Southern Wei Dynasty.

Seeing that the eunuch Wu in the palace was coming with the holy decree, Lord Ning hurriedly called his subordinates to help him put on his big clothes and greet him all the way.

I went to meet him for four or five miles.

When Lord Ning saw Eunuch Wu, he hurriedly congratulated him deeply: "I don't know that the holy decree has been issued, and the envoy has come from afar, and he has not been well greeted, hoping to beg for forgiveness." ”

The eunuch arched his hand and said: "The emperor's order is in his body, he can't give a gift, just go to the mansion to see him." ”

Seeing that he was holding the holy decree, Lord Ning walked a group of people all the way to the mansion, asked the eunuch to dismount, and welcomed him into the central hall.

The chief eunuch offered the holy decree in front of the incense case in the middle, and called Ningyuan Mountain to bow down.

After worshipping, Lord Ning saluted the eunuch.

There was a holy decree in the hall, and it was inconvenient to salute, so he asked the chief eunuch to speak in the flower hall next to him.

Ning Yuanshan invited the eunuch to take a seat, and he said with a smile: "Congratulations, Lord Ning!" Ling Yan is already a beloved, and she is shining every day, how dare a slave dare to be more polite today......"

Ning Yuanshan just didn't know and said, "My husband is the emperor's son, and he is in the court on weekdays, and everyone doesn't dare to trespass." ”

The eunuch sat down and frowned.

Just listen to the Ningyuan Mountain Road, "The villain has decayed the dragon bell, and he has received the emperor's holy grace to allow the whole year, and today I don't know what the father-in-law has, and I hope that the father-in-law will make it clear." ”

"Someone told the emperor that the old lady's ** was quiet and quiet, and her appearance was excellent, and the special ministers came here to recruit Ling Ai as a beloved mother."

Ning Yuanshan pretended to be shocked when he heard this: "The villain has no children, only this girl." The qualifications are despicable, and they dare not be favored by the Sacred Heart. Moreover, the little girl has been hired and will get married soon, and she hopes that her father-in-law will love her and express this feeling, and the villain will never be ungrateful. ”

The chief monitor laughed when he heard this, "As a minister, how can the old gentleman not know the laws of the country, and how can the holy decree be violated?" Ling Yan into the palace, can serve His Majesty, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, others want to ask for it may not be able to do, but you are struggling to refuse, is it that the person who makes the concubine is more outstanding than today's saint? The respect of the Son of Heaven, the value of blood, how can it be compared to the ordinary recklessness. ”

"This ......" Ning Yuanshan was speechless.

"If you insist on this, where will the court and the court hear about this, and put your majesty's face? The grace of God is out, whether you want it or not, and no one is forced to do it, and when you come, Your Majesty just said that I want you to think deeply, and the slave will return to Liangzhu to return to his life, so why bother talking to you here. Please also decide for yourself, the future prestige of the Ning family can be pinned on Ling Yan's body. ”

After that, get up and leave.

When Ning Yuanshan heard him speak, he was anxious, and when he talked about the prestige of his family, he became more and more frightened, and when he saw that the eunuch didn't care about getting up, he hurriedly grabbed it, and said sadly: "Who dares to disobey the holy decree?" Kechen also had to discuss with the little girl to make a decision. I also ask my father-in-law to stay here calmly for a few days, and I am grateful. ”

Only then did the eunuch smile and say, "If you agree, it will be a blessing to the family." ”

Sit down and take a few more sips of tea.

Ning Yuanshan said: "The villain went in and discussed with the little girl, and it was inconvenient to accompany him. ”

On this day, hearing the news from the palace, the wife of the Ning family was already surprised.

After a while, I heard that the chief eunuch from the palace had received a holy decree and was named to choose **.

Mrs. Ning was shocked, and Ning ** was also frightened.

The mother and daughter cried, hoping that Lord Ning could redeem it.

Now seeing that his father received the holy decree and met with the eunuch, Ning ** hurriedly asked the maid to come out to inquire.

The maid Chenrui crouched behind the wall of the hall, carefully ** the conversation between the two, and went back to see Mrs. **, just crying and unable to speak.

Ning ** hurriedly asked, "What did my father and the eunuch say?" ”

The girl cried loudly, "**, it's not good." ”

Then he talked vividly about how the master replied to him, how the eunuch had a seizure, and forced the master to agree.

Before he finished speaking, Ning Yuanshan also cried in, and said to Ning Minzhi: "I gave birth to you, I originally expected you to be sent to the end of my life, but who knew that someone sent the image of the child's appearance into the beauties selected in the palace, and today the eunuch from the palace kept saying that the emperor was appointed to the palace, and the father did not dare to disobey." Once you are gone, in this life and this life, my family is afraid that they will never be reunited! ”

When Ning Minzhi heard these words, she knew that she could no longer recover, so she was so frightened that she swayed and fell to the ground.

The barbarians in the Southern Wei Imperial Palace are all a group of rough people who drink blood from Donghu Rumao, and I heard that the people who were sent to the palace to serve Your Majesty have all been eaten alive by Your Majesty.

She could almost imagine Yuwen Zhonghong's terrifying savage face, and she felt chills all over her body.

At this time, he was even more resentful that the soldiers of the Southern Wei Dynasty did not protect the Southern Wei Dynasty, which made the people of the Southern Wei Dynasty become ** slaves and let the mermaids eat.

Seeing her daughter crying on the ground, Mrs. Ning hurriedly helped her and called out repeatedly: "Son, wake up, son." ”

After calling for a long time, Ning Minzhi turned around and cried: "My daughter is not filial, and my parents are worried. There are no brothers and sisters above, and there are no brothers and sisters below, so I thought that I could serve my parents and knees. Unexpectedly, there was a catastrophe, and life and death were up to the sky, but I pity you, raising me so big, no one will send me to the end. ”

Ning Fu ** cried: "It's my mother's life, there is only one girl, and I can't watch you marry in front of you." It's all your father's fault, today you are also thinking about choosing a son-in-law, and tomorrow you are also thinking about choosing a son-in-law, but until now, no one has taken a fancy to it. If you had promised someone early, there would have been no such thing. It was your father who was unsympathetic and misunderstood your life. ”

Ning Yuanshan was so complained by his wife that he couldn't help it, and defended: "I didn't expect today's thing when I called it. Besides, there is no way to do this. If we do not obey, we will disobey the holy decree, and soon woe will be to the house. I hope that Min Zhi will go here, and if she receives the grace of God, she will be matched with a concubine and add glory to the family. ”

Ning ** listened to his father's words, and saw his mother complaining about his father, and thought to himself: "I'm just hurting my parents' hearts in vain by crying now." For the sake of the present, the only way to do this is to obey the commands of God. In this way, loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness can be both. ”

The idea must be, she stopped crying, "Mother don't cry, father's words, daughters think about it, it makes sense." It is all fate, for the sake of today's plan, my father said to the eunuch, since I came by the holy decree and announced that I would enter the palace, I should obey the decree. ”

Seeing that she was obedient, Ning Yuanshan smiled slightly, and slowly came out of the door to speak.

The eunuch said: "Elect Ling Yan, it should be so." The tired old lady led the slave to see it. ”

Ning Minzhi was dressed safely, followed by four or five maids, opened the middle door, and walked out of the middle hall.

At this time, the eunuch had already seen it from afar, and if he looked closely, he was very beautiful, only six or seven points, and the playfulness between his eyebrows and eyes accounted for the majority, but in terms of beauty, he was far inferior to Queen Jimo.

I secretly felt strange, and I didn't understand why His Majesty had to send him to find this woman.

Ning Minzhi hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My father-in-law is polite." "She was blessed.

The eunuch said to Ning Yuanshan: "Ling Yan jade is natural, and it should be the appearance of great nobility." The slave maid has been in the palace for many years, day and night in the pink delicacy, it can be seen that no one can defeat Ling Yan, and Min Zhi ** is enough to overwhelm the six palaces without color. ”

Hurriedly called left and right to take out the clothes brought to the palace and give them to Ning Minzhi, and put a golden butterfly crown for Ning ** to wear it, and then kowtowed, calling "Niangniang".

When Eunuch Wu saw that she had accepted this gift and received the crown of pearls, he knew that the matter had been decided.

It's just that in the evening, Min Zhi** returned to the bedroom, thinking about the palace blankly, and almost cried again, and I was afraid that it would alarm her parents and hurt their hearts.

After the third watch, everyone was asleep, and only then did they dare to cry in a low voice against a small candlelight: "Why should I be born to the princess's family to be a daughter?" I didn't meet a person who was in love, but I was asked to marry the savage emperor of Donghu, and I went to Liangzhu this time, seven hundred miles away, drifting in a different place, and I had parents but could no longer serve them. Such a hard life, I'm afraid I'm the only one like this, if I want to enter the palace to see such an emperor who is neither human nor beastly, I would rather **. ”

The girl who inquired about the news during the day comforted on the side: "**Don't be too sad, things in the world are the most difficult to measure." You are such a peerless beauty, God must not bear to make you suffer, and I hope to cherish it. ”

Afraid that she wouldn't be able to think about it, the girl persuaded again: "If a person wants to find a way to die, it is easy." But I want to go, everything is unknown, it's better to save my life first, see the situation and then deal with it. If Your Majesty sees you and doesn't like it, maybe he will be re-granted out of the palace, and if he can't, it's not too late to die. Why give up one bite at a time now? ”

Ning Minzhi said, "In vain I have been knowledgeable and knowledgeable for half my life, arrogant and self-controlled, and now I want to serve such a king!" If I had known propriety, I would have been killed by now. ”

When the girl heard this, she knew that he would not obey him, so she couldn't stop crying and cried, "It's a pity that the slave is ugly, she is a subordinate, and she can't serve for **." **If you don't tell the old lady and take the slave and maid to go, when it comes to the critical moment, if there is a chance, the slave and maid are willing to die on their behalf. ”

Ning Minzhi listened, wiped away her tears and said, "You have such kindness, I am already grateful." ”

He sighed and said, "My father and mother have no children, but they have given birth to a daughter of mine, so I will bear the responsibility of being a son." I originally wanted to ask my mother to help me find a wishful husband to join, which could be regarded as half a son, and it could be regarded as my filial piety. Who knew that it would be a big change. You have the heart to love me and pity me, I told my father and mother, let them recognize you as a goddaughter, and you will help me serve my parents for the rest of my life, is this okay? ”

The girl hurriedly said, "**, the slave is a subordinate, how dare you serve the old lady instead of **." Don't say that the old lady refuses to accept the slave and maid as her goddaughter, even the slave and the maid themselves do not have this life. ”

Ning Minzhi took her hand, "As long as you are truly willing to do your filial piety for me, my father and mother will naturally have a way." You don't want you to bother, I just hope that you will treat my parents as your biological parents and be filial, and I will be blind when I die. ”

Ning Minzhi got up with the girls and entered Liangzhu to face the saint.

Liangzhu is far away, don't dare to delay, these girls travel day and night, to Liangzhu City, has passed the Lantern Festival.

The mothers who served the chosen women did not dare to be lazy, so they came to the palace where they were placed, and kowtowed together, "Congratulations to the beauties." ”

Then he got up and said: "The women in this palace today are all today's golden branches and jade leaves, relatives and royal relatives. All of them are talented and beautiful, and they are beautiful and beautiful, but they have not been pondered, and they are hidden in the jade. I also hope that you will carefully learn the etiquette of the palace and serve Your Majesty as soon as possible. ”

The girls should take it and dare not say more.

Later, the Majesty that Ning Minzhi saw was not the tiger-headed rabbit ear of folklore, he looked like a man carved in jade.

When His Majesty laughed, the tears in the corners of his eyes were shining, she had seen it, it was the most beautiful scenery she had ever seen.

The first time she saw him was in the Imperial Garden, he didn't see Ning Minzhi, but she saw him at a glance in the crowd, alienated, always making people feel that through a layer of mist, the clothes were attached to the body, and the wind seemed to be able to take him away when it blew.

Everyone surrounded him, but for some reason, Ning Minzhi felt that he was very lonely.

However, His Majesty does not come to the harem often, and few of his concubines have really seen him, and I heard that he only rests in the Jiaofang Palace.

Ning Minzhi did not see him once in her first year in the Southern Wei Imperial Palace.

Later, on the day of the palace maid's turn, she played "blindness" with five or six palace people, that is, wearing a mask to catch people by hearing, and drawing a circle in the garden, no one can leave this circle to arrest people, and the loser must continue to arrest people.

Just as she took a step forward, a man stopped in front of her, and she smiled and said, "Got you." ”

The man took off her fox mask and looked incredulous, "Arrogant." ”

A group of women hurriedly knelt down and bowed to His Majesty.

He squatted in front of Ning Minzhi and asked her to raise her head.

Ning Minzhi was very strange, why did he know her nickname, her surname was Ning, her name was Minzhi, she was born white and tender when she was a child, and her mother and father always called her Jiaojiao when she was a child.

Later, she learned that he was called arrogant, not Jiaojiao, and the difference of one word ruined her life.

She followed him back to Hongyi Palace, and he treated her very well, so good that Ning Minzhi felt that he would definitely accept her as a lover and rest in her palace in the future, but he didn't, he didn't mention it once.

He just left Ning Minzhi in Hongyi Palace, many times she looked back at him, he was also looking at him, looking so obsessed, through her, who was he looking at? Ning Minzhi wanted to ask him.

He would call her Jiaojiao and ask her to make him tea and study, but other than that, he would not touch her again.

There were thousands of sorrows and joys in his eyes, but none of them were for her, and it took Ning Minzhi three years to understand that he had another person in his heart, a person who was very much like her.

But she didn't know how similar she was to that person.

When she began to discover this secret, Ning Minzhi always wanted to cut her face with scissors, but she quickly let go of this stupid idea, because she was afraid that apart from this face, she would have nothing to keep His Majesty's capital.

Thinking about it this way, there is nothing wrong with having such a look.

He taught her to draw horses on the prairie, his palm on the back of her hand, and the girl's heart was beating so fast that she knew she was obsessed with His Majesty.

He once sighed softly and said, "If you are separated from your beloved, you will have no worries and no fears." ”

"Can only a monk who has attained the Tao leave love?" Ning Minzhi asked.

"No one can leave love." He said.

Your Majesty is right, no one can leave love.

She is Ning Minzhi, not his arrogance, she almost forgot this when she stayed by his side, just because of his smile, His Majesty didn't know, she studied his handwriting, and practiced almost exactly the same, and the four words Yuwen Zhonghong engraved a mark on her heart.

The queen mother warned her not to expect anything from His Majesty, because there would be no response, and His Majesty was too stubborn to ask for a replacement.

It turned out that in their eyes, she was not even a human being, just an object.

However, she has no regrets, as long as she can be by His Majesty's side, she doesn't care about anything.

He is the man she loves the most in her life, but she doesn't dare to tell him, for fear that he will be angry, he keeps her, except for this face, I'm afraid I don't care about anything else, she's such a complete person, he cut off the three souls and seven spirits and the skin coat, sometimes, she hurts so much, the pain is extreme, and it becomes hate.

Finally, she couldn't help shouting at him, she was Ning Minzhi, not arrogant.

The last window paper was punctured, and everything that could not see the light was destroyed in the sun.

She can't fight the queen mother, without her scheming, without her patience, and without her sobriety.

Instant Mo is right, she is a substitute, a false, fragile, pathetic substitute.

However, she really loves him, not the new king of the Southern Wei Dynasty, but Yuwen Zhonghong.

I love his detached smile, the tear mole in the corner of his eye, and his attachment to another woman.

Yuwen Zhonghong is so similar to her, they are both infatuated people who will never be replied to.

Everything in the world is inconclusive.

Ning Minzhi passed away holding the fox mask, and she used her last strength to put it on, trying to hide the sadness on her face.

Because His Majesty said that she was the best to laugh at.

Perhaps His Majesty is saying that when she laughs, she is most like her.

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