Chapter 57: The Swaddling Cloth
She hadn't slept since last night, leaning her ears against the wall and listening to the sounds outside.
In fact, this is completely redundant for her, and no matter how powerful the affairs of the back garden can be transmitted to her Hidden Pavilion?
Although she didn't listen to anything, she knew that her brother must have succeeded.
At this time, she squinted her eyes like a cat, quietly enjoying the warm feeling of the sun shining on her face.
Since she was young, she has always been in love with him who is not yet the emperor, and at that time she quietly planned to accompany him even if he could not sit on the throne.
It's a pity that her father has a big appetite, not only looking forward to her becoming the queen, but also wanting to swallow the whole country.
She has always known that the Chen family covets the throne, but not only does she not care, but she has also become an accomplice, until now she still thinks that she is not wrong, and thinks that the emperor must forgive her.
There is nothing more tragic about man.
The emperor has been grateful for her kindness in accompanying and helping him for so many years, so he has been good to her for several years. Until the day Yao Chuxi appeared, she felt the crisis and felt that the emperor would not be hers soon.
Later, her father had an accident again, and she begged the emperor for a long time, but the emperor was not moved at all, and finally punished her father heavily.
She hated Yao Chuxi even more, thinking that she had robbed her of everything.
When she saw her brother come in to see her, a vicious seed that had been buried in her heart for a long time sprouted instantly.
Until the end, she put her own interests and hatred first, and did not hesitate to let her brother risk killing Yao Chuxi.
Chen Hongkuan protected his sister when he was a child, so that he used her to lawlessness, so two words of pleading and a few tears made him take the oil and embark on this road that he couldn't take back.
There was no such thing as a charcoal pot and stove for heating in the house, only a wooden bed with some straw on the bed and a layer of mattress on the straw.
There was a hole in the quilt that had covered her, revealing some thin stumps.
She touched the catkins that resembled the feel of cotton and smiled self-deprecatingly.
She once punished an old Shang Gong who was over sixty years old to sleep under this quilt for thirty-nine days, and the temperature in the room was very similar to the current one, or even colder.
Later, the Shang Gong became frostbitten, his legs were severely chilblain, and his hands were not very good.
She punished that Shang Gong to the Huanyi Bureau, and then there was no news of that Shang Palace.
All the pain came back to her.
Although life is not good, she has no heart to die, and any hanging suicide is actually a lie. She wanted the people who took care of her to deceive the emperor, just like she used to deceive the emperor with the word "sick".
On the first day she was imprisoned, Shang Gong, who was guarding her, came in and searched all the offensive things, leaving only a broken bed for her.
This shows that the emperor is reluctant to let her die, she thinks in her heart, so she always clamories to hang herself.
What could she hang herself? Straw in bed? Or what? She can't even die!
At this time, she still didn't understand, the emperor hated her so much that he didn't even let her die, so he let her suffer all her life and let her die here in pain.
The sun only shines in a little, so it's cold and damp in the room.
After the waste, he covered her with the quilt again, and sat in the corner, basking in the sun with her cloak on her head.
Suddenly, the outside door opened.
It doesn't sound right. Thinking to herself, she poked her head out and watched the door of the back room, wondering who had come in.
Usually the people who take care of her open and close the door slowly, not cautiously, but not so suddenly.
The door opened so loudly that the person who heard it open the door was very forceful, and the door hit the wall behind it and bounced back halfway.
What came into her eyes was the person she had been thinking about for so long.
"Your Majesty! Emperor! The concubine asks the emperor for peace! She crawled out of bed and fell to her knees.
Probably worried about her appearance, she quickly brushed her hair and wiped the dirt on her face with the back of her hand.
Seeing that the emperor didn't make a sound, she climbed forward two more steps and gently tugged on the corner of the emperor's clothes, "The emperor is here to release the concubines, right?" The concubine knows that you are reluctant. ”
The emperor's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he raised his foot and kicked at her.
"Your Majesty!" After the abolition, he was kicked on the ground, and quickly knelt down, "But what mistake did the concubine make?" Your Majesty, you believe in your concubines, and your concubines will never do anything wrong in the future! ”
"Wrong? Do you remember how many wrong things you did? The emperor asked in a cold voice.
"Of course the concubine knows, the concubine promises, assures you, never again." Her tears flowed down her face, mingling with the filth, and in a moment they were black water.
"I'm disgusting with you!"
After the abolition, she quickly wiped her face with her sleeve, and climbed two steps towards the emperor, "Your Majesty, the concubine misses you!" The concubine's waist hurts, her chest hurts, she hasn't drunk medicine for a long time, and she feels like she's going to die here! Your Majesty, you're here to let your concubines out, aren't you? ”
"Humph!" The emperor snorted coldly and shook off his clothes, not wanting the woman in front of him to touch her, "Chest pain?" Do you remember how the Queen Mother passed away? She had pain in her chest for half a year, and finally died! ”
The queen was stunned for a while, and did not make a sound.
"Remembered? I thought you forgot! The emperor took two more steps towards her, and she stepped back in fear.
"What the emperor said, the concubines don't understand."
"Don't understand, do you? Then I'm here to remind you! The emperor kicked her again, and she spurted blood directly from the kick.
Pan Zhenan walked over from the side, took a clean handkerchief and wiped the emperor's shoes.
"I really hate you, the Queen Mother is my mother, how can you bear it!"
"I didn't!" After the waste raised her head violently, there was still blood at the corner of her mouth, and her cloak looked like a demon.
The emperor didn't speak, just looked at her coldly.
"No, the concubine, the emperor, you believe in the concubine, the concubine loves you so much, how can you attack the person closest to you?" After the abolition, he climbed to the emperor's feet and reached out to hug the emperor's legs.
"Yes, she's my dearest." The emperor looked up at the roof of the shed, held back his tears, lowered his head and said, "But because of you, my dearest person has left forever!" ”
The queen looked up at the emperor's eyes, the two looked at each other for a while, she lowered her head again, and her tears smashed on the emperor's shoes, "The concubines are not, do you believe the concubines, they are the ones who killed the concubines, and they framed the concubines!" ”
"Framed?" The emperor smiled coldly, shook off the waste queen's hand, and retreated to the door.
Pan Zhenan walked over, took a few thick pieces of rice paper, and read the confessions of Qi Zi and others.
Yao Cairen, Concubine De, Ju Meiren, Concubine Wen, Zhao Cairen, etc., there are many names, some familiar and some unfamiliar, like knocking on the eardrum after the waste.
She listened quietly, and slowly raised her head, half of her face covered by her loose hair, and the darkness of the room, this scene was really terrifying.
"If the concubine doesn't recognize it, even if it's the emperor, you can't help it, if the concubine doesn't recognize it, you can't do anything with the concubine."
The emperor stared at her face coldly, and he couldn't remember what she looked like before.
"Your Majesty, the concubine also gave birth to a child for you! Princess Yunyi! She couldn't live without her mother! The queen collapsed on the edge of the bed and screamed loudly, but did not dare to climb forward one step further.
"Yun Cheng? Do you still have the face to mention her? The emperor took two steps in her direction, "She is still a child, but her mother is a murderer, and she has harmed countless people, how can you let her hold her head?" ”
"Nope! No! I didn't! After the abolition, she got up violently, and pounced on the emperor with her teeth and claws, "Give me back Yun Cheng!" She's my baby! ”
The emperor took a step back, and Duan Kui rushed over to block the waste queen.
"Your Majesty! You give me back! After the abolition, she slowly changed from standing to squatting, with tears on her face.
If she hadn't known the bad things she had done, the current scene would really move the emperor.
"As long as Yun Cheng is here, you can't kill me!" She suddenly laughed again, and the blood stains on the corners of her mouth were very dazzling, "What if you are the emperor?" Children are your weakness! What can you do with Yun Cheng? ”
"You madman!"
"Yes!" After the abolition, he stood up again, tremblingly stretched out his hand and pointed at the emperor, "I'm crazy!" I've been crazy for a long time! It's all your fault! If you weren't the emperor, how could I end up in such a field? Why would my father force me to do this and that? ”
"That's your own fault! If it weren't for your father's concern that he shouldn't have been worried about, your Chen family wouldn't be like this! The emperor raised his voice and said.
After seeing the abolition, he was silent, and the emperor asked again, "You asked your brother to set fire to Yunyan Pavilion, right?" ”
There was a silence in the room.
"It's okay if you don't speak." The emperor continued: "Chen Hongkuan, he left evidence. ”
"What evidence?" The queen raised her head and had tears in her eyes.
"He took the objects of the Pure Tong Garden, an object that only the Pure Tong Garden has!"
"Jokiwon...," muttered to the queen of the waste, and suddenly remembered something, "That piece of cloth?" ”
The emperor sneered, "I didn't expect it, right?" Everything he did was given by Shu Ying, but in the end, it was also folded in Shu Ying's hands! ”
"Yes...", the queen laughed again, "Brother is really, how can I not know that the cloth is for Jingtong Yuan!" How can you not know that cloth is the swaddling cloth of Princess Shuying when she was born! There is only one piece of the entire palace, how dare he take it! ”
"At that time, Shu Ying was born suddenly, and the palace people hurriedly took the flower cloth of Jingtong Yuan and wrapped her, so they have been enshrined there. The first emperor felt that this cloth had a meaning, so he did not produce the same pattern of flower cloth from then on. The emperor said.
"But what kind of evidence is this?" After the abolition, he is still arguing at the moment, "Even if it is not produced, it is difficult to say if there is any residue from the past, why do you detain this matter on your brother's head!" ”
The emperor looked at her coldly, his eyes full of disgust, "Then how to explain the traces of Mars jumping on your brother's cuffs?" ”
The queen didn't make a sound, just stared at the emperor with big eyes, and suddenly fell backwards as if she was out of breath, panting heavily.