After the rebirth, Aijia and Bamboo Horseshoe printed him

The sky was gloomy, and a spring rain was about to fall. Qi Yu went back to the house and took an oil-paper umbrella, one for each person, and walked from the palace to the prison of the Overwatch Council outside the palace.

Wan Min was in a hurry to eradicate the Zhu clan, and tried his best to incriminate Zhu Yuluo, while the real remnants of the abolition of the prince were all handed over to Qi Yu.

The deposed prince Chu Chengyuan was kind to him, and he should be merciful, but neither his master Wan Ping nor the queen in Kunren Palace said a word, so it is obvious that this is a group of abandoned children.

The imperial prison is filled with a strong smell of blood all year round. Dark red blood seeps into the cracks in the bricks of the walls. Every brick is full of human blood, which is a stain that cannot be washed away no matter how much water is used.

Since the first month of this year, Qi Yu has also been in charge of the external affairs of the Overwatch Council. Although he is only a fourth-rank official, which is half a rank lower than the third-rank official supervisor Bingbi, he can patrol and arrest, investigate and interrogate, and even dispatch guards The military officer is a real fat job.

After sitting in this position, Qi Yu never refused to accept gifts that should or should not be accepted, but he never did what should or should not be convenient.

Stories about "doing nothing with money" were spread, and his reputation quickly fell to the bottom. At the same time, no one wanted to follow the path of Mr. Tisi.

The emperor has many eyes and ears, so he can naturally hear these rumors. Once he mentioned it to Qi Yu, accusing him of being greedy for money but not able to collect money, so he laughed and passed it.

This matter was quite a big issue among the Beijing officials, and Chu Shenzhi, the former lieutenant of Fuguo, had also heard of it, and before he was imprisoned and became a death row prisoner, he had always been somewhat curious about Qi Yu.

A young talented scholar and a young treacherous eunuch, what he did to some extent fits people's stereotype of a courtier, greedy, ruthless and stupid.But from a practical point of view, he was obviously not upright, but he did something wrong.

As a Fuguo Lieutenant who has been related to His Majesty for six generations, although Chu Shenzhi is a son of the clan, his life is not as good as that of a merchant in Beijing.The clan is not allowed to be an official or do business, and they receive a meager salary and force themselves to hold up a noble name. Life is so boring.

Later, he accidentally met the former prince. In terms of seniority, this highness is still a grandson of his clan. He can't be an official of the prince, and he doesn't have the guts to be a grandfather. Fortunately, friends can barely be counted.

It's just that the crown prince was deposed, Chu Shenzhi was still drunk, and had been drinking and listening to the theater for two years, and now he was imprisoned as a remnant of evil, and soon he would have to drink a glass of poisoned wine, and he didn't know where his soul would go after death.

He has lived his life in a muddleheaded way. Although he has two points of talent in poetry and wine, he is trapped in the skin of a down-and-out nobleman. He has never done any good things. Fortunately, he has never done any bad things. Fair mediocrity.

This is better than many people.

In Qi Yu's eyes, he also had an unparalleled advantage - he and his nephew, who became the emperor, had faces that were [-]% similar.

Presumably, his child will also be like an emperor.

Coincidentally, the emperor came to Lanfang Pavilion again on this day, and stayed with Zhou Shuhe.

This made her feel anxious.

There is no good thing in the world that can be taken by one person. She has tried her best to get half of the emperor's high opinion, and she can open the door of convenience, but correspondingly, she will lose some opportunities to do secret things.

If you want to avoid pets...

Among the more favored concubines in the palace, Xiaocairen and Rou concubine are dead; Jia concubine is still in confinement; Xiang concubine has lost her "effectiveness" and is an idiot. Day stays in the palace to take care of the eldest princess, and has never been involved in disputes in the harem.

Counting from left to right, we can only start with Concubine Zhuang of Zhongcui Palace.

It was because of sleepiness that someone brought a pillow, and before she could figure out how to share her pet, something happened to Concubine Zhuang first.

Loneliness in the deep palace, the emperor bets on the affection of the people in the harem, like the queen or Zhou Shuhe, there are very few people who are ruthless to him from the beginning to the end, but many people are slowly smoothed out in loneliness Some people fly to the flame and die.

But like Concubine Zhuang Ningchan, her infatuation has remained unchanged for decades, and her tenderness and sweetness have remained unchanged for years, which is also rare.

She can accept that the emperor has many women and loves many women, as long as she has a place among these women.However, with the growth of age and Zhou Shuhe's entry into the palace, there is a kind of possessive desire that is different from the past, which deepens day by day along with her fear.

Since the matter of Yuchai was not completed, Concubine Zhuang began to pay attention to Zhou Shuhe seriously. The more she looked at her, the more frightened she became, not because of anything else but because of her face, she looked too much like a fairy Bai.

That woman has clearly never stepped into the palace, but it seems that her remnant soul is floating everywhere in this palace. She entered Yuan Cairen's body, making her more and more like her, and entered the dream of Concubine Zhuang again. , became a nightmare for her struggling to wake up.

Concubine Zhuang has done a lot of bad things, and she has done a lot of things, and she becomes familiar with them. The death of others is just a thought, but everyone is young, and she can't forget the first person she murdered.

At the turn of spring and summer, all kinds of diseases are born, and Concubine Zhuang is at a delicate age, with kidney yin deficiency, insomnia and dreaminess*, and the troublesome things that Zhou Shuhe reminded her, making her even more depressed. , actually became more and more serious.

The Empress Dowager is the biological aunt of Concubine Zhuang, she felt sorry for the child left by her late brother, she went to take care of it in person, but she also contracted the disease, although her health is not bad, but she is nearly sixty years old, and the disease will occur every now and then It was out of control and almost took his life.

It's hard to say anything else about the emperor, he still cares about his own mother, so he won't go to the harem now, leaving Zhou Shuhe and Bai Shuhe aside, and will go to the Empress Dowager's Yongning Palace to serve the sick.

After dinner, Chunye went to the imperial hospital to get medicinal materials for conditioning, and inquired about the whereabouts of the emperor, and when he returned to Lanfang Pavilion, he looked gloomy: "Lady, Your Majesty will not come to the harem today."

Zhou Shuhe only told Jiyue about the Buddhist hall, not to guard against Chunye, but her whole family's head is deposited in this matter, and it is better to have less than one more thing.

She was thinking about what she was going to do tonight, feeling uneasy in her heart, with all kinds of thoughts gathered in her heart, and her complexion was a little dignified.

Chunye only thought that Zhou Shuhe was just like him, looking forward to the emperor's arrival, and was sad because he couldn't get what he asked for.

She cheered up and comforted: "Your Majesty's filial piety is related to the health of the Empress Dowager, and it is common to not come to the harem. I just hope that the ancestors will protect you, and the Empress Dowager will recover soon. Your Majesty can visit Fang Pavilion when you have more time."

As she said that, she thought of the medicine bag she had just taken, and smiled again: "I was worried that your mind was not on His Majesty before, but now I think that this slave is really stupid. A half-daughter is reliable. Just like no matter how much His Majesty values ​​you, he is not as good as the Empress Dowager, so no matter who it is, it doesn't matter if you don't have your own child."

Zhou Shuhe was noncommittal: "Is the medicine sent to cook?"

Chunye nodded: "The slave girl asked the maid in the pharmacy to stay here in the name of recuperating depression according to the order of the lady. But if His Majesty is not coming tonight, the lady still wants to eat?"

"The pregnancy aid medicine prescribed by Imperial Physician Xu can be used for conditioning. There is nothing wrong with it. Let's drink it first."

"Yes." Chunye cheered up, "When we have a little Highness in our palace in the future, it will be very lively. The slaves haven't taken care of children yet, so they have to learn tomorrow, so as not to be annoyed by the lady who is clumsy and sent to do it." Laundry maid."

Infected by her pleasure, Zhou Shuhe raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

The girl Chunye is sometimes like a direct official of the Hanlin Academy, loyal, brave and pedantic, willing to risk her life for loyalty, but her mind is full of rules and regulations of etiquette and morality.If she is loyal to the emperor, she needs to be discerning; if she is loyal to the queen, she needs to be virtuous; now she is loyal to the concubine, and she has always asked her to compete for favor.

At this moment, she understood half of it. Although she didn't know what was hidden in Zhou Shuhe's heart, she arrived at the same place with her.

child.

As the night fell, all the palaces lit up the lights one after another. Zhou Shuhe had drunk the medicine and called Jiyue to take a rest. The two walked into the bedroom one after the other. The door opened and was closed again.

The candlelight in the Small Buddha Hall jumped violently, reflecting the statues enshrined in the hall.

She walked into the hall alone.

Zhou Shuhe didn't recognize gods and Buddhas, but at this moment, through this bronze statue with drooping brows and eyes, he could vaguely see the gods' pity for people.

The world is not benevolent, and the gods never have special pity for a certain person. The pity she sees is actually her pity for herself.

The author says:

* Combining the functions of Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

*Refer to the Baidu entry "menopause" for Concubine Zhuang's symptoms.