Chapter 32: Scaring

On New Year's Eve, the hall was brightly lit. The emperor and empress sat in the main seat, smiling at the concubines, and the prince stood on both sides of the seat, raising their glasses to start the show.

The concubines sit in the west and the princes sit in the east and the princes sit in the east and the princess can sit with their mothers. According to their positions, they are arranged in a row.

As a young prince, Chen Ziqi sat near the door. In the first half of the night, the palace would be rewarded to go to the nobles in the capital. The door of the palace was open, and the cold wind blew in, freezing the dishes on the table.

Amu sat on the last place, trembling with coldness.

Chang E sat opposite her and saw the condition of her two children. She turned around and told Fuyuan to get two cloaks.

"Empress, wearing a cloak in the hall is not in accordance with the rules." Fuyuan reminded in a low voice.

"What rules? The child is so cold, he will definitely get sick. Just go and get it. The emperor blames me for it." Chang E raised her eyebrows and said sternly.

Fuyuan had to take the order and left, and soon he sent two fox-skinned cloaks over.

Chen Ziqi was shaking and shaking while holding the little red bird. She felt that she was about to freeze to death. She rolled her eyes and wanted to avoid diarrhea. She went to the side hall to hide for a while. Danyi felt that he was trembling constantly and put her furry body on him. Soon, a warm internal force surged into Chen Ziqi's meridians.

"Huh?" Chen Ziqi exclaimed in a low voice, lowered his head to look at the little red bird in his arms. The divine chicken actually has the effect of expelling cold, which is really good.

Just as he was proud, Fuxi behind him put on a warm cloak. Chen Ziqi immediately pulled the sides of the cloak and wrapped himself tightly like a quilt.

Dan Yi was a little helpless. She wanted to guide Chen Ziqi to drive away the cold by herself. That's good. With a cloak, was she going to treat him as a hand stove? So she stopped sending her internal force and emerged from her clothes. The outside of the clothes was gray fox fur. The fur was too long, and the bird's head was buried. The eyes were invisible, and only a tender yellow mouth was exposed.

Chen Ziqi picked up a piece of pastry, broke it and fed it into the mouth of the chicken.

"Ah Yeh--" The eighth prince beside him sneezes, looked at Chen Ziqi with some envy, and looked up at his mother for help.

Huipin, the mother of the eighth prince, glared at her son and told him to sit down honestly. The seventh prince and the eleventh prince were the sons raised by the village girl. They were unruly. How could their son be as unruly as them? Let's wait. After a while, the empress discovered that they had good fruits to eat.

However, the queen was waiting for the show and did not pay attention to the following situation. When the reward ended, the family banquet started and said with a smile: "Today's family banquet, there should be singing and dancing to cheer up. It was originally a sword dance, but it was not convenient for the sisters, so she ordered the play reads;."

I heard that the opera troupe was invited, and everyone was energetic. Compared to singing and dancing, watching opera is naturally more interesting.

"Duan I don't know what kind of play is singing?" The imperial concubine couldn't help asking, always feeling that the queen was smiling a little wrong.

"The play is called "Li Dai Tao Zombie", and I am the first time I hear it back." The queen glanced at Cheng Jieyu, who was sitting under Chang'e's head, raised her hand to signal the opening.

Amid the sound of drums, the gangster in the costume walked in a lotus step, with a happy face, and sang: "I heard that the noble man came to the atrium, and the head of the family had the will to greet him. He looked up shyly and timidly, and a pretty man was standing up."

The first half tells the story of a girl who is waiting for her name, Hongli, who was ordered by the head of the family to serve a noble man. The girl was moved in her heart and was very happy. Then the noble man left, and the girl was worried about parting. At this time, she found that she was pregnant and was ready to raise the child well.

Chang E was a little disgusted when she watched the play, curled her lips and said to Cheng Jieyu beside her: "What's so happy about this..." After halfway through, she remembered that Cheng Jieyu was not the one who was offered up back then. She didn't understand her mood at all, so she gave up and stopped talking about it.

Cheng Jieyu did not respond, and her hand hiding in her sleeve slowly twisted her sleeves. Why did this drama look so familiar?

"Sister, I will give you this opportunity to join the clan, just ask me to raise this child well." Hong Li, who was always smiling, cried and begged for the sister named Hongtao.

"In this world, there is only one red plum. If you are still alive, others can expose me." Hong Tao, wearing a gorgeous costume, shook her sleeves, finished her dialogue, and sang, "Wealth and glory are at your fingertips, Li Dai Taozao is the most appropriate. You were born to be poor and humble, so why bother to compete with me? Let's sleep at the bottom of the cliff and burn three incense sticks of you in Qingming Festival."

Cheng Jieyu's face suddenly turned pale, and she held her hands together and trembled constantly.

The ending of the opera is that Hong Li was strangled to death at home, and Hong Tao had a better future instead of her.

"It's really unlucky to sing such a crying drama during the New Year." The imperial concubine was very unhappy and did not give any reward to the opera troupe.

"The imperial concubine doesn't understand. The article in this play is so big," the queen said slowly, looking at Cheng Jieyu, who had a white face as white as paper. "Cheng Jieyu, do you think so?"

"Concubine..." Cheng Jieyu was named and had to stand up and answer. Before she could stand up, she suddenly turned her eyes and fainted.

The palace was a little confused for a moment, and the queen asked me to carry Concubine Cheng to the side hall to settle. Emperor Zhenglong saw something was wrong and turned around and asked the queen: "What's going on?"

The queen originally wanted to expose Cheng Jieyu directly, making the Qi Zong shameless. Now, seeing Cheng Jieyu's reaction, she suddenly had a better idea. She lowered her eyelids, calmed down for a moment, and looked up and said, "I don't know what's going on. This play is a song from Cheng Jieyu's hometown, which may have aroused her homesickness."

The New Year's Eve drama ended without a beginning or end. The next day, Concubine Cheng knelt in Fengyi's Palace.

"Your master Wuyin, do you know that she has accepted such a careless apprentice?" The queen took a sip of tea slowly.

"This place was indeed given to me by Cheng Jiayao herself. I don't know why she died," Cheng Jieyu had a deep blue shadow in her eyes. This statement was probably thought of after a night of sleep. "I took over her position and naturally had to perform her duties. The royal family summoned her to the palace, and the concubine had no complaints and wasted all her internal strength..."

"No complaint?" The queen snorted coldly and poured the remaining tea in her hand on Cheng Jieyu's face. "If there is really no complaint, where did the scars on the Sixth Prince come from?"

Cheng Jieyu took a deep breath with her wet face, kowtowed, "The Empress did not expose her concubines in public yesterday, because it must be because her concubines are of use. Wherever there is a place where she can be useful, the Empress just speaks, and the Empress goes through fire and water, and only asks the Empress to not let the Sixth Prince know about this; reads."

Now, Chen Zimo was her only hope, and she could only rely on Chen Zimo to avenge the Cheng family.

The queen looked at her, smiled contemptuously, and threw a crime in front of her: "Sign up and seal it, as for how to use you, I must think about it carefully."

On that crime, the crime is clearly written about how the Cheng family harmed Cheng Jiayao and how she gets benefits. Although it is somewhat different from the real situation, it is basically correct.

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Cheng Jieyu signed with trembling signs, but did not receive any guarantee from the queen. She only said lightly: "It depends on your performance." That is to say, if there is anything disobedient in the future, the Sixth Prince will know.

After Cheng Jieyu left, the queen called the second prince and handed him the crime: "Take this and go to Suxin Sect. Copy another copy and send it to Luo Hongfeng, the leader of Qi Sect, without saying anything."

If this matter is involved, Su Xin Sect will lose the Lord. The old nun always has to give her some sincerity.

The second prince's eyes lit up: "The queen of mother is wise."

Being sentenced to death is not the most terrible, but I don’t know when I will be sentenced to death. Before that, I had to spend my life in a nervous mood every day. Cheng Jieyu was eager for the emperor for a few days, but finally fell ill.

In a dark nightmare, she was running desperately. Without internal strength, her legs were as heavy as a pound when she ran.

"Auntie, why are you running away?" Chen Zimo, who had grown up, carried Cheng Zhou's giant axe, looked at her sinisterly, raised his hand, and slashed him with an axe, "Give me my life back!"

"Ah——" Cheng Jieyu woke up screaming and it took her a long time to come back to her senses and looked around tremblingly.

The palace was quiet and the light was dim. A man stood in the shadow under the window, unable to see his face: "Auntie..."

"Ahhhh!" When Concubine Cheng heard this title, she screamed like crazy, attracting several palace maids and eunuchs.

"Concubine Jie, what's wrong with you?" The palace maid was also scared.

"Chen Zimo!" Cheng Jieyu shouted to the shadow, "What did you call me just now?"

Chen Zimo walked out of the shadow and said expressionlessly: "Mother Concubine."

Cheng Jieyu stared at him for a while, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "What kind of weird title is this? Who did you learn from? Don't call it that in the future."

In the next few days, in the middle of the night, screams always came from Cheng Jieyu's room, and everyone in the palace said that she was crazy.

The second prince suggested that Cheng Jieyu was unconscious and always injured the sixth prince. It would be better for the sixth prince to live in Chaoyang Palace. Emperor Zhenglong did not think Cheng Jieyu was crazy, but the queen followed him to beat the side drum and let him see the injuries on the sixth prince.

The shocking blue and purple traces crisscrossed on Chen Zimo's back. Emperor Zhenglong was so angry that he threw the cup in his hand: "This crazy woman asked the imperial physician to take a look. If she couldn't see it well, she would be locked up in the Yeting Palace."

The Yeting Palace is located in the northwest corner of the palace and is rarely visited.

Chen Zimo lived in Chaoyang Palace as he wished, and he could eat and wear a lot. It was much more convenient to go to the front palace to learn martial arts, and he was full of energy.

"Save her life, when I grow up, take her to my mother's grave to apologize," Heidan said, offering the newly obtained snack to Chen Ziqi. "What you said really works. Why is she so scared?"

"As the saying goes, if you don't do bad things on weekdays, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. If you do bad things, you will of course be afraid." Chen Ziqi raised her chin proudly.

Danyi squatted on Chen Ziqi's shoulder and pecked at the snacks he fed, thinking that this time the saying is right.

Winter goes and spring comes, and seven years pass by in a hurry.
Chapter completed!