Huangyuan Palace is the most exquisite and elegant palace in the inner palace, with a purple mantle with a red gold candlestick, a red mantle with a bronze and blue candlestick, and a gray mantle with a snow silver candlestick. The design and thought everywhere are the handwriting of Liu Anran. Pillow Chun recognized that Liufu was so delicate and meticulous.

Now this magnificent palace sits there empty, as if forgotten. Passing through the main hall, walking through the side pavilion, and passing through the cloister, there is a row of transepts in the back of the sun, which is gloomy and gloomy. In the case of Liu Anran who was wrongfully poisoned Empress Dowager Zhuang Yi, she was only grounded, and she had never lived in the ear room and suffered such grievances.

Xiaodouzi went to open the door, and the pillow spring skirt crossed a low threshold. The wooden railing on the door was low, and it almost touched the crown of nine phoenixes and emerald flowers on the head of the pillow spring.

First, I saw two plain-clothed Gong'e who twisted the handkerchief to cook medicine.

One is to divide the flowers, and the other is to boil the wine.

The flower distribution and cooking wine are both the maids selected by Mrs. Wang for Liu Anran's dowry, and they are sisters with a two-year age difference. Fenhua looks silent, but diligent and capable, clever in wine cooking, and able to understand current affairs. And the important thing is that these two girls are very beautiful. Mrs. Wang was far-sighted about the emperor's "unforeseen needs", but it was really a fateful moment, and it had no effect.

Dividing flowers and boiling wine to boil medicine in the dark, looking up to see the light outside, fixing his eyes to see that it was pillow spring, his face was a little frightened. They have known Pillow Spring since they were children, and they have seen Pillow Chun and Liu Anran parting ways with their own eyes. Seeing her today is no different from seeing the evil ghosts of Shura.

Pillow Chun pulled out the silk handkerchief in his sleeve and covered his mouth and nose fearfully, trying not to smell the medicine. She sighed pityingly: "Splitting flowers and cooking wine is an elegant and leisurely thing, and boiling soup and medicine in the haze today can be regarded as a grievance." ”

In the depths of the darkness, a hoarse voice came: "You come to see me." ”

Pillow Chun raised his eyes, put aside Su Bai's hand, and walked towards the dim inner room alone.

Liu Anran lay on the thin bed, his face pale. Her cheeks were a little sunken, and she didn't look like a woman in her twenties, she looked older and lifeless. The quilt on the couch is a soft ice silk jacket in summer, and the quilt is very thin, and you can see the hoarfrost stained in the corner of the wall. There was a copper basin under the bed, and the black blood in it smelled fishy.

The pillow spring skirt sat on the soft chair in front of the couch halfway, looking at the nose and the nose and heart.

"Are you here to see my miserable condition, or did Your Majesty let you come?" Liu Anran stood up.

Pillow Chun replied truthfully: "Your Majesty asked me to come." ”

"He asked you to come and see me?" In Liu Anran's pupils, which had not had much time, a little light of hope was revealed, "Really? ”

Pillow spring jaw head.

“…… Can. "Why didn't he come by himself?" ”

Pillow Chun thought about it, but still couldn't bear to tell her that Mu Beiyi didn't allow her to live, so he asked her to give her a ride. Pillow Chun turned his head to look at Liu Anran, and suddenly said, "When you were sixteen or seventeen years old, you were the most beautiful." Your mother brought you to settle down, and that day you had a blue spring shirt with a light Duruo silver thread embroidered with apricot blossoms. There are six snowflake silver hairpins on the neat and dignified updo, each of which is inlaid with thumb-sized pearls. You are quiet and introverted, and you are dignified and gentle that no other lady has. ”

Liu Anran just stood up, and it took a lot of effort. She gasped a little, leaned her head on a rice bran soft pillow, and said slowly: "I also thought at that time that we could be good sisters for a lifetime." ”

Pillow Chun sighed and said slowly: "It's frosty, I'll ask Ye Tingsi to send some more quilts." If you are afraid of the cold, you can also add some charcoals. ”

"You don't have to pity me." Liu Anran gently lifted his emaciated jaw, "I am the queen, you are the imperial concubine." ”

"Mu Beiyi took off your phoenix crown and gave it to me yesterday. I have nine phoenixes and ten tails on this top, which is better than your phoenix crown. But what's the use of all this? Pillow Chun was very emotional, "Does the position of the queen and the position of the imperial concubine matter?" ”

Liu Anran was a little angry: "You are presumptuous, you dare to call Your Majesty by your name!" You...... Ahem...... How can you have the humility of being a concubine...... You...... You have been bold since you were a child...... Ahem...... "She was very anxious when she spoke, coughing incessantly, and she was so weak.

Pillow Chun said: "You are the queen, and you will always be the queen." He won't depose you, because he doesn't want to be a name that has been abandoned for the rest of the day. It's also ...... It's not like he started and gave up, he really didn't really love you, you know it in your heart. ”

Liu Anran's eyes, which seemed unusually large during her illness, opened wide, and she saw tears welling up in her eyes, and she laughed self-deprecatingly: "Ha, yes." I...... Yes, yes. ”

"But he doesn't necessarily love Concubine Zhenxian either." Pillow Chun gently smoothed the corner of the skirt, slowly swung the Chuncai bracelet on his wrist, raised his eyes and said lightly: "If he loves Xiao Xue's family, and you and the crescent moon plot to kill his son, he should be eager to slash you on the spot and relieve Xiao Xue's hatred of killing his son, this is the love of a husband who loves and protects his sweetheart." ”

"You have always been pampered, and he treats you a little differently than others." Liu Anran's expression was gloomy.

"You said it too, it's a little." Pillow Chun looked at Liu Anran's knuckled and withered hands, "If he really loves me wholeheartedly, he will doubt me." Even if everyone in these six palaces framed me to kill the third prince, he should give me one more chance to argue. ”

“…… What do you mean by that? Liu Anran raised his eyebrows and clenched the quilt, "Your father and brother are now holding Zhongshu Province and Shangshu Province in their hands and ruling the central power, and you are about to be crowned the queen!" Nuge Mingxing, you are full of people's hearts, and no one in the palace concubines can compete with you anymore. You also gave birth to a son...... Biological son...... A smart, healthy biological son, what else are you not satisfied with? ”

"I'm twenty-four years old, how old will I live?" Pillow Chun's tone was light, and the corners of his eyes were moist, "Thirty-four years old?" Forty-four years old? Or will you live to be seventy-four, eighty-four? Saying that, the heartache pierced like an ice pick, "The rest of my life, the endless rest of my life, will accompany a man I don't love." I will sit on the throne of the queen of Huangyuan Palace, and I will do everything with the concubines, and I will be politically empty and wronged. I will imagine how my beloved walks alone in the smoky world. How ridiculous this must be. ”

"What?" Liu Anran raised his eyebrows lightly, and the corners of his mouth were full of ridicule, "Your Majesty now regards you as a pearl in the palm of your hand, prefers everything, and pays attention everywhere, but you treat you like dung?" I've been fighting with you for so many years, you'...... Don't love Your Majesty? Fake ...... Ahem...... It's all fake! ”

Pillow Chun laughed at himself, his shoulders trembled slightly, and his tone was full of pity: "He doesn't love you, and he doesn't really love Xiao Xue." He doesn't love women, he only likes power and country. You should have known that what you fell in love with from the beginning was a heart that you would never get. He's an emperor, he's not wrong, and you're not wrong. What is wrong is the ancestral rules of thousands of years, the rules of the Son of Heaven with three wives and four concubines, and the obedience and humility of the world's morality! ”

"You're crazy......" Liu Anran's face was full of disbelief, tears of horror flowed, and his voice was choked, "You are full of nonsense." I am the worthy queen, and Your Majesty will not abandon me so easily. I manage three thousand beauties for him, and I hold six houses for him, and I ...... I...... I'm all for Your Majesty! How can Your Majesty not love me, I can read and write, I can also recite poems against me, why is he not interested in me at all! It's just like you, riding horses, raising dogs, and getting tattoos. I can also learn, and when I get well, I can ...... Ahem......"

"Sister Liu."

Liu Anran suddenly fell silent and raised his head.

"Sister Liu." Pillow Chun leaned over lightly and held her cold hand, "You are flawless and good-looking, the only color in heaven and earth, as warm as jade." Now for him, his hands are full of blood and filth, and he doesn't look like himself. ”

"Pillow ...... Spring...... Younger sister. Liu Anran's tears fell, she was full of humiliation, and choked up, "I originally wanted to be a sister with you for the rest of my life, but you treated me like that." You conspired with the Little Xue clan to bring down the big Xue clan, but you deliberately hid it from me. You slapped An Tutang in the face, and you competed with me everywhere for favor......"

"I've never loved Beiyi, if you don't force you step by step, why should I compete for favor?"

Liu Anran was stunned.

"I never deliberately hid it from you, and I only found out when Empress Dowager Zhuang Yi died." Pillow Chun slowly explained, "Empress Dowager Zhuang Yi was poisoned by the Son of Heaven, not the Da Xue family, we were all deceived." Mu Beiyi dropped you, not because of me, nor because of Xiao Xue's family. No one can frame you in front of him, because he knows in his heart that he himself is the murderer. ”

Liu Anran's eyes widened, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day: "What ......"

"I have never slapped my fourteenth sister, and even until she dies, I want to save her life." Pillow Chun said lightly, "From the beginning, I didn't want to fight with her. Because my father is not young anymore, he can't stand the torture of his children's walls, and I don't want my mother to be difficult at home. I was born with no hope of love, so I love family affection more. ”

"Ha......" Liu Anran hesitated slightly, and then his eyes revealed guilt, "That's the case." Why am I so stupid, I ...... Listen to An Huatang's words...... I listen to the crescent moon...... I ......"

"Thousands of no, never. The Liu family shouldn't have murdered my second brother, I love the people of the An family just like you love Beiyi. ”

Liu Anran burst into tears: "When I knew about this, my father had already done it......"

"It's all gone, and the blood debt is paid in blood." Pillow Spring felt uncomfortable in the end. She looked at the frail woman in front of her, her childhood playmate. After thinking about it, it was just saying, "You have to take care of yourself." ”

"Sister......" Liu Anran's eyes flashed, "Can we still reconcile?" ”

"Sister Liu." Pillow Chun shook his head slightly, "We can't go back." She was silent for a moment, "But I don't want my guilty heart to be tempered, I'm too selfish." I can...... Forgive the past. ”

Liu Anran lowered her head, her thin neck looked like a dying crane, but there was a relieved smile on her face.

"Ji'anfang's medicine, don't drink it." Pillow Chun let go of her hand, "That's the recipe sent by the side palace." ”

Liu Anran suddenly raised his head, leaned forward, and grabbed Zhu Chun's hand: "Do you love the king side by side?" ”

Pillow Chun shook his head calmly: "The decline of the Liu family may have been contributed to by someone." This person is a guest of the palace side by side, and his real name is Ji Sanqing. When I first met him, I was afraid that his name would offend the imperial authority, so I asked him to change the word to nothingness. ”

"Mr. Nothing...... The sitting luthier. Liu Anran suddenly remembered and shook his head slightly, "You fell in love with a pianist?" A widower who lost his wife? You...... It's really crazy. ”

"He speaks softly and writes beautifully." Pillow Chun smiled at the corner of his mouth, "He can play the piano, dance the sword, and play the pipa." He is very smart, even smarter than Wang and Mu Beiyi. Oh yes, he's also good-looking, with pale chestnut hair and skin so white that you can see the cyan veins under the texture. As soon as the sun shines, it looks like a fairy. ”

“…… Idiot. Liu Anran laughed when he heard this, "You actually hide such a thought." ”

"We're no different, we can't do it in this life." The more Pillow Chun said, the more sad he became, and he covered up the corners for Liu Anran. She tilted her head and pulled her cuffs away. Lowering his eyes, "But most mortals do. ”

Liu Anran laughed: "Yes, yes, most of them." Her chest roared like the wind as she laughed, up and down, with a hoarse gasp.

Pillow Chun stood up and said in a low voice: "The Liu family can't escape the bad news, I'm sorry." ”

Liu Anran grabbed her sleeve and called sadly: "Me too...... I'm sorry. ”

The two stared, their eyes crimson.

Pillow Chun lifted the curtain and went out, and the sullen medicine was scented, and he felt a soft pain all over his body.

"Mother?" Su Bai came up and asked.

Pillow Chun's hand probed in the cuff, and when it was unfolded again, there was a purple pill lying in the palm of his hand. She handed it to Su Bai and sighed: "No matter what Tianzi thinks, I can't do it." ”

Su Bai sighed and put the purple pill into his sleeve: "Niangniang doesn't have to worry, from the bottom of her heart, it's also good." ”

"Little Bean." Pillow Spring walked outside on one wall, and called on the other wall, "Go to the court to get the stove, quilt and charcoal fire, and add it to the queen." ”

Liu Anran lay on the couch for a while, and what he thought about was not depression, but the joy of life. After a while, she felt turned around, got up, and felt her hands and feet warmer. Then I looked up and saw that a waiter in front of the couch was leading two girls and was adding quilts to her.

"You are, the little bean of the Jianghe Palace." Liu Anran recognized him and sat up with a light cough.

Xiaodouzi looked at Liu Anran, and Mu Mu said: "Niangniang asked Ye Tingsi to warm you up." ”

"In the past, the commander of the court division was Xiao Xizi." Liu Anran smiled sadly, "You are wooden and stupid, but Xiao Xizi is very smart." He often comes from the Jianghe Hall to deliver things or pass on messages, and he is very good at speaking auspicious words, which is different from you. ”

Xiaodouzi was expressionless, and said straightly: "Brother Xizi treats the slave very well, but he was killed by you and Yue Wanyi." ”

"......" Liu Anran's fingertips trembled slightly, "Yes...... It's me. ”

Xiaodouzi folded his hands and called the two palace ladies to burn the stove and add charcoal fire, so he didn't talk to Liu Anran.

Liu Anran asked in a low voice, "Pillow ...... Is Emperor Ming's concubine gone? ”

Xiaodouzi turned around and glanced at Liu Anran, his expression was still the same as that wooden appearance, and he said word by word: "Your Majesty gave poison to Niangniang, and asked Niangniang to poison you." If the mother refuses, she will upset His Majesty when she goes back. ”