After lunch, Mingyue still locked herself in the dormitory, saying that she wanted to take a break in the past, but she was lying on the couch reading a book, but this time she was really resting.

Xiao Tong made the bed, helped Mingyue to get to bed, covered the quilt tightly, put down the hibiscus veil tent, and after everything was cleaned up, he took a few more books and put them next to Mingyue's pillow, and then walked to the window, sighed cold, and planned to close the window.

"Let's keep it" Mingyue's dim voice came faintly, but her eyes were closed, as if she was extremely tired.

Xiao Tong glanced back at the hibiscus tent and responded in a low voice, but still closed the window a little, and then sat on the bed and blew on the medicinal food, which was a pharmacy opened by Imperial Doctor Lu, but it was just an ordinary tonic.

Mingyue leaned on the edge of the bed, looking at the plum blossoms that were still chaotic outside the window, her heart was tired, and she suddenly thought of Qingyi's poem, so she read in a low voice: "Qingyi is not late, I know that the flowers are floating in the cold winter, when the plum blossoms are chaotic", turned to look at Xiao Tong, and said with a smile: "Xiao Tong knows the meaning?" ”

Xiao Tong put down the still hot medicinal food from his hand and said with a smile: "This is Miss's work, the meaning is clear at first sight, and the interpretation is: the last snow is always late, and the plum blossoms are in full swing, but after the snow falls, the footsteps of spring will also falter, and the first one to know must be a hundred flowers." ”

Mingyue nodded, smiling indifferently, but sighed in her heart. Just because, the true meaning of this poem is probably unknown to the world.

In fact, this word, Qingyi is to compare itself to the last chaos in the plum blossom when the snowflakes are flourishing, after the beauty is the time when the winter is gone, spring is coming, the flowers are in full bloom, everything that was once beautiful will be replaced, no one is looking for the pure snow white.

Just like the battle in this harem, the emperor is holding a fairy grass in his arms today, but tomorrow, it may be a delicate peony.

"Why is the young lady sighing?" Xiao Tong stirred the decoction with a soup spoon, hoping to cool it down as soon as possible.

Mingyue pondered for a moment before saying: "In fact, the word 'twilight' can mean dusk, and the word 'dawn' can replace the early morning. In the cold winter, chaos blooms'"

When she first heard this poem, she thought of this possibility, but what is 'the snow at dusk, the flowers in the morning'? This kind of rhetoric is extremely strange, as if it is hinting at something, and the combination of the last two sentences 'in the cold winter, chaos blooms', is even more bizarre, a kind of telling about the past winter, eventful and troublesome.

Xiao Tong stopped stirring, looked at Mingyue in a bit of a daze, tilted his head and thought for a long time before saying, "Really?" It turns out that there is still this meaning, snow falling at dusk? It must be red," she said, smiling lightly.

Red? Mingyue was stunned for a moment, and asked with some hesitation: "Why?" ”

But seeing Xiao Tong laughing playfully, he said happily: "Because at dusk, the sunset dyes the sky, and the snow reflects the sunset, so naturally it is the red Luo Hehe, miss, don't scold Xiao Tong, the slave is just, miss"

Xiao Fairy Tale didn't finish speaking, but she saw Mingyue's whole person stiffen, and she panicked for a while, however, at this time, Mingyue grabbed her wrist, her expression was cold, her eyes flowed, as if she was thinking about something, but finally saw Mingyue say a word: "Blood?" ”

When the snow reflects the sunset, it must be red, but the whole snow is red, isn't that bloodstained?

"Blood?" Xiao Tong was startled and said in a panic: "Blood? Where? Miss, are you uncomfortable or", this time, Xiao Tong's words were still not finished, and she was interrupted by Mingyue again, only to see her eyebrows tightly wrinkled and asked: "What about the 'morning flower'?" What is the meaning? ”

Xiao Tong was really frightened, staring at Mingyue with his mouth wide open, and didn't know what to do to react for a while, and Mingyue only remembered at this moment that it was written by Qingyi, and Qingyi was himself, how could he ask others what he wrote?

So he withdrew his hand, smiled lightly, and said softly: "Xiao Tong was scared by me? ”

"No," Xiao Tong smiled reluctantly, and then suddenly burst into tears, and knelt in front of Mingyue with a plop, "Miss, are you really amnesia?" Or are you not my young lady at all, the slave maid already knew"

This time, Mingyue was a little flustered, she hurriedly got out of bed and wanted to help Xiao Tong up, but Xiao Tong hugged Mingyue's legs and said in a trembling voice: "Miss, no matter what happened at the time of the wedding, but Miss, you are still a slave and will never change."

Mingyue was a little moved in her heart, but she was surprised to find that Xiao Tong's real explanation was actually to test herself, she was a little surprised, and looked at Xiao Tong kneeling in front of her with some surprise, her heart was clear, and her head was much clearer.

Taking a deep breath, Mingyue helped Xiao Tong up from the ground, wiped her tears, and said, "Xiao Tong, there are some things I can't explain to you clearly, but this body is indeed the body of your young lady" At this moment, Mingyue was a little afraid that Xiao Tong would leave her, after all, she couldn't isolate at all.

Xiao Tong didn't ask any more questions, as if he had already known everything, he sniffed, but said: "Actually, the meaning of Miss's next sentence is indeed 'flowers bloom in the morning', and the flowers that bloom in the morning must be very delicate, so they can be compared to beauties, and after a night, the flowers must be stained with dew again, and the meaning of this sentence is 'beautiful people cry'"

The imperial capital is stained with blood, and the beauties shed tears? Mingyue was stunned, but saw Xiao Tong continue: "Back then, when Miss wrote these four sentences, there were three layers of meaning, the first and second layers you have already guessed, but this third meaning is to say the tragedy of the Mu family three years ago."

It turned out that in the cold winter three years ago, the three major forces of the Huaiyue Kingdom clashed, led by the 'Ouyang Clan', and provoked a war.

After the Mu clan was destroyed, Ruyue Guifei also suffered, and the 'Ouyang Clan' used the "Holy Ancestor Family Motto" of the "Huaiyue Kingdom" as a threat to coerce the emperor to abolish Ruyue Guifei and enter the cold palace, and at the same time, he also used a bowl of saffron to strip Ruyue of the opportunity to conceive an imperial heir

Mingyue listened to Xiao Tong's narration, but left her thoughts on one of them, that is, when the palace suddenly decided to marry the princess of Allure, making Qingyi the laughing stock of the imperial capital, it was the day when Ruyue was beheaded by the Abolition of the Cold Palace and the Mu family, and the two things happened bizarrely on the same day, so Qingyi wrote such a hidden word.

Such a coincidence, such a strange thing, this is not an ordinary coincidence, and judging from the situation when I met Yu Haotian today, it must have happened on that day three years ago, because Yu Haotian said that he had been in the harem for three years and had lost a memory.

And what Xiao Tong said is true, who should be the third person when Yu Haotian and Qingyi met for the first time?

Half an hour later, Mingyue finally left the depression in her heart and fell asleep, and Xiao Tong, after serving Mingyue and using up the medicinal food, also quietly withdrew from the dormitory after guarding a pillar or two of incense.

But after Xiao Tong left the bedroom, she threw herself into her side room and cried, as if she wanted to release the pain she had been frightened for days, she knelt in front of her bed, holding a jade ring in her hand, and wanted to smash it several times, but she hid it tightly in her palm, and couldn't stop sobbing.

After a long time, she was a little calmer, her crying red eyes flashed helpless and hesitant, and a scattered blue dress looked so petite, she got up slowly, holding the jade ring tightly in her hand, and suddenly flew out of the window and disappeared into the plum blossom forest

Cold Palace –

Ruyue and her body were white, standing outside the house looking at the only plum tree, stretching out her hand to catch the withered petals, and the corners of her eyes couldn't help but be a little moist.

Three years ago, in the plum blossom forest of the Imperial Garden, she smiled like a flower, snuggled in the arms of the emperor, listening to his gentle whispers, maybe the sea vows and mountains alliance will never be guaranteed, but her heart is still left on his body.

When he first met him that year, he stood on the bridge of the imperial capital like a god, and she was just a woman who was inadvertently captured by his deep eyes, she knew that his harem would be the place where all her good things were buried, but she still chose this road of no return.

Pulling his eyelashes and looking at his toes, he said that in just three months, she could return to him, three months was a long time

Behind "sister", a once familiar voice suddenly sounded, Ruyue was stunned, looked back slightly, but saw Xiao Tong dressed as a palace maid, her expression was stunned at first, and then said in surprise: "Like a fairy"

Xiao Tong looked at Ruyue's still stunning face, and couldn't help but burst into tears, she rushed forward and hugged Ruyue tightly, crying: "Sister Yue, Xian'er, misses you so much, I think about it so much."

Ruyue's heart was sour, tears fell, and she said in a trembling voice: "Xian'er, you have grown so big, Xian'er, my sister still thought, I thought you were the same as your father's mother", such as here, Ruyue's voice was almost unheard.

The catastrophe three years ago, Ruyue thought that in this world, she had no relatives except for Yu Haoxuan, but she didn't expect Ruxian to be alive, Ruyue looked at Ruxian's slim appearance, and sighed in her heart, when she entered the palace, she was still a little baby, and in four years, she was so delicate.

Thinking of his father and mother who died tragically, Xiao Tong's heart suddenly rose with hatred, and then said excitedly: "Sister Yue, Xian'er has now followed Qingyi into the 'Ning Xue Palace', one day, Xian'er will definitely be able to avenge her father."

Qingyi? Ruyue was shocked, her face suddenly turned pale, and she said a little confused: "Xian'er is in the palace now?" And follow Qingyi's side? ”

Xiao Tong nodded, but his eyebrows tightened, and he said, "Sister Yue, do you believe in borrowing corpses to return souls?" Xiao Tong thought about Qingyi's various performances after her amnesia, as well as what she said to her today, and she didn't feel a little puzzled.

"What did Xian'er hear?" Ruyue was even more frightened, she looked at Xiao Tong in a little panic, the Heaven Turning Charm is the Mu family's unique science, but it is the most taboo witchcraft in the world, it can break the laws of time and space, and reverse the fate of the past and present lives, but the person who makes the spell has to pay an unimaginable price, and this price is far more than just cutting off the rest of the lifespan.

Because, no one in the ancestors of the Mu family has tried it at all, and the reason why Mu Ruyue can do this is that after she entered the palace, her aunt secretly stuffed it into her palm, so that she had to keep the prosperity of the Mu family no matter what, even if she used the Heaven Turning Charm.

Xiao Tong looked at Ruyue's miserable face, as if she had thought of something, and suddenly, she exclaimed: "Sister Yue, it shouldn't be you", and Ruyue's body trembled, but she nodded without denying it

Outside the cold palace, Mingyue stood outside the red lacquer gate in plain white, a pair of cold eyes staring at Xiao Tong and Ruyue with tears streaming down their faces, caressing the long hair on her chest with her bare hands, the cold wind blew up the long skirt, lifted the plum blossoms all over the ground, and whistled past.

Turned around, reached out and grabbed a few residual plums, held them tightly in his hands, stepped on the pink petals on his light steps, and slowly walked to the forest The Buddha said, everything is fate, but if so, is this her fate?

In the Fengqi Palace, the queen sat dignifiedly, looked at Yu Haoxuan sitting on her side, raised her eyebrows, and said softly: "The emperor has not come to the concubine here for some days, and the concubine is thinking about it tightly", after that, he reached out and stroked the phoenix hairpin on the hair bundle, for fear that it would be a little undignified.

Yu Haoxuan leisurely sipped tea, the white jade wrench on his thumb tapped the table from time to time, and his deep voice seemed to be tempting, and said: "It seems that the queen really has the same heart as me, and I suddenly miss the queen today, so I came."

As soon as the queen heard Yu Haoxuan's words, her heart immediately jumped with joy, and her usual noble and arrogant look also dropped a little, but she still pursed her lips and smiled reservedly, looking shy and lovely.

At this time, Gonggong Li at the door walked into the hall and whispered: "The slave sees the emperor, the queen's mother, and the mother of the queen has arrived."

As soon as she heard Ouyang Chongrong, the smile on the queen's face froze a little, and a trace of anger and loss flashed in her eyes, but she still smiled: "Why is my sister here, the emperor, today's concubines are really blessed, not only the emperor thinks of the concubines, but even my sister is also worried about the concubines", he said, and motioned to Gonggong Li with a three-point smile to invite Ouyang Hongyu into the hall.

Gonggong Li nodded, withdrew carefully, and when he saw Ouyang Hongyu standing at the door with a pale face, he smiled and said: "Niangniang, it just so happens that the emperor is here today, you should hurry in."

Judging from Ouyang Hongyu's face, she had already heard Yu Haoxuan's voice, and she hesitated a little at her feet, and her eyebrows twisted slightly, but since she had already been reported, she couldn't find an excuse to leave, so she could only step on the stone steps hard, step into the hall, and blessed Yu Haoxuan and Ouyang Xiaoyu, and said softly: "The concubine sees the emperor, the queen's mother"

Yu Haoxuan smiled lightly, and the queen said proudly: "Sister is polite, come here, give me a seat."

Ouyang Hongyu's heart was cold for a while, but she smiled and said, "Queen Xie", and then slowly walked to the chair on the queen's side and sat down.

However, at this time, the queen turned her head and wanted to say some kind words to Yu Haoxuan, but she saw Yu Haoxuan staring at Ouyang Hongyu's slightly lowered face leisurely, and the joy just now instantly fell into the ice cellar, only to hear a very concerned word, and said, "Zichen's body is not?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Ouyang Hongyu's heart trembled, and when she slowly raised her head to look at Yu Haoxuan's eyes full of concern, her heart was a little warm, but it was even more sad, she glanced at the queen with a frozen face, and said with a light smile: "Emperor Xie cares, and the concubine is in good health."

Ouyang Hongyu's words softened the queen's face, but Yu Haoxuan turned to the queen and said with condemnation: "Zichen is in poor health, the queen should take more care of it, after all, she is a sister", after saying that, she actually stood up and walked towards Ouyang Hongyu, stretched out her hand to help her, and said gently: "Concubine Ai's hands are very cold, I still send you back to the palace first, as for the queen, or he will come to visit again in the future, okay?" ”

Yu Haoxuan's sudden concern made Ouyang Hongyu a little flattered, but she also instantly understood the emperor's intentions in her heart, her eyebrows were slightly entangled, and she just wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Yu Haoxuan: "Does Concubine Ai feel uncomfortable there?" ”

The heart was stunned again, warm and cold, shaking her head slightly, but seeing that Yu Haoxuan had already draped the bright yellow robe on her body, she said softly: "The weather is so cold, the concubine should pay more attention."

"Yes, the concubine was negligent" Ouyang Hongyu bowed her head lightly, but then saw Yu Haoxuan turn around and step out of the palace gate, so she couldn't take care of the queen and walked out.

However, behind her, the sound of a jade cup breaking was so harsh that Ouyang Hongyu suddenly stopped, but when she saw Yu Haoxuan but didn't seem to hear it, she still strode forward, her heart was horizontal, she bit her lip lightly, and moved her steps again

At dusk, Xiao Tong returned to the 'Ning Xue Palace', but Mingyue didn't mention anything, laughing with her as before, because Ruyue must have told her everything, and Xiao Tong would never betray herself, although she may have some selfishness, but after all, they are standing in the same boat.

At dinner, Gonggong Li hurriedly came and recounted what happened in the 'Fengqi Palace' today, and then whispered: "The queen sent a slave to the 'Chongyang Palace' to inquire about the news, and the slave came to Concubine De's place by the way."

Mingyue naturally understood the meaning of Father-in-law Li's words, she smiled lightly and asked Xiao Tong to take a lot of rewards and stuff them into Father-in-law Li's hands, but she didn't give any instructions, only said: "It's not early, Father-in-law go back early, so as not to make the queen suspicious."

"Does the mother have something to tell the minions?" Gonggong Li looked at the silver taels in his hand with some doubts, taking people's money and eliminating disasters for others, but why didn't Concubine De give any instructions every time she rewarded.

Mingyue glanced at Gonggong Li and knew what he was thinking, so he said lightly: "Gonggong Li doesn't need to do anything, just report everything he sees in the 'Chongyang Palace' to the queen truthfully", said, got up and walked into the inner hall, only to be extremely tired and want to rest.

Xiao Tong sent Father-in-law Li away, walked to Mingyue's side with a somewhat ugly face, looked a little sad, and said, "Miss, that news has no effect on us at all, why do you want to reward so much?" This Gonggong Li is now running more and more diligently, but she just doesn't understand what this news does.

Mingyue smiled lightly, took a sip of tea, and said, "This news deserves more rewards", said, got up and walked to the window, and said: "It seems that my illness is not in vain, the emperor is now going to provoke the contradiction between the queen and Ouyang Chongrong, it seems that I and Du Ci will be quiet for a while"

"As for Gonggong Li, if he wants the queen to send him to the 'Chongyang Palace', the emperor must have expected it, so what he saw in the 'Chongyang Palace' must be very exciting, so we don't need to do anything, just wait to see how the queen and Ouyang Chongrong tear their faces, but"

Speaking of this, Mingyue was a little puzzled.

"But what?" Hearing the entrance, Mingyue suddenly stopped, which made Xiao Tong nervous.

But Mingyue still smiled lightly and soothed: "I just wonder why Ouyang Hongyu obeyed Yu Haoxuan's heart, after all, she is a smart woman, she should have known Yu Haoxuan's intentions a long time ago."

Xiao Tong thought about it and felt reasonable, so he smiled and said: "Xu Ouyang Chongrong also wants to be angry with the queen, otherwise Ouyang Chongrong really loves the emperor."

Love? Mingyue's eyes flickered for a moment, then pursed her lips, and a smile crossed her eyes, in this way, some things are much easier