Chapter 919: The Secret History of the Qing Palace

On the morning of April 8, 1881, Beijing Zhongcui Palace
The little palace lady Jingyi walked up and down in the yard, and finally gritted her teeth and opened the palace gate to try to rush outside.
Many guards outside the palace gate stopped him, and the Li Guizheng came with a food box from a distance. Seeing this situation, he rushed forward and pulled Jingyi, who was held by the guards, behind him.
"Jingyi, you mean servant, don't take good care of the queen mother in the palace, what are you going to do?"
Jingyi glanced at Li Gui awkwardly, and Li Gui hurriedly winked at Jingyi with his back to the guard.
Jingyi fell to the ground in desperation and said to Li Guishili:
"Grandpa Li, the queen mother is seriously ill, I want to see the royal doctor"
"How can the unbridled doctor obey your humble maid's call?" After a slight pause, Li Gui said again: "I am serving by the Queen Mother today. The Queen Mother and her elderly have already known the condition of the Queen Mother, and their sisters are deeply affectionate. , When the time comes, you will naturally arrange for a suitable imperial physician to check it out. You will go back soon and take good care of the queen mother.
After that, Li Gui quickly stepped forward and directly pulled Jingyi back to Zhongcui Palace, and closed the palace door tightly.
"Sister-in-law grandma, why are you so stupid? The outside are all from the Queen Mother of the West Palace. Now inside this palace wall is the world of Yehnala clan. She has called for a secret call. Anyone in the palace wants to leave. , The guards can all be killed for the crime of stealing." Li Gui lay softly reprimanded in Jingyi's ear.
Jingyi is only fifteen years old this year, and she is also a clever maid.
She naturally knows the situation of her side, but now the Queen Mother of the East Palace is dying of illness. If she does not find someone for treatment, she may really die.
At this moment, someone outside the palace suddenly shouted:
"The Queen Mother Arrives"
Li Gui and Jingyi turned pale, hurriedly opened the palace gate and knelt to greet each other
In the future, Cixi, today's Empress Dowager West, is 47 years old, and she is in prime of life.
She wandered into the courtyard of Zhongcui Palace, followed by two guards with knives and Li Lianying, chief chief.
Speaking of eunuchs Li Gui and Li Lianying still have some relatives, but Li Gui usually stays with Empress Dowager Ci'an, and Li Lianying is Cixi’s personal slave
The relationship between the two is hostile on the surface, but privately they are very close.
Life in the court is not easy for the eunuchs, if there is no network of relationships secretly, it is difficult to mix.
Masters and sons are enemies, but slaves can become friends. Sharing information enables each other to claim credit in front of their own masters. This is also a way of survival.
At this time, Li Gui and Jingyi both knelt on the ground, and Cixi walked directly into the bedroom of Zhongcui Palace without even looking at them.
Jingyi got nervous after seeing it, and hurriedly got up and followed
Upon seeing this, Li Lianying hurriedly shouted angrily: "Brave servant, who made you get up?"
At this time, the eunuchs and maids of the palace all ran to the courtyard to meet Cixi. They were originally kneeling on the ground, and when they heard Li Lianying's roar, they squatted directly on the ground, not even daring to let out the atmosphere.
Only the little palace lady Jingyi stood there stubbornly without fear.
The Queen Mother turned around and glanced at Jingyi, and then smiled slightly: "Lianying, my sister is recuperating. Your yelling and ranting will disturb her cleansing, won't you shut up?"
Li Lianying heard the master's words and hurried to her knees, claiming that the slave should die.
Cixi ignored him, and said to Jingyi: "You are my sister's close maid, Jingyi, come in with me. My sister's condition is getting worse now, and there is no one to take care of him. I am still worried."
When the words fell, Cixi opened the door and walked in directly, ignoring the crowd kneeling outside.
Jingyi gritted her teeth, and finally followed into the door
The bedroom was a little dark, and a woman was lying weakly on the big bed, and beside her there was a baby who looked just a few days old.
Jingyi entered the room and quickly lit the candlelight, then ran to the bed and stood with her head bowed without saying a word.
The Queen Mother slowly turned around in the room, and finally sat on a chair, sighed and said:
"If I haven't come for a few days, I feel that the bedroom my sister lives in seems to be a lot of shame. It's a pity."
"I have given you all the power in the palace, what do you want?" The woman on the bed coughed weakly, and then said weakly.
"I don’t want to do anything. I just feel it’s a pity my sister. I seem to be two years older than you, but after calling you your sister for so many years, my sister is gone, leaving me alone, my sister who may be lonely in the past few months. You are all hidden in this Zhongcui palace and cannot come out to see people. The ministers have already doubted. After all, you are the Queen Mother of the East Palace. You should be respected in this harem. Unfortunately, you are now a shameless sister. I'm afraid, I'm afraid that your affairs will leak out, and you will lose the face of the emperor. What do you say to do?" Empress Dowager Cixi's tone was sad and seemed to be really worried.
"Huh, Yehnala, do you still have the face of the emperor in your eyes? I heard that Zeng Jize signed the Ili Treaty with Tsarist Russia and revised the land trade statutes more than two months ago. According to these two treaties, we Although Ili can be recovered and the Tex River is no longer ceded, the area west of the Horgos River will be occupied by Tsarist Russia; the court has to pay Tsarist Russia fifty thousand taels of silver. Are you so weak and worthy of the first emperor?" Ci'an's tone was a bit agitated and coughed again.
Cixi's gaze was indifferent, and after a long time he whispered:
"I can't do anything. I can't fight and fight. In order to let the war quell, I can only pay compensation. I did this to protect the foundation of Daqing. Sister, don't distract the topic, tell you one thing, I The guards who committed adultery with you have already been banned from the Nine Clan. Now in this world, no one knows your scandal except for those in the palace. The reason why I came here today is that the one who said goodbye to you is Lin Ying. My man, he will be by my side to help you keep this secret forever. Before you make a move, do you have anything else to say?"
Ci'an sat up from the bed tremblingly, and she finally understood. It seems that Cixi has controlled many rights in the past few months, and this time she is here to kill her.
The two palaces of the East and the West have been listening to politics for several years. As the empress of Xianfeng, Ci'an has been suppressing the noble concubine Cixi.
Now everything has changed. She made a mistake and was seized by others. In order to preserve her face, she could only give up power.
Without the mind to pay attention to Jiangshan Sheji, Cian looked at the baby sleeping next to him, tears falling in his eyes.
After a long time, Ci'an raised his head to look at Cixi, and said in a hoarse voice:
"Sister, can you spare this child? You can let Li Lianying adopt him. He is innocent, and he doesn't know anything. Then let him be an ordinary guard in the palace, OK or just send him to the people, Be an ordinary person"
Cixi frowned slightly and said nothing.
Ci'an slowly climbed down from the bed, knelt down on the ground and crawled in front of Cixi, kowtow and said:
"Sister, you and I have been widowhood for more than 20 years. I know that you should have some infidelity in the palace during these years, but I did not send anyone to investigate you deliberately, so I failed to seize your handle.
Now I lose, I admit
But can you look at Zaichun's face and open up a side to me?
I used to treat your child sincerely back then, and now can you let my child go?

Seeing Ci'an, who was already crying into tears, Ci Xi's brows became tighter, recalling the past.
After entering the palace, he gave the title to Yigui, and the next year he was promoted to Yimen. Four years later, he gave birth to the eldest son Aixinjue Luo Zaichun.
After Emperor Xianfeng died, Zaichun succeeded him as Emperor Tongzhi.
As the biological mother of Tongzhi, she became the Queen Mother of Our Lady, and Ci'an became the Queen Mother of the Mother Queen. The situation in which the Queen Mothers of the Eastern and Western Palaces listened to politics was formed, and the battle between the Queen Mothers of the Eastern and Western Palaces began.
Today, Prince Jin’s son Zaimin enters the Datong, and his own son, Zaichun, has passed away for several years.
At that time, Ci'an really took good care of Zaichun and regarded it as his own.
Speaking of it, Ci'an is considered a qualified queen mother, she is virtuous and virtuous, and has the ability to govern the country.
It’s just that she is a person with a lot of power. Cixi has to admit that she has been looking forward to the day when she can take over power.
But when this day was really in sight, Cixi was a little lonely.
She doesn't like Ci'an, because she has always been a woman above her power.
She also likes Ci'an a bit, because since Emperor Xianfeng passed away, she and this woman have been with each other for more than 20 years.
After thinking for a long time, Cixi finally nodded. She stood up and prepared to leave. When she walked to the door, she stopped and said:
"Sister, sister resigned
At dusk I will ask Lin Ying to take the child away and bring you the last meal
Linying is a minion by my side, too dazzling.
He seems to have some relatives with the minion Li Gui next to you. I heard that Li Gui already has two adopted children. Why not let Li Gui have one more adopted son, called Li Guisan.
Tonight in Zhongcui Palace, the Queen Mother of the East Palace will die violently, and all the eunuchs and maids serving in Zhongcui Palace need to be buried and apologized
Li Lianying will adopt Li Gui’s three adopted sons. After this incident, there will be no deeds and legends of the Queen Mother of the East Palace.
Sister, it’s nice to read such a story."
A joyful expression appeared on the face of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, she knelt to the ground behind Cixi, and said with a trembling:
"Niu Hulu Ruifen, congratulations to the Queen Mother"
Finally a triumphant smile appeared on Cixi's face. She wandered out of the bedroom, and then took Li Lianying out of Zhongcui Palace.
"From this moment on, no one is allowed to enter, and no one is allowed to come out. Those who violate orders will be executed."
This is the last word Cixi said to the guards when he left Zhongcui Palace
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