The biography of Concubine Lin in the harem

The people in the corridor go to the moss empty green (3)

In mid-June, the heat is hard to dissipate, and only at night can one catch a trace of coolness. On this day, Zhu Chengbi rested early, but somehow his heart was blocked, tossing and turning, difficult to fall asleep, and drowsy When I was there, I heard Zhu's breath come in quietly, calling softly: "Your Majesty?"

Zhu Chengbi stood up, a little upset: "What time is it?"

"The third watch is over." Zhu breathed a little, lit a few flower candles, and the room suddenly became a little brighter, "The emperor summoned the empress to Yining Palace."

Zhu Chengbi was taken aback for a moment, and immediately became alert: "What's going on?"

Bamboo breath gathered the hanging silver tassel and colorful curtain, and the small golden hook reflected the candle flames, as if it was the cold starlight outside the window. Bamboo breath said in a low voice: "Physician Liang has already sent someone to report back. The queen mother refused to take medicine for several days, so the emperor went to visit the queen mother tonight. Actually, it’s nothing, but Master Zhu Qizhen also sent people back and forth a few days ago, and the blood book has already..."

Before Zhu Xi finished speaking, Zhu Chengbi suddenly stood up and ordered: "Change clothes."

In Yining Palace, gold and jade are made of bricks and glazed tiles. Although it is the third watch, the solemnity from the inside to the outside still stares at everyone, even the white marble railings look majestic in the sparse moonlight.

Zhu Chengbi sighed in a low voice, that's right, this Empress Dowager Xia has been in power for two dynasties, and she is the concubine that Emperor Taizong relied on most.Taizong had a lot of domestic favorites in his dynasty, and the nine sons in his later years took over the heir apparent, which was a thrilling struggle between the court and the court, and the imperial court. I am afraid that it would be difficult for him to deal with such a battle.

Man stepped into the hall, but saw the Empress Dowager leaning on the bed, wearing a thin silk skirt with a golden pine and crane pattern on her body, and a rust-red raccoon fur cloud shoulder embroidered with treasure-faced flowers, and her hair was smooth. Gathered into a flat bun, smacked so that the hair is not messy, only a perfectly round gold hairpin with no pattern or decoration is pinned between the buns.She closed her eyes slightly, the anger on her face looming.

Yi Dan was sitting on the bedside, holding a medicine bowl with a phoenix pattern and blowing it slowly, while Imperial Physician Liang was standing not far away with his hands down.

Zhu Chengbi slightly bent his knees: "The Empress Dowager Jin An, the Emperor Sheng An."

Yi Dan nodded lightly: "Get up." After finishing his speech, he persuaded the Empress Dowager, "The Empress Dowager refuses to take medicine for several days, because her condition is always bad."

The Empress Dowager said coldly: "The Emperor is bothered, Ai's family doesn't want to take medicine, and the medicine is too bitter."

Zhu Chengbi thought for a while, then smiled gently: "If the Empress Dowager thinks the medicine is bitter, the concubine will order the imperial dining room to make golden silk candied dates and send them to Yining Palace. The candied dates are sweet and fragrant, and they will definitely relieve the bitterness."

The Empress Dowager's gaze was like a sword, she only turned slightly on Zhu Chengbi, and said in a serious tone: "Concubine Lin must have failed to understand Aijia's words. Aijia's dislike of medicine is the second, and not wanting to take it is the first. Concubine Lin is familiar with things in the six palaces." I think I'm also a person who is very good at guessing people's hearts, why are you pretending to be confused here?" Because she was ill, and she was very angry about the abolition of the empress these days, the empress dowager tried to say a few words but coughed, and she stood aside. Molu hurriedly took the soft lopa and handed it to the Queen Mother.

Zhu Chengbi was startled, only felt cold sweat dripping down his back, he hurriedly got up and knelt down: "The queen mother calms down."

The queen mother managed to stop her coughing, looked at Zhu Chengbi coldly, and said disgustedly: "The queen is abolished, you are proud now, the Ai family doesn't want to see you, you go down first."

Yi Dan smiled slightly: "Why should the empress be angry with Cheng Bi? There is a reason why the minister called her over so late. After all, this matter is related to the face of the royal family, and the fact that Concubine Lin is in the sixth palace must not be known." Yi Dan Regardless of the empress dowager's suspicious expression, Dan got up calmly, pulled Zhu Chengbi up, and then ordered Gao Qianying, "Bring the things up."

Gao Qianying turned around and took a veil from Xiao Deng Zi. Although the veil was plain and only embroidered with a few elegant flowers, when Gao Qianying slowly unfolded the veil, the Empress Dowager and Zhu Chengbi were shocked. It was actually a fragment of a piece of clothing, with four dark red words written in blood on it: Concubine Shu harmed me.

Every word is shocking!

"This word was found in the tomb of the dowry aunts of Empress Zhaohui." Yidan said slowly, "The two dowry aunts left Ziao City and returned to Jeju after the death of Queen Zhaohui, but they were assassinated for some reason. Afterwards, even the local prefect didn't pursue it anymore." Yi Dan took the square handkerchief, handed it to the Empress Dowager, and said coldly, "Empress Mother, do you know what's going on?"

In the deep and vast palace, there was a large expanse of coldness suddenly permeating the air. Even though it was the summer night and autumn had not yet arrived, this feeling of desolation and desolation still captured the Empress Dowager's heart tightly. Her shoulders trembled slightly, unbearable. Looking at the blood book in front of him in confidence, his mind sank, how is it possible!How can it be!When the Empress Dowager Zhaohui was giving birth, all the palace servants and medical ladies who served her were cleaned up, and even those who had been close friends were hunted down. Why was such a good secret hidden suddenly revealed!

Mo Lu couldn't hide the shock on his face, he just held onto the Empress Dowager's shoulders tightly, as if he wanted to pass his strength over.

"What is this?" The Empress Dowager finally spoke, her voice was hoarse and sluggish, like a jackdaw that was old and weak, lying on a dead branch.

"The mother's ears must be bad." Yidan smiled faintly, and said word by word, "This handwriting is the last handwriting of the Queen Mother Zhaohui, my biological mother. It was found in the tomb of her dowry aunt. Mother, do you still want to write?" Do not understand?"

"The must-writing?" The queen mother tried her best to regain her composure, glaring at Yidan and said, "The world is so big, there are so many people with similar handwriting! Based on this, the emperor believes that the Ai family killed the queen mother Zhaohui!"

"The emperor didn't say that the queen mother harmed the queen mother Zhaohui." Zhu Chengbi smiled, "the queen mother doesn't need to worry too much."

"The Ai family is talking to the emperor, how can your little concubine interrupt!" The queen mother glared at Zhu Chengbi, slapped the bed table hard, and the anger on her face became more and more obvious, "The Ai family raised the emperor for more than forty years, but in the end, the emperor had to be suspicious of Ai's family. Can't you make it home!"

Yi Dan sighed deeply, as if he couldn't bear it: "It's good for the mother to raise the children, but the children are also important chess pieces for the mother to win the position of queen mother, so why can't the mother take good care of them! Yes, the mother was the concubine Shu at that time, it's a pity Having no children, if you want to win the throne, you must raise the prince. The Empress Dowager Zhaohui entered the palace too early, and her qualifications are relatively low. Once she conceived an imperial heir, wouldn't she fulfill her mother's wish?"

Yidan held the square handkerchief tightly: "'Concubine Shu harmed me', wasn't Concubine Shu in the palace at that time the empress mother? Empress mother! You want my minister to order Shen Xingsi to investigate this matter carefully, Turning Purple Austria City upside down, making Jeju a mess, you have to make it known to the whole world before the empress admits it!"

Yi Dan's breathing became more and more rapid: "Leaving aside the handwriting, can't we find out what kind of material this piece of clothing is? Why didn't the prefect of Jeju investigate the case of the assassination of Empress Zhaohui in dowry? Palace people, why did they die by accident one by one? I just don’t believe it! Can the queen mother cover up all the truth deeply, without revealing anything wrong!”

The copper candlestick with beads on Songhe's mouth looks strange under the faint candlelight, and the beads on the mouth of the crane seem to be like tears, reflecting the lustrous luster, which makes people feel a sense of desolation for no reason.Yidan's face was submerged in the faint candlelight, although the expression could not be seen clearly between light and dark, but he could clearly feel the sadness and resentment in his eyes.

The woman who raised me for 45 years turned out to be the chief culprit who killed my biological mother. I recognized my enemy as my mother and took care of her for 45 years. Didn't it make my biological mother restless day and night under the spring!

It turned out that I was the most unlucky one. On that day, Zhu Qizhen went to Jeju to investigate according to his secret decree. How I wished that those rumors were just the far-fetched conjectures and rumors of the palace people until the blood book was sent to him. In front of him, the shocking four words were like an extremely sharp knife, "stabbed" and cut his heart to pieces, bloody and bloody, and the filial piety he insisted on collapsed in an instant.

But I still hold a ray of hope, hoping that this blood book is not true, but more and more evidences show that the Empress Dowager Xia of the Xia family in Yining Palace is the sinner who stabbed her own mother's neck.

So, Shengsheng stood outside the Hall of Yiyuan all night, until the morning dew stained his clothes, and the morning breeze blew through, it was bone-chillingly cold, and the day in June was as cold as after the first snow for no reason. Forty-five years have passed, and every inch of the scene with her is like a knife sharply slashing, wanting to bruise myself.

You treat me like a pawn, even at the expense of other people's lives, and regard human life as worthless, then don't blame me for having a heart-to-heart relationship with you!

Outside the Yining Palace, the shadows of the trees whirled, the moonlight turned low, and on the night of the third day of June, everything in Purple Austrian City was so alienated and strange.

45 years ago, it was also the third day of June, and it was also such a night as deep as the sea. In Gyeongbokgung Palace, Concubine Yi was wearily huddled under the brocade quilt, her face was as pale as fresh snow. Looking at the midwife beside her, she exclaimed in dismay: "My concubine Yi is a big hit!"

But at this time, the emperor had already returned to the palace accompanied by concubine Shu, the delivery room was bloody, how could the other concubines easily set foot in it?

Mu Ning looked back in shock: "Where is the imperial physician! Where is the imperial physician!"

In a panic, both hands gently grasped his skirt, Mu Ning held back the tears in his eyes, Yipin in front of him, such a submissive and gentle woman, was as weak as a dehydrated tail at this moment. juvenile fish of the day.

"Bring me the baby." Yipin's voice seemed to come from beyond the sky, almost unfathomable.

Mu Ning was taken aback, and hurriedly took the child from the hands of the midwife beside her and placed it beside Yipin. Yipin's eyes were greedy, like a spring that was about to dry up, flowing over the child's face: "He is still so small, so small." For a moment of daze, I felt that Yipin seemed to have put in a lot of effort, her hands trembling slightly: "Can you hug him? You are about the same age as me, and holding him is like me hugging him. "

Mu Ning was taken aback, and hurriedly reached out to hug the child, but touched Yi Pin's wet and cold palm. Yi Pin grabbed her hand suddenly, and quietly stuffed it into a thin piece of cloth, fixed her gaze on Mu Ning, Mu Ning Ning was startled, mechanically rolled the piece of cloth into his sleeves, and then picked up the child. This child is the emperor's eighth son, but at this moment he is sleeping by himself, as if he is unaware of the murderous intentions secretly intertwined in Gyeongbokgung Palace. .

"What's your name?"

"Slave Zheng Muning."

Yipin smiled weakly, and slowly closed her eyes.

Yunban's mourning sound broke the gloomy night of the harem. It was late at night on the third day of June in Xianning's 11th year. The night was as cold as water, and mourning was everywhere.

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