Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 408 The Empress Dowager Summons
It is the servant next to the queen mother, Eunuch Chang.

His brows were full of arrogance, his chin slightly raised, and with that soft voice that made one's scalp tingle, he said with a smile on his face: "Crown Princess, the Empress Dowager has a call, please enter the palace immediately."

Zhao Xiwei's heart skipped a beat, but with a slight smile on his face, he said: "Understood, please report back, let me go back to the East Palace and change my clothes."

"Princess Concubine, it's not that our family is unwilling to accommodate, it's because the Empress Dowager ordered you to go to Changxin Palace within two quarters of an hour, and her old man is waiting for you in person. Now you go back to the East Palace, one by one. Didn't it take more than half an hour to go?"

Zhao Xi looked at the sky slightly, the sun was setting, and the last ray of light was scattered on the earth, indicating that it would be dark soon.

In desperation, he had no choice but to wink at Yuan Ce, and ordered: "Go back and tell His Highness the Crown Prince first, that I won't be going back for dinner, and tell His Highness not to wait for me."

"Yes."

Yuan Ce complied.

Eunuch Chang watched coldly, and let out a disapproving sneer from his nose.

His expression was cold, his face was frighteningly white, with dark purple lips, he looked like a ghost judge who had just crawled out of hell.

Although she is already a princess, Zhao Xiwei's fearful memory of the queen mother has not diminished at all.

She rolled up her sleeves, pinched her cold and stiff fingers in her palms, tried her best to maintain her proper appearance, turned around calmly, and walked towards the carriage.

Just when she passed Eunuch Chang's side, she clearly heard him laugh again, and those ghostly words rang in her ears.

He said, "See blood."

see blood?

What do you mean?
Zhao Xiwei's body froze, followed Jinxiu who got into the car with an "ah", and almost stepped on the ground.

Fortunately, Zhao Xiwei reacted quickly and gave her a hand in time to prevent her from falling.

"Miss..." Jinxiu's face was bloodless, she looked at her master worriedly, and hesitated to speak.

Zhao Xiwei was actually nervous about the enemy, but she knew that Eunuch Chang was staring at her from behind, so she smiled slightly, pulled down the car curtain slowly, and took a soft pillow to cushion her back comfortably. Then he said calmly, "What are you afraid of? I'm still there when the sky falls."

"Yeah..." Jinxiu nodded lightly, but still patted her heart in shock: "I'm not afraid of anything else, I'm just afraid that she will embarrass Miss..."

"Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover." Zhao Xi slightly let out a sigh of relief, calming down his mood, "We'll just play by ear."

Having said that, but as the carriage rumbled towards the palace gate, getting closer and closer to Changxin Palace, she still inevitably became nervous.

The Empress Dowager's background was not high, and the Wang family was just a peddler who roamed the streets in the early years.

Without the background and upbringing of a big family, no matter how powerful he is, he still has a full sense of business in his bones.

The scary thing about such people is that they don't have the pressure of poetry and etiquette, and they don't have moral shackles.

Zhao Xiwei thought for a while, although he didn't know the purpose of the Queen Mother summoning her this time, but if he really wanted to attack her, he really didn't need any reason.

Since ancient times, the empress dowagers in the hands of the powerful in the history books have tortured the concubines in the harem with more and more cruel methods.

Not to mention that she is just a crown princess with an unstable foundation, some empress dowagers become vicious, and even the emperor dares to kill her...

Passing through the third palace gate, the surroundings became more and more silent.

The sound of horseshoes and wheels became clearer and clearer, as if they were running over people's hearts, rattling, rattling, making people tremble with fear.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that the Queen Mother had no good intentions this time.

But, is she going to get caught without a fight?

Zhao Xiwei gently opened the curtain and glanced out.

Enclosed by two tall and thick palace walls, a deep narrow passage leads directly to the inner hall. Looking up and looking around, there is nothing else to be seen except a ray of skylight.

In this situation, it really feels like inviting you into the urn.

In an instant, countless tragic stories appeared in her mind.

While thinking about it, the soft and shrill voice of Eunuch Chang rang out again: "We have arrived at the front hall of Changxin Palace, please get off the car and walk."

It is a rule in the imperial city that you cannot drive in the inner palace.

Jinxiu's whole body was a little stiff, Zhao Xiwei put his hand on her arm when he got out of the car, and vaguely felt her trembling.

"Cheer up." Zhao Xiwei squeezed her hand vigorously, and said in a low voice: "Cheer up, and pay attention to the movement in the hall. If there is anything wrong, remember to go to His Majesty..."

Although she didn't know whether the emperor would help her, she always felt that Aiwujiwu, with the emperor's love for the prince, would not let her be tortured by the queen mother, right?
Before it was dark, all the palace lanterns in Changxin Palace had already been lit.

The base of the main hall is very high, and people standing in front of the hall can only be forced to look up at it.

Zhao Xiwei lifted the hem of his skirt and climbed up the steps. Every time he climbed a stone step, he felt that he was farther away from the ground.The black eaves are on the clouds, like a giant beast with black fangs, ready to devour people who approach at any time.

And the owner of this giant beast, she was sitting on a throne inlaid with various gemstones, shaking the wine in the luminous glass, with an extremely lazy expression, as if she had nothing important to do when she summoned the princess.

Zhao Xi slightly saluted, then stood aside with lowered eyebrows, quietly waiting for her to speak.

When the glass of wine ran out, another court lady brought green tea and knelt on the ground to serve her to rinse her mouth. She took a sip of the tea, then spit it into the gold basin inlaid with precious stones, picked up the white soft satin, and wiped her mouth. Gold fingertips on fingertips.

Her movements were extremely slow, as if what she was wiping was not a nail cover, but a dagger that could kill people—glittering gold, extremely sharp, as if she could sever a person's throat just by raising her hand and pinching it.

The little maid who served was kneeling on the ground, holding her arms up all the time, and she didn't know whether it was because she was too hard or too scared, but she also trembled a little.

It wasn't until the maid almost fainted that the Empress Dowager threw the soft satin into the basin, and without even looking at the maid, she said in a drawn-out voice, "Come here, drag this ignorant maid out, and the stick will twenty!"

The maid's body softened and she almost collapsed on the ground, but she still held her breath and said with tears in her eyes, "My servant thanked the Queen Mother for her kindness."

As soon as the words were finished, two servants came over, grabbed the maid by the collar, and dragged her out of the palace.

The queen mother glanced at Zhao Xiwei, and saw that she kept her eyes lowered from beginning to end, she neither pleaded for mercy nor screamed in fright, her long and narrow phoenix eyes raised slightly, and her eyes were quite surprised.

She slightly raised her hand towards Zhao Xi, and said with great interest: "The little girl has been raised by the prince for a while, not only has she become more beautiful, but she has also become more courageous!"

For such frivolous words, Zhao Xiwei couldn't answer directly, but he couldn't help but to answer, so he smiled slightly and replied: "The empress dowager has a great grace, and those who are juniors are all thanks to your great blessing."

"Not everyone can enjoy the blessings of Aijia." The queen mother smiled and said in a drawn out voice, "Crown Princess, since you have enjoyed the blessings of Aijia, shouldn't you repay Aijia?"

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For readers who question the plot, please explain that the direction of the plot setting is like this. I think it is not broken (after all, the existing outline has more than 2 words). But, to be honest, if some readers think it is not right, I will Even if I want to deal with it, I still feel at a loss. I don’t know where the problem is. After all, I am a novice...

And I’m really tired recently, mainly because my body can’t bear it... Maybe I can’t be as meticulous as I was at the beginning (I had 20 manuscripts in my hand at that time... Crying, maybe I should stop for a few days and save some Let’s talk about the manuscript?)

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