Xuan Ling spent a whole day and night in the Shenxing Department before he came out. The imperial concubine and I knelt in the Tongming Hall for a full day and night. The imperial concubine prayed day and night. Every three hours, she would play her lute and express her infinite sorrow until her lips

She turned purple and refused to leave. I didn't know whether she was mourning Queen Chunyuan who taught her the pipa with her own hands, or whether she was mourning the child who was never born in her belly. Her worries were as deep as the sea, and I couldn't sympathize with her.

Finally, it was Emperor Wen Yi who came to accompany Chang Kneeling before she agreed to return to the palace to rest.

Xuan Ling had not come to my palace since the time when the Chief of Punishment came out. It was a long night of silence and the stars were cold and dim. I closed my eyes and wanted to go to sleep, but a headache followed me faintly. I seemed to be in a trance, but I heard more and longer sounds.

The hanging heart could not let go after all.

There was a figure standing outside the colorful curtain with hanging silver tassels. It was Jin Xi who said softly: "Your Majesty, the Emperor has summoned you to the Yiyuan Hall."

I asked: "What time is it updated?"

"At three o'clock in the morning," she paused, "Mrs. Zhuang Min has gone as ordered."

It was not the intention to go to bed, so I suddenly opened my eyes and ordered: "Change clothes."

The road to Yiyuan Hall was very familiar. The inner prisoner walking at night walked quickly and steadily. He could only hear the night breeze blowing into his temples, and the sedan chair went straight to Yiyuan Hall.

On the night of the ninth day of February, there was still a slight chill that invaded the skin. The evening breeze blew in through the window edges, and the Queen's hair on the temples was slightly floating, and her face without makeup was slender under the light of a pair of red candles.

The tattoos were all gone, and there was no place to escape. Because she was a victim of crime, all the jewelry and pearls were taken off. Only a pair of dark green jasper bracelets on Hao's wrists lay quietly. The queen's hair was pulled into a bun.

The low-hanging bun was tightly tied with a silver ribbon. She was kneeling on the ground wearing a full-body red palace dress with black swastika pattern and gold satin trim. The exquisite and unobtrusive pattern was spread out on the neckline.

Revealing a hint of collarbone due to weight loss.

Yunrong stood quietly beside Xuan Ling, with a sneer of pleasure and said nothing.

Xuan Ling closed his eyes slightly and pointed at Xiuxia and Huichun who were kneeling behind the queen: "They have already confessed, what else do you have to say?"

The queen glanced at the two tortured people, stretched out her hand to hold Hui Chun's nails that were pierced by long needles, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, Hui Chun and Xiu Xia have been tortured very painfully. Does such a confession count as a result of torture?"

Xuan Ling glanced coldly at the two people who were covered with whip marks, "The scars on her fingers were punished by me after she confessed. I punished them for being an accomplice and aiding the tyrant. Their confessions were also very clear. If they were beaten into a move, they would not be so consistent.

Confession." A trace of deep anger emerged from the corner of his lips, "Don't worry, if I hadn't interrogated her personally, I wouldn't have believed that the queen who had been with me for many years and had been so virtuous would be able to cruelly poison her own sister."

The queen said coldly: "Since the emperor already believes it, why bother to ask me again?"

Xuan Ling closed his eyes and said in disgust: "If I hadn't waited for you to confess in person, do you think I would still be willing to see your face?"

"My concubine is old and beautiful, which naturally offends the emperor. I just wonder if my sister is still here, does the emperor still really like her aging appearance? I really regret it. Maybe I should let the emperor see that my sister is like me now."

With her decayed appearance, perhaps the emperor would not hate my concubine so much."

"A kind heart leads to beauty. No matter how old Wan Wan is, she will definitely be thousands more than you."

The Queen smiled softly, revealing a delicate face like a rain-washed peach blossom. She lowered her head and gently touched the jade bracelets on her wrists that were as clear and transparent as clear water.

I put it on, and wish to see each other day and night with this ring. But now, if the emperor doesn’t think that I have made a mistake, I probably don’t want to see my concubine again.” She paused, and her tone became lower and lower, “Back then, the emperor was also obsessed with this ring.

Tell me that if I give birth to a prince, the throne will belong to me. But when I give birth to a prince, you have already married my sister as the queen, and even my child will be forced to become the son of a concubine, and I will

There will always be a concubine identity that cannot be shaken off."

Xuan Ling's eyebrows twisted into a river, "You know that I don't care about my concubine. In fact, my mother doesn't care either. My mother is a concubine, and I am also a concubine."

"Your Majesty, do you understand the pain of a woman who is a concubine? I have been wronged at home since I was a child. In the eyes of my father, I only have my sister who is a concubine. Because I am a concubine, I and my mother are rarely taken seriously. How can you do that?

clear?"

"I understand." Xuan Ling opened his eyes and stared at her, "It is precisely because I understand that I will treat you kindly after you enter the palace. Even if I am the only queen, you are the second best queen."

Her Concubine Xian. But you are never satisfied!"

The queen's voice was like broken ice floating on the water, "The throne that should have belonged to my concubine was taken away by my sister, and the crown prince's position that should have belonged to my son will also belong to someone else."

Just live under the halo of my sister, and will always be subordinate to her after entering the palace. Even all her husband's favor belongs to her. I want to be content, but it is really difficult to do so."

Xuan Ling let out a sigh of relief, "But you are indeed not as good as Wan Wan."

"So, I, my concubine, will have to suffer defeat and always be inferior to others?"

Xuan Ling suddenly slapped the table with his palm, which made the green-glazed teacup bang. The green tea leaves and green tea water spilled out, and the hot air flowed down with the pleasant fragrance of tea. Xuan Ling's face was slightly distorted,

"Wanwan is your biological sister!"

Yunrong took Xuan Ling's hand and blew it gently, saying softly: "Cousin, Zhu's snake-hearted heart is not worthy of your anger! If you are angry, just kill her."

The queen's eyes were extremely bright, with a hint of arrogance. She looked at Yunrong with contempt and disdain, "Hu Yunrong, if you want to talk more, wait until you sit on the throne of the queen! The emperor has not dethroned the queen, and I am still the queen.

, the emperor is talking, how can you allow your little concubine to interrupt!"

Yunrong sneered softly and smiled charmingly, "I follow the same example. Some people dare to murder the queen and take human life. I just interrupted it. It's not a heinous crime!"

The queen smiled softly and said coldly: "You don't have to be too impatient if you want the queen's seat in this palace. You don't have any stability and self-control. If I give you the queen's seat, you won't be able to sit there for a few days!" She turned her eyes and sneered.

He repeatedly said, "Now that the imperial concubine and concubine Shu are here, you are getting jealous first."

I bowed and bowed politely, "The Queen has high regard for me, I dare not be jealous of the queen."

"Don't you dare?" She lowered her face and sneered, "You have already done what you dare or dare not, so what else can you say? Do you dare to swear that today's weak situation in our palace was not caused by you?"

"No." I looked at each other calmly, "I believe that it is the reincarnation of heaven, and retribution is not good. Wrong has its end, debt has its owner, and what is owed will eventually be repaid."

The moment the window lattice opened and closed, a cold wind rushed in and rushed, causing the heavy brocade curtains to fall heavily. The wind finally blew in the face, bringing chill to the bones without leaving a trace, shaking the candle flames in the room. Xuan Ling was both angry and sad, "

Aren't you afraid of retribution? Have you ever dreamed of Wan Wan and her children chasing you for their lives at midnight?"

"If she can ask for it, just come and get it! To avoid the long night in Zhaoyang Palace, I always dream of my dead child crying to me." The flickering candlelight was dim, and the queen's face was blurred in the candlelight, like a

Like ink stains stained with water, faint hot tears slowly flowed out from her dry and empty eye sockets. They fell like hot tears like candle tears, burning through her body and mind, which were already riddled with wounds. "My concubine's son died of illness."

When she died, my sister was already pregnant. Your Majesty, you only cared about the joy of your sister's pregnancy. How could you ever remember that you had an eldest son? Your Majesty, my concubine's child died so pitifully! I carried him and walked for a whole day in the rain.

At night, I wanted to go to the Hall of Hell and beg the gods and Buddhas in the sky to exchange my concubine’s life for the life of my child! Before he was even three years old, he was scorched by a high fever and died! But my sister had a child, not her son.

Are you taking my son's life? How can I allow her to give birth to a prince and sit on the throne of my concubine's child? I am his mother, how can I endure it!"

I have never seen the Queen so out of sorts. She also has her own heartache that will never heal!

"You're crazy!" Xuan Ling's face was soaked with deep sorrow and he couldn't extricate himself. "It was me who insisted on marrying Wanwan, it was me who insisted on making her our queen, it was me who had a child with her!" He hurried over.

In front of the queen, he grabbed her collar and said, "Why don't you hate me?!"

He was very close to her face, and the queen's warm breath brushed against Xuan Ling's face. Her breath gradually became rapid and intense, and her eyes wandered to his face like greed, "Does the emperor think that I don't want this?"

She stared at Xuan Ling, as if she wanted to bury his face and body in her eyes, "I want to hate you so much, if I could do it, how could I not do it!" Hot tears slid down her cold eyes.

Cheeks, "The Emperor only has my sister in his eyes, but did you know that I love you as much as you do for your sister!"

"Cousin!" Yunrong whispered, her pretty face covered with strong hatred, "Don't talk to her anymore, she's disgusting!"

Xuan Ling coldly removed the hand that grabbed her collar, pulled a curtain and wiped his hands, then threw it away in disgust. He called me, "Huan Huan, draft a decree for me to abolish the queen."

I watched with cold eyes, just for this moment. All the quarrels and confrontations are not as clean and tidy as the abolition of the imperial edict!

I spread out the golden imperial edict of the Coiling Dragon, and with the full red pen like an arrow of red lotus flowers, I wrote in a meandering way:

"Queen Zhu, destiny is not blessed, she is flashy and unrealistic. She has caused prison lawsuits, slapped the court, and saw that there is no general. She has evil intentions that cannot be tabooed. How can she respect the ancestral temple and honor the world as a mother? She can be abolished as a commoner and placed in a cold palace.

.To punish the family members is to be ashamed of the past king. It is a great plan for the country, and it is not something that has been achieved."

After I finished writing, I put down the pen and read aloud to Xuan Ling. Each word was like a scorching flower blooming from my sharp wound. They were all watered by my heart full of hatred. My heart moved slightly, but there was an even greater joy.

my hatred.

The queen looked at her with an indifferent face, as if the abolition of the imperial edict was not written by her. She only murmured to her son who had died young, "Child, my child!"

Xuan Ling listened quietly and said, "That's enough." He lowered his head to take the red seal. I raised my head and met Yun Rong's ecstatic and joyful eyes, and unconsciously turned my head away.

After being deposed, there is only one red seal missing.

There is a cold and cold fragrance in the deep and vast palace, which seems to be the blooming of the jade stamens in the corridor far away. The cold fragrance is soaked by the cold wind and rain, and it becomes even more cold and glamorous.

In a stunned moment, there was a long "squeak--", and the palace door was slowly pushed open. The dragon-headed crutches were lifted step by step, and the sound of falling to the ground was as dull as thunder. The Queen Mother then leaned on the gilded dragon-headed crutches with that cold fragrance.

Step in slowly.

Coming late at night, the Queen Mother was just wearing a home-style long-sleeved azure blue satin dress, embroidered with gold threads, willow leaves, lake-blue purple aster flowers, the color was calm and elegant, and her autumn-colored cloud satin skirt was silently dragging on the ground, the two sides of the skirt were pressed.

The drooping lines of the tourmaline brocade heart tassel are gentle and straight, just like the bead-embedded double dragon-dot emerald hairpin stuck in the simple Ruyi high bun. Even the south bead tassel at the mouth of the dragon's mouth does not move at all, without any unnecessary wrinkles and waves.

, which made her posture even more lofty and calm. I secretly sighed, how could such a demeanor have such a noble and stable aura as Mount Tai if it hadn’t been for decades of experience in the palace. It’s ridiculous to speak noblely in the market, what kind of white jade is made of gold for the palace?

Ma, who comes from a boudoir family of generals and prime ministers, always thinks that gold, jewels, jade, silk and satin can be piled up. It is just a vulgar and warm imagination in the world of food and clothing. The true noble charm must have experienced hardships and looked down upon the world.

Qingyuan can hold on.

When Xuan Ling saw the Empress Dowager arriving in person, he hurriedly stood up to greet her. Yun Rong and I did not dare to neglect and kowtowed in greeting.

The Queen Mother held Xuan Ling's hand and sat down on the throne in the middle. She coughed twice and asked slowly: "Has the edict to abolish the Queen Mother been issued?"

Xuan Ling was startled and said respectfully: "There is only one scarlet seal left."

The Queen Mother said "hmm" and said: "The Ai family has bad eyesight. Yunrong, please come and read it to the Ai family."

Yunrong was slightly afraid, looked at me, and finally picked up the edict and read it tremblingly.

The Queen Mother glanced at her and said, "The voice is very good and I can read clearly, just don't tremble." The Queen Mother turned to look at me and said, "The words are concise and concise, it should be Concubine Shu's handwriting."

I lowered my head gently, "Yes."

The Queen Mother's face was full of sorrow, and her eyes looking at the Queen could not hide the look of disgust and sorrow, "Concubine Shu, I did not exaggerate your sins!" Her eyebrows trembled, and a heavy sorrow flashed through her eyes. She raised her cane and was about to go to the Queen.
To be continued...