Chapter 65: A Difficult Choice
The weather is still a bit cold in February, with flowers blooming during the day and soaking at night.
On the night of the Flower Dynasty Festival, the emperor was blowing a cold wind on the high palace city, and Yu Xi was delicately painting eyebrows and eyes in Chonghua Palace, but Heng Ying was worried about something.
She stared at the letter for a long time, even if the candle flame dimmed.
The joys of the day seemed to go down with the sun and retreat to an unknown corner.
Hua Shao rushed back before the New Year of the old calendar, just in time to prepare for the Flower Dynasty Festival, and also brought back what Hengying wanted.
Now, this letter has outlined some old things, which Hengying originally wanted to forget, but now he has to face it.
The longevity of the moon worship is not so easy to do, and it is not that the Queen Mother can complete this inheritance by giving her the wrench.
Going to Yuzhi Mountain to conclude an alliance is the most important step.
Originally, she didn't have anything to worry about, but now that she has Ji Fansheng, she feels that there are still things in the world that are pulling her, so that she can't be ruthless to conclude that covenant.
In front of her, Ji Fansheng always accompanied her to watch the scene of the Flower Dynasty Festival in the morning, and it was slowly replaying frame by frame.
Early in the morning, before dawn, Ji Fansheng wanted to pull Hengying to get up in a hurry.
"Didn't you say okay, you want to go to the Flower Dynasty Festival to see the excitement?" Ji Fansheng's voice was warmer, warmer than the heat coming from the smoker between the brocade tents.
"What's the hurry, it's so early, I'm afraid there's nothing to see." Heng Ying turned over and slowly stretched his body.
"It's even more interesting to see how they dress up for the Flower Dynasty." Ji Fansheng patted Hengying's back, like love and pity, and like a silent urging.
"Look at the vendors busy and full of anticipation?" Heng Ying suddenly became interested.
"Exactly."
"I think Your Majesty wants to go back to his old business." Heng Ying smiled and began to tease the emperor.
"If there is Hengying by his side, it is not impossible."
With two points of sincerity, three points of hypocrisy, and five points of ridicule, the emperor replied really refreshingly.
Heng Ying listened, but there were two points of infatuation, who doesn't want to have someone in the world who snuggles up to each other, warms each other, and loves each other?
But these simple happiness have to pay a heavy price for Hengying.
The moon worship pays attention to renunciation and love, and the elder of the previous generation is an old man with a thousand machines, but he surrendered the power of the sect to the Empress Dowager Jiang.
The person who concluded the alliance with Yuzhishan was also the Empress Dowager Jiang, but at the last moment, it was the old man Qianji who rushed forward desperately.
The last words he left were that I am the elder and must go.
Heng Ying touched the wrench in her hand, she didn't know how Empress Dowager Jiang's entrustment would change her fate.
Perhaps, she could take a different path from her previous practice.
Perhaps, she can balance cultivation and love?
No, no, what can you do that no one has done before?
However, she still couldn't help but think, is there any way to live up to others and herself?
After dinner, Huaxin first sorted the congratulatory gifts, and then instructed the little eunuchs to collect them in the warehouse, and when she came back, she was startled to see Concubine Yun sitting alone in the gray shadow.
She had never seen her own young lady have such a gloomy moment, even if her aunt died that day, the young lady was just sad and weeping, but she didn't look confused like this.
The young lady seemed to be completely stunned, immersed in a world she did not know.
is so distracted, so selfless, so inappropriate with the lively atmosphere in the palace.
Tonight should have been the heyday of Bixiao Palace. The young lady pushed the emperor away, saying that he was tired, and he didn't even go to watch the lanterns on the palace wall.
However, it was cheaper for that Pei Shuyuan.
also said that what kind of cousin is, she has always only gone to Concubine Shu to be courteous, and she has not seen much of Bixiao Palace walking around.
Seeing that the room was so gray and dark, Huaxin hurriedly stepped forward and picked out the candle core with a silver hairpin.
She cut off the extra black thread and lit two pairs of carved candles, which brightened the room.
"Miss, now is the time when the flowers are blooming, what else do you have to worry about? Look at your frowning face, be careful of suffocating your body. ”
Huaxin looked at the young lady's appearance, and she was really puzzled.
"Painting the heart, I have been climbing up all these years, and now I have climbed to this inaccessible place, and I feel extremely lonely."
There was desolation in Hengying's tone, which was not at all like what a favorite concubine should say.
"Miss, you're just a concubine, are you satisfied? Have you forgotten Madame's entrustment? ”
The heart of the painting has infinite fighting spirit, she is a chick who watches firewood in the mountains, can she get to today, why can't Miss go further?
"Madam, yes, my mother has been thinking about soaring, but it's a pity that ......"
Others are complacent in high places, but Heng Ying is in high places, but he sees loneliness that ordinary people can't see.
"It's a pity, but I've watched Miss step by step to today, and I know how much Miss has suffered since she was a child."
The painting thought to herself that the young lady didn't seem to have much entertainment, except for reading a book, I really don't know what other pastime she had.
"Yes, when I was a kid, everyone else was having fun, but I started endorsing it early.
Everyone else was coquettish in front of my mother, but I practiced etiquette with my wife, and I was often reprimanded by her old man.
Later, in Langhuan Pavilion, I also studied behind closed doors, and for five years, I almost never went out.
If it weren't for the strategy in his chest, would His Majesty be able to add to my blue eyes?
But are these really what I want? ”
Hengying's voice became more and more erratic, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
"Miss, I really don't understand you anymore."
Huaxin looked at the young lady's appearance, I really don't know what the young lady was thinking about all day, if other little masters were promoted to the concubine position, they must be happy and don't know how.
Concubine Yu was promoted because of her meritorious service in rescuing the driver, so she was specially promoted, and she had the honor of being a concubine.
However, that kind of favor comes and goes quickly.
Directly degraded from a noble concubine to a talented woman, how many people can meet her like this?
Now, there is no queen in the palace, and there is no concubine, and this Yun Concubine is the highest position in the harem.
If you follow Madame's wishes, go one step further, and it will be sealed.
At this point, the Jiang family is already pampered and rich, so why not be happy.
"Really? I don't understand myself anymore. After Heng Ying finished speaking, he fell into deep thought again.
The days in the palace are always salty and not light, and there is no end to the long, only when I look back, I feel that a long time has passed.
Yu Xi didn't have Hengying's troubles, and said that the emperor was blessed by the god of fire, and he became more and more vigorous in the previous dynasty.
But in the harem, he is still the gentle and pretty gentleman.
This night, he spoke even more slowly, and even laughed with shallow dimples.