Chapter 064: Thorough Cleansing
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"This girl is also a simple girl, I'm afraid she didn't plan to live in the first place, right?" The Queen Mother shook her head slightly and said, "Jinxiu, you can take someone to deal with her." ”
"Yes, slave and maid will go. Jinxiu walked out of the hall, called two eunuchs, carried Chenlu, and left the main hall of Jianzhang Palace.
In an instant, only the Queen Mother and Zhou Meiren were left in the palace, as well as Zhou Meiren's personal palace maid Lianxin.
Zhou Meiren saw that there were no outsiders around, so she couldn't care about her face and dignity, as long as she could live, she was willing to do anything. So she knelt down again, kowtowed to the Queen Mother, and cried:
"The Queen Mother, the concubine knows that she is wrong, please forgive the concubine once, the concubine will never dare again-"
"Zhou Meiren, do you know how serious this matter is?" the Queen Mother said coldly, "What a crime is it to collude with Beidi and collaborate with the enemy and treason, how can it be forgiven if you forgive?" If this matter has nothing to do with your father, it's just that you poisoned a palace maid because of jealousy in the harem, and the mourning family and the court still rely on your father, and turn a blind eye to what you have done. Can it be ...... Your father did such a rebellious thing, this harem...... I can't hold you anymore. ”
"The Queen Mother--what my father did has nothing to do with the concubines, and the concubines don't know about everything-" Zhou Meiren continued, in order to clear up her own suspicions, she put all the blame on her biological father, the so-called human heart, probably so.
"Putting aside whether you know it or not, just saying that your father's great crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason is enough to behead the whole house, and you ...... It is also one of the full doors of the Zhou family. The Queen Mother's tone was categorical, and there was no room for change.
Seeing the resolute attitude of the Queen Mother, Zhou Meiren knew that she would not be able to escape this catastrophe. And she knelt there, weeping, and her face was as dead as ashes.
"Beauty...... Don't be sad, even if it's on the Huangquan Road, the slave will definitely accompany you. Lianxin didn't speak, but when the dust settled, she saw Zhou Meiren crying so sadly, so she stepped forward to comfort her.
When Zhou Meiren heard Lianxin's voice, she came back to her senses, her eyes were full of resentment, and she even slapped Lianxin in the face and said, "It's all you! If it weren't for your carelessness and leaving evidence, how could I have ended up like this? Damn it, it's you!"
While speaking, Zhou Meiren punched and kicked Lianxin, and the crisp slap kept beckoning to Lianxin's face, and the sharp nails cut through Lianxin's delicate face, leaving a long blood stain.
But Lianxin didn't dare to say a word, so she could only let Zhou Meiren scold herself, after all, this is Jianzhang Palace, not the place where the slave in Mingluan Hall can cry at will if he is punished.
I don't know how long it took, Jinxiu and Zhao Gonggong came back separately, and the Queen Mother, after careful consideration, also had a judgment on Zhou Meiren's final ending.
"Zhou Meiren bribed the palace maid to poison the female official, disrupted the order of the harem, and killed the palace maid in order to cover up the truth, in order to protect herself, the crime is unforgivable. His personal palace maid lotus heart, aiding the abuse, was punished with the same crime. Give the two of them three feet of white silk, and Yu Mingluan Hall will cut it off by itself. The Queen Mother said, "Gonggong Zhao, you are responsible for getting this matter done." ”
"Wow. Zhao Gonggong answered, and then sent Zhou Meiren and Lianxin back to Mingluan Palace.
At the same time, the three-foot white silk prepared by the Internal Affairs Office was also sent to the Mingluan Hall and handed over to Zhou Meiren and Lianxin.
The originally lively Mingluan Palace, suffered a great change, and all the palace people trembled, for fear that Zhou Meiren's affairs would harm themselves, and everyone gathered outside Zhou Meiren's bedroom, waiting for their fate to come.
In the dormitory, Zhou Meiren looked at the three-foot white silk in her hand, suddenly threw it on the ground, and roared: "No, I don't want to break it myself, there must be another way." How could my father collaborate with the enemy and commit treason? He wouldn't do that!"
"Zhou Meiren, you better hurry up, our family is still waiting to return to the Queen Mother. Gonggong Zhao picked up the white silk from the ground, handed it to Zhou Meiren's hand again, and then persuaded, "It stands to reason that you should be content, the Queen Mother is merciful, let you decide with the dignity of a beauty, and the funeral must also be held with the dignity of a beauty." Don't make a fuss all over the city, the Queen Mother abolished your position in a fit of anger, then you won't even be able to die a decent death. ”
"It's really a tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs, you are a minion, you dare to talk to me like this, if you put it aside, see if I don't tear your mouth apart!" Zhou Meiren said angrily.
"No matter how bad the slave's words are, he is also doing things for the Queen Mother. Father-in-law Zhao has the backer of the Queen Mother, and he is obviously fearless, and then said, "Beauty, hurry up, don't let our family do it yourself." ”
"You!" Even if Zhou Meiren was angry, she had to admit that Zhao Gonggong was telling the truth, he was indeed doing things for the Queen Mother.
What's more, this palace has always been high and low, a criminal concubine like her, Zhao Gonggong naturally doesn't have to take it to heart, if she doesn't make a decision on her own, Zhao Gonggong may really do it himself.
After delaying for such a long time, no other will came, there was no movement from the emperor and the queen, she knew that her life was over.
One wrong step and one wrong step, she shouldn't have asked her father to send a killer to kill Yang Yushi in order to deal with Yang Liangren, so that Gu Qingming would not be injured, Yun Yao would not go out of the palace to save people in order to help Lu Yingquan, and she would not be left in Changming Palace by the emperor to recuperate, she would not be jealous, and she would not want to poison Yun Yao......
It's a pity that there are not so many ifs in life, she still died under her own desires after all, she wants to get the emperor's favor, and she also wants to get the power and status of the harem, but it's a pity...... Done the wrong way.
It's not that she's not shrewd enough, it's that the enemy is too strong.
In an instant, countless thoughts flashed in Zhou Meiren's heart, as if in a short period of time, she had finished reviewing her life.
"Beauty, the matter has come to this, there is no room for turning, the slave and maid will go first, waiting for you on the Huangquan Road, to be your companion. ”
Lianxin also knew it, she knew that it was impossible to live this time, and she didn't care about Zhou Meiren's punches and kicks to herself, she just said such a sentence, and then hung Bai Aya on the high beam, tied it into a dead knot, and then moved a stool and stood up, slowly covering her neck with Bai Ayan.
I heard a crisp sound, and the stool fell to the ground, and Lianxin's face turned red from poor breathing, and it didn't take long for her to lose her breath again.
"Lotus Heart!" Zhou Meiren watched Lotus Heart die in front of her, and her heart was even more sad.
Unexpectedly, there was such a palace maid who was loyal to her, however, her heart was already desperate, and she was even guessing what kind of method the queen mother would use to deal with her father and the Zhou family.
Just thinking about it, there seems to be no other way but to die.
"Zhou Meiren, please. Zhao Gonggong was still urging, with a vague smile on his face, and he seemed to have a sense of schadenfreude over death.
Of course, Gonggong Zhao has been doing things for the Queen Mother for a long time, although he is not as deep as Jinxiu to win the Queen Mother's heart, but he is also the Queen Mother's confidant for decades. Accustomed to seeing death in the palace, his heart became insensitive, and nothing could touch him anymore.
Zhou Meiren did not hesitate this time, just like a lotus heart, she simply obeyed the order of the Queen Mother and made her own decision.
The ups and downs in the palace are common, and Zhou Meiren's death, like a breeze blowing across the lake, brought ripples throughout the Ning Palace, and also left traces in everyone's hearts.
Soon, the eunuchs carried away the bodies of Zhou Meiren and Lianxin, and the Mingluan Hall suddenly became an ownerless palace, still gorgeous, but it was a thing or a person.
The queen mother's decree came down, and all the palace people in the Mingluan Hall were reassigned to the palace errands, and these palace people who had lost their masters had a new place to go, and they quickly forgot the old life and showed their loyalty to the new master.
All the people in the harem who are involved in this matter are all implicated, and the Queen Mother always has a way to come up with all kinds of excuses to punish those who are involved in this matter.
In the Hehuan Palace, since Rong Ya and Yun Yao came back, they have been closing the palace door, as if they don't listen to what is going on outside the window, for fear that this turmoil will implicate the people in the Hehuan Palace. However, fortunately, Yun Yao arranged it properly in advance, and the Hehuan Hall was not implicated in any way.
However, some remarks about this matter still reached Yun Yao's ears from all directions, letting her know that everything was going according to her plan.
Mingluan Hall has become a vacant palace, the gate is closed, and there is no longer the gate of the past, and after the death of Zhou Meiren, the Queen Mother naturally acted in the court and acted against Zhou Taichang.
Mrs. Zhou often held important positions, and over the years, he also had a lot of contacts and relationships in the court, and his forces were intertwined, and even if the Queen Mother wanted to move him, it would take a lot of effort.
And among them, there is also Shen Ze acting in secret.
When Yun Yao told him this plan, he knew that his opportunity had come. took advantage of the battle between the Queen Mother and Zhou Taichang, and tried every means to pull in all the people who could be implicated, and most of the people involved in this matter were the Queen Mother's people.
In order to eradicate all the officials related to Beidi, this forced the Queen Mother to attack her own people, because these own people, under Shen Ze's secret manipulation, all became Zhou Taichang's comrades.
After this incident, the Queen Mother's vitality was greatly damaged, and some of her supporters in the court were uprooted by her own hands, and the remaining part of the people also became cold because of the Queen Mother's resolute methods and her determination to show mercy to her subordinates.
For a time, the party of relatives headed by the Queen Mother was in turmoil, and Shen Ze's complete ascension to power was just around the corner.
In the Changming Palace, Shen Ze looked at the recommendation fold submitted by the officials of the DPRK and China, and his heart was very happy, because most of the names written on the fold were all his henchmen, who had been pressed by the Queen Mother's people before, and now a great change has given them the opportunity to stand proudly in front of the world.
Perhaps, it's time to start planning......
Shen Ze used a cinnabar pen to write a few words on the fold, secretly thinking in his heart, as if he was already a little impatient.