Lei Yue Longmen

The curtain of the car moved, and the Empress Dowager Yan was helped out of the car, and many officials who came to greet her were sighing.I still remember that when Mrs. Yan left Beijing seven years ago, there were more black hairs than white hairs on her head, but now all the black hairs are gone, and her head is full of gray hair.It looks more than ten years old.The thin, vigilant little girl beside her should be Li Jingmei, the orphan of King Xiao.

Emperor Li Pinghong's eyes turned red, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, choked with sobs and said: "I am unfilial, I welcome the Queen Mother back to the palace." The emperor's relatives, civil and military officials also knelt down to greet each other, "Welcome the Queen Mother back to the palace!"

Empress Dowager Yan supported Li Jingmei, who was ten years old, and walked slowly to the emperor, and tremblingly touched the emperor's face, "The emperor has lost weight!" Li Pinghong immediately held her hand, stood up and supported her carefully, and went Ten or six had already prepared the big sedan chair and left, "Mother, slow down!"

Concubine Pei and Concubine Wen have already led all the concubines to greet them at the gate of the harem. Princes and princesses including Li Jingxuan, Li Jingxi, King Dun, and King Cheng also appeared in the harem to greet them.

The sedan chair stopped at the door, and the Empress Dowager Yan, who was dressed in a noble apricot-yellow phoenix robe and wrapped in a black jacket, got out of the sedan chair with difficulty. First, she swept past the concubines one by one, and then saw a few new faces.Without saying anything, she stretched out her hand to Concubine Pei. Concubine Pei was flattered and hurried over to help her.

"I heard that King Dun sold all his property in order to build a garden for Ai's family? How could he do that?" The Queen Mother's vocal cords trembled when she spoke, just like her walking posture. Volt.

"This? This is what Zhao'er should do. It is his duty to be filial to the emperor's grandmother." Concubine Pei winked at Li Jingzhao, who was in the prince's team, and Li Jingzhao came running over knowingly, "Grandson Zhao'er see grandmother."

"Hey, good, good, they've grown up so much." The Empress Dowager Yan stroked him gratifiedly.

In order to make the queen mother happy, Li Pinghong asked the princes to gather around and said loudly: "It's all thanks to the blessing of the queen mother Hong Fu, these boys are very filial."

Then introduce her one by one: "This one is the third son of King Cheng, Jingnan. That one is the fourth son, King Wen, Jingqiao. This one is the fifth son, King Kun Jingpeng. And the sixth son, Prince Lian Jingbai, hurry up." Come here, don't stand there stupidly. This is the old eighth, Su Wang Jingji, and now he can't even walk steadily." Li Pinghong hugged Su Wang, who was just one year old, and smiled at Queen Mother Yan: "There is still One old seventh, Prince Lin Jingheng, is ill and cannot come to welcome the Empress Dowager, when he is better, the son will let him come to pay his respects to the mother."

"Okay, okay." The queen mother touched this one and that one for a while, and she seemed to be so happy that she heard a group of grandchildren calling "grandma" in unison.

The princesses who were left on the spot all kept smiling, but Li Jingxi gave a "tss" unconvinced, "Father is always like this. When introducing people, he always pulls his daughter down, as if he only has a son."

Although Li Jingxi and the old queen didn't like to see each other and didn't want to join in the fun at all, she was very dissatisfied with Li Pinghong's "bad habit" of only calling her son and not letting her daughter participate in everything.

The other princesses didn't say anything, except the eight-year-old fifth princess, Li Jingchun, who responded to her: "That's right, we are also the children of my father, why do we always ignore us, and call me brother instead of me for everything? You don’t know as much as I do.” Then he raised his head and asked Li Jingchen: “Big sister, when you become the emperor, will you only be called brother and not me?”

Li Jingchen immediately covered her mouth lightly, gave her a "hush", and answered the wrong question: "When the emperor is still here, you are not allowed to say that someone else is the emperor, otherwise you will commit a crime and you will be punished, you know that?"

"Oh, I know."

"What are you afraid of? Elder sister is the empress dowager, and she will be emperor sooner or later." Li Jing Xihun said indifferently, pulling the fifth princess to him, "Come here, second elder sister is covering you, let's see who dares to hit you."

"Hee hee, the second sister is the best."

Li Jingxu looked helplessly at the big and small opposite, and secretly frowned to remind Li Jingxu to be careful.

The next part was supposed to be the meeting of the princesses, but the Empress Dowager Yan grabbed the hand of King Cheng Li Jingnan and refused to let go, "This? Is King Cheng? They have grown up so much, and Ai's family remembered him when they left Beijing." It's still such a big baby. I didn't expect that in a blink of an eye...it's good to grow up, it's good to grow up!" The queen mother clenched her hands tighter and tighter, her eyes were covered with a gray fog, Cheng Wang Li Jingnan said to Her sudden enthusiasm was unknown, and she maintained a respectful smile, and she kept looking for her mother, Concubine Wen Gui, hoping to get some advice from her.

King Dun saw that Empress Dowager Yan treated King Cheng differently, and jealousy gradually appeared in his eyes.

"If Zhang'er grows up to now, he should be this tall." The Empress Dowager's unintentional words immediately changed the expressions of Emperor Li Pinghong and Concubine Wen.

The "zhang'er" in her mouth undoubtedly refers to Li Jingzhang, the second son of King Xiao, who was only seven years old when he was gifted to death.

Obviously this person is not welcome by the emperor.The little girl next to her pulled off the Queen Mother's sleeve, and the Queen Mother immediately noticed the gloomy expression on the emperor's face, she didn't speak any more, she just lifted her sleeve and wiped the corners of her eyes.Seeing this, King Cheng quickly took out his handkerchief and wiped away tears for the Queen Mother.

Li Jingxuan and Li Jingxi at the periphery of the crowd could feel the stiffness and tension in the atmosphere. Normally, at such a time, Concubine Wen would come out to smooth things over.For some reason, today she seemed to be speechless, standing there very quietly, her face was very pale, and she could even see her shoulders trembling slightly.

Ordinarily, a person who is used to seeing strong winds and waves and still maintains an elegant and calm personality seems not to have such a reaction.Li Jingxi quietly tugged at Li Jingchen's sleeve, "Sister, look, is Miss Wen? sick?!"

Li Jingchen also noticed Concubine Wen's abnormality, but she didn't show any interest in gossip.In this palace, things are constantly being cut and confused all the time, and the truth will never come out of thin air from guesswork.

The crowd surrounded the Empress Dowager Yan and returned to the Cixiang Palace. Unsurprisingly, the two first-line princesses were neglected by the Empress Dowager who was full of hostility.

In addition to the natural prejudice inherited from the Queen of the Sea, there is another layer of blood feud of "killing the son" between them.In such a foreshadowing of hatred, the Empress Dowager Yan didn't even want to maintain the superficial harmony. In front of everyone in the harem, she mercilessly put pressure on the emperor: "The Cixiang Palace, which mourns the family, does not welcome those who should not come. You are trying to piss me off! Let them go, go quickly! Cough! Cough!"

Li Pinghong's face was livid, and he didn't say a word.Concubine Pei took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, "Oh, Queen Mother, don't get angry! Alas, really, you said, some people are clearly not welcome, but they want to come forward? Push them out! It's intentional to cause trouble for others. no!"

Empress Dowager Yan coughed more and more severely, the little girl beside her hurriedly helped her back, took out a delicate ceramic snuff bottle from the knitted bag on the diagonal, and put it under the nostrils of Empress Dowager Yan, the Empress Dowager grabbed a straw like a drowning person As if holding the snuff bottle and taking a long breath, "Imperial Grandmother, are you feeling better?"

Empress Dowager Yan grabbed the little girl's hand, and said in a daze, "It's much better." Li Jingmei took out a fist-sized narrow-necked medicine bottle from his satchel, unplugged the stopper, poured out a yellow pill, and fed it to the Empress Dowager Yan held a cup of tea for her to swallow.Afterwards, he put the stopper on the medicine bottle and put it back into the bag, took out a small sealed box, opened it, squeezed out a candied fruit from it, and fed it into the Queen Mother Yan's mouth.

The whole set of movements is tight and orderly, and it can be seen that it is a habit developed all year round.Concubine Pei secretly tsk tsk, this? The little girl seems to be the confidant of the Empress Dowager Yan, if she can win her over properly, she will undoubtedly gain leverage in the Empress Dowager's heart.

Li Jingchen is already immune to Yan's rejection, isn't he? He doesn't want to stay here to make fun of himself, he does the courtesy of a junior in the lower steps with a blank face, stands up and drags his sister to leave.

But Li Jing was so angry that he stood there motionless, and refused to leave no matter how much she pulled her.Biting her lip and staring coldly at the people on the steps, Yiyi gave them her own definition—the ugly old woman, the eccentric and cowardly Li Pinghong, the arrogant and domineering Concubine Pei, and those eyes watching the show around her. This set her on fire.

"Jingxi," Li Jingxuan saw that she was not upset, worried that she would cause trouble, held her hand tightly, and winked at her desperately, "Kowtow to the Queen Mother quickly, we will leave immediately."

"I'm not leaving!" Li Jingxuan said decisively suddenly, ignoring Li Jingxuan's worries, and loudly said in front of everyone: "Why should I leave, the emperor didn't tell us to leave, why should we leave?!"

She cast her eyes on Li Pinghong, and the Empress Dowager Yan who was next to her almost passed over again, panting for a while on the snuff bottle, and then she recovered, tremblingly said: "It's wrong, it's wrong, it's really wrong!"

Li Pinghong hurriedly comforted her, "Mother, don't be angry, don't be as knowledgeable as a child."

Seeing that the Queen Mother was getting more and more angry, he turned his head and stared at the two sisters under the stairs helplessly, and made a gesture of repulsion: "You guys go!" Seeing that Li Jingxi was still indifferent, he couldn't help but increase his tone, and roared: "Hurry up! !"

Li Jingxi looked at Li Pinghong disappointedly, the circles of his eyes slowly turned red, he dropped his sleeves, and ran out without even paying his farewell.

"Jingxi!" Li Jingxuan wanted to hold Li Jingxi back, but she ran too fast and was so aggressive that she couldn't hold her back at all.Li Pinghong seemed to be very angry when he saw her rushing out of the door in a fit of anger. He fell down and sat down while holding his forehead.

Seeing that Li Jingxi had run away, Li Jingchen knew that today's matter must be explained to everyone.I had no choice but to go back, bowed my knees to Empress Dowager Yan, and pleaded guilty for Li Jingxi, "Jingxi was rude and offended the Empress Dowager. Jingxi pleaded guilty to the Empress Dowager on her behalf. I hope that the Empress Dowager will forgive her because she is young and ignorant, and she didn't mean it." This time!"

"Hey, she'll be twenty next year? She's already a woman and a mother. Who would believe that she's young and ignorant? It's obvious that she's born in the first place. I can't get used to being rude, and I'm disrespectful to the queen mother." , I have never seen such an uneducated girl."

Concubine Pei's taunting voice was like adding fuel to the fire.Seeing that both the queen mother and the emperor were angry, she thought she had seized a golden opportunity to attack Li Jingxi.

After hearing her words, the Empress Dowager Yan became more angry and trembled all over, "You too? Go, you too? Go! Aijia, Aijia doesn't want to see you, don't want to see you! Go away!"

"Boom!" With a sound, a round object came from the air and hit Li Jingchen's head. Li Jingchen subconsciously closed his eyes, feeling a dull pain on his forehead, and then hot and humid liquid flooded his right eye, along the His cheeks slowly slid down.She knelt on the ground motionless, feeling the shame and humiliation she had never experienced in her life, her nails curled into her flesh, and she strangled herself desperately to endure it.

Everyone was shocked by this turn of events. Concubine Wen came to her senses first, "Quickly, help the empress dowager to stop the bleeding."

The busy maid came up to help Li Jingchen check his injuries, and even King Cheng came down, looking at the overturned murder weapon "teapot lid" on the ground, and asked anxiously, "Miss Huang, are you alright?" Li Jingchen answered The palace lady covered her forehead with her handkerchief, and said calmly: "It's okay!" She waved her hands to signal everyone to back off, covered half of her face, and then kowtowed on the ground, "Please calm down, Queen Mother."

Concubine Pei looked at the show, with a sneering smile on the corner of her mouth? She rolled her eyes to see the reaction of the Empress Dowager Yan. Unexpectedly, the moment her pupils turned sideways, she saw the cold, cruel, blood-red eyes on the opposite side. Almost shattered, his body couldn't help but fall back.

Empress Dowager Yan also noticed those red eyes, her body couldn't help shivering, she will never forget that day, the news that King Xiao had assassinated Li Jingchen spread to the capital, and Li Pinghong, who was having dinner with the Empress Dowager in the Cixiang Palace, burst into rage in an instant The eyes, like a wounded beast suddenly awakened, opened its fangs to devour everyone.

Although that scene only appeared for a short moment, the impact on Empress Dowager Yan was overwhelming.From that moment on, she realized that there was a sleeping beast living in Li Pinghong's heart. It was this beast that woke up and killed her son and three innocent grandchildren.

Her hands trembled more and more, and her heart beat faster and faster. Finally, her eyes darkened and she passed out.There was a mess on the imperial steps.

As night fell, Li Pinghong's sedan chair stopped at the entrance of the corridor in front, and Concubine Pei also had to ask someone to stop the sedan chair.Slowly approaching Li Pinghong, feeling uneasy in his heart, "Your Majesty, why did you stop?"

After coming out of the Cixiang Palace, Li Pinghong didn't say a word.But the less he spoke, the more scared Concubine Pei Gui remembered his frightening eyes.

Li Pinghong waited for her to catch up, then suddenly turned his head, shook his hand vigorously and gave her a scratch, "Snack!"

The force? It was so strong that Concubine Pei Gui couldn't control her body, and she slammed into the red wall on one side. Her forehead hit the hard wall instantly, and blood flowed out in a short while.Concubine Pei Gui was completely stunned. She didn't understand what happened. She sat on the ground, feeling pain? She couldn't feel it, only full of fear.

"Baby maid, if you dare to fan the flames in front of the Queen Mother next time, I will not spare you!"

Li Pinghong's furious voice echoed in the corridor, and the palace people shrank away in fright. No one dared to help the man on the ground.Li Pinghong tore off his robe sleeves, sat on the sedan chair again, and walked in the direction of Yaohua Hall.

The remaining Concubine Pei sat at the base of the wall for a long time before she slowly recovered from her fear, and tears fell from her eyes.I covered my face and wanted to cry, but I didn't dare to cry, I really wanted to hit the wall and die.