31, the death of the concubine
After 100 days of training in the world, I have become accustomed to waking up early.
Every dawn is a farewell to yesterday, and many sweet dreams and nightmares are left in the night.
The familiar breath wafted through the tip of my nose, and I opened my eyes and went back to my past life in a trance.
The appearance of the boy has not changed much from when he was a child, but there is a sadness between his eyebrows.
It's just a parting of life and death, which has caused you so much damage. You are so affectionate, how can you grow into an emperor who looks down on the world?
I tried to reach out to smooth his pain, but with a twist of thought, I moved my arm down, wrapped my arms around his body, and kissed him on the brow.
"Young master! As soon as Madame leaves, you will hold the newcomer in your arms, which is not good! β
Qiyue interrupted me at an inopportune time, and the person below me slowly opened his eyes, he must have been annoyed and angry, and my heart was about to jump out.
"Ah Qi, don't make trouble." He rolled over, his lips running across my face, and fell asleep again.
A wave of heat rose from my nervous heart, spreading to all my limbs...... No, it's not like that, I just remembered the past, how could I have dirty thoughts about him?
I am a demon that stalks in the night, and he is the moon in the sky, and I cannot blaspheme.
In order to hide my weakness, I scolded Qi Yue in a low voice: "You really learned badly from Fuliu!" He's the crown prince, and I'm not so burned to the point of dying! β
"That's good, you can get Madame back quickly! There are no other people in the house, and I have to work again! β
"For this? I thought you couldn't bear to see our husband and wife separate! You go and prepare breakfast first, you can't go hungry to His Royal Highness the Prince. β
Qiyue didn't know what to mumble and went out resignedly.
When the meal was cooked, Endless also woke up, with a confused face of "who am I and where am I".
I crouched on the edge of the bed and watched him laugh to himself.
"I remember!"
Smack-
Depend on! Hit me again!
"Lone lost his temper yesterday and mistook you for an old friend, what happened yesterday, I hope you never say it!"
And this kind of operation?
I thought that the little wolf had become a pug, but it turned out that the little wolf found a support when it was vulnerable, and after recovery, he didn't admit that he was fragile at all!
His hand strength was much smaller than that of Duanmulan, and I rubbed my face and said, "Don't worry, I won't make trouble for myself, but Du Zhong will definitely make trouble for us!" β
Endless is very determined: "The kind of thing you did to me will not be said by the prime minister." β
I don't say anything in my heart, the prince has been following the rules, and if he finally makes a mistake, Du Zhong will let it go? Unless he never thought of raising the Six Princes. Endless has not yet felt the cruelty of politics, and sooner or later he will have to face it.
I took the opportunity to vent the grievances in my heart: "Don't say it like I did something to you, Mrs. Wang is angry with you, and I am the one who has been wronged!" β
"Didn't you say you didn't blame me?" Still, he bowed his head guiltily.
"Just allow you to turn the page and not allow me to skip it? Madame, you are angry with you, you have to help me get it back. β
"Find it! What's so difficult about that, won't she come back if she is alone? β
What did he think? I could only squeeze two words out of my teeth: "Idiot! β
"What did you say?"
"I said you eat and drink for nothing, and you're angry!"
Put down the dishes and chopsticks, I stayed in the house and missed the ministry of the Yushitai, and the wives are gone, what kind of good family man do I pretend?
It is estimated that it has been the early dynasty, and I was just about to tie up the endless to take the blame for Duanmulan, so I broke in a group of guards, and they were the inner guards, holding more than 100 prisoners, when did my palace also serve as a prison?
"It seems that I can't take you to make amends to my wife, Your Royal Highness the Prince, your father sent someone to take you home!"
The leading eunuch was not Shi Mengting, but in the queen's palace, and the mother said girlily: "Lord, these slaves are all the families of the criminal ministers exposed by you, and they are newly added to the slave status, in recognition of your merits, the queen mother specially selected for the palace." β
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The emperor is my scolded god assist, and the queen is my pig teammate!
Look at the eyes of them who want to pick my skin and drink my blood, can they serve me well?
I was very embarrassed: "Father-in-law, there is no shortage of people in this palace. β
The eunuch said contemptuously: "The prince now represents the royal face, and he can't be too shabby like before." β
What qualifications do you have as a eunuch to dislike me!
"The prince quickly let them wait for you to change your clothes, and the emperor invites you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to go to the palace with our family."
"I'm going too?" I was surprised.
This is the main purpose of the Ouchi guards, is the emperor approving Duan Mulan's application for peace or is he going to punish me for taking His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to the land of fireworks?
When I entered the palace, I realized that it was neither, because there was a more important thing:
The imperial concubine hanged herself.
This is not over, she left a suicide note, on how I despise her, she does not bear the humiliation, but begs to die, to save her name.
"Du Ruofei is really a madman!"
If you die, you don't forget to frame me, don't I die without proof?
"Lord, please leave some virtues, Niangniang is a noble concubine, even if you are close to her, you can't call her by her name in public! What's more, the deceased is the greatest, how can you insult the concubine? β
I remembered that this vicious grandmother was Grandma Zou next to the queen.
Since the deceased is the greatest, it also alludes to the close relationship between the concubine and the prince, this is a drama spirit one by one!
Because it is a matter of the harem, it should be handled by the queen, and it happened that Mulan and Du Zhong had a private report at the back end of the emperor's retreat, and when they heard that the concubine had an accident, they also came. Anyway, Duan Mulan is a woman's body, and Du Zhong is Du Ruofei's father, so there is nothing to avoid.
I was happy to see Duanmulan, what did Du Ruofei do to me, I ran to Duanmulan endlessly.
"Madam, yesterday's incident was all a misunderstanding, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here to explain to you personally!"
"No need! I think you should think about how to explain to the emperor about you and the concubine! β
The Emperor and the Empress stared at me like frost, and that look made my heart chuckle.
I hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty: "Your Majesty, the ministers and concubines are innocent!" β
The queen said coldly: "What about you and the prince?" β
Prince?
It turned out that it was because of this incident that angered her, and it wasn't enough for her to send me a bunch of enemies?
Endless's face was blushing, and it was even more reverie, he grabbed the old tearful Du Zhong, and said in a panic: "Prime Minister, how can you say that kind of thing?" β
Finished!
Jumping into the river without washing can't be washed.
I really want to scold him: Are you stupid at Endless, how could Du Zhong miss such a good opportunity to discredit you? You don't deny it and admit it in disguise, how can I make up excuses?
"Prince-" The emperor's tone was like a thousand years of ice, even though it was already Meng Xia, as if he was in the ice and snow.
"Your Majesty", the queen's tone was not half sharp just now, full of grievances, "The concubine knows that you feel sorry for Prince Yu without a father and mother, but if we, as his only elders, blindly indulge him, causing him to develop a temperament that does whatever he wants, the imperial sister Quanxia will also blame us for killing her child!" β
The queen knew that the crown prince was very angry with the emperor the day before yesterday, and there was a shameful thing like yesterday, for fear that he would punish the prince, and he didn't mention half a word endlessly, it seemed that everything was for my good, but there was only one purpose, that is, to shift the target.
The emperor was half angry: "The queen is reasonable, Wuqi grew up in the countryside since she was a child, and she doesn't understand etiquette, so she behaves perversely." But the son doesn't teach, and the father is at fault, and it's all my fault. From tomorrow, Wuqi will go to school with the prince in the East Palace Xuanwen Hall! β
Although the emperor became my cheap father again, and the queen accepted it when she saw it, it wasn't that no one stopped her-
"Your Majestyβ"
"Your Majestyβ"
Du Zhong and I really had a tacit understanding, and we invariably spoke in a tone of "don't", although I didn't know etiquette, and I knew that I respected the old and loved the young, so I let him say it first.
"Your Majesty, you have to be the master of the little girl! She died unjustly, but the culprit was at large, and she will definitely not turn a blind eye! β
The emperor didn't have half of the grief of losing his concubine: "The prime minister is not old and dizzy, you better take a closer look at the white silk!" The concubine wanted to frame Wuqi, but she overestimated her weight, and the fake drama came true, and she couldn't complain about others. Prince, follow me to the imperial study! β
After that, the emperor and queen left with endless beginnings, without giving me a chance to speak again.
"What? The prince didn't go to see the concubine? β
Duan Mulan said.
"Madam, I was really framed, how could I have a chance to tease Du Ruofei?"
"Flies don't bite eggs, if you don't do anything, why would the concubine frame you?"
"It's not because her father doesn't like me!"
After the emperor left, Du Zhong was still stunned, and only came back to his senses when I mentioned him, and he was in no mood to pay attention to me and hurriedly transferred to the concubine's bedroom.
Duan Mulan said coldly: "Is the prince really willing not to send the concubine?" β
"No, no."
"The prince is at his own convenience, and he is reasonable, and he will send the concubine to him."
What is the reason? Aren't you a foreign minister? Aren't ministers forbidden to see palace concubines?
I followed the end of the magnolia.
Du Ruofei's body was being wrapped, and a six or seven-year-old child stood next to him, looking stunned, as if he didn't understand the meaning of death.
There is a broken mark on the white silk, and only a few silk threads are left, and the irony is that because of these unbroken threads, the concubine died in vain. The fracture seemed to be polished open by stone, uneven, but it wanted to be covered, which showed that it was man-made. Cloth is not a rope, and the natural break must follow a certain pattern.
But I wondered, how many threads could support an adult's weight?
I got up straight up to look at the white silk, ordinary people can't see any clues, although these lines are also white, I can see at a glance that it is different from the other lines of this white silk, this is - spider silk!
Millennial spider silk!
I got goosebumps all over my body.
I hurriedly asked the palace maid in the palace of the concubine: "Where did this white silk come from?" β
"It was brought back by His Royal Highness the Sixth, and it was said to be a footcloth for Niangniang!"
Du Ruofei has a habit, in order to keep himself like a weak willow supporting the wind, he has a state of giving birth to a lotus step by step, and has wrapped his feet with cloth since he was a child to inhibit the growth of foot bones.
I looked at the stunned child and asked, "Your Highness Six, where did this white silk come from?" β
"You bad guy return my mother! Grandpa said that you killed the mother! β
The sixth prince obviously didn't understand anything, but Du Zhong planted the seeds of hatred in his heart, I was furious, grabbed Du Zhong and asked him: "Why do you want to teach such a young child to learn hatred?" β
"Your Royal Highness King Yu, are you really no one who can touch you? Fei'er's death, the old man hasn't settled accounts with you, but you have asked the old man to ask the master for the crime? The old man can't avenge his daughter, but Chen'er will definitely be able to avenge his mother when he grows up! β
The sixth prince Wuchen didn't know whether he understood or not, and looked at me angrily: "Villain, let go of my grandfather, I will definitely seek revenge on you when I grow up!" β
I let go of Du Zhong, crouched down and said to Wuchen, "Do you know how tiring it is to grow up with hatred? I am to blame for the death of your mother, but I didn't kill her. Hatred will only ruin you, Sixth Highness, I don't want to evade responsibility, I just want you to grow up happy. β
"Lord Wang, put away that fake face, are you as easy to be fooled as a little beggar outside?"
"If you can't take revenge, you have to turn your children into tools for revenge? Your Highness will hate you in the future! "I look at Du Zhong directly, does he really love his grandson or only use him as his political bargaining chip?
"It's not your turn to dictate the old man's family affairs! Please go out, Fei'er, she definitely doesn't want to see you. β
The anger in Du Zhong's eyes was obviously more than the pain of losing his daughter, and he was sad that he had lost a noble concubine, not his daughter, and I had the answer in my heart.
"Prime Minister Du Cheng mourns, this king retires!"
Hatred will lose the child's mind, will make the child's psychology become distorted, the so-called elders for the sake of profit, but want to destroy a child's growth, Wuchen's simple and clear eyes, is it going to disappear?
I went out and sat on the stone steps in front of the hall waiting for Duanmulan, watching the cherry blossoms fall in the garden, infinitely melancholy. A generation of imperial concubines, the concubines of the prime minister, entered the palace for eight years, died in the deep palace, and like these cherry blossoms, they fell into mud and dust, and no one cared about them.
Flowers and flowers are flying all over the sky, and there is no one to pity the red incense.
I know the murderer who killed Du Ruofei, and that is the demon I don't want to see in this life.
If it weren't for me, she might not have found the palace, and Du Ruofei would not have died, so I can't get rid of my relationship with Du Ruofei's death, and I am not qualified to ask Wuchen not to hate me, but I can't bear to let a child be distorted by hatred, and a sense of powerlessness arises spontaneously.