Chapter Eighty-Six: Punished
But how can the hot tea be borne by human hands, Xiao Qizi can't hold on for long even if he gritted his teeth, tears appeared in the corners of his eyes, and the two tea cups fell to the ground, and he has been on an errand in Chaohui Palace, with his master Su Mingju's protection, even if there is something wrong, he has not been tortured like this.
The anger in Concubine Hua's heart has not disappeared, and she punished Xiao Qizi to kneel on the road outside the Rixi Hall, and she moved a chair to put it in the shade under the eaves, shook the fan slowly, and sat there, enjoying watching Xiao Qizi in general.
The main road outside the Rixi Hall is the place where you have to go to the palace, and the people who come and go watch Xiao Qizi being punished, some people can't bear it, some people should watch the play, but no one dares to come forward to intercede for Xiao Qizi.
Although it was only a few hours, the sun was getting bigger, and the sun was already very hot at this time.
Xiao Qizi's consciousness gradually blurred when he knelt and knelt, his eyelids drooped one by one, as long as he dared to close his eyes, Yuji would pick up the dust and whip him hard, seeing that the person was about to faint, and the sound of the eunuch reporting came from outside the door.
"Concubine Niangniang is here, Concubine Yi is here, Song Jieyu is here, Jade Beauty is here ......"
"What mistake did he make that Concubine Hua wants to punish him like this?" The group walked into the palace and asked.
Seeing that the person who came was the old man beside the emperor, Concubine Hua showed a sad look on her face, but she quickly regained her calm.
People are attracted by concubines, and they are about to go to the Evening Academy to greet the queen's mother, but they bumped into Hua Concubine in the emperor's palace and lost her temper, the sun is getting bigger and bigger, and she is worried that Xiao Qizi will not be able to hold on, so she excuses that the begonia flowers in the place where she lives are blooming just right, and invites the concubines to watch together, and leads the weeping dew and the palace concubines here.
Hua Concubine still leaned lazily on the seat, did not get up, and said: "This little eunuch offended the palace, and the palace came to see the emperor, but he stopped the palace outside. ”
glanced at the concubines again, and smiled contemptuously, "What, this palace deals with an ignorant minion, do you still want to watch together?" ”
Weelu looked at Xiao Qizi who was kneeling on the ground with a bloody lip, obviously confused but still shaking her head desperately, obviously things are not what Concubine Hua said.
"The emperor went to Nanshan to hunt today, not in the palace, Rixi Hall is the place where the emperor deals with government affairs, how can you enter if you say that you can enter? Xiao Qizi is acting on the orders of the emperor, if he listens to the emperor's orders and is punished by the Hua Concubine Niangniang, then is the Niangniang going to cross the emperor's influence on the affairs in the palace? ”
Weeping Lu said this hard, and now the concubine next to her secretly has awe in her heart, she is worthy of being a person who has been with the emperor for many years, and she is hard when she speaks, and even Su Ming will give her three points.
Concubine Hua knew that WeeLu was not a master to be messed with, and she was also afraid that the emperor would really punish her when he came back, so her tone loosened slightly.
"Aunt Weeping Lu, you misunderstood, the palace was just confused by this little minion, and didn't want to cross the emperor's intentions."
"That Hua Concubine Niangniang is now beaten and punished, it's time to dissipate your anger, after all, Xiao Qizi is still an errand person in front of the emperor, and it is not good to let the emperor see it with an injury."
It's just a minion, and it's still protected like a treasure, I don't know if I think it's your illegitimate child! Hua Concubine cursed secretly in her heart, and said another thing on her lips: "Little minion, there are a lot of adults in this palace who don't care about him, Bai Shao, Yuji, let's go." ”
As he spoke, he took the two of them to leave the Rixi Hall, but was blocked by the crying dew.
"Concubine Hua, you left like this, the emperor came back and looked at the mess in the house, and the slaves and maids couldn't pay the errands."
Weelu was talking about the fragments of the tea cup that Xiao Qizi had knocked over, and the tea that had been poured on the ground.
Hua Concubine was silent, with a displeased look on her face, and gently raised her chin to signal Bai Shao Yuji to clean up.
On the side, the concubine asked Xingwu to help Xiao Qizi to sit down in the shade to rest, Bai Shao Yuji lowered his head and quickly picked up the broken porcelain, moved the chair back, and immediately followed behind the Hua concubine and left the Rixi Hall.
The concubines in the Rixi Hall were dumbfounded, especially Song Jieyu and Yu Meiren, who had just entered the palace, and they were even more surprised, before entering the palace, they heard how the Hua Concubine was arrogant and domineering in the palace, but they didn't expect an old aunt to have such momentum to suppress the arrogance of the Hua Concubine.
Only Concubine Yi didn't change her face, and she lowered her voice and said to Song Jieyu: "Sister, did you hear it, the emperor went to Nanshan to hunt, and only brought the queen mother and Xiao Guifei, and didn't tell us, hey, we are not blessed." ”
Song Jieyu is a person who can't hide her words, as soon as she heard Concubine Yi say this, she immediately shouted loudly, and the rest of the Jieyu beauties also followed you to discuss what you said and what I said, saying that Xiao Guifei is a pet and charms the king, and also said that the queen is not a benevolent person, and she doesn't know how to persuade as a middle palace.
Concubine Yi saw that a group of people were disturbed by her, and while they were discussing, she secretly withdrew from the Rixi Hall to chase Concubine Hua.
The more we listened to Song Jieyu's words, the more unpleasant they became, and even talked about the late eldest princess, and scolded sharply: "Whoever catches the wind and talks maliciously, when the emperor comes back, he will definitely report it truthfully." ”
They had seen the crying just now, and they all closed their mouths and didn't dare to speak, pushing each other and leaving the Rixi Hall.
Crying Lu and Concubine Zhen took care of Xiao Qizi's situation, and they were not too good to ask for a doctor immediately, but Pu Julian followed the emperor to Nanshan again, so she had to ask Xingwu to invite other unfamiliar doctors.
Xiao Qizi thanked him repeatedly, saying that he was a humble body, and he didn't need to worry about his concubine, and the concubine only comforted him and said don't think too much, and only by raising a good body can he be a good errand.
Hua Concubine held back the fire all the way, and sure enough, she didn't go far, I thought that the emperor had restored her concubine, and often came to see her a few times, and after so long, the emperor's anger with himself had disappeared, but after coming back from Qixi Festival, he became cold to her again.
She cursed Tang Ningnan more than once for being a fox spirit, and she didn't know what ecstasy soup she poured into the emperor outside the palace.
wrote a letter to his father and asked him to say a few words for himself in the emperor's presence, but Sima Bin has been busy with the matter of going south to Penglai Continent, and he has no time to take care of it, so he only replied that she caused the death of the eldest princess, and she must be a little more peaceful these days, otherwise the emperor may not even take her on the southern tour.
Afraid that she would really be left alone in the palace, Concubine Hua had no choice but to listen to Sima Bin's words, and restrained herself for a few days, and the emperor did allow her to accompany her to the southern tour, but she still didn't want to see her, you must know that the emperor of the southern tour took her to Nanshan to hunt before.
That was three or four years ago, Feng Feihan succeeded to the throne, Sima Bin was promoted to prime minister, the Sima family was very prosperous, and he was sent to the palace as the daughter of the Sima family, and as soon as he entered the palace, he was a concubine, and he received the most favor.
But I didn't expect that now, a Nanban princess who has been in the palace for three years without favor and has not paid attention to her at all, has quietly won the favor that no one in the harem has ever beared, and she is also pregnant with Feng Feihan's first child after ascending the throne, promoted to a noble concubine, enjoys the power of the assistant harem, overrides her head, and pries the original weak and timid queen and concubine The two also followed her against themselves.
Proud as Sima Shuhua, who has been in the harem for so many years, how can she accept it if she suddenly wants to salute her?
Concubine Hua rarely had a trace of sadness in her heart, she was just angry about these things before, but it was the first time that she felt sour like today.
In the past, she wanted to get the best in everything, the highest honor, the highest status, even if she was not the queen, she could intimidate everyone in the harem, and she didn't know how powerful it was to be compared to the queen who had a reputation for virtue and kindness but was weak and incompetent.
But gradually, she found that she began to yearn for Feng Feihan's love, and the harem was long and long, so she didn't want someone to sleep with her, even if it wasn't in a bed, just in a room, she felt at ease.
She understands that the emperor loves her partly because of the Sima family, but she feels that the emperor has her in his heart, but since the emperor noticed Tang Ningnan, everything has changed, her eyes have been on the emperor, but the emperor's eyes have been following Tang Ningnan, she thought that the emperor just felt fresh for a while, and he would return to him soon, but it turned out that she was wrong.
The emperor treated Tang Ningnan more carefully than anyone in the harem, and even hurt her for having a child, jealousy blinded her eyes, making her stretch out her evil hands to the five-month-old Feng Mifei.
She succeeded, she was also discovered, she fell out of favor, she seems to have regained her favor, but the restoration of favor is just a flash in the pan, the emperor treats her as before at all, and she does not have the favor she used to have, to be precise, except for Tang Ningnan, whether it is her or any concubine in the harem, even the queen is not really favored by Feng Feihan.
Hua Concubine showed a bitter smile, and sat limply in the pavilion by the pool, Bai Shao and Yuji had never seen her so gloomy and sad expression, even when she was grounded, there was light in Hua Concubine's eyes, but now, Hua Concubine's eyes became dim, no light, and no life.
Bai Shao and Yuji looked at each other, wanting to say something to comfort their mother, but they didn't know why Concubine Hua was sad and couldn't speak.
"White peony, Yukichi." Concubine Hua opened her mouth and called the names of the two weakly.
"What is the point of saying that this palace is alive like this? You can't even punish a minion according to your own heart. The birch concubine looked at the carp in the pond stupidly, her eyes like a dry well that had dried up for a long time.
The two of them heard the depression in Concubine Hua's tone, and knelt on the ground in fright.
Bai Shao opened her mouth and said: "Niangniang, don't think about it, the emperor was just confused by Rong Yuxuan for a while, and after some time, he will definitely return to Niangniang." Yu Ji also echoed on the side, "Xiao Guifei's foxy appearance will soon be disgusted by the emperor." ”
Concubine Hua didn't listen to the flowers of the two at all, and still looked at the carp in the pond stupidly.
"It's better for this palace to drown in this river and sit on a carp to be freer."
When Bai Shao heard this, she immediately stepped forward and grabbed Concubine Hua's wrist, "Niangniang, don't do stupid things!" ”
"Niangniang, what are you doing" Concubine Yi followed in at this time, and saw Concubine Hua leaning out of the pavilion with half of her body shaking.