Chapter Eighty-Four: The Storm Suddenly Changes
Her words were like cold water, pouring on his heart, Gu Jue was originally in a hurry to come back to explain, thinking that she would be annoyed with her temperament, but she never wanted to say such a thing, which was really chilling.
Gu Jue slowly sat on the chair next to him, and smiled bitterly for a long time, "I thought you understood my thoughts, if I marry someone else, I will die immediately." β
Seeing that he had made such a poisonous oath, she hurriedly walked over and covered his mouth, "What nonsense." β
Seeing that she was so nervous, he must not want him to die, and the anger in his heart disappeared at once. "Don't listen to what others say in the future, and one day, I will straighten you out, and even the queen will not say anything."
The lights illuminated his affectionate eyes, as if time had come to an abrupt halt in an instant,
He took a deep breath after coming over for a long time, and then frowned, "Why does it smell so big." β
"I drank a little wine at the banquet, and it was cold outside the hall, so I had to warm up." Yu Zhiyan couldn't help but tell a lie.
After the prince's 100th birthday banquet, the emperor wants to pardon some death row prisoners, but the pardoned person must be discussed by the ministers before the verdict can be made.
In the past, when Gu Jue went to court, Yu Zhiyan was sleeping, but he was woken up by him, but today he personally served him to change clothes.
Gu Jue didn't know her thoughts, but it was the first time to see her so bent, and she only felt very interesting.
Where is she a lord who can serve people, and she wears his court clothes so twisted that she can't even look at Bao Xiao'er who is serving on the side.
"If General Ben goes to the court like this, I'm afraid that the emperor will cut off my head." He feigned annoyance, but there was a secret smile in his eyes.
Yu folded her pearl and threw her pearl into the tray, after all, she had to ask for help, and it was not easy to attack, so she had to endure it as much as she could.
He couldn't help but laugh when he looked at her, and he didn't care about the people watching there, and kissed her on the cheek.
Her cheeks flushed with shame for a moment, and she hurriedly said: "I heard that the emperor is going to discuss the matter of pardon today, and he is still bothering the general to intercede for those people in my Yu Mansion?" β
"It's just that I kissed the beauty, so I made such a request, and sure enough, the most uncomfortable thing is the beauty." He pinched her chin and looked at her cheek.
Yu Zhiyan was already annoyed, pushed his hand away, and as soon as he turned around, he heard his voice coming, "General Ben's plea is, your temperament is getting bigger and bigger, and you can't be provoked if you say it." β
When Gu Jue entered the palace, the emperor really did not come to the early court, but only said that the matter was discussed by several ministers, and the list of pardons, the queen mother had already prepared it and asked Sun Xi to send it over.
And Gu Jue opened the scroll and suddenly changed his face, the person who pardoned the Yu Mansion was the fold he personally handed to the emperor, and the emperor would never refuse his words.
And obviously this matter is all the queen's decision, and she doesn't want to pardon Yu Zhiyan's family at all.
The people around him originally knew who he wanted to protect, Gu Jue's eyes became sharper, and none of the people around him dared to speak.
Until the morning dynasty dispersed, he went directly to the queen's bedroom.
He stood at the gate of the temple, and the cold wind swept up the snow on the glazed tiles and fell on his face. The palace maids didn't dare to secretly look at his cold face anymore, and hurriedly entered the palace to make a statement.
The queen was holding the prince in her arms, her face was full of motherly kindness, her lips were slightly hooked, and she was no longer as fierce as before.
It seems that she has really become a good mother of the virtuous queen, and she is no longer full of calculations and conspiracies.
Seeing Gu Jue enter the hall, the queen's face suddenly became condensed, as if a cold chill spread in the hall in an instant.
"Donglang, I know what you're here for. Although I tell you, it is already the best duty of this palace to spare that woman," the queen's voice condensed, "she should be buried by her father and mother when her family is full." β
Gu Jue looked at his own sister and smiled bitterly, "When my sister entered the palace, I sent my sister outside the mansion, and at that time, you held my hand and only said that she would be my sister all her life, but now it seems that only the queen is standing in front of Weichen." β
"Donglang, sister, this is for your own good, how many ridiculous things have you done for that woman now." The queen asked in a fierce voice.
"What about my sister for that man?" Gu Jue asked rhetorically: "It's much better than my brother." β
The queen handed the child in her arms to the palace people, ran to Gu Jue's side at once, raised her hand and slapped him in the face,
Everyone in the hall was stunned by this slap, Sun Xi hurriedly walked over when he saw this, and supported the queen's swaying body, "The queen's mother is angry, General Gu just said the wrong thing for a while, you have to punish him, just tell the minions, be careful about the pain in your hands." β
Gu Jue touched his swollen cheeks, and his eyes were full of disbelief.
At this time, the little prince in swaddling clothes felt the solemnity spreading in the hall, and cried loudly, and the palace maid on the side hurriedly coaxed softly, but the more she cried, the more miserable she became.
The queen's gaze withdrew from Gu Jue's body, and she turned around and carried the child into the inner hall.
At this time, there were only two people left in the hall, Gu Jue and Sun Xi, Sun Xi was proud, but his face showed a flattering look, "The general should go back quickly, don't mention this in the future." β
Gu Jue had slowly woken up from the shock, and then looked at Sun Xi calmly, "Dog minion, don't get out of here." β
After he finished speaking, he straightened out his robes and strode out of the hall, even the birds in the cage seemed to feel the anger on his body, and fluttered their wings in the early cage one by one.
After he left, Sun Xi spat on the ground fiercely
, The cunning face was full of rampant, "Now that your sister and brother are separated, it is much more difficult to get the favor of the queen mother in the future." β
It was already noon when Gu Jue came back from the palace, and the sky was surprisingly dark, and the melted snow formed a thick layer of ice, soaking the shoes and socks of passers-by.
He came out of the sedan chair with a gloomy face, but saw Yu Zhiyan standing in front of the mansion. She wore a cloak on the outside, and her little head was shrunk in fox fur, which was very cute.
She didn't know how long she had been waiting in the cold wind, but that little face had already turned red from the cold.
Seeing him, Yu Zhiyan pounced like a butterfly, and suddenly threw himself into his arms, not caring about the eyes of the people around him.
Gu Jue couldn't help but feel a tightness in his heart, and a sadness crossed his heart.
"Can the emperor promise to pardon those people in Yufu?" Yu Zhiyan's head came out of his arms, and then he looked up at him, and his little face was full of nervousness.
He was silent for a moment, all the words choked in his throat like fish bones, and stared at her, but he couldn't say a word.
Yu Zhiyan suddenly sensed something, her face turned pale in an instant, and she slowly raised her eyes, "The emperor refuses to forgive, right?" β
Gu Jue had thousands of thoughts in his heart in an instant, he didn't dare to tell her the truth, he was only afraid of her frightened eyes.
"You stupid girl, you take it seriously." He deliberately pretended to be cynical, "General Ben can't save a few people, look at you scared like this." β
Hearing this, Yu Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief. The snow on the wall set off her face as bright as snow, her dark eyes were full of smiles, and she beat his chest in feigned annoyance, "You are so bad." β
After speaking, she went straight into the door, leaving him alone, and the smile on his face gradually dissipated, leaving only helplessness and sadness.
The cold of the forest entangled the golden and glorious dormitory, and no matter how good the silver bone charcoal was, it could not dispel the endless cold.
The queen sat in the dormitory, her face was very ugly, and it was useless to even have dinner.
Sun Xi is now proud, where not to hollow out his mind to please her, only to order the palace people to take the little prince away, and then quietly came to the queen's bedroom.
"Queen Mother, the slave is brave and has invited someone to come over to relieve your boredom." Sun Xi smiled shrewdly, his slender eyes were half-squinted, and he didn't know what bad water was brewing in his heart.
The queen was crooked on the soft couch, and when she heard this, her face suddenly changed, and she kicked him on the leg fiercely, "You stupid thing has done such a thing, this is the palace, and the emperor is still here." β
Her strength was not great, but Sun Xi fell to her knees all of a sudden, and suddenly her face turned pale with fright, and her head was covered with fine sweat, "The slave knows that he is wrong." β
The queen was about to tell him to deal with this matter cleanly, but the words immediately changed again, and she asked softly: "You have arranged it properly, in case something goes wrong, the palace will want your head." β
Seeing the queen asking, Sun Xi hurriedly said: "It's all arranged by the slave himself, if anyone finds out, the slave will apologize with death." β
The queen nodded with satisfaction, then looked at herself in the bronze mirror, and said, "Don't hurry up and dress up the palace." β
Although she had just given birth to a prince, her body recovered quickly, she was plumper than before, and she had a different charm.
Sun Xi hurriedly brought her clothes and combed her waist-length hair. But a moment of work was cleaned up, upright to the impeccable facial features, meticulously discharged the beautiful outline, under the faint shadow of the flow of eyes, is a natural noble and melancholy temperament.
The queen looked at the woman in the mirror, showed a satisfied expression, and then said, "Where is the emperor today?" β
"Back to the queen's mother, the emperor has been staying in Chu Zhaoyi's palace for the past few days, and the person who served just now came to talk back and said that he had fallen asleep." Sun Xixiao's face was full of thin folds, "The slave will arrange it." β
After he left, the queen slowly walked to the soft couch, her clothes half open, and her shoulders half exposed.
The charcoal in the silver basin crackled and burned, and the hours gradually passed. After about a stick of incense, the sound of subtle footsteps slowly sounded.
The queen's half-closed phoenix eyes slowly opened, looking at the man close at hand, although he was dressed as an inner servant, he was the most stunning inner attendant she had ever seen.
The cold wind blew on the branches of the window, bleak, like a woman's mournful cry.
"I haven't seen you for a long time, how is Feng Huang doing?" The queen's voice was coquettish and lazy, "Pity me for thinking about you all these days, but I can only stay in this place where I can't see people, and I can't look at you." β
"Didn't the grass people come to see you?" A sharp light flashed in Feng Huang's dim eyes, but then disappeared.
The queen's phoenix eyes were gentle and lingering, and her voice was mixed with pride, "Feng Huang, you finally belong to me today, just thinking about how you disdained me at that time, I hated it so much." β
The eunuch's clothes on Feng Huang's body slowly fell to the ground, and then his white robe was inside, and he went on the queen's phoenix couch without any scruples.
"Yes, I belong to the queen all my life." The inky scent on his body brushed his ears and temples, and he said in a low voice: "The queen mother should not abandon me." β
The queen raised her eyes in a trance, and saw that his eyebrows were close at hand, and her voice lingered in her ears, and she was as affectionate as she wished.
At this time, Feng Huang's hand slowly fell on her thin clothes, and with the crackling sound of silver bone charcoal burning, her clothes slowly fell to the ground.
Feng Huang's cold kiss immediately fell on her hot skin, but his gentleness aroused the greatest desire in her heart, and she almost instinctively hugged Feng Huang's neck.
The birds in the palace kept chirping outside the hall, as if telling the world about all kinds of unknown filth and dirtiness in this dirty deep palace.
Sun Xi saw that the birds outside were only chirping vigorously, and he couldn't help but command a few little eunuchs to drive them. The other birds were frightened and flew away, except for a few dark crows that kept circling around the dormitory, refusing to leave.
He was in a hurry there, afraid that the crow would disturb the little prince and the queen, but the arrival of a person made him frightened.
I saw that the emperor led the eunuch who was close to him in, and it was as obvious as a bright yellow dragon robe.
Sun Xi did everything, but he didn't expect the emperor to come over suddenly, and he didn't even put the royal court, but he came directly from Zhaoyi Niangniang.
"Minionβ" Sun Xi deliberately shouted hard, trying to wake up the people in the hall. But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the emperor.
"No need to say goodbye." The emperor glared at him fiercely, "Foolish things, I'm not afraid of arguing with the queen mother and the crown prince." β
Sun Xi was so frightened that his face was already pale, and the emperor only asked in a low voice, "Can the queen sleep?" I just dreamed that the prince was crying vigorously, so I came to take a look. β
"If you go back to the emperor, you have already fallen asleep, the queen mother has been sleeping early recently, if others are noisy, she will lose sleep all night." Sun Xi only hoped that the emperor would leave quickly after hearing this, otherwise there would be a big mess.
But when the emperor's personal eunuch heard this, his face suddenly changed greatly, he shook off the dust in his hand, and scolded in a sharp voice: "Sun Xi, you have a few heads, but you can't drive the emperor away." β
Hearing this, the emperor flicked his sleeves and walked into the palace, but Sun Xi ignored the eunuch's obstruction and only chased in.
The emperor immediately noticed something when he entered the hall, and the woman's gasping voice echoed faintly in the hall, which made the emperor's face change greatly, and he walked towards the apse suddenly.
When he walked in, the intertwined figures on the bed were abruptly separated, and a pair of thin white hands lifted the curtain, revealing the queen's stunning face.
"Your Majesty?" Seeing her, the queen's face suddenly turned pale, and her voice trembled, "Why are you here?" β
"You slut, you dare to cause trouble in the palace." The emperor pointed at her, his face full of anger, "Who is your adulterer?" β
As soon as the emperor's voice fell, he saw a person slowly sit up, and then a light voice came, "It's me." β
As soon as he saw Feng Huang's face, the emperor's face turned blue with anger. He hated Feng Huang in his life, he was the same age as him, but he was the most outstanding person among all the royal nobles, even his father praised him as the first person in the Celestial Empire, and even his crown prince was compared to him.
And it was this man who was far from being comparable to him, but he had an affair with his queen, which made him not hate.
"Someoneβ" As soon as he shouted these two words, the dragon's body was crushed to the ground, and his mouth was immediately stuffed, and he could no longer speak.
"Woo woo-" He turned his face, but saw Sun Xi pressing him under him with a hideous face, and then said viciously, "The slave advised you not to come in, you have to come in." β
The queen is really a person who is used to seeing the world, and she was frightened just now, but now she calmed down again, and only thought about how to deal with this matter.
She stood up slowly in her cloak, Feng Huang also followed her down, and the two of them slowly walked towards the emperor, with endless killing intent in their eyes.
The emperor's blood-red eyes stared at her, and his lips trembled constantly, as if he was cursing her with the most vicious words.
Sun Xi crushed him to death, if it was before, he might still be able to escape, but unfortunately now that he has used too many forbidden drugs, his body has already collapsed.
The first to speak was Feng Huang, who was casually draped in a large area of scenery under his robe, and there were faint women's lip prints on it. He said in a lazy tone, "Queen Mother, either the three of us will die, or we will give it a go and take his life." β
After several years of married couples, there was no trace of emotion in the queen's eyes, as if it was just a slave who was going to be executed, "Your Majesty, don't worry, after you go, our crown prince will ascend the throne, and the concubines will definitely assist him well in the future, becoming a generation of Ming monarchs, and they will never be the same to you." β
As soon as these words came out, it was tantamount to the queen had made a choice, and the emperor who was lying on the ground suddenly showed a shocked expression on his face, and then shook his head, as if he wanted to beg this woman to be soft-hearted.
Seeing that the emperor begged her like this, the queen couldn't help but smile with satisfaction, and then said in a cold voice: "Your Majesty, the pills sent to you by the concubine will be able to go to the emperor without being tortured for a while, but now that you have seen it, you can only die a miserable death." β
After saying that, she took out a porcelain bottle from the secret compartment of the dressing table, and then walked over, trying to pull the cloth from the emperor's mouth.
Who knew that her hand was stopped by Feng Huang, and the queen couldn't help but be stunned, and she didn't know what he meant.
The candle flame in the hall shone on his warm and jade-like face, and the edges and corners were all obscure, "How can such a noble queen mother kill people?" Let the grass people come to such a dirty thing. β
Hearing his words, the queen actually smiled, and only handed the porcelain vase in her hand to his hand, her lips twitched slightly, "Okay."
Feng Huang walked over slowly, and then took out the cloth from the emperor's mouth, and the desperate emperor didn't have time to call the people outside the palace, and his mouth was stuffed with pills.
Seeing this, the queen hurriedly took a cup of tea and poured it.
The emperor, who had only been on the throne for only a year, was lying on the cold ground, his hands and feet were constantly twitching, and his nose and mouth were constantly bleeding bright red blood.
Sun Xi saw that he couldn't resist at all, so he let go of his hands and feet, but after only a moment, he was motionless.
There was a dead silence in the hall, and all three of them could hear each other's breathing. Then Sun Xi walked over slowly, kicked the man in the dragon robe, and then probed his fingers between his noses.
"Dead." Sun Xi just had to do this just to save his life, but now that the emperor is really dead, he also knows that he is afraid.
Feng Huang's eyes flashed with a trace of wetness, but even he didn't realize that it was this mediocre emperor who ordered someone to kill his father, queen and mother.
The queen's eyes slowly withdrew from the cold corpse, and then carried the emperor to the phoenix couch together with Feng Huang and Sun Xi.
As long as it was announced in a while, the emperor used forbidden drugs indiscriminately and died violently.
After all this was cleaned up, the queen said to Feng Huang beside her, "You go out of the palace quietly first, and soon the palace will be able to return the throne that originally belonged to you to you." β
Feng Huang's face didn't show much joy, he just picked up the clothes on the ground and slowly put them on.
When he was about to leave, the queen stopped him, and then handed him her hand stove, "It's cold when you go out, so take care of your body." β
In the Chengguo Mansion, Yu Zhiyan slept exceptionally well because the people in the mansion were pardoned, but Dong Lang on the side tossed and turned several times to wake her up from her sleep.
She had just gotten into Gu Jue's arms and continued to sleep, but there was a commotion outside.
In the middle of the night, Yu Zhiyan only had a bad premonition, and he only raised his chest tightly, but in a trance, Gu Jue had already woken up.
"What's the matter?" Gu Jue shouted angrily, but casually covered the quilt for Yu Zheyan, who sat up, for fear that she would catch a cold.
"General, the emperor has died, you should enter the palace quickly." The eunuch who sent the message had already changed his voice, and his voice was still mixed with fear.
Yu Zhiyan's face suddenly changed greatly, and he turned to look at Gu Jue, but he saw that his face was also full of shock.
He recovered first, only took out his court clothes from the cabinet, and did not need the maids to serve, and put them on his own, extremely cumbersome and complicated clothes, and he soon put them on.
When he was about to go out, he saw that Yu Zhiyan was still there with a misty face, so he comforted softly: "It's okay, even if the sky falls, I will help you hold it, you stay at home steadily, it's okay." β
She looked up at his face full of concern, then nodded slowly, "Okay, I'll wait for you to come back." β
Gu Jue wanted to comfort her a few more words, but the eunuch outside only urged vigorously, and he still turned around and left.