Chapter 243 Night Chapter
Chapter 243 Night Chapter
I don't know if it was to block the news, the palace servants I sent home did not come back today.I was really worried, and I sat alone at Lichun Terrace all afternoon, and at night, my mother sent someone to call me to have dinner with her. After the meal, she left me to live with her, and after washing up, I sent the others away, leaving me alone. Talk to the front: "I wanted to talk to you this morning, but it was not confirmed at that time, and now I have been investigated in detail and know the inside, so I will tell you, so that you will not be alone in the wild."
Seeing that something had happened, I took a step towards my mother uneasily, took her hand and said, "What do you want to tell me, Ma'am?"
But my mother hesitated now, and I could see that she didn't want to startle me: "Wei Tuan'er reported that Zheng Lang uttered wild words after drinking, saying that if King Qi listened to him, he would already be in the ninth five by now. Why did he die and his family destroyed, making people laugh at the world. When I went to investigate, I found letters from his home with King Qi and Pei Yan, so I had him and the members of the Zheng clan imprisoned for questioning in the afternoon .” After a pause, Fang said, “Zheng Bo is also among them.”
I knew exactly what was going on, but I breathed a sigh of relief than in the morning, and said softly: "Really?" After worrying about it all day, I relaxed now, and my chest felt a little tight, so I covered my heart with one hand, Whispered: "A Niang means, how to deal with it?"
My mother gave me a worried look, put me in her arms, and said softly: "At present, Zheng Bo is not involved."
I smiled wryly, and said with difficulty: "But if the inspection of Zheng Lang's matter is true..." The word "if" is simply superfluous, and there is no one who is not "inspected to be true" among those who have been denounced. It was still when the most famous cruel officials didn't show up.
My mother embraced me, and said after a long while: "Zheng Bo is your son-in-law, if there is no sign of rebellion, he can be punished lightly."
Her voice seemed to come from the sky, and I suddenly realized the meaning of what A Huan said in the morning. There are many punishments for treason in this court, but judging from Pei Yan's case, it is very clear that the brother will sit dead Since my brothers are going to die together, my brother's wife will inevitably be involved to some extent—I don't know if my mother has suspected me?
I quietly raised my eyes to look at my mother, her face was calm, showing no great joy or anger, now she was wearing ocher-yellow gown day and night, except that she didn't wear a fur head, she was dressed like the dead late emperor, I Unable to restrain some fear, she got out of her mother's arms and fell on the ground: "If Zheng Bo has been put in prison for questioning, is my... son..."
My mother pulled me up and said with a gentle smile: "What nonsense are you talking about? His family committed suicide, so what does it have to do with you?"
I am really at war between the two sides, knowing that my mother doesn't like weak people, I can only say in a low voice: "The country has its own laws."
My mother sneered, and pulled me into her arms again: "I just knew you would be like this, so I specially called you here. You are my own daughter, and the country has its own laws, so you can't be blamed for Zheng Bo's crime." , I... A Niang will consider it carefully, don't worry..." In the middle of speaking, I raised my hand to the outside, and someone called the imperial doctor to take my pulse.
My mother patiently held my hand, listened to the imperial doctor's medical prescription, and asked him about every detail, and then asked him to withdraw to grab the medicine, and when the medicine was fried, she fed me to drink it herself. After taking a few sips, he felt his eyelids heavy, thinking that there was something soothing to the nerves in the medicine, so he held his mother's hand tightly and fell asleep on her lap.
When I got up the next morning, my mother wasn't there, but Xianxian's neighbors who usually served were there. After dressing and washing, Wan'er came from the front hall and said in a harmonious voice: "Your Majesty said that the princess can read here, and there are still some things left. The forms are all entered by the palace and the servants and have not yet been approved. If there is nothing wrong with the princess, you can read it on behalf of your majesty. If it is a trivial matter, let the princess decide on her own."
I am proficient in this matter. Before the new year, my mother asked me to take charge of the palace affairs. I handled most of the appearances of the palace and the servants. But now that I am under suspicion, it seems that I have accepted such a heavy responsibility in a dignified place. Zhang Yang, but if you ask me to do the thing of taking off the hairpin and punishing the crime, I can't help being deliberate. While hesitating, Wan'er said softly: "This is His Majesty's grace, I hope the princess will never refuse."
I raised my eyes to look at her and saw her nodding slightly to me, so I also nodded in agreement. I roughly ate some porridge, sat in the side hall, read a few articles, and saw that the things played were all messy, so I asked Xianxian to explain it for me. It can be divided into two categories—although her writing is a little difficult, her writing is not a serious problem. Roughly divided, it is always better than nothing.
Wan'er was leading Fengguo to come in, seeing Xianxian reading the case word by word, asked why, and suddenly smiled: "Princess, you don't use the usual hands, so you want to use her?"
I was taken aback for a moment, and said in a low voice, "Can I?"
Wan'er didn't answer, just looked at me, and said to the side: "Go and invite Mrs. Song and Mrs. Cui here." Not long after, a few people led me into the room, from Cui Mingde to Mrs. Cui. Feng Yongchang, a lot.
If I realize something, I will act like a princess before, assigning assignments to each other, sorting out all forms, and handling those that can be handled by myself. In one place, when the mother returned from the court, all of them were presented to her.
What my mother meant today was to stand up for me, so that others would not look down on me because of Zheng Bo's affairs, so I approved all my proposals, and in the end I didn't even look at the form, and directly handed it over to Ah Qing: "Everything is fine. Do as Princess Changle wants." After the person left, he held my hand and asked me what I did and what I ate, just like when I was a child. After asking, he took me to have lunch together, and we visited Taoguang Garden together in the afternoon. I also sent people called A Huan and Princess Qianjin to be my companions, and held a banquet in the garden in the evening, knowing that I am not good at composing poems, and I am not good at writing poems, and I am not good at writing poems.
That night I went back to live in Lichun Terrace. I had something on my mind. When I drank the medicine, I only drank half a bowl and vomited it out while no one was paying attention. It came out from below, startled me, took a step back, and managed not to scream.
A Huan crawled in swiftly, only then did I realize that she was wearing the servant's clothes. It was cold in early spring, and everyone wore a hood and a big cloak at night, walking with her hands and feet bowed. Really like a chamberlain - but still an adventure.
I hurriedly glanced at the outside room, and at this time the two night watchmen were already asleep, so I led A Huan inside, took off her coat, stuffed her into my bed, and reproached me in a low voice: "Dear It's cold, and you live far away, what are you doing out there?"
Her hands and feet were so cold that she stuffed her cold hands under my armpits: "If I don't come over, you will go over. Do you think it's a good thing if someone catches you going out secretly at this time?"
I was so cold that I bared my teeth, I didn't dare to raise my voice, so I could only breathe in: "It's cold."
She withdrew her hand, pressed it under her buttocks, and kicked her feet for a while: "I'm cold too. It's spring, why are you still so cold."
I couldn't bear to see it, so I turned over again, covered her hands with both hands, and pressed my body against her to keep warm. When she was pressed by me, she smiled and said, "This way it won't be cold." Qushen raised his head to look at me, When I went back, I said: "I'm not there. They are inconvenient to me. They usually do things in the front. When I came back from Taoguang Garden today, I just remembered that there were still a few things to do, so I came to the front. I was planning to stay at night. Ahead, it’s only a few hundred steps to you, the road is short, you’re not afraid of being discovered, so don’t worry in vain.”
It was already dark when Tao Guangyuan came out after the banquet, and now the provincial government only sat in the office for half a day, except for the important ministries, who would have the time to deal with those "unfinished business" with her?It's clear that she stayed here on purpose, and came to look for me at night.
My heart was very warm, I held her hand and kissed her again, and said next to her: "I have nothing to do, you don't need to come here specially. Last night, Auntie accompanied me to sleep, and today I specially asked me to be in charge of the palace and the servants. It can be seen that I have never doubted me. Don't worry about it."
She smiled softly and said, "I don't know what kind of temper you have. When you encounter such a thing, you feel so compassionate in your heart. If I don't come to accompany you and let you stay alone for one night, your eyes will be swollen tomorrow. "
I murmured: "How can such a thing happen?" Even so, my heart was gloomy, and I sighed softly, because her hands were already warm, I let go of her hands, and lay down beside her, with my hands behind my head , looking at the front blankly: "A Huan, I'm afraid."
How strange.I was obviously terrified in my heart, but my hands didn't shake at all. If my soul could get out of my body to watch my current performance, I would feel that this body looked calm and dignified, but I was really scared, and I didn't know what I was doing. afraid of what.
A Huan turned sideways, lay on my chest and looked down at me: "I know you are afraid, and I am also afraid. When encountering such a thing, who is not afraid? But no matter how afraid, there is always no way out, only one step Step by step."
The strange thing is that the night is clearly very dark, with almost no light coming in, but her eyes are still shining, as if something is shining in it. I looked into her eyes in a trance, and suddenly realized that She has experienced this time many times that I experienced for the first time, and for some reason, she felt a little pity: "A Huan, if you don't mind, I want to hear about you."
A Huan raised her eyebrows and looked at me—her eyes were so bright that I could see the raised eyebrows clearly: "Why do you say that?"
I gently took her hand, took her off, turned her sideways, lay face to face with her, and looked at her seriously: "I just realized that you know everything about me, but I But I don't know much about your past."
She smiled uncomfortably, and said, "You already know enough." I wanted to turn my head away, but I hurriedly grabbed her: "If you don't want to say it, I won't force it, but if you can tell me Tell me, I... I feel better."
She hesitated for a moment, and said with a low smile: "Actually, it's nothing, but it's just those things. I... my sister Qiniang, you know? She is a fair and clean little lady, and her smile is more beautiful than Peony. Because she was born beautiful, She was favored by the family, so she was a bit mischievous. I didn't like her at that time, I thought she was divided from my aunt... my mother and my brother's love, especially because there were not enough servants in the family. My mother asked me to take care of her, so I didn't like her even more , I always ignored her. She played in the yard by herself, and stayed there for an hour or two. , I don’t know why, I was crying when I came back. I asked her, but she didn’t say anything, and the clothes were torn. After A Niang called her over and asked her, she came out and beat me hard, blaming me for not taking good care of her After that, Auntie kept crying. At that time... I was not sensible. Not only did I not admit my mistake, but I thought it was Auntie who was biased. Later, Auntie asked me to watch her, and I ignored her. I only had one wet nurse at that time. , is more than sixty years old, useless at all, Qiniang has a wet nurse herself, eats her menstruation, but doesn't care about her, she just goes to the back of the house to drink and gamble every day. She was on duty, she could only come back at night, and she was not allowed to take care of her. Wu Shengren lived with her brothers and studied every day. Called her and was not there. It was not until late at night, only to see Wei Xun rushing back with her in his arms, saying that he saw Qiniang falling into the water, and when he rushed to rescue her, he was already out of breath. Father and Mrs. Cui sent Wei Xun I asked her to ask a few questions in private, and when she came out, she forced her to say that Qiniang had fallen into the water and died, and told her to bury her quickly. My mother and I didn't believe it, and wanted to see her, but the family refused, so I sneaked in at night to see her. My body was full of injuries, and I didn’t fall into the water to death. I went to argue with my father, but my father blamed me for not being optimistic about Qiniang, locked me in the room, and starved me for three days. Let it out. A Niang has been sick since then, and then died of illness. After that, I was raised by the Cui family."
When she spoke, she turned her head unconsciously. Although her voice was brisk, but when I got closer, I saw that her face was covered with tears. When I saw her, I wiped away the tears and said with a smile: "Everything goes. Now, they are all exiled, and I don’t know how many years they will last—it’s better to stay for a few more years, so as not to die too lightly.”
I hugged her and said nothing.
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