E Yao reflexively wanted to bow down, but suddenly remembered that she was now also the second concubine, and the two froze for a while. Ji Jiang didn't care, waved his hand and signaled Jian Diao to take more than a dozen steps back, E Yao understood that she had something to say, so she also asked the maids to retreat to a place where they couldn't hear the conversation between the two and wait.

"What does my sister have to say?" E Yao asked.

Ji Jiang lowered his voice slightly: "Does my sister know about last night's incident?" ”

A trace of resentment flashed in E Yaomei's eyes: "The king would rather want a thirty-year-old pot-bellied woman than call me to wait, this matter has been spread all over the palace, who doesn't know?" ”

"Although I am only twenty-one years old, I also know that I have lost the favor of the king, and I can only live by my father in the future. But my sister is only eighteen years old, and there is no boy and half girl under her knees, what should I do in the future? The king loves the queen so much now, and the rest of the people don't pay attention to it at all, can we only live a lonely life for the rest of our lives! ”

"You don't have to say any more!" E Yao wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Sister, don't forget, how did you get grounded?" Now that you are useless, do you want to use me as a sword? Hum! I'm not that stupid either! ”

"That's right!" Ji Jiang suddenly looked fiercely: "Sister, you are not stupid, but don't you understand that in this deep palace, you are either used or trampled." It's true that you were supported by the queen, but didn't she also use you to share my favor at that time? Now that the king dotes on the queen, the queen only dotes on Huang Huan's mother and son, when did she look at you? As for why I'm grounded, of course this palace knows! ”

She breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "The queen is scheming, and it took me and my grandmother a lot of effort to find such a handle as Shunzi Tang, but unexpectedly, she turned over by being pregnant. Now the king is not fond of her, but loves her wholeheartedly, and it is impossible to find her handle again. The only way, only-" She leaned into Eyao's ear and whispered, "Only by letting her die, will we have a chance to get ahead." ”

E Yao's pupils were shocked, and she was so shocked that she couldn't speak. Ji Jiang smiled lightly: "God knows what you know, I know, I don't recognize this garden." Sister think about it, anyway, she is under your care, she is a person with ideas, you can ask her anything. ”

Bo Ji was wearing a New Year jacket, standing in front of Fan Ji unhappily and uneasily. She was worried in her heart, not knowing what her grandmother would say.

"Birge!" Fanji looked gentle: "When the child in my womb is born safely, your father will give amnesty, and then he will be released Yiji, and as long as she abides by her duty in the future, she can live in the palace in peace." After you get married, you can also take her with you to live in your husband's country. ”

Bo Ji raised her head suddenly, her eyes widened: "Queen Mother, don't you blame her for framing you?" ”

"It's useless to blame. If she really dies, I'm afraid it will hurt your mother-daughter relationship, as well as your brother-sister relationship with the prince, why bother? After all, you are the eldest princess of the Zhou family, and neither I nor the king can help but leave you dignity! Fanji's tone was a little helpless.

Bo Ji was extremely moved in his heart, and saluted respectfully, with a dignified and gentle posture, looked at his head, and said loudly: "Thank your mother for forgiveness, and the daughter will urge her biological mother to never let her have another incident." ”

When Bo Ji was sent away, the deer sheep was still a little uneasy: "Niangniang, that self-intentioned ill-intentioned, really let it go so lightly?" ”

Fan Ji sighed lightly: "There is a chance that Bo Ji will be Mrs. Qi Guozheng in the future, if she has a grudge against me and Hu Er, it will be bad for the country." In this way, you can only put aside your personal grievances and focus on national affairs. Anyway, send more reliable people to watch her, and forgive her for not making any waves! ”

The cold palace is a place where the hairs of the concubines of the previous dynasties stand on end. However, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, "cold palace" did not refer to a specific place, but was just a title. At that time, if the monarch really disliked one of his women, the general course of action was to put him to death or expel him. Only in a certain circumstance, such a woman has given birth to a child, and is confined for life, then the place where she lives is commonly known as the "cold palace".

Therefore, Yiji was beaten into the cold palace, but she just surrounded the palace where she originally lived, expelled all the palace maids who waited, and only delivered one meal a day, leaving her to fend for herself. Because she originally lived in the same house as Eyao, she took care of it.

Since being promoted to the second concubine, E Yao has become the head of the first palace, and only one courtyard has been allocated for Yiji to be imprisoned. When she walked to the gate of the obviously desolate and dilapidated courtyard, the guard who was sleepy and sleepy was really taken aback, and said again and again: "The slave should die, how can the mother set foot on such a cheap land?" ”

"Unlock it!" E Yao only glanced at it, and Meizi, the personal palace maid beside her, ordered in a deep voice.

The chamberlain trembled and opened the bronze lock covered with green embroidery, nodded and welcomed the group in, while explaining incessantly: "Because the food is passed through a hole in the wall of the house, this lock has not been touched for many days. ”

You don't have to look closely, anyone can feel the depression and dilapidation of this courtyard. Like other palaces, the towering roof ridges and flying eaves corners, but the weeds that emerge from the left and right clumps at the top of the house are very telling, what a cold palace that no one cares about!

There was no one in the courtyard, Meizi pushed open the door of the empty house, and the originally huge and vast hall was only dark and dull as far as the eye could see, and only a few faint rays of light remained on the high windowsill.

"Rare guest!" A slightly hoarse female voice startled the master and servant, and Yiji appeared out of nowhere like a ghost. She took out layers of flint and velvet wrapped in oiled paper from under the third wooden frame on the left side of the incense stand, and without looking at it, she raised her hand and lit the huge candles on the tall brass candlesticks on both sides. The dim light didn't slow her down by half a step.

E Yao couldn't help but sneer lightly: "It seems that you have long been used to such a dark place." ”

Yi Ji hesitated slightly, and laughed at himself: "Of course, when you are afraid of the dark, you will order it to strengthen your courage." I heard that you have been promoted to second concubine, how can such a noble person set foot in my desolate and lowly land? ”

Under the candlelight, E Yao saw that her hair was scattered, and her once shiny long hair was now like a ball of withered grass, lifelessly pulled on the side of her scorched and thin cheeks, and the whole person was as if she was ten years old. Seeing that she had been staring at herself, the corners of her mouth twitched, and her tone was angry: "What? Did you come to see my jokes? You're proud to see me get old and ugly, aren't you? I'm telling you, it won't be long before you, you'll all be like me. ”

E Yao's heart moved, and she waved her hand to ask Meizi to guard outside the hall, she took a step forward and slowed down her tone and said, "Sister is too worried, I came to visit today." I don't know what my sister Fangcai's words mean? ”

Yiji stared at her: "Everyone else thinks that I was rejected by the king because I framed the queen, and you think so too, don't you?" E Yao nodded honestly and unceremoniously.

Yi Ji hooked the corners of his lips, as if teasing: "At that time, the queen was confined to the middle palace, and the princess of the palace only ordered me to stay with you." Do you know why? ”

E Yao was at a loss: "I only know that since the incident of cooking Qi Hou happened, the king is quite jealous of Concubine Ji Jiang." Therefore, it is necessary to promote other palace concubines to check and balance. ”

"Do you know how I serve the king?" Yiji suddenly became excited: "Every time he preaches me, he is depressed after quarreling with the queen, so he makes me angry." He slapped me, choked me in the neck, and every time I was almost out of breath before I stopped. He treats me as a sister, and he vents his resentment on me, you know? He only loves the queen, but he is reluctant to say a heavy word to her, so he can only vent with me! ”

E Yao was taken aback, and under the light of the candlelight, she found that Yiji and the queen were five or six points similar, could it be ------that a terrible thought passed through her heart: the king's love in his heart is only the queen, and sure enough, as Ji Jiang said, the queen is not dead, and none of them can come out!

Yiji is still telling: "Every time I finish sleeping, I am wounded all over my body, and my heart is broken piece by piece. In my life, the person I hate the most is Fanji. is also the daughter of Fanzi, she is the princess of the high, and I am not worthy of being a girl. She got married, and I was married like a thing; Her mother, Jing Jigui, was Mrs. Jun, and my mother could only be used for burial. When I arrived at my husband's house, my husband only regarded me as a shadow of her, a shadow------"

She suddenly rushed to E Yao, grabbed E Yao's front with her thin hand, and yelled: "Why can I only be her shadow from life to death all my life?" I'm alone, too! I also need someone to respect me and love me! I don't have a chance, Ji Jiang doesn't have a chance anymore, the king has completely disgusted the two of us for the sake of himself. But you still have a chance! Only you have a chance! Don't you want to be in the back seat? ”

"Back?" Like a hammer blow to the chest, E Yao muttered: "I don'------ no, no, no, no, I can't!" ”

"Why not?" Yiji's withered face suddenly lit a blush of hope: "You have a capable brother, and the great king is important to the Marquis of Hubei, because the country of Hubei can be in the southern side of the Ping Zhou Room." As long as you can be favored and give birth to a son, you are the only one in the harem. However, as long as you are here, the king will not look at you more, don't you understand? ”

Leaving the cold palace and returning to his palace room, Eji's mind still echoed the words before Yiji's parting: "Do you think about the difference between the queen and the palace concubine?" As long as you ascend to the supreme phoenix position, King Zhou will be able to give you three points in the future, let alone a patina mountain. Think about your brother's hopes, think about your future, Fanji has been pregnant for more than six months, and a woman giving birth to a child is passing the ghost gate, and there will never be such a good opportunity in the future. ”

Unexpectedly, Bo Ji came to visit: "E Niangniang, please pass on a message to my mother for me!" ”