Fake concubine, real queen

As the saying goes, there are thoughts day by day and dreams at night, but He Xiaohou deeply introspected for a while, he never thought about this kind of thing during the day, he swore that he was only loyal to the Third Highness, even though there were a few There is absolutely nothing extravagant thinking about knowing and making friends.

But this dream is quite different from the dreams that He Gu has had in normal times. He Gu's consciousness can clearly know that he is in a dream, and this dream is too real...

The voice overflowing from the voice of His Highness the Third Prince clearly seemed to be ringing in He Gu's ears. The man deliberately lowered his voice and suppressed his instinctive sighs, which made people's ears hot. Although he knew that the Third Highness in the dream couldn't see He, but in such a situation, he still couldn't help being embarrassed——

Fortunately, this was just a dream. Although he dreamed of the Third Highness, the Third Highness in the dream couldn't see him...

So let him wake up quickly!

Master He Xiaohou thought so.

The moment he had this idea, the dream actually collapsed suddenly——

He Gu lay on the bed, opened his eyes suddenly, his chest rose and fell rapidly, and his breathing rate became a little faster.

He turned to look out the window.

The sky was as black as ink, and the night was still silent.

...How could you have such a dream?

Probably in recent days, Miss Yan's words have indeed been read too much. Anyway... Anyway, it is definitely not his own problem. Master He Xiaohou dares to swear by his conscience that he has never had anything wrong with the Third Highness during the day idea.

However, within half a month, He Gu discovered that this matter might not be as simple as he imagined. In the past half month, he would dream of the Third Highness almost every day, or that Third Highness who became the emperor and looked very scary...

In the dream, he witnessed the dull, lonely and monotonous life of an emperor with an invisible, bystander attitude.

A night is a day in a dream.

He Gu watched the Third Highness getting up in the morning, changing clothes, going to court, discussing politics, eating, and reviewing papers until midnight. He couldn't hold it anymore. He took a nap before the imperial case, nodded his head twice, and suddenly woke up again. Continue to read the booklet.

The Third Highness in the dream seems to be very busy.

Although being an emperor, there is no one who is not busy, unless you have no sense of responsibility, and you are not afraid that the throne will not be stable, then you can be a foolish emperor who will be infamous for thousands of years, drunk with money, drunk with wine, but the third prince in the dream is obviously not, he is too busy, congratulations Gu Yilian dreamed about him for more than a month, but he didn't even see him eat a whole meal, and he was buried in the government affairs as high as a mountain all day without raising his head.

At first, He Gu thought it was just a dream, and he didn't care much about what he dreamed of, and he could even tease the Third Highness in his dream, but once the days passed, the reality of this dream The feeling was greatly strengthened, or... this dream was very real, but the coherent dream for more than a month made it more and more difficult for He Gu to simply regard him as a dream.

He was really puzzled, why did he dream about His Highness the Third Highness for more than a month?

Could it be that because His Highness is gone, he didn't even realize it, but subconsciously, he missed the Third Highness very much?

Can't.

Could it be that he was bewitched?Do you want to find a Taoist monk or something to come to your house to drive away evil spirits?

But... Apart from this strange dream, he didn't have any other abnormal reactions, and he didn't run into any evil spirits, or have any ghosts pressing the bed... It seems that he is not about to invite someone to exorcise the evil spirits.

He Gu was busy during the day, helping Yan Zhiya to run the shop, visiting the two siblings, He Cheng and He Rong, occasionally entering the palace to kowtow to the empress, and giving to Yu who was far away in Zongshan if he had anything to do. My elder sister wrote a letter, babbling about what I had seen and heard recently, telling her that I missed her.

Just didn't mention that strange dream.

He always felt a little weird about this matter, He Gu was afraid that Sister Yu'er would be frightened if she found out, so he decided not to tell her yet.

After all, he is a full-blooded, seven-foot man, so he won't be frightened by a strange dream, and there is nothing scary about this dream, except that he has to meet the Third Highness every night...

Uh... that seems weird to say.

In short, He Xiaohou is really not very afraid. Not only is he not afraid, but after a long time, he saw that the Third Highness in his dream was so diligent, so diligent that he didn't even take good care of his body. Some can't stand it anymore.

I don't know if it's He Gu's illusion, but I always feel that the Third Highness in the dream is so busy, it seems to be like this on purpose.

He even took a break from his haste to drink afternoon tea and announce the ministers of the Yizheng Pavilion to enter the palace to report the court affairs, as if he didn't want to let himself be idle for a moment.

Even though it's just a dream, the longer you watch it, the more real it feels. In the dream, the Third Highness abused his body like this, and He Gu couldn't see it.

The life of the third prince in the dream is really not very good. Although he became the emperor, he was alone from the beginning to the end. He didn't even have a personal official who could talk to him. He was lonely and busy. But in this dream, other People can only see his uncompromising, condescending, cold and ruthless side, but He Xiaohou, who is watching from the beginning to the end, can see all the appearances of the Third Highness.

This seemingly cold-faced emperor, the empress would also be too tired to carry on "fishing" before the case, and would be busy late at night with the lights on, raising her head, staring at the beating lights alone in a daze, and even And picky eaters at mealtimes...

...Yes, He Gu has never noticed that His Highness the Third is picky eaters before. His Highness is always gentle and modest on weekdays, without any fault or inappropriateness. The same is true for his meals. Every time he goes to Zhiyang Palace to greet the Empress, Whatever dishes the empress brought, the Third Highness always obediently finished them all. Even the manner of eating could not be faulted at all, elegant, calm and dignified.

But in this dream, He Gu saw something was wrong for the first time.

He doesn't seem to be picky about food, he uses some of each dish on the imperial dining room, and the amount is very even, there is not much to tell, and it is impossible for people to guess his preference, and the palace servants who serve him have never noticed anything wrong.

However, He Gu found that every time the imperial dining room cooked fish and the Third Highness took the dish, there would always be a slight pause in his movements. The pause was very short and fleeting. , can't do anything, and certainly won't notice.

When the fish went into the bowl, His Highness the Third Prince put it on the edge, and only touched the piece of fish when there were only a few mouthfuls of rice left.

When chewing, his brows were slightly frowned, and his slender fingers holding the jade chopsticks would also tighten slightly, and his knuckles turned white.

This little discovery made He Gu suddenly feel that the cold-faced and difficult emperor in his dream seemed... so cute.

But after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but sighed again.

I have become the emperor, and my life is too lonely, let alone people, in this dream, there is not even a fly around His Highness, he is really a lonely and unadulterated person, deserted, miserable, even the Third Highness It's better to have a cat by my side than it is now. Although I can't speak, I can still meow.

Who would have thought that as soon as this idea came up, He Gu suddenly felt his body sink. Before he could react, the height of his field of vision suddenly dropped a lot, and he fell to the place where he could only see the legs of the table clearly. kind of degree—

He Gu was taken aback, and couldn't help but let out an exclamation in his throat, oh no, he is in a dream now, and he can't make any sound when he exclaims, it's ok, ok, it won't scare the Third High ...

However, just as He Xiaohou thought about it halfway, he suddenly realized that things didn't seem to be as he thought. He could clearly hear a voice coming out of his throat, and that voice was a little frightened——

"Meow... ouch!"

...Yes, even though it is not a human language, one can clearly hear the panic in this meow.

But why can he meow?

Master He Xiaohou was dumbfounded.

Soon he discovered something wrong again. He had a body, a body, but he was not a human being, nor did he walk upright like a human being. He was on all fours, and he was quite small...

When he lowered his head, he saw a furry, thick-looking little paw.

He Xiaohou Ye——

Or it could be said that Kitty He raised his paw, looked at it for a while, and finally found that he no longer seemed to be a human, but turned into a cat, this terrible fact.

"Meow!"

One couldn't hold back, and this time he screamed even more frightened.

what happened!Why did he suddenly become a cat!With the entity now, can he still wake up from his dream and go back to the real world? !

He doesn't want to be a cat forever!

He was already very close to His Highness the Third Highness, but at this moment he suddenly turned into a cat, and it happened to land on the ground of the imperial case, and was covered by the curtain that fell from the case.

There was darkness under the table, but Master He Xiaohou, who could turn into a cat, had good eyesight. Even in the pitch black, where he couldn't see his fingers... oh no, he could still see clearly. Seeing his own hand that had become a cat's paw, he was both terrified and sad.

At this moment, a beam of light suddenly shone on the top of his head.

He Xiaohouye... or He Xiaomao, looked back in a daze, and found that the curtain above his head had been lifted somehow, and he looked into a pair of indifferent, clear and beautiful peach blossom eyes.

Seeing him, the young emperor seemed to be taken aback, but he quickly realized that he reached out and picked up Kitty He from under the case, and said, "So you were the one calling."

He Xiaomao was caught off guard by the Third Highness's embrace, and was very at a loss. Before he could think about how to react, he felt a big warm hand on the back of his neck snoring a few times along the direction of hair growth.

A man's voice sounded above his head: "...how did you run so close to the lonely palace? Didn't you get caught by the palace people?"

He Xiaomao: "..."

He also wanted to know how he became like this, squatting on the corner of His Highness's table again!

But the instincts of cats and humans are different. Although the heart is still very incomprehensible, the feeling of being stroked by the hair on the back of the neck is really too comfortable. This kind of pure pleasure has never been seen even when He Gu was a human being. Experienced——

He Xiaomao couldn't help squinting his eyes slightly, and there was a continuous, low purring sound in his throat.

Hearing this voice, Pei Zhaoheng was slightly taken aback, but before he recovered, someone knocked on the palace door.

"His Majesty?"

Pei Zhaoheng looked away from the squinting cat in his arms, and the smile in his eyes quickly faded the moment he raised his head, and he said calmly, "Come in, what's the matter."

As soon as the eunuch in charge opened the door of the palace and saw the cat in the emperor's arms, he was stunned for a while, then remembered the movement from the palace just now, and immediately understood, almost pale with fright, knelt down and said: "Your Majesty , the servants did not check for a while, but actually put this thing into the palace, disturbing His Majesty, and the servants carried it out..."

Pei Zhaoheng said: "No need."

...No need?

The eunuch was stunned for a moment, and from the corner of his eye, he looked at the comfortable white cat with squinting eyes in the emperor's hand.

This cat looks slick and smooth, it doesn't look like a wild cat, besides, it can't run into a wild cat in the palace. Could it be that the masters of some palace keep things to relieve boredom, and the maids didn't pay attention to it for a while. Just ran out?

...But when you think about it carefully, your Majesty doesn't have a single concubine. In the huge harem, there are only a few concubines of the late emperor who live in the Hall of Cijia. Doesn't look like someone who knows how to raise cats?

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the emperor say: "Ask someone to ask if there is any palace that has lost a cat."

The eunuch nodded quickly, and was about to turn around and go out, but Pei Zhaoheng said again: "...wait a minute."

The eunuch stopped quickly and said, "Your Majesty, what's the matter?"

He Xiaomao was snored for a long time, and almost forgot that he was not from this world, it was just a dream, and when the excitement was over, he heard the third highness suddenly tell the internal officer to stop, and then he came back to it.

It's over, isn't it because he couldn't figure out where he came from, so he was going to be killed as a stray cat that sneaked into the palace? ?

God don't! !

Although it's a dream, he might go back after he dies, but the ghost knows how those palace people will kill him. Although he is just a cat right now, it still hurts. Otherwise, the third highness snores on the back of his neck, and he can't do that Cool isn't it?

"Meow..."

This sound is pitiful.

Pei Zhaoheng was slightly taken aback by it's call, and when he lowered his head, he saw the kitten in his arms, with jewel-like blue eyes open, looking up at him, his ears drooping twice, with a pitiful appearance.

Pei Zhaoheng thought it was because he stopped touching that the kitten started acting coquettishly with him, while stretching out his hand and continuing to smooth the smooth fur on the nape of its neck, he said to the eunuch, "Go and get some food for it to eat. something."

He Gu heard that he originally wanted to find food for himself, not kill him, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

The internal officer also took orders and said: "Yes."

He closed the palace door again and went out.

Soon the internal officials brought a bowl of water into the hall, and brought a fish that had just been slaughtered, washed, scaled and put in a bowl in the imperial dining room.

The things were placed on the ground, and Pei Zhaoheng also put down the blue-eyed little white cat, saying: "I see you keep barking, you must be hungry? Then eat."

He Xiaomao looked at the raw fish in front of him, maintained his last bit of dignity as a human being, looked at the bowl containing the fish, moved his little claws and took three steps back.

After thinking about it, he was a little afraid that the Third Highness would not understand what he meant, so he raised his head and shook his head firmly at the Third Highness.

Pei Zhaoheng: "..."

Internal officer: "..."

The eunuch thought he was dazzled, so he swallowed his saliva after a long while, and said half-believingly: "This...is this cat shaking its head just now? Is it...doesn't want to eat it?"

In fact, he didn't need to ask, He Xiaomao almost wrote the word "rejection" on the cat's face.

It was the first time for the few maids following behind the inner officer to see such a kitten with vivid eyes and a human-like expression on the cat's face. Eyes to look at the kitten on the ground.

Pei Zhaoheng: "..."

Pei Zhaoheng: "Forget it, since it won't eat, let's take it out."

The inner officer took the order and called the maid to bring the bowl, but just as the fish was taken away, the little cat pressed its paw on the bowl of water——

Cough, just now howled twice, He Gu is indeed a little thirsty now.

Water is still drinkable.

The internal officer looked at the little white cat with rolling eyes, and thought to himself, this cat is so clever... Isn't it a genius?

Pei Zhaoheng's voice was full of smiles, and he said, "Leave the water, you guys go out."

The internal officer agreed, and then he took a few reluctant little maids, exited the palace gate and left.

He Xiaomao raised his head and looked at the third highness who was staring at him above his head, and then looked down at the bowl of water held by his paws, thinking, forget it, I don't know when I can go back, or don't Treat yourself badly, drink water when you are thirsty, and have the strength to scream when you are full.

Then he lowered his head, held the small bowl with two cat paws, and licked and drank the water with his pink tongue.

Cats have to stick out their tongues after taking a sip of water, which is not only troublesome, but also a little tiring.

He Xiaomao drank for a while, then stopped and took a few breaths, and then continued to drink.

Pei Zhaoheng looked amused, and said in a low voice, "No one is fighting with you...why are you in such a hurry?"

He Gu is not in a hurry, the main reason is that when he is a human being, he is happy and quick, and he always opens and closes. He picks up the wine and pours it down directly. It is against his nature to make him lick like a cat. He is really anxious to death. .

So one person and one cat, one drinking water, the other just watching, squatting down to smooth the back of the cat for him from time to time, as if afraid that he would choke.

He Gu had had enough of drinking, and while licking his paws, he was enjoying the feeling of the Ninety-Five Supreme Being giving him smooth hair. He snored comfortably and squinted his eyes. He thought that the Third Highness in this dream was so cold and disrespectful. Isn't that also true? When you see a cat, you are so happy that you don't approve it?

It can be seen that the heart is still lonely.

Forget it, since the cat has become a cat, and the Third Highness in this dream is so pitiful, let's play with him for a while.

He intended to make people happy, so he performed extraordinarily hard. Maybe he didn't feel ashamed when he became a cat, and the third highness didn't know who he was. What made the third highness grope and meow? , What chasing his own tail around, doing it without the slightest psychological burden.

There's even a little... heck, having fun with it.

And the emperor, who spent countless long nights alone in the palace, was obviously pleased by this lively and coquettish kitten.

He has always said the same thing on weekdays, made all the officials and officials silent, and the number of times his expression was gentle is almost rare. Such a decisive emperor allowed that presumptuous cat to climb up on his knees when he was criticizing papers. Nap on his lap.

Pei Zhaoheng just lowered his head, looked at the dozing cat that slowly closed its eyes, and stroked the back of his neck with its smooth hair.

He Gu was indeed tired.

It's a little tired.

He didn't even think about why he turned into a cat, why he was still tired in the dream, and why he fell asleep in the dream...

But he did curl up on His Highness's lap, closed his eyes lazily, and fell into a sweet dream...

When he woke up again, what he saw was the curtain above the bed in the bedroom of the Princess Mansion.

He froze for a moment, then quickly raised his hand to look at——

The five fingers are long and slender, they are human hands, not cat claws.

He Gu couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, it seemed that he was back, and it was really just a dream.

The days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was almost the end of the year.

It's just that He Gu sent at least a dozen letters to Zong Shan, but Sister Yu'er never replied to a single letter.

Even when he asked his sister if she would go back to the capital for the New Year, she didn't answer.

Even if you really don't plan to come back, shouldn't you have a discussion with him as a husband...

Master He Xiaohou couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

On the contrary, the Third Highness, who went to Jiangluo to treat the disaster, wrote letters to him diligently. Every half a month, he would write a letter to tell him about the effectiveness of the recent disaster relief, what he saw and heard in Jiangluo, Even sent some souvenirs back.

Although He Gu was a little hit because of Sister Yu'er's indifference, but fortunately, he has always been the type to shine when given some sunshine. He felt that even if his sister didn't reply to him, she would always tell the empress that she would not return to the capital. Chinese New Year?

Who would have known that after entering the palace and meeting the empress, the eldest princess did not even report to the queen's palace, saying when she would come back for the New Year.

Empress Chen and He Gu couldn't help but feel a little worried now. Could it be that the letter was not delivered?How can such a big living person lose his voice all of a sudden?

Realizing something was wrong, Empress Chen immediately sent someone to Zongshan to check on the situation of the eldest princess.

It's just that Zongshan is almost outside the customs after all, and it will take more than half a month to go back and forth from the capital.

But it is only half a month away from New Year's Eve.

Until the day of the palace banquet on New Year's Eve, the eldest princess still did not return to Beijing, and there was no news from the people Empress Chen sent to visit Zongshan.

His Highness the Third Highness sent a letter back a month ago, saying that the return to Beijing might be delayed due to disaster relief, but it was unexpected that the Eldest Princess...would not come back on New Year's Eve.

Winter is coming and spring is coming, saying goodbye to the old and ushering in the new year. The streets and alleys of Bianjing City are covered with thick snow, decorated with lanterns and festoons, full of joy, and the New Year is still coming. This is a year of hard work for everyone, waiting and looking forward The new year will not be different just because someone is missing.

The New Year's Eve palace banquet also came as scheduled.

Because it was a New Year's Eve banquet, only the emperor's family members and relatives of the emperor could come. Every New Year's Eve palace banquet has no distinction between men and women, and the whole family sits at one table.

During the good time of Chinese New Year, everyone is beaming with joy, with a smile on their lips. Even the Second Highness, who always treats him with a nose not a nose, and eyes not eyes, rarely put on a smile today. Seeing He Gu at the banquet, He didn't criticize him, but offered him a toast.

But He Gu drank this glass of wine absent-mindedly.

Or he has been absent-minded for half a month——

There shouldn't be any man who, after finding out that he and his wife are newly married, will have to live alone in the first New Year, can they still be happy?

He Xiaohou was both worried and wronged.

He didn't know why Sister Yu'er didn't hear from her, so he was naturally worried. Fortunately, those who accompanied Sister Yu'er to Zongshan were all imperial troops arranged by His Majesty. Safety, there shouldn't be any problems.

Well... He Gu's heart was mainly filled with grievances.

And the more he saw that at the palace banquet tonight, other couples were in pairs, looking at each other hand in hand, loving each other very much, and respecting each other like guests, the grievance in his heart became even higher——

Almost half a year.

He Gu really missed the eldest princess.

...Even if she just stands in front of him, doesn't look at him, doesn't say a word to him, as long as he can see his sister and know how well she is doing and whether she has lost weight, that's fine...

At the banquet, everyone talked and laughed at Yan Yan, pushing cups and changing glasses, only He Xiaohou was melancholy and in a trance, his mind was wandering.

At this moment, a man's voice with a high pitch suddenly came from under the table.

"Your Majesty! Empress! It's not good!"

He Guzheng was twitching the small wine glass with his fingertips in boredom. Hearing the voice, he turned around and found that the person shouting turned out to be a man dressed as an imperial army, and he didn't know how he got into the palace banquet. The man flung himself away from the obstruction of the maidservants serving at the entrance, quickly rushed to the seat, knelt down towards the emperor and empress Chen at the top, slammed his head heavily, and said, "Empress, sir! Something happened to Her Royal Highness in Zongshan!"

Empress Chen has been a little distracted in the past few days, and she was even more absent-minded at the palace banquet today. Now that she listened to this man's words and responded to her worries in recent days, her complexion changed drastically, and she stood up abruptly. , said: "What are you talking about, what happened to Zongshan? What happened to the eldest princess?"

He Gu reacted, and was also momentarily stunned, his heart almost jumped into his throat.

The man cried a little, and said: "A group of horse bandits outside the pass rushed up Zongshan Mountain somehow, and all the living people in the Lianhua Temple were murdered by them. When the villains arrived there, the temple was already full of corpses. !"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was an uproar at the table, and Empress Chen turned pale in an instant, and said in a trembling voice: "What are you talking about? This...how is this possible...the imperial army...the imperial army who followed Yuer Where is Yu'er? Where is Yu'er?!"

"They're all dead, they're all dead, not a single one is left alive, Your Highness the Eldest Princess..."

The emperor next to him suddenly stood up and said angrily, "Nonsense! Shut up! Shut up!"

But before the emperor finished speaking, Empress Chen rolled the whites of her eyes and fell down. When all the palace people saw this, they all turned pale with fright, and rushed to help her, crying and calling her mother, and the emperor angrily scolded that woman. The sound of the man dragging down became chaotic and endless. The New Year's Eve palace banquet, which was originally peaceful and happy, with the bells ringing, became chaotic and turned upside down.

He Gu's mind was completely blank.

Only the man's sentence "No one was left alive" circled in his mind and circled back and forth.

He stood up and wanted to move forward, but he didn't take a steady step. Instead, the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground——

smashed to pieces.