Pampered Into Being The Empress - Chapter 99

The weavers of Yeguo were originally temporarily placed in a post in Bianjing. Recently, Mu Huai gradually lost his patience. After he thought of killing, he ordered the officers and soldiers to **** these five weavers to the sky. In prison.

Although Rong Xi’s father had been imprisoned because of being wronged, it was the first time she came to Daqi’s jail today. The place of torture was damp and dark, and there was always an unpleasant musty smell. After Rong Xi entered the room with Danxiang and the court lady, he always felt that a squeaking mouse would come out at any time.

Dali Temple Qing Xue Rui heard that Rong Xi had come to the prison. He also came from Dali Temple and accompanied Rong Xi to the cell where the five Yejing weavers were.

This time, Rong Xi did not wear a veil to hide his appearance.

Now in Qi Jing, no one, regardless of gender, dared to look directly at her face. The jailer and Xue Rui who were accompanied by the lantern deliberately avoided sight on the way to the cell, and did not dare to look at Rong Xi half-eye.

They could only smell the sweet scent of Queen Rong, which also dilutes the musty smell in the prison a lot.

Sure enough, beauty walks with fragrance.

Due to the dampness in the cell, mottled moss hung on the stone walls on both sides.

When everyone arrived at the cell, behind the slightly rusty iron fence were five weavers who had survived the fire. The five women’s hair was messy, perhaps because there were some lice on it, and two weavers were constantly scratching the top of their hair.

A ray of sunlight shone into the cell from the narrow window in the cell, allowing Rong Xi to see the looks of the group.

The weavers also felt that someone was here, and when they looked at Rong Xi, they couldn’t help looking at each other.

It wasn’t until they confirmed their eyes that all this was not an illusion.

After all, how could there be such a beautifully dressed woman in such a place.

After Rong Xi ordered the jailer to open the prison door, Dan Xiang and the court lady carried the food box and carefully followed their master Empress.

The five weavers guessed about Rong Xi’s identity, and they all maintained a proper sitting posture without saying a word.

Xue Rui said in a solemn voice at this time: “This is the empress, don’t you hurry up and kowtow to her?”

The headed woman with wide cheekbones sneered and said with disdain: “This is your queen of Qi, and not our queen of Ye. Why should we kowtow?”

Standing outside the cell, Xue Rui scolded with a cold eyebrow, “Ye State has long been dead, and now the territory is all over me, what are you still daydreaming about there?”

Rong Xi listened to the fierce argument between the two, and said softly to Xue Rui: “Xue Siqing, you can leave a few jailers here to protect the palace. The case of Dali Temple is tedious, and the palace does not want to occupy too much of the sentence The time of the case.”

Xue Rui replied respectfully: “The minister abides by the decree.”

Xue Rui came here because Mu Huai had confessed to him in advance and asked him to go to jail with the queen.

But since the queen said so, Xue Rui didn’t want to stay here for a long time. He thought for a while and went to the jailer’s resting place for a while. If something happened to the empress, she wanted to find him again. .

After Xue Rui left his hand, Rong Xi scanned the five Yejing weavers in the cell, and saw the youngest weaver, who was only 15 or 16 years old.

At this moment, the young girl was coveting the roast chicken broiled meat, sauce elbow and other meat products that Dan Xiang brought out of the food box.

Rong Xi once heard Mu Huai mention that even though the jailer had given them porridge forcibly, these weavers in Ye realm vomited it out of their stomachs.

Really have the backbone.

For the sake of the old country, he refused to eat half of the millet in the Qi country.

But the young girl in front of her was not as stubborn as Mu Huai said.

Sure enough, when Rong Xi saw the woman with wide cheekbones, he immediately slapped the girl with his eyes.

Although the girl was hungry, she moved her eyes away from the fragrant roast chicken.

Rong Xi was hungry before, and she knew how painful it was to be hungry, how many homeless beggars had abandoned all their dignity for a bite of food.

Of course, people who are stoic will not be threatened by hunger.

But that girl is obviously not such a person.

Even though she wanted to eat Qi’s grains, she did not dare to eat half a bite under the threat of the other four weavers.

The woman with wide cheekbones looked grim, and said to Rong Xi again: “Advise the Queen of Qi not to waste your time. We will not eat these meals, and we will not return to your Qi to do things for Mu Huai, the monarch of Qi. ”

Dan Xiang, who was standing behind Rong Xi, looked ugly. The woman’s voice was vicious. No matter in the palace or outside the palace, no one had dared to speak to the empress.

Rong Xi ignored the woman’s words, but instead tore off a chicken leg with her delicate hands, she handed the chicken leg to her body and motioned to the Ye Jing girl to come and eat it.

The Ye Jing girl stared straight at the chicken leg, she just tremblingly stretched out her hand, but after a while, she hesitantly withdrew her hand.

Rong Xi said softly at this time: “Don’t be afraid, you will be fine if you eat it. In the territory of Qi, this palace can still protect you.”

As soon as the words fell, the woman with wide cheekbones raised her hand and slapped the girl. She coldly rebuked, “Dare you!”

The other three sallow-faced women also looked contemptuous. One of the women who looked at about 30 also mocked the girl and said: “What a little bitch, a chicken leg can make you treason!”

Listening to the curses of these women, Rong Xi walked towards them coldly. Because there was a jailer behind her, when she wanted to drag the girl from Ye Jing to front of her, those women did not. Don’t dare to act rashly.

Under the gaze of the jailer, the woman with broad cheekbones failed to stop the girl. She took another sip and scolded the other weavers: “I knew this little hoof is not a fuel-efficient lamp. She should be strangled to death first.”

After hearing this, the Ye Jing girl finally flashed a hint of resentment on her face. At this time, she finally walked in Rong Xi’s direction without hesitation.

After Rong Xi handed the chicken leg to her, the girl began to gobble up the meat on it. Rong Xi was startled by the young girl’s eating look, and saw that although her face was dirty, a closer look revealed that her appearance was very delicate.

There are still scars from the fire half a month ago on her slender arm.

Rong Xi’s eyes were complicated. After watching the girl in silence for a while, he said to the other weavers: “I heard that in your original weaving bureau, there were more than 3,000 weavers and brocade officials, but the suicide Ye Jun did not care about the lives of these three thousand weavers. When he ordered people to set fire, he might not even blink his eyes.”

The remaining four Yejing women still have lingering fears when they think of the fire that day.

The woman with wide cheekbones calmed herself down and said coldly, “So what?”

——”If you are willing to go down to accompany him, you are willing to go to the burial of your previous monarch. Neither this palace nor your majesty will stop you, because originally you are not important people. To claim your life for your majesty, It’s as easy as squeezing an ant. My Daqi’s Qinzhou is rich in famous tea, and the annual official tea sales are enough to support the national treasury. There is no shortage of you weavers teaching brocade crafts. Your Majesty will take you to Qijing, Ben I want to promise you a good future, to treat you as your own people, and to make the silk industry of Daqi the icing on the cake. But you don’t want to have a good future, but to go for the Lord Ye, who regards your lives as a waste of money. Death. In that case, this palace will fulfill you.”

The complexion of the woman with broad cheekbones changed slightly.

The voice of the Empress of Qi State was originally soft and whispering, but when she said this kind of killing and decisiveness, it made people feel that there was no violation of harmony at all.

On the contrary, it made people feel that every word and sentence she said was extremely penetrating.

The reason why they threatened their deaths was because they discovered that Emperor Mu Huai of the Qi Kingdom wanted them to teach the silk-making method of Ye Kingdom to the weavers of Qi Kingdom. Therefore, they felt that their identities were important. Can’t help them.

But now the queen came to the prison in person and said that their lives were not that important, which suddenly made them panic.

Listening to the Queen’s words, even if they died, they would not cause any loss to Qi State.

What’s the use if they die?

Rong Xi didn’t want to bother with these women anymore, and said: “You neither want to live, nor stop those who want to live, this girl is taken away by this palace.”

Halfway through the conversation, Rong Xifu looked down at the food box on the ground.

“These foods are specially bought for you from the Royal Street Restaurant. Whether you want to survive or seek death, you should eat your food first.”

***

After Rong Xi returned to the palace with the Ye Jing girls, those women were still secretly executed by the jailer by Mu Huai.

Rong Xi rejoiced in his heart. Fortunately, she brought back at least a young weaver when she was in prison.

She ordered the supervisor of the Shangyi Bureau to take good care of the girl. The girl’s wish was simple. She just wanted to survive, and she could just eat.

She knew that Rong Xi was a noble person who could protect her. Although the girl had not been in the Weaving Bureau of Ye State for a long time, she was clever and observant, so she took what she had seen and heard in the Weaving Bureau this year. , And his own experience and experience have told Rong Xi.

Rong Xi has been reading the agricultural book compiled by Da Si Nong Tao Chang recently. After listening to the girl’s words, he had an idea in his heart.

It’s almost summer.

In the Qianyuan Hall, several court ladies are turning the seven-wheeled fan made of Jinhua silk with their hands, sending cool wind to the young emperor sitting on the bed of Luohan.

Seeing that Mu Huai was in a good mood tonight, Rong Xi prepared to talk to Mu Huai about the method of making brocade that he had recently come up with.

She doesn’t talk a lot on weekdays, and never dared to go beyond the rules to intervene in political affairs.

It was the first time that it was the first time to talk to Mu Huai with a solemn expression like this night.

Mu Huai put the scroll in his hand behind him, and when he saw the beauty standing in front of him he wanted to say something, he motioned her to sit beside him, and said in a gentle voice, “After that, I will listen.”

Rong Xi was a little nervous, after all, this was the first time she offered advice to Mu Huai.

She knew that after Mu Huai returned to Qi, she also wanted to imitate the original Ye State to enclose a piece of land in Bianjing City as the boundary of the Weaving Bureau.

But among them, there is a big problem.

She heard that the officials of the weaving bureau would still collect wild silkworms from the people, but she did not know that the process of raising silkworms from silkworm farmers to harvesting silkworms would take a lot of effort. Silkworms are difficult to raise, and it is easy to die during transportation.

Rong Xi suggested to Mu Huai that the construction of this weaving bureau has not yet begun. It is better to choose this weaving bureau in a place with dense mulberry trees, where it can raise silkworms and rust women can weave brocades.

She also compared the Qijiyuan in Qinzhou with Muhuai. Muhuai set up the Qijiyuan here because the water and soil in Qinzhou are suitable for raising war horses.

When Mu Huai heard this, his originally serious expression gradually became gentle.

Although Rong Xi said to him, he would listen patiently and carefully, but Shi Cai did not believe that Rong Xi would tell her anything useful.

Without realizing it, she found the ills of the Daqi official brocade weaving, and proposed an insightful solution.

——”The young weaver in Ye Jing said that the reason why Ye Jing was able to produce a large amount of brocade was nothing more than to clarify the steps of weaving a brocade. Then the various steps were allocated to different weavers. These. Weavers are often very familiar with one of these processes, and in the future, they will only do this kind of brocade-making process. As time goes by, they will complete this process faster and faster. Therefore, Ye Jing The output of brocade is so much every year.”

Mei Ren’er’s voice was very sweet and soft. She was clearly talking about serious matters with Mu Huai, but it made people feel relaxed and happy. It also made him feel that her words had also evacuated a lot of the heat of the scorching heat.

After Rong Xi finished speaking, Mu Huai covered her slender hand with his big hand, and warmly praised: “Xi’er is really a good help for me.”

After Rong Xi heard this, he was a little clear.

This was the first time Mu Huai praised her like this. His eyes were slightly appreciative. He was definitely not teasing her, but he really felt that her words could help him.

Thinking like this, Rong Xi’s voice fell a bit lower, and he whispered: “The emperor shouldn’t dislike his concubines. These words are just a humble opinion.”

After that, she had to get up and retire with Mu Huai and go back to her Jiaofang Palace.

But Mu Huai grabbed her slender arm, and Rong Xi fell into his arms, his face turned red.

——”I’m complimenting you, why is my face red?”

The gentle breath of the man sprayed on the side of Rong Xi’s ears, and she shrank her snow-white slender neck, shyly buried her face in his arms.

Seeing that she didn’t reply, Mu Huai secretly said that she really couldn’t help but boast, and then again to her soft ears, whispered in praise: “The beauty of my Xier’s birth, and the meekness of people, can afford anything. Praise.”

After Rong Xi listened, Nai couldn’t help smiling, and he giggled with that soft voice in his arms.

Beauty’s laughter sounded like a nightingale’s cry. Mu Huai heard the movement, and the corners of his eyes and brows were filled with a faint smile.

Although Rong Xi knew that Mu Huai’s last words were mocking her, she still felt sweet in her heart.

It feels good to be praised, even if it is fake, it can make people happy.

***

In the five years of Taizhang, Qi State could finally produce a large amount of fine brocade by himself, and no longer need to buy brocade from Beiyan.

Although Qi is now rich and strong, Mu Huai knows that Yan’s strength should not be underestimated.

Yan State was also afraid of Qi State, but he did not want to conflict with Qi State. In the second year of Taizhang, Qi State suffered a severe drought, but fortunately nothing happened.

However, the flood disaster suffered by the Yan State greatly damaged its national strength. Since Qi State annexed the small country Ye State, Yanjun Ji Li was also afraid of Qi Guo’s move to the territory of the Yan State. In recent years, the Yan State is still cultivating and rejuvenating. Neither the Empress Dowager nor the Queen wanted to go to war with Qi.

Therefore, Yanjun Jili wanted to marry Qi Guo, and wanted Ji Li, the first beauty of Dayan to marry Qi Guo, to be Mu Huai’s concubine.

On the day when the envoy of the State of Yan came, Mu Huai also specifically instructed the palace and servants of Qianyuan Palace to not talk about it with Rong Xi.

After nightfall, Rong Xi bit Mu Huai angrily with his silver teeth before he fell asleep.

It is said that this woman is always docile, and only when she is angry will she bite.

Mu Huai knew that Rong Xi should have known that the Lord Yan was here to make a marriage.

——”Why did the emperor hide his concubine from his concubines? If you want to marry the princess of Yan Kingdom as your noble concubine… then marry it. Allow her as a noble concubine, so that the two countries can be peaceful and free of slaughter.

Rong Xi said this almost gritted her teeth, her voice was thin, and the movements made when she was angry sounded a bit of joy.

Mu Huai stared at the bright eyebrows of the little boy Bo Yan, feeling that she hadn’t expressed her anger in a long time, but now she was like this, but it was a little more lively and interesting.

——”When did I say that I would accept her as a noble concubine?”

Rong Xi’s beautiful peach blossom eyes were red, and he replied: “If the emperor does not marry her, he will brush Yan Jun’s face.”

Mu Huai sneered, and said dismissively: “Yanjun Jili, it’s not worth my fear.”

“can……”

Rong Xi hesitated to speak but stopped.

She knew that if Mu Huai did not marry the princess Ji Li of the Kingdom of Yan, it meant that he would not accept Yan’s goodwill, and the two countries would also be torn apart.

Mu Huai helplessly stroked the top of her hair, and said in a low voice: “I have already asked the envoys of the Kingdom of Yan to go back to explain to Jun Yan. I don’t want him to use Yan Jun’s son as a hostage for his beauty. Sincere. It’s just that both of Yanjun’s sons are direct children, and they are still young. If Yanjun chooses one of them to go to Qi country as a pledge, he still needs to consider it carefully.”

——”So Xier rest assured, I promised Xier, I will only want Xier a woman.”

After Rong Xi listened, the stone hanging in his heart just fell to the ground.

It is more sincere to use the prince as the prime minister than the princess of the first emperor.

Now Yan State is afraid that Qi Guoguo will lead his troops to grab his territory, so the request of Mu Huai, Yan Jun 80% will still agree.

Rong Xi only heard that when the envoy of Jun Yan came together, he also brought the portrait of Ji Li, the first beauty of the big Yan, to Mu Huai.

She knew that she was a little unreasonable to make trouble, but she was still sour, and asked Mu Huai: “The appearance of Princess Ji Li is more beautiful than that of her concubines?”

Mu Huai answered without hesitation: “Xi’er is more beautiful.”

“Xi’er looks ten thousand times better than her, Xi’er will always be the most beautiful woman in my heart.”