In the second year of Da Mu Kangan, in early spring and February, the weather was slightly cold.

There is still a depressed scene everywhere, but it is rare for the emperor to come to the imperial garden.

"Kang'an", that is Mu Changhan's new name for Mu Guo, hoping that the Great Mu Country can be healthy and peaceful, and that the people can live a good life.

A busy year has passed, and it is only the aftermath of the disaster brought about by this coup, and it is not until this year that Mu Changhan has really begun to remedy it.

The court is short of manpower, and the best way is to increase the chances of the examination, which has been changed from the original triennial to biennial. There happened to be another one in April this year.

This time, Mu Changhan decided to come to the examination room to supervise the examination, personally screen talents, and conduct the literary and martial arts examinations at the same time, which is more fair and just, which is a great joy for many talented and poor students in the world, therefore, there will be a lot of candidates for this year's examination.

Mu Changhan is also busy, come to the imperial garden for a walk, although this season is not good, not full of flowers, but its own pine, cypress, plum and bamboo are full of energy, more pure and solemn than other seasons.

Zhu Laiquan has been following Mu Changhan's side, silently accompanying him, he said which plum is good-looking, so he helped him break which plum, said which one is loose, then folded which one, to leave tired, then sat in the garden pavilion, took inventory of these flowers and trees folded down, asked someone to take scissors and a vase with water, pruned the flower branches, adjusted the posture, and said to Zhu Laiquan: "Send it to the Queen Mother!" By the way, tell the queen mother, in March this year, I want to take a concubine, you can help me ask the queen mother to see if she has anything to explain. ”

"Yes." Zhu Laiquan carefully held the vase and went all the way to Chaohui Palace.

Empress Dowager Luan was released from the cold palace soon after the new emperor ascended the throne, but although she was released, she was only imprisoned in a different place, and the emperor knew her every move in the Chaohui Palace.

She can't go out of the palace gate, she can only walk around the courtyard every day, of course, she rarely comes to walk around the courtyard, most of the time she either lies on the bed and squints, or sits at the desk to write and draw.

The writing is the poem written to him by the emperor that year, but the portrait is painted by Queen Mei.

"Qunhui is stingy, and it turns out that he is ashamed to boast.

Natural and unique, beautiful jade is flawless. ”

She wrote while reading silently, wrote and torew, tore and burned, burned and wrote again, the cycle repeatedly, endlessly, and the same is true of Queen Mei's paintings, which are burned after painting, burned and painted again.

This poem was recited casually when the emperor and her met in a hurry at the Prime Minister's Mansion, but she remembered it for a lifetime.

At that time, the first emperor was still the crown prince, and Queen Mei was still the crown princess.

She was only fourteen years old at the time, and she used to read the poems he gave her over and over again, and wrote them down on paper over and over again, as she did today. His calligraphy is not good, always not satisfied, but do not want others to write on her behalf, she must write it herself, she even used to write these poems hard calligraphy, two years later, she was sixteen years old, the practice of words is getting better and better, she also married to the palace, became his concubine, but all the dreams are broken from that moment......

The intimate grandmother walked in and said in a low voice: "Queen Mother, the eunuch Zhu Laiquan next to the emperor is here."

"Let him in," she said, expressionlessly......

After Zhu Laiquan came in, the Queen Mother didn't even look at it, and still kept writing.

Zhu Laiquan glanced around the house, and saw that the room was full of fireworks, so he couldn't help but persuade: "The Queen Mother should take care of her body!" This is a vase of flowers sent to you by the emperor's minions, Your Majesty is busy with government affairs, it is rare to come to see you once, this bottle of plum bamboo is Your Majesty's mind. ”

The Queen Mother still didn't say anything, just kept writing.

Zhu Laiquan was also used to it, and he didn't take it to heart, and continued: "Your Majesty is planning to arrange the selection of concubines recently, and has already asked the people from all departments to start preparing, to select a good person from the homes of hundreds of civil and military officials, Your Majesty has a servant to ask, does the Queen Mother have anything to explain about this matter?"

Hearing this, the pen in the queen mother's hand froze, and she said faintly: "It's going to be a draft girl again." She seemed to be questioning, but also like sighing, and froze for a moment.

"Qunhui is stingy, and it turns out that he is ashamed to boast. Natural and unique, beautiful jade is flawless. Lingling, do you understand what these four verses mean? ”

Luan Ningchuan took Ling Ling's hand and looked at her happily.

"Ling Ling" is the nickname of today's Empress Dowager Luan.

"Daddy gave you a nickname called 'Ling Ling', imitating the sound of the spring water rushing stones, the spring water comes from the mountains, natural and flawless, pure and clear, His Royal Highness's poem is praising you well! Natural and unique, beautiful jade is flawless, he is praising you for being pure and natural, innocent, why don't the flowers in the garden bloom yet? It's because they're shy in front of you and embarrassed to open it. Good boy, can you be white? Your Highness, he likes you very much. ”

At that time, Ling Ling was only fourteen years old, and when she first fell in love, her face turned red when she heard her father's words. Mrs. Luan pulled her daughter into her arms and said angrily: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just said it casually, why do you want to be so serious?"

Luan Ningchuan said: "He is the crown prince, the future of the Ninety-Five, how can I not be more serious?"

Mrs. Luan said: "Even if His Highness is really praising it, it does not necessarily mean that His Highness wants to marry Ling Ling."

Luan Ningchuan said coldly: "Isn't it good for our daughter to marry into the royal family?"

Mrs. Luan said: "There are so many battles in the palace, how can she withstand it?"

Luan Ningchuan smiled: "It doesn't matter if it's all this, I will help our daughter." Ling Ling, do you like His Royal Highness the Prince? ”

"I like it, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Fengshen Yulang, the child likes it."

Ling Ling thought that if she liked it, she could get her completely, but when she married into the palace, she knew that the emperor's favorite person was Queen Mei, a woman who was in her thirties, with wrinkles on her eyes and skin that had lost her luster.

Although she was a concubine as soon as she entered the palace, although she was twenty-eight years old, young and beautiful, although she could dance and play the pipa, all of this could not match the sound of Queen Mei reading.

The first emperor liked to listen to Queen Mei's reading, and when he used to have a headache when he was reading and reading, Queen Mei would always read for him by his side, and as soon as Queen Mei read, the first emperor would become very down-to-earth.

Queen Mei's handwriting is not very good, and the emperor is willing to teach her to write in person, but it took Ling Ling a month to transcribe the emperor's articles and poems, and the emperor just praised her, and just threw her some rewards.

She always felt that the emperor was not so happy when he was with her, but very lonely. A woman's intuition is always accurate, he has a unique scenery and wealth in the harem, but he has no love from the emperor, not at all. Even she felt that the emperor was more gentle to Zhang Guiren, who was born in a small official family, than to her.

Once the desolation and jealousy in her heart are born, her temper becomes worse and worse, and the harem is the most prone to accidents.

As soon as she came to the concubine position, she was too dazzling, beautiful and arrogant, so she began to run rampant in the harem.

All kinds of trivial things stumbled the queen everywhere, but they were all reciprocated by the queen lightly and decently, and she knew how powerful the queen was.

Other concubines couldn't see her arrogance and willfulness, and what she said in private reached her ears, saying that he used his beauty and fox to charm the lord, and she made people pretend to be ghosts to scare her, and finally made people crazy, and scratched her face, saying that she had done it herself.

When Prime Minister Luan learned of what she had done, he applauded and applauded, and said: "This is what my Luan family's daughter should look like, my Luan family's children are naturally noble, whoever dares to chew the root of his tongue behind his back will have to die, and no one can stand in our way." You have to give birth to a child with the blood of the Luan family as soon as possible, the queen has no children, and your child must be the prince! ”

She tasted the thrill of revenge and has been out of control ever since.

However, she cleared one woman after another, and the emperor would not give her a little more love.

She listened to her father and tried her best to have her first child.

Queen Mei has been childless for many years, and when she saw that she had a child, she was happy for her.

"It has been many years since the emperor ascended the throne, but only one princess has been added to this palace, a while ago Zhang Guiren finally got pregnant, but he couldn't keep it, sister, you are blessed at a glance, you will be able to add a little joy to our palace."

As Queen Mei spoke, she reached out and touched her belly, Luan Ling vigilantly dodged on one side, no queen paused, looked at her indifferently, Luan Ling covered up: "It's only been two months, and it doesn't show its pregnancy, and the queen can't touch it."

The queen knew that she had never liked herself, and she didn't take it to heart, so she said: "I know, but when I see that the harem sisters are pregnant, I am still very envious in my heart." Don't worry, I'll take good care of my sister. ”

The more gently Queen Mei smiled at her, the more she felt that Queen Mei was trying to murder the child in her belly, so from then on, she carefully inspected and re-examined anything that was not sent by the queen, and did not dare to relax for a moment.

But Mu Changhan had just been born, which was originally a great joy, but at this time, Empress Mei was also pregnant.

The emperor's happiness is obviously for the queen, not for her and Changhan.

At the same time, the news of the unstable situation of the previous dynasty also spread to the harem, and Luan Ling began to know that her father and the emperor were not in harmony, so she had to bear some rumors and the emperor's snub in the harem.

She wanted to harm the queen, but she didn't dare to be distracted, because she had to take care of Chang Han personally, he was very afraid that the young Chang Han would be killed by others, afraid that the nurse would be negligent, afraid that the palace maid would be reckless, and often cup the bow and snake shadow.

Mu Suihan was born smoothly and was a prince, the emperor directly established Suihan as the crown prince, and in the last years of Luanling, he set his goal to catch Queen Mei and the prince from power......

More than 20 years have passed, and in the end, the emperor no longer loves her, and she no longer loves the emperor.