Hibiscus Flower West Moon Splendid

Chapter 215
Not long after Feibai set off, there were rumors of an epidemic in Luzhou in Ziyuan, and then as the battle in Dingzhou entered the most critical moment, Xiaofang secretly sent two sad news: the epidemic The attack was ferocious, and the seventeen members of the deposed prince's family, who were exiled in Luzhou, were not spared. All of them were seriously ill and died overnight.The former king and empress didn't know if she had taken some kind of medicine, but she didn't catch the disease, but she didn't want to live alone, so she dressed neatly in the mourning hall, took the bottle of dead medicine that she hadn't taken in the purple garden, and committed suicide up.

We heard it but felt a sigh of relief.When Emperor Dezong heard the news, he was so uncomfortable that he couldn't get water for a day, and fell down heavily. He was so anxious that the government and the people were in a panic. consultation.

On the second day after receiving the news, Shen Changzong came to pass on the prince's oral instruction: all the children of the original surname who have official ranks but stay at home, all go to Famen Temple to pray, pray for the emperor's dragon body to be healthy, and strictly abide by the family's authority. All the wives of high rank went to the Zichen Hall to wait for the order to take care of them.

The emperor was in a coma for a day, and Yuan Feiqing came back from the battlefield thousands of miles away. After praying at Famen Temple, he immediately knelt down outside the hall with all his relatives and ministers, his eyes turned red.On the next day, Dezong finally woke up, but his body was extremely weak, medicine and stones were difficult to enter, and he could only drink some clear soup and juice.

On April 25th, Lian's face was fixed, and he brought Jinxiu, Yuan Feiyan, me, and a group of female relatives, all dressed according to rank, to Zichen Hall.

On that day, Xiaoyu and Weiwei put on the heavy Princess Wishful Crown for me.Seeing Weiwei's serious face, Xiaoyu was also a little worried. This was the first time the little girl showed concern for me when she came to Yuan's house.

"Sir," Xiaoyu inserted the last strand of hair on my sideburns with a pearl hairpin, and said hesitantly, "Sir, what will happen to the original family if the Emperor Tingchao dies? What will happen to the third master and you?"

I smiled at her, "How is Mrs. Luo Luo in the palace?"

"Luoluo's heart is extremely vicious," Xiaoyu snorted softly, "Emperor Wenwu relied heavily on her, and if she disliked anyone, that person would be taken to the Criminal Bureau, tortured to death, and never see the light of day again. Everyone in Dali hated her deeply. On the day when Emperor Wenwu passed away, the first thing the emperor did was to put her in prison, and everyone in the court applauded..." She seemed to realize something, and stopped her contempt He looked at me blankly.

I nodded my head, pulled the court clothes on my body, lightened the heavy burden as much as possible, and then smiled lightly at her: "Don't worry, it won't be more terrifying than Luo Luo."

Xiaoyu's face was pale.

I took two steps forward, but I heard her follow me step by step, and asked in a low voice: "If Mr. Bai and Yuan's family fall apart, sir, can we go back to Dali?" Her voice was strong Feeling homesick, with a hint of expectation.

I couldn't help but sighed deeply.To be honest, I still don't understand why Duan Yuerong sent Xiaoyu to me. Didn't this hurt her?
"If this is the ending, sir will definitely find a way to send you back to Lan County safely," I turned my head and smiled at her, "It's just that I want to bury my bones in Xijing with the third master, right?"

Weiwei who was in the room didn't hear our slightly heavy conversation, but hurried over with the imperial things and complained in a low voice, "Hurry up, Xiaoyu, why are you standing here so stupidly? The imperial concubine came to pick her up in person. Madame."

Xiaoyu stopped asking questions and just sent me out silently.As early as one day, six people carried a big sedan chair and waited under the archway.Xiaoyu had just come to Ziyuan, and it was not her turn to accompany me in the palace; Weiwei was an old man gifted by the prince, so she was supposed to accompany me in the palace, so she helped me into the sedan chair and stood on the side of the soft sedan chair.When I lifted the car curtain, I looked back and saw Xiaoyu, who was kneeling in the dust, looking up at me, her big beautiful eyes filled with hesitation and helplessness.

"My sister's maid looks so beautiful, and Dali is really a beauty." In the sedan chair, there was already a gorgeous woman leaning on the palanquin, wearing a moonlight palace gown, and her two slender bare hands were unconsciously playing with her shoulders. The rose red long silk, and a pair of eye-catching purple pupils kept looking me up and down, "My sister has finally gained weight. But the makeup on my face today is not as good as the day before yesterday."

"Thank you, Empress Jinfei, for your comment." I also squinted at her, "My empress has finally lost some weight, and today's flowers are much more dignified than yesterday's."

She drooped her long eyelashes, covered her mouth with a small smile, turned her side softly, pulled me over, and said coquettishly, "Sister, sit down soon."

I smiled and sat next to her.

Shen Changzong chanted loudly, and the sedan chair started to move steadily.I sat next to Jinxiu and said nothing.

"You still married him." She lowered her eyes and sighed softly, "He finally got his wish. I can't remember how long I haven't seen him smiling so happily." Jinxiu looked at me carefully Eyes, said lightly: "If my sister hadn't disfigured her face, she would be much prettier than when she was young, but she didn't grow much."

I looked at her with a smile, "You are the same as before, you treat me alone and don't forgive others."

Although there was a trace of sarcasm in her smile, she seemed to be a little proud of me for hearing her sarcasm, and she looked at me very softly.

No matter how steady the six-person palanquin was lifted, the azure peony sedan chair curtain in front of it was still shaking slightly.In the morning, the sun is just right, jumping into a trace or two from time to time, a bit like the pale golden gold in Mochou Lake jumping and catching food, occasionally dazzle people's eyes.

Jinxiu was silent for a while, then suddenly stretched out her hands from her sleeves, and a treasure flashed my eyes.I closed my eyes for a while and then opened them again, only to see that her long fingers, which looked like water onions, were all wearing shiny enamel-encrusted gold clippers and precious stone nail covers.She kept turning her hands with proud eyes, admiring carefully.The five-color gemstones are dazzling, and by the jumping sunlight, the luster of the gemstones of various colors is shining to every corner of the palace sedan chair, which is overwhelming for a while.

I heard the story of this pair of nail sets in Xifengyuan.This is a congratulatory gift given by Emperor Dezong to Yuan Qingjiang on his 55th birthday. This is not an ordinary set of nails. It is said that it was the rare treasure most used by the ancestor Xuanyuan Zili in the palace before he married the Yuan family.Originally, everyone in Ziyuan thought that King Wu'an would give this item to his beloved daughter or his wife, not to mention that Yuan Feiyan used enamel finger cots as a sharp weapon to protect himself, and even Na Lian also used to protect his jade fingers diligently. Both of them admired this ornament for a long time, on the contrary, Jinxiu was born as a warrior, the swordsman did not keep nails at all, and usually did not wear finger cots.However, Jinxiu found out that there was such a pair of treasures in the gift list. No one knew what kind of pillow Jinxiu blew on the original Qingjiang. In the end, this expensive pair of nail covers was worn on Jinxiu's bald body by a strange coincidence. On her hands, Jinxiu started to grow nails for this treasure.

As a result, Jinxiu became even more beloved in the Purple Garden, and Lian and Yuan Feiyan also hated Jinxiu even more.

I was thinking to myself, I don't know why Jinxiu neglected to practice sword because of this gorgeous artifact?But she suddenly lowered her slender fingers, and slid slowly on the hem of my skirt, and finally slid on the big lotus root, gradually increasing her strength, and I felt a slight sharp pain in my thigh.Her smile gradually turned cold, and she mechanically said the beautiful meaning of the embroidery pattern, "You got lotus root because of lot? You got lotus root because of lot?"

The voice seemed to be humming vigorously from the nose, full of hatred.

There was also pain in my heart, so I smiled and gently put her hand up, patted the back of her hand, pretending to be relaxed and said: "It hurts, I won't play anymore, when the time comes, I will really scratch the court clothes, you will pay me for it." It's a small matter, but it's a big matter if you arrive at Zichen Hall and wait for your life too late."

Jinxiu gracefully withdrew her hand, and turned aside with a cold face.I couldn't see her face clearly, I could only intuit that she was not feeling well.In fact, I have never felt better.

The sedan chair swayed mechanically, and I gradually became sleepy. Suddenly, I felt a warm breath rushing towards my ears, and I heard Jinxiu's cold voice muttering in my ear, "It's a pity that his health is not good, and he is not going to live very well." long!"

"Can I sincerely ask you to stop cursing my husband's health?" I opened my eyes, and she was slowly moving away from me. I raised my eyebrows at her and said, "If you are in an ordinary family, he is your relative." Brother-in-law, half brother."

"Does marrying him make you so happy?" She ignored my request and continued to tease viciously, "Everyone here is a wolf, you are a sheep, and you don't have Duan Yuerong to back you up. What did he get?"

I gritted my teeth again and again, and my veins became violent again and again. I checked repeatedly whether this was the girl I loved the most, and finally smiled with a green face, "I am Hua Mujin, not an ordinary sheep. Remember when I was a child Big Big Wolf and Pleasant Goat that I told you about? No matter how cruel Big Big Wolf is, he will still lose to that sheep in the end."

Jinxiu held her swan-like neck high, and slanted her delicate winking eyes, "Do you think that if King Xuan becomes the crown prince, he will win? With the power of the royal family of the princess, how can King Xuan care about him? Sooner or later, he will die like a dog Cook, you will only collect his body when you come back."

Another ray of sunlight shone in, flashed my hurt eyes, and involuntarily lowered its head like a stray cat and shed tears, blurring the beauty in the eyes.But it was very clear in my mind, an indescribable sadness that could not be eliminated, let alone escaped, made a deep hole in my heart.Why is my sister so hideous now?
"I know you want to trick me, so I'll tell you, I didn't come back to collect his body." I wiped away my tears, raised my foot, and stepped on the teak coffee table next to me, like a mountain sculpture, He couldn't help but said viciously: "I came back to collect the corpse of his enemy."

"If his enemy is my younger sister, does my elder sister really want to collect my younger sister's body?" Jinxiu quickly answered my words, and her wide-open purple pupils looked at me with tears of despair.

I abruptly looked away, looked ahead and said with difficulty: "No matter in the past, in the future or now, my sister, I don't want my sister to be my sister's enemy, so I beg my sister to let my sister and the third master go. Since my sister also knows that he lives It won't be long, then let my sister spend the last good time with him, and even this, is my sister going to force her sister hard?"

Jinxiu suddenly burst out laughing, the flowers trembled, and the laughter was rampant.I looked at her in surprise.She suddenly stopped smiling, her cold purple pupils stared sharply into my eyes, and said coldly: "Then if the third master refuses to let my sister and Feiliu go, what will happen to my sister? Will my sister also collect the corpses for my sister and Feiliu's enemies?" She held my shoulders tightly and said with hatred: "You big fool, why did you listen to his rhetoric and rush back, abandon your daughter, Giving up your husband, giving up the easy life of being rich and invincible, and giving up everything for him, you are collecting your own body. Do you know?"

For a moment, tears poured down her purple pupils, ruining her exquisite makeup, and her face was full of arrogance. That beautiful face was full of sadness, and I was instantly heartbroken.

"Then why did you send me to him in the first place?" I couldn't help asking the question I've been wanting to ask for seven years, "Why did you let the original Qingjiang marry me forever?"

Jinxiu's tears froze, she stopped crying all of a sudden, raised her purple pupils and glanced at me quickly, "Who told you?"

I looked at her sadly and said: "Why did you do this in the first place? My sister has been thinking about it for so many years and still doesn't understand."

Jinxiu stared blankly at me with a weeping face, a little embarrassed.

I remember that she did wrong things when she was young, and she often behaved like this when I pointed out her mistakes. Unfortunately, she didn't admit her mistakes to me in tears like she did when she was a child. .”

The sedan chair stopped, Chuxi was well-trained, she was holding a handkerchief and a copper basin early in the morning, but when she came in, Jinxiu's panda face was almost wiped by her, Chuxi looked down and waited on Jinxiu to put on her makeup again .After all, Weiwei came out of the prince's mansion, she immediately lowered her eyes when she saw me like Jinxiu, but calmly fixed up my makeup.

Everything seemed to be back to the way it was before we got on the sedan chair, and we became elegant and indifferent aristocratic women again, but we were like two beasts in our hearts, each silently licking the freshly opened wound.

After a while, the eunuch's singing came, and the palace arrived.Jinxiu raised her head noblely, looked straight ahead, and said coldly: "It seems that my sister has been brainwashed by him, just like my sister used to be. Since my sister has said what is in my heart, then in this original family, there is no need to No matter how blaming my sister for being cruel, one day, my sister will regret it."

The peony flower curtain was raised, and Chuxi lightly walked out with her jade hand, like a gust of wind.In the huge sedan chair, no matter how good the sun shines in, there is only a piece of ice cold left.

I walked out slowly, greeted my sisters-in-law and noble daughters, lowered my head as much as I could, not wanting others to see any quarrel between me and Jinxiu, but I still felt Yuan Feiyan's cold gaze on me and Jinxiu sweep.

Led by the palace people to the main hall, there was already a noble lady over forty years old sitting in the middle of the hall, the imperial concubine's phoenix crown was pressing down her head full of black hair, and an expensive royal imperial concubine's court dress quietly concealed her slightly chubby figure , the round face is covered with thick makeup powder as usual, the crescent eyebrows are pasted with gold tinsel, the round eyes are hooked with the routine golden long eyeliner of the harem, with the majesty and composure of the royal family, and the slightly lowered red There was balm on her lips, and there was a quiet smile.Although that woman is not as youthful, beautiful, and charming as my female companions from the Yuan family, she has an indescribably graceful bearing and a special quiet temperament. My titular royal mother.

Concubine Li and Concubine Kong are the same palace servants given to Emperor Dezong by Empress Dowager Dou. Concubine Li is far less beautiful and charming than Concubine Kong. She makes fun of "Yuanzhu" (Yuanzhu) in the palace, but she is rare and gentle and virtuous.

Gradually, even the former queen and queen trusted and valued her quite a bit.Concubine Li once gave birth to King Baishan and Princess Shuxiao for Dezong, but King Baishan died of smallpox when he was three years old.

When the Gengxu Kingdom changed, Princess Shuxiao encountered a wave of refugees on the way to escape. She broke up with Emperor Dezong and Concubine Li, and disappeared in the chaos. Her whereabouts have been unknown since then.

Princess Shuxiao was only 15 years old at that time, exactly the same age as me.Both Dezong and the queen felt that Concubine Li was lonely, so they were very close.Feibai also told me that at the beginning, it was Concubine Li who felt that I was the same age as Princess Shuxiao, also displaced, and separated from Feibai during the war, so she proposed to recognize me as a righteous daughter.

In fact, she was truly benevolent to me. After summoning me, she gave me a heavy gift.

I heard that Concubine Li is from the south and loves drinking tea very much. In the past, Princess Shuxiao often served tea to her mother, so she asked Qi Fang to find the purple bamboo shoot tea grown in the south of Guzhu Mountain, which was one of the tribute teas of the Xuanyuan family One, Li Fei's favorite tea.Unexpectedly, she often summoned me because of this, her eyes became more and more like a mother, and she often gave rewards in various names.

Concubine Li accepted our gift very politely, exchanged some pleasantries, and then calmly told us about Dezong's physical condition, which is much better, but still needs to rest.Concubine Li brought her wives to the Qingsi Hall, and could smell an elegant fragrance from a distance.

It is rumored that Dezong was a master perfumer when he was young. Although he was a relative of the emperor, he ignored the power struggle between brothers and the mundane affairs of the palace, and only liked to attend the incense appreciation meeting of the nobles.At that time, Yuan Qingjiang was only an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, but he also had a unique view on tasting incense. The two hit it off at the incense appreciating meeting, and then became close friends, both friends in life and politics. The allies came here to support him all the way, even the ambergris that Yuan Feibai often used was chosen by Dezong for him.

We stepped into the main hall, facing two mighty bronze and golden suanni large smokers, with white smoke curling up, exuding pleasant Du Ruoxiang, drifting mistyly towards the engraved Xuanyuan family flower, the charming peony.

(End of this chapter)