Concubine Mengfei

Chapter 162 Do You Know What a Marionette Is?

The storm room was filled with beating, scolding, screaming and chaotic noises.Several women wearing poor-quality linen clothes were separated, doing tasks such as pounding rice, washing clothes, and twisting hemp thread.

Most of these women made mistakes and were demoted to this area, and among them, there were many favorite concubines who were very prosperous in the past.

"Hey, what about you, let me be quicker." A eunuch in charge of the work saw that a woman was moving a little slower than others, so he couldn't help but whip a few times.

The strong smell here made the tip of his nose sour. He covered his nose, and in a blink of an eye, he saw a woman holding a mallet and panting against the rice barrel in the rice pounding area.

"What are you pretending to be dead!" With a stern curse, the eunuch's eyes flashed like a falcon, and he hit the woman with a whip again, "An ugly monster, how dare you be so delicate!"

The woman who was beaten was Yu Moyan. After a torture with Concubine Li, she really didn't have any strength left.And as soon as she was assigned to the violence room, she would definitely not be able to support her doing such a heavy job.

In Yu Moyan's mind, she frequently recalled that the grand ceremony was so beautiful, so subconsciously, she still thought that she was superior to others.

"I am the empress, how dare you be presumptuous to the current empress, be careful that I will skin you!" She shouted with her mutilated mouth.When it comes to skinning, her skin is also extremely painful. Not long ago, not only her face was ruined, but most of her skin was also peeled off by Concubine Li.

The eunuch seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world, laughing until all the creases on his face stood up.Even if he was beaten to death, he would not believe that the woman with thinning hair and bumpy face in front of him was the queen.Even if such a woman is thrown to them to play with, they would all despise her.

"If you, a toad, were the queen, I would be the overlord." He taunted, causing the people around him to throw all kinds of irony at Yu Moyan.

Yu Moyan's tears immediately flowed down her cheeks. She actually had a day when she was treated like a toad. In the past 18 years, she has always been a beautiful and proud swan. She is so noble that all the beauty in the world can be taken by her alone. .

Seeing her sobbing silently, everyone laughed louder, and the eunuch beat more happily.

Just as a burst of laughter filled the storm room, a sweet voice came into it, like a ray of breeze, blowing away the noise of the storm room.

"She's right, she was a former queen."

Yu Moyan thought that someone came to help her, just like Qing Dai back then, but after carefully distinguishing the voice, she looked back at the person who came, and was completely disappointed.

Yu Moying stepped in, and where the skirt touched, it was like a fresh snow lotus floating, which instantly brightened everyone's eyes and ears.

"Damn the servant, I didn't know the princess was here." The eunuch wiped his eyes, as if to make them bright.This is Princess Xiaomin?She will come to the violence room...

And Yu Moyan had actually been a queen, he wondered if he was blind, and then sized Yu Moyan from top to bottom.With her appearance, how did Xiao Ye fall in love with her?In the past, not to mention the forgotten favorite concubine, even the few court ladies who were sent here were a hundred times stronger than her.

Yu Moying turned her eyes and smiled softly: "Don't look at her like this now. You know, when the carriage of the Yu Mansion drove the second Miss Yu, who was the most talented and beautiful in the capital, through the Mingyue Tower, she was just a little picky. If you close the curtain and look out, you will be able to make the most talented person of today fall in love with you."

Speaking of the past, it was Yu Moyan's sore spot again.Compared with today's situation, she curled up regretfully.

"You made me into such a ghost, and you still refuse to let me go?" She roared loudly, her raised eyes were full of resentment and resentment towards Yu Moying.

"Be clear, if you don't commit crimes yourself, how could you have fallen to this point?" Yu Moying sighed leisurely, and then motioned Ge Yi to drag her to an unoccupied cubicle, "As for harming you... I think, You may not have been able to tell who is the one who hurt you."

As she spoke, she took out a small spherical object and threw it on Yu Moyan's head.Yu Moyan was in pain from being hit, she touched the object, and took a closer look, it was a gold-plated smoked ball with flower and bird patterns.

Most of the smoked balls in the harem are similar.She also remembered discovering that a smoked ball hanging in the bed netting had musk in it.She thought that some concubine was trying to make her infertile, so she ordered someone to throw the smoked ball away.Unexpectedly, later, the smoked ball came into Yu Moying's hands.

That time, she wanted to use the smoke ball to make a good article, but in the end, it didn't cause any loss to Yu Moying.

What is the purpose of Yu Moying taking out the similar smoked ball at this time?Yu Moyan stared at Yu Moying puzzledly.

"Yu Moyan, this is the smoked ball that I picked up by mistake. You must recognize it." Yu Moying pursed her lips and said.

Then, she said lightly: "Forget it, I won't go around in circles with you anymore, I just want to tell you that the person who put the musk-filled smoked balls in your tent is none other than Your Majesty."

With a "ding", the lavender ball in Yu Moyan's hand fell to the ground, and a pair of eyes that still maintained their brightness suddenly magnified with light.

"Your Majesty? How is it possible? If he let it go, then according to the pregnancy time the imperial physician said, he would understand that the imperial physician and I were lying, and that the child I conceived was not his."

"But after he found out that I was pregnant, he still cared for me. How can a person like him tolerate me being pregnant with someone else's child, and then take me back to the palace, and even want to make me his queen."

"Yes, Empress Dowager..." Thinking of this, Yu Moyan's pupils suddenly grew bigger, and she said hoarsely: "It's all you, if it weren't for you, I would be the queen now!"

"Yes, if I hadn't exposed your good deeds, you would be the queen." Yu Moying sneered, "But you, who is going to be the queen, made this fatal mistake just like Yu Moli."

"Behind your favor is the power of the Yu family and the Jiyue family. He will not want you to conceive a child, to increase the bargaining chip for either side, and to make your throne an extra threat. But you didn't see through it, so you just moved." Wrong mind."

"Yu Moli is a little more 'simple' than you, she loves him too deeply, she would never think that there is something wrong with the smoked ball he gave her. So, she borrowed her belly to give birth. You noticed the smoked ball on the top of the tent There is something strange, in order to keep the fetus in the womb, I threw it away wisely, and wanted to use it to frame me."

"In the end, the child was born, and you paid yourself in. Our Majesty, it was really a 'hard work'. Back then, when Yu Moli showed him the baby boy and Yu Shi congratulated him In a moment, he knew the Yu family's ambitions."

"When the imperial physician claimed that you were pregnant, he also had insight into what you were doing. But he chose not to say anything, and treated you as usual, just wanting to squeeze out your value before kicking them out. Yu Moli, Isn't it a good example. Of course, you will inevitably be kicked."

Speaking of this, Yu Moying said apologetically: "Oh, if I'm not such a troublesome person, maybe you can still be proud for a long time."

Yu Moyan's tears were almost running out, she shook her head a few times before hitting the cold wall.She tried so hard to plan for herself that it was all under the control of others.Her so-called smartness is so stupid in the eyes of others.

For this reason, she has done so many stupid things.

"Have you heard of marionettes?" At this moment, Yu Moying asked suddenly.

The few remaining hairs rubbed against the wall, Yu Moyan shook her head.Since she was sensible, she listened to the words of the second lady, familiarized herself with the required books such as "Nv Commandment", "Nv Analects", "Internal Training", was familiar with royal etiquette, and mastered piano, chess, calligraphy, painting and riding.

The second lady directly set her sights on the monarch. She wanted to train her to be a daughter of a family who was superior to all the ladies of the famous family. She was not allowed to touch anyone who had nothing to do with her future, so as not to spoil her ambitions.

Yu Moying picked up the lavender ball on the ground, stared at it, and recounted lightly: "String puppets are also called hanging silk puppets. In a city south of the south of the Yangtze River, folk artists would pull puppets with strings, and let them Act out the action."

"Puppets can only listen to the artists, and cannot have their own ideas. Legend has it that a puppet saw a farmer passing by one day, and the sickle carried by him on his shoulder was very close to him. It jumped over restlessly. , cut off the thread on its body. It thought that from then on, it could do whatever it wanted.”

"However, it doesn't know that once the puppet comes off the string, its life will end. It ignores the height of the stage to the ground. After the string is cut, it falls to the ground and breaks apart. Finally, it connects a puppet with performance value. They can’t even be treated, and can only be permanently thrown into the box.”

As soon as Yu Moying finished speaking, Yu Moyan began to cry loudly, what was the difference between her and this marionette.In the past, she always thought that everything she did was following a different route.

However, she has been firmly pinched by Xiao Ye all along.It's just that, for her disobedient puppet, Xiao Ye had already set the date of death for her.

Yu Moyan cried louder and louder, she felt that she didn't have to live like this.When did it start to go astray.

In the past 18 years, she felt that she was born to stand on the highest ground and overlook all living beings.Therefore, she was also very strict with herself. Among the skills, she picked the guzheng, which she was best at, and practiced diligently.

She can't see a woman who can compare with her to be praised.Therefore, after she learned that there was a lady from the Song family who could play the pipa in Cheng, she deliberately found the right time to make friends with Song Rao when she accompanied Mrs. Song to the temple to pray for blessings.

After the Song family was destroyed, Song Rao went through several transfers and was brought back to the palace by Xiao Ye.When she arrived in Yeting, Song Rao was just a palace slave, but she was favored. She didn't like that this woman took the king's heart and affected her and her mother's future plans, so she took advantage of the conflict between Song Rao and Xiao Ye to coax Song Rao to go. Tianlao replaced Song Chutian.

(End of this chapter)