325 To humble love
That year, she became the crown princess at the age of seventeen. It was still the same year that he became the emperor, so she naturally became the queen.
He once held her hand and told her that he would love her for the rest of his life, and that there would never be another woman in his life except her.
She believed it, so she always thought she was the happiest woman in the world.
Unfortunately, the change came too quickly. In the years when he ascended the throne, he worked hard every day to manage the government. When the world was settled, he had an ambiguous relationship with the palace maids in the Ganqing palace and even let one of the palace maids stay in the palace.
She asked his ministers to make trouble, and he was annoyed. She asked the ministers to put pressure on him and prevent him from accepting concubines. He was angry. Finally, he used the method of dealing with her two younger brothers to warn her that he was the emperor and the supreme emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
From that moment on, she realized that he had changed. The one he said that he would love her for the rest of his life was gone.
She was so angry that she finally began to poison his meals.
In fact, sometimes when I think about it, the Queen Mother is also a poor woman. She fought for her whole life, but in the end she didn't get anything. Whether it was in the official history or the consequences of this series of changes that occurred after Jiang Xia's unexpected arrival, she was undoubtedly very sad.
The Queen Mother, wearing a phoenix robe, still looks so elegant and luxurious. Although her years have passed, she can still vaguely see the beauty of her youth from her.
A white silk hanging down through the beam of the house. The queen mother stepped on the round stool and put her head into the white silk. She kicked the round stool and her beauty died...
In the Palace of Supreme Harmony, after reading the Queen Mother's "A Notes" by the Queen Mother, several old ministers were furious and shouted, "Poisonous Woman! Poisonous Woman!" Then they went out of the palace to go to Shouning Palace to question the Queen Mother.
The other ministers either followed or dissuaded, but they all walked towards Shouning Palace.
When he arrived outside Shouning Palace, Eunuch Li stopped them and shouted in a sarcastic manner: "Stop! This is Shouning Palace. Can you tell if you are going to break freely? "
"Death crime? Then tell me, what is the crime of poisoning the late emperor?" Xia Yan, an old minister of Tongzhengsi, asked loudly.
Eunuch Li was not confident enough, and he didn't know what to do after he asked this. Finally, Eunuch Li just said, "The family of the world doesn't understand what you are talking about. You are here waiting for the family of the world to report to the empress dowager."
Eunuch Li walked into the empress dowager's bedroom. As soon as he opened the door, he suddenly felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. On the high beam of the house, a long white silk hanging on it was tied into a knot.
The empress dowager in a phoenix robe was now hanging her neck on the white silk, and she no longer moved. The empress dowager... hanged herself.
Eunuch Li's whole body trembled, and his upper and lower teeth began to collide.
"Too...the queen mother...the queen mother committed suicide!"
Eunuch Li screamed sadly, and ran out of Shouning Palace while crying. When he left the palace gate, Eunuch Li didn't pay attention and he was stumbled on the threshold and fell down.
"The Empress Dowager committed suicide, the Empress Dowager committed suicide..." Eunuch Li cried while crying.
Yang Tinghe, who was standing in front of the ministers, reacted first and ran into Shouning Palace without saying a word. Then the rest of the officials followed him in.
In the empress dowager's bedroom, Yang Tinghe and two other officials stood on a stool and pulled the empress dowager's body off the white silk. The empress dowager's body was already cold and obviously dead.
Eunuch Li burst into tears, feeling panicked for a moment. After crying for a while, Eunuch Li remembered it and murmured, "Second Master, Third Master, Eunuch Liu."
Eunuch Li didn't care about the Empress Dowager and ran out of Shouning Palace directly.
In the inn opposite Xiaoyao Villa, Liu Jin, Zhang Heling, and Zhang Yanling were sitting together. Seeing that Xiaoyao Villa had not been moving, Liu Jin poured a glass of wine for Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling and said, "After today, the family must lead people to destroy this Xiaoyao Villa. The little beast in Jiangxia must slaughter and feed the dog."
"It seems that Eunuch Liu and Jiang Xia have a lot of grudges. It makes people so angry that Jiang Xia is probably not far from death." Zhang Heling said with a smile.
Zhang Yanling snorted coldly: "I thought Jiangxia was so great, but she was also a timid rat. It was almost noon. The ministers in the court must have dispersed. Jiangxia didn't even have the courage to send people to pass the barriers."
"San Master, Jiang Xia is cunning and scheming by nature, so we should be careful." Liu Jin said this, but he was also a little puzzled.
It was not a matter of fighting with Jiang Xia once or twice. With Jiang Xia's ruthlessness, why shouldn't he surrender without fighting like this time? Could it be that Jiang Xia has a chance to have a move?
The more Liu Jin thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, so he shouted, "Come on."
"I'm here!" A Dongchang factory stall pushed the door and saluted Liu Jin.
"Go to the palace immediately to see if there is any movement, and then come back and report it immediately."
"yes!"
The Dongchang Chairman had just opened the door when he suddenly rushed into the room alone.
The person who entered was Eunuch Li. As soon as he entered the house, he fell to the ground, hugged Zhang Heling's thigh and cried, "Second Master, it's not good, the Empress Dowager... The Empress Dowager committed suicide."
"What?" It was Liu Jin who was first exclaiming, and he pulled Eunuch Li from the ground, grabbed his clothes and almost lifted him up. "What are you talking nonsense? The Queen Mother... How could the Queen Mother commit suicide?"
"The little bitch Xue Ruqin betrayed the Queen Mother and sent evidence of the Queen Mother poisoning the late emperor to the Hall of Supreme Harmony. All civil and military officials went to question the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother hanged herself in advance..."
"Bang!" Liu Jin threw Eunuch Li to the ground and slapped the round table with his right hand. There was only a loud bang, and the round table burst into several large pieces.
Liu Jin did not say a word, grabbed the long sword leaning against the bench and walked out of the house. After leaving the house, Liu Jin ordered coldly: "Call everyone and attack Xiaoyao Villa immediately!"
"Liu Jin! Don't be impulsive!" Zhang Heling quickly ran out of the house and shouted. Liu Jin turned around and looked at Zhang Heling, gritted his teeth and said, "Second Master, if I, Liu Jin, don't avenge the Empress Dowager, I will be useless!"
"You come and take a look first!" Zhang Heling frowned.
Liu Jin also frowned and followed Zhang Heling to the window to take a look. He saw that Huang Feiyue personally led the Jinyiwei to run over on the street of Xiaoyao Villa. The entire Xiaoyao Villa was guarded by Jinyiwei.
There are Jinyiwei outside Xiaoyao Villa and royal dragon sting inside. It is almost difficult to break through.
Zhang Heling grabbed Liu Jin's shoulder and said, "Going now is equivalent to dying, just like Jiang Xia's intention. Keeping his life and avenging his sister is the best strategy. Let's go, let's go to the palace to send her sister for the last journey."
Liu Jin looked at the Jinyiwei outside Xiaoyao Villa. His left hand, which was not holding the sword, clenched his fist and blood leaked out. It turned out that because his fist was too tight, his nail trap had already pierced his palm.
In Xiaoyao Villa, after Huang Feiyue entered Xiaoyao Villa, he went to Jiangxia's resting room to visit him. As soon as he entered the room, he found that Geng Zhongqiu, Bu Jinyun and others were all there, and the room was very lively.
After seeing Huang Feiyue, Jiang Xia smiled and said hello: "Brother Huang, you are here."
"I'll come and see you Brother Jiang and tell you good news, but it seems you should have known it." Huang Feiyue said with a smile.
Jiang Xia glanced at Xue Ruqin beside him and nodded, "I understand, this matter depends entirely on Miss Ruqin."
Huang Feiyue glanced at Xue Ruqin, immediately got up and fisted at her and said, "It turns out that this one is Miss Ruqin. The evidence of the Queen Mother poisoning the late emperor was announced in the Palace of Supreme Harmony. This time it was all up to Miss Ruqin."
"You're welcome." Xue Ruqin clasped her fists at Huang Feiyue and gave a gusto, responding in two simple words.
Jiang Xia said: "Although the empress dowager committed suicide this time, the Zhang family where the empress dowager was located was called the first family of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not a false reputation. At present, the most important thing is to ask the emperor to come back and take the opportunity to deal with the Zhang family."
"My Jinyiwei has sent people to send a message to the emperor for 800 miles. I believe that the emperor will come back soon after receiving the message."
Jiang Xia nodded: "Now this mess is caused by his leaving the capital, and he can only wait for him to come back and clean up."
When Huang Feiyue heard this, he was sweating profusely. I am afraid that the only one in front of him could say this blatantly.
In the palace, the empress dowager's body had been buried in the coffin, and Liu Jin did not even see the last side of the empress dowager. He was just a eunuch, so how could he be qualified to open the empress dowager's body coffin and look at her for the last time?
He walked out of the palace in a daze. As soon as he left the Youye Gate, Liu Jin took out his golden hairpin that he had given to the Empress Dowager, but was threatened by Jiang Xia.
Liu Jin held the golden hairpin in his left hand and stroked the butterfly wings on the hairpin with his right hand. In his mind, Liu Jin was full of the empress dowager wearing the golden hairpin.
As a eunuch who has lost his roots since childhood, Liu Jin never thought that one day he had an emotion that only existed between men and women. As a eunuch, even though he was the first eunuch in the palace, he was still just a slave. He never thought that the empress dowager who gave him this emotion would be the noble and noble queen.
Liu Jin's eyes turned red and she cried.
Tears fell down one by one, and then they became more and more. He grew up in the palace since he was a child, but he always understood that tears were the most useless thing, so he rarely cried.
But this time Liu Jin cried, crying like a child.
At this moment, he was not the murderer Liu, who was no longer the fierce and famous Dongchang Factory in the hearts of all civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty. He was just a poor person who had just felt love but was separated from the love in his heart forever.
He was so pitiful that he didn't even dare to tell the Queen Mother the saying "I like you" even though he had already felt the Queen Mother's feelings for him.
He is majestic and inferior in the face of love. He just wants to be able to accompany the queen mother and help the queen mother. The humbleness and struggle of a eunuch's love is absolutely understandable.
ps: Tell me about the tiger’s feelings about this chapter.
Some people say that Tiger is not honest about the relationship between the Queen Mother and Liu Jin, but in fact Tiger does not write about the scene of the Queen Mother and Liu Jin rolling off the bed sheet. I just want to write such a helpless relationship.
A lonely woman with resentment in the deep palace, a eunuch who cannot experience the taste of love. In my opinion, their love is like the love between a rich and beautiful woman and a pure and simple silk. It looks ridiculous, but in fact, this is not an alternative beauty.
At least Liu Jin loves it very real, pure and humble. He and the Queen Mother are both villains in my books, but what Tiger tries not to write about a pure villain, but a flesh-and-blood villain. Perhaps Tiger's writing skills are not enough to express this, but this is a tiger's own expectation for himself.
Chapter completed!