Queen's scheming

Chapter 26

Concubine Xue Gui's eyes were slightly red, and she looked at Li Tianyou aggrievedly. Shen Qingyi's move was clearly revenge for her killing a maid in the Lingsu Palace yesterday.

Li Tianyou looked at the aggrieved concubine Xue Gui, and then at the strong Shen Qingyi. He wanted to ease the relationship between the two, but he didn't know how to speak.Shen Qingwan, who is used to observing words and expressions, saw this situation, hurriedly blessed her body and saluted, and said softly, "Empress, is a hundred sticks too much? Those two maids were also raised by their parents, so they had no choice but to enter the palace to serve them." , Earn some monthly money, supplement the family, suffer bitterly, wait for the age to be released from the palace, and reunite with the family, if the family knows that the two of them died in the palace, does it seem that our palace is too impersonal?"

Shen Qingyi looked at Shen Qingwan with a smile. Shen Qingwan was speaking to Shen Qingyi, but her eyes glanced at Li Tianyou from time to time. The meaning behind the words was that the queen Shen Qingyi was too cold and regarded human life as worthless, while she herself It is a bodhisattva who is compassionate and compassionate to the world.But all men are like this, just look at Li Tianyou's expression when looking at Shen Qingyi.

"The country cannot stand without law, and the army will be chaotic if there is no discipline. If the palace doesn't follow the palace rules, what's the use of having the palace rules?" Shen Qingyi glanced at the people in the hall, her face was beautiful, her expression was cold, and she was as inviolable as a fairy. "Is there anyone else who wants to intercede for those two maids?"

Above the main hall, there was complete silence, Rong'er and Qiao'er were dragged down the hall, the ending was already doomed.

Shen Qingyi turned her head, looked at Shen Qingwan who was staring at Li Tianyou affectionately, and said sternly, "Although Shen Ronghua is my sister, this palace will not show favoritism. Once she enters the palace, she is a royal concubine, equal to you, They are all my sisters."

Shen Qingwan just came back to her senses at this moment, and looked at Shen Qingyi in a daze.Shen Qingyi stared at her calmly, and said, "Shen Ronghua prayed for Concubine Min, but she was weak and fainted, and she was supported by the emperor's body. During the time of praying in the Buddhist hall, you should have a pure heart and few desires, but you..." Shen Qingyi shook Shaking his head, with a look of indisputable anger, "I think you are like Concubine Xue, and your time in the palace is still short, so you, the palace servants of Xuehua Pavilion, will take the place. Except for the maids of the first class, the rest were sent to the Department of Punishment, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs reselected those who understand the rules to serve Shen Ronghua."

Shen Qingwan kowtowed to thank Li Hua with rain, and then looked at Li Tianyou with a pair of slender eyes, with a look of delicacy and powerlessness.It's a pity that Li Tianyou didn't even look at her, his heart was full of Shen Qingyi's angry face.

In the lectin palace.

Shen Qingyi was reclining on the imperial concubine's couch, a pink lotus bloomed slightly on her chest on the pea-green short jacket, her cherry-red skirt sprinkled with gold and moonlight was fluttering in the air, and the lotus petals on the skirt were dancing.Li Tianyou followed into the hall, staring at Shen Qingyi with a smile.Shen Qingyi turned her pretty eyes, glanced at Li Tianyou, picked up a bright red silk handkerchief and covered her face, and ignored him.Li Tianyou smiled helplessly, sat down on a corner of the imperial concubine's couch, lifted the veil dotingly, and said, "Are you angry with me?"

"How dare a concubine?" Shen Qingyi turned around and muttered with her back to Li Tianyou.

"You still say you're not angry, you're not angry, why are you ignoring me?" Li Tianyou supported Shen Qingyi's back and said in a low voice.

Shen Qingyi was silent for a long while, and finally replied in a low voice aggrieved, "It's not that the concubine ignored the emperor, it was the emperor who ignored the concubine. If it wasn't for the concubine who punished your two new favorites these days, I'm afraid it would be hard to see you." Your Majesty." Shen Qingyi stood up, distanced herself from Li Tianyou, and stood alone under the window, the morning sun shone on her slender figure, leaving a lonely figure on the gold and stone bricks.

"Looking at the grievances of Concubine Xuegui and Shen Ronghua, does the emperor feel distressed? If you feel that the concubine has done too much, you can abolish the concubine. Anyway, Feng Jianzheng also said that the concubine is not suitable for the empress." Before Shen Qingyi could finish speaking, Li Tianyou covered her bright red lips from behind, and said softly, "What nonsense are you talking about? On the day of the wedding, I promised you that as long as I am here, the queen's seat will be yours." , no one can pass you by."

Shen Qingyi was a little bit reluctant, "Without real power, there is nothing but a show, what does the concubine want for that cold seat?"

"How can it be a show? You have the final say on everything in the harem. Today you deliberately troubled Concubine Xuegui, didn't I say nothing and followed you? She killed you One court lady, you give her back two, isn't that okay?" Li Tianyou embraced her behind Shen Qingyi, buried her head in Qingyi's neck, and said softly.

Shen Qingyi wiped away tears that didn't exist at all, turned her body and pouted, and said cautiously, "Your Majesty, do you know?"

Li Tianyou pinched the tip of Shen Qingyi's small nose, and said affectionately, "How can I not know about the trouble? I thought I came to you after paying the Queen Mother yesterday, but when I met Shen Ronghua again, it might be I was so tired, I actually fell asleep in Xuehua Pavilion, and I was busy going to court early in the morning, so I was delayed."

"The emperor just said it nicely. If the concubine hadn't called Yu Lian to look for it this morning, how could the emperor be willing to come? You haven't set foot in the Ningsu Palace for more than ten days. If it wasn't for this, the concubine would not have been killed." That insult without a wink, not to mention the loss of a court lady, and being disobedient in public." Shen Qingyi said delicately, her words were indescribably soft.

Li Tianyou was silent and said in his heart, "Qing Yi, I'm doing it for your own good. According to Feng Jianzheng's words, as long as I treat you coldly, you will be safe and sound. So what is it if I suffer from a little lovesickness?" Li Tianyou She didn't dare to tell Shen Qingyi what she wanted in her heart. Shen Qingyi had always been at odds with Feng Jianzheng, so she wouldn't believe it. Everything that was said came true.

In Zhaoyang Palace.

"Who are you not easy to provoke, but you want to provoke the queen? You even killed the maid of Ningsu Palace?" Tang Zihan roared angrily.

Concubine Xue Gui frowned, and said dissatisfiedly, "How big a deal is it if I kill a court lady? Not only did my father and mother send someone to tell me about me, but you also rushed to Zhaoyang Palace to reprimand me. I do What's wrong with that? Who let the palace maid steal the tassel hairpin that my sister gave me, and killing her with a cane would be considered an advantage to her."

"Why are you like this?" Tang Zihan pointed at Tang Aoxue angrily, and threw off his sleeves angrily, "This is not about a court lady at all. The important thing is that the court lady is the first-class court lady next to the queen."

"What happened to the first-class maid in the empress's palace? She was also a lowly maid who stole things. I killed one of the maids, and she killed my Rong'er and Qiao'er. Why?" Concubine Xuegui felt wronged. Nothing to attach.

"If your Rong'er and Qiao'er were killed, you would be very sad. Could it be that the Queen's personal maid was killed, and she wouldn't be angry? You don't even think about it, how could it be such a coincidence? The people around the Queen are so precious I have never seen your jewelry before, so she wants to take your hairpin so shallowly. Even if she really took your hairpin, can she be so stupid and wait for you to get it?" Tang Zihan glanced at Tang Aoxue, My sister is so careless, how can she survive in this deep palace.

"Brother, do you mean that someone deliberately provoked my relationship with the empress?" Concubine Xuegui suddenly became quiet and asked.

Tang Zihan sighed, stared at Tang Aoxue, and said word by word, "The snipe and the clam fight for the fisherman's benefit!"

Concubine Xue Gui was stunned for a moment, then murmured, "Only Concubine Duanjing can do this. She is the Empress Dowager's niece, I won't make things difficult for her, why should she do this?"

Tang Zihan sat on the armchair beside him, took the tea cover in one hand and flicked the tea froth, and said, "It's not necessarily true. In today's situation, on the surface, Shen Ronghua is implicated by you. The queen doesn't want to be talked about. Leveling a bowl of water was the only way to punish her. But in reality, it might not be the case. If the queen just wanted to level a bowl of water, it would be enough for Xuehua Pavilion to hit fifty boards up and down. Those palace people are all replaced."

"Yes, the queen only left behind two first-class court ladies beside Shen Qingwan. As far as I know, those two court ladies were originally served by the queen." Concubine Xue Gui thought for a while and said, "Could it be that the queen can't trust her own?" younger sister?"

"Maybe. I always feel that the queen is not as scheming as her parents said. Her punishment for you today is for revenge. The punishment for Shen Ronghua may be that she sees through everything that she provoked. In short, you You must not act recklessly, and you must think carefully before making a decision, especially not to conflict with the queen. In this deep palace, you must be careful when encountering people and things. It is always right to think more. " Tang Zihan exhorted worriedly.

"Okay, I'll make a note of it." Concubine Xue Gui also felt that she was a little reckless, this time she was afraid that she was really taken advantage of by others, and her desire to take revenge on Shen Qingyi has also faded, she still can't confront the queen now ," Aoxue feels much more at ease with her elder brother accompanying her in the palace."

Tang Zihan sighed, and said with a smile, "I will find another suitable maid to bring to the palace. You can rest assured that you will be pampered these days, and don't think about anything else."

(End of this chapter)