Chapter 7: The World in My Heart (5)
From one national capital to another, from one cage to another, the world is still separated from her by a high wall.
Mo Zhanting is an emperor, in the whole story, Gu Nianci thinks he is a more important role, Hua Luocheng did not mention him too much, and almost everything about him was mentioned in one stroke. Mo Zhanting seems to be just a supporting character named "Emperor", and Hua Luocheng's explanation for this is, "She can't remember".
She couldn't remember much. She couldn't remember the appearance of the night underworld capital, Mo Zhanting's appearance, demeanor, and even his affection for her. All she remembers is the golden ginkgo biloba in autumn, her world... And also... Yan Haonan.
When Hua Luocheng mentioned Mo Zhanting's favor for her, he only had a few words. And there is not the slightest ostentatious look: "He likes me, because I don't think of him as an emperor; He pampered me only because, he wanted me to have a different kind of worship for those rewards. ”
Not treating Mo Zhanting as an emperor seems ridiculous, but in fact it is even more ridiculous. Even if his queen Yan Yaning loves him so much, it is very different from the love of the wives and husbands of ordinary people's families. Because he has a too domineering attribute - he is the emperor, the Son of Heaven, and the Ninety-Five Supreme in a high position, holding the whole life and death of the world. A word can live, a word can die.
The most valuable thing about Hualuo City is not that she doesn't treat Mo Zhanting as an emperor, but the most valuable thing is... She's not pretending.
Regarding the reward that Mo Zhanting gave to Hualuo City, she didn't even mention it in a word. This is not necessarily that those things are not precious, but on the contrary, Mo Zhanting shows the most common mentality of a so-called successful man: a rich man is most afraid of the money that women love the most, and those girls who do not love money will make them feel unfulfilled. If Mo Zhanting wants Hua Luocheng to worship him, he must have tried his best to do everything.
But it's a pity that Hua Luocheng is not an ordinary singer, in the sixteen years she was a princess, she has long been tired of seeing those celebrity calligraphy and paintings and the combination of golden hairpins, and in her eyes, it is not surprising that Mo Zhanting gave her something. What she longed for the most was the small world in her heart. Every time Mo Zhanting sent someone to send those gold, silver and jewelry, Hua Luocheng was a little farther away from her world, and her hatred for Mo Zhanting was even more.
Hua Luocheng hated Mo Zhanting in her heart, if it weren't for him, she wouldn't have had to leave her hometown. Even if she knew, even without Mo Zhanting, there would be another person. But Mo Zhanting's existence really stifled the last glimmer of hope for her and the world.
Hua Luocheng's attitude towards Mo Zhanting has always been lukewarm, but this has just become one of the reasons why Hua Luocheng has risen to prominence in the harem. Men have a strong curiosity and desire to conquer, not to mention, this is also the king of a country.
In this glorious cage, Hua Luo City is not new. She didn't need to adapt to it at all, because this was the environment she had lived in since she was a child, and this was the world she originally lived in. Her assessment of the palace given to her by the Mozhan court was "as unique as the aventurine." "No matter how luxurious and exquisite a palace is, there will always be the same intrigue and intrigue. Since then, the three words "treat you well" have become flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water. Occasionally, Hua Luocheng will take it out to miss her, but whenever her heart is excited, Hua Luocheng will comfort herself, she only cherishes the phrase "treat you well", not Yan Haonan himself.
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In the year when Hualuocheng was named a concubine, Yan Haonan won the battle again. Mo Zhanting held a banquet to celebrate him, and the banquet was still placed in the Zhaoyang Palace, but the ginkgo outside the hall had already lost its leaves.
Hua Luocheng was deliberately late for a while, deliberately chose a fiery fox fur, deliberately entered from the main hall, and deliberately passed by Yan Haonan, who was thankful in the main hall, and sat directly beside Mo Zhanting. Everyone looked at her arrogantly, but she felt sad at that moment: he was still dressed in battle armor, as tall and handsome as she remembered, he was dusty, with the smell of fireworks and a faint smell of blood in the world.
There may be the blood of the Tanglin people in this blood, Hua Luocheng took a deep breath. How could she forget Yan Haonan's identity...
During the banquet, Yan Haonan talked to the emperor about the wartime scene, which made many harem concubines tremble. What appeared in front of Hua Luocheng was the time spent with Yan Haonan before the night.
He always clumsily provoked topics, and in the end those topics always came down to the story of the battlefield, and he carefully avoided those bloody scenes, for fear of scaring the people in front of him. Hua Luocheng listened to his story and found that what she was thinking about day and night was really the general in front of her - Yan Haonan. When Mo Zhanting was in love, he also said to her, "I will treat you well", and the way the night man expressed his love was the same clumsy. But those words didn't stir up a ripple in Hua Luocheng's heart. What she wanted at that time, she didn't even notice herself.
But at this time, Yan Haonan's eyes were full of alienation, and his demeanor was deliberately polite and distant. Yan Haonan, who used to be a compiler again, with a clumsy and clumsy tongue, is gone. Now he must have guessed that her purpose was not pure, did he hate himself? Or do you think he's being teased? Or disgust?
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But so what? Hua Luocheng poured a glass of wine, walked down the high platform, stood in front of Yan Haonan and said: "Congratulations on the triumphant return of the general, Hua Luocheng respects you, the general is mighty." After that, he drank all the wine in the cup, smiled at Yan Haonan in the empty bottle, and then left the hall. It also left a handle for civil and military officials.
This is an extremely vicious "discordant scheme".
She just gave Mo Zhanting a reason to be suspicious, he knew too well the mind of an emperor as a man, Mo Zhanting gave her too many privileges, and even taking out any of them casually made the women of the harem crazy with jealousy, but she was always calm in front of Mo Zhanting. He complained to Hua Luocheng more than once that she didn't love her enough, and Hua Luocheng always told him with a smile that he thought too much.
Hua Luocheng has never lied, Mo Zhanting really thinks too much, but Hua Luocheng doesn't love him enough, but she never loves him.
Mo Zhanting naturally doesn't feel that his charm is not enough. But when Hua Luocheng raised his wine glass to Yan Haonan, he suddenly understood what was going on. For Yan Haonan, Hua Luocheng showed him Yan Yaning's current situation in the most embarrassing and arrogant way. As a wife, she lost the favor of her husband; But as a queen, even a singer of unknown origin can be so arrogant and unruly in front of everyone, trampling on her face like this. Even if she's not there... Whether as a wife or as a queen, Yan Yaning can be described as an extreme failure.
This is Yan Yaning's humiliation and the humiliation of the Yan family.
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Hua Luocheng, who left the scene halfway, came to the place where she stayed most often on weekdays. Next to the Imperial Garden of the Night is a small ginkgo grove. When Hua Luocheng first entered the palace, she happened to pass by here, and it happened that a little sparrow who was trying to fly was planted in her arms, and she remembered the situation of nesting in her father's arms and feeding the birds together when she was a child, and she couldn't help but smile. After being bumped into by Mo Zhanting, he ordered someone to build a small pavilion here, so that it was convenient for Hua Luocheng to rest when he was walking.
Hua Luocheng looked at the pale and dazzling sun through the branches, even if it was glowing and hot, she felt cold hands and feet, recalling the days when she walked with Yan Haonan, even at night, she felt very warm.
She was thinking about Yan Haonan when she saw him on the path in the forest. Hua Luocheng was in a trance, but fortunately, she was steady enough to see Manager Wang beside Yan Haonan before she lost her temper.
Before she could speak, Manager Wang stepped up first: "The queen misses her brother very much, and the emperor sent a slave to ask the general to rush to Niangniang's side." Well, this "rush" can be said to be extremely appropriate. Now that the queen has just given birth to the crown prince and is still in confinement, there is no need to participate in banquets of all sizes, and passing through this forest happens to be the closest way to the queen's palace. Hua Luocheng smiled, and had to admit that Mo Zhanting was worthy of being the emperor of a country, even if you knew his intentions, you couldn't find a trace of his fault.
But Yan Haonan is different, the difference between him and Mo Zhanting's old fox is more than a star and a half. The kind of discomfort and embarrassment he felt when he saw Hua Luocheng even Gu Nianci, who was listening to the story. But he had to kneel down on one knee and salute in a proper manner: "Luo Fei'an."
Hua Luocheng glanced at Manager Wang's seemingly serious but actually snooping eyes, and hooked the corners of his lips. Since everyone is so cooperative, why doesn't she work hard to play the best?
Hua Luocheng subdued slightly, and looked at Yan Haonan seriously: "General..."
She wanted to say, "I haven't seen you for a long time, and the general has been cleared."
She wanted to say, "Has the general tasted the xiaolongbao and the departing smile outside the palace?"
She wanted to say: "The general is brave and mighty, and the little girl respects such a man the most."
She wanted to say, "Does the general remember the ginkgo grove back then?"
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There were so many words in her heart, so many things she wanted to say, but she couldn't say a word. She knew what that would happen.
In the end, she didn't say a word about the planned words, Yan Haonan stood in place for a long time, and finally, got up and said "retire", and continued to move forward without waiting for her to speak.
Seeing that the figure that he was thinking about day and night was getting farther and farther away from him, Hua Luocheng suddenly asked a question that didn't look for the edge: "General, is the sun in the world cold?"
Her eyes looked through the armor on Yan Haonan's body to the sunset on the other side of the forest, thinking that when she first met, the armor on his body was the same. It's a pity that he has never been a little woman in the world, and now, I'm afraid he has already eradicated himself from his heart.
Yan Haonan looked up at the round of remnant sun, looked at Hua Luocheng with some doubts, and said, "It's not cold."
Hua Luocheng nodded with satisfaction, "That's fine." After that, without waiting for Yan Haonan to react, he turned around and walked towards his palace. The setting sun dragged her shadow for a long, long time.