Floating White

Empress Dowager Feng recovered from her illness, and I retreated to Donghai Lake to feed the fish...

While Xingqing Palace was ill, there was no trouble in Taiji Palace, no disaster happened in Chang'an City, Yizhou was stable, Pinglu was a great victory, and the Queen Mother was filled with joy and all her illness disappeared.

The Queen of Huayang was crowned with a flower tree. He granted additional fiefs to women of the royal family, married Prince Ying, the wife of Prince Xuping, and made Ah Xiang a second-rank princess for no merit. He also posthumously conferred the title of Lady of Qian on Shanhua for no reason... I acted recklessly and almost emptied the Taiji Palace.

Empress Dowager Feng did not take any action against me for all my willful and reckless behavior, nor did she investigate my actions. She let me do whatever I wanted.

Empress Dowager Feng did not worship Taoism or Buddhism, and she did not believe in witchcraft or sorcery, which could control life and death, determine right and wrong, and dominate success or failure.

Concubine Xue’s supernatural powers are not real, but her intention to rebel and plot are true.

The sinful woman used witchcraft to curse the current saint, which was to curse and destroy the life's work of Empress Dowager Feng.

His heart is despicable and he deserves to be killed.

Even if Concubine Xue died a million times, her life would not be worth a finger from He Nu, the Empress Dowager said so to the six palaces.

"This vicious woman, this wicked woman, is guilty of a heinous crime! My children...you siblings...the discord between you is the work of this vicious woman," the Empress Dowager said. "When the late Emperor passed away, I saw that her children were young and ignorant, so I felt kind and spared her life, preventing this vicious woman from being buried alive with the late Emperor."

The Saint and I are at odds. We make things difficult for each other and we are fed up with each other. The resentment between us has been building up for many years and is a long-standing one.

The Queen Mother thought that the Crane Slave's temperament was unstable and that it was caused by witchcraft. The Li Slave was in a trance and that it was caused by sorcery.

Empress Dowager Feng was reluctant to blame her eldest son, nor was she willing to blame her adopted daughter.

She pushed all the blame onto Concubine Xue, hoping to use the name of witchcraft to resolve the feud between the sage and the Marquis of Luoyang, and to reconcile her biological son and adopted daughter.

Before I even opened my mouth to instigate her, the Empress Dowager had already put all the blame on Concubine Xue.

Empress Dowager Feng ordered Concubine Xue to be executed with a white silk ribbon.

The executioner is naturally me.

Concubine Guo, Concubine Xue, and the concubines of the previous dynasty, all the concubines died at my hands.

The three brothers, Prince Rong, Prince Liang, and Prince Rui, were imprisoned on Penglai Island in Taiye Lake.

As for the King of Qi and the King of Ning, they were each imprisoned in their own palaces and were not allowed to step out of their houses without an imperial decree.

The two eldest princesses Jinyang and Huaiyang are still princesses. Prince Consort Wei was demoted, and Princess Huaiyang was scolded by the Queen Mother in person... I laughed in my heart.

The emperor favored Concubine Xue Shu, and the empress dowager was concerned and temporarily spared Concubine Xue Shu's mother.

The Xue family was detained in the Ministry of Justice, and the entire family was exiled after the autumn. They committed evil in the Taiji Palace. Even though they were from the mother's family of the favorite concubine, there was still no room for them to turn back.

Your Majesty favored Concubine Xue Shu, so the Empress Dowager spared Xue easily. The Saint did not pardon Ru Di, so the Empress Dowager did not let her go either.

In the fight between mother and son at Taiji Palace, the son won over the mother from that time on. It was also from that time on that my defeat was determined, and my life and death were already decided.

The mistress of the Yan family is ill, and I want to go back to the Yan family to take care of her and visit her. I ask the Queen Mother against my will.

Queen Mother, please allow me to leave the palace.

The day I really left Taiji Palace, no one saw me off.

Everyone thought I was going out of the palace for a few days and would be back in ten days or half a month.

Of course, except for Zhu Guiren, he is lazy in hands and feet but smart in mind.

Eunuch Zhu blocked my way. He relied on his saintly power to act lawless, even going beyond the rules and pulling my sleeve.

He cried and made a fuss, he knelt and kowtowed, and was unwilling to let me go back to Chang'an to "show filial piety" to my stepmother.

He yelled and threatened his life, "If my lady walks out of Taiji Palace today, how will I survive in the future?"

The saint sent him to spy on me from time to time, but I have become the host. Even if I die, I cannot die silently.

These days, everything has been directed by me, and everything has been done through the hands of Lord Zhu. If the saint wants to punish me, his powerful ministers and eunuchs will not be able to escape responsibility.

Mr. Zhu is not close to me, so what does his life have to do with me?

Everything I have done this spring and summer, every detail and every detail, is too numerous to list in words.

If you don't leave now, when the saint returns to Chang'an, I don't know whether your life will be saved or not.

I know exactly how many years I should live in the palace, and I have calculated it clearly.

"When will my lady return to the palace? I will pick you up." Eunuch Zhu asked loudly.

I am deaf and cannot hear, so how can I reply?

After shaking off Concubine Zhu, I took Ah Xiang and finally walked out of Taiji Palace!

Outside the palace gate, my uncle came to pick me up with Hua Zan'er.

The mistress of the Yan family is also here.

She stood beside the carriage and didn't look like a patient. Her complexion was even rosier than Empress Dowager Feng's. She brought my brother's little son with her to laugh at me. I was wearing a veil and ignored her.

The six-year-old Hua Zuan'er had her hair combed in a Taoist bun and looked like a little Taoist boy, very cute.

Five years ago, I remember the first time I entered the Palace was for her.

My uncle entered the Buddhist sect many years ago. He never married in his life and had no wife, concubine, children or daughters.

Yan Xiang told me that he was going to get married when he was young.

Unfortunately, none of his words touched the lady's heart, and his clumsy words made her unhappy.

When he was young, he was shy and hesitant, and he hid at home for several days without showing up.

I never thought that in just a few days, that lady would marry someone else. In just a few days and nights, the person I love could no longer be coaxed back...

Minister Yan didn't dare to go to the lady's house to see her again, so he could only hide in the dark and wait. What was he waiting for?

What I am waiting for is that woman losing her husband.

After waiting in agony for several years, my uncle did not wait for the woman to divorce or lose her husband, but only received the sad news that his beloved had passed away.

That lady was a descendant of the royal family, her surname was Li, and she was Madam Li.

Madam Li gave birth to a daughter, her daughter gave birth to a granddaughter, and her granddaughter gave birth to Hua Zan'er.

By this time, forty years had passed.

Weddings and funerals, going around in circles, men and women getting married, coming and going, Hua Can'er changed his surname to Li again.

When Minister Yan met Madam Li again, more than thirty years had passed.

Hua Zan'er is a descendant of the royal family. Since she is in the palace, she is naturally a descendant of the rebel king and his gang.

She is also the only surviving descendant of Madam Li from forty years ago.

My uncle asked around, first pleading with the late emperor, and then asking me to carry Hua Zan'er out of the Taiji Palace from the Ye Ting.

My uncle said that when he was young, he was not a god with great powers who could understand people's hearts, nor was he a parrot like Han Gao who could speak human language, nor was he a saint from heaven who could issue imperial decrees to separate mandarin ducks, take away people's preferences, and force people to keep their hearts.

Each of them had his own temper and ambition, and they were separated in many ways and separated from each other. This is what caused him to regret for the rest of his life.

After hearing this, I was speechless and could only think to myself that my uncle had no luck in his life and it was all his own fault.

He has never forgotten his original aspiration for forty years, and has been trapped every day, living a self-righteous and regretful life.

I was not moved at all, nor did I feel the slightest sympathy or pity. I felt that my uncle was stubborn and lived a ridiculous life, unable to distinguish between the important and the trivial, and he deserved it.

The dead are gone, why remember them?

Yan Xiang, my nominal uncle, I looked at him. He was clearly a wise man, but he was timid, hesitant, and repeatedly frustrated when it came to love. I thought it was strange.

Missed the love at a young age, and spent a lifetime reminiscing about it.

Whether he is a wise man or a fool remains for me to consider carefully.

I took Madam Li to Lingtai Temple, pointed at Yan Xiang, and said to Hua Cuan'er, who was less than two years old, "Look carefully, look closely. From now on, he will be your real grandfather!"

I said to my uncle, "Grandpa, please don't keep reminiscing about Madam Li with tears in your eyes. The important thing for you is to live a few more years, raise this Madam Li in your arms to adulthood, and take good care of Hua Zan'er."

My uncle was holding Hua Zan'er in his arms, and he must have been very angry. He said that although I was smart and precocious, I had ruined my career and wasted my life.

He said that I was entangled in worldly affairs, had no Zen mind, and was not familiar with the true love between men and women. I should not have been born in a family of nobles, but should have been born in a family of emperors.

That day, Prime Minister Yan kept expelling me, and my uncle drove me out of Lingtai Temple. He told me to hurry back to Taiji Palace, back to the devil's den of imperial power that could most erode people's hearts, back to this cold place full of intrigue and insincerity.

He said Taiji Palace is my real home.

I don't care, I don't agree.