Deadly Merry [Rebirth]

"Have you picked out the clothes for the Empress Dowager's birthday dinner today?" Jin Huachu stood beside the bed, holding a complicated and gorgeous palace dress in each hand for comparison, "I think the red one looks better. "

Tu Jiu'er lay on the bed with Erlang's legs crossed, took an apple in his hand and gnawed it sweetly, his eyes didn't linger on the two clothes, "Either one is good. With this face, what should I choose?" Where are the clothes?"

Jin Huachu smiled, took the red palace gown and said to the maid in charge, "This is all. Pack up the other ones and send them back to the Shangyi Bureau."

The maid in charge obediently complied, and withdrew with a few large spare palace clothes.

"All of you retreat too, I'm going to rest." Tu Jiu'er waved his hands loudly.

The remaining maids answered "yes" and slowly backed out with their heads down.

"Empress, the imperial concubine wants to be hugged." Seeing that everyone had left, Tu Jiu'er threw the apple away, pursed his mouth, stretched out his arms to Jin Huachu while pinching his throat.

"You are probably the most out-of-shape imperial concubine in history." Although Jin Huachu blamed her, he followed her to the bedside and bent down to hug her.

Tu Jiu'er grabbed Jin Huachu's arm, exerted a little force, and dragged her directly onto the bed, wrapping her arms in her arms.

"Oh, Huachu, I like you so much." Tu Jiuer played with her fingertips quietly around Jin Huachu's hair behind her back, "If only you could live forever, I'll take you home, please Father and mother asked me to marry you."

"...Why do you always talk nonsense." Jin Huachu's voice was as gentle as usual, his eyes were half closed, but he couldn't see the real emotion in his eyes.

"I really didn't lie this time, I really really like you."

"I like you too, Sansan." Jin Huachu closed his eyes, and deeply sniffed the fragrance of flowers on the neck of the man in his arms.

The smile on Tu Jiu'er's face gradually flattened.After a while, she whispered, "But what you said is not the truth."

Jin Huachu also lowered her voice: "I'm telling the truth."

"...No, not the truth."

Tu Jiu'er felt that flustered feeling in his chest again.

In fact, she regretted it more than once. She shouldn't have used that damn redundant charm on Jin Huachu back then, which made her feel very uncomfortable now. It's not good to withdraw the charm, and it's not good to continue to use the charm to deceive people.She likes her, so she has the desire to tell her all the truth in her heart, so that each other can know each other well, but she can't do this, because this relationship is nothing more than a love affair to Jin Huachu from beginning to end. scam.

How should it end?According to Jin Huachu's attitude towards her at the beginning, I'm afraid I wish I could tear her up, this little bitch.

Let's procrastinate for a while, and talk to her again later to undo the trick.

"Get up quickly after resting, don't stay on the bed, there are still many things to prepare for today." Jin Huachu gently stroked Tu Jiu'er's long hair.

"There's nothing to prepare," Tu Jiu'er hugged Jin Huachu even tighter, "Stay with me for a while."

"As a noble concubine, you were supposed to assist me in coordinating the affairs of the harem, but now you can just be a hand-off shopkeeper with peace of mind, and you have to drag me here too. There are so many things at the dinner party, and you have to take them one by one. I've done it, otherwise it wouldn't be a mess..."

"Okay, okay, I'll get up in a while, and then I'll do those things with you, okay?" Tu Jiu'er snorted and pinched Jin Huachu's face.

"Then get up." Jin Huachu folded his arms and wanted to get out of bed.

"Hua Chu," Tu Jiu'er held her back again, and smiled with crooked eyebrows, "Kiss."

Jin Huachu turned to look at her.

The woman lying on her back on the bed looked at her beggingly with a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes, and secretly showed her little finger out of the hand that was holding her. Scratching lightly on the palm of his hand, finally, lightly sticking out his tongue and licking his red lips.

Stunning people.

Jin Huachu bent down and gently bit Tu Jiu'er's lower lip.

Tu Jiu'er giggled, and said vaguely, "Bastard, bite me."

"Okay, I'm leaving first, it's really too late. Come to Chaoyang Palace to find me as soon as you finish packing." Jin Huachu stood up and tidied up his clothes that were messed up by Tu Jiuer. "Remember, you have to wear That red palace dress on the hanger."

"Okay, I will wear it." Tu Jiu'er lay on the head of the bed, waving at Jin Huachu's back, "Huachu, wait for me!"

"Oh, the Empress Dowager is here." The Empress Dowager sat expressionlessly on the soft seat behind the curtain in the main hall of Chaoyang Palace.

Jin Huachu looked around at the eunuchs and maids who were busy moving tables and chairs and carrying fruit plates, and said apologetically, "Auntie please forgive me, I was delayed by something just now."

"The Ai family was very reluctant to speak about this matter, but the emperor ran to the imperial concubine's bedroom all day long. You, a queen who is in charge of the six palaces, hangs out with that imperial concubine day and night. How do you know? Don't know what to do?" The queen mother slapped the armrest hard.

Jin Huachu responded neither humble nor overbearing: "Auntie is right, I know I was wrong."

"That's all, how many times have I told you, just listened to your promise, but never saw you really take it to heart. Go and sit on the side, don't stand at the vent, and blow something good or bad." The queen mother waved her sleeve helplessly.

"Yes." Jin Huachu did not change expression, sat down beside the Queen Mother, quietly watching the busy people in the hall.

After a while, a little eunuch came rushing over, bowed his waist and whispered to the Queen Mother: "Report to the Queen Mother, the cups are all ready."

"Be careful and don't misplace it. Are you sure it will work?"

The little eunuch hurriedly said: "It works, it works, Eunuch Li said, as long as you touch your lips against the rim of the cup, let alone human beings, even spirits with low morals will be killed instantly..."

"Idiot, did Aijia ask you to speak out!" the queen mother shouted.

"The Queen Mother, spare me!" The little eunuch plopped down on his knees in fright.

The Empress Dowager glanced at Jin Huachu indiscriminately, and said irritably, "Back off."

The little eunuch tremblingly picked up the cap that had been scared away, and quickly retreated away while chanting Empress Xie.

Jin Huachu's face darkened, and he said, "Auntie wants to poison her?"

The queen mother sneered: "I didn't want to let you know, but now you know so what, is it possible that you still want to stop Ai's family?"

"Auntie, isn't it good to keep her?" Jin Huachu lowered his posture, "If you keep her, His Majesty will never think about government affairs, and there will be no one among the officials who is willing to support you, and there will be no one in the court who can be with you." Isn't the power to contend with more cost-effective than killing her?"

"Yes, you are right. But your majesty is not the only one who has anything to do with that evil lady who has caused trouble for the country. You, the empress who should be the most jealous after a country, are all humbly supporting that maidservant who was born in a brothel. Son, how do you know how those people chew the tongue of our Jin family behind their backs?" The queen mother sighed long, "You never listen to what the Ai family says about you, only by dealing with the root of the trouble can the Ai family feel at ease Besides, the priests of Qingyun Temple have also said that since this noble concubine entered the palace, the auspicious aura of dragon and phoenix entrenched in the palace has gradually disappeared, and if things go on like this, the world will probably change her surname."

"Auntie, if I listen to you in the future, I won't..." Jin Huachu struggled unwillingly.

"If you had woken up earlier, you wouldn't be where you are today. You always know what to do with your family, you say what you say, and you keep what you say. It's too late to say this at this time."

That's right, the Queen Mother has always followed her word, as long as she makes a move of that thought, the nine-headed bull will never be able to pull it back.

The Empress Dowager continued: "Let me remind you again, don't try to inform her, you have been sitting here for Aijia today, you are not allowed to go anywhere, and you are not allowed to talk to her when she comes. The Imperial Forest Army is deployed in the dark around , more than a dozen pairs of eyes are staring at you for Aijia, you just wait for the dinner party to start."

Jin Huachu pinched the skirt folds tightly with his hands on his knees, his palms were full of sweat.

She thought to herself, if Tu Jiu'er could come over sooner, she would find a chance to let her know, even if it was just to give her a wink.

But time passed slowly.

Go slowly.

After waiting and waiting, Tu Jiuer didn't come.

He clearly promised her to come as soon as possible, but he ran off to play again, and there was no one there.

Jin Huachu was very nervous, so nervous that only the words that Tu Jiuer yelled at the time of parting echoed in his mind——

"Hua Chu, wait for me!"

However, there are always some things in the world that cannot be waited for, cannot be waited for, and cannot be waited for. After some waiting is delayed, it will lead to a big mistake that will never be recovered.

It seems that today, one person must die in Chaoyang Palace.

In a blink of an eye, it was evening.

The banquet is all ready.Looking at the layout of Chaoyang Palace, the highest seat in the palace is naturally the emperor's, the lower left seat belongs to today's birthday queen dowager, and two seats are placed side by side on the right side, for the empress and concubine to stand side by side.

Later, several uncles and uncles of the emperor came in with their wives, and other empresses from various palaces arrived one after another, and they took the little prince and princess and sat in the upper seat next to the empress and concubine.All the high-ranking people in the harem came, and gradually took up the huge seats one by one. For a while, the hall was full of people, and it was very lively.

Afterwards, the Empress Dowager and the Empress also joined the table.

Almost everyone at the dinner party has arrived, only the emperor and the imperial concubine are missing.

Everyone could only wait, the queen mother waited with a very ugly face, most of the people only secretly looked at the expression of the queen mother tremblingly, but few people noticed that the empress on the right seat was also very ugly.

When the eunuch knocking on the clapper outside reported that the hour was on the hour, the emperor arrived late with his concubine.

I saw Tu Jiu'er wearing the gorgeous red dress that Jin Huachu had chosen for her, draped the emperor's arm with a sweet smile, and walked in talking and laughing with him.The emperor beckoned her to be quiet first, then turned around and bowed his head to the queen mother to apologize: "My son missed the birthday banquet, it is really a big unfilial offense, I beg the queen mother to forgive me."

"Forget it, sit down." The queen mother frowned.

Tu Jiuer jumped to his seat with a smile, obviously still in the excitement after having fun, pulled Jin Huachu and whispered: "Huachu, your majesty brother just took me to Dongting for fishing, it was very interesting , shall we go together tomorrow?"

For a moment, Jin Huachu didn't know whether to be angry or anxious.

——"Okay, okay, I'll get up in a while, and then go with you to do those things, okay?"

——"Hua Chu, wait for me!"

The promise of the morning is still in my ears.

But it turned out that once she started playing, she would really forget everything.

Jin Huachu was about to say something when he heard a deliberate dry cough coming from the seat opposite the queen mother.

"Everyone." Without leaving any gaps, the emperor had already picked up the wine glass and offered it to everyone at the birthday banquet.

According to the rules of etiquette, everyone should stand up, hold up the wine glasses in front of them, wait for the emperor to finish his birthday speech, wish a long life without bounds in unison, and then drink the wine in the glass in one gulp.

Tu Jiuer obediently picked up the wine glass in front of him.

She was still laughing, completely unaware of what the hell she was holding in her hand.

Jin Huachu couldn't find a moment to interrupt.

"There is a saying, there is an elegant banquet, and there will be relatives in the painting hall. I am fortunate to be here today to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of my empress dowager. I will gather my royal relatives, drink jade cups and dance around them, and celebrate my birthday in Nanchun." Years old. I would like to toast a glass of wine, and wish my mother and future generations, Peng Zu Guangcheng!"

"I wish the Empress Dowager a long and boundless life every year—"

Let's talk, let's raise our glasses.

Tu Jiuer also raised his glass.

That's too late.

Jin Huachu stared at her closely, and his mind was full of every day and night that he spent with her these years, including the glimpse of each other in the distance above the brothel at the beginning, and the scene of holding her hand and teaching her to write and draw. Countless mornings, and countless nights where the bed is lingering.Everything in her heart completed the whole revolving door in the blink of an eye, making her feel so tight that she couldn't breathe.

Either way.

It's better to solve everything today.

let her go.

I also let myself go.

"and many more!"

An abrupt shout exploded leisurely in the hall.

Everyone turned their heads to look at the empress who shouldn't have interrupted the birthday celebration at this moment. The emperor looked puzzled, while the empress gritted her teeth faintly.

"What's the matter, Hua Chu?" Tu Jiu'er asked in a very soft voice.

Jin Huachu ignored Tu Jiu'er, but said loudly to everyone present: "I have ruled the Six Palaces for many years, not to mention the number of meritorious deeds, but I have also worked hard and sweated hard. Today I would like to borrow the Queen Mother's birthday banquet to say goodbye Two sentences, I still hope that the relatives will take time to hang their ears. In the previous dynasty, there were many dramas of jealousy and intrigue in the harem. I also understand that the harem is a demonized place in the public opinion. Fortunately, after I held the seal, six The palace has lived in harmony and has been peaceful for many years. Now it is even more fortunate to have a noble concubine enter the palace. Your Majesty favors me, and I love it very much. Exchange the wine in the cup with the imperial concubine's sister, in order to take advantage of the blessings that are hard to share!"

Tu Jiu'er was so confused that he didn't understand what Jin Huachu was saying, but he understood the last sentence.

"You want to exchange drinks with me?" Tu Jiu'er smiled inexplicably, "Why, if you want to drink, just tell me, and I don't know who to listen to such a long piece of nonsense. Is there a drink for you?"

Jin Huachu still had a straight face, and put his wine glass on Tu Jiu'er's table in a serious manner.Immediately afterwards, with slightly trembling hands, she took her cup from Tu Jiu'er.

"Thirty-three……"

Jin Huachu looked at her and murmured the name one last time.

Tu Jiu'er looked at her in puzzlement, until now she still couldn't understand the expression on Jin Huachu's face, nor could she understand the tears that suddenly welled up in her eyes.

Thirty-three.

Jin Huachu leveled the wine glass, closed her eyes, raised her head and drank it down in one gulp.