At dusk of the next day, Yu Jia shouted and hugged, and he arrived in front of Yikun Palace.At that time, the setting sun was like gold, shining on the overlapping glazed tiles of the palace garden, the stream of light was like fire and clouds, dazzling and eye-catching.Ruyi only felt that the past few days were hopeless, and her heart was already burning with anxiety, but she always kept her identity and refused to reveal it in front of others.In this way, there is an additional layer of depression. When the emperor arrived, the eunuch's high-fives came from a distance, and the palace people outside had already knelt on the ground.Ruyi watched the emperor walk in slowly in a homely plain gold tufted dragon gauze robe, his face became clearer and clearer, and if he could closely match the image he was thinking in his heart, for some reason, he felt a sense of sourness.

All along, he has always been what she imagined, but he has never been as she expected, and his trust is more important than her. As Ruyi thought vaguely, the emperor had already stepped in.Ruyi bowed her knees and went to greet her: "My Majesty, all blessings, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I wish you peace." The four nuns followed closely, as if guarding a prisoner, refusing to let go of a single step.The emperor knew that she had never experienced such pain since she came out of the cold palace, not to mention that she was a person with a very high heart, and being watched all the time these few days, I am afraid that she was extremely uncomfortable.

Thinking of this, the emperor's heart softened a little for no reason, and he waved his hand without looking at others, "Go down." The four nuns retreated immediately, and the hall became more and more quiet, only the emperor and Ruyi were left facing each other.Ruyi's eyes were full of tears, but she was stubborn and refused to cry. Wearing a smoky blue embroidered silk robe, she looked more and more like a frosty bamboo, thin and brittle.The emperor suddenly sighed softly, but the two were speechless.He glanced over and saw a half-turned book on the small red sandalwood table in Ruyi's hand, a little surprise flashed in his eyes: "At this time, do you really want to read this?"

The emperor turned the pages of the book lightly with his ten fingers, as if flipping through his anxious and disjointed mood.Ruyi hangs her head slightly, and sighs softly like the thin wind: "If something is urgent, it will be lenient or self-evident. When it is difficult to confess, you might as well relax and let things take their course, maybe the matter will be clarified soon. Don’t be too eager to defend yourself, or you will add fuel to the other party’s fire). Chen Qie read half of the book, only This sentence is quite agreeable.” The emperor stared at her for a moment: "So you don't rush to argue with me, and you are willing to stop quietly."

This sentence has a gentle meaning, which aroused Ruyi's eyes full of tears.Ruyi forced herself to support herself and said, "Crying bitterly or entanglement is not the style of a concubine." The emperor was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly: "That's why I am willing to listen to you now. Tell me, what can you argue?" In front of the court, pomegranate trees bloomed in clusters, fiercely like burning.She just stared at him and asked persistently: "The concubine has nothing to argue with, just ask, is the emperor willing to trust the concubine?"

The emperor refused to look at her.There was such a moment of silence, Ruyi could almost hear the ticking sound of the more leaks, each sound was like a thousand feet of broken ice falling into the abyss, causing fragmented reverberations.Really, just for a moment, as if between that breath and one breath, it was enough to make the remaining enthusiasm in her heart turn into a decadent coldness of smoke and grass. Finally, the emperor's voice sounded faintly: "It's not whether I'm willing or not, but whether my eyes and ears can make my heart accept and believe." Hearing what the emperor said, Ruyi's heart tightened even more. "Your Majesty asking this, is it because you can't ask anything out of your heart?" She took a step forward and knelt down, and said eagerly, "Your Majesty, how much punishment did your heart suffer?"

The emperor's expression was as indifferent as a cloud of smoke under the setting sun: "Just now I used the words to warn myself not to be impatient, but when I raised my heart, I became so anxious. She will not die." Ruyi heard the emperor's tone, and knew that there was nothing to ask, but she was full of grievances and hatred, which made her anxious: "Since the crime is adultery, the emperor has asked Master Anji Posang?" The emperor's tone was sharp and angular: "He only said that he lived alone in a room that day and never left, but no one could prove it for him. But there are a few young lamas who have seen you and him talk privately many times. , more intimate than ordinary concubines."

Ruyi pondered for a moment, then said calmly: "Monks don't tell lies, let alone Master Posang is an eminent monk. When concubines talk to Master, they also regard him as a messenger of the Buddha, regardless of gender." The emperor glanced at her, took out the bracelet of seven treasures and Fang Sheng from his sleeve, and threw them on the brocade and red velvet carpet in front of her.That Fang Shengyuan was just a thin piece of gold-sprinkling paper, which was wrapped with something, and when he couldn't bear the force for a while, the lotus seed broke out and rolled out.The emperor didn't realize it for a while, the snow-white soles of his boots stepped on the lotus seeds, making a muffled cracking sound, which made people's hearts tremble.The Qibao bracelet was like a colorful dead snake slithering in front of her, spitting out a dead core.

The emperor sighed: "Since you have moved the mundane thoughts, you have messed up the Dharma. How can you remember the clear rules and precepts?" Buddhism is the ultimate principle. Now this line of common thoughts has remained in the blood of these people. From now on, only women can be seen, but Buddha?!" Ruyi suddenly heard the emperor's cold voice, and felt beads of sweat oozing out from his back, like many-legged bugs crawling over with burrs, and the places they passed were unbearably itchy.She still couldn't bear her temper: "Then how does the emperor plan to deal with Master Posang?"

"How can I lose my face in my life for an ant? Once it is verified to be true, I will get rid of Anji Bosang." The emperor's tone was light, but there was an incomparable disgust, "It doesn't take so much trouble to execute a person. Sometimes I stumble and fall to my death, sometimes I eat the wrong food and die suddenly, sometimes there are ways.” "This kind of method will fall on Anji Bosang, and it will also fall on the concubine. Isn't it?" Ruyi sneered silently, "Everyone is an ant, whether it is a mage or a concubine who is revered for a while, but It's just tossing and turning in the fingers of others to survive."

The emperor shook his head: "You don't have to rush to compare yourself with him." Since Yuyan handed over the so-called "evidence" Qibao bracelet to the emperor that day, Ruyi only took a quick look at it.However, she also understands that from the so-called "assassination" that day, to the passage of the patrolling guards, to the illicit letters with exactly the same handwriting as hers, it is a carefully woven net that tightly encircles her. .No flaws, no flaws at all.She looked at the emperor with some despair, her heart was so sad that it seemed to be soaked in boiling water, repeatedly rubbed and rubbed, barely floated, and was firmly pressed to the bottom again.In the end, it was just too weak: "The concubine asked herself that she had experienced many things with the emperor, does the emperor still believe in the concubine?" The emperor hesitated slightly, turned his face away and said: "I really want to believe you, but there are witnesses and physical evidence, I can't just believe it without checking everything. And what I want is not only to convince me, but also to convince everyone." Believe me, you are innocent." Ruyi stared at the emperor, resisting the heavy knots in her heart, her quiet and indifferent eyes were still the same, like a bottomless deep pool, but gently rippled: "It's the concubine who is confused." Yes. The concubine thought that with years of friendship, the emperor would believe him if they knew each other and promised each other." At that moment, Ruyi's eyes seemed to have a cold light like autumn water and cold stars, filled with resentment, Wu Dingding went straight to the bottom of his heart.The light seemed to have some scorching power, which made him feel a little pain.He was a little moved, but turned his head to avoid her gaze inadvertently: "I am not a heartless person. I have affection for you and everyone in the harem. But the so-called innocence of the imperial concubine is never judged by affection." of." Ruyi raised her face, and a thin smile slowly surfaced, like the cold and dim moonlight at the beginning of the month: "Yes, it turns out that the emperor's affection for his concubines is also for others." Ruyi bent down slumped, clutching the bracelet of seven treasures tightly.Apart from her stubborn denial, she has no other way to prove herself.In the snow-white and blurred tears, she stared at the Qibao bracelet in her hand. It turns out that the so-called love and trust can be easily shattered by these external things.She only has herself, only Hailan, and only precious and trustworthy people.But that person is not him, not the person who has been with him for many years. Is this a cold irony? The emperor stood up and said, "If you don't have anything to say, I can only wait for the Punishment Department to run out of punishment, and I still want to tell you the confession that you have never had an affair. After all the punishments, you still don't change your original intention. I think this kind of confession is enough. Convincing the public is enough to calm the message." The tears in Ruyi's eyes were frozen in the bottom of his eyes, and he said coldly: "The concubine is helpless, but also feels sorry for her heart. If the emperor is willing, please check all the palace ladies and concubines. It is best to try to write with both left and right hands to see whose handwriting is the same as the minister's." Concubines are most similar." The emperor said "hmm": "Okay. I will investigate myself. I also want to find out that my imperial concubine is innocent." He took a few steps forward and was about to step over the threshold. Ruyi looked at her. Carefully caressing the bracelet of seven treasures on his fingertips, his mind was suddenly startled wherever he could see, and he said loudly: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, stay a step!" The emperor stopped in his tracks, but did not turn around. He just said coldly, "This is the end of the conversation, what else do you want to say?" Ruyi's heart hangs in her throat, and she clutches the bracelet of seven treasures between her fingers, tremblingly said: "In the past few days, has the emperor carefully looked at this bracelet?" There was sadness and weariness in the emperor's voice, like a mist of dampness, which made people feel suffocated: "I don't want to see such filthy things." Ruyi stepped forward on her knees, unable to contain her excitement, she raised her voice and said, "Your Majesty, this bracelet is wrong!" The emperor's right foot that was about to be lifted suddenly stopped, turned to her and said, "What?" There was an earnest and uncertain hope in his words. Ruyi immediately handed the bracelet of seven treasures to the emperor, and said earnestly: "Your Majesty, this bracelet is made of gold, silver, glass, coral, amber, giant clam and agate. The so-called seven treasures are recorded in different scriptures. Different, there are more than a dozen things that can be used as holy objects of the seven treasures, but among the seven treasures of Tantric Buddhism, there must be carnelian rich in Tibet instead of agate. Carnelian and agate are similar in color and texture, and they are both transparent and bright red. It's just that agate is more precious. The master is an eminent monk of Tantric Buddhism, so there is absolutely no confusion." The emperor's brows gradually frowned, like mountains and rivers stacked with twists and turns.He held up the beads on the string of bracelets and stared at the sky for a moment, then slapped heavily on the small red sandalwood mother-of-pearl table. Li Yu patted his head and shouted: "Your Majesty, this bracelet is indeed made of agate. Master Anji Posang is a tantric mage, and he would never give this as a gift. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary for the imperial concubine to communicate with the master in private. framed by others." Ruyi bit her lips, and said in a sharp voice: "Then there is no need to search all the concubines and concubines in the palace. The concubines in the palace are all from Mongolian and Han, and they are proficient in Buddhist common sense, so there is absolutely no mistake. They can be mistaken." , must be a foreign woman who doesn’t understand.” Li Yu hesitated for a moment, rubbed his hands together and said, "Your Majesty, the only foreign women are..." The emperor raised the bracelet of seven treasures in his hand, with a cold and sharp expression: "Yes. If you believe in Buddhist principles, how dare you slander monks and Buddhas and make bad words. Only people who believe in other people! Li Yu, You go and tell Concubine Jia that in the palace, each person uses their left and right hands to write down the things that are commonly used by the seven treasures of Tantric Buddhism, and whoever's handwriting resembles that of the imperial concubine, bring them to me immediately." Li Yu let out a "squeak": "Your Majesty, now the young masters are always walking around Qixiang Palace, and the slaves have gone so vigorously, I'm afraid it's not good." The emperor thought for a while: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs has a pair of new buds. I originally wanted to reward Concubine Yu, so you can send them to Concubine Jia." Li Yu agreed, and immediately took orders to go. Ruyi refused to raise her head in the end, but only looked at the continuous jasmine pattern on her plain shoes: "The emperor is willing to take a look at it for now, Xu Chenqie can justify a few words, I am grateful." She bowed her head and bowed solemnly three times, following the rules of her servants.The emperor looked at her silently: "You don't have to be so unfamiliar with me." It turned out that he still understood. Ruyi fell on the ground, the smell of dust permeated the ground, slightly choking.She clearly heard the emperor's footsteps coming out, she endured the tears in her eyes, raised her head in a daze, only Ling Yunche went to look at it, and nodded deeply. Suddenly, she felt a lot more peaceful in her heart. Qixiang Palace is full of guests, and Yingying and Yanyan are crowding the hall.Luyun is a person who doesn't go out very often, and she also sat at the bottom, but she didn't smile like everyone else, but was full of melancholy, with tears in her eyes. Yuyan and Luyun were both noble concubines, but at this moment they are sitting at the head, and her dress is bright, the red dress is like a bunch of fierce pomegranate flowers, which makes the simple-clothed and thin-haired Luyun seem to shrink back , struggling. Yuyan smiled and said: "It's not that I don't want to be invited by the concubine, it's really powerless. You know, the imperial concubine is always the one who can talk in the palace. It's just a false name." Lu Yun apologized and said with a smile: "Nowadays, who doesn't know that the imperial concubine is hard to protect herself, and everything depends on the imperial concubine Jia." Yuyan glanced at Luyun with a smile, and touched the same bright red lips with the bright red nails dyed by Koudan: "I dare not take such words from the pure noble concubine." Luyun said anxiously: "I know that Yongzhang is not up to the mark. He can't compare with Yongxuan in reading, and even Yongqi can't compare. But he is the emperor's son. Ever since the emperor scolded Yongzhang at the funeral of Empress Xiaoxian, I don't even look down on him, and when I meet him, I scold him. A good boy, seeing the emperor is like a mouse seeing a cat. Concubine Jia, I know that Yongxuan is favored by the emperor. If you can speak in front of the emperor, you can also Please take care of Yongzhang, take into account a little bit of my heart as Erniang, and say a few more good things for Yongzhang." Yu Yan was slightly serious: "Sister Chun Guifei, you and I are both mothers. The natural way for children is to rely on themselves. And I have three princes, how can I take care of other people's children? It's nothing to be ashamed of." It's a joke, saying that my hands are too long to meddle in the affairs of your mother and child." Luyun was at a loss for words, and she was about to cry.Yuyan still refused to let it go, chewed a piece of fragrant milk pear and said: "Chun Guifei, to be honest, I am just a concubine, not the queen of the palace. If there is a day, Yongzhang will become my bastard , I naturally have to open my mouth. But today, let’s forget about it.” No matter how good-tempered Lu Yun was, she couldn't hold back her temper, and suddenly stood up.However, all the people around Yuyan were only talking and laughing, no one took her seriously, neither advancing nor retreating for a while, infinitely lonely. Yuyan didn't care about Luyun, she just talked and laughed, and suddenly saw Li Yu coming, talking and laughing happily, the smile lines still hanging on her lips: "Why is Mr. Li coming here like a gust of wind?" Li Yu raised the sapphire tin box in his hand, smiled and said: "The emperor got a new pair of Bu Yao, and asked the slaves to give the concubine Jia a reward." Qing Guiren, who was the leader, smiled and flattered: "The emperor has good things that only hurt the concubine Jia, let us open our eyes today." Concubine Mei sneered and said: "The emperor will not reward the concubine Jia for a few days. I am afraid that opening the storeroom of Qixiang Palace is not enough for Qing nobles to see. The emperor specially ordered Eunuch Li to come, I am afraid there will be others We have to tell you something, why should we be so closed-eyed and stay here?" Mrs. Qing was a little embarrassed.Luyun was the first one who couldn't sit still and left immediately without saying goodbye.At present, everyone is also interested, so they leave one by one. Li Yuqi stepped forward, opened the sapphire tin box, and smiled all over his face: "The emperor's new Buyao is specially given to the empress Jiagui." Yuyan thanked her repeatedly, and looked carefully: "Is this carnelian, or agate? It seems to be carnelian. I really think about the two. If you don't look carefully, it's really hard to tell the difference." Li Yudao: "It's similar at this time, but the imperial concubine Jia has good eyesight, so it is indeed carnelian." Yuyan laughed immediately: "Carnelian is not considered a valuable item, why did the emperor think of making steps?" Li Yudao: "Isn't the concubine Jia forgotten? When Empress Xiaoxian was here, she didn't like extravagant and expensive things the most, and she was always simple. The emperor missed Empress Xiaoxian a lot these days, so he made a walker out of carnelian to express his condolences. It also shows respect for Empress Xiaoxian's frugality." He leaned slightly closer, "Concubine Jia is now more than ten thousand people, do you understand the reason?" Yuyan and Zhenshu looked at each other, forced to be full of ecstasy, and said with a smile: "This palace only thinks that the emperor knows that this palace likes red, so that's why he rewarded it. I didn't expect it to have such a deep meaning. Thanks to the father-in-law's famous words." Li Yu cupped his hands and smiled: "There is one more thing, the servant must report to the imperial concubine Mingjia. The empress knows that the emperor is very displeased with the affair of the imperial concubine's affair in the palace, so she must thoroughly investigate this matter." Yuyan said: "This is as it should be." Li Yu nodded: "It's good for your empress to understand. Now the emperor said that the matter involved a sorcerer, and he had seven treasure bracelets as proof, so he asked all the palaces to write down the things commonly used by the seven treasures of Tantric Buddhism. Now the empress is the most respected, and at this time must follow It started in the empress's palace. I don't know what the empress thinks?" Every time Li Yu said something, Yuyan's smile became weaker.She pondered for a moment, then slowly glanced over Zhenshu who was beside her, and smiled lightly: "Since the emperor said so, I naturally cannot shirk it. Zhenshu, you go and call everyone in the palace." However, no one's handwriting is particularly like Ruyi's, but there is a palace man's handwriting that is extremely ugly and distorted.Li Yu was so clever, he immediately mentioned this person, it was Yuyan's court lady Zhenshu. Zhenshu knelt and sat down tremblingly, because she was a dowry with Yuyan from Li Dynasty, the emperor was also extra polite to her, saying: "These words are so ugly, but are you writing them?" Zhen Shu lowered her head and said fearfully, "Yes." Li Yu sternly shouted: "Then I've always been able to write family letters these years! Although Li Chao's characters are simpler than Manchu and Chinese characters, it doesn't mean that they can be written like earthworms if they change their characters?!" Zhen Shu murmured: "The palace ladies are not allowed to read and write, and the servants have not written for a long time, and they are unfamiliar." The emperor smiled, but his eyes were as cold as ice in the abyss, and called: "Li Yu." Li Yu immediately came forward and handed over two beads.The emperor said: "That's all right. This is the agate I rewarded you. If you choose a good one and take it back and wear it on a chain, it can be regarded as a little affection for you for serving Concubine Jia for so many years." Zhenshu didn't understand what it meant, but after seeing the emperor's order, she was terrified for a long time, and finally chose one of the redder ones, leaned forward and said, "My servant, thank the emperor for the reward." The emperor raised his face, and said firmly: "Li Yu, I just asked you to give a pair of step shakes to Concubine Jia, what did Concubine Jia say?" Li Yulang said: "Concubine Jia carefully asked the slave whether it was carnelian or agate, and then thanked the emperor for the gift of carnelian." The emperor shook his head and said, "Concubine Jia knows it clearly." The emperor glanced at Zhenshu, and said firmly: "I was wrong just now. These two are not agates, but carnelian. But no matter whether they are or not, if you have to choose for so long, I will know that you don't know them." Carnelian. You can’t tell the difference, no wonder you don’t even know that the seven treasures of Tantric Buddhism don’t use agate but carnelian.” The emperor’s face darkened: “Li Yu, loosen Zhenshu, and change the heart. Tell me The Department of Punishment can punish Zhenshu everywhere, as long as her hands are not hurt, until she can copy the same characters as the imperial concubine." Li Yu hurriedly agreed to go, and the emperor called him again: "Send Yong Xin back, and then invite the best imperial physician to come and take a look at him." When the emperor said this, Ruyi's heart sank even more, and she couldn't help showing a bit of anxiety.The emperor greeted him gently: "Ruyi, take a good rest tonight. Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. You are my imperial concubine. I am waiting for you to host the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet." After finishing speaking, the emperor got up and left.The Jingqi nuns also left with Li Yu.As if in just a moment, Ruyi returned from hell to the human world, and returned to her status as the imperial concubine who temporarily captured the sixth palace. There are two hardships in the cloud and hell, and the empty heart seems to be unable to reach the real place.Ruyi didn't have time to discern the bitterness and bitterness in it, but said out loudly: "Three treasures, three treasures! Hurry up and bring Xinxin back."