The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 180

Wan Wan gently stroked the gold-plated phoenix hairpin on her forehead with her fingers, her eyes were dark, and she said quietly: "Since you want to keep the queen, I will follow your wish and will not ask you any more questions. It's just that he After your death, I will move your ashes to be buried outside your mother's graveyard, and I will ask the shaman to do it, so that you will be a slave to your mother for generations to come. The sins you committed in this life , in the next life, there will be time to repay it. As for the glory and freedom you are greedy for, in the next life, you will not get what you want."

Yun Shan's eyes fixed on Wan Yu's body, gradually lost her vicious and hot breath, and became indifferent and blurred: "You can do whatever you want, who knows about things other than life and death? But if there is a next life, I don't care about it." I wish I was as tired as I am now."

Wannai nodded and smiled, turned her head and took a deep look at Yunshan: "Even if you don't admit it, you and I are still master and servant, and I don't want to see you go so without dignity." She looked at the spot on the ground. The filthy plain cloth that had been stuffing the spruce lips and teeth all the time said lightly: "If I were you, I would just bite my tongue and kill myself. In the end, after all, this life can be taken back by myself."

Yunshan raised her face, as if she was looking at an unknown distance through the narrow door.Wan Yu frowned slightly, and resolutely left to close the door tightly, more like giving up Yun Shan's last thought.

"Your Majesty, in your heart, what is a concubine?"

She shook her head slowly, and murmured to herself faintly: "Concubine Hui always said in the past that the emperor valued his concubines in his heart, and he treated his concubines like other slaves. The concubine was delighted when she heard this, although she knew in her heart that it was nothing. It's your deep affection for Wanyu, your love for the house, but the concubine is unwilling to face it after all."

She let out a long sigh, her eyes were quietly opened without blinking, and the eyes were filled with ice water or hot tears, and the warm candlelight dripped down to the ground.

The night was extremely quiet, as if a drop of water hit the cold ground, it would make a heartbreaking sound.

"When I saw you for the first time, I was so frightened that I lost my bearings. I even forgot to kneel down, and just stood there like that. I thought to myself, you are such a man with a magnanimity. I have never had a concubine in this life. Therefore, even if I have only been married to you for two nights, I can be blessed by heaven to keep my concubine and a son. From the bottom of my heart, I am content."

Yunshan's throat seemed to be suffocated, and she was panting heavily, her eyes gradually clouded, and she seemed to see the scene of the old mansion in front of her eyes.

At that time, she and Wanyu were so immature and young, both of them were childish and innocent in their minds, and they only wished for each other's well-being.She walked hand in hand with Wanyu to every corner of the courtyard of the mansion. Now it is the Forbidden City, which is so grand, prosperous and resplendent, but when she walks, she always keeps her head down, and she can't remember exactly whether she has been there before. which places.

Her lips trembled slightly, immersed in the illusion in front of her eyes, and raised a warm smile.

Just like when I was young, when I was young and not doing anything, it was so pure and flawless.

"Miss, I have been sorry for you in my life. I don't know that you treat my servant well. It's only because I am too thoughtful that I have let you down. If I knew this was the case, I would have done it in the morning." I won't enter the palace with you, so Madam won't lose her life because of the servant's fault." She exerted a little effort on her knees as if she wanted to kneel down, but her whole body was rigidly nailed to the wooden board, and her knees only Being able to bend in half is the limit.

"This kneeling of the servant, and even this life, have gone with the master-servant friendship between you and me in the past. However, if it weren't for you, the child of the servant would not have gone so miserable. From the bottom of my heart, the servant , after all, I still hate you a little bit."

"Chengxiang." She let out a miserable cry that resounded through the Department of Punishment, and even the forest birds perched outside the house were frightened and flew high: "My poor child, don't be afraid. You Ama abandoned you, It doesn't matter if the whole Aixinjueluo family abandons you. Er Niang is with you, Er Niang is holding your hand, and will accompany you all the way, and will never leave you alone again."

On July 11th, the [-]th year of Kangxi, he committed suicide by biting his tongue in Yunshan and died in the Punishment Department.

Her death was not discovered until a day later. When she went there, she was already completely cold, half of her tongue was dangling in her mouth, and the blood stains all over her body carried a stench, which was disgusting.

This day Wanlai learned the news of Yunshan's death in the palace, for some reason, instead of feeling the slightest joy in her heart, she seemed to feel tears pouring out.She tried her best to close her eyes to hold back the tears, and then asked Yunchan lightly: "Everyone is dead, what does the queen say?"

Yun Chan frowned, with a look of panic: "She offended the queen and killed her son-in-law, how could the queen treat her lightly? Even if she died, she ordered the execution matriarch of the Punishment Department to kill her ① .”

Wanyu was startled, and sighed leisurely: "It turned out that she was the one who did the most evil." She was silent for a while, and then told Yunchan: "You and Li Yin find some suitable people, and quietly follow her to see where she is buried. Where, burn the body and leave the ashes, find a place with better geomantic omen and bury it without a tombstone."

"The empress still thinks of her in her heart after all."

Wanyu smiled helplessly, but the corners of her mouth raised a bit bitterly: "She has been pitiful all her life, even though she has done so many wrong things, I will never forgive her in my heart, but everyone is dead. So, let’s go. Actually, Yunshan’s request is not much, it’s just the happiness and freedom that ordinary women want. In this life, she was wandering and wandering, but she couldn’t get what she wanted. She hopes that she can give birth to a good family in her next life, and she doesn’t want to be rich. Expensive, but please don’t suffer as much as this life.”

Yun Chan nodded heavily in response to Wanyu's words, Wanyu raised her eyebrows to look at her, and asked kindly, "What about you, what are your plans? You have always served by Bengong's side wholeheartedly, and Bengong also wants to treat you well." As a result, although the clan has stipulated that palace servants must die to serve in the palace, if the emperor personally promises you a good future, it is not impossible."

"Niang Niang." With tears in the corners of Yun Chan's eyes, she suddenly knelt down and said in a deep voice, "I don't want to be a servant, but I only wish to serve my little master for the rest of my life."

Wannai leaned over to help her, and pulled her into the warm seat together: "After the matter of Yunshan, I can see your sincerity, even if the people who have been with me since childhood are like this, your heart It's really rare. Don't worry, you have experienced so much with Ben Gong, and Ben Gong will definitely not treat you lightly."

Everyone in this palace is full of scheming thoughts, to have Yun Chan as a handmaid, Rong Yue as a sister, and with the elder sister's support and the emperor's favor, Wannai can be counted as the lucky one in this palace.

Although the road ahead is far away and unknown, she is content to be able to achieve this now.

　Remark ①: Ling Chi is also called Ling Chi, which is what the folks call "a thousand cuts".Ling Chi punishment first appeared in the Five Dynasties period, and it was officially designated as a punishment in the Liao Dynasty. Since then, Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing have all stipulated it as a statutory punishment, and it is the cruelest form of death penalty.A total of 3357 knives are needed, and the criminal must be stabbed to death in the last knife, which is the 3357th knives, in order to be successful.

　　Remark ②: The system of maids leaving the palace refers to the system of sending women out of the palace due to age or accidents such as madness, disease, and clumsiness.In the 16th year of Kangxi (1677), the palace maids who were over 30 years old were initially sent out, and in the first year of Yongzheng (1723), all palace maids aged up to 25 years old were ordered to leave the palace, so it was custom-made.Therefore, in the timeline of the text, the maids, like the eunuchs, had to die of old age in the Forbidden City, and had to die.

　　
　
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