Chapter 355
Zhao Tan hurried to the place where the empress dowager was meditating.
The Queen Mother seemed to have anticipated this and had people stop the men at the mountain gate early in the morning.
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother said that she has decided to live in seclusion here for the rest of her life."
"She no longer wants to be concerned with worldly matters."
"Your Majesty, please go back."
Zhao Tan frowned: "Don't tell me this nonsense, I have something important to do now, I need to ask my mother for help!"
"Get out of my way!"
"Otherwise, don't blame me for being merciless."
Faced with Zhao Tan's threat, the man hesitated for a moment and soon gave way.
Zhao Tan snorted coldly, then turned around and went to where the empress dowager was meditating.
It was called a retreat, but in fact it was just a move to the royal villa with a new name.
It is called asceticism, but in reality it is nothing more than avoiding quietness.
At this time, the Queen Mother was smiling and talking intimately with a young woman, arm in arm.
If Jiang Anning were here, he would be very surprised to see this woman.
Zhao Tan rushed in hurriedly, not expecting that there was someone else next to the Queen Mother.
But he didn't care either.
Just as he was about to wave his hand to ask people to leave, he was caught off guard and made eye contact with someone. The young woman smiled at him, and Zhao Tan was so frightened that he fainted.
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[This data card seems to be no longer moving? Look at yours, is it the same? Or am I the only one who has stopped here? ]
On the barrage, people are still concerned about the data card issue.
[I see that Jiang Anning's profile card has not changed, but the information that previously showed Princess Shaoan is now a mess of characters. But Duan Qingshan's profile card seems to have been completely changed. It previously said that he was saved by Princess xx, but now it has changed to being saved by Jiang Anning and swearing to follow Jiang Anning until death. Once he leaves Jiang Anning, he will quickly turn evil and become a bandit leader who brings disaster to the area.]
[It’s the same here. Jiang Anning’s profile card now has a lot of garbled characters. I just saw that even the information about Jiang Anning’s parents has become garbled characters.]
【By the way, why is this happening? 】
After the information card turned into garbled characters, everyone in the barrage began to speculate on the reason.
[What else could be the reason? The system is not well maintained...]
[I think it’s not necessarily the system’s fault. Of course, a crappy system isn’t that good. I still have to criticize it. It’s just something I can do.]
[But, I wonder if there are other possibilities for this matter? ]
[I think, since we have nothing to do anyway, why don’t we just analyze it and make a guess! ]
At this moment, an option of red versus blue confrontation suddenly popped up on the barrage.
[Jiang Anning believes that the change in the data card is because something happened in an unknown corner that affected her data card. Do you all agree with this idea? ]
Agree is blue, disagree is red.
At this time, the red and blue options are rising and falling, and they repeatedly occupy the first position.
Jiang Anning:...
Everyone in the barrage: ...
No, official customer service? Come out and get beaten!
You guys think you're pretty funny, don't you? Huh? Ahhh!!
What the hell is this!!
Mrs. An and the county magistrate, who were sitting opposite Jiang An Ning, looked at her with some strange expressions.
Why does this girl's face look a little weird?
Could it be that he discovered something?
Both of them were a little nervous at this time.
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Zhao Tan woke up from the shock and saw the Queen Mother. He quickly grabbed the person's hand and said, "Mother! Mother! She's back, she's back! Save me! Please, save me, mother!"
The Queen Mother brushed away the man's hand and said coldly, "Your Majesty may have found the wrong person to save your life!"
"You have great powers, how can I save you?"
Zhao Tan thought of the person he saw when he came in just now, and he felt even more panicked: "Mother, please save me! She, she is back... Please help me persuade her, I, I will immediately take Jiang An Ning to Beijing and treat her well."
The empress dowager paused, and the gesture she was about to use to wave someone in suddenly changed to waving someone out.
The person waiting at the door lowered his head and retreated silently.
Zhao Tan looked flustered and didn't notice anything wrong at all.
The Queen Mother had never expected that her son would be so timid.
They had just met, but he was already scared to death and said he wanted to bring Jiang Anning back to the capital and treat her well.
"Is what you just said true?"
"Are you really willing to bring Jiang Anning to the capital and treat her well?"
Zhao Tan nodded again and again: "I am willing, I am willing, mother, I am willing, please help me, please help me! I know I was wrong, I will never dare to do it again!"
Sang Jingwan is actually alive!
And I found my mother here!
When did it happen, and why didn't he realize it before?
Zhao Tan was really scared.
He didn't dare to think about what he had just seen.
The Queen Mother's brows relaxed instantly, and she found Zhao Tan's appearance much more pleasing to the eye.
"My dear child, if you can think this way, your mother will be relieved."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Tan also breathed a sigh of relief.
This proves that the Queen Mother will not fail to help him.
With his heart at ease, Zhao Tan couldn't help but ask tentatively about the person he saw when he came here.
"Auntie..."
He swallowed and still felt terrified when he thought about it.
"Just now, when I came here, I saw someone standing next to you, talking to you. It seemed like you two were very familiar with each other. Who is she?"
The empress dowager's hand, which was about to pick up the teacup, trembled almost imperceptibly, and the plain white porcelain bowl in her hand made a crisp sound when it hit the ground.
She quickly recovered and calmly used the tea lid to remove the foam on the surface. She said something that had nothing to do with what Zhao Tan asked: "This pre-rain Longjing tea should be drunk in season to taste better."
Zhao Tan frowned, puzzled.
"He is just a poor man that I rescued out of kindness. It just so happens that this place of retreat is usually not taken care of by anyone."
The Queen Mother smiled and said, "Why does the Emperor seem so nervous to see her?"
"She obviously..." Zhao Tan's throat tightened. He definitely wasn't wrong. The woman who had just stood next to the Queen Mother looked exactly like Sang Jingwan!
Especially when the woman looked into his eyes, the cold light flashing in her eyes was almost identical to Sang Jingwan's! !
This is clearly one person!!
The Queen Mother chuckled, inadvertently revealing the blood-red jade bracelet on her wrist.
When she reached out to put down the teacup, her bracelet hit the table, making a crisp sound. "Your Majesty, what happened? She is just an ordinary girl. Why do you care about her so much?"
"I've never seen you care so much about any concubine in the harem before?" "Otherwise, I'm afraid I would have had a grandson long ago."
Zhao Tanyu said anxiously: "Mother clearly knows what I want to ask! Why do you have to pretend to be confused at this time?"
The Queen Mother chuckled, neither hurried nor slow.
From the incense burner on the table, a wisp of sweet aroma, along with the smoke, floated faintly between the two of them.
"He is just an insignificant person."
Zhao Tan was angry!
"Someone who doesn't matter?"
He sneered: "It seems that it is not a wise move for me to come to find my mother."
"It's ridiculous that I have been scheming so much over the years that I really forgot that my mother is a thief in the house that is hard to guard against."
Zhao Tan's eyes fell on the blood-red circle on the Queen Mother's wrist: "I have never seen mother wearing these expensive things before. I thought that mother did not like extravagance and liked those simple and plain things."
"Now it seems that it's not that my mother doesn't like these things."
He grabbed the Queen Mother's hand, revealing the original appearance of the blood-red bracelet: "Mother just doesn't like these in front of me."
“Now I have brought all of these out!”
"But, mother, do you think that all the blood bracelets in the world look the same? That's why I can't recognize that the one you are wearing is the one that Sang Jingwan once wore!"
The Queen Mother lowered her eyes and stroked the blood bracelet, her fingertips gently rubbing the darkest part of the bracelet.
Suddenly a gentle breeze blew outside the palace, causing her hanging veils to flutter and the gold-thread and kingfisher-embellished hairpins on her temples to rustle.
"Your Majesty has a very good eye."
"You are right. This is indeed the bracelet that Sang Jingwan once wore."
"And I might as well tell you that this bracelet was really given to me by Sang Jingwan."
Zhao Tan’s eyes widened instantly, feeling like he was betrayed by the person he trusted the most.
"Why is the emperor so surprised?"
The Queen Mother smiled and said, "Could it be that only you, the governor, are allowed to set fires, but we, the people, are not allowed to light lamps?"
"Hey, you see, what I said is not right."
"Should it be that you, the Emperor, are allowed to set fires, but I, the Empress Dowager, am not allowed to light lamps?"
Zhao Tan looked at the Queen Mother, as if he had never known her before, and suddenly felt very strange.
"Your Majesty knows that Sang Jingwan is a master of the secret techniques of the Imperial Master's Mansion, but she is completely free from the constraints of the Imperial Master's Mansion."
"You can use Sang Jingwan's skills to quietly kill Concubine Jiang, so why can't I use them as well?"
Zhao Tan was instantly facing a formidable enemy: "Did the Queen Mother also ask Sang Jingwan to do something for you?"
What is Sang Jingwan’s most powerful ability?
It takes a person's life silently, and makes the person unaware of the truth until he dies.
Whose life did the Queen Mother harm by using her abilities?
Zhao Tan thought of himself first.
But he couldn't think of a suitable reason.
She was the biological daughter of the Queen Mother, and it was because he was the emperor that her mother had the honor of being the Queen Mother.
Killing him would do no good at all to the Queen Mother.
He couldn't understand why his mother did this.
But if it wasn't used on him, who else would be worthy of the Queen Mother going to so much trouble to use such means?
Obviously, the Queen Mother's status is so noble that if she wants to kill someone, she doesn't even need a clear order. As long as she gives a few casual hints, people will naturally flock to her and rush to get rid of the person she wants to get rid of.
"nature."
The Queen Mother smiled and said, "However, Your Majesty, don't worry. After all, you and I are different. I believe in Buddhism and have been a vegetarian for many years. I am no longer used to killing. Naturally, I will not use Sang Jingwan's skills to harm anyone's life."
"Besides, you are my biological son. I spent a lot of effort to support you to the throne. How could I ruin your future?"
"I don't want to be an empress, and there's no need to waste my energy on that."
"If I kill you, I will have to find another emperor."
"My own son is wary of me, so how can a child I took away from someone else and raised him be closer to me than you are?"
"I've lived for so many years, I'm not so blind as to not see such a simple truth."
"The emperor should stop worrying about the future."
The Queen Mother smiled. Zhao Tan felt a little embarrassed that his thoughts were discovered, but he still said stubbornly, "You are joking, mother. I have never had such an idea."
"My mother and I are blood brothers, so how could we plot against each other just for the throne?"
The Queen Mother chuckled twice and did not comment.
Zhao Tan couldn't help but ask, "What kind of deal did mother make with Sang Jingwan?"
The Queen Mother glared at Zhao Tan with disdain.
"Your Majesty, why do you say you believe me, but are so impatient not to believe me?"
"The bond between us as mother and son is so fragile."
The Queen Mother smiled and said, "If that's the case, I'm really a little worried. Should I tell you?"
Zhao Tan: ...
It was hard for him not to suspect that the Queen Mother did it on purpose!
I am here on purpose to create mystery and make him feel timid so that he can scare himself.
What other fear can keep people awake at night more than the suspicion and doubt that arises from the bottom of their hearts?
I am afraid that every time I close my eyes, what I think, imagine and see are the most terrifying things in my heart.
Sang Jingwan is still alive?
Zhao Tan took a deep breath and suddenly calmed down.
"Since the Queen Mother doesn't want to tell me, then don't tell me."
Zhao Tan straightened his clothes and said, "Just like what the Queen Mother said, since we are already suspicious of each other to this extent, we should not be too frank about our intentions."
"Even if we tell each other, we will still doubt each other."
"On the contrary, it's not a beautiful thing."
The Queen Mother was slightly surprised: "Is the Emperor really not curious anymore?"
She seemed to want to say something, but Zhao Tan didn't give her the chance.
"The Queen Mother is wrong."
Zhao Tan chuckled a few times: "It's not that my son is not curious, but since he was young, my mother has been teaching him earnestly that the last thing he should and cannot have as a child in an imperial family is curiosity."
"I just remembered my mother's teachings."
“So I don’t want to explore it any further.”
He stood up from the bed, and without turning his head, he turned his back to the Queen Mother: "Just as the Queen Mother said just now, you and I are mother and son, we prosper together and suffer together."
"If you kill me, the emperor, and your mother has no intention of becoming an empress, even if you do, at your age now, if you kill me, your only biological son, I am afraid that even if you can take the throne, after a hundred years, no one will continue your family line, and your grave will be dug up and your corpse whipped by those traitors!"
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