Qihua, who escaped the catastrophe by luck, did not feel a trace of guilt at all, but was complacent for the rest of her life, and only poor Sai Wan was a scapegoat in a daze. After marrying Xi Yi, it is also a harmonious husband and wife, although Xi Yi's appearance is rough, his mind is first-class and delicate, and he takes care of Sai Yi meticulously, and occasionally some small surprises can always match Sai Yi's mind. It's just that when she thought that the ordeal of her life was finally over, she could keep this happiness well, especially when she just learned that she was pregnant and had no time to tell Xi Yi. The butcher's knife was approaching, and she was dead. That night, when she was secretly smiling while looking forward to Xi Yi's appearance when she knew the good news, a person sneaked into her room from the window, although the person was masked, she could judge from the person's figure that he was a eunuch, and someone in the palace wanted to kill her. Before she could open her mouth to call for help, the man slammed her unconscious, then pried her mouth open and fed him Hedinghong, and after confirming that Sai had died, he left a confession under the corpse and left through the window.

Ying'e heard her brother say that when she rushed to the inn, Sai Wan had already committed suicide, and the confession had been checked for correct handwriting, but she was found to be pregnant during the autopsy. When Ying'e heard that Sai Wan was pregnant, she suddenly felt a sense of pain and sympathy, and the love that she had grown up with since childhood seemed to resurface in front of her little by little, and there were images of her every day in her childhood. Ying'e insisted on coming to the inn in the north of the city despite the obstruction of Princess Beixiang, because although Sai Jian was a criminal, she was the general's wife, so she did not move directly to Yizhuang, waiting for the Xi family to send someone to collect the body.

Ying'e helped Aunt Qiu into the room, and watched Sai Wan lying quietly on the bed, as if she was not very painful, the girl who served her had been taken away for interrogation, and there was not even anyone in the empty room who was mourning for her. Ying'e unconsciously shed tears, "Now you should know who you served wrong?" ”

Aunt Qiu saw Ying'e's grief and persuaded hoarsely, "Queen, be careful of your body, you are still in the middle of the month." ”

As he was talking, Yuan Kuan entered from the outside and asked for peace, "Queen, why did you come here with this golden body, let me send you back to the house." ”

Ying'e nodded, "Let Bodhi not investigate, this matter is because she Erta Sai has too much hatred for this palace, since she has confessed her guilt, this palace doesn't want to investigate further." Let her maid go, at least one person cried for her, following the palace for so many years, it was too lonely when she left. ”

Yuan Kuan carefully glanced at Ying'e's expression, and saw that there was pity in her eyes, so he was sure that Ying'e didn't want to check again, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, "The queen is merciful, and she can be so generous to those who hurt the prince, and it is a blessing for the country to have a mother like you in my Great Wei." The minister will do it, and the minister will have one more thing to do today, that is, the emperor ordered the minister to personally send the queen back to Luoyang for recuperation, and the emperor still has an edict. ”

Ying'e listened to Yuan Ziyou's message, so she was about to kneel down to receive the order, but was supported by Yuan Kuan, "Queen, the emperor said that this is a husband and wife, and the queen can stand and listen." Yuan Kuan saw Ying'e get up, and then said, "The emperor said, I miss you, just these three words." ”

Ying'e smiled coldly, "Concubine Xie Emperor." If those three words were before, they would be as warm as the warm sun in autumn, and now I can't tell how much of the truth of this sentence is. So many things have happened, Ying'e has completely understood Yuan Ziyou's heart, that hatred has made him a pawn on his chessboard, when he throws her down, he is to contain Er Zhurong, there are more and more chess pieces in this game, and when he can form an encirclement, he will be an outcast. Thinking of this, Ying'e became more and more tight, she endured it to her bedroom, she could no longer control her crying, crying heartbreakingly, it was mourning the loss of her love.

Aunt Qiu saw Ying'e grieving so much, and stepped forward to support her in distress, and said with relief, "Queen, you can't grieve too much, it's not good for your body." ”

Ying'e asked sadly, "He misses me, hehe, how true is this now?" Why did your voice suddenly become hoarse, this palace asked you many times, but you didn't say a word. Do you really think Hongu can't guess? There is no one to trust in this palace, and there is no one around him for a long time, what else does he want, he sent you to serve this palace, isn't it just for you to monitor this palace? You went from being a little silent at the beginning, to finally being willing to confide in the palace and enlighten the palace, but it was so coincidental that you caught the wind and cold, and your voice was dumb. Let Bengong guess, you should be poisoned and dumb, right, why did you spare you again? Are you afraid that you won't be able to describe Hongu's every move to him know? ”

Aunt Qiu shook her head painfully, and her low voice was eager to explain everything, "No, no, the queen, the emperor arranged for the slave maid to serve the queen because the slave maid has few words, and she has been in the palace for a long time, so she can take care of the queen." The slave and maid had a hoarse voice, but it was not anyone who wanted to poison the slave and maid, it was the slave and the maid who did it themselves. Because in this palace, only by not speaking can you keep the master's secret, and if you don't speak, you can save your life. ”

Ying'e heard the voice of Aunt Qiu's words, and she asked, "What secrets do you need to protect in this palace, and who wants your life?" ”

Aunt Qiu looked directly into Ying'e's eyes that wanted to see through everything, and replied affirmatively, "The queen only needs to remember one thing, it is the emperor who wants to protect the queen in this palace, and there are other people who want to harm the queen." The slave maid was personally sent by the emperor to serve the queen, as long as the queen who can protect the queen and the slave and maid are desperate to do it, the queen will get better in the future if she loses now. Queen, you just have to believe the words of the slave, and one day you will understand everything. ”

"What do you know, how much have you hidden from this palace? What will be better in the future, and how much has the palace been calculated by the emperor? Ying'e yelled hysterically, grabbed Aunt Qiu's collar, and wanted to ask everything she wanted to know, but this slave was not loyal to her, looking at Aunt Qiu's expression that she didn't want to say a word, Ying'e sat down on the ground in frustration, pointing out the door, "You go, this palace doesn't need you to serve, after returning to the palace, where are you coming and going, this palace doesn't need people like you to serve." Isn't your family here in Jinyang, this palace will let you out and reunite with them. ”

Aunt Qiu shuddered her lips, swallowed the words on her lips again, she fell to the ground with five bodies, and bowed to Ying'e three times, "Queen, the slave is not worthy of serving you, the slave and the maid thank the queen for her care, and the slave and maid will not be rewarded." Before Aunt Qiu stepped back, she suddenly remembered something and said, "Did the queen ever remember Li Guang'an in Pujia Palace back then, that child is now in the Shen Penal Division, and has been thinking about the queen's good with the slave maid." ”

Ying'e looked at her with empty eyes and said coldly, "Is there anyone in this palace who can be trusted?" First it's Sai Xuan, then Qi Xuan, and now it's you, which is not the palace sincerely, and you are more worried about the palace. This seems to be a satire of Aunt Qiu, but it is even more sarcastic about her own poor employment, the three most intimate palace maids, each with a ghost in their hearts, but they are all calculating her.

Aunt Qiu sighed and reluctantly left, this hall where only Ying'e was left seemed to be more and more empty, the flickering candle flame illuminated the wall coldly, Ying'e looked at her own shadow on the wall, and sketched Yuan Ziyou's appearance on the side of the shadow with her fingers. She muttered, "Your Majesty, did Ying'e do the right thing to help you ascend to the throne back then?" Or did it wrong. Loneliness and coldness made her feel depressed, no one in the huge palace could be trusted, and the people around her repeatedly betrayed, she had no one to talk to. Her heart was bitten by an insect, and it hurt heartbreakingly but indescribably the pain, and she missed the child she had just lost, the one who had just given her hope but plunged her deeper into darkness.

Ying'e sat like this all night, crying all night, but she didn't know that Gu Ronghua was standing outside the hall and accompanied her for a night. arranged for Aunt Qiu to leave the house for her, and sent a maid named Li Xuan to serve her in grooming, and after everything was arranged, she left quietly.

Frustrated, Ying'e didn't notice what was so special about this new girl, and she let this girl dress up like a puppet. Li Xuan is different from those palace maids who are submissive, she saw Ying'e's lonely expression, and took the initiative to say, "Queen, the slave maid used to hear a high monk say that if the heart does not move, the body will not move, and if it does not move, it will not hurt, if the body is injured, it is the heart that is moved." ”

Ying'e slowly came back to her senses when she heard this, looking at the little girl who was only a teenager in the mirror who was dressing up for herself, she had a delicate appearance, bright eyes, and generous manners, she recalled the words that this girl had just said, "Which monk said this?" ”

Li Xuan saw Ying'e asking herself, and replied seriously, "Queen Mother, this is when the slave maid's grandfather's family was killed, when the slave maid was in trouble, he escaped from meeting an idiot in Yong'an Temple, these words were said by him when the slave maid was sad, and the slave and maid were not sad after hearing it." ”

It turned out that this little girl named Li Xuan was only sixteen years old, and her grandfather was Li Daoyuan, the secretary of the Ministry who was killed by Xiao Baochun of the Southern Qi Imperial Family, and her father was Li Zhongyou, the second son of Li Daoyuan. In the Yinpanyi Pavilion that year, Li Daoyuan and his younger brother Li Daojun, Li Daobo, the eldest son Li Boyou, the second son Li Zhongyou were killed, Li Xuan was rescued by a group of villagers and has been hiding in Tibet, in the spring of the first year of Wutai (528), after the recovery of Chang'an, Li Daoyuan was moved back to Luoyang for burial, in order to take revenge, she quietly followed the burial team back to Luoyang incognito, and went to various palaces as a maid to inquire about the news. Finally on an errand in the Runan Palace, because of Yuan Yue's irritable temperament, he scolded the concubine with a cane at every turn, and one day a side concubine named Yunyan accidentally broke a vase, and was beaten almost crippled, and the stick sores worsened after being bedridden for more than a month, and almost died. When the news reached the ears of the Empress Dowager Hu, the Empress Dowager Hu was furious and sent Yuan Yi to come and reprimand him in person.

It was at this time that Li Xuan learned that his grandfather and his whole family were killed by Yuan Hui and Yuan Yue with a knife, and it was because these two people were jealous of Li Daoyuan that they tried their best to instigate Empress Dowager Hu to appoint Li Daoyuan as the ambassador of Guanyou to spy on Xiao Baochun. Xiao Baokun, who didn't know the truth, thought that the imperial court wanted to calculate himself, and was even more jealous of Li Daoyuan, so he sent Guo Zihui to surround Li Daoyuan in the Yinpan Pavilion at the instigation of Yuan Yue, and finally killed him, and then pretended to collect the body of Li Daoyuan, and the court said that he was killed by a white thief.

Knowing the truth, Li Xuanzheng had no countermeasures, and the occurrence of the Heyin Change, she seemed to see hope, in this era of the supremacy of imperial power, only a hero like Er Zhurong dared to kill his clansmen, oppose the imperial power, and even play the emperor in the palm of his hand. But because of his cleverness and tenacity, he stood out when Gu Ronghua chose the palace maid for Ying'e, and was favored by Gu Ronghua, and then sent to Ying'e's side after being decided by Princess Beixiang. This is an opportunity she has been waiting for for many years, she has to rely on Ying'e to complete her revenge step by step, but after experiencing so many betrayals, Ying'e will no longer trust people easily, so she told Ying'e her life experience and inventory at the first sight.

After listening to Li Xuan's account, Ying'e smiled bitterly, "So you want this palace to help you take revenge?" Do you want to use Hongu too? Do you know that Hongu wants to kill you now? ”

Li Xuan looked at Ying'e fearlessly, she had paid attention to Ying'e's life, and knew that Ying'e was a person who had no opinion on love, but was kind to her subordinates, "Queen, if you want to kill the slave maid, the slave maid can cut it off on her own, and she will never tarnish the name of the queen's virtuous mother." It's just the queen's mother, the slave and maid are the ones who survive, but the life of the ants, after the death of the grandfather and father, the slave and the maid once thought that she was just a weak woman, how to find the two princes and Xiao Baochun to take revenge. But as soon as the slave and maid closed their eyes, they saw the tragic situation of that day, the pain of bereavement, and the slave and maid could not get over. Throughout his life, my grandfather admired education and strict government, so he offended many dignitaries. When the King of Chengyang framed the King of Guangyang to attack Xian Yu Xiuli, he wanted to rebel, but it was his grandfather who tried to show the truth, and the King of Guangyang Zhaoxue, but his grandfather was hated by the King of Chengyang. The king of Runan favored Qiu Nian and made him the master of the election of the governor, and his grandfather corrected him and reported his testimony to the court to report the king of Runan, and the king of Runan held a grudge. The death of his grandfather was caused by a traitor, and Xiao Baochun even took away his grandfather's life's work "Water Jing Note". The slave maid did not dare to ask the queen to help the slave maid avenge, the slave maid just wanted to ask the queen to take the slave maid into the palace, now the king of Runan is in Nanliang, and the king of Chengyang is still in Luoyang, he is cautious, and then does not recruit new servants, and the slave maid can not enter the Chengyang palace, so he switched to the Taiyuan palace. ”

After listening to her narration, Ying'e raised her cheeks with interest and asked, "Do you want to assassinate him when he enters the palace?" You are the slave of this palace, don't you want to involve this palace? ”

Li Xuan saw that Ying'e's expression was not so refusal, and knowing that she had a chance, she explained urgently, "The queen can rest assured, although the slave maid is vengeful, she will never affect the queen." The slave maid just wanted to enter the palace to find the report of the grandfather to the Empress Dowager Hu, and then find the relevant person according to the description in it, and announce the crimes of the two of them to the world, so that the emperor can return justice to our Li family. ”

Ying'e pondered for a while and smiled faintly, "So you chose this palace, after being betrayed one after another in this palace, you appeared, making this palace feel that it can only be used by others?" ”

"No, the queen mother, you should know who the idiot master is, he believes in slaves, so the queen can also trust the slave and maid, although the slave and the maid have a plan, but they are loyal to the queen. The queen needs a confidant to serve you, and the slave and maid are not only willing to recommend themselves, but the queen is the first to look forward. Li Xuan's eyes were firmly expressed to Ying'e.

Ying'e helped her up, "Okay, the people who believe in King Qinghe, this palace also believes in it, this palace is willing to help you, and you will also do things well for this palace in the future." But your surname is too eye-catching, otherwise I'm afraid that if you haven't avenged Lord Li, you will cause disaster yourself, and you will be called Fuzhi in the future. ”

Li Xuan was grateful to Ying'e for taking her in, and cried and kowtowed to her three times, "Fuzhi Xie Empress Niangniang gave her name." ”

Ying'e looked at her faint cage smoke in the mirror and frowned, her eyes were full of anger, and she looked sad and depressed and a little sickly. "I'm going back to the palace today, how can I go to see the emperor in this sick state of the palace." As soon as the words came out, he felt inappropriate, but he didn't expect that his first thought was that he didn't want Yuan Ziyou to see his sick face, was he resentful of him? She couldn't help but feel sad, and the wings of her nose began to redden.

Fuzhi, who was standing behind Ying'e, observed from the mirror, she gently shook a peony for Ying'e's hairpin, and swept the peach blossom powder for her cheeks, and immediately Ying'e's complexion was much better, "The queen is going to say goodbye to her wife in a while, and she is going to say goodbye to Concubine Zheng, and the color on this face must be bright." The tired face can only be seen by the emperor, so that he can know the general situation of the queen. ”

Ying'e smiled bitterly, "Do you know why this palace doesn't let them pick their hearts when they eat lotus seeds?" Look at the lotus flower full of ponds, the red has faded, the green is still remnant, and the color of the lotus seed heart has not changed, but it is bitter in the heart. Seeing that Fuzhi understood what she meant, she picked up the rouge and smeared it on her lips, and after her makeup was finished, she was a beautiful woman in the mirror, and she was satisfied, "Now it's better to say goodbye to her mother, so that she doesn't have to worry a little." ”