Pour the glass

Ziyuan looked at Ah Ling in shock, holding the bitten fruit in her hand, and asked softly, "Isn't it warm?"

A Ling leaned closer to Ziyuan, and smiled coldly, "What do you think?" The smile contained a knife, and there was an unprecedented sense of oppression.

"Eh..." Ziyuan felt her heart beat faster suddenly, she turned her head to look at the fruit in her hand hesitantly, "But... but... I'm still hungry..."

There was a hint of warmth in Ah Ling's smile, "There is no conflict between warming the bed and eating." The bottom of the eyes was full of charm, which Ziyuan had only seen once, "Stinky girl, you finally have time to be afraid." , I tell you, if you commit the crime of deceiving the emperor again in the future, you will never get up from this bed in your life!"

"Ahem..." Ziyuan coughed dryly twice, then sat up with a sigh of relief, "I don't dare to do that."

Thinking carefully in her heart, Ziyuan thought of the crooked place, only felt a hot burning sensation from the earlobe, and lowered her head to take a small bite of the fruit.

"Come on!"

Suddenly, Ah Ling's voice was heard.

Zi Yuan looked at A Ling in astonishment, "What's wrong?"

"You gave me a gift, and I like it very much. Naturally, I want to return you a gift." A-Ling turned her back, not daring to look at Zi Yuan at this moment, because a kind of light was quietly ignited in her heart. Tuanhuo, I am afraid that if Ziyuan watches too much, she will be eaten like a fruit.

"The maidservant is here." The maidservants came in in a panic.

A-Ling stood with her hands behind her back, and said: "Bring a screen and put it here. Remember, there should be no embroidery patterns on the screen, as long as it is clean."

"promise."

Not long after, the palace maids put a screen in front of the dragon bed.

Zi Yuan sat cross-legged on the dragon bed, took a bite of the fruit, and asked with a smile, "Is Her Majesty planning to embroider on this screen?"

Ah Ling turned her head and glared at her, and said, "Do you think I can only do plain embroidery?"

Ziyuan regained her spirits and said with a smile, "Oh?"

"You all leave."

"promise."

After the palace maids retreated, Ah Ling walked to the palace lantern one by one, blew out a few, and left one alone, she took the palace lantern and walked to the screen, put it down, and the faint light glowed brightly. screen.

Ziyuan looked at Ah Ling quietly, wondering what she was going to do next?

I saw Ah Ling and Ziyuan separated by a screen, she was standing behind the screen, her slender hands were suddenly held in a butterfly shape in front of the palace lantern, and she said quietly: "In those years when I was in the cold palace, I met a person who was good at shadow play. Poor sinner, she told me a story, and today she suddenly thought of it, so she told it to you in this shadow play."

"Okay." Ziyuan stared curiously at the butterfly shadow on the screen, watching it start to move on the screen.

"My name is Ling'er. I'm originally the youngest daughter of a farmer's family in the suburbs of Shangjing. Although I live in poverty, being able to play with butterflies in the fields every day is considered peaceful."

Butterfly shadows, Ziyuan thought about the appearance of the spring flowers in the suburbs of Shangjing. In his memory, there were indeed butterflies, and there were occasional insects in the fields, which was really peaceful and comfortable.

Suddenly, the butterfly shadow disappeared without a trace on the screen.

A Ling continued behind the screen: "However, you are so beautiful, and you invite new women into the palace every year. I was forced into the palace by the small officials in Shangjing when I was exactly 15 years old... Once I entered the palace gate, I looked like an ordinary bird. The wild sparrow fell into a cage, from now on there are only high walls and green tiles, only intrigues, only forced smiles, only long nights..."

Lan pointed lightly, it was a lonely bird with its head down.

"And then?" Ziyuan couldn't help asking.

A Linglan pointed her fingers in the shape of fan wings, and a faint shadow fell on the light yellow screen, and also quietly landed on Zi Yuan's face, "The deep palace is like the sea, the vastness does not know the way back, and if you fly occasionally, you will eventually fly away." Can't fly over that high wall... how many people can know the loneliness in my heart? Until I met him one day, suddenly, I felt the loneliness in my heart became more severe..."

The movement of flapping its wings suddenly became faster, and the wild sparrow seemed to have found a happy place, and it fell lightly.

"He is a guard in front of the palace, with picturesque eyebrows and eyes. When I saw him for the first time, I felt that he was very serious. He was always like a stone statue, looking at the distance quietly. I don't know if there is something in his heart outside the palace wall. The most reluctant nostalgia..."

"I only dared to look at his eyebrows from a distance. One day, two days, three days, four days... When I came back to my senses, I realized that those eyebrows and eyes would never be forgotten..."

When she said this, Ah Ling looked through the screen and never left Zi Yuan. Only through this screen did she dare to let the tenderness pour out of her eyes so unscrupulously.

"There are trees in the mountains, and there are branches in the trees, and you don't know the heart. Every time I walk past him deliberately, I can't help but look at him more. Maybe it's because my eyes are too warm that he discovered my love." presumptuous."

"That day, the setting sun was like fire, but it was the coldest moment in my heart. He spoke to me for the first time, and what he told me was that he had a wife outside the palace, and he was going to stay with her forever, and live up to her forever. .”

"I think that woman is so happy that she will wait for his sincerity."

Ah Ling stood lonely behind the screen like that, her fingers were no longer linked together, she said this story in a daze, "So I thought, if he can live a good life, even if I can see him smiling, I will feel sad... ...After all, there is more joy than heartache... But, not long after, he told me that his wife had passed away, and the reason why he entered the palace was only for revenge."

"His wife is very beautiful, so he was taken by the head of the palace guard, and he planned to snatch her into the palace by force, but she was also a staunch person. In order to live up to her old promise, she jumped into the well and died. I think, he When I said this to me, my heart must have hurt, and my body must have been cold, so I stepped forward and hugged him, and he was shivering. I know, I know that I will never be able to replace her deceased wife. My only What I can do for him is to make him warmer, and even make him safe for the rest of his life."

When the word "dead wife" appeared for the second time, Ziyuan's heart couldn't help but twitch, and she always felt that the words Ah Ling said were both familiar and unfamiliar.

"So, when His Majesty was having a banquet for the officials, I secretly hid the dagger and walked towards the chief of the palace guard with the wine. I thought, if I could avenge him, he might have a shadow of me in his heart, so , after I put the wine on the table, I turned around and stabbed the head of the palace guard..."

"Did she succeed?"

"I didn't expect that at this time, it was he who rushed out and stood in front of me. The dagger pierced into his body, and I committed a serious crime because I committed a murder in front of the imperial court. After being sentenced to twenty sticks, fortunately There was still a breath of goodness left, so I was dragged into the cold palace and left to fend for myself. Many years later, I finally realized that the so-called dead wife was just a bureau, she was the one who wanted to win the attention of the palace guard and climb up the ladder. The game he set up for me, he deceived my sincerity and made me a stepping stone for him to rise to the sky. Since then, I have become a flightless bird, full of hatred in the cold palace I mean, getting old for a long time..."

"Aling..." Ziyuan put the fruit core aside, got up and walked behind the screen, looked at Aling, "This story is not good."

Ah Ling suddenly sneered and said, "I'm kind enough to tell you a story, but you still despise me?"

"The cold palace is too cold, so naturally the stories you've heard are all cold." Ziyuan smiled slightly, stepped forward to hold her cold hand, "Why don't I take you to listen to some warmer stories?"

"Are you taking me? Now that the gate of the palace is almost closed, where else do you want to go?"

"Don't you have a gold medal? Just follow me!" Ziyuan tugged at A Ling with a smile, "Let's go!"

Ah Ling couldn't resist her, but looked at herself hesitantly, "But I'm still wearing a dragon robe..."

"Can't you just take it off?" Zi Yuan responded, then stretched out her hand to pull her belt, "Come, come, I'll help you!"

Ah Ling's face darkened, her cheeks were on fire, and she took a step back, "You are so bold! Do you want to deceive the king?"

Ziyuan was stunned for a moment, then came to her senses, and smiled awkwardly, "I forgot for a while, and I was thinking that you and I are both women, but actually..."

"Turn around! Close your eyes! No peeking!"

A Ling issued three orders in a row, Ziyuan coughed twice, and simply walked around behind the screen, covering her eyes with her hands, "Your Majesty, is this okay?"

"If I find you peeking at me, I'll goug your eyes out!"

"...so poisonous..."

"What did you say to me?"

"The fruit tastes good today, Ah Ling, remember to eat it later..."

"soy Mujer!"

Listening to the sound of changing clothes behind Ah Ling, Ziyuan recalled the story that A Ling told just now, and that sentence reappeared in her mind——

"I know that I will never be able to replace her deceased wife. The only thing I can do for him is to make him warmer, and even make him safe for the rest of his life."

Ziyuan's heart warmed slightly, and she said secretly: "Aling, I'm afraid Ling'er didn't say these words, but you wanted to say them to me." She quietly put down her hands, turned her head to look at the hazy figure through the screen, An indescribable enthusiasm suddenly rose from the bottom of her heart, and she turned her face in a panic, feeling her heart beating violently.

"Okay, let's go." When Ah Ling changed into ordinary clothes and walked behind the screen, she saw Ziyuan's cheeks flushed, and a layer of frost suddenly appeared on her face, "Did you just peek at me? "

"No! Absolutely not!"

"..."

"Ah, I'll get you a fruit..." Ziyuan walked past A Ling with a weak body and mind, and quickly ran to the dragon's table, picked up a fruit, and just turned her face with a smile, and suddenly felt no The hand holding the fruit was pulled up by Ah Ling, feeling something bad in his heart, and sure enough, a sharp pain arose the moment Ah Ling bit it.

"It hurts! It hurts! It hurts! Please spare me!"

The pain finally eased slightly the moment Ah Ling let go, and Ah Ling took the fruit from Ziyuan's hand with a smile, took a bite, and said, "If you dare to bully the king again, it won't be so good next time!"