The palace is quiet, and the empress of the cold palace is acting as a demon

Chapter 134 The Belated Regret

Yuan Ying returned to Beirong, stood with her head bowed in front of Ning Yi's desk, and reported the trip to him.

"The people of Ba are simple and honest, the king of Ba is timid and cowardly, there are less than 20 officials in the DPRK and China, the army is seriously insufficient, the treasury is short of money, and the whole country is struggling to maintain..." Yuan Ying said truthfully.

Ning Yi listened expressionlessly, not interested.

After Yuan Ying finished reporting, Bai Zixian interjected next to him: "Did you see that princess of Ba Kingdom? How about it?"

Yuan Ying thought for a while: "Weichen...don't know..."

Bai Zixian's face was full of astonishment. Yuan Ying has always said one thing, one has it, one has it, and one has it. !

Bai Zixian asked, "What do you mean by not knowing?"

Yuan Ying lowered her head: "The princess of the Ba Kingdom is indeed very similar to the empress, to the point where a small official is almost...indistinguishable."

Hearing what Yuan Ying said, Ning Yi raised his head and looked at her with his eyebrows locked.

Bai Zixian's face was even more surprised. Yuan Ying never exaggerated. If she said she couldn't tell the difference, then it can be said that the little princess of Ba Kingdom must be very similar to Concubine Qin.

Yuan Ying went on to say: "Although they are very similar, I personally obtained confirmation from King Ba and the Queen that Princess Ba is indeed only 14 years old, and she will not turn fifteen until the seventh day of September this year. Moreover, I have confirmed that the back of her neck There is absolutely no tattoo of Concubine Qin's empress, and the color of her eyes is also different from hers. So it can only be said that they are similar, but they are definitely not the same person."

"Since they are obviously not the same person, why do you still say that you can't tell them apart?" Ning Yi felt that listening to them talking about this was a waste of time, so he reprimanded him with a bad face.

Yuan Ying replied: "This subordinate...that's how I feel."

"Enough!" Ning Yi slapped his palm on the table and shouted angrily, "Don't bring up such boring topics in front of me again, are you all free and doing nothing?!"

After finishing speaking, Ning Yi stood up and flicked his sleeves, walked out of the study, took the chestnut fox out of the stable, and rode out of the palace.

In the Houling in early summer, beside the huge crabapple tree, a white jade tombstone stands silently.Ning also tied the chestnut fox to the crabapple tree, took the wine by himself, squatted in front of the tombstone, and poured himself a drink.

The south wind was mild, and the luxuriant crabapple trees swayed with the wind. Ning Yi stared at Qin Wan's name on the tombstone: "Wan'er, they found a woman who said she was very similar to you, but so what, if you don't What can I do?"

The south wind was blowing, and no one answered his questions.

It was only later that Ning Yi learned from Hemerocallis that the medicine-drinking acupuncture he thought was completely different from the medicine-drinking acupuncture that Qin Wan suffered.

Qin Wan never told him how much pain he had to endure every day, and he thought that her illness had really improved, and that she could wait like a normal person until he sent troops to Liuqiu Kingdom to take the water elixir.Of course, he never gave her a chance to speak.

When Hemerocallis told him that Qin Wan exchanged two bowls of highly poisonous poison soup for that night of tenderness, Ning Yi was almost pierced by ten thousand arrows.

Hemerocallis said that Qin Wan asked her to prepare a three-day dose of medicine because she wanted His Highness King Ning to spend more time with her in the last days because of her dedication.

His Royal Highness King Ning left early the next morning.

Two nights of Zhen Tang only got one night of companionship. Hemerocallis said that as a grass demon with little human emotion, she felt worthless, let alone Qin Wan who had been tortured by illness to the point of despair.

"But Young Madam didn't complain at all, and she asked me to go down the mountain to buy her yellow rice cakes. Who would have thought that I did buy yellow rice cakes, but Young Madam could not wait for me to come back..." Hemerocallis calmly said nothing. Emotional words echoed in Ning Yi's ears, like a knife piercing his heart.

He supported the tombstone, closed his eyes and asked softly, "Wan'er, what you want is not yellow rice cakes, right? What you want is me by your side, right? But I... don't know anything... "

Ning also remembered Qin Wan's persuasion at dawn that day, as well as the reluctance in her eyes.Qin Wan clearly knew that he had given the Fire Spirit Pill to Emperor Rong, but he didn't say a word all night.

She had already made the final decision, and her only wish was to stay in Ning Yi for two more days, but he didn't even fulfill this wish, so he just left her and left.

Ning also thought that by giving Qin Wan a surprise after he obtained the imperial decree of marriage, he would be able to untie her knot and obtain her forgiveness.

Little did she know, she was already in despair.

Thinking of this, Ning Yi suddenly felt someone behind him, he turned to look, and it turned out to be Liuying.

Liu Ying came with a food box, but she didn't salute when she saw Ning Yi, she walked quietly to the tombstone, took out the tribute from the food box, and placed it in front of the tombstone.

Since Qin Wan jumped off the cliff, Liuying's attitude towards Ning Yi has completely changed. She is no longer respectful to him, but full of resentment and indifference.

After Qin Wan's burial, Liuying voluntarily stayed in Houling to guard the tomb, and never wanted to work in the palace again.

Ning also agreed to Liuying's request, and didn't care about her disrespectful attitude.

"What's the use of coming here..." Liuying looked at the inscription on the tombstone and said coldly.

"I want to see her..." Ning Yi's voice trembled slightly.

"The empress once said that belated affection is cheaper than grass. A woman has to live for herself, don't just promise her body for the three melons and two dates given by a man, never leave, never give up, and pay for it. The empress also said that she is a complete A complete person does not need to sacrifice himself for a man. Thinking about it now, what the empress said really slapped herself in the face, she is not for you, she has paid everything that should be paid, sacrificed everything that should be sacrificed, In the end, there is only one dead bone buried here, how pitiful."

Ning also couldn't refute Liuying, so he could only listen heartily.

Liu Ying knelt in front of the tombstone, kowtowed three heads, and said to Ning Yi with a sneer: "I heard that there is a woman in Ba who is very similar to the empress. Tell me, if the empress knows there is such a woman in this world Existence, with her temperament, what would she think and say?"

Ning Yi: "... I don't know"

Liuying said: "With the temperament of a concubine, she will definitely say: 'Isn't this great, there is someone who looks like me and continues to like Ning Yi for me, so that when he opens his eyes every day, he still sees my face, how much OK.'"

Ning Yi stared at Liuying blankly, not understanding what she meant.

Liuying stood up and turned to Ning Yi, her voice was full of hatred: "Your Highness, instead of gradually forgetting about your mother and marrying another person in the future, why don't you marry that princess of Ba Kingdom and make her your princess."

"Why?" Ning also didn't understand what Liuying was talking about.

"In that way, you can look at her face exactly like your empress day and night, and let your mother's death be engraved on your heart every moment, torture your heart, and make you remember your empress forever !"

"..."

"However, if you don't dare to face your empress, dare not face your infidelity, let alone face the fact that you killed your empress yourself, then forget it. But your highness, if you want to atone for your sins, you have to come up with something." Looking at the appearance of atonement, just drinking some wine in the current confession does not even count as sincerity."

(End of this chapter)