Bai Ziche's sideburns are like snow

Seven years of Xuande, spring.

As soon as the news that the emperor wanted to fill the harem was released, countless women from the family were overjoyed and geared up. Soon, the Ministry of Rites released the news that women from big families were not allowed to be selected, and women from high-ranking officials and ministers were not allowed to be selected. The emperor's preferred candidate for the harem is a commoner woman with good conduct and an innocent family background.

Xu Xilan was selected by the lieutenant governor in this way, and got on the boat to the imperial capital for the draft in a daze.

Xu Xilan's father was a well-known teacher in the township, who died trying to save a student who had drowned. Xu Xilan was raised by her strong mother since she was a child, and she supported the burden of the family alone, learned her father's knowledge, and also learned her mother's pungency.

has innocent parents and beautiful skins, Xu Xilan's selection is reasonable.

The first time she stepped into the majestic imperial city, her heart was full of apprehension, and she couldn't help but straighten her back, but lowered her head.

The show girls live in Valerian, and there is a splendid peach blossom planted outside the Valerian. Xu Xilan learns the rules of the palace every day, and the edges and corners are smoothed out little by little, and she becomes low-eyed and pleasing to the eye. When she washed her face with water in the early morning, Xu Xilan looked at the reflection in the water and almost couldn't recognize herself.

Although the show girls are all from civilian backgrounds, some are honest and wooden, and some are lively. After a while, there were show girls in a group who got together and had the audacity to discuss the emperor's preferences.

"I heard from the palace people of Weiyang Palace that there is a picture of Guanyin in His Majesty's bedroom all the year round. But Your Majesty has never believed in Buddhism, could it be that Your Majesty loves women who look like Bodhisattvas? ”

"What kind of person can look like a bodhisattva?"

The show girls chattered about how they could not break the rules, and dress up like Guanyin in a painting, or put a grain of cinnabar on their eyebrows? They thought they were whispering, but in fact, the words didn't fall word for word, and all of them fell into Xu Xilan's ears.

"Anyway, the Bodhisattva will definitely not be like Xu Xilan." The show girls said firmly.

Xu Xilan is very beautiful, but it has nothing to do with the kind eyebrows and good eyes Guanyin, it is a wild and untamable beauty.

Xu Xilan smiled indifferently and went out with her hands in her hands.

The sun is just right, and the peach blossoms outside Valerence Garden are scorching. Xu Xilan casually picked up the petals that fell to the ground and put them in her handkerchief. She walked all the way and picked it up, and suddenly bumped into a figure. The man hugged the scroll in his arms, and was almost knocked over by her.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Xu Xilan quickly helped him and said, "Are you okay?" ”

The moment she saw the person in front of her, Xu Xilan was stunned for a moment. She had never seen such a man, as clean and transparent as a glass of water, without a trace of messy colors and smells, pure and elegant and elegant.

"Nothing." Bai Ziche hugged the scroll and comforted her in turn.

"You're a painter in the palace, right?" Xu Xilan saw that he was dressed simply, and naturally said, "Take a look, is there a problem with the painting?" If something goes wrong, I'll explain it to you, so that you don't get to blame by Your Majesty. ”

Bai Ziche laughed and said, "How do you know that this is a painting for Your Majesty?" ”

Xu Xilan said casually: "They said that Your Majesty used to live in the painting academy, and he was more powerful than the painters in the palace. ”

Bai Ziche raised his eyebrows and asked, "What else do they say?" ”

Xu Xilan stuck out her tongue and said, "They also said that His Majesty likes Bodhisattvas. ”

"You and I don't know each other, aren't you afraid that I will tell Your Majesty these words, and Your Majesty will offend you?" Bai Ziche deliberately teased her.

Xu Xilan grimaced at Bai Ziche, waved her hand to say goodbye to him, and said, "They also said that Your Majesty has a good temper!" You won't kill people just because of a sentence or two. ”

Bai Ziche stood in place and laughed helplessly.

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The show girls actually began to imitate the makeup of Guanyin in the painting, some deliberately painted their eyebrows and eyes with powder, and some dotted cinnabar on their fair foreheads. In addition to learning the rules, the show girls went to the imperial garden intentionally or unintentionally, hoping to meet the emperor.

When the last handful of peach blossoms bloomed, Xu Xilan met Bai Ziche again.

"Last time I saw you, you were also picking up flowers." Bai Ziche looked at the petals in her handkerchief, and said, "Are you going to bury flowers?" ”

"I picked it up, washed it and dried it, and made it into a flower cake." Xu Xilan said loudly, "Have you ever eaten it?" ”

Bai Ziche shook his head honestly.

"I'll give you a taste next time."

"Is it the food from your hometown?" Bai Ziche asked keenly.

Xu Xilan nodded and said, "Hmm." ”

"You're homesick?"

"I can't think of it." Xu Xilan held the petals, looked up at the sky, and said with a long sigh, "But there is no way, my mother only has one daughter." I'm not the head of the Guanglingjiang family, a woman like the North King of Yunzhong Town, I can only settle accounts and quarrel, and I can't do a great job. My mother can only live well if I marry well. ”

Xu Xilan pretended to smile happily and said, "Is there a better man in the world than Your Majesty?" ”

Bai Ziche did not answer.

"I think I'm pretty good-looking, maybe Your Majesty can really take a fancy to me?" Xu Xilan was not discouraged and said.

"I think you're beautiful." Bai Ziche said, "But if you really want Your Majesty to see you, why don't you go to the Imperial Garden with them?" ”

Xu Xilan shrank her neck and said in despair: "Maybe I'm still a little scared, right?" If I do something wrong and say the wrong thing, and Your Majesty kicks me out of the palace, what will my mother do? ”

"You said last time that Your Majesty has a good temper."

Xu Xilan was speechless, she couldn't say that it was all said by others, who knows what kind of human-faced and animal-hearted person His Majesty is.

Bai Ziche looked at her innocently, slowly showed a smile, and said, "See you next time, remember to share with me the flower cake from your hometown." ”

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Xu Xilan failed to share the flower cake with Bai Ziche.

The show girl who was waiting for the rabbit fell short, and when she returned to Valeran Garden, she poured her anger on Xu Xilan. She viciously threw Xu Xilan's sun-dried petals to the ground, trampling and crushing them hard. Xu Xilan was stunned for a moment, then pulled her hair and slapped her a few times.

"You dare to hit me? I'm going to tell Mama about your private meeting with the painter, and ask her to kick you out of the palace!" The show girl screamed.

Xu Xilan rode on top of her, slapping the corners of her mouth, and her hair was scattered and draped down.

"Here you go!" Xu Xilan's eyes were red, and she said, "If Your Majesty chooses a person like you, then he is a blind man, and I don't want to marry!" ”

This farce spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and it actually stabbed Weiyang Palace that night.

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Xu Xilan and the show girl knelt in the courtyard of Weiyang Palace. The big palace maid in the Weiyang Palace, Fuyun, walked in front of the two, looked at Xu Xilan, who gritted her teeth and refused to show weakness, and then glanced at the show girl who was crying with pear blossoms and rain, with a puzzled expression.

"Who will make flower cakes?" Fukumo asked.

Xu Xilan was stunned and raised her hand in a daze.

"Come in with me."

Xu Xilan cramped into the dormitory with Fuyun, nervously grasping the patterns on her sleeves. Fuyun saluted the person in front of the window and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, the person has been brought." ”

Xu Xilan watched in disbelief as the man turned around, forgetting to breathe for a while.

"'If Your Majesty takes a fancy to your kind of goods, then he is a blind man, and I will not marry'. I didn't ask for your name, but I don't know why, but I always felt like it was something you could say. Bai Ziche said with a faint smile.

Xu Xilan knelt on the ground with a "plop", and did not dare to raise her head and said, "Your Majesty forgives me!" ”

"Luckily, my temper is as good as I was rumored." Bai Ziche asked her to stand up, glanced at her red-stained face twice, and asked Blowing Cloud to take medicine to wipe it for her.

Xu Xilan trembled and wanted to take the medicine, not daring to bother Blowing Cloud, but Blowing Cloud was serious and did it himself.

I don't know when it started to rain.

Bai Ziche sat by the window, quietly looking at the bead-like rain curtain under the eaves, and the slightest rays of coolness rushed in from the window, and he didn't dodge. Xu Xilan sat beside Bai Ziche uneasily, he didn't speak, and she didn't know what she should do.

Inadvertently, Xu Xilan saw a painting in the dormitory, which showed Guanyin holding a pure dew and smiling with low eyebrows.

The rumors turned out to be true. Xu Xilan thought aimlessly.

"It's boring to just sit like that, isn't it?" Bai Ziche suddenly asked.

Xu Xilan hurriedly shook her head and said, "Why did Your Majesty help me?" ”

"Maybe it's because you said today that you wanted to invite me to eat flower cakes, and I'm very happy." Bai Ziche's tone was naturally diluted, and there was no sense of happiness.

A long time later, Xu Xilan learned that Bai Ziche received a letter from Yunzhong that night. The daughter of Chu Zhixia, the king of Zhenbei, was born and named Chu Chongxi.

The next day, Bai Ziche named Chu Chongxi as Princess Jing'an, and the treatment was equivalent to that of a princess.

There was a lot of discussion between the government and the opposition.

Chu Chongxi's father is Bai Zhen, the king of Jin, Bai Ziche's half-brother. Before concluding a marriage with Chu Zhixia, Bai Zhen asked for a decree to abolish his status as a royal child. Despite this, Chu Chongxi's bloodline is still sensitive.

Bai Ziche's actions showed that the royal family had no suspicion of the Chu clan in the clouds, and the honor of the Chu clan in the clouds rose to a higher level.

Under the overall situation, Bai Ziche's melancholy of sitting under the eaves and watching the rain all night is not enough for outsiders.

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The thirteenth year of Xuande, summer.

Another season of heavy rains.

This is Xu Xilan's sixth year on the throne of the queen.

Xu Xilan's hand was cut by the bowstring when she was learning bows and arrows in the Yulin Guard School, and she was soaked by the sudden rainstorm, and she began to have a fever when she returned to Changxin Palace. She burned in a daze, calling A-Niang for a while, and Daddy for a while.

The person who took care of her reluctantly responded, wiped her body for her, and fed her medicine.

The high fever subsided, Xu Xilan looked at Bai Ziche, who was undressed, and suddenly burst into tears.

Bai Ziche wiped away her tears, and asked with a helpless smile: "When I woke up, I found that it was not my father and mother beside me, but me, are you very disappointed?" ”

Xu Xilan shook her head.

"Sun Yan and I said that you have been running to learn to ride horses and shoot arrows lately." Bai Ziche said, "Why are you suddenly interested in these?" ”

Xu Xilan was most interested in the ledger and kept the harem accounts in good order. Bai Ziche wants to reduce the expenses in the palace, and Xu Xilan can also do things successfully and beautifully.

Xu Xilan didn't say a word, sat up and drank the medicine. She held the medicine bowl and bit the edge of the porcelain bowl with her lips, like an awkward child.

"Since you don't like it, don't force yourself to do it." Bai Ziche made a decision for her.

"What Your Majesty likes is not actually a Bodhisattva, right?" Xu Xilan raised her eyes and looked at Bai Ziche, her eyes surging with mist.

Bai Ziche was stunned.

"The concubines heard some of the old things of His Majesty's youth, speculated in vain, and did stupid things. I beg your Majesty's forgiveness. Xu Xilan whispered.

The treacherous theft of the "Guanyin Dashi Tu" in the auspicious period, the Chu proton living in the clouds of the Autumn Leaf Mountain Residence, and the candle flame that was not extinguished in the Weiyang Palace on the night of Chu Chongxi's birth. The piles are telling Xu Xilan that Bai Ziche has a person in his heart.

Xu Xilan felt ridiculous, as ridiculous as those show girls who dotted cinnabar on their foreheads.

"Xilan, I'm sorry."

"Your Majesty, you don't need to say I'm sorry." Xu Xilan shook her head, tears falling into the medicine bowl, "Your Majesty is very good to me, it's because I want too much." Your Majesty is good to me because Your Majesty is a very good and very good person, but what I want is for Your Majesty to be happy with me and good to me. I'm too greedy. ”

Bai Ziche patted her on the back, helpless in the face of her tears.

After a long time, Bai Ziche said: "You don't have to learn from her, you don't have to be like her." ”

In this world, there will be no one like her.

Xu Xilan cried even more fiercely.

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Twenty-three years of auspicious charms, summer.

Heavy rain is like a note.

Xu Xilan looked at Chu Chongxi, who was standing at the foot of the steps.

Chu Chongxi is sixteen years old this year, his eyebrows and eyes are like his father, and he is indescribably beautiful. When she doesn't move or smile, she is like a fairy in a painting, as long as she opens her mouth, her eyebrows and eyes become vivid, like a fairy on a mural on the ground, crawling in the red dust.

"Let's go see Your Majesty." Xu Xilan said, "According to blood, Your Majesty is your uncle." During your parents' absence, he has been very concerned about you. ”

Chu Chongxi answered, and followed Xu Xilan towards Weiyang Palace. Luo Tong stretched out an umbrella on Chu Chongxi's head, with a blue background of smoke and rain, painted with verdant bamboo.

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Bai Ziche has been sick for a long time, and he never gets better. The doctor said that he was overthinking and needed to rest, but he couldn't stop for a moment. The scab of the empire has not been completely uprooted, and his robes have passed away one by one, leaving him alone to support him.

Pei Zhang stayed by his side, holding his hand.

"Your Majesty, Chongxi has arrived in the imperial capital, do you want to meet her?" Pei Zhang's voice trembled, and he said, "Her eyes look like Mo Xue." ”

Bai Ziche opened his drowsy eyes and turned his head to look.

Through a screen woven with gold gauze, the figure of the man holding an umbrella and wading through the water with a skirt seemed to melt into the sun.

The torrential rain in front of Dali Temple lasted for a long time, and Bai Ziche was the only drowning person in that heavy rain. The young man's wish to be in a corner of peace, and the teacher who respected and loved him was crushed by power. He seemed to have returned to the rainy season when his mother died, and the umbrella above his head was shattered, leaving him alone in the rainstorm and shivering in the cold.

The man stood in front of him with his sword drawn, and a paper umbrella covered him.

This is where all the undercurrent of emotion begins.

"Miss Chu, don't come unharmed."

Bai Ziche's eyelids fell heavily, and he whispered.