Spring in Beijing is beautiful, but also short.

When I looked up, the sky was still high and the clouds were clear, and when the wind blew past my nose, it still carried the fragrance of blooming flowers. But when I lowered my head, the scorching sun was already burning my back, bringing a scorching temperature, and the green leaves in the lotus pond were touching the sky.

A lotus stands tall and graceful, the tips of the pink petals dyed with a rouge-like red, but under the scorching sun, they look like flames.

Burn people from heart to soul.

The scorching sunshine shone on the ground, and there was a burning smell everywhere. Even the swill in the bucket smelled even more foul and unpleasant. I held my breath and struggled to carry the bucket out.

As soon as I walked to the door, I let go of my hand, and the barrel fell to the ground, and the swill spilled all over the floor.

A strong stench rushed towards me, and I covered my mouth and nose with my sleeves and almost vomited, but I had no choice but to clean it up, so I turned around and went back to get a broom and water to clean it, so as not to be seen and scolded.<

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But just when I was about to turn around, a voice sneered: "Long time no see."

When I looked up, I saw a familiar figure walking over. The gauze skirt on her body was slightly fluttered by the wind, making her look particularly elegant. However, there was a disgusting and mocking sneer on that beautiful face, with a look of gloating.

Expression: "Yue Qingying, do you still remember me?"

Condensing smoke...?

The moment I looked at her, my whole body froze, but she had already walked over slowly, stretched out her feet wearing embroidered shoes and kicked the wooden barrel on the ground, and said: "How does it feel to suffer in the cold palace?

?"

I bit my lower lip, but after all I couldn't hold it back and let out an unbearable retching sound, almost vomiting out the last night's meal.

Ever since that day, when Pei Yuanhao vented his cruel and endless desires on me, I was tortured to the point of fainting. When I opened my eyes again, I was already here - the cold palace.

It’s not that I haven’t been here before, and it’s not that I don’t know that life in the cold palace is difficult, but no matter how difficult the life is, you have to live it.

What I'm afraid of is the complete despair, with no more light in front of me.

Three days after I was sent to the cold palace, Pei Yuanhao succeeded to the throne, ascended the throne as emperor, changed his reign to Tiansheng, honored his father as the Supreme Emperor, executed imperial pen and inscriptions, and granted amnesty to the world.

In the cold palace, the only news you can get is this kind of news. At other times, it is work, endless work. Starting from the moment you open your eyes in the morning, you have to clean the toilets sent from all over the palace last night, and then

It involves cleaning everywhere, doing laundry in the afternoon, carrying water to water the garden until late at night, and doing needlework assigned by the mothers.

In this kind of life, I can see not many people from outside the cold palace, and Ning Yan is one of them.

But, I never expected that she would talk to me with such a tone and expression.

I even vomited out the acidic water in my stomach due to the retching just now. I could only wipe the corners of my mouth with my sleeve, and Ningyan sneered: "Hey, it seems that you are quite enjoying it."

I raised my head and looked at her, and said calmly: "My lady officer, what are your orders?"

I am no stranger to her dressing up as a female attendant. I already knew it from the first time she showed up in a show of force after I was imprisoned in the cold palace, and I also knew what would happen next.

"Yue Qingying, don't act so condescending in front of me, you think I don't know who you are!" Ningyan pointed at me in a sharp voice and cursed: "I treat you like a good sister, you are like this

Help me, you didn’t tell the emperor anything, you want me to be locked up here and suffer forever, right?”

I raised my eyes in confusion, looking at her beautiful face with a completely unfamiliar and vicious expression.

"What now? Who is imprisoned here? This is called the wind and water changing!"

I don’t know why, but I felt funny in my heart and raised the corner of my mouth slightly.

This is not the first time these days. Ever since Ningyan knew that I didn't help her plead for Pei Yuanhao, she often came to the cold palace to insult me. But I am already in the ice cellar and don't care if anyone gives me any more help.

I poured cold water on it.

So, I turned around and left silently.

Seeing that I had no reaction, Ningyan caught up and grabbed me: "Stop!"

"Mistress, do you have any other instructions?"

"You——"

Seeing the helpless expression on my face, Ningyan was furious. She suddenly seemed to remember something, looked at me and said, "Yue Qingying, do you know why the emperor locked you up in the cold palace?"

"..."

Why are you locking me up in the cold palace, why are you torturing me like this... Looking back on those nights, it was like a nightmare, and my originally indifferent eyes trembled slightly, and she seemed to have found my weakness, her eyes were filled with excitement.

A little red.

"I might as well tell you that I told the emperor that you lied. On the night when the emperor came to see Yao Yingxue, you sneaked into the cold palace and stayed there until midnight!"

What?! I opened my eyes wide and looked back at her.

Ning Yan laughed loudly: "Haha, you didn't expect it, didn't you? You still don't know why the emperor locked you up. It was me who told her that as a palace maid, you ignored the ban and sneaked into the cold palace..."

I can no longer hear what she says next.

Not many people knew about that night except me and him, as well as the dead Yao Yingxue. But what I never understood was why Pei Yuanhao knew that it was me and not Yao Yingxue that night, but how could I not

Unexpectedly, it was Ningyan.

My fingertips were trembling. I looked at her and said word by word: "Did you tell him that I came to the cold palace that night?"

When I said this, my teeth almost chattered. Liu Ningyan had never seen me angry before, and she seemed a little stunned for a moment. She subconsciously took a step back, but immediately said: "That's right.

It was you who deceived the emperor. That was the crime of deceiving the emperor. I was just——"

Snap!

I slapped her fair and beautiful face hard. Liu Ningyan was stunned by me and said: "You - you -"

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After the slap, my hand was in burning pain, but no matter how painful it was, it couldn't compare with the despair in my heart.

"You dare to hit me!" She probably never thought that as a dignified female attendant, she would be beaten by me, a palace maid who has been locked up in the cold palace. She was so angry that her face turned green, and she rushed up to attack me.

Take action, but at this moment, a voice next to you said: "What are you doing?!"

When I looked back, it was Mother Qian from Leng Gong. She walked over and looked at me, then at Ning Yan.

Ning Yan looked at her with an angry expression.

When she was in the cold palace, she was often bullied by Grandma Qian. A lot of my monthly salary went into the pocket of this old grandma for her, so the two of them felt extremely jealous when they met.

feeling.

Aunt Qian sneered and said: "Who am I? It turns out to be Ms. Liu. Why, are you here to see your 'good sister' again?"

"You mind your own business!" Ning Yan said fiercely: "Today I must-"

"I have to take care of Leng Gong's affairs." Nanny Qian rolled her eyes and said, "Besides, not just anyone can come in to Leng Gong. She also came in secretly and ended up like this.

, you run here every day, are you thinking about the past, or..."

When she mentioned what happened back then, Ning Yan's face turned even darker.

Aunt Qian is already an old man in the palace. She manages dozens of people, big and small, in the cold palace. She is no worse than her. Ningyan came to trouble me several times before, but she dismissed them with just a few words. Today I met her again.

Ning Yan knew there was nothing she could do, so she could only glare at me fiercely, turn around and leave.

After her back disappeared outside the gate, Grandma Qian turned back to look at me.

"Look at all the people you have helped. Back then, you often scolded me for being unreasonable. Now, let's see who is unreasonable and who is a white-eyed wolf."

"..."

"This little bitch is not a good person. You are so blind to think of her as a good sister."

"..."

At this point, I really had nothing to say. I could only silently pick up the bucket on the ground. Just as I was about to turn around and leave, I heard Aunt Qian scolding me from behind: "Hurry up and clean up here. Come and get it later."

Reward."

Receive a reward? I looked back at her: "What reward?"

Aunt Qian glanced at me and said coldly: "Today is the ceremony for conferring the queen, and everyone in the palace will be rewarded."

After the seal... the ceremony?

I stood there numbly, and it took me a while to come back to my senses. Aunt Qian had already cursed and walked away. I slowly raised my head, and the white sunlight above my head was piercing my eyes. It hurt...

It was night, and countless fireworks shot up in the night sky of the Imperial City. They were gorgeous and brilliant, illuminating the entire night sky. You could even hear the sound of fireworks exploding in the distance, mixed with the sound of silk and bamboo, changing the originally quiet night.

The lighting is extraordinarily brilliant and lively.

But at the other end, there is only desertedness.

After working for a day, my body was full of sweat and an indescribable stench. I boiled a pot of hot water and filled the bathtub, tested whether the water was hot, and turned around to close the door.

Outside, it’s still a night full of fireworks.

The last firework bloomed, illuminating the entire dark night and my pale face. I looked at that gorgeous moment, like an overly gorgeous dream, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

It was almost midnight, and the hall gradually became quiet.

By this time, the state banquet should have ended, and the ministers should have left. What is left is a matter between the emperor and the empress. I don’t know which woman with three thousand favorites will attract the attention of the people tonight.

, get a lifetime of grace.

Shen Rou? Yang Jinqiao? Or...

Thinking about this, the corners of my lips curved slightly - what does this have to do with me?

After bolting the door, I took off my sarong and slowly walked into the tub. The warm water swayed and pressed against my cool skin, bringing bursts of warm touch.

.

But why do I still feel cold?

Holding my thin body, I was shivering from the cold, and slowly sank into the water, letting the warm water drown me and everything.

Bang bang bang!
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