"Your Majesty." Panyu raised her head, her eyes wet with tears. "The concubine never thought of challenging your majesty, and the concubine disagreed with this matter precisely because she loved the emperor. Take a look at how many concubines in the harem are looking forward to you going, waiting for you to come. All of them are women of noble birth, and all of them are good women who have been carefully selected to enter the palace and serve by your side.

Can...... How can a lowly woman from Fireworks Willow Lane compare with them. Your Majesty, even if you don't think about your reputation, you have to think about which one is heavy and which one is light. ”

Hongli looked at her crying and talking, and was a little more irritable. "Queen, I don't want to discuss this matter with you now, I just want to tell you. Since you're still the Queen, I can say more. She is not the kind of woman you imagined, although she came from a humble background, she finally got out of the mud and was not stained. I like her, and it's her precious quality that I like. ”

Panyu stared at the emperor in front of him in disbelief, and asked in a trembling voice, "Then the emperor doesn't like concubines?" Don't like Concubine Ling, Concubine Qing, and Concubine Rong? Don't you like the thousands of women in the harem? Your Majesty, how can you be embarrassed by your concubines? ”

"What's the contradiction in that?" Hongli snorted coldly, not ready to say any more. "I've finished what I want to say, no matter whether you want to be the queen or not, no matter how much grievance you have, you can't change my mind. Since it is useless to talk too much, stop here. I'm going to read the excerpts. ”

"Okay." Panyu didn't say any more, just slowly lowered your head. "Since the concubines can't stop the emperor, they can only obey the order."

Still unhappy in his heart, Hongli turned away. When he walked away, Pan Yu called out: "Ye Lan, you go and inform Bi Xia and ask him to help me do something......

Wei Yating accompanied Concubine Qing and Concubine Rong to talk for a while, feeling slightly tired. So he got up and went out for a walk, who knew that it was so coincidental that he saw Bi Xia's figure under the corridor. It seemed that he came back in a hurry, as if something had happened. A little frightened in her heart, she hurriedly followed Bi Xia, but until she reached the queen's courtyard, Bi Xia finally disappeared.

Thinking about this in her heart, Wei Yating thought about it, and still stepped forward and knocked on the queen's door. "Mother, are you in there? The concubine has come to greet you. ”

At that time, Pan Yucai heard Bi Xia say that the assassination was unsuccessful, and he sighed in his heart. I heard that Concubine Ling was outside the door, and I couldn't update my panic. "Bi Xia, go ahead, this palace will take care of this matter."

Bi Xia nodded and jumped out of the window.

Only then did Ye Lan step forward and open the door to Concubine Ling: "Concubine Ling, please do so." ”

"When did Concubine Ling become so polite. Didn't you just see the ceremony when you had breakfast? It's only been a long time, and you've come to say hello to this palace again? Don't you have something to say? "Panyu has been fighting with Concubine Ling for so many years, she has it, Concubine Ling has it, what she doesn't have, Concubine Ling has it all, and now that it comes to this juncture, maybe only Concubine Ling can persuade the emperor.

Thinking like this, Panyu took a breath of cold air and couldn't help lowering his eyelids.

"The concubine doesn't have anything special to say, don't worry about the queen. It's just that I just saw Bi Xia and felt a little strange. After following him a few steps, the man disappeared. But he had already followed to the courtyard of the queen's mother, so he came to say goodbye. "Wei Yating has never been particularly polite when she talks to the queen. After all, what kind of person she is, she also knows in her heart.

Pan Yu hooked her lips: "You are very smart Concubine Ling, you know what happened." Over the years, the favored concubines who have accompanied the emperor have changed batch after batch, but you are still the person the emperor cares about the most. Being able to extend grace for decades is also unique to you. This, seriously, Hongu is ashamed of himself. ”

"Then do you want to know why, Queen?" Wei Yating saw that she was a little tired, and the redness and swelling of her eyes had not subsided, so she knew that the conversation between Fang Cai and the emperor must be unpleasant.

"Please let the concubine give me advice." Although Panyu was a little unwilling, his tone was still a little serious.

"When it's in charge, it's in charge." Wei Yating only had four short words. After that, her eyes rolled slightly, but she didn't say any more after all. Changed his head: "The concubine still doesn't delay the queen's rest." ”

"Wait." Pinching a round pearl, Pan Yu gently stretched out his hand: "How about Ling Guifei look at this pearl?" ”

Wei Yating fixed her eyes and looked at it carefully: "Smooth, round, and excellent beads." ”

"If it had ever been insulted at its feet, it had fallen and rolled in the water. Does Concubine Ling still think it's an excellent bead? Do you still think it can be set in a crown? Panyu was a little unwilling, and Mingzhu secretly cast, this metaphor is disgusting when used on the body of a dusty woman.

In fact, I understand what the queen means, but Wei Yating doesn't want to look at this matter like her. To put it bluntly, she knows herself, and she has never cared about the emperor like the queen. "Niangniang, the concubine is dull, there are some things, just get by. If you care too much about one thing, or too much about something that can't be changed, in the end it's only yourself who will work hard. ”

Watching Ling Guifei leave, Pan Yu repeated the four words in her mouth faintly: "When you are in charge, you are in charge." "The emperor's affairs, there is something she shouldn't be in charge of, she doesn't want to control the emperor's people, but wants to grasp his heart. I always feel like a failure, looking forward to words

He dropped the pearl at his feet and crushed it severely. "Your Majesty, the concubine's heart is so bitter."

Before lunch, Hongli came.

Looking at a table full of Jiangnan dishes, Panyu was secretly sad, and he didn't notice that the emperor's figure was standing in front of him for a while.

Hongli's eyes are poisonous. Almost with a glance, he saw the powdery pearl shattered on the ground. "The queen is really resolute. I'm very good at thinking about me. ”

Pan Yu was startled, and the chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground. "The concubines don't know that the emperor is coming, and they are far away to welcome ......"

"Didn't you know I was coming?" Hongli interrupted him and stepped forward, a terrible chill in his eyebrows. "Bixia was sent by you! Are you so impatient? ”

"Yes." Pan Yu said word by word: "If the emperor's thoughts are constant, the concubines dare not think about how Emperor Qianlong will be evaluated in the annals of history in the future." ”

"Aren't you afraid that I'll be upset?" Hongli asked very bluntly.

"There has never been a woman who loves the emperor like a concubine. And love is so greedy, so sad. If the emperor thinks that the concubine is losing his woman's virtue by doing this, he can dispose of the concubine and have no regrets. ”

Hongli suddenly overturned the table, and the delicacies on the table fell to the ground with a crackle along with the finely carved plates. In an instant, the residue soup flew wildly, and it seemed that it was not only the side room, but also the heart.

"You actually ordered Bi Xia to assassinate her, Queen, these days, it seems that you are staring at me a lot. If I hadn't told you today, I would have canonized her and brought her back to the palace, maybe you would have assassinated her after I left, wouldn't you? Hongli's eyes were sharp, staring straight at the queen's cheek.

"Not bad." Panyu answered this sentence without hesitation. "The concubines will, definitely."

Hongli clapped his hands, and a woman walked in softly. "The emperor is blessed, the queen is blessed."

"Your Majesty." Panyu seemed to be able to see something from this woman's face. "You ......"

"This is the person I want in my mouth, and this is the woman I want to canonize and bring back to the palace." Hongli frowned: "She is not a woman from Fireworks Willow Lane, she is the daughter of Suzhou weaving." The reason why I wronged her and asked her to accompany me in this play was nothing more than to force the queen to make a move. Sure enough, you really can't bear it anymore. ”

"Your Majesty ......" Panyu was shocked, and he didn't even think that all kinds of rumors and rumors in the past few days had been pre-set by the emperor. Why are you doing that? ”

Hongli sighed and gave a gentle look at the soft and boneless woman who walked in. The woman was well-behaved and hurriedly retreated.

Panyu can see from her the shadow of the former concubine Huang and the pure concubine Su. It was an authentic Jiangnan woman, soft and delicate, Wu Nong's soft language, and the slender waist of Chu was not a hand, which made people feel tempted. "Your Majesty, what did the concubine do wrong?"

"Big Brother Yonghuang's death, did you do it?" Hongli did not shy away from asking directly.

Panyu took a deep breath and did not hesitate: "Yes." That's because the concubine heard the third elder brother say to the eldest elder brother that the death of the crown prince Duanhui was simply caused by the eldest elder brother. He deceived Yonglian's trust with brotherly affection and made him not to take medicine. He also instigated him to go into cold water to cause a high fever in the cold winter, which eventually forced him to die because of a small disease such as typhoid fever. ”

There was a cold meaning in his eyes, and Pan Yu slowly curled the corners of his lips: "Your Majesty, before the eldest brother died, he still remembered your holy decree." I held it under the palace lamp every day and watched it again and again. The concubine asked people to put poisonous powder in the candle. It was extremely fine, and every time the eldest brother looked at it again and again under the candlelight, the poison seeped into his heart and lungs little by little, so the first queen went for only two years, and he passed away. ”

Hongli didn't expect the queen to admit it so easily, and he was a little stunned. "What about the pure concubine and the third elder brother? You also poisoned it, right? ”

"Not bad." Pan Yu stared solemnly, and looked at Shang Hongli with a pair of deep eyes: "Concubine Chun should have died a long time ago, Your Majesty, you have indulged her for many years." It's just that she's always been careful, and it's not easy to deal with her at all. The same is true for the third elder brother. However, the concubines did not end the mother and son with their own hands, but let them kill each other. Therefore, the pure concubine died after the concubine, not after the concubine. But it is a self-inflicted iniquity, and it cannot live. ”

"It's good if you admit it." Hongli was incomprehensible: "It is impossible for Concubine Chun to make waves anymore, why do you just refuse to let her go?" And Yongzhang, he is not qualified to inherit my throne, but he is my flesh and blood, why do you want to kill you? I lost my son-in-law and was in pain, but you still have to be in the harem with an iron fist, haven't you considered my feelings? Panyu, after so many years, how many concubines in the harem have suffered because of you, and how many have died under your calculations. Do you remember it yourself? Won't you feel guilty when you dream back at midnight? Don't you feel like you're covered in more blood than anyone else? ”

Panyu didn't kneel, nor did she come closer, she just slowly chose a place and sat down slowly. "Your Majesty, what the concubines have done over the years, the concubines know best. The concubine's affection for the emperor must also be the best known to the concubine. Your Majesty, you have never known the sincerity of your concubines. In the past, what you were thinking about in your heart was the first queen, but now whether it is Concubine Ling or Concubine Qing, none of them need to be favored by concubines. In the end, what is a concubine in your heart? What is it? ”

"If you are willing to admit your mistake, I will leave your status as the queen and hand over the harem to Concubine Ling and Concubine Qing to take care of together. I'm not a person who doesn't care about the old feelings, Panyu, maybe I may not be able to understand all of your true intentions, but there is one thing, I miss the old, and you are also the one who has accompanied me since the subterranean mansion. As long as you are willing to mend your ways, I ......"

"No need, Your Majesty." Panyu is really desperate: "The concubine would rather die than let go, because what the concubine can't let go of is the love for the emperor." ”

"Queen." Hongli was very reluctant to hear such words.

"Your Majesty, the concubines know that in your heart, the only one who can become a wife is the first queen. No matter what the concubine does, no matter how much she does, it seems to you that it is insignificant, and even sinister. But the concubine has no selfish intentions. The children of your concubines have never been as good as the concubines of the first queen, and the concubines can not care, and they can not be greedy.

But the concubine only wants your sincerity, even if it is the slightest bit, that sincerity is all the ingredients of love. But it's not sympathy, it's not charity, it's not pity, your majesty, do you understand the heart of the concubine? ”

Panyu suddenly stood up, walked towards the bed, and grabbed a pair of scissors. Then, with a click, a long wisp of black silk fluttered to the ground. "The concubine would rather die than struggle any longer. Since the emperor's love has no share of concubines, I hope that the emperor can hate and poison his concubines, and it will be unforgettable in this life. ”

Hongli was so angry that he trembled: "Why do you ...... Always so willful, so stubborn, I have given you the steps, but you refuse to get down...... You ......"

"Concubine, just ask for death." Pan Yu's heart was dead, and from the moment she knew that the emperor could ignore her reputation in order to test her, she knew that this life was destined to go farther and farther.

"I can't fulfill you." Hongli called Li Yu coldly: "Send the queen back to Beijing." I don't want to see her again. ”

The sincerity of this life is nothing more than that, right? Panyu smiled faintly, but after all, he still didn't look at Hongli again. Because the Hongli she saw in her eyes was no longer the person in her heart.

Emperor Chun succeeded the empress, that is, the empress Wulanala, and on the 18th day of February in the 30th year of Qianlong, on the way to the south, he fell out of favor with the decree. On 14 May, four copies of the book were confiscated, namely one for the queen, one for the imperial concubine, one for the concubine, and one for the concubine.

There are only two servants and maids left around to serve on the side, living in the Chengqian Palace. In July of the following year.