"You see clearly, I'm Qin Yan, the daughter of the Qin family, and you are the king, not my Saburo."
"Your Majesty asked me why I didn't admit it." Qin Xue whispered softly, "I don't know what I am in Your Majesty's eyes, but in the eyes of others, I am the daughter of a sinner who is dead and guilty, and a lonely ghost who is not allowed to live in the world. After entering the palace, I didn't dare to be happy or angry, so I was careful..."
She choked up and chuckled, "I don't even dare to recognize my own child."
As soon as the voice fell, Jun Ba's body seemed to be pierced by a sharp arrow, stiff and trembling.
This word made him speechless.
He stroked the corners of her wet eyes with his fingertips.
No matter if you cry out, you are willing to vent your grievances, and you don't really have a relationship with him. he thinks.
Qin Jie suddenly avoided his touch, raised her arms, sat down beside him, and said respectfully: "All this is because of the concubine, please don't embarrass Miss April."
His brows froze, "What you said just now is for April?"
Qin Jie said again: "If Your Majesty's holy anger is hard to dissipate, then punish the ministers and concubines."
Xiao Yu looked at her and said, "Is that what you think of me?"
There was silence all around, and the two sat opposite each other. He could see that she was determined to be a monarch and minister with him.
Xiao Yu gradually clenched his fists, his eyes became colder and colder.
Every breath he took seemed to make people shudder.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, it was Eunuch Sheng's voice.
"Your Majesty, Lord Huai has an urgent request outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation..."
Hearing this, Qin Xue couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief. The courtier has an urgent matter to see, and he will definitely not spend it on her tonight.
Sure enough, in the next instant, Xiao Yu got up and left.
When the door of the hall was closed, Qin Xie put down her shoes, put her hands on the edge of the table, and closed her eyes in annoyance.
She thought that she couldn't admit that she was discovered, but she didn't realize how difficult it was until she faced him. How could a man like him give her the opportunity to pretend to be stupid.
She poured a cup of tea with trembling white wrists, and before she could drink it, the palace door opened again.
I saw the man striding back in front of him.
"There has never been anyone else between you and me."
Qin Jie frowned slightly and asked in confusion, "What?"
With a solemn face, he said word by word: "On the 16th day of the seventh month in the thirty-sixth year of Yongchang, I married a wife and started a family. Since then, I have had a total of six concubines, namely, the Liu family, the Xue family, the Li family, the He family, and the Xu family. Shi, Qin Shi, until today, I have never had a romantic relationship with them, and I have never enjoyed the love of a pillow."
"Your Majesty!" Qin Jie involuntarily ducked back.
"It didn't happen before, and it won't happen again in the future." Xiao Yu said with his chin tensed, "A Ling, I'll come back to accompany you tomorrow."
After all, he didn't look her in the eyes, turned and walked away.
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Qin Jie was disturbed by him and stayed up all night. When she sat up, she was still rubbing her temples.
Just after 90 hours, the sky was white with a fish belly, and Bamboo Heart pushed the door and entered, "Master, you have a letter."
Zhu Xin looked at the letter in her hand, and couldn't help but sigh that her master was really favored. The letters handed out from Jingren Palace were all passed by Eunuch Sheng's hand.
This is Qin Suizhi's letter.
After Qin Jie looked at it, the big stone hanging from her heart was considered to have fallen to the ground.
She said recently that she was not ill, and the queen mother did not summon her. The reason was that the Chu family and the Luo family were discussing relatives. Now the two families have exchanged Geng Tie, and the marriage has become a foregone conclusion. No accident, the queen mother will tell her about Naqin today. Rong as a concubine.
So Qin Wei was not idle. She took Qin Rong into the palace and hinted to the imperial doctor that Qin Rong might be pregnant, in order to let the queen mother take some precautions. Find a husband.
Since the Chu family can exchange Geng Tie, then the Qin family is not bad, it is better than being a concubine.
Qin Wei held the letter, got up and walked towards Qinghuayuan. When she entered, Qin Rong was drinking porridge.
Qin Rong's face has lost a lot of weight these past two days, and she looks even more pitiful. Qin Xie sat beside her and said slowly, "Chu Liulang and Miss Luo Jiu have exchanged Geng Tie."
Qin Rong's hand holding the porcelain spoon froze, and tears burst into the porridge.
"Second sister these days, have you figured it out?"
Qin Rong looked at her, opened her mouth, and said hesitantly, "I, I..."
Qin Yan said: "Last year's election, I saw that Luo Jiu girl, she looked pure and kind, but she was not a good friend. When she entered the Chu family, she was your mistress, and you and Chu Liulang had troubles. These things are enough for her to tolerate you."
Qin Rong also knew that Qin Xue was her only hope. She murmured, "My reputation is ruined. Is there any other way for eldest sister to do this?"
Qin Wei handed Qin Suizhi's handwritten letter to her, and said slowly: "Wu Zhi is a jinshi of Wuju, and his parents died in the earthquake in Liaodong in the 30th year of Yongchang. Although his family background is not obvious, his appearance is decent. , He is honest and honest, and he is close friends with his brother. Your wedding date with him is scheduled for July this year. Live your life well, he will not treat you lightly."
"Besides, I will also give you a dowry."
Even though Qin Wei praised Wu Zhi to the heavens, in Qin Rong's heart, a low-ranking martial artist cannot compete with the suave Chu Liulang.
Qin Rong clutched the letter, her voice trembling, "Wu Ju Jinshi? Big sister is so favored, so let me marry a ninth-rank officer who guards the carriages and horses in the Ministry of War? If my sister can't let go of her past grievances, she will be , why did you find such a person to humiliate me?"
Qin Xue almost laughed angrily, "Do you know how much your brother put into this marriage and how much money he took out?"
Qin Rong gritted her teeth, tears welling up in her eyes, "He's just doing it for you."
"If you don't have the surname Qin, I really think I will take care of you. Jiang Lanyue's mind is not right, I think you are also a crooked person." Qin Yue's eyebrows were stained with anger, "Your reputation is ruined, you ask yourself, these four words , are you wrong?"
Qin Rong's face turned red when she was scolded, "But I'm also the daughter of Taishi Ling, a serious official lady, and with my talent and appearance..."
"Talent and appearance." Qin Jie interrupted her and said, "You can go to the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion and see, in terms of talent and appearance, which one do you compare to! What is your reputation as a woman? It's just you who are restless and covetous. With a vain temper, I am afraid that I will humiliate the innocent lintel of the Wu family!"
Qin Rong suddenly burst into tears, "I didn't! I didn't! It's just that my mother said that marrying a woman is like being reincarnated. It's up to you to see what kind of life you can live."
"Your mother fought for her whole life, but in the end, she used all her scheming in the first half of her life, and suffered the consequences in the second half of her life."
Qin Xue looked at her quietly, "You choose it yourself. If you really don't want to, I'll cancel the marriage for you, but after that, no matter what kind of humiliation you suffer in the future, I won't care anymore."
Qin Rong wanted to agree, but couldn't help but say again: "He doesn't really have me at all in his heart, Chu Liulang?"
"You know this better than anyone."
After a long while, Qin Rong raised her hand and wiped her tears with her sleeve, "I'll marry."
Qin Wei breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Zhulan, take the waist card and send Miss Qin back to the house immediately, without delay."
Zhulan bowed and said, "Yes, the servant will go now."
After noon, Zhu Xin said again: "Master, Eunuch Zhang is here, and the Queen Mother asked you to take the second girl Qin to the Cining Palace."
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In the blink of an eye, Qin Jie came to the Cining Palace.
The Empress Dowager Chu leaned on the red sandalwood lacquer and lacquer inlaid copper-striped Arhat couch, closed her eyes and rested her mind. When she saw her coming, she could not help straightening up.
Qin Jie bowed and said, "My concubine pleases the empress dowager."
The Empress Dowager Chu circled the beads in her hand, "Qin Jieyu's illness, how good is it?"
Qin Xue said, "Thank you for your concern, it's no problem."
"Aijia heard that the second girl Qin came to visit you in the palace, why didn't you come together?" Empress Dowager Chu's eyes were full of surprise, but she didn't know whether the accident was true or false.
Qin Xue coughed lightly and said, "She has lived in the palace for so long, and it's already inappropriate for the etiquette, so the concubine asked her to go back in the morning. If she had known that she would be summoned too late, the concubine should have stayed with her for one more night. ."
Empress Dowager Chu squinted her eyes and said directly: "Speaking of which... This second girl Qin is really brave. It's not the first time she has done something that Yu Li disagrees with."
Qin Rong is bold.
This is obviously a matter of finesse.
No one in the world is really stupid. If Qin Rong didn't have a backer, how dare she act recklessly? This is obviously referring to Sang scolding Huai.
Family honor and disgrace has never been a matter of one person, just like Qin Rong's scandal, which ruined Qin Xun's reputation.
When the Queen Mother's words came to this point, Qin Ye naturally couldn't pretend to be stupid. She nodded and said, "The concubine has also been irritated by her. The second sister is so disrespectful to the Queen Mother. She really has no face to face the Queen Mother."
When the queen mother saw her recognize her, her tone was a little slow, "Aijia has also taught Rooku about this matter, and now he is just in the middle of the flower, and he is proud of the scenery. Keep yourself in check, who would have expected something like this to happen to that girl of yours."
"It's all my fault that the ministers and concubines did not teach strictly."
The queen mother waved her hand and said, "It's been a while since you entered the palace. Aijia can see that you are a ceremonial observant, and it is because of you that the Aijia greeted the Luo family."
Qin Jie looked at the queen mother puzzled and said, "the queen mother means..."
"Yesterday, the marriage between Liu Lang and Miss Luo Jiu has been decided. What the Luo family means is that after the ninth girl has entered the mansion for half a year, the second girl Qin will be brought into the mansion." Empress Dowager Chu looked at Qin Xie and said, "So is the eldest lady of the Chu family. this means."
"But if she has children, I'm afraid she won't be able to keep them."
Qin Ei said quickly, "I really don't understand what the empress dowager means, the concubine."
Empress Dowager Chu frowned and said, "What do you not understand?"
Qin Xie bit her lip and said, "This... the second sister of the concubine has already exchanged Geng Tie with others. How can she enter the Chu family's door?"
Empress Dowager Chu's eyes changed, and after a while, Pi Xiaorou said without a smile, "Co-authoring with Qin Jieyu has long been planned."
Qin Ei knelt straight on the ground and said, "It's the concubine who will be wrong."
Qin Jie looked at the empress dowager of Shang Chu's innocence, and said softly, "Since the concubine heard that the Chu family and the Luo family are discussing relatives, the concubine and the elder brother are very anxious, for fear that Qin Rong's stupid thing will ruin the good of the two families. , Made Miss Luo Jiu sad, so I was anxious to get her a marriage."
The Empress Dowager Chu's eyes were dark and unclear, and she said "uh" in a low voice, but did not wake anyone up.
This matter could damage the reputation of the Qin family's daughter. It was in her mind. It would be best if she could control Qin Rong. It was fine if she couldn't control her.
It was just an accident that Qin Jie had the guts to play tricks under her nose. But who gave the courage of the harem concubines, the queen mother also knows.
It took more than an hour for Qin Xie to kneel.
The superior person asks people to kneel without shouting, the most common beating.
From time to time, the Queen Mother glanced at the porch, as if waiting for someone to come.
More leaks ticked, just after Shen Shi, a man dressed in a dragon robe with four groups of dragon and cloud patterns appeared in the Cining Palace.
He passed by Qin Jie and said to the Queen Mother, "My son, please give the Queen Mother's greetings."
The queen mother smiled and said, "Why are you here at this time?"
Xiao Yu said: "My son brought you some lychee grapes, which Guanglu Temple only sent to the palace yesterday."
After that, Xiao Yuyi glanced at Qin Yan and said, "Why are you still kneeling here, get up."
Since they broke their identities yesterday, even the ordinary eyes they gave to each other changed their tastes.
There was a smile on the corner of the Queen Mother's mouth, and she said, "Get up quickly."
Qin Yan bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, and the Empress Dowager."
The queen mother looked at the person she had raised for more than ten years, and said meaningfully: "The previous dynasty was busy with things, it's hard for the emperor to think about these little things."
Xiao Yu said: "My son is filial to you, how can this be a trivial matter."
The emperor and the queen mother are now at war with each other.
Why did he come to the Cining Palace today, the palace people can understand in their hearts, no, it didn't take a long time, and the Queen Mother said something boring.
When Xiao Yu took Qin Jie out of the Cining Palace, he happened to see Li Yuan approaching with a scripture in his hand. She was still the same, tender as water.
Xiao Yu and Qin Wei glanced at her chest subconsciously.
Li Yuan bowed his knees and said softly, "I have seen Your Majesty."
Qin Xue didn't sleep all night, and she just knelt for more than an hour. She just bowed to Li Yuan, and she couldn't help but sway.
Xiao Yu quickly supported her.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Before he could say anything, Xiao Yu picked him up in front of the Cining Palace, "Your body has not recovered yet, I will send you back to the palace."
Qin Jie's pupils were full of panic, she pressed her fist against his hot and hard chest, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty is doing what, hurry up and let your concubine down."
"Don't let it go."
Qin Xie clutched at the hem of the emperor's golden thread and white thread, and said, "What about the rules?"
Xiao Yu looked down at her and said eloquently, "What rules do I want?"
Qin Wei leaned on his shoulder and looked at Li Yuan from a distance, she whispered beside Xiao Yu's ear, "Hurry up and let me down, there are people behind you."
"Then let her watch."
The sun was setting in the west, the figures of the two overlapped and overlapped, and the spring breeze blew the hem of their clothes.
Xiao Yu held her hand tighter and tighter.
A Ling, in the first year of Yanxi, I was here and promised you three years.