Xia Xiaoxiao was married to the palace by the queen's order, and before that, she had only seen Beigong Yu once, at the hunting ceremony three years ago.

She was thirteen years old. It seemed to be the beginning of autumn, and the weather was warm and pleasant.

She remembered that the leaves of the trees were just yellow, faintly still faintly showing the dying green, and the orange sunlight sprinkled through the gaps between the leaves in the middle of the road where they went hunting, and there was a little joy in her heart.

The hunting address is a wild forest in the western suburbs of the imperial city, the western part of the imperial city is a very remote place in Yuehua City, which is covered by a large forest, also known as the high gang forest, and the beasts and wild animals live here to spread their good name, saying, "The dragon hides the deep spring, and the beast walks high on the high post." ”

Gaogang Forest is densely packed with trees and jungles in a radius of dozens of miles, there are no people around to approach, few people usually come here, and the annual royal hunting ceremony is held here without exception.

The people of Beijing know that when the caryophyllus blooms in autumn every year, it is the time of the annual feast. These Xia Xiaoxiao didn't need to inquire at all to know, but she was too young to bear it at the time, so she sneaked in with her father behind her back and pretended to be a dozen miscellaneous guys beside him.

The hunt began, and the current emperor, Emperor Chengyan, rode his horse into the deep forest with hundreds of officials and ministers, and the ladies in the palace and some civil officials who were not good at martial arts were waiting outside the forest.

Her father was a military attaché who specialized in teaching the prince martial arts, but he was only a prince and a prince, so he could only wait outside the forest with the queen and his party, occasionally drinking tea and playing games, and having fun.

But she was bitter, thinking that she could go into the forest to catch two rabbits and roast them home to eat, and she also praised Haikou to the two little ruffians on the West Street behind the Xia Mansion and said that she could go into the forest to hunt with the current emperor, and when she went back, she would bring them the spoils hunted by the emperor. Now, if she returns empty-handed, it will be a loss of face.

She wanted to sneak in while people were not paying attention, but they all said that it was a boast of Haikou, then it was really Haikou, she couldn't even ride a horse at all, and she didn't go into the forest with many beasts to find death.

It would have been nice if she had been so bored in Gaoganglin at the beginning, but it was good at first, but later, she was discovered by her father.

Daddy asked her to come forward to pour tea, and she was recognized at a glance, and it was not easy to expose it in front of everyone, so he found an excuse to lead her aside, angrily removed her rag hat, and her knee-length hair fell down the way.

Daddy pointed at the tip of her nose and scolded her fiercely, she hung her head, ignored Daddy's angry words, went in and out of her left ear, and made the old man blow his beard and stare angrily.

Afterwards, when she returned to the place where everyone was waiting, she had already put her hair back up and put on a cloth hat, and her father was afraid that her identity would be discovered, so he didn't let her get close to a crowded place, and then he could only stand outside the forest and wait for those palace nobles to finish hunting, but what she didn't expect was that the first person to come out was the newly canonized prince Beigong Yu.

He was dressed in a black and red hunting suit, with his black hair tied behind his head, and jumped off his horse, and immediately behind him came the guards who threw the booty he had brought back to the ground, piled up a whole hill high, and she also found two jackals in them, and one arrow sealed their throats, and the blood was not dry.

At that time, she just stood outside the hunting circle and looked at him from afar, her inky black sword eyebrows were tightly locked, her bottomless eyes indifferently swept over the corpse of the beast, the sunlight shone on his angular face, and her every move exuded an aura that made people dare not look at it directly. At that time, there was no laziness and evil charm in his eyes that were often revealed now, but a clean and resolute touch, just like the perseverance in the eyes of the heroes she fantasized, and even a trace of tenderness that she had never seen since entering the palace.

Xia Xiaoxiao was stunned, she also likes good-looking men like those little jasper, and likes men like Beigong Yu who have a manly spirit in any action, and she has also had a spring heart. But she knows what she wants, so she only occasionally fantasizes that in the future, there will be someone like Beigong Yu to take her around the rivers and lakes, but that person will not be Beigong Yu, Beigong Yu is the prince, and he has been in the palace all his life.

I thought it was just one side, but when I returned to the city afterwards, plus I was a child, and I played with Xiao Er and Ruyan on West Street, and I quickly forgot about that person, and I only remembered that person was the prince, called Beigong Yu, and even forgot his appearance. Then she continued to chat with her childhood playmate, chatting about her great dreams of rivers and lakes, and looking forward to her wishful husband in the morning. But she didn't want to, at the end of the autumn of the same year, the queen issued a holy decree to Beigong Yu to marry her as a concubine, the crown princess.

She had just had a fight with someone outside when she received the order, and the bruises on her face had not yet disappeared.

She was happy for a moment, but she didn't want to enter the palace, she knew that once this place came in, it would not be so easy to get out, just like her aunt.

It was already ugly for Xia Xiaoxiao to return to the Dusk Pavilion, and the guests were almost scattered.

Most of the lights in the Chenxiao Palace were extinguished, except for the lanterns outside the house and the Han Palace. It was Beigong Yu's dormitory.

She fell on the bed, the candle flame outside the window reflected the room as if it was day, dazzling that she couldn't sleep, as soon as she closed her eyes, her mind was full of Beigong Yu and Xia Yingxi's entangled figures, she felt that she could imagine how happy Beigong Yu was now, even if she knew Beigong Yu's heart, but she still didn't dare to deny that Beigong Yu actually liked Xia Yingxi, and she liked it in the second year she entered the palace. He waited for so long, and finally accepted Xia Yingxi.

She rolled over and muttered, "Beigong Yu, you got your wish." ”

It was late at night, and the Zhaoyang Hall had just finished taking care of Qingyue and rushed back, this ceremony made it, the prince and the new concubine left, and it didn't take long for his master to leave, presumably because he saw that scene was uncomfortable, but in this way, there was not even a master in the main hall to greet the guests, and all the chores were only handed over to them these minions. Tired and lazy, the twilight pavilion in front of him was dim, it was not early, and the mother was asleep.

Thinking about it, he didn't dare to go in and disturb, and was about to go around and return to his house, but when he passed the door, his steps were stunned.

There was a faint choking sound in the room, faintly like someone was crying.

Qingyue stopped, feeling uncomfortable in her heart, and sat down at the door. The sobbing sound in the room became clearer and more piercing.

I heard the master say, the one who came today is the sister of the mother, a few days ago, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince married the daughter of the Huang family, why don't you remember, there are too many women living in this Chenxiao Palace, but there is only one man.

Raising her eyes to look at the endless starry sky, wrinkling her eyebrows, her mother, how much her heart should hurt.