Standing outside Cining Palace, there will always be one or two delicate cat calls floating in my ears, I searched left and right, but I didn't see a wild cat.

The deep palace is heavy, the twilight is four, and countless lights are floating in the drizzle, exuding a hazy light, the reason why I chose to come to Aunt Jinyue alone in this weather is that I don't want people to find out about my whereabouts, let alone make trouble.

Aunt Jinyue walked over with a worn-out oil-paper umbrella, the wet wind blew on the body in all directions, it was really uncomfortable, I couldn't help mentioning the thin shirt on my arms, and saw Aunt Jinyue's sideburns and hair floating slightly, I knew that her eagerness to come was no less than mine, and I couldn't help but stop and wait.

She came over and saluted me slightly, and said slightly sideways: "Zhaoyi Niangniang, it's been a long time, it's raining and humid outside during the flood season, please go into the slave room and talk." ”

I nodded, and followed her into Cining Palace through the east side door, and I saw that there was no one all the way, so I said, "Aunt Jinyue, I thought you wouldn't see me." ”

She smiled lightly, "Why does Niangniang think so?" While walking, he said: "The slave and the maid are slaves after all, and Zhaoyi Niangniang is the master, and the master wants to ask the slave and the maid, how can the slave and the maid dare not see it?" ”

I lowered my eyes, "Aunt Jinyue is an old man who serves the Queen Mother in the palace, and her status is naturally different from that of ordinary palace slaves, if Aunt Jinyue doesn't want to see me, she should have a way to shirk it." ”

Aunt Jinyue shook her head, "Zhaoyi Niangniang is not a jackal, tiger and leopard, and there is no reason for the slave to be seen." ”

I smiled, "I've been asking Aunt Jinyue about things lately, and my aunt has read countless people, so she won't even be unable to see this," after a pause, he said again, "Besides, Aunt Jinyue and I are ruthless." ”

Aunt Jinyue stood in front of the door, turned to look at me and said with a smile: "The mouth is open on the slave and maid, if the slave and maid make up their minds and don't want the mother to know, how can the mother find out," said that, she turned around and pushed open the door, picked up the fire fold on the table and lit a few lamps, "What's more, how can the slave and the maid have no affection, it's just that the mother has forgotten." ”

I put away the yarn umbrella and put it next to Aunt Jinyue's oil-paper umbrella, and the pattern inlaid with red fine lines inch by inch was particularly delicate and dazzling, took a breath, raised my heel and went in behind, dusted off the moisture on my body, closed the door vigilantly, and smiled at Aunt Jinyue: "It turns out that my aunt deliberately released water." ”

She poured a cup of red date tea, "Yesterday, Qiusi came over to spread the word that Niangniang would come to see the slave today, and the slave guessed that Xu is Niangniang had found some clues and wanted to come to the slave to determine whether it was." ”

I took a deep breath and sat down on a chair at the table, rubbing my fingertips against a pair of jade bracelets on my wrist, "I didn't come to Aunt Jinyue today to find any clues, nor did I do it for my own business. ”

Aunt Jinyue stood quietly to the side, her face becoming a little nervous, "So, Niangniang is here to ask the slave or something?" ”

Before the words could be asked, I was already a little in danger in my heart, and after a long time, I whispered: "It's about Your Majesty." ”

"Your Majesty?" Aunt Jinyue's face trembled, and she hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty has anything to ask?" ”

I stared at her and said, "The day before yesterday, when I was out of Cining Palace, I happened to meet Feng Shuyi, and she said something to me that shocked me very much, and I couldn't believe it, I thought she was talking nonsense, but she was so insistent and so determined, that I had to ask Aunt Jinyue with three points of belief." ”

Aunt Jinyue furrowed her eyebrows, shook her head and said, "The slave doesn't know anything. ”

I smiled, "That way, Aunt Jinyue, you can't know everything." ”

She frowned, her gaze dodging, "What? ”

I laughed helplessly, "I haven't even said what Feng Shuyi said to me, where did Aunt Jinyue answer?" ”

Her face froze.

I said again: "Because Aunt Jinyue knows what I mean, what I didn't say, Aunt Jinyue knows it in her heart, it's all come to this point, is Aunt Jinyue still going to hide it from me?" ”

Aunt Jinyue sighed and asked, "What did Feng Shuyi tell you?" ”

I looked up at her and whispered, "Feng Shuyi told me that Your Majesty is not of royal blood, and this Imperial Majesty is not sitting properly, and his words are not good!" ”

Aunt Jinyue closed her eyes and opened them again, "Even if the name is not right, there is no other way." ”

I twitched my fingertips and asked slowly, "So, what Feng Shuyi said is true?" ”

Aunt Jinyue nodded, "Yes." I couldn't believe it, and I thought my ears were wrong, and I asked again, "Really?" ”

Until Aunt Jinyue looked at me with that very solemn gaze, and said to me in such a firm tone: "Yes, Feng Shuyi is right. ”

Then, I dared to believe that the heart in my chest was beating violently, and I relieved my breath for a while, and then I asked my doubts, "Wasn't Your Majesty born to the Queen Mother's niece?" ”

Aunt Jinyue said, "Yes." ”

I was anxious and puzzled, "Then why?!" ”

Aunt Jinyue looked at me with a meaningful smile and didn't answer for a long time.

But I only knew from that smile that there must be something wrong with this matter, and I unconsciously let out a sigh of relief, feeling a little sad and a little guilty, "This throne should have belonged to Prince Ning." ”

Aunt Jinyue said categorically: "No! No! ”

I was confused and looked at her in a daze.

She said: "Whether it's Prince Ning or Your Majesty, neither of them is of royal blood, so whoever sits on the throne is the same, so why not let the more suitable one sit it!" ”

I really don't know what shocking words I heard, my whole body was paralyzed, I felt like I was in a dream, in addition to the eldest prince and the fourth prince who died young, there were only two princes, Luo Xi and Prince Ning, if neither of them were either, then wouldn't all this be too creepy, I even made a voice trembling, "How is this possible?" ”

Aunt Jinyue sat down with a solemn face, "Since Feng Shuyi has already told Niangniang the result, then the slave maid will add some more processes and details to Niangniang," after a pause, she instructed me, "What the slave and maid say next may be even more unbelievable than just now, I hope Niangniang will not be too shocked, and will not be prejudiced against Your Majesty because of this, and beg Niangniang to help Your Majesty at the necessary critical moment." ”

I nodded, "I promise you it is." ”

She said "um", and said: "I also want to ask Niang Niang to help the slave maid keep this secret, don't let others know, even if Feng Shuyi can find out, it is only the result, the origin and extinction of it is something that the Feng family can never find, the slave maid and the queen mother originally wanted to bring these past events into the coffin and bury them in the ground forever, but now it seems that it will not work." ”

I swallowed my spit, nodded and said, "I promise, you say." ”

She sighed and said: "This has to be traced back to the time when the slave maid was young, when the slave maid was in the mood for love, there is a Jianghu organization in Yunnan called the Red Moon Palace, the slave maid is the chief palace master of the Red Moon Palace, in charge of the other twelve palace masters, the existence of the Red Moon Palace is to assassinate the royal family and assassinate the emperor." ”

My heart trembled, and my hand grabbed the corner of my clothes violently, "Are you a traitor?" ”

She chuckled, "The slave is not, but the Red Moon Palace is." The slave had to be. ”

I asked, "Why do you have to do it?" ”

Aunt Jinyue said: "Because the slave maid has been greatly benefited by the Red Moon Palace. ”

I raised my eyebrows, "So, you entered the palace in order to complete the mission of the Red Moon Palace?" But what is the connection to all this? ”

Her eyes were as clear as clear water, "The slave maid did hide her identity and age and entered the palace later, and she was ashamed of an old person because of this." ”

I asked, "Who?" ”

Aunt Jinyue said in a deep voice: "King of Yunnan." ”

She said frankly, but my scalp was numb, "King of Yunnan? Thinking about it, I exhaled and said softly: "Yes, if you don't have this relationship with the king of Yunnan, how can you help me?" ”

She continued: "Lang came on a bamboo horse and went around the bed to make green plums. Living together for a long time, the two have no suspicion. ”

I smiled, "Fifteen years ago, I raise my eyebrows, and I wish to be the same as dust and dust." Sixteen gentlemen traveled far away, and Qutang was piled up. Late in front of the door, a lifetime of green moss. Auntie refers to you and the king of Yunnan. ”

Aunt Jinyue smiled: "At that time, the slave maid and the king of Yunnan were like this, but the difference is that it was the slave maid who chose to travel far away instead of the king of Yunnan, at that time he asked the slave maid why he chose to leave him, the slave maid left without saying anything, leaving nothing, maybe left him a decisive back, I still remember the happiest day when I was a child was when the two of them enjoyed the cool air and looked out from afar on the pavilion of the Yunnan Palace. As she spoke, she smiled so sweetly, like a dancing girl in the wind.

I asked, "What a wonderful life it is to be with the people you love, why did you choose to leave?" ”

She said: "Because the slave maid is the palace master of the Red Moon Palace, it is impossible to marry into the Yunnan palace as a slave and maid, and the slave and maid cannot harm him because of their identity, and it is even more impossible to abandon this identity, and it is impossible for the king of Yunnan to abandon his identity as the son of the world at that time, not to mention that when the slave and maid left, the old Yunnan king was already preparing to find him a family affair that was right for him, as long as the old Yunnan king was in one day, he would never be able to marry the slave and maid into the door. A path that a slave should go, a burden that should be completed. If you can't be with the person you love the most, then don't let the Red Moon Palace pay the wrong favor to the slave and maid again. ”

I nodded, "My aunt must have experienced a lot of things since she entered the palace, right?" ”

Aunt Jinyue said "um" and said: "After the slave maid entered the palace, she was sent to Hu Shuyi's side on an errand, that is, the current queen mother, the queen mother is especially loved by Taizong, almost the favor of the special room," glanced at me lightly, and chuckled, "It's almost the same as you are now," and then said, "Soon Hu Shuyi became pregnant, Taizong was very happy, amnesty the world, invited all the clan relatives to the palace to rejoice, naturally there is also the prince of Yunnan, next to the lotus pond in the imperial garden is the last side of the slave and the maid and he saw, in the following decades, The slave never saw him again, but she always heard some rumors. ”

Before Aunt Jinyue could finish speaking, I hurriedly asked, "Why is it the last one?" ”

She said: "Because the slave found out that she was pregnant a month later, the Queen Mother was merciful, and after knowing it, she left the slave and the slave's child under the repeated pleas of the slave and the maid. ”

I hurriedly asked, "What about the child?" Who is it? ”

Aunt Jinyue stared at me, her eyebrows twisted into a river, I seemed to understand something, I only felt that my palm was cold, and said tentatively, "No." ”

Aunt Jinyue let out a sigh, "Niangniang is right, because no one expected that such a terrible thing would happen later. ”

I shuddered, "What's the matter?" ”

She said: "The slave maid gave birth before the queen mother, the queen mother settled the slave maid in a side hall to raise, a few days later, the queen mother gave birth to a stillborn baby, it is said that when she was born, she was covered with ecchymosis, bruises and purple, and skinny, not like a child at all, the whole hall is very afraid, if Taizong knows, no one will be able to escape, I am afraid that there is only one death, the queen mother this backer has fallen, and the natural slave and the slave's child can not escape." ”

I frowned and said, "Why didn't my aunt fly to the king of Yunnan to ask for help?" ”

Aunt Jinyue smiled and shook her head, "Things happened without warning, and far water can't dissolve the near fire." ”

I said, "So."

She nodded, "When the slave and maid arrived, everyone in the hall was looking at each other, I don't know what to do, suddenly at this time the slave and maid's child cried in the side hall, the voice was very loud, and the father-in-law outside the door knocked on the door and asked whether it was the prince or the princess, and the queen mother said in a hurry: It's the prince." Then he asked for the children of the slaves and maids to be brought in and stolen from the pillars. Many years later, the Queen Mother said to the slave maid that although it was the next step, it could only be like this. ”

Although my face was quite calm, my hands and feet were already cold and unconscious, and I just wanted to make my voice a little smaller and smaller, "Emperor Xian, it turned out to be the son of my aunt and the king of Yunnan." ”

Aunt Jinyue looked a little helpless, "Yes, then the Queen Mother finally figured out the cause of her own child's death, passed all the way, supported the first emperor to ascend the throne, and she also ascended to the throne of the Queen Mother." ”

I suddenly asked, "Aunt Jinyue, if you could choose, would you still let the first emperor ascend to the throne?" ”

Aunt Jinyue shook her head, "The slave doesn't know," lowered her eyes and looked at me, "Niangniang, do you know, if you don't do this, what will happen when the child grows up?" Is it possible to shut up a living person in a side temple every day without seeing the light of day? Or let him inherit the mantle of the slave and live in the shadow of the sword and sword all day long? She sighed softly, "Perhaps such a providence, a choice, is the best for this child of the slave." ”

I was curious, "The princess was married to the prince of Yunnan before, why is there a big age difference between the prince of Yunnan and the first emperor?" ”

Aunt Jinyue chuckled, "Wu Yao, the prince of Yunnan, was born later. ”

I let out an "oh", nodded, and thought silently for a long time before I said aloud: "If this past story spreads, it will inevitably be a laughing stock, and someone will inevitably make a big fuss about this matter on Your Majesty." ”

Aunt Jinyue's face sank, "Therefore, this matter must not be known to others." ”

I nodded, "I understand," and thought for a moment, "Since this is the case, then, Your Majesty's life experience will definitely not be able to find flaws, because the source is not here at all, and the people of the Feng family are probably only hearsay, and they have dug up some fragmentary statements, which is not to be afraid." ”

It's just that when I first learned about such a secret, I still need to digest it in my heart.