Li Huang

"Niangniang, Empress Liu is here, and she wants to see you, Empress Empress. I am thinking about how to turn her back. After all, Niangniang, you told us that you never see visitors. But the slave is stupid, I don't know how to say that to prevent Concubine Liu. Niang Niang came in and came to discuss with Girl Haoyue."

"My palace said, get up." After a pause, he said, "Where is Concubine Liu?"

"It's in the front hall." Xiao Fuzi replied: "The minion has already said some reasons, but she just left to see you. The minion has nothing to do. Mother, what do you say?"

I adjusted my clothes and looked at Haoyue, then smiled, "Since Concubine Liu must see this palace, let's go."

"Miss..." Haoyue called me timidly, her voice full of fear.

"What are you afraid of? After all, your lady is still a queen." After that, she walked out of the apse.

In fact, I have guessed seven or eight points as to why Concubine Liu came here.

In the front hall of Kunning Palace, a slender figure stood with its back to the gate, and all the maids and eunuchs she brought stood outside the gate of Kunning Palace.

I walked slowly into the front hall, Huiju and Xinlan saw me coming in and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Concubine Liu turned around at this time, her belly for more than two months was not obvious, plus she herself was thin, her light green silk palace dress was not even raised.

Her complexion was okay, although she had only given a touch of Fendai because of pregnancy, it was also beautiful. She saw me but made no attempt to salute.

Haoyue walked in front of her, "The slave maid sends greetings to Concubine Liu."

She waved her hand lazily, more posture than me.

I stood in front of her and looked at her calmly, but I was putting pressure on it, even though she had dragon veins again in the body.

Finally, she did not resist the majesty in my eyes, and stepped forward and slowly tried to salute me. Seeing that my goal had been achieved, I glanced at Haoyue, after all, she was pregnant.

Haoyue immediately understood and stepped forward to support her.

I smiled and said, "If you are pregnant, these vain gifts will be avoided." After that, I pretended to be displeased and said to Hui Ju who had been in the hall: "Lady Liu came here, why didn't you invite her to sit? Watching tea next? The rules are gone?"

Then I walked to the upper seat and sat down, watching Haoyue ask Concubine Liu to sit down in the lower seat, and Huiju brought tea and offered it respectfully, then I smiled and said to Concubine Liu: "The emperor has given orders, and no concubine is allowed. Come to me and please peace, so this Kunning Palace has never entertained you concubines, but I will punish them if they lose the rules."

With that, he picked up the tea bowl and took a sip while watching Concubine Liu's reaction.

She glanced at my maids, "It seems that the minions of Kunning Palace need to be trained, and they don't even know if their master is or not." She said disdainfully.

"Then you blame me?" I teased.

Her face changed a little, "The empress is joking." After saying that, she picked up the tea bowl but didn't drink, just held it in her hand and played with it.

"I don't know why Concubine Liu came to my Kunning Palace today? If it is the same as the previous few times..." In fact, I know that her visit this time is different from the previous ones, I am afraid she should say something "confidential" to me. .

Concubine Liu showed some hesitation in her big eyes, "No, this time, I have something to tell you."

I watched her and waited. But she didn't speak, but looked at Haoyue Huiju and the others standing beside me, her eyes erratic. I understood what she meant, looked at Haoyue and the others and said, "You go down first, you will be called in later when something happens."

Haoyue answered and took Huiju and the others out of the front hall.

Haoyue gently closed the door with a "creak". I looked at Concubine Liu with a smile, "There is no one else here, can you tell me?"

Concubine Liu did not speak immediately, but looked around the decorations in the main hall of Kunning Palace for a long time, with unwillingness in her eyes. In the end, her gaze fell on me, she looked at me carefully, shook her head and nodded, then stood up with a self-deprecating smile on her face.

"You know, without you, I would be the master of Kunning Palace."

I was surprised that she was so blunt.

"Originally, the emperor said that when the child was born, if he was an emperor, he would immediately establish me as the queen, but..."

She stopped and looked at me bitterly, "However, the queen mother directly asked you to be the queen. Fortunately, the emperor did not like you at all because of your Ling family's repeated crimes. He didn't want to see you on the night of the wedding. , And went to me."

Concubine Liu paused, a trace of pride appeared on her face, but she swept away.

Seeing that I didn’t stop her, her face was very calm, she continued, “You haven’t come to fight for favor all the time. After so long, everyone thinks that you really want to be a nameless queen. It’s good to keep the face of your Ling family, but now it seems that you don’t think so at all. You have been thinking about it for so long, designing it for so long, so that the emperor can’t let it go after seeing you at first sight, right?" Looked at me contemptuously.

"Wait," I interrupted her, "I don't know what you mean by this. I think I have always adopted an attitude of evasiveness, but I ask about the harem, not the power of the queen, who of you thinks there is still What about a queen?"

Concubine Liu squinted her eyes and looked at me for a long time. She sneered and said, "Is it you that the emperor met that night?"

I looked at her, "I don't know what you are talking about."

Concubine Liu burst into laughter suddenly, but she was so sad.

"You don't know what I said? Humph, after the emperor met a woman in the Royal Garden that night, he went to the harem to search for it. Don't you know?"

"I know that the search in this harem is now over. As far as I know, the woman has not been found. Since you said that it is a god, they have also been here in Kunning Palace. Why do you insist that it is me?"

Concubine Liu fixedly looked at me for a long time, and took out two pieces of drawing paper from her sleeve. "Among the harem concubine only I have seen you." She said, shaking off the drawing paper, "You see this drawing can prove ?"

When I saw the painting, I stood motionless in shock.

The first picture shows a woman wearing plain clothes walking in the lacquered night, her clothes fluttering, the woman has a beautiful and refined face, at first glance she is not like a mortal; it is a palace lantern swaying from afar, the woman is Walk towards the lamp.

The second picture is the same woman, with her head down shyly, as if she is being held in her arms; her eyebrows are drooping, her face is red, like a peach blossom.

The two paintings are exquisitely crafted and both are excellent works. The person in the painting is so alive that he can walk off the drawing paper with just a call.

Each painting has a poem, one is "Dangerous crown, wide sleeves, Chu palace makeup, walking alone in the courtyard to cool the night. I knocked the fishing hairpin on the bamboo, and the song is like frost."

The other is two seemingly irrelevant sentences, "Make-up is better than lotus in late night. A spring dream and moon shadow oblique".

I stood there, watching the woman's familiar face painted on it, and the font that I only saw not long ago, and my heart beat fiercely.

"This was painted by the emperor after he met the woman. I heard Zhang Dehai say that it was stored in the emperor's Hall of Cultivation of the Heart. I went to the Hall of Cultivation of Hearts in private this morning to see what the immortal looked like on that day. "Concubine Liu looked at me with a stern look in her eyes.

I sighed deeply, met her gaze, and said calmly: "You are here to tell this palace?"

"No. I just want to know why you are doing this?"

I looked at her suspiciously.

"Since you entered the palace, there have been many opportunities to meet the emperor. At least your two brothers could have attended the emperor's banquet, but you did not. Everyone thought you would not come out to fight for favor, who knows You thought of this way. Smart, really smart!"

Concubine Liu looked at me mockingly, "When do you plan to let the emperor know your identity? I still want to know what you have in mind and what ideas?"

I walked to Concubine Liu's side, "You know that you are speaking to me like this, but you have committed disrespect."

She snorted, not afraid at all. I know that she had thought about it before she came, and she didn't need to care about it.

I smiled, "Do you want to know the answer? Okay, I'll tell you."

I looked at her expectant but somewhat desperate face, and then said peacefully and sincerely: "That is to do my best to never let the emperor know that the woman is me."

I pointed to the phrase "a spring dream and moon shadow oblique" on the painting, and then said: "From this sentence, the emperor has already thought it was just a dream since waking up from that day. His search in the harem was only the last The hope of, now this hope should be shattered as I have not found it. Besides, you also said that the emperor will not like me just because of my background."

Concubine Liu looked at me with puzzled eyes, but she immediately said to me solemnly: "What you said is true? Are you really willing to escape the world like this?"

I could hear the hope in her tone and nodded with a smile.

She looked at me for a long time before she breathed a sigh of relief, and then gave a slight salute, "The concubine is leaving."

I watched her go out, walked back to the first seat and sat down, brought the tea bowl to her lips, but couldn't drink anymore.

"Miss, is it okay?" Haoyue walked in and saw me sitting there, and asked with concern.

I looked up and gave her a relieved smile, "Nothing, nothing."