Chapter 176: Growing Old
The room with sunlight streaming in was much warmer.
Cen Muning could feel the warmth slowly flowing through her body, and she could also feel the impatience of Bingling.
"There's no hurry." She smiled faintly, and there was tenderness in her smile.
"Miss, do you mean that Concubine Min will take care of it first, and then we will do it when she makes a mistake?" That's how Bingling understands it.
"Not really." Cen Mning said indifferently: "These concubines entered the palace just for the sake of holy favor. How can there be no means, nothing to fight for. Since Concubine Min has this opportunity, let her make good use of it. Let's see. ”
"But ......" Bingling didn't understand what Miss meant by this.
"You were poisoned before, and your body should also be well recuperated. There is also a green plow, which looks like he is full of thoughts all day long, but it is not good. Since the emperor has canceled the reunion banquet. Then we will reunite in our own palace. Everything is simple, but what should be there must be also. You two just discuss and take your time. The rest of the palace matters, if you don't have to ask me about it, you don't have to pay attention to it, just watch quietly. ”
"Yes." Bingling nodded: "The slave understands." ”
Quiet and comfortable days always pass very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it is the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve.
On this night, hundreds of fiery red lanterns were lit in the palace, and from a distance, it looked like a winding red dragon, which was particularly spectacular.
Fengling Hall is also very lively, although only Bingling and Qingli accompany Cen Muning to keep the New Year, but everything that should be prepared is really ready. The hall is full of joy.
The mother was sympathetic to the subordinates, rewarded, and let them rest. Our temple is deserted. Qing Li thought to himself, when the queen was only accompanied by such a few people, even if she was in the palace before, it was far stronger than now. Do you want to ......?"
Cen Muning knew what she was going to say, but she shook her head: "You, Yin Li must have prepared a gift for you." You can also give people a chance to put things in your hands. ”
"Mother, the slave doesn't go." Qingli said with some taste: "If he thinks about me, he naturally has a way to come." ”
This method refers to asking him to try to invite his master over.
How could Cen Muning not understand, but just smiled: "He wants to see you alone." ”
"Mother, don't make fun of me." Qingli frowned slightly, and his tone was full of unwillingness: "In the past, the slave and maid treated him well, but he didn't take the slave's sincerity seriously. Now...... The slave always felt that pity was more meaningful. He's just guilty about it. No matter how nice the words are, it doesn't look like the previous marriage. ”
"This kind of thing, only you can see it." Cen Muning didn't plan to persuade anything, she couldn't sort out her messy thread, let alone other people's affairs. "Actually, I still haven't finished reading my mother's booklet, Qingli, bring it for me."
"Yes." Qingli nodded, turned around to fetch it, and didn't say anything more.
Day after day passed like this, and there was no New Year's atmosphere at all. Cen Mooning flipped through the booklet left by her mother, looking at the things in her memory in the past, she always felt that time had passed, and it was clear that those things were like they happened yesterday.
Zhuang Yanchen had been writing something, and when he stopped, it was because the tips of his fingers were cold and a little stiff, and he found that the charcoal in the hearth had been burned. "Yin Li."
He frowned, and it was cold when he took a breath.
Yin Li walked in quickly and said respectfully, "What does the master command?" ”
"The coals are gone, what are you doing?" Zhuang Chen's tone was a little bad.
"Oh." Yin Li glanced at the hearth and said lightly: "My subordinates will go to add charcoal." ”
Zhuang Chenchen felt that he was weird, and his reaction was different from usual, so he couldn't help frowning and asked, "What did you just do?" ”
"I didn't do anything." Yin Li looked dazed.
"Didn't you do anything, you forgot to add charcoal?" Zhuang Chenchen still felt that he had something to say. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Master, your subordinates really haven't done anything, you're busy, you don't like to be disturbed, and your subordinates have been waiting outside for your orders." Yin Li said with some grievances: "You said that you didn't let people come in to serve." ”
"You raise the bar!" Zhuang Chenchen felt that he was deliberately looking for awkwardness, but he didn't want to continue arguing with him at this time. "It's too cold, even if you add charcoal and heat this hearth, it will take a long time for the temple to warm up. Especially at this late ......"
Looking out the window, it was already dark.
"Master, the queen has always been afraid of cold, and there must be ...... in the palace at this time."
"That's why you're deliberately freezing me?" Zhuang Chenchen glanced at him unhappily.
"Master, you have wronged your subordinates." Yin Li drooped his head and said pitifully: "Where do the slaves dare to have such thoughts." It was noon, you were not angry, and your subordinates did not dare to make you unhappy in the New Year, so you quietly waited outside for dispatch. ”
He didn't say it, Zhuang Xianchen forgot about it.
In the afternoon, he looked at the congratulatory tables of the courtiers, and some flattery was enough, and some people dared to question his decision to cancel the reunion banquet. Naturally, this is all a trivial matter, and he just ignores it. But how long has it been since the new concubine entered the palace, so many people began to be courteous to the harem openly and secretly, courteous to the front court, and blatantly formed a party for personal gain.
"Lord...... Master. Yin Li saw that he kept walking out, and he didn't call a chariot or a sedan chair, so he wanted to ask where he was going. But looking at his angry appearance, he hesitated for a while. "Actually...... In the afternoon, Concubine Min and Concubine Mao both came, and their subordinates were afraid that they would disturb your tranquility, so they asked them to go back. ”
"Hmm." Zhuang Chenchen didn't plan to say anything. Those people, who can't be seen, are all the same.
As I walked, I walked to the Peiyu Palace, which was very close to the Qingxuan Palace. "Concubine Gong is still grounded?"
"Yes." Yin Li nodded: "She offended the Queen Mother, so naturally she is still grounded." ”
After saying this, Yin Li was a little embarrassed: "The master forgives his sins, and his subordinates will be quick to ...... for a while."
"If you don't think about it, you will say it from the heart. If you are given time to think about it, it will not be much fun to listen to it. Zhuang Chenchen continued to walk forward, walking and walking, it was the Fengling Palace.
At this time, the red lanterns that had been lit all night outside the Fengling Hall were not lit, but there was silence, as if no one was there.
Outside the hall, a few guards came out, and there was no one else. It's like a secluded place.
"Subordinate to the door." Yin Li ran over with a smoke, because he was afraid that the emperor would regret it.
When Zhuang Chenchen wanted to stop him, the palace door was already open.
Qingli saw that the master was coming, and his eyebrows immediately danced: "The slave and maid please the master, and the master invites inside." ”
"I'm just passing through." Zhuang Chenchen hesitated a little and didn't plan to go in. After all, he had been waiting for Cen Muning to make some delicious dishes, holding a wine jug, lying coquettish in front of him, and saying a few nice words. But she's a hard guy, and these days, it's as if everything is over, and she's forgotten that there is such a person as him.
"Master, it's all here, just go in and sit." Yin Li smiled with a smile: "The warmest in the queen's palace." ”
The fingertips were blown even cooler by the wind, Zhuang Yanchen wrinkled his brows, and walked in a little reluctantly.
Qingli hurriedly asked someone to close the palace door, as if he was afraid that his master would run away.
In the inner room, Cen Muning rubbed her cold fingertips and coughed gently.
Bingling was distressed: "Niangniang, why are you doing this." ”
"It's not bitter." Cen Mooning smiled and said, "It's just some grinding." ”
Before she could finish speaking, the door was pushed open, and a cold wind poured in, and she coughed again.
"It's ...... here" Zhuang Chenchen walked in, and his face was ugly.
Warm ghost! Not even a little heat!
He turned his face suddenly, and the sharp light in his eyes was so startled that Yin Li almost jumped up. "Lord...... The master forgives the sins, and the subordinates go and bring in the gilded copper furnace. Please also ask the emperor and queen to wait a moment. ”
Bingling stepped forward with a very good eye, and saluted with a smile: "Your Majesty, the slave will go to serve tea." ”
Cen Muning saluted him with some embarrassment: "The concubine was not called, I didn't know that the emperor came here at this time, and I was not prepared." Please also ask the emperor to forgive the sin. ”
Zhuang Chenchen's face was strained, and his tone was not very good: "Are you revenge, full of ambition and not wanting to forge ahead, or do you think that I have no use value for you, so you are so disdainful?" ”
Cen Muning felt that he was very angry, but he didn't make a sound.
"Do I have a word to blame you? To whom do you make such a pathetic emphasis? Zhuang Chenchen was even more angry because of her silence. If she relents at this time and says something nice, that's fine. She didn't even say a word.
"Sometimes you don't need to be harsh, the harem has already fallen leaves." Cen Muning said this very calmly.
"What do you mean?" Zhuang Yanchen turned his face suddenly, his eyes full of anger.
"The emperor kept his concubines by his side because concubines have the use of concubines." Cen Muning said gently: "Just as the concubine is willing to become Princess Ruiming and be your queen, she also relies on your power to achieve her goals step by step." This was originally just a layer of window paper, and if it wasn't pierced, it was tacitly understood. When the emperor snubbed his concubines for a long time, he must be unwilling to listen to the explanations of his concubines. Now that your attitude is so clear, why should the concubine bother with your eyes. ”
"Cen Muning." Zhuang Chenchen was so angry that she was about to chill her heart. It was an unquenchable cold. "Do you want to be?"
Cen Muning looked at him like thunder, and laughed out loud: "The concubine doesn't dare." ”
"You...... You ......" Zhuang Yanchen didn't find an adjective for a long time, as if she was not suitable for anything.
She took a step forward, stood on tiptoe, and kissed him softly on the lips. The action in one go was very natural, and he didn't expect it, and he was slightly stunned.
"Your Majesty, don't be angry." Cen Mooning held his cold fingers and rubbed them in his palm. "The concubine will share your worries by your side, in the past, in order to survive, and in the future, in order to be able to hold the hand of the son and grow old with the son."
The former King Ruiming, why should he be angry with himself? Whose life he wants, it couldn't be easier.
The current emperor is helpless because of her anger.
It's not that he's become stupid, it's since when she has quietly lived in his heart.
In a person, there is no way to take her.
Cen Mooning slipped into his warm arms and smiled warmly.
Outside the door, Qingli and Bingling couldn't help wiping away tears.
Such a New Year, suddenly has a taste.