The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 492 Painful Choice (6)
The emperor smiled unnaturally, and said embarrassingly: "What the queen mother said is that I have not thought of this, but sometimes when I am tired, I just want to find a quiet place to rest. She also has a little understanding of medical theory, and when I am tired, I feel more comfortable with her helping to relax my muscles and bones."

The Empress Dowager sighed: "It's not that the Ai family is inconsiderate of the emperor. Ai's concubine, Rong Concubine, looks at it coldly, but she is not like Shu Guiyi who is arrogant and arrogant. Although she is a concubine, she still keeps herself safe. Your Majesty After a tiring day, there is nothing wrong with wanting to find a place to rest and rest. Being an emperor is harder than others. The burden of the previous court is already heavy enough. Is there no place to rest in peace?"

The emperor obediently responded, "The empress dowager taught me that I will try my best to take care of you in the future."

Xiao Jun didn't completely disbelieve Xiao Hong's words, but he never dared to ask easily about the murder of the crown prince, which had been a heartbreak for the queen mother for so many years.Because he knows how much the queen mother loves the prince.Back then, she devoted all the love a mother had for her child to the prince, so much so that she ignored that she had a son. This was actually the fundamental reason why Xiao Jun was not close to the queen mother.

As long as he could remember, his queen mother always had only the prince alone in her eyes. She taught the prince to read, personally checked his homework, and took care of him meticulously, lest he might make a mistake.

At that time, Xiao Jun always looked at her queen mother holding the prince's hand from afar, with a smug smile on her face.The prince is smart and competitive. Among the princes, he is outstanding in everything he does. Xiao Jun is not convinced, so she works hard secretly, hoping to get her mother to look at him more, but he can't wait for her favor, even if it is a gentle look. .

Later, the empress dowager saw his loss and asked him to be raised by her side. Since then, he and the empress have become even more alienated. The word "mother empress" is quite unfamiliar to him, and he still prefers it to this day. It is customary to call her Queen Mother.

No matter what, he couldn't believe that it was the queen mother who poisoned the prince. At that time, this incident was a sensation and shocked the government and the public. It had already been concluded who was right, but he never dared to verify the truth.

After all, she is her own mother, the truth is so unbearable, sometimes it is better not to know.

At that time, the three major families of the imperial dynasty were headed by the Xie family. Even the Qin Lin family could not compete with the power of the Xie family. Mr. Xie was loyal to the court, but for some reason he refused to support the prince and insisted on helping Xiao Hong superior.Later, the crown prince died in Xie's mansion, and Xie's family was also convicted and executed.Xiao Hong didn't know what secrets the Empress Dowager had, so that the Empress Dowager wanted to kill them all, and finally forced him to force the palace to rebel.

At that time, the queen mother hated the Xie family, no matter how much he begged for mercy, the queen mother refused to save Wanyi.Such a painful past, I still feel sad when I think about it.

The queen mother saw that the emperor was silent, and there seemed to be a sad look between her brows, and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong with the emperor? But what's on your mind?"

Xiao Jun came back to her senses, only to realize that she had been out of her mind for a long time, forced a smile and said: "It's nothing, I'm just a little tired, it's late at night, the queen mother should go to rest earlier, and my son will leave first."

Coming out of Shou'an Palace, it was already the bright moon hanging high, Xiao Jun was thinking about something on her mind, and unconsciously headed towards Xihe Palace, Fu Quan reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you are going to the Palace of Concubine Rong ?"

The emperor stopped abruptly, thought for a while, turned around and said, "Show Chengkun Palace."

The queen did not expect that the emperor would return to the palace suddenly, let alone that the emperor would come to her own palace, and hurriedly prepared to pick him up. The emperor seemed very tired, so he took a cup of tea and rested.

In order to prevent the concubines from making random guesses, Xiao Jun roughly explained what happened to Xiao Hong today, seven points were true and three points were false. Concubine made it clear that the emperor came back to Beijing in a hurry when he encountered Xiao Hong trying to assassinate him in the hunting ground."

Although Xiao Jun had a lot of dissatisfaction with the empress on weekdays, there was one thing he had to admit, as long as he confessed, no matter whether it was explicit or implied, the empress would quickly understand and follow his will to do it perfectly.

Fufeng came back overnight, and Xiao Jun left the morning court. After listening to his report on the situation at that time, she angrily smashed the dragon-carved gold inkstones on the table, "2000 people were lying in ambush in the hunting ground, and he escaped." , what do you eat?"

Fufeng knelt in shame and said: "The eldest prince brought five hundred elite soldiers to guard him this time, and he is very familiar with the terrain of Xiyuan hunting ground. Once he hides in the mountains, it will be difficult to find him. His subordinates led people to kill all his guards, but Only the body of the First Prince was not seen."

"Five hundred elite soldiers!" Xiao Jun slapped the corner of the table so hard that the tea on the table almost spilled out, "He really came prepared, no wonder he insisted on taking Concubine Rong away!"

The good opportunity has been lost, once Xiao Hong hides, he will not show up again for a long time, and it will be even more difficult to find him.

After breakfast, Qingchen was copying Buddhist scriptures for Gu Jieyu, and Chang Xi asked to see her outside, so Qingchen let her come in to Dongnuange to do something.

Chang Xi slapped thousands at the door, "Greetings to the empress."

Qingchen signaled him to come in and talk, "What's the matter?"

Chang Xi bowed and said: "A few days ago, my lord ordered my servants to take good care of Xin Changzai in the cold palace, but something happened in the palace not long ago, I should have told my aunt yesterday, but my servant was afraid that my aunt would be exhausted just after returning to the palace. Incessantly, I didn't dare to go back and forth.

A few days ago, Xin Changzai's maid, Yu Xiang, fell into a well and drowned for some reason. Because she was just a sinful slave in the cold palace, the Ministry of Internal Affairs directly dragged her out of the palace and buried her.But according to the servant's inquiry... that night in the Leng Palace, a little maid accidentally saw that it was Xin Changzai who pushed Rue Xiang into the well with her own hands while taking advantage of people's unpreparedness.

The servant didn't understand why Xin Changzai did this, but according to people in the cold palace, Ruxiang didn't seem to obey her orders, and sometimes she would speak rudely to her master.The slave had already told the little maid not to talk nonsense, gave her some silver taels and frightened her, and she promised that she would never tell anyone else about it. "

Qingchen listened carefully to Chang Xi's words, and naturally understood why Xin Changzai wanted to kill Rue Xiang. Once He Guifei died, Ruexiang, a traitorous servant, would no longer be able to rely on her. If the pregnancy was revealed, wouldn't the lives of their mother and child be in jeopardy?Killing Rue Xiang was a last resort, but he didn't expect that the seemingly weak and cowardly little Chang Zai would be ruthless enough to kill the killer after being cornered.

(End of this chapter)