Mistress

Chapter 74

Xu Jing was carried to the Lihuatang in the palace, which was originally prepared for Xu Jing's bedroom, but she didn't stay there overnight, so she ran to Prince Bao's place.

Li Yan followed Xu Cheng to Lihuatang. Although she was afraid of seeing dead people and had never seen them before, Xu Jing was her sister-in-law after all. No, it should be her former sister-in-law. Xu Cheng's woman.

Xu Cheng had a murderous look on his face along the way, and the people behind didn't even dare to vent their anger, for fear that the emperor would order someone to drag him down and chop off his head if the emperor got angry.

When he came to Lihuatang, Xu Cheng saw a person lying on the bed with his face covered by a white cloth.

His fists were clenched until his joints creaked, and he walked over and removed the white cloth.Seeing that Xu Jing's neck was blue and purple, and there were strangle marks, his eyes were red with anger, and he stared at the guards guarding Prince Bao next to him, and shouted: "Who always comes to report that Princess Jing is fine?" ? And who said that Princess Jing and Ye Che ate and slept together, and that their husband and wife are loving and loving? Are you all blind!"

The guards were shaken like chaff by the roar, and they all knelt down.

One of the little leaders kowtowed heavily and said in tears: "The scene I saw outside the door is indeed true. I dare not say anything to deceive the king. Princess Jing always smiles in the yard every time. Prince Bao..." At this point, the little leader raised his hand and slapped himself heavily, because he still called Ye Che Prince Bao by mistake just now, which is a big taboo.

After beating himself, he went on to say: "Princess Jing personally washes and cooks for Ye Che. Ye Che goes to the yard every day to read books for an hour. He also talks to Princess Jing very...very intimately, so Xiao I just thought... thought..."

Before the little leader finished speaking, Xu Cheng heard Li Yan yelling "Ah" at Xu Jing's bedside, and at the same time, seeing her take several big steps back, her face turned pale with fright.

Li Yan was not so frightened when she saw Xu Jing died, but because she wanted to know the cause of Xu Jing's death, so she reached out and lifted Xu Jing's collar. The one left just now was so shocking that Li Yan cried out in fright.

Xu Cheng walked over to take a look again, stretched out his hand and punched the small table next to the bed, the sawdust splashed on Li Yan's body, Li Yan instinctively raised her sleeve to block it.

Immediately after, Xu Cheng quickly walked up to Chen Hao, pulled out the sword at his waist suddenly, and then went out in a rage.

As Xu Cheng walked out, he yelled at the people around him, "Find me, come to Lihuatang!"

This was the first time for Li Yan to see Xu Cheng get so angry, the whole room was almost set alight by his anger.As the emperor, his own sister died so miserably that anyone who put it on him would be angry.

Li Yan knew that Xu Cheng was going to kill Yeche.As for whether Xu Jing strangled herself to death or was strangled to death by Ye Che, it is still unknown, but the wound on Xu Jing's body must have been scalded by Ye Che, as if it was scalded with a red-hot iron. fear.

Anyway, someone had already gone to Wu Zuo for an autopsy. Li Yan didn't want to interfere with this matter, so she hurried back to Chengyuan Palace, and then carefully planned the leaving the palace without any accidents.

Xu Jing tossed herself to death for a man, all because she had too much affection for Ye Che. The tragic death of a noble princess was like a wake-up call for Li Yan. Xu Cheng stayed in the palace again.

Because of Yuyu's matter, she has been stabbed in the heart, and the two Jiangnan women, she feels like a stick in her throat when she thinks about it.

Back at Chengyuan Palace, she first asked Nanny Cui to brew the tea leaves prepared for the emperor, and she sat there drinking and thinking about things.

Nanny Cui and Qi'er stood on both sides and wept. Although Xu Jing had no relationship with them, Xu Jing was also the master of Xu's residence. She was kind to the servants and rarely found fault with them.

At noon, Qinger came back.She first told about the meeting with Ma Xing, and then she also told about a horrible thing she heard, saying that the emperor personally pierced Yeche's heart with a sword, and then drew out the sword fiercely, spilling blood all over the place. The wall, and splashed a few servants all over.

After hearing this, Nanny Cui immediately answered: "The emperor killed rightly, the princess died so badly, Ye Che's ten lives will not be able to dispel the hatred in the emperor's heart!"

At this time the imperial dining room brought lunch, Li Yan sighed: "Today is too bloody, just now I saw the tragic scene of Princess Jing, and now I heard about a killing, how can I use up the food, let's withdraw."

Nanny Cui, Qi'er, and Qing'er didn't witness those scenes with their own eyes, so they could still eat it.After they took turns to go to the imperial dining hall for lunch, Li Yan asked Nanny Cui and Qi'er to lie down and rest in a side room, leaving Qing'er by her side.

"Qing'er, I calculated the date before, and it will be the first day of April in five days, which is a very auspicious day for offering incense. The emperor will definitely allow us to go to the Ziyin Temple. But now I want to advance the date and leave the palace tomorrow." !"

"Ah? Tomorrow? But the maidservant has already agreed with Ma Xing that it will be the first day of April. Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Sooner or later, I have to leave. If I stay for one more day, I will be upset for another day. I am worried about what will happen within these five days. What if we can't leave? Also... I am also worried that I will suddenly regret it. Once you have made up your mind, act quickly, and don’t let yourself hesitate any longer.”

Qing'er panicked, "Tomorrow will not be such an auspicious day, can the emperor agree?"

"I just said to ask for blessings and salvation for Princess Jing, and beg the Bodhisattva to let her soul return to peace under the Nine Springs. The emperor is sad about Princess Jing, and he should agree. You should go to Ma Xing quickly and get the matter of Princess Jing." As an excuse, no one will doubt it."

Qing'er panicked and led the order to go out.

Li Yan lay down and rested for a while, to calm down her mood.After lunch, Nanny Cui and Qi'er came to serve Li Yan again.

Li Yan looked at her calm appearance in the mirror, and said: "Nurse, Qi'er, let's go to Chunhui Palace now, the emperor should be back."

Mother Cui was startled, "Your Majesty, the Emperor is in a fit of anger, it's better not to go. A few days ago, the old slave persuaded the Empress to go to the Emperor's old relationship, but the Empress refused to go no matter what. Why did she go today? The Emperor just killed her." Extraordinary."

After Mammy Cui finished speaking, Qi'er said again: "Madam, let's... let's go in a few days, servants are afraid."

Li Yan looked at the scared expressions of the two of them from the mirror, and said softly: "Since you two are scared, let the little eunuch outside go to find Eunuch Qu, and let Eunuch Qu tell the emperor that we are leaving the palace to go to Ziyin tomorrow morning." The temple prayed to the bodhisattva for Princess Jing, and I don't know if the emperor will agree."

Mother Cui heard that Li Yan was doing it for this matter, and she relaxed a lot, "Since it's for Princess Jing, the emperor has no reason not to agree."

Qi'er has already gone out to find the little eunuch.

Li Yan was thinking, it's fine if I don't see Xu Cheng, didn't I already met in the morning, after seeing him, it will only make her love and hate at the same time, why bother asking for trouble.

After an estimated hour, the emperor sent Eunuch Qu to reply, allowing them to go out of the palace to Ziyin Temple to worship the Bodhisattva for Princess Jing, and has sent someone to arrange the trip out of the palace.

Cui Momo was very happy when she heard that, "Your Majesty, with the emperor sending someone to escort you, the journey will be safe. In addition, you can also ask for a blessing for yourself. Your Majesty is too miserable these days, so you must ask for it. The Bodhisattva protects the empress, and she will be the queen as soon as possible."

Li Yan recalled the past few months in her heart, she was a little lost in thought, and nodded towards Cui Nanny copingly.

In the evening, when Nanny Cui went back, Li Yan sent Qi'er to her hut to make wedding shoes, and said that if she wanted to get married, she had to prepare a few things by herself.

Qi'er obediently went out with a blushing face.

Li Yan immediately told Qing'er beside her, "Qing'er, you can pack your things now, just pick up a few clothes and a few valuable things and take them with you, don't be too greedy, otherwise you will make mistakes if you can't take them down, and bring some other broken things. The money is spent on the road."

"Yes, ma'am." Qing'er hurried to work.

Li Yan sat at the desk and wrote letters. In order to make Xu Cheng give up looking for her, for Xiao'er to spend her life in peace, and for the Li family not to look for her, she had to write these letters and hand them over to Ma tomorrow. Xing, let him deliver the letter to the emperor and Li Xiangrui later.She found a lot of reasons, but she wasn't sure if it could explain why they didn't look for her.

It was already late at night after writing the letter, Li Yan was lying on the bed imagining life outside the palace, and at the same time recalling Xu Cheng's kindness to her.No matter how good it is, everything has become an illusion, Xu Cheng may have long forgotten his tenderness for her, why should she be nostalgic for any more, thinking this way, she finally closed her eyes and went to sleep.

She slept and woke up throughout the night, woke up and slept again, and after a few times of tossing, the sky turned pale.

There were already two rows of ready-to-go people standing outside Chengyuan Palace, eight large sedan chairs had already parked beside them, and two carriages were already waiting outside the palace city.For Li Yan's safety, what Xu Cheng arranged was just a general ceremonial guard, so that the people would not know that the people in the carriage came out of the palace, so that no one would cause trouble like last time just to catch a glimpse of the empress's true face. Such a stampede.

Li Yan came out in plain clothes, Cui Nanny and Qi'er thought she didn't dress up in order to show her sincerity in front of the Bodhisattva, but in fact Li Yan thought it would be easier to act when the time came.

Qing'er came out carrying a large three-layer food box and a small bundle on her shoulders.

Qi'er glanced at Qing'er, feeling that something was wrong, "Qing'er, why are you wearing such bloated clothes?"

(End of this chapter)