Yijuan cloud

Chapter 147 Harem Favor
Cao Yingshan was wearing a green robe of a young eunuch, with red lips and white teeth under her three-mountain cap, and she looked anxious and sad.

When she was not married, among her sisters and brothers, only Cao Junlei treated her well and could talk to her, so she had the best relationship with Cao Junlei.

What's more, Cao Junlei was such a good person and everyone felt friendly to him, let alone his half-sister. She didn't want to be sad when he died.

I stared at her dumbly, listening to her story.

Cao Junlei died of illness a month ago. He was said to have contracted wind and cold, and later there was no cure.

After his death, Liang Xianyi posthumously named him Marquis of Yanshan and his posthumous title of Zhongxiang.

I asked Cao Yingshan: "What are you afraid of?"

She sniffed and said, "My second brother did not die of illness, but was ordered to die by the emperor. The second brother just entrusted someone to take care of Yuan Shi who was under house arrest, and he ended up like this."

She grabbed my arm, fear in her eyes.

"He has always been cruel. No, he has no heart at all. Do you know how Concubine Hui has no heart? In order to give him a chance to enter the capital, Concubine Hui ate gold powder every day and made up her mind to exchange her life for it. He started an uprising in Beijing. Concubine Hui had raised Emperor Xuanzong for several years. Concubine Hui was seriously ill. Even if Emperor Xuanzong was afraid of him, he would still allow him to return to Beijing to serve her illness! He really had done everything. At the beginning, In order to go to the north to recharge his batteries, he deliberately caused a quarrel between me and Xu Ruxin, and actually found someone to poison me. If I hadn't been lucky, I would have been a skeleton..."

While she was speaking, she was still frightened and kept exerting force on her hands until she pinched me until it hurt. But with this little pain, I was always awake.

I asked her softly: "How did you know?"

Cao Yingshan's face was full of tears and her expression was in a daze. She didn't hear me at all, like a sad, angry and helpless cat kit.

She let go of my arm, clenched her fists, raised her head and tried to control her emotions, then seemed to be talking to herself, and said hoarsely:

"And Xianggui, do you think he just wanted to vent your anger? He did it for himself. He wanted to bring down Eunuch Tang. In order to prevent Xianggui from going to Beijing to deliver the news again, he let Eunuch Tang ruin Xianggui. Gui!"

She looked at me with red eyes and choked with sobs: "My second brother told me personally, let me remind you, don't disobey him easily. Don't look at him liking you and pampering you now. I don't know if he is sincere." , because he initially agreed to let you go to the Northern Territory just to win over Fan Li! His people heard you talking to Fan Li's attendants and knew that Fan Li liked you, so they took you to the Northern Territory with them. Once, he even asked you to be Fan Li's personal maid, right?... If a person really likes someone, he would like to be with her every day, so there is no reason to push her into the arms of another man..."

She held my arm with both hands and said anxiously: "I am scared to death every day in the palace. He doesn't like me, and he is even more angry with my father. I am really afraid that one day I will offend him. Cirrus, Juan Yun, you used to have the most ideas, and now you are still favored. Please support me and protect me in the future, okay?"

I sat quietly in the dark tent.

The lake blue embroidered curtains fell heavily, completely blocking the weak candlelight outside.

Because his favorite sandalwood was always burning in the incense burner indoors, even in the tent, it was as if his breath was everywhere.

It took me a long time to take a breath and slowly lie down, tears sliding down my cheeks into the pillow, which was cold.

There was a small whisper outside, and if you listened carefully, you could still tell that it was him who was back.

After a while, Wen Jin said softly outside the tent: "Is the girl still asleep? According to your instructions, I told the emperor that the girl drank some wine and went to bed early. The emperor didn't say anything and went back to rest. went."

After a long while, I lifted the curtain, sat silently by the bed, and put my bare feet into my flat gold embroidered shoes.

Wen Jin called me worriedly: "Girl——"

The beautiful moonlight shines through the heavy curtains, making this long night feel even more long.

Time seems to have stopped at this moment.

I gently got out of bed and walked to the table outside the curtain. I picked up the candle scissors and cut off the candle flowers. The candle wick was suddenly bright. "I can't sleep. I want to copy the scriptures. You can prepare the pen and ink," I said.

Each small character appeared on the end of the pen, neatly and without any mess, but in my heart, it was inextricably linked.

Cao Yingshan suddenly visited me and said so much. I knew that she was not just afraid, not just because she wanted to survive in this palace hand in hand with me. She might just want to alienate Liang Xianyi and me.

But everything she said didn't sound like lies.

I only saw Concubine Hui once. She was lying on the bed with a gloomy face, and she couldn't help but touch her abdomen with her hands. She seemed to have unbearable abdominal pain, but it turned out that she had swallowed gold powder.

When gold enters the belly and does not melt, it is like a knife cutting through fire.

How could he bear to let his aunt suffer such torture?

Cao Junlei died of illness. I didn't know about such a big thing.

He also knew that what he did would chill the hearts of everyone in the world, so it became a taboo in the palace!
He gave death to the hero who had worked so hard for him!
He killed Cao Junlei!

The pen trembled, and the word "ming" disappeared. I stretched out my hand and kneaded it into a ball little by little.

Wen Jin said warmly: "Although I don't know what the concubine said to the girl, no matter what, the girl should not be angry with the emperor. The emperor is our emperor. Above ten thousand people, the whole world belongs to the emperor. The girl has entered the palace these days, and she will rely on her for life. Don't be confused, because the emperor is annoyed by the few words of others. The girl wants to be honored as a queen, and it is inevitable that she will be rewarded with such a great honor. People are jealous, and the servants will have evil intentions when they see the concubine. Otherwise, why can't we talk openly and honestly, why do we have to pretend to be the father-in-law delivering boxes of food and secretly come here?"

The rear position, the glory of heaven... I bit my lower lip, shook my head, and continued copying scriptures on the new paper.

I actually think about Cao Yingshan like this.

By now she had been given a marriage offer to Liang Xianyi, and she already knew it.

Liang Xianyi never valued her, and she never cared about him.

She stayed by his side purely because of her status as "concubine" and concubine in the harem.

She didn't even object to her father being dismissed from office and her family moving out of the capital. Why else would she want to cause trouble?
She must be really scared... Cao Junlei told her so many thrilling secrets before his death, how could she not be scared?
Every one of those things is a huge secret, how can you say it openly?
She could only find me secretly, just as she had begged me to write poems and letters for her in the past, asking me to share these secrets with her.

……

I have always known Liang Xianyi's hardships.

Know his difficulties.

Knowing that he was going to sit on the throne of Jinluan Palace, he had to resort to some tricks.

But for the sake of a throne and power, how is he different from Ying Xuanzong by acting like this?

He is too cold-blooded, too ruthless, and too cruel.

Perhaps, he really has no heart.

(End of this chapter)