Must
the queen love the emperor?
I don’t love the emperor, and the emperor doesn’t love me. It took me six years to secure my position
as Crown Princess.
Finally, I became the queen, but I knew that every step after that would be more dangerous.
And what I want is to let my prince get the supreme position. On the eighth day of the seventh month in the twenty-third year
of Duanping, the glory of the family first fell on me.
The emperors and empresses decreed that I should be the concubine of Prince Xiao Li.
I was holding the imperial edict of Ming and Huang, and before I could come to my senses, I was pushed aside. Qiyu, the
third sister, snatched the imperial edict from my hand and read it carefully with her head down. “Cen’s Yilan, Cen’s Yilan, how could it be you?” She is the most famous beauty in the capital. When she lost her temper, her hair on her temples was slightly scattered, but her face was still shining. “It was you, it must have been you,”
she said with a look of jealousy. “It was you who took the crown princess position from me in a shameful way!” With a shock, I remembered that at a family dinner not long ago, my mother looked at Qiyu with a smile and said, “Of the three daughters in our family, you are the most blessed.”.
Before she could think about it, Qiyu, who had always been delicate and frail, rushed forward and raised her hand to fall high. Amid the cries of the crowd, a slap in the face was particularly loud.
I let go of my hand, and Qiyu fell to the ground, covering her face in disbelief.
I looked down at her and said, “What, you’re only allowed to hurt people, but no one is allowed to retaliate?”?
Qi Yu, the imperial edict has already been issued. Why do you still want to go crazy? Mother’s eyes wandered around the two of us, sighed leisurely, bent over and hugged Qiyu, and comforted her by saying, “No matter you or Yilan, it’s always a blessing for our Cen family.”.
Qi Yu immediately cried and fell into her mother’s arms. “He said..” Her mother hurriedly covered her mouth and said, “Chi-yu, you’re crazy!” Mother gave me a forced smile. “Yilan, you go back to rest first. Mother will go to your room later.”.
I said yes, saluted my father, who was thinking, and went back to my room.
As soon as she entered the room, the maidservant said in a low voice, “Miss, this decree?”?
“I took off the jade bracelet in my hand and said,” Don’t you know what I have done when you get along with me day and night? I really don’t know how
this decree came about.
In terms of appearance, talent, and fame, chess and jade are far above oneself.
What’s more, as early as half a year ago, when Qiyu went to Hongchi, she had already met the prince who was traveling in disguise, and her heart was dark.
At this point, the bronze mirror on the dressing table reflects the gloomy color between my eyebrows.
I picked up the teapot on the desk and filled a cup for myself. “That’s all. We’ll cross the bridge when we come to it.”.
“That’s exactly what I said,” said the willow. After
this day, there was a busy and orderly preparation for marriage. During this period, Qiyu never showed up again.
Three months later, the prince Xiao Li book imperial concubine, the wedding ceremony, I officially entered the East Palace.
The cluster of neatly arranged small fish and pearls fell on the curtains everywhere, the dragon and phoenix candles as thick as the child’s arms were burning warmly, the precious spices in the air were strangely mixed with the sweet fragrance of melons and fruits, and the chef offered acacia wine for the third time. Infected
by the fragrance of the wine, my cheeks turned crimson.
When the crowd dispersed, only Xiao Li and I were left in the hall.
But after the ceremony, even though I lowered my eyebrows and eyes, I could still feel his cold eyes. After
a long time, Hsiao Li spoke in a deep voice, “Tonight you rest alone.”. As soon as
his voice fell, I reached out and grabbed his sleeve. You can’t go. The
candle crackled and burst at the right moment, shedding tears.
I hold Xiao Li’s sleeve more and more hard, this is the first pass I have to face, if the wedding night can not keep the prince, tomorrow I will become the laughing stock of the East Palace and even the world.
I repeated, “You can’t go.”.
“I greeted Xiao Li with cold eyes.” No matter how your Highness looks at me, this marriage is decided by the emperors and empresses. Your departure tonight is not to lose my face, but to hurt their face. Your Highness,
please think twice. The two giant Buddhas of
the emperors and empresses were carried out by me. Hsiao Li said lightly, You’re worrying too much.
But in any case, he sat down again.
…… When the sky was about to brighten, I slowly opened my eyes. Last night, I had just experienced human affairs, and my body was not comfortable at the moment. The man
beside him was still sleeping, his eyes were closed tightly, his eye sockets were slightly shorter, and the lines at the root of the mountain were sharply raised, bringing out sharp lines. In terms of appearance
alone, Xiao Li and Qi Yu do match.
I live on the same couch with him, but there is a clear distinction between them, which is really ridiculous.
I am not a fool, the prince’s cold treatment is because of the chess jade, he loves the chess jade, regards me as a plunderer, and occupies everything belonging to the chess jade.
Deep in the palace, without the support of her husband, it is difficult to walk.
But the strange fate is also in this, the feelings in the palace, is the most precious and the cheapest product.
Power and status are the foundation of life.
As long as I use the word “virtuous” to the extreme, even if Hsiao Li doesn’t love me, he can’t abolish me.
I closed my eyes again and clenched my fists silently under the brocade quilt. There were many dangers in the palace. Since fate had brought me to this point, I could not drown silently in the palace.
In November, as soon as people came out of the palace where the earth dragon was burning, they felt a chill from the soles of their feet to the bottom of their hearts. Yoxu, who was
newly named by the queen, shivered and walked forward with her shoulders.
Today’s empress is the birth mother of the crown prince, the former Hejing imperial concubine of the Southern Dynasty. She was named a virtuous concubine by your majesty. Later, she gave birth to the eldest son of your majesty. After the fall of the Southern Dynasty, your majesty named her empress and made her son crown prince.
Despite her poor health and inability to see, Her Majesty has always been very fond of her.
I poked half of my face out of my shoulder and took a look at the smiling face. The name of the
queen was a glory, and the joy of the maidservant was almost written on her face.
It’s just that the queen’s name is given on a whim, or does it have a profound meaning? I
am my master, and I have to think one more step. When I
finally got to the inner hall, I was about to give orders, but my feet were soft and I almost fell to the ground.
But Yoxu, who was next to her, was startled. “Crown Princess, are you all right? Do you want to pass on the Imperial Physician?”?
She put me on the imperial concubine’s couch. Then
I breathed a sigh of relief. “Maybe it’s because I’ve been tired recently. There’s no need to ask the Imperial Physician.”.
This.. She glanced carefully at my face and said in a low voice, “Everyone in the palace knows that the empress has a cold disposition and doesn’t like to be busy. You don’t have to wait around at dawn and dusk.”.
I shook my head gently, with a sarcastic smile on my lips, and asked her, If you were me, what would you do? At
a loss for words, I sighed lightly, “If you are not very beautiful, you must be very virtuous.”.
In terms of appearance, I am not ugly, but among the beautiful concubines in the harem, I am ordinary after all. The third sister, Qiyu, who had a love affair
with the prince, is even more stunning. Serving people with color is by no means my way out.
Perhaps I am really tired today, and I am deeply surrounded by the tiredness I have never felt before.
You come in half an hour later and call me. The prince is going hunting today. It must be greasy to eat out. I want to cook in person.
After Yoxu stepped down, I slowly closed my eyes. Although the time into the
palace is shallow, but a lot of things, it is not difficult to find clues.
Your majesty temperament harsh, the queen temperament cold, in such parents brought up the prince Xiao Li, the outside is calm, do not make mistakes, inside is to be burning fire, just a gust of wind blowing, there is a prairie fire.
Qu Yi has seen too much to please him. What he wants is someone’s wholehearted attachment and devotion, regarding him as heaven and an omnipotent God.
Therefore, Xiao Li will like chess jade, this is not surprising.
Qiyu has been loved by her parents since childhood. She has grown up in praise and developed a naive temperament. Her feelings are strong and sincere. No one can resist her eyes of love and pity. When Xiao Li returned
in the evening as expected, the Chamberlain presented me with the results of the hunt. I slightly examined the skins of the wild animals that had been disposed of, and exclaimed, “Your Highness has gained a lot.”.
After he had bathed and changed his clothes, there was already a meal in the hall.
Hsiao Li seemed to lack interest. After using a few chopsticks, he stopped and said, “I have something to discuss with you.”.
Your Highness, please speak.
I looked at him in the light of the lamp, and his handsome face flashed hesitantly. What could I not understand.
I picked up my chopsticks, cleaned the fish in front of me, and put it on his plate. Instead of looking at the white in the dish,
he said in a deep voice, “It’s chess jade.” I got up and saluted him solemnly. I said first, “Your Highness, take your time. I’m not feeling well. I’ll leave first. When Yoxu, who was
standing by, saw her master leaving without looking back, she was in a hurry and dared to say, Your Highness, the Crown Princess has been overworked these days, and she is really not feeling well. Hsiao Li, who
had been left out in the cold, had a slightly heavy complexion and said in a cold voice, Since you don’t feel well, why don’t you ask the Imperial Physician?
“Yoxu fell to her knees with a splash.” The maidservant said she wanted to invite him, but the Crown Princess refused. She just said she would rest for a while. I finally got some free time
today, and after lying down for only half an hour, I got up again to prepare dinner for you. The lotus seed hearts in the porridge were picked out by the Crown Princess herself. As night fell, on the vast palace road, from time to time there were noble people passing by on their shoulders.
I stood not far from the Qingyuan Gate, letting the cold night wind raise the silk.
Not long ago, I was lifted from this door.
I stand here for a long time, and my heart becomes clearer and clearer in the cold wind.
When I returned to the East Palace, Yoxu, who had been waiting for me for a long time, came up to me with a worried expression and said, “Crown Princess!” I motioned with my eyes to rest assured, and then walked into the soup pool in the rear hall. The
warmth seeped into the limbs and bones, and the man’s footsteps sounded behind him.
In the East Palace, who else can directly enter the soup pool where the Crown Princess bathes besides my husband Xiao Li?
In the rustle of the man taking off his clothes, I turned around, my long hair scattered in front of my chest, covering the beautiful scenery. With a slight sigh,
I reached out my hand and hooked a piece of white practice from the bank of the soup pool, and came forward to wipe Xiao Li’s body.
The man’s back was broad, and I put my hand on his straight shoulder through the wet and soft cloth and said softly, “Chess jade cannot enter the palace.”. In a flash
, the light of Xiao Li’s eyes falling on the surface of the water was meaningful.
I continued, I have heard people say that it is easier for a mediocre father and son to get along with each other than for a wise father and son to get along with each other.
If a son does not show his ability, he is easily rejected by his father.
But if the edge is too obvious, it is easy to be suspected by his father.
But you and your majesty are the wisest father and son in the world.
“I twisted my handkerchief again and said softly,” Of course I understand your Highness’s intention. A few days
ago, I told my mother that my sisters were in good order. Since I had married into the East Palace, my sister’s marriage was also on the agenda. Don’t miss the good time.
We are husband and wife, and we share weal and woe. I will say something directly. No matter which noble daughter you want to be the prince’s concubine, my concubine must be waiting for you. But the chess jade is not good. If your majesty is willing to let the chess jade into the palace before, then it is the chess jade that is here today, not me. She can’t sit in the seat of the
prince and the concubine. Of course,
a moment of indulgence can bring joy, but your Highness and she can not bear the bitter consequences after that.
Even if you insist on letting Qiyu enter the palace, I will never ask for it for your Highness.
I can’t stand to see you separated from your majesty. The man in
front of me looked at me quietly and spoke again for a long time. His voice was deep: Although you and Qiyu are sisters, their temperaments are completely different. You are thoughtful
and considerate, and you are indeed a good candidate for the Crown Princess.
I held him gently and pressed my face against the man’s back. My expression did not change, but my voice was full of affection. From the day I took over the book, I knew that the happiness, honor and disgrace of my life were tied to Your Highness. With the sound of the
water, Hsiao Li turned around and held me in his arms.
I snuggled in his arms and knew I had made it through. During the
New Year, the news that I was pregnant in March spread all over the palace. For this reason,
my mother donated several golden bodies of Bodhisattvas to the temple.
When Yoxu reported the matter to me, I frowned and said, “It’s too much to spend.”.
“Madam,” she said, “I feel that your birth is the result of the Buddha’s power, and I want to return the favor.
“Oh, yeah?”?
Seeing that the time had come, I hurried to pay my respects to the queen. Although
I am pregnant, I insist on going to the queen every day. One day
I saw Your Majesty in the Queen’s Palace, and for this reason I got a comment of “filial piety and chastity.”.
His Majesty’s words are very important to me.
As soon as they arrived at the Zhaoyang Hall, the empress’s maid, Green Wax, came out to salute. “Please wait a moment. The empress is changing her clothes.”.
“I knew she was the servant of the empress, and Wen Yan said,” I came early.
After a while, the empress came out as expected. Today, the empress’s eyes were not covered with medicinal cloth, her hair was in a high bun without makeup, and her skirt was slightly raised. Even though she was no longer young, her face was still beautiful and moving.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why she has been honored for many years. When
the empress sat down, the green wax brought in some seasonal fruit and said, “Now that the Crown Princess is pregnant, the incense in the palace is not suitable.”.
Yesterday, the empress also specifically told me that when the Crown Princess came over in the future, she would smoke the house with melons and fruits.
“I quickly stood up and saluted.” Thank you, Queen Mother.
“The queen raised her hand and said,” Don’t stand on ceremony. Now that you are pregnant, you should pay more attention to everything.
“I look at her calm face, smiled softly, and put my hand on her low abdomen.” I’m three months old, and I can’t feel anything now.
I wonder if the prince was embarrassed for you when he was in the womb of his mother?
The first queen was in a trance, as if recalling, and said for a long time, “Prince, he..” Very good.
Green Wax laughed and said, “Empress, in front of the Crown Princess, you can’t cover up for your Highness.” She explained to me, “When the Empress was pregnant with the Crown Princess, she vomited whatever she ate, and her legs and feet were so swollen that she couldn’t even wear shoes for a while!” At night in the East Palace, I talked to Hsiao Li about this, and added a few words as appropriate. Finally, I sighed, “I wonder if our child will follow your example and come to torment the mother who gave birth to him.”.
“Hsiao Li’s long fingers covered my lower abdomen, and his fingertips gave me an untraceable sound.” Tomorrow I’ll go with you to visit my mother.
“I nestled on his shoulder.” That’s the best. The green wax around my mother is a good dish. Tomorrow you will help me intercede with my mother and let me learn from the green wax.
Hsiao Li pinched the tip of my nose, and his eyes flashed with a sense of spoiling: It’s getting late. Go to sleep.
But I refused. I twisted his finger and continued to ask, “Does Your Highness want a son or a daughter?”? “I will bring all the best in the world to him, whether he is a man or a woman,”
said Hsiao Li.
I smiled and closed my eyes. What
Xiao Li said is exactly what I want to hear.
Today, I am in the favor of emperors and empresses, and I am deeply attached to Xiao Li, and I have children in my belly. The position of the Crown Princess can be said to be as stable as Mount Tai. The road
ahead is smoother than I expected. The night outside the
hall was getting darker and darker, and the guards on duty walked tirelessly in the night.
In the dark night, I put my heart down and fell asleep.
Day by day, I gradually became pregnant, and after a few months, I finally reached the due date.
My child was both a legitimate son and the eldest son, and the emperors and empresses granted special permission for my mother to accompany me in the palace to ensure my smooth birth.
The amniotic fluid broke on a rosy evening. All the people in
the East Palace had been prepared for a long time. The quick one hurried to tell the empress and the prince. The prepared doctor and the midwife hurried into battle. My mother also came in with the midwife. After cleaning her hands, she took the cut ginseng slices and gave them to me. The cold sweat on
my body has soaked through the plain white clothes! At this moment, I finally know that the pain of childbirth is far beyond everything.
Tears fell uncontrollably, blurring everything in front of me, and my midwife whispered in my ears, “Crown Princess, push hard!” At this moment, there is no Crown Princess, only a fragile and ordinary woman.
I finally couldn’t stand it: “Mother, help me, I’m in pain.” My mother rushed over and grabbed my arm: “Yilan, push hard!” I was in a cold sweat. Now I risked my life for Xiao Li. I wanted him to know my pain. I wanted him to know that I was not easy. I shouted with all my strength: “Your Highness!”! Where is your Highness? In the
dim light, I saw my mother shyly withdraw her hands. Could it be.. When I opened my mouth, I found that I couldn’t make any sound. My eyelids were getting heavier and heavier. The girl beside me shouted, “Your Highness is on the way. I’m going to meet you. Empress, please exert yourself!”! A child cannot live without a mother! The midwife was so anxious that she was sweating profusely. In her eagerness, she reached out her hand and pressed it on my abdomen.
The pain surrounded me, and a shrill scream resounded through the hall! Am I going to die?
No, I must not die. I bit my lip and my mouth was full of blood. On the tip of
his nose, however, he could smell the strong smell of medicine. The soup medicine for inducing labor was being handed to his mother by the maid. The mother held the bowl of medicine in her hand, and her tears dripped into the bowl like broken beads: “Daughter, drink the medicine..” The midwife helped me up, and when my mother was about to come to my bedside, a man ran far away and gave me a hard pinch on my arm.
It’s Yoxu. With tears on her face,
she knelt down and whispered in my ear, “Third Mistress is in the East Palace. She’s with the prince. Miss, you must hold on!” I opened my eyes wide in disbelief, and the next moment, the pain came flooding in again, twisting my expression.
In the pain of despair, I finally know clearly that in this palace city, there is no one to rely on except myself.
I clenched my slim sleeve, the veins in my hands bulging, and gritted my teeth and said, “Take away the oxytocic soup. I, I want to give birth myself!”. The midwife was still trembling. I looked at her and said, “Help me!”! If something happens to me and my child, can you and your nine clans bear the thunder of the royal family? After struggling for a long time, at midnight, I finally gave birth to a baby, a boy.
The little baby blushed and cried loudly in the bright yellow swaddling clothes.
After the joy, fear crept into my heart.
The mother held the child in her arms and said carefully, “I’ll hold it and show it to the prince.”.
I nodded slightly, feeling powerless all over my body.
At this point, Yoxu unexpectedly took off his strength and sat on the ground. Before the gate of
death, it was not my husband and mother who were of one mind with me, but my wife who had served me for many years.
I said that I wanted to have a rest, so I held back the crowd and left the catkins alone. “Catkins, tell me exactly what you saw just now.”.
“Yoxu said,” You have done such a dangerous thing, but the prince is nowhere to be seen.
I couldn’t find it anywhere in the East Palace, and finally I found the Prince’s study along the corridor.
The gatekeeper is Wenlan beside the prince. You have been kind to him, so he motioned to me when he saw me coming. In the
study is.. A piercing chill welled up in my heart, and I gave her a worried look. “You go on, I’ve come through the gate of death, and there’s nothing I can’t endure.”.
The third young lady was in the study, making a living with the prince.
I suddenly laughed.
Laugh at them, and laugh at yourself.
Cen Yilan, Cen Yilan, you think you are smart, but you take it lightly and are manipulated by others.
I almost put my life on the line for Xiao Li, but he, at the critical moment of my life and death, mixed up with my own sister.
What a husband, what a sister! “The most important thing for you now is to take good care of yourself, Crown Princess,” she said.
With a prince, your good fortune is waiting for you.
The room is quiet and the needle can be heard.
After a while, I withdrew my thoughts and looked at the discomfited Yoxu in front of me. Under the reflection of the pearl, I solemnly promised: “Yoxu, for your loyalty, I will never fail you.”. There are two ladies around
the queen, one is Green Wax, you can see her dignity in the palace; the other is Bi Fei, who is also married out of the palace.
I will give you the rest of your life more than either of them. Inside the
huge hall, the fragrance of the sunken water was so strong that it made people dizzy.
Self into the palace, this is the first time to meet with chess jade.
It’s just different when you get married. At home, we sisters are on an equal footing.
Now I am sitting and Qiyu is kneeling at her feet.
She was originally a timid beauty, but now she is even less.
I bent slightly and picked up Qiyu’s chin with my fingertips, forcing her to raise her face.
What a beautiful face! I said in a low voice, “The flowers and the bright moon are flying in the mist. Tonight I will go to Lang’s side. I will walk on the incense steps with socks and carry gold shoes.”.
This was originally written by a former court busybody, but coincidentally, it also describes the previous affair between my sister and her brother-in-law.
Chess jade’s face turned white and she bit the soft lower lip like a petal. The
mother stood aside. Seeing this, she said, “It’s my fault, Yilan. I brought your sister in.”. With a half-smile,
I turned to my mother and said, There are three daughters in the Cen family. The elder sister took care of the housework before she left the cabinet, and her father always valued her.
Chess jade is weak from childhood, and the beauty of the birth, so you are partial to pain.
I have no talent and no virtue, and I should not be happy with my parents.
But no matter how stupid I am, I am also your daughter. When I stepped into the gate of death, why did you bring Qiyu into the palace, pull and pull with her brother-in-law, and stab me in the heart?
Mother didn’t dare to look me in the eye. Don’t open your face.
I laughed and said, “My mother still thinks that if I can’t stand it and die, she will be able to come in and sit in my seat because of the affair between Qiyu and the crown prince. It’s always the crown princess or Cen’s daughter. The child I gave birth to has to call Qiyu an aunt, isn’t it?”?
“Yilan!” Mother drank low and her eyes were filled with disappointment.
Unfortunately, I am no longer the two daughters of the Cen family who were not loved in the past. In order to win a word of appreciation from my parents, I have tried my best. Her vision no longer affects me.
The family gave up me in me and chess jade, chose chess jade, why should I be sentimentally attached to them.
Mother thought what I said was ugly?
Then I might as well tell my mother that I can say the ugly words and do the ugly things.
I took a sip of tea and said, Mother, I’d better go out first and let me have a chat with Qiyu alone.
Xu Xu came forward to support his mother.
She was walking forward, looking back before she went out, calling my name, but I turned a deaf ear. The door of the temple
opened, and the light that had seeped in for a moment was quickly cut off by the closed door.
Now, finally, there are only two people left, me and Qiyu.
My eyes fell on her face: “Qiyu, are you still perfect now?”.
Qi Yu did not speak, and the silence itself was an answer, an answer that proved what he had said.
A slap in the face hit her so hard that she turned away from me. My fingertips trembled, but she still turned back. She raised her face, her eyes burning, and her expression was angry and unwilling. “You hit me. What qualifications do you have to hit me?”?
It was I who met Hsiao Li first, and I fell in love with him. Your position as Crown Princess should have been mine! I crouched down to meet her hateful eyes. “Fool!”! I have been able to give you anything since I was a child. Last year, the hairpin given to the noble daughter of Kyoto in the palace was originally one for each of you and me, but in the end, it was not all inserted in your temples?
Just for the moment when you look at the phoenix hairpin, I can let you! Am I not good to you? With a sneer, I took out a jade board from my wide sleeve, which was densely covered with small letters. “Since the position of the Crown Princess has nothing to do with you, you should put yourself in a clear position. Every family on this jade board is the one I carefully selected for you.”. Behind
you is the Cen family, and behind you is me. You can’t find out what kind of marriage you want to have. You’re just waiting for me to finish my life and my child to come and prepare for it. You’re hurrying to the East Palace to offer yourself a pillow mat! “I was the one who met him first. It was me!” I stood up straight and threw the jade board on the ground. “Chess jade, listen carefully.”. The position of my Crown Princess
today is awarded by the emperors and empresses, not snatched from you.
You want to be the Crown Princess, but no one has ever asked me if I would like to be the Crown Princess. Now that
you have lost your virginity, I will help you for the last time to fulfill your wish.
But you also have to remember that from the moment you step into the East Palace and become a concubine of the prince, our sisterhood will come to an end in this life. I will spare no effort to attack anyone who
can threaten my child’s status. This is my bottom line as a mother. On the day when the
emperor’s grandson was one month old, I asked for a decree from the queen’s palace.
Soon, the news that the prince had appointed two concubines spread all over Kyoto.
In addition to the chess jade, there is another concubine of the Su family.
Said to be a concubine, but there was no sister in the family, and his father and brother were military generals, so he looked at his sister more than his eyes, so he developed a shrewish temperament.
When Hsiao Li came to my hall on the second day of his visit to the Su family, he still had a sullen look on his face when he mentioned it. He opened his mouth and almost bit off a piece of meat from my shoulder.
I couldn’t help laughing out loud. In the past, Xiao Li would never have told me about
these things in the boudoir.
Perhaps because of having a child, or perhaps because of the matter of chess jade entering the palace, Xiao Li thought that I was really virtuous and would not be jealous.
In short, this is a good thing, no mistake.
I said, “You should have such a fierce sister, Your Highness Zhi Zhi, so that you don’t think that our concubines in the East Palace are all dough and soft, and that you can bully them one by one.”.
“Hsiao Li also laughed.” Tell me, how did I bully you?
We laughed together and teased our son Hsiao Hsuen together.
As for how Qiyu lost his body, how he entered the palace, and how I asked for a decree from the queen, it seems that as long as we don’t mention it, we can pretend that nothing happened.
It seems that things are like this at the beginning.
Who can see my tears in the long night? The imperial edict ordered me to enter the palace, and the imperial power pushed me to the present position.
Behind the cliff, do not fight, I and my children will have no way to go. When
my son Xiao Xun was six years old, His Majesty, who was in the prime of the Spring and Autumn Period, announced his abdication without warning, posing as the overlord.
After that, it was a series of affairs such as moving the palace. The Zhaoyang Hall, where
the empress lived, also changed hands.
In the past six years, my position in the harem of the former Dynasty has become more and more stable.
On the one hand, I have never waited for a day to pay my respects. The big and small affairs of the East Palace are in good order in my hands. On the other hand, I secretly transferred back to the family of my elder sister Xiangyuan, who was in the south and dredging the river.
The former harem forces crisscross, I really need a little eyes and ears to find out the news, but this eyes and ears, but not necessarily the Cen family.
Xiao Li became the emperor, and I became the queen as a matter of course.
At the court ceremony, I stood in front of people in full dress with Xiao Li, and the dragon, phoenix, pearl and emerald crown on my forehead shone brilliantly in the sunlight.
In the general praise of the mountain, I know that six years have allowed me to complete the smooth transition from Crown Princess to Queen, but every step since then has been more dangerous.
Because Xiao Li, who became the emperor, did not have only one child.
In these six years, there were three sons and one daughter in the East Palace. After
Qi Yu and Su Shi became pregnant one after another, I immediately raised a younger and more beautiful person to share the favor. Although I didn’t have a son and a daughter, it really diluted the number of times Xiao Li went to them.
Su was born prematurely and gave birth to the second son of the emperor like a kitten, but Qi Yu would choose the day and gave birth to the heir, the third son of the emperor, on His Majesty’s Qianqiu Festival.
And I gave birth to a daughter, who is now named Princess Lewin by her father.
When Xiao Li rejected the proposal of Su Shi as the virtuous concubine and Qi Yu as the virtuous concubine, and reversed their titles, I probably guessed what he wanted to do.
Virtue and virtue are both one of the four imperial concubines, but the ranking of virtuous imperial concubines is above virtuous imperial concubines.
Man is such a fickle animal, when Xiao Li stayed on the crown prince’s throne, he was afraid that his father would suspect him and wanted to prove his loyalty.
As soon as he turned around and became the emperor, he was worried that the harem and children were beyond his control and threatened the imperial power.
In the past, when he loved chess jade, all he did was to fight for chess jade and give up when he was slightly blocked. Is it because of the past affection or the checks and balances of the emperor that the partial pain shown to the chess jade on the
title nowadays?
So every time the chess jade and the imperial concubines came to pay their respects, I would clearly express my partiality for the chess jade. The topic
of harem women is nothing more than a few, in addition to sharing the men, is the diet, dress, single to the extreme.
Some people say that they like to drink Longjing tea before the rain, so I say that Qiyu only loves Shuzhongmeng tea.
Similar things happened several times, and one day I heard the news that your majesty reprimanded the imperial concubine.
Xiao Li is nothing more than to provoke chess jade and I play against Taiwan, we are all daughters of the Cen family, your majesty is also natural scruples consorts sit big. What
Your Majesty wants is that we are not in harmony. If we are intimate, Your Majesty will not be able to stand it.
And Qiyu’s counterattack finally came.
In the middle of summer, two princes suddenly fell into the lotus pond Imperial Garden. The
chess jade lives near, arrives one step first.
When she heard her son say, “Brother Huang pushed me,” she walked up to Xiao Xun, who was soaked to the skin, and raised her hand to slap him in the face. The armor on the
woman’s hand scraped a blood stain on the boy’s tender face.
Many years ago, she had knelt on the ground and received a slap from me, and now she finally returned it in this way.
I hurried here, and just as I was seeing this scene, my eyes froze and I whispered, “Imperial Concubine!” There was also a flash of cold in her eyes. “Didn’t the queen hear what Ah Hsiao said?” I put my arm around my son’s shoulder and said, Ah Xun also fell into the water. How can we just rely on Ah Xun’s one-sided story.
Even if a Xun is wrong, he is a legitimate son, your majesty and I have to teach, when is the turn of the German imperial concubine you take the place of others! Qi Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled warmly. “Don’t forget, sister, I’m not only Ah Xun’s concubine mother, I’m also her aunt.”.
She lowered her eyes and held out her hand to my son. Good boy, did my aunt hurt you?
Asuk dodged back as if in fear. “Somebody,”
I said in a cold voice, “Your Majesty, please come here.
It’s not hard to tell which prince is surrounded by palace people.
A Xun arrived first and saw a lotus flower in Imperial Garden pond. A Xiao arrived late and also wanted it.
The two men argued and pulled and fell into the water together.
Hsiao Li’s face darkened when he heard what had happened. “The eyes are so shallow, and even a Tilien is worth fighting for.”.
Hsiao Hsiao was a little younger, and he was usually favored, so he said in a loud voice, “My mother and concubine like Tirian.”.
When Hsiao Li-wen heard this, his complexion improved a lot, and he exclaimed, It’s still filial piety.
“He looked at Hsiao again and scolded him,” You are older than Ah Tao. Don’t you know the truth of loving brothers?
“My eyes sank, but I said angrily,” Your Majesty has forgotten that when Ah Xun led a group of cousins to pay their respects to his mother a month ago, he got a word of respect from his brothers. There are also
children who play. Why do you frighten Ah Tao and Ah Xun with a sullen face.
Without waiting for Hsiao Li to answer, I added, As the saying goes, the son of a thousand pieces of gold cannot sit down in the hall.
This time you two fell into the water, so that the people in the palace pinched the sweat for you, punishment, or to be punished.
In my opinion, how about copying the Book of Filial Piety a hundred times? After all,
I was the empress, and in full view of the public, Hsiao Li would not brush my face. He nodded and said, I’ll do as you say. A letter from the palace
at night said that Your Majesty was resting in the Jade Palace of Chess tonight.
I low sigh, daytime fall into the water storm, your majesty only pick a Xun’s fault, chess jade slap his slap but never mention, not even a reprimand. Xiao Li and
I have been married for many years, and as early as the night of the birth, we were completely disappointed with him.
But Ah Xun, a six-year-old child, how could he not be wronged? When
I took a midnight snack to see Ah Xun, the child had already picked up the Book of Filial Piety.
When he saw me coming, he did not speak, but there was a mist in his eyes. How can
I not be distressed? “Eat something and copy it tomorrow.”.
“He lowered his head and said,” Mother, it is not good to ask your son, and you will not please your father.
I touched him on the shoulder, and my heart ached, and I explained to him, You are my mother’s favorite child, and you are very good.
As for your father, he likes De Fei more than I do, so naturally he prefers Ah Xiao, who was born to De Fei.
What’s more, you are different from Ah Xiao. You are a direct descendant of Zhonggong. Your growth means the aging of your father. If
he is afraid of you, he cannot love you wholeheartedly.
But you still have your mother. Most of the children in the
palace were precocious. That night, Hsiao Hsuen finished copying the Book of Filial Piety a hundred times in silence. At daybreak
, he finally stopped writing and whispered to me, “Mother, I know that you also like lotus flowers.”.
When he mentioned Tirian, I suddenly thought of the lotus hairpin that had been given to me in the palace.
It was in the second year after I gave birth to Le Wen that I learned from the Queen Mother how I became the Crown Princess of the East Palace.
The Empress Dowager said that when Xiao Li begged them, the Cen family secretly entered the emperors and empresses to examine the moral character of the chess jade. The two lotus hairpins
on Qiyu’s sideburns were too eye-catching. Your Majesty felt that Qiyu was too greedy and not modest enough, so he changed the candidate.
If I had heard this before I left the cabinet, I might have believed it, but now that I have been in the court for several years, I can’t help laughing. There are so many noble women in Kyoto. Even if I don’t choose chess jade, why should I push myself up?
In the final analysis, the overlord felt that Xiao Li was too presumptuous in the matter of marriage and intended to knock it.
After all, the imperial court was not without the deposed Crown Princess before.
If I really can’t do it, I will be useless and change another one.
After waiting for Xiao Xun to sleep, I ordered him to go home.
Yoxu is the son of the family, parents are old people in the house, and no son, this is to accompany the room to marry with me. Since
I married into the palace, their family will stay in the house. A
few days later, Ah Xun took his sister out of the palace. They went to the Longevity Villa where the overlord and the empress Dowager retired. There was plenty of open space. Le Wen’s beauty kite could fly at will without worrying about being caught by something and losing interest. Time in the
palace was like running water, and when the phoenix was seven years old, the overlord died. Among the
many descendants, the saddest one was Ashin.
He often went to the Longevity Villa and was deeply attached to the overlord’s grandparents and grandchildren.
I was worried about his health and stewed a lot of tonic soup.
On the day of the overlord’s funeral, in front of many courtiers and the imperial clan, Ah Xun, who was standing in the front, suddenly spurted a mouthful of blood, shook his body violently, and then fell to the ground unconscious.
The Imperial Physician diagnosed that it was caused by poisoning.
Xiao Li is naturally furious, after some verification, the murderer pointed to the virtuous imperial concubine Su Shi.
A Xun’s poison was a strange poison in the southwest, but the brother of the virtuous imperial concubine had suppressed the barbarian soldiers in the southwest many years ago.
Moreover, under strict interrogation, a maidservant in my palace confessed that she had received the favor of the Su family, dissolved the poison in the water, and wiped the soup pot made by the people under her with a cloth handkerchief dipped in the poisonous water for Xiao Xun’s diet.
The Su family fell overnight, and even the third son of the emperor, who was born to the virtuous imperial concubine, was rejected. Chess jade was lying in bed when
the thunder hit Su’s head. The years seemed to favor her and refused to let her beauty have any loss. Even after the miscarriage, her face was pale and she looked like a sick beauty.
She was pregnant twice in the past few years, and each time she didn’t keep it. At first, she suspected that I or Xianfei had done something, but she was always careful about her close things, fearing that she was born weak. When I was
ten years old, I had a serious illness, and I didn’t get better for a long time.
Hsiao Li-chien believed in Taoism and asked me to go to the first chapter, but I flatly refused: I have a clear conscience as the crown princess and the empress, and I have no fault. Is that
true?
Only I know the truth. I have been
married to Xiao Li for seventeen years, and I have indeed done a lot of bad things.
For example, starting from my mother’s family, I tampered with my mother’s clothing material and the warm and tonic medicinal materials that Cen’s family presented to Qiyu, and quietly got rid of the heir of Qiyu.
Can do it again, I will still do so, I have children with chess jade, the potential of fire and water, I can not give her any chance to step on their heads. Accompanied by
a pair of sons and daughters, I finally survived the disease. Not long after he recovered from
his illness, the son of Xiao Xun, the eldest son of your majesty, flew to your majesty’s case.
In terms of etiquette and law, Xiao Xun’s succession was justified, but Xiao Li did not press it. So what if
he doesn’t want to appoint a crown prince? He can’t wait a few days.
Because on the day of Your Majesty’s Qianqiu Festival, at the palace banquet, the second son of the emperor, who seldom appeared on weekdays, attended.
When he offered his birthday, the second son of the emperor cried out for his mother and concubine.
When the dust-laden names were turned out, Your Majesty was stunned for a moment, and the face of the virtuous imperial concubine appeared in his memory. The second son of the emperor, who was kneeling on the
ground, stood up and looked at himself with his eyes wide open.
The virtuous imperial concubine is because the eldest son Xiao Xun is poisoned the matter only then enters the cold palace, if the virtuous imperial concubine has the injustice, then. High above the eyes of the emperor flashed a trace of inexplicable fanaticism: “You get up first, you say that the virtuous imperial concubine has injustice, but what evidence?”?
I lowered my eyelashes and blew gently on the hot tea in my cup.
Evidence, of course, is there.
At the behest of His Majesty, the case of the virtuous imperial concubine was retried.
But the truth was not what he expected. The maidservant who
was executed had a family. The teenage girl knelt on the ground and wept, telling the truth she knew: My mother told me that after my elder sister entered the palace, she started tending flowers and plants in the Imperial Garden. One year when my mother fell ill, my elder sister cried in the Imperial Garden and met the imperial concubine.
De Fei gave my sister money and asked her to take it out to cure my mother.
Later, the elder sister entered the queen’s palace by chance, and the imperial concubine asked her to act as a spy. Later, when my father was drunk, he beat someone to death and had to pay for it.
The elder sister begged to go to De Fei again.
De Fei said that she could help her, but she wanted her sister to do one thing for her in the future.
This thing is to poison the prince and at the same time bite the virtuous concubine. That’s enough. It’s enough to sing here. “What a virtuous concubine!”
I said in a cold voice! What a deadly trick to kill two birds with one stone. If it hadn’t been for Ah Xun drinking less in those days, wouldn’t the only thing available to Your Majesty today be Ah Xiao, who was born by her? When the evidence was laid out on the surface, like the virtuous imperial concubine of that year, the chess jade also kept crying out for injustice.
But if it is useful to cry out for injustice, the virtuous imperial concubine will not have to grind in the cold palace for three years. The virtuous
imperial concubine was released, and after three years in the cold palace, she was tortured like an old woman.
Even if she came out, the emperor’s favor had nothing to do with her.
Chess jade was sent to the outskirts of the temple, Qingdeng ancient Buddha, this life. Before
she left the palace, my sister and I met.
Qiyu is no longer the dull young girl she used to be. She pointed at me with her eyes about to crack: “It’s you, it’s you who set out to harm me three years ago!” I shook my head gently and said, “Qi Yu, you made a big mistake, but you still don’t know how to repent. I only wish you could repent your sins.”.
This was the last thing I said to her in this life. She taught me a lesson
many years ago that the more proud you are, the more alert you should be.
Later, Yoxu told me the news that my mother wanted to see her.
I peeled the longan for my daughter and said, “Tell your mother that Your Majesty has made an exception by sending the chess jade to the temple, but the virtuous concubine has been in the cold palace for three years.”. Even if the
temple is poor, it is better than cold palace.
One month later, Your Majesty made his eldest son Xiao Xun crown prince.
A Xun status is valuable, not to mention, in addition to a Xun, he has no choice.
At this point, there is only time left to endure.
Just as Your Majesty used to do in the East Palace, until the emperor is willing to abdicate, or until the emperor dies, it is to endure.
My only concern was that the poison from the southwest still remained in his body-I was really surprised when my son came to me with the poison three years ago.
But this move, though it took a little longer, did work.
Chess jade’s injustice is not wrong, but the cold palace of the virtuous imperial concubine and three princes have identified the murderer is her, the dead maidservant family also identified is her, even if there are a hundred mouth, things are not clear.
After all, no one could have imagined that such a dangerous poison was actually taken by the 13-year-old Ah Xun himself, who was calculating the dosage. Xiao Xun is more suitable to be a crown prince
than his former father.
He was more suspected by the emperor and dealt with it more thoroughly.
In the sound of more leaks, I closed my eyes heavily. Before
going to bed, I thought that I should find a time to advise your majesty that the harem was empty and that I should choose a wide range of beauties.
Nowadays, the people are rich and the country is strong, and it is justifiable for a son of heaven to indulge a little.
If the emperor is not fatuous, how to show the virtue of the prince.
Half asleep and half awake, I seem to have returned to the days when I was young. At that time, I never thought that one day I would be in the palace, fighting with my sisters and emperors, with all kinds of tricks and tricks.
Perhaps this is the fate of all women in the palace. In the
dark night, I do not know where to ring the sound of the gurgling piano, such as weeping, such as complaint, endless.
(End) □ Author: Junzi Duanfang. Focus on not getting lost ~
