"Take away the queen's golden seal, stop all uses, transfer everyone in Fengluan Palace, and don't allow anyone to intercede, otherwise you will be guilty of the same crime as her!" Jiang Yao slowly made a judgment against me, of course, not a final judgment, but a temporary decision, "Imprison the queen in the Fengluan Palace, if you take half a step out of the Fengluan Palace, you will be executed on the spot!" ”

This kind of punishment is not as serious as I imagined, after all, it was just to take away my queen's golden seal, it was originally a cold golden lump, I have never done anything with it, I didn't expect Jiang Yao to abolish me, just locked up, and it had no effect on me at all.

Wang Yin Yin was a little regretful, she wanted to abolish me, but she didn't expect Jiang Yao not only to abolish me, but also let me live in Fengluan Palace, Wang Yin still underestimated our Rong family, I am the daughter of the Rong family, not only to bear its responsibilities and obligations, but also to enjoy the glory it brings.

When I returned to Fengluan Palace, I was surrounded by guards with knives inside and out, and it looked like their clothes were not transferred from the guards, but they looked like they were beside Jiang Yao.

I'm really the only one left in the huge palace at the moment, and I don't know where Changyun and Pei'er have been transferred, Changyun, I naturally don't have to worry, I'm most worried about Pei'er, Pei'er was brought by me from the Guogong Mansion, if someone tortures her, won't it cause her to suffer unnecessary pain?

But even if I have the heart to worry about them, I don't have the strength to help them, and I am now a mud bodhisattva crossing the river - I can't protect myself.

No matter how I am a young lady who has not touched the spring water from childhood to adulthood, suddenly there is no one else to serve, and I am really a little unaccustomed to it, and I light the candles one by one at night, reflecting the lights, and the palace has a little breath.

There seems to be a quarrel outside, and I don't know who it is, don't you know that I have been imprisoned by Jiang Yao now? Without Jiang Yao's order, these people would say that they would not let anyone in.

But I don't feel sleepy now, I can probably hear Zhao Fei's voice through the courtyard wall, and it's hard for her to be willing to come to see me at this time, and others are afraid to avoid it.

But I still can't be white, Zhao Fei and Su Kou have no grievances in the past and no enmity in the near future, why does Zhao Fei have to bite Su Kou for the previous matter?

As soon as I walked to the gate of the palace with the lantern, the guards guarding inside stopped me and said, "If I don't go out, it's okay to speak at the door, right?" ”

The guards thought for a while, Jiang Yao only ordered not to let others in or let me out, and did not prevent me from talking to others through the door, as long as I didn't embarrass them, and I couldn't get by on the shady things, these people still wouldn't restrict me too much.

"Who's out there?" I knocked on the door and shouted.

Zhao Fei heard my voice, a little overjoyed, and said, "The queen is a concubine." ”

"It's so late, what's the matter with you?" I asked, even if she really had something, it was impossible for me to help her with my current situation.

"The concubine heard about the mother, and she was a little worried, so she came over to take a look, is everything okay with the mother?" Zhao Fei asked.

"It's okay, I just want to trouble you, I don't know if you can help me?" I said.

"What's the matter, as long as the concubine can do it, the mother doesn't matter." Zhao Fei didn't think about it, so he responded in one bite.

"Please help me inquire about the whereabouts of Changyun and Pei'er, if they are in trouble, please help them, if someone wants to torture them, let them not hold on, anyway, things can no longer be changed, not bad for these two sentences, now it is more important to save your life."

Zhao Fei listened to my words, Yin Xian was a little angry, and said urgently: "What do you care about the queen at this time?" If something goes wrong with the mother, even the gods can't protect them, and now the most important thing is the mother yourself? ”

Zhao Fei thought for a moment and asked, "Niangniang really has nothing to say to her concubine?" If you are more concerned about something, or if you don't think you want to be white, you can tell your concubine. ”

At this point, my mind is now a complete mess, and the only things I can think of are the people around me and the Rong family, I thought for a long time, and asked a question in my heart: "Did you really suspect Su Ko before, or did you have any other intentions?" ”

"The concubine was just misled by others, so she thought it was her, and the real person didn't even expect the concubine." Zhao Fei patted the door and urged: "Niangniang, what did you think of?" ”

I made up my mind and decided to pull Su Ko in, and said, "You go to Su Ko and tell her about my affairs, and Su Ko will definitely help you." ”

"Okay, the concubine will go now, the mother must take care of herself."

"I know, it's getting late, so you can go back quickly."

I'm not sure why Zhao Fei is still willing to help me at this point, but the only thing that is certain is that the people who are willing to help me at this time at least mean that I am still useful to her. I don't have a strong friendship with Zhao Fei, when I was in the public mansion, Zhao Fei's best friend was also my fifth sister, and I just had a few faces, and I didn't have any feelings, so the rest was only interests.

I listened to Zhao Fei's footsteps as he walked away, lying on the side of the door and pondering for a long time, I felt that I couldn't live for a moment, and tears began to pour out little by little, until I could no longer control it.

I returned to my dormitory, no one added clothes and lights to me, and the Fengluan Hall was silent again in the night. I had a dream that day, I dreamed of my mother, I can't remember my mother's appearance now, but even if I only saw a vague figure, that feeling would not be wrong, my mother said: "I'm sorry, Ah Xuan, it's not that my mother doesn't love you anymore, but she can't live anymore." ”

I remember crying for a long time after that time, and when I woke up, tears had already soaked my pillow, and I could still live, at least I didn't want to die so wronged.

Thinking of the sunshine I would see and the gloom of the next day, everything became hopeful, and I fell asleep and woke up intermittently, until the food delivery person knocked on my window, and I realized that the sun had risen so high.

The food given to me was quite delicious, and it was not as hard to swallow as I imagined, I only ate a little, and the emotions blocked in my heart had nowhere to vent, and the sadness in my body could not be dissolved, where would I be in the mood to eat well.

It rained the day after tomorrow, and it didn't look too big at all, but it didn't mean to stop in the afternoon, but it intensified, and the pouring rain was accompanied by bursts of thunder, I felt a little cold, but there was no charcoal fire in Fengluan Palace, so it was wrapped in a blanket.

The people who come to deliver the food have a fixed time every day, and rain or shine, if it weren't for the thunder that fell on the Fengluan Hall that scared me, maybe I wouldn't have found out that the lunch box hid the news that Zhao Fei gave me.

She said that Jiang Yao had already sent someone to investigate my eldest brother's affairs, and that my eldest brother had been demoted, and even my father had been summoned for questioning. Although there is no conclusive evidence now, being questioned for no reason has already caused a rift between the Yin King and the courtiers, which is an extremely important blow to the courtiers.

What if I know? Now I'm just a bird in a cage, and I don't have any effect, let alone help, and not adding to the chaos is already the biggest contribution I can make to the Rong clan.

Now I can even imagine Chen's gnashing of his teeth at me, and it is strange to say that everything is intertwined, and it is impossible to say who owes it to whom.

Now that things have developed to this point, I just hope that it will not affect the sisters, they are already married, if the husband's family is also implicated because of this, then how can they have any status in the family in the future?

No, I shook my head and threw all the bad thoughts out of my head.

The second sister and the third sister should be fine, the two of them have always married someone who has little to do with our Rong family, but they are married, if it really affects them because of this, it is Jiang Yao's not yin wisdom, no smart king will be in a hurry to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, everyone knows that the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, not to mention the Rong family, I am afraid that even if I find any evidence, I can't do anything about the Rong family for a while, things are not in a hurry but not a good phenomenon, we have to prepare slowly.

In this way, even I am white, Jiang Yao must know more and more details than I know.

The only thing I'm worried about now is Pei'er, she was brought back by me from the mansion, even if they let Changyun go, they will definitely not let Pei'er go, there is no news from Zhao Fei's side, and I can't take the initiative to contact her, which is really a little anxious.

The thunder is getting louder and louder, and I hope that this rain will wash away some of the filth, and there will be less hatred between heaven and earth.

I knew that Wang Yin would definitely come, but I didn't expect her to come in such a heavy rain, I didn't have the heart to see her, anyway, she couldn't come in, and I couldn't do anything to me through such a strict guard, so I simply sat under the porch and listened to the "whoosh" sound of the heavy rain, and watched the guards in the palace gate scratch their ears and cheeks in distress to deal with Wang Yin.

The guards passed the word back and forth for us several times in the rain, even if I couldn't bear to see these irrelevant people running back and forth in the wind and rain, but even if I told them to stop talking to me, I didn't want to see Wang Yin, and I didn't want to talk to her.

The guard's Yin Xian was a little distressed, grabbed his head and said: "The queen mother or just go over, Concubine Chen said a few words to her, Niangniang will not regret hearing it, such a heavy rain, Concubine Chen Niangniang said that she would not leave, if it is drenched, the emperor will definitely blame the little ones." ”

"It's your ability to deal with Concubine Chen, I said that I don't want to talk to her, you don't want to, don't waste your efforts, anyway, the distressed person is the emperor, what does it have to do with me, a queen who is about to be deposed? Your duty is to take care of me, and what else does it have to do with you, just ignore her. "I reached out and took a handful of the rain, felt it was cold, and threw it out again, never looking at them.

The guard didn't want to say anything more, so he ran over and started to deal with Wang Yin again, and he didn't know how long they talked, and after a while, the guard came back and said, "Queen Mother, Concubine Chen asked the little one to bring you a message." ”

"You don't have to say it, I don't want to hear it." I rejected it in one gulp.

"Concubine Chen said that it has something to do with a little palace maid named 'Pei'er......"

My expression tightened, and my voice became low, "Say! ”

"What did Concubine Chen say, 'I'd rather bend than bend, worthy of being a loyal servant of the Chengguo Mansion' or something, and I haven't been able to remember the specific words, if the queen is very concerned, it's better to go over and listen to it in person, and now Concubine Chen's mother shouldn't have left yet."

I pushed away the guards standing in front of me, braved the rain and threw myself to the door, I pounded the door hard, and as soon as I opened my mouth, the rain flowed down my hair into my mouth, and I didn't care about anything else, and shouted, "Pe'er——! Pell ——! ”

Even if Wang Yin is about to leave, she will definitely turn back when she hears my words, she finally let me have the current situation, how can she not taste this feeling of trampling me under my feet?

I don't know how long Wang Yin has been waiting for a day, but I know that once such a day starts, it will be haunted like a nightmare, unless one of the two of us dies, it will never stop, not how good I am, but Wang Yin will never let me go.

"Queen Mother, you call Pei'er here, she can't hear it, Miss Pei'er is in prison now, a good girl with fine skin and tender flesh, now she is almost crippled, if there is nothing else to say to make her explain, I am afraid that she will die a long time ago at this moment." Wang Yin's voice couldn't hear how mocking and smug it was, but it seemed like she deliberately wanted to make me excited and nervous.

"What do you want to do? What exactly do you want me to do? Qiao Meiren's child was killed by me, and Qiao Meiren is also something I can't tolerate death, I admit it, why do you want to hold on to an unrelated palace maid? If I really have so many evil thoughts, how can I let a palace maid know? You can't do that to her, you can't do this to her! ”

"Queen Mother, as far as the concubine knows, this Pei'er girl is not an ordinary palace maid, but the queen mother brought out from the Chengguo Mansion, the queen mother has done such a thing, do you think that as your personal maid, but also the most trusted person, will not know about this? You can't help but underestimate your concubines. ”

"You don't have to tell me these twists and turns, you can tell me what you want to say, I don't believe you came just to tell me these words." I said.

"Of course not." Wang Yin said with a smile: "The concubine came to ask the queen mother how to train such a loyal servant, Miss Pei'er took everything on herself, but the queen mother you said was spotless and didn't know anything about it, but that's okay, anyway, your Rong family doesn't have any use of the handle now, just push the boat down the river, and exchange the life of a maid for the safety of your Rong family, but next time it will not be so easy, the concubine wants to see, There will be a few faithful servants who will be able to collect all the incriminating evidence for you. ”

"Right and wrong are at ease in people's hearts, Wang Yin, if you do this, aren't you afraid of retribution?"

"If there was really retribution, your Rong clan would have died tens of millions of times, you are still alive and well, what are the petty fights of the concubines?" Wang Yin said, stood up, "The rain is getting heavier and heavier, the concubines will retire first, I hope the queen will do it herself!" ”

I had a dream that day, it was extremely real, as if it was all happening clearly in front of my eyes, everything naturally hardly looked like a dream, so that the guilt and regret in my heart were gradually aroused.

It was a dim and damp cell, the faint light could not penetrate such a thick darkness, and there was a musty smell from the sound of Suosuo, mixed with the smell of blood and decay, I could not imagine how a living person could live here, I reassured myself over and over again that it was just a dream, but even if it was, I still saw Pelle.

Pe'er's body was bloodstained, unkempt, where was there still half of the same wanton agility as before, someone asked her, she didn't answer, the whip made a violent sound in the air, and then whipped Pe'er, I saw her body shake irrepressibly, the pain of the skin and flesh blooming, I couldn't bear it without experience.

But Pei'er still didn't speak, and even when she did, she repeated the same sentence back and forth from her dry lips: "I did it, the queen mother's brain is not good for a day or two, you don't know, a person who can't even write words in a standardized way, where can he think of so many moves, you just want her to die, since you have determined the result in your heart, why bother asking me in one move?" ”

I could hear Pelle's inner words, I could hear her crying silently and crying out for pain, but I couldn't do anything, whether in my dreams or in reality, all I could give her was pain.

If I had known that there would be such a day, why would I have brought her back, if I had been so ruthless as to keep her in the Guogong Mansion, would I not have such pain now?

I woke up, the dark night was accompanied by the sound of pouring rain outside, and even Pei's voice and smile were echoing in my ears, playing back and forth over and over again, making me hate myself over and over again.

I had no shoes on, and I stepped barefoot on the marble floor, and the chill spread from the soles of my feet all over my body, and every cold hair that stood up told me that it was not a dream. This is a reality that I will never be able to change.

I opened the door, and a bolt of lightning drew the outline of the palace, red walls and green tiles, and a small brass bell hung from the corner of the flying eaves, which may have rang, but it seemed so insignificant in the overwhelming thunder. I felt a little dizzy and groggy, and I was holding on to the pillar next to me to stabilize myself.

The guards in the Fengluan Hall were going to withdraw at a certain hour in the evening, and even Jiang Yao's people did not dare to stay in the queen's palace for a night.

I opened the palace door and pushed it open in the rain, and the sound of "squeak" quickly attracted the attention of the guards who were holding the handle outside, and the cold knife was crossed in front of me: "Queen Mother, it is raining heavily in the middle of the night, please go back to the palace to rest." ”

I didn't flinch, the rain was rushing along the blade, I threw away the umbrella I held up in my hand, and drenched in the rain, saying, "You can kill me." ”

Jiang Yao has instructed that as long as I take half a step out of the Fengluan Palace, I can be executed on the spot, but I have never been afraid of death, I don't want to stay alone in that kind of palace now, the darkness makes me breathless.

The rain mixed with warm tears slid down my face, and no one knew I was crying, and no one cared about how I felt.

The guards didn't let go of the knives in their hands, and I didn't stop my steps, and as they approached the edge of the blade step by step, the two men still flinched and replaced them with arms that were not threatening at all: "Queen Mother, please don't be embarrassed by the little ones. ”

"Don't be embarrassed." I said lightly, "No one will find out about this kind of night, I only walk along this road." ”

As I spoke, I pointed to the palace road in front of me and said, "Look, I'll come back wherever I go, if you can't see me coming back, it's not too late to come and get me again, don't worry, I won't be able to run away." ”

The two guards looked at each other and said, "Okay then, the queen will come back soon." ”

One of the guards picked up my umbrella that was still on the ground and handed it to me: "It's raining too much, the queen should bring an umbrella." ”

"No, I just want to walk around like that." I rejected their kindness.

I didn't want to embarrass others, I didn't feel like I was embarrassed myself, I just felt that I had to be a little embarrassed now to be able to offset some of the pain in my heart.

The water flowed along the soles of my feet, and there was nothing bumpy on the road, and there was nothing to shelter from the wind and rain, but I still walked under a rainless umbrella, and I didn't look up, and saw the red clothes, and the slightly cold fragrance.

I could feel the touch of the rain as I fell to the ground, and I could feel the touch of the cold fingers of the man in red squatting down against my forehead, and suddenly I saw his expression, and his eyes that shone in the darkness, and there was a little pity.

I'm not a person to be pitied, I'm the most useless, the most incompetent.

I was awakened by my own cough, and when I woke up, I found myself lying on the bed, and the figures around me were somewhat familiar, and I opened my eyes and saw Changyun who was carrying the decoction.

"Mother's awake? Take the medicine first, you've had a fever for a long time. Changyun blew lightly, put a spoonful against my mouth, I opened my mouth, the bitter medicine slid down my throat, and the cough became even worse.

After drinking the decoction, I rested for a while, felt that my body was slowly refreshed, and said, "What about Pei'er?" ”

Changyun's hand paused, but he didn't hide it from me: "Miss Pei'er has already gone, as the culprit of the cruelty of the prince and concubines, but fortunately, the death was quite direct and did not suffer any pain." ”

"You lied to me." As I spoke, my tears welled up again, sobbing intermittently mixed with my own words, regardless of whether Changyun could understand it or not: "I saw Pei'er being locked up in a very dark house, she was covered in injuries, and those people beat her...... You lied to me......"

"Really, the slave maid personally handled the matter behind Miss Pei'er, and the slave maid didn't lie to you."

I didn't speak, I covered myself with a quilt, my heart was so uncomfortable that I couldn't find a way to vent.

After a while, the queen Jin Yin sent it over with Jiang Yao's will, saying that I had been wronged and had been rewarded with a lot of things.

I was lightly interested, neither thankful nor understood, and when my eyes drooped, I thought I knew. Everyone knows I'm in a bad mood and won't bother with me about these things.

After a long time, people always think that some of the pain will be forgotten, but those unrelieved injuries will not, Wang Yin has been holding the illness and not seeing me, and I don't want to see her, with my own ability now, I can't do anything to her at all, even if I make a rash move, in the end I just escort myself in.

Su Ko came to see me several times, with tears in her eyes, and she said that she thought I was going to die, that she would never see me again.

I pretended to be fine, patted Su Ko's head, and said, "You see I'm not doing well now, it's okay!" ”

Su Ko sobbed and said, "I didn't know that Wang Yin could be so bad, I went to tell Ah Yao, Ah Yao actually defended her, and even murdered me for Wang Yin, I don't like Ah Yao anymore, I only like Ah Xuan alone." ”

Indeed, except for me and Zhao Fei, no one will believe that this is everything planned by Wang Yin, Su Kou will believe it, but it is also because he believes me, but if there is no basis, you can't talk nonsense, Jiang Yao will naturally worry that Su Kou will suffer something bad because of this.

But if he is as smart as Jiang Yao, would he not know that this is Wang Yin's ghost? Or did he know all this, just to watch me drill into the trap?

I have heard countless Jiang Yao from the mouths of countless people, but Jiang Yao in the eyes of others will only appear in the eyes of others, I have seen many of his appearances, but each one is short-lived, he always wears many masks to me, I don't know which one is the real Jiang Yao.

Maybe he's good, kind, gentle and something to rely on, it's just that he's not good to you.

I haven't seen Jiang Yao for a long time, from the last time I was in Qiao Meiren's Palace, to now, no matter what I have experienced in between, he only exists in other people's words.

However, the fortunate thing in the misfortune is that my incident did not have any bad impact on our Rong family, although the eldest brother was dropped back, but the position was promoted instead of falling.

The fifth sister, as the princess, has entered the palace with His Royal Highness King Jing several times, and not every time she has to see me, but this time is an exception.

Changyun withdrew after serving tea, and the fifth sister came to Yin Xian this time to have something to say.

"Queen Mother, since Pei'er has confessed to the law, you should also behave normally, with such a sad face all day long, isn't it a shame to tell others that your master and servant are deeply affectionate, and Pei'er is suspected of being guilty of you? The emperor has already treated you very well, Pei'er immediately returned your innocence after pleading guilty, and comforted the Rong family, don't be too aggressive! ”

Guilty? Who is offended? Even if others don't know, can I still be confused? Jiang Yao calmed things down so quickly, wasn't he afraid that things would get bigger, and Wang Yin's matter would be covered in paper after all? Of course they are willing to use my Pei'er to calm things, but when they do this, they have asked me if I am willing?

If the Rong clan is still strong, even Jiang Yao can't easily shake it, but if the Rong clan is not good, where will it be so easy to calm things down? If you don't cramp and break your bones, it's already light, so where is the time to be complacent about these false rewards?

Later generations mourn but do not learn from it, and it also makes future generations mourn for future generations.

The fifth sister saw that I still refused to speak, thinking that my own temper was too stubborn, and I was playing petty here, and I didn't have the patience to coax me, and said: "I came to you today, also to convey my father's meaning, my father said that since the matter is over, let you not be too entangled in Pei'er's affairs, but a slave, let you serve the emperor well, don't get into the horns, follow in your mother's footsteps!" ”

I know that the fifth sister has always been arrogant, but I didn't expect her to speak so thoughtlessly, I glanced at her with a little contempt in my heart, and the fifth sister immediately became nervous, and she couldn't even speak: "You, what do you want to do?" I can tell you, that's what Father meant! ”

In fact, the fifth sister doesn't have to play her father's signboard for everything, we all know who it means, but we don't want to break it.