Chapter 61: The Beginning of the Storm
According to my plan, this morning, the eldest princess will arrange for someone in the prison to send Ziyu a decoction, and in less than half a day, Ziyu will be born prematurely, and what I have to do is to kill her and send the child out of the palace after giving birth, and then go to report back to the imperial concubine.
I know what I need to do, but why do I feel like my breath is shaking?
I'm not a good person in the first place, so the plan is not for Ziyu or that innocent child, I can win the eldest princess, and I can let the imperial concubine relax her vigilance, and take this opportunity to extinguish Ziyu, so as to avoid Yuan Ying's worries, this is just three birds with one stone, but where does my fear come from now.
I took a deep breath and straightened my clothes in front of the bronze mirror, sure enough, Yuan Ying's clothes were still a little too big for me, he was dressed in a graceful manner, but I seemed to be careless.
Rolling up my sleeves, I walked out of the palace. All the qiē went according to the plan, and the eldest princess had already arranged a qiē, and let me go in and out of the prison on my own, and others just didn't see it.
There was no midwife, and after Ziyu drank the decoction to induce labor, she bit her sleeve and fell into the cell convulsively, not daring to make any sound. Large beads of sweat slipped down her forehead, her expression was hideous, her bulging eyeballs were bloodshot, she looked at me standing outside the cell, and did not ask for help.
If his father was not a colt, even if he was not born in a wealthy family, he would at least be a commoner's family, but now, he can only be born in this prison.
Ziyu curled up on the ground, trembling more and more, and there was a bloody stain under her.
Come out, don't be embarrassed for your mother. I muttered silently in my heart, but I watched Ziyu struggle.
Ziyu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and I noticed from a trance that she carefully took out the baby with the umbilical cord from under her skirt, and cut the umbilical cord with a stone, and the child almost cried out, Ziyu immediately covered the child's mouth, "Don't cry, don't cry." ”
I was shocked into a cold sweat, almost, if this child cried, let the people outside hear, it would be really tricky, fortunately, he seemed to hear Ziyu's advice, did not cry, but quietly looked at Ziyu. Ziyu frowned, the tears she held back fell one by one, her hands were stained with blood, and she wanted to wipe the blood stains off the child's body, but it was in vain.
She looked up at me. "Will you send my child out of the palace safely?"
I nodded.
She looked at the child again, "You have to grow up well." ”
Time is pressing, every time you delay for a while, it may be exposed, if this matter is publicized, I am afraid that I and this child will not be able to live.
Ziyu understood my concern, and she wrapped the child in her cloak and handed it out through the cracks in the prison. I took the child, wrapped it in the bag I had prepared in the morning, and carried it back on my back.
"Do you know that before the Four Kingdoms, among the phoenixes, General Fu had a wife." I stood still.
Ziyu thought for a moment, "I know, but I only know that Mrs. Fu's name is Huiniang." General Fu by the phoenix relics of the king, so he pregnant wife is also valued, the king asked the national teacher for Hui Niang's womb child to approve the life, see Hui Niang but fell in love with her, and then the king let Hui Niang in the temple to give birth, General Fu and others can not see, until the news came out in the palace, Hui Niang dystocia, and her child was not saved. But in the records of the palace, it is very secretly recorded that Hui Niang gave birth to a baby girl, and the king asked the baby girl to be quietly sent back to the Fu family. And in the second year, there was one more Mrs. Hui by your side. ”
"That Mrs. Hui, is that Hui Niang?" I felt my throat dry and couldn't wait to ask.
"I heard from my uncle that there is no relevant record in this book, but there have been people in the palace who have seen Hui Niang who inadvertently left their mouths, so in that year, the king had a large-scale massacre of palace attendants." Ziyu choked up, and could see that she was very uncomfortable now, and it was difficult to say every more word.
I knew it was time to go, and if I didn't, it might be really too late. "Mrs. Hui, are you still alive?"
Ziyu was slightly stunned, "It should be alive, I saw her once, she should be in this Shao Palace." I don't know about the rest. ”
It turned out that she was really in Shao Palace. I turned around and was about to leave.
"But, why are you curious about Hui Niang?" Ziyu asked from behind me.
I paused for a moment, didn't answer, and walked away.
If Ziyu had seen her once, then she would be sure that she was in the Shao Palace, and it would only be that after Ziyu was used by Yuan Ying to become a fine work, the place where she could meet Mrs. Hui was probably only the Eldest Princess's Mansion.
Who is it?
The horse galloped, and the backlog of worries was too heavy, so I whipped the horse twice and let go and ran towards the palace gate. But Takasaki led someone to guard the gate of the palace, and when he saw me coming, he blocked my way.
"What to do!" I let out a loud shout.
"On the orders of the imperial concubine, His Majesty is seriously ill, the palace door is closed, and no one is allowed to leave the palace without a special order from the mother." Takasaki's eyes stared at the burden I was carrying on my back, "What's that?" Where are you going? ”
The child in the baggage fell asleep temporarily, but Takasaki forced him step by step, and I was worried that if the child cried at the slightest movement, it would be useless.
It turned out that Takasaki's previous behavior was just to ask me to relax my abstinence.
Suddenly there was the sound of a carriage behind us, and we couldn't help but turn around. The carriage stopped a few steps behind me, and it was driving in the early Qing Dynasty, so I knew who was in the carriage.
Yuan Ying lifted the curtain, everyone knelt down and bowed, Yuan Ying glanced at it, and looked at me again, "Let you quickly send the medicine to the eldest princess's mansion, why did you stop here." ”
I was stunned for a moment, then understood what he meant, and followed as he spoke. "The imperial concubine Niangniang ordered that she could not leave the palace without her special order, and the little one only learned from the tall mouth when she first arrived here."
"Get in the car. The eldest princess is in a coma, but she can't wait for anything else. Yuan Ying was angry, put down the curtain, I looked around, quickly abandoned the horse, and got into the carriage, Yuan Ying glared at me angrily and helplessly, and said to Qing Chu, "Let's go." ”
Takasaki didn't dare to stop him again, so he had to let him go.
After confirming that I was out of the palace, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, untied the burden on my back, and let the child show his head, for fear of suffocating him to death.
Yuan Ying glanced at the child in my arms, "Are you just taking such an adventure for him?" ”
I nodded, and I was afraid that he would be angry, so I raised my head to look at him, but found that Yuan Ying's eyes when he looked at the child were actually more pity and distress, he stretched out his finger and gently brushed the child's face, carefully.
"It's the first time you've seen such a small child." I found that he liked children in the first place, and he also suppressed a lot of affection and inexplicable joy for this child.
Yuan Ying laughed and turned his head, "No." ”
"Why, you've seen other kids." I was a little puzzled, but I felt even more strange because of his meaningful smile.
"I saw it once about twenty-three years ago. At that time, you were younger than him, but now that I see you holding him like this, I think that I was holding you at that time. He said softly, for the past things, his tone could not be deliberately careful, perhaps, about the original matter, he had no intention of hiding it from me, the child opened his eyes, big eyes flickered at him, but did not cry or make trouble, Yuan Ying stretched out a finger to tease him, and asked, "Ziyu can tell you about the things of the year?" ”
Only then did I turn around and recall what Ziyu had said. He nodded slightly.
The carriage went to the back door of the eldest princess's mansion, Yuan Ying was sitting in danger, I got out of the carriage with the child in my arms, handed the child to the eldest princess's personal maid, and hurriedly got into the car.
Suddenly, everything was quiet, but it seemed that something was missing.
Yuan Ying sent me back to the palace, and without saying a word, I returned to the emperor.
It didn't take long for news from the prison that Ziyu had committed suicide.
The night was frighteningly silent, Ziyu's face and the child's face kept alternating in my memory, and tears blurred my vision again and again, falling diagonally on the pillow, blending together, and it was very uncomfortable to soak the side of my face.
I can't forget what Ziyu said at the end.
It turned out that she had become Mrs. Hui on Feng Yijun. The king asked her to wait in the temple to give birth, Xu was premeditated, but I didn't expect that I was destined to experience such a big twist and turn as soon as I was born.
The tears fell uncontrollably again, and I lowered my head to wipe them away.
The brocade quilt was lifted from his body, and he lay in, against my back, behind me, and he reached over me, leaned over, and rested his head on my shoulder.
It's Yuan Ying. "Aren't you going to guard the emperor, why did you come back?"
Yuan Ying didn't speak, just leaned on me. I tried to turn around to look at him, but his arm around my waist kept me from moving.
"What's wrong?" I asked again.
"Do you want to blame me?" Yuan Ying's voice sounded a lot weaker.
"You already knew that Ziyu would tell me about this, so she would let me operate secretly for the past few days, didn't you?" Now that I think about it, it's getting more and more strange, and the only explanation is that Yuan Ying knew that I would do this a long time ago, but he pretended not to know. "What happened back then had nothing to do with you and me."
He wrapped his arms around me with a little force and hugged me tightly in his arms.
"Did you already know?" Did he already know about that year? "Why didn't you sue me? Are you worried that I will blame you, so you have to bear it all the time? ”
His arm stiffened slightly. I turned around, but he turned his head away from me.
I bowed my head and said, "I'm scared today." ”
Watching Ziyu struggle to give birth to a child in the prison, listening to her talk about me, I was suddenly very scared, I couldn't help but recall that scene again and again, I don't know how I was born, but as long as I think that someone once suffered that kind of pain in order to give birth to me, I feel scared, what I'm afraid of is that as long as someone changes their mind in one link back then, then there will be no one in this world today.
As if sensing my helplessness, he reached out and hugged me. "Ayin, you are destined to be born in this world as my wife."
I raised my head and looked at him, the eyes as deep as ink, gave me the best excuse to sink in, I was afraid not that I didn't survive, but that if I didn't survive, then who would he be hugging like this now, I leaned in front of him, hesitated slightly, but still kissed him lightly on the lips. "Thankfully, I survived."
Yuan Ying smiled bitterly, lowered his head, and dropped a kiss on my drooping eyelids, "Hmm." Thankfully, you survived. ”
I finally understood what fate was meant to be. The uneasiness in his eyes, the pampering in his eyes, the one he had done for so long, I wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with my hands.
He was just as afraid of losing as I was, and maybe that would be enough.
Why bother with the future?
Why bother with things that don't happen?
It turns out that it takes more courage not to leave than to leave. If you are willing to hold on, why bother with the past.
I suddenly rolled over, pressed against his chest, held his hand, lowered my head, kissed him on the lips, and the tip of my tongue slid slightly over his lips.
I felt Yuan Ying trembling slightly under me, and he suddenly pushed me away, like a low reprimand, "What to do!" ”
My face was panicked, and I was already ashamed, and after his serious questioning, I was even more ashamed. "It's not easy for me to make up my mind, you just close your eyes and your heart and follow me."
Yuan Ying actually laughed out loud.
Seeing that he was defenseless again, I lifted the quilt and straddled him.
However, my hands were restrained by him, and I couldn't lean over and use force. Angry, I could only watch him smile more and more obviously, he deliberately saw me make a fool of myself, I twitched my hands, and just as I was about to turn back, he suddenly sat up and kissed me on the lips while I was defenseless.
I was startled by the accident, as if my body had been walked by electricity.
The kiss was shallow, he sat in front of me, and I was still straddling his lap, looking at each other, he wanted to retreat, he and I were less than half a finger away from nose to nose, I couldn't help but hold my breath, I could feel the breath coming from his mouth falling on my lips, and there was a strange feeling in my heart.
"Now, you don't have a chance to go back."
That night, there was a slight sound of wind blowing on the window, and there was the sound of gurgling water, which flowed through the back of the hall, but it was the sound of wheezing one after another that filled the ears.
I kept my eyes open, trying to see him, his appearance, his silhouette.
Everything in front of me was blurry, and I saw his protruding collarbone, but his brain was blank.
The bottom of the eyes is full of slight sycamore.
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