Harem Empress

Chapter 1 The decree arrives

The street was still bustling with crowds. At this time, there was a sound of horseshoes not far away. The rider ignored the crowd on the street and ran forward as if riding a "crazy horse". People Fleeing back and forth in panic, until the sound of horseshoes was submerged in the panic of people's words, the street returned to its usual bustle.

There was only a long neighing of the horse, and the horse stopped in front of a tall vermilion courtyard door, the housekeeper heard the sound and opened the door, only to see a man in official guard uniform shouting loudly: "The imperial decree has arrived! "

All the people in the yard were stunned. The butler hurried to the backyard and came to the master's study room. He knocked on the door twice before he opened his mouth before he came out. The door creaked and he came out of the house. A burly middle-aged man dressed in a dark blue brocade suit glanced at Wang Fu, who was out of breath. His eyes were full of composure and composure. The housekeeper lowered his head and secretly glanced at the calm and serious man in front of him. The middle-aged man lowered his head and said, "My lord, the imperial decree has arrived, so hurry up and receive it in the hall!"

At this moment, Qin Guang's eyes were already looking into the distance, he sighed deeply, an expected look flashed across his eyes, and then his eyes returned to their previous deepness, he turned his head and walked towards the hall.

In the hall, Qin Guang knelt on his knees and lowered his head and shouted loudly: "Minister Qin Guang accepts the decree!" The guard in official uniform opened the imperial decree and said loudly: "By God, the emperor ordered that Qin Shuang, the daughter of Qin Guang, the nine-door admiral, At the age of 16, Wenzheng is respectful, henghuang has rules, etiquette and teaching are virtuous, and he is kind-hearted, so he canonized as a nobleman, gave a piece of brocade and a jade pendant, gave him a residence in Xiangyuan Pavilion, and entered the palace five days later. Here! Master Qin, accept the decree quickly, congratulations." Qin Guang smiled and took the decree with both hands and said: "I'm sorry for the guard Li."

As he spoke, he winked at Wang Fu, and Wang Fu hurriedly stepped forward and took out a silver ingot from his pocket and stuffed it into the guard's hand. Guard Li took it with a smile and yawned, "You're welcome, Mr. Qin. I have something else to do here, so I'll go back first." He said and walked out the door with big strides.

Seeing Guard Li walk out of the gate, Qin Guang's face immediately returned from a smile to the usual deep one. Wearing a fish-scale pleated skirt, with a plump figure and slender eyebrows showing a noble temperament, Mrs. Qin's face was full of astonishment at the moment. , sat beside Qin Guang and said, "Master, did you know about this in advance?" Qin Guang turned his head and glanced at Mrs. Qin for a while and said, "I don't know!"

After finishing speaking, she turned her head and walked towards the study room. Mrs. Qin looked at Qin Guang's leaving figure and wanted to rush forward to ask more questions, but she still didn't follow, because she knew that Qin Guang had mixed feelings in his heart at this time.

Qin Shuang was surprised and disappointed when she heard the news that she was going to enter the palace, because she knew that once she entered the palace, she would not be able to perform her filial piety at the knees of her parents. It was late at night, and thinking of the imperial decree during the day, Qin Shuang fell asleep more and more. I couldn't sleep anymore, so I simply went for a walk in the back garden alone, and saw that the lights were still on in my father's study from a distance, Qin Shuang thought that he would enter the palace in five days, and his father must be reluctant to part with it, but he himself, after thinking about it, had already arrived. At the door of the study, it was faintly like hearing the conversation between parents, "Master, didn't you really not know about Shuang'er's entry into the palace? Or did you know it at all, which is why you are so abnormal these days, which made me think It is a matter in the palace, but now it seems that it is not at all."

"I know what I don't know. Can I stop it? Besides, the queen mother told me this time, and I have no room to refuse. Shuang'er's entry into the palace may be a bad thing for our Qin family."

I heard my mother's sobbing in the room, and my eyes turned red, and I bit my lip fiercely. I knew that my entering the palace this time was a certainty, even if my family didn't want me no matter how much they didn't want me I still have to enter the palace, I still have to live my whole life inside that high red wall, I can't make fun of my parents and clansmen, tears have unconsciously flowed from the corners of my eyes and wet my cheeks.

"Master, have you forgotten Ruoxue?" I was slightly startled when I heard the word "Ruoxue". That was my aunt. At that time, she was Emperor Jingping's favorite concubine, but after a few years, I heard that she died because of dystocia, and the child was not kept, "Don't mention Ruoxue to me, Shuang'er and Ruoxue have different temperaments."

"Really? Ruoxue and Shuang'er are both kind-hearted and indifferent to fame and wealth, but Ruoxue still died in other people's schemes in the end. The two of them are not suitable for the palace, a city of conspiracy! Master."

I heard heartache and despair in my mother's voice. My mother didn't want me to enter the palace at all. As for my father, I could vaguely feel his helplessness and helplessness. Are you afraid that I will become the second "Ruoxue"?I don't know myself, I just know that I can't make things difficult for my parents.

Slowly pushed open the door of the study room and saw the mother with tears stained on her face and a face full of despair, the tears couldn't stop flowing down again, she closed the door softly, knelt down in front of her parents and raised her eyes to see her father's eyes, Under the flickering of the candlelight, I saw the sparkle. I understood my father's embarrassment, so I kowtowed heavily to my parents. When I saw my mother was about to step forward to help me, she said, "Shuang'er, what are you doing? Get up!"

I turned my mother's hand and shook it and said, "Mother, after listening to my daughter, the other end of me is to thank my parents for raising me." Then I kowtowed again: "My end is to thank my mother for raising me." The kindness of my parents for teaching me carefully."

I kowtowed again: "This one is to hope that my father and mother will agree to let me enter the palace. From now on, my child will no longer be able to do my filial piety for your two elders at my knees!"

I raised my eyes and saw that my mother was crying and tears were streaming down my face, and the sparkle at the corner of my father's eyes became heavier but never flowed down. My father was always brave and resolute in my heart, but at this time he made me become Even more distressed, his eyes were full of sadness and unbearable.

My father came over and helped me up, and said: "You have decided, you don't regret it!" I looked into my father's eyes and nodded heavily, and my mother cried again, and said: "No, no, no, I decided You are not allowed to enter the palace. Anyway, neither the emperor nor the queen mother has seen what you look like. After 5 days, I will find a maid from the mansion to lie and say that you sent me to the palace. I don’t want my only daughter to become a victim of the conspiracy. I don't want to lose another child!"

My father trembled when he heard this, I know that my eldest brother is the pain that they will never be able to erase in their entire lives, and his death on the battlefield will last forever, but what mother would like to send a white-haired person to a black-haired person!Going to her mother, she gently wiped away the tears on her face with a silk handkerchief, held her hand and said heavily: "Mother, the imperial decree has come, I can't do anything to offend the tribe, please rest assured, no matter Shuang'er This going is a disaster or a blessing, Shuang'er will not make parents sad."

After I finished speaking, my mother hugged me and cried for a long time. Tears had already flowed down my cheeks quietly. There was an invisible pain on my father's face. I knew that what I just said touched him, and he understood what I just said. Hearing the meaning of Li, he sighed deeply, stopped talking and went straight out of the study door.

(End of this chapter)