When people are too shocked, their minds will go blank. Most of the actions taken at this time are instinctive. Emperor Jingren was also like this. After seeing the man's face, he did not make a fuss, nor did he rush in to question him. Instead, he quietly left the bathroom and told the servants in Qifeng Palace not to tell the queen that he had been there. At the same time, he told Eunuch Lian to stay and tell the queen that he had a lot of political affairs to attend to, and would stay in the imperial study tonight and would not come to Kunning Palace.
After doing all this carefully, Emperor Jingren left as quietly as he came.
During this period, his mind was blank, and it was not until he returned to his bedroom in the imperial study that Emperor Jingren regained some consciousness.
The Queen is a man!
Without any excuses or reasons, Emperor Jingren saw the queen's entire body and was completely sure that his queen was a man. But how could this be possible? Even if he could hide it from the palace maids during the wedding, how could he hide it from him during the bridal chamber? Did the queen also use perfume
Wait, why doesn't he remember what happened in his wedding night
Emperor Jingren was a little stunned. He clearly remembered that he and the Empress had been very close for three months after their wedding. Three months later, when the Empress had no heir, he went to visit other concubines. However... these three months, which should have been very impressive, were now as pale as words on paper in his mind. It was as if someone had told him that the Emperor and Empress were as sweet as lacquer for three months after their wedding, but that was all he saw. He had no impression of how sweet they were or how they got along.
Rather than holding the Queen and her family accountable for deceiving the Emperor, Emperor Jingren's own memory was more important.
He could no longer remember whether he remembered these things before the collision, but thinking carefully, the time he had a deep impression of was the few months after the collision. He remembered everything that happened during these days vividly and never forgot it. He did have memories of the period from before the collision to the first visit to Concubine De three months after the wedding, but it was relatively vague. However, he still knew what happened and remembered the details very clearly. However, before that, he only had a vague impression. All memories were like words on paper, without a form.
If he doesn't even know how he spent his wedding night, does he have some hidden illness
Was the problem caused by a head-butt, or did the problem exist in the first place
Emperor Jingren couldn't figure it out. It seemed best to question the empress herself about this matter. Why was he still hesitating? He ordered the whole family of the man who deceived the emperor to be thrown into the prison. After a detailed interrogation, he would naturally find out how the empress had concealed the truth from him three months after the wedding.
However, Emperor Jingren did not do so.
The queen was a skilled martial artist, so how could she not hear someone breaking into the bath? He probably knew he had come the moment he pushed the door open, but she didn't make a sound, instead she turned around and let him "secretly" see the truth.
Just like the empress did not say anything, Emperor Jingren quietly left the Qifeng Palace, pretending that he had never been there. But in fact, there were no secrets in the palace. He had clearly been there, and even if he had told the palace servants, the empress would not have been unaware.
Both of them instinctively chose not to explain the matter in detail, so that there was still room for maneuver.
When reason has not recovered and instinct prevails, Emperor Jingren does not want to deal with the Queen himself.
When he didn't know what to do next, Emperor Jingren decided to leave it alone for the time being. What was more important to him was to solve his memory problem.
If there is no way to confront the queen, then you need to check it yourself. There will be records of all aspects of your wedding, and there are many things you can check if you want to.
First of all, the emperor and the empress must be recorded in the history books. The wedding and the ascension to the throne are two major events, and the historians will definitely record them. Even if this record may be written in the style of the Spring and Autumn Period, it is still of reference value. Then there are the people, things, and objects that the empress prepared for the wedding. People may make mistakes and lie, but objects will not. The empress's hometown is far away in the north, and the empress is also there, so it is difficult to check. The most urgent task is to start from the wedding. The two most important items are the phoenix robe that the empress wore on the wedding and the Yuanpa that she wore on the wedding night.
The queen is a man, so even if the outer garment of the phoenix robe is a woman's style, the inner garment cannot be the same. As for the Yuanpa...
Emperor Jingren pinched his brows. There were many things to check, so he would list them one by one and let his subordinates find them. After finding them, he did not intend to let others see them. Emperor Jingren planned to analyze and investigate them himself.
It took the whole night to write a densely packed list. The next day, Emperor Jingren felt a little tired when he went to court, but he was in good health and could tolerate this level of fatigue.
"Your Majesty, did you not sleep last night?" asked the Queen in Qifeng Palace.
"Yes." Ever since the four concubines were demoted, Eunuch Lian lowered his head even more in front of the queen. "Your Majesty seems to have written something in the imperial study and handed it to the Jinyiwei."
"I understand. You can go down now."
Eunuch Lian retreated without asking a single question, and the Queen let out a long sigh.
Last night he stayed in the bathhouse from dinner until late at night. At first, he was waiting for the little emperor to come to the Qifeng Palace so that he could "just happen" to see him taking a bath. Later, after the little emperor left, he kept soaking quietly in the bathhouse and did not come out.
The Queen thought about it yesterday, and finally could only come up with such a stupid way to dissuade Emperor Jingren from having a child. He placed the right to choose in the hands of the little emperor, but after hearing that he had not slept all night, he felt a little distressed.
Emperor Jingren was looking forward to having this child very much, but he couldn't give him one.
For the first time, the queen felt anxious and helpless. She sat on the chair and forced herself not to go to the imperial study and forced the little emperor, who had not rested all night, to sleep.
Compared to the empress's anxiety, Emperor Jingren's mood was better adjusted. He opposed several court officials who disagreed with his decree to demote the four concubines to Zhaoyi, summoned princes from all over the country to Beijing in the name of celebrating the empress dowager's birthday, and solved several problems that arose from the new policy. He had a very fulfilling day.
People are in good spirits when they have something to do. After Emperor Jingren left the court, he seemed to have forgotten what happened yesterday, until the secret guards brought the Queen's phoenix robe and yuan handkerchief as well as the records of the Queen's daily life since her marriage.
It was impossible to move these things without alerting the Queen, but the Queen seemed to have acquiesced that the things could be taken.
As soon as he saw these things, Emperor Jingren was in a bad mood. He first flipped through the phoenix robe and found that there was nothing wrong with the inner clothes, all of which were women's styles. Thinking of the majestic figure he saw last night, Emperor Jingren felt that the queen might be quite uncomfortable wearing this dress. But then he thought again, four years ago, the queen had not grown up yet, so maybe this dress would be just right for her.
With an unspeakable strange joy, Emperor Jingren opened the box containing the Yuanpa. A white handkerchief lay in the box. Emperor Jingren took it out and opened it. His eyes were instantly stung by the red on it.
At that moment he thought of the Queen again, and combined with the dark red bloodstains on the Yuanpa, an incredible question popped up in Emperor Jingren's mind -
Whose blood is on this Yuanpa