Chapter 63(1/2)
For several days, Zhou Jianxin would come to me every time to take a cup of blood. He used one jar of blood three times. The emperor's condition gradually improved, and the chest colic was not so obvious.
I lay weakly on the bed, the closed door made the room where the air was not circulating, and the smell of blood was filled with a faint smell of blood.
Yupuen walked forward respectfully with millet porridge in his hand: "There is a rumor in the palace. I wonder if the empress has heard of it?"
The white cloth bandaged on the wrist oozed out blood: "About me, let me hear it!"
"It is rumored in the palace that the emperor had a cramp in his chest. It was the empress who performed the witchcraft and harmed the emperor. The queen ordered people to thoroughly investigate the matter. The imperial concubine Yin was waiting for an opportunity to prepare to say something to the emperor!"
I let out a long sigh, afraid that the blood stained with the Buddhist beads in my hand would turn into a filthy thing: "What do you think about this?"
Yu Puen was silent for a moment: "The King of Yingchuan, the Northern Zhou Dynasty, had come out of the Heavenly Prison, told his envoys that he had found Princess Hua Zhuoer, and planned to tell the Emperor of Northern Zhou that he would set up the title of Princess!"
My heart was slightly cold: "Where are they living now?"
Yu Puen said: "I still live in the palace, but the envoys of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were accompanied by them day and night, fearing that the people from the Eastern Jin Dynasty would be unfavorable to them!"
"Is there any movement in the Huangcheng Palace?" My hands rubbing the Buddhist beads lighter and lighter, just as my hanging heart is getting colder and colder.
"There is no movement!" Yu Puen said without hesitation: "The Imperial Concubine Yin has been there twice in the past few days, both of which are mainly based on the view of the Virtuous Concubine. It is unknown whether she has met Concubine Su or not!"
He let out a sigh of relief: "Many of the palace maids here are afraid of being implicated by this palace, so they asked to resign. Look, what credible people are there that can be used by this palace!"
"If not, then that's fine. The emperor will be fine in a few more days. I haven't visited the emperor for so many days. After the emperor is ready, someone will definitely say in front of him that I am not. If you let out the wind, you will say that I will close the door and don't know what to do here!"
Yu Puen looked at me with some fear in his eyes, and asked more carefully: "I dare to ask, is the Empress's target the Empress or the Imperial Concubine Yin?"
He smiled lazyly, "Look at how weak I am, just like the fish on your chopping board. If you are happy, you will cut from wherever you are happy. If I am not picky, I will see who will come!"
Yu Puen couldn't help but step forward: "The Empress is not picky, why not take the initiative to attack? The Empress and the Imperial Concubine Yin have formed two major situations of opposition. Concubine Lin wants to take advantage of the situation, and Huang Chenggong is ready to move, which is extremely unfavorable to the Empress!"
The hand that touched the Buddhist beads stopped slightly: "Everyone is ready to move, showing loyalty outside the emperor's bedroom. I feel it's not easy to live here alone!"
"It's not easy to take the initiative. The eldest prince doesn't trust me. The queen has a grudge against me. You may not know that she has already classified me as the queen's group. For me, now, she is just looking for a suitable opportunity to kill me!"
Yu Puen fell into a long silence when she heard this. My eyes leapt and I slowly sat up from the bed: "Eunuch Yu, based on your years of experience in the palace, who do you think if this palace takes the initiative to attack?"
Yu Puen took two steps back, his expression just apart: "I don't know that I just sent the information from the palace to the empress. As for other choices, I have to take care of myself. I don't overestimate my affairs!"
He shook his wrist without any strength: "I am surrounded by enemies, and there is only a trustworthy person like you. I don't want to be passive, and I also want to take the initiative, but... I am alone after all, except relying on the emperor's love, there is no one in the palace to rely on!"
"Now the emperor is sick again, others think that I am easy to bully. I don't want to see the emperor, but I just hide here and dare not go out!"
Yu Puen carefully did not answer my words and blamed himself: "I can't think of a better way to share my worries and problems for the Empress. I beg you to forgive me!"
I gave up: "You have helped me a lot, and I am so grateful to you. Let's go down, I will find a way for myself!"
Yupuen put the millet porridge aside: "I will cook something for the Empress to replenish blood. The Empress's face is very pale and she looks very energetic!"
Touching his hand on his face: "Thank you, be careful!"
Yu Puen left the Jiaoge Hall. I calculated the days and waited for the Queen and Emperor Yin to stay calm, and waited for the Queen to urge the Emperor Yin to come over and cause trouble for me.
The emperor was waiting for recovery, and I ate vegetarianism and recited Buddha's name by myself, but I didn't wait for anyone to come.
The dagger slashed his wrist again and dripped the blood into the ink plate. The ink plate was wrapped in white cloth, and the night wind blew like a howl.
The bright red blood copied a piece of paper, dried it and rolled it up, put it into the meridian bucket, and rubbed its tired eyebrows.
Standing up from the futon, planning to open the window, but heard the rushing footsteps outside, calming my mind. I was wondering who it would be?
In the guess, the door of the room was rudely kicked open, and the vicious palace maids and eunuchs took me away without saying anything.
Before they could open their mouths, they blocked their mouths.
He took me all the way out of the emperor's bedroom. I was wearing thin clothes and threw me outside. As they brought all the prayers I put on the Buddhist scriptures.
I threw it next to me in a flash, and I knelt on the cold stone steps, my hair was messy and trembling with coldness.
The palace lights swayed, emitting a faint and cold light.
I was speculating who it was, but I didn't expect it was Lin Guipin. She took my ink cartridge containing my blood and said to the emperor standing at the door: "Your Majesty, you are lingering in the sickbed, and you should be the witchcraft that Concubine Nuan has done! That is why the emperor suffered such a great disaster!"
I slowly held my fist and tears fell down to defend myself: "Pin Lin, don't talk nonsense. My heart for the emperor can be seen by the sun and the moon, and the world can be expressed."
Lin Guipin presented the ink cartridge to the emperor with both hands: "The emperor has been sleeping in his sick bed for the past few days, and everyone in the palace is worried. Concubine Nuan stays in her door all day long. She is such a dirty thing. After all, she is a woman from another country and can't stand my good fortune in the Eastern Jin Dynasty!"
The queen is also behind the emperor, and the imperial concubine Yin is also there. Concubine Lin is the leader, is it the queen of union, or is she trying to be the first to be the first?
The emperor held the ink cartridge in his hand and put it on the tip of his nose to smell it. Lin Guipin continued to say: "Concubine Nuan uses herself as a medium, with blood as the foundation, and does witchcraft books and curses!"
The emperor walked out and looked at me condescendingly, with anger in his eyes: "Concubine Nuan, do you have something to say!"
I looked at the emperor with my head raised: "I have nothing to say. There is indeed blood in the ink cartridge. What Lin Guipin said is right!"
A trace of pride flashed in Lin Guipin's eyes, and he bent down and pulled my wrist directly: "Your Majesty, look, this woman is willing to hurt herself for the sake of cursing. The scar on her hand is the best evidence!"
The wound was torn apart by her, and blood dripped downwards. The emperor was full of anger: "Concubine Nuan, I treat you well. It has not arrived yet, but you have a ulterior motive and want to curse me to die!"
"I don't have it!" My eyes were filled with tears, and the pain made my cheeks pale: "I only have the emperor in my heart. As long as I can make it good, I can do anything!"
"Pin Lin is accusing me of me and begging the emperor to make the decision and give me justice. I really did nothing. I am praying for blessings from heaven and the emperor will recover soon!"
"Pray to the sky?" Lin Guipin snorted: "I have never heard of anything. Is it necessary to use human blood to pray to the sky?"
"Concubine Nuan, the emperor is pampering you and you are well-known. Not only are you not grateful, but you are also cursing the emperor with your own blood, making the emperor's chest cramps. You are such a vicious woman!"
The emperor smashed the ink cartridge in his hand to the ground and pulled my wrist from Concubine Lin: "Okay, you concubine, my chest is cramped. It turns out that it is the fruit of your cursing day and night. Is it the Crown Prince of the Northern Wei who asked you to curse me?"
The pain made me tremble all over, and my voice was even more scared and trembling: "I didn't. I just prayed for blessings from heaven, not cursing the emperor. I haven't seen the emperor these days because I'm weak!"
"I feel weak? I think you are bleeding!" Lin Guipin pressed step by step and aggressively: "A normal person will be weak after bleeding, not to mention you, the person who curses others!"
The emperor's fingers were stuck in my wound, and I wanted to crush my wrist. I hurriedly looked at the queen and shouted to the queen: "Empress, you know what I am doing in the harem. Please explain to the emperor!"
A faint look flashed across the queen's face, and she slowly stepped out of the threshold: "Emperor, is there any misunderstanding? Sister Nuan is obedient and can't do anything cursed, and can't do something witchcraft. Is it okay for others to wrongly accuse Sister Nuan?"
Seeing this, Concubine Yin said softly: "The blood box is full of conviction. What's wrong with wronging? Queen, are you, is this sheltering the sinner?"
The queen raised her eyes and looked at the Imperial Concubine Yin: "What do you mean by the Imperial Concubine? Concubine Nuan is the emperor's favorite. I can't let anyone say anything, but I can conclude that Concubine Nuan is hiding evil intentions!"
"What's more, when the emperor was injured in his eyes, Concubine Nuan took good care of the emperor. It was indeed poisoned by someone who was interested. Concubine Nuan didn't care about the emperor and went back to recuperate himself!"
When Emperor Yin heard this, Concubine Yin chuckled: "Who knows whether she was the poison herself? She just happened to use this to escape from the emperor. She knows people and faces but not the heart. It is reasonable for women from other countries to hide evil intentions!"
The queen scolded bluntly: "Why didn't the women from other countries recommend Concubine Yin to the emperor? She wants to curse the emperor, and I really suspect that Concubine Yin was doing it?"
"Empress, you are slandering!" Concubine Yin said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, you want to be the master of yourselves. You are just someone who recommends them, not someone who knows the truth!"
"Enough?" The emperor had a huge anger on his face: "Shut up for me!"
The Empress and the Imperial Concubine Yin were frightened and said they were low.
Concubine Lin bent down and picked up the sutra beside me, "Your Majesty, this is evidence. All the spells written by Concubine Nuan are here!"
The emperor threw my hand and threw me to the ground hard, and was about to get the prayer tube to open it. I didn't care about the pain on my body and stopped the emperor loudly and said, "Your Majesty, this is my prayer for blessings from heaven. It will take 7749 days to take effect. Please open it after 7749 days!"
Concubine Lin kicked over: "After 49 days, the spell will take effect. Is it right to take the emperor's life?"
I was kicked to the ground, spit out blood, knelt on the ground, and looked at the emperor with a pale face: "Your Majesty, you must believe me, I have no different intentions towards the emperor, I will not curse the emperor, the emperor is my god!"
The emperor was furious. Concubine Lin took out the paper from the prayer tube and looked at me proudly: "Your Majesty, look, the things written in blood have a strong smell of blood. What is this not a curse?"
The Empress glanced at me and slowly knelt down on the ground and blocked me: "Your Majesty, I guarantee my life, and Sister Nuan Concubine has no curse on the emperor!"
The emperor didn't even look at what was written in the warp tube, and directly knocked it down with one hand. The paper fell in front of the queen. The emperor pointed to the paper on the ground and said, "Queen, look, what is this? Are you covering her? Is there any more I in your eyes?"
The queen picked up the paper on the ground without any haste, looked at it, leaned over and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, you have wronged Concubine Nuan. This is a Buddhist scripture written in blood!"
The emperor's face changed drastically, and the Queen's voice was like a bell: "It's all my fault. I told Concubine Nuan that the blood scripture can eliminate sins, drive away the disease, and take all the guilt and consequences of others on myself!"
"I didn't expect that Concubine Nuan took it seriously and wrote the Heart Sutra with her own blood. I just wanted the emperor to drive away the disease as soon as possible. Your Majesty, please see, the first sentence on the Blood Sutra is that I wish that my husband, the Emperor of Eastern Jin, was healthy!"
The emperor frowned and took the blood sutra. Concubine Lin looked shocked and hurriedly opened the other sutras. Each sutra contains a scripture I copied.
There were more than a dozen in total. Lin Guipin opened it all and looked through it. The queen curled her lips and snatched her hands casually. She said with deep affection, "Your Majesty, you see, it's written in every scripture. It's all my fault. I don't know that Concubine Nuan loves the emperor so affectionately!"
"I don't know even more. I just said casually. Since Concubine Nuan is really good, she really writes with her own blood, and makes those who are interested regard Concubine Nuan as a wolf's ambition and curse the emperor. Everything is my fault. If you want to punish me, punish me. Concubine Nuan shed blood every day and can no longer withstand any punishment!"
The emperor didn't believe it, so he looked at every chapter of the blood scripture I copied. Annoyance flashed in his sharp eyes. I sneered in my heart and glanced at the imperial concubine Yin.
Concubine Yin's eyes were cold involuntarily. I took the initiative and said to Guipin Lin like a barbaric woman: "Which side did I offend you? You will take it out by you!"
"I just want the emperor to be fine. As long as the emperor's illness can be transferred to me, let alone copying the blood scriptures with blood, even if I drink my blood, I am willing to give it to the emperor. It is because of your suspicion that I failed and cannot help the emperor's worries and problems!"
The queen's eyes were wet, and her hands gently hugged me: "Sister Nuan Concubine is weak, so don't get angry anymore. Emperor, I beg the emperor to give her a fair heart. Sister Nuan Concubine is all for the emperor!"
Concubine Yin Huang suddenly scolded Concubine Lin: "Concubine Lin, what is your intention to accuse Concubine Nuan for no reason? Do you want to replace it?"
Lin Guipin's legs and feet became weak, his eyes were full of fear, and he fell to the ground: "Your Majesty, I am wronged. I only heard that Concubine Nuan was practicing witchcraft in the room. I thought about the emperor and made a fool of myself and made a fool of myself. I deserve to die!"
The emperor's eyes were filled with heartache. He bent down and picked me up from the queen's arms, and directly carried me into the bedroom where I was holding me.
Empress Yin Huang Guipin Lin followed her, my eyes turned red and I sobbed softly: "Emperor, I only have the emperor in my heart. I don't want to compete with others, and I don't want to fight with others. As long as the emperor can be good, even if I throw me into the cold palace, I will be willing!"
The emperor touched my head with his hands trembling excitedly. He looked at Lin Guipin with sharp and angry eyes: "Lin Guipin see what you did, I almost wronged Concubine Nuan!"
Concubine Lin climbed to the emperor's feet: "The emperor is unintentional, please forgive me?"
The queen said coldly: "Emperor, I told Concubine Nuan that I would copy blood scriptures to Concubine Nuan. Concubine Nuan stayed in the door and was devoted to the emperor!"
"But these people with ulterior motives have made the speculations that corrupt the good intentions of Concubine Nuan. The emperor, I beg the emperor to thoroughly investigate the matter. Who was spreading rumors in the palace?!"
The weak look of Concubine Lin's tears moved the emperor a little. I was so hurt that I had been released for so many days, and it was impossible for me to get nothing.
To be continued...