Chapter 207 Bian Tang Fanhua

Huayan. I always feel that I can clearly remember everything that happened on the day I first entered the palace, including the weather at that time, the scenery along the way, the people I saw, and every word they said.But I know this is unrealistic, and all I remember is just a story that my aunts described to me later.There is a woman in the story, she is my mother, they told me that she is a unique beauty, even more beautiful than Princess Qinghai, I firmly believe in this. It was an autumn many years ago. It rained for 14 days in a row in Biantang. The farmers were rotten in the fields and could not harvest.The emperor of Daxia saw the right time and sent his confidant generals to declare war on Bian Tang again. Blood flowed into rivers outside Baizhi Pass, and my father also died on the battlefield, splashing young hot blood on the messy land.

Because the heavy rain broke the plank road, the reinforcements were delayed, and when the pass was washed away, the remaining officers and soldiers of Baizhi Pass surrendered to Xia's army, but the leading general of Daxia killed them all. This is a very tragic story. Every time my aunts tell this story, they will focus on describing to me the cruelty of Xia Jun.From their mouths, I learned that Xia Jun was originally a monster with three heads and six arms, a height of more than ten feet, a green face and fangs, and a raw human flesh.This kind of sensory cognition once became the mainstream of my consciousness in life, so that many years later, when I grew up, whenever I saw Xia people, this was the first image I drew in my mind.This is really sad for me who grew up in the Bian Tang Palace and read poetry and books.

However, yes, when the story is tragic to a certain point, there will often be a turning point, just like the handsome hunter must appear before the big bad wolf eats the little beauty.Mrs. Murong, in her sixties, led four widows and daughters-in-law to stage a show of serving the country loyally. She led the old and weak women and children in the city to start a street fight with fifty thousand officers and soldiers of Daxia in Baizhi Pass, and finally won time. When reinforcements from the imperial court came, they also held the last barrier in the north for Bian Tang. It is rumored that Mengtian, the general of the Xia army, was so angry after the defeat that he kidnapped Mrs. Murong, who was seriously injured at the time, and threatened her that she would be raped and then killed before the gate of Baizhiguan.Mrs. Murong was extremely chaste and fierce, she sneered on the spot, and killed herself by bumping her head against Meng Tian's blade.A beast like Mengtian was also moved. After a moment of silence, he bowed three times to her corpse, and then left with his army.

I think this is entirely a false story compiled by the people of Bian Tang who are very romantic in later generations to show the chastity of Mrs. Murong. Mrs. Murong, even with the age between the two, it is absolutely impossible for this kind of thing to happen.After all, Meng Tian was in his prime at that time, and Mrs. Murong was over sixty years old. Even if Meng Tian was insane and had mixed feelings of endless hatred and admiration for Mrs. Murong, he could not utter such bold words in front of everyone without considering the international audience. . It can be seen that as long as the story is exciting, the people who write the story can deceive the good people with no conscience and ignore the laws of nature.

However, no matter how nonsensical the ending of the story is, the Murong family, which has been in the public eye for many generations, was indeed wiped out after this battle. One hundred elite members of the family were on the way to escort the eleven young masters of the family to escape from Baizhi Pass. , getting lost and some weather reasons, my mother was the only one who made it to Tangjing City alive in the end.She hugged Princess Fu'er, who was less than four years old at the time, and collapsed at the gate of the Tang capital. When the guards surrounded her, she was already out of breath.

Princess Fu survived like this, entered the Jinwu Palace as the last blood of the Murong family, and was canonized as Princess Zhangyi.And I came to this world with the first ray of light after the continuous rain. Few people know that my mother is pregnant, and that I am seven months old under her broad cloak.After my father died in the battle, my mother rushed thousands of miles to send the last blood of a loyal minister and martyr, and I was taken out of my mother's body by the medical officers after my mother died, becoming another orphan after the war. Also after Zhongliang, she became a princess and I became a maid.

There is no such thing as fair or unfair, because fate always likes to look down on us from different heights. Your loss today will often be accompanied by your gain in the future. In the same way, an overly happy childhood will make you suffer from blows and pain The ability is greatly reduced, so that in the future life, the fall will be even worse, so from this point of view, it is not nonsense for the children of the poor to start their own families early.Of course, I didn’t realize this until I grew up. At that time, I never thought about it, because I was too young to know what thinking is.

Time is like a bird flapping its wings, sooner or later it will turn into a pile of bones, so ruthless and cruel. Then, I grew up, I have a name, my name is Huayan. The grown-up I'm talking about is not very big, but it looks like three or four years old.Please don’t doubt my excellent memory ability, because I have expressed to the world a long time ago that I am actually a gifted child, although everyone does not approve of it, in their eyes I am just an ugly kid It is impossible for a cripple to have any profound wisdom. I have to say that people in the world are sometimes too superficial.

Oh, by the way, I almost forgot to mention that I am a lame man, not very lame, half lame at most, just walking with a limp.However, the medical officer said that my situation might get worse as I grew older, and I was very angry at his unkind behavior of telling me such a cruel fact as a child.So I decided to ignore his words, take everything he said as a fart, and live my life happily. Life in the palace is actually not as miserable as the novelists outside said. The fight for favor, poisoning and abortion in the palace are all rumors made by those outside who can't eat grapes because they are jealous of us.In fact, apart from the occasional palace maids, eunuchs and aunts scolding and scratching each other because of a few quarrels, the life in the palace is still very peaceful and peaceful.I eat and drink every day, I don’t have a job, my life is easy, and I am really happy.The palace people were also very friendly to me, the only child in the palace who belonged to the lower class, because they could not have children themselves, and I also had many aunts, two mothers, three fathers and five fathers because of this.

From this point of view, my popularity is much better than that of Princess Fu.Maybe it's because she has witnessed the war with her own eyes. She is always very sensitive. She often wakes up at night, crying and dreaming about her mother, father, grandpa, grandma, etc., and always feels that so-and-so looks down on her because she has no background. She went on to serve poorly and speak contemptuously.I remember one time, my ninth father and my twelfth father went to Miheju to clean up the pond. When the ninth father saw me limping along beside him, he drove me back and said, "Kids stay away from the pool. This pond is very slippery."

At that time, Princess Fu happened to be passing by, and her eyes turned red when she heard the words. I followed in a panic, and saw her standing under a dense plane tree, wearing a small green dress, with her head bowed in tears.I went to ask her what was the matter, and she told me that the father-in-law who cleaned the pool said the banks of the pond were too slippery, because he thought the weeds grew lush there. Like her, they are all dishonest and should be cleaned up. I was still too young at the time, and I really couldn't understand how she came up with this from a sentence, so I didn't feel ashamed to ask my twelve fathers.My twelfth father was very angry after hearing this, and said that he would never clean the pond for her again. But he was just talking after all. Princess Fu always said that she has no backer, but in fact her backer is very hard, one is Lord Luo, and the other is the prince.And behind these two people, one represents the empress, and the other represents the emperor. Whoever dares to say that her backing is not strong, probably she dares to say it herself. There are only these three children of the same age in the palace, so the relationship is naturally very good.Of course, I cannot be included. Just from a child's point of view, I still don't think Luo Wang and the prince really have such old friends as they appear on the outside.The empress doesn't like the prince, even the dogs in the palace know this, and the story between these few people is tacit to everyone.The prince has been smart since he was a child. I heard from Erniang that he already knew how to put stones in the shoes of King Luo who could walk when he was just able to crawl. I admire this very much. My twelve fathers put nails on the stool. The first time I met the prince was when I was four years old, the prince was seven years old, and Luo Wang was eight years old.I was playing in the Imperial Garden with the bunny my twelfth father gave me. The crown prince and King Luo led a group of little eunuchs to play horseback riding and fight.When I was four years old, I was very fair and impartial. I didn’t give in to King Luo’s power just because the queen was in charge of the harem. Seeing that the prince had red lips, white teeth, white smiling eyes and curved eyes, I was really pretty, so I gave him the rabbit.King Luo became angry, grabbed the rabbit and threw it on the stone, his skin was torn apart and blood flowed out, the prince couldn't hold back his face immediately, and he wanted to do something.Since it was almost time for the morning class, the two made an appointment to fight again in the evening, and the place was here. So I was also invited to watch the battle at night. Princess Fu also came with the prince and King Luo in disguise, and watched the brutal hand-to-hand fight with me under the bright moonlight.However, before my emotions were brewed, the battle was interrupted hastily. The empress stood there with a group of palace people in a wine-red dress, looked at King Luo with a frosty face, and said in a deep voice: " You took my words as deaf ears, didn’t you?” Luo Wang lowered his head and said nothing, his palms were red and swollen, with traces of blood oozing out.The queen finally couldn't bear it, took his hand, took out a brocade handkerchief from his lapel and wiped it little by little, and asked, "Does it hurt?" King Luo pursed his lips and shook his head. The queen finally couldn't bear to reprimand him anymore, and took his hand and said, "Follow me back to the palace." After taking two steps, he stopped and said to the maid next to him, "Send the crown prince back to the palace. Tonight, all the palace staff on duty in the crown prince's uterus will give 20 big slaps." Her voice was cold, and she didn't even glance at the crown prince from the beginning to the end. After saying these words, she dragged Luo Wang away.Princess Fu hesitated on the spot for a while, and then chased King Luo away. The palace maid trotted to the prince, and shouted as if he was about to faint from fright, "Ah! Prince, your knee is injured. They are bleeding, and this servant will go to the medical officer right away." At that time, the prince was wearing a small pine green robe, not as tall as the flowers in the garden, with a dirty little face, but his eyes were as bright as stars.He sat crookedly on the ground, looked at the backs of the Queen and Luo Wang, and was silent for a long time, then he pushed away the palace man who came to help him nonchalantly, got up on his own, patted the dirt on his body, and leaned Mei said: "Look at the way you are scared, this is the red potion, the prince dripped it himself." He wiped his sleeves hard twice, then ignored him, and walked around with his hands behind his back, like a little adult, muttering as he walked, "Li Luo is a bastard who always finds women when he gets into a fight. I don't like to follow you." He plays." He was walking with a limp, and his posture was very similar to mine. Immediately, I felt a sense of familiarity with him, and I hurried to catch up with him a few steps back.He turned his head to look at me, frowned and asked, "Who are you?" His words really made me very sad. He may have forgotten that I gave him a rabbit this morning, and then it was that rabbit that caused the murder tonight.But I couldn't express these words, so I could only hold my breath and said: "I will send the prince back to the palace." He sneered and asked me: "Aren't you afraid of being beaten?" I was also angry, and said with a stalk on my neck: "Afraid of a bird?" He was taken aback for a moment, then laughed and said, "I like you, come with me!" It's this sentence, yes, it's this sentence, let me think about it repeatedly for countless days and nights in the future, and every time I think of it, I feel sweet.Even though we were all just kids back then, he didn't even figure out whether I was a boy or a girl. So that night I supported him like this, he limped on the left, I limped on the right, and we walked together, walking in harmony. I think I will always remember that night. Fu Shang. To be honest, Princess Fu is really a genius, and the concrete manifestation is that she has been in love with Luo Wang for so many years and she didn't let anyone know about it.After all, based on the empress' uncompromising status in the harem back then, if King Luo was unwilling, I really don't think the emperor would go against the empress' wishes and hold this wedding for the crown prince.After all, Princess Fu no longer has any great family background. Apart from her identity as a princess, she doesn't have a solid social relationship with mine. Even if she marries Li Luo, it's no big deal.And based on my understanding of the prince, although this person is occasionally a little out of tune, he is by no means the kind of person who will throw the little white rabbit to death if he can't grab it. It's a pity that King Luo didn't fight for the queen, and Princess Fu didn't express obvious dissatisfaction on the day of the marriage. The whole palace was full of joy, and the prince was full of spring.At that time, I was already a member of the prince's attendants, and I was able to take care of him very effectively every day. Coupled with my affection for being by the prince's side as a child, I seemed to be the talker of the prince's womb.This wedding is very important to the prince, and it is the same to me. I mobilized the efforts of all my mothers, fathers and fathers in various palaces to make this wedding of the prince a perfect one. However, the biggest drop of water was still exposed. Princess Fu was hanging on the sycamore tree, her tongue sticking out long, her face was already purple, she was as ugly as she wanted.I think if she knew how ugly she was after death, she would definitely not die, at least she would not choose this way of death.But she still died, in front of the prince, on the day he came to marry her. King Luo was standing under the pomegranate tree in the courtyard, staring at this place, the strange thing is that I didn't see much pain from his eyes, but a kind of blazing hatred, like Like a stream of water gushing out.It made me feel chills down my spine, and I unconsciously wanted to block the prince. Many years later, King Luo was defeated and died. The prince decided to bury Princess Fu with him. Others may think that the prince has deep affection, but I still don't think so.There is no other meaning, I just feel that the prince still can't see through all these years, does King Luo really love Princess Fu?Maybe not.With the status of a queen, if he begged, the marriage would definitely not come true, and if he had given Princess Fu a clear answer, then with Murong Fu'er's stubbornness and awkwardness, even the little eunuch cleaning a pond could be associated with him. With such a temper, I'm afraid he will be the first to jump up and object when the marriage is granted. Perhaps, after all, it was just Princess Fu's wishful thinking. From the gift of marriage to the wedding, she just waited silently day by day.Waiting for a response, waiting for an answer, waiting for a reason to be strong and brave to live and resist.However, she couldn't wait after all, so she went with a clean rope, but left so many dirty things in her mind, to tarnish other people's supposedly happy and pure marriage. I really look down on such a stubborn person, can't you eat apples without persimmons?What's more, apples are better than persimmons. I swear that I will never be such a stubborn person in my life. But I forgot, I have sworn too many oaths in my life, for example, I will lose weight if I don’t eat meat, for example, I will stop reading novel notes at night, and I will go to bed early to avoid dark circles under my eyes the next day.But there is nothing I have done, and now this one is destined to be impossible. Murong Fu'er died like this, everyone felt very sorry, obviously the kitchen had already prepared the wedding banquet, but now it was going to be thrown away and I couldn't eat it, I also felt very sad inside. The prince had dinner as usual that night, and walked around the palace for a while as usual before going back to the palace to sleep. I grabbed a handful of incense and sprinkled it in the double-branched flower incense burner, watching them burn to pale ashes, and then strands of them came out of the copper holes and hovered thinly in mid-air, like Seeing the leaves in early autumn, there is a bit of desolate beauty in the mess. The hall was terribly quiet, the entire Jinwu Palace seemed to be dead, and even the breathing slowed unconsciously.After I closed the window, I walked out lightly. As soon as I got to the door, the prince stopped me and said, "Huayan, I should have known about it a long time ago." I stopped and stood up respectfully.After all, I am no longer a child, and I don't have a really flowery face that can make me look good in front of my master, so I responded in a low voice: "What does the prince know?" "She never uses anything I give her. He just gave her a bunch of broken wind chimes, and she hangs them up like a treasure." Even though I usually act very heartless, this can't conceal my ice-snow and smart nature, but even so, in such a hasty and embarrassing situation, it is difficult for me to find an appropriate answer for a while, so I have to hum She snorted and muttered, "Maybe it's because Princess Fu has a special taste and likes broken wind chimes." The hall was so quiet, my ending sound echoed lightly, and it was blown away by the wind.After a while, there was the sound of silk rubbing against each other, and in the deep curtain, the prince seemed to have turned over, turned his back to me, and said lightly: "It's probably true, the girl's eyes It was bad from a young age." Then the prince probably fell asleep, and he didn't let me go or let me stay, so I simply sat down by the incense burner, layers of incense enveloped me, and the corners of my clothes and mouth seemed to be fragrant. I know that the prince is very sad, but I don't know what to say. I have lived in the palace for more than ten years, and I can still see the height of my eyebrows.If I really have a good-looking face, then maybe I will be like those palace maids who do not know the heights of the sky and the earth, gently comforting him and looking forward to flying into the branches while I have a prominent family background, then maybe I will also I will shamelessly beg my father, grandfather, and uncle to let me marry into the royal family and enjoy the glory. Unfortunately, I have nothing, no appearance, no money, no status. Being an errand in the palace is already picked up, what extravagant expectations do you dare to have? I sighed in grief and indignation, I just felt that this palace was really quiet, not even a single bird.The prince is lying behind the heavy curtains, he seems to be a little thinner, tomorrow he has to go to the imperial dining room and ask them to cook some delicious dishes that the prince likes, um, let them cook some of my favorite dishes by the way.Thinking about it this way made me feel much more at ease. Murong Fu'er is dead, life in the palace is still going on as usual, no one is too sad to eat, on the contrary, because of the exhaustion of preparing for the wedding, my parents generally eat a lot, and the father-in-laws in the imperial dining room are very helpful , I have meat for several days in a row, and those who don't know think that something good has happened. It's like this in the palace. The more unlucky things happen, the more calm you have to be. She, Murong Fuer, found a crooked neck tree and hanged herself quietly. If she slammed her head on the palace gate and died with great fanfare, she probably The aunts in charge will let us sing and dance every day to show that everything in the royal family is normal and everyone is in a good mood.Thinking about it this way, Murong Fu'er's death was really senseless. The officials of the Ministry of Rituals soon began to plan to choose a concubine for the crown prince. The crown prince seemed not very interested in this matter. He was still young at that time and could not appreciate the beauty of certain sports between men and women.In fact, I don’t understand either. My twelfth father said this. At that time, I believed it and admired my twelfth father. I thought he was very knowledgeable, but I didn’t know until I grew up. The second dad didn't understand either, he entered the palace when he was six years old, and he never experienced the joy of sports in his life. People say that our Bian Tang army is weak and the officials are inefficient. I think they are purely slandering.In less than half a month, they scoured the crown prince for more than a hundred officials and ladies' wealth information, together with temperament assessment, appearance portraits, knowledge and talents, all sorted into a book, and sent to the crown prince's womb.Because she is not a concubine, and she is not too demanding on her family background, many local officials also volunteered to recommend themselves, trying their best to have a little sympathy with the crown prince. The prince threw these things to our little maids and asked us to help them pick them out. Then we sat in the palace every day and flipped through these things like reading comics, conducting internal elections, and occasionally the prince would give us some advice.But everyone knows that the more people involved in elections, the more difficult it is to unify their opinions.Because everyone's aesthetic vision is really different, after many discussions, no clear result was found, and this matter once threatened the harmony and unity of the palace ladies in the palace for a long time. In the end, the prince said that No, let's draw lots. After listening to it, everyone agrees, and the matter is satisfactorily resolved. But this indirectly led to the uneven quality of the first batch of wives, and there were even two Kong Wu who were stronger and fitter than Tieyou's bodyguards. I really don't know how their painters painted such portraits of them. , which is really puzzling. Life in the palace is like this, time always passes in a blur. When I was fourteen years old, my twelfth father died of hemorrhoids.This is really a tragic way of death, and people will feel a sense of desolation when they hear it, and a picture of an old eunuch with a rotting buttocks and a lonely old eunuch in his dying years can't help appearing in front of his eyes.In fact, the actual situation was just because the old man was too stubborn, and he was too shy to talk about it. He was in so much pain that he couldn't eat, and finally his body became weak, and he died. When he was dying, I, as his only nominal relative in the palace, was entrusted with the important task of seeing him off.After all, I was not very old at the time, and I knew he was going to die, so I cried with all my might. He seemed to want to say something to me, but he didn't intervene from the beginning to the end. let go. Now that I think about it, it is quite tragic. After all, my twelfth father worked in the palace for many years, and later he even got a big official position. Maybe before he died, he wanted to tell me that he had buried his life savings in the palace. Under the rocks in the garden, just like that, I sent away my twelve fathers without getting any inheritance. Under the land of the Bian Tang Palace, there is another secret treasure that no one has discovered. For a long time, I was troubled by this incident, and when I thought that the money my twelfth father had worked so hard to save all his life could not be spent by me, I felt sorry for him.The prince probably felt that I must be in grief at the loss of my father, so he asked me to go out for a walk at night. I had never been out of the palace before, and immediately expressed my sincere enthusiasm for this matter. Then I busily prepared for the whole day, including clothes, shoes and socks, snacks, and fruits, and prepared all the materials for the legendary outing. Unexpectedly, the prince put me in a car that night and asked Tie Yu He took me out of the palace and disappeared in a flash.As a result, the imperial guards followed me and Tie You desperately for the whole night. In order for the prince to have fun, the two of us could neither get rid of the pursuers nor be caught. This is simply too technical.In the end, I decided that I would not believe a word the prince said in the future, even if he told me that he was going to die, I would turn around and leave. In the end, I still failed to fulfill my wish to go out of the palace to see it. I just sat in a carriage and ran around the palace in circles.Fortunately, the queen has always ignored the prince's affairs. If I met the perverted and top-quality queen in the novel Miscellaneous Notes, I guess Tie You and I's lives would be at stake there. When the prince came back the next day, he told me that he heard from the folks that there was a loyal little slave girl next to Prince Yanbei of Great Xia. All the sons of Yan Shicheng betrayed their relatives, and even some relatives who were greatly favored by Yan Shicheng in the past refused to have anything to do with him. Only that little girl followed him all the time. She was strong and brave at a young age, and she was very beautiful. When the prince said this, he showed a very fascinated expression, as if he was talking about the so-and-so lady of the so-and-so family who has a pair of captivating and mesmerizing eyes. I want to say that if you betray your relatives, I will follow you too. But I didn't say it, after all, I have heard many stories, and every hero who is in distress is accompanied by a peerless beauty, so that the love and righteousness of the beauty and the extraordinary charm of the hero can be demonstrated.I’ve never heard of the troubled hero sharing weal and woe with the crippled servant. It’s too unsightly, and even the most tolerant readers can’t accept it, so I said in a doggy way: “What kind of son is Yan Shizi? Damn, as long as you appear in front of that girl, Prince, she will definitely fall in love with you with tears in her eyes." The prince laughed triumphantly, and said, "Huayan, you are so talented." Since then, I have paid attention to the little slave girl of Prince Yan, but because she is too far away, she is not a big person, so I still know little about her.I just heard that her name is Chu Qiao, she is the same age as me, and she is very much loved by Prince Yan.I am very jealous of this, as a servant, she is so famous that even I, a little girl who has never been out of the palace, knows about it, but I am so unknown, but I soon relieved, after all, the only one in the Yan family is her A female slave, and the crown prince has countless court ladies, and I am a court lady and she is a slave, in terms of status, I am a little bit taller than her, so I feel comfortable thinking about it. A few years later, Da Xia suddenly wanted to marry Bian Tang.Everyone knows that Daxia's ancestors were alien races outside the Guan, and they raised troops to occupy the eighteen prefectures of Hongchuan in Bian Tang, and they were feuds with Bian Tang.But compared to Da Xia, the ancestors of Huai Song were hated even more. The Nalan family was originally a subject of Bian Tang, but conspired to rebel and pull the banner to seek independence. Therefore, from the perspective of national sentiment, Huai Song is more important than Da Xia. Unwelcome. The position of the crown princess has been vacant for so many years, and someone should take it. The prince set off half a year earlier, and he did a lot of things with great fanfare. Outsiders said he was ridiculous, but I knew he was just taking the opportunity to go out and have fun.In view of the enlightenment education given to me by my aunts when I was a child, I was overly afraid of the Xia people, and I always expressed this fear unconsciously. My name was not on the accompanying list this time.I ordered Xiao'e and followed them. They were very happy and gave me more than a dozen agate beads for this. I asked the little eunuch to help me take them out and sell them, which was a small sum. If it goes on like this all the time, it's actually pretty good.