Concubine Ning Guifei's complexion changed slightly, she met everyone's gaze, bowed her body, and said: "I'm afraid my sister has forgotten, my sister entered the palace at the age of fifteen, and now twenty years have passed, and my impression of my hometown has long been inferior Once upon a time."
Empress Chen had a half-smile, her eyes seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts, and a layer of frost slowly condensed, "Really. I don't know that my sister's memory is so bad."
These words are quite profound.
The other three concubines sensed that the atmosphere was not right, and stood aside consciously, watching Empress Chen and Concubine Ning come and go. After all, Empress Chen still had three points of reason, she didn't reveal the true face of Concubine Ning here, she glanced at Concubine Ning lightly and said: "My palace is gone, sisters sit down slowly."
"Congratulations to the empress."
Concubine Ning looked at the back of Empress Chen going away, although her complexion didn't change much, her nails were deeply embedded in her palms, and she clenched her teeth. It wasn't until someone called her that she came back to her senses, forced a smile and said, "Oh, I'm not feeling well, I'm afraid I won't be able to enjoy the flowers with my younger sisters. I'll go back and rest first, and you sit down for a while. "
The three concubines only thought that she was stabbed by Empress Chen a few times, and she was not in a good mood, so they wanted to go back, so they didn't take it to heart, and gave up after a few polite greetings. After all, it is not uncommon for the Empress Empress and Concubine Ning to be at odds.
Empress Chen and Wei Luo walked around the Taiye Pool for half a circle, and then the wind gradually picked up before returning to Qingxi Palace. Although the weather has entered the spring, but the cold spring is not to be underestimated. Especially in the past few days when it's cold in the late spring, if you don't pay attention, you will catch the wind and cold.
Zhao Liuli was exactly like this, maybe it was because of too much wind blowing during the Chinese New Year, and then he was too tired, so he was sick for seven or eight days and was bedridden. Empress Chen asked the imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Office to show Zhao Liuli one by one, and they all said that the princess's body was fine and should have recovered by now, but her heart was stagnant and her expression was clouded, which dragged on until now.
Empress Chen had no choice but to ask Wei Luo to come over and explain to her. She didn't know what was wrong with her that made her feel so hard.
Wei Luo was ordered to come to Chenhua Hall, and when the maid said that the princess was in the Nuan Pavilion, she walked towards the Nuan Pavilion. Zhao Liuli was half lying on the beauty couch by the window, covered with a purple and gold blue bird pattern blanket, her hair was half loose on her shoulders, her little face was pale, and she looked listless. Since Zhao Liuli's health improved, it has been a long time since she had been sick, let alone showing such a lonely expression, it made people feel pain for a while.
"Liuli, what are you looking at?" Wei Luo sat on a rosewood embroidered pier with five openings beside her.
Zhao Liuli was startled by the sudden voice, she hurriedly raised her head, her cheeks were thinner, and her watery eyes seemed to be getting bigger. Seeing that it was Wei Luo, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Ah Luo, why is it you?"
Wei Luo smiled, "Otherwise who else could it be? The empress is worried about your body, so she asked me to come over and take a look." As she spoke, her eyes dropped to the wooden rabbit carving in her hand, "Are you feeling better? What is this, let me see?"
Zhao Liuli didn't let go, the corners of her lips curled up, "This is a wood carving that brother Yang Zhen carved for me."
Wei Luo retracted her hand. No wonder Zhao Liuli was so fascinated by watching it just now, it turned out that he was thinking about Yang Zhen again. This silly girl is really stubborn, she will never change whoever she decides on. Wei Luo couldn't help but sighed, "I asked Zhao Jie to find out about Yang Zhen, do you want to know?"
Zhao Liuli's eyes lit up, and she nodded impatiently.
Wei Luo said: "He fought against foreign enemies twice with the army, and he made contributions twice. Now he has been honored as a general, and he will return to Beijing soon." Then he took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Zhao Liuli said, "This is a letter written by Yang Zhen. The things from outside cannot be sent into the palace. He is so courageous that he even asked Brother Jing to deliver the letter for you."
Zhao Liuli took the letter, and hurriedly opened it and read it without caring about responding to Wei Luo's teasing.
The letter is not long, only a few short sentences. Yang Zhen didn't know many characters, all of them were taught by Zhao Liuli. When Zhao Liuli came back from the study room when she was a child, she called him into the room and secretly taught him to write. Looking at the contents of the letter now, Zhao Liuli blinked, tears fell one by one, and the letter paper was wet in a short while.
Wei Luo was taken aback, "What's the matter, what did the letter say?"
Zhao Liuli wiped her tears with her fingers, and said in a low voice, "Brother Yang Zhen is injured."
Wei Luo asked, "Is it serious?"
Zhao Liuli shook his head, "He didn't say anything." There was only a few words in the letter, Yang Zhen only said that he was shot in the chest by the rebels, but he didn't say how injured he was. But Zhao Liuli knows that this person always likes to hide things and never tells her anything. This time, the injury may be serious. Otherwise, he wouldn't have said that if he couldn't come back, he would let her marry someone else. .
Empress Chen was pressing harder and harder, Zhao Liuli wanted to find an excuse to refuse, but Empress Chen stopped them all.
If Yang Zhen really can't come back, what should she do
This room is in the bedroom of Concubine Ning Gui.
Concubine Ning sat on the sourwood rose chair with an ugly expression, without saying a word.
Seeing this, Nanny Yang, who was serving beside her, said softly, "Why are you so angry? The empress stabbed you because she didn't get His Majesty's favor. Doesn't it just show how important you are to His Majesty?" Is it? According to this servant, you should calm down first. Didn’t you say that His Majesty will come to you tonight? You should put aside these troubles and serve His Majesty well.” smiled and said : "With Your Majesty's favor, what are you afraid of?"
Concubine Ning pinched the armrest, she was not so angry. It's just that Empress Chen suddenly mentioned the events of that year, which made her feel a little uneasy. She always felt that Empress Chen knew something.
She waved her hand and said, "Forget it, go and bring me a cup of tea, I'm a little thirsty."
Nanny Yang nodded and stepped back.
Not long after, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and a cup of tea was placed on the table of the Eight Immortals. Concubine Ning thought it was Nanny Yang, so she didn't think too much, took a sip from the light yellow enamel teacup with colorful orchid and stone patterns, frowned dissatisfied and said: "Why is it cold?"
A slightly old man said slowly: "Your Majesty, please calm down, and this servant will go and change a cup for your Majesty."
Concubine Ning felt something was wrong, she turned her head and looked behind her: "What's wrong with your voice? It sounds different from usual..."
Before he finished speaking, he stopped suddenly.
Where is this vulgar woman with deep eye lines and gorgeous hair in front of her who is Nanny Yang who used to serve her
Concubine Ning opened her eyes and asked in panic, "Who are you? Why are you here?"
After speaking, she raised her voice and wanted to call someone, but the old woman knelt down in front of her one step faster, raised her face and asked, "Have you forgotten, Madam? This servant is Qing Fei who served you fifteen years ago."
Qing Fei, Qing Fei is the maid who accompanied her into the palace... Concubine Ning Gui was shocked, her eyes could no longer be described with astonishment, she tightly held the armrest of the rose chair and asked, "Why are you here? Didn't you come out of here?" Is it the palace?"
Back then when Qing Fei knew some truths, Concubine Ning felt that it was dangerous to keep her by her side, and couldn't bear to kill her, so she was released from the palace and married far away.
But I didn't expect that she would come back!
Qing Fei lowered her head and said: "Your Majesty doesn't know something. Although the slaves have not been in the palace these years, they still cannot escape the condemnation of their conscience. There is not a single day that they do not feel guilty towards the Empress Empress and Princess Tianji."
Concubine Ning stood up from the rose chair and stared at her closely: "Why are you saying these words? Tell me, who brought you into the palace?" Thinking about what Empress Chen said today, she asked sharply, "Did the Empress buy you? Did you tell me this?"
Qing Fei shook her head, "It has nothing to do with the empress, it's the maidservant who wants to see her... The maidservant harmed the little princess at the beginning, and now her grandson is suffering, it must be the fault of God punishing the maidservant. Say a good word to me, saying that you ordered the servant, and the servant is only following orders, please ask the Buddha to spare the little grandson of the servant."
Concubine Ning was very angry, and her mind was a little confused, "What nonsense are you talking about? Get out of the palace quickly, or I will be blamed for disregarding the old feelings."
The lives of Qing Fei's family are in Zhao Jie's hands, even if she dies, as long as the rest of the family is alive, so she is not afraid of Ning Guifei's threat, and said: "Your Majesty is also a person who has children, so she should know how to be a mother Don't you feel any guilt in your heart after all these years?"
Concubine Ning Guifei kicked her and said angrily: "Come here, take this crazy woman to me."
Qing Fei firmly grabbed Concubine Ning's skirt, and said with tears streaming down her face: "I beg your mother to help this servant, this servant is really desperate... I live in regret every day, why did you kill the one-year-old little princess in the first place? Empress, aren't you afraid of being punished by the Buddha?"
There was no movement outside, and no one came up to take Qing Fei away, only Concubine Ning Gui and Qing Fei were in the palace.
It's just that Concubine Ning Gui was so angry that she didn't pay attention to this abnormality at all, probably because she was stimulated by Qing Fei's words, she pinched her chin and said, "Why should I be afraid? Let me tell you, I never believed in Buddha, and I died when I was poisoned." , then it is her blessing that Zhao Liuli can live to this day. If the Buddha wanted to punish me, he would have punished me long ago, why bother to wait until now?"
Qing Fei half-kneeled on the ground and didn't speak anymore.
There was no sound in the hall for a long time, and a needle could be heard falling. Only then did Concubine Ning realize that something was wrong. If there was such a big commotion in the hall normally, there would definitely be palace officials and guards coming in to check. Now I yelled several times, but there was no one there, and Nanny Yang said she was going to pour tea, why didn't she come back after pouring it for so long
Concubine Ning Gui's heart skipped a beat, a bad premonition gushed out.
"The Buddha can't punish you, how about I punish you?" A cold and angry voice sounded outside the palace gate.
Concubine Ning turned her head to look, and saw Emperor Chongzhen standing at the door, wearing a dark green uniform with double dragon and pearl patterns, staring sharply at herself.