The Great Feast 13

The palace chief returned to the north palace, and Queen Yan was looking at the long wooden box in front of him in the hall and lost his mind.

And that long wooden box is the box that the palace chief jue filled with Yuecheng flowers and gave to Yanhou.

Empress Yan's cloudy old eyes seemed to be recalling something.

Gong Changjue's eyes fell on Empress Yan.

Decades ago, the lord of Yuecheng County was named Chang'an, beautiful and outstanding. He put forward the disaster relief strategy of dismissal and dismissal of officials, saved the people from fire and water, and became famous all over the world for a while.

Today, although you can still see the style of the past, it is very decadent.

Today's Empress Yan has cold eyebrows and is not smiling, and she is not at all like the rumored Yuecheng County Lord, who was once bright and lively.

The palace chief said,

"The Queen Mother, the courtiers are back."

Empress Yan turned her head slightly and looked at Gong Changjue,

"Get up."

"Thank you, Empress Dowager."

The palace chief said,

"Why did the Queen Mother only look at this box, but didn't open the box to see the flowers inside?"

Yan Hou said slowly,

"What's the use of seeing, what the mourning family lost in the past can't come back."

Queen Yan turned to say,

"Girl from the palace family, come here, come with the mourning family."

The palace chief stepped forward according to his words.

Yan Hou slowly opened the box,

"Do you know why the mourning family likes Yuecheng flowers?"

The palace chief said,

"The courtiers don't know."

Yanhou Dao,

"Yuecheng flowers, this is not produced by Da Zhou."

Empress Yan smiled, but there was a bit of helplessness in her smile, and her face was also vicissitudes.

"The Huns are prolific of this flower, when I was young, I followed my father to the Huns, my father was going to be a fine worker, he acted at night, often went out after I fell asleep, over time, I was curious, what did my father go to do in the middle of the night."

Empress Yan spoke slowly, quietly reviewing her youthful past,

"Once, I pretended to be asleep, and after my father left, I followed my father, and I saw my father climb into a very high wall, my father's light skills were excellent, I followed my father since I was a child, and naturally it was not far off, I followed it in three or two times, and after entering, I followed my father, but I accidentally lost it."

The candlelight in the hall flickered, and it became more and more unclear that the expression behind the swallow was clear, and in a trance, the palace chief seemed to be able to see the appearance of the old beauty in front of him when she was young.

Queen Yan stroked the moon flowers in the long wooden box,

"I went around, but I disturbed the guards in the palace, the guards heard the sound, I hid in the grass in front of the imperial dining room, and saw that the guards were about to come, and suddenly a figure came out and startled me, and I was almost about to scream, but my mouth was covered, and the little boy who was half a head taller than me covered my mouth and asked me in a low voice, did you also come to the dining room in the middle of the night to steal food?"

Empress Yan suddenly chuckled, but she was sad,

I didn't want to be discovered, so I nodded heavily, and the boy who was half a head taller than me took out the chicken leg wrapped in oiled paper, and said to me with a smile, "Eat it quickly, it's hard to find such a complete chicken leg in the dining room."

Queen Yan lowered her eyes, her eyes faintly shining with tears,

"That chicken leg was a little cold and a little hard, but it was the best thing I've ever eaten in my life."

Seeing the guards coming, I pulled the boy's clothes tightly, trying to let him hide, and when the guards came to him, he suddenly rushed out, and coughed loudly, and the guards looked over, but suddenly their faces changed, and they were no longer vigilant, but said a little carelessly that they had seen the little prince. There was no respect in the words, with a bit of contempt, and he didn't care, it seemed that he was used to it. ”

The palace chief's eyes were shocked,

The little prince?

Now the head of the Huns, it seems...... He was once the youngest prince of the Xiongnu.

Empress Yan still spoke slowly,

"As soon as the guard left, he went back into the grass, and I was eating happily with the drumstick."

"He asked me, where am I a little palace maid, why did I come in the middle of the night to steal food, but the concubine in the palace didn't give me food?"

"I just talk nonsense, saying that I am a little palace maid in the cold palace, but the Hun king's tent, in fact, there is no cold palace, but he did not expose me, I thought he believed it, he watched me eat, and suddenly reached out and touched my head, you are so small, how did you enter the palace, does your father and mother care about you? I just said one thing, I don't have a mother, my mother died when I was born. He suddenly had a gloomy face, and said softly, little girl, we can't eat enough, and we don't have a mother, so I'll be your brother. ”

Queen Yan's eyes were fanned with tears, reflecting the candlelight swaying,

"I said okay."

"At that moment, those cacti in front of me suddenly bloomed, and under the moonlight, the white was orange, and there were orange dots on the flowers, and in the moonlight, they were like broken gold mottled and sprinkled on the flowers."

"Those flowers are so beautiful, so beautiful that they are unforgettable."

"The little boy said that this flower is called unpicked flowers."

Empress Yan raised her eyes and looked at the palace chief,

"I spoke to him in Xiongnu, and the name of the unpicked flowers was translated as Yuecheng Flower."

Gong Changjue's eyes fell on those moonlight flowers.

Yanhou Dao,

"Yuecheng flowers gradually spread from the Xiongnu to the Great Zhou, probably because of the water and soil problems of the Great Zhou, although it is easier to grow than in the Xiongnu, but most of them have become crimson."

The palace chief muttered,

"It turns out that the moon blossom is orange."

The palace chief suddenly remembered that the hairpin given to him by Queen Yan was engraved with Xiongnu characters, could it be that the prince gave it to the Queen Mother, right?

She couldn't help but help her hair on the hairpin.

Empress Yan raised her eyes to look at the palace chief,

"I'll give you this hairpin, and I'll send the palace people to tell you that as long as you wear this hairpin, you don't have to worry about what will happen at the big banquet. I'm just able to make sure you don't have to get along. ”

The palace chief knows clearly, no wonder the attitude of the head of the Huns is so strange, he doesn't want her to be with him, but also to bless her, it turns out that it is the role of this hairpin.

But after decades, the head of the Huns can still recognize a hairpin of the queen of Yan, the hairpin has the Xiongnu text on the hairpin, is this hairpin also had any relationship with the two, and between the head of the Huns and the queen of Yan, many things have happened?

Yanhou Dao,

"I would love to have a daughter."

Yanhou Dao,

"When I was pregnant with my first child, I wished I had a daughter in my womb, that she would be like me, and that she would be different from me, but unfortunately, it was a boy. But I'm also glad that at least he has more possibilities and doesn't have to be tied like a woman. ”

"But creation makes people, and I even lost him."

Gong Changjue held Queen Yan's hand,

"Queen Mother, he will come back. I'm here, and I'll find him for you. ”

Empress Yan raised her eyes to look at her, her eyes moved.

"Yes, I believe you."

Gong Changjue realized that Empress Yan was in front of her at the moment, and she had never claimed to be a mourner from beginning to end.

Yanhou Dao,

"You're really nice, like my imaginary daughter. If my daughter had survived, she would probably have been like you. ”

Gong Changjue hesitated,

"Queen Mother, you... Have had a daughter? ”

Yanhou Dao,

"Yes, but at that time, Yang Yuan usurped the throne, my liver was angry and caused premature birth, and my child died at birth, I was thirty-eight years old at that time, in fact, if she survived, she would be your age."

Queen Yan touched her head,

"When I saw you, I always felt that it was fate, when you were in the Temple of All Nations, I saw that you had a frost flower birthmark on your hand, and my daughter also had a frost flower birthmark on her hand."

Empress Yan said softly,

"I promised him that this hairpin would be passed on to my daughter, and now I have given it to you, which is also the fulfillment of my heart's wish."

The palace chief faintly understood that he in Empress Yan's words did not refer to the first emperor.

Yanhou Dao,

"Once, I didn't like the first emperor very much, and I was even forced to marry him, but the first emperor was very good to me, until I got married for nearly twenty years, he treated me as before, at that time, I finally opened my heart, and at that time, I had that child."

"The imperial doctor diagnosed the pulse and diagnosed that I was pregnant with a daughter, and the first emperor said that when she was born, he would give her the title of Wanqing, but before she was born, the first emperor collapsed. My daughter was hastily buried, with no name and no share. ”

Somehow, when the palace chief heard this, his heart felt like a thorn in his heart, obviously she should be the most noble eldest princess, but she was annihilated early, and she didn't even leave her name.

Yan Hou said slowly,

All this is because Yang Yuan doesn't like it. He is the child of the collateral clan, I have been my adopted son for many years, but ten years younger than me, since I was a child, I have always been paranoid and arrogant, I have never liked this adopted son, and I can't treat him as my own, but I just did my duty. Probably because he didn't have a mother, he regarded me as a dependent, but because I was indifferent to him, he left a thorn in his heart. Therefore, he imprisoned Ru'er and tortured him in a different way, but he respected me as the queen mother and made me sit high. ”

Empress Yan sighed,

"I was wrong, if I had disciplined him well, wouldn't I have caused all this?"

The palace chief said,

"It's not your fault."

The swallow queen lowered her eyes,

"It's been a long time since I've spoken to anyone, and tonight is probably the night I've talked the most in sixteen years."

Yanhou Dao,

"I've lost a lot of things, you're too much like me, I'm afraid you'll repeat my mistakes."

The eyes of the queen of swallows fell on the moonlight flowers,

"If everything you love and cherish is still there, hold his hand as soon as possible and don't let go, otherwise, you will regret it later."

"I have no room for regrets, I just hope you don't regret it."

"Having said so much tonight, I'll just ask you one thing."

The palace chief raised his eyes,

"Queen Mother, please speak."

Yanhou Dao,

"The kid of the Chu family, although he doesn't talk much, he is also indifferent, but he is a rare calm character, today in the daytime, he ran into the north palace with you in his arms, begging the mourning family to find a doctor for you, he was happy and angry on weekdays, but he was so anxious at the time, and he must have taken you very seriously in his heart. Do you have him in your heart? ”

Gong Changjue was silent, holding the teacup and not saying a word.

Yanhou Dao,

"If you have, don't miss it, if you miss it, I'm afraid I will regret it for the rest of my life."

The palace chief raised his eyes,

"The Queen Mother, probably, has already missed it."

"When I thought of him the most in my heart, he didn't show up."

And now, there is no longer a chance.

Yanhou Dao,

"There are too many regrets, and one night is endless, but the mourning family says so much, I just want you to think about it, if you hold on to it when you are young, the mourning family will not marry the first emperor, if the mourning family suppresses their emotions when they are pregnant with the green, and the first thing is to keep the green, the green will not die."

"If you are like a mourner, you have gone through your life and seen the outcome of everything, you probably won't know how to grasp it like now."

Gong Changjue lowered his eyes and clenched the teacup in his hand.

No, she really went through her life. She also knew the ending, but it was precisely because she knew the ending that she wanted to stay away.

Because of her, he jumped off a high cliff.

He was twenty-three years old.

There weren't so many dangers in his previous life, and he died because of her.

In this life, she is destined to stand in danger every moment, she will lick the blood from the knife, she will face the knife, it is very likely that an accident will be annihilated in an instant, she will fight with her life every moment, and block the knife with her body.

If he had treated her as he had done in his previous life, he would only be in danger again because of her.

She didn't care about her life, but she couldn't care less about his life, she didn't want to bury him again.

She has always said to herself that it is because of the urn metaphor, she is afraid of the urn metaphor, and she is afraid that the urn metaphor will use the imperial power to harm her.

But in the thought in her heart that had been suppressed by her, she was more worried not that the urn would harm her, but that he would repeat the old things for her.

She didn't dare to give him the slightest hope, she didn't dare to take half a step forward to him.

For the sake of her light, she is willing to fall into darkness forever.

In his previous life, he was only twenty-three years old when he died.

How could she bear to let him die for her again.

Even if she never got it, and she never knew him, it was enough that the person did not die because of her.

Getting along with him like this tonight is only the closest time she has ever had with him in her life. I don't dare to have it in the future.

It turns out that he has suffered so much, he has suffered so many injuries, his name, his indifferent bearing, this is how he came from.

She had never had such an understanding in her previous life, and to this point, she was content.

She can admire his brilliance, but she can't let him cross her sludge and sand.

She made up her mind to protect the palace family even if she didn't want to die, but she couldn't let him accompany her to die.

Yanhou Dao,

"The mourning family regards you as a daughter, whatever you want, the mourning family will give it to you, and if you need it in the future, just ask."

The palace chief said,

"Thank you, Empress Dowager."

Empress Yan held her hand, her eyes moved,

"It's because I treat you as a daughter that I don't want you to go the wrong way, the moon blossom has already been thanked, and the frost flower should not be annihilated again."

There were faint tears in Empress Yan's eyes, and Gong Changjue's heart moved.

The next day, the palace chief went out of the palace and arrived at the gate of the palace, but met Yang Sheng who was walking towards him.

The palace chief bowed,

"I've seen the three princes."

Yang Sheng stepped forward and hurriedly asked,

"This king heard that you escaped from the fire yesterday, are you okay?"

The palace chief said,

"Nature is fine."

YANG Shengdao,

"Yesterday, the Xiongnu prince was so deceitful that you had to make a wedding vow, I don't know you-"

The palace chief's eyes sank, what did he want to do when he deliberately mentioned the marriage so deliberately.

Gong Changjue interrupted Yang Sheng,

"The prince is too worried, the marriage between the courtier and his cousin is real."

Yang Sheng's complexion changed greatly,

"Is your marriage to Zuo Jin real?"

The palace chief said,

"In the main hall, Your Majesty and the Queen are here, how dare the courtiers deceive."

Yang Sheng said urgently,

"If you don't like Zuo Jin, this king can-"