The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 26
Ye Ronghua was also stunned instantly, a thin platinum collar was placed on the bright yellow silk lining.

A ruby ​​the size of a pigeon's egg hangs on the collar, surrounded by a ring of broken diamonds, the diamonds are dazzling, and the gem is even more bright red.

Ye Ronghua held the collar in both hands and was overjoyed, with an excited expression on his face. Eunuch Zhang smiled and said, "Your servant didn't lie to the young master, did you? This is the priceless gemstone pigeon blood red."

Qingchen knows a little bit that natural rubies are very rare, and the darker the color, the more precious they are. Blood-red gems are the most cherished by people, commonly known as "pigeon blood red", and such large rubies are even rarer.

Ye Ronghua's hand holding the collar trembled slightly, and his face was even more flattered, "Eunuch, why did the emperor suddenly reward me for such a good thing?"

Eunuch Zhang said with a smile: "Today, an envoy came to present the New Year's tribute and presented this ruby ​​collar. At that time, Concubine Shu was there, and she liked it very much, but the emperor gave it to the young master. It can be seen How much the emperor loves the young master."

Ye Ronghua's face was a little red, and he said with a smile: "Please go back and thank the emperor on my behalf, just say that I will personally go to thank you tomorrow."

Then he nodded slightly to Zhihua, Zhihua hurriedly took out a bag of silver and handed it over, Ye Ronghua said again: "It's cold, father-in-law is here, so I will treat my father-in-law to drink and eat the money." .”

Eunuch Zhang weighed the heavy bag of silver, bowed and said, "Thank you, my master, for the reward. If you have no other orders, this slave will leave now."

Ye Ronghua hurriedly said: "Eunuch, go slowly."

Although Qingchen was happy for Ye Ronghua, she was also slightly worried.

Just now Eunuch Zhang said that Concubine Shu also likes this ring, if she knew that the emperor gave it to Ye Ronghua, wouldn't she be jealous?
It would be fine if it was Concubine Ning or Empress, but Rong Hua, whose status is much lower than hers, how could she not be annoyed?
Though thinking like this in his heart, he couldn't spoil Ye Ronghua's interest, so he said: "The emperor loves my sister so much, my sister is really lucky."

Gu Changzai also smiled unintentionally: "Isn't it? You heard from Eunuch Zhang that the emperor is not even willing to give it to Concubine Shu. If she finds out about it, her nose will be crooked."

Ye Ronghua originally had a happy expression on his face, but when he heard this, his expression darkened, "It's not the first time she has made things difficult for me. Fortunately, the emperor protects me, and she doesn't dare to be cruel to me. I just need to be careful to guard against her."

Qingchen nodded and said: "What my sister said is that when you can't afford to provoke her, just try to hide as much as possible so that she doesn't get caught."

The three of them were talking when they saw Gu Changzai's little girl, Xin Cheng, come in and gave her a blessing and said, "My maidservant greets the three masters. Someone came from the Queen's Palace and said that the Queen's Majesty has something to ask Gu Changzai to come over." , the slave has already told her to go back first, saying that Chang Zai will go there soon."

Gu Changzai hurriedly got up, "Then I will take my leave first."

Qing Chen also got up together and said: "Since my sister is leaving, then I will go out with you, and come to play with my sisters some other day."

Gu Changzai and Qingchen left Lan Ruoxuan hand in hand, and Ye Ronghua ordered the little girl Zhihua to send it to the gate of the palace before returning.

Not far from the door, Qingchen found that he had left something behind Lan Ruoxuan, so he told Jinxiu, "I'm afraid I lost my handkerchief with Ye Ronghua, so go back and find it for me."

Jinxiu was a little worried, and said hesitantly: "It's already dark, and it may be inconvenient for the nobleman to be alone, why don't the servants come over to pick it up tomorrow morning."

Qingchen looked up at the sky and saw a crescent moon just rising, the moonlight was very good, even without lanterns, the road didn't feel dark, so he said: "When is this time, I'm walking with Gu Chang, Don’t be afraid, just go and come back soon.”

Jinxiu couldn't resist her, so she turned around and walked back quickly.Qingchen and Gu Chang were talking, and soon they reached the Taiye Pond, where they parted ways, and Qingchen walked towards Xihe Palace alone.

Her side was lonely, and it was only when she walked to a place where no one was there that she felt the silence was terrifying. Qingchen inexplicably felt a chill hit her, and hurriedly wrapped the cloak around her body, and quickened her pace.

After walking not far away, she heard the sound of chaotic footsteps behind her, and before turning her head, she felt a burst of darkness. Someone covered her with something, then covered her mouth forcefully, and dragged her away. Go to the lake.

Qingchen kicked and kicked vigorously, but he was not as strong as a human being, let alone the other party was two people, Qingchen felt from the strength that they should be two men, more than enough to deal with a weak woman.

Her mouth was blocked, and she was sobbing and unable to yell out. Although she was in a panic, she knew that she had been plotted against by someone. I don't know who my own person is, he is really a wronged ghost.

Just thinking that the person has been dragged to the side of the Taiye Pool, counting nine cold days, the Taiye Pool has already been covered with a thick layer of ice, only hearing a "plop", Qingchen has been thrown into the dug ice cave .

As soon as she fell into the water, she only felt as if she had fallen into endless darkness. The icy cold lake water invaded, and if countless steel needles were inserted into her body, it hurt her all over.

The lake water poured into her mouth and nose, and she couldn't even breathe. She only felt that the surroundings were pitch black, and her body sank involuntarily. Then, countless twinkling stars slowly appeared in front of her eyes, as if she saw a clear night sky.

In the little bit of consciousness that remained in Qingchen, he suddenly felt that his life was really unlucky, and he didn't do anything harmful, but he couldn't even die well. He died once in the sewer, and once in this frozen lake.

More importantly, no one knew that she had fallen into the water. She was afraid that her body would not be discovered until the lake thawed next spring. She couldn't even imagine what she would look like by then.

When she was in despair, she suddenly felt something warm grabbing her wrist, pulling her to float up, and then something warm and cool came over her lips and gave her a breath. She was in the water. His eyes were wide open, but it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.

When she woke up, she was lying on Yinfengxuan's bed, Yunfeng and the emperor were there, but she had a severe headache and couldn't remember what happened.

Seeing that she was awake, the emperor slightly relaxed his frowning brows, heaved a heavy sigh of relief, and said softly, "I finally woke up."

The fever was high all day and all night, even Yunfeng panicked, fearing that she might have a fever.

Yun Feng kept watching over her without closing his eyes, seeing someone woke up and hurried over to ask for pulse, Qing Chen felt dizzy and rubbed his forehead drowsily.

After a long time, I slowly recalled the scene of falling into the water, and suddenly leaned over and threw myself into Yunfeng's arms in horror, "Yunfeng, someone is going to kill me, I don't know who is going to take my life, but, but I am I was tied up and thrown into the lake, someone wanted to kill me..."

(End of this chapter)