The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 141 Trigger
The originally quiet imperial city was disturbed by the imperial guards rushing here with the imperial decree, and the gates of the palaces were knocked open everywhere. What others saw was that the imperial guards brought hundreds of The guards in the palace left.

When it was ugly, the palace of the Seventh Prince.

When Xie Han heard that Zhang Kang was reporting something outside, he immediately got up from the couch, said to Yi, "Go on to sleep", then put on a straight train, tied a belt just enough, and went outside.

Yi Shi inevitably panicked for a while.It is rarely a good thing for the imperial guards to come to the door, and now the conflict between the emperor and the queen mother is intensifying, and the seven kings have always been loved by the queen mother.

She couldn't help worrying that something would happen to Xie Han, she stood up on the couch after a moment's stunned, didn't call the maid to come in to serve her, she put on the skirt without making a sound, even her hands were shaking.

Then she sat at the table, poured out a cup of cold tea but didn't have the heart to drink it.She sat quietly holding the teacup in both hands, the more she sat, the more flustered she became.

After a while, footsteps finally came from outside again, Yi's heart sank when she heard that there was more than one person.

She suddenly put down the teacup and rushed to the door, and took a closer look, it was Xie Han who came back, accompanied by four eunuchs, holding lamps to light the way for him.

"...Your Highness." Yi felt a little relieved, and ran up to Xie Han, still looking at him with lingering surprise.

Xie Han also looked at her, sneered, waved the four of them back, held her hand and entered the room.

Looks all right?Yi yelled three times in his heart, God bless!

Xie Han swept the table after entering the room: "Didn't I tell you to go back to sleep, why did you drink tea?"

"I didn't drink." Yi Shi sat back on the couch safely, untied her skirt in twos and outs, then took off her skirt and got into the quilt, and then took off her jacket slowly under the quilt.

Both of them lay down in the back room for a while, and she still couldn't help asking: "What's the matter? This is ugly now, Imperial Guard..."

"Something may have happened to Mr. Wei." Xie Han sighed, "It's the commander of the imperial guard and the elder brother of Sydney. He met an assassin earlier, and the assassin injured several imperial guards in a row, so he chased him out , and then no one can be found.”

Yi Shi didn't understand for a while: "What does that have to do with us?"

"I want to find him, Brother Huang sent someone to borrow guards." Xie Han lay on his back with folded arms, "I asked them to send 1000 people away."

Yi Shi was startled: "But there are only..."

There are only 1000 guards in the palace, and exceeding the limit will cause big trouble.

"I know, I let them take it all away." Xie Han smiled, hugged Yi Shi who was still in shock, and said comfortingly, "It's just borrowed for a while, besides, nothing will happen in the mansion. There are also heavy guards, and now it is a peaceful and prosperous age, who would be crazy to come to the palace?"

Seems right too...

Yi Shi felt relieved.With his bright eyes wide open, he thought for a while, and then asked him: "But now the Empress Dowager is having trouble with His Majesty, will Her Majesty help His Majesty, will the Empress Dowager be unhappy?"

Xie Han's complexion darkened a little, and after a while, he let out a sigh of relief: "I wanted to find something to do for her."

When the two were still whitewashing the peace, he could be loved by his mother while respecting him as a brother and friend with his elder brother.But it's not the case now, the conflict has turned into a battle situation, and it will be impossible for him to deliberately ignore this disharmony in the middle.

To express your attitude, nothing more than two.One is to help the queen mother challenge the emperor's brother, and the other is to help the emperor's brother bring down the queen mother.As for the idea of ​​"trying to get the two back together", it's not that he hasn't never thought about it, but even he himself feels naive.

After much deliberation, Xie Han could only choose the second option.

Ever since the emperor's elder brother ascended the throne and his first mother forced him to have a son, Manchao paid special attention to his "brother".It didn't matter that everything was peaceful in the past, but now that they have turned their faces, the people on the mother's side will more or less hope that he will ascend the throne as emperor, so as to completely reverse the situation of being suppressed by the emperor.

But Xie Han knew that that would not work.

Brother Huang has been an emperor well, and he will never abdicate for no reason.It must be a bloody storm to help him succeed to the throne. If the queen mother wins, the emperor's brother will either die or his life will be worse than death.

Furthermore, Xie Han didn't think he could be called a "virtuous man". It's more suitable for the emperor to be the emperor. It's good for him to live a happy life in the palace.

What's more, even if he is virtuous and succeeds to the throne, he is not someone who is willing to be manipulated by the family.At that time, the emperor's brother will not have the ability to kill the Quartet, and he is afraid that he will suffocate himself to death after being a puppet for a few years.

So he can't help the queen mother in public or privately.

And as for Brother Ruohuang winning...

The world will continue to be peaceful.Those aristocratic families will inevitably be suppressed even worse, but Xie Han feels that they deserve it.

The queen mother should and will not lose her life. No matter how much the emperor hates him, but the word "filial piety" is pressed there, and everyone in the world will watch. He can't kill his mother.

These things have been weighed in Xie Han's mind for a long time, and now he is sorting them out in his mind again, it seems that he will be a little bit ruthless, but he is unprecedentedly convinced that he is right.

The queen mother must know that he is wholeheartedly helping her brother, so that she and those aristocratic families will give up this heart.

Xie Han pondered for a long time, then raised his eyes again, Yi Shi in front of him was still looking at him with clear eyes.

He raised his hand to cover her eyes: "Sleep quickly. If you sleep less, be careful that your daughter can't bear her coquettishness, and she becomes a son in a fit of anger."

"Bah, bah, bah!" Yi was arguing in the dark with his eyes covered, "This baby must be a daughter! It must be a daughter! A daughter who is as cute as A Yao!"

Yinshi, Changle Palace.

Just like the emperor, the empress dowager is also constantly inquiring about the outside world, unable to sleep.

She ridiculed herself in her heart, and there were times when she did exactly the same thing as the emperor.

She was working straight at the desk, and she had already changed several cups of tea.She didn't drink it, she felt bitter in her mouth, and she couldn't drink tea with a good taste.

The bead curtain was opened again, and Lvxiang came in again to exchange tea.She frowned and wanted her to back down, but Luxiang said: "Queen Mother, it's Yin's time, it's time for you to use sesame paste."

She didn't stop her anymore, and after Lu Xiang took the teacup down, she picked up a porcelain spoon and stirred in the gray-black sesame paste, bursts of warm and strong numbness entered her nose, but it couldn't warm her heart go.

She eats this thing all year round, and at night, she also eats a spoonful of fried black sesame sprinkled with sugar.Tremella soup is also a must-eat bowl every day. It is thick and thick, and it never stops.

So until now, she has not had a few gray hairs, and her skin is still very good, allowing her to believe that she is still very young.

The empress dowager stirred so slowly that the heat was almost dissipated, and she smiled lightly.

She couldn't be called old at first, and she was only 47 in terms of age.But... I still feel that time flies so fast, it seems that I am 47 in the blink of an eye, Xie Han is so old, as for Xie Zhao...

The Empress Dowager took a sip of the sesame paste, and the sweetness filled her mouth, which temporarily eased her mood.

After entering the hall against the wall, Xu Chunsheng observed the Empress Dowager's expression for a long time before stepping forward and bowing: "The Empress Dowager."

"How is it?" The queen mother put down the porcelain spoon.

"The Mou family and the Mou family have been raided. Mou Lin, the eldest son of Mou, has been dismissed and investigated. He will be escorted back to Luo'an soon."

The queen mother frowned, not caring about the life and death of the Mou family.

She asked more clearly: "Where is Ai's natal family?"

"It seems to be fine for the time being." Xu Chunsheng buried his head very low, "The imperial guards have suppressed the matter to death, and I really can't find out the specific officials. But there is no big movement in the Qu family, except that they married into Mou. Other than the family member being imprisoned, the others seem to have not been implicated."

The empress dowager raised her red lips slightly, and smiled a little: "That's good. The Ai family also thinks that he doesn't have the ability to reach the Qu family in one move."

Xu Chunsheng bowed without saying a word, the Queen Mother raised her jaw slightly, and her voice raised a bit: "As for those humble little households, if he wants to cut them off, let him go. Anyway, the Ai family has endured it for so many years. He has taken away a lot from Ai's family, so it's okay to let him have a good time again!"

After all, she knew in her heart that this "son" did not have one heart with her.Fortunately, she has another son.

"But, Empress Dowager..." Xu Chunsheng's heart skipped a beat, "There is one more thing..."

The Empress Dowager's phoenix eyes shone slightly: "Say."

Xu Chunsheng unconsciously took a half step back: "Earlier, the imperial guards could not find Mr. Wei, and His Majesty was eager to find someone but couldn't send more imperial guards for this, so he had to borrow guards from various palaces. To use it. I inquired, the Second Highness, the Third Highness, and the Ninth Highness each sent 400 people, the Fourth Highness and the Eighth Highness sent 500 people, and the Fifth Highness has always been close to His Majesty, leaving 100 people to guard the safety of the palace. I'm on a mission. But His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince..."

A gleam of pleasure flashed in the Empress Dowager's eyes: "He won't help?"

Xu Chunsheng didn't dare to raise his head: "He handed over all 1000 people to the Imperial Guard."

In the somewhat empty bedroom, the atmosphere suddenly became unspeakably complicated.

The empress dowager stayed there for an unknown amount of time, Xu Chunsheng only felt that it took a very long time before he heard the empress dowager's voice: "You, what are you talking about?"

Xu Chunsheng felt like a stick in his throat, and he didn't dare to say any more.

"How could he!" The empress dowager was furious, trying to deceive herself and not to explore what her son wanted to say, but she couldn't.

A few years ago, she could comfort herself by saying that Xie Han was still young and didn't understand the importance of these things, so she still got close to his imperial brother.

but now……

The Empress Dowager felt a burst of fishy sweetness rushing up from her belly, her brows twitched again and again before she could bear the feeling back.

She hit the case hard: "Send him into the palace at dawn!"

Ruan family.

Sydney woke up early in the morning and heard a shocking event: Zixian is missing? !

The person who came to report this was from Su Zixian's small kitchen. When he entered the room, he knelt down to her and cried, "The lady made a few dishes last night and went out with a food box. Tell us the most." We'll be back in an hour. But we waited and waited but we couldn't see anyone, and we haven't come back until now, we are afraid that something will happen to her, so we have to disturb the lady."

Then she heard that the city of Luo'an was not peaceful last night, it seemed that an unknown assassin came to make trouble, and the killing in the south lasted for a long time.It is heard that many people died in the government, and it is inevitable that they accidentally injured the people, but it is not known whether any people died because of this.

Sydney's heart was blown away!

If something happened to Su Zixian and her friend of nearly ten years, she would die in a hurry.

Immediately, he left the maid and went out, and hurriedly asked the doorman at home, but the boy was a little dazed, shook his head and said he couldn't remember, several maids went in and out several times yesterday, and he couldn't tell who was who .

Xue Li became even more anxious, so she went to look for Gao Shi again, dragged Gao Shi and asked, "Mom! Have you seen Zixian? The one who is about my age was cooking with me yesterday!"

Gao Shi was even more confused, shaking his head and saying that he didn't know if he hadn't seen it.

What made Sydney even more desperate was that even the imperial guards couldn't explain why.The few people on duty last night remembered that Su Zixian had gone out, but they really didn't know where she went or why she didn't come back.

Cold sweat broke out in Sydney's palms.They have all been in the palace for a long time and are not familiar with Luo'an, and Su Zixian's family members are not even in Luo'an.

The whole night, she didn't come back and no letter came back, so she couldn't have gone back to the palace by herself.

It is also impossible to just find an inn to live in, which is a bit of a bad rule.Besides, even if it is true, Su Zixian should let her know...

And why should she go to an inn?The Ruan family is here, why would she spend that wronged money?

Xueli was so anxious that she walked around the room, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that she might be one of the civilians who were accidentally injured by the assassin.In the end, he was forced to have no choice but to ask Shi Zhan to tell Wei Chen about the matter, and see if he could help Wei Chen find it.

But Shi Zhan was quiet for a while and said: "Lord Wei...something happened too, life and death are uncertain now."

Sydney: "...?!"

Things were so much scarier than she had imagined, she didn't even know how to react for a moment.It was dark in front of her eyes, thanks to the quick eyesight and quick hands of the imperial guards in front of her, she didn't let her fall.

Xue Li slowed down for a while, and was half-supported and half-supported to sit down on the porch, only to realize that she almost broke the hands of the two imperial guards who were holding her arms.

"What's going on?" She asked weakly, forced herself to calm down, and asked again, "Then Your Majesty..."

"Everything is fine, Your Majesty." Shi Zhan nodded and said, "Miss, don't worry too much. There are people all over the city looking for Lord Wei, and I will also tell them about Miss Su and let them look for it together."

Xueli let them back away in a daze, and sat alone on the porch for a long time before finally getting up.She stumbled and walked, but dared not go back to the room.

Ah Yuan was probably still asleep, but Ah Yao had already woken up.Seeing her like this, Ah Yao must be very worried about her.

Xueli made up her mind and went to the kitchen. She asked the maids to go out expressionlessly. She stood in front of the shelf where the ingredients were placed in a daze for a while. She subconsciously took the dried hawthorn on the shelf and threw it away. After soaking in the water for a while, tears came out all at once.

She gritted her teeth and went to wash the rice. She could hold back her tears, but she couldn't help the fear in her heart.

The years of acquaintance are too long, and she has seen a lot of separation and reunion in the palace, but she never thought that Su Zixian would disappear from her side like this!
They were both only eight years old when we first met...

Neither of them are very qualified.The little maids have to learn everything from the beginning, and if they don’t do well, they will be punished. At first, they would touch the wounds on their arms and cry secretly at night, and they would try to persuade each other when they cried; Yes, after knowing that the other party was fined again, I spent more than half a month's monthly money to buy candy and snacks to make the other party happy!
Later, when they went to the imperial dining room, they were bullied so badly by Wang Wanzhi for a while, but they still supported each other!
At that time, Sydney had the medicine given by the "Master Commander", and they used it together.At the beginning, no one was polite, but later they all tried their best to use less medicine, and they didn't know how to save money when applying medicine for the other party.

Su Zixian was always there when she needed her friend the most.Now, those hardest and hardest days have all come to an end. Sydney never imagined that she would suddenly stay out all night and never hear from her during the peaceful days when she went home to visit her relatives...

It's the time when the city of Luo'an is in chaos again!
Many messy thoughts began to stir in Sydney's mind, and even the various bloody scenes read from the scriptures became vivid pictures, ruthlessly dangling in her mind, each picture contained Su Zixian, and sometimes Wei Chen...

No matter how hard she tried to restrain herself, it was useless, she tried her best to put all her thoughts on the pot of hawthorn porridge in front of her.

She said to herself: How could it be such a coincidence?Zixian might be too lazy to come back because she was tired from going out and playing.Make the porridge so she can eat it when she comes back!
But even so, when she boiled the porridge half-cooked and threw the soaked dried hawthorn into the pot, the tears were still blinding her eyes.She covered her mouth to hold back her voice, and after a while, she still couldn't hold back and squatted down.She sat with her back against the stove and hugged her knees, and the fear in her heart screamed loudly, causing her tears to stop for a while and then pour out for the next time.

"Sister!" The door was knocked open, and Qingli looked around before seeing her, and came back after a moment of stunned, "Sister, don't cry! Sister Zixian is back! Mother, let me tell you! "

Xueli raised her head dully, stood up with her hands propped up, stared at her in disbelief for a while, then hugged Qingli: "Wow..."

"Sister, sister?" Qingli was caught off guard by her crying. She didn't dare to fight and didn't know how to coax her. It took a long time before she struggled, "Don't cry... sister, don't cry! Sister Zixian is alive! Alive!"

Xueli cried spinelessly for a long time, and after feeling happy, she scooped water from the water tank outside the kitchen to wash her face, wiped her face clean before going to Su Zixian.

Pushing open the courtyard door, Xueli called out nervously: "Zixian!"

"Hush..." A medical woman who was closest immediately signaled her to keep quiet, approached and said, "Miss Su is asleep, she has bled a lot, she just woke up, and she was quite frightened, Take it easy, lady."

Is this really accidentally injured by a fight at night?

Xueli nodded quickly, and walked into the house lightly.

In the bedroom, Su Zixian was lying flat on the couch. Because she was covered with a quilt, she couldn't see any injuries on her body. She could only see a white band wrapped around her forehead, and some blood was faintly leaking from the corner of her forehead.

She was not "asleep" as the doctor said, but her almond eyes were wide open, and there was no blood on her face.

"Zixian?" Xue Li hesitated and said lightly, sat down on the side of the couch, and immediately put her hand under the quilt to shake her hand.

Su Zixian also shook her back, her eyes were a little empty: "When are you going back to the palace?"

Xue Li was taken aback for a moment, and replied, "It depends on His Majesty's wishes... What's wrong?"

"Oh..." Su Zixian nodded clearly, "Then do me a favor."

"Tell me." Sydney said immediately.

"If Master Wei comes to see me..." Su Zixian smiled coldly, "Stop him, I don't want to see him."

what?
Xueli couldn't understand the entanglement in it for a while, so she asked first: "Did you see him?"

Is Wei Chen okay?

"Yeah." Su Zixian seemed to be mocking herself a little, and she closed her eyes with a short reply, and told her without wanting to say anything more, "He sent me back."

(End of this chapter)