box of hearts

Chapter 209: Ji Xianbin (17)
Concubine Shun's make-up and tears were tragically beautiful, and red rails were cut on her face, "But all of this is useless, and nothing can keep you. You finally stopped coming, you left completely, Even when I was sick and asked someone to invite you, you refused to come to see me. I thought you would be the same as before, and would come back as soon as the freshness wears off, but you have been going on like this for a whole year, a whole year. Stay in the garden. Every time you go back to the mansion, I will find an excuse to stay outside my courtyard, looking at the Fengyue Shuangqing Pavilion of the second concubine, hoping to see you come out and come to me. You have never been here. You leave in a hurry every time, as if somewhere, someone is waiting for you."

She laughed again, with a cold and sad smile, "My lord, Xiao Shun doesn't want much, as long as I know that if you don't come today, you will always come tomorrow. If you don't come tomorrow, you may come the day after tomorrow, but you won't come the day after tomorrow." Come on, there is still the day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow... as long as there is something to look forward to, it is enough to have something to look forward to, but you don't even leave this to me. "

"So you're having an affair with someone behind my back? With an actor?" Qi She looked directly at Concubine Shun, her gaze seemed disappointed and tired, but it was nothing.

Concubine Shun raised her head suddenly, her shiny black pupils were like two pebbles, and she threw it straight forward, "My lord used to hold that surname Duan in his palm, didn't she carry you and her behind her back?" Old lovers have an affair? Why can’t those of us who are trampled under the feet of the prince? What about actors? I hate that I can only sit in a car and go to a temple while visiting a temple, but if I can walk to the street Going up, I will find the dirtiest and filthiest beggar in the street to be with him! Since you can find a prostitute, why can’t I find an actor or a beggar?!”

Qi She was almost speechless, Erqing, took half a step forward, bowed his waist, "Xiao Shun, you humiliate yourself like this, just to get revenge on me?"

Concubine Shun's whole body was emitting a strange red light, as if her blood was boiling, "My lord, if you can't see the docile flowers, then you will always take a second look at the poisonous snake that bit you!"

A suffocating sense of depression hit, Qi She finally looked at Concubine Shun carefully, as if looking at a dark abyss alone.He took a deep breath, backed away from the abyss, retreated to the spot, and turned his head away.Concubine Shun's voice became restrained and calm again, and she came from a very low place: "Since I did this, I have been preparing for this day. If you are busy in the city, or you die in secret, the prince just orders it. Just please Prince, don't take your anger out on my family, even if it's a concubine and your husband and wife."

Then "bang, bang" several times, it was Concubine Shun kowtowing to him.

Qi She kept turning his face away, unwilling to look at her again, and he walked away without even saying a word to her.The last thing he left her was a very light and deep sigh, as if hearing the morning bell from Di'anmen a few miles away.

Concubine Shun suddenly collapsed to the ground, crying heart-piercingly.

The second concubine Zhan waited in the hall, and when she saw Qi She walk out, she greeted her, "My lord..."

"All the servants who have served Concubine Shun will be killed with sticks, and the rest will be exiled in Lingnan as hard labor. Concubine Shun—" Qi She's eyelashes trembled slightly, and her words were indifferent, "Destroyed as a commoner, claustrophobic for life .”

Zhan opened her mouth, then pursed it lightly, "Your Highness is lenient, it's just that this bastard is too cheap. In addition, I also want to plead guilty with my Highness. It's all because of my negligence in discipline. I always think that these people have nothing to do every day. It is only because they are allowed to go out occasionally to relax, who knows that nothing will cause trouble and cause such scandals. I really have no face to face the prince, and ask the prince to come down."

Before she knelt down, Qi She stretched out her hand and said, "What are you doing? The clans are always difficult to keep clean. These things of betraying the master's affection are not new, and they are hard to guard against. Didn't Kang Wang's mansion also bring out some people this time?" Is the world concubine and the actor not clear? Don't have the thought of blaming yourself."

Zhan's plump and round face is like a full moon reflected in the water tank, with subtle light and trembling.She lowered her forehead and replied in a low voice: "Thank you, my lord, for your compassion."

"The matter of Concubine Shun is over, and there is no need to mention it again. As for the criticisms from the people in the mansion, you have always been able to manage the family, so just watch over the aftermath."

"Yes, your lord doesn't need to worry about these details, just leave it to me." Zhan stopped for a while, then raised his head hesitantly, "It's almost two o'clock, the lord is in the mansion, or -"

"It's here with you." Qi She lowered her head and pinched the corners of her eyes, then slightly raised her voice outside the curtain, "Xiao Xinzi, go to Shichahai and tell me that I won't go back."

There was an immediate response from behind the curtain, followed by hurried footsteps.Zhan Shi also turned her head and ordered loudly: "Ruizhi, the lord is resting here today, go prepare water and make a bed."

Zhan's bedroom is elegant and clean. A plain curtain and a wooden partition divide the room into two halves, with a palace-style step bed on one side and a six-poster canopy bed on the other.The maid Ruizhi first waited on Qi She to turn off the lights and lower the curtain, and then went to the other side of the curtain to cover the embroidered quilt for Zhan and closed the bed tent.

The long night passes by bit by bit, and everything dies.Zhan listened quietly in the dark, but never heard the snoring from the other side, and then heard the rustling of clothes.She hastily opened the curtain, turned on the lamp and asked, "My lord?"

Qi She's shadow was reflected on the ground, with a bit of moonlight through the window, making it look extremely cold. "I suddenly remembered that there is still an urgent matter to deal with. You should sleep in your bed, don't get up."

As swiftly and swiftly as any soldier, he was gone.

Ruizhi helped Zhan to get on the bed, and raised his lips in dissatisfaction, "I said 'something urgent', and I probably went back to Shichahai North Mansion. Since the prince asked someone to quietly renovate the North Mansion last year, the slaves knew that it must be for the reception. The one surnamed Duan is back. Madam, look, as soon as that mouse spirit comes back, the prince will—" Ruizhi raised his eyes, met Zhan's eyes, and immediately closed his mouth timidly.

During the third watch, Qi She appeared in front of Qingtian.She was leaning on the bed with a copybook, her fingers moved slightly, as if she was soaking in the late night, writing some invisible loneliness into the air.

When she heard the sound of footsteps, the copybook slipped from her fingers, "Who?!" But after only a moment, only the latter was left with fear and surprise in her eyes, "You won't come back if you don't say it?"

Qi She approached, pulled out a well-burned red wax from the candle stick of the bedside candlestick, and used it to ignite several new candles one by one, "I'm worried that you are afraid alone."

Qingtian's plain face then brightened up, and the skin was thin. "The room is full of people, Yingzhi and the others are just outside, what do I have to be afraid of?" She picked up the copybook that had fallen on the quilt, and flapped it needlessly.

Qi She took the copybook out of her hand and put it aside, "Aren't you afraid? Hearing me coming in, I was so scared that I dropped the book."

"I think it's a man's step, but you can't tell it back, so you're just taken aback. What are you doing and running back?"

"I promised to come back to accompany you every day."

Qingtian gave him a serious look, "You also promised to give me two emeralds."

Qi She laughed happily, "Isn't it too busy to take care of it? I'll ask Sun Xiuda to bring it to you tomorrow, you little money fanatic."

When she saw him smiling, she relaxed a little, and folded her hands on the back of his with a smile, "Are you okay?"

A trace of boredom covered Qi She's face, but she still smiled slightly, "Okay, why not?"

It seemed that after thinking about it again and again, Qingtian sighed sadly: "After all, it's all my fault."

He turned over his palm and squeezed her hands into his palm, "I knew you must think so."

"In Yangzhou, I told you that you treated me too well. I am a combination of favor and resentment. There are so many concubines in your house. I think they all resent me, and they will also resent you. Young woman Year-round grudges, long-term stay in the room, it is inevitable for Hongxing to cheat, so it is not my fault to find out the root cause?"

"I am most annoyed by this kind of argument. From ancient times to the present, any mistakes made by men, ranging from small family changes to major subjugation, are all blamed on women. The collapse of the Wu Kingdom has nothing to do with Xi Shi, and the decline of the Tang Dynasty cannot be blamed on Concubine Yang Gui. Who put a knife on the necks of those monarchs to force them to indulge in their sensuality! Now no one forces me to be unwavering with you. Nothing to do with it."

"Why can't it be related? Didn't you love and treat everyone equally in the mansion? The late Concubine Shou, the dead Cuiyi, and today's Concubine Shun, aren't they all? Later, they were ignored. , nothing more than to take care of my mood."

"Then according to what you mean, it is to ask the master to send dozens of people in the mansion, from the second concubine, the side concubine, the concubine to the concubine, to the concubine of the concubine, Ji Ren, to pass by one by one every day, and come to you at the last turn? Sir, are you all happy?"

Qingtian lowered his eyes and smiled, "I don't know what to do either. If you show mercy everywhere, I will definitely feel uncomfortable, but if you are too devoted and cause things like today, you will feel uncomfortable, then I will I'd rather be the one to suffer."

"It's nothing bad." Qi She rolled the corners of her mouth, and smiled openly, "I'm very qualified to say a few words about wearing a cuckold now. I don't know that you were being plotted by someone back then, and I witnessed you and The old lover was in the bed between the two of us, and I will never forget that feeling in my life. It was like my heart was being torn out. It was so painful that I couldn’t bear it, and all thoughts were lost. But today’s Concubine Shun, how should I say it? At best, that is I feel like someone spit on me in my meal, and I feel so nauseous that I just want to throw it away from my eyes, that's all."

(End of this chapter)