Chapter Forty-Four: The Aftermath Continues
Pei Yaowei rarely pondered and didn't understand the thoughts of Empress Dowager Liang - no matter now or in the past. But this time, she looked up at the Queen Mother, who was questioning her in every possible way, and was really a little stunned for a while.
What is she doing here?
Do you want to blame Liang Yanyu's death on herself, and take advantage of the fact that she is now in the palace, so that she can kill him as soon as possible?
Although Empress Dowager Liang is not a very smart person, she is not stupid enough to give birth to such a brainless plan!
"You girl......" Aunt Song stood in front of the maidservant and said, "According to what you said, but are you saying that Yuhua Zhenren was killed by Princess Chu?" ”
With tears in her eyes, the maid glanced at Aunt Song timidly, carefully moved her knees and carried them back, lowered her head and said, "Slave maid...... The slave didn't dare to say anything, but just according to the instructions of the Queen Mother, what she saw and what she said......"
Aunt Song sneered, turned to face the Empress Dowager Liang, and said, "This time, Princess Chu led Mr. Yiyuan to Chengyang Palace with the Holy Mother, originally because Yuhua Zhenren was seriously ill, only because of the night. The princess came to visit Yuhua Zhenren out of courtesy, and she was also kind, and the Virgin didn't want to make a fuss about this coincidence to punish the princess, right? ”
Empress Dowager Liang has always been pressed by Empress Dowager Li, and she is full of hatred for Heshou Palace. When she was in the imperial palace, she couldn't do anything about Empress Dowager Li, but now that she is far away from the palace, how can she tolerate the slaves and maids of Heshou Palace to 'question' herself like this?
"Heh, your master is not here, just rely on you, do you want to come against the mourning family?" As she spoke, she glanced at Aunt Song contemptuously, turned around and called Aunt Zong, and was about to open her mouth to command: "You give the mourning family-"
"Our Lady!" Pei Yaowei suddenly spoke up and interrupted her.
Empress Dowager Liang's face was not good, and she lowered her eyes to look at her, "Bastard!" Didn't you see the mourners talking! ”
Pei Yao pondered silently in his heart, but he bowed down very respectfully, and said: "Our Lady Queen Mother, Yuhua Zhenren is suddenly gone, and when I hear the news, I feel very uncomfortable, and I will inevitably lose my manners." If Aunt Song has something to make her angry between her words, she hopes that her mother will have a lot of them, so don't worry about her aunt. As she spoke, she deliberately glanced at the Empress Dowager Liang, bit her lip slightly, and continued: "No matter what the Holy Mother wants to do with the concubine, the concubine should accept it, and dare not complain!" ”
Hearing this, Empress Dowager Liang was proud in her eyes, but Aunt Song frowned and looked at Princess Chu suspiciously.
Pei Yaowei took advantage of the time when Empress Dowager Liang turned around, and quickly exchanged a look with Aunt Song, which made her feel at ease.
So, Aunt Song also bowed her head as if she were subservient, and stopped talking.
"You know you're scared?" Empress Dowager Liang sat back in her chair, her tears were not finished, and a smile appeared that was bound to come, "It's good to know that you're afraid." Ruyi—"
Aunt Zong stepped forward to obey the order.
"Send her to the mourning family and escort her back to Shu Chi Pavilion! Without the instructions of the mourning family, she was not allowed to step out of the door! ”
This is the confinement. Pei Yaowei thought secretly.
In the Shuchi Pavilion, Qingchen was busy with a table of dishes, and was about to go to Yuhua to watch the situation, but before he could go out, he saw the aunt next to the Queen Mother and the princess coming over together.
Who would have thought that the closer ones knew that this was really a prisoner.
Aunt Zong escorted people back, and arranged guards around Shuchi Pavilion before leaving. As soon as she left, Qingchen hurriedly came to Pei Yaowei and asked what was going on.
Pei Yao slowly and methodically filled herself with a bowl of soup, padded her stomach, and told Qingchen about the Yuhua view of the right talent.
"Is the Queen Mother crazy?" Qingchen couldn't help but be surprised when he heard it, but after a turn of his brain, he felt that things were not so simple: "That's not right...... In the past few days, the doctor and Mr. have prescribed medicine together, and there is no time to drill for people. When you went to Yuhuaguan before, the slave maid made a reason for changing the prescription in order to support the maid, but ...... According to the maidservant's statement, after she went back, Yuhua Zhenren never woke up again, and naturally she never took medicine again, and the Queen Mother wanted to involve her death with you...... What can she say? Said that when you went to see Yuhua Zhenren, you fed her poison? Or stabbed her? As soon as this person died, shouldn't the gentleman and the imperial doctor have both taken the pulse and investigated the cause of death? ”
"Empress Dowager Liang wants to involve Yuhua Zhenren's death with me-" Pei Yaowei smiled mysteriously and told Qingchen: "However, her purpose is not to use this incident to put me to death." ”
Qingchen was slightly stunned.
When he was in Yuhuaguan, Pei Yao faintly had a guess.
As Qingchen said, unless Empress Dowager Liang is crazy, otherwise, it would be extremely stupid for her to want to get rid of herself for such a far-fetched reason.
Empress Dowager Liang is not so stupid.
So, she did this, most of the time, to-
"Add a charge to me, and use that charge to coerce me into doing something for her." She speculated.
Qingchen frowned, "What could it be?" After a pause, he said anxiously: "Will she coerce you to be unfavorable to His Highness?" ”
Pei Yao tilted her head and smiled, "If that's the case, I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint the Holy Mother!" - I don't have the guts! ”
Qingchen just breathed a sigh of relief, but then caught another trick, and couldn't help but widen his eyes and said, "Niangniang, what do you mean...... If it's anything else, do you really want to be coerced by her? ”
Pei Yao raised her eyebrows and said in her heart, it depends on what is going on.
Liang Yanyu passed away, and Yuhua was busy in the middle of things. In the Shu Chi Pavilion, Pei Yao waited until the evening of the third day before waiting for the Empress Dowager Liang's phoenix drive.
"Meet Our Lady."
When she was blessed to salute, Aunt Zong cleared the scene, and for a while, only she and Empress Dowager Liang were left in the room.
"Xiangyu, you should know that now your life and death, the King of Chu can't take care of it, and the Li family can't take care of it. Only the mourning family-" Empress Dowager Liang smiled ruthlessly, and told her as if bewitched: "Only the mourning family can decide whether to keep your life or not!" ”
When Pei Yao heard this, he didn't say a word, and knelt on the ground.
"The concubine knows that she was disrespectful to Our Lady in the past, but I beg your Lady to be a lot! Spare your concubine's life! ”
Empress Dowager Liang was very satisfied with the situation in front of her.
This is also the first time she has looked at Xiang Xiang's face clearly, but she can't show any disgust, and even hopes that she looks more like Pei Yao.
"Your face...... Empress Dowager Liang bent over, pinched her chin, and her eyes were a little demonic, "Your face is really hated and loved by the mourners!" ”
"Are you afraid of mourning?"
Pei Yaowei lowered her head and said in a panic: "Concubine...... Our Lady of the World, Fengyi is solemn, the concubine has great respect for you, and she doesn't dare to offend in the slightest! ”
"Heh," Empress Dowager Liang chuckled lightly, and shook her away with her hand, "You should be afraid of mourning the family." ”
She said: "If you are afraid, you will know that you are afraid." ”
Pei Yao smiled silently in her heart, and said secretly: Then I'm afraid I won't be able to satisfy you.
Empress Dowager Liang turned her back to her and was silent for a long time, exhaled slowly, turned around, and got back to business: "The mourning family doesn't want you to die." ”
"But if you refuse to obey...... The mourning family doesn't mind giving you a ride! ”
A trace of joy flashed on Pei Yao's face, and in an instant, she became afraid again, and hurriedly said, "Don't dare, concubine!" As long as the Virgin is willing to spare the life of the concubine, no matter what you command, the concubine will do her best and dare not disappoint the Virgin! ”
"Well," Empress Dowager Liang nodded, "you'd better think so." Otherwise, not only your life, but even Concubine Xian and your brother are babies, don't think about it! ”
Pei Yao's heart was ruthless, and she didn't dare to say anything.
Empress Dowager Liang sat down and asked in a quiet tone, "Do you remember, Concubine Pan?" ”
Pan Ruohui?
Pei Yao frowned secretly, answered, and said, "I don't know what the Holy Mother means......?" ”
"You, taking advantage and suffering losses are all on this face. In the past, the mourning family hated your face, but now it's different. Empress Dowager Liang seemed to smile, "The mourning family wants you to put this face on your face and make the emperor hate the mourning family." ”
Pei Yao's thoughts were paused, and after a slight reaction, he understood.
"Forgive...... The concubine was stupid, and she really didn't understand what Our Lady meant. She said.
Empress Dowager Liang snorted coldly.
When she came to Chengyang Palace this time, she saw Liang Yanyu, which reminded her of many things in the old days. One of them is that after Yanyu was abolished, Pei Yaowei promoted Pan Ruohui to the position of concubine in a blink of an eye.
"Back then, Pei Yaowei did not hesitate to join forces with the daughter of the Pan family in order to deal with the niece of the mourning family, but now she is dead, but Pan Ruohui is still there."
At first glance, hearing Empress Dowager Liang's words, Pei Yaowei was somewhat surprised.
Although, from Empress Dowager Liang's previous words, she had already guessed that she wanted to use her own hand to deal with Pan Ruohui, but what she didn't expect was that Empress Dowager Liang would think that Liang Yanyu's abolition was the result of her and Pan Ruohui's joint efforts.
This is really a big misunderstanding.
She trembled and asked, "What does the Virgin want the concubine to do?" ”
"The mourning family came here, and when she saw the smoke and rain, she was already delirious." When Empress Dowager Liang said this, her words were still full of sadness, but then her tone changed, but she became cunning and insidious, "You say, when a person is dying, a delirious person suddenly sees an old enemy who has been dead for many years, what will he say under this panic and fear? ”
That's too much. Pei Yao thought of the side with Liang Yanyu, and her heart became depressed again.
It's rare that Empress Dowager Liang thought of it with herself this time.
"The meaning of the Virgin, the concubine understood." She looked embarrassed, looked up at the Queen Mother, as if she wanted to refuse, but in the end she gritted her teeth and nodded, "Concubine...... The concubine should obey her fate, only ask Our Lady to fulfill her promise, and don't embarrass the concubine's family! ”
"Don't worry." Empress Dowager Liang came to her calmly and said with a light smile: "The mourning family has always been very lenient to obedient slaves. Don't let them go, as long as you do things well, the prince of Jiyang County will be Princess Fanchang's concubine the next day. ”
"The mourners will do what they say, and they will never treat you badly!"