Chapter 1 A Calculation

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Empress Dowager Li stood in front of Xuanning Palace, looking up at the three gilded characters of 'Xuanning Palace' on the plaque.

In the blink of an eye, the gate of this palace has been closed for ten years.

The two chamberlains pushed open the palace door vigorously, and a stale smell came to her face, and Empress Dowager Li couldn't help but feel sour.

The palace gate has been closed for ten years, and the Empress Dowager has been in a big line for ten years.

It is said that she is wise and compassionate, but she is just learning from the Queen Mother everywhere......

In the palace gate, a thick layer of dust has accumulated everywhere, and this is a whole decade of time.

Empress Dowager Li stepped on the dust, one step at a time.

Ten years ago, the palace was full of bloody storms, but here, no matter what time it was, it was so peaceful and warm......

This palace is the warmest and most dependent place for her, but before the Empress Dowager left, she left her last words: close this palace and not allow anyone to approach it for ten years......

The Empress Dowager left suddenly, when the emperor had just ascended the throne, the situation was turbulent, and when the Empress Dowager left, she was so panicked that she almost collapsed.

In the next ten years, she supervised the country on behalf of her son, and it was extremely difficult to support, whenever she was extremely tired and almost unable to hold on, she would go outside the palace gate, lean against the palace gate, sit alone for a while, or sit until midnight, it was the queen mother, supporting her until now......

Fortunately, she has survived, the emperor has grown up, the court situation is stable, and the Empress Dowager has been in the line for ten years, she wants to move here, and in the future, just like the Empress Dowager, she recites the Sutra every day, and does the Dinghai Shen Needle in this palace steadily and peacefully.

Empress Dowager Li walked to the front of the main hall, looked up at the closed door of the main hall, turned around and went straight to the small Buddha hall next to it.

The Empress Dowager is almost always in this small Buddhist hall, copying scriptures peacefully and calmly, or chanting, she accompanies her, making tea, grinding ink, cutting paper......

This small Buddha hall is the place she misses the most.

Empress Dowager Li entered the small Buddha hall and was stunned.

On the four walls of the small Buddha hall, the dazzling ghost talisman that seemed to be dripping with blood spread its teeth and claws, like the hands of the devil desperately wrenched out of hell, stretched out towards her, and the statue of the mutton fat jade Guanyin more than one person high at the door was shattered into a pile, and the long case of hand-copying scriptures was empty......

It was terrifyingly quiet, as if the whole world had stood still.

Empress Dowager Li stared at the long case that was so clean and shiny as if she had been hooked, passed step by step, and involuntarily reached out and stroked it, and it was clean!

How is this possible!

A violent yin wind suddenly rolled up on the flat ground, and the frightened Empress Dowager Li stumbled under her feet, and fell straight back, her head happened to hit the pig iron wooden fish in the middle of the room, and a stream of blood gushed out, and the Empress Dowager Li's ears buzzed like thunder, and a scream was getting closer and closer, but it was getting farther and farther......

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Li Xia lay on the porthole, staring blankly at the clear river.

She was calculated, she died, but she actually went back to her childhood, back to Daddy's way to Hengshan County, back to the spring of the year before their family's tragedy began, was this an accident, or was it part of the calculation?

The river breeze in early spring was mixed with the chill of the remnant winter, blowing on Li Xia's face, the slightest pain, Li Xia looked down at her chubby, small hands, her chest was blocked and breathless, she was calculated, but there was nothing to do.

Li Xia's chin rested on the windowsill, depressed.

Everything before the start of the tragedy of their family, in her memory, has been extremely vague, she only knows that the next summer, Daddy accepted bribes to cut people's lives, was locked and taken to the capital.

After Daddy was escorted away, Auntie took the four of them to rush to the capital in a hurry, and embarked on the road of no return......

The river breeze blowing on his face seemed to be colder than it had just been. Li Xia's heart was blocked and anxious.

She knew nothing about her death and her return from death, and the Empress Dowager said: Ignorance is the most terrible situation. The Empress Dowager also said: When you don't know anything, focus on the present.

Well, think about it right now, what is she going to do?

Li Xia looked at her little chubby hands again, she was only six years old next summer, when the destruction began......

"Why are you crying again? Got a sore head? "Fifth brother Li Wenshan moved over. Said with a little care.

"Didn't cry." Li Xia replied sullenly, she didn't do such a useless thing as crying.

"Look at how strong the wind is, if it blows again, it's going to catch a cold, shall we close the window? Fifth brother tells you a story? The fifth brother continued to accompany Xiaoyi to please his sister.

The evening before yesterday, my sister fell into the water, choked to death for a long time before she came back to life, after that, my sister seemed to be a different person, very depressed...... It's not entirely right to say that depression is ...... He can't say clearly, in short, the current sister gives him a feeling that he is a sister and not a sister.

My sister must be scared, and her soul must not have fully returned to its place.

"Fifth brother got a good book a few days ago! The story in it is so exciting......" Without waiting for Li Xia to nod, Li Wenshan began to tell the story with his hands and dances.

"It's not good at all!" The sixth brother Li Wenlan, who was holding his cheek in one hand and biting his pen to listen to the story, pouted, "I want to tell Daddy, the fifth brother is telling ghost stories again!" ”

Li Xia tilted his head to look at the sixth brother, the sixth brother had red lips and white teeth, black and bright eyes, and her pouting lips and beautiful and cute appearance made her want to rush up and kiss her.

Li Xia was a little distracted. The sixth brother died early, she had long forgotten what the sixth brother looked like, it turned out that the sixth brother was so good-looking, so cute, like the emperor when he was a child.

"Let's take a break, drink some soup and eat a snack." Sister Li Dong's gentle voice came.

Li Xia turned her head, and her sister came in through the back cabin, her sister was what she remembered, with a warm smile on her face all the time, always so gentle and amiable.

"Sister! Embrace! Li Xiayang threw his hand into his sister's arms.

This is the sister who loves her the most and misses her the most.

When A-Niang died, she was only seven years old, in the back house of the Hou Mansion, her sister loved her like a hen guarding her and protected her, until she was eleven years old, her sister married a relative, and died of illness on the road.

Behind Li Dong, the girl Su Ye was holding a tray, and there was a silver kettle, a few cups and a plate of snacks in the tray.

"How old are the nine ladies? I want my sister to hug! Shame! Su Ye put down the tray and teased Li Xia with his fingers on his cheeks.

Li Xia nestled in her sister's arms, and wrinkled her nose at Su Ye to show that she didn't care about her jokes.

Ten years later, when she sent someone to bury her sister, Su Ye returned to the capital with the coffin, she built a nunnery for her, Su Ye, who loves to talk and laugh, often does not say a word for three or five days......

"Sister eats first!" The sixth brother salivated and looked at the dim sum on the plate, but picked up the plate and sent it to Li Xia first, "The dim sum made by my sister is the best!" ”

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