Chapter 105: Can't catch up
"Mother? Mother...... Miss! What happened to you! Xiaohong's exclamation came from her ears, and then she was constantly shaken by her.
Xiaohong asked someone to prepare a meal and came to call her, but she heard her own lady's abnormal laughter at the door, and when she came in, she found that Ruoyun was full of tears, miserable and weird laughter.
"Miss, you have something to say to Xiaohong, don't ...... like this" Xiaohong was almost anxious to cry, but saw Ruoyun gradually stop laughing, and then her tears fell one by one.
Ruoyun barely calmed down, silently put the butterfly hairpin and flower branches back and slowly closed the layers of drawers, rubbing the wood grain, holding the box and locking it into the dark compartment at the bottom of the cabinet.
After doing this, she sat down in despair, and after a few breaths, she said to Xiaohong: "It's useless, I can't go back, he has already left me." As he spoke, he felt another pain in his heart.
"Who?" Xiaohong asked anxiously.
She smiled palely, the corners of her mouth forcibly hooked an arc, and said, "Lord Cheng......" Tears flowed down again.
Xiaohong suddenly felt inexplicable: "Lord Cheng? Didn't Lord Cheng enter the palace today? The time should be back......"
Ruoyun suddenly remembered that Bai Ze said that Cheng Qingxuan entered the palace today to check the pulse of the princess, and later he would resign to the emperor and go south, and then return to Beijing I don't know how many years.
She was slightly stunned, then stood up suddenly and wiped her face.
"Alas, Miss! Wait! Where are you going? Alas......? Xiaohong hadn't finished speaking, and Ruoyun had already rushed out of the door without looking back.
It was already dark when she left Chaolu Palace, she couldn't wait to prepare a sedan chair, couldn't care about etiquette, and went straight to Qianyuan Palace.
Qianyuan Palace is not far from Chaolu Palace. The palace maids and eunuchs were busy delivering dinner, sending dinner, and holding lamps, and the corridors and trails were full of people, but the palace people saw the newly sealed concubine unaccompanied and stumbling towards the Qianyuan Palace.
For a while, the palace people knelt and knelt, and kowtowed. The hairpin on the head of this virtuous concubine was loose, and she ran past without squinting and almost without touching the dust.
Ruoyun finally saw the flying beam painting building on the high steps of Qianyuan Palace, after all, her body had not yet healed, and she was already out of breath and sweating profusely after only a few steps on the steps.
Changde saw that someone stopped and came to Qianyuan Palace step by step, but no one reported or stopped him on the road, and then he saw that it was Concubine Xian, and he hurriedly greeted him: "The slave sees Concubine Xian Niangniang." Concubine Xian Niangniang wants to see the emperor? ”
"Chang...... Father-in-law...... King...... Rajah...... But...... In Qianyuan Palace? She stopped gasping for breath, her spleen and lungs ached, and she frowned and asked anxiously.
"Lord Wang? Just went back. What about going to Xihua Gate...... Alas...... Mother, slow down. Chang Decai replied, but Concubine Su Ruoyun took a deep breath, turned around and left, leaving half a word for the emperor.
Changde shook his head and sighed again. This is really stupid. After entering the palace and becoming the master, how many people are envious, and now they don't want to please the emperor, but they ask the prince, which is really strange.
The sky was getting darker and darker, Ruoyun rushed all the way from Qianyuan Palace to Xihuamen Lane, almost used all her strength, only to feel that her feet were getting heavier and heavier, and when she turned a corner, she saw a big sedan chair about to leave the Forbidden Palace.
She was in a hurry. Hurriedly shouted loudly: "The sedan chair in front, please stay!" ”
The palanquin man turned his head and saw that she was wrapped in a plain shawl. Keluo's skirt was so luxurious that she didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly stopped the sedan chair.
When she walked to her, she saw Shuyan standing next to the sedan chair, her delicate face still had scars, and her left hand was tied with a silk ribbon and hung around her neck.
Ruoyun's heart sank suddenly: "Shuyan, why are you?" ”
Only then did she raise her head, and there was clearly an eagle flapping its wings on the lintel of the sedan chair, and she couldn't cry or laugh in an instant: the "prince" that Changde said was not Cheng Qingxuan!
Shuyan didn't know what she meant, so he hurriedly reported: "Lord Wang, it's a virtuous concubine." ”
The sedan curtain was suddenly opened, Rong Yixuan tied his hair with jade belts and brocade clothes, and he was refreshed at the moment, and he had long since lost the embarrassed appearance when he returned to the court. A pair of eagle-like eyes saw her panting anxious appearance, and immediately released brilliance: "If ...... Concubine Xian, what is the matter with you looking for this king? After saying that, he still bowed.
Her mind was trying to intercept Cheng Qingxuan's sedan chair, she saw Rong Yixuan at the moment that she didn't know what to do, listening to his thin lips and spit out his name, Ruoyun's mind was "Why are you not him" over and over again, in addition to being lost or lost, she opened her mouth, but she couldn't say a word.
Rong Yixuan saw that her eyes were red and swollen, her makeup was messy, her expression was bleak, her clothes were half gorgeous and half plain, and she stared at him intently but didn't speak, so she immediately couldn't bear it, and sighed softly: "Alas, if you want to complain about this king, just complain." ”
He returned to the court late that day, she had become the emperor's concubine, and proposed to the emperor to marry Ding Shufang, the emperor pushed the boat to marry Hu Yuer and him as a concubine, today to thank the emperor but did not expect that as a virtuous concubine, she would chase out, he only took her reluctance, and suddenly regretted and felt guilty.
Ruoyun came back to her senses, only to know that Rong Yixuan would be wrong, but the pain in her heart was like a fish in her throat, she shook her head and looked away.
"If you wait, this king will give you a place of security one day." Rong Yixuan suppressed his voice very low, his voice was cold, and his eyes suddenly became sharp.
Ruoyun was shocked when she heard this, took a step back, and looked at Rong Yixuan's cold face, he looked at her eyes like an eagle aiming at the prey, and only felt that he was so strange.
From the prince who used to have both talent and affection, to the prince who is now stepping by step, in his eyes, first the throne, and then the throne, behind the throne is the loss and resentment of not being able to seize the throne.
It's just that he was wrong, she didn't wait for him, she didn't want to wait for him, and she didn't covet any position.
"Lord Wang......" A delicate female voice came from the sedan chair, and she coughed lightly by the way, as if she was impatient to wait.
Ruoyun was startled, and then realized that there were other people in this sedan chair, I guess it was either Ding Shufang or Hu Yuer, right?
On the contrary, she felt relieved, at least Rong Yixuan would not be alone anymore, at least someone could accompany him to plot a great cause.
She was shocked to realize that she was indifferent to everything about Rong Yixuan at this moment, and then the figure of the indifferent and lonely person appeared, and the pain hit her like a mountain, making her whole heart tug.
Rong Yixuan smiled awkwardly and said busily: "Niangniang." This king will get married in the future, and he will invite his mother to take a seat. He stepped back and saluted.
"The palace will retire first, and the prince will go." Ruoyun returned the gift. Hurriedly turned around, Rong Yixuan looked at her back with a little puzzlement, and entered the sedan chair.
Ruoyun walked back slowly, Xiaohong said that he was just going out of the palace, maybe he would have gone away early?
She had just passed through the Jade Palace, but she suddenly stopped her steps, and four words crossed in her heart:
Don't look back.
She didn't know what kind of mood Cheng Qingxuan was in when she left Beijing. It doesn't matter if it's disappointment or pain or nothing at all, she just thinks that she is going to Jiangnan. He didn't want to come back.
And she, once she became a concubine, how could she turn back?
There was a dull sound in the distance, and out of the forbidden palace was the front hall. Beyond that is the Suzaku Gate. Could it be that this sound is south?
She thought that he was heading south, and although her whole body was out of strength, she still instinctively turned in the direction of the south.
When he approached the palace gate, the guards at the gate greeted him.
"Niangniang, if you go out of the palace again, you can't leave the forbidden palace." The guards respectfully clenched their fists at her, and all the concubines and palace maids in the harem were not repatriated or appointed by the emperor. They didn't even leave the palace, and they didn't dare to release them without an order.
Ruoyun's face has long been bloodless. Stand still, "Do you know who I am?" ”
"Concubine Xian Niangniang......" The guard replied after looking at each other.
"If you know that the road is a virtuous concubine, get out of the way, this palace is a dignified lady, if you miss the time and the wrong thing, the emperor will punish the crime, who of you will bear it?!" She lightly swept the guard's panicked face and said calmly, "Get out of the way of this palace." ”
The guards didn't dare to stop her anymore and hurriedly opened the door for her.
Only a few steps out of the forbidden palace, Ruoyun felt for the first time in her life that things like power were so useful.
But the more virtuous she is, the farther away she is from him, and every time she claims to be in the palace, she adds a share of sin, until the heavens can no longer meet......
The white jade steps turned into tens of millions again, as if she couldn't finish no matter how she walked, she watched the Vermilion Bird Gate on the outermost part of the palace locked, and the guards of the feather forest seemed to have just closed the door and returned to their positions one after another.
Her feet were already sore and she couldn't move anymore, she staggered closer, and hurriedly said, "I'm Concubine Su Ruoyun, you wait to get out of the way." ”
Yu Linwei respectfully clenched his fists, but said in a cold tone: "Niangniang forgives the sin, no one can leave the palace without an order, if I wait for the sword to be blind." With that, he stood back in his place.
She no longer argued, the outermost guard of the palace was no joke, this time it was really impossible to get out!
She retreated in despair, watching the majestic palace gate crush her like an iron wall, unable to move anymore, the dazzling dragon head statue was mocking her, laughing at her as a virtuous concubine who had lost everything, had no virtue and no virtue!
"Hongu just wants to look outside." She laughed self-deprecatingly, turned and walked away, and climbed the stairs up the palace wall.
In the palace, you can overlook the whole capital, but the sunset has sunk, the eyes are dim, the palace lights are bright, and there is no trace of him anymore.
She looked at the bustling lights and bright lights of the capital in the distance, and she fell on the palace wall with no strength, and her eyes were blurred again with tears.
Yes, she regretted it, regretted forgetting everything, regretted being ignorant and incomprehensible about the world, regretted remembering it too late, knowing the Tao too late, he had redeemed her, but at this moment the jade flute was broken, and he had no grudges with her.
If she was ruthless enough, she could jump off now, but she was reluctant, unwilling to give up her own life, not willing to save this life that he did everything possible.
She won't look back, because everything about her is frozen here, and she won't move forward!
With a whimper, she sat down on the wall.
The soldiers guarding the city walls did not dare to step forward and look at each other.
She sneered, stretched out her embroidered sleeves to wipe her cheeks, stretched out her hand to straighten her clothes, slowly got up, and said to the guards: "The palace is not far away, don't panic." ”
Her hair was messy, and she stepped down the city wall step by step with the most upright palace, her makeup faded, and she seemed to be embarrassed but full of majesty.
She had to live, she had to live well in order to live up to the fact that he had made her safety his top priority, and to live, she would one day see him again, even if he chose to forget at the moment, she would never forget again.
The emperor wants her to be a virtuous concubine, so she will take it first, to see if the emperor has any follow-ups, and what tricks Zhao Wuyang has. (To be continued......)