Death?

The Empress Dowager's decree?

Twilight Qing was shocked, feeling incredible, the new emperor ascended the throne, the court was unstable, the court at that time was not the court of the Yuan family, how could the empress dowager dare to give the new emperor's biological mother to death?

"Secret Decree." Bu Xihuan said, "I refused to enter the palace at that time, and I clamored for my mother to accompany me, so the palace made a secret decree. ”

"Why?"

"The punishment of the silk." Bu Xihuan, every word is like ice.

Twilight's heart is also cold, she often walks in the yamen, and has seen the eighteen kinds of torture in the official prison, and the punishment of covering silk is not among them. This is not a punishment used by the government to interrogate the people, but is specially used to torture officials to extract confessions, and the person who punishes the prisoner will take a sip of soju and spray it on mulberry paper during the execution, and cover the face of the prisoner with damp and soft paper, and the paper will be attached to the face, covering the mouth and nose, causing people to suffocate.

The mulberry paper is so thin that only one person will not die, but if the person being tortured refuses to admit his guilt, the person who is being tortured will add another piece of paper, stacking one by one, and if there are four or five sheets, the person will be suffocated to death! The cruelty of this punishment lies in the long fear and torture of people before they die.

There are only five types of criminal law in Daxing -- flogging, rod, imprisonment, exile, and death. There are only three kinds of death punishments: hanging, beheading, and Ling Chi, and even the death in the palace is only three kinds of poisonous wine, white silk, and daggers. The secret decree gave the death of Princess Heng, but the punishment used was not officially used, and there was only one possibility, that is, to cover up the cause of death.

"After the death of the mother's concubine, she declared to the outside world that she was sick and died depressed."

Really!

Poisoned wine, white silk, dagger, which method of giving death will leave scars on the deceased's body, and there are no visible scars on the surface of the suffocation, and only by doing it can the cause of death be judged by the bulging abdomen.

However, it is also suffocation, covering the person with a pillow is only a moment's work, and the punishment of covering the person with a silk is a long torture for the victim. The Empress Dowager tortured Princess Heng like this, what kind of hatred did she have?

"The Empress Dowager has an old grudge against Princess Heng?" Twilight Qing is puzzled, there are often things in the palace to leave a son to go to his mother, but the method of killing people will give a lot of pleasure, so torturing a person, unless there is a grudge, "Also, what about King Heng?" Did he watch his wife suffer like this? ”

"Him?" Bu Xihuan smiled desolately, "He has a room of concubines and concubines, and he also buys a singer to enter the house from time to time, how can he still have a concubine in his heart?" On the day of the concubine's punishment, he was in the beauty of the Qinglou, and it was not until dawn the next day that he was carried back to the house drunk like mud. ”

"So, he doesn't know about the secret decree?"

"He knows. The secret decree was issued the first day, and he didn't dare to stay in the mansion after receiving the decree, so he left the mansion and went to the Qinglou that day. When the mother concubine was covered with a piece of yellow paper one after another, he drank one cup after another in the Qinglou, this is my good father! Bu Xi got up happily, strode to the window, pushed open the window, danced vigorously, and the wind knife cut the snowflakes all over the tree.

Twilight had nothing to say, she had handled too many cases, she had seen too many vicious criminals, and she knew that there were such people in the world. It's just hard to imagine how painful and desolate Princess Heng was when she was tortured, at that time she spent her most of her life, married a thin lover by mistake, her husband was cowardly, she didn't protect her wife, she didn't save her young son, a few people in the palace could torture her princess, no one in the palace made a sound, her husband didn't dare to protect her, her young son couldn't save her, she was covered with yellow paper on her face, suffocated to death......

"I was in the palace when my mother was killed, and I didn't know until seven days later when the palace reported to the court that she had died of depression. Daxing to filial piety to govern the country, the Empress Dowager ordered me to go back to the house for the mother concubine to guard the spirit, when I returned to the palace, the mourning hall smoked a strong incense, but could not cover the rotten gas, I ordered someone to open the coffin, saw the coffin lying in the person wearing the palace robe of the mother concubine, but the person has been ......"

Bu Xihuan couldn't say any more, but Twilight already knew.

The corpse was already decomposed.

It was February when Bu Xihuan ascended the throne, although it was early spring, but Shengjing was still cold, and there was snow from time to time, but seven days was enough for the corpse to show the view of a corrupt giant.

The corpse was highly decomposed, with swollen face, protruding eyes, lips turned outward, the tip of the tongue sticking out, swollen abdomen, bleeding from the mouth and nose, and vomiting after death, making it difficult to identify the deceased's appearance before death. Moreover, Princess Heng was suffocated, her abdomen was swollen, there was more gas, and when the corpse was decomposed, the decay speed of the abdomen would be faster than that of other parts.

This was seen by a six-year-old child, who was still his mother, and how did he survive?

Twilight Qing got up and walked to the window, she remembered the night of the Bianhe River, opened the coffin to examine Concubine Liu's bones, Bu Xihuan had stared at the coffin with a different expression, she was puzzled at that time, now she thinks that the scene touched this memory, right?

"I can't blow the cold wind, close the window." Twilight knew that she should say something to comfort people at this time, but she wouldn't comfort people, she didn't want him to blow the cold wind, and she couldn't say anything when the words came to her mouth, so she somehow said that.

When Bu Xihuan turned his head to look at her, he saw that she was lowering her head and frowning with a look of chagrin, even if she was a young man, her appearance was a little interesting and cute. There was some warmth in his eyes, and he closed the window with his hand, which had been buried in his heart for many years, and he had never told anyone about it, but tonight he said it, and his heart was much happier.

"Accompany you to keep the New Year, but in the end, it will make you unhappy to listen to it." Bu Xihuan walked back to the table and sat down.

"It's okay, I love to listen to the case, so I don't have to go to the teahouse to listen to the book." Twilight said, the food on the table was cold, and she said downstairs, "Come up and heat up the food." ”

She was full at the palace banquet, and she was not hungry at all at this time, but she remembered that Bu Xihuan had not eaten a few bites, and in two hours he would return to the palace to accept the hundred officials to congratulate him, and he could only eat after the dynasty, so it was better to eat this Chinese New Year's Eve meal.

Moon Kill was downstairs, and when she heard the summons, she came up and brought the food down, and after the people left, Twilight was stunned when she turned around.

Bu Xihuan lazily supported his chin, angry and itchy, but he still smiled: "That guest officer is happy to listen, should he be rewarded with some money?" ”

He is lazy there, painting candles and silver tables, his face is brighter than the moon, and he can receive the reward money when he sits in such a posture, and he still needs to tell a story?

"The guest officer came to the General's Mansion for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, can he give money for the meal?" Twilight asked rhetorically.

"It's so clear, but it's so stingy, I didn't see that you were addicted to money." Bu Xi laughed heartily.

"It's not stingy, it's just that the money has to be kept."

"What's the use of keeping it?"

"Marry a daughter-in-law."

"...... "Ahem!"

Bu Xihuan almost stumbled, seeing that Dusk Qing was expressionless, she said it confidently, and couldn't help but smile a little deeply, "Well, you have to keep it and save more, otherwise you really won't be able to marry a daughter-in-law." ”

Twilight Qing raised her eyebrows, "Ordinary people's families, two taels of silver is enough to buy a daughter-in-law, the minister is not gold, there are 1,000 taels of silver, and you can marry 500 daughters-in-law." ”

Marry 500 daughters-in-law?

Bu Xihuan lowered his head, his shoulders trembled slightly, and after a while, he laughed deeply. With her serious temperament, she can even joke. He knew that she wanted him to be in a better mood, otherwise she would accompany him to say this.

"Aiqing has good ambitions." After laughing for a while, Bu Xihuan raised his head, his eyebrows were doting, and he said, "However, there are no such people in my harem, so don't think about it." Instead of thinking about these boundless things, it is better to think about how to give the reward for listening to my storytelling. ”

Twilight knew at a glance that he didn't think about good things, and suddenly said with a cold face, "You want to receive the reward money halfway through the story?" ”

He hasn't said what grievances the Empress Dowager and Princess Heng have.

"She has no grudges with her mother." Bu Xihuan said lightly, "It is the first emperor who has a grudge against her." ”

The First Emperor?

"The ancestor of the Yuan family and the ancestor of the Gao family met in the wild, and they were the founding ministers, the nobles of the scholar family, the merits were high, and the first two generations were good, and then they were often involved with the prince. During the time of Renzong, the chaos of the party and the private dispute between the court and the court was very serious, and the prince who was friendly with the Yuan family was taken by Renzong to open the knife, and set up King Xian as the crown prince, the mother of King Xian was the daughter of the Shen family of the Marquis of Anping, and the Shen family and the Yuan family have always been politically discordant. After King Xian ascended the throne, he pressed the Yuan family again, and when he established the prince, he set up a prince who was not in harmony with the Yuan family, so after two dynasties, the Yuan family had withdrawn from the court when the first emperor, and led the court to be an idle prince. Who knew that Wuhu knocked on the border and broke the city, King Rong raised troops to rebel in the south of the Yangtze River, internal and external troubles, and the court could not suppress the situation, the first emperor broke the example of the first two dynasties, ascended to the gate of the Yuan family, worshiped the son of the old prince Yuan Guangwei, and allowed his daughter Yuan to be a concubine, and the Yuan family returned to the court. ”

Bu Xihuan said unhurriedly, and Twilight wanted to hear it, so he told her to tell her about it, and explained the grievance from beginning to end.

"These are what the DPRK knows, and there are still things that the DPRK and the PRC don't know."

"Insider?" Twilight asked.

"The Yuan family has had three queens and five prime ministers, the first emperor worshiped Yuan Guang as the prime minister and hired his sister as a concubine, how can the Yuan family look down on it?" Bu Xihuan sneered.

When Twilight heard this, she knew it in her heart. Although she doesn't care about political affairs, she still knows about major events, the first emperor reigned for thirty years, and the first empress died in the twenty-seventh year of Wude, that is, three years before the death of the first emperor. At that time, Yuan Guifei must have entered the palace, that is, the queen was still alive when the first emperor canonized Yuan Guifei, even so, naturally it cannot be allowed to give the Yuan family a posterior, so there is only one condition that can impress the Yuan family.

"The first emperor privately gave the Yuan family a secret edict, if the Yuan concubine gave birth to the imperial heir, then set up her son as the crown prince, and inherited the unification in the future." Bu Xi Huan.

Really!

Twilight felt a chill in her heart, and what was going to happen was probably expected.

"The first emperor was over fifty years old when he canonized Yuan Guifei, but Yuan Guifei was pregnant with a dragon fetus two years after entering the palace, giving birth to nine princes for the first emperor. But when the Nine Emperor Princes were three years old, there was a drought and starvation in the north of the Yangtze River, and the people had an epidemic that was introduced to Shengjing, and the Nine Emperor Princes unfortunately contracted the epidemic and died young. ”

There were some rumors about this matter, and Twilight had heard it, but it was not credible that the folk fabricated things were not credible, and she didn't think much about it. But tonight, after listening to many things about the Yuan family and the first emperor, I intuitively felt that the death of the Nine Emperor Princes must not be simple.

"Is it really an epidemic?" Twilight asked. Although it cannot be said that strict precautions will not be introduced into the palace, but the Nine Emperors are the future reliance of the Yuan family, and they are the flesh and blood of the Yuan Guifei, and the entire Yuan family will not allow this child to have an accident.

"It is indeed an epidemic, but it was not contracted in the palace." Bu Xi Huan.

"Where is that?"

"The Yuan family."

“……”

At that time, Yuan Xiu's grandfather passed away, and the first emperor Zhun Yuan Guifei and the Nine Emperor Princes returned to the National Mansion to mourn, and the Nine Emperor Princes were infected with the epidemic on that day, and they fell ill when they returned to the palace at night, and the imperial doctor treated them for three days, and finally died. After the death of the Nine Emperor Princes, Yuan Guifei claimed that she took care of her beloved son day and night, and she was also infected with the epidemic, so she insisted on sealing the palace gate and couldn't get out. The first emperor went to visit many times, were rejected by the Yuan Guifei outside the palace gate, and later, the first emperor never went again, Qionghua Palace became a cold palace, until three years later, the first emperor died violently on the night of the Shangyuan Palace banquet, the Yuan family and Nantu joined forces to wash the palace city, and the Yuan Guifei only stepped out of the Qionghua Palace. ”

It turned out that the first emperor had never issued a holy decree to send Yuan Guifei into the cold palace, but Yuan Guifei closed the palace door by herself?

This woman's temperament is a bit strong.

"The Nine Emperors contracted the epidemic in the Yuan family, and this matter is not a coincidence, right?" Twilight Qing looked at Bu Xihuan and asked without hesitation, "What did the first emperor do?" ”

Bu Xihuan smiled mockingly, and did not shy away from it, "It should be inseparable from the first emperor." This incident made the Yuan family suffer a dumb loss, the old man passed away, and there was an endless stream of guests who went to mourn, and the maids went in and out, who knows which hand and foot moved? The Nine Emperor Princes were infected in the Ancestral Mansion, not in the palace, and the Yuan family couldn't even say that it was another palace concubine who conspired to assassinate the Nine Emperor Princes. And the prince was sick in the Yuan family's mansion, the Yuan family was guilty, Yuan Guang didn't even dare to hand over the report of a thorough investigation of the matter, in case it was found out that it was the subordinates of the Yuan Mansion who assassinated the nine princes, it would be the crime of beheading. Therefore, this matter can only be swallowed in the stomach with broken teeth and endured. ”

Twilight Qing frowned when she heard this, the result of the Yuan family's endurance was that the first emperor died violently three years later, the third prince and the seventh prince were beheaded at the palace banquet, Bu Xihuan entered the palace at a young age, and the Yuan family was regent, and those who obeyed me prospered and those who rebelled against me died.

The most ruthless emperor family, the first emperor treacherously came first, and the cruelty of parents and children came last, and Twilight Qing did not sympathize. The Yuan family is the same, since they accepted the conditions of the first emperor, they had the heart to fight for power and profit.

In this grievance between the first emperor and the Yuan family, the most innocent are the two children - the Nine Emperor Princes and Bu Xihuan.

The child was only three years old when he died, and his father and mother and concubine were fighting openly and secretly, but it was his young life that was taken away, and he didn't understand anything when he died, how innocent!

Bu Xihuan was six years old when he ascended the throne, and the Nine Emperors were not killed by him, but his mother was killed because of Yuan Guifei's hatred for the Bu family, how innocent he was!

But these two innocent children, one has been dead for many years, and the other is still alive.

The person who has been dead for many years, his mother still hates it, the first emperor died violently, judging from the fact that she killed Princess Heng, she may want to destroy everyone in the Bu family. And the child who is alive, he has grown up, and the deep hatred of the murder of his mother is hidden in his heart, and he will never die with the Yuan family in the future.

What is retribution, this is it.

Twilight Qing shook her head, this hatred is difficult to eliminate, this hatred is difficult to solve, the hatred of killing relatives is not the same as the sky, not everyone has a Buddha realm in their hearts, she herself is still investigating the murderer of her father, and she is not more broad-minded than Yuan Guifei or Bu Xihuan, so she doesn't say much about the grievances between the two families.

"This time it's all said, does the guest officer want to add silver?" Bu Xihuan saw Twilight's solemn expression, so he opened his mouth to joke.

"Keep the wife." Twilight is still the same.

At this time, Moon Kill brought the hot meal, and the food cooled quickly in the winter, so Twilight didn't speak again, just watched Bu Xihuan eat.

This person is particular about eating, careless is also an elegant scene, twilight is not hungry, only casually used some food, see Bu Xihuan poured himself a drink, and wanted to pour a glass of wine. She usually doesn't drink alcohol, but this wine is not hot and spicy, but mellow and sweet, with a plum aftertaste.

It's a good wine.

Twilight poured a cup, took a small sip, and poured it again, reaching out in front of her and covering the mouth.

"This wine has been brewed for a year, and the stamina is enough, if you don't drink, don't be greedy."

Twilight Qing was stunned when she heard this, and saw that the hand was handsome and slender, covering the white jade cup, and snatched the jade color. She didn't feel any more alcohol, but she didn't.

After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Moon Kill brought the meal, served tea, took a sip of tea, the wind and snow outside the window were urgent, there was no moon tonight, the man was dressed in a pear blossom brocade robe, his back was against the Xuan window, his face was brighter than the moonlight, and his smile was lazy.

"Don't laugh, there's no money to pay for it." Twilight drank her tea, unmoved by her beauty.

Bu Xihuan's smile suddenly cracked, and he laughed angrily, "I really have no conscience, do you really think anyone can see it?" ”

In front of which woman did he smile like that but her?

No conscience!

"Come here." Bu Xihuan put the tea cup on the table and said angrily.

Twilight naturally doesn't move, and she's not a dog.

Bu Xihuan was not surprised, as if she knew that she didn't come over obediently, so she got up and walked over.

The two of them were separated by a table, Bu Xihuan got up and arrived, Twilight Qing raised her eyes, remembering that this person had had bad behavior in the carriage of Fengxian, and the corners of her eyebrows and eyes couldn't help but fly out a little cold, and she got up and avoided it.

When I got up, I suddenly felt that my feet were weak, and the things in front of me were shaking! Stumbling, an arm suddenly wrapped around her waist, and there was a man's chuckle in her ear, "I thought you only let you drink one glass because of your poor drinking, but one cup was poured, which is really a strange difference." ”

Twilight was surprised that she didn't feel dizzy when she sits, and even if she got up too quickly, the wine had too much stamina.

was surprised, suddenly felt that his body was short, his face was cold, and Twilight's eyes were still shaking, but he knew by feeling that he was sitting on Bu Xihuan's lap, and the cool feeling on his face was like a mask had been taken off.

Twilight Qing was a little annoyed, using her fingers as a knife, forcing Bu Xihuan on the neck, and asked, "Is the injury in the carriage better last time?" ”

It seems that the fight is not heavy enough!

Bu Xihuan smiled lowly, not feeling that her fingers without internal strength were threatening, even if she took out the set of knives, he didn't feel that it was a threat.

Twilight was a little drunk, but not so drunk that she lost her mind, and she carried the scalpel with her, but she was already a little shaky at this time, and she didn't think that she could use the knife in her hand well, in case she hurt him, it would be bad. She didn't want to hurt him, even if it wasn't possible, she didn't want to face him with something dangerous.

"It's good on the face, but I don't know what is on the body." Bu Xihuan looked at Twilight's slightly drunk eyes, smiling low, different and restrained, hugged her and asked in her ear, "You are a fool, why don't you take a look?" ”――

Off topic -

I feel that I will be beaten, so I will walk away with my head in my hands, I am going to practice the stealth skills of the Great Tianshan Sect, and I will not be killed if I reach the full level.

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