Chapter 137: The Palace Goes to the Appointment
"Excuse me, where are you taking me?"
The person who took me into the palace led me around the palace several times, and now the direction I was walking did not look like I was going to Mrs. Qimo, I was puzzled, and finally couldn't help but ask.
"Just come with me, girl." He didn't explain the situation, he replied half-restrained, and I couldn't see his face.
What, isn't it a showdown for Mrs. Qimo to come to me? What is she doing with her idea of wandering around the palace like this, maybe she suddenly doesn't want to see me again?
The man walked ahead of me and said nothing.
It's a very strange atmosphere, and I can't help but think about it anywhere else.
I tried to say something to him several times, but I didn't expect him to keep his mouth shut, answer nothing, and remain silent no matter what I said, and I finally gave up trying to get the news out of his mouth.
"Here we are."
Unexpectedly, as soon as I gave up and shut up, he stopped, stood sideways on the side of the courtyard gate, and bowed and waited.
"Arrived?" I looked up.
Even though it was dark all around and the path was unusually quiet, I had a feeling of déjà vu in this gate and this courtyard. I stretched out my hand and pushed the door in, and the man did not follow me anymore, but stood by as if he had not seen or heard. I continued to walk inside, I didn't take two steps, I stopped again, and there was a roar in my heart, just now I was wondering if I had been here, it turned out that this was the courtyard that Yuan Jue had broken into by mistake at that time.
I looked up at the side of the hall.
The courtyard was dark and silent, and the various halls were in tatters. Only the side hall on that side, the door is open, and the candle flame is swaying slightly. Like, it's deliberately waiting for someone.
I remember that the secret room there was exactly where the nine-star lantern array was placed.
I couldn't help but beat the drums in my heart, and I was a little scared. I froze in place and exhaled deeply twice, before I made up my mind to lift up my particularly heavy steps and walk towards the side hall, each step was as heavy as walking to a tiger's den.
I don't know if Yuan Hyuk brought my words to Yuan Jue.
With the last step into the side hall, I felt as if my more than 200 years of life had come to an end. It was a real death-chilling feeling. But when I stood in the main room of the side hall with my eyes closed. But nothing happened.
A qiē didn't hit like a storm as I expected.
Unexpectedly calm, I slowly opened my eyes, and there was only a faint flickering candle flame in the room. There is no half of a figure in sight.
What's going on?
I instinctively turned my head to look at the secret room where the Nine Star Lantern Array was located. The door to the chamber was hidden. A gap is exposed. I walked towards the secret room with the mentality of doing it to the end, and pushed the door open.
The man in the door turned his head when he heard the sound.
It's not Mrs. Qimo, it's the person who was waiting for me. It's the beginning of the clouds.
She was not surprised to see that it was me, the person she was waiting for was me, so it can be seen that what the guards said in Yuanhyuk's mansion at that time was not completely true. She smiled at me and turned her head to focus on the Nine Star Lantern Array.
The person who came to me was not Mrs. Qimo, didn't he come to me for a showdown?
The more I thought about it, the more wrong it became, but I just couldn't walk there.
"Why did you destroy the Nine Star Lantern Array?" Unexpectedly, she stood there and asked quietly, "I just thought you would be a passerby, can you tell me, why did you want to destroy the Nine Star Lantern Array?" ”
It's not an angry scolding, it's not an accusation, but her tone is quite majestic.
"Why do you know this is a nine-star light array?" I asked her, "You're aiding the abuse, you know?" ”
Yun Chu sneered, I had never observed her carefully before, probably because she appeared with Mrs. Qimo every time, and the only time I was alone with her, I let go of things in my heart, and I didn't care about paying attention to her at all.
At this time, she looked only in her early thirties, although she pretended to be old-fashioned, meticulously combed all her hair in a bun at the back of her head, and her forehead was especially neat without a trace of broken hair. Her clothes seemed to be deliberately dressed so old, making her look like she was in her fifties at first glance.
But it is not stained, her eyebrows are brilliant, her eyes are shining like star pupils, willow eyebrows, apricot eyes, thin lips, a small melon seed face, with clear contours, if you look closely, it is really seventy percent similar to Yuan Jue.
Obviously has skin like clotted fat and has a good looks, but she wants to dress herself up to be twenty years old, I really don't know what she thinks.
"You don't know anything." She said, "You'd better go." Leave the palace, leave the wooden city, this is not the place you should venture into, I don't want to hurt you. You had a brief marriage with him, and I don't want to hurt him. ”
"Him?" I wondered, "Who is he?" What he. ”
"Someone has set up this game to invite you into a dream. But when you fall asleep, a qiē is more than just a dream. "I know you have a lot of questions and are curious, but everything starts with you, but it can't end with you." What can you do if you're in someone else's dream? ”
Sure enough, sure enough, they all knew about it. "Why? I thought that this qiē was just done by Mrs. Qimo, you obviously know everything, why don't you stop her, let her come nonsense, the order between heaven and earth is not something she can wantonly destroy, she is like this, the consequences are very strict. ”
I didn't expect that Yun Chu was just stunned after listening to my words, and she looked at me vigilantly. "Ma'am?"
"I know it all." I thought she was just surprised that I knew about the relationship behind this qiē, and I wanted to warn her, "I heard your conversation that day, and you advised her to stop, and I know that you don't want her to continue to be wrong, and you really want her to be good, right, in that case, you shouldn't help her continue to do these wrong things." You should stop her, what she does will make her and the shrine maiden immortal cursed. That's not what you want to see. ”
"Wrong?"
She smiled wryly, and I saw her look up. Looking at the nine-star lantern hanging high in the secret room.
Slowly, I heard her say again, "What is right and what is wrong in your opinion?" ”
I thought she was probably unwilling to go against Mrs. Qimo's wishes, so she continued to persuade her, "Violating the rules of life and going against the people in the world is wrong, isn't it?" For his own selfish interests, he took the fate of the shrine maiden. So that future generations will be affected by this. Is it worth it. You should advise her to turn back as soon as possible and not go too far astray. ”
I don't know what her silence means at the moment, but I can feel it when I say that future generations will suffer from it. She was a little shocked. I think of something.
Yun Chu and Mrs. Qi Mo are different. Mrs. Qimo's smile is like a flower, and she is so beautiful that she is captivating the country and the city, and she is noble and graceful on the surface but she is approachable, but in fact. Mrs. Qimo was so cold that people couldn't get close, maybe because of her life experience, or maybe because she thought that the rejection of forced marriage made her hide the real self in her heart, hide the kind and sad self, and pretend to be cheerful and approachable. Yun Chu's face rejected people thousands of miles away, and she was as cold as a thousand years of ice, but she had a very warm heart, and she could feel from her treatment of Mrs. Qimo and Yuan Jue that she was a person with love in her heart.
"Neon Girl,"
I heard her calling me.
"Do you know the origin of the Ancient Witch Clan?" Yun Chu said slowly. "You just think that what you see and what you have always believed is right. But where you can't see it, there's still a lot of injustice. The inheritance of the witch lineage is the most unfortunate fate in this world, but it is still misunderstood and hurt by many people, even if they have not done anything. ”
"But that's why you should live a kinder life, shouldn't you? Why would she want to kill someone who has nothing to do with her? "I don't understand, why did Mrs. Qimo help Master Cheng and Mrs. Wei to harm the Li family.
Yun Chu quickly understood what I meant, and she was not in a hurry to refute me, but waited for everyone's feelings to stabilize before she said, "Lord Cheng Si is just a poor person who is infatuated." ”
"Do you know all this?" I only thought that Yun Chu was a tiger and helped Mrs. Qimo do a lot of bad things, Mrs. Qimo is the wife of the monarch, there must be many things that are inconvenient for her to come forward, plus it is very troublesome for her to go out of the palace, I only think that Yun Chu is her minions, and do those things that are inconvenient for her to do, but I didn't expect that Yun Chu actually knew everything.
"When my wife and I first entered the palace, we were often excluded by all aspects of the palace's relations, and my wife's temperament was fierce, because she was forced to marry the king...... No, it's the king," she said about the king, and then she should say the king, as if she was used to it, but she suddenly realized her mistake and added an explanation, "My wife and I are from the Yi tribe, we are from a tribe of the Yi tribe, we call the eldest person of the tribe the patriarch, the lady is the princess born to the patriarch of a concubine, in the tribe, we call the monarch who is greater than the patriarch the king." ”
I nodded, I could barely understand what she meant, but because of the different growth environment, the name was different, it didn't seem to be difficult to understand, she was used to calling the monarch a king.
When she saw that I understood, she continued, "The patriarch was defeated by the king, and our tribe had only two ways, either to be captured by the king, or to be executed or imprisoned or enslaved, or the patriarch sued the monarch for peace, making our tribe another vassal tribe under the king's rule. In order to save the lives of all the Luoli people, the patriarch chose to sue for peace and expressed his sincerity to the monarch with the marriage of his youngest daughter, Princess Qimo. The little princess, who was only sixteen years old at the time, was forced to marry a king who was thirty or forty years older than her, and she was already very pitiful, and we had to leave the tribe where we were accustomed to life, and came to the palace alone, and the people in the palace were not as friendly as the people in the tribe, and they were very repulsive to people from our tribe, and they always teased us. Moreover, at that time, the lady had a very strong temperament, and did not know how to please the king, and did not know how to survive in the palace, so she annoyed the king, and fell out of favor when she was newly married. The people also bullied us when they saw the situation, and the food was given to the worst in the palace, and at first they could bear it, but in winter, they didn't even have at least the cotton clothes and quilts for the winter, and they could only be next to each other when they were sick. At that time, we got to know Lord Cheng Si, who served as a supervisor in the palace. ”
When I heard her talk about the past more than ten years ago, I was a little embarrassed, and I didn't know how to pick her up, after all, I had overheard, and I still remember the night when Mrs. Qimo fell out of favor when she was newly married.
"Lord Cheng Si is different from others, he is very fair to us, Madame almost died of typhoid fever, the people in the palace are afraid of being infected and avoid us, I begged the whole palace, and no one is willing to help us. Fortunately, Lord Cheng Si helped and brought the imperial doctor, he said to the imperial doctor, after all, Mrs. Qimo is the wife of the monarch Ming Media, if she dies of illness because of injury, it will cause another war between the Yibu tribe and the monarch, and the monarch will strictly investigate the matter of Mrs. Qimo, if it is found that the imperial doctor is hiding when the lady is seriously ill, and no one treats the lady, then what is the consequences, he let the imperial doctor think about it himself. ”
It sounds like this, Master Cheng is not as unbearable as I thought at the beginning, but even so, it is still wrong for him to persecute the Li family in order to save Mrs. Wei from living, no matter how good a person is, if he does something wrong, he does something wrong, even if he does more good things before and after, it can't erase the fact that he missed a wrong thing.
Yun Chu saw through my thoughts, but smiled lightly, "You must not have suffered, so you don't understand." We received the kindness of Lord Cheng Si and escaped a catastrophe, and then, with the second son, our life gradually got better, and the people were afraid of the king's favor for the second son, so they became more and more respectful to the lady. ”
It's not just because of the jealousy of Yuan Jue's existence, at that time, the monarch's favorite Mrs. Ruyi passed away suddenly, which was also one of the reasons for the restraint of the people, losing Mrs. Ruyi, Mrs. Qimo is the only lady in the palace who has status, status and son.
I once heard the phoenix say this word, and I naively didn't understand the meaning of it, and I didn't understand why a mother could change her identity because of her son. It's just that at this moment, while I have a little understanding of this word, I feel that my heart is actually desolate.
Human beings are really sad, and gender is used to determine the value of life. "So, because Lord Cheng Si helped you, you will help him?"
How can a person's life be exchanged for this in equal terms? If it weren't for Li's life, she would have been replaced not only by that body, but also by hers, just because he helped them, they exchanged another person's life for his wife?!
It's really, too hard to accept. Life should be the most priceless, why did it become a bargaining chip in the transaction?!
"Lord Cheng Si loves his wife so much that he can bear a curse for her." Yun Chu's suddenly raised voice left me speechless.
Life and love, maybe there is no way to measure it on the same value, there are other infatuated people in the world, stupidly believe that the value of love is higher than life, but how innocent are others?! The Lee family fell victim in vain. "What about the Li family?"
"Li wants her family to do well, and she gets what she wants." (To be continued.) )