Chapter 112: Flower Thanks
This autumn's osmanthus blooms strangely, in the past, the flowers have reached the season to wither, but this time the osmanthus blooms extremely luxuriantly, but the flower color is not originally golden but pale yellow white. Because of the rumors that Li Shenlan was in trouble with the country, the common people said that it was because of Li Shenlan, and every household asked Yin Chen to execute Concubine Lan.
The palace gate has not been opened for three consecutive days, and the people at the gate of the palace are full of people, some holding banners, some shouting and scolding, and some who have come all the way from other places, and everyone has only one purpose, that is, to revolt and ask Yin Chen to kill Li Shenlan. The outside of the palace is in full swing, and the palace is not comfortable, because the purchaser in the imperial dining room cannot open the palace gate, and the purchaser in the imperial dining room cannot go out to purchase, and he has not had a good meal for several days.
Li Shenlan's second assassination can be regarded as annoying everyone, the concubines in the harem who want her to die are one after another, and the ordinary people who revolt with hunger strikes outside are crowded. I have to say that Li Shenlan's original idea was achieved.
"You can't kill her, you have already failed Si Juan, do you want to live up to Shen Lan again?"
Concubine Xiang can't remember how many times she has said the same thing, and Yin Chen has been locking herself in the Heart Nourishing Palace for the past few days. The folds on the table have been piled up, and you don't need to look until you know what exactly is inside.
"It's not that I want to kill her, it's the people who want her to die. You don't know the importance of the people's will to a king, I never thought of killing her from the beginning, she forced me to kill her again and again! ”
What Yin Chen said is also reasonable, it has been almost half a month since the accident, and everything Yin Chen has done is to protect her. But Li Shenlan seemed to be crazy, no matter which of them did anything, it seemed to be in vain.
"Si Wan left me a letter before she died, she said that seeing Li Shenlan was like seeing her former self, she hoped that Li Shenlan could live for herself after she left, if you kill her, it is equivalent to going against Si Juan's wishes."
To put it bluntly, Empress Rensi's masterpiece is Li Shenlan's gold medal for avoiding death. It's just that if this letter is changed to another time, it will be fine, and now in such a situation, even if it is a real royal gold medal for avoiding death, I am afraid that it will not be able to save Li Shenlan.
"Si Wan will understand my ...... below"
"Understand a fart!"
Concubine Xiang couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, all the methods she could use were useless. Even when the Zhao family's father and son returned to Beijing yesterday, it can be said that they entered the palace to find themselves for the first time, and the general who was strategizing on weekdays couldn't think of a way to save Li Shenlan at this time.
"Yin Chen, ask yourself, how many years have you not asked Siwan to understand you? Sijuan is like being born to serve you, and all his life is for you, but in the end, everyone dies! Do you want her to understand you from below? ”
Yin Chen's brows were twisted like twists, and whenever he talked about Queen Rensi, he always had such a sad face, as if he realized the wrong thing he had done to Si Wan and regretted not being at the beginning.
"Don't show such an expression as if you regret it, they're stupid! I have long said that you only have the Great Qi in your heart, and women are just accessories and tools for you. ”
"Zhao Luo! I told you a long time ago not to rely on General Zhao's military exploits to do whatever you want, as a concubine is unorthodox and unorthodox! ”
Yin Chen and Concubine Xiang quarreled with Concubine Xiang in the Heart Cultivation Palace, but Li Shenlan in the prison was pure-hearted and had few desires, as if nothing had happened. In the autumn, they were so anxious that they cried every day, and the current situation looked at Li Shenlan's death, so Luo Bai came back and told them that now the emperor has begun to waver, and he is ready to execute the concubine to give the people an explanation.
"Niangniang, you should think of a way, if you really let the emperor make up his mind, we will really be finished."
Harvest is in a hurry here, but Li Shenlan is as steady as Mount Tai, and the persuasion effect for a few days is minimal, and it has no effect.
"!"
"Harvest autumn, I want to go out for a walk......"
Li Shenlan's words for no reason made Harvest Qiu excited, who can say for sure that if Li Shenlan goes out to hang around, she wants to live well, Yin Chen is not completely emotionless for her. To put it bluntly, as long as Li Shenlan is willing, a word can persuade Yin Chen to save his life.
Concubine Xiang arranged it early in the morning, and it was said that Li Shenlan was locked up in prison, in fact, as long as she wanted to, she could go out openly.
recruited Luo Baijue and Li Shenlan to show her her needs, and Luo Baijue agreed without hesitation. It's just that now it's time for a mess of porridge outside, if Li Shenlan goes out for a walk with this face, I'm afraid that she will be killed by people outside halfway.
"I still have to grieve my mother, but I don't feel at ease if I don't change my face."
Li Shenlan doesn't care, Luo Bai is not only good at martial arts, but even the art of disguise is also handy. However, with a cup of tea, Li Shenlan changed her appearance, even if Yin Chen stood in front of her, she couldn't easily see her identity. Changing into the palace maid's clothes prepared by Concubine Xiang early in the morning, Li Shenlan followed the big lama out of the prison door.
Although Li Shenlan would look at the only small window and look at the blue sky every day in prison, but suddenly came out and returned to nature, Li Shenlan still instinctively had her eyes, the sun was not good, but it was comfortable.
"Concubine Xiang can only hide it for a while, and ask Niangniang to come back in an hour."
said that it was a concealment, but in fact it was just to let Luo Baijue stay in prison instead of Li Shenlan, after all, Li Shenlan was not the only one in the prison, and the people who went back and forth could not be bought.
"Don't worry......"
Li Shenlan looked up at the clear blue sky and took a long breath. I haven't smelled such fresh air for a long time, and Li Shenlan walked alone on the road and didn't allow anyone to follow.
This matter is so big that even walking on the road can hear some palace people talking there. There are many people talking about it, but it will always be the same sentence: Li Shenlan will definitely die.
Li Shenlan herself didn't care, and even felt that things were starting to develop for the better, and before she knew it, she had arrived at the Imperial Garden. It's unfair to say that everything in itself, the flowers that bloomed half a month ago are now gone, but the other flowers are gone, at least there are leaves left, and the flowers are gone, as if they have never been in this world.
If Li Shenlan was not such a hypocritical person before, but the world is impermanent, and after experiencing so much, everything seems to have changed beyond recognition. Even now looking at this land without flowers, Li Shenlan began to think that maybe she would be like this in the future. The geese passed without a trace, and no one remembered them again.
She didn't come out to just relax, after a long time in prison, her thoughts became clearer, knowing that her time was running out, she always wanted to see Empress Rensi again and talk to Sheng Ping.
The ancestral hall is not far from the prison, and it didn't take a stick of incense for Li Shenlan to arrive.
The lights are still bright, since the death of Queen Rensi, Yin Chen has asked people to carefully clean the ancestral hall every day, and Sheng Ping's name has been inherited to the name of Queen Rensi, and now she is still a princess. Looking up at the portrait of Empress Rensi, the face was exactly the same as himself. Li Shenlan smiled sarcastically, thinking that Queen Rensi was pitiful, even if the person was gone, in the end, Yin Chen missed Dong Sijuan, who had died ten years ago.
remembered what Wang Jun'er said to herself before she died, she said that she was always so lucky. A good name and a good face even the two most powerful women in the palace are facing themselves. How lucky, what a smooth sail. In the eyes of outsiders, Li Shenlan has come all the way to today and has become the concubine of Daqi. But no one knows how much helplessness and sadness there is behind this.
"Niangniang's temperament is so good, if it were for me to look at a face that I used to be loved by the emperor, I am afraid that even if I don't die, I will be disgusted and sleepless all night."
Li Shenlan said as she took a handkerchief to wipe the spiritual position for Empress Rensi, she could always dream of Empress Rensi these days. is still kind and kind, still gentle and considerate. She persuaded herself not to stick to the dead corner, and wasted her life in vain; She hopes that she can live well and live well with her blessings.
"But even you don't want to forgive the emperor, let alone me?"
Li Shenlan burst into tears with a wry smile, thinking that she had nothing to do with the palace, but in the end she was going to be buried here. Tears slid down her cheeks like pearls with broken threads, crackling and splashing on her hands, on Empress Rensi's spirit card.
"I remember the first time I entered the palace, I felt that this palace was magnificent but also majestic and unkind. The palace wall is so high, and I don't know how many people have spent a lifetime trying to climb but can't climb out.
I came in without a trace of hope, I originally wanted to come over like this for the rest of my life, but I got hope when I met my mother and sister, and then the emperor told me that the country of this great Qi is not worth my smile.
I believed it, and now I think about it, it's really stupid and pitiful. My sister is right, the emperor only has the throne and the country in his heart, and if I really pay my feelings, it is really not worth it. ”
Li Shenlan put Empress Rensi's spiritual position back in its place and sighed weakly.
"I've been having nightmares these days, dreaming that my father and mother came to me with Sheng Ping and said that my time was running out, and it was time to take us away. In fact, I also knew in my heart, as early as when I knew who my face looked like, and the days should come to an end.
I thought about killing the emperor to avenge my father's mother, and I could even take a bad breath for my mother. But when it came time to dance with a knife and a gun, I still couldn't make up my mind. I can't kill him, but I can't live so aimlessly, he wants to compensate me, but more than that, he just wants to compensate you.
You must be unwilling, I can't enjoy what belongs to you, and I can't live shamelessly with a trace of guilt from the emperor. So, ah, I can't live...... But it also has to make the emperor suffer something.
The emperor cares about this face and this person who lives in the world for you. The more he cares about his concubine, the more he won't let him get his wish, and I am willing to force him to kill me, and live in our guilt for the rest of my life.
Niangniang, don't care about my cruelty, I'm not a person who is easily bullied, even if it's the emperor......"
When Li Shenlan went back, she saw that many guards in the palace had been transferred to guard the palace gate, and she heard that Yin Chen's long silence had angered the people after all. Some bold people even if they die will push open the palace gate and give Li Shenlan death.
When a person who is not afraid of death appears, there will be more needless life and death rebels behind him.
Li Shenlan knows this truth, and Yin Chen knows it even more.
On the same day, the Emperor of Great Qi issued an edict announcing to the world that he would be executed at the five execution grounds three days later, and the demon concubine Li Shenlan would be beheaded for public display.
After Li Shenlan went back, she rushed back to harvest autumn and the girls, and even let her guard this Luo Bai no longer. When Hou Zhong came over to announce the decree, Li Shenlan was calm and terrifying, as if he had already known this ending. Concubine Xiang wanted to come to see her, and even prepared a drama of exchanging a tanuki for the prince, but Li Shenlan bit it to death and didn't see it, but she just gave the sachet given to her by Queen Rensi and handed it to Concubine Xiang.
It's night, Li Shenlan's life is passing bit by bit, there is no moon in the sky tonight, and I don't want to see the sentimental face of the beauty when I think about the moon. Li Shenlan smiled bitterly, and the frolicking sound of the night watch guards eating and drinking came to her ears.
Yin Chen finally chose Daqi, and the lily of the valley finally couldn't bloom for four seasons.
The moment the hairpin cut through his wrist, the pain gnawed at Li Shenlan's heart like an ant. She remembered Li Mingyue's death at the beginning, maybe she was a little more senseless and more calm than herself.
Blood is life at the moment, silently but speeding up to leave Li Shenlan's body. The self who was originally sitting gradually felt powerless, relying on the only trace of consciousness Li Shenlan lay calmly on the bed, her hands hanging on the side of the bed, she listened quietly, listening to the sound of blood droplets falling to the ground.
The eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and Li Shenlan obviously felt that her eyes were beginning to turn white. The dilation of her pupils made her vision more and more blurred, and her father's voice echoed in her ears. They called round hands and opened their hands to hug the child they had been thinking about day and night. The pain in her hand gradually dissipated, and Li Shenlan hooked the corners of her mouth, but she had expectations in her heart.
Bye.
The people outside the palace didn't know what was happening, they only knew that the osmanthus flowers that were still in full bloom that night had all withered overnight, and even the green leaves of those osmanthus trees had turned yellow.
Li Shenlan died, desperate and self-confessed in prison.
When the news reached the outside of the palace, the people cheered for a while, as if Li Shenlan had assassinated not the emperor but their closest relatives.
Concubine Xiang was the first to rush to the cell, Li Shenlan was covered with a white cloth, but when she opened it, she saw that her face was serene, and she even had a smile. She lay still, in a most dignified posture, so deeply asleep, only that she would never wake up again.
"That's how you keep vigil on weekdays!"
Concubine Xiang shouted helplessly with red eyes and said that the vigil was a jailer, but everyone knew that it had no effect except to vent the anger in her heart.
The blood-stained lily of the valley hairpin that Li Shenlan was holding before she died was angrily thrown in front of Yin Chen by Concubine Xiang, and Yin Chen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, didn't even move, but shed a tear at the moment after Concubine Xiang left.
The tears fell on the painting on the table, and the people couldn't see the faces of the characters on the paintings clearly, but they just saw that the figure was somewhat similar to Li Shenlan, and the name next to it was Liu Shan.
The flowers in the Lilan Hall are gone, and the fragrance of the flowers remains in the world, but the flowers have followed her as a young man......