Chapter 18: Preparing for the Funeral
"That's the reason, but when it's time to make a move, you still have to do it, it's about the fortune of the country, and you can't be careless. The woman put the text down, and her eyes were clear.
"Slave maid Zhang Xuelian knocked to see the Queen Mother. "Mama Zhang knelt outside the Chang'an Hall and kowtowed sincerely," Mama got up and entered the hall to reply. Nian Ci introduced Mama Zhang into the hall, and Aunt Ziyu stood beside the Queen Mother with her hands down.
"Mama has been getting more and more promising, and even her complexion has improved by seven points. Aunt Ziyu spoke.
"Don't dare, don't dare. Mama Zhang's face suddenly changed.
"Reselling ornaments in the palace, this crime can be big or small, you have done evil to collect money and things in the past day, the queen mother is kind-hearted, and she can't bear to punish you, I never thought that you dog slaves are becoming more and more bold and reckless, and even the harem rules have not been put into your eyes. Nian Ci spoke harshly, and slapped Mama Zhang directly for twenty, making Mama Zhang dizzy.
"Okay, Nianci, you can't make a mistake in front of the Queen Mother, you step down and let the old slave interrogate her carefully. Aunt Ziyu walked up to Mama Zhang with a kind smile.
"My aunt spares her life, my aunt spares her life, the queen mother spares her life, the slave and maid are just confused for a while. "Mama Zhang kowtows like pounding garlic.
"You colluded with the cold palace to resell jewelry boxes inside and outside the palace, but you made a lot of money, you took bribes from the harem concubines, and wanted to put the abolition of the queen to death, and also collected a lot of money, Mama is really insatiable, but, what thing in the harem can hide from the eyes of the queen mother? Stupid slave, villain is ambitious, how long do you think you can be rampant?" Aunt Ziyu was still smiling on her face, but the afterglow in her eyes was terrifying.
"Slave maid...... The slave maid ...... "By now, Mama Zhang has already messed up, yes, she is used to being powerful and blessed on weekdays, where would she have thought that the Queen Mother would come to take care of this stubble? She originally thought that the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, and the Queen Mother would also step on the waste queen.
"Mama, don't panic, this palace won't care about these things, you stand up and answer. The Queen Mother smiled kindly.
"Thank you for the grace of the Empress Dowager not to kill. Mama Zhang's hanging heart finally returned to her stomach.
Then the Queen Mother asked about the current situation of Baili Yan, and Mama Zhang didn't dare to hide anything, and told the Queen Mother everything she knew, and only hid the things she secretly poisoned.
"I am not to blame for the past, but from now on, your hands and feet must be cleaned, if Baili Yan dies, I will let you be buried for her, what does Mama think?" the Queen Mother smiled slightly.
"Ah...... This?"
"What, you dare to disobey the Empress Dowager's will?" Aunt Ziyu lifted Mama Zhang up from the ground, looking hideous.
"The slave and the maid don't dare! The slave and the maid obey the decree of the Queen Mother. Mama Zhang had to respond crying.
"You go down and call Baili Yan back and forth, saying that the mourning family also wants to see her carving skills, and ask her to make a jewelry box for the mourning family on the spot. The Queen Mother waved her hand.
Half an hour later, Chen Mu entered the Chang'an Palace, and two hours later, a delicately carved sandalwood jewelry box with pomegranate patterns appeared on the palm of the Queen Mother's hand.
"The Queen Mother is blessed with all the heavens, and in the future, her children and grandchildren will be entangled, and the sin girl Baili Yan will dedicate this multi-son pomegranate box to the Queen Mother. Chen Mu kowtowed three times to the Queen Mother.
"You have a heart!" The beautiful woman who was sitting on the top seat suddenly had a strange emotion in her heart, and this Baili Yan was completely different from the previous one, and she suspected that she had seen the wrong person.
Even Aunt Ziyu and the maid Nianci had a puzzled look on their faces, they hadn't seen each other for many days, and there was no anger and evil aura on their bodies after the waste, their faces were clean, their eyes were clear, their demeanor was calm, and their clothes were plain, as if they had been reborn.
"The Empress Dowager Qi, the sinner girl has something to ask for. Chen Mu stared at the Queen Mother, there was a glimmer of light in his eyes, he endured humiliation for many days, and what he was waiting for was today.
"Oh! You actually beg for mourning? Interesting!" The unruly daughter of the Baili family, but she is notoriously tough, and she has never bowed her head to others in her life, and she can't understand today's Baili Yan.
"I'm going to personally unveil the list of emperors outside the palace. The girl looked up, her eyes full of determination.
"What did you say?" the Queen Mother stood up, her expression full of disbelief. "Say it again. "The flood in Yucheng is imminent, and no one has dared to uncover this emperor list so far, how can she be a little woman, how dare she speak falsely? The queen mother was both shocked and suspicious.
"Remove the emperor's list and go to Yucheng to control the water to atone for your sins!" The girl's tone was sonorous, her words were clear, and there was no hesitation.
Everyone in the Chang'an Hall was dumbfounded, today's things are like a dream, from ancient times to the present, there has never been a precedent for a woman to control water, not to mention that this woman was notorious and tyrannical before, and she has been separated from the water control minister by 108,000 miles.
This was the first major thing that Chen Mu did when he came to this world, and within half a day, this matter spread all over the city of Yanjing, like a thunderclap, blowing up waves of public opinion.
"If she can control the water, can I still be the emperor?"
"That is, if Baili Yan has this ability, Lao Tzu will go to shave his head and eat fasting and chant Buddha. ”
"I think she's stupid in the cold palace and daydreaming. ”
"She must have gone crazy again, and with her like that, it would be a dead end to Yucheng. ”
The people of Yanjing are all waiting to see Baili Yan's jokes, even her own father Baili Yu was taken aback by this, a handful of snot and tears to break into the palace to pull her daughter out of the fire pit, after being stopped outside the palace gate by the guards, she went home and prepared to sell her property, and wanted to rescue her daughter from the cold palace, and when he woke up the next morning, he was told that her daughter had gone out of the palace with Zuo Xiquan to Yucheng last night, and she was excited and stunned.
Last night, the crescent moon stayed awake all night in the cold palace, and she still couldn't figure out why the young lady went to Yucheng to die, and the scene when she was separated from the young lady appeared in front of her.
"Miss, it's dangerous to go to Yucheng now, and your swimming skills are not very good, why bother?"
"Crescent moon, instead of staying in the cold palace and waiting for death, it is better to go to Yucheng to fight, win, you and I can get out of the cold palace alive, if you lose, it is my own life that is not good, if I die, they will naturally not target you again, you may still have a glimmer of life." The girl's eyes were calm, and her tone was extremely cold.
"How sure is the young lady?"
"......" After a moment of silence, the girl smiled dismally: "Fifty percent." ”
Baili Yan, why do you want to be so good to me, I don't deserve it! The crescent moon looked at the dark and oppressive sky outside the window, and there was a trace of confusion in her eyes.
Outside Yanjing City, three hundred guards escorted more than a dozen black carriages to Yucheng, headed by the carriage, a black-clothed girl was closing her eyes to recuperate, the girl had delicate facial features, fair complexion, and a slender figure, she tied up a green silk high, exuding a quiet breath all over her body, the wind blew, the carriage curtain rose and fell, and Zuo Xiquan on the horse inadvertently shook the girl's glance, and hurriedly twisted her head to the side like an electric shock, and her face was also flushed.
She is the queen of the abolition, she was the emperor's woman, Zuo Xiquan, Zuo Xiquan, you must not think about her, immediately the man's posture is upright, but there is a trace of helplessness in his back.
At this moment, the Baili family has already become a mess, and the people will hang white lanterns all over the house, and Mrs. Baili Chen Mengyu is carefully furnishing the Luo Mansion, "Uncle Chen, hurry up and go to the coffin shop on West Street to order a coffin, and ask for a female coffin, the quality must be high, and the style should be novel, Mother Liu, hurry up and pull more white cloth, let the people in the house cut it into filial piety clothes, and prepare a good young women's shroud." ”
A few hours later, Baili Mansion had already become white, and from a distance, everyone thought that there was a funeral in the house.
After Bai Liyu woke up, when he saw this situation, his face immediately changed. "Chen Mengyu, what are you doing here?" he walked on the Baili Mansion, his steps a little staggering.
"What are you doing? Of course, it is to prepare a funeral for your baby daughter, the concubine heard on the street, everyone who went to Yucheng recently was drowned, our wild goose is watery and average, when you go to Yucheng, there is a chance that you will be drowned, and I, who is a stepmother, naturally want to prepare a beautiful funeral for her. Chen Mengyu seemed to be smiling.
"You, you poisonous woman, I ......" want to kill you, before the words were finished, Bai Liyu was already paralyzed on the ground, trembling all over.
"Oh no, my lord has had a stroke. The housekeeper hurriedly stepped forward to check Bai Liyu's symptoms.
"Nonsense, the lord is sleepy, come here, send the lord back to the room to rest, from now on, the affairs of the Baili Mansion will be in charge of me, the hostess. The doctor had already told Chen Mengyu about Bailiyu's condition, saying that he was angry and anxious, and it was not easy to be stimulated by any more, otherwise he would definitely have to worry about his life.
The master of this hundred-mile mansion can only be done by her Chen Mengyu alone, whoever dares to stand in her way, she will pick up someone's skin and smoke someone's tendons!!
Two days later, on an afternoon in the Rumeng Villa near Yucheng, the beautiful singers shuttled between the guests of the villa.
"There is wine today and drunkenness today, come, let us have a drink. A middle-aged man at the head raised his glass and said, his face was sad, his eyes were misty, and he seemed to have something unspeakable.
"Come, get drunk with the tall man. During the banquet, the guests also raised their glasses and invited each other.
These guests are all disaster relief officials in Yucheng, and the tall man is the disaster relief leader Gao He, who has been in a lot of trouble about disaster relief in the past two days, and they can't vent for a while, and they are really uncomfortable, and it just so happens that an official has been to the nearby Rumeng Villa to play, saying how charming the dancing girls there are, how delicious the food is, and the spring heart of these officials is budding, plus Zuo Xiquan went to Yanjing City in the past two days, and no one dared to restrain them.
So, they boldly came to Rumeng Villa to have fun.
Outside the villa, the autumn rain is drieving, and inside the remaining city, there is an ocean, there are still hundreds of corpses floating in the water, the water is still rising, and in the sound of heavy rain, you can still hear the cries of women and children.