The emperor's scheming: alluring the world

Chapter 228
The next day, Mr. Yang wrote to resign from office. The reason was that his beloved son Yang Fan fell from a horse and became disabled.

At the same time, news came out from the harem that Yang Xianling's condition had worsened. Because Yang's son-in-law was worried about his daughter's condition, he had no intention of going to court, and a few days later he handed in a letter of resignation.

Half a month later, Wei Jinyang had a national funeral. Empress Yang Xianling and her mother contracted a strange disease, but they both died. Therefore, it was ordered to suspend weddings for half a month to commemorate the queen who died young.

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-April, and Li Sister-in-law went to the palace to visit the noble concubine, and when she came out of Xicining Palace, she held Yunyu's hand and walked slowly to the remote Lengyuan, where the maids who made mistakes were imprisoned.

Since Yancai returned to the palace early after the Beiqifeng Mountain fiasco, she has settled down a lot. Apart from greeting the noble concubine, she rarely leaves the Huayan Palace. Listen, never argue.The imperial concubine holds the phoenix seal in her hand and holds the power in the harem. She knows that if she wants to live a stable life in the palace, she must please the imperial concubine. Therefore, no matter how indifferent the imperial concubine treats her, she will arrive at the west on time every day. The Palace of Compassion and Ning pays respects to the noble concubine.

It's just that when Yancai girl arrived at Xici Ning Palace, she saw Li Meiying's back from a distance, she didn't want to think about it, but suddenly remembered that the direction Li Meiying was walking was not the direction of going out of the palace, let alone the direction of the imperial study. This discovery aroused her curiosity, she hesitated for a while, then supported the female officer's hand, and followed quickly.

Although Leng Yuan is a place to imprison maids who make mistakes, but most of the time, Leng Yuan is idle, because the maids who are sent to Leng Yuan have received extremely severe punishments. If they are thrown here, they will die within a few days due to the deterioration of their injuries. When Li Sister-in-law arrived at Lengyuan, there were two strong nuns guarding outside the gate of Lengyuan. Seeing Li Sister-in-law coming, the two nuns hurriedly saluted flatteringly: "Greetings to Princess Yaohuang, Princess Wanfu Jinan."

"Exemption from courtesy." After Li Sister-in-law finished speaking, Yunyu handed over two 100-liang silver notes to the nuns.

The two nuns took the silver ticket, one of them turned and pushed open the gate of Lengyuan, the other made a gesture of invitation and said: "Princess, since the mother and daughter were delivered, they have been noisy every day, but it has been a long time, they You can’t make noise, and you can’t scold.”

"You have taken good care of me. I will ask for rewards for you in front of the emperor. Now I want to go in and have a private talk with them. You stay outside the cold garden and don't allow anyone to come near." Laughing, Li Sister-in-law said slowly.

"Yes!" The two nuns said in unison, when Li Sister-in-law entered Lengyuan, they hurriedly closed the gate and dutifully guarded the gate.

Yancai girl saw Li Meiying entering Lengyuan from a distance, and saw two nuns guarding outside Lengyuan, hesitated for a while, and finally turned back the same way, although she really wanted to find out what Li Meiying was doing, but she He wouldn't be so stupid as to rush out and question the two nuns, Li Sister is too cunning, it's wiser not to confront her head-on.

The house in Lengyuan was dilapidated due to years of disrepair, and many rooms didn’t even have doors. Li Meizhen held Yunyu’s hand and went to a wing room with the door still on the south side.

Yunyu kicked the door open, and then helped Li Meizhen to step slowly into the musty smelling room. There were a few dusty rotten wooden chairs lying around in the room. Turning her gaze again, she settled on In the inner room, the two mothers and daughters who were tightly hugging each other were wearing tattered court ladies' clothes and their hair was disheveled. It was obvious that they hadn't bathed and groomed for a long time.

Li Meizhen didn't make a sound, she just quietly looked at the mother and daughter who hugged each other tightly, her eyes showed an emotion called appreciation.Yes, she was admiring their downfall, falling from the infinite scenery to the cold garden where no one lived. Not everyone could bear such a huge psychological gap.

The two people who were in close contact didn't know whether they had woken up or felt a strange gaze. They moved their stiff bodies and raised their heads slowly. When Li Sister-in's beautiful face came into view, Yang After being dazed for a moment, Xianling stood up slowly, but because she kept the same posture for too long, she didn't realize her feet were numb and swollen after she got up, and she fell back to sit down again in a useless way.However, Princess Dachang was much calmer than Yang Xianling. At this moment, she just stared at Li Sister-in-law coldly. There was no monstrous hatred in her eyes, but infinite self-mockery.

Taking a full view of the Eldest Princess' expression, Li Meiying smiled and said, "It seems that Leng Yuan's miserable life has made the Eldest Princess understand many things that she could not understand before."

The eldest princess showed a self-deprecating smile and said, "Yes, when a person is in a desperate situation, he can naturally see through many things. Didn't your sister Li, who was also in a desperate situation back then, think of using me to escape from the clutches of the Wu family?"

"The Eldest Princess is wrong. I didn't use you back then. I just gave you a way that you are willing to help me." With a shallow smile, Li Sister-in-hand corrected her.

The self-deprecating smile on her face was even thicker, but the eyes of the eldest princess were full of regret: "If I knew that I saved a white-eyed wolf back then, I would never have stretched out my hand to hold you. Died at the hands of the Wu family, Ling'er is still a noble queen to this day."

"Princess, you are wrong. If I had died in the hands of the Wu family back then, you and the Yang family would have been suppressed by the Wu family. There is no place for Xin to live, and even Yang Xianling, the queen, would not even think about it. You can't even compete with the Wu family, and you still want to compete with me! Wei Yuezhen, you have never seen clearly how much you weigh. I have warned you again and again, but you have provoked me time and time again. Now It is a great gift to you that I keep you alive." Shaking her head, Li Meizhen retorted coldly.

"Li Sister-in-law, don't pretend to be so great about yourself here, you leave me and my mother alive, you just come to see how down-and-out my mother and I are when you are bored, you are here to humiliate us " Yang Xianling on the side stared at Li Meizhen and said bitterly.

"Hypocritical! Great! It's ridiculous. In front of you, I will never need it, but you are right about one thing, Yang Xianling. I spare your mother and daughter's lives. I really want to see how you are when you are bored, because I found that humiliating you is quite an interesting thing." After saying this, Li Sister-in-law supported Yunyu's hand and turned around to leave, but she only took a few steps when she turned around suddenly, with evil eyes shining in her eyes. She said with a smile: "Yang Xianling, I forgot to tell you that what you saw that day was deliberately shown to you by me. As for the blue and purple marks on my body later, I also painted them with rouge and gouache. Nothing happened to the emperor."

(End of this chapter)