Chapter 13: Hanging
Emperor Xuanwu did not turn over the cards this night, but slept in the Yikun Palace in the queen, and today is fifteen.
According to the rules, on the fifteenth day of the new year, the emperor must sleep in the queen's bedroom. Although Emperor Xuanwu has no feelings for the queen, he will not break the rules, which is decent, he is still willing to give it to his queen of the main palace.
"I heard that the emperor punished Chu Jieyu today?"
"Hmm!"
The emperor lay on the bed and turned over, with his back to Empress Zhu, without meaning to explain.
Empress Zhu's eyes were red, and tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes, disappearing from her sideburns.
She quickly wiped away her tears: "Chu Jieyu has always been good friends with Concubine Li, and the emperor has disposed of Chu Jieyu, and I am afraid that Concubine Li will be sad." ”
"I'll talk to Concubine Li tomorrow, Queen, I'm tired, go to sleep!"
The lights of Yikun Palace were extinguished, but Changchun Palace had no intention of sleeping.
Concubine Li sat on the throne with an angry face: "You idiot, don't you understand why the emperor punished you?" ”
Chu Jieyu was unconvinced and said: "It's not Zhen Ronghua's fox charmer, she is a little similar to Niangniang, the emperor is trying to make her fresh, and she blows the wind in her ears in front of the emperor." ”
Otherwise, how could the emperor be so angry?
"Phew!"
A teacup exploded at her kneeling feet, and Concubine Li pointed to her head: "No matter how much trouble the harem concubines make, it is also a small fight, and the emperor will never help anyone." You idiot moved out of your family background to oppress people, but what the emperor hates the most is that the previous dynasty and the harem are involved? ”
Just like the collusion between the queen mother and the Wu family, which led to the rampant buying of officials and hawkers, which made the emperor hateful, and finally disposed of his mother and uncle with his own hands.
Chu Jieyu knew that it was terrible, and begged Concubine Li for help in a panic.
"Bengong will help you one last time, if you still can't support the wall like this, Bengong won't bother to care about you."
On the second day, the temperature should have reached thirty-six or seven degrees, because on the way back to the palace after asking the queen for peace, Jiang Xinyue was about to faint from the heat.
There was not even a hint of wind in the air, and it was so suffocating that it was difficult to breathe.
What kind of weather is this?
You should lie down in the lotus washing hall full of ice basins to sleep for beauty sleep, and by the way, you can get some beauty prescriptions for skin care.
Beauty will never dislike herself for changing her beauty, and the emperor will not dislike it.
Anyway, they are all women they don't love, sleeping ugly is also sleeping, sleeping beautiful is also sleeping, why don't you sleep to make yourself pleasing to the eye, at least after sleeping, looking at such a beautiful face, the mood can be a little better.
Just like Jiang Xinyue, if Emperor Xuanwu is a bad old man in his fifties and sixties, ugly and smelly, and doesn't like to take a bath, then she would rather live in the cold palace for the rest of her life, and never do anything to be a favorite concubine.
It's so ugly, I look like my appetite is gone, where did it come from...... What's that desire?
The scorching sun was shining, and at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, there was no one outside all the palaces.
The doors of each palace are closed, and they are all hiding in the summer!
"Ahh
At noon, Jiang Xinyue was still sleeping, and she heard a high-pitched cry, which seemed to come from the lotus washing hall.
"Master!"
Immediately after, Frostfall pushed open the door and woke up the magpie who was dozing off on the edge of the bed: "What's wrong?" What happened? ”
After the frost fell, the two thick palace maids with weak legs fell to their knees, trembling all over: "Rong ...... Ronghua Niangniang...... Side hall ...... Someone hanged himself in the side hall. ”
Jiang Xinyue got up "ho", the magpie hurriedly put on her coat, and the three masters and servants plus Jiang Chuan, the great eunuch of the Lotus Washing Palace, all went to the side hall.
There were a few little eunuchs and little palace maids around the door of the side hall, Jiang Chuan scolded, and they fell to their knees.
Jiang Xinyue waved her hand: "What should you do, don't go around here." ”
Jiang Chuan walked in the front and chose two eunuchs to follow: "Master, you avoid it first, don't rush into you, and the minions will put people down first." ”
Without Jiang Xinyue's order, no one dared to touch the hanged corpse.
She was scared with three points on her face, and there was no blood on her face, she covered her eyes and walked to the door, and then said in a trembling voice: "Go and ...... quickly"
As soon as the red dress flickered, the figure hanging on the beam of the room was put down, and the magpie shouted: "Master, it's the eldest lady!" ”
"What?"
Jiang Xinyue, who peeked through her fingers, couldn't care about being scared now, ran forward in three or two steps, and after seeing the dark white face clearly, she screamed and fainted.
Wang Dequan hurried to the imperial study, and met several ministers of the court and central government on the way, and hurriedly pushed the door in a hurry without saying a few words of greeting.
"Your Majesty, something happened to the Lotus Palace."
After speaking, Wang Dequan found out that Jiang Zhaoyi was standing behind the emperor's book case to grind for him.
Although Jiang Zhaoyi is not a beautiful woman, her grandfather is a cabinet bachelor, and her father has just been promoted to the secretary of the Ministry of Justice.
The Jiang family is a scholarly family, a noble heirloom, and has a bit of bookishness.
The emperor sometimes adds fragrance to Jiang Zhaoyi's red sleeves.
Emperor Xuanwu's wolf pen was stunned, ink stains dripped on the rice paper, and the word "Yuan" that had just been written was fainted, and a good word was destroyed.
Jiang Zhaoyi's real name is Jiang Yuan, and Emperor Xuanwu is writing her name.
But when he heard that something had happened in the Lotus Palace, the emperor threw down his pen, didn't even say a word of care, and took Wang Dequan out of the imperial study.
Jiang Zhaoyi had to chase out: "The concubine went with the emperor." ”
What happened to the Lotus Palace, she wanted to go and see, if that Zhen Ronghua had the courage to snatch someone from her, she was not as easy to deal with as Chu Jieyu.
"Doctor, how is my master?"
"Rong Hua Niangniang's pulse is slow and stringy, if there is no sinking, it should be too frightened, the flow of qi and blood is hindered, and the heart and gall are deficient. The old minister prescribes a prescription for the mother, you can go to the Tai Hospital to grab medicine! ”
Emperor Xuanwu strode into the Lotus Washing Hall and asked with a serious expression: "What's the matter?" How could Zhen Yonghua be so frightened? ”
The vivid beauty on the bed, always laughing and scolding on weekdays, is full of vitality, but at the moment her face is pale, frowning, and she seems to be sleeping very unsteadily.
It's sick and distressing.
Jiang Chuan had already told Wang Dequan the original story, and as soon as the emperor asked, he informed the emperor of Jiang Cainu's hanging in the side hall of the Lotus Washing Palace.
"What do the guards of the cold palace do? Why did people run to the Lotus Temple? ”
The cold palace is located in the middle of nowhere, and there is no one all year round, and it is common for the guards to be lazy.
Jiang Zhaoyi seemed to say unintentionally: "Jiang Cainu seems to be Zhen Ronghua's sister? What kind of grudge do they have between their sisters? Is it worth her to escape from the cold palace from such a big distance, and to go to the Lotus Washing Hall to wear red clothes to kill herself? ”
There is a rumor among the people that a person who commits suicide in red clothes can turn into evil spirits and return for revenge on the first seven days.
She was just reminding Emperor Xuanwu that Zhen Ronghua was not as kind as she seemed on the surface.
Otherwise, how could his own sister have such great malice towards her and not let her go even if she died?