Chapter 330: Sleep
Jiang Yu almost didn't fall off the chair after hearing this, and looked at Cui Chongyi with wide eyes, a little suspicious that she said the wrong thing or that she heard the wrong thing.
Cui Chongyi obviously didn't think that his words were so explosive to Jiang Yu, and still said: "I have already guessed, I have long guessed that you are not the same person as Meng Yuyu before. No matter how much a person changes, how can his personality be so different, like two completely opposite people. It wasn't until the last time, the last time I heard the conversation between the emperor and the Linyuan National Master outside the Zichen Palace, that I knew that the current concubine Niangniang, and the current you, were Meng Yuyu's body with Jiang Yu's soul. It's such a horrific thing, but I believed it the moment I heard it. I really don't know if you are Meng Yuyu or Jiang Yu now, maybe you should be Jiang Yu. โ
"So, you can't stay in the palace any longer. You know, the emperor loves Meng Yuyu, he knew that Meng Yuyu was unhappy but still forcibly accepted her into the palace, he was worried about her, tired for her, sad for her, I have never seen the emperor so attentive to a woman, everything about Meng Yuyu affects the emperor's emotions. Maybe the emperor also likes you now, but it is still not as good as Meng Yuyu's position in his heart. But now that Meng Yuyu is about to wake up from this body, you have been sleeping from time to time recently, sometimes sleeping for two or three days, which is a sign that Meng Yuyu is about to wake up. Between you Jiang Yu and Meng Yuyu, of course the emperor will only choose Meng Yuyu. The emperor has already ordered the national master to prepare the soul transfer array, if it really succeeds, your soul will leave this body, and then you will have only one way to die. โ
Jiang Yu slowly stood up from the chair, looked at Cui Chongyi, and kept looking at her.
She didn't have the heart to worry about her actually knowing that she wasn't Meng Yuyu, because what was even more shocking was what she said below.
Cui Chongyi continued: "I know that there is a secret passage in the palace, which was used by the Queen Mother to communicate with the outside world, and this secret passage has not been sealed by the emperor for the time being. I don't want you to have anything to do, so you better listen to my advice and leave the palace to avoid the emperor for the time being. โ
Although Cui Chongyi's words shocked her, Jiang Yu didn't completely believe it, she looked at Cui Chongyi, shook her head and said, "I don't believe it, I don't believe that Yu Wenhong will treat me like this." โ
She could feel Yu Wenhong's sincerity to her, they even had children together and had a common bloodline, she didn't believe that all this was fake. Unless Yu Wenhong told her in person that he was really going to kill her for Meng Yuyu.
Jiang Yu took two steps from the chair, his eyes staring ahead as if he was empty. Her mind was blank now, and she couldn't think of anything clearly. It's like a mess again, and it can't be straightened out.
She took two steps forward, paused, and walked on, this time with a determined gaze without pausing.
Cui Chongyi grabbed her and asked, "Why are you going?"
Jiang Yu said: "Ask him clearly." โ
Cui Chongyi hurriedly said: "If you go to the emperor, the emperor will be on guard, and you will never be able to escape from the palace again." โ
Jiang Yu shook off her hand and said, "That's also my life, I dare to bet and I'm willing to bear the consequences of losing." After saying that, he left in a hurry.
Jiang Yu originally wanted to go to the Xuanqing Palace, but halfway through, he finally lost the upper hand with his life. If everything Cui Chongyi said was true, she would undoubtedly be startling when she went to Yuwenhong to question at this time.
In the final analysis, when it comes to Meng Yuyu, her confidence in Yu Wenhong is so fragile and breakable. Since they got together, she rarely mentioned the name Meng Yuyu. The name Meng Yuyu was like a wall in their hearts, and she carefully avoided it, but that wall was always there.
She diverted to the Taiyu Divine Palace, and she even believed in Lin Yuan more than Yu Wenhong. Compared with Meng Yuyu, who he didn't know, she had a deeper friendship with him, and between her and Meng Yuyu, he might choose her Jiang Yu. So if she asks Lin Yuan, he might tell her the truth.
But what Jiang Yu didn't expect was that Yuwenhong was not in Xuanqing Palace, he was also in Taiyu Divine Palace. Not only Yuwenhong is here, but even their son Yuwending is also there.
When Jiang Yu came to the Taiyu Divine Palace, there were only a few little eunuchs wearing Taoist robes at the door.
The little eunuch saw her kneeling down to greet her, and said that he would go in immediately to inform the national teacher. Jiang Yu was in a hurry, waved his hand at them, and said, "No need, go in the palace by yourself." And because he didn't want someone to be present when she was talking to Lin Yuan, he ordered them: "This palace and the national teacher have something to discuss, and you are not allowed to follow up." โ
Then she went all the way in, all the way to the Taoist room where Lin Yuan practiced on weekdays.
The Taishu Shrine has not changed much as always, and the huge gossip map on the wall still makes people feel mysterious. She walked to the door of the Taoist room, and at a glance saw Lin Yuan standing inside and Yu Wenhong holding Yu Wending.
Lin Yuan said to Yu Wenhong: "At that time, the poor Dao will set up a soul transfer array here, and the soul transfer technique requires two drops of essence blood from the dearest person, and then the little prince will also bring it with the emperor." In addition, the emperor also needs to find the body of a woman with the same birthday as Jiang Niangniang's birthday as soon as possible, and it is also a yin and yang physique, and this woman must not be dead for more than three days. At that time, I will recite a mantra to lure Jiang Niangniang's soul into this woman's body and place it, and then recite a Qingming mantra to wake up Jiang Niangniang and Meng Niangniang. โ
Yuwenhong didn't speak for a long time, and he didn't know if Yuwending in his arms was a little uneasy, so he suddenly cried.
Yu Wenhong hurriedly hugged him lightly and shook him gently, making Yu Wending quiet again.
Yu Wenhong asked, "Will Jiang Yu definitely wake up?"
Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "I don't know, I haven't used this method, and my master hasn't used it, it's just recorded in the book." Since it has not been used, how can you ensure the final result. What's more, this is a Dao method that violates the Dao of Heaven, and after the poor Dao activates this method, his own Dao deeds will also be scattered. โ
If you want to have a body to place Jiang Niangniang's soul, you must destroy the soul in the original body. In the final analysis, this is actually a life-for-life method, which can be regarded as an extremely vicious Taoism. Therefore, the heavens are about to punish those who use this kind of Taoism, so it will cause them to lose their Taoism and reduce their lifespan.
Jiang Yu was already in tears when she heard this, she didn't go in to stop Yu Wenhong or Lin Yuan to question, there is nothing more real than seeing is believing.
She quietly withdrew from the Taiyu Divine Palace, and the whole person was in a trance.
Sure enough, in his heart, she is still not as good as Meng Yuyu, he may not be completely ruthless to her, and he doesn't want her to die, but between Meng Yuyu and her Jiang Yu, he still chose Meng Yuyu.
He may have never dispelled the idea of banishing her from Meng Yuyu's body and then reawakening Meng Yuyu, so he let Lin Yuan activate the Soul Shifting Array.
It's ridiculous that she really believed that he fell in love with her, and gave birth to Yu Wending with him. No, maybe even Yuwen Ding was just his calculation, because Lin Yuan said that activating the Soul Shifting Array required the essence blood of her loved ones. She is lonely and helpless in this world, where is there any dear relatives, since there is none, then she can only create one.
She arrived at the door in a trance, and said to the palace people of the Taiyu Divine Palace: "Don't tell the emperor and the national teacher that the palace has come to the palace." Then he stumbled back to Zichen Palace.
Cui Chongyi was still in the Zichen Palace, anxiously walking around, seeing Jiang Yu coming back, the whole person seemed to have no soul, and hurriedly greeted her to support her, and asked, "How is it?"
Jiang Yu pushed her away and entered the bedroom by herself, then turned her head and slammed the door shut, turning everything away.
Cui Chongyi stood at the door and looked at the closed door, sighed deeply, and turned to Chengxiang and the others with a worried face: "You guys go down first, the palace is here to stay." โ
Chengxiang was a little reluctant to leave, and said: "Looking at the mother's appearance, it seems that something has happened, do you want to tell the emperor." โ
Cui Chongyi said sharply: "If you want to kill your mother, go ahead." โ
Chengxiang lowered her eyes, after all, she didn't know what happened to Jiang Yu, and she was willing to call the emperor at this time, so she had to suppress this idea for the time being, thinking that if the mother was still like this at night, she would definitely tell the emperor.
Chengxiang bent her knees and said, "That slave went to prepare some food for Niangniang, and bothered Cui Niangniang to guard our Niangniang for the time being." โ
Cui Chongyi nodded.
In the dormitory, Jiang Yu was lying on the bed, looking at the phoenix bird on the top of the tent with his eyes open, and he was heartbroken as if he had been abandoned for a while, and scolded Yu Wenhong's ruthlessness in his heart for a while, and then spit on himself for being stupid and deceived by someone.
Jiang Yu thought of Yu Wenwei, if it was him, he would definitely not treat her like this.
But in the end, the only thought that occupied Jiang Yu's mind was what she should do now.
She slowly closed her eyes, then opened them again. I asked myself in my heart, did she really do nothing like this? Waiting for Yu Wenhong and Lin Yuan to use the soul transfer spell on her.
Even Lin Yuan said that she might not wake up in the end. She can't wake up, and what the end result will be is death.
She doesn't want to die, even if she has nothing, even if no one loves her, she wants to live well.
No, she can't sit still. If he doesn't leave her, he won't give up, and since he has left, what else does she have to give up. In this case, it is better to escape from the palace and let the birds fly in the sky.
Jiang Yu jumped up from the bed all of a sudden, stood up for a moment, and then walked to the door and opened the door. Cui Chongyi was still standing by the door, with her head down, not knowing what she was thinking.
Seeing Jiang Yu open the door, Cui Chongyi opened her mouth and just wanted to speak, but Jiang Yu had already signaled inside, and said to her coldly: "Come in." โ
Cui Chongyi sighed deeply and walked in.
Jiang Yu closed the door again, and then asked her, "Do you really have a way to send me out of the palace?"
Cui Chongyi nodded.
Jiang Yu said: "Maybe you have your own selfishness in your heart, but I hope you really just want me out of the palace instead of wanting my life, I can only rely on you now so I am willing to believe in you once." He added, "I hope the sooner possible, preferably tonight." I will keep Ding'er in the palace for the time being, but I will find a way to steal him out after leaving the palace, and I hope you will help me when the time comes. โ
She can't escape from the palace with Yuwending now, he is Yuwenhong's own son, Yuwenhong won't hurt him no matter what, she still has this confidence. So she can only abandon him for the time being, leave him in the palace for the time being, and try to find a way after she leaves the palace.
Cui Chongyi lowered his head, avoided Jiang Yu's gaze, and said slowly: "I'm a little rushed tonight, I need to go back and prepare now." โ
Jiang Yu said: "Then you go, I also need time to prepare." I also have to find a way to keep the emperor from staying in my Zichen Palace tonight, and then avoid all eyes and ears. As he spoke, he thought of something, and asked, "By the way, when will we meet tonight?"
Cui Chongyi said: "Tonight, you come to Jing'an Palace, where the Queen Mother lived before her death, and I will wait for you there." โ
Jiang Yu nodded.
Cui Chongyi bent her knees, and then retreated.
When she left Zichen Palace, she looked up at him, but just happened to see a kite floating from the sky above her head. Cui Chongyi didn't look at it much, and gradually lowered his head, his thoughts unclear.
After Cui Chongyi left, Jiang Yu sat on the couch and was quiet for a while, then called Chengxiang and said to her: "You go and find General Zhu, there is something to find him in this palace." โ
Chengxiang glanced at Jiang Yu, Zhu Hong is now a general of the Praetorian Guard, and he is not as strict as other foreign ministers when entering and leaving the palace. But even so, the harem concubines will still know how to avoid suspicion with foreign men. Chengxiang knew that Jiang Yu had a good relationship with General Zhu, but she also felt that it was a little inappropriate for her to often announce General Zhu to the harem like this.
Seeing that she didn't move, Jiang Yu glared at her fiercely and said, "You don't want to go quickly." โ
Chengxiang didn't dare to persuade her, so she said, "Yes, the slave will go." โ
When Zhu Hong came to Zichen Palace, Jiang Yu quietly said a few words to him.
Zhu Hong couldn't help but smile after hearing this: "What the hell are you doing, why do you want to ยทยทยทยทยทยท?"
Jiang Yu interrupted him and said, "Don't ask me what my purpose is, in short, you just do what I tell you." Ah Hong, I rarely ask you for anything, you just beg you this time, okay? โ
Zhu Hong said: "It's not that the emperor offended you, so you want to take revenge on him, right? โ
Jiang Yu gritted his teeth and said: "That's right, he just offended me, and he offended me greatly." โ
Zhu Hong smiled softly again: "Okay, I'll help you." Who made me never bear to refuse your request, if the emperor knew about it, at most he would take a few strokes of the board, and he would not take my life. โ
To some extent, he still had to avoid suspicion, Zhu Hong didn't stay in Zichen Palace for too long and left.
In the evening, Yuwenhong did not return to Jiang Yu's Zichen Palace, because Fengxian Hall suddenly went to the water for no reason, involving the tablets of the ancestors of the Yuwen family, and he, the emperor, naturally attached great importance to it and naturally had to deal with it. But before that, Yu Wenhong sent Yu Wending back.
After dinner, Jiang Yu coaxed Yu Wending, who had been crying, fed him a little water, and then put him in the shaker, watching him and guarding him.
When the child was tired of crying, he gradually fell asleep, and then he would not wake up no matter how much trouble he made.
Jiang Yu looked at him, reached out and touched his face, his eyes couldn't help but gradually moisten. She bit the back of her hand and held back the cries she wanted to vent.
Then when it was time to be fast, Jiang Yu put on his clothes and overcoat, walked out of the dormitory and instructed Cheng Xiang: "Guard the little prince well, go out for a walk in the palace, and come back in half an hour." โ
Cheng Xiang said yes, and then went to arrange for someone to follow her.
Jiang Yu said to her: "You don't need anyone to follow, this palace wants to be alone and quiet, and it won't go far." Bring me a lantern to show me the way, and everyone else will stay in the palace. โ
Although Chengxiang persuaded him, he didn't dare to disobey Jiang Yu in the end.
The night was very quiet, there were no stars or moon, and even the palace people were less than roaming around.
Jiang Yu walked out of the door of Zichen Palace, and after confirming that the palace people of Zichen Palace could no longer see her and no one followed her, she turned around and hurriedly went to Jing'an Palace.
It is probably Cui Chongyi who made preparations in advance, and there are no palace people in Jing'an Palace today. Cui Chongyi was already waiting there, wearing a black cloak and carrying a lantern in her hand, just standing in the wind. The lantern shone on her contemplative countenance, but it was impossible to guess what she was thinking.
Seeing Jiang Yu, who also came alone with a lantern, Cui Chongyi didn't say much to her, so she said: "Niangniang, let's go with me, we have to move quickly, otherwise I'm afraid that someone will find us soon." โ
As he spoke, he led Jiang Yu out of Jing'an Palace and went in another direction.
Jiang Yu said strangely: "Isn't the secret passage you said in Jing'an Palace, where are you going now?" โ
Cui Chongyi shook his head and said, "The secret passage is not in Jing'an Palace, how could Empress Dowager Cui be so cautious and set up the secret passage in her own bedroom." The secret passage is in the Jiaolan Palace where Meng Xuanyu used to live, and even Meng Xuanyu doesn't know about it. If I hadn't stayed by Empress Dowager Cui's side for a long time, even I wouldn't have found a clue. โ
said again: "I don't have time to explain to you now, I will explain it to you carefully when I have a chance in the future, now Niangniang quickly follow me." โ
Jiang Yu sighed deeply, and could only follow Cui Chongyi's footsteps step by step.
But somehow, she suddenly felt her eyelids jump, and her chest panicked, and she always felt like something was going to happen tonight, and then her steps became slower and slower.
Cui Chongyi probably felt that she was walking slowly, so she turned around and called: "Niangniang." โ
Jiang Yu stopped, looked at Cui Chongyi, and asked, "Is it too hasty for me to decide to escape from the palace like this." There are a lot of things I don't think through, and tonight is so quiet, but it makes me feel not calm at all, not calm and scary. โ
Cui Chongyi walked over and pulled her, and said as she pulled her away: "Let's go, don't think about it so much." If you think about it again, you really can't leave, do you really want to die in the palace. โ
When she arrived at Jiaolan Palace, Cui Chongyi took her to a room where a subordinate lived in the apse and walked to the bedside. Cui Chongyi lifted the bed on the bed, reached out and groped at the head of the bed for a while, pressed a button, and then the bed board of the bed was actually moved to both sides, revealing that the middle of the bed was a secret passage for one person to enter and exit.
No one thought that in this subordinate room, under the bed where the palace people slept, there would be such a thing. Jiang Yu could even imagine that the person who slept in this room must have been Empress Dowager Cui's people.
Cui Chongyi turned her head to Jiang Yu and said, "Niangniang, let's go, get off this secret passage, and someone will answer you in the secret passage." They will take you out of the palace and arrange your life for the rest of your life. โ
Jiang Yu stood there for a long time, looking at the secret passage in a daze.
Cui Chongyi shouted: "Niangniang...... Ah Yu ...... "After speaking, he reached out and pulled her sleeve.
Jiang Yu stood still and thought for a long time, and finally pushed Cui Chongyi's hand away, shook his head and said, "No, I can't go, I won't go." โ
Cui Chongyi didn't speak, just looked at her.
Jiang Yu said: "He and I are husband and wife, and we are people who have made a covenant to each other. Even if I don't believe him, I should at least give him a chance to defend himself. Besides, I still have a fixed child, he is still so young, I can't abandon him. I can't go, I really think my decision tonight was too hasty......" he shook his head, patted his head, and said, "I don't know what's wrong with me lately, I'm confused, my mind is not clear, I can't figure out a lot of things, and I always do stupid things." โ
Cui Chongyi lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking, a little struggle on her face, a little wry smile and self-deprecation, and some imperceptible shame.
These complicated emotions flashed by, and when she raised her head again, she smiled at Jiang Yu and said, "If Niangniang has decided, then let's go back, maybe we really misunderstood the emperor." โ
Jiang Yu nodded, turned around and prepared to leave Jiaolan Palace.
And at this moment, she suddenly felt a figure flash behind her. Jiang Yu listened to the footsteps, frowned, and just wanted to look back, but he heard Cui Chongyi's "ah", followed by a "bang" sound of falling to the ground.
Jiang Yu hurriedly turned around and saw Cui Chongyi who had fallen to the ground, his eyes closed. Jiang Yu let out a loud startled sound, and the lantern in his hand fell.
Then, before she could react, a figure loomed in front of her, and before she could look up to see his face, she felt her head suffer a heavy blow, and then the darkness in front of her eyes fell to the ground.
Jiang Yu was groggy and wanted to open his eyes but couldn't. Before she passed out, she heard a lot of footsteps outside the door, and she was hurrying here. Wan proudly and anxiously shouted: "Your Majesty, you go slowly." โ
Jiang Yu moved his lips and muttered to shout, "Yuwenhong." But he couldn't make a sound.
Then she heard a woman's voice again, shouting one by one: "Jiang Yu, Jiang Yu......" The woman's voice seemed to come from another soul in her body, and the timbre was both familiar and unfamiliar.
Jiang Yu thought about it for a long time before she remembered, oh, isn't this voice her usual talking voice, the voice that belongs to this body. It was strange to her because she was sure it wasn't herself who was talking. Who is it? Is it Meng Yuyu? Has she finally woken up?
Jiang Yu thought that in the end, she still had to leave, leaving this body that did not belong to her.
Then she fell into a complete slumber, not feeling anything more.