[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

She doesn't want to be a low-key, virtuous and professional concubine that everyone praises.

She must be the most favored concubine of Wan Guifei, but no one in the harem would dare to humiliate her like this again!As a concubine, she didn't want to offend her main wife, but she was not a persimmon because she cleverly set up a name to rub her against her.

The one who accepted her was the emperor, why didn't she go to the emperor to reason and just hit her?

There were a total of eleven blows. This time, Empress Yang took advantage of her disobedience to bring down the empress dowager, but someone rushed to it. The eunuch's eyeliner was everywhere.

Suddenly, I heard the announcement that Zhao Gui, the chief executive of the Taiji Palace, Dongchang Changgong, asked to see him. As soon as the eunuch who informed the eunuch finished speaking, he heard footsteps. Zhao Gui led a group of Dongchang eunuchs into the Palace of Mercy.

"Don't stop!" Zhao Gui yelled, and Su Qing and Zhao Quan who followed behind him, who were not allowed to enter the Palace of Mercy just now, rushed up and kicked down the execution eunuch.

Empress Yang said: "Zhao Gui, this is the Empress Dowager's Palace of Mercy and Benevolence, how can you allow yourself to be presumptuous!"

"My servant pays my respects to the empress!" Zhao Gui bowed slightly, "My empress, this servant is not here to be presumptuous, but to be loyal to my empress."

After all, Empress Yang was afraid of his name in Dongchang. Dongchang monitored civil servants and had a lot of power in his hands. He told the emperor some unfavorable news about her father and brother, which might cause big/trouble.

However, she was famous for beating Xing Xiuyan, she was disobedient to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother was very cooperative with the Queen, and now she was so serious that she seemed to be about to die.A low-level concubine was charged with such a crime by the Queen Mother, what would be the consequences?Ancient etiquette, sometimes even the emperor can't get over it, the emperor is angry and it's not good to target the matter itself, rule the world with filial piety, the word filial piety is still suppressed.

Empress Yang was greedy for the opportunity of filial piety, so she quickly "reported to the public to deal with" and disciplined and punished the low-level concubines who were favored and proud.

Empress Yang said: "Eunuch Zhao is interesting. Xingcai committed a crime of disobedience to the Empress Dowager. As a queen, I should discipline you. You came to stop me, but you said you were loyal to me."

Zhao Gui leaned over and said: "Xing Cairen has already learned a lesson, and if the execution continues, I'm afraid she will die. If something happens to Xing Cairen, it's not easy for the empress to explain to your majesty. Because of this, the relationship between husband and wife has been hurt. Wouldn't it be a small loss? The servant has worked hard, and I ask the empress to observe it clearly."

After Zhao Gui finished speaking, he ordered the eunuch to bring Xing Xiuyan to the stretcher, and Xing Xiuyan was so painful that no one beat her like this in two lifetimes.

Tu Yuanyi once said that her soft-hearted, kind-hearted, withdrawn and a little arrogant problem would not last two rounds in the harem.Women's backyard house fighting and harem fighting are not suitable for her. She is a technician, and she is good at technology in both design and accounting.

The empress, concubines, court ladies and eunuchs saw Zhao Gui leaving in a hurry with someone, Concubine Wu Ping couldn't help covering the corners of her mouth.

When he was in Prince Su's mansion, there were many fights in the main and concubine rooms. The side concubine Wu was the most favored among the "three wives".But at that time, Yang was still very tolerant.

Everything has changed since the sage came to the throne. He seldom enters the harem, but he attaches great importance to etiquette and respects his first wife. The power of the harem depends entirely on Empress Yang.However, when she and Cui married into Prince Su's mansion, they became Yudie's side concubine. Once the saint ascended the throne, let alone a noble concubine, he didn't even get any of Hui, Xian, De, and Shu. To get the titles of Concubine Ping and Concubine Shun, is it peaceful and obedient to the queen?

It turned out that the queen was also in a hurry, and she couldn't hold back her usual dignified face of holding power in the harem.

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However, when Xing Xiuyan was sent back to Luoxia Pavilion, she was already dizzy from pain or anger, and a wave of resentment towards Tu Yuanyi surged in her heart.She had never hated someone so much.

She, a modern and highly educated person, finally realized that her mind was wrong.

She didn't even know when she fell in love with a creature like the emperor, and because she liked it, she complained.

Why not meet when she was an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, she had always been a supporter of the royal family, but the reality slapped her hard, she was a concubine herself, and it was herself she looked down on.

He also thought about not being able to be the wife of the man he liked, and being a concubine, he was treated as inferior, and it was even more bitter.

In this way, his throat felt fishy, ​​and he spit out a mouthful of blood, but it was wrong, he just spat out the stagnant blood stagnated in his chest cavity after suffering from internal injuries.

"Cairen!" Ziyue, who was waiting to wipe her body, was startled when she saw Qingxuan, who was holding clean clothes.

After spitting out the blood, she felt light and fainted.

That night she fell into a coma and developed a high fever, Ziyue and others fed her medicine but she vomited as much as she gave.

Zhao Guishou didn't dare to leave here, and the next day, Xing Xiuyan's high fever still persisted, and Zhao Gui went to see the imperial physician for a consultation, but none of the famous physicians in the imperial hospital were there.

The three were invited to consult with the Queen Mother, because the Queen Mother was also "bedridden", and Queen Yang personally served the decoction and did not dare to stay an inch away; two famous doctors said that they were guarding the Emperor on duty and could not leave.

Although Zhao Gui is powerful, he is a slave after all. The emperor, queen mother, and empress are the most serious masters in the palace, while Xing Cairen is only a low-level concubine even if he is favored.

Only a few junior imperial physicians came to diagnose and treat Xing Xiuyan, but they couldn't drink the medicine they prescribed, and the acupuncture didn't work very well.

It was the people who reported to the sage at Peking Camp who brought back the sage's medicine. After Xing Xiuyan took it, the fever gradually subsided, but he remained unconscious.

When Xin Xiuyan regained her consciousness, she appeared in the intensive care unit of the Municipal People's Hospital. She vaguely felt that she had forgotten many things.She saw a mummy lying on the hospital bed, she was really a poor creature, suddenly, a woman entered the room at noon, her face was peaceful and kind, which made Xin Xiuyan excited, as if she hadn't seen her for a long time.

"Mom!" She rushed over, but was in vain.

Xin Xiuyan was taken aback, but saw her mother sitting down on the hospital bed as if no one else was there, gently holding the poor creature's hand, tears streaming down her face.

"Ayan, why don't you wake up? It's been so many days, wake up and look at your mother! The doctor said you are in a vegetable state, but mother doesn't believe it. Your uncle persuaded your father to agree to pull out the trachea. They are so cruel Heart!"

"Mom..." Xin Xiuyan couldn't help crying because she couldn't touch the crying mother.

"Mom won't agree to it. Even if you go bankrupt, mom will save you."

"Mom, I'm here! I'm here!" Xin Xiuyan cried and shouted to no avail.

Suddenly, she looked at that "poor guy" and understood something.

Mom, you wait, I'm back.

When Xin Xiuyan thought of "going back", her heart was inexplicably stagnant, and a lingering feeling filled her chest. She couldn't think so much and threw herself at that "poor guy".

However, he was repelled by a force, and suddenly felt pulled by an irresistible force, and his eyes went dark.

"Thirsty... water..."

"Saint, I am thirsty!"

Zhao Gui reminded Tu Yuanyi who was sitting on the edge of the bed with a tired face.Although he has some martial arts that ordinary people don't have, and he uses spiritual power as an internal function, but he can't see the soul when he becomes a human being.

After he came back from Beiying, he guarded her for three days. She didn't eat a drop of rice, and he didn't eat two bites.He gave her Xueshen Yangrong pills with the essence of Lingquan, and gave her a lot of spiritual power, but he couldn't wake up for a long time.If it weren't for the fact that her pulse was stable and her fever was gone, he would have wanted to kill the madness in his heart.

Jin Yao brought warm water, Tu Yuanyi supported her, took the water, and fed it to her mouth with a spoon.

She felt a burst of sweetness, and sucked as hard as she could, and the mouth relieved her dry and burning sensation.

Tu Yuanyi fed again, she drank four or five mouthfuls in a row, then slowly opened her eyes drooping, and what she saw was the familiar water-red gauze bed curtain.

And the pain in her butt, which bastard made her sit?Xing Xiuyan instantly recalled that she had just been tortured with a cane.

"Bastard... ass..." she groaned.

At this moment, Tu Yuanyi made up his mind and said, "Xiuxiu, don't scold people, drink water..."

Ziyue still reminded Tu Yuanyi with a conscience: "Saint, Cairen has been tortured with a stick. She is in pain when she sits like this."

Tu Yuanyi was embarrassed: ...

So he laid her flat on her stomach again. He was an emperor, and he had never taken care of someone who was executed, so naturally he didn't notice.

Xing Xiuyan drank water, lay down on the bed, and looked at the bearded Tu Yuanyi weakly, she could no longer remember the half-real dream when she was in a coma.

But she remembered the shocking discovery before she fell into a coma that she had feelings for him, and it was hard to tell whether it was gratitude or resentment.

Tu Yuanyi stroked her head and said softly, "Does it still hurt?"

Xing Xiuyan said lightly: "How about hitting you?"

Tu Yuanyi wasn't angry, but frowned slightly. He really didn't expect that Empress Dowager Liu and Empress Yang would have a joint attack while she was holding the gold medal.His authority was challenged, and his beloved woman was hurt like this, it was unbearable.

But they are taking advantage of the "rules and filial piety", and it doesn't look good for him to pursue the matter itself.But if he doesn't care about the harem, he really has no means?He just didn't want to drag him into the quagmire like in his previous life, so he never cared much about the harem.

Tu Yuanyi coaxed: "Xiuxiu is good, don't be angry, get well soon."

Xing Xiuyan didn't speak, but Tu Yuanyi said again: "I cut off all the eunuchs who beat you to vent your anger."

Xing Xiuyan said disdainfully: "Emperor Zhou, if you don't fight, you have to find an opponent. Your opponent is the symbol of your identity. You understand in your heart how this matter is. You think that the execution eunuch is worthy of you." Your identity is your own business, don't involve me, I have no grievances or enmities with the execution eunuch."

Tu Yuanyi was trying to get her to talk on purpose. He knew that she was kind-hearted and would never hurt someone's life if he had to, but he was still a little surprised to hear her say this.

At this time, he was not angry but smiled, and said: "I don't want to chop off people's heads, but according to your argument, wouldn't I not be able to touch anyone in the world? Why does Xiuxiu insist on being so naive now? Forget it , but Xiuxiu is not willing to endure the momentary anger, and when I come back, she also has her own responsibility!"

Xing Xiuyan drank water at this time, and didn't drink his mouth dry. He just lay down on his stomach and looked at his slender fingers leisurely, and said, "Oh, I don't know that from a countryman! I thought the emperor is very great! I finally decided to be an emperor!" The emperor's more favored servant girl is proud! I thought the emperor's gold medal was not Shangfang's sword, but it was not allowed in the life-saving head office! You can't tell me, if you don't tell me you can't, won't it cause a misunderstanding? How embarrassing it is for me to be slapped in the face with a piece of gold in my hand? But now you don’t tell me that you can’t do it. Next time I go out of the palace, I will treat the gold medal as if it is the silver. Next time the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager If you hit me, I will give you money as a bribe. If you have money, you can make ghosts turn the millstone. It will definitely be useful! Don’t worry, my little girl will change when she is poor, and she will become smart when she changes. Drizzle, don't worry about it either."

Tu Yuanyi's handsome face was gloomy, and Zhao Gui, who was accompanying him at the door, was breaking out in cold sweat. He thought of the head and blood flowing into rivers two years ago.The only person in this world who dares to talk to a saint like this is this desperate Xing Cairen.

After being silent for about half a cup of tea, Tu Yuanyi finally stretched out his hand to caress her head, and sighed: "You are so angry that you come to me, this time it is true that you have been wronged, and I have nothing to say." explain."

Zhao Gui and a group of court ladies and eunuchs didn't dare to stay longer, they quietly backed away with winking eyes, it's really better not to hear these words.

Xing Xiuyan said: "It's so boring. Anyway, when I die, my father will make a thin coffin for me and transport my bones back to Gusu. The flesh and blood body given to me by my father and mother will still be returned to them. Well, the sage doesn’t need to give any grace to be buried with the ceremony of a nobleman. I was born neither noble nor talented, and I don’t care for the gift of nobles and talented people. The hill outside Panxiang Temple is very good, so I will be buried there. You really To give grace, just give 20 taels of funeral silver."

Tu Yuanyi knew that she was insulting him, no woman dared to speak like that, he just felt that she was stabbing his heart with a knife, and he wanted to get angry but couldn't, as an emperor, he was really unfamiliar with this feeling.

He himself couldn't help stroking her back gently, and suddenly said: "You will be buried on the hill near Panxiang Temple, and I will be buried there when I die."

Xing Xiuyan gritted her teeth: "You have your own emperor's tomb, why come and compete with me for the top?"

Tu Yuanyi said: "I am worried that you will become a ghost alone, without me to take care of you, you will be bullied by other ghosts."

Xing Xiuyan felt sore, and said: "You don't have to worry about what will happen to me after my death. Maybe there is an old Heishan demon on the top of the mountain. I will be his ghost bride, and he will definitely send little ghosts to carry me in a sedan chair. I always call The Montenegrin old demon likes me, and I like him too, and he and I can be the relatives of ghosts for thousands of years, laughing at the sea of ​​​​the world."

"Enough!" Tu Yuanyi shouted, his chest heaving, "You just feel that without me, you always have a way out, even death is also a way out? I tell you, you are my man in life, and you are my man in death. Damn, you have no other way!"

Xing Xiuyan couldn't help tears falling down, which wet the pillow towel, Tu Yuanyi found out, a little clumsy, but still slowly lay down beside her.

He wiped her face with his sleeve, and finally hugged her into his arms.

"Yes...it's my fault." He whispered this sentence in her ear with difficulty, and he didn't know why he could say it. He was the emperor, and it was absolutely difficult for him to say this sentence to anyone.

"I... have never cared about the affairs of the harem. I thought that with the East Factory at your disposal and a gold medal for you, you would be fine. I... have been worried recently. If you don't wake up, I will keep my word , not to kill the eunuch, but to kill Empress Dowager Liu and the Empress to be buried with you."

Xing Xiuyan cried bitterly, not knowing whether to believe him or not, what's the point if he really knows how to do this?

She had been in love twice, the first was with that scumbag Zhao Jiahuan, and the second was with the emperor's scumbag.

"I don't care. I won't look at your harem after I die. I don't know who you want to bury with me."

Tu Yuanyi said, "Are you so cruel?"

"Who is cruel? I have such a hard life, I am not allowed to control my own destiny, and I have encountered inhumane life after life. I asked myself to be honest and honest, why did God treat me like this?"

Speaking of her crying so much that her whole body was shaking, Tu Yuanyi hugged her tightly to comfort her: "Xiuxiu, don't be sad, I won't teach anyone to hurt you anymore. You don't take precautions against the five scum of war, I really want to meddle in the harem myself No one is my opponent. But Xiuxiu must not think that this is not what the emperor should do."

Xing Xiuyan was still a little weak after all, tired after crying for so long, and fell asleep again.

Tu Yuanyi didn't close his eyes for several days, and finally he was so exhausted that he fell asleep on the bed.

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After Xing Xiuyan recovered quickly, he didn't delay in eating and drinking medicine, and finally showed Tu Yuanyi's physical foundation of nursing with elixir.

But she said that she found out that she really liked him before, but she could figure out a lot of things.

Although she also spurned herself because she let go of her fear of liking him, it is quite normal to like him after thinking about it. The entanglement between them is too contradictory. The basis of their relationship is also the basis for her to surpass others.

Facing a young, handsome and gorgeous man who is originally affectionate and affectionate, who comes to pester her every night to enjoy the pleasure of fish and water, and is her only man, if she doesn't move at all, unless he is not a man of flesh and blood.

There is no such thing as taking all the benefits in this world. She had no choice but to enter the palace and get the so-called holy grace that others in the harem could not get, but without paying a single price.

This Emperor Suzong, who "loves to pile up money" and "extremely cruel to women in the harem", counts the input-output ratio when he runs a factory, let alone investing in women.

He is really "good" to her, let's look at Jia Yuanchun who emptied Jia's family because of him in his previous life, and then look at the other women in the harem.

How can the emperor understand love!I don't know how to love!

Even if he understands, how long will it take to adapt to the conflict and reconciliation of love and face.

This man is like a child who has not been given candy fairly. He is unwilling that she will not give her sincerity, but he also loves face. He will not say that he likes her, and he does not know how to pursue women. Women treat him For, like Napoleon the Great, there is only conquest.

The emperor has never learned to beg for a woman's love, and giving her a comment of "not worthy of virtue" is already a hint, the emperor is so proud!

After Xing Xiuyan figured out what the problem was, she couldn't help but itch with hatred. If she wanted to improve welfare, she had to buy it with "sincerity". The emperor's abacus skills were top-notch.

Maybe when he was Ah Piao, he looted the corrupt officials and tributes of the Empress Jin Dynasty not because he wanted to turn back the Empress Jin, but because he really loved money!What a buck!

Why should you give him a celestial beauty, a monstrosity and a romantic flair!Is this painted skin trying to deceive the world?

He had already launched a huge net against her, not only wanting to eat people physically without spitting out the bones and even swallowing the bone scum, he also wanted to eat the heart.

She had never seen such a greedy and brazen emperor!

Really, well, well, anyway, unless one day she learns a more powerful immortal technique than him, she won't be able to escape, and don't even think about Hongxing getting out of the wall.

Then be sincere, in this harem, it is very ridiculous to guard a lonely heart, nothing is more real than welfare.

This is like working in a modern company, but you insist on guarding your own heart. Your heart is absolutely not biased towards the company, and you never allow yourself to sincerely admire the boss.Then why let the boss give you an appreciation and salary increase?

It is ridiculous that one cannot give sincerity in the harem, or that it is precious to give sincerity in the harem. These are all very ridiculous, but they are just the wild imagination of female romance novelists of later generations.

Can't give sincerity, hehe, 3000 beauties in the harem are like tens of millions of employees in a company. If you don't pledge allegiance to the company, others will.Who do you think you are, how much is your sincerity worth, and if you get your sincerity, will you live forever?Who really cares if you're not sincere?The emperor slept with you, so it's not bad to recognize you.Just like in a company, with thousands of employees, it’s good for the boss to call you by your name. Has the boss ever thought about your sincerity? If you can make money for him, you are sincere. Otherwise, you can’t make money for the company. You have a " If you live as a member of the company and die as a ghost of the company, people will still treat you as bullshit.

And it is even more ridiculous to say "the sincerity in the harem is precious, and the emperor will take pity on you because of your sincerity".In the harem, everyone is looking forward to the so-called holy favor. Are those women really deep-minded and determined, and have never shown sincerity to the emperor?I don't know how many people died here with their sincerity. It depends on which sincerity the emperor remembers, and which concubine with sincerity he treats with more pity?

Women in the harem really shouldn't take their "sincerity" too seriously, just like Ren Zhengfei, CEO of Huawei Group, fired the so-called high-achieving student who wrote to him, saying that he "has a mental illness and who he is."

This is the cruel truth about the harem. The harem is more cruel than modern companies—because the harem should not expect to change their destiny by changing jobs in this life.

Xing Xiuyan originally hated the emperor who "deadly slammed the door" and wanted her to give her "sincerity" before he was willing to give her better benefits and wanted to beat him with a leather whip.But she had to realize that she was "lucky".The emperor actually took the initiative to care about her "sincerity".

In the harem, the truth about the value of "sincerity" is that, whether the emperor wants it or not, it will be very valuable if he wants it.

No matter, sincerity is sincerity.

Life is like a play, sometimes why be too obsessed with truth and falsehood.

She is sincere, but time changes and things change, and maybe the sincerity will become false again.

Just like when she really liked Zhao Jiahuan back then, didn't she become a fake again after discovering that side of him?Love recedes like a tide, receding so much that there is no hatred, how can it be called sincere?But at that time, she really wanted to form a family with him to create a future together, so how could she say that she had no sincerity at all?

So, who can tell whether it is true or false?In the dialectic of yang and yin, truth and falsehood are interdependent, inseparable and mutually transformable.

What Cao Da said is good, when the fake is true, the real is also fake, and there is no truth or fake in the heart, which is the highest state.

From then on, she never thought about the stupid and hypocritical "sincerity" of such a little woman.

The pie is either made by yourself, or bought with your own money. When will you wait until it falls from the sky?As long as people are alive, even the daughters of God must take the initiative to strive for a more favorable life.

He wove a net for her, did he really think she was afraid?

Other women who were bitten by a snake for ten years after being emotionally injured were afraid of tightening the rope, but after she was injured once, her immunity improved.

She is never surprised by the sunshine and darkness of human nature, the hell and heaven between one thought.

This is also one of the reasons why she didn't abuse the scum, because in the mortal world, either you will blame me or I will blame you, and life is going on, so what's the big deal?

Xing Xiuyan was originally a chic person, but now he finally understands, and no longer feels how tragic it is for him to fall in love with Tu Yuanyi.

You took advantage of the right time, place and people to form a net to capture my "sincerity". I admit that I lost this round.

But life is still long, I may not always lose.

You are greedy and shameless, I have no choice, but if I don’t teach you to lose money in the end in this life, my life will be in vain.

One day you even want to pick off the stars in the sky for me.

In this life, one does not have a good opponent, and is lonely, so it is not as good as A Piao.The field of love is like a battlefield. When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. Let's shine the sword.

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But after two days, she was able to get out of bed, and after another two days, she was able to walk in the garden with the support of the maids.

He was admiring the newly opened white bellflowers in the garden, but he heard a commotion. Dozens of female officials and eunuchs in front were carrying things and honor guards, and they lined up in two rows towards the West Sixth Palace.

Xing Xiuyan looked at the sound, and asked calmly, "What's the matter?"

Su Qing hurriedly went to inquire, but after a while, Su Qing brought Wang Fu over.

"Slave Wang Fu greets Master Xing!" Wang Fu was also a respectable eunuch in charge of the Tai Chi Palace, but he gave Xing Xiuyan a full salute.

Xing Xiuyan said lightly: "Come on, get up, you big fanatics, what are you busy with?"