Xi Qian was lying on the ground. Although she gave up resistance, the strings of tears falling down formed a silent but more powerful resistance.
Yu Wen Haoxuan sighed, when did he, an emperor, fall to the point where he needed to use force to conquer women?
He regained his usual sanity and shook out his wrinkled clothes. Just as he was about to stand up, he heard the anxious shouts of the eunuch on duty outside the room.
"The emperor is not well. Someone from the palace of Empress Zhaoyi said that the empress fell into the lotus pond in the evening and is now unconscious???" The little eunuch shouted and rushed into the house. Wang Zhaoyi had a high status in the palace.
He did not dare to delay the news, but he did not expect such a scene in the house.
I saw Yuwen Haoxuan, who was usually solemn and solemn, roughly pressing Xiqian to the ground, with faint blood stains on the corners of his mouth. Xiqian's gorgeous palace clothes were torn in many places, and her delicate makeup was stained with tears.
"Get out!" Yuwen Haoxuan shouted loudly, waking up the stunned young eunuch. Knowing that he had seen something he shouldn't have seen, the young eunuch hurriedly exited. In the panic, he tripped over the threshold behind him and rolled out.
house.
The maids outside the house saw the little eunuch's panicked expression. Although they didn't know what happened, they heard the words "get out" so clearly that no one dared to ask more questions.
"Go, go, go! Go as far as you can!" Perhaps wanting to save his own face, the little eunuch kicked and beat the maids out of the courtyard.
In the room, Yu Wen Haoxuan had already stood up and sat at the table, drinking herbal tea. Xi Qian also put her clothes in order and stood aside, pretending to be calm and said, "Since Empress Zhaoyi has something to do, your Majesty should go over and take a look as soon as possible."
"Do you want me to leave?" Yu Wen Haoxuan tipped the teacup heavily and looked at her coldly, "Okay, then I will go see Wang Zhaoyi. It's late at night, so you can rest here tonight!"
Xiqian did not dare to look directly at Yuwen Haoxuan, fearing that the scene just now would happen again. Maybe tomorrow she would be laughed at by the concubines for being robbed of her favor, but that would be better than being under such suffocating oppression.
Yuwen Hao
Until the sounds of footsteps outside disappeared, Xi Qian still didn't get over her nervousness.
"Beauty, I will help you sleep." Before she knew it, Fantao was already standing next to her.
"No, let's go back."
"But it's late at night, and a beauty always needs to change her clothes." Fan Tao saw that her clothes were damaged in many places.
"How can anyone see it this late at night? Let's go." Xi Qian said and walked out of the door, not allowing Fantao to object.
Stepping on the cold floor tiles, Xi Qian's heart felt equally cold. This palace, stripped of its prosperity and dazzle during the day, now fully revealed the indifference in its bones.
The cold wind cut her face like a knife, making her gradually become sober and calm. She knew that she should please Emperor Jiang in every possible way, even if it was not for her own future, she must fight for Ning Guo's future, but she just
I can't get over the hurdle in my heart.
"Why didn't the beauty keep the emperor just now? If the emperor left like this, everyone will think you are easy to bully in the future." Fan Tao said aggrievedly for Xi Xian.
"If the emperor really wants to stay, he will stay no matter what. But if you force him to stay but the people's hearts are gone, what's the point."
"But this is the first time that the beauty has slept with me. Wang Zhaoyi is demonstrating like this. I don't know how to squeeze you in the future. I have been in the palace for a long time and have seen too many things like this. Beauty, if you don't fight for yourself, sooner or later
You will be stepped on by those villains."
In the cold wind, Xi Qian smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Toughness also requires capital. What can I use to compete with Wang Zhaoyi? From now on, you must also instruct the people in the house not to confront anyone tit for tat, and just live their own lives."
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"That's what the beauty said!" Seeing her clear attitude, Fan Tao couldn't say any more.
"Let's go sit in the pavilion over there for a while." Xi Qian wanted to blow more cool breeze to clear her mind.
"The emperor has told you to rest in Mengxinju, why do you want to go back? What will you do if you are frozen in the ice and snow?" Fan Tao said while helping her to the pavilion.
"That's a place that belongs to another person. There's still a lot you haven't told me about Mengxinju, right? How come there are so many things from your daughter's house in a place where the emperor lives alone?" Xi Xi was attentive in Mengxinju.
Daphne has already seen many unusual places.
Xi Xuan's sudden question made Fan Tao's heart tighten and she immediately knelt on the ground, "I was careless. I didn't think it was something important so I didn't tell the beauty."
"I don't blame you, get up and talk!" Xi Qian pulled up Fan Tao who was kneeling on the ground.
Fan Tao was very grateful for her generosity, and poured out all she knew, "Mengxinju was actually the queen's residence. The slaves just entered the palace ten years ago. The emperor went south to fight and was not in the palace. The queen was there.
During this period, she gave birth to a prince, but was later jointly executed by the Queen Mother and other ministers for deceiving the King. When the Emperor heard the news, he rushed back that night, but the Queen was no longer there. Hearing that the Emperor went into a rage and killed off all the influence of the Queen Mother's mother's family, he also
Many concubines and palace attendants were executed, and the Queen Mother is still under house arrest in Xiangning Palace because of this incident."
"Shouldn't the queen live in Fengqi Palace?" Xiqian was very confused. Mengxinju was not even as big as her Sumeng Pavilion.
"I heard that the Queen is tolerant and likes peace and quiet. She doesn't even bother to greet her concubines on weekdays. However, I have never seen the Queen with my own eyes."
"Then do you know why the Queen Mother wanted to kill the Queen?" There are most cryptic things in the palace, and Xi Qian also has endless curiosity like girls of the same age.
"I don't know, this slave. Maybe the queen made some mistake. Many old palace people died in that massacre. The palace issued a silence order, and no one dared to mention this matter again." Fan Tao looked at it warily.
All around her, the great purge in the palace left a deep impression on her, and even now when she talks about it, she still feels a bit windy.
"The relationship between the emperor and the empress is very deep, right?" Xi Qian was surprised that an emperor could be so angry for a woman and even put his own mother under house arrest.
"I heard that yes, there were not many concubines left in the harem after the purge, but the emperor has not chosen any more concubines in the past ten years. It was not until the princesses entered the palace this time that the palace became more lively. But there are still more concubines.
It is empty, the queen has not been re-established, and now the highest status in the harem is the imperial concubine."
Xi Qian stared blankly at the starry sky, imagining the appearance of the woman who Yu Wen Haoxuan fell in love with. She showed an indifferent smile in the cold wind, thinking of the woman who was miserable but had no regrets.