Chapter 34: The Dark Tide is Surging
"Prince, the situation is not in your favor now, you have to plan early!" Back in the East Palace, Jiao Nu persuaded Murong Chong.
"What else can I do!" Murong Chong smiled bitterly.
"The crown prince is not wrong, and the queen has no reason to abolish the prince. The emperor will not agree to Yi Chu, this is a fundamental matter that shakes the country! If it really doesn't work, we can still ask King Wu, King Wu has a lot of prestige in the court, if we can let him speak for us, presumably the ministers of the court and the central government will lean towards our side. ”
"Now the queen covers the sky with one hand, and her mother's family is even more powerful. Not long ago, my uncle continued to marry the sister of the former princess, but the queen disagreed, forced him to divorce his wife, and married the daughter of the Kezuhun family. In today's situation, the queen has covered the sky with one hand, and her power is unrivaled. ”
"Zhaoyi Niangniang endured humiliation and died unjustly for His Royal Highness, in order to protect His Highness. Your Highness, don't let your mother die unjustly in vain? Jiaonu said.
"Once the queen gives birth to a prince one day, my death must also come." Murong Chong said.
"Prince, don't say that, maybe the queen's child is a princess. I think Zhaoyi Niangniang will definitely bless us in heaven. Jiaonu looked at the sky and folded her hands on her chest.
It was night, and I was tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep. Once the crown prince is deposed, I, a captive who is regarded as a thorn in the flesh by Murong Xue, will definitely be doomed. The lips were dead and the teeth were cold, and the prince and I unknowingly became grasshoppers tied to a rope. What hurts my heart is that I don't know when I became so close to Murong Xue, thinking of the way I hugged Murong Xue at the banquet that day, my heart felt like a sharp blade. Could it be that they have been in love for a long time, or they are coveting Murong Xue's power and want to stay in this Yan country as a concubine? I don't know how to straighten it out. How I miss the carefree and free days when I was in the Beifu Army.
Listening to Jiaonu, Chen Zong has been awarded the title of second-class guard because of his meritorious service in rescuing the driver at the banquet, which is not good. Since the queen became pregnant, the crown prince has become more and more low-key. I stay in this East Palace every day, bored. Life is like a lake, and you never know how many waves lie beneath the calm surface of the lake.
The prince has recently had a poor appetite and lost weight, and I heard that yam strengthens the spleen and helps digestion and regulates the stomach and intestines. Suddenly, two palace maids came in, saying that they were from the queen's palace and asked me to go to Qixia Palace for questioning. At this time, the prince was not in the palace, and Jiaonu asked the two palace maids if they could wait for the prince to come back. The maid of the palace said: "Niangniang just wants to find this girl to ask a few words, and she will be released back after a while, without waiting for the prince to come back."
"The slave maid should go and tell the prince!" Jiaonu said that she would send someone to invite the prince.
"A little palace maid, dare to disobey the queen's order, even if your prince is here, does the queen's mother have to get the prince's consent to call a slave maid to ask questions?" The palace maid changed her gentle face.
"That's not what the slave meant!" Jiaonu hurriedly knelt down.
"What does that mean? It seems that the prince is young, and it is a little harder to discipline you slaves and maids, and tomorrow I will give Ming Niangniang, and I will definitely send a few capable people to help His Royal Highness the prince **** you! ”
"The slave will go with the two aunts!" For fear that the slave would be punished, I quickly knelt down and agreed.
"Girl, don't!" The slave shook her head at me.
"It's okay, coquettish slave, if I don't resist the order, I'm afraid it will affect the prince, I'll go." I said.
Thinking of me Zang Qing'er, in this Yan Palace, like an ant, no matter who wants to trample on me, it will be easy. If it weren't for the protection of the crown prince, I don't know how many times I would have died. Now I really shouldn't trouble the prince anymore and cause him to bear the sin of great disrespect.
"Girl......" called out to me from behind.
I didn't look back and followed the two palace maids. The two palace maids said "It's quite interesting" and took me to Qixia Palace. But after coming to Qixia Palace, he didn't take me to meet the queen, but locked me in a dark room. There was nothing in the dark room, except for a shrine on a table with a cushion in front of it. They put me on the mat and told me to kneel, and I broke free of them: "Let go of me, I will kneel myself!" The two maids glared at me viciously, then locked the door and went out!
It is now the end of March, the spring is cold, the humidity has not faded, and the dark room is cold and damp. I had just been on my knees for a moment when I was shivering with cold. There was still a glimmer of light in the dark room at first, but it gradually became dark, and it should be that night had fallen. Probably because of the sound of the wind, there was a sound similar to the howl of ghosts and wolves, and only the eyes of the Buddha statue glowed like rubies, which was very scary in the dark. I was timid by nature, and now in this environment, I am even more fearful! I was scared and covered my ears with my hands to avoid the terrible sound, but the sound kept on and spurred my fragile heart. I curled up on the small cushion and muttered, "Go away, go away, don't come to me, don't come to me." "I was shivering from the cold, and because of the intense fear and hunger, I fell on the ground and vomited violently. But no matter how hard I struggled, there was no one around, and no one cared about my life or death.
I can't remember how long I was locked up in this dark room, but I remember the glimmer of light that came in through the crack in the door and went from there to nothing, from nothing, and so on. Until I became paralyzed, I didn't feel cold, I didn't feel hungry. I'm so tired that I want to sleep. In a daze, I felt like I was being held in a warm embrace, and I barely opened my eyes, which was indulgence. I think I'm really going to heaven this time, otherwise how could I have hallucinated like this? Okay, that's it, let me leave with a longing for him! It is also a kind of happiness to die in his arms!