Empress Huaishu of the Harem

Lingxi ordered someone to serve me a bowl of hot milk, and said gently: "You are always in good health, but this time the wind and cold are quite fierce. I heard from Xue Po that I didn't get out of bed for several days. Even Concubine Duanmu and Concubine Demu I turned around to see you. After walking like this, I still haven’t recovered, so hurry up and drink some to drive away the cold.”

Knowing her kindness, I agreed with a smile, picked up the bowl and took a sip. It was usually sweet and delicious, but today it was not the same.Wind and cold, maybe I really want to be grateful for the unexpected changes in the weather in this season, so that I can explain the sickness that I was scared out of.

That day when I returned to Ningshou Palace, my mother and concubine were already jumping anxiously in the inner hall. When they saw me, they were so excited that they almost shed tears.He hugged me, kept chanting "Amitabha", and acted exaggeratedly like a child.

I was moved and embarrassed at the same time, but I pulled myself out of her arms and said angrily: "What is the mother concubine doing, the daughter is not missing arms or legs, the servants are all watching?"

It’s okay if I don’t say this, but when I said that the concubine’s body froze, she let me go, and said: “The servants shouldn’t see what they shouldn’t, and even if they see it, they shouldn’t keep it in their hearts. I said what I shouldn't have said, and you thought that if you stumbled, it would be over if you lost an arm and a leg!"

The concubine mother has always been gentle, and she has never spoken with such a sharp tone when speaking to me or anyone else, but this trip to Yining Palace, which seemed to be calm and peaceful, made me feel silent, paused, and finally asked unwillingly: " What about Ruxiu?"

Mother and concubine turned her head away: "Such a thing happened in the Sanshou Palace, and I can't get around De Taifei. I have already sent someone to report the case. If you are in a hurry, you might as well go to the Longevity Palace and wait. The result will always be tonight. .”

I was shocked, "Aniang, you."

Reporting to the Longevity Palace, this is not something I can press in private.Although Concubine Demu is kind, she is also for us. She has assisted the late emperor in the Sixth Palace for many years, how can she be soft-hearted?It is a big taboo for a palace maid to betray her master. If she hands it over, even if she does not die, she will lose her skin.

Although I was saddened by her betrayal, but the matter has not been investigated clearly, I really don't want to let her go.After all, we have been together for more than ten years, and my heart cannot be so hard.

But my concubine, the most gentle and uncontested concubine, always reminds me to care for the concubine of the palace.
"You can't let yourself be willful about this matter. If there are people with crooked thoughts around you, it's like a sharp knife hanging on their head. I definitely can't tolerate such a slave. Your concubine Demu must mean the same thing."

"But the matter hasn't been investigated yet. I always want to know about her."

"Clear? Let me ask you, which things in the palace are clear and clear. Apart from such things, the first thing you should think about is how to clean yourself up. If Ruxiu is really wronged, let's try to correct it." It's all right to argue, but after you left, I have checked carefully. People dislike you for being incompetent, and have already relied on Li Ronghua. You are now a mother-in-law, but you are making people laugh. What's the point? You should go back and sleep well now As soon as you wake up, you should go to the Longevity Palace right away and make a clean break with that lowly servant girl."

Looking at such a resolute mother and concubine, I also knew that I couldn't argue with it, so I could only pause and said: "Well, my daughter will just go to the Longevity Palace."

The concubine mother looked at me with a bit of hatred, but she didn't stop me after all.

When Huai Shu's figure disappeared into the rustling autumn night, Jiang Qinshui still stood there like a sculpture under the moonlight.Rujuan quietly dismissed a group of palace attendants, went into the house and took a woolen cloak for her master, and went to Qinshui to put it on for her.After thinking for a while, he persuaded: "Mother, Diji is young, no matter how cautious she is, she is still a child, and her heart is soft and friendly. If you are worried, keep her with you and teach her well. Concubine De will definitely handle that hoof properly. Yes. There will be more things in the Emperor Jijing in the future, so I will naturally understand your painstaking efforts."

Qinshui caressed the somewhat old cloak, and sighed: "This time, her fate is good. Xun Fangyi and Li's grievances suppressed her vigorously, and the queen mother did not want to embarrass Pei'er. A ditch passed easily. What about next time? I have always pitied her for being cautious at such a young age, and she has failed to teach too much. I can't, I can't help being cruel. I can't stay with her for the rest of my life!"

The cold wind in the October night was biting, I was walking in the narrow and long corridors outside Ningshou Palace, and the swishing autumn wind pierced through my flesh and blood.My fingers were numb from the cold, and my mind couldn't stop churning, thinking that even if I saw Ruxiu, so what, the concubine mother is not such a cold person, and she must be sure that Ruxiu's betrayer is the one who sent her away .Concubine Demu will definitely not tolerate. Do I want to disobey Concubine Demu who loves me to protect a servant who betrayed me?Or, as the concubine mother said, draw a clear line?I can't do it in my heart, so what if I go?It just adds to the sadness.

Before I finished these thoughts, the end of the corridor was already clearly visible, and it even became brighter and brighter.Xiaoyun was careful, took a few steps to cling to my side, and said, "Diji, it looks like someone is coming over."

As soon as she finished speaking, I heard the sharp voice of the inner eunuch: "This is an errand for Concubine De, and others avoid it."

My heart skipped a beat, Xiaoyun said loudly: "Emperor Concubine Huaishu is here, you haven't seen Qiantui yet."

The eunuch had already walked into my line of sight at this time, he seemed to be taken aback, his face turned pale, he was stunned for a while before remembering to salute, and then he apologized and said with a smile: "It's so late, the autumn is deep and the dew is heavy, Why are you in such a secluded place, what if your jade body catches a cold?" After saying that, she moved back, as if she was blocking something.

My heart skipped a beat, doubts abounded, and I shouted: "What are you sneaking in the way of, is there some shady activity going on?"

The eunuch was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "Emperor Ji, this slave has been wronged, this unlucky job, if it wasn't for the orders of the Empress Dowager De..."

I was frightened by the words "unlucky and unlucky", and I couldn't restrain my ominous premonition any longer. I desperately went in the direction that the inner prisoner was retreating. I pushed aside, but before I had taken a few steps, the sight in front of me made me unable to take any more steps.

It was such a terrifying scene, enough to make me unforgettable all my life. Under the dimly lit palace lantern, there was a motionless corpse on a stretcher. A head crushed and deformed by a strong impact was pale, and the blood on his face was already dim.Only vague familiarity can be discerned from the distorted facial features.

And the owner of that corpse is so familiar to me, yet so strange.When I was a child, I followed me with a pair of maids, a girl who said "Be careful, Emperor Ji", why did she die like this!

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