Floating White
When you can’t hear, your ears are clear and there are fewer trivialities.
Deafness, followed by blindness.
If I can't hear, then I can't see. I won't hear or see the people or things behind me.
The Queen Mother indulged me and allowed me to no longer hear what I didn’t want to hear, and to ignore the people I didn’t want to see.
I no longer have to look at other people's faces and can act as I please.
Similarly, being deaf in both ears can cause countless troubles.
That day, the days were long and the lights were on all the time.
Li Liulang broke into Xingqing Palace alone.
The Queen Mother sat steadily, while the King of Yue knelt on the ground and refused to get up. I ignored him.
He buried his head in his arms, his body shaking uncontrollably. Li Liu spoke to himself in a thin and low voice.
We were so far away that I couldn’t see the King of Yue’s face, nor could I hear or hear what he said.
The King of Yue spoke a long speech, but the Queen Mother only said one sentence. The Queen Mother seemed to ask something, but the King of Yue didn't look up and continued to speak a long paragraph.
When Liu Lang finished speaking, everyone in Xingqing Palace knelt on the ground.
The room was empty and no one dared to speak.
I looked at Ah Xiang. She was also kneeling on the ground. The difference was that she turned her eyes to look at me from time to time.
Looking at the Empress Dowager's expression again, she was staring at him thoughtfully, and it was unclear whether she was happy, angry, sad or resentful.
The King of Yue was a very contented person with no ambitions. He never caused trouble and he and the Li family were incompatible.
There was silence in Xingqing Palace, the King of Yue did not move, and the Queen Mother seemed moved.
What the King of Yue wants and what the Queen Mother worries about, I think... it must be related to me, but I can't hear it, no matter how hard I worry or how hard I try.
If you can't hear or see, there's no point in worrying.
I cracked half a piece of cake, put it in my mouth, and drank half a cup of tea, using the bitterness to counteract the sweetness.
Half a cake, half a cup of tea, about a quarter of an hour passed.
Mr. Zhu knelt on the ground, and he used his knees to walk to my side at the risk of his life. He didn't care about his own life and asked me to come closer to his ear.
Emperors of all dynasties ruled the country with filial piety, and the Li Dynasty was even more so. To uphold this filial piety, all the good things in Yongle Palace were given to Xingqing Palace and Jishan Palace by the emperor.
Eunuch Zhu was lazy, so he took on the task of giving gifts, which was both effortless and pleasing. Consort Zhu often wandered around Xingqing Palace and Jishan Palace...
Lady Zhu told me that the King of Yue came to the palace and asked for permission not to marry the daughter of the Cui family.
The King of Yue wants to marry me.
Such an unreasonable request actually came from the mouth of the King of Yue. I was stunned for a long time after hearing it.
The Queen Mother asked, what about the lady from the Cui family?
Li Liulang is a law-abiding person who is indifferent to fame and fortune and does not care about worldly affairs.
I don't know where Li Junmu picked up such excessive courage and bravery in Yongfufang.
The King of Yue said, "The Li family has many sons, and Chang'an has many gentlemen. Madam Cui, if neither of you works out, you can still enter the Taiji Palace and serve the saint..."
I have heard words like "bastard, unlucky, short life, and bad luck" for more than ten years. Those words are commonplace to me, but I still feel strange about them in my heart.
If someone else were to have their engagement broken off by the royal family, they might not be able to bear it.
The King of Yue is a good husband, and Lady Cui is a good wife.
I am scheming and plotting, I can hurt myself a thousand times, and naturally I can hurt others a thousand times as well.
King Yue, Madam Cui, I can't bring myself to do it. I can't kill them both.
Li Liu had great intentions towards me. Seeing that I was in dire straits, he came to Taiji Palace and wanted to rescue me from the imperial city. However, he was not careful and thorough in his actions and ended up hurting Madam Cui.
"I will never let Li Nu down in my life. The Sage's moods are unpredictable, and King Ping's ruthlessness is unstoppable. I will never be like my two brothers. I will treat Wu Niang well."
Liu Lang's request goes against moral principles.
Every word the King of Yue said was sincere, and the Queen Mother remained silent. It was obvious that the Queen Mother was moved.
The Empress Dowager's three sons all have a close relationship with me. If Concubine Xue were in charge of the harem, I would have died a thousand times over.
The imperial seal and military token are all in the hands of the Queen Mother. If the Queen Mother says something, the whole world will obey her.
The Li family, the Wang family, the Yan family, and the Cui family all dared not say a word of no.
Xingqing Palace is as quiet as water. Among the Cui family, between me and Liu Lang, who is more important?
The Queen Mother hesitated, and I guessed that Her Majesty wanted to favor Liu Lang and me.
“No!”
Without waiting for the Queen Mother to make a decision, I took the initiative to reject the King of Yue's kindness.
The Queen Mother regained consciousness upon hearing the voice and finally returned to normal.
The King of Yue walked out of the Taiji Palace in frustration.
As soon as the king left the palace, he was stopped by General Cui, and Prince Li was beaten by his subjects at the palace gate.
Madam Cui is madly in love with Li Liulang, and no one knows it, so how could her own brother not know it?
The general kidnapped the king and soon the incident was brought before the emperor. General Cui asked the saint to make a decision for the Cui family and for Cui Twelve Niang.
How did the Cui family know about the Xingqing Palace incident?
Eunuch Dong has his eyes, ears and mouth tightly shut, while noble Lady Zhu may not be nimble in legs and feet, but he has a very diligent tongue.
In order to appease the Cui family, the saint will never show any leniency, let alone spare his own brother.
The King of Yue entered the palace in the morning, was beaten at noon, and the funeral ceremony was at dusk.
A day in Liu Lang's life feels as fast as a year.
The saint's will put an end to Liu Lang's thoughts.
The Ministry of Rites was in a daze, and the harem was as busy as the east and west markets of Chang'an City. The palace maids wished they could grow two more legs.
The wedding of Li's sixth son and Cui's twelfth daughter was hasty and grand. People said that it was better than the wedding of the emperor and empress.
That day, the emperor in Yongle Palace was very happy, but also very absurd.
The wedding cakes, ointments, fresh fruits and sweet wine for the emperor's wedding were all given to the King of Yue.
That night, the Taiji Palace was brightly lit, the palace gates were not closed, there was no curfew in Chang'an, and the city was never asleep.
The former residence of Prince Qing, now the residence of Prince Yue, the Queen Mother, the prince, the princess, the royal family of Li, the royal relatives, the dignitaries, all were present.
The rewards from the palace came one after another, and the gifts from the saints were as numerous as the sea of stars.
The King of Yue has wounds on his face, so there is no need for him to put on red makeup.
Under the watchful eyes of the Empress Dowager, the Emperor and me, Li Jialang married the daughter of the Cui family.
That day, the Queen Mother, the Sage, and the Princess of Yue were all happy. I couldn't tell whether I was happy or not. Only the King of Yue was forcing a smile.
Princess Shouyang cried so hard that she couldn't see anything, and her eyes were so swollen that she couldn't see people. The princess was confused and mistakenly presented the bouquet of flowers for the bride and groom to me and the saint.
It was clearly the marriage of the King of Yue, and the sage stole the limelight. At the wedding, the new king offered wine and asked for peace with the Queen Mother. After the Queen Mother tasted it, the mother and son of Taiji Palace appeared to be reconciled "as before."
Fortunately, many years later, Li Jiadalang presented the throne to Liulang and Twelve Niang, which could be considered a kind of compensation.
In order to maintain the Yan family's loyalty, the saint handed the wedding wine to me.
When the saint offers me wine, whether it is poisonous or sweet, how dare I not accept it, how dare I not drink it?
Fortunately, it is sweet and not poisonous.
In front of the Queen Mother, the Saint and I seemed to be reconciled, deceiving the Queen Mother, appeasing Chang'an, and maintaining harmony between the royal family and the ministers.
The saint personally bestowed cup after cup of deadly wine without any poison.
I know something is wrong.
Cup after cup, cup after cup, suspicious.
The Queen Mother had long been unconscious. In the Taiji Palace of Chang'an City, the saint was the greatest in the world.
The royal residence was quiet, everyone was watching the sage serve wine, and everyone was watching me drink.
Saint, you want me to get drunk to death, you want me to die of stuffing.
In the past, if the late emperor disliked someone but could not find any fault with that person, he would invite that person into the palace and force him to drink cup after cup of wine. If the emperor gave wine, anyone who dared to disobey would be drunk to death by the emperor. I have witnessed this kind of torture with my own eyes, without even shedding a drop of blood.
The current emperor has learned all the methods of the previous emperor.
After five or six cups, I pretended to be drunk and couldn't drink another half cup.
There is no curfew in Chang'an and the palace gates are not closed at night.
Zhu Buxiu was a long-tongued man with lazy feet and unclear eyesight. I, supported by the palace maids, mistakenly boarded the emperor's carriage.
At that time, I thought that Eunuch Zhu had done something wrong out of confusion. Later, when I thought about it carefully, it was clearly a trap set by the saint. The saint wanted to kill me and harm me.
The smile lingered, like the aroma of sweet wine, and it lingered for a long time. I fell into the saint's arms, and he would not let me move to escape. His arms were wrapped around my waist, and he held me tightly. The saint poured wine into my mouth. I guessed right.
I didn't want to get drunk to death, so I pushed him away under the influence of alcohol.
Xinjun refused to let me go, so I was forced to drink half a cup, and I don’t know if it was poisonous or not.
After a while, there was no movement and I was not dead.
The hand on my waist moved to my neck and pulled my palace belt wantonly. If drunkenness didn't kill me, the saint changed his method. He wanted to strangle me to death to avenge what happened to Concubine Feng in the Eastern Palace.
I don't know what happened, but the saint fell heavily on me, his face hit mine, and his body pressed against mine.
I opened my eyes and saw his face was red. The saint was drunk, really drunk, not just pretending.
The saint's drinking capacity followed the empress dowager's. The empress dowager could drink one cup, but the saint could only drink half a cup.
I pushed the man away, stopped the emperor's procession, and jumped off the imperial carriage.
Even three hundred cups of sweet wine won’t make me drunk.
Eunuch Zhu looked stunned. He looked at me who was awake, wiped his face, and then looked at the saint who was "not breathing".
That night the lights were bright and Chang'an was sleepless. I rode a white horse, feeling the cool breeze, and returned to the cage-like Taiji Palace.
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