It was late winter, and all the maids and eunuchs inside and outside the palace had put on thick winter clothes, and braziers were lit in the house. There was only one place that was as cold as an abandoned garden.
The woman sitting in front of the bronze mirror had no idea how cold it was in winter. She looked at her pale face in the mirror, her body unmoving, as if no one could affect her.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's not good..." A plainly dressed palace maid hurriedly opened the palace curtain and broke into the cold room, looking panicked: "I just saw Eunuch Chen coming with the imperial edict!"
Compared with the panic-stricken palace maid, she was as calm as ever, still sitting quietly in front of the bronze mirror, a sad look slowly appeared in her eyes.
Has the imperial edict finally come...
As soon as the palace maid finished speaking, the eunuch in charge of the emperor stepped into this cold palace with the imperial edict.
"By the fate of heaven, the emperor issued an edict saying that Queen Li was given the title of queen by Mu Tianen. However, she was jealous and harmed the concubine. She was actually a snake-hearted person who lacked the virtues of a woman and could not be established in the middle palace. She was deposed from the title of queen.
Demoted to a commoner and thrown into the cold palace. I appreciate this!"
After the eunuch in charge read the imperial edict loudly, he lowered his head and looked at the thin woman kneeling on the ground. He couldn't bear it. He sighed silently and said politely: "Queen, accept the edict!"
Li Jingyou took the imperial edict with trembling hands, and an ugly and self-deprecating smile appeared on her lips. She was jealous, harmed the concubine, and had a heart of snakes and scorpions? If she was really a heart of snakes and scorpions, how could she end up like this!
"This is the pear blossom wine specially given by the emperor..." The eunuch in charge signaled to the two young eunuchs behind him who were holding wine, and the two young eunuchs brought a glass of wine to the woman who had just been helped up by the palace maid.
Give me some wine? She was slightly startled, looking at the glass of wine silently, and then looking at the pitiful eyes of the eunuch in charge, she suddenly understood.
It turns out that he not only wants to depose himself, but also wants her to die!
Xiao Heng, Xiao Heng, he used her hand to get rid of Concubine Luo and her father's family, but he didn't even give her a way to survive!
Did the toast under the pear tree and the affectionate greeting that made her his queen turn out to be just lies?! It's ridiculous that her fiery heart was played by him at will, and he showed no mercy until it was no longer useful.
Throw it away!
"Eunuch, where is the emperor?" Li Jingyou asked reluctantly, but got an answer that made her give up: "Empress, the emperor is at Concubine Duan's place. Please take care of him, the emperor will not come..."
Wouldn't it come? She closed her eyes in despair. Why would she fall in love with such a ruthless and unscrupulous man?!
As early as when she got rid of Luo Fei for him, she should have known that one day he would not let her go... He could pamper her or abandon her!
"What are you doing? Madam, this is poisonous wine, you can't drink it..." Qiu Yan, her personal maid, opened her eyes in horror when she saw the glass of wine, trying to stop her from drinking the poisonous wine.
Unexpectedly, two eunuchs directly held the palace maid's arms, preventing her from coming forward.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, your Majesty is so cruel. He wants you to die!"
The wailing voice of the palace maid was still echoing in her ears, but she was already in a trance. She looked at the poisonous wine and sneered: "It's funny that when he gave me death, he still remembered that my favorite is pear blossom wine!"
Seeing that she didn't move, the little eunuch, under the instruction of the eunuch in charge, brought the wine to her mouth and forcibly drank the poisonous wine.
The poison soon took effect. Li Jingyou held on to her last bit of strength and raised her head to look at Xiao Heng's eunuch, with a crazy and angry smile: "Tell him for me, the thing I regret most in my life is falling in love with him.
, if there is an afterlife...I will never let go of anyone who harms me, including him, Xiao Heng!"
Blood continued to overflow from her lips, but she forgot the pain of the spreading poison and continued to laugh loudly. Finally, she closed her eyes. Her miserable look made all the eunuchs unable to bear to look at her.
The palace maid Qiu Yan, who was still crying before, saw her master falling to the ground, suddenly broke free from the restraints, hit a pillar and died.
"Sweet Miaojing's slender waist and her tangled hair. Ah Jing, you are the most beautiful woman in the world..."
"Ah Jing, I will never let you down in this life. Even if I have three thousand beauties, you will still be my favorite queen..."
"Ah Jing, Ah Jing..."
In the third year of Jianxing's reign, Li Jingyou died in the cold palace after Dayin was deposed.
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