Chapter 2 Waking of Insects

"On the twenty-first day, the ministers came to see the emperor in the Dongxu Pavilion. The ministers bowed and danced to proclaim their long live. They wept and mourned, and retired. The ministers put forward the form and please listen to the government." After reading this, Bo Fang told me in a low voice. : "Your Majesty has to decline twice, wait until they go up three times, and then you can agree." I nodded blankly. "On the 23rd day, Emperor Chen Xian dressed and played with pearl jackets, jade boxes, han, and scorpions that should have been brought into the Zi Palace in Yanqing Hall, and summoned his assistant ministers to observe them. On the 24th day, the clothes were collected. On the 25th day, There is a royal seat set up by a minister, with curtains hanging from the west verandah of the Chongzheng Hall, and the curtains are all plain, outside the door of the Ban Hall of the ministers."

I turned my head and looked out the window, the willows had just turned blue. It's about the weather of Awakening of Insects. Spring is coming. When I met several clansmen, there was nothing unusual about their expressions, but their eyes were red, as unnatural as if they had been stimulated with chili water for no reason. I don't know if I am the same? Our tears are shed, not cried. When I arrived at the Dongxu Pavilion, I found that my mother came in a big An chariot.The Da'an chariot was made by the Empress Dowager Wan'an during the Xianping period, and it was equipped with six dragons.

Usually, the Empress Dowager and the Empress often come out, and usually they only use a pair of gold and silver to decorate the white vines, cover them with palm houses, and decorate them with phoenixes.It must be not without deep meaning that the queen mother came in a big safety chariot when her father was just riding the dragon. So I knelt down to pay respects, and then ordered the empress dowager to enter and exit the place. From now on, it will be like the empress dowager Wan'an, with six-element dragons on it, and the decoration rate will be increased. The queen mother nodded slightly in the chariot.

Long live Long live Long live. The ministers shouted loudly. If I can live forever, do I still need to sit here? If my father is really long live, I will be able to watch the stars in the Sitianjian for the rest of my life, and I will never need to know about the affairs of the world. It was strange to listen numbly to their ritual wailing. When my father and I met, there were always those few words—— "Greetings to my father." "Get up." "Thank you, father." "Have you read the book today?" "Read it." "Be careful." "Yes." "Go down." "Yes."

But there will be no more such words in the future. Before I knew it, I also burst into tears. After returning to the palace, the stepmother praised me: "The behavior of the emperor just now is very polite." She took a sip from the tea cup and asked, "Have you decided who will guard the mausoleum?" "Not yet." I said, bowing my head. "Then why not let Li Wanyi be obedient and guard the imperial tomb?" She asked slowly. Li Wanyi, I don't have much impression, she is probably an ordinary concubine. "Everything is according to the will of the queen mother."

The queen mother looked at me carefully, and saw that there was nothing unusual. After thinking about it, she said: "Let Liu Mei and Zhang Huaide visit her relatives to enter the court. She is from Hangzhou. It is said that there is a younger brother named Yonghe in Hangzhou. Why not?" Let him make up three shifts to serve." "Yes. Everything is arranged by the queen mother." In the evening, I saw Li Wanyi. I told her about comforting her as usual, but she kept her head down and didn't dare to look at me, she just said "yes". Finally I said: "You don't have any children, so it's a blessing to stay by your father's side forever."

She finally looked up at me, and I saw tears in her eyes, but I tried not to cry out.Just burst into tears. This person cries the same way as me. She knelt down and kowtowed, then went back. He didn't look back. It is said that she had a daughter, but, like my brothers, they all died young. In the royal family, there are very few children who can grow up. I felt uncomfortable, seeing that the sky was getting dark, and I remembered that strange girl from last night. After eating something carelessly, Taibai had already come out. The road to Sitianjian is full of bamboos, and my thin figure mottled in the night wind swaying on my robe.The lights in the Forbidden Garden are all white, shining on the blue bricks, a chill rolls up from the ground and hits people's faces.

Am I going to see her? I feel a chill. I stayed for a while, then turned around and said to Bofang, "Go back." After walking a few steps, he looked back at Si Tianjian. There was silence. I wonder if she is here? I felt my right cheek start to warm up.The warmth of her palm is clearly still on the surface of my skin, but that strange warmth snakes its way into my heart like a vine. The scent on her body is like the smell of white orchids, green and dark. She said to me, I'll come back tomorrow, little brother. Her smile is like a butterfly locked in a sparse cage, without the slightest threat, yet within reach.

I stood only a hundred feet away from Si Tianjian, silently looking at the tall building. Bo Fang asked from behind, "Your Majesty?" "Go back to Yanqing Hall." I have only closed my eyes for two whole nights, but I still can't sleep. Get up and look at the sky outside the temple. The brightest star in the sky right now is Fomalhaut. The north gate of Chang'an City is called "Bei Luo Gate", and this star is named after it.Division, soldiers move. Fomalhaut, the Lord is waiting for soldiers. Every time the Emperor Taizu destroyed a separatist regime, he divided part of the gold and silver goods into the special treasury, and told his courtiers that when the treasury accumulated three to five million yuan, it could be used to redeem Yanyun's homeland from Khitan.

From then on, it was a compromise with the foreign race, not the use of force. In the battle under Chanyuan City, the situation has already turned to our side, but my father still does not believe that the Liao people can really be defeated.Moreover, he later said, don't fight, if the courtiers hold on to the military power, the disaster of the Five Dynasties will be a lesson for the past. What he said to me at the end, "Be kind to the world", is he asking me to stabilize the situation and avoid war. Rather humiliation than subversion.I would rather linger on my last breath than lose power.

This is our national policy.What does this have to do with me? I actually have no power at all.I don't even want to be the emperor. I am sixth, the youngest child of my father.With no talent, coupled with being too young, and having no influence to publicly support her, all she can do now is to obediently obey her mother's words. My mother is already looking for a queen for me, who is said to be from Jincheng, Yingzhou.The granddaughter of Guo Chongzhi, the military governor of Pinglu.In order to prevent the stories of former and later relatives interfering in politics, she is not from a prominent background. Feeling restless, Bo Fang asked from behind: "Is it time for the emperor to rest?" I nod.Go back to the hall and lie down. The surroundings are empty, as if my breathing has a faint echo. The palace lanterns were lit so brightly, and the surroundings became more and more deserted, and I could clearly see that I was the only one. Alone in such a covered room.Open your eyes and see the dead silence in the room. Those palace maids also slept in the outer palace, and the people selected by the queen mother all slept very well, without a single sound. One piece solidified. Because of the silence, I was terrified, and my fingers unconsciously grabbed the quilt convulsively. Those silk-embroidered dragons and snakes wrapped around my body like snakes.I couldn't breathe, I saw the six dragons on the queen mother's chariot, coming in from the outside, spitting letters with cold air. Xinzi was blood red, but like his father's lips, when he was growing up, his lips were also blood red. His lips were trembling constantly, but the words that came out of him were extremely clear----you have to be kind to the world and benefit from it. ... benefit, benefit. When I was very young, Concubine Yang Shu followed me and kept chasing me, calling me with a smile. I looked back at her, and suddenly the front was empty, I fell into the cliff, and fell down at the highest place. nightmare. I struggled to sit up and gasped for breath for a long time before getting up to the window. Fomalhaut hangs brightly and indifferently on the horizon. In this palace, there is the only place I like, Butiantai. And that weird but non-threatening girl. I ran out the side door. Hearing my rapid breathing, I rushed past countless pale palace lanterns and countless skinny bamboos. The wind swept past me like a knife. In February, I was almost frozen to the point where my skin was torn apart. Child hour has not yet arrived. I waited for her on the high platform. It's so cold, I want something warm, like the summer temperature in her palm. Also, like a butterfly in a cage, safe and close. The silver man is far away. Seen from a high place, it is the clearest, but also the coldest. It seems that all the wind in the world is gathered here, and I ran out of the bed in a thin unlined garment, waiting for her arrival. But maybe I'm not waiting for her to come, maybe I just hate the stuffy air in Yanqing Palace, maybe I just don't want those dragons and snakes.Maybe, just don't feel the fear of falling from the top. Holding his knees, in the turbulent wind. Watching the entire sky slowly turn and move, all the stars are spinning indifferently above my head. It was so cold that I didn't even shiver, I just felt that the chill had entered through my limbs, as if it had taken root inside, and it was growing layer by layer into the bone marrow.In the end, when all the flesh and blood are covered, it doesn't feel cold, but feels harmonious. When Zishi passed, the long river gradually fell.To the blue sky. She didn't show up. She clearly said she would come. It turned out that she lied to me too. It was as painful as when her knee hit me hard. But this time it was not the right rib, but the heart vein. It was bright. I wanted to get up, but my hands and feet became stiff, and I fell to the ground for a while. Someone behind me silently picked me up and wrapped me in a brocade quilt. It turned out to be Bofang.I don't know when he will arrive. He has hot water ready. When my stiff fingers touched the warm water, the blood flowed as if it had melted. In March of that year, in Gengyin, I first visited the Chongde Hall, and my mother set up a tent next to the Chengming Hall, and hung the curtain to see the assistant ministers. In August, Yisi, the queen mother and the Imperial Chengming Palace hang down the curtain to decide. In October Jiyou, the late emperor was buried in Yongding Mausoleum.The imperial edict avoids the empress dowager's father's taboo at home and abroad. At the end of October, the God of Fuhuang was in the Taimiao, and the name of the temple was Emperor Zhenzong.Guo Qingyi is officially married. She was four months older than me and seemed to have her head down but her chin seemed to be raised.I glanced at her and saw the nine phoenixes and four phoenixes adorned on her head, so I felt relieved. This is a concubine's system. It seems that the mother has no plan to make her a queen now.As for her face, I turned my eyes away without seeing it clearly. When saluting to the ancestors in the Taimiao, I secretly rejoiced. If the emperor stays in the Queen's Palace less than five days a month, the servants around him will remind him to go to the Queen's Palace.I don't want to sleep with a strange woman like this for a sixth of every month. A year also passed quickly. I thought I would never see that strange woman again.I didn't want to see her again. I'm used to life, I'm used to looking to the right for everything. It seems that the queen mother hangs a curtain on my right at any time. I thought that my life would continue in a logical manner, and nothing unexpected would come.