Chapter 4 summer solstice

Summer Solstice (1) That year's summer solstice coincided with the Dragon Boat Festival. On the first day of the lunar new year, my mother asked people to hang pu leaves, Buddhist and Taoist mugwort in Yanqing Hall, and ordered Shangshi Bureau to make my favorite roasted deer zongzi. On the fifth day of the lunar new year, I specially skipped lectures, brought wine, ordered realgar, and watched me drink it before going to Mrs. Qin's mansion. I was idling in the Yanqing Palace, watching the six court ladies fighting weeds. Spring has already passed, so why fight grass? But because I had nothing to do, I watched it for almost an afternoon.Read "Broken Time" for a while:

It is suspected that the spring dream was good last night, but it is because the grass fight is won today, and the smile comes from both faces. Bo Fang hurriedly sent me Yan Shu's new words.It didn't make much sense either, so I threw it away after reading it, and picked up a copy of "Zuo Zhuan" casually and flipped through it for a long time. "Your Majesty, do you want to send some zongzi to Tianzhang Pavilion and Yiyuan Hall? There are people on duty at the Imperial Academy there." Bofang asked me. I looked at the purple sky outside, it was the rainy season, the room was stuffy, it was really uncomfortable.

"Okay, I'll go with you." But it's the same when going out, it's still stuffy.Everywhere seemed to be dripping, damp. When I walked past Xianrui Pond, I found that the stalks had been pulled out high, on the surface of the water, tightly wrapped with sepals. Looking in from the leaky window, I found that it was so quiet that there were not even birds in the air.Only one woman sat on the steps with Zhao Congzhan and watched the Fengweizhu in the small courtyard talking.The woman hugged her knees and rested her chin on her knees, she couldn't tell who she was, probably a palace maid.

It's really strange, the maids can only stay in the inner palace all the time, when will they be able to come to the Yiyuan Hall? I watched the woman's fingers scratching on the bluestone. Her nails were beautiful, pink, and seemed to have a natural color, not dyed with impatiens like ordinary court ladies. She turned to say something to him, Zhao Congzhan looked at her silently and smiled slightly. It's like a painting.Gentle, calm two people. In the darkening sky, they seem to be in harmony with the night.The weather doesn't seem to be hot anymore. I unconsciously raised the corners of my mouth.When the queen mother comes back, why not let her give the maid to Zhao Congzhan.

However, when I saw that girl's hair, I was suddenly startled. Although her hair was also tied up in a small bun.However, I still vaguely see the irregular, scattered, long and short ends of her hair.I stared at her hair and couldn't take a breath for a long time. I didn't expect to see her again, it would be in such a sweltering summer, here with Zhao Congzhan. Bo Fang asked from behind: "Does the Emperor want to go in?" I stayed for a while and said, "You wait outside." "The slave sent things in?" he asked. I took the bag of zongzi and threw it into the pool with my hands.

The servant at the door knelt down and saw me, so when I entered, she had disappeared, and only Zhao Congzhan was standing at the bottom of the bluestone steps to salute.On the blue stone steps, on the mist covered by the sweltering heat, there were clearly traces of two people sitting on it. Zhao Congzhan saw that I was looking at the traces and didn't speak, so he said in a low voice, "Miss Ai Min came here just now, and now I'm going to get something." Amin...who is it?I thought for a long time before I realized it was her. But I knew her name from Zhao Congzhan. She just came out from inside at this time, and gave me a bag of things with a smile: "I brought something for you to eat from home. Just now I wanted Zhao Congzhan to bring it to you. Now that you are here, I will give it to you directly. "

I looked at the thing wrapped in beautiful gold paper, and took it hesitantly. "You didn't even show up, and I can't enter the inner palace city. I only know Zhao Congzhan and Yiyuan Hall, so I sometimes come to chat with him." She explained casually. I don't know if it's the children who are more sensitive, or the feeling that can be felt by the tentacles, I know she's lying to me, from the smiling eyes she looks at Zhao Congzhan, I feel like I'm seeing fate coming, but there's nothing I can do about it.In such sweltering weather, I could barely breathe.

She was already very familiar with Zhao Congzhan, so she thought I didn't know anything. I returned the beautiful candies to her, turned around and ran out. She caught up in surprise and asked, "What's the matter, little brother? Don't you like sweets?" I turned around angrily and asked, "Why do you always talk to me like a child?" She laughed and said, "I'm just a child, thirteen years old." "I'm fourteen." I glared at her. "Okay, fourteen years old... eat candy." She peeled one for me, stuffed it into my mouth, and asked, "Is it delicious?"

I glared at her again, then nodded reluctantly. She smiled and brushed the hair on her forehead, turned around and saw the lotus on the water, and exclaimed, "Wow, the lotus here is so beautiful." In the pink-purple sky at dusk, the high and low water-flowing lotus caps and quiet green duckweeds seem to be covered with twinkling blue light. "May I pick one?" she asked. "Pick whatever you want." "Hold my hand." She grabbed my wrist, then leaned over to pick the closest one. The night wind blows her hair all the way around my face, tangled and twisted.I used my free right hand to push it away, but it came up again.

I had no choice but to hold her hair, and at the same time, I gave Bo Fang a hard look, and he quickly lowered his head. She looked back at me, and smiled at me holding the unopened lotus in her hand: "I got it..." When I spoke the last word, I finally sneezed because of her hair, and when I let go of my hand, she immediately fell back and fell into the pond.I hurried forward to pull her, and while grabbing her arm, we fell into the pool together. The water splashed with a splash, and the lotus and duckweed in the pond were turbulent. She is still holding the lotus high in her busy schedule.

Fortunately, the water is only a little above the knees.I hurriedly stood up and wanted to climb up, but she screamed, handed me the flowers, and leaned over to fumble under the water. "What's wrong?" I asked. "My...bead fell in." I hurriedly put the lotus on the Linglong Stone, and went to her side to look for it underwater with her.Seeing that she seemed to be in a hurry, he asked, "Is it something important?" "I can't go back without it!" she said anxiously. "Going back?" I asked in surprise. "That's right, I can go home with it!" She was so anxious that her voice trembled. It turned out that she could suddenly appear here with a bead. Because I was in a hurry, I didn't ask her where it came from, but just asked, "What are the beads like?" "Slightly oblate, made of copper and iron." I leaned over to help her grope through the muck. Bo Fang yelled from above: "Your Majesty, the dragon robe is covered with mud. Come up quickly, Your Majesty!" ignore him. I reached out into the mud in the lotus pond, and slowly squeezed the lumps of soft mud out between my fingers, but there was nothing. He reached out again, but caught her fingers in the mud. She also froze for a moment, then grabbed my hand, pulled it back by herself, and said, "It's my hand." I reluctantly let go. She turned aside. I stretched out my hand to grope in the mud again, and felt that my finger touched something, so I hurriedly explored again. A flat oval, cold copper and iron thing. I look up at her."Did you find it?" she asked. At that moment, it was the first time I saw her eyes in the daytime. They were clear and bright, and there seemed to be thousands of beautiful futures in them. Suddenly feel scared.I am afraid that the person who will see her on Butiantai in the future will be a very old me. He was even more afraid that he would never see her again in his lifetime. If one day she disappears, I may wait for her on the terrace for a long, long time, until I am old and can't walk anymore, and she will not appear, because like last time, she has only passed a few days.And I've spent my life.Maybe it will be my child...or my grandson?Creepy. She and I each landed on the other side of the Nine Layers of Blue Falls. I don’t know if there will be an intersection in the future. There is no guarantee of stability at all.Everything I have is powerless. I shook my head and lowered my head not daring to look at her: "No. I didn't touch anything." I stuffed that thing into an orifice under the Linglong Stone's water. In the end, the two of us wrapped in mud sat by the Xianrui Pool and looked at each other. I was in a good mood suddenly, so the corners of my lips moved. "Schadenfreude," she said angrily. "Then what do you do? How do you go back?" I asked. She smiled indifferently and said: "In a few years, someone may find out that I am missing and come to pick me up. Now I might as well go to Zhao Congzhan's house for a while." She has a face. He knelt down and wiped her with his sleeve.She ignored me, frowning in thought. I dare not directly wipe her with my hands, but now through the heavy embroidery, I can touch her skin, her soft cheeks, through two layers of brocade, the touch is still clearly transmitted to every part of my fingers. Striped road. I was so nervous that the ends of my blood vessels almost curled up, and the pulsation from my fingertips was clearly warming to my heart veins. I wish she would stay with me.When I grow up, when I can take on life. Instead of waiting blankly on the terrace alone, I want her who is real and within reach. "Little brother." She called me suddenly.I was startled, and I drew back with a trembling hand. She just asked, "Where do you think I'm going tonight?" "Then...will you go to Yanqing Hall with me?" I asked hesitantly. She habitually turned her face slightly, raised her eyebrows, looked at me with blurred eyes like a fox, and said, "Then tomorrow you have to ask someone to turn over this pond and help me find it!" I nodded hurriedly, feeling anxious. "Then let's go." I happily pulled her up, but fortunately she didn't notice. "I can count on you now." Hearing her say this, I seem to have full of courage, and I am no longer afraid. He went with her to the Jinshui River flowing through the Forbidden Garden to wash the mud from his hands and feet, and then took her to the Inner Palace City. Along the way, the servants stared at my clothes dumbfounded.ignore them. She didn't care.When I arrived at the Yanqing Palace, I greeted the maids, sat down and took a look at the fragrant candy dumplings, rice dumplings and white dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival, and then looked up at me: "I haven't even eaten dinner yet." I peeled the zongzi for her.Then lined it with sherpa, and put tissue paper on it for her. "Thank you." She took it and ate it. She raised her head and asked me after eating half of it, "What's in it?" "Roast roe deer." I said. "What a strange taste." She laughed. "My mother used to eat it for me when I was a child, and I liked it very much, so now she asks Shangshi Bureau to make it for me every year." She nodded, standing up and looking around. I sat on a chair and watched her curiously flip through the display of Baisuoai flowers and silver-like drum flowers, look at the palace-style flower fan on the table in the evening mist, and go to the table with carved silk and mother-of-pearl to hold the plum-red box Look, ask me: "What's in it? It smells so good." I looked back at Bofang, and he hurriedly said, "I cut perilla, calamus, and papaya into fine velvet, and then wrapped it with fragrant herbs to ward off evil spirits." When she looked up at the peaches, willows, sunflowers, pu leaves, and Buddhist ai, she suddenly realized, and asked, "Is it the Dragon Boat Festival today?" "Yeah." She laughed: "The white lady is probably at this time." "What white lady?" I asked. Bo Fang came to ask: "Why don't the emperor and this girl take a bath and talk about it?" We looked at each other's wet mud, and stuck out our tongues at the thought of talking so much.I also thought that sticking out my tongue is not suitable for an emperor, but it was already too late. While taking a bath, Bo Fang asked me quietly: "Does the Emperor want to leave this strange girl in Yanqing Hall?" "Can you stay for a while today?" I asked. "According to the rules, the emperor might as well let the slaves report to the Ministry of Internal Affairs first, and prepare for the title of serving the palace, serving as a sweeper, or serving miscellaneous goods..." "I don't want a maid in the palace." I frowned. "Then the emperor had no choice but to tell the empress dowager." I choked up all of a sudden. "Didn't the mother go to Mrs. Qin's mansion? Let's talk about it later." I was a little frustrated. The queen mother likes to visit the places she used to stay during the New Year's festival. In fact, the queen mother's surname was Pang, and she lost her parents when she was a baby. A silversmith named Gong Mei took her from Sichuan to the capital.At the age of fifteen, she entered the mansion of King Xiang, who was the title of her father during the Duangong period.It is said that the queen mother was a very gentle beauty when she was young, and the emperor father had a deep relationship with her.However, Mrs. Qin, the mother-in-law of the father, was strict in nature, and she went to Emperor Taizong to tell her how humble the mother was.It wasn't until Taizong passed away and her father ascended the throne that she entered the palace as a beauty.She recognized Gong Mei as her brother and changed her surname to Liu, so she had no influence in the court.It wasn't until Dazhong Xiangfu gave birth to me that she was named Xiuyi and Jinde Concubine. The queen mother is vigilant by nature, and she later learned to know the history of books, and remember things in the court more clearly than the emperor father.She can predict all the concerts in the world, and she can clearly grasp the affairs in the palace.After Empress Zhang Mu passed away, her father actually wanted to make her a queen, but because of the strong opposition of the ministers, her mother became a queen at the age of forty-five.But now that she is the empress dowager, she is consummated. So she likes to go to Mrs. Qin's place for a sit down, probably like this, it makes her very happy. I also love to see Mrs. Qin's embarrassment when she talks about the past with her mother.However, Mrs. Qin is very old, and it is actually suitable for her to retire quietly.It's just that the memory of the queen mother is not old yet. In fact, the queen mother may promise me to be with her, but it may not necessarily be.Back then, the queen mother and the emperor father didn't come over quietly, the queen mother should be able to know my thoughts. I kind of got away with it. But Bo Fang said from the side: "There are so many rules in the palace, there are more people out of nowhere, and when the Empress Dowager comes back, she will talk about the emperor's childish nature. I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain this girl's origin." My mood suddenly sank. I thought my life would change by keeping her by my side. But I, in fact, can do nothing. That night she told me the story of the white lady and a man named Xu Xian. A love story between a snake and a man.Later, not together. I asked the maid of the night watch to give her the outer couch, and we were separated by a green gauze screen with seven wings and nine bats. When the flood flooded the Jinshan Mountain, the child of the white snake fell to the ground, and she lifted the child out of the flood. Shui Mian begged Fa Hai to save the child, while Xu Xian was chanting scriptures desperately in Jinshan Temple to stop the monster---his wife. I don't like this story.But I have never heard such a beautiful story. In a soft voice, she told me about the last days of White Snake in Leifeng Pagoda. She talked about the white snake stubbornly thinking that her husband still loves her, and stubbornly waiting for God to give her happiness.The son of the white snake finally won the first prize, so the Leifeng Pagoda collapsed and the West Lake dried up. So the family is reunited again, regardless of any betrayal or sorrow in the middle. It turned out that the emperor gave a champion in the end, which saved the tragedy. However, am I the most powerless person in the world? I don't like the ending of this story either.Because this is just the compassion of the storyteller, to give the listener a little bit of impossible happiness.Not long after I fell asleep, I had another nightmare. Falling from a high cliff, not once or twice. Woke up again in shock. Turning around, looking outside through the light green gauze, by the palace lantern.She fell asleep peacefully. She was sleeping very well, curled up peacefully in the bed, breathing softly. I gently lifted the quilt out of bed, went to her side, reached out and touched the tip of her hair, and it was really held in my hand. I couldn't help but touch it with my lips. Gently faint, the subtle fragrance of white orchids. No matter what, when my mother came back, I would hold her hand and tell my mother, I don't like Guo Qingyi, what I want is her.If the queen mother doesn't agree, well...then I'll keep begging her until she agrees. Everyone in the world knows that my mother and I usually have no quarrel at all, so, such a thing, my mother has no reason not to agree. She will never make me so unhappy. I thought a lot and felt relieved, so I went back to sleep. I don't know how long it took, but I woke up again. Look at her, still sleeping there peacefully.Close your eyes contentedly and go back to sleep.Soon, I woke up again.I was very worried, afraid that when I opened my eyes, I would never see her again.I am afraid that she has already left after taking the beads. Looking at Bisha's side this time, there was really no one there. I was startled, sat up quickly, and ran outside to have a look, only to find that she was sitting on the porch looking at the sky. When she heard the voice, she turned her head and smiled at me: "I can't sleep anymore, get up and watch the sunrise." I felt relieved and sat down beside her. Before dawn, the slightly cold wind lingered around us and then flowed away.I rested my chin on the morning star.It's an ordinary sky, but with her by my side, I feel that the air is gentle and lingering. She exclaimed, grabbed my hand and said, "Ah, meteor!" I looked up and saw two meteors sliding across the night sky at the same time. One is the two stars of the inner chef, and the southwest of Ziweiyuan. These two stars govern the food and drink in the sixth house and the banquets of the concubine and the prince.Comet, Bo or meteor offend it, and the diet is poisonous. One is in Xu Nu Four Stars, the Young Mansion of Heaven.According to Li Chunfeng's "Yisi Zhan", meteors come and go with a yellow color, and the concubine is established. These two omens have nothing to do with each other. Drinking poison is a great disaster, and drinking poison is a great blessing.really weird. "Ah, yes, this, this." She opened the bag and took out several bottles of strange texture: "Drinks." "What is this red one?" I picked it up and looked in front of my eyes. "Watermelon juice, specially brought for you to drink." Was it specially brought to him to drink? "The color of blood... so strange." I muttered. "Then you drink this, children will like it." She gave me the clear and transparent bottle. I picked it up and tried to pull out the lid, but it wouldn't open. "I'll come--" She took it and turned it to the right, and when she heard a "chick", she opened it immediately, and she handed it to me. I took it and was about to take a sip, but someone next to me shouted, "Your Majesty!" I looked towards the steps, and Bofang bowed and welcomed the queen mother in. My nerves froze. The queen mother looked at me from the side of the steps, behind her was the slightly bright sky, and I was on the dark side, so I couldn't see the expression on her face. She said plainly: "The summer solstice is when all kinds of poisons gather, how was your majesty doing yesterday?" As if she came here as usual, she walked up to me very naturally and looked at the bottle in my hand. I stood up timidly. "What?" She reached out to take it and looked carefully. She whispered from behind: "Coke." "Presumptuous!" Bo Fang hurriedly stopped her. She looked at the awe-inspiring majesty of the queen mother in fear, lowered her head wisely, and shut her mouth obediently. The queen mother paused her eyes on her for a moment, then poured out the bottle in her hand, and the clear and transparent water in it was poured on the green bricks, and there was a "hissing" sound, and a piece of white foam bubbled out. Everyone was shocked.I hurriedly turned to look at her. She couldn't say a word. The queen mother looked at her playfully: "The blood-red one is said to be melon juice, so what kind of melon is this squeezed from?" She whispered behind me: "It doesn't matter if someone has a sip and try it." The queen mother glanced at me, and said slowly: "Why don't you send it to the imperial doctor to see what kind of medicine it is?" "Ma'am..." I called her hesitantly. She looked back at me with cold eyes, as sharp as the broken glass. "Why, do you still want to hear the story of the snake spirit again?" I fought a cold war for life.That breath was choked in his throat, unable to speak out, after a long time, he glanced at Bofang, then lowered his head in haste to look at the brick floor of Butiantai. The queen mother gave the remaining half bottle to the servant behind her, with a faint smile: "Don't try, just send the people and water to Dali Temple." Summer Solstice (2) Being escorted by Bofang back to Yanqing Hall, I tried my best to get rid of him, but I didn't know where I was going. Standing in a daze for a long time under the gradually brightening sky, the wind in early May means that summer is coming, but it is not yet summer.It turned out to be the most gloomy and cold, even more bone-piercing than the last time I was on Butiantai during the Waking of Insects. When the sky was bright, the Hakka envoy beside the empress came to pass the news that the Dali Temple had accepted the case and the trial would be held in three days. On the afternoon of the sixth day of May. The temperature is as muggy as yesterday. It wasn't until Shen Zhong went to Chonghui Hall to talk to the queen mother, and found that the queen mother just left Guo Qingyi to talk.Then he left her to eat with him. Seeing the mother's expression, it seemed to be pretty good. He hesitated for a long time, wondering if it would make things worse, but anyway, he said hesitantly: "Last night that..." "This fresh shrimp hoof is a new method of Shangshi Bureau, does the emperor like it?" The queen mother asked someone around to bring it for me. Can't taste anything. "like." That Guo Qingyi only ate the bowl of fried eel in front of her. "I remember four years ago on my birthday, Pinglu army Guo Jiedu sent home-made dry-roasted starry cakes, and I still think about it. I mentioned it to Mrs. Qin yesterday, and the Guo family gave it away today. Come here, you are so considerate. Do you want to taste the taste of your own home?" The last sentence of the queen mother was addressed to Guo Qingyi. I bowed my head and ate the cake that Bofang handed over. It's unpalatable.I wonder what she ate at Dali Temple?Is it that bad? Feeling depressed and tasteless. "What's wrong?" My mother asked me. I quickly seized the opportunity: "Actually, we were just looking at the stars last night..." "It's nothing." The queen mother nodded at me, "Where is she from? Which girl?" I have no idea. "...she came from far away, she had a bead, so she came to us..." It was so confusing that I couldn't explain it myself. Guo Qingyi lowered her head and twitched the corner of her mouth, but she didn't smile. "So, she can suddenly appear in the palace, disappear suddenly, and then give you to drink such corrosive water..." The queen mother looked up at me. When I was caught by her eyes, my chest tightened immediately, and I immediately bowed my head and stopped talking. "Appeared in Da Nei in the middle of the night, and had no origin, with strange things, not to mention that the water is poison, I think she is also something unclean, otherwise, why did she say something to the emperor about goblins and ghosts? Don't be in the middle of the night if you have nothing to do. The boss has gone to the heavenly supervisor, what are those stars to see?" It turned out that the queen mother knew everything clearly. I bowed my head and remained silent. The queen mother probably thinks she is some kind of ghost, in fact, I often think that she is not like a normal woman, she is like a fox. But how cute the fox is. She laughed, and the corners of her eyebrows and eyes were full of attractive brilliance, dripping down one by one, tinkling in the night, like something with texture, jumping, jumping, jumping. Her body has the texture of fur animals.She is a fox. But what does it matter? I am afraid, the night is always cold, I am afraid of the wind in the dead silence, it seems to pass through my body when it comes.Why can't I have something soft and warm, even if it's a fox, even if it's not an ordinary person, as long as she calls me little brother, as long as she has the breath of a white orchid.As long as there is such a brilliant Shangyuan, I like her. I like her. After leaving the Chonghui Hall, we headed towards the Yiyuan Hall. When we reached the Yunshang Xianrui Pond, we stared blankly at the lotus for a long time. Finally made up his mind, he took off his shoes and socks on the lawn by the pool, and lifted up his dragon robe.When I dipped my feet into the water, I made a "hiss" unconsciously.I fell into the water suddenly yesterday, so I didn't feel anything, but today I realized that the water is so cold. Bofang wanted to stretch out his hand to hold me, but I gave him a hard look, and he had no choice but to withdraw his hand. He staggered to the Linglong Stone, slowly stretched out his hand into the hole, and touched the thing left here.I held on to the bead so hard that my nails hurt my palm. Anyway, I don't have any ability, now, I have to let her go back. Finally, I will be able to wait for her on the Butiantai in the future, although it may be once a year.But I can wait. Whatever the vicissitudes of life, I will wait for her. When the resolution is made, people are calm.I retracted my hands as if nothing had happened, trudged back from the water, adjusted the dragon robe on the lawn, then put on my shoes and socks, walked around the pool slowly, and walked to the Yiyuan Hall. Sure enough, Zhao Congzhan was still looking up ancient books in the Hall of Yiyuan.I was annoyed that he always knelt down, so I just handed the beads into his hand and said: "I can't go out of the palace, you find a chance to visit her in Dali Temple, give... this to her, and she can go back gone." He knelt down and took it with both hands, bowed his head and said: "I am a servant of the Imperial Academy, I'm afraid I can't enter Dali Temple." I thought so, so I had to take out the paper and write him a handwritten letter. After thinking about it, she told her again: "This bead may be related to her life, so you must not throw it away." "I know." I think he certainly knows better than me. However, the handwriting I saw again was at the Empress of Chonghui Palace. The queen mother said to me softly: "The sky prison in Dali Temple is a place of heavy shade. It is unlucky for the emperor to ask someone to enter." I looked at Zhao Congzhan who was kneeling on the ground and bit my lower lip. The queen mother asked Zhao Congzhan: "What is this?" He hesitated for a while, then said, "It's something that girl came and went here." "The emperor wants to let her go back and let her go, so as not to be held accountable?" The queen mother handed the beads into the hands of the maid behind her, and then turned to face me, "How will the emperor treat the country's law? If the murderer who tries to harm the emperor is not severely punished, the future How do I legislate in the court, and make it right?" I bowed my head and didn't dare to say anything, and I didn't want to say anything. I don't know what Zhao Congzhan is thinking now. It turns out that the entrustment is not human.I am and so is she. I silently sneered.Suddenly, nothing matters. Anyway, I'm a child, I don't know anything, I can mess around. I still have my mother and queen, and there are so many clan children, all of whom are outstanding people, and they know a lot more than me. An emperor like me is someone to be manipulated anyway. As someone said, I am lucky, not my life. Life is like a desperate game. On the ninth day of May, Dali Temple opened the trial. When I arrived at Duanming Hall, I took a special look at Zhao Congzhan. He sat there reading a book as usual, slowly turning the pages, but his long, beautiful eyelashes fluttered occasionally. I was suddenly very angry.Throwing the book down, he said, "Let's skip the lecture today. I'm going to Dali Temple." Everyone was stunned. "The case being tried today happens to have something to do with me. I have wanted to see Dali Temple for a long time. Why don't I go and see it today? The scholar said well, how can you know the world while sitting in the court?" Zhao Congzhan looked up at me in surprise. Lu Zhao hurriedly said: "So, wait for the minister to report back to the Empress Dowager..." "No, we'll be back right away. Why bother the queen mother with such a trivial matter?" I stood up, turned around and told Bo Fang, "Go to Chonghui Hall and tell the queen mother, please don't worry." Bo Fang hurriedly left. I walked to the steps of His Highness and looked back at those courtiers who dared not move: "Let's go, gentlemen." After all the people in Dali Temple had seen me and were promoted again, the queen mother also arrived. Had to meet again.All I could think of was her. I don't know how she will feel sad when she is alone in our place, in a prison cell, and her experience is very different from her hometown, and her future is at a loss. And I can't do anything for her.In fact, everything is my fault. However, seeing that she was brought out, she seemed to be doing well.Since he is in the Sky Prison and is a prisoner who is given special attention, nothing should happen.And she is in a female prison, which is better than ordinary cells. I carefully looked at her skirt and clothes, and they were clean. Although her eyes were a little swollen, they were just a little pale and haggard, and they were much better than I imagined. Seeing me looking at her, she nodded slightly to me.I was finally relieved a little. There have been two interrogations yesterday and just now, so the procedure now is simple. Dali Temple is sitting sideways on the right side of the hall, and my mother and I are sitting in the middle on the left and right. There is one Tuicheng, one Duancheng, Sizhi, judges, and two masters. For such a grand occasion, I just listened to the verdict read out from the sub-books of the various cases in charge of the investigation: "The criminal woman did not admit to the crime committed, but the witnesses and physical evidence are convincing... The criminal woman is not from the inner palace. Infiltrated into the palace in an attempt to harm the Holy Majesty, but luckily the blessings of the country failed to succeed. According to the laws of the Song Dynasty and the "Compilation Edict" of our dynasty, he should be punished and linked to the nine clans. It will be handed over to the Ministry of Punishment for a detailed investigation, and the mastermind behind the scenes will be investigated..." "Where are the witnesses?" I interrupted him. He was startled, and looked at Dali Temple in bewilderment. The queen mother said slowly from the side: "At that time all the maids in the court saw it, did the emperor want to count the queen mother as one of them?" "I don't dare." I bowed my head to her and looked at her kneeling below. She was pale.My heart tightened, something thick fluctuated, like a twitch. "What about the physical evidence?" Tui Cheng presented the bottle. I took it and unscrewed it, but this time there was no hissing sound like last time.I lowered my head and sniffed. The queen mother said from the side: "The imperial doctor checked and found that this is a highly poisonous corrosive drug. The emperor also saw it at that time." I thought of the white foam bubbles and the sound of chi-chi on the blue bricks, and I was suddenly terrified. I felt my heart beating fast, and I felt cold because of fear, and the goose bumps all over my body stood up. I don't know her stuff at all, and I don't know her world. If it is so violent, if it is poison, it must die very quickly. I raised my hand and drank it all down. Sweet and cold. Sliding down my throat, it was cold all the way to my lower abdomen.I shivered, terrified.This started to tremble. There was a sudden chaos around, and in the commotion, I only saw the queen mother rushing forward, her face was pale with fright. But all the people around just exclaimed and did nothing else. I fell on the chair and grabbed the queen mother's sleeve, gasping for a long time in shock, unable to say anything, she also lost her usual calm, holding me with a flustered expression, but she even forgot about it.It was the first time I saw my mother like this, and I felt sad. For a long time, nothing seemed to happen. I just turned to look at her. She stared at me wide-eyed down there, in disbelief. Her lips were completely dark purple, trembling, lifeless like dead leaves. I tugged at my lips, trying to smile at her, but couldn't at all. After a long time, I finally settled down and asked in a low voice: "Are you still going to harm the emperor now?" Back in the palace, I followed my mother to the Chonghui Hall, cleared out all the servants and maids, and my mother gave me a slap in the face.Just like the time when I was beaten when I was eleven years old. And I didn't want to shed tears, so I stood quietly in front of her and waited for her to speak. "Although that woman is not charged with poisoning, she is still guilty." The queen mother looked at me coldly and said, "She sneaked into the palace and attempted to get close to the emperor with evil intentions. She is still a capital punishment." "I brought her in from outside the palace, three days ago." The queen mother looked behind me, "Bo Fang?" Bo Fang hesitated to speak. "Which woman in this palace is not better than this woman with a strange background? You are still young, how would you know..." The queen mother seemed very angry, "Do you know that the royal family will not tolerate such a woman with a strange identity?" I suddenly understood that it was not her poison that the queen mother wanted to investigate.It's who she is. All my determination, in the eyes of the queen mother, is such a ridiculous thing. The fireworks she gave me are so high and far away, how can a fourteen-year-old child who is lonely and trapped in the rooftop can reach it.All I have is just to watch those brilliance fly away and annihilate in the air. I slowly knelt down to the queen mother and said, "Of course I want to send her out. A few days ago, I was watching the sky, and there was a shooting star entering the four stars of the bearded girl, and the color was yellow. It was a sign of a concubine. The boy thought , now that he has already ascended the throne, the successor should not be left empty, and the Queen Mother also said that the affairs in the palace are cumbersome, and the child asked the Queen Mother to be the master, pointing to a concubine worthy of the mother's honor, to be the East Palace." The queen mother looked at me, shook her head, and said, "You... why are you so suspicious?" I lowered my head and didn't look at her. "Is this the emperor's own choice? Is there any suitable candidate?" the queen mother asked. "What does the queen mother think of Guo Qingyi, the granddaughter of Guo Chongzhi, the military governor of Pinglu Army?" "Let's discuss it later...I'm tired today." She motioned me to go down. When I arrived outside the Chonghui Hall, the palace servants beside her caught up and gave me a small bead. I reached out to take it, and it was cold. When I took her out of the dungeon, it began to rain lightly, and the lotus flowers in the imperial ditch bloomed like beautiful flowers, and they were squeezed plumply in the rain like silk all over the sky. . She hugged me weakly in the rain outside the dungeon, tears fell on my collar, warm tears, cold rain, all covered my body. Only then did I realize that I had already grown taller than her.I can hug her now. She looked up for Zhao Congzhan, but he didn't show up. "He failed what he entrusted." I couldn't help but say. She didn't know if she understood, but she just looked at me for a long time and said, "little brother, you are the emperor, of course you don't know... It is very difficult for everyone to live in this world. Zhao Congzhan is also It's not easy. Don't be too demanding." I held back the tears for a long time, because of her words, they finally flowed down. It turns out that I am the most relaxed and happy person in the world. Look at her through the rain and tears.In the turbulent rain, her face was blurred. 周围的一切寂静无声，就象所有的声响都已经死去。 她又怎么知道，我是怎么生活。 我有生以来，第一次痛恨自己的无能为力。 我终于想要长大，长到脱离那些困缚，改变我这虚弱的人生。到足以面对世上的一切。我不要在夜里无望地等待她，我再不想要步天台上那些割痛肌体的风，总有一天，我要抓紧她，把她留在我身边，永远，把她绑住，要她无法飞翔，不能逃离。 我将来，一定要改变。 天圣二年十一月丁酉，我十五岁。百官上尊号，称我为圣文睿武仁明孝德皇帝，上皇太后尊号为应元崇德仁寿慈圣皇太后。 乙巳，立皇后郭氏。 大婚时候，龟兹、甘肃来贡，进献西域珍果。其中有中原从未见过的一种瓜，据说本是出于夏天，现在冬天居然出了三个，所以特来献贺。 破瓜分食时，里面的汁水象血一样鲜红，流了满桌。 大臣请我赐名。 我慢慢地说：“从西域来，不如就叫西瓜吧。” 这崇政殿的所有人，他们都不知道，曾经有个人给我带过西瓜汁。 可是我没有喝到。