Under our careful care, Ah Yan gradually recovered.

"I've been feeling bad lately, and I want to ask you to take care of Ah Yan for a few days."

I was watching Ah Yan catch fish, so I replied, "You are not feeling well and go to rest, Ah Yan will leave it to me." ”

"Ah Shuang?"

"Huh?" I looked back at her and said, "What's wrong?" ”

She shook her head, tears in the corners of her eyes, "It's okay, I just want to thank you." ”

I didn't expect that to be the last time I saw Sister He.

In the evening, the news of He Meiren's harm to Yao Jieyu came from Chuxiu Palace. I heard that Yao Jieyu injured her throat, and her throat was already useless.

There is no more voice like the queen's mother in this palace.

Jin Yu was furious, and he ignored Ah Yan's decency and asked the eunuch to strangle Sister He to death. By the time I arrived, the execution had ended, and I watched the stretcher covered with a white cloth be lifted out, and a sense of suffocation rushed over me.

I stepped forward to see Sister He for the last time, and the queen mother held me tightly, "Don't worry about being sad first, it's important to keep the second prince now." ”

According to the instructions of the queen mother, I knelt at the door of the Palace of Eternal Life and begged bitterly, and finally Jin Yu agreed to hand over Ah Yan to me to raise.

My legs were numb, and Mama Li helped me into the sedan chair with a distressed face.

I asked, "Mama, Sister He just wants to protect Ah Yan, Yao Jieyu is in trouble everywhere, she just wants to protect herself, why is her fate so miserable?" ”

"Because she destroyed His Majesty's favorite things."

I smiled wryly, "Favorite thing?" Yao Jieyu's voice or my face? ”

Mama Li leaned over, "Isn't it all clear?" ”

Tears rolled down her cheeks and fell silently, "Mama knows, Sister He is the first person in this palace to call me Ah Shuang, and she is the first person to really treat me as Ah Shuang." ”

Mama Li reached out to wipe away my tears, her hands were gentle and rough, completely different from the previous boards. She gently grabbed my shoulders and admonished, "Niangniang, you must remember that all the people in this palace live according to His Majesty's wishes. ”

"He Meiren's matter has affected the family, and the entire He family has been exiled. Do you think Your Majesty only poisoned concubines for her? He Meiren's father and brother are powerful, and the official position is getting higher and higher, plus He Meiren has a prince, and it is a matter of time before the He family grows, which is what His Majesty does not want to see. ”

Mama Li was a little sarcastic when she said this, "Otherwise, when did you see a high-ranking concubine in this palace who was pregnant?" ”

"Niangniang, you have a face that can make any request, but the existence of Yao Zhaoyi has made this face lose its right to be willful. Now that Yao Zhaoyi is gone, and you have a prince again, as long as you serve Your Majesty well, you will definitely come to the bitter end in time. ”

I said in a trembling voice: "What does Mama mean, is it to make me someone else's shadow for the rest of my life?" ”

Mama Li choked up, "But Niangniang is already doing it!" ”

After Yao Jieyu injured her throat, Jin Yu ordered her to move out of Chuxiu Palace, and the third prince was sent to the palace for education, and even the name of the third prince Jin Xi was withdrawn.

Yao Jieyu was arrogant and irritable when she was favored, but now she has fallen out of favor and lives in an inconspicuous small courtyard next to the cold palace.

I walked into the courtyard and felt nothing but dilapidation.

Yao Jieyu leaned against the wall at the door and asked hoarsely, "Are you here to see my jokes?" ”

Her voice was dull and harsh, completely devoid of the tactfulness and agility she had when she first entered the palace.

I still remember her singing in the imperial garden, her singing voice was tactful and her eyes were clear, and the people in the palace praised her as a natural sound.

Yao Jieyu saw through my pity, she stood up and shouted angrily: "I don't need you to pity me!" Then she sneered as if she thought of something: "Actually, you are the same as me, I am because of the voice, and you are because of the ...... of the face."

She had tears in her eyes, "As soon as I entered the palace, I knew that I could be favored all because of this voice, and every time I accepted the favor, I had to cover my face." I have to practice my voice every day, and I'm afraid that once I don't like it, the emperor won't want me anymore! I imitate the queen's voice and the queen's demeanor; You just have to sit in his arms every day, you know how hard I've worked for him! ”

She touched her face and said in a trembling voice, "Sometimes I don't even know myself when I look in the mirror." ”

Yao Jieyu dragged me a little crazy and shook me vigorously, "Do you know what that tastes like?" Do you know what that tastes like? ”

"So that's why you're hurting people?"

"I'm just trying to protect myself, I've suffered so much, and I finally got Xi'er; It doesn't matter if I suffer, as long as he lives well, when the emperor gave him the name Jin Xi, I knew that all the suffering was worth it! ”

"But there are still people in front of him! Of course I'm going to clear the way for him! ”

Yao Jieyu was rampant with a hint of sadness, and I said softly: "The third prince has been sent to the palace to be raised, and you will never see each other in this life." ”

She looked at it in a daze, tears welling up from her eyes, and muttered, "I hurt him, I hurt him." ”

She suddenly knelt down and grabbed the corner of my coat tightly, "I beg you, save him, he's just a child." ”

I looked at Yao Jieyu, who was humbly begging in front of me, and I didn't feel happy at all, I leaned down and looked at her at eye level, "You forgot, I'm just a stand-in!" ”

The last hope in Yao Jieyu's eyes was extinguished, and this was the last time I saw her.

She hanged herself on a thunderous night.

Since there is no Yao Jieyu, my life has not been so good, Jin Yu wants to come over every day, but just looking at his face can no longer satisfy him, he asked me to pick up the previously abandoned qin, chess, calligraphy and painting.

But after going through so much, his heart is as old as dead wood, whether he is playing the piano or painting, he has a sense of depression, which makes Jin Yu very unhappy.

But he has long lost many of his original choices, the old people in the palace have been themselves, but there are many newcomers, but the queen is sick, and the people in Kunning Palace have no heart to train others.