Chapter 32 Chapter Thirty-Two

We had a very peaceful few days. Occasionally, Saruel would invite me to ride a horse, and treated me with the utmost courtesy, just like treating a diplomat from a neighboring country. He never said anything about keeping me, and sometimes asked me naturally The living conditions in Dali and Jiangnan, I faintly heard Saruer's voice, as if he was asking me about the deployment of troops in Dali and Jiangnan. In fact, in the past eight years, as Duan Yuerong's property has increased, he and his father, King Dali, have trusted me more and more. He hardly avoids any topics with me. He sighed and said the whole thing, but his two purple eyes looked at me, making it clear that he wanted to hear my advice. I knew Dali's situation well, but seeing the cruelty of Saruer Ye Qiudoma, I would He pretended not to know the details in front of him, and sometimes when he was in a hurry, he said lightly, such an important inside story, how could Prince Duan and his like be willing to tell me a noisy woman? As for Jiangnan Zhang Zhiyan, who has always been suspicious, he would not tell me , his wine pupils are dim and hard to understand.

However, whenever I brought up the topic of letting me and Zhurondome go back, he always avoided it cleverly, seeing my gloomy face, but his face was bright. I was worried that as a new mother, it would be difficult for her to raise her baby with peace of mind under such circumstances, so I chatted with Zhuorandom from time to time, and sometimes walked in a small courtyard with Zhuorandom. Zhuolanduomu became quiet all of a sudden, no longer crying loudly, no longer beating others, but often looking out of the window by herself in a daze, and occasionally staying me overnight at night, I only heard her voice in my dream Weeping, calling Duan Yuerong's name.

This day I accompanied her for a walk in a courtyard. The small garden outside the Cool Breeze Hall was overgrown with weeds, and there were still a few plants that were full of vitality. Zhuolanduomu looked at a plant whose flowers were about to wither , whispered: "Is this the hibiscus flower?" Looking at this plant with the same name as me, I smiled: "Plants are much weaker than humans. If they can survive here, we will too." I was about to launch my powerful offensive to encourage Zhuolanduomu, when I heard a voice behind me whispering: "It's really a weed, and it can't be eradicated, no wonder the princess doesn't like it."

Princess Reyhan Guli, the favorite princess of Saruer Khan, is called the Great Concubine Min by the servants in the harem. Both Zhuorandom and I heard it. Looking back, it was the Radui who was sent to monitor us. She kept spying on us for nothing. Once I found out that she was actually "working" when I was going to the toilet... … When she saw us looking at her, she quickly lowered her head as a submissive, but her two shrewd blue eyes were shining brightly. I disliked her less and less, but her words aroused my interest, and I asked, "You just said that Princess Reyhangul doesn't like hibiscus trees?"

She raised her head and saw that our eyes were not showing any respect. As soon as she mentioned the concubine, she immediately raised her swan-like neck and said proudly: "Mrs., the Golden Rose Garden is Khan's favorite place to rest. The concubine comes in and out at will, the palace is full of rare plants, the hibiscus grows too fast, and competes with many varieties for sunlight and land. The concubine especially doesn't like it invading the land of the Golden Rose Garden. All hibiscus removed." I was taken aback, and my heart sank. I naturally understood the real reason why she didn't like Mu Jin, but it was just that she hated Mu Jin or me deeply. Why, Bi Ying, why do you hate me so much in your heart?

As I sighed uncomfortably, I didn’t expect that Zhuolangduomu’s dull eyes began to focus: “Hibiscus is the flower of a gentleman in Han, but in Tubo, it is like a fairy flower that symbolizes auspiciousness, just like Gesang flower Same." "I didn't expect it to be considered a weed in Turkic." She turned her head slowly, stared sharply at that Ladui, and said contemptuously, "Qiaba, who is a dog like you, would have been killed if he was in Doma." His tongue was cut out and he was bought into a camp." Radoui's face turned pale all of a sudden, biting his lips, tears welling in his eyes, he said bitterly for a while, "I don't know who will be bought into the camp."

Snapped!A loud and crisp voice sounded on Radui's face, Ahina came in without a sound, stared at Radui and shouted loudly: "Presumptuous slave." With the five red fingerprints on his face, Radoui knelt down and burst into tears. Even so, he still covered his mouth, trying not to cry out. Those tearful blue eyes stared at me, full of hatred and flames, as if they were going to burn us alive, I was startled, why is this girl so young with such vicious eyes? Drorandom sneered and said nothing, and Ahina looked coldly at Radui's blue eyes and said, "I have reminded you that these two ladies are still important guests invited by the Khan, and you are not allowed to come here." Talk badly, Mira."

Mira flashed out from the side like a ghost, and stood docilely beside Ahina. Ahina said, "Take this slave down and reward her with twenty lashes according to the law." There was a glint of glee in Mira's eyes, and she grabbed Radui's shoulders and lifted her up, Radui shouted anxiously: "You can't touch me, I belong to the empress concubine!" people." Mira's face darkened, and she looked at Ahina who also had an ugly complexion. At this moment, someone walked in quickly, but it was a young servant I had never seen before. Ahina and hurriedly walked in. Kneeling down and saluting: "I have seen Sergeant Yiming."

The young court attendant didn't even look at what happened in the field, but just bowed to Ahina and said: "The Empress Dowager has orders, please go to the Winter Palace to drink 'Puyou', Mrs. Jun." The Winter Palace and the Summer Palace are the residences of the two most powerful women in the Turkic palace, and these two women are the empress and empress. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he turned around suddenly, took a look at Ladui who was kneeling on the ground, and said indifferently: "The empress also said that Princess Zhuoranduomu and Mrs. Jun are treated according to the queen's etiquette. amnesty."

Then he turned back and said respectfully: "Madam, please change quickly." Ahina immediately hugged me and passed by, I turned around and told Dorandom to take good care of herself, and I would come back as soon as I went. Her thin figure stood silently in the courtyard, and the autumn wind was full of birch trees. The leaves fluttered together with her clothes, describing the thin room full of desolation and loneliness, watching her leave silently. I sat in front of the mirror anxiously, my mind was spinning rapidly, what does this Empress Dowager want to see me for? Could it be because Saruel has been too close to me recently?

Yiming waved to Ahina, and she went out. Through the curtain, I vaguely saw that Yiming seemed to be saying something to Ahina, and then I was dressed up, maybe time was tight, She didn't comb my hair this time, she just let me wear a big braid, and even changed into a more durable skirt. Before we went out, we still went to see Zhuolanduomu, her complexion was not very good, she told me to be careful, and I hurried out the door. The Winter Palace is on the east side, and the Cool Wind Palace where I am is located on the west side. From the west to the east, the Golden Rose Garden is the only way to go. If you can pass through the Rose Garden, you can actually save more than half of the time. However, due to imperialism The oppression of those four black slaves who were carrying me gave up their old efforts, and walked all the way around the magnificent golden rose, taking the longest road to the Winter Palace. There were bursts of heavenly zither sounds, and I strained my ears to listen carefully, but it was Biying's zither sound. While circling in the past, the sound of the zither came to an abrupt end, and then the voices of several beautiful maids shouted from the nearby Golden Rose Garden: "The concubine is playing the zither here, who is there?" Yiming had a bitter face, rolled his yellowish-brown eyes upwards, but immediately replied submissively and softly: "By order of the Empress Dowager, Mrs. Dali is invited to go to the Winter Palace." The servant put me down and knelt down there quickly just like Yiming, and I also got off the sedan chair slowly and knelt down slowly. The sound of footsteps came, and before people approached, the fragrance of roses had already come. I raised my head slightly, and through the colorful wall of autumn violets, I saw a few beautiful figures. There is a small belly in front of her head, and she is full of luxury and luxury. Even if she is a little far away, the rare pearls and gemstones on her black hair shine brightly in the sun, which still makes me a little dazzled. It is Biying. Behind her was a woman with a white veil, a pair of wonderful eyes suddenly cast towards me, flashing a cold and hateful light towards me, I was stunned, and the fragrant team stopped. With the soft ringing of jade bracelets, a finely embroidered gold embroidered skirt fell from the sky in front of my eyes, stained with flower dew, and dragged in the green grass. The pearls on the butterfly bow shoes trembled in front of me. Can't help but slowly raised his head. Who would have thought that eight years later, the first face-to-face meeting between Biying and I turned out to be like this. I became Dali's hostage in Turkic, and she became the noble princess of Turkic. I knelt there, and she Looking up at me proudly in the sun. She grew taller than before, gave birth to two children, and became much plump. She was born in a family of officials and rich, but now under the favor of Saruer and the nourishment of power and prosperity, she is even more ignorant than in the purple garden. How beautiful it is, just like the tens of thousands of precious roses in this rose garden, its temperament is even more noble and extraordinary. Her amber pupils still reflect the crystal-like light in the sun, but they have long since settled the world, and they are no longer the innocence of their youth. The cold stare reminds me of the diamond buried under the iceberg, which is dazzling. But it's cold. I slowly looked away, looking silently at the light pink lotus pattern on the hem of her skirt. I felt her eyes fixed on me for a long time, so long that I couldn't even feel the numbness of my legs, and so long that even Yiming started to cough: "If the princess is fine, His Majesty the Empress is still waiting for you." lady." "Bold slave, but a eunuch, dare to talk to the concubine like this?" The woman in white gauze standing next to Biying spoke, her voice was rough and hoarse, not much better than that of a male duck, plus Her Turkic language was terrible, which made it even harder to hear. "Forget it, Xiang'er," Biying's soft voice came: "Mrs. Jun please hurry up, I will not hinder you." Yiming watched them disappear into his eyes, and hurried over to help me stand up. I gently rubbed my poor leg with one hand, and hopped back into the sedan chair with Yiming on the other hand. I slightly lifted the gauze of the sedan chair curtain, looked at their backs, and asked softly, "Is that maid named Xiang'er Han Chinese?" Yiming lowered his head and said: "Exactly, she is a slave who went to the market once before she married the Khan. She had no objection and bought a slave from the market. Tengger, Madam should really take a look at her." The way he just entered the palace," Yiming's eyes were full of contempt, "when I bought it back, I was covered in injuries, crazy and stupid, screaming all day and night, with such a bad voice, now it's the concubine's Red man." I remembered that Biying used to sweep the floor without even daring to kill an ant. When her health just recovered, Yu Feiyan and I secretly shot down a pigeon from Xifengwan, trying to give her soup, but unexpectedly She refused to let us touch the injured pigeon, but took good care of her. I scolded her for a long time, and she looked at the pigeon and said to me in pain: "Mujin, this pigeon has no relatives around it, just like Biying. Now it is injured again, I will take care of it now, just like Hibiscus takes care of me, good sister, don't kill this pigeon!" I sighed softly in my heart at that time, and superficially scolded her for being a silly girl, but I still let her take care of the Benz pigeon, and then let it go. I sighed lightly, and said with a smile: "It seems that your concubine is very kind-hearted." Yiming looked at me strangely, and after a few perfunctory sentences, the Winter Palace arrived. They did not lead me to the Empress Dowager's Youyang Hall, but took me to an exquisite small garden. Although it was not as large as the Golden Rose Garden, it was elegant. Yiming stepped back quietly, and saw a few slender In the sea of ​​flowers, among the colorful blocks, I sniffed hard and sneezed hard. I haven't worn this kind of high-soled arch shoes for a long time, and it just rained yesterday, and the cobblestones under my feet slipped, and I was about to fall into a shit. A warm hand stretched out suddenly, allowing me to save Jun Mowen's face, I struggled to get up, "A lot... a lot, thank you." I raised my head and said thank you, and then I stuttered, only to see a hunchbacked old man with a bent body, the height of which only reached my waist, his face was wrinkled like an old tree, his skin was as dry as bark, and his hands were nails. The room is covered with black soil, and the body is also covered with dust, looking like a gardener. One of his eyes was covered with a cloth, the other eye was as small as a mung bean, and there was a large tumor swollen on his gray and sparse forehead. I was in a daze for a while, alas!Why does this old man look so much like the nemesis of the kid in Huajia Village when he was a child, the vicious one-eyed old man Zhang. While I tilted my head and looked at the hunchbacked old man, his small bastard-like eyes seemed to be looking at me slowly with cloudy light, almost leaning towards my face to see, he took a sip The impeccable Turkic language is very loud: "The almighty is above all, Lord Yiming, why are you becoming more and more beautiful?" "Old man Zhang, is this Mrs. Jun summoned by the Taihuang?" Probably because he was afraid that the old man would be deaf, Yiming said loudly, "Get out of the way." Even the name is the same, what a coincidence, the old man is indeed deaf, he listened to Yiming shouting many times with his ears open, and then slowly walked away, walking slowly, turning his head three times, his small eyes cautiously Staring at me, as if to prevent me from being a thief. "This is the most admired gardener in Ashina's family, and also the most admired gardener in Turkic." Yiming patted the dust on his body in disgust, "Don't look at him like that, his craftsmanship is really good. He takes care of all the flowers and plants in the garden, even the ones in the Golden Rose Garden." I nodded slightly and entered the center of the garden. Two figures in white clothes came from far and near, wearing ordinary rough clothes, slightly stained with soil, holding a shovel and a bamboo basket with freshly picked flowers and plants in them. Gentiana, autumn unicorn, crystal orchid, and hibiscus lay together with autumn dew in all directions, and it is colorful. The two of them actually only wore braids like me, the one in front looked very precious, and the one behind was charming and pretty, but stood respectfully, both smiling faintly at me, but they were the empress and empress.

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Notes: "Qiaba" means slave in Tibetan, and "Puyou" means horse milk wine.