Chapter 182 Red Ribbon
After leaving court, Murong Yu was not in a happy mood.
He couldn't concentrate on reading the pile of memorials in the imperial study.
Eunuch Wang looked at the bright sunny day outside:
"Your Majesty, the weather is nice today. Why don't you take a walk around the palace and relax?"
Murong Yu frowned and walked out.
I just want to relax.
The weather was indeed good that day.
It rained for a while before, and the sky was cloudy every day. Today it finally became sunny, and the sunlight made the green branches and leaves outside the window shine.
The green color reflected in Murong Yu's eyes reminded him of the green sleeve in the peach blossom forest two months ago.
During the Spring Festival Banquet, I unexpectedly saw Pei Shu dancing with a sword, and it seemed like a dream.
Afterwards, he asked Wang Nei Shi to find out what happened. He learned that the two children, Ning An and Murong Wan, were unsteady while practicing with spears and swords and were almost injured.
Pei Shu stepped forward to give Murong Wan some pointers, so she demonstrated sword dancing.
Sounds like a coincidence.
But many coincidences in the harem are actually tricks to win favor.
Murong Yu would rather believe that Pei Shu was deliberately attracting his attention.
Just like before, Murong Yu told himself that he must not be fooled by this witch.
She was just confusing his mind.
She had asked to be demoted and lived in obedience for many years before he let her go.
If Pei Shu dared to come to him again, he would definitely refuse her outright and not be fooled by her tricks.
Murong Yu waited for her to come to him every day and waited for her to kneel and beg at the door of Ganyang Palace.
But two months passed and there was no movement.
Pei Shu did not come and never showed up in front of him again.
Not even once.
Murong Yu felt upset when he thought about it.
"Your Majesty, do you want to enjoy the peach blossoms?" Eunuch Wang asked.
Murong Yu looked up and realized that he had walked into the peach blossom forest without knowing when.
Spring has passed and the peach blossoms have faded.
The tree is covered with dense green leaves, and under the leaves are some unripe peaches.
These peach trees are growing well, even better than when the late emperor was alive.
"Return to Ganyang Palace."
Murong Yu turned around and walked back.
He was in a state of restlessness today, and his thoughts kept wandering to irrelevant things.
Seeing the green outside the window, I thought of Pei Shu; but when I came to the peach forest and saw the fruits among the leaves, I remembered the past.
The late emperor had two empresses, and the current empress dowager is the late emperor's successor.
This peach blossom forest was built by the late emperor for Empress Yuan.
The late emperor and Empress Yuan had a very close relationship, and the crown prince and second prince born to Empress Yuan were the most favored.
Back then, the prince was wise and intelligent, and he never slacked off in his studies.
Although the second prince Murong Ji, who was born of the same mother, was also smart, he was impulsive and reckless when he was a child, and he was also outspoken. When he was angry, he cursed everything and was punished many times for this.
The second prince Murong Ji likes peach blossoms and peaches.
Murong Yu remembered that one summer when he was a child, he followed his second brother to the peach forest to play. His second brother said he would take him to pick peaches.
They had just arrived at the peach orchard and were trying to find a way to reach the fruits on the trees.
A summer thunderstorm came down in torrents, soaking them thoroughly.
Second brother Murong Ji was hot-tempered. He wiped the raindrops from his face and cursed:
"What the hell is this Dragon King, raining rain on my head every day? If I see the Dragon King, I'll punch him back to the East China Sea!"
Murong Yu found it funny.
Murong Ji took Murong Yu back to the palace to change clothes and have some snacks.
The Empress had hot tea and cakes prepared, the cakes containing walnut kernels coated in honey.
The Queen said, "You are growing up. You should eat some nuts. You will become smarter in the future."
The second prince Murong Ji said: "My child is already very smart, and he will grow even more handsome in the future."
The late emperor's sons, including Murong Yu, were all good-looking, each with their own unique characteristics.
Murong Ji was born with a pair of phoenix eyes, and his gaze was lively and lively, which showed his elegant and graceful future.
The Empress Yuan stretched out her finger and tapped Murong Ji's head:
"If you keep talking nonsense like this, God will punish you. Be careful or you'll grow up to be an ugly monster."
After the Empress finished speaking, she turned and smiled at Murong Yu:
"The Third Prince must not follow the example of your Second Brother, understand?"
Murong Yu chewed some nuts and nodded obediently, "Mother, I understand."
The Queen's smile was beautiful and gentle.
Her hand touched Murong Yu's head, and Murong Yu felt like a soft cloud on his head.
Murong Yu's biological mother died early, and Murong Yu was raised by the childless Concubine De.
Concubine De had never touched Murong Yu's head so intimately.
Murong Yu returned to his palace and started to have a fever that night, becoming unconscious.
Defei came to see him and sat by his bed.
Murong Yu heard De Fei say in a daze:
"It's time for you to learn a lesson. If you dare to eat her food in her palace, you will be skinned alive when you come back. Do you think she will treat you sincerely?"
"She doesn't like you. Even if she attacks you, your father won't do anything to her..."
Murong Yu felt a burning pain all over his body. His head hurt, his body hurt, his limbs hurt, and his whole body was burned in the fire...
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty? Are you feeling unwell?"
The voice of Eunuch Wang sounded in his ears again.
Murong Yu came back to his senses.
There was no Concubine De, no bed curtains, and no child with a high fever.
There was only the scorching sun and the crimson palace walls.
Murong Yu had been clenching his fists just now, and only now did he feel the soreness in his hands.
The sun was already high in the sky, and it was so hot that it was hard to open one's eyes.
His eyes drifted into the air.
From a distance, I saw the dead branches of a big tree.
This season is when the grass and trees are lush, but there is no green on the branches of that tree.
There are many red ribbons tied on the crown of the dead tree, which look like a ball of fire in the wind when blown by the wind in the sunlight.
"What is that?" Murong Yu asked.
"Your Majesty, it looks like a ribbon for praying. Some women in the palace embroider ribbons and hang them on trees to pray for blessings."
Eunuch Wang took a look and was a little surprised.
He had been in the palace for so many years, but he had never seen a tree with so many prayer ribbons tied on it. It was almost as many as the prayer trees at the entrance of the temple.
Eunuch Wang was just guessing which palace had done something so outrageous based on the direction, when Murong Yu had already walked over there.
When the group stood at the gate of Myeonghye Palace, everyone was silent for a moment.
There was no one in the yard.
There is only a tree tied with red ribbons.
Only when Murong Yu walked here did he see that the ribbons on the tree were far more than those he saw from a distance. Not only the treetops, but also the lower half of the crown were densely tied with ribbons.
The shadow of the tree is cast on the ground, like a tree with dense branches and leaves.
Wang Nei Shi's heart skipped a beat:
"So it's the tree in Concubine Hui's palace. Does the Emperor want me to inform you?"
Murong Yu raised his hand to stop them and strode in.
He walked to the old locust tree and turned to look inside the hall.
By the window in the hall, sat a gentle and beautiful woman, embroidering a ribbon with her head down.
A cat lay lazily beside her.
The maidservant was by her side helping with needlework.
The room was silent.
Suddenly a crystal tear fell from the woman's eyes.
That teardrop hit Murong Yu's heart hard, and he trembled.
"Why are you crying?"
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