Chapter Seventy-Three: Temptation

"The envoys of Western Xia, Jin Wuqi and Jin Wuyan, visited the emperor." The two walked into the main hall, bowed slightly, and put one hand on the position of their hearts, which was regarded as a salute.

Jin Wuyan looked up, only to feel that the man on the dragon chair who was struggling to write was extraordinary. For a moment, I was dumbfounded.

Cheng Qian felt the burning gaze, raised his head, looked at each other, and between the electric light and flint, Jin Wuyan lowered his head.

"The Western Xia sent the prince to negotiate peace, which shows that the sincerity is full. However, since you have come to the Xiling Dynasty, you have to abide by the laws of Xiling. I don't know if the two princes know that in my Xiling Dynasty, it is necessary to kneel down to meet the Son of Heaven. Cheng Qian's words were loud.

Jin Wuqi and Jin Wuyan were stunned, and then knelt down: "The minister sees the emperor."

After the first day of negotiations, Cheng Qian placed the two in the palace where the guests were entertained, which was very close to the Mingyang Palace.

Su Wenmei had dinner, went out for a walk, and met Jin Wuyan. On the way to the Qianzheng Palace, he stopped Su Wenmei: "Hey! Are you the legendary Concubine Wen? ”

Su Wenmei was stunned,...... What is ...... called? The legendary Concubine Wen?

Su Wenmei nodded: "Yes, I am, dare to ask Gongzi's surname?" Jin Wuyan is petite, and her wheat-colored skin looks healthy and delicate, and she has a beauty that is different from that of Xiling women.

Although Jin Wuyan is a woman, pretending to be a man and coming to Xiling with her brother, she is not as tall and fair-skinned as Su Wenmei, and she is full of Chu Chu who wants a man's protection, and she is ashamed of herself for a moment.

She lowered her head and smiled: "I have heard for a long time that Concubine Wen is not formal and bold, Jin Wuyan likes Concubine Niangniang very much, I don't know if Niangniang can learn from the minister."

While speaking, Jin Wuyan clenched his fists and rushed over, Su Wenmei was stunned for a moment, and then fought with her. I don't know who brought the news of her martial arts, but now that there is a new person in the palace, he will be keen to find her to try her tricks.

The folk customs of Western Xia are open, women and men are on an equal footing, and Jin Wuyan has been practicing martial arts since elementary school, and the force is naturally not under Su Wenmei. Su Wenmei has not recovered after giving birth, and she is exhausted in the fight with Jin Wuyan, and she is about to fall to the ground as soon as it gets dark.

Jin Wuqi rushed over and caught Su Wenmei quickly. Su Wenmei landed smoothly. Jin Wuqi's face turned blue: "Jin Wuyan!"

"Go back to your room by yourself and think about it!" He said to Jin Wuyan in a commanding tone. Everyone in the palace knows that Concubine Wen is the person on the tip of the emperor's heart, and if she fights with Jin Wuyan and what happens, it will be impossible to explain. If the emperor has a plan, maybe it will be the destruction of the Western Xia Kingdom.

I really shouldn't have been soaked in Jin Wuyan's soft grinding and hard work, and promised her to take her to Xiling.

"Yes." Jin Wuyan pursed his lips and walked towards the dormitory assigned to him.

Seeing this, Su Wenmei got up from the crook of Jin Wuqi's arm: "Thank you, my lord, but this palace is the concubine of the Son of Heaven, so it is inconvenient to stay for a long time, so I will leave first."

Jin Wuqi nodded: "The little brother is stubborn, if you disturb the concubine, I hope you will forgive me." ”

Su Wenmei thought for a while, nodded, and left.

"Mother." Bing'er on the side was just scared out of a cold sweat by Jin Wuyan. If it hadn't been for Jin Wuqi who suddenly arrived just now and took Niangniang, I am afraid that Niangniang would have been injured at this moment: "That Jin Wuyan is really rude, disregarding the identity of the envoy and the difference between men and women, and fighting you like this."

Su Wenmei sneered: "Bing'er, this is your clumsiness." The one who fought with me just now was clearly a woman. ”

"I like her personality, though." Jin Wuyan's temperament is different from that of harem women. When Su Wenmei saw her for the first time, she felt that she was the kind of person who would not stab the knife in the back sideways, and put any knots in her heart on the bright side.

Boredom in the palace, as if someone has come to relieve boredom?

Bing'er on the side of "Niangniang......" looked very surprised: "Is there a woman with such skin color in the world?"

Western Xia is hot and dry, the folk customs are open, and women can often go out to run. Therefore, Jin Wuyan's complexion is dark, which is far from the white and delicate of the Central Plains woman, and it is no wonder that Bing'er did not recognize it for a while.

Most of the women in the Central Plains often stay in the boudoir, being a female celebrity, learning cooking, not moving around much, basking in the sun, and naturally most of them are fair and flawless.

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After a review by the Criminal Department, Zhuang Xianren and Mo Lanchang reaped the consequences. The concubine has meritorious service and commendable filial piety to protect her mother, and she has been released from the cold palace. Today, the canonization decree came down, and the emperor canonized her as a concubine and moved back to Jingming Palace.

She was wearing a luxurious blue brocade dress, and she only felt bitter.

In the past, my mother was seriously ill, but now she has recovered. Zhuang Xianren fell just right, not only made her mother heal, but also allowed herself to enter the position because of this grievance, and it was not in vain that she walked in the cold palace.

Traditionally, the palace where the disgraced concubines in the palace lived was the cold palace, but it was only deserted, lacking food and clothing. What she went to was a veritable cold palace, because many concubines who made mistakes in the previous dynasty were thrown there and left to fend for themselves. It is also unknown how many women's youth were buried there.

Normally, she was alone in it, and every night she would hear the whining of the wind like a ghost crying, and when she first entered, she thought of the events in the cold palace that she had heard from others, and she felt that she was going to be frightened to death. She used to curl up on a ball of straw and didn't dare to sleep all night long.

Every day, only the palace people sent a bowl of rice from the crack in the door, and the rice was still searched. She was hungry for a few days at first, but then she couldn't hold it anymore, so she picked up the food she had scavenged and ate it with her hands.

When she was in the cold palace, she thought about living every day, watching her mother's health get better, watching Su Wenmei and Zhuang Xianren fight, one day! Someday, she will come out at the right time.

That day, she was digging wild vegetables in the palace to eat, and she happened to hear the noise coming and going outside, saying that Zhuang Xianren and Mo Lanchang had made a big mistake, and she knew that the time had come.

She slammed the door desperately and smashed the only intact chair in the courtyard against the door of the cold palace, which attracted the attention of the palace people who came and went.

Fortunately, the slaves and maids she had graced in the past secretly helped, and she got out of the cold palace. In the past, Xiangyu beside her was punished to the Xin Zheku after she confessed her guilt, but now that she came out, she was found back from the Xin Zheku as soon as possible.

Xiangyu did not have a good time in Xinzheku, and as soon as the concubine was reinstated, she punished those who bullied Xiangyu.

Sun Miao sat on the stool, looking at herself in a gorgeous dress, but with a yellow face and thin muscles. Even if his face is full of fat powder, he looks ugly, and it is difficult to imagine his glamorous appearance in the past. ended up like this, all because of Zhuang Xianren, Mo Lanchang and Su Wenmei.

Now, Mo Lanyan has received her due retribution, and Zhuang Xianren has been demoted from a concubine to a concubine, but Su Wenmei is the only one who is proud.

She must make all those who use her, who have harmed her, who she is jealous of, pay.

In the main hall, Cheng Qianzheng put down the fold in his hand, and saw Su Wenmei come in: "You came just in time, I was thinking about looking for you."

Su Wenmei smiled and walked towards Cheng Qian: "The concubine is bored in the palace, so I want to come to you."

He held Su Wenmei's hand and walked around the Qianzheng Palace, but he met Jin Wuyan who sneaked out. Jin Wuyan fought with Su Wenmei just now and almost injured her, but now he didn't listen to his brother Jin Wuqi's teachings and ran out of the palace without permission.

She saw the loving appearance of Cheng Qian and Su Wenmei, and knelt down immediately: "See the emperor." It is not necessary to salute women other than the queen and queen mother.

"Flat." Cheng Qian said lightly, and did not shy away from it, and kept holding Su Wenmei's hand: "The two princes hurriedly came to my Xiling, presumably after a long journey, today I will be born in the palace to rest more, what is missing, you can tell the steward of the palace internal affairs office."

"Tomorrow, the post station outside the palace is properly arranged, and the two princes can also move there, just take a stroll and experience the customs of Xiling."

"Yes." Jin Wuyan agreed, watching Cheng Qian take Su Wenmei's hand past her eyes. Jin Wuyan's slightly lost appearance fell into Su Wenmei's eyes, and Su Wenmei was shocked: Could it be that Jin Wuyan likes Cheng Qian?

There are many women in the palace, but there are few happy ones, just saying that she Su Wenmei has suffered a lot of crimes, she has had two miscarriages, and she was almost assassinated in Gu's mansion.

If Jin Wuyan falls in love with Cheng Qian, even if she is a princess, it will be difficult to have a good ending. Although Su Wenmei likes her temperament, she can't give up her husband, this Jin Wuyan, I'm afraid she will be infatuated and wrong.

However, Su Wenmei only had a flash of thought, but she felt that it was unlikely: Mo said that Xixia fought with Xiling and suffered defeat; It's Jin Wuyan who only entered the palace with Jin Wuqi today, and he only saw Cheng Qian, so why do you like it?

Cheng Qian has his own worries. Mingyang Palace is very close to the main hall and the palace of hospitality, if any unruly person came in the past and went to the harem, it would also be uncomfortable.

The more Jin Wuyan thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became. Today, in the court, he frowned and lowered his head to criticize the appearance of being too handsome, almost just a glance, she fell in love with him.

She originally thought that she was just a tomboy who didn't ask about love, but now that she saw Cheng Qian, she knew what it was like to have a puff in her heart.

But just now, he and Su Wenmei interlocked their fingers, and they were really tight, and outsiders didn't seem to be able to insert it at all.

She paced around the room, her eyes fell on the bronze mirror of the dresser, and she sat down, looking earnestly at herself in the mirror for the first time.

Although the black is darker than that of the Central Plains woman, her wheat-colored skin looks healthy and radiant, which is not bad.

She has some dark eyes, a high nose bridge, small and plump lips, and her facial features are bright. If you put on women's clothes, you should be a first-class woman.