Volume 1: A Dream Chapter 3 (Past Life): Shen Bi
At this time, the atmosphere in the Zhaoyang Hall is dull, the hall has already been lit up, the neat two rows of Heyang flower candles are burning, and the agarwood crumbs poured in it turn into a wisp of distant and mysterious smoke, lining Jiang Shenbi's face a little unreal, like a dream.
Jiang Shenbi sat uprightly on the red silk bird and phoenix, not leaning on the backrest and pillow.
"Niangniang", Honeysuckle held a bowl of lily porridge, knelt aside, and called her in a low voice, she was stunned, then woke up leisurely, and said lightly: "What's the matter?" β
Honeysuckle's voice carried a slight pleading, "Niangniang, you have been sitting here for half an hour, drink a bowl of porridge and pad your stomach?" β
Jiang Shenbi's eyelids drooped, and he said slowly: "It's hard for you," and then stretched out his hand and pointed to the rosewood carved gold case in front of him, "Put it there first, this palace wants to stay alone for a while......"
"Niangniang, if it goes on like this, even the people who are beaten with iron can't stand it...... "Honeysuckle wants to persuade it again", you go down first. Jiang Shenbi turned his head away and stopped looking at her.
Honeysuckle was speechless and had to retreat silently.
Jiang Shenbi remembered that over the years, the time with Xiao Jingqing was so beautiful and fascinating......
Tonight's night is extraordinarily thick, the black night sky is like the ink that has not yet melted in the ink tray, and the viscosity is like the Laba porridge carefully boiled by the rich and noble people in the Laba season, but there is no trace of light, and there is a suffocating depression everywhere.
"Your Majesty has arrived at the ......" Before the internal supervisor could finish the report, Xiao Jingqing went straight in.
Oh, what should come will come......
Jiang Shenbi straightened the coupling color, pinched the waist, embroidered gold, and connected the branches and Shu yarn with a large inlaid phoenix robe, and slowly fell to the ground, "The concubine greets the holy ......"
Xiao Jingqing still has a trace of doubts about her, and the current patriarch of the Jiang family, Jiang Zhaosi, is a veteran of the three dynasties, one of the best century-old families in Guanzhong, with countless protΓ©gΓ©s, and is also very prestigious in the court, so it is inconvenient to tear her face directly at this time and say: "Queen, it's been hard work......"
After sitting down, Xiao Jingqing slowly tasted tea on one side, and took the lead in provoking the topic on the other side: "The queen knows that Concubine Han has a ...... in the afternoon."
She pulled down the eighteenth Kunshan Jade Bodhi bracelet on her slender white arm and held it in her hand, and she didn't look at his face, with a look of regret: "Hey! Is there such a thing? The concubine didn't know. "And righteous indignation" Ming'er must send the head of the Internal Affairs Office to ask, and he must treat this group of things that have no royal law in their eyes! β
Xiao Jingqing glanced at her, and said leisurely: "I listened to the words of Mengying in front of the warbler, and thought: A person is about to die, and his words are also good, so I want to ask the queen in person if I have some words......
Shen Bi lowered his forehead, and his heart suddenly fell into the abyss, but he still had to hold up his face and said, "Your Majesty just asks." β
Xiao Jingqing glanced at her playfully: "Mengying said that you gave her medicine after giving birth so that she was sterilized, this matter ...... Really? β
She smiled and watched him drink the cup of tea, and a hint of gloom flashed in her eyes, and it flashed randomly.
Two days ago, her father Jiang Zaiyuan's mansion ushered in a distinguished guest, that person claimed to be the right Cheng Fan Yu under the tent of Yan Emperor Lin Changxing, who was gathering troops outside Changning Pass and ready to attack at any time, he promised Jiang Zaiyuan on behalf of the emperor of Yan State, one: Once the Yan army entered the customs, the Jiang family was from the dragon's work, the hereditary Duke of Qi, and his youngest son who was not a weapon will also become Emperor Yan's most beloved daughter - the concubine of Emperor Huifu, Jiang Zaiyuan's head was hot, so he agreed, and after thinking about it, he wanted to regret it but was helpless, Quietly flying pigeons to pass on the letter to the Jiang Party generals on the front line, some of them retreated, and some of them should cooperate with the outside, so as to break through the Changning Pass in one fell swoop, and drive straight into the Shendu, subverting the Xiao family's Sheji Jiangshan.
She remembered this, her eyelashes like jackdaws spreading their wings, covering her black and white eyes, and a sneer that was almost absent rose at the corners of her mouth: "That's right, I did itβ"
The tone revealed disdain and arrogance, and he even forgot that the palace could not say "you" or "me" to the emperor.
"Why are you doing that?" Xiao Jingqing couldn't help but tremble before he heard the words, and the teacup in the palm of his hand almost fell.
In the end, he was still disappointed, he thought that she would deny it, and then bite Han Mengying, saying that she disregarded her dignity and inferiority, chewing her tongue indiscriminately, Xiao Jingqing's face was cold, he didn't expect that Jiang Shenbi would admit it so readily.
"Why?" Her phoenix eyes widened, "Your Majesty still wants to ask what the concubine is," she sneered.
"Why are you so ruthless? It not only harms the dream warbler, but also harms my ......"
"Ruthless?" She hid her face and smiled, "Who in this palace is not ruthless?" If they are still as simple as before they leave the cabinet, I am afraid that they have already died in the palace I don't know how many times, and the people in the palace are sinister, there are many concubines, everyone wants to sit on the throne above these ten thousand people, if I am weak and incompetent, where can I be allowed to sit on the throne of this queen, let alone sit in peace for decades? β
A sneer crossed her lips, "yes." At that time, I didn't expect that if she gave birth to a prince and was quite favored by you, then my status with Shaozhen would be in jeopardy, and Mo Wenzhen was just a charity for her. β
Xiao Jingqing's face was suddenly gloomy as the sky where mountains and rain were about to come: "Okay...... Good...... Okay, yes! He waved his hand and turned around: "Someone! β
Immediately, Gonggong Gui walked in from outside the hall: "Your Majesty, what are your orders?" β
With his hands behind his back, he paced a few steps on the three-foot-square gold bricks all over the ground, and his shoulders trembling slightly for the anger of the sky foreshadowed the hatred in his heart: "Spread the decree - the queen is proud of grace, has no emperor, despises the emperor's authority, and has no dignity and humility at all, although she is fortunate to be blessed with heavenly grace, her mother is the world, and she is the emperor, but her nature is jealous, flashy, and she has lost her woman's morality, and it is difficult to be the middle palace, and she is abolished as a concubine, and she is imprisoned in Changyang Palace, and she cannot come out unless she dies." β
She was still smiling like a flower, and her smile became more and more presumptuous: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten that now the Holy Capital is in danger, once the rebels attack, most of the Great Zhou will be killed, and only my Shaozhen is expected to recover my Great Zhou!" She leaned on her back, lazily looked at her well-maintained nails, and said nonchalantly, "Besides, I am the biological mother of the crown prince, the mother of the Great Zhou, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Yipin, and the granddaughter of the patriarch of the Li clan in Guanzhong...... Do you dare to touch me? A triumphant smile tugged at the corners of her mouth.
Xiao Jingqing laughed angrily, he looked at Jiang Shenbi, his eyes were full of deep ink, as if he could see the bottom of people's hearts.
He raised his hand, pinched her chin fiercely and raised it a few points, his knuckles rattled, but his voice was full of laziness and coldness, this chill burst out from the bottom of his heart quickly: "Really? β
He hated her so much now.
Her jaw felt like it was being pinched, as if she could hear the sound of bones cracking.
As soon as Shen Bi was about to answer, he let go of her chin and slowly moved down her beautiful neckline, but the hand caressing her neck suddenly tightened, and his tone was cold and sharp, like a pack of wolves howling on the grassland on a full moon night, which couldn't help but make people feel afraid, "Do you think I don't dare?" Shen Bi's face changed suddenly when he heard this, as if he had seen the madness of a fierce tiger dying in old age.
She had to try her best to break Xiao Jingqing's hand with both hands, but the difference in strength between the two was too great, even Shen Bi exhausted the strength of her whole body and failed to shake Xiao Jingqing for half a minute, gradually, she only felt that it was becoming more and more difficult to breathe, and the faces of the people in front of her gradually became blurred, and her consciousness seemed to drift farther and farther......
She looked at the hatred in Xiao Jingqing's eyes, and a sudden feeling of pleasure rose in her heart, but the pain of reality forced her to slip out of the corners of her eyes.
Although she is not afraid of death, she is also desperate in her heart......
He's going to kill her!
He, a man who promised her dignity for the rest of his life, is now going to kill her for the sake of several children!
The endless sadness layer by layer, like a flood, the black pressure overflowed her heart, the pain in her neck and the unwillingness in her heart forced her to cry, Xiao Jingqing saw that there seemed to be water in her eyes, and she was worried about Shaozhen, and the anger in her heart couldn't help but disappear a little - after all, he was still magnanimous, and he still pitied the jade.
His hand was relaxed for a moment, Jiang Shenbi knew that his "generosity" had struck again, and his heart was in turmoil again, thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a little happier in her heart, her mouth hooked a curvature, and her eyes stared at him directly - she, the bet was right......
Her thoughts drifted farther and farther, and she seemed to see Shao Zhen return with heavy troops, slaughter all the rebels, recover the lost state capital, re-establish the Great Zhou Dynasty, and win the hearts of the people - and she quietly became a prosperous queen mother, supported by the world.
He seemed to be unbearable, slowly raised his hand, stroked her face that was no longer young and somewhat relaxed, and said softly: "I ...... Don't want to get your hands dirty...... You...... Break it off on your own......"
Her thoughts were suddenly pulled back, and she abandoned the elegant temperament she had cultivated over the years, and when she was stunned for a while, she calmed down before she yelled regardless of her image: "No! Why? This palace is the mother of the Great Zhou, the biological mother of the crown prince, and the future queen mother......"
Xiao Jingqing frowned, he had never seen her look like a mad demon like this, "Come on, the queen is sick, help her to rest!" β
The green tendons on her forehead burst out, and she slammed her palm on the rosewood carved gold case in front of her, and even knocked over a bowl of lily porridge on the case, but the good bowl was shattered.
Xiao Jingqing looked at Jiang Shenbi in a daze, the case was originally made of hard rosewood, and when he hit it with one palm, the entire palm would become red, and it was very painful, which was very unbearable, and she had never been so crazy in front of him, this ...... It's like a different person.
"Who dare?!" Her eyes widened with anger, and the attendants did not dare to step forward, and looked at each other.
"What? Isn't that what I'm talking about? He forcibly suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, did not raise his eyelids, held the cup of tea, and said coldly.
When the attendants heard this, they were stunned for a moment and were in a stalemate......
Finally, an attendant gritted his teeth and stepped forward to remove the luxurious jewelry on Jiang Shenbi's towering bun - as usual, the deposed concubines were not allowed to wear any hairpins and rings, and they had to wear their hair loose, wear plain clothes, and go barefoot to the cold palace.
"Who are you? How dare you come to the main palace?! Jiang Shenbi ignored the messy bun and the hairpin falling off, and shouted to an inner servant.
She looked at Xiao Jingqing hatefully, there seemed to be anger in her eyes, and there was a hint of happiness after succeeding, "Hmph...... Xiao Jingqing, this palace will tell you, you ...... Don't even dream of letting Shao Zhen be your son! β
Suddenly, there was a strange atmosphere in the hall, which made people shudder.
(To be continued, stay tuned...... οΌ