Pampered Into Being The Empress

Chapter 21: Imperial State (one more)

Because the north wind was so strong that night, it seemed to have evil spirits, and the fire was getting stronger.

The luxurious Jihua Palace was burned by fire overnight, and the smell of gunpowder smoke in the entire Yongxi Forbidden City could not dissipate for a long time.

Mu Huai stayed up all night, and Rong Xi stayed up all night.

That night the second princess Mu Qian was rescued by the palace, her delicate hands were burned by the fire, she fell to the ground in panic.

Seeing that the place where he grew up was slowly turning into a black ruin, and his own hands were also burning and unbearable, and he couldn't help crying.

Mu Qian's cry was extremely stern, she felt like she had lost her heart, she was so noisy that the concubine around her could not sleep well.

Concubine Li Gui was finally rescued by the palace, and both her white texture and beautiful appearance were completely destroyed by the fire.

A woman is a person who pleases herself. When the imperial doctor sighed helplessly, Li Guifei felt that it was better to die. No matter how the best medicine powder is used for treatment, her body that has become decayed cannot be restored, and it will only be more terrible after the scabs.

She wanted to cry, but when Shi Cai called for help, she swallowed sparks by mistake and was burned. Now she can't even speak a complete sentence.

Muqian fainted on the spot as she watched the mother-in-law being carried out.

The scene was extremely chaotic, and Jihua Palace had been burned down, and the imperial physician received the Holy Order, so Concubine Li and the second princess Mu Qian were temporarily carried to the palace of Concubine Shu nearby.

Concubine Shu was an old person from Emperor Zhuang's hidden residence. He gave birth to his eldest son Murun, but Murun died of illness shortly after Emperor Zhuang became the throne.

Concubine Shu was not happy to be disturbed in the middle of the night, not to mention sending a dying, blood-stained carbon man to her temple.

Seeing that the man was actually Concubine Li, Concubine Shu raised her eyebrows slightly, her lips gradually smiling.

Well, this domineering Concubine Li also has today.

Concubine Shu ordered the **** to place Concubine Li in the main hall. A group of eunuchs confronted Concubine Li's body with troubles. The current situation was indeed too difficult.

Concubine Shu sat in the armchair, her expression unwavering.

When the maid standing by the side watched the imperial doctor carefully tore the clothes stuck to Li Guifei's skin, her heart trembled, suppressing her vomit.

Concubine Li Gui could not speak, but her body was painful and she could only make a weird whimper.

Concubine Shu lifted her eyebrows and let out a long sigh, seeming to be enjoying the pain of Concubine Li.

When Mu Ji learned that Concubine Li had been carried to Concubine Shu's palace, he hurriedly begged the **** who was guarding the palace gate, and wanted to enter the hall to see Concubine Li.

After all, Mu Ji was the prince, and the imperial concubine's palace at night was out of order. The **** asked him to wait a while before he entered the hall and asked Concubine Shu.

Concubine Shu chuckled and said to the eunuch: "You said to the second prince that it is not early, and it is not suitable for him to enter the palace. Tell him again that the palace will take good care of Concubine Li for him."

Afterwards, she walked towards Concubine Li on the ground in the hall, her tone was very gentle, but in the middle of the night she made her backbone chill.

Concubine Shu said: "I will take good care of you, Concubine Li. This palace will not let you die like a good concubine, and will let you live well."

Concubine Li gave a sigh, and said nothing.

The **** endured the fear in his heart, and after taking the order respectfully, he returned to the palace gate. He told Mu Ji that it was late at night, and his prince should not enter the Palace of Concubine Shu, so he should go back early to rest.

Mu Ji's heart was extremely anxious, and he ran to the Qianyuan Hall where Emperor Zhuang was in disregard. He knelt outside the hall, and seeing the bright lights inside, he knew that Emperor Zhuang was not asleep.

Muji begged Emperor Zhuang with a weeping tone: "Father, please let your son and minister see his mother and concubine."

The reply was silent for a while.

Mu Ji kowtowed in the direction of the hall.

Tuk, tuk, tuk-

After three dull sounds, there were blood stains on his forehead, but he continued to plead: "If it is inconvenient for your son to go to the Shufei Palace, please also ask the father and the emperor to see the mother and concubine... the mother and concubine had a fault before, but please You see that she gave birth to Erchen and Qian'er for you, go and see her..."

Mu Ji lowered his eyes, and saw a pair of red Huayao stop in front of him.

He looked up, facing Mu Huai's deep black eyes, his heart stunned.

Mu Huai's voice was cold, without any emotion.

He looked down at Mu Ji and said, "Go back, my father won't see you tonight."

When Mu Ji got up, the always gentle and elegant boy looked at Mu Huai with hatred on his face.

He turned and left, did not take a few steps, but stopped, and said to Mu Huai behind him: "How many days do you think you can be proud of?"

Mu Huai remained silent, looking at Mu Ji's eyes as if he was looking at a glowworm.

Mu Ji's voice was fierce, and he said, "Mu Huai, you wait for me."

******

Rong Xi deliberately visited Jihua Palace the next day, seeing that the former gorgeous palace now only has a charred frame, his eyes gradually stained with gloom.

She knew a lot of people in the palace, and heard everything about last night along the way. Some people in the palace would definitely add fuel to it, but 80% of them were inseparable.

She walked quickly away from Jihua Palace, found a quiet place, clutched her heart and started to vomit.

The same is the biological son, but the treatment is very different.

Emperor Zhuang did not allow Mu Ji to see his mother.

However, Emperor Zhuang improved today. He met with a hundred officials in the Jiazheng Hall and went to court, but he did not pay attention to Li Guifei.

The grievances between your masters and her complaints were unclear.

But as a mother, she hopes that the child's father will dote on him the most.

She didn't want her husband to have children born to different women and would treat these children differently.

Everything in the palace made her feel terrible. She had been in the palace for almost four years, and in fact, she knew what it was like for a long time.

It's just that in order to survive, she gradually became numb to all this in her heart.

Now that I have a child, the fear in my heart is finally awakened.

Mu Huai is strong and superior.

He will have many children in the future, it's really not bad for her to be a child born to a servant. But her child is the most precious in her heart, she can't tolerate others to be her own child.

This morning, she just felt tangled and loosened in her heart, and wanted to tell Mu Huai about her pregnancy.

But now, those thoughts are all gone with the wind, she just wants to escape this terrible deep palace forbidden city.

******

Before the New Year's Day, a sensation happened in Bianjing Yujie.

Although the matter has passed for a long time, the people still talk about it, and the storyteller at the wine shop always talks about it vividly.

That day, in the Xuande Building on the Royal Street, there was a distributing girl wearing coarse linen clothes, which sounded the Dengwen drum.

After the thunderous drums sounded in the bustling Royal Street, the people suddenly realized that someone was going to sue the imperial court and beat the drums.

Although this Dengwen Drum has been separated by the Xuande Building, it has been displayed in the same way since Emperor Zhuang ascended the throne, and no one dared to beat it.

Jin Wang Muhuai happened to ride his horse from the center of the Imperial Street. After learning of the news, he dismounted and headed towards the girl.

The officers and soldiers had already reached this point. They felt that the girl was making trouble and wanted to drag her down and hit a few more boards.

But Mu Huai stopped the behavior of the officers and soldiers, and in front of the people, he asked the girl what he was grieving.

If she is really wronged, he will complain for her today.

When the woman's surname was given, her husband's name was Yan Juxu, who was a scholar.

The surname of Shi said that although Hanlin scholar An Hong was a well-known official, but in the imperial examination, he chose the vulgar straw bag as the candidate, but her husband who studied hard in the cold window had no way to recommend and act. Volume, lost the election.

Mu Huai sneered, and asked the girl: "How do you know that your husband will be selected?"

Shi's surname Minnv replied: "If your Highness does not believe me, you can send someone to find Minnvhujun's policy theory written during the examination. With his talent, he must be within the top three."

The official next to Mu Huai scolded Shi's surname Minnu to be presumptuous and wanted to drag her down and kill her.

Mu Huai waved his hand to stop the official, and then it really made people find Yan Juxu's policy theory. He spread out the rice paper himself, frowned and read it.

After a while, he threw the policy theory on the ground, and asked Shi's surname in a deep voice, "Such a level, still in the top three? When I have no talents in Daqi?"

The peasant girl surnamed Shi trembled and raised the rice paper, then raised her head to look at Mu Huai, her tone a little excited, and said: "His Royal Highness Mingjian, this...this is not my husband's handwriting!"

After that, everyone present was shocked.

In the always fair scientific examination of Daqi, there has been a scandal that policy theory has been privately exchanged.

Mu Huai stared at the **** the ground, and said coldly to the officials behind him: "Check it out for this king."

When Emperor Zhuang learned of this, he gave full authority to Jin Wang Muhuai to deal with the fraud in the imperial examination.

After Rong Xi learned of this, he felt that the court complaint was strange at that time.

There is the government's Wanghuo Lou in the slightly higher places on the streets of Yujie. One is to detect the fire at any time, and the other is to prevent people from making trouble in the market.

If the people's girl had the intention to beat the drum, the officers and soldiers above would definitely find out early and stop them in time.

But when Minnu was playing the drums, no one stopped.

When Mu Huai arrived on horseback, the officers and soldiers had just arrived at the Xuande Building.

Good means.

Rong Xi secretly felt that this citizen girl beat the drum and complained that she was afraid that Mu Huai would perform a play in front of the people.

The play is for fame and for extermination.

This time Muhuai rectified relevant officials, used the power of Taiwanese advice, and vigorously wiped out the political parties that were unfavorable to his heirs, and there was a moment of panic among the Koreans.

The people praised Mu Huai for his fairness and consideration for the people.

In order to let Daqi's academic examination regain the fairness, Mu Huai asked Emperor Zhuang for his order to re-set up the palace examination in the Hall of Zhuying. The previous rankings set by the Ministry of Rites were not counted.

Emperor Zhuang was unwell, so he asked Muhuai to supervise the hall.

Mu Huai only drank a few cups of tea for a whole day, and with the bachelor of the Imperial Academy, he reviewed the policies and theories of all the candidates, and then discussed the final candidate with officials of the Ministry of Rites.

At the end of the hall test, Rong Xi sighed deeply that Mu Huai was only 21 years old, but he knew the emperor's art well. If he could succeed, he would be a good emperor.

She was very lethargic recently. When Mu Huai returned to the palace, she saw her petite body lying on the table, breathing shallow, and falling asleep deeply.

In the past few days, this woman is not very obedient, and often deliberately did wrong things, as if she wanted to make him angry.

He reprimanded her yesterday, don't think that he won't kill her if he is lucky.

The woman cherished her life, she was shocked when she heard that, and then did her best.

Mu Huai had been busy for a day, very tired, but when he saw Rong Xi, his heart suddenly softened.

He hugged the delicate woman, Rong Xi's body has always been cold recently, not as good as before, and always warm.

Rong Xi didn't really fall asleep. Seeing that he was in the air and in Mu Huai's arms, he opened his eyes in shock.

Mu Huai glanced at her head down, slightly helpless, and said, "I don't want to touch you today."

Rong Xi breathed a sigh of relief and asked Mu Huai to put her down.

She accompanied Mu Huai for dinner. Although Mu Huai didn't use lunch, she didn't have much appetite.

But tonight Rong Xi had a good appetite, and Mu Huai realized that she was suddenly addicted to acidity. After eating a lot of jealous rissoles, he pushed the rissoles in front of her to signal her more use.

Rong Xi was pregnant, and even though he had a poor appetite, he forced himself to eat more every day.

Seeing this indifferent, Mu Huai felt that this woman's petty temper was enough, and she had recovered her usual obedientness, and her heart sank somewhere in her heart.

In the middle of the night, Rong Xi sat gently at the small case that Mu Huai had prepared for her, holding a needle and thread in his hand, as if he was sewing something.

When Mu Huai saw her slanted and beautiful, she didn't practice calligraphy when she picked up the pen. Instead, she was soaked in ink, drawing the outline of the woman in front of her on the golden paper.

Rong Xi felt that Mu Huai was watching her, and when he saw him lower and raise his head from time to time, he couldn't help but laugh, and asked him softly, "Is your Royal Highness painting slaves?"

After listening, Mu Huai folded his fists and covered his lips, and hurriedly covered the painting with a thick pile of paper, deliberately calmly said: "Draw you? Want to be beautiful."

Rong Xi didn't smile, but Mu Huai was a little strange to see her like this.

This woman is in a good mood tonight.

He got up, walked in front of Rong Xi, and when he looked down at her, she also stood up.

After that, the woman's slender arms were wrapped around his waist, and Mu Huai was startled, and saw a beautifully crafted slap around his waist.

Rong Xi said in a warm voice at this time: "The slave maid made a joke for His Royal Highness. There can be small things like knives and pens in the leather bag, as well as sachets and jade pendants. It is convenient to wear on weekdays."

Mu Huai's heart was slightly warm, and he said to Rong Xi: "The mind is clever."

After the words were over, the stunning beauty in front of her suddenly hooked the buckle with her little finger, then raised her eyes and looked at him with a little seductive look.

Mu Huai grabbed her slender wrist, raised her fringe eyebrows slightly, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Rong Xi stood on tiptoe and kissed his lips gently.

After a little startled, Mu Huai closed his eyes and was about to lean in to deepen the kiss, but was avoided by the woman.

Rong Xi’s soft lips were already on his ears, and she only heard her whisper softly: "The servant maidservant will serve your maid tonight, but your maid promised to let the servant maid come everything, okay?"

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