Chapter Seventy-One: The Female Demon Screams and Kills
When the palace maid brought me the bird's nest, I glanced at her, although she may be considered an aunt in the palace, but her face is still relatively delicate.
She owed me a courtesy, saying that her name was Zhuyan, and she was my aunt in charge of Zhaoyang Palace.
Then she asked all the slaves and maids in the Zhaoyang Palace to come and kneel in front of me to introduce themselves.
There was a room full of people, black and pressing, I had a headache when I looked at it, how could I need so many people to serve me alone.
I politely said to the emperor beside me, "Concubines don't need so many people to serve. ”
Tuoba Hong followed my wish and asked me to pick a few.
I casually ordered the two maidservants and a chamberlain kneeling in the front row to let the others leave.
The two maidservants who had been left behind hurriedly kowtowed and thanked her, saying their names.
Autumn clouds and snow swallows.
The only inner attendant left behind was full of smiles, "Slave Zhang Xinpu." ”
I glanced at them faintly, so that they didn't have to wait at this time.
After the palace maid retreated, I looked at Tuoba Hong, still with a faint expression, and said to him, "The concubine is tired and wants to rest." ”
I clearly meant that I was just driving him away. I'm not comfortable with my identity yet, I just want to be quiet.
Tuoba Hong's face sank obviously, but it was only a flash, and he still said gently, "Then Rong'er will rest for a while, and I will dine with you in the evening." ”
I smiled at him and sent him off.
As soon as Tuoba Hong left, I sat down and told Yinglin to let her put away all the things I had brought from Gaofu.
The lyre was still in the case, and Yinglin took it out and put it away.
I walked over and looked at it quietly, thinking about the traitors on the way to the palace today, listening to Xie Rin's reply to Ji Yu, and being arrested twice.
I'm scared that there will be him in it.
I was afraid that he would be the one who was going after him.
I felt a headache, it hadn't hurt in a long time, I really wanted to rest.
Seeing that my face was not good, Zhu Yan came to serve me and helped me to the bed to rest.
By the time I woke up, the night had already fallen.
Zhu Yan waited for me to get up and said to me, the emperor has been waiting for me for a long time.
I walked out of the inner room and saw that the dining table was already full of meals, and Takubahiro was looking at my lyre.
I approached him slowly, my eyes were cold, and my thin lips were lightly opened, "The concubine has made the emperor wait for a long time." ”
Tuoba Hong turned around, smiled gently, stepped forward and grabbed my wrist, "Rong'er will have dinner together when she wakes up." ”
I smiled lightly and sat down with him.
Qiuyun and Xueyan waited on the side.
I didn't speak, and the room was quiet, and it seemed like he was just eating quietly.
I looked down in the corner of my eye and saw that he was wary, trying to say something to me but not talking.
Yes, I didn't smile at him, I didn't have enthusiasm.
I didn't reject him because he was the emperor, but I didn't love him, and I didn't have to warm up to meet his favor.
actually ordered me to be his "noble person", then I can bear this identity.
Perhaps he had already guessed what was on my mind, and he seemed to be afraid that I would not be happy, so he was careful not to say anything in front of me.
He didn't stay that night, and I didn't ask him to stay.
After the meal, he accompanied me, and then got up to make an excuse for himself, saying that there were still government affairs to deal with, so that I could rest.
I didn't even move my eyelids, just answered lightly.
Ying Lin looked at me with a look of doubt in her eyes, and I knew what she wanted to say.
Which harem concubine doesn't want to win the emperor's favor, but I am like this, which inevitably makes them wonder.
The next morning, Tuoba Hong led me to the Taihua Hall to pay homage to the Empress Dowager.
Feng Yueyan was dressed up very much, sitting next to the Empress Dowager, and looked at me with disdain.
I knelt down to greet me, calming my mind.
I have long heard about many of the methods and schemes of the Empress Dowager Feng back then, but now that I see it, I am still very nervous.
Tuoba Hong stood beside me, as if waiting for the Empress Dowager to call me up.
I heard a cold voice say, "Get up."
I bowed again and stood up.
The Empress Dowager looked at me in a daze, and when she looked at my appearance carefully, she suddenly felt her face change, panicked, and stood up.
The Empress Dowager's reaction surprised everyone present and didn't know why.
"Yuetao, help the mourning family to go over, and the mourning family should take a closer look at this noble person."
The Empress Dowager's voice trembled a little, and her eyes kept staring at me as she walked down.
Tuoba Hong looked at the Empress Dowager's face suspiciously, and I don't know why she had such a reaction when she saw me.
Yuetao lifted the Empress Dowager's wrist and slowly moved her steps.
I just stood quietly, not understanding why she came down to take a closer look at me, did she want to see if my face was worthy of the emperor?
Feng Yueyan followed curiously, probably thinking that the Empress Dowager was dissatisfied with me, and would scold me a few words, and her heart was full of sneering expressions that wanted to watch the play.
And I still stood calmly, very in awe of this person with the highest power in the Great Wei, and I didn't dare to have too many emotions, and let the Empress Dowager look up and down in front of me.
I could tell that her face was not very good, and when she approached me, she did not smile at all.
"Is there anything wrong? Imperial grandmother. ”
Tuoba Hong on the side couldn't help asking.
I clearly saw the gloomy face of the Empress Dowager after the emperor's questioning, she recovered her tone slightly, and after a pause, she said: "It's nothing, I just feel like she was like a person I met many years ago."
I lowered my eyes, not daring to look at the Empress Dowager, and I didn't have any other expressions because of her words.
However, I had Otokusai in mind. Yi Hua once assassinated the Empress Dowager, and that year he went to break into the Empress Dowager's position in Li Yi's cemetery.
Tuoba Hong was a little surprised, I don't know who the Empress Dowager thinks I will look like.
He glanced at me, then turned to the Empress Dowager's puzzled expression.
Feng Yueyan and Yue Tao both showed slightly surprised looks.
"Imperial grandmother, did you say that Rong'er looks like someone else?"
Tuoba Hong asked tentatively.
The Empress Dowager was silent and did not answer. Walked back straight again, sat quietly,
Feng Yueyan wants to know who the person I look like at this time, right?
However, the Empress Dowager didn't say anything more, and directly called me and Tuoba Hong to retreat.
After walking out of the Taihua Palace, I obviously felt that Feng Yueyan behind me was very angry in his heart.
In her heart, she felt that as soon as I entered the palace, the emperor would not leave an inch, and personally accompanied me to worship the empress dowager, which made her heart full of anger, not only jealousy but also resentment.
She thought that the Empress Dowager would be able to help her teach me more today, but she didn't expect that the Empress Dowager would see me, so she didn't say anything, and drove us all out, saying that she wanted to rest.
Because the emperor's attention to me made her very dissatisfied, I had already felt it completely since I stepped into the Taihua Hall just now.
Before I had gone far, I heard Feng Yueyan, who had already come out, scolding her maidservant.
Tuoba Hong didn't look back, and led me away.
On the way back to Zhaoyang Palace, a young girl came to me, she bowed in front of Tuoba Hong, and then saluted me.
I smiled when I saw her, she looked very sweet.
Of course, I also know her, she is Princess Yingyu of Pengcheng.
After she looked me up and down, she smiled softly, "The imperial sister-in-law's palace dress is also very beautiful." ”
Tuoba Hong was more excited than me, and immediately took Yingyu's words, "Who can compare the beauty of Rong Guiren, of course my concubine is beautiful." ”
Yingyu sneered, "Brother Huang is really not ashamed at all." ”
I stared at the two of them blankly, and there was no sense of discord between the brother and sister.
This kind of family affection is beautiful.
Behind Yingyu, Ji Yu walked slowly.
When I saw him, my eyes tightened, and I didn't dare to look at him directly, so I lowered my eyes lightly.
After Ji Yu saluted in front of Tuoba Hong, he said, "The minister is a traitor who came to show up yesterday. ”
Hearing Ji Yu's words, I was stunned again, and my hand was a little nervous in front of me.
Tuoba Hong's expression changed slightly, became serious, and said to Ji Yu, "Follow me to the south study." ”
He looked back at me, and I hurriedly said, "The emperor is busy, and the concubines and princesses are walking around the palace." ”
Tuoba Hong explained to Yingyu, "Take care of your imperial sister-in-law." ”
Yingyu pouted, "The imperial brother is too fond of the imperial sister-in-law, in this palace, who else can treat the imperial sister-in-law." ”
Takubahiro looked at me again and walked away.
I glanced at Ji Yu and saw that his face was gloomy, and he followed behind Tuoba Hong with cold eyes.
Princess Pengcheng and I didn't have to walk long before we went back to our bedchamber.
I was restless in the dormitory, and I was really scared that Xiao Jingqi would have something to do with those traitors.
Ying Lin was wiping the lyre, I walked over leisurely, asked her to step down, sat down, and in order to calm myself, I stroked the piano.
I was obsessed with the music.
It was like a hallucination in front of me, and I realized that it was the memories in my head that were pulling out.
In front of me there was a confused hillside, an official road stretched in the distance, lined with bushes and bushes, and I was sitting on a stone at a wide corner, I was looking ahead, my hands on the strings in front of me, as if waiting for something.
Beside me was a white wolf squatting, its eyes staring fiercely ahead.
In the blur, there was the sound of horses and tellurium on the road, and when I saw the figure in front of me, I had already begun to play the strings in my hand, and the sound of the piano was very fast, like the sound of a fierce general killing the enemy on the battlefield.
When the galloping horse team heard the sound of the harp, the horses scurried unobeyed, and the people on horseback were so frightened that they fell off their horses.
I saw their panicked expressions, and I heard someone screaming, "Thousand-fingered Demon! ”
My face was expressionless, and my hands kept playing faster and faster, and the sound of the piano became more and more harsh.
Even after the sound of my music, the men on horseback fell to the ground in panic, covering their ears and hanging on the ground.
I pulled out the Blue Shadow Sword that I was carrying on my back and leaped over, stabbing in a burst.
The white wolf danced its paws as I had already flipped wildly, tearing at the men's clothes.
I stabbed in a frenzy, swinging my sword at those people.
When I finished my move, a corpse fell in front of me.
I saw the sword in my hand dripping blood, and the bright red blood pierced my eyes in the sun.
I looked up at the sky, pointed my sword at the sky, and roared.
Laughing hysterically, laughing loudly, laughing manically.
I woke up suddenly, my heart breathing fast, my hands still on the strings.
"What's wrong with the master?" Yinglin's voice whispered in my ear.
I glanced back at her, and once again stopped my gaze on the lyre, and I knew that I was hallucinating again.
I must have seen what Otokushi had seen before.
I knew very well that everything I had just seen was a memory of Otoku, and they were active in my mind.