The emperor pointed the sword and pierced her skin, stared at her clear and bright eyes with bloodshot red eyes, and listened quietly to the sad sound of strings coming from the palace behind. Thinking back to the spring flowers and autumn moon that he had walked with her over the years, and the wind, frost, rain and snow that she had faced with him...
"Your Majesty, do you dislike me so much?"
"Are you going to be in a situation where His Majesty deposes your queen?"
He couldn't bear to look at her tearful eyes anymore, so he withdrew his sword and stood with his hands behind his back.
"Let's go! The imperial edict will be sent to Changchun Palace after the abolition. I will give you a lot of money so that you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life. After you leave the palace, you can also marry on your own... I and you will never have to worry about anything in your life. Bye now!"
After hearing this, the servants all around knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, I hope your Majesty will think twice before acting!"
"I have made up my mind. I have had enough of this kind of life. In the past ten years, Queen Pei Man has interfered in politics wantonly and been jealous and tyrannical. The prince has done nothing and treats me as an enemy. Every one of these can be discussed. Everyone None of my officials will apologize."
After hearing this, the queen suddenly felt that her sleeves were empty, and she staggered in front of him, holding on to his broad chest, and looked up at him, in a state of madness.
"Wanyan Dan..., open your eyes and look at what I endured for you, look at it!"
The female officer came to protect me: "Your Majesty!"
She took off the wind crown and scattered the white hair: "I am only twenty-eight years old. Look at the white hair on my head. Everyone around me has left. My father is sticking to Han." When we besieged you, I was pierced by arrows and died trying to protect you. As a result, my mother contracted a serious illness and left soon after..."
"It's not that I don't have a prince. My Ji'an is dead. He died before he was one year old..."
She cried more and more crazily, and tears rolled down her cheeks and hit the emperor's palm.
"Are you in love with Samao? Do you love her deeply? You want her to be the queen and your wife. Do you have to be so heartless? The relationship of more than ten years is so worthless in your heart ?"
She beat his chest crazily and even hit him hard. When the emperor saw her crazy look, he slapped her on the ground and shouted angrily: "Crazy woman! What a crazy woman!"
He pointed at her with the cold sword: "I told you, there is no need to mention the past. I only retained this last trace of dignity because of the love between husband and wife. I don't want to be entangled with you anymore."
She climbed up in embarrassment, brushed the hair that was scattered on her shoulders, and then took off the heavy Chinese clothes on her body, leaving only a thin crimson undergarment. She opened her arms and turned around.
"The love between husband and wife..., hahahaha,"
She cried and laughed, stretched out her slender arms from her sleeves to wrap around his neck, and whispered into his ear.
"Wanyan Dan, I hate you, I hate you!"
After hearing these words, the emperor became furious and became more and more intolerable. He swung his sword in front of his face and wiped it from her neck. Blood spattered three feet and she fell into a pool of blood.
At the last moment of her departure, an image appeared in front of her eyes. When she was young at the tea party, she hid behind the red pillars on the high platform and secretly looked at him. At that time, his tea cup became a poem, and everyone applauded and praised him. She made a mistake in her life from then on.
Everyone exclaimed and came forward to look around: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
When the female officer saw her, she cried and shook her: "My queen, wake up! My queen."
When the emperor looked at the red blood hanging down from Leng Jian, he woke up and quickly picked her up like crazy.
"Wan'er... Wan'er..., I'll take you to see the imperial doctor, let's go..."
The emperor cried like crazy and carried her through the flowers of the plum garden. The blood in her arms continued to flow all over the corridor along the palace.
Walking not far from the lantern that had just fallen, she used her last strength to glance at him, then closed her eyes forever, and lowered her hands.
The emperor collapsed on the ground as if he had lost his soul, caressing her cold cheeks, and burst into tears. The slaves everywhere knelt down behind him, weeping like rain.
When evening came, misty snow fell and the winter wind invaded the heart and lungs. On the dark corridor, beside the red plum blossoms, this peerless beauty passed away.
With her childhood dreams, she slept under the Zhuheng Biwa tiles, quietly.
He then listened to the sad voice of her personal female officer: "Your Majesty, the Queen did not punish the group of dancers before, but gave them some money to let them out of the palace."
"That time when I married the imperial concubine Mao, I didn't punish her. Instead, I asked my slave to escort her back to the palace!"
"My dear, she is not a cruel person."
The emperor looked at the woman in his arms, who had worked with him for more than ten years and had gone through many hardships with him, and then took the broken necklace that had been thrown away from the lapel of his clothes and put it on her hand.
"Wan'er, I have repaired this ring, and I will put it on for you myself!"
The ring he gave her on their wedding night hung between her jade bones, and in an instant, scenes of beautiful past memories came to mind, and he broke down and howled.
The emperor held her in his arms and looked at the line of words she had written under the plum tree outside the corridor next to him - Pei Manyi.
In the eleventh month of the ninth year of the emperor's reign, Empress Pei Man passed away...
The next day, the news of the queen's murder reached the ears of the officials, which caused agitation in the government and the public. The civil and military officials became even more frightened, fearing that sooner or later this disaster would happen to them, especially several The princes and princes who were close relatives became more and more frightened.
Qingya felt uncomfortable that day and got up late. When she went to Biluo Garden to greet her mother-in-law, as soon as she entered the door, she saw the imperial concubine Mingxuan sitting on the high chair wiping her tears. A circle of people gathered around to comfort her. Mother Li Hongyuan personally held her in her arms and wiped her tears.
Qingya respectfully stepped forward and bowed: "Mother-in-law, I'm late to greet you, I hope you can forgive me!"
Li Hongyuan looked unhappy and said something to her in front of everyone: "I once said that you can't be arrogant due to pampering. Look how long it has been. The king has already risen, and you haven't risen yet. It's not appropriate. .”
Wan Yanyong seemed to have a gloomy face because of something, and forced a smile and said: "Sister, my wife has been feeling unwell recently. She got up early to go to court, so she asked her to sleep a little longer."
"That's how you spoil her!"
"It's just a trivial matter, I will definitely tell her about it in private!"
Li Hong looked at Xiang Ling's proud expression and said after a long time: "Get up! Sit next to me."
The maid Xiu Yin brought a small piece of cake and helped her sit down gently. She looked at her mother-in-law stroking the tears on Mingxuan's face. She didn't dare to speak or ask what happened.
"Okay, don't cry anymore. I know that you and your Majesty have known each other since childhood and have a deep love for each other, but... now, the Emperor has killed her with his own hands, and our Majesty is gone, and there is nothing we can do about it!"
"My wife and your Majesty have been married for more than ten years, and now he has killed my wife for the sake of saving my life. I feel... really uncomfortable."
From their words, Qingya knew something about the matter, so she just sat in silence.
"Hey, this emperor is like this. When he drinks, he goes crazy and kills people wantonly. When I heard this, I not only felt uncomfortable! I was also very worried."
She sat up straight, placed the Buddhist beads in her hand lightly on the table, looked at the three concubines around her, and then at the grandchildren playing in Kongting, and sighed.
"Hey, we in this house, old and young, are having a hard time! Now, the most urgent thing is to protect our people in the Yongguo Mansion. In the past three years, His Majesty has been in charge and has killed countless clan brothers. I am really afraid of this. The fire has reached our place!"
"Now, looking at the situation, the ministers must be in panic, and someone will take action, especially the leader,"
After Pusan Xiangling heard this, she deliberately said: "Mother-in-law, you are not talking about that King Qi Wan Yanliang!"
"Yes, it is him I am talking about. He has suffered a lot of injustice at the hands of the emperor. He is certainly more frightened than us."
After hearing this, Qing Ya sat on the small pier without changing her expression, looking at the fine pearls and tassels on her dress.
Li Hongyuan raised his head and looked at his son, then sent the servants away: "It's hard to say whether Wan Yanliang will be better than His Majesty if he really becomes the emperor!"
"Sister... you have forgotten that Chang Sheng was the one who was convicted and killed. If he were the emperor, wouldn't this give him the opportunity to kill indiscriminately?
Innocent? "
"I know, but you have seen Wulu. How powerful he is now. Most of the entire court belongs to him. It is inevitable that he will usurp the throne. We can't stop him."
After saying this, the hall fell into silence, except for the sounds of children playing outside.
"Your Majesty, if that doesn't work, let's stand by Wan Yanliang's side! It's better to help him ascend the throne than to wait for disaster..." Xiang Ling looked into Wan Yanyong's eyes and then into Mingxuan's eyes.
"No!" Mingxuan said.
"Why?"
Mingxuan remained silent.
"Your Majesty, this is strange. If you don't do anything to survive, you have to sit here and wait for the fire to come!"...
"You are a noble wife, and you advise and assist the king. You have to choose the occasion to suppress us concubines! Faced with such a good method, you still have to influence the king's thoughts,"
Xiang Ling turned away and touched her round belly.
Mingxuan endured it for a moment, and then said quietly: "Ms. Ling, actually everything is not as easy as you think. This is a bet."
"What's there to bet on? After becoming a king, will he still kill his meritorious brothers?"
After hearing what she said, Qingya looked at Mingxuan's sitting posture without saying a word, and sneered: "Sister Ling, what you said is true. "The cunning rabbit dies, the lackey is cooked, and the tall bird is gone. "Liang Gongzang, King Qi is comparable to the king of Yue in ancient times. He can suffer hardships but cannot share happiness."
"Moreover, King Xun has just died, and you have seen that he is not a person who cares about brotherhood. Your Majesty has a good reputation within the clan. If one day he becomes the king and you are your minister, how much is that brotherly love worth?" Some money?"
"You... are really arrogant," Xiang Ling pouted.
"It's not like I'm trying to make excuses. Sister Ling, you've read a lot of poems and books, so I don't need to say more. You should understand the principle of "the enemy's country is destroyed, and the enemy's advisers are destroyed." "
Xiang Ling's cheeks turned red. She took a breath, flicked the silk, and held the tea beside her to drink.
Everyone looked at Qing Ya, and she withdrew her hand, smiled at Mingxuan, and said, "Hey, I didn't mean to interrupt the queen and the king's staff. I was conveying my sister's intention. I I think my sister must be thinking about this."
Wan Yanyong looked at their expressions and nodded: "Well, the imperial concubine wins the heart of the lonely king the most."
