Chapter 20 Chapter 8: The Boundless Rain is as Fine as Sorrow

Green smoke is curling up from the gilded carbon furnace in Lanlin Palace, and the fragrance of white sandalwood permeates the surroundings faintly.In the deep hall, the curtains were lowered at this time. It was supposed to be quiet, but a servant lowered his head and walked forward, breaking the silence: "Concubine Liu, Concubine Liu, a maid just came to report that Concubine Ning just fell into the water in the imperial garden..." Liu Lan leaned on the brocade couch and closed her eyes to rest, when she heard the words, she suddenly raised her eyes.Ru Yezao, who was waiting by the side, understood the master's intentions, and said, "Report carefully."

The servant fell on the ground and reported back: "Back to Concubine Liu, the servant and others don't know the details. Just now there was a mess in the imperial garden, and the servant also heard that it seems that the beauty in the listening gallery was manipulated by someone. I don’t know the situation. I hope Concubine Liu will forgive me!” Liu Lan helped Ru Ye's hand to get up slowly, and said with a smile: "Come here, give me a reward." It seems that God didn't help this evildoer, and accidents happened again and again.But a few months ago, she just fell down the stone steps, and this time she actually fell into the Taiye Pond. This winter, she had to bear it.

Who did this?You know, since Concubine Yin was imprisoned not long ago, she committed suicide by taking poison herself.There are only Concubine Ning, Concubine Yan, Concubine Tang and her in this huge harem. Although the fact that Concubine Ning was pregnant with a dragon fetus was indeed a big shock, it stands to reason that because of Concubine Yin's incident last time, the emperor was furious, Concubine Yan should not be so reckless!However, people's hearts are far away... Maybe it's Tang Qiaoyan! She could not help but sigh.No wonder my father said that in this harem where people are murdered without blood, it is better to keep the same and adapt to everything.

Looking at it, the green trees in the garden are withered, and it is bleak.What an eventful winter! The imperial doctor said that fortunately Concubine Ning was rescued in time, so the fetus in the womb was fine.Only then did Baili Haozhe let go of his hanging heart, and waved everyone back. Opening the layers of soft gauze curtains, she only saw her lacquered hair scattered between the pillows, and her plain white face without a trace of blood. He stared blankly, with a gloomy face, and asked in a low voice after a long time: "I just want to ask you, you can answer or not." Baili Haozhe sighed for a long time: "How did you fall? Last time you fell down the stone steps, but this time it's actually in Taiye Pond..."

Another long silence.Mu Ningyan bit her lips tightly, and said in a low voice: "The emperor's forgiveness is due to the negligence of my concubine." He turned his head away, suddenly chuckled, and then fell silent.There was a choke in the air for no reason. After a long time, Baili Haozhe opened his mouth and said bitterly: "Wushuang, you and I should stop acting." Her voice sounded faintly: "Your Majesty, why are you doing this? You have tried to test your concubine again and again, what is the reason?" He smiled lowly, with a sad and confused look on his face: "Wu Shuang, now, let's meet honestly."

"I know that since you entered the palace, because you have been unwilling to sleep in, you have colluded with the imperial physician and said that you have been in poor health and are not suitable for sleeping in." "At that time, I didn't dare to be 100% sure of your identity, so I left it to you..." At that time, he was still not sure that she must be Wushuang, so he didn't expose her.Sometimes, maybe in the bottom of my heart, I fear that she is really not Wushuang, not the person he dreams about day and night.If not, then he really added another thing that I'm sorry for Wushuang.

"Do you still remember the day you went to bed? That afternoon, I ordered someone to send a little raccoon over. Do you know what that little raccoon is? It is a small animal from the Western Regions with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. Very intelligent, very rare in number, if a local hunter is lucky enough to get one, he will cherish it like a jewel, keep it, and hunt it a hundred times, a thousand times better than any intelligent hound. Just give it a smell of clothes It can find her owner accurately. Before I ordered someone to send it over that day, it had already smelled the clothes you used in the palace. You will know what happened later... ..."

"Although I don't have any clear evidence, you even removed the red mole on the bottom of your feet, but... But I know, always know, you are Wushuang." No wonder, no wonder the little raccoon kept leaning into her arms, no matter how Cheng Xuan teased it, it would not be moved. Her eyes were closed, her eyelashes fluttering.He didn't say a word, as if he didn't hear what he said. He suddenly laughed, so desolate: "You have always known that you are Wushuang. You don't have amnesia at all, right? You just don't want me to know that you are still alive. Haha...haha..." In the middle of the night The loud laughter in the middle was wild and sad, as if the injured night owl was crying.

His voice lowered again, and his voice was slightly hoarse: "You just hate me. Why bother with the flesh and blood in your belly? Half of his blood is also yours." She closed her eyes, as if she was extremely tired, and only wished to fall into such a deep sleep from now on: "I never thought that there would be such a child..." She finally admitted that she was unparalleled.She also admitted that she never wanted the child.Yes, she didn't want it, he already knew it. But he took half a step back, wondering in fear: "That fall on the stone steps, and... and this time, could it be you did it?" Because she didn't want this child, she tried every means to get rid of it. .No, no, how could Wushuang be so cruel?

She is silent, she has been silent, it seems to be the default. He had known for a long time that she did not want his child.He knew a lot about drugs, how could he not know that she was secretly using musk?But what she didn't know was that he had already ordered someone to steal the musk she had secretly hidden. Although I know it in my heart.But at this moment, hearing her tell the truth in person, still makes my heart ache. At that moment, his heart was ashamed, and after a long while, he whispered: "Since you hate me so much, why did you come into this palace?" She turned sideways, left his slender back to him, and sneered: "Since you have issued the imperial decree, who in the world can resist."

He was silent for a long time before he said bitterly: "Since you don't want to enter the palace, why bother to attract my attention." If she hadn't appeared deliberately to attract others' attention, the spies he sent might not be able to find out the news. She bit her lower lip tightly with her white teeth, and smiled miserably: "Since you know everything, why don't you know why I came here? Since you are so proficient in medical science, why would Chengxuan poison someone?" Mother and child are connected.How could she leave Cheng Xuan alone in the cold deep palace. His voice softened: "If I told you that I set up all of this, would you blame me?" He seemed to be caught in boundless memories: "After the fire in Zhaoyang Palace, it was found that Mu Qing was missing in the palace. Although Mo Lan and others reported that Mu Qing was also in Zhaoyang Palace when the fire broke out. I have always had doubts in my heart. .In the past few years, I have never believed that you have left me and Chengxuan. I have been sending people around to check for your traces. There is no news. It seems that you are really... gone. " "But I refused to give up. Until more than a year ago, it was reported that a person with the same appearance as you appeared in the prime minister's mansion. I secretly sent spies to investigate the truth, and it was reported that there was indeed a person in the prime minister's mansion with the same face as I painted. It's exactly the same." Since then, he has made a plan.The first step was to let people spread the word that the crown prince had been poisoned and the entire harem was being rectified. Her memory at that time hadn't recovered yet, but for some reason, when she heard that the crown prince had been poisoned, and his life and death were uncertain, she would be heartbroken.I had a nightmare that night, and it hasn't stopped every night since then.The pavilions, halls, corridors and palaces in the dream are all extravagant and gorgeous.Gradually, she couldn't tell whether it was reality or a dream.Later, she caught cold and fell seriously ill, and began to recover her memory little by little. "Wushuang, I just want to tell you that I didn't ask Uncle Shen to give you the poison back then. It's just his own idea." "Yes... I have always hated Ruan Yujin and your Ruan family. When I was young, I wished I could crush your Ruan family to ashes, so as to relieve my hatred! If Uncle Shen and I had followed our original plan, we would have killed your Ruan family early in the morning. You removed it. But, but later, later, I couldn't bear it..." "Because... I fell in love with you..." It wasn't until after she left that he discovered that in the flowing days, he had married her as expected and successfully ascended the throne.But unexpectedly fell in love with her!Thousands of calculations have been made, but they can't be counted as predestined. She shook her head, her voice did not have any warmth, it was clear and clear, as if the cold water in the cold winter slowly flowed through her ears: "Baili Haozhe, don't talk about the past, I don't want to hear it..." In the past, everything between him and her was just a play.Since he ascended to the high position as he wished, he has already gained power in the past few years, and the Ruan family is no longer needed, so why continue to put on a show here! No matter what he said now, it was meaningless to her.Just because she would never trust him again.Because I can't believe it, I don't dare to believe it! She smiled slowly, and stated the cruel facts word by word: "The Ruan Wushuang you want to find is dead, she is dead..." The Ruan Wushuang who fell in love with him back then had already died in Zhaoyang The temple was on fire.The past cannot be turned back, and the years cannot be turned back.Although her body is still the same body, the scene and feeling at that time will never be there again. That day, Aunt Mu took her heartbroken to the rockery group of the hot spring pool in the back hall of Zhaoyang Hall, and told her that when the first emperor repaired the harem, in order to prevent future accidents, he left a trail behind the hot spring pool in Zhaoyang Hall. The secret road can lead directly to the west mountain of the capital.Because the late emperor and the empress dowager have left one after another, she is the only one in the world who knows about it. But she was in a daze, always in a state of bewilderment.Aunt Mu lifted the lantern, turned on the mechanism, and pushed her into the secret passage.She stumbled on the stone in the secret passage, and the pain made her a little vague. She grabbed Aunt Mu's skinny hand and said tremblingly, "Aunt Mu, you—you—come with me." Aunt Mu shook her head, with a resolute expression on her thin and bony face, and a calm look of resignation in her eyes: "Your Majesty, the time limit for this servant has come. This servant will follow the Queen Mother..." Looking at her, she said : "This is the sin of the servant girl, so let the servant girl bear the fruit. This is Mu Qing's retribution! Karma retribution. It's just that the servant girl is sorry for the empress, and she is troubled by the empress." After finishing speaking, he knelt down and kowtowed to her: "Empress, you must take care. You still have the little prince, and the Ruan family. As long as you leave this palace, you can still be a human again." Reborn as a human being!Reborn as a human being! He treats her like this... What's the point of her being a human again? Holding the lantern, she stumbled through the secret passage alone.Surrounded by endless darkness, endless cold. She didn't know how long she had been walking, she almost thought she couldn't hold on anymore... When she woke up, she was in a nunnery in Xishan.The abbot Shitai said that sister Qingjing rescued herself when she was picking herbs on the mountain.At that time, I was drenched all over, and caught the wind and cold, and had a high fever that did not subside.This is already the eighth day since Junior Sister Qingjing carried her back. Because of the high fever, she forgot the past, and she didn't even know her own name.The abbot took great pity on her loneliness, so she took her to live in the nunnery. There are few people in the nunnery, only about ten people.Because in the middle of the mountain, I have always been self-sufficient, and the world is not connected.When she was in better health, she began to follow Junior Sister Qingjing to help her dry and collect medicines, and to do some odd jobs. In the blink of an eye, it was half a year.After getting acquainted with Junior Sister Qingjing, one day she somehow mentioned her amnesia, and Junior Sister Qingjing said to her jokingly: "I think you must have been a wealthy person before." She asked why she said that.Junior Sister Qingjing said with a smile: "Look at your ten fingers, each of which is like green onions, there is no trace of labor. Besides, when I carried you back, the silk and satin clothes you are wearing can be seen as the price. Not cheap." As he spoke, he looked at her and sighed, "Xiao Wan, when will you recover your memory?" Because it was evening when she was picked up, and white mist enveloped the mountainside like smoke.So Junior Sister Qingjing helped her to name her Xiaowan.Calling and calling, even she is used to it. She smiled lightly, not because she didn't want to restore her memory.But every time she deliberately thinks back to the past, she will feel a splitting headache, and even her heart will feel like being pulled by something, it hurts so much. Maybe the days before were not so good.So God wants her to forget. After several months, some fragments gradually appeared in her dreams.It's a mansion, waterside pavilions and singing platforms, cornices and corners...it's been repeated for many days.In a dream one night, she even saw the plaque on the mansion: Prime Minister's Mansion. But I always feel that I still forget a lot of things.After several conflicts and twists and turns, she informed the abbot and the wife, and finally decided to write a book and asked her junior sister Qingjing to send it.In less than half a day, two people rushed over.When I saw her for the first time, I was astonished as if seeing a ghost, and ecstatic as if some treasure was lost and found. They stood in front of her with tears in their eyes.They said she was their sister.For some reason, although she didn't remember them, she believed that they hadn't lied to her, because the sense of intimacy and security in her heart couldn't fool anyone. They sent her to Xinzhou, and in the identity of Mu Ningyan, she has been reclusive in the Xinzhou mansion.Her life in Xinzhou was very quiet. Later, because her mother was ill, the two eldest brothers brought her back to the capital and asked her to call them cousins ​​in front of others.Even Liuli, who has been serving her personally since Xinzhou, didn't know about this, and always thought she was the young lady of the Mu family.As for the real sister of the Mu family, she also has a good home. It's just that before she recovered her memory at that time, she met Meng Lengqian.It's not that she doesn't like Meng Lengqian at all. His talent, appearance, family background, everything matches her.Girls' hearts have always been like this. If she hadn't recovered her memory for a lifetime, she and Brother Meng might be able to live in harmony and love each other forever. In that case, it may not be bad.Like a flower and a beautiful family member, the year seems to flow like water! But...but, she still recovered her memory.She remembered him, remembered Chengxuan, remembered everything...