Chapter 20: The Cold Palace
The emperor saw the former high queen in the cold palace, her face was much haggard compared to before, the clothes on her body were changed to inferior clothes, and there was no jewelry on her head, and there was no gorgeous dress, the queen was as miserable as falling from a high mountain to the bottom of the valley, and she was afraid that anyone in this cold palace could step on her head.
When the queen saw the emperor, she looked at him stupidly and said with a smile: "I didn't expect this palace to be beaten into the cold palace, and the emperor will actually come to see this palace, it's really rare!"
The emperor had learned the truth, he was heartbroken, sat on the chair dejectedly, looked at the unkempt queen in front of him, and asked weakly: "Why did the queen poison Lie Zhanying, she is my savior, if there is no her, there would be no whole country, and there would be no position for your queen, you are not as grateful to Dade as I am, how can you be vicious and use this insidious ecstasy to harm her!" ”
When the queen heard this, her feet were soft, she sat on the ground decadently, and said with a dead face: "If it weren't for the clever maneuvering of this palace, I'm afraid this palace wouldn't be the queen at all, right?" The emperor was obviously in love with that strong woman, but he was forced to rely on the army of his brother in the palace, and he set up the palace as the queen against his will. The emperor was afraid that the inner garden of the deep palace would break the wings of this woman's freedom, so he reluctantly married the prime minister. Don't think that the palace doesn't know, every time the emperor has a palace banquet, the emperor's eyes are looking at that woman, and where does the emperor put the palace! ”
"What's even more damning! Your Majesty, you actually want to point out her daughter to the son of this palace, and this palace can't bear it anymore, so this palace took the ecstasy and scattered it to the Yang family, and asked her to poison Lie Zhanying, and this palace wants the emperor to watch that woman wither and wither day by day. ”
The emperor closed his eyes in pain, Mu Lingyun behind the screen could no longer stand steadily, covered his mouth and leaned on Jin Shaoming's body, tears bursting down the embankment.
Mu Lingyun was only eight years old at the time, her mother had just begun to teach her a new set of boxing techniques, and before she could finish learning, her mother fell ill, and she was strong and lay down for several months without getting better, but became more and more emaciated and sluggish.
Mu Lingyun always thought that his mother had died of a vicious disease, but he didn't expect that there was such an intricate relationship between them, and Lie Zhanying, who was far away from the deep palace, inevitably became a victim of the harem battle.
The emperor was obviously a little choked, and the old man's voice was like rough grit, as if he had suddenly aged several years, and said hoarsely: "I know that you hate Zhan Ying and can't tolerate her, I have already married her to someone else, but you still won't let her go." You are such a vicious heart, and you still ask where I have left you? Ah Li, you have changed, you used to be pure and well-behaved, not a single ant could bear to step on it, how did you manage such a vicious method, she has gone, and you refuse to let go of her daughter? ”
The queen's cloudy eyes suddenly lit up, and she said eloquently: "This palace admits that this palace hates that woman, it was all forced by the emperor and you, everyone praises virtue, and does not accept concubines, not because the emperor can't forget that woman." This palace is the emperor's wife, the emperor keeps festivals for her like this, so that the palace is embarrassed to be the queen, it is the emperor who drove the palace crazy, and the pure and good Ali has long since died. Hongu was not afraid to admit that Hongu had poisoned the woman, but Hongu swore that Hongu had not poisoned the child in the princess's womb. ”
The emperor closed his eyes, sighed heavily, and said slowly: "It's up to now, it doesn't matter if you don't admit it, I won't kill you, but I will never see you again, so you can stay in the cold palace and confess to Zhan Ying!" ”
The queen watched the man she had loved all her life leave the cold palace without looking back, she got up and chased out quickly, chased to the gate of the cold palace and was stopped by the guards guarding the cold palace, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, everything this palace does is because I love the emperor too much, and I don't want that woman to occupy the emperor's heart, your majesty, this palace really hasn't hurt the princess, really no, the emperor..."
No matter how heart-rending the queen shouted, the emperor had no intention of stopping, but sped up and strode away.
Looking at the man who had loved and hated all his life, his figure slowly became farther and farther away from her, and the queen suddenly understood that they would never see each other again in this life, and the scenery and past had become a bubble. Leaning against the palace gate, the queen's body slowly slipped and burst into tears.
Jin Shaoming helped Mu Lingyun out from behind the screen and walked in front of the queen step by step.
Mu Lingyun squatted down, his eyes were level with the queen, and asked with a cold smile, "Why?" ”
The queen lost her mind, and was still immersed in the matter of the emperor's departure, until Mu Lingyun asked 'why' for the second time, the queen turned her head to look at her, and saw a face with a portrait of the woman, the queen suddenly laughed madly, "Hahahaha..."
Jin Shaoming was frightened by the suddenly laughing queen, and quickly pulled Mu Lingyun into his arms to protect him, looking at the queen vigilantly.
When the queen saw Jin Shaoming's actions, she laughed even more wildly, and said while laughing: "Why? Why? Why exactly? Retribution! It's really retribution! Bengong was jealous of the emperor's heart for her, so Bengong was poisoned, but the sins done by Bengong had to be retributed to Bengong's son, which was all retribution, so that I now have nothing, and even if she died, she still won. ”
Mu Lingyun's heart throbbed, the mother with a hearty temperament in her memory, taught her the seriousness of martial arts in one move, the more she thought about it, the more Mu Lingyun couldn't help yelling at the queen: "Just because of your own selfish desires, you ruined my mother and ruined my home, why are you, why are you doing that!" ”
Jin Shaoming was shocked, forcibly picked up Mu Lingyun and stuffed her into the carriage, and took her out of the palace, a place of right and wrong. Mu Lingyun's body has not yet recovered, and the imperial doctor told her to keep her mind stable and not be stimulated anymore, but she is obviously very emotional now, and Jin Shaoming's eyes are full of worry when she looks at her.
In the carriage, Mu Lingyun could no longer control his emotions, grabbed Jin Shaoming's shirt and cried loudly: "Woo woo~~~"
Jin Shaoming's face was complicated, he hugged Mu Lingyun and patted her on the back, and coaxed carefully: "Good, Yun'er, don't cry, the queen has now been locked up in the cold palace, I will let people talk to the eunuchs in the palace, and let her survive and not die!" ”
Mu Lingyun was extremely sad, couldn't listen to any persuasion from Jin Shaoming, and cried blindly, crying from the cold palace to the outside of the palace gate, and in a moment the news of Princess Ming's crying out of the palace spread all over the palace.
Jin Shaoming was afraid that she would break her eyes from crying, so she straightened her face, and the two looked at each other face to face, and said, "Yun'er, do you believe me?" Don't cry if you believe me, I'll help you take revenge, neither the queen nor the prime minister's mansion can escape!"
Mu Lingyun nodded with a whimper, his eyes were red from crying, and he was obviously swollen, and slowly Mu Lingyun was coaxed into crying, snuggled in Jin Shaoming's arms, and said with a crying voice: "I miss my mother so much, my mother has always been by my side wholeheartedly, and she has never thought about fighting with others, my mother is so good, why did the queen kill her?" ”
Today's events aroused Mu Lingyun's longing for her mother, she had always thought that her mother was gone, and she could live a strong life, but she didn't want to reveal the truth, she found that she missed her very, very much, but she hid this miss in her heart.
Jin Shaoming looked at the godless woman in her arms, her heart was like being torn off by someone, and her hands couldn't help but tighten a little, and said: "Yun'er, I know you miss your mother-in-law very much, but think about it, you are crying now, and your mother-in-law will die of distress if she knows it, and your mother-in-law must not want to see you cry so sadly!"
Sighing slightly, Jin Shaoming put his head on her shoulder and said in a muffled voice: "Even if it's not for my mother-in-law, then you think about me, you make me sad and sad to look at you, have you ever thought about how much my heart hurts?" Yun'er, you're not punishing yourself, you're punishing all the people who love you, and you're torturing me, you know? ”
Mu Lingyun turned her head to look at him, as if she hadn't looked at him so seriously for a long time, and she didn't even notice that there were already a few strands of gray hair mixed in his black hair, he was still so young, how could he have white hair? His face was a lot haggard, and his frowning brow never let go.
Mu Lingyun stretched out his hand to soothe his frowning brows, and muttered to himself in dismay, "Yutang, I'm sorry!"
Hearing her apology, Jin Shaoming knew that it was his words that worked, his eyebrows jumped, and he said to her helplessly: "Yun'er, you are not sorry for me, you are not sorry for anyone, you are tired now, you will rest, you don't want to think about it anymore, just sleep and wake up!"
In the comfort of Jin Shaoming's voice, Mu Lingyun actually fell asleep in his arms with peace of mind, his already weak body, tossed like this, and cried again, Mu Lingyun actually slept a little heavier than usual, and even Jin Shaoming carried her back to the main room of the palace.
The poisoning incident has been investigated, and the queen and the person who poisoned the Yang family have all been sanctioned, but Jin Shaoming is still suspicious, and he always feels that he seems to have missed an important link.
I made this incident clear in my mind, first Mu Lingyun was poisoned from pregnancy to discovery, caught Mu Lingling poisoning, traced the source of the poison, and found out all the way to the queen.
Whether it is poison or certification, all the suspicions point to the queen, the investigation is too smooth, and the crown princess, the person who was the most suspicious in the body, has been cleared, no matter how you look at it, there is a problem, he doesn't think that there is no head and tail of the crown princess.
Moreover, Mu Lingling insisted that it was the remedies given to her by the old lady of the harem, but she was a third lady who was not favored by the prime minister, how could she know the people in the harem, so as to get the poison, she had nothing to do with the queen, how could the queen signal the people around her to let her poison, aren't you afraid that she will leak secrets? That alone doesn't make sense.