A Collection of Old Sayings by Fourth Sister You

Chapter 24 Forbidden Court (24)
She was perfunctory to him, but he took it seriously. (1)
Since that day, I haven't seen him again.Now that she met him directly, she really didn't know what attitude she should take to face the man who tried to kill her and rescued her ashore.

Seeing that she was timid, the queen mother stretched out her hand to let her cling to her, "Gu Zi is not in a hurry, it's important to welcome the official. What's the matter, I haven't seen you for a few days, but I'm not familiar with you? I thought you were so good before, but I was annoyed that he didn't come to see you after returning to the palace. ?”

She hastily said no, "The government has a lot to do every day, and I will definitely not annoy him because of this."

The queen mother said: "Anyway, I don't know if he is busy or not. I only know that he often went around outside the Qingning Palace for a few days when you were ill. It can be seen that there is a rift between you. You are the queen, you are the queen, don't you occasionally quarrel between husband and wife?" No, it's just that you, as empresses, are different from ordinary people. If there is any problem, just explain it clearly in the room, and once you step out of the palace gate, it's still important to be decent."

The Queen Mother's words stretched her muscles, and it was impossible to go on like this, it really made people see through, and then she would no longer have to walk in the forbidden area.She cheered up and said softly: "It's because I was childish. I always complained that the officials didn't prop up the boat properly, so I was not very happy. Now that I think about it, it's actually my own fault, and I committed a big taboo. It was so small, but it stood up halfway."

The Empress Dowager put pressure on her hand, looking very comforting, "It's all right if you talk about it. How can a husband and wife have an overnight feud? When they see the official family, they will be more gentle. Men, like children, need to be coaxed." , Go along. Especially people like the official family, you are arrogant, he is a hundred times more arrogant than you. After all, you are the person next to your pillow, and you can't live forever, right?"

This is very true, unless she falls into the water once and drowns her fighting spirit, otherwise she will have to continue to entangle with him.She turned around to look outside, helped the queen mother and said: "The official's house is coming, I have treated him lightly for the past two days, I am afraid that he will be angry, so my mother will speak good words for me."

The Queen Mother laughed and said, "I'm afraid I don't want to say good things, but he is also trying to please you!"

They opened the curtain and left the inner hall, and they just came in from the outside today.Thinking that the court was over, he hurried to go there, still wearing the robe skirt that he had seen during the court.The Empress Dowager glanced at him with a smile, "It's a coincidence that the Empress arrived on the front foot, and the official's house also arrived on the back foot. Why don't you change your clothes? Is there anything important?"

He greeted the queen mother, turned his eyes, and passed by Zihua's face, the wind and the sea were calm.After taking his seat, he said to himself: "It's not an important matter. After a while, I will drive to Qionglin Garden, and all the officials in the Political Affairs Hall will discuss it. The old stewed books are out of date and need to be greatly changed. For example, the carts are removed, and the wood, gold, and jade are removed. In addition, add elephants and leathers. Two months before the Winter Solstice Ceremony, teach the car elephant..." He said with a faint smile, "I'm afraid to make the empress dizzy by saying this. It's different from before, when the empress is interested, she will order Yiluan to lead the empress to have a look."

He said a lot of things, very similar to that, but after careful consideration, he felt that it was irrelevant.The Queen Mother frowned and said with a smile: "The official came to Baoci Palace just to say this?"

He seemed to be suffocated, and it took him a while to answer yes slowly.

The Empress Dowager said: "I don't understand those ceremonial books. What kind of regulations are made? I just sit down. The officials don't have to make a special trip for this. But the Empress, who just recovered from a serious illness today, insisted on coming to me. , I’m afraid I won’t be able to bear it. The officials should send the Queen back to the Yongjin Palace for me. The Queen was frightened two days ago, so I need more comfort.”

Only then did he get up and come to her, and he couldn't see any abnormal emotions, as if she was just caught in the cold by chance and had nothing to do with him.Ask: "Has the Queen ever felt better?"

She replied very politely, "There is nothing serious at the moment, thank the official family for inquiries."

It's just because the original enthusiasm was all faked, and there was no emotion between them when they got along, but at least there was a layer of pretense.Now this layer of camouflage has been washed away by the blisters, and they are real for a moment, and they are a hundred thousand miles away again.This is also good, you don't have to bother to deal with it, it makes people feel relaxed.Jinshang raised his hand, "I'll take the queen back to the palace."

Zi Hua bowed his body to express his thanks, and before leaving he did not forget to take the bag of millet seeds from the case, and was thinking about going back to plant the grain slabs.

The queen went up now, and the queen mother thought of the look she had when she took the seeds just now, the childishness could not be concealed under the dignified appearance, and she couldn't help laughing, "After all, I'm still young, so I can't be too harsh on her."

Liang Shanggong stood aside and said: "The officials came in a hurry, probably because they learned that the saint is here."

"That's not it." The queen mother sighed, "Sometimes the country is easy to win, but the people's hearts are hard to tame. The official family has shortcomings since childhood. If he can open his heart to treat someone well, even if this person is the princess of the enemy country, it is nothing to me. Big deal. With her status, she is safer than Princess Wurong, so I have no doubts about her being the queen. After all, she and Emperor Jian are just the same mother. Who will be in charge of the Gao family has nothing to do with her. Now, as long as she is sincere to the officials and be the master of the Forbidden Court, I have nothing else to ask for."

That chamber has been sending her to the gate of the palace. When she entered the Yongjin Palace, she turned around, clasped her hands and said, "The official family is busy, so there is no need to send her off. The ministers and concubines can enter the palace by themselves. The official family Please go back!"

He didn't take her words seriously at all, walked around her, walked up the steps, and ordered the imperial servant to escort, "Bring the swallow clothes and change them here."

If he couldn't get rid of him, but he had to change clothes here, he would have to ask her to serve him, so he really didn't treat himself as an outsider!Zi Hua was dissatisfied in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud, so he had to order someone to prepare the imperial utensils.He also called Brother Fo and asked her to go to the chef to get a carving knife and two melons. She wanted to practice carving melons.

After the swallow clothes were delivered, they were put aside for the time being, but he was very quiet and didn't strike up a conversation with her. He approached the inner hall by himself, and half leaned on her couch to read a book.He is a big Buddha, and he is usually not seen in the harem, and he came and went in a hurry last time, but he didn't leave this time, which really made everyone in the Yongjin Palace a little flustered.They all stared at her blankly, and Zihua didn't know what he was going to do, so he decided to ignore it.Let a few yellow gates move the tables and chairs to the eaves, and lean on the pillars and start carving flowers wholeheartedly.

She had tried carving melons on Qixi Festival in the boudoir.In fact, it is a bit like engraving a seal, but it is not so simple.It needs to be hollowed out, or carved into a flower or a cat or dog together with the melon flesh, which is a test of one's knife skills.Ah Rong said she wanted a palace lantern, so she carved beautiful patterns for her, then cut off the top cover, hollowed out the melon belly, and wove a tassel to hang on it, planning to put candles in the evening and hang it on the porch Under the roof.

They are in high spirits here, but Chunwo is restless.He glanced into the hall, then looked at her eagerly, "The official family is inside, I'm afraid it's not good for the saint to be so negligent."

She raised her eyes, a pair of watery eyes, looked towards the inner hall, and shook her head at her.Chunwo couldn't help it, and was anxious. Everyone knew about Jinshang's strange temper. Without his summons, who would dare to come?Maybe he was looking forward to the Queen's close service, but she just went about her business and left him alone, not knowing what was going on in his mind today.If you get annoyed, I'm afraid it will be bad for her.

The sky is turning round and round, the sky is gradually gloomy, and there are thunderstorms in the distance. It has been rainy this year, and soon there will be another heavy rain.

As soon as it got dark, the hall naturally became even darker. Yun Hua raised his head and looked around, intending to order someone to light the lamp for him, but he didn't expect that he would come out with a bed by himself.Glancing at her, he sat down opposite her.

So silent, with eyes and movements full of thunder, Ah Rong and Chunwo stood aside in fright and fell silent.Yun Hua stopped the carving knife in his hand to look at him, moved his lips, wanting to talk to him, but finally swallowed it back.She felt that she should be more self-confident, otherwise she would appear very lackadaisical.Since he came, there was always something to say about him, so he kept silent and waited for her to curry favor?
She curled her lips, moved her body to a better posture, held up the melon in her hand, and faced the skylight.He looked at her in silence, and suddenly opened his mouth to say someone.Ah Rong hurriedly stepped forward to obey orders, he pointed to the opposite side, "Prepare another copy as usual."

Today it was time to carve melons, everyone hurriedly prepared, Xiao Huangmen ran out of breath, and rushed to deliver the things before the rain.Holding the carving knife in his hand, he patted the watermelon in front of him, the sound was clear and crisp, and he was afraid that it might split if he cut it, so he followed her example and carved slowly from shallow to deep.

The heavy rain poured the green bricks outside the eaves, and the water droplets splashed up to a foot high at every turn.She disdained him so much that she didn't even look at him.The outer skin of the watermelon was hollowed out, revealing the bright red flesh inside. She compared them with her short body, and he compared them like her.There was residual fruit peel in the hollow pattern, she blew on it, and he pouted and blew on it just after he cut the knife.Impatient, she put down the carving knife and looked at him.He also put down the carving knife and looked at her with a half-smile.

Yun Hua basically has no chance of winning when he stares at others. He is different, he is an expert, and he can pierce people through with a single glance.She was a little discouraged, and supported her chin with one hand, and picked up the carving knife again.

He probably wanted to annoy her, anyway, whatever she did later, he followed suit.Yong Hua was very angry, and couldn't stand his childish behavior, and tried to question him several times, but when he thought of his usual behavior, he felt like a pot of cold water was pouring down on his head.He is really confusing sometimes, he is good and bad, and it is hard to tell which is the real him.

In the end, I was angry, thinking that he loves to imitate, and if he has the ability to continue to learn.Stretch out your feet from the gap in the railing, into the torrential rain, and look at him proudly.

He raised an eyebrow and looked away nonchalantly.Yan Hua's eyes froze with pride, and suddenly realized that the really stupid person was himself, her embroidered shoes were drenched, but he took the time to carve his flower melons.

She stood up, gasping for breath, gouged out his eyes fiercely, "Come on, change my shoes!" Angrily, she turned and went into the hall.

With a surprised and helpless expression on his face, Chunwo took off her wet shoes and socks, and murmured, "Why bother?"

"Why didn't he fall for it?" She asked Chunwo angrily.

Chunwo looked up at her, as if looking at a fool, "I'm afraid the officials don't have shoes to replace!"

She finally laughed with a sneer, her brain was soaked in water to play such a trick with him.He has never been a person who is willing to suffer, and doing so by himself is another foolish thing in his eyes.

"Hey, I don't want to see him anymore." She covered her face and fell down on the couch. "It's fine if you can't win, and let him see my stupidity. I'm usually very smart, but when I meet him, I become so stupid." , it's really a horoscope..."

Chunwo didn't answer her words, but another voice rang out, "Before the big wedding, I had a horoscope, and the queen and I complement each other very well, and there is no conflict."

She stood up hastily, felt embarrassed immediately, straightened her dress at a loss and said: "The official stays in the Yongjin Palace today, and the ministers and concubines are very frightened. Please wait a moment, the official, I will order someone to prepare drinks."

He said he wasn't busy, and spread his arms flat to her, "I've been wearing the court clothes for a long time, it's time to change. Is there any empress?"

He has no expression on his face, and there is no room for rejection.There was no one else present in the inner hall, she was nervous, she dawdled over, raised her fingers under the big red sleeve, hesitated, and finally covered his belt.

Her fingertips were dyed scarlet red, like red plums in the snow, so charming and charming to the extreme.Climbed onto his golden jade belt, slowly stretched out his arms, and unbuttoned them behind his waist. The posture made people mistakenly think that she was embracing him.

The thing that happened on Fengchi pierced deeply into my heart like a thorn, if I don't touch it, I always feel hesitant.If you try to touch it, you are afraid that it will be broken by a mistake, and it will be broken in the flesh, and you will never be able to pull it out.So each other is hesitating, facing each other, and deliberately avoiding each other.

He looked down at her, with a delicate face and weak eyelashes like moth wings, even a slight trembling would make people's hearts agitate.The big belt was untied and placed on the incense table at the head of the couch. She was probably very nervous, biting her lip, and slowly put her hands on his skirt.The cross collar is a three-inch wide black gauze inlaid with rolls, embroidered with flat gold Kuilong and cloud and thunder patterns.The elephant of the emperor has always been strong, and when she climbed up, she miraculously neutralized the hostility, becoming gentle and gentle, and even the angry dragon head was not so terrifying.

"Queen..." His voice was a little hoarse, "I will rest at your place tonight."

She paused slightly, took off his crimson gauze robe, and said in a low voice: "The concubine is just recovering, I'm afraid I can't do what I want, and I can't serve the officials."

After hearing this, his face became colder, "Really? Is it because the body has not recovered, or is there another reason? Could it be that the queen is still brooding over what happened that day?"

He asked knowingly, and she had to fight and retreat, "I was very scared that day, but fortunately there was an official's house, I choked on a few sips of water, at least I was alive. I have been ill for the past two days, and I have never had a chance to thank the official's family." The grace of saving my life..."

He mocked, "These are off topic, don't you ask me why I pushed the boat to the middle of the lake?"

She thought for a while, then said with a vague smile: "There's no need to delve into this, maybe the official wants to take me to see a certain spectacle, but I misunderstood the official and accidentally fell into the water in a moment of panic."

She brought the gown to put on for him, but he held her hand away, "The queen is perfect in everything, except for one thing. I don't agree with my heart, which makes me feel disappointed. Actually, you and I can have an open and honest talk. , Maybe the knot in the heart will be untied, and the husband and wife will get along more harmoniously." He turned around and looked up at the ceiling of the palace, his tone was not dignified, but rather sad, "We don't talk about family, country, and the world, I know family The country and the world are not the most important things to you. I won’t tell you why you came to Damao and entered the Forbidden Court. You know it in your heart. I made you queen. Although we haven’t been together for a long time, it’s been a few days .Do you intend to continue like this with resentment towards me in your heart until the day you die or I die?"

She seemed to have been hit violently by something, and her body was shaken violently, "Why would the official say that..."

"Queen, don't pretend to be confused. Are you going to Genyue just to enjoy the mountains and rivers with me?" He turned around again and stared at her with a smile. , came under my eyelids, but it was dark under the lights? As I said, I am very patient with you. This patience did not come out of thin air. The queen does not know that I exist, but I have been fascinated by the queen for a long time. So you have some Thoughts and thoughts, I will not stop them, and I am even happy to fulfill you. But everything has a limit, don’t exceed the bottom line, everything is negotiable. If you go too far, no matter how patient I am, I’m afraid I won’t tolerate it .”

Yun Hua was so terrified by what he said, she looked at him in disbelief, he looked like he was sure of winning, and she suddenly had a premonition of defeat.

He can indulge her, let her set up a stage in the palm of his hand to sing, and he is willing to cooperate with the innocuous drama, but if she has any unreasonable thoughts, she will be ruthless and fight head-on.It seems that he had doubts when he was at the Cross Cloud Pavilion. No wonder the wine cup was up and down at that time, it was nothing more than worrying about her poisoning him.But even if it was so close to the truth, she couldn't admit it. She shook her head and smiled and said, "The official has already decided in his heart, how can I refute it? Going around, it's still for Yunguan. The relationship between me and Yunguan, the official is not what it is today. Only then did you realize that since you cared so much, why did you make me queen in the first place."

She fights wits and bravery with him, but he doesn't like it very much, "I just want to try to see if I can root him out of your heart. But I seem to have miscalculated. Although the queen is young, she has deep obsession. I promise you Fengguanxiapei, it can't compare to someone's verbal promise." He smiled contemptuously, took two steps forward, and forced her into a corner, "How deep is the empress's relationship with him, that she would kill her husband for him?"

Her heart was beating loudly, and she was shocked when he said it so bluntly.He was obviously very angry, the closer he got, she had no choice but to bend her elbows to resist him, "Why did I kill my husband, such a crime, the concubine can't afford it."

He was dressed in a snow-white mid laner, with such a spotless appearance, but his eyes were full of predation.Grab her wrist and press it high against the wall. Her big sleeves hang down to her shoulders. The arms carved out of beautiful jade are so holy that it makes people want to destroy.She was frightened and struggled in terror, like a butterfly with its wings nailed down, unable to break free no matter what, she whimpered and said, "What is the official going to do... let me go, you hurt me."

(End of this chapter)