Chapter 13 Chapter 1 I'm afraid that meeting is a dream

The autumn wind is blowing, with a slightly cool breath.There is also a faint fragrance of flowers following, entangled with the tip of the nose, gently blooming a charming smell. Liuli pushed the door open and entered, only to see that the curtain of the inner room was still drooping, apparently the young lady hadn't gotten up yet.He lightly placed the grooming items on the outside table, and then moved to lift the curtain.As soon as I looked up, I saw that the young lady had already got up, leaning against the window sill with her arms outstretched, her long hair like a cloud of mist was casually scattered, seeing her coming in, she turned her head and smiled, her eyes were soft and charming.

Liuli hurriedly picked up a coat and put it on her, begging for mercy: "My dear lady, please take good care of yourself. If you accidentally have a headache and fever, aunt and aunt must not take my skin It was stripped." Since the empress, Miss Ruan Wushuang, passed away three years ago, Prime Minister Ruan had resigned from office and retired, and his wife had been ill for more than a year because of her longing for her daughter.The eldest young master picked up the young lady from Xinzhou, and the similar appearance once made the wife think that Miss Wushuang was resurrected, which made her condition improve day by day.

Mu Ningyan laughed hoarsely and said: "Uncle and aunt are so fierce?" Liuli said angrily: "If you are sick, they will be so fierce. And you have always been weak..." Mu Ningyan hurriedly begged for mercy and said with a smile: "Okay, just babble like this early in the morning, let's see who can bear you in the future." Liuli also accompanied her all the way from Xinzhou to the capital for her own good. All the way, just to serve her well. Liuli's face turned red when she heard the words: "I see, Miss agreed to Mr. Meng's marriage proposal earlier, so you don't have to look at me to be upset."

Meng Lengqian, the son of the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the number one scholar in high school the year before last, is the husband-in-law candidate of many famous ladies in the capital.Since meeting Miss at the mansion a year ago, he has been visiting the mansion every three days, and Mrs. Madam has a very good impression of him.In the past half a year, he has come to propose marriage several times, the young lady didn't know why she didn't nod, but the aunt and wife seemed to have acquiesced.Therefore, when the servants of the mansion saw Mr. Meng coming, they greeted him more diligently and thoughtfully.

Mu Ningyan's face also turned red slightly, and she joked with her: "Just let me marry you so impatiently, you can go back to Xinzhou and marry your Brother Hu." Brother Meng is very kind to her, but she seems She didn't think about her Brother Hu day and night like Liuli did.Liuli's face became more and more red, like pomegranate red, charming and charming, she stomped her feet in disbelief and said: "Miss..." Mu Ningyan smiled and sat down in front of the dressing table, and stopped talking to her.The woman in the mirror has picturesque eyebrows, a faint smile between her bright eyes and white teeth.Liuli waited on her to comb her hair, and said: "Sister Jin Zhi who is beside Madam came to me early in the morning and said that there are distinguished guests coming to the mansion today, please don't walk around in front of me, miss."

Mu Ningyan nodded indifferently. She seldom walked around the front hall. One was that she always liked quietness, and the other was that she was too similar to the late empress, so she was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble.Once a colleague of my uncle saw her in the garden and was so shocked that he knelt down and kowtowed to her.If it wasn't for her uncle who came out to rescue her, she wouldn't even know how to explain it to that adult. When she looked at her face in the mirror, others said that she looked very much like her cousin, but she had no impression of this beautiful cousin.Because the two families are too far apart, since my mother married into Xinzhou, she only communicates with her aunt Chisu every year.

It is said that three years ago, because her father died of illness, her aunt pityed that she had no one to take care of her. She wanted to send someone to pick her up, but she got the news that her cousin had left before she left.Later, because my aunt couldn't bear the blow and fell ill, it was delayed for more than a year.After coming here, her aunt took very good care of her. In Liuli's words, she was afraid of melting in her mouth and melting in her hands. She sighed slightly, knowing in her heart that her aunt regarded her as her deceased cousin.At such an advanced age, my aunt actually sent a white-haired person to a black-haired person. This kind of pain is unbearable for ordinary people.This is the only thing she can do for her aunt, and stay by her side every day.So Brother Meng asked her again and again, but she refused.

The front of the prime minister's mansion is like facing a big enemy. Yesterday, a word of mouth came from the palace, saying that the emperor is coming to the mansion today.For more than three years, the emperor would come to live for a day or two every six months.Every time I come, I must live in the original boudoir of the empress, and miss her.Although the empress had passed away for so long, the emperor still loved and favored the Ruan family even more than when the empress was here.Everyone in the world said that the emperor is a nostalgic person with deep affection. Shi Quanyi stood in the garden and waited on him from a distance, watching the emperor gently push the door open and enter the house.Looking at the lonely back of the emperor, he couldn't help but secretly sighed, he didn't expect the emperor's love for the queen to be so deep.Back then, the Zhaoyang Hall was flooded, and the emperor was so angry that many people were implicated, but the queen still could not be rescued.By the time the fire was extinguished, the entire Zhaoyang Hall had almost been razed to the ground.

Baili Haozhe walked into the house slowly, the inside was spotless, as if she just went to the garden for a while and would be back soon.There are a few lilies planted on the ground in the house, scattered high and low, exhaling fragrance faintly. He has been unwilling to believe that she just left him like this, with hatred for him, just like that.But all these years have passed, and Cheng Xuan has grown up day by day, he can ride a pony, draw a bow and shoot arrows... He gradually believes that she is really gone.After the Zhaoyang Hall was burned that year, he had no way to get close to it for more than a year.She is gone, and she will never be seen again forever...

He gently opened the window, and looked at a magnificent scene, bright red and emerald green, blooming one by one.A swing frame is tied under the banyan tree not far away, and occasionally the wind blows and shakes gently, which does not have a leisurely style. She spent her youth here back then, never thought that because of him, her life's happiness would be ruined.If she hadn't met him, her life would have been happy and worry-free.Find a husband who is well-matched, and live a life of "gambling with books to get rid of the fragrance of tea"... He smiled bitterly.But if he hadn't met her, what would he treasure in his life?When I was young, I hid behind a tree and secretly watched my father and his brother love each other deeply.When I was older, I thought that studying hard could get my father's attention, but no matter how well he did, my father just nodded and occasionally smiled, which is a luxury that can only be met but not sought after.Although the fourth brother didn't care much about his father, he was raised by his mother and concubine in the palm of his hand since he was a child.But he has nothing...

In comparison, he is as pitiful as an orphan.It's always been like this!After a long time, he almost became a habit.Until she exists in my life.He clearly remembered that the first time he saw her, it was not her person, but just a portrait. Uncle Shen found out that Empress Ruan would be there on her birthday, so he made a plan.In the portrait, she is beautiful and graceful, with a pleasant temperament.For some reason, he had faint expectations for that plan. And on the day of his birthday, when the real her appeared in front of him, his heart felt as if he had been hit by something.The portrait can only depict a little bit of her. In reality, she has eyebrows like distant mountains, skin like white porcelain, and lips like cherry blossoms. Standing among the royal sisters, she looks extremely elegant.Occasionally bowing his head and smiling slightly, his eyes rippling like an inadvertent temptation, as if tempting his heart bit by bit. The royal brothers glanced at her position many times, he just stood in the corner and watched leisurely, perhaps because he was sure that she would be his in the future. After marriage, she quietly bloomed around him like a sprig of orchid.Bit by bit, it filled his entire atrium.He never paid attention to it on purpose, or even ignored it on purpose.Until that day, she held his hand in Zhaoyang Hall, gave him encouragement and strength, and also gave him the warmth he never had before. For the first time in such a long life, he felt that someone cared about him, that someone would be with him to face those wind and rain... It was not until that moment that he suddenly realized that he could no longer live without her... So later, There was no longer any way he could remove her postpartum as originally planned. The breeze came gently, as if it was her gentle touch.He closed his eyes slightly... the air smelled of flowers blooming, and there were some pleasant sounds of piano... He opened his eyes suddenly! Slowly walking to the corner of the garden, there was a white wall in front of him.And the sound of the piano was clearly coming from the other side of the wall, it was brisk and moving, as if it was beating lightly in a person's heart. Looking around, I didn't find any door that could pass through the wall.This is the prime minister's mansion, it is impossible for other mansions to be so close, so close that he could hear the melodious sound of the piano.As far as he knew, the entire prime minister's mansion only lived in the prime minister and his wife.Wushuang's elder brother and second elder brother both lived in the consort's mansion.And the prime minister has no concubines... After walking along the wall for a long time, I finally found two doors.That's right, the sound of the piano came from the other side of the door... Unfortunately, it was locked with a copper lock.He slapped his palms lightly.Two figures descended from not far away, and bowed to salute him: "What is the emperor's order?" His eyes fell on the copper lock.The two knew each other, and one of them got up, walked to the door, holding the copper lock with one hand, and saw that the copper lock was twisted and deformed in an instant, and the man pulled it with a little force, and the copper lock fell off. The two opened the door lightly and respectfully invited him to pass.What came into view was another garden, no less exquisite than the courtyard where Wushuang lived.The flowers in the garden, red red, white white, blue blue, green green, purple purple, yellow yellow, are in full bloom.He walked along the winding cobbled path. The sound of the piano in the ear became more and more clear, as if it was not far away.But his footsteps became heavy, each step was extremely slow, as if it was filled with mercury and weighed a thousand catties, and he couldn't step out. After turning a corner, the eyes suddenly opened up, and I saw a delicate small lake appearing in front of me, with lush phoenix trees and green willows beside the lake. In an instant, breathing almost stopped.In the center of the Jiuqu Bridge in the lake, there is an octagonal pavilion, and a woman in plain clothes is playing the piano with her back facing him. The back was slender and graceful, his eyes fixed on her, but his feet seemed to be frozen, he had no strength to move, and he did not dare to move.I'm afraid that if I move, that figure will disappear immediately, just like in countless dreams in the past... When Mu Ningyan heard footsteps approaching, she thought it was Liuli, and laughed softly: "Good Liuli, I don't take supplements, please take it." After being ill a while ago, her aunt told the kitchen I have to bring supplements to her twice a day, and she gets a headache when she sees them.Every day begged Liuli not to bring it to her, but Liuli didn't have the guts to eat it up without staring at her every day. A pair of arms passed through behind her and hugged her, and a gentle voice rang in her ears in surprise and joy: "Wu Shuang, I finally found you... Wu Shuang, my Wu Shuang... "The warm, wet breath sprayed behind her ears and on her neck, with a strange feeling. She was shocked and struggled hard, trying to push him away: "You... who are you? You... let go! I'm not cousin Wushuang..." But the man hugged her tighter and tighter, as if he was afraid that she would disappear again.She beat his arm hard in anxiety, startled and ashamed: "Let go. I'm really not cousin Wushuang... If you don't let go, I'm going to call someone... Let go of me..." The man still didn't let go, but just turned her face away.A flawlessly handsome face appeared in front of her, but she clearly didn't recognize that face. She was so anxious that she almost fainted, he was so close to her, his hot breath hit her face, and one hand firmly fixed her in his arms.No one had ever been so rude to her.Doesn't he know the truth about whether a man and a woman give or take a kiss? But no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't get away.His face was getting bigger and closer in front of her... Her heart was beating rapidly, as if she knew what he was going to do... But before she could react, his wet and hot lips had already covered her, Tossing and sucking on the lips, acting recklessly... Annoyed, anxious, angry and ashamed, she wanted to push away, but it was of no use at all, she could only be forced to accept everything he gave.His breath was on her nose and lips. I don't know how long it took, but he was finally satisfied, and then he slowly left her lips.He stared at her with dazed eyes, and murmured: "Wu Shuang...my Wu Shuang." She was also out of breath, her eyes dimmed.But she was extremely annoyed, he was an apprentice, her innocence was ruined in his hands... She raised her hand and slapped him hard on the face: "You apprentice, let me go. Otherwise, I will let you die without a place to bury you." He didn't seem to have any defenses, he didn't dodge, just Hearing the sound of "pa", he had already received a slap on the face. He was startled, and looked at her motionless, without letting go of his hand, still holding her tightly.After a long while, he smiled bitterly, the sadness in his eyes seemed to fade a bit, and he murmured: "It will hurt...it's real...it's not a dream. Wushuang, you finally returned to my side..." This man is really shameless to the extreme!Even after being beaten, he still laughed.She stared at him angrily, kicked him with her feet, pushed him with her hands and said, "I am not Cousin Wushuang. Cousin Wushuang has passed away..." The man trembled suddenly, his face showed an expression of uncontrollable pain, he let her go slowly, and took two steps back slowly. After a while, he seemed to regain his composure, and his voice rang out in a low voice: "Then who are you?" She took several steps back until her back was leaning against the pillars of the gazebo, and then she calmed down a little, raised her head, and asked, "Then who are you?" Her cheeks were as bright red as dizzy, and her face was delicate and charming. He was standing by the pavilion, wearing a light stone blue brocade suit with cloud patterns, the hem fluttering slightly in the wind, although he stood there indifferently, there was a faint sense of dignity.He looked at her motionlessly, as if examining her, and said slowly, "Baili Haozhe." She frowned slightly, her name was unusually familiar, she seemed to have heard it before, but she was definitely not someone close to her in normal times.Baili is a royal surname, and she immediately realized why she felt that this name was so familiar, she knelt down elegantly and moved to salute, and said anxiously: "The daughter of the people pays homage to the emperor, long live the emperor." In the end, it was everyone who came out. After returning to normal, he immediately advanced and retreated like a ritual.He didn't make a sound, as if the air was suffocating.And she could only kneel. It turned out that this person was the current emperor, the husband-in-law of Wu Shuang's cousin.I heard that in the past few years when cousin Wushuang passed away, he would go to her boudoir to commemorate her every year.It can be seen that he is an infatuated person.He is so handsome, and he is really a perfect match with cousin Wushuang.It's a pity that Cousin Wu Shuang left so early... I couldn't help feeling sorry for her. He watched her reaction steadily, from a little dazed at the beginning, to the astonishment after the reaction, and finally the panic, he looked into his eyes one by one.Her reactions were natural and genuine. He suppressed the turbulent impulse in his heart, took a deep breath, and said calmly, "Get flat." She stood up slowly, and stood beside her quietly.Only heard his voice came over again: "Now you can tell me your name." She was busy and gave a little blessing, and said: "The girl's surname is Mu, and her name is Ningyan." His lips moved slightly, as if chewing: "Mu Ningyan...Mu...Ning...Yan..." He didn't realize it Calling a person by his name like that is very ambiguous.There was a slight movement in her heart, and she only felt that her slightly calm face turned slightly red again. The breeze was blowing, he seemed to have forgotten her existence, turned around, and looked at the lake in a daze.Occasionally, when she secretly raised her head, she could see his back. She didn't know if it was because she was standing by the railing, and the corners of her clothes fluttered lightly, which made people feel lonely. While in a daze, she heard footsteps in the garden, she turned her head and saw uncles, aunts and others walking quickly, followed by a large number of Ouchi guards and attendants. Ruan Chongji and his wife knelt down in reverence and respect: "Your Majesty... Long live your Majesty." Baili Haozhe said indifferently: "Both the father-in-law and his wife are dead." Ruan Chongji got up and took a sneak peek at the emperor, only to see that his expression was still as usual, and he could not see any happiness or anger.But for some reason, there was a strong uneasiness in his heart.The emperor has missed Wushuang very much these years, and seeing Mu Ningyan carved out of the same mold as Wushuang today, he must be quite shocked.But at this moment, there was no abnormality on his calm face. In fact, he doesn't know much about Wu Shuang's husband-in-law, the current emperor.When Wushuang didn't marry him in his early years, he was just a son of his sister Ruan Yujin to him.This kind of thing is very common in the harem. The queen will bring the son born to the concubine to the door for adoption before the queen gives birth, and the status is the same as that of a descendant.But at that time, he didn't want to intervene in the imperial family's struggle for the throne, so he kept a distance from the several princes at that time, and he didn't want to get too close. Later, after Wushuang got married, he got in touch with him more.He had always been courteous and courteous, and there was a great deal of respect for his politeness.And he has shown many amazing talents in national affairs.After thinking it over and over again, he decided to help him.Of course, the most important thing is his status as the unparalleled husband-in-law, which forced him to participate in the battle for the throne.After all, if he fails to compete for the position, then even Wushuang and the Ruan family may be lost forever. Later, he succeeded and ascended the throne as he wished.Wushuang also became a queen.But it seems that all the misfortunes also started from there.The Queen Mother passed away in less than half a year... and Wushuang was later imprisoned in the Zhaoyang Palace. As a father, he was an extremely courtier, but he didn't even know the reason why his daughter was imprisoned... Later, Wushuang was imprisoned again. Burned to death in Zhaoyang Palace... In the harem, there are many attendants and guards.There are several people guarding even a small side hall, let alone the majestic Zhaoyang Hall?But Wushuang was burned alive in the majestic Zhaoyang Palace... If there was no emperor's slightest instruction, how could Wushuang not be rescued... Birds are gone, good bows are hidden!He has been in the court for decades, how can he not understand this truth!Historically, the emperors of every dynasty have always tabooed the monopoly of foreign relatives, and their Ruan family's momentum can almost keep pace with the royal family.No emperor would like to see such a scene, and Baili Haozhe is no exception. So after Wushuang left, he also felt ashamed, and handed in a memorial to express his determination to resign.As he expected, the emperor approved his performance without any hesitation.This further confirmed his inner speculation. In the past few years, he ordered Wu Tao and Wu Lang to resign many times. If he wanted to resign from the official position with real power, he would just pretend to be a son-in-law, but Baili Haozhe refused to do so again and again.He couldn't figure out why, but he was even more jealous in his heart, so he had to tell his two sons to be careful and careful, for fear of being caught by the emperor.But in the past few years, the emperor didn't seem to want to change the layout of their Ruan family.At least in the eyes of outsiders, the emperor showed more favor to Ruan Guozhang's family than when Empress Ruan was alive. This also made him even more puzzled by the emperor's thoughts.Every time the emperor came to the mansion, he was even more cautious and trembling, for fear that something might happen.Sure enough, there was an accident today.In fact, since Mu Ningyan came to the mansion, he was worried about what happened today, so he ordered someone to expand such a small garden far outside the mansion, and there was only one door to the main mansion.Once the emperor came, he ordered people to lock the door.But it is impossible to guard against everything.