Liu Ruyan sighed, looking at the yellowing autumn leaves not far away: "What's the point of fighting? Like leaves falling in the wind, prosperity will always wither."
The queen lost her power and the harem was in turmoil. The concubines all coveted the position of queen. Liu Ruyan just found it ridiculous.
Wealth, fame, fortune and power are all fleeting.
Shen Wei turned around: "Cai Ping, go back to the palace."
Liu Ruyan is really beautiful and her brain is really weird. You can only watch from a distance, you can't talk to them.
Shen Wei ran away in a flash.
In the East Pavilion, the palace maid Xuemei, who was hiding behind a pillar, poked her head out. She walked back to Liu Ruyan and said carefully, "Master, the wind is blowing. You are not feeling well. The imperial physician said that you will catch a cold if you are exposed to too much wind. How about we go back to the palace?"
The autumn wind is chilly, and Dongting is located at the windward side of the Imperial Garden, so Xuemei is really cold.
But the master insisted on sitting alone in the East Pavilion, admiring the dead leaves slowly turning yellow and the maple leaves gradually turning red in autumn.
Liu Ruyan said: "The autumn is very beautiful, and the maple leaves are as red as blood, which is also a unique sight."
Xuemei wanted to pinch her Ren Zhong point. If it weren't for the fact that Concubine Chen had raised the salaries of the senior palace maids in each palace since she took over the management of the harem, Xuemei really wanted to quit her job.
Back in the East Pavilion, Liu Ruyan sat quietly on the stone bench, watching the flowers bloom and fall and the leaves turn yellow.
No matter how turbulent the harem is, she only wants to be a plum tree in the deep palace, away from the storm, admiring her own beauty.
Xuemei silently counted on her fingers the days until she left the palace. Palace maids can leave the palace when they reach the age of 25. If she can endure another year, she will be able to escape from this sea of suffering.
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...
The former court and the harem were all waiting for the emperor's decree to depose the queen.
But strangely, time passed quickly, and it was already nearly Mid-Autumn Festival, but the decree to depose the queen had not yet come down.
The Xie family was the first one who could not hold back. They joined forces with more than a dozen ministers to submit a memorial, listing the Queen's crimes in detail and hoping that the Emperor would depose her. In the court, the emperor was furious and reprimanded these ministers, demoted most of them and fined their salaries.
The emperor claimed that although the queen had committed many crimes, she was Princess Li Yao's biological mother. Out of consideration for their old friendship, the Emperor does not intend to depose the Queen.
Only then did everyone realize that although the Tan Tai family had fallen, the emperor did not intend to depose the queen.
...
Kunning Palace.
The queen was in agony every day. She was waiting for the imperial edict to depose her, and for the white silk and poison wine that would sentence her to death.
Unfortunately, I didn’t wait.
Just waiting for Eunuch Deshun to come. Eunuch Deshun conveyed the emperor's oral order, asking the empress to "recuperate" in Kunning Palace and not to step out of the palace for the rest of her life.
The palace maids were dismissed, and only an old nanny brought meals to the queen every day, and the imperial guards guarded the door.
After Eunuch Deshun left, the Queen slumped on the ground, staring blankly at the empty yard. She murmured: "Not abolishing the empress... He, he actually didn't abolish the empress..."
Could it be that because she burned incense and prayed to Buddha every day, the Bodhisattva appeared and saved her life as a devout believer?
The queen returned to the temple in a daze, knelt on the cushion, and stared blankly at the compassionate Bodhisattva statue: "For the rest of my life... I can only stay with the Bodhisattva..."
She lost completely.
There were light footsteps outside the house, and Li Yao came to the Buddhist temple. She called softly, "Mother."
The queen turned around and saw the timid little girl at the door.
Li Yao whispered, "It's cold, Yaoer brought you a thick quilt. Please take good care of yourself. Yaoer will come to see you once a month at the beginning of the month."
The palace maid next to her put down a thick quilt.
Li Yao didn't dare to get close to the queen.
The queen kneeling in the Buddhist temple was skinny, with bulging eyeballs and high cheekbones, like a scary skeleton. When he looked at Li Yao, he looked ferocious.
Li Yao felt a sour nose. After putting down the quilt, he quickly left with the palace maid.
It's just the relationship between mother and daughter, nothing more. After she gets married, she will no longer come to visit the queen. She has her own life, and she will never follow the queen's old path.
The queen sat in the Buddhist temple, looking at her daughter's departing back. She was suddenly overwhelmed by a heavy sadness.
The family collapsed, the sons died one after another, and her husband despised her... In the end, the only one left by her side was the daughter she despised the most.
The queen lowered her head and whimpered in sorrow and pain.
I don’t know how much time passed.
There were footsteps outside the house again.
This time it was Shen Wei who came.
The sunlight was clear. The courtyard of Kunning Palace had not been taken care of for a long time, and weeds were growing rampantly. The chrysanthemums bloomed wildly and blended in with the weeds.
Shen Wei stopped to admire the wild chrysanthemums. Most of the flowers and plants in the palace were neatly trimmed, but the wild flowers growing wildly had a unique beauty.
The queen dragged her numb feet and walked out of the Buddhist hall, staring at Shen Wei with sinister eyes: "What are you doing here? Come to see my joke?"
Shen Wei looked back and smiled: "Yes."
The yard was full of wild chrysanthemums, and Chen Wei stood among them. She was beautiful and more charming than the flowers.
The Queen's eyes were filled with jealousy. In the deep palace, Concubine Lan, Concubine Shu, and Concubine Mei were slowly withering away. Only Chen Wei can always be bright and beautiful, as if she will never fade.
Many years ago, the Queen promoted Chen Wei to be a concubine. She could never have imagined that the lowly concubine whom she never took seriously would one day become the most favored one in the harem.
The queen taunted tartly: "Chen Wei, no one can be proud all their lives. There will always be a day when you fall into the quagmire."
Shen Wei smiled: "Even if I fall into the mud one day, I can stand up again. But you will never leave Kunning Palace."
The Queen is kept alive now in order to check and balance the aristocratic families.
Once Li Yuanjing has wiped out all the noble families, the Queen's life will be over.
The Queen dug her fingernails into her palms.
Shen Wei walked over slowly, tilted her head to look at the queen, and whispered to her: "I manage the harem very strictly, and I have spies all over the harem. The slightest movement in Kunning Palace cannot be hidden from my eyes."
The queen was stunned and asked in confusion: "What do you mean!"
Shen Wei smiled and said, "You sneaked out of Kunning Palace again and again recently. You sent messages to the Tan Tai family, went to Li Chengzhen's palace to reprimand her, and colluded with Tan Tai Yinxue in private... Do you really think that the guards didn't keep a close watch?"
The Queen froze in place.
A terrible chill ran from her ankles to her scalp, and the queen was shrouded in a terrible chill.
So scary!
Shen Wei is so scary!
The queen's eyes were red, and she rushed towards Shen Wei in despair, screaming, "It's you! You are the one behind this! You killed my son! You ruined my family! Aren't you afraid that I will tell the emperor your true identity?"
Shen Wei took two steps back to avoid the Queen's attack.
Shen Wei shook her head: "You are an unvirtuous wife, an unkind mother, an unfilial daughter, unkind to your superiors, and disrespectful to your subordinates. Everything is your own fault."
After a pause, Chen Wei's eyes were cold, and she continued: "I remember that when you were in the palace, you boasted that you were as pure as a chrysanthemum. For the rest of your life, you will spend your life with these chrysanthemums."
Shen Wei leaves Kunning Palace.
She instructed the guards at the door: "Fix the dog hole in the backyard and check the wall every month for any damage."
The guard bowed and accepted the order: "Yes."
Shen Wei took the sedan chair and returned to Yongning Palace.
From then on, there were no more mistakes for the Queen to exploit, and she could never step out of Kunning Palace again.
As soon as Shen Wei's sedan chair arrived at Yongning Palace, Cai Lian in the courtyard ran over happily to report:
"Congratulations, Master. Congratulations, Master. Happy event!"
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