Chapter 91 – The Widow

The heavy rain in the sky is still hammering the buildings in the imperial city and the hearts in the palace. Guangxin Palace is quiet, perhaps it is quiet …… at least the vicious words of the brother and sister inside are covered by the rain and thunder, not a single trace of it penetrates outside the palace.

Even so, Guangxin Palace outside still not a single person, even Hong old eunuch is not here, all the people are far away from the distance, as long as the distance with Guangxin Palace, is to maintain a distance with death.

Eunuch Yao was still outside the East Palace at this time, but his mind had long been cast towards Guangxin Palace, his hands and feet were cold, his heart was chilly, he didn’t know what was going on in the palace, even though he knew that he shouldn’t think about that scene, he still couldn’t help it.

He wiped a handful of rainwater from his face and carefully watched the movements in the East Palace, since His Majesty had put this palace under his watch, he must not let the Empress Mother and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince inside make any noise.

Compared to Guangxin Palace, the situation in the East Palace seems to be much calmer, although Eunuch Yao is nervous, but not afraid, all the lackeys up and down the East Palace have been beheaded, only the widow and orphan are left in there, so they won’t be able to make any noise no matter what.

However, his eyes, which were a little wet from the rain, suddenly dried up and burned!

What a big fire!

The majestic flames from the East Palace between those beautiful halls rose up, transformed into countless fiery red sprites, toward the sky that was sprinkled with rain, incomparable heat accompanied by the flames quickly spread all around.

Eunuch Yao’s eye pupils shrunk violently, yet the red in his eye pupils did not fade in the slightest – the Eastern Palace was on fire! At this juncture, except for the honorable mother and son in the palace to light the fire themselves, no one can do it. But …… could it be that this pair of mother and son wanted to set themselves on fire?

And at this time the rain is falling so heavily, this fire is how to ignite? Why the sky of rain water can not put out this fire?

Yao eunuch knows that at this time is not to pursue the fire is how to point up, but immediately to make a decision, is to put out the fire or how.

Let the queen and the crown prince mother and son self-immolation and death? Eunuch Yao did not spend much time thinking, he knows, even if his majesty how angry, but if in their own custody, the empress and the crown prince so did not withstand the wrath of the son of heaven will die, the wrath of the son of heaven will come to his head.

A few moments later, Eunuch Yao’s voice was like being burned by fire, hoarse but sharp, shouted: “Water!”

The palace did not know how many large copper tanks for storing water, did not know how many eunuchs and palace maids. When the fire started in the East Palace, there were already people who reacted and rushed this way, starting to desperately put out the fire. Eunuch Yao nervously and carefully did not participate, but stood on the periphery with a black face watching the busy crowd, extremely careful not to let anyone preemptively contact with the mother and son duo in that burning palace.

This fire is somewhat strange, does not seem to be like the palace itself ignited, but who used some extremely easy to burn materials grease, so the fire is extremely fierce, even the rain can not be burned out, however, when these materials are burned out, the fire will have no successor, extinguished is also extremely fast.

Then there are loyal eunuchs and lackeys crashed through the blackened palace door, want to break in to save the master inside.

However, once that little eunuch crashed through the palace door, he realized that his eyes went black, and somehow he was hit in the head by a wooden pillar and fainted.

Eunuch Yao indifferently entered first, those guards and eunuchs behind him once again surrounded the East Palace, separating those who were looking at each other to put out the fire from the outside of the palace.

The east palace has been burned a desolate, and in front of the palace on the rain moor stone board, the empress is being held in the arms of the crown prince, body in addition to some traces of the fire, it is only wet by the rain after the woeful.

Eunuch Yao slightly bowed and saluted, “The fire is out.”

The meaning is very simple, since the fire has gone out, the two masters will still temporarily condescend to stay in this palace for a while.

The Crown Prince whose palm was scalded with a series of blisters stared at Eunuch Yao’s eyes, a hint of hostility and ruthlessness flashed across his face, and he said word by word: “Unless you kill this palace right now, or else the entire Imperial City knows the news of the fire in the Eastern Palace, how long do you think you can still hide it?”

Then the Crown Prince raised his voice and said calmly, “There is nothing wrong with this Palace, it’s just that the Mother Empress was fainted by the smoke.” The voice easily traveled outside of the Eastern Palace and landed in the ears of those people who came to put out the fire, causing these people’s hearts to be relieved, as long as the Empress Crown Prince was fine, these people themselves would not have to be unlucky.

However, this sound fell into the ears of the eunuch guards who surrounded the Eastern Palace, but it represented another meaning.

Eunuch Yao’s body was shaken, slowly raised his head, looked at this very ordinary crown prince in front of him, slightly frowned, then realized that this crown prince is after all his majesty’s own son, when a great disaster is approaching, this kind of determination, this kind of self-immolation to force the emperor’s tactics, with such a beautiful.

The emperor to deal with family affairs, to maintain their own face, so chose the darkest of these hours before dawn, the heavens are interesting, descending a thunderstorm to help, today’s palace, has died hundreds of lackeys, in order to cover the crowd of heinous mouth.

However, at this time the East Palace fire, everyone knows that the Crown Prince Queen is well, this thing can no longer be quiet, the so-called family affairs, gradually to be turned into a national affair.

Yao eunuch looked at the calm face of the crown prince, and suddenly a shock, found that this usually in some of the Prince Prince, once in trouble, whether it is in the eyes or look, is actually like His Majesty.

The woman who really had the most power in the Kingdom of Qing, that old woman, had actually woken up half an hour ago. Old people needed very little sleep, but Empress Dowager still habitually lay on the big soft couch in the Hall of Containing Light, her eyes closed to recuperate.

Today, I don’t know why, I have been awake for such a long time already, yet the sky is still so dark, making people not interested in getting up and going for a walk in the garden.

Especially the later burst of wind and rain and thunder made the Empress Dowager’s old man’s brow furrowed and her eyes closed a little tighter. She was not afraid of thunder, but detested the sound of thunder, always feeling that whether God had any opinion about the old Li family, only to tell herself through this way.

After the wind and thunder, the distant faintly came a clamor, only this burst of sound soon disappeared, the darkness of the palace has returned to calm.

The empress dowager, however, did not want to lie down again, under the service of the sisters and palace maids, slowly got up from the bed, tremblingly put on a good dress, tied a green band on the forehead with fine ironing, was helped to sit on the chair.

The palace maids silently brought a golden basin to wait for the old man to rinse, and the warm water in the basin was bubbling hot.

The Empress Dowager stared at the hot mist in the basin in a daze.

After a moment, she sighed, waved her hand, and said, “Where was the commotion just now?”

The palace maids and sisters looked at each other in dismay, although they also heard it, vaguely it should be that side of the East Palace, but at this time it was still early in the morning, no one had gone out of the palace, they were not clear about what had happened, even if some guessed that it was the East Palace that had an accident, no one dared to say their guesses in front of the Empress Dowager.

At this moment, the palace maid who was carrying the copper basin opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something.

Instead, an old eunuch slowly walked in from outside the palace.

In the entire palace, besides His Majesty the Emperor, only this old eunuch could enter the Empress Dowager’s chamber directly without being summoned. And those palace maids and sisters surrounding the Empress Dowager saw that old eunuch come in and became more and more silent, only that palace maid with the copper basin had a hint of despair, a hint of struggle flashing across her face.

Elder Eunuch Hong slowly walked to the Empress Dowager and said, “The East Palace arrested a few slaves with unclean hands and feet the other day, and as a result, they didn’t kill them cleanly, and they made a mess again, the old slave let Xiao Yao Zi go there, it’s just a small matter.”

The empress dowager frowned slightly and let out a whoop, but her gaze glanced at the palace maid who was carrying the copper basin.

Elder Eunuch Hong also used his clouded eyes to glance at that palace maid.

That palace maid’s body trembled for a moment and slowly lowered her head.

However, she immediately raised her head and said in extremely rapid speech, “Eastern Palace ……”

After saying two words, she paused there as she stared across the room in horror.

The Empress Dowager used her old and trembling hand to hold Elder Eunuch Hong’s wrist in a death grip, because she knew that as long as Elder Eunuch Hong was willing, this old dog had countless ways to make that palace maid unable to say a single word.

“Go water.” The palace maid carrying the basin said with a trembling voice, “What a huge fire, the Empress and the Crown Princess are still inside.”

Elder Eunuch Hong slowly shook his head and retracted his hand into his sleeve.

The Empress Dowager stared tightly at the palace maid and said, “Where is His Majesty?”

“His Majesty is in Guangxin Palace.”

That palace maid bit her lip and delivered the last words for her master, her last words in this world, and with her left hand, she pulled out the hairpin in her sleeve and stabbed the tip of the hairpin into her throat, blood gurgling out.

The water basin in her hand fell to the ground with a thud and a crunch, her body also fell to the ground with a muffled sound.

There was a deathly silence in the Hall of Containing Light, all the palace maids and sisters were stunned by this scene, and no one could say anything.

“Deadly insufficient thing!” The Empress Dowager stood up, not even glancing at the corpse of the palace maid on the ground, and said, “Go to Guangxin Palace.”

The rain outside Guangxin Palace gradually diminished, and the eldest princess’s breathing gradually diminished, the red on her face had turned from scarlet to a deep red close to death, and those large, tantalizing eyes gradually protruded in an extremely bizarre manner. Her body was hanging from the beautiful palace wall, and all of her life was hanging from the large hand that was strangling her between her beautiful white neck.

Death may come immediately, however, this woman, this Qing country twenty years the most bizarre woman is ultimately crazy, so in her eyes can not see a trace of fear of death, there is only a touch of faint mockery and ridicule.

The object of mockery and ridicule was naturally the number one in the world in front of her, her elder brother, His Majesty, the Emperor of the Kingdom of Qing.

Perhaps it was because of this touch of mockery, the Emperor of the Qing Kingdom’s palm loosened slightly, giving Li Yunrui a chance to catch his breath. Li Yunrui breathed heavily and suddenly raised her fists, desperately pounding the Emperor’s solid body, because her breathing was so rapid, even her snot and saliva flowed out, dripping onto her still beautiful but somewhat deformed cheeks.

Death might not be scary, but there was no one who would not mess up their mind when they were about to die and suddenly caught a chance to live.

The emperor looked at her indifferently and sneeringly, and said word for word, “So it turns out that crazy people are still afraid of death after all.”

The Rapunzel spat on the Emperor’s face, hissed, and laughed madly.

The emperor slowly wiped away the spittle on his face, his face unchanged, and raised his hand to slowly wipe away the stuff on the face of the eldest princess, and slowly said, “You and I, brother and sister, it seems that we have rarely said anything heartfelt in the past few years, so what’s the harm in giving you some more time?”

“No need for time.” The eldest princess ate with difficulty and laughed, “I just wonder, if you kill me today, next is not going to kill Chen Pingping …… It is very marvelous that, clearing the palace such a big event, you actually a tiger guard did not bring …… you in the guarding against who? Guarding against Jian?”

With the situation of the Qing dynasty, once the balance is completely broken, as an emperor, naturally want to establish a completely new balance, and the original old generation, naturally want to become a sacrifice.

“Very good …… It seems that Fan Jian is dead, and Fan Xian is also dying …… There are so many people to accompany me, what do I care?”

The eldest princess suddenly spat at the emperor again and hissed, “You are a widow, you are a loner! Kill me ah, kill me, you have no son, you have nothing …… you are a lonely soul.”

“The Son of Heaven doesn’t need friends.” The emperor said indifferently, “As for the sons, if they dare to rebel, I can naturally regenerate.”

Outside Guangxin Palace, there was suddenly a sharp knocking sound, the sound was extremely loud, as if the person outside was extremely urgent.

“You …… are still …… not willing to kill me after all.” The eldest princess gasped, staring blankly at the emperor and said, “You know that I am dragging my feet, why do you let me drag my feet?”