Fengming Chen Palace

Chapter 172 Candid
"Please leave, Your Majesty." Without giving Emperor Chen a chance to speak, Lu Xiurong spoke again, seeing her like this, the Emperor had no choice but to retreat for now.

After instructing Rui'er to take good care of Lu Xiurong, the emperor returned to Yuxiu Palace. At this moment, Su Qingning has woken up and is eating.

When he came to Su Qingning's side, Emperor Chen sat down. He had been roasting for a while, and his body was not cold.

"Has the emperor ever had a meal?" The emperor's chin was covered with stubble, and the bruises under his eyes were very obvious. From last night to now, he hasn't rested yet.

Hearing Su Qingning's question, the Emperor Chen shook his head, and Su Qingning ordered someone to serve the Emperor Chen a bowl of food for himself.

The food Su Qingning ate did not have any flavor, and Nanny Chen added something to the bowl that the emperor ate, so that he would not be unable to swallow it.

Xu Shi was hungry, even if it wasn't that delicious, the emperor would eat it up quickly, Su Qingning wanted to add another bowl for him, but he refused.

Seeing Emperor Chen's insistence, Su Qingning did not force her. After eating, she looked at Emperor Chen, "Your Majesty, how is the investigation going?"

The Emperor Chen could guess who poisoned him, but Su Qingning didn't know. She looked at Emperor Chen with determination in her eyes.

She must know about the person who wanted to poison her but ended up killing Jin'er.

"Zhou Chengren is still investigating. You are weak now, so don't worry about these things." Emperor Chen understood Su Qingning's thoughts, but it's not suitable for her to know about this matter.

"Then... what happened to Sister Lu?" Jin'er died at a young age, in the same way, no one would be able to accept it.

As a new mother, Su Qingning could understand what it was like.

"She is...not very well now, I just came back from Yongchun Palace." I briefly told Su Qingning about Lu Xiurong's situation, "What I am most worried about now is that the friendship between you two will be broken because of this..."

"Even so, my concubine can understand. If it wasn't for my concubine, maybe Jin'er wouldn't have died. Those things are for my concubine." With Mother Chen present, even if the table was full of her favorite food, she would It might not even move.

But she really didn't expect that the food that had been tested for poison would still have poison in it.

Usually attending palace banquets, the food on her table has been eaten by Jin'er many times, and every time, nothing happened. How could she have thought that something wrong would happen this time?

In terms of pain, she felt pain in her heart no less than anyone else. No one knew how much she wanted to change the fate of Lu Xiurong's mother and daughter.

"Don't think too much about it. I can't blame you for this matter. If it's really strange, I should be blamed." If it wasn't because his existence hindered some people, Su Qingning and the children would not be regarded as thorns in their eyes.

When Emperor Chen said so, Su Qingning looked at him, and from his eyes, Su Qingning saw pain.

At this moment, a bold guess emerged in Su Qingning's heart...

Quickly lowering her head, Su Qingning didn't dare to let the emperor see her expression. Back then, she heard the quarrel between the empress dowager and the sixth prince. She knew that the emperor was not the empress dowager herself.

Under such circumstances, the queen mother can explain clearly if she attacked herself.

"Ningning, are you alright?" Sensing that Su Qingning's mood was a bit wrong, Emperor Chen hurriedly asked, Su Qingning came back to his senses, and raised his head to look at him.

"The concubine is fine." Although Su Qingning said so, Emperor Chen could still see some clues from her expression. He felt that Su Qingning had something to hide from him.

"The concubine is a little tired and wants to sleep." Su Qingning spoke again, seeing that she didn't want to talk, and the emperor didn't force her.

"Then you have a good rest." Helping her tuck the corner of the quilt, the emperor sat on the edge of the bed and watched her close her eyes.

There was something on her mind, how could Su Qingning sleep, she was lying on the bed, frowning.

Emperor Chen didn't leave, he sat by the bed, seeing Su Qingning frowning, he reached out his hand and held her.

Feeling that her palm was wrapped, Su Qingning's heart trembled. She opened her eyes and looked at Emperor Chen.

The Emperor Chen's gaze was on her, with a trace of tenderness, Su Qingning hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Your Majesty, do you have any guesses about the person who made the attack?"

Hearing Su Qingning's question, surprise flashed in Emperor Chen's eyes, he weighed it in his heart, and then said, "I have a guess in my heart, or it can be said that it is accurate."

"Is it the queen mother?" After the emperor finished speaking, Su Qingning spoke again, the surprise in the emperor's eyes deepened, he never expected that Su Qingning would guess it so accurately.

"Your Majesty, you still remember that the Empress Dowager used to make things difficult for my concubine by asking her to copy Buddhist scriptures. When I was sending the Buddhist scriptures, I heard the dispute between the Empress Dowager and the Sixth Prince."

"The concubine couldn't hear the voice in the palace very clearly, but she could infer something. Perhaps from that time on, the queen mother wanted to get rid of the concubine."

"From my concubine's pregnancy to the present, there have been a lot of plots, both open and secret, and thanks to Madam Chen, I let my concubine avoid it again and again. killed."

"I didn't want to talk about these things, but I was worried that Jin'er's tragedy would happen again."

As soon as Jin'er was mentioned, Su Qingning felt uncomfortable, and tears rolled down the corners of her eyes.

"Don't cry, they say you can't cry during confinement." Emperor Chen wiped away his tears for Su Qingning, he sighed and spoke slowly.

"The one who attacked you was indeed the queen mother. Although I know it, I can only bear it for now. In fact, the queen mother is not my biological mother. It is precisely because of this that the relationship between her and me will always be bad. She hopes that Xuanyuan Qi Inheriting the throne, but in the end, I became the emperor."

"In these years, I have worked hard to maintain the relationship between mother and child. Although I was not born by her, I grew up beside her. I thought that after so many years, the Queen Mother would have some affection for me, but I was wrong... "

If you don't feel sad, it's a lie. During the years when you didn't know the truth, Emperor Chen always believed that the Queen Mother was his biological mother. Until later, she sent someone to poison her, trying to poison herself...

"The child in Concubine Chu's womb belongs to Xuanyuanqi. He has never left and is in the capital. I reckon that he and the Queen Mother have reached a certain consensus."

"Since the queen mother is not your biological mother, which concubine is the one who gave birth to you? Is she still alive?"

Su Qingning reckoned that the person who gave birth to the emperor should be gone.

"I don't know who she is, but I do know that she is no longer here. With the Queen Mother's means, how can she survive?"

After knowing the truth, Emperor Chen had investigated the identity of his biological mother, but no matter how he searched, there was no clue. He reckoned that those who knew the truth should be gone, otherwise, why would there be no clue?
(End of this chapter)