Chapter 778: Borrow a knife

By the half of April, the sky was getting hot, and women with flimsy summer shirts could be seen everywhere in the palace.
Concubine Xian finally got out of Yuquan Palace, but she was still wearing a thick Luo skirt.
Rao is so, standing in the open space outside Yuquan Palace, she still feels a little cold.
She knew that this coldness did not come from the wind of early summer, but from the heart, from the bones.
The thoughts in my heart were gone, and my body broke down, naturally it was cold inside and out.
"Niangniang, the crossing is windy, carefully catch the cold." Gong maid reminded.
Concubine Xian closed her collar and whispered softly, "Go to Cining Palace."
What Mother Chang said that day, she always felt that she had something to say.
In the past two years, the queen mother seems to have changed a little, not as simple as before.
Concubine Xian had a hard time these days, but she remembered Mother Chang's words in her heart, and when she got better, she went to Cining Palace to ask for peace.
Only halfway there, Concubine Xian began to panting, her face pale.
The maidservant looked worried: "Manny, you can rest."
The concubine Xian waved her hand: "What do you want to do, please make arrangements for the Queen Mother, what is it like to be late."
After walking and stopping like this, I finally reached the Ci Ning Palace.
The Queen Mother was asking the two princesses to read stories to her in turn. Hearing that Concubine Xian had arrived, she opened her eyes: "Concubine Xian, please come in."
Not long after, the concubine Xian came in and respectfully greeted the queen mother.
"Give a seat to the concubine."
A maidservant moved to Xiao Xiaozi and placed him next to Concubine Xian.
Concubine Xian sat down.
The queen mother smiled and said: "Wait a moment, Fuqing will almost finish speaking."
The girl's crisp and beautiful voice sounded again, and Concubine Xian listened in silence and found that this was a completely strange story.
"Grandma, I'm finished reading." Princess Fuqing read the last page, still inexplicable.
Obviously, Princess Fuqing liked this story very much.
The fourteen princesses on the side were still quiet, without any sense of existence.
The queen mother motioned to the maidservant to put away the script, and said with a kind expression: "You two go back first."
Princess Fuqing and the fourteenth princess bowed to the Queen Mother and Concubine Xian and left together.
The queen mother smiled and opened her mouth first: "Now the books are getting more and more interesting. It is said that they came from the study of a family outside the palace called Liu Chu Hua Zhai. That time Mother Chang went out of Gong Shang Xiang to bring back a few books to the Ai family to relieve their boredom. , I wonder if you have heard of it?"
The sage concubine sneered: "The concubine has lived in the deep palace for a long time, lonely and ignorant.
The queen mother nodded slightly, with a little emotion: "Yes, staying in the deep palace for a long time, the outside of the palace will become completely strange."
Concubine Xian didn't know how to answer the conversation.
The queen mother was not close to her in the past, or to any concubine, but now she is gossiping with her, which is a bit confusing.
"Retreat." The queen mother took the tea cup offered by the maidservant and sent a word to the waiter.
Concubine Xian was holding a cup of hot tea in her hands, feeling nervous.
"You rarely go back to the official residence, right?" The queen mother took a sip of tea and asked casually.
Concubine Xian hurriedly said, "I only saved one kiss eight years ago."
The queen mother thought for a while and said: "The Aijia remembered that at that time your father was sick."
Concubine Xian's eyes became hot and nodded slowly.
That year, there was news that her father was seriously ill, and in order to see her father for the last time, she asked the emperor to ask for marriage.
At that time, she was a proud person in the palace, and the emperor gave her a face and agreed very quickly.
That was the last time she saw her father and the last time she went home.
Thinking about this, Concubine Xian felt even more unwilling.
For many years of deep sorrow, why not get to the position of a woman in front of you?
"If you want to save relatives in the future, I'm afraid there will be no chance, right?"
Concubine Xian looked at the Queen Mother in astonishment, and couldn't believe that this was spit out from the other party's mouth.
But there are only two of them in this room, not even the third person. Who else could it be if it wasn't the queen mother?
I don't know if it is an illusion, the light where Xu is the queen mother is a little dark, making her expression look a little gloomy.
Such a queen mother made Xian concubine look at her heart, there is no such warmth as a child sitting around and reading when she first came in.
The queen mother stared at the concubine Xian with nice eyes: "Why don't you answer?"
The Concubine Xian became more confused about the Queen Mother’s thoughts, and said: "The Queen Mother is right, the concubine is not in good health now, and can't stand the bumps like this"
The queen mother smiled: "Even if you can stand it, the emperor will probably not agree."
"Queen Dowager--" Concubine Xian was even more shocked.
What does the queen mother mean? That day, it was not easy for Mother Chang to imply that she would come over and invite An...
"Concubine Xian, you understand in your heart that the status of you and King Qi in the hearts of the emperor is much lower than before, and it can even be said to have been rejected."
Concubine Xian couldn't sit still, got up from Xiao Xiaozi, and said with a pale face: "The concubine is dull, please tell me the Queen Mother."
"Explicitly?" the Queen Mother asked rhetorically.
The concubine Xian nodded: "The queen mother is kind and generous, and she must have a lot of meaning in saying this to her concubine, but the concubine is dull and can't understand it. Please tell me."
The queen mother laughed: "There is something in the Ai family, I want to borrow your hand to do it."
Concubine Xian's heart jumped and she looked down and said: "It is an honor to be a concubine to do things for the Queen Mother, I wonder if you have any orders?"
The queen mother slowly sipped two sips of tea, put the tea cup on the table, and said slowly: "The Aijia wants Fuqing's life."
The tea cup that the concubine Xian held in her hand fell directly, falling to pieces, but these were not as horrified as she was at the moment.
She took two steps back and looked at the Queen Mother in shock, as if she had never known the woman standing on the highest point.
Did she get it wrong?
"Why, scared?" The queen mother glanced at Concubine Xian, her tone indifferent.
Concubine Xian opened her mouth: "Concubine"
The Queen Mother sneered: "The Aijia thought you had nothing to lose, and you are fearless."
"Queen dowager, my concubine doesn't understand--"
"You don't need to understand, the Aijia only asks you whether to do it or not."
Concubine Xian did not answer for a long time with a pale face, and keenly caught a killer in the eyes of the Queen Mother.
She immediately shuddered and woke up: since the Queen Mother had said this to her, if she did not agree, she would probably live soon after leaving Cining Palace.
Realizing this, Concubine Xian bit her lip and said: "Princess Fuqing is the queen's eyeball. I am afraid it is difficult for a concubine to find a chance... Even if there is a chance to start, it is extremely difficult to retreat all over the body"
The queen mother laughed: "The Aijia just wants to have nothing to do with Cining Palace."
The meaning of the words is that the concubine Xian is dead or alive after she starts, she doesn't care at all.
Concubine Xian was shocked.
The queen mother tapped on the table and said with pity: "Your body, I'm afraid that the oil is exhausted and the lamp is withered?"
Concubine Xian was shocked, staring at the queen mother.
She has sealed the mouth of the imperial doctor, how could the queen mother know her physical condition?
In the past, she was willing to scream out to win the emperor's pity and attention when she was suffering from minor illnesses, but when it was really impossible, she just wanted to last one day or another, forcing herself to get better in front of others.
The old voice sounded again, and it sounded a little strange: "Use a little bit of your dying person for the help of King Zhu Qi, don't you think it is worthwhile?"