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

Nan Ku Mingyi knelt in front of the bronze mirror, letting Ah Shan comb her black hair, her eyes were empty and dim.

She raised her eyes slightly, quietly looking at the vast expanse of whiteness outside the window.Suddenly, I suddenly realized that since Yinrong gave birth to Mu Yunsheng, Kyushu seems to no longer have the same seasons, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

For many years, it has been the flying frost in June and the full sun in October.

But it's winter this year, but it's really snowing!

She lamented that the world seemed to be back on track, but something disturbed her heart...

Over the past few months, the palace people of Hanzhang Palace were truly happy for their master from the bottom of their hearts—the empress honored her favor, and was also pleased that the emperor finally cared about their pregnant master.If you really have a child, there will be no separation between husband and wife.If a couple from an ordinary family has a baby, they still have to wait anxiously, hoping that the child will be born white and fat, let alone in the emperor's house?

The palace people have long been familiar with the elusive figure of the emperor in Hanzhang Hall.In addition to being secretly happy, she would often retreat knowingly, knowing that the emperor actually avoided taboos, so she left the emperor and empress alone to share time.

Even so, there will still be a few words from the servants.However, it is not bad news, it is all honeyed words: the emperor visited frequently, never notified or played tricks, just accompanied their master to his heart's content - taking advantage of the crisp autumn weather, he quietly broke the circle of prohibition and punishment several times, and brought them along When the master went to the Yaochi in the palace to enjoy the flowers, he said that it was better for the pregnant woman and the unborn child to move around more. When the rain was drizzling, he would face the master with a case and draw pictures of each other, and asked the master to paint himself. The painting is more vivid, and it is said to teach by example, so that the child can have an impression of the father after birth; sometimes in the middle of the night, a figure in a warm-colored robe will suddenly appear in the hall, dragging the long shadow on the ground, and sending others away in a low voice. Then silently climbed onto the bed of the master...

Today, the snow has finally stopped, and the sun is warm and cold.It's just that the outdoors are still wet, and the master is still trapped in the hall.I don't know if it's about to give birth, or it's really been trapped for a long time, the master is always depressed, even when facing the emperor, it's the same...

At some point, Mu Yunqin had come behind him.He calmly took the wooden comb from Ah Shan, and combed her hair for her.

Ah Shan blessed the ceremony silently, and retreated quietly together with the other palace people.And she knelt in front of the mirror, but she didn't even notice it.

His movements are extremely gentle, he combs to the end, and his steps are neat, which shows that he is familiar with the craft.Rao Shi is also used to Ah Shan's hand gestures, she came back to her senses, and when she realized something was wrong, she looked back——

His gradually smiling face came into view—the scene at this time seemed to be similar.

"His Majesty……"

She turned around quickly, trying to salute him, but was stopped.

"I said long ago that when you and I are alone, we are husband and wife, not the empress. Besides, since you are inconvenient, etiquette will be waived. Have you forgotten all of this?"

"Mingyi is pregnant, so I really can't remember many things..."

She paused and looked at Mu Yunqin.And his eyes were hot, waiting for her to continue.

"Just like you and I have been married for many years, I can't remember that Your Majesty is good at curling hair." Although she was speaking calmly, she also asked coldly, "It's still the exquisiteness of Your Majesty's curling hair. On someone else?"

He was stunned for a while, obviously overwhelmed by her question.

"If you like it, I'll tie it up for you every day." He also smiled quickly, intentionally or unintentionally bypassing the words, "It's so cold, why don't you add an extra coat?"

"Your Majesty told me that I should add an extra coat." She reached out and flicked the snow flakes on his fur coat, but she didn't care at all.

He stopped her movement at once, but his hands slowly climbed onto her thin arms.He held it tightly, but still rubbed it gently, hoping to pass on a bit of warmth to her through the snow-like blouse on her body.

He stared at her, and when he couldn't help himself, one tentatively approached her.He bowed his head down and kissed the cinnabar mole at the corner of her eye - Begonia under the Moon, where he kissed her for the first time...

With a light kiss, she avoided it tremblingly.

He was only a few minutes away from her, but he didn't know whether it was his lips that were cold or her heart that was cold.

"Your hand is on me, but in your eyes..." He murmured heartlessly, "Without me."

She raised her eyes slowly, staring at his aggrieved expression.How can you see him in the distance that seems to be close at hand but out of reach?

He took her to the fairyland in the palace, but his eyes stayed on a self-growing amber crabapple.The begonia was originally the flower of their love, but not long ago, the Yongyin Palace was full of this flower, and it reminded him of that taboo ghost?

He and her face each other and draw each other.In front of her eyes, he was concentrating on painting on the purple velvet brocade book, but he seemed to be out of it. She was painting him, but why couldn't she paint the most profound existence in his bones?

Sometimes she opened her eyes and found herself waking up in his arms.Her fingertips followed the topography of his face, from his deep eye sockets to the smile lines on his lips, but she couldn't touch the outline of his heart, for whom was it beating?

He is so "sincere", how can she see clearly?And why did she have him in her eyes?

Facing his words, she was speechless, so she applied what she had learned, and changed the topic according to him, "Your Majesty, it's not easy for Ming Yiwan yet."

After finishing speaking, he turned around with a charming smile, facing his lifeless self in the bronze mirror.

He straightened out his thoughts, and looked at the neatly arranged gold beaded hairpins on the plate beside him.At a glance, he fell in love with the Fengluan Liuzhu's hairpin - "You Feng Lai Yi".

There is Feng Lai Yi, which originally means "to move under the phoenix, to brighten the world", and it is a thing inherited by the queens of the Duan Dynasty.He rejoiced in his heart, recalling the old days.

This hairpin was inherited from his mother.Empress Xiaocheng broke the rules of the previous generation and privately handed over Feng Laiyi to him instead of Mu Yunluan who was the prince back then.Or the actions of Empress Xiaocheng broke the trajectory of fate. By mistake, he finally replaced his elder brother as the prince and entered Jinning Yuan, and inherited the throne after the death of Emperor Yi, which logically established his Ming Dynasty. The instrument is the queen.

How many royal powers, riches, and powers have changed, but he still only remembers that his mother held his hand at that time, and entrusted her heavily: "Qiner, this hairpin must be given to the person in your heart. The queen wishes you to be with your beloved woman in company." When she was whiteheaded, she could still pin Youfeng Laiyi on her hair with her own hands...』

"Come on, put this on." Mu Yunqin raised the hairpin in his hand and shook it at the person in the mirror, "I gave it to you when you were 16 years old."

"Your Majesty still remembers this, Ming Yi is really terrified."

"Why don't you remember?" He whispered with a smile, "Back then, the begonia was burning, and the beauty's eyes were smiling, and it also touched my heart."

He put Feng Laiyi into her hair for her, and when he tidied it up, he smiled and talked, "I remember that night, the moon was very round, and I don't know how I was so bold to pull you out of the room." Go to the palace, and tell you... I like you."

Under the guidance of his voice, she also recalled that night - under the crabapple tree, her shy "His Royal Highness Qin" was blocked by his last sentence "Marry me".What was blocked was not the first love at that time, but the whole life after that!

"In the end, I dragged you to see my mother, and begged her to give us the royal permission to marry us. I didn't expect my father to be so forthright. After a month and a half, you became my Princess Ming as you wished." After wearing it, He clung to her from behind.His chin rested lightly on her shoulder, and he fell into the bronze mirror with her, "Look at you, how beautiful you are, Yi Ruyao is sixteen years old."

The two figures clinging to each other in the mirror, the brilliance of those bright eyes...all hurt her eyes.

"Your Majesty is full of love words, don't you know that I have already passed the age of being obedient?" She suppressed the turmoil in her heart, and said calmly, "Mingyi, I am already old."

"You're not old!" He interrupted immediately, leaving only the deep magnetic voice lingering in her ears, "I... am old."

The person behind him was a little strange.

"When a child is born, I know my destiny; when the child is ten years old, my head is covered with frost; when it grows to 20 years old, maybe I am already dead..." From then on, he hugged her tightly , I can't wait to integrate her into my body, "You want to live, without tears or regrets from now on, just keep it safe for the rest of your life, and protect it for a lifetime."

He lowered his eyes slightly, sighing but couldn't bear it, "Mingyi, do you understand?"

The hall was quiet, and she didn't make a sound.

He was even more anxious, and murmured her name again in a low voice.

However, in exchange for only a sad sentence: "You have never been tolerant enough to me——"

Both calm and aggrieved.

She slowly left his embrace and turned to face him, feeling a dull pain in her heart.

"Your Majesty regards Yinrong as the love of his life, and he only wants to stay with her for the rest of his life, but he can't be with Mingyi forever. He wants to leave me alone in the world and protect our children..."

He wanted to raise his hand to wipe away the tears rolling in her eyes, but she brushed them away lightly.

"Could it be that only Yinrong is worthy of His Majesty's company?" When she was emotional, she was so sad that she didn't know why, and her voice was sad, "I want you too! I also want you to be by my side, and I want you to watch us children are growing up day by day.”

With tears in her eyes, she couldn't help asking helplessly, "However, you let me alone from the beginning to the end! Every time you want me to obey your words, where is your sincerity?"

After she finished speaking, she turned her back to him.It seems that the only way to ignore the gap between them.

Tears slipped down like broken beads, unscrupulous and powerless.Her resentment was hard to calm down, and the confusion and resentment accumulated in her heart burst out in an instant.From the moment he was kind to her, she didn't know how to face it.

He showed his favor again and again, appealed again and again... What if he just repeated the old trick?What if he's totally out of mind?

She didn't dare to imagine these at all - if this moment really existed, she was afraid that she would be torn apart before the last moment!Now she is not alone, but with life in her arms, she really can't stand being tortured again!

In silence, the silhouette of a pair of big hands spread out from behind, like the wings of a feathered man—bending down, a warmth wrapped her tightly from behind again.

He hesitantly approached her face and rubbed her temple hair, as if looking for a little comfort, but he was so solemn that he seemed reluctant to touch her.She could only feel the strength of his circle around her slowly becoming stronger, as if he had finally made up his mind——

"If you want to talk about what Yinrong has taught me," he said as his chest rose and fell as he pressed against her back, "it's not to be obsessed with things that are too beautiful, because they are too short-lived."

His voice was so soft that it made her heart tremble.

"I am in Yinrong, and this has been fulfilled," he said to her, with a heart-wrenching tone, "You are to me...I don't want to let you repeat the same mistakes."

Hearing this, she could no longer calm down, and her trembling heart had nowhere to rest!She struggled, but was surrounded by him even tighter.

"In order not to let my heart fall in love with you, you tortured me like this?" Thousands of words were stuck in my heart, and finally came out the sentence-"In the past, you called me Yinrong and loved me in every possible way, but now you imprison me I, insincere, is this what you want from me?"

"I called you Yinrong to protect you in front of all the courtiers; I put you under house arrest because this cage can protect you!" His sudden confession was like ringing the evening bell of the doomsday, so humble and sad, "Now, I should have hated you, but I took all kinds of evil risks to let you have our child. Isn't it because I love you!"

The world fell into silence again, and the silent echo floated closer from afar.

She gave up struggling and hatred, just like giving up all of herself, and finally got the two words of Mu Mu Chao Chao... It turned out that she was alive not because of the warm feeling, but because of her tears, but she knew that there was a gap between two hearts. The flesh and blood are hugging each other tightly.

Tears could not stop falling.I never imagined that the moment he said "I love you" with his own mouth, he would be at a loss to the extreme, soul-stirring...

Suddenly, a wave of warmth penetrated into the skirt of the clothes, but scalded the skin!

She woke up for a moment and tried to move, but her shoulders restricted her freedom like a heavy weight.

"His Majesty……"

She called him, but he buried his head in her shoulder even more.At that time, bursts of sobbing came into the ears, like the low whimpering of a wounded beast.

He didn't want her to see him crying.He should have been the most vicious and tough beast in the cage, but his tears had already soaked her shoulders...

There is a kind of love that hurts so much that you can only let it fall into the yellow sand in silence, decaying with the heart that stopped beating.The love for Nanku Mingyi should be like this, the deeper the love, the more he can only remain silent.But her bottomless resentment finally forced him to cut open his heart and hold it in his hand to see it all!

After leaving him alone for a while, she moved again.This time, he was no longer stubborn, and left her hug silently.

She turned around and slowly reached out to hold his face.

"You want me to say it, don't you know that I have betrayed myself across the vastness and given up everything I have for you?" He choked up, like a child, "Please don't doubt anymore, don't ask for it anymore. Please... can I..."

She sighed softly, and stroked his frowning brows pitifully.

His eyes were red and swollen from crying, and his eyes were hazy and earnest, full of distressing appearance.The first time she saw him crying for her was when he said "Thank you" to her after she gave birth to their son He Ge for him; and the last time was when Ying Er passed away... …

The tears shed by a Kyushu emperor are not just drops of water, but an ocean of broken hearts.

"When you shed tears for me," she said gratifiedly, she shed tears again with a slight smile, "it's the time when you love me deeply..."

Under his tearful gaze, she slowly approached and knelt up.Then he bowed his head down, closed his eyes, and kissed his eyes with stars closed.

She still held his face, her lips carefully brushed his outline, and kissed away all the remaining warm tears.Going down the trend, sliding over the fine stubble, she finally stopped.

At this moment, she planted a deep kiss on the corner of his mouth—the place that would raise a bright arc.

When she left him, he slowly opened his eyes, like a baby seeing the world for the first time, and as if the world had never been stained with dust, it was clear and translucent.Just like the most beautiful clouds in the world, it is not as good as the smile she is gradually growing at this moment.

"I promise you everything you said..." She whispered softly.

Her every frown and smile gradually melted in his sight, turning into the last tear that melted in his eyes.

He finally raised a smile, both bitter and sweet - the only thing he can give her is to save her life.

He rushes forward to hug her, only at this moment, they are each other.This time, it was him who stuck to her lips, lingering and lingering until death...

In the singing of the old people in Kyushu, the stars that cannot be reached in the sky are swimming.

Mu Yunqin and Nan Ku Mingyi are probably like those two entangled vines in an ancient ballad, they are tightly entangled in this life, they live and die together, and will never be apart!