Chapter 162

The bright sun gently swept through the vermilion Palace door, and the palace people in front of the door stood respectfully on both sides, afraid of slighting. Xue ronghua looked up under the dazzling light in the afternoon. I can hardly open my eyes. The familiar and unfamiliar plaque seemed within reach. Donghua palace. It is the palace that many women in the harem dream of becoming masters. It is the place where all her sweet and happy dreams have been realized. It is also the hell on earth that will destroy her instantly and leave no ashes. The sharp arrow passing through the throat seemed to be still pinched in the throat. She felt her neck subconsciously in waves of dizziness, separated by a wall. Two kinds of life. as if a generation had passed.

The palace keeper stared at her in wonder, "I hope you don't get close to this door. This is the emperor's bedroom."

"Oh," Xue ronghua restrained the surging tide in his heart and bowed his head shyly. "I'm the maid of the imperial concubine. I'm going the wrong way."

Chu Zongge has been lying down in Zhaoyun hall to have a rest. He wants to come to the fight in Yunhe Pavilion. Even if he doesn't hurt him, he will lose half his body and spirit. Xue ronghua couldn't sleep in the palace. I had to stroll along the path in front of Zhaoyun hall, almost unconscious. Like ghosts and gods, I came to the place where everything started and ended.

"Where does the girl want to go?"

Xue ronghua turned his eyes. With a smile, "how can I get to Yunhe pavilion?"

The palace man was stiff and his face turned pale. "Girl... Where are you going? It's a restricted area."

Xue ronghua knew it clearly. Keeping a warm smile on her face, she continued to ask, "but if the imperial concubine wants me to go there."

The two palace men on the left looked at each other. Both faces were stunned. One of them whispered, "if the imperial concubine has just been released by the emperor, how can she send her own maid..."

The palace man who talked with her coughed quickly, and the two palace men who talked about it immediately shut up. The palace man said meaningfully: "girl, you'd better go back to Huayang palace. Not everyone can go to Yunhe Pavilion. If the emperor knows, the empress won't......" he didn't finish his words, but he didn't say everything.

Xue ronghua was almost happy to turn over after spying on so many news. She knew that she could get in under the guise of Su Rushuang, so she didn't have to rack her brains to think about a plan.

"Thank you, sir," said Xue ronghua calmly. "Then I'd better go back to my mother."

The palace man who had just shut up muttered: "don't the imperial concubine and empress know that Yunhe Pavilion is where the little prince lives..."

Xue ronghua wondered if the man who assassinated Chu Zongge had something to do with the little prince. He was the child of concubine Wan and the only prince under Meng Qianchong's knee.

The palace man glared back fiercely, and when he turned back, he resumed his smile, "girl, please come back."

Xue ronghua scratched his chin, answered in a low voice, turned his eyes, tried his best to hold the smile on his lips, and immediately turned around and ran back to Donghua palace.

Seeing Xue ronghua's gone back, the palace man sighed comfortably, "it's like how the maid in the imperial concubine's palace came here. Don't you know what this is?"

The palace man who was stared at by him sneered and said, "the emperor changed all the people in the imperial concubine's palace a few days ago. I'm afraid the little palace girl is new and ignorant."

"If you are not sensible, you should know that Donghua palace is a place where you can't come casually, and Yunhe Pavilion is even more important," said the palace man with a contemptuous smile. "Not every empress is like Princess Wan. I don't know what will happen to the new princess."

"Isn't that Princess Poyang the big Princess of Qin?" a palace man said blankly.

"The eldest princess is one thing, but not being spoiled is another," sighed the palace man, as if he had experienced vicissitudes. "Just like the imperial concubine in our palace, she is the highest ranking empress, and now she is not necessarily the most spoiled one."

Xuanxiao packed up everything she could use for tomorrow's wedding. Everything was ready. The future life of the concubine was about to begin. She sighed gently in her heart. She had never thought of returning to the palace before. Now when such a day came, she was nervous and astringent.

A goose yellow figure was leaning behind the door. Xuanxiao looked at the shadow tearing the petals and asked, "Xie Yingmei, what's the matter with you all day? You're always in a daze, just like you, who's going to get married."

Xie Yingmei's whole body stagnated and turned her head, "xuanxiao..."

"What's the matter with you?" xuanxiao looked at her red eyes with an ignorant face. "Have you cried?"

Xie Yingmei sucked her nose, "Duanwang still wants to have no meaning to me."

Xuanxiao smiled helplessly: "I told you he had a prospective princess. How can he be interested in you? Don't think about it. What should I do?"

"But I'm not reconciled," said Xie Yingmei, with tears in her eyes, and the birthmark of the crabapple flower, which usually looks strange, became pitiful. "I finally came out there and saw a man like Duanwang, who thought he could live a better life, but he had his own princess to be. Can I just let go?"

"What else can you do?" xuanxiao raised his eyebrows calmly. "The princess to be is not an ordinary woman. She once defeated Prince Chen and general Lin. if I were the king, I would like a brave woman like the princess to be."

Xie Yingmei was more sad by her words. She tooted her mouth unhappily. "I thought you would comfort me."

"It's a fact that you want me to comfort you. Don't deceive yourself and others. Duan Wang's every move to you is just taking care of a weak woman and a gentleman's demeanor. What do you think he's doing? Just like him in your own wishful thinking? Such a relationship is like a flower in a moon mirror in the water. If you can't see it, you can only plant it." Xuanxiao squeezed her eyes. "Do you want to fall?"

The last light in Xie Yingmei's eyes was fleeting. She bowed her head and muttered, "I don't want to... I asked my father before..."

Xuanxiao didn't quite understand, "you asked general Xie about Duan Wang, so he should also suggest you not to interfere with people who are already engaged."

Xie Yingmei shook her head. "I asked him if the emperor of Qi fabricated charges and killed them all. Did he have any hatred or remorse in his heart? He hated the king's injustice and regretted being too loyal to him. As a result, he said..." she bit her pale lips. "My father raised a helpless smile. If you want your ministers to die, your ministers have to die."

Xuanxiao's heart was stifled and sighed faintly, "so you mean that."

"At that time, I thought, I must escape from here. What a free life I had when I was a child, and how a monarch died here," said Xie Yingmei with a sudden look of panic in her eyes, "So I deliberately pretended to be crazy, hoping that one day I could catch the hand of each noble person to rescue me from my predicament. Then I saw the wedding team of Princess Poyang, which lit up my dark and boundless life like a beam of light, and I knew my chance was coming."

Xuanxiao looked at her quietly, "so you deliberately escaped from the stronghold."

"Yes, I just want what I want," Xie Yingmei handed her a charming smile. "Now I run out to see the beautiful world outside, but I lack a childe with elegant clothes."

Xuanxiao coldly interrupted her, "I will accept you as a righteous sister and betroth you to a good family. Don't think about Duanwang."

Xie Yingmei's voice became more and more hoarse. "Why can the princess to be be be with Duanwang, but I can't. is my destiny to marry a good family?"

"This kind of thing also depends on the first come and last come," xuanxiao said. Seeing her gloomy face, she couldn't bear it, but she still had to make the truth clear. "There should be a lot of things you want, so don't look at the one that doesn't belong to you."

Xie Yingmei said sadly, "that doesn't mean I have to give up."

"I told you to give up from the beginning," xuanxiao curved his lips. "I've broken a hole in my wedding dress. Please help me mend it."

"A hole?" Xie Yingmei's thoughts were dispersed, and her eyes fell on the wedding dress held in her hands. There was a small hole, which could not be seen clearly if she didn't look carefully.

"Can you mend it? The gold wire is very fine. If you don't mend it, there will be a problem," xuanxiao said anxiously. "The Emperor may not see it. The concubines around him are not necessarily."

Xie Yingmei's lips showed a smile of schadenfreude, "you're miserable. Those East Palace maidens and West Palace maidens will never let you go. Fortunately, I'll mend gold silk clothes, or you'll cry."

Xuanxiao breathed a sigh of relief. "I haven't learned these. I've been practicing martial arts. Fortunately, you're here."

Xie Yingmei looked at her strangely, "what martial arts have you practiced? It's mysterious. It won't be the martial arts that want to eat human flesh."

"Eating your human flesh is the best," xuanxiao shook his head unfathomably. "Don't think of taking the opportunity to test my words. I'll tell you when it's time."

Xie Yingmei turned her eyes. "At that time, I'm afraid you're willing to talk, but I don't want to listen." she opened the hole in her palm, carefully checked some rough edges, and said firmly in her heart, "you're busy first. I can still solve this small problem."

Xuanxiao looked relaxed and said, "OK, you can mend it here first, but you have to try it on after you mend it yourself to see if you will be found."

Xie Yingmei nodded. She touched the smooth brocade in her hand and said with a smile, "you'll be your mother in the future."

Xuanxiao chuckled, "do something quickly. Don't think about what you have or don't have."

"But do you regret it?" Xie Yingmei suddenly looked up at her. "You're going to be one of the many concubines in the supreme King's back palace. Don't you regret marrying this desolate place instead of Princess Poyang?"

Xuanxiao looked at her in silence for a long time, revealing a confident and lonely smile, "all these things are just what I deserve in the state of Qin, but when I arrived in the state of Qi."

Xie Yingmei was stunned and said, "how do you know that Princess Poyang deserves it?"

"I've missed 18 years of court life, and I won't miss it again," xuanxiao smiled. "Although the glory and wealth in the court are frightening step by step, how many people can refuse, such as me," tears can be seen in her eyes, "such as you."