009: You are no longer a stranger. "If you don't look back, why don't you forget. Since there is no fate, why do you need to swear. Everything today is like water without a trace. Tomorrow and tomorrow, you are no longer a stranger." Du Qingyi looked at Emperor Zhengxian and said slowly, after all

Still a stranger.

After Aruo died, Jiang Luoyan was handed over to Qin Shifeng. Concubine Shu was given the poisonous wine. After all, the queen was superior. Concubine Shu thought she was really poisoned, but she didn't know that the jade bottle had already been poisoned.

After changing it, it was just an ordinary stomachache powder. The king of music fled and Kyoto gradually became stable. It was time for her to leave, leaving this flowery Kyoto and living her calm and peaceful life.

"You have given up, can you really abandon me and leave like this?" Emperor Zhengxian looked at her with a bitter voice. She also said she would leave last time, could it be that Marquis Jinghai is so good!

"I am more than half my age, and I have seen through everything. What I want in life is not only your heart, but also a stable life. People who have died once can always see through many things that were originally invisible.

"Du Qingyi licked her hair at the temples. The passage of time has also brought vicissitudes to her appearance, and it is no longer what it was before.

"Even your son can't keep you?" Even though he knew the answer was yes, he still couldn't help but ask. He was not so free and easy, watching her leave again and again.

"I am not a good mother to begin with. I have another son. When the late Emperor snatched him away from me, the relationship between mother and son was already severed. What I left behind brought him only shame. It was only when I left that I

This is my last blessing to him." Du Qingyi raised her head slightly and spoke very softly, but her heart felt like tearing pain. It was all the flesh that fell from her body. How could she not feel distressed? She had missed her son for so many years, every year

She would ask about his affairs and have people tell her in detail. She would be satisfied if she knew he was good.

He was a high-ranking prince, and she was just someone else's concubine.

She couldn't let her identity tarnish his nobility. There was only so much she could do for him. What's more, facing Emperor Zhengxian, they couldn't go back to the past. The beauty of the past would always remain in the past. Lost.

The reason why things are precious is that they can never be lost and recovered. Some love is only suitable for rolling around in memory, and it is still weak when facing reality. If she really wants to return to Emperor Zhengxian, how will she face the world's public opinion?

?Emperor Zhengxian worked diligently and loved the people all his life, and she could not let his life be stained in any way.

Love and giving up may be a kind of sublimation. Although it hurts, it is happy.

If they are good, she will be good, and that's it.

"I still remember the first time I met you. You were humming and picking lotus pods in the lotus field with your trousers rolled up. The golden sunlight hit your body, as if it was plated with gold. I have never seen a woman from that family.

I can be as unruly as you." Emperor Zhengxian said with a smile, recalling the past.

"I've never seen someone as embarrassed as you, yet still look aloof and stubborn and never admit defeat." Du Qingyi said with a smile.

Life is very strange. Two people who had nothing to do with each other unexpectedly saw another side of life. It was a side that was not easy to see, which made each other fall in love.

"...You have a very bad mouth. I often tell you that you are not good enough, but I always jump when I am angry with you. All my years of training are like paper in front of you, and they will be broken with just a light poke."

"I have never seen a man as sinister and shameless as you, who tricked me in all kinds of ways in front of my brother, causing me to be scolded by my brother all the time."

"General Du is a good man and a good soldier. I still remember that your sister-in-law was also a gentle woman who didn't talk much. It's a pity that she later died in childbirth."

"My sister-in-law is in frail health. She and my brother were childhood sweethearts. In order to keep the Du family alive, we gave birth to Manqiu..." Thinking of Du Manqiu, Du Qingyi looked a little lonely, and the child was suffering a lot.

"When you love someone, you always want to make their life perfect. Your sister-in-law also doesn't want your brother to be charged with unfilial piety after the Du family ends."

"In fact, in comparison, my brother would rather grow old with my sister-in-law than he might like her trying her best to give birth to his child. A person is too lonely. My brother's subsequent bravery on the battlefield may not be the pursuit of death."

Du Qingyi had tears in her eyes. His brother couldn't leave Manqiu without anyone to take care of him, so he could only live and miss his sister-in-law. But when he had the opportunity to entrust his daughter to someone to leave in peace, he chose death without hesitation.

But, his brother was wrong. His choice caused Manqiu's pain and the resentment of others. There is always only a thin line between love and hate.

The longing that pierces the heart and gnaws the bones can make people crazy.

Lan Niang slowly recounted this intricate entanglement of grudges. Emperor Zhengxian was extremely shocked. He did not expect that so many people were implicated. No wonder Xuanhua decided to go to Jinguan City to settle down. Gratitudes and grudges, right and wrong, if not

A boundary determines right and wrong. This is the most despairing thing.

From the rising of the sun to the setting of the sunset, from the love at first sight to the rights and wrongs that followed. They have experienced too much in this life, but the words will always be finished, and separation will be a matter of time.

"Do you love him?" Emperor Zhengxian finally asked this question. He was actually jealous, extremely jealous.

Du Qingyi looked at Emperor Zhengxian with a smile, "It doesn't matter whether I love or not. I only know that he is the shoulder I once relied on, the driftwood that I used to survive when I was most desperate, and the person I want to grow old with for the rest of my life.

people."

"Then who am I..." The low voice was filled with reluctance. After all, her longing could not withstand the time, and she still changed her mind.

"You are my best years, the man I love with all my life, no one can replace you."

After Du Qingyi left, Emperor Zhengxian felt lost, but felt happy at the same time. It was a strange feeling.

But when he watched her back gradually go away, his eyes slowly filled with smiles. He was the person she had loved with all her life, and that was enough.

***

"Your Majesty, it's time for you to rest." The Queen gently took the memorial from Emperor Zhengxian and placed it on the desk, persuading her softly. "Your health is important. That glass of wine that day still caused harm to you.

It’s all my concubine’s fault. I thought that it would be fine if I replaced Concubine Shu’s poisoned wine. But I didn’t expect that Concubine Shu was so cunning that she actually tampered with your wine glass.”

"Zitong, you will regret marrying me in this life." Emperor Zhengxian held the queen's hand and sat down on the edge of the couch. He saw that the woman in front of him had fine lines at the corners of her eyes. She was no longer the same as she was in her old days, but she still made her feel happy.

He is more willing to look at it carefully.

If the most sorry person besides Du Qingyi was born this time, it was the woman in front of me.

"Yes, I regret it." The queen's eyes suddenly became moist. Ever since Du Qingyi left the palace, Emperor Zhengxian had become more and more gentle to her, so gentle that she felt like she was in a dream.

Emperor Zhengxian laughed and said, "In the early years, you would never have dared to say this. It seems that I really dote on you recently."

"No, I'm just regretting why I didn't let you fall in love with me before Du Qingyi, so that you wouldn't be sad and miss a woman all your life."

"Zitong..."

"Your Majesty, do you remember my concubine's maiden name?" The queen leaned on Emperor Zhengxian's arms. Zitong was indeed the emperor's name for her, but this was not her name, but the emperor's honorific title for the queen.

She knew how Emperor Zhengxian could remember her maiden name. She just felt a little uncomfortable when she asked. Du Qingyi was remembered by the emperor for a lifetime. But she stayed by his side all the time, so he might not remember her.

The name is just around the corner.

"Huiyi."

"The Emperor actually knows?" The Queen suddenly stiffened, too excited, too excited, but he actually knew!

Seeing the queen's excited expression, Emperor Zhengxian felt more and more guilty. He reached out and stroked the queen's hair and said with a smile: "Of course I know that my father arranged a marriage for me back then and she is the daughter of the Luo family. I am very curious.

I wanted to know what my future wife would be like, so I took my personal bodyguards to see you secretly. You were playing on the swing in the back garden, and your mother called you by your maiden name, so I remembered it."

"So you know, I am so happy..." The queen choked out, and he actually remembered that she had always thought that the emperor never called her by her name for so many years, and only called her Zitong or queen, because he didn't know

own name.

"Of course I remember. I still remember you swinging on the swing. Your apricot skirt was like a butterfly's wings, and your clear laughter was like jade beads falling on a plate." Emperor Zhengxian frowned, and the pain in his heart came again.

The queen looked happy and endured it, not wanting to worry her.

"I never knew that the emperor actually visited me secretly. I originally thought that only Prince Lian would be ridiculous and could find beautiful women. I didn't expect that the emperor would do such a thing. I am really happy. It turns out that the emperor

I also have a place in my heart, so because I have no children, the ministers in the court asked me to depose the queen. Is it because of this that you refused to agree? I know that I cannot compare with Du Qingyi. The friendship between the emperor and her is

Life and death are difficult, but I am content with this. Before you met Du Qingyi before I married you, there were more or less happy days. Those days belonged to us, and Du Qingyi did not exist."

Emperor Zhengxian felt sad when he heard what the queen said. If he hadn't met Qingyi, maybe he would really fall in love with the queen. It's hard not to like such a woman.

"Huiyi, I have already written the edict. Don't worry, I will make good arrangements for you in the rest of your life." There is only so much that Emperor Zhengxian can do and compensate for. Love cannot be given, it can only be given to you.

I have worked hard on the word love.
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