Song Dynasty female artist

Chapter 1023: Criticized by the World

There are so many people and it takes time to make arrangements, so Xu Bosheng was asked to replace them in advance to buy more time.

After breakfast, Xiaodie began to wait.

But until he was about to enter the palace, Zhao Jin still didn't show up.

Xiaodie pursed her lips and said to Madam Mu, "My chest has been hurting today, so I won't go to the palace banquet tonight. Send someone to the palace to deliver a message."

Mu nodded: "I understand, mother. Since mother is not feeling well and father is busy and has not returned home yet, my husband and I will stay with mother."

Xiaodie wanted to say no, but quickly held back.

"Alright."

Su Yixin was dressed neatly and entered the palace hand in hand with Gu Qingjue.

"Princess Shuyang."

Su Yixin looked up and saw that it was the King and Queen of Qi.

The two of them took two quick steps forward and greeted the Prince of Qi and his wife: "Your Highness, are you feeling better now?"

Prince of Qi Zhao Zongshi had been in poor health four or five years ago, but thanks to the careful care of his wife, his condition did not worsen.

This year on New Year’s Eve, I could actually see the old prince.

I guess it's getting better gradually.

In fact, Zhao Zongshi was only 42 years old. Although he died at the age of 35 in history, the situation recorded in history books is completely different from that recorded now.

Historical records show that Zhao Zongshi died of illness.

Now he is just an idle prince. The current emperor respects him very much and has no suspicion of him. All the good medicinal materials are sent to Prince Qi's Mansion, which saves his life.

Gao Taotao laughed and said, "Yes, it's scary to talk about it. The prince was not sick at all, but poisoned. Those quack doctors didn't figure it out. It was only later that the imperial physician Wang came to the rescue and concluded that the prince was poisoned by a very rare poison. After one or two years of recuperation, he gradually got better."

Doctor Wang is the current imperial physician of Zhao Rui. He is a disciple of Doctor Tong and is bold but careful.

Su Yixin and Gao Taotao got along very well, talking and laughing as they walked forward.

Gu Qingjue and Zhao Zongshi lagged behind by a few steps.

Zhao Zongshi looked around and lowered his voice and asked, "Is Kyoto not peaceful recently?"

"What do you mean, King Qi?"

"Of course, I don't have any evidence. I just make a judgment based on my intuition."

Gu Qingjue smiled and said, "King Qi's intuition is very accurate."

Zhao Zongshi was actually a little timid. If he was braver, with so many people standing on his side and wanting to make him emperor, he would have given it a try, and if he succeeded, he would have been the supreme emperor.

But he just didn't dare.

Behind closed doors, he lived a peaceful life with his princess.

Compared with those few people at the beginning, his ending was the best.

After hearing what Gu Qingjue said, she grabbed Gu Qingjue's sleeve and asked, "Is there really someone who wants to riot?"

Zhao Zongshi: "Now the weather is good, the country is peaceful and the people are safe. We should live a good life. Who is so bored that he has nothing better to do?"

"King Qi might as well take a guess."

Zhao Zongshi shook his head: "I can't guess that."

The capable ones have all been killed or imprisoned by the late emperor, and it seems that no one is capable of organizing a large-scale riot.

"I can't guess."

King Qi knew that Gu Qingjue didn't want to say it.

If he didn't want to talk about it, then he didn't want to talk about it. He didn't want to know. He just hadn't felt this kind of impending storm for many years and was a little nervous. Gao Taotao told Su Yixin the details of the poisoning of the King of Qi.

She roughly calculated the time and found that the time when King Qi began to "fall ill" seemed to be the time when Sa Ge planned to poison the officials in the court who returned home for the funeral.

It is very likely that they felt that the King of Qi was of noble status, but did not often attend court, so they included him in the list and wanted to eliminate him as well.

Fortunately, after the King of Qi fell ill, Gao Taotao had always been by his side, and the imperial physician had taken care of him wholeheartedly. Although he was not diagnosed with poisoning, he was able to save the King of Qi's life.

"In short, it's a blessing that the King of Qi is getting better."

Gao Taotao: "I am scared every time I think about it. I don't even know how he was poisoned. I have interrogated the servants in the mansion several times, but I still can't find the person who poisoned him."

The poisoning was not discovered until a year or two later, and of course we couldn’t find the person.

The person who poisoned the food had already left.

Gu Qingjue and Zhao Zongshi went to Jiying Hall, while Su Yixin and Gao Taotao went to the harem to pay their respects to Empress Dowager Cao.

I happened to meet a servant from Prince Xuan's mansion.

Su Yixin walked over and asked casually, "Are you the maid of Princess Xuan? I don't see you clearly."

"I am the maidservant of the Crown Prince's wife."

Princess Qi: "Why don't you go in and serve?"

"In reply to Princess Qi, our princess and the Crown Prince's wife are not here. I am here to reply to the Queen Mother."

"what happened?"

"Early this morning, our princess felt chest tightness. She was also ill some time ago. The doctor said that she might not have fully recovered. The Crown Prince's wife was worried about the princess and stayed at home to take care of her, so she couldn't come."

Princess Qi sighed, "So that's how it is. Please say hello to Princess Xuan on my behalf and I'll visit her in a few days."

The maid knelt and saluted: "Yes, I will take my leave."

Lian Qiao came out and saluted Su Yixin and the others: "You two princesses have been waiting for a long time, the Queen Mother invites you in!"

Gao Taotao smiled and said, "We just got here, Aunt Lianqiao is too polite."

Lian Qiao smiled and said, "It's cold outside, we can't stand for long."

Lian Qiao, who was not particularly calm back then, has now become like Rong's mother, experienced and steady.

When they entered the inner hall, there were two well-behaved maids who gave each of them a hand warmer.

My hands became warm instantly.

The Queen Mother said, "Just now, the Crown Prince's wife sent someone to deliver the news that the Princess of Xuan was unwell and could not attend the palace banquet today. I thought that everyone could get together and celebrate the New Year this year."

Gao Taotao said, "I just happened to run into that maid when I came in just now. Speaking of which, Princess Xuan has been suffering from minor illnesses all the time and rarely attends banquets. It seems that the most recent one was the lotus viewing banquet held by Song. I didn't expect that after Song's death, she rarely went out. I heard that she was still not in good health when she celebrated her 50th birthday."

Cao Yuyan looked at Su Yixin: "I heard that you are close to Princess Xuan, how is her health?"

"Replying to the Queen Mother, Princess Xuan's health is indeed damaged, but she can still recover."

"That's good."

Speaking of Princess Xuan, Su Yixin thought of the soul-calling formation in the back garden of Prince Xuan's mansion.

Did King Xuan do it on purpose?

He has been using Xiaodie as a medium to seize the luck of people whose birth dates are similar to hers. Does she know about this?

Everyone noticed that there were fewer concubines at this year's palace banquet. There were only three people sitting there. One was Concubine Ye, who had been in great favor in the past two years, one was Concubine Li, and the other was Concubine Liu.

Who could have thought that so many concubines of higher status than them were sent to Taoist temples.

On ordinary days, ministers would occasionally report to the emperor that his majesty's actions were shocking and would be criticized by people all over the world, and that he should be merciful and magnanimous and bring those concubines who had "made mistakes" back to the harem.