Chapter 6 Section VI

I know that he promised Zhao Liangdi that he would never accept another concubine, so he said this.Sure enough, the queen got angry again and said, "You are the one who will be the emperor in the future, how can you be so puzzled." The queen said to me: "Crown Princess get up first, go and see Xu Niang for me, and comfort her a little more." No matter how stupid I am, I know that she wants to dismiss me so that I can teach Li Chengyin a lesson.So he stood up and bowed to her to leave. The Xiaohuang Gate led me to the place where Dao Xu Niang lived, it was a secluded palace, and it was the first time I saw that man named Xu Niang.She was lying on the bed with a sickly face, but it could still be seen that she should have been beautiful.The palace man who waited on her said: "Princess Concubine is here." She was still struggling to get up, but Yong Niang who was following me hurried over and held her down.

I didn't know how to comfort her, so I had to repeat to her what the queen said: "Don't be too sad, after all, you are still young." Xu Niang wept and said: "Thank you, Crown Princess, servants and servants are blessed, and now I only hope to die." I said embarrassingly: "Actually...why do you always want to die? You see, I'm not in good shape..." When I heard Yong Niang cough, I knew I had said something wrong again.So I asked, "What do you want to eat? I can teach someone to make it and bring it to you." Last time when I was sick, the Queen sent someone to visit me and always asked me if I wanted to eat and if I was missing anything.In fact, what is there in the East Palace?It is probably to express special condolences with these words.I didn't know how to comfort the patient, so I had to follow suit.

Xu Niang said, "Thank you, Crown Princess." I looked at her, miserable and miserable, as if all thoughts were lost.In the end, it was Yong Niang who stepped forward and said a lot to comfort her.Xu Niang just kept wiping away her tears, and when we finally left, she was still crying. When we returned to the Central Palace, the empress had already ordered someone to draft Baolin's imperial edict, Li Chengyin's face looked ugly, and the empress said: "It is better for the East Palace to be harmonious, the Crown Princess is childish, and many places cannot take care of her I see, it’s always good for more people to help her.” When she looked up and saw that I was walking in, she waved to me, and I walked over to salute her, but she didn’t let the female officer behind me help me, and passed away herself. It reminded me that I was flattered.Every time the queen is always graceful and dignified, she rarely treats me so intimately.

"That Zhao Liang Di can be pardoned for the capital crime, but the living crime cannot be forgiven." The Empress said flatly, "Let's demote her to a commoner and confine her for three months, and the crown prince is not allowed to visit, otherwise I will decree to expel her from the East Palace. " I saw the corners of Li Cheng Yin's eyes twitch, but he still lowered his head and said in a muffled voice: "Yes." As soon as I got out of the Zhong Palace, Li Chengyin slapped me, I didn't pay attention, I was stunned by his sudden slap. A'Du jumped up and drew the saber, "swipe" and put the sharp blade across his neck, Yong Niang screamed in fright: "No!" Before she could say anything more, I had already slammed Li Cheng Yin slapped her across the face.Although I don't know martial arts, I'm not easy to mess with.Since he dared to hit me, of course I had to fight back!

Li Chengyin sneered: "Just kill me today!" Pointing at me, he said, "You vicious woman, I know it's you! It was you who made the trap, not only removing the child in Xu Niang's stomach, but also Unlimited rustling." Trembling with anger, I said, "Why do you say that?" "You will pretend to be pitiful, naive, and ignorant behind the scenes all day long! Don't think I don't know, you sue behind the scenes, saying that I have neglected you. You are jealous of Tse, so you resort to such poisonous tricks. Frame her, you are more poisonous than all the poisonous snakes in this world! Now that you are satisfied, you will forcefully drive away Seth and tear us apart alive! If anything happens to Seth, I will never let you go, Let me tell you, as long as I become emperor, I will depose you immediately!"

I was stunned by his anger, I pushed A'Du away, and stood in front of Li Chengyin: "Then you can abolish me now, do you think I like marrying you very much? Do you think I care about this princess?" ?We have thousands of men in Xiliang, all of them are heroes, and none of them is a waste like you! What else can you do besides reading poetry? Your archery is not as accurate as mine! Your riding ability is also It's not as good as me! If it's in Xiliang, a man like you can't even marry a wife, who would care about you!" Li Cheng Yin stormed away angrily. I was stunned for a while, we have been quarreling for three years, I know he doesn't like me, but I didn't expect him to hate me so much, hate me, and speculate on me with the greatest malice.Yong Niang put me on the back of the car and comforted me in a low voice: "When the prince was angry with the Crown Princess because of Zhao Liangdi, the Crown Princess should not take it to heart."

I know, of course I know, he also felt that Zhao Liangdi had been wronged, so he blamed me all the time, but I really didn't do anything, why would he want to blame me? He said that I was jealous of Zhao Liangdi, I was a little bit jealous of her, I was just jealous of someone who treated her well, so good that at any time and in anything, he would trust her, defend her, and take care of her.But apart from this, I don't envy anything else, let alone think of harming her. Zhao Liangdi looked kind and friendly, when she came to play leaf cards with me, I thought she was just a very smart woman, how could she do such a cruel thing?And I don't think this is a good idea for the empress, Xu Niang looks weak, even if Bao Lin is sealed, Li Cheng Yin doesn't like her, it's just another poor person in the East Palace.

At night, I couldn't fall asleep thinking about this matter, so I simply got up and asked A'Du: "Do you think Zhao Liangdi looks like a bad guy?" A'Du nodded, but shook his head again. "I don't understand what the girls in the Central Plains think. Although our Xiliang men can marry several wives, if they don't get along, they can marry someone else." A'Du nodded. "And what's so good about Li Chengyin, besides his looks, he's decent, he has such a bad temper, and he's petty..." I lay down, "If I had to choose, I wouldn't marry him."

I'm telling the truth, if I had to choose, I wouldn't let myself fall into such a pitiful situation.He obviously has someone he likes, but I had to marry him. As a result, he hated me, and my life was very sad.Now that Zhao Liangdi is under house arrest, Li Chengyin hates me to the core, I don't want a husband who hates me to the core. If I had to choose by myself, I would rather marry an ordinary Xiliang man, at least he would really like me, take me on a horse, go hunting with me, play the flute to me, and then I will give birth to him Baby, the family lives happily... But such days, I know, will only appear in dreams forever.

A'Du suddenly grabbed my hand and pointed to the window. I was very surprised, opened the window, and there was a person sitting on the glazed tiles on the roof of the opposite hall. The man was dressed in white, sitting on a black glazed tile, very eye-catching. I recognized this person, it was that Gu Jian again! I was hesitating whether to yell "there is an assassin" when he suddenly slid down from the roof of the hall like a big bird, walked like riding the wind, and landed in front of my window with a light knock. I stared at him: "What are you going to do?"

He didn't answer, just stared at my face.I knew my face was still a little swollen, after returning to the Eastern Palace, Yong Niang took the boiled chicken and rolled it for me for a while, but there was still a red fingerprint on my cheek that couldn't go away.But I didn't suffer, my face must have been swollen from that slap, because I used all my strength at that time, and the shock made my own palm numb. There was a faint emotion in his voice, as if he was trying to suppress something: "Who hit you?" I touched my cheek and said, "It's okay, I've called back." He insisted on asking: "Who is it?" I asked, "Why did you ask?" There was still no expression on his face: "Go and kill him." I was startled, but he asked again: "Since you are the princess, who dares to beat you? Is it the emperor? The queen? Or someone else?" I shook my head and said, "Don't ask, I won't tell you." He asked me, "Will you go with me?" This man is really weird, I shook my head and was about to close the window, but he reached out his hand to block the sash and asked me: "Are you still angry with me?" I feel baffled: "Why should I be angry?" "Aren't you angry about what happened three years ago?" I told him seriously: "I really don't know you. Don't come here in the middle of the night and say something inexplicable. This is the East Palace. If someone finds out, they will be shot to death as an assassin." He smiled proudly: "Eastern Palace? Even if it's the Imperial Palace, I still want to drink in and out, who can do anything to me?" I stared at him, this man is extremely arrogant, but with his martial arts, I guess for him, the imperial palace is really for him to enter and exit as he pleases.I sighed, "What the hell are you going to do?" "I just came to see you." He asked again, "Will you go with me?" I shook my head. He looked very angry, and suddenly grabbed my hand: "You are not happy here at all, why won't you go with me?" "Who said I'm not happy? Besides, who are you, why do you care whether I'm happy or not?" He stretched out his hand to hold me, and I shouted: "Defend!" A'Du rushed up, he just waved his sleeve lightly, and A'Du staggered back a few steps, before A'Du came up again, He has already pulled me, I only feel light, and I have been pulled out of the window by him like a kite.He is very good at lightness kung fu, he carried me as if walking against the wind, I felt the wind passing by my ears continuously, and after a while, my feet finally stepped on the solid ground, but it was cold and slippery glazed tiles.He actually took me captive to the top of the main hall of the East Palace. This is the highest place in the East Palace. Looking around, the palace is dense, the continuous palaces, the bucket arches, the glazed animal ridges, all quietly submerged in the sea of ​​ink. In the night. I threw his hand away, but almost slipped, so I glared at each other: "What are you going to do?" But he pointed to the large palace at our feet, and said: "Xiaofeng, look here, look here, such a high wall, surrounded on all sides, is like a deep well that can't see the sun, how can it hold you?" I didn't like it when he called me by my name, it always made me feel uncomfortable, and I said, "That's none of your business." He said: "What exactly do you want, so that you are willing to go with me?" I rolled my eyes at him: "I will never go with you, don't think you are good at martial arts, if I make a noise and alarm the Habayashi army, I will shoot you into a hedgehog like a thousand arrows. " He smiled faintly and said, "Have you forgotten who I am? I only have a sword in my hand, and if you call out the entire Habayashi army in the Eastern Palace, how can you do anything to me?" I almost forgot, this man is extremely arrogant.So I had an idea, and called his flattery: "Your martial arts are so high, are you invincible in the world, and you have never lost to others?" He suddenly smiled and said, "You really don't remember anything? Three years ago I lost to you in the sword competition." I was so shocked that my jaw was about to drop, I pointed to the tip of my nose, and trembled: "You? Lose to me?" This is too scary, I don't know any martial arts, he just needs to move his little finger , you can overturn me to the ground, how could you lose to me in the sword fight?I don't even know how to hold a swordsman. "Yes." He was calm and calm, as if he couldn't be more calm, "Our sword fight was a lifetime bet. If I lose to you, I will be your husband. I will love you, take pity on you, and accompany you all my life." .” I opened my mouth so wide that I could swallow an egg, so I couldn't help asking: "What if I lost that sword fight?" "If you lost that time, you will naturally marry me, and let me love you, take pity on you, and accompany you for the rest of my life." I trembled again, sir, this is not how you play with people. He said: "I didn't give in to you, but you snatched my sword as soon as you made a move, so I had to count as my loss to you that time." Can I steal his sword?I can't even believe it! I quickly cut through the mess: "Anyway, it doesn't matter who wins or loses that time, I don't remember this ever happening, and besides, I don't know you, so I don't believe it just because of your words." He smiled faintly, took out a pair of jade bracelets from his sleeve, and said: "When you and I made an agreement for a lifetime, we divided this pair of mandarin ducks into two halves. I have a mandarin duck pendant here, and you have a mandarin duck pendant there. We originally made an appointment Well, when the moon is full on June 15th, I will wait for you outside Yumen Pass, and I will take you back to my house together." I looked at the jade pendant in his hand, there are many merchants in Xiliang, and it is not far from Khotan, where jade is produced, so I have seen more than tens of thousands of jade pendants.Since I came to Shangjing, there are countless rare treasures in the East Palace, but among all the jades I have seen, none seem to be as white and moist as this pair of jade pendants.The high-quality suet jade is as warm and greasy as curdled fat, emitting a faint light under the moonlight. "I haven't seen this pair of jade pendants before." I suddenly became curious, "Didn't you say that we made an appointment to elope, why didn't we go together later?" He slowly lowered his hands, and suddenly whispered: "I am sorry for you. That day I" There was an urgent matter suddenly, so I couldn't wait for you outside the customs.When I arrived outside the pass, three days and three nights had passed since our appointment, and when I arrived at the appointed place, I saw this jade pendant fell into the gravel, and you had long since disappeared..." I tilted my head and looked Looking at him, he really didn't look like a liar, especially when he talked about missing the appointment, the expression on his face was both sad and sad, as if he was indescribably regretful. I think the story he told is very boring: "Since you reappeared after missing the appointment, there is nothing else to say. This story has no meaning at all. I really didn't know you before, and you must have admitted the wrong person." I turned to look Looking at the sky: "I'm going back to sleep. Also, don't come here in the future. Being seen will cause me trouble. I have enough troubles." He stared at my face for a long time , asked me: "Xiaofeng, are you blaming me?" "I don't have time to blame you! I really don't know you." A Mingdi said to me: "If you are in danger, just throw this into the air, and I will naturally come to rescue you." I have A'Du by my side, what danger will I encounter?I refused to ask for his Ming Di, but he forced it to me.He still hugged me lightly, before I could yell out, after a few ups and downs, he had already landed on the ground.He sent me back to the bedroom, and before I turned around, he had already retreated several zhang away.Coming and going silently, I retreated to the glazed tiles on the roof of the hall in an instant, glanced at me from a distance, and finally turned around and left. I closed the window and handed Ming Di to A'Du. When I said to A'Du, "Although this Gu Jian is a master of martial arts, he is always talking about it, insisting that I knew him before. If I really knew him before, Could it be that I don't remember anything?" A'Du looked at me, her eyes were full of tender pity, I didn't understand why she looked at me like this.I sighed, and lay back on the bed again, A'Du couldn't speak, how could he tell me who this Gu Jian was. Probably because too many things happened tonight, I couldn't sleep well and had wild dreams.In the dream, someone was blowing the flute, I wanted to approach him, but there was thick fog everywhere, I couldn’t see the face of the flute blower, he was standing there, very close to me, but far away .I knew in my heart that I just couldn't get close to him.I wandered in the fog, and finally found him. I was about to run towards him in ecstasy, when suddenly my foot slipped and I fell into the abyss. Desperation surged up in an instant, and suddenly someone caught me in mid-air, and the whistling wind passed by my ears. Swirling in the wind...spinning...slowly spinning...stars all over the sky are falling like raindrops...only his eyes are staring at me in the sky...there is only me in those eyes...I'm going to be drunk, I'm going to be drunk Go, being held in his arms like this is this person... I know that he is someone I love deeply, and he also loves me deeply. As long as he is around, I feel so at ease. When I woke up, it was already dawn. I had had this dream countless times, but every time I woke up, I was only disappointed.Because I have never seen clearly the face of the person who saved me in the dream. I don’t know who he is. Whenever I have such a dream, I always try to see his face clearly, but I have never succeeded. This time is no exception.I turned over and found a fragrant flower on my pillow, still dripping with cool dew. I was taken aback, A'Du was sleeping in front of my window, almost no one could avoid her eyes and ears, except that Gu Jian.I hurriedly got up and pushed open the window, where there was still a figure in a white robe, that Gu Jian had long since disappeared. I put the flower in the vase, and felt a little better, but my good mood didn't last long, because Yong Niang soon came to tell me that Li Cheng Yin had been drinking all night yesterday, and now he was very drunk. It's making a fuss there. I really look down on this man, if I didn't make trouble, I would secretly go to see Zhao Liangdi, since she is still alive, she can always think of a way to keep the two of them together.Keeping the green hills there is no need to worry about no firewood. I told Yong Niang, don't worry about Li Cheng Yin, just let him die drunk. That being said, Li Cheng Yin drank heavily every day for three consecutive days, and on the fourth day, he finally fell ill. Every time he gets drunk, he always throws all the palace people out of the palace and doesn't allow them to get close.So when I was drunk, I caught wind and cold. At first it was just a sore throat and cough, but later I developed a high fever.The place where I live is more than half of the East Palace away from him, and the news is not well informed. When I found out, he was already seriously ill, but the palace didn't know about it. "Your Highness doesn't want to take medicine, nor do you want to let the palace know." Yong Niang said in a low voice: "Your Highness is still angry with the empress because of Zhao Liangdi's matter." I just felt angry and funny: "Then he is like this Torturing yourself, is it avenging Zhao Liangdi?" Yong Niang said: "Your Highness is kind-hearted by nature, and he is favored by His Majesty and Empress Dowager, it's a bit..." She is inconvenient to speak ill of Li Chengyin, so far, it's just He stopped talking. I decided to go and see Li Chengyin, he was really sick and died, it doesn't matter if he died, I don't want to be a widow. Li Chengyin was really seriously ill, because he didn't lose his temper when I walked up to his bed, forgetting that once I entered his bedroom, he would chase me out as if he saw a mouse.The palace maid opened the curtain for me, I saw Li Chengyin's face was as red as a boiled crab, when it came to eating crabs, I used to make jokes, before I went to Beijing, I had never seen crabs.In the first year of Double Ninth Festival, there was a banquet in the palace, and there was some steaming in it. I looked at the red crabs and didn't know what to eat.Li Chengyin has been mean to me for a long time because of this matter, when he mentioned it, he said that I am a Xiliang woman who has never even seen a crab. I reached out and touched Li Chengyin's forehead, it was scorching hot. I called out a few more times: "Li Chengyin!" He didn't answer me either. It seemed that he was really burned out. He lay there panting shortly, and even his mouth was covered with white flakes. I was about to withdraw my hand when he suddenly grabbed my hand. His palm was also hot, like a piece of red-hot iron. He was short of breath, but he could hear a muffled voice: "Mother...Mother... "He didn't call his queen mother, and he had never heard him called "Mother".After all, the queen is the queen, and he is the prince. The two of them have always spoken politely.Now that I think about it, the Queen treats him almost the same as me, except for "ease", "give a seat", and "go down", it is just a long lecture to teach him by citing scriptures. I think Li Chengyin is also quite pitiful. Being a crown princess is already very annoying, she won't allow this, she won't allow that, there are countless grand ceremonies in the inner court every year, wearing Zhai clothes and a phoenix crown all day long, often exhausting her waist and back.In fact, the queen took special care of me, saying that I was young and married to Shangjing from Xiliang, so she was not harsh on me.And being a crown prince is a thousand to ten thousand times better than being a crown princess. Just looking at those books alone gives me a headache, and Li Chengyin can memorize all the books.Wen must be good at poetry and painting, and Wu must be good at riding and shooting. I think he must not have had as much fun as I did when he was a child. There are so many things in the snow, and he is annoying to death. I couldn't free my hand, Li Chengyin held it too tightly, at this time the palace man brought the medicine, Yong Niang took it personally, and then told me in a low voice: "Crown Princess, the medicine is here." I had no choice but to call: "Li Cheng Yin! Get up and take your medicine!" Li Cheng Yin didn't answer me, but still held my hand tightly.Yong Niang ordered someone to put a few pillows on the head of the bed, and then asked the internal officer to float Li Cheng Yin up, half leaning and half leaning there.Yong Niang fed him the medicine with a small jade spoon, but he couldn't open his mouth, after feeding a spoonful, more than half of it flowed down the corner of his mouth. I couldn't bear it anymore and said: "I'll do it." My right hand was still held by Li Chengyin, so I had to hold the medicine bowl in my left. I turned around and called Adu: "Pinch his nose." Adu stepped forward and pinched Li Chengyin Cheng Yin's nose was pinched so he couldn't breathe, he opened his mouth after a while, and I immediately poured the whole bowl of medicine into his mouth.His nose was pinched, so he could only gulp a few mouthfuls in a row. He drank too fast and coughed until he finally opened his eyes: "It's hot... so hot..." It's better to die from scalding than from illness.