A Collection of Old Sayings by Fourth Sister You

Chapter 93 Forbidden Court (93)
Final chapter: I want to be like a flower, forever on the crown of the official family. (1)
What Queen Mother Guo revealed about the past really surprised the two of them.Jinshang squatted in front of the stove, with meat on a skewer, and turned to look at her after roasting for a while, "Ma'am?"

She hummed, sat on the twig, licked her lips and waited, "Are you familiar?"

He pulled out the meat and poked it with his chopsticks, "It's still almost cooked, eating raw meat will ruin your stomach... What did you say about the queen mother and your father?"

She was sitting in front of the stove, her arms full of flames, glanced at him, and said slowly: "My father and mother used to walk in the Forbidden Court to prepare spices for the concubines in the palace. At that time, I got to know the Queen Mother, and a lot of grievances and entanglements arose... ...are you familiar?"

Now she was greedy and didn't have the heart to say anything, so he could only fan the cattail fan vigorously to raise the flames high.She looked at him and clapped her hands, "You get acquainted quickly like this." While examining his face, she smiled and moved closer, "Could the officials really worry that you and I are siblings?"

He gave her a blank look, "What nonsense! How old were you when your parents met the Queen Mother?"

She said: "I am in my mother's womb, just like Han Dou." She named the child Han Dou, thinking that both men and women can be used.The officials despise Han's being too feminine, if it is a boy, she is afraid that the emperor's heir will feel ashamed in the future, but she doesn't take it seriously, should they all be proud like him?Anyway, the child is in her stomach, she decides.After a few days, he found that he was unable to reverse it, so he had to acquiesce.

"Same as Han? Two months old?" He looked at her with hopeless eyes, "I'm seven years older than you. When I was born, the Queen Mother and your father didn't know each other. Do you think it will be?" Brother and sister?"

Only then did she remember, and said in a long voice, "I almost forgot..."

He finally seized the opportunity to fight back with fire, "That's why pregnant women will become stupid, it's true."

She refused, and twisted her whole body like a snake, "Where did the fallacy come from, I don't believe it! I just forgot and focused on roasting the meat." Said side by side, while leaning over to look, " Hey, are you ready? Can you bake or not!"

This kind of thing is difficult for him, he is the emperor, not a cook.In the past 20 years or so, she has been almost out of reach, not much better than her.Now the pregnant woman wants to eat this and that. There is no ready-made food in this place that has just experienced the flames of war. She has to roll up her sleeves and cook for herself. She still despises him so much.He felt a little sore in his heart, and said: "It's almost over... I owe you in my previous life."

She was very unconvinced, "You have the ability to give birth to your own child."

Sure enough, one sentence blocked his mouth. He pulled out the cleaning rod, and used a knife to cut off a layer of coke on the outside. The meat inside was extremely delicious, dripping with oil.He said: "Go outside, there is a lot of smoke inside, don't choke."

She happily went out with him, and the two of them sat down on the railing of the corridor.He cut up the meat piece by piece and fed it to her, "Eat less of this kind of grilled food, because if you eat too much, you won't be able to digest it."

She said it didn't matter, "Anyway, I'll throw up after eating."

He suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness, but he was even more grateful to her for it.Other people's morning sickness is a sick look, but she is the only one who vomits and vomits, and she still has to eat.I probably knew in my heart that the child had suffered a lot before, so now I want to raise him wholeheartedly!

He wiped the corner of his mouth for her, "Is it delicious?"

She nodded again and again, "The official is really all-rounder, he can fish and make roasted meat." Thinking of the longevity that was brought back from Yanfu Palace, she asked if he was still there, and if anyone had eaten it.

"Who dares to eat your fish? Don't worry, Qin Rang is waiting for you. When you go back and look at it, it must be fatter again." He was swinging the cleaning rod in his hand, looking into the distance, still thinking about what he said earlier.No wonder when he entered Jian'an at that time, the Empress Dowager specifically ordered him to visit Li's house, and after returning, she asked her father's recent situation many times, so it turned out that there was an old relationship.The stories in the old generation are also very exciting, love is such a wonderful existence, she loves him, and he loves her.If you can't get it, you will miss it forever.

"Maybe it's fate." He smiled vacantly, and turned to look at her, "The queen mother has feelings for your father, and now I have feelings for you, it must be destined by heaven. Fortunately, I didn't miss it, and you are by my side , I am luckier than the Queen Mother."

She kept silent, unable to find time to respond to him, raised her greasy mouth, motioning for him to come and kiss.

He likes to be clean, looking left and right, his bright red lips are shiny in the sun.Reluctantly kissing, she picked up a piece of meat and stuffed it domineeringly.

She began to feel melancholy again. When the Yue army attacked the city, the firearms clashed wildly. She didn't know if Li's house was still there. "It's a pity that I don't have the chance to go back to Wafang. The house was passed down by my father-in-law (great-grandfather), and it has been hundreds of years." .”

He said that the house is still there, "I have ordered people to inquire, rewritten a plaque, and renamed it Queen Li's house. Now that the overall situation has just been settled, and people's hearts are fluctuating, it may be dangerous to go out rashly, so I can't go back in front of the house."

She lowered her head and thought for a while, "If you can't go back, don't go back. Wherever you are, it's my hometown where I can live in peace." After saying that, she laughed, "Our journey along the way is somewhat similar to the puppet show I made up. , separated, and you found me again. If you follow your story, it should be the stage where the princess died of illness, right? The princess died, and she never met Shan Yu again before she died. On the hills... what a poignant story."

He hurriedly said: "I made it up randomly, because I have never believed in love, and I often feel very pessimistic."

"What about now?" She leaned close to his chest and looked up at him, "Are you still pessimistic now?"

"Of course not." He pinched her pointed chin and proudly puffed out his chest, "I'm very confident now. My destiny is up to me. As long as I want, there is nothing I can't do. I want to sweep the world, Rule the world. Then expand the Forbidden Court and build a palace for you. You will have sons and daughters, and you will have many children.” He stood up and waved his hand, “My son will bring all nations to court in the future. He is A successful king does not have to go through the flames of war, but he has his own iron fist. He is elegant and humble, and has all the advantages of a wise king. He will also marry a beloved woman, just like his father."

She sat on the porch, smiling so that her eyes were crescent-shaped, and she kicked her feet to watch his speech.A generation of overlords, even if they are daydreaming, they still look decent.She echoed from the side, "That's right, our Hanyu will set the tripod in the Central Plains and create a foundation for eternity!"

As soon as the two played and sang, they felt that the prosperous age was in front of them, as if they saw the appearance of Hanyu wearing a mianfu and enshrining Zen on Mount Tai.

He came over to hug her, with a red light on his face, "Queen, I'm so happy."

She smiled and looked at him, "I'm very happy too, I just hope that nothing will happen when I go back to Bianliang, and that I can give birth to a child safely and be with you every day."

He kissed her forehead, "We have survived so much wind and rain, what twists and turns are there for us? But after returning to the palace, we have to rectify the palace affairs, such as those fragrant medicine masters, all of them will be kicked out. There are also Tianzhang, The three pavilions of Baowen and Longtu...the palace walls have been raised, the side gates have been sealed, and only eunuchs can be kept in the forbidden room, otherwise something will happen sooner or later."

She stared at him blankly, "Are you alluding to my father? My father did nothing wrong."

He said no, and said with an apologetic smile: "I only dote on the empress, I'm afraid those concubines will not be able to bear the loneliness."

She stood there with a look of infinite regret, "There are twenty or thirty women in the prison. If the illness of the official family is not cured, they will be pitiful for the rest of their lives. Have you thought about letting them out?"

He said: "If they are released, they will have no way of life. Who dares to marry the emperor's women again? At that time, the parents will not get in touch with each other, and the brothers will exclude them. In the end, they can only enter the Tao. Let them stay in the forbidden zone. I also need these shields. I don't have the energy to deal with them in order to prevent the ministers from admonishing the expansion of the harem."

After wasting half a day in the kitchen, he returned to the Qianhe Hall in the evening.Sure enough, as I said before, she squatted by the roadside and vomited cleanly.After throwing up, she couldn't do it anymore, and she leaned on his back in dismay, making him turn back to the front.

There is a faint fragrance in his collar, which is the smell of Su He, and it makes him sleepy.While she was half asleep and half awake, she felt that he went up the steps, and the soles of the black shoes rubbed against the gold bricks, there was a crisp and short sound.When she went to the hall to put her on the couch, she heard Lu Jing call the official's house, and then there was no sound, thinking that he was afraid of waking her up, so he went to the front hall to talk.

Lu Jing frowned, and said in a low voice: "The news came from the Xuande Palace just now, that Emperor Jian is hanging on the beam."

He was taken aback suddenly, "Dead?"

Lu Jingdao did not, "Fortunately, it was discovered in time and was rescued."

He glanced at the apse, "The empress is asleep, don't wake her up. You are serving in the bedroom, I'll go over and have a look."

Lujing was busy but retreated to the gate of the palace, "General Yuan is here, and I will go with the official's family."

After all, he was her brother from the same mother, so he had to ask if something happened.He went, and when he got there, it was going to be dark. When he entered the hall to see, Emperor Jian was lying on the bed, his face was gray and his eyes were dull.Empress Dowager Guo sat on the edge of his bed, wiping a handkerchief thinly wet.Seeing him, he looked very afraid for an instant, and stood up uneasy, with a frightened look on his face.

He turned his head and asked the class in front of the hall, "Have you passed on to the medical officer?"

Ban Zhi clasped his hands and said, "The doctor said there was nothing serious, so he prescribed some medicine to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and then went."

In the eyes of the Gao family's mother and son, he is a heinous sinner, although they dare not show it on the surface, they do not know how to curse him in secret!He didn't care too much, and said to the Queen Mother Guo with his hands behind his back: "In theory, I should follow the queen to call you a mother, but because of the law, I can't be as casual as the common people. When I returned to the palace, I rushed over immediately after hearing the news. The empress is not feeling well, she vomited badly just now, I didn't let her know." He paused and glanced at Emperor Jian, "You two are lenient, what the empress said today is also what I mean, if I want to do anything to you, there is no need Wait until now. I have no plans to coax the queen and settle accounts with you after the autumn. The world is divided into three parts, and it is time to merge. If I do not move, how can I know that Sui Guo will not move, and Urong will not move? Preemptive strikes in the battle are the strategy of using troops Please don’t blame me. The empress values ​​friendship. If you have any troubles, wouldn’t it be a disappointment to her? So I hope you cherish each other. It’s useless to rely on others to solve it. It’s best to figure it out yourself. Is it important to live or to be famous? There is a trade-off. As for false fame, the Sui Kingdom has already been destroyed, so even if you die for the country, your reputation will not go anywhere, so why waste your life in vain. That’s all I’ve said, think twice!"

He didn't linger, and left after speaking.Those who want to die will never be persuaded to come back no matter what.The more he coaxes, the more he feels that life is hopeless.It's better to be enlightened, to strike hard at the painful spot, and if it is cured, it will never happen again for the rest of your life.

He paced with his hands behind his back, his wide sleeves fluttered across the ground, and dead leaves floated down from his head and landed on his shoulders.When he was about to reach the palace gate, he heard sobbing and mourning behind him, so he stood still.Yuan Shuzu tilted his ears, "Your Majesty listen..."

Being able to cry out means letting go.After all, Emperor Jian was young, a 17-year-old boy, carrying a country on his back, the hard work involved, only those who are also kings can understand.He nodded, "That's very good." He stepped out from the threshold.

After a catastrophe in Jian'an, he couldn't recover in a short time.This city is like a lost child, and it has to be rebuilt bit by bit.He is very interested in building it according to his ideas, but unfortunately time is tight and he can't take care of one thing and lose another.After the major events are arranged one by one, it is time to return to Bianliang.

The queen leaned on the pillow to eat snacks, and only ate stuffing for dim sum. She peeled off the skin and stuffed it all into his mouth.He is a person who cares about state affairs, so he took time out of his busy schedule to ask him, "Is the old minister of Sui Kingdom still in use?"

He couldn't chew it, choked uncomfortably, and even drank several sips of tea and said: "In the future, Sui will be a battle-axe, and Sui officials must use it to make them blend in and appease the hearts of the people. ..." She stretched out her hand again, and he was afraid when he saw the honey-fried skin, and hinted euphemistically, "It tastes different when you eat it as a whole."

"I don't know, anyway, I only like to eat stuffing." Honey cake bit a hole, she pouted and sucked up the bean paste inside, then blinked her big eyes, pretending to put the shriveled Jade Rabbit on the edge of the plate superior.

That's why I let you eat what she left after I think of you. With this kind of courtesy, what else can I be picky about?He was bullied and didn't dare to say much. When the team left Jian'an City, he opened the curtain to take a look, and told her in a very grateful tone, "Aren't you going to pay homage to your father? It seems that we are coming soon."

After hearing this, she put down her snacks, took out her handkerchief to wipe off the corners of her mouth and the residue on her body, and sat upright with her hands on her knees. At first glance, she looked like a dignified palace.

Lu Jing prepared the incense candles, the imperial chariot stopped and stepped forward to open the curtain, she put his shoulders on the pedals, looked back, and Queen Mother Guo also got out of the chariot.

The solitary tomb stands in the wilderness, after a whole winter, it looks extremely desolate.There are no barriers in the army to cover them, let the north wind blow, and their faces are cut like knives.Queen Mother Guo went to the tombstone to look carefully, rolled up her sleeves and wiped the word Congfeng repeatedly. After wiping for a long time, she became limp and wept uncontrollably.

Yan Hua and Gao Fei went up to support them, and comforted them with a choked voice: "Our family is here today, Daddy must be very happy. Madam, don't do this, don't think about the past, and be careful of your body."

The Empress Dowager Guo just grabbed his tombstone and didn't let go. At this time, she couldn't say a thousand words. There were too many regrets and grievances in her heart.She killed him, if it wasn't for her love, why would he not be here in his early thirties.She owed him a debt of lovesickness, and she would never pay it off in her whole life.Tong Chongdi's hypocrisy is nothing more than a woman's surrender to her rights. What she loves in her heart is always this married husband, and it has never changed.

I didn't think it would be good to lose the country before, but now I changed my mind.She was finally able to walk out of the imperial city to pay homage to him, cry happily, vent all the grievances of these years, and suddenly felt that nothing was important.

Zong Hua insisted on persuading her, fearing that she would be too hurt, so he sent her back to the chariot.I went to pay respects to my father's grave by myself, and chatted a lot about what happened in the past year and how satisfied I am now.

"I'm pregnant with a child. I don't know if it's a boy or a girl. Because it was born in July, I named him Han. A while ago, Han was almost gone. I think it's Daddy who blessed me in heaven and let him I saved my life from danger several times.” She said with tears, “We all went to Bianliang, it’s too lonely to leave daddy here alone, I want to bury daddy, but I’m afraid of disturbing daddy’s peace. Dad comes tonight in my daughter’s dream, Give me a hint, if you are willing, I will arrange it, and you can worship at the nearest one during the New Year or holiday." Then he pulled Jin up and said with a smile, "This is Langzi, Daddy has seen it before, I don't know if he remembers it or not. "

He cupped his hands and offered incense, "Yonghua and I became husband and wife, but because I was busy with government affairs, I didn't come to report to Mount Tai, so I felt uneasy. It was hard for me to get Monghua. Please rest assured, Master Taishan, if you are aggrieved at all."

In front of the tomb, there is always a kind of continuous mourning, which is constantly chattering.She stood in the wind for too long, afraid that she would catch cold.In addition, he had to hurry again, so he took her back to the car anyway.As the convoy moved forward, she was sluggish, and he tried his best to cheer her up.

As the weather gets warmer, the ice in the ditches beside the road has melted, and a slight green bloom emerges from the withered grass roots. Looking around, spring is not far away.

Do it again and again, it has been a month since I returned to Bianliang.During this period of time, the prime minister and General Jin Wu are guarding with all their strength, and everything in Kyoto is safe.On the day of entering the city, all the Chinese and military ministers of the DPRK came to greet them, and the people on both sides of the royal road shouted long live, and the grand scene was unprecedented.

Zong Hua still remembers that when he first entered Bianliang, it was on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.Yue people don't like the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that insects are infested and poisons are rampant. It is not an auspicious day.They were placed in the Sifang Pavilion at that time, and they were not formally entered into the Forbidden Court until the next day.Thinking about it now, the past is like a dream.At that time, the young man was chivalrous and determined to confuse the king and become a demon queen.As a result, she was on the verge of failure, but she became pregnant with someone else's child and lived her life wholeheartedly.Now I suddenly recalled it, and felt that I was very funny.

(End of this chapter)