Chapter 5 The Mother of Another Life
Hongsheng Palace is located in the north of Chang'an Palace City in the middle of the position, on the scale of the shape, although not far from the south of the Zhengyang Palace is a lot of difference, but also built in a unique style, the decoration is very magnificent. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Yang Xiaokuan was guided by Li Yuan and climbed dozens of steps all the way before he came to the gate of the main hall of Hongsheng Palace. Li Yuan stood at the door, clasped his fists in the hall and bowed to the number: "Minister Li Yuan summoned the King of Jin here at the behest of Niangniang Yi and signed up to see him. With that, he turned his head and glanced at Yang Xiaokuan.
Yang Xiaokuan's reaction was quite fast, and he immediately followed Li Yuan's example and rushed to the palace to sign up for a meeting: "Yang Guang, the king of Jin, came by order to see the queen mother. Since confirming that his soul was pierced, this was the first time that Yang Xiaokuan had claimed to be Yang Guang, and when he said the words asking to see his mother, he still couldn't help but peek at Li Yuan with a weak heart.
After a while, a deep female voice came from the hall: "Ah Zong, come in." Shude, you go to the palace gate and wait, and when the prince and the kings come, you will report to me. ”
Li Yuan replied yes after all, turned around and made a gesture to Yang Xiaokuan to invite him in, and walked down the steps.
Yang Xiaokuan plucked up his courage and strode into the main hall.
The main hall of Hongsheng Palace was filled with a fragrance like an orchid and musk, Yang Xiaokuan raised his nose and sniffed, vaguely feeling that this aroma was much different from the aroma he smelled in his dormitory this morning, because he usually didn't care about perfume, incense and other things that girls liked, so he couldn't tell the difference between the two aromas.
There are only two pairs of seats in the middle of the empty hall, and a plump middle-aged woman sits on the top seat, and two white-clothed maids stand behind her, the middle-aged woman in the seat has a long skirt and a high bun, if it weren't for a crested golden hairpin inserted horizontally in the bun, Yang Xiaokuan really couldn't believe that a woman dressed so plainly was the famous literary queen Dugu Jialuo in history.
On the seat of Duguhou's lower head, there was a young and beautiful woman in palace clothes, seeing Yang Xiaokuan walking into the hall, she raised her hand to wipe the tears in her eyes with Luo Pa, and bowed her head slightly to him.
This palace woman should be her sister. Yang Xiaokuan's heart flashed, but he didn't care about greeting her, imitating the etiquette seen in the costume TV series, he took a few steps, came to the front of Duguhou, knelt down, bowed his head, and said in his mouth: "Erchen knocks to see the queen mother, I wish the queen mother all the peace." ”
"Come on, Ah Zongping, let's go see the eldest sister. Look at your cloaked appearance, I think that as soon as I heard that something had happened in the palace of the eldest sister, I rushed here in a hurry, and even forgot to wear the crown hat. ”
Yang Xiaokuan was startled at first when he heard this, and subconsciously touched the top of his head, and sure enough, he was barehead and did not wear a crown and hat. He knew the most important etiquette of the ancients, and he was busy prostrate on the ground, and said again and again: "Please treat the crime of dereliction of honor of the queen mother." ”
"Mother wants you to speak calmly, and she has forgiven you for your misdeeds. Ah Zong, I haven't seen you for many days, how can I see that you have lost a lot. The voice of the woman in the palace costume sounded soft, a little hoarse, and it was particularly beautiful.
She didn't call the queen queen like herself, but called her mother like ordinary people, Yang Xiaokuan's heart couldn't help but move, and she vaguely guessed the identity of this eldest sister.
Since Yang Xiaokuan became the "National Treasure Interpretation Star" of the Provincial Museum two years ago, he began to subscribe to "Exploring History" with the pocket money he saved.
Among them, there is such a one: "Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yu clerk (yun) and five queens". The story is about the fourth emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the late Northern and Southern Dynasties, Yu Wenyuan, who succeeded to the throne on a whim, and at the same time set up five concubines as empresses, forming a unique wonder of five queens in Chinese history.
Yang Xiaokuan still has some impressions of this historical story: the original wife of Yu Wenyuan is Yang Lihua, the eldest daughter of Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian, and Yang Jian gradually grasped the power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty by virtue of his identity as the national abbot, and then finally became the emperor by Chan.
The strange thing is that as soon as something happened in the Hongsheng Palace, the queen rushed over in person, and it turned out that there was a queen and queen mother of the previous dynasty living in this palace!
Yang Xiaokuan looked up and saw the woman in the palace costume waving to him again and again, signaling him to go to her side, and glanced at Dugu, who was sitting in the center, but did not see that she had the intention of obstructing, so he got up and walked in front of the woman in the palace costume.
When he got closer to her, Yang Xiaokuan saw it even more clearly, before he arrived, the woman in the palace costume had obviously just cried bitterly, that is, even the makeup on her face was washed away by tears.
The woman in the palace costume took Yang Xiaokuan's hand, asked him to move closer to herself, and kept looking Yang Xiaokuan up and down with a loving gaze.
Since Yang Xiaokuan was born, except for his mother, he has never been carefully looked at so closely by a second woman hand in hand, and his face was red with shame, but because of his current identity, he didn't dare to break free of his hand, so he had to stand in front of the woman in palace clothes with a red face, and let her look at it blindly.
"Alas, your sister and brother haven't seen each other since your father ascended to the throne." Seeing that the friendship between her children was so deep, Dugu Hou couldn't help but sigh, "Lihua, do you remember? Two years ago, the bastard boy of the Yu clerk listened to the rumors and wanted to give you a cup of poisoned wine to die, if it weren't for Ah Zong's clever 'sedan chair man', he pretended to be a little eunuch and quietly slipped out of the palace, sent a letter to me, and led me to break into the palace overnight, crying blood and persuading you, I am afraid that you will be killed by the Yu clerk. Today, Xian'er was unfortunately harmed by demons, and it is not a punishment from God for all kinds of perverse actions of his Yuwen family over the years, you have such a good brother, why should you be too sad for the misfortune of his Yuwen family. ”
Yang Xiaokuan took advantage of the situation to withdraw his hands from Yang Lihua's hands, and issued an invitation to her in accordance with Duguhou's instructions: "Eldest sister, this Hongsheng Palace is now a monster, and it has become an ominous place, it is better for the eldest sister to move to the Jin Wangfu to live with me, so that our sister and brother can see each other day and night, lest the eldest sister stay in this palace, see things and think about people every day, and grieve and hurt her body." ”
Dugu was extremely satisfied with Yang Xiaokuan's performance, and nodded frequently: "Yes, Ah Zong has been canonized by your father as the governor of Bingzhou, and it won't be long before he will leave Beijing to go to the town. I got up early today and heard the news that Shen'er was harmed by demons, and your father and emperor were originally going to come to Hongsheng Palace to visit you, but today is the day of the great court meeting, and there is Xiao Yan, the royal brother of the lord of the Western Liang Kingdom, and the envoy of the Western Turkic Apo Khan came to the court, so he asked me to convey his will: After three or five days, your father and the emperor will personally lead the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and the princes and princes to mourn for the prince in the court, and bury him with the emperor's courtesy, and give him great honor, so it can be regarded as worthy of your husband's family. ”
According to the usual etiquette, Yang Lihua should get up at this time to give a gift to the queen, but she sat there without moving, only owing a little to Queen Dugu, and responded very coldly: "Thank you father and mother for their kindness to Shen'er, so that he, the king of the lost country, will not be too lonely after his death." The daughter also thanked Long Live and Niangniang's grace on behalf of her biological mother, Sister Full Moon. My daughter has nothing but a room to live in so that I can raise E-Ying as an adult. After finishing speaking, he looked at Yang Xiaokuan softly, and vaguely accepted his invitation.
Dugu Hou knew that for her husband to be the emperor, as the eldest daughter of the former queen mother, she had a lot of complaints about his husband and wife, so she didn't care about how rude she was to herself, and still said to Yang Lihua with a smile: "After your father ascended to the pole, he made the immortals look at him, and there were many demons in Chang'an Palace. This is the only sentence that came to the immortal to look at the qi. Since you should be in the Hongsheng Palace today, in my opinion, you might as well clean up as soon as possible, and move to the Jin Palace's Mansion with Ah Zong today, I have asked Master Huizhen to cast a spell in the Hongsheng Palace tonight to catch demons......"
Yang Xiaokuan stood aside, hearing Duguhou's nonsense, and pushed the blame for the murder to the demon who didn't know where, tried to restrain himself, and didn't laugh out loud on the spot, thinking: This Dugu Queen is really good at acting, and I don't know if Yang Lihua believes it or not.
"Everything is arranged by my mother." Yang Lihua still replied with an indifferent expression.
"Hmm." Dugu was quite satisfied with her daughter's answer, lowered her head and thought for a while, and then said, "There is something I wanted to tell you in a few days, since Xian'er is no longer alive, and you have less to do with the Yuwen family, I might as well tell you about it today." Although it has been less than 100 days since your father ascended to the throne, after all, he is now the world of my Great Sui, and you are the eldest daughter of my husband and wife, and you should restore the identity of the princess of the Great Sui. Zongzheng Mansion has agreed on your title the day before yesterday, it is the word Leping, if you have no objection, you can issue an edict to canonize the gift on another day. ”
The daughter had no objection. If the mother has no other instructions, please allow her daughter to retire. Yang Lihua seemed to be tired of her mother's aggressive soothing, and stood up from her seat.