Volume 2: Mountains Have Trees and Trees Have Branches Eighty-Eight: Sharp Turn
There is thunder in this chapter. Enter with caution.
Actually, I really don't want to write, I don't want to write, but looking at the plot arrangement at the back of the outline, I cried silently.
Then I can only comfort myself, the bitterness now is for the sweetness of the future.
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"Oh?" Lu Pheasant smiled casually, "Let's hear it." ”
"A few days ago, I came back from Xinfeng with His Majesty and Ah Yan, and I met a monk on the way, who looked like a fairy and a bone, and he looked like he spoke before."
In the hall, the corners of Zhang Yan's smiling mouth stiffened, and she suddenly coughed earth-shatteringly.
At that time, Liu Ying also glared at Fan Yan fiercely, and said, "The imperial wine in the palace is not alcoholic, and Lieutenant General Fan's mouth is too idle, isn't it?" ”
It's just that in this way, everyone was aroused, and Lu Yuan smiled, "Don't be afraid, cousin, just say it." If these two people have a problem with you, you can just come to me. ”
"Yes, thank you for the kindness of the eldest princess." Fan Yan couldn't help but laugh, coughed, and deliberately straightened his face, "That Fang Shi said that this son and this little lady have a very good face, and they will have the fate of Qin and Jin in the future." ”
The crowd was silent for a moment, and suddenly burst into laughter.
The matter has come to this, even if she gritted her teeth, Zhang Yan had to swallow the blood, and said with a smile, "It's okay for my cousin to laugh at me, if Aunt Jiu of the Lu family hears it, it won't be good." ”
Lu Pheasant called Zhang Yan over, held her hand and said with a smile, "Actually, Ah Yan is beautiful, has a good temperament, and is smart, if it weren't for my granddaughter, I would really rather her be my daughter-in-law." ”
"The Queen Mother." Liu Ying called out in embarrassment, with a hint of reproach in her voice, but the ice and snow in it melted in this laughter.
Very good, very good, very good, Zhang Yan slandered in her heart, in vain she tried her best to build a bridge between the mother and son, but she lost herself as the last stepping stone. Bojun smiled.
Although because the mourning period of the first emperor has not passed, the Changle Palace can not be extravagantly lit with lights, the fiftieth birthday of Empress Lu is still very lively, the princes come to congratulate, staggered, and when the end of the scene, it is already night.
After drinking some sake at the banquet, Zhang Yan's steps were a little vain.
The palace car stopped in front of the Imperial Garden, and she was about to get into the car holding her mother's hand, when suddenly a small palace attendant came to call. "Eldest princess, please stay. The Queen Mother invited Mrs. Zhang to come over. ”
Zhang Yan blinked, brushing a strand of loose hair behind her ear, revealing her cheeks that were slightly pink from the wine. smiled, "It just so happens that I want to take a walk and blow the wind." Mother, Yan'er will go back as soon as she goes. You and your father will have to wait for me. ”
"This kid." Lu Yuan looked at her back and smiled helplessly.
"Man Hua," Zhang Ao said with a smile in the night, "Don't you think, after every time Ah Yan drinks." Aren't they all cute? ”
He looked at his wife, and after a long absence, his eyes were affectionate and soft. "Just like you."
"Yikes." Lu Yuan was suddenly a little at a loss, and gently held Zhang Ao's generous hand, but his face gradually turned red.
When he arrived at the Changxin Palace, Empress Lu was not there. It seems that he never came back after the feast. Zhang Yan sat for a while, and the wine was dissipating. I was a little impatient, so I got up and said. "I'll follow the road I came from and go find Grandma."
Changle Palace, which entered the night, was very quiet.
Although it is no longer the political center of the Han Dynasty, but on weekdays in the Changle Palace, you can always see the palace people coming and going, this time, but after walking for a long time did not meet people, the spacious and bright corridor in the daytime, but in the night it is like a black forest hole, strange and gloomy. Two palace attendants led the way, and the lanterns shed a circle of light.
With a "wow", the crow passed through the corner of the corridor and quickly passed. The screams startled the group.
"Lady," Xie Wei's voice trembled a little, "I heard that the crow is ominous, in this Changle Palace, isn't it, "Something bad happens."
"Look at what you say." Zhang Yan reluctantly smiled, "This is Changle Palace." What could happen? ”
Even if something happens, it won't be on the bright side.
Zhang Yan also regretted it in her heart, she knew that this was the case, so she stayed in Changxin Hall and waited for Grandma to come back.
Turn the corner of the corridor, and in front of you is the candle-lit Changle front hall. Zhang Yan exhaled, clapped her palms and smiled, "Look, aren't there people here?" ”
After a few more steps, she realized that something was wrong.
People, yes, the problem is, there are too many.
Inside the guard of the heavy guard army, the figures outside the hall are staggering. There are the costumes of the attendants of Yongxiang Palace, as well as the familiar palace people who often serve behind Empress Lu.
The captain of the fish scale armor came out of the crowd and arched his hand, "Mrs. Zhang, this is not the place you should come, please avoid it immediately." The voice was strong and slightly quick. When I looked up, it was a scabies.
"What's going on?" She asked in a deep voice, and a sense of foreboding suddenly rose in her heart.
Suddenly, a woman's miserable laughter came from the hall, "Alu, may you be a mouse and I will be a cat in the next life, and I will eat your flesh for the rest of my life." There was a bitter resentment in his voice.
"Slut," Empress Lu exclaimed, "come on, cut off her tongue, and see if she dares to make a big fuss here." ”
Zhang Yan's face turned white in an instant.
That's, that's-
Mrs. Qi's voice.
Her teeth chattered, her body trembled. Her sanity desperately told her that she should turn around and walk away immediately, and hide far away. Her feet were stiff as if she was stuck in the mire, unable to extricate herself, unable to take a single step.
At that moment, she didn't think about anything, just a heart that fell into despair.
A bloody man crawled to the door of the temple with great difficulty, stretched out his hand, tried to reach something, but in vain, and finally let it go in disappointment.
"Qi Yi," Lu Pheasant followed, her voice was full of strange excitement, "Do you remember, that year, in this place, the bewitching emperor said that he was going to abolish me, and when you hid behind him, when you were proud, you must not have thought of today." ”
She followed Qi Yi's gaze, looked down slowly, and when she saw Zhang Yan, she couldn't help but be stunned.
"Ah," she laughed suddenly, "Ah Yan is here to find the mourners." ”
"Ah Yan," Empress Lu stretched out her hand and beckoned, "You come here." "The voice is eager. The dark sleeves are missing, waving in the night breeze.
As if she had been in a nightmare, as if she had been in a nightmare, Zhang Yan walked up the long steps step by step.
"Ah Yan." Empress Lu held her hand, bent down, and smiled heartily, "Look," she pointed at Qi Yi and said eagerly, "Didn't you help Grandma scold her, 'A person who has self-knowledge, a person who has nothing to pay, a light and smiling face. Two tears, just want to take what others have paid for everything. Suddenly, the surface was like ice, "'How can there be such a cheap thing in the world.'" ’”
The hand held in Lu Pheasant's hand. Tremble gently.
It wasn't until she got closer that Zhang Yan saw Qi Yi's current appearance.
She was wearing a lake-green dress, as if she had seen her for the first time in the front hall of Changle, with a delicate style, but she could no longer set off the fiber fit at that time. One end of the green silk was shaved off. With traces of whipping and torture on his limbs, he glared at Lu Pheasant fiercely, babbling in his mouth, but unable to speak.
"How beautiful." Lu Pheasant's face showed a sickly flush, as if admiring a work of art created by himself, and his voice was fascinated. Suddenly turned cold, "Qingsi, don't want it." Singing, it's gone, look at what else you use to seduce men. ”
Qi Yi used all his strength and spit out a mouthful of blood, and Lu Pheasant was caught off guard. It landed squarely on the queen mother's dress.
"Look for death." Empress Lu jumped like thunder and commanded loudly. "Zhang Ze, cut off all the hands and feet of this slut for the mourning family, gouge out her eyes that hook men, poke her ears deafening, and the mourning family wants to make her into a human being, still in the pigsty, watch her die slowly." At the end, he gradually turned to resentment and madness.
For a time, the people in the hall showed fear and unbearable.
Mrs. Qi couldn't speak, but her ears could smell, and her eyes turned around the hall and fell on Zhang Yan. Those dark eyes showed the meaning of pleading.
Zhang Yan nodded.
She suddenly turned around, pulled out the sword hanging from Li Yi's waist, and stabbed it into Qi Yi's heart, cleanly.
Qi Yi snorted softly and closed his eyes softly, with a chuckle still on his lips.
The entire hall was so quiet that even a needle could be heard, and the voice of Empress Lu was very obvious, "Zhang Yan." With a snap, he slapped her.
The slap was extremely heavy, and there was no mercy at all, Zhang Yan fell to the ground, and still felt a buzzing ring in her ears. She turned and got up and ran out of the temple.
The sound of the wind was whistling in her ears, everything was quiet, the vast Changle Palace was dark, only the front hall behind her was brightly lit, but she was as eager to leave here as if she was fleeing from a beast.
Some images from the past come to mind.
In the East Palace, Chen Hu covered his heart and looked confused, grabbed her, and trembled, "Do you know? The Marquis of Huaiyin was poked to death by a bamboo stick. I heard that after death, the corpse was dragged out, and the eyes were bleeding, but they were still open and round. ”
In the small courtyard of the Hou Mansion, Lu Yi cried loudly, "Which one naturally wants to hurt people?" …… I was scared too, and I still had to pretend I didn't know anything. She watched the excitement cleanly, but in turn blamed me. ”
"Smack-" Empress Lu slapped her hard.
She screamed in pain, her left foot throbbed, and she had to stop, but it turned out to be ankle and she was no longer able to run.
This is the first time that Empress Lu called her by her name.
Therefore, the crown princess began to dislike Empress Lu, and it also started from the day she witnessed Han Xin's violent death.
There was a faint cramp in her calf, and she straightened her instep vigorously to relieve the throbbing pain and sob.
The last thing that came to mind was the cold words on the "Historical Records":
The Queen Mother then cut off Mrs. Qi's hands and feet, removed her eyes, burned her ears, drank fistula medicine, and made her live in the toilet, and was called "Renbi". Living for a few days is to call the filial piety of the emperor to view the people. When Xiaohui saw and asked, he knew that his wife was crying, and he couldn't get up because of illness. The queen mother was asked to say: "This is not done by man." The minister is the queen mother, and she will not be able to rule the world. "Filial piety drinks this day as a lewd pleasure, and does not listen to politics, so he is sick.
asked, but he knew that his wife was crying, and he couldn't get up for more than a year because of illness.
Due to illness, I can't get up for more than a few years.
……
"Ah Yan?"
"Why are you here?"
She suddenly raised her head, looked at the person who should not have appeared at this time, and asked, "Why are you here?" ”
Suddenly there was a wave of despair.
Is history really unchangeable?
Seeing the embarrassed girl crying in front of her, Liu Ying was taken aback. Squinting and not being good, "What's the matter with you?" ”
She didn't seem to hear it, and still asked, "Isn't my uncle supposed to have returned to Weiyang Palace?" ”
"Ahh Liu Ying was suddenly a little embarrassed, coughed, and said, "I want to come to visit the queen mother." ”
He was quite sorry for his indifference to his mother these days, and on the occasion of Queen Lu's birthday, he turned back to Changle Palace and wanted to accompany his mother again.
He smiled slightly, his eyes warm.
That smile, Zhang Yan's heart was sour, and she almost shed tears, and hurriedly lowered her head to force the tears back, explaining, "My foot is broken, and I am afraid of pain, so I cry like this, which makes my uncle laugh." ”
Glancing at the slap marks on her left cheek that were still obvious in the night, Liu Ying was silent for a moment, "I met your mother at the palace gate, and she is still waiting for you to go back, I rang-"
"Uncle," Zhang Yan grabbed his coat and said eagerly, "I can't walk, can you send me back?" ”
She still wanted to do her best.
Mrs. Qi is dead, and Empress Lu can no longer be an adult. As long as the palace people collect his body, even if Liu Ying knows about it in the future, he has not seen the truth, and the impact will always be smaller.
Therefore, she couldn't let Liu Ying go to see Lu Pheasant now.
Liu Ying raised her eyebrows, suspicious in her heart.
"Is it good, uncle?" She asked him with her head up, her voice eager.
Yuxue's cheeks in the past were now slightly swollen, Liu Ying felt slightly dazzling, sighed, and said, "Okay." ”
Zhang Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
The young man bent down to pick up the girl, walked to the chariot, put her in, and suddenly turned around and ordered, "Changliu, send Mrs. Zhang to Xique." ”
"Uncle," Zhang Yan hurriedly got up and leaned out of the car to call, but she might as well have a tingling pain in her ankle and fall to her seat.
"Lady," Chang Lu snorted and persuaded, "Lady Zhang has an injury on her foot, so don't move around, otherwise she will fall ill and it will not be good in the future." ”
She turned a deaf ear, lifted the curtain to see the back of the young man in Xuanyi all the way, her heart was cold, but a faint smile appeared on her lips.
But it turns out, can't it be stopped?
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March ends. In the end, the pink ticket was settled at 435 points. Very happy results. Thank you for your support.
Well, I wrote this chapter for a long time because I didn't want to write it.
But it's nice to end the last day of March with this chapter. Because the story will be wonderful in April.
(Anyway, after a long period of foreshadowing, you're finally willing to get into the main event.) Tears run. )
The turning point of this chapter is very urgent, and I will explain why Empress Lu suddenly changed his hexagram later.
Exhale, there shouldn't be a plot of great abuse (it should be, say it with a weak heart.) )
Cheer again, Ah Yan will soon turn eleven. There is still more than a year to get married.