Chapter 48 The bright moon is still there, how can you forget the vows of those years

Chapter 48 The bright moon is still there, how can we forget the oath of that year (Part 2)

Winter is coming soon. I waited for a few months and sat in the yard looking at the gate of Ningshou Palace as soon as I was free, but A Xing never appeared. Has his injury recovered? Will it be infected? Will his violent exercise wound not heal?

I waited for the snowflakes but didn't wait for him. After listening to other people's gossip, I knew that he went to the Eight Banners and didn't know which flag training. In the chaos of the quasi-Ger tribe in Tibet, Kangxi is no longer the brave teenager in those years. He can no longer lead troops on an expedition. The most favored prince now is A Xing. If you want to send the prince to go on an expedition from military talent to physical age, A Xing is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate.

I know the history. A Xing will become General Fuyuan and lead the troops on an expedition, but I don't know the specific time. I don't know if he has time to return to the palace before the expedition. Does he have time to see me?

His knife was inserted into his chest and in my heart, only to find that I was cowardly again. He didn't even care about his own life, and I would only stay away from him for various reasons.

Fifty-five years of Kangxi passed in heavy snow and troubles. There was no celebration in the palace. Long live the master stayed in the Qianqing Palace every day to deal with the military.

At the beginning of spring, the empress dowager is uncomfortable. The imperial doctor always prescribes some painless prescriptions. As Ouyang Xizhou said, the empress dowager is old, and I am suddenly inexplicably afraid. If the empress dowager leaves, where should I go?

I moved my bedding to the outside of the Empress Dowager's room and served her day and night, as if I would feel at ease only when I saw her or heard her sleeping with heavy breathing.

The Empress Dowager has never allowed us to report to the Long Live Lord, saying that we can't let the Long Live Lord be distracted by her, but there can't be a secret in the palace, not to mention the Empress Dowager's illness.

It was drizzling when Master Long Live came. He should have walked in a hurry. Most of his boots and robes were wet. Most of the little eunuchs who followed him were without umbrellas. They were all wet and did not dare to make a sound. They stood in the yard getting wet in the rain.

Long live the empress dowager's hand and whispered to her. The empress dowager still pretended to be fine, lying in ** but smiling so that the emperor did not have to worry: "People are going to be old. At this time, I sat in the highest position of the world and was favored by the empress dowager. Although there was nowhere, there was filial piety of the emperor, and I could still see a lot of children and grandchildren. What else do you want to give up? The emperor is working on a thousand opportunities now, so don't worry about me.

The slaves who knelt on the ground in the room had a sore nose when they heard the Empress Dowager force herself to comfort themselves, but now it was not normal to cry, so we had to put up with it.

Long live the master didn't stay long. The father-in-law outside came to report that there was a fold. At this time, he also came to report that it was a war.

The Empress Dowager asked the Long Live Master to kneel down: "It's important for the emperor to deal with the affairs of the country at ease. I still have them here to take care of me day and night. What else can I do?"

Long live the master said, "The Empress Dowager should also recover from her illness. I will come to see you tomorrow."

The Empress Dowager nodded, and the long live master looked at me and seemed to remember something and said, "Prince Doroduleng wrote a letter saying that he could never forget Qingyu. In order to show the loyalty of Weng Niu's special department, he hoped to marry the maid of honor who danced with Qingyu as a princess."

I was stunned. I never told Prince Doroduleng with a cold eyes. Why did he marry me as his wife? And now it is the Chaos of the quasi-Gur department, Wang Alabtan, and he is asking for the support of various tribes.

The Empress Dowager said, "The emperor should go back to deal with the matter first, and he will return this matter in a few days."

It was night when I was feeding the Empress Dowager medicine. The Empress Dowager said, "Mu Nian, don't you want to go?"

In those years, there was no word in the rain. How can I say anything? The thing about the fifteenth master is because there is something wrong with my feet. What about this time? Prince Doroduleng called his name, and it was still at this time.

"You child, give up, you have been waiting for 14 years, how can you wait?" The Empress Dowager sighed. I looked at the Empress Dowager in surprise. Although I had thought about what she had guessed before, I didn't know that she knew so well.

"Empress dowager, twilight..."

"Fe Concubine De was born in a low place, but she has today's status. Others don't know what kind of person she is. I can still be hidden by her after staying in this palace for so long." The Empress Dowager said, "Although I don't know what method Defei used to separate you two, I can't help you because you have waited so painstakingly for so many years, but I can't take care of what happened in this palace."

"Mu Nian knows that the empress dowager is kind, and Mu Nian has nothing to ask for." I can't embarrass the Empress Dowager. I have been under her shelter for so many years. Now that she is ill, how can I embarrass her?

"In those years, I thought that if you could marry the fifteenth, you might have forgotten the fourteenth, but I didn't know what happened again. Most of your feet were also blamed on me. If you hadn't stayed with me, you would have given birth to the little brother of fifteen." The Empress Dowager took my hand.

"No, the Empress Dowager insists on all this, and staying by your side also means Mu Nian."

"If you can be as weak as I was back then, you should give up and let go, and you won't suffer so much." The Empress Dowager clapped my hand and smiled again, "However, I just like your strength. I couldn't do it back then, but you did it."

At that time, the Empress Dowager was also unwilling to enter the palace. There should be her favorite person in the vast grassland, but she was Keqin's Gege. She grew up spoiled. Her aunt did something wrong. In order to protect Horqin's interests, she had to accept a political marriage with Shunzhi.

The Empress Dowager seemed to go back to the past and hummed Mongolian songs that I didn't understand. The melody seemed to be singing to her beloved.

"Mu Nian, I can only help you for the last time. Remember what I told you before that there are no two things in the world. If you can't stick to it, don't wait." After humming the song, the Empress Dowager opened her eyes and said, "I'm tired. Go down."

I nodded, served the Empress Dowager, lay down, patted the quilt tightly, and retreated.

The Empress Dowager said she would help me, but I don't think Long Live will agree. After all, he will not be at peace with Weng Niu for an unknown maid of honor at this time. However, the Long Live Lord never mentioned this matter again. I was puzzled. I could only explain that the Long Live Lord wanted to make the Empress Dowager feel better for the time being, which would help the Empress Dowager's illness.

However, the Empress Dowager's condition has been worsening. By October, she could not take medicine. Xiu silk and I served around day and night, but the Empress Dowager no longer knew us. When she woke up, she just opened her eyes and said nothing.

Two months later, on this day, I was sitting by the bed and wiping the empress dowager's face with warm water. The empress dowager woke up and looked at me and said, "Mu Nian... Do you remember the wood carving in the stone box in my cabinet?"

When I heard the Empress Dowager speak suddenly, I remembered what others said. The Empress Dowager was about to go. My tears fell one by one. I nodded while wiping my tears and said, "I remember that it was a wooden sculpture of a girl in a flag."

"Hence," the Empress Dowager's voice was weak as if floating in the air, "You bring it..."

I ran to the Empress Dowager's wardrobe, found the box made of grass and stone, and took it to the Empress Dowager.

The Empress Dowager opened the box, took out the wood carving and stroked it a few times and said, "Mu Nian, go and light a fire."

I lit a fire, and the Empress Dowager tried her best to support herself and put the wood carving man into the brazier.

I said, "Empress Dowager, why is this?"

"It can't be buried. I'll burn it to myself first. I can still see it when I go underground and leave a memory. Maybe he still remembers this wood carving." After saying that, the Empress Dowager lay down. I watched the wooden sculpture swallowed up by fire, and the girl's smiling face disappeared.

This wood carving woman is a young empress dowager. At that time, she was so beautiful, but this palace took away her most beautiful smile.

Late at night, the Empress Dowager went, and Xiu silk reported to the eunuch who had been waiting at the door. The long live master, the palace concubines, and the brother Gege who was still in the palace came. In the early morning, the brothers who lived outside the palace also arrived, and the Ningshou Palace cried. But I didn't see A Xing and the tenth master.

The long live master fell ill when he returned from Ningshou Palace. All matters of the empress dowager's funeral were handed over to the fourth master, the fifth master and the eighth master.

I helped the Empress Dowager change clothes, sorted out some of her supplies, and was busy serving tea and water for the people who came to Ningshou Palace.

It seemed that after ten days, A Xing and the tenth master knelt in front of the empress dowager's coffin and cried bitterly. I knelt among the crying slaves and saw the bearded scum on their faces and thought where they came from.

When A Xing turned his head and came to me, I was looking at him. He seemed to have thousands of words when he looked at me, but when Concubine De came, I had to lower my head.

In March of the 57th year of Kangxi, Empress Shangdaxing was named Empress Xiaohui Renxian Duanyi Chunde Shuntianyi Shengzhang. Lay off the residential officials. In April, Empress Xiaohuizhang was buried in Xiaodong Mausoleum.

Defei arranged for us slaves who had served the empress dowager to guard the mausoleum. I was packing up my things and thought that the palace would not come back, and it would be okay to leave. It was just that A Xing, after seeing him that day, he went to the Qianqing Palace. Long live the sick, the military was handed over to several princes to deal with it, and I have never seen him again. He.

Several maids in the yard are crying. The conditions for guarding the mausoleum are not good. How can they find a good way out there? Xiu silk entered the room and said, "Sister, come out quickly. Liang Shuda is coming."

Liang Shuda is the eunuch general manager around Long Live. In the palace, the slaves are afraid of him, and even the masters have to respect him.

"Twilight girl." I went out of the house, Liang Shuda shouted.

I saluted and said, "What can I do for you?"

"It's not an order. You take good care of the Empress Dowager. Long live the empress dowager wanted to take care of you. Now that the long live man wants to change the Ningshou Palace into a sacrificial palace, you can stay here to read the scriptures, sweep the dust, and upgrade the five grades of Shangyi. Liang Shuda said, and the maids next to him were whispering something.

I know that I shouldn't talk too much, but Xiu silk is my only sister. For such a long time in the future, if I don't know if I can survive alone: "Thank you for your grace. Liang Shuda, can you leave a beautiful silk in the evening?

"You can't care about such a big palace alone," Liang Zhida pointed to Xiu silk and Rong Hua. "In this way, you two stay and help the evening."

Xiu silk and Ronghua hurriedly thanked Liang Shuda.

When Liang Xueda left, Xiu silk ran over and took my hand and said, "My sister is really bold. Why did she talk nonsense in front of Liang Xueda for me? Where did the rules she followed in the past? If something happens, Xiuji can..."

"Okay," I smiled at her and said, "Don't be cheap and sell well."

Rong Hua also came over and said, "Thank you, sister."

"It's all sisters saying thank you. It's not necessarily a good thing to stay here. The three of us cleaned the huge palace, and there won't be so many people coming here in the future."

I looked at the familiar palace and remembered that the first time I came in, Qingyu was still sitting there reading a book. At that time, we were still young girls. Now that she has gone, the ink is gone, and the empress dowager is gone. The people at the beginning are no longer there. Leave me alone, lighing in the huge palace and walking alone. Memory.

At night, I just finished reading the scriptures. Xiu silk and Ronghua have been busy all day today and have already fallen asleep. I thought that today is a full moon night. Let's go out to enjoy the moon. As soon as he opened the door, he saw A Xing standing in the yard, and the bright moon sprinkled the quiet moonlight behind him.

How long has it been since I looked at him? How long has it been since I looked at him so quietly? He lost weight, and his face was clearly angular and even darker. There are only a few steps between us, but I think he is still so far away from me.

"Forty-nine years, I couldn't help thinking about Wutai Mountain and saw you in a daze with that lotus lamp in the light market. I already know that no matter what you have done, I can't erase you from my heart, not even a hair." He said that only his deep voice was talking about his helplessness and thoughts.

"I wanted to take you around the world immediately, but the people from the mother-in-law fainted me. When I woke up, I was tied up. The mother-in-law gave me a message saying that if there was any trouble with you, she would kill you. I can't, I can't put you in danger, so I ignore you."

A slight cool breeze blew, and he continued, "I met you in Wutai Mountain that day. I wanted to talk to you so much that I wanted to tell you how much I missed you, but I couldn't. My mother's eyes were around, so I had to leave. Standing there and looking at the manor at the foot of the mountain every day, it seems that as long as I look carefully, your figure will appear in the blurred manor.

"That day, Emperor Ama gave me a marriage. I knew that I had lost you. I said that if you find someone who can give you happiness, I would wish you. The fifteenth brother is a good man who can protect you. I comfort myself, but I can't deceive myself and can't let myself forget you. It was not until my fifteenth brother came to me and asked me why I gave up on you that I told him that he wanted me to write a letter to you. I wrote it for one night but I didn't know what to write.

He slowly came over and said, "I can only ask, do you know the bright moon?"

I have burst into tears, and those concerns can no longer hinder me, just because we have suffered so deeply. If we must be punished together, then it is better for us to wait together and suffer together than to bear the thoughts alone. I put my hand on his chest and said, "Do it still hurt? Where is the wound?"

He held my hand and said, "It's already scab, but looking at your feet, I'd rather be cut down for your intact feet."

"It has also been scabred." I looked at him and said, "I think the two of us are flat."

"A Yue, Huang Ama wants me to go to Tibet to calm the chaos." He brushed my hair and said, "When can we live together as promised before?"

I took off the jade stone he gave me from my neck and said, "A Xing, I have promised that I will wait for you, all the time, all the time, you take this jade, and I will watch the bright moon and wait for you to come back."