box of hearts

Chapter 216 Broken Marigold (4)
"Ah..." Ying Xi rubbed his fat white hands together for a while, and suddenly said, "My lord, do you still remember that maid named Jin Sha?"

Qi She said "hmm" and waited for the next article.

"At that time, the Empress Dowager, the Holy Mother, killed the gold sand, and later asked the prince to persuade the emperor. The prince assumed that the gold sand was still alive, and asked the emperor to write a letter to her. This letter was handed over to the prince by the old slave. The prince did not Take it, but let the old slave burn it directly."

Knowing what he meant, Qi She nodded lightly, "But my father-in-law never burned it."

Ying Xi slid down his seat in response, and prostrated himself on the ground, "The old servant always felt that this letter was the emperor's true love, so he burned it just like that. The old servant really didn't dare, and couldn't bear it, so he presented this letter to the Queen Mother when he reported it to the Queen Mother. I went up and said specifically that the prince ordered it to be burned. Alas, I blame the old slave for being confused, thinking that if the queen mother burns it by hand, it will be fine. If the old slave does it, it is a serious crime of deceiving the emperor. The old man didn't accept it either, so he asked the old slave to take it and burn it. The old slave took this letter to the left and right, and after thinking about it, he, just, alas... the old slave is confused! The old slave deserves to die!"

Qi She stretched out his arms and waved his hands sideways, "Zhou Dun, help Eunuch get up." He lifted up the skirt of his thin silk robe, and put one leg over the other, "Elder-in-law, it doesn't matter if you say so." , how did you lose this letter?"

With Zhou Dun's support, Ying Xi stood up, threw off the plain clothes on his body, and stopped sitting down, shaking his head from side to side, "I haven't lost it."

Both Qi She and Zhou Dun frowned, staring at Ying Xi together.The old mink was only looking at the ground, his lips that looked like walnut skins were moving, "The night before yesterday, the Queen Mother and the Empress suddenly summoned the old slave and asked if the letter was still there. The old slave didn't turn around for a while, and told the truth. The queen mother asked the letter to go, and said in a thousand words——"The head wearing the tasseled hat finally lifted up, and the two pupils half covered by the drooping upper eyelids looked straight ahead, "Do You can't tell the prince."

A strange feeling flowed all over Qi She's body, similar to the smell of the wind making a beast's mane stand on end, it is the instinct to feel the danger coming.He put down the crossed legs, and stared back at Ying Xi with all his attention.

But Ying Xi pointed the top of his hat at him again, his eyeballs glanced at his big belly, and he said solemnly: "This old slave did not dare to lie to the Holy Mother, but the prince treated this old slave with such kindness as a mountain, and treated the emperor even more. Danxin, this old slave does not want to see any rift between the emperor and the prince. The old slave is a fool. He doesn't know what the empress dowager wants this letter for, let alone why she can't tell the prince. But the old slave is in the palace dozens of times However, I know that the more something is kept from a person, the more that person should know about it." He let out a breath full of emotion, disappointed and exhausted, "The reason why this old slave disturbed the prince so early is because of this trivial matter. A small matter. The old slave sincerely hopes that this is just a small matter. The old slave is old and useless, and his head is full of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, making a big fuss. The old slave will resign now. Oh, the cherries that the prince rewarded the old slave. Because the old slave never came."

Ying Xi bowed twice, got up and took a few steps back, then turned and walked out.

Qi She cast her eyes straight on the forever curved back until it disappeared.Then, he glanced at Zhou Dun beside him.

Zhou Dun was also looking at him, and even the scars on his cheeks looked like two eyes, staring together bulgingly, "My lord, do you want to invite Mr. Tang to come?"

4.
Before Tang Ning, the commander of the Zhen Fu Division, arrived, there was a piece of news from the newly opened gate of the Forbidden Palace: Last night, the young emperor Qi Hong suddenly fell ill.

As soon as the news reached Beifu, Qi She immediately got up in a sedan chair and entered the palace, but was blocked outside the gate of Qianqing Palace. The imperial doctor came out and explained that the emperor had taken medicine and was bedridden and had to take shelter from the wind and sweat, so all visits were exempted.After getting this answer, there were countless expressions intertwined on Qi She's face at the same time, and it seemed that there were no expressions at all.He immediately turned from the Qianqing Palace to the Chongding Courtyard, and the Governor Tang Ning was already waiting in front of the gate.

Tangning only stayed in Chongding Courtyard for half an hour before returning empty.But when he left, his solemn face and gait clearly showed that something too heavy to bear was taken away by him.

Young Emperor Qi Hong's illness was strange and violent.At first it was only typhoid fever, but then it turned into malaria, the cold and fever were severe, and the imperial doctor was at a loss. After six days, they actually wanted to send an order to collect medicine.Many princes and ministers, including Qi She, offered medicines and asked for sickness.There was a donation of medicine left in the palace, but all requests from Shiji were declined.During these six days, none of the foreign officials saw the emperor again.

On the seventh day, a fire broke out in the Qianqing Palace.

When the incident happened at sunset, a panic sounded suddenly from the Hongde Hall in the west courtyard of Qianqing Palace: "It's water!"The palace people ran around, shouting "Protect, protect", and carried Qi Hong who was on the sick bed out of the palace.In a blink of an eye, countless people poured out from all directions, rushing back and forth to put out the fire.These people were all dressed in internal servants' uniforms, and in such black smoke and emergency, no one could bother to identify their faces.

The fire was not big, and only burned a corner of the side hall.After a thorough investigation, it was found that a young eunuch lost his hand while lighting the lamp; the perpetrator was immediately killed with a stick.Qi Hong was frightened, and it was said that his illness became more and more serious, and the end of life was approaching.

The regent Qi She once again begged for a visit, but was rejected again on the grounds that "the emperor's condition has changed drastically and he fell into a coma".So Qi She waited quietly in the Beifu. At this time, he was sure that he would definitely wait for the news that he least wanted to wait for.

Of course it was Tangning who came with the news.

"The lowliness is bold and makes people set fire to the Qing Palace. Only then did they find out." Tangning went to the door at night, holding a piece of paper in her palms and holding it above her head. It seems to be a draft of an edict, the original text has been destroyed by the emperor, this is a rubbing copy, please have a look at it, Your Highness."

Qi She took the piece of paper and opened it. Even though he knew what he would see, his complexion turned pale as soon as he read the beginning.There seemed to be countless black spots colliding with the eyelids, and he couldn't understand a whole sentence. He only saw some fragments, blood red, fragmented and drifting away: I entered into the Great Reign at a young age, and it was a time when there were many government officials... Uncle Regent At first, Wang Qishe was cautious about Kuangbi, and then he entrusted snakes to protect his glory... He relied on his elder relatives, despised the emperor, was full of treacherous crimes, theft of power and chaos in government... Internally, he took heavy capital and took on important tasks, externally, he was appointed to seal borders due to good fortune... All kinds of lawlessness Love affairs are difficult to describe...a wolf has its nature, a snake and a scorpion have their heart...the king's honor and errands will be removed immediately...thinking of this, it is good and sympathetic...how can the lenient government of the court bear it? what? ... Gu Nian's previous work will lead to the end of the road.

The paper in his hand began to shake, and the shaking became stronger and stronger.Looking up from the paper, in a blink of an eye, it was Qingtian who was doubly pale and horrified.

"How could this be?"

As far as the countless flower branches outside Huaju are reflected on the window, at this moment, they are all withered claws.Qi She was nestled in a big red sandalwood triangular chair in the corner of the room, his face was so dim and colorless that all the lights that touched his body were automatically extinguished.

"'A bowl of rice raises a benefactor, a bucket of rice raises an enemy', this statement is indeed true. Qingtian, it's fortunate that you are here, otherwise who can understand how I feel right now?"

The copy fell limply in Qing Tian's hands, she understood, of course she understood.The pain of being betrayed by Qiao Yunze in the past made her desperate to survive, and it was Qi She who comforted her by her side at that time. A good article to deceive the emperor, looking at these words that are neither steel nor iron, but more piercing than any weapon, she can't find other words that can be used as a shield to shield her dear one from this piercing Heart ten thousand arrows.She had no choice but to shield herself from him, wrapping her arms around his head like a martyr's skeleton.

After a dead silence, Qi She spoke again, or her voice had a terrible sense of suffocation due to the constriction in her chest: "I was sent to Tatar as a hostage by my father when I was ten years old. For ten years, I have always dreamed—the same dream. In the dream, I was sleeping, and when I fell asleep, I opened my eyes and saw my father standing in front of my bed with a bloody knife, and then I woke up in shock. I was covered in cold sweat. During the four years when I was imprisoned, I would have this dream almost every night. In the dream, sometimes it was my father, sometimes my brother, standing beside my bed with a knife. Their knives were all It's blood, so much blood that all the water in the world can't clean it."

(End of this chapter)