Return of Jin Yi

Chapter 28
It was her that Chu Ci was on guard against, how could he be willing to be alone with her.Slightly frowned, wondering, "Chu Ci is clumsy, I'm afraid it will disturb the Queen Mother's rest."

Hearing her refusal, the queen mother frowned slightly, and after a moment of silence, she sighed regretfully, "Since you don't want to, I can't force you...you just wait here for a while, wait for Jing'er to come down, and then follow her." He will go back to the Regent's Palace together."

As he said that, he got up and took a step first.

Chu Ci is ready to "send off the boss".

But who knows, when the Queen Mother Ren got up, another aunt in charge beside her spoke up, leaned towards her, and said, "The princess may not know something, since the beginning of autumn, the spirit of the lady has always been poor. , I often wake up at night... The imperial doctor prescribed some calming soup, but it has no effect... I heard that you are a famous goddess doctor in Beijing, why don't you take a look for your mother today?"

As soon as she said these words, every word and every sentence made sense, even if Chu Ci wanted to refuse, she couldn't bear the reputation of being unfilial.

He had no choice but to smile against his will, and agreed, "I'll go in with the Queen Mother and rest."

"Good boy." The Empress Dowager Ren narrowed her eyes and praised comfortably.

Chu Ci took Baoyue forward and followed Queen Mother Ren to the inner room.

When she arrived at the bedroom, she carefully took the pulse of Queen Mother Ren.

Empress Dowager Ren's pulse condition is very good, and there are almost no problems.Chu Ci closed his eyes slightly, thinking to himself—it wasn't a physical illness, it was a psychological illness.

This empress dowager had killed so many concubines and princes in her early years. Now that she is old, she must be haunted by nightmares every night!
Thinking like this, she opened her eyes after a long time, withdrew her hand, and said with a smile, "The empress dowager's pulse is very good. The reason why she woke up suddenly at night should be something on her mind. Such symptoms do not need to drink medicine. Just read a few volumes of Buddhist scriptures and calm down."

Empress Dowager Ren's eyes flashed sharply when she heard Chu Ci talk about "things on her mind".Hearing that she didn't talk nonsense afterwards, she regained her kindness.

"Can copying Buddhist scriptures really help me sleep peacefully?" She seemed to be really disturbed by nightmares, and after a while, she looked at Chu Ci and asked lightly.

Chu Ci nodded, paused, and said again, "If you still can't sleep peacefully, I'll give you a soothing incense prescription, let the palace people make it, and burn one every night to ensure you sleep peacefully all night."

"Is there really such a useful soothing incense?" Queen Mother Ren was a little skeptical.

While helping her to lie down, Chu Ci said, "I'll leave the incense recipe, you can try it when the time comes, and you'll know what I said is true."

"Then I will be waiting for your good news." The Empress Dowager Ren smelled the faint scent of medicine on Chu Ci's body, and slowly closed her eyes, feeling unprecedentedly comfortable.

After the Queen Mother Ren fell asleep, Chu Ci slowly lowered the gauze curtain, and then walked out lightly...

Outside, when Baoyue saw her coming out, the heart that had been hanging in his throat finally fell back into his stomach.

"Princess!" She called out in a low voice, reaching out to support her.

Knowing her worry, Chu Ci lightly patted the back of her hand.Then, as if thinking of something, she took off the nine-winged phoenix hairpin on her head and handed it to Bao Yuedao, "This thing is too eye-catching, please keep it for me."

Baoyue gave an "um" and put the radiant phoenix hairpin into her sleeve.

……

Empress Dowager Ren slept for more than an hour.

When I woke up, it was rare to feel refreshed.

After changing clothes, she couldn't help but look at Chu Ci twice more, and praised, "The medicine box on your body smells very good, which makes me very relieved."

Aunt Elan also said, "I haven't slept so well for a long time, so it can be seen that the princess is not only the lucky star of the regent, but also your lucky star."

When Empress Dowager Ren heard Elan mention Meng Jing, the smile in her eyes deepened.

She glanced at Chu Ci again, her eyes suddenly paused, and she asked suspiciously, "Where is the nine-winged phoenix hairpin that I gave you?"

Chu Ci is used to being neat and neat, and has never paid much attention to these external things. Hearing this, he was stunned for a moment, then looked at Baoyue and said, "When you return to the Queen Mother, the phoenix hairpin is rare and precious. I am afraid that I will bump into it, so I ask Baoyue to put it away." gone."

"Really?" Queen Mother Ren looked at Baoyue after smelling it, and said with a smile on the corner of her mouth, "But this thing is really rare, if you don't wear it, it's better to pack it in a special agarwood box."

After saying that, he turned to Jianmei again, "I remember that the box is with you."

"Hui Niangniang's words are correct." Jianmei said, looking at Baoyue again, "Please also give me the phoenix hairpin, Miss Baoyue, and I will help you put it on."

Baoyue replied "Yes", and raised her hand to touch her sleeve.

The next moment, his face turned pale.

"Girl holding the moon?" Seeing that the movement of holding the moon stopped, Jianmei raised her voice to remind, "Take it out!"

Baoyue reached into her right cuff to grab the air, and she clenched her fist tightly.

Eye sockets suddenly turned red.

After being dazed for a long while, he gritted his teeth suddenly, as if he had made a decision, fell to his knees with a thud, prostrated himself on the ground, his teeth chattering, and said word by word, "I beg... please spare the Queen Mother, slave... slave, please get the phoenix hairpin lost!"

"What did you say!" Empress Dowager Ren's complexion changed, and the glazed lamp in her hand fell to the ground with a bang, dyeing the snow-white Persian blanket under her feet scarlet, and said with a gloomy expression, "Say it again, what did you lose! "

"Report to the Empress Dowager..." Before Baoyue could speak, an indistinguishable voice came from outside.Then Eunuch De came in from the outside, holding a gold wire tray in his hand, and inside the tray was the head of the nine-tailed phoenix hairpin.

The tail of the hairpin is missing.

"What's going on!" Seeing the half-broken nine-tailed phoenix hairpin, Empress Dowager Ren looked even worse, staring at Eunuch De coldly, and asked sharply.

Eunuch De didn't dare to hide it, and hurriedly said, "If you go back to your mother, this is Mrs. Lou, who cleaned Gong's house, and picked it up from the floor of Gong's house. The servant recognized that it was Empress Xiaohui's most beloved hairpin back then, so I dare not conceal it. I’m here to present it to your empress for disposal!”

Empress Dowager Ren looked at the broken hairpin in the tray, and her voice trembled slightly, "Where's the phoenix... Where's the phoenix tail?"

"Going back to your mother, Mrs. Lou only picked up the phoenix head. The servant guessed that the phoenix tail... the phoenix tail is probably... maybe" fell into the latrine.

In the last sentence, Eunuch De didn't dare to say it out of fear of polluting the Queen Mother's ears.

But how could the Queen Mother not understand.

Little by little, she moved her eyes away from the broken hairpin and turned to Baoyue.There was no outburst of anger all over her body, but just that one look, that glance, Baoyue couldn't bear it anymore.

She felt that her spine seemed to be broken, and she couldn't lift it up.

On the other side, Chu Ci's eyes were full of trouble.

Is this the game for today?
Could it be that she didn't give the phoenix hairpin to Baoyue earlier, and now she is the one kneeling there.

"Queen Mother..." She opened her mouth and looked at it with complicated eyes. Feng sat on the unassuming and magnificent woman, suppressed the anger in her heart, and said in a hoarse voice, "I beg you to bypass Baoyue this time..."

Empress Dowager Ren seemed not to have heard her begging for mercy, she lightly parted her red lips, and said word by word, "If you dare to desecrate the relics of Empress Xiaohui, you will be killed!"

The last two words came out of her mouth one by one.

In just a moment, tears welled up from Chu Ci's eyes.

She looked at Baoyue with a distressed face, and was about to rush towards her.

"Don't stop the princess!" Elan shouted at the critical moment.

The next moment, Chu Ci was held back by two strong Wu Nams.

Chu Ci desperately wanted to break free, but how could the two old nuns who had learned martial arts be able to compete with her little strength.

For the first time in her life, she hated her uselessness.

He hated himself for leaving all the silver needles and poisons in the palace before leaving the palace.

I hate myself for not being able to protect even the closest people around me...

"Hold the moon!" She screamed heart-piercingly, watching her being dragged out.

She also saw the last message left to her when she was dragged out... She told her with her mouth - don't cry, don't cry, slaves don't hurt!
How could it not hurt!

Outside, one after another subdued sobs penetrated into her ears like steel needles, scratching and puncturing her eardrum painlessly.

Chu Ci raised his head, tears streaming down his face.

There was a whimper like a trapped animal in his mouth.

Hug the moon!

Hug the moon!

She shouted the name in her heart, and her mind was filled with every frown and smile.

When she was holding her silver box, she looked cute and delicate.

The firm appearance when she accompanied her into the palace and said that she would advance and retreat with her.

When she was finally dragged away, the way she forced her to comfort her with a smile...

The more she thought about it, the more she cried.

I don't know how much time passed, and finally, the whimpering outside stopped, and the two Wu nuns also loosened their grip on her.

Chu Ci was free, and ran out without caring about his already limp body.

On the green brick floor outside the Compassionate Ning Palace, bright red blood was left all over the place. Chu Ci looked at it, and felt that his eyes were red... On the torture bench, Baoyue seemed to have his last breath.

Chu Ci rushed over, hugged her head, and called "Hold the Moon" over and over again.

Baoyue opened her eyes with difficulty, and wanted to say something, but her mouth was full of blood, winding down the corners of her mouth, dripping onto Chuciyuebai's dress, and opened bloody words .

Her pupils had already dilated, but she still looked at Chu Ci persistently and worriedly, her lips twitched.

"Small...be careful...be careful..."

Chu Ci put his ear to her face and heard what she was saying.

It turned out that this silly girl was still worried about her.

She felt her heart suffocated, and the next moment tears burst again.

Baoyue still wanted to tell Chu Ci something, but she couldn't muster any more strength, her hand finally slipped down slowly, and she closed her eyes reluctantly.

"Hold the moon!" Chu Ci cried out in grief.

The next moment, I felt a sharp pain in my lower abdomen, and there seemed to be some warm liquid gushing out from under my body.

She panicked, and when she realized what it was, her consciousness also became chaotic.

Closing his eyes, he could only see a black figure running towards her...

……

Wait until she wakes up again.

It's already the beginning of the Huadeng.

After she regained her senses, she murmured "Hug the moon", turned over and was about to get out of bed.

"Aren't you going to have this child?"

She had just lifted the quilt, and before she had time to get off the ground, a stern voice suddenly came in from outside.

The next moment, Meng Jing came in from the outside in a cold suit, holding a celadon bowl in his hand.

As soon as Chu Ci smelled it, he knew it was a miscarriage medicine.

Taking it from Meng Jing's hand, she gulped it down.

After drinking, wipe your mouth.Looking at him coldly, she said in a trembling voice, "Baoyue...have you brought her body back?"

Mentioning Baoyue, Meng Jing's face became more emotional. He lowered his eyelids, sat down beside her bed, and said, "That girl is loyal."

He didn't answer her question directly.

Chu Ci's heart ached again in an instant.

But after a moment of silence, she still asked again, "Didn't you bring it back?"

Meng Jing nodded, "What she committed was a serious crime, and the one from the Compassionate Ning Palace won't give her the dignity of a whole body."

Hearing what he said, Chu Ci's heart was suffocated again, she leaned back on the bedpost, covered her face with her hands, tears overflowed from between her fingers, and she choked up in pain, "...she has suffered a lot in this calamity. , She blocked it for me, originally the target of the queen mother was me, and it was me who deserved to be damned... Baoyue, she died for me!"

"No, she didn't die for you." Meng Jing stretched out her hand, embraced the trembling Chu Ci into her arms, hugged her tightly, patted her on the back, and said, "Her target is not you, From the very beginning, her goal was to embrace the moon."

"..." Chu Ci only thought that Meng Jing was comforting her, and cried even harder.

Only Meng Jing knew.He wasn't trying to comfort Chu Ci, he was telling the truth.

Empress Dowager Ren is afraid of his power, and with her temperament, she will never kill his princess.

She will only take a roundabout way, start from the side, curve to save the country, and achieve her goal.

Just like this time, she never thought of making Chu Ci positively from the beginning.

She only made a fuss about hugging the moon, so even if Chuci's baby will not be saved later.

He can't blame her, he can't justifiably attack her.If you want to blame, you can only blame Chu Ci for being too soft-hearted, a girl can cause her to be in chaos.

……

Chu Ci was tired from crying, and fell asleep again in a daze.

Imperial City, Ci Ning Palace.

The Empress Dowager Ren was sitting in front of the dressing table, and behind her was holding a sandalwood comb to untangle her hair, a virtuous father-in-law with a face as white as paper.

"How, is the fourth child's pregnancy stable?" Queen Mother Ren looked at her well-maintained face in the mirror and asked in an indistinguishable tone.

Eunuch De was taken aback when he heard the words, and then said cautiously, "I heard it was saved."

"It's fate." Empress Dowager Ren smiled, with a sudden look of hostility in her eyes.

It took a long time before I suppressed the hostility, then raised my hand to press Eunuch De's hand that was handed out for her, and said, "I'm in a bad mood, I want you to accompany me tonight."

Eunuch De felt the silky, satin-like skin on the back of his hand. After his heart fluttered, a trace of embarrassment appeared on his face, "I just had an accident today. I'm afraid the regent will stare closer these days, or... it's better to wait Good day!"

After hearing what he said, Queen Mother Ren turned her head and looked at him with a half-smile.There was no coldness on his face, but Eunuch De felt a sense of crisis out of thin air.

With a shrinking heart, he quickly smiled and said, "The servant listens to the mother."

"..." Empress Dowager Ren didn't say any more, stood up, smiled alluringly, lifted the blue belt around his waist, and pulled it to the side of the bed...

On the roof, a pair of eyes saw this scene clearly.

Regent's Mansion, Study Room.

After Meng Jing heard Qinglongwei's report, her pupils shrank instantly, and she asked sharply, "What you said...is it true?"

"I don't dare to lie to the lord, I have seen all this with my own eyes." Qinglongwei clasped his hands with a serious expression on his face.

Meng Jing nodded and waved at him, "Go down, keep monitoring!"

"Yes, my lord!" Qinglongwei took the order and left.

Meng Jing stared quietly at the candle in front of her, thinking about what Qinglongwei had just reported, a plan slowly appeared in her mind.

Chu Ci had been raising her for more than half a month before she could get out of bed.

On this day, she felt better, so she proposed to go to Chengtian Temple outside the capital.

Meng Jing pitied her for her frailty, and naturally responded to her requests.

Dang even asked people to prepare the carriage and all the things needed for staying overnight in the temple.

At noon, when the sun was at its best, she helped Chu Ci out of the Prince Regent's Mansion.

Chengtian Temple is thirty miles outside the capital, and if the carriage travels slowly, it will take about two hours.

Therefore, by the time Chengtian Temple arrived, the sun had already started to set.

Before getting out of the car, Meng Jing glanced at the silver box in Chu Ci's hand, "Why are you holding this all the way?"

Chu Ci raised his head and hooked his lips reluctantly, "I heard that Chengtian Temple is a place of geomantic omen, I want to set up a tomb for Baoyue in the back of the temple, and in this silver box are some of her favorite jewelry. "

Meng Jing nodded, "Knowing that you miss her so much, her spirit in heaven will rest in peace."

Chu Ci did not respond to his words.

Outside the Ci Ning Palace that day, she watched Bao Yue die.At that time, she swore in her heart that she would avenge her, and use Queen Mother Ren's blood to pay homage to her soul...

So now, she doesn't have to rest in peace, nor does she have to close her eyes.

She hoped that she would wait for the day when she would avenge her.

At that time, she will personally see her off with a glass of dirty wine!

Chengtian Temple is built on the mountainside, and it takes a full [-] steps to go up from below.

Chu Ci had just recovered from a serious illness, and his body was still very weak.

After walking only a few steps, my legs seemed to be filled with lead, and I couldn't move a step.

Meng Jing was very conscious. Seeing that she was tired, she squatted down in front of her, "Come up, I will carry you on my back."

She was not polite, so he carried her on his back and walked all the way up.

"Meng Jing..." She leaned on his back, called his name, and asked softly, "Is it because I am the only one who can extend your heirs for you because you are so kind to me?"

Meng Jing didn't expect her to ask this question.

He climbed up a dozen steps in silence without making a sound.

He didn't know how to answer her.

The answer is yes, it will break her heart.

The answer is no, and it violates my own heart.

"Would you mind telling me about that woman? The woman in your heart..." Chu Ci didn't seem to notice Meng Jing's resistance. He lay on her back, pressed his lips against her earworm, and said another sentence.

This time, Meng Jing's body visibly tensed up.

Her arms around her legs, the muscles burst out instantly, like iron arms.

His tears flashed through thick pain, as if he remembered the most painful and unforgettable thing in his life.

"Meng Jing, are you going to keep her in your heart for the rest of your life?" Chu Ci couldn't wait for his answer, and felt a little angry.

His husband hides a woman deep in his heart like a treasure, and he is reluctant to even say a word!What is this called!

Even if she doesn't love him, she will feel uncomfortable, okay?
"Her name is Qi Xin."

Meng Jing finally spoke, under Chu Ci's cloudy expression.

"Well, what then?" Chu Ci lowered his voice and asked slowly.

"It's the princess of Nanzhao. I was 11 years old. I met her when I first arrived at the border. At that time, she liked to dress up as a man and go to the battlefield in armor..."

"And the first time I confronted the enemy, it was her."

"In that battle, Yunchao's army lost miserably. Many soldiers and I were captured. From then on, I became Yunchao's hostage in Nanzhao... I lived in the Nanzhao palace, because We met once, praying that she would come to me often, and slowly, we became confidantes."

"Growing up together for several years, we can be considered as childhood sweethearts!"

"And then?" Chu Ci pursed his lips and asked sadly.

Meng Jing continued to speak.

Afterwards, the two privately made a lifelong agreement, and agreed that as soon as their prayers were reached, the two would report to King Nanzhao and his father, who was far away in the Yun Dynasty, to make a marriage contract.

But who knows, just a month before Qi Xin Ji Ji, the envoy of Yun Chao came and asked to take him back.

Although Qixin didn't want to let him go, but for the sake of their bright future, she could only send him away with tears in her eyes.

At that time, that heroic woman thought that within a month, she would be able to make a marriage contract with the man she loved, and they would never be separated and grow old together.

But who can imagine.

Before a month had arrived, Yun Chao regrouped his soldiers and horses, and under the banner of negotiating peace, he drove straight in and wiped out the entire Nanzhao Kingdom.

When the Nanzhao capital was destroyed, Meng Jing was still in the capital, performing his filial piety in front of the late emperor's dragon bed.

Qi Xin watched helplessly as all the concubines and sisters in the palace were raped and plundered by the soldiers of the Yun Dynasty.

She can't stop it.

She could only hold one belief, leave from the secret passage of the abandoned palace where she met Meng Jing on weekdays, and ride her horse to the Yunchao barracks overnight.

She thought that when she arrived at the military camp, she would be able to see Meng Jing, renew her relationship with Meng Jing, stay together forever, and beg him to let her relatives and sisters go.

But who knows, she just revealed her identity at the entrance of the barracks.

He was surrounded by a group of soldiers with green eyes.

Those soldiers didn't pay attention to Meng Jing who hurt the immature at that time, let alone Meng Jing's sweetheart.

As soon as she heard that she was the princess of Nanzhao, she immediately jumped on her.

One by one, they insulted her to the fullest...

Qi Xin has been a man since he was a child, and he grew up in a deep palace in the past, where is the filth of those military men who don't see women all the year round.

She cried hoarsely, struggling desperately.

What can be exchanged?It was those soldiers who laughed more presumptuously, and they treated him more cruelly.

They tortured her for seven days and nights, and finally threw her naked into a nearby mountain.

By the time Meng Jing knew all this, Qi Xin's bones had long since disappeared.

He searched all the nearby hills, but couldn't find the woman's body.

Later, he sentenced all those who had abused Qi Xin to death.

But so what, Qi Xin can't come back.She died painfully in the expectation of her, and died in despair under the insult of the man.

She will never come back.

Gone from his life forever.

never come back.

(End of this chapter)