listen.explain

(One)

Before the age of 16, Niu Hulu Wanxiu's favorite was her sister Ruyue.

Everyone in Niu Hulu's family knew that Wanxiu was a naughty child who never covered the bench.When all the girls are concentrating on embroidery, Wanxiu will poke her own embroidery, or the embroidery of the sister next door, with a needle; when all the girls are reading "The Commandments of Women", Wanxiu will pick up the brush and use the book as a drawing, Or use the clothes of the sister next door as a blueprint; not to mention the pranks of catching bugs and throwing stones.All the sisters avoided Wanxiu for fear of not being able to make it.

Wanxiu doesn't get along with other brothers and sisters, but she only calls sister Ruyue, who is a half-brother, instead of trying to call people hanging-eyed ghost and white-eyed wolf; only in front of Ruyue, Wanxiu seems to see Tathagata Monkey, the grandson of the Buddha, bowed his head obediently.Wanxiu is not so obedient because her sister is fierce. On the contrary, Ruyue is very gentle most of the time, always painting in the room alone or being a female celebrity, but such a sister is very attractive to Wanxiu. She likes to be silly. Looking at Ruyue insanely, the impetuous mood she had been outside all day was embroidered evenly by that stroke by stroke, stitch by stitch.

"Wanxiu, who did you play tricks on today?"

The elder sister asked calmly, and those people who were bullied by her were not her brothers and sisters, which always made Wanxiu happy.She raised a smile and vividly described what happened just now between her eyebrows. "I just threw a spider into Yiqing's study, and he was 12 years old and he would still be scared and stomp around the room..."

"You are too naughty."

"Even my sister taught me a lesson."

"I'm afraid that Wu Niang will find another opportunity to teach you a lesson."

Wanxiu pursed her lips on purpose, knowing that her sister was not angry either.The elder sister in the family only treats her well, no matter how much she has done, the elder sister will only hide it.

The more her elder sister pampered her, the more she wanted to be angry with her elder sister. She was a master who didn't know how high the world was, and wanted to test how deep the water of her elder sister could be.She knew that Ruyue was only afraid that something would happen to her, so she violated the house ban repeatedly, and what she did became more outrageous each time, and she only waited for her sister to rescue her.

Only at this time, the always demure elder sister would lose her temper. Because of anger, her gentle eyebrows like a landscape painting suddenly gathered the color of wind and rain, and she softly reprimanded her: "Wanxiu, you are here again!"

Even though she had been hit by the board at that time and had to lie on the bed unable to move, there were bursts of smiles in her heart.Whether it is the sister who paints on weekdays or the sister who is angry, she likes them all, and what she likes more is that the sister has only her in her eyes.

"When I recover from my injury, shall we go fly a kite?" She likes the kite rustling in the wind the most, the triumphant and rampant attitude. "Don't fly the kite, will you fly the kite with me?"

"My sister can only release paper kites." Ruyue placed her hand on her forehead, carefully observing her situation. "It's better not to fly a kite for a while. When you get better, my sister will accompany you to the opera. Recently, Ama will invite an opera troupe to perform at the house..."

Whether it's flying a kite or listening to an opera, she just wants to do these things with her sister, and it's best to live like this for the rest of her life.

The news of Emperor Qianlong's recruitment of draft girls spread to every Bannerman family. When she learned that Ama wanted her and her sister to participate in the draft, a fear arose in her heart. Closing his sleeves, his hands trembled a little.

"I heard that the emperor is almost 80 years old, why does he still want to draft girls..."

"It's okay, it's just a formality to enter the palace tomorrow, don't worry Wanxiu." The elder sister comforted her softly, and finally whispered in her ear: "Remember to leave the door open at night, I'll sleep with Wanxiu."

She couldn't sleep at night, until she felt that someone lifted the quilt and got in, she grabbed the other's arm tightly, and called out "sister" anxiously.

"Silly girl, my sister is by your side, and I will accompany you into the palace tomorrow. What are you afraid of?" My sister's hand was cold, and she clasped the other's palm, desperately trying to warm it up for some reason.

"If you are chosen by accident, you have to fight for the same husband with so many women, isn't it too tiring?" She rested her head on her sister's neck. "I wish to have a person with one heart and one mind. I am looking for a dedicated scholar like the one described in the opera. Even if he makes soup for his clothes and wash his hands, he will be willing."

"Are you envious of those stories in opera?"

She heard her sister's tone of voice was a little erratic, and for some reason, the idea of ​​prank came up again. "It's not every woman's dream to marry a good husband, take care of her husband, teach her children and have children. If Wanxiu really gets such a lover, then Wanxiu may be so happy that even her sister will be forgotten."

The elder sister should be angry with her, it is best to turn her shoulders, eye to eye, and say to her seriously and seriously, "Wanxiu, you can't."

But she waited for a long time, but she still didn't hear an answer, and when she couldn't help getting sleepy, she heard a faint sigh.

Entering the palace the next day, the situation changed.Niu Hulu Ruyue was unable to make the trip due to a serious illness, while Niu Hulu Wanxiu was favored by the current saint and was selected as a show girl. An illness caused the fate of the two to diverge from then on.

When Wanxiu tearfully stripped off all her clothes and was wrapped in a blanket and sent to the Hall of Mental Cultivation, she almost gritted her teeth to cry out: "Niu Hulu Ruyue, I hate you."

Before the age of 16, Niu Hulu Wanxiu's favorite was her sister Ruyue.

After the age of 16, Wanxiu hated her sister Niu Hulu Ruyue the most.

(two)

There are red walls on all sides, and the snow is silent.Between the loneliness and madness year after year, what Wanxiu does most often is to put her hands together, to see if there is a horizontal mark across her palms, to break her delusions, to cut her lifetime.

How could her life encounter this drought without warning?In the opera, it is said that "beautiful flowers are like flowers, and years are like water", but her cardamom was buried as early as early spring, and the running water has long since lost its trace, leaving only the lingering hatred half a lifetime later.

Outsiders only heard that Niu Hulu's beautiful daughter entered the palace for four years and became a concubine Chun;Becoming the center of discussion among thousands of people, Wan Xiu only felt that she was standing on the empty stage of Changyin Pavilion, without gongs and drums, she could only drain her voice and sing a big show by herself, who was she acting for?For whom?

Her husband is just a dying old man who can only linger on her body with withered fingers every time he has sex, and can't even shower him with grace and rain, but she can't even scold a useless man!Every night in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, she clutches the quilt tightly, imagining that it is Ruyue's hair, Ruyue's body, Ruyue's skin, she inserts her fingers fiercely, imagining that there is nothing that can be represented on Ruyue's body. Mark of pain——she lived in such pain, how could people outside the red wall be at ease!

Niu Hulu Ruyue must have deliberately pretended to be sick back then. She knew that the Niu Hulu family would definitely be selected in the palace draft. I don't know where the canonization of Concubine Chun came from?

Thinking of this, Wan Xiu's hatred deepened.She is flamboyant by nature, although she restrained herself after entering the palace, she would play with her temper from time to time, so she was often admonished by Concubine Yong.

"Why do you bother to provoke Concubine Yong? Concubine Yong is a high-ranking concubine in the harem, and has a son who is a prince. Everyone respects her three-pointedly, but you just ran into the knife." Er Niang received the news and went to the palace to comfort her. At that time, her confinement period had just expired, and she was able to see the sunshine outside with great difficulty, and she almost didn't even know how to count the days.

Wan Xiu smiled contemptuously at this. "So what if she bans me? I'm happy and relaxed."

"Are you happy to be at leisure? Do you know that my mother is worried about you outside?"

She withdrew her hand without a trace, and the sneer on her face was even worse. "Thank you, Er Niang, for your concern." Her biological mother had already passed away, so why should this Er Niang pretend to be concerned? The only reason why she came to the palace was because she was afraid that she would embarrass the Niu Hulu family!

Afterwards, there were a few words of warning, Wanxiu listened to each other, and only before parting, she asked a seemingly casual question: "Does Niu Hulu Ruyue know about me?"

Mrs. Niu Hulu was stunned, and then she said in a calm tone: "Ruyue is going to get married soon, and she was betrothed to Prince Jia as a concubine."

"This is such a great happy event, why didn't Er Niang tell me?" Unexpectedly, Wanxiu laughed happily, as if she was not the one who refused Ruyue to enter the palace three times and four times. "My sister is finally getting married. My sister is in the palace, so I can only ask Er Niang to send her a blessing. I hope I can congratulate her face to face on the day she gets married."

But just a few days before Ruyue was going to marry Prince Jia, Wanxiu violated the palace rules again and broke the glass cup bestowed by the emperor in front of Concubine Yong. It's not light, no one will be merciless for the item, and the reprimand Wanxiu will meditate in the place for three months.

Three months, enough to go from late autumn to midwinter, Wanxiu's heart was like the snow that kept falling in the palace, she wanted to cry and cry, but finally melted in the silence that no one heard.

"Ruyue Ruyue..." She was so idle that she could only repeat the two words that cut off half of her life.Why don't you just let time witness whether you, Niu Hulu Ruyue, will have good luck in your life and bloom like spring flowers forever?

If one day all the flowers are gone, she, Niu Hulu Wanxiu, will definitely break the branches with her own hands, and trample them into the eternally pale snow, so that she will not be able to turn over——

The author has something to say: Don't worry too much about the age of entering the palace.

Go to the official website to check, the character information is for entering the palace at the age of thirteen; but according to Ruyue's lines in the original play: "Although our mothers are different, and we have only been together for 16 years, I still remember that we used to be in the palace. What did you look like when your natal family held hands and watched the play together?"

For the time being, I still think sixteen is good.