Chapter Twenty-Three: The Yellow Spring

Shen Yun himself didn't expect that the child he had been thinking about for so long would come as soon as he said it.

It's just that Xiao Cong is not around, she has no bottom in her heart, so she hid this matter to the death, and didn't say anything to everyone, and Luoying, since Shen Yun suddenly burned the incense and incense-making utensils she made on weekdays, she seemed to have noticed something, and when she reported the situation to Xiao Ling, she also knew that she had concealed it as appropriate, and saw that Shen Yun was so careful that she didn't even dare to mention her pregnancy in the letter to Xiao Cong, so she didn't tell Xiao Ling about it.

But she didn't expect that she would end up like that.

Shen Yun didn't suspect Luo Ying before, but they have been together for many years, saying that they are masters and servants, but in fact, they are like sisters, and she herself doesn't want to believe it, so she has been deceiving herself and thinking, it may not be her, but when the East Palace was besieged, she also understood very well that she couldn't pretend to be so confused anymore, everything before could be ignored, but if she was not strict for a while and revealed her pregnancy to Xiao Xuan, the consequences would be unimaginable, plus she really needed an opportunity to send Zhao Yue out of the East Palace and win the full support of the Zhao family. In exchange for Xiao Cong, she had a desperate bargaining chip, so she had to make a move on Luo Ying, but in this way, even she herself was surprised, it turned out that she was forced to be in a hurry, and she could be ruthless to this point.

When the news of the rebellion in the East Palace spread, Li Jingyi immediately made a decision and sent Xiao Cong's children outside the palace, and the miserable scene of separation of flesh and blood made Shen Yun see himself back then.

When she heard the shouts of the guards left by Xiao Cong swearing to defend the palace gate, she was not without grief and indignation, and when she saw Xiao Ling dragging the bloodied long knife towards the women of the East Palace, she was not without fear, but she still resolutely greeted it.

Hengzhu can't dodge, and she can only do her best for him.

Li Jingyi knew that Shen Yun was not ordinary, but she didn't expect that her mind could be firm to that point, she could calmly lobby him under Xiao Ling's butcher's knife, she could persuade the almost collapsed Liu family to "have a chance to live" after being humiliated, and she could also think of using the sound of the piano to transmit a message to the East Palace when everyone was desperate.

When she heard the guards who had come to their rescue tell her about what had happened on the banks of the moat, she couldn't describe her state of mind.

So she was silent for a long time, withdrew her personal guards, and gave a strict order to the women in the palace, not allowing them to mention Shen Yun's humiliation to the East Palace.

However, after Xiao Cong captured the imperial city and captured Xiao Ling alive, he did not kill him immediately like he did to Queen He, but kept his life and tortured him slowly.

How easy it is to die, how can he die so happily, don't think he doesn't know, his mother's death, Grandma's death, and his son's death, I'm afraid they can't be separated from their mother and son, he had no evidence before, and he couldn't bear it in order to take care of the overall situation, but today, he can't bear it.

What's more, he forced Qingqing to jump into the moat in front of him.

That picture has become his nightmare, in the dream, Ah Yan was dressing up in front of the mirror, and when he looked back and saw him, he took his hand and said: "Jun and Qingqing, both are stars in the sky, falling to the dust, just for a love disaster, if you want to think for a long time, don't leave her, remember to remember." The concubine leaked the heavenly opportunity this time, and she went to the hell of pulling out her tongue, and when she never saw each other again, she hoped that you would cherish it. After speaking, he fell into the cliff and disappeared. Suddenly, she saw Qingqing standing by a bridge and called her, she turned her head, but said, "I'll wait for you by the bridge, as long as I want." He stretched out his hand to pull her, but she fell from the bridge like a white apricot blossom with a branch off its branches.

He cried and shouted "Qingqing, Qingqing", and when he woke up, there was no one around him, he turned over and got out of bed, and before he made up, there was no one in front of him, and there was no one in the inner hall, the outer hall, under the corridor, in the courtyard, by the smoked cage, in front of the bookcase, and by the tea table.

Qingqing, Qingqing, where do I go to find you again?

When he walked to the altar step by step at the enthronement ceremony, what he thought in his heart was, Qingqing, you come back, let's go to see all these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains together, okay?

On the second day, it was the ceremony of the concubine after the ceremony, he and Jingyi sat side by side on the high platform, looking at the Zhaoyi Liu who was holding the crown of Concubine Chen's clothes and performing the etiquette below, and was even more in a trance, and said in her heart If Qingqing was allowed to wear this complicated dress, and then wear the deputy crown used for the heavy ceremony to toss all day, she still didn't know how to complain.

When Zhao Yue took the golden book and gold treasure on her behalf and held it to the Pujia Palace, he also followed her step by step, and the ceremonial officer wanted to remind him, but was stopped by the queen waving his hand, and only heard her say: "Let him go, Your Majesty's heart is already bitter enough." ”

When he arrived outside the Pujia Palace, he took the golden book and golden treasure from Zhao Yue's hand, walked to the inner hall alone, and looked at the furnishings inside that were exactly the same as the bamboo house back then, and his heart was crumpled again. He walked to the half-human-tall makeup dowry, put the book treasures in his hand one by one, and thought silently: I know that you like to save things, so why don't you make one big enough for you, I will save this first one for you for the time being from today, you must come back before I fill this place, otherwise Mrs. Lu will scold you again. Oh, yes, Mrs. Lu was also forced to death by them, and there was no one to scold you.

So all his hatred could only be vented to Xiao Ling, he whipped him with his own hands and burned him with a soldering iron, but Xiao Ling actually laughed and roared at him: "You have won the world and won the country, so what, none of your beloved women have been saved...... Hahaha...... Do you know what that slut looks like in the end under my crotch...... Hahaha...... You really think she's a white lotus, and I don't know how many green hats I've put on you in the tick bar...... Hahaha...... But this slut, I couldn't even prevent her, slut, slut! ”

Su Huaijin, who heard this, couldn't help but want to snatch the sword from the guard's hand and kill him, but was pulled by Xiao Cong, and only listened to him calmly ordered: "Cut off his tongue, and then inflict palace punishment, slap his mouth every day, whip him, hit as many times as he can, but just don't let him die, I want him to live well, he can enjoy such treatment one more day, and my heart can be better." As for those who knew about it around him, the dead were gone, and the living had their tongues cut off, except that they were punished according to their sins, so that they might not speak one by two. ”

Everyone present felt that the emperor at this time was like the one who always smiled kindly.

After that, he still didn't want to admit that Siren was gone, and he didn't want others to mention the past in front of him, but when he saw people or things related to Shen Yun, his expression would be a little different, and for those who had a good relationship with her, as long as it wasn't too excessive, they would also respond to their needs. Then, he seemed to have lost patience with everything about her, but whenever someone asked for her to be posthumously crowned as the queen for the sake of sycophancy, he was directly dismissed from his post and investigated, and when he heard someone talking about her right and wrong, he would be slapped at the light of his mouth, and punished with a cane.

It's just that all the people who know the reason can't bear to persuade them, as if they also know that all the words are pale and meaningless in the face of his lovesickness and grief.

Fortunately, later, Princess Yongle, who was married far away, came back, and everyone felt that the faint smile on his face that had never changed had some warmth.

That day, Xiao Cong and Jingyi both went to meet each other outside the city, and saw the car arrive from a distance, Lingxi walked down from above, and there was no longer the jump off when she was a girl, and she was a little thin, looking more skinny, and she had some more mature and atmospheric charm.

At that time, after she and her brother finished saluting, they held hands and looked at each other with tears in their eyes, but they were speechless.

Yes, over the years, who hasn't been hurt by the years.

After that, she glanced at the people behind him, but she didn't see the person she wanted to see, and she was a little puzzled, so she had to comfort herself and said that she had always been in poor health, and it was freezing this day, and her brother probably didn't want her to come out and toss.

However, when it came to the reception banquet, she still didn't see her, and finally became uneasy, looked at her for a long time, hesitated for a long time, and couldn't help asking: "Qingqing, why don't you see her." ”

The smile on Xiao Cong's face collapsed instantly, and the rest of the people also secretly waved their hands and shook their heads at her. Her heart jumped and she asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Xiao Cong slowly got up and left the table, and when Jing Yi saw it, he had to pull Lingxi to his side, and tearfully told her about the beginning and end of the palace change back then.

After hearing this, Lingxi burst into tears and muttered, "How can this be, how can this be." But everyone in the audience just wiped away their tears silently, and none of them could answer her.

No wonder from the moment he saw his brother again, Lingxi felt that his gaze was still gentle and firm, but there were no stars in it.

Xiao Ling washed the East Palace in blood, and the people who served Shen Yun in the past were almost not spared, Luo Ying was strangled by her own order, Pei Zhu was seriously injured in order to protect Zhao Yue, and after the best efforts of the imperial doctors, he survived for more than a year, and died, and the others were even more dead, and those who escaped were left with only a cook who escaped by hiding in the firewood, and now he is Xiao Cong's chief chef.

However, as Shen Yun said at the beginning, the same ingredients, according to the same method, can be made with very different tastes.

When Lingxi came back, he found that his brother had been unwell for a while, so he boiled chicken soup to see him, he took a sip, and suddenly said, "Lingxi, do you remember how that clear soup is made?" ”

Lingxi was stunned for a long time, nodded, and then he smiled: "I asked them to do what she said, but it doesn't always taste like that, can you make a bowl for me to drink?" ”

Lingxi mourned in his heart, but he could only hold back his tears and nod with a smile.

When I brought the soup to see him the next day, he tasted it and said with a smile: "It's good, the spirit rhino has grown up and become virtuous." But he drank it again.

She looked at his somewhat pale and lonely face, and still sarcastically said: "Your appetite is raised by her, this same thing, the same method, who makes it the same, is it really necessary for her?" ”

Xiao Cong knew what she meant, she just smiled faintly, clenched her teeth secretly, and after a long time, she calmly drank the bowl of soup and said, "You're right." He waved her back.

A few days later, he personally wrote an edict to give her the former East Palace as a princess's mansion, and when he handed it to her, he only said one more sentence and asked her not to move the bamboo house.

In fact, there is no need for him to say it, and she is reluctant to move the bamboo house. Not only the bamboo house, but even the plum garden she didn't move, how could she not remember, in those years, every time around the Dragon Boat Festival, Qingqing had to lead the palace people to beat green plums, soak sweet wine, and in winter, she had to fold those flower branches and insert bottles, and then pick a few handfuls of early blooming white plums to tune the cold fragrance of the year.

I always laughed at her at that time: "You really make the best use of your things." ”

When she heard this, she just smiled and replied: "It's all a gift from God, don't use it in vain." ”

At that time, they would occasionally find a snowy day, sit in the merlin around the stove to cook wine, she liked Qingqing when she was slightly drunk, and the way she talked more than herself, it was so funny, but then the brother would always run to spoil the fun, and she was afraid that the snow would wet her shoes and socks, so she had to carry her back. Fortunately, she already understood at that time why her brother didn't bother to look at other little ladies, and only cherished her. Those women are delicate ornaments, beautiful and beautiful, but they can see the end at a glance, and she is an endless book, the more you read, the more interesting it is, and naturally you can't bear to release it.

But this book has now been torn to shreds by Xiao Ling.

When she learned that her brother had spared his life, she also lamented that he was too merciful after all, but after seeing Xiao Jue, who was no longer a human or a ghost, she couldn't stop being frightened, and finally understood how deep her brother's hatred was.

But at that time, there were always people who wanted to stuff women around him, and he naturally refused with a faint smile on the grounds that the national mourning was not yet complete, and only when he drank too much wine with Ainir did he mutter: "Her vinegar jar, I don't know what to do when I know it." ”