The biography of Concubine Lin in the harem

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Locked Golden Beast Chain Cold (2)

In the twilight, without knowing how many times the time has turned, Zhu Chengbi only felt dizzy, and there seemed to be a fire burning on his knees, and the heat was enveloping and accumulating pain, and it seemed to be wandering through the whole body, making people feel distracted. uncomfortable.

When he managed to open his eyes, he was already in Yining Palace, the candlelight was glowing with warm light like three springs, like a vast ocean dazzled by the sun, coming in waves one after another, within reach, as if there were The extremely soft and soft silk silk brushes past, bringing a rare comfort.

Zhu Chengbi focused slightly, looking at the luxurious and delicate auspicious patterns carved on the top of the bed, bergamot, daylilies, hibiscus, snow lotus, golden peach, the patterns are extremely detailed, the colors are extremely full, and the outlines are extremely clear, but they can be distinguished in detail, as if they are far away from themselves. Far away, like the scenery on the other side, no matter how bright and gorgeous it is, it is always out of reach.

Zhu Chengbi's eyes were blurred for a moment, and there were clearly strands of tears. He once thought that if he became a queen mother, he would be able to enjoy wealth and life in peace. there is none left.

"you're awake?"

Suddenly a hoarse and deep male voice sounded, Zhu Chengbi was in a trance, remembering that in Dali, Xuanling led someone to break into the Yining Palace, after he reprimanded him, he passed out as soon as he entered the palace, and when he woke up again, It was such a soft and warm sentence from Yizhen, under the warm and comfortable sunlight in the early morning, it seemed to be an intimate greeting between a husband and wife who have been working hard for many years.

Zhu Chengbi embraced the brocade quilt angrily, turned his eyes, and saw the pattern of durian flowers and magpies on the quilt, such a happy color, but it made his heart feel as if he had sunk into a swamp, so bitter that he couldn't see the end.

"You go, I don't want to see you."

Yizhen felt a burst of anxiety: "Bi'er, you are so angry, what did you do to fall off the steps? Do you know how regretful I am?"

Zhu Chengbi forced a smile, and the smile was like melting ice, sticking to his face stiffly, like a mask, and he couldn't make a half-autonomous look: "Are you regretful? You ruined a life in the court!"

Yizheng's heart twitched violently, like a barbed machete whizzing across, and scarlet sticky blood welled up: "How can I not be sad? You have been plotting against me step by step. Since the beginning of the year, when have you , At what moment are you not designing me? Are you not guarding against me? Are you not monitoring me?"

Zhu Chengbi sat up straight, staring sharply at Yizheng's face: "Why did I come here? Want to plot against you all the time? If you hadn't tossed so many things last year, if your subordinates hadn't done so much overreach for you Even intending to add a yellow robe to your body, how could I plot against my beloved man like this?"

Yizhen was stunned, he didn't know whether it was sadness, sadness, or a strong desire to cry, he just felt that his whole heart and lungs were filled with pain, and he couldn't help himself at all: "Even if I sit on the entire court, my heart can't Isn't it placed here with you? No matter how much I do, it's all for you, do you want to open my chest and test my heart before you can be convinced?"

Zhu Chengbi turned his face away coldly, clutching the brocade quilt tightly, even the fiery red pomegranate flowers distorted their color and turned into ashes: "Excessive power will only drown your heart and dilute your affection. Until I become an obstacle on your way to the emperor..."

"Bi'er!" Yizhen hurriedly took Zhu Chengbi's hand, his hand was so hot, but hers was so cold, it was like a piece of ice hanging in the deep sea, suddenly being hit by the waves to the surface of the sea, the blazing fire The bright sun whipped up large swaths of steam in an instant, forcing the piece of ice to sink into the bottom of the sea again, unfathomably deep, without seeing the sun.

"How do you want me to say that I can believe that I have no covetous heart for the throne. If I had this intention long ago, how could it be delayed until now? Do you want me to retire? The emperor is young, and I am in my prime. Is it not good for Zhou to govern in an orderly manner and hand it over to the emperor?"

"Well-organized?" Zhu Chengbi laughed dumbfounded, as if his heart was aroused, "Xu Fujing's family is so miserable, and the case of the Xiting Party has such a big impact, how dare you say that the governance is well-organized? Your way of governing the country is just following me Those who rebel against me will perish! What's more, how much did the emperor learn in the study room? Your subordinate Peng Anzhi is very good at handling things. He doesn't teach a single principle of governing the country, but he teaches so many poems and songs. Dare to ask the regent You, isn't this out of selfishness to firmly hold on to power?"

Yizhen argued anxiously: "I know a lot of things, but you may not know as well. My subordinates are indeed very worried, but what they did does not mean that I said it."

"You don't know? If one day, when the dragon robes were put on you, you would be surrounded by Yiyuan Hall, watching our mother and son being expelled from the capital, or even beheaded without a reason, and you would also say 'my subordinate' It’s really worrying’?” Zhu Chengbi sighed, almost bursting into tears: “I don’t know, even if I can know, I don’t believe it, and what I can believe, but it’s so far away, whether I’m going to live forever All you want is Nankey Yimeng?"

Yizhen didn't know how to answer the words, but felt his heart slowly sinking. He was silent for a moment, but he caught a glimpse of Zhu Chengbi's empty wrist. His heart ached, and finally he softened: "We, maybe it's better not to meet each other yet. .”

Zhu Chengbi's eyes froze, and the bitterness in his heart almost enveloped his whole heart: "You are the regent, so whatever you say, go with you."

Yizhen slowly got up and left, his figure stretched inch by inch in the blur of candlelight, he was getting further and further away from himself, but his figure was getting longer and longer, as if strung together for 25 years, and finally followed With the opening and closing of the palace door, it returned to plain.

I don't know how long it has passed, Zhu Chengbi only felt a burst of cold wind wrapped in moist rain and refreshing, it turned out that the breath of bamboo came in quietly, she offered a cup of calming tea, and persuaded in a low voice: "The regent only ordered the servants to take good care of the queen mother. Ma'am, it's just that his expression seems to be extremely bad. What did the Empress Dowager say to him?"

Zhu Chengbi shook his head slightly, feeling that his hands were weak, he couldn't catch the teacup that was being chased by the dragons for a while, and it fell on the gold-woven red velvet carpet, splashing a black stain.

Zhu Xi hurriedly knelt down: "Empress Dowager! What's wrong with you?"

Zhu Chengbi shook his head slowly: "Where is the emperor?"

"At Fengyi Palace."

Zhu Chengbi let out a long breath: "At this time, only the queen can soothe his emotions." She paused for a while, caressed her cheek like a self-deprecating smile, "Aijia has never been I like the empress, but at this moment, only relying on the empress will prevent the emperor from causing other troubles."

Zhu Xi was silent for a moment, and only held Zhu Chengbi's hand tightly: "Today's incident was too sudden, the regent may just want to vent, and the empress dowager doesn't need to pay too much attention."

"This time, it was soldiers trapped in the court, so, next time, will it be soldiers trapped in Yiyuan Hall?" Zhu Chengbi closed his eyes in a slump, only to hear the cicadas chirping outside the hall, like a cage of wild animals And the chaotic voice makes people feel chest tightness, shortness of breath, and discomfort in every way.And in that black and dirty background, the vivid pattern on the teacup became clearer and clearer, the double dragon was only one bead, and that bead belonged to only one person.After more than half a year of tug-of-war, but only at this time, a strong murderous intent that even frightened him really surged up.

After a long time, Zhu Chengbi only uttered three words: "Pass the kapok."

When Kapok entered the palace, Zhu Chengbi was rubbing the Pai Gow in her hand one by one. Her blue silk was scattered softly, and she was wearing a pajamas with simple and solemn patterns, without any beads, like an ordinary lady. It's not the empress dowager of a country.

Kapok leaned slightly: "May the Empress Dowager be blessed and safe!"

Zhu Chengbi raised his hand slowly: "How is Zhu Qizhen's leg injury recently?"

Mu Mian had already known about today's shocking changes in the court, but unexpectedly, Zhu Chengbi summoned him late at night, just to ask about Zhu Qizhen's leg injury. Now, although it is no longer as agile as before, but the movement is not hindered."

Zhu Chengbi smiled slightly, and took a gilt ring inlaid with rubies on the bedside to play with carefully: "That's good, he hasn't been in court for a long time, has he ever greeted the regent?"

Mu Mian cautiously said: "Don't worry, Empress Dowager, Your Excellency has gone to the Prince Regent's Mansion several times to inquire about the Prince Regent's well-being, and the Prince Regent even summoned him a few days ago. This is a rare event since the beginning of the year."

Zhu Chengbi's complexion relaxed, and he glanced at the dark sky outside the window, such a gloomy night, full of irreparable decadence, as if a heart that originally expected to be bright had rolled in the dyeing vat once, and the thick The ink-like night is no different.

Zhu Chengbi sighed quietly, retracted the thoughts that drifted farther away, and said in a deep thought: "I am afraid that at that time, the regent king already knew about Miao Congzhe and Gan Xun's defection, so it seems that he should be slightly relieved of Zhu Qizhen. .”

Before the words were finished, Zhu Yu hurriedly opened the curtain and came in, Fu Yifu said: "The Empress Dowager, there is news from the Prince Regent's Palace."

Zhu Chengbi knew that it was the letter delivered by Fu Wanting's flying pigeon, so he stretched out his hand to take the small folded scroll, and when he unfolded it, he was stunned.

Kapok tentatively asked, "What news did the Empress Dowager get?"

"The Regent sent an order to return to Beijing from the Fifth Army Battalion."

Mu Mian was slightly stunned: "The Fifth Army Battalion is guarding the Shanhaiguan Pass. If there is no order from the Empress Dowager, how can they go back to Beijing without authorization?"

Not sure what to say, but another young maid rushed in: "Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager Defei sent someone to deliver the news, saying that Shangshu Gan's mansion was confiscated."

"Gan Xun is the minister of the Ministry of War. It is really suspicious that the regent raided Gan's mansion late at night!" An ominous thought flashed in Mu Mian's heart, and he said anxiously, "Empress Dowager, don't you think that he is..."

Seeing Mu Mian abruptly swallowed the second half of the sentence, Zhu Chengbi's heart trembled, and he quickly glanced at her: "What do you want to say, what is the regent doing?"

Kapok hesitated for a moment, then slowly uttered two words: "Seize the military power."

Zhu Chengbi was shocked, and felt a layer of cold sweat dripping from her back, and the forged edict of the first emperor suddenly appeared in her mind, and the moment she turned her eyes, it was the bamboo breath and bamboo green skirt that flashed outside the palace door, and she panicked. Entering the hall, he knelt down with a "plop": "The Empress Dowager! Duan Jin, the Empress Dowager, is dead!"

Zhu Chengbi stood up abruptly, his hands trembling like the bleak yellow leaves on the branches in autumn that could not bear the strong wind, he took a step forward and supported her tightly with the breath of bamboo: "The empress dowager is mourning, I respect the empress dowager, she walked very peacefully."

Zhu Chengbi's lips trembled slightly, and a trace of tension and joy welled up inappropriately in his heart. He held onto his limbs tightly, and all his muscles and bones twitched violently, but it seemed as if someone had penetrated him from the top of his head. The extremely finely crushed ice particles spread throughout the body along the blood.

It was the ecstasy deeply buried behind the ever-increasing panic and fear, like a life-saving dead branch caught by a drowning man, but it was what Zhu Chengbi spent his whole life and would never forget, the most regretful and painful memory.

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