Floating White
King Yicheng of Yizhou submitted a memorial to Chang'an, suggesting that the king and his ministers wish to abandon the southwest and head north to follow the sage.
I was in the Purple Palace and asked Concubine Zhu to write on yellow paper, ordering King Ying, his ministers, and General Mu to stabilize the southwestern states and not allow the remaining Huang bandits to respond to Pinglu until the world is recovered and peace is restored.
The sage will send his trusted confidants to guard Yizhou, and in the southwest, the queen mother intends to make King Li a vassal.
During the Li Dynasty, the king and his ministers were not allowed to act without authorization.
The Queen Mother, the Saint, is everywhere from Jingzhao Dou to the southwest, without stopping.
Empress Dowager Feng and Concubine Xue are fighting to the death.
The sage and the King of Qi each fought for their own mother.
The Xue family is doomed to die...but I want to save Zhuzhi.
Princess Ning was at a loss. She said calmly that she had only been married into the palace for a year and had no children with Prince Ning, let alone much of a friendship. "Marry a chicken, follow the chicken; marry a dog, follow the dog." A woman from Chang'an who married into the Li family, beheaded, beheaded, exiled, imprisoned, or given glory, wealth, luxury, or a life of luxury, she had long been a slave of the Li family, a wronged soul in the Taiji Palace. Whether it was bitterness or sweetness, she would bear it herself, whether she lived or died. In short, she would not bring trouble to the Dou family...
Dou Huer indifferently accepted her fate. Her father, Minister Dou, treated her as if she didn't exist, and her mother, Madam Dou, forbade her to accept it.
On the second day after the Xue incident, my sister-in-law brought her sister-in-law from her mother's family into Taiji Palace.
My eldest sister-in-law's surname is Dou, and my father is her niece. This was the first time my sister-in-law asked me for a favor, and I agreed to it.
How could Madam Dou bear to see her daughter suffer and be tortured, so she went to the Yan family that very night and could not sleep a wink. At daybreak, she came to the Taiji Palace and begged me.
Princess Dou was seriously ill and would not live long, so I ordered her to separate from Prince Ning and sent her back to the Dou family.
I sat in the Golden Palace, the Princess of Qi knelt in the palace, and Minister Xiao entered the Taiji Palace on behalf of his daughter.
Minister Xiao has something to ask of me, and I also have something to ask of him.
"I heard that Minister Xiao met Man Niang many years ago?" I asked Xiao Qing.
Minister Xiao did not answer.
Manniang, Xiao Manniang, my biological mother, I heard that her name was this.
The Jade Seal and the Phoenix Seal are both in my hands. As long as the Xiao family father and daughter tell me the whereabouts of Man Niang, I will make them happy.
I don’t know who my biological father is. Maybe my uncle is not my uncle, my brother is not my brother, and my nephew is not my nephew.
However, my biological mother must be my biological mother.
If I am not mistaken, this Minister Xiao in front of me should be my uncle.
They have nothing to do with each other in the family tree, but are uncle and nephew by blood.
My maternal grandfather was a criminal. Before he became a criminal, he was the left prime minister of the previous dynasty, the Li Dynasty.
At that time, Wang Xiang was on the right and Xiao Xiang was on the left.
As Prime Minister Xiao refused to submit to the Guo family and requested that Prince Xiang be made the crown prince, he was slandered and framed by the previous dynasty's Concubine Guo. He was ordered to be beheaded by the previous emperor without any clear reason. In order to save the lives of his family, the head of the Xiao family expelled all the descendants of the guilty minister.
All the sons of my maternal grandfather's family died, and the women were sent to the palace as slaves.
Minister Xiao was adopted when he was young. He was destined to live a long life, so he escaped the disaster.
After I was born, my biological mother was sold to Chang'an by the mistress of the Yan family. She traveled all over the country and her whereabouts were unknown. I heard that only Man Niang's biological brother had gone everywhere to look for her. Man Niang's biological brother is the current Minister Xiao.
"Li Nu, you are going to be the queen, why are you still asking Man Niang?" Minister Xiao asked me back.
"I gave up being the queen a long time ago..." I said angrily.
"I have no chance of becoming the queen. There is Empress Yang in the palace. Minister Xiao, please don't mention it again." I regained my composure and said.
"Marquis Luoyang, you should call me uncle." Minister Xiao shouted.
uncle?
You can't find my biological mother, you don't tell me where my mother is, and I don't know whether she is alive or dead. Who will recognize you as her uncle?
Everyone says that Man Niang is cunning, brutal, vicious, and scheming by nature. She is not a good person and should not have anything to do with me.
Empress Dowager Feng said that Xiao's beauty was a disaster for the country, and Concubine Tong also said that Man Niang was a beauty that could topple a city.
No one says she is good, no one says she is ugly.
Likewise, men, women, young and old, were reluctant to see her die.
All her loved ones are dead, her family has abandoned her, and she is now in the palace. Whether she is good or evil, what has Man Niang done wrong?
Man Niang had a strange appearance and an unruly temperament, and the late emperor despised and hated her. I observed the late emperor's expression and followed my thoughts. When the late emperor was alive, I never mentioned my biological mother.
Beautiful women are a disaster to the country and its people.
The late emperor only loved his country and his people, so naturally he hated the barbarian woman to the extreme. The late emperor was neither a gentleman nor a villain, he was born to be an emperor.
Man Niang is hated by Concubine Guo, hated by Concubine Xue, and even more hated by the previous dynasty's Princess Xiang. They hate Man Niang, and they hate me as well.
My biological mother left Chang'an many years ago. The mistress of the Yan family, Concubine Guo, Princess Xiang, and Concubine Xue, when they looked at my face, they still could not hide their lingering hatred and hidden pain for my mother.
Xiao Manniang, she had long been gone from Chang'an, but she left a deep, never-fading tooth mark on the arm of a Chang'an woman.
I am Man Niang's biological daughter, so naturally I am even worse than her. Whether it's harming the country, being cunning, vicious, barbaric, or weird, I am ten times worse than Man Niang.
The saints of today value his sainthood the most.
He Nu also said that I was born seductive and looked like a disaster for the country, which he disliked the most.
Your Majesty is neither a gentleman nor a villain. He is also an emperor like the late emperor.
The Princess of Qi looked at me and then at her father. She didn't want to stay in the Li family.
The phoenix seal and jade seal are in my arms. It only takes a thought for me to let Xiao Susu go home.
For the sake of his daughter, Minister Xiao finally compromised, and I leaned in to listen to him.
"Barbarian mother, live."
"How are you doing?" I asked.
"Well, now that she's married and has a son, she's no longer the same as before and is a good wife now..." my uncle told me.
"Where is she?" I demanded.
I was waiting for Minister Xiao's reply, but Concubine Zhu kept coughing, one after another, so continuously that it was irritating to the deaf.
"Uncle, where is Man Niang?" I knelt down and begged Minister Xiao.
In Hunan, I only heard these three words amidst the coughing.
"She said she would never return to Chang'an in this lifetime, Li Nu, just pretend she doesn't exist as your mother..."
This was the last sentence Minister Xiao said to me that day.
It’s good that the girl is alive.
In exchange, I will let Susu return home, let her return to the Xiao family, return to Chang'an, and return to Lanling.
Send Dou Huer away, release Xiao Susu, and let Zhuzhi leave King Qi and stay away from the Xue family...
Zhuzhi refused to obey me. She would never leave her cousin, and of course, her aunt.
"You can't bear the pain of being beheaded or the suffering of exile!" I tried to persuade him kindly.
She said that the love between her and her cousin was higher than the sky. Zhuzhi said that I was born to be a queen, so how could I understand the love between ordinary couples.
I said, the King of Qi and the Princess of Qi are husband and wife. When disaster struck, they would have already fled away. You are a concubine and a royal lady. It is not your turn to be a husband and wife in the King of Qi's mansion.
She said helplessly, "You protect your husband, and I will follow mine."
Unreasonable.
I talked to her about life and death, and she talked to me about love.
The struggle for the throne, the swords drawn, the fight to the death, is no longer like the half and half sharing of rice cakes as in childhood. Whose life gets half, and whose life loses half?
If only one of the sage and the King of Qi can survive, then only one of me and the bamboo branch can survive.
Zhuzhi did it for her cousin, and for her own heart.
I am doing this for He Nu, and also for my own life.
"Okay, we are done with each other. From today onwards, whether you live or die, you will have nothing to do with me anymore!" I said crying.
Zhuzhi wiped her tears and bid me farewell crying for her lover. She left Taiji Palace, left me, returned to the Prince of Qi's residence, returned to the Prince of Qi, and was imprisoned together with Li Erlang.
I looked at her back and cried bitterly... After crying, it was over...
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