Chapter 54 Sun Miaoqing Wants to Die
[Since you have been reborn, you should know that at this time, I have the final say in the harem. Let alone this old woman, even if you make trouble in front of the emperor and the empress dowager, you will not get any good results! ]
What are you expecting?
Old woman...Okay, as long as she is happy.
The queen silently put down her handkerchief.
"Gong Changzai was indeed reckless."
Nian Shilan didn't want to go on a winding road with a little girl, so she got straight to the point:
"I heard that Gong Chang allowed her maid to assault the young lady in the palace yesterday. Not only did she not repent, she also threw tantrums in the street. Is this true?"
No matter how much Sun Miaoqing looked down on Nian Shilan, she had to admit that Concubine Hua during this period was arrogant and domineering, and she really dared to punish people when she said she would.
Although Luzhu is a good girl, she is not willing to sacrifice herself for this maid.
"Madam Concubine Hua, Madam Empress, please be wise. Lu Zhu's actions were not directed by me. It was indeed an accident last night."
Nian Shilan was not in a hurry to refute, "No wonder Gong Changzai came here with something, it turns out that he came here to apologize for the recklessness of his maid."
Sun Miaoqing didn't know what Nian Shilan meant by this, but she knew that a man who knew the current situation was a wise man, so she admitted her mistake and said:
"I am an ignorant maid. It is indeed my fault that I failed to teach her well."
[Hehe, I was waiting for you to say this. ]
Nian Shilan looked at the Queen and said, "According to the palace rules, if you allow me to make mistakes, you should be punished. What do you think, Queen?"
Small punishments and great admonitions are not to be underestimated.
However, the Queen was afraid that Nian Shilan would set a trap for her, so she did not agree directly.
He just asked, "How does Concubine Hua think the punishment should be?"
"Yesterday's incident has been known to everyone in the harem, and the impact is terrible. If it is not severely punished, I am afraid that everyone will follow suit, which will corrupt the harem's atmosphere, and then the emperor will not be able to concentrate on government affairs."
This accusation is big enough that even the emperor is brought up, and it cannot be refuted easily.
Nian Shilan glanced at Sun Miaoqing out of the corner of her eye again, "However, considering that Gongchang is a first-time offender and took the initiative to admit his fault, I will give him a lighter sentence."
Sun Miaoqing's heart is more exciting than riding a roller coaster.
"Thank you, Concubine Hua..."
Before she finished her words, she heard Nian Shilan say:
"Just give Gong Chang a reward of one zhang red."
The three characters "Yi Zhang Hong" were like three huge rocks hitting Sun Miaoqing's head, and she felt her head buzzing.
"One, one zhang of red..."
This is considered a lenient sentence, but what if it is a heavier sentence?
Sun Miaoqing recalled a foreign movie she had watched, in which the person chosen by the god of death would eventually end his life in the same way even if he tried every possible way to escape.
So Xia Dongchun's red scar, though delayed, is destined to fall on himself, right?
After having to take on other people's roles several times, Sun Miaoqing couldn't help but panic. For the sake of her own life, she had to lower her posture again and again:
"Please spare my life, Madam Concubine Hua. Even though I have made mistakes, my crime does not deserve death."
[How could I beat you to death? In my previous life, Xia Dongchun was just beaten to a pulp, don’t you know that?]
[You bastard, I see you are acting up again! ]
The Queen has a headache: Why is Concubine Hua so obsessed with Yi Zhang Hong?
"Gong Changzai made a mistake and must be punished. However, the Buddha's Bathing Festival is approaching and the Empress Dowager is concentrating on worshipping Buddha and cannot bear to see such heavy punishment. Since the maid who made the mistake has been imprisoned..."
The empress paused and said, "Gong Changzai, please copy a copy of the Avatamsaka Sutra for the empress dowager before the Buddha's Birthday. If you fail to do so, you will be punished at any time."
[It takes two months to copy a scripture, how can it not be completed? Old woman, you only know how to go against me! ]
When Sun Miaoqing heard that she only needed to copy a copy of the Avatamsaka Sutra, she thanked him repeatedly.
"Your Majesty is kind and merciful. I will remember this in my heart. I will be careful with my words and actions in the future and discipline my servants."
She now really wanted to say something to Nian Shilan: "Empress Hua's advice will be etched in my heart and I will definitely repay you handsomely in the future."
He was also afraid of angering Concubine Hua, and even the Empress couldn't hold back.
Forget it. A good man never suffers a loss in front of him.
The queen smiled slightly and said, "Okay, get up." I hope you can be grateful to me after copying.
[Just forgive me, this is not my purpose anyway. 】
Nian Shilan laughed inwardly, "That bitch Luzhu can't leave the Ministry of Punishment. I will order someone to interrogate her thoroughly to see how many bad ideas this Sun Miaoqing brought into the palace!"
This reminded the queen.
Sun Miaoqing had never entered the palace in her previous life, so even if she asked someone to inquire, she wouldn't know everything.
There must be some cat stuff among them that they don’t know about.
Green bamboo is a good breakthrough.
The Queen felt it necessary to get to know Gong Changzai, who was able to change her fate.
Nian Shilan stood up to say goodbye. Before leaving, she glanced at Sun Miaoqing and curled the corners of her mouth in a forced smile.
[Don't be too happy too soon, the fun has just begun. ]
The Queen was somewhat surprised: Hua Fei has made progress and has even learned how to keep a trick for the future.
She was rather curious about what kind of fun Concubine Hua could arrange next.
After leaving Jingren Palace, Songzhi walked beside the sedan chair and said rather unwillingly:
"The Queen was too soft-hearted and only asked Sun to copy a Buddhist scripture. How could this be considered a punishment?"
Nian Shilan snorted, "How can she be kind and gentle? She just wants to use her own generosity to show how mean I am."
"It doesn't matter. She can kill someone with someone else's knife, and so can I."
In her previous life, the empress used the queen mother to punish Yu Ying'er, saving her own face and leaving the emperor speechless.
Nian Shilan knew that she did not have that much face in front of the Queen Mother, so she had to use the Emperor.
Doesn’t the Dog Emperor want to use the Sun family to control the Nian family?
Then let him order the punishment of Sun Miaoqing himself!
Thinking she had been spared, Sun Miaoqing returned to the Yanxi Palace and immediately asked her father-in-law Xiao Lezi to go to the library to borrow the "Avatamsaka Sutra".
Xiao Lezi came back and asked, "My lord, do you want all of them?"
"Nonsense!"
The queen saved herself from a hundred lashes of blood, but she was lazy in copying the Buddhist scriptures herself. Wasn't she courting death?
"Give them all to me."
Xiao Lezi hesitated to speak and went out.
About half an hour later, the sound of wheels rumbling could be heard outside the Yanxi Palace.
Sun Miaoqing was dumbfounded when she saw the Avatamsaka Sutra that Xiao Lezi brought over. "How much does this cost?"
"To answer your question, there are eighty volumes in total."
!!!
Sun Miaoqing was a little overwhelmed: Eighty or eighty volumes, this must be millions of words, right?
“When is Buddha’s Birthday?”
Hong Qi hurriedly supported her young lady and said, "My lady, it will be April 8th."
Sun Miaoqing began to calculate in his mind that if he could write 20 words per minute, if he did not sleep, eat or drink, and maintained a steady pace, it would take him more than a month to write one million words.
If she added eating, drinking and sleeping, her writing would get slower and slower. Before the eighth day of April, she would not be able to step out of the room.
However, this is still an ideal situation.
Sun Miaoqing was not as fast as one might imagine and was occasionally called by the emperor to serve the old man in the Yangxin Palace.
“It’s so hard for me.”
Half a month passed, and Sun Miaoqing had not even finished copying all ten volumes.
She had lost count of how many times she had vomited. She really vomited.
It was fine to copy non-stop during the day, but reading by candlelight at night was simply exhausting.
When I watched TV in the past, I thought that fines were child's play. Only those saints who were inappropriately soft-hearted would choose this kind of punishment.
Now that I have experienced it myself, I know how painful it is.
Killing someone is just a punishment, and fines are too tiring, it is better to be beaten with a hundred lashes.
Her hands are shaking, her eyes are blurry, and her neck is almost broken.
You can’t finish copying it. You can’t finish copying it at all.
I really want to die, so that when I wake up, this stage will have been passed.
Hong Qi said distressedly, "Young Master, please take a rest."
Sun Miaoqing also wanted to take a break, but looking at the pile of scriptures, she could only bury her head in work.
She now hated Lu Zhu a little. "She couldn't even hold a lantern properly, you bitch! How come she wasn't burned to death on the spot?!"
"My lady used to say, 'In the shadows of the apricot blossoms, I play the flute until dawn.'"
Hongqiu comforted her, "The young lady asked Xiaolezi to build a swing under the apricot tree in Yu Garden during the first month of the year. The swing is already built. The weather has been good these days, so why don't we take the swing and go for a walk in Yu Garden?"
"The swing is in a remote location and won't be easily discovered."