Chapter 2: Longevity (Part II)
"Long life is a big day, and it's not a matter for you to stay with me." Lin Yuan said to Fan Yu, who was burying his head in eating oranges: "What did the queen say, why didn't you let you celebrate your birthday in front of the emperor?" ”
"What can I say?" Fan Yu snorted: "She said that I just entered the palace and didn't know the rules, and I was afraid that I would bump into the master at the birthday banquet." I'm too lazy to discern it, she can say whatever she likes, and if I don't celebrate my birthday, I'm still the emperor's daughter, and she can't change this. ”
"The emperor's daughter?" Lin Yuan sighed lightly, her face a little cold: "You are very wrong to think so." is also Emperor Ji, why don't you look at your third sister Zhaochun, who already has Tang Muyi at the age of three. Think about your eldest aunt Duanyang Emperor Ji again, and your third aunt Wenzhuang Changdi Ji. ”
Duanyang was beheaded by the Xiongnu, and Wen Zhuang married the Mongolian king as a concubine. Fan Yu's face slowly changed.
The people in the royal family, whether they are concubines or princesses and princesses, have a good fate like the Empress Zetian of the previous dynasty, and they are not blessed to grab a lot of them in the Dajue Temple and the Cold Palace. In this most cruel place in the world, if you don't fight, you will really be eaten to the point that there are no bones left.
"Then what can I do, there are many things, I can't fight if I want to. The queen is the lord of the harem...... "Fan Yu hangs his head.
"Don't say anything discouraged." Lin Yuan persuaded her: "The queen and the concubines don't like you and wantonly bully you, if you keep going like this, I won't be surprised if you die of illness one day inexplicably." I'll give you a tip now. The queen said that you have been living outside the palace for many years and do not know the rules, and this is just a borrowed word. Didn't you live in the temple for so many years? Now that you are back, you can generously go and kowtow to your father and grandmother, saying that you have prayed for blessings in Dajue Temple for many years, and now you are back in the palace, and you should bring Buddha and blessings to the emperor and queen mother. You speak skillfully, and the emperor and queen mother are happy to hear it, and even if you can't go to the banquet as a princess, you are qualified to kowtow to your father. You have shown a lot of face in front of your father, so naturally there will be no harm in the future......"
Fan Yu was dumbfounded when she heard this, and finally clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Lin Niangniang, you are really my lucky star!" It's so good, I'll just say it, and no one can argue with me! As he spoke, he hurriedly got up and picked up his clothes and combed his hair.
Lin Yuan said on the side: "It's just this once, if you encounter something in the future, you can figure it out yourself." ”
What kind of place is this, all help is in exchange for a price. Fan Yu is not Lin Yuan's biological daughter, and Lin Yuan has no obligation to help her.
Fan Yu hurriedly left the Mirror Moon Pavilion and went to the Emperor's Jianzhang Palace. When I arrived at Jianzhang Palace, I was told that this year's longevity was more lively than in previous years, so I chose to give a banquet in Jiaotai Palace. Fan Yu had no choice but to carry her skirt and trot all the way.
Jiaotai Hall is located in the emperor's early dynasty of the Jinluan Hall is directly behind, is the place to hold a big celebration, the draft girl, the temple test of the Jinshi, the ancestors, the sacrifice of the heavens and so on are all here to watch the ceremony, the palace is built to be extra magnificent.
In the hall at this time, the Empress Dowager Tuoba Hong sat side by side in the chief, the queen sat on the left side, and below it were a group of concubines and clan relatives. Everyone was full of joy, not only for the emperor's birthday, but also for the fall of King Muwu, a confidant who had plagued the emperor for eight years.
During the banquet, Tuoba Hong and the queen were staggered, and the two of them laughed and talked to the queen mother, telling the queen mother all the interesting things they saw and heard in Beisai along the way, and only mentioned it lightly to King Mu Wu, who was plotting rebellion. The Empress Dowager was not as radiant as the Emperor and Empress, she looked older than she had been three months ago, and she rarely spoke at her son's birthday banquet, only nodded faintly at the Emperor with a smile in response.
It is not easy for the emperor to get to this day, even if Tuoba is dead, he was almost assassinated by an assassin, but fortunately, the emperor is blessed, and the Lin kid has blocked the disaster...... In the royal dispute, the Queen Mother has waited for so many years, and it is only today that she has waited for a real victory. Concubine Li Guifei was personally given poisonous wine by her eight years ago, and her son fought against the court for eight years, and now it has disappeared.
She and Tuoba Hong no longer have to worry about usurpation, and they can live peacefully in the future. But I always feel that this life is too desolate. The feeling of killing the enemy is not as relieved and happy as expected, but what remains in the heart is an irreparable damage. Concubine Li Guifei died, Duanyang and Kang'er did not come back to life, and King Mu Wu died and could not change the snub of the emperor back then.
Endless years are buried in this cannibalistic palace, even if you win.
The look on the Queen Mother's face became lighter and lighter, and she felt that she was losing all vivid expression, and her face was becoming more and more like a wood carving.
"Queen Mother, you use more, this crystal shrimp dumpling is made by the new local cook, it is very unusual......" The queen mother looked cold, but the queen served her more and more diligently, and personally stretched out chopsticks to serve her.
The Queen Mother glanced at the queen lightly, nodded and watched her put the vegetables into her bowl, but her expression did not warm.
This queen Xiao is also getting stronger and stronger...... King Muwu fell, but the strife in the court was far from over. The Xiao family, the Shen family, the Shangguan family...... Back then, in order to deal with King Muwu, he had to support them one by one. It is not a good thing for a courtier to hold a lot of power and a high merit.
Everyone in the hall enjoyed the food, but naturally they didn't know that the first emperor outside the hall was ordered by the queen to not be allowed to participate in the birthday banquet. The double-ring bun on Fan Yu's head kept jumping as she ran, and by the time she arrived at the gate of the outer palace out of breath, she could already hear the singing and dancing in the main hall, and it was obvious that the birthday banquet had begun for a while.
There were four small chamberlains on duty in the three-zhang high vermilion palace gate, and as soon as they saw Fan Yu, they hurriedly stretched out their hands to stop them and said, "Are you the little palace maid who has just entered the palace in the court?" If you run around in the palace, you are not afraid of colliding with the nobles! Go back where you came from, this place is not for anyone to trespass. ”
Fan Yu followed the emperor back from Beisai a few days ago, and naturally most of the people in the palace didn't know her. She couldn't reason with these little inner supervisors, so she thought about it and took out a jade ornament from her body and stuffed it to one of them: "You just let me in, I'm ...... I am the daughter of a courtier, and today the emperor has recruited noble ladies into the palace to reward me, I am late, but I must go in......"
Fan Yu was afraid of the queen's power in the end, and he never dared to say his identity. Fortunately, today's emperor granted amnesty to the world, and indeed invited many nobles and sons of official eunuchs to a banquet, so it is also deceiving.
"Alas, whose foolish lady is this!" The little inner eunuch softened after accepting the jade pendant, stretched out his hand and pointed behind him: "The main hall of the Jiaotai Palace can only be entered by the concubines, county lords, county kings and other clansmen, and the young lady should also go to the apse after being invited, and that is the place where the courtiers are." The other person stepped forward again and said, "Besides, which lady of the adult family are you?" Do you have an invitation? The rules in the palace are strict, we don't dare to let you in."
Fan Yu was speechless for a while, and he couldn't think of a way to deal with it. At this moment, the door of the inner sanctum opened, and a woman dressed in dark green brocade came out of it.
The status of the court maid is distinguished by the color of the clothes, and the darker the color, the higher the position. Fan Yu looked at the woman's stiffness, how could she alarm the queen so quickly...... It was Mu Chun, a first-class palace maid beside the queen.
Fan Yu bit her lip, she knew how much the queen hated her. She wanted to sneak in quietly and bypass the queen and appear directly in front of the emperor, but she had just stepped into the Jiaotai Hall when she was caught.
Empress Xiao Yueyi...... She always takes pleasure in torturing Fan Yu, but Fan Yu can't accuse her with all the confidence. Fan Yu knew what a rebellious sin her mother had done eight years ago, so she had no way to blame the queen, and she didn't want to blame her dead mother. What she hates is this palace, this palace where father and son turn against each other and kill each other, and Gan is just a victim of political struggle, and so is she.
Mu Chun, as a slave, was full of power in front of the emperor, and her fierce eyes looked up and down at the little girl in front of her who was only as tall as her chest. Fan Yu endured her rudeness, raised her eyes to the sky, and muttered: Mother, why were you so simple back then, why did you work hard for an unworthy man. You lost the Gan family, and the only daughter left behind will also struggle in suffering, but what about him? How could he have had you in his eyes?
Fan Yu's arms had been held down by the palace people behind Mu Chun. Her eyes flickered, and she seemed to see a dazzling red again, and the blood, flowing from the man's body to her hands, no matter how hard she washed, she couldn't wash away the bloody breath......
She hates that man! King Muwu, the selfish and shameless man. The mother is a delicate Yizhou woman, but she dares to do the great crime of killing the king for him. In fact, in the battle of the deer enclosure, Fan Yu was recognized by King Mu Wu from the beginning, but King Mu Wu did not execute her. He squatted down and looked into her eyes and said, I know that you are the emperor's daughter, but you are also the daughter of Gan Duyun, and your eyes are exactly the same as hers. You know, I've always missed her......
Fan Yu remained silent indifferently, even though the other party brought the food and treasures to her to please her. When the Qin army surrounded the camp when the army was defeated, Tuoba ordered her henchmen to flee with her, but she rushed in from the chaos and stabbed a dagger into Tuoba Yan's chest. The man who usurped the throne in the annals of history for seeking power, of course, did not turn a blind eye in the end, and what he shouted out was not anger and unwillingness to his political opponent Tuoba Hong, but he dragged her hand and asked word by word: "Why don't you forgive me?" ”
She closed her eyes and stabbed the dagger hard again: "I will never forgive for the rest of my life!" You keep saying that you really love my mother, but in the end you killed her. ”
The Gan clan has been punished by the nine clans, what is the use of Tuoba Yi repenting now? A man who uses his lover as a tool to ascend to the throne is not as good as a beast at all. When Fan Yu was starving in the Dajue Temple, was punished to kneel and beaten, what he hated most was not his cold-hearted biological father, not the ruthless queen, but King Muwu, the source of all tragedies.