"This was an unintentional mistake. I hope the princess will forgive me!" Xiao Lian kowtowed and cried while trembling.

Qi Wangshu felt bad when she saw Liang Huanqing holding the jade in such distress. She stepped forward and comforted him: "Huanqing, the deceased is like this. Don't be sad anymore. This is very harmful to the body."

After saying that, he looked at Xiaolian with a bit of disgust in his eyes: "My Fengyang Pavilion cannot keep people like you. Qingyin, tell the Ministry of Internal Affairs to expel this maid from the palace with twenty sticks!"

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"Yes." Qingyin bent down and agreed.

Xiaolian originally thought that she could get some rewards by taking back the jade they were looking for. After all, she was in the deep palace and there was no use holding the jade. She didn't expect that Jiang Yi actually died because of it.

Xiaolian looked at Liang Huanqing and Qi Wangshu with wide eyes in astonishment. After hearing the punishment given to her by the princess, she kept kowtowing on the ground and cried: "Princess, please forgive me, princess, please forgive me! Princess, please let me stay in the palace."

, I have no father or mother, and I have nowhere to go after leaving the palace!"

Qi Wangshu didn't listen to this. When she was about to get on the soft sedan and leave, Liang Huanqing grabbed her and said to her: "Princess, please spare her. There are frequent wars now. It must be hard to make a living outside the palace. I will punish you with a stick."

Let her have a good memory and don't expel her from the palace."

Liang Huanqing was originally ready to leave, but when he heard Xiaolian saying that she had no father, no mother, and no one to rely on, she felt compassion for her.

Qi Wangshu turned back to look at Liang Huanqing. Seeing that she had such intention, he stopped pursuing it: "Forget it, Qingyin, just do what Princess Jing said."

After speaking, he looked at Xiaolian and said, "If this happens again in the future, if I let this princess know, I will definitely not spare you."

"Yes, I acknowledge my guilt." Xiaolian kowtowed in fear and thanked her. Then she knelt down beside Liang Huanqing, looked up at her, and said, "The princess is so kind and kind, I will remember it in my heart."

Liang Huanqing glanced at her, said nothing, and got into the sedan chair with Qingyin's help.

At this time, it was still dark and the palace gate had not yet opened. Liang Huanqing had no place to live in the palace, so he had to follow Qi Wangshu back to Fengyang Pavilion.

Qingyin saw that the two masters were sitting firmly, so he waved his hand: "Get up the sedan."

Qi Wangshu and Liang Huanqing's soft sedans were walking side by side. Qi Wangshu looked sideways at Liang Huanqing and saw that she was silent and staring at the jade left by Jiang Yi in her hand without expression. She felt very uncomfortable.

"Huanqing, I know that my father's execution was not what you wanted, but you have also seen that my father has now clearly shown his preference for Lu Huiling, and neither my mother nor my concubine can do anything about it. Now that the matter has come to this, don't stay depressed like this anymore, as long as

After the imperial brother and General Liang come back, Lu Huiling will not dare to be so arrogant. After the imperial brother returns to Beijing, he has made great achievements in war, and the father will treat you well." Qi Wangshu looked at him with a worried look.

Liang Huanqing said earnestly.

Listening to Qi Wangshu's words, Liang Huanqing's tears fell unconsciously and fell on the jade. She was sobbing and speechless, and could only helplessly rub the jade with her hands.

Qi Wangshu became even more worried when he saw her like this, and couldn't help but blame Lu Huiling: "Lu Huiling is so lawless. He locked you up and even forced Jiang to death in front of you.

Yi. This is too outrageous! Father is really biased. This person has all the evidence and evidence, but he is simply under house arrest and a fine!"

"No...no..." When Liang Huanqing heard Qi Wangshu say this, she seemed to recall some uncomfortable memories. She remembered the way Jiang Yi crashed to death in front of her, and the way Jiang Yi lay on the ground with his back before he died.

Those words that she was still murmuring to her always seemed to Jiang Yisuo in the past, but now I wanted to hear them but could no longer hear them.

She shook her head and cried, as if she was confessing: "It's not like that..."

Qi Wangshu saw Liang Huanqing murmuring something, but she couldn't hear it clearly. She hurriedly asked: "What? Huanqing, what are you talking about?"

Liang Huanqing couldn't help it. She couldn't help but repent in her heart. She looked at Qi Wangshu with tears in her eyes and said with a sob: "Jiang Yi...Jiang Yi committed suicide by herself. She attacked Lu Huiling to help me get away."

She was worried that the emperor would hold me accountable for attacking Lu Huiling, so she bumped her head to death in the side hall so that no one would hold me accountable... It was me... I was the one who killed Jiang Yi."

After hearing this, Qi Wangshu's eyes widened in astonishment. She did not expect that Jiang Yi was so deeply in love with Liang Huanqing that he would actually end his own life in order to exonerate her.

"There's no need for Jiang Yi to do this..." Qi Wangshu sighed sadly.

In fact, they all know very well that as Liang Huanqing is Liang Fengmian's daughter, and now Qi Jingqin's princess, both of them are now guards of honor of the Celestial Empire. Even if Liang Huanqing does something treasonous and unethical, as long as it is not too excessive, the emperor will not

I won't pursue it too much, and at most I'll suffer some pain when it happens.

But Jiang Yi didn't know that she always thought that Liang Huanqing, as Princess Jing, should always be aloof, even though before she became the princess, she was also the eldest lady who attracted much attention. When Jiang Yi saw Liang Huanqing being locked up in the side with her,

When I was in the palace, I was very anxious.

It's not that Jiang Yi didn't know what happened in the past and always looked at her stupidly, but she knew in her heart that Lu Huiling was favored solely because she looked like Empress Mingxian.

But no one knows how much the emperor owes Empress Mingxian.

Jiang Yi only knew that that year, Empress Mingxian passed away, and the emperor rarely missed an early court meeting. That year, Jiang Yi was working as an errand in Prince Jing's Mansion. When he saw that Prince Jing's Mansion was also covered with white cloth, he thought something had happened, but later he found out that today

When the mother of the country dies, all officials must wear sackcloth and show mourning.

This was a battle that had never happened before the death of the Queen Mother.

It was clearly the golden month of October, but the whole city of Shangjing felt like a sudden heavy snowfall. The imperial city took off the bright yellow that symbolized glory, took off the festive red lanterns, and all the palaces were covered with white cloth to celebrate the Ming Dynasty.

Queen Xian was buried.

The emperor personally wrote an imperial edict for her and sent her to the imperial mausoleum. All the wives and concubines in the city knelt on both sides of the imperial mausoleum and cried. The cries echoed through the sky. Jiang Yi was sweeping the floor in the palace and could hear the sound coming from the imperial mausoleum.

whimper.

Jiang Yi watched Liang Huanqing being imprisoned in the side hall by Lu Huiling. She always wondered whether the emperor would punish Liang Huanqing for Lu Huiling. At the same time, she couldn't help but blame herself in her heart.

, then things will not reach this point now.

Jiang Yi was afraid of death. Even if her hand was accidentally pressed by a heavy object, she would feel pain for a long time, and she would moan for a long time. However, she wanted to exchange her insignificant life for Liang Huanqing's good reputation. She could not let herself be shamed by Princess Jing.

She thought about it for a long time, and finally she was knocked to death in the side hall. At that time, she was lying in a pool of blood, saying insignificant words, but what she was thinking in her heart was that she died well. This ended her short but lucky life.

Liang Huanqing was heartbroken. There was no need for Jiang Yi to die, but she crashed to death in the side hall in order to preserve her reputation. What was the use of Liang Huanqing's reputation? She was always unruly and willful.

But Jiang Yi didn't want the emperor to mistakenly think that Liang Huanqing was arrogant and domineering, so he wanted to use his own blood to clear her name.

"It's me...I'm sorry for her." Liang Huanqing was so heartbroken that she bent down, placed Yu on her heart, and held her tightly.

"Huanqing...you don't have to blame yourself. It's Lu Huiling who should blame yourself and regret not being able to sleep peacefully every night. If it weren't for her, Jiang Yi wouldn't have died, and you wouldn't be so sad." Qi Wangshu patted her.

Liang Huanqing put his shoulder on his shoulder and comforted him softly.

Liang Huanqing thought about Jiang Yi's smile before his death and the way those people chattering around him, and couldn't help but feel very sad. He only hoped that Jiang Yi would find a good family in the next life, and would not have to be a slave in a high-ranking official's compound, and would have a stable life.

Joy, it's better to be so talkative and find someone who is willing to listen to what she has to say for the rest of her life.

"Where will Jiang Yihui be buried?" Liang Huanqing asked.

"My father said that Jiang Yi would be buried with the ceremonial rites of a first-class female official. I think it will be in a mausoleum outside the city. There are all the maids and eunuchs who have made contributions to the royal family." Qi Wangshu thought for a while and said.

"Can I be buried in the Liang family's mausoleum?" Liang Huanqing regarded Jiang Yi as her sister. Jiang Yi died for her, so she should be buried in the Liang family's mausoleum and enjoy the incense of the Liang family for generations.

Qi Wangshu looked at Liang Huanqing and was speechless for a moment. She did not expect that Liang Huanqing was such a person who valued love and justice. She also thought that her royal brother married Liang Huanqing to consolidate his own foundation, so she secretly felt that Liang Huanqing was not worth it.

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"Go back and talk to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and ask them to send someone to take Jiang Yi's body to the Liang family mausoleum." Qi Wangshu looked at Liang Huanqing and said.

Liang Huanqing cried and nodded. When he touched the jade in his hand, he suddenly felt that the jade had warmth. He thought it was Jiang Yi who had a spirit in the sky. Hearing that she treated him so well, he wanted to say something.

The soft sedan walked for a long time and finally stopped in front of Fengyang Pavilion.

Qi Wangshu and Liang Huanqing stepped off the sedan together. Qi Wangshu said to Liang Huanqing: "It's getting late. I'll ask Qingyin to clean up a bedroom and come out. You go and wash up. There is blood in your hair..."

Liang Huanqing nodded, seeming to have accepted the fact that Jiang Yi was dead, and stopped complaining. She followed the palace maid to go to the hot spring to take a bath to wash away all the bad luck today.

Qi Wangshu stood alone in the courtyard of Fengyang Pavilion, looking up at the stars in the sky, but he didn't know what he was thinking...

After the Emperor, Princess Mei, Guifei and others left, Xu Lan quickly called on the palace maids and eunuchs to clean up the mess. They cleaned the bloodstained side hall over and over with water, and found a few banners to seal it up.

stand up.

While the eunuchs and maids were cleaning the courtyard, Xu Lan hurried to the imperial concubine Ming's palace to help her rest.
Chapter completed!