It was midsummer when Yu Xiang left, and it was already the twelfth lunar month when he came back, and the north wind was blowing loudly outside, it could be said that dripping water turned into ice.
Ganquan Palace is surrounded by artificially dug lakes. In spring, summer and autumn, the blue lake is hidden among the vast green trees, and the scenery is intoxicating. However, in winter, the lake condenses into ice, and it looks plain white from a distance, beautiful as it is beautiful, but it is chilling to the bone.
The earth dragon was burned in the palace, and the brazier was lit, but Concubine Sun was still wrapped in a fox fur cloak, and her already high protruding belly was even more astonishingly large. She has a beautiful appearance and fair skin, and she is reclining lazily on the soft couch at this time, her brows and eyes stretched out due to her promotion over the past few months, naturally carrying a bit of arrogance and nobility.
"Your Majesty, your belly looks sharp, so you must be pregnant with Xiaolongzi." Mrs. Sun said courteously.
Concubine Sun rubbed her stomach, squinted her eyes and smiled, "Really? It doesn't matter whether it's male or female, anyway, this child is a blessed one. Why did my sister-in-law enter the palace this time?"
Mrs. Sun hurriedly talked about Na Yuxiang's concubine and marrying her as his wife.
Concubine Sun frowned and said, "It's not good to marry a girl from whose family, but I have fallen in love with Yu Xiang? She has already recognized her ancestors and returned to her clan, and her real brother is about to be dismissed, and her adoptive brother is dead without a whole body, and her title will fall aside. Aside from her perverse temper, her legs and feet are inconvenient, and she suffers from chronic illnesses, what good is it to marry her to Mingjie? This palace will help Mingjie choose anyone who is better than her by a hundred times."
"Your Majesty, you don't know. Mingjie likes her fierceness. It's more interesting to play with her. How dare a good girl and courtier let him get close? Why don't you marry Yu Xiang and let Mingjie make a lot of troubles?" Nian Huahua is angry in her heart. When Mingjie becomes stable, let her die suddenly, and we will marry another noble girl who can stand on the stage." Madam Sun replied in a low voice.
Concubine Sun naturally knew about her nephew's faults, and she helped cover it up. After hearing this, she thought about it for a while, and felt that it would be good to use Yu Xiang to temper her nephew's temper. Both the Shen family and the Yu family have fallen, so who cares about Yu Xiang's life.
"Okay then, I'll wait for my palace Xuanna Yuxiang to come and take a look." Concubine Sun waved her hand and asked the maid to go to Kunning Palace to invite someone.
Now she is the only pregnant woman in the palace, and she has been promoted by Cheng Kangdi for two consecutive months, the speed of promotion is rare in the world. Not to mention the envy and hatred of the other imperial concubines towards her, even she herself was in high spirits, thinking that Emperor Cheng Kang loved her and her children so much, and she also wanted to ask Emperor Cheng Kang to be a prince as soon as she was born. Besides, she boarded the new emperor's big ship one step earlier, even if Chengkang emperor died, she and her children lived comfortably and comfortably under the care of the new emperor, with unparalleled wealth.
Therefore, she gradually forgot her duty, and did not take the Queen seriously, otherwise she would not have sent a little maid to be an important person in Kunning Palace. If this move is normal, it is simply arrogant and staggering.
Of course, during the past few months when the empress was dormant, she had endured many similar provocations, and she had endured them silently in the past, but today she couldn't bear it any longer.
Therefore, without waiting for Concubine Sun's maid to step out of the inner hall, I saw the female officer of Kunning Palace striding in, saying, "The Empress issued a decree, blaming Concubine Sun for not knowing etiquette and respect, and facing the wall in Ganquan Palace." After thinking about it, I can only get up after kneeling for twelve hours. Your Majesty, please."
The female official bowed and bent down, trying to lead Concubine Sun to the Buddhist hall in the apse. Because every emperor of the Han Dynasty believed in Buddhism, the concubines in the harem also followed suit, setting up Buddhist halls in the palace, kneeling and reciting a few scriptures when they had nothing to do, to show their compassion.
The Buddhist hall in Ganquan Palace is next to the Linshui Pavilion. Although the windows on all sides are closed tightly, the north wind continues to blow in through the gaps, and the temperature can freeze a layer of human flesh. Asking Concubine Sun, a pregnant woman who is about to give birth, to kneel down and reflect on herself is tantamount to letting her die.
Concubine Sun was so startled that she almost fell off the soft couch, Madam Sun couldn't believe it, and said bluntly that the empress used her power to seek personal gain to overthrow the concubine and assassinate the emperor's heir, and she was going to report to the imperial court.
The female officer didn't stop her, and let her and a court lady run to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.
"Should the empress go in by herself or wait for the imperial edict to be issued by the emperor?" The female officer smiled at Concubine Sun with a very gentle attitude.
"Wait for the emperor!" Concubine Sun said with gritted teeth, clutching her belly.
The two were speechless for a while, waiting quietly.
In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Miracle Physician Pu was feeling the pulse of Emperor Cheng Kang. What Cheng Kangdi suffered from was lung accumulation, which is the so-called lung cancer in modern times, and he had had chest pains and hemoptysis for a long time. Master Kuhui also visited the palace to see this disease, but there was nothing he could do about it. Pu's genius doctor's medical skills and bitter wisdom are only in the middle, but he has a unique skill, which is hanging. Although he can't snatch people from the hands of the king of hell, it can greatly slow down the pain and time of death.
Because he only sees a doctor once for one person, and there is no principle of second visits, Emperor Chengkang dare not let him take action unless he is on the verge of death.
"Master Pu, how much time do I have?" Cheng Kangdi said calmly after taking his pulse.
"If it wasn't for the fact that your Majesty was given the medicine of tiger and wolf to damage his blood essence, he would have had four or five years to live, but now it is not the case. The grass people try their best, at least five or six months, at least one or two years, there is no certainty. "Miraculous doctor Park said bluntly.
"The medicine of the tiger and wolf damages the essence and blood." These two words lingered on the tip of Cheng Kangdi's tongue. Although his tone was gentle and his expression was calm, his deep eyes contained a chilling killing intent.
Concubine Sun's medicine could raise his interest unconsciously. He hadn't been emotional for a long time because of his physical weakness. After tasting the fierceness of dragons and tigers at Concubine Sun's place several times, he thought it was a sign of his recovery from illness. In addition, Concubine Sun was pregnant, which proved that his majesty is still unabated Back then, I was very happy about this for a while, and even raised the position of Concubine Sun.
But after learning that Concubine Sun is good at detecting pulses and is proficient in pharmacology, he realized that the so-called dragon spirit and tiger fierceness were just poisoning, and the so-called breeding dragon heirs was in exchange for his own lifespan. If Concubine Sun did not know that his illness was against the law and prescribed the medicine, it would be justifiable, but she knew that the Holy One was seriously ill and would die, but she gave such tiger-wolf medicine, just to give herself a bright future, what she did was tantamount to murder. Jun rebellion.
Emperor Chengkang looked forward to Concubine Sun's child so much before, and now he hates it so much, but in order not to startle the snake, he has to continue to support her and promote her to be a first-rank concubine.
Now that Yu Pinyan is about to return to the court, the charges of cooperating with the prince to force the palace to rebel will be cleared up. During the past few months, Emperor Chengkang and the crown prince each drew up a list in their minds. The courtiers on the list were loyal or traitorous, and whether they should be reused or eliminated.
A bloody storm was about to break out, and Emperor Chengkang didn't mind sharpening his butcher knife with Concubine Sun, so when Mrs. Sun rushed outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation and shouted for grievances, he waved his sleeves and said coldly, "Beat them thirty each!" The big board is thrown out. Bring my will to Concubine Sun, and let her kneel until the queen is satisfied."
The servant got the order and immediately asked the guards to catch Mrs. Sun and the maid, stripped off their pants in the open space in front of the palace, and beat them 30 times, and then sent the female officer to Ganquan Palace to issue the decree.
"What? That's impossible! I'm still pregnant with a dragon son, the emperor can't treat me like this! You must be falsely preaching the imperial decree! I want to see the emperor!" Concubine Sun was so terrified that she wanted to run to the Hall of Yangxin but Captured by the maid, she was directly pressed into the Buddhist hall and sat on the futon.
Because the female official did not allow the palace people to burn the earth dragon and the brazier in the Buddhist hall, Concubine Sun felt a pain in her stomach after kneeling for a short while, and she couldn't calm down because of her frantic mood, a large bloodstain soon fainted on the hem of her skirt.
In the Kunning Palace, the queen only smiled slightly when she received a report from the female officer. She stared at the bleak winter scenery outside the window, but she didn't know what to think of, and there was endless sadness in her eyes.
Seeing this, Yu Xiang naturally didn't dare to wait any longer, and ordered Taohong Liulu to push the wheelchair, and after sitting on it, she was about to leave.
The queen got up to help her herself, and asked, "Didn't you say that the leg injury has been cured? Why do you still need to use a wheelchair?"
"Back to your mother, it's a long way to go to the western border, but it's because of exhaustion and injury. Now I can only walk for half a day every day, and the rest of the day needs to be pushed by girls."
After experiencing all this strife and betrayal, the queen liked people like Yu Xiang more and more. In the eyes of ordinary people, Yu Xiang's actions are tantamount to deviant and shocking the world, but in the eyes of the queen, she values love, righteousness, and gratitude, not to mention harshness, and rewards are too late.
The queen said several times, "I'm sorry for you", and told her to come to the palace to play frequently in the future, and then ordered Nanny Song to send her out.
Yu Xiang didn't leave immediately after leaving the palace gate, but ordered the coachman to stop the carriage by the side of the road, waiting for Mrs. Sun who was being tortured.
Tao Hong and Liu Lu broke out in a cold sweat, only then did they dare to take out their handkerchiefs to wipe them off, and said in a low voice, "Let pregnant women who are seven or eight months pregnant kneel in the Buddhist hall in this cold weather, if Concubine Sun really has a miscarriage , the Empress may be criticized by the courtiers and wives."
"Criticism? Let them criticize it." Yu Xiang blew on the dust sticking to Kou Dan, smiling unspeakably ironically, "It is precisely because the empress is too virtuous and kind-hearted in the past that she will let Xiao The little concubine rode on her head and acted wildly. She endured and pretended for a lifetime, but in the end she was imprisoned by her son and deposed herself. Although it was fake, it was enough to make people feel chilling and reflective. Once pushed to a desperate situation, No matter how benevolent a person is, they will show their darkest side. The empress wants to see blood very much now, so I just happened to pass her a knife. But Concubine Sun is a talent, not only offended the empress, but also offended the emperor to death. I don't know what she did to make people angry."
Yu Xiang stretched her hands into the armholes to warm them up, her eyes were pensive.
"It doesn't matter what she did, anyway, after today, I don't know if there will be another concubine Sun in the future." Liu Lu said worriedly, "It's just that the empress made you a raft once, and when the news spread, you That reputation is even worse."
Not only did Yu Xiang not feel disturbed when she heard the words, she chuckled lightly, "I threw away the reputation thing eight hundred years ago. The Empress did use me as a raft, but I still have to thank her. Think about it." If this matter spreads, who in Shangjing will dare to provoke me from now on?"
Even the Concubine Sun, who was the most favored in the Sixth Palace, had such a miserable end. Those who want to trouble the master in the future must weigh whether they are worthy enough. When Liu Lu thought it was true, she also laughed.
Tao Hong had been staring at the palace gate, and now she shouted, "The Sun family's carriage has come out."