Feng actually had no real close friends in the palace.
It stands to reason that as a queen, she has a few confidants of her own, but her character is so indifferent that she is almost withdrawn, so a strange phenomenon has formed.
All the women in the palace thought that she was unworthy of her position, that she had only good looks but no qualifications and abilities to be a queen.
On the other hand, the other concubines were right. As the queen, she was the master of the palace. It was the queen's necessary and unshirkable responsibility to exercise her authority and manage and restrain the harem.
But Ms. Feng always kept to herself and voluntarily gave up the power that should have belonged to her, so she was unable to convince people's hearts. No wonder the people below had their own agendas.
Therefore, it is not a good thing for those in high positions to give up their responsibilities. If those in power do not seek their own policies, they will inevitably suffer backlash.
But for Feng, this queen is indeed not what she wants to be. It is completely inconsistent with her personality. It is just to catch a duck.
But she didn't understand that this power was supposed to be enough for her to protect herself, just like the armor and weapons of a soldier on the battlefield, but what she did was the same as disarming the enemy and surrendering her life and death to the enemy. others.
When all the concubines saw that Feng was unwilling to make any progress and insisted on traveling alone, they couldn't help but feel resentful. They each winked and then left quietly.
Feng sat quietly in front of the window. When she saw the empty room with no human voice, she sighed softly and stood up with a lonely expression.
Immediately, someone knocked on the door, and the head of the chamberlain walked in with his head lowered.
Mrs. Feng recognized this person, his name seemed to be Gao Cheng, so he said, "Servant Gao, what's the matter?"
Gao Cheng hesitated and whispered: "Madam is about to leave for Yecheng. The situation there is unclear. Madam is alone, so it would be better to bring some helpers."
Feng's first reaction was that Gao Cheng wanted to take refuge with her, but after thinking about it, she felt that something was wrong. She couldn't figure it out for a while, so she said casually: "I know that the future over there is uncertain, so I don't want others to go into the fire pit." Jump."
Gao Cheng sighed and whispered: "Madam, even if there is a fire pit over there, there are still many people who want to jump into it."
Feng didn't know why and asked doubtfully: "What does Gao Changshi mean?"
Gao Cheng sighed, thinking that talking to this woman was really tiring, so he had to say: "Madam, you have to know that the man from Yecheng may also become the emperor in the future."
"Now that the people in this palace have dispersed, there are still many people with high spirits. How can they live a simple life?"
"So if Madam refuses to let them go together, doesn't it mean that they are cutting off their path?"
Only then did Feng come to understand and was stunned: "How could they think so?"
"Shouldn't we find a good family and live a stable life?"
Gao Cheng was speechless, "Madam, where can you live a stable life in troubled times?"
"Madam, you also escaped the disaster. Have you forgotten the past?"
Feng was speechless after hearing this. After a long time, she said to Gao Cheng, "Thank you, Changshi Gao. I will think about it carefully."
She sat in the room until the sun went down and the room became dark. She did not light the lamp. The porridge and vegetables brought outside were cold and not touched at all.
After an unknown amount of time, there was a gentle knock on the door, and Ms. Feng said, "Come in."
As a result, there was an inaudible female voice at the door: "Someone wants to do harm to the Queen!"
"Nowadays, many people are staring at her and it's difficult to come in and talk. In order to hide her from others, she even asked the queen to move to the toilet behind and talk face to face!"
Feng was startled, stood up, and wanted to ask more questions, but heard footsteps hurrying away.
She was confused, stood there and thought for a while, then tried to open the door. Seeing no one around, she went to the toilet full of suspicion.
The toilets in the palace during the Han Dynasty were rows of cubicles with toilets inside and incense to drive away the smell. Feng went inside and called out, only to hear a female voice in the innermost cubicle say: "Please come over, queen." .”
Feng didn't doubt that he was there, so she walked inside. When she reached the front, she suddenly heard the sound of footsteps behind her, and a bunch of white silk was lowered from her head, and then she was strangled around her neck.
Feng felt someone behind her pull her back violently, and Bai Ling's grip around her neck became tighter and tighter. She subconsciously grabbed Bai Ling with both hands and tried to tear her apart, but two people came up, pulled her arms apart, and held her tightly. Press down.
Feng's hands kept scratching and scratching, leaving streaks of blood on their arms. Several concubines who rushed up next to them saw Feng's feet kicking and sneered, came up and kicked them a few times, and said angrily: "On weekdays, inside You pretend to be noble, but in the end you only think about yourself, and you deserve to die!"
When the other women who were holding down Feng's arms and strangling her neck saw it, they shouted in a low voice: "Stop procrastinating, kill her quickly, so that no one will find out!"
After hearing this, the remaining people picked up the other end of Bai Ling and threw it onto the toilet beam. Then they worked together to hang Feng up.
They pulled several times, but found that their strength was still not enough, so they couldn't help shouting: "Come and help!"
After hearing this, those people said: "He's still holding his hands and feet down. This bitch is quite strong. What's the hurry? Wait until he faints and then hang him up."
Several other people complained, weren't you the ones who were in a hurry just now?
However, thinking that Feng, the vixen, was finally going to die, several people finally felt a bad breath in their hearts.
These people all had their own agenda and wanted to go to Yecheng to find a future, but at this time, Feng didn't even help them. Thinking that they usually fawned over Feng, they felt unbalanced.
Several people gathered together in private, thinking that the palace was in chaos now, everyone had too much time to take care of themselves, and the servants were about to leave. Naturally, no one wanted to do anything, so they would just kill Feng without stopping!
We can't get any advantage, and you can't live either!
When they saw that Feng's struggle was getting weaker and weaker, their eyes rolled up, foaming at the mouth, and his hands hanging down, they couldn't help but be overjoyed. They stood up quickly, and together with the previous people, they grabbed Bai Ling and pulled hard, trying to pull Feng's. The body is suspended.
Lu Lingqi was shaken awake in a daze. She opened her eyes and saw Yuan Xi shaking her. She couldn't help but said, "Is it dawn?"
She immediately tilted her head and forgot to look out the window, and found that it was still dark. She couldn't help but muttered: "What are you doing up so early?"
Yuan Xi said: "There is a good show to watch, will you go?"
When Lu Lingqi heard this, she turned over and sat up, "Where?"
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "Let's go into the palace."
When he and Lu Lingqi rushed to the palace with their soldiers, they found that it was already in chaos. As the group walked in, anxious eyes kept looking out from the gaps in the windows of the houses on both sides.
As everyone walked in, someone came over in a panic. Yuan Xi recognized this as Gao Changshi, the head of the chamberlain. He whispered a few words into Yuan Xi's ear. After hearing this, Yuan Xi's face changed slightly and he said: "It's not like we did it in advance. You took precautions, so why didn’t you prevent things from happening?”
The high chamberlain knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "It's the villain's fault. Although the villain reminded the lady before, someone took advantage of the villain's shift change at night to trick the lady out."
"The villain is guilty, please punish me."
Yuan Xi sighed and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Changshi Gao. The murderer is to blame first. I can't blame you harshly. Get up first and take me to have a look."
Gao Changshi got up quickly and led everyone to a courtyard. After entering the room, he saw Hua Tuo treating Feng who was lying on the couch.
Lu Lingqi saw a black mark on Feng's fair neck, and she was unconscious. Hua Tuo was using golden needles to acupuncture various parts of her facial features. Yuan Xi said, "Sir, is there still hope?"
Hua Tuo didn't even raise his head and said, "I hung him for a long time and my neck almost broke, but I still have breath. I'll do my best."
Lu Lingqi couldn't help but whispered: "What's going on?"
Gao Changshi whispered a few words before Lu Lingqi finally understood and said in a voiceless voice: "Conspiracy to kill the queen?"
"What's the reason for this? Is it because I offend too many people on weekdays?"
Yuan Xi said: "Several murderers have been arrested. They are in the side room. Boyan is interrogating them. Let's go over and have a look?"
Lu Lingqi also knew that no one else could get involved in Hua Tuo's treatment, so she followed Yuan Xi and saw Lu Xun in front of a row of rooms, being detained separately for interrogation.
When he saw Yuan Xi coming over, he was about to speak when Yuan Xi said, "Bo Yan, don't worry and do it. I'm just taking a look."
Lu Xun listened and nodded. After a while, several confessions were brought out from the room. Lu Xun read them, then frowned, pointed at the two confessions and said, "These are suspicious ones, and they will be tortured."
After a while, the woman's screams were heard in the room, and then a new confession was given.
Lu Xun compared them again and said, "Okay, let's gather them together and let them identify each other."
Soon five or six women were rushed into a room. Lu Xun led the guards in. After a while, women's yelling and crying came from inside.
After hearing this, Lu Lingqi whispered: "Lu Boyan acts so steadily, he doesn't look like a sixteen-year-old at all."
Yuan Xi smiled and said: "Of course, someone who can take charge of the Lu family at the age of thirteen cannot be an ordinary person."
Lu Lingqi sighed: "If my father had the same vision as my husband, I wouldn't be without a few reliable people around me."
Yuan Xi thought to himself that this was the norm. At this time, how many people in the world would imagine that the two Yuans were fighting, and that it would eventually turn into a struggle for hegemony among the Three Kingdoms?
However, he took advantage of future generations and brought many people who decided the fate of the Three Kingdoms under his command. Maybe the direction of the world will change in the future, right?
Not long after, Lu Xun came out, handed a bamboo slip into Yuan Xi's hand, and said, "We've almost found out the cause and effect."
"These six people conspired to kill Feng. It was not because Feng acted harshly or because of previous personal enmity."
"It was purely because I saw that the Feng family wanted to climb up to the Yuan family in Jizhou without taking them with them, so I felt jealous and committed the murder."
He paused, "Yuan Shu's harem is in such chaos. No wonder he has so many talented people, but they all have their own thoughts and are on guard against each other. It's a real failure."
Yuan Xi read the bamboo slips and said, "Bo Yan thinks, how to deal with these murderers?"
Lu Xun said without hesitation: "Xun Xun thought that he should be punished according to the law to set an example to others."
(End of chapter)
