Author: A native of Guanghan Palace

This was like a chat between an old woman, but I felt that there was disappointment in addition to the cleverness. Sure enough, she waved her hand and ordered everyone to retreat, but unexpectedly called me, "Huaishu stayed, the old woman wanted to say something to you."

My heart sternly, and I quickly changed my smile and agreed. Jinxi sent Xuepo away, and gave a small slap for the first time under the Queen Mother's phoenix throne, signaling me to sit down.

At this time, the highest honorary place in Zi Ao City was left, and only two masters and servants. The stool with yellow rosewood base was smooth and cool, but it could not cool my uneasy mood. Since I had memory, I have never been so close to the Queen Mother. This woman was afraid of etiquette, power, or wisdom. I was afraid that she would not be happy to let me get married thousands of miles away from home and leave my mother forever. But today, what I saw in my eyes was a tired Zhen Huan under the nine-tailed phoenix crown. She always called herself "old body", but who would really treat her as an old woman who was enjoying her grandchildren? But today, the exquisite makeup and eyebrows and eyebrows actually exuded relaxation and aging from the inside out, no longer as dignified and luxurious as before.

But clearly, she is only about forty people? Maybe, as Mother De said, they are all old.

The Queen Mother was so alert. After a moment, she said gently: "Huaishu, your eyes tell the Ai family that you are pitying me."

I quickly lowered my head, unexpectedly not as scared as usual. The Queen Mother values ​​her identity in front of juniors like us, when will she call herself?

The Queen Mother looked at me, as if she was happy and angry, and said after a long time, "The world is like a tide, you have all grown up, Huaisu, you are a smart and obedient child. You are so obedient that you can even make the Ai family forget your existence, but despite this, today's affairs still come to you. Do you know why?"

I whispered, "Because my sons are not careful, the little masters misunderstood."

The empress dowager smiled and said, "Misunderstanding? What do you mean is that you really don't intend to recommend Xie to the Qinzheng Hall? It's really her that she has nothing to do with you when she falls into the emperor's eyes?"

Finally, I gritted my teeth and knelt straight at the hand of the empress dowager, saying, "Although Xie was recommended by his son, the actions were definitely not sympathized with by the emperor's brother. But because his son believed that he had implicated the palace maid Liuhong, he took care of her cousin." Looking at the empress dowager's expression, he knew that he could not be fooled in front of her, so he simply shouted: "There are Guanzi and Pingyang in the Han Dynasty who dared to recommend beauties to the emperor's brothers. What they rely on is not the power of the husband's family, but... they are the emperor's sisters, but the minister was the concubine who was born and the concubine who had never said a few words to the emperor."

Under the patriarchal ethics, the difference between legitimate and illegitimate is well known to everyone. In the Tian family, there is a conflict of power. I felt scared after saying that, and I felt weak all over. I could only support the hard marble with my arms to maintain my kneeling posture. I believe that from the perspective of the Queen Mother or Aunt Jin Xi, my face must be extremely embarrassed at this moment.

The Empress Dowager let me kneel, without saying anything, as if thinking about something. Just as my knees were numb, she said, "Legislative and I have not heard such a remark for many years. I really didn't expect that such a bastard was said from your mouth." Xuan Ji's tone was a little kinder, "But although it's a bastard, it's a rare truth. You are a wise person. Knowing that the Ai family will not believe in words without desires, just take a gamble."

The Empress Dowager said quietly: "It seems that the decision of the Ai family back then was not wrong."

As he said that, he did not look at me, but contacted Aunt Cui. Aunt Cui smiled gently.

Then she said, "You are a cherishing blessing, which is very good. Today's things are thanks to Xun's winks, but the days you stay in the palace are limited. Many things are just life experiences. The past is over. Well, I'm about to see that I'm up to the rest. If I don't go back, I'm going to be anxious to be a concubine. You go."

Yes, there was still a mother waiting for me to go back anxiously. I endured the slightly swelling curiosity and kowtowed. In the darkness of the lights, only a lonely and old lady was left.

The Queen Mother is right, I really feel sorry for her.

However, neither I nor her expected that compared to her situation a few years later, her disappointment and haggardness today was a drop in the ocean. And that day's powerlessness was brought by her favorite youngest daughter.

At that time, I was already outside the palace and I don’t know much about the inside story anymore.

The winter of Zhengzhang's ninth year came very late, but it was vigorous. From November, a few heavy snowstorms blew overwhelmed. When the snow fell, everyone was surprised. When the snow melted, the temperature dropped sharply. The light wind was as powerful as a knife cutting a person. I asked me to change my velvet skirt to fox fur almost in one day.

It is naturally not suitable to go out in such weather, but there are always things that have to go out:

When she lifted the thick curtains on the inner door, she saw Liuhong had already changed into folk clothes and hairpins. She might have looked like a little lady from a family, elegant and warm. When she saw me, she said excitedly: "Grandma, how can you trouble you with such a god?"

"This kind of weather repeats itself, but you don't know when you will see it when you go."

When Liuhong heard this, her eyes turned red and she said with a whimper, "This is all the grace of the Emperor and our Emperor. I never expected it."

Lingxi sat on the warm kang, drinking hot milk, and then raised her head and smiled faintly: "Look at you, I have come to say goodbye to you these days, nine out of ten people are crying with people. I don't know that you are not returning to your hometown, but exiling."

Heng'er also joked, "I said my sister should keep some tears. Now that I'm using it, why are you going to cry and marry me?"

Her words were so playful that everyone covered their mouths and smiled, and the strong atmosphere of parting became much weaker.

I took off my cloak, sat down next to Lingxi, and asked Liuhong as usual: "Can the day of leaving the palace be decided? Have you reported to Yu's family to pick me up?"

"Go back to the Emperor, it will be the seventeenth month this month. My mother and her brother and husband are on the way."

"It's only been about ten days to say this. Thank you... Have you been there?"

Liuhong was generous in this regard, "Princess Jin is different from the past now. How could he prick the identity of a servant so much? He just waited for the day before he said goodbye."

I said, "You understand, so I don't have to worry too much." Although Xie was passed by the empress dowager and was granted a concubine to live in Lixi Pavilion, her humble family background was there. The emperor's brother recently favored Xun Fangyi because of the empress dowager's praise, but the emperor's brother was still jealous of her brother's concern for her. He had many difficulties in both open and secretly, and her life was really not easy.

Just say that Liuhong left the palace this time. It is said that it was because others wanted to attack her "power" in the palace, but it was just a blessing in disguise.

Huaisu is afraid of Zhen Huan

(End of this chapter)
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