"Painting the Heart as a Cage" Jiuzhou Haimuyunji Emperor and Empress colleagues

Qinyi Pavilion, early spring.

The remaining frost and snow have just melted when they meet the warm sun, and the blossoming rosy crabapple flowers are already blooming on the branches, as if they can't wait to fade the coldness of winter.

The vernal equinox should be so.

Under the crabapple tree, the man watched quietly, and a faint smile emerged.A little bit of warm and cold golden light poured down through the branches, outlining his face, making it a little more handsome.He was dressed in a golden robe with Chu brocade pattern, exuding his majesty, but it was surprisingly gentle and warm.Except for the sporadic snowflakes that fell from the branches on the fur clothes, if you are careful, you can definitely smell the fragrance of Su Hexiang on the clothes.

He was holding a little girl in his arms, who looked like a four- or five-year-old little girl.The girl's skin is as fair as snow, her eyes are clear and bright, especially the two puffs of puff puff on her cheeks, she looks really cute.Although he is a young child, he is quite peaceful--the crabapple blooms all over the yard, but he can't resist picking them.Because her father told her that if the flowers are picked, they will fail, and the mother will not see the flowers she likes.

So, she couldn't bear it.

She also couldn't bear to disturb the family happiness of the father and daughter in front of her, but moved forward like a ghost.

The man soon noticed her arrival, and sighed to the daughter in his arms with a slight smile, "Look, who is here?"

The girl turned her head to look at her, but her face was extremely calm, as if she had suddenly changed her style of painting.

"Who are you?" the girl asked her.

She stood there stiffly, looking at the girl's face in surprise.Memories of the past are flooding in like a tide, but the name that has been hidden in my heart for a long time can't be called out at this moment.

She knew the girl's name, but the girl forgot who she was—

"Are you Nanku Mingyi, or Yinrong?"

"She's nobody." Before she could respond, the man had already answered for her.He stared at her, his face suddenly changed, and his dark eyes showed an indifference that did not belong to this spring, "You are just a passerby to me."

——"You are just a passerby to me"

——"Hate, you are not worthy"

Nan Ku Mingyi suddenly opened his eyes, before he had time to breathe, the tears in the corners of his eyes had already quietly fallen.

She sat up, clutching her depressed chest, and began to breathe quickly.She was at a loss for what to do with the gray interior in front of her.Breathing and breathing, accompanied by a dull pain in her lower abdomen, she resisted the urge to collapse.It's just that she always felt that something had opened a crack in her body, and then devoured a hole, and the edge of the hole was broken one after another, until finally there was not much left.

The chest in the palm of his hand rose and fell violently, but there was also a strong heartbeat.

Once, there was also a fiery heart beating.But now, only thoughts and dead tears remain.

She closed her eyes and blamed herself, how could she bear it... For the past few days, she has been haunted by nightmares and nightmares every night, and finally dreamed of her once, how could she... How could she wake up?

When she opened her eyes again, she had already stood up, grabbed the black cloak on the soft couch to cover her frail body, and opened the door of the palace.When the palace maids who were guarding the palace at night saw the queen who was up in the middle of the night and suddenly appeared, they were also so frightened that they immediately knelt down to attend the ceremony.

"No one is allowed to follow." She put aside her sentence, and walked straight out of the hall, stepping into the coldness of the night.

She has never felt that the journey to Qiyuan Hall is long, but this time, she feels that the distance is very long.

That's because the speed of coming to this palace is far faster than the tormenting pain in her heart.So much so that when she came outside the emperor's bedroom, she was a little weak, and her body was not as brisk as before.

The golden gourd warriors waiting on both sides of the gate of the palace saw someone breaking into the palace in the middle of the night, and immediately stopped in front of the gate, asking loudly who it was.

"It's Ben Gong." Nan Ku Mingyi pretended to be calm, but she couldn't hide her quick movements.

Wu Ruyi, who was outside the hall, was surprised to see a black figure walking forward fearlessly, deeply emotional.He rushed down to meet her before she stepped up the steps, bowed and bowed to block her way.

"Your servant dared to ask, what is the purpose of the Empress visiting His Majesty's bedroom late at night?"

She looked at the hall where the candles were extinguished and it was already silent, she said, "I have something on my mind, I can't sleep at night, I urgently need to see Your Majesty."

"It's just that His Majesty has already gone to bed, and the slave really dare not disturb Sheng Jia."

"Wu Ruyi," she sneered at his cowardice, "you really became His Majesty's man!"

She no longer cared about any kind dissuasion or the queen's prestige, she still insisted on going forward, but she didn't want Wu Ruyi to kneel down on her knees to stop him again, and vowed to die.

"Queen!" The voice of the person kneeling on the ground seemed to be frightened, but also persuasive, "I will not lie to the queen, since that day you forcibly broke into the Qiyuan Hall because of your crime of going to Hanzhou with His Royal Highness Hege, Your Majesty has already decreed that if the Empress breaks into His Majesty's bedroom without being summoned in the future and flouts His Majesty's will, the Golden Melon Warrior will be dragged away to be executed automatically... I implore the Empress, please respect yourself..."

At the end of Wu Ruyi's speech, it was already a loud noise.

"Self-respect?" She stood on the spot, with a half-smile, half-sarcasm, "If I insist on entering the palace, you...will kill me?"

The pumpkin warriors in front of the gate first bowed their hands to signal, and then held their sabers in each hand, ready to go.

Seeing this, she unconsciously took two steps back, staggering a little.She sneered into the bitter air—a mockery of her queen's loss of majesty.Now, to these people in the Qiyuan Palace, I am nothing more than the title of an empty queen, but in fact, I am just a passerby in the eyes of the emperor, and my life is humble!

"Then I'll just stand here and wait, it should be okay." Her smile faded away, her face was dead silent, but her tone was firm, as if a boat was sinking, "No matter what, I must see Your Majesty!"

The servant who was kneeling on the ground began to raise his head, he couldn't bear it, "It's windy tonight, the queen's clothes are thin, if I wait here for a long time, I'm afraid I'll catch cold—"

"Wu Ruyi," she interrupted before the other party finished, "Don't bully me too much."

Now that the queen's words have come to this point, Wu Ruyi is inconvenient to hinder her, and can only let the person in front of her do her own way.

In the silence of the night, waiting quietly is the most frustrating.At some point, the gray sky began to rain lightly, and the slightest cold wind blew.

She still stood where she was, neither humble nor overbearing, indifferent, like a lifeless portrait that had stood in front of the temple for thousands of years.Suddenly there was a gust of cold wind blowing slowly, and the blue hair behind her was flying, and then a little bit of rain fell, falling on the cloak, like an invisible weight attached to her body.

The rain seemed to moisten the earth for her tearless eyes.

After waking up from the dream, she found that she couldn't do anything.The feeling of powerlessness devoured her everything little by little, and she was so empty that even breathing felt severe pain.At this moment, all she wanted was to see him and tell him—for the first time in so many years, she finally dreamed of her!

The rain fell into my heart, adding a bit of heavy melancholy.

"Flying flowers sprinkle the garden trees, condense Yingjiejingquan" - in the year when the snow was flying heavily in his memory, he once said this sentence to the crabapple outside the window; she also remembered that the snow and frost in the sky were also facing the window outside Haitang, but he was so sad that he couldn't speak for a long time... She remembered every word he said, every expression that flashed on his face, all of which proved firmly in the dungeon-he was the only one in this world who had shared with her. This suffering man!

Now she is like a drowning person, even if the lies are exposed and the dreams are gone, but when the danger is all around, the rope she most wants to grab is still him.

Because he is her cage, her dream, she wishes to live forever in this life!

She closed her eyes, reshaping her will, crushing the thought of falling down several times.

At dawn, the twelve palace attendants lined up in front of the Qiyuan Hall, holding washing things in their hands, and crossed the two sides of Nanku Mingyi one by one.Seeing the palace people freely entering the palace, her eyes darkened even more, thinking that the dignified empress wanted to see her husband, but now she is not even as good as a palace lady.

Wu Ru felt that her face was getting paler, and she was afraid that she would not be able to hold on any longer, so she became more and more anxious.When the emperor went out of bed, he sneaked into the palace early and knelt down to deliver the message.

"You said, she stood there all night?" Mu Yunqin asked with raised eyebrows.He sat on the edge of the emperor's palace, and even though the palace people served him attentively, his eyes were contemptuous.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the Empress has been waiting outside the palace since midnight, and it has indeed been several hours." Wu Ruyi raised her head and replied, her words were full of distress, intending to win the emperor's sympathy, "It was windy and rainy at night, and the Empress only wore a thin coat. I have been waiting outside for a long time, if I wait any longer, I am afraid that my body will not be able to take it anymore. I implore Your Majesty, quickly summon the queen."

After hearing this, the emperor began to slowly sweep a strand of hair from his chest behind him, with a wanton sneer on his face, "Wu Ruyi, you have been with her for more than [-] years. You...are very protective of the queen!"

"I don't dare, Your Majesty, please forgive me!" Wu Ruyi panicked after hearing this, and kowtowed again to beg for mercy, "It's just that this slave thinks that the Empress must have something important to meet with Her Majesty, so she is willing to wait outside for a long time, please Your Majesty, please Your Majesty... ..."

"Okay!" He didn't want to get entangled any longer, and he made up his mind, "According to what you said, the empress will stay outside the palace only if she has something to ask for an audience, so it's okay to let her wait."

People say that the heart of the emperor is the most ruthless.Even though Wu Ruyi was helpless, seeing the emperor's heartlessness, there was nothing she could do.

Outside the palace, her heart became colder and colder, and she felt that she would not be able to hold on any longer.Her head was heavy and dizzy, her eyes were blurred, and the most painful thing was that the dull pain that had been gone for a long time came from her abdomen again.She frowned slightly, stroked her lower abdomen with her hands, and soon her whole body was shivering, not knowing whether she was too cold or in too much pain.

The only thing she could do was grit her teeth and hold on.Because she is the daughter of the Nanku family, she was born never to admit defeat, never back down!

At the time of the rising sun, the gate of Qiyuan Hall finally opened, and a slender figure slowly appeared in the wooden corridor from the shadow behind the gate.I saw Mu Yunqin condescending, looking down on her like an eagle.Finally meeting the emperor, she was overjoyed in her heart, forgot her discomfort for a while, and knelt down to attend the ceremony.

He walked down the steps with a blank expression and came to her side slowly, but he didn't see her in his eyes.

"It's already dawn, and you, a majestic empress, is still wearing pajamas and hasn't had time to wash up, lingering outside the emperor's bedroom, without even a single palace man by her side, what's the matter?"

In the face of humiliation, she was somewhat calm.As long as she could see him and tell him, she didn't care about anything.

She struggled to stand up, and bowed to him again, "The concubine has been waiting here since last night, vowing to see His Majesty, but she didn't care about the manners, I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

His expression instantly became indifferent, but his deep eyes revealed light.

After staring at her for a while, he finally said, "Tell me, what kind of favor do you want to ask for Mu Yun Hege who has gone to Hanzhou?"

"It's not for the concubine's sake, it's for the concubine herself." Her starry eyes drooped, and she promised, "The concubine had a beautiful dream last night, but she couldn't help but wake up. Because of this, the depression in my heart could not be dispelled for a long time, so I came here , I want to talk to His Majesty."

"Tell me?" He stared at her, feeling amused, "Just for a sweet dream?"

She disgusted him, but he also saw that she had been waiting all night, and her face was already haggard and uncomfortable.He didn't want to get entangled with her like this, so he only left a cold smile, then turned and left.

But she didn't want to give up, she lost her manners and called out to him loudly.

"Don't you want to know what kind of dream that is, Your Majesty?"

She finally burst her tear glands, and she was so depressed that she finally died, and she couldn't bear it anymore!She saw him looking back and looking at herself coldly.

She waited for him all night, she just wanted to talk to him, but in exchange for a sonorous and ruthless—"Get out!"

Nan Kumingyi looked directly at Mu Yunqin, and laughed dumbly, letting the last tear fall, knowing how absurd she was in his eyes.His dark eyes reflected a clear indifference, but also a gloomy firmness, but he still couldn't see a trace of hatred for her!

He doesn't hate her.To him, she is just a passerby.

He doesn't hate her.Because in his heart, she is not there.

She finally knew that the cracks in the body, the edges that were constantly broken, were called fragments after there were not many left.

But she didn't know that her figure was also reflected in his sight - he watched her slowly lower her eyes, slowly turn around - and finally, slowly fall down.

When it fell, he rushed forward to hug her tightly in time.