"I am the wife of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and the women of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty can only die in the palace." Cao Yenaji said bitterly.
Li Changan curled his lips: "Who said that?"
Cao Yenaji was speechless. She wanted to refute Li Changan, but she couldn't find any evidence. But she is no longer the ignorant Hu girl who just entered Chang'an. Cao Yenaji stayed in the palace for five years. At first she was looking forward to going home, but then she didn't dare to think about it anymore...
"You have to listen to what I say." Li Changan was extremely proud, "You shouldn't believe what others say. I am your daughter, you just need to believe what I say."
"If anyone finds out, you'll be in big trouble." Cao Yenaji murmured.
She didn't wonder why Li Changan was so courageous. After all, the child dared to call the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty a scumbag father who couldn't control himself when he was still drinking milk in her arms and couldn't even speak clearly.
Li Changan said disdainfully: "No matter how big the trouble is, can it be as big as the trouble of your own mother's death?"
"I am qualified to pursue power, don't you have the qualification to pursue freedom? You are only twenty-three years old, which is the age when you are young and strong. You should chase wolves, organize caravans, and fight bandits. Rather than being wasted to death in this deep palace." Li Changan looked directly into Cao Yenaji's eyes.
Cao Yenaji's age would still be just a freshly graduated college student 1,300 years later. She had not read a few books and was even trapped in a courtyard for five years from the age of 18 to 23. Raising children, life experience is completely blank.
Li Changan felt that she should help Cao Yenaji choose the right path in life.
Death is the wrong way, escape is the right way.
"Mom, you just need to do what I say." Li Changan continued to persuade, "If you think about the dreams you have had and the things I have done over the years, I can always accomplish what I want to do, right?"
Cao Yenaji believed in Li Changan, just like every time before.
Her tight string suddenly relaxed, her eyes became shiny again, and snow-capped mountains and grasslands appeared in front of her eyes. Cao Ye Naji suddenly felt that she had an appetite that she had not seen for a long time, and her body, which had been wasted by disease, also Suddenly there was strength.
If there is a clever doctor here, he will definitely explain this phenomenon as "heart disease requires heart medicine."
"You should have told me earlier. I only have these few days and I can't prepare properly." Cao Ye Naji said angrily, holding a piece of puff pastry in her hand and stuffing it into her mouth.
Li Changan rolled his eyes: "Mother, you don't think you can deceive Concubine Wu Hui with your poor cover-up that can't even deceive me, right?"
The only reason I told Cao Ye Na Ji today was because she was afraid that she would not be able to hide it from Concubine Wu Hui. Not to mention that Cao Ye Na Ji had no such thing as acting skills. Even if she had acting skills that could make fake things look like real ones, the fake ones didn't reveal the truth.
Now is the right time. Cao Yenaji has just finished caring for Concubine Wu Hui. In the eyes of Concubine Wu Hui, Cao Yenaji is already a dead person. In addition, it is the critical period of the struggle between Zhang Jiuling and Li Linfu in the court. Concubine Wu Hui I don't care what happens in this small courtyard.
Originally, there were not many concubines and officials in the Daming Palace. After all, His Majesty now prefers to live in the Xingqing Palace, which was converted from the East Palace before he ascended the throne. Concubine Wu Hui stayed in the Daming Palace longer because she grew up in the Daming Palace. .
As long as Concubine Wu Hui doesn't care, there will be no other difficulties.
"I will send you out of the palace on the 25th. Mother, please take good care of yourself as soon as possible. At least you will be able to run and jump by that day, and you will not be as emaciated as you are today." Li Changan told Cao Yenaji.
Cao Yenaji nodded while filling her stomach with goat milk.
She didn't ask how she was going to get out. Cao Yenaji knew that Li Changan would tell her when the time was right.
November 23rd.
Li Changan came to the Jiaofang Division. The stewards and Le Ji in the Jiaofang Division were used to the little princess coming here from time to time. At first, Le Ji wanted to talk to her and seek wealth, but she was punished by the female officer next to Wu Hui Fei. After a few times, no one dared to talk to me anymore.
What's more, the place Li Changan went to was not within the Jiaofang Division, it was just a small courtyard on the edge. If not for a special detour, no one from the Jiaofang Division would have passed by that place.
After Jiaofangsi finished stepping on the spot, Li Changan walked from the small courtyard on the edge of Jiaofangsi to the courtyard where she and Cao Yenaji lived. After entering the courtyard and locking the door from the inside, Li Changan took out a hand-painted painting from his sleeve. The map comes.
"Mother, recite the route again." Li Changan scratched his hair and looked up at Cao Yenaji who was sitting next to the rockery.
In just a few days, Cao Yenaji has gone from a dying person who could not stand up to a normal person who, although still thin, at least does not look like a skeleton and can walk on his own.
She had always been too worried, but now that her worries were gone, her illness naturally healed without treatment. After the illness was gone, the suppressed vitality in her body suddenly burst out, repairing her already very young body. .
When Cao Yenaji heard Li Changan's words, she blurted out the things she had memorized thousands of times over the past few days without even thinking: "After leaving the courtyard, follow the courtyard wall and slide to the right into the narrow alley. No one usually passes by here. , then walk all the way to the green railing pavilion next to the water, then turn right and walk out of the garden. This is the area of Jiaofangsi. When people meet, they say that I am a new dancer from Jiaofangsi. I am not familiar with the road and went to the wrong place. ...Finally, I saw a courtyard with three willow trees in front of the door. When I walked in, there was a Hu Ji named Hong Ling who would take me out."
Li Changan was still worried. She handed the hand-drawn map to Cao Yenaji and asked her to point at the map and read it again.
After repeating it seven times, Li Changan felt relieved.
The next day, Li Changan got up early and moved the bags of unused silver charcoal to Cao Yenaji's bedroom together with Cao Yenaji.
"I have to thank my ancestors for having the tradition of sky burial and cremation." Li Changan sighed as he looked at his hands that were stained black by charcoal.
According to her teacher, there are loopholes in forging a cremation. It is best to get a corpse to replace Tao Zong.
Then Li Changan refuted her teacher. It was much harder to get a corpse from the palace than to send a living person out of the palace. If she had the ability to get a corpse, wouldn't she have stolen her mother out long ago?
In the end, I chose to fake the fire. After all, the current climate in the Tang Dynasty was a warm winter climate, and warm winters made it easy to catch fire. The temperature of the incinerator is 800 to 900 degrees, and the fire temperature in a closed room can reach more than 1,000 degrees, which is enough to burn "no bones left."
Although Li Changan thinks that no one will investigate further, if someone is idle and investigates further, the cause of the fire can still be based on the "cremation" tradition of the Li Te people, and it can be faked as Cao Yena Ji's death. Self-immolation and cremation were carried out according to belief. After all, the Hu people really believed in the God of Fire.
According to the plan, in order to create an alibi, Li Changan would go to Changqing Palace to stay with Concubine Wu Hui this afternoon. She would not run over crying until someone discovered the fire in the yard tomorrow.
Both Cao Yenaji and Li Changan hoped that this morning would pass more slowly, and even more slowly.
It is a pity that the black and white words in history books can be affected by people's hearts, but the moving speed of the sun cannot be changed by people's wishes.
The sun still moved to the west.
"Chang'an, Chang'an, mother's Chang'an..." Cao Yenaji could no longer suppress her emotions. She hugged Li Chang'an and burst into tears.
After this separation, I don’t know how many years it will have to wait until we meet again. Cao Yenaji wanted to hide in Chang'an City for a while and wait until she saw Li Chang'an before leaving. However, Li Chang'an was afraid of long nights and dreams, so he asked her to leave Chang'an with the caravan Shen Chu had found after leaving the Daming Palace.
After saying goodbye today, I don’t know when we will see each other again.
At this time, Cao Yenaji couldn't help but hate the aloof Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. If it weren't for him, how could she be imprisoned in this deep palace, unable to see her family and unable to return to her hometown? Now she finally has the opportunity to return. When he returned to his hometown, he had to be separated from his biological daughter.
Li Longji's one night of lust caused her to be separated from her flesh and blood twice, taking her away from her parents who gave birth to her, and separating her from the daughter she gave birth to.
Li Changan felt that Cao Yenaji who was holding him was shaking all over. She was holding her mother, and her chest was so tight that it felt as if her chest had been beaten to pieces with a hammer.
"Mother, don't cry." Li Changan forced a smile, "It's not like we're about to say goodbye... You originally planned to leave me to die alone, but now it's no better than you dying and leaving me alone in this world. Is it too much?"
Cao Yenaji hugged Li Changan tighter, and she choked with sobs: "My mother is sorry for you."
"Then mother will prepare a bunch of gifts for me to coax me when she gets back. I want good horses, sheep, and mines." Li Changan whispered softly.
"Little greedy devil." Cao Yenaji's tears fell halfway when she was amused by Li Changan's shamelessness, and the remaining half of her tears couldn't fall anymore.
The mixture of crying and laughing expressions on a face that has gained some weight these days and can already see the beauty of the past looks a bit funny.
Cao Yenaji arranged Li Changan's clothes one last time and watched Li Changan skip away, just like every time in the past five years, but this time she couldn't wait for her daughter to come back.
She was the one leaving this time.
The lights in the Changqing Hall were brightly lit, and Li Changan was nestled in the brocade quilt, unable to fall asleep. Many things were entangled in her mind, and she couldn't figure it out.
Cao Yenaji, the mentor, Concubine Wu Hui, Tang Xuanzong, and the prosperous city of Chang'an... I don't know how long it took, but the five-year-old child finally couldn't bear it anymore and fell into a deep sleep.
On November 25th, the weather was not sunny.
Hong Ling brought another Hu Ji to the Jiaofang Division and showed the voucher to the guards for inspection.
The two guards guarding the gate were having a lively discussion about yesterday's cockfighting match. When they saw Hong Ling and the others, they just checked to see if they had any sharp objects and easily let them in. .
After all, it is not the first time for these Hu Jis to come here. The beautiful Hu Ji leads them. Sometimes they are alone, sometimes there are two or three people. They are all weak Hu girls. What's more, I came here with the voucher given by Concubine Wu Hui. If the inspection is too strict, I might offend the noble person. If I don't care about Hu Nu's face, I must also look at Concubine Wu Hui's face.
In the Daming Palace, there was a small courtyard that didn't even have a name. The door of the courtyard was quietly pushed open, and a figure emerged from it.
Cao Yenaji took a deep breath, her eyes were astonishingly bright, and her palms were covered with sweat. She finally turned her head and glanced at the small courtyard where she had been trapped for five years, and then turned and left without looking back.
Her daughter has arranged everything for her, and she must complete the last step safely!
She wants to return to her hometown, find her parents, and then organize a caravan to go to the Byzantine Empire, to eat in black, to the territory of the Khazar Turks. She is going to buy the best BMW, raise the fattest sheep, and rob the largest of mines.
In the Changqing Hall, Concubine Wu Hui is teaching Li Changan how to play Go. Go has become popular in the Sui Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, it became an elegant hobby for high-ranking officials and literati to relieve their boredom. Playing Go has become a necessary social skill. Both Wu Huifei and Li Longji like to play Go.
"If you want to win in Go, you have to give yourself as many ways of survival as possible, and at the same time block all the opponent's ways of survival." Concubine Wu Hui twisted the black stones in her hand and dropped one first.
Wu Huifei moved slowly, just playing with her children, and did not expect the five-year-old child who had touched the chess pieces for the first time half an hour ago to be able to play any good chess.
