The Queen Mother stepped down from the chair with a dignified demeanor and said to Gu Muqi, "Mu Guiren, I don't know if you can enjoy your face and accompany the mourning family to take a walk in this imperial garden?" ”

Gu Muqi was very surprised, she didn't know why the Queen Mother was so abnormal today.

She hurriedly stood up, walked to the Queen Mother's side, and held the Queen Mother's hand hanging in the air, "Queen Mother, please." Gu Muqi said humbly to the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother took Gu Muqi and walked out of Shoukang Palace.

The spring afternoon sun shone on the golden rubble of the palace, which was particularly dazzling, and Gu Muqi looked up at the clear sky and couldn't help but sigh.

"It's a beautiful blue sky."

The Queen Mother was on the side and smiled, "Mu Guiren, do you know that for us women in the palace, the square sky above your head is the only beautiful scenery you can see for the rest of your life?" ”

When Gu Muqi heard this, she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart, the Queen Mother was looking for her today, and she really had something to do to her.

She didn't speak again, and obediently followed the Queen Mother's slow steps and headed west.

West? Gu Muqi secretly suspected in his heart, the imperial garden was obviously in the southeast of the harem, why did the Queen Mother take herself to the west, the west was a place she had never been to, could it be that the Queen Mother wanted to ...... herself

She didn't dare to go any further and continue to guess, she looked at the Queen Mother beside her, and then looked at Mama Li walking behind them, and couldn't help but chill.

The group walked more and more towards the west of the imperial city, and although the things around them were majestic and gorgeous, they inevitably showed a hint of desolation and decay.

In front of an ornate pavilion with cobwebs hanging from the doorway, the Queen Mother stopped.

"Mama Li, go and open the door."

With the unpleasant sound of "squeak", the rusty heavy door was slowly pushed open from the outside by Mama Li, and what greeted Gu Muqi's eyes was an overgrown pavilion, and the choking dust came to her face, choking her and sneezing.

"Ahh Gu Muqi covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and sneezed loudly, "The concubine is rude, please forgive the queen mother." ”

Gu Muqi knelt in front of the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother waved her hand, also fanned the dust in front of her, and said to Gu Muqi, who was kneeling on the ground, "Mu Guiren, get up." ”

Gu Muqi obediently stood up from the ground, stood beside the Queen Mother, held the Queen Mother's arm, and she followed the Queen Mother's steps into this old palace that looked like no one had taken care of her for many years.

"Do you know where this is?" The Queen Mother stood in the middle of the desolate garden and asked Gu Muqi.

"The concubine doesn't know." Gu Muqi replied softly.

The Queen Mother smiled, and took Gu Muqi into the palace hall facing the two of them.

There are a few pieces of broken yellow blessing paper pasted on the delicate hollow gold wire door beam, and a pair of fairy white cranes flying high are hung at the top of the hanging beam of the hall several meters high, and two red gems covered with dust are embedded in the position of the sharp eyes, and the white jade lotus-shaped tiles are paved on the ground, and some places have been broken and cannot see the original appearance at all.

Gu Muqi looked at the decayed and luxurious place in front of him, and couldn't help but secretly wonder in his heart, who was living here? What happened? to lead to such a field now.

The Queen Mother put her hands behind her back, didn't stay long, turned around, cleaned the dust on the rosewood carved seat in the middle of the hall, and sat down.

She stretched out her hand and called Gu Muqi, "Mu Guiren, you come to mourn the family." ”

Gu Muqi carefully avoided the gap in the ground and walked over like the Queen Mother.

"Mu Guiren must be very curious, what did the mourning family take you to this place for." The Queen Mother asked Gu Muqi to sit down beside her, and she continued, "This palace was originally the place where the concubine lived when the emperor was alive, I don't know if you have heard of the palace of Changchun Palace?" ”

Changchun Palace, this name Gu Muqi heard from the old maids around him when he was very young.

It is nothing more than some legendary places, saying that the concubines who live in this palace are particularly fond of peach blossoms, but often the peach blossoms are lacking and only bloom in spring.

In order to please this concubine, the emperor tried all kinds of methods.

In the end, in each season, a large number of manpower and material resources were exhausted from different places to transport the peach trees to this palace.

The favored concubine, whenever you see the peach blossoms in full bloom, will dance on the branches of the peach tree, like the colorful butterflies in the flower field, so the emperor deliberately built here several times like a spring garden, so it is named Changchun Palace.

Gu Muqi bowed his head slightly and said to the Queen Mother.

"Back to Niangniang's words, the concubine did hear a little bit from the elders in the family when she was young, but they are all legendary stories, and I don't know how they are."

The Queen Mother smiled, got up from her chair, walked to a dusty screen, and stretched out her fingers to caress the patterns on it.

"This Changchun Palace is my previous residence."

Gu Muqi was very stunned after hearing this, no, the legendary concubine finally turned into a butterfly and flew away, looking at the queen mother in front of him, it didn't look like the legendary character!

The Queen Mother didn't look back, but still cleaned the screen with her hands, she continued.

"Since I entered the palace when I was a child, I have not been favored by the emperor, but I will be reversed to the brand every now and then, and over time I will become pregnant."

"But the good times didn't last long, and the high-ranking concubines around me were afraid that I would give birth to a dragon and steal their place, so they attacked me several times, and finally caused my first child and second child to be gone."

She looked indifferent, glanced at Gu Muqi, and then told her story.

"At that time, I was extremely desperate, I thought that I would end myself in this life by throwing myself into a well, but when I was about to jump in, I saw my reflection in the water, I felt that I was so young and beautiful at that time, ten thousand times more beautiful than these other concubines, I was unwilling, I returned to my own room, and I made up my mind to protect myself and my own flesh and blood in this life."

Gu Muqi stood aside, quietly listening to the story told by the Queen Mother to herself.

The Queen Mother continued, "Since then, it is all the stories of competition for favor in the harem you can imagine, and it took me two years to climb to the position of the concubine, and everything in the harem except for the queen is the best I have obtained." ”

Gu Muqi raised his head and looked at the luxurious arrangements around him.

It is not difficult to think of how important the Queen Mother was in the heart of the former emperor at that time, and it is not difficult for her to think of how many bloody means the Queen Mother used to get to where she is today.