After listening to the interpreter's explanation, Zhu Xueyan's face turned red, she didn't know what to do, she turned her head and glanced at Lin Yiqing, Lin Yiqing smiled slightly and nodded at her.

"Then there is His Royal Highness King Law." Zhu Xueyan settled down and replied calmly. Lin Yiqing cast an appreciative look at her, her sentence "Your Highness" had actually unmistakably told Ruan Phuc Sheng his future identity.

After the first meeting with the Vietnamese monarchs, Lin Yiqing and Zhu Xueyan returned to the garrison in the imperial city, Zhu Xueyan remembered that the Vietnamese king Nguyen Phuc Thanh wanted to paint a portrait of himself, and said to Lin Yiqing: "What does the Vietnamese king mean by wanting to paint a portrait of me?" ”

"According to the information collected by our people, this Vietnamese king Nguyen Phuc Thanh, because his mother was rumored to be a demon, has been confined to the deep palace for a long time, and he only knows how to draw, and he paints pictures of beauties." Lin Yiqing said with a smile, "Ordinary beauties don't enter his eyes, and he doesn't bother to paint, today I saw Yan'er, you should be attracted by the beauty of Yan'er, so I can't help but paint for Yan'er, there should be no malice." I've heard that his paintings are worth a lot of money if they are sold outside. ”

"Oh." Hearing Lin Yiqing say this, Zhu Xueyan was relieved.

"By the way, since we live in the palace city of Vietnam, Yan'er, you are the lord of the county, you might as well walk around here, enjoy the beautiful scenery of the foreign country, and observe the environment we are in by the way." Lin Yiqing said to Zhu Xueyan.

"Okay, no problem." Zhu Xueyan understood what Lin Yiqing wanted her to do, and nodded happily.

"We have confiscated so many of their great seals today, both gold and jade. They look very angry, we still live in their palace, you have to be careful. Zhu Xueyan remembered the scene just now. couldn't help but remind Lin Yiqingdao.

"That's for sure, next I want them to abolish the emperor's title, reform internal affairs, and open up the country and trade, there are many things they don't resent about," Lin Yiqing smiled, "The long pain is better than the short pain." Come on. Save all the trouble of hiding in the shadows. ”

"Today, these ministers are all stealing. It's uncomfortable to look at. It should be true that the king of Vietnam was held hostage by them. Zhu Xueyan expressed her perception of the Vietnamese monarch and ministers, "That king paints all day long, I'm afraid he is a puppet who doesn't care about anything." ”

"You're right. But this Vietnamese king. I don't think I'm an idle person. Lin Yiqing replied thoughtfully, "For him, I want to make good use of it." Just ......"

"What's wrong?" Zhu Xueyan noticed the change in Lin Yiqing's eyes and asked.

"This Vietnamese king, maybe there is something wrong with his spirit......"

"Huh?"

Back in his palace, Nguyen Phuc Thanh couldn't sleep for a long time. As soon as he closed his eyes, he saw those huge dragon flag warships spinning in front of him. The scene where Lin Yiqing and those red-clothed soldiers got off the battleship and broke into the palace.

He couldn't get rid of these sights. He took the secret medicine and lit it, took a deep puff of the medicine, closed his eyes, and hoped to fall asleep soon, enter the illusion, and come to the girl's side.

I don't know how long it took for him to finally "go in".

When the girl saw him, she greeted him happily: "Every time you leave, it will take a long time to come back." If there is no one to watch the scenery and talk with me, I will die of sorrow. ”

"But I've only been gone for less than a day."

"But in this dream, I don't know how much time has passed." The girl sighed, "When no one could talk to me before, I was alone every day, and so many years passed unconsciously. But now that you know that someone will come to you, the waiting time is incomparably long. ”

She raised her eyes and looked at Ruan Fusheng with a smile, Ruan Fusheng suddenly panicked, lowered her head and didn't know where to look. I'm afraid that as soon as I look into the girl's eyes, I will be intoxicated.

"You...... Still can't remember your name? Nguyen Phuc Thanh said.

The girl was stunned, but lowered her head, a little sad.

Ruan Fusheng was a little panicked: "I want to say...... That...... Then I'll help you get one. ”

The girl raised her head and looked at him with a sparkle in her eyes: "Really? ”

Ruan Fusheng looked at the girl's eyes, and his heart seemed to ripple layer by layer.

"You...... You'll be called Ying'er. ”

"Ying'er?" The girl thought for a moment and suddenly smiled, "I like this name." ”

"Yes, this allusion comes from a poem: more than a few escapes, light and not self-controlled; Taste the peerless color, and regain the posture of the city......"

"I don't need to know the allusion, I just like it, I finally have a name. I'm finally me, and whether or not anyone in the world has ever called me by that name, but I'm unique in the world, aren't I? The girl spread out her hands, and her robe fluttered lightly, as if she were about to dance in the air.

"Yes...... You are unique. Ruan Phuc Thanh said stupidly. Actually, he didn't tell her that it was his mother's name.

He couldn't help but reach out to brush the girl's hairline, but his hand sank into nothingness.

"You have forgotten that I am only a shadow," said the girl with a smile, "but in the future, I must become a real person, so that you can touch me, shall you?" ”

"But what's so good about being a real person?" Ruan Fusheng asked, "Then there will be flesh and blood stagnation, and you can no longer fly in the air, you can only step on the ground, get dusty and drink the wind." ”

"You don't know......" The girl turned to look at the sky, her eyes eager, "how I wish I could know what it feels like to have my feet on the ground, how much I want to feel my weight, how I want to understand the warmth and cold, smell the flowers, I hope to taste all kinds of flavors, whether sweet or bitter, I hope ......" she lowered her head, slightly shy, "...... I hope to be truly embraced by a loved one, and that moment of happiness is what I am willing to exchange for my life. ”

"The one you love......" Ruan Phuc Thanh muttered, "how good it would be if you could exchange your life for a moment of love, but many people in this world do not have this kind of happiness......"

"Do you think you can't find this kind of happiness either?"

"I ...... Where do I find it? ”

The girl's laughter shook like wind chimes: "But isn't the thing that the world wants most by your side?" You got it. The whole world is yours, so you don't have to look for it anymore. ”

"You mean...... Throne? Ruan Phuc Thanh smiled, "I never felt that being an emperor was a blessing. I didn't think about fighting for this position. I just want to be like you, to have time to find what I really want. ”

"No......" the girl's expression suddenly became melancholy, "When you really become the emperor, you may not think like that." ”

"Why? Why do you say that? Nguyen Phuc Thanh was a little upset.

She looked at Ruan Fusheng's eyes for a long time, and suddenly smiled, "I won't tell you." There are some things that you need to really face for yourself before you understand. ”

"Nope. I want you to tell me now. Ruan Phuc Thanh said stubbornly, "I am an emperor, but soon I will not be an emperor again, I will become a king." ”

"Is it the emperor of the Qianguo who sent an envoy?" The girl seems to know everything.

"Yes! The ministers thought. It can bring in the power of the Qianguo to fight against the Fayi. But I didn't expect that on the first day of the arrival of the Qianguo people, they actually confiscated the national seals of the previous emperors and forced us to abolish the emperor's title. Ruan Phuc Sheng said indignantly.

"It's just a name, so what's the matter?" She smiled.

"How can you say that?" Nguyen Phuc Thanh was furious.

"The false name of the emperor will be heavier than your life, or will it?" Her soft voice instantly dispelled the anger in his heart, "Why don't you want to think about it. If you lost your life because of the Emperor's name and some seal that was nothing more than something outside of your body, would we still be together? If you're not there. Will I still exist? Emperor, seal, which is more important, your life or my reunion? ”

Ruan Fusheng instantly understood, and his mind suddenly became cheerful.

"That's right! Ying'er! You're talking about it! Ruan Fusheng looked at her fixedly, "In my life, I am so lucky to meet you." How could I be willing to part with you? ”

"Lucky...... "I hope ...... meet you," the girl muttered, bowing her head, "I want to ...... It was a lucky ...... to meet."

Nguyen Phuc Thanh woke up from his dream and saw the palace ladies surrounding him.

"Your Highness, you have slept for a long time."

"Huh?" Ruan Fusheng was taken aback, "How long has it been?" ”

"You've slept for six hours...... We can't wake up, we almost have to call the doctor......"

Ruan Fusheng was stunned, and he remembered the scene with Ying'er in his dream.

"Ying'er, when will you come out and really stand by my side?" After the palace maids left, he whispered to himself.

"Am I not right next to you?" A chuckle. Ruan Fusheng stood up in shock, turned around and saw that the girl was indeed standing in front of him.

"You...... You...... Do you have a real body? Ruan Phuc Sheng went up to pull her, but his hand reached into the shadow.

"Hehe, you're so stupid, I said I'm just a phantom. And only you can see me, because I am only attached to your mind and perceive the world with your eyes and ears. ”

"You mean, you're not in front of me, but only in my heart?"

"That's right." The girl smiled.

"So...... What do I think...... Don't you know everything......" Ruan Fusheng suddenly blushed.

"Hee-hee, that's natural, but what can you think? The human heart is complex, but it's also simple. It's nothing more than the four words of love and hatred. There's nothing you can't see through. ”

Ruan Fusheng nodded slowly and sighed: "Yes, I am relieved when I think about it, what is there that others can't see through, and what can't be solved by myself?" ”

The girl shouted softly, "Oh, I'm afraid I'm going to take you badly." Don't think about it, after all, you're already the emperor, and this is really fate. ”

"Don't make fun of me, you clearly said that there is no doomed fate."

The girl walked to the window and reached for the sun, but the light penetrated her body. "In fact, the world is like flowing water, if you are a leaf, you will naturally go with the flow, and the birds in the high places can see your future direction. But if you're a boat, who knows if you're going to swim against the current? ”

"Exactly, the world thinks they have seen through my fate, but I want to swim against the current." Nguyen Phuc Thanh stared at the sky, the sun shining in his eyes.

"But what's so bad about being an emperor? If the general trend will take you to great expectations, why should you resist it? ”

"You don't understand...... It's not what you want to do. Even if you become an emperor, you won't be happy. ”

"So what are you going to do?"

"I'll not be the emperor first, but the king."

After the real "soberness" came over. The first thing Nguyen Phuc Thanh did was to summon his ministers to draft an edict, abolishing his imperial title and changing his name to "King of Concord", and ordered that the words "Southern Dynasty" and "Northern Dynasty" should not be used in all documents, and that the words "Lower Kingdom" and "Upper Kingdom" should be used instead. Yes, there is no objection.

Ruan Phuc Thanh then ordered the inner chamberlain to tell the harem that when he saw him, he would be renamed "His Royal Highness" instead of "Your Majesty".

Nguyen Phuc Thanh didn't know. In his harem, there will be waves because of this,

In the deep palace, Pan Qingxian dreamed of her grandfather Pan Qingjian again.

Grandpa still wears a crown and belt of court clothes. Sit there. He stared at her blankly.

Grandpa's face is still so thin, and his eyes are still so melancholy.

Pan Qingxian always woke up in the night, repeatedly recalling her grandfather's face, her eyebrows were so clear, as if her grandfather was in front of her.

In addition to this dream, which she often dreamed of, there was also a young man. But she couldn't see his face clearly. But grandpa always said to himself, you must find this person.

Those dreams. Gaps were carved across the dark curtain of time, allowing her to look into the future, but she didn't choose who she saw or what kind of situation she saw.

The days flew by. It has been seventeen years since my grandfather died, and the whole territory of Nanqi has fallen into the hands of the French.

At that time, Emperor Side saw that the three western provinces of Nanqi were in danger, so he sent his grandfather Pan Qingjian, who was "convinced by Xisu", as the "Minister of Economic Strategy of the Three Provinces of Yonglong", in an attempt to prevent the French from annexing the three provinces. It was this negotiation with France that brought my grandfather to the end of his life.

Emperor Side wishfully believed that "the legal person Xinzhongzhi (Pan Qingjian) is expected to be able to compose speculation, and he will be virtuous in one hundred thousand divisions...... Let him hearken, and be redeemed. He provincial legal person beggars also listened". However, in that year, France had turned Cambodia into a protectorate, and the three eastern provinces of Nanqi had been ceded to France, so the three western provinces of Nanqi were in an awkward position between the two, and the French were also determined to win. They used many excuses, such as the geographical isolation of the three provinces such as Yonglong, and the resistance of the people of Nanqi to the French, so that the imperial court handed over the three western provinces of Nanqi. As the situation continued to deteriorate, Emperor Side became more and more dissatisfied with his grandfather Pan Qingjian.

At that time, although he was young, he also remembered the accusations of Emperor Side to his grandfather:

“…… I hope that Qing will receive these three provinces to report to me, and even if Qing is unfortunate for a long time, he can also look at it, and I will also feel at ease. Otherwise, all eternity will be guilty of the same sin as Qing, and there will be no redemption. The soul is not dispersed, and it is also a ghost male to report. Fang Kuai said that he was distressed, and he had no way to write, and he said to Qing for thousands of miles, Qing still didn't believe it, and he was an evil heir. If you have seen and heard the plan, you will be sought, and you will not be the same as before! ”

In despair, Emperor Side lost his trust in his grandfather Pan Qingjian. But didn't he know that he could recover the lost land by negotiation alone?

In June of that year, the French finally took military action and invaded Vinh Long and other three provinces, and his grandfather Pan Qingjian knew that the general situation had gone, so he did not organize resistance, but only advised the French army to enter the city, "Do not disturb the people and the warehouse, and I will still take care of the money and grain stored now." The French agreed to Grandpa's request and took Yonglong on June 20, An Giang on the 21st, and Ha Tien on the 24th. After the entire territory of Nanqi was successfully occupied by the French army, Emperor Si De sent a letter to the commander of the French army, requesting that the ministers of the three provinces be escorted back to Hue. Pan Qingjian didn't go back, he just saved money and grain, his own court clothes, seals, and left one letter and handed it over to the Hue court.

Grandpa wrote in his widowhood: "Zichen suffers hardships, the ugliness starts in the suburbs, and the atmosphere is thin in the borders. As soon as the Nanqi Xinjiang incident is over, the horses are almost unstoppable. The ministers deserve to die, and they dare not live, so as to be ashamed of their father. The emperor has studied the past and the present, and has studied the chaos deeply. Chinese and foreign relatives and sages, work together to praise, be vigilant, and care for the poor. Thinking about the beginning and the end, the strings are changing, and the power is still promising. Near the end of the infarction, I don't know what to do, but the snow is in love, and I can't help it. ”

After writing the widow, my grandfather went on a hunger strike in Yonglong for 17 days, and finally died of poisoned wine on July 5, 20th year, at the age of 72.

After the death of his grandfather, Emperor Side not only did not praise his martyrdom, but issued an edict in the twenty-first year of Side, saying: "Pan Qingjian, the former co-organizer of the university scholar to lead the scriptures, made peace with Lin Weihun and Lin Weihun before making peace, and the three provinces of Dingbian and Xiang were easily allowed to be reinstated. Although he died afterwards, it was not enough to cover up the innocent. His Pan Qing was simple and pursued the title with the late Lin Weihun to win the title, and scraped off the name of the Jinshi tablet, and the case of beheading forever remained. Punish both death and set an example for the future. "I put all the responsibility for the loss of Nanqi on my grandfather.

Pan Qingxian still remembers that her father Pan Qinglian was inexplicably sad and angry after hearing the news.

This is also the reason why she entered the harem as a companion.

My father hoped that he could be favored by Emperor Yude Ruan Phuc Yingzhen, who was still a prince at the time, with his beauty and virtue, so that he could speak in front of Emperor Yude and rehabilitate his grandfather.

But no one expected that when Emperor Duc died and the French army was approaching the city, the ministers of the central government would launch a coup d'état, imprison Emperor Yude, and put the fourth prince Nguyen Phuc Sheng, who is known as the name of foolishness, on the throne!

And he and many young girls in the harem have all become the concubines of the newly enthroned Emperor Concord!

She knew that she would definitely be chosen by the new emperor - her beauty and erudition were really famous in the harem, and Emperor Xiehe loved to paint beauties, so there was no reason why she would let her go.

However, can I still fulfill my father's instructions? (To be continued.) )

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