As the sun sets, the pale golden afterglow is faint but warm.

Dou Minghui watched the twilight halo sprinkle wantonly on the window, and suddenly felt a trace of reluctance.

Such a beautiful moment is so short, as if all the brilliance of her life has been exhausted, and she may not see the slightest halo in the second half of her life.

This is not the life she wants!

The sunset fell, the sad Yao Zheng sounded, full of ambition turned into a deep palace grievance, a song was not finished, Dou Minghui pushed the Yao Zheng dejectedly, and said quietly: "The sunset of the screen window is getting dusk, and no one in the golden house sees tears." Oh, sure enough, ruthless since ancient times is the emperor. ”

As soon as the end note fell, a male voice echoed: "The lonely empty courtyard is late in spring, and the pear blossoms are all over the ground and do not open the door." ”

He was wearing the robe of the Xuanxiu golden dragon, with a long face and a fair complexion, although he was a little older, he was more magnanimous and powerful.

Dou Minghui raised her head: "Why are you here?" ”

"Why can't I come?"

"Huh. Yes, where in this world is there that you can't come? Dou Minghui laughed at herself: "Welcome to the Holy One." ”

The emperor sat down on his own, looked around, and finally fixed his eyes on Dou Minghui.

She is more moist and beautiful than when she first saw her, like a pearl of dizziness, and with the precipitation of the years, the brilliance is becoming more and more restrained. The emperor took the initiative to say: "This is your new poem again?" ”

Dou Minghui was silent.

The emperor seemed to be very interested in discussing the poem: "It is the golden autumn now, where is the pear blossom?" And how can it hurt the feelings of spring? ”

"Am I sad and autumn?" Dou Minghui finally couldn't help but defend himself.

The emperor nodded: "Minghui, I didn't imprison you, it's because you don't want to come out." I haven't changed my mind, it's just that I still want to have a baby. I promise you, this Qingning Palace, only you can live, okay? ”

"Kid? Shen'er is not a child, isn't it our favorite child? ”

"Of course Shen'er is a good child, talented and enlightened, few people can match her, and I love her very much. But she ...... after all It's not a man's body. The Emperor sighed.

"What's wrong with the boy's body? Li Su, in all fairness, do you think that your daughter must be inferior to a man? Dou Minghui asked unwillingly.

"It's not inferior, it's just that you and I have laid down these thousands of miles, and there is no woman as the emperor in the past dynasties, we love Shen'er, wouldn't it be better to find a good family for her in the future?"

"Good guys? How good is a good person? She's already a princess! Is there anyone in the world who is more respected than you and me? Dou Minghui felt that his words were not speculative, and said directly: "Do you still remember the covenant oath with me back then?" ”

Emperor Li Su's face changed slightly, and he became extremely unsightly.

Dou Minghui said to herself: "One life and one couple, the words are still in my ears." Li Su, it's you who don't keep your oath. ”

Li Su couldn't sit still anymore, obviously very hesitant, but Dou Minghui raised his head and stared straight at him, and didn't intend to let go: "You and I have known each other in Weimo, husband and wife have supported each other for more than ten years, and now that our daughters are so old, I always thought that we could be a couple for a lifetime, but I didn't think that you would break your oath halfway for the so-called heir, and want to accept other women as concubines?" ”

Li Su's face became more and more ugly, and Dou Minghui made persistent efforts: "Hehe, I heard that the saint has been a groom official for more than ten days, and I don't know if my body can eat well this night?" Is it really an heir, or is it a faint mind? ”

"You are presumptuous!"

"I'm just presumptuous! Are you sending me into the cold? Dou Minghui stiffened his neck: "What I asked for was never the queen, what I wanted you to seal was the Marquis of Wanhu, I want to enter and leave the court and sit on an equal footing with men, because I can afford it!" ”

"You...... You! Li Su pointed at Dou Minghui and was speechless.

Dou Minghui smiled: "What's wrong with me?" Am I wrong? Am I not good enough to be crowned? ”

Li Su flicked his sleeves: "I'm too lazy to tear with you!" ”

After saying that, he left without looking back.

Looking at his back as he strode away, Dou Minghui shed two lines of tears for no reason, and just when the waiting palace maid thought she was going to vent her emotions, she wiped away her tears again and ordered: "Go and take the princess." ”

From now on, I will teach for myself.

You want a son, but I want my daughter to be better than all the men in the world!

…………

Five years later.

Dou Minghui's originally full and smooth cheeks had sunken, and her eyes that were once as bright as stars had also dimmed, she coughed twice and refused the medicine sent by the palace maid.

"I heard that the Holy One finally has a son?"

The little palace maid didn't dare not answer, but she was afraid that she would be punished by the queen for answering, so she instinctively knelt down in panic, but couldn't say a word.

Is there anything else Dou Minghui doesn't understand? couldn't help but sneer: "Get up, I won't punish you." ”

It took five years to give birth to a son, where can I be as good as a daughter?

It's night, Xu hasn't seen him for a long time, Xu is Li Su finally has a son, and he is agitated, and somehow, he walked and walked to Qingning Palace.

Qingning Palace is still the residence of the queen, not a cold palace, but because of the deadlock relationship between the emperor and the queen for many years, it seems to be deserted, but it really responds to the name of pure and peaceful.

He stopped the report of the eunuch and the palace maid, and went directly into Dou Minghui's bedroom.

Under the candlelight, Dou Minghui was looking at something, and she didn't seem surprised to see the emperor, so she only said lightly: "Why are you here?" ”

Li Su's tone was also faint: "Seeing that you still have a light here, just come in and take a look." What is Minghui looking at? ”

Dou Minghui stretched out his hand and let Li Su check it: "It's just a fragrance spectrum." ”

"You're not well, you should have been settled earlier." The tone of concern was like a couple who had never had a disagreement, but it was in Dou Minghui's ears, but it didn't fall in her heart.

Now in her heart, she can't rise half a penny.

In five years, the struggle has already passed, and it is in vain, it is better to train her daughter well and let her complete her will.

Why can't a woman be an official or be an emperor?

She is not a native here, and even if she is, she does not agree with the fallacy of women's three obedience and four virtues.

There was even more leakage, and Li Su said: "It's not early, let's settle it." ”

Dou Minghui bowed slightly and said with a smile: "Yes, the hour is not early, please go back and settle it early." "As for where to go back, it is up to which concubine or palace maid you go back to.

Li Su's face was angry, how could it be reasonable, she actually drove herself away in a flash? I still want to settle my suspicions with her, but she is still so stubborn?

He walked away angrily.

…………

On the second day, Li Su went and returned, and his face was even more angry than last night.

He withdrew all the palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting, took out a piece of white silk from his arms, and threw it on Dou Minghui's face: "You did a good thing!" I've been thinking about the past all these years, and I've really indulged you! You actually stole the jade seal and made a decree to let Shen'er replace it! ”

Dou Minghui let the white silk hit her face, it didn't hurt anyway, and she smiled with Li Su: "Why not?" ”

"Why can't you even ask me?" Li Suqi paced back and forth.

Dou Minghui said: "Actually, there is no difference, I choose Shen'er, just like I chose you back then." Do you believe my vision? ”

Li Su suddenly felt a fear in his heart.

Recalling the past, it was indeed Dou Minghui who was more active, and even the rebellion was caused by her knocking on the side to incite the desire in her heart...... If there was no Dou Minghui, he would ......

He looked at Dou Minghui, who was calm on his face but crazy in his heart, and he couldn't suppress the thoughts that shouldn't arise in his heart anymore.

Dou Minghui said clearly: "I'm almost sick, when is the Holy Lord going to send me on the road?" ”

Li Su was taken aback: "You...... When did you become aware of it? ”

"From the first meal with the medicine." Since then, she has found out, but she has never told it, and she has eaten all the chronic poisons.

"Li Su, you have never understood me. You don't understand that for me, it's better to die than to be a caged bird. ”

Li Su's face turned white, and Dou Minghui's face also showed a trace of misery: "If you tell me to die, I will die, and my intentions have also been seen through by you, and I can't show it, but Shen'er is a good boy, she doesn't know these yet." If you still think of flesh and blood, treat her well, because she is about to become a motherless child. ”

"I ...... Minghui ......"

"Needless to say, it's wrong for me to steal the jade seal, maybe I've always been wrong. But my heart for you has never changed, otherwise I wouldn't have been angry with you for more than five years, and I would have exhausted the rest of my life......"

Her tone was calm, and she was ready to die, but this soft and calm appearance aroused Li Su's unbearable.

He didn't see that the light in Dou Minghui's eyes had not been extinguished, and there was a smile on his lips that got what he wanted.

He didn't see through her, but she did.

Three days later, Dou Minghui died.

Three days after the emperor dropped out of the dynasty, the whole country mourned, and the emperor Li Su even tried his best to defy public opinion and gave Dou Minghui the nickname of "Wenhui".

Through the heavens and latitudes, the wisdom and benevolence are said to be Hui, Dou Minghui died happily, and with the guilt in the emperor's heart, he won the reputation of "a queen through the ages".

…………

A few years later, Yuan Yi, who got the jade seal, looked at his apprentice calmly.

Li Ling asked: "So Master, Empress Wenhui deliberately let Emperor Taizu find the white silk and deliberately planned the aftermath, in fact, the white silk she gave to Changshou has other things, right?" ”

Yuan also nodded.

Li Ling asked again: "But Master, what do you want the jade seal to do?" My father said that it contained the gold and silver treasures left by Emperor Taizu back then, which together were enough to fill the treasury, so it attracted several times between Changshou and the Queen Mother. But Master, do you need gold and silver? ”

"Hmm." Yuan Yi hummed, as if he was answering, but he was actually observing his surroundings.

Li Ling took it seriously, Master likes gold and silver treasures? Can gold and silver treasures be cultivated?

After a while, Yuan Yi suddenly said, "In vain." ”

"Yes."

"Do you know why the teacher keeps telling you to choose?"

Li Ling was stunned for a moment, remembering that the master asked him to choose his parents or the master, he shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"Because, choosing means gaining and losing. If you want it, you have to give up something. ”

Li Ling's heart suddenly rose into a panic for some reason.

Yuan Yi continued: "Now, it's time for you to make a choice again. ”

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