Chapter 62
Didn't sleep all night.

The light of dawn shone on the faces of the civil and military officials. Gou Yue had been sitting with the female relatives in the side hall of Hanxi Hall for a long time. If she hadn't been able to pray together, she would have been muttering next to Wen Yuanzhi right now. hungry.

Soon a palace maid came here, bowed, and set her sights on Gou Yue.

"Please also ask Miss Gouyue to come with us."

She didn't know what was going on. Did she violate the rules of the palace when she was training horses at night? She came uninvited and stole the limelight in front of the children of the aristocratic family. Your Majesty wants the queen to be held accountable.

Probably not. Last night he said he wanted a reward. He didn't look like that.

Gou Yue said to a woman beside her, "I wonder if my sister can help me replace Wen Yuanzhi. Master Wen sent a message saying that I will follow this palace man so that he will not look for me."

The palace maid told her to rest assured, "Master Wen knows where the girl is going with me."

Walking on the palace road in the early morning, Gou Yue couldn't help but feel sleepy. If there was a bed now, she would lie down and fall asleep immediately.

"I wonder, sister, where are we going?"

She said, "Girl, just follow me."

After walking several halls to the east, passing through countless pavilions, pavilions, and paths, she was tired and still didn't know where to go.

When she realized that she was already in a warm room, someone had stuffed a hand-warming Tang Pozi into her hand. She held the Tang Pozi against her cold face, her eyelids so heavy that she couldn't lift them up.

I don't know where this place was. She stood for a while and dozed off. When she opened her eyes, there were already many young children and men and women slightly older than her standing around her.There are women wearing the clothes of palace concubines, their hair covered with pearls, and there are women holding children in their arms, and the palace people behind them are also holding children.

Gou Yue heard them asking each other whether they had paid New Year greetings to the Empress Dowager.

She was slightly startled. It turned out that the owner of this palace was the Empress Dowager. No wonder that although it was not magnificent, the decorations and screens were somewhat luxurious.

She noticed that a woman had been looking at her, so she turned back to look at her.

She couldn't tell the difference between good and bad in that kind of gaze, she just felt like she was looking right through her.

Just when I didn't know what to do, I heard the footsteps of several people coming towards here. It didn't look like the footsteps of a woman.

His Majesty stood at the front, but she only discovered this after she glanced at Wen Yuan behind His Majesty several times. What she saw at first glance was Wen Yuanzhi's anxious look.

Didn't the palace maid say that he knew she was here? Why was he so uneasy?

She wanted to go over and talk to him, but she saw Hengyang Wang Qinsuo standing outside the palace. They looked at each other for a few times and looked away in tacit understanding.

His Majesty sat down, and the entire hall was filled with his family.

He said, "My beloved concubines can go back first, as well as Wang Ji and the princes and princes. Since they have paid New Year's greetings, the Empress Dowager and the Queen Mother are not feeling well this year, so they should not stay for a long time."

When those people left, they couldn't help but look at the stranger Gou Yue.

Gou Yue was stared at so hard that he could not stand still.

In the end, only Wen Yuanzhi and His Majesty were left in the hall, while Qinsuo stood in the cold wind outside.

The old man inside seemed to have caught the cold and coughed several times.

His Majesty said, "Let me take you in."

He only talked about me and not Gu. This is really strange.

A thin old man appeared in front of her. Her hair was not braided and her long gray hair was hanging loose. She closed her eyes tightly.

Gou Yue got closer and smelled a rotten smell, which seemed to come from deep underground. For a moment, she thought of the smell of death.

His Majesty woke her up with a low voice, "Mother, she is back."

On the bed, behind the curtain, the Queen Mother slowly opened her eyes, as if just opening her eyes took a lot of effort on her part.

Her hands were so skinny and pitiful.

Gou Yue didn't know what to do for a while, and she didn't know why they brought her here.

She looked at Wen Yuanzhi, who followed them in. He just stood aside and watched without speaking. He lowered his head slightly, and Gou Yue could not get any reply from his eyes.

His Majesty touched her shoulders and gently pushed her forward.

She leaned over, half-kneeling in front of the bed, listening to the old man's words.

The Queen Mother gasped, "It is indeed... it is... my Taran."

The old man's eyes were full of distress, Gou Yue lowered her eyes, and a tear fell down her cheek.

She didn't know why she was crying, she just felt endless grievances in front of this old man.

Gou Yue wanted to tell her that she was not her Tallan, and that her Tallan was dead, but she could not say a word. She cried so hard that she had never shed so many tears, as if she wanted to spend her whole life. All the tears were shed.

The Empress Dowager stroked her head with her thin hand, "Modu has made you suffer a lot of humiliation. Auntie knows that you hate him. Hate him if you want. It's better than living in confusion. I'm sorry for you, I promise." There are many people who want to take good care of you, but they cause you such pain. You should live well, remember your mother's words, and don't suffer yourself."

She listened one by one and said, yes.

After leaving the palace, she was still unconscious. Wen Yuanzhi held her hand and told her that what the Empress Dowager missed most was Taran. She didn't know that Taran was dead and was still waiting for her to come back from Chu, so Only then did he bring Gou Yue to see the empress dowager who was already unconscious.

Gou Yue said, "But I don't think she is insane."

Wen Yuanzhi said, "If she wasn't, why would she still admit the wrong person?"

This is true.

As he was walking, someone from the palace hurriedly came behind him.

Wen Yuanzhi asked, "What's wrong?"

The palace attendant was the woman who had just led Gou Yue. She knelt on the ground, raised her head and cried, "The Empress Dowager... collapsed."

The moon was like falling into an ice cave, "What did you say?"

She couldn't believe that the old man who was talking to her just now was gone in the blink of an eye.

It was as if... it was as if she had been waiting for her to come back and left just to see her again.

The palace maid handed over a jade plaque and said, "Before her death, the Empress Dowager asked her servant to give this to you."

Gou Yue did not take it, "Give it to Your Majesty. Since this is the relic of the Empress Dowager, it is a royal thing. I am just a commoner and cannot bear the kindness of the Empress Dowager."

Then he turned and left.

The palace man stood up and ran to Gou Yue, "The girl must hold it. This is the Empress Dowager's last wish. It can ensure that the girl's life goes smoothly."

Gou Yue looked at Wen Yuanzhi, and she felt uneasy. This was the jade token given to General Taran by the Empress Dowager, not to her.

Wen Yuanzhi took it and hung it on her waist, "Since it is the Empress Dowager's dying wish, just take it."

He is Taran's husband. When his deceased wife leaves, things are considered his when they come into his hands. He then gives them to her so that she can accept them with peace of mind.The deceased is gone, why bother asking.

Wen Yuanzhi and Gou Yue walked out of the palace. At this time, some people in the palace walked hurriedly towards the palace of the Empress Dowager, wandering around without stopping.

They leave, they go, in exactly the opposite direction.

Gou Yue said, "Are we going back too?"

Wen Yuanzhi shook his head and took her away.

The Empress Dowager knew very well that she should not stay in a place of right and wrong. She should not have entered this palace many years ago.

A woman passed by them, and Gou Yue recognized that she was the person in the palace who was sizing up her appearance.Wen Yuanzhi saluted her, and Gou Yue followed suit.

Princess Xuanqing was lost in thought when she saw the two people walking away.

There was a lot of noise in my head.

Is she really not Taran?

If she wasn't, why did the brother bring her back to the palace to see the Empress Dowager.

If she is, why is she so different from before? She is completely different both inside and outside.

Everyone else was in a hurry to go to the palace of the Empress Dowager. Only Princess Xuanqing walked behind Wen Yuan.

When he turned around, Princess Xuanqing said, "Does Master Wen know that the Ruozhi people seized Yuan Xi's body after he died in the battle?"

Wen Yuanzhi bowed and said, "My condolences to the eldest princess. After the new year, Ruozhiren will send her back in person and kowtow to apologize."

Princess Xuanqing smiled coldly, saying it was a good time to express her condolences. She lost her husband and her fiancée, and every time, this man could only express his condolences.

Just like when Taran died, she also expressed her condolences to him.

The person she hates most in her life is Taran, followed by Wen Yuanzhi.

It would be great if this woman was Taran, she could turn her hatred onto her, otherwise how would she spend this long night from now on.

But there was nothing she could do at the moment to take revenge.

She had nightmares about that palace turmoil every night. Xie Min, a peerless young master, could not even piece together the complete body in the end.

If it weren't for Taran, he wouldn't have died so tragically.

If this woman was Taran, she would try her best to kill her. If Xie Min died, she should die for him and the three hundred private soldiers.

When Xie Min died, he entrusted Yuan Xi to her. Now, within a few years, the child had lost his life. She only asked Xie Min not to hate her.

It's funny to say that he knew he was going to die that day, but he still pretended to be relaxed, telling her that if Yuanxi, a child, was well-nurtured, he would definitely become a general on the battlefield in the future. Even when he was about to die, he still had to care about others. .

Xie Min's body was broken when it was returned, and her hands were stained with his blood. She used steel needles to repair him herself, as if repairing a broken puppet. It passed through and pricked her hand at the wound, and the pain seemed to still linger on her fingertips.

She hated, hated His Majesty, hated General Han, hated the Queen, but the one she hated most was Taran.

Taran actually asked her consort to die in that palace turmoil. If it weren't for Taran, Xie Min would not have died, and she would not have stayed in the empty house for so many years.

The day His Majesty granted her the wedding was the happiest moment for her in many years. She liked people like Xie Min, just as she didn't hate Wen Yuanzhi at the beginning. Both Wen Yuanzhi and Xie Min had a sense of gentle gentlemen. Later, Xie Min When Zai grew up, everyone said that he was most like Mr. Xiangguo when he was young, but she felt that Xie Zai was actually most like his brother Xie Min. Unfortunately, when Xie Min died, no one cared.

She and Xie Min treated each other with respect as guests, until Xie Min died. She looked at the empty princess mansion and there was no trace of that person. She knelt down on the ground and cried bitterly, but no matter how she cried, Xie Min would never come back.

The Queen Mother said that she was still young and could marry again.

Who does the Queen Mother marry her to? It's just a minister who can stabilize the government for her brother. Whether she likes it or not is not that important at all.

Yuan Xi was the son of a slave in the princess's residence. Xie Min often taught him martial arts and writing, and raised the skinny child into a young man as clean and healthy as his younger brother.

Yuan Xi looked at everyone else who was wary, but he was loyal to Xie Min.

After Xie Min died, she took care of him personally, trying to find any trace of the consort in this young man.

But he was always different from Xie Min. Xie Min was gentle with others, but Yuan Xi was often silent and cold towards everyone.

One day, Yuan Xi suddenly asked him, "What does the princess want?"

She touched his head and said, "I hope Ruozhi people will never do this again and Dachu will be at peace."

He was silent, and his expression was hard to discern with his bright, immature eyes.

When Xuan Qing collected the bones of the consort, Yuan Xi was also with her.

He grabbed her long sleeve and said, "From now on, I will take care of the princess just like General Xie."

Unfortunately, he did not keep his promise. He went to the military camp and confronted the Ruozhi people.

Finally, Yuan Xi also died, and the land he defended with his life ended up being negotiated by Da Chu and Ruozhi.

After Yuan Xi died, she began to regret it again, because she had asked for an imperial edict to marry Yuan Xi.

The child didn't know anything about it when he left.

He gave up his life for her just a joke.

After Yuan Xi died, she dreamed of her consort, so she imitated Yuan Xi and asked him, "What does the consort want most?"

Xie Min smiled, "The world is peaceful and the mountains and rivers stretch."

Later, Yuan Xi also came. In the dream, he took off his armor and was still the same young man with red lips and white teeth.

Before he could grow into an adult, the boy died on the battlefield.

The princess's heart felt like a knife when she thought about it. Yuan Xi told her in her dream, "Princess, don't be trapped by hatred. Go find true freedom and don't be a puppet of hatred."

She stared at the boy in the dream for a long time before asking, "Did you receive what I sent to you?"

He just smiled and didn't answer.

He told her to find freedom, but she didn't know where the freedom would come from for the daughter of the royal family.

They were all gone, what would she do alone.

Years later, the Ruozhi people indeed sent Yuan Xi's body and one of his burdens.

As a gift from the Queen Mother, she was allowed to take the burden away, but the body could not be buried in the name of the Prince Consort.

She didn't argue anymore and returned to the princess mansion with Yuan Xi's relics.

Opening Yuan Xi's baggage, she found a pocket sewn inside the clothes. She touched it and pulled out a paper bag.

The sugar has melted and solidified again in winter, and it really doesn’t look good.

She ate the shapeless stone candy, her mouth was sweet, but her heart was bitter.

The unruly young man wrapped in horse leather can no longer rely on her sleeves to act coquettishly.

Why is Xie Min dead, Yuan Xi dead, and others still alive?

King Ruozhi who started the war is still alive, the imperial brother who fought against them is still alive, everyone is alive and well, only her Yuan Xi is dead.

She prayed that the woman she met by chance in the palace was Taran.

No, she had to have Taran back.

His Majesty failed to kill her.

It's up to her.She wanted her to suffer all the pain in the world.

Couldn't she control Xie Min to sacrifice his life for her? Then she would use this woman's life in exchange for Xie Min to die with his eyes open and his body intact.

In the past, she only felt that she hated Taran. After Xie Min died, she began to learn to hate. Even though everyone said that Taran was chopped into meat paste and thrown into the moat, she did not believe it because she had never seen it with her own eyes.

(End of this chapter)

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