This can be remembered

Chapter 6
Pei'er looked puzzled: "You mean, the empress dowager summoned the relatives of important officials?" After speaking, she laughed: "Your Majesty is being paranoid. It is most normal for the empress dowager to meet the relatives of high-ranking officials. Now that the empress dowager has been suspended for a long time, it is natural for the family members of high-ranking officials It has to be taken care of by the queen mother to show the royal family's care for those important officials."

"I know this, it's the empress' duty. The empress dowager will summon those family members almost every month. It's just..." Liu Jieyu bit her lips: "On weekdays, they are the regular wives, but today, they listened Say one more person."

Pei'er blinked her eyes, thought for a moment and said: "Your Majesty is talking about Master Wu's daughter?"

Liu Jieyu didn't speak, just picked up a cup of jasmine on the table, blew on it, and nodded.

Pei'er pursed her lips, paused for a long while and said: "In my servant's opinion, the empress does not need to take it to heart. The servant has also heard about it, but the Miss Wu family did not live up to her expectations. The emperor finally said something to her, but the result is still the same. I recited other people's poems. According to our emperor's preferences, such a woman must be unattractive. Moreover, the servants also heard that if the woman's appearance is placed among the people, she is considered a beauty, but if it is in this harem, even Not as good as some of the maids."

Liu Jieyu took a sip of jasmine, although she didn't speak, there was a smile on her face.

Seeing this, Pei Er hurriedly waved her hand, and a maid came in with a plate of snacks outside the door.Pei'er took the plate with stone patterns of doucai ganoderma lucidum, daffodils, flowers and fruits, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty can feel at ease? Why don't you have some refreshments."

Just as Liu Jieyu was about to take it, she saw a person from outside the door come in through the curtain: "The smell of this goose oil roll with pine flesh can be smelled from a long way away." The voice was clear and bright, but it carried an aura of majesty.It was Shen Xiyao.

Liu Jieyu was taken aback for a moment, but Pei'er reacted first, knelt down hastily, and put the plate in her hand on the ground lightly. "Your Majesty sees the Emperor." Liu Jieyu did not bow at this time, but her eyes were red, and she took two steps forward before slowly prostrating, her voice already choked with sobs: "Your Majesty... ·”

Shen Xiyao hurriedly helped her up, and looked at the woman in front of her in surprise: "What's the matter, could it be that Ruxu is still sad when I'm here?"

Liu Jieyu hurriedly shook her head: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty has not arrived for a long time, and my concubine misses you, and now she is weeping with joy." She wiped her eyes with her cuff as she said, "I thought the Emperor had forgotten my concubine."

Shen Xiyao did not show the smile that Liu Jieyu was expecting, instead, he frowned slightly, but it was only for a split second, and then changed into a shallow smile in an instant: "I'm busy lately." Just four simple words , no more explanation, no need to explain.

"The concubine knows. The concubine..." Liu Jieyu wanted to say something, but Shen Xiyao took out a piece of silk from his bosom, with an excited look on his face.

"I'll show you something today." As he spoke, he opened it excitedly, but his hands were cautious.From Liu Jieyu's perspective, it is a freehand landscape, lively and flexible, skillful and atmospheric, with an open artistic conception, the lines stop but the meaning is endless, and the view is the work of everyone.Liu Jieyu has a lot of attainments in poetry and dance, but she is not satisfactory in painting.However, Shen Xiyao said with great interest: "This painting is called 'Light Snow Floating Branches', look at it, how is it painted?" He smiled and looked at Liu Jieyu, his eyes were full of cunning.

Liu Jieyu smiled, like a spring breeze blowing on her face: "The emperor's paintings, how dare my concubines make rash comments." As she spoke, she approached Shen Xiyao, leaning against her side with infinite tenderness.

Shen Xiyao's eyes lit up, and he almost blurted out: "You also think that this painting is the same as mine?"

Liu Jieyu was shocked when she heard this.Shen Xiyao has always loved poetry, and he is also very accomplished in painting. Although Liu Jieyu is not good at painting, she is favored after all. She has been with Shen Xiyao several times to watch his freehand brushwork, and she also understands his brushwork.Hearing his words at this time, I felt a layer of uneasiness in my heart for no reason.

Shen Xiyao didn't explain any more, but the smile on his face grew wider.I saw him lightly brushing the picture with one hand, thinking for a while and saying: "The wind is coming, the snow is fluttering, and it is difficult to distinguish among the piles of apricot blossoms." Good." When he said the last sentence, his voice was so gentle, completely different from usual, even Liu Jieyu had hardly heard him be so gentle.But at this time, the unapproachable aura of the emperor that surrounded Zhou's body all day long even weakened a little. Finally, Shen Xiyao's hand stayed at the bottom of the screen for a long time, and Liu Jieyu's eyes also stayed there. , her eyes seemed to be burned by fire, and her heart was beating violently.

That small imprint at the bottom of the scroll.The word "Wei" written in seal script deeply hurt her eyes.

The morning wind brought a cool breath in through the window, Liu Jieyu turned over and slowly opened her eyes.The sky outside was slightly bright, and it was not yet the time to get up on weekdays, but there was already an empty space around her.She rubbed her eyes, remembering that Shen Xiyao was awakened in the middle of the night, something happened in the south, she fell asleep very late, and she couldn't remember exactly when she left.

Pulling the half-sliding ruyi pattern woven gold rose red embroidered quilt, Liu Jieyu's eyes fell on the wall inadvertently.Looking at it, the whole person was completely awake as if a basin of cold water had been poured on it.I don't know when a scroll was hung on the wall, it was the one that Shen Xiyao brought yesterday, and at this moment, Duanduan was hanging in a place where he could see it as soon as he looked up.Looking at it now, the brushwork on the painting is proficient and vivid, very similar to Shen Xiyao's paintings, but there is more elegance in it.It's just talking about the majestic atmosphere, but because of the softness of the bend of the pen, it can't compare to Shen Xiyao.However, in this artistic conception of light snow and floating branches, gentleness and tenderness are needed.

At this time, Liu Jieyu was not in the mood to appreciate the paintings at all, she just felt stuffy in her heart, as if all the air around her had disappeared, and she couldn't breathe.She turned over suddenly, ignoring the long hem of the nightgown with protruding moonlight and blossoming plums to hinder her steps, she staggered slightly to the wall, and tossed the painting off.

I don't know when the wind picked up quickly, and the painting was not mounted, so it drifted with the wind and gradually fell into the bedroom, like a shadow that can never be erased, covering Liu Jieyu's head...
Pei'er walked into Hengzhi Hall lightly with her early morning toiletries, only to see Liu Jieyu standing quietly in front of the window, holding a corner of a painting in her hand, with a sad and weird smile on her face.

It was the first time Pei'er saw Liu Jieyu's expression like this, she was startled, but she dared not speak, and stood by the hall door with her hands down.The sky is gloomy, the wind is mixed with flying sand, and a heavy rain is imminent.

When the first muffled thunder sounded, Liu Jieyu finally turned her face. There was a teardrop on her fair and beautiful face. Seeing Pei'er only smiled slightly, her eyes fell on the painting again.

"Check it out for me," Liu Jieyu's voice was accompanied by the sound of the sudden heavy rain, with hints of jealousy, resentment, and doubts, "check it out for me. Who made it." With a wave of his hand, the scroll was dropped on the ground, with several small tears on the edge.

Pei Er hurriedly picked it up, it was a freehand landscape, and there was a poem next to it, "The wind is coming, the snow is fluttering, and it is difficult to distinguish among the apricot blossoms". Break out in a cold sweat.The handwriting was clearly written by Shen Xiyao.

Carefully and carefully folded the scroll, Pei'er looked at Liu Jieyu who was fascinated by this pot of snow-faced azaleas in front of her, sighed slightly in her heart, and said with a sweet smile: "What's your embarrassment about this painting?" what."

"Who is angry with the painting, I'm just..." Liu Jieyu turned her head, her face flushed unnaturally, she lowered her eyes to see the painting in Pei'er's hand, and a sinister flash flashed in her eyes , "Who asked you to pick it up?" Liu Jieyu raised her voice a little, with undisguised anger: "Throw it away for me!"

Pei'er looked down at the scroll in her hand, pursed her lips and said boldly, "Have you ever thought about the consequences of throwing this painting away?" Staring at Liu Jieyu.

Liu Jieyu's complexion turned pale, her bare hands were tightly clenched, the joints that had turned pale due to the exertion were faintly visible, and her lips were also biting tightly.

"Your Majesty is a smart person. Even if the Emperor likes this painting or not, if the painting contains the Emperor's imperial pen, if it is lost and someone finds out, it is a crime of disrespect. Besides, the Emperor loves this painting. My Majesty knows that, since Hanging here, if the emperor does not come, the empress has thought about the consequences, she may be a more serious crime than that disrespect." Pei'er mustered up her courage to finish speaking in one breath before she dared to look up at Liu Jieyu.

Liu Jieyu didn't answer, but her chest heaved violently.After a long while, she wiped her eyes with a Supa in her hand, and then laughed again: "It's because I didn't think it through..."

"My lady just cared too much about the emperor, that's why she did this." Pei'er stepped forward and handed the painting in front of Liu Jieyu: "What should my lady do with it?"

Liu Jieyu turned her eyes away, as if that painting is like poison, even if she looks at it, it will be stained with poison. "The palace seems to have damaged some places just now. You tried to make up for it. It's still hanging there, but I will take it down when the emperor leaves Hengzhi Palace." After she finished speaking, she walked slowly towards the bed: "This Gong didn't sleep well last night, and now I feel short-spirited, so I need to rest for a while."

Pei'er smiled knowingly: "Your Majesty, rest well, the servant will find out the owner of this painting and report to your Majesty."

Liu Jieyu didn't say anything for a while, she seemed to have fallen asleep, Pei'er was about to step back gently, when she stepped back to the door, a faint and deep voice came from inside: "The sooner the better."

(End of this chapter)