Hearing that Concubine Yuan Shu was still going to take a bath at this hour, Yuexiu couldn't help but advise her: "It's already past the middle of the hour of the first month, Your Majesty should take a rest, as we still have to prepare a palace banquet tomorrow!"
"No problem. Let's study." Concubine Yuan Shu waved her hand. "The palace banquet will be organized by the old lady, the queen. She has hosted palace banquets for so many years and has a lot of experience! There is no need for me to worry too much. The palace banquet is just a situation. After tomorrow night, I will be the imperial concubine, and I will be just one step away from the queen. As long as the goal is achieved, it's fine. Whether it is a palace banquet or not, or how it is held, I don't mind." She said to Yuexiu, "Go out. I don't like people waiting on me while I take a bath."
This was a problem that Concubine Yuan Shu had acquired not long ago. There was originally a secret chamber in the bedroom of the main hall of Cunshan Palace, which was built when she lived there before. There was nothing else in the secret chamber except a large bathing pool, where Concubine Yuan Shu would occasionally take a bath. But she still needed servants to serve her in the past, but since some time before the Eighth Prince's accident, she had added a rule that no one was allowed to serve her when she was taking a bath, and all servants were not allowed to be present, and they were not even allowed to stay in this room.
Yuexiu didn't understand why the master suddenly had such a rule, but it was just a bath, and since the master liked someone, they didn't want to disturb her. So, whenever Concubine Yuan Shu said she wanted to take a bath, she would take the initiative to leave, drive away all the servants in the room, stay outside the door alone, and not let anyone in until Concubine Yuan Shu came out.
Today was the same. When there was no one else in the palace, Concubine Yuan Shu walked down barefoot. There was a floor heating in her palace, so it was not cold. She saw him quickly walk behind a screen in a corner and gently push the wall. A secret room immediately appeared. She slipped in and before she could close the door of the secret room again, she fell into an embrace. A pair of big hands began to explore her body, and each place they touched was her most sensitive part, which made Concubine Yuan Shu moan soon.
"Wait a minute, the door is not closed yet." Finally remembering that the door of the secret chamber was closed, Concubine Yuan Shu reached back to close the door, but failed after trying several times.
However, the man who was hugging her said softly, "What are you afraid of? There is no one else in your palace. I was thinking that we should just go out and have fun on your bed. It's boring to always be in a stuffy square space." As the man spoke, he was about to open the door of the secret chamber, and at the same time he took Concubine Yuan Shu in his arms and walked out.
Concubine Yuan Shu was very scared and flatly refused, "No, absolutely not! Have you forgotten what I told you about what happened to Mo'er? And what happened in Zhaohe Palace last time? Some people can be so unnoticed, how do you know that there is really no one else in my palace?"
After she said this, the man no longer insisted, but he was not in a good mood. He snorted coldly, reached out to close the door, and then bit Concubine Yuan Shu hard on the chest, causing her to scream again.
The two of them fell into the big bathtub as fast as dry wood meeting a raging fire. Concubine Yuan Shu didn't know how her clothes were taken off. She felt dizzy and found herself naked. She was tightly hugged by the man while naked. The man kept teasing her. The two of them kept getting close to each other and finally merged into one.
Concubine Yuan Shu was much younger than Emperor Tianwu after all. She had a child when she was a teenager. Now she was less than 40 years old. No matter how energetic Emperor Tianwu was, he could not meet the needs of a woman of this age. Moreover, Emperor Tianwu had neglected her for so many years. Her release could not make up for the emptiness of the past 20 years. However, the man in front of her was much younger than Emperor Tianwu, even ten years younger than her. He was the best age for a man, and he could give her a completely different feeling from Emperor Tianwu. Concubine Yuan Shu could ask for anything from him. No matter what, this man could satisfy her and never let her down.
"How is it? It's much better than your old emperor, isn't it!" The man spoke softly in Yuan Shufei's ear, exhaling hot air. The bath water in the pool has a nice spice smell, which can also make people more confused and infatuated. "It's a pity, he is the emperor, he has the good fortune to keep so many women in the palace, and he can use them whenever he wants."
"Hmph!" Concubine Yuan Shu snorted coldly, "So what? He has to really need it. In the past twenty years, which woman in the harem has not been alone in her empty room? He is obsessed with Concubine Yun and has forgotten everyone else. If you ask me, you might as well give Concubine Yun a Gu, preferably a suicide Gu, and let her die on her own, so as not to be an eyesore."
"That requires seeing her first." The man turned Concubine Yuan Shu over and continued, "I'm a Gu Master, and I don't know any Taoist magic. If I can't see her, it's all nonsense. But you said that Yuehan Palace is heavily guarded, how can I get in?"
When it comes to Concubine Yun, Concubine Yuan Shu is always in a bad mood. She simply stopped talking about it and just focused on the pleasure of the moment. The two struggled for half an hour and finally calmed down. Concubine Yuan Shu leaned in the man's arms and asked faintly: "Can you give him more strength? I'm always worried in my heart, always feeling that he is out of control. You don't know, the old emperor suddenly remembered the little eunuch who was thrown into the Criminal Slave Department tonight, and forced the queen to get him back. I'm really afraid that he will suddenly understand, then everything will be over."
"Don't worry, my beauty." The man pinched Concubine Yuan Shu's chest and said, "I put a heart poison in the old emperor, which is not so easy to break. If my beauty is worried, I will stimulate the poison again later. I guarantee that the old emperor will be obedient again tomorrow morning."
"That would be great." Concubine Yuan Shu fell into the man's arms softly, rolled her eyes, and pressed herself against him again...
On this New Year's Eve, people in the palaces and courtyards were all thinking about their own things, and no one could sleep well. Feng Zirui couldn't sleep either, so he sat in his room and stayed up with his maid Yuerong. After staying up, he still didn't feel sleepy, so they just chatted. Yuerong said to him, "Master, don't worry. You will be able to see Princess Yu at the palace banquet tomorrow."
Zi Rui nodded, his expression showing a little excitement, "Yes! I can finally see my sister tomorrow. I originally came back to Beijing to reunite with my sister, but I didn't expect to be taken directly to the palace. After this New Year, I will be eleven years old. I think when my sister was my age, she could take care of me and mother alone." When Feng Yuheng was mentioned, Zi Rui couldn't stop talking. He began to tell Yue Rong about the days in Xiping Village. He said that Feng Yuheng would go into the mountains alone to pick mushrooms and wild vegetables, and pick enough to eat for many days. Occasionally, he would bring some herbs and sell them to the barefoot doctor in the village to exchange some silver for my mother to buy tonics. Whenever he talked about Yao, Zi Rui would always sigh, and Yue Rong didn't ask much, just being the best listener.
The two of them just sat there until Zirui finally felt a little sleepy, then he lay down on the bed and went to sleep. Although he felt sleepy, it was too difficult to really fall asleep. Maybe it was because he just reminisced too much about the past with Yuerong, but Zirui felt that as long as he closed his eyes, the scenes of the past in Xiping Village would immediately flash before his eyes, with his sister and his mother. Although Yao was weak in character at that time and couldn't do anything, even couldn't make a fire, she was kind and normal. Although that kind of kindness seems too weak now, it is better than the ruthless breakups again and again after returning to Beijing. △≧△≧
Finally, everyone fell asleep in their own thoughts. In Prince Chun's mansion, Xuan Tianming and Feng Yuheng did not leave, but stayed in the guest house. The first New Year for the young couple was sweet, but in the bamboo forest, someone couldn't sleep all night, dancing with a folding fan in the light snow.
He has endured this kind of loneliness for many, many years. Every New Year's Eve, Xuan Tianhua would dance with his fan. Every time he danced with his fan, he would not allow anyone to get close to him, and he would enjoy his unique loneliness alone. Once upon a time, Xuan Tianhua felt that this kind of loneliness was happy for him, because his life did not need the company of anyone. It was good to be alone, with a folding fan flying and a white dress, as if the same color as the sky and the earth. He liked the feeling of cold snowflakes falling on his face. Although the bamboo forest in winter was not green, it still exuded a faint fragrance, which seemed to make him forget some mundane things in the world.
But in recent years, I feel that this kind of loneliness is more and more unbearable. When there is something or someone in my heart, loneliness is no longer a happy thing.
But tonight, there was an audience. His folding fan was no longer dancing alone. In a small corner of the bamboo forest, there was a small figure standing there quietly, looking up at him like a white porcelain doll, with a face full of admiration and desire. The little person was only wearing an outer robe, without a cloak. Both sides of his little face were red from the cold, and his little hands were almost stiff, not to mention his feet that had been standing in the snow for a long time, and he would fall if he moved. But this still couldn't stop her from watching the person dancing with the fan wholeheartedly, with a pair of shining eyes, as if she saw hope and sunshine.
Xuan Tianhua knew that someone was watching him from below, and he frowned slightly at first, thinking that the servants in this mansion were becoming more and more outrageous, and that the rules that had been in place for many years were actually broken just like that. But when he saw clearly that the little person standing there was none other than Feng Xiangrong, who was staying here as a guest, he knew that this matter could not be blamed on the servants in the mansion, and it must be Concubine Yun who gave the privilege and instigated the girl to come here. He didn't say a word, still waving his folding fan, and his heart, which was not very calm to begin with, became even more chaotic because of the little figure watching.
Reluctantly, she withdrew her momentum, made a slight adjustment on the spot, and then turned around to look. Her eyes met Xiangrong's. Xiangrong was startled and subconsciously wanted to run, but her hands and feet were stiff. Not only were her movements slow, but her feet were also out of control. When she turned around, she fell "plop" in the snow. She was slightly startled, fearing that Xuan Tianhua would think she did it on purpose, because this was really like a cliché in a play. She didn't want to be that kind of delicate woman, nor did she want to use this method to win the sympathy of her lover, so she gritted her teeth and tried to get up. Even though her movements were clumsy and slow, and it didn't look good, she still tried until she finally stood up and staggered back to the road she came from.
Suddenly, I heard someone sighing behind me. I didn't know when that person came close to me. I just felt my arm being grabbed by someone. I ran a few steps with great difficulty, but was dragged back again...
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