Exile opening: I won with the Universal Maker

Chapter 331
In the evening, the last rays of the setting sun shone on the row upon row of roofs of Fengqi Palace, showing a dim yellow luster.

Fengqi Palace is the residence of the Empress, since the death of Empress Pei, Fengqi Palace has been empty.It was not until Emperor Qiming ascended the throne that Fengqi Palace was given to Empress Wen to live in.

Empress Wen was probably a woman with a cleanliness habit. Before she moved in, she asked people to burn all the things in Fengqi Palace, and all the walls of the buildings in the palace were repainted. The craftsmen worked day and night, and it took a full month. Time is done.If it wasn't for Emperor Qi Ming's persuasion, she would have almost replaced the stone slabs paving the ground.

Enter from the gate of Fengqi Palace, pass through a rectangular square and enter the inner gate. Behind the inner gate are two rows of wing rooms, which are specially used for concubines waiting to meet the queen.Come out of the wing room, pass through another door, and you will come to the main hall of Fengqi Palace.Everyday, the queen accepts the concubine's greetings in the main hall.

Emperor Qi Ming had only one official wife, Empress Wen, and he did not accept a concubine after he ascended the throne.These wing rooms are deserted and deserted on weekdays, and no one cares about them.

Li Wan is sitting in one of the wing rooms, waiting for Mrs. Li boredly.

The mother and daughter found out that Queen Wen was in the imperial city, and rushed to Fengqi Palace early in the morning.Both mother and daughter were wearing expensive clothes made by tailors in the capital's tailor shop overnight. Mrs. Li even hung all the jewelry she could find all over her body, and she jingled when she walked.In Mrs. Li's words, she wants to welcome the big day with the most beautiful clothes.

They happened to be away when Empress Wen went to Shengjing to issue an order, and Empress Wen left Shengjing that day without waiting.Mrs. Li was in a hurry, and took her daughter to the capital to meet the queen in person.

Huanhuanxi arrived at Fengqi Palace, but was told by the maid that Empress Wen occasionally felt cold and did not see any guests.

Li Wangang and Qiang Lin got married, just like glue, she was dragged to the capital by Mrs. Li, she was already upset, but when she saw Queen Wen evading her, she persuaded Mrs. Li:

"Mother, the queen was fine yesterday, but she got a cold today. She doesn't want to see us, so let's go back to Shengjing."

"This child, I only miss your hiss!" Mrs. Li stretched out her hand and tapped Li Wan's forehead, then grinned with a missing front tooth, "I know you are thinking about going back, wait for mother to finish receiving the order."

"But the empress doesn't see any guests."

"As long as you are sincere, Jinsi is open!" Mrs. Li straightened her clothes, "You wait here, mother, go and ask the maid on duty."

Emperor Qi Ming decreed to restore the title of Marquis of Pingyang, and the Li family was about to return to their former glory, only this decree was missing.They couldn't go to Emperor Qi Ming to do another trick, they could only come to Empress Wen.

Li Wan waited left and right, from morning to noon.When you are hungry, but dare not go to eat, for fear that the queen will summon her and she will not be there, that is a serious crime.During this period, Mrs. Li came back twice, and each time she vowed that it would be soon.

After tossing until now, it is already dinner time.Li Wan's stomach was growling with hunger, she stood up and walked around the room.There was no food prepared in the wing room, only tea. She drank a lot of water, but she was still very hungry.

Just looking forward to it, Mrs. Li opened the door and entered, took her hand with a red face and ran out.

"Wan'er, the Empress has promised to see us, let's go."

The mother and daughter rushed out of the house, and Li Wan could see the stars when she looked up.She couldn't help complaining in her heart that Empress Wen had been missing for a day, saying that she had a cold, and she suddenly saw her again at night.Feeling inexplicable.

But she only dared to say these words in her heart.She also knew how much her mother valued this matter, but she didn't dare to complain, so as not to mess things up.

The mother and daughter were led by a maid carrying a lantern, and instead of entering the main hall, they passed through a moon gate next to the main hall and entered the apse.He turned two long corridors in a row, passed through more than a dozen rooms, and finally stopped at a door at the end of the corridor.

The maid guarding the door said to Mrs. Li: "Mrs. Li, the empress is waiting, please come in. The queen is ill, please talk to the queen in the outer room."

Mrs. Li smiled and nodded, first looked down at her clothes, then raised her hand to straighten her headgear, then turned her head to arrange for Li Wan.After everything was sorted out, the two of them entered the house.

The house is divided into indoor and outdoor, separated by a bead curtain in the middle.There are two court ladies standing beside the bead curtain. One of the court ladies is holding a jade plate with both hands. The tray is covered with yellow silk and a rolled up imperial decree is placed on it.

Mrs. Li caught a glimpse of the imperial decree and laughed so hard that she couldn't close her mouth.She saw a faint figure of a woman behind the bead curtain, and knowing that it was Empress Wen, she pulled Li Wan to kneel down and said:

"Pei Shaoya, the criminal woman, and Li Wan, the daughter of the criminal woman, kowtow to the empress."

The figure behind the bead curtain did not respond, as if turning a deaf ear.

The maid holding the imperial decree said: "Madam Li, the Empress is unwell and cannot speak. This is Your Majesty's decree to restore the title to the Marquis of Pingyang. Please Madam Li step forward to receive the decree and leave immediately."

Mrs. Li's eyes were shining, and without getting up, she walked directly to the court lady on her knees, and raised her hands to receive the imperial decree: "Long live, long live, long live, Your Majesty."

After finishing speaking, she held the imperial decree in both hands, and turned from laughing to crying: "Your Majesty has finally rehabilitated us. It's a pity that our Pei family was destroyed by decree back then, and I am the only one left..."

She felt it and blurted it out.

At the beginning, Xiao Zhuo was demoted and exiled to the northwest border.Empress Pei's mother's family and Duke Pei's mansion suffered disasters from top to bottom. Only she was not slaughtered because she married Pingyanghou, but she was also stripped of her title and became a grassroots citizen.Now that I lost it and found it again, I can't help but weep with joy.I also thought of my dead parents and sister. I was the only one alive, so I couldn't control my emotions.

She cried twice, then suddenly woke up and raised her hand to cover her mouth.

This is the queen's bedroom, not her own home.Although she was full of emotions, how could she cry out here, it was really a loss of composure.

She was about to kowtow to confess her crime tremblingly, but when she heard the sound of sobbing from behind the bead curtain, Empress Wen seemed to be crying.

Mrs. Li turned pale with shock, and kowtowed again and again: "Empress Empress, a criminal woman deserves to die for her crimes, and she speaks without choice!"

"Go down," Empress Wen seemed to be holding back her sadness behind the bead curtain, "I want to talk to Mrs. Li and her daughter."

Mrs. Li was kowtowing to apologize, but when she heard Empress Wen's voice, she froze suddenly.Why does this voice sound so familiar?

After the palace maid retreated, the bead curtain shook, and a woman in palace costume slowly walked out.

When Mrs. Li saw the other party's face, she felt as if struck by lightning, and sat on the ground backwards, almost throwing away the imperial decree in her hand.Li Wan who was behind her rushed over to support her and said, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Mrs. Li opened her mouth wide, staring at Empress Wen in front of her in a daze.

These eyebrows, these eyes, these noses, these lips, isn't this clearly my sister Pei Jingyun?Not only looks alike, but even the voice is so similar.The only difference from her impression was that Queen Wen's hair was all white, while her sister's hair was still black.

You must have read it wrong, there are many similar people in the world.It is normal for Queen Wen to look similar to her sister.

After thinking it over, Mrs. Li turned over and knelt down again: "Empress, the old woman just whispered, please invite the empress..."

She was still talking, but Empress Wen knelt down in front of her, hugged her with both hands and cried: "Sister, look at me, it's me."

Mrs. Li was scared out of her wits, and even Li Wan was scared.Pei Jingyun was bestowed to death by Emperor Yongde long ago, why did Empress Wen say that she is Pei Jingyun here?

The two were still in a daze, but Empress Wen pulled up her sleeves, revealing a dark blue birthmark on her elbow, and said to Mrs. Li, "Look, sister, this is proof. You always laughed at me because of this birthmark, saying that others They are all flawless white jade, but I have spots on the white jade, I was angry and slapped you."

Mrs. Li saw Queen Wen's birthmark, and saw that Queen Wen even restored the scene where she teased her sister back then, so she had no doubts at the moment.

It is not difficult to find people with similar looks in the world, but it is impossible to even have the same birthmark.The empress Wen in front of her is her sister Pei Jingyun.

She couldn't bear the sorrow and joy in her heart, and she stretched out her arms to hug Pei Jingyun, the two of them wept bitterly, and Li Wan also wept beside her.

After crying for a while, the two stopped.

"Sister, I didn't want to talk at first, because I was afraid that you would recognize me." Pei Jingyun stood up and helped Mrs. Li up. "I couldn't help hearing what happened to our Pei family..."

Mrs. Li asked in surprise: "Sister, why did you become Emperor Qi Ming's wife? Didn't you marry into the palace?"

Pei Jingyun asked them both to sit down, went back to the inner room and brought out three cups of tea herself, and said, "Drink some tea first, and I will slowly explain the ins and outs to you."

Mrs. Li stood without drinking water for a whole day, she was very thirsty, she took the tea bowl and drank it all in one gulp.Li Wan's stomach was full of water and she couldn't drink it at all, but she didn't dare not to drink it, so she could only hold the tea bowl and sip it there in small sips.

Pei Jingyun said: "Do you still remember, when we first arrived in the capital, I accidentally ran into Prince Xiao's horse?"

Mrs. Li smiled and said, "Of course I remember, His Majesty dragged you away at that time."

"I was so scared at the time, afraid that Xiao Man would come looking for me," Pei Jingyun looked at the roof ecstatically, "but I couldn't escape at all, my father had long been married to his fingertips, and I had to marry him. But The person I really like is..."

Mrs. Li said: "Your Majesty?"

"I was young at the time, so I don't know what that mood means," Pei Jingyun smiled, as if lost in memories, "I only know that I really like the Longhuan jade pendant he gave me, and I even wear the jade pendant when I sleep. in my arms."

Mrs. Li had vaguely guessed what happened next, and said: "My sister doesn't want to marry Xiao Man, but she couldn't disobey her father's wishes, so she found a woman with a similar appearance, and she called Wen Yi and asked her to marry you instead. palace."

These things are originally the crime of deceiving the emperor, and they can't even be mentioned.But Emperor Yongde is dead, so she doesn't have to worry.

"Although I am a woman, I will not let my parents control my fate," Pei Jingyun said, "But these things are easy to say, but you don't know how much effort I have spent. If you can go to Daliang Village, Tongliao County, Liangzhou If you do, you will be able to witness everything I have done for him."

Li Wan next to her had already drank half a cup of tea. She put down the tea cup and said to Mrs. Li: "Mother, there are folk rumors that Wen Yi came from a poor family in Yuzhou. Such a woman turns out to be my aunt."

Mrs. Li looked at Pei Jingyun in surprise: "But... but you have never left the Duke's Mansion, how did you do it?"

In her impression, the first three years before her sister married into the palace, she became a little more reclusive.Unexpectedly, my sister has been doing things secretly.

"Very early," Pei Jingyun replied, "I started doing it... The sister you always thought was no longer me."

Mrs. Li felt that Pei Jingyun's voice sounded a bit fuzzy, and was about to ask Pei Jingyun to say it again, when she suddenly felt her nose itch, and two streams of heat trickled down her lips.She raised her hand to wipe, but wiped the blood on the back of her hand.

"Hiss... what's wrong?" She looked down at the back of her hand, the blood was still dripping from her nostrils, staining her clothes red.

Li Wan next to her rushed over with a panicked expression, reached out to hug her and shook her vigorously, shouting something, but she couldn't hear it, her ears seemed to be flooded with water, rumbled.

Immediately Mrs. Li felt that she couldn't hear anything, and she seemed to see blood coming from Li Wan's mouth and nose, and Li Wan was wiping it with her hands in panic, then she felt weak and slipped out of the chair to the ground.

Pei Jingyun stood where she was, looked at Mrs. Li's mother and daughter who were struggling in a pool of blood, and said in tears, "Sister, I'm sorry, this secret... must not be let him know."

After finishing speaking, she turned around and walked out of the room quickly, as if she didn't want to see this tragedy again.

Li Wan already knew that the tea they drank must be poisonous.Ever since they entered this room, Pei Jingyun had no intention of letting them get out alive.Even if she just took the imperial decree and left, Pei Jingyun would not let them leave here alive.

The poison in the tea will not hurt her, but it will take her life, and the blood is gushing from her mouth and nose like a stream.

But she didn't want to die, she still wanted to go back to see Qiang Lin.

In her blurred vision, Mrs. Li had stopped moving, with blood gushing from her mouth and nose, and her eyes were wide open like dead fish.She let go of Mrs. Li's hand and crawled towards the door with all her strength.Maybe crawl out the door and someone will see her.

After only climbing a few feet, her strength was exhausted...

After a while, several guards came in to collect the corpse according to Queen Wen's order.

They don't care who dies, and they don't ask why.When working in the palace, everyone has long understood that a dead person must have a reason for death. As for what the reason is, it is definitely beyond their ability to explore.

Mrs. Li was lying in a pool of blood, while her daughter Li Wan was lying near the door, with a long bloodstain trailing out from under her body. Both of them were dead.

Everyone was about to carry the corpse, and one of the guards noticed that the bead curtain was shaking back and forth, as if someone had just passed by not long ago, so he immediately drew out his knife vigilantly and went over to check.

He opened the bead curtain with a knife, and only then did he notice that the windows of the inner room were half-closed, and the cold autumn night wind was pouring in through the gap.

Probably the maid forgot to close the window for Queen Wen, and the wind blowing in from the window disturbed the bead curtain.

(End of this chapter)