16 Chapter 16
When Jiang Yan heard this, she felt some palpitations inexplicably, she pursed her lips, knowing that it would be impossible for these artists to know any more inside stories, so she didn't ask any more.
When they retreated and left, Jiang Yu said, "Bring a pen and paper...... I'm going to write. ”
These days, in order to prevent people from seeing that her handwriting is different from that of Queen Chu, Jiang Yu still spends a little time practicing every day, but fortunately, although Queen Chu's handwriting is neat, because she is still young, she has not formed her own style, and it is not difficult to imitate the handwriting.
But when Siluo finished the ink and Jiang Yu was about to put down the pen, she stopped.
"Mother?" Siro asked.
Jiang Yan hesitated for a long time, and finally put the pen down.
Siro looked at her puzzled: "Who are you?" ”
"I originally wanted to write a letter to Jinghe to check one thing...... Jiang Yu said softly, and then smiled reluctantly: "But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem to be necessary." ”
Siluo carefully observed her expression, and supported her with some fear: "Niangniang......"
"I'm fine," Jiang Yan smiled at her comfortingly: "I just think that the past should be slowly forgotten...... Otherwise, it will only increase the troubles in vain, and it will not be of any use. ”
"That's it!" Siluo suddenly became happy, she took Jiang Yan's arm, pulled her from the desk to the Luohan bed and sat down: "You should look forward now, you have a comfortable life, and we are with you, what do you want in the future?" ”
Jiang Yan touched her head, shook her head with a wry smile, but didn't refute it.
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The happy days always pass quickly, in the blink of an eye into the middle of summer, the ice in the palace is limited, except for the Lintoe Palace, the other palaces can only be hard, the palace people of each palace are unbearably hot, every year at this time there have to be a few people who are not heat-tolerant to heat stroke when they are working, this year's weather is extremely hot, and it is unbearable.
Jiang Yan was cold, but she was not afraid of heat, so she left a small part of her share of ice, and the rest was distributed to various palaces, and ordered the female eunuchs of each palace to start working again after sunset, and gathered in each palace to rest during the day when the sun was poisonous, so as to alleviate the impact of the summer heat to some extent.
Even the guards on duty did not fall, although there were no ice basins, but the various points of standing guard were replaced under the trees, so that they could have a place to shade, and then provide cold mung bean soup regularly, which was barely enough.
Naturally, the same is true of the Lintoe Palace, except for the Ivy and others who are usually on duty in the palace, others are also allowed to enter the palace to rest during the day, and it is also good to rub the ice of the queen's mother.
These palace people have never entered the real court, and they have learned the rules in a scattered manner, which is very different from those palace maids and eunuchs who are eager to chew a sentence 800 times and cannot say a word.
Siluo couldn't get used to the noise of these children, worried that it would disturb Jiang Yan's purity, and felt that they were very unruly, and they should be taken care of.
But Jiang Yan has a different opinion on this, she thinks that if nothing else, with the remoteness of this palace, these people may not have anything to do with the palace for the rest of their lives, in this case, why force them to curb their living nature and become as dead and dull as the people in the palace?
But having said that, after all, Siluo is the leading female official, and she has her own prestige to establish, Jiang Yu respects such prestige, and naturally she will not refute her meaning in front of others, but only mentions this matter in private, so that she does not have to be too harsh when teaching rules in the future.
In this way, relying on the queen's one-person rule, everyone in the palace finally survived a not so difficult summer, and the time passed through the end of summer and slowly entered the autumn.
During this period, no one from the palace came to summon Jiang Yu back to the palace, and the emperor didn't even bring a word to his queen, but Chu Jinghe's letter was sent twice in three days, usually to greet peace and pass on a little news from the palace or Tokyo, so that Jiang Yu didn't know anything in Peicheng's eyes.
Even if Jiang Yan knew that the two sisters and brothers were not close to each other, let alone understand each other, she was still a little worried about revealing her stuffing, so she didn't reply frequently.
But when Jiang Yan found out that the other party really didn't find out the difference between herself and Queen Chu from the previous few replies to the letter, and she didn't carefully study the very subtle differences in the handwriting, she slowly put her mind at ease, and the number of replies became more frequent.
Siluo said before that their sister and brother were just face-saving, but judging from the words and sentences in Chu Jing and the child's letter, their relationship does not seem to be so stiff, the other party is still young, but the words are full of care and thoughtfulness, every time he writes a letter, he does not forget to comfort his sister, and he never complains about Chu Qianhua's irrationality against the emperor at that time.
After all, when she first arrived in the palace, there were still elders in the clan who wrote a letter to reproach the queen, implicitly accusing her of having no demeanor as a mother of the country and losing the face of the Chu family - this letter was immediately torn up by the angry Queen Chu, which shows that within the Chu family, it is quite disapproving of the queen's approach.
- To be honest, in Jiang Yu's opinion, even if Empress Chu was indeed a little inconsiderate and irrational at that time, she had just lost her son and was expelled from the palace, this punishment was heavy enough for an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl, she needed comfort and persuasion, not accusations from her relatives who made matters worse.
This can better reflect Chu Jinghe's patience and gentleness, taking a step back, even if it is really face-saving work, doing this is far better than most of the younger brothers.
So Jiang Yan replied to the letter with more content, she began to care about Chu Jinghe's studies, asked him if he was on duty in the palace, and sometimes, at the end of the letter, he would care about his aunt in the house and Wu, and told him that the weather was hot this year, not to forget that his biological mother was not much, and reminded him to prepare more ice basins for him and beware of the heat.
After going back and forth, even if they haven't seen each other for so long, the relationship between the two has taken a step further than before, and occasionally they will make some jokes when they communicate, which is also a happy thing for Jiang Yan.
On the side of the palace, most of this year's heat has dissipated, the weather has become comfortable, and Jiang Yu began to walk around the palace again in the company of a large number of palace people.
Her record of kicking the shuttlecock successfully broke a hundred, not only began to learn the tricks, the plate, crutch, double fly, etc.
In addition, swinging, kite flying, shooting and other games, as long as they can be in the palace, there is nothing that this group of people can't think of, and they all pry Jiang Yu to try it.
To Siluo's surprise, Jiang Yu didn't look nostalgic for the world at all when she first woke up, and her usual style was also demure and elegant, she could do poetry, write and paint, and even be good at piano, chess, singing and dancing.
Siro sometimes wonders, such a woman, can entertain others and entertain herself, how interesting life should be, should be optimistic and happy, happy every day, not depressed or sad at all, what kind of changes and blows can make her suffer from such a serious heart disease, so that she has no love in life, blindly pursuing death and liberation.
She couldn't figure it out, but she would never ask Jiang Yan about these things, on the contrary, she wished that Jiang Yan would never remember the past for the rest of her life, and it was better to leave those things behind, whether good or bad, and forget about them.
Jiang Yan didn't notice the psychological changes in Siluo, she just felt more and more happy, every day she opened her eyes and was full of expectations for this new day, and her body became healthy, the injury on her forehead was already healed, she was so seriously injured at the beginning, but now she has no scar at all. Although the disease has not been completely cured, the qi and blood have recovered significantly, and she looks healthier than ordinary women who are not very active.
Her biggest worry now is what games or activities to pass the time, and it's like going back to years ago, when nothing happened, and she was a carefree little girl.
In the past few months, she has walked all over the corners of the palace, and the novelty has passed, and she can't help but feel that this place is too small, and she has been a little depressed after staying for a long time.
Chun Ivy then suggested if you can go to the palace to visit, the nearby Fushan is a famous attraction, although not high enough and not dangerous enough, but the victory is in the beautiful scenery, and there are famous maple trees, now is the time when the maple leaves turn red, the ornamental is excellent, it is very suitable for walking.
Jiang Yu was a little moved, after all, she is far away from Kyoto now, and those rules will not be able to control her for a while, but on the other hand, her identity is actually a burden, if something really happens outside, she herself has lived for a long time enough to be Ben, if it affects others, it will be a real sin.
So she didn't go around the guards in the palace and go out quietly, as Siluo proposed, but took the initiative to summon Xu Zhi and ask him what he meant.
Xu Zhi didn't say a word of denial, he thought for a while and said, "It's not impossible...... Although this place is not as heavily guarded as the capital, it also has the advantage of being remote, even if someone has something to do, it is not our opponent, not to mention, the news that you live in the palace is blocked, and there will be no danger. ”
Although Xu Zhi is a person from Concubine Shu's side, but the safety of Queen Chu is also related to his future and even his life, and the Xu family is not willing to sacrifice a promising descendant who is deeply favored by the Holy Grace in order to murder a queen who has fallen out of favor, so Jiang Yu knows that the other party will never do anything on this, and believes that Xu Zhi is trustworthy at least in the safety of her life.
"Just ......"
Jiang Yan looked up at him questioningly.
Xu Zhidao: "It's just that if you want to travel to the palace, it's best to dress up as a civilian, otherwise it will be too conspicuous and not conducive to safety." ”