Floating White

With Empress Dowager Feng protecting me, the Saint often insulted and teased me, just like when I bullied Concubine Feng in the Eastern Palace.

Your Majesty, please feed me some food that will not cost me my life, so that I can avenge the injustice I did to your lord by slandering him and speak up for his favorite concubine.

As long as the Yan family doesn't fall, my life will be safe.

Does the saint intend to harm me?

I have been suspicious since I was a child, but in the end it was just some groundless thoughts.

After that drunken night, the palace was quiet for a few days.

I squeezed all the unnecessary fear and suspicion into pieces of fat and threw them into the East China Sea Lake and into the belly of the fish.

Unfortunately, I am still trapped in Taiji Palace.

People are not as good as flowing water, and hearts are not as good as swimming fish.

Chang'an never sleeps. Baodai often comes to the palace, saying that he comes to visit me.

The husband does not like his wife, and the wife does not like her husband.

Prince Ping and Princess Ping were as cold as living people and as hateful as enemies.

Princess Shen lived an unhappy life contentedly.

Baodai and Li San, without saying a word, were the most famous pair of quarrelsome lovers in Chang'an City. When I was still deaf, the palace people were all gossiping about them.

She sat next to me, looking elsewhere, her mind not in Jishan Palace.

She would always drink half a cup of tea and leave. I guessed that she came to the palace with other intentions. I was really deaf and dumb, so I just drank tea and didn't ask any more questions.

The day before the emperor's wedding, the Ministry of Rites was the first to perform the ceremony. Preparations were made everywhere. The Taiji Palace was crowded with people, and the people in Chang'an City were like a stream of water wheels. The court and the harem did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

That afternoon, I was feeding the fish by the Donghai Lake.

The palace maids were fanning me, the court ladies were holding umbrellas, and the sage's sedan chair passed behind me.

If you can't hear it, you can't see it.

At this crucial moment, His Majesty the Emperor stepped down from his chariot and, in front of the Li family kings, Li family ministers, and hundreds of Li family servants, asked me, "Do you like feeding fish?"

Similar scenes, all kinds of embarrassment.

I had guessed that the saint would come to humiliate me again.

Even if I heard it, I pretended not to hear it and didn’t answer.

"If you like it, go to Furong Garden. There are plenty of fish there..."

The saint came closer, speaking each word with a breath as sweet as orchid, and "chewing and savoring" it slowly.

I can't deceive the emperor?

Fortunately, I am deaf. In Taiji Palace and Chang'an City, I will not listen to anyone except the Queen Mother's orders.

The saint drives away, and the queen mother protects.

His Majesty said that I was backing off because he was afraid that I might offend the Queen.

Li San looked at me and laughed so hard that he couldn't stop, while Li Qillang looked at him with a look of anger on his face.

The Empress Dowager of Xingqing Palace had nothing to say, so she sent me out of the palace in accordance with the Saint's wishes.

"Without my order, you cannot leave even a step."

The saint drove me out of the Taiji Palace, trapped me in the Furong Garden, and ordered me to feed the fish in Qujiang Pond.

Taiji Palace overlooks Furong Garden, and Donghai Lake is connected to Qujiang Lake.

Just after leaving Taiji Palace, we entered Furong Garden.

I have been sighing all my life, and for more than ten years I have been unable to escape the word "Li".

Although Furong Garden also has the word "Li" engraved on it, fortunately, it is better than Taiji Palace and stronger than Ye Ting.

I kneel down and worship, thanking God for His grace.

I hurried back to Jishan Palace, holding my clothes. Princess Zhaoyang asked, "Sister, where are you going?"

I said, go outside, go outside the palace.

Concubine Tong and Princess Anyang bribed Concubine Zhu with gold, silver and jewelry.

"When will our Li'er come back?" The concubine accompanied Xiaoxin and asked about the saint's thoughts.

Ah Xiang was busy packing up one thing, and Zhu Guiren put several things back.

"When the big thing is over, in a few days, when I have some free time, I will definitely come to pick up my wife. Concubine Dowager, Princess, please don't worry."

Concubine Zhu was very good at dealing with people. He only picked out the good people for the sake of gold, silver and jewelry, and appeased the concubine and the princess.

No one can guess what is going on in Yongle Palace. Maybe it will take a year, maybe a lifetime. Taiji Palace, this trip may be my last.

He hates me and I hate him.

He was satisfied with driving me out of the palace.

Leaving Taiji Palace, I got what I wanted.

I would rather go to Hibiscus Garden to grow hibiscus flowers and go to Qujiang Pond to feed Qujiang fish than stay in Taiji Palace and be frightened.

I bow my head and kneel, kowtow three times and nine times, to thank the Royal Concubine for her many years of nurturing.

When Zhu Guiren was causing trouble, his hands and feet were very light, while Ah Xiang was so tired that she was breathing heavily, and a closer look revealed that she had accomplished nothing.

I bid farewell to everyone in Jishan Palace one by one, bid farewell to the Concubine Dowager and the Princess in tears, and asked the palace maids to pick up a few personal belongings and hurriedly take them with me.

I was "exiled" to Furong Garden, and Mr. Zhu acted as an official and escorted me into the garden.

When I passed by Lizheng Palace, Concubine Xue was waiting for me, or rather, she came to see me off with her imperial concubine's entourage.

I was about to leave the palace. I had already wiped away my tears and greeted the Concubine Shu with a smile.

Looking at Xue Yinmei's face, people immediately understood.

Empress Shufei is very beautiful, a beauty that hurts. I have seen this kind of beauty in my childhood and have also been hurt by it.

That is my childhood memory, that is a familiar face in my memory.

Concubine Xue Shu was sitting on the sedan chair, wearing the clothes of an imperial concubine and the attire of a favorite concubine. Her face was as pale as a seriously ill person. The current Concubine Xue Shu had the same face as Ruren Xue back then.

It turns out that the new emperor and the previous emperor liked the same face and the same temperament.

The saint likes the Queen Mother of Qi, and he loves the imperial concubine of the previous emperor.

No wonder...Empress Dowager Feng was furious and Concubine Xue laughed.

The hidden thoughts of the Li family saint are exactly the same as those of the ridiculous Yan family man.

My stomach was churning and I almost laughed out loud.

Concubine Xue smiled and waved at me, and I walked over.

She leaned close to my ear, smiled, and whispered, "Get out of Taiji Palace and never come back!"

What Concubine Shu said is what the saints think, and it is also what my heart desires.

Few women in the palace truly love the saint in the dragon robe. Who doesn’t like the emperor’s crown, and who doesn’t love the queen’s twelve flower trees?

Concubine Xue Shu couldn't become the empress, and she couldn't stop the saint from establishing a queen. Seeing that I was driven out of the palace by the emperor and the empress dowager and lost their favor, she waited here specifically to vent her anger on me, the "former" queen.

After listening to her, I looked at her with a smile.

Her little face was no bigger than the palm of a hand, but her eyes and eyebrows could reveal her various thoughts. She looked arrogant, domineering, and annoying, just like Concubine Xue.

She wanted to see me laugh, to kill my power, so I told her, "Your saint can't bear to leave me. I'll be back tomorrow. Madam, please get well soon. If you fall into my hands one day, I won't be like you, who only talks."

I was young at that time and still had some patience, and I was always cautious about things that could cause harm, so I had the leisure to waste my breath talking to Xue Yinmei.

"you!"

Wanfu is not sincere, so Concubine Shu asked me to perform the grand ceremony.

Eunuch Zhu said that it was getting late and the palace gates were about to close, but Concubine Xue refused to listen to him, and even less to me.

The palace maids, eunuchs, everyone knelt on the ground, and in an instant, there was crying, and they all chattered and begged for forgiveness... The noise was so loud that the deaf man could not rest.

If she wants to show off her power as an imperial concubine to me, she has chosen the wrong person. I bowed and performed the highest formalities, only hoping that my words and actions would be correct and to please her.

Taiji Palace, I will never return. I bow to it and say goodbye.

After leaving the palace, General Cui led the imperial guards to "escort" me to Furong Garden. In addition, there was also King Jiangdu.

General Cui, I don't think it's surprising. The King of Jiangdu, Li Jiajun's generation, ten sons are not as good as him.

He knew that the previous emperor was cunning and suspicious, and had never stood out in the previous dynasty. But when the new dynasty came and the new emperor came, he was like a cunning rabbit coming out of his hole and no longer hid his clumsiness. Within a few days, he gained power and the emperor's heart.

It is a waste of talent for such a person to be assigned to guard Furong Garden.

That night, I looked up at the sky and suddenly saw a sudden change in the weather. After looking into the details, I felt that something was wrong with the Taiji Palace and that something had changed in Chang'an City.

I studied it all night long until dawn.

The next afternoon, I woke up from a dream and found that both Concubine Zhu and Concubine Dong had come to Furong Garden.

One person said that the emperor was getting married and Prince Ping was plotting a rebellion, and all his followers and relatives had been detained awaiting trial.

Another person said that Princess Ping was meritorious for her initial report, and the emperor granted her a special pardon, allowing her to return to the Shen family and removing the character "Li" from her name.

The important matter has been settled. I wish your Excellency to take me back to the palace without delay.

Concubine Dong came to invite us, saying that Sanlang was plotting rebellion, and the Empress Dowager must be surrounded by her children.

My enemy is about to die, I have to see it with my own eyes.

Just like yesterday, I had a nonsense conversation with Concubine Xue Shu. Less than a day after leaving the palace, I returned to Taiji Palace.

This time, I am willing.

General Cui, King Jiangdu "escorted" me back to Taiji Palace.

I leaned against the window and asked King Jiangdu why he didn't stay in Taiji Palace to compete for the first merit?

King Jiangdu said with a smile, "I have made the greatest contribution to the protection of Hibiscus Garden."

Ah Xiang relayed it to me word for word.

The sage dispatched two imperial guards to Furong Garden, pretending that the palace was short of troops, and then lured the king into a trap, asking the "king" Ping Wang to feel free to rebel.

Lure the snake out of its hole.

Let the knife in Prince Ping's hand assassinate the Queen, point it at the palace gate, cut off his flesh and blood connection with the Li family, and sever the last bit of mother-son relationship between him and the Queen Mother. Then His Majesty the Emperor can justifiably put his own brother to death.

The King of Jiangdu, who was far away from the fighting, effortlessly watched over the garden and also gained military merit.

The sage was so wise that for the sake of the Li Dynasty, he stepped on my delicate bones and soft hair to build his eternal foundation and fame.

I had a bizarre suspicion that perhaps the saint sent me out of the palace to keep me safe. This ridiculous guess only lingered in my mind for a few breaths. After that night, it fled to all corners of the country and disappeared from then on.

There has always been only emperors in Taiji Palace.

I am too worried and too suspicious.