Chapter 68: The Great Fire of Linhua Palace
Dongfang Chen was silent and did not give Wei Qingguan an answer, Wei Qingguan was not in a hurry, just leaned on his shoulder quietly, obediently looking, like a helpless kitten. The literary network has you all the way
But I don't know how long it took, the man above his head finally had a voice, he hugged the woman in his arms, and said softly, "I promise you." Wei Qingguan couldn't help but arch his body more and more into the man's arms, taking warmth.
Wei Qingguan will wake up to the end of his physical strength, and after taking the medicine, he fell asleep in Dongfang Chen's arms, Dongfang Chen hugged her in his arms, carefully picked her up and put her on the ** couch, his expression was a little gloomy.
Gently brushed away the hair that fell on Wei Qingguan's forehead, carefully dropped a kiss before leaving, and when leaving, he repeatedly told Banxia and others to take care of it!
It wasn't until Shen Shi that Wei Qingguan woke up leisurely, and when he woke up, Banxia had already brought the boiled medicine, Wei Qingguan glanced at the inky black medicinal juice, closed his eyes and drank it directly, and was about to go down in a hurry.
"What are you doing, it's time for dinner?" Banxia saw her in a hurry, and couldn't help but stop.
"Go to Linhua Palace, I have something to ask Concubine Min, you go with me!"
"Niangniang, your body is just right, the slave maid asked people to prepare a sedan chair, now it's sunset, the night is cool, and the province will catch a cold."
Seeing Wei Qingguan's anxious appearance, Banxia stopped her, and then called Bang Chun, found a light purple orchid embroidered collar and pink placket to cover her body, and then took her to the sedan chair and headed towards the Linhua Palace.
The sedan chair has not gone far, but it has smelled a scorching and choking breath in a breeze, there is no hot summer charm in the daytime, it is the smell of fire, the sun is thin, the sun is setting, the blood red of the sky is dyed through the blue sky, Wei Qingguan raised his head, looking at the fiery sky not far away, the smoke is billowing, the people are noisy, screaming again and again, Concubine Min's Linhua Hall is swallowed by the fire at this moment......
The eunuch who carried the sedan chair did not dare to move forward, Wei Qingguan, who was sitting on the sedan chair, looked at the firelight in the sky, his face was pale, who moved so fast, how old is this, Linhua Hall is on fire!
Such a big fire, unless it rains heavily, if it is only by people to extinguish the fire, it will only wait until the beams of this house are burned out, and there are no combustibles around it to extinguish, this huge Linhua Palace, I think it will only be burned!
The fire burned very quickly, and the eunuchs of the Praetorian Guard up and down the palace put out the fire in an orderly and fast manner, and after a while, everyone in the palace rushed to Wei Qingguan, and even hid in Wei Qingguan with the newly promoted palace concubines.
Wei Qingguan's Yongning Palace leeward, and far away from the Linhua Palace, Linhua Hall to the west, close to the Queen Mother's Shoukang Palace, at this moment the Queen Mother is accompanied by Roufu, sitting on the main hall of the Yongning Palace, is also in a hurry, there are palpitations, accompanied by Wei Tingcheng with the little prince Dongfang Jing, Dongfang Jing thought that he had just cried, with tears on his face, very pitiful appearance.
At this moment, he didn't cry or make trouble, he just obediently followed Wei Qingcheng's side, looking at the fire that couldn't be extinguished with tears in his eyes, and his little face was a little aggrieved!
When Dongfang Chen came from the front, the fire in the Linhua Hall had not been extinguished, the fire came quickly, when the Praetorian Guards had not yet reacted, they had already burned everywhere, and it burned very quickly, they wanted to go to the palace to save people, but the door bolt in the hall was tightly bolted, even if they wanted to pry it open, they couldn't pry it open, when it was hard to open, the smoke was billowing inside, the door opened, the tongue of fire swallowed out and burned the guards in front, they didn't dare to rescue again, only desperately fighting the fire outside.
The Yongning Hall is extremely quiet at the moment, Lu Danran, who has palpitations, is holding the cup in his hand in his heart, his mind is scattered, when the fire rolls in, the smoke is billowing, they only think that they are going to die inside, such thick smoke, just a pitch black in front of them, fortunately, the guards came quickly, brought them out, like a ghost door before the door closed, the two of them were as pale as paper, and they couldn't say anything.
Wei Qingguan stood beside Dongfang Chen, his teeth clenched, a fire burned from the time of Shen to the time of Xu, and the choking breath could be smelled from the fire scorching the palace for nearly three hours.
It wasn't until Su Hao came to report that the fire in Linhua Hall had been completely extinguished, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, at that time, Wei Qingguan only cared about whether Concubine Min was still alive, she was lucky in her heart, but she couldn't resist the cruelty of the facts, Concubine Min and several personal maids in the palace were all buried in the fire, the corpses were hideous and terrifying, and Su Hao had already made people live and settle!
"Find a puppet to perform an autopsy!" Wei Qingguan was unwilling to speak without others, she had already spoken sharply!
Surprise appeared on Su Hao's face, as did the others. If those palace maids said that it would be feasible to find a concubine, the emperor's concubine would let the concubine do an autopsy after her death......
"The fire in Linhua Hall is strange, the palace suspects that Concubine Min's death is man-made, go to find the best work in Dali Temple, give Concubine Min an autopsy, and test all the dead palace maids, no matter what method is used, I want to know whether they were really burned to death, or died before the fire!"
The fire in the Linhua Hall burned so big, Concubine Min spared her life, how could she be so stupid as not to run away and let the fire burn, although there were only a few personal palace maids left in the palace, and the others were sent away, but these palace maids were not her cronies, and there was no reason to accompany her to die in vain.
His eyes were like torches, Wei Qingguan's face was pale at the moment, and he said sharply, Su Hao did not move, after all, the deceased was the eldest and he was a concubine, and the emperor did not make a will, so he could not act rashly.
"Queen, the emperor has his own opinions on the affairs of Linhua Palace, today it happened suddenly, everyone here is waiting for you to arrange, Concubine Min's matter will be put aside for the time being, and the living will be placed first, the dead will not grow legs, even if it is to be disposed of, it will wait for tonight, okay?" The Queen Mother had a gloomy complexion, and since the fire burned to the present, she spoke for the first time, but her words were too cold, Wei Qingguan listened impatiently, twisted her head and ignored her.
Dongfang Chen's hand has been holding Wei Qingguan tightly, Wei Qingguan is trembling angrily, the kind of anger that comes up from her heart and can't be depressed makes her hands and feet cold at the moment.
"Concubine Min's matter, I will personally deal with it, you listen to the words of the queen mother, take Concubine Ying and Concubine Xian, and deal with the harem in advance, I will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation of this matter!"
He comforted Wei Qingguan softly and signaled her to calm down, Wei Qingguan listened to the voice that was as clear as the spring water of a mountain stream, and felt a little settled in his heart, until he saw Dongfang Chen walking with Su Hao, and then he settled down.
A fire left more than just a void in the Linhua Palace, black ashes stained the palace everywhere.
At night, it is too late to clean up again, the Queen Mother's Shoukang Palace is the closest, and it is impossible to live in it before cleaning up, Wei Qingguan will give up the main hall, so that the Queen Mother can be placed earlier, and ordered the Internal Affairs Office to simply clean up a few inner halls a little far away from the Linhua Palace, so that a few palace concubines can make do with it first, so that after the first hastily dealt with it, the first and second concubines are still waiting on the soft collapse of the warm pavilion of the side hall of the Yongning Palace, waiting for the departing Dongfang Chen.
With a cup of strong tea in hand, Wei Qingguan held it silently, and looked directly at the virtuous concubine on the side, the virtuous concubine seemed to feel Wei Qingguan's gaze, and couldn't help but look up, but Wei Qingguan no longer looked at her, and wanted to speak, but he didn't know what to say, so he was silent.
The atmosphere in the small side hall warm pavilion is treacherous, making people a little breathless, Concubine Ying coaxed Dongfang Caiwei to sleep on the chaise longue in the warm pavilion, let Lilac serve carefully, although her Yongle Palace is not close to Linhua Palace, but the smoke and ashes are blown away, and the palace people are making trouble again, thinking that they are going to accompany them in the Yongning Hall tonight, so they simply took Dongfang Caiwei with them.
When she came back, she also saw Wei Qingguan's unkind eyes at Concubine Xian, she found a place to sit down, poured a cup of strong tea to refresh herself, and there was silence in the warm pavilion for a while, and only the sound of dripping could be heard ethereal echoes.
The fire of the Linhua Hall is strange, and the death is even more strange, after the virtuous concubine returned to the Hande Hall from the middle of the day, she has been beating the drum in her heart for Wei Qingguan to help Concubine Min, and she is always uneasy, until she heard the fire in the Linhua Palace, her mind was blank, and all the things she calculated were in vain, and now she is ashamed of everything!
Ignition ** Such an action, where is what the always timid Concubine Min would do, but it was so coincidental that Wei Qingguan obviously suspected that he had put Concubine Min together, although Concubine Min confessed, others didn't believe it, but she died for no reason. The movement is so big, Wei Qingguan's expression is not good, Concubine Xian can't defend herself, if she argues, she will take the blame on herself, but if she doesn't argue, it seems that she can't tell clearly!
"It's too much, some things have been overdone, don't wait for anyone to do it, God can come to collect it, I don't know if Li Zhaoyi has a spirit in the sky, this will not need Lu Guiren to do it, look, this fire, he died, do you say that he is not wronged and asked for his life!"
Wei Qingguan took a sip of strong tea, the heavy taste was on the bottom of her tongue, with a bitter taste, holding a cup, she said deliberately.
Concubine Ying just smiled and didn't answer, Concubine Xian sneered, but answered her words, "Didn't Niangniang just think that Concubine Min's matter was man-made, how could she pinch this unjust ghost for her life after a while, the most jealous ghost and god in the palace said, or ......"
"Suddenly remembered, there is a palace maid named Xiangsui next to Concubine Xian, I heard that when the palace woke up in the coffin, she was so frightened that the three souls went to the seven spirits, and she is still crazy and stupid, I'm really sorry!"
"In the end, this person still can't do something unfortunate, otherwise he won't become a fool, I think this Xiangsui should have something in his heart, and in a few days, the palace will let the imperial doctor go to check her pulse!"
The words didn't reach the point, Wei Qingguan was talking nonsense, Concubine Xian let Wei Qingguan's inexplicable words stir her heart in a panic, for no reason, she actually wanted to shout at Wei Qingguan, this matter has nothing to do with herself, Wei Qingguan's words that are not yin and yang make the faces of the people present more or less uncomfortable!
Not long after, Banxia, who was ordered to come back, gasped and returned to the warm pavilion, and did not avoid people, and said directly, "Niangniang, that Imperial Doctor Li died, hanged himself to death, and when General Su found out, his body was stiff." ”
"Heh......"
Wei Qingguan, who was holding the cup in his hand, heard Banxia's words, and just smiled coldly, "Look, Li Zhaoyi has not passed the seventy-seven, I think I really came to avenge myself, I can still hang myself like that, and I don't know how to hang myself, it's also amazing!" ”