Chapter 157: Late Spring (10)
It is another spring day, it is said that the palace of Jinling has been fully built, and it is very magnificent, not inferior to this imperial city that has been built and lived for more than 100 years.
The concubines in the palace are looking forward to the winter time and go to the palace in Jinling to live for a while.
Huan'er also married last year and lived outside the palace.
His wife, although her status is not high, is also from a family, knowledgeable, and quite popular. It's just that Huan'er doesn't like her very much.
Huan'er and the son of the Chai Wangfu, at the same time Li Taishi's student, the age is similar, the two have a very good personal relationship, the year before last at the banquet of the Chai family, Huan'er met the county lord of the Chai family, it was a love at first sight, it was rare to ask me for anything, but this request, I can't meet him, the county lord of the Chai family, it's really not him, the prince who is not favored can marry.
Huan'er also realized this when she thought about it, so she had to honestly marry the girl of the Zheng family, who knew that this happened, Huan'er became the only prince left by His Majesty, and the Chai family wanted to send the county lord, but Huan'er had already married a wife, and the Chai family did not allow her daughter to be a concubine, so this matter was put on hold.
The palace where the concubine was located caught fire, and the Chonghua Palace where I was also suffered, but fortunately, I and Yining were not in the palace, and the fire came up quickly, and after a while, most of the harem had been ignited.
When I got the news, I was standing in front of the former palace and looking at the camellia trees that still did not bloom this year. I invited a lot of skilled craftsmen to play with it, but still not a single camellia could not bloom.
The palace people came running over and reported that something like this had happened to me.
I came to the gate of the palace, took a hurried look at my palace that had been burned in half, and immediately walked quickly to the palace of the concubine.
Walking all the way, before I reached the gate of the concubine's palace, I heard a terrible scream, I quickened my pace, and the maids behind me couldn't keep up, and I just arrived at the gate of the concubine's palace, and I saw the main hall fall down.
I looked at the palace people who came and went to save the life, grabbed a palace maid and asked, "Gui, has the concubine been rescued?" ”
"Niangniang, Niangniang, you heard it just now, that is the cry of the concubine." The palace maid thought that she was frightened, so she threw away my arm and ran out.
When Your Majesty came, the fire still had no intention of stopping, I looked at the palace that was almost burned out, and grabbed Your Majesty, who was about to rush in, "Your Majesty, Niangniang is no longer silent." ”
I couldn't hold him, I could only hold him with both hands, not to let him do stupid things, she took me a few steps, as if tired, and then stopped in place, I felt his rough breathing, and then his back rose and fell, and I felt it, he cried.
His Majesty ascended the throne at the age of twenty-three, and it has been twenty-five years now, and he has also grown old from a young man to now, and his original generous back has also become a little rickety, especially since he has lost the woman he loves the most.
He grabbed my hand and wanted to break it at first, but the tighter he gripped it, and he was muttering to himself, "She, she, she's still leaving me, she still doesn't want me anymore." ”
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you have to cherish yourself, the queen mother is also dying, so many things have happened in the palace, you can hold on"
"Emperor, what's wrong with the queen?" He looked back in astonishment, as if he didn't know what had just happened.
"Guifei Niangniang, found the matter of the five princes back then, the five princes were originally poisoned by Concubine Dan, but the five princes were finally rescued, and they could have recovered as long as they were well raised, but it was only later that the maid Bi'er next to the queen mother bought the nurse and the imperial doctor of the five princes, and poisoned them in the medicine and diet he drank. The same is true of the concubine, the concubine Can'er, who goes like this. Yes, it was the queen who poisoned her. "When it comes to Can'er, I can't hold back my tears and cry.
"She, she actually killed more than one..."Hearing this, I was stunned for a while, a? Whose one is it? The Fifth Prince, or Can'er?
"So, she also poisoned the queen?"
"Yes, she bought Bi'er, the queen mother was bedridden because of heart disease, and she put the same medicine in her medicine, the queen Ben, who couldn't stand anything anymore, is now poisoned, can't wake up, and can't faint."
"Why is she so anxious?" The fire in the palace of the concubine has been completely extinguished, and the temperature of the ashes that have just been burned is still very high, and no one dares to go up rashly, but everyone knows what the concubine in the palace is already like.
I stood here with His Majesty for a long time, and finally he seemed to be tired, and then put the weight of his whole person on me, "You can do the things in this palace." I'm already and I'm not going to do it anymore. ”
His Majesty was carried back to the dormitory, and in the entire palace, there was no other place except his dormitory.
And my dwelling place is no better than that of the concubine, and the rest of the place is either blackened by smoke, or burned down, or collapsed, in short, it is not what it looks like.
The corpse of the concubine, few people have seen it, it is no longer the same, the craftsmen made a shell for her, put her bones in this shell, and finally put clothes on this shell, painted makeup, very decent.
When His Majesty came to see it, he only glanced at it, and then waved his hand to let people seal the coffin. His eyes remained indifferent, and then he walked away steadily.
The concubine was buried in a very grand tomb, and her cemetery could no longer be called a tomb, but a mausoleum. In fact, this place has already been repaired, and the queen sometimes laughs at herself, saying that this place is buried for her, and His Majesty's mausoleum is a joint burial of himself and the concubine.
The queen also died soon after, and His Majesty did not dispose of her, and even gave her what she wanted, which was to bury her in his own mausoleum, and also decreed that only the two of them were allowed to be buried here.
I don't understand why His Majesty did this, and I didn't understand him all the time, so I didn't try to understand it.
In June of this year, a lot happened.
My Yining is married, married to my younger brother's deputy general, Xu Antai of the Xu family, General Xu Xiao.
Before the queen's mourning period was over, His Majesty held a grand wedding for her, and none of the always picky ministers dared to question it, and I don't want to know the reason.
The palace was still dilapidated, and His Majesty moved to live in the palace outside the city with all the concubines. He wanted to move the capital, just waiting for the palace in Jinling to be built, and then move there, but he didn't wait.
One morning in June, I felt like I was in a daze, and when I opened my eyes, I saw His Majesty standing in front of my bed, and he bent over me and said, "Go, I'll take you somewhere." ”