The faint sound of mosquitoes and flies sounded in Gu Qingping's ears, and she gradually became conscious, only to feel that her whole body was in severe pain, and her head hurt as if it was about to explode. She opened her eyes slightly, and there was a white swirl in front of her, and several figures swayed lightly in front of her eyes.

Slowly, the figure was solid, it was a lady with elegant decoration, she was looking at Gu Qingping with worried eyes, and her hand pinched the embroidered handkerchief and gently put it on Gu Qingping's forehead.

Gu Qingping's voice was hoarse: "Concubine Niangniang...... How did you get here? ”

Concubine Shu withdrew her hand and sat back on the jujube chair, the sandalwood was faint and not negligible, she looked at Gu Qingping compassionately: "Good boy, you have suffered." Fight for the dignity of your mother's concubine. ”

Gu Qingping sat up with her hands propped up, Tao Yao hurriedly supported her, her face was bloodless, and her expression was haggard, but her eyes were shining brightly.

She was silent.

The concubine said, "Your mother and concubine came to see me when she was alive, and she entrusted you to me. Ping'er, are you willing to go to the Spring Palace with the main palace? ”

Gu Qingping raised her head, looked at Concubine Shu, and saw the compassion, pity, and distress on her face clearly, but she didn't see the slightest anger or any other bad emotions, as if she really sympathized with Xu Zhaoyi and Gu Qingping.

Gu Qingping pondered for a moment and shook his head slowly: "Please forgive Qingping for disappointing his mother's kindness." ”

Concubine Shu was a little surprised, so she asked, "Why?" ”

Gu Qingping moved up and kowtowed on the pillow: "Concubine Shuniang, your kindness, Qingping is very grateful, but I am with Zhaoyi, now Zhaoyi is lonely, Qingping can't bear to part, not to mention that keeping filial piety for his mother for three years is his duty as a child, please forgive Qingping for not being able to go to the Chunlai Palace with you, Qingping is willing to fulfill this filial piety for his mother." The more she spoke, the more she choked, and finally she fell on the pillow, her shoulders trembling slightly.

Concubine Shu's eyes changed slightly, but her expression was still the same compassion, she stroked Gu Qingping's long hair, and sighed slightly: "You have such filial piety, which is Xu Yao's blessing." If this palace forces you, it's really not to live with her. That's it, since you have made up your mind, this palace will not be this wicked person. Shangyang Palace is remote, if you lack anything, just send someone to find me. Qingping, you can rest assured that this palace will always be your backing. ”

After speaking, she took off the Buddha beads on her wrist, put them in Gu Qingping's hand, got up and took people out.

When she left, Gu Qingping got up, lay back in the quilt, and Tao Yao came forward with tea.

Gu Qingping saw that her eyes were ruddy, swollen like two walnuts, and before she could speak, Tao Yao had already cried first: "Your Highness, you have suffered so much, do you still have pain in your body?" ”

Gu Qingping had already recovered from her sadness, she looked at Tao Yao, sighed, and the cloud note with the word "pity" written on it rested on the pillow.

Gu Qingping picked it up, looked at it fixedly, and said with a smile: "What a 'pity'." ”

Tao Yao knelt on the edge of the couch, looking sad, and the master and servant were speechless for a while.

Halfway, she asked in a low voice, "When did Concubine Lady come?" ”

Tao Yao wiped her tears and replied: "Soon after the lady concubine arrived, Her Royal Highness woke up. ”

She lowered her voice again: "In the three days I knelt outside the Cheng'an Palace, did Concubine Shuniang come to see Zhaoyi?"

Tao Yao looked at her stunned: "I haven't been here." ”

Gu Qingping frowned, she pulled out of her sadness, thought about it calmly, and only felt that everything that had happened recently seemed to be controlled by someone, since the queen fell into the water and slipped into the tire, it seemed that everything could see the figure of the lady concubine, the shawl embroidered by Zhaoyi, the quilt embroidered for the lady, and the face to face the lady that day.

She couldn't help but have some doubts, whether this kind and kind concubine was really kind or kind-hearted, she didn't dare to bet, so she couldn't go to the palace in the spring.

She whispered her guess to Tao Yao, and warned: "Today's words, only you know and I know." ”

Tao Yao nodded cautiously, and she suddenly remembered something and said, "Your Highness, Sister Yuruo is gone." ”

Gu Qingping thought of Yuruo again, she sneered: "It's okay if it's gone, there will be no Yuruo in this Shangyang Palace from now on, Tao Yao, you will be the palace maid in charge of Shangyang Palace in the future." ”

Tao Yao promised.

In the cold winter of this year, an insignificant Zhaoyi died in the Taiyang Palace, and at the ceremony of posthumously registering him as a concubine, Gu Qingping was dressed like ink, his eyes were slightly red, and he held back tears.

Ninth Princess Gu Weiyue walked lightly, walked beside her, and quietly stuffed a caramel into her hand, with concern on her thin little face: "Sister, you eat." ”

Gu Qingping held her hand.

……

Yangzhou, Yunfu County, Jianglou County.

The sky was dark, the clouds were thick, and the heavy snow seemed to fall, and the snow poured down from the clouds and fell to the earth.

The county guard Xu Duan was restless in the county office, and it was snowing heavily outside the window, and his heart seemed to be poured with a scoop of cold water, and his whole body was numb with cold.

It had been snowing heavily for more than a month, and the county guard was still drunk and asleep in the county town, and it was not until a few days ago that Xie Xiangwen sent a letter ordering the governors of all parties to inspect the local snow situation, and he hurriedly got up from the singer's arms.

When he inspected Jianglou, the snow closed the county, the traffic was cut off, Jianglou was already a lonely city, he saw through the door, the sky was still dark, as if the end of the world.

The subordinate reported: "My lord! The heavy snow squeezed, the houses in the city were crushed innumerable, the roads outside the city were blocked, and tens of thousands of victims came to the county seat, my lord! Report it quickly, it's too late! ”

Xu Duan rolled his eyes and passed out.

In December of the 14th year of the last century, tens of thousands of people were buried in the snow, countless people were injured, and hundreds of thousands of people left their homes.

Yunfu County guarded Xu Duan, made meritorious contributions to disaster relief, and was promoted to the Criminal Department.