(The last chapter of the second volume, I have been updating from time to time. After Lily, there are some beauties appearing, making the emperor’s life more colorful. I beg you for your recommendation, collection and various votes.)
The winter in Beijing is very cold. When the wind blows, it makes people shiver all over. The biting coldness goes along the back of the neck and goes straight into the spine.
Queen Xia sat blankly under the eaves of Kunning Palace, watching the birds standing on the golden tiles and chirping on the thin snow, feeling extremely sad in her heart.
Kunning Palace is located behind the Jiaotai Palace and was built in the 18th year of Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty all lived in the Qianqing Palace, while the queen lived in the Kunning Palace. Empress Zhou, the unlucky child of Chongzhen, committed suicide here. Here we are. "We are the Qing Dynasty", the imperial guards had no culture, and they actually transformed the bedroom of the emperor's wife into a place for worshiping the gods. They did not differentiate between humans and gods. This shows that "we are the Qing Dynasty" is really weird.
"How wonderful would it be if I were a bird?" The seventeen-year-old Queen Xia is actually a little girl who has not grown up, and she has many fantasies in her heart.
Her husband, who was the emperor, used to like men. Although he was no longer good at Long Yang, he never spent the night with her. Even during the annual ancestor worship, they were like puppets. The two of them sat together and had no common language at all. .
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl only see each other once a year. The Queen and the Emperor have been married for three years, and they can count the number of days they have slept together on the palm of their hand.
Yin Ling'er stood behind her, stretched out her hands, gently massaged Queen Xia's shoulders, and said softly: "It's snowing again, go into the Nuan Pavilion."
The cheers of a group of palace maids came from outside the window. It turned out that a little eunuch had built a snowman and placed two dark eyes on it.
"Get away from me!" Yin Ling'er got angry and shouted loudly, "How dare you disturb the Queen!"
Queen Xia looked at the frightened palace ladies, smiled, and said, "Yin Ling'er, when I look at them, I feel they are much younger, so I let them play."
I am the daily self-identification of the empress and high-ranking concubines of the Ming Dynasty. Concubine is the self-proclaimed title when addressing the emperor and the queen mother. There are concubines with titles, and some are called me. As mentioned earlier, concubine is a written feminine word, Aijia. It is a special term for the queen mother after the death of her husband. It is a title in the palace. It has a lot of knowledge, so don't be misled.
"Hmph, Madam, you are in a bad mood. They are still fooling around here, and I don't like it," Yin Ling'er pointed angrily at the leading eunuch and shouted, "Take him down and give him thirty sticks! "
Thirty sticks, this is to beat him to death. The little eunuch was so frightened that his face turned pale, his whole body was shaking, and after a while he fell to the snow.
A guard came forward and touched his nose, raised his head, and reported to Queen Xia: "He has died!"
Queen Xia glared at Yin Ling'er angrily, and the latter said with a smile: "Just take it and bury it in the flower garden. Next year's chrysanthemums may be even more beautiful."
The death of a young eunuch was not a big deal, as dozens of people would die inexplicably every day in the palace. However, this young eunuch also happened to have a counterpart, who was Queen Xia's personal maid, Xiao Huan.
Her lover is dead, and her boss is the murderer! Miss Xiaohuan feels that there is no more love in her life, so she decides to kill her husband. Who said eunuchs don’t understand love? This is a touching love story.
If Miss Xiaohuan had jumped into Taiye Pond, she would have been nothing more than a swollen female floating corpse in the water. But obviously, Xiaohuan decided to die more heroically. So she found Wang, who usually took great care of her family.
The imperial concubine exposed the affair between Queen Xia and Yin Linger.
On that day, Queen Mother Zhang also "happened" to be in the palace of Wang Guifei, discussing the matter of finding a wet nurse for Zhu Zaiji's child. The wet nurses in the Ming Dynasty were not fuel-efficient lamps, such as Hakka. Therefore, the choice of wet nurse was very important.
If you don't pay attention, if you say it in a small way, you will destroy the group; if you say it in a big way, it will destroy the country...
Now the Dongchuang incident happened, and Queen Xia's scandal was completely exposed.
Empress Dowager Zhang was not interested in the daughter-in-law of the eldest daughter-in-law, so she immediately ordered the guards to kidnap Yin Ling'er and ask her to explain how she had hooked up with Empress Xia and turned her into an adulterer.
Yin Ling'er is originally from Suning County, Hejian Prefecture, Beizhili. She is from the same hometown as Eunuch Wei, who was born sixty years later. She is now fifteen years old. She has a delicate appearance and is extremely beautiful. It seems that lesbians are also pure and beautiful.
ah.
This girl had a tragic life experience. She was sold by her father to a noble family as a slave when she was three years old. When she was five years old, she was transferred to another noble family. When she was seven years old, the original owner was implicated and the whole family was executed.
She was then transferred to the home of a Jinyiwei Baihu household.
This Baihu liked to drink and beat her every day. In less than ten days, the poor little girl was beaten until there was not a single piece of flesh on her body. Just when she was about to be beaten to death, Master Baihu suddenly showed kindness.
, became nice to her, and even accepted her as his goddaughter.
Just when Yin Ling'er thought her life would be happy from now on, a bolt of lightning struck her head: she had to replace Baihu's biological daughter and become a palace maid.
Some people may ask, are palace maids bad? Every palace maid has a chance to become a queen! For example, Ming Xiaozong’s old mother.
Ladies in the palace, wake up and stop dreaming! There is another word in this world called lady.
Ladies are the reserve army who have the best chance of becoming the emperor's women. Most of the palace ladies work as coolies in the palace throughout their lives and then die alone. For palace ladies who can become queens, it is better to try to travel through time. Maybe the chance of success is higher.
a little.
After entering the palace, Yin Ling'er spent countless hard days until she was favored by Queen Xia and became her rival. Living in hell, suddenly in heaven, Yin Ling'er followed Queen Xia wholeheartedly, not to mention betraying her.
She was determined not to say even one more word.
During the interrogation, Concubine Li Ning also came. This time Zhu Shou went to Baoding without her, so she wanted to come to talk to the Queen Mother and compete for her favor.
"Cut off her fingers one by one," Wang Guifei ordered calmly when she saw Sister Li Feng coming. "If she doesn't say anything, scratch her face and chop off both of her feet."
After hearing her words, Concubine Li Ning suddenly felt nauseated and vomited it out in the jade bowl.
Empress Dowager Zhang nodded with a smile on her face, feeling that this girl Wang Guifei has great training potential. Some people may ask, isn't Empress Dowager Zhang known as a virtuous empress in history? Why is she still so cruel?
In fact, Empress Dowager Zhang is only kind to two people, one is her husband Xiaozong, and the other is her son Zhu Shou. She is also extremely cruel to the rest of the people. Just looking at the behavior of her natal family, you can tell that the Empress Dowager is
It's definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp.
But this is normal. If someone is really kind-hearted, such as a cute girl like Sister Li Feng, how can she live to this age and monopolize an emperor for the rest of her life?
Yin Ling'er was so frightened that she froze, but she gritted her teeth and refused to say anything.
After vomiting, Concubine Li Ning did not dare to look any further. Her young mind could not bear such a cruel thing. Looking at the two women surrounded by honor guards, she suddenly felt that the palace was actually not a good place.
After leaving the Yuehua Gate, she said to Su Jin who was following her: "This matter must be told to the emperor."
When Su Jin recounted this experience to Zhu Shou, he specifically described the cruelty of Concubine Wang and the kindness of Concubine Li Ning in great detail. Every eunuch, regardless of official position, would have a relationship with a favored concubine.
Even the powerful Boss Liu treated some concubines with respect and did not dare to be careless. Zhu Shou was a little surprised that Su Jin, the "little Liu Jin", would choose Concubine Li Ning.
However, Zhu Shou was not interested in the kindness or evil of his little wife. Instead, he felt some sympathy for Queen Xia and asked eagerly: "How did the Queen Mother deal with it?"...
My mother was the only person Zhu Shou respected in the Ming Dynasty. If Empress Dowager Zhang had ordered the death of Empress Xia, everything would be a foregone conclusion.
"The Queen Mother only locked up the Yin Ling'er and did not do what Wang Guifei said." Su Jin replied.
What does mother mean? Zhu Shou was a little confused. He stood on the stone path outside the Nuan Pavilion and looked at the warm spring indoor garden. The memories of his childhood were going through his mind one by one, but he could not find the answer.
Liu Jin stood aside, glanced at Admiral Zhang and Ma Yongcheng, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, the person who untied the bell must tie it."
Admiral Zhang sneered and said in his trademark loud voice: "Little ancestor, I would like to go to Kunning Palace."
Boss Liu's words made Zhu Shou suddenly realize that, yes, Queen Mother Zhang's original intention was to let Zhu Shou handle this case personally. Neither Wang Guifei nor herself would interfere with Zhu Shou's decision.
For a mother to care about her son to this extent, Empress Dowager Zhang is considered to have reached the pinnacle of success.
To put it more seriously, this matter is a royal scandal, but which palace doesn't have some scandals? As an emperor, if you don't have some unethical behavior, you will be embarrassed to say hello to other emperors.
Admiral Zhang said that he was afraid that Zhu Shou would be soft-hearted and decided to become this evil person.
The two of them were determined not to get involved at first. That was because Zhu Shou did not express his opinions. Things that had nothing to do with the emperor had nothing to do with the two bosses.
Now that Zhu Shou was forced to take the stand by Empress Dowager Zhang, the two capable men were naturally willing to come out and take the lead.
Compared with the behavior of these two seniors, Su Jin's informant was inferior, but he did not dare to say more. There were countless spies in the palace, and it was never a secret who had any involvement with whom.
"Concubine Ning is here!" Before Zhu Shou could reply, a young eunuch ran in and reported in a low voice.
Zhu Shou raised his head and glanced out the door. He saw Sister Li Feng's beautiful face appearing at the door amid the falling snowflakes. She was sitting in a six-person chariot. Concubine Ning's honor guard was not large, only three.
Twelve people.
Compared with Zhu Shou's ceremonial guard of nearly ten thousand people and the Queen Mother's ceremonial guard of thousands of people, it was naturally extremely small. However, Concubine Li Ning always adhered to her duties and never did anything that went beyond the rules.
"Why are you here?" Zhu Shou flicked the snowflakes from his little wife's hair and said softly, "It's so cold."
"In the summer, didn't you say you wanted to take people to build snowmen?" Sister Li Feng was young, simple-minded, and had a very low desire for power. When there were no foreign ministers, she did not call Zhu Shou the Holy One, but the Supreme Being.
you.
"I heard that you vomited in Wang Guifei's palace, but are you sick?" Zhu Shou asked, stroking her hair.
All the eunuchs present were familiar with the intimacy between the emperor and Concubine Ning, so they pretended not to have seen it.
"A good thing and a bad thing," Sister Li Feng said with a smile, "Which one do you want to listen to first?"
Zhu Shou scratched her nose and said with a smile: "Then let's listen to the bad ones first."
Sister Li Feng sighed and said: "The Queen begged the Holy One to spare Yin Ling'er's life. She is willing to use the Queen in exchange, saying that she understands the Holy One's thoughts."
Zhu Shou glared at her and said angrily: "Who do you think you are as a lobbyist? Is it child's play for the Queen and her mother to treat the world with abandonment?"
Sister Li Feng giggled and said, "I knew you were a good person and would not destroy Sister Xia."
Zhu Shou looked at her coldly: "How can you guess my thoughts?"
Sister Li Feng pursed her lips, almost cried, and said with red eyes: "Then I'm leaving."
When she reached the entrance of the palace, Zhu Shou remembered that she had not yet said what the good news was, and asked in a deep voice: "What about the good news?"
Concubine Li Ning turned around, glared at the man, turned her tears into a smile, rolled her eyes, and laughed loudly: "I won't tell you!"