in the sound of swallows

Chapter 122 My World
"Didn't the emperor say that the former dynasty belonged to you, and the harem is under the control of the Ai family?" Empress Dowager Wen looked at Gu Chaobei's pale face, and smiled softly: "Isn't the Ai family in charge? Why is the emperor so panicked? ?”

"The queen mother's so-called control means that she washed the Xiuzhuang Palace with blood and killed the innocent concubine?" Gu Chaobei looked at her with a hoarse and cold voice: "The queen mother is also a woman, how can she be so cruel?"

Empress Dowager Wen narrowed her eyes slightly: "Ai's family is on the side of the Qing emperor. Without these harem vixens talking nonsense, the emperor would not be deceived to carry out a new policy in the previous dynasty. Does the emperor know that the ancestral system is a rule passed down from the ancestors?" , How long have you been on the throne? How can you overthrow your ancestors? "

Gu Chaobei lowered his eyes: "My son asked the queen mother, is this palace what it looked like when the ancestor was still there?"

Empress Dowager Wen was taken aback, and frowned: "Of course not, the palace is old, so of course it should be renovated after so many years."

"The rules of the ancestors are the same." The emperor said softly: "It has been so long, and things that are covered with old dust are naturally not suitable for current use. Just like a palace must be renovated before you can continue to live in it, government orders should also be renovated."

"...You, you are presumptuous!" Empress Dowager Wen didn't expect him to say such words, her face darkened, she didn't know how to refute, she just waved her hand and dropped the teacup, angrily said: "It's the Ai family who didn't teach you well, That’s why you are so arrogant just sitting on the hot dragon chair! There is only Concubine Zhuang in the Xiuzhuang Palace, and Concubine Yan is still there, right? The emperor will go to court tomorrow, and Ai’s family will teach her how to serve the emperor at ordinary times! "

Gu Chaobei clenched his hands: "The mother, the concubine is so innocent, the mother is also a person from the harem, why bother with women?"

"If the Ai family doesn't embarrass them, won't the emperor have to embarrass the Ai family?" Empress Dowager Wen sneered: "Don't be afraid, the emperor's harem is indispensable for concubines. If the Concubine Zhuang is gone, the Ai family will let Concubine Shen come from here." Just come out of the cold palace and continue serving."

Gu Chaobei took a deep breath.

The palace was quiet for a long time, Concubine Zhuang's icy body was leaning against his arms, her sleeves were slightly chilly, the chill pierced her bones.

"I will not go to court tomorrow." After a long time, Gu Chaobei finally said in a low voice: "As for the new policy, the Queen Mother just orders it according to your wishes."

Empress Dowager Wen was taken aback for a moment, then relaxed all over, and leaned on the soft couch with a chuckle: "Has the emperor figured it out?"

"I figured it out." Gu Chaobei didn't let go of his gripped hands, he hugged Concubine Zhuang tightly and said, "I'm going to arrange for Concubine Zhuang's burial."

"Well, this child is pitiful." Empress Dowager Wen felt sympathetic at the moment, and said kindly: "Let her be buried as a noble concubine."

"Thank you, Empress Dowager." Gu Chaobei bowed to Empress Dowager Wen, embraced Concubine Zhuang, turned around and walked out of the East Palace step by step.The expression on his face was so cold that Zhuiyun had never seen before, as if the cold wind in the deep winter had blown into his eyes, and then turned into snow all over the sky, falling down piece by piece.

Gu Chaobei was regretting, he had never done such a thing that he regretted.He had already thought of the consequences of angering the Empress Dowager Wen, and asked General Lian to secretly help protect the important officials.

But why didn't he have time to think about the harem.

Yan'er is fine, but Concubine Zhuang is dead.As the emperor, he didn't give her anything that he promised White Fox.She helped herself so many times, but now she died so miserably.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates should let the car pick up the empress's body." Zhuiyun said in a low voice.

The dead man was very heavy, and the emperor had held him for long enough.

"No, I'll see her off for the last time." Gu Chaobei passed Zhuiyun's outstretched hand, hugged Concubine Zhuang, and walked down the palace road step by step.

"Compared to the emperor and Concubine Zhuang, you should still worry about yourself." Han Jiangxue looked at Shen Guiyan, frowned and said, "The doctor said that your fetal image is not very stable, you worry too much, and you are frightened. If you don't take good care of it, you will die." something happened."

Shen Guiyan looked at the door and shook her head.It was already afternoon, and there was still no news from the palace.

Yuwen Changqing put her with the Han family, and then went to the palace again, probably to return to the queen mother.He would be desperate to bring her back to Yuwen Mansion. If Queen Mother Wen found out, Yuwen's family would definitely be affected.

Shen Guiyan suddenly understood that she is really a scourge wherever she is, and will bring trouble to those around her.

"The general is back." Baoshan stood at the door, and when he saw Yuwen Changqing's shadow, he quickly called into the room.

Shen Guiyan stood up abruptly, saw Yuwen Changqing coming in, and hurriedly went up to him: "How's it going?"

Yuwen Changqing turned his eyes away, didn't look at her, but said: "Your Majesty, please change into the clothes of a court lady, and come with me with a precious fan."

The maid's clothes had already been handed over, Shen Guiyan gritted her teeth, and went to the inner room with Bao Shan to change, and then came out, the same as when she was a palace maid in the North Palace.

"Let's go." Without saying a word, Yuwen Changqing gave them two black cloaks, and took them out to the car.

The direction to go is not the direction of the palace.

The uneasiness in my heart was finally verified when I saw the funeral procession ahead.

The long funeral procession is preceded by yellow windward tents.The paper money flying all over the sky sprinkled all the way like snow. At the front of the procession, there was a tall horse carrying the current emperor.

"Concubine Zhuang has passed away. Empress Dowager Wen ordered that she be buried as a noble concubine. The emperor shouldn't come, but he still ignored the persuasion and said that he would give Concubine Zhuang a ride." Yuwen Changqing looked at Shen Guiyan and said softly : "Later, as a palace lady, it will be fine to go back with the emperor."

"Why is it gone?" Shen Guiyan stared back at Yuwen Changqing blankly: "When I came out, she said that she knew martial arts."

Yuwen Changqing pursed his lips, closed his eyes and said: "With so many people in the palace, Huiwu only struggled harder. Empress Dowager Wen wanted her to die, and she couldn't survive anyway."

"Then what about me?" Shen Guiyan pointed at herself: "The Empress Dowager probably wants me to die too."

Yuwen Changqing was silent.

Concubine Zhuang saved her life, otherwise she would not have survived.

Gu Chaobei watched the group of people chant the eulogy, stretched out his hand and pushed the eunuch, and said in a deep voice: "People who didn't love these things when they were alive, don't bother her when they die, get out of the way." .”

When the coffin was buried, the eunuch who was pushed away was furious and dared not speak. He only wanted to go back to the Empress Dowager's Palace, so he must say a few words.

The stele has not yet been engraved, and the burial should not be so fast.But the emperor demanded that even if the white stele be erected first, people should be buried in the ground for peace.

No one cares about the guard of honor of the imperial concubine.If you die, you will die. After a hundred years, you will be a body of bones and a handful of loess.And the living should seek justice for the dead.

After the tomb was covered and the coffin was lowered into the ground, the emperor said, "Go back, don't leave a single one behind."

The eunuchs and maids who came out of the palace, including the one who read the eulogy, all returned the same way.In the land of the dragon veins of Mount Huang, only Zhuiyun standing on one side and Yuwen Changqing's carriage remained.

Shen Guiyan got out of the car and glanced at Gu Chaobei. He was half kneeling in front of Concubine Zhuang's grave, holding the blank tombstone with his hand, motionless.

"emperor."

Hearing her voice, Gu Chaobei didn't turn his head, just smiled and said, "Yan'er, look, I killed someone."

If it weren't for his words, Concubine Zhuang might not have died.

Shen Guiyan then knelt down, closed her eyes and said: "Concubines also carry human lives on their backs, we can't let them all die in vain, if you miss it once, don't make the same mistake again next time, isn't it good? "

Gu Chaobei chuckled, but his eyes were red: "We won't make mistakes in the future, so can those who are gone come back?"

Something cold fell on the back of her hand, Shen Guiyan raised her head and looked at Gu Chaobei in shock.

He even cried.

For a moment, she didn't know what to say, she had seen most of Gu Chaobei's plan, and she could guess all of it herself.She thinks he is a man who is far-sighted, so she trusts him and waits for him.

But when he cried, she suddenly felt as uncomfortable as being pulled.She couldn't do anything around him, she just knew.The white fox was willing to die for him, and the concubine Hua and the nobleman were willing to enter the dark harem for him.What about her?

What did she do again?
Withdrawing her hand, Shen Guiyan took a deep breath and forced a smile: "Isn't the emperor planning to see the Empress Dowager Nian? Kneeling here for too long, what if you are sick?"

Gu Chaobei stared at the tombstone and nodded blankly: "Yes, I still have a lot of things to do."

With Concubine Zhuang gone, he should act faster.

"General Yuwen."

Yuwen Changqing stood behind for a long time, watching the backs of the two, standing quietly.He didn't say until the emperor called, "I'm ready."

It's not long before Fanbang comes to court, and all the things that need to be dealt with must be dealt with before then.Otherwise, it is not what they want to see if people take advantage of it.

Gu Chaobei stood up, and the traces of tears just now were completely gone: "Tomorrow is not early, and if I don't return the lesson that the Queen Mother taught me, she may still think that this is the world of the Wen family. "

Yuwen Changqing cupped his hands in silence.

"Yan'er will follow me back to the palace. She will be by my side these few days. Just be a little maid." Gu Chaobei turned his head, smiled and stretched out his hand to her: "I will take you to see, this world How did I get it."

Shen Guiyan pursed her lips, put her hand in his, and followed him to stand up.

"Yan'er didn't remind me, I almost forgot." Gu Chaobei walked in the direction of his horse: "Go back and see the Queen Mother."

Empress Dowager Nian, Nian's family is Chanjuan.

Wen Xiuli must have been laughing wildly in the East Palace. He gave in today, which meant that he would not be in the morning court tomorrow.Then he will wait and see how the Empress Dowager Wen will prevent him from issuing the new policy in the early morning tomorrow.

In the North Palace, the Empress Dowager Nian looked at the fidgeting Duanwen and said with a light smile, "What are you in a hurry for? The fun has just begun."

Duanwen frowned: "Empress Dowager Wen has bloodbathed Xiuzhuang Palace, how can you still sit still, empress mother? What if you hurt your unborn grandson?"

(End of this chapter)