Chapter 43: The Qingming Festival

Li Jieyu - Fu Qingwu is not the most beautiful in this palace, nor is she the most powerful in the family, nor is she the emperor's favorite, but this month is the day when she has to bear the most rain and dew. Chu Xiangwan had the heart to match, and Huangfu Jingwen loved Wu and Wu, so that she was frequently summoned by Huangfu Jingwen in this month. In this month, she has been full of beauty. Fu Qingwu has not been idle, and she has put a lot of effort into the cold palace. Jiang Liyu's dinner table often has poisoned meals, and she often hears a lot of strange noises outside her house at night, which makes her haggard and sleepless at night, but she has been in the cold palace for more than a month, and Jiang Liyu has lost weight and is not human. A person who lives in fear and fright all day long, his consciousness has gradually become unconscious, Jiang Liyu is almost crazy, and she is clamoring to leave the cold palace all day long.

The opportunity of this day finally made Jiang Liyu wait.

It rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, but the weather on the day of the real Qingming Festival is a clear sky. On this day, the emperor will take all the concubines to the heavens and ancestors, praying for the wind and rain of the year, according to the rules, the emperor and the empress will also symbolically sow the cultivated land in a small vegetable field opened up in the palace, to show the emperor's importance to agricultural farming.

Chu Xiangwan was already more than seven months pregnant, holding such a big belly, supported by Qian'er and Li Chongrong all the way, and slowly walked behind. When Fang Xiaozhou met them at the door of the Chongkang Palace, he deliberately mocked: "Yo, the imperial concubine has such a big shelf, and it doesn't matter if the personal slave and maid support her, why is this beautiful and full of appearance and serving next to her like a slave?" ”

Fu Qingwu's face turned red all of a sudden, she was still the same gentle woman in front of people, she lowered her head and whispered: "Sister Imperial Concubine is getting older, you need to be careful." The emperor's heirs can't be negligent. ”

"What Li Chongrong said is really flattering, but also, if it weren't for the recommendation of the imperial concubine, how could you have been favored recently?" Fang Xiaozhou said bluntly, leaving no room for anything.

"Niangniang, the concubine didn't think so." Li Chongrong retorted.

"Who hasn't conceived a child, who is putting on such a hypocritical look?" Fang Xiaozhou ignored Fu Qingwu and stepped straight into the hall.

"Sister, I-" Fu Qingwu looked like she was about to cry.

"I understand, you don't need to pay attention to Concubine Hui's words, she has always been." Chu Xiangwan patted Fu Qingwu's hand and comforted her.

The sacrificial ceremony lasted about an hour, and the emperor took everyone to the special vegetable field in the palace. There is no queen in the palace, and Huangfu Jingwen can cultivate alone. He originally wanted Chu Xiangwan to be with him, but Chu Xiangwan was getting older, and he didn't dare to let Chu Xiangwan be too tired, so he gave up. He thought, once Xiang Wan gave birth to a child, he would crown her as the queen, and in the future every year on the Qingming Festival, are you afraid that there will be no such opportunity?

Just when everyone was paying attention to Huangfu Jingwen, someone suddenly screamed.

"Niangniang, you let go of Niangniang!" It was Qian'er who spoke up.

Because the cultivation time was not short, Huangfu Jingwen was afraid that Chu Xiangwan would not be able to support him all the time, so he asked Qian'er and Li Chongrong to help Chu Xiangwan sit in the pavilion next to him. Hearing the call now, Huangfu Jingwen turned around, but saw a woman with a disheveled hair holding a hairpin against Chu Xiangwan's throat.

Huangfu Jingwen hurriedly walked outside the pavilion and shouted at the woman with her hair scattered: "Who are you who dare to hold the imperial concubine hostage? ”

When this woman heard Huangfu Jingwen's question, her body suddenly stiffened, and she looked up at Huangfu Jingwen: "Your Majesty, don't you know the concubine?" The concubine is your Fu Zhaoyuan! ”

Everyone chattered, "She's Fu Zhaoyuan?" "How did it become like this?" "Isn't she in the cold palace?" , Jiang Liyu is wearing a cloak at the moment, her face is painted with red, red and white rouge gouache, her clothes are dragging, and she can't distinguish her eyebrows, her big change is not only that Huangfu Jingwen can't recognize it, but even everyone in the palace feels that things are wrong when they see it.

"Didn't I have a will early in the morning, and you can't get out of the cold palace in this life? You are so bold, you actually sneaked out and held the imperial concubine hostage! "Recently, the palace people have been busy with the Qingming sacrifice, so they neglected the guards of the cold palace and let Jiang Liyu have a chance.

"Your Majesty, why don't you believe in the concubine, the concubine really didn't instruct the little prince to fall into the water in the spring! The cold palace is so terrible, don't stay there with the concubines! Jiang Liyu was already confused, and kept saying that she was wronged, she was emotional, and she was bent on leaving the ghost place in the cold palace.

"You put down the hairpin in your hand first, and I will investigate it thoroughly, okay?" Huangfu Jingwen saw Jiang Liyu's crazy state and felt that this woman was already delirious, and now he could only comfort her so that she could let Chu Xiangwan go.

"Really?"

"I'm true for what I say."

Jiang Liyu gradually let go of the hairpin in her hand, and at this time, Fu Qingwu happened to be in the closest place to Jiang Liyu, and she said: "Yes, you hurry up and let go of the imperial concubine sister, you have already murdered the imperial heir once, and the emperor is already very generous just to demote you to the cold palace." As long as you let your sister go and obediently return to the cold palace, the emperor will definitely not punish you too severely. ”

As soon as she heard Leng Gong, her hand, which was gradually relaxed, clenched the hairpin again, and she shook her head and said, "I don't want to go back!" Don't go back! ”

Seeing that Jiang Liyu was out of control, the hairpin was about to pierce Chu Xiangwan's neck, and suddenly, someone grabbed Jiang Liyu's two hands from behind, it turned out that taking advantage of the gap between their words, Ma Hui made a look at the guards around him to approach Jiang Liyu from behind and take her down in one fell swoop. Being restrained, Jiang Liyu's emotions were even more uncontrollable, she struggled left and right, and the guards didn't catch any of them, but let her get out of their grip.

Jiang Liyu ran to Chu Xiangwan, in a panic, she grabbed Chu Xiangwan's sleeve, and the guards behind rushed up to grab Jiang Liyu, pushing and shoving, Chu Xiangwan didn't know who pushed her from behind, and she was about to roll down the stone steps in the pavilion. Chu Xiangwan shouted to Fu Qingwu beside him: "Sister." Fu Qingwu couldn't help it, she was closest to her at this time, if she didn't stretch out her hand, it would definitely arouse suspicion, and what she was thinking at the time was that even if she didn't grasp it firmly and fell down with the imperial concubine, she would only suffer a slight injury, and Chu Xiangwan's child must be more than lucky. So, she grabbed Chu Xiangwan's hand, pretended not to stand firm, and rolled down with Chu Xiangwan.

"Late!" Huangfu Jingwen watched Chu Xiangwan roll down the stone steps, and he strode over.

"Ugh!" Chu Xiangwan was lying on the ground, covering her stomach, her face became pale at this time, beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on her head, and she couldn't say a word in pain.

"Xiang Wan, how are you?" Huangfu Jingwen helped Chu Xiangwan up, he spoke out hurriedly, looking at such a situation, he was also at a loss.