Dream of the Red Chamber: Rong Dai

The silver flakes of moonlight fell on the bamboo leaves on the ground from the branches, the softness was mixed with a coldness and indifference that was difficult to express clearly, and he looked at the withered and yellow branches and leaves that fell on the ground unconsciously.

As the breeze passed by, a bright yellow figure floated down from the bamboo forest.

Sang Qingyan, who frowned and turned back when she heard the voice, suddenly opened her eyes wide, and her eyes were filled with horror. The sudden fear and fear made her feel panicked, her drooping plain white fingers trembled slightly, and her lips twitched slightly. Yi Yi said: "Your Majesty, why are you here?"

Shui Han quietly looked at Sang Qingyan who was as pale as paper under the moonlight, Daiyu seemed to hear a faint sigh, but in an instant she heard him say: "You are heavy, why are you here?"

Looking around the gloomy bamboo forest, he said again: "The humidity here is heavy, so don't stay here for too long, let's go."

The silver moonlight showed Sang Qingyan's face clearly.The woman who was terrified at the beginning now had a calm smile on her face, and she walked lightly beside Shui Han, with a gleam on her face, and said, "When did the emperor come here? It would be a surprise to appear suddenly." The concubine jumped."

Caressing the swollen belly with slender hands, he smiled again: "The baby in the belly is really uncomfortable." Looking at the speechless Shui Han, he said with a smile: "It just so happened that I came out for a walk. When I met two girls from the Yu family, it seemed that the young lady of the Yu family had some thoughts about Brother Rong."

Shui Han's indifferent face revealed a trace of coldness, turned around and glanced at Sang Qingyan, said "oh" softly, and said: "You also know Rong Wangdi's affection for Yun Dai, so don't do such a thing Blended in. It is only serious to be careful about your own body if you are heavy."

Sang Qingyan smiled more Wen Wen, but the panic hidden in her eyes became more and more serious. She was not sure when Cai Shuihan came over and how much she had heard. At this time, she could only put all her eggs in one basket and say that it might be a turning point.

"Your Majesty, there is one thing I have never understood about my concubine. Just now, what the eldest lady of the Yu family said both inside and outside was about Yun Dai, and she gave me the box of peach blossom rouge. I heard it very well." I don't think it's good. It's just that I sent out that box of rouge after all. If it's really not good, if I say it, Yundai Huangmei will blame me for having a strange feeling in my heart. If I don't say that I'm afraid that Yundai will have something wrong .”

Shui Han stopped in her tracks at this moment, and suddenly turned around to stare at Sang Qingyan's undisguised eyes. Her eyes were as sharp as sharp knives, and her voice turned cold, "Oh? There is such a thing? That's going to Remind Yun Dai to be serious, if something happens, isn't it our fault?"

Shui Han turned his back to the moonlight, and the flickering bamboo shadow made Sang Qingyan unable to see the expression on his face, and he only thought that Shui Han was worried about Daiyu, so he said: "In that case, I will tell you Yun Dai said, just hoping that she won't misunderstand what I mean."

Shui Han silently listened to Sang Qingyan finished speaking, missed Sang Qingyan's side, and said: "I don't know when we need to talk in such a polite way, you are no longer the original you .Or is that just your original face?"

After hearing this, Sang Qingyan looked at Shui Han in astonishment, her slender hands were already tightly grasping his sleeves and said, "What does the emperor mean by this? We have lived together as a husband and wife for such a long time, and we have grown up together since we were young." Big childhood sweetheart, does the emperor really not know that Qing Yan's life is only for you?"

Shui Han took a deep look at her, and said: "You are overthinking! I know that you are all for me, so I gave you a chance to confess to me. Everything could have stopped abruptly. But you It is too late to engrave it deeply in everyone's heart."

Sang Qingyan tightly clenched Shui Han's sleeve, the panic in her heart spread more and more, she touched his cheek with a trembling hand, and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I have never hidden anything from you, have you? Don't you believe me? I still have our child in my womb, how can I not accumulate some sin for our child?"

Shui Han sighed softly in his heart from the tears falling down, and gently wiped away the tears from Sang Qingyan's cheeks, Shui Han said lightly: "But you have gone beyond the bounds of morality. My heart is for you." Can't you feel it? Why do you have to be suspicious again and again to harm others? If Brother Rong was a little negligent, Yun Dai might have died in Huangquan long ago."

Suddenly loosening the arm that was holding Shui Han tightly, Sang Qingyan looked at Shui Han and said indifferently: "I don't know what the emperor said, I only know that there is still a portrait of Yun Dai hanging in the emperor's imperial study."

These words were like a heavy boulder hitting Daiyu's heart, and her mind went blank, if it wasn't for Shui Rong pulling her, she might have already asked to understand.Could it be that Sang Qingyan's revenge stemmed from this reason from the beginning?

His suddenly cold eyes stared coldly at the two people standing still under the moonlight, the silence seemed to be only the creaking of grass insects in autumn, and only the swaying shadow branches of the bamboo forest swaying back and forth.

"How do you know that the portrait in my imperial study is Yun Dai?" Shui Han took Sang Qingyan's words lightly.

Sang Qingyan seemed to have lost her mind. She looked at Shui Han with her pupils wide open suddenly, and said, "How do I know? Of course I know. I have been a treasure in the hands of my parents since I was a child, and I am the princess of the Beijing Prince's Mansion." My daughter is the eldest daughter of the current prime minister. Everyone treats me like a treasure."

"My cousin Rong, my childhood sweetheart who grew up with you, you all treat me like a little princess and protect and love me. But, but, since Lin Daiyu appeared, you all treat her like a baby Cousin Rong no longer cares about my cousin's affairs, and only cares about making her happy. The same is true for my aunt, who treats her like a baby, and even ignores me like that."

The more she talked, the more ferocious her face became. The angry face made Shui Rong freeze her face immediately. Daiyu snuggled into Shui Rong's arms, her heart was like a tide rising and falling. She never knew that Sang Qingyan's hatred for her came from her relationship with her. Therefore, when they met that day, it was not her illusion that the warmth was mixed with the severe winter.

"Qingyan, do you know what you are talking about? Yun Dai lost her parents since she was a child and grew up in Jia's mansion. Of course, people feel pity for the cold and warm world. What's more, the younger brother of the King of Beijing is very fond of Yun Dai. He treats Yun Dai better than you. Concubine Bei Jing loves Yun Dai because she and Yun Dai's mother-in-law Jia Min are best friends in the boudoir, and the two overlap each other. Is there any fault in this? "

Sang Qingyan looked at Shui Han with a slight smile and said, "Of course I don't care about their affairs." Then she stared at Shui Han and said, "When I had never heard of Lin Daiyu, I saw Lin Daiyu in your East Palace. A portrait, hehe, isn’t it the Princess of Beijing Jing in the future? You cherish it so much, such a treasure, do you dare to say that you don’t have any thoughts on it?”

"At the time at Ciyun Temple, I had a little affection in my heart, and I wanted to let go from then on. Who knew that the first thing you knew was to see if Yundai was hurt. Have you ever remembered me? No! You always put Yun Dai in the first place. I am your wife, but you did not make me the queen when you became the emperor, do you want to kill Shui Rong and make Lin Daiyu the queen?"

"Pa" Shui Han slapped Sang Qingyan's frantic and ferocious face, and said coldly, "Sang Qingyan, calm down."

Sang Qingyan covered her hot face, tears rolled down, Shui Han took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I was infatuated with her when I saw that portrait. Pursue her. However, the changes in the world have been fixed, and the emperor named her Princess Yundai, she is my imperial sister, the princess of our Shui family, is there any reason in the world for an elder brother to pursue a younger sister?"

As she said that, she stared at the bright starry sky and said, "When Yun Dai married Brother Rong, I had already destroyed that portrait."

Sang Qingyan looked up at Shui Han in astonishment, and murmured: "Then who is the portrait that follows you all the time in your study?"

"You haven't seen the portrait since then, how do you know that the portrait can't be you?"

"Impossible, impossible." Sang Qingyan felt that Shui Han's words were like a handful of icicles in his head, and said, "Is that my portrait? Do you value me so much?"

Shui Han stepped forward and tightly clutched Sang Qingyan's skirt, with a look of cold anger in his eyes, he said sharply: "For so many years, our relationship, our husband and wife relationship, don't you understand that I love you so much? Yun Dai is the concubine of Prince Rong, and you are my concubine, the future queen in my mind. But you are wrong, you are too wrong, you have completely destroyed my feelings for you Exhausted."

Letting go of his hands, Shui Han said coldly: "I have never registered as a queen or concubine since I ascended the throne. I thought you would be vigilant, and I thought you would correct yourself. This is the opportunity I gave you, and it is also the opportunity for my grandmother and my wife to repent." Your father gave you a chance. But you have failed our expectations of you. The peach rouge you gave Yundai today is mixed with oleander powder and a highly poisonous substance similar to peach blossom pink, right?"

Sang Qingyan looked at Shui Han with ashen face, and said, "Who told you this?"

Shui Han clenched her hands, and said coldly, "It's Yu Ru'er."

Sang Qingyan fell to the ground, and the autumn frost on the ground made her tremble with coldness.

"The peach blossom rouge you collaborated with Yu Meijiao will be poisoned by the oleander powder after a long time, and the aroma of the peach blossom is hard to distinguish. When Yun Dai uses it for too long, the toxin will definitely be deposited. In the body. Moreover, it is inevitable for her child to be close to her, how can a small child withstand the attack of poison? You are so vicious."

"Taking Yu Ru'er's mother to blackmail her is really a good strategy. But you have forgotten that Shui Rong is not someone who is easily fooled by you. He has long suspected the conspiracy between you. Yu Ru'er's mother has long been Shui Rong Put it in a safe place, the peach blossom rouge you put out today is just a play that Yu Ru'er is cooperating with you."

Sang Qingyan smiled lightly and said: "So you all already know, you just kept me in the dark, watching me fall step by step into the abyss, but you just watched and didn't reach out to hold me, right?"

Shui Han looked at Sang Qingyan with great heartache and said: "Is there no one to pull you? Qingyan, didn't Yun Dai remind you after the incident at Hancui Temple that day? You heard it too, but why didn't you Change? Who knew that repaying grievances with kindness will only provoke you to use more ruthless means."

Taking a deep breath, Shui Han said again: "The meat and bone porridge you ordered Ran Yu to cook that day in the south of the Yangtze River, and it happened that Ding Ping drank it. If it was Yun Dai, I'm afraid her child would never have the chance to be born."

He has a lot of affection for Sang Qingyan in his heart. The momentary infatuation with Daiyu that day, and later on, his love and affection for Sang Qingyan gradually made him tolerant of her affairs.

Could it be possible that what Sang Qingyan did could be concealed from his eyes and ears in the East Palace?It was because of his momentary confusion that he actually shielded her for the sake of their bond of husband and wife, and he didn't want to let her continue to be wrong like this.

Shui Rong once reminded him, and also told him, that he was the one who kept suppressing her, not to hurt her.Who knew that he was the one who contributed to the worsening of the situation later on. After all, he was a failed husband who made Sang Qingyan so unconfident.

"How do you know so much?" Sang Qingyan was filled with panic all over her body, suddenly remembered that Ranyu hadn't followed her yet, and she understood in her heart, "You caught Ranyu, didn't you?"

Shui Han's eyes were filled with pity, and she looked at Sang Qingyan and said indifferently: "Yes, Ran Yu, your proud confidant, has been arrested by me, and she has confessed to everything, even many things we don't know. You did everything you know. When I came here today, I still had a half-hearted thought. As long as you tell me frankly, everything can be wiped out. Even if Shui Rong and Yun Dai blame me, I will Make you queen, because you are my wife."

Sang Qingyan looked at Shui Han's face in a daze, and laughed: "Since I was born, some people have said that I was born to be a queen, so I have always been close to you and always please you, because the queen is supreme. That is the throne I have dreamed of since I was a child. No matter who it is, as long as it blocks my way to ascend to the queen's baby, I will chop her off with a knife without hesitation."

Shui Han looked at Sang Qingyan sadly, brushed the withered yellow bamboo leaves that fell from her body, and said, "I'll give you the queen's throne if you want it, but if you kill Li Xueqing, I will make you the queen."

When Sang Qingyan heard this, a look of joy appeared on her face, and said: "Then Li Xueqing had already gone to hell when she made the rouge, and followed their Li family."

Shui Han looked at Sang Qingyan's smiling face in astonishment, and said: "In this case, tomorrow I will order you to set an auspicious day in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and canonize you as queen." Then he turned around and said: "Actually, it is up to you In my heart, the dream of a queen since I was a child is probably much heavier than my husband, right?"

Sang Qingyan looked at his back, gradually digesting the meaning of Shui Han's words, but deliberately ignored his last words, a smile appeared on the corner of her lips, and said: "I am the queen, I am finally the queen. "

Her dream since she was a child, and her firm belief since she was a child, have been in her mind, and now she has finally come to the end of all hardships. She is a queen who is under one person and above ten thousand people, and shares the worship of ten thousand people with Shui Han.

Holding her heavy waist with her hands, Sang Qingyan slowly walked towards the palace ahead.

Shui Rong helped Daiyu to come out, looked at the tears falling down Daiyu's cheeks, and gently wiped them away.

Daiyu looked at Shui Rong and said, "Brother Rong, did you already know about it when you were in Jiangnan?"

Shui Rong nodded, and said: "Yes, I also told the emperor, but he was concerned about his affection for her, and he couldn't bear to hurt her after all."

Daiyu nodded, wiped away the tears rolling down from the corners of her eyes, and said quietly: "Actually, in her heart, I'm afraid that the queen's position is a bit more important than the emperor's. That's all, brother Rong, let's go, I I don’t want to stay here any longer.”

Shui Rong nodded as he said, and slowly walked towards the Queen Mother's palace while holding Daiyu's little hand.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, Shui Han ordered the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to confer Sang Qingyan as queen, and the auspicious date was set three days later.

After a day's pause, another imperial decree was issued, conferring Concubine Feng the title of Xian Guifei, ranking first among concubines in the harem, titled Xian, and holding the canonization ceremony together with the queen.

Concubine Feng was originally a side concubine in the crown prince's womb, so no one would object to her canonization as a noble concubine at this time, the only object of criticism is her title, the noble concubine is still under the empress, and a virtuous character is given, the title plus the title of noble concubine is faint Has the momentum to be on an equal footing with the queen.

What's more, Shui Han's imperial edict issued that the empress is pregnant and handing over all affairs in the palace to Concubine Xiangui, which is equivalent to handing over the phoenix seal of the harem to Concubine Feng. The only thing left for Sang Qingyan is the title of empress .

During the palace banquet, the sisters of the Yu family were gentle and virtuous, and they conferred Yu Ru'er as Concubine Yu and Yu Meijiao as Yu Meiren, whose status was far lower than Yu Ru'er's.

In the grand draft for the new emperor's ascension to the throne, all the daughters of officials of the fifth rank and above in the court will be drafted in the palace and canonized as concubines in the palace.For a while, the originally deserted palace was full of beauties and beauties.

Daiyu teased the little doll with the rattle in her hand, and seeing him with a sultry appearance, the warmth in her heart became more and more intense.

"This time, I'm afraid Mr. Jiang will make a fortune again." Because there are so many women selected in the capital, there are many people who buy things for the palace.Jewelry, satin, jewellery, finely crafted small collections, everything is enough to make Jiang Lianyu a lot of money.

Daiyu looked back at Shui Wanyu and said, "I'm afraid you, a little girl, are the happiest." Then she laughed and said, "I haven't gotten married yet, so I'm just thinking about how to make money for your family. She is really a wonderful little girl."