Gel makeup

Chapter 280 Epilogue

The end of this edition echoes the copywriting, which is the ending of the final version.

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(Here is a continuation of Chapter 190, Chapter [-], Red Dust Rolling)
Xiao Yi turned his back to Si Qing, seemingly unresponsive.

Si Qing said: "Ye Xiufeng wanted me to be a queen, but in the end he traded his life for it. You clearly know that I would rather not be this queen than trade his life for my successor, but you still do that Done. If we should have a future, then from Ye Xiufeng's death, everything about us is dead end and wrong."

It turned out that she knew all this a long time ago, but she endured it for so long.

Siqing smiled slightly, and tears slipped into her collar, "You made me the queen of the country, I know that since I am the queen of the country, I should dedicate everything to your majesty; since I am worshiped by all people, I should devote my whole life to the country. But I can't do it. I can't control my feelings, my selfish desires, and I can't turn back into the gentle, elegant, dignified, dignified and indifferent queen in your heart. No one is in control. If you are willing to let go of power easily, we will not be able to share happiness after all. The 13 years since returning to Beijing have been like a big dream to me. I am not a sage, I am just a mediocre being pushed away by fate. "

She thought that the moment she loved him the most was when Xining went to Weiyang to meet him in 23 years with all her eggs in one basket.Since then, the love in my heart has gone forever.And after he was betrayed by Princess Xianju in Xining for 24 years, it was no longer possible for him to open his heart and accept any friendship other than the emperor's mind.It is impossible for two people who have calculated each other from the beginning to have different dreams in the same bed to have a future.

The lights in the pavilion danced, and the curtains were blown by the wind, stretched and fluttered.The air at night was bitter and cold, I don't know why Siqing didn't burn incense, but there was a moist and fragrant smell from the desk.

Xiao Yi suddenly felt that he began to shake uncontrollably, twitching, and Si Qing's face became blurred and then became clear again.He wanted to reach out, but he couldn't lift his arm. He wanted to scream, but his voice was trapped in his throat.

A familiar smell approached him, it was the smell of acacia on Siqing's clothes.Haunted by his side for so many years, he couldn't be more familiar with it.He tried his best to ask Siqing for help, but he heard a strange and graceful laughter.A cold finger stroked his cheek, and he said with a light smile, "Third Brother, Your Majesty, have you suffered a stroke?"

"I have tortured myself countless times. Ye Xiufeng has done me no favors. Will I avenge him? Today I know the answer, and I will."

Siqing continued to caress Xiao Yi's face, "I know, in the 17th year of Xining, you ordered Cheng Yingzhou to kill him, because you wanted a queen with no relatives. Cheng Yingzhou felt sorry for me, so he wanted to die again and again In my hand."

Xiao Yi saw his twitching hands, but he couldn't control them. In desperation, he tried his best to avoid those cold fingers. He saw the filigree ruby ​​ring that had disappeared between Siqing's fingers for a long time, and he saw the milky layer on Siqing's body. The silky skirt slipped away from her eyes, Siqing stood up and said, "I think everything here should come to an end."

Xiao Yi still didn't understand, and suddenly Siqing came over again, bent down to straighten his collar and broken hair, and whispered in his ear: "I know that if I do this, maybe it will not end well in the future, but I don't care. Since you don't want to reverse the case for Lord Yasukuni and Yu Yunhe, it doesn't matter, as long as you never write or speak again, everything can be settled."

Xiao Yi only felt a loud noise explode in his head, and that graceful voice did not intend to let him go, "Do you know why my medical skills are far inferior to my brother's? Because Uncle Fu has two unique skills in his life, we Brothers and sisters learn the same thing. He learned to cure diseases, and I learned to poison. I can’t cure diseases, but he can’t do poison.”

Xiao Yi tried his best to make a giggling sound, Siqing said with a smile: "So who poisoned Chen Nanfei to death in Xining in 17? Of course it was me." She took out a small celadon cup filled with "pearl powder" The box waved in front of Xiao Yi's eyes, "I hope you can understand and understand, I have endured it for long enough." (See Chapter 10 Jiang Feng Yuhuo for the previous story)

Xiao Yi struggled in pain, and Si Qing said in a manly voice: "Do you know why I made up my mind to do this? Because Wutai said that I was the Duke of Yasukuni on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and that I was the remnant of the Yu case. Du Sizhong used it as a cover to suppress the matter, but he secretly sent Tang Peng to find out whether Uncle Fu was arrested and sent to Beijing in the autumn of 20 years because he became a pawn of Dingfan before he entered Beijing. You have long suspected him Like other secret sentries of Dingfan, Xining entered Beijing in the form of "offering captives to the king of Anping County" in the past 20 years, in order to bring trouble to your Xiao family."

In Xiao Yi's eyes, after Xining's 18-year-old concubine Duan passed away, Siqing first suspected that Tang Peng was a pawn of the Dingfan in the imperial capital.In the summer of Xining's 21st year, Siqing ordered Tang Peng to be imprisoned for interrogation through Feishu.In the fall of Xining 21, Tang Peng stabbed Siqing during the capital change in the fall of Xining.

Xiao Yi thinks that Tang Peng is the least likely to become a confidant of the Central Palace, and may even be the one who hates the Central Palace the most. Therefore, he sends Tang Peng to investigate the truth about Fu Linchuan Xining's 20-year arrest in Beijing.

Xiao Yi didn't know that Tang Peng was rescued by Fu Linchuan twice, and he didn't know that Tang Peng had already informed Siqing of all Xiao Yi's previous instructions to Tang Peng.

"I endured it for a long time and gave in for a long time. If it weren't for you who never reversed the case for Yasukuni, Yu Yunhe, how could more innocent people die in vain? You ask me why I am obsessed with this, the reason is very simple. If you don't reverse the case, My father and brother and I have always had a clue in your hands. If you don’t overturn the case, my conscience will not go away, and my fear will not go away. To this day, Wutai pointedly pointed out that I was related to Yasukuni Gong, Yu Yun and the remnants of the case , and you secretly checked my adoptive father Xining for 20 years to seek rebellion, do you think I can still sit still? Victorious soldiers win first and then seek war, and defeated soldiers first fight and then seek victory. If I can’t preemptively strike, wait for you Find out everything, my death is approaching, can I still find an opportunity to resist?"

She stood up again and closed the curtain with her hands, "But third brother, don't worry, although He Shizhi and Ning Shouhou want to kill me, I don't hold grudges against elder brother in my heart. Thanks to you, elder brother and I There is no incompatibility between water and fire. So I will support Donggong well, I will not waste my elders, I will not play with fire and set myself on fire, so you can recuperate with peace of mind."

"I could have continued to spend with you, let you continue to indulge in Jianjiao, and let you continue to build large-scale construction projects. When you become a mediocre lord in the eyes of the world, I can find a chance to fight back. But can Guochao afford it?" ? I think you know it in your heart, when the time comes, I’m afraid that if I get it, I won’t be able to wrap up this riddled country.”

She smiled and turned to look at Xiao Yi, but there was no smile in her eyes, "Third Brother, I know I may not be better than you, but thank you for teaching me so much. When I returned to the Imperial Capital in Xining 13 years ago, When I came, I really never thought that I would come to steal your Xiao family's country."

Xiao Yi looked at her in disbelief, Si Qing smiled lightly, and repeated: "Today, today, I am here to rob you of the Xiao family."

The curtain was torn off by Siqing, and her panicked voice floated around, "Come on! Come on!"

Attendants, medical officials, the prince of the East Palace and his subordinates, and night-duty court officials poured into Yueshilou in Xiyuan in an endless stream.Siqing was so frightened that she followed everyone's footsteps, as if she suddenly became 20 years younger, like a deer separated from her mother, only Princess Taikang held her hand tightly.

The medical officers whispered to each other, their faces solemn. After a long while, Huang Yuan finally stepped forward cautiously and said: "Reporting to Your Highness, Your Majesty has suffered a stroke. I'm afraid...it will be impossible to recover."

Siqing's body softened, and the big sleeve brought down the earthen pot on the table beside her. The earthen pot was broken, and she wept softly: "This is the soup prepared by the Holy Majesty for the empress. The little one has not been delivered to the empress, and the empress has come." It's over. Your Majesty has not had time yet..."

He still remembered the black-bone chicken and snow fungus soup that Xining asked him to make for her in the autumn of 21, he never forgot it and was always trying to make it better.

Siqing's tears flowed down, she knew she could not regret and had no way out, so she wiped away her tears with her sleeve expressionlessly, fainted in time, and everyone's exclamations came from her ears.

This year, I fell ill and couldn't look at the dynasty.The young man in the East Palace supervises the country, and he is full of blood, so he will inevitably act recklessly and impulsively.The Queen of the Central Palace always appeared between the Eastern Palace and the courtiers at the right time, always said the right words, always did the right things, and was always gentle and elegant to separate the Eastern Palace from the court affairs quietly.

The cabinet ministers seem to have forgotten that the elite guards of Zhili in Gyeonggi Province are all in the hands of this gentle and dignified Queen of the Central Palace.She stayed more and more modest, but no one dared to question what she said.This year, Jichun is her birthday. On the Qianqiu Festival, she said that her only wish is to get rid of the wronged prison, accumulate good deeds, and pray for His Majesty, wishing His Majesty a speedy health.

Not long after, Qin Tianjian said that the celestial phenomenon pointed out that Jiangzuo's unjust imprisonment endangered his current illness.Siqing said that she had been falsely accused of being a remnant of the Yasukuni and Yu Yunhe cases. If she wanted to be alone, she could stand by and watch and keep her name.But for the sake of the health of the present, and the release of the unjust prison, she is willing to criticize the people of the world, and also proposes to solve the unjust prison, and pray for the present.Therefore, it became a matter of course for Duke Yasukuni and Yu Yunhe to reverse the case.

The involvement of Lord Yasukuni and Yu Yunhe in the case back then was appalling. The Palace of King Jing who concocted the case in the past ended in treason, and the empress dowager who tacitly approved the case behind the scenes had long since passed away.Most of the scholars in Jiangzuo were officials in the court, and they all agreed that this prison was an unjust prison caused by the factional struggle between Lord Jingguo and Lao Jingwang.

For many years, because of the great power of the king of Zong, and because he kept silent now, he avoided talking about this case.Now that the old case is brought up again, the King Zong is in decline, Lord Jingguo recovers his title, and the reputations of Yu Yun and the implicated courtiers and scholars are restored one by one.No courtiers objected, no Zong Wang spoke.Siqing's cousin, when she enters the palace with Princess Li, even insists that the princes and princes are absolutely not dissatisfied with overturning the Yasukuni case.

What seemed impossible before has been done so calmly.Because it was so smooth, Siqing even felt inexplicably lost.

Guochao finally came to her moment, and she finally berated Fang Qiu wantonly behind the curtain.

She offended Zongwang because of Zongwang's vassal affairs, but won the approval of Shilin with a series of humble and self-restraining behaviors after she became the queen of the palace.She never asked for seals for her parents and children, and she seemed to silently support the East Palace where Empress Xianhe came out, and she also won the approval of the East Palace staff.

She has taken over Jingfang for many years, and Jingwei swore allegiance to her to the death.The government army, guards, north and south spy networks are all under his control.Sun Chengfu, Yuan Lingbo, Tang Peng and other Jingwei generals are her closest officials.

The scene she fantasized about being able to gain both power and fame has appeared as expected today.Her power is still spreading forward, how could the young and impulsive Crown Prince of the East Palace be her opponent in the future.

She climbed to the heights of Xiyuan Qiongyu, and remembered the poem she learned when she was a child, "Young women in the boudoir do not know sorrow, and they go to the emerald building with makeup in spring." , Zhai crown worn, hanging ring worn, face-to-face dimple.I don't know how wonderful it is to be sad, but it's a pity that the author of this poem is not a girl in a boudoir, and he doesn't understand the pain of a woman who is happy with others in this life.

She finally got rid of the constraints of others, but her anxiety and fear never dissipated.

She watched alone for a long, long time, until the East Palace came to say hello and told her that Shen Jiangdong, Duke of Jia, was going back to Beijing to report on his duties while staying in the capital for garrison.

After more than a month, Siqing met Shen Jiangdong who had been away for a long time in the east chamber of Maode Hall.They haven't seen each other since Shen Jiangdong went to Liudu to work.After seeing the ceremony, Shen Jiangdong looked at her hesitantly. She didn't know what to say, so she asked a question that she knew the answer to, "Did Sister Xuanbin come to Beijing?"

Shen Jiangdong only answered two words "no".

Siqing was not angry at all, instead she smiled, easy-going, just like they used to do when they had a small gathering in Wu Zhai in the south of the city.Shen Jiangdong held his breath, waiting for her to say the next word, but she looked at the empty main hall of Maode Hall, since she fell ill today, the place is no longer as lively as it used to be.There were fewer courtiers coming in and out, and only the cigarettes in the incense cauldron quietly dissipated on the algae roof.

Shen Jiangdong finally couldn't bear to pay homage again: "I invite you to see Your Majesty."

Si Qing didn't seem to hear, but went to the table and began to grind tea, Shen Jiangdong then repeated: "Please see Your Majesty!"

The movement of Siqing's hands didn't stop, and she said in her mouth: "Your Majesty is not feeling well recently, afraid of the wind, so I don't see foreign ministers."

Shen Jiangdong got up frantically and walked around the room, seeing that there was no attendant around, he couldn't help staring at Si Qing's busy hands.On those hands was a gold and silk ruby ​​ring, and Jiang Feng also had one, which must have been a gift from Siqing.Red Treasure comes from the Western Regions, its name is Thurse, and it is very valuable.The color is crimson red, like blood coagulated.The hands wearing the ring were busy, cooked a cup of fragrant tea, and handed it to Shen Jiangdong himself.

Shen Jiangdong was unmoved, Siqing smiled again, "Don't you dare to drink?" She was not annoyed, she took a sip of her face with her sleeve, put down the teacup, turned around and said, "Why don't you talk?"

Shen Jiangdong originally lowered his head, but when he heard this, he closed his eyes, and after struggling for a moment, he suddenly looked up at Si Qing and said, "Your Highness, is it you?"

After hearing his ambiguous words, Siqing remained calm, "I don't understand."

(End of this chapter)