When he was ten years old, the plum blossoms were very beautiful, and he and Honghua secretly went to fold the plum blossoms and gave them to Mrs. Hui, and the master of the New Year's practice told them: "One of you will become the king of the future kingdom, but you will kill all your siblings." ”

Hongduo turned white in fright, Honghua took his little hand, kicked the master, and said, "Don't be afraid, brother, the old monk lied to us." I'm an elder brother, I'll protect you, I don't want to be a king, but don't kill me either, okay? Hongduo smiled, he thought Honghua would really protect him.

"Come on, the mourning family heard that Lu Pheasant treated Mrs. Qi as a person, but they have never seen it, so you will make Concubine Shen to the mourning family." The Empress Dowager Xiaohui told herself that she could not back down to this day.

I recalled what Honghua said when he was eleven years old: "I am my elder brother, I will protect Hongduo, and he also promised me that he would not kill me when he became emperor in the future." She didn't want her son to die, so she had to help him kill his last brother.

King Xia pulled the trembling Shen Meiren and comforted: "Don't be afraid, concubine, my son is here, so I won't let her hurt you at all." While pulling out his long sword, he pointed directly at the Empress Dowager Xiaohui, retreated step by step, and walked out of the palace gate, he didn't know where to go.

"Acron!" He heard someone call him, turned vigilantly, and pointed his sword at him.

"It was only October, and the snow began to fall, and when I came, I saw that the red plums in the plum garden were also blooming, so I folded one and came over." Honghua shook the red plum in his hand and smiled lightly.

Hongduo looked at the blood-like red plum, but only tears could not be contained, and the sword was still pointed at Honghua: "You go away, go away!" Shen Meiren felt that Hongduo was also shivering, and she didn't know if it was cold outdoors or if he was also afraid. She wanted to snatch the sword from Hongduo's hand and kill herself, she didn't want to embarrass her son. But the moment he touched Hongduo's cold hand, he changed his mind and whispered: "Kill him!" ”

Honghua sighed, and he said, "Actually, I don't want to be the emperor. Empress Dowager Xiaohui's face froze for a moment, she didn't expect Honghua to say such a thing, almost roaring: "What nonsense to talk about!" ”

Honghua glanced at the Queen Mother, but his words seemed to be said to Hongduo: "Do you remember when you were a child when you learned swords? I'm a slow learner, you're smart but timid, and I remember every time you and I competed with swords, our brothers would cry. He untied his sheath and threw it to the ground, so that he drew his sword from his attendant.

Hongduo became nervous, he was afraid that he would be the one of the two brothers to die. tightened the sword in his hand again, watching Honghua's every move. "Let's do it again, just the two of us, no one is allowed to interfere." Hongduo tried to let go of Shen Meiren, but it was not that he didn't hear the phrase "kill him", but he really couldn't do it.

The snow was falling heavier and heavier, and a red plum lay quietly on the ground, and two men in the crowd struck each other with swords. I don't know how many rounds have passed, but the people around me only feel that their feet are frozen, and they are still hitting and blocking. They all had the opportunity to take each other's lives, but they all chose to collect their swords in time.

The two people who suddenly stood still, a blood-red print under their feet.

"Brother!" With a roar, Hongduo couldn't support his body that was constantly pressing, and sat on the ground, letting Honghua lie in his arms. The Empress Dowager Xiaohui wanted to come forward, and the palace people wanted to ask for a doctor, but they were all stopped by Honghua.

"Why?" Acer hoarsely asked the dying Honghua.

"I'm my brother...... I'll protect you, don't be afraid......" Honghua looked at the howling Hongduo and smiled, and in a short moment, the smile froze on his face, frozen forever.

People found Honghua's last will on the dragon case, he gave up the throne to Hongduo, but he didn't want the Empress Dowager Xiaohui to force Hongduo's mother and son so urgently, and the anxious Honghua could only use his own life to stop it.

The red plum was taken away by Hongduo, and it was always inserted in a white porcelain vase, placed on the dragon case, and watched it wither and wither, and then become a withered branch quietly accompanying him. Until one day, a woman who was completely unknown threw it.

"Little Ancestor, this time it's all going to die in your hands." Ji Hongduo came back from the court, and saw Quanfu reproaching the palace maid kneeling at the door of the hall, and from time to time he also hit her with the dust fan in his hand.

He coughed lightly: "What's the matter, can't you go down to settle the score?" He had no intention of managing these trivial matters, but was only slightly angry at Quanfu's gaffe, and Quanfu immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty. Seeing that the emperor didn't say anything, he grabbed the palace maid with his elbow and motioned for her to explain herself.

The little palace maid was already teary-stained, but now that Emperor Wei came over, she was shocked again, and crawled to the feet of Hongduo and begged: "The emperor atons for his sins, and the slave maid is on duty on the first day, looking at the flower branches on the dragon's desk have withered...... I felt unlucky, so I threw it away. ”

When she said this, Hongduo remembered that Honghua had been dead for more than half a year, and listened to her with a frown. just smiled: "It's just that my heart knot is difficult to solve, you threw it away today, and I still feel happy." ”

He squatted down and sat casually on the stone steps, suddenly wanting to see the woman who had untied the knot: "Raise your head." Qingli's face was full of tears, and her eyes were obviously full of fear, but she didn't dare to dodge.

Ji Hongduo patted the dust on his body and returned to the Xuanzheng Palace, leaving only one sentence: "Punish you for standing at the desk every day and serving tea!" He raised the word "serving tea".

Quan Fu and the little palace maid both breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, the Sprinkle family sees that you are blessed." Quan Fu also left after speaking, but she sat on the ground for a long time.

She was originally a small palace maid in the miscellaneous room, and she could only do some rough work when she was transferred to the Xuanzheng Palace, but today she was lucky enough to become a tea lady. The sun was slanting in the west, and she walked alone on the long palace road, the blood-red palace wall was draped in red glow, but it was dark.

She raised her head and held the last rays of sunlight with her hands, staring at the red sun.

She is more down-to-earth and smarter than others. The complicated tea ceremony, under her hands, gave birth to all kinds of tricks, and occasionally changed the macro duo smiled. Wei Guoqiuwei, this year is also coming as scheduled, and she is naturally on the list.

"Duo'er, this is Miss Yan of the Guogong family, this is the niece of the queen mother, this is the ......" The Empress Dowager Xiaoshen was about to continue, but was interrupted by the emperor: "The government affairs are busy, and the ministers are retiring." ”

It's not that he doesn't have palace concubines, and Wen Meiren also takes care of the harem very well, but he is just a queen. But he was afraid that after the establishment, he was afraid that his real wife would calculate himself like the Liu family back then. Therefore, he made up his mind to make a woman who sincerely treated him as his queen.

When the emperor entered the palace angrily, she was squatting at the door to feed the wild cats that came from nowhere, he stopped, but she thought that the emperor was angry that he did not do his duty. After saluting, he was about to speak, but was preempted by the emperor: "The palace is not as good as the palace, there will be foreign small animals, and only you are willing to give them a bite to eat." She blushed and didn't speak.

Clean your hands to make tea and hand it to the emperor.

"Your name is He Zhi, but your real name?" She didn't think that the emperor would be interested in her name, let alone say her real name, but he was the Son of Heaven and couldn't lie to him. So he could only shake his head, and he asked again, "Then what was your original name?" ”

She knelt on the ground: "The emperor has atoned for his sins, and the slave's surname is Liu ......" She raised her eyes and glanced at the emperor, but he just let out a faint oh and let her continue.

"The slave's real name is Liu Yan, and she was implicated because of Queen Liu's incident, because she was the grace of the Son of Heaven from the Shu clan, but she was sent to the palace as a slave." It was a time of unbearable recollection, when all men over the age of 14 were conscripted into the army, and women were exiled as prostitutes when they reached the age of 14.

She was only 10 years old at the time and escaped.

"It's also a woman from a big family." Hongduo said, "However, I don't like the name, what do you think of the name?" She kowtowed and thanked her, knowing that the Liu bloodline in her body would eventually make the emperor taboo.

Although he never expected himself to be the master of the palace, he didn't want his little love to be deprived because of the word "Liu". However, the truth is that she can't struggle.

Liu Wan returned to the side room where she was sleeping, and the palace maid who lived with her saw the tears in her eyes and asked, "What's wrong with my aunt?" She just shook her head and put her head under the covers without freshening up. Sleeping too early made her wake up in the middle of the night with her eyes open and doing nothing.

"Do you hate your own surname, for example, I don't like my surname very much, people with the surname Ji are destined to be lonely, without parents and brothers." After he finished speaking, he looked at Liu Wan with a smile.

Liu Wan was a little at a loss, put down the tea cup in her hand, and said: "The surname of the slave is a sin, but it is not something that the slave can change. ”

It was the first time, they talked for a long time, and she knew the principle of being an emperor, looking at the front and back, surrounded by people, but so lonely. For the first time, Ji Hongduo found that there were people around him who could understand his words, but unfortunately her surname was Liu.

Lying on the empty dragon bed with his arms on his pillow, he hadn't summoned any concubines for a month, but his mind was full of her shadow. So, he wanted to use the domineering of his son of heaven so that she could sleep peacefully on her pillow one day.

The timing came from a crisis, out hunting, confined to the tent at night, a poisonous tongue that foraged everywhere for food and prepared to hibernate sneaked into the emperor's tent, it was hungry and old, and before it could inject all the venom, it was pulled by the tail, slammed to the ground, and then slashed to death.

Liu Wan threw the sword to the ground and sucked out the venom from the emperor's wound with her mouth. When the imperial doctor arrived, Liu Wan was no longer conscious.

The emperor wanted to accept Liu Wan as a concubine, but the queen mother blamed her for her poor service, which caused the emperor to be injured. Qiuwei broke up unhappily, and the emperor and the queen mother quarreled until the palace.

The emperor forced the emperor to strike the dynasty, and the queen mother could only give in, but she had one condition, to set up her niece as the queen.

In any case, Liu Wan became the person next to the emperor's pillow, cutting the candles in the west window together, and talking about the spring rain moistening everything.

Unexpectedly, the spring rain is often oblique wind. The palace is full of favors, which is a kind of wrong love. The smile that Hongduo saw on Liu Wan's face was always accompanied by tears, until she stopped laughing.

It is a collection of thousands of favors, and it is also a collection of grievances from all parties.

Liu Wan's intelligence is not only used in the tea ceremony, but also in her observation, and she tries to inform Hongduo of her ideas, but he is often misunderstood.

"Your concern is only that I am not capable of protecting you, and from this day on, I will grant your wish." He slammed the door and left, and the next day a holy decree came: Liu's beauty, the daughter of a criminal minister, was demoted to the miscellaneous room as a maid.

After a circle, she returned to where she had been. Kneeling and wiping the green bricks in front of him, I heard that he will sit on the tiles he has wiped in the draft tomorrow, reading the beautiful women of the country, and then the beautiful women as companions. A tear ran down his cheek and dripped into the dirty basin.

With one hand raising the bright yellow curtain, he walked through every corner where she had been, and finally watched her wipe the floor and cry. Then he turned to leave, and the moment he turned around, Liu Wan retched, she stroked her lower abdomen, and the feeling of helplessness became stronger and stronger.