Concubine Duan finished reciting a sutra in the small Buddha hall in the main hall of Jingren Palace, and her mind was much more stable. She slowly twisted a stick of incense, inserted it in the white jade incense burner in front of the Buddha, recited the Buddha in her mouth, and then held the offering table to get up. Seeing this, the palace maid standing aside hurriedly stepped forward and picked her up.

The palace maid was her maid in her mother's house, and she followed her into the palace with the marriage, and she was still a little flustered at this time. Since the news came from outside, saying that the second son of the emperor went to Cining Palace to kneel and beg for grace, asked the queen mother to return the queen's innocence, and bluntly said that Duan Concubine was framed, she has always been in this state.

With her support, Duan Concubine sat on the big kang in the warm pavilion, glanced at her, and said lightly: "What are you panicking about?" If you have never done anything bad, and you show your appearance like this, isn't it a clear telling people that you have a weak heart? ”

The palace maid was startled, hurriedly stabilized, and lowered her head with a white face: "It's the slave and maid who lost her manners, and the mother forgives her sins." ”

Concubine Duan slowly held the hand stove and scolded her in a low voice: "Straighten my waist for me, we are just telling the truth, how can we really hurt anyone?" If the queen hadn't harmed me first, how could she have been convicted? Besides, she is now only under house arrest in Kunning Palace, and she is not allowed to go out, what is the difference from before? She is still the noble queen, the lord of the six palaces, and the eldest son of the emperor is still reused by the emperor. No one has suffered, what have we done to her? ”

The palace maid listened quietly and took a few breaths, this time she really calmed down. She asked Concubine Duan in a low voice: "But now that the second son of the emperor is crying and begging in person, what if the queen mother and the emperor really listen to him?" ”

Duan Concubine said lightly: "He didn't witness it with his own eyes at that time, the so-called shouting injustice." It's just that after listening to the queen's words, how could the queen mother and the emperor really believe him? And even if you believe it, so what? I told you. We're just telling the truth. ”

The queen had already made up her mind that on the day of the New Year's Day, she could walk out of Kunning Palace and teach Concubine Duan a lesson. The queen's plan was for her to kneel in front of the Jiao Tai Hall for half an hour, so that all the foreign women who came to the New Year's pilgrimage would see her groveling before her, so that people would know whether she was pregnant or not. No matter how favored she is, she is still lowly and far from being compared with the queen. The foreign wives are outside the palace. Don't say good things about the concubine anymore, because she doesn't deserve it!

However, the Kunning Palace where the queen lives, except for a few cronies in the past. All the later attendants were all sent by the concubines. Even if he is not her confidant, he is somewhat incense. In addition, the concubine is in charge of the affairs of the harem, acts gently and pitifully, and is very methodical, which is quite popular among the palace people. A little palace maid heard the queen's words when she talked to the people around her, for fear that the concubine would suffer a loss, so she reported to her in front of her. When Concubine Duan learned the news, she couldn't believe it!

She asked since she entered the palace. has always had respect for the queen and did not dare to slack off. The queen was grounded in Kunning Palace. But all the food and clothing are very careful, and the daily use is second only to the queen mother and the emperor, and almost everything is the best. Concubine Duan also cared about the queen's psychological state, and specially sent some palace maids with lively and cheerful temperaments to come over, and sent flowers and fruits every day, hoping that the queen would be a little happier. The eldest son of the emperor has not yet married a wife, and the affairs of the East Palace are in charge of the internal supervisor, but the concubine is in charge of the harem, and the ration of the East Palace has always been picky and sent, and she does not dare to wronged the future prince. The second son of the emperor is the same, but because of his strange temperament, she doesn't dare to contact him easily, but she never dares to slack off in life. As for the little princess, there were occasional minor illnesses before, and the concubine took care of her all night, and she didn't sleep for two days and nights.

But she did so much, but the queen didn't miss her love at all, but wanted to step on her face to the ground at every opportunity. If you just want to slap her in the face, that's it, as a concubine, she should be low in front of the queen, but the concubine can't bear to hurt the fetus in her womb!

She was only three months pregnant, and she was not yet stable enough. It's winter again, and every now and then there is a snowfall. The open space in front of the Jiaotai Palace, the place is wide and the terrain is high, so the wind is very strong, and people who stand there for a little longer will be so cold that they can't stand it, let alone kneel for half an hour? It is not difficult for Duan Concubine to imagine that if she really obeyed the queen's order and knelt there for so long, she would definitely be frozen. Even if half an hour later, the queen no longer uses other reasons to toss herself, the fetus in her womb may not be able to resist. What will be the result waiting for her at that time?

Duan Concubine still remembers that one of her cousins lost her six-month-old child because she fell in the snow, and she has been unable to have children since then. The originally loving husband and wife had to accept the existence of a third and a fourth person. Although my cousin is from a family, because she has no heirs, she can only swallow her anger and accept a concubine for her husband, thinking that no matter who can give birth to a boy, she will raise her under her knees, and she can be regarded as having a son. But her in-laws disliked that the status of the person she found was too low, so she had to marry a squire's daughter as a good concubine for her son, and gave birth to a son, but she and her husband were more like a family. My cousin accepted all this virtuously on the surface, but behind her back, she cried many times.

Concubine Duan felt that if she also lost this child, once she could not have children again, then what was waiting for her was probably not as good as that cousin! At least my cousin can sit comfortably in the seat of his wife, and the concubine will call her mother in the future and support her for the elderly. And what about yourself? is just a concubine, with no children and no daughters, and she can only wither in the deep palace in the future. One day when a newcomer enters the palace, I'm afraid the emperor won't take her to heart anymore, right?

Concubine Duan is also a mother, so she hates what the queen does, and she is never willing to accept her fate!

She first remained silent and comforted the little palace maid, and then on the day of the New Year's Day, she wore a leather jacket and skirt that could insulate the cold to keep herself warm enough. At the same time, she also arranged for people to keep an eye on the sentry in secret, as long as the queen ordered her to kneel in front of the Jiaotai Palace, the person immediately rushed to the Cining Palace to ask the queen mother for help. Cining Palace is not far from Jiaotai Palace, as long as the phoenix and manpower are arranged in advance, the Queen Mother can quickly rush to save people. And at that time, Duan Concubine just asked the palace person who was in charge of asking for help to say one more word: "The queen wants to take the opportunity to let Duan Concubine have a miscarriage." ”

In addition to this sentence, all the things reported by the palace people to the queen mother and the emperor. It's all true. The palace people up and down the Kunning Palace can attest to this.

In addition, she also specially arrived at the Jiaotai Palace in advance, and also asked the people of Kunning Palace to ask the queen to move in advance. Let all matters be guaranteed to be resolved before the arrival of the foreign woman. The matter did not make a big fuss, only the royal people knew that the face of the queen mother and the emperor was saved. She took the opportunity to ask for a few words of love for the queen, and the matter was a happy ending. No one was harmed, no one was punished, it was just a plate of sewage poured on the queen's head. But if the queen can be trapped in Kunning Palace from now on and not allowed to go out, the concubine will be able to raise the fetus with peace of mind. Everyone will be happy with the result.

The concubine twisted the rosary on her wrist. He recited another Heart Sutra and whispered to the palace maid: "Remember, we are not lying." Everything is told the truth. Don't show your weak heart, we have nothing to be weak about. ”

The palace maid suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, bowed her head and responded: "Yes." ”

The concubines and palace maids thought that they were not harmful, but the queen didn't think so in her heart. She desperately defended herself in front of the Queen Mother. also confessed that he had indeed had the idea of teaching a lesson to his concubine. But she never thought of tossing the fetus in the womb of the concubine! said that she wanted to harm other people's abortions? That's absolutely nothing! The queen could not accept that she had been accused of a trumped-up crime.

The Queen Mother didn't listen to her at all, but after listening to her defense, she became more and more convinced that she was guilty, and she became even more angry in her heart: "You have admitted it, what else is there to say?" What a vicious man you are! Even if the fetus in the womb of the concubine is not your own, won't you have to call you the queen mother in the future? Why did the concubine ever disrespect you? is also diligent and careful everywhere, and you are also doing your best to the prince and princess, but you want to harm her......" The Queen Mother sneered. "Yes, you are still very indifferent to your own son. In the winter, you still ask him to kneel in the snow to intercede for you, without caring about his young and frail health, what is so strange about you being vicious to others? It was the mourning family who had no eyes in the past, and they didn't see your true face, and they even asked you to marry the emperor as your original wife, and now I really regret it! I knew that today, the mourning family should not have chosen you as a daughter-in-law that day. ”

The queen looked at her in disbelief, and she was about to go crazy: "What nonsense did the queen mother say? Do you mean that you want the emperor to abolish me? The emperor thinks so too?! ”

The Queen Mother was so angry that she didn't want to speak, so she only instructed the palace people on the left and right: "Get her out, the mourning family doesn't want to listen to her nonsense anymore." ”

The palace people came to ask the queen to move, but the queen looked at the queen mother in a daze, didn't move, and was silent for a long time before saying: "You can't ask the emperor to abolish me, I'm not the queen anymore, what should I do?" ”

The Queen Mother ignores her, who is going to abolish her? Is she incomprehensible or something?

But the queen insisted on getting a definite answer, so she rushed up and grabbed the queen mother and asked: "You can't ask the emperor to abolish me!" Da Lang, he is your own grandson! He has always been filial to you, and you can't hurt him like that! ”

The Queen Mother was taken aback: "What are you doing!?" was shaken by the queen and dizzy. At this time, the emperor, who had been hiding in the Xinuan Pavilion and listening for a long time, saw that the situation was in chaos, and hurriedly rushed over to pull the queen away, and when he was excited, he vigorously threw her to the ground: "You are crazy!" What are you going to do to the queen mother?! ”

The queen sat on the ground in a daze, and the emperor didn't care about her, so he only went to comfort the queen mother: "Are you okay?" Can it hurt? The queen mother was pinched by the queen so that her shoulders and hair hurt, and she suspected that she had pinched her skin, but it was not easy to inspect, and she only said to the emperor that she was fine, but she was extremely annoyed with the queen.

She said directly to the emperor: "Your Majesty, look at it, this is the good daughter-in-law you connived at!" If you had disciplined her more, she wouldn't have dared to be so bold. Even if you feel sorry for your daughter-in-law, you have to think about your children. With such a mother, what can they learn? Da Lang is about to get married, is it difficult for his granddaughter-in-law to see how ridiculous her mother-in-law is?! ”

The emperor bowed his head and continued to reassure: "The queen mother is angry, and the son guarantees that she will not do it again in the future." He glared back at the queen again, and scolded in a low voice: "What are you doing in a daze?" Why don't you hurry up and get me back to Kunning Palace?! ”

The queen was stunned and asked someone to help her up, but she refused to leave, she stared at the emperor and asked in a daze: "Doesn't the emperor believe that I am innocent?" Why? Why would you rather trust a slut than me now?! ”

The emperor said impatiently: "Where are you innocent? Hugh will dwell on it again. You already have the intention of harming others, even if you don't say this, it can't hide the fact that you almost hurt the concubine. Now that the queen mother is generous and virtuous, she will not care about your crimes and only punish you for grounding. If you really want to think about your children, you should stay in Kunning Palace honestly, and don't talk nonsense! ”

The queen smiled lowly: "I knew it...... Once you have a new person, you don't have me in your heart anymore. What am I doing to this day? A husband and wife for more than ten years, you actually wronged me for being a slut, and you wanted to abolish my posterior, and even deprive the eldest son of the eldest son? Do you still want the evil seed in the belly of the concubine to replace Da Lang?! ”

Seeing her crazy look, the emperor said something out of tune in his mouth, and he didn't bother to say more to her, so he directly ordered the palace people: "Pull her out!" ”

The palace people obeyed the order, but the queen suddenly threw them all away, and rushed towards the emperor like crazy. They were not far away, and the others were caught off guard, and the emperor just turned around to talk to the Queen Mother, and only the palace people who were standing on the left and right of the Queen Mother saw her movements. I saw that their eyes suddenly widened, and they exclaimed, "Emperor", and one of them rushed forward and pushed the emperor away.

Under this push, the emperor took a step back, turned his head sideways to look in the direction of the queen, saw the silver light flashing in her hand, and hurriedly raised his sleeves to resist, only to hear a hiss, the sleeve was drawn out of a big hole, he knew that it was not good, he couldn't care about anything, and raised his foot and kicked at the queen.

The queen was kicked to the ground by him, but the sharp weapon in her hand never let go, and at the moment she fell to the ground, she threw the thing towards the emperor's head and face with hatred, and then was crushed to the ground by the palace people.

The emperor was hit in the face by the silver light, and couldn't help screaming, and the queen mother exclaimed: "Emperor! He rushed to inspect it, only to hear the emperor howling in pain, his right hand tightly covering the position of his right eye, and blood flowed from his fingers, quickly staining the sleeves of his shirt.

The sharp weapon fell to the ground, and everyone saw clearly that it was a cloisonné silver phoenix hairpin, the hairpin body was bright, and the hairpin tip was sharpened, although it was very fine, but it was an old thing. This was originally a wedding gift given to his wife by the emperor when he was still the king of Le'an. At this moment, it was stained with his blood.

Under the severe pain, the emperor didn't care to see what was lying on the ground, and stepped on the phoenix hairpin without pity. He staggered and howled in pain, "My eyes! My eyes! (To be continued......)