A Collection of Old Sayings by Fourth Sister You

Chapter 17 Forbidden Court (17)
If I say that I love the queen, will the queen believe it? (2)
I don't know how long it will take to draw, but anyway, the tip of the pen sketches and draws endlessly.She clasped the edge of the table tightly with her fingers, her heart was beating rumblingly, her face blushed uncontrollably, and kept blushing... all of it fell into his eyes.Then it became more and more embarrassing, and I was embarrassed to look at him, so I simply closed my eyes.

She raised her cheeks halfway, as if inviting a kiss, and now she leaned over to meet each other, the distance was less than a foot.Such an imaginative scene was enacted. The ladies, all innocent, exchanged glances with each other, blushing.Even the queen mother, who was looking forward to their harmony, couldn't help but feel embarrassed. It's good for them to be loving as a young couple, but if they don't know how to avoid taboos in public, wouldn't it be out of style?It is inappropriate to say something to stop it, think about it, she came up with the idea of ​​painting red, and the officials implement it meticulously, there is nothing wrong with it; but if you don't stop it, the room full of concubines can't hide their desolation after all.It's okay to be unlucky, and it's no good for the queen to stab someone in the heart.

Fortunately, he was still introspective today, and he lost his composure for only a moment, so he quickly retracted his pen.Everyone looked over, but they saw the exquisiteness of the queen's brows, and the ingenuity of hooking and twisting was not comparable to their scribbled strokes on the brows.Looking at each other with a comparison, I found that Komami regarded their faces as memorials of courtiers, and the upside-down crescent moon looked like a casual criticism.I feel a little humiliated and sad, but I have to continue to put this cover on my face.

That's all, she is a queen, so she should take a high look.Looking at the noble concubine again, her sneer was no different from theirs, and she immediately lost most of her sex.After all, there is only one empress in this palace, the first wife of the Empress Yuan, how could they be comparable.

The queen was also a little ashamed, but she couldn't hold back for a moment, then she regained her composure and returned to her usual demeanor.He smiled at the queen mother: "Today, the empress and all the ladies are here, and the officials and I have made up two puppet plays. I would like to invite everyone to compare us and help everyone."

This is a strange thing, the official family has always been very boring, never willing to spend time on this kind of place.Now that a queen has been welcomed, it is really surprising that there has been such a big change.The Empress Dowager's face was beaming with joy, "I'm lucky today, let's see who's dramatized well by the officials and the Empress."

Yun Hua glanced at Jin last, "I have a bet with the officials, winning or losing is very important to us, please be impartial, and you must not be biased."

All the ladies responded and sat down one after another.

The small yellow gate in the outer room used shelves to set up a curtain. The stage of the puppet show doesn’t need to be big, it’s only about ten feet wide, and it’s enough to accommodate two people.The maids and Gao Ban in the Yunhua Palace first appeared on the stage, and the libretto was still written by her, and she continued to perform it until the princess entered the account of the Huns and married Shan Yu in the Qin and Jin Dynasties.Then the mist rose, the princess had no children, and was ostracized by other Yan clans. Shan Yu claimed to love her, but failed to protect her.Once, Shanyu conquered the rebellious tribe, and when he came back, he found that the princess had disappeared. He was distraught and searched everywhere, but he couldn't find her.

Tu Diyan offered slander and sang bitterly: "The galloping wild horses in the grassland crushed her heart, and the high-pitched hawks in the sky frightened her all day long. She must have been cowardly and fled back to her hometown. Shan Yu will never miss her again." , don't care about her life or death."

But Shan Yu didn't listen to Mrs. Tu Diyan's words. He wandered around on the grassland, muttering: "I have no master, I can't sleep or eat. Even if I walk every inch of land, I still want to find my beloved girl."

So I visited day after day, from spring to summer, from autumn to winter.Finally, one day, I found the shepherd princess by the river, and the princess told him, "Leaving the royal court is not what I want. They drove me out and tied me up. I walked across the plateau where wolves were ravaged, and overwhelmed tigers and leopards." deep mountains, just to find you, my husband."

Of course, the final outcome is good, the princess returned to Shan Yu, and the murderous Tu Diyan was also punished.It's just that the process was a bit tortuous, and the ladies saw their clothes wet with tears.

Yun Hua will also be moved when watching them rehearse, why can't two people who love each other be together?The reality is already cruel, and it is a blessing that there can be a completeness in the story.Seeing everyone crying like this, she thought she might have hope of winning.Glancing at Jinshang with three points of complacency, he didn't take it seriously, raised his hand, and the Huangmen in his palace moved the puppet onto the stage.

A man's world is not limited to petty love and love, it is full of heroism of iron horse fighting.Shan Yuzhi was in the Central Plains, even if the princess got married, he could not stop his conquest.Although there was a short and happy wedding time, but it was fleeting, the Xiongnu still raised troops and broke through the Han Dynasty's frontier defenses like powder.

The princess cried and questioned Shan Yu, "You said that Hu and Han became friends and would never invade. The oath is still in my ears, why did I forget it in a blink of an eye?"

Of course Shan Yu had his reasons, "How can Hu Jia only echo outside the Great Wall? The Huns can lose their heads, but their lofty ambitions must not be lost. I will give you these thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, so that you can look down on the world and become rich in all nations."

Finally, the purple cover and yellow flag entered Chang'an, Shan Yu won, but he won the world, but he still lost to her.The princess couldn't forgive Shanyu, she couldn't afford it, and died of depression one morning in late autumn, and she never saw Shanyu again until she died.Shan Yu lived alone for 30 years, and one day he returned to the grassland and collapsed on the hill where he first met the princess.The descendants wanted to bury them together. When they opened the princess tomb, they found that there was an empty coffin in the tomb, leaving an eternal suspense without an answer.

"It's such a beautiful day, it caused everyone to shed so many tears, what is it for!" The queen mother covered her eyes with a handkerchief, leaned on the back of the chair and sighed, "I like the queen's ending, at least Shanyu is with the princess, I can live happily ever after. But the ending of the official family makes me feel so distressed. Putting the two together, it is impossible to tell the winner. Let Huangmen bring the pen holder. Except for the emperor and empress, we have a total of 29 How about each person throwing a chopstick, the one with the most wins?"

The emperor and empress all said it was very good, so they put a boxwood pen holder in front of each of them, and the concubines got up one after another, the competition was fierce, you got one and I got one, it was hard to tell which was the best.Zong Hua counted, there were fourteen chopsticks in front of him, and the last one was in the hands of the Queen Mother.As for the queen mother, she put the chopsticks into Imakami's pen holder after all, "Queen, don't think I'm biased. Although a good ending is the beauty of an adult, it's forgotten afterward. The touching tenderness. Shanyu was so sad after the princess died. Living like this is actually more tormented than dying. My chopsticks are for Shanyu.” The Queen Mother asked Jinshang, “Why is the princess’s tomb empty? Is the princess dead? Or has she become a fairy, ascended?"

Imakami lowered his eyes and shook his head, "The story ends here, I don't know the rest."

"You don't know the story you made up?" The queen mother was surprised, and asked the queen, "What do you think?"

His play seems to be alluding to something, I can't tell, but there is a vague omen anyway.Yun Hua said: "I think the princess is still alive, she just doesn't want to stay in the palace anymore, maybe she found a place near the mountains and rivers, and lived the life of ordinary people!"

The queen mother was infinitely melancholy, and murmured: "That's fine..."

Yun Hua lost, and felt a little sad, but it is undeniable that Jinshang's story is more intriguing, and she was convinced that she lost.It's a pity that Gen Yue's trip seemed to be in vain, and he had to wait until later.

Everyone picked up their mood and summoned the new direct scholar into the hall.Cui Zhuzhang bowed to the present, and then bowed to the queen.Jin Shang turned his eyes to look at the queen, his queen smiled at Cui Zhixue, the corners of her lips were particularly charming.

The sky is still clear during the day, but it changes at night.When the wind suddenly picked up, it blew the curtains all over the Yongjin Hall, people didn't have to go out, and the coolness before the rain poured into the hall.

Brother Fo closed the window, turned around and said, "The sage is tired today, let's settle down earlier! Don't worry about Mama Chun, the imperial doctor asked for the pulse, and said it was due to deficiency of the spleen and stomach. He had already taken medicine and fell asleep."

Chunwo got up in the afternoon feeling unwell, and lay face down in the pavilion with a pale face, and was taken back to the downstairs later.Yun Hua went to see it before dinner, and was always worried, asking repeatedly: "Is it all right? Are you still throwing up now?"

Brother Fo smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, she is already stable, but she is still very weak. Please tell the saint not to visit her. She will rest for one night and come back to serve the saint tomorrow morning."

Zonghua nodded, "Then let her sleep well, I will disturb her if I go. You go and order someone to prepare some food for her, so as not to be hungry in the middle of the night. There is nothing to do at night , you all rest too. Let someone put out a few lanterns under the eaves, the wind is too strong, be careful of the candles."

Brother Fo listened to her assignments one by one, and responded, "I'll go to night in the outer hall, and the sage will call me if he wants anything." After explaining, he backed out and closed the carved door behind his back.

He was indeed a little tired. After coping with it all day, his teeth were sore from laughing, and when he returned to his own palace, his limbs, which had been stretched for a long time, could finally relax.Lying on the cot, trying to close his eyes, his strange mind became clearer.Probably used to having Chunwo as a company and sleeping alone, he felt uncomfortable.Like a revolving lantern in his mind, he got along with the concubines in the harem, and finally figured out everyone's facial features and status.He also thought of Cui Zhuzhang, he was too crowded, he hadn't been able to say a few words before, so after two days, he found an excuse to go to the third pavilion to pick up books, and then took the opportunity to talk to him in detail.

(End of this chapter)