Chapter Eighty-Nine: An Unacceptable Truth
Ning Qing looked at the maid in front of her who looked panicked, and wrinkled her eyebrows and said, "Where are you going?" ”
When the maid heard this, she didn't know where to start, so she had to tremble and not say a word.
Seeing this, Bi Lian couldn't help but say sharply: "What did the Queen Mother ask you?" Why don't you go back? ”
"Minions...... The minion ......" the maid's voice began to tremble.
Ning Qing looked at her speechless, her expression flickered, and she raised her eyes to look at the jailer who followed in: "Are you guilty?" ”
The jailer was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground, "The Queen Mother spares her life, the little ones are just a slave, how dare you go against the masters, please let the little ones live." As he spoke, he bowed his head and kowtowed.
"You guys stand down for the time being, this palace wants to see what this Concubine Yu is going to do?" After speaking, Ning Qing walked towards the cell.
Concubine Yu had already heard the movement in the prison, and knew that it was the queen mother, her face couldn't help but become solemn, and she was at a loss for what to do.
Concubine Yu, who was standing in the prison, saw Ning Qing walk in and stepped forward: "Concubine see Queen Mother." ”
Ning Qing looked at her: "If this palace is not mistaken, it has ordered that outsiders are not allowed to come in." With a grim expression, he looked at Concubine Yu: "Concubine Yu...... Could it be that the order of this palace has no prestige at all in your eyes? ”
Concubine Yu knelt down in a panic, and said in a trembling tone: "The concubine doesn't dare." ”
Although the queen mother usually doesn't go out of the palace much, but her weight is really not light, after all, this emperor is her biological son, if she has a recklessness, then her future can't help but worry.
Concubine Yu couldn't help but sweat on her forehead just thinking about it, she never thought that the Queen Mother would come, and she came so immediately, thinking of this, her eyes flashed, and she lowered her head.
In fact, Ning Qing is not so good at calculating that something will happen to the Niang Mai, but she is not at ease in the morning, so she called a few eyeliners to stare outside the prison, if there is something wrong, she will report it immediately, thinking that the Dancing has also suffered a lot, and everything can't be tortured.
Ning Qing saw Concubine Yu kneeling in front of her, kowtowing and admitting her mistakes, and she no longer blamed her in her heart, but there can be a few idle masters in this palace, if you don't give some color to take a look, maybe you will come here to be presumptuous.
"Don't dare? So what is your order to be the main palace at this moment? Do you want to judge her? The tone was extremely stern, not as loud as that, but it showed her identity: "Concubine Yu...... It's best to see your identity clearly, don't be idle for too long in a stable life, there are few troublemakers in this palace who can stay for a long time, although Xiahou Meiwu is guilty, but she is the emperor's concubine after all, in terms of title, it's not your business, it's better to settle down. ”
Ning Qing's words poked into her heart word by word, what she hated most in her life was her identity, the identity of each concubine in this palace was much more noble than herself, and this point was undoubtedly a handle among the concubines, and now, Ning Qing's words and words broke through the layer of sandpaper, her face looked extremely embarrassed, and her face was red and white. Suddenly the atmosphere, but the atmosphere is angry, in front of the Queen Mother, she doesn't have that ability, this Queen Mother is far from being as simple as it seems, she better settle down, don't give herself more trouble.
Concubine Yu said forbearingly: "The concubine is taught, and the Empress Dowager Xie advises, and the concubine will leave." ”
"En" Ning Qing nodded and said, "It's good to understand, then get up." ”
"Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother." Concubine Yu kowtowed, got up with the support of the maid, raised her eyes and smiled at the queen mother: "The concubine retired." ”
Nodding, Concubine Yu walked out of the prison slowly, and Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Mei Wu sitting on the ground, her sinister gaze converged, Xiahou Mei Wu, you are lucky today, it is best not to fall into her hands, otherwise, ......
After Concubine Yu left, Ning Qing looked at Mei Wu, stepped forward, bent down to help her: "How are you?" ”
Mei Wu got up, her legs and feet were weak, and she held Ning Qing's arm, Ning Qing looked at her worriedly: "It's okay!" ”
Mei Wu said indifferently: "It's okay, it's no big deal, thank the Empress Dowager for saving her life, Mei Wu is grateful." ”
After the dance stood still, Ning Qing let go of his hand, "Don't say that, if you say it, you are also my niece, no matter what you say, I will also help you." ”
"Niece?" Suddenly hearing Ning Qing talk about it, Mei Wu looked at her puzzled, how could she be the niece of the Queen Mother? I've never heard of these things mentioned by my mother.
Ning Qing couldn't help but have a few more strands of sorrow between her eyebrows, her eyes were complicated, she sighed, and glanced at Bilian.
Bi Lian nodded, and said to the jailers and palace maids behind her, "You all go down." ”
"Yes" There were no superfluous words, and each blessing body retreated.
Only then did Ning Qing reach out and gently caress Mei Wu's cheeks, her eyes were as deep as a deep pool, and there was endless emptiness.
said lightly: "Poor child, you have to bear the grievances of the previous generation, my aunt is really sorry for you." ”
There was a faint fluorescence in the light of his eyes, and the hazy mist seemed to be looking at another person through the dance.
Mei Wu looked at Ning Qing suspiciously: "Auntie? Feeling the real warmth coming from her cheeks, such a warm hand, only her mother had touched her cheeks before, that warm warmth, she had not had for a long time.
Ning Qing turned her head, walked slowly, and turned sideways: "Yes, I am your aunt, your mother is my half-sister, and she is also the most beautiful woman in the Southern Xia Kingdom at the beginning, she has the most perfect everything, identity, status, appearance, talent, all of this, in the Southern Xia at that time, is undoubtedly impeccable."
And I'm just a humble, humiliating concubine, without my sister's appearance, without that talent, and only the identity of that concubine, not so much a concubine, but a girl, not even a girl.
That year, at the Qiqiao Festival, my sister and Princess Xiangwan came out to play, and my sister took me with me, that is, on that day, we met your father and the emperor who left the palace. When Ning Qing said this, as if she was infected, tears had already unconsciously wet her cheeks, and before she remembered the past, the scenes that appeared in front of her, everything full of conspiracy had already been recorded in her heart, but today she came here, just to help her unlock the lock, maybe all this, she should know.
Ning Qing then said slowly: "Since that night, our fate has been rewritten, as if the entangled silk threads are tightly entwined with several of us, the three of us are attracted by your father's talent and domineering, when we know that he is the well-known general Xiahou Yuan, Princess Xiangwan often finds the emperor to invite Xiahou Yuan into the palace, and my sister at that time is also very admiring him, in order to avoid my father's suspicion, my sister took me and often entered the palace.
They had a common topic, but I didn't understand anything, and before I knew it, I came to the Imperial Garden, and saw the emperor, that is, the first emperor, and since that day, I have often seen the emperor's shadow.
Maybe it's fate, but I fell in love with your father, a trip, I fell off the cliff, and was rescued by him, then I knew that he cared about me.
However, ......" Speaking of this, Ning Qing's originally shallow smile revealed a sad atmosphere.
Mei Wu frowned, she didn't expect her father's past to be so complicated.
Feeling Ning Qing's sadness, Mei Wu stepped forward, "If you can't go on, Mei Wu doesn't want to force the Queen Mother." ”
Bilian stepped forward, she saw all this, although she had not participated in her experiences, but she knew that all this she had suffered silently, she was forced to give up the most important person in her life, forced to accept the identity that did not belong to her, forced to live in a cage that could never escape, she knew that she didn't want to from time to time, but couldn't.
Bi Lian gently tugged at the corner of her clothes, shook her head gently, and motioned for her to listen to the Queen Mother.
Mei Wu nodded, only listening to Ning Qing's mouth, but his tone was a little desolate, sad: "When we see ...... See...... My sister was lying with him. As he spoke, tears kept flowing, and his tone couldn't help twitching: "I just knew that I was humble and unworthy of him at all, everything has become a foregone conclusion, a holy decree, I became the queen of Southern Xia, my sister married him, and Princess Xiangwan, married away from Yexi, when Princess Xiangwan left, I only knew...... It turns out that my most beloved sister and the man who lies next to me and cares for me all this time are the ones who have been deceiving me.
Everything is a scam, everything is an illusion, but what if you understand it, the matter has become a foregone conclusion, irretrievable, he already has a family, and I, who have been burdened with the identity of a country, are destined to never be able to be together. ”
"What did my mother do?" Mai Mai was eager to know, because she believed that her mother was a gentle and kind woman, and she would never do anything to hurt anyone.
Ning Qing turned to look at Mei Wu, all this, she originally planned to put it in her heart, but now, she has to bear these for the next generation, those pains, she can bear it alone, she doesn't want the next generation to be innocently implicated, but now, the root of all this, she wants to understand, maybe she can resolve the resentment in the heart of the Empress Dowager, since she can make Feng'er fall in love with her, she must also be able to let the Empress Dowager understand when the grievances will be retributed.
"Princess Xiangwan told me that it turned out that Yexi intended to be close at that time, and the person they specified to be close was Princess Xiangwan, but Princess Xiangwan forced her to die, and finally got a glimmer of hope, if she could make Xiahou Yuan fall in love with her within ten days, then the emperor would consider rejecting this family business, everyone at that time knew Xiahou Yuan's coldness, maybe the emperor already had a plan in his heart.
The princess had a very good relationship with her sister, so she informed her of this, and who would have thought that three days later, she saw her sister lying with him, and when we went in with the emperor, we were dumbfounded.
It turned out that my sister knew that the emperor was concerned about me, so she made a deal, she could let me enter the palace as the queen, as long as the emperor promised to make her Xiahou Yuan's wife.
He agreed, and there was that elaborate scene, they drugged your father's wine, and everything began to deviate from the original trajectory, as they wished, Princess Xiangwan undoubtedly knew everything, and she was forced by the emperor to marry Yexi, and finally died in Yexi depressed and hateful.
The Empress Dowager also hated the Xiahou family, you and your mother, and I also hated me. ”
After Ning Qing finished speaking, she let out a long sigh: "I tell you, I just want you not to be jealous of the Empress Dowager, try to forgive her, you can make Feng'er fall in love with you, and I also hope that you can make the Empress Dowager let go of her knots." ”
Mei Wu couldn't accept everything Ning Qing said for a while, in her impression, even if the love between her father and mother was not perfect and happy, it shouldn't be like this.
She couldn't accept it, shook her head, and looked at Ning Qing: "Impossible, my mother is not such a person." ”
She firmly vetoed, and Ning Qing didn't force her to accept those, but said lightly: "Nothing, nothing is impossible, especially love, this palace only hopes that you will live well and use your kindness to change the Empress Dowager, she is actually just an old man who has lost her children, and our tolerance may be let go one day she will let go." ”
After Ning Qing finished speaking, she glanced at Bi Lian, turned around and left, and Bi Lian also left.
In less than a moment, she was the only one left in the cell, staggering, her steps were a little soft, those words still lingered in her ears, everything was a conspiracy, a conspiracy of love, just to get, to possess.
And she had to accept the consequences of all this, Ruo'er died...... Daddy is dead too...... The Xiahou family is gone...... My brother is gone...... She struggled with the conspiracy from the beginning...... From the very beginning, she was destined for today's ending...... They hurt her most important people in revenge...... But what about the innocent?
Ruo'er died, just because of those, she was beaten to death, how much she suffered, why did she end up like this, and she, just because she was born in Xiahou's family, was used and framed.
She couldn't figure it out, she couldn't figure it out, she was full of confusion in her head, she fell to the ground in a hurry, her hands supported the ground, the pain of her ten fingers was no longer enough for the pain in her heart, she didn't cry, she didn't have radical thoughts, she just had empty eyes and empty pupils, and muttered to herself: "Tell me, all this is not really ......."