Gel makeup

Chapter 275
Xiao Yi was eager to cut down the feudal clan, eager to raise his prestige, all of which were afterimages left by beheading the empress dowager.

She appeared in front of him when he needed her the most, and what he needed was not necessarily her, but a strategist who could help him stabilize the country.Step by step, she moved to a high place, and took power step by step. She acted upright and acted like the empress dowager back then. She and the empress dowager just had different positions.Now that the world is settled, it is only natural for Xiao Yi to guard against her, to prevent her from becoming a royal family member like the Empress Dowager.She figured it out a long time ago, why she still feels pain in her heart even today.

She once warned herself not to give her heart.When she really fell in love with him, he had already been hurt by redundant things, and became the unpredictable supreme she feared most.

She asked herself that she didn't hurt him, but he had to pay her back for the hurt he suffered on others.

She is not used to this kind of quiet life, and the gorgeous Ninghua Palace has gradually become her cage.Her father and brother taught her to read and write, and after entering the palace, there were all the classics in the palace, and she read many, many history books.She often hides in her small study room by herself, imitating the citations left by her ancestors and drafting the obsolete notes, writing again and again, and tearing up again and again.She had imagined countless times that she held a note and said to him: I don't even need someone else to write an edict, I just hope you can let me go.

She knew that this was just an unrealistic fantasy.He is increasingly becoming a skilled and benevolent lord, how could he easily abolish his queen for no reason and tarnish his holy name.

Xining 23 years ago, Siqing had been imagining that she would be able to flexibly occupy a place in the palace after the feudal clan was settled down. After all, she was too immature.

In fact, what she wants now is also very simple, what she wants is for him to continue to give her respect, even if it is only the respect from the emperor to Xiangfu's courtiers.And he pressed her step by step, forcing her to give up Jingfang, forcing her to withdraw from Jingwei, forcing her to completely cut off from her relatives, forcing her to fail to maintain the etiquette that the queen should have, forcing her to stay away from their children, forcing her to become a kind A painting, a potted flower, whether to hang it or not, all are up to him to decide.

At night, Siqing stood in the pavilion by the Taiye Pool in Xiyuan, her long clothes and wide sleeves swaying in the night wind.She took off the filigree red treasure ring Xiao Yi gave her on her finger, raised her right arm, and wanted to throw the ring into the lake several times, but she still couldn't make up her mind.Seeing that the ring no longer appeared on her hand, Xiao Yi looked puzzled, but he never asked.

Siqing always dreams of Shen Huanhua, who Xining went west in 17 years, and her gentle face often appears before Siqing's eyes.Although Shen Huanhua has seen through the coldness of the imperial capital, he has always been gentle and kind.She seemed to have all the good qualities about a woman, and she never got sucked into the mud.

Siqing would think of the past when she just returned to the imperial capital, and Siqing understood more and more why Shen Huanhua tried to prevent her from entering the chaos in the imperial capital.

Shen Huan's paintings grew up in the imperial capital, and grew up in the palace. After the disappearance of the Princess of Shangyang, the marriage of the eldest princess of Xianju, and the death of Empress He, there were not many noble girls left in the imperial capital. everything.

In the autumn of Xining's 13th year, Shen Huanhua once held her hand and cried, "Go away, the Ye family is sorry for you."

She didn't choose to leave, and Shen Huanhua couldn't hide her disappointment.

The next year when she entered the palace, Shen Huanhua sent her to the Ninghua Palace on a warm spring day. When she left the Ninghua Palace, Shen Huanhua smiled sadly at her like a weeping dew.

This was the greatest kindness she felt from someone who was not relatives or relatives after she entered Beijing, and she has never seen it since.It's a pity that Shen Huanhua's life will not last forever. Shen Huanhua did not see her entering the central palace.

Many things after she entered the palace made her feel painful, especially when everyone lamented that she was not easy.She would often think of everything she had seen in the countryside when she was a child, the starving she had seen, and Tian Long who had no grass growing. She often tortured herself after entering the palace, what is difficult for herself?What qualifications do I have to hurt the spring and the autumn?With all of this in mind, life is much easier now.

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In the following year, in Dading in the north, it seemed that the people's hearts were gradually relaxing, and there was a sign of peace.Xiao Yi's strings that had been tensed for many years finally relaxed.

He still couldn't figure out Xiao Jing's betrayal, Princess Xianju's madness, and Si Qing's dodge.Now that the overall situation was settled, he began to indulge in fasting and sacrifices, and made a lot of construction projects.The fee of Guanglu Temple has increased dozens of times, and new patterns have been weaved everywhere, using thousands of horses.In palaces such as Xianling and Chaotian, and places such as Mount Tai and Wudang, the cost of worshiping and offering sacrifices is tens of millions of taels.

After the death of the Empress Dowager in Xining 14, Xiao Yi had to leave the imperial capital every year.Whether he was going to Xijing, Liudu or the outskirts of the imperial capital, he always wanted to see with his own eyes the mountains and rivers beyond the shrine.

After 23 years in Xining, Xiao Yi is no longer willing to do this, let alone listen to the motto of the outside world.As long as he can't hear, as long as he can't see, he can pretend that nothing exists.

Before Siqing appeared, he felt that the heights were extremely cold, and he was so cold that he didn't want to be a living person with breathing and heartbeat.He longed to be close to everything in the world, but after witnessing all this, he fled back to the shrine and became the Supreme Supreme.

Siqing moved from the countryside to the central palace. She once fantasized about changing and assisting Xiao Yi to become a benevolent person, but now Siqing herself is immersed in the grove, and her words have long lost their charm. It is impossible for Xiao Yi to listen to her, let alone Willing to follow the path she envisioned.

For Xiao Yi, what Siqing did was called "interfering in politics".

Siqing couldn't take Xiao Yi to see all the sorrows she had seen when she was young, and Xiao Yi didn't want to watch it either.Respecting the scholar-officials can maintain his clear and jade-like silhouette in the annals of history.As long as he sits firmly in the middle of the Zhengqing Hall, he has nothing to worry about, so why bother to make himself unhappy?
She couldn't change him, and he couldn't erase the sorrow she had seen in the past.

In the eyes of foreign ministers, the emperor and the empress have always treated each other as guests.Li Yuanzhen and others tried to circumvent Jinshang, and asked Siqing to advise, "Jinling made more than [-] utensils and hundreds of thousands of catties of incense, all of which were set up for fasting, and the internal expenses were expensive."

Siqing also tried to persuade him, but Xiao Yi didn't understand, "Rule the world with Confucianism, and rule the body with Dao. What you have learned is Taoist swordsmanship, and Mr. Fu is a disciple of Taoism. How can you not understand my heart?"

Siqing couldn't answer.She could vaguely understand in her heart that Xiao Yi needed the comfort of transcending the world, but the path she took was not the right path that the emperor should walk.

Xiao Yi now seems to love Wanshun's servants more, such as the lady Pei, a talented woman, a beauty, and Jieyu, who was concubine Kang in the autumn of 25 years in Xining.

Princess Taikang, the older governor, told Siqing, "Daddy deliberately used Pei Kangpin to test Auntie. The less Auntie responded, the angrier Daddy became. Now Daddy is even more angry with Auntie."

Siqing smiled, "How old am I, why do I still care about such childish tricks?"

What can she do?She used to be the most powerful empress in the middle palace of the country. She was so proud. Now, is she going to compete with those young concubines for the emperor's favor?
I have been trembling and trembling for 13 years. I thought that when the world is peaceful, I can enjoy a stable life, but I didn't expect that in the end, it gradually drifted away silently.

Because she had been tempted by him, her heart was extremely painful.

Princess Taikang saw that Siqing was doing divination, so she said, "Why is A Niang doing this again?"

Siqing sighed, and what she saw at a glance was: there is no peace, no change, no return, no fault for hardship.

That year after Siqing quit Jingwei, she used the excuse of being bored, and brought all the volumes of Bai Lu's pre-birth papers from Jigu Pavilion to Xiyuan to read.Sometimes she also asks the military guards of the government to investigate some strange things on a whim, but Xiao Yi doesn't care much about it.

In the late summer of Xining's 26th year, she often stared blankly at a manuscript written by Bai Lu before she was born.At the beginning of autumn, General Sun Chengfu of the Jinwu Guard escorted her to Ci’en Temple to do meritorious deeds for the late Empress Dowager. On the way home, Siqing said: “Actually, I always knew that you had feelings for Lu Chu. You would visit her every year on her death anniversary. She said that she She is an orphan, I have been looking for her hometown since she passed away, and now I finally found it. Are you willing to send her back to her hometown and let her return to her roots?"

Sun Chengfu left Beijing on leave the next day. After he left Beijing, Siqing happened to see Shen Jiangdong’s memorabilia in Zhengqing Hall, as if Xiao Yi asked him to go to Zhejiang to do something:
The minister was envoy Trent to go, and it happened to be a drought.All the way in Yuhang, the summer wheat has withered, the autumn crops have not been planted, the man who pulls the boat has no clothes, and the hoe has vegetables.Thieves are rampant, especially in Quzhou.People from the south say that Jiangnan and eastern Zhejiang have lived in exile, their household registrations have been depleted, their military ranks are empty, their treasury has no ten-day reserves, and officials lack yearly salaries.The wealth of the southeast comes from the one-year-old hunger; the north is so old that there has been no accumulation, so I apologize again this autumn, how can I bear it.The occurrence of events is unpredictable.If you don't pass through the land, even though you have been an official for a long time, you still don't know the details, and your majesty is on the top of the nine levels?
The roads of ministers' visits all say that there are too many people who eat too much, that the state has no experience, that there are frequent servants, and that there are overlapping disciplines.The civil engineering in the capital is flourishing, and the servicemen and soldiers are devoting their financial resources. Every time they encounter a shift exercise, they would rather die than go;A loafer, under the guise of a servant of the emperor, would set up a large shop in Guanjin to collect business taxes.The country's capital was established in the north, and it was facing the southeast. The merchants were frightened and scattered.There are even more weaving officials, a group of small gangs attacking, the Zhahe officials are all running, and the poor people are in a commotion, this is what I have witnessed...

In the Mid-Autumn Festival of Xining's 26th year, a grand banquet was held at Chengming Hall in Xiyuan.Emerald jewels swayed on the ladies' table, and at the end of the table was a lady who was slightly older than Siqing, whom Siqing had never seen before.This lady was gentle and elegant, and she had a soft and clear disposition at first glance.Walking by her side, you can't help but be touched by her tranquility, and you will be enveloped by her gentle atmosphere.Siqing had only seen such a stable mind and aura before in Fu Linchuan.Siqing thought to herself, if she was a man, she would definitely want to marry this lady as her wife.The warm sun shines on the water, often accompanied by the side.

At this time, Concubine Zhou's pick card hit Siqing's crown, Siqing turned her head, it turned out that Concubine Zhou came up, and the two were too close.Concubine Zhou said in a low voice: "Here, ma'am, look, before the Empress Dowager chose the Empress Yuan for His Majesty, besides Empress Rencheng, there was another lady shortlisted, that is the one at the end of the ceremony. Your Majesty did not choose Empress Rencheng originally, She was chosen, but the Empress Dowager didn't agree, so she turned around and married her to Pingcheng. Her husband's family is also considered a prominent family in Pingcheng. I heard that last year he made great achievements in the northern battlefield, and now her husband-in-law is promoted to Beijing. coming."

Siqing was slightly shocked when she heard this, she never knew that Empress Rencheng He had this story before she entered the palace.

Concubine Zhou still wanted to say something, Siqing pushed her away and said, "Have you gone to toast with Concubine Duan?"

Originally, I thought I would spend this Mid-Autumn Festival amidst the sound of chanting, but who knew that a strange admonisher suddenly appeared at the banquet, "Since the pacification of Dingfan and the northern border, Your Majesty is diligent in governing and loving the people, and the court order is clear. Recently, Xiao Xiao secretly spread news, saying that the late Dongge University scholar Ye Xiufeng was not only involved in the old case of Fuzhou, but also related to the remaining case of His Majesty Yujichu Jiangzuo, and the queen was even involved. Rumors abounded, and many courtiers I have received anonymous letters, which is detrimental to the dignity, and please Your Majesty to investigate this matter."

The inner family members and foreign ministers are separated by a screen, and all the concubines and wives inside the screen are looking at Si Qing, including Xi Mo's demure wife.The cards on both sides of Siqing's ceremony crown trembled slightly, and she felt in a daze for a moment, what time is it now?Where are you?Why are they looking at themselves like this...

This is a nightmare come true. In the dream, someone pointed at her countless times and said, "She has no clear connection with Duke Jing, Yu Yun and the rest of the case." This person used to be He Shizhi, King Kang, and Duan Wang, who used to be Zheng Yiqin and Xu Wenchang, but she never dreamed of such a scene. During the mid-autumn festival with bright lights, at the banquet, the admonisher from a noble family openly pointed out that she was Yu Yunhe. The remnants of the case.

There is indeed a remnant of the Yu family in the palace, not Siqing, but Yu Yunhe's grandson and noble concubine Zhou.

She looked at the noble concubine Zhou, who quickly dodged.

She was in a trance and didn't hear how Xiao Yi answered her, as if it was just prevarication, blaming the minister for breaking the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

She suddenly remembered that on that cold rainy night, at the end of Xianju's eldest princess crazily accusing Xiao Yi, the eldest princess whispered in her ear: "I still have a gift, I hope you like it."

She turned her head to ask Lianying, "Who did you say just died last night?"

"The former Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, Yang Wanquan, who has retired from illness."

Yang Wanquan, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, who once recommended Jiang Feng to become an official, and pushed Jiang Feng into the bureau when the Fuzhou case was at its most dangerous.No wonder there are always accidents in the Criminal Division, no wonder Xu Wenchang died in the Criminal Division, no wonder King Xiao Jing was able to escape from the prison of the Criminal Division, no wonder Jiang Feng said that Yang Wanquan had acted abnormally towards her after King Xiao Jing escaped from prison.

It turns out that King Xiao Jing still hides such a pawn in the imperial capital. Yang Wanquan, who is afraid of trouble and death, made the last plot for Princess Xianju before he died.

How did Yang Wanquan know that she was related to the remnants of the Yu Yunhe case?Do you know how she is related to the rest of the case?
If Yang Wanquan was from Prince Jing's mansion, why didn't King Xiao Jing expose him back then?Is it to repay her concession on the matter of King Xiao Jing and Lin Bofu, or is she worried that once this matter is exposed, it will become an opportunity to reverse the case for Duke Jing and Yu Yunhe?

After all, Jing Guogong, Yu Yun and Yi Prison were started by the old King Jing, and overturning the case was the last thing Jing Wang's mansion wanted to see.Princess Xianju killed Yan Mowei in order to prevent the Yan family from overturning the case for the Jingguo government. Since Yang Wanquan was going to die, he was entrusted by Princess Xianju to put all his eggs in one basket before his death, so he didn't care about his posthumous reputation.

(End of this chapter)