Rebirth after waste

Chapter 64

When Gu Yunxian returned to Hanzhang Hall, he was still a little apprehensive.

I was really too careless tonight, to play such a song in front of everyone.Although it was covered up afterwards with Cui Shuo's help, I don't know what the emperor was thinking.

He praised Cui Shuo, but said nothing to himself.Such discrimination disturbed her.

When returning to the bedroom from Qing'an Hall, she wanted to get into her sedan chair, but the emperor grabbed her hand.While she was hesitating, he had already pulled her closer to the imperial chariot with bright yellow curtains.

The car body is spacious, even if two people are seated, it is not crowded at all.She wanted to say something, but she gave up when she saw that he closed his eyes and meditated as soon as he sat in, with the words "I don't want to talk" written all over his face.

The people in the palace of Hanzhang didn't expect the emperor to be lucky tonight, let alone Gu Yunxian getting off the imperial chariot. Everyone was a little at a loss, so Cai Jia reminded with a smile, "What are you doing in a daze?" , go and prepare the washing utensils for Your Majesty and Your Majesty." Only then did the crowd come to their senses.

Ah Ci made tea, Gu Yunxian held a cup and sat opposite him.Seeing that the emperor still didn't speak, she didn't dare to speak rashly.There were too many accidents tonight, she had better be more cautious.

Thinking of this, she looked down at the clear tea soup in the porcelain cup, her eyes gradually became erratic.

The emperor looked at her absent-mindedly through a table, with deep and unpredictable eyes.

"By the way, today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I haven't given you a gift yet."

A sudden voice woke her up, "What?"

The emperor repeated: "I said, I want to give you a gift for the Mid-Autumn Festival. What do you want?"

She didn't know why he was suddenly willing to talk to her again. After thinking about it, she said cautiously: "I don't want anything in particular, Your Majesty will see and give it."

The emperor smiled, "I knew you would say that." There was an imperceptible astringency in his voice.

At this moment, He Jin came in with a Yaoqin in his arms, and saluted, "Your Majesty, I have brought 'Lu Yi'."

"'Green Yi'?" Gu Yun asked curiously.

The emperor explained: "It's the qin you used to play tonight."

Gu Yunxian recalled the melodious and elegant sound of the piano, and couldn't help saying: "This is a very good piano."

"This is nature. This 'Lvyi' was made by the most famous qin master at that time during the Xiaozong Dynasty. Later, Emperor Xiaozong gave it to his niece and future daughter-in-law." See Gu Yunxian Looking at him, he smiled slightly, "Yes, that is the later Empress Zhenshu. This Qin has a history of nearly 100 years, and it is a real Guqin. After Empress Zhenshu passed away, it has been kept in the palace. Pass it on to someone else."

Gu Yunxian nodded to express his understanding, and then speculated in his heart what he wanted to do by saying so much.

"I will give you this Qin, okay?" The emperor looked at Gu Yunxian, his eyes were soft in the bright candlelight, "I remember you said before that you are very envious of Empress Zhenshu. This is her Qin , you should like it."

His tone was so gentle that Gu Yunxian was stunned for a moment.

Just now, he was as cold as ice all the way, but turned around and gave her such a gift. This change is too big, and people don't know how to deal with it.

"Why, you don't like it?" Seeing that she didn't answer, he raised his eyebrows and asked.

"No, the concubine likes it very much." She said hurriedly, her tone joyful.

This is not a lie.

She really likes this violin.So even if he was the one who gave the piano, she couldn't stop her from feeling happy from the bottom of her heart.

He Jin put the 'Lvyi' in front of her, and she looked down carefully. The body of the piano was faint green, and the pearls and jades decorated on it glistened in the candlelight, like a tube of emerald bamboo with raindrops on it.

She suddenly felt that the piano looked like a person.

The man with an elegant temperament and the ability to play the sounds of nature.

"Zhanbiqiao, Luzhuyiyi." She whispered, "This name is really appropriate."

"There are bandit gentlemen, who are like sharpening like sharpening, like cutting like grinding." He finished the next sentence slowly, "Who is Yunniang talking about?"

She was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that the song "Qi Ao" was about a man with outstanding de Jong.And when she read this poem just now, what she thought of in her mind was the person who had almost nothing to do with her.

The bright red lips pursed into a smile, "Of course I'm praising the piano. Your Majesty is really too careful, and the concubine has to think too much about casually reading a poem."

His expression remained unchanged, he just smiled and said: "Yeah, I think too much."

The tone of these words was a little weird, and she felt inexplicably uneasy.

He didn't seem to notice her uneasiness, and he still smiled and said: "By the way, I said at the banquet in the palace that I would ask you about piano music. It's better to hit the sun than to choose a day, so let's do it now. Would Yun Niang play a song for me?"

She nodded, "What does Your Majesty want to hear?"

He thought for a while, "Just play "Qi Ao."

She was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Okay."

The slender fingers plucked the strings, and the clear and beautiful sound of the piano came out, telling about the peerless and beautiful man who lived in the legend: "Zhanbiqiao, green bamboo and Yiyi. There are bandits and gentlemen, who are as cut as they are cut, as cut as they are cut. Grinding. Se xi 僩 xi, he xi 咺 xi. There are bandits and gentlemen, and they must not be scornful.

"Looking at the beauty, the green bamboos are green. There are bandit gentlemen, who are full of ears, and know how to be like stars. They are stingy, and they are loud. There are bandit gentlemen, and they must not be scornful.

"Looking at the Qi Ao, the green bamboo is like a scorpion. There are gentlemen, such as gold and tin, such as jade and jade..."

Before the melody was over, the strings of the zither suddenly broke.Her fingertips hurt, and she couldn't help frowning.

He grabbed her hand and examined it carefully.However, she saw that her originally white and tender fingers were slightly red, which should have been touched by the strings.

He couldn't help but said, "Why don't you be more careful?"

"Your Majesty, forgive me." Gu Yun enviously said, "The concubine may have been a little tired tonight, so she broke the strings of the qin due to anxiety. If your majesty still wants to listen to the music, why don't you change to another qin, my concubine Shall I play it again for you?"

Things are going wrong tonight!I never knew that I could do so many things just by playing the piano. If I had known earlier, I would not have learned to play the piano!
Seeing her looking at him expectantly, the emperor seemed worried that he would throw his sleeves away in a fit of anger.

This look is a little cautious, a little fearful.

He was silent for a long time, then suddenly sighed, "Are you scared?"

Gu Yunxian was taken aback.

"Stay by my side, are you scared?"

Gu Yunxian didn't expect him to ask this question suddenly, and stared at him blankly, not knowing how to react.

The emperor touched her cheek with his fingers gently, "At that time, why did you say you envied Queen Zhenshu?"

She remembered that night when she played "Follow the Wind" for him in the Dazheng Palace, and then whispered to him what she saw from that piece of music.

"Because she and Emperor Zhongzong have a good heart..." She followed his question and answered.

"The reason why people envy others is because they think they have something we don't have. You envy Empress Zhenshu because you think that you and I are not like she and Emperor Zhongzong, right?"

She stared at him blankly, unable to speak a word.

He let out a weak sigh from the bottom of his heart.

Still asked.

From the moment he heard her piano tonight, he couldn't calm down.He can convince himself that she has nothing to do with Cui Shuo, but he can't let go of the piano sound he heard with his own ears.

She said that playing like that is just imitating Mrs. Jiang.Cui Shuo and Xu Qinghua both believed this statement, but he couldn't.

The resentment and unwillingness in that song were too strong, so strong that her subsequent explanations seemed pale and powerless.

Actually it's not the first time, is it?A long time ago, he discovered many clues and doubts.He didn't want to delve into it, and explained everything in his heart, but after hearing her piano tonight, he couldn't deceive himself any longer.

She wasn't as happy as she appeared to be.

Gu Yunxian only felt a chill run down his spine, and even cold sweat came out of his palms.

Only one thought remained in his head: he knew.He really knows.

In the past, I always pretended to have no regrets for him, as long as he treats her well, I don't care about anything.But after tonight, he could see that she still harbored resentment and resentment in her heart.

What will he think?
If it is really pursued, this is a serious crime of deceiving the emperor.She didn't have to wait for Jing Fushu to die, she had to go see the Queen Mother first!

We must think of a way!

Lowering her eyes, her expression became gloomy, "What do you think, Your Majesty? Do you think my concubine lied to you?" Her voice was full of sadness and helplessness, "Yes, my concubine is afraid."

"What are you afraid of?"

"What else? There are so many people scheming in this palace, there are so many traps, every step may lead to death without a burial. Fear all day long, I have had enough of these days when I was a queen. But at that time, the concubine still had the protection of her status, but now she is weaker than others, and the situation is infinitely more dangerous. Why don't you let the concubine be afraid?"

He was silent for a while, "But, you have me protecting you now..."

"It is precisely because Your Majesty is willing to protect your concubines that those people hate them even more!" She said, "Your Majesty's love for concubines is a blessing for concubines, but it is also the source of jealousy in the six palaces. Concubines must always Keep your spirits up so that you won't be tricked."

He looked at her for a long time, and smiled three times, "I thought I was kind to you, and you were happy. But it turned out that you thought it was trouble..."

She froze for a moment, then looked at him incredulously, "Your Majesty misses my concubine so much?" Her tone was agitated, "No. I was afraid that those people would plot against me, but I never regarded your favor as a trouble. If If the concubine really thought so, she wouldn't have returned to you back then."

He was silent.

She lowered her head, as if trying to calm herself down.But it was useless, tears still welled up in the black jade-like eyes.

She was a little annoyed, so she simply raised her head and looked at him steadfastly, "Didn't your Majesty ask my concubine what she envied Empress Zhenshu? Let me tell you. What my concubine envies most is Emperor Zhongzong's heart for her." Your Majesty, you also know that Emperor Zhongzong has been planning for decades to pull out the family. After spending many times, he only drove the Wen family back to his family, and never hurt the lives of the Wen family. In comparison, Wan's fate will be much more miserable..."

The Wan family that Gu Yunxian was talking about was the second largest family in the Jin Dynasty after the Wen family, and was searched by the whole family during the Zhongzong Dynasty.A total of 27 people, including the patriarch and other clan elders, were beheaded in the Duliushu execution ground, and thousands of people from the clan were dispatched to Shu, and they would never be recalled.

Comparing the two, it is not difficult to see that Emperor Zhongzong was concerned about his relationship with Empress Zhenshu.

"Emperor Zhongzong tried his best to protect Empress Zhenshu and her family. This is what makes my concubine envious. Because I don't know, if one day in the future, my concubine is also in danger, will you, Your Majesty? Treat me like that. Yes, you like me now, but maybe in a few years, you will like someone else. At that time, if Chenqie makes any mistakes, or you think Chenqie has made some mistakes... Chenqie I don't know what will happen to me..."

His eyes were light, and there was a self-deprecating smile on his lips, "So you have always thought this way..." His voice was low, "You never believed me at all."

"How do you make me believe it!" Gu Yunxian suddenly collapsed, covered his face with his sleeves, and cried, "There are so many beauties in your harem, as long as you like it, all the women in the world are yours. But for the concubine Say, you are all."

She choked up and said: "Your Majesty, Ayun is just a little woman, she has no ambitions or ambitions. Like most women in the world, Ayun puts her husband first in her heart. Whether it is the family or her own Life is good, everything is in the back. But there are too many women around my husband. I am afraid every day, afraid that he will like someone else, afraid that he will no longer look at me. I am so afraid, worried I am becoming less and less like myself." With a wry smile, "I actually don't like it when you go to see other women, I don't like it at all..."

She was acting originally, but as she spoke, she suddenly felt a deep sadness.

These are her most sincere thoughts in her last life.

At that time, she carefully kept him in her heart and offered him to the shrine, no one else could compare.She had never loved someone so unreservedly that she changed herself beyond recognition.

It was the most desperate relationship in her life, and it cost her life.Today, many years later, she used it again to save her life.

Used by her to deceive this man who was once everything to her.

God's will tricks people.

He looked at her sobbing, and the depression in his heart slowly dissipated for some reason.

Reaching out to stroke her long black hair, there was a trace of forbearance in his voice, "Then why didn't you say it before?"

"The last time your majesty chose a new person to enter the palace, the concubine had already said it. It's just that the concubine made a joke at that time, so your majesty didn't expect that the concubine was actually serious." The voice was a little lower, "the concubine The concubine did not dare to let His Majesty know. A woman violated the rule of seven out of jealousy. In the past, His Majesty did not like concubines because they were too temperamental. Therefore, concubines dare not do this again.

"I am afraid……."

He slowly hugged her and pulled her into his arms.Her body was soft and trembling slightly, which made his heart tremble too.

"Don't be afraid. I promise you that I will protect you and always protect you." He said slowly, with a solemnity in his tone that he didn't realize, "If I say, I won't become dislike you, you I'm afraid I won't believe it. Then I tell you, even if one day in the future, as you said, I don't like you anymore, I won't ignore you. "

As he said this, he began to suspect that there would be a day when he would really dislike her?
he does not know.

The human heart is so difficult to understand, whether it is someone else's or your own, it is like looking at a flower in a fog, and you can't figure it out.

It seemed that at this moment, he still couldn't fully believe what she said, but he didn't want to ask any more questions.

Taking a deep breath, he told himself, that's it.She gave him a reason, a reason he could use to convince himself.

Then he believed her.

Trust her one last time.

When Gu Yunxian woke up the next day, the emperor had already left, and all the courtiers in the room knelt on the ground to congratulate her.

She put on her coat and got out of bed, sat in front of the dressing table, and frowned slightly, "What are you doing? It's so early in the morning, where does the joy come from?"

Cai Jia said with a smile: "Your Majesty left a decree before, and Empress Jin is filling up for the second rank. Empress, tidy up quickly, I am afraid that after a while, congratulators from all palaces will come over."

She was caught off guard and froze on the spot.

Huang Zhong flattered: "After Niangniang was promoted to Chongrong, she was at the same level as Ming Chongyi and Ling Chongyuan! Although the order of Chongrong was slightly lower than the first two, Niangniang had more assistants than them. The power can completely rest on their heads. From now on, only Empress Yu Shuyi can compete with you in this palace!"

He was still so glib, Cai Jia couldn't help but glared at him, but he smiled and ignored him.

Like him, there was A Ci who was unrestrained, and she leaned over beamingly, and said with a smile: "I just asked Liu Shanggong just now. She said, such a thing has never happened before! This time it's good, Liu Gong's Everyone now knows who is His Majesty's favorite!"

Gu Yunxian was so shocked that he couldn't care less about the two palace servants who kept their mouths shut, and his thoughts kept spinning.

She has only been conferred the title of noble concubine for half a year, according to the rules in the palace, she is of the third rank and above, if there is not some special happy event happening, she will not be promoted so quickly.

What does he mean by doing this?
Suddenly, he remembered what he said last night, "I promise you that I will protect you and always protect you."

So, is this his fulfillment of his promise?
Now that he won't alienate her, Liugong's jealousy towards her won't disappear.Then he can only raise her status step by step and give her more capital to protect herself.

Are the words I said last night in a desperate situation really so effective?He actually let him do this for her.

Seeing that her expression was not right, Cai Jia went up to pick up an ivory comb, smoothed her long hair while saying softly: "It's a good thing to be promoted, why does this servant seem to be not very happy?"

She smiled slightly with deep eyes, "Happy. Of course I'm happy."

The right hand clenched a red-gold hairpin with emerald emerald green, too hard, causing the joints to turn white.

(End of this chapter)