Chapter 149 (1/2)
Ning Guifei's face was white, her knees were soft and her head was buzzing. She looked at emperor Chongzhen in panic.
The emperor walked into the palace, followed by two palace people in red.
Princess Ning remembered that today the emperor said that she would come here, but how could it be so early? Half an hour earlier than usual. She opened her mouth and mumbled, ”Your Majesty...”
But emperor Chongzhen didn't look at her. He looked down at the green jade crawling on the ground and asked coldly, ”what you just said is true?”
Qingfei bowed his head and kowtowed to the emperor in fear. ”I'll tell you that what the women said is true. If there is a little falsehood, it's hard for them to die...”
”Shut up!” Princess Ning angrily scolded the emperor and turned to him and said, ”Your Majesty, you must not listen to this crazy woman. I don't know her well. How can you know why she appears in the palace? Someone must have set me up... ”
Emperor Chongzhen glanced at her indifferently and said, ”I didn't ask you.”
Ning Guifei was frightened by this look, and her eyes immediately turned red.
”Tell me about that year.” Emperor Chongzhen stood up with his hands on his back, closed his eyes, and suppressed his voice. ”How can glass be poisoned?”
The green jade said: ”it was Princess Liuli's first year banquet at that time, and the maidservant was ordered by his mother...”
On the day of Zhao Liuli's first birthday banquet, she was carried to warm Pavilion by Mammy to drink milk, and then she went to sleep slowly. The lady was curious. She wanted to go to the warm pavilion to see the little princess. Empress Chen asked Mammy to accompany her for a while. After the lady left, Qingfei came to the warm Pavilion, and two other servant girls set up the palace maid of the warm Pavilion. She walked into the warm Pavilion, pried Zhao Liuli's mouth open, and painted □ □ on Zhao Liuli's tongue. A child who has just turned a year old must be crying very hard, and his voice is soft and soft. He is as pitiful as a sick kitten. At that time, Qingfei was heartless. After all this, he quietly withdrew from the warm Pavilion.
After Zhao Liuli had an accident, the charge naturally fell on the head of the lady, because she was the only one in and out of the warm Pavilion at that time. The lady refused to admit her death and called for her injustice, but no one believed her words at all. She was only a sophist, so was Emperor Chongzhen. A cup of poisonous wine killed her in the palace.
Green Jade's voice is getting lower and lower: ” All these years, the maidservant has been living in self reproach. She is worthy of six princesses. ”
The fist that emperor Chongzhen put behind him was more and more tight, and the back of his hand was covered with vertical and horizontal blue tendons, which was quite terrible. With his eyes closed and his face covered with frost, he asked word for word, ”Princess Ning, what else do you want to say?”
Princess Ning then knelt down in front of the emperor, tears streaming down her face and said, ”Your Majesty can't listen to this woman's one-sided words. I really don't know her, but I don't know why she slanders her body...”
Emperor Chongzhen opened his eyes and looked at her and asked, ”don't you know her?”
Ning Guifei shook her head. ”I don't know.”
Emperor Chongzhen sneered and said with a broad sleeve: ”then call the female official of Shanggong Bureau. I want to see if there is such a person!”
Not long ago, the female officials of Shanggong bureau came in a hurry, holding a list of all the maidservants in the palace. The female officer was informed of the emperor's instruction, and quickly turned over the pamphlet, and soon stopped on one of the pages. ”Back to my Lord, in the 10th year of Yuanjia, Princess Ning did arrange three palace maids to go out of the palace, one of which was Qingfei. There is a mole in the heart of the green jade hand, which your majesty can examine personally. ”
Emperor Chongzhen lowered his eyes and looked at Qingfei. ”Open your hands.”
Qingfei spread out his hands according to the words, only to see a mole in the heart of her left hand, which was particularly conspicuous under the candlelight.
Princess Ning fell and sat on the ground as if her strength had been evacuated.
When Emperor Chongzhen took back his sight and looked at Princess Ning again, his eyes were only bleak and disappointed. He suddenly remembered what empress Chen had said to him at that time. At that time, they were lying on a bed, and the relationship was not as rigid as it is now. Empress Chen begged him to investigate the poisoning again. She suspected that it was not as simple as it seemed, because the palace maid of Princess Ning was also present. It was the first and only time that she had shown her weakness in front of him. Now I think her expression was helpless at that time, and all her hopes were placed on him. But he, instead of investigating, blamed her for thinking too much, saying that she was ”a shadow of a bow and a snake”. In addition, at that time, empress Chen's family became more and more powerful. He was afraid of her. On the surface, he didn't pamper her. On the other hand, he also wanted to promote Princess Ning's mother's family. He often stayed in Princess Ning's palace at night. On the surface, he didn't seem to pamper Princess Ning.
Later, empress Chen never mentioned it again.
Emperor Chongzhen opened his mouth and said in a hoarse voice, ”come.”
Two palace people came in outside, ”see you majesty.”
”From today on, he was deprived of the title of Ning's imperial concubine, reduced to commoners, and temporarily imprisoned in the twisting gold palace.” The emperor said.
”Your majesty!” cried Ning
Although the name of the twisting golden palace is pleasant, it is no different from the cold palace. There is no place in the palace specifically called the cold palace. Such a palace is used as a cold palace because there is no one living in it all the year round. All the concubines who have made mistakes and lost their favor have gone there without exception.Emperor Chongzhen is unmoved. Ning grabs his sleeve, but is mercilessly dusted away. Ning's death struggle, ”I am devoted to your majesty. Your majesty said at the beginning that you will forgive me no matter what mistake I made...”
Emperor Chongzhen frowned, forgetting that he had said that. He gave her a blank look. ”I can forgive you, or I can abolish you. Even my daughter dares to poison me. Do you think I will let you go? ”
The palace people stood on the shoulder of Ning family and took them outside the palace.
Perhaps she could not have imagined that she would be demoted from the high princess Ning to a commoner overnight.
Emperor Chongzhen looked at Qingfei, his eyes were clouded, and he said, ”take this man to the ancestral palace, and cut him alive!”
The green jade shakes and looks pale.
After all the people left, the palace was empty, only the emperor was left. The palace maid who served in the palace knelt outside for a while, for fear that the emperor would not like to be involved in all of them. Fortunately, the emperor was still rational, standing in the hall for a while, and came out slowly.
”Where are you going, your majesty?” Mr. Chu asked