The Jade of the Red Chamber

Qianxiang Kingdom and other vassal states are coming to pay homage, and the court is busy with various affairs. All forces are thinking about what this pilgrimage can bring to them, and how to use it for their own benefit?

Prince Zhongshun was imprisoned in the palace inexplicably, thinking that it was the concubine mother who offended the old sage, and a villain slandered him in front of the emperor. When the father was the emperor, didn't all the big things come out of danger?Therefore, King Zhongshun and his subordinates all focused their attention on this grand pilgrimage event, but did not pay much attention to the turmoil in the palace.

A few days ago, when the court was in court, most of the ministers reported the arrangements for the pilgrimage, but today it was uncharacteristically. Several officials and censors rummaged through the old cases of several very famous ministers who were convicted and executed, and they kept saying that their family members were among them. The censors were embarrassed to bring evidence and asked to reverse the case and return his innocence. For the sake of the Supreme Emperor, he asked for a thorough investigation!

For a while, the court fell silent, and the courtiers were a little terrified, and there was a faint feeling that the sky was about to change—these old cases were all decided by the Supreme Emperor, and the remaining veterans knew it in their hearts, but it was "a dead dog". It’s just an old-fashioned example of “cooking” and high-skilled eyes!Now that the old sage is still around, do you want to thoroughly investigate these cases today?But don't say it's not the meaning of the emperor, the official censor is also a courtier, without the meaning of the emperor, who would dare to turn over the old account of the emperor so carelessly!Especially when the old sage is still there, and it's not that life is too long!The speech officials are of course yearning for the famous ministers who touch the pillars and leave a long history, but they also cherish their lives!

The officials of King Loyalty’s faction couldn’t sit still at first. You must know that they and their master can still be so prosperous after they succeed to the throne. The biggest reliance is the old sage. His filial piety to the old sage and the old sage’s love for the loyal prince It's the backing they dare to fight against the current government openly and secretly, and seize power and collect money!Now that the officials have come up with this, isn't it a signal that today they want to completely break away from the old sage and take charge of it by themselves?

Immediately, some courtiers knelt down and said: "You must not! Isn't this disrespectful to the old sage? The Supreme Emperor is wise and powerful. These cases have been settled, and the evidence is solid. Now they are just some unscrupulous people who are looking for trouble. , Why is there such a big fanfare? From the point of view of humble ministers, these unscrupulous people should be punished to appease the wrath of the old sage!"

The officer sneered: "Master Fu's eloquence is so powerful, but he just asked His Majesty to investigate these cases, and it was also to silence these people, so that they would not plaster the old sage's sage! How come it became an admonition in Mr. Fu's mouth Are the officials disrespecting the old sage?"

Another official from the loyal faction popped up and shouted loudly: "Qi Zou Shengshang! Yushitai disregards the old sage's holy will, where is the pure filial piety of the sage going? The old sage will be furious if Yushitai acts like this , wouldn’t you put the sage in a state of disrespect?!” Immediately afterwards, a courtier echoed, “The censor officials have always been good at admonishing death in order to leave a name in history. This is indeed a crime of disrespect!”

Shui Zhan sat on the top seat, looking at the mess underneath, he felt a little relieved, pursed his lips, and watched their heated debate quietly, before he could make a sound, he could still see who was different What do you think?

"Death admonishment to leave a name in history" has already been said. Although the courtiers know it in their hearts, they will not say it in public. Those censors and admonishers are lunatics. If they slap their faces like this, they will offend them. A whole group of people, that sharp mouth is enough for people to bear, if so many people crusade together, many courtiers will break out in sweat just thinking about it.

That minister regretted it as soon as he said it. He is not an important minister with real power, and he is not taken seriously under the command of Prince Zhongshun. This time he made great contributions, but he made a big mess!

Sure enough, the censors who were calm and confident at first couldn’t bear it any longer. These people are all famous scholars who came out of the Imperial Academy and are full of scriptures. How can you not be angry!One by one, like a cat that stepped on its tail, a string of words came out of their mouths, citing scriptures, enumerating the Ming emperors of various dynasties, and bringing up the calendar and favors one by one, which made others feel ashamed.

Those courtiers who held objections couldn't even get in the conversation, so they couldn't ignore the etiquette and overwhelm the conversation loudly, right?In front of today, it would really be a crime of disrespect to act like country folks going to a market!

The courtier who said the wrong thing, the ministers of the loyal and submissive faction, and the ministers with other careful thoughts all turned pale. When the officials said this, it seemed that all the reasons in the world were on their side, that is, The old sage came and couldn't refute it. If he disagrees today, I'm afraid it's not a violation of filial piety, but inhumane, unrighteous, and unsagely!

Sure enough, today, the boat went smoothly and said: "With the benevolence of the old sage, I will definitely not want to teach my ministers to be wronged! As a son of man, I must thoroughly investigate and correct the old sage's sage! Shi Tai and the Ministry of Punishment are in charge of this matter!"

King Zhongshun was detained in the palace, and it was not until his subordinates sent a letter to inform him that things had gone wrong. The third son always wanted to gain a reputation of pure filial piety, and he was obedient to the old saint, and never dared to refute. Something happened, Zhongshun was anxious to go to the palace to have a look. The Supreme Emperor was his biggest backer. Now that he was fledgling, the old sage must have nothing to do, but didn't he say that the old sage was in good health a few days ago?Even years ago, he could make the concubine pregnant!

An exasperated Zhongshun was about to leave the mansion and enter the palace, but just as he stepped out of the outer courtyard, he was stopped by a group of guards who purged with swords. Unexpectedly, at some point Zhongshun's mansion was guarded by soldiers!The captain of the guard sneered in his heart, the order just given today, you can go in, but you can't go out if you want to go out!Thinking of the ministers who hurried into the palace just now, hum!That is rushing to report to King Zhongshun!It's a pity that there is no entry but no exit, just wait for the holy soldiers to come and take charge!

Use extremely expensive medicine to mend and hang the Supreme Emperor, the "old sage" has an order: all concubines are not allowed to visit, only the beauty of the piano is waiting for the sick!

In Xianfu Palace, after feeding the old sage the medicine, Baoqin gently wiped the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief.Taishang Huangyi sat under the bright yellow bed curtain, coughing a few times from time to time, his face was pale and his body was weak, but he was still in good spirits.

The Taishanghuang is now on fire. He has never imagined a life like being under house arrest by his son, and it hit him directly in the face!He flicked away the beautiful woman Qin's hand with resentment, and stared at the shadow of the gate guard outside the hall with dark eyes, but he was so angry that he didn't even care about the truth of the former prince's death, and left Yizhong, Zhongshun, and Concubine Wan behind. Go, now he just wants to slap the third child on the face and punish him severely, so that everyone in the world can see the fate of this unfilial son!

Baoqin didn't think so, smiled softly and patted the old sage's back, softly advised: "Old sage, your body is important!"

Looking at the still beautiful Qin beauty in front of him, a light flashed in the eyes of the Supreme Emperor, he held the hand holding the Qin and said: "My concubine goes out of the palace to convey my will, and asks the cabinet ministers and Lao Qi and Lao Ba to come to see me, hurry up!" !"

For the Taishanghuang, such days were simply tormenting, he just felt so oppressed that he wanted to cough out his heart to feel comfortable, his stomach felt like a fire was burning, he couldn't bear it for a moment.

Baoqin gently pulled out his hand, and said with a soft smile: "Old sage, the harem is not allowed to be involved in politics. How can a concubine, a little beauty in the harem, pass the decree? The imperial doctor said that the old sage is too worried, and the old sage should take a good rest." ah!"

The Taishanghuang stared at Baoqin suspiciously, grabbed her wrist suddenly, and scolded: "Bitch! Are you helping that traitor? Cough cough..." Once excited, the Emperor was heart-piercing again cough.

Baoqin hurriedly held the handkerchief to the mouth of the Supreme Emperor, and said softly: "Don't get excited, the old sage, the sage ordered my concubines to serve the old sage well, and the concubines only hope that the old sage will get better soon." But with her gentle What did not match her words was her actions. Baoqin threw the handkerchief wrapped in the emperor's blood into the flower vat in the corner of the hall, and was thrown away by the wrist hanging by the emperor's weak hand. His hand fell to the couch with a "snap"!

Pull out the golden silk dragon pattern pillow behind the old saint, and gently pull the brocade quilt on the old saint.

Now the gentle and sometimes rough movements made the Taishang Emperor's face flushed with anger, and he only smiled and patted his chest while holding the piano, giving him a little comfort.The Taishanghuang was even more powerless after being tossed, he didn't even have the strength to beat this lowly maid to the ground.

Set it up for the emperor, regardless of the angry face of the emperor, it can be said that Baoqin's service is comprehensive.Holding the neat and gorgeous skirt of the piano, sitting on the edge of the "Dragon Bed", looking down on the bed, the late old man who is high above the bed can't hide the flustered eyes, very sharply found the usual contempt inside, yes, even if it falls here In this situation, this dying person still looks down on her!

No matter how favored she is, no matter how much the old sage likes her coquettishness and boldness, but he never thinks highly of her for a moment, she is not as dignified as a flower or a grass!These people are all the same, isn't the concubine Jia too, on the surface she keeps saying that she is in love with her sister, but in fact she has always been regarded as a cheap chess piece that can be easily discarded!Never cared about her feelings!ha!How noble do these people think they are?But it's just a good pregnancy, and my heart is not as open and aboveboard as a market peddler!

It was Jia Yuanchun and this old man who ruined her life!Now even if she saves her life, she won't be able to get out of this cage and see her loved ones again!Holding the qin uncontrollably gave rise to a wave of resentment. She smiled coquettishly and leaned over to the Supreme Emperor's ear, sighing: "Old sage, holding the qin is really worthless for you! You can see that you can live at least seven or eight years." , but who told you that you still like women at your age? Uh..."

The Supreme Emperor stared at Baoqin in disbelief, covered his mouth with a smile, and said softly: "Old saint, you have misunderstood my concubine, how dare this concubine have such courage! However, you have always favored old ministers from aristocratic families, and my concubine wants to be old? The saint is also willing to leave a support for these 'loyal ministers' after his death, don't you think?" She knows a lot of secrets these days, so she naturally understands how to make the old saint suffer even more!

Seeing that his appetite was whetted, he said again: "Old sage, don't worry, in fact, this matter is easy to say, it's just that Concubine Jia Taigui wants to have someone to rely on in the future, after all, the old sage is very old, and the Rongguo Mansion specially made it for her. I found the secret medicine to give birth to a child, but I gave it to the old sage for more than a year, and I am happy! Alas, it is a pity that this medicine is so overbearing that it hollowed out your bones!"

Seeing that the face of the Supreme Emperor was turning into a liver color, he hugged the piano and caressed his exquisitely manicured nails, and said leisurely: "I remember that every time Sister Jia brought you this 'tonic', the old sage liked it very much. , Praise is added! The concubine is really envious when she finds out that there is a child in the deep palace to relieve boredom. Doting is really a blessing for a concubine!"

The Supreme Emperor couldn't take it anymore, he vomited a mouthful of blood with a "wow", pointed at the piano with trembling fingers, rolled his eyes and passed out.

Baoqin glanced at him with a sneer, without any fuss, wiped off the blood with a wet handkerchief, called the little eunuch in softly, and ordered to boil another bowl of medicine.Somewhat boringly touching the crystal clear jade bracelet on his wrist, he was not afraid of holding the piano. The old sage in charge of the Tai Hospital said that the old sage could hang his life by using that prescription these days, and the old sage used to Moody, best excited, this medicine is very useful for these, so every time I give the medicine after the onset, it will be fine for a while!

Baoqin took the medicine bowl, rewarded the little eunuch to step down, and poured the medicine down to the old sage with his slender hands.You can't let the Supreme Emperor go now, haven't you finished the work today?Baoqin stood up, it is better not to provoke the old sage here now, but to go to Shaohua Palace to 'visit, visit' Concubine Jia and Concubine Wan, um, it is Fu Shi, the woman to be punished...

Baoqin stood up gracefully, with a smile on her lips, the Holy One didn't have the leisure to quarrel with those two people in small matters, but she didn't have such a heart in Baoqin, she didn't know that the little devil was difficult to deal with!

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Jia Yuanchun and Mrs. Fu in the Shaohua Palace are having a hard time. Compared with the remote and small Shaohua Palace before, after the death of Concubine Hua, this place has become a real cold palace, which is very ruined, and the concubines who died here in these years are even worse few.Entering the Shaohua Palace, naturally there will be no maids and eunuchs carefully waiting on them, and even these sinful concubines have to curry favor with the little eunuchs here.

At any rate, Jia Yuanchun still has the title of a noble concubine, so she is better than the Fu Shi who was demoted to a commoner. If Fu Shi didn't have a grown-up prince's son, he might not only be exploited and bullied, but beaten and enslaved.

Concubine Wan, who used to be so beautiful in the past, now lives in a side hall of Shaohua Palace. The leaky windows and the old and smelly beds are beyond her dream.But if there are only these Fu Shis, they should really be thankful to heaven!

The day Fu Shi first entered the Shaohua Palace was still arrogant. Although she didn't know why the old sage was angered and made him lose his temper, she was not afraid. In her heart, their mother and son had been spoiled for so many years, and when the old sage's anger subsided It's natural to let her out when she turns around. With her method of being loyal to her son, it's not difficult to please her again!Fu suppressed the panic that the Supreme Emperor would abolish her concubine, and tried to cheer herself up by acting as if she was superior.

But she never imagined that she entered the Shaohua Palace covered in silk, satin and gold and silver jewelry. Before she had time to laugh at Jia Yuanchun's downcast appearance, she was frightened by a group of eunuchs who swarmed up. Those eunuchs were far from the glamorous spirit of her palace. The clothes are dirty, smelly when you get close to them, and their eyes are like beasts that have seen meat!

Before he had time to react, Fu Shi was pushed to the ground by these eunuchs, and the bundle in his hand was immediately snatched away. Fu Shi let go and screamed, but was blocked by a gray-haired and dirty eunuch with a colorless cloth towel on his waist. Shut up, the smell almost made Fu Shixun faint, the old eunuch "Jie Jie" smiled twistedly.These eunuchs quickly searched all the jewelry from Fu's body. Fu, with disheveled hair and tears in his eyes, was horrified to find that these eunuchs didn't plan to stop!

Fu struggled desperately, but was still stripped off by these eunuchs!She felt those dirty hands touching her body back and forth, the oldest eunuch stroked Fu Shi's face back and forth with his hands, Fu Shi didn't dare to blink as he looked at the sharp nails on his withered yellow palms , the nails are yellow, and the inside is still full of dirt, I'm afraid that the twisted old eunuch will cruelly scratch her carefully maintained face.

Fu's mind was buzzing, her hair was like weeds, her face was full of tears and snot, the struggle became smaller and smaller, and suddenly her body hurt suddenly, and an eunuch pinched her thigh hard with long pointed nails!Fu Shi's frightened head was about to explode, and he struggled desperately. The eunuchs were even more happy when they saw this, and each of them used their nails to pinch and wring Fu Shi's tender flesh.

Jia Yuanchun leaned behind the doorpost of the apse, watching this scene coldly, there seemed to be some pleasure in venting his anger in his eyes.Ha, this bitch is so ostentatious, he deserves it!Just being treated like this in this large hall with a large crowd, I think it will be shameless to face people even if I go out in the future!Jia Yuanchun thought of being "received" by these eunuchs inhumanely on the first night when he came here, shrank his body, his eyes were full of fear, but he still stared at Fu who was struggling on the ground, looking at Fu who was worse than her. Shi, it seems that there is some comfort.

Fu Shi was so ashamed and angry that his lower body hurt, and these eunuchs actually... put their fingers into places like her! ...

These eunuchs didn't continue to abuse Fu Shi, and walked away with Fu Shi's clothes and jewelry.Fu's naked body lay on the ground, no one took a look, Jia Yuanchun had already dodged.Fu stood up tremblingly, with tears all over his face, covered his body with his wristband, ran barefoot to the most remote small hall in Shaohua Hall, closed the door tightly, pushed the table and chairs desperately to block it, and found a Putting on the yellowed and tattered clothes, he didn't care which dead concubine stayed behind.

The Shaohua Palace is the cold palace of the empresses and concubines, and also the cold palace of these eunuchs. Only the most downcast and humble eunuchs will be brought here. There is no money, and even they are not allowed to go out. These years, the emperor has never demoted people to the cold palace. , here is even more dilapidated and unpopular.Those eunuchs also became more and more crazy.Day after day, year after year, staying in this desolate and cold palace would drive ordinary people crazy, let alone these eunuchs who already have flaws in their hearts!Now there are several fights for the daily errand to get food outside, an old eunuch was beaten to death and dragged to the base of the wall to be buried casually.

When these eunuchs saw the imperial concubines coming in, it was as if they were seeing fat meat. Most of these empresses would bring some tender things in. This is a good opportunity!With these things, they can have a good meal, and even honor the eunuch in charge, maybe they will have the opportunity to leave here to work elsewhere!