Chapter 33: The Great Rebellion
The queen's face was pale, but she still maintained her dignified and graceful image, and scolded Liu Yuyao without looking back, "Yuyao, show the pastries in your hand to Concubine Xian, let her see, she, as an elder, is so wronged by good people." ”
Concubine Xian was only seven or eight years older than Liu Yuyao, and when she heard the ridicule between the queen's words, her eyes suddenly widened angrily.
Liu Yuyao rubbed for a long time, and generally looked at Langying for help, but at this critical moment, Rongying always lowered her eyebrows and was obedient, and she didn't expect her to give her an idea.
"Still, don't look at it, I'm hungry, auntie, hurry up and eat!" She had the audacity to propose.
Empress Liu turned her head to look at her, saw her look flustered, her heart jumped, and she had already guessed that what she was holding in her Liu Yuyao hand was really a Fushou cake.
"Take it out!"
A scolding scared Liu Yuyao, hesitated, opened his palm, and saw that the Fushou cake held inside had been deformed, but he could still vaguely distinguish the word Fushou.
Everyone saw it in their eyes, and all of them were silent, and some of them were waiting to see a good show for fear that the world would not be chaotic, and they had already eaten and laughed.
"Do you really have this Chang'an Palace's Fushou Cake?!"
Liu Yuyao muttered quietly: "I'm really hungry to ......."
Her arm was secretly bumped by the man next to her, but it was the fifth prince Li Heng, who met the man's eyes with some puzzlement, and the latter passed her a reassuring look, and said to the queen with a smile: "Maybe it's the ancestor reward." ”
The queen knew that he was excusing Liu Yuyao, and she also knew that it would be very disadvantageous for her aunt and nephew to be entangled in this matter, so she simply changed her words and said: "No matter where you got this pastry from this palace, you can't eat it!" That's a big rebellion! Did you hear that? ”
"Oh, I see......"
She responded softly, and handed the pastries and oranges in her hand to the palace maid of Fengzao Palace.
Concubine Xian still didn't give up: "The queen wants to settle things?" It doesn't matter where this pastry came from...... Everyone praised Niangniang for governing the harem fairly, and it seems that it is not true, but in the end it is still short-sighted. ”
Empress Liu raised her eyes coldly and looked at her and said, "What else do you want to do?" ”
Concubine Xian raised her hand and tucked her sideburns behind her ears, "There are cakes and fruits that can be lost in the Chang'an Palace, it seems that there is no safety anywhere in this palace, and Niangniang is not going to investigate this matter thoroughly?" ”
"This palace will investigate this matter, but this matter should have nothing to do with you, you ask so much, is there no suspicion of overstepping the bounds?"
Concubine Xian snorted coldly, "If the concubine can't track it down, the concubine doesn't mind helping the concubine to see if this thing was stolen by the crown princess!" ”
Liu Yuyao saw her dripping eyes turn to herself, with bad intentions, and couldn't help but be angry.
Didn't she just steal a pastry and an orange, and she was caught before she dared to eat it, which was really unfavorable.
And in order to protect her, the queen's aunt was dumbfounded by this woman, and she couldn't help but be even more angry in her heart.
She took a step forward, raised her little face and said, "No need to check!" I stole it! No, it's not stealing! I took it in Chang'an Hall in front of everyone, and it has nothing to do with my aunt, don't be aggressive! ”
As soon as these words came out, the hall was quiet again, and the queen whispered, "Yu Yao! ”
Concubine Xian laughed, clasped her hands together, and said with bad intentions: "It's really the crown princess who stole it, hey, look at my memory, what kind of crime is it to steal the food from the table?" Do you want to be beaten to death, or will you be executed at Ling Chi? ”
Liu Yuyao's body trembled violently, her pupils widened instantly, and she glanced anxiously at Li Heng nearby, she didn't know why she was looking at Li Heng, she just felt that looking at this gentle and elegant fifth prince, she had a dependency in her heart.
Li Heng also replied with a reassuring smile, and turned to Concubine Xian: "The mother concubine's memory is quite good, but the rules are all for the minions." ”
"Haven't the five princes heard that the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people? It's a shame that you have studied under Taifu, if the prince had guaranteed to understand this truth, she would have been exempted from the death penalty a long time ago, and the living crime would have been inevitable! ”
"Ridiculous!" The queen was finally furious, "This harem or the palace has the final say!" Even the prince didn't dare to influence the decision of the palace, don't say it's you! ”
"How dare the concubine, isn't this reminding the mother, the sisters are all standing here, don't you protect your shortcomings, it will cool the hearts of the sisters."
After speaking, the corners of her bewitching eyes swept the harem concubines, and when the latter saw her coming, they lowered their eyebrows, eager to pretend that they didn't exist at all.
I only heard Li Heng say again: "The queen mother is wrong, there is one person who can control the trivial matters of the harem." ”
"The emperor's state affairs are hard and he has no time to take care of them!"
Li Heng smiled: "When did the child say that he was the father?" ”
The queen looked at this son puzzled, not knowing what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.
I only heard Li Heng say: "Although the queen mother still has the final say in this palace at the moment, but after the queen mother, I am afraid that the crown princess will have the final say in this harem." ”
As soon as Li Heng's voice fell, everyone's faces changed, each with a ghost, and they didn't know whether to interject or say something.
Among them, the person whose face changed more was Concubine Xian, and Li Heng seized what was revealed in her words, she was the tone of the prince's faction, and with her firm belief that the prince would one day become the emperor to threaten her.
If Li Che becomes the emperor, the one in front of her will be the queen, and her fate will not be at her disposal at that time?
Whether to be martyred, or to become a monk, or to enter the cold palace, she has no choice, becoming a concubine, and living a peaceful life is really a bit difficult.
Although the queen was a little displeased with Li Heng's words, as long as the crisis could be resolved this time, she couldn't care so much.
So she also cooperated: "It's true, how did the palace forget Yao'er, in fact, the people in the middle palace have to receive the blessing cake from the emperor every year, I guess you don't know, so how can Yao'er's cake be said to be stolen?" ”
As she spoke, she took Liu Yuyao's hand and said, "Good boy, come over with your aunt for dinner." ”
Unexpectedly, she actually withdrew her hand from Queen Liu's palm.
Empress Liu couldn't help but be surprised: "Good boy, no one dares to do anything to you now, how can you ......?"
Liu Yuyao shook her head and said, "I'm so tired that I want to go back to the East Palace to rest." ”
The queen showed a worried look on her face, "But where is it uncomfortable, the palace asked the imperial doctor to take a look at you?" ”
"No, no, I'll just go back and rest."
Seeing that she insisted, it was also because Concubine Xian was still gritting her teeth, and the queen had no choice but to agree, and now Concubine Xian has not reacted, and she should understand after a while that if Liu Yuyao is executed today, how can there be a future Queen Liu.
So maybe there will be some verbal arguments, and the queen simply said: "It's okay, you go back and rest well, make a shadow, and take the princess back to the East Palace." ”
"Yes!"
As soon as Liu Yuyao went back, she threw herself on the big bed in the dormitory, she felt that her body was very heavy, this was no longer simply the weight of the hair ornament on her head and the clothes on her body, but the weight that flowed out of her bones.
Langying was also tossed a lot at the end of the day, lifted the teapot on the table, poured three or four glasses of water and drank it, only to hear Liu Yuyao's weak voice say, "You pour me a cup...... Really, really without conscience. ”
Langying glanced at the bed, simply poured her a glass, gave it to her, and called someone to change her clothes in the dormitory, and removed the hairpin ring.
From beginning to end, Liu Yuyao kept lying on the bed and didn't move.
I used to hear people say how vast and beautiful the palace was, but in fact, it was a terrible place to eat people and not spit out bones.
Obviously, this place is very big, and there are many rooms in the three palaces and six courtyards, why do they have to fight for life and death, and they must fight for a queen of the main palace?
Even if it is the queen of the main palace, what about the concubines who faced the provocation just now, don't they still have to maintain their dignity, and they can't get angry when they knock out their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs?
Alas, what's so good about entering the palace, I really don't understand why so many people want to enter the palace? Now it seems that it is reasonable for Liu Yuyao to commit suicide at the beginning.
Just when Liu Yuyao was lying on the bed pretending to be dead, and the palace people were wiping the rouge on her face with a wet handkerchief, Jiao Mama's voice came from outside in a hurry, "Niangniang!" O Crown Princess! ”
Her ears moved, and Liu Yuyao didn't lift her eyelids, and continued to pretend to be dead.
"Mama Jiao, what are you looking for?" A cold voice rang out in the doorway.
"This, this, the mother is back, right? You let me in! ”
"Niang Niang is washing, what is there to say here."
Well done! Liu Yuyao silently gave a thumbs up to Langying, the so-called master and servant are single-minded, Rongying is finally single-minded with herself at this time, and she hates Mama Jiao just as much as her.
Seeing that she couldn't break in, Mama Jiao's eyes widened, and she began to rely on the old and sell the old again: "When the old man was serving the prince, you didn't come out of your mother's womb!" There's no place I can't go to this East Palace! You let me in! ”
Oh no, this old guy is going to break in.
It's not that she Liu Yuyao doesn't want to greet her, but she is really tired and hungry, and after passing through Fengzao Palace, she doesn't even have the strength to talk to others.
"Ahh
Lying on the bed, she suddenly opened her eyes, her ears moved, trying to catch the exclamation she heard just now, if she heard it correctly, it should have been from Mama Jiao.
"Good! You little hoof dare to plot against me! Mama Jiao covered her arms and shouted.
Liu Yuyao really regretted that she didn't go out to watch that good show just now, I believe that Mama Jiao was deflated, and no one in this palace was willing to miss it.
"Mama, don't talk nonsense with your eyes open in broad daylight, you hit the door frame by yourself, but I didn't sneak attack!"
The words of the shadow are not humble or humble, but there is nothing wrong at all, and the angry Mama Jiao knows that she has done something and has no evidence at all.
The palace people shook the heavy hostas on Liu Yuyao's head one by one, and she was finally able to breathe and said, "Rongying, you let her in, see what she can do." ”
"Yes."