Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen Rose Wither (Part 2)

"I'm incompetent?" Concubine Mei's pale face with bright red lips lined with heavy cream has a kind of eerie beauty, she sighs to herself, faint and erratic, "Yes! I have been driven and used by others all my life , I’m incompetent, but having said that, it’s better to have someone of some use value than none at all. Thinking about it this way, I’m not incompetent.” She bowed slightly, “Empress Empress, please come here for nothing but Because you have been in the palace for more than ten years, and you are about to die, you are the only one who owes favors after much deliberation."

"You want to thank Bengong for burying your child for you?" Ruyi smiled sadly, "This palace is doomed to be a childless person in this life. If you do something that others taboo for your child, you should be a childless person." It’s because I met him once in the past.” Concubine Mei's eyes were full of sadness and beauty: "I know. My child was born a monster, but thank you for being willing to do these things for my child." "He's not a monster, he's a good-looking child." Ruyi's voice was extremely soft, as if comforting a helpless child. "He's very handsome, just like you."

A gust of slanting wind blew past, and Ruyi unknowingly felt a chill, and stretched out her hand to cover the fluttering window.Concubine Mei sat there in a daze, unable to move or speak, only the tears in her eyes filled up more and more, and finally a teardrop fell from her long eyelashes, as clear as morning dew, and disappeared in an instant.For a moment, she tried her best to calm down: "Thank you, only you can tell me that he is a good-looking child. However, no matter what others say, in my heart, he will always be the best child." Ruyi stared at her knowingly: "Your child can't enter the genealogy jade, and can only go to the mass grave silently when he dies. I once wanted to do this, but I didn't dare. Now I choose Fengshui Baodi reburies, and saves the child well, it is like sending you off, so that you mother and child can meet each other underground, and you don’t have to live or die again.”

Concubine Mei let out a long sigh of relief, and the thin layer of tear-stained water droplets on her face instantly condensed into a frosty mist, and she showed a cold snowy smile: "Yes! I, the mother-in-law, went underground, I can finally have the face to see my child. In those years when he just left, I was really scared. I was afraid that he would be alone in the ground. There is no brother who can be with him. Guess, at this time, I Will your child be with Empress Xiaoxian's second elder brother Yong Lian, or his seventh elder brother Yong Cong who is similar in age?" Seeing her cold and determined smile, Ruyi suddenly thought of something, and her heart twitched violently: "Yong Cong?" She couldn't help approaching Concubine Mei, "Yong Cong got the pox very well, I can't blame you It's related, isn't it?"

As if she had been severely whipped, Mei Concubine raised her head abruptly: "Naturally! Empress Xiaoxian killed my child, and I will pay for her son's life. One life is worth one life, it's very fair!" Ruyi tried her best to suppress the surge in her heart, and asked calmly, "How did Seventh Brother die?" Extreme gratification and satisfaction filled Concubine Mei's face, just like the auspicious flowers embroidered on her auspicious clothes, the unreal complicated flower branches, bright as jade in color, blooming wantonly and gorgeously, it was real joy.She fiddled with the thin rice bead tassels hanging from her chest, and said slowly: "Empress Empress, you are not the only one who has seen Mo Xin, I have also. She couldn't beg you, so she came begging me."

Ruyi was startled: "Mo Xin begged you?" Her brows were slightly frowned because of doubt, "You are just a little concubine, it is not easy to get close to Empress Xiaoxian's Changchun Palace, and you may not be able to do these things, Mo Xin How could the heart come to beg you?" Concubine Mei's tone was stagnant, and she didn't answer, she just said to herself: "Why did I give birth to such a child, and how my child died, I was kept in the dark. At that time, you were accused of harming me He Yipin's child, in fact, I didn't believe it very much in my heart! But only when you enter the cold palace, the emperor will see my pity. See the suffering of me and my child, and see that our mother and child are not evildoers! So I fight I lost you, and I pointed at you and cried to the emperor! There is no way, I sat out of the Nanfu, and finally reached that day, I have to save myself! I can’t fall back to the Nanfu to live that kind of lonely and despicable life!” She was somewhat apologetic, "Empress, I'm sorry!"

Ruyi didn't take it to heart either, and said calmly: "I know, at that time, everyone believed that I was the one who harmed you, whether you were angry or self-protected, you did it, but I didn't After you got out of the cold palace, you didn't feel sorry for me." Concubine Mei nodded and said: "Yes. God has eyes, I thought about it day and night, and finally knew who the enemy is and how to take revenge! I didn't hesitate at all, and immediately sent someone to send Chunniang to the close-up of Huanxi. The clothes were secretly taken out for Mo Xin to wear for a few days before sending them back. When Mo Xin wore those clothes, the pimples on her body turned into pustules. She was afraid that it would not be enough, so Te Teer pierced the pustules and applied them. I will let Someone picked it up with a clip and mixed it into Chunniang's clothes, how nice! Chunniang wore it unknowingly, and breastfeeding Yongcong every day. Cong is also infected." She hissed lightly, shaking her onion-like nails, and laughed heartily, "Poor child, she just died in the hands of her cruel mother." She laughed heartily Then, a vicious and joyful light flashed in his eyes, "Empress Xiaoxian caused you and Concubine Yu so much misery when she was alive, I'm afraid you also hated and poisoned her, Mo Xin begged you, but you didn't agree, it's useless to treat you like this." It was a good time for me."

Ruyi stretched out her plain white palms: "Because my hands were stained with blood that shouldn't be, because I found out that some things that seemed to be done by Empress Xiaoxian were not necessarily done by her. There are many strange things." I don’t even understand it myself.” Concubine Mei gave Ruyi a hard look: "It's not her, who else would want to guard our child like this? One life for one life, I feel extremely happy!" The pavilion was extremely quiet, and the four eyes met each other, each of them understood what kind of complex emotions were engraved in each other's eyes.

Ruyiru was talking in her sleep: "Now, are you happy?" Concubine Mei caressed her heart, tightly clutching the falling snowdrops, broken jade tassels, and said calmly: "It's very enjoyable! But it hurts even more! My child was calculated for nothing, and died so miserably! Even , Fucha is much luckier than me, at least she watched her son die, and I don't even know what my child looks like!" Concubine Mei's frantic pain silently evoked Ruyi's pain from the past, the person who had harmed her, the person who might still be hiding in the depths of the smoke cloud and stretching out her sharp claws, and the person who was crushed by her and Hailan. , the young life that Luyun quietly concealed.Compared with Concubine Mei, her hands were never cleaner.Sometimes, when people are in a quiet place, looking at their well-maintained snow-white and delicate hands, and their translucent pink nails, they will suddenly be shocked, and vaguely see the dark red and black blood and fragments of flesh remaining in the nails. The smell of blood cannot be washed away no matter what.She had no choice but to paint the bright-coloured Kodan and put on sharp and elegant armor. With the indifferent brilliance of gems and gold and the cold hardness of the armor, she established herself as seemingly indestructible and slow-breathing. Suddenly, she said in a deep voice: "Jiji, it's all over, at least that person has felt the pain of your bereavement, and even watched her child die with her own eyes, her tragedy is no less than yours!"

Concubine Mei's originally delicate and haggard face was distorted ferociously because of strong hatred: "It's a good thing I met Mo Xin, otherwise I, a useless mother-in-law, would be unable to do anything, and would be kept in the dark even to the death!" Ruyi calmed down, and asked softly, "I heard that Moxin died of pox on the ground kneeling in the direction of Xianfu Palace." Concubine Mei nodded slightly: "I ordered someone to send her to be burned, and I counted her loyalty!" She clenched her hands tightly until her knuckles turned white, "In those days, listening to the cries of Changchun Palace, I'm so happy! I've never heard a more beautiful voice than that, it's the Queen's retribution!" The corner of her mouth was full of venom, each word was like a sharp blade, rustling Cut across the skin, into the flesh and blood, with dark red foam, "I thought that in this life, I wouldn't even know how my child died, but at that moment, the moment I killed her son, I was so happy My poor child, Er Niang finally avenged you, Er Niang has never been so happy in her life." The tears in her eyes grew more and more, rushing out like a river breaking its embankment, flowing wantonly, "But, My child, Er Niang, has never even seen what you look like. When we go underground in the future, how will our mother and son meet? Er Niang is so scared, I am afraid that I will not see you, I will not recognize you. "

There was a moist and soft place in the bottom of my heart that was gently touched, like a child's soft hand gently stroking, pulling up the deepest pain, Ruyi said softly: "Mother and child's blood is thicker than water, he will recognize you. " Concubine Mei's eyes were almost crazy, full of deep love and compassion, she sobbed and said: "Maybe, child, others despise you, but Er Niang will not, Er Niang loves you, Er Niang loves you." She stretched out her trembling and skinny hands, as if holding her long-lost child, and showed a sweet and gentle smile, "My good child, no matter what others think of you, you are Erniang's favorite good child." Ruyi looked at her, as if she had swallowed a green plum, her tongue was so sour, in this gorgeous palace, although they were as beautiful as flowers, they were as beautiful as flowers, they were as ruthless as hell's Asura, but At the bottom of her heart, there is always such an indescribable tenderness, whether it is persistence or madness, Ruyi can't help but bend down and reach out to support her: "Jiji, why are you doing this?" Concubine Mei seemed to be waking up from a sound dream, and she shed two drops of clear tears, which fell on the fragrant brocade clothes, leaving withered and scorched flowers one after another. "Yeah! Why should I be like this, but I just have to be like this." She raised her face and stared at Ruyi, "Do you want to know why? Do you dare to know?" Ruyi looked at each other quietly: "From the moment I step here, no matter what you say, they will think that you have said everything to Bengong." Concubine Mei's eyes were wide open, and her blue-gray face was flushed sickly because of being too excited. Against the soft and beautiful red halo of makeup and rouge, a pair of pitch-black eyes were burning with the embers of fire, burning and compelling.She smiled dejectedly: "You're right. So no matter what I say, it's just to pay back what the Queen has done for me and my child today." Her heart trembled with depression, as if the cool dew had seeped into the bones, making Ruyi faintly feel the coming coldness after the fog was deep, she nodded a bit awkwardly: "Just say what you have." Concubine Mei raised her face, her expression was resolute and cold, but the smile on the corner of her mouth was coldly charming and disdainful: "Empress Empress, guess why I wanted to harm Concubine Qing? Who ordered me?" Holding her breath for a moment, Ruyi stared at her slightly mocking face, and said lightly: "Of course you are not the Queen Mother, but others can't order you. You have nothing to lack, and you are not afraid of anything." For some reason, she suddenly remembered what she meant. Huan suddenly said in shock, "Could it be..." Concubine Mei chuckled, her voice was a transparent and tough silk thread, with a sharp ending, and Ruyi's brain was tense due to extreme shock, and her snow-white teeth were biting on Concubine Mei's dark purple lips. : "You guessed it, but you dare not say it? You dare not say it, but you guessed it!" She stopped laughing, and said sharply, "The queen mother is indeed scheming, but the emperor is not a real pillow that can be entrusted with." The man on the side, who can plot against the women who have been immersed in the deep palace for many years, can't tell the loss of the empress dowager. He can only blame himself for choosing the wrong person to be beside the emperor. What do you think of this method? Is it powerful? As soon as the emperor's mind told me, I would succumb to the embarrassment, and I knew that the queen mother could not win the emperor. Forget it, my body is also bad, but it is the life of the past few years, from my defense Empress Wu, after I took revenge, I no longer have the will to live. It is worthwhile to take a scapegoat in exchange for the prosperity and wealth of the family for several lifetimes." She looked at Ruyi closely, "Queen Empress, do you understand what I said?" Ruyi's back was leaning against the wall, as if otherwise, she couldn't resist the bone-shattering cold brought by Concubine Mei's words: "Did the emperor borrow your hand?" Concubine Mei sneered and said: "Whose hand is it not a hand? It is the emperor who pitied me and gave me such a chance when he was dying. He left and right me in front of the queen mother. I am also an outcast who is not favored by the queen mother. It is a waste to be used by the emperor once." Come on. A pawn is only valuable if it can be used by others, otherwise it shouldn't stay in this world, right?" Ruyi's teeth were trembling, she couldn't control it, couldn't control the words she blurted out: "When did the emperor know?" "From the night of Fenghe in Quyuan, or earlier, when you advised Princess Roushu to get married." She glanced at Ruyi, "Empress Empress, I remember that you also spoke for Princess Roushu at that time. Carefully The emperor is also suspicious of you." She chuckled softly, "Our emperor is more suspicious than anyone else, but he doesn't like to say anything, he just thinks about it, he thinks he's thinking about something, no matter you No matter what you say, you think you are right. Empress, with such a beloved person, your life is not easy, right?" Ruyi was a little sad in her heart, it was like eating a fruit with worms in it, she couldn't swallow it, couldn't vomit, so she had to endure it and said, "Is it okay, I'm the queen." Concubine Mei had a faint smile on her lips, but there was deep hope in her eyes. "Empress, by telling you these words, I am repaying your kindness back then. Your life is longer than mine, and I am afraid that you will suffer as much as I am now. Live well." The eyes in her eyes Gradually calm like stagnant water, "How does the emperor plan to kill me? If Bai Ling hangs her neck, she will become a ghost with her tongue sticking out, and if she stabs her body, there will be a hole. Empress, I want to die in a decent and tidy way." Go down and meet my boy, don't want to frighten him." Ruyi's eyes were a little wet, she turned her face away and said, "Poison wine has been prepared for you, it is a gift from the emperor, you will not go too sad." She clapped her hands twice, and Sanbao took the wine Come in. Concubine Mei smiled, stood up and said, "Queen, do I look good dressed like this?" The sorrow and sorrow in her heart rippled, and Ruyi still nodded her head: "It's very beautiful, your child will be very proud to have such a beautiful mother when he sees you." Concubine Mei's tense expression relaxed, she nodded gently, took the poisonous wine and drank it without any hesitation, she walked to the bed, lay down quietly, closed her eyes, and smiled, as if expecting I have a sweet dream.The drug effect took place very quickly, her body twitched violently a few times, a smear of black blood flowed from the corner of her mouth, and she finally returned to sleep-like calm. That was the last time Ruyi stared at the beauty of Concubine Mei, just like the dewy rose in the beauty of sunset, condensing the last moment of youth.In these years, Concubine Mei did not favor the harem, but in her young days, there were always such good times, when the dew was wet and the flowers were spring and the palace was fragrant, and the moonlight song was blowing in Zhaoyang.The smile is sweet, the love is warm, so intoxicated, I always think that the whole life is such a good time, and it seems that it will never end. However, in the end, the years will grow old, the appearance will decay, and the love will fade away, becoming the old hatred and fallen leaves, and the spring breeze will wind around the branches for thousands of years. Ruyi took off the plain silk tied on the bracelet, and gently wiped the blood from the corners of her lips: "Go well. Your favorite child is waiting for you below, and we will continue our mother-child relationship with you. " As the spring breeze blew, Ruyi felt that her face was wet and a little chilly. The wind blew the long and deep beaded veils all over the hall like a winding mist, making people at a loss as to where they were. The closed door suddenly opened, a wind suddenly blew up, and it was Xin who came in, looking at Mei Concubine's peaceful face on the brocade couch, she said softly: "Mother, has Miss Mei Concubine gone?" Ruyi nodded slightly, and the night wind was blowing at the bright and beautiful corner of her skirt, like the wings of a butterfly among the flowers in spring, making her thoughts even more disturbed. My personal maid went out, where did she go?" Xin Xin's eyes streamed slightly, and he said in a low voice: "My servant went to investigate. Concubine Mei sent her personal maid to Qixiang Palace, but the people in Qixiang Palace didn't see her, and they didn't even open the palace gate. The servant thought Now, Concubine Mei has never had any contact with Qixiang Palace, so why did she send someone there? After asking the maid, she couldn't tell the whole story, she only said that Concubine Mei kowtowed to Concubine Jia, if she couldn't see her, Just kowtow outside Qixiang Palace and leave." Xin Xin answered eloquently, thinking that he had checked carefully.Ruyi squinted her eyes slightly, and there was a kind of shattered light condensed into waves of doubt, flowing through her eyes: "You told Concubine Mei about saving her child's aftermath, and she wants to see me to thank you. It's reasonable. But it's strange to go to Qixiang Palace, what are you going to do if you have no beginning and no end?" Thinking in his heart, he said: "My servant thinks, Miss Meibi is a person with clear grievances and grievances. The empress settled her child's matter for her, so she naturally wants to thank her. Besides, the young mistress Meifei is also wronged enough, and I will never forget her for the rest of my life." Suffering can’t be said, can’t say a word, I’m afraid that many things and many words will rot in my stomach and be taken to the ground for the rest of my life.” Ruyi's temples throbbed, as if a silver needle had provoked the most painful nerves, she said hoarsely: "It's Jin Yuyan! It must be Jin Yuyan! Empress Xiaoxian's seventh daughter My elder brother contracted the pox and passed away. Concubine Mei said she did it herself, but she was just a concubine, how could she have the ability to do this seamlessly! I'm afraid it was because she wanted to thank everyone before she died. Thank you, as if she must see Ben Gong. So...so..." Sing Xin stepped forward, tightly holding Ruyi who was burning with anger and hatred, and said with restraint: "Empress Empress, if what Empress Xiaoxian said before her death is true, she has never done many things. So what happened now is really likely to be instigated by Concubine Jia, if even Empress Xiaoxian's seventh elder brother can die silently, then the viciousness of this woman is really beyond our expectations." She said more and more In pain, she couldn't help but leaned down and stroked her disabled legs and feet, said through gnash teeth: "Empress, if she can hurt your servant and you once, she can hurt us many times." Ruyi clenched her fingers tightly, and her joints made a crackling sound, as if they were pounding heavily on her heart. Her voice was not as fierce as the boiling fire in her heart, it was extraordinarily calm and eerie: "The most terrifying thing is to have nowhere to guard your heart." As long as you know who it is and take precautions, you don’t have to be afraid anymore.” Hanging her head down, she said regretfully: "It's a pity that Concubine Jia has the status of Li Chao, so she can't be touched easily, but I can't get rid of such a person, it's really a thorn in my back to be by my side every day." Ruyi shook her head, pressed the helplessness and depression deep into the bottom of her emotions, and said lightly: "Even if I am a queen, many things cannot be fulfilled, and the only thing I can do right now is this. " The moment she stepped out of the palace gate, she finally looked at Concubine Mei's peaceful face immersed in death, and was stunned and confused for a moment; if there was a future, would her end be a little better than Concubine Mei's?Still the same, limited to the vortex of using and being used for life, sinking to the end?