Chapter 117: The Human Heart
After the new emperor succeeded to the throne, he first granted amnesty to the world, and then was busy with national funeral affairs and never appeared in the harem.
Guan Taifei Fengjia has been welcomed into the palace, the first thing she did was to let people smash the gate of Jingyue Palace, that is, the cold palace, and then ordered Guanglu Temple to rebuild the courtyard, and ordered to live in Renshou Palace, and only wait for Jingyue Palace to be repaired, and live in it.
This incident made the female historians of the Shanggong Bureau speculate for several days, and they didn't know what the queen mother meant, whether she was nostalgic or resentful.
But what happened next made the female historians dare not breathe, and they couldn't help but be suspicious of the previous rumors that Concubine Guan was a living Bodhisattva.
This incident is that the Empress Dowager Guan issued an edict and ordered the Imperial Forest Army to go to the summer resort and chop the Empress Dowager Liu who was trapped there alive.
The punishment is generally 360 knives, but the Empress Dowager Guan asked the executioner to chop 720 knives, and she had to wait for the last knife to make the Empress Dowager Liu breathe.
One less knife, the executioner punished the nine clans, died before seven hundred and twenty knives, and the executioner punished the nine clans.
For a time, the executioners within a radius of several hundred miles from the capital were either sick or fled, and they could not find the executioner.
The executioner of the harem execution department had nowhere to run, and was thinking that he would hang himself on the beam with a hemp rope, so as to save his wife, children, young and old and the clansmen, but unfortunately he was hit by the Empress Dowager Guan, untied his hemp rope, punished him with a cane for twenty, and was taken to the execution with shackles.
At the time of the execution, the Empress Dowager's henchman Zhou Damiang was supervising and counting with a knife.
It is said that the execution scene was too bloody and cruel, and four or five guards fainted successively, and it is said that the Empress Dowager Liu kept scolding until she died with the last knife.
It is said that in the end, there were not enough 720 knives, and in the end, Aunt Zhou really couldn't look at it, and the result was Empress Dowager Liu.
After this incident, the female historians of the Shang Palace Bureau became silent as never before, and those who had a way in the family were stepping up their activities, even if they lost all their family wealth, they had to get their daughters out of the palace, it was better than staying inside and being punished one day in the future.
Those who have no way out at home are all desperately looking for a way, but whenever there is a little hope, they will drill everywhere, hoping to see even a little bit of dawn out of the palace.
There is no way for a criminal maid to enter the palace, and it seems that there is only a dead end.
Zheng Yuwan and Zhan Feng came to the calm division together.
Calm is carving a jade bowl, his expression is calm, and he can't see any anxiety at all.
Zheng Yuwan sat down and sighed: "Sure enough, there is a gully in my heart, at this time, I can still sit still and do such a delicate job." ”
"Zheng Siji, you are still too young and know too few people, haven't you heard that Leng Si set her up to befriend the new master?" Zhan Feng said in a rough voice.
Yuwan pretended to be surprised, got up and bowed a few times to Calm, and said with a smile: "I see, then I have to ask Lord Si to take care of it." ”
Calmly raised the carved jade bowl to his eyes, and said indifferently: "That's not necessarily, how can the intersection of the poor and lowly be brought into the rich township,
If a person is extremely proud, he is unwilling to let others mention his past downfall, especially those people he met when he was down, and he wished that they were all dead. You say don't you? ”
Yuwan swallowed her saliva and took it back after giving half of the salute. Blinking desperately, digesting calm words.
Zhan Feng just picked up the teacup to drink tea, and when he heard her say this, he was stunned, but put it down again.
"Smart people know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and I think both of you are like smart people." Said calmly.
Zhanfeng's complexion changed, and he reached out to get the teacup again, but he didn't pick it up, got up to say goodbye, and pulled Yuwan away.
Kong Lingci walked in from the outside and collided with them, surprised at how their faces were so pale.
"Long time no see." Greet her calmly.
Kong Lingci's face turned red.
"Did you do well at Si Zhenji?" Calmly asked again.
Kong Lingci did not answer.
After the two of them had a conversation in the garden that day, Kong Lingci invited himself to Si Zhensi.
Si Zhen Si has no boss, and is only temporarily replaced by Zhao Yue's eldest disciple Lianhua. When she went to that division, she also had the idea of being promoted to the head of the company.
Because after Zhao Yue's death, the Shanggong Bureau has been ownerless, so although the four divisions are on errands as usual, they can't help but be a little chaotic, so this Kong Lingci invited himself to Si Zhensi, as long as he is calm and willing to let go, and he is willing to accept the flowers, it will be.
"I'm coming back to ask you for something." Kong Lingci knelt down.
calmly pulled her up, but she refused, and she had to do it.
"Although I am the person of the Empress Dowager Liu, I have not done anything to be sorry for you, the death of the first emperor, I am too sad, so I will do such an radical thing, I think you also understand my feelings." Kong Lingci said.
"Say whatever you want to say directly." Calm down.
Kong Lingci paused, and then spoke: "You are friendly with the new master, and you have the heart of the Queen Mother, the position of Shanggong belongs to you, I just ask you to read it for the sake of our sisters, and let go of my good sisters."
My life doesn't matter, you can take it if you want, I just ask you to let them go, most of them are different from me, they were forced by the Empress Dowager Liu and had to do things for them, and they didn't do anything bad in the end, but they provided some information about Han Zhi's movements and the like. ”
Calmly sighed and shook his head: "It's a little early for you to beg me now, I'm not a Shanggong now, and I won't be able to be a Shanggong in the future." ”
Kong Lingci's face was full of disbelief.
"If I hate you and want to expose you and kill you, why should I save you in the first place, just live well, it is better to live than to die, once a person dies, who knows where he will end up in the next life and what kind of person he will become." Calm and dumb voice.
Kong Lingci stood up, and the light in his eyes made Calm and his heart cold.
If she hadn't been in a bad mood that day, she wouldn't have been exposed.
She saved her, thinking that she could move her heart and make her let go of the idea of revenge, but she didn't expect that she would have such a deep obsession and had to treat Sima Nan as an enemy.
She came to beg her, naturally there was a purpose, Sima Nan was not dead, how could she die?
She has always lived in her illusory love bubble, although her love is just a one-man show, but she has been deeply trapped in it and can't extricate herself.
Calm can save people's lives, but can't save people's hearts, you can only watch her sink, but there is nothing you can do.
Aunt Zhou walked in.
Kong Lingci showed some fear on his face, gave a salute, and hurriedly ran out.
"Aren't you good friends?" Aunt Zhou didn't need to greet calmly, she sat on the chair and spoke with a mocking face.
"I'm busy here today, as if I'm going to post an invitation, people are coming one by one, and I don't know who else will come later." Calmly pour tea for him.
"Calm down, before I came, the Queen Mother said that you are a smart person, you don't need me to speak, you will know my intention." Mrs. Zhou took a sip of tea and said with a smile.
"So what?" Calmly asked.
"Why don't you leave? As long as you want to leave, the four gates of the imperial city are open to you at any time. Aunt Zhou said solemnly.
"You know why I've been not leaving." Calm down.
Aunt Zhou sighed and shook her head: "Impossible, if the emperor wants to be powerful, he must start by killing him, you know this better than me." ”
"Give him poison." There was a pleading in his calm voice.
Aunt Zhou laughed twice: "The Queen Mother is not stupid, you are kind to her, she still remembers it." ”
"Then life for life." Calm down.
"Calm down, you don't have the capital to negotiate with the Queen Mother now." Aunt Zhou said.
"She has." There was a heavy thud at the door.
Aunt Zhou stood up and knelt down to say goodbye.
Zhang was dressed in civilian clothes and walked over alone.
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother invites you to come over to discuss matters." Aunt Zhou said.
Zhang nodded: "I know." ”
"The Queen Mother said it was an urgent matter." Aunt Zhou said again.
Zhang replied to the question: "Auntie, don't you want to know what capital she has to negotiate with the queen mother?" ”
"Since the emperor said that she has it, then she has it, and the slave doesn't need to know." Aunt Zhou replied respectfully.
"You go back and tell your mother that her capital is the future heir to the throne of Great Xia." Zhang Zhengsedao.
A slight flush appeared on Aunt Zhou's pale face.
Zhang Jiang calmly dragged him to him, stretched out his hand to touch her abdomen, and sneered: "Yes, right here, I didn't know her for a day or two, before the first emperor died, I broke you off and entered the palace alone, you all know, after I went back, I was scolded by the queen mother." ”
Aunt Zhou got up and left, but turned back again, with a face of forbearable anger, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, she is waiting for you in Fengqi Palace." ”
"I know, I'll get over here." Zhang said coldly.
Mrs. Zhou left without looking back.
Calm down and about to salute, Zhang stopped her, her face became sad: "Calm down, I'm sorry, I can't save him, I can't save you, I'm just a waste now." ”
"Give him poison." Calmly twisted his face to the side and said sadly.
Zhang fell to the chair and was speechless for a while.
"I promise, after we leave, we will never come back, and there will be no more of these two people in this world." Calm and said, his eyes that had been dry for a long time moistened.
"Sorry, calm down, I can't do it, I said I'm a piece of rubbish." Chapter was a low, barely audible voice.
"You are the emperor. Why can't you do it, your mother is not Queen Liu, your mother's power is amazing, why can't you do it, you just don't want to do it. "Calm down the voice is slightly higher, a little excited.
Zhang glanced at her in surprise, he had never seen her so excited, and he thought that no matter what, she would not be excited.
"In the past, when I was a fool, there was no shortage of people around me, including the queen mother, Brother Jiang, the first emperor, and even organized people, their existence made me feel safe even if I was in danger every day.
But now it's not, now I'm a me, I'm a loner, and there's no one around me who can make me feel safe.
They forced me to kill Sima Nan, beheaded the public, to calm the anger of the ministers, to calm the hearts of the people, I hesitated a little, and then died, and yesterday the palace killed one.
Everyone in the cabinet scolded me for being a faint king, living up to the expectations of my ancestors and ancestors, and disappointing the throne left to you by the previous emperor, and forced me to sit down and give the dead minister three deep bows before stopping.
I can't watch them die in the palace one by one, and I don't want to kill my biological brother, but I want to make public the fact that the first emperor is not his own birth.
But the eldest brother's previous behavior was clearly intended to cover up this matter.
When I was in the cold palace before, I looked forward to one day succeeding to the throne as emperor. Since then, he has been able to command the world and do whatever he wants, and now he has really succeeded to the throne as an emperor, only to find that this emperor is a top cylinder.
Shoufu and King Zhongjing now know about the first emperor, they can not say a word for the sake of face, but they pushed this hot potato to me and forced me to kill my eldest brother, you say, how can this be the case in the world? ”
Zhang said with a lonely expression.