Mei Fei Shi Wu, Wang Ye, don't come here

Chapter 385 Chapter 390 Unofficial palace history or old news?

The wine spilled on the ground, and a few drops happened to land on Nangong Yingxin's clothes.

Nangong Yingxin still stared at the old man in the gray coat on the round platform downstairs, but the old man looked away for a moment as if he didn't look at the young man in the green shirt upstairs.

The hall was still full of people before, but when the story of the sixty-year-old man in the gray coat began, the noise in the hall gradually disappeared.

The unfocused eyes still turned their attention to the direction of the door. The sixtieth old man's hair was already gray, and his wrinkled hands shook slightly, as if he saw a peach blossom rain falling outside the door.

At this time, the slender fingers of the little girl next to him lightly picked the strings a few times, and the sound was clear and clear, like big beads and small beads falling on a jade plate, as if drizzle fell on the eaves and gathered into big beads, and then fell to the stone steps up, with a crisp sound.It's like raindrops from the eaves falling into the hands of a beautiful woman and the umbrella rolling into the pond.

When the old man paused, the girl beside him began to play the pipa, and the sound immediately focused everyone's attention on the round platform.At this time, there was basically no noise in the entire hall.

The little girl who didn't have any powder or daisy still lowered her eyebrows, and the movements of her hands stopped slowly, like the rain stopped.The sound of the pipa gradually faded away and disappeared.

"Let's continue with the story." The old man in the gray coat retracted his gaze and continued, "Since Shangguanji asserted that the concubine Xiang gave birth to a girl, and the concubine Xiang also gave birth to a girl, so the Holy Majesty started from the beginning. Do not believe it gradually turned into some belief. But even if I believe it a little, it is the child born to me and my concubine after all, so the Holy One didn't do anything to that newborn baby. "

Listening to the storyteller telling Haoyue's story, Nangong Yingxin drank the wine in the wine bowl in his hand.

"The baby girl has already been born. Although the Holy Majesty did not say anything about the fourth princess who was rumored to bring disaster to Haoyue, the Holy Majesty did not treat the baby girl like he dotes on the other princesses, and he did not even give the baby girl a name. But Even if the Holy Majesty doesn't like the child, Concubine Xiang still regards the child born during the Peach Blossom Rain as a treasure, and named the child Xinhua." His head was gray and his face was wrinkled, the old man sat on the stool, slightly Changing her posture, "After Princess Xinhua was born, Concubine Xiang put all her thoughts on the child and gradually moved away from the Holy Majesty, and the Holy Majesty also gradually neglected Concubine Xiang because of the gossip and gossips from the court and the people. In a place like the royal palace, where the status was won by the favor of the emperor, the status of Concubine Xiang plummeted. At the same time, Concubine Xi became more and more favored, gradually replacing the position of Concubine Xiang, and never became the new favorite concubine. But Concubine Xi and Concubine Xiang They entered the palace together back then, and the sisters were very affectionate, so they always sent someone to take care of Concubine Xiang and her children, so Concubine Xiang and the fourth princess can still stand firm in the palace."

The old man in the gray coat paused for a moment, and the little girl plucked the strings lightly with her fingers, and the black hair covered her eyebrows, making it difficult to see the expression in her eyes.

Nangong Yingxin stopped the chopsticks in her hand, and turned her eyes to the girl in the dark floral dress, waiting for the sound of the pipa, but the girl just lightly picked the strings and didn't move any further.

The sound of the pipa stopped abruptly, and everyone's eyes were once again focused on the round platform.

"Is there true love in the palace? Is there sisterhood in the palace? Is there pure friendship in the palace?" The gray-clothed old man's voice was loud, and he glanced at the people in the hall, and sneered, "Hahaha, there are some in the palace. It's just hypocrisy! Some are just intrigues! Some are just life and death!"

The old man's eyes instantly radiated a bright light, which seemed to be sharper than the eyes of everyone present, as if he could see through the illusion of the whole world.

"Concubine Xi? Who is Concubine Xi? That is the current Empress Haoyue Mo." The old man had a smile on his lips. Take good care of her and isolate her from everyone, so that she is already four years old, and few people have really seen the legendary fourth princess. Under the neglect of the Holy One, and under the strong care of Concubine Nianxi , Concubine Xiang and the Fourth Princess live a seemingly comfortable life, but they are actually trapped in a cage."

"All this didn't end until a fire broke out in the palace 14 years ago. The fire completely burned down the entire palace where Concubine Xiang lived, and Concubine Xiang and the fourth princess Xin Hua were also swallowed by the fire. "

The bright candlelight in the hall made the gray hair seem to be dyed orange, even orange red, like a fire burning.The sound of the pipa came slowly, instead of the crisp sound of the beautiful peach blossom rain falling, there was a sense of roaring like a collapse.

"No one knows how that fire happened? No one knows whether someone set the fire on purpose, or whether Concubine Xiang couldn't bear such a lonely life and burned the whole palace down with a fire, or whether she came with bad luck that day. The fourth princess brought the disaster to herself."

The wrinkles on the face are like the engravings on the face of the old man, and the gray hair is like the passing of time, taking away the brilliance of the old man. There are tears in the eyes, as if the man really saw the scene of the palace burning. , I saw the fire devouring everything, whether it was objects or lives.

Everyone present seemed to be there, as if following the old man to the imperial palace 14 years ago, seeing with their own eyes the raging fire licking everything around them... The fire burned for a whole day and night before it completely stopped.

When Nangong Yingxin was listening to the story told by the old man, she had already stopped the chopsticks in her hand, and the smell of wine and vegetables seemed to have lost the scent of the past.

Nangong Yingxin listened to the man's words, looked at the elder with her eyes, and slightly reached out to grab the clothes on her chest. At this moment, she only felt that her chest was very heavy, as if another huge stone was pressing on her chest.

Burning fire, thick black smoke, red sky, hoarse shouts... She seemed to see the scene where the palace was burning, and even seemed to feel the oncoming heat.

Just when everyone in the restaurant was immersed in sorrow, experiencing the despair in the raging sea of ​​fire with empathy, there was a burst of noise outside the restaurant.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! It's them! It's them who are dumb and blind talking nonsense!" A man dressed as a commoner stood in front of the gate of the restaurant, pointing directly at the old and the young on the round platform.

(End of this chapter)