The emperor sighed heavily, and the palm holding her hand was so wet that it was like tears: "Ruyi, I also want to believe, always and everywhere, without any doubts. But there are too many women around me, and their intentions may not be so sincere. Perhaps, in their eyes, the honor and favor that I can bring them, and even this dragon robe of mine, is far better than that of me as a person. ”

"No, no." She hurriedly argued, as if for the wisp of true meaning that had always refused to be wiped away by the dust, "Your Majesty, since the concubine is Qingying, when you are the prince, the concubine will be with you." The concubine really hopes that the concubine and you can be the companion of your youth, and you will not be separated after the white head. ”

She is full of sincerity, as if she wants to tell her years of thoughts and grievances together. The emperor was silent for a moment, held her hand tightly, and called her softly: "Qing Sakura." ”

Ruyi smiled slightly bitterly, took a deep breath, and shook off the doubts that had been sealed in her heart for many years: "Your Majesty, in fact, the concubine has always wanted to ask, the concubine was disgusted by your brother Hongshi, and refused to marry into the palace, making the concubine a laughing stock." She looked up and looked deeply into the emperor's eyes, as if she wanted to find out some real emotion from his bottomless heart, "But the emperor, why are you willing to marry a concubine to be your side Fujin when the concubine is the most embarrassing, and treat the concubine so well, so that others will know that the concubine is married very well, and the face of the Wulanala clan is complete?" ”

The Emperor closed his eyes and reached out to slowly caress her cheek. His hands were so gentle, vaguely as he had done back then, caressing her face, and seeing the youngest and fullest smile in the mirror with her, people in pairs, shadows in pairs. The emperor said softly: "Ruyi, this is your nose, your eyes, and your forehead. I'm so familiar, even if you close your eyes, your face is always in my mind. When I married you that year, I married you who was frustrated, but I comforted myself who was equally frustrated. Back then, Hongshi was raised by your aunt, Queen Ulanara, and was almost no different from a concubine, and I was only the son of a concubine. Sad people can understand each other best when they are sad. After marrying you into the house, you were always petty at first, but as time went by, you gradually became calm. I have been restrained since I was a child, always self-denying, and sometimes looking at your little nature, I always feel that it is the side that I can't do. And you are gradually sensible, and I am also very pleased, because your sensibility is for yourself and for me. Therefore, I will walk with you for so many years, and I will know each other more and more. The emperor opened his eyes, and a misty mist appeared wetly, "I said this, I don't know if you understand?" If my relationship with you is not the love of a man and a woman, it is really wronged; If it is just the love between men and women, it is also wronged. Because I have been more than this to you. ”

Ruyi sighed lightly, and the sourness condensed by infinite years condensed together in the end of the sigh: "The concubine is self-aware, the beauty in the palace is like a cloud, the concubine is not the most beautiful, and the temperament is not the best." As a daughter-in-law, the concubine is not the queen mother's preferred queen candidate. ”

The emperor sighed: "I know that your aunt Empress Wulanala is the sworn enemy of the Queen Mother, although the Queen Mother changed her name to Ruyi for you, and her face is okay, but she is not the most willing in her heart." However, Empress Xiaoxian was chosen by the Queen Mother and the First Emperor for me back then, and later the Queen Mother treated her only well. He took a deep breath, his eyes were deep, and a star-like light flashed, and he said loudly, "But I am the emperor, and I am the lord of the world!" If you can't even make anyone the queen, then what kind of emperor am I! Zhang Tingyu is gone, and the Queen Mother is not the Queen Mother who can train me in everything back then, and no one can restrain me anymore. Even if anyone doesn't want to, I must indulge in any of them! ”

There is a lingering warmth in her heart, as if the time of youth has returned to the palm of her and his palms, blooming with lingering branches. Once, she loved him so much, looked up to him, and it was he who gave her salvation so that she didn't have to be a frustrated person for the rest of her life. Ruyi leaned on the emperor's shoulder and said softly: "But the emperor, as you said, it was the top of no one, and it was too cold." ”

The emperor's smile was like light through the clouds. "So, we're in this together." He sighed, "I have lost one eldest son and two sisters-in-law. I hope that after I make you queen, I will still have my own son-in-law. ”

Ruyi lowered her head and said sadly: "But the concubine is already thirty-three years old, and she may not be able to have children." ”

The emperor stretched out his palm and shook her ten fingers one by one: "If the mandate of heaven is taken into account, it will naturally give birth to a son-in-law; If you ignore the destiny, you and my favorite child will be handed over to you to raise, and it can be our sister-in-law. So, you won't be alone. ”

Ruyi bowed her head slightly, lowered her face and pressed tightly with the emperor: "Then, can the concubines be more greedy." What the concubines look forward to day and night is not only the love of husband and wife with the emperor, but also the friendship of confidants and blood relatives. ”

"Ruyi, do you think the love between men and women is too ethereal?"

"Yes." She was heavy-hearted, "All the concubines have, but they are just the status with the emperor." If they could, the concubines would prefer to firmly grasp the love that would not be easily broken. ”

He hugged her, and in a protective gesture, bowed his head and promised: "I promise you." Ruyi, I promise you. ”

Her relationship with him was actually not pure from the beginning - it was she, in order to fight for a breath, to marry into the clan, half aggrieved and half looking forward to marrying his side Fujin; It was he, through the prominence of her and other families, who stepped step by step to the status of the Ninety-Five Honor, and gradually gave birth to a little sincerity. Along the way, there are a lot of bright and joyful, but it is difficult and rugged, and it almost took her life, but I never thought that I could get to this day.

Outside the window, there is spring like a promise, shining all over the light years.

It seems that all the cruelty and poignancy with fat powder, all kinds of treacherous clouds and turbulent dark tides, all came to an abrupt end at that moment, and quickly returned to calm. When he returned to the Yikun Palace, everyone in the palace knew the emperor's intentions. Although in the funeral of the eldest son of the emperor, the joy cannot be invisible, but after so many years of hardships and displacement, it has finally reached this point.

Hailan had already been waiting in the Yikun Palace, lingering under the Hanging Flower Gate. Ruyi saw her from afar, wearing a brand-new Tianshui blue robe, with different shades of bright silver and dark blue on the clothes, holding out the shadow of a large gardenia, which was silent and deep and sincere joy. Somehow, Ruyi saw Hailan, and the whole person settled down from the vast shock and joy. It seems that Fang Cai has just gone all the way, happy and in a trance, and he came back in a daze.

Seeing Ruyi, Hailan stepped forward quickly, wanting to laugh, but she burst into tears, clinging to her hand tightly, and choked up: "Sister, there is finally this day." ”

Ruyi was also angry, and there were faint tears: "Yes." It was only at the cost of Yonghuang's life that I was fulfilled. ”

Hailan stopped crying when she heard this, straightened her face and said, "Only when she reaches the position of queen can my sister be a little safer." Therefore, no matter who loses it, it is not a pity. ”

The summer day is extremely long, and the afterglow of the setting sun spreads obliquely across the golden light of the Red River, sweeping the sky. The sunset gradually turns into a treasure belt intertwined with purple and dark blue, behind the sunset is a scorched crimson cloud, which burns the sky to the air, and the shadow is branded on the screen door of the "bright and prosperous" in front of the hall, spreading and reflecting on the bluestone brick floor, like the slanted flower branches on the ink painting. The two of them in the twilight were clothed in a golden and vague light, and occasionally the warm and cool wind swept the corners of the robes, and the people became a faint branch of flowers and leaves in the vast summer air.

Ruyi's palms had sticky beads of sweat, she quietly clasped Hailan's hand, and whispered in her ear, "Yes." The path we have traveled is the way to go, and what we do is inevitable. Even if the moon is cold and the day is warm, come to fry life. But Yonghuang is dead, and although I am sad, I also know a secret. It turns out that in addition to you, Jin Yuyan also told Yonghuang that Emperor Zhemin's concubine was killed by Empress Xiaoxian. ”

There was a confused whirlwind in Hailan's eyes, and she was surprised: "Jin Yuyan? ”

Ruyi was awakened with a cold vigilance: "What Jin Yuyan said is much more detailed than you, and she even knows the details of how Emperor Zhemin's concubine was killed, and told Yonghuang Emperor Zhemin what kind of food she ate and died." Her voice lost the residual warmth of this season, "The emperor once told me that Empress Xiaoxian would not admit to killing Emperor Zhemin until she died...... I didn't believe it before, but now I think it's a little bit believable......"

Hailan took a deep breath and frowned, but then soothed the sharp vigilance with her usual peaceful and harmless smile: "If what Empress Xiaoxian said is true, then the only one who can know clearly how to kill Emperor Zhemin's concubine is the one who really killed Emperor Zhemin's concubine." She held her breath, her breathing gradually fluctuating significantly, "Sister, remember?" Empress Xiaoxian knew almost nothing about eating cold and hot before her death, and she didn't even pay much attention to her own drinks and food, but Jin Yuyan occasionally reminded her. Although Ah Ji and Shuangxi both said that it was Emperor Huixian and Empress Xiaoxian who added a lot of cold and wet things to the diet of our cold palace, but there may be someone else behind it. And there are many things, and Empress Xiaoxian will not recognize it until death. ”

Ruyi narrowed her eyes, and there was a thin light piercing at the bottom of her eyes: "Now it seems that this person is more like Jin Yuyan." It's just Hailan, she was born in the Li Dynasty, and she doesn't seem to be as good as Emperor Huixian and Empress Xiaoxian, who are from a high-ranking family and have a noble status, but in order to take care of the friendship between the two states, the emperor will never move her easily. ”

Hailan turned her head sideways, pulling the pearl shadow on the cloud, shining with a cold light that swept green and blue. She patted Ruyi's hand and said quietly: "In the past, I didn't know where the enemy was, so I suffered countless plots. Now that I know who it is, and I have cut off her wings, I just have to look at it to death, are you afraid that she will be able to turn out of the sky? Unafraid! After a long time, when there is nothing to do, these accounts will be calculated slowly. ”

Ruyi's voice was heavy and resolute and cold: "Yes, it is to be calculated slowly." We have been in this palace for many years, and the only thing we have learned is to slowly wear down the things that the other party is most proud of and rely on for their livelihood? The second half of our lives are still growing, we are still together, some are time, and some are the same effort. ”

Their fingers clenched tightly together, their joints slightly white from too solemn and forceful. Even if there is more glorious glory on the horizon, they are still sisters who relied on each other in the past, walking together, and there has never been a difference.

After that, there were concubines to congratulate, and Ruyi humbly rejected them. After the emperor's decree, he also issued a decree on the same day, on the fourth day of the eighth month, that is, two days after the establishment of the queen, to restore the position of Jin Yuyan and concubine. Such comfort is not only because of Yuyan's pain of losing her son, but also because there are all countries coming to the court after the ceremony, and you can't ignore the face of Li Chao.