Chapter Twenty-Four: Old Things
At night, Aunt Guan came to the Si Shi room on time.
The kang screen stood in the corner with the burden, and there was nothing strange at all.
Guan Yong's face was a little disappointed, although she understood that she couldn't have too much hope for a palace maid who had just come in, and it was not an overnight thing to cultivate a henchman.
But this palace maid obviously said that she wanted to take off the stars in the sky, and she dared to say such a big thing, if she didn't have a brilliant job, she was just a big talker, and it was useless to keep it.
"Calm down, the stars in the sky are still in the sky, what about the stars you picked? Has it been embedded on this kang screen? Guan Yong asked unceremoniously.
"Aunt Guan, don't be bored." Said calmly and indifferently, walked over, and blew out all the candles in the division's room.
The huge Si Shi room was suddenly plunged into darkness.
Aunt Guan raised her hands and looked at her actions coldly.
I really can't think of where the stars will come out.
"Auntie, please see." Calmly and slowly uncover the burden on the kang screen.
Suddenly, a ray of light shone directly into the sky above the division's room, and the roof of the carved jade was covered with small shining stars!
Guan Yong screamed, opened his eyes wide, and looked up at the roof in disbelief.
It was cloudy outside, and there were no stars at all, but the stars in this room were shining like that!
"Calm down, you, are you a mortal god in the heavens and the earth?" Guan Yong stretched out his hand to touch the star, but the star was reflected on her sleeve.
She stepped back in surprise and almost hit her chair.
Calm rekindled the candles in the room, and although the stars were still there, the light was diminished.
Guan Yong returned to normal, lowered his head to look at the uncommon kang screen, and said with a smile: "This is really a surprise, the Queen Mother will definitely be satisfied."
Come and tell me how you did it. β
"Aunt Guan, if you say it, it's not unusual, look at the silk on this kang screen." Calmly smiled.
Guan Yong held up a candle beside him and leaned over to take a closer look.
Sure enough, there were some obvious star dents on the woven silk, and the middle layer of the woven silk was wrapped in a black fabric that was impermeable to light.
"I see, the light of the night pearl behind the kang screen is revealed in the indentations of these stars, and the shape of a star shines in another place." Guan Yong shouted excitedly.
"It's not unusual to say it, but Empress Dowager Bo just smiled." Calm down.
"Calm down, you don't have to wait for the birthday day to be offered, now I will bring someone to move to the Queen Mother's house. In the past few days, the Queen Mother has been unable to sleep, and she has been missing the stars over the grassland in her hometown when she was a girl.
With your kang screen, she will be able to sleep well. β
Guan Yong said excitedly.
The calm face is still expressionless and calm.
Angry was Zhang Sishe, who was standing outside the window of the division's room.
She really couldn't understand the Queen Mother's thoughts, why she suddenly got such a powerful person to her division.
Could it be that she inadvertently offended the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother wanted to take her the position of secretary?
How could she be willing to give up this position so easily!
She entered the palace at the age of six, suffered a lot, and stayed up until she was twenty-six years old before becoming a director, who can know the hardships of these twenty years! Why should you give way to this!
"My lord, Aunt Guan is coming out." Ruan Meiling whispered in her ear.
Zhang Sishe turned around and went back to the room, his cold face became dark and vicious.
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Liang Si system in the bedroom.
It was pouring rain outside, and the atmosphere inside the room was tense.
After a long time, Zhang Sishe chuckled, poured a full glass of wine, walked in front of Liang Siji, drank it all, and said with a smile: "Liang Huanxi, I will do it first as a respect, how about the previous grievances and grievances between you and me also disappear with this glass of wine?" β
Liang Sizhi raised his wine glass, but refused to drink it, his face was still cold: "Zhang Caixia, it was not you who was hurt, of course you can act as if nothing happened."
Isn't it too naΓ―ve for you to want to release your suspicions with just this glass of wine? β
Zhang Sishe poured another cup, tilted his head into his stomach, ate and laughed, and shook his head: "You fool, didn't he abandon you in the end?" If you really love deeply, why would he go out of the border alone and not take you with him? β
The wine in Liang Siji's hand splashed on Zhang Sishe's face, and he roared: "It's been ten years since the incident, and you still pretend not to know?" Are you too naΓ―ve?
If you hadn't told him back then, "I had an affair with someone else, and the child I was carrying was not his, how could he run away sadly?" β
"Liang Huanxi, if he really loves you, how can he believe what I say! Do you use your brain? He's a slut who uses the love we both have for him to his own ends.
He was originally just an eight-rank guard guarding the palace gate, if there was no help from you and me, how could he solve the strange case of the queen's murder and be promoted to general in one fell swoop! Zhang Sishe raised his sleeves to wipe the wine stains on his face, and said bitterly with a sad and sympathetic look.
"That's what he can do! You are jealous that I have found a capable man, so you try to slander me in front of him, and your goal has been achieved, of course, you can say whatever you want. Liang Siji said angrily.
Zhang Sishe laughed a few times on his back, and changed his face to sarcasm: "He has the ability?" You are such an innocent person, you won't still be able to solve the queen's case with him, right? β
Liang Si stood up violently, stepped forward, grabbed Zhang Si's clothes, and roared in a low voice: "What do you mean?" The murderer has pleaded guilty to the law, what if it is not broken? β
Zhang Sishe pushed her hand away and smiled bitterly: "Huanxi, do you remember when we first came to the Shanggong Bureau, when we were only six years old, we held hands and went to the Yushui River to swear that in this life, we will support each other and help each other like sisters, I am you, you are me." β
Liang Siji's face suddenly became sad, he sat down on the chair, stretched out his hand and pinched his forehead and sighed: "What's the matter, you can say it, as long as I can help, I will definitely help you." β
"Huanxi, I don't want you to remember my kindness to you for the rest of your life, and I don't want to use that kindness to kidnap you for the rest of your life.
Why do you shout so much every time you talk about him that you don't listen to a word?
In fact, you know it very well in your heart, but you don't accept such a fact, don't you? For his sake, you disregarded the strict rules of the palace and conceived his child.
But what about him? He bought a fetal pill for you to drink! When he was happy, why didn't he think that you would conceive a child and face the punishment of breaking the palace rules?
The queen was not killed by Ruan Jiaming!
Because that night, Ruan Jiaming was with me! β
Zhang Sishe said in a low voice, tears rolling down his cheeks.
Liang Siji screamed in surprise, covering his mouth with a look of disbelief.
"Do you now know why I'm so nice to Meiling? Because Meiling is Jiaming's sister! Because Jiaming died to protect me.
He would rather bear the charge of insulting and killing the queen than confess to me, because he is afraid that I will be tortured! β
Zhang Sishe shook Liang Siji's shoulders with both hands and cried.
"No, you're lying! You must be lying! That's not the caseγγγγγγ Liang Sizhi shook his head desperately and kept denying it.
"Come on, Liang Huanxi, don't pretend, that night Jia Ming sent a letter to me to meet, you will definitely see it, even if you don't see it, you can hear it from my words. But for his sake, you pretended not to see or hear.
You thought at the time that as long as he solved the murder of the queen and got the reward as he wished, he would take you out of the palace and live a happy life.
It's a pity, how did he do it? He's gone alone!
Why do you still regard me as an enemy? Compared to his betrayal, I am the person closest to you, the person who is most willing to think about you! β
Zhang Si said in a dumb voice.
"Don't say it, Zhang Caixia, I beg you, don't say it, what do you want me to do, I'll do it, I just beg you not to say it anymore."
Liang Sizhi covered his ears with his hands, and collapsed to the ground with tears streaming down his face, curled up in a ball, convulsing in pain.
"Why don't I go on? I'm going to keep going until you're willing to face reality. Your selfishness ruined my best friend, but I still treat you as a sister and help you lie together.
I slandered you for being unfaithful and unfaithful in front of him, but it was just to test whether his feelings for you were true, and what was the result? You saw it.
Who is his current wife? The only daughter of the Lord Protector and the niece of the Queen Mother! That's what he wants.
From beginning to end, he never thought of marrying a lowly palace maid, whether it was you or me!
You have been hating me, suppressing me, and making Lord Shanggong not want to see me for such a negative man, you say, are you worthy of me for doing this? Is it worthy of all that I have done for you? β
Zhang Sishe squatted down and shouted in Liang Siji's ear.
"Caixia, don't say it, please don't say it!" Liang Sizhi was out of breath crying, and said intermittently.
"Both of us are learning needlework with the master, my craft is above you, but the master said that you are thin and delicate, more suitable for the division, and I am strong, and the palm is wide and heavy, and it is also very suitable to enter the division.
The master didn't force me to leave, and she couldn't bear my handiwork. But for the sake of your future, I petitioned to transfer the division.
Do you know how much I suffered when I joined the division? I couldn't read the drawings with so many names, and I couldn't lift a heavy hammer.
I had two broken fingers, one of which was sawed off by a saw while making cabinets. Because the cabinet was not ready, the master scolded me for refusing to ask for an imperial doctor, and my fingers were so useless.
The other was nailed by a wedge when nailing the jewelry box, and it was scrapped at that time.
Liang Huanxi, you can say in your conscience, we were in the Siyi Division that day, is my craftsmanship better than yours? β
Zhang Sishe cried and asked Liang Siji.
Liang Siji nodded with tears, his eyes were already full of apology and sadness.
"Caixia, I was wrong, why didn't you say these words earlier, let me be wrong for so many years, I'm sorry, Caixia, I'm sorry for you, I'm wrongγγγγγγ"
Liang Sizhi hugged Zhang Sishe, buried his head in her shoulder, and cried.
"I haven't said it because I haven't wanted to see you sad, and it's always happier for you to hate me than to think about it all and live it.
But now, I am a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, I can't protect myself, if you don't help me, I will die, I have survived so easily, to survive such a good life, I don't want to die, I don't want to die at all. β
Zhang Sishe patted Liang Huanxi's back and said slowly, the tears in his eyes had disappeared, leaving only a vicious look.