Chapter 271: Winner
In order to show the royal family's attention to this sacrifice, the day of the sacrifice is set on the annual Wanshou Festival, which is the birthday of Emperor Jianning. [Ran^Text^Library] []. [774] [buy]. [com]
At that time, the former harem will not hold a banquet to celebrate, and all civil and military officials will participate in the sacrifice.
Emperor Jianning not only decreed that all the celebrations of the Wanshou Festival would be canceled, but also that the draft would be canceled, and all the silver taels saved would be used for the reconstruction of Zhangcheng and Yuandong.
On April 17, the eighth year of Jianning, Emperor Jianning's holy car was supported by hundreds of officials and went straight to the temple on the outskirts of Beijing.
In the Jongmyo Temple, Emperor Jianning had to bathe and abstain from meat for three days, set off from the Jongmyo in the early morning of April 21, and arrived at the altar seven minutes before sunrise to carry out the ritual of sacrificing to the sky.
Worshipping the heavens is a major event for the whole country. But this major event does not have much significance for the concubines who live in the harem.
On the afternoon of April 18, the eighth year of Jianning, Li Qingmu nested in the inner hall of Guanju Palace after lunch.
As the drowsiness became stronger and stronger, the fold in her hand suddenly fell on the low couch.
Li Qingmu was excited, took a long breath and picked up the fold, wanting to go back to the dormitory to take a nap.
Before she could make any moves, Zhiliu pursed her lips tightly, lifted the bamboo curtain and walked in softly from outside.
Li Qingmu raised his eyebrows and asked softly, "Today?" ”
Zhiliu nodded, "Zhen Ronghua just sent someone, saying that it was today." ”
Li Qingmu raised his right hand to cover his cherry lips and yawned, and smiled at Zhiliu, "Let Shi Rui keep the prince in check, and don't let him go out of the Guan Ju Palace." Tell the outside that the palace is sick, so close the palace door. ”
Zhiliu had a smile on his face, and said after Fu, "Yes, the slave maid will order it." ”
"Let Yao Yuan watch it closely, and if there is any trouble, he will come back and say it." Li Qingmu yawned again, lying on the low couch, his consciousness slowly becoming confused, "I want to see what Zhen Ronghua can do." ”
There is nothing new in what Zhen Ronghua has done, it is all done by others.
She groveled to Wen Chongyuan and pretended to flatter her for a month, all she did was at this moment today.
In the jasmine garden of the Imperial Garden, Wen Chongyuan fell to the ground holding her high bulging lower abdomen, and her pale pink skirt was stained red with blood.
Behind the jasmine bushes on one side, standing was the little palace maid Ju Xiang who was holding a cat, and the second prince who was hiding behind her with a frightened face and at a loss.
Seeing that the blood on Wen Chongyuan's lower body was flowing more and more, and gradually soaking the stone road under her, the second prince burst into tears.
After hearing Wen Chongyuan's cry of pain, the palace maids who were on a errand in the jasmine garden all put down their errands and came around.
Seeing this, Zhen Ronghua took out the brocade handkerchief embroidered with catkins and tried the tears in the corners of her eyes, squatted down and cried to Wen Chongyuan, who was moaning loudly and crying out in pain, "Sister Wen, Sister Wen, you must hold on, the imperial doctor will be here soon." The second prince didn't mean it, he blamed the little beast who took off the rope, if the second prince hadn't been chasing it, he wouldn't have hurt his sister by mistake. ”
Wen Chongyuan broke out in a cold sweat of pain, and after listening to Zhen Ronghua's words, he pointed his bloodless slender finger at the second prince, and shouted angrily, "Mrs. Wen! What a vicious Mrs. Wen! She couldn't get the four princes, so she teamed up with Qing Xiuyi to hit the idea on the body of the palace. This palace, this palace is a ghost, and it won't let you go! ”
Mrs. Miao, who appeared out of nowhere, grabbed Wen Chongyuan's hand and asked with teary eyes, "Good sister, where did you start with this." The second prince is just naughty for a while, how could it be involved with Mrs. Wen, Qing Xiuyi and the fourth prince? Save some effort, the Imperial Doctor will be there in ...... soon."
There was a heart-rending pain in the lower abdomen, so that Wen Chongyuan couldn't listen to Mrs. Miao's words at all, she held Mrs. Miao's hand tightly, and shouted loudly, "Mrs. Wen, Qing Xiuyi, you, you have done a means to kill Mrs. Liu, and now you want to harm this palace, and this palace will drag you to accompany you to the funeral even if you die." ”
Zhen Ronghua raised his head violently and shouted to the palace people who were surrounded more and more, "Bold minions, don't hurry up and carry Wen Chongyuan back!" ”
Tears fell from her eyes, colliding with Mrs. Miao's very satisfied gaze.
Everything that followed was repeated as what Mrs. Liu had experienced. The difference is that Mrs. Liu fought to the death and saved the immature lives of the four princes, while Wen Chongyuan died with the imperial heir in her womb, mother and son.
Wen Chongyuan died, and before his death, he set off a monstrous wave in the harem. She kept yelling and scolding Mrs. Wen and Qing Xiuyi loudly when she gave birth, revealing how the two of them made a plan to get the prince in Mrs. Liu's womb, and then how they framed the prince and let the second prince do it.
Emperor Jianning was not in the palace, Li Qingmu said that he was sick, and the investigation fell on Mrs. Miao.
Zhen Ronghua's means can be done so smoothly, all because Mrs. Miao secretly let it go. Now that the goal is achieved, how can she let it go so easily?
After Zhen Ronghua handed over the evidence witnesses who helped Mrs. Wen, Qing Xiuyi, and Wen Chongyuan to kill Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Miao put Qing Xiuyi under house arrest.
Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Miao are both Mrs. Niang, and the two of them do not give in to each other and are at a stalemate on this head-off matter.
On April 21, the eighth year of Jianning, when Emperor Jianning led hundreds of civil and military officials to hold a ceremony to worship the sky at the altar, praying that God would bless the wind and rain in the big moon, Li Qingmu issued a decree and put Mrs. Wen and Mrs. Miao under house arrest.
The puppet queen is also the queen.
Li Qingmu's edict was struck, and the harem, which had been noisy for several days, finally quieted down, and it was as dead as silence.
On the afternoon of April 22 in the eighth year of Jianning, Zhen Ronghua went to the Guanju Palace to see the four princes.
She wept while teasing the four princes, her eyes red from crying.
Li Qingmu sat in the Taishi chair on the side, looking at Zhen Ronghua's eyes full of appreciation.
In just one month, Zhen Ronghua used his own way to govern others, and calculated Mrs. Wen, Qing Xiuyi, and Wen Chongyuan into it.
This person's scheming methods are deeper and more ruthless than any concubine in the harem.
Zhen Ronghua coaxed the four princes for a while, turned around and knelt down in Li Qingmuti's skirt, her tear-wet little face was full of relief, "Queen Mother, the second princess has always been sensible, and I ask the Queen Mother to treat her well." ”
After kowtowing to Li Qingmu three times, Zhen Ronghua got up and left Guan Ju Palace.
1,000 wounded and 800 self-inflicted.
Zhen Ronghua revealed that Mrs. Wen, Qing Xiuyi, and Wen Chongyuan conspired to kill Mrs. Liu and premeditated to frame the prince. And she secretly instructed the little palace maid to bring Chong Yuan to the imperial garden, and bought the palace maid Ju Xiang on the side of the second prince to do things on the cat, which was also exposed.
Zhen Ronghua's methods are so ruthless, how could Mrs. Miao leave her alive?
Li Qingmu drank the tea juice in the teacup lightly, and only after drinking half of it did he blink and say to himself, "If your daughter doesn't bring it herself, she has to make trouble for the palace, and the palace is not a nurse." ”
Zhiliu, who was standing on the side, didn't hear clearly, and lowered his head and asked, "Queen Mother, what did you say?" ”
Li Qingmu put down the teacup and smiled, "The palace said that the prince's nurse should be changed." ”
"What the queen said is that Mrs. Wen and Qing Xiuyi framed His Royal Highness the Prince, and the Zhu family, who reported the news, has no reason to escape the charge." Holding up Li Qingmu's arm, Zhiliu said softly, "Queen Mother, go back and rest for a while." ”
Li Qingmu walked to the side of the four princes, bent down and teased the four princes, and raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, "Fourth prince, the queen mother will find you a good concubine, okay?" ”
The fourth prince kicked his calves, his bright eyes looked at the unknown place, and his mouth let out a wow-wow.
"Call the nurse and the palace maid in, and take good care of the four princes." Li Qingmu stood up straight and smiled at Zhiliu on the side.
On April 23 of the eighth year of Jianning, Emperor Jianning drove back to the palace.
In the study room of the Qingxin Palace, after listening to Li Qingmu tell all the things of the past few days, Emperor Jianning sighed, leaned on the dragon chair and closed his eyes.
Li Qingmu raised his beautiful eyes, cautiously looked at Emperor Jianning's handsome face without joy or anger, and a trace of emptiness slipped through his heart.
She picked up the teacup and handed it to Emperor Jianning, holding her breath and whispering, "Wanyan Zhe, you can take a sip of tea to moisten your throat." ”
Emperor Jianning opened his eyes, looked at Li Qingmu and asked, "Mu'er, how much do you know about this?" ”
"I'm ......" put the teacup aside, Li Qingmu lowered his head and replied truthfully, "I know that Mrs. Liu's affairs are related to Mrs. Wen, Mrs. Miao, Qing Xiuyi, and Wen Chongyuan. I also know that Zhen Ronghua wants to get justice for Mrs. Liu, but I don't know how to ask for it, how to ask for it. ”
Seeing that Li Qingmu lowered his head slightly and didn't dare to look up at him, Emperor Jianning asked again, "Then why don't you tell me?" ”
Li Qingmu's tender white jade hands pinched each other, bit her cherry lips, and asked carefully, "Are you angry?" Because the child in Wen Chongyuan's womb was not saved? ”
Emperor Jianning did not deny it, stretched out his hand to remove the beads on Li Qingmu's bun, and said with a long sigh, "Mu'er, you will not care about the affairs of the harem in the future." ”
"I haven't taken care of it either, I only take Yu'er with peace of mind in the Guan Ju Palace." Li Qingmu's slender fingers still pull each other, this is a habit she has done since she was a child, as long as her heart is weak, she will pull her fingers, "If it wasn't for them wanting to frame Yu'er, how could I ......"
"They're really at fault." Emperor Jianning sighed again, and after picking off the red gold magnolia flower, he asked, "Then you say, what should be done with it?" ”
"The harem has always been associated with the previous dynasty, and Qing Xiuyi's father Liu Wenming has been buying and selling officials for many years. You have always said that corrupt officials are also useful to the court, but if it continues for a long time, it will definitely make the hearts of hundreds of officials unconvinced. Nowadays......"
"Liu Wenming is the position of a third-grade waiter, and his daughter has to be severely punished for framing the prince and murdering the concubine in the harem." The Liu family is useless to Emperor Jianning, "Jianqing Xiuyi is the fifth good lady, and his father Liu Wenmingge went to his official position and handed it over to the Criminal Department for investigation." "The phoenix of the descendant of the warbler leads the country:
"As for Mrs. Wen...... Li Qingmu looked up at Emperor Jianning and said, "Mrs. Wen's maternal grandfather is Yu Lang...... You tell me? ”
"You say, I'll listen." Scattering Li Qingmu's bun, Emperor Jianning's face finally had a smile.
"Mrs. Liu's matter, although Mrs. Wen is the mastermind, Mrs. Wen is the most unmoving. Even if you don't take into account Yu Lang's layer, you have to consider Wen Bo'an, who is helping Zhou Shiyang in Zhangcheng to help the disaster, that is Mrs. Wen's own brother. Leaning his head on Emperor Jianning's arms, Li Qingmu looked at Duobaoge on the side and whispered, "It's better to lower Mrs. Wen's position and give Yu Lang and the Wen family some beatings, so that they can be more restrained in the previous dynasty." As for the things in the Liang Palace, I handed it over to Le Chongrong to take care of. Mrs. Miao couldn't move, and her brother Lu Boyun was of great use...... But Mrs. Wen and Qing Xiuyi fell, and with the means of being happy, they were not Mrs. Miao's opponents at all......"
"Don't mention the harem." Emperor Jianning picked up the folds from one side and asked Li Qingmu, "I've been here for the past few days, what do you think of those folds?" ”
Li Qingmu's eyes lit up, and he became interested. When Emperor Jianning left, he left her a task, asking her to read all the controversial excerpts in the court in recent years, and she studied it for a few days, and it was the time to find someone to talk about.
One more is offered~~
It's going to end, there are fewer and fewer things in the harem, and more and more things in the previous dynasty, everyone