The Rongjudai of the Red Chamber

The capital is densely covered with rain, and big raindrops are falling from the sky. It seems that the sky and the earth have changed color overnight. Heavy soldiers patrolling inside and outside the capital, clamoring to arrest fugitives, or the sound of carriages running for family and family, makes people in Luofeng Xuan's Daiyu, the worry between her brows became more and more intense.

In the coup in the palace, the father of Shui Jian and Concubine Xi actually wanted to take down the palace by cooperating with the inside and outside. I heard that the father of Shui Jian and Concubine Xi had already been captured. The situation in the imperial city changed last night, but I don’t know what happened to Shui Rong now .

Leaning against the railing, watching the raindrops fall, she suddenly heard the sound of footsteps. When Daiyu turned around to look, her clear eyes were full of dense mist, like the vast rain and fog outside the pavilion. The bird fell, and tried hard to shake it off, but the rain that couldn't be shaken off, got up and flew into the arms of the visitor, the choked sobs made Shui Rong even more panicked, and he didn't care to take it off. The armor on his body hugs Daiyu tightly in his arms.

It took a long while for Daiyu to stop crying, seeing the tears on the water-soluble armor, she couldn't help but feel a little red on her cheeks, she pursed her lips and smiled shyly, raised her head from Shui Rong's arms, touched Shui Rong's tired face, feeling sad in her heart. Hidden pity.

Seeing that Daiyu stopped crying, Shui Rong sighed, and said with a smile: "This rainy day is getting colder and colder, what are you doing in this long pavilion? You don't know how to cherish your body, really It really looks like Little Ye'er."

Daiyu pursed her mouth, looked at Shui Rong with some dissatisfaction, and said with a strong nasal voice, "Who told you not to get someone to bring a letter back? You didn't send a letter to the Wangfu for two days. I thought you forgot the way back to the palace."

As she spoke, she pointed to the rain screen outside the pavilion, and said, "Furthermore, in such weather, how can it be so easy to catch a cold?" Before she finished speaking, a gust of cold wind made Daiyu sneezed.

Shui Rong tapped Daiyu's pretty nose, tightened Daiyu's cloak lapel, took her into the house, and said straight in his mouth: "I just said something like this, isn't it just a living retribution for the world, since I slapped my mouth ?" The words with a smile made Daiyu's thin red cheeks even hotter, and she gave him a reproachful look, but she didn't say anything anymore, she pursed her lips and smiled, snuggled into Shui Rong's arms, and walked into the house.

As long as Shui Rong comes back, even big things are nothing. Seeing Shui Rong's exhausted body, Daiyu felt extremely distressed. She sighed softly, and ordered people to prepare hot water, and serve Shui Rong to take a bath and change clothes, saying: " Mu Han, take a short rest, and I'll go to the kitchen to prepare some hot food for you."

But Shui Rong shook his head, took Dai Yu's arm, pulled her to sit beside him, and said: "Sit down obediently and don't move, Dai Er is going, I just had dinner in the palace, I just Just sit here obediently and accompany me."

Although I haven't seen Daiyu for only two days, the longing in my heart seems to have passed for a long time. I hugged Daiyu tightly, thinking about the changes in the palace, the sigh in my heart became more and more intense.

Concubine Xi's father is Li Yan, the guard commander of the capital, and he is in charge of all the guards in the Forbidden Palace. Then Li Yan conceited that he accompanied the former emperor, and wanted to push his daughter to the position of empress in the central palace, but he has been unable to do so for many years. Wishing, Shui Chen didn't promote his official position, and the dissatisfaction in his heart was already very deep.

Concubine Xi didn't want to help his father very much, all she wanted was Shui Chen's position as Queen of the Central Palace, if Shui Jian won the emperor, so what if they were high-ranking officials in their family?It's just her father's glory, what she wants is the respect and glory of her mother.

Since the incident with Concubine Wu Guifei, Concubine Xi has more or less understood Shui Chen's thoughts, and naturally hated Daiyu deeply, thinking that if Daiyu can be removed, or the queen can be blamed, then the time will come. The ministers that Li Yan has been in contact with over the years have jointly signed the petition, and she must be the queen.

On the day Shui Chen asked her to close the door to reflect, she was ordered to stay in the Palace of Yanxi Palace by pretending to be her. Instead, she left the palace openly, went back to Li Yan's mansion, and discussed it in detail. Many, just returned to the palace.

In fact, Shui Rong knew all of this, but he turned a blind eye and let her go, the little loach in his hand was not afraid of her making any troubles.

But Shui Chen was a little restless. After all, although Li Yan was not a big official, he was in charge of the guards of the Forbidden Palace. If he and Shui took advantage of the external cooperation, the palace might be the first to fall, not to mention, In today's tense time, it is already impossible to transfer Li Yan out of the palace, not to mention that most of the forbidden soldiers are his confidants, and the matter becomes even more difficult.

Knowing the plot of Concubine Xi and understanding her thoughts, she just wanted to use Daiyu as a bait to lure out all their forces, and then her defenses would be even more foolproof, so she heard that Mu Chen had arrived. The Beijing Prince's Mansion used an excuse to invite Shui Rong and Daiyu to the palace.

Shui Rong clenched his fists tightly, thinking of Shui Chen's scheme, he still couldn't help the anger in his heart rose when he thought about it, that Imperial Concubine Xi was really an idiot, knowing that Shui Chen liked Daiyu, she actually wanted to kill Daiyu Sending it to Shui Chen, wanting to split the relationship between them, even more foolishly pointing the finger at Shui Jian, wanting to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

During the Qixi Festival earlier, those incompetent things were sent by Concubine Xi, but they didn't learn their lesson and did such unstandard things, it's really abhorrent.

Quietly looking at Shui Jian who was kneeling on the ground, Shui Chen couldn't hide his anger, and said in a deep voice: "Shui Jian, I and the previous emperor treated you loyally and obediently to the palace, why are you still so ambitious? Not going away, trying to seek power and usurp the throne." The cold words were as cold as ice rain outside the window.

Shui Jian looked up at Shui Chen without any fear, and said with a cold smile: "The winner is the king, and the loser is the bandit. Since you are the winner today, what is the use of these useless things? If the emperor If you still think about a little bit of kinship, just kill me directly."

The high raised head made the anger in Shui Chen's heart rise to the highest point, a cold smile escaped his lips, and said: "You are not afraid of death, I know, then I don't know if you are afraid that life would be better than death. "

The water seeped face turned pale, but then he smiled and didn't answer, he turned his head to look at the heavy rain outside the window, as if he didn't care about it at all, he turned around after a long while, and said coldly: "If it wasn't for the help of water today, It may not be the end like this between us."

Shui Chen was slightly shocked, and immediately got up and said: "You can say what you said, even if there is no brother Rong, I will still be able to kill you." Ridiculous.

Shui Chen was made even more angry by his smile, and said: "Back then, your father actually burned Prince Zhongyi's family to death in a confined place for the sake of the throne, but now you are going to repeat the old trick again, trying to kill the prince's family." Is this Hall of Mental Cultivation completely burned down? How can I tolerate you with such a wolfish ambition?"

Shui Jian's heart trembled slightly, he looked up and saw Shui Chen beckoning the eunuchs outside the door to come in, and unexpectedly came in with the old concubine Zhongshun, he couldn't help being even more surprised, he hurriedly stepped forward and waved away the eunuchs who were escorting the old concubine , coldly guarding the old concubine behind her, looking at Shui Chen who was sitting on the dragon chair with the look of a stern king all over her body, she no longer had the certainty in her heart.

Shui Chen looked at Shui Jian coldly, and said with a faint smile, "What? Prince Zhongshun still has some people in his heart, and he still knows how to care about his old mother."

Shui Jian pulled the old concubine by his side, and said coldly: "The emperor used the old and weak women and children to deal with me, which is an excellent measure." He was full of anxiety and worry for the old concubine, and the words he uttered were even more eloquent. Don't choose words.

Seeing that Shui Jian lost his sense of proportion, Shui Chen smiled with satisfaction, and said coldly: "Since you chose this path at the beginning, you should have thought of this day long ago, why bother to say what is wrong with me now? If there is no , it’s just that you dragged it down.”

Just as she was about to ask the eunuch to drag the old concubine down, she was blocked by water seepage, but the loyal old concubine suddenly knelt down and said, "I beg the emperor to show mercy, I don't need my life, I just beg For the sake of the flesh and blood of the same family, the emperor should forgive Xie'er this time."

Seeing the old concubine kneeling down to beg for mercy, Shui Jian's heart became more and more heavy. He pulled the old concubine up and said, "It's the son who is unfilial, and actually hurt the old mother. Don't blame the mother."

The old concubine Zhongshun watched the water seep, tears rolled down her eyes, she knew that this child of hers was a proud and proud person, so naturally he would not submit to others, when the old prince Zhongshun burned the prison Burning Prince Zhongyi's family to death, the sins in his heart were already too heavy. Fortunately, the water seepage did not cause a big mistake today, but it was too late.

Quietly holding Shui Jian's hand, but tearful and relatively speechless, Shui Jian sent himself out of the capital, but he forgot that there is no king in the world, even if he goes to the ends of the earth, he will be caught back What's more, there are people staring at Zhongshun Palace all the time, how can they get out?

Shui Chen looked at them, smiled coldly, and was about to say something, but heard the eunuch outside the door say: "The queen mother is here." Shui Chen was shocked, and hurriedly got up and walked to the door, watching Shui Rong and Daiyu help Seeing the queen mother come in, he couldn't help being even more stunned, but he smiled lightly and said: "The son has seen the queen mother."

The Empress Dowager looked at the old Concubine Zhongshun, sighed softly, and said: "The emperor has been extremely busy these days, logically speaking, the Ai family shouldn't bother the emperor anymore, but, after all, the Ai family has something to worry about. "The eyes looked at the old concubine Zhongshun.

Shui Chen looked at the Empress Dowager with some understanding, then looked at Shui Rong and Daiyu beside the Empress Dowager, and said with a faint smile: "What's the matter unfinished by the Empress Mother? She asked the Empress Mother to go there in person and ordered someone to tell me Just one sound."

Looking at the Empress Dowager Shuichen, she said with a faint smile, "There is nothing wrong with the Ai family, but I am just a little worried about the emperor." The old concubine Zhongshun felt even more guilty when she saw the empress dowager. His kindness has never been less, today's matter is a great crime to exterminate the nine clans, seeing the Queen Mother, on the contrary, I don't know how to speak.

Shui Chen said with a smile: "The queen mother has returned to the palace to rest. I am fine, and the queen mother can rest assured." The queen mother nodded, stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you must forgive others, let alone an old man who is dying. , no matter what your children and grandchildren are, you must have kindness in your heart after all."

The words came to an end, and they left together holding Daiyu's hand, Shui Chen looked thoughtfully at the departure of the three queen mothers and Shui Rong Daiyu. Looking at all the eunuchs and maids beside her, she said with a smile: "If you hadn't reminded Aijia about what happened today, Aijia really wouldn't have known about it. Although the water seepage is ridiculous and messy, the old concubine is still a kind person after all. The wronged soul in the prince's mansion, she has been living in the temple in order to alleviate some of the sins for the water seepage."

Daiyu held the Queen Mother's hand, but she lowered her eyebrows and said nothing. The autumn chrysanthemums in the imperial garden were stained with dew, blooming in the cold wind enchantingly with a touch of beauty, which is incomparable to the aloofness and indifference.

Shui Rong pondered for a moment, and said: "I'm afraid that after a while, Erchen and Dai'er will go to the south of the Yangtze River." The queen mother was shocked when she heard that, she held Shui Rong and Daiyu's hands tightly, and sighed: " Forget it, forget it, the Ai family knows that since you accompanied the Ai family to find Chen'er today, you must have some thoughts, it's worth it, since the affairs in the capital are over, you can avoid it."

Shui Rong and Daiyu looked at each other, but smiled at each other, not just to avoid, but to miss the mountains and rivers in the future, not to respect the royal family, just want to live the lives of ordinary people, as for the capital, except for the Queen Mother, when There is really no one to miss.

After all, the queen mother was a little worried, and the creases between her eyebrows became thicker and thicker, which was actually a deep sorrow and worry that could not be resolved. Daiyu said softly: "You don't have to worry about the mother, the emperor is the most obedient. Empress Mother meant that the loyal old concubine would be fine, but the prince Zhongshun would never have a chance of surviving."

The queen mother nodded, and sighed: "Yes, Shui Jian committed a rebellion, intending to seek power and usurp the throne, which is already a death penalty for implicating the nine clans. If he is not a royal relative, I don't know how many people can be put to death by this act. .” But this is also the path he chose, blind tolerance will give him another chance, and raising tigers will eventually become a serious problem.

What's more, the thousands of lives of Prince Loyalty and Yi's family, large and small, should be counted.

The constant cut raindrops fell on the cold lake in late autumn and rippled. The splashing rain was left from the tiles and hung in front of the house like the Milky Way falling for nine days. The remnant chrysanthemums were blown by the rain, and the melancholy in my heart became more and more intense. The autumn chrysanthemums were scattered, the rain hit the branches, and the yellow flowers and twigs fell to the ground. The desolation of autumn is getting closer to the depression and coldness of winter.