A cold palace is a place to put things aside.
The old table that is not used, the old chair that is not used, the old bed that is not used, and... Pure Concubine.
Concubine Chun was sitting alone on the old chair, the sky was getting dark, and her figure was gradually engulfed by the darkness, until the door opened with a creak, and a light passed through the crack of the door and fell on her face.
"I thought that the person who came here tonight would be Wei Yingluo." She smiled at him, "I didn't expect it to be you."
Let the palace guards guard outside the door, and then walked in alone: "Wei Yingluo?"
Concubine Chungui sighed: "I finally want to understand why Wei Yingluo is doing everything she can to fight for favor, even at the expense of provoking hatred in the harem."
"Of course it's to make you jealous and make you worry, no, more accurately, to make you fear. I'm afraid she will use the grace to reveal the story of the seventh prince." He then put the hexagonal palace lantern in his hand on the old table. "The more arrogant Wei Yingluo is, the more fearful you are, and the easier it is to attack. As long as you make a move, you will definitely reveal flaws."
"She deliberately released news of horseback riding to induce me to do it. In fact, this time, it wasn't my hand, but so what? The emperor still suspected me." Concubine Chungui laughed at herself, "It's better to wait for her every day. It's better to give it a try, but unfortunately I failed... It's just the queen, what role did you play in it?"
"Me?" Then he smiled, the candlelight shone on her body, her face was half-lit, "Concubine Chung has a grudge with Concubine Ling, this palace, the lord of the six palaces, will naturally uphold justice."
Concubine Chung stared at her profile face, and after a while, she laughed out loud: "I'm so stupid, I've been a chess piece in your hand, is the death of the first queen really nothing to do with you?"
Then he smiled calmly: "Naturally."
"You lie!" Concubine Chungui suddenly yelled at her, "It was you who encouraged me to kill!"
Hongli has always liked the detached and refined temperament of Concubine Chun, who used to be really aloof and refined.
At that time, Concubine Xian's successor used this as an excuse, and often came to visit her, reminding her at all times—Yong Rong was smart, the emperor liked him very much, but it was a pity that the queen gave birth to a seven elder brother, she could not compete with the queen, and Yong Rong also Don't even think about fighting Seven Brothers.
"The mother is always too greedy and wants to leave the best things to her son." Concubine Chungui stared at her successor and said, "I did a lot of things later, but without your secret support, I couldn't do it at all, just Even when Wei Yingluo left the palace, it was you who sent someone to notify me, implying that I was not staffed enough in Changchun Palace, and it was time to act."
I used to think that I was resourceful, but now I suddenly realize that there is an invisible hand behind my back.
Yuhu hooked up with Wang Zhong, but not only Wang Zhong was the one in charge of the fire department, but in just one month, one of the other two stewards became ill and the other was transferred to another place. Without them, everything would be handled by Wang Zhong. Have the final say.
Later, she bought the little eunuch and replaced all the charcoal in Changchun Palace with flammable chrysanthemum charcoal. It was unbelievable that things went smoothly, but now I think about it, but I feel extremely chilled. Back then, when the queen gave birth, she was in charge of the six palaces, and the exchange of charcoal fire was in her eyelids. What happened underneath, she pretended not to see it, and ignored it from beginning to end.
"I killed Brother Qi, but you handed the knife to me." Concubine Chungui laughed, unable to control herself, and kept patting the handrail, "No, not only that, Brother Qi is the first The Queen's lifeblood, as soon as he dies, the Queen will be finished first! Nara, you will kill the Queen one step at a time, and you will replace her from the very beginning!"
Afterwards, he looked at her with a smile, and that smile made one’s back feel cold, like the face hidden behind the shadow puppet stage, wiggling its fingers, manipulating the joys and sorrows of the puppets on the stage, the joys and sorrows of the people under the stage, and that. Zhang face smiled secretly behind the scenes.
"Kill the seventh brother, force the queen to commit suicide, lure me and Wei Yingluo to fight to the death, and finally use her hand to completely drive me into the abyss. But your hands are clean from beginning to end! Hahaha, God Ah, it's so funny! Who am I fighting for, and who am I busy for?" Concubine Chungui was just waking up from her big dream now, she smiled and burst into tears, "It turned out to be an empty dream, making wedding clothes for others! Successor, good trick! Now that I have nothing to say, I just ask you, after I die, will it be Wei Yingluo's turn?"
The world is a big dream, how many times is the autumn cool in life
"What did you say?"
In the Yanxi Palace, hearing the news from Yuan Chunwang, everyone was stunned.
Yuan Chunwang: "...he was bleeding all over the place, and his neck was about to be strangled."
Mingyu couldn't help touching her neck, as if she had heard a ghost story, her face turned pale: "Broken?"
Yuan Chunwang: "I didn't see what it was, but the maid in charge of cleaning was frightened and fainted."
Mingyu's teeth were shaking: "What can I use to strangle a person's neck... so much?"
In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Hongli's expression was uncertain.
Even the Yanxi Palace got the news, so it was impossible for him to know nothing.
Li Yu's colleague who brought the bad news also brought something...
Hongli looked down at the half-blooded kite string on the table.
The kite string seems to be inconspicuous, but when it is taut, it becomes a very slender knife, which can easily cut a person's neck.
Everyone in the room didn't dare to come out, until Hongli said slowly: "This is the end of the matter, and it is strictly forbidden for anyone to discuss in private. If there is a violation, the palace rules will be punished."
After that, he left the Hall of Mental Cultivation and kept coming to Yanxi Palace all the way.
I don't know why I came here, and I don't know if I have anything to ask her, but as soon as I entered the door, I saw Yuan Chunwang holding a plate of kite-making materials, and knelt down at him: "The servant respectfully asks the emperor to be holy."
Hongli looked at the bundle of kite strings on the plate, and his smile suddenly sank: "Take it!"
"What's wrong?" Wei Yingluo sat at the table with an unfinished iris kite placed in front of her, and a kite string was also wrapped around her finger, "My kite is not finished yet."
Hongli took a few steps over, grabbed the kite string in her hand, and threw it on the ground: "Don't do it!"
Seeing Wei Yingluo looking at him incredulously, he sighed in his heart and changed a gentle tone: "Your hand has been injured, and the bamboo strips can easily hurt your hand, so don't do it again in the future."
Wei Yingluo: "Then let Mingyue do it for me."
Hongli: "I said, don't do it! No one in Yanxi Palace is allowed to do it!"
Wei Yingluo: "Why?"
Hongli: "No why."
The two looked at each other for a moment. For some reason, Hongli was always the one who gave in first. He swept the kite on the table to one side unintentionally, and then asked Li Yu to put a long qin on top.
Wei Yingluo was born in a small family, so she is not good at this, and she can't tell what age the guqin is. All she knows is that it has a complex texture and faintly reveals a unique woody fragrance, like the fragrance precipitated by the years.
"Yingluo, I taught you how to play the qin last time. You think the qin is not good enough. I ordered someone to find the Yuelu confidant that I used to learn the qin in the past." Hong Li sat in front of her and said softly, "You can use this qin to play the qin. Practice, okay?"
But Wei Yingluo smiled slightly: "I don't want to learn the piano today, I just want to make a kite."
Hongli's face became colder, and Li Yu next to him hurriedly said, "Concubine Ling, this violin was specially brought by the emperor to Yuanmingyuan, and others can't easily touch it!"
Wei Yingluo smiled at him, as she learned Hongli before, she casually pushed the precious guqin aside, then took the kite that was swept aside, and continued to work with her head down.
It was not until Hongli walked away that she raised her head again.
"Yingluo!" Mingyu only opened her mouth at this time, her face was still a little blue, and she seemed to be frightened by Hongli's previous expression, with some complaints and some worry, "You know the cause of Chunguifei's death. To avoid suspicion, what else are you doing with a kite?"
Wei Yingluo looked at the direction where Hongli was leaving, her eyes were cold: "If I don't make a kite, will others doubt me?"
In the palace, the most common, the most accustomed, and the best at it seems to be doubt.
Back at the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Hongli threw the blood-stained kite string to Li Yu: "Dispose of it."
It seems that he didn't expect him to come back after eating a lump in Yanxi Palace, but with such a reaction, Li Yu replied after half a beat, "Hey."
While cleaning up the kite string on the table, Li Yu observed Hongli's expression and said cautiously, "Your Majesty, although Concubine Ling is a bit stubborn, she doesn't seem to be such a cruel person."
Hongli snorted coldly, and Li Yu immediately slapped himself: "Minions talk too much!"
Just as he was about to step back, he heard him say coldly, "I'm so angry that she doesn't care, she doesn't even have an explanation!"
After a pause, he sighed and added: "... She is so determined, I will trust her to protect her?"
Li Yu also sighed inwardly, because the most common, most accustomed, and best at the palace seems to be doubt, so such trust seems to be very precious.
"Your Majesty, when your concubine recovers, she will definitely come to make amends." He had no choice but to follow the other party's wishes and say what he wanted to hear most now.
Hongli looked noncommittal, but the moment Li Yu exited the door, he bluntly left a sentence: "She's coming, don't allow her to enter... punish her to stand at the door!"