Chapter 172: The Widow
Obviously, there are several gilded stoves in the hall, and the breathable windows are also covered with veils, and the screens are blocked, but there are still bursts of chill drilling into the cracks of the bones.
Cen Mu Ning went to Schumann in every word, and did not mention the Queen Mother behind her, just because she didn't want to arouse Zhuang Chenchen's disgust.
And, the more helpless she looked, the more she could show weakness to him. A woman who is usually strong, tough and intelligent, under the persecution of his mother, has become a weak little white rabbit, such a stark contrast must arouse his pity and make him want to care.
Sure enough, Zhuang Chenchen's face was much more serious than usual, although he didn't make a sound, his eyes looked at the Queen Mother for a moment.
"Someone." The Queen Mother hated this dull atmosphere very much, and gritted her teeth and said, "Don't hurry up and drag this down." ”
"Queen Mother......" Schumann was struck by lightning, and the queen's pressure asked her that she couldn't think of how to deal with it. Who knew that the end of the short silence was the Queen Mother's heartless order. "The slave has not done it, please be merciful."
If you are really dragged down like this, you will definitely die. The means of the Queen Mother, how Schumann did not know. Over the years, although she has not come to serve the Queen Mother, she has been doing things for the Queen Mother and monitoring that person. But it is still difficult to escape the fate of being wiped out.
"You haven't done it, how do you know Bingling is dead?" Cen Muning looked a little excited, she walked up to Schumann and stared into her eyes up close. "In front of the real queen mother and the emperor, you said in person that you watched Bingling die of poison, and said that how could she become a fierce ghost so quickly, where did you watch her die of poison? Could it be Chu Peiyuan's outer house? Could it be that you are the one who took away his beloved concubine? That palace is really confused, why did you, a close maid who served the queen mother in the inner court, go out of the palace to do such a thing, and how do you know when Bingling left the palace, and how can you happen to let people go over to ask for her life at that time? Schumann, you are so bold, what kind of place is the Fengling Palace, you dare to monitor every move of the palace without authorization, are you tired of being crooked? ”
Looking at the queen's aggressive posture and the ruthlessness of the queen mother's inevitable killing, Schumann had a plan, and if he couldn't, he could only escape. The short knife in her sleeve was quietly ready, and she frowned and bit her lip: "Queen Mother, what are you talking about, the slave doesn't understand." ”
"Why don't you take this quickly, are you all deaf?" This is the third time that the Queen Mother has urged. There was a hint of anger in her voice, and she was also quite curious about why the people outside the hall had not moved.
However, this time, the people outside really responded, and three or five guards quickly broke into the inner hall. The moment the door opened, the cold wind poured in mercilessly, blowing cold everyone's faces.
At this moment, Schumann grabbed the queen in front of him, and the short knife was neatly attached to her cold skin.
"Don't move, otherwise don't blame the slave for pulling the queen's back." Schumann's heart was trembling, and he didn't know if it was because of fear or because he had just regained his senses, and he always felt that he had no strength in his body. But in order to survive, she desperately supported her spirit and fought against all the people in this room.
"You killed Bingling, do you think you can get out of the palace if you threaten this palace?" Cen Muning was in danger, and she held herself hostage like this, but the words on her mouth were extremely sharp. "You know, it's a crime to do this, and maybe your death will be worse than Bingling."
"Queen Mother, are you so desperate for your life?" Schumann's hand was so hard that the blade cut through her skin.
But in fact, Cen Muning didn't feel pain. The cold wind blew her cold, and her skin became stiff and sluggish. She smiled: "Who would spare their lives." I'm afraid it's just you. ”
"You're talking nonsense." Schumann gritted his teeth and said, "Although the slave and maid have no family, the slave and the maid also have ...... Slaves and maids also want to live. ”
"Really?" Cen Mu Ning looked at Zhuang Chen, her eyes revealing helplessness and sadness. "But you're on the road to death now, even if this palace wants to, you can't pull it."
"It was forced by the Queen Mother." Schumann was a little dazed, his body getting softer and softer, and he didn't have the strength to fight the guards who came in.
"Talking nonsense, when did the mourning family persecute you." The Queen Mother stood up angrily, gritted her teeth and walked this way. "You served the mourning family, but you did so many intolerable things behind the mourning family's back, it was the mourning family who was blind that would let you serve by your side."
The Queen Mother gave a look, and the guards hiding behind Schumann suddenly attacked. That posture was completely ignored, and she was still holding the queen hostage.
Schumann was stabbed in the back, and he only felt a hot pain. She rolled up the queen hard, turned around and kicked at the guard, and glared at the queen mother through gritted teeth: "Is the queen mother so impatient?" After all, the slave has done so many things for you, and there is always hard work without credit, right? Can't you let your slave live a little longer? ”
The pain on her back was unbearable, and the sharp blades of the guards were also smeared with poison. Isn't that how Bingling died!
Schumann gasped heavily, and his resentful eyes began to become chaotic: "Your Majesty, it's the Queen Mother, it's the Queen Mother who let the slaves and maids monitor the Fengling Palace, and it's the Queen Mother who let the slaves and maids kill Bingling and provoke the discord between Chu Peiyuan and the Queen." Behind the cut queen, the Chu family is the backer. Chu Peiyuan's concubine was also taken away by the queen mother, and she was originally a ......"
Before he finished speaking, Schumann spurted out a mouthful of blood, his body went limp, and the hand holding the knife was released.
Cen Mu saw her fall to the ground, but he didn't help her, just frowned.
"Your Majesty, that woman was originally a prisoner under the Queen Mother, and at the beginning, it was the Queen Mother who ordered her to get close to Chu Peiyuan. This thing...... ...... by the queen's mother"
The Queen Mother took three steps and made two steps, and stepped forward to kick Schumann's chest.
That posture carried an unstoppable ruthlessness, which made Cen Muning stunned.
Of course, her reaction was also very fast, seeing that the Queen Mother was about to kick again, her body was wrong, and her shoulder hit the Queen Mother's shoulder. But he muttered: "Queen Mother, beware, this servant has a knife in hand." ”
These words undoubtedly gave Schumann a wake-up call, she touched the short knife and gritted her teeth to poke the queen mother's instep.
Cen Muning's reaction was so sharp, she went to kick Schumann's wrists, but at the same time grabbed the Queen Mother's shoulders. The kick is not so strong that it has little effect. But the strength to hold the Queen Mother's shoulders is amazing, so that the Queen Mother can't get rid of it at all.
With a scream, a butt ended the fight.
Of course, Cen Muning fell to the ground with an injury, and Schumann's knife pierced the instep of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother rolled on the ground with her legs in her arms. That's not dignified at all.
Zhuang Chenchen hurriedly got up and came over, first helped Cen Muning, and then hurriedly called someone to come over to help the Queen Mother.
"Queen Mother, it was because of the original queen mother's mother, Mrs. Cen found out the truth of the whole thing, that you hated her as a Feng Wei, not only for the first emperor to keep an eye on your actions, but also repeatedly sabotaged the good things you arranged, and killed the killer. It's like you are wary of the queen today. Aren't you just worried that the queen will find out the truth and take revenge on you? So the queen said that Mrs. Cen left a booklet, and you were uneasy, wishing that the slave maid would burn down the Fengling Palace. ”
Telling everything in one go, Schumann was extremely happy, and the wound on his back was scorching. She gritted her teeth and crawled in front of the emperor and grabbed the emperor's ankle: "The emperor is clear, what the slave and maid said is true, I dare not deceive the emperor, the slave and maid are willing to swear by their lives, if there is a word that is false, in the next life, I will still be the slave of the queen mother, and I will be tortured to death by the queen mother like this." ”
After saying that, she looked at the emperor's face and bit off her tongue.
Cen Muning couldn't help but feel sorry in her heart, if Schumann knew that she was not poisoned, but was given some drugs that caused insanity, would she regret chewing her tongue and dying like this?
"Your Majesty." A familiar figure walked in through the door. Her face was dark, her voice was weak, and her steps were fast. "The slave maid was indeed exterminated by Schumann and the people in the outer house of the young general of the Chu family. The reason why he was able to pick up a life was because when he accompanied Mrs. Cen in the past, Mrs. often tested the poison herself, and the slave maid couldn't bear it, so she asked Mrs. to test the poison on the slave maid. After coming and going, although the slave and maid were not immune to all poisons, they could dissolve some of the violent poisons. ”
"Ice Cream." Cen Muning saw her appear in front of her, and tears fell down. This method is too risky after all. Almost she thought she would never see Bingling again.
"Queen Mother, the slave and maid are late to return to their lives, which makes you worried. The slave maid is really physically exhausted, and she is unwilling...... "Bingling came over to help her, but unfortunately she didn't have any strength, and she couldn't help her up for a long time.
In the end, it was Qingli who came over and helped the queen up.
"Your Majesty, the matter has come to this, the concubine begs you to thoroughly investigate the affairs of the year, and return the concubine's mother to a clean slate." Cen Muning said this, which was already enough face for the Queen Mother. Schumann's words have been made very clear, it is the queen mother's doing, and there is no need to investigate it at all.
At this time, hearing the queen's words, the queen mother endured the pain and shouted viciously: "What if the mourning family did it?" She is Feng Wei, and she has done many shady things. The secrets of the royal family are known too much, and what is strange about being silenced. It's just a cheap slave, and the mourning family wants her head to be in a different place, and she has no corpse, why not? ”
These words provoked the deepest resentment in Cen Muning's heart, and she pinched the flesh on the inside of her arm fiercely, forcing herself to calm down with pain. "So it's wrong for the concubine's mother to serve the first emperor, and it's also wrong for the concubine to enter the palace, so the concubine really wants to ask the queen mother, isn't it wrong for you to be scheming, planning for a long time, and calculating all the people step by step? It's like the concubine in the palace now, the female dependents you sent to the Ruiming Palace, which one is not the chess piece you want to use to cage the emperor? Chu Peiyuan is okay, he is just a subordinate you are worried about, it is not impossible to balance the bullet pressure, or put eyeliner on his side to make him obedient. But what about the emperor? The emperor is your own son, your flesh and blood, you even have to calculate and calculate him, what are you afraid of? ”
"Shut up." The Queen Mother stood up suddenly, and her injured foot hurt her heart because of such a force. She almost turned her back on her anger, but she held on to half her life, and roared with a pale face: "The mourning family is happy, how can you be allowed to make a mistake." ”
"That's enough." Zhuang Chenchen heard it clearly, and only felt bored: "My queen mother calculates me, how can my queen not use me." You all have your own reasoning. Since ancient times, people sitting on the dragon chair have been lonely people, and I am no exception. ”
When he had said this, he brushed his sleeves away.