In the seventh year of Nanse's reign, the winter solstice.

It snowed for several days in a row, and the entire palace was covered in silver, filled with a cold atmosphere.

Hanmei Hall is located in a remote corner of the palace, it used to be the palace of a certain concubine of the first emperor, and then I don't know what crime was committed and was imprisoned in the palace, I heard that it was found by the palace people after many days after death, the death was terrible, and the Hanmei Palace was abandoned since then.

Now, the Hanmei Palace has a temporary owner as the Cold Palace, Queen Jiang, who was recently deposed on the charge of poisoning the prince.

From being abolished to the present, Jiang Yushui has always behaved calmly.

It was snowing heavily that day, and she was preparing for lunch, when the imperial dining room prepared mutton soup, which had been stewed for a long time with many medicinal herbs, and the smell was appetizing.

Before Tang entered, Gonggong Chen, who was beside the emperor, broke into the door with a team of guards, acting arrogantly but with a respectful attitude.

Gonggong Chen didn't seem to expect that she was eating, and his expression was stunned, and then he said: "Queen Mother, you poisoned the prince's life by a thread, and the emperor was furious, and ordered to depose the queen and enter Hanmei Palace." ”

Surprisingly, after hearing his words, Empress Jiang only showed a surprised expression for a moment, then nodded and responded calmly.

“……”

After staring at each other for a moment, Jiang Yushui sighed, "Can you let me finish this meal?" ”

Gonggong Chen's expression was indescribable, "Don't embarrass the slave." ”

More than a dozen guards surrounded her, and although she was unarmed, the momentum was enough to scare all the maidservants in the room to their knees.

Gonggong Chen's attitude was sincere, Jiang Yushui didn't want to embarrass him, but he couldn't let go of the mutton soup in his hand.

After hearing the news that the queen poisoned the prince and angered the emperor and was deposed and assigned to the cold palace, the concubines and maids who came to watch saw the queen's mother, no, it was the abolished queen Jiang, with a big bowl of mutton soup in her hand, followed behind Gonggong Chen, surrounded by more than a dozen guards. In front of everyone's eyes, she walked and drank the mutton soup, and took a sip of the soup and ate a mouthful of meat, which was not elegant.

All:...... I'm afraid the queen is not stimulated to go crazy, right?

No wonder everyone was surprised, Jiang Qiushui's performance has always been the appearance of a standard queen. With good appearance, majestic eyes, just right smile, every move is the demeanor and posture of a superior person, when did you see her walking and eating in front of the public?

The familiar and unfamiliar faces in the past fell into Jiang Qiushui's eyes one by one, she glanced at the past without avoiding it, and with some gloating expressions, she didn't expect her to look directly, and she didn't have time to take it back, and quickly retracted after realizing it, but Jiang Qiushui only glanced at it and turned her head.

They thought about it, this time is different from the past, Concubine Su is now being favored, the Jiang family has long been cleaned up by the emperor, Jiang Wushui has lost the emperor's favor, and there is no backstage, and now she is even deducted for poisoning the prince and abolished, does she still have a chance to turn over?

No way!

Thinking like this, all kinds of eyes are even more unscrupulous.

Jiang Qiushui followed Gonggong Chen all the way to the Hanmei Palace, and finally left only a maidservant for her and left.

The maid's name is Ye Kui, she has been by her side for ten years, and she has been by her side since she married Xia Hao at the age of eighteen.

Now, after the initial surprise, she quickly calmed down and followed Jiang Yushui without saying a word.

The plaque of the palace door is covered with thick dust, and the three words of Hanmei Hall can be vaguely distinguished, the palace is very large, only smaller than her Fengqi Palace, but there is a rotten atmosphere everywhere, and a few trees planted in front of the hall are only dry trunks, and the falling snow bends the branches, as if they will break in the next second.

Seeing that the Hanmei Hall was dilapidated, she said in a low voice: "Wait a minute, the slave maid will go in first and ...... for you."

Jiang Qiushui interrupted her and said, "No need, I won't be able to stay for a few days anyway." ”

Ye Kui paused, looked at her, speechless.

……

The winter solstice is the longest night of the year.

Every day, before dawn, the women of every household get up to make a fire to cook rice balls, first worship the heavens and worship the ancestors, and then the whole family sits around to eat the rice balls.

Eating glutinous rice balls is the custom of the Jiang family, and in addition, some people also eat wontons and the like.

Therefore, in order to take care of the needs of everyone in the entire palace, on this day, when I first arrived in Chou, the imperial dining room was lit up and lively.

In the past few days, Jiang Yushui has not slept steadily, and it is even worse today.

Although she behaves very calmly on weekdays, when she dreams at night, she always dreams of the disappointed faces of her father and mother, dreams of thousands of people in the Jiang family who have been displaced and even lost their lives because of her, dreams of the Meng family who are affected by her, and her best friend...... Meng Xiyun.

There are Shuangshu in the capital, Jiang Wushui, the daughter of the richest man in the south of the city, and Meng Xiyun, the daughter of the right minister in the north of the city.

It stands to reason that they should be incompatible and rival, but they are each other's best friends.

The Meng family has taken the road of Wenchen for generations, but in this generation, Meng Feng, the right minister, only gave birth to Meng Xiyun a concubine and a concubine, the concubine's mother was not in good health, and died after giving birth to him, Meng Xiyun and this younger brother have a good relationship.

Meng Xiyun is very talented in pharmacology and medicine, and he worshipped the medical saint as a teacher at a young age. Jiang Yushui never imagined that one day this would be the reason for her to be implicated.

Just two days ago, Gonggong Chen told her that the poison in the prince was very special, and only Meng Xiyun could make it in the entire capital, and Jiang Yushui sneered at that time.

There is no excuse for the sin that you want to add.

Immediately afterwards, Gonggong Chen said that when the people sent by the emperor found Meng Xiyun, she had already committed suicide by taking poison.

Syllable!

The brush in her hand fell, the ink stuck to her clothes, and she remained motionless, as if frozen.

Jiang Qiushui only felt cold all over her body, and she couldn't stop trembling, but there was a hot breath in her body that rushed straight to her head, her eyes turned black, and she spit out a mouthful of blood.

When I woke up again, it was Ye Kui's distracted face.

She screamed twice, and Ye Kui came back to her senses.

Jiang Qiushui didn't ask her what she was thinking, and calmly asked her to pour water.

Ah Wei, what I owe you and what I owe you can only be repaid in the next life.

After waking up, there was no sleepiness, retracting his thoughts, Jiang Yushui put on a big coat, walked to the window, looked out, and could see the direction of the imperial dining room from a distance.

She thought about it for a while, and then remembered that today was the winter solstice.

The night was even colder, and there was a faint ache in the place where Jiang Qiushui had been seriously injured a few years ago.

The location of the Hanmei Hall is biased, sparsely populated, and she is now a waste queen, so naturally no one cares. In terms of food and clothing, it is not much better than that of ordinary palace maids, and in a hurry that day, I didn't bring any extra clothes, and Dayu is still the one I wear.

She wanted to rub her hands together to warm up, but in the end she could only hold down her trembling right hand with her left hand, shrink back into the big cloud, and look at the heavy snow outside the window.

The root of the disease fell in order to save Xia Hao.

It was the third year she married Xia Hao and became the Seventh Princess, and it was also a snowy night.