Hyakki Night Walk: Nagabe Hime (2)
Qin Wu was like a soft white light, illuminating the gloomy sky above me, she was the most beautiful life in this lifeless palace.
Since that day, Qin Wu has been with me, and when I was sick and couldn't get off the bed, she painted in front of my bed and told me the scene outside. The sky is blue, the stars are shining, the grass is green, and the purple and red are ...... The gray images in my mind are rendered little by little, and even the snow that I don't like the most is light and graceful under her brush, like white cherry blossom petals.
Qin Wu gave me the inscription of the painted painting, I also tried to write Xiuyi's words, when the spirit was good, we would chant together with the song, she took off the white hosta on the bun and gently tapped it on the porcelain cup, I also pretended to be a bold poet to replace the wine with medicine, not drunk and not home. It's one of the most vivid memories of my life.
The palace people all said that my eyes began to regain their brightness, and I even started to smile, because this was the only reward I could give Qin Wu in return.
I shouldn't have such a beautiful woman in my gloomy life, I have always known it, and I told Qin Wu seriously. Qin Wu didn't mind at all, she said, "Ah Che, I just want you to be happy." ”
"I don't ask for anything else, as long as you're happy." Such a pure friendship, so beautiful that it is doubtful.
A year later, my health gradually improved, and I was able to walk in the garden, and Qin Wu began to contact the world outside the dormitory, and his eyes were full of novelty. I said, are all the paintings you made fake? She smiled, it was true, the world should be so beautiful in my heart.
I just remembered that she had spent the previous fourteen years in the corner of the General's Mansion, and her life was much darker than mine.
"At that time, I could only look at the sky. Now it's different, in addition to looking at the sky, I can also look at you. The light smile on her lips rippled like ripples, but a hint of gloom flashed in her eyes, as if there was some pain.
"Actually, you have a secret, right?"
Qin Wu didn't answer, turned around and walked towards the smoke and rain platform on the side, where he could clearly see the Biluo Pavilion in the distance, and the towering Qiong Tower looked like a mirage shrouded in clouds in the dusk. Qin Wu tilted her head, and the sunset shone on her beautiful face, as if covered with a layer of blurry light veil, like a dreamlike and incomprehensible object.
"I'm scared to see that building, because there's someone up there who is dying because of me." I sat down on the steps in frustration: "I have brought too much disappointment and pain to the world, so I am not destined to be happy." ”
"Ache." Qin Wu sat beside me, his slender fingers running through the folds between my eyebrows: "This has nothing to do with you, you don't have to blame yourself,"
Before Qin Wu's words fell, his face instantly turned pale. A gaze pierced me like an arrow, and I was also frightened. Although Qin Wu had taken a few steps back, he still received a resounding slap from the queen mother: "Slut." ”
Behind me came Wan Yue's contemptuous laughter, and I bowed my head in silence, only to feel that the sky was getting dark, and the purple and red garden had lost its color, and I seemed to be standing in a muddy swamp. Qin Wu covered her face, her head drooping lower than me, but there was no grievance and resentment in her eyes, but a deep sadness.
"With your bad look, can the prince see it? What kind of dragon protector, I think you better go to the cold palace to serve the down-and-out prince. The queen mother's tone was cold and mean: "If this palace doesn't give you a table of banquets, you will get married in the cold palace today." ”
"Niangniang, the slave maid is willing to go to the cold palace, but the slave maid has a thin life, and she is not blessed to marry into the royal family."
"Since you are so self-aware, let's be a daughter for the rest of your life."
I went back to the dormitory under the hostage of the queen mother and Wan Yue, and finally couldn't help but glance back, but Qin Wu's thin figure had already been swallowed by the night.
Although I knew for a long time that I would lose Qin Wu, I didn't expect it to be so fast, and I didn't even have time to say "cherish" in a hurry.
The queen mother asked Wan Yue to stay in the palace for a long time, and I knew that she would be her for the rest of my life. Wan Yue and Qin Wu are two completely different personalities, she is arrogant and willful, like a gorgeous but thorny rose, blooming arbitrarily in front of my eyes. I listened to her, but I restrained my smile.
"Do you have nails in your face, why does that slut make you laugh?" Wan Yue angrily tore up all of Qin Wu's paintings, and I just looked at it in a daze, not to mention persuasion, I didn't even frown, but the fingers hidden in the sleeves were buttoned into the palms, and I wanted to pierce them.
On that day, I went to greet my mother, and I accidentally heard a conversation on the corridor, and my heart instantly fell to the bottom.
"What happened to those two broom stars in the cold palace?"
"Back to Niangniang, Qin Wu's slut is really good at coming to things, and he actually coaxed Xuanyuanming's cold-faced man to talk and laugh, a few days ago, the two of them were flying kites under the barren mountain in the cold palace! That's not all, in the middle of the night, I drank and stroked the piano again, and everyone thought it was haunted. ”
The cup in the queen mother's hand fell to the ground, and my heart was shattered. It turns out that she can be so happy with anyone......
"I just want you to be happy."
You can say this to anyone, right?
I thought that the story of myself and Qin Wu would end here, who would have thought that my father would recall her back to the East Palace and return her to me. When we saw each other again, she smiled at me, but I couldn't lift the corners of my mouth.
"Life here is not as good as in the cold palace." I kept my face composed, and even I could smell the vinegar in my heart.
"It's okay, it's good to have you." The ripples on her lips were as warm as jade.
"That's natural, how can the prince of the cold palace be compared to the crown prince, it's a pity that you can't afford to climb in your life." Wan Yue took my hand and left.
Qin Wu paused, but still followed.
As a lesson from the past, this time my father specially issued an order to let Qin Wu be my personal companion, and even the queen mother must not stop me. It's a pity that the Tao is one foot high and the demon is one foot high, and Wan Yue privately made three chapters of the law, which is comparable to torture. She ordered that Qin Wu must be three feet away from me, and once he crossed the line, he would be whipped thirty; Only bow your head and follow each other, if you look up, face the wall for half a day; Thou shalt not speak, but if he speaks, he shall slap his mouth thirty.
Qin Wu nodded lightly, lowered his head and retreated three feet away.
"Wan Yue, are you going too far?" I sighed, objecting to Wan Yue's request for the first time.
"Brother Prince, you have to listen to me." Wan Yue raised her head, the curvature of the corners of her mouth was arrogant and indifferent, and I turned away and said no more.
After that, Qin Wu was like a shadow, silently following behind me. I wanted to say sorry to her, because because of me, she was deprived of the right to see the sky. But I was afraid that I would be seen and that she would be punished.
You don't speak, I don't speak, three feet away, separated by a world that you can't get out of.
After graduating from the Imperial Academy that day, I was just about to get into the chariot when a man hurriedly ran over and grabbed Qin Wu's hand.
"Xiaowu, come with me, why bother to suffer here." Although the royal brother is dressed shabbyly, he is heroic between his eyebrows: "The prince's abandonment of the maid is like a fairy who has obtained a treasure to Weichen, rather than keeping it in the eyesore, why not be a favor and give her to me?" ”
I couldn't stand his questioning, and I couldn't answer for a while.
Qin Wu gently withdrew his hand: "Brother Ming, you go back first, we didn't say yes," she didn't say any more, only glanced at the imperial brother, the imperial brother was silent for a while, and finally nodded and left reluctantly.
This half sentence caused an uproar, and the queen mother and Wan Yue suspected Qin Wu of bad intentions and tortured her to extract a confession. The corners of Qin Wu's lips were bloody, and she smiled bitterly, she looked up at her mother for a long time, and suddenly cried irrepressibly. The mournful cry even stunned the queen mother, and I was even more distraught.
That night, I hesitated for a long time, and finally opened my mouth to Qin Wu: "I will go to see my father tomorrow and ask him to give you to the emperor's brother." ”
"Does Your Highness think I'm a burden? Or do you doubt my intentions? The tenderness in her eyes dissipated in vain, turning into autumn water, reflecting the pale and cowardly me.
I was stabbed by the disappointment in her eyes, and there was a dull pain in my chest: "Qin Wu, I don't doubt you, but I doubt myself." Why are you being so nice to me? I'm so cowardly that I'm tired of myself. Although the imperial brother is in a disadvantageous situation, he still ran out of the cold palace to find you, and what about me? Obviously by your side, but I don't even dare to say a word to you. ”
"Ah Che, I told you a long time ago, it doesn't matter, as long as there is you." She held my hand, her eyes flowing with an intoxicating light like a sea of stars. I almost fell in, but I used the last of my sanity to force myself to shake off her hand.
"I can't treat you like the royal brother in my life, I'm destined to only watch Wanyue bully you, because I don't have the right to resist (resist). Qin Wu, do you know, I am not the prince at all, I am my uncle's child, and I exchanged with Wan Yue on the day I was born. Therefore I owe her ...... in this life and in this life."
Qin Wu was not surprised when he heard this, but looked at me very sadly: "But Ah Che, it's not your fault. ”
"But this is the case, if you follow me, you can only continue to suffer this sin."