Rebirth after waste

Chapter 123

The emperor slept a little restlessly that night.

Originally thought that the anxiety accumulated for many months would be relieved, and he would sleep happily until dawn, but he had a dream.

It's all about his youth, he was absurd and self-willed, shuttled among the thickets of makeup, playing games in the world.In the dream, he was half awake and half dazed, teasing with the stunning beauty in his hands, but he couldn't help thinking that if Yunniang knew about these things, she would probably be angry again.

But fortunately, it's all in the past.

Just as he was comforting himself in this way, the clusters of flowers around him suddenly disappeared without a trace, and he saw Yunniang in white clothes fluttering, standing among the plum trees, looking at him with a smile.

For a burst of joy, he forgot that he was just dreaming, and ran to her in a few steps.

Holding her hand, he was surprised to find that her hand was as cold as a piece of ice.

"Why is it so cold?" He frowned, put his snow-white hands in his palms, and breathed out, "Wear more clothes when you come out, and be careful."

Surrounded by snow and plum blossoms, it was clearly winter, but she was only wearing a thin skirt, no wonder it was frozen like this.

She just laughed and didn't reply.

He couldn't help feeling worried, reached out to touch her cheek, and asked tentatively, "Yunniang?"

"Your Highness." She finally spoke, her voice was mellow and graceful, but a little ethereal and distant, as if it came from the other side of the mountain.

"kindness?"

What did she call him?Your Highness?

He remembered that on New Year's Eve last year, she called him that when she was drunk.It seems that things in her youth left a deep impression on her heart.

"Your Highness." She continued, "Why don't you like me?"

He was confused, "Yunniang, what are you talking about?"

She approached him slowly, stretched out her arms to hug her, and repeated in a low voice, "Why?"

Her body was filled with his familiar fragrance, non-lanfy musk, which fascinated him.

He let her hug her for a while before reaching out to hold her shoulder, wanting to look her in the eyes and tell her that he didn't dislike her.

But when that plain little face looked up, he saw the blood dripping from the corner of her mouth.

That bright red, matched with the fair skin, is simply shocking.

His eyes snapped open.

"Your Majesty..." She smiled bleakly, "Why did you kill me? You hate me so much?"

He just felt out of his wits.Everything in front of her was so unbelievable, how could Yunniang say that he wanted to kill her?How could he kill her?How could he be willing to kill her!
Her body softened, he hurriedly put his arms around her waist, and sat down on the ground.

She looked up at him, her eyes were like deep well water, which contained feelings that he could not clearly see.

She was still whispering: "You killed me...."

"I don't... Yunniang, I don't..." He said incoherently, "Hold on, I'll take you to the doctor. Don't be afraid, I will definitely save you..."

She smiled mockingly, moved her lips a few times, and then slowly closed her eyes.

He watched her head hang down, and his ears repeated her last words over and over again like thunder.

"I hate you," she said.

"Yunniang!" The emperor sat up abruptly, dripping with sweat.

His headache seemed to be splitting open, which made him frown uncontrollably, and it took a long time for him to relax.

In front of my eyes is a curtain of autumn fragrance and green, surrounded by darkness, only a faint light outside the gauze curtain.

This is Hanzhang Hall in the middle of the night.Not Meiyuan.

"Your Majesty?" Holding her arm with both hands, he turned his head and saw Gu Yunxian's worried expression.

"What's the matter?" she said. "Have you had a nightmare?"

There was a puzzled expression in her eyes, the palm against him was warm, and there was no blood on her lips.

He looked at her silently for a long time, and suddenly hugged her.

Being held in his arms, Gu Yunxian felt that his body was trembling slightly, and his heart was even more confused.

"Your Majesty called the concubine's name just now, did you dream about the concubine?" she asked.

It took him a while to slowly say: "Yes. I dreamed about you."

"What did you dream about your concubine?"

He didn't answer.

She thought of his reaction just now, and gradually understood in her heart.It must not be a good dream, otherwise he wouldn't be scared like this.

The tentative voices of the palace people came from outside the gauze tent, asking if they needed anything.

Gu Yunxian thought for a while, and suggested: "Your Majesty, would you like something to drink? It's good to calm down."

He looked at her, and suddenly asked: "Yunniang, have you ever hated me?"

She was taken aback for a moment, then she came to her senses, and said in a relaxed tone: "Why do you ask such a question, why does my concubine hate you?"

He thought of her mocking smile in the dream just now, and felt his heart was in a mess.

"I used to treat you badly and always neglected you. Have you ever hated me?"

Her heart trembled, and her expression froze.

The nights of waiting for him to see her flashed through his mind, the heartache of seeing him tender and affectionate to other women, the despair of knowing he would never have children.Those past events were branded on her heart, even if she died once, she could never forget them.

"I don't hate you." She said softly, "You didn't like me before because I wasn't good enough. Now, you treat me very well..."

He let go of her and looked at her expression carefully.With a smile on her lips, she looked at him quietly.

It was a very gentle and comforting look, but he could see a sense of alienation and indifference from it, as if those words were just for her to reassure him.

Why do you feel this way?

"Your Majesty, what's the matter with you?" Gu Yunxian couldn't help asking, seeing his confused face, "What dream did you have?"

He was silent for a long time, then smiled softly, "It's nothing, it's just a nightmare." He touched her face, "I'm sorry that you had to rest because of the noise."

"Why is Your Majesty so polite all of a sudden?" She blinked, "When the concubine was woken up by the child at night, didn't she also disturb you."

"Yeah. Calculated from this, I'm at a loss, and I'll have to quarrel with you some other time." He joked with her easily, ignoring the weird feeling in his heart.

Gu Yunxian knew that he wasn't telling the truth, but she knew his character well, and she couldn't ask anything if she insisted on asking now, so she might as well follow him and tell him something else to let him relax.

Just as she was thinking, a strange feeling suddenly came from her belly, and she couldn't help but froze in place.

The two were so close that the emperor immediately noticed her strangeness and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Son, he seems," Gu Yunxian stammered, "he seems to have kicked me..."

Zhang Xian said that fetal movement began to appear after four months of pregnancy and became obvious after five months.But Gu Yunxian didn't know what was going on, she didn't feel it even once, which made her worried, thinking that the child was not healthy.

Who would have thought that her child would actually move on such a night when she suddenly woke up!
The emperor also opened his eyes wide in astonishment, looking at her a little blankly.

Gu Yunxian put his hand on the place where he felt it just now, waited nervously for a while, and sure enough, he felt it again!

"The child is really moving!" She said excitedly, "Your Majesty, touch it."

She took his hand and placed it on her stomach, the two of them watched eagerly, and finally got their wish when the bulge of the belly came.

"This is...." The emperor was so moved that he could hardly move his eyes away.

"It's our child, he is greeting us." Gu Yunxian said this with sincerity, and his eyes were a little moist.

Under the great joy, she had already forgotten the love-hate entanglement between her and the man in front of her, and only remembered that he was the father of the child.

The emperor stared at her blankly for a long time before showing a smile.

It was not easy to smile on the surface just now, this time his smile seeped into his eyes, with an indescribable satisfaction.

He hugged her, his left hand still resting on her stomach, covering her palm.

Sighing deeply, he said, "Yunniang, thank you."

She lay on his chest, "What is Your Majesty Xie Chenqie doing?"

He pursed his lips, "Thank you for giving birth to my child..."

She laughed, "It's not that your Majesty has no children..."

"Your birth is different from that of others." He said, there was tension in his tone that he didn't realize, "I will protect you mother and child, and will not let anyone bully you. I will not let anyone... hurt you. you……."

Gu Yunxian paused, then said softly, "I believe in you."

The cold moon is like frost, shining into the hall, the ground is silvery white.He hugged her tightly, trying to calm the ebb and flow of his heart.

It was obviously just an inexplicable nightmare, but it made him feel terrified, as if those things could really happen, or someday in the future, they would appear in front of him unexpectedly.

The elegant aura of the woman in his arms made him dare not let go, worried that she would disappear without a trace if he was not careful, leaving him in the same place with endless regrets.

The Conferment Ceremony is different from ordinary concubines. The ceremony is very complicated. As early as the day when the imperial decree came down, all the yamen began to prepare.

Xu Qinghua, Prime Minister of the Left, and Song Qi, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, acted as the chief and deputy envoys respectively, and prepared the queen's gold seal and gold book.However, the book and treasure texts were originally written by a highly respected scholar, but His Majesty specially ordered that they be written by Cui Shuo, a member of Zhongshushe.

On the fourth day of June, the day before the post-sealing ceremony, the emperor sent several officials headed by Zuo Xiang to go out of the city to worship heaven on his behalf, and he went to the Taimiao to inform his ancestors about it.

Everyone was busy, only Gu Yunxian was free.The dress has already been tried on, and now it is properly placed in Hanzhang Hall, and is kept by a special person, so she doesn't need to worry about it.

That night, she was lying on the imperial concubine's couch, looking at the cold moon in the sky, dazed.

The emperor silently appeared beside her, holding her right hand, "What are you thinking?"

She smiled faintly, "I'm thinking, after tonight, I'm going to move out of here, and I won't be able to stay here again in the future."

In order to welcome the re-emerged empress, the Changqiu Palace underwent a renovation two months ago. All the doors, windows and walls were repainted, and the tables and beds were replaced with new ones. Pepper room.

And the Hanzhang Hall that housed her for two years, just like the original Chang'an Hall, has become a thing of the past.

(End of this chapter)