Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 704 What is more important than the beauty of the country
The night gradually deepened, and the palace lanterns were full of shadows.

In the dark night sky, three or two stars twinkled.

Zhao Xi slightly gathered his collar, and suddenly felt a little cold.

At this moment, there is a woman crying, there is only one possibility!
It was the concubines kidnapped by the Queen Mother!

It's just, didn't you say you were going to throw it into the snake pool?Why are you crying in mid-air?

Is it...

Zhao Xiwei subconsciously looked at the main hall again, with flying eaves and brackets reaching straight into the sky.

With just one glance, a picture instantly appeared in her mind.

A group of concubines, hanging on the beams...

The thick hemp rope on the wrist, the long whip soaked in salt water, the shocking blood, the bone-streaked wound...

Many pictures flashed like fragments, making Zhao Xiwei feel a chill in his heart.

But after a short period of discomfort, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Just hanging on the beams and being able to cry, it means that they are still alive, as long as they are still alive, there is still time for everything.

However, this thought only lasted for a moment.

Because, the next moment, the screaming cries suddenly intensified, with a kind of despair that was close to being dissipated, almost piercing the night sky of the entire imperial city——

"don't want!!"

At the same time, with this cry, all the doors in the main hall were opened!

When Zhao Xi looked up slightly, his pupils shrank suddenly!
Although she had expected it, but seeing this scene with her own eyes, she still felt that her scalp was numb, and her whole body was completely cold from bone marrow to blood!

The scene presented to her was ten thousand times more bloody and disgusting than the hanging beams.

The Ten Thousand Snakes Pond that the Queen Mother mentioned is not in the garden, not in the back hall, but in the main hall!

The densely packed snakes spit out long letters and surged back and forth in the water.

And the Empress Dowager's diet and daily life are carried out in this environment!

A burst of stomach qi surged up, Zhao Xiwei hurriedly pressed his chest.

The queen mother played with the broken armor, raised her eyelids and squinted over: "Are you afraid? It's okay to be afraid—"

She bent down slightly, stared at Zhao Xiwei's face, opened and closed her purple lips, and said coldly like a ghost: "Since you know that you are afraid, it means that you are still aware of current affairs. Listen to Ai's family's persuasion and hand over the token." , Let all the North and South armies withdraw, Aijia will pretend nothing happened, and let you go back..."

She smiled, and a strategizing attitude came out: "If you don't want to see the coffin without crying, Aijia doesn't mind playing with you to the end. Take a good look at these women in front of you. They are not Jin Zunyu Noble and respectable person? Who is not a delicate daughter from a rich family?"

"Hey!" She smiled sarcastically, with a murderous look on her face: "But so what? If you don't listen to the words of the Ai family, if you don't eat the toast and eat the fine wine, then the Ai family will have to fulfill them."

Zhao Xi slightly suppressed the sour gas in his stomach, and slowly moved his gaze upwards.

All the palace lanterns were lit, and the white light was like snow waves, illuminating the entire inner hall.

It also illuminated the faces of those concubines, which were extraordinarily pale and ferocious.

A group of women were hung on the beam like dead fish, and everyone had their outer shirts stripped off, leaving only their close-fitting middle clothes.

More than a dozen servants pulled the axle wheel behind them, dividing the group of women into two rows. The servants pulled back and forth forcefully. When the axle wheel went up, one row of people was lifted into the air, while the other row fell into the pool.

Whenever it is suspended in the air, the rope will strangle the neck, allowing people to kick their legs.

And as long as he kicked his legs, the axle and wheel would be rotated, and the person would fall straight to the water.

Repeating this back and forth, the group of concubines shuttled back and forth like weaving cloth, in the sky for a while, and underground for a while.

Just hanging around like this is already uncomfortable, not to mention, there are thousands of snakes in the pond?

When the feet without shoes and socks were immersed in the water, the snakes swarmed over like bees, stretched out their pointed heads, and spitting out long letters, scrambling to bite the white and tender soles of the feet...

"Ahahaha! Don't! Ahaha...help...don't!"

A group of concubines were crying and laughing. When they saw Zhao Xiwei, they suddenly saw the last straw, struggling and shouting: "Crown Princess! Help, Princess!"

Someone even cried: "Zhao Xiwei, please, give the jade order to the Queen Mother!"

"Did you hear? As long as you hand over the jade order, the Ai family will let them go." The queen mother leaned most of her body on the throne, and her whole body returned to her original laziness. "The Ai family doesn't like you, but the Ai family doesn't I'm too lazy to fight with you, so I might as well tell you the truth - Aijia knows you are innocent and doesn't want your life, but who told you to hold the imperial guards in the palace?"

She half closed her eyes again, as if she was resting her mind: "It's useless for you to hold this thing, but the Ai family is different, this is the lifeblood of the Ai family! How can you allow other people to snore and sleep on the side of the couch. The Ai family is in charge of politics." For decades, how can you tolerate giving up military power?"

Her tone softened, half coaxing and half coercing: "Hey, Aijia knows that you are smart. Listen to Aijia's persuasion, the crown prince has deposed you, no matter how much love you used to have, it's over now. He has broken ties with you, just to stabilize your Zhao family and the entire court."

Zhao Xiwei's heart froze suddenly.

She actually understands all this.

Therefore, she clearly knew that it was not for him that she entered the palace this time.

But it was the first time someone dissected it in such a detailed way, and it still made her feel a little sour.

It was him who pushed her to the cusp of the storm, and put her in the sea of ​​swords and flames...

"Aijia is his imperial grandmother. He watched him grow up. Aijia knows better than you what kind of temperament he is. He is definitely not a person who loves children. He understands better than anyone else. .You helped him today, and he may not remember your kindness when he comes back. What needs to be settled will still be settled—"

The queen mother suddenly opened her eyes and said meaningfully: "Do you believe it?"

Zhao Xi was slightly taken aback.

Liquidate the Zhao family?
Just because of the suspicious "poison queen"?
However, he thought about Zhao Ziyi's words again. If what he said was true, then both Shen Yuqing and Zhao Ziyi were inseparably involved in the Queen's death.

Even if it was an unintentional mistake, Shen Yuqing formulated the medicine, and Zhao Ziyi helped hide it afterwards.

The emperor has been kept in the dark for so many years, once found out, it would be strange if he could listen to and explain.

What's more, Zhao Ziyi couldn't produce any evidence to clear the suspicion.

only……

Maybe there are other clues?
According to Zhao Ziyi, the Queen Mother has clues...

She was thinking, the queen mother thought it was shaken, so she patiently continued to persuade: "Aijia knows that you like him and want to stay with him forever, but have you ever thought about it, you and him are just a few It's just Yue and his wife. In terms of love, they haven't reached the point of life and death. Miss Gu and he are cousins. They grew up together. What is it like now? Can't even ask for a good wife! "

Mentioning Gu Yuci, Zhao Xiwei remembered something, raised his eyes and looked around, and finally locked on to the familiar figure.

Gu Yuci was also tied and hung in it.

She is undoubtedly the worst one here.

The scarlet shirt was stripped off, the white plain gauze jacket was covered with blood, the trousers were torn, and two white legs were exposed.

Two elderly nuns stood on the left and right, each holding one of her ankles, took a small brush dipped in medicinal juice and smeared on her legs.

For a woman who has not left the cabinet, this is simply a shame and a great humiliation.

But she didn't scream or cry from the beginning to the end.

Zhao Xiwei suddenly felt sympathetic for no reason.

Is Gu Yuci willing to do this for him just for the status of "Liangdi"?
If it is said that there is no love, why is this?

But if the love is so deep, is it worth it?
(End of this chapter)