Seventy-three, deserted
She said to Immortal Master Zhou: "You are really a great talent, and this palace admires you very much. I wonder if you can stay in the palace and give advice to the palace? ”
When Immortal Master Zhou heard this, his face suddenly turned sallow, and he looked at Wan Zhen'er for a while before he said: "Noble lady, the grass people entered the palace to help you, you won't be so ruthless to let the grass people be eunuchs, right?" The grass people have not yet married and had children. ”
When Wan Zhen'er heard him say this, she laughed out loud and said, "You don't have to worry, this palace definitely doesn't mean this." This palace hopes that you can serve this palace with all your heart, and in the future, this palace will let you enjoy endless glory and wealth, and how can it hurt you. Now that the Empress Dowager Zhou believes in you so much, then I will ask the Empress Dowager Zhou for a decree to let you stay in the harem, wouldn't it be okay? ”
When Zhou Xianshi heard Wan Zhen'er say this, he was immediately overjoyed and said to Wan Zhen'er: "Since this is the case, I will thank the noble lady." ”
Wan Zhen'er shook her hand, and then asked, "I only know that your name is Zhou Xianshi, what is your real name?" It can't really be called Zhou Immortal Master, right? ”
Zhou Xianshi smiled slyly and said, "The noble lady said that it was funny, a liar like us who walks the rivers and lakes, everyone will be prepared to have hundreds of names, which can be changed at any time. Since the noble lady takes such a fancy to me, please ask the noble lady to give me a name, and I will call it this name in the palace in the future. ”
Wan Zhen'er smiled when she heard this, she lowered her head and thought about it, and said: "Since this is the case, then this palace will help you choose a name, this palace sees that you are so good at observing words and feelings, and your surname is Zhou, so how about this palace give you a name called Zhou Lingli?" ”
"Zhou Lingli."
Zhou Xianshi was stunned, he laughed for a long time, and said: "Since this is the case, the grass people will be called Zhou Lingli in the future, thank you for the name." ”
Wan Zhen'er's so-called name is just a joke with him, after she finished saying Zhou Lingli's three words, she burst into laughter, but she didn't expect that Zhou Immortal Master would still answer herself so seriously.
He smiled immediately and said, "Okay, since you think this name is good, then you will call it this name in the future." ”
The two came to Wan Zhen'er's palace while talking.
The flowers bloom at each end, and said that after the Empress Dowager Zhou listened to Wan Zhen'er and Zhou Lingli's slander, she immediately went to Kunning Palace to deal with Concubine Wu.
She knew that the emperor had a deep affection for Concubine Wu and would never dare to leave Concubine Wu, and Empress Dowager Qian and Jian Huaizhen were on Concubine Wu's side, and they would not help her no matter what. I told them about Emperor Wu Feike, maybe they would think that they were women, all this is nonsense.
So instead of doing this, it's better to do this thing yourself, and then cut it first.
Although the emperor, Empress Dowager Qian, and Jian Huaizhen will all blame themselves at that time, but the raw rice has been cooked, and if Concubine Wu is kicked out of the palace, no one can do anything.
Thinking of this, she brought a group of people to Kunning Palace.
Since Concubine Wu was demoted, she has been in the Kunning Palace day and night with tears, and later fortunately the emperor came to comfort her, and she felt a little warm in her heart.
Now that she suddenly heard that the Empress Dowager Zhou had arrived, she couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart, she knew that since the Empress Dowager Zhou came, there must be nothing good.
She said to Su Mei in a deep voice: "Su Mei, you hurry up and invite the eldest princess or the Empress Dowager Qian or the emperor, otherwise I may not be able to escape the catastrophe today." ”
Su Mei heard what Empress Wu said solemnly, nodded hurriedly, and said, "Since this is the case, I will go out to invite someone." ”
She had just walked out, and before she could go out, she bumped into the Empress Dowager Zhou and others at the gate of the palace.
Empress Dowager Zhou glanced at her and asked coldly, "Su Mei, where are you going to go?" ”
Su Mei didn't expect the Empress Dowager Zhou to split her head like this, she hurriedly said: "Qi Empress Dowager Zhou, Su Mei just wanted to go outside to help our master fold a few flowers." ”
"Hmph, you little hoof would have lied."
After the Empress Dowager Zhou finished speaking, she slapped Su Mei in the face and beat Su Mei to the ground, she didn't look at Su Mei anymore, and walked in with a group of people, saying as she walked: "Take this maid to the mourning family, no one is allowed to let her go without the instructions of the mourning family." ”
After all, Empress Dowager Zhou is a person who has seen the world, and Su Mei's little bit of caution she doesn't know.
When she saw Su Mei going out in such a hurry, she knew that she was going to move the rescuers, so she couldn't let her plan succeed no matter what.
After restraining Su Mei, Empress Dowager Zhou walked in.
Seeing this, Concubine Wu was so anxious that tears rolled in her eyes.
Despite this, she still stepped forward to salute the Empress Dowager Zhou, and said respectfully: "The concubines see the Empress Dowager Zhou, and the Empress Dowager Zhou is a thousand years old. ”
Empress Dowager Zhou glanced at her coldly from the corner of her eyes, waved her hand and said, "That's it, there is no need to do so much false courtesy, do you know what happened to the mourning family today?" ”
Empress Wu lowered her eyebrows and said respectfully: "The concubines don't know, everything must be done according to the instructions of the Empress Dowager Zhou." ”
"Okay, since you are so obedient, then the mourning family will not beat around the bush. The mourning family has just learned from a god operator that you and the emperor's lives are mutually reinforcing, and if you continue to be together, there will definitely be a bloody disaster. Not long after you entered the palace, so many things have happened in the palace, which has already explained everything. Now the mourners have given you a chance to pack up your bedding and leave the palace quickly. ”
"Leaving the palace? Where did the Queen Mother let her concubines go? This palace is now the home of the concubines and concubines, where can the concubines go? ”
Empress Wu was stunned when she heard this, she involuntarily knelt down for the Empress Dowager Zhou, and her eyes suddenly burst into tears and pleaded.
Empress Dowager Zhou shook her head very indifferently and said: "Where you want to go has nothing to do with the mourning family, you still regard yourself as a person in this palace, but the mourning family has long stopped treating you as the daughter-in-law of the mourning family." What's more, you are no longer a queen, let alone the mother of a country, just a little concubine. It was not difficult for the mourning family to abolish a concubine. Come, take off all the expensive clothes and jewelry from her body, take a set of civilian clothes for her, take her out of the Forbidden City, and let her go outside to fend for herself. ”
"Yes."
At that moment, a palace maid promised to come forward to take off the expensive jewelry on Concubine Wu's head, as well as take off the expensive clothes she was wearing.
Seeing this, Concubine Wu's face turned pale, she looked at the Empress Dowager Zhou, pulled a hairpin from her head in her hand, and said: "Empress Dowager Zhou, the so-called Shi can be killed and not humiliated, now you have to treat the concubine like this, and the concubine has no other way than to die." ”
"What? Are you going to die? Do you think the mourners will be afraid of you? Do you want to intimidate the mourners? The mourning family tells you that among the six palaces, except for the emperor, the mourning family is the largest. The emperor will not punish the mourning family for you, so you can't threaten me no matter what, you better obediently listen to the mourning family and go out of the palace. That way you can save your life, otherwise you will know that you will be dead. ”
When Concubine Wu heard Empress Dowager Zhou say this, her tears suddenly slipped down like beads.
She originally thought that marrying into this splendid palace and being able to accompany the emperor was a good event, which could change the fate of herself and her mother, but she didn't expect that after entering the palace, she would encounter a series of bad luck.
Until now, the bad luck has been with her and has not ended, she thought that everything would pass, and the good days would come sooner or later.
Now although she has been demoted to Concubine Wu, but the emperor treats her as before, she feels very comforted in her heart, but she didn't expect that Wu's house is sitting, disaster comes from the sky, and the Empress Dowager Zhou inexplicably brought a group of people to drive her out of the palace.
Her heart was weeping blood, and the blood was so red that it fell to the ground drop by drop, and soon it drowned her.
The pain in Concubine Wu's heart at this moment is really not something that ordinary people can feel.
She knew that once she left the palace, it would mean that there was nothing left, and after leaving the palace, she could only return to her own home, and when the time came, her father's beatings, the ridicule of her subordinates and aunts, and the desperate eyes of her mother, would make her will collapse and destroy in an instant.
What was it like to go from being a queen to an abandoned lady.
Thinking of this, her expression became even more determined, and she resolutely said to the Empress Dowager Zhou: "Empress Dowager, if you have to force the concubine to death, the concubine has no other way. Well, since you say so, the concubine will die in front of you immediately. ”
After saying that, she lifted the hairpin and thrust it into her neck.
Su Mei, who was being pulled by someone on the side, was taken aback when she saw this.
She didn't know where the strength came from, so she suddenly broke out of the hands of the two palace maids, ran forward, and grabbed the hairpin in Concubine Wu's hand with all her might.
Concubine Wu was engrossed in drawing the hairpin to her snow-white neck, but she didn't expect that someone suddenly came out to snatch her hairpin, and she subconsciously pinched it.
And Su Mei used all her strength to hold the hairpin in her hand.
At this moment, the two of them were careless, and the hairpin cut a long bloody cut on the back of Su Mei's hand, and blood flowed out immediately.
Seeing this, Concubine Wu felt very distressed, and hurriedly asked, "Su Mei, are you okay?" ”
Su Mei's face turned pale, shook her head and said, "As long as Niang Niang is fine, Su Mei is fine." Niangniang, don't think about looking for death, no matter what the matter comes to, there is always room for negotiation. ”
Concubine Wu shook her head in despair, glanced at Empress Dowager Zhou, and said, "This matter is now non-negotiable, and I have no other choice but to die." ”
Su Mei shook Concubine Wu's body and said, "Niangniang, don't think about it. If you die, the emperor will be distressed. ”
Concubine Wu's face showed a bleak look, she looked at Su Mei as if she remembered something, and muttered: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty ......."
Su Mei said on the side: "Niangniang, you must not get along with yourself." When the emperor comes, the emperor will definitely make decisions for his mother. ”
"Humph! Waiting for the emperor to call the shots? Empress Dowager Zhou said angrily.
"The emperor is still the son of the mourning family, do you think the emperor's heart will be on the side of the mourning family or on your side? What's more, everything the mourning family did was for the sake of the emperor. ”
The news of Empress Dowager Zhou's trouble in Kunning Palace soon spread throughout the palace, and Jian Huaizhen and Empress Dowager Qian also got the news one after another, and they hurried to see what was going on.
After they came, Empress Dowager Zhou was coercing Concubine Wu.
Seeing this, Jian Huaizhen's face changed greatly, and she walked up and asked, "Empress Dowager Zhou, what happened?" Why did Concubine Wu's situation become so pitiful? ”
Empress Dowager Zhou didn't expect Jian Huaizhen and Empress Dowager Qian to kill, she shook her head and said: "How does the mourning family know what happened, and whoever did the good deeds understands in their hearts." ”
After speaking, she glanced at Concubine Wu and Su Mei, and said, "No one wants to help the mourning family get an idea in this matter, the mourning family has made up their minds, and they must drive Concubine Wu out of the palace." If Concubine Wu refuses to leave the palace, then don't blame the mourning family for turning her face and not recognizing people. ”
Jian Huaizhen smiled coldly, she glanced at the Empress Dowager Zhou coldly, and said, "Empress Dowager Zhou, why did you suddenly drive Concubine Wu and Su Mei out of the palace?" Didn't Concubine Wu get the punishment she deserved for what she did before, and now that she has been demoted from the queen to Concubine Wu, does the Empress Dowager Zhou still want to kill her? ”
"Hmph, am I going to kill her?"
Empress Dowager Zhou stroked her sleeves and said very dissatisfied: "Now she is killing my son, not me." The mourning family has asked God to calculate, and the eight characters of Concubine Wu and my son are mutually reinforcing. If she is not driven out of the palace, the unlucky one must be the emperor. Imperial Princess, do you say that a mere Concubine Wu is important or is it important for me to be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty? ”
When Jian Huaizhen heard Empress Dowager Zhou say this, she immediately looked at Mrs. Qian, and she asked, "What's going on?" Empress Dowager Zhou might as well say that there is a solution to everything. ”
Empress Dowager Zhou saw that Concubine Wu refused to comply, and her own will was angry, she heard Jian Huaizhen say this, thought about it and said: "Okay, since the eldest princess said so, the mourning family will listen to you once." The mourning family invited someone to invite a god operator Zhou Immortal Master from outside the palace, and the Zhou Immortal Master calculated that Concubine Wu and the emperor's birthday were mutually restrictive. If Concubine Wu doesn't leave the palace in a hurry, there will be countless bloody disasters in the future, and the unlucky one will be the emperor at that time. ”
When Jian Huaizhen heard her say this, her heart was a lot more settled, she smiled slowly, and said, "Empress Dowager Zhou, if you believe in this kind of thing, you don't believe it. Most of these so-called Taoist priests and gods are deceptive, why did Empress Dowager Zhou drive Concubine Wu out of the palace because she believed in the words of a warlock? This is not fair to Concubine Wu. ”
Empress Dowager Zhou snorted and said, "Hmph, princess, no matter what you said before, the mourning family did not refute you, that is because the mourning family respects you as an elder." But it is useless for anyone to persuade in this matter, that God Operator Zhou Immortal Master is not an ordinary Jianghu warlock. If you don't believe it, you can ask the people in the Yanxi Palace, when the mourning family met with the god operator Zhou Xianshi before, they had twice taken different people's birth dates to him, and each time he could see whether the birth dates were mutually beneficial. For example, the mourning family once looked at him with the birthdays of the mourning family and the Empress Dowager Qian, and he could see at a glance that the mourning family and the Empress Dowager Qian were incompatible. ”
Empress Dowager Zhou's words made Empress Dowager Qian feel very embarrassed and embarrassed.
Although it is said that the two queen mothers of Qian and Zhou have always been incompatible, everyone in the palace knows it, but the Empress Dowager Zhou said this in front of the Empress Dowager Qian, which obviously made the Empress Dowager Qian feel very faceless.
Despite this, Empress Dowager Qian still endured it.
She knew that this was not the time to discuss this matter, and the most important thing now was to quickly solve Concubine Wu's matter, and not let Concubine Wu suffer any grievances.
Jian Huaizhen also frowned, and said: "No matter what this matter is, it is always unreasonable to drive Concubine Wu out of the palace before there is real evidence, and I ask Empress Dowager Zhou to think twice." ”
A cold light flashed in the phoenix eyes of the Empress Dowager Zhou, and she said: "This matter has been decided by the mourning family, and no one can stop the will of the mourning family, not even the emperor." ”
After speaking, Empress Dowager Zhou looked at Concubine Wu and said to her word by word: "Concubine Wu, the mourning family restricts you to move out of the palace by yourself before noon." If you don't leave the palace, the mourning family will definitely send someone to invite you out. At that time, whether it is your face or the face of the mourning family, it will not look good. The eldest princess, Queen Mother Qian, you don't have to say anything, no matter what you say, the mourning family will not listen, the mourning family has made up their minds. ”
After speaking, the Empress Dowager Zhou flicked her sleeves and took the palace maid and the eunuch away.
Jian Huaizhen and Empress Dowager Qian couldn't help but glance at each other helplessly when they saw the back of Empress Dowager Zhou going away.
This matter made them feel very tricky, although Jian Huaizhen and Empress Dowager Qian usually have the right to make decisions about matters in the palace, but Empress Dowager Zhou has always been the emperor's biological mother.
Now she is talking about this matter in the name of the emperor, if Empress Dowager Qian and Jian Huaizhen forcibly stop it, in case the emperor really has any bloody disasters in the future, the two of them will not be able to bear it. ”
The two of them glanced at each other, Jian Huaizhen frowned, and said to the Empress Dowager Qian: "Empress Dowager Qian, now it's better for you to go back first, and the palace will go back immediately." This matter will be investigated thoroughly by the palace, if someone has the intention to frame Concubine Wu, the palace will definitely not let her go. ”
Empress Dowager Qian nodded reluctantly.
She knew that Jian Huaizhen could not do it, so she said: "Since this is the case, it will be handed over to the eldest princess, I hope that the child of the Wu family will not be wronged." ”
After speaking, Empress Dowager Qian walked to Concubine Wu's side again, helped her up, comforted her a few words, and left with the palace maid and eunuch.
Jian Huaizhen helped Concubine Wu's slender long hair, and she said softly: "Although Concubine Wu has come to this day, it is not that there is no room for turnaround, this palace believes that this matter may not be caused by the Empress Dowager Zhou, and I believe that someone must be instigating the Empress Dowager Zhou." This palace will investigate this matter as soon as possible, and I will definitely give you justice when the time comes. You stay in the palace for a long time, and think about the good in everything. ”
After speaking, Jian Huaizhen said to Su Mei again: "Su Mei, you have to take good care of your master, don't let your master do anything stupid." ”
Su Mei hurriedly saluted, and cried: "Don't worry, the eldest princess, the slave must do what the eldest princess tells you." ”