On the second day, after the greeting ceremony at Kunde Palace, Yong Ruo was left alone by Empress Wei and brought to the inner room.
Most of the eunuchs and maids withdrew, and only two of Empress Wei's confidantes stayed indoors. Empress Wei sat on the kang, and Yong Ruo stood in front of the kang.
"Do you know why I left you alone?" Empress Wei asked Yongruo with a serious expression, twisting a string of sandalwood beads in her hand.
Yong Ruo replied calmly: "I don't dare to speculate."
Empress Wei looked at her with a look of disappointment on her face: "I thought you were a smart person. But judging from what happened in the past two days, I might be wrong."
Yong Ruo bowed his knees towards her: "I am ashamed."
Empress Wei sighed, and nodded to Sun Mantang, the chief eunuch of Kunde Palace.
Sun Mantang bowed and stepped back, and came in with a tray after a while.
On the tray, there is a porcelain bowl with Ruyi flower and bird pattern.
In the porcelain bowl, there was half a bowl of dark water, emitting a faint medicinal smell.
Yong Ruo's heart tightened, and then she heard Empress Wei say, "The medicine in that bowl has a nice name called 'Beauty's Tears', but it is a kind of poison.
"This kind of medicine won't kill people. But for women, it's more terrible than the kind of poison that seals the throat when seeing blood. Do you know why?"
Yong Ruo understood: "This kind of poison will destroy people's appearance?"
"That's right!" Empress Wei nodded, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "I still don't know whether you are smart or stupid."
Yong Ruo's expression was gloomy: Sometimes, I don't quite understand myself.
Empress Wei did not pretend to be foolish, and directly said the efficacy of this medicine: "After drinking this bowl of medicine, within a day, dense red rashes will appear on the body. These rashes will fester and fester within two or three days. into abscesses.
"If treated properly, these abscesses will slowly scab over, leaving purple-red spots after scab removal, like the blood tears of a beauty, so this poison is named: Beauty Tears.
"The other thing is: the medicines that treat these abscesses cause the hair to fall out and never grow back. After the abscess is cured, it will become a bald head.
"And if it is not treated properly, these toxins will cause your skin to develop rashes and ulcers continuously, and you will not be able to get rid of it for ten or twenty years."
The expression on Yong Ruo's face became extremely bitter: This medicine is really cruel! The emperor is really ruthless!
Empress Wei looked at her and said word by word: "The emperor said: Since you refuse to obey discipline, he can't allow you to stay with the prince any longer. Of course, he won't kill you, lest the prince treat you like that from now on." I can't forget it, and I lose my vigor and ambition."
Yong Ruo glanced at the medicine bowl again: "So, this bowl of medicine is prepared by the emperor for my concubine?"
Empress Wei nodded slightly, and said again: "After you left yesterday, I pleaded for you. The emperor has promised to give you another chance.
"You have two choices now: one is to stay by the prince's side honestly and be a virtuous woman, but you don't have to think about the position of the princess; the other is to drink this bowl of poison and then go out of the palace to 'recover' .What choice do you make?"
Yong Ruo thought: No matter how many chances you give me, my choice will not change.
She lowered her head slightly, and blessed Empress Wei, and said in a calm but firm tone, "Queen, I choose to... drink this bowl of medicine."
Empress Wei twirled the finger of the Buddhist bead, and suddenly clenched it tightly, her tone was very serious: "You have to think clearly!"
Sun Mantang, who was holding the medicine bowl, and the confidant female official next to Empress Wei also had serious expressions on their faces, secretly begging Yong Liangdi to change her words as soon as possible.
Otherwise, who knows if the prince will know about this in the future? Will they anger those who handle things after knowing it
Yong Ruo didn't let them do so: "I said before: I don't practice enough, and the only thing I can do is 'not to fight'."
She sighed, and said in a very calm tone: "Before the draft, the concubine has already thought very clearly. If the prince himself wants to accept newcomers and favor the newcomers, the concubine will not say a word, and will not talk to the newcomers." fight for the front.
"But if the prince himself is unwilling, the concubine will not embarrass him for the sake of her own reputation. Otherwise, wouldn't it be another form of 'annoying the prince'
"Government affairs in the court, family and state affairs are enough to exhaust the prince's energy. If he can't be quiet for a moment in the backyard, wouldn't life be too hard? A prince of a country shouldn't be in such a situation."
Empress Wei stared at her for a long time, and seeing that she really had no intention of changing her mind, she waved to Sun Mantang.
Even though she felt that what Yong Ruo said was very reasonable, it couldn't change anything.
Sun Mantang sighed secretly, with a calm face, he brought the tray in front of Yongruo.
Yong Ruo lowered his eyes to look at the bowl of medicine, picked it up, brought it to his mouth, and drank it all in one gulp.
The taste of the medicine was extremely bitter, so bitter that her tongue was numb, and it was bitter from her mouth to her heart...
Perhaps it was because the medicine was too bitter, she was suddenly overwhelmed by an extremely sour emotion, and her heartache caught her off guard.
The powerful tears swept all her will in an instant, making her unable to control herself anymore. Tears rolled down, slid across her cheeks, dripped on her skirt, soaked the plum blossom embroidery on the skirt...
Before she left the Kunde Palace, Empress Wei lowered her gaze, twisted the Buddhist beads in her hand, and said lightly: "The emperor ordered: If you don't talk nonsense in front of the prince, he will not touch your natal family."
"Yes!" Yong Ruo chuckled in his heart: the emperor really can threaten people!
"Tomorrow, when you feel unwell, you can call for Imperial Physician Xu."
So, this medicine was actually prepared by Dr. Xu? Yong Ruo saluted Empress Wei, took three steps back, then turned around and left Kunde Palace without looking back.
The sky is falling with misty spring rain, thin and dense.
The continuous rain seems to have covered everything around with a hazy veil, but it also brought an extremely cold dampness.
She felt that the weather at this time was surprisingly suitable for her mood.
Xiaoxue held up an umbrella to block the rain above her head.
Hua Rou supported her and walked forward slowly.
Lulu asked her in her mind: "Does it get rid of toxins?"
Yong Ruo smiled wryly: "No." If she really dared to get rid of the toxin, the next time the emperor rewarded her would probably be a dagger or white silk.
Back in the East Palace, Yong Ruo touched those donkeys again. She thought very sadly: Maybe this is the last time she will touch these donkeys.
For a long time to come, it may be difficult for her to earn points. Before leaving the palace, she had to get every "income" in her hands.
Returning from the donkey garden to her Zhaode Courtyard, she changed out of her rain-soaked skirt, shoes and socks, went into the study, and started painting.
The picture to be drawn today has been conceived in her mind for many days. At this moment, she no longer hesitated to write.
On a piece of green grass, all the blades of grass are toppled by the wind, but a clump of pampas grass next to a stone stands unusually strong in the wind. Only the flower spikes and leaves that have been completely blown to one side can make people see the strength of the wind.
She has already thought of the name of this painting, and it is called "Strong Sketch", which means "the wind knows the strong grass".
The reason why puwei is used to refer to "strength grass" is because of the famous sentence in "Peacock Flying Southeast": The monarch is a rock, and the concubine is a pussy; the pussy is like silk, and the rock has no transfer.
It seems a bit inauspicious to use this allusion. But she wants to know more: Can the rock really be transferred without transfer
In the evening, a young eunuch came to report: Today is a lot of government affairs, the emperor left the prince to stay overnight in Qianyuan Palace, please don't wait any longer.
Yong Ruo said casually: "Got it!" and continued to paint.
Hua Rou and others urged her to go to rest several times, but she ignored it. She didn't finish this "Strong Sketch" until the middle of the night.
Putting down the paintbrush, she stared at the painting silently for a while, then picked up the brush again, and inscribed the five ink-stained characters "Gaofeng Zhijincao" on the painting.
That night, Yong Ruo slept alone in his bedroom.
She had a nightmare, dreaming that she was dying in the desert, and the man-eating ants overwhelming her were rushing towards her, crawling all over her body, biting her flesh and blood, making her painful and itchy, frightened and frightened.
She desperately called for help with a hoarse voice, but there was no one around, only the boundless yellow sand...
In this extremely desperate state of mind, she woke up from the dream, gasping for breath, and then felt that her mouth was dry and her whole body was itchy.
She touched the itchy place and felt that small bumps the size of soybeans had bulged on her skin.
She smiled bitterly: she already had a rash.
She had expected this, but she hadn't expected the rash to be this itchy. There is also this feeling of dry mouth and weakness... It seems to have a fever!
"Come here!" She called out, and found that her voice was very hoarse.
Hua Rou, who was sitting in front of the bed watching the night, quickly agreed, and opened the curtain: "Liangdi..."
As soon as the curtain was lifted, she saw Yong Ruo's face, and she couldn't help but turn pale with shock: "Why did Emperor Liang have so many rashes on his face?!"
"Don't talk about that yet. I'm very thirsty. Go get me a glass of water."
"Yes!" Huarou responded, walked quickly to the table, opened the lid of the tea bucket, took out the teapot and poured a cup of warm tea, walked to the bedside and handed it to Huarou.
Yong Ruo took the tea and drank it all in one go, only to feel better.
She handed the cup back to Huarou, looked at the twilight outside, sighed and said: "The palace gate should be unlocked at this time. I don't feel very comfortable, so send someone to Kunde Palace to report. Then go to Tai Hospital , bring Dr. Xu here."
"Yes!" Huarou agreed, and hurriedly ordered the little palace maid who was on duty with her to send a message quickly.
Then she helped Yong Ruo to lie back on the bed: "Di Liang is not feeling well, let's lie down properly!"
Yong Ruo also felt uncomfortable all over, so he closed his eyes and lay back on the bed.
Huarou stretched out her hand to touch her forehead, her brows frowned even tighter: "Di Liang has a fever!"
Yong Ruo thought to himself: This medicine is really well formulated!
Fever, fatigue, rash... Why are these symptoms so similar to severe infectious diseases such as smallpox and chickenpox
Now, going out of the palace to recuperate is a matter of course!
She thought very sadly: Before leaving the palace, can she see Feng Liao again