Chapter 872: The Concubine of the Cold Palace
A corner of the Chang'an Royal Palace.
This place is different from the entire brightly lit palace. The fire trees and silver flowers are very lively outside. It is very festive. This is the cold palace behind the palace. Only the most desolate and quiet in the world is the most quiet and quiet. The rare garden makes the high walls isolated from the world. Unless it is a special festival, the old eunuchs and palace maids will send some meat and white noodles to the public. Most of the time, the people here live an extremely difficult and simple life.
It is only a wall outside but the clothes are completely opposite.
Even the concubine who was very popular at that time was not as simple as the little palace maid who was wearing the most luxurious clothes outside. Even if she was eating and drinking on her most special days, she could not be as good as the most common meal outside.
The meat and white noodles that were disdained in the past are now the most luxurious things.
The people living here have long been desperate. Most of them have cried and dried up... The dry and empty eyes look at the walking corpse and do not know the alternation of day and night, nor the changes in the world. In their eyes, there is only endless waiting... waiting endlessly until death.
Here is a Mingyu Leng Palace that makes people feel disheartened when they hear it.
Almost all courtyards and roads are piled with thick leaves, weeds, and ants crawling. Almost all residences are dusty everywhere. Everything slowly withered and decayed in the darkness and carried those who were sitting deep in the darkness with empty eyes.
There is only a slight exception. There is a small garden. Not only is it cleaned and it also planted some wild flowers on the black mud. Although there are not many, small flowers bloom in summer. It brings a hint of vitality to this deadly cold palace. There is no thick dust or residual fallen leaves here, instead it is neatly clean.
There are no rats and ants in the air and no life. The windows here are even beautiful window grilles made of rags or shreds of paper.
Although the dim bean lamp in the room is no different from other places, it looks particularly warm. Because there is a laughter in something. A precious thing that has never been found in the entire cold palace has existed here. Although the laughing owner tried his best to suppress his own happiness, the joy from the bottom of his heart is like a spiritual spring that can flow and nourish the whole life of a person.
"Lu'er, let's have a big meal tonight!" Zhang Jieyu, who was once the owner of Ningbi Pavilion, was favored by the emperor, and had already been favored and let his strong rival Yin Defei fall into the cold palace. He lived a very difficult life.
The jade bracelets with beads on the head and the silk and satin on the body have long disappeared.
She wore a long skirt made of coarse cloth, with a plain face facing the sky, tied it with a small piece of cloth on the top and flowed like a waterfall behind it. She only had green onions and white fingers on the jade arms of the snow lotus, and there was no gold ornament of jade. Just like the extremely simple home, except for the number of large bowls and small cups necessary for daily life, there were no clean bottles and rockery basins in the past when growing flowers and fish farms.
The family is nothing.
The table and chairs are all old green lamps.
There was only a curtain on the bamboo bed and straw mat, and the snow-white gauze tent was slightly covered. The two contrasts were like a sudden awakening of a dream.
However, Zhang Jieyu's face was filled with happiness that had never been before. She gently lit a small piece of paper under the lamp. Then she watched it almost burn out in Yu's hands before putting it in the bowl in front of Lu'er with a little reluctance. The two women watched the little fire burned the small piece of paper into ashes in the big bowl. They couldn't help but cheer softly.
"Do we still have white flour? Why don't we make dumplings together!" Zhang Jieyu smiled happily and said, "It's so happy that he beat Jie Li. We have to celebrate him..."
"Empress, please rest!" Lu'er nodded and pressed the excited Zhang Jieyu on the wooden chair and said, "Just let me do this kind of food. We have smoked fish. I will dig out the wine buried in the yard for the Empress to have a good drink. Although it is quite deserted here, no one cares about us. We can do whatever we want. It's really convenient."
"What else can I have to do in the cold palace?" Zhang Jieyu chuckled and said, "I don't know how to do two people faster and have a companion. If Eunuch Wei did not take Yun Shigong and the others to prepare, I can let them do it. But now they are not here, we must be careful no matter what we do."
"Then the empress just watch Lu'er do it. Lu'er is not afraid of anything as long as there is Empress by her side." Lu'er couldn't resist and had to give in to the trail.
After some busy schedule, the hot food was served on the table. The two women sat opposite each other.
Zhang Jieyu handed Lu'er a sweat towel, but before Lu'er could take it, she gently wiped the fine sweat on her forehead. When Lu'er reacted, she smiled and poured Lu'er a glass of wine.
"Okay, Lu'er, don't be too polite." Zhang Jieyu patted Lu'er's little head and said:
"You can stay here for several months without any complaints, and have always followed me loyally and even begged him to stay... Lu'er, I have long regarded you as my sister in my heart. Come and have a drink with my sister, no matter where my sister is asked to pick him up, I will take my sister with me in the future, whatever my sister has, she will have any sister food and clothing, and what my sister has, and what my sister has, and what my sister has, and everything is with my sister..."
"I'm not afraid that I'm actually too frustrated. I'm so satisfied. I'm so satisfied that I can let Lu'er keep serving you." Lu'er quickly knelt down to Concubine Zhang Jie and kowtowed with tears in her eyes.
"Get up quickly..." Zhang Jieyu's eyes were slightly red, but her jade face was smiling, stretched out her white jade fingers to wipe away the tears for Lu'er and chuckled: "The Empress in the past naturally would not take a maid in her eyes, but now she is different from before. Even if I don't live in this cold palace, I will be happy and not as good as before, I used to be a woman and have a temper every day."
"I have long understood that there is no difference between the Maiden and the maid, everyone is a woman." Zhang Jieyu smiled and said, "Being more beautiful is not better than others. Instead, looking at it with his eyes. A person's kind heart is the most beautiful woman. So in his eyes, I, a disgusting Maiden, cannot even compare to Lu'er!"
"The Empress is always the Empress in Lu'er's heart." Lu'er shouted: "Lu'er stayed with the Empress until the miracle doctor came to pick up the empress. He must believe that the miracle doctor will definitely come."
"He won the big victory and we will celebrate with him." Concubine Zhang raised her wine glass and touched Lu'er's wine glass and drank it all.
"Lu'er is also happy for the Empress. I wish her a glass." Lu'er raised her wine glass and said with a little red face.
"I don't know what's wrong with him..." After a few glasses of wine, Zhang Jieyu aroused her lovesickness and said in a daze: "He might have brought the army back to Luoyang. I don't know when he will come to Chang'an... He must not go to Ningbi Pavilion again... There has been a place where Concubine Yin De has occupied. I used to hate Concubine Yin Tu, a fox fan woman. But now I don't hate her anymore, just feel that she is as pitiful as she used to be."
"The miracle doctor is a celestial being who comes with the wind and turns into shadows." Lu'er's little face gradually spreads red like Xu Dan's little beauty after drinking, she looked particularly cute and comforted her very obediently:
"Maybe he will come quietly when the Empress cannot imagine it and give the Empress a surprise."
"He doesn't have to be so anxious, so he will take me away. I have nothing to wait forever. As long as he is willing to let me wait for him, I'm willing to wait for him for the rest of my life." Zhang Jieyu sighed quietly: "Although I want to see him very much, I know. There are more people who want to see him more than me... There are many little wives in his land. If they are willing to let him come, I'm already very content. Lu'er, I'm really a little worried about what if his little wives or ministers don't like me, the Empress who used to be Li Tang, went to the Chinese Army to be his woman?"
"I can't help but not think like this." Lu'er quickly comforted: "The miracle doctor likes the lady." Then everyone will definitely accept the lady."
"If he were... I would definitely tell him that I wouldn't care about anything, so I would be a servant for him to make a bed, fold a quilt to serve him, and I would be satisfied." Zhang Jieyu sighed slightly and said, "A woman like me who is shameful in the world naturally cannot compete with his little wife for the title of status. If his little wife is willing to accommodate us, I wouldn't care about anything and would please them in every way."
"There are already people making beds and putting on clothes." Someone outside the door smiled and said, "Would you consider the number of places to serve your husband with a warm quilt and a wide quilt?"
"Miscellaneous Doctor?" Lu'er and Zhang Jieyu were stunned when they heard this. This voice only appeared in dreams, but it rang outside the door at such an impossible time. Zhang Jieyu was so surprised that she almost fainted. She used all her best to calm down, but she felt that she had already burst into tears at some point.
Lu'er almost fell down and staggered and rushed over and opened the wooden door and found that someone was holding a fragrant rice outside the door.
Mingyu's tears had already been dripping into the steaming food in his hands.
He smiled slightly and reached out to wipe the tears on her face gently. Although the tears on Lu'er's face kept surging, he was very patient and wiped her clean over and over again.
"I'm happy to have a big victory after winning the battle." He hung a big tray in one hand and tied it up with the other hand, and smiled at the trembling concubine Zhang Jieyu, who was crying and trembling all over her body, and said, "Why don't you want to have a glass of Zhujie wine with me?"
"I welcome my husband back, I hope he will win every battle in the future." When Zhang Jieyu waited for him to hug him, she felt that her tears were almost blurring her eyes. She let him sway in his tears, so that she could not capture his appearance. Although he had already hugged himself tightly, although his lips were already sucking him in his mouth, he still felt like he was in a dream...
Chapter completed!