Chapter 357: The Unknown Past
Jiang Yao was very gossipy and crooked on the chair, holding the table with her hands on her chin and her chin in her hands, with starry eyes listening to stories.
This is still a very long-term thing, it was seven years ago, when the twelve-year-old Concubine Song was taken into the palace by the Queen Mother, at that time King Jin was still living in the palace and was raised by the Queen Mother in Xiang'an Palace. In the first year, the slave maid found that Concubine Song often went to the imperial garden.
And it's a remote place, so the slave maid once followed, and saw Concubine Song and King Jin talking and laughing together, the slave and maid didn't care, as a play between children. In the second year, when the slave maid passed by the royal garden late at night, she heard the sound of moaning inside......"
"Ah...... Isn't that ......?"
Jiang Yao was so shocked that she covered her mouth, and asked Qin not to say anything and just nodded, but Jiang Yao and Yun Sleeve still understood, Jiang Yao had thought that Concubine Song was a person with a story, but she didn't expect this story to be so exciting.
"After that, it was rumored in the Xiang'an Palace, the Queen Mother was quite angry when she knew about it, and she locked up Concubine Song, and sealed the palace people who knew about it one by one.
Only when Jiang Yao heard it did he understand the reason, and a little bit of sporadic events could be regarded as a series of events.
She picked up the tea and drank it, asked Qin to look at Jiang Yao's gentle face, and said, "Niangniang, I was only fourteen years old at that time, but I personally rejected the emperor's proposal. ”
This time Jiang Yao immediately choked on the tea that came to his mouth, Yun Sleeve patted Jiang Yao's back on the side, and said with concern: "Niangniang, you drink slowly, you were the lord who started a temper and didn't recognize people at that time, and you threw the emperor's dowry out of the door." ”
Jiang Yao's face was flushed, and she couldn't stop coughing, she recalled the past scenes, and in her memory, Duan Jingyan's face was full of anger, and her eyes were resentful, and she wanted to strangle him.
"This prince is not obedient to which girl he asks to marry, why does your Jiang family dare to face the royal family, don't you believe that I can sit on the throne in the future? You Jiang family have to pay the price for looking down on me like this......"
Jiang Yao recalled the scene at that time, the price paid by the Jiang family after that was to release the military power with a glass of wine, but the cause of grandfather's death later would not be so simple, but it should be inseparable from Duan Jingyan.
"Then how did Concubine Song marry the emperor?"
Jiang Yao continued to ask with a heavy heart, and said while asking Keats: "The Queen Mother saw that the wind direction had changed and attacked King Jin, and she knew that she was defeated. In order to protect King Jin, he was sent out on the grounds of guarding the border pass, and Concubine Song made trouble for three days without eating or drinking. ”
"The Queen Mother originally took Concubine Song into the palace to cultivate a queen, for her adopted son to inherit the throne, she is still the Queen Mother, it is better than being expelled from the palace after turning her face, so she persuaded Concubine Song to marry the emperor."
Jiang Yao rubbed the teacup in her hand, lowered her eyebrows and smiled: "But even if she loves King Jin again, she still chooses to marry the emperor for the sake of glory and wealth, no wonder she has been quietly in the harem for so many years, but it is really interesting." ”
Yun Sleeve frowned and was puzzled: "But why don't you ask the Queen Mother to let her out of the palace, there is always a place to go in the world, you can go to the bitter cold place of the border to find King Jin." ”
Wen Qin sighed and shook her head, talking about the days when Concubine Song was sent to Zhuangzi to survive before she entered the palace.
Jiang Yao finally understood why Concubine Song had become obsessed with power.
While talking lively, Liu Zhaoyi, who was pregnant at this time, walked in, followed by the winter snow, and was dressed in a lake-blue satin new dress that was very radiant.
"As soon as I entered the door, I heard my sister's sigh, now that my sister has regained her glory, the emperor is still in love, and such a beautiful mirror palace has been rewarded, which means that my sister is the most favored person in the emperor's heart, what else can my sister worry about?"
"My sister is here, sit down."
After not seeing her for a while, Liu Zhaoyi's belly became bigger and bigger, she looked at the Keats who was holding Wenqin over there and walked over, and Wenqin held Keats to Liu Zhaoyi.
"Hey, Keats looks really cute, very similar to the emperor, they all say that daughters follow their fathers, this sentence is really true. If only I had a daughter so cute. ”
Liu Zhaoyi touched Keats's pink and tender little face, smiled and bent her eyebrows all of a sudden, straightened Keats's small belly pocket, and looked at the five poison patterns on it, "The craftsmanship of this belly pocket looks like that of Concubine Song, it is really exquisite." ”
"Sister, sit down, be careful of being tired, I see that you have a pointed belly, but you look like a prince."
Dongxue carefully helped Liu Chongyi to sit down, and Liu Zhaoyi hurriedly waved her hand, "I'm willing to have a caring daughter." ”
"Sister, you're about to give birth, right? Did the Imperial Doctor say when? ”
Liu Zhaoyi sat down with difficulty and clumsiness, and said: "Drag my sister's blessing, Academician Zhang has come to take the pulse of peace every day, and he said that it will probably be the end of this month." ”
Jiang Yao counted the days, and it was almost over, "Then there will be more than half a month, my sister should move around more, and she must not be gluttonous, otherwise she will have a difficult birth when she gives birth." ”
Dongxue on the side replied: "What Niangniang said, my master is careful to watch out, and eats carefully every day, not that I personally stare at the kitchen to eat, and the master doesn't eat anything." ”
Jiang Yao nodded, looking at Liu Zhaoyi's complexion, she was also much relieved, and now she was still able to be kind to her in the harem, that is, Liu Zhaoyi, who was pregnant with her son.
"I'm about to give birth, my sister has to relax, otherwise the villain in your belly will be more nervous than you."
Liu Zhaoyi's hand clenched Jiang Yao's hand at this time, and her worried and panicked eyes instantly revealed.
"Sister, I'm really scared, since I witnessed Wang Cairen's difficult birth, I'm worried that I won't be able to give birth."
Jiang Yao patted her hand and said, "Don't worry, you won't, Wang Cairen was not in good shape at that time, and he was poisoned, so he was so dangerous."
"But when I think of Jiang Chongyuan's matter, I'm afraid, now there are two more masters in the palace who can make trouble, and they follow Concubine Song to do evil. Don't you know that when they first returned to the palace, they cleaned up Zhao Guifei fiercely and pulled them to the long street to slap their mouths. ”
"Don't be afraid, with me and the emperor here, you and the child will be safe."
Liu Zhaoyi was still flustered, and said, "But I'm still afraid, sister, Luo Zhaoyi has been walking around my palace several times recently. Say yes, look at me closely, talk to relieve boredom, but I don't think she is good. ”
Jiang Yao nodded, knowing that she had the accusation of managing the harem, and replied: "Don't worry, I have already punished her, and I shouldn't be going in the near future." ”
After talking for a long time, Jiang Yao comforted Liu Zhaoyi, who was so timid that she couldn't do it, and then let Yun Sleeve send him out.
In the West Sixth Palace, Luo Shu walked to the door of her Xiuhua Palace with a black face, Qingyang greeted her at the door with a smile on her face, Luo Shu despised the auspiciousness behind her, and walked in with her skirt.
Jixiang walked in after him, and when he passed by Qingyang, he tugged on his sleeve with a pleading look.
Qingyang saw at a glance that he must be going to ask for peace, Concubine Shu didn't give a good face, and sprinkled her anger on Jixiang, Luo Shu just sat on the soft couch in the hall, and Qingyang commanded the palace maid to serve tea.
"Niangniang, it's hard to come back all the way, Niangniang drinks tea to moisten her lungs, and the slave will loosen her muscles and bones for a while."
Jixiang followed him into the hall, knelt down with a bang, and fell to the ground, trembling.
Luo Shu endured her anger and drank tea, Qingyang swept the dust, the palace maids in the house walked out, Qingyang pinched Luo Shu's legs with both hands and massaged gently.
Luo Shu leaned on the corner of the table, closed her eyes, and said, "Twenty of your own palms." ”
Jixiang was stunned, his eyes looked at Qingyang, with tears in his eyes, Qingyang glared back at Jixiang.
Ji Xiang lowered his eyes, raised his hand and fanned himself, but the hatred in his eyes became more and more.
"Ask the mother to spare the auspiciousness, the auspiciousness is wrong."
After slapping Ji Xiang with a red and swollen face, he begged Luo Shu, Luo Shu opened his eyes and glanced at it, but his eyes were still puzzled.
Qingyang smiled and leaned into Luo Shu's neck, exhaled, and said, "Master, with such a big fire, it's better to let the slave extinguish the anger for you." ”
The breath made Luo Shu itch, counting that the emperor had not come to her palace for nearly ten days, so he waved his hand at Ji Xiang and said, "Get out, useless things." ”
Jixiang immediately crawled out, and his head didn't forget to look back at Qingyang, Qingyang raised Luo Shu's white hand and kissed it, which made Jixiang even more angry, and walked out with a ruthless face.
"You, if it's not a rootless thing, your appearance is not much worse than that of the emperor, and you were very good at playing green clothes in the opera troupe back then, why did you accompany me to the Old Summer Palace to be a eunuch?"
"Minions...... When the master sang on stage for the first time, his heart moved. ”
Qingyang, who seemed to have been poked in the center, gradually became melancholy in his eyes, and his hand untied the buckle around Luo Shu's neck little by little, and his eyes were full of admiration and obsession.
Luo Shu closed her eyes, sighed, and slowly shed two lines of tears.