Zhang Yan lay on the small couch in the west room, wrapped her body tightly with a heavy quilt, only to feel cold and shivering, until the hand towel twisted out of the hot soup was covered on her face, and she felt a little better.

"Is it raining again?"

"Hmm."

Tu Yu answered, silent for a while.

She grew up with Zhang Yan since she was a child, and she knew that she didn't need to say anything at this time, or what comfort she would, just stay there quietly and wait for Zhang Yan to figure it out by herself. After guarding the couch for a while, I saw Zhang Yan lying on her side on the couch, her face was pale, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and it was obvious that she had not fallen asleep, but her eyes were closed. So he got up and withdrew with the wooden tree.

The wooden tree was twisted there, refusing to move.

"Mu Xi," Tu Yu looked back in surprise, urging in a low but stern voice, "what are you doing in a daze?" ”

Mu Xi breathed rapidly, his chest rose and fell slightly, as if he had finally made a decision, he suddenly broke free of Tu Yu's hand, and with a "bang", he knelt in front of the couch and couldn't bow down for a long time.

"Muxi," exclaimed Tuli, "what are you doing?" ”

"Servant," Mu Xi lay on the ground, trembling slightly, but slowly raised his head, "Servant has something to enlighten the queen." His dark eyes showed a hint of determination.

"Oh? What's up? Zhang Yan asked softly.

I don't know when, she has sat up with her arms in her arms, sitting on the couch, and she looks even more thin, but her back is as straight as paper.

"The Queen's Mother...... If we are unwell, it is our duty to serve our maids. Mu Xi trembled, his words trembled slightly, a little obscure, and gradually calmed down, and his voice became smooth and clear, "It's just that now the pavilion has been confined on this day." In addition to the queen's mother, there are also drunk everyone, if there is no one to serve, tomorrow the queen mother will inquire, I am afraid it will be bad. Sister Tu Yu has been with Niangniang since she was a child, and she knows Niangniang's habits the most, and Niangniang can't leave her service in a single step. It is also the husband and wife relationship between the mother and everyone. (Everyone: The name of the Son of Heaven in the palace of the Han Dynasty.) See the notes at the end of the chapter for details. ）

"Mu Xi," Tu Yu shuddered angrily, "remember your identity and origin. Should you say that? ”

Under the candlelight, Mu Xi bit his lip, his face was pale, but he was surprisingly calm.

Zhang Yan's eyes were slightly trance-like. Suddenly, he asked, "...... When did you hit the idea? ”

Mu Xi hesitated for a moment, "What did Niang Niang ask?" ”

Her voice was low, "The maid serves the mother, often going back and forth between the middle palace and the front hall, and everyone is gentle and generous. Which of the people in the palace is not respectful? Nowadays, there is a lack of people around you to serve, and the servant dares not to do his best? After all. Although I didn't drink much, everyone used a lot of wine tonight? ”

"Okay, good," Zhang Yan sneered twice, "I'm pretentious and smart in vain." But even the minds of the people around him have lost their eyes. She was very disappointed in Muxi. Turning around, not wanting to see her face again, he said indifferently, "If you want to go, go there." - I just hope that you can really know yourself. ”

Mu Xi's heart was satisfied, and he couldn't help but show a happy look on his face, put his clothes up, pressed his right hand on his left hand, raised his hand to increase his forehead, bowed respectfully, paused, and then straightened up, and at the same time increased his forehead with both hands, bowed again in a regular manner, and bit his lip and said, "The maid thanked the queen for her grace." He got up and stepped back.

"Niangniang," Tu Yu was angry and anxious, hating Mu Xi who carried the master half to death, but he didn't dare to stop Zhang Yan's words, so he jumped up and asked, "Why is Niangniang ......, if you don't spit out, how dare she act behind your back?" ”

"What's the use of people who are with me, but their hearts are gone?" Zhang Yan said lightly.

Under the faint yellow candlelight, the corners of her mouth curved into a sarcastic arc, "Muxi, she thinks she is smart." I want grace and I want my acknowledgment. It's just that she doesn't know that the world is unsatisfactory, ten out of ten*? ”

She said it coldly, but Tu Yu was still a little confused, "Could it be that Niangniang means ......?" ”

Mu Xi stood outside the east hall for a while, gritted his teeth, took off his shoes, untied all the clothes on his body, and only put on the crimson female official uniform of the middle palace, and pushed the door in. He stepped barefoot on the carpet in the temple, silently.

"Everyone."

In the hall, Liu Ying was lying on the couch alone, looking discouraged. I heard the woman in front of the couch calling several times before she came back to her senses and was upset, "It's you?" What are you here to do? ”

"It was the queen mother who asked the maid to serve everyone."

Mu Xi's voice was tactful, and she came quietly, "The queen mother said that she is not in good health and cannot serve everyone." Let me ......" The voice gradually lowered and eventually became a blur.

"Impossible." Liu Ying intuitively felt ridiculous and said categorically. The residual spring in the chrysanthemum wine was still in the blood, but it cooled down in the entanglement between Shicai and Ah Yan, only the headache remained, and he didn't have the heart to look at the woman who had been specially dressed in front of him, "You go out." I want to be alone. ”

Mu Xi became anxious.

She has come to this point, if she can't ......, not to mention what face she will face the queen in the future, even her family will be affected by herself, and there will be no good end.

"It's true......"

She smiled and smiled, her eyes full of charm.

Knowing this, the crimson coat fell lightly to the ground. Revealing a young and fresh body. Mu Xi spit out lightly, "Everyone," after all, his face was crimson, "Everyone drank too much wine tonight, do you have a little headache, can you wipe it?" - The servant knows that you are in the way...... Can't be lucky. Mu Xi is just a little, there are no those who have and don't, they can only ......"

The girl's words fell on Liu Ying's headache, but it was just a murmur, and she vaguely heard the words mentioning Ah Yan, and she didn't like it. At this moment, when Ah Yan was hiding in a sad place, she, as Ah Yan's maid, did not accompany her to comfort her, but scratched her head in front of her. The pent-up emotions grew heavier and heavier, gradually converging into a storm, and he shouted angrily, "Get out." "A kick on Mu Xi's chest.

Mu Xi screamed miserably, and his body flew backwards involuntarily, hitting the temple and the screen, and fell to the ground with the screen, "wow", and spit out a mouthful of blood.

……

"Niangniang—" Tu Yu rushed in with a pale face, "Mu Xi was kicked by everyone. Now lying on the ground over there, I'm afraid I don't even have the strength to get up......"

Her voice faded.

On the couch, Zhang Yan lay on her back, maintaining her previous posture, and the sheep's horn palace lamp was placed on the foot pedal in front of the couch, casting a cold and tough shadow.

She chuckled to herself.

Since Zhang Muxi ignored her mother's pain, knelt in front of her mother, and recommended everyone to the pillow, she was no longer the sister who got along day and night in the Jiaofang Palace in the past. Now, she has ended up like this. It's just self-inflicted. Why should I pay my sincerity in vain?

"Mother," she called as she walked softly to the couch.

Zhang Yan did not answer.

The heavy rain had already stopped before you knew it. A crescent moon rose and shone on the side of the girl on the couch, her long eyelashes standing still, casting a faint shadow, pitiful.

It seems to have fallen asleep.

Tu Yu reached out and tucked the brocade quilt for her. And he took a quilt himself, and sat down in a corner of the temple, and wrapped himself up. It seemed that there were too many things that happened this night, and she miraculously did not feel sleepy, and looked at the black corner of the hall with her eyes open, until the palace Diao Dou had already knocked the fourth watch.

couch. Zhang Yan slept quietly, not moving, as if she had been sleeping deeply. But suddenly he called softly, "Tu Tu." ”

Tu Yu hurriedly answered, and came over with a lantern, "The maid is here." ”

"The name I gave you last time, can you get it done?"

“…… It's already done. ”

The girl tuddled the brocade over her shoulders. The eyelashes fluttered slightly, and a tear came out of the corner of the eye. "It's time. …… There is no feast in the world. ”

"Mother?"

Zhang Yan slowly opened her eyes and looked at her, "Tu Yu, this time, I really plan to leave Weiyang Palace." ”

For a moment, Tu Yu only felt that her mind was blank.

She stared at the girl in front of her, this year, she was only sixteen years old, the age of a flower, sitting there quietly, like a flower branch that had lost its clear water, only a pair of eyes remained, proud and desolate.

She grew up with herself, and no one knew better than herself how bright and proud she had been, but she was trapped in this court, gradually sinking down, and finally becoming more and more aggrieved.

Tu Yu's lips trembled for a while, and finally gritted his teeth, "Okay." ”

On the morning of the first month of the first month of the seventh year of the previous century, the sky was dawning, and the Weiyang Palace was empty, only the footsteps of a team of guards patrolling the palace Langlang passed back and forth.

Zhao, the maid of the Jiaofang Palace, walked through the long winding corridor of the palace, and suddenly stopped in front of the Qingzuo Gate leading to the west gate of the palace in Yongxiang, and turned around and said, "Niangniang, Tu Yu will be sent here." ”

Behind her, a girl dressed in the green clothes of the palace maid raised her head, revealing a bright and clean face, curved willow eyebrows, and eyes shaped like apricot cores.

"Mother, listen to me." She told for the last time, "Lu Ou, who is in charge of dismissing the palace people, is just a little yellow gate from a dog prison, and he has never seen the queen and will not recognize you." Knowing that Zhang Yan was already very clear, but he was still afraid that he would miss something after going out, he instructed,

"In the Du family's shop in Dongshi, I have prepared a luggage coil for you. When you leave the palace through the door of the room, you go and fetch it. In the Jiaofang Palace, Xie Wei and Han Lian were both sent out by me to do things, and the slaves and maids can delay until dusk for you. It's just that after everyone knows, what kind of things will be done, I really don't know. So, mother, if you really don't plan to turn back, go out, you have to go as soon as possible, and go as far as possible. ”

"Okay," Zhang Yan smiled, "I'm not a child, I won't have an accident." ”

She looked at this maid who had grown up together since childhood, and felt sad in her heart, if there was no accident, she would never see her again for the rest of her life. "Tu Yu, from this moment on, I am no longer a mother. Over the years, you and I have lived together, and I have long regarded you as a sister. When you leave, call me Ah Yan. ”

"What did the mother say?" Tu Yu shook his head in amazement, and refused to agree, "Even if you are no longer the queen's mother, you are still the master of Tu Yu." ”

"You're always so stubborn." Zhang Yan was helpless, "Then, you can call me Yanniang." ”

Her eyes were clear and cold, like a winter lake, reluctant and sad, Tu Yu couldn't bear it in her heart, and shouted Yan Niang, sixteen years of tears like rain.

"Okay, listen." Zhang Yan hugged her and whispered in her ear, "I once repaired a book, and put it in the pillow in the dormitory of Jiaofang Palace." After I go, I am mostly sure that His Majesty will not blame the people in the Jiaofang Palace. It's the Queen Mother,...... Sooner or later, she will know about me, and the Queen Mother is stoic, and she is likely to anger you. Give this letter to my mother, and if my mother intercedes, you will be safe. ”

Her tears couldn't help but fall, knowing that she should turn around decisively at this time, but she couldn't help but want to say a few more words.

"Good sister, when you entered the palace, it was just for me. Now, now that I'm gone, you don't have to spend your youth in this Weiyang Palace anymore. After a year and a half, if you have a chance, go out of the palace. Marry an honest man, have a few children, live a plain life, don't be like me......"

The heart is arrogant, but it ends dismally.

"Yan Niang—" Tu Yu nodded and turned her back, "You can go quickly." ”

If you delay any longer, someone may pass by and see it.

Zhang Yan nodded, wiped away the tears on her cheeks, and turned around and left without looking back.

A line of geese lined up in a herringbone pattern in the sky and flew north.

In the Weiyang Palace under the sky, the bus Sima checked the documents of the palace maids who released the palace, and when he saw that there was no mistake, he waved his hand and let him go. Dozens of green-clothed palace maids lined up in a straight line, and they came out of the studio door in the north of the Yang Palace.

"The Queen's Mother. This is precious. ”

The sky is about to dawn, and in the long alley where no one passes, the female imperial chief Zhao Tuyu bowed to the ground on her knees, and unconsciously burst into tears.

——3769 words in total, revised on May 2, 2011

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Concentrate:

Everyone: The title of the emperor by the close ministers or concubines in the palace. Han Caiyong's "Arbitrary": "Close to the attendants is called everyone, and hundreds of officials and officials are called heavenly families." "The New Tang Dynasty Book? Li Fuguo's Biography": "Fuguo said that the emperor said: Everyone sits in the palace, and foreign affairs are executed by the old slaves. Tang Liu Su's "New Words of the Tang Dynasty? Cool forbearance": "The first order of the palace people announced to the queen, and then said: Long live everyone, Zhaoyi will inherit the grace for a long time, and I will share the death." ”

Therefore, Mu Xi calls Liu Ying everyone here. This title is somewhat similar to the official family of the Song Dynasty, but it seems that the people in the market also call the official family the Son of Heaven, and there are fewer people who call it. In fact, in addition to his usual family name, Lu Yuan has always been called His Majesty Liu Ying, and Zhang Yan's name is also very diverse, depending on the different circumstances and moods at the time, but he has hardly called this family.