22. Chapter XXII

Cui'er covered her face and hurried into Shouning Palace, and Mu Chengci and a few young concubines were blasted away by her halfway.

went up the steps, the two palace ladies wanted to hug her, but she was also slapped away, and the female official in charge of the door asked her for peace, she just made a perfunctory hum, and her eyes swept into the dormitory: "Where's my aunt?" ”

The female official replied respectfully in her mouth, but her body did not move: "The Queen Mother is not feeling well, and the Jade Toad of Lingyunguan has sent the pill in, and she is talking to the Queen Mother right now." ”

Cui'er's eyes were blue and her mouth was flattened, and she sobbed at the door.

I cried several times, but there was no movement inside, she became more and more aggrieved in her heart, her aunt is not better than her mother, isn't this just sending people under the fence, today is just a beating, tomorrow I will lose my life, if it is not for my mother's house now has nowhere to go, I can't wait to pack my bags and go home immediately.

She turned around and was about to leave, when the door behind her opened slightly, and then a clever little girl came out, looking at Miansheng, the female officer heard her say a few words, and respectfully invited Cui'er in.

Entering the hall, lit with danxiang, Cui'er knelt beside the gauze curtain outside and cried sadly, and said how that Xinhui bullied her and how she started to paint her voice and color, saying that she had already made her identity, but she didn't pay attention to it at all, even if she brought out her aunt, she was disdainful, and when it came to emotion, she cried again.

There was no movement in the curtain, Cui'er pricked up her ears to listen, only to hear a faint scolding: "Although I have a pampered temperament, I am still smart in the end, but I don't want to be the same stupid woman." ”

Cui'er was shocked, her tears stopped half, and after thinking about it carefully, she also felt that she was reckless, but her heart was depressed, and she cried on her knees and two steps: "Auntie, aunt, if it weren't for the fact that the Xin girl deceived people too much, and even the aunt didn't take it seriously, where would the niece not be able to bear it?" She is a Qi person in one mouth, and a barbarian girl in one mouth...... How can a godniece listen? ”

Behind the curtain, the ring sounded softly, and the Queen Mother heard her choking, and sighed: "Since you call me aunt, you will write down your aunt's words, stay in this Shouning Palace, accept that pampered temperament, and don't provoke people you can't afford to provoke." Think twice about everything before you have where you can go. ”

Cui'er was unwilling, but she didn't dare to say it again. Everyone said that she was the niece of the Queen Mother, but she didn't know that she was a niece who was separated by a few weights. Empress Dowager Bao's words naturally won't be finished like this.

Sure enough, I listened to the Empress Dowager Bao said slowly: "Back then, I married to the Chu State successively, and the family still sang Yanyu, and then the Queen Mother 'traveled', the Qi-Chu alliance broke down, and the King of Qi moved to anger the Wu family, and most of the female dependents of the Wu family punished and confiscated official prostitutes and slaves, and they didn't fall away. Fortunately, the family is located in a safe corner and has not been implicated. Seeing that all these years have passed, but they never thought that they would die one after another, a woman from the Wu clan was like a curse, and almost all of them died early. Even your sister-in-law, although she married Mrs. Zuo Shi early, did not live past eighteen, and now you are the only daughter of the Wu family. Your father wants me to protect you, but unfortunately my body has run out of oil, but I don't know how long I can protect you...... cough cough ......" said that, another sigh.

Cui'er was flustered and asked tremblingly: "Auntie, these - my father never told my niece when he was alive, auntie, how did she and them die?" ”

Behind the curtain, there was a dense coughing sound, and the Queen Mother was speechless, and then it seemed that someone was helping the Queen Mother to calm down, Cui'er knelt on the ground and shouted urgently: "Aunt! Aunt?! ”

However, the Queen Mother's breath gradually evened out, but she didn't speak, and she rested as usual. Cui'er was panicked, not knowing whether to leave or stay. At this time, I suddenly heard the sound of the jade pendant, and then the gauze curtain was lifted, and a man wearing an ascetic hibiscus crown and holding a lacquer bowl slowly walked out, and Cui'er was stunned for a moment.

It wasn't until the corners of his teal robe swept over the kneeling fingertips that she came back to her senses.

The tip of the nose is a faint and strange fragrance, like fireworks and bewitching. She raised her head to Mu and looked at him stupidly, from his wide pipa sleeves she saw that side of the plain collar was the lip in the shape of a peony petal, and at this moment the lips were shallowly hooked, she didn't dare to look up anymore, and hurriedly lowered her head.

Everyone said that the king of Chu was decisive in killing, cold and resourceful, his arms were hidden in Chu, he was gentle, and the two of them were cold and woody, each with its own merits.

But in this situation, in this person, she can't remember some of the looks of those two people, and there are only eight characters left in her mind for no reason: Lang Yan is unique, and there is no other in the world.

The room was extremely quiet for a while, she heard the Queen Mother's even breathing, heard her own thunderous heartbeat, heard the sound of a foreign body awakening in her body, and heard the sound of his clothes moving.

The young jade toad real person had already walked to the door, and the clever little girl who came out to answer the door greeted her, and snorted lightly, she only felt that the tip of her soft heart was stepped on lightly or lightly, and it was difficult to breathe for a moment.

I don't know how long it took, I don't know when, a thin voice sounded outside the door again, this time it was the voices of King Chu and Yan Yin.

Cui'er got up blankly, scratched the jade head that Ji's father-in-law sent by someone early in the morning, and walked out in despair, there were two people standing in front of her, she saluted Yan Yin in a groggy state, and then left in a daze.

Yan Yin looked at her lost soul, just as she was trained by the Empress Dowager Bao to be stupid, she didn't feel funny, she looked sideways at the King of Chu, the King of Chu's face was the same as before, but the corners of her eyes had been raised, and the look in her eyes softened.

Since the Queen Mother rested, it was inconvenient for the two of them to enter again, and they stood on the high flat steps together, looking ahead, and they had nothing to say.

The summer days are getting longer and longer, the noisy cicadas are endless, several palace people are catching cicadas one by one with sticky nets below, protecting the queen mother's heart, the cicadas caught are not hurt, all of them are packed in straw cages, and the square-headed black cicadas are stupidly squeezed outward, revealing bulging eyes.

The king of Chu beckoned, and the two palace people hurriedly came over, but they wanted to see the straw cage in their hands, and a palace lady wiped the handle she had picked up, and took a clean handkerchief and wrapped it, and then presented it respectfully.

Yan Yin was fascinated: "Your Majesty, don't you want to come and eat it again - I still ate it when I was in the county and state, but I miss it." ”

The king of Chu glared at him: "The widow gave it away." "I didn't say who I would send it, but it was almost clear.

Yan Yin glanced at the handkerchief on the cicada cage, faintly embroidered flowers and plants, and said, "I'm afraid it's not okay to give it away like this?" "It's not good to send someone who has a weird temperament and a bad temper.

King Chu looked like "you really don't understand the amorous feelings", and was a little proud: "I don't understand this?" It's no wonder that the ugly plum in the alley didn't like you - the girl's house, I have seen a lot of dead jewelry, and I like fresh gadgets. ”

"Oh." Yan Yin nodded, and it was not easy to take out his long list of admirers to refute him, so he only smiled and said, "Then I won't disturb the king's gift." ”

When the king of Chu saw his appearance, he was about to kick out: "Get out." Something slowly floated up, and the two of them, who had been covered with layers of masks in the deep palace and the desire for power, seemed to have returned to that period of hot-blooded, presumptuous, humble and unwilling days.

Yan Yin smiled and walked two steps, suddenly stood still, turned around and asked the King of Chu: "Weichen has a sentence that I don't know whether to ask or not." ”

Without waiting for the king of Chu to refuse, he immediately asked: "The king has always had a bad evaluation of Chen Nu, why does he look at this Xin Nu differently, and forgive Weichen for being bold - in addition to his appearance, Weichen really didn't see anything outstanding." ”

The King of Chu smiled weirdly: "Look, of course you can't see it." ”

Yan Yin was stunned and instantly understood, and the conversation between men did not need superfluous explanations. It seems that today's King Chu was stimulated by Xin Hui's "jealous and sad" appearance, and he was in a strange mood when he came out of the imperial garden. However, his appearance is much closer than the usual solemn appearance of the cold-faced and cold-faced tree.

Yan Yin shook his head and retreated, the cicadas on the tree were caught and released, and there was not much less, he squinted his eyes at the faint light under the shade of the tree, his expression was cold, and he heard the King of Chu behind him say lightly: "Don't you think, she is very similar to you in the past?" However, it's no wonder that ......"

His figure froze suddenly, and the rest of the words were not heard clearly, and he walked away without looking back.

In a secret slaughterhouse in Chen, a secret letter with a peculiar smell was removed from the stomach and rump of the livestock, and then specially treated and delivered to the most powerful people in the country.

King Chen's small eyes became smaller and smaller, and he slapped it on the case: "Mu Chengci, this idiot, has been in the palace for so long, and he hasn't even touched Jing Jue's hair." Now Xin Nu Chu Palace is the only favorite, if one day she has a son and a half daughter......" He almost gritted his teeth when he said later.

Prince Chen stood solemnly on one side, his expression complicated.

King Chen glanced at the secret report again, and patted his round chest angrily: "That old puppet of the Xin family, the widow just moved a little bit of thought about them on the battlefield, and he dared to blatantly conspire with the erector of the Chu State, and used a fake identity to fool the widow, and now that the Xin girl has entered the palace, she is afraid that the mouse will dirty the rice, and it is really difficult to do it - no, she must not be allowed to give birth to a child!" ”

The crown prince frowned, thought for a while, and said slowly: "What my father thinks is indeed reasonable, but from the perspective of the ministers, this matter is not so simple. The appearance of the king of Chu was that he didn't know it at the time, and he would know it for his father one day. ”

And his father's anxious and angry appearance, isn't it also a kind of "deep meaning" that Jing Jue hopes?

Chen Wang didn't have the patience to listen, he was played as a monkey, and he had to see An Dinghou in the court every day, he couldn't bear it anymore, and then flipped through the yellowed paper, only to feel a faint strange smell, and couldn't help touching it with his fingers, tasting it on the tip of his tongue, and then snorted twice, hatefully said: "The Chu people are cunning, and the paper of the Chu country is so stinky!" ”

And the king of Chu, who was scolded at this moment, touched his two hot ears, and personally carried a cage of black cicadas to Kunhe Palace.