I sat in the imperial study all night, and the eunuch next to me opened the window, let through the candle flame soaked all night, and cautiously leaned over and asked, "Your Majesty, ...... last night?"

Before I finished speaking, I was interrupted by waving my hand, what happened last night, I really didn't have any interest at all, it was nothing more than which harem concubine fell ill cowardly, or my palace lady, who reprimanded the one who didn't open her eyes dignified and generous, and won the unanimous approval of everyone.

All of this already makes me feel like I am looking through the old pen that has been sealed in the archives for many years, and the ink color is gradually fading, and the viewer is clearly a little impatient.

Now, the eunuchs in the imperial study have changed a few, this one is a high-spirited father-in-law in front of outsiders, but he is very smart, never say more, I don't like to listen to words, this is already very rare, I naturally know, how many fields under his name, how many deeds, half a year ago, a certain official, but also specially bought him two beautiful women, raised in the outer house, it is said that in order to complete the beauty of Qi people, a wife and a concubine.

After I heard this, I just smiled faintly, the eunuch should be like a beautiful flower, it is just the moon in the water, and the flower in the mirror.

I didn't ask too much about where they went, I only knew that the mirror shadow who left at the end knelt outside the imperial study for a long, long time, and experienced the last battle, and three of the four people were left with old diseases and injuries, and there was no credit and hard work.

Obviously I don't want to let go, I still have a soft heart after all, especially after seeing the appearance of Moon Shadow, he has become like that, not even an ordinary person, leaving the palace, the former Yulu is only a few, and it is very difficult to support himself, why should I be strong, leaving a cripple, and I am depressed all day long.

I watched him turn and leave, his back looked unusually relaxed, and he seemed to have put down all the things he had been carrying, no matter where he lived in the future, he could feel at ease.

I suddenly wanted to call him and ask, are you going to find Shen Nianyi, but before the words reached his mouth, he was swallowed in time, this name, I don't want to mention it again, I don't want to do it at all.

His fingers grasped the rice paper on the table, and the tighter he gripped it, as if it was tangled into a human heart that would beat at any time.

Probably because my expression was a little hideous, Gonggong Gao asked in a low voice from the side, "What does the emperor want to use for breakfast?" ”

"Walnut cheese." I didn't think about it, blurted out, as soon as the words came out, I was stunned, I didn't make a sound, the imperial study was quiet for a while, I didn't move, Gao Gonggong could always maintain the same expression to accompany him, "How long has it been since I been to Changchun Palace?" ”

"Since the death of the Empress Dowager, the emperor has not been to Changchun Palace again, and I am afraid it has been more than ten months." Gao Gonggong said while observing his words, the Empress Dowager is almost a taboo in the palace, no matter who it is, she does not dare to take the initiative to mention it in front of the emperor, but she didn't expect that the emperor had no sleep all night, and he actually thought of this.

"It's been ten months, and that's a long time. Gao Gonggong and I went to Changchun Palace to have a look. "I don't want to wait for the so-called breakfast at all, and I'm not in the mood to eat walnut cheese, which I only liked to eat when I was a child, and if you think about it, I'm afraid I haven't ordered this in seven or eight years.

"Yes, I'll go and prepare the dragon right away." Gao Gonggong seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

I sat on the dragon's head, my thoughts seemed to be uncontrollable, swaying back and forth, before my grandmother died, she must have said that she wanted to see me, the old man who had been confused for many years, suddenly became conscious, even the imperial doctor felt incredible, I still hurried over.

Grandmother is still like in the early years, like to lie on the soft couch, eyes fell, I saw her gorgeous hair, silver white dazzling, since when the grandmother has been old, not the atmosphere in my memory, beautiful elders, is I walking too fast, too late to look back at the people around me.

"Nothing." Grandmother didn't call me the emperor, it's okay like this, immediately someone moved the chair to the sickbed, I sat down, so that she didn't have to look at me with such a hard way to raise her neck, she stretched out a hand from the brocade quilt, I couldn't help but look at it, this hand is also very old, the skin is loose, the bones seem to be packed in a small bag, sliding at will.

It turned out that my grandmother was really old, so old that I didn't look at each other at first glance, if it wasn't for her sleeping in Changchun Palace, sleeping in this position, I wouldn't even remember what she looked like.

"Leave them alone." The Empress Dowager said softly, "It's been all these years, let them go." ”

"Grandmother." I replied in a low voice, "There was ever someone who was willing to let me go." ”

The Empress Dowager's silence was only for a moment, and then her eyes were as sharp as an eagle, making people look over and forget her age: "If it weren't for Shen Zhengqing's words back then, there would be the emperor today!" ”

I laughed, it was already this time, and I moved out irrelevant people, and my grandmother really returned to the past: "I have always rewarded and punished clearly, this matter has nothing to do with Shen Nianyi, I have returned all the favors he did for me, my grandmother does not want Shen Nianyi, grandmother wants the power of my grandmother's relatives, it's a pity, my grandmother is already the queen mother, and now the relatives in the court are the queen's maiden forces, I don't want to do this, but every dynasty and every generation can't avoid such a tragedy." ”

"You know, you know, they don't have the slightest deterrent effect on you."

"Grandmother, who is good for me and who is harmful to me, I have a clear account in my heart, if my grandmother still has time, I can tell my grandmother."

"Yingjie, Yingjie has done nothing wrong." The Empress Dowager's tone was weak after all.

I nodded and said, "Que Yingjie didn't do anything wrong, so I didn't embarrass him, I said that I would let him go, but he would rather stay with his grandmother, to say filial piety, over the years, he is afraid to be more filial than my own grandson." ”

The Empress Dowager's fingers tightly grasped the edge of the quilt, and she was about to catch her breath: "If you can let them go, let them go, Your Majesty, you have to be forgiving and forgiving." ”

I didn't have the patience to listen any further, and even suspected that the imperial doctor's diagnosis was wrong, and that such a babbling and endless old woman would not have a problem living for another ten or eight years, so why did I have to come to see her for the last time.

When I left the Changchun Palace, but only a short hour, the news of the Empress Dowager's death soon came, and even the two palace maids who had served around her for many years died on the inner wall of the Changchun Palace after the Empress Dowager took her breath, just because, the Empress Dowager died blindly, and they were afraid that the emperor would blame her and be sentenced to a more painful death.

After I heard the news, I waved my hand and said: "Burial the two palace maids with the Empress Dowager can be regarded as a piece of loyalty. ”

The eunuch who got the edict quickly retreated, and when Gonggong Gao saw my posture, he knew that he would have to spend it in the imperial study again tonight, so he waited until it was almost dawn, and then whispered: "Your Majesty, Que Yingjie, the chief of the guard of Changchun Palace, was taken away by the queen's order. ”

I raised my eyes and asked, "When did the queen move?" ”

"Just when the two palace maids died, the queen had already arrived at Changchun Palace."

"She took Que Yingjie by name?"

"Yes." Father-in-law Gao's voice was lowered and lowered, and the eunuch's sharp voice sounded very uncomfortable, "No one dares to stop the queen." ”

"Now, no one dares to stop the queen." I closed my eyes and smiled, "The Empress Dowager found the wrong person before she died. ”

The person my grandmother is looking for should not be me, but the queen mother next to me who has been held high by the courtiers.

"The Empress Dowager really doesn't look blind?"

"I heard so."

"That's it, my grandmother has indeed done a lot for me, without my grandmother's help, where is my grandeur today, you pass on my message, and immediately release Que Yingjie from the palace, no one can stop it."

"In case the queen ......"

"Whoever it is."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

An hour later, the queen came, went straight to the imperial study, pushed open the door, stood in front of me, I raised my eyes to look at her, a face, red is red, white is white, the powder is not thick or thin, the bun is neatly inserted with beads inlaid with jade gold phoenix crown, it is really beautiful, she is also looking at me, the layer of her eyes floating I don't know whether it is cold, or smile.

She opened her mouth and said, "The emperor shouldn't be soft-hearted. ”

"What do you want to say?"

"Que Yingjie can't stay, he knows too much."

"What does he know?"

"All the things in Changchun Palace over the years, he knows that keeping him out of the palace is extremely unfavorable to the emperor, so the concubines did not listen to the emperor's instructions brought by Gonggong Gao, and the concubines did inconvenient things for the emperor."

I lowered my eyes, the corners of my mouth raised, and slowly raised: "The queen doesn't know everything?" ”

"The concubines are all for the emperor." The queen knelt down on the opposite side in a dignified manner, "If the emperor feels that the concubine has done something wrong, please punish the emperor." ”

I felt cold in my back, cold: "He's dead?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"It's like when you attacked the second emperor brother."

The queen slowly raised her head, and her eyes were dark with understanding: "Your Majesty, the concubines are all for the emperor." ”

"Does Shen Nian know that you are my shadow?" I stood up, took a step forward, and asked.

"Lord Shen knows everything." She replied so simply, presumably in her heart, Shen Nian had already surpassed me, the Ninety-Five.

Why, why, one or two of them are like this, what is better than me in the end, he has been away from the government and the opposition for all these years, and there are still people talking about the things he did back then.

Even, even, he took away my favorite woman, if, if I were ruthless and took that woman over, would the queen who is kneeling in front of me now be replaced by her!

I didn't think much about it, my hand was raised high, and it fell heavily on the queen's face, my hand strength has always been not small, her face was deflected by me, Ruyu's cheeks, the five finger marks were distinct, but when she turned her head, she still did not waver in the slightest, no need to speak, I can also guess that what she wants to say is still that sentence, the concubine is for the emperor's good.

A long time ago, when she was in the circle, she said such a thing, but at that time, this sentence was that Mizukage was also for the good of the six princes, and if a person wants to do great things, he can't have the kindness of a woman.

Yes, my queen is the water shadow in the mirror, Shen Nianyi's most powerful subordinate, and also a dark chess piece left to me by my father, when I was in the circle, when I saw her for the first time, I recognized her, but I still didn't hide my surprise, I clearly remember that this person has always been Shen Nianyi's right-hand man, how is it possible, how can it be!

She seemed to guess what I was thinking, and smiled lightly: "Sixth prince, I should still be by the side of the second prince thousands of miles away, responsible for protecting his safety, this secret, only you know it, the emperor knows, and there can't be a fourth one in the world who knows." ”

It turns out that a secret guard can also be as beautiful as a flower, and she can also gain the trust of her father early, be entrusted with a heavy responsibility, and take on a greater weight, she is not only the water shadow in the mirror, she also has a more obscure identity, so that when I am a big deal, the country is stable, and that identity can push her to the head of the six palaces, the queen's seat.

No one could object, no one dared to raise an objection, and I thought I had found a ready-made treasure, and I gladly accepted it.

This treasure, slowly, after three or five years, went from a shining gem to a cloudy and gloomy one, to such a point that I could no longer look at her, and that I did not believe that I had ever known her.

"The last time the emperor beat his concubines was early in the morning of the second day of the wedding." She knelt there with a sympathetic smile, "At that time, the concubine was still a little naïve, and she actually asked the emperor why he called Mrs. Shen's maiden name the night before, when he was holding the concubine." ”

I watched her quietly.

"It's a really good fight, every time the emperor makes a move, it's appropriate, and it's very measured." When the queen got up again, she removed the fingerprints that could not be faded in time, and looked very normal, "So, the concubines felt very relieved, at least the emperor did not say that he would pull the concubines off the throne and throw them into the prison. ”

She didn't have such patience, so the result of my silence was that she didn't want to be in the same room with me in the imperial study, and I didn't chase her, but she retreated first.

"To be a Ming monarch, the emperor's sacrifice is really only a very small part." Before leaving, the queen left this sentence and an intriguing smile.

This smile even appeared in my nightmares later, and I couldn't extricate myself for a long time.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Changchun Palace has arrived." Gao Gonggong reminded in a low voice.

As soon as I looked up, the three words of Changchun Palace, it is said that my father personally wrote the book, respectfully offered my grandmother to his position, and now, there is no queen mother in the court, and after the death of the queen mother, Changchun Palace has been empty.

Walking up the familiar steps, someone pushed open the heavy palace door in time, and a cold wind rushed out of it, and I stood there, shivering.

"Your Majesty, Changchun Palace has not been inhabited for a long time, and the yin qi is a little heavy, so it's better to go back." Gao Gonggong followed and said.

"I want to go in and take a walk." I don't know why I came here, what to trace, since it was my own decision, I never regret it, every step is a walk, why do you need to look back frequently.

Seeing that I was walking too fast, Gonggong Gao ran to catch up with me with small steps: "Your Majesty, do you want the guards to sweep it first, don't collide with the emperor." ”

I stopped in the atrium, how lively it was, I even remembered that my father had a Lin Guifei, very beautiful, every time I went to Changchun Palace, I had to dress up enchantingly, I just wanted to be angry and widowed for many years, and that person, the first time I entered the palace, it was Changchun Palace, I was worried that she would not be able to pass the grandmother's pass, and I sweated for her, but I didn't expect her to be like no one, naturally, and it passed generously.

That one, that one.

I was in a trance, and every time I thought about it, it was her smile, the way she talked to me, and her crisp shouting: Sixth brother.

As for her name, it gradually precipitated, and I couldn't remember it for a while.

I smiled slowly, without letting anyone else see it, such a smile can only rise when I think of these old things, this is a memory that belongs to me and her, only me, only her.

In between, there is no one else.

I turned around slowly, and the smile was so nice to me that I retracted it to my heart, and continued to lie dormant quietly, so that the next time I took it out, it would be as good as ever.

As before, as before, if life is like the first time you saw it.

I closed my eyes and heard laughter, which should have been more pleasant, but Gao Gonggong screamed: "Who is it, who is laughing!" ”

How could he even be able to hear it! I opened my eyes suddenly, saw him looking at me with a blue face, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, the emperor should hurry up and leave here, this place is really not very clean." ”

"I'm not afraid, but what are you afraid of?"

"The emperor is the body of a true dragon, so naturally he will not be afraid."

I snorted coldly, there were too many things happening in the Changchun Palace, Gao Gonggong was not involved at all, he didn't understand, why was he afraid, but he couldn't stand his stacks of persuasion, the original whim, he interrupted everything, anyway, what should be seen, what should be thought, has been done, perhaps, it is also the time to leave.

Walking back from the original way, I was about to walk to the palace gate, and the gate that had been open became hidden, and my vision was disturbed, and I could not see the end of the line of sight.

But I heard the sound of the wind in my ears, the sharp sound of the wind, which could cut through the air and shoot into my body, a huge pain, one after another, I lowered my head in disbelief, and looked at the feather arrows that had been submerged in most of my chest, leaving only snow-white tail feathers, and a large pool of blood stains that gradually rippled.

I raised my head with difficulty, on the other side of the palace gate, there was a person who seemed to be very familiar, this person should have been dead, he had been dead for too many, many years, how could he appear here!

I never believed in ghosts and gods, one hand forward, in the void, grabbed twice, and slowly fell down, in the field of vision, upside down, it was the person who walked towards me step by step, I called out his name, Que Yingjie, why was he dead when I wanted to let him go, and when I was about to forget him, he appeared again!

Another person also approached me from a farther position, my vision was blurred, and in a trance, only the golden phoenix crown with beads and jade inlays flashed, and it was instantly pitch black.