Chapter 156: Worship
As he spoke, Shao Gong sighed and quietly looked at the look of the person in front of him, and sure enough, the lord's face was a little gloomy again.
He decided to strike with a hot iron, "I don't know how many people know about this?" Although the palace is a wealthy and noble family in the imperial capital, in addition to having children in the house, I am afraid that I will have to buy some from the people outside...... Lord, according to the old slave's opinion......"
"Go down!" Without waiting for Shao Gong to finish chattering, Murong Qin directly interrupted the reply, he frowned, tore off the black veil, and strode towards the black lacquer carved open chair behind him, during which he also said that the black complexion was thrown away a long way.
Shao Gong's eyebrows lit up, and he hurriedly saluted and retired, and at the end, he carefully closed the door.
That night, Murong Qin stayed in the study and never came out.
Qi Niang woke up completely in the afternoon of the third day, when the sunlight of early June leaked into the house obliquely through the dense maple leaves outside the house, and the wind penetrated through the corner of the window, with the green fragrance of the garden, refreshing!
Qi Niang lazily leaned on the soft pillow, her head empty, but she was very sober.
She still remembered that there was also a big maple tree behind the courtyard of the ancestral house in the north of the modern day, the leaves were shrouded like a canopy, and a wisp of side branches also poked directly into her bedroom window, and when summer came, there would always be so many annoying caterpillars hidden in the branches, and Qi Niang did not notice it several times, until her naughty two cousins caught a small cyan caterpillar directly in front of her, and she was so frightened that she cried, and from then on. She never opened the window in the bedroom in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and if it weren't for her mother's squeamishness, she wouldn't have wanted to replace the room.
Of course, on the afternoon of the day she cried, that brother was invited by her grandfather to the study......
At that time, she only knew that her heart was full of laughter, and she only knew that her brothers were scared and crying, and her grandfather would immediately repair them to help her, and she was proud and happy alone like a princess......
However, now she knows the love in it......
I really want to go back, even though my grandfather, who loves her so much, is gone. Despite that, the parents who gave birth to her, raised her, taught her carefully, and cared for her are gone. But she still wanted to go back......
In any case, it's better to go back than to stay here......
However, she is gone, what will happen to grandma?
It's not that grandma doesn't want to go. But can't go!
Went back. It is to face terminal cancer. It is the boundless pain and suffering, and the final despair......
Here, grandma is the mother of the heroic general. It is a princess of the first grade of the country, and more importantly, she is an old lady who is in good health, without the torture and panic of cancer, without being thin as wood, and without washing her face with tears every day......
With the heroic deeds of General Changfeng and the family business of General Cenzhou's mansion, grandma is enough to live for a long time!
She can't be so selfish!
Qi Niang involuntarily hugged herself, clutching her head like a newborn baby, grabbing the quilt, trying to draw more warmth from the quilt.
She still didn't dare to act!
On the second day of waking up, Qi Niang ignored the persuasion of her grandmother and grandmother, and took Chu Qing Banxiang to Ximen Courtyard insisted.
Murong Qin was not in the study, and there was no one in the main hall, and under the leadership of Chu Qing, she found Murong Qin and Shao Gong in the rockery cave in the backyard until she saw them.
I saw him wearing a plain white robe, kneeling straight on the weeds, and in front of him was a black brazier, Murong Qin was grabbing the yellow paper and putting it in one by one, with three incense sticks on the side, and a stack of yellow paper neatly arranged.
Qi Niang's heart trembled, and she immediately saw the tablet on the bluestone block at the front.
"Huo Yueqiao's Spiritual Seat"
Even an unprofessional person like Qi Niang still saw the abnormality of the tablet at a glance, no title, no prefix, it stands to reason that Concubine Huo has married into the royal family, even if she was executed by Ling Chi in the end, but she was born a royal person, and she should be a royal ghost when she dies according to reason, it seems that Ah Qin still hates!
Qi Niang waved away Chu Qing Banxiang and entered the cave alone.
Shao Gong saw it but didn't make a sound, not even a trace of surprise, he bowed slightly to Qi Niang, and then walked out of the artificial cave.
Although Qi Niang's heart was different, she could look at Murong Qin's increasingly thin figure, and her handsome face that was even thinner under the firelight, and her eyes were already slightly wet.
She stepped forward, knelt beside Murong Qin without saying a word, and put the yellow paper into the brazier one by one.
The fire is getting bigger and bigger.
The yellow tongue of fire was imprinted on the face, hot, warm.
Qi Niang's uneasiness in her heart faded.
I don't know how long it took, when Qi Niang found that the yellow paper that had been raised high in her hand had dropped a lot, she faintly felt numb in her knees, but she endured it and didn't move.
Murong Qin opened his mouth, "Ah Qi, today is my mother's birthday. ”
He's talking about the mother, not the concubine.
Qi Niang's eyelids jumped.
"On the eighth day of June, if my mother is still here, she will be thirty-six years old today, and at such an age, I am afraid that she will also like to play with flowers and plants, embroidery and painting."
"If my mother is here, I don't know whether to be relieved or sad to see me now. Since I was poisoned by the Nanban, my body and bones were destroyed, and my mother didn't know how many tears she secretly shed for this, begging the emperor's grandmother, begging her father, and even begging the uncle of the Huo family and the national teacher of Jiu Neng, as long as she heard that the poison on me was of any use, she would do whatever it took to get it, but unfortunately at that time, the ghost woman Liji had not yet dedicated herself to the rivers and lakes, and her mother only found out that there was such a Nanban water saint, but she couldn't know what kind of god it was! ”
"I still remember, that day was the day of the first snow, there was a banquet in the palace, but my mother stayed in Qiaoxi Palace because of the wind and cold, I looked at the crystal longevity peach-shaped crystal fruit made of custard at the banquet and tasted delicious, so I quietly put two from my plate and hid them in the cuffs, under the pretext of going to the official room to secretly go to my mother's, there was wind and snow all the way, I was afraid that the fruit would be cold and lose its taste, so I took it out and put it on my chest, only separated by a layer of underwear, and then rushed to Qiaoxi Palace."
"When the mother saw me, she was drinking medicine, and she was so frightened that she asked me why my chest bulged out inexplicably, I excitedly said the reason, and immediately took out the two crystal fruits, which were hot, but unfortunately they were not formed, and they were ugly, but my mother was holding them in the palm of her hand like a baby, tasting them carefully, and saying that they were delicious!"
"Then she cried ......"
"Back then, the uncle of the Huo family wanted to ask for the little daughter of the Ministry of Rites as his wife for the eldest son of Huo, and begged his mother to come, but the mother refused on the grounds of not interfering in the affairs of the court, and then the uncle still found the secretary of the Ministry of Shangshu to arrange the marriage, and afterwards my mother took my hand and said: "Whether it is an officialdom struggle or a political need, in the future, we will marry a wife, and we will ask to marry the girl we like, and the mother will be happy!" It's a pity that I was only six years old at the time, and I didn't understand this, so I just said that I liked my mother the most, and I would marry my mother when I grew up! ”
"Later, before the Chinese New Year, my mother left......"
Qi Niang held her breath, listened carefully to the story she told, and finally couldn't help but redden.
She didn't know what to say, she was depressed a lot, she only felt that the mulberry mouth was very blocked, but she couldn't spit out a word!
Murong Qin stared at the flickering flames in the brazier, gritted his teeth and said, "Ah Qi, do you know the punishment of Ling Chi's execution?" Later, I secretly went to the Punishment Department several times, and finally heard about my mother's execution from the mouth of the tall grandmother. Five hundred and sixty-seven knives, the knife saw the blood and flesh, and the eighty-one knives only saw the bones, and the blood flowed like a river on the ground, but the mother gritted her teeth so hard that she even bit the root of her tongue in the end, and she didn't cry out a word of pain! ”
"Qi Niang, my mother is such a delicate and kind person, why does God want her to suffer so much, why does he punish Huo Shi like this? Qi Niang, the Huo family has been heartfelt since the ancestor Holy Ancestor Emperor, the eldest uncle even took the initiative to hand over the military power in the southwest in order to avoid suspicion, not to mention, but also took the initiative to resign from the management of the imperial capital patrol battalion, and the mother, to the age of fifteen into the palace, has never fought for favor and harm, even if I was framed by others in the Nanban Qi poison, my mother is only wholeheartedly seeking an antidote for me, never doubted or hated anyone, so kind, why can't the sky tolerate them, why should they be so cruel, is the sky blind? ”
Saying that, Murong Qin couldn't hold back any longer, and tears rained down......
Qi Niang choked up and shouted "...... Aqin"
That day, the two of them cried and talked about the past in the rockery, until the thick yellow paper was all turned to ashes, until the white candle ran out of oil, until Murong Qin's voice was dumb, Qi Niang's eyes were swollen, and the two went out of the cave together.
Later, in the small study, Qi Niang was holding the hot eggs sent by Chu Qing to her eyes, while chatting with Murong Qin, who was drinking tea and moistening his throat.
As he spoke, he talked about Qi Niang's heart. (To be continued......)