Chang Anqing

Chapter 220 Untitled Chapters

At night, everyone returned home happily.Li Zhangben had already ordered people to prepare Queen Yang's dormitory and smoked the incense, but under Li Sui's hard work, the two sisters finally stayed in Li Sui's room in Wuzhu Garden.

It's cold in the middle of the night, and the willow shoots are on the moon.Empress Yang and Li Sui went to bed after playing chess several times after being served by the maid and maidservants.Lying in the warm quilt, listening to Li Suixu talking beside her ear, Empress Yang only felt a rare sense of peace and relaxation.

"Aniang likes Qionghua, and my sister likes Yuhang. When it's warmer, Aye, Aniang, Ajie, and me, let's go to Jiangnan together, okay—"

Hearing Li Sui's proposal, Empress Yang paused in her eyes, turned her head with a smile, saw a pair of expectant and begging eyes, and blurted out: "Everyone has gone, what about Zhao Yi?"

"After the wedding, he will go back to the Western Regions. I'm afraid he won't be able to enjoy this blessing."

After finishing speaking, Li Sui grabbed Empress Yang's arm with his hands in the quilt and said, "Fireworks will go down in Hangzhou in March, and now is a good day for the warm spring flowers to bloom. Sister, let's go."

Seeing that the little lady next to her was so childishly obsessive, Empress Yang smiled helplessly: "Okay, okay, it's just that it's not good for you to go away when you leave the court this year, and wait until next year—"

"Okay then, let's talk about it."

Before she could finish speaking, Empress Yang heard Li Sui next to her continue to plan the itinerary for next year's trip, whether to go by land or by water, which places to pass and which scenery to see. generally.

Listening to Li Sui's high-spirited words, Empress Yang couldn't bear to interrupt, she just smiled softly, but her eyes in the darkness were faintly gloomy, and there was still indescribable melancholy.

I don't know if it's the exhaustion after being unrestrained during the day, or because of Li Sui's company beside her, Empress Yang had a rare night without dreams, and when she woke up, she had slept until dawn.

Through the veil in front of the girl's bed, Empress Yang saw the faint morning light, and she saw the peaceful and beautiful sleeping face of the little lady when she turned her head slightly. In the warmth of the room, Empress Yang couldn't help stretching out her hand, which was as light as a splash of water Rubbing Li Sui's cheeks, the skin in the morning was soft and tender, like an egg with a cracked shell. Empress Yang smiled when she saw it, but she was very reluctant to part with it.

"Sister, it's about to break—"

In the silence, the little lady rang out with a lazy voice, as cute as a cat. Seeing Li Sui's sleepy eyes opened, Empress Yang joked: "The person who is going to marry, sleeps until the sun is up." I don’t want to get up, I’m afraid I won’t be able to wait for you to have lunch together when King Yuling returns from court in the future.”

While talking, Li Sui turned over humming, and just opened his eyes completely and said: "Anyway, there is nothing to do when I get up, and there will be no sisters in the mansion to accompany me, so I can only go to the palace every day to bother Sister, you—"

Hearing these words, Empress Yang's eyes were a little lost, at this moment a soft and soft touch was suddenly attached to her cheeks, seeing the little lady beside her as tired of being by her side as a child, Empress Yang couldn't help but sigh Said: "Privately, I only hope that you will be as carefree as you are now in your whole life, and don't think about anything. But Ah Man, sister hopes that you will be in harmony with Zhao Yi and his wife in the future, and become a Each other's lovers, relatives, together to open up your world, live your life, and become each other's support and dependence."

Hearing Empress Yang's words gradually become more serious than joking, Li Sui was about to open his mouth to ask something, but he heard Jiamo's voice outside the door.

"Your Highness, Princess, Your Majesty is here—"

As soon as these words came out, Queen Yang and Li Sui were both shocked, but they soon understood.

Empress Yang returned to Chang'an yesterday, no matter how lightly she travels, the news will always reach Emperor Yuan Cheng. It seems that Emperor Yuan Cheng came out of the palace with Li Zhang to greet her as soon as he finished listening to the government today.

"Groom up."

Hearing Queen Yang's echo, Jiamo and the others quickly filed in, waited on Queen Yang and Li Sui in an orderly manner, and then walked towards the main hall after packing up.

The two sisters were still walking down the corridor when they heard familiar laughter. When the soft curtain was closed, the two of them walked in.Sitting at the top, Emperor Yuan Cheng, who was dressed in ordinary clothes, immediately followed the sound and looked over. When his eyes touched Empress Yang, he could no longer see other people.

"Yu Niang."

"Your Highness—"

"Cousin."

Seeing that Empress Yang in front of him finally regained her former look, the stone in Emperor Yuan Cheng's heart finally fell, and at this moment, he held Empress Yang's hand with excitement and said anxiously: "I heard that you were going back to Chang'an yesterday, so I wanted to come pick you up I went home, but my uncle said that you brothers and sisters are busy, so I waited hard all night—”

Seeing Emperor Yuan Cheng in such a hurry, thinking hard and waiting for a long time, even Li Zhang beside him couldn't help laughing.

"Your Majesty, if you don't mind, you can stay at the mansion and have some breakfast."

Hearing Li Zhang's proposal, Emperor Yuan Cheng did not refuse, and Empress Yang also nodded in agreement.

After a meal, Emperor Yuan Cheng cared more and more for Empress Yang as if he was a newlywed. As the emperor, he personally arranged the favorite dishes for Empress Yang and rolled up his sleeves to add soup for her. Li Zhang was very pleased to see this scene , everyone was dumbfounded.

But in Li Sui's eyes, this was not the case.

Until the father and daughter personally sent the empress to the main gate, looking at Empress Yang, Li Sui felt that she really didn't want to let go of the hand that was holding her.

"These days, you should rest well, eat well, and wait to be the most beautiful bride in Dazhou."

Listening to Empress Yang's entrustment, and seeing Empress Yang's gentle smile, Li Sui nodded, and then saw Emperor Yuan Cheng, who was watching them silently, step forward to hold Empress Yang's other hand and smiled with her. : "On the day of your wedding, I will go out of the palace with your elder sister to attend the grand wedding ceremony between you and King Yuling."

With the slight sound of the wheels rolling on the stone slab, Li Sui heard the rare sigh from his father beside him as he watched the carriage drift away.

"Fortunately, His Majesty is kind to Yu Niang."

Okay?

Li Sui was thinking in his heart that Emperor Yuan Cheng really had feelings for Sister A, because Sister A was not only the wife he was marrying, but also someone who fell into his heart at the first sight. When he was young, his liking was always different, so Li Sui believed Emperor Yuan Cheng's kindness to Sister A was not for show or deliberate, but from the bottom of his heart.

But so what, no matter how strong the liking is, after these years of interests and scrambles, the original purity has long been lost. In the current goodness, apart from love, there are also compensations and guilt.

These are all in exchange for the lives of their two children.

If sister knows all this, then every thoughtful and caring Emperor Yuan Cheng showed her would be like a carving knife cutting through her heart time and time again, telling her how much blood, ugliness and sadness are covered in this love .

How can a sister who is so proud and can't tolerate a grain of sand bear it.

On the carriage, Emperor Yuan Cheng held Empress Yang's hand tightly as if he had lost it and never let go. He listened to Emperor Yuan Cheng talking to him tenderly and tenderly as usual, but Empress Yang didn't listen at all, but held back countless words. The impulse to pull out his hand for the first time returned to the Lizheng Hall like a torment.

Looking at the Lizheng Palace, everything is as usual, warm incense, bright vases, as if her departure was only yesterday.

But only she knew that it was different, everything was different.

In the past, this place was her home for her, it was her and Chen Xuan's home.

But now, this place has already become an abyss that will swallow her and keep her from being free.

"Yu Niang?"

Emperor Yuan Cheng's voice interrupted Empress Yang's thoughts, and when she came back to her senses, she met Emperor Yuan Cheng's worried and inquiring eyes, Empress Yang couldn't help but clenched her palms tightly and avoided it wearily: "It's nothing, I'm just a little tired. "

"But sick?"

After all, Emperor Yuan Cheng reached out and put the back of his hand on Empress Yang's forehead, just when Empress Yang instinctively wanted to avoid it, Chengde's voice sounded at the right time.

"Sage, Shang Shuling and the scholars from the Hongwen Museum have come to the Zichen Hall and said they want to see you."

Emperor Yuan Cheng looked sideways at the words and said, "What's the matter?"

"Back to the saint—"

When Chengde said this, he looked hesitantly at Empress Yang who was beside Emperor Yuancheng, and then said: "Shang Shuling is here to present the poetry collection of Concubine Zhenshun."

As soon as these words came out, Emperor Yuan Cheng's eyes were slightly displeased. When Miss Yu returned to the palace, Shangguan Ji couldn't wait to present a collection of poems.

"Since Shang Shuling has something to do, you can go."

Hearing Empress Yang's gentle voice, Emperor Yuan Cheng turned around, wrapped her hands guiltily and said, "If you are tired, rest, if you feel uncomfortable, call Sun Zhonglai, and I will come back when I go."

Seeing Empress Yang's smile, Emperor Yuan Cheng patted his hand reassuringly just now, and when he got up, he ordered a group of people to serve Empress Yang well, and then left.

And at the moment when his back disappeared, Empress Yang's smile faded away bit by bit, and she couldn't hold her back anymore.

It was night, and once again returned to the life surrounded by people, Empress Yang only ate a few mouthfuls of food at will and lost her appetite.

When Emperor Yuan Cheng arrived, he saw that Empress Yang had already removed her hairpin, and now she was leaning on the couch quietly and reading a book like a lotus in clear water.

"See what?"

The warm and ambiguous breath rushed into the ear without warning, Empress Yang, who was in a daze, suddenly stiffened, feeling her waist was firmly locked by a pair of gentle hands from behind, Empress Yang slightly tightened the hand holding the scroll , and then said: "Just take a look."

Hearing the echo, Yuan Chengdi's child usually leaned his head on her shoulder, rubbed lightly behind her ear, and let out a relaxed and lazily "hmm".

"At first I thought that without you, I could last at most three to five days, but I didn't expect that from the moment you left, I couldn't hold on—"

Speaking of this, Emperor Yuan Cheng couldn't help but bury his head on Empress Yang's shoulders and smiled to himself, and said with helplessness and pity in his words: "Every day, except for the imperial gate to listen to the government and review documents, I feel like I have lost my soul. I am thinking of you, I want to find you all the time, I want to see what you are doing, I want to know if you miss me."

"That's when I realized that I overestimated myself."

Speaking of this, Emperor Yuan Cheng couldn't help but gently put his lips on Empress Yang's earlobe, and said like an obsessed milk cat: "Yu Niang, so I can't leave you for a moment—"

Listening to Emperor Yuan Cheng's lingering love words, Empress Yang closed her eyes sadly, but was speechless.

Under the slightly rippling candlelight, Emperor Yuan Cheng became more and more affectionate, his left hand still gently embraced Empress Yang's waist, his right hand slid down and put the scroll in her hand aside, his lips fell like a geese leaving marks. On her shoulder blades, all the way up to the back of her neck and ears, her eyes were intoxicated, and her voice was low and hoarse: "Yu Niang, promise me that you will never leave me for the rest of your life, okay—"

Feeling that hand gently and naturally lifted the outer shirt on her body, and gradually reached to the waist belt. The moment the belt was untied, as the hand walked away as if there was nothing, Empress Yang was Unable to restrain it anymore, she just felt an inexplicable nausea surging up, almost pushing her heart out.

After hearing a "pa", Empress Yang suddenly pressed the back of Yuan Chengdi's hand to stop him from moving. When Yuan Chengdi was surprised, the person in front of him turned around and lay on the edge of the bed retching.

"Yu Niang!"

This scene made Emperor Yuan Cheng panic, and he leaned over to help him quickly. Feeling Emperor Yuan Cheng's touch, Empress Yang instinctively wanted to avoid it, but she lost her strength due to the turbulence of her internal organs.

"Your Highness?"

The movement inside the house alarmed Jiamo outside. Seeing Queen Yang's abnormal pain, Emperor Yuan Cheng immediately wanted to call the imperial doctor nervously, but was stopped by Queen Yang who tried hard to restrain himself.

"How? How?"

Seeing that he drank the water under Jiamo's service, Emperor Yuancheng still asked worriedly.

When Jiamo retreated, Empress Yang slowly shook her head and said, "It's okay, I'm just a little tired."

Seeing Empress Yang's extremely tired appearance, Emperor Yuan Cheng stepped forward and helped her to lie down thoughtfully while exhorting: "Let Sun Zhong take a look with you tomorrow."

At this moment, Empress Yang was too lazy to say anything else, so she stopped being persistent and just nodded her head.

After the candles in the room were extinguished, Emperor Yuan Cheng also lay down in silence, and once again embraced his hands from behind.

Realizing that Empress Yang wanted to push his hand away, Emperor Yuan Cheng said with distress and amused: "Don't worry, I won't disturb you, so you can sleep well."

After all, Emperor Yuan Cheng carefully probed with his hands until he was sure that her quilt was tucked in properly, then he put his arms around her again.

"How about the imperial concubine's poetry collection?"

Hearing Empress Yang's words in the dark, Emperor Yuan Cheng moved closer and hummed with satisfaction just now: "Very well done."

"Then how do you reward those heroes?"

After the words were finished, Emperor Yuan Cheng still closed his eyes and fell asleep and said: "The decree of rewards has come down, either increase officials, or reward gold and silver."

Hearing Emperor Yuan Cheng's indifferent answer, Empress Yang looked at the darkness in front of her silently, and asked again: "What about Mrs. Shangguan?"

At this moment, Emperor Yuan Cheng gradually opened his eyes and looked at Empress Yang whose back was facing him, but it was difficult to answer for a while.

"The departure of the imperial concubine's mother and son, Yu Shangshuling's family is too sad. Whether it is the imperial concubine or the Shangshuling, they have contributed to the court and harem for many years, so—"

"Let's make Shangguan's wife a concubine of virtue."

"Yu Niang?"

Hearing Emperor Yuan Cheng's nervousness, Empress Yang smiled, without the slightest emotion in her eyes, but said calmly, "I'm not speaking out of anger, nor am I joking."

"The Shangguan family, whether in the past or in the future, are the important ministers of the court and your right-hand man. Only when their hearts are reassured can the monarch and his ministers be united."

Hearing the words of Empress Yang's preparation for him, Emperor Yuan Cheng's heart was greatly shaken, and at this moment, the heart of guilt rushed through the switch like a flood, making it almost difficult for him to face.

"I, Chen Xuan, can have you in my life, what more can I ask for."

After a long time, when she heard Emperor Yuan Cheng buried behind her and moved with emotion, Empress Yang's eyes were exceptionally calm.

She knew very well that no matter whether she should or not, Shangguan would enter the palace, so why should she say more.

What's more, the current her has long since lost her heart to the people behind her.

A person who dies will not feel pain.

Even the hatred disappeared.

disappeared without a trace.

(End of this chapter)