The queen bullies me every day

Chapter 291

In the early morning of the second day, after dawn, Liu Qi brought two inner eunuchs to see Chu Jin off to Lenggong.

The weather is always sunny after a fresh rain.Yesterday's pattering rain that didn't stop until the middle of the night gave an extremely sunny day today.

The spring light is like a bright and beautiful satin, spreading out the clouds all over the sky, gathering and spreading out, which makes Chu Jin dazzled.

Everyone in the palace knows that today is the day when Chu Jin enters the cold palace, but Concubine Zhang is the only one who can come to see him off.

According to the rules, Chu Jin's posthumous status could no longer have any contact with Dazhao's concubine.

But Liu Qi had received a lot of kindness from Chu Jin in the past, so he was very accommodating and allowed Concubine Zhang to come forward.

She was tired and lazy, but today she was surprisingly diligent and willing to help Linglong carry that heavy luggage.

Chu Jin only had her long hair pulled up in a flat square of peach wood, and she was wearing a thin blue shirt with no lines all over her body. She was so pure that she looked like a lotus flower.

Removing the gorgeous dress and returning to the basics, it is more bright and moving.

Concubine Zhang nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "Such a beautiful woman, anyone who sees her will be tempted."

When passing by Chaoyang Palace, I heard the voices of courtiers discussing in the inner courtyard of the red wall. It was the time for them to go to court, and by chance I could hear someone questioning Xuan Jue, "The empress is the birth mother of the prince. It was a mistake and was discarded by the emperor, fearing that the people of the world will use this matter to judge the emperor's fault."

As for Xuan Jue's answer, and what someone asked later, Chu Jin has already gone far, so it is unknown.

The so-called "Lenggong" is just a vacant courtyard behind Yinlvxuan.

It doesn't have the plaque of 'Lenggong', but another name that sounds rather unique - Yucuixuan.

The reason why everyone calls this place the cold palace is because the concubines who have fallen out of favor and made mistakes in the past dynasties cannot be demoted from the palace because they were royal daughter-in-laws, so they had to find such a place in the palace to house them.

It is said that the night in the palace is cold and long, and it is only because there is no caring person to keep warm.

A woman who has entered the cold palace has no hope in this life, is it because she is cold to the bone?

After standing in front of the Lenggong gate for a while, Liu Qi said: "Ms. Zhang Concubine, I only dare to allow you to send the little lord Huang Chu here. If you go in again, you will be unlucky. If the emperor knows, this slave will lose his head." gone."

Concubine Zhang knew that he had tried his best and was unwilling to embarrass him anymore, so she took Chu Jin's hand and turned all the words into a sentence of "treasure".

Just as the two were saying goodbye, the door of the cold palace was opened from the inside, and an unpleasant musty smell came out from the inside. Two inner eunuchs carried a stretcher, and a person covered with a white cloth fell asleep on it.

Liu Qi urged them to go faster, and Concubine Zhang asked, "Don't you ask who the dead person is?"

Liu Qi shook his head and said, "There is only the late emperor's pure concubine left in the cold palace. The first one was reported to be seriously ill, and the empress dowager didn't allow the imperial doctor to come to see her. It's a miracle that she survived to this day."

His tone was indifferent, as if the one who died was not the noble master of the former Emperor Garden City, but an innocuous dog.

Maybe not as good as a dog.

When Liu Qi welcomed Chu Jin and Linglong into the cold palace, the desolation and desolation here was creepy.

Chu Jin never imagined that there would be such a boundary in such a splendid Emperor Garden City.

Compared with the poor people living in Zhaodu, it is not as good as it is, and there is no royal style at all.The moment you step into the threshold, it seems that you have fallen from heaven to hell.

Even the air exudes a suffocating stench.

Liu Qi clutched the tip of his nose and said helplessly, "I'm afraid I've been dead for a few days, this smell has to dissipate."

Linglong was a little scared, she took Chu Jin's hand and secretly exerted force.Chu Jin looked at her with a smile, patted the back of her hand, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, there is nothing dirty."

Although the territory is dilapidated, it is spacious.Chu Jin counted with his eyes, starting from the entrance, there are a dozen or so rooms scattered among them.It should have been uninhabited for a long time, weeds were overgrown on the bricks and tiles, and thick dust had accumulated on the gate, which was devastated.

As soon as she reached out to touch it, a layer of embroidered dust fell from the copper ingot on the door, almost fascinating people's eyes.

When he reached the widest room in the middle, Liu Qi stopped, brushed away the messy and dense cobwebs on the half-open door with dust, and whispered to Chu Jin: "My lord, we're here."

The dust floating in the air made Chu Jin sneezed unbearably. She stepped inside, only to find that the floor tiles in the room were covered with dark green mold, and it was very damp. It feels sticky.

Liu Qi greeted the two inner eunuchs he brought with him to help Linglong tidy up the messy room. This was not his job, but he did, and Chu Jin was grateful.

When she and Liu Qi were sitting in front of the cleaned table, Linglong offered them a pot of cold water.

"Miss, this servant has seen that there is no small kitchen in this area. If you want to drink hot water, you have to chop dead wood to make a fire. Now it's too late, and the weather is hot. You and Eunuch Liu should drink some water first." .”

Chu Jin understood, nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Linglong wiped the sweat from her forehead, smiled and ran to continue tidying up with them.

Chu Jin picked up the teacup and took a sip of clear water. The taste of this water was no different from the water he drank in Youdu in the past.But she didn't care, raised her hand and drank it down.

Liu Qi sighed: "It's hard for my mother, I have to suffer such a crime."

"You still call me Niangniang?" Chu Jin looked at him calmly, and said with a smile: "Dazhao has never been a waste queen, and I have set a precedent for this."

A trace of sympathy flashed across Liu Qi's face, wondering why: "The emperor was just deluded. When he figured it out someday, he would have the time to welcome the empress out of this cold palace. The servant is watching you and the emperor get to know each other. Xu, the servant understands the emperor's temperament, the emperor will not"

"Do you think the current emperor is the emperor?" Chu Jin asked.

Liu Qi was stunned, and after a long time he asked tentatively, "What are you doubting, Your Majesty?"

"You can ask this question, which means that the suspicion in your heart and I have thought of the same place. I am close to the emperor, but when it comes to the person closest to him, I am afraid that even the queen mother can't compare with you. You and the emperor At about the same age, I have been with the emperor since I was nine years old, and for ten years, the first person you see when you open your eyes must be the emperor, and you can tell what he is thinking when he twitches his eyebrows."

Liu Qi hesitated for a moment, and said: "The emperor believed that the empress and the national teacher had an affair, and the slave felt it was weird. Later, because the empress posted a notice and turned against the empress, the slave felt even more bizarre. Until... until Concubine Ru hurt the empress' womb, The emperor actually gave birth to that fetus." He lowered his voice, and saw Chu Jin's expression was sad, so he changed his subject and said, "Anyway, the emperor who I know well, will never change his temperament so much in such a short period of time. The slave suspects that the emperor is It’s not a trick for people.”

Chu Jin looked at Linglong who was tidying up the bed, and said in a cold voice, "Or, the person who sits in the hall and listens to the government is not Xuan Jue at all?"

(End of this chapter)