Hibiscus Flower West Moon Splendid

Chapter 264 Moon Cold Frost Flower Pendant (1)
A cockroach crawled into my mouth and woke me up from sleep.I coughed hard and spit out that little strong.

This day is the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. The north wind is howling outside the iron window, rolling muddy snowdrops unscrupulously into the air and dancing wildly in mid-air. A return wind blows into the window lattice, making people feel cold to the heart .

The cloud clothes around the plain plate were blown clean, and the bright moonlight icyly shone through the iron fence, just seeing the Xiaoqiang that I spit out was still struggling to turn over in the bloody phlegm.

"Sir, did you have a nightmare?" Xiaoyu next door was awakened, only heard a crashing sound, piercing the silence of the snow, she probably dragged her handcuffs, slowly came to the fence, and asked worriedly : "Mister, is hemoptysis again?"

"It's okay, I'm just choking." I tried my best to get up on the musty and smelly broken mat, clutching my painful chest and abdomen, and replied to her as calmly as possible.But I was shocked in my heart. My old injury has not recurred for more than a year. Is it because I am used to living a life of luxury and clothing, but I am unable to adapt to the harsh prison life...

At this time, the hoarse voice of the new watchman came along with a watch drum, and I subconsciously looked at Yaoyue outside the iron fence.I don't know what happened to Feibai, but this Dali Temple is guarded by the imperial concubine's personal guards, and it is indeed heavily guarded.In the beginning, Qingmei used a dark man pretending to be a watchman to report to me from time to time. Feibai knelt in front of the Chongyuan Hall until he fainted in order to save me. The king of Jin escorted back to the fief of Jinyang, and the rest of the Yuan German army was taken over by the Tiande army, and the Tiande army general Zuoqiu was sent to surround Jinyang, and no one was allowed to enter or leave at will.

All the attendants and servants from Xifengyuan who will be martial arts are accompanied, and only Weiwei and Xiaoyu are left to watch over me. Yu Feiyan, Xie Suhui and their generals are all suspected of being related to the assassination case of Liuyu Palace, and they are all sent down. He was sent to prison and reviewed for nearly a month.Yu Feiyan and Xie Suhui are still in prison, while Cheng Dongzi and Yao Xuelang have been demoted to common people and sent back to their original places, and they are not allowed to return without a decree.Those people in Shengu who survived the battlefield should now be fiefs in Jinyang like Yuan Feibai.Qi Fang has been convicted and will be beheaded in the fall of next year.My heart was burning like fire, and my condition became more serious.The watchman sent me a sentence written by Qi Fang in blood, "A piece of ice is in the jade pot."

Although it is in regular lowercase letters, the handwriting trembles slightly.Hearing that Qi Fang was tortured, even though he took the responsibility on himself, he didn't know what kind of crime he suffered.Soon, Qingmei failed to rescue her, and instead became the first dark leader to be detained.In order to take revenge on Qingmei, Qiao Wan personally beat Qingmei severely, and deliberately locked Qingmei in the group of male prisoners next door, so that he could see his wife suffer. This was the last message this dark man sent to me.I was heartbroken at the sight, but on the second day, a new watchman suddenly changed, and for two whole months, no one has seen me or passed on news for me, let alone delivered medicine for me. .

I was planning to crush that Xiaoqiang to death, and then go back to sleep with pain, but now there is no cure or medicine, only sleep can heal itself.

Weiwei on the opposite side also crawled up. There were a few red bumps on her beautiful face, and her hair was messed up with dirty oil and piled up with straw. She looked at me in horror, and said in horror: "Princess has coughed up blood, it must be a relapse of the old disease. Come here Here." She was about to shout.

"You black-hearted slaves," Weiwei said angrily. It's been a long time since I saw her brows stand upright. "The Holy Majesty hasn't issued an order yet. How can you be so contemptuous of the family of the current prince?"

But still no one came.

Xiaoyu gritted her teeth calmly and said: "Weiwei, save your energy, someone must have secretly ordered that Dali Temple Minister Zhu Yingjiu is the imperial concubine's person, and it must be the imperial concubine who deliberately let us stay in this worst prison. It is to let us fend for ourselves." She said, feeling bitter for a while.

Weiwei also calmed down, touched a pimple on her face that was bitten by bedbugs, looked at me with tears in her eyes for a while, and said with a flat mouth: "Mother, Weiwei doesn't want to die in such a dirty place, bedbugs will kill Weiwei. bitten his face."

I wanted to laugh for a while, but I accidentally twitched the wound, so I suppressed the smile.I thought to myself that it's already this time, this Weiwei is still so smug.Xiaoyu was also very angry and laughed back: "Yes, Weiwei's face is so fragrant and tender, it's no wonder she had to bite me and my husband, look, it's all bitten into sesame cakes."

Weiwei touched her face in fright, and realized that Xiaoyu was teasing her, so she glared at Xiaoyu, stood up all of a sudden, and shouted loudly at the entrance of the passage: "You little people, don't think that now that King Jin is not here, you can Secretly forcing the princess to death. We are also the righteous daughter of the clan, the princess of the old dynasty, the sister of Duke Zhongyong, and the relative of the imperial concubine...Anyway, we are honorable, if you neglect her, you will die a bad death. The king will come back in a short time to deal with you, and cut you into pieces, smashing your bones into ashes." Speaking of the latter part, Wei Wei spoke more and more neatly, almost yelling.It may have been roared with all her life's strength, even the torture room next door was shaken to a halt by her.

Then only silence answered me.The screams from the torture room next door reappeared, and two strong and strong female prison guards each ran over with a bucket, and poured contemptuously on Weiwei and Xiaoyu.The twelfth lunar month was already completely icy cold, but this time it was just worse. The two little girls were so cold that they couldn't speak at once, and they shivered as they gritted their teeth and curled up.

I was full of icy anger in my heart, and said coldly: "The Holy Majesty has not yet issued an order, who instructed you to abuse the palace family like this?"

The tall one spat at me, "Shameless whore, you dare to call yourself a family member, and the emperor publicly declares you to be imprisoned, punishing you for the crime of communicating with foreign countries, you are not too shameful."

"It's polite to let you live," the short man said with a sneer. "This is the death cell of Dali Temple. Those who entered never left. Everyone in Xifengyuan was imprisoned, and King Jin was expelled." The capital city is a thousand miles away. You don’t have much to fish for, so we are being polite, and you dare to shout loudly here, it’s really boring.”

"You will pay the price for what you said." I said lightly, suddenly a sharp pain in my chest and abdomen, and a mouthful of bloody phlegm spewed out.

Xiaoyu stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty has not sent anyone to inspect it. You didn't invite the imperial physician to treat Jin Wangfei. Could it be that you were instructed by someone to kill people in Dali Temple?"

"The Dali Temple kills and silences people." Weiwei also shook her body and yelled loudly.

The two women looked at each other and smiled coldly.

I was startled inwardly, and smiled wryly, it seems Jinxiu won't give up until she kills me!
In the depths of the dark corridor, there was suddenly the sound of heavy footsteps, and several tall figures appeared in front of us, and the two veteran women and soldiers immediately fell to their knees, their faces ashen.

The first is an eunuch in brocade clothes, followed by two brocade guards in satin gowns with red plum patterns on a black background, gauze caps and hair tied, they are extremely tall, with a purple jade belt around their waists, standing in my cell with a stern expression A few days ago, I had the illusion for a moment that Yuerong, the third year of Yongye, held me who was still pretending to be Yuan Feiyan at that time, and led out the rest of Dongying.

The first one I recognized was Feng Weicong.Since Shi Qingaccompany's death, the child seemed to have matured overnight and became the emperor's trusted servant.

He said coldly: "Princess Jin of the Northern Jin Dynasty accepts the order, and the Holy One proclaims the concubine Jin to see her."

I tried to stand up and said with all my strength: "My wife accepts the order and asks Master Feng to protect my two maids, otherwise they will definitely not be able to survive tonight."

Feng Weicong stood on tiptoe and glanced at the drowned two, his eyes lingered quickly on Xiaoyu's face, he frowned for a minute, then waved to the two women, "What did you say?"

The two women were trembling all over, and replied in a trembling voice: "Your Excellency, I just forgive you, but the superior, the superior ordered, and the servants are also to save their lives."

Feng Weicong said in a cold voice: "The Holy Majesty is about to interrogate the criminals, and they will be given two dry clothes, and they will not be abused any more. If the Holy Majesty blames them, you will lose your head as well, and our family will not care about it."

The two said yes.I was immediately lifted up by the two tall inside guards.I turned my head, Xiaoyu and Weiwei were both shivering from the cold, their eyes followed me closely.Xiaoyucheng looked at me with horrified eyes, and Weiwei cried so hard that my heart ached.

I was loaded into a big green cloth sedan chair, and I felt that I was about to faint in the sway.I don't know how long it took before someone lifted me out of the sedan chair again.I looked up through the heavy snow, and saw the majestic palace in the heavy snow like a jade tower, the fire and candles in the main hall were dim, and the snowflakes fell on the plaque on the hall. There are three vigorous words: Chongyuan Hall.

Standing at the entrance of the main hall were two inner guards, their faces were so blunt, they didn't even look at me, they just looked out of the door solemnly, extremely vigilant.

Feng Weicong bowed and handed over a pill, "Princess please take it, this is Xuezhi pill, it's the emperor's grace."

I took it, only to feel a burst of fragrance, it really is the original family's unique secret medicine Xuezhi Wan, so I took it and swallowed it.

At this moment, a middle-aged eunuch came out, his clothes should be higher than that of Feng Weicong, Feng Weicong nodded and said, "Eunuch Cheng."

This should be Cheng Zhonghe, the new head of internal servants, who is also Taizu's confidant.Feng Weicong listened to him, the man was slightly strange, he quickly entered the inner hall, then came out again and was about to call me into the hall, he looked at the clothes I hadn't changed in months, covered his nose and frowned, Take me to the Yuzhu Hall in the west side hall for a quick bath.

The palace man changed me into a lake-colored jacket and tied it with a moon-white silk skirt. Because my black hair fell too much, I had to comb it into a cloud bun, and braided the rest of my hair into a big braid at the back of my head. Blue ribbon tied.

The maid who combed my hair was a little older, very handsome, and the gesture of combing my hair was very dexterous, maybe she was moved with compassion, or maybe it was the same old thing, she looked at me from left to right, and saw that I was really well dressed. Too plain, because I am a sinful woman in the imperial prison, and I dare not wear a hairpin for me. Seeing that there are several branches of red plums in a suet jade bottle in the hall, the bright red is like fire. Quietly folded one, and lightly inserted it into the side of my bun.I gave her a grateful blessing, her eyes flashed a trace of panic and sadness, she gave a slight salute, and then retreated respectfully to the corner.

Cheng Zhonghe glanced at her, opened his mouth to speak, but suppressed it again, but urged the maid to help me into the inner hall with a cold face.

There is a warm fragrance coming out of the nostrils, and the arm-thick candles emit a warm luster, softly reflecting the antique objects in the hall, half dream half real, time seems to slow down all of a sudden.

In front of you is a huge snow-white curtain of plum blossoms and maple leaves, which separates the inside and the outside. In the purple and gold double-chi smoker, there is a faint white smoke of styrax, with a slightly bitter and spicy fragrance. between my nose.The styrax has the effect of calming and relieving the pain, slightly relieving my pain, and at the same time covering up the strong smell of medicine in the hall, but it couldn't hide a strange and frightening aura--it was a kind of aura that I was very familiar with, The breath of death.

There was a sweet tick-tick sound in my ears, and my heart also calmed down. Looking at the reputation, there is a huge Atlantic glass clock in the hall. It may be the largest and most expensive and gorgeous chime clock in this era. Yan is taller than a head.The whole clock has ivory as the face, agate as the characters, jasper as the support, gold as the hands, pearls inlaid on the shaft, carved and diamonds inlaid, and everything is used to the extreme.

I heard that Xuanyuan Zhongzong, the fifth emperor in the early days of the old court dynasty, especially liked to play with Western glazed clocks. He was in office for only five years, and he rarely made any political achievements in his life. The most famous thing is that he likes to collect gorgeous Western clocks and leave them with historians. One of the longest records is that a whole ship of exquisite porcelain and silk satin was exchanged for two huge glazed self-ringing clocks from the West. Zhongzong triumphantly gave the bigger one a very famous name. : Qianqiu, that is, the one that is looking at me silently in front of me, and the other one should be called "Wandai" in theory, but the emperor named it "Tianxiang".

Although Tianxiang is small, her whole life is amazing. As a gift, she was sent to the Yuan family and as a gift to the Ming family. Under Yuan Qingjiang's clutches, the petite and delicate Tianxiang became the most silent killer in history. The Mingning and his wife died in its distorted breath on a winter night, and then disappeared on the way to raid the house.The last time I was lucky enough to see Tianxiang again, both it and its owner, Ming Fengqing, nearly made my heart stop.

And because Qianqiu is too big, she has been quietly placed in the Yuning Hall of Zhaoming Palace in Kyoto for nearly 500 years, silently witnessing the history of the Xuanyuan family from glory to decline, and finally being humiliated and usurped by Dou Yinghua.Legend has it that Xuanyuan Xizong, who had been a puppet emperor all his life, drank Dou Yinghua angrily before he died, and once smashed a jade cup at Dou Yinghua, which accidentally injured Qianqiu's glass mask. Perhaps this is God's will.

Later, Dou Yinghua succeeded in usurping the throne. Taking into account the meaning of the bell name, he was still repaired and placed in Zhaoming Palace.

In the second year of Yuanchang, Qianqiu ushered in a new owner. With Xuanyuan's consent, Yuan Feibai transported it to Chang'an with Dou Yinghua as a spoil of war and gave it to the emperor.

It is said that when we first arrived in Chang'an City, the clock face was broken and the pendulum was no longer moving. The gold pendulum needle and the silver bell word treasures were all in confusion. I don't know which palace man or which soldier It was stolen, wandered among the people, and disappeared. Now Uehara Qingjiang is also a master who likes to play with the chime clock. He specially took the holidays and spent two days and two nights to repair it. Today, this huge monster is still walking slowly.

The faint yellow candlelight softly passes through Qianqiu, refracting the colored glass cover, and the gorgeous light spots are reflected on the snow-white ink plum curtain in front of you, a charming flow of gold and purple, just like the silent plum blossoms on the curtain Suddenly, a colorful face appeared.

Looking through the curtains, there is a hidden couch, on which lies a person in a bright yellow robe, who should be the emperor, behind him stands a woman wearing a phoenix crown, and a person is standing next to him, the emperor seems to be writing something to that person. people watch.

The man just lifted the curtain and came out with a solemn expression. It turned out to be Shen Changzong.He saw that I was calm as usual, and bowed to me in salute.

I saluted him back, then slowly approached, and slowly knelt down before the curtain.

I knelt for a while, and when I was about to fall asleep, a gentle voice came from the curtain. I raised my head, and a pair of catkins stretched out to help me up, "Hibiscus is here, come in quickly, my lord has been waiting for you for a long time." .”

I looked up, but it was Yao Ji who wasn't wearing a mask. Her eye sockets were black and blue, it seemed that she hadn't slept well for a few days.

But my appearance is probably even worse. Seeing me like this, she could not bear it in her beautiful eyes, and slowly helped me in.

An old man in yellow robe with white beard and hair is lying calmly and gracefully on the rosewood throne carved with clouds and dragons, with one hand stretched out the sleeve of the gold brocade robe slightly supporting his left forehead, as if he is meditating, there is a beautiful figure standing beside the dragon seat, but It is Queen Xuanyuan.

At this time, there was the sound of the palace guards beating the watch, one after another. I listened carefully, and it was already the second watch.

"Your Majesty, the concubine of the Northern Jin Dynasty has arrived." Yao Ji helped me stand still, looking at the emperor nervously.

The emperor slowly opened his eyes, looking at me with beautiful Danfeng eyes, and smiled calmly, "Hijin is here, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

In fact, I have been waiting for you for a long time.I said so in my heart.

The emperor waved his hand slightly, and Empress Xuanyuan called for a seat, so she moved away from the left and right, and only Yu Yaoji and her waited on her.

"What year is it now?" asked the emperor.

"Your Majesty, this year is the fourth year of Yuanchang, and the year of Renxu. Today is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month." I replied quietly.

"Oh, time flies so fast. In the blink of an eye, it has been four years in the new dynasty." Maybe the emperor just woke up, and the emperor was a little confused, "I still remember that ten years ago, I asked you what you want."

I sighed miserably: "In the first year of Yuanchang, Your Majesty bestowed Fujun Street, which fulfilled my third wish... I cannot absolve myself of the blame for the fire in Fujun Street."

The emperor smiled and shook his head slightly, "It's really rare for you to admit your mistakes frankly, but I didn't give you Fujun Street in the first place to fulfill your third wish, but just to test Qing's strength... The fire of Fujun Street "Although Qing is dereliction of duty, but there are traitors who frame him behind his back, it will not damage Qing's ability and virtue."

I looked at the emperor in surprise.

But the emperor said again: "You must be thinking in your heart, since I know that someone has framed you, why did you expell King Jin and send you to the imperial prison of Dali Temple?"

I nodded slowly, waiting for his next words.

(End of this chapter)