Chapter 1: Nightmare

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In the twenty-third year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the northern border passes were stable, Rong Di did not commit the crime, the south was smooth and the rain was smooth, the people were safe, and the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Shengjing, was even more prosperous.

Such a smooth year, smooth is simply a little boring, and there has been no major event, in the capital, even those ordinary weddings and funerals can make people gossip for a while. Therefore, in this whole year, that is, the accident that occurred at the flower viewing banquet of Princess Pingyang during the Mangzhong Festival is worth talking about.

This accident is not small, but it is not small: Xie Shurou, the fourth lady of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, was enjoying the flowers in the princess's mansion, and somehow fell into the water, although she was quickly rescued, she was also frightened by choking and had a high fever and was in a coma for several days.

Probably scared too much, Miss Xie Si woke up and said nonsense for several days, and even didn't know much about people, and scared the family a lot, and then she was Miss Xie Si's mother-in-law, and the Prime Minister's Mansion Grandma Rong personally went to Daxiangguo Temple to ask for a spirit talisman, and poured Miss Xie Si with a few days of ablation charm water, and then gradually sobered up. Miss Xie Si was scared and lingered for three months, and by the time she could go out, it was already autumn.

But this accident is big, but it is not big. Because Miss Xie Si didn't have any major incidents after all, she was just scared and seriously ill. On that day, Miss Xie Si fell into the water in the water pavilion in the back garden of the princess's mansion, surrounded by female guests.

The banquet was divided into two places that day, the female guests were all enjoying the flowers around the garden water pavilion, while the male guests were entertained by horses in the area of the Guanshan Pavilion of the Princess Mansion. The princess's mansion has a banquet, naturally everywhere is meticulous and thoughtful, plus Princess Pingyang specially explained, flower appreciation is a pleasure, to let the invited young ladies and ladies feel more comfortable, let go for fun, so there is not even a small house around the water pavilion, and the errands are all maids and servants. After Miss Xie Si fell into the water, she was quickly fished up by two sturdy servants, and sent to the princess's mansion in time, and no one saw Miss Xie Si's embarrassing situation.

When Miss Xie Si fell into the water, she was surrounded by female guests, so naturally there would be no undeserved rumors, but this toss scared the ladies and ladies who went to the banquet a lot, and the princess was also disappointed, and dispersed early to go back to their respective homes, but that's all.

Miss Xie Si was fished up in time and invited the imperial doctor to come to see, the princess lost her temper and punished a few maids and servants who were not good at taking care of her, and finally there was no major accident.

After a long time, the little thing of the princess's mansion flower viewing banquet has gradually been forgotten, but there is one person who has never forgotten. The accident in the princess's mansion, Gu Yilan, the eldest daughter of the Ningling County Order, also remembers it very clearly.

How Xie Shurou fell into the water, she could see it clearly, and she was confused. Because of this overboard accident, it is not the first time she has experienced it.

Gu Yilan didn't know if she had a very realistic dream, in which she became the concubine of the king of Rongkang County. Was it a dream, or was it everything she had really experienced? Gu Yilan didn't know. She clearly remembers the joy and anticipation of being married, and the despair of self-determination.

Gu Yilan even clearly remembered that in the quiet backyard of the palace, in the courtyard of Concubine Junwang, there was not even a servant to serve, she had just had a miscarriage and was lying alone on the cold bed, but she didn't care. The child in her womb is gone, her only thought is gone, how can she care about everything around her? Her heart is long dead.

Gu Yilan still remembers how she struggled to climb out of bed, dragging her weak body to change into the red wedding dress she wore on the day she got married. No one helped her with her makeup, so she still seriously combed herself into a simple bun and plugged in the phoenix-tailed golden hairpin that the person sent when she was married.

Gu Yilan still remembered that the bronze mirror on the dressing table clearly reflected her fiery figure. Skinny, sunken cheeks, long yellow hair curled into a loose bun, almost unable to fall heavy and gorgeous phoenix hairpins, the original fitting wedding dress, once again worn on her, has been loose and almost unstoppable.

Gu Yilan remembered that she smiled at herself in the bronze mirror, the smile was haggard and ugly, and the corners of her eyes actually gathered lines when she laughed.

She is only twenty-two years old, married into the palace for five years, in the prime of life, she should have been a charming young lady, but she looks like a zombie.

She put rouge on herself, although rouge can't hide her haggardness, but with makeup, it always looks better. She wanted to get on the road as neatly as she could, without looking too down.

Gu Yilan still remembers how weak she was at that time. After changing her clothes and putting on makeup, she was already exhausted, and she even needed to take a break before she had the strength to drag her tired body onto the spring bench and hang herself on the roof beam with a smile.

The hanging beam is actually painful, she even heard a subtle sound of overwhelmed her neck bones, the feeling of suffocation filled her whole body, she couldn't breathe, and the white silk hung on her neck, making her unconsciously open her mouth, it hurt! It hurt so much that she felt as if her eyeballs were bulging out.

Gu Yilan clearly knew that she was going to die, but she was not afraid at all, she even felt relaxed, full of anticipation for the death that was coming. It's long overdue, isn't it? Everyone was hoping that she would die soon......

It's just that Gu Yilan never expected that her eyes would be able to open again, and when she opened her eyes again, she was actually fourteen years old again, lying in her boudoir. Was everything she had experienced a dream? Or did God have mercy and gave her a chance to do it all over again?

Gu Yilan, who woke up again, felt that she was very confused, and experiencing what she had experienced once again made her even more confused. The day she woke up was her grandmother's birthday, and her father, who was far away in Ningling County, brought her birthday gift. Gu Yilan didn't need to look at it to know what her father's birthday gift was, she knew that it was a piece of topaz.

Topaz is not expensive, and the jade that my father found is not flawless, but naturally has deep and shallow brownish-yellow lines, and it looks like a pattern of longevity pine. Gu Yilan still remembered that her grandmother liked this birthday gift very much, and asked people to make a base with good ebony and place it on the Hundred Treasure Pavilion.

Gu Yilan has experienced all this, knows everything, and she is more and more convinced that she is really reborn. God favors her to have a chance to do it all over again.

Gu Yilan has experienced it all, so she knows that she will receive flower stickers at the flower viewing banquet in the Princess's Mansion on the Mangzhong Festival. Gu Yilan's father is just a county magistrate, but her grandfather Gu Zhengze is a scholar of the Duanming Palace, a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and the princess's mansion flower viewing banquet, no matter what, he will not miss the daughter of the Gu family.

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