Twenty-one, the shadow of the moon after a long journey becomes a dream
The snow has been falling endlessly, from the Lantern Festival Night Banquet to today, for half a month, and there are snowdrops every day, which is moist and sticky.
Because in the joy of the New Year, You Jingxian's funeral was simply held in such a cold weather, but with the utmost mourning. The white color of the new funeral melted into the plain snow and ice in the sky, which made people feel cold and sad.
I sighed and felt pity in my heart. After waiting and admiring for a long time, Jingxian, who had been married to Prince Qinghe for less than two years, passed away. Her life was as fragile as a piece of spring snow that was instantly evaporated by the sun.
Outside the window, the six-edged snowflakes danced and fell lightly, spreading the endless coldness and gloom. I stretched out my hand to adjust the fire intensity of the heater with a brass pick, and slipped in a few green bamboo leaves, which touched the dark red color.
The fire made a soft "bah" sound, and then burned out a wisp of fresh bamboo leaves.
The autumn-colored brocade curtain hung tightly, and suddenly half of it was lifted, and little Yunzi's voice from outside flowed in along with the cold wind, "The concubine Yin is here."
I was still sitting upright, with a long ivy gown draped over my shoulders, my hair loosely tied with a butterfly pendant from a silver chain, and I was fiddling with the purple and gold embossed hand stove slowly, waiting for Yu Yin to come in.
It was difficult to walk on the snowy road, so she was wrapped in a thick snow fox trimmed with green and red twisted gold lynx leather crane cloak. There were melted snow beads on the tips of the silver gray fox fur, one by one, shining like crystal beads.
of.
Hua Yi stepped forward to serve her and take off her crane cloak, but saw that she was wearing a plain silver-green jacket and a thin white silk pleated skirt. She was holding a blue-green woven silver-patterned longevity swaddle in her arms, revealing a pink and white face.
With a pouty little face, he was falling into a deep sleep.
I didn't get up and just said calmly: "I just saw you lift the curtain and come in. I thought it was Zhaojun returning from the fortress."
Yu Yin understood what I meant and forced a smile and said: "Zhaojun wore a red cloak when he left the fortress, and I only wore green and red clothes twisted with gold. After all, I came to visit the Queen Mother during the New Year, so she is taboo in wearing something too plain."
"You know how to understand people's hearts." I pointed to the green pear wood seat for her to sit on, and asked, "What do you say to the Queen Mother?"
She showed a faint smile and lowered her hands to adjust the baby's swaddling clothes. "The Queen Mother said, let me take care of the baby first, and I must love him as my own child." She thought about it, held the baby in front of me, and smiled.
Yingying said: "The prince has already given the child a name, Yu Che." She said happily: "The father's name is Qing, and the child's name is Che. Does it sound good to the eldest sister?"
"It sounds good." I stretched out my hand to caress the sleeping baby's pink face, "After all, he is You Jingxian's child. From now on, when you raise this child, look at his face every day, and think of him bleeding Jingxian's blood, you will
Aren’t you afraid?”
"Afraid? What are you afraid of?" Yu Yin was startled, then smiled lightly and said: "From now on, he will only have me as his mother in his heart. I will love him well and he will be filial to me. What do I have to fear?" After saying this, she loved him.
Kissing the child's forehead, she is a loving mother.
The red charcoal was burning "beeping, beeping", and occasionally a spark was raised. The faint sound made the hall become as quiet as water, and even the continuous sound of snow falling on the ground outside the window could be clearly heard.
Although my voice was soft, each word was as clear as the marks on the snow, "Everyone knows that You Jingxian died of Hedinghong, and it was said that she was killed by Murong Chishao, but I can't understand why.
Since Jingxian had the strength to give birth to a child, how could the poison relapse and die? Thinking back to it, Jingxian just drank a sip of soup, so she would not have been so poisoned."
Yu Yin's expression remained unchanged, she just slowly sipped the hot tea from the cup. The blood-like soup of the black tea reflected like rouge on her pale and bloodless cheeks, adding a touch of frivolous color to her. Her voice was clear and clear.
Ling's words are like ice touching each other, "The eldest sister is a person who has given birth to a child. She should understand that a woman giving birth to a child is like wandering in front of the gate of hell. There is no time when the eldest sister is not surrounded by dangers. Jingxian has already won the title of "Heding Red Opera"
It is poisonous. Giving birth to a child will inevitably exhaust your energy and make your body weak. It is not surprising that the poison will occur again." Her eyes did not blink for a moment, she only looked at me and said quietly: "The queen was banned, so Chi Shao had no choice but to jump over the wall to murder her eldest sister.
It hurt the innocent Jingxian. Everyone thinks so, right?"
"What everyone thinks may not be the truth. Only the people involved at the time can understand whether the relapse was caused by physical weakness or intentional harm." I looked at Yu Yin's deep eyes, and I wanted to see her infinite
From the bottom of my heart, I asked, "As long as your conscience can live with it?"
"Conscience?" Yu Yin chuckled, almost knocking over the tea cup in his hand, "I always remember the wise words Jin Xi told my sister, to live in the palace you must have no heart." The bright smile on her cheeks slowly faded, only
He was left with a deep pallor and a cold determination, "Ever since Jingxian became pregnant and was above me in the palace, I no longer have a heart."
The world of ice and snow is covered with silver, but the inside of the palace is as warm as spring. Only the human heart is colder than the snow. I breathed out softly, "That day, Chi Shao hid it in his fingernails in order to poison me and Han'er.
Hedinghong was poisoned. Later she broke her nails in anger, and I clearly saw four of them falling to the ground. So Yuyin, count them now, how many do I have here?"
I spread my hands, and there were three inch-long bright red nails on my plain white palms. They were like three blood stains on my palms, which were eye-catching. My voice was clear and distinct, and there was no room for her to pretend or dodge, "Come on, do it well."
Count them!"
Yu Yin's expression was still as calm as a frozen lake. Only her slightly purple lips betrayed the fear in her heart. Her voice was as low as a breath, one wave after another. She called me, "Eldest sister."
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I stared at Yuyin and said coldly: "Tell me yourself, where did the nail containing the red poisonous powder from Heding go?"
Yu Yin's complexion changed drastically, he suddenly stood up and shouted: "Sister, you are crazy!"
"The crazy person is not me, but you!" I stared at her beautiful face. It was hard to believe that there was a vicious and cold heart hidden under such a soft face. "Killing the mother and seizing the son, you did it cleanly.
Neat and without suspicion! No one would have thought it was you who did it!"
She slumped down in the seat, clutching the baby's swaddling clothes tightly in her arms, "Eldest sister, all this should be mine, but You Jingxian took it from me. I just want it back."
The expression in Yu Yin's eyes was as calm as ice. There was no wave at all. Only a thorny cold light flashed at the moment she turned her eyes. The voice at the bottom of her throat made countless ripples and twists and turns, "Eldest sister, I tolerate everything.
Only then can Jingxian be treated as my equal and concubine. I have been waiting for so many years, and I know that the prince only has you in his heart, but I can endure it. I only hope that the prince and I are the only ones in the palace of Qinghe. Who knows that I stabbed you before I got married?
Insert You Jingxian! Because of my years of love for the prince, I am able to sit beside him today. Why is You Jingxian? Because she vomited blood and got sick several times, or she created rumors to force the prince to marry her.
Entering the palace, the bitch is so scheming and shameless! In the palace, whenever I think about the smell of other women in the place where the prince and I live together, and the extremely affectionate eyes of other women looking at him, I feel sick.
!" Yu Yin clenched her fists tightly, her knuckles turning white inch by inch, "How many times did my teeth get sore before I could bear the fact that she shared the prince with me - but she dared
She secretly seduced the prince and became pregnant with his child." Yu Yin's hands trembled violently. On his wrists, a pair of gold bracelets carved with dragons, phoenixes, silk, and inlaid with eight treasures and rolling balls struck the red sandalwood table.
The prince feels more and more pity for her because of the child. Seeing that she is increasingly superior to me, I think that in the future, she will completely get all the love from the prince with this child and completely step down on everything I have worked so hard to get. How can I
Be patient!"
"Yu Yin." I called her coldly, "I know it's very hard for you to work with Jingxian, but no matter what, you can't take her life. Jingxian, she is also very innocent."
"She is innocent?" Yu Yin sneered, revealing a pair of snow-white teeth that looked as if they could bite people, "How can I not be innocent? Sister, when I marry the Sixth King, I am destined to marry a man who has a crush on me. Then
It’s okay, you are my biological sister, I can’t help it. I only have his body left, and you want me to share it with others, and watch him have children with others, how can I endure it!” She said sadly!
He looked at me with venomous resentment and said, "Sister, my marriage is already unfair, why do you continue to endure other injustices?"
I felt pity in my heart, "This kind of marriage is your own choice, no one is forcing you."
"Eldest sister!" She screamed and said sharply: "If you really can't stand it, you can take the broken armor and report it to the emperor. At most, you will pay for one life, and I will accompany my mother.
Exactly! I knew that my eldest sister would be dissatisfied with me marrying the prince, and would hate me for taking away your love. I must not miss such a great opportunity, eldest sister!"
Her voice was so shrill and shrill that the child in her arms was awakened and burst into tears. Yu Yin was shaken and hurriedly held the child steady, coaxing softly "oh oh" in his mouth, and shed a tear.
I hated her so much for plotting against Jingxian and using strong arguments, and said angrily: "If I hate you, I can go and tell the prince about all your schemes!"
She didn't look at me, she just lowered her head and sobbed, "I'm not afraid that my eldest sister will tell the emperor that I should have gone to accompany my mother long ago. She had been alone for many years and only after her death did she get the status she deserved. She could be with the prince.
I am already much luckier than her. I just ask my eldest sister not to tell the prince. The prince died because Jingxian gave birth to a child. He feels guilty day and night. If he knows what I have done again, he will probably be very sad. If the eldest sister
I really care about the prince, and must not make him sad. Yu Yin has made a big mistake, and I really don’t deserve to ask the prince to feel sorry for me." She raised her eyes, infinitely miserable, "If eldest sister doesn’t care about me, please do it.
I care about the prince, and I also ask my eldest sister to take good care of Che'er after I leave. From now on, he will have no mother." She bowed deeply, "I also ask my eldest sister to be more filial to my father for me. My father is old and I shouldn't know.
These wrong things of mine make me sad."
She looked sad, just kissing the child's forehead pityingly, and weeping in the corner. She cried so sadly, as if she was still eleven years old, when she learned about her life experience, and cried sadly on the night of Aunt He's death anniversary.
.I still clearly remember that it was a full moon night, the moonlight was like white feather satin covering her little body, and outside the window, pear blossoms were blooming like frost and snow, and occasionally a few pieces were blown off by the wind.
She just kept crying and refused to turn her back.
She has been a child without mother's love since she was a child. Even though her mother gave her a lot of love and care without knowing it, it was never the maternal love she expected.
Or maybe Yu Yin really loves the child in her arms, and I can't bear it in my heart. When I was a child, Yu Yin was by my side. On winter days like this, when dripping water turns to ice, she would stay by the stove and stir the fire, but she was still a little timid.
I quietly called her to bed, and used my warm hands and feet to warm her slightly cold hands and feet. She was called a maid, but she was really my sister. What I owe her for so many years, what does dad owe me?
It's continuous, it's really too much.
She is my biological sister. Do I really want to kill her with my own hands? Many people have died in my hands. Is it possible that my biological sister's blood is still contaminated? My father is old. If I do this, wouldn't it be wrong?
It hurts his old man's heart!
All kinds of thoughts were running through my mind like thunder and lightning. I asked her, "Do you really regard Yu Che as your own child?"
"Why not?" She looked up with tears in her eyes and asked me, "I probably won't have a child of my own in this life. Che'er will be my only child. He will only recognize me as his mother. Our family of three will live a happy life."
Okay." She looked at me with a faint look, "Only you know this secret, right?"
The cold snow outside the window is like flying cotton wool. Perhaps, I should let such a secret be buried with the heavy snow. If the truth is truly revealed, Xuanqing will lose a wife who loves him, and young Cheer will lose a beloved wife.
His adoptive mother. My heart felt heavy and dull, and I stretched out my arms to hug Che'er and said in a deep voice: "Everyone thinks Chi Shao was responsible for this crime, so just think it was her."
Yu Yin looked at me with tears in her eyes, feeling a little relieved and feeling guilty. The baby in the swaddling clothes was crying hoarsely. I reached into the swaddling clothes and found that the tentacles were warm and moist. I said quickly: "Don't just hold the baby, the baby will pee."
It’s out.”
Yu Yin hurriedly wiped her tears and hurriedly called the wet nurse in. She unswaddled the child skillfully and changed the diaper. I helped with the cooking and saw two or three very light blue spots on the child's back, and I couldn't help but
Asked: “Is this a birthmark?
The wet nurse was an older and steady woman. When she saw my question, she shook her head and said, "Madam, this is not a birthmark. The little prince's biological mother took a highly toxic substance before giving birth, so the child will be born with blue spots."
My heart suddenly lit up, as if there were countless bright lightnings splitting the dark sky, and it suddenly became clear. I had a huge question tumbling in my chest, and I quickly asked: "I heard that the child was frightened in the mother's womb and was born.
It will be stillborn and bear bruises."
The wet nurse nodded and said, "This is true. But I have also heard that some wealthy families have wives and concubines who compete for favor and use poison to kill pregnant wives and concubines. If the children are born stillborn, they will also be mentally damaged and have blue spots on their bodies." She said.
He smiled and said, "This kind of thing is very dirty and will not reach the ears of the empress."
Yu Yin looked hesitant and urged in a deep voice: "Don't talk too much, quickly change the little prince's clothes, don't freeze." The wet nurse was obedient, her hands were agile, and she didn't dare to say more.
Countless thoughts were rolling through my mind like thunder. I called Jinxi, "I heard that Princess Jinkang came to the palace today. Please go and ask Mrs. Zhuang Min and the princess to come and talk. They said that Concubine Yin brought a little girl."
The prince is here." I told the wet nurse in a deep voice, "Mrs. Zhuang Min always likes to hear these stories. Please tell the story you just told me to my wife and the princess again. They will definitely like it."