After the global recovery I crossed

In the fifth year of Kaiyuan, which was also the fifth year of the Empress's ascension to the throne, a carriage drove out of Luoshui City.

Outside Luoshui City, since Luoshui City did not set up a prince for five full years but directly belonged to the royal family, there were even troops from the royal capital patrolling here.

The soldiers waited for the carriage to pass by, and exchanged a few words: "The one in the carriage is the girl Huasha, who was summoned by His Majesty this time, did you see the coachman, that is a deputy of the stars."

"What do you think His Majesty summoned her for?"

A few men in rich clothes waited at the corner after hearing the news. Even if they were stopped by soldiers, they still reached out to reach for the gauze, shouting: "Girl Huasha! Look at me!"

Others also poked their heads out of the carriage to look around, wondering: "But that girl who is a famous prostitute in the city?"

Huasha slightly opened the curtains, stretched out the handkerchief and passed by, her voice echoed with the fragrance on the handkerchief: "Don't block the way or get hurt, otherwise it will be the fault of the servant."

When the crowd dispersed, Huasha let out a soft breath, and she took out a small gilt mirror from the makeup case she carried with her, carefully checking whether her makeup was in place.Next to the makeup box, there are several ledgers neatly placed—the ledgers of the charity workshop she opened.

"Girl, the empress ordered us to enter the palace directly," the coachman reminded.

"I know." Huasha replied, seeing the stars around the car body, she knew that it was the carriage accelerating under the blessing of the stars.

The interior of the car was completely motionless, but she couldn't feel at ease. After a while, she opened the curtains and looked back at Luoshui.

She thought of the flood six or seven years ago, Luoshui City was like a mirage under the sea, and all the prosperity turned into foam washed away by the flood.

People stood in the dead alleys, and Huasha stood on tiptoe at the poker table in the gambling house, trying to look at the figures under the overlapping sky, wind and rain.

Six or seven years ago, Huasha was just a prostitute in Luoshui City gambling house. Flower name - Huasha.

In the early days, Huasha would worry about her life, but later she lingered among the guests every day, smiling like a flower, and dreaming of life and death with them.

She has seen many big men in the mouth of the people, including that Luo Wang Ling Mingyu.

There was a stinging aura between King Luo's eyebrows, and he completely showed that he was the master of this place in his gestures. He casually pulled Huasha, the most beautiful woman among all the women, onto his lap—in fact, Huasha He only dared to touch the corner of the gorgeously embroidered robe.

Luo Wang's movements were presumptuous, but his fingers didn't go straight in like other dandy brothers, but lightly twirled the cloud-like yarn.

King Luo asked her: "Do you want to serve in the palace?"

Huasha quickly slid from his knees to the ground, seeing that her clothes were lifted up by King Luo's fingers to reveal the skin underneath, she didn't dare to say a word, she just lowered her head and let King Luo decide.

Huasha knew that it didn't depend on her whether Wang Luo's casual question was a random question or not.

Luo Wang looked at her, she trembled, and was teased by the brother who had a good relationship with Luo Wang: "Your Highness, you took the beauty away, what should we do?"

King Luo then let go of her and said, "Then stay here for a lifetime."

He didn't seem to understand that his own words blocked Huasha's way to redeem herself.

The veil fluttered, and Huasha knelt, her knees turned red. Fortunately, King Luo left earlier than the other dandies in addition to being more majestic.

Huasha stood up, looked at his back, and sighed silently in her heart.

She didn't know what she was sighing about, but it seemed that someone had to sigh to this group of debauched young dudes.

But who will sigh for her?

Huasha thought to herself that the royal relatives are not much better. If she Huasha had a noble background, she could fly to the branches and be a good wife and mother of that rich family.

Until that day, a young man walked into the casino.

Experienced people can tell at a glance that this young man is very clean - he must have never set foot in such a sensual place.

But his attire was nothing out of the ordinary.This seemed a bit contradictory, and the girls' minds were suddenly hooked.

They gathered behind the thin gauze curtain, groping the young man's arm through the gauze curtain.

The young man with black hair and splendid attire stayed where he was, neither hiding nor taking a step closer. Occasionally, his fingertips brushed the corners of his slightly raised lips, and he clearly revealed that smile in the blurred light.

Fascinated by that smile, all the babbling in the girls' mouths stopped.

Huasha was quite close, and she could clearly see the young man's slightly narrowed eyes, and the coldness between his brows was softened into something tickling.

Huasha looked at him, somehow thinking of King Luo.

"Ninth Prince..." the son, who held Huasha in his arms, said excitedly to himself.

Brother Young Master seemed to have lost interest in her and the other girls, so he couldn't wait to order Hua Sha to go to the Ninth Prince's side, and of course he followed.

There, Huasha failed to get into someone's arms for the first time.

She shook her body hard, and in the words of a prodigal son who is used to reciting poems and odes, she was Meng Lang who wanted to point out the girl's freshness and the woman's Meng Lang with her fingertips.

But the Ninth Prince ignored her, his slender and graceful fingers were clearly attached to the bargaining chip, but there was no sign of being obsessed with it.

Maybe that finger shouldn't be tapping on the table full of gold, silver and powder, but should be holding a noble sword, with a bit of nobility and arrogance gathered at the tip of the sword.

Huasha thought about it, feeling a little dazed.

"Enough." An old man said in a low voice, and it was only then that Huasha noticed that there was someone beside the Ninth Prince.

At this time, with a "click", the Ninth Prince threw out the gambling tools in his hand.Awakened by the sound, Huasha raised her head and met the gaze of the Ninth Prince.

It was just a moment.

He didn't look at her temptation just now, but looked at her now in a daze.

Huasha knows how to look at men's eyes, but she doesn't understand his eyes.

He only played one round, and the tea on the table was still steaming, the steam was thinner than the gauze and smoke, around the rim of the cup, rising in coils between the two of them.

He turned around and walked away, Huasha felt her whole body tense, and her toes tensed to chase her out.

In "Chu Kaiyuan Guangji·Yiebian" it is recorded that Huasha heard the first emperor say: "Luo men don't know that the dead city hates you?" In fact, Huasha's deepest impression is a sigh that cannot be broken.

Huasha stood blankly at the door, sighing softly, shaking her to sleep and waking her up again.

She slowly curled up her bare toes, turned around, stepped on the ground covered with petals, took off the pearl hairpin on her head, and threw it into the bulging veil.

She said: "Although I am just a gambling prostitute, I am ashamed of you!"

In the casino, everyone looked sideways.

Since then, Huasha has become famous, and everyone praised her as a kind and righteous prostitute, and other girls in the casino also envied her for seizing this opportunity to increase her net worth, saying: "Ah, Huasha, look Those ugly and useless ones don’t dare to point at you anymore, what a shame!”

Huasha left from the warm embrace of the distinguished guest, blowing the cool wind, exhaling the fragrance from the corner of her mouth, her whole body swayed.

wobbly——

She stood on tiptoe on the card table bobbing in the water.

She looked up at the Nine Princes before the flood.

When she saw the Ninth Prince was severely hit by the flood, she trembled all over and shouted together with the people around: "Your Highness—"

Huasha knows that the Ninth Prince will not remember who she is, she is a humble little person, one of the people in Luoshui City who are either fleeing for their lives or waiting to die, the person who can help His Highness should be a son of an aristocratic family, a nobleman from Tianhuang , gods and immortals.

Then she silently stared at her side, the son of the family was sitting on the big sedan chair carried by the warrior, and fled for his life in a hurry. In the distance, King Luo abandoned the city and left, and further away, no god appeared.

She hugged her trembling shoulders, but didn't let her tears flow, lest the flood be higher.

"Heaven and earth open their eyes!" Suddenly there was a shout.

She choked up.

"People listen quietly!"

She looked up again.

"The Sixth Prince of Dalin conferred Luo Wang in Luoshui City three years ago! His heart was wrong, and his actions were unethical! He put the people in a dangerous situation, and destroyed the city and left the city!"

Unworthy to be king.

"On behalf of heaven, we will take away the throne of King Ling Mingyuluo!"

Huasha seemed to see the people's expectations, the generals turning back, the king of Luo spitting blood, and the white flood dragon entering the clouds.

She stood with her head up, and she was kneeling and lowered her head when King Luo was there, as if there was something different.

When the common people petition the Nine Princes to be king, there will be a white dragon swallowing up the dark clouds in one gulp.

The sky was full of rays of light, and the forest was completely dyed. Huasha saw that the flood receded, and the dice that had been floating by the card table were stained with water and all fell to the ground.

——It is auspicious if the face is face up.

. . . . . .

Later, Huasha took out all her savings to help the people. She reopened a gambling house, and the money earned from the gambling shop was used for charity. .

It is said that she is a famous prostitute, but in Kaiyuan's first year to five years, she actually never took a guest.

She heard about Shihuang's deeds, and there was no shadow of her painting yarn.

This is natural, and the one who can be compared with Shihuang is the empress of Great Chu, the two great generals of Great Chu, the Taoist leader of Great Chu, the daughter of Feng Ming from Dongling, and the former national teacher of Dalin.

She's just a hooker who shows up briefly.

In the past five years, Huasha claimed that she was a hero in the world, but she often dreamed of the figure before the flood.

Finally, in the fifth year of Kaiyuan, the empress heard about her righteous deed and called her into the palace.

The empress actually wants to personally meet a prostitute.

But Hua Sha, who is not remembered by the big men, has already been honored, and the person who is missed by everyone and even the gods is no longer in this world.

"The first emperor, in the first year of Kaiyuan, became a fairy with the heart of the world, go." Huasha softly read a sentence that was circulated among the people, and slowly covered her mouth.

The road gets shorter and shorter, Luoshui gets farther and farther away, and gradually there is a melodious flute sound.

"Girl, here we are."

The carriage stopped suddenly, and the driver's voice made Huasha suffocate.

Arrived so soon?Have you arrived at the palace yet?

Huasha was holding the ledger in one hand and the hem of the skirt in the other. She was about to be helped down by the servants at the gate of the palace when she heard a man's mellow and deep voice: "In a blink of an eye this kid will be crowned..."

Another person followed behind the speaker and responded: "General, you stood up in a blink of an eye."

Huasha's heart relaxed slightly, because of the relaxed and familiar atmosphere between the two.

The general cursed dispensably after hearing this, and when the footsteps approached, the people beside him said respectfully: "General Zhang, General Wei."

Huasha's shoes fell to the ground, and she quickly followed suit and said, "My family has seen two generals."

General Zhang said with a "huh" and said with a smile: "I thought there was a beautiful man in this car, and he was mysteriously going to be sent to the harem. It turned out to be a pretty girl."

Huasha blushed for this bold talk about the harem, and when she heard the word "pretty girl", she raised her head boldly.

The two generals were standing in front of the palace gate one after the other, dressed in ordinary uniforms, they looked like they had just come out of the palace.

The general who said "Pretty Girl" was not looking at her as Huasha imagined, but was looking at the distant mountains.

Gao Shanyi faced the imperial palace, a gust of wind brushed over Zhang Kuangji's bushy eyebrows.

Such a gust of wind seems to return the moisture taken away by the morning sun, dewdrops condense on the grass leaves beside the palace, and the green forests on the high mountains are also bleak with the wind.

Zhang Kuangji wrinkled his nose and said, "It's raining."

Then he shook his head, turned over and jumped onto the steed led by the palace servants, and galloped away with Wei Xin.

They seemed to have lost the mood for teasing all of a sudden.

In fact, they didn't say a word to Huasha.

However, Huasha felt that the uneasiness that had quietly arisen along the way went down to the ground with the galloping of the horseshoe.

"Girl Huasha?" The palace servant urged her softly, "Let's go, Your Majesty should be in a hurry."

Huasha regained her mood and was taken into the palace.

She guessed where she would meet the empress, maybe in the side hall, maybe in the study, maybe in a very hidden place.She also thought about why the empress wanted to see her, and she thought that maybe she wanted to hear her talk about Shihuang, because it is said that when Shihuang was trying to turn the tide in Luoshui City, the empress did not see her in other lands. witness.

It's impossible to talk to yourself about something serious... What's there to talk about with yourself.Although... I brought the ledger myself.Huasha's gaze swept over the ledger of her yifang held by the palace people, and then stopped at a building and waterside pavilion.

The water pavilion is in the middle of the lake, and the lake is full of green lotus leaves. The growing water drops fall on the lotus leaves and slide into the lake, making a soft sound of "duo duo duo".

After entering the warm pavilion, the sound of piercing through the forest and beating leaves became clearer, like someone leaning on the railing, stretching out their fingers, and tapping lightly with their knuckles.

The incense burner in the pavilion has been extinguished, but there is still a light smell squeezed into the raindrops and diffused together with the raindrops.

Huasha saw no one, but heard voices first.

It was still a male voice, a little hoarse, with a smile: "You heard what Zhang Kuangji said just now, how about changing Xiling to Langya?"

As if getting a response from the other side, the young male voice went on to say, "Qingqing, say something."

The female voice on the opposite side replied: "He is a greedy wolf. He was originally a literary minister and had a rebellious character. In the end, you are more rebellious than him."

"Oh?"

"Maybe your child will learn literature in the future."

"That didn't make him laugh to death."

"From Wen it's called Wenxuan, from Wu it's called Cheng Ma."

"Wenxuan sounds nice, so when will Zhang Kuangji be crowned king?"

"It's early, let's wait for you to perform the coronation ceremony."

"It's not too early for my coronation ceremony."

"Yeah, it's getting late."

They were all silent.

Huasha lowered her head, feeling as if she had heard a lot that she shouldn't have heard, but the palace servants quickly backed away, and she actually wanted to face the empress and the general inside by herself.

"Come in," said the Empress.

"The rain will fall as soon as it is said, so don't catch a cold." The general said.

Huasha walked in.

She saw the general sitting on the bench with one leg casually resting on the railing, and it was he who was knocking on the railing. The expression on his face, which was too young for the status of the general, was not like the one in the rumors. As frightening as it sounds.

And the Empress...

Huasha was taken aback.

She stared at her in a daze.

The appearance of two people flashed in her heart, King Luo, Emperor Shihuang...

The empress sat on the ground, her eyebrows were like emerald feathers, and her muscles were like suet. Her supposedly gorgeous appearance was exuding dignity and grandeur because of the grayness at the corners of her eyes and the tip of her eyebrows.

Huasha almost thought that the Empress was wearing a red dress, but soon she discovered that the Empress was wearing an elegant toga and a green dress.

The empress raised her hand and poured a cup of tea, her movements were more intoxicating than those of the young people from the aristocratic families that Huasha had seen.

"What should I do if I catch a cold?" the empress opened her lips and asked.

Huasha realized that she was asking herself, so she replied, "Please consult a doctor."

The general laughed and turned his head, as if fascinated by the scenery of the raindrop lotus pond.

The empress also smiled, and took a coat sent by the palace servants, her smile and tone were a bit playful, and she said, "Boil some boiling water, or add a piece of clothing like this."

Huasha stared blankly at the empress approaching, and put on the robe for her.

In the gambling house, no matter how gorgeous and exquisite the embroidery on King Luo's clothes would still sharpen the skin, and the first emperor was far away, the empress at this time was unexpectedly soft and warm.

She forgot to say "Thank you, Your Majesty", and she didn't come back to herself until the empress took out the ledger and looked through it.

Amid the sound of the ledger flipping, Huasha also followed the general to look at the scenery.

The sound of the general's percussion stopped suddenly, and Huasha was startled.

She actually saw a figure jumping down not far from the palace, above the capital!

A beam of sword light traversed the sky, spanning thousands of miles.

... He harvested the dew from the blades of grass, obliterated the silence of the woods, and stripped away the silver of the moonlight.

The breath of the entire sky and the earth almost shakes the imperial city.

Yet the rain continued to fall, and the brief scene just now seemed to be a veritable mirage.

Amidst the three people's breaths that were more unpredictable than the wind, Chen Kele said: "The day I am crowned, you come to my house and wait."

Lin Qingqing said, "Okay."

. . . . . .

Huasha heard that although the empress is young and occasionally looks like a girl, she has the means of an emperor, and she is vigorous and resolute, and dare not make any noise in the court.

But the empress she saw looked different.

She couldn't tell what that was like.

That time when she entered the palace, she did not expect that the Empress did not ask her about Shihuang, not a single word.

She just talked about Yifang, was rewarded by the empress, got a few pieces of land and gave some wealth, and then left there.

It was so short, she seemed to only appear in the lives of these big people for an insignificant moment, as if they only appeared in her life for a short but impressive moment.

The palace man held an umbrella for her and said, "The girl will be recorded in the history books."

And she raised her head under the umbrella, and couldn't help but look back quietly.

Seeing the water pavilion, the general still maintained that posture, moved the cup out of the pavilion, and drank from the rain.

And the empress, regardless of her image, lay on the side of the railing, leaned down, her white arms were exposed from the blue sleeves, and she held a jade flute in her hand, reaching for the lake water rippled by the raindrops.

After a while, they looked at each other and seemed to laugh.

Boys and girls, after reaching the top of the era, returned to wanton publicity.

There was no sword light in the sky, but when it was raining, a brilliant rainbow appeared.

Later, Huasha heard that General Chen's coronation ceremony was held in Chen's mansion.

Later, Huasha heard that everyone was unhappy that day.

Later, Huasha heard that the empress refused to accept people into the harem.

Huasha sighed, for them.

She seemed to understand them.

Like knowing who they were waiting for and why they didn't ask themselves about the person they were missing.

If the man will return that day, why learn about him from his mouth?

Huasha sighed again, for everyone including herself.

If you have seen that person, no matter how many heroes there are in the world, how can they catch your eye?

Kaiyuan passed year by year, both women, Huasha was worried about Lin Qingqing.

How much she hopes that the world will be more tolerant and understanding to her.

On the lotus pond, there seemed to be a faint fragrance, and he bent down sadly, and kissed the rippling lake water with his flute. Also vaguely, the lake water was filled with the unique coldness of Chuze, like the once grand fireworks, covered by raindrops. There is a slight coolness between the cocooned throat of the flower petals.

——When will the sound of the flute sound again?

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Lin Xingtao: You all say that I am handsome behind my back, who doesn't know.