Palace scheming: Empress Leng Gong I

Chapter 17
"Well, good! Ning'er, take it down to reward the eunuch for this concubine." With a wave of her finger, Ning'er, who was beside her, took Fugui, who was already in a cold sweat, and stepped back lightly.

The fragrance of the pavilion is warm, the eyes of the person on the couch are slightly closed, and the smile on the corner of the mouth spreads gently...

That day, He Ruowan took the initiative to mention Xuanyuanze's decision to let Yunqing move to Cuiwei Palace.

That night, when Xuanyuanze returned to Nuanxiang Pavilion, he saw that she had already woken up, sitting on the bed with a pale face, as if she had been crying.

After questioning, she said that she had just had a nightmare and woke up but did not see the emperor, so she was so frightened that she huddled and sat on the bed, not daring to call anyone.

She said that she dreamed that the emperor didn't want her anymore and left her alone in a dark place. No matter how much she shouted, he refused to look back at her...

Xuanyuan Ze was in an impetuous mood because of Yun Qing's matter. Hearing what she said, he immediately felt guilty. He stepped forward and hugged her tightly in his arms, trying his best to comfort her.

Afterwards, he briefly explained the reason for going out for a "walk", and told He Ruowan what happened that night, and decided to report to Ming's mother tomorrow, put Yun Qing in limbo, and abolish her queen.

He Ruowan didn't expect that, before he took any action, that woman accidentally helped him.

Immediately, he was extremely surprised, and pretended to ask if the emperor was wrong.After getting Xuanyuanze's angry affirmation, she interceded for Yunqing again, and proposed to let Yunqing's master and servant move to Cuiwei Palace, which is now empty.It is said that although the queen made a mistake, the prime minister is an important minister of a country, and the queen was thrown into the cold palace shortly after her wedding. This matter is detrimental to the prime minister's face.And Cuiwei Palace is also idle when it is idle, and it is considered the emperor's kindness to let the empress and her personal servants move to live.

Xuanyuan Ze pondered for a moment when he heard the words, and then sighed that Wan'er's kindness and thoughtfulness were so different from Yun Qing's scheming, seductive woman.

If this kind of woman still dominates the harem, wouldn't the harem never have peace!

So he complied with He Ruowan's request, and without further ado, he agreed to send Luo Yunqing's master and servant to move to Cuiwei Palace...

"Brother Huang, it's your turn!" A white piece fell on the exquisite white jade chessboard, and Xuanyuan Ze looked at Xuanyuan Moyu with a completely different expression from before, very curious. How can a person who knows how to hang around in the palace hold back his interest to play chess with him here!
The handsome face flickered slightly, Xuanyuan Moyu raised his handsome eyebrows, Heizi lightly twitched, and landed a piece on the right side of the chessboard, saying outside the chessboard: "Your Majesty, I heard that the Queen has been thrown into limbo by you?"

He went out to work in Tiancheng for the past few days, but when he just came back, he heard that Yunqing was thrown into the cold palace by the emperor, and even imprisoned in the Cuiwei Palace that kept his heart dusty.

This, I'm afraid it's another trick of that woman.

"Hehe, it turns out that Brother Huang came here today to care about this matter." With a cold snort, Xuanyuanze couldn't help being upset when he thought of the day when he bumped into Yunqing with him in Xiangning Palace.

The anger that had been suppressed these days was slightly aroused again, and his face immediately turned cold.

"Yes, but what I am more concerned about is, why did the emperor send her to Cuiwei Palace?" Xuanyuan Mo Yuhao smiled openly, but there was no smile in his handsome eyes, which made Xuanyuan Ze see it obviously.

Immediately, he realized that he had unintentionally bumped into Brother Huang's heart.

"Oh, I brought it up because Wan'er couldn't bear me to send her to the Leng Palace. It's just that I forgot that it was once a taboo for the emperor." Xuanyuanze calmed down, and explained aloud, "You don't have to worry too much, brother." Forget it, my mother also said what happened back then, it was my father who wrongly blamed Concubine Zhen, and my mother also tried my best to ask my father to rectify the name of Concubine Zhen, and so far the people in the palace have changed and left, and that matter has been forgotten .”

"Concubine Hua suggested it?" Xuanyuan Moyu's handsome eyes flashed, a little surprised, it wasn't that woman's trick this time?

But thinking about it, Yun Qing was single-handedly picked out by her, and she was about to be discarded, and she wouldn't be discarded in such a hurry.

It's just that Concubine Hua, hum!

"Well, Wan'er is kind-hearted, and I'm glad that she has this heart." Although he didn't understand why Xuanyuan Moyu would show a sneer that made people inexplicably sneer, but as soon as he finished speaking, he saw a bright figure coming from a corner of the garden. come this way.

"Your majesty, lord, after playing chess for half a day, can you tell who wins and who loses?" He Ruowan, who was wearing a beaded jade ring and full of hairpins, and wearing a red silk brocade dress, was helped by Ning'er. A bright yellow gold silk belt is tied around the slender waist, and the outer gauze is lightly covered, and the gold thread peonies embroidered on the clothes are indistinct, gorgeous and dignified.

Behind her, followed by two handsome court ladies holding exquisite trays, on which were two plates of snacks and fruits.

"Why is Wan'er here?" Xuanyuanze smiled softly, and his handsome face was glowing with affection. Xuanyuan Moyu couldn't help but sneered in his heart, but his face remained calm, pretending to be teasing: "Could it be that the concubine Hua was young?" I don’t see you, so I miss the emperor? Ah, it’s all my fault, dragging the emperor to waste half a day, disturbing people’s leisure, so I should leave.”

After speaking, he stood up gracefully, without looking at the shy beauty of He Ruowan's face that was covered with clouds because of these words, he winked slightly at Xuanyuan Ze, and briskly turned and left.

"My lord, please stay." He Ruowan raised her hand, and Ning'er quickly picked up the chessboard on the marble table, and the two maids skillfully brought the dessert and fruit plate to the stone table.

She half leaned beside Xuanyuan Ze, her beautiful eyes were shy, and she said slightly annoyed: "My lord is really good at joking, my concubine is just sending some snacks to the emperor and lord, yet he made fun of me like this."

"Haha, Wan'er, don't be as knowledgeable as the emperor's brother, he is famous for being glib. If you really want to care about it, I'm afraid the best way is to avoid him forever." Xuanyuanze knows Xuanyuan Moyu's temperament well, knows him He has always been merciful to his children's affairs, but he has no heart everywhere.

Therefore, the queen mother repeatedly wanted him to accept a princess, so as to control his freedom.

"Hehe, is that so?" Covering her lips and smiling, He Ruowan pointed to the fresh custard apples in the fruit plate and said to Xuanyuan Ze and Xuanyuan Moyu, "These custard apples were sent by the Shang Palace Bureau early in the morning, and they were said to be new arrivals from the south." The tribute fruit has a unique taste. The concubine ate a few slices and found it very sweet, so she specially sent it to the emperor and the prince to taste. Come, the emperor, how about a taste?"

As she spoke, she picked up a slice for Xuanyuan Ze with her green fingers that did not touch the spring water, and delivered it to his eyes with a smile.

"Well, it's tender and moist, sweet and delicious, it's really good." Xuanyuan Ze raised his eyebrows and said to Xuanyuan Moyu with a smile: "Brother Huang, try it too, it's really delicious."

With a sneer in his heart, Xuanyuan Moyu raised his eyebrows, and smiled ambiguously: "The most difficult thing to bear is the beauty, the emperor's beauty is hugging, pity I'm here to hinder you, how can I eat it? Haha, don't eat it, no Eat it."

As he said that, he never looked back, and left with a big smile.

"Your Majesty, this king of Ming and Qing is indeed as good as his name is, and my concubine has really seen it." He Ruowan's face turned red, although she meant it so, but it was really unpleasant to be told by others.

She had no choice but to look at Xuanyuan Ze shyly, feeling extremely shy.

Seeing his beloved concubine like this, Xuanyuanze's handsome eyes softened, and he stretched out his long arms to hug her and sit on his body: "Wan'er is my favorite, even the emperor envies me, but I can only envy you. Fortunately, Wan'er is gentle and wan." , let me not worry at all."

He thought, if the person around him was replaced by a woman like Yun Qing, she would not let him worry so much, and would definitely get involved with this flirtatious imperial brother.

Thinking of this, he unconsciously lowered his handsome eyebrows, and his smile quickly cooled down, feeling extremely annoyed that he had somehow remembered that woman again.Blinking his busy eyes, he shook the thought out of his mind...

After dinner, Bi Tao and Xiao Taohong cleared the table and prepared to wash the dishes, while Yun Qing helped carry water.

The three of them cooperated seamlessly, since they moved to this Cuiwei Palace, there was no distinction between master and servant.Whether it's food and clothing or daily chores, Yun Qing refuses to let the two of them monopolize them, and always grabs something to do.

Fortunately, the eunuch of the Shang Palace Bureau was "considerate", and the small wooden barrel could be easily carried back and forth with Yun Qing's slender hands.However, there are advantages and disadvantages. Although carrying water is easier, the number of trips to carry water has also increased.

In such slightly cold weather, and by the lake again, Yun Qing felt very tired after running back and forth twice, with a fine layer of sweat on his forehead.

After cleaning the table, Xiao Taohong hurriedly came to replace her, and said distressedly: "Miss, let me do it."

"Okay." Yun Qing didn't refuse, and asked Xiao Taohong to carry the barrel with a slight smile.

Bi Tao is fourteen this year, Xiao Taohong is fifteen, and Yun Qing will be sixteen in just over a month.So here, although the two still call her Miss, she is also a sister.

Both Bi Tao and Xiao Taohong shouted that when it was her birthday, they must find a way to catch a few fish from the lake, and save a few candles to celebrate their birthday.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help sighing slightly, but also felt happy.

Perhaps, happiness and poverty are always inseparable. Like her once, the third young lady of Yunfu, who seemed to be well-fed, had an unknown sadness.

Now although she is abandoned here and her life is poor, no outsiders come to disturb her anymore; speaking, it is not much more miserable than when she was in Yunfu.

Therefore, if you want a piece of peace, today's day is the best.

With a leisurely smile, the sound of the flute played, and all the happiness and sadness of Yunqing were transmitted to the Xiaoxiao night sky with a Qing song.

In the distance, a black figure stared at her thin figure silently, his handsome eyes filled with thoughts, and the lake wind blew up the corners of his clothes.

"Miss, hurry up and go into the palace, be careful of catching a cold." After washing the dishes, Bi Tao ran out and pulled Yun Qing who was playing the flute in, while Xiao Taohong carefully protected the lamp, and the three of them went on as usual They walked briskly into the inner hall together.

"Miss, you play the flute really well, and Xiao Taohong also wants to learn, why don't miss teach me!"

"Okay, Xiao Taohong is smart, so it won't be difficult to learn."

"Miss, Bi Tao also wants to learn together."

"Huh? Bitao also wants to learn? You have been with me for so long and never thought of learning to play the flute. Why do you want to learn when Xiao Taohong wants to learn?"

"Miss, you can't be partial. I think the lady always praises Xiao Taohong and never praises Bitao... Uh, miss, do you think Bi Tao is stupid and doesn't like Bitao anymore..."

The warm and happy conversation was gently blown by the night wind. Looking around, under the dark night sky, there was only a vast lake and an empty hall, and there was no one at all.

The black shadow falling from the sky like a crane, when the three of them entered the hall, a warm smile could not help but overflow from their handsome faces.

Then the figure jumped slightly, and he quickly ran to a remote side hall on the right after a few points.

He took out a bright night pearl from his bosom, and the clear light illuminated Xuanyuan Moyu's handsome and jade-like face, and also illuminated the originally dark side hall.

He glanced around silently, and seeing that everything inside was intact, he guessed that Yun Qing and the others had never been here.

However, when he walked to the desk, he found that the desk was completely clean, and it was no longer dusty as before.

Looking at the inkstone again, there was ink that hadn't dried out inside, so it wasn't that no one had been here, but the people who came didn't disturb the layout here, and just kept the original decoration as before.

Jun Mou stared at the inkstone, and he found that the ink inside was very inferior, even if it was studied in this high-quality Zishi Duan inkstone, it could be seen that the ink was thin and easily dried out.

Therefore, it is necessary to grind it from time to time when it is used.

Looking at the inkstone, he couldn't help thinking of that young figure in his memory.

Once upon a time, a young boy struggled to move a heavy mahogany stool to the desk, studied ink clumsily, and carefully drew a beautiful woman on the drawing paper.

However, although the woman is beautiful, it is impossible to draw her beauty under the childish pen of the little boy.

But the boy was not discouraged, he insisted on drawing the figure of the woman, so he painted the most among all the skills.

Time passed little by little, and the boy grew up day by day.

One day, the boy finally finished drawing the beautiful face he had memorized in his heart for so many years, and finally saw his mother and concubine again.

At that moment, the boy had grown into a teenager, and his handsome face gradually portrayed a beauty similar to that of a woman.

At that moment, he threw away the paintbrush and looked at the woman in the painting seriously, with a trace of firmness in his Qingjun eyes.

At that moment, he secretly swore that he would be astonished!

He—Xuanyuan Moyu, must use the cruelest means in this life to return it to the person who harmed his mother and concubine back then!Even her son, he will never let go.

He believes that with sincerity, gold and stone can be opened.

He believes that as long as he puts his heart into it, nothing is impossible in this world.

When the wind picked up, the rolling curtain rustled, his handsome eyes lit up, and he gently reached out to take out a painting from the bamboo tube on the desk.

Spreading carefully, the cold light in Xuanyuan Moyu's eyes gradually narrowed, and a kind of tenderness of longing overflowed from it: "Mother, Yu'er is here to see you."

As before, as if his mother and concubine were still alive, he spoke to her quietly.

"Concubine Mu, Yu'er, I don't know whether it's fate or coincidence, but the woman who made Yu'er fall in love actually lives here with you. Have you seen her? Concubine Mu, she is as beautiful, as quiet, and as beautiful as you are." His indifference is as dusty as the dust... mother concubine, Yu'er thought, when Yu'er avenges her revenge, I will take her out of here together, okay?" His slender fingers gently caressed the person in the painting, the corners of his lips curled up like a drunk. Smile like a breeze.

The lake breeze gently lifted the drawing paper, and the smiling beauty in the painting seemed to be responding, making Xuanyuan Moyu also smile slightly.

Silently placing the fruit and cakes he brought on the desk, a teasing smile appeared in his handsome eyes, and he gently rolled up the picture to imagine what Yun Qing's expression would be when he found these things.

However, he found that there was an extra scroll of painting in the bamboo tube, smelling the ink stains, it should be a new painting not long ago.

Picking it up curiously, his handsome face couldn't help being stunned when he saw the person in the painting.

In the painting is an extraordinary handsome man, with a face as gentle as jade, gentle and affectionate eyes, dressed in white, elegant like a fairy.

It wasn't the man's handsomeness that made him stunned, but he saw that the man was holding a jade flute in his hand, with a clear color, which seemed familiar.

Jun Mei frowned slightly, and he remembered that it was a jade flute he had seen in Yun Qing's hands, with the same exquisite jade pendant and the same gorgeous tassels on it.

And this person...

Thinking of this, his mood just now was immediately disrupted by this picture scroll, and he no longer had the briskness just now, but he was full of irritability.

Rolling up the painting and putting it in the bamboo tube, he put away the Ye Mingzhu, and immediately the surroundings fell into darkness again.

The next day, Yun Qing was startled awake by Bitao's ear-piercing screams, opened her eyes and saw Xiao Taohong get up from the bed in a daze, and ran outside for no reason, asking, "What's the matter, Bitao?"

"Miss, Xiao Taohong, come and take a look." Bi Tao yelled, her voice was three parts surprised and two parts surprised, but five parts scared.

Yun Qingxiu frowned slightly, and quickly ran outside, but she was also stunned by the fruits, snacks, high-quality white rice, and two roasted ducks that popped out of nowhere outside the hall .

"What's going on here?" She stared blankly at these things, making sure that she and Xiao Taohong didn't get these things when they went to the Shang Palace Bureau yesterday.And in the food they got, there were only poor broken rice and chaff, and there was no such bright and high-quality tribute rice.

As for the others, they are all high-quality fruits and exquisite snacks, and only the emperor and the noble masters in the palace can share them, but how can these things appear here?
"Miss, do you think these things are real?" Bi Tao shook her head, picked up the fruit plate and sniffed it in disbelief, and found that the taste was really delicious and sweet.

And the aroma of the two roast ducks placed on a silver plate wafted into the nose, making people unable to help but increase their appetite, making them even hungrier.

"Don't move, Bitao." Just when Bitao subconsciously wanted to grab it, Xiao Taohong quickly stopped her, and then, under Bitao's perplexed gaze, quickly ran into the hall and took out Yunqing. When it was moved into Cuiwei Palace that day, there was only a small silver hairpin on its head, and it was carefully pierced into the duck's body.

Yun Qing's complexion changed slightly, seeing Xiao Taohong's actions, she immediately understood.

At the same time, she also clearly remembered that the place she was staying in was called the imperial palace, which was a dangerous place where all the women in the harem had to be careful all their lives.

It was Xiao Taohong, a little maid who worked in the palace, she dared not be careless in her words and deeds.

After Xiao Taohong probed in many directions, she turned to look at Yun Qing suspiciously, shook her head, and said, "These things are all clean."

Bi Tao also understood, and couldn't help being slightly embarrassed by her own actions just now, and said a little embarrassedly: "Miss, there won't be a lake god here, right? Otherwise, who would have sent these things?"

Yun Qing was also slightly distracted, and then she asked Bitao and Xiao Taohong to bring the things into the hall, while she ignored Xiao Taohong's questioning and ran towards the side hall.

The sunlight spread into the side hall as she pushed open the door of the hall, and Yun Qing suddenly saw that there were two plates of fresh fruits in front of the desk that was originally empty.

But other things in the hall remained intact, as if no one had been there at all.

(End of this chapter)