"What are you calling! Who is your aunt!" Eunuch Su scolded in a low voice, "Don't think that you can come here to recognize relatives if you look a little like a little prince!"
Is it okay for the palace servants to hear such words
Xiao Liulang looked at Empress Xiao who had stopped, but Empress Xiao did not look back. His throat slid for a while, and he said in a difficult tone, "Has the little sapling that A-Heng planted in Aunt's bedroom grown taller?"
"A-Heng, what are you doing?"
"I'm planting a tree, and I'm going to plant a big, big tree for my aunt! Spring is here, and the tree will bloom a lot! Peony, peony, morning glory... Autumn is here, and the tree will bear a lot of fruit! Dates, Peaches, pears, and chestnuts!"
"Chestnuts? Who taught you what to say? Also, do you have so many flowers and so many fruits from this tree?"
"Yes!"
"that's not allowed."
"Other people's small trees can't be, but the trees that A-Heng planted can!"
Xiaodouding patted her little chest confidently, and started planting trees in Kunning Palace with sweat.
Xiao Liulang choked and said, "...Did the tree A-Heng planted for her aunt bear jujubes, peaches, pears and chestnuts?"
Ah Heng!
It's her Ah Heng!
Empress Xiao turned around suddenly and looked at Xiao Liulang in disbelief with red eyes.
how come…
Isn't A-Heng already dead
She saw the corpse...
If he is A-Heng, why didn't he hear the elder brother mention it
Why has he entered the palace so many times and never came to her
What the hell is going on here
Empress Xiao walked towards Xiao Liulang in a daze.
Eunuch Su glanced at his master with a complicated look, stepped aside wisely, and dismissed the irrelevant palace servants three feet away.
When Empress Xiao came to Xiao Liulang, Xiao Liulang's eyes turned red, but he held back his tears.
Empress Xiao raised her hand and carefully touched his cheek, tears fell down: "Are you really A-Heng? You..."
Her fingertips landed under his right eye, "Where's this tear mole?"
"No more." Xiao Liulang said.
Empress Xiao choked with tears and said, "How come it's gone? What happened back then? You tell aunt!"
Xiao Liulang didn't know how to start.
He didn't know why the mole disappeared. He woke up and lay in a dilapidated inn, next to Xiao Liulang's eldest brother Xiao Su.
"Auntie, can you spare Long Yi?"
"Don't be mad at Long Yi."
"A-Heng apologizes for Long Yi's aunt."
Empress Xiao was so angry that she punched Xiao Liulang with her fist, and she faced her with tears: "You bastard! You won't recognize me if you don't plead for him!"
The people on the other end didn't know what was going on at all, and they saw that Xiao Liulang didn't know what to say to Queen Xiao, which made Queen Xiao cry and beat him.
But anyone with a discerning eye can see that it doesn't take much effort.
Before everyone could figure out what happened between Empress Xiao and Xiao Liulang, Eunuch Su, Empress Xiao's confidant, came over with a whisk.
He said to the Guards: "The Queen has an order, it's none of your business here, you can go."
Guard: What? !
The princess panicked.
Others don't know what's going on, can't she still see it
Xiao Heng clearly recognized Empress Xiao.
After returning to Beijing for so long, she did not recognize anyone before, but at this juncture, she recognized Empress Xiao.
Why
For this woman and this bodyguard
Just now, she slandered Gu Jiao and instructed Long Yi, but now Gu Jiao has transformed herself into the wife of Queen Xiao's most beloved nephew. She dare not think what Queen Xiao will do to her next.
The crown princess fainted on the spot, and she didn't know whether it was due to the weak slippery tire, or was frightened by the consequences that she would endure next.
Empress Xiao brought Xiao Liulang back to Kunning Palace.
Gu Jiao was supposed to be brought along, but Gu Jiao was taken away by Long Yi.
Empress Xiao screened the servants back, and pulled Xiao Liulang to sit in her room to talk. The window was wide open, and from the perspective of the two of them, Xiao Liulang could be clearly seen... No, it should be said that Xiao Heng planted a small sapling when he was a child. .
It was an orange tree that could neither bear jujubes, peaches, nor pears and chestnuts. The taste of the oranges produced was actually not good.
Empress Xiao burst into laughter: "The oranges you grow are really unpalatable!"
Empress Xiao desperately wanted to know what happened back then, but Xiao Heng couldn't speak.
Empress Xiao's eyes fell on the cane beside the chair again: "What's wrong with your leg? Is it the injury that fell four years ago?"
"No." Xiao Liulang shook his head.
It was to save Feng Lin's injury.
In one fire, some people died because of him; in another fire, some people lived because of him.
His legs were lame, but his sins seemed to have been redeemed in the slightest.
Although he still can't wash away all his sins, the rest of his life can be slowly repaid in pain.
Xiao Liulang: "Auntie, this matter..."
Queen Xiao said: "I understand. Although I don't know why you did this, aunt thinks that you must have your own difficulties. When you are willing to tell aunt, come back to aunt."
Neither of the two mentioned anything about Wen Linlang.
What has already passed, let it pass. The reason why Empress Xiao agreed to this marriage was that she really thought that Xiao Heng had passed away, otherwise she would not have allowed him and his cousin to rob his fiancee even if she broke the prince's leg.
Queen Xiao patted the back of his hand: "Auntie won't tell anyone about you, don't worry."
"Thank you auntie."
Xiao Liulang got up and left.
As soon as he left Kunning Palace, Queen Xiao called his confidant, the secret guard: "Go and inform my brother that A-Heng is still alive!"
The confidant secret guard snorted: "Master, didn't you promise him not to tell anyone?"
Empress Xiao said righteously: "When did the elder brother of Ben Gong become a man?"
Confidant Secret Guard: "..."
This is the worst time Xuanping Hou was hacked...
…
King Ning must be punished, but it is up to the emperor to decide on what crime to be punished.
The family scandal cannot be made public, and the private relationship between King Ning and the Crown Princess has not been disclosed, but the fact that both Wen Yang and Xiao Heng were brutally murdered by King Ning has been revealed to the world.
The motives announced to the outside world are to attack the prince, one is the prince's brother-in-law, and the other is the prince's cousin. No matter how you look at it, Prince Ning is indeed someone who is beside the prince.
Wen Yang's reputation was not good, but the little Marquis was the most famous in Zhaodu, and he was the white moonlight in the eyes of many people.
I heard that he actually died at the hands of King Ning, and there was a lot of crusade among the people.
Naturally, there were also those who excused King Ning, believing that the current Sage was deceived by others.
"How could a person as handsome as His Royal Highness Ning do such a vicious thing? I'm afraid someone is dealing with His Royal Highness Ning, right?"
"I hope Your Majesty will not listen to the slander and make His Highness Prince Ning wronged."
"Could it be that the prince did it? You think, the prince married the fiancee of the young prince. If the young prince did not die, could he marry Miss Wen's family? As for Wen Yang, on the surface, he was the prince's elder brother, but he It's not a thing at all! Killing him is to vent his anger for the Crown Princess!"
There are more and more people avenging King Ning in the streets and lanes. It is not known whether it is the people's will or someone deliberately guiding him.
But what is certain is that no matter what the public opinion of the people is, the emperor has no intention of pardoning King Ning.
Zhuang Taifu asked to see the emperor, but was directly rejected by the emperor.
Master Zhuang went to Renshou Palace again, hoping that Queen Mother Zhuang would order the emperor to pardon King Ning.
"Fate?" Empress Dowager Zhuang made him laugh angrily, "When will Aijia's words still be able to order the emperor?"
Master Zhuang snorted coldly: "Didn't the empress dowager do this all the time? The empress dowager and the emperor have done less things in these years? How come the empress dowager doesn't work when she arrives at King Ning's place?"
Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at him with a burning gaze: "You know better than me how King Ning got to where he is today step by step."
Master Zhuang said coldly, "King Ning has the ambition of an emperor and the power of an emperor, so why should this minister support him!"
Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at him with a cold expression: "The power of the emperor in your mouth is to occupy your brother's wife and waste your life?"
After all, Master Zhuang is King Ning's pro-grandfather. There are some things that the people don't know, so how can he be unknown
He did not excuse King Ning, but clenched his fists and said, "Those who make big things don't care about the details. Empress Dowager, you told the minister this. Now is the empress dowager planning to slap herself?"
Empress Dowager Zhuang said nonchalantly, "So what?"
Mrs. Zhuang choked.
Immediately, his eyes gradually became disappointed: "The queen mother, you have changed. From the time you approached Xiao Liulang, you no longer put the banker as the most important thing in your heart."
This kind of aggressive method is useless to Empress Zhuang, Empress Zhuang sternly said: "Don't talk about Xiao Liulang with Aijia! Do you want Aijia to feel ashamed or what! This trick is useless to Aijia! Who is Aijia willing to spoil? It's Aijia's business! It's also Aijia's business that Aijia is willing to leave behind! Don't think that Aijia is guilty of accusing Aijia a few times. I'm sorry that the banker is full! Aijia has done enough for the banker these years. Also, did the Aijia warn you long ago that the building behind the sky will collapse, and it is the right thing to retreat bravely, but you insist on going your own way! Who strengthened King Ning's courage? Who strengthened King Ning's power? Who is determined to push King Ning into the vortex of seizing the heir apparent! Now that you know you are protecting him, did you ever think that you would kill him when you pushed him to compete for the throne!"
"To put it bluntly, the Queen Mother just wants to ignore King Ning!" Mrs. Zhuang smiled coldly, "I would like to know, if the person who was demoted today was Xiao Liulang, would the Queen Mother also stand by like this?"
Empress Dowager Zhuang said in a mighty and domineering manner: "What a coincidence, Aijia also wants to know."
Master Zhuang: "..."
The Queen Mother Zhuang, who will never take good care of her.
When Mrs. Zhuang was leaving, she gave the Queen Mother Zhuang a deep look: "I hope the Queen Mother will not regret what she has done in the future."
Empress Dowager Zhuang's eyes narrowed: "This sentence is also given to you by Aijia."
(End of this chapter)