A Lady’s Tranquility

“When I was very young, Wan Niang told me that the most honorable woman in the world was the Queen, and the palace where the Queen lived was called the 'Kunning Palace'.
I asked Wan Niang what the Kunning Palace was like.”

“Wanniang said, she doesn't know either.

“I was sitting under the rainy roof in the countryside, and I thought, if I could turn into the wild geese that flew that day, I could fly to the prosperous capital, fly to the Forbidden City, and see what Kunning Palace was like.
How good?”

The palace gate is claustrophobic, with only one window on the left side open.

The sky was overcast and the light was dim.

In the bustling Kunning Palace in the past, not a single palace servant could be seen at this moment.

Only Jiang Xuening sat kneeling in front of the table, holding the incense stick with slender white fingers, and gently fiddling in the wrong Jinbo Mountain furnace placed on the table, silky smoke floated up from the pores.
, her robe woven with gold and rust phoenix stretched out long behind her, and the intricate cloud patterns swam faintly in the gloom with little brilliance.

“Later, I really arrived at the capital.
God made a big joke with me and gave me a delusion that I shouldn't have, but let me grow up in the countryside, and I didn't raise that kind of Beijing ladies and aristocratic ladies.
With such a graceful demeanor, he just put me in this prosperous place, the arena of battle, and only gave me a good pair of skins…”

Jiang Xuening's appearance is extremely bright and bright, burning like a flower.

The moth eyebrows are tactful, the tail of the eyes is slightly raised, and the sandalwood lips are pointed with red, which is naturally charming, and because of the phoenix seal in charge of these years and the high position, he has cultivated a three-point rare grace and dignity.

When the eyebrows are lowered and the eyes are closed, it can make people's hearts pound.

You Fangyin stood silently behind her for a long time, listening to her voice that sounded like dust, and remembering her life in the eyes of the world, where she was exhausted, fighting for fame and fortune, she suddenly became a little dazed.

There is a kind of sadness that arises in my heart.

They all knew that she could not escape.

Jiang Xuening suddenly smiled: “Fang Yin, during this time, I have been thinking, am I really wrong?”

When she was a child, she was raised by Wanniang.
She didn't know her own background.
She was a bird that no one could control.
Only Wanniang's rouge and gouache could make her go home.

Wan Niang was born on a thin horse, a woman among women.

She said that the world is the world of men, and only men can conquer it, and women can conquer the world as long as they conquer men.

After returning to Beijing, she met Yanlin, the young marquis of Yongyi Hou's mansion.
He took her to disguise herself as a man and played around in the capital.
Even her parents didn't dare to discipline her too much.
She was quite a childhood friend.
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Later, the Marquis of Yongyi was implicated in the case of King Pingnan's rebellion.

Yan Lin's family was exiled thousands of miles.

In the night, the young man who had not yet reached the crown climbed over the high wall of Jiang's residence to find her.
With a hoarse voice, he squeezed her hand hard: “Ning Ning, wait for me, I will definitely come back to marry you.”

Jiang Xuening said to him, “I want to marry Shen Jie, and I want to be the queen.”

I still remember that when Yan Lin was a teenager, he looked at her with a heart-wrenching look, like a struggling beast, with red eyes and gritted teeth.

That night, the boy lost all his youth, let go of her hand, and turned to escape into the darkness.

Five years later, she was Shen Jie's queen.

The road to the post was not so smooth, so in her short life, there were many people like Yan Lin.

For example, Xiao Dingfei, the servant of the Ministry of Personnel.

For example, the Jinyiwei commander Zhou Yinzhi.

Even, it was Shen Zhiyi, the eldest princess of Leyang who later died in the barbarians…

However, no one expected that the old boy would make a comeback one day. After making military exploits at the border gate, Yan Lin voted for Xie Wei, under the banner of “Qingjun's side”, returned in armor, led the army to surround the capital, controlled the entire Forbidden City, and put her under house arrest.

Shen Jie was poisoned, lingered on the sickbed, and ignored the government.

He would enter and leave her court in a grand manner, and every time he came, he would withdraw from the palace.

Inside and outside the hall, no one dared to speak.

Everyone knows that he is Xie Wei's, right-hand man.

When Xie Wei slaughtered half of the palace, he led his troops to guard the palace gates to prevent anyone from escaping; when Xie Wei slaughtered the nine clans of the Xiao clan, he led his men to break open the closed gates and took men and women away.
Old and young caught…

Now, he and the former imperial teacher Xie Wei stood outside her palace gate.

Shen Jie had already passed away, leaving an edict ordering her to fall behind the curtain.

However, the crown prince, who was adopted from the clan, had not yet been promoted to the throne.
On his way to the capital, he was cut off by the rebels of the rebellion and hung at the city gate.

Now, it's her turn.

Jiang Xuening blinked lightly, her long and curled eyelashes cast a faint shadow under her eyelids, making her expression at the moment a bit desolate and unpredictable.

You Fangyin looked at her with a bit of disappointment.

However, she had already put down the incense stick, covered the incense burner, took the boxy big brocade box on the desk, and opened it. Inside were the Chuan Guoyu Seal, and a decree that she had written and stamped an hour ago.

It was written in the decree that she volunteered to be buried for the late emperor and asked the crown prince, Tai Shi, Xie Weikuang, to help the society, assist the government, and elect a virtuous ruler to succeed him.

Jiang Xuening suddenly raised his head and glanced out the window.

At some point, the snow that had fallen overnight had stopped.

The dazzling sun shines through the gloomy clouds and shines into the window of this gloomy palace, casting a bright beam of light.

She murmured: “If I had known it was the end of today, why bother? It's better to travel thousands of miles, see the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and be like a free bird.
In this life, I will only enter the palace by mistake.
A wall, a cocoon of prosperity…”

You Fangyin was silent.

Jiang Xuening asked, “Fangyin if you were given a chance to choose, would you still come?”

You Fangyin is the strangest one among all the people Jiang Xuening has ever known.

She was originally a prostitute in her uncle's house, clumsy and pitiful, but she changed her temperament when she fell into the water.
Since then, she has made public appearances, became rich in business, issued a ticket number, and established a chamber of commerce.
In just a few years, she has become the leading businessman in Jiangning Prefecture.

It's not an exaggeration to call her “You Bancheng”.

It's just that she was unlucky.
In this court battle, she was on the wrong team first, and although she surrendered to Xie Wei later, she has been guarded and placed under house arrest in this palace these days.

The two were so miserable together that they became