Chapter 36: The Secret of Life and the King (I)
Yuan Xiu let go of Gao Changjun, slowly turned around, and slowly walked two steps, staring at Ruoyun fiercely with a sinister look in his eyes. I was also surprised in my heart, why was this palace maid so bold? not only broke in on his own, but also dared to rudely interrupt the secret conversation between the emperor and the queen.
"Get out!" Gao Changjun seemed to know why Ruoyun would break in and interrupt her conversation with Yuan Xiu, but she stopped Ruoyun from trying to reveal something.
"The queen's palace maids dare to be so unruly." Yuan Xiu turned around and glanced at Gao Changjun again, "It is not a lie that the people in the world say that the Gao clan is in charge of Great Wei. ”
"Don't get out yet!" Gao Changjun looked at Ruoyun extremely sternly, and the majesty in his eyes was terrifying.
Ruoyun wanted to speak and stopped, but he still didn't dare to say anything, so he asked for the guilt and quit.
"Your Majesty is the lord of the world, and Your Majesty's holy judgment is the supreme reason of the world......" Gao Changjun's eyes were full of tears, and he was about to fall.
Yuan Xiu looked at her and unconsciously took a few steps closer. However, he finally stopped and was silent for a moment, and finally turned around and walked out of the Jiaofang Palace.
The day and night in Luoyang are completely different.
When the last rays of the setting sun completely disappeared, the Emerald Cloud Pavilion was plunged into complete darkness.
"Palm lamp." In the pavilion, Yuan Mingyue calmly instructed the palace maid. From this moment on, she already belonged to Luoyang Palace and no longer resisted from her heart. From now on, she will be the owner of Cuiyun Pavilion.
Qian Qian watched coldly, watching her tell the palace maids to act very seriously. And she prepared it herself, preparing everything she thought of that Emperor Yuan Xiu might use when he returned to the palace. Looking at Yuan Mingyue, the more thoughtful she was, the more she felt cold in her heart.
The night was pitch black, and Yuan Xiu's eyes could no longer discern everything.
He was still drunk when he stepped on the stone steps outside the door of Cuiyun Pavilion. For a moment, Yuan Xiu clearly knew what he was unwilling to do. If he could, if he could leave everything behind, he was only willing to stay by Gao Changjun's side.
However, the moment the door of the Cuiyun Pavilion opened, Yuan Xiu entered another from one world.
"Your Majesty." The gentle and submissive voice is so unreal. Yuan Xiu felt a little in a trance.
The darkness was left behind and never to be seen again, replaced by a warm and intimidating halo of dusk.
Yuan Mingyue waited in the door with a smile on her face. The soft clothes are light, the silk hair is draped, and at this time, Fang Foot is fluttering lightly. She bowed to Yuan Xiu and was extremely deferential.
Yuan Xiu looked at Yuan Mingyue noncommittally, and didn't react for a while. This is not Yuan Mingyue, who has been washing his face with tears all the time these days, and is always gloomy and resentful. This is the weak and docile Yuan Mingyue who won his heart at the beginning. Seeing that her face was like a full moon and her eyebrows were picturesque, Yuan Xiu suddenly blurted out and asked, "When will Qing return?" ”
"Ah Ze, I'm the only one with you now." Yuan Mingyue looked up at Yuan Xiu, "I just hope you are thinking about the past love and righteousness...... Yuan Mingyue's long skirt covered everything, and she seemed to float to Yuan Xiu's side. "Don't abandon me."
Yuan Xiu suddenly sighed, and his heart hurt unbearably.
When Yuan Mingyue floated to a distance of less than a foot from him, Yuan Xiu took her into his arms. Yuan Mingyue leaned on his chest. Yuan Xiu closed his eyes, stroked her sideburns, and muttered to himself, "Lone never wanted to abandon you. ”
The rainy weather that had been coming for days was finally over. When the sun is shining, a shop of sunshine is scorching Luoyang like a flame. The summer of the Jiaofang Hall came quietly and silently.
Gao Changjun, the queen of Great Wei, lingered on the sickbed for a long time, always good and bad, and only recently has it improved. After taking medicine to see how good the sun is, I want to go for a walk in the courtyard and bask in the sun. Since the wedding ceremony of the eldest princess Yuan Yuying and the concubine Duwei and the hussar general Yuwentai, the emperor Yuan Xiu returned drunk and came to the Jiaofang Palace, and the two have never met again. Nagato is lonely, and the Jiaofang Hall has been cold for a long time.
"Ruoyun" Gao Changjun called, and walked to the bronze mirror and sat down. Gently brushed his hair with his fingers, while looking at the bronze mirror to look at the face in the mirror. Pale and dim.
Ruoyun had already answered the call, walked closer, picked up a comb to comb Gao Changjun's hair, and asked tentatively, "When will Your Highness be the Lord?" It's also time. While observing Gao Changjun's reaction, she paused and whispered, "Otherwise, Your Majesty is always in Cuiyun Pavilion...... and the princess of the plains......"
"Bring me a dress of good color." Gao Changjun interrupted Ruoyun, and he felt that his chest was tight, and his body fell into a barrenness.
Ruoyun didn't dare to say anything, so she only combed the queen into a minimalist double mustache, and served her to change the light concubine-colored upper skirt and sprinkle the peach blossom skirt with lilac color. Then he helped Gao Changjun out of the hall and into the courtyard.
The heavy wooden door opened, and the moment he stepped out of the door, a dazzling ray of sunlight immediately shone on Gao Changjun's face. After not going out for a long time, he couldn't stand such a dazzling, Gao Changjun frowned and walked forward for a while, until the shade of the trees in the courtyard avoided the sun. With a slight wave of his hand, Ruoyun quietly retreated a little further away with the palace maids.
Ruoyun stood behind Gao Changjun. Looking at the back, the queen is not wearing a dress or makeup today, she is an extremely young girl, looking at her standing in the sun like this, she looks like a little girl. In the past, in the mansion of the Great Prime Minister of Bohai King, Gao Changjun, who was only the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister, often laughed loudly. Since entering the palace for a long time, she is still weak and does not bear the wind, but she presides over the court of the Great Wei, and makes up for and reconciles between the Yuan Emperor and the power of the Gao family, and tries her best.
Today's situation, Ruoyun knows best. The Yuan clan and the Gao clan are their own parties, and the imperial party and the Xiang party are in the same situation. This is not just the incompatibility between Emperor Yuan Xiu and Prime Minister Gao Huan and Gao Cheng in the service. It is obviously completely impossible to reconcile Gao Changjun only with the multiple identities of wife, daughter, and eldest sister. The relatives of Weng's son-in-law and Lang's uncle are fragile.
Ruoyun looked at Gao Changjun's back and suddenly felt sad. The tomorrow of Great Wei, and even the tomorrow of Emperor Yuan Xiu is unpredictable. What's more, it's Queen Gao Changjun's tomorrow.
When I was thinking about it, I suddenly saw the little palace maid walk in, as if something was wrong. Hurriedly walked out of the corridor beside Supreme Changjun.
The little palace maid knelt and replied, "Zuo Zhaoyi asks to see His Highness." ”
Zuo Zhaoyi? Gao Changjun didn't speak. She didn't know when there was a Zuo Zhaoyi in the palace, and she immediately had a bad premonition in her heart.
In the Wei Palace, the queen is the only one, and there are two Zhaoyi on the left and right, second only to the queen. There is Zuo Zhaoyi, who is a highly respected person in the harem. Such a title should be approved by the queen who presides over the harem. Now not only does the queen not agree, but she can't even know, which is really a strange thing.
Gao Changjun glanced back at Ruoyun. Ruoyun was already shocked and frightened in her heart, and bowed her head and replied, "The slave doesn't know about Zuo Zhaoyi. ”
"It's getting more and more lively." Gao Changjun stroked his abdomen, and said calmly and indifferently. "In this case, please invite Zuo Zhaoyi in, and the palace will go back to change clothes first." As he spoke, he was going to help Ruoyun go back.
"Her Royal Highness!"
As soon as Gao Changjun turned around, a high-pitched voice came from behind him. The voice seemed familiar, but it seemed unfamiliar. She had a lot of doubts in her heart, and she didn't move on the spot. Ruoyun, who was holding her, looked back inadvertently, and was so shocked that she almost lost her voice. Gao Changjun seemed to feel Ruoyun's hand holding her tremble slightly, and she slowly turned around.
It turned out to be Yuan Mingyue, the princess of the plains!
Gao Changjun's body shook, and he was dizzy. It's just that except for Ruoyun, no one saw anything unusual about the queen.
"Concubine Zuo Zhaoyi Yuan visits Her Royal Highness the Empress." Yuan Mingyue came forward with a group of palace maids and paid a big salute to the queen. The calamus behind her and the palace maids also worshipped together.
Gao Changjun only felt that the evil fire was in his chest, and for a moment it seemed that all the blood in his body rushed to his head. She tried hard to suppress the anger in her chest, and looked at Yuan Mingyue who was prostrate at her feet seemingly calmly, as well as everyone behind her. Ruoyun, who was holding her, only felt that she was trembling more than herself.
Emperor Yuan Xiu not only crossed her, the lord of the harem, and privately proclaimed Zuo Zhaoyi, who had a very high status, but also this Zuo Zhaoyi was the princess of the imperial bloodline. As for the rudeness of the boudoir, and the disorder of the harem, Gao Changjun said that he couldn't tell whether he was discouraged or disappointed, or even desperate at the moment.
"It turned out to be Her Royal Highness the Princess." Gao Changjun suppressed his anger and calmly ordered, "Get up." ”
"The concubine is Zuo Zhaoyi, who was enshrined by His Majesty the Emperor, and she does not dare to live in the dignity of the princess of the clan again. Since he is in the harem, he has been worshipping the Jiaofang Palace since that day, serving Her Royal Highness the Queen, and respecting the teachings of Her Royal Highness the Queen. Yuan Mingyue knelt on the ground and said something.
Gao Changjun felt that the person kneeling on the ground was not like Yuan Mingyue in the past. In the past, Yuan Mingyue seemed to be more kind and weak in her image. How could he have been so strong? How could you have been so scheming and scheming? There was a sense of time confusion at this moment.
"Why is Zuo Zhaoyi kneeling on the ground?"
Emperor Yuan Xiu didn't know when he walked in, and his voice was loud outside the pavilion. He glanced at Gao Changjun defiantly, and his gaze stayed on her and refused to leave. He rarely saw Gao Changjun in light makeup and casual clothes, and when Gao Changjun was silent at this moment, he did not look like the queen of Great Wei, but like his wife. Yuan Xiu suddenly thought that if Gao Changjun was not from the Gao family, if she was not Gao Huan's daughter, Gao Cheng's sister...... The dull pain in my heart did not stop.
"Yuan Mingyue can not have the title and title of the princess, but His Majesty can't give her the title of Zuo Zhaoyi." Gao Changjun's face was as usual, Yuan Xiu couldn't see what was going on in her heart, but her firm and iron-like tone broke the illusion in his heart just now.
"Why not?" Yuan Xiu also took a few steps against each other, staring at Gao Changjun.
"When Your Majesty issued the edict and bestowed the title, did you ever think about what the future generations of the world would think of Your Majesty?" Gao Changjun's tone finally softened, she seemed to be a little unsteady on her feet, leaning on Ruoyun's arm and looking at Yuan Xiu.