While talking, Xia Qing had already walked closer. Xiuzhu quickly knelt down and saluted. As for Concubine Xin, she didn't know what she was thinking, but she didn't even greet her and stood upright.
Xia Qing stopped, looked at Concubine Xin and the road behind her, raised her eyebrows and said, "Did you go to the Yangxin Hall?"
Concubine Xin said expressionlessly: "If you have anything to say, please say it directly, don't beat around the bush."
Xiao Shouzi, who was standing behind Xia Qing, shouted with an unhappy look on his face: "How can you talk to the master like this?"
"It doesn't matter." Xia Qing raised her hand and said coolly: "Why bother with a dying person."
Her words made Concubine Xin's face turn extremely ugly. She gritted her teeth and said, "Although my brother committed a crime and was punished by the emperor, my concubine is still the head of Jingren Palace. Is it too much for the empress to say this?
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"Excessive?" Xia Qing said with a half-smile: "You and I both know why Wende embarked on the path of collaborating with the enemy and treason." As she spoke, she looked at Concubine Xin, whose hair was covered with snow, and said, "Look at you.
The Emperor must have never seen you like this, do you think... the Emperor will let you go?"
Concubine Xin tightly clasped her hands hanging by her sides and said in a stiff tone: "I don't need to worry about it, I have something to do, so I'll leave first."
As they passed each other, Xia Qing said coldly: "I will definitely open my eyes wide and wait to see the moment your head falls to the ground!"
Concubine Xin trembled, stopped and stared at Xia Qing's profile, "Do you really hate me so much?"
Xia Qing's eyes were pitiful, and she said coldly: "You killed Yongxuan, shouldn't I hate you?" At this point, she suddenly laughed, "Don't worry, I will definitely advise the emperor properly.
." She said the last two words with great emphasis, and anyone could hear the deep hatred in them.
A look of fear flashed across Concubine Xin's face. Hongli no longer wanted to see her now. If Xia Qing took the opportunity to add insult to injury again, it would be really bad.
She held on to her strength and said: "I have said long ago that it was not I who really killed the eleventh brother, but the queen and the twelfth brother. Why is the empress so stubborn? Do we have to wait until Princess Hejia is killed?"
Only when I was killed by them..."
"Shut up!" Xia Qing interrupted her with an ugly expression, "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will never be polite to you!"
Seeing the panic in her eyes, Concubine Xin felt relieved. Even if she was going to die, she would never let the person who harmed her live happily. Thinking like this, she added: "If the empress really thinks that I am talking nonsense, how could she?"
Being so angry, the queen is actually like a mirror in her heart
, it’s just hard to accept, but with all due respect, whether you accept it or not, this is a fact. The Queen and the Twelve Princes are disaster stars. As long as they exist for a day, everything you have will continue to be the same.
Loss, including with Jiagongong..."
"Pah!" Xia Qing raised her hand and slapped Concubine Xin on the face, stopping her from continuing to speak. Her chest rose and fell slightly, and she said in a cold voice: "Are you taking my words as a deaf ear?"
Concubine Xin stroked her burning face, but she was not angry, and said calmly: "Since the empress herself doesn't care about Princess Hejia's life, then I don't need to care about it anymore. I hope... I'm really worried about it." After that, she also
Without any courtesy, he took Xiuzhu away directly.
Until a long time after they left, Xia Qing did not move and stood motionless. Xiao Shouzi listened to the constant crackling sounds from the umbrella and whispered: "Master, the snow is getting heavier and heavier.
, I will help you go back, so as not to catch a cold."
Xia Qing came back to her senses, took a breath secretly, held his hand and walked away. However, after taking a few steps, she was blocked by a figure rushing out of Xiezili, "I would like to say hello to the noble concubine." , may the empress be blessed!"
Xia Qing frowned and stared at the figure kneeling on the ground. The voice sounded so familiar, but she couldn't remember it for a moment, "Who are you?"
The visitor raised his head and said softly: "Your Majesty, don't you remember me?"
Through the lights on both sides, Xia Qing saw his face clearly and said in surprise: "Huang Ying? What are you doing here?"
The visitor was none other than Huang Ying, who had followed Xiao Wu to serve Hongli. He had been demoted to work in the cleaning department because of Wei Jingxuan's incident. Since then, Xia Qing had never seen him again.
Huang Ying pointed to the wooden barrel placed aside and said: "Because Eunuch Zhao found that several copper jars in the palace had run out of water, so he ordered his servants to carry water overnight to fill them up." There were three people placed everywhere in the palace. The copper vat that was just able to be carried over from the encirclement has been filled with water for many years, so that if there is a fire in the palace, water can be drawn from it to put out the fire. Someone will check it every few days. Once it is found that the water is missing, it will be stored immediately. Full.
"In that case, you should carry water and fill it up." After saying this, Xia Qing was about to leave. She was very upset now and wanted to be alone for a while.
Huang Ying not only did not get out of the way, but blocked her way again, and raised her head and said: "Actually, what Concubine Xin said is not wrong. The Queen Concubine and the Twelfth Prince are indeed the bane of many people. It's just that I didn't expect that even My dear, you will also be implicated in this."
His words made Xia Qing's expression suddenly change, she stared at him and said, "What do you mean?"
Huang Ying knew how to tease people, so she didn't answer her directly, but said: "I didn't mean to eavesdrop, and please forgive me!"
Xia Qing didn't have the time to pay attention to this at the moment, and said again: "Answer what I said!"
Huang Ying lowered his head and said nothing. Xiao Shouzi saw his thoughts and said softly: "Master, this is not the place to talk. Why don't we go back and talk?"
When he mentioned this, Xia Qing came to her senses and immediately said to Huang Ying, who was still kneeling on the ground: "You come with me."
"Hey." The corner of Huang Ying's mouth raised slightly, she stood up, picked up a bucket, and followed Xia Qing to Yonghe Palace. After Ming Xiaoshouzi closed the palace door, she stared at Huang Ying standing in the palace, "Can you say it? ?”
Huang Ying lowered his head and said, "Do you still remember, when the twelfth prince was born, it rained heavily?" After Xia Qing nodded, he continued: "Back then, the emperor asked Qin Tian to supervise Lord Zhengtang. After calculating the birth date of the twelfth prince, Mr. Tang said that the zodiac sign of the twelfth prince is very noble, but the horoscope is too light, which is very inconsistent with his destiny."
Cuizhu said in surprise: "How could such a thing happen? Before I entered the palace, I occasionally heard a blind fortune teller say that people with weak horoscopes are very likely to die young. If you go by what you said, wouldn't the twelfth elder brother be... "She hesitated and didn't dare to continue.
Huang Ying understood what she meant and said: "As my aunt said, the emperor ordered Mr. Tang to find a way to complete the destiny of the twelfth prince. Unfortunately, he never found it. After that..."
"After that, the emperor placed his hopes on Buddhism and Taoism, right?" Faced with Xia Qing's words, Huang Ying bowed and said: "Exactly, Yun Zhongzi once proposed a method to the emperor, using ninety-nine names The boy's life was used to make up for the fate of the twelfth elder brother. Unfortunately, he regretted it at the end. He would rather watch the disciples in the temple being slaughtered than cast a spell. Many Taoist priests died at that time. If the twelfth elder brother hadn't happened to survive at that time, After smallpox, I believe more people will die."