Chapter 176 Abandoned

"Just walked out of the queen's bedroom, the emperor is back! This is not the first time I have seen the emperor, but I don't think the emperor has seen me once. Otherwise, if he sees my appearance, he will not be moved. At that time, Emperor Tongzhi was only 18 years old and was also a handsome man, but he could not make my heart ripple. After salute, I may have seen more routines of those concubines competing for favor. I actually wanted to attract attention in front of him. When I got up, I deliberately staggered and wanted to fall into his arms. Unexpectedly, I bumped into one of his attendants and knocked over my lantern. The emperor was unhappy and walked away angrily. I panicked. I didn't expect that the servant not only was not angry, but also helped me pick up the lantern, but the lantern had been extinguished. I didn't dare to say anything and walked forward in the dark, thinking that if I was known by the harem tomorrow, I would become a laughing stock and be punished. The servant sent the emperor into the queen's room and ran after me with a lantern to take me back to the room.

"My heart beat all the way and I didn't dare to face the servant. He said that he had known me for a long time, knew my little fame, and said that he would come to me to play chess when he had time. His voice is so beautiful that every word he says is like a jade bead falling on my heart. I didn't dare to look at him until I entered the room.

"Mother-in-law, is he majestic and powerful on all sides?" Mingzhu couldn't help interrupting Mei Yixian's narrative and stood up and raised her hands to make a strong posture.

"No, on the contrary, he looks like a white-faced scholar, full of bookish, elegant, and smiling clean and bright, like a crescent moon... He told me to keep warm in the cold weather, not to go out alone in the dark, bring up what you need, and don't wrong yourself. In his opinion, these cold and hot words may have come out casually, but they made me feel warm. For two years, no one has asked me about my coldness and warmth. The deep palace knew the coldness and warmth... That night, I had insomnia, and my mind was full of his shadow and smile. His appearance stirred my girl's love. Huai, I think this person is the person I want to wait for and the person I want to rely on..."

"But after that night, I haven't seen him for a long time. He was not a servant beside Emperor Tongzhi, and there was no trace of him in exchange. I was extremely sad and suddenly felt that I didn't want to stay in the palace anymore. My extravagant hope is simple, that is, to stay quietly in the palace and have no hope of leaving the palace. I want to see him every day, but this requirement cannot be met. I want to leave the palace more than ever. But I can't get an amnesty and can't get out of the palace... Alas, it's been a long time. I waited until the autumn leaves were over and winter arrived.

"That winter was extremely cold, cold to the bone marrow. There were few people in my room, and there was no heating. It was as cold as an ice cellar. I was forgotten. In winter, many people began to get infected with wind and cold. I shuttled through the harem to treat them, like a top. No one cares about my life or death. I also want to make myself extremely busy to forget that person. Sometimes I laugh at myself and don't even know his name. What am I thinking? In the palace, I am the emperor's woman. Although I am not favored, I am always the emperor's woman. This status will bind me for the rest of my life, so that those who want to get close to me dare not approach me, and I dare not approach other men. Mei Yixian looked up at the sun, as if she had seen the old times. She was intoxicated and whispered, "Every time I pass by the palace, I can't help looking at the guards, but there has never been that person's face. I wondered if he had left the palace and gone to a more free place. The cold winter came, and it snowed one after another. The palace was wrapped in silver. On that day, I stood by the dry lotus pond, looked at the heavy snow floating in the sky and sighed that my life was not as beautiful as a fleeting snowflake.

"Suddenly, a man's call came from behind him, Yixian. I was shocked that no one knew my name outside the palace. I changed my name when I entered the palace. I even forgot the name Mei Yixian. I thought there was someone from my mother's house, so I hurriedly turned around. But it was him, who stood in armor, standing in the snow, smiling brightly and looking at me gently. Mei Yixian smiled faintly, and her eyes were full of sweetness.

Pearl was fascinated. In her eyes, the mysterious mother-in-law Liu Shi had such a wonderful past. She thought she was just a ruthless grass ghost woman, but she didn't expect that she had such a wonderful encounter when she entered the palace and was a girl. She looked forward to encountering such a romantic thing one day and talking to her favorite man in the snow. She couldn't help looking at Feng Junyang.

"That's how the story between us began. Secretly dating, sometimes I ran to the palace from where I lived, just to have a look at him, and he would routinely patrol to look at me. After accumulating many days of lovesickness, where is enough to have a look? We all want to stay together and be a long-term ordinary couple. However, in the deep palace, I dare not think too much about it. The affair between men and women in the palace is a crime to kill the head.

"We are all suffering from lovesickness, but we dare not dare to do anything that is found. At that time, we all understand that life is the first. Only when we have life can we have the opportunity to go out and stay together." Mei Yixian said with his eyes shining, "God's favor, this opportunity has come!"

"One day in the winter of Tongzhi, the harem caught fire. The fire spread rapidly, and many people went to put out the fire, and the harem was in chaos. Because I spruled my foot in the first few days, I couldn't walk, closed the door to rest, and couldn't control the chaos outside. I thought that as long as the fire didn't burn on my side, I wouldn't worry. Besides, there were other people who could put out the fire. I lay lazily ** when someone was knocking on the door, and it may be a guard to inform me to leave. I don't want to go to the ground and open the door. It's him! Looking at each other, everything was speechless... In the cold winter, our eyes ignited each other. He suddenly closed the door and picked me up..."

"After that, he came quietly several times. The two of them couldn't finish their love and lingered to death, but they were desperate and couldn't see tomorrow. At that time, it was not just that I wanted to see him. I wanted to get out of the deep palace, go out, and go out, which became my only thought. Unexpectedly, at this time, something big happened in the palace!"

"On the fifth day of December of the 13th year of Tongzhi, the emperor died in the Yangxin Hall! It is said that Emperor Tongzhi died of smallpox, which was the cause of death mentioned in the palace for shame. The real cause of Tongzhi's death was the death of Mei Poison.

Ah? Did he die of May poison? This is a disease in the willow alley of Flower Street!" Feng Junyang said in surprise.

"Yes, Zai Chun, the emperor of Tongzhi, often went out to look for flowers and willows. He indulged in love and contracted willow disease, so that when he died, his whole body was ulcerated and smelled incomparable, and the imperial doctor did not dare to approach. As soon as the emperor died, the palace was in chaos, and the harem was even more chaotic. Empress Alut is deeply in love with the emperor and his wife, but she is at odds with Cixi. Everyone is spreading the saying that Cixi wants her concubines to be martyred. For a moment, people were panicked, but everyone was helpless.

"At this time, I found myself happy. If the emperor spoils me, there is no doubt that I will be safe, but the emperor did not come close to me. This matter cannot be faked. The eunuch of the honorable room has recorded that the emperor clearly remembers where he spends the night. I panicked. If someone finds out about me, I will die if I can't wait for the burial. What's worse, I can't find him. I'm so anxious that I'm going crazy. At that time, I thought that if I couldn't find him the next day, I would jump into the deep well of the harem, never be known by others, and always let these things follow me in the well.

"He came that night. I was going to tell him everything, but he took out a set of guarded men's clothing and asked me to put it on. I was overjoyed that he was going to take advantage of the chaos and gap when he mourned for the emperor in the palace to get out of the palace with me!" Mei Yixian was completely immersed in her memories. She smiled sweetly, "On the way out of the palace, although we encountered some episodes, there was no danger, and we finally went out. The feeling of standing outside the palace made me want to shout, but he covered my mouth and told me to keep quiet.

"So where do you live and work in peace?" Pearl asked.

"Well, leaving the palace is the beginning of another nightmare." Mei Yixian shook his head and smiled bitterly, "After leaving the palace, I expect him to give me a small home and give our children a reputation, but without waiting for me to speak, he said that he is a person with a family and a room. Although I was a little surprised, love blindfolded me and lost my mind. I said I didn't mind. I can do small. But he said that his main room was Cixi..."

"I was shocked. He told me that all he could do was save my life. Let me not die in the martyrdom or in the deep palace. Other than that, tell me not to think about it. It's all about looking for happiness and comfort when we are alone. I didn't even think about it at that time, so I slapped him in the face!"

"This man is so hateful! Abandoned from the beginning to the end!" Mingzhu said angrily.

"He gave me some silver and arranged for me to leave. He told me not to go back to Jinmei Villa and not to wander near the palace. Then, he rode his horse and left. I didn't even have time to tell him that I was pregnant... I wanted to chase him, but I didn't want to go back to the palace. In desperation, I had no choice but to escape along the path, find a hidden place to live during the day and rush at night. Half a month later, I returned to Jinmei Villa.

"I thought I would be comforted by my family, but what greeted me was another storm..."

"Dong Dong Dong..." A rumble of drums interrupted Mei Yixian's narrative, and she was shocked: "Let's go! There was an accident in Miaozhai opposite!"