244. Choice
Li Qingmu stood on the corridor of the Changle Palace, watching the snow falling from the sky in a daze. [Ran^Text^Library] []. [774] [buy]. [com]
In her memory, Dashun would only snow in November. Right now, it's only the middle of October. The golden autumn chrysanthemums in the imperial garden have not yet bloomed, and the large flowers hang on the branches, like the high heads of concubines.
Stretching out her slender jade hand to catch the snowflakes falling from the sky, she blinked her eyes and burst into tears.
Her Yu'er, the only prince of Da Yue, became a bargaining chip for Emperor Yongning to threaten Da Yue's retreat.
A gust of cold wind howled, rolling snowflakes and blowing the moonlight cloak behind Li Qingmu. The heavy cloak fluttered with the cold wind, and then slowly fell.
A palace maid named Lan Xin walked out of the hall, and after blessing Li Qingmu's body, she said, "Fifth princess, it's cold outside, you better go to the palace." ”
Li Qingmu shook her head, and the green silk that was not tied up was blown by the cold wind and wrapped around her side.
It's cold, is there a chill in her heart?
When Dashun was in trouble, Da Yue sent troops to Dashun. As Emperor Jianning said, her husband sent troops to fight her country, and then her brother wanted to exchange his children for peace.
Seeing his tears falling into the snow, Li Qingmu slowly squatted down.
Putting her jade hand in the snow where fresh snow had fallen, she couldn't feel the coldness of the snow.
"Fifth princess, the little prince is crying." Lan Xin said again.
Li Qingmu pondered for a moment, raised his cold hand to wipe the tears on his eyes, and walked towards the Changle Palace.
In the Changle Palace, the little prince, who was almost one year old, was lying in the arms of the nurse and screaming. Seeing Li Qingmu come in, he raised his little hand and called sweetly, "Mother." ”
Li Qingmu took off the cloak on his body and handed it to the palace maid on the side, put his bloodless hand on the charcoal basin to roast it hot, and then walked to the nurse and hugged the little milk baby into his arms.
"Mother......" The little prince wrapped his arms around Li Qingmu's neck, and his little hands wrapped around Li Qingmu's hair.
Li Qingmu went to sit down in front of the low kang, afraid that his hair would cut the little prince's hand, so he coaxed softly, "Yu'er, let go of my mother's hair, my mother will give you fun." ”
Picking up the jade-faced small drum on one side, Li Qingmu knocked it gently.
When the little prince heard the sound of the drum, he loosened Li Qingmu's hair to play with the small drum, and laughed when he listened to the drum.
Lan Xinxing walked behind Li Qingmu, took the grate and gently gave Li Qingmu a grate, tied all her hair up and pulled it into a simple bun, revealing her fair neck.
Outside the Changle Palace, a palace maid suddenly sang, "The queen has arrived~"
Lan Xin put down the jade hairpin she picked up, and knelt down with a few nurses who walked to the door of the hall.
Li Qingmu didn't hear it, holding the child in his arms without raising his head.
Jingyu was dressed in a red embroidered phoenix placket waist palace dress, with a wishful bun on her head, and a seven-tailed phoenix hairpin, full of luxury.
She held the hand of the palace maid Zizhu and slowly walked into the inner hall and stood in front of Li Qingmu.
Lowering her head slightly, she stretched out her hand to tease the little prince in Li Qingmu's arms, raised her delicately painted willow eyebrows, and smiled, "Princess, the little prince is really cute." ”
The sound is soft, like a spring flowing slowly in summer.
The little prince raised his fleshy little hand and grabbed the ruby tassel hanging from Jingyu's bun.
Zizhu was startled, and hurriedly stretched out his hand, wanting to break the little prince's hand and take out the tassel.
"Presumptuous!" Jingyu drank coldly, not angry but threatening.
Zizhu was so frightened that her body shook and hurriedly retreated.
Jingyu gently held the little prince's hand and touched the bun with the tassel. When you feel that it is a step shake, you remove it from the bun.
With a slight force on the white and tender fingers, the ruby tassel was dragged down from the step, and the little prince took it to play.
With a wave of his hand, the gold was made into a plum blossom shape, and the step without the tassel was thrown onto the table on the side, making a soft 'pop' sound.
Jingyu stood up straight and said coldly to the palace maids behind her, "All stand down, this palace wants to say a few words to the fifth princess." ”
Turning around, Jingyu whispered to Li Qingmu again, "Fifth princess ......"
Li Qingmu raised his head, called the nurse over, and asked the nurse to take the little prince out.
After the palace people retreated, Jingyu picked up her skirt and sat on the ground, leaned her head full of beads under Li Qingmu's legs, and gently closed her eyes.
Li Qingmu did not attend Jingyu's post-sealing ceremony, this was the first time she saw Jingyu after returning to the palace.
Li Qingmu raised his hand and gently stroked it on the beaded bun of Jingyu hairpin.
Just like what Lotus Ye said, the pure language is no longer the pure language of the past. She no longer has the timid look she had five years ago. One look can make the palace maid tremble with fright.
Taking the cotton handkerchief, Li Qingmu wiped away a teardrop that slipped from the corner of Jingyu's eyes, and asked softly, "Jingyu, do you hate me?" ”
Jingyu buried her face between Li Qingmu's legs, nodded, and shook her head again.
After shaking her shoulders for a while, Jingyu slowly raised her head, her eyes were slightly red, she looked at Li Qing and said, "I hated you, but later, I don't know what hatred is......
Li Qingmu helped Jingyu up from the ground, let her sit beside him, and asked, "Jingyu, what have you paid for this day?" ”
"Kind, simple, benevolent......" Jingyu leaned his head on Li Qingmu's shoulder, looked at the unknown place in the Changle Palace, and said softly, "My love for your imperial brother, and our imperial son......"
Li Qingmu lowered his head to look at Jingyu when he heard this, but he only saw Jingyu's fair forehead, and there was a faint jasmine fragrance around his nose.
"You, failed to give birth to him?" When Li Qingcao left the palace, Jingyu was pregnant.
"I was born, and I am a prince." Jingyu clutched the knots of his sleeves, "Your imperial brother likes it very much." But I couldn't protect him, and when he was two years old, he died in my arms......"
Li Qingmu felt a pang in his heart, and the pain in his heart turned into tears, which slipped down from the corners of his eyes. She stretched out her hand to hold Jingyu's and choked up, "It's all my fault, if it wasn't for me back then, you wouldn't have to suffer so much." It's all my ......."
"It's either Da Shun or Da Yue." Jingyu sat up straight, wiped the tears from the corners of Li Qingmu's eyes with a handkerchief, and there was no sadness in his tone, "Choose one of the two, I'd rather be in Dashun ......"
If Li Qingmu didn't push her onto Emperor Jianning's dragon bed, she would now be Emperor Dayue's concubine. Dashun Palace, at least she is familiar with, went to Dayue, she really had no way to live.
Looking at the pure words that covered up the sadness in an instant, Li Qingmu raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, "In five years, you have changed too much, but I am still ......the same as before."
"I treat a day as if it were a year." Jingyu replied, "I can't live even if I don't count for a day." I have nothing, no strong family, no emperor's favor, no emperor's son...... Princess, would you treat a day as if it were a year? ”
Li Qingmu shook her head, she, she treats a year as a day.
In the two years that she stayed in the Dayue Palace, no matter whether Emperor Jianning's love for her was true or not, he held her in the palm of his hand. Even if you calculate with the concubines in the harem, you can also discuss it with Emperor Jianning.
After leaving Da Yue, she found Lingxi, and the family has been together for a year, and now it makes her think about it like a dream.
Beauty is illusory and unreal.
The two were silent for a moment, Li Qingmu raised his head, looked at Jingyu and smiled, "It's my eldest brother who asked you to come." ”
She was placed under house arrest in the Changle Palace, on the orders of Emperor Yongning. Without his hand, it would not have been possible for a country to come in.
Jingyu nodded, raised his tender white palms and struck each other three times.
The maid came in with a food box and placed four dishes and a pot of sake on the carved table in the inner hall.
After the palace maid withdrew, Jingyu stood up, walked to the table and took the jade pot and poured two glasses of wine, picked it up and handed it to Li Qingmu, and said softly, "Princess, if you meet again in five years, the maid will toast you." ”
Li Qingmu waved his hand again and again, and when he took the wine cup, tears suddenly fell, and said, "Don't, you are now the queen of a country, and I can't afford to be a servant of you." ”
Jingyu touched Li Qingmu's wine cup, raised his head and drank it, and said, "It's just a name outside my body, I am the queen, but I don't want to die." ”
Li Qingmu took a sip of wine and waited for Jingyu to continue.
"Floods in the south of the Yangtze River have caused no grain harvest, and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced. Wei has always been a small border country attached to Dashun, but this year, it took advantage of the disaster of Dashun to send troops, and it has been fighting for more than half a year. After Jingyu sighed lightly, he said to Li Qingmu again, "Fifth princess, these two are big things, countless small things, and there are many, Dashun is no longer able to start a war with Dayue." The Great Moon Emperor is overwhelmed by heavy troops, and you know in your heart why ......"
Li Qingmu lowered his head, his heart sour. Emperor Jianning may not care about her, but the only prince of the Dayue royal family must be taken.
Shaking his head again and again, Li Qingmu was reluctant to give up his child. She put the wine cup in her hand on the side table, still shaking her head.
Jingyu sat down and asked, "Are you waiting for the Queen Mother to come out and make decisions for you and keep the little prince safe?" ”
Li Qingmu looked up at Jingyu and cried again.
That's right, her only hope now is her mother. As long as her mother speaks, Emperor Yongning will definitely scruple three points.
The selfishness of being a mother made her not want to think about the war situation between the two countries, she just wanted to keep the little prince by her side and watch him grow up.
"Fifth princess, the emperor said that as long as you agree to return the little prince to Da Yue, he will give you a good son-in-law in Dashun, and the child you give birth to in the future will be crowned a king."
Li Qingmu still shook her head, she didn't care about the identity of a princess or not, she just wanted her children to be by her side.
Jingyu poured herself another glass of wine, drank it lightly, and said, "Since you don't agree, then you can only let the emperor talk to the queen mother." The emperor said that the Queen Mother can choose between you and King Yi. ”
Li Qingmu raised his head violently, and a chill rose in his heart, "What do you mean?" ”
"What the emperor's heart is for the queen mother, you and I both know it, the queen mother's words, the emperor will definitely consider it." Jingyu handed the glass full of wine to Li Qingmu, lightly opened her lips, and said softly, "If the Queen Mother chooses you, the emperor will decree that King Yi will be the general, regardless of all the consequences and costs, dispatch all the remaining forces of Dashun to fight against Dayue to ensure the safety of your mother and son." ”
Seeing that Li Qingmu's face was completely pale, Jingyu said again, "If the Empress Dowager chooses King Yi, the emperor will no longer care about your thoughts, and will directly take the little prince away and return it to Emperor Dayue to calm down this war." ”
"Fifth princess, do you think Empress Ren will choose you or King Yi?"
"How could he do this to my mother!" Li Qingmu suddenly yelled at Jingyu, "How can he be so embarrassed for my mother." ”
"It's hard to be the queen mother, it's not the emperor," Jingyu put the wine cup back on the table, bowed her head and said, "It's you." "Sister-in-law, the phoenix of the concubine of the concubine leads the country
It's hard to be the queen mother, it's not the emperor, it's you.
It's not the emperor, it's you.
Li Qingmu trembled and covered his face with his hands and choked up.
After a long time, she sobbed and said, "My child and I will go back to Dayue together, and we will go back together." ”
She can't let her brother go to the battlefield, and she can't let her mother wash her face with tears.
Jingyu suddenly burst into tears, pursed her lips and said, "Fifth princess, in this case, will the emperor marry another princess to Dayue?" Even if you don't want to be a princess, the emperor won't allow it. ”
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