Chapter 49: After the Abolition of the Decree
"Your Majesty, there is news from the Imperial Court." After returning to the Taihe Palace, Pan Zhenan said to the emperor.
"What did you find out?" The emperor asked.
Pan Zhenan spread the paper in his pocket on the dragon case and presented it to the emperor, "Lao Liu of the Court Bureau told the slave that the palace maid named Jiu Qing had a very hard mouth, and she didn't say a word, and her leg bones were all broken alive, but she still didn't make a sound. It's that Zizi, who spits out a lot of things. ”
The emperor flipped through the rice paper on the dragon case and saw many familiar names on the paper.
The first is the poisoning of her miscarriage by the yin incense in Yao Cai's mouth and candles, followed by Zhao Cairen's miscarriage and Ju Meiren's miscarriage, the queen framed Concubine Wen in an attempt to blame her, which directly led to Concubine Wen's suicide, Pei Zhaoyi's dystocia and blood collapse when giving birth to the eldest prince, resulting in a corpse and two lives, Concubine De was pregnant twice and all had miscarriages, and she was poisoned in Concubine De's diet that would change her appearance, which made it difficult for her to get pregnant again, and even Concubine Qing, who had given birth to the second prince, was calculated by the queen, and thanks to Concubine Qing's life, she forcibly saved her life and that of the second prince.
There are many names and many things on the paper, some emperors know it, and some emperors don't know.
Some Ding Zhou told him, and some Ding Zhou didn't know, after all, Ding Zhou had only served in Fengluan Hall for more than two years, and it was difficult to collect all the evidence, and there were many things that the queen would not tell him.
There are some things that the emperor has already guessed, but when he really sees the queen's evil deeds, he will still be so angry that he can't bear it.
"Your Majesty, Qi Zi said that there was a palace maid in Changming Pavilion, which was arranged by the queen's mother, and it was she who went to Yunyan Pavilion with Zhao Cairen to make trouble, and passed the news to the people in Fengluan Palace, so that Zhao Cairen had a miscarriage, and the servants had already arrested her, and wanted to ask the emperor what he planned to do with it."
"Pull it to a quiet place and kill it, don't miss the silence in the palace." The emperor said coldly, pinching the thin rice paper with his fingers, and he was surprisingly calm.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After everything was dealt with, Pan Zhenan took the emperor's holy decree to Fengluan Palace.
That is the decree of the abolition.
It's just that he hasn't seen him for more than a day, but Pan Zhenan feels that the queen seems to be more than ten years old.
At this moment, the queen is sitting on the main seat, wearing a golden red palace dress, wearing a phoenix hairpin and a phoenix cloak on her shoulders, and she will dress herself very formally in the days when no one is waiting for her, as if she is declaring her identity for the last time in the last moment.
But even if she is dressed up very beautifully and has the charm of a queen, she can't hide her tiredness this night, and it is not difficult to see from her sporadic white hair that she has suffered a lot from Pan Zhen'an's departure yesterday to today's come.
"The slave greets the queen." Pan Zhenan said this respectfully, what he had said for many years.
He thought to himself, this was probably the last time he told her, and he wouldn't have a chance in the future, so why bother to show her face?
"What are you doing here? But did the emperor figure out that he misunderstood the palace? The corners of the queen's mouth hooked up and smiled, and without waiting for Pan Zhen'an to answer, she picked up the bronze mirror and looked at her face as if she was not in her senses, "Look, is this palace beautiful?" Is the main palace still similar to when the emperor first ascended the throne? ”
Pan Zhenan didn't say anything, only stared at her coldly.
"You speak to Hongu!" The queen suddenly shouted at Pan Zhenan, her eyes widened, as if she was about to rush to Pan Zhenan at any time.
"The beauty of the queen mother has been the same for decades, how can a slave talk casually?"
"Father-in-law Pan's mouth is still so clever and eloquent." The queen put down the bronze mirror in her hand, and touched her face with her other hand, "The palace is old, does the emperor not like it?" There are dozens of show girls selected every few years, how can this palace deal with it? ”
Pan Zhenan took two steps back and continued to bow his head respectfully.
When the queen finished all this nonsense, it was when he announced the abolition.
"Actually, this palace didn't do anything, they deserved it! But the emperor didn't believe it, why? The queen laughed again when she said this, "Aren't those new entrants to the palace who have fascinated the emperor's eyes, so that the emperor has no palace in his heart?" ”
Pan Zhenan remained silent.
"You talk, you won't come today to listen to this palace talk to you, right?"
Pan Zhenan then made a statement.
The queen did not kneel down to greet her, as she had done every time in all these years, but collapsed in her chair as if she had lost her soul, and her eyelids moved when she heard the phrase that she was forever imprisoned in the Hidden Pavilion.
The Hidden Pavilion is equivalent to the existence of the Cold Palace. However, unlike the Cold Palace, the Hidden Li Pavilion is a courtyard in the East Palace, located near the Cold Palace, no one has moved in for many years, and the emperor will not deliberately go there, so it has slowly become a courtyard for imprisoning concubines.
One of the concubines of the first emperor died in the Hidden Pavilion, I heard that he was imprisoned for twenty-three years, and the emperor was just born when he was grounded, and then the first emperor died a few years after the new emperor ascended the throne, and the one in the Hidden Pavilion died.
The Hidden Pavilion and the Cold Palace are of the same nature, but many people can be locked up at the same time in the Cold Palace, but the Hidden Li Pavilion is only closed to one.
The queen is only in her twenties this year, it is a good time, although she is not young, but she is not as old as she said, won't she spend more than ten years in the Hidden Pavilion?
How could she?
She stood up abruptly and rushed to Pan Zhen'an's face, desperately grabbing the holy decree in his hand.
Duan Kui walked over from the side, grabbed her wrist and flicked it gently, and she fell to the ground.
Since yesterday, there has been no charcoal fire in Fengluan Palace, and the ground is as cold as ice at this moment.
"Hello for yourself." After Pan Zhenan finished speaking, he turned his head and left the main hall of Fengluan Hall step by step.
Someone will soon take this 'wasted queen' to the Hidden Lady Pavilion, and then he won't have to worry about it.
There was a shout from behind him, and Pan Zhenan did not look back, but walked to the courtyard and looked up at the sky.
The sky was grey, with the occasional sparrow flying by.
Behind him, two powerful middle-aged women 'shelfed' the queen away.
After lunch, the emperor went to Yunyan Pavilion to sit for a while.
When the royal body just stopped in front of the Yunyan Pavilion, someone came out of the Lanyue Pavilion next to it, and the emperor couldn't remember who she was.
"Say hello to Cao Meiren." Pan Zhenan said.
Cao Meiren smiled and walked to the side of the royal roller and saluted: "Concubine to the emperor, please say goodbye!" ”
"Cao Meiren?" The emperor asked.
Cao Meiren was stunned for a moment when she heard this: "Why did the emperor forget his concubine?" The birds raised by the concubines still remember the emperor, and they talk all day long to say hello to the emperor. ”
"Really?" The emperor was a little indifferent and said, "I don't remember it clearly." ”
Cao Meiren smiled at this time, thinking that the emperor would enter the Moon Pavilion.
But who knows, after the emperor got off the royal roll, he didn't even look at her, and directly entered the door of Yunyan Pavilion.
The sound of greeting from the courtyard sounded like a slap in the face.
Pan Zhenan glanced at her and found that her face was red and she frowned slightly, as if she was angry and ashamed.
"Cao Meiren, go back." Pan Zhenan greeted and said.
Cao Meiren answered twice and returned to Lanyue Pavilion as if she was fleeing.
After the emperor entered the east hall, two little eunuchs chatted at the gate.
"This Cao beauty is really cheeky, how long has the emperor not been to her, she doesn't count in her heart? actually came to our Yunyan Pavilion to rob people, and he didn't look at his own virtue! ”
"That's it!" Another little eunuch should be in harmony and say, "The birds you still raise?" I'm afraid that the emperor can't remember to appreciate her birds, right? ”
Jiang Liu came from behind the two of them at this time, and one of them gave them a head, and they grinned with their teeth.
"What is the sixth brother doing?" A little eunuch asked, covering the back of his head.
"Why are you still asking me what I'm doing? I want to ask you what you are doing! Jiang Liu asked angrily, "Where is this?" This is in front of the gate! How dare you orchestrate others in front of the door? Who listened to you, and cured you of the crime of telling right and wrong, with which mouth do you speak? ”
The two little eunuchs were silent, and they didn't even dare to look up at him.
"Besides, now that the little master is favored, who thinks that our little master can't see others well! In the future, if I hear you pull someone's tongue again, go directly to the palace to serve! There are many of you in Yunyan Pavilion, and there are many of you, and everyone else is lining up to serve here! ”
If Jiang Liu would not normally say this, or that he wouldn't say it so ugly, but now it's different.
In the previous days, Jiang Liu didn't even dare to think about it, it was really not a human life.
Let's talk about this yard on a snowy day, how can anyone let him command the yard sweeping? Isn't it all he grabbed the broom and swept it out one by one? At that time, he couldn't pull out a word of his tongue, because he knew that no one was protecting Yunyan Pavilion, and whoever heard it would be impossible to escape death.
Now he didn't dare even more. Yunyan Pavilion is one up and down, whoever said two ugly words was recorded, and it was all a matter of affecting the master, even if the master didn't say those words, others would force it on the master's head. A group of others hate the master, and they all regard the master as a thorn in the flesh, and they all want to drag the master down from a high place and step on it to death.
As the saying goes, the higher you climb, the worse you fall, but Jiang Liu knows it. Who is the good life on now? Isn't it all about the master? Jiang Liu, as the chief eunuch of Yunyan Pavilion, thinks about everything he thinks about every day, except to be a good errand and is to control the mouths of the people below.
After the emperor entered the east hall, Yao Chuxi came out to greet him, and said to the emperor that the embroidery was in the way.
"What's the trick? More important than me? The emperor asked.
Falling snow took out the tricks.
"Rose?" The emperor took it and touched the stitches as he spoke, "Roses are not prolific here, do you know how much effort I have wasted in such a piece?" ”
"The emperor is referring to the roses in the imperial garden?"
The emperor nodded.
Neither of them spoke, but they knew in their hearts that they must have remembered the day they first met.
After a while, the emperor asked, "How is Han Shang Palace?" ”
"Han Shanggong's illness is recuperating slowly, and the concubine has already sent someone to take care of her."
The emperor hummed softly.
"By the way, Your Majesty, it's not good that the west hall here has been empty for the concubine, and the concubine wants to move Han Shanggong in?"