Chapter 41 Preface

When Gao Zhaorong returned home, Qifu Yanli quickly let people inform the emperor.

Tuoba Hong withdrew the army looking for her.

He originally planned to go to the Gao Mansion to visit Gao Zhaorong first and then return to the palace, but he didn't want the eunuchs in the inner court to report, so the Empress Dowager asked him to return to the palace.

When they all arrived at the gate of Gaofu, Tuoba Hong turned his horse's head and headed towards the palace.

As soon as he arrived at the Taihua Palace, the Empress Dowager ridiculed him.

said that for the sake of a woman, he stayed in Lan Ruoyuan for a few days and did not return to the court, and he didn't care about all the major affairs of the court.

Tuoba Hong understood very well in his heart, although the Empress Dowager said so, saying that he didn't care about political affairs, in fact, she was in charge of all the major affairs of the court, so he was so carefree.

Tuoba Hong understands that the Empress Dowager has actually been letting him do nothing all along.

He knew it in his heart, but he never said it in his mouth.

"The mourning family looks at Gao Zhaorong as well, and the mourning family inquired, and the reputation of the second high school lady is not very good, Hong'er, why do you have to marry her as a concubine?" The Empress Dowager asked in an orderly manner.

Tuoba Hong frowned and said, "Isn't it that the imperial grandmother has already promised Hong'er?"

The Empress Dowager looked at him for a long time before she said slowly: "The mourning family promised you, but she will not be able to enter the palace until you are established." After the year, you will first establish the concubine, and then take the concubine. ”

"Imperial grandmother—" Tuoba Hong let out a long exhale, looking very unwilling.

The Empress Dowager smiled: "Okay, it's so decided, the mourning family has already thought about it for you."

Tuoba Hong had no reason to refute again, and knelt down in a decadent mood.

The Empress Dowager looked at him like that, although she knew that he was reluctant, but only she could make such a decision.

Whether he listens or not, he can only follow her wishes.

"Before you accept her as a concubine, you don't have to see her again." The Empress Dowager said coldly.

Tuoba Hong was extremely unhappy, but he could only listen to it like this.

When he turned to leave, he had no smile on his face.

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I sat at the dresser, looking at the hairpin that Bai Rui had given me in my bun, and thinking back to the days I spent alone with him in the Frosty Water Pavilion.

Ying Lin walked over and said to me gently. "Miss, the water is ready, it's time to bathe."

I didn't think much about it, got up and walked to the clean room.

Zilan and Yinglin waited for me to bathe.

I soaked in the warm petal water and closed my eyes lightly.

When I was silent, Ying Lin said softly, "Miss, Princess Rencheng's maid Liu Fu died, and I heard that she was the one who poisoned Miss that day. ”

I opened my eyes and looked at Yinglin by the bucket suspiciously, with a faint uneasiness in my heart.

"Who found out?" I asked blankly.

Zilan hurriedly said, "That catkins was about to abscond the night after the young lady was poisoned, and was discovered by the palace housekeeper, and was about to let people catch her, so she committed suicide by taking poison herself." ”

Ying Lin followed, "So the prince of Rencheng thinks that it must be Liu Fu who wants to abscond in fear of crime." ”

I was a little confused, lowered my eyelids, and whispered, "I don't have any entanglement with catkins, why did she poison her?" ”

Ying Lin smiled, "Miss, don't you understand this, there must be someone who doesn't want to see Miss's goodness, so they want to get rid of Miss, Liu Fu is just doing things for people." ”

"Is that really the case?" I muttered, confused.

At night, the house lights are dim.

I couldn't calm down, and I didn't let the two maids follow, so I walked around the house alone.

I like to be alone, and I don't like people around me to disturb my thoughts.

I remembered that dream again, the night when the girl was frightened in the dream, I was very entangled and didn't understand, was the dream true or false?

Who is that scared woman?

In the dream, I didn't see clearly.

Slowly and quietly, I came to the outside of the Qiyan Pavilion, and I knew that this was the forbidden courtyard in the house.

Zilan told me that this is a forbidden courtyard, and everyone in the house knows about it, and no one can enter it.

However, after that dream, my heart lingered about what was hidden in my heart that allowed me to have such a dream.

And this forbidden courtyard has always attracted me, making me want to go in and see it.

I looked and saw that there was no one around, so I gently pushed open the courtyard door and came to the eaves of the Qiyan attic. It's all pitch black, and it's a little scary.

It's very shady and a little scary.

When I opened the door, I smelled a little dust, but the inside was still clean, not like no one had come in all year round.

The layout inside is similar to my Qiushui Residence, I looked at the front hall, it was very ordinary, nothing special.

Courageously, I took a look around, and finally walked into the inner room. This inner room should be the bedroom of my father's third aunt. When I looked around, it was an ordinary bedroom layout, all of which were rosewood and mahogany furniture, and there was a slight amount of dust on the furniture.

It seems that someone should have cleaned it once in a while, or it would have accumulated a thick layer of dust. However, the screen on the side of the bed attracted me.

I slowly approached it, and the borders were all made of rosewood, but the top was clean.

There are several screens, and I light the candlesticks in the house, and I approach them with them, and look at the paintings on them from the first one.

The painting on the screen is a landscape drawing.

But I think I've seen the painting somewhere, and it's very familiar.

The scene in the painting is not unfamiliar to my mind.

I pondered, where is it?

I was in a trance, and suddenly realized that this painting was a secluded forest valley.

The houses, the trees, the patterns on the shore of the lake—

I stunned myself.

How could the scene there appear on this screen?

Could it be that the third aunt specifically asked people to draw it?

Where has she been too?

I took a step back in a panic, and when I looked up, I saw a portrait painting hanging on the inside of the bottle.

I raised my eyebrows slightly, could it be that the person on this painting is the third aunt?

I took the candlestick and looked closer.

The person in the painting is beautiful, elegant and charming, wearing a bright red dress with a flattering smile on his face.

No wonder the people in the house say that the third aunt is the woman her father's favorite woman, and she is indeed beautiful.

Outside the house, I suddenly felt a bright light flicker.

Someone!

I hurriedly blew out the candlestick in my hand and hid in the closet. Tighten your body and breathe calmly.

Listening to the footsteps getting closer and closer, who is it?

I didn't dare to say anything, but through the door of the closet, I saw a light slowly flickering in.

When the figure appeared, I couldn't help but be surprised.

Mother and Mama Lin.

Why did Mother come here at this time?

What is the reason why Mother Lin helped her mother come here so late?

My mother has inconvenient legs and walks very slowly, but it is really incomprehensible to come here at this time.

Mother Lin let go of her mother and walked out alone, apparently at the door.

The mother was in front of the screen, looking at the painting in the light of the lantern she was carrying. I couldn't see my mother's expression, she was facing away from me.

Could it be that my mother is here to miss my third aunt?

I watched quietly through the cracks.

Mother bows in front of the portrait.

I couldn't see her expression, but she was lonely.

A faint word came out of her mouth, "Today, I suddenly remembered you, came to worship you, and came to ask for your forgiveness again, so many years have passed, that night is my nightmare, and it is the biggest wrong thing I have done in my life, I am really sorry for you." ”

Mother, I'm sorry, what is the third aunt?

There must be some secret between them that no outsiders can know, otherwise they wouldn't have come here in the middle of the night.

I want to go out, just as I hesitated, my mother turned around and walked to the counter, took out a painting tube from the wooden cabinet, took out a painting from it, opened it and spread it on the desk.

I couldn't tell what my mother was looking at, but she stared at the painting for a long, long time.

"I'm just here to see you, so that you can remind me of that unbearable past."

"Even if you die and your family is destroyed, I will not forget your father's sins."

The mother said these two words in a dumb voice, and her mood was a little low.

I frowned slightly, unable to understand what my mother meant.

Just when I was stunned, my mother said again, "Rong'er is becoming more and more like you, she is always reminding me in front of me, making me extremely tormented in my heart, this is all my sin!" ”

I was too stunned to make a sound, and I didn't come out of the closet until my mother had left. Mother's words lingered in my ears for a long time, and I didn't understand what she meant.

After watching Mother Lin help my mother leave, and the faint light disappeared, I walked to the wooden cabinet and opened the painting my mother was looking at.

I stared at the painting, shocked and unsettled. The person in the painting looks very similar to me, just like the girl I saw in my dreams.

The girl who let the white wolf save her.

She's a sucker.

In her dream, she called the boy Brother Jingqi.

In the dream, she also has a senior sister.

I approached the screen again and looked carefully at the painting on the screen, which was the senior sister of the dream girl.

Oh, my God! I can't believe that the paintings of Huan'er and her senior sister will appear in Gaofu at the same time.

I was so frightened that I took a few steps back, my face pale.

The person in the dream is really real.

I now understood why I dreamed of them.

Because they must have a relationship with me, maybe I actually saw them when I was a child, so I dreamed about them so often.

But why is it so similar to me?

I thought that the appearance of her in my dream was just imagination, and I thought that I was myself, but the reality was really it.

I turned around and walked over to the painting on the desk again, stepped forward, and reached out and touched it. It's a real painting, not a dazzle.

The woman in the painting is so clear.

I was stunned in front of the painting, covering my mouth, afraid that I would suddenly make a noise and let people find out.

I can't be calm for a long time.

Regaining my excitement, I panicked and put the painting into the tube, and walked away from the Qiyan Pavilion with it.

I calmed my mood, and when I returned to Qiushuiju, Yinglin was already waiting at the door, and when she saw me returning, she hurriedly greeted me.

She told me that Gao Xian had come to me just now, and she refused, saying that I had fallen asleep.

Zilan brought me a hand warmer, and my hands were frozen because I had been walking in the garden for so long.

"Where's Miss?" Yinglin brought a cup of hot water.

I put the painting tube on the table, took Yinglin's water, took a sip of it, and calmed my mind before I said slowly, "Go to the Qiyan Pavilion and take a turn." ”

When they heard this, they stared at me in amazement.