Chen Xuanli finished receiving the edict and did not relax for a long time. Seeing that everyone was silent, Rong Niang couldn't help but say, "Isn't this good?" If you are an official or a general, you have to be trapped here, so it is better to return to your hometown, and it is much better outside than here. ”

"You know what?" Chen Xuanli said angrily, "I can't go!" I'm gone, who protects the emperor? ”

Rong Niang said with a smile: "You didn't leave, and you didn't need to protect him in the past two months." ”

"You ......"

"Alright." Li Longji soothed Chen Xuanli's shoulder, "This time, Rong Niang said it well. If you leave today, don't come back. You should also be old, go back and rest. These decades...... Thank you very much. ”

Chen Xuanli's eyes were red, and he knelt down and said: "The emperor said this, and the minister is ashamed. ”

Li Longji helped Chen Xuanli with both hands: "Since you are ashamed, leave here quickly." I'm relieved that you're doing well outside. ”

Rong Niang was watching Xiao Jiangyuan whisper to Wang Chengen, and then heard Chen Xuanli say:

"You snobbish little lady, don't bully the emperor again!"

Rong Niang was surprised: "Don't you think I'm too old this time?" ”

"Where does this little heart look like an elderly woman?" Chen Xuanli snorted coldly.

Rong Niang pursed her lips, and saw Wang Chengen pick up the two broken thick ropes and shake them vigorously. Some of the ripe pomegranates then fell and slammed to the ground.

Xiao Jiangyuan held the basket of vegetables on weekdays and picked them up one by one. Rong Niang suddenly thought of something and helped pick it up.

When Chen Xuanli left, he carried a package full of pomegranates.

It's just that these pomegranates were taken away by Li Fuguo before he was taken out of the palace.

In less than half a year, Chen Xuanli died of illness at home.

As soon as Chen Xuanli left the Divine Dragon Palace, many princesses began to come to visit Li Longji, but Li Longji refused to see any of them. Xiao Jiangyuan had to go to the door to persuade them back one by one, and the other princesses were just that, and they didn't come after being rejected once or twice, but Princess Yuzhen, Princess Xianyi, Princess Shou'an and Princess Hezheng were very persistent and unrelenting, and Princess Yuzhen even simply threw up the dust at the door: "Li Fuguo's guy drove me back to Yuzhenguan every day, and didn't let me see the saint in person."

Man, even you bully me now? Hide, I'll see how long you can hide! ”

The two princesses, Xianyi and Shou'an, mainly came to deliver things, including food, clothing and use. Princess Hezheng distributed bounties to the soldiers guarding the town, and ordered them to let Li Longji go out for a walk from time to time, but naturally he was wordlessly refused.

After the cool autumn, it is the cold winter. The soldiers were not so unkind, and the quilts, shirts, and carbon things were left by Ren Xiaojiangyuan.

After the princesses left, Rong Niang pulled Xiao Jiangyuan's sleeve and said with a complicated expression: "They ...... Are they all his daughters? ”

Xiao Jiangyuan smiled lightly: "The one who wears a Taoist robe and takes the dust is the emperor's half-sister Princess Yuzhen; The one who already has white hair in the sideburns is the seventeenth daughter of the emperor, Princess Xianyi, the eldest daughter of Queen Zhenshun; The two younger ones, who don't like to talk are the emperor's youngest daughter, Princess Shou'an, who is well-behaved and easy-going on weekdays, and if you call her by the nickname 'Worm Niang', she won't be angry...... Very powerful princess. ”

"His granddaughters are so old...... What do you think I do? ”

"Rong Niang seems to be ...... It's not as sharp as it was when we first arrived. ”

Rong Niang glanced at Xiao Jiangyuan steadily, suddenly pulled her wrist, walked to the threshold of the Divine Dragon Hall and sat down, and asked seriously: "They all blamed me, saying that I was disrespectful to the emperor, rude and disloyal, and even he himself was lukewarm to me, only you were consistent and never rude, even if you found me ...... to him." After that, why? ”

"There must be a reason for everything, and if I don't understand the cause, I can't tell if you have gone too far."

Rong Niang was stunned: "...... Actually, I took the initiative to ask to come to the Divine Dragon Temple, and I have wanted to see him for a long time. ”

Seeing Xiao Jiangyuan listening quietly, smiling gently, his eyes were peaceful, Rong Niang's eyes were red, she took a deep breath, and continued: "I have heard people say since I was a child how wise and martial our Tang Dynasty Son of Heaven is, magnificent, talented, and graceful...... It seems like a won't

A god who doesn't die when he is old. I am the daughter of an ordinary peasant family, and most of my marriage partners in Japan will be relatives or neighbors, but I don't like those boys, who are as good as the emperor

Yes?

Later, the flower and bird envoys went to the people to choose beauty pageants, and the people in their hometown didn't know why, so they were anxious to marry their daughters. My parents died, and I had just passed the filial piety period at that time, and I had been living in my uncle's house. My uncle also had a daughter, and he only had time to marry off my cousin, but he ignored me, but when it came to the end, he felt guilty again. I told him that I was willing, but he didn't believe me, and for the first time in my hand, he stuffed a bag of money into my hand before I left, and I don't know why this happened. ”

"Fortunately, I don't look bad, and I was really chosen by the flower and bird envoy. They didn't believe it, I really wanted to be chosen, and then go into the palace and see him. At that time, I didn't know what it meant to enter the palace gate as deep as the sea, so I just broke in with a lonely heart. Do you think I don't deserve it? Without waiting for Xiao Jiangyuan to shake his head, Rong Niang said unconvinced, "I was young and from a low background at that time, but so what? Who said that such a woman can't think of the emperor? They all laughed at me, and I had to go to the palace, I had to see him, what if he liked me like this? Results...... You saw it. ”

Rong Niang's eyes suddenly rippled: "Do you know, how old I am this year?" ”

Xiao Jiangyuan shook his head.

Rong Niang stroked her sideburns, suddenly pulled out a white hair, and played: "I entered the palace for five years, I was sixteen years old when I was sixteen, and now it has been twelve years. I'm only twenty-eight years old, and I've already had so many gray hairs, and it's all thanks to him!

"If he doesn't want it, he can not choose, since he chose us to enter the palace, why did he leave us all behind just because Yang Guifei made a fuss? The emperor's infatuation, the concubine's exclusive favor, the harem is fictitious, how nice it sounds to be passed out, but does he know that there are too many people like me in this palace, just because of his one decision, he fell into the emptiness and loneliness day after day? That's tens of thousands of palace people, some are lucky, they were assigned to Daming Palace, before Chang'an City was broken, they could still run with him, and some stayed in Taiji Palace with me and did nothing, and didn't know anything.

"This Taiji Palace is wet and cold, there are few guards, we have been sick for many years, and we can only survive on our own, but what can we do if we live? The best years of our lives are all ruined here, I thought we would never be able to get out for the rest of our lives,

I can't turn over forever, but I don't want to have this war. Since he fled Chang'an, many sisters have indeed tried to leave, but soon the rebels have invaded. I don't know how many people they succeeded, but after Chang'an was recovered, the number of palace people and eunuchs was greatly reduced. Now that the saint lives in Daming Palace, there are even fewer people in Taiji Palace, so no one can see them......"

"You didn't run away?" Xiao Jiangyuan asked softly.

"I wanted to see him and never gave up. On the day the city was broken, the rebels cut down when they saw the eunuchs, and they ...... when they saw the palace people I took the property when I saw it, I was originally in the Shujing Palace, and I also worked hard to go to the Yeting Palace through the Jiayou Gate. I thought that the rebels valued their property so much, and the Yeting Palace would definitely not be able to satisfy them, as long as I hid and was not discovered by them, I would soon be safe. It is also very strange to say, there is a room to the north of the Yeting Palace, and it seems that no one has lived in it for a long time, and there is a stone brick in the house that is loose, and there is just a hole under the stone brick that can accommodate me. I just hid there and escaped. ”

Xiao Jiangyuan was slightly stunned when he heard this.

"What's wrong?" Rong Niang asked.

Xiao Jiangyuan sighed lightly, and his tone was mixed: "That room ...... In my early years, Li Fuguo and I both lived. ”

"No wonder......" Rong Niang was surprised and stunned, "Later, I have been hiding in the Yeting Palace, although I lack food and clothing, I still survived until Chang'an recovered." Those eunuchs who returned to Chang'an, when they saw that there was still a palace person like me in the Taiji Palace, their jaws were almost frightened, and at first they thought I was a demon, but that Li Fuguo was not afraid. After learning about what had happened to me for more than a year and where I had been, he also let me stay with him for a while, until he planned to move the emperor from Xingqing Palace to Taiji Palace. I could see that he didn't like the emperor, so I told him that I also hated the emperor and wanted to take revenge on the emperor, so he granted my request and placed me in the Dragon Temple. ”

"I've been waiting for twelve years

I was finally able to see him. But I've forgotten all the feelings I felt when I first entered the palace. I was tempted to ask him why, but when I met him, I didn't want to. I thought I hated him and would clap my hands when I saw his downcast, but I didn't. I thought about scolding him, extremely

I tried my best to ridicule, but every word I said didn't make me feel the slightest bit of joy, but made me even more sad. He never knew me, he never saw me, he didn't know what year I entered the palace, and he didn't realize that I was different from ordinary palace people...... In fact, with my current appearance, even if the original flower and bird envoy is still there, I am afraid I can't recognize it.

"I thought about taking a back seat and letting the rest of his life belong to me, but I didn't expect him to have you. Since he has you, why does he have Yang Guifei? He has Yang Guifei, why are you still obsessed with him? I don't understand, and I don't want to. Now I finally know that he is not the person in my heart at all, and in my opinion, he is not as good as Zhengsipin! Although I was to blame for entering the palace, the pain afterwards was inseparable from him, I didn't forgive him, but I wanted to let myself go. ”

Once upon a time, Rong Niang was also a delicate girl like a hibiscus flower, but she gradually withered in this deep palace.

"I'm sorry." Li Longji's voice suddenly sounded.

Looking back and seeing Li Longji and Wang Chengen standing at the door, Rong Niang stood up in shock: "You guys...... You're eavesdropping! ”

Wang Chengen's face was red, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, we accidentally heard it!" ”

Rong Niang glared at Li Longji: "Who cares about your apology?" Except for me, many palace people will never hear it anymore, and you can't compensate us! You were forced out of Chang'an by the rebels, you lost your love forever, you lost the throne again, and you fell into such a state that even a eunuch dared to bully you, this is your retribution! ”

Seeing that Li Longji was unmoved, and solemnly made a big gift to himself, Rong Niang's tears that had endured for a long time finally burst out of her eyes. She casually wiped her sleeve, turned and ran to the kitchen.

Wang Chengen immediately chased after him, but was almost driven out by Rong Niang with a broom: "You, you, you...... You have such a big temper, who will dare to marry you in the future? ”

"Do you need to take care of me?" Rong Niang couldn't beat Wang Chengen, so she simply threw away the broom and sat on the threshold of the kitchen, "Anyway, I can't get out, what do you want to marry or not, you are deliberately angry with me, right?" ”

"No, no!" Wang Chengen shook his head again and again, and sat down next to Rong Niang, "I'm just ......"

(End of chapter)

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