phoenix knot

Here, Liang Guanjing hasn't decided whether to go back to the palace yet, but the emperor personally issued an imperial decree. The eunuch in the palace received the decree, and brought the maids, eunuchs, porters, wives, wives, wives, and others to line up outside Qixia Temple Wait, to welcome the empress back to the palace.The imperial decree wrote a long list, listing Liang Guanjing's glorious deeds starting from the birth of her mother's womb, especially asking Ying to send Empress Dowager Xu to the Yellow River, assassinating the Liao King before the battle, leading the army to pacify Dingzhou, instigating against Chen Chunhe, and guarding Kaifeng Mansion. After a while, it seems that this country will be destroyed immediately without the empress.In the end, he talked about his lovesickness, and hoped that the queen would remember the relationship between husband and wife, and return to the palace to help him handle the government affairs and assist the sixth palace.

"It should be the handwriting of Gao Xiang, a scholar of the cabinet. It is really smelly and long. Is the emperor sincerely asking me to kneel?" Hammering her numb legs, she snorted coldly, and said to the eunuch, "Empress Liang is in charge, please think about it in front of the wall of Qixia Temple. I haven't realized it yet. If you want to continue thinking, you go back and tell the emperor. Say I can't go back."

"Oh my lord, it's not easy for an old slave like you to do business when you go back!" The eunuch Liu Guang knelt down for the queen, "The emperor has a lot of things to do every day, so he doesn't have time to come here in person, or he came earlier, and the king of Liao is still here now Running wild in Xuzhou, there are not many people who can fight in the court. The emperor can't sleep every day, saying that the empress should give her an idea. Why don't you take a look..."

"King Liao doesn't have many soldiers anymore. It stands to reason that the emperor has nothing to worry about so that he can't sleep. I don't need me anymore."

"Huguang suffered three consecutive years of catastrophe, and the relief food was taken away by local corrupt officials. Some ordinary people who couldn't survive rebelled, so the emperor has to worry about it."

"The disaster in Huguang was caused by Empress Liang's control of the government and power over the world. God couldn't see it. He conceded the crime. Is the emperor still obsessed with it?"

"Ouch...those big officials who are as big as sesame seeds and mung beans don't have any big skills. They can neither fight wars nor control floods, and they don't know how to appease the people. They only bully the queen because she is a girl. What kind of queen are you? How can you take it to heart, right?"

"There are countless people with lofty ideals in the government and the field, and I am the only female stream. Isn't it a joke to spread the word? The emperor has given me too much face, and I can't bear it."

Liang Guanjing said: "If I don't go back, am I just putting on airs for the emperor?"

"You said so."

"I haven't been feeling well these two days, and I'll definitely be back in a few days."

Liu Guang went back to his command with a sad face, but was kicked by the emperor.In the evening, a little nun outside the temple gate came to announce that the emperor had gone up the mountain to pick up the queen himself.

"He thinks I'm putting on airs, wanting to welcome or refusing, but I really don't want to go back." Liang Guanjing sat in front of the mirror, and Su Mingyue combed her hair beside her. Next to it, there is a phoenix crown in court clothes brought up by the maid, which always weighs more than ten catties.Looking at the outfit in the mirror, Liang Guanjing said, "It's heavier than my armor! He's trying to amuse me!"

"As long as you know!" Hongxi Emperor Han Chengjue was already standing outside the door.

The maids hurriedly saluted and bowed down.

Su Mingyue didn't dare to look at the emperor, followed Lianxiangxiyu and the others to retreat to the porch outside the door, ready to watch.She heard Liang Guanjing's angry tone inside, "If I don't go back again, will the emperor punish me for a crime of resisting the order?"

"Bring up a big prison, go to a big punishment, do you want to do it or not?"

Su Mingyue originally stood with her head down, her eyebrows lowered and her eyes pleasing to the eye, but when she heard such joking words that could only be found in a husband and wife's boudoir, her eyelids were raised, and under the long eyelashes were dazed eyes.She squinted at the two Lianxiang Xiyu next to her, only to see their uniform expressionless faces.

When Liang Guanjing mentioned Emperor Hongxi, he obviously had hatred and resentment, but now when there were only two people in the room, he didn't seem to be so indifferent to Han Chengjue.

The voices of the two people in the room became lower and lower, and suddenly Liang Guanjing yelled: "Fart!" There was a sound of something hitting the ground and breaking, it was a high-quality thin-body celadon vase in the official kiln,

Su Mingyue was taken aback, thinking that the emperor and empress did not get along, and there was going to be a fight, but when she listened carefully, there was no sound.Not long after, they heard the creaking of the bed in the house, and the two of them started doing that thing before the sky was dark.Su Mingyue blushed, looked sideways again, Lianxiang Xiyu remained expressionless and remained motionless.

The emperor stayed at Qixia Temple and did not go to court the next day.

Su Mingyue is not a palace lady on duty at night, but the emperor sleeps in this small building, surrounded by powerful guards, and no one else is allowed to come near them. They are not allowed to go out or enter, so they can only stay in the empty space downstairs. waiting in the room.On the second day, the queen called Lianxiang's name in a hoarse voice, and Lianxiang went in to serve her.

After a while, Han Chengjue took Liang Guanjing's hand and went downstairs. The emperor and empress were all wearing court clothes, and they looked golden, and Xiyu went to bring Han Yunche over. The two of them probably talked all night last night. The appearance of the prince was not surprising, and he had to praise the queen last night.The three of them sat in the same car, took their maids and eunuchs, and accompanied the guards down the mountain in a mighty way.

Su Mingyue and Lianxiang Xiyu followed at the end of the line in a carriage. For some reason, she couldn't cheer up and was depressed.

"Do you think our empress loves the emperor?" Su Mingyue couldn't help asking.

"Love?" Lianxiang seemed to have heard some joke, and instead of answering, asked, "Then do you think the emperor loves our empress?"

Su Mingyue said: "I think it's still love, otherwise since the Liao King's rebellion can't cause any big disturbances, why is the emperor still so eager to invite the queen back to the palace?"

"The queen's reputation is very high, and there are people who support her in the government and the public. Who knows that the emperor brought her back to the palace this time, did he want to see which ones are on the queen's side, so that they can be removed as soon as possible, so as to avoid the monopoly of foreign relatives." Lianxiang He snorted coldly.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Xiyu stopped.

"Has he killed few meritorious officials in the past few years?" Lianxiang objected.

Xiyu said seriously: "Mingyue, Madam said that you are also loyal to her. Although you are new here, she has already attracted you as her confidant. Don't let her down."

Su Mingyue then hurriedly said: "I won't reveal a single word of what we said to others."

"I'm not afraid of this..." Xiyu sighed, "I just feel sorry for our mother."

Lianxiang said: "Since you love her too, why don't you let me tell?"

"So you should be more cautious in your words and deeds, and be careful not to cause trouble for your empress."

After hearing these words, Su Mingyue felt that there was nothing more to say, so she quickly shut her mouth.The three girls sat in the carriage and worried about their master together. Su Mingyue looked at the emperor's gentle and refined appearance, not like a bad person, so she spoke out her thoughts, and Lianxiang began to sigh, telling her that she had just followed the empress back then The empress also thought so when Han Chengjue was still the king of Yan, and the whole capital knew about his robbery. He looked gentle and refined before, and he didn't look like a master who would steal a marriage.Later, King Yan and his wife were involved in the Seven Kings' Rebellion, and he seemed to be a peacemaker trying to mediate. As a result, there were only a few of the Seven Kings fighting, and he suddenly took control of the government.A group of courtiers in the court knelt and kowtowed begging him to be the emperor, but after a month or two of pushback, he was suddenly enthroned.

As soon as he ascended the throne, half of the civil servants and almost all the generals were exiled from the army, exiled from the army, beheaded, and Chen Chunhe rebelled against him.Many of them were meritorious ministers who helped him ascend to the throne during the Seven Kings Rebellion.

The old general Liang survived probably because he was really old, so many sons died, leaving only a frail third son who was blind, and the other son was underage, otherwise he didn't know what to do.

"I have been fooled by him." Lianxiang said, "No, it was the empress who was fooled by him. You can't see that the emperor is such a person, can you?"

Su Mingyue thought of the words "lonely family and widowed person".

"Every time he kills someone, he would shed tears, and he would go to the temple to offer incense to save the dead." Lianxiang was speechless. "At first, when I saw him sad, I thought it was really not easy to be an emperor. After seeing him too much, I felt hypocritical. Especially him Doting on Concubine Yuan Gui, what eyes? Hey, man! When the Empress was not in the palace, he began to favor Concubine Hui again, Nuo, it's your vicious sister."

After all, Xiyu was more stable, she just sat beside her and kept silent.

Lianxiang also talked a lot about Liang Guanjing before Qixia Temple, saying that Emperor Hongxi and Liang Guanjing had many disputes before that, so the emperor probably knew about the poisoning case of Concubine Yuan Gui.Although the queen did not confront the emperor clearly, the miscarriage caused serious damage to her body, and even the imperial hospital said that the queen may be infertile in the future. One after another, the queen was heartbroken, so she resolutely left the palace to Qixia Rest in the temple.

"The queen has been in Qixia Temple for more than a year, and I have never seen him take the time to visit. I don't believe he is so busy."

According to Lianxiang's words, Han Chengjue is a virtuous, duplicitous, heartless villain.

From Qixia Temple to the imperial palace, the holy driver's team stretched for several miles, and the empress and the prince accepted the worship of the people along the way, which was very beautiful.Su Mingyue looked ahead, only seeing a canopy, and her heart had changed from loneliness to sadness.

"I heard that King Yan won Concubine Yan by robbing the bride, so where would the bride-sending team carry the sedan chair on that day?" Su Mingyue asked, "Can you say that?"

"That person's surname is Gu, and his style name is Bojian. He is the son-in-law of Princess Zheng, Gu Changfeng. He used to be a baby kiss with our mother since childhood. He is really a passionate and infatuated man. He married Princess Zheng. It's the marriage bestowed by the emperor. What kind of heart do you think the emperor has given him? I heard that he has not been close to women for so many years, and he doesn't even have a concubine in the room."

Of course, Su Mingyue had heard of Gu Changfeng's name, because Su Jingzhi often chanted this name at home, and since Gu Changfeng was already the son-in-law, Su Jingzhi could only wishful thinking.She was raised in a deep boudoir, so she had never seen the famous General Gu before, so she became even more fascinated.

Su Mingyue had vaguely read the stories of those gifted scholars and beauties in some book, so she could only sigh with regret.It was originally a concubine's love, a childhood sweetheart, a good marriage, and Han Chengjue completely ruined it just like that.