Silent wood carving for many years
In the Chengchao Palace, a large number of guards and palace people came in and out.
Some carried boxes and went out, while others were preparing to seal the palace with seals.
The owner of the palace has been reduced to a prisoner, and the most luxurious palace in the inner court is about to lose its charm.
It was clearly spring, but the scene in front of him made people feel desolate. The inner servant was holding the account book to count the items in the Cheng Dynasty Palace. After the fire in the Consort Mansion, the inner court had already redone the account book of the treasury. All of them are recorded on the record. It is necessary to count and seal the boxes one by one and store them in the Treasure Pavilion of the Inner Court, waiting for the emperor to give grace to others to reward others.
Nangong Jingnv did not have any special instructions on the matter of closing the palace and auditing the accounts, so the inner court followed the rules.
It seems... After the decree to dismiss the emperor's husband, everything about Qi Yan really has nothing to do with the empress.
At first, there were still many courtiers worried that Nangong Jingnu would "settle accounts after the autumn".
After the dust settled, the two leaders: Xing Jingfu and Lu Boyan, one went home and continued Ding You.
Another said that Duke Zhenguo Lu Quan's old disease relapsed and his condition was serious... He had to go to the fief of Zhen Guogong to take care of the disease.
After all, there is only this son left in the Duke's Mansion, and the other is a hero who protects the country and sacrificed his life for the country. Lu Boyan naturally avoided the edge.
It's hard for the others, and they have been careful for several days. Just before entering the court, they have to sort out two or three times, for fear of being caught by His Majesty.
However, these people were all wrong. Nangong Jingnu did not mean "revenge". The imperial decree had been issued, and it seemed that this incident had never happened, and everything was as usual.
But many attentive people will find that His Majesty is a little thinner, and his temperament is more calm than before.
Especially when she sat quietly behind the imperial court without saying a word, just quietly watching the courtiers who were playing, she was very much like the prosperous years of the Spring and Autumn Period of the first emperor.
As long as you sit there like a needle for calming the sea, even if you don't say a word, the courtiers don't dare to make a mistake.
In three days, hundreds of people divided their labor and counted, and there were a lot of imperial gifts from the imperial palace.
As for Qi Yan's personal belongings, there is only one box...
Three pieces of folk uniforms for going out of the palace, and a wooden box placed next to the chair in the study.
Who will believe it
The former concubine, who later became a very high-ranking official and became the emperor's husband, her personal belongings could not fit into a normal-sized wooden box...
To put it a bit nasty, the inner court casually grabbed a slightly favored palace servant, and the attack on his family was probably more expensive than the royal husband.
The servants put away the account book and sent the imperial gift to the Treasure Pavilion, while the guards affixed seals to the palaces, and the former palace servants of the Chengchao Palace were assigned to the Huanyi Bureau to do rough work.
The eunuch, the director of the Inner Court Division, ordered someone to carry this box to Ganquan Palace. It was the afternoon when Nangong Jingnu returned to the palace to rest.
Director Eunuch: "Huang Youcai, Director of the Inner Court Division, sees His Majesty."
Nangong Jingnu: "Get up."
Director Eunuch: "Thank you, Your Majesty. I report to Your Majesty... This is a private property seized from the Chengchao Palace. I have come here to ask Your Majesty to take a look and make a decision."
Nangong Jingnu frowned slightly, and swallowed the harsh words when they reached her lips.
She was a little annoyed that these palace servants sealed the Chengchao Palace without permission, but then she thought that the rules of the inner court had always been the same.
Moreover, about Qi Yan... It's like a dark wound in my heart, Nangong Jingnv didn't dare to touch it, let alone think about it.
She looked at the bland box in front of her, and wanted to let the people from the inner court carry it away, but in the end she just waved her hand.
Director Eunuch: "Yes."
The contents here are all Qi Yan's belongings in the inner court for so many years.
Nangong Jingnu knows that Qi Yan's private property is definitely more than that. She also has a wealthy Sifang Bank in her name, but she has supported the court twice, so I am afraid there is not much left
Nangong Jingnu sat alone for a long time before she got up and came to the front of the box. She opened it, and there was a bag on top. When she opened it, she could only see three sets of uniforms, and then there were two pairs of calligraphy and painting, three books, and some inconspicuous small objects. A relatively exquisite wooden box in the corner caught Nangong Jingnv's attention. She took out the wooden box, which was a little heavy, and held it in front of her with one hand to lift the box cover. After a brief period of surprise, Nangong Jingnv's eyes became wet.
The wooden boxes are filled with wooden carvings, each of which is the image of a naive little pig, round and festive and simple and honest.
Isn't this your own zodiac sign
Nangong Jingnu put her hand into the wooden box, but her fingers trembled slightly, but she could not touch the wooden carving. It seemed that an invisible obstacle stopped her.
Nangong Jingnu held the wooden box and squatted down slowly. There was a carving knife on one side of the wooden box. Holding the handle of the knife in one hand and rubbing it countless times can make the fabric so old.
Tears overflowed from her eyes, and the teardrops fell, but the dense water vapor reflected Qi Yan's stubborn appearance after being whipped by herself, and a heartbroken voice came from Nangong Jingnu's chest.
Too late…
Many things, I know too late.
Killing is no more than nodding, if Qi Yan is really as cruel and cruel as she berates her... why should she come back
She can take advantage of the opportunity to go to Huainan to fly far away, with Sifang Qianzhuang as her back, the sky and the earth are big enough for her to live happily ever after!
Moreover, she is also the orphan of the royal family in the grassland, and she can also sneak back to Luobei while Luochuan is frozen, and use the money from Sifang Qianzhuang to buy weapons and compete with the court...
But she didn't have any. Instead, she took out her hard-working family to save the court from misfortune. She didn't even want to let herself know who the owner of Sifang Qianzhuang was.
Without her good strategy, half of the Wei Kingdom would be in danger, and it would be impossible to take back Huainan so easily.
Even if he gave her a carload of gold to let her go, she didn't leave...
It's not what he said at all: I want to see the pain of the enemy's daughter.
It's... the one who came back to pay the debt, the debt between Qi Yuanjun and Nangong Zhenzhen!
Qi Yan put her life into her own hands, but in return... it was torture and humiliation.
She shouldn't have beaten her, she can't even take her life, how can she endure such humiliation and torture again
Nangong Jingnu held the wooden box tightly in her arms, and the past with Qi Yan flashed in front of her eyes. When they first met, the moment she lifted her hijab... Whenever she made trouble without reason, she was helpless and doting. smile...
Also, when she sent out the old ink on her birthday after the cold war with her, she hesitated to say what she had ignored.
Nangong Jingnu clasped the wooden box on her chest with one hand, and held the edge of the box with the other hand, her fingertips turned white, and the suppressed cry also sounded.
…
Ride the cold palace!
Nangong Jingnu was sitting on the sedan chair, with a wooden box on her lap: "Place it in the cold palace!"
The chamberlain looked at Nangong Jingnu in embarrassment, but did not pass on the decree for a long time.
Nangong Jingnu: "Let's go to the cold palace!"
Chamberlain: "Your Majesty... that's an unfortunate place, even if you want to go, let the servants go to clean the house first. In case something hits Your Majesty, even if you have a hundred heads, the servants will not be enough to chop off. of."
Nangong Jingnu: "Let's go to the cold palace!"
Chamberlain: "… according to the decree. Let's drive… Leng Palace."
…
After getting off the sedan chair, Nangong Jingnu instructed: "You are all waiting outside, I can go in by myself."
Nangong Jingnv didn't know which palace Qi Yan was imprisoned in. Fortunately, it rained a few days ago, and she found the footprints in the mud and came to a palace in the corner.
The hem of the luxurious imperial clothes was stained with mud, but Nangong Jingnu paid no attention to her speeding all the way. When she approached the palace where Qi Yan was, her pace slowed down.
When it came to the door, the previous impulse was replaced by shame and fear, Nangong Jingnu didn't know how to face Qiyan...
Gu Ruolan: "Take the medicine!"
In this room, Gu Ruolan walked out from the side hall that she had turned into a decoction hall with a medicine bowl in hand. She was stunned when she saw Nangong Jingnv.
Nangong Jingnu also revealed surprises. She didn't expect that there would be others in this cold palace, but she quickly recognized Gu Ruolan, and instantly put away her vulnerability and raised her chin with a cold face.
Gu Ruolan exclaimed and knelt down to the ground: "The girl sees His Majesty."
Qi Yan, who was resting in the house, suddenly opened her eyes and turned her head to look straight at the direction of the window.
Nangong Jingnu: "How is she?"
Gu Ruolan: "Go back to Your Majesty, the emperor... Qi Yuanjun is much better, I... Caomin is preparing to send medicine in."
Listening to the strange woman calling her name, Nangong Jingnu was a little unaccustomed to it, and said coldly, "Let's go together."
Gu Ruolan: "Yes."
With a "squeak", the door of the palace was pushed open, and a musty smell came to the face. Even though Gu Ruolan burned some wormwood and smoked the house every day, but in the cold palace, which was in disrepair and lacked popularity, every object was smelly. The smell of mildew from the bones can not be dispelled in a short time.
Fortunately, Gu Ruolan was diligent and kept the bedroom spotless, but instead showed an old-fashioned elegance.
Nangong Jingnu breathed a sigh of relief. She was most afraid that she would hate herself even more when she saw Qi Yan shrinking in a dirty corner with all her injuries.
Gu Ruolan put the medicine on the small table beside Qi Yan's bed: "Drink... medicine."
... Gu Ruolan's smile froze. After getting along for so long, she had never seen Qi Yan look like this.
Although he was a little sick, there was brilliance in those good-looking amber eyes, no longer as deadly as before.
Gu Ruolan's heart was filled with an indescribable taste, like bitterness, like sour...
Gu Ruolan: How nice would it be if she… could look at me like that
Qi Yan didn't notice Gu Ruolan, but Nangong Jingnv looked at it without missing a beat, looking at Gu Ruolan as if her acupuncture point had been taped, and looked at Qi Yan without blinking. The woman's intuition told her: It's not easy.
Although there is no less shame in her heart, Nangong Jingnu's eyes have also changed...