35. Chapter 35
Emperor Lihuang discussed countermeasures with the ministers, and the idle people retreated outside to enjoy the coolness, and the boudoir also retreated, and after the end, Helian Yi came to find her, and he said, Lihuang is going to summon you now, and Qing Boudoir asked, do you know what? Helian Yi said, you will understand when you go.
Qing Boudoir went, but saw a woman in Buddhist clothes talking to Lixun, seeing that Qing Boudoir came and immediately did not speak, she was very strange, how could this emperor be with the old nun, was he not hit and planned to enter the Buddhist gate?
Lixun said 'flat body', Qing Boudoir dared to stand up, Lixun didn't ask anything, just asked about Mrs. Mu Zhu's situation, Qing Boudoir said: "Thank you for the emperor's concern, my mother is well!"
Lixun nodded, and his face suddenly became solemn: "Qing Boudoir, there is something I want to tell you, it is about your life experience, in fact, you are not the biological daughter of Lady Joan of Arc, you are the daughter of the eldest princess, and you are my royal sister!"
Qing Boudoir was stunned, just like listening to the story, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this kind of joke is a bit too much!"
"I'm not joking! What I said is true!" Lixun's face was stern, not at all like a joke: "Ten years ago, my imperial aunt handed you over to Mu Zhu, concealed your identity from the outside world, and asked your mother to take good care of you!"
"Oh, is it? Since you sent me away, it is abandonment, all abandoned, what is the emperor still looking for the people's daughter? Do you want to recognize your relatives?"
"I know that you can't accept it, in fact, I can't accept it either, I only found out not long ago, the queen mother is the ultimate informant, and this Taoist aunt is also informed, they saw that I was so infatuated, and staged a farce of marriage, so they told the truth of the matter, otherwise I would still be in the dark!"
Qing Boudoir was quite speechless: "Why did you suddenly tell me this?" It's not that she is too careful, now the situation is so critical, they don't discuss countermeasures, but recognize relatives here, how does it feel wrong.
"I want to borrow you in exchange for Gu Rongyu, and then ask him to release the Queen Mother! You are his former apprentice, and now only you can deceive him, and only you can give him room to maneuver!"
Qing Boudoir felt ridiculous, when she was good, she couldn't think of her, and she immediately came to confess her relatives as soon as something happened, who did he think of me?
"That's just a façade, he can see you!"
Qing Boudoir smiled again: "Okay, even if the goddess of the people is vast and can make the world spin, then what? Why should I save the Queen Mother? Save you? Just because you are the emperor and she is the Queen Mother?"
"Because the Queen Mother is your aunt!"
"Uncle?" Qing Boudoir smiled bitterly, feeling that it was a big joke in the world, she thought that why did she suddenly come to recognize her relatives, it turned out that she wanted her to save the queen mother, if it wasn't for the queen mother, they were afraid that they would not be able to remember her for the rest of their lives, as for this queen mother, she was even more speechless, in addition to putting on a shelf, it was selfish, for Ruyi's marriage, she ruthlessly separated her from Helian Yi, and slapped her in the face, how ruthless does it take to be able to do it? Now let her save her, why? Why should she save it? A bitter smile gradually froze on her lips: "Uncle? Zhang Ping, the daughter of Zhang Yuanwai, the aunt of the people's daughter, where is there another aunt? Isn't it too appalling for the emperor? It's good to know, but those who don't know still think that I, Zheng Qingbou, want to take the opportunity to climb high!"
"I know that for so many years, it was the queen mother who was sorry for you, but it was all helpless, you were not the biological daughter of the concubine, but the royal aunt was born of an affair with a guard, this is a scandal, it is not visible! It will bring shame to the royal family!"
"Since you are ashamed, why does the emperor still have to say it? I was afraid of being ashamed before, won't I be ashamed in the future? You keep saying that you can't see the light, since this is the case, then you should rot in your stomach, and no one will tell you, instead of choosing this time to say it, in order to save the queen mother, it is important for you, It's unfair to the people's daughters, you love your mother, I also love mine, your mother has so many children, and my mother only has me, I can't abandon my mother and listen to your royal people make up stories, I've had enough, the people's daughter and the emperor, one is the king, the other is the people, I hope the emperor won't mess with the rules!"
"Don't you really want to forgive the royal family at all?
"Yes! I Zheng Qingyu don't want to have anything to do with the royal family, please don't come to entangle the emperor again!" After that, Qingbou turned around and left, and walked to the door, but was stopped by the guards, Qingbou turned around and was angry: "What does the emperor want to do?"
"Since you don't recognize the eldest princess as your mother, then I'm welcome!"
"What do you want to do?"
"Don't do anything, I just want to hold you hostage and make an exchange with Gu Rongyu, one life is worth one life! Don't worry, I am just borrowing you for use, and I won't really kill you!"
Qing Boudoir has never seen such an unreasonable person, soft is not good, hard is hard, and I am tired of it, especially Lixun, she feels that she is a hypocrite from beginning to end, what to say to recognize relatives, there is no sincerity at all, so she shouted: "Your Majesty, how can you be so selfish? For the sake of filial piety, can you really care about the life and death of others?"
Lixun didn't speak, just let them be escorted away, and locked up in a room, in the room, Qing Boudoir saw that her mother was also tied in, and couldn't help but sigh at their hypocrisy, and asked her mother how she was doing, but now, directly tied people, she didn't understand whether this was out of concern, or afraid that her mother couldn't toss it, and something happened, anyway, she was in a bad mood now.
The mother and daughter were escorted together, and the boudoir looked at her, too lazy to struggle, but her eyes were a little hollow and asked: "Mother, is what Emperor Lihuang said true?
No one else, she believed anyone, but she believed her mother's words, which was her disease.
"Lixun told you?" Qing Boudoir nodded, Mu Zhu said: "That's right, my mother has lied to you for so many years, you are not my daughter, my daughter died when she was two years old, her name is 'Qing Boudoir', which is your current name, at that time there was a eunuch who brought you over, I was very happy, I treated you as my own, and even I forgot whether you were the Qing boudoir before, so Qing Boudoir, please forgive me!
"So it's all true!"
"Child, don't be discouraged, although you are not my own child, but I have no false feelings about you? I don't need to have any doubts about your heart, my mother has always been towards you, no matter how severe the situation is, with my mother, my mother will not let you be wronged!"
Qing Boudoir suddenly wanted to cry, but if she really cried, wouldn't her mother be worried about her, and after thinking about it, she still didn't cry: "Mother, don't say stupid things, you are my mother, forever, as for the eldest princess, since she abandoned me, it means that she thinks I am her shame, in that case, why do you have to force it? What about the princess? What about the royal family? Whether it is my freedom or not, and the cow does not drink water, do they still have to force their heads?"
"You can think like this, my mother is very happy, but if you don't go to the royal family, but choose to follow the ordinary me, you will regret it, your future, your marriage will be affected!"
"I don't care about the future, even if it is admired by thousands of people, fighting every day, the second half of my life may not be really happy, I should know that plain is the best, although food and clothing may be a little worse, but I have a mother, I have freedom, as long as I can be with the person I like every day, I don't want anything!"
Mu Zhu smiled on her lips, her boudoir was sensible, and it was really happy to watch.
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This night, Qing Boudoir is a little sleepless, tomorrow is the day of negotiation, she is very sure that she can see the master tomorrow, although it is to see him in this way, but she is very conflicted in her heart, happy and unhappy, happy that she can finally see the master, the heart is not open is the change of the master, the master has always been pure-hearted, he doesn't care about anything, this son can actually fight for power and profit, occupy the glass palace, and call himself the 'lord of the country', is this all what he wants?
Suddenly, it was a little ridiculous, it turned out that over the years, Master's pure heart and few desires were all fake, what sincerity, what justice, what kind of indifferent desires, in the end he himself still could not avoid vulgarity? When she thought that Master was a person with interests at all, she couldn't accept it, and suddenly felt that all the teachings of the past had become sarcasm.
But she wanted to make excuses for him, and she desperately comforted herself that these were all appearances, and everything would not be clear until tomorrow.
The next day, Qing Boudoir saw Rongyu in the western suburbs, when the two teams of people confronted each other, Lixun on one side, Rongyu on the other, Rongyu because of the power, dressed in gorgeous clothes, the whole person looked unusually cold, the two people were obviously very good in the past, but when they met again, he was like a different person, even strangers are not as good.
I only heard Rong Yu speak: "What I want, can you bring it?"
"Bring it!" Lixun replied, and after the words fell, Rong Yu stood in front of everyone, raised his hand and said, "Bring someone to me!"
The Queen Mother was brought up, only to see that her face was full of bruises and an iron chain was locked around her neck.
Seeing that the queen mother was injured like that, Lixun also pushed Qing Boudoir and Mu Zhu forward: "Gu Rongyu, I will talk to you about a condition today, you let go of the queen mother, let go of their mother and daughter, we don't owe each other, how about it?"
"Change your life? Just two Diao people, you dare to talk to me about conditions? You take them too seriously!" Rong Yu said: "I said, you want the jade seal, and the rest of them live and die, it has nothing to do with me, if you want to kill, then kill them directly!"
Qing Boudoir couldn't believe his ears, is this what he should say? From last night to now, she has always wanted to see him, but she didn't think of seeing him, but she was even more worried, he didn't care about her, even if she died, he didn't care, it turned out that in his heart, she was just similar to a cat and a dog, she wanted to pet it, she wanted to lose it, and the humble one was not worth mentioning, but even so, she still comforted herself, he was just helpless, he just had a hard time, she looked at him deeply, obviously not far away, but it was the end of the world......
Lixun glared at her, clenched her fists tightly, and at this time the Queen Mother suddenly said: "Emperor, don't worry about the mourning family, if you want to rebel, you will rebel against him, otherwise our Dali Kingdom will really become his, think about it, lose the country, how can you be worthy of the lords and ancestors? Emperor, don't hesitate!"
Lixun clenched his fists tightly, thought about the queen mother, and then suppressed his heart and said: "Yuxi, I brought it! You let the queen mother go!"
"Take it, I'll inspect the goods, and when it's done, I'll release it!"
At this time, a eunuch walked up with a plate, looked at it from a distance, there was a wrapped jade seal on the plate, the little eunuch looked at Lixun, and then cautiously walked in front of Rongyu, someone went up to untie the square silk outside, revealing the coiling dragon, Rongyu held the jade seal with his hand, watched the authenticity of its jade, looked at it, only heard a 'bang', the jade seal exploded like gunpowder, Rong Yu turned around, hid cleanly, the smoke dissipated, Rong Yu waved his white sleeves, only to know that the jade seal was fraudulent.
Seeing the mistake, Li Xun knew that he couldn't be deceived, so he immediately said: "Kill me and rescue the Queen Mother!"
All of a sudden, the two soldiers fought, the fight was inextricable, Qing Boudoir picked up the sword from the ground in the chaos, cut off the rope on his hand, at this time ten thousand arrows were fired, at this time she saw Mrs. Mu Zhu hit a sword, Qing Boudoir saw that her mother fell with an arrow in the chest, Qing Boudoir waved her sword and pounced, hugging her: "Mother, mother......"
"Boudoir, let's go, leave me alone!"
The two looked at each other, Qing Boudoir was afraid that her mother would be uncomfortable, so she carefully protected her mother's chest with her hands, and suddenly someone behind her slashed over with a big knife, Mu Zhu said, 'Child, be careful', turned around and blocked it, but the knife slashed at Mu Zhu's back, Qing Boudoir looked helplessly at Mu Zhu's face distorted because of pain, the whole person was stunned, she kicked away the man, caught her, Mu Zhu fell into her arms, Mu Zhu said with a painful face: "Child...... Come on...... Let's go......"
"Mother......
"Let's go......" Mu Zhu said the last word, and the whole person fell......
"Mother-" Qing Boudoir hugged Mu Zhu's corpse and cried bitterly, feeling that her world had collapsed, originally speaking, originally going through this struggle, she went to the countryside with her to buy land, and now, she left her like this, how can you ask her to accept it? How can it?
Suddenly, she hated Emperor Li, hated Master, and hated the so-called struggle for imperial power, if it weren't for them, her mother wouldn't have died.
Outside, the sky was dark, the sky gradually became hazy, and in the haze, I saw someone pulling her arm, and when she raised her eyes, it was Rong Yu, and he said: Follow me.
Qing Boudoir hugged Mu Zhu tightly, shook her head with a wry smile, as if she had been hit hard, Rong Yu reached out to touch her, she also froze, there was no way, Rong Yu could only cover her head and force her to go.
Gunsmoke is everywhere, and it is impossible to distinguish between southeast and northwest.