box of hearts

Chapter 239
Wanwan glanced at Qingtian's face, seeing that he was still generous in such a predicament, she couldn't help feeling a little bit of admiration in her sighs, "When the second concubine heard that Concubine Rong and Concubine Wan secretly went to Beifu Came here, and immediately followed, making Miss Duan feel wronged, but luckily she didn't suffer any bigger losses."

All along, because of Qi She's respect for his second concubine, Qingtian also maintains awe of Zhan.And this was the first time that she was so close to his wife's room. Through the half-open door, she had already seen a golden sedan chair descending in front of the corridor.

"I'll go and say hello to my concubine." She whispered to Wan Wan, she used both hands to shave the messy hair behind her neck, pressed her cheeks, straightened her skirt, and walked out the door.

Under the silvery sweet-scented osmanthus tree, Qingtian came down the steps step by step, his head and neck drooping like a lotus stem after late autumn, "My concubine, Mrs. Duan, this is my first visit to my step-concubine, please accept my concubine's gift." Facing the sedan chair, he kneeled down and kowtowed three times.

There were twenty or thirty guards, eunuchs, and maids huddled behind the sedan chair, the curtains of the sedan chair were tightly closed, and a soft voice came from inside: "Ruizhi, tell her to lift her face up. "

"Yes." A maid standing by the sedan window nodded, turned to Qingtian and ordered: "Mr. Duan, Madam told you to lift your face."

Qingtian hesitated for a moment, then slowly raised his face.She knew she looked ugly, with red, swollen eye circles, bloodstains and bruises.She thought that in the past years, Zhan Shi must have felt resentful and sad because of her, so she hoped that such a face would make Zhan Shi feel a little better.

She clearly saw two jasper armor sticking out of the car curtain, opened a gap in the curtain, behind the gap, there was a pair of eyes staring at her.But Qingtian couldn't see the pair of eyes, so she had no choice but to lower her upper body again, a strand of loose hair slid over her shoulder and fell into the dust on the ground, "Your Majesty is walking on the ground, please forgive my haste We have never been far away to welcome you. It is a great honor to meet you today. If the empress does not abandon my humble status, please get off the sedan chair and sit in the inner hall. I will offer tea to the empress and salute, and ask the empress to teach me a lesson."

This time, the people in the sedan chair said a few more words, but Qingtian couldn't really hear them, seeing Na Ruizhi put his ears to the window of the sedan chair, he put his hands up and raised his face, "Your Majesty said no, Tell you to go back. Masters Rong and Wan, let me go back to the mansion with your mother."

Hearing a few "clicks", the bearers in long shirts and back armors rubbed the sedan chair bars, then lifted the sedan chair, and the black entourage retreated together.Concubine Rong and Concubine Wan dragged their feet to the end, and suddenly took advantage of the one in front who was not paying attention and turned back to face Qingtian.

"You're lucky! But don't think that the concubine saves your life because she thinks highly of you. She's just loosening her feet and giving an ant a way to live. You don't even piss to see what your identity is. Please come in and sit? Do you really think that people's feet are willing to touch the ground here? No, it will make people laugh out loud."

"Oh, I almost forgot. We heard that the wife of Zuo Yong, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, was tricked by you into worshiping her godmother a while ago. Bah, that fool! But she is foolish, so you can't be foolish too. You're still wishful thinking Can you regain favor with the lord? Let me tell you, the lord will arrive in Beijing tonight, but you don't have to think about it, he will never come to you again—the lord already has a new love. "

"A few days after you were kicked out, at a dinner party in Jingjizhuang, there was a little girl who sang Ling Song and amazed everyone. She was favored by the prince and stayed with her every day."

"This little girl's name is Tao'er. She is a female singer of the Jiaofang Division in the palace. It is said that she was born in a graceful and graceful manner, surpassing the peach blossoms in March. She is only ten, five, or half of your age. !"

If more or less, Qingtian still has a glimmer of hope between her and Qi She, now this hope has exploded deep in her viscera like a bubble.

The huge force of the explosion tore her apart from the inside out. In a trance, Qingtian felt that her internal organs were flowing all over the floor.

She couldn't see who it was anymore, it was just a swaying shadow, and said to her word by word in a tone of viciousness beyond all imagination: "This is what you look like now. What we want to see, Finally saw it."

"You two ladies, the second concubine is urging you!"

"Here it is, here it is." Concubine Rong and Concubine Wan finally gave Qingtian a glance, and turned away with extremely brisk footsteps.

The maidservants of the Beifu ran forward one after another, and Yingzhi was the first one, crying and hugging Qingtian, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, are you okay? Your Majesty, Your Majesty! What's wrong with you, Your Majesty, speak up, Your Majesty, Empress..."

Qingtian didn't hear it, as if there was a bombardment in her head, and the deafening noise was just a timid and sweet name: Tao'er.

5.
Tao'er is wearing a red gold skirt and jacket, painted cloud shoulders, and her black hair is combed into a bun. In her bun, she only wears a golden hairpin with butterfly flowers and hanging tassels. The swallowtail playfully slants across one shoulder. .Two arched eyebrows that are neither thick nor thin are bent upwards, a pair of thrush eyes underneath, a melon-seeded face is snow-white, and a layer of thin and fine fluff grows on the plump cheeks, like unripe peaches.

Her legs were crossed under her body, revealing gilded peony flower embroidered shoes, and a mahogany pipa carved with the word "乐" on her knees, with her face half lowered, she said softly: "The residual red floats on the water, and the plum branches are small. At these times, who will paint when the brows are faded? Because of the sorrow of spring, why is the sorrow not gone? After the people leave, the mountains and rivers are far away.

When he sang to the point of emotion, he turned every word, and his cheeks were flushed.Suddenly there was a shock, he threw away the pipa and poured it into his arms, and pressed his hand to his heart, "Oh, this car is so bumpy..."

The carriage compartment was covered with a scarlet velvet carpet, once entering two compartments, a long couch was looming inside the half-partition curtain, and a small desk was placed in the outer compartment.Qi She sits behind the desk, dressed in a python robe with brown gold thread on the back of an eagle, with deep black eyes; together with the delicate and charming Jiji girl beside him, are the tiger and Qiangwei.Tao'er lightly shook the silk jade rabbit gold earrings by her ears, her eyes drooping, "My lord, I'm going to Beijing soon, how will you arrange me when I get there?"

Qi She raised the corner of her mouth and smiled at her, "Didn't I say that? I give you the position of concubine Wang."

"Tao'er knows this. Tao'er is asking, where can I be placed?"

"The palace is so big, you are so small, where can't you fit it?"

Tao'er suddenly became thoughtful, and used her fingertips to twirl the ends of her hair hanging in front of her shoulders and said, "Tao'er is fortunate to be able to serve the prince in three lifetimes. I'm just a little singing girl in the teaching workshop, I'm afraid that those wealthy concubines and ladies in the palace look down on me and make things difficult for me."

Qi She lowered her eyes and placed her bets, her smile grew stronger, "Then what do you want?"

Tao'er raised her face upwards, half-closed her eyes, and surrounded by two clumps of long eyelashes, "It's good that the prince will give Tao'er a separate house outside, so that Tao'er can accompany the prince with peace of mind since he has a good name, and the prince doesn't have to stick to it." There are many rules in the mansion, and being happy is the best of both worlds."

"You are very thoughtful."

"My lord, did you agree?"

"Say more."

Tao'er immediately hugged one of his arms, shaking it back and forth, "Why do you say that again? That Duan Qingtian was born in a very humble family, but because the prince likes it, he gave her the best garden in the world, 'Ruyuan', why can't I? Tao'er No matter how bad the son is, she is much better than her. Didn't the prince say that he likes Tao'er, and the prince's golden words are a lie?"

As if watching a child make all sorts of cute naive gestures, Qi She looked at Tao'er, put his fist to his mouth and said with a smile: "So, do you want to live in Ruyuan?"

Tao'er bit her lower lip and smiled, "If the garden has been abandoned for many years, how can I have the time to repair it? Anyway, the prince is also annoying that surnamed Duan, so why don't you send her away and free up Shichahai's northern mansion for me? Is it?" Qi She just hecked twice this time, but didn't answer.The car jolted again, Tao'er smiled sweetly, and shook his arm again, "My lord, can you tell me something?"

"When you enter the palace, you will live in my bedroom first to show your great honor. I will take care of my concubine again, no one dares to belittle you." Qi She still had a faint smile in his eyes, and picked up the quilt. Tao'er put down the pipa and handed it to her again, "Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, let's sing "Zhe Gui Ling"."

Chaoge Yexian, after singing the mist in the distant mountains, the night is already dark, revealing a full moon.

The moonlight fell obliquely into the window, casting a small circle of bright silver light on the ground.And in the place where there is no light, there is a shadow curled up, tears streaming down Qingtian's cheeks in the darkness, she trembles like an autumn leaf, and her mind is wandering.

He attacked her, snubbed her, and treated her in the coldest way. His legal wives and concubines either insulted her in every possible way, or disdain to speak a word with her face to face, and—Qingtian's heart clenched into a ball —He has a new woman.But, didn't he ever tell her the most beautiful love words?Do the craziest and bravest thing for her?He kissed her back to back with death, protected her from the ravages of the world, he made her every day blooming and bright...his bad, his good, she counted them one by one in the fullness of his evil His loyal heart is like an ant carrying rotting debris, like a dog frantically trying to get a little bit of meat off a bone that has already been gnawed bald.

He saved her and killed her again. He built the Seven Treasures Pagoda for her and then overthrew it.The pagoda fell down, pressing her under layers of rubble, with fragments of faith and her own blood stained all around her head, body, arms and feet.

(End of this chapter)