Eunuch Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Princess Ning'an, who was frozen in place, was not so happy, her eyes turned cold: "Eunuch Wei."
"The servant is here!" Eunuch Wei regained his emotions, and immediately turned into a dog-leg attendant, "What's the princess' order?"
Princess Ning An indifferently instructed: "Go and find the queen mother."
"Yes." Eunuch Wei responded, and together with the imperial guards, they searched the Renshou Palace three times inside and out. The rest of the palace staff were all there, but the Queen Mother Zhuang and Eunuch Qin were missing.
"Go and ask those palace servants." Princess Ning'an said.
"I asked, but I don't know." Eunuch Wei said fairly.
Princess Ning An looked at him coldly.
Eunuch Wei blocked the sight of the imperial guards and reminded in a low voice: "Princess, we can't use torture in Renshou Palace, it's too tempting, and rectifying the harem is the queen's business.
Princess Ning An took a deep breath and slowly suppressed her anger: "Go and call Commander Fu."
"Yes."
After Commander Fu came over, Princess Ning'an asked him, "Why are you guarding the Renshou Palace? Didn't you notice that my mother suddenly disappeared? I wonder if something happened to my mother and some thieves took it away. already."
"This..." Commander Fu was at a loss. To be honest, he really didn't know. He even saw Empress Dowager Zhuang walking in the yard in the afternoon.
"When was the last time you saw my queen?" Princess Ning'an asked.
Commander Fu said truthfully: "It was in the afternoon, it was near Youshi. The queen mother took a walk in the yard, and then she returned to the dormitory. The little one is only responsible for guarding and cannot disturb her old man."
The implication was that the Imperial Guards could only surround the Renshou Palace, and they could not stare at Empress Dowager Zhuang closely.
But then again, they kept it so tight, how did the Queen Mother disappear
The moon is dark and the wind is high.
A figure swept up the roof where the cold wind was howling, flying lightly over the eaves and walls in the dark night.
After a while, the figure ran into Bishui Hutong and fell into the homes of Gu Jiao and Xiao Heng.
It was getting late, Yao Shi and the children rested, only Gu Jiao, Xiao Heng, and the old sacrificial wine were still sitting in the main room.
Hearing the movement in the yard, Gu Jiao got up, and Xiao Heng walked over to her and opened the door.
Gu Chengfeng walked in with a person on his back, panting like a cow: "I'm exhausted, I'm exhausted! It's too far from the palace to get here!"
Xiao Heng glanced at the direction of the courtyard and closed the door behind Gu Chengfeng.
Gu Chengfeng carefully placed Empress Dowager Zhuang on the chair.
"Be careful." Lao Jijiu stretched out his hand to help him, "Is it frozen?"
Empress Dowager Zhuang ignored him.
He took a closer look and his face changed.
Gu Chengfeng turned around, pulling his collar while looking at the unconscious Empress Dowager Zhuang.
Uh... Is the Queen Mother asleep? Wasn't he stunned by him
Well, he was indeed a bit fast just now.
"Zhuang Jinse, Zhuang Jinse, Zhuang Jinse!" The old sacrificial wine called out a few times, and his heart tensed, "Is there something wrong?"
Gu Jiao bent down and approached her aunt and said, "Aunt, three are missing and one is missing."
Empress Dowager Zhuang woke up instantly, opened her eyes and sat up, "Where is it?"
Then she really went to play the leaf card...
The corners of their mouths twitched as they looked at her dashing back figure, who was flamboyant, with her sleeves rolled up, and about to fight for three hundred rounds.
Gu Chengfeng: "...Did she look forward to coming out to play cards?"
Princess Ning'an took Eunuch Wei to the Kunning Palace to report the imperial decree and the Renshou Palace to her.
Empress Xiao put down half of the account book in her hand, and said to Princess Ning'an indifferently: "If there is such a thing in the future, you'd better inform this palace beforehand."
Princess Ning'an bowed: "Yes, sister-in-law."
Eunuch Wei broke into a cold sweat for Empress Xiao.
Queen Xiao called Eunuch Su: "Go and tell Commander Fu, whether the queen mother left by herself or was kidnapped, you must find the queen mother, the palace is looking for it, and the outside is also looking for it."
"Yes." Eunuch Su responded.
Empress Xiao's eyes swept across the two of them lightly, and said, "Princess Ning'an, go back first, Eunuch Wei stays."
"Ning An retire." Princess Ning An bowed, took a few steps back and turned to pass Eunuch Wei.
Eunuch Wei maintained a state of blessedness without squinting, and Princess Ning'an did not change at all, so she left the Kunning Palace.
Empress Xiao glanced at the imperial decree in her hand and looked at Eunuch Wei seriously: "This palace asks you, did your Majesty really wake up?"
Duke Wei said: "Yes."
Empress Xiao asked suspiciously, "When Your Majesty issued the imperial decree, were you always there?"
Eunuch Wei nodded: "Yes, it is the pen and ink that the servants serve. After speaking the edict, His Majesty exhausted his vitality and fell asleep again."
Queen Xiao frowned.
She can be suspicious of anyone, but she can always trust Eunuch Wei.
Empress Xiao sighed: "I see, take the imperial decree and take good care of your majesty. Next time your majesty wakes up, remember to have someone come to inform this palace first."
"The slave remembered it."
Eunuch Wei walked out of Kunning Palace in the direction of Huaqing Palace, and after walking a few steps, he saw a beautiful figure under the tree.
He was startled: "Princess?"
Princess Ning An turned around with a half-smile.
Eunuch Wei blinked and saluted, "Princess, the queen just asked..."
"You don't have to tell me, forgive me if you don't have the guts to betray me in front of the queen."
"Yes, yes." Eunuch Wei smiled embarrassedly, "The princess is here waiting for a servant to be..."
"This." Princess Ning An threw him a porcelain bottle, "Tomorrow's medicine, give your Majesty to eat it at dinner time."
Eunuch Wei's eyes flashed: "Ah, yes, the slaves will do it."
Princess Ning An hehe said: "If you can't do it..."
Eunuch Wei shook his head like a rattle: "Don't dare! The servant's life is in the hands of the princess. The princess told the servant to go east, but the servant did not dare to go west."
Princess Ning'an raised the corners of her lips coldly: "It's good to know, alright, you can quickly serve the emperor, this medicine is not foolproof, if you really wake up..."
Eunuch Wei hurriedly said: "The servant will not let anyone find out that His Majesty is awake, and the servant will inform the princess in time."
"It's good to know."
After Princess Ning'an finished speaking, she calmly returned to Bixia Hall.
After confirming that he was far away, Eunuch Wei heaved a sigh of relief and returned to the Huaqing Palace in a hurry.
It's been so long, I don't know what happened to the swim bladder in His Majesty's mouth? Did you spill the medicine or swallow it
Eunuch Wei came to the dragon bed and pushed aside the palace servants who were serving him. Then he opened the emperor's mouth and slowly took out the swim bladder.
The concoction in it is still there.
Eunuch Wei was relieved.
"I have to deal with it quickly..." Eunuch Wei walked out with the swim bladder. He vaguely felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
The Immobile Emperor: My Underpants! There's something in my panties!
There is no impermeable wall in the world. Empress Dowager Zhuang colluded with Xing Shangshu to murder the emperor quickly spread in the capital. Civil and military officials and the people of the capital never expected that the culprit behind the scenes would be Empress Dowager Zhuang.
But if you think back carefully over the years of Empress Dowager Zhuang's control of the government and the suppression and constraints on the emperor, it seems that it is not difficult to accept the fact that she is the culprit.
The voice of the crusade against the Empress Dowager Zhuang was heard among the people, but the Zhuang family kept silent at such a critical juncture.
Master Zhuang also said that he could not go to court because of his illness.
This made Empress Dowager Zhuang's prestige and situation worse.
"grandfather!"
Prince An angrily came to Mrs. Zhuang's yard, but the guards at the gate couldn't keep it.
Mrs. Zhuang was practicing calligraphy in the study. He didn't lift his eyelids when he heard his grandson's voice. The tip of the pen was dipped in ink, and said, "Shouldn't you be on duty in the cabinet at this hour?"
King Anjun went to the cabinet, but he came back immediately after hearing something.
Thanks to his status, no one in the cabinet dared to stop him.
He came to the desk and looked at Mrs. Zhuang, who was concentrating on practicing calligraphy, and realized that he wasn't really sick these days, he just didn't go to court on purpose.
"Has grandfather heard about my aunt?" he asked.
Mrs. Zhuang didn't look at him, and wrote a mountain character: "This is not something you should worry about."
Prince An looked at Mrs. Zhuang with bright eyes: "It's not something I should worry about, so what about grandfather? Isn't grandfather worried too? If something happened to the queen mother, grandfather shouldn't have come forward to defend the queen mother's reputation and go to Dali. Are the temple and the Ministry of Punishment actively looking for evidence that the Queen Mother was slandered?"
Mrs. Zhuang's Bifeng paused and glanced at him: "You know it's slander?"
Anjun Wang said sternly: "The Queen Mother would not do such a thing. If she wants her Majesty's life, she doesn't have to wait until now. The Queen Mother's means know better than me, my grandfather."
Master Zhuang: "So what?"
Prince An gave Mrs. Zhuang a deep look: "Grandfather... is he planning to stand by?"
Mrs. Zhuang neither admitted nor denied: "I did this for the banker's sake."
Prince An sneered: "For the banker? For the banker's what? Without the protection of the queen mother, can the banker still be the former banker?"
Mrs. Zhuang slapped the brush on the table: "Then do you think the queen mother is still the former queen mother? She has already drawn a line with the banker!"
King An clenched his fists tightly and said with grief: "So my grandfather is dead? She is your younger sister! After her biological father sold her daughter to seek glory and sent her to that man-eating palace, she was the only one in her life. After she lost all her flesh and blood, and after she spent so many years licking her wounds and worrying about the Zhuang family, her grandfather abandoned her like this! Grandfather only remembers the year when she made a clear separation from the Zhuang family, but does not remember the Zhuang family eating her flesh and blood. the decades!"
Master Zhuang said angrily, "Enough!"
Prince An was not deterred by Mrs. Zhuang's anger. He looked at Mrs. Zhuang who he had respected for so many years with disappointment: "Grandfather, when I was eight years old, you sent me to Chen State as a pledge, and the queen mother tried her best to stop me. , she said, it's enough for the banker to have her, don't sacrifice more people. How did my grandfather tell me? Grandfather, you said, it's too hard for the queen mother to support the banker alone, and you can't leave everything to the queen mother alone. Carrying it... So I went! I have suffered many humiliations in Chen country in those years, but I have never regretted it! But now, I regret it, my grandfather is not for the queen mother, nor for the banker, you are only for yourself. "
These remarks are not unkind, but Mrs. Zhuang has passed the age of fighting with the younger generation. He suppressed his anger, continued to write a few words, and said, "Heng'er, you are my best friend. The outstanding grandson is the future heir of the Zhuang family, I hope you can recognize your identity."
"Oh, identity."
Prince An laughed at himself, and said nothing to Master Zhuang, because he had already made clear what his grandfather meant, so it would be useless to say more, so it is better to save your energy.
Master Zhuang stopped him: "Where are you going?"
Anjun Wang turned his head and said coldly: "Grandfather doesn't care about the queen mother, then I have to save the queen mother myself, and I will overturn the case for the queen mother!"
Master Zhuang threatened: "If you dare to step out of the dealer, don't come back to see me again."
Prince An squeezed his fingers and stepped over the threshold.
Master Zhuang said solemnly: "I will do what I say. Zhuang Yuheng, your identity is given by me, and your power and status are also given by me. Without me, without the identity of the grandson of the Zhuang family, you Zhuang Yuheng are nothing in the capital. You've figured it out clearly, it's not difficult for you to leave the house today, but it won't be so easy to come back in the future!"
King Anjun heard the words and really took back the foot he stepped out.
Mrs. Zhuang raised his eyebrows in satisfaction: "You shouldn't go to the cabinet for a few days, so you can live at home..."
Before the word recuperation was spoken, King Anjun lifted his hem and threw himself on the ground.
He put his hands on the ground, kowtowed heavily, and with just one click, his forehead turned red: "Thank you grandfather for his upbringing."
Master Zhuang was taken aback.
Anjun Wang's eyes were red, and he kowtowed a second time: "Second, thank grandfather for his help."
Blood oozes from his forehead, and water flashes in his eyes.
Master Zhuang's expression changed, and he shouted fiercely, "Zhuang Yuheng!"
Prince An didn't stop, he slammed his head for a third time, and hot tears fell on the cold floor: "Three thanks to grandfather for his love! Yuheng is not filial!"
After he said that, he stood up with a blood-stained forehead, turned around with a choked sobs, and ran into the night without looking back.
(End of this chapter)