Chapter 35 Drifting Away
Jiang Shouquan probably sensed that the voice inside was wrong. .// Asked in an anxious voice outside: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?" Do you want a slave to come in?"
I looked back at Qi Heng, who was still sitting on the dragon couch, silently looking at the dead Youjue. I said loudly to the outside world: "The king of Jiangling County tried to assassinate the emperor, but he has been ambushed, Gonggong Jiang came in to collect the body!"
Jiang Shouquan ran in with a crawl, and when he saw the corpse lying on the ground, and saw my hands covered with blood, he was so frightened that he almost fainted. After stabilizing his mind, he hurriedly asked Qiheng: "Your Majesty, are you okay?"
Qi Heng shook his head, and I said, "The emperor was a little frightened, so he went to pass on the imperial doctor's order." ”
"Yes," Jiang Shouquan looked at the ground and then at me, "Niangniang......, are you okay?
I looked down at my hands, which were stained red with blood, and the smell of blood filled the entire dormitory. In the past, I would have retched, but I just said lightly, "It's okay, it's not my blood." ”
Jiang Shouquan called someone to carry You Jue's body away, and Qiheng said: "Put him in the palace of the former concubine and set up a mourning hall." Jiang Shouquan responded, and asked again: "Forgive the slave for talking too much, but if someone else asks about the cause of the death of the king of Jiangling County, how should the slave answer?"
Qi Heng looked at the vague figure at the entrance of the 'gate' and said, "King of Jiangling County...... mistakenly moved the dragon couch mechanism and accidentally stabbed to death. ”
Jiang Shouquan bowed down and retreated, and the palace people walked in one after another and asked me and Qiheng to go to the side hall to change clothes, and they could clean up the mess.
I instructed the palace people to prepare a soup bath, but no matter how long I soaked and how much pancreas I used, I always felt that the smell of blood was still sticking to my body and couldn't be washed clean.
"Niangniang, the emperor has been away for a long time. Frostfall reminded in a whisper.
I looked at my hands for a while before I said, "Get up!"
Changed his clothes and went out, and returned to the dormitory, Qi Heng was standing next to the dragon couch, looking at the place where You Jue fell just now, and said, "There is no trace at all." ”
My eyes also fell there, the original 'Bo's carpet has been replaced, although the color and color are similar, but the pattern is different. Presumably, all the bloodstained places have been removed, and smoke wafts out of the incense burner, and the fragrance of the whole dormitory is a little heavier than before. However, I still feel that there is still a smell of blood, but I don't know if it is in the temple or in my heart.
"The emperor is still thinking about Youjue in the end. I said with a smirk.
He looked at me and said, "You 'provoke' him and kill him." ”
My expression was slightly pale, and I said: "You also saw the situation at that time, it was the king of Jiangling County who wanted to assassinate the concubine, and the concubine ran into that organ without any opinion. Concubines...... Not intentionally. ”
"Even so, he was 'shot' by the golden knife and fell to the ground, why did you continue to stab him to death? I am sick and old, but I am not deaf or blind! I heard what you said to him!" He looked at me coldly, as if he didn't believe what I said!
It doesn't matter if I heard it, I was about to ask him, and said quietly: "When did the emperor know that Concubine He Shu was the one behind the killing of 'Jade'?" He didn't answer, and his expression didn't change at all. I couldn't help but feel angry in my heart, he was so calm! Knowing that the cause of 'Yu'er'er's death was suspicious, he didn't investigate it! He even indulged the person who killed 'Yu'er' in this way and was the 'female' master in the fiefdom! And I, day by day, endured the pouring of the harem, the longing for 'Yu'er', and the torment of not knowing who the murderer was!
What does our mother and son mean to him! As soon as he was 'provoked', he said: "Yes, I deliberately 'provoked' him and killed him! He died for his mother! and Concubine Shu...... Ostensibly commensurate with my sister, I thought she was my only sister in the harem, but she ...... I'm going to kill my son for her son! So today, I'm going to kill her son! It's a pity that I can't kill him in front of her!"
As soon as I looked up, I saw his gaze, sadness, pity, and a hint of pain. I was slightly stunned, and slowly lowered my head, the only caution in front of him was completely lost when the last wish was granted.
"You go back, You Jue's funeral still needs you to worry more. After a long moment, he said slowly, then turned away and stopped looking at me.
His back no longer looked so majestic, and even a little rickety, as if he was just a moment before he was much older. Suddenly I realized: I killed his son in front of him.
My heart trembled slightly, and boundless guilt welled up in my heart, and I called softly: "Qiheng ......"
His back shook slightly, but he didn't look back, waved his hand, and said, "Go down!"
I stopped talking 'want', and retreated.
On the way back to Chenghuan Palace, I heard a palace man whispering: "This year is really unfavorable, a prince died, a county king died, and the emperor's body was sick every once in a while......"
"The strange death of the king of Jiangling County, who knows if he 'forced' his father to abdicate!"
"Oh, who can say for sure!Ah, the queen ...... it."
I looked at them indifferently and said to Liu Youyu: "Whoever criticizes these again, all of them will be sent to the court as hard labor!"
"Yes. Liu Youyu held his breath and condensed, not daring to slack off.
After Youjue's death, he was posthumously named the king of Jiangling, and his body was still suspended for seven days, and seven days later, he returned to Jiangling for burial. But just three days after You Jue's death, Liu Youyu secretly reported that Concubine Shu heard the news of You Jue's death and wanted to come to Beijing to personally help the spirit, and the emperor had already approved it.
For some reason, since I killed Youjue with my own hands, I suddenly became extremely tired. In fact, Concubine He Shu is the person I really should kill, but selfishness prevails, and I want Concubine He Shu to also experience the pain of losing her son, so I will kill You Jue. And now, I have no hatred for Concubine Heshu, she owes me, her son has paid it for her, and I don't want her 'life' anymore. If she came to Beijing just to help her go back, I wouldn't embarrass her.
"If she wants to come, she can come! I sat in front of the window, looked at my hands, and said slowly, "The emperor's sons are gone, one by one." Prince Mindeok, the Twelfth Prince, the Sixth Prince, the Filial Prince, the Seventh Prince...... Alas, Qiheng, Qiheng, if you had known that you would lose them, would you still say to me that your sons are enough?"
"Queen, you ...... Are you alright?"
"It's okay, I'm okay, what can I do!" my hands were clear, but why, I could always smell the blood on them, and I could still see a hint of red.
I waved them all down, listening to the sound of snow falling outside through the thick window paper, it was snowing again, why did this year's snow keep falling? But is it really clean?
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