Chapter 24 Qiongtong Palace
The small inner prison next to Zhang An came to supervise Su Ruhui to be tortured, the little inner prisoner who was not much older than Su Ruhui still maintained a trace of innocence that was rare in the deep palace, and helped a few Su Ruhui when no one was around, and when he arrived at the torture hall, he said a few words to the palace people who were in charge of the punishment, maybe it was a plea, and the ten court staff came down, which seemed to be drenched in blood, but in fact it was not seriously injured.
But after this incident, the palace knew that the daughter of the general of the auxiliary country had fallen out of favor, although she still stayed in the palace, but it was unlikely that the crown princess or even the side concubine would be able to do so.
Afterwards, the small inner eunuch went to ask Emperor Changtai to place Su Ruhui in which palace, at that time Emperor Changtai was listening to the words of the Queen Mother in Yongxin Palace, and the county lord of Huaizhen also followed beside him, and heard that he was about to entangle Emperor Changtai to send Su Ruhui to remove the Hua Palace, but the third prince pulled her sleeve and spit out three words in a low voice.
Lord Huaizhen thought for a while, and happily said his suggestion to Emperor Changtai, Emperor Changtai didn't care too much about the daughter of a courtier, since Huaizhen opened his mouth, he naturally wouldn't agree.
Huaizhen asked to place Su Ruhui in Qiongtong Palace.
Qiongtong Palace is not far from Renshou Palace, and the luxury is even faintly better, but it is by no means a good place. It is the residence of the Miaohua concubine who committed suicide by hanging a beam a few decades ago, after the concubine, due to the beauty of the palace, several favorite concubines have lived in it one after another, but without exception they have not ended well.
The last one to live in was Mrs. Yinghua, who favored the harem in the sixteenth year of Changtai.
It is said that it is a woman who is as beautiful as Sanchun and oppresses Huo Guifei, and she has a good figure, a good singing voice, and her singing and dancing are unparalleled. But then inexplicably fell out of favor, after falling out of favor, he also went crazy, Emperor Changtai pitied her for her beauty, and couldn't bear to lock her up in the dark and damp Dihua Palace, plus Qiongtong Palace had an accident, it was really ominous, so he sealed the main hall of Qiongtong and put Mrs. Yinghua under house arrest.
There are not many people in the palace who know about this matter, but Lord Huaizhen has heard of it, Gan Tang still seems to be towards herself, thinking of this, she smiled sweetly at Gan Tang, but found that the corners of Gan Tang's mouth also had a strange smile.
Su Ruhui, who was bloodstained on her skirt, was carried from the side door to Qiongtong Palace, and what surprised her was that Xiuwan actually followed, and when she saw Su Ruhui puzzled, Xiuwan explained: "The slave maid heard that the young lady was injured, so she asked Aunt Xiangxiang to serve the young lady." ”
Su Ruhui was silent for a moment, and said, "You have a heart." ”
Although Xiuwan's actions made Su Ruhua feel moved for a moment, she still maintained the pride that a gate valve woman should have, today she suffered a humiliation that ordinary noblewomen could not bear, if she was beaten off by this humiliation, then she was not qualified to turn over next, the royal wife, is to have this kind of condescending bearing.
Mrs. Yinghua was grounded in Changtai for eighteen years, and now it is the twenty-fifth year of Changtai, and the middle seven years of Chenguang have been taken care of, and the luxurious palace of the past has been covered with dust and cobwebs.
In Qiongtong Palace, except for the crazy Mrs. Yinghua in the main hall, the other palace rooms are all vacant, and their accommodation is very considerable, provided that they need to clean it out by themselves.
Xiuwan was born as a palace maid, and she did these things very neatly, she first wiped a low couch, asked Su Ruhui to lie down temporarily, and cleaned up the inner hall, and when Su Ruhui fell asleep in the inner hall, Xiuwan calmly cleaned up the outside of the hall.
When Su Ruhui woke up from a sleep, the Chunsheng Hall where she lived had changed its appearance, the bed was inlaid with ebony beads inlaid with warm jade, carved with cranes and pines, and the tent looked old. A few pieces of furniture and a dressing table are actually made of whole coral, and the mirror surrounded by bright coral branches on the dressing table is a crystal mirror that is hard to find, up to three feet, I am afraid that the entire harem will not be able to find more than ten pieces. Even the floor is paved with tiles made of green ink jade.
The furnishings of a side hall may not be able to catch up with the Detai Palace. It is said that the concubine Miaohua of the previous dynasty has been living in Qiongtong Palace since she was a concubine, until the death of the first emperor, and she did not forget to order her to continue to live here. The concubine, who was so pampered and treasured, is no wonder that she couldn't stand a few words of reprimand from the Queen Mother.
Su Ruhui half-leaned on the bed and looked around, unable to tell whether she was hating or resentment. Before she entered the palace, her parents told her to accompany the king like a tiger, and no matter how kind the nobles in the palace laughed, they were not real dough. In the past, Su Ruhui always thought that as long as she kept the rules, nothing would happen.
Even if you can't marry the crown prince Ganlin, there is nothing wrong with marrying other princes and becoming a princess in the future. The Su family is rich enough, and they are in charge of the military, and they really marry the prince, maybe the next step is for the Su family to be removed from power.
But Su Ruhui didn't expect that a word from the nobles could easily knock herself into the abyss.
She closed her eyes as if she was pretending to sleep, but a string of water droplets quickly slipped down from the corner of her eyes.
"I thought you were angry here, but I didn't expect to see you crying as soon as I came." A voice sounded softly, Su Ruhui hurriedly opened her eyes, but saw the tent raised, and Jiang Se Changyi floated in, sat on the edge of the bed without seeing it, looked at her and said, "I heard that you were put on a table by Huaizhen today?" ”
Su Ruhui didn't have the heart to say much to him at the moment, so she wiped her tears and nodded.
"Huaizhen is not Le'an, she won't trouble you casually, what's going on?" Gan Ran said, took out a brocade handkerchief from his arms, but did not hand it to Su Ruhui, but wiped the sweat on his forehead, Su Ruhui noticed that in late autumn, Gan Ran was actually covered with sweat, and couldn't help but ask in a dumb voice: "Why is Your Highness so hot?" ”
"I ran out of the wall of Renshou Palace, hid all the way, and climbed over the wall of Qiongtong Palace, and it took me a long time to find here, can it not be hot?" Gan Ran snorted slightly.
Su Ruhui remembered that he was still grounded, and said with a wry smile: "Has His Highness come to see me?" Actually, I don't have anything. ”
Having said that, Su Ruhui still appreciates his affection very much, and it was not easy to ask the Queen Mother to agree to let him return to Huo Guifei in Xifu Palace for two months, promising to be well-behaved and obedient within two months, even if he is not really well-behaved and obedient, at least he can't let the Queen Mother catch any tricks, and now he sneaks out so carelessly, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, if the Queen Mother knows that he went out during the grounding, no matter where he went, I am afraid it will be another turmoil.
Thinking of Lu Mingtai hiding in the inner room for dinner together, Su Ruhui couldn't help but feel gloomy, among the princes in the palace, it seems that this second highness is the most amiable.
Gan Ran didn't know what she thought, shook her head and said, "I'm just here to ask, why did you offend Huaizhen and let her target you?" I know that the little girl surnamed Song who entered the palace with you, she seems to have said a lot of bad things about you in front of Huaizhen, but Huaizhen is the lord of the palace, not so easy to deceive, have you seen her before? ”
"The courtiers are also very strange." Su Ruhui heard that he seemed to vaguely believe that he had offended the county lord of Huaizhen, and suddenly became angry, put aside all his previous gratitude, and said coldly, "The courtier's daughter is from a humble background, where is she qualified to meet the county lord?" It's the first time I've seen it today! ”
"It's not like this kind of thing hasn't happened before, there was a slave who was careless before, so that Huaizhen sprained his foot when he got out of the carriage, and lay down for more than two months before landing, King Ning wanted to beat the slave to death, but Huaizhen stopped him. This cousin of mine is not an unreasonable person, but since you have never met her, how can she deliberately embarrass you? Gan Ran listened to it and felt very strange.
But when Su Ruhui heard his words, he seemed to be accusing himself of evil to the county lord first, and even doubted the true meaning of his words. Su Ruhui hated it very much, and felt that Gan Ran had deliberately come to help Huaizhen torture herself, so she endured her buttocks. The pain in his legs, he turned over hard, faced the palace wall, and said coldly: "The courtiers don't know, anyway, Your Majesty also punished the courtiers for being angry with the county lord, if Your Highness feels that the grievances of the county lord have not yet ended, you might as well continue to scold the courtiers to be angry!" ”
Gan Ran found that Su Ruhui was angry, he was slightly stunned, but he didn't get angry, but stood up and said, "I'll ask Huaizhen for you." ”
After Gan Ran left, Su Ruhui pulled up the quilt to cover her head and cried silently.