This sentence undoubtedly caused a lot of waves, but when the emperor and queen did not change their appearance, they quietly disappeared in everyone's hearts as usual.

Today, he didn't reluctantly call Concubine Zhang anymore, he was silent, and his face was still soft.

Miss Gao playfully pulled over the two daughters who had been playing a rope flip flower game with Qiuhe on the side, and whispered in their ears, so the two little girls stepped forward to salute Zhang Guifei, and said in their mouths: "Little lady is blessed." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Guifei's stiff expression at first loosened slightly, smiled nonchalantly, and spit out a word lightly: "Good." ”

Then, she got up slowly, bowed to the queen, and said: "Queen, ten days later is the concubine's mother's birthday, and the concubine plans to go to Xiangguo Temple tomorrow to make incense, pray for her mother, and hope that the queen will be favorable." ”

The queen and Yan said: "The concubine is filial piety for her mother, naturally there is nothing wrong, I will later order Siyu to prepare a carriage and horse for you, and you can travel early tomorrow morning." ”

"Empress Xie." Zhang Guifei said, but she looked at the queen with a very cold look, which made people feel the slightest gratitude.

After that, she made another request: "The umbrella fan feather instrument in the concubine's chariot is old, especially the green umbrella, the color is the darkest, if you travel tomorrow and use it again, I am afraid that it will attract passers-by to guide you and damage the royal majesty." Therefore, the concubine wanted to borrow the queen's car to use the red umbrella, and hoped that the queen would also give permission. ”

The concubine's car is customized, the red umbrella can only be used by the queen, and what Zhang Guifei mentioned is a rude and arrogant request. And this is not a new issue. She had asked Imajo to allow her to use the red umbrella before, and Imagami ordered the ministers to discuss and decide, but almost everyone objected, and in the end only allowed her to use the green umbrella. Obviously she had already made up her mind, but she brought up the old matter again at this time, which seemed like a blatant provocation to the queen.

"Red umbrella?" The queen groaned, looked at Jinshang, and she asked him, "What do the officials think?" ”

Before he could speak, Zhang Guifei had already answered on his behalf: "The concubine asked the official family yesterday, and the official family asked the concubine to ask the queen, saying that the queen would allow it." ”

The queen turned her eyes to Jinshang again, but did not deny it, so she made a decision. After calling Zhang Weiji, she instructed: "You go and tell Si Yu in a while, tomorrow Zhang Niangzi will have a red umbrella." ”

Zhang Weiji's face was embarrassed: "Niangniang......"

The queen smiled and nodded at him as if encouragingly.

The rest of the palace people watched silently, and they didn't dare to say a word. Unexpectedly, in the end, it was Zhongzhen who objected.

"Weng," he asked, "is the red umbrella available to anyone?" ”

Today, when he didn't answer for a while, Zhong Zhen said again: "Last time, the minister went to Jinmingchi with his mother, and saw that the red umbrella on her car was very good-looking, so he asked my aunt, why not use this color umbrella too, but she scolded her, saying that the red umbrella can only be used by the queen...... Did my aunt say something wrong? ”

Everyone waited with bated breath for an answer, and the princess quietly winked at Zhongzhen in the silence and smiled approvingly.

"She's not wrong." Jinshang finally expressed his position, turned to Zhang Guifei, and said: "The national cultural relics and rituals, there is an order up and down, if you openly travel with a red umbrella, you will not be tolerated by the officials of the foreign court, and it will be in vain." The queen is kind, thank you, and you will still use a green umbrella when you travel tomorrow. ”

The attendants beside the queen, from Zhang Weiji down, all bowed to Jinshang when they heard the words: "Your Majesty Shengming." And the princess almost laughed out loud when she saw Zhang Guifei's expression at this moment. I brought a new cup of tea at the right time, and she took it and covered her face with her sleeves to drink, but her trembling shoulders still revealed her emotions at this time, and finally ignited Zhang Guifei's anger.

"Official," Zhang Guifei raised her voice slightly, and asked Jinshang in public: "Why do you allow people to humiliate me again and again?" Now, from your daughters, grandsons, concubines, to the most humble little yellow door in the palace, anyone can make fun of me, and I have become the biggest laughing stock in this palace! ”

Jinshang didn't answer her talk, but only said kindly: "You haven't been in good health recently, are you a little tired?" Let's go back and rest early. ”

Zhang Guifei bowed her head and refused to follow the steps he had laid. Her chest rose and fell obviously, she should be suppressing her anger, but it had little effect, her eyes were filled with tears, and she continued to say bluntly: "The so-called three thousand favors in one are actually just a joke. What have I gained in more than a decade? It's just the jealousy of the three thousand fandels and the accusations of the hundreds of officials in the imperial court again and again. You have trapped me in this imperial city with gold and jade, and only allowed me and my family to be rich and noble, but what I really wanted, you never gave me ......"

Jin Shang didn't respond, but asked Zhang Maoze beside him: "Who is the imperial doctor who has been seeing the concubine recently?" ”

Mr. Zhang reported the name of the imperial doctor, and now he said: "Withdrawn, change to a smart one." ”

When Zhang Guifei heard this, she sneered: "I'm not sick!" In the more than 20 years since I entered the palace, I have never been so sober as I am today...... You connived at Taiwan to reprimand me, so that the big officials dared to point at my nose and scold me for being Yang Guifei, who ruined the country! And those ministers who have shown a good face to me, you will demote them out of Beijing. Jia Changchao is like this, Xia Zhu and Wang Zhen are like this, Wang Gongchen is like this, and even Wen Yanbo is like this...... The officials of the queen's faction are caring for you, and those who were released before will be recalled one by one. Now, Deng Baoji is back, but what about Yang Huaimin? But why didn't you summon him back to the palace? ”

She stopped, looked at Zhang Maoze first, and then looked at Dong Qiuhe, who had not said a word, and suddenly said another extremely rude sentence: "You really give face to the queen, even her two henchmen you happily laugh, one goes to the court with you, and the other accompanies you to the dragon bed......"

Qiuhe's face turned pale, and he unconsciously tightened the silk rope that was idle around the fingers of his left hand just now.

Now he couldn't bear it anymore, he suddenly changed color, and shouted: "Someone! ”

Ren Shouzhong immediately stepped up to standby. The queen seemed to see what he meant, and pressed the back of his hand and shook her head.

Today, I was stunned, and my expression gradually softened. "Please go back to the dormitory to rest." He ordered Ren Shouzhong in a calm tone.

Ren Shouzhong agreed, stepped forward to help Zhang Guifei, Zhang Guifei broke free suddenly, pointed at the queen, stared at Jinshang, and burst into tears: "This battle has been fought for more than ten years, and I finally lost to her...... You let your heir marry her adopted daughter, and the eldest grandson you give birth to will only recognize her as a grandmother. One day, if the child who humiliated me just now sits on the Zichen Palace, what will he do to me at that time? ”

Seeing that Jinshang frowned and was silent, she looked at the queen again: "You always say that she is generous and dignified, and she has repeatedly backed down to me, and you want me to thank her." But have you ever thought that when Empress Lu faced Qi Ji during Liu Bang's lifetime, didn't she also put on a generous and dignified posture? And once her son ascended the throne, she mutilated Qi Ji into a human being! ”

At this time, the princess got up, took a few steps forward, and said to Zhang Guifei: "Mrs. Zhang, I also want to ask you, have you ever thought that Liu Bang's concubine is not only Qi Ji, why is she the only one who ends up being a human being?" ”

"What could she be wrong with?" Zhang Guifei said, "It's just because she is the most favored, so she incurs the jealousy of Empress Lu." ”

The princess shook her head and said, "If it weren't for her cowardly pampering and arrogance, she had repeatedly instigated Liu Bang to abolish the crown prince and replace her son as the heir, how could it make Empress Lu so angry?" The track is frank, and the ghost is auspicious. If you have done nothing wrong, what retribution are you afraid of? ”

Zhang Guifei looked at her sideways: "Princess, you are also a concubine, and your mother and I are ordinary people." But why do you speak for the queen and despise me everywhere? ”

The princess replied: "I look down on you, not because of your status as a concubine...... Narrow-mindedness can't bear the growing desires, so it's ridiculous everywhere. ”

"Desire......" Zhang Guifei repeated the word, and asked the princess rhetorically: "Does the princess have no desire?" What's wrong with trying to find what you want? ”

The question made the princess gloomy for a moment, but she quickly raised her eyes again, and she answered clearly: "I also have what I want, but it does not involve authority, but the simplest wish of an ordinary woman." And you are only a concubine, so you have tried your best to seek rewards for yourself and your family, and for many years, you have been trying to cultivate party henchmen and plot to abolish the establishment. ”

These words made Zhang Guifei stunned for a while, and later, she smiled faintly: "What a princess with diluted ambitions!" However, I might as well tell you now, in the future you will definitely find that the simplest wishes of your ordinary woman will not be tolerated by the world one day, and your temperament will also make you fall into the fate of being reprimanded by the ministers and suppressed by the emperor. ”

With that, she looked up proudly, turned away, and when she was about to leave the palace, she turned back and smiled strangely at the princess.

"You can see this as my curse." She said.

That night, the news of Zhang Guifei's sudden illness came from Ninghua Palace. Imajo hurried to visit, and Mr. Zhang also went several times with different imperial doctors. The people who entered and exited the Ninghua Hall were solemn, and from time to time the crying of the concubine faintly came from the inside, and the people in the palace felt that the situation was serious, so Miao Shuyi ordered Zhang Chengzhao to take two small yellow doors to wait all night to investigate.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Chengzhao came back and replied: "Just now Ren Duzhi came out of the Ninghua Palace and announced: Concubine Zhang's Xu. ”

Most people in the palace thought that Zhang Guifei was committing suicide, some people said that she was taking poison, and some people said that she was swallowing gold and could not die immediately, so she cried for a long time. There are also a few people who speculate that the queen did it, but I don't see any need for the queen to murder Zhang Guifei in this situation.

Later, when I met Mr. Zhang, I still couldn't avoid the vulgarity, and like all curious palace people, I asked him about the cause of Concubine Zhang's death.

He gave me a simple and thorough answer: "Despair." ”