"Selfish?" Xu Guipin opened her eyes wide and looked at her in surprise: "The Concubine De insulted the Empress Dowager face to face?"
Hua Chun paused, frowned and said: "The concubine did not intend to insult the queen mother, but just told the truth. If the queen mother convicts the concubine based on her personal preference, but disregards the emperor's feelings and wants to make things difficult for the concubine, that is selfish."
"Okay." The queen mother nodded, patted the strings of the bed and said: "The emperor's favor is so great, dare to talk to Ai's family like that!"
The atmosphere in the hall suddenly became tense, and the palace people standing beside them all looked straight at Hua Chun. Yue Jian frowned, and comforted her in a low voice: "Don't be too angry, Queen Mother, you are still recovering."
"She's clearly here to piss Aijia to death!" The queen mother glared: "Because she has a belly, she thinks Aijia won't dare to punish her! After all, in this palace, Aijia's position is higher than her! Just because of her today Saying this, Aijia has a reason to ask her to kneel outside for an hour!"
"Empress Dowager!" Yue Jian was taken aback: "De Concubine Empress is still alive, how can she kneel for such a long time?"
Hua Chun frowned, thinking something bad in her heart, she put armor on her stomach today, but she didn't bring knee pads, is it too late for Qing Niao to get it now
"The concubine is not trying to speak ill of Concubine De." Sitting next to the Empress Dowager's bed, Xu Guifei said in a low voice: "But there are no rules, and it is true that Concubine De has done something wrong today. She cannot kneel for an hour. , Kneeling for half an hour is enough, to teach you a lesson, and also to show your tolerance, Queen Mother."
Glancing at Xu Guipin, the Empress Dowager knew that this person would have trouble with Concubine De, but now that her proposal fits her wishes, it's better to let the situation go.
"Xu Guifei is right." She said: "Concubine De has gone too far, it is unreasonable not to punish her, so go out and kneel for half an hour!"
Yue Jian frowned, and wanted to intercede for Concubine De, but seeing the pale face of the Empress Dowager, she couldn't open her mouth, so she could only take Hua Chun out and secretly handed her a cushion.
"Thank you." Hua Chun nodded to her, then knelt down.
Qingyou looked very worried: "Can you kneel for such a long time?"
"This is easy to handle." Hua Chun said with a serious expression but a playful tone: "I'll pretend to be dizzy when I feel tired later! It's not a silly elder sister, who really kneels down for her for an hour?"
Qing Niao nodded, half an hour later the emperor should go down, although his master was wrong today, but the queen mother didn't take much reason, the emperor should still protect his master.
Just as he was kneeling down, Xu Guifei came out, with a very innocent expression on his face, squatting in front of Huachun and said: "Mrs. , so I followed the Queen Mother's words."
Hua Chun glanced at her, and replied two words: "Hehe."
Naturally, Xu Guifei couldn't comprehend the essence of modern vocabulary, and thought that Hua Chun was trying to ease the atmosphere, so she continued to laugh: "It's good that the concubine doesn't blame the concubine, and the concubine will help the concubine to continue to take care of the queen mother."
"Just take good care of it." Hua Chun said, "Needless to say, it's helping me."
Just put her hat on at this point, so if something goes wrong with the Queen Mother's care, will the charges still have to be piled on her
Concubine Xu Gui was taken aback, looked at her in surprise, turned around and went into the main hall: "Empress Dowager, Empress Defei seems to be a different person, she is not as low-key and sensible as before."
"Why?" The Empress Dowager half-opened her eyes, her face was full of sickness.
"The former Concubine De concubine often came to greet you and helped the emperor deliver things. Even the concubine thought she was very filial. Who would have thought that the concubine De concubine would disrespect you so much, and the concubine just said a few words politely, Will help her take good care of you, guess what she said?"
"She said to take care of you, it has nothing to do with her!"
The Empress Dowager was startled, her brows frowned even tighter, she looked at the palace servant beside her and asked, "She really said that?"
The palace man thought for a while, and it seemed that he really said so, so he nodded.
Her eyes darkened, and the queen mother stared at something for a long time, then closed her eyes: "What a disaster."
It's true that she likes the emperor's heir, and she is also willing to support the prince's concubine to the throne, but the premise is that she must be an obedient concubine. For a concubine like Concubine De who doesn't take her seriously and is hostile towards her, even if she is pregnant with the emperor's heir, it's useless, not to mention that it doesn't do her any good, it's still a hidden danger.
"See you in the moon." The queen mother said in a low voice: "Go out of the palace to find some old friends. When the emperor comes down, let him handle political affairs in Zichen hall for a while."
"... yes." Yuejian nodded.
Xu Guipin's eyes brightened slightly, and she squeezed her hands in secret joy.
The empress dowager's cruelty was quite famous in the harem back then, and it was only after the emperor ascended the throne that she restrained all her viciousness and showed a kind look. But how she ascended to the throne, there are many rumors in the palace. Some said that the most favored Concubine Zhuang died at the hands of the queen mother, and some said that the former emperor was also sent by the queen mother.
Regardless of whether it is true or not, no one dares to underestimate Ning's methods to secure the positions of empress and empress dowager. Previously, he had to be scruples about the emperor's heir, and he did not do anything to the Hua family, but now he has finally torn his face.
Then she will wait and see the good show.
After kneeling for more than ten minutes, Hua Chun felt back pain, glanced at Qing Niao, and gestured.
Qing Niao understood, yelled in cooperation, stretched out her hand to support her, and Hua Chun followed her strength and lay down in her arms.
"What's the matter?" A palace official came over to look at it, and Qing Niao said anxiously: "Your Majesty has passed out!"
The palace servants were taken aback, and quickly went into the main hall to report, and came out after a while and said: "Help your empress to the side hall."
Qing Niao nodded, picked up Hua Chun, put her arms on her shoulders and walked towards the side hall.
Lying on the comfortable bed, Hua Chun secretly made an "OK" gesture to Qing Niao, Qing Niao smiled secretly, reached out and rubbed her knees for her, and then heard the palace man outside said: "Come with me, go get the medicine .”
Both Ruier and Qingyou agreed, and followed them out. Hua Chun breathed a sigh of relief, stretched his waist, and then lay down to rest with his eyes closed. Her dizziness can last until the emperor goes down, and she should be safe after that.
Proud of his wit, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the door.
It should be a palace official in the empress dowager's palace, who came to see her situation.
Hua Chun didn't open her eyes, trying her best to breathe calmly.
The sound of footsteps reached her bedside, there was a pause, and then she felt a chill hit her face.
Something is wrong!
Opening her eyes suddenly, Hua Chun subconsciously rolled to the side, but the movement was not as fast as the man's. The man slashed at her stomach with a long sword.
"Come here!" Hua Chun screamed, watching the long sword cut down, his face turned pale.
There was no one else in the room, even if the guards outside heard the shout and ran over, it was too late. Seeing that the man in black has succeeded, although it feels a bit strange, but if the sword cuts into Concubine De's stomach, then the work is complete, and he ran away immediately.
"Niang Niang!" Aunt Yue Jian ran in from the outside, and while she was chasing the assassin, she ran towards Hua Chun, helped her to lean on her body, looked at the long sword on her stomach, and took a deep breath.
How could he be so ruthless? The blade of the sword was cut into the stomach!
"Pass to the imperial physician, quickly pass to the imperial physician!"
Hua Chun didn't dare to catch her breath, she just stared blankly at her stomach, when there was a sudden commotion outside, Rui Er and Qing Niao also rushed back, and they all stood aside stupidly.
"Where's the person?" Came back to his senses, Hua Chun asked calmly.
Qing Ling shook her head, looked at the eunuch next to her blankly, and the eunuch replied blankly: "I didn't catch it..."
Even in Huiming Palace, you can meet an assassin, but you still can't catch him? Hua Chun pursed her lips, glanced at Yue Jian, stretched out her hand and threw the sword on her stomach to the ground, then sat up straight.
"Your Majesty!" Yue Jian was frightened half to death: "Your belly!"
"It's okay." Hua Chun shook his head: "Fortunately, I brought some Xinyan out today."
Yuejian didn't understand, or she was so frightened that she couldn't understand what she was saying.
Xu Guipin also came over when she heard the commotion, with anxious face but gloating eyes, she rushed over and asked, "Is your majesty alright?"
"It's fine." Hua Chun replied lightly.
Xu Guibi was stunned, how could it be all right? Didn't it mean that the sword was cut into the stomach
"The imperial doctor is here!" There was a shout from outside, Yue Jian came back to his senses, and hurriedly asked the imperial doctor to go to the bedside to show Defei the wound, but saw Defei raised her hand and said: "It's not hurt, you should worry about it." Ben Gong, it’s better to be more realistic by arresting people.”
Everyone in the room was dumbfounded, and Hua Chun unbuttoned the palace robe while talking, and took down an oversized dustpan from his stomach.
Everyone: "..."
The dustpan was cut a hole, but fortunately, it was of high quality, and there was a layer of cotton cloth inside, which perfectly protected Huachun's stomach.
Xu Guipin was dumbfounded, looked at the dustpan for a while before recovering, opened his mouth not knowing what to say.
The Empress Dowager was still waiting for news in the main hall, with a look of Qian Fan's vicissitudes on her face, and when she heard footsteps, she asked, "No more?"
Yue Jian walked in, shaking her head with a complicated expression: "It's still there."
still there? ! The queen mother was not calm for a moment, she sat up and frowned at her: "What do you mean is still there? With such a serious injury, can her stomach still be kept? Which imperial doctor has such good medical skills?"
Yuejian pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "It's not hurt."
How could it not be hurt! The Empress Dowager frowned, and looked at Yue Jian seriously for a while, and the latter reluctantly took out a dustpan: "The Concubine De is wearing this, it is indeed not hurt."
Staring at that thing for a long while, the queen mother took a breath, lowered her head and murmured: "Aijia said that her city is deep, and the emperor still doesn't believe that she would use this kind of thing to put on her stomach..."
Yuejian is silent, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with whether the city is deep or not, it's just a matter of vigilance.
It is also thanks to her, otherwise it would be hard to escape today.
"Empress Dowager, what should I do next? Concubine De means to go all out to catch that assassin."