"The slave maid has no intention, and I hope that the princess will forgive her sins!" Xiaolian trembled and kowtowed and cried.

Qi Wangshu looked at Liang Huanqing holding Yu Jue so uncomfortable, and she felt bad, she stepped forward and comforted: "Huanqing, the deceased, don't be sad anymore, it hurts your body." ”

After speaking, he looked at Xiaolian again, with a little disgust in his eyes: "My Fengyang Pavilion can't keep a person like you, Qingyin, talk to the Internal Affairs Office, and expel this maid from the palace with twenty canes!" ”

"Yes." Qing Yin curtsied in agreement.

Xiaolian originally thought that she could get back some of the rewards they were looking for by the Jade Jue, after all, she was in the deep palace, and it was useless to hold the Jade Jue, but she didn't expect Jiang Yi to die because of this.

Xiaolian stared at Liang Huanqing and Qi Wangshu with wide eyes in astonishment, and after hearing the punishment that the princess gave herself, she kept kowtowing on the ground and crying: "The princess spares her life, the princess spares her life!" The princess, please let the slave stay in the palace, the slave has no father and mother, and there is nowhere to go out of the palace! ”

Qi Wangshu didn't listen to this, and was about to get on the soft sedan chair and leave, Liang Huanqing grabbed her and said to her: "Princess, please spare her, now that wars are frequent, it must be difficult to make a living outside the palace, so the cane scolds twenty to give her a long memory, don't expel her from the palace." ”

Liang Huanqing was about to leave, but when she heard Xiaolian say that she left the palace without a father or mother and had no support, she felt compassion.

Qi Wangshu looked back at Liang Huanqing, and saw that she had the intention to do so, so he didn't pursue it anymore: "Okay, Qingyin, just do what Princess Jing says." ”

After speaking, he looked at Xiaolian and said, "If you do this again in the future, let this princess know, and she will definitely not be able to spare you." ”

"Yes, the slave is guilty." Xiaolian kowtowed in horror to thank her, then knelt down beside Liang Huanqing, looked up at her, and said, "The princess is very kind, and the slave maid is remembered." ”

Liang Huanqing glanced at her, didn't say anything, and got into the soft sedan chair with the help of Qingyin.

At this time, the sky was not yet dawn, the palace door had not been opened, and Liang Huanqing had no place to live in the palace, so he had to follow Qi Wangshu back to Fengyang Pavilion.

Qing Yin saw that the two masters were sitting firmly, so he waved his hand: "Get up the sedan chair." ”

Qi Wangshu and Liang Huanqing's soft sedan chair walked side by side, Qi Wangshu looked at Liang Huanqing with a sideways face, only to see that she didn't say a word, staring at the jade left by Jiang Yi in her hand expressionlessly, and she felt very uncomfortable.

"Huanqing, I know that my father's execution is not as good as yours, but you have also seen that my father is now clearly biased towards Lu Huiling, and my mother and I have no choice. The matter has come to this, don't be depressed like this anymore, as long as you wait until the imperial brother and General Liang come back, Lu Huiling will not dare to be so arrogant. After the emperor's brother returns to Beijing, he is a hero who has made meritorious contributions, and my father will definitely treat you well. Qi Wangshu looked at Liang Huanqing with a worried face, and said bitterly.

Liang Huanqing listened to Qi Wangshu's words, tears fell unconsciously, and fell on Yu Jue, she whimpered and cried and couldn't speak, only rubbing Yu Jue with her hand helplessly.

Qi Wangshu was even more worried when he looked at her, and couldn't help but complain about Lu Huiling: "Lu Huiling is really lawless, lock you up and don't say anything, and force Jiang Yi to death in front of you." That's not true! The father is really eccentric, this person has all the evidence, but it is just a simple house arrest and a fine! ”

"It's not... It's not..."Liang Huanqing heard Qi Wangshu say this, as if she recalled some uncomfortable memories, she remembered the appearance of Jiang Yi crashing to death in front of her, and remembered the words that Jiang Yi was lying on the ground with his back to her before he died, and still thought of it in pieces, she always felt that Jiang Yi was verbose in the past, but now she wants to hear it but can't hear it anymore.

She shook her head and cried, as if in repentance: "It's not like that..."

Qi Wangshu saw Liang Huanqing muttering something, but she couldn't hear it clearly, so she hurriedly asked, "What?" Huanqing, what are you talking about? ”

Liang Huanqing couldn't help it, she couldn't help but repent in her heart, she looked at Qi Wangshu with teary eyes, and whimpered: "Jiang Yi... Jiang Yi committed suicide by herself, in order to help me exonerate Lu Huiling, she was worried that the emperor would pursue me for doing it to Lu Huiling, so she crashed to death in the side hall, so that everyone would not pursue me... It's me... I killed Jiang Yi. ”

Qi Wangshu's eyes widened in astonishment after hearing this, she didn't expect Jiang Yi to have such a deep affection for Liang Huanqing that she could end her life in order to exonerate her.

"Jiang Yi doesn't have to do this..."Qi Wangshu sighed regretfully.

In fact, they all know very well, Liang Huanqing is Liang Fengmian's daughter, and now she is Qi Jingqin's princess, both of them are now the honor guards of the Celestial Empire, Rao is Liang Huanqing really did something rebellious, as long as it is not too excessive, the emperor will not pursue it too much, at most he will suffer some when it happens.

But Jiang Yi didn't know, she always thought that Liang Huanqing, as Princess Jing, should always be high, although before becoming the princess, she was also the eldest lady who was in the limelight, when Jiang Yi saw Liang Huanqing being locked up in the side hall with her, she was anxious.

Jiang Yi didn't know what happened in the past, and always looked at her stupidly, but she knew in her heart that Lu Huiling was able to be favored entirely because she looked like Empress Mingxian.

But no one knows how much the emperor owes to Empress Mingxian.

Jiang Yi only knew that Empress Mingxian died that year, and the emperor was rarely absent from an early dynasty, Jiang Yi was on an errand in Jingwangfu that year, and looked at Jingwangfu, which was also covered with a white cloth, and thought something had happened.

This is a battle that has never been fought at the time of the death of the Queen Mother.

Obviously it is the golden autumn of October, but the whole Shangjing City seems to have suddenly fallen a heavy snowfall, the imperial city unloaded the bright yellow that symbolizes the glory, took off the festive red lanterns, and each palace was draped in white cloth to send the funeral of Empress Mingxian.

The emperor personally wrote an edict for her, personally sent her into the imperial mausoleum, and the whole city ordered the women and concubines to kneel on both sides of the imperial mausoleum and cry, the cry resounded in the sky, Jiang Yi swept the floor in the palace, and could hear a whimper from the imperial mausoleum.

Jiang Yi watched Liang Huanqing being imprisoned in the side hall by Lu Huiling, and always wondered if the emperor would punish Liang Huanqing for Lu Huiling, and at the same time, he couldn't stop blaming himself in his heart, if he hadn't gone out of the Yichun Palace to find Yujue, then things wouldn't have reached this point.

Jiang Yi was afraid of death, and even if she was accidentally pressed by a heavy object, she would hurt for a long time, and she would talk for a long time, but she wanted to exchange her insignificant life for Liang Huanqing's reputation, and she couldn't let herself be humiliated by Princess Jing.

She thought about it for a long time, and finally died in the side hall, when she was lying in a pool of blood, saying innocuous words, but thinking in her heart that she had died as she deserved. ended this short but fortunate life.

Liang Huanqing's heart was very painful, Jiang Yi didn't need to die at all, but she crashed to death in the side hall in order to protect her reputation, what use did Liang Huanqing want this reputation to, she was originally rude and willful, and she always was.

But Jiang Yi didn't want the emperor to mistakenly think that Liang Huanqing was arrogant and domineering, and wanted to use his own blood to whitewash her.

"It's me... It's me who is sorry for her. Liang Huanqing's heart hurt so much that he bent down, put Yu Jue in his heart, and hugged him tightly.

"Huanqing... You don't have to blame yourself, it should be Lu Huiling who should blame yourself and regret that you can't sleep at night, if it weren't for her, Jiang Yi wouldn't have died, and you wouldn't be so sad. Qi Wangshu patted Liang Huanqing's shoulder and said softly.

Liang Huanqing thought about Jiang Yi's smile before his death, and the way he chattered around him, he couldn't help but feel very distressed, and only hoped that Jiang Yi could vote for a good family in the next life, not to be a slave in the high-ranking official compound, and to be stable and happy all his life, it was best to be so talkative, and he could find someone who was willing to listen to her for the rest of his life.

"Where will Jiang Yi be buried?" Liang Huanqing asked.

"My father said that Jiang Yi would be buried in a first-class female official system, so I think I would come to the mausoleum outside the city, where there are palace maids and eunuchs who have contributed to the royal family." Qi Wangshu thought for a while and said.

"Can you be buried in the Liang family's mausoleum?" Liang Huanqing regarded Jiang Yi as his sister, Jiang Yi died for her, and should be buried in the Liang family mausoleum and enjoy the incense of the Liang family for generations.

Qi Wangshu looked at Liang Huanqing, speechless for a while, she didn't expect Liang Huanqing to be such a person who values love and righteousness, and thought that her imperial brother married Liang Huanqing to stabilize his foundation, so she secretly felt unworthy for Liang Huanqing.

"Go back and talk to the Internal Affairs Office, let them send someone to send Jiang Yi's body to the Liang Mausoleum." Qi Wangshu looked at Liang Huanqing and said.

Liang Huanqing cried and nodded, and when he touched the jade jue in his hand again, he suddenly felt that the jade jue had a temperature, thinking that Jiang Yi had a spirit in the sky, and when she heard that she treated herself so well, she wanted to say something on her feet.

The soft sedan chair walked for a while, and finally stopped in front of Fengyang Pavilion.

Qi Wangshu and Liang Huanqing stepped off the soft sedan together, Qi Wangshu said to Liang Huanqing: "It's not early, I'll ask Qingyin to clean up a dormitory and come out, you go wash up, there are blood stains in your hair..."

Liang Huanqing nodded, as if she had accepted the fact that Jiang Yi had died, so she no longer complained, she followed the palace maid to the soup spring to bathe and wash away all the bad luck today.

Qi Wangshu stood alone in the courtyard of Fengyang Pavilion, looking up at the stars in the sky, but he didn't know what he was thinking...

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After the emperor Mei Guifei and the others left, Xu Lan hurriedly called the palace maids and eunuchs to clean up the mess, and the side hall full of blood stains was cleaned by them over and over again with water, and a few banners were found to seal it.

Xu Lan took advantage of the fact that the eunuchs and palace maids were cleaning the courtyard, so she hurriedly went to Concubine Ming's bedroom to wait for her to rest.

As soon as Xu Lan pushed the door open, she saw that there were porcelain fragments all over the ground, and then she looked at Concubine Ming, sitting on the edge of the bed with her breath, thinking that this mess was caused by Concubine Ming's mother.