The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 46
While talking, a jackdaw was startled, flapping its wings and flew into the night sky. Qingchen looked up at the bird's shadow disappearing into the night, and saw that Xiao Jue's gaze was also attracted by it, couldn't help blurting out, "Mei Xue Shocked."

"Mei Xue Jinghong?" He turned to look at her, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and praised: "The four words are very beautiful and very artistic." Xiao Jue suddenly remembered something, and smiled thoughtfully Said: "A few days ago, I met Gu Changzai admiring plum blossoms here, and heard what she said with emotion. Plum blossoms are unlucky flowers. They bloom in the bitter cold season. Although they are beautiful, they are not cherished by Dongjun. The fruits they bear are also sour and unpleasing. Xi, lonely and withered in a place where there is no one, is a lonely and desolate flower, do you think so?"

Women are mostly sentimental, and they are concubines who are not favored in the palace, so it is not an exaggeration to be easily sentimental.

Qingchen hooked the corners of his mouth disapprovingly, and said slowly: "Gu Chang is lamenting his own situation, and it is understandable to say such words. But I think that if Meihua has no bosom friend, she would rather Baixue Lengyue admire herself alone than never Bow down with those vulgar flowers and cattails to compete for the grace of rain and dew. How can such a virtuous flower be said to be unlucky? Besides, didn’t the benevolent heroes in ancient times like to serve guests with plum wine? Emperor Wu of Wei boiled wine to talk about heroes ( 1), what kind of boldness is that? Boil wine with green plums, show off your coquettishness, drink it and then seal it. Ambitious and ambitious, the heroic spirit of a man soars to the sky, how can there be such a bad fate?"

After hearing what she said, Xiao Jue's eyes were full of amazement, thinking that she was quite a man at a young age, and praised with a smile: "What a 'green plum wine, show off your flair, drink it and then seal it Waiting.' I never imagined that you, a little girl, would have such insights. You really shouldn’t be underestimated.”

After receiving his praise, Qingchen lowered her head slightly and said shyly: "Your Highness is too praised, and I am just making use of what I know." Seeing that he didn't seem to want to leave, she asked again: "It's getting late , Your Highness doesn't need to attend the palace banquet?"

Xiao Jue didn't seem to care that he would be late, he just looked at the two plum blossoms and said indifferently: "It's okay, anyway, I already had dinner at the Empress Dowager's place, I'll just go there later to meet the scene, Anyway, the emperor knows that I am used to being casual, so he won't mind."

Doesn't mind, does that mean his existence is insignificant?Being in Beijing as a hostage, living under the fence without real power is always uncomfortable.Even though they were confidantes and friends in the past, but now Xiao Jun is the emperor, with the distinction of monarch and minister, and after fighting for power and profit, this friendship will eventually become unfamiliar.

Qing Chen suddenly opened his mouth to ask something, but felt it was inappropriate, so he swallowed the question that came to his lips.

Seeing that she hesitated to speak, Xiao Jue smiled knowingly, looked at her and said, "Do you want to ask, what am I doing here at this time?"

Qingchen hesitated for a moment, then looked down at the two plum blossoms in his hand, "I didn't mean that, Your Highness misunderstood."

When the whole country is having fun, he is here alone, so he will definitely not be in a good mood, maybe he is heartbroken, but she doesn't want to pry into his privacy, that would be impolite.

The moonlight is clear, the shadows are sparse and slanting, the huge plum garden is silent, the moon is full and the flowers are so quiet and night, if there are people who join hands to enjoy the beautiful scenery, it will be a kind of satisfaction.

But life is often so unsatisfactory, and it is hard to make people feel happy. When the shadows of the branches swayed, Xiao Jun's slightly sentimental voice came from the faint fragrance, "Because of these two plum trees, one of them was planted by myself. of."

Qingchen thought for a while, and suddenly realized, "Is the other plant planted by the emperor, so the emperor cherishes it so much?"

Xiao Jue chuckled when he heard the words, "The second son of Lianbi is not Lianbi's plum blossom, where did you think?"

Qingchen held the corners of his mouth in embarrassment, and was speechless for a moment. In the dark night, Xiao Jue's star-like bright eyes stared at him quietly, and his eyes gradually became a little erratic, as if he was looking at her, or he didn't see her at all. .

Just as she was wondering, a gust of cold wind blew in, plum blossoms flew all over the sky like snow, and a piece of light green petals floated down and stuck to her pink lips, but Xiao Jue took a step forward with a dazed expression, and suddenly bent down to cover her lips. On the lips, the thin lips squirmed slightly, and the petals were already sucked away.

Qingchen was stunned for a moment and felt embarrassed, his whole body felt like being electrocuted, immediately pushed him away in embarrassment and took two steps back, angrily said: "Your Highness, please respect yourself!" Even if she is not the emperor's concubine, even if she is just a humble little Maid, how could she allow him to be so frivolous?
Xiao Jue came back to his senses, saw her complexion changed suddenly and she was slightly annoyed, and knew that she had acted inappropriately just now, so she hurriedly said: "I didn't intend to offend just now, but I just suddenly saw an old friend, please forgive me."

Qing Chen was blessed, frowned and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, hurry up and go to the banquet, so that the emperor won't be in a hurry." Before he finished speaking, he turned around and walked away. She wanted to hear that Xiao Jue was a romantic son. Sure enough.

Xiao Jue chased after two steps, and wanted to explain something, but it was too late.Looking at the back of the woman leaving in a hurry, I felt a dull pain in my heart, as if I saw the cute little girl ten years ago, standing under the tree with two chubby little hands in her arms, raising her head to catch the plum blossoms falling from the sky .At that time, also in this place, a plum blossom fell on her forehead, and he kissed her gently like that, and then said with a smile: "When I grow up, I will marry you as the imperial concubine."

But not long after he said this, she was killed by a fire.The little maid just now had a three-point resemblance to her, but even this three-point resemblance still made him lose his mind in a trance.

There seemed to be a soft sound of snow in the plum forest, Xiao Jue turned around and shouted vigilantly: "Who? Come out!"

After a while of rustling, a little maid came out from behind the tree with two red plums in her arms and plopped down on her knees, "Servant, servant, knock on His Highness."

Xiao Jue raised his eyebrows and asked extremely displeased: "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The little maid hurriedly replied fearfully: "My servant is the maid who guards the plum garden. Today is New Year's Eve. I want to pick two plum blossoms and put them in the room to add some fragrance and happiness. I never thought of offending Your Highness. Please forgive me."

Xiao Jue asked coldly: "How much did you hear and see about what happened just now?"

The little palace maid knelt on the ground, kowtowed and tremblingly said: "I didn't see anything, I didn't hear anything, I just happened to pass by, I beg Your Highness to spare this humble life of my servant."

Xiao Jue stared coldly at the woman on the ground, and saw that she was only wearing a palace attire, her hands were red from the cold, and she was not wearing any clothing to protect against the cold, presumably because she lived not far away and did not want to stay outside for a long time, He ran out dressed up like this, maybe it was just a coincidence and he didn't have any wrong thoughts, so he turned and left without saying anything.

(1) Note: In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" No. 20, in the chapter on Cao Cao's cooking wine and discussing heroes, Cao Cao said: "Today, the heroes will only be sent to the king and Cao's ears!" The spoon and chopsticks he was holding fell to the ground unconsciously.Just when the rain was coming, there was a lot of thunder.Xuande calmly bowed his head to pick up the chopsticks and said: "The power of a shock is even here." Cao cao said with a smile: "Is your husband also afraid of thunder?"

(End of this chapter)