The cute master who always attacks the queen

Chapter 232: King Xin's Great Marriage "Part [-]"

The lead cloud hangs low, and just after the time has passed, snow particles start to fall, rustling softly on the glazed tiles. The layer is light and white.On the blue brick floor in the nearby yard, grayish blue is exposed, and there are several three-legged copper basins in the four corners of the needle workshop, and the high-quality silver bone charcoal burns dark red without a trace of smoke.Dozens of embroidery frames are arranged according to the light, and behind each embroidery frame sits a girl who is immersed in embroidery. "Oh, it's such a cold day, I can't even hold the needle in my hand." Xue'er put the needle on the embroidery table next to her and rubbed her hands, "Isn't she suffering from frostbite?" Xiao Yu who was sitting next to her looked up at her , but the embroidery work in his hand did not stop. "No, nothing." Xue'er quickly denied that a sister had frostbite on her hands the day before yesterday, and her aunt asked her to hand over the purple silk padded jacket of the fourth prince born to Concubine Shu to the other sisters. Do it, but if an embroidery girl in the needle workshop does not do embroidery work, it means that you are worthless and may be sent to other handymen at any time. "It's good if you don't have it, your embroidered dress is in a hurry to get your upper body." Xiao Yu said, the rusty needle in her hand didn't stop, this pattern was sent by sister Bi'er from Kunning Palace this morning Yes, it is said that the Queen will embroider it on the phoenix skirt that Prince Xin will wear on his wedding day. This pattern is very strange. She has never seen it in the needle workshop for many years. The flowers are large and showy, there are red, pink, red purple, pure purple, pure white, one of several colors, revealing a different kind of beauty, the pattern looks simple, but it is difficult to embroider the charm, not to mention this It's what the queen wants to use, even with her skillful hands, it can't be sloppy.In a few days, the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month will be the wedding day of the Holy Majesty's younger brother, Prince Xin, so this month has been the busiest day for Needle Workshop.The dresses worn by the emperor, the empress and the concubines at the wedding ceremony, as well as the thousands of collars of the winter clothes for the palace family members who were about to be made in a hurry, even these embroiderers who have been trained for many years, dare not take it lightly. "Sister Xiaoyu, what kind of pattern did the Empress send?" Xue'er tiptoed to Xiaoyu's embroidery frame. "I haven't seen it either, it was sent by sister Bi'er from Kunning Palace." Xiao Yu answered cheerfully and frankly, and Xue'er carefully picked up half of the big red from the brocade box under the embroidery frame?Si Luo, "The empress's material is different. I don't know when Xue'er can embroider the empress's clothes?" "Only with sister Xiaoyu's good craftsmanship, can my aunt trust her with the empress's embroidery. You Ah, I want to embroider for the empress, I don't know how many years I will have to spend." Another embroiderer next to her named Lu'er said with a smile.Luer smiled and turned to look at Xiaoyu, "Sister Xiaoyu often goes to Kunning Palace recently, have you ever seen the empress's golden face?" Xiao Yu hesitated before agreeing: "The empress is so easy to see, I Go, but at most I can only see Aunt Bier who is next to the empress." At this moment someone in the corner suddenly said, "Last time I went to send the tuanlong jacket to the second prince, and I met the empress from a distance. Come out from Yudian. The lady is such a beautiful person. Among the ladies I have seen, there is really no one who can compare to her. She speaks and does things with her own bearing, so that people dare not look up." After she said that, the room was full of people. Gently admire. "It's just a pity that someone wants to harm such a beautiful person as the Empress." While embroidering, Hua'er chatted with her sisters about the legends she heard, "The two highnesses born to the Empress, listen to what happened a while ago." Have you said it?" "Oh? Didn't you say you were sick?" The little sisters next to me became energetic when they heard this. "Where is it!" Hua'er casually glanced at the little sister, without resting for a moment, "I heard that she was poisoned and assassinated. Although the imperial physicians tried their best to rescue him, the second prince's body was at the root of his disease. It's going to be throbbing in the windy and rainy weather. The empress is so distressed that she has already moved the two highnesses from Nangong to Kunning Palace to take care of them herself." "Who is so bold when there is such a thing? " said a embroidered girl. "It's not a matter of jealousy." Hua'er sighed, "My mother said that a flower is too charming and will be pinched." Xue'er was stunned, and said: "It's okay for the empress to be murdered." Make a sound?" Another person said, "Where has this matter never happened in the palace, how can we investigate? It just involves a few more lives." A embroidered girl in her twenties said, her expression was already indifferent. "Hmph, how could the Empress give up? I heard that the two Highnesses went to play in the small garden near Beichen Palace the day before the accident, and they were poisoned when they came back. The abandoned concubine was locked there again. Do you think this is strange?" Hua'er has always been a lively person, and has met many court ladies and eunuchs everywhere, and is well-informed.The girls were silent for a while, and finally someone couldn't help but asked curiously: "Could it be the abandoned concubine..." "Who knows, this matter is still a mess now, so it must not be borrowed by others? But, take care of the two highnesses afterwards." Several old nuns were given to death by the emperor, and it was the empress who was merciful, and rewarded them with a whole corpse after thinking about her master and servant. What's even more strange is still behind. Not long after, the imprisoned concubine died It suddenly disappeared during the night, and the imperial physicians made a diagnosis and said that it was a causeless death. The two maids serving her also hanged themselves the next day." Hua'er lowered her voice.The girls in the needle workshop were still thinking about it, and the young woman with a silent face said, "Maybe someone thinks she's lived too long." Seeing that they were talking more and more incoherently, Xiaoyu coughed Say, "Shut up! Can you talk nonsense like this kind of guesswork? Hurry up and do your work. Be careful, aunt will come back and expose your skin." She is the proud person in front of aunt, and her words naturally have some weight. Listen, I laughed for a while and went to work on my own.

Finally arrived at noon, it's time to eat.A few embroiderers on duty had already brought their meals and set up bowls and chopsticks in the west chamber.When Xiao Yu finished embroidering a flower and washed her hands, she came to the West Chamber, where her aunt had already sat down. Xiao Yu hurriedly put her hands on her waist with an apologetic face and gave her a blessing. "Come here." The aunt didn't blame her, and pushed a bowl of white jade snow fungus soup in front of Xiaoyu, "The queen empress understands your hard work, this bowl of soup was sent to you by Aunt Bi'er, and the skirt has been in the past two days. It must be finished." "Xiaoyu understands." "That's good." Auntie nodded, "Eat, we have to rush to work in the afternoon."

When the imperial concubine came to Kunning Palace, the queen was amazed by her changes. Since the poisoning incident, she moved Youer and Qinger from the Nangong to the side hall of Kunning Palace. The concubines hardly ever leave their homes except for their frequent visits.She looked a little plump, with a slight blush on her round face, like a ripe peach, a bag of water when bitten down.When she was talking to me, she lowered her brows and narrowed her eyes, and when she talked about the misfortune of You'er and Qing'er, there seemed to be some sadness in her words. "The imperial concubine seems to be a different person." After the imperial concubine left, Wan'er muttered to herself while packing the dishes.I was wearing a moon-white sable fur, leaning on the purple-red begonia brocade, and the golden animal octagonal heater could not dispel the coldness of winter, let alone conceal the loneliness in the air.Yes, people will change, who can really see through whom?Not only the imperial concubine, but also Ziyan, can't I understand it?
In a few days, he is going to get married. It's not the wealthy lady whom the queen mother intended to marry, but another woman I've never seen before, who is said to be from a reckless family.It is said that they fell in love at first sight outside the palace, and they made a private promise for a lifetime. "It can be seen that the lord and that woman are destined to each other, maybe they have fallen in love with each other outside the palace..." Someone said this in the infinite reverie, and immediately aroused a nervous reprimand: "Shut up! Can you talk nonsense if you guess blindly?" When the queen heard a few palace people talking like this behind the Phoenix Stone in the imperial garden, a secret place deep in her heart collapsed. "Oh, empress, what are you..." Hearing Bi'er's anxious low cry, the empress followed her eyes blankly to look at her hand, the white and jade-like slender fingers were dazzled with blood, A few early plum-red petals were crushed and withered. On the golden flying phoenix embroidered shoes, on the day when King Xin entered the palace to present the edict to the queen mother, I and several concubines were accompanying me, sitting there, listening to his speech to the queen mother. He just kept silent, but his heart was full of sadness. After holding the lake-colored silk in his hands for a long time, his palms were wet with sweat and greasy.I could only hear the Queen Mother's soft and watery voice: "Your Majesty, you are still young, and you will inevitably be confused by that fox. You heard what the Queen Mother said, she is not suitable for you. Although you may feel sad to give up her now, but the days After a long time, you will gradually forget. There are many ladies in our imperial court who are as beautiful as flowers. You can choose them at will. Otherwise, the beauty contest held every three years, what kind of beauties, what kind of people The Ai family can pick out such a talented woman to be your concubine." He finally spoke, but his voice was erratic, "There are so many women, she is not the most beautiful, nor is she the best, but there is nothing I can do about it." The Empress Dowager felt her temples twitching, and the veins on her forehead popped up. She raised her hand and wanted to slap it. The expressions of the timid concubines changed, and the Empress exclaimed: "Empress Dowager! The eyes of King Xin seem to be The queen took a look here, and the pain, desolation, and helplessness in the eyes were intertwined into despair, and I felt a throbbing in the bottom of my heart, and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade: "Queen, calm down. "The Queen Mother's hand hangs down feebly, slowly, but she says: "Get out!Aijia doesn't want to see you! "He was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Queen Mother, I have made up my mind, please help me!" "Before I finished speaking, I heard the Queen Mother hit the case with her hand "bang", suddenly picked up the porcelain cup in her hand, threw her head at him, pointed at him and said angrily: "You...you go out, Aijia I will not promise you to marry that kind of unknown woman! "However, King Xin knelt under the linden tree outside the Kangning Palace for a day and a night. The wind of the twelfth lunar month was piercing to the bone. No one knew how he spent that cold night. But I know, because I have been standing on the linden tree. On the star platform, I watched him from a distance. The long wind swayed slightly, raised the pale shadow of the palace curtain, passed through my long hair, and blew the white clothes. The censer was burning bright red to the end. After struggling a few times, it disappeared. His face was like this long winter night, extremely deep, extremely cold, and even more desolate. "Empress, let's go back to the palace.In such weather, it's not good to stand in the wind. "Bi'er put on a feather satin cloak for me from behind, and I felt chilly in the vest, and my hands and feet were already cold. After Bi'er persuaded me, I went back to the palace with her, and I didn't sleep well. In a half-dream and half-awake, the sound of the wind seemed to be in my ears, and I sobbed all night. Early the next morning, the emperor who heard the news saw a green shirt in the snow, and the ice and snow slowly turned into ice with the body temperature. The snow water soaked his robe and pierced his skin. Brothers united with each other, the emperor couldn't bear it, so he ordered the servants around him to help him back to the mansion to rest, and then hurried into the Kangning Palace. No one knew what this said to the most noble mother and son in the world What. It's just news from Kang Ning Palace that the Empress Dowager loves her youngest son. Although she was unwilling to do so, she finally agreed, and the emperor decreed to grant the marriage. The wedding date is set on the fifteenth day of this month. It was held on the same day. The queen was ill, and the imperial doctors said it was caused by the wind and cold. Only the queen knew that it was a heart disease. Wan'er made some exquisite desserts, such as sweet-scented osmanthus brocade cake, thousand-layer almond cake, drunk jujube and clear Stewed fragrant bamboo shoots, and boiled fragrant and soft herbal porridge, the queen leaned on the couch and tasted it slowly. "The embroidery workshop is here. "Xuan Yu came in with a suit of brocade on a vermilion lacquer tray. "Bring it to me quickly, the queen sat up, and a strand of silk-like hair fell to her face, making her face a little transparent white, like the eyes. Clear water without trace. "Empress Empress, you are not well yet, don't get up quickly." Bi'er supported me and motioned for Yuchu to shake off the embroidered skirt, which was embroidered with lotus flowers in extremely gorgeous and noble colors.He once said that in his eyes, I am just like this rare flower, with a unique charm that makes people lose their eyes even after looking at it. Such a wedding dress.Now I really have it, but I wear it to attend his wedding. "Bi'er, bring the medicine here, I have to attend the prince's wedding on time, I gather my clothes and hold on.

(End of this chapter)