The new emperor ascended the throne, the first emperor was buried, and everything started again. 56 Library/Chinese/Text/Net/First/Fa I can no longer live in the Chenghuan Palace, according to the convention, moved into the Xingqing Palace in the south, and chose the Changqing Palace in the southeast corner of the Dragon Pond to live. Some of the palace people who served me in the past were ready to leave the palace after the New Year, and the other was that the frost fell this girl couldn't stay, so I pointed her to serve the new emperor. If there's anything wrong, it's none of my business.

Because it is still a mourning period, the whole country cannot celebrate the New Year, and the palace is even more deserted.

In the entire Xingqing Palace, except for the Changqing Hall where I am located, no one lives in other palaces, except for the palace people, I am the only one, lonely.

In order to pass the loneliness, I personally lit every palace lamp, and it was not until the entire Changqing Hall was as bright as day that I stopped, looked at these flickering candles, and moved.

"Are you tired? Why don't you take a break?" asked Equinox softly.

I turned around, and her face was still wounded, covered with a scarf. I reached out to untie her scarf, looked at it carefully by the candle flame, and said, "Can you still use the jade skin cream?" ”

The spring equinox smiled and said: "Amitabha, do you know what is in the jade skin cream, it is white otter pith, jade shavings, amber shavings, and many precious treasures, if this is not good, then it is really Daluo Immortal who can't save it." ”

"This recipe was handed down from the Wei and Jin dynasties, although I have heard of this allusion, but I only regard it as a rumor, but Shen Qi is willing to give it a try. There are not many others in this palace, pearls, jade, and amber glass, but there are as many as they want. It's just that Shen Qi worked hard, I'm afraid it took a lot of effort to get this white otter pith, have you ever thanked others?"

The vernal equinox turned red, lowered his head, and said for a while: "The slave maid made a few kinds of female red and sent them over, which is not precious." ”

I patted the back of her hand and said, "It's a piece of your heart, he must like it very much." Chun Equinox lowered his head and didn't speak, I thought about it and asked, "Chun, if I let you out of the palace now, are you willing?"

She raised her head suddenly, and asked in confusion: "Why do you ask that? The slave maid said a long time ago that she would stay by your side for the rest of her life and not go out of the palace. ”

I sighed and said, "Chun, it was because of Shen Qi's marriage before, but you also know that he has never let go of you, if I order him to stop his wife and remarry as the empress dowager, he will not object." ”

The spring equinox hurriedly said: "This is unacceptable! Your status is precious, and you can't attract the dissatisfaction of the courtiers and the world because of such a trivial matter. After all, it doesn't make sense. ”

"But look how lonely and lonely this palace is! I have only lived here for less than ten days, and I am about to be crushed by the boundless loneliness, and I am only twenty-five years old, and I do not know how many years I will spend in such an abyss. Spring, you're not yet thirty, and you shouldn't have spent all your years here with me. "I walked slowly along the candle, and there was no sound of footsteps on the thick Persian blanket, what a terrible dead silence, not even the sound of footsteps.

"Spring, do you know why the women in this palace want to fight? Because they know that they will not be able to get out of this cage for the rest of their lives, they think that as long as they defeat each other, they will be the masters of this world. But when they were fighting, they completely forgot that there was a vast world outside the palace, so they would rather choose to be the master than ignore freedom. But when they became the masters, they realized how precious freedom is. ”

The equinox followed me and asked, "Do you want to be free?"

I turned to her and said, "Yes, but like them, I've lost the opportunity to embrace freedom." So, Haru, if you want to be free, I can ......"

"Freedom and sex don't matter to slaves anymore. She interrupted me gently, looked into my glasses, and smiled, "What really matters to the slave is that you are by your side. ”

I looked at her in a daze, held her hand, and burst into tears.

"If one day you change your mind, tell me. ”

"There won't be that day. She also shook my hand and said solemnly.

Perhaps, I didn't gain love in the palace, but at least I gained a rare love of master and servant.

As soon as the New Year passed, the eighth, ninth and tenth kings who had reached the age of king left Beijing one after another and went to the fiefdom with their respective concubines. King Wu'an and King Jinchang also left with Xu Xiuyuan and Concubine Wang Xian, not long after Qiheng's death, Concubine Wang Xian was released by me, when she learned that the successor was the emperor's grandson, she was still a little nervous, but there were two princes to assist the government, and she waited until the King of Jinchang returned to Beijing, the situation in the court and China had long been controlled, and King Jinchang had the name of the prince, but had no real power, and she broke off her mind.

The biological mothers of the Eleventh King and the Thirteenth King, Zhao and Fang, also moved into Xingqing Palace, and the Eleventh King still lived in the former place, while the Thirteenth King was young and followed his mother.

Taking advantage of the New Year's personnel transfer, the ministers of the DPRK and China were reshuffled by Qihuai and Qimin, I don't know, I only know that the eldest brother returned to the Yushitai again, and served as the fourth rank of the imperial history of the Zhongcheng; Zhong Ran was originally transferred to Fuzhou, but later almost lost half of his life due to water and soil adaptation, and resigned and returned to Beijing. Now it has been reactivated, and he is a member of the Ministry of Labor. The Hou Party, which had been cut off by Prince Xiaojing, was alive again, and even more than before.

I don't know if this is Qihuai and Qimi's compensation for me or what, these no longer mean anything to me, the only thing worthy of my joy is that Qimian keeps his promise, after the fifteenth day of the first month, Yuan Xi was sent to the palace, and the new emperor went to class together, and after class, he returned to Changqing Hall to be my companion.

I specially prepared the four treasures of the study carved with his zodiac for Yuan Xi, and also made a beautiful cloth bag for him, he liked it very much, and he was very spirited to carry it.

When Baoyue saw it, she shouted that she was going to school too, and I covered my lips and smiled: "Are you going to school, or do you want the same little cloth bag?" I pinched her cheek and said with a smile: "The queen mother has prepared it for you too!" Then I ordered someone to take out Baoyue's set too, but there was an extra sewing kit, and said to her: "Female chastity is the main, female red is supplemented, you follow the school now, and in the future, you will follow the inner life 'woman' to learn female red." ”

Baoyue sighed in disappointment, but she soon smiled and said, "If you study well, can you stop learning from female popularity?"

I smiled and said, "You're the eldest princess, not a female doctor." ”

Baoyue pouted, and the spring equinox reminded with a smile: "The princess and the prince should go to school quickly, if you don't leave, you will be late." ”

Yuan Xi immediately took Baoyue's hand and said, "Hurry up, hurry up, it's not good to be late for your first day of class." ”

The two children hurriedly saluted me and ran out merrily.

I looked at their backs, and I felt a little relieved, if I could be with them in the future, I would not be afraid of loneliness in the deep palace.