Chapter 22: New Joys and Old Sorrows
Warm Jade Palace.
"Madam, Lan Ji outside the palace asks to see you!" a palace maid came to say.
Bei Liang Rong is combing her makeup, a circle of copper frames Bei Liang Rong's slightly powdered and beautiful face, with two thick and slender willow eyebrows painted on it, embedded with two blazing black agate, a small nose like a plain raised hill, a grin like a red and intoxicating little cherry, long hair and waist like a high mountain hanging river.
"Invite her in!"
"Madam, it seems that Lan Ji is here to apologize to you. Zixia said while helping Bei Liang Rong comb her hair.
"Don't talk nonsense......"
"Sister," Lan Ji approached, looking a little embarrassed, after all, she felt a little guilty because of yesterday's incident, "Sister, you...... Are you feeling better?"
"Thank you sister for your concern, my illness has been cured. Bei Liangrong replied politely.
"My sister is still angry with me?" asked Lan Ji timidly.
"Where is my sister, everything has passed, we are still the original good sisters!" Bei Liangrong really couldn't accept it after knowing the truth at the time, but since Lan Ji had already admitted her mistake, why did she have such a small stomach and a knot in her heart?
Hearing this, Lan Ji's mood gradually relaxed. What she is most worried about is that Bei Liang Rong will hold a grudge against herself because of this, and she is even more afraid that she will add fuel and vinegar in front of the king, and then she will have no place in this palace!
"Sister, I was confused and did something wrong at that time, you must not hold a grudge against me!" Lan Ji said apologetically.
"It's okay, sister, aren't I good? We will get along for a long time in the future! Why hurt each other's harmony for this little thing?" Bei Liangrong is by no means the kind of person with a small belly, she has lived with her only sister since she was a child, and she has the simplicity of a mulberry picking girl.
"Yes, yes, we will still be good sisters in the future!" Lan Ji echoed, "I heard that this wolfberry nourishes yin and blood, beautifies and nourishes the skin, and I specially asked someone to bring some back to replenish your body!"
"Sister, you still ...... such a precious thing," Bei Liangrong excused.
"Oh, my sister, didn't I bring this to you, are you going to waste a piece of my heart?" Lan Ji feigned displeasure.
"Madam, just take it!" Zixia said on the side.
"Okay, then thank you, sister!" Bei Liang Rong said politely.
"Hey, thank you, they're all my own sisters," Lan Ji held Bei Liangrong's hand and said kindly, "I'll leave first if there's nothing to do, you have a good rest, and if there's anything, look for me." He said to Zixia again: "Good life to serve your wife!"
Zixia nodded.
Lan Ji left the Warm Jade Palace.
"Madam, the sun is really coming out in the west today, and I recognize my sisters and give gifts. Zixia teased.
"You are so bad, how can you tell me to say hello! Lan Ji apologized to me only when she realized that she was wrong, you are so good, and you are still teasing others!" Bei Liang Rong blamed.
"I don't think so!" Zixia said indignantly.
"Why do you say that?" Bei Liangrong wondered.
"It's only been a long time since you came to Wu Palace, Lan Ji framed you like this, maybe you will ...... in the future" Zixia didn't continue.
"Didn't people apologize, are you more stingy than me?" asked Bei Liangrong rhetorically.
"Ma'am, it's not a question of being stingy or not. Think about it, why did Lan Ji frame you?" Zixia asked.
"This ......" Bei Liangrong was suddenly speechless.
"It's because she's fallen out of favor!" Zixia whispered, "Before Madame entered the palace, Lan Ji was the king's favorite; Do you think she can hold a grudge against her?"
Bei Liang Rong was silent.
Zixia felt that she was speaking too straight, so she blamed herself:
"Madame, don't be angry, I'm talking too much, don't take it to heart. ”
"No, I don't blame you, you're right. Bei Liang Rong said.
"I'm also for your good, think about it, now that the king is good to you and alienated Lan Ji, it is inevitable that he will not be jealous again in the future, and something like yesterday will definitely happen again. "Zixia cut the railway.
Bei Liang Rong panicked in her heart. Although the fact that he was framed has come to light, it is difficult to predict what will happen in the future. This harem is not like a family, there is only one sister, and she is still a good sister, intrigued, ambushed on all sides, maybe one day she will suffer such torture again!
"Ma'am, there are other things I don't know whether to say or not. Zixia hesitated.
Bei Liang Rong bowed slightly, looked at Zixia, and said:
"Say it!"
"Madam, the affairs of this harem are very complicated, and the struggle for power and favor is easy to see. Although the king is pampering you and you now, but in the future, ...... Maybe in the future. Men like the new and hate the old, and they think differently, in case the king has a new love in the future, you ......" Zixia stopped.
Bei Liangrong knew that Zixia was reminding herself.
She remembered the scene of her first day in the palace: the pavilion was like a labyrinth, and the flowers, willows and water were like a fairyland, what a wonderful world! When night fell, lying in the arms of the king, she was a little strange and a little nervous, but she had a sense of security that she had never felt before. This burly man, although he has a violent temperament, also has a gentle side. He is the king of a country, and the people need him, but as a man, he also needs him. He had been terrified of his majesty, but as time passed, she saw him more as a support for herself. With him, I can be carefree, and with him, I don't have to worry about survival.
But is this kind of life what she wants?
Sometimes, she will also be in a daze, sentimental towards this flower, fish, insects and birds. Pavilions and pavilions, who has their own exclusive enjoyment, the huge palace, always filled with these people. She once questioned her original choice, why did she agree to General Chen and enter the palace with King Wu? She was a woman from Chu State, but she married into Wu State, did she ever think about how to explain in front of the people of Chu State? How to explain to her dead sister?
New love adds old sorrows. Lan Ji can do stupid things to frame herself for falling out of favor, and maybe one day in the future, she will go out of her way to compete for favor and go down the same path. The beauties of the harem used to be new loves, but now that they are their new favorites, why did they add their old sorrows early?
Brother Li Yong. By the way, where did Brother Li Yong go? Where are you the other half of that childhood sweetheart? Why did you leave me? If it were you by my side, how nice it would be! We live the life of ordinary people together, you chop wood, I weave cloth, you carry water, I water the garden. Ordinary and carefree.
Hey, now I'm left to my fate!
"Sister, you're right," Bei Liang Rong pursed her lips, "If you have it, you will be safe, no matter what happens in the future, let it be fate!"
Zixia sighed and comforted:
"My good sister, I am by your side whenever and wherever you are!"
When night fell, the lights in the warm jade hall were shining.
"Rong'er, the night before yesterday, it was the widow who spoke too much. King Wu was apologetic.
Bei Liang Rong was silent.
"I shouldn't take Lan Ji's word for it, you make a decision. ”
"It's okay king, now that the matter has come to light, don't mention the past again!" Bei Liang Rong said.
"Mo Ruorong'er, who knows the widow!" King Wu sighed, "If you hadn't arrived in time to intercede for Lan Ji, the widow would have killed Lan Ji a long time ago." I didn't expect Lan Ji to be so vicious and harm you in this way! First he said that you were the incarnation of a white fox, and then he pretended to be pitiful in front of the widow, which is really hateful!"
"Your Majesty, Lan Ji was also confused to do this kind of thing, so don't worry about it anymore. Besides, I'm not okay now!" Bei Liang Rong didn't intercede for Lan Ji, she didn't want to make King Wu cold Lan Ji for this, and she didn't want to hurt her peace with Lan Ji because of this.
"You girl, how can you say hello to the widow! If someone harms you, it's better not to be angry, but to intercede for her. Your heart is so soft!"
Bei Liang Rong didn't speak, looking at the person in front of her, she felt that she didn't have any right to argue with him, and even if she did, it would be useless.
"What's wrong, isn't there anything uncomfortable?" King Wu was very strange when he saw that Bei Liang Rong was silent.
"King, if one day," Bei Liang Rong wanted to speak and stopped, "......"
"What's wrong?" asked King Wu.
Bei Liangrong didn't continue, she really wanted to ask King Wu if one day her face faded and King Wu had a new love, would he abandon herself and alienate herself. But she didn't continue to ask, because the answer was already in front of her, Lan Ji was her future, and she was Lan Ji's past. But she didn't want to admit it, she wanted to get the answer from King Wu in person, she wanted to hear a different answer.
That question is like a bamboo shoot that breaks through the ground, there is an impulse to live, but after it is unearthed, it will face the danger of death. It is ready to move, crashing into Bei Liangrong's heart wall, like a lively and cute deer. It did not dare to make a loud noise, and tried to restrain its throat.
"It's nothing ......" Bei Liang Rong broke out, and the deer in her heart was finally suppressed.
"Rong'er, the widow is here with you tonight, and the widow will compensate you well!" Saying that, King Wu picked up Beiliang Rong and walked towards the bedroom.
Bei Liang Rong was quietly nestled in King Wu's arms, without struggling or shouting, like a gentle rabbit.
The cloak hall in the east and the Meichun hall in the west are brightly lit.
At this moment, there is only the wind rolling bead curtain in the warm jade hall.
This night, Bei Liangrong cried, tears wet the pillow. Suddenly, she felt a sense of loss, and somehow began to envy Mrs. Cai and Lan Ji. Empty but quiet, frustrated but simple.
In the early morning of the next day, a servant came to the king of Wu and said that Gongzi Guangyou would like to see him.
"You tell him to wait in Wenyuan Palace, and the widow will come soon!"