Chapter 331 White jade has spots

Author: Bei Wei

In the evening, the last rays of the setting sun shine on the rows of rooftops of Fengqi Palace, showing a dim yellow luster.

Fengqi Palace is the residence of the Queen. Since the death of Queen Pei, Fengqi Palace has been empty. It was not until Emperor Qi Ming ascended the throne that Fengqi Palace was given to Queen Wen to live in.

Queen Wen was probably a woman with a mysophobia. Before moving in, everything in Fengqi Palace was burned down. All the walls of the palace were repainted. The craftsmen worked day and night, and it took a full month.

It took time to complete. If it weren't for Emperor Qi Ming's persuasion, she would have almost replaced the stone slabs paving the floor.

Enter from the gate of Fengqi Palace, pass through a rectangular square and enter the inner gate. Behind the inner gate are two rows of side rooms, which are specially used for the concubines to meet the queen. After exiting the side rooms, go through another door and you will arrive.

The main hall of Fengqi Palace. The queen usually receives greetings from the concubines in the main hall.

Emperor Qi Ming only had one official wife, Queen Wen, and did not take any concubines after he ascended the throne. These wing rooms were usually deserted and no one cared about them.

Li Wan is now sitting in one of the wing rooms, waiting boredly for Mrs. Li.

The mother and daughter found out that Queen Wen was in the imperial city and rushed to Fengqi Palace early in the morning. Both mother and daughter were wearing expensive clothes made by tailors in the capital's tailor shops overnight, and Mrs. Li even wore all the jewelry she could find.

It was hung all over the place and made a jingling sound when walking. In Mrs. Li's words, she wanted to wear the most beautiful clothes to welcome this big day.

They were not there when Queen Wen went to Shengjing to issue the decree. Queen Wen did not wait and left Shengjing on the same day. Mrs. Li was anxious and took her daughter to the capital in person to meet the Queen.

Huan Huan happily arrived at Fengqi Palace, but was told by the palace maid that Queen Wen had been feeling cold and would not see any guests.

Li Wan just got married to Qiang Lin, and they were inseparable, so they were dragged to the capital by Mrs. Li. She was already unhappy, but when she saw Empress Wen shirk her, she advised Mrs. Li:

"Mom, the queen was fine yesterday, but she got cold today. She doesn't want to see us, so we should go back to Shengjing."

"My child, I just miss your little bit of fun!" Mrs. Li stretched out her hand and tapped Li Wan's forehead, then smiled with her missing front teeth, "I know you are thinking about going back and waiting for my mother to receive the decree."

"But the Queen doesn't see visitors."

"Sincerity leads to success!" Mrs. Li arranged her clothes and said, "Wait here while I go ask the palace maid on duty."

Emperor Qi Ming issued a decree to restore the title of Marquis of Pingyang, and the Li family would return to its former glory. All they lacked was this decree. They could not go to Emperor Qi Ming to make another move, so they could only go to Queen Wen.

Li Wan waited and waited from morning until noon. When she was hungry, she did not dare to eat, fearing that the queen would summon her to be absent, which would be a serious crime. During this period, Mrs. Li came back twice, and each time she vowed that it would be soon.

After all the hard work, it was already dinner time. Li Wan's stomach growled with hunger, and she stood up and walked around the room. There was no food prepared in the wing, only tea. She drank a lot of water, but she was still hungry.

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Just as she was looking forward to it, Mrs. Li opened the door and entered, holding her hand with her face glowing and running out.

"Wan'er, the Queen has agreed to see us, let's go quickly."

The mother and daughter rushed out of the house, and Li Wan could see the stars when she looked up. She couldn't help but complain in her heart that Queen Wen had been missing for a whole day, saying that she had a cold, and she suddenly saw her again at night. This was not a cold, but a cold.

I am sick. I feel inexplicable.

But she only dared to say these words in her heart. She also knew how much her mother valued this matter, but she didn't dare to complain out loud, lest she mess up the matter.

The mother and daughter were led by the palace maid carrying a lantern. Instead of entering the main hall, they passed through a moon door next to the main hall and entered the back hall. They turned two long corridors and passed through more than a dozen rooms.

, and finally stopped at a door at the end of the corridor.

The maid guarding the door said to Mrs. Li: "Mrs. Li, the Queen is waiting for you, please come in. The Queen is ill, please talk to the Queen in the outer room."

Mrs. Li nodded with a smile. She first looked down at her clothes, then raised her hand to straighten her headdress, then turned to arrange it for Li Wan. After everything was sorted, the two of them entered the house.

There are two rooms in the house, separated by a bead curtain in the middle. Beside the bead curtain are two palace ladies standing. One of the palace ladies is holding a jade tray with both hands. The tray is covered with yellow silk and has a rolled-up imperial edict on it.

Mrs. Li caught a glimpse of the imperial edict and smiled so much that she couldn't close her mouth. She saw a woman's figure vaguely visible behind the bead curtain, and knowing it was Queen Wen, she pulled Li Wan to kneel down and said:

"Pei Shaoya, the sinful woman, and Li Wan, the daughter of the sinful woman, come to see the empress."

The figure behind the bead curtain showed no reaction and seemed to turn a deaf ear.

The maid holding the imperial edict said: "Mrs. Li, the empress is unwell and cannot speak. Here is your majesty's decree to restore the title to Marquis Pingyang. Please come forward and receive the edict, Mrs. Li, and leave immediately."

Mrs. Li's eyes shone brightly, and without getting up, she knelt directly in front of the palace maid, raised her hands high and received the imperial edict: "Long live your Majesty, long live long live."

After saying that, she held the imperial edict in her chest with both hands, and turned from laughing to crying: "Your Majesty finally vindicated us. It's a pity that our Pei family was ordered to be exterminated, and I was the only one left..."

She felt something and blurted it out.

At the beginning, Xiao Zhuo was demoted and exiled to the northwest border. Empress Pei's mother's family and everyone in Duke Pei's palace suffered. Only she was not slaughtered because she married Pingyang Marquis, but she was also stripped of her title and became a commoner. Now she has been lost and recovered.

, couldn't help crying with joy. Thinking of his dead parents and sister, and being the only one alive, he couldn't control his emotions.

She cried twice, suddenly alert and raised her hands to cover her mouth.

This is the queen's palace, not her home. Although she was filled with emotions, how could she cry here? It was really out of character.

She was about to kowtow and confess her guilt tremblingly, but she heard the sound of sobbing coming from behind the bead curtain. Queen Wen actually seemed to be crying.

Mrs. Li was shocked and turned pale, kowtowing repeatedly: "Queen, a sinful woman deserves death. She speaks without hesitation!"

"You guys go down," Queen Wen behind the bead curtain seemed to be holding back her sadness, "I want to talk to Mrs. Li and her daughter."

Mrs. Li was kowtowing to apologize like a chicken, but she was suddenly stunned when she heard Queen Wen's voice. Why did this voice sound so familiar?

After the palace maid stepped back, the beaded curtain swayed, and a woman in palace clothes slowly walked out.

When Mrs. Li saw the other party's face, she felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She sat back on the ground and almost threw away the imperial edict in her hand. Li Wan, who was behind her, rushed over to support her and said, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Mrs. Li opened her mouth wide and stared at Queen Wen in front of her in stunned silence.

With these eyebrows, these eyes, this nose, and these lips, isn't it obvious that this is her sister Pei Jingyun? Not only do they look alike, but even their voices are so similar. The only difference from her impression is that Queen Wen's hair is all white.

, and the sister in my impression still has jet black hair.

You must have seen it wrong. There are many similar people in the world. It is normal for Queen Wen and her sister to look similar.

After thinking about it, Mrs. Li turned over and knelt down again: "Queen, the old woman just hissed, please ask the Queen..."

While she was still talking, Queen Wen knelt down in front of her, hugged her with both hands and cried: "Sister, look at me, it's me."

Mrs. Li was so frightened that she lost her wits, and even Li Wan was frightened. Pei Jingyun had been sentenced to death by Emperor Yongde a long time ago, so why did Queen Wen say that she was Pei Jingyun here?

The two of them were still in a daze. Queen Wen had pulled up her sleeves, revealing a dark blue birthmark on her elbow, and said to Mrs. Li: "Sister, look, this is proof. You always laughed at me because of this birthmark, saying that others

They are both white jade and flawless, but mine is white jade with spots. I was angry at that time and even slapped you."

Mrs. Li saw Empress Wen's birthmark, and also saw that Empress Wen had restored the original scene where she teased her sister, and she had no doubts at the moment.

It is not difficult to find people with similar looks in the world, but it is absolutely impossible to even have the same birthmark. The Queen Wen in front of her is her sister Pei Jingyun.

She couldn't help the sadness and joy in her heart, and stretched out her arms to hug Pei Jingyun. The two cried bitterly, and Li Wan also shed tears beside her.

After crying for a long time, the two of them stopped.

"Sister, I didn't want to speak at first because I was afraid that you would know it was me," Pei Jingyun stood up and helped Mrs. Li up. "I couldn't help hearing you talk about what happened to our Pei family..."

Mrs. Li asked in surprise: "Sister, why did you become the wife of Emperor Qi Ming? Didn't you marry into the palace in the first place?"

Pei Jingyun asked them both to sit down, went back to the inner room and personally brought out three cups of tea and said: "Drink some tea first, and I will slowly explain to you the cause and effect."

Mrs. Li had been standing for a whole day without drinking any water. She was very thirsty, so she took the tea bowl and drank it all in one gulp. Li Wan couldn't drink the water at all, but she didn't dare not to drink, so she had to take the tea bowl and sip it in small sips.

Sip there.

Pei Jingyun said: "Do you still remember? When we first arrived in the capital, I accidentally collided with Prince Xiao's horse."

Mrs. Li smiled and said: "Of course I remember, His Majesty pulled you and ran away."

"I was so scared at the time, afraid that Xiao Han would come to find me," Pei Jingyun looked at the roof in a daze, "but I couldn't hide at all. My father had already been married to someone else's fingertips, and I had to marry him. But.

The person I really like is..."

Mrs. Li said: "Your Majesty?"

"I was still young at the time and didn't know what that mood meant," Pei Jingyun smiled, seeming to be lost in memories, "I only know that I particularly liked the Long Huan jade pendant he gave me. I even wore the jade pendant when I slept.

Hold it in your arms."

Mrs. Li had vaguely guessed what happened next, and said: "Sister didn't want to marry Xiao Man, but she couldn't go against her father's wishes, so she found a woman with a similar appearance, and asked Wen Yi to marry her instead of you.

palace."

These things were originally the crime of deceiving the emperor and should not be mentioned at all. But since Emperor Yongde was dead, she no longer had to worry.

"Although I am a woman, I will not let my parents influence my destiny," Pei Jingyun said, "But these things are easy to say, but you don't know how much effort I have put into it. If you can go to Daliang Village, Tongliao County, Liangzhou

If you do, you can witness everything I have done for him."

Li Wan, who was standing next to her, had already drank half a cup of tea. She put down the cup and said to Mrs. Li: "Mom, there are rumors among the people that Wen Yi came from a poor family in Yuzhou. When I knew about it, I felt strange. How could King Qi find him?"

Such a woman turns out to be my aunt."

Mrs. Li looked at Pei Jingyun in surprise: "But...but you have never left the Duke's mansion. What did you do?"

In her impression, during the first three years after her sister married into the palace, she became more reclusive. Unexpectedly, her sister had been doing things secretly.

"Very early, very early," Pei Jingyun replied, "I started doing it... The sister you always thought of is no longer me."

Mrs. Li felt that Pei Jingyun's voice sounded a little vague. She was about to ask Pei Jingyun to speak again when she suddenly felt her nose itchy and two streams of heat flowed down both sides of her lips. She raised her hand to wipe it, but it was gone.

The back of the hand is covered in blood.

"Hiss...what's wrong?" She looked down at the back of her hands, the blood in her nostrils was still dripping down, dyeing her clothes red.
To be continued...