Chapter 58: Peach Edge
"You were still recuperating in the Qingsi Hall at the time, maybe you don't remember it anymore. That year, when the palace entered the palace, she was directly a virtuous concubine, which was also a major event in Chang'an City. When I was young, my majesty and I met for the first time in the peach blossom forest outside Chang'an, and the youth was full of spirit, which was the best time. ”
For some reason, Concubine Xian began to recount the past to her.
There were only two people in the silent Changle Palace, and the lingering and low ancient songs were matched with the thin and distant voice of the virtuous concubine, and Shen Yan was also brought into the past of Chanjuan by her.
The peach forest is scorching, the wind chimes in the corridor, the sound of the flowing water, and Cui Ya, who is still a girl, disguised herself as a man to replace Cui Min to participate in the elegant gathering of the sons of the Chang'an family, but she strayed into the depths of the peach forest and got lost.
In the depths of the peach forest, the sky was full of pink flowers, and she saw a man with extraordinary bearing when she was frantically searching for her way.
The man was dressed in white in the peach forest, holding a black sword, and a few petals accidentally fell between the flying green silks, with a dark fragrance on his sleeves, and his fingertips were gently raised to deliberately play with the flowers that slowly fell in the air, and the smile at the corner of his mouth was elegant with a hint of bewitching and cunning.
He heard Cui Ya's reckless footsteps coming from behind him, and quickly swept back his sword and raised his eyes.
It was this killing that looked back with a little surprise, and Cui Ya fell.
The man's eyes are like blue waves, quiet and tolerant, clean but telling thousands of stories, and the sword qi brings up the peach blossoms flying on the ground in the air and falls between the two, just like Cui Ya's heart, tangled and romantic.
"Go east from here, and you'll be able to get out in no time."
The man seemed to guess that Cui Ya was lost, put away the black sword, raised his arm and pointed to the left hand side and said.
His voice is warm but powerful, and his sentences are neither humble nor arrogant, which is different from the people Cui Ya sees on weekdays, without flattery, clear and natural.
Cui Ya only felt that her cheeks were red and hot, and her fingers were tangled in the sleeves of her clothes, but before she could say thank you, the man turned and left.
She didn't have time to thank him or ask his name.
Cui Ya trotted two steps in annoyance, stood where the man was standing, and paused at his feet, as if he had stepped on something.
She bent down and picked it up, and it was a seal.
The boxy seal was lined up, and when I turned it over, there were two words at the bottom, 'Kanghe'.
"How could it be my seal?"
Shen Yan asked in confusion when he heard this.
Concubine Xian's fingers plucked the strings, her eyes were indifferent, and she said with a slight smile: "At that time, the palace thought that the seal of Emperor Kang He belonged to private property, and the foreign ministers could not get it, probably because His Majesty had brought it out unintentionally......"
"I followed his words, and sure enough, I got out of the peach forest. After asking other sons, I learned that this Yaji, His Majesty's private visit, is now in the peach forest. ”
Shen Yan finally understood the process of the relationship between Concubine Xian and the emperor.
The virtuous concubine girl Huaichun, since she knew about the emperor's private visit and entered the peach forest, she thought of the seal in her hand that belonged to the imperial family.
Everything told her that the man in Taolin was His Majesty today, Shen Zhen!
"Niangniang and the royal brother, it is really a godsend."
Shen Yanquan listened to a notebook and said with a smile, talented and beautiful women, and meeting is always romantic.
"Kanghe, do you know who the person who dropped your seal is?"
Hearing Shen Yan's words, Concubine Xian suddenly asked her with a light smile, plucking the strings with her bare hands, and the smile on the corner of her mouth was indifferent and sarcastic.
Who exactly?
Why did Concubine Xian ask her like this, isn't the man in the peach forest the emperor?
The sound of the piano was scattered, one tune after another, knocking on Shen Yan's heart, and she couldn't help but tighten her heart.
Thinking of the story just now, Shen Yan suddenly thought of a bad assumption. Maybe the man who made Cui Ya fall in love at first sight was not the emperor at all, but Wang Huanzhi!
Wang Huanzhi and Emperor Kang He have long been privately taught and received, and it is nothing that he has Kanghe's private seal on him.
Could it be that the man Cui Ya fell in love with at first sight was actually Wang Huanzhi!
Thinking of this, Shen Yan felt that he was about to lose a smile on his face.
"You've probably guessed it."
Concubine Xian stood up from the piano seat, approached her step by step, and said lightly: "The dignified Kang He Emperor Ji actually had a private relationship with Wang Huanzhi, who was just a general of Huxi at that time!" You, really good. ”
It's really good. These four words are fluttering, and they are almost inaudible. But Shen Yan knew that the helplessness and ridicule contained in these four words were heavy.
For a moment, neither of them spoke anymore.
Shen Yan didn't expect that he could be involved in such a secret this trip, but he was afraid that Wang Huanzhi didn't know that he had Cui Ya's peach blossom on him.
"Since Niangniang has explained everything, then Kang He is interested in listening to what you say next."
Concubine Xian said, Shen Yan was not nervous.
She breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Concubine Xian with a light smile, her eyes calm.
In the matter of Wang Huanzhi, neither she nor Concubine Xian could win against Kang and Emperor Ji. But now that she has the identity of the emperor, she is not afraid of her.
"Niangniang has been in the palace for many years, but she has always kept this matter in her heart. It wasn't until the queen mother secretly interfered in my marriage that you panicked. You are worried that I will marry Cui Min and ruin his good career, but you are also unwilling to watch me marry the King of Qin, so you deliberately lured me in by Shen Shuimu, and deliberately told this story, wanting me to be embarrassed or guilty, or jealous? ”
Shen Yan's indifferent attitude was as if this matter had nothing to do with her, and the stakes were carefully dismantled, and what Concubine Xian knew and thought was placed between the two of them.
"Your Majesty will choose a husband for you, this person will not be Wang Huanzhi, nor will it be Cui Min. You can marry a son of a family and be an idle emperor. ”
Concubine Xian's mind was penetrated by Shen Yan at a glance, and she chuckled twice, then turned around and didn't look at her. She looked at the peach blossom painting on the wall, her eyes were slight, and she said lightly.
She has always been proud and has never let go of her body to ask for help. The only time, despite the legacy of her ancestors, she begged her father to marry her to His Majesty.
But this well-planned marriage contract is the most regrettable thing in her life.
When she put on her wedding dress and sat in the boudoir full of joy to get married, she never thought that the general who greeted her relatives was the person she wanted to do!
The crown of gold filigree hair hung down with layers of tassels, obscuring most of her vision, but she recognized the man's back. Firecrackers rang out, the sound of joy, in the noisy mansion, she heard with her own ears, her father called him, General Wang.
It's General Wang, not His Majesty.
She suddenly realized her mistake, but it was too late. She didn't even have time to think about why the person who dropped the emperor's seal was Wang Huanzhi.
Cui Ya's pride did not allow her to turn back, the honor guard in the palace played, and she followed Wang Huanzhi step by step to the sedan chair, step by step into the glorious Daming Palace.
After a long journey, her heart died.
She recognized the wrong person because of an emperor's seal, and later learned that the emperor did enter the peach forest that day, and Wang Huanzhi followed him to protect him.