After Qin Yi and Chu Jinyao left the emperor's palace, the concubine did not dare to stay any longer, and also excused themselves from being unwell. After that, Xiao Qi backed away from everyone, and cried with the emperor for a long time.
The subsequent development was as expected by Chu Jinyao. The emperor gave everyone a gag order not to mention what happened today. Afterwards, the concubine received a large number of awards, which means it is self-evident.
When the news reached the East Palace, even Linglong Kikyo and several maids were outraged: "Prince Concubine, this time the prince has prepared so much evidence, and the evidence is complete, but the emperor still doesn't pursue it?"
Dishonesty has three big children without descendants, which shows how important children are in the family, not to mention the royal family with few children. It is an ordinary noble family. If the mistress of the house dares to harm the children, no matter how tough her family is, she will not be able to escape the fate of Qingdeng Ancient Buddha, but after Xiao Qi became a country, she was once again lightly let go.
From the concubines to the maids in the East Palace, every insider was furious. Kikyo was angry in her heart, so she could only play the addiction with her mouth and find a little balance for herself: "The emperor must have been deceived by a traitor, and it will take a long time to come. her true face."
The other maids all showed their approval. They were all ordinary women who grew up under the imperial power. It was completely natural for the emperor to be right. Even if they entered the palace and encountered injustice at close range, they still firmly believed that the emperor was just a Being deceived, in the future, he will definitely be able to distinguish traitors and loyalists, punish the wicked, and restore the innocence of the prince and his own girl. Chu Jinyao thought the same way before, but she changed from a poor peasant girl to a lady of a noble family, and later became a prince concubine. Perhaps because Qin Yi's influence was too great, Chu Jinyao could gradually think of farther places.
For example, this time, the emperor clearly believed that all this was done by Empress Qi, but the emperor still did not scold Empress Qi. Is this just because the emperor couldn't bear to punish his beloved wife, or was it to check and balance
This thought made Chu Jinyao shudder.
After Xiao Qi is the queen, she is also the biological mother of King Lu. Qin Yi's action this time was fast and deadly, and he saw thunder in a silent place, but in just a few days, before Xiao Qi's men found out that something was wrong, they had already given them a thunderous blow. This kind of action, if it is separated from the perspective of the East Palace, is actually quite scary.
Even if it is replaced by the emperor, in just a few days, it will be difficult to do this without disturbing anyone.
The emperor has been delegating power for a long time, and he really does not love affairs, but he is still an emperor.
Kikyo turned around and scolded for a long time. Seeing that Chu Jinyao's face did not improve, but instead became more and more solemn, she was taken aback: "Prince Concubine, did the servant say something wrong?"
Chu Jinyao came back to her senses and found that the maids were still crusade against the queen, hoping that the emperor would know right from wrong, she shook her head with a noncommittal smile, and said, "The emperor does not want people to discuss these things, and you don't want to talk about them in the future. Even if it is Not in private."
Chu Jinyao's days as a prince concubine have been long, and these maids have gradually become afraid, and dare not make trouble in front of Chu Jinyao like they did when they were girls. Seeing Chu Jinyao's serious expression, they all immediately fell silent, bowed their heads and saluted: "Yes, slaves remember."
Chu Jinyao's worries were definitely not on the same level as these maids. After she beat them, she sent them off. Although Qin Yi was very angry with Xiao Qi and the emperor today, he is the crown prince, and his personal emotions are the most insignificant thing. After he sent Chu Jinyao back, he went out again without sitting down to drink. It was not until the sky gradually turned dark that Qin Yi came back from the outside.
The taboos of the palace are not as strict as the imperial city, and it is much easier to communicate with foreign ministers, so whether it is Qin Yi or the two princes, they are busier in the palace than in the capital. Qin Yi came back under the moonlight, and just as he approached the Qide Hall, he saw Chu Jinyao holding a lamp in his hand, waiting at the gate of the palace.
Qin Yi's footsteps stopped for a while, and then quickly accelerated: "Why did you come out?"
"His Royal Highness came back later than usual today. I can't worry about it. I'll be waiting for you outside."
Qin Yi didn't know what to say about her. There was no need to be cautious about the separation between the palace gates in the palace. His entertainment had multiplied several times, so he often couldn't come back to eat with Chu Jinyao at night. Qin Yi seemed to sigh slightly: "How long did you wait?"
"It won't be long." Of course Chu Jinyao wouldn't tell the truth, the emperor's actions today even chilled her as a bystander, let alone Qin Yi. She was really worried about Qin Yi's state, so she couldn't sit still in the room, so she just went outside with a lamp and waited for him.
The summer night was refreshing, and that was the case. Chu Jinyao stood outside for a long time, and her arms were cool. Qin Yi touched Chu Jinyao's arm, and his heart was complicated: "If you have waited for a long time, just send someone to find me, why should you stand outside and wait by yourself? It's not possible, let the palace maid watch outside for you. It's okay."
"How can it be the same? I'm His Highness's wife." The two of them had already entered the room while they were talking. The court ladies came forward with their plates well-trained, put on fresh pastries and fruit plates, and then quietly retreated. Down. Chu Jinyao personally poured a cup of tea for Qin Yi, and after testing the temperature with her hands, handed it to Qin Yi: "Your Highness, this is the tea I specially made for them, and it's just right after drinking."
Qin Yi took the tea and gently swiped the tea foam in the cup. Chu Jinyao looked at it for a long time and asked softly, "Your Highness, are you still angry about the day?"
Only then did Qin Yi understand that Chu Jinyao was worried about him, and he had probably been thinking about it for a day. He didn't know what to say to her: "you... I'm fine, I already expected it, I'm not surprised. "
Chu Jinyao sighed: "His Royal Highness, are we too eager this time? Actually, I shouldn't have urged you a few days ago. Although the Queen took medicine, I didn't wear those clothes, it was just a false alarm. In the field, I should keep my composure and hide it.”
Chu Jinyao vaguely noticed the change in the emperor's attitude, and her resentment towards Xiao Qi immediately turned into a worry. Chu Jinyao was even thinking that Qin Yi intervened in this matter to vent her anger, and quickly revealed Xiao Qi's guilt, but this made the emperor vigilant. Maybe she shouldn't be so ignorant.
"If you have to endure this kind of thing, I, the prince, have nothing to do." Qin Yi's eyes were light, as if he was saying something very ordinary, "You are the prince, only you are bullying others, not yet. People can deceive you. Let alone the queen, people who can no longer move, dare to do something to you, I have to make them spit it out. "
Qin Yi is really keen, he noticed Chu Jinyao's thoughts without much delay. From Qin Yi's point of view, her worries are totally unreasonable. Chu Jinyao's conspiracy is already the biggest thing. No matter what the identity of the person who did it is, Qin Yi must make this person double return. If it weren't for the concern that the emperor was still there, Empress Qi would definitely not end up like this one today.
What's more, Qin Yi pointedly looked at Chu Jinyao and said, "It will be a matter of time sooner or later."
Chu Jinyao understood immediately, and Qin Yi was very relieved to see her expression: "You reacted much faster, it seems that my student is not teaching in vain."
Chu Jinyao rolled his eyes at him angrily: "What student, what master would stay in the student's room so late?"
Qin Yi smiled meaningfully, and immediately got up and walked to the other side, holding Chu Jinyao in his arms: "This is not necessarily, if not, I will take you to the couch for the teacher to explain in detail?"
"You..." Chu Jinyao held back for a long time, blushing and said, "Ridiculous! I'm talking to you seriously, don't do this."
"What?" Qin Yi asked deliberately.
Chu Jinyao glared at him hard, and Qin Yi restrained himself. Chu Jinyao was concerned with serious court affairs, so she was determined to ignore this dishonest person who didn't know what to think about, and tried her best to bring the topic back: "Your Highness, today's affairs, that's all?"
"You mean the queen?" Qin Yi dismissed him, "I didn't expect that stupid king, but it turns out that I really didn't kill him. Anyway, he already believed that it was the queen who did it. As for the actual punishment, it was superficial. It's so important."
Such remarks should be extremely disrespectful, but Chu Jinyao was unable to refute it. Chu Jinyao thought about it again, the emperor already knew that the queen had murdered the emperor's heir and caused the concubine to miscarry for many years. After Xiao Qi has lost his Sacred Heart, any specific punishment is just a formality. What's more, this is the same as when Chu Jinmiao lied back then and Madam Chu had no intention of punishing her. The punishment she escaped now will be doubled back in the future.
The emperor now has feelings for Queen Qi, so he can't bear to punish her, but once he knows that the woman around him has been doing evil and harming others for ten years, it will be like a slow knife cutting flesh. After a long time, the emperor will really not mind
Can he continue to treat Queen Qi and even King Lu and the second princess without any grudges? Just wait. Chu Jinyao felt that she might have really grown up, and she no longer bothered about the queen who did bad things without being punished. These are all appearances, and the gains and losses behind them are what really matters. On the contrary, Chu Jinyao was more concerned about the meaning of the emperor's failure to punish the queen.
The emperor used to trust Qin Yi completely and didn't care about the plump wings of his heir, but now, the young eagle is a little wary.
Qin Yi and Chu Jinyao reached a tacit understanding and did not discuss this issue in depth. The emperor didn't punish the empress, and it didn't mean that Empress Qi really didn't have to bear any crimes. The harem was complicated, and even the emperor's wishes might not be able to be implemented smoothly.
What would happen if the other concubines in the palace knew about the deeds Xiao Qi had done? What was the emperor's refusal to punish Xiao Qi, Concubine Shu, Concubine Li, and many other beauties who did not show off their beauty, they were much more powerful than the emperor.
Chu Jinyao was already thinking about how to "inadvertently" leak this matter to Concubine Shu. The emperor's forbidden password could not be violated, but if Concubine Shu found out by herself, it would be no one to blame.
But to put it bluntly, Empress Qi and the emperor are just two outsiders who are close by blood. In fact, Chu Jinyao is more worried about Qin Yi's situation. Queen Xiao Qi sternly mentioned Queen Da Qi today, and even used her elder sister who died prematurely as a weapon of her own. Chu Jinyao was angry and disgusted when she saw this scene. What about Qin Yi
"His Royal Highness." Chu Jinyao tried her best to casually say comforting words, "The queen is always shameless, she doesn't even spare her children, and she doesn't care about human relations. The emperor is the Supreme Being of the Ninety-five Years, and some words should be taboo for the Venerable. , but that doesn't mean he's right."
"I know." Qin Yi hugged Chu Jinyao hard and put his chin on Chu Jinyao's hair, "I have learned it time and time again in the past ten years. I actually want it."
The emperor favored his beloved wife without principle. Chu Jinyao only saw this time. How many times has it happened before
"Your Highness..."
"It's okay." Qin Yi knew what Chu Jinyao wanted to say, "It's all over, I don't care, I'm just not worth it for my mother."
Daqi died in Jianxing eight years later, when Qin Yi was only five years old. When a boy is five or six years old, he can kill a person. It should be the happiest and most missed time in a man's life, but when Qin Yi was five years old, his arbitrary childhood years stopped without warning.
After Da Qi gave birth to her eldest son, her body has not been very good. The weather in the spring was dry, and she fell ill again. Originally, this was not a big deal. The Taiyuan Hospital, the emperor, including Da Qi, thought it was just a change of seasons. It would be good to take a few more medicines.
The five-year-old emperor's eldest son has no one to control. He is domineering, playing pranks everywhere, and turning the harem upside down. Only in front of Da Qi can be calm. That day, he went to greet his mother as usual, but in his mother's palace, he saw the emperor and his little aunt who was disheveled and rained.
Empress Daqi is different from her younger sister. She is the eldest daughter of the family. She has been proud and strong for half her life, and she doesn't even bother to act coquettishly. She is just like the first wife of the world ridiculed, dignified, beautiful, but boring.
And her younger sister is obviously at the other extreme. The younger sister is sweet and can talk. She grew up under the pampering of her mother and elder brother. She wants whatever she likes, even if it belongs to someone else. In the past, although Da Qi felt that it was inappropriate, but after all, he loved his only sister, so Da Qi could only try to follow her. But who would know that her good sister actually took a fancy to her brother-in-law, the king of a country of Dayan.
Da Qi was so angry that he asked the female officials around him to discipline this spoiled sister. At this time, Da Qi was still for the sake of her sister, and there was no matchmaking. If it was spread, it was going to be soaked in a pig cage! Empress Da Qi couldn't bear to have her sister be fascinated by the ghosts, and she killed herself for the rest of her life, while Empress Da Qi's mother, the then Mrs. Zhenbei Hou, entered the palace overnight and stopped Da Qi, and said tearfully that her youngest daughter was already pregnant with two It's been a month, and I'm out of breath after I can't pass the big Qi.
It was only after Da Qi that I realized that my own sister had already ruined her husband's child, and it had been two months! Mother, father, brother, husband, all her relatives know it! She was the only one who was kept in the dark like a fool, worried about her sister's life-long event.
After Daqi, he even fainted, and then his condition plummeted.
When this farce happened, Qin Yi was there. In April, Empress Da Qi was dying. Her family and the emperor often came to visit her, but Empress Da Qi knew that they were all waiting for her to die. Because my sister's belly is already pregnant, it's almost impossible to hide it.
At the end of April, Qin Yi knelt in front of the sick bed, fell into a deep sleep after seeing Da Qi with his own eyes, and never woke up again. Three days later, the emperor had meritorious deeds in nurturing his eldest son after reading Daqi, and he was posthumously named Empress Wenxiao. The posthumous title includes both "wen" and "filial piety", which is indeed a supreme honor. All the women in the capital are envious of the decency of Empress Wenxiao.
Yes, life is glorious and death is sad. After June, Xiao Qi entered the palace because the emperor "missed the first queen too much". The Qi family of Zhenbei Houfu has two queens in a row, but it is not extremely honorable.
Since then, Qin Yi and his grandfather's family have turned against each other, and he has never called the emperor his father again.
Parents are the epitome of a child's future. Qin Yi was later crowned a crown prince. Even if he grew up with no shortage of food and clothing, he grew up in a hurry, and thus developed a domineering temperament, but even so, he could not get rid of the influence of his childhood. As early as Qin Yi didn't know what marriage was and what responsibility was, he already knew about betrayal. Up to now, Qin Yi has not been able to calmly accept the closeness of others, and he has never been able to directly and not be afraid to refuse to express his thoughts. If he hadn't met Chu Jinyao, he would probably have spent his life so proud and lonely.
Every time I think about what happened after Daqi, I feel uncomfortable. Over time, Qin Yi will not allow others to mention his mother. But today, because Xu is holding a person in his arms, the dull pain in his heart is not as obvious as he imagined, Qin Yi suddenly became curious about one thing: "When the emperor pressed you to ask you, it would be okay for you to call her mother. . Those who make big things are not careful, a title can't change anything, why do you have to be stubborn?"
"No." Chu Jinyao's voice was a little dull, but with straightforward arrogance, "I don't want to stand by the emperor and queen. I don't necessarily like the people you like, but I definitely hate the people you hate. ."
"If you do this, she may make it harder for you in the future."
"It's not bad this time, she wouldn't be nice to me." Chu Jinyao stopped for a while, and found that Qin Yi didn't speak, and touched him lightly, "Your Highness?"
"It's okay." Qin Yi's eyes flashed on and off, as if endless undercurrents were surging. Qin Yi suddenly thought that if Da Qi was still alive, she would be very relieved to see Chu Jinyao.
Since the spring of the eighth year of Jianxing, from the age of five to seventeen, his life has been blank for twelve years. Until a border attack, he suffered the most serious trauma in his life. As soon as he opened his eyes, he met another important woman in his life.
From the moment he said "don't cry", his fate changed completely.