Zhang Yan was stunned.

"Lady, you don't know yet," Tu Yu stood aside, he had endured it for a while, and shouted out at this moment, "Up and down the East Palace, it's already turned upside down." When something happened to the crown princess, the queen was furious and ordered to take all the imperial doctors who treated the crown princess. ”

"And that's not all." Lu Yi added, curling the corners of his lips, "Qu Yihou cried in front of His Majesty, saying that he wanted to seek justice for his beloved daughter." His Majesty sent the matter back to the queen and took Aunt Xiangtan in Yongxiang. All the palace attendants present at that time were also convicted of being careless and imprisoned. ”

"And—Ah Yan," she leaned into Zhang Yan's ear and said softly, "Although the queen forced those people's voices down,—— there were indeed palace attendants who followed the crown princess at that time and bit indiscriminately, saying,"

"Say what?" Zhang Yan didn't come back to her senses for a while.

"It was said that Ah Yan was coming everywhere, which startled the crown princess and caused her to stumble."

A heart sinks in the dark. It took a lot of effort for her to stop her trembling fingers.

"Of course," reassuring Ruy, "that's all nonsense from those people trying to pass the buck." Ah Yan, don't rest assured, the queen won't believe it. You were scared today, the queen mother let you not have to go out of the palace today, just stay in the Jiaofang Palace at night. ”

"Hmm." She nodded in understanding.

"Ah Yan," Lu Yi couldn't help but turn around when he left, and instructed, "Don't think too much, just rest well." ”

"Thank you, cousin." Zhang Yan smiled slightly.

"Lady," asked softly, "do you want to sleep a little longer?" ”

"Nope." Zhang Yan shook her head, got out of bed and put on her clothes and said, "I want to go and see Xiangtan." ”

"Lady," a look of disapproval evidently appeared on Tu Yu's face, "the queen mother ordered you to recuperate." Why should you ......? ”

"I always felt that it wasn't going to be that simple. I wanted to ask Xiangtan what was going on at that time. ”

When she saw Xiangqin again, Zhang Yan was startled.

The female prisoner who stayed in the gloomy silkworm prison in Yongxiang, covered in scars and blood, and could no longer see her original pretty appearance, was the capable female official beside the former prince's wife?

"Xiangtan."

Zhang Yan called her name softly.

After calling it a few times, Xiangtan realized it. I moved my eyes, looked over, and suddenly burst into tears.

"Xiangtan." Zhang Yan grabbed Tie Yan and asked the people inside, "Was there anything wrong with the crown woman's accident?" ”

Xiang Tan thought about it carefully, shook her head, and said, "Since pregnancy." The crown princess has been working hard. vomited all day long, took the medicine of the imperial doctor, and slept better. This morning. The princess woke up, and somehow she was in good spirits and wanted to come out to bask in the sun. I was there myself, and I was there when the princess fell. There was really nothing out of the ordinary, she was unstable and she stumbled. ”

She closed her eyes and leaned against the wall, tears slowly falling asleep and her cheeks flowing, "The crown princess doesn't have much strength at all, but she did her best to give birth to the little imperial grandson." When she left, she still had a smile on her face, and the maid didn't dare to tell her. The little emperor grandson was born without breathing. ”

Zhang Yan walked out of the silkworm room, and the words of Xiangqin Shicai still echoed in her mind.

The crown prince is the most relieved is the prince, and she finally said that the prince is the most affectionate, if she leaves. The crown prince will definitely be sad. She also said she missed that year. The wind by the Weishui River. The maid also misses the river breeze of that year—but we can't go back. ”

Yes. She walked out of the dimly lit silkworm room, and the night breeze blew on her, and she took a deep breath.

We can't go back.

In front of him, a fire was piled up in the courtyard of Yongxiang, and several people from Tsing Yi Palace took some clothes, shoes and socks and threw them into the flames, and the flames were so strong that they were swallowed into ashes in an instant.

"What are you doing?"

Zhang Yan asked.

The palace people behaved like a courtesy, and said, "The crown princess has just died, and the above orders are to burn all the clothes on her body when she died." ”

She slowly snorted softly from her nose, and caught a glimpse of the little palace maid in Tsing Yi standing behind the palace attendant and shrinking her hands and feet, this fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, raised her eyes slightly to glance at herself, bumped into her gaze, was taken aback, and quickly lowered her head again.

"I've seen you." Zhang Yan smiled and said, "What is your name next to the crown woman." ”

The little palace maid folded her sleeves and replied, "The maid envy the moon." ”

"Oh." Zhang Yan responded, and then asked, "The attendants around the crown princess are all detained in Yongxiang now, why don't you have anything to do?" ”

Xian Yue moved uneasily and said, "Before the prince's wife had an accident, she sent her maid to the weaving room to fetch things. She sobbed, "I knew that this kind of thing would happen, and the servant would rather die than leave the princess half a step, if the maid was there, if the maid was by the prince's side at the time, maybe she would be able to hold her." ”

"Oh." Zhang Yan sighed, "You are loyal." Suddenly, he said, "I'm thirsty, go and pour me a cup of apricot cheese." ”

- Xianyue was surprised, but had no choice but to respond, "No." ”

She walked on the palace road with apricot cheese in her hand, and a deep wind suddenly blew along the shadow wall of the palace wall, and the cold hair on Xianyue's back stood upright, and her heart almost jumped out of her chest. Exhaled and walked into Yongxiang.

The fire in the courtyard had been extinguished, the remains of the clothes were missing, and the ashes had scratched several branches.

Xian Yue's hand shook, and the ear cup on the plate rattled.

"What's wrong?" The waiter in the corridor frowned and looked over, "I can't do such a small thing, Mrs. Zhang is still waiting for your apricot cheese inside." ”

"No-no." She replied, her voice trembling slightly.

The two bean lamps in the hall swayed slightly in the wind through the hall, Zhang Yan held the apricot cheese in front of her, and said slowly, "I heard that this Yongxiang is a place used to lock up the wrong palace people, and it has only been a few years since Changle built the palace, and there are dozens of palace maids who died here." ”

"Do you listen to the wind like someone crying in the night?" She smiled on her lips.

"Ahh

"The princess is watching you from behind." Zhang Yan said softly, "She was covered in blood, holding the little emperor grandson in her hand, she said, Xianyue, I take you with you a lot, why do you want to harm me so much?" ”

The last few sentences she learned vividly, her voice was cold and resentful, and when she heard it in Xianyue's ears, Xianyue couldn't help but tremble, and her feet knelt down softly. "It's not me, it's not me."

"Do you think everyone else is stupid?" Zhang Yan reprimanded, "I have seen the relics of the crown lady in the ashes, and your hands and feet have been exposed. You are a slave against the master, and you want to destroy the corpse afterwards, you need to know that people are doing it, and the sky is watching. ”

"I didn't mean to. Not me. Xian Yue cried.

"Who's that?" Zhang Yan immediately asked.

"Yes, it's ......", Xianyue looked confused, and her psychological resistance line had collapsed. I soon couldn't stand the pressure to speak out.

"Why does Sister Yan stay in this hellish place?" A sweet and soft greeting suddenly came from outside the door, and the girl in the yellow skirt and green skirt stood outside the door, clear and spiritual like a pink butterfly in the vegetable field. He smiled and asked, "Ah Yan, doesn't your head hurt?" ”

Zhang Yan was stunned.

I don't feel it if I don't mention it, Lu Yi mentioned it so casually. Sure enough, she felt a burning pain in her head, groaned, and sat down behind the desk.

"Silly Ayan," Lu Yi walked over, his cold hand touching her hot forehead, and said with pity. "Imperial Doctor Chun Yu said a long time ago that you don't want to think about things, but you don't listen, and now you're suffering, right? Can my cousin solve your problems for you? ”

turned around and scolded Xianyue with a cold face. "I've seen a lot of slaves and maids, but I've never seen you so useless. It's useless to be a slave, and if you don't even have loyalty, what are you going to do with it? ”

Xian Yue snorted with a pale face, "Five ladies." Slave maid, slave maid ......"

"How." Lu Yi curled his lips and smiled, "It's useless for me to scold you and scold you wrong?" Things have long since burned to ashes, and it's a shame that you've been scared like this by those unwarranted things. ”

Xian Yue's face became more and more pale, and her body was shaky.

Lu Yi walked half a step around her with his hands in his hands, and sighed, "Your father sent you to the palace to be a palace maid, but in fact, he has been looking forward to you leaving the palace when you are old, if he knows that his daughter has done such an unfaithful and unfilial thing, he doesn't know how to be sad." ”

Xian Yue laughed miserably, "Xian Yue knows what to do, she just asks the fifth lady to be merciful and spare the maid's family, they don't know anything about it, and they don't threaten anyone." After finishing speaking, he hit his head on the pillar closest to him, and the blood splashed half of the pillar, and he couldn't survive.

"Sister Ah Yan," Lu Yi smiled back, "Sister is so disposed of, are you satisfied?" ”

Zhang Yan's heart was shocked, and she barely settled down.

"I know, Ah Yan has always been kind-hearted," Lu Yi said softly, "If my sister is soft-hearted, my sister can pretend not to know about this, she is just a slave who is sad and martyred, although her family will be sad, but it will definitely not hurt a bit." ”

"It's the Lu family, isn't it?" Zhang Yan asked.

"Huh?" Lu Yi was stunned.

"If it weren't for the Lu family, how could it be worth defending the fifth lady like this?" Zhang Yan cross-examined. "I just don't understand," she asked, "the crown lady is not in the way of the Lu family, why did the Lu family bother to do this." ”

Lu Yi giggled, "Why didn't it get in the way?" The Lu family is bent on the position of the second queen, so Chen Hu, the crown princess, naturally can't stay. ”

"You ......" Zhang Yan scolded angrily, "Because of Chen Hu, the Chen family gave up neutrality and worked hard for the prince, and now the prince's position is stable, but the Lu family has turned to deal with the prince's wife, which is simply - crossing the river and demolishing the bridge." I can't even wait for such a little time. ”

You must know that Emperor Gao is still in power, and once there is a change, if the prince has a bad relationship with the Chen family because of this, won't he cheapen Qi Ji instead?

"It's not early." Lu Yi's face was covered with a thin layer of frost, "Your Majesty is already old, old people always like stability, unless he doesn't want a stable Han to pass on to his son, otherwise, he can't move the storage position anymore." If the Lu family waits any longer, do they have to wait until the emperor's grandson is born? And the Lu family wants Aunt Jiu to marry in a beautiful way, so, since it has already been done, just be thorough, Ah Yan, you say, isn't it? ”

"I see," Zhang Yan nodded and couldn't help but sarcastically, "Lu Wuniang knows so clearly, you are also among them, right?" ”

"Not really." Lu Yi said indifferently, "Although she and I don't like each other, we don't have the intention of harming her. But Ah Yan, you have to know that my surname is Lu, and I have both glory and loss with them, so I have to cover up for them. ”

"Ah Yan," she stared at the girl and sighed softly, "My sister has already reminded you, rest well, don't think about it, why are you so disobedient?"

Ah Yan, you are such a strange person, sometimes I think you are smart, and sometimes I think you are the stupidest in the world. ”

Zhang Yan looked up at the smiling girl in front of her, her heart was cold, and she suddenly remembered that day she went to Jiaofang Hall with her mother. His Royal Highness heard Lu Pheasant's words, "I see that only this little five in the Lu family's generation is a finished weapon, if it is a man, he will be able to hold up the Lu family one day." I don't have to worry about the Lu family. "I didn't realize it at the time, but now I remember it, but I have a different taste.

"What if you know the truth? Chen Hu is dead and cannot be resurrected, His Majesty wants an illusion of a peaceful world, the Lu family wants a beautiful talk between the queens of the two dynasties, and the queen wants the prince to be friendly with the Lu family. As for Qu Yihou, he is an old fox who has been in the past for a long time, and the matter has come to this. I won't be an enemy of my descendants for the sake of a dead daughter. No one wants to be exhausted, the Lu family is unwilling, Qu Shunhou is unwilling, the queen is unwilling to ......, if you are smart. You should know that it is best to cover this matter here, and the truth will only be exposed, which will only damage the queen and the prince, and the crown princess does not want to see it in heaven. ”

The head hurts for a while, and the heart is empty for a while. Zhang Yan was silent. If all Ruy said was ridiculous, she could have felt better. But reason told her that there was some truth in her words.

She didn't know. Why don't you know......

However, no matter how many reasons there are, if there is no living life, can it be counted like this?

"No, no."

Zhang Yan raised her head and said loudly. "Uncle won't just forget it. He's not as cold-blooded as you. ”

"Prince?" Lu Yi was stunned for a long time before he said. "The prince is a good man. However," Fu made a cold face again, "He won't know, and the queen won't let him know." ”

"Ah Yan, do you know," Lu Yi carefully studied her tears, and suddenly said, "What I hate the most is your face—it is always a picture of innocence and ignorance of the world. But in the Han Palace, who is qualified to be innocent and ignorant of the world? You say that Chen Hu is a river bridge, but in fact, each of us is a river bridge, if you want not to be demolished, you can only keep yourself useful forever. ”

She smiled and got up, "You know, the first time I met the queen, how was it?" ”

"At that time, I was only four years old, the queen had just returned to Han from Chuying, I was a concubine, and my cousins looked down on me, so I tricked a cousin who bullied me the most fiercely into the lake, but was seen by the queen who entered the palace. I was so scared that I thought I was going to die this time. As a result, the queen said to her uncle, this female doll is a bit interesting, let her come to the palace to accompany me. ”

"I'm not like you, you are the queen's own grandson, you come and go freely in the Han Palace, just like your own home. I am a tribute to the queen from the Lu family, and living in this Changle Palace is like stepping on ice every day. looked at the queen's face, pleased the queen, and was afraid of losing her favor and being sent home. But God knows, how much I hate Changle Palace. The more Lu Yi spoke, the more excited he became, and his breath was slightly disturbed, "I have my own home, parents and brothers, but I spend most of the year in Changle Palace, and even when my mother is sick, I can't serve in front of the bed for a long time." ”

Over the years, she greeted people with a smile, but buried her heart in the middle of the night, and finally could say it out loud, but she shed two lines of tears, turned her head and said hatefully, "I often think about how good it would be to find an ordinary person to marry one day and never enter the Han Palace again for the rest of my life." ”

Zhang Yan looked at her back, how paranoid the world is, no matter how smart she is, she will inevitably be trapped in her own vision. For example, Lu Yi, she always thought that Lu Pheasant back then was just asking her to be a plaything to relieve her boredom, but she didn't think so, how much expectation Lu Pheasant placed on her.

If I tell her what Grandma said that day, maybe she will be relieved. The thought flashed in Zhang Yan's mind, but she pursed her lips and rejected this thought, if Lu Yi can acquiesce to watching the tragedy happen, then why should I be kind enough to pull her.

Tu Yu walked back and forth outside the palace wall, watched her come out, and greeted her with relief, "Lady, let's go back." ”

"Hmm." She nodded blankly.

The wall of Changle Palace is very high, and she walked in it, looking up at it, revealing a line of cramped and cool nights. I want to ask what everything looks like. But I found that I didn't know who to ask or what to ask. I just felt something choke in my throat, as if it was about to break through the ground. She bent down and wanted to cry, but she couldn't cry.

"Mrs. Zhang." Aunt Su Mo stopped her and said, "The Queen Mother and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are inside, you can't break in at this time." ”

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Yan realized that she had unconsciously walked back to the Jiaofang Palace.

And the shadow of the hall is heavy, and there is a crisp slap in it, which can be heard clearly without effort. "Useless stuff." Lu Pheasant gasped fiercely and scolded, "You plan to be depressed for the rest of your life?" What time is it. It's so easy for your father to extinguish Yi Chu's thoughts, but do you want to give your crown prince to that little child in the West Palace for nothing? - That's it. Your daughter-in-law will not rest in heaven. ”

"But, queen mother, how can you just leave your son like that? It was the wife of the retainer, and the unborn child. ”

"It doesn't matter if you want to die yourself, do you still want to drag the entire Chen family and the Lu family to follow you to the funeral? The crown princess is your relative, so my wife, your sister, and your uncle, you can all be regarded as strangers, right? ”

There was no speech in the temple for a while, and after a while. There was a suppressed and miserable cry and choked voice.

"Ying'er," Lu Pheasant said comfortingly, holding his son in his arms. "The queen mother knows that you are sad, cry here in the queen mother, walk out of this door, you have to be the prince who looks up to the people of the Han Dynasty - as for that child, that child." She hesitated, "He is your son, isn't he the grandson of the queen mother?" How could the queen mother harm him? ”

Zhang Yan lowered her head, looked at her shadow under the moonlight, turned around and left.

I don't know how long I stayed in the night, when I came back to my senses. He found himself under the steps of the Jiaofang Palace, and the young man who walked out of the palace had heavy steps. The hair on his temples was slightly scattered, his face was pale, his eyes were red and swollen, and there were still slap marks on his right cheek, and finger marks were clearly visible.

I saw Zhang Yan standing at the bottom of the temple steps. Liu Ying was stunned for a moment, and the water in her eyes deepened. It seemed like he was about to shed tears again, and he barely smiled.

"Ah Yan." He called her, his throat a little dry.

Zhang Yan stood there, dumbfounded.

Liu Ying only said that she was still sad for her deceased wife - in this huge Changle Palace, how many people are really sad about the death of that flower-like woman? With a sigh of sympathy in his heart, he walked up to her.

So the good smell of rosin and the clear moonlight poured in front of Zhang Yan, which was the most reassuring breath for her, but now the smell of the tip of her nose made her uncomfortable for no reason.

"You," Liu Ying said softly, brushing her hair, "don't be too sad. ”

Under the moonlight, a thin layer of goosebumps arose where he touched, and Zhang Yan trembled slightly.

Liu Ying was sad for a while, hugged her petite body, and tears fell from his eyes.

He is already tired, and he also wants to cry bitterly, in the deep palace, it is his wife who has been lost, her childish child, and there are large tracts of vegetarian in the eyes, but in this deep palace, except for him and the immature girl in his arms, who is really sad for their mother and son?

The girl in his arms trembled more and more until he couldn't ignore it at all. Liu Ying wiped away her tears and asked, "Ah Yan, what's wrong with you?" ”

The girl in her arms looked up, her face was pale, and her lips had been bitten with thin tooth marks.

In the spring of the twelfth year of the Han Dynasty, the crown wife Chen Hu lost her footing, and the mother and son died. The personal female official Xiang Qin hanged herself, and when she was supposed to serve the maids in the palace, she was charged with the crime of not protecting the master, and went down to the weaving room and silkworm room for hard labor, and she could not recover for the rest of her life. A catastrophe was quietly covered up. In the Changle Palace, except for the Qi Mai that the prince wore for his wife, there was no trace of it.

On this day, Liu Ying met Emperor Gao, and in the east chamber, he saw that above the main hall, Liu Bang was talking to his former confidant ministers. Among them, the one sitting with his back to him was Qu Rebellion Hou Chen Ping.

However, after half a month, Chen Ping's back was already slightly tant, and his back looked very clear, as if he was ten years old.

Liu Ying was slightly embarrassed, so she stood in the wing room and did not go out.

After a long time, I suddenly heard a sigh in my ear. It turned out that the ministers had already retreated, and Liu Bang walked into the hall with his hands in his hands.

"It's not productive." He tapped the top of his son's head with the bamboo slip in his hand, "It's just a dead woman, it's worth your own ghostly appearance?" ”

Liu Ying raised her eyes, her eyes were clear, and she was neither humble nor arrogant, "Hu'er is the wife of her son's minister. ”

"If that's the case," Emperor Gao scoffed, "why don't you dare to find out." ”

Liu Ying's voice weakened in an instant, he looked down at his father's shoes, Liu Bang has never paid much attention to grooming and clothing, always said that the brocade is light and soft, and it is not as good as linen cloth on the feet, so although he is an emperor, he is still used to wearing cloth shoes.

- This is his father, and he occasionally hopes to rely on him and draw courage and strength from him.

"Father," Liu Ying asked him softly, "do you want your sons to be like this?" ”

Father always said that he was not like him, and he was always unconvinced. At this time, he believed it, he was afraid to see the truth, afraid of a rupture, afraid of seeing casualties.

Father—disappointed in him, aren't you?

"Nope." Liu Bang shook his head and said, "On the contrary, if you are really so emotional. I'll suspect I've picked the wrong person. ”

"Ying'er," Liu Bang said earnestly, "In the future, you will know that as a son of heaven, you can be more affectionate if you want to be affectionate on weekdays, but when it comes to the juncture, you must learn to be ruthless." ”

Just like you?

Liu Ying couldn't help herself from thinking like this, so she bowed, "It's not too early." The son took his leave first. ”

Emperor Gao nodded.

He withdrew from the main hall, walked slowly down the stone steps, and walked to the last step, when suddenly his heart moved, and suddenly he turned back, and saw his father dressed in a mysterious robe, standing at the door of the temple with his hands in his hands. Seeing him turn around, he was stunned and smiled slightly.

The father and son handed over their eyes, and Liu Ying understood her father's helplessness, desolation, and expectations for him.

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