Chapter 728 Life-Saving Grace Chapter 729 Return Tribute

The Empress Dowager was inexplicably palpitating when she heard this, and then she was so angry that she was about to raise her hand to beat someone, but her hand was tightly held by Hongluan, and she said angrily: "You are so bold, the mourning family wants you to ......."

"What is the Empress Dowager going to do?" Hongluan looked into her eyes: "You want to kill me, not just to say that you have done it, but what is the result?" She glanced at the Ci'an Palace, where the fire reflected red: "Do you want to condemn my sins, saying that I put the fire?" You have to think about it before you speak, my people are not around, the only three Xiao Shunzi with me are outside the Ci'an Palace, and many people have seen them; And I, but you caught me and almost killed me, how do you think I can set fire? ”

The Empress Dowager glared at her: "You said that you were able to do it, and you could arrange for other palace slaves to infiltrate the Ci'an Palace." ”

Hongluan smiled: "Who heard me say that I did it, I just said that this is a heavenly punishment." As for what the Empress Dowager said, you have to find the palace slave who set the fire, but I can guarantee that you can't find it, because all the palace slaves are recorded where they did today, and there are witnesses, and you can't wronged a good person in vain even if you say a word, even if it's a golden word, you can't wronged a good person, right?

After she finished speaking, she looked at the fire in Ci'an Palace: "It seems that Ci'an Palace is not guaranteed, if you still insist on taking my life, the next time the heavenly punishment falls, will you put the heavenly fire into your dormitory directly after the Empress Dowager goes to bed, so that you can't run out?" ”

The Empress Dowager's face changed and she looked at Hongluan seriously: "You are so bold." She could see that Hongluan was not just talking, if she pressed too hard, Hongluan would really do what she said.

Hongluan replied to her lightly: "It's better for you to die than me, isn't it?" When it comes to guts, I've never been big, but rabbits and cowards will bite when they're in a hurry, right? The blessings and misfortunes of you and me are all in the thought of the Empress Dowager. ”

"The sooner you die and the sooner you mourn, the sooner you mourn, the more you can sleep peacefully every day, this is the long-term solution." The Empress Dowager really wanted to push Hongluan off the rockery, but although the eunuchs and palace maids were not around, they didn't go too far, and she couldn't fall into the eyes of people, so she could only hold back.

Hongluan smiled: "Empress Dowager, it's hard to say who will die sooner, don't you say?" Otherwise, I won't object to you trying again, but I don't know if God will give you such a good chance to run out when he wants to condemn you. ”

The Empress Dowager sat down slowly, she was so angry that her legs were a little weak: "If there is a case in the mourning family, do you think you can be happy?" The people of the Shangguan family will not let you go, if the matter is exposed even the little bit, even the emperor will not be able to protect you. ”

Hongluan stared at her eyes-for-tat: "It's okay, the Queen Mother can be waiting for her on Huangquan Road, am I still dissatisfied?" At least, it's much better than me dying alone and waiting for you on the Yellow Springs Road. She sat opposite the Empress Dowager: "It's a pity that Ci'an Palace is gone." ”

When the Empress Dowager heard this, she turned her head to look at it, and her heart was angry again, but she couldn't say anything else: it seems that Hongluan expected that she would arrange the fire of Ci'an Palace to be burned, and the people who dared to burn her bedroom really didn't dare to do it.

"How do you know that the mourning family is going to do it today?" She just couldn't understand this, because the only people who knew about it were her, Ning Cairen, Hua Concubine - of course the nieces and granddaughters could be trusted, but it was hard to guarantee that they wouldn't tell the people around them, and maybe they might have revealed the news.

Failure is not the worst, the worst thing is not knowing what is wrong with things, and having people around you cannot be trusted. She quickly settled down, ignoring the flames in the distance behind her, and asked her the reason for her defeat.

Hongluan smiled faintly: "It's me to be the Empress Dowager, will you say it?" She looked at the fire in Ci'an Palace and stretched: "It's a beautiful view, but it's a pity that such a beautiful scenery can't be seen all the time." The Empress Dowager, you think about what you don't have, it's better to think about where you are going to sleep tonight. Alas, don't you know the Queen Mother's habit of sleeping in a different place? "No mistakes, no skipping words.

Since coming out of Ci'an Palace, Hongluan has been calm and relaxed, not giving in every step, pressing inch by inch, making the Empress Dowager feel that it is difficult for her to take a breath. The anger on her face disappeared, and she sighed softly: "The palace is indeed your world, and the mourning family should still serve the Buddha." ”

Hongluan didn't make a sound when she heard it, she just listened to the Empress Dowager's words, and she wouldn't believe it; The feud has been concluded a long time ago, and now it is just a matter of the Queen Mother giving her a punch and a kick in return, and the temporary bowing and retreat are not credible. Because the Shangguan family is still there, but the reputation is only somewhat damaged, the foundation of the Empress Dowager has not moved, and she can't move the Empress Dowager now.

Hongluan looked at the bottom of the mountain: "I thought that Ning Cairen and Hua Concubine would come as soon as possible, but I didn't expect the emperor to arrive first; The word filial piety is really difficult to see through on weekdays, and the same surname is not necessarily one heart, and the world is unpredictable. After two sentences, she didn't say anything bad about the two concubines, but said casually: "It's just that how does the Empress Dowager explain to the emperor that I will be hanged in the palace?" ”

The Empress Dowager looked at her: "Even if you say it, you can help the mourning family, but you can afford to slander the Empress Dowager with empty words?" ”

Hongluan pointed to the red marks on his neck: "Is this considered a certificate?" Moreover, as long as the emperor heard that there was such a thing, the concubine didn't think about the queen mother; You are now the most honorable person in the world, who will dare to punish you except Heavenly Punishment? ”

The Empress Dowager saw the emperor and his party getting closer and closer: "What do you want?" ”

"I kept the secret for you before and today, and you don't want to trouble me anymore." Seeing the Empress Dowager nodding, Hongluan said softly: "It's just that how can I trust you?" Last time I said I wouldn't tell the Emperor, and the Emperor still doesn't know, but you almost killed me. ”

The Empress Dowager snorted: "Then what do you want, just say it happily." "The emperor and his entourage are almost at the bottom of the mountain, and she is really in a hurry.

Hongluan shook the handkerchief in his hand: "Why don't we exchange our lives for one life, you almost lost my life today, it's a bit bad to expose it, how about the Empress Dowager herself say that I saved your life?" From now on, I don't have to worry so much about you coming back to me. ”

The Empress Dowager was very annoyed when she heard this: "Don't you think you're too greedy? "No mistakes, no skipping words.

Hongluan pointed indifferently at the bottom of the mountain: "The Empress Dowager has an idea, and the concubine obeys her orders." ”

Chapter 729: Return

The Empress Dowager was angry, the person who burned her Ci'an Palace was Hongluan, and the person who threatened to burn her to death was also Hongluan: she was very suspicious that if Hongluan wasn't in the same palace with her, maybe the place where the fire caught fire today was directly the hall, and it was really hard to say whether she could come out alive.

However, now Hongluan has to become her savior, reversing black and white makes her a little unbearable, but Hongluan's scheming makes her care more: from now on, no one will suspect that Hongluan has something to do with today's fire, you must know that she was almost burned to death with the Queen Mother.

At this time, the emperor finally rushed to the rockery, there was still a lot of dust on his sweat body, obviously he had been to Ci'an Palace, and saw the Empress Dowager kneeling down and kowtowing: "Let the Empress Dowager be frightened, and the grandson will be punished." He didn't look at Hongluan, and Hongluan had already avoided the side.

The Queen Mother's eyes flashed with a soft color, and she stretched out her hand to help: "It has nothing to do with you, get up quickly." After scolding the people around the emperor for not knowing how to serve the emperor well, how could he let the emperor go to such a dangerous place as Ci'an Palace, he took the emperor's hand and said: "It's a blessing that no one was hurt, the mourning family was just a little frightened, and it was much better to sit here for so long." ”

When she said this, she raised her eyes and glanced at Hongluan, knowing that the emperor would have to talk to Hongluan sooner or later: "Speaking of which, today is fortunate to have a pure noble concubine by the side of the mourning family, so that the mourning family was not hurt in the slightest; After Shang Yi brought someone to rush in to rescue the driver, the pure noble concubine has been accompanying the mourning family, and even escorted the mourning family to leave Ci'an Palace and rest here. ”

When Hongluan heard this, he stepped forward to salute the emperor and the empress dowager, of course, he had to be modest, so he generously became the empress dowager's life-saving benefactor.

The emperor looked at Hongluan up and down, and shrank slightly when his gaze swept over the red marks between hers, but he didn't let anyone notice: "In this way, you really should be rewarded for the pure noble concubine." He said as he helped the Empress Dowager up: "Let's go to Kunning Palace and sit down, the wind here is so strong that you don't want to hurt the phoenix body." ”

The Empress Dowager didn't want to go to Kunning Palace, but after thinking about it, there was really no other place to go in the palace, so she had to nod and agree: Concubine Hua's status was too low, and it was inconvenient for her to live there. The thought of living with that hateful queen for a few days filled her with discomfort, and she knew that the queen would treat her with a face.

"It's to reward the pure concubine, but she just raised her position and really can't be raised anymore, otherwise the people in the harem think that she can ascend to the sky in one step, and it's not good to mess up the rules or trivial things and have delusions." She didn't want Hongluan's position to rise again, so she had to press it so as not to make Hongluan think that she could do whatever she wanted.

Hongluan quietly held the Empress Dowager's other hand: "The Empress Dowager is right, the concubine is already an exception, how can she break the rules in the palace again." Protecting the Empress Dowager was what the concubine should have done, and the concubine did not dare to be rewarded. ”

The Empress Dowager looked at her very kindly: "That's not what I said, if you have merit, you will be rewarded and punished, this is the original intention of the palace rules; Although it can't be sealed, it can be rewarded, emperor, you think it's appropriate to reward pure concubines, she really made a great contribution. She bit the word "great merit" a little hard.

Hongluan gently excused himself and looked up at the Empress Dowager: "The concubine really doesn't dare to be rewarded, but the fire in Ci'an Palace doesn't know if it's because of the reason, the concubine thinks that the emperor should ask carefully, the safety of the Empress Dowager is a big deal, even if it is caused by carelessness, that careless person is not suitable to serve the Empress Dowager." ”

Aren't you the one who took me? She glanced at the Empress Dowager again: Now, it should be time for me to take your people, and I will take them very clean, and I will send them to where they should go, even if you are the Empress Dowager, you can't get them out again.

And the seven or eight dumb eunuchs were also very suspicious, saying that they were dead soldiers, and their kung fu was obviously not high, but they had also practiced some rough fists and feet; Looking at their skin and neck, they should have really cleansed their bodies, which such people have never seen before. Take this opportunity to check it out, and if there is something special, prepare early.

The emperor immediately nodded: "What Concubine Ai said is extremely true, I am only worried about the safety of the Empress Dowager and have completely forgotten such an important matter. He raised his voice slightly: "Master Meng, immediately ask all the people in Ci'an Palace to take care of them, and ask carefully, and we must find out what caused the fire." ”

The Empress Dowager stopped her, but the emperor only comforted her: "Empress Dowager, the matter must be investigated clearly, there can be no more similar things, otherwise the grandson will really die; You don't have to worry about these things, Master Meng, you also said that it is a good example, and there is absolutely no problem in leaving things to him. ”

The Empress Dowager can't, and now she can't argue with the emperor because of this, because the emperor has to retreat for her own good: "Emperor, Shang Yi is a trustworthy person, and she also rushed into the palace to tell the mourning family and the pure noble concubine that there was a fire, and she has been by her side with the mourning family for many years, so fierce that it is really unaccustomed to serving the mourning family without her." ”

Hongluan spoke: "Yes, Shang Yi will never have anything to do with the fire, and the Empress Dowager can't be left without someone to serve her." ”

The emperor nodded and agreed, and asked Commander Meng to bring Shangyi over for a while, and helped the empress dowager to get into the chariot: "The queen in Kunning Palace is ready, and Cining Palace should be cleaned up after staying for a few days for a while." ”

The chariot was about to leave, when he saw someone walking crookedly in the distance, and the emperor sent someone over to know that it was Ning Cai and Hua Concubine; Ning Cairen is better, Hua Concubine looks very miserable, both of them are half-human and half-ghost, and they are covered with dust from head to toe, but fortunately, the two of them are not injured.

The Empress Dowager ignored them, because she hadn't seen their sisters since the fire, of course, they ran out of Ci'an Palace first, otherwise Shang Yi would not have seen them ignore them when she ordered the palace eunuchs to search and rescue things: when she fled for her life, she didn't pay attention to her aunt and grandmother at all, Wu Hongluan has a sentence that is right, filial piety is not necessarily based on the same surname.

The emperor looked like she was in pain when she saw Hua Concubine walking: "Are you injured?" Passing on the Imperial Doctor. ”

Hua Concubine and Ning Cairen knelt down and saluted and cried into tears, obviously so frightened that they couldn't say a word at all, so they didn't answer the emperor's question. And the emperor thought that it was normal for them to be injured in the Ci'an Palace, so he left a few people to take care of the two of them and their palace people, and asked them to wait here for the car to come and go back to the palace first, and he would go to see them later.

Seeing the emperor and the empress dowager go away, Ning Cairen quickly put away his tears and sat aside to rest, still looking frightened; But Hua Concubine was still kneeling on the ground and crying, and no one could pull her up.

Hongluan glanced back at the two concubines and said, "The Empress Dowager is frightened, and she will have to eat a bowl of soothing soup for a while." She carefully put a round pillow behind the queen mother's waist: "You can squint for a while." ”

The palace was burned down by Hongluan, and the people around her were also released and imprisoned by Hongluan, and the current Empress Dowager has almost become a real loner, where can she sleep?

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