In the cold palace, it was very lively today, when Xiao Ting and Concubine Xiao met, both aunt and nephew couldn't finish talking.
And the queen's arrival is even more eye-catching.
Xiao Ting stood up when she heard the words, looked at the queen's appearance in surprise, and said, "Young lady, did you fall?"
The queen's face darkened, she turned her head, looked at Concubine Xiao, and said, "Has the concubine cleaned up?"
She didn't want to talk to this fool.
Xiao Guifei nodded.
"Then let's go with Ben Gong!"
Xiao Ting followed Concubine Xiao, put her arm around her, and asked in a low voice: "Auntie, how did I find out that this empress doesn't want to see me?"
"I've been sleeping all this time, but I didn't offend her!"
Concubine Xiao's figure is curvaceous, she walks gracefully, her plain clothes are not as gorgeous as usual, and she doesn't wear any jewelry on her head, only a strand of cyan hairband flutters gently, making her charming and affectionate face a bit of immortality.
"You, stay in the Ninth Prince's Mansion honestly from now on, don't enter the palace if you have nothing to do, these adults don't want to see you."
Concubine Xiao told the truth, Xiao Ting curled her lips, "That's no good, aunt can walk out of Yaochi now, so I want to visit aunt often."
"Be obedient."
Concubine Xiao was helpless.
"I don't listen, I just like my aunt, oh, why don't my aunt go back to the Nine Princes' Mansion with me, then I won't enter the palace, and I won't have to see these annoying people all the time, okay, okay!" Xiao Ting shook Concubine Xiao's arm, bouncing around.
Chattering all the way, the empress who has been walking in front, as the head of the six palaces, is naturally the master who sees all directions and listens to all directions. Hearing the conversation between the aunt and nephew, she is really pissed off.
Is this treating her as a dead person
This time the banquet was held in the Dragon Yin Hall, when Xiao Ting and the others arrived, almost everyone was present.
All eyes were cast over, of course not at Xiao Ting, but at Concubine Xiao Gui.
She hasn't been seen for a long time, but no one will forget her.
Xiao Ting pulled Concubine Xiao forward, under the empress, there were two vacant seats, one was for Concubine Shu, and the other was naturally prepared by the emperor for Concubine Xiao.
Concubine Xiao Gui just paused, then pulled Xiao Ting and said, "Go, go and sit with you."
She didn't sit on the imperial concubine's seat, nor did she go with the queen, but sat on the exclusive seat of the Nine Princes' Mansion.
There were many people in the hall, but the voices became smaller and smaller.
Xiao Ting didn't feel anything, and happily asked her aunt to sit down.
The emperor and the empress dowager arrived almost one after the other, and beside the empress dowager, there was another woman.
Smiling sweetly, with bright eyes and white teeth, she looks very sharp.
Not as well-behaved as the women in the palace, nor rigorous like them, with a free and easy, very special temperament in a reckless manner.
Princess Yuyue of Prince Rui's Mansion!
Everyone shouted long live and thousand live, and then took their seats one after another.
The emperor's eyes searched the crowd, and finally fixed on Concubine Xiao, seeing that she was not sitting in the seat he had designated, his expression was a little sad.
But the empress dowager was extremely disgusted with Concubine Xiao's appearance.
But in public, she couldn't refute the emperor's face, so she had to endure it.
Many people have heard that Concubine Xiao Gui will walk out of the cold palace this time, but they did not expect it to be true, and now that they saw the Empress Dowager, they didn't say much, and many people's minds became active.
The Lantern Festival is full of festivities. In the Longyin Palace, there are delicious food, wine and wine, everything that one expects to find.
Everyone drank happily.
Xiao Ting was very happy tonight, because seeing her aunt, she kept eating and chatting, while Hong Shao brought her food and drinks.
"ah… "
Suddenly, a court lady yelled, and the bustling hall fell silent in an instant.
Everyone's eyes were a little dull, and the smiles on their faces froze.
There is no other reason, the cry came from the high platform.
That indicates that something happened to the emperor and the queen mother.
"Mother." The emperor's voice came, and everyone understood that something happened to the empress dowager.
There was a great chaos in the main hall, the imperial physicians were already downstairs, and immediately went to the back hall for diagnosis and treatment, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, wondering what happened.
Xiao Ting saw many people walking forward and discussing a lot, she also wanted to go and have a look, but was stopped by Concubine Xiao, "Sit well."
Xiao Ting pouted and sat down reluctantly, but her ears were pricked up, wishing she could get inside.
The Imperial Palace Oh, this is the Imperial Palace, and accidents happen again and again.
It's really evil.
But as time went by, the atmosphere in the hall was no longer relaxed, with a touch of depression, and it became more and more heavy.
The voice of talking also became smaller and smaller, until the silence where a needle could be heard.
There is no other reason, the situation of the empress dowager is not known to everyone, but first the maids and eunuchs who were waiting on the side were pulled out and directly killed.
Next, the head of the imperial dining room suffered disaster, and then it was the turn of the guard commander Xu Wei, who was dismissed and investigated, and was directly put on shackles and imprisoned in the dungeon.
As time went by, the three imperial physicians were released one after another, and their whereabouts are unknown.
In this atmosphere, no one wanted to speak, they were all guessing that the Empress Dowager must have been murdered by someone and was looking for a scapegoat.
Not long after, I heard the angry voice of the emperor inside, wanting to kill all the imperial physicians.
Fortunately, he was stopped by the queen.
At this point there was no sound again, and then...
Everyone is strictly forbidden to move around, they can only stay in the Longyin Hall, the iron skin on the outside is flat, and the imperial guards are patrolling here and there, and some people come in and out.
An hour later, everything was settled.
Because, the emperor walked to the front hall with a livid face.
Then announced: abolish the queen!
Then the eunuch read a long list of orders, anyway, Xiao Ting couldn't understand, and it had nothing to do with her.
The empress dowager was cast into a witchcraft, and the empress was the instigator behind it.
A lively banquet ended with such a heavy result.
Xiao Ting did not go back to the Ninth Prince's Mansion, but went back to Yaochi Palace with Concubine Xiao Gui.
Because the emperor issued an oral order just now, Concubine Xiao regained control of the palace and resumed her position as noble concubine.
Let her lead the harem, but Concubine Xiao refused on the spot.
"Auntie, will the empress really harm the empress dowager?"
When Xiao Ting thought of what happened just now, she felt like a dream.
"Maybe!" Concubine Xiao Gui didn't give her affirmative words.
"Ting'er thought the empress dowager and the queen were in the same group!" Xiao Ting said, the relationship between these women in the palace is really complicated to the extreme.
One moment they were as close as a mother and daughter, and the next moment they became enemies with hatred as deep as sea.
It was just too dramatic.
Concubine Xiao laughed lightly, "In this palace, there are ninety-nine women who nominally belong to the emperor, so there will be ninety-nine thoughts, and who is with whom!"
"Auntie, the Empress Dowager is actually fine."
Xiao Ting thought for a while, and said the same thing.
Concubine Xiao Gui frowned slightly, and looked over, "How do you know?"
"When they helped the Empress Dowager leave just now, she was not invaded by evil spirits."
After Xiao Ting finished speaking, she bit her lower lip again, and said at last: "It's the queen, something is not quite right."
"You..." As Xiao Ting's aunt, Concubine Xiao naturally knew the rumors about Xiao Ting from the outside world, but she still didn't believe it.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Ting actually found something unusual.
"what have you found?"
Xiao Ting thought for a moment, then said: "Let me tell you briefly, the Empress should be controlled by someone to say such things."
What happened just now happened too quickly, and it ended extremely quickly.
From the queen mother vomiting blood and fainting, to finding the evil in the queen's palace, to the queen vomiting the truth after being arrested, it's amazing how smoothly it all went.
Concubine Xiao's eyes turned lightly, then she chuckled lightly, and said: "It seems that her worry is unreasonable, the Empress Dowager is determined to get rid of her this time."
"My aunt said that the queen mother wants the queen to step down."
Concubine Xiao nodded, "This matter is not that simple, just wait and see, it's time for the people behind the scenes to take the stage."
And she told Xiao Ting not to intervene in this matter, nor to tell others.
Xiao Ting responded obediently one by one, she is not interested in these things, she just wants to know who is it that can use the spirit control technique.
This is not something that ordinary people can do.
Xiao Ting, who returned to the Ninth Prince's Mansion, first went to Jinghuayuan to ask the Ninth Prince, did she know that there were such strange people in the palace.
After all, Nanny Li is very human and knows some Taoist techniques.
But she was immediately rejected.
No one was seen by the Ninth Prince, and it was said that he was practicing internal strength.
Hehehe, then she really can't force her way in.
Five days later, on the 20th day of the first lunar month, the queen's fate was decided.
Hanguang Temple led the practice, and lived this life.
This is still based on the empress dowager's intercession. It is said that when the empress left the palace, she didn't say a word, and no one saw her off.
Outside the palace, Xiao Ting patted Ah San on the shoulder and said, "Follow quickly."
"Yes, princess."
Immediately, Chu Yun and Xiao Xin sat firmly, holding something in their hands and chewing.
"Sister, will someone really want to kill the queen?"
Chu Yun was also skeptical.
Xiao Ting blinked at them and said, "Of course it's true, just watch it carefully!"
It's a pity that Miss Xiao Liu's prophecy did not come true this time, they followed all the way to Hanguang Temple, and they didn't see anything wrong with the carriage in front of them.
Xiao Ting was suspicious when she saw a commotion in front of her.
Anyway, the empress was sent here by the emperor's decree. As the most honorable empress ever, people from Hanguang Temple came out to welcome her.
But when the coachman raised the curtain and asked the queen to get off the carriage, he found that the queen was dead.
Xiao Ting rushed over immediately, pushed everyone away and squeezed in.
Bite your tongue and kill yourself!
It happened just a moment ago.
The person is not dead yet, the queen saw that Xiao Ting could not speak a word, but her mouth was humming.
In the deepest part of the eyes is extreme fear, there is hatred and resentment, but more anger.
She shook her head slowly, drawing on Xiao Ting's hand with great difficulty.
Finally, the head tilted to death.
Xiao Ting jumped off the carriage, and followed the two little ones into Hanguang Temple.
"You woman, you are too impulsive. That was the former queen. Now that the news has been sent back to the palace, you have caused trouble for the father again."
(end of this chapter)