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No one thought that this was the last time Titiao Shanggong would appear in front of everyone, and when it was mentioned again, it was like a fluttering red ribbon, and no one even shed tears for it.

"I don't know if Cui Shanggong intends to commit suicide. She stumbled and fell off a cliff." Jang Geum got permission and went to the dungeon to pass the news to Jin Ying.

There was a violent tremor in Jinying's eyes, and he clasped his hands tightly, and threw all the things he grabbed in the dungeon towards Jang Geum──"Go away! I don't want to see you!"

Straws fell one after another in front of his eyes, and some flew through the cracks to his feet. Jang Geum watched Jinying's continuous venting like throwing wildly, and stood in front of him silently bearing it. "Cui Shang Palace was discovered in Dongren Mountain."

Hearing about Dongrenshan, Jinying stopped moving, her eyes were already red. "Xu Changjin, get out of my sight──Even if I die, I will not make any excuses, I will not beg your forgiveness! Go away!"

The hoarse roar made Jang Geum turn around and leave the dungeon.When the footsteps gradually faded away, I heard Jinying's heart and lungs pulled out but extremely suppressed low sobs, which echoed in the entire cell.

And Jang Geum just stood at the corner that Jinying couldn't see, silent.The full moon outside the sill is like a wheel, and Changjin closes his eyes as if he can see those years when he and Jinying sat by the lake. Fireflies fly by and reflect those bright eyes, and they often sit there for a whole night.

Looking at the bright moon that once shone at that time, there were endless weeping in the prison, and Jang Geum stood quietly all night.

Fang had eaten breakfast, and the queen heard that she had preached to Mishang Palace: "Your Majesty, the doctor is here to see you."

"Jang Geum, what's the matter with you coming to see me so early?"

"My lady, about the sulfur duck..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the queen. "This matter has been handed over to the Sixian government, and justice will be given to those who wronged them back then."

"Then, the highest..."

Seeing that Chang Jin hesitated to speak, but the Queen spoke first. "I heard that last night, you stood in the dungeon all night?"

Jang Geum looked up in astonishment.

"I have a little guess of your intention for coming here, but this matter has been handed over to the Sixian Mansion, and I can't intervene even if you are a queen." After hiding the flicker in her eyes, the queen said solemnly: "Bengong believes in the Sixian Mansion. The most just judgment will be made, and it is now in the final stage, there should be news coming out soon, why don't you go back and wait."

After exiting the palace, Jang Geum heard Min Jung Ho's voice behind him.

"Doctor Xu just went to the Zhong Palace?"

Jang Geum bowed his head in frustration, and walked forward shuffling, followed by Min Zhenghao.

"Please don't worry, there is no factual evidence pointing directly to the most noble palace. The worst result should not be fatal."

"My lord, what are you..."

"How do you know what you want to inquire about when you go to Zhonggong Palace?" Min Zhenghao secretly hid a sigh. "I also feel bad about this."

The two walked silently on the road, and Min Zhenghao suddenly said, "Don't go to Mistress Shuyuan again. I happened to meet Min Shanggong yesterday, and she said that Mistress Shuyuan hated Titiao Shanggong's death deeply, and even forbade others I shed tears for the promotion of Shang Gong. I am afraid that if you go there, it will just add more sentimentality."

Jang Geum nodded gratefully.After parting with Min Zhenghao, he turned to Zhu Zixuan, but on the way, he saw a pair of little maids who were tugging at each other, one of them cast a look of hatred when he saw her.

Chang Jin was taken aback for a moment, then he remembered that this child was Si Lian who often followed Jin Ying, and Jing Feng at the side seemed to be unable to persuade her, but Si Lian flicked his sleeve and stroked her face, and just stood there staring blankly. Go away.

Jing Feng was stunned for a while, then turned around and saw Jang Geum standing beside him. "Ms. Jang Jin... I don't understand what's going on. How did your mother get involved with the conspiracy case? It's been so long. I don't believe that your mother would do such a thing..."

But the trial finally gave the most fair result.

"This is the imperial order. The sinner, Wu Jianhu, was dismissed from his position and exiled to Heishan Island; the sinner, Cui Juanshu, was sentenced to [-] boards of stick, and sent to serve as a servant in Xianjing Road; the sinner, Cui Jinying, was dismissed from his position. The sinner, Zheng Yunshou, was dismissed." Removal of office, take back the medical records; sinner Park Ah-yeol is dismissed from his post, and takes back the medical records.”

As soon as the verdict was announced, all the criminals looked sad. Jinying looked up at his uncle reluctantly. At this moment, Cui Sanshu was not in the mood to accept the care of his niece. He just cried and was escorted back to the prison by the guards to end this last farewell.

It's not the servant Shanggong that my aunt expected, nor the border exile that I imagined, and I got unexpected results.Jinying packs her bags carefully. Leaving the court this time is a chance that she will never come back in this life.

Thinking of that person, Jinying stroked the most noble palace diary that was finally placed on the table, which recorded the handwriting and blood and tears of generations of the Cui family. Jinying could only sigh slightly, and took out a letter from the inside page The letter is in my arms.

"Niang Niang..." Si Lian pushed open the door and knelt down in front of Jin Ying, wanting to cry.

"I have asked Yan Shanggong to take good care of you in the court. I am very relieved that you are with them. Don't take the gossip from the royal kitchen to heart."

Si Lian bit her lower lip, her voice forced out of her throat. "Where do you plan to go, ma'am?"

Jin Ying just told Si Lian. "According to your own thoughts, now you don't have the burden of the Cui family, becoming the most noble palace of the imperial kitchen is no longer your only way..."

"No! I want to become the most noble palace, I want to be like my aunt!" Si Lian looked at the aunt who raised her up with tears in her eyes, but held back the tears and insisted on raising her head proudly. "I want others to recognize our family again, not the glory won by means; I also want to clean up my aunt's reputation, so that people know that my aunt is the best court lady in the Korean imperial kitchen!"

"Silian, you are so proud." Jinying felt uneasy, but there was nothing she could do.

Si Lian wiped her face with her sleeve, managed to keep her voice calm and asked, "Ma'am, what did Madam Yan Shanggong give you at that time?"

"Let's go." Jinying hugged the only package to her chest, and calmly looked back at Zhu Zixuan who had been with her for a long time for the last time.It was the first time to tie a commoner's clothes knot in the palace and step out of Zhu Zixuan's threshold.

"Silian, go to the inner hospital and ask Jang Geum to come over."

Ignoring the deep unwillingness in Si Lian's eyes, Jin Ying spoke again. "Tell Jang Geum that it's where we often meet."

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The gazebo is quiet, and the years and months are silent.The snow on the pavilion gradually melted with the arrival of spring, and the cold figure was still standing outside the pavilion, with the sleeves dangling non-stop in the cold wind.

Ariel stopped at the place where he often stood and looked for a long time, looking at the woman who had burned a hole in his heart.She still moved forward, step by step, as if walking back to the past that was constantly getting closer.

The snowdrifts on the eaves slid down, Ariel was startled, and quickly took a step back.The thick snow hit the ground and made a loud noise, which also caused the woman in front to turn her head and look at each other from afar.

A Lie met Shang Jinying's eyes, his heart was pounding, eager to read something from the other's eyes, but in return he was even more disappointed.

Unwillingness appeared on the corner of his mouth, and when Ariel was about to take a step forward, Jinying suddenly opened his mouth.

"I told you that this gazebo is haunted, so don't come here anymore."

Ariel was stunned for a while, and then slowly opened his eyes wide. The memories of the time when he ordered the medical girl still emerged one by one, and his tone of voice was like strong strings swaying in the wind. "You...you remember everything, right?"

Jinying indifferently turned his gaze back to the quiet lake in front of him, watching the ripples sway slightly, only the sound of falling snow.

Unable to ask any more questions, Ariel could only look at the snowdrift that had just fallen to the ground and had gradually melted, and left the pavilion with a long sigh.At the corner, I accidentally met Chang Jin. Chang Jin lowered his head all the way and didn't notice her jealous eyes flashing, and walked straight towards the pavilion. A Lie was about to follow, but was stopped by Si Lian .

"Ms. Ariel, the way out of the palace is here."

Ariel recognized Si Lian, but was also surprised that she had a mature aura at such a young age.Seeing that Si Lian had something to say, Ariel frowned, but still kept pace.

"Your Majesty used to stand in that gazebo." Si Lian's footsteps did not fall, and the voice came from the front. "When I went to find my mother, I always saw a doctor standing not far away looking at my mother."

"I never asked my mother if she knew there was such a person? But as long as the weather is colder that day, my mother will always go back to Zhu Zixuan early; if it rains that day, although my mother wants to be in the gazebo, she is only in Zhu Zixuan Quietly, in a daze. Occasionally, when the nurse didn't come, the empress would show a little disappointment."

"I don't know who the doctor girl is, but I think it can make the empress temporarily forget the name she called in the midnight dream. Maybe the doctor girl can heal the empress's heart disease?" Si Lian stopped walking. "But that medical girl left when the empress needed help the most."

"Ms. Ariel, the door is here, please leave."

Si Lian bowed mercilessly, leaving A Lie standing alone in front of the side door, the strings in his heart playing out of tune.

It's been close, isn't it?She once entered the gazebo, but she chose to avoid the falling snow, and took that step back, and from then on she could only go further and further.

That person used to be affectionate.Ariel wanted to laugh, but tears kept falling.

When Jang Jin arrived at the edge of the pavilion, he only saw the abrupt figure between the day and the snow, and he was looking away from the lake for a long time, and he caught Jang Jin's eyes heavily.

Stretching out his hand to block the snow that had slid down from the eaves, Chang Jin's left sleeve slightly covered half of his face, and the half of the light lost made the figure in front of him suddenly dim. The emotions that were about to come out were cut off.

"I have something for you."

"This is a letter from your mother." Jinying took out the letter from her pocket and handed it to Jang Geum. "My aunt gave me this letter and asked me to burn it, but I didn't."

If you want to say it, I don't know what kind of emotion Jinying came from, leaving behind a deadly letter recording the bad deeds of the Cui family.Maybe it's because she believes that Jang Geum will one day become the most noble palace, and they can share a jar of seasoned vinegar like Jang Geum's mother and Han Shanggong; maybe it's because she wants to remember how many hurtful crimes she has committed. The world is speechless, but the words are clearly revealed between the lines in the letter; maybe she is unwilling, and wants to keep a little bit or even fragmentary memories of the past and the present.

It's just that she can't tell anyone about these things, she can only chew them in her heart, and the bitterness that has been caused over the years makes people feel bitter at the first touch.Now, only when these worries are no longer important, and the Cui family no longer needs her to protect her, she can stand in front of Jang Geum so calmly, and narrate the past calmly.

"This is me. I can't be a complete member of the Cui family, but I can't stand up for myself; I don't have a complete sense of self-confidence, and I don't have a complete sense of inferiority; I don't have a complete talent and craft, and I don't have Be serious about it; I've never had a full attachment, and I've never communicated my attachment to a single person."

Jin Yingshu raised his eyebrows, took a last look at Jang Geum, and passed him lightly.

Jinying walked across the small bridge, and the court ladies who met her bowed deeply. Jinying walked forward without looking sideways, as if she was still the most arrogant and noble palace in this palace that was once said to be arrogant, and some imperial meals The maid in the kitchen couldn't help covering her weeping face with her sleeve.

Jang Geum just looked at that person's straight back, walked through the winding palace road, and saw that there was a curved bridge between them, and the figure gradually disappeared with the gazebo, hiding in the last corner of the eaves.

"Don't keep thinking about looking at pine nuts under the moonlight."

"Then what should I do?"

"Focus on your fingertips."

……

"Kimei, this is the last chance, please tell me."

"The stone fell into the pool, can you find it again?"

……

Fingertips closed and loosened, Jang Geum stared blankly at the snow-stained eaves of the pavilion, and his blue hair turned white overnight, but it was just a moment of flicking his fingers in the long years.But in the instant of sound, there is only the lightest smile and the deepest loneliness of that person, spanning half of her life.

The spring snow will disappear, just like the pine nuts that fall and recur every year; but the pebbles jump into the lake, but it is a regret that cannot be recovered.That person was no longer full of enthusiasm and patience like when he was young, but said nothing, said the most ruthless farewell, threw a stone into the middle of the lake, and frowned sadly.

See you and fight like you don't see each other.Even at the end of the road, she knew that Jinying would choose to leave together with pride, and all she could do was watch her off.

Just thinking of Jinying calling her name gently and emotionally, Jang Geum smiled lightly.The memory of two words is a lifetime.

Jinying didn't look back when she walked out of the palace gate. After leaving the palace for a while, Fang stopped and saluted the handsome figure waiting on the road.

Min Jung Ho also nodded sincerely.

"I'm sorry. I have nothing else to say other than this."

Jinying put away the last trace of the past in her eyes, bowed slightly, and walked past Min Zhenghao.Just looking back suddenly──"If we can meet again in the next life, please don't say sorry to me."

If there is another life, she will still fall in love with such a man of the world. She doesn't want Min Zhenghao to apologize for the affection she once had.Min Zhenghao shouldn't say anything, because it was her own decision, so she turned around sadly with the last ounce of self-esteem.

If there is another life, she hopes not to meet Jang Geum, the person who hurt the most but hurt the most.

"Since you want to enter the palace, you have to be a superior person. Only by staying in the most noble palace can your heart be unrestricted, and mother can truly feel at ease with you."

I haven't thought of Jinying when I was a child for a long time, and recalled my mother's last words.Looking at the blue sky, Jinying finally understood the true meaning of the last words: Mother didn't want her to fight for power, but wanted her to give full play to her talents and do what she wanted to do.

It's just that the belief in being competitive blinds everything.After listening to the history of the Cui family told by her aunt, she became suspicious of her own craftsmanship, so she hid the spell in the dining room and started the wrong first step, and she was trapped in the prison of power ever since.

Now her hands and feet are lighter. Although she has nothing around her, she can try to do what she has always wanted, such as reading poetry, practicing medicine, and cooking for people other than the emperor.

Or she can sit somewhere, just sit quietly like this, while the cold wind blows and still looks into the distance.

The author has something to say: Respect the original work, I think I still chose Jinying's famous quote as the summary.Every time I read this paragraph, my heart aches. How restrained and affectionate it is to leave such a sad back at the final parting.

This explosive word count should be considered as the finale of the third volume.