Chapter 50: Old Things in the Forbidden City (8)
Cixi stared at the slightly floating dark curtain blown by the wind, making it impossible to see what she was thinking, and the silence in the air was annoying. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info she hugged the thin quilt, suddenly sat up all of a sudden, and opened the tent.
Cui Yugui was stunned when he saw this, walked outside, and called a few skillful people to hurry up and wait.
Cixi didn't say a word and let the palace maid put on a luxurious flag dress for her. I hurriedly washed my face, and even the habit of taking a lunch break on weekdays seemed to have forgotten, and I didn't take a puff of cigarettes, but put them on the table, and I didn't eat a bite of the chilled pineapples that were cut into all kinds of varieties, and walked out alone.
Cui Yugui stared at her back, always feeling creepy. Pulled Wang Dehuan's sleeve on the side, raised his head, and the two hurriedly followed.
All the way to the north, to the middle of the west corridor, Cixi's footsteps paused slightly, stopped, she slowly turned around, looked at the two people standing there respectfully, bowing slightly, silent for a moment, she spoke, her voice low and hoarse: "You don't have to wait. ”
This was the first thing she said after she got up from her lunch break, and Cui Yugui only felt goosebumps rising all over her body, and she felt very uncomfortable. Looking at Cixi's figure descending the steps, he frowned, always wondering what was wrong.
glanced at Wang Dehuan, and the two stood in place tacitly, and no one left.
Cixi pushed open the old wooden door with a terrifying creak, and she patted the dust stuck to her hands in disgust, and stepped on the clogs and walked in. Staring at Concubine Zhen, curled up on the bed, without a little glamour, like a beggar, she raised her slender eyebrows, and the corners of her mouth hooked up a gloating smile.
Looking around, smelling a faint musty smell, hiding one hand under his nose, he found a thin stick and walked to the bed again, reached out to pick up the thin blanket that Concubine Zhen put on her body, and smiled disgustedly: "What? I still want to play dead, but we haven't seen each other in more than two years, so why don't we get up and take a look? She didn't care about Concubine Zhen's indifferent appearance, and continued to entertain herself: "Well, I still don't know how to be humble." But don't you want to know the news of Jae-yan? ”
Hearing those two words, Concubine Zhen slowly opened her eyes, turned her head to stare at Cixi, who had a lot of white hair growing on her sideburns, and a mocking smile appeared on her pale face. In the past two years, except for Longyu who occasionally came to see her, he has already developed a taciturn temperament.
Cixi looked at her embarrassed appearance, and couldn't help laughing a few times, and the excitement that couldn't be hidden in the eagle's eyes couldn't help but tsk. Magic Mirror...... Magic Mirror, look at what this woman you said has become now.
Due to the long-term lack of nutrition, her already petite figure was even more skinny at this time, her face was pale without a trace of blood, her round cheeks were sunken, and her cheekbones were bulging, leaving only those dead and silent eyes, as if no wind and waves could set off a ripple.
Concubine Zhen opened her mouth, and after a moment, she muttered, "What does the Queen Mother want to do?" ”
Cixi shrugged her shoulders, shook her head, and spread her innocent hands as much as she could, trying to make herself look amiable: "Oh, no...... Jane, don't think so badly. She raised her head and shouted outside, and a palace maid walked in, holding a tray in her hand, which was full of dazzling clothes and headdresses.
Concubine Zhen glanced at Cixi in puzzlement, her thin fingertips tightly grasped the corners of her clothes, and her green tendons burst out.
"Don't look at me like that, come here, dress up Concubine Zhen." Cixi smiled and instructed the palace maids beside her.
Hearing this, the palace maid walked over, skillfully tossing Concubine Zhen, but in a quarter of an hour, everything was ready, she took a few steps back, and left the open space to Cixi.
She pinched Concubine Zhen's tiny wrist, and despite her resistance, she pulled Concubine Zhen into the courtyard. A dark cloud mischievously obscured the bright sun, as if curious about the scene in front of him.
"You know why I made you dress so beautifully...... Well? Cixi straightened the corners of her clothes, stroked the flag dress embroidered with delicate patterns, and hooked a meaningful smile on the corners of her mouth.
She knelt down to Concubine Zhen's ear, stretched out her hand to cover it, her eagle eyes narrowed slightly, and a few words slowly spit out from her red lips: "Because ...... You're going to die. She straightened up and giggled, "I'm not going to attack a dead man." ”
Concubine Zhen was so shocked that her black pupils opened as big as copper bells, and she froze in place, looking at the woman in front of her with a fat face dumbfounded, and she couldn't listen to any of the words behind her, and she couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.
"Come on, push Concubine Zhen down......" Hearing the order, the eunuch and palace maid behind him didn't dare to step forward, so she bowed her head slightly, and glanced at the other party with her residual vision: "Why, you want to be the same as her." ”
No matter how Concubine Zhen struggles, she will undoubtedly hit the stone with an egg, and it will have no effect.
There was a pop, and the water splashed at the bottom of the well, and she fluttered in fear, struggling to grab a piece of driftwood to lean on, but all around her were bare walls, covered with green moss, and she had scratched them, leaving long finger marks. She felt the darkness in front of her, her shriveled stomach filled with cold well water, and she couldn't hear anything in her ears, as if her eardrum had been punctured by the impact.
She didn't have the panic at the beginning, she was physically and mentally exhausted, she gave up the struggle weakly, and her whole body slowly sank to the bottom of the well, like this...... That's it! She wanted to ......
On August 14, 1900, the Eight-Nation Coalition gathered forces to capture Beijing.
That night, Cixi was stunned and absconded to Xi'an with Emperor Guangxu, and it was inconvenient to take Concubine Zhen away for many reasons, and because Concubine Zhen was young and beautiful, she would be insulted by foreigners, and she was ashamed of her ancestors and many other excuses, and ordered her to be executed.
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In the dim candlelight, Emperor Guangxu sat alone on the edge of the bed, he touched the dragon robe on his body, and the corners of his mouth slowly raised, this dragon robe ...... Jane also crosses ......
Come on! I'm afraid that in a few days, that woman will abolish herself...... He thought about it, his throat tightened, he coughed suddenly, a fishy sweet smell came up, he pursed his lips, slowly closed his eyelids, and swallowed it hard.
The dilated pupils gradually condensed, and he smiled mysteriously......
The crisp sound of clogs came to his ears, and Emperor Guangxu got up slowly, and saw the richly dressed Cixi walking in, he was not interested in greeting the cold and asking for warmth, but nodded slightly to show etiquette.
Cixi took a bowl of bird's nest and brought it over: "Eat a little, how can you carry it like this?" ”
Guangxu looked at the crystal clear bird's nest, then fell on her face, licked his chapped lips, his pale face twitched slightly, and his tone was fluttering: "The mother concubine wants me to die......"
Cixi was stunned, her face changed several times, and she stirred the slightly hot bird's nest to hide her embarrassed look.
Emperor Guangxu stretched out his hand to take the bowl, took her right hand covered with markings, and opened the ring on her index finger by mistake, and the white powder in it was sprinkled into the bowl. He still has a smile on his face, which is unpredictable.
Watching Emperor Guangxu eat the whole bowl of bird's nest one by one, and in turn, let her look at it, as if she was mocking nakedly, her eyebrows frowned slightly.
She didn't really want to kill Guangxu, after all, she was a child who had been raised for so many years, and no matter how stiff she was, she wouldn't bear to kill him with her own hands, and besides, he was also terminally ill and didn't have many days left. She thought for a moment, slowly shook her head and sighed......
In 1908, at two o'clock on November 14, Emperor Guangxu died at the age of 38.