Chapter 20: Bedding
After the new palace concubines met the queen, they were arranged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Tonight.
Almost all the new palace concubines are looking forward to seeing who this first glory will fall into.
Fanzhi stood under the window, watching Nie Hongzhao hold a broken book in her hand, turning over and over and looking at only that page, although she was puzzled, she didn't ask, just waited quietly beside her for instructions.
Late at night.
There was finally movement on the long street.
Even though Nie Hongzhao's face was calm, her stiff fingertips still betrayed her.
She was a little scared.
She was afraid of facing Murong Shu again.
She didn't know what identity she should have, whether it was Ye Hongzhao or Nie Hongzhao.
She couldn't do it without waves in her heart, after all, that man, she had been with him intimately for ten years.
Although she is Nie Hongzhao, her memory is still the past, and she has never forgotten every bit of it.
It's not that she hasn't thought about how to face it if she becomes a concubine, but she didn't expect that all this would come so quickly, and she was a little at a loss.
Sure enough, there were people outside the temple.
It is the little palace maid Shi Dong, she has a pair of black and white eyes, often round and turning, looking a little cute, very much like a young branch that died unjustly.
Although Shi Dong was not very old, Nie Hongzhao still left her in the palace and served her closely.
Shi Dong came in and saluted Nie Hongzhao, his face full of joy, "Congratulations to the master, tonight the emperor turned over your brand, the Internal Affairs Office has ordered someone to pick up the little master, the slave has already arranged for the little master, please go to the side hall to bathe." ”
Before the concubines go to bed, they must take a bath, then wrap themselves in a cloak, and be carried by the Internal Affairs Office to the Ruyi Hehuan car and go to the Jianzhang Palace to sleep.
Nie Hongzhao nodded and put down the book in his hand.
Fanzhi and Shi Dong went to the side hall together to serve Nie Hongzhao to bathe.
Waves of warm water flooded her skin, she looked at the beautiful screen in front of her, her heart was still beating fast, and she was suddenly a little afraid to see Murong Shu.
Fanzhi took a towel to dry Nie Hongzhao's body, and the two elderly grandmothers unfolded their cloaks and wrapped Nie Hongzhao.
"You come with me."
Fanzhi knew that Nie Hongzhao was saying it to herself.
Singing, followed the eunuchs of the back palace out of the side hall.
Although the Ruyi Hehuan car is very slow, Changle Palace and Jianzhang Palace are not far away, but after a while, they will arrive.
Fanzhi stretched out her hand and lifted the curtain, and the two eunuchs carried Nie Hongzhao, who was tightly wrapped, into Jianzhang Palace.
The concubines and concubines are in the Qin'an Hall in the side hall of Jianzhang Palace.
As soon as the door of the hall opened, Nie Hongzhao smelled the heavy ambergris, Murong Shu's favorite fragrance at that time.
The aroma is soft, soothing the muscles and bones, and it is very suitable for Murong Shu to order it before going to bed after reading the day's excerpts.
Nie Hongzhao hadn't heard it for a long time, but suddenly smelled it, and only felt that his body was soft and soft, and he was drowsy.
The eunuch carried her to the bed and withdrew.
When he closed the palace door, Nie Hongzhao glanced at Fanzhi, who was standing silently outside the temple gate, and for some reason, his heart was a lot more stable.
The side door of the Qin'an Hall is connected to the Xuanzheng Hall where Murong Shu watched the excerpts, and Murong Shu often looked at the excerpts until late, and sometimes forgot that he had turned over the green head card, so that the concubines waited until dawn in the Qin'an Palace.
Nie Hongzhao is looking forward to today's special night.
I hope that Murong Su has a complicated past, and he has no time to take care of anything else.
Not much.
The side door was pushed open, and a glimmer of light poured into the hall, which soon disappeared again.
Murong Shu had already walked to Nie Hongzhao's side, she looked at Nie Hongzhao, whose face was not good, and suddenly stopped.
Nie Hongzhao turned his face sideways, pretending not to know that Murong Su was coming.
She was terrified.
The fingers curled up in the cloak were shaking.
Murong Shu......
This is the name she has been reading for half her life.
I didn't expect to see each other again, but it was such a scene.
She still can't avoid becoming his person. She thought that she could change something in her first life.
It turns out that nothing can be changed.
But now she can only hold on to Murong Shu and become her weapon to take revenge on the queen.
She deeply knows that the queen's infatuation with Murong Shu, only the more Murong Shu spoils herself, the more sad the queen will be.
Only with her indestructible favor can she knock the queen down with one blow.
But......
Murong Shu sat on the edge of the bed and reached out to touch Nie Hongzhao's cheek, Nie Hongzhao was startled and his body trembled.
"Did I scare you?" Murong Shu's voice was very soft, like a breeze, and it was close to Nie Hongzhao's ears.
Nie Hongzhao suddenly remembered the first time he saw Murong Shu.
At that time, he was still depressed, and the prince, who was not liked by his father, was careful in what he did.
Because he wanted to go back to the fiefdom, he came to bid farewell to Ye Hongzhao's father, Ye Minhuai, who knew that he was attracted by the pear blossoms in the garden, so he walked into the backyard by himself, forgetting to follow the little guy who led the way.
Ye Hongzhao was thirteen or fourteen years old at the time, and he was very playful, so he climbed the tree to see if the pear blossom tree had pear fruits.
coincided with Murong Shu's walk into the pear orchard.
Murong Shu was curious when he saw a pink dress on the tree, so he walked in to take a look, and it happened that Ye Hongzhao turned a thumb-sized pear fruit from the pear blossom as white as snow.
She happily picked the pear fruit, turned around and was about to climb down the pear tree, and suddenly met Murong Shu's stupid eyes.
She was startled and her feet slipped.
He fell.
Murong Shu's eyes were quick, and he reached out to catch her who was as light as a butterfly.
The white pear blossoms fell one after another, as if a burst of snow had fallen all over the world.
Ye Hongzhao's eyes widened, looking straight at this young man who was as gentle as jade.
The young man spoke, his voice softer and warmer than the first spring breeze of early spring: "I scared you? ”
The memories of his youth came flooding back and attacked Nie Hongzhao unguardedly.
And the person he was young with is also in front of him, but he is no longer the same as before.
He is the emperor who rules over the whole world.
And she is just a wisp of ghost that borrows the corpse to resurrect the soul, and even the body is not her own.
What she has to do now is to live well and make that person pay the price she deserves.
What about Murong Shu?
didn't listen to her confession back then, and directly sent her into the cold palace.
For five years, he had never looked at himself at a glance, and the holy decree that gave him death was not from Murong Shu's hand.
Word by word, sentence by heart, I only saw his uncle and brother given to him in the past, but I didn't expect it, and later I also gave it to myself.
Should she hate Murong Shu?
Murong Shu withdrew his hand and watched Nie Hongzhao's eyes change and change, and his face became more and more unsightly.
In those phoenix eyes, there was a look of déjà vu.
It was hatred, like the resolute hatred that Ye Hongzhao had when he walked away with his sleeves many years ago.
Murong Shu's eyes on that will never be forgotten.
Don't even dare to look at it a second time.
Every night, he would always remember the look in his eyes that seemed to send him to the eighteenth layer of hell.
It was he who failed Hong Zhao.
Even in the end, it was he who killed Hong Zhao.
"Hongzhao." Murong Shu opened his mouth, looked at Nie Hongzhao seriously, and said, "Your name is Nie Hongzhao, right?" ”
Nie Hongzhao nodded, but did not speak.
A light flashed in the corner of Murong Shu's eyes, and he said solemnly to Nie Hongzhao, "I will be good to you in the future." ”