Daiyu of the Rebirth of the Red Chamber

After greeting each other, Cui Heng politely asked the queen to perform the task of strict frugality.Of course the Queen agreed.Cui Heng said again: "A woman's make-up needs a lot of money. It's troublesome and the effect is not good. Please start with the empress first, then all the concubines and princesses can also understand the emperor's painstaking efforts. Make-up and dresses are all simple. Then the wives who live outside must also follow, and if this trend spreads to the people, it will turn spring wind into rain."

The queen was surprised, tongue-tied and unable to answer for a while.The queen mother came to the rescue and said: "It should start from old age."

When he said it, he was smiling.

Cui Heng bowed: "The emperor only asks his mother to take care of Sheng'an. Even if the emperor himself has no clothes or food, he can't harm his mother."

The Empress Dowager said: "Forget it! If the emperor wants to have no food and clothing, then he can serve me filially. I should have no food and clothing, so that I can take care of the emperor."

Later historians recorded this passage, and someone commented in a footnote: "It is very ominous. You can know the sound of subjugation."

But at the time, no one saw it coming.

There are countless signs of the collapse of some dynasties. I don’t know how many people with bright eyes have made many predictions and rescue strategies, but these rescue strategies cannot work for various reasons, and the dynasty collapsed suddenly; It happened suddenly, and it wasn't a fatal problem at first, but because of some unpredictable external force, it would be broken if it was bad, and it could only be called bad luck.

At this time and place, no one in Daling, from the palace to the court, thinks that the fate of this dynasty will be bad... Shh!Except Yunshi!

Did Xie Xiaoheng say anything to Yun Shi?Caixia and the others can testify: They probably didn’t say anything!

Many people will forget about Yunshi, even though she is in the palace.But she was always so silent, like a pawn resigned to fate.Some concubines can't even remember what her voice is like.

However, Yun Shi felt that the dynasty outside the palace was collapsing, like a crisp mountain, in the change of seasons.Dissolve slowly.This dissolution starts from the periphery.The court lies like a navel in the vortex of dissolution, sleeping according to its own sweet dreams.But the vortex will finally engulf everyone in it.

Probably out of such a premonition, Yun Shi had a strange dream.

She dreamed that it was still her and the court, but things were different.Back in time, when Yun Jian had just won the decisive battle against the Tang family, there was a concubine who was related to the Tang family.Was given to death quietly.On the face of it, he still enjoys mourning and glory, and his spirit stops behind the palace, in that Taoist temple.Xie Xiaoheng personally came to help the royal family perform the ceremony, and Yun Shi even kept watch for her.

That day Cui Heng wanted to sleep with a beautiful woman, but a concubine Lan was jealous, so she tried to get Cui Heng to watch Yun Shi.

Lan Pin's confidant maid is really worrying.Admonishment said: "Zhaohua! It's cheap to thank the nobleman, if Xie nobleman climbs up, it will suppress Zhaohua..."

Concubine Lan scoffed: "It's been so long, why did you climb up today?"

The maid blushed: "What Zhaohua said was... that General Sirius is too famous, will the emperor lift Mr. Xie up?"

"It's because of General Tianlang's reputation," Lan Pin gently tapped the small snow-white chin with the handle of her fan. "This favor must be given to Mrs. Xie Gui." A gloomy look that did not match her light and pretty appearance flashed in her eyes, "If someone really wants to fill in the gaps, it is better to let others fill in the gaps. At least she can understand the general, no better than those Frivolous and greedy hooves." Spread the fan.Covering his mouth and laughing, "But the emperor may not be willing to promote her to such a degree for the sake of his foreign ministers! Look at the life experience of everyone in the palace. Could it be that the emperor looked at her natal family to promote her? It's not up to her if she really wants to fight for her natal family." Woolen cloth."

So the close maid laughed too.

When the emperor came, Yun Shi really——ah!In the dream, she actually became another herself. She played a full set of tricks. She didn't mean to be elated, triumphant, or climbing up the pole while taking advantage of the east wind. Instead, she acted very frightened, too frightened. Thinking that the emperor was here to blame her, he knelt down to apologize first.

"What crime?" the emperor was curious.

"It's the concubine who didn't take good care of the offerings, lost them repeatedly, and unexpectedly alarmed the emperor..." Yun Shi seemed to be so frightened that she was about to cry.

"What offerings are missing?" The emperor became interested.

wine and meat.

For the Taoist temple, there are wine and three animals.Liquor is divided into Baiyi wine, double-headed wine and Lixiang wine.Baiyi is bitter, double-headed, and pear is fragrant and mellow.What was lost each time was pear eaux-de-vie.In fact, the three kinds of wine bottles are exactly the same, the corks are tightly plugged and the seals are affixed, and then they are placed on the altar. Every time the empty ones are pear fragrance, the seals have not been moved, the corks have not been broken, but the wine inside is empty. I don’t know. How did it work.The meat is even better, only the set in the belly of the whole animal is cut and put into the water, and there is no breach outside.Of course, roasting a whole pig has to cut open the belly to clean up the dirt inside, leaving a knife edge, but after cleaning, the internal organs are stuffed back, and the knife edge is sewed up before cooking.The pig was stolen, but the knife edge was not opened.Absolutely not.Speaking of thieves' tracks, it's even more difficult to find. There are night watchmen outside, but I don't know where they came in.Is it a miracle, kid?Can't help but panic.Fortunately, although this Taoist temple and monastery are used for the harem, after all, they are places outside the square. A deep courtyard was built outside the wall of the Sangong Sixth Courtyard, which does not belong to the harem. The court lady is going to be frightened.

How did things get lost?In the end we have to find out.The emperor was in a good mood, the overall situation of the rebellious ministers was settled, and he still had a lot of courage to do, so he just happened to have fun on this small theft case.

It is night breeze and moonlight, and the shadows of flowers and trees seem to be painted on the wall.The small hall where the offerings are placed does not seem to be particularly guarded, but in fact the emperor has been watching in person.Beside him, twelve of the most capable bodyguards hid without showing a trace, but if there were any abnormalities, they had beheaded more than 42 heads of more than [-] first-class masters with a snap of their fingers.

The emperor was not worried about his own safety at all, he was only interested in seeing where the thieves would come from and how they would steal.

The thief didn't come from outside at all.

Moon Shadow swayed, and the dragon girl sitting cross-legged on the small lotus seat stretched her waist delicately and lazily.

Yun Shi almost cried out: This was sent in by Xie Xiaoheng!

If there is no Lin Dai, in another possible choice, he will send such a little girl to meet the emperor in this way.And this little girl is so cooperative and capable of acting!

The emperor almost cried out.

The twelve "Shadow Guards" waited intently for the emperor's order.At the slightest order, they can rush forward and chop up the thing on the rosette, whether she is a dragon girl, a snake spirit, or some monster!

The emperor shook his head slightly.

Why are you willing to chop it up?It's just a stretch, a simple movement, so charming that words can't express it.He didn't want to bother her at all.Even if it is a monster, he wants to watch it again.

The dragon girl stands up, lifts the corner of her skirt, jumps off the lotus platform, and spins to the altar, a series of movements are flowing like silent music and flowing flowers.In front of the altar, she raised the veil, closed her eyes, and moved her face closer, intending to smell the altar wine bottle, and the moonlight happened to shine on her face.

It is crystal clear and beautiful, not like anything in the world.

It must be a little elf, with such a good sense of smell, through the stopper, she chose her favorite wine, held the bottle in one hand, twisted her waist slightly back, tilted her head back, forming a graceful arc, and took off the hairpin with the other hand .

The translucent ice-coloured veil was originally fixed from behind the ears by the hair pins, and then it fell down, falling extremely euphemistically, like a cloud of ice beads.And her black hair cascaded unrestrainedly behind the clouds, like a clear waterfall.

The emperor could smell the fragrance that escaped from the hair when it was scattered all at once.

The most charming daughter fragrance.

The little elf didn't care how much she disturbed the emperor's mind, and concentrated on inserting the hairpin tip into the side of the bottle cork.The bottle stopper was originally a cork, although it was tightly plugged, it was elastic by itself, and the thin copper hairpin was inserted into it as soon as it was inserted.She took out another wooden bottle from her bosom, tipped the bottle over, and the emperor had an epiphany: the hairpin must be hollow, and the wine could leak out.

But the wine didn't leak out.

The little goblin was in a hurry, tilted her head, pouted, and sipped at the hairpin.It turned out that the hairpin was too thin, and the liquid couldn't come out for a while, but after she took a sip, it cleared up, and the fine nectar flowed into the wooden bottle.

After she took a sip...not good...somewhere the emperor reacted...

If those shadow guards had not undergone rigorous training, it would be difficult not to react at this moment.

The goblin turned to deal with the pigs.

Prying open the pig's teeth, slowly poking in his hand, I don't know what to do, it seems to be touching a few times, retracting his hand, rubbing, rubbing, rubbing, rubbing, rubbing, rubbing on the pig's skin...

The fatal part of this action can only be understood by people with certain experience.

The experience that the emperor has is quite certain.

So the emperor's life quite wanted that.

The little goblin stopped at this moment, still not knowing what influence she had on the emperor, she pried open the pig's teeth again very satisfied, took out something, wrapped it with the veil just now, stuffed it into the sleeve, and walked away up.

The emperor knew that the pigs were gone.

The little goblin didn't try to remove the knife edge at all.Just put your hand in from the pig's mouth, move the pig's tongue to the side, stretch the throat, pick up the internal organs with your hand, and then stroke and stroke them outside the skin. The internal organs are cut out and cleaned, and then stuffed back into the abdomen The ones in the middle were no longer connected to the flesh, they were all stroked to the throat, and were gently carried away by Qiaoqiao.

She went outside and yelled: "The thief's shadow, I saw the thief's shadow!"

The people in the temple rushed over: "Shang'er! Where is the thief?"

Na Chang'er pointed: "The shadow flickered and went over there."

Is it another case of theft without trace?

It seems that it is not a ghost, but a little girl pretending to be a ghost. Taking advantage of her lightness and beauty, she disguised herself as a dragon girl and hid behind the statues of gods. People couldn't recognize her and stole wine and meat.

The shadow guard asked the emperor: Do you want to capture this traitor?

The emperor replied: no.

He also wants to see where the wine and meat are taken to enjoy——the people in the audience, after all, not all of them are dead.If she took it back to her room to eat, would she be noticed?Where did you get it? L