in the palace.
An old eunuch entered the palace of Concubine Yu.
Concubine Yu had a headache. During the day, Xuan Jing was very energetic. After Yu She's request for Lin Si was fruitless, she thought that she would rather kill by mistake and never let it go, so she went to Xuan Qiong's house to make a scene. Lin Si was not found.
Xuan Qiong has been unlucky in recent days, and her lungs exploded with anger. After entering the palace before dinner, Concubine Tong Yu vomited bitter water for a long time and just left.
Concubine Yu finally sent her son away, exhausted physically and mentally, and said to the gods: "If the emperor does not establish a prince, I am afraid that I will be tortured to death by these people first... Qiong'er also asked me to intercede with the emperor, this child really thinks that it is a pillow wind. Is it so good? I haven't seen the emperor for almost two months, I just want to help him, how can I help?"
The palace servant who served Concubine Yu comforted softly: "His Royal Highness has suffered a lot of grievances recently, and I can only tell you that if you can see the emperor one day, it would be good to distinguish two sentences for His Royal Highness."
"Don't mention this." Concubine Yu was worried, and her face became even worse when she mentioned this, "Last time my elder brother told me that in the previous dynasty, the late emperor wanted to make King Ning the crown prince, and the first thought was to kill Concubine Zhong Gui, I Not a few years older than Concubine Zhong Gui, and she has such a family. The emperor is afraid of me even more than Concubine Zhong Gui is afraid of the first emperor. If I intervene again... I am afraid that Qiong'er will be established as the prince in the future, and I have no life to look at me. Er ascended the throne."
Concubine Yu grabbed the palace servant's hand and said anxiously: "After the elder brother said this to me, I am restless day and night, you say... Does the emperor already have this idea? I have been thinking about it recently, what do I think? I feel that the words I have said in the past are taboo!"
"Your Majesty is at ease." The palace servant said softly, "I have already found the person that the maiden asked me to find. This old eunuch has been working for us at Prince Yu's Mansion since the previous dynasty, but we just don't know it. The old man is very strict. I'm afraid that I will startle the snake and let the people in our house tell him that the niece has been frightened recently, and she has repeatedly said and done wrong things. It is Yu Wangye who can't stand it, and asked him to tell the niece about the previous dynasty and wake up the niece. , Niang Niang, don't miss out for a while."
Concubine Yu thought for a while, then nodded: "Yes, you are still thoughtful. It's useless for me to coerce and lure me. Big brother's people... always listen to him alone, and don't help me until I die."
The palace servant sighed: "Yes, then I'll call him here?"
Yu Fei nodded.
Concubine Yu lowered the curtain and waited for a while, when she saw an old eunuch walked in tremblingly and knelt outside the curtain.
Concubine Yu made up her mind, and deliberately made a look of annoyance: "It's so late, what did eldest brother tell you to tell me?"
The old eunuch said in a low voice, "My lord said that Niangniang has been in a state of uncertainty recently, and she acted... rashly. Let the old slave come and tell her about the ancient times."
Concubine Yu said, "Then tell me."
The old eunuch calmly recounted what the late emperor wanted to kill his mother and keep his son, only a little more detailed than what Yu Mucheng said last time. Concubine Yu was anxious, and after listening to it, she was silent for a moment, and said, "Concubine Zhong Gui is in the end. No one knows whether she has meddled in the establishment of the Chu Chu. I only know that she died in the end. What does eldest brother ask you to tell me about this? You will die if you intervene or not?"
The old eunuch shook his head: "Zhong Guifei died of illness."
Concubine Yu said coldly, "Who are you fooling? She died of illness, and so did her sister. They both died together? Who would believe it?"
The old eunuch looked like an old tree root that had been dead for many years, and after a while, a sentence floated out: "It's true."
Concubine Yu was rarely moved, and forced her to say: "I don't think so, why did Concubine Zhong Gui disappeared, and when did it disappear? The palace kept it carefully. After the death of the late emperor, no one saw her again. Say no. She is supposed to be given to death by the late emperor before he died."
The old eunuch shook his head slowly: "No."
Concubine Yu slapped the kang table angrily, her head full of pearls jingling: "My eldest brother asked you to tell me about the ancients, did you just make me perfunctory like this?"
The old eunuch seemed helpless, sighed for a while and said, "It is true that Concubine Zhong Gui was not given to death by the late emperor. Speaking of which, Concubine Zhong Gui was implicated by Concubine Zhong."
Concubine Yu had never cared about this person, so she was a little surprised and asked in confusion, "Little Concubine Zhong?"
The old eunuch nodded: "Little Concubine Zhong did something wrong and can't tell it, so the queen mother... oh no, the queen at that time took care of their sisters through the funeral of the late emperor."
Concubine Yu was dumb: "I haven't heard much about this little Concubine Zhong, I remember... The late emperor was still fond of Concubine Zhong Gui, but he has always been indifferent to this little Concubine Zhong. What could she do wrong?"
The old eunuch said: "Little Concubine Zhong entered the palace with Concubine Zhong Gui back then. She was young and not as beautiful as Concubine Zhong Gui, so the late emperor didn't pay much attention to her."
Concubine Yu said, "So what? What did she do wrong?"
The old eunuch lowered his eyelids and said in a hoarse voice, "In the winter of Taiyu's forty-seventh year, Concubine Zhong... she was pregnant."
Concubine Yu didn't care about the days, and was stunned: "Pregnant? I haven't heard of it. What's wrong with being pregnant? Could it be that she accidentally lost the child herself? It's not right, it's not a crime to die for."
The old eunuch shook his head, his voice softer, "It's natural to be pregnant, but it's the fault. At that time... the late emperor hadn't collapsed with her for five years."
Yu Fei's face changed suddenly.
The old eunuch coughed twice and continued: "Because of the elder sister Zhong Guifei, Xiao Zhongfei can always walk around in front of the late emperor, but the late emperor really hasn't touched her for many years, and Xiao Zhongfei is not disciplined... This kind of indecent thing happened, and the queen mother knew about it. Naturally, the queen mother could not keep her. This kind of thing would damage the reputation of the royal family and should not be publicized. , and then through the funeral of the late emperor, gave them a decent way to die."
Concubine Yu Huarong paled and lost her voice: "She... is she crazy? Doing such a thing? No, no, no, Concubine Zhong is unruly, why should Concubine Zhong Gui be... "
"Niangniang." The old eunuch interrupted her and said slowly, "If Concubine Zhong Gui and Concubine Zhong don't die, Niangniang is afraid that they won't be as rich as they are today. Does Niangniang want to ask again?"
"The queen mother took this to play... It turns out that it was the queen mother who really killed the mother and left the child..." Concubine Yu panicked, "Then... Who is the biological father of the child? Did the queen mother kill that person too?"
The old eunuch raised his eyelids slightly and stopped talking.
Concubine Yu's heart skipped a beat, "There's actually such a thing, no wonder their sisters went so vaguely..."
The old eunuch said in a low voice, "The late emperor wanted to establish a young boy, and he did have the idea of killing their sisters. He also tried Concubine Zhong Gui several times, but in the end he didn't really do it."
Concubine Yu was uneasy, "So that's it... That's all, I don't want to hear it anymore. You didn't say it, you go quickly."
The old eunuch struggled to get up, and Concubine Yu hurriedly said: "Wait, you... I might call you over in the future, what's your name?"
The old eunuch bent down: "Old slave Tang Qin."
"Oh, Tang Qin, I remember it." Concubine Yu said absentmindedly, "Go, be careful when you go, don't let others see it."
The old eunuch bowed and left.
Concubine Yu was stunned. After sitting alone for a while, she regretted that she should not ask about these things. She called the palace servants and asked her to tell Tang Qin not to tell Prince Yu what happened today.
Concubine Yu leaned on the kang table full of regret, thinking about what Tang Qin said just now, her eyes suddenly shrank.
"In the winter of the forty-seventh year of Taiyu, Concubine Zhong was pregnant."
Concubine Yu's face turned pale, and she only felt that her body was covered with poisonous snakes.
Concubine Yu's scalp was numb and she lost her voice: "That's not it, isn't that child..."
In the courtyard of Prince Yu's Mansion, Yu She suddenly had a headache.
"What's wrong?"
Zhong Wan looked over.
Yu She didn't care much, she put the words in her hand, "It's time to sleep."
That night, the two fell asleep together.
Zhong Wan slept inside, Yu She lay on the outside with his clothes on, with several bundles of hemp ropes around the wrists between the two.
Zhong Wan was only wearing a thin layer of underwear, and his wrists outside the quilt were itchy from the hemp rope. He scratched, "This rope... can you put it under the bed first?"
Just lying down, Yu She must not have fallen asleep, but he didn't seem to hear, closed his eyes and didn't move.
Zhong Wan thought for a while, and then said: "Sir, have you heard some rumors about you recently?"
nonsense.
Yu She moved, but still ignored Zhong Wan.
Zhong Wan persuaded him with good words: "The rumors are very hard to hear. At first, they just said that you would hit people and do something to the people in the house. Now it's... very unbearable. You still put the rope on the bed, and spread it out tomorrow, just sit down. You really have that hobby!"
Yu She could not ask for it.
"It sounds good." Zhong Wan scratched his arm again, picked up the hemp rope, and whispered, "Can I put this first..."
Yu She finally spoke, "If you dare to throw this off the bed, I will dare to tie you up."
Zhong Wan paused, and for a moment was undecided about whether to try it or not.
Zhong Wan's Adam's apple moved, "How to tie it?"
Yu She closed her eyes and said calmly, "Tie your hands together, tied at the head of the bed, and tied your legs apart at the foot of the bed, take off your clothes, use some medicine, and let you go when you can't help crying. on, then…”
"Don't say it..." Zhong Wan hurriedly interrupted Yu She, and said in a low voice, "If you say it again, I really want to throw it away."
Yu She: "…"
Yu She took a few deep breaths and repressed: "Do you like that?"
Zhong Wan was distracted, "Okay, it seems to be quite energetic."
In the darkness, Yu She looked at Zhong Wan in disbelief.
Zhong Wan waited for a long time before Yu She could speak, and fell asleep when he was sleepy.
Yu She opened her eyes, her heart trembled, and she couldn't sleep for a long time.
An hour later, Yu She's tone struggled: "I used to... I didn't expect you to like this."
Zhong Wan was in the middle of a good dream and was awakened by Yu She.
Zhong Wan opened his eyes and said confusedly, "What, what's wrong? Is it dawn?"
Taking advantage of the three-minute moonlight, Yu She sat up, looked at Zhong Wan with a complicated expression, and suddenly asked, "You also grew up reading sages and sages since you were a child, why do you like this?"
Zhong Wan's eyes were filled with mist, and he sat up, his voice was nasal, "What do I like? It's not dawn..."
Yu She seemed very troubled, he looked at Zhong Wan in confusion, raised his hand, and put it down again.
Yu She closed her eyes, not knowing whether she was talking to Zhong Wan or said to herself, "You are not in good health, so you can't do this."
Zhong Wan's eyes were lost: "Can't what?"
Yu She looked at Zhong Wan, there seemed to be hallucinations in her eyes, she felt that she had really tied Zhong Wan to the bed, forcing Zhong Wan to beg him unbearably...
"Forget it." Yu She lay down, turned her back to Zhong Wan, and exhaled, "Go to sleep."
Zhong Wan was confused, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.
Early the next morning, Yu She handed Zhong Wan a few pages of paper.
Zhong Wan looked down...
Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra.
"Copy it ten times to clear the turbidity in your heart." Yu She glanced at Zhong Wan with indescribable words, "When you come back next time, bring it with you."