The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 613 A Letter (2)
Qin Wanrong snorted dissatisfied and said: "It is precisely because of the kindness of the empress that some people indulge in favors and are so arrogant that they don't take the empress seriously, and they refuse to pay attention even to find an excuse, which shows how arrogant they are. , if not punished, everyone will follow suit in the future, what is the majesty of the empress?"

Qingchen nodded thoughtfully, and seemed to agree with Qin Wanrong's words: "I think this is very good, but I don't know how Qin Wanrong thinks that I should be punished?"

Qin Wanrong smiled triumphantly: "It's better for Concubine Chen to kneel outside the Jiaofang Hall and reflect for two hours, so as to remind all concubines to be cautious and respectful, and not to offend the majesty of the empress at will."

It was snowing heavily outside, and the north wind was howling. It was sincere to torture people. Concubine Ning glanced at Qin Wanrong with dissatisfaction and sneered: "It's thanks to your imagination that the weather is so bad outside, but the empress has just said no. I blame you, but now Qin Wanrong said that she wants Concubine Chen to kneel outside and reflect on herself. This palace asks, should Concubine Chen listen to you, or should Concubine Chen listen to Empress Dowager? Do you still have to listen to your little graceful appearance? I just heard you say "Be careful and respectful", but if you speak to Concubine Chen with such an attitude, shouldn't you be punished?"

Qingchen smiled tacitly, looked at Qin Wanrong who was in a panic and said: "If Qin Wanrong can replace the empress and give orders to the concubines, then I am willing to go out and kneel to reflect, I'm afraid Qin Wanrong doesn't have such a big face! As Wanrong, she has A heart that rules the six palaces is truly disrespectful. As the saying goes, knowing people knows faces but not hearts. Who knows whether Qin Wanrong wants to maintain the majesty of the empress or destroy her reputation of generosity and virtuousness? Ruo Qin Wanrong is really so 'cautiously respectful', then it is best not to be late all year round, and set an example for everyone, all the sisters present can watch, Qin Wanrong must never be late in the future."

With such a heavy snowstorm outside, the queen asked her to go out and kneel because of being late, and her reputation for generosity would be ruined.

Qin Wanrong knew that she would not be able to take advantage of it any further, so she snorted angrily and turned her face away. She just wanted to take the opportunity to embarrass Qingchen. Even if she had the idea of ​​replacing her with the queen, she is not willing to do so now. Possibly, if the Queen became suspicious, it would be bad for her.She only hates that Qingchen is so good at stalking people, how can he not have a headache when people eat whole grains, if he is late, wouldn't he slap himself in the face?She wouldn't follow her words and jump into the pit.

Smart people have already sensitively realized that the empress and concubine Li in the palace are now in the same faction, and Concubine Ning and Concubine Qing have also joined forces secretly. Qin Wanrong must use her status as a fifth-rank graceful concubine to provoke a second-rank concubine, and she deserves to be humiliated.

Seeing that the hall was quiet, the queen glanced majestically at everyone, and finally looked at Qingchen and asked, "Has Concubine Chen been in contact with your husband Qin Zishuo recently?"

Qingchen was a little surprised why the Empress suddenly asked this question, and said in confusion, "Since I entered the palace, I have never met my husband, and I don't know where he is now, and I have never contacted him."

The queen asked again sternly, "Are you telling the truth?"

Qingchen nodded inexplicably, "The concubine dare not lie, the whereabouts of the husband are always unpredictable, and the concubine lives in the harem and is not allowed to come and go at will, it is really difficult to contact."

"Then what is this?" The queen grabbed a few pieces of paper on the small nanmu table beside her and threw them at her angrily, "Don't tell me that you can't even recognize your own handwritten letter!"

A few pieces of paper fluttered down at Qingchen's feet, but she didn't bend down to pick them up, she just sat upright, waiting for Jin Xin to pick them up and hand them to her, but she didn't reach out to pick them up, she just looked at them in Jin Xin's hand. After a few glances, he calmly said: "This is not written by my concubine."

If the queen throws it away, does she just have to bow her head to pick it up?
An ambiguous letter, the content of which is a bit unbearable, full of longing for the old love, and even an appointment for the time and place of a private meeting, the handwriting is exactly the same as hers, presumably someone who is very good at calligraphy was found to imitate it.

Qingchen didn't explain, but just said this lightly, such an indifferent attitude made the empress extremely displeased, "The inscription has the concubine Chen's boudoir name, doesn't the concubine Chen explain to me what's going on?"

Qingchen said seriously: "It wasn't written by the concubine. How can the concubine explain it to the empress? Anyone can imitate the concubine's handwriting to blame the concubine. How dare the concubine get this letter?" ?”

The queen didn't answer her, but ordered in a cold voice: "Bring up the things and let Concubine Chen take a look."

Immediately, a young eunuch was ordered to leave, and soon came in with a Kongming lantern covered with snow. Qingchen knew that lantern, it was the one she let fly last night, and she remembered the pattern on it, which was Wealth and many children, a little boy with long hair is lying leisurely under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, holding a huge pomegranate in his arms, a few ripe flat peaches rolling down beside him, and a crane flying in the air, which symbolizes auspiciousness. The pomegranate has many seeds, which means The osmanthus tree symbolizes wealth and honor, so the person who drew this picture left the words "wealth and wealth and many sons" on the side.

Qingchen liked the child's tired and lazy demeanor very much at that time, innocent and cute with a bit of helpless laziness, which reminded her of a few lines in a Wu song, "Da'er is hoeing the east of Douxi, Zhong'er is Weaving chicken coops, I like children rascals the most, lying on the stream and peeling lotus pods." She couldn't put it down so vividly, and because she liked it, she looked at it a few more times, and the impression was particularly deep.

Now that the Queen brought up the Kongming Lantern, Qingchen instantly understood their intentions. No wonder there were water stains on the letter. Someone would come forward to testify that this letter was picked up from her Kongming Lantern.

The queen said in a deep voice: "This morning, the little father-in-law who cleaned the imperial garden picked up this Kongming lantern and found such a letter inside, so he handed her over to this palace. The scandal of the palace should not be publicized. This palace has ordered Lock up that little eunuch, Concubine Chen, what else do you have to say?"

Qingchen smiled bitterly silently, since it is not appropriate to publicize it, why did he openly interrogate it in front of the concubines of the sixth palace?The past between her and Qin Zishuo was constantly criticized by others. Is it really hard to tell in this life?

"Empress, the note that the concubine placed in the Kongming lantern last night only had four words, 'I hope you are safe,' rather than a letter. Please learn from the empress." It turned out that the empress was not happy because she came Late, but because of this reason.

This morning, in front of the concubines of the Sixth Palace, a young eunuch came to Jiaofang Palace to present this letter. When Chen came to Chengkun Palace, he didn't know why he didn't dare to speak again.

"You said that you only wrote these four words in the Kongming lantern you prayed for. Do you have any witnesses?"

(End of this chapter)