Resourceful beauty

Chapter 366
After abolishing the imperial edict, the royal palace, which was originally bustling with the enthronement ceremony of the new king and the wedding of the nine princesses, suddenly became a little deserted.

The palace people were silent like cicadas, fearing that something bad would happen, each of them even stepped a little lighter.

In Fengming Palace, the doors and windows were closed tightly, and the inner hall couldn't see a ray of sunlight, so it looked extraordinarily gloomy.

Wearing a red queen's formal dress, Queen Zhou sat blankly in front of the dressing table, looking at the middle-aged woman whose youth had passed away in the bronze mirror, her eyes were blank.

King Yao's disappointed eyes were still in front of his eyes, and Lu Rufei's vicious question was in his ear. Queen Zhou suddenly felt that the air around her was a little colder, which made her shiver a little.

When did you first do it?

Oh, by the way, it's that young, beautiful and luxurious man.

The noble man is really beautiful, with a pair of long and charming phoenix eyes, a high nose, a small cherry mouth, painted with pear blossom makeup that was popular at that time, the whole person looks like a fairy and a demon, so even she was seen as a woman They all feel amazing, let alone a man like Wang Shang who is in his prime.

Yeyechun/Xiao, for seven days in a row, in just one month, the nobleman was pregnant, and her eldest princess had just learned to walk.

Every night, facing the lonely palace lantern and listening to the melodious sound of silk, bamboo and zither coming from outside, she felt like a pair of sharp claws scratching her heart.

Therefore, when Concubine Hua fell into the pond and drowned in the Imperial Garden, she was not panicked, but inexplicably happy.

Finally, there was one less woman who was fighting for favor.

But how could she have forgotten that the palace is the place with the most women in the world, and every enchanting and charming woman is thinking about her husband, and it is destined that she will not be able to completely possess him.

So much hatred, so much resentment, silently prompted her to do one thing after another against her will. At first, she still felt uneasy, but in the end, the more people felt her thoughts, the more she did things like this When she got up, she was extremely comfortable, and she gradually became more at ease.

Now, even she herself can't count how many concubines and children's blood is on her hands.

Some are still in the mother's womb, and some have already shown joyful smiles, but they all left early after all, with an ignorant perception of the world.

"Your Majesty, it's time to go to Qiuhua Palace..."

Fang Shanggong's soft reminder came from behind, and Queen Zhou's thoughts were interrupted just like that.

Looking back, just about to get up, Queen Zhou suddenly remembered something and sat down again. Queen Zhou looked up at Fang Shanggong and said: "Tell them, I still have some personal belongings to clean up, wait another day, Tomorrow evening, I will definitely leave here. In addition, you go to Lanyue Pavilion and invite Concubine Fang to come over, I still have something to say to her."

After finishing speaking, Queen Zhou took a deep look at Fang Shanggong.

Nodding clearly, Fang Shanggong turned and went out. After a while, the courtyard that had been noisy for a while became quiet again.

When Concubine Fang arrived at Lanyue Pavilion, she was really worried.

Concubine Lu Ru's sudden death was inexplicable, and before the palace gave an explanation, there was another matter of abolishing the empress. Concubine Fang was not sure if it was related to the chaos between King Yong and King Rui a while ago.

However, Concubine Fang was sensitively aware that there seemed to be some danger approaching her.

Queen Zhou has been abolished, and now she is not even as good as a low-class person, so I can completely ignore it, but I have done many things by relying on her before, which means I have a handle in her hands. , is also afraid.

That being the case, why not take advantage of today to make it clear that in the future, everyone will go their own way, and the two have nothing to do with each other.

Thinking optimistically, Concubine Fang stepped into the main hall of Fengming Palace, and when she raised her eyes, she saw the dignified and noble Queen Zhou, as usual, getting up early to accept greetings from concubines.

She bowed her knees slightly as a salute, and Concubine Fang stepped forward and sat in the armchair next to Queen Zhou, and asked, "I don't know what is your order for my concubine to come here? As long as I can do it, I will help you." , it can be regarded as full of the old love."

"Why, in a word, do you want to erase all the things you have done before?"

With a sneer, Queen Zhou looked back at Fang Shanggong.

Fang Shanggong came over with a tray and placed it on the desk next to Concubine Fang.

In the tray was a dagger and a glass of poisoned wine.

With a slight smile on Concubine Fang's face, she became a little fiercer in an instant, "Your Majesty, what do you mean by this?"

"Prince Yong's son, is he actually the evil seed you gave birth to?"

As soon as she opened her mouth, she saw Concubine Fang's complexion changed. Queen Zhou had already confirmed it in her heart. At this moment, she couldn't help but turn her voice cold, "Once this matter gets out, as a concubine who is a concubine who is promiscuous/chaos/harem, you will not escape death. But For the sake of King Yong, this palace cannot allow you to harm her like this, so, you can end it yourself, even if you have accumulated blessings for that child, how to say, now he also occupies the title of King Yong's son, this You can be regarded as worthy of him if you spend your whole life in rich clothes and fine food. If you don't know how to be interesting..."

Looking at Concubine Fang with a cold face, Queen Zhou said sharply: "This palace is already a deposed empress, and there is nothing left to lose. How easy is it to execute you?"

While speaking, the door of the main hall of Fengming Palace creaked shut.

Concubine Fang stood up in horror. Beside her, Fang Shanggong and two servant girls were already approaching her step by step.

Inside the Hall of Xuanyi, it was heard that Concubine Fang was announced into Fengming Palace and hadn't come out until dark, Fang Ruxuan turned her head and asked Chu Yuan, "Do you want to tell Concubine Mother to send someone to have a look?"

Chu Yuan shook his head, "I probably know what Zhou's going to do, let her go. Otherwise, if more things are brought up, how can the father be so embarrassing?"

Concubine Fang had an affair with King Yong, and gave birth to a child smoothly, and she even swapped out the palace and became the son of King Yong.

Lu Rufei has a relationship with Marquis Chang'an, although she didn't do anything out of bounds, it would be embarrassing to say it.

On the contrary, the innocent and magnanimous Concubine Ning was so wronged that she had to prove her innocence by dying.

With all these facts in front of him, how can King Yao face it?What's more, with King Yao's current physical condition, he might not be able to bear the slightest stimulation anymore.

After listening to Chu Yuan's words, Fang Ruxuan nodded, and only told Sangsan in private to pay attention to the movements in Fengming Palace.

When approaching Zi, everything in the palace was quiet, but there was light in Fengming Palace.

A gust of wind blew by, and there was a sudden smell of tar charcoal in the air. When everyone reacted again, Fengming Palace was on fire.

When Chu Yuan and Fang Ruxuan arrived, the main hall and inner hall had been reduced to ashes, and several corpses were dug out from the ashes, and they could be vaguely identified as Queen Zhou, Concubine Fang and the palace servants who served Queen Zhou personally.

When the news reached Qian'an Hall, King Yao waved his hand silently, but when all the palace people retreated, King Yao suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

The brocade quilt was stained with blood, lined with bright yellow silk, like a picture of a fine plum blossom, King Yao's eyes turned black, and he fainted immediately.

Things caught people off guard one after another, looking at Chu Yuan with a gloomy face, Fang Ruxuan had no choice but to sigh to herself and take care of Chu Yuan's food and clothing more carefully.

In the Palace of Qian'an, the imperial physician was at a loss for a long time. Mrs. Hua, who was invited from outside the palace, checked the pulse of King Yao, looked at Chu Yuan, and shook her head helplessly.

In the silence, word spread from outside the palace that the Empress Dowager Lou had arrived.

After a long time without showing up in front of people, the moment Empress Dowager Lou appeared, everyone was shocked.

The original gray hair turned into silver hair at some point, and the wrinkles on her face increased sharply. Today's Empress Dowager Lou is really like those 70-year-old old women in ordinary families.

Trembling, he walked to the side of the bed and sat down, looking at the sallow and unconscious Yao Wang, the Empress Dowager Lou burst into tears.

"Create a crime, make a crime..."

Sighing in a low voice, the Empress Dowager Lou reached out and gently touched Yao Wang's forehead, eyebrows, and cheeks, the bitterness and remorse in her heart overflowed layer upon layer like a tide.

On May [-]th, King Yao died.

According to the old practice, the coffin was to be transported to the emperor's mausoleum for burial on the 49th day of the Qian'an Hall's cessation. However, after King Yao left, Li Sheng took out King Yao's will.

In the edict, King Yao said that he was ashamed of his ancestors and had no face to live in the palace for a long time, and he could be mourned after seven days of cessation.Therefore, on the nineteenth day of the fifth lunar month, in the plains all over the city, King Yao's coffin slowly drove towards the imperial mausoleum.

The next day, in Shouchang Palace, the Empress Dowager Lou became seriously ill and was bedridden.

After the imperial doctor made a diagnosis, he shook his head and said that it was not long. In the afternoon of that day, Madam Su went to the imperial study and asked Chu Yuan to go to Shouchang Palace.

It is unknown what the two of them said, but the next day, on the grounds that they wished to go to the Buddha to meditate and atone for their sins, the Empress Dowager Lou Tsing Yi went out of the palace to go to the Jingxin Nunnery to clean up. Kerr two people.

After the Empress Dowager Lou left, the palace was completely silent. Even though it was May, when a hundred flowers were blooming, one could see nothing but plain white, which made one feel bleak.

Queen Zhou was demoted to be a commoner, but died by self-immolation. Although Lu Rufei died by suicide, she was also demoted to be a commoner because of King Yao's will. Both of them were finally buried in the same way as commoners in the cemetery outside the city. In the mass grave.

Concubine Fang, on the other hand, did many wrong things before her death, but because of Queen Zhou, her crimes were covered up, and she was finally buried in Dongling according to the concubine's ceremony.

In May of the 31st year of Yongqian, King Yao's palace seemed to have been cleaned completely, beyond recognition.

On May 28th, less than ten days before Chu Yuan's ascension to the throne, Concubine Han Guifei, who had full power to deal with the affairs of the Six Palaces, ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to vigorously handle the matter of the new king's ascension to the throne.

After receiving the decree, the Ministry of Internal Affairs removed all the plain curtains in the palace and replaced them with bright red wedding silk.

The past is the past, but people's lives will continue, and there will be more good things in the future. Therefore, life in the palace has gradually entered the right track.

On the first day of June, seeing this month as the beginning of a new life, Chu Yuan and Fang Ruxuan went to Wanfu Palace with Brother Ming and Mingzhu in their arms.

The outside of the palace gate has already been cleaned. The two corners of the vermilion palace gate are also planted with emerald green pine branches, as if it is a palace room to welcome newcomers. At a glance, the entire courtyard seems to have been cleaned. In the air, there is still There is a hint of sweetness.

Surprised, Chu Yuan and Fang Ruxuan stepped over the threshold and entered Wanfu Palace.

In front of the stone table under the peach tree, Concubine Han, dressed in a lake-green palace attire, was gently making tea, her eyes were calm and dignified, as if she was mourning the old man.

(End of this chapter)