Chapter 551 Things that hurt

“It’s so late, why has the Empress come over?” To He Xiuyi’s relief, she was led to the outside of the bedchamber by the palace maid who led the way, and after lightly knocking on the door of the hall, she immediately received an answer.

Xue concubine who opened the door, her eyes were obviously red and swollen, when she saw He Xiuyi, she seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then she owed her body a blessing, and said in a somewhat nonchalant manner, “Concubine failed to welcome you from afar, please forgive me, Your Highness!”

He Xiuyi know that she has been jealous of themselves once jealous of their own favor, high position; now jealous of their own retreat, the mother’s family is reliable not only Xue concubines, Tian Bao Lin Zhong Meiren Jiang Cailian them, it is estimated that each have such a mind, only Xue concubines nature makes it The first time I saw her, she was very jealous of her own high position.

At this moment, she sniffed, and was not angry, and said softly, “I can’t sleep, and I want to come and talk to my sister, I don’t know if it’s okay?”

The main purpose of her visit was to persuade concubine Xue to put off the idea of lightening her life but concubine Xue was not acting lightly right now, it was only her palace maid who was worried before going to the main hall to report it, so He Xiuyi couldn’t say it outright lest concubine Xue would be annoyed and enraged.

“Your Highness is the main seat of the Qipao Palace, in this palace, who can’t you talk to if you want to?” Concubine Xue didn’t curb her attitude because of He Xiuyi’s politeness, still saying with sarcasm, “You please!”

When He Xiuyi’s accompanying maid saw her like this, she couldn’t help but frown.

Not only because I think Xue concubines too much offense to their own masters, but also think Xue concubines now the mindset is really not quite right before Xue concubines, although it is not how gentle and obedient, but formally into the palace in the end for a period of time to teach, and He Xiuyi regardless of origin or position are steadily pressed her a head, so she can not talk about the He Xiuyi fear a million points! But also has been abiding by the rules.

Now that he was so rude to He Xiuyi, it was obvious that he had a death wish, so naturally there was no need to care about superiority or inferiority.

“Although in the eyes of the Empress and the nobles, concubine Xue’s life is nothing, but I’m afraid that something wrong will happen at this moment and involve the Empress!” The maid was worried in her heart, seeing that He Xiuyi had already stepped into the bedchamber, she was about to move her feet to follow her, but Concubine Xue raised her hand and closed the door in front of her with a “bang”!

The maid was slightly surprised to see this and busily asked the palace maid not far away, “Can you confirm that there is only Master Concubine Xue alone in the hall?”

That palace maid nodded affirmatively, “Just now, the slave girls wanted to accompany the master for the night, but the master refused to do so and forcefully drove everyone out. In the middle of this, we were afraid that something would happen to the master and have been guarding the doors and windows.”

The maid was relieved, thinking that concubine Xue and her own master were as old as each other and both were delicate women, so one on one, even if concubine Xue had bad intentions and wanted to do something to her own master, it would be impossible as long as she listened to the movements, she wasn’t afraid that He Xiuyi would be at a disadvantage!

After guarding so for about half an hour, the door of the hall suddenly opened, and He Xiuyi walked out alone with a somewhat odd face.

She looked at the people guarding outside and first whispered to the palace maid on this side of the side hall, “Sister Xue is tired and has gone to sleep first, you can go in and stay with one of you for the night, but be gentle with your hands and feet and don’t wake her up!”

Following that, he said to his maid, “Let’s go!”

After the two masters and servants left the side hall, the maid couldn’t hold back her curiosity and asked, “Your Highness, what did you persuade Concubine Xue to do in there? Why did you only come out after she fell asleep?”

“Actually, there wasn’t much persuasion, but rather she hugged me and cried.” He Xiuyi pulled her cloak to prevent the wind from blowing in through the gap, and whispered in a puzzled voice, “She said a lot about what happened to her at home, and I thought that the Xue family was also a family of eunuchs, and that when she was at home, she was having a similar time as I was at home! It turns out that her family but more importance to her brother originally she thought she entered the palace can be better, the family will also care about her a little, who knows …”

He Xiuyi said here sighed, shook his head, ”Crying and crying she was tired, I advised her to rest first, there is something to say tomorrow. She was embarrassed and said she would go to the main hall to apologize to me, and then she had to get up to see me off. I think she just today in the Xuanming Palace side of the wall, even with me crying, may not be able to completely let go, so let her sleep directly. As a result, she didn’t lie down for long before she really fell asleep, and I was relieved!”

Now it’s already half past midnight, Xue concubine during the day outside the Xuanming Palace stood for most of the day, came back to the bath when crying, just hugged He Xiuyi cried again, physical exertion is very big, the mental blow is not small, so a sleep, it is estimated that not until the morning at all can not wake up He Xiuyi do not have to worry about this in the middle of the change again! He did not have to worry about any more changes in the middle of the night, and he himself was able to have a peaceful sleep.

The maid sniffed a bit doubtfully, “Then did she tell you the reason why she went to Xuan Ming Palace to seek an audience during the day? The slave girl always felt that concubine Xue’s behavior this day was not quite right.”

“I wanted to ask at first.” He Xiuyi whispered, “But then after listening to her crying and wailing, I didn’t think it was necessary to askI guess she did want to lighten up!”

“If you want to live lightly, why would you specifically run to seek an audience with His Majesty?” The maid wondered, “Could it be that Concubine Xue still has an unfulfilled wish, that is, she hopes that His Majesty can be kind to her for once?”

She thought a little unkindly in her heart: if that was the case, I guess concubine Xue would not be able to live lightly in her life!

This maid used to follow He Xiuyi’s mother, Lian’s, and when Cui Jianren was still around a few years ago, she accompanied Lian to meet this little Cui a few times, and even if she didn’t associate it with Xue’s selection at first, she knew about it after being reminded by the He family.

That little Cui’s brought the humiliation of the Duanhua Emperor is not a little two points, from the Xue concubine into the palace since the encounter can be seen, the Duanhua Emperor for that year’s events how much hate!

“If she expected His Majesty to be pleasant to her, she wouldn’t have touched this nail!” As the maid was thinking of this, she heard He Xiuyi sigh, “She’s just hoping that His Majesty will continue to be cold to her, and at the very best send someone else out to severely humiliate her at that time!”

The maid’s jaw dropped, “Xue, concubine master Xue this … this preference …”

“What preferences?” He Xiuyi a little annoyed, white her a glance, said in a deep voice, “This is clearly Xue concubines have a light idea of life but she is a girl who has only reached maturity, the young girl, the jade face, the family is certainly not good, at least is also the flesh and blood of the family, this thing is at the end of the day, which can not be hesitant? ”

“So, Concubine Xue, she went to Xuan Ming Palace to seek an audience with His Majesty, not to expect His Majesty to treat her well, but, rather, in order to firm up her own lighthearted thoughts?” Only then did the maid come to a realization, and not knowing if the night breeze was too cold, or if this answer was too sad, she subconsciously shivered before whispering, “This master, is also too pitiful!”

He Xiuyi sighed long and hard, “In fact, I’m afraid that her dividing her body amongst the people after she came back this day was also intentionalalthough she suffered enough coldness in the Xuanming Palace during the daytime this day, perhaps it was because his majesty just didn’t see her and didn’t give her a hard time, she still wasn’t quite able to make up her mind in the end! So she used this way to make the palace maid serving her suspicious, so that she could come and report to me.”

“What if I were to go and persuade her, and she would logically be disabused of the idea;”

“What if I don’t go? She’ll have reason to persuade herself that no one cares about her, no one likes her, so what’s the point of her living? And thus have the courage to self . End … I really don’t know when the Empress Dowager specially picked her to enter the palace, in the end is holding what kind of intention?”

He Xiuyi big family origin, careful speech is from elementary school, before entering the palace, and was repeatedly admonished by the family walls have ears, usually even in the inner room, a lot of words are only in the heart to think, never export.

But at this moment really sympathize with concubine Xue, also do not care about the wind and snow on the palace road, directly stood still, softly said, “know that His Majesty after the small Cui’s after the most disgusting is similar to the small Cui’s. But but chose Xue concubine into the palace for no reason to let her suffer these embarrassments, and now even more so, let her towards the end! However, he chose concubine Xue to enter the palace, and asked her to suffer all these embarrassments for nothing, and now he has even asked her to go to the end of the road! What good does this do to the Empress Dowager? Does the Empress Dowager need to torture a mere concubine for her pleasure?”

“Your Highness quickly don’t say that!” The maid’s face turned white as she heard this and hurriedly looked around she didn’t see any silhouettes in the wintry snow in the middle of the night, but she still tugged on He Xiuyi’s sleeve and persuaded, “The Empress Dowager is not for us to discuss, not to mention that concubine master Xue hasn’t dispelled her will to die after your persuasion, hasn’t she already? ”

He Xiuyi exhaled a mouthful of white air, looked at the heavy night, and said heatedly, “But have you thought about it? His Majesty hates her so much, even if in the future His Majesty is safe and sound and gets good offerings, and even we people still have the treatment of fine clothes and jade food, what kind of day is it for concubine Xue …?”

If it really came to that, how could Xiuyi and the others have any hope of having a child for companionship, other than being under house arrest in a certain area, they would be no different from marrying an ordinary person.

But concubine Xue’s words would mean a lifetime of widowhood until death.

What would people look at her with then, and how would she be able to withstand such an ordeal when she was still so young?

The maid didn’t know how to answer He Xiuyi, but fortunately, the main hall arrived at this time, and she said, “Your Highness, let’s go in quickly, your cloak is stained with a lot of snow!”

… On this day the master and servant of the main hall of the Qibao Palace went to sleep with a very heavy heart.

He Xiuyi tossed and turned and didn’t manage to fall asleep until it was almost dawn.

She went to sleep contemplating how she would continue to enlighten this companion when concubine Xue came to offer her pardon later?

Shortly afterward, however, she was once again pushed from her sleep.

The person who pushed her awake was still her accompanying maid the maid’s face was very ugly, “Your Highness, concubine Xue is gone!”

He Xiuyi froze for a while before sitting up violently, “Who are you saying is out of it?!”

She had heard correctly, it was concubine Xue the concubine Xue who had been sleeping calmly and peacefully when she left, the concubine Xue whom she had just pondered how to relieve, was gone!

And it was very tragic: Xue didn’t choose the usual way for concubines to kill themselves, such as hanging, swallowing gold, touching a pillar, or taking poison. The concubine did not choose the concubines to kill themselves in a common way, such as hanging, swallowing gold, touching the pillar, taking poison, but with a gold hairpin as a dagger, stabbed through their own hearts, ending the life of only fifteen years old!

It was unusual for a young girl in a boudoir to be less aware of the location of the heart, and concubine Xue was no exception.

So she stabbed many times until she no longer had the strength to stab any more, and the scene was a gruesome mess of blood.

The most complicated thing is that the palace maid who lived in the outer room separated by a screen didn’t even notice such a painful process: it may not be that the maid didn’t serve her attentively, but it was Xue’s lower lip that she bit off a piece of flesh one can imagine how she endured the pain and refused to make a sound to maintain her last dignity! Lips were bitten off a piece of flesh imagine how she endured the pain and refused to make a sound, to maintain their last dignity!

When He Xiuyi rushed to the side hall with her hair in a cloak without being able to freshen up, the palace staff serving concubine Xue were all kneeling outside the bedchamber in fear.

She walked into the bedchamber and only stood on the side of the screen, opened a glance towards the tent, then turned her head in an unforgiving manner and closed her eyes tightly the maid who followed her hurriedly raised her sleeve to cover her sight and whispered, “Your Highness, this is too big of a matter, it’s not something that you can make a decision on, you have to hurry and report it to the Empress Dowager! ”

The terrified master and servant came and went in a hurry, not noticing in the least that the courtesan, who was kneeling and crouching by her skirt, was taking advantage of the lowered head to reveal a meaningful smile.