Article 554
According to the time, after another hour, the carriage of the imperial concubine arrived at the palace 'Xuanwu Gate', so the Queen Mother ordered the Imperial Forest Army and Han Gonggong to wait at the gate early, however, the concubines who did not have to go to greet them were also after the emperor and the Queen Mother promulgated two holy decrees, and they couldn't help but want to move in the name of welcoming the 'Chende Concubine' to the 'Xuanwu Gate' to explore the emperor's new favorite Hu Zhaoyi
In the Weiyang Hall of the 'Heart Palace', the emperor's expression was still cold and solemn, and the whole person was snuggling up to the dragon chair with a little laziness, looking at the chaotic snowflakes outside the window with cold eyes, and his slender ten fingers were clenched
"Your Majesty, let's have a cup of tea first, an hour will soon pass" Behind the emperor, Hu Zhaoyi, who was dressed in a dark long skirt, took the tea sent by Father-in-law Qin, walked to the emperor's side in small steps, put the tea tray on the table, stretched out a slender jade hand to pick up the tea bowl, handed it to the emperor, and said softly: "Your Majesty, use tea"
Gonggong Qin looked at the delicate and boneless Hu Zhaoyi in front of him, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, just because her voice was a little familiar, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't find a woman with a face very similar to the imperial concubine in his memory, so he was deep for a moment, and then silently withdrew from the dormitory
As soon as Gonggong Qin left, Hu Zhaoyi's delicate face suddenly became serious, a little, she knelt in front of the emperor slowly, clasped her fists with both hands, deliberately lowered her voice, and said: "Your subordinates, please take care of your body, don't hurt your body for the sake of your children's affection."
Yu Haoxuan's cold eyes stared out of the window, and when he heard the woman's voice, his eyes moved slightly, and then fell on the woman kneeling in front of him, but the pupils were still like the dark deep pool of the night, and the other woman couldn't help but tremble slightly, and then crawled to the ground even more silently
"Is it done?" Yu Haoxuan's deep voice was a little weak, and then he raised his eyes lightly, looked coldly at the snowflakes flying wildly outside the window, and the hand with the white jade wrench was slightly loosened, and the back of the chair was tightly buckled
The woman's heart was terrified, but she replied in a hurry: "If the subordinates return to the emperor, the other hidden positions have already passed out of the palace when the emperor appointed a woman with a similar appearance to the imperial concubine during the draft, presumably in less than three days, all the princes and lords of the sixteen countries of Huaiyue will know", said, raised the half of his prostrate body on the ground, and said: "After this incident, the princes and lords of the sixteen kingdoms of Huaiyue will definitely not pay tribute to the emperor again, let alone marry with official documents."
The axles of the car ran over the snow, squeaking all the way, and the Guards on foot struggled
In the carriage, Xiao Tong waited for Ouyang Hongyu, who had gone crazy, Xiumei twisted very tightly, this heavy snow seemed to be deliberately making things difficult, it was a chaotic endless end, whistling wantonly in the cold wind, so that the carriage stopped and stopped, and it had consumed an hour of incense
Ouyang Hongyu was wrapped in a quilt, and the Buddhist beads in her hand had long been discarded, she clutched the sleeves of her gray Taoist robe, and looked at the whistling north wind and snowflakes flying in the sky with a pair of clear eyes, and the whole person sat there curled up in a daze, but she still kept reading: "The emperor, the emperor"
Qingyi was dressed in a brocade coat, sitting in the carriage staring at the pure white outside the window, her eyes were cold, and when she occasionally saw the people in the market walking hard in the snow, she moved beautifully, slid open the brocade curtain in her hand, and thoughtfully closed her eyelashes silently
"Miss, let's eat some snacks, if you go on like this, I don't know when I will be able to get to the palace" Xiao Tong took out some dry food snacks from the palace, handed them to Qingyi, pursed his lips, glanced at the stupid Ouyang Hongyu anxiously in his eyes, and said lightly: "I don't know if 'Concubine Chende' is hungry or not, she has been muttering for an hour, and she can't hear what she is saying."
Qingyi turned her eyes to look at Ouyang Hongyu who was staring blankly at the carriage, and sighed softly, then picked up the plate in Xiao Tong's hand, handed it to Ouyang Hongyu beside her, and said softly: "Are you hungry, can you eat some snacks?" ”
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Ouyang Hongyu slowly turned her head consciously, looked at the dim sum in Qing Yi's hand with a daze, slowly stretched out her hand wrapped in the quilt, carefully touched the dim sum, and laughed with a grin, and then grabbed two of them, but said leisurely: "The joy cake in the happy plate", and then, when Qingyi was slightly stunned, he actually stretched out his index finger to his lips and sighed, opened a pair of black and white eyes, and whispered to Qingyi: "The Queen Mother told me that you can't eat the wedding cake when you are in the cave room, you have to eat it after the bedtime, will give birth to a prince", said him, hiding the two pieces of pastry in his sleeve. Please search () to see the most complete! The fastest update
Xiao Tong's eyes widened, and he almost couldn't cry or laugh at Ouyang Hongyu, who was nervous, and said with his eyebrows slightly together: "Miss, you see that she doesn't know anything anymore, but she always remembers the emperor", and even remembered the secret things that the Queen Mother told her to marry the emperor, but she didn't know who the two of them were
Qingyi looked at Ouyang Hongyu's look of such a precious two pastries, she couldn't help but laugh a little, she reached out and flicked the snowflakes that flew into her outside the window, and whispered with a slight guilt in her heart: "Does the concubine want to give birth to a prince for the emperor?" "To be favored, to have a child, and to ascend to the throne of the queen must be the long-cherished wish of all harem women
Ouyang Hongyu's expression was still sluggish, when she heard Qingyi's question, she was stunned at first, and then smiled jerkily wrapped in the quilt, that smile was like an innocent girl, clear and dusty, a little, she looked at Qingyi's charming face with wide eyes, and whispered: "You are the new concubine, you are so beautiful." Then he hugged the pastry in his arms, looked at Qingyi with envy in his eyes, and said softly: "I don't look beautiful at all, I know that the emperor won't like me, but I am the only person the emperor believes, because I don't fight for anything, I can stand outside the hall for countless nights to see him, so, the emperor said, I am the only person who knows his heart"
Confidant, Qingyi's long eyelashes trembled slightly, and an inexplicable bitterness filled his heart, if he didn't fight, he was the one who knew his heart, so why did he force her to fight? Eyelashes, don't look out the window, look at the snow-white sky, holding the silk handkerchief tightly, a little, she took a deep breath, and said with a light smile: "Really?" That's a blessing for the concubine."
"Blessing" Ouyang Hongyu responded stupidly, and lowered her head with a smile, but did not reply. And Qingyi closed his eyes, and the smile on his lips suddenly turned into bitterness, who once said, "People are smart and reduce longevity, and they have never been blessed to send the city", is it such an artistic conception? The more intelligent a person is, the more blessed and short-lived, and the more stunning the city, the more jealous and red-faced
The carriage was still swaying forward, and the guards in front and behind the guards also stopped and stopped, and when they passed through the grove, it was almost impossible to move an inch, and the horses kept neighing, and it was difficult to spray white mist from their noses, and the axles were blocked several times, and the coachman stopped several times to dredge, but it was still difficult to move forward
When Xiao Tong stopped again, he anxiously lifted the curtain and jumped out of the car to check, but when he jumped out of the carriage, he found that the snow had been full of snowshoes, and the axles had run over the snow, leaving two deep traces but they were also covered with mud by the snow that fell later, and the armor on the soldier's body was covered with a thick layer of snow
Twisting his eyebrows, Xiao Tong turned around and walked back to the carriage, and said to Qingyi with some frustration: "I originally thought that the path would be easier, after all, there are so many trees blocking the snow, but I didn't expect it to be more difficult to walk than the street, it seems that before dusk today, we will not be able to rush back to the palace." ”
Qingyi lightly lifted the curtain and glanced at the scene outside the carriage, couldn't help laughing, and didn't blame Xiao Tong, only said: "Send a soldier back to the palace to report the news first, so as not to worry about the queen mother" As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Ouyang Hongyu, who seemed to be asleep, pursed his lips, lifted his skirt and got out of the carriage
"Miss, it's cold outside, you still sit in the carriage" Xiao Tong looked at Qingyi and lifted the curtain, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, but Qingyi had already made a whole brocade and got out of the carriage, only to see that when she stepped on the deep snow on the ground, she twisted her eyebrows, turned her head and glanced at the snowflakes flying wantonly in the sky and the car guide running down the road through which the carriage passed, and said lightly: "The car can't stop, otherwise it will be equivalent to waiting for death"
The snow was so heavy that even the marks of the cart would be buried, and in less than an hour, the carriage would be stuck here and unable to move, and if it stopped, I am afraid that the lives of these soldiers would be in danger
"So what to do?" When Xiao Tong heard Qingyi say this, he couldn't help but be even more nervous, because this is a small road, rugged and winding, so it has to go around a few more miles with the place where the palace is located, and he only thought that the sparsely populated place would go smoothly, but he didn't want to be so troublesome, Xiao Tong looked left and right, within a hundred miles of the woods, I was afraid that there would be no people
Qingyi raised his feet and walked forward, glanced at the Imperial Forest Army who had not entered for a day, and then walked to the place where the axle had been run, leaned over to check, a little, only to see the coachman who was dredging the axle panting and said: "Imperial Concubine, Mu Xiaomaster, this area is very difficult to walk, looking at the black mud that has been milled, I know that this is not a clean place in the first place, the soil is so wet, maybe there was a rain before the snow, I am afraid that even if the snow stops, there will be miasma here, the miasma is poisonous, and it can fascinate the vision, and it will be even more difficult to walk at that time." ”
Xiao Tong's complexion changed slightly, but his eyes widened, his lips pursed, and he said angrily: "Nonsense, the miasma obviously only rises after heavy rain, who said that it will also rise after heavy snow?" After that, he pulled the silk handkerchief in his hand fiercely and clenched his hand.
Qingyi looked at Xiao Tong's hands that were already red from the cold, reached out to hold them with some distress, pursed his lips and said, "Don't be annoyed" and then turned to the coachman and said, "If you walk, how long will it take to reach the nearest market?" ”
The coachman lowered his face, his face was already pale from the cold, he sighed, and said with some trembling: "If you go back to the imperial concubine, the nearest market here will take two pillars of incense to arrive, if the two masters want to go forward on foot, I am afraid that it will be a lot of inconvenience, and the noble concubine on the car is thin, and it is not suitable to walk."
Qingyi took a deep breath, pursed her lips and said to Xiao Tong beside her: "Xiao Tong, you immediately go and pick a few soldiers with sharp hands, let them bring some broken silver to the market to buy a large amount of illicit salt, if those vendors are willing to help, let them find more people, sprinkle salt on the road from the market to the grove, if you move quickly, before today's third watch, the snow should melt partially"
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The coachman's eyes widened, and he looked at Qingyi with some astonishment, and then stammered a little: "Private salt? Imperial concubine, this is the imperial capital, if someone finds out, I'm afraid it will spread all over the city, and when the time comes"
"If they know that the emperor's concubine actually buys official salt and spills it on the ground, won't it be rumored that it is a fish and meat people, and when the time comes, the emperor's wisdom will be damaged, and the palace must also bear the responsibility of the adulterous concubine" Qingyi didn't wait for the coachman to finish speaking, then said coldly, and then glanced at the coachman with stunned eyes, flicked the robe on his body, turned around and walked to the carriage, and said coldly: "First distribute all the dry food on the car to the soldiers who are going to be sent back to Beijing to deliver messages and go to the market, and after the snow melts, turn the car around and return to the street" Then he jumped into the carriage lightly.
The coachman watched Qingyi's simple figure disappear into the brocade curtain of the carriage, first stunned, a little, the originally solemn eyes flashed a trace of admiration, and then hurriedly knelt on the ground, and said, "Subordinates obey orders"
It was past noon, and the palace began to be uneasy, the queen mother in the Kunning Palace can be said to be not sitting, standing, anxious not to know what to do, the concubines gathered in the hall several times to consol, but it failed to work.
The concubine's expression was solemn, it can be seen that she is also very nervous, her eyes were slightly cold several times swept to the Han Gonggong who was standing beside the queen mother, when she couldn't sit still, she actually pulled the corners of her lips a little stiff, reached out to pick up the tea on the table, reached out to open the lid of the cup, bowed her head and swallowed, and then put it down a little unwillingly, pinched the silk handkerchief and wiped the corners of her lips, looked at the queen mother, and said with a light smile: "The queen mother is not in a hurry, today's temple fair, the imperial concubine and the wooden maiden are slightly younger, maybe they are sightseeing on the road, and they looked at the time"
As soon as the concubine's voice fell, the concubines hurriedly nodded and agreed, and the voice of discussion suddenly started, but the virtuous concubine and the concubine who were sitting on the left side of the queen mother only cared about drinking tea, and were completely silent
Concubine Xian put down the tea bowl in her hand, glanced at the pale, absent-minded Concubine Du with a little lazy eyes, and then said softly to the Queen Mother: "The Queen Mother is relieved, the Imperial Concubine is very smart and quick-witted, even if she encounters any trouble on the road, she will inevitably turn evil into good fortune, besides, this is the imperial capital, who dares to plot against the Son of Heaven at the feet of the Son of Heaven?" As he spoke, he said to Xing'er who was standing aside: "The Queen Mother's tea is cold."
Xing'er immediately understood, busy with her body, and said: "The slave and maid obey the order" and then hurriedly stepped forward, picked up the tea bowl just sent by the palace maid, and handed it to the queen mother, although the queen mother was worried, she also nodded to the concubine kindly, took the tea with a smile, and took a sip
Seeing this, Concubine Shu also added a sentence as if the opportunity could not be missed, and said softly: "What Sister Xian said is that this sister of the concubine has been intelligent since she was a child, and there will be no major incidents" said, raised her eyes and secretly glanced at the Queen Mother's expression, but when she saw that the Queen Mother ignored it completely, she couldn't help but bow her head a little stupidly.
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