[Red House] Harem Road in Spring

In a huge palace, only the queen was sitting slumped on the ground, and the larger the space, the more lonely the queen's figure seemed.

"Is it worth it?" At this moment, a voice sounded faintly.

The wind blew the curtains all over the room, and I saw a person coming out from behind the curtains behind the pillars.

She was dressed in plain blue palace attire, with a low-key bun without any accessories, and most importantly, she looked very ordinary.Anyone who has a harem will definitely recognize this person. This person is the personal maid next to the queen, who was later named Ning Baolin.

It turned out that Ning Baolin was the one who had the first place with the queen.

The expression on the queen's face froze, and then returned to normal at random. She looked at Ning Baolin without concealing the friendship in her eyes, and said, "It's worth it, why isn't it worth it? Many of the decisions I made in my life were because of being the daughter of the Cui family. , Now that the time has come, you should make a choice according to your own will."

Muran, Ning Baolin's eyes were wet with tears, she covered her mouth, choked up and said, "You know, you clearly know."

The Queen's face froze for a moment, and then she said, "I'm sorry for you!"

Where to put the queen's gown, she personally asked Ning Baolin to do it, and Ning Baolin helped her put on the gown later on, the only person who could touch the gown and make a move was Ning Baolin, she took this to heart on the woman.

At the beginning, she couldn't believe it at all, until later, her rationality allowed her to analyze that the only person who could do something wrong.

"Why? Why?" Ning Baolin screamed, and collapsed on the ground, "Why? Since you are cruel, you will always be cruel to the end, so why should you be soft-hearted at the last moment."

After all, she owed her a lot, which made her feel resentful!

The queen wanted to reach out to help Ning Baolin, but Ning Baolin avoided him, which made the queen look even more sad.

"The emperor has already promised not to kill you. If I leave, you must take good care of yourself alone." The queen urged worriedly.

"It's too late, it's already too late!" Ning Baolin cried and refused to accept.

I don't know if what she said was too late meant the empress's kindness to her, or the emperor's promise not to take her life.

"I'm sorry for you, you must live well." The queen said.

Ning Baolin looked at the queen with tears in his eyes, but saw the queen sitting down on the ground, her face was pale, and the sweat on her forehead was as big as soybeans, which soaked the queen's hair at the temples, and even wet the clothes she was wearing .

"What's wrong with you? What's wrong?" Ning Baolin crawled towards the queen in shock, her legs were too weak to stand up.

The queen's expression became weaker, and a look of pain finally appeared on her face.

Ning Baolin followed the Queen's line of sight, and saw that a brocade box on the table had been opened, and in the brocade box, the gold nuggets she remembered saving up with the Queen were less than half.

Ning Baolin felt a chill in his heart, and asked involuntarily, "You...you...have you swallowed gold?"

The queen's expression was full of joy, no matter how many things she had done to Ning'er, at this moment, Ning'er was always willing to cry for her.

Don't blame her for being cruel, no matter what was the reason for Ning'er's instigation and who attacked her, she didn't care about it, but she just wanted Ning'er to remember her death and remember her for the rest of her life!

In a trance, the queen felt her body getting lighter and lighter, as if she no longer felt the pain.

"Jingxiu!" Ning Baolin shouted loudly, but there was no movement from the person who would reply to her in the past.

Ning Baolin tremblingly put his hand on the tip of the queen's nose, he was not breathing anymore!

For a moment, Ning Baolin felt heartbroken. From the moment she made the decision, she had expected the ending, but seeing Jing Xiu die in front of her, she felt so painful that she was about to go crazy!

Ning Baolin was crying so hard at first, and I don't know how much time passed, but Ning Baolin's face changed, and a bit of hatred appeared on his face. She caressed the Queen's face with her hand, but said in her mouth, "You can I know, since you thought about giving birth to the crown prince yourself, I have other thoughts. Now, it is good to die, and it is good to die. If it is a few years later, I am afraid that you will no longer have me in your heart. The position is now! Now that the love is not over, it is the beginning and the end!"

Ning Baolin's face was flushed with red, and her eyes shifted from the queen's face to the table beside her. On it, a pair of candles were burning, and a candlestick was placed under the candles.

Ning Baolin reached out to pick up the candlestick on the table, pulled out the candle and threw it aside, poked at himself with happiness in his eyes, a muffled groan sounded, Ning Baolin struggled to hug the queen tightly, blood stained the ground.

The candlestick knocked over by Ning Baolin instantly ignited the curtains in the room, and in an instant, the sky was filled with flames.

The palace people guarding the Mingxuan Palace seemed to have seen nothing. When the fire was almost on fire, Xia Cheng gave an order, and the palace people started to put out the fire.

There was a well in Fengzao Palace, and soon the fire was extinguished.

Not long after returning to Changle Palace, Yingchun saw thick smoke rising from the direction of Fengzao Palace, Yingchun guessed that the queen might have gone.

Sure enough, in less than a moment, someone came to report that it was Cui who committed suicide and died.

Yingchun sighed, and had no choice but to go to Concubine Gui and Concubine Xian to discuss the queen's funeral. Who let them three hold the power in the palace?

Holding power seems to be very beautiful, but who knows the busyness and helplessness involved?

Before the emperor issued a decree on how to deal with the queen's affairs, and before the three of Yingchun discussed how to arrange the queen's body, there was a commotion in the court!

Without any organization, all the officials sent a memorial saying that the queen's virtue was ashamed and unworthy to be the mother of a country, and asked the emperor to abolish the queen.

It seems that someone really spread the news about what happened yesterday, and only then did all the ministers share their aspirations.

One of the points of view is to ask for the abolition of the empress, and because the biggest mistake the empress made was to cuckold the emperor, the ministers can only vaguely say that the empress's virtue is ashamed, but they dare not say that the empress has cheated on her.

Regarding the matter of the Emperor wearing a green hat, although everyone knows it well, they must not mention it. This is an open secret.

There is another point of view. The elder of the three dynasties, the nearly sixty-year-old Minister of Rites, Mr. Xu, said that the queen should not be abolished.

Everyone looked at Mr. Xu with the eyes of a fool, not abandoning the empress, hehe, could it be that Mr. Xu did not hear the movement from the palace, a queen with a red apricot out of the wall, it is difficult for the emperor to bear it.

It is tolerable or unbearable!Mr. Xu, don't be too confused!Everyone looked at Mr. Xu eagerly, and waited quietly for the emperor to punish Mr. Xu.

At this time, Master Xu calmly stroked his beard and spoke calmly.

He said that after the conferment, there was neither the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven nor the grand conferment ceremony, nor did the central palace letter and phoenix seal representing the identity of the empress be bestowed. The queen, at most, is Princess Jin!

Since the concubine of Jin, Cui, was not named queen, how can there be talk of abolishing the empress?

All the ministers looked at Xu Shangshu and were dumbfounded. Can they still do this?To be random is to regret, why didn't they think of this earlier?

Xu Shangshu calmly looked at the ministers who had watched the show just now, and his eyes seemed to say, "I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice. Boys, learn from it!"

Xu Shangshu's proud beard was raised, and everyone who watched was even more furious.

The emperor listened to Xu Shangshu's request, thought for a while, and saw the urging of all the officials, and then said, "Xia Cheng, draw up the decree."

"Yes"

The emperor began to talk about the holy will in a polite manner, and to the great joy of all the officials, the embarrassing existence of the queen was finally eliminated.

Didn't you hear the emperor's decree that it's not the queen, but the Cui family. This is because they followed Xu Shangshu's suggestion and did not recognize the Cui family as the queen.Moreover, the emperor said indifferently in public that the Cui family had raped the harem and wrote it in the imperial decree. Could it be that the emperor was afraid that others would not know that he was wearing a cuckold?

Wait, what did the officials hear, "Imitate Chen Ajiao, the abolished empress of the Western Han Dynasty", does this mean that the queen is like Chen Ajiao, the first queen of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, raising female pets?This empress is so good at grinding mirrors, she is still with Ning Baolin, a low-ranking concubine in the harem.

No wonder, no wonder the emperor dared to write Cui's crime □□ the harem into the imperial decree. It turned out that the queen did not go out to find wild men, but formed a pair with the emperor's concubine, which was internally digested.

It's good for a wife to polish her mirror. Although it's still not a decent thing for a man, it's much better than being cuckolded!At least, people will no longer secretly laugh at the emperor being cuckolded.

Moreover, some high-ranking officials and dignitaries with special hobbies don't care at all that their wives are good at grinding mirrors, but they will enjoy watching their wives and other concubines act with interest!

It's really not ashamed!Those who saw the empress's imprint at the scene that day were also greatly relieved. It would have been nice if they hadn't been green hats, and they could shamelessly get in front of the emperor.

The final decision was that the title of Empress Cui's name was not justified and she was an empress, she would be annulled, and her bones would be returned to the Cui family next door, who would be buried by the Cui family themselves.

In this way, the position of the emperor's empress was vacant.

The position of empress is inherently attractive, and coupled with the position of Empress Yuan, some determined people have some ideas.

Unexpectedly, the emperor abolished the empress so quickly, and everyone had no time to prepare to redistribute the vacated benefits, and the matter was settled. They could only gear up and wait for the morning court the next day, fight for it, and win the position of empress Yuan in one fell swoop.

In the court hall, everyone had different thoughts. There was the seat of Empress Yuan hanging in front. No one had a daughter of the right age, even my own. The problem.

In the early morning of the next day, almost most of the ministers had a memorial in their sleeves.

First, a minister made a statement, saying that the position of the queen is empty, and it will be detrimental to the country for a long time, and the queen should be established as soon as possible.

This satisfies almost everyone's interests, and no one opposes it.

Then, some people said that the emperor's harem is sparse and heirs are not abundant, and he asked the emperor to order a draft, and he had already spread his branches and leaves for the royal family.

All of a sudden, a quarrel broke out, and those who were ambitious to go to the emperor's palace and did not have their own daughters wanted to let the emperor order a draft, that is, the future empress should and should be selected from among the beautiful girls.

Led by Elder Lu Ge and Yan Shangshu, the imperial concubines, virtuous concubines, concubines Shu and others in the Bendao palace are all persons with both ability and political integrity, and the candidate for the empress should be selected from the harem.

As a result, the court hall was very lively, and everyone was arguing endlessly, and they didn't see the emperor on the dragon chair sharpening his sword when looking at them.