Chapter 9 Chapter 9

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I exhaled lightly and called the maid outside the door: "The prince is drunk, you serve the prince to drink the sobering soup, and then take the prince to wash up, so that the prince can sleep well."

"Rujun, where are you going?"

Pei Heng blurted out Rujun made both of us stunned for a moment, how long has it been, I haven't heard Pei Heng call me that.

I smiled lightly: "The prince has a wish, and the concubine is naturally going to think of a wish for the prince."

I entered the palace.

Ruyi is full of pearls, although he is smiling, he can't look at it, but he is not happy.

"What is the concubine of King Heng doing when she comes to the palace?"

I motioned for everyone in the palace to step down, but Ruyi didn't refute my face.

"Ruyi, how are you doing?"

Ruyi slapped on the table: "Presumptuous! You can call Hongu by name?"

I took two steps forward: "I know you hate me, but don't you want to know why my mother hanged herself because of me?"

I walked to Ruyi's side and sat down, just like when we were in the boudoir, I told Ruyi a story, and told everything to Ruyi.

"I see, it's just me who doesn't know about it." Ruyi's eyes looked at the void blankly, and the whole person was so fragile that it seemed that it would be broken in the next second.

"My mother is dead, and I don't want you to continue to hate me." I held Ruyi's hand, it was obviously dog days, but Ruyi's hand was so cold that it seemed to be in an ice cellar.

I was shocked, "What's wrong with your body? How can it be so cold?"

Ruyi smiled miserably: "I'm just a middle-aged person, how does Sister think I won these favors?"

Concubine Zhuang gave Ruyi a ointment, saying that if it was applied, it would turn into ice muscle and jade bones, and it could win the emperor's favor.

Ruyi believed it stupidly, and it wasn't until recently that her body was getting weaker and weaker, and she didn't know that there were trace amounts of toxins in the ointment.

Even if Ruyi is out of use now, it will only be able to survive for a few more years.

There is no solution to the poison.

"How so?" I held Ruyi's hand and tried to rub her hand hot, but in vain.

Ruyi retracted her hand: "Sister, I hate Pei Heng for not wanting to love me, and I hate my mother for dying because of you, I caught up with myself, only to find out that I did something wrong, believed in the wrong person, and hated the wrong person."

I don't complain, she doesn't know anything about these things, not to mention, she is my only relative in this world.

"Sister, you have taught me to correct my mistakes since I was a child, don't worry, although I can't do anything big, at least I can blow the pillow wind in front of Your Majesty. My life is still useful."

I have been in a haunt since I came back from the palace, and I have looked for many doctors, but those doctors have said that there is no solution to the poison, and Ruyi has been used for too long.

At night, Pei Heng suddenly came to look for me, holding a holy decree in his hand: "Rujun, what have you done?"

Only then did I know that the emperor decreed that Pei Heng was given a fief, and he would have to leave Beijing in a few days, and he would not be allowed to enter Beijing without a summons.

"Isn't the prince satisfied?" If there is no accident, it is probably the handiwork of Ruyi, if Pei Heng stays in Beijing, I am afraid that he will not die well.

"What about you? Do you want to guard the mausoleum for the rest of your life?"

In the second half of the holy decree, it was an arrangement for me, depriving King Heng of the title of concubine and guarding the imperial tomb as a concubine.

I lowered my eyelids: "If it is a holy decree, then it can only be obeyed."

Pei Heng's eyes were about to split: "Song Rujun, you have to leave again!"

"Lord Wang, the holy decree has been made, and neither you nor I can resist the decree."

I don't know how Ruyi blew this pillow wind, I heard that Pei Shuo begged the emperor to take back his life in the court, not only did he not get his wish, but he was beaten by the board.

Father's dream of being a national ruler was finally shattered.

I returned Qingmo's deed of sale, left her a large sum of silver, and set out on the way to the imperial tomb with only a bag on my back.

I walked at night and said goodbye to Pei Heng's door, without leaving him a word.

As for Pei Shuo, he was stopped by Concubine Zhuang.

The road is far away, and when I arrived at the imperial mausoleum, I learned that the emperor had died a few days ago, and among the concubines, there was only one Song concubine to accompany the funeral.

Only then did I know how Ruyi persuaded the emperor, and only then did I understand why she wanted me to guard the imperial tomb.

She has always been timid, and even thunder days will be so afraid that she will come to my house and sleep with me.

My father and mother always said that she was pampered, but Ruyi's pampering was what I, as an older sister, was used to.

How can she stand this secluded imperial mausoleum alone?