Chapter 60: The Shrine Maiden
The eunuchs and maids in the Taihe Palace also noticed that the air pressure was wrong.
So they shrank their heads one by one, and didn't dare to take a step closer to the emperor, for fear that their words and deeds would be inappropriate, so they would commit the emperor's taboo, or because their left foot entered the Taihe Palace to make Shangguan Yun'er unhappy, they were assigned to Yelangjun.
"Just send Du Zhiyan and Shi Jing? Will the number of people be too small? I heard that Yelangjun has 178 wives and concubines, so I simply put together a team of 22 people, plus the 178, exactly 200 people. The emperor held the brush and thought: "The queen is idle and idle, and it is useless to keep it, so it is better to send the queen a piece of it." ”
A bolt from the blue.
The queen was standing outside the Taihe Palace with ginseng and chicken soup.
I heard that the emperor has been very frightened recently, and her sister Wei Zhaoning is always worried about the emperor's body, so she stewed ginseng black chicken soup early, and brought chicken soup to the emperor.
I knew I shouldn't come.
I didn't want to panic at all when I didn't see the emperor for ten days and half a month, and more importantly, I didn't get angry when I didn't see the emperor.
Now I heard the emperor say that he would send her to Yelang.
The first blow made the queen almost drop the bowl, and a white light in her head made her a little dizzy.
I regret that I shouldn't have come to Taihe Palace.
I am crooked in Jingren Palace, there is food, drink, and eunuchs and palace maids to serve, why do you want to go to Taihe Palace to suffer this.
Stop losses in time.
The queen turned around decisively and strode back to Jingren Palace.
Dried the ginseng chicken soup in the bowl while it was hot, and drank it to a warm stomach, and the whole person was a little more comfortable.
Shangguan Yun'er laughed "squeaky": "The queen's color is declining, forget it." It's just that if Du Shi and the others go to Yelang, the emperor will always accompany him to give some dowry, right? ”
The emperor was stunned.
Isn't there something wrong?
Do you have to give away your concubines and paste the dowry upside down?
Shangguan Yun'er put her arms around the emperor's neck: "According to Yelang's customs, when a woman marries into a man's family, she has to bring her own dowry, if the emperor is willing to prepare a rich dowry for them, then Yelangjun will definitely be happy, and the situation of Du Shi and the two will be better at that time." ”
"That'...... What is the right dowry to bring? ”
The dowry list includes a stepping bed, a complete set of tables and chairs, a hundred treasure cabinets, a 24-piece dense wardrobe, a gold-painted flower locket, a coral screen couch, a double luan rhombic bronze mirror, a white jade flower comb, a tea cup and a dish, an enamel color bottle and other utensils.
Hearing that the emperor said that he had such a dowry, Shangguan Yun'er just crouched on the long case and smiled: "These things are too trivial, and it is not cost-effective to transport them thousands of miles, and it is also very dangerous." ”
"You mean, converted into gold and silver?"
"Not necessarily."
"That's?"
"According to my meaning, in the city in the northwest of the Chen Kingdom, the emperor just sent two to Yelang as the dowry of Du Shi and the others. Although the northwest city is barren, Yelangjun is generous and shouldn't mind. ”
"That's a good idea." The emperor took Shangguan Yun'er's hand: "If I think about it, I will give the two cities of Yongxing City in the Northwest and Luoli City to Yelangjun." ”
The emperor was writing and painting on the brocade, and Shangguan Yun'er was lying there staring meticulously.
Until the emperor finished writing, he drew two more cities.
Shangguan Yun'er hurriedly picked up the heirloom jade seal.
The jade seal of the country, also known as the seal of the country, is four inches in circumference, handed over to the five dragons, and the front is engraved with the eight words of "ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang", to show that "the imperial power is granted by heaven, orthodox and legitimate." ”
After writing the holy decree, the emperor said casually: "Call the emperor to see if it is appropriate." ”
The eunuch's neck was shorter.
The emperor patted his head, yes, the emperor is Shi Yu.
The emperor's holy decree is to marry Shi Yu's daughter Shi Jing to Yelang.
Shi Yu wanted to know this letter, so he was so angry that he sat up in the middle of the night and scolded for half an hour.
How dare you get him over to discuss the plan.
It's tiring to write a decree.
Shangguan Yun'er personally brought honey water to serve the emperor to drink, and then helped the emperor to lie down, and the bracelet on his hand shook in front of the emperor's eyes: "Your Majesty...... Is the emperor sleepy? ”
"Doze off ......"
"Then the emperor has a good night's sleep."
After a while, seeing that the emperor squinted his eyes, Shangguan Yun'er shook the gold bracelet in front of the emperor again, and when she saw that the emperor squinted his eyes and did not react, she asked the eunuchs and palace maids who were waiting to withdraw.
The fat between her eyebrows was heavy and shining in the light.
I don't know when, there was a nighthawk hovering over the Taihe Palace, the sound of flapping its wings was light and soft, and it followed the lights, quietly, and landed on the long case of the Taihe Palace.
At the foot of Nighthawk, there was a small black lacquered bamboo tube with a note in the bamboo tube.
Using the Nighthawk to deliver a message is faster than an eight-hundred-mile rush, and the target is small, flexible, and not easy to be discovered, which is a very safe method.
Since entering the palace, Shangguan Yun'er has used this well-trained nighthawk to contact Yelang.
Now Yelang has replied.
Shangguan Yun'er read the letter carefully, and then took it to the candle and lit it.
"Take such a city one by one, there are so many cities in Chen Guo, when will you get it, since he has been poisoned by me, and I am the most talented witch in Yelang, wouldn't it be easy to manipulate him, it is better for me to take his life directly, as soon as Emperor Chen died, why worry that Chen Guo is not ours." Shangguan Yun'er looked at the pile of ash with some disdain.
"What do you say that if the emperor of Chen State suddenly dies, I am afraid that it will attract criticism from other countries, if you really take Chen Guo, Yelang will grow, who dares to criticize, in the end, Yelangjun is old, if the prince ascends the throne, he will not be so soft-hearted, it seems that it is time to tell the prince that Yelangjun should not live for a long time."
The emperor fell into a deep sleep.
A gust of wind blew the gauze tent, like a human figure.
Nighthawks came and went quietly.
Shangguan Yun'er came to the bed vigilantly, stared at the emperor carefully for a while, and sneered: "I won't let you die for the time being, but the pain of Gu every day is indispensable." When all the Chen Kingdom returns to Yelang and my crown prince ascends the throne, you, the emperor, will be useless. ”
Shangguan Yun'er pressed her hand on the emperor's abdomen, and then, like luck, moved along the abdomen to the emperor's chest, and then to the shoulder.
The emperor's eyebrows suddenly wrinkled: "It hurts......"
After a while, the emperor was sweating in pain.
At the beginning, Shangguan Yun'er took advantage of the emperor's unpreparedness and fed a hornet into the emperor's stomach.
That wasp was brought by her from Yelang, and she had been raising it for more than three years, and she was extremely obedient.
It's not the first time that a hornet has been used as a Gu.
Those who have fallen into the Gu will have unbearable pain, and will obediently obey the arrangement like a marionette.
Only when you drink honey water will the pain be lighter.
The one who boiled the honey water was Shangguan Yun'er's own servant, who was dressed in purple and raised the bowl above her head: "Lord Shangguan's witchcraft is skillful, this Emperor Chen is your opponent." ”