Adore Trick of Beauty

On the straight bluestone road outside the palace, a carriage with four white horses came galloping. The guard guarding the palace gate took a step forward, and was about to stop the carriage when the carriage stopped with a sound of "Woo--".

A beautiful woman in palace attire almost fell off the carriage, before she could stand still, she staggered towards the vermilion palace gate.

"Come..." The guard was about to question.

The beautiful woman in palace attire has already taken out her token: "My concubine wants to see the empress dowager!"

The guard saw the familiar dragon pattern on the card and quickly let it go. Princess Rui pushed him away, and rushed towards gradually opening the palace door in a daze.

Only this last protection is left... Anxiety flashed through her heart, and she no longer cared about her manners.

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In the "Eternal Peace Palace". The bronze tripod of Suanni beasts was surrounded by light smoke, and the soothing sandalwood pervaded the hall, and the mournful cries echoed in the hall.

On the top, a drooping old woman in a costume is closing her eyes and turning the jade beads in her hand. She is about sixty years old, and her appearance can still see traces of the beauty of the past, but the silver hair all over her hair makes her look like she is approaching her age .

"Auntie, you must always decide for your niece... Huh... Your niece is wronged... You never knew that in the palace, those women with low status all climbed onto the head of your niece..." Princess Rui wept bitterly, and while crying she told about the grievances she had suffered in the palace.

Empress Dowager Gao didn't say a word, she just chanted scriptures silently. After a long time, Princess Rui's crying gradually subsided, and she slowly opened her eyes. What kind of sharp and shrewd old eyes were those, which had accumulated years and vicissitudes, like a fine sword tempered with a chilling edge.

She glanced at Princess Rui who was kneeling on the ground, sighed deeply, and answered the irrelevant question: "How long have you been married to Qing'er?"

Princess Rui didn't expect her to ask this question, she choked up and answered after a long time: "It's been five years."

"You have had nothing to do for five years, can you blame him for looking for so many women?" Empress Dowager Gao snorted coldly, with dissatisfaction in her voice.

Princess Rui was so embarrassed that her face turned green and pale, and she stammered, "My niece... my niece can't help it, he...he..." How can you tell the matter of husband and wife in the boudoir in public? She was taught by all the ladies that such a thing is shameful even to think about it.

Empress Dowager Gao waved away the maids beside her, and the door of the main hall was slowly closed.

She sighed: "It's a good way for you to deal with the women in your mansion. Why don't you know how to capture a man's heart? If you could capture his heart, you wouldn't be in this situation today!"

Concubine Rui was rendered speechless by the empress dowager's training, she took a few steps on her knees, and sadly grabbed the hem of Empress Dowager Gao's clothes: "Auntie, what should we do now? It looks like he's going to divorce his niece! My niece would rather die than die. Suffer this humiliation! Even if my niece returns home, my father will... and won't let me go!"

The water splashed by a daughter married since ancient times, and being dismissed, is more uncomfortable than killing her.

Empress Dowager Gao sighed again after hearing this, and lowered her eyes: "You have had nothing to do for five years. Before, you connived at the evil servants and killed the master. Now you have poisoned and killed the pregnant side concubine. No matter how powerful your father is, you can't keep it." You, let alone Aijia, an old lady who is about to enter the coffin!"

When Princess Rui heard this, she burst into tears again, begging bitterly: "Auntie, Auntie, don't you love me the most? You were the one who pushed Zhi'er to marry him back then, why are you letting go now, Auntie... ..."

It’s okay not to mention this matter, but when it comes to the beginning, Empress Dowager Gao gave her a cold look and said angrily: “Now you’re here to accuse Ai’s family, aren’t you? Who asked your father to come when he saw that bastard back then? Those who intercede for marriage, said that you can help Ai's family, and carefully see if he has any ulterior motives. Now that you have been a concubine for four or five years, you haven't given birth to a single fart. The man didn't care, and you even messed up the entire Prince Rui's mansion. You're so crazy, now you're still blaming Aijia?!"

Empress Dowager Gao was furious, Princess Rui knew that she had slipped her words, she quickly fell silent, and just fell on the ground and wept mournfully.

After Empress Dowager Gao's seizure, seeing Princess Rui crying on the ground, disappointment and anger flashed one by one, if it wasn't for her own biological niece, she would have ignored her a long time ago. My niece knows that she is more than cruel but not scheming, so how can she succeed?

Needless to say, looking at Xiao Fengqing who seems to be doing nothing on the surface, but is actually thoughtful and deep in the city, she was defeated by all the women in the palace, what else can I say?

"You go back. The Ai family has its own ideas." The Empress Dowager Gao waved her hand wearily: "The Ai family will go and ask the emperor for mercy. See if I can keep you!"

"Thank you, aunt, thank you, aunt!" Seeing Empress Dowager Gao's words, Princess Rui kowtowed as if seeing a glimmer of hope.

"But don't be too happy, this case has already reached the clan's residence, alas..." Empress Dowager Gao said lightly.

Princess Rui's heart felt cold, and she couldn't help but lose her voice: "How could it be?..."

Empress Dowager Gao glared at her with hatred: "Why not? The Qin family is not a lowly woman, at least not now. Her father and brother are both in the army with military merits. When they heard that their sister was pregnant, she was poisoned to death. , All troubles have gone to the emperor's side. The emperor was furious, and ordered your husband to contemplate behind closed doors in the morning, if you hadn't come here earlier, you should have been taken to the clan's mansion for trial by now!"

"This..." Princess Rui was so frightened that her whole body went limp.

"That's why you're stupid here. You don't want to attack any woman, but you chose the Qin family who has a background! Do you have any brains!" Empress Dowager Gao couldn't help scolding.

Concubine Rui was too late to regret, she lost her position for a while, she was always afraid that the Qin family would fight with her after giving birth to a son, but she forgot that Qin's father and brother were both serving in the army, now she is finished!

Concubine Rui retreated in a daze, and just stepped out of the gate of the "Yonghe Palace" when she passed out and was carried out of the palace by the palace servants.

Green smoke curled up from the copper tripod, and the whole hall returned to silence.

Empress Dowager Gao closed her eyes, and slowly turned the huge jadeite Buddha beads in her hands, but no matter what she did, she couldn't calm down the anxiety that gradually rose in her heart.

Entering the palace at the age of sixteen, becoming a queen at the age of twenty, and controlling the harem until now, she has never been like this today, falling into a sense of powerlessness that she has never felt before.

When people get old, their energy and physical strength are different from what they used to be. Although the emperor was superficially respectful and respected her as the empress dowager, he gradually became full-fledged, and his actions were frequent in recent years, and he was no longer the Xiao Fengming who obeyed his words. And the important thing is that he is not his own. There are still a few heroes of the family who are covetous in the court, a few princes with ulterior motives, especially Xiao Fengqing, when his mother and concubine died...

Empress Dowager Gao rubbed her sore forehead, one pile at a time, the more she grasped the piles, the more she was afraid of losing them. Will the Gao clan, which has produced two generations of queens, be ruined in her hands like this?

No! Empress Dowager Gao suddenly stopped the rosary in her hand and waved this thought away from her mind, how could she think like this? Even though few of Gao's younger generations have become talented, this family is like a hundred-year-old tree, with more luxuriant branches and leaves, and bigger and bigger, she must not fall down!

"Come here! Prepare for the phoenix! Ai's family is going to see the emperor!" She pulled herself together and summoned the palace servants. A pair of weather-beaten old eyes suddenly shone brightly, she is not dead yet! Can't fall yet!

The phoenix is ​​rolling, the palace walls on both sides are towering, and there are stretches of palaces and pavilions in front of you. Relying on the majesty, the maids on both sides clear the way.

Empress Dowager Gao closed her eyes and meditated in the midst of the phoenix. Walking to the "Hall of Peaceful Harmony", Feng Huo suddenly stopped.

"Report to the Empress Dowager, the emperor has moved to the 'Clan Mansion'." The servant's shrill voice came. Empress Dowager Gao opened her eyes suddenly: "You bastard! Didn't you just say that the emperor is still here?"

"This...the emperor just moved away, do you want the queen mother..." The servant hesitated.

Empress Dowager Gao squeezed the Buddhist beads tightly in her hand, just as she was about to come over, the emperor left behind. Is there such a coincidence?

Clan mansion! What's the use of chasing after him to the clan mansion? In front of several ancient uncles and uncles, I was wrong no matter what I said, even if I sold my old face, I'm afraid I still couldn't save my niece.

For the current plan, we can only lose the car to protect the handsome man, and there is no need to fight for this momentary useless work.

That's all! She let out a long sigh: "Go back to the palace. Go and bring a message to the emperor, just say that when Princess Rui marries into the royal family, she can be regarded as a member of the royal family, at least she will save her life."

There was an uproar, and the case of spoiling his wife and destroying concubines in Prince Rui's mansion, which was once a turmoil in the Taoist family's mansion, soon came to a conclusion.

The imperial decree was promulgated on the third day: Concubine Rui Gao's conduct was immoral, and the emperor ordered her to go to the "Shuiyun Temple" outside the capital to lead a spiritual practice, meditate on Buddha, and pray for the death of the Qin family. In order to appease the father and brother of the Qin family in the army, the emperor specially allowed him to be promoted to the imperial court and gave him a hundred acres of fertile land.

As for Xiao Fengqing, the emperor ordered him to contemplate behind closed doors for a month, no banquets, singing and dancing in the mansion, and a month of mourning for the Qin family.

The result of such a punishment seems to be severe, but in fact there is no loss for Prince Rui. The only thing that is the most miserable is that Princess Rui, she seems to have saved her life, but this practice of wearing hair is equivalent to imprisoning her in the "Water Cloud Temple" for the rest of her life.

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Ask for a monthly ticket, all kinds of support! Why are there so few monthly tickets? Is it because the ice is not written well?

I have a cup, woo woo...

(This article is the first release of Hongxiu Tianxiang)