Otoharu

Chapter 600 Disappointment
Li Chengqi got off the carriage in front of the palace gate, and went to Queen Song's bedroom without stopping.

His footsteps were so fast that Lu Zhiwei could hardly keep up behind him.Anxious and embarrassed in her heart, she looked at the indifferent figure not far in front of her, ignored the soreness of her feet, and gritted her teeth to follow closely.

Finally, the group finally arrived at Kunhe Palace.

Li Chengqi did not need to report to enter Kunhe Palace. Before entering the palace, he suddenly turned around, looked at Lu Zhiwei coldly and said, "You wait outside, someone will call you in, and you come in again."

Lu Zhiwei nodded cautiously, not daring to meet Li Chengqi's eyes.She knew that His Highness the Crown Prince hated her already, and the only way to win His Highness back was to rely on the Empress.

Li Chengqi turned around and entered the hall.

Empress Song had just woken up from her lunch break, and when she knew her son was coming, she immediately came out from the inner room to greet her.

"Why are you here now, don't you have to go to the Taifu's class this afternoon?" Queen Song asked with a smile.

Li Chengqi stared at his mother and did not speak for a long time.Seeing his strange expression, Empress Song had some bad premonitions in her heart, but she still asked with a smile, "What's wrong with you? Why are you looking at your mother like this?"

Li Chengqi took a deep breath and ordered to the maid behind Song Empress: "You all retreat, I have something to say to the empress alone."

Several of Empress Song's personal maids glanced at her hesitantly, and seeing her nod, they saluted and left the door.

"Qi'er, what's the matter with you? Do you have anything to say to your mother?" Empress Song asked as softly as possible, looking at her son.

"Mother, I remember that when you were a child, there was Dong Momo who helped you manage your private treasury. Where is she now?"

Empress Song's smile faltered at her question, but she quickly replied: "Nurse Dong has been in poor health for the past few years, so I let her go out of the palace and return to her hometown to rest, why did you suddenly ask her? "

When Empress Song was speaking, Li Chengqi kept staring at her. He looked at his mother with gradually disappointed eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Why did the empress lie to me? I saw Mother Dong today, but she is already a corpse. "

Empress Song's complexion became very ugly, and she opened her mouth to say something, but Li Chengqi took another step forward and said, "Mother, those people who went to Jiang Shidu's house were sent by you, right? Why did you do this, Jiang I didn't think much about Shi Du before, but the attitudes of you and the emperor told me that he is not just an ordinary courtier."

"Qi'er, don't think about it, Jiang Shanqing is just a small person, you don't have to take him seriously at all." Empress Song panicked and explained anxiously.

"Mother, do you really think your son is stupid? His son has been checked long ago. Jiang Hanlin is not Jiang Shidu's biological father, and Jiang Shidu's biological mother is a maid from the palace." Li Chengqi looked at Empress Song with increasingly disappointed eyes.

"Mother, Jiang Shidu is also the son of the emperor, right?" Li Chengqi stared straight at Queen Song, and asked what he most likely knew.

Empress Song's complexion fluctuated. She wanted to find some excuses to prevaricate, but she seemed to feel that this could not convince Li Chengqi. In the end, she could only sigh and admit: "Yes, he is your father's son, but Qier you Don't worry, he's just a bastard with no name or distinction, and he will never threaten your status!"

Empress Song said the latter sentence urgently and quickly, for fear that Li Chengqi might misunderstand something.

"Mother, you knew about this a long time ago, and you still want to kill him to avoid future troubles?" Li Chengqi didn't listen to what Queen Song said, but looked at her with burning eyes, and asked again.

Empress Song looked at the way her son was looking at her at this moment, and her chest seemed to be filled with depression, and she burst out in an instant, "Why do you think I did this by all means? It's all for you!"

Li Chengqi looked at Empress Song's eyes gradually disappointed, he let out a laugh, and asked in a low voice: "Mother, are you really only for your children?"

Empress Song looked at Li Chengqi in disbelief, unable to speak for a while.

"Don't you think I'm doing it for myself?" Empress Song's voice suddenly rose, and she looked at Li Chengqi with red eyes, feeling a little hysterical.

Li Chengqi closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and tried to keep his tone calm, "Mother, I don't mean that. I just want to know what happened back then. Who is Jiang Shidu's biological mother? Why did he go home?" So many years outside the palace."

Empress Song sat slumped on the chair behind her, her body still trembling slightly due to excitement, she closed her eyes, as if she didn't want to recall what happened back then.

"Mother's queen!" Li Chengqi saw that Mrs. Jiang was silent, so he called out again, and said slowly, "Father should have known about Jiang Shidu's life experience a long time ago, and valued him very much. Jiang Shidu himself should know too. Well, now I'm the only one left in the dark, does the empress think that I'm not as good as that Jiang Shidu?"

"No!" Empress Song said in a panic, "My son Wentao Wulue, not only your father, but all officials agree that you are the most qualified prince, how can you not compare to that bastard!"

"But I think, in the heart of the queen mother, I am not as good as him. Otherwise, why would the queen mother try every means to eradicate him? Obviously I am the rightful prince. As long as I don't do anything wrong, the emperor will not Maybe I will be abolished and someone else will be established instead." Li Chengqi looked at Empress Song, his tone full of disappointment and self-deprecation.

"It's not what you think. Your father is now old, so he is naturally suspicious, and you are his only son..."

Empress Song tried her best to explain, but Li Chengqi didn't want to hear this, and interrupted her with a wave of his hand, "Empress Mother, you and I both know Emperor Father, if he hadn't done something he couldn't tolerate, he wouldn't have rejected you and me, so, back then What the hell happened?"

Li Chengqi asked aggressively. Empress Song knew that she could no longer hide it. She closed her eyes and finally said slowly: "I was pregnant at about the same time as Concubine Mei. Your Majesty promised us that if anyone can give birth to the eldest son, we will be sealed." As the crown prince, the queen position was vacant at that time, and as the mother of the crown prince, the mother is precious based on the son, so naturally she can become the empress..."

Empress Song told Li Chengqi everything that happened back then, including tampering with the midwife next to Concubine Mei, and replacing Concubine Mei's newborn child with a skinned civet cat.

The more Li Chengqi heard it, the more frightened he became. He never thought that his mother, who was always gentle and virtuous, would do such a frenzied thing. Today, he seems to be the one who really sees his mother and concubine clearly.

(End of this chapter)