Volume 1 Chapter 29 Punishing the Lady
"See Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live your Majesty!"
In the main hall of Hanzhang Palace, the concubine has a gorgeous and complicated hem, a full hem, and the transparent sky light illuminates the delicate makeup on her face.
On the throne, Emperor Cheng had a gloomy face and looked indifferently at the woman kneeling in front of him.
He didn't see a concubine, and even over the years, he rarely set foot in the harem.
There are very few meetings like Concubine Shu who have been in the palace for many years and have a prominent family background, except for sometimes suppressing Jiang Song too much in the court, or maybe accidentally arousing Jiang Song's vigilance, he will occasionally go to Chuxiu Palace once in a while to show appeasement.
Because Jiang Song is a good knife at hand.
Emperor Wu was extremely prosperous and full of talents, but unfortunately as soon as Emperor Wu died, the humerus of the country that opened up the territory became a powerful minister.
His father, the emperor, had the eloquence to avoid the situation, but he did not have the imperial mind to govern the court.
He ascended the throne at a young age, and when the government passed into his hands, it was like a mess.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the thirteen princes and twenty-four princes, the Jiang family, the Gu family, the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, the Yongning Marquis Mansion, and the Du Xiang Mansion ...... Each of them holds heavy power, eyeing the tiger, the twelve vassal kings below are getting older, the families and local clans of various states and counties are dominant, and the dark tide is surging under the prosperous era.
After he became pro-government, he vigorously promoted the imperial examination, supported Qingliu, suppressed the powerful, cut the feudal domain and seized power, and the throne became more and more stable, but the situation in the court and China did not improve much.
The Great Yin Dynasty has been built for a long time, and there are always shortcomings, which accumulate over time, and it is difficult to return.
Just like an old tree, with dense branches, a dishful root system, and a messy system, it is inevitable that the nutrients will be insufficient and it will inevitably accumulate itself after a long time.
Jiang Song's knife was used to cut off those branches and leaves that he didn't want for him and do things he couldn't do.
Concubine Shu is in charge of palace affairs, and she is powerful and blessed in the harem, Jiang Song is the same party in the previous dynasty, and he has always turned a blind eye to corruption.
But the knife bearer needs to beware of self-injury the most, today the Jiang family dares to stretch out his hand to Hanzhang Palace, poison his daughter, and dare to reach out to the Qianyuan Palace tomorrow to support the army and rebel, after all, he connived too much, making the Jiang family get carried away.
"Concubine, can you plead guilty?" He asked slowly.
Concubine Shu looked up at the Ninety-Five Supreme who was sitting in the hall and seemed to be forever out of reach, and laughed sarcastically, "What is the crime of the concubine?" ”
She looked at the Ninety-Five Supreme who was sitting in the hall and seemed to be forever out of reach, raised her hand to cover her face, and let out an unknown laugh in her throat.
I don't know if I'm laughing at this extremely cold man, or if I'm laughing at my own ridiculous and futile half of my life.
She has been in the palace for more than ten years, and she has seen Emperor Cheng very few times, and Emperor Cheng is even just a somewhat strange man to her.
She was a symbol in his mind, a grasp of the hilt of a knife, a tool to wield the power in her father's hands, not a living person.
What is she guilty of? She's just taking revenge on a slut who hurt her brother, she's just begging for a breath for her ruined life, what's her guilt?
She raised her chin, and the sneering smile on her lips did not abate, "What is Your Majesty going to do with me?" Is it to break into the cold palace? Or is it white silk, dove wine, and five horses? ”
"You think I'm afraid of you?" She pointed at Emperor Cheng and roared like crazy: "You think I'm afraid of you?!" ”
"Yes! I poisoned that little slut, made her chaotic and delirious all day long, I want her to be a fool, I want her to die! ”
Emperor Cheng completely ignored her arrogance, and only asked indifferently, "Who instructed you to do this?" ”
His expression was as calm as if he was talking about today's weather, but it completely angered the concubine.
Again...... It will always be so......
No matter what she said, no matter what she did, he would always look at her as if nothing she could stir him up.
She burst out laughing, "Who instructed me? No one instructed me! It's me who wants that little slut's life! It was I who made people change her spices, and it was I who wanted her to die! Why do you need to be instructed by others? You kill me, you punish me for the nine clans, do you dare? ”
Emperor Cheng frowned, and his words were warned: "Concubine Shu! ”
Concubine Shu ignored it completely, she smiled and smiled, and tears suddenly welled up from her eyes.
"You're not afraid of the Jiang family's dissatisfaction now? Not afraid of an imbalance between the DPRK and China? Hahaha...... You coward who will always hide behind others and make a sinister move! A hypocrite with a mouth full of hypocrisy! ”
She knew that her life was over, the moment she learned that the little slut was poisoned in the Qianyuan Palace, the moment she knew that Su Xinpan had bitten her, since things were beyond her imagination, when she found out that she had fallen into a trick......
No, it should be from the moment she obeyed her father into the palace, her life was over.
What kind of husband and wife relationship, what kind of father-daughter relationship, it's all bullshit! These two men, who should have been the closest to her, ruined her life.
But what did she do wrong? She didn't do anything wrong!
She just gave birth to the wrong place, just cast in the wrong place, has a father who is hungry for profit and only cares about fighting for power, and a cold, selfish, and affectionate husband.
She was just forced to be pushed down a path that she shouldn't have taken from the beginning, and this time she could only go all the way to the dark, and was imprisoned in the Chu Xiu Palace, which was not popular at all, and was always frighteningly cold to be a walking corpse.
"I think you're crazy!" Emperor Cheng's eyes were full of disgust, "Over the years, you have brutalized your concubines and killed people, and I have always turned a blind eye, thinking that you could repent of yourself, but I didn't want to indulge you more and more." ”
When he saw Concubine Shu's appearance, he couldn't ask anything, so he really didn't have the interest to deal with her anymore, "Okay, pull her down, take away the title, remove the palace power, ban Chuxiu Palace, and don't go out without an edict." ”
You can't go out without an edict, which is no different from the cold palace, but Concubine Shu doesn't care about this.
She was stunned and looked up at Emperor Cheng's murderous eyes, "You didn't even kill me?" You really don't dare to kill me? ”
"Isn't that the only child of your most beloved Empress Gongde? Isn't that the best daughter you care about the most at the tip of your heart? ”
Is this the deep affection that he sacrificed for more than ten years of her youth? This is the fatherly love that she has been jealous and hated all her life? It turns out that it is nothing more than that, and it is no match for the word power.
The power of power is so powerful.
How could she be so stupid, stupid enough to really think that the emperor's authority was unchallengeable, stupid enough to really pursue ethereal favors, stupid enough to pin her hopes on a man who had no feelings for her at all?
What is the point of waking up when the dust has settled?
What can really make her a queen, no longer a slave and a concubine, is not Emperor Cheng, not the Jiang family, but the powerful.
Why didn't she find out so late?
In the dormitory not far away, Wei Yu's grandmother's hand rested on the bed, and a beast-like roar came, breaking the silence of the room.
Wei Yu's hand was clenched into a fist, and his body curled up under the brocade quilt, a little frightened for a while.
For the madness of the lady.
She doesn't sympathize with Concubine Shu, she is a member of the Jiang family, and her position is different, whether she knows about the Jiang family's collusion with King Huai, sooner or later one day she will fight against each other, be merciful to the enemy, and be cruel to herself.
She was not swayed by Concubine Shu's words of dying throes, Concubine Shu deserved to die, but for her father, it was not the best time yet.
She was frightened by herself, she used to be a person who would repay her eyes, but it seemed that she had never done such a thing as calculating people's hearts and fiddling with human life as an object.
The Queen Mother patted her back through the quilt and comforted her slowly: "Don't be afraid, she won't be able to make any big waves." ”
Wei Yu said in a muffled voice: "I know." ”
She was just a little uneasy, always feeling like something was out of control.
The Queen Mother saw the entanglement in her heart and said: "I have taught you to be a man and do things, and you have no regrets." Since you have done it, you must not be stumped by chickens and dogs, and it is difficult for people who love to drill the horns of the bull to become a big tool. ”
Wei Yu stiffened, turned his head in shock, and looked at the Queen Mother's calm and graceful face.
Her eyes widened, looking at the Queen Mother's deep eyes that seemed to have insight into the world, and for a moment she only felt as if she had nothing to hide.
All calculations, stratagems, smug or panicked calculations, are laid bare in front of these eyes.
She asked, "Grandmother...... You? ”
Where did she show her feet? How did grandmother know? How much do you know?
Should she admit her mistake directly, or deny it uncontrollably?
The Queen Mother looked at her as a thief and shook her head, "You were taught by your grandmother, what kind of ghost idea can hide from your grandmother's eyes?" ”
Indeed, when she was a child, every time she and Meng Yingying got into trouble or had some ghost idea, they could always be seen through by their grandmother at a glance.
The wise image of her grandmother in her heart is far deeper than that of her father, although she has been away from the world for many years, she never seems to have any secrets in front of her grandmother.
Her heart pounded.
Now that my grandmother already knew, what about my father? If he also knew about this, would he blame her for being too cold?
The Queen Mother nodded her head and said with hatred: "Stupid girl, I don't know what you're thinking, risking your own life, how can the Jiang family be so calculating?" If it weren't for Feng Yuanzheng's timely arrival this time, your life would not be guaranteed. ”
She sighed and said, "You don't know who you learned from this temperament." ”
That day, Chun Tao knew that she wanted to take advantage of Concubine Shu's poisoning, so she specially came to tell her that there was a decoction, and drinking the poison that could make the spices accumulate in her body burst out, as long as she could drink the antidote in advance, not only would it be okay for her body, but she could also remove the remaining poison from her body at one time.
What she said was true, there was indeed this kind of decoction, but the antidote prescription she gave in private for Wei Yu to take in advance was not true.
Wei Yu encountered countless secret piles in his previous life, and he saw all kinds of means, he was bitten by a snake once, and he was afraid of the well rope for ten years, and he always felt that this spring peach was too useful, and things went too smoothly.
So let Xiaoxiao take the prescription to Xiang Siyuan and let people check, and sure enough, he found that it was wrong.
Chun Tao, the little palace maid, she is indeed not Concubine Shu's person, and her sister did die in the hands of Concubine Shu, telling Wei Yu that everything is true, but she is the secret stake of the Jiang family.
At first, she was just placed in her palace to monitor her every move, but since the wind of impeachment in the court turned to Jiang Song, things have been a little different.
In this matter, it was indeed just Concubine Shu who wanted to harm her at first, but then Jiang Song was dragged into the water by herself, and the Jiang family couldn't sit still.
also learned that Concubine Shu had done something to her and was discovered by her, so she deliberately made a new game, trying to coax her to poison herself.
Wei Yu understood the whole story and decided to do it.