A Collection of Old Sayings by Fourth Sister You

Chapter 51 Forbidden Court (51)
Going around in a big circle, but in the end it was still powerless. (1)
The noble concubine pretended to be surprised, "What's going on? What kind of poison is so powerful!"

Everyone in the room was terrified by the sight in front of them, staring at each other in horror, not understanding.Lu Jingdong knelt on the ground, and walked a few steps forward, "The minister clearly checked it before... I waited for a cup of tea, and there was nothing unusual..." He paused, cold sweat dripping down his forehead .After being suffocated for a long time, as if seeing his fate, his face was finally ashen, and he paused deeply, "I'm going to die!"

The Empress Dowager was so angry that her complexion changed, and she said angrily: "At first it was Yisheng Pavilion, but now it is even better, the poison has actually come down to Funing Palace! Now that it has been tested, why does the silver needle turn black? Did the poison come from the sky? You are the chief steward of Funing Palace, tell me a reason!"

Lu Jing muttered, how could he say anything.The noble concubine turned her head to look at A Rong, and said to the queen mother: "Your Majesty, don't forget, everyone knows that the inspection is on the gate of the hall. There are dozens of steps from the front hall to the back hall. This distance is enough for those who are prepared to do it." gone."

The imperial concubine's words really aroused the anger of the queen mother. The queen mother stared at Yunhua and asked sharply: "Did the queen see it? The soup sent is poisonous. How do you explain all this? Fortunately, I came in time , if you are a step late, I am afraid that the official's body will be collected for you. You have been around the official's house, tell me, what is going on!"

Yun Hua was so frightened that she didn't know what to do. If she asked her to explain, even she couldn't figure out the beginning and end. How to explain?She turned around in panic and looked at Jinshang, "The officials... the ministers and concubines were wronged."

The queen mother sneered and said, "Are you wronged? You didn't instigate, and the people around you have such courage? Where did the official family treat you badly, and you want to hurt him like this?" Raising her voice, more than ten people rushed in. A waiter is here.Pointing at Ah Rong who was on the ground, she said, "Fork it! Tell me, did the queen order you to do this?"

Ah Rong's face was pale, but he just shook his head, "The maid didn't poison...The maid doesn't know..."

"Tough mouth!" The queen mother gritted her teeth, "If you don't tell me, I can't do anything to you? Give me a slap on the mouth and hit me hard!"

The servant rolled up his sleeves, and with one slap, Ah Rong's cheeks were raised high.Zihua's heart shrank when he saw it, and he said in a trembling voice: "Don't hit her, I haven't asked why you want to hit her?" Turning around and crying, "Guan... Guan, don't you believe me? How can you not believe me?" Me? Don't you know my heart for you?"

He looked at her with a serious face, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's because I trust you too much. Queen, I haven't doubted you since that day, but how do you explain what happened today? I gave you a chance, You and I don’t need to hide our words. For me, facing this reality is no less cruel than Ling Chi. But...you came back, did you come back to me because of your sincerity?”

Yong Hua's eyes widened in disbelief.Understood, he probably felt that she and Yun Guan had joined forces to make a trick, just to convince him that she had given up on her original relationship and accepted him sincerely.She couldn't explain it at all, she thought he would understand, but now it doesn't seem to be the case.He was one step away from the gate of hell, and anyone would be afraid and angry.So he can't forgive, he's already starting to doubt her.

She was terribly disappointed, she treated him with sincerity, and when she finally encountered a ditch, her first reaction was to protect herself.She looked at him with tears in her eyes, "I've said everything I should have said to you. If you can't believe me, it's not because you doubt me, but because you doubt your love."

There was a rolling fishy sweetness in his throat, he dared not speak for fear that blood would spurt out when he opened his mouth.The advisers around him once advised him to pay attention to the queen, but he didn't listen to them at all.He felt that he understood her, she was the most pure and transparent person in the world.She can't hide what's on her mind, and love and hate are equally distinct.But he was wrong, everything was done for him before.If you don't turn against Yun Guan, how can you win his sympathy and trust?She was willing to be hijacked, but after Yun Guan got away, he wanted to take her away, and then left him on the way, making such a detour, just to bet that he would not let her go.Why did Yun Guan return to court the next day?Because if Jinshang dies, there must be a legitimate successor who will stand up and preside over the overall situation as soon as possible... Good calculation, the empress shoulders a heavy responsibility.Being his queen has wronged her, but she is still willing to be with her childhood sweetheart, she doesn't want him.

"My love... is a joke." He couldn't control his voice, which was choked and distorted.But no matter how downcast he is, he cannot lose all face in front of outsiders.He turned his eyes and ordered coldly, "There is no noble concubine here, so go back to Yisheng Pavilion."

The imperial concubine felt very sorry, it was a pity to miss such a good show.After all, he still protects the queen, but it doesn't matter, even if he misses the past and doesn't deal with it, there is still the queen mother.If you underestimated the Queen Mother, that would be a big mistake!
She pulled back her skirt and said yes, then took another look at the queen, and then walked out.

The servant's torture had stopped, Ah Rong was beaten so badly that his cheeks were bruised.Zi Hua felt pain in his heart, but he couldn't protect himself, life and death were in the hands of others, so he could only resign himself to fate.

The Empress Dowager sat in the armchair and said sharply to Ah Rong: "Why don't you tell me? I know you are just a maidservant, and you don't have that much courage. If you are ordered by someone, if you tell it, you are an accomplice, or you can get it back." One life."

With her hair disheveled, Ah Rong raised her head to look at Yun Hua, her eyes filled with tears.Shaking his head slowly, "I don't know anything, what does the Queen Mother want me to confess?"

The Empress Dowager stared at her fiercely, "There is no one standing on the road from the gate of the palace to the Liuzhang road in the inner bedroom. You bring the soup, and Shang Shi tastes it first, and then it is inspected by Lu Jing. After passing the first two roads , you will be safe later. On the way to the sleeping hall, you hid the poison in your sleeve, and you spilled it into the soup when no one was prepared, thinking that no one knew about it, and never thought that you would meet another one at the end, which would lead to failure, am I right?" Yan After that, he said to Yunhua, "The queen doesn't need to hide anymore. Don't think that others don't know about the personal relationship between the queen and King Ning. You have cherished each other in Sui country. You entered the forbidden court just to murder the official family and help him reset. We Are you guessing right?"

There was a buzzing in Yunhua's mind, everything about him was under the control of others, they were silent, they all deliberately allowed the situation to develop.But how innocent she is, she has been kept in the dark all this time, Yun Guan didn't die until not long ago, and she didn't know it was to help him win the world!
Feeling cold in her heart, she managed to stand still while leaning on the table.Looking at the Empress Dowager, then looking at the official family, he murmured: "Why is the Empress Dowager guessing me for no reason? If I had known earlier, I would definitely not have participated in it."

"Really?" The queen mother said with a smile, "King Ning kidnapped you, why did you let you back? You guys have put on a good show, I really can't bear to interrupt it. If you are more patient, wait for a year or so. Maybe it will work. It's a pity that you are too aggressive, because you are afraid that the officials will make trouble at any time, and they will conspire to preemptively strike before it is too late." Yibi said, shaking his head and sighing, "Queen, queen, you really don't know what to do. The officials Treating you with absolute sincerity, why would you give up the good life you got, and stand on the edge of a knife with others and fight your life!"

They just planted spoils on her head, and Yun Hua was confused at first, but then he seemed to realize some reasons, and said with a sneer: "If you want to commit a crime, there is no excuse. It is actually worthwhile for Zong to sacrifice a queen and bring down King Ning." Is the concubine right about buying and selling?" She could see through it, and she didn't care how the queen mother framed her, but Jin Shang's attitude chilled her.She said sadly, "Is this how the officials see me? If you want me to die, you don't have to use such tricks. As you said, if you kill me with a sword in the suburbs, you can kill Yun Guan with great fanfare. I hope? You're hurting like this, you know?"

The Empress Dowager did not wait for Jin to speak, and said angrily: "Smart words! The official's life was almost ruined in your hands, and you still have the face to blame him?" Turning to the recording scene, "It doesn't matter if the Empress refuses to plead guilty, go Send Zhao Yan, the minister in front of the palace, and order him to lead Yulong to arrest King Ning, as evidenced by their friendship in Sui Kingdom, King Ning's actions are inseparable from what the queen has done."

Lujing was about to take orders, but Ah Rong said no loudly.She gave the queen a mournful look, broke free from the restraints, fell down in front of the empress dowager and said: "The maidservant is responsible for everything. The saint doesn't know about this matter. The empress dowager takes the maidservant whenever she wants. Don't make things difficult for the saint."

The queen mother tucked her hands and looked down at her, "Don't take the blame indiscriminately in order to protect your master. How can you, a little maidservant, have a deep hatred against the officials and dare to kill the king?"

Ah Rong shivered into a ball on the ground, clasped the cracks in the bricks and said: "My servant is following orders. Before I left Sui, I was summoned by Queen Mother Guo. Queen Mother Guo promised my maidservant a lot of money and ordered me to wait for the opportunity to poison and kill officials. Saint With a simple mind, Empress Dowager Guo intentionally avoided her, and only ordered her servant to be alone. Today when the envoy Sui came to visit, the servant felt that the time was ripe, so she decided to do it. She never thought about the difference... God's will, there is nothing to say, Just want to die quickly."

These words of hers surprised Yonghua, she couldn't believe it, and she couldn't connect her with Queen Mother Guo.Is this begging for mercy?It is clearly provoking another bigger disaster.

She approached in a daze and asked, "Ah Rong, why did you do this?" The most unexpected danger was around her, and she regarded her and Chunwo as relatives, and she had been with her for nine years. , I didn't expect to be such a big kid who seemed to have no intentions.She felt like a knife was twisting in her heart, and she fell down and sat down with her chest pressed, feeling in a trance that she was at the end of the road, and she was afraid that there would be no more peaceful days.She was pushed into the abyss by the person she trusted the most. Even if she survived by chance, all that was left was endless pain.

The Empress Dowager turned around and said, "The officials can hear that it was the Empress Dowager Guo of the Sui Kingdom who sent her here."

Today he was dizzy from the fever, but he knew in his heart that the poison must have been created by Yun Guan, if he didn't use Sui Guo as a shield, Yun Guan would definitely die.Sure enough, a good master, and a good slave and servant, master and servant are of the same mind, how lucky Yun Guan is!As for the Empress Dowager, in fact, she has a clear understanding of the world, and she is willing to make mistakes, and she has her own reasons.He looked at the queen, who was sitting there paralyzed, unable to see clearly what was contained in her expression.He only felt a kind of endless pain. He loved her so much, and even wanted to cover it up for her at the last moment, but it was nothing to her.The previous love was all fake, after all, it was someone else's love. He was watching from the sidelines, eager to try, trying to take over, but in the end he failed miserably.For Yunguan to drag Suiguo into the water, no matter how much Ah Rong does, her future will be ruined, ruined...

He took a few breaths, closed his eyes with difficulty and stopped looking at her, "It's not appropriate to say anything for now, this matter is of great importance, and we can't make a conclusion based on the testimony of just one palace official."

The Empress Dowager said hello, and ordered Recording, "Detain everyone in the Queen's Palace, especially those who are close to her, the wet nurse, and the two female officials. They must be interrogated strictly. Is there someone from the front of the palace? This poisoned person will be sent to prison, and as for the empress... Yongjin Palace cannot stay here any longer, she will be sent to Xiyi to wait for her punishment."

The so-called Xiyi is a forbidden cold palace, and any concubine who makes mistakes and falls out of favor will be imprisoned there.There is no rich clothes, fine food, high beds and soft pillows, and the almost half-abandoned palace is cold and lonely. You can only see a few people when you deliver meals!

The queen seemed to accept her fate, and did not plead again when she was taken away.The queen mother let out a sigh of relief, turned back to before going to bed, and said calmly: "This is a good time, we can use this to eradicate King Ning, and there is also an excuse to raise troops. The imperial concubine needs to be treated kindly by the officials. After all, the Three Kingdoms stand together and win After defeating Wurong, don't let the Sui Kingdom form an alliance with Wurong, it will be beneficial to us. Hold back for a while, and after defeating Sui, it will not be too late to annex Wurong."

His heart was in a state of turmoil, he stared at the screen dreamily, her figure disappeared, and the others fell into a coma, "Your Majesty, go back to Baoci Palace, we will discuss everything later."

The queen mother frowned and looked at him, "Are the officials planning to get out of it for a woman? The attack on the Qixi Festival last time could have taken the opportunity to attack, because you still had concerns, and missed it for nothing. If you don't seize the opportunity this time, when will you wait?" As he spoke, he shook his head sadly, "I just blame the gentleman's agreement signed by your father at that time. It's fine if you don't make progress, and it also restrains the hands and feet of your children and grandchildren. A king who doesn't want to rule the world, what kind of emperor should he be? Do you just want to abide by it?" Is it not your desire to rule the world and all nations to come to court? Officials should be vigilant. If you slack off today, someone else's knife will be on your neck tomorrow. If you are upset at that time, you will regret it. It's too late."

He quietly listened to her talking so much, and suddenly said: "Your Majesty was named a noble concubine during the first emperor's time, so did your Majesty and Daddy love each other?"

The queen mother was stunned for a moment, "What is love in the emperor's house!"

He nodded slowly, "I remember that my father doted on Yun Guan's mother at that time, and the empress's love was a good story for a while. The empress has never loved, so I don't understand the taste of it."

The queen mother was a little distracted at first, but when he hit the sore spot, she suddenly changed her face, "The officials are sick and confused? You are the king of a country, and you talk about love or not! You know love, what's the use of knowing, she It's not you who loves you. Throw your empty heart into the ditch. It's worthless. Have you seen the palace maid who poisoned him? His eyes are wide open, and he is not a shrewd person at first glance. If it wasn't for the queen's instruction, she Do you have the guts? Don't excuse her anymore. In fact, you already knew it in your heart, but you just didn't want to admit it. The Queen went and came back, it was clearly a trick they set up. And..." He paused for a while , with a little embarrassment on her face, "You are so in love with her, can she give her body to you?"

Jinshang was stunned for a while, "Why did your mother ask this? The second day of the wedding..."

"The fast silk handkerchief is fake, do you really think I can't see it?" She glanced at him, "You are careful in everything, I have no experience in this, there is so much blood in the consummation room, just a few drops. Send it here There is a lot of red, my mother is from here, is she still being fooled by you?" She looked at her son sadly, feeling a little sad in her heart, "Satisfied, if a woman really loves you and wants to live a good life with you, she won't hide it. Not for you. Only when you are a real husband and wife and willing to bear children for you, can this woman be truly reliable. Now I suspect that she has had an affair with King Ning, and that's why she misses him so wholeheartedly."

His head started to hurt violently again, and the more the queen mother said, the more confused he became.Except for the fact that she fell asleep on the night of the fifteenth day. In fact, she was willing to do it the previous time, just because the two of them were inexperienced and it was wasted. She should not be blamed for this.If it is said that she and Yun Guan are making love, he knows it will not, the palace sand on her arm is always there, her innocence cannot be doubted.But why?Why do you want Ah Rong to make the soup?Why did Ah Rong poison the cup?He is now very sick and groggy, and he can't think of anything clearly.She was taken west and carried away, he felt sad and hated her, as if she was in a daze and about to die.He didn't respond to the mother's talk with him again, and fell silent, without a sound.

"Are the officials prepared? I am afraid that King Ning knows that they will do something, and it is unknown if there will be any action."

He frowned and turned his back. Naturally, he had been prepared before.Yun Guan is not that stupid, he can't conquer the forbidden army in the inner city, anyway, he is in his position, if he is really poisoned to death, he is not afraid of being left behind.

The queen mother waited for half a day without seeing his answer, so she went there helplessly.He squinted out the window, the glazed tile roof of the front hall was covered with silver light, he reached out and tore down the curtain to block his sight, his heart was boundlessly dark.

The moon in Bianliang shines on Funing Palace, and also on Xixie.

Rong Hua was pushed into the dark main hall, staggered and fell to the ground.The blue bricks are slightly cool, and she is wearing a grand gown. Against the simple furnishings in this temple, there is a kind of desolation that the prosperity has turned to ashes.They didn't even give her a candle, and she suddenly tasted what it was like to fall from the sky into hell, and she was terrified, looking around, the silent night, the dense palace, no one around her, they were all imprisoned, No one can save her.She was afraid of the dark, and she was also afraid of being alone. She felt the same way when she thought of being abandoned in the wild on the night of the fifteenth day.

(End of this chapter)