Chapter 623: Gray-black Memories (Part 1)

April 14, the first year of Tianyou.

On this day, the capital was prosperous and the ministers were in peace. The Empress Dowager was recuperating in the palace, and the gates of the Taiwei's mansion were closed. The dirty conspiracy and intrigue plot seemed to disappear without a trace, and even the sky was cloudless, as if it was clear.

Everything is so calm, so calm that it is suffocating.

But these are all appearances. Those who are truly in the situation clearly feel that now is the calm before the storm comes! The undercurrent that has been lurking under the water has developed into an irreversible terrible vortex, about to rush out, causing people to overturn and discolor the world!

Blood flows into a river, just tonight...

On the night of April 14th, the last moment has arrived.

After nightfall, Li Hun put on a full military uniform, and Yin Wuyi was rarely wearing a chain mail. The two of them did not hold in the airtight dark room as usual, but stood in the yard with a big laziness.

It is now the hour of You, and there is not much time left for them. Everything must be revealed to the world, and there is no need for them to hide their actions.

But there was another voice in Li Hun's heart that kept asking: "Do it, or not?" The arrogant and domineering Taiwei Li had no idea at this moment. He turned his attention to Yin Wuyi. Because he knew that this person was the real planner and envoy of the conspiracy.

Facing the anxious gaze of the Grand Marshal, Yin Wuyi clearly felt the hesitation in his heart. He no longer persuaded him as usual, but instead kept paced in the yard silently, thinking about every detail and step, and calculating his chances of winning.

Then he stopped and calmly said to the white-faced Grand Master Taiwei: "You might as well have a hexagram for our Yao."

Li Hun was dumbfounded. When is it time? He still has to tell fortunes? What have you done before? But seeing that he has taken out the money, Li Hun had to let him go.

I saw Yin Wuyi respectfully heading to the eastern forces, then muttered a few words, and sprinkled the money in his hand on the ground.

The yard was brightly lit and bright as daytime. Li Hun clearly saw that it was a hexagram of Xun and Qian on the top and the bottom, and couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean?"

"The upper part is Xun and the lower part is Qian, and the small animal hexagram." Yin Wuyi said in a deep voice: "The phoenix rises from the sky, and the wind and clouds are everywhere in the sky. The virtue accumulation method is not conducive to women, men's autocracy, and women are defeated."

Li Hun immediately said happily: "Of course women are old women in Wenzhuang. Men should refer to me!"

Yin Wuyi opened his mouth, paused for a while, and finally nodded, "Yes, since God is so willful, what else can Dongweng worry about? Let go and do it!"

Li Hun was indeed as if he was injected with chicken blood. The hesitation on his face suddenly disappeared, and he walked towards the front yard with his head held high!

At this time, people are so interesting. If you analyze thousands of sentences for them, they are often less affordable than the one sentence "God will do this".

Looking at the back of the Taiwei's departure, a trace of sarcasm appeared on his face. Yin Wuyi said disdainfully: "Wangwen is a man of meaning, he thinks he is self-righteous..."

Almost at the same time, the Empress Dowager Wenzhuang in Cining Palace was also telling fortunes. She was wearing the court robes of the Empress Dowager and gently twisting a few copper coins in her hand and said, "Old hater, what do you think we are good?" Tonight, the Empress Dowager Wenzhuang looked rosy and her waist was straight. She was actually completely sick, as if she was dozens of years younger.

"Of course it's time tonight." Eunuch Qiu wiped his tears and said with a forced smile: "Look at whether this matter is bad or good."

The old lady shook her head and smiled, "It's just a mess, it's not counting,"

"Then what do you mean?" Eunuch Qiu grinned and said, "You have the final say."

"It's better to calculate that little guy and that old guy." After saying that, Wenzhuang threw out the copper coins in his hand, his technique was exactly the same as that of Mr. Yin.

It’s also the upper and lower stems!

"The 34th hexagram of Tianfeng Xiaozui," said a little pondering, and the old empress dowager smiled and said, "This hexagram is called Miyun Buyu. There is a hexagram poem that says:

The seedlings are burning when they are drought, but who would think that the clouds and rain will not be watered? The farmers sighed to the back, and don’t be anxious when things come slowly.

It is difficult to rain heavily, and I hope that the pedestrians will not see each other. The mechanism is exhausted, but it is in vain."

After chanting, he giggled and said, "This hexagram is interesting, interesting!"

"I'm too stupid and can't understand. Can you tell me?" Eunuch Qiu smiled with red eyes.

"It's okay, you'll know after tonight." Empress Dowager Wenzhuang shook her head, suddenly looked up at the old eunuch and said, "Xiao Qiu, you have been with her for sixty-two years."

"If you want to go back to the empress, it will take another seventy-three days to complete sixty-three years." Eunuch Qiu said respectfully.

"It's more than a hundred years old. If it were ordinary people, they wouldn't have such a long life." Empress Dowager Wenzhuang sighed: "Grandpa Jiang went there a few days ago, and Prince Jia also went there a few days ago. Among the old friends of that year, you were the only one who accompanied me to complete the last journey."

"That's the blessing of the old slave. With the light of the Thousand Years of Empress, this will lead to a few more years of living." Eunuch Qiu couldn't help but shed tears again, and quickly wiped his tears and said, "I hope the old slave can live one more breath than the empress so that you can always have a companion."

"Don't cry, you must have lived longer than me." Wen Zhuang said with a calm smile.

"I..." After hearing what the Empress Dowager said, Qi Rong, who was on the face of the old hatred, was even more prosperous and she cried: "I understand."

"Don't call yourself a slave anymore." Wenzhuang chuckled softly, "You call me sister today. In fact, for decades, I have always regarded you as my younger brother. Call me sister and listen." After saying that, I felt that my words were not careful and chuckled.

This smile seemed to have traveled through time and space, allowing Eunuch Qiu to see that the cardamom girl was pretty smiling among the flowers sixty years ago, and couldn't help but be stunned.

"Call me." Wen Zhuang smiled and said, "If you don't shout, don't shout."

"Yes..." The old eunuch came to his senses, looked at the wrinkled old lady, and finally shouted softly: "Sister..."

"Oh." Wenzhuang smiled happily, "Good brother, you will be my brother from now on." Eunuch Qiu nodded excitedly and said, "I... Oh, I understand."

Wenzhuang nodded slightly and said, "Brother, go and bring that box." Although he did not specify it, Eunuch Qiu easily found a pear blossom wooden box from the secret wall and presented it to the old empress dowager.

"Open it and hide the things inside closely." Wenzhuang smiled and shook his head, "I won't look."

Eunuch Qiu opened the box, but saw three letters and a key inside. According to the Queen Mother's request, he stuffed these four things into his arms.

"There are names on the three letters, you can just follow the map to search for the horse. As for the key... it is for Yutian." Seeing that he had done it, Wenzhuang smiled and said, "Now go to the secret room and hide, and wait until the hourglass inside leaks before coming out."

Eunuch Qiu changed his expression and said, "Empress, are you not letting me accompany you for the last part?"

"Nonsense," Empress Dowager Wenzhuang pretended to be angry and said, "Do you still want to be buried with me?" As she said, she pointed to his chest and said, "All of these four things are more important than your life, please consider it yourself."

Eunuch Qiu stood there for a long time, knowing that he could not force the empress, so he nodded and said, "I'll go..." As he said that, tears flowed down his old face, which was crisscrossing with the ravines.

He knelt down slowly and solemnly bowed to the old lady, then got up and walked to the corner of the wall, moved the flower pot away, then lifted the carpet, and knocked out a blue brick under it.

A button that is not easy to detect appears under the brick. After Eunuch Qiu pressed the button, a slight sound of Kra, a four-foot-high hole appeared on the wall on the left.

Eunuch Qiu was not in a hurry to go down, but after restoring everything, he kowtowed to Empress Dowager Wenzhuang and whispered in tears: "Sister, I'm not far away." Although his voice was low, Wenzhuang could feel the heart-wrenching pain.

She waved her hand and blushed her eyes and said, "Good brother, come see you again in the underworld." After that, she turned around, not wanting to let people see her weak side... Even if she has been together for more than 60 years, she will not do it.

When she looked back, the wall was as intact as before, and no one could see any change.

As soon as Eunuch Qiu left, she looked at the empty palace. Empress Dowager Wenzhuang suddenly felt a heart-wrenching loneliness. This feeling filled her whole body in a blink of an eye, making her breathing difficult.

The old lady leaned slowly on the back of the chair and slowly closed her eyes. The right and wrong of the past eighty years passed by her heart, and everything came alive, just like her many disasters and magnificent life, she had been around again:

She remembered that her miserable childhood seemed to have been spent in endless beatings. She remembered that she was often beaten by her "father" with her melancholy mother. There was no sympathy for them and their daughters at home, but instead sneered at her nose: "Broken shoes", as if even looking at them directly, they would stain their noble eyes.

But my childhood was not completely dark. At least my mother loved her very much. She often sang softly for her, combed her braids, and bought her some silk flowers, headbands, etc. for a small amount of change. She always dressed her up beautifully, which made her mouth slightly curled when she remembered it.

Under the difficult care of maternal love, she did not die in the end. She grew up day by day and became a graceful girl, and she was much more beautiful than all the women in her family.

However, the beauty without self-defense is disastrous. In a flash, the old lady's face turned pale. She remembered that on the night when she was fifteen, her beastly father rushed into her boudoir with alcohol, and had a bad intention! She resisted desperately, but in front of the thug, everything was futile.

Just as her clothes were broken and about to be defeated by the thug, her weak mother appeared, inserted a hot strip into the man's back, and saved her daughter...

Thinking of this, Empress Dowager Wenzhuang couldn't help but burst into tears. Even though many years have passed, the bone-broken hatred has not faded, but is still like yesterday, hurting the bones!

Naturally, the family would not let them go. If it weren't for the fact that their mother was also from a large family, they might have been lynched and tortured them to death.

In order to reduce unnecessary trouble, the family sent their mother and daughter to the government, suing them for "killing their father and husband" and asking the prefect of Kyoto to dismember them from their five horses.

But the prefect, for some reason, favored them and their daughter everywhere, gave them the best cell, and never tortured them... Later I found out that it was one of the suitors when my mother was not married.

But the family was so powerful that the power of the prefect was insignificant. In the end, the Ministry of Justice directly suppressed the mother and daughter and sentenced them to hang them... Leaving a whole body was the best result.

While waiting for the death penalty, one day she suddenly fell into a coma. When she woke up, she found that she had left the prison. In a house, a middle-aged man with a clear face told her that her true identity was the daughter of the Wen family, and that thug was just her stepfather.

This middle-aged man is her biological father, the eldest son of the Wen family, and his eldest grandson is Wen Yanbo.

It was the prefect who risked the great deal of his affairs to secretly convey the news to him, and then he used Li Daitao Zombie to change her out.
Chapter completed!