"Don't do it!"
"Do not listen!"
"no!"
"Unless Aijia dies!"
In the bedroom of Renshou Palace, after listening to Gu Jiao's suggestion, Empress Dowager Zhuang refused without thinking, and there was no room for manoeuvre.
Gu Jiao made a strange noise.
Knowing my aunt for so long, this is the first time I have been rejected so thoroughly.
In fact, she didn't do anything, she just relayed the words of her aunt and asked her to temporarily put aside her prejudice and work with the emperor to bring out the people behind the scenes.
But it seems that my aunt is not very satisfied with my grandpa's proposal.
"Eat three more candied fruit every day?" Gu Jiao threw a sugar-coated cannonball.
"Humph!" Empress Dowager Zhuang was unmoved.
"Four?"
"Well... five?" Gu Jiao shook her five fingers.
Empress Dowager Zhuang defended her position, as if to prevent Gu Jiao from using sugar-coated cannonballs to defeat her defense line, she went to the study without looking back.
"Ah." Gu Jiao sighed.
Gu Jiao walked out slowly, came to the courtyard of the front hall, and sat down on the lonely swing frame.
How lively here is when Xiao Jingkong is there, and how deserted he is when he is not there.
The night in July did not see much coolness, and the heat was still permeating, but because of the continuous rain, it was not as sultry as the previous days.
Gu Jiao sat on the swing stand, swinging on the swing in a bored manner, sighing all at once.
Eunuch Qin insisted on whisking the dust and came over: "Miss Gu."
Gu Jiao tapped the ground with her toes and stopped the swing that was swinging.
"Eunuch Qin." She greeted.
Eunuch Qin stood by the swing frame, looked at Gu Jiao, and then looked at the boundless night.
It was the first time he saw Gu Jiao in his mind. He regarded her as a little girl who didn't know the rules and didn't know the sky and the sky. After getting in touch, he found that he was wrong.
Where is this girl who doesn't know the rules and doesn't know how high the sky is? She clearly stepped on the rules and made a hole in the sky.
She has the composure that does not belong to the family of girls of the same age, and also has the innocence of a child that the family of girls of the same age has long abandoned.
She doesn't have so much fuss, and she doesn't have so many worldly burdens. If she wants to be good to someone, she means to treat someone with all her heart, regardless of the cost, and without the slightest reservation and doubt.
Whether that person is good or evil.
She has her own beliefs, and she is so firm that no one can easily shake her.
The thin and small body somehow seems to contain infinite power, a power that is reassuring, and a power that makes people want to approach.
Eunuch Qin occasionally thinks, if the original His Majesty could be as firm and confident as Miss Gu, wouldn't he have come this far with the Empress Dowager
"His Majesty was very clingy when he was a child. He was very clingy to the Queen Mother, even more than Princess Ning'an."
Eunuch Qin said, as if he recalled something interesting, and laughed to himself, "Old slave remembers a time... The queen mother brought a little son of the banker over, and it was the little son who didn't know the way and was taken by Concubine Liu again. The dog was frightened, and the queen mother didn't want to hold him, so she took him casually. However, His Majesty was jealous about this matter. Just don't say what happened to you.
Concubine Jing asked him, is there any discomfort? He was silent. Princess Ning'an also asked him, but he was sulking and didn't speak. "
Gu Jiao's expression was indescribable, and Xiao Jingkong was not so childish.
"Then what happened later?" Gu Jiao asked.
Eunuch Qin recalled with a smile: "Later, Concubine Jing sent her to the Queen Mother's palace, which is the Kunning Palace where Queen Xiao lives now. Her Majesty climbed onto the Queen Mother's bed and slept with the Queen Mother for one night, and then she was alive and kicking the next day. already."
Gu Jiao pouted, childish to death.
"How old was Your Majesty?" she asked.
Eunuch Qin thought for a while: "I look like seven or eight years old. I can't remember the specific old slave. He is a little younger than the seventh prince now, and he is not as fat as the seventh prince. Don't look at the current His Majesty's tall stature. Like a skinny monkey, seven years old looks like only five years old, and the Queen Mother once thought that Her Majesty would not be tall in the future."
Similar to Xiaojingkong, it seems that she doesn't have to worry too much about Xiaojingkong's stature. Some people really start to grow against the wind when they are old.
"And later?" Gu Jiao thought the story was quite interesting.
Eunuch Qin sighed: "After that, Your Majesty and the Queen Mother have gradually become estranged, and I can't tell where the old slave started. In short, the relationship between the two is getting more and more tense, and Princess Ning'an is caught in the middle. Embarrassed. After His Majesty ascended the throne, the Empress Dowager sat behind the curtain, and sent Concubine Jing to the nunnery, and the relationship between the two was completely shattered."
It sounds sad.
Gu Jiao couldn't understand the complicated emotions, but she replaced Xiao Jingkong and herself. If one day Xiao Jingkong hated herself for another person, she would be very sad, too.
Emotion is the most wonderful thing in the world. It has nothing to do with blood. If you are a family, you can't lose this person again.
"Auntie and Concubine Jing are also like this?" Gu Jiao asked.
Eunuch Qin nodded, the queen mother used to take Princess Jing as a friend, but who didn't look away when they were young
The enemy's attack is not terrible, the betrayal from the most trusted person is the real pain.
Gu Jiao paused for a while and asked, "Isn't there any way for such a smart aunt to take your majesty back from that person?"
Eunuch Qin shook his head helplessly: "It's not that there is no way, it's that I don't want to find a way. Once I get cold, it doesn't matter."
"Yes... Is there anything more sad than death?" Gu Jiao looked at Eunuch Qin and asked.
Eunuch Qin nodded: "Yes, that's the truth."
Gu Jiao has probably experienced this feeling. She can't remember the taste of it. The memory of being abandoned by her parents in her childhood has long been left with only a few sounds and pictures. She can look at them calmly without feeling the slightest pain. .
This is actually called numbness.
She was numb at a very young age, so she could be an agent in the organization and the coldest killer.
Empress Dowager Zhuang only experienced this in middle age. She couldn't be completely numb, she could only try to make her heart die.
In addition, she is Zhuang Jinse, the most powerful queen dowager in Zhao Kingdom. She has her own pride. When she was the queen, she didn't bother to compete with the harem for favor. How could she compete with Princess Jing for a man now? Even if that man is his adopted son.
Gu Jiao understood, she held the rope of the swing and looked at Eunuch Qin: "I see, thank you Eunuch Qin."
She wouldn't force her aunt to do things she didn't want to do.
Since Grandpa's method didn't work, she would come up with other methods.
Eunuch Qin was secretly relieved, he was really a sensible child, not to mention that the queen mother loved her, he couldn't help but want to love her with his old bones.
It's a pity that he is a eunuch, he has no ability, and he can't hurt her.
Gu Jiao got up from the swing and went to Empress Dowager Zhuang's study.
Empress Dowager Zhuang was furious when she saw Zhezi - someone under her hand was caught with dirty hands and feet. She was not a monarch based on merit. After so many years of ups and downs in the harem and court, she deeply understood a truth, that Even if the water is clear, there will be no fish.
She has always valued a person's ability, and the strength of the person can be tolerated. This does not mean that the people under her can do whatever they want.
There is a limit to everything. You can't really kill people and set fire to it, and you can't recklessly fish the common people to satisfy their desires. There is a limit to everything.
"One million taels of disaster relief silver, 950,000 taels of greedy ink, if you don't kill you, kill anyone!"
Empress Dowager Zhuang snorted coldly and threw the books into the pile of books on the left. These are the books that can be presented to the emperor. With the emperor's temperament that he can't rub the sand in his eyes, he will definitely handle this matter strictly.
"Aunt?"
A round head stuck out.
You don't have to look to guess who it is.
Empress Dowager Zhuang replied calmly, "What are you doing?"
Gu Jiao said: "It's getting late, I'll go back first, you rest early."
After all, she gently closed the door for her aunt.
"Wait." Empress Dowager Zhuang stopped her lightly.
"Huh?" Gu Jiaofu pushed the door open again, rolled her eyes, stepped over the threshold, and looked at Empress Zhuang with her phoenix eyes without blinking.
Empress Dowager Zhuang took a book and said casually, "Does the words of Fang Cai still count?"
"Which sentence?" Gu Jiao asked.
The Empress Dowager Zhuang cleared her throat: "Just... the sentence of five!"
Gu Jiao stretched out her hand, looked at her five fingers, and then looked at Empress Dowager Zhuang, her eyes sparkling: "It counts! But isn't Auntie unwilling?"
Empress Dowager Zhuang threw the memorial in her heart, a successful empress dowager can't get along with candied fruit!
Empress Dowager Zhuang said coldly, "It starts from today."
"Okay!" Gu Jiao didn't hesitate. It happened that her purse contained the latest candied candied fruit. She took out the candied fruit box, counted five and kept them in the candied fruit box, and stuffed the rest into her mouth.
Empress Dowager Zhuang: "..."
Empress Dowager Zhuang took a deep breath and pressed her heart down: "Isn't it eight? Why is there only five?"
Originally three pills a day, said to give five more, isn't that eight
She just held back today, and hasn't eaten a single one.
Gu Jiao's mouth was full of candied fruit, and she said vaguely, "It's just five... If you don't believe me, think about it..."
Empress Dowager Zhuang recalled her original words in her mind.
"Eat three candied fruit every day?"
She didn't answer at the time.
Then the girl said-
"Four?"
"Um... five?"
The last two sentences do not seem to add the word "eat more".
Empress Dowager Zhuang punched the memorial!
… sloppy!
Gu Jiao was very gentle towards her aunt. She mainly respected her aunt's opinion. She opened up about the incident and did not hide anything from her aunt.
There is no such treatment on the emperor's side. The old sacrificial wine is digging pit after pit, so that the emperor can't get out of the pit without planting it.
The emperor was obviously very resistant to cooperating with the Empress Dowager Zhuang: "Other things can be done, but this is the only one! I don't want to get along with that poisonous woman!"
After he finished speaking, he realized that he had also scolded himself, and he coughed lightly.
The old sacrificial wine just pretended not to have seen it, and said earnestly: "Your Majesty, this is not the time to play with your temper, it is important to find out the real murderer behind the scenes. Is your face more important, Your Majesty, or the life of the concubine? Life. Jiaojiao's life is not mentioned, anyway, it is not your Majesty."
Why is the little genius doctor not someone like him
Co-authoring In the whole world, only the poisonous woman Zhuang Jinse will love her, so I will ignore her, right
"This minister has lost his words." The old sacrificial wine apologised, "I mean, Jiaojiao can protect herself anyway, the imperial concubine was persecuted by Concubine Liu Gui in her early years and left her old wounds, and if the assassins attacked the imperial concubine again, it is really hard to prevent. what."
This was said by the master and servant of Concubine Jing herself. Concubine Jing had an old injury and was very weak!
The emperor was finally persuaded.
So there was a scene in the early morning of the next day that made all the civil and military officials drop their jaws in shock - the emperor went to the Golden Palace together with Zhuang Tai.
Don't these two despise each other even when they appear in the same yard? Why did you come to court at an hour today? Usually, it is either the Empress Dowager Zhuang or the Emperor who arrives first, so the two do not meet each other.
The two came to the door of the Golden Palace. The emperor stopped, smiled at Empress Dowager Zhuang, made a gesture of invitation, and said, "Mother, please."
Empress Dowager Zhuang was struck so badly that she almost picked up the sole of her shoe and shouted at his brain spoon!
Empress Dowager Zhuang struggled to hold back, she nodded and walked over the threshold calmly.
Civil and military officials all knelt on both sides holding the wat board to greet him.
Empress Dowager Zhuang took the lead in walking over. Eunuch Qin cleared his throat when he was going up the steps. Empress Dowager Zhuang twitched the corners of his mouth, stopped and stretched out his hand.
Now it was the emperor's turn to pick up the sole of his shoe and make himself dizzy.
Does this still work
He didn't say anything about his surname Huo!
The emperor held back the twitching in his heart and supported Empress Dowager Zhuang's wrist.
The two mothers, Ci Zixiao, went up the steps, and after sitting in their respective positions, the two wiped their hands on their bodies without a trace!
Emperor: Disgusting!
Empress Dowager Zhuang: Oh, who is not!
Today's early dynasty is also very harmonious - the emperor disposed of a minister from the Queen Mother Zhuang camp, and the Queen Mother Zhuang not only did not block it, but praised the emperor for his good work.
Empress Dowager Zhuang said with concern that the emperor's body seemed to be lighter than before, and he should take more care of his dragon's body, and don't burn his body because of state affairs.
"What the mother said is very true, and the son wrote it down." The emperor said respectfully in the direction of the bead curtain.
Civil and military officials simply suspect that they are blind and deaf!
To see the emperor and the queen mother reconcile in their lifetime, are they crazy, or are they crazy
The news was so shocking that officials from the two factions who were supposed to fight to the death all became squibs.
It is not enough to let the civil and military officials see it, and the harem must also be known to everyone.
Therefore, after going down to court, the mother and son went to the imperial garden together again, chatting and laughing along the way, which was very pleasant.
"Your Majesty, it's time to laugh." Eunuch Wei reminded.
The emperor clenched his fists and smiled without a soul: "Hahaha!"
"Queen Mother, it's your turn." Eunuch Qin reminded.
Empress Dowager Zhuang rolled her eyes, smiling but not smiling: "Hehehe."
In less than a day's effort, all the six palaces heard that the two had released their past suspicions.
Empress Xiao was the first to come to Huaqing Palace to inquire about the news: "Your Majesty! The concubine heard that you and the Empress Dowager..." Halfway through the sentence, she saw the person sitting next to the emperor, and bowed, "The concubine."
Concubine Jing smiled slightly: "The queen, come and sit."
"Yes."
In fact, because of Empress Xiao's position, there is no need to salute a concubine at all, but the emperor regards her as his own mother, and Empress Xiao can only be a filial daughter-in-law.
Empress Xiao sat down on the other side of Princess Jing.
Concubine Jing smiled and asked, "What does Empress Fang Cai want to ask her Majesty?"
Empress Xiao looked at the two of them, hesitated for a moment, and said, "The concubine has heard something about His Majesty and the Empress Dowager.
The emperor said frankly: "Since you all know it, then I don't need to say more."
Empress Xiao couldn't hide her surprise: "So it's true? Why?"
It is really strange that people who have been fighting for more than ten or twenty years suddenly release their previous suspicions.
The emperor's memory is not bad, he didn't forget the words, he said: "Does the empress still remember Xiao Heng being poisoned near Renshou Palace more than ten years ago?"
Empress Xiao's eyes turned cold: "My concubine remembers it!"
Xiao Heng is her brother's direct son and her most beloved nephew. He was almost poisoned to death, and she will never forget this revenge in her life!
The emperor said: "The murderer has been found. It was not ordered by the queen mother. There are other people behind it. I have misunderstood the queen mother all these years, and the queen mother has been wronged. I am really ashamed."
He was really hard to say the last few words, but Lao Jijiu said these lines were soul lines, and not saying it was not enough to win people's trust.
He seriously suspects that the old sacrifice wine is a fake charity!
"What? Someone else? Who?" Queen Xiao's soul asked three times in a row!
Concubine Jing lowered her eyes, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea quietly.
The emperor said: "The person who poisoned A-Heng is called Zhang Xiu. He used to work in the Shang Palace Bureau, and he can be regarded as a person by my side."
Empress Xiao: "Your Majesty..."
The emperor sighed reproachfully: "I didn't expect her to do such a thing, I was oversight. Some time ago, she suddenly committed suicide by hanging, and an old friend of hers took her belongings until a few days ago. The old man discovered the secret from her belongings from many years ago."
Empress Xiao stood up directly: "Your Majesty, the concubine doesn't believe it!"
The old sacrificial wine did not tell the emperor that Zhang Xiu was really the murderer. He told the emperor as an excuse to announce it to the outside world.
The emperor thought that what he said was false, and Empress Xiao also thought that the emperor was deceived. These are not important, the important thing is that the person who instructed Zhang Xiu will understand that this is true.
As long as she believes it is enough.
Thank you, thank you all.
(End of this chapter)