Chapter 9 The Phoenix Conch
The morning sun shone through the thick curtains on the girl's face, her black hair fell down, and she rubbed her eyes, which were clear blue eyes.
The sun shines on those eyes, making them look clearer and purer.
"Oh, I didn't get enough sleep," the girl grumbled.
An old voice came from outside the house, "Little snail, get up." Get up, my mother-in-law has made you something to eat."
The girl who was replaced by a small snail got up from the bed with a reluctant face, opened the curtains, and looked at the lively market outside.
She put her hands into her clothes, swished, took off a long white belt, and then took out a long skirt, and circled it around her breasts.
Then he took out a ribbon and tied the skirt to prevent her from falling.
After performing this series of operations, she combed her hair in front of the bronze mirror, rubbed her eyes, and left.
"Mother-in-law, what's delicious?"
The mother-in-law held a basin full of pork ribs and replied with a smile, "Pork ribs"
Then I saw the girl's bare feet, and said angrily, "Fengluo, don't wear shoes." Look at your feet, it's pitch black, like a briquette. ”
"Oops, mother-in-law. How can you say that other girls' feet are like briquettes?"
The mother-in-law grinned, took out a bowl with a missing corner, and beckoned Fengluo to come over for dinner.
"This is the ribs that Young Master Zhou brought you, try it, well........., it's still hot."
"Young Master Zhou? Mother-in-law, do you know who Young Master Zhou is? ”
"Isn't it the son of Master Zhou next door?"
"What, he's the ......... emperor"
"Yellow? What yellow? ”
Feng Luo realized that he was wrong, and hurriedly corrected it, "He is returning my favor"
"Oh~" the mother-in-law said, "If you don't return the favor, you have to give me these ribs today." ”
She grabbed a piece of ribs with chopsticks and threw it into the bowl in a huff and said.
Fengluo looked at her mother-in-law helplessly, picked up the chopsticks and gnawed them, but secretly thought in her heart, "Marrying the emperor is not a bad thing." It's just that this high palace wall. It's just that...... The palace gate is long and dances in leisurely clothes, and knows a little about the king's sideburns. ”
It is said that in today's sainthood, Emperor Zhou has one person in mind, and the void of the throne is only left for her alone.
After eating breakfast, Fengluo returned to his house and studied the flowers and plants.
Each glass bottle contained a flower and plant, and she opened one and pulled off a leaf.
Through the sunlight, look at the lines of the leaves, and then pick up a brush and draw them on the paper.
Little by little, a perfect picture of the stem and leaves appeared in front of her, "If such a painting could be sold for money, it would not be able to live like this." ”
Feng Luo pistled his face and looked at the market outside.
"Little snail, little snail."
"What do you do mother-in-law"
"Come out quickly, Young Master Zhou is here!"
As soon as he heard the words "Young Master Zhou", Feng Luo hurriedly walked out of the house. Sure enough, what caught my eye was the smiling face of the prince.
"What does he want to do?" Feng Luo said angrily.
I saw that the prince took out a roll from his sleeve, cleared his throat, and said, "Fengtian carrier, the emperor summoned and said: Summoning the Feng clan, Feng Luo entered the palace as the queen." Chin this. ”
"Miss Feng, take the order"
Feng Luo knelt on the ground, her lips trembling, and just as her mother-in-law was about to receive the holy decree, she stopped her.
"Mother-in-law, don't take orders. Wang Gonggong, please go back and tell Young Master Zhou that Fengluo resists the decree! ”
"Okay, but Miss Feng can think about it. Resisting the decree will be beheaded."
Wang Gonggong's voice swirled in Feng Luo's ears, and she swallowed her saliva, "Feng Luo understands"
The mother-in-law looked at the back of the princess leaving, and said to Fengluo, "Xiaoluo, you ...... Isn't it good to enter the palace for the queen? There are gold and silver jewelry, inexhaustible money, status. Small snails. ”
Fengluo held her mother-in-law's hand and said, "Mother-in-law, let's go." Let's go now, Xiaoluo doesn't want gold and silver wealth, Xiaoluo wants to be free"
In the afternoon of the same day, Fengluo and her mother-in-law packed their luggage and left this place.
Along the way, Fengluo kept searching for news, and finally saw her name on a notice.
"Heavy bounty, phoenix."
A month later.
Feng Luo covered her stomach and picked up the vegetable leaves on the ground, she hadn't eaten for seven days.
Leaving that town, the money ran out quickly. Mother-in-law kept persuading Fengluo to go back and enter the palace. Sooner or later, she will starve to death outside, but she has always insisted on her thoughts.
But who knew that parting would come so quickly.
"Mother-in-law" Feng Luo took a basket of vegetable leaves and pushed open the door of the wooden house with great interest, and what caught her eye was the smiling face of the princess, "Miss Feng, don't come unharmed."
"Princess! How did you find me? ”
"Oh, a big bounty. Miss Feng, who has money and doesn't make money? ”
Wang Gonggong's eyes narrowed, and he said to Fengluo, "It's you, Miss Feng." I don't like riches. ”
"Even if you come, I won't enter the palace. Die of this heart."
"Oops" Wang Gonggong put down the tea in his hand, motioned to his subordinates to bring his mother-in-law, and then said to Fengluo, "Then what do you look at this?"
I saw two big men with their mother-in-law in front of Feng Luo, and one of them was still holding a knife in his hand, and the blade was sharp and shining silver.
"These two are the famous executioners of our capital. Kill without blinking, and the knife is fast and accurate. If you don't come with me, I'll ......" the prince made a killing gesture at the neck.
Fengluo looked at her mother-in-law and hesitated, she had no father and no mother, and she lived with her mother-in-law for as long as she could remember.
"I......... Coming with you."
When the prince heard this, he looked at Fengluo with relief, "That's right, you came with me earlier, why should I bother?"
Then he motioned to the big man to let go of his mother-in-law, and then said, "Wash well, and follow me into the palace tomorrow"
Feng Luo knelt on the ground, looking at her hands, her mother-in-law came over and held her hand, "Little Luo"
"Mother-in-law, Xiaoluo will not be by your side in the future. You've got to be good."
"Hmm"
The next day, the prince brought a sedan chair to greet the phoenix.
"Miss Feng, this is the wedding dress that our emperor prepared for you. Put it on."
Fengluo took the wedding dress in a daze, touching the thin stitches on it, and the gems and jade beads inlaid with it.
Feng Guanxia is married.
The sedan chair staggered into the capital, the song of marriage sounded in her ears, Fengluo clenched the apple in her hand, and tears fell.
"Worship heaven and earth
Two worship high halls
Husbands and wives worship each other
Delivered to the cave room"
Feng Luo took the joy belt into the cave room, and the room was filled with incense, which made people dizzy.
"My queen, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
"Your Majesty, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Fengluo lifted his hijab by himself, with red lips and eyebrows, and a little peach blossom.
"Your Majesty, I want to say to you. I'm not here today to marry you, but to make you die."
"But we've already been in church."
"Yes, but we don't have a cave yet."
The emperor looked at Fengluo and said, "Then what do you want to do?" ”
"I want the emperor to let me go, I just want to live with my mother-in-law. I don't want glory and wealth."
"Okay"
The emperor's refreshing answer made Feng Luo stunned, "You agreed?" ”
The emperor smiled, "It's good if you're happy." ”
Then he took off his wedding clothes and said to Fengluo, "However, you must complete a task"
"What task," Fengluo said.
"Hmm...... It is indeed a task for you, you know, Prince Suli. The crown prince must be the concubine born to the queen. ”
The emperor hugged the phoenix conch and said in her ear.
"No" Feng Luo privately tried to break free from his embrace, "Absolutely not, the emperor, whose child do you appoint, do you have to be the queen." ”
"No, my crown prince must be your child. My Queen. ”
"I'm not your queen"
"No, Queen. You should call yourself a concubine, I promise you. I want a child, a son."
Fengluo knew that he couldn't reverse the situation, so he had to agree.
"He's been waiting for me for so long, it's okay to give him a child. After all, the back position has been empty for so long, just for me," Feng Luo thought.
The wedding dress slowly faded, the curtains slowly fell, the skin intersected, the mouth depended on each other, and the white veil bloomed a bright red flower.
Five months later.
"Doctor, how is it?"
Feng Luo covered her mouth and said to the imperial doctor, "What's the situation?"
The imperial doctor behind the curtain touched his beard and said, "Congratulations to Niangniang, congratulations to Niangniang." Mother is happy."
"Happy?"
"Yes, sis."
Feng Luo smiled, she touched her belly, and said, "Okay, reward." Heavy rewards. ”
After the emperor learned of this, he rushed into Fengluo's dormitory as soon as he was in the morning.
"The emperor is here" Feng Luo was repairing flowers and plants with scissors, "The emperor came up really early"
"As soon as I learned you were pregnant, I came"
"The emperor came up really fast" Feng Luo walked towards the emperor while putting down the scissors, "The emperor promised the concubine that he would let the concubine go after giving birth to this child"
The emperor clenched his fists, "yes"
"Then the emperor doesn't break his word"
Fengluo walked past the emperor, leaving only this sentence.
"Your Majesty, don't break your word"
Ten months later.
Feng Luo supported her waist and paced back and forth in her bedroom, and the sharp pain in her abdomen made her tremble.
But the thought of leaving this place makes me feel irrepressible joy.
Basins of blood and water came out, and heart-rending shouts echoed in the dormitory, Feng Luo gritted his teeth and clenched his fingers on the curtains...
A cry broke through the tense atmosphere, and the midwife hugged the white and chubby baby and said to Fengluo, "Congratulations to Niangniang, congratulations to Niangniang, it's a son"
"Son! It's the son! ”
The midwife nodded, "It's my son." Niangniang, is our little prince. ”
Fengluo cried, not because her child was the prince, but for her own freedom.
I can finally get out of here, like a bird finally leaving the cage.
"Queen Feng, because of her meritorious service in giving birth to a child, the bounty is 50,000 taels. 10,000 taels of silver ingots. Four deep-sea jadeites. A pair of purple and blue bracelets. A deep sea conch flute. ”
Feng Luo hugged the child and looked at one reward after another, with no joy on her face.
Only the last sentence, "after the abolition"
The emperor walked in and looked at Fengluo, "I promised you, I did it." But I would like to ask you to take the gold and silver ingots, and these rewards."
"After all, you also gave birth to a dragon son for me."
Feng Luo snorted lightly, got up, and handed the child to the nurse beside her.
"The phoenix snail doesn't like wealth and nobility, and the little snail can only take the deep sea conch flute"
From that day on, Fengluo wandered around the capital with a flute. Except for the day when she returned to the wooden house and saw her mother-in-law's corpse and wept bitterly, her heart never wavered.
And just like that, ten years passed.
Emperor Zhou took his son, Zhou Luo, to the heavens and paraded. Feng Luo stood in the crowd and looked at his son's face, "You see that child is the prince." It is said that her mother was deposed on the day she gave birth. ”
"Really"
"And she said that she was liked by the emperor for many years"
"yes. Smack, poor boy."
"yes, yes, I haven't had a mother since I was a child. I've been with my nurse all the time, and I don't know how much I was bullied."
Fengluo stood in the crowd and listened quietly to people's conversations, she was expressionless, but silently said in her heart, "Son, mother is here"