Chapter Twenty-Three: The Heart and the King
Three days later, Wu Ling entered the palace with the stream, participated in the funeral of Concubine Ying, kowtowed and bowed throughout the morning, prosperous etiquette, and there were countless monks chanting scriptures and chanting Buddha.
Wu Ling is indifferent, everyone is gone, what is the use of this luxurious funeral.
Although there were a large number of people around, Wu Ling didn't know anyone, and barely one or two people who had seen it once or twice, but they were not very familiar.
Although Wu Ling is a princess, she rarely shows up, so many people don't know her, and she is only the daughter of an emperor's cronies, so she ignores it.
Xi was talking to a prince-like person just now, and the conversation was lively, Wu Ling felt bored, so she left and walked around, listening to what the people around her were talking about.
Many concubines, emperors and princesses came, only the emperor did not appear at the funeral, Wu Ling listened to the chatting of other princesses and learned that the emperor was very sad, plus he had drunk too much in the past few days, and he was sad, and now he was sick, and even the emperor and queen were alarmed.
After the hanging, a group of palace people carried the body of Concubine Ying away, saying that the emperor saw that Concubine Ying loved the green bamboo forest in the courtyard, and often danced in the bamboo forest, so he decreed that she was buried in the green bamboo forest, and the entire splendid palace still belonged to her.
I think that the emperor still loves her deeply, otherwise he would not have fallen ill for her, nor would he have allowed her not to be buried in the emperor's mausoleum, but to continue to live in the huge imperial palace in another way.
"Woo woo woo ......" came a faint cry.
Wu Ling turned around, followed the cry, and found a woman in white standing in the dark corner of the shadows in the corner, with unkempt hair and a shadowy figure, not like a human, but like a wisp of ghost, puzzled, so she looked at it twice.
The ghost seemed to feel that someone was looking at her, and suddenly raised her head, her eyes were facing each other, and the familiar face shocked Wu Ling, she was actually Concubine Ying!
Wu Ling looked at her, and she didn't know what to feel in her heart, the once beautiful Concubine Ying has now become like this......
"Seventh Princess......? You...... Can you see me? She was also stunned when she saw Wu Ling's red eyes looking straight at her, and quickly floated forward, as if she didn't believe that anyone could see her.
"Yes." Wu Ling nodded, thinking in her heart that it was probably due to her adjusting her aura according to what was written in the ancient spirit scroll in the past few days.
The words recorded in this ancient spirit scroll, although they are all ancient characters, seem to be able to understand people's hearts, and fortunately, the queen mother has let Wu Ling learn all kinds of ancient characters and Qimen gossip since she was a child, so it doesn't seem difficult.
Thinking about it, it only takes a while, and if you figure it out in a timely manner, you can understand it thoroughly, and there will be no more incidents of wood stardom.
I didn't expect this ancient spirit scroll to be so magical, in the past three days, she just studied it briefly, and she felt that the aura of her whole body had changed, and now she could even see the spirit body.
"Seven princesses! Save me! Concubine Ying suddenly pounced on Wu Ling and wanted to grab Wu Ling's skirt and pray, but because she was already a yin thing, she was bounced away by the hot fire spirit on her body, so she had to lean down and kneel, and kept kowtowing and crying.
Wu Ling is indifferent, the person has died, the body has been buried, even if she has the ability to reach the sky, how can she be saved?
"Seventh Princess, Seventh Princess, when I beg you, don't let them bury me under the green bamboo forest......" She kept crying, sad and sad, although the spirit body had no tears, but still grieved.
"Why?" Wu Ling waved her hand to signal her to get up, although yin and yang are separated, according to her position, she is still her own concubine, and she can't afford to kneel.
"Does the princess know...... Where did the son of my womb come from......" Concubine Ying got up with a wry smile, her pale face full of sadness.
"I know a little bit about it." It must be inseparable from the green bamboo demon wind cliff.
"The princess is smart, I promise to bury a maid beside the green bamboo demon every day, and use the woman's body and soul as its roots and refining resources, so that her demonic power will increase greatly. He used his demonic power to urge the female root in my body and forcibly conceived the emperor. He promised me that this emperor would be the silver eye, and that he would be the wisest and healthiest of all the emperors. I really got pregnant with the emperor as I wished...... The national teacher also predicted that he would be a silver-pupiled emperor......" Concubine Ying smiled slightly, habitually stroked her abdomen, but failed to touch the previous bulge, and the smile froze on her face.
"Are you afraid that he will suck your soul and make your life uneasy?" Wu Ling smiled bitterly in her heart, if she really gave birth to a child in peace, she would not have done so.
Concubine Ying nodded and said, "I have long heard that Princess Wuling is different...... I still hope that the princess will be fulfilled, don't let me fall into the hands of the green bamboo demon. β
Wu Ling looked at this woman who was once beautiful, but now she has become a yin spirit, she has long lost her temperament, and her face is full of fear of the bamboo demon, but how could she have thought that those women who were buried under the roots of the bamboo demon by her were so pitiful?
It's no wonder that she was too greedy for vanity, she confided in her pregnancy early, and let the national teacher confirm that she was the son of the silver pupil, isn't it self-murder?
Wu Ling couldn't tell her that in this deep palace, I don't know how many pairs of eyes were staring at her, even if there was no Qingzhu Demon thing, for the sake of the queen mother, she would eventually destroy their mother and son.
"Please." Seeing that Wu Ling was silent, Concubine Ying knelt down and kowtowed again.
Wu Ling pondered whether she wanted to help her, and the consequences of helping her, and before she could speak, she heard someone calling out to her.
"Seventh sister! Why did you get here? In the middle of a group of people a little farther away, the stream beckoned to Wu Ling and ran towards her.
"Princess...... Yikes! Concubine Ying was just about to open her mouth again to plead, when she suddenly saw the stream, and with a wail in her mouth, she suddenly hurriedly took a few steps back and raised her sleeves to cover her eyes, as if she had seen something dazzling.
"How do you want me to help you?" Wu Ling moved slightly to cover the figure of the stream for her.
"As long as the princess informs the emperor, she still remembers the meeting back then, and the heart of the world will be with you. In this life, you can't grow like wings, but you want to always be in your heart. Concubine Ying saluted Wu Ling according to the palace etiquette and said, "Please, princess, I can't ......stay for a long time."
"I'll do my best." Wu Ling turned around and faced Dizixi, and the mournful ghost cry of Concubine Ying came from behind her again.
Wu Ling looked at the stream, and didn't feel anything wrong, thinking in her heart, why did Concubine Ying see him and hurriedly cover her eyes in fear?
"The palace banquet will start soon, come with me!" Brook grabbed Wu Ling's cuffs and dragged her through the crowd.
"Palace banquet? Who are these people? Wu Ling raised her hand, avoiding a slightly obese man, and let Xi lead her way through the crowd.
"Whenever someone in the palace dies, a palace banquet will be held before the burial, which is supposed to wash away those bad things. These are some relatives who are out of the house, and they can't enter the main hall, so they are here. Brook smiled and explained back.
"Oh." Wu Ling was silent, followed the stream into a hall, and sat down next to a small table with red wood and sterling silver carvings in the corners, and sat on the ground.
Xi motioned for Wu Ling to sit beside him, and Wu Ling sat down obediently, looking at the six seats in the hall, only the two seats in the center were free, and the corners of the two tables were golden.
"Is that the seat of the emperor and the queen mother?" Wu Ling pointed to the two vacant seats and asked Xi.
"No, that's the position of my eldest brother and second brother, the eldest brother is still in the army and can't come back, the second brother is often late, we have long been used to it." Xi quietly stuffed a piece of pastry in his mouth at some point, and he was happy to eat it, and handed it a piece to Wu Ling.
"Your second brother, but Yun Rui, the son of the emperor?" Wu Ling waved her hand, signaling that she would not eat.
"Oh, don't call you by name or surname, although you are a princess, but this is a big taboo, you have to call the second brother!" Xi hurriedly put down the pastry and covered Wu Ling's mouth, then let go of his hand and said, "Why are you biting me again?" β
Wu Ling has long been surprised, every time the stream touches her and feels hot, she thinks she has been pinched and bitten, her face is full of displeasure, but she still does not have a long memory, and often touches herself.
"And ......," Xi was saying, but was interrupted by a strange noise, and Wu Ling suddenly heard that there seemed to be a mess outside the house, and then entered a large number of guards, standing on either side.
"The Second Emperor has arrivedβ" The guards on both sides raised their spears and shouted loudly.
And Wu Ling's ear power has always been outstanding, and at this time, the whispers of the people at the banquet are like a tide.
"It's such a big formation, this sister-in-law is different."
"That's it, I think this country will one day fall into the hands of His Second Highness!"
"But I heard that His Royal Highness is not as well-informed as His Royal Highness in terms of poetry and books."
"So what, the family was born in the main family, although he is not the eldest son, he is the most powerful!"
"You're right, now that the emperor of the dynasty has turned his hands into clouds and his hands for rain, he will definitely be the second highness in the future!"
The door opened, and the guards on both sides suddenly knelt down, bowing their heads and waiting, and then a slender figure suddenly appeared, with his back to the light, Wu Ling couldn't see her face clearly, and only felt that it was very different from Rui, who was short when she was a child.
When the vermilion wood-framed door of the main hall was closed, Wu Ling saw his appearance clearly, he was wearing a dark purple dragon robe, with a complex pattern of gold buckles around his waist, and a pair of dark gold black boots under his feet.
His cold mandarin duck eyes scanned the audience, the high bridge of the nose, the delicate complexion, and the pale pink lips and teeth condensed a bewitching face that should not be born in the body of a man, and the whole person looked more handsome than Xingyao, who was a demon fox, as if a god descended from heaven.
"Welcome to Your Highness II! Your Highness St. Ann! When everyone saw him, they got up, knelt down and saluted after leaving their seats sideways, and even Xi bowed his head, and before Wu Ling could react, he met the mandarin duck eyes.
It is also a mandarin duck eye, which is different from Shuo's gentle gaze, which is cold and handsome, and has some ...... Contempt?
"You, why don't you kneel?" When Rui saw Wu Ling, he walked gracefully in front of her, holding a gold-inlaid bamboo cane in his hand, and lifted Wu Ling's chin.
"Brother Huang doesn't know!" Xi hurriedly pulled Wu Ling, but Wu Ling didn't react for a long time, and said embarrassedly: "Seventh sister Wu Ling is participating in the palace banquet for the first time, so I don't know the etiquette!" β
"Oh?" He looked at Wu Ling lightly and said, "Do you know now?" Why don't you kneel yet? β