Chapter IV
It is the time of the New Year, and the palace is full of lights and joy.
I heard that General Gan Lao on the border had won the battle and was going to return to the DPRK.
And there is a familiar name on the reward list - Zhonglang will Gu Feng.
Jin Yu was overjoyed, and the palace prepared a banquet.
In the past few days, Mama Li has been very noisy, and the queen mother has hinted many times that I know they want to remind me that it has nothing to do with me whether Gu Feng comes back or not.
I know all of them, I am the emperor's woman, and I can only love him. I'm also trying to fall in love with him slowly, and Gu Feng is just a memory of the past for me.
I kept saying this to myself, all the time confirming, all the time affirming, until the words became a thick wall around my heart.
But when I saw him, his face that had been through the vicissitudes of life but was calm and resolute, I could clearly feel that the walls were slowly crumbling.
Gu Feng was looking at me from the moment he entered the door, and his eyes were a little sad and a little gratified.
During the banquet, Jin Yu heard that Gu Feng was my brother-in-law, so he asked him to toast me with a glass of wine.
I watched him come to me from the crowd with a drink, like seeing him always find me exactly wherever I was when I was a child.
When I was trembling with fear when I was protecting my little sister, he stood all night in front of my room with a sword; When I ran to the pile of dead men to bandage his wounds, he gently covered my eyes to keep the gore out.
He never cared if I was scared or not, because he was there in every moment I was scared.
He approached me with a wine, "The minister greets Concubine Xi." ”
I opened my mouth and said nothing, just sat still.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Mama Li pushed me from behind, and when she saw that I hadn't reacted yet, she leaned down and confessed for me, "Your Majesty, my mother has been unwell recently, and she has been rude, please forgive your Majesty." ”
Jin Yu didn't pursue it, and when he heard that I was sick, he hurriedly came over and asked, "Ah Shuang, why are you uncomfortable?" ”
He threw his hand around me, his worried expression not fake, and reached for my face.
It was this action that completely collapsed the wall of my heart, and the hatred in my heart couldn't stop coming out.
Jin Yu is not pitiful, he is hateful; He is the initiator, and he is the root of all evil in this palace.
He made me make a fool of myself; Makes me miserable; I can't do it with my beloved anymore!
I hate him!
My face became more and more ugly, and just as I wanted to push him away, the queen's voice sounded, "Your Majesty, it is better to send the imperial doctor to the side hall to treat Concubine Xi first." ”
I don't know how I left the feast, and the queen took me back to Kunning Palace.
The first thing she did when she returned to the palace was to retreat left and right, leaving only Mama Li.
The second thing was to slap me in the face.
This slap used ten percent of the queen's strength, and she seemed to be tired, leaning on Mama Li and panting.
I sat on the ground, and the right side of my face quickly became red and swollen before I realized that I had been beaten.
The queen relented for a moment and said angrily, "Do you know what you do? If the emperor knew about your relationship with him, would you still be alive? ”
I whispered to the point of heartbreaking, "But I hate him!" I hate him! He ruined my whole life and all my hopes and joys. I shook my head violently, "I don't want to be here anymore, I want to go home." ”
I got up and wanted to go to the door, "I'm going home." ”
The next second, I was slapped again.
This slap was heavier than the last time, and after the beating, the queen and I both fell to the ground, and in the end, I was crying, and the queen was crying in Mama Li's arms.
After crying for a while, I crawled over and grabbed the corner of the queen's clothes and whispered: "The queen begs you, let me out of the palace." The emperor loves you so much, he will definitely listen to what you say. Please, please. ”
I offer all my pride and dignity and beg for the most honorable woman in the world.
But she just shook her head, shook her head vigorously.
I sat down on the ground completely, and the numbness and despair that welled up from the depths of my heart slowly enveloped me.
From that day on, I was really sick.
I was so couppy all day long, and I couldn't talk.
But this doesn't affect Jin Yu's mood, he doesn't need me to speak, even if I don't respond to him, he won't be angry, he just needs me to be a good decoration.
All the people in this palace are idle, and Jin Yu is always shuttling between me and Yao Zhaoyi.
Because he wants to have both face and voice, but these are born in two people.
At first, I would have wondered why Jin Yu didn't go directly to the queen, but now I don't bother to think about it.
Jin Yu, a bastard, may be a pure toss.
Later, Jin Yu thought of a way.
He placed me and Yao Jieyu in the Hall of Eternal Life, looking at my face while listening to Yao Jieyu singing.
When I first heard the will, the nurse was worried that I had a holiday with Yao Jieyu, but she was too worried.
Although I was in the same room with Yao Jieyu, I didn't speak, she could only say what Jin Yu asked her to say, and for several months, we didn't have any communication.
However, she was worse than me. I only had to sit as a vase, but she sang every day until her voice was hoarse.
The effort naturally paid off, and a few months later, Yao Zhaoyi became pregnant, and I returned to the previous palace.
That day, Jin Yu didn't know what crazy came to my palace to celebrate, as if it was me who was pregnant.
Thankfully, I never had to respond to his feelings.
I heard that Brother Gu went on the expedition again, since I couldn't be together in this life, I was silently guarding in the palace, and my life was quite comfortable.
But the others are not so lucky, whether it is He Meiren, who has suffered for a long time, or Liu Guifei, who is in a high position, they are all saddened by Yao Jieyu. A few days ago, Yao Jieyu also asked the concubine to help her get into the sedan chair, but Jin Yu knew that she didn't say anything.
As for He Meiren and Ah Yan, I went from being indignant at the beginning to sending medicine from time to time like the queen.
Yao Zhaoyi's existence made the harem women more amiable, and everyone was left out in the cold, so naturally there was no tension before.
The queen mother is still afraid that they will be bored all day long, and they have never stopped telling stories and listening to dramas.
In fact, the queen mother governs the harem very well, and most people can live well in this palace, of course, it doesn't count if she encounters Yao Zhaoyi, who deliberately looks for trouble.
As the days went by, the sisters in the palace forgot about the petty fights and intrigues in the past.
Liu Guifei likes to cook the most, and the Sichuan hot pot she makes is a must, and in winter, we build a stove in the yard and enjoy the snow while shabu the hot pot. However, Sister Liu's legs and feet are not good, and she hurts badly in winter. I've seen her feet, and her entire thumb has been deformed, and her nails are twisted, and I heard that she practiced dancing. However, she loved the scene of us eating together and said that she always remembered the time at home.
After eating, Wang Baolin casually threw the second princess to us and improvised a set of ancestral marksmanship. She moved like a dragon, and she couldn't imagine how the hands with the guns could pick up the embroidery needles.
I used to think that Concubine Li Xian was a standard lady, but I didn't expect the ghost stories she told to be so scary, so scared that Ah Yan grabbed my sleeve tightly. She spoke eloquently and energetically, but she looked much better when she danced.
They used to be good women, but now they just changed back to their old ways.