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Qin Taiwei followed Yang Lian to the backyard of Guihua Building, saw her palace carriage head-on, and almost didn't recognize her.It turned out that the four corners of the palace car were hung with lights of various colors, peonies, nymphs, lotuses, goldfish, dazzling five colors, brightly lit, like a small Aoshan Mountain, reflecting the fine snow stars in the wind into silver glittering stars. "Is it fun?" He asked with a smile. "Don't ride the horse." She took his sleeve and said, "Come with me in the car." They didn't enter the palace from Dong'an Gate, which was closer, but ran half a circle along the north wall of the imperial city, and went around until Xi'an Gate before returning home.This dazzling array of palace chariots was so ostentatious that in the early morning of the next day, half of the city's people knew that King Zheng had escaped from confinement and came out to play, and bought a whole cart of lanterns from a hawker in the Lantern City to please Aiji. "I still have the mind to have fun, and sure enough, the past three months have been safe and sound."——Everyone thought so.

When I returned to Qingfu Hall, it was nearly three o'clock.Yang Lian changed his clothes and had to go to the palace to face the saint. "It's so late, could it be that he's still waiting for you to explain?" Qin Taiwei was surprised. "He can't wait, I just want to make a show, so that he won't get suspicious." He smiled and said, "It'll be fine. You warm the quilt for me, and I'll be back in a while. " Qin Taiwei couldn't sleep well, she insisted on sending him there, and said: "I haven't recovered from all kinds of illnesses yet, at least let me take you across the bridge, just walk away casually."

He couldn't hold back, so he had to walk to the bridge with her on his arm, saying that he was not allowed to follow her anymore, and then asked someone to lead the horse, saying that it would be faster to ride a horse, and he would be back within an hour at most.Qin Taiwei also knew that the emperor would not intentionally seek trouble at this time, but she was reluctant to part with this moment.Seeing him getting back on the horse, due to the old injury, his movements were not very smooth, but he smiled at her again, pointed to the cat lamp in her hand and said: "If you don't go back any longer, the candle will burn out." During the speech The ice flowers landed on the straight eyebrows, and instantly turned into crystal water drops.She told him to lower his head, fastened his hood again, and wiped off the snowdrops on his eyebrows with her fingers.

The white horse stepped on the slush, ran across the Yudai Bridge, turned a corner and disappeared into the snow all over the sky. At that time, the wind and snow were getting thicker, and ice flowers rustled on the fluff of the mink clothes.The new year's festival is over, the city is snowed heavily, and the sea of ​​lanterns in Aoshan Mountain in the palace has been cleared away one after another. The towers have lost their color, the flowers and willows have been broken, and there is no wave in the sun. There is only an exquisite crystal world in Liuhe. She remembered that snowy night before, he said that he didn't love snow, because the snow was like a prison cell with white walls, and he couldn't get out of it for the rest of his life.It's not that she doesn't understand.

But if the human world is nothing but a prison cell, this prison cell is really magnificent, so magnificent that even resentment, sorrow, and sorrow become too trivial and humble, and can be wiped away without explanation by that large pen.At this time, there is no moon, no lights, no pedestrians, and there are only endless tiny white spots left in the world, throwing pearls and jade, swaying and swaying, moistening things silently.This perfect pure white is so gorgeous and bright that even the dense night is replaced, like a candle shining brightly, like a bright moon and a long river.There was a poem in the previous dynasty that said, "The mountains and rivers are not dark and the moon is thousands of miles away, and the heaven and the earth are selfless and jade thousands of families", which is probably like this.Although the white snow light is fragile, it is long-lasting, like a dream of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains that never sleeps.

She wanted to try her best to remember this situation, and when he came back later, she wanted to tell him all about it. It was night and there was no banquet in the Qing palace, only the empress led several elderly concubines to accompany the emperor to talk.Everyone resigned in the evening, and the emperor left Concubine Shu to sleep. When everyone in Xianyang Palace heard the news, they happily closed their doors and went to sleep.Unexpectedly, at midnight, Concubine Shu came back despite the wind and snow.No one dared to ask, only Zhu Min couldn't help inquiring about the reason.Concubine Shu took off her blouse and was washing her hands and face, she was a little impatient and said: "The king is going to the palace to have an audience, so the concubine naturally wants to avoid it."

"Seeing you at such a late hour?" Zhu Mo was surprised, "Could it be..." Bao Qiu immediately gave her a sideways glance, but Zhu Min refused to accept it, and still murmured: "The last time the emperor summoned King Zheng in the middle of the night, it turned the world upside down..." The snow-white handkerchief was thrown back into the basin abruptly, splashing the splash of water off Zhu Mang's face.Everyone dared not speak.It was Gui Yuchou who heard the noise here early, and hurriedly lifted the curtain and came in to have a look. "It's cold, I can't catch the handkerchief." Concubine Shu said with a smile.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly cleaned up the mess, and all retreated, leaving only Gui Yuchou serving in the pavilion.Sitting in front of the makeup mirror, Concubine Shu watched as she removed the golden beam crown, the Qibao Yingluo bun, the gold inlaid jade Manchijiao distraction, the Penglai fairy covering the temples, etc., and dismantled the rolled up bun, carefully Pass it through the fine grate, and finally take off a pair of gold-encrusted pearl plum blossom earrings. Concubine Shu lost her vitality after giving birth, and she lost her hair when she combed it, and her hair gradually became too thin to be combed, and she had nothing to do.Sitting bored at this moment, he casually removed the broken hair that was entangled on the comb teeth, and heard Yu Chou casually talking about the situation of the third prince sleeping at night, and suddenly said: "He was ordered to leave the palace, and his actions are all in the hands of the emperor." In my eyes, so I will see you as soon as you come back—it’s not a big deal, you don’t have to worry about it.”

Yu Chou couldn't help being taken aback—Concubine Shu rarely took the initiative to talk about this King Zheng.She wondered if she should ask again, but she saw Concubine Shu standing up staggeringly, walking to the head of the bed, taking out a thin volume of books from the depths of the grid, flipping through pages one by one, with a dazed expression. It's just an ordinary picture book of flowers with broken branches imitated by people in Song Dynasty.Yu Chou thought Concubine Shu was going to appreciate the paintings again, so she hurriedly moved the lamps and candles, but saw that there were some scattered drawing papers in the booklet, and she was pulling them out one by one.

It was a picture of dispelling the cold that had been printed by the Supervisor of Rituals over the years. In the picture, the plum blossoms were all sketched and sketched without any coloring.Yu Chou knew that concubine Shu didn't like the picture of dispelling the cold, so it was never displayed in Xianyang Palace.She didn't know that Concubine Shu secretly put away the cold dispelling pictures that she hadn't used every year, and there were seven of them in total. "Actually, it's against ethics to marry and kill your father and enemy..." Yuchou didn't know how to answer.

Concubine Shu's voice was ethereal and incomprehensible, as if she was talking to herself in a dream and did not expect anyone to respond.She gathered the seven cold dispelling pictures together, rolled them into paper tubes, and put them into the candlelight.The drawing paper instantly turned into a flame. "Your Majesty scalded your hands carefully!" Yu Chou called out in a low voice. She let go of her hand, and the flaming paper roll fell on the brick floor, and it was burned up in an instant, leaving only a few sparks swirling around, and a thin smoke floating in the air.