The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 759 Killing Eagle ([-])

The inner prisoner grabbed a corner of the black cloth and lifted it vigorously, revealing two huge birdcages made of golden silk paulownia, in which two sea dongqings were curled up in the cages, which caused the whole hall to exclaim, Keep calling out 'God Bird'.

Although there are also Haidongqings in the palace, but these two are so huge, their coats are so bright, their beaks are like sword claws, it's the first time even the emperor has seen them.

There was a strange light in his eyes, and he couldn't help but praise: "It's really majestic! You can't compare it with ordinary things!"

Accompanied by the exclamation of the crowd, the eunuch felt a little hesitant in his heart.

It was all because the two Haidongqings were supposed to be agitated in such a noisy environment, but now they lay quietly in the grand ceremony like docile pheasants, not moving a bit.

Not only him, but others also gradually noticed the strangeness and began to discuss in a low voice.

The emperor left his seat in front of the cage and teased the two Hai Dongqings for a long while, but he didn't see any movement, so he heard a slight smile from Wan Lai, and said: "I think this divine bird is snoozing all the time, and now it's still fighting in the sky in a dream. .”

The emperor faintly felt that something was wrong, he frowned and asked the eunuch: "Still asleep after making such a fuss? Think of a way to make it come alive."

The inner eunuch bit the bullet and took the order, took an eagle whip through the cage and lightly whipped the Haidongqing's wings.

A whip fell, silent.

Two whips fell, silently.

He secretly exerted force with his hands, and the whip cracked three times, even the emperor was startled, and reprimanded: "You have no one under your command, so what if you hurt it?"

After saying that, he snatched the eagle whip and teased Hai Dongqing for a long time with the whip.

He stabbed the whip horizontally on Haidong's green beak, and then moved it under the closed eye sockets. Following the emperor's movements, the anger in the hall became more and more gelled, and everyone dared not even breathe out.

This Hai Dongqing is motionless, how can he be half-divided with the majesty of the bird?
Look, it looks more like a dead thing!

The emperor also realized this, and simply opened the birdcage, and reached in to touch the eagle's body.

It doesn't matter if you don't touch it, but once you touch it, you will know that Hai Dongqing's body has already hardened, as cold as a stone, and he is dead!

He was furious, and whipped the inner eunuch with a whip: "Does the old eight want you to supply this dead thing to me?"

The inner eunuch groaned in pain, and was so frightened that the three souls disappeared and the seven souls hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "The emperor calms down! This slave doesn't know! When this slave came, Hai Dongqing was still alive and well. Eunuch Liang can testify for this slave!"

The emperor turned his head and looked sharply at Liang Jiugong. Liang Jiugong hurriedly came forward to salute, and replied in a timid voice: "Return to the emperor, I have seen this Haidongqing at noon, but... But this eagle slave was already dead when he saw it." He was dying, and the slave asked the person who came here why, and he just said that he was sleepy on the road, so it doesn't matter." He said, and suddenly knelt down and kowtowed: "The emperor forgives the sin! If the slave knows that this thing is bad luck, he will definitely not allow it. offered by people!"

The internal monitor was panicked by Liang Jiugong's words, and hurriedly said: "Eunuch Liang, why do you say that! You see!"

"Your Majesty!" Liang Jiugong interrupted the eunuch's words in a solemn voice: "Among the accompanying officials this time, there is the head of the Department of Flowers and Birds serving him. Your Majesty may find someone to take a look and see how Hai Dongqing was born. Yes!"

The emperor let out a muffled snort, and saw a middle-aged man in his early forties staggering out of the crowd, and said in a deep voice, "Situ Jiang, head of the Department of Flowers and Birds, I have seen the emperor."

The emperor pointed at Hai Dongqing's body with trembling fingers, and said angrily, "Go and see!"

Situ Jiang responded, hurried forward to investigate, and came to a conclusion after a short while and replied: "Your Majesty, this Haidongqing is a divine bird, who can go without food for twenty days after a full meal, and sleepless for seven or eight days in a row. The life expectancy is around [-] years, and it is a species of eagle with strong vitality. It died suddenly today. According to Wei Chen, this Hai Dongqing had a hidden disease, and the attack lasted at least ten days. Urged out the disease, that's it."

The inner eunuch retorted: "How is that possible? The slave has been responsible for raising this eagle in Ba Age's mansion, and has never seen it to be abnormal."

Situ Jiang didn't argue with him, he just took a plain handkerchief from the maid at the side, and put it on Hai Dongqing's back, stained with a piece of light green feces, which appeared in front of the emperor from a distance, and pointed at the eagle The eye stains were agglomerated, and he said: "The emperor looked carefully, the eagle dropped green dung and eye stains (eye feces), this is the most typical symptom of poultry plague. Before the onset of this epidemic, it was accompanied by more than a dozen symptoms. The loss of appetite, physical weakness, diarrhea, shortness of breath and other symptoms of the past few days are definitely not the same as what this father-in-law said, everything is as usual!"

Wanyu walked up to the emperor, gently patted the emperor's back to calm his breath, and said in her mouth: "Ten days? I came here from the mansion of the eight princes in the capital, but only seven or eight days. According to what Master Situ said, Hai Dongqing actually fell ill in the mansion of Eight Princes? But this disease is as obvious as the adults just said, why does Eight Princes know that Shen Ying is sick? Do you still want to offer it to the emperor?"

The emperor snorted, and said angrily: "Didn't Concubine Hui say that just now? The old eight wanted to compare the god of eagles to me, the lord of the people! Didn't he send this dead eagle here just to curse me?" , want me to be as short-lived as this eagle!"

The emperor was furious, and everyone knelt down to persuade them to calm down, especially Concubine Hui, who was most palpitated, and cried out to say that she had been wronged: "Your Majesty! This concubine is just talking casually, and this concubine doesn't know about it! Concubine Hui I really don't know that the eighth elder brother will send you this Haidongqing, and it is this eagle who is seriously ill, my concubine."

"Shut up!" The emperor pointed at Yuwen, becoming even more angry, and scolded: "Yin Si was originally born by Xin Zheku's humble maidservant, and was born lowly! He was brought up under your knees, and he didn't know how to learn What kind of nonsense happened! Don’t you know how you raised Yinti? Just now you kept saying that you knew about this matter, but now you want to shirk it? If there is no truth in your mouth, you will goug out your own Go with your tongue, don't speak again in the future!"

Yuwen was startled in fright, fell down and sobbed, and didn't dare to answer a word.

Wanyu knelt beside the emperor, and she couldn't help but comfort her: "Maybe the eighth elder brother really didn't know that the eagle was sick. Your majesty, think about it, the eighth elder brother has been by your side these days, that is, He turned back because of the concubine Liang's sacrifice, and that's it."

"Just now I went back to the mansion. Seeing that the eagle was about to die, I thought about giving this bad head to me!" Panting heavily, the emperor stroked his chest and cursed: "Yinfeng is rebellious and has repeatedly lost people's hearts! Yinsi, If you repeatedly tie people's hearts, this person's danger is a hundred times that of Yinfeng! How can I bear such an unfilial and unrighteous person? From now on, Yinsi and I, father and son will never be gracious!" ①
Hearing what he said, everyone begged him to think twice, only Wannai glanced at Liang Jiugong secretly, with a thin smile on the corner of her mouth.

　Remark ①: On November 53, the 26rd year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi passed through Miyun County, Huayugou and other places on his way to Rehe for inspection. It was the second anniversary of the death of his mother, Concubine Liang, so he went to pay homage to his mother, but did not go to pay his respects. He only sent eunuchs to Kangxi to explain the reason, saying that he would wait for the emperor to return to Beijing together at Tangquan.Later, Yinhu selected two high-quality Haidongqing and sent them to Kangxi, but he didn't want to turn into two dying eagles when they were in Kangxi's hands.This made him extremely angry, thinking that this was Yinhu's curse on him, and immediately summoned all the princes to blame Yinhu for "being born of a bitch of Xin Zheku, and he has a high and sinister heart since childhood. Yinhu was hit hard by this move. , sneaked around, unwilling to see people, and fell ill the following year.

　　
　
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