I was reborn by the emperor

Chapter 5

In the middle of the dream, the night was still deep, and three quilts were pressed on his body, making Xu Lianlang sweat sticky all over.

She put on her robe and pushed open the door of the west wing.

There was still a lone candle burning in the main hall, stretching the two figures inside very long.

Concubine Rong had already gone to bed, and Lu Jieming was sitting beside the bed, the kerchief that bound his hair had been removed, and the ends of his hair were hanging on his chest, covering his face.

The color of the night has faded, faded a bit to black, filled with many pens of blue, and it is almost dawn.

The seventh prince should have stayed overnight.

Xu Lianlang stood outside the hall for a long time, raising and lowering his hands, but finally he couldn't push the door open.

The ginkgo grove that I visited during the day had lost many leaves, and they were crushed into slag under my feet.

Xu Lianlang picked up a few stones and vigorously smashed them into the lake, splashing water one by one.

When the fifth piece was thrown, someone yelled: "What are you doing! What are you doing! I can't think about jumping into the lake, and don't dirty my lake!"

Xu Lianlang turned his head and saw a face as surprised as she was. The mole on the tip of the left eyebrow moved with his muscles, obviously he was really surprised by her arrival.

"Yo, little girl, why is it you?"

Eunuch Li Ri must have just woken up, he yawned, and waved to her again, "Come here, I'll give you some hot soup."

Xu Lianlang looked in the direction of his hand, only to realize later that Eunuch Li Ri came out of the boat.

The cabin was very small, she stooped in and sat face to face with Eunuch Li Ri, the small space was even more cramped.

She was in a bad mood, with emotions hanging on her face, Li Ri handed her the jug from his arms, "Drink?"

As soon as the lid of the hip flask was opened, the smell of alcohol quickly spread throughout the cabin, and it seemed a little drunk before the entrance.

Xu Lianlang rubbed his nose and said in a low voice, "Thank you, Eunuch Li Ri, I have to work on errands today, so I can't drink."

Li Ri didn't force it, and just scooped up another bowl of hot soup and pushed it in front of her. He fell on his back like a boneless one, resting his head on his arm. You, Aunt Xu's kindness, although I still don't understand, but you can't bother me day and night."

"If you go down with these few stones, I will lose an hour of sleep."

"Oh, as you get older, you just feel shallow."

Embarrassed by what he said, Xu Lianlang was about to apologize, but was interrupted by him again, "Have you been wronged in Suoyun Pavilion?"

The tone of the voice changed several times, and by the time of this sentence, it was already full of gentleness.

Xu Lianlang's throat suddenly became sore, she nodded, then shook her head quickly, denying it.

Li Ri giggled a few times, "If you can't bear it, just change your job, what's the big deal."

Xu Lianlang was silent for a long while, the hot soup was held in her hands, the heat dissipated, she looked at the bottom of the bowl, and finally put it back on the table.

She said slowly: "Because of my father, sooner or later I will enter the palace to serve the nobleman."

Li Ri nodded, "Dayan has had a law since the beginning of the dynasty. Local officials must choose young girls to serve in the palace. No one can violate it as long as you are still eating the government's salary. This kind of thing, even if you have a lot of money, you can't do it." Method."

Li Ri drank a big sip of wine in a muffled voice, and the wine entered his throat. He clicked his tongue, "No matter how precious the local official's lady is at home, she will be the same as us when she comes to the palace, serving people."

He suddenly felt a lot of emotion, and took another big gulp, who wants to be born to serve others.

There are only two types of slaves in this palace, left and right, one is like Xu Lianlang, local official ladies, who have entered the palace to serve for a few years because of the law, and sooner or later they will leave the palace; the rest are like him I was originally born as a mud leg, but when I arrived in the palace, I was still a mud leg, no, I was a mud leg who learned how to dominate others.

For people like him, the imperial palace, which cannibalize people, is their last coffin. Maybe the day before they die, they will prostrate at the feet of nobles, shouting one after another, "Damn the slave, die the slave."

Everyone is human, why should he be a slave, he deserves to die.

It's not that he failed to reincarnate with a good belly.

He was busy being a good slave in the first half of his life, and he was still busy being a good slave in the second half of his life.I don't know if I will be a good slave when I am dying.

Li Ri drank too fast and coughed, Xu Lianlang handed him the handkerchief.

He didn't answer, rolled his eyes around, looked at the snow-white veil, and said, "Use it for me, what a waste."

He smoothed his chest and motioned her to continue talking.

Xu Lianlang pursed her lips, and her palms were sweating a little. For some reason, facing Eunuch Li Ri, it seemed that those old things could be said.

In the dream last night, in the memory of the past, there was a child hidden, a kind child carved in powder and jade.

"When I was very young, my mother told me time and time again that the people in the harem are sinister, and the people hidden under the beautiful skin are all vicious ghosts. Like poisonous flowers in the mountains, they always use the most colorful colors to bewitch me prey."

"So, when I was young, I was very resistant to entering the palace. My eyesight was very clumsy, and I couldn't tell the good from the bad. I was afraid that if I entered the palace, I would be killed by ghosts."

Her mouth was dry, and the hot soup was completely cold. Li Ri poured her another cup of hot water, and she sipped it, "A few years ago, my aunt was rewarded. She can bring her family to the Zhongyuan Emperor Banquet." Enjoy the palace..."

Li Ri said "Yes", "The first time the Great Yan opened the dynasty, the emperor congratulated the empress dowager for recovering from a serious illness, and gave a special reward to the aunt next to the empress dowager."

He thought for a while, and added, "Aunt Xu is good, God gave her a good fate."

Xu Lianlang agrees, my aunt has stayed in the palace for most of her life, and the concubines in the palace have to give her a little bit of face. Although she failed to get married, the queen mother loved her and gave her a worry-free and prosperous life for the rest of her life.

She drank the hot soup quickly, and then continued, "How do I know the rules when I first entered the palace? I was young, active and playful, and I didn't listen to my aunt's orders. I touched things that shouldn't be touched in the empress dowager's palace. I was scolded and scolded by the nanny."

At home, her eyeballs seemed to be pampered and pampered. It was the first time she faced such a series of scolding, she was shocked and terrified, and she was stunned.

The nanny spoke violently, and she might not get along with her aunt, but when she heard that she was a relative of Aunt Xu, she was even more merciless.Opening her mouth and shutting her mouth means throwing fifty big boards out, beheading her head to apologize, she is too young, facing the majesty of the court for the first time, she only feels that she will die in the next second, the fear of death is scattered in her brain, she is terrified But when the nanny saw her crying, she wanted to do it.Want to cry, but dare not.

The whole person shivered and trembled.

"It was at that time that I met the concubine Rong who paid her respects to the empress dowager. Her beauty moved the world, but she was gentle and easy-going. She sent the nanny away with a few soft words, and took my hand and quietly gave away a box of pastries. After stuffing it over, the Seventh Prince who was sitting beside her was carved with powder and carved with jade and made of gold. He has reached the age of changing his deciduous teeth, and he smiled and showed his empty front teeth, pulling at the corner of my clothes and calling for sister."

She was so frightened that Concubine Rong, mother and son suddenly appeared, just like the gods and Bodhisattvas in the painting book, shining with golden light, saving her from the extreme fear of death.

She squeezed her delicate fingers, and gradually opened the eyebrows. The young man now gradually overlapped with the little person of the grandma in her memory, "I have never seen a child more beautiful than the seventh prince."

That little man was wrapped in a luxurious robe with a crimson yellow four-clawed python, and his bulging waist was full of sachets and jade pendants. her.

He staggered over, grabbed the corner of her clothes, pointed at the box of delicate pastries that she had never seen before with his fleshy little hands, and said, "Sister, you eat."

When she bent down to take the box of pastries, he suddenly leaned close to her ear. He still couldn't express the exact words, but his vague tone and sticky saliva rubbed against her earlobe.

She heard him say, "Grandmother doesn't like us, you... eat it, mother concubine said... every grain is hard work... waste... no..."

Although he said such words, his clear and dark eyes were full of bright and soft luster.

He was obviously disgusted by his elders, but he was brought by his concubine to comfort her who was scolded and cried when she entered the palace for the first time.

That is the most well-behaved and beautiful child she has ever seen, and it has become the only thing she thinks about when she sets foot in this strict and cannibal palace.

She couldn't escape the fate of entering the palace, but this little prince just happened to give her the courage to enter the palace.

There are not only bad people in the palace, look, there is such a little prince who comforts her tears with the softest heart.

Then during the nine years when she was blocked by the high palace walls and could only see the four corners of the sky, she must have met many little prince-like characters.

Some people will always inexplicably become the hope and expectation of others in a specific place and a special time.

Back then, she entered the palace with such thoughts, and the chance of fate sent her back to the little prince by mistake.

She thought that everything was for the best, but she never thought that all the mistakes would not be worth the change of the prince.

"So he didn't accept your kindness, but instead warned you to feed your sincerity to the dogs. Do you feel wronged?"

Li Ri looked into her eyes, she paused, "It's not like that, I feel hopeless, the harm these other people have brought to him cannot be repaired at all."

"My younger brother was bitten by a dog on the butt when he was a child. No matter how much I begged, he refused to touch the puppy again, even if the dog was docile and harmless."

She laughed dryly, "The Seventh Highness not only refuses to believe me, he also refuses to trust everyone. Compared with this, my grievance is nothing."

Li Ri twitched his face, smiled, and said truthfully, these thoughts of Xu Lianlang now, in his opinion, are the silly thoughts of a newcomer who just entered the palace.

In the palace, it's too silly to put such deep affection.

So he said: "Since you can't make up for it, why do you continue to stay. Nuwa can mend the sky, are you Nuwa? Can you mend that prince?"

He bent his elbows on his knees and opened the small blue curtain on the boat to protect him from the wind. It was already bright daylight, the weather was getting colder and the wind was getting biter day by day.

Xu Lianlang stood at the bow of the boat, looked at the afterimage of the moon, and murmured: "Maybe, I have to try."

She was fascinated by the broken hair on her forehead. When she straightened her hair and bowed to get off the boat, she suddenly met a pair of warning eyes. Eunuch Li Ri's mouth moved, words came out one after another, and the voice was too loud. Light, the wind blows under the fallen leaves, and it is easily covered up.

"Your mother is right, there are vicious ghosts hidden under the beautiful skin."

"The one in the Suoyun Pavilion is even more so."