Chapter 2: The Sound of Strings 3
Qingluan, who got amnesty, trotted all the way, and his heart was about to jump out. There was a smile on the saint, but in fact, every word was beautiful, as if he wanted to see her embarrassment, hot and cold, it was really two heavens of ice and fire. However, judging from the relationship between the two of them, this pianist is probably not small. It's just that she has never heard of the emperor having any royal luthiers in the palace for three years, so why does it seem that there is an extra royal celebrity overnight.
Qingluan, who couldn't figure out the cause and effect, slapped her forehead, just that, the power of the court has always been balanced, and suddenly there is no one more adult that she can see through. I must thank the pianist another day, after all, I have no relationship, but I helped her twice.
"This is ......" The woman who came back to her senses suddenly looked up, and found that it was a barren land in front of her, as if she had been separated from the gorgeous court, there was no majestic and magnificent palace, and there was no low and glazed palace wall, and it was full of gray gloom, like a nightmare that was not easy to wake up from. The wild grass flies, and the dead trees and crows make this lonely and cold atmosphere vividly and vividly. For a moment, she even thought that she had walked out of the crowd, and when she was suddenly startled, her body couldn't help but tremble - this is a cold palace.
It must have just been thinking about those dispensable things that he took the wrong path to the palace complex, and thus arrived at the forbidden place of the harem and the purgatory of the imperial city.
I wanted to return as soon as possible, but I suddenly remembered Concubine Xin, who was sent into the cold palace by Concubine Chen, and out of the complex psychology of guilt or sympathy, Qingluan still decided to visit. She had only been walking for a short time, when she suddenly heard a loud scolding, and the sudden human voice in this secluded place made people startled, and she heard one complaint after another before she could speed up her pace.
"Eh, this annoying thing has made me up!"
Before entering the arched moon gate, I saw two maids dressed in linen clothes standing in the courtyard, looking like the maids of the former Huawei Palace. It's a pity that as soon as the master falls, the subordinates will also be implicated, although they are in the same palace, this dress is more than a star and a half apart. Now that the cold winter is approaching, I don't know if this cloth can withstand the cold.
One of them got wet for some reason, and was twisting the corners of his clothes vigorously. As the drops of water kept flowing, she also scolded angrily: "Look at her former high-minded appearance, now she has become a madman." ”
"Originally, I hoped that the emperor would change his mind and take her back, so that our sisters could have a good day. Who would have thought that after Concubine Chen left, she would become like this overnight. The maid next to her also echoed, and the two of them were relatively speechless for a while, and they both let out a long sigh.
Qingluan stood outside the courtyard and listened clearly, and it seemed that the two of them must be concubines. It's just that when did Concubine Chen come, did she deliberately avoid her, a personal maid?
Don't......
Thinking of what Xing Yan had said before he was sent away, Qingluan only felt that the air in his brain was quickly emptied, his breathing became short, and he leaned in anxiously to look inside. I didn't know that it was okay not to look at it, this glance immediately made her gasp a few times - I saw that Concubine Xin was wearing a gray kudzu shirt similar to that of her subordinates, and there seemed to be blood stains on the tattered strips of cloth. She was no longer in the same posture as before, her long hair covering half of her face like a clump of weeds, and she was now sitting on the bluestone floor with empty eyes, and her mouth seemed to be full of words.
"!" Although the two had different positions in the past, Concubine Xin did not give Qingluan a lot of hardships. But after all, she is the master of the main palace, and now she has ended up in such a field, which is really unbearable. Qingluan hurriedly ran over, picked up Concubine Xin, who was sitting on the cold stone slab, and looked at the two maids coldly. "You are so bold, you dare to do this to your master, how can you cover your body with this single coat in the cold winter!"
"The girl is angry." After seeing that the person who came was the queen's maid, the two maids who were still complaining suddenly changed their faces and fell to the ground, "Girl Mingjian, it's not that the slaves and maids don't add clothes to the mother, it's really because the Ministry of Internal Affairs has not issued materials, and the specifications of the cold palace are also like this, and the slaves and maids dare not trespass without permission." ”
"And the slave maid wanted to change the mother's clean clothes, but the master her, she kept grabbing, and it was in vain to change. I don't believe you, you see that there are still blood stains on her body......" The other maid also tried her best to argue, and she was about to pull Concubine Xin's clothes.
Qingluan's hand was quick, and she knocked down her outstretched hand, and scolded angrily: "Strong words! If she really cares for your master, how can she sit on the ground in such weather. When I go back, I will tell the queen mother to punish you severely. ”
"The girl spared the slaves and maids, and the slaves and maids knew that they were wrong." The two maids didn't think that Qingluan would be so concerned, and they were so frightened that their faces were bloodless at this time, and they only knew how to beg for mercy.
"The fall from grace in the palace is like this, why do you want to punish these two subordinates."
I was about to say something more, but was interrupted by a cold voice, and the female voice was like a cold wind blowing. Qingluan looked back, and saw a woman in a jade robe standing in front of the door, like a Bodhisattva statue, slightly light, although it is not the appearance of the city, but there is a faint elegance, like a fairy who does not eat the fireworks of the world.
She recognized that the person in front of her was the Imperial Concubine Jin who was looking for a quiet place to recuperate due to illness, and she wanted to come to this quiet place in the palace only here, it must be because they were too loud and disturbed the imperial concubine.
Qingluan Yingying bowed, "I have seen Emperor Jin, the mother is a thousand years old." ”
"Those who have lost their grace are already like being in an ice cellar, and they mourn more than their hearts are dead, and if their hearts are dead, how can they feel warm and cold from the outside world." Her voice was ethereal and cold, and her gaze was calm but distant, "What's more, you punished the two of them, and a new batch of subordinates will treat her like this." I knew this was the case, so why bother in the first place. ”
Concubine Xin seemed to have heard her conversation at this time, she raised her face stupidly, grabbed Qingluan's skirt and kept making noise, chattering and repeating, "Is the emperor coming?" The emperor has come to see me! Ha Lu Ha ”
Qingluan couldn't bear to see Concubine Xin like this, so she turned her head lightly, her heart was full of shame.
"I know that Concubine Xin can't stand this weather, so I specially brought some clothes." The woman who was far away from the battle in the harem naturally put down her figure, did not need an honorific title, and spoke much more calmly, "You two go and change into Concubine Xin first." My dwelling place is not far from here, and I will come to visit you every three or five days, and you will not be allowed to do this without observing the palace rites. ”
When the two heard this, they were pardoned: "The slaves and maids thank Niangniang for pardoning." ”
is completely different from Concubine Xin, although Imperial Concubine Jin has long ceased to sleep, but after all, she is a dignified concubine, and the emperor also respects her very much, and there is also a fixed time for the imperial doctor to visit her illness, and the subordinates dare not deceive her.
It was heard that she was also pregnant with a Dragonborn, but due to her weak body, she was soon stillborn. The emperor was worried that she would be sick after this blow, and he tried his best to take care of her in the past few years. In this way, the imperial concubine naturally couldn't understand Concubine Xin's state of mind at this time, but she was willing to put herself in the shoes of an irrelevant person, and I am afraid that there were only a handful in the palace.
"Niangniang is willing to take care of the master like this, and the slave and maid thank the mother for the master."