on the seat couldn't help but snicker, only Kong Guifei's face was blue and white, and it was so colorful and staggered that it looked tight.

"Alright." Chen Qian on the seat spoke, and glanced at Concubine Kong, "Qing'er is not good at poetry, so why should you embarrass her." ”

"Yes." Concubine Kong had no choice but to give up and snort coldly at me, looking indignant and dissatisfied.

Strange, since the banquet, Chen Qian has not only been looking at me with a resentful look, I don't know what he is sulking, how can I offend him? But why is he willing to stand up for me now?

From the beginning to the end of the whole banquet, Chen Qian didn't give me a good face, and her eyes were cold, but this did not affect my mood, I still happily spent my New Year, ignoring his cold eyes.

The palace banquet was not over until late at night, and when I returned to the Yilan Palace, I couldn't bear to let the attendants who kept vigil for me when it was cold and freezing during the New Year, so I kindly allowed them to go back and rest without having to keep vigil. As for Li Fei and Yunxi, they went back to sleep after making the bed for me.

In the middle of the night, when there was no one around, I secretly went alone, quietly carried a lantern, and took advantage of the fact that no one was keeping vigil, and went out of the Yilan Palace.

Step on the snow in the aisle of Yongxiang and walk slowly. Yongxiang is a place where the palace maids and concubines who made mistakes are forbidden, to put it bluntly, it is the cold palace, the cold palace is located in the middle of nowhere, there are very few palace maids, and the good festival of Chinese New Year's Eve cannot be celebrated in the room, and the road is lonely, and half a figure cannot be seen.

The palace walls in the east and west of Yongxiang are low, and the guards are sparse, as long as you climb over the triple low palace wall, you can lead to the outside of the palace. The winter night is cold, most of the guards are afraid of the cold, and most of them are guarding the main hall, this is the best time to leave the palace, and you can't hesitate anymore.

He took out a long rope with a hook from his wide sleeve, threw it up, hooked it to the top of the palace wall, grabbed the rope and climbed up, climbed to the top of the wall, and climbed down the other side along the hook rope. On a snowy night and bright moon, the palace road was clearly visible, and after looking around, he made sure that there were no guards before he threw the hook to the second palace wall with confidence, and stabilized the rope to climb up. Climbing the wall is a laborious task, when I climb to the top of the wall, there are fine beads of sweat on my forehead, wipe my forehead, I look down at the third palace wall, as long as I climb through that layer, I can break free from the cage of the palace. From now on, they are free, carefree, unrestrained, and those who have any conspiracy and power, let them hell with them.

As for Chen Qian's various persecutions against me, I don't need to take revenge in person, someone will clean him up for me. There are already two pillow people by his side who harbor evil intentions - Wan Zhaoyi and Han Xiuhua. Let them muddy the water in the palace for me, and it's best to make Chen Qian uncomfortable.

Grabbing the rope and moving down, he was about to hit the ground when suddenly his foot seemed to be pulled by something, "Ahhh When he turned his head, he was facing Chen Qian's eyes that were as bright as snow, and he was instantly startled.

Shouldn't he have slept in the Shiqian Hall at this time? How did you come here! Raising my eyes and peeking around, surrounded by a group of black guards, my heart sank, as if a thud, a stone sank into the water, sinking into the boundless darkness of the forest.

"Are you disappointed to see me?" Chen Qian chuckled, Yuehua's eyes were filled with a heavy and terrifying chill, "Are you sad to ruin your plan to leave the palace?" Xiao Qingqiang! ”

He knows, what can I say? Climbing the palace wall with a hook at night, the intention could not be more obvious, I have no way to defend it, and I have no way to defend it. Resist? I have no power to resist Chen Qian alone, and with such a group of guards, it is difficult to escape. What can I do, I can only let Chen Qian turn over and carry me on my shoulders, and in the silent snowy night, step by step towards the unknowable abyss.

"Ahh ”

"Despicable villain?" Chen Qian hooked the corners of her lips self-deprecatingly, and her cold eyes sparkled and forced her to look over, "Say whatever you want, anyway, you have never seen me with your eyes, I am a villain, and Yuwen Yong is a gentleman?" ”

I turned my head, unwilling to look at him, but Chen Qian squatted down and turned my face unavoidably, glaring at me angrily and indifferently, with a dark and dangerous fire in his eyes, "Why do you want to go, didn't I warn you to stay in the palace in peace?" You've never taken my words to heart, haven't I been good enough for you? I got sick in the rain for you, and you were injured to save you, have you ever come to see me? Is it too much to worry about? No, not once! Xiao Qingqiang, if you want to talk about cold-blooded and ruthless, who can match you? You hard-hearted woman! ”

He ran to get wet in the rain himself, and what did he do to me when he got sick? Those assassins came at him, even if he didn't save me, he would have been stabbed a few times, not to mention that he saved me just for the sake of me still having some use, the purpose was not simple, and he dared to say that it was for my injury? Amusing! I don't believe a word.

Seeing the disdain in my eyes, Chen Qian was even more annoyed, and reached out to pull the frost-white honeysuckle cloak draped over me. I panicked, and I scrambled to my feet, and my thick cloak was torn to the ground hard, and I said angrily, "What are you doing!" ”

Chen Qian sneered, "What are you doing?" Ai Concubine, as my concubine, it is a matter of duty, I don't need me to teach you how to do it. ”

"You—shameless." The meaning of his words can be understood by fools, I immediately scolded angrily, turned around and rushed out of the hall, but was picked up by Chen Qian's strong hand.

I hit it with a fist, but Chen Qian didn't dodge, but grabbed my hand. I was in a great hurry, and I fought him in the temple with my hands and feet. Chen Qian has been practicing martial arts for many years, how can I beat him with this three-legged cat kung fu? Every move with him took my great physical strength, and after a while, I was out of breath and couldn't resist it, so Chen Qian easily took me down and pressed me on the bed in the Shiqian Palace.

"Chen Qian, aren't you still going to use me to contain Yuwen Yong, how dare you touch me, he won't let you go!" My heart was in turmoil, and I struggled to find a way to escape.

After listening to my words, Chen Qian was even more annoyed, staring at me sharply, "Don't you also say it, you may not be able to contain him as a woman, and you can't affect the overall situation." In that case, what else do I have to worry about? So saying, he quickly reached out and stripped me of my clothes.

Exegesis:

(1) The title comes from Wang Anshi's "Plum Blossoms" in the Song Dynasty: "A plum tree in front of Baiyutang is scattered for whom." ”

(2) "Zhu Riguang is plain ice, and the flowers reflect the snow." Fold plum and treat the beauties, and welcome the spring moon together. From Xiao Yan of the Southern Dynasty "Midnight Four O'clock Song Spring Song"

(3) "Welcoming spring is early, not condensing the cold alone, afraid of falling flowers, and not intending to be seen by others." From Nan Chen Xie Xie's "Early Plum"

(4) "Fold the plum and send it to the Longtou people." Jiangnan has nothing, talk about giving a plum. From Lu Kai of the Northern Wei Dynasty "Gift to Fan Ye"

(5) "Plum blossoms are beautiful for a while, and bamboo leaves are thousands of years old." May the pine and cypress hearts shine endlessly. From the Southern Dynasty Bao Zhao's "Zhongxing Song"