Chapter 18: Nightmares
"Before the will is issued, I am the emperor, and you are the concubine...... Emperor Jianning's left hand slid into the side of Ye Tingfeng's waist, and there was no more pity in his movements, "You, you want to please me." If I'm happy, I will, spare you from dying. ”
Ye Tingfeng looked at the seemingly familiar man in front of him and closed his eyes in despair. She felt that she would not have nightmares anymore, because she lived in nightmares.
Ye Tingfeng was grounded, not only her, but also the minions of the entire Fengyang Palace, all of whom were locked up in the Fengyang Palace.
Every morning, the rough slave will pass in from the foot door to the needs of the day, and once the door is closed, it will be opened again until the next morning.
Emperor Jianning would come occasionally, but there was no more communication with Ye Tingfeng.
The two of them, limited to the joy of the bed, listened to Feng at night as if they had become a tool of Emperor Jianning, came in anger, and returned in anger.
The only thing left to do now is to sit under the peach tree and watch the peach blossoms flutter down.
From early morning to sunset, sitting is a day, as if there is no soul.
Wen Qing still didn't know why Emperor Jianning and Ye Tingfeng were so awkward, she didn't understand that the two of them slept together almost every night, and what they had to say was not clear.
In the early morning of February 27 in the fourth year of Jianning, Yao Yuan walked in from outside the hall, and listened to Feng Feng with an indifferent expression while reading on the beauty couch, "Master, the slave just inquired, General Xie has pulled out the camp......
Ye Tingfeng slowly put down the book in his hand, said a faint word, got up and entered the dormitory.
"Master!" As soon as Ye Ting Feng took a step, Litmus ran in from outside, raised his clenched little hand and said, "Master, give you this ......."
Xie Yuanxing's 200,000 troops were camped, and Emperor Jianning's government was even busier.
Empress Qin was pregnant and weak, and Ye Tingfeng was grounded in the Fengyang Hall in the name of being seriously ill, and Madame Yu was naturally in charge of the entire harem.
Empress Qin was unwilling to be held by Mrs. Yu in this way, so she discussed with Emperor Jianning, promoted Mrs. Wen Zhaoyi, and took the position of the first palace of Yaohua Palace, and took care of the affairs of the harem with Mrs. Yu.
Not only that, Empress Qin also proposed that during the period when Ye Tingfeng was unwell, Liu Zhaorong would act as an agent for all matters in Yijing Palace.
The things that Empress Qin mentioned were in the heart of Emperor Jianning. The next day, he issued an order to promote Mrs. Wen Zhaoyi's position, and let Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Liu Zhaorong associate Mrs. Yu take care of the harem.
Emperor Jianning's will, Madame Yu invisibly had two more enemies.
Mrs. Wen seems to be silent on weekdays, but she has big ideas in her heart, and her family outside the court is not weak.
At the beginning of the fourth year of Jianning, Emperor Jianning decreed the promotion of a total of six officials, three of whom were members of the Wen family.
If this situation continues, the Wen family's power in the court will soon surpass that of the Liu family.
Liu Zhaorong, not to mention, is the An family behind him jealous?
Madame Yu suddenly discovered that even if she brought Queen Qin down and put the real Princess Zhaoyue in her hand to the back seat, the last person to become the deputy queen was not necessarily herself.
So, Mrs. Yu scattered her wolf-like gaze to Mrs. Wen and Liu Zhaorong.
Just when Empress Qin, Mrs. Yu, Mrs. Wen, and Liu Zhaorong were fighting wits and courage, and when they were tense, Yun Ronghua had an accident.
The imperial heir in Yun Ronghua's womb is already full-term, and it is the day of early March. The palace maids in Yunronghua Palace are waiting for them every day, and the imperial doctors in the imperial hospital are even more at any time.
Yun Ronghua has been very thin in the past two months, and his spirit is even worse, and sometimes he suddenly yells when he looks at his bulging belly.
Finally, Yun Ronghua went crazy.
Yun Ronghua sat on the bed with her hair messy, with white foam hanging from the corners of her mouth, and cotton wool fluttering on her side.
There was a hateful look in her eyes, she held the silver scissors in her hand, and the brocade quilt that was twisted around her lap was twisted one by one, and the delicate skin at the tiger's mouth in her right hand was ground into blood.
She cut the brocade quilt viciously, and said in a low voice, "Kill you, kill you!" ”
When Empress Qin heard the news that Yun Ronghua was crazy, she chuckled in her heart, and hurriedly ordered her henchman Liu Imperial Doctor to diagnose and treat her.
After Imperial Doctor Liu carefully diagnosed, he returned to the Guan Ju Palace and said to Empress Qin, "Your Majesty, please rest assured, Yun Ronghua just can't think about it for a while." ”
What Imperial Doctor Liu said was that he couldn't think about it for a while, not crazy.
Empress Qin only thought about it and understood that Yun Ronghua might be delirious, but she was still far from being crazy.
Afraid that Yun Ronghua would do something while she was crazy, Queen Qin sent a lot of palace maids to Yun Ronghua's palace.
In the blink of an eye, the day came to March 15 of the fourth year of Jianning. The imperial heir in Yun Ronghua's womb has been giving birth for more than ten days in the past.
Queen Qin panicked again, what Yun Ronghua was pregnant with in her womb would not be a stillborn, why didn't she have any signs of giving birth?
It wasn't until Imperial Doctor Liu went to check the pulse again and came back to say that the child in Yun Ronghua's womb was very healthy and was a live fetus, that Empress Qin put her heart down slightly.
As long as you are alive, you will be born sooner or later.
The heir in her womb was eight months old, she could afford to wait, and she had plenty of time to make all preparations.
When all the concubines fell on Yun Ronghua's belly, Ye Tingfeng, who lived in the Fengyang Palace, fell ill.
His face was so white that he could see the veins under his skin, and he lay on the bed all day, not even bothering to move.
I can't eat anything, so I asked Qingming to change the way the small kitchen to eat, and I listened to the maple vomit out at night.
Over the course of a few days, the person had lost a lot of weight, the cheekbones on his cheeks were bulging high, and his chin was thin to a point. But she is in good spirits, and her eyes are shining with a desire for life.
On the evening of March 17 in the fourth year of Jianning, when Emperor Jianning stepped into the Fengyang Hall after an interval of half a month, what he saw was Ye Tingfeng, who was so thin that he had lost his appearance.
Almost subconsciously, Emperor Jianning decided that Ye Tingfeng was on a hunger strike. Because I can't leave the palace, the people in front of me don't even want to live!
The people of the palace put a table of dishes in front of Ye Tingfeng, and Emperor Jianning said fiercely to Ye Tingfeng, "If you starve to death from hunger, all the minions in your hall will follow you to the funeral!" ”
Ye Tingfeng blinked his eyes and looked at Emperor Jianning who was angry in front of him, his expression was very calm.
She wanted to eat, of course she wanted to, but she couldn't.
After a few taps on the table, she secretly put her right hand on her left wrist, feeling her veins slip like balls.
She's pregnant, a month, or two. Because her pulse is messy and her medical skills are not good, she can't be sure how old the child in her womb is. However, there is a small life in the womb, it is certain.
Ye Ting Feng didn't want to say to Emperor Jianning in front of him that her child had nothing to do with him.
Anyway, if he doesn't want it, he doesn't want it in his previous life.
It doesn't matter if Emperor Jianning doesn't want it, she listens to Feng at night.
In the face of Emperor Jianning's anger, Ye Tingfeng reluctantly drank a bowl of white porridge. When Emperor Jianning approached her and stretched out his hands, her stomach swelled, and she contributed everything to Emperor Jianning's placket.
Emperor Jianning stretched out his hands for a moment, and what he heard was Ye Tingfeng's cold words, "Don't touch me." ”
Smelling the sour breath in their noses, the two froze there.
Ye Tingfeng knew that the tone of that sentence was too strong, so she stood up and bowed down to Emperor Jianning, and softened her tone, "The concubine has come to Kwai Shui, so as not to dirty the emperor's body, please also ask the emperor to move." ”
In a submissive attitude, it is all rejection.
Emperor Jianning withdrew his hand frozen in the air, and threw away in anger.
Wen Qing hurriedly came over with a teacup to let Ye Tingfeng rinse his mouth, and said anxiously, "Master, why is your temper so stubborn, can't you tell the emperor that you are sick?" ”
Listening to the taste in Feng's mouth at night, he said to Qingqing, "Didn't I talk to him about it?" I didn't speak loudly, and I was much slower than before. ”
In the past, she would yell when she was unhappy, Wan Yanzhe, you get out of me.
Now, Wan Yan Zhe doesn't exist. So as a concubine, she knows each other very well.
How could Wen Qing not hear the rustiness in Ye Tingfeng's tone, she had never heard Ye Tingfeng call Emperor Jianning the emperor, and rarely heard Ye Tingfeng call himself a concubine to Emperor Jianning.
Emperor Jianning too, Wen Qing hadn't seen him smile softly at Ye Tingfeng for a long time, every time he came, he was angry, and the tone of his voice made people tremble from the bottom of his heart.
Hearing that Feng's stomach was very empty, she put a chopstick sour lotus in her mouth, and after eating it, she felt nauseous.
Forced not to vomit, his face turned pale, and tears appeared in his eyes.
Wen Qing went to touch Ye Tingfeng's back again and again, and said, "Master, please ask the imperial doctor, you can't swallow things like this, and your body will not be able to stand it." ”
Ye Tingfeng shook his head, after inviting the imperial doctor, can she still hide her pregnancy?
Even if Ye Tingfeng didn't want to see the figure of the imperial doctor, the imperial doctor Hua still stepped into the Fengyang Hall on March 19, the fourth year of Jianning.
Facing Imperial Doctor Hua's kneeling congratulations, Ye Tingfeng only asked, "Imperial Doctor Hua, there is a pregnancy in this palace, can you not tell the emperor first?" ”
Imperial Doctor Hua lowered his head and did not reply.
He was ordered by Emperor Jianning to come to Yetingfeng to diagnose his illness, how dare he commit such a crime of bullying the king?
Wen Qing couldn't close her mouth happily, and after Imperial Doctor Hua stepped back, she smiled at Ye Tingfeng Mei and said, "Master, this is a great joy." Why didn't you think you were happy, why didn't you think of this......"
"Ask Qing, you will call in Yuanyuan." Listening to Feng at night, he asked Qing Dao with an indifferent expression.
After Yao Yuan came in, Ye Tingfeng asked him, "You prepared the fireworks I asked you to prepare a few days ago?" ”
Yao Yuan nodded again and again, "Master, although you have been grounded, the queen has been taking care of Fengyang Palace, so the things have already been prepared." ”
Ye Tingfeng stroked his lower abdomen and said indifferently, "Let's put some tonight, I want to watch fireworks." ”
Yao Yuan's eyes showed doubts, Ye heard that Feng didn't smile when he heard that he was happy, why did he suddenly think of setting off fireworks?
It was night, a long roar broke the silence above the Fengyang Palace, and colorful fireworks bloomed in the dark night sky, blooming bright flowers of different shapes.
Ye Tingfeng stood on the steps of the Fengyang Palace, looking up to see those fireworks with their long tails rising in the wind, stopping in the air to bloom the most beautiful moment, and then falling with the wind.
She suddenly felt that these fireworks were the relationship between her and Emperor Jianning.
Unreal, beautiful, dazzling, but in the blink of an eye, it ceases to exist.
Litmus rarely reveals the playful nature of children. She took a stick of incense in her left hand to light the fireworks, then covered her ears and ran away screaming......
The fireworks in the Fengyang Hall fell every three moments, and there were no more brilliant colors in the sky, only the smell of gunpowder remained.
In the middle of the night, as if catering to the bustle in the Fengyang Palace, fireworks were also lit outside the palace.
Although he was far away, Ye Tingfeng, who was in the palace, couldn't see the variety of those fireworks, but he still heard the sounds that shook his heart.
Pursing the corners of his mouth, Ye Tingfeng smiled.
On the night of March 20 in the fourth year of Jianning, fireworks were set off again in the Fengyang Palace.
This time, Ye Tingfeng ordered Yao Yuan to move out all the fireworks in the Fengyang Palace. Fireworks bloom above the Fengyang Palace, gorgeous and colorful.
Suddenly, there was a creak at the courtyard door and it opened.
Xiao Guzi smiled happily, and said to the night while lighting fireworks, "Master, it must be those eunuchs who patrol the night......"
Yao Yuan smiled and said to Ye Tingfeng, "Master, I'm afraid not." If you want to come, you came yesterday......"
Before Yao Yuan's words fell, there were already two little palace maids carrying palace lamps in the darkness, hugging an old woman wearing a jujube palace dress and walking in.
Seeing that mama, Ye Tingfeng lowered his face, and after taking a deep breath of the air full of gunpowder, the silver teeth bit secretly.
This mama, she is too familiar. In the last life, it was this grandmother who sent the abortion medicine and forced her to drink it.
In this life, she is here again.
The grandmother followed the unkind night to hear Feng enter the hall and stopped all the minions outside the hall. She took out the medicine bowl in the food box in her hand and handed it to Ye Tingfeng, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, this is the medicine given by the emperor, and I also ask Mrs. Zhaoyue to drink it early, and the slave and maid can go back to pay the errand." ”
Ye Tingfeng sneered and took the medicine bowl and slammed it to the ground.
With a 'snap', the medicine bowl split in half on the ground, and the medicine juice splashed everywhere.
Before the grandmother in front of her could react, Ye Tingfeng grabbed the scissors used to cut the candle on the table and stabbed it into the throat of the grandmother.
Mama let out a grunt in her throat, a trace of blood foamed from the corner of her mouth, and her eyes widened and fell to the ground.
He is not dead, but he is still breathing, with more breath and less breath.
Ye Tingfeng showed a bloodthirsty smile on her face, she should have killed this old lady in her previous life!
Wen Qing, who heard the sound of broken porcelain, broke into the door, and after seeing what was happening, he swallowed an exclamation in his throat, looked at Ye Tingfeng in horror and asked, "Master, you, what are you doing here?" ”
"What are you not doing?" Ye Tingfeng raised his eyebrows and smiled at Wen Qing, and said the plan that he had planned a month and a half in advance, "That is, burn down the Fengyang Palace." ”“
On the night of March 21 in the fourth year of Jianning, the Fengyang Hall walked on the water, and its firelight reflected half of the sky, and the billowing smoke hovered above the sky for a long time.
The palace people who came to put out the fire gathered outside the Fengyang Palace, and were blocked by the iron general at the courtyard gate.
When they smashed the iron lock and rushed to the Fengyang Palace, the main hall and the side hall of the Fengyang Hall fell to the shelf, and there was no value in saving them.
In the face of choking smoke, they rescued two fainting eunuchs at the door......
As soon as the two eunuchs were pulled out, the Fengyang Hall behind him 'boomed' and collapsed.
In the early morning of March 22 in the fourth year of Jianning, God finally couldn't bear to see this fire burn again, and after a muffled thunder, it rained heavily.
The Fengyang Hall in the heavy rain was surrounded by inky smoke and became a ruined wall.
The fire in Fengyang Hall has become a new topic of conversation among the harem concubines.
Emperor Jianning, who was ill, was furious, and it only took half a day to investigate the reason.
The cause of the fire in Fengyang Hall was the fireworks set off by Mrs. Zhaoyue, which set fire to a dead old tree in Fengyang Palace.
The concubines who lived close to Fengyang Hall had already been noisy by the sound of fireworks. It's good-looking, but for two days, they all have resentment in their hearts.
Now that he learned that Mrs. Zhaoyue had set fire to the Fengyang Palace, and the servants in the Fengyang Palace were buried in the fire in order to protect her, while sighing in his heart, he actually felt a trace of happiness.
On the afternoon of March 22 in the fourth year of Jianning, Emperor Jianning, who was furious, ordered Mrs. Zhaoyue to move to Yijing Palace and be grounded in the Forgotten Worry Palace.
The will does not say how long the grounding will last, but judging from the recent disgrace of Mrs. Zhaoyue and the degree of anger of Emperor Jianning - Mrs. Zhaoyue has fallen out of favor.
In the Guanju Palace, Emperor Jianning, who was wearing a dragon robe, sat on the treasure chair that Empress Qin usually sits, his face was gloomy, there was no trace of blood on his lips, and his eyes were red like bloodthirsty beasts, as if the fire in Fengyang Hall was still burning in his eyes.
Empress Qin stood to the side in fear, she held the arm of the balsam, and her body couldn't help but tremble. His right hand was lightly pressed against his twitching lower abdomen, and his heart was full of fear.
Madame Yu knelt at the feet of Emperor Jianning, no longer arrogant as before, her face was as pale as wax paper. She looked up at Emperor Jianning's face, and with just one glance, she felt as if she had been delayed.
Emperor Jianning's clenched fist tapped the table table beside him, causing the tea cup on the table to collide with the table, making a buzzing sound.
Looking at the two people in front of him for a long time, Emperor Jianning asked softly in the most insipid tone, "You two, why do you have to get along with her again and again." She entered the palace as a princess, how could she hinder you in the slightest? ”
"Your Majesty, the fire in Fengyang Hall is really not the work of the concubines...... "Mrs. Yu shook her head again and again, the hairpin on her bun trembled from side to side, "The concubine didn't, it was Mrs. Zhaoyue who set off the fireworks......
"Do you want to fool me with those things that I say to confuse the public?"
Emperor Jianning's voice could be called soft, but Lady Yu shivered a few times in a row. She climbed forward a few steps with her hands on the ground, and cried to Emperor Jianning, "Your Majesty, it's really not a concubine, the concubine has never thought of harming Mrs. Zhaoyue's life, and the concubine has no ......."
Madame Jade really wanted the fourth princess to take Ye Tingfeng's place, but she didn't think about putting Ye Tingfeng to death.
Initially, she thought that Emperor Jianning in front of her had affection for Ye Tingfeng, and if she did it, she would definitely make Emperor Jianning angry. It is better to leave a way for Ye Tingfeng to live, and it can be regarded as leaving a way out for himself in front of Emperor Jianning.
Later, after knowing that Emperor Jianning had fallen in love with Yeting Feng because of the love Gu, Mrs. Yu felt that there was no need to get rid of Ye Tingfeng, because as long as the love Gu was solved, Ye Tingfeng was not worthy of being her enemy.
But now, she wondered if the fourth princess had solved the Gu for Emperor Jianning, or if Emperor Jianning didn't have a love for Gu at all, and Emperor Jianning's feelings for Ye Tingfeng were true.
Otherwise, how could Emperor Jianning be furious to such an extent after learning that Ye Tingfeng had died.