"Impossible - why do you - Zhuang Jinse, why do you -"
Behind him was the hoarse roar of Concubine Jing, accompanied by the sound of a series of tables and chairs falling to the ground, but with Long Yingwei included, Empress Dowager Zhuang was not worried that Concubine Jing could rush up.
Empress Dowager Zhuang left the house without looking back.
The emperor stood at the door with a dumbfounded expression on his face.
Obviously, he has been eavesdropping just now, and he has listened to every word.
Concubine Jing revealed a lot of inside information, but his focus was only on the last one. He looked at Empress Zhuang, grabbed the hem of his clothes nervously and nervously, and said a little awkwardly and a little excitedly: "I... Son?"
Empress Dowager Zhuang glanced at him with disgust: "No, no!"
The voice is quite loud.
The emperor stuck his head out, looked in the direction of Concubine Jing in the house, and gave Empress Dowager Zhuang an "I understand" look.
Afterwards, he followed Empress Dowager Zhuang into the next room.
"What are you doing following up?" Empress Dowager Zhuang asked unceremoniously.
The emperor smiled and said, "I know that the queen mother said it to Concubine Jing on purpose, and I am the daughter of the queen mother!"
Empress Dowager Zhuang: "..."
How could this man stop listening
The child she gave birth to herself doesn't recognize herself, does she
Empress Dowager Zhuang glanced under the emperor's waist and abdomen: "The Ai family was born without a handle!"
The emperor clamped his legs and looked aggrieved.
Just when Empress Dowager Zhuang thought that this stupid son understood what he meant, and finally stopped being stupid, unexpectedly, the emperor said aggrievedly: "Xiao, Hong, Hong don't care, Xiao, Hong, Hong are born by the mother!"
Empress Dowager Zhuang, who couldn't bear to look directly at her: "..."
Can she be ugly
In the other side of the room, the old Houye and Gu Chengfeng stared at each other.
Gu Chengfeng stood in the center of the room with his head drooping like a little quail that was caught.
The old marquis sat down on the chair savagely and looked at Gu Chengfeng with a complicated expression: "Why are you here?"
This has to start with Gu Chengfeng’s encounter with the emperor. The chance for him to escape with the Empress Dowager Zhuang was bought by Gu Jiao with his life. Lord, I was recognized by the old man at a glance.
The only good thing is that he didn't fight anyone at that time, and only used a little effort.
Gu Chengfeng stammered and said: "I... At that time, I was in Bishui Hutong. Your Majesty came down to Bishui Hutong to look for the Queen Mother. I heard it in the study. I was worried about the Queen Mother's safety, so I came out to look for it. I... also wanted to do my best. force."
An ignorant and ignorant little dandy actually wants to do his best for the queen mother. No matter how you hear this, there is something strange about it.
The old man said again: "The guards of the city just let you out like this?"
Gu Chengfeng said without changing his face: "I... took out the token of the Ding'an Houfu, and said it was your grandson, and they let it go."
The old marquis was dubious, but compared to how he got out of the city, the old marquis was more concerned about how he knew the queen mother and how he mastered martial arts.
Gu Chengfeng also didn't know whether the grandfather knew about Empress Dowager Zhuang's exile in the people. After all, Empress Dowager Zhuang had always claimed that she had spent the whole year in the palace to recuperate.
He was worried that he said something that shouldn't be said, so he said: "What's wrong with this? It's not like I haven't been in the palace! When I went to visit Concubine Shu's aunt, I saw the queen mother from a distance, and several times. This time! And once, I accidentally lost my way, and it was the way that the Queen Mother showed me. I have never told you this, I know you don't like the Queen Mother. "
The first few sentences were thought up on the way back halfway, and the Queen Mother's guidance to him was made up on a whim right now.
This perfectly explains why he came out to find the queen mother, because the queen mother helped him!
He is reciprocating!
Wow, how am I suddenly so smart!
As expected of me!
"As for martial arts, sigh, how can I know martial arts? It's just a little trick, and I learned it from my eldest brother!"
Logic is perfect!
He is so good!
It's just... Where did this ability to create small scripts come from? A little familiar...
The old man still thought it was weird, but he really couldn't pick the wrong one. He couldn't go to the Queen Mother Zhuang for confirmation. The Queen Mother Zhuang didn't even bother to answer the emperor, let alone him.
He was punished for sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night. In view of Gu Chengfeng's contribution to saving the queen mother, the old marquis let him go back in a carriage.
Immediately afterwards, the old marquis went to the emperor's side to recover his life, and repeated Gu Chengfeng's words again, probably because he was worried that the emperor would be suspicious, why their children should hide their clumsiness, and whether they were secretly planning something.
After all, after the incident with Concubine Jing, the old marquis clearly felt that the emperor did not trust him as much as before.
The emperor was still immersed in the great joy that he might be his mother's son and daughter, and he had no time to doubt this one. He praised Gu Chengfeng, and praised the old man for his good teaching.
The fact that Concubine Jing is a remnant of the previous dynasty no longer needs any corroboration. She is convicted of the crime, not to mention that she also stole the imperial decree of the former emperor and murdered the queen mother of a country. The sin is serious and unforgivable.
If Concubine Jing really took Empress Dowager Zhuang to the frontier, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The life of the queen mother will be in worry, the face of the royal family will be wiped out, and the morale of the soldiers of the three armies will be low... The country of Zhao will be plunged into unprecedented turmoil
This time, the emperor no longer has any kindness of women.
He came to the house where Concubine Jing was imprisoned.
Concubine Jing had stopped struggling, slumped on the chair like a body with a hollowed-out soul.
The emperor's eyes swept across her wrist, which was rubbed bloody by the rope due to the struggle, and without saying anything, let Eunuch Wei bring the things in.
Concubine Jing seemed to have finally regained her senses. She turned her face and there were still tears on her face. She said in a hoarse voice, "Hong'er..."
The emperor said disgustedly: "Don't call me Hong'er, you are not worthy."
Concubine Jing smiled self-deprecatingly, looked at the emperor and said, "Hong'er, you are only intoxicated by the drug, so you hate the mother-in-law so much, and when the medicine is over, you will know that in your heart, the mother-in-law is better than Zhuang Jinse's. Women are a hundred times, a thousand times more important!"
The emperor's eyes were as cold as the cold wind in winter: "You are wrong! Regardless of whether the medicine is effective or not, I will never trust you again, let alone take you as my real mother!"
"Really?" Concubine Jing laughed twice, showing an innocent and bewildered look, "Then what are you doing? Do you want to ask me a question? I'm afraid I will disappoint you, and I will not know anything. said."
The emperor knew that she would react this way, and the descendants of the dead man in the previous dynasty also possessed the character of the dead man after all, and he did not expect to pry news from her mouth: "I am here to send you the last ride."
Concubine Jing's body froze slightly.
Eunuch Wei walked forward with a tray on which was placed a bottle of poison and a piece of white silk.
Concubine Jing finally couldn't laugh anymore: "You are really... so cruel... you father and son... both are so cruel... you... you..."
She didn't cry, but big tears fell.
The emperor did not soften his heart at all: "Mother and son, this is the last respect I will give you."
"Decent? You killed your mother... What are you talking about!" Concubine Jing scolded her with spit, and the whole person burst into laughter, "As expected of your father's son... You will have retribution... You will Retribution!"
The emperor will not be swayed by a few curses: "I am the Son of Heaven, I am born in accordance with the way of heaven..."
Concubine Jing interrupted him: "The Son of Heaven? Hahaha, I'm afraid you forgot how your throne came to be!"
The emperor pondered carefully for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, it was planned by the queen mother, so I would like to thank the queen mother. From now on, I will not make the queen unhappy again."
After all, he turned around and left the room, not even giving a look to Concubine Jing.
…
In August, a big event happened in the capital - Princess Jing passed away, because she is still Jing An Shi Tai, so it is more precisely Jing An Shi Tai passed away.
Jing'an Shitai has always had a weak image to the outside world. For this reason, Princess Rui brought a doctor from Miaoshoutang to visit her twice, and the emperor also took her back to the palace to rest.
I have to say that her disguised sick and weak character has helped a lot, and almost no one suspects that her death is tricky. When they heard the news, everyone thought, "Oh, my health is so bad, I still can't get through it. This year..."
However, it is not without its unpredictable places. For example, everyone thought that the emperor would restore the status of Jing'an Shitai as a concubine, posthumously seal her as the empress dowager, and bury her with the ceremony of the empress dowager.
Unexpectedly, the emperor did not do this.
She was Jing'an Shitai until she was buried in the coffin.
When the news reached Bishui Hu, Gu Jiao, Xiao Liulang and Gu Chengfeng were all there.
"Your Majesty, he really..." Gu Chengfeng was shocked. As one of the insiders that night, he naturally understood that Concubine Jing had passed away for another reason, but he didn't expect His Majesty to really take this step.
Sympathy
the answer is negative.
That old witch has done a lot of evil and harmed the harem for many years. The queen mother and her majesty turned against each other and almost died at the hands of each other, not to mention the innocent Princess Ning'an.
As long as she doesn't get rid of it for a day, she will always be a huge hidden danger to the court.
The funeral of Concubine Jing was entirely handled by Empress Xiao, and the emperor did not even show a face.
The emperor decided to send someone to the frontier. He originally planned to send Gu Changqing. After all, Gu Changqing served in the army and was someone who could be dispatched on the bright side.
However, Gu Changqing left the capital and did not return, and this matter was urgent. The emperor thought about it and called Tang Yueshan and the old marquis to the palace.
He handed the token that can mobilize the Dragon Shadow Guard to the old man, and said solemnly: "I entrusted the token to you because I hope you can do three things for me—first, take back the Dragon Shadow Guard. ; second, thoroughly investigate the border crossing; third... bring Princess Ning'an back safely!"
The old marquis never expected that the emperor would entrust such an important task to him. He was stunned for a moment, clasped his fists with both hands, and said, "Chen... Lead the order!"
The emperor then looked at Tang Yueshan: "You don't need to say more about your mission, right?"
Tang Yueshan clasped his fists and saluted: "I hereby issue a military order. If I don't kill all the members of the previous dynasty, I vow not to return to the dynasty!"
happy New Year
(End of this chapter)