Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 122

When Zhao Qingze brought Concubine Li to Ci'an Palace, the Empress Dowager was lying in the room and fell asleep, and the palace staff stood in front of the bedroom door. Seeing the two people coming from afar, the palace staff quickly bowed and saluted, but their hearts were Had a bit of a bad premonition.

"Palace people?"

Zhao Qingze glanced at her inexplicably, with a faint smile on his face, and asked, "How is the Queen Mother?"

"The empress dowager has taken a rest from the medicine, and her health is better. If the emperor has something urgent to do with the empress dowager...do you need a servant to call the empress dowager?"

The palace man replied cautiously.

Zhao Qingze smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and his attitude was still gentle: "That's not necessary, since the queen mother has already rested, it doesn't matter if I come back later."

Zhao Qingze glanced at Concubine Li who was coming up behind him. At this time, Concubine Li was about to speak but stopped looking at him, as if she didn't understand his intentions, and at the same time, an anxious look appeared on her face.

"emperor……"

Seeing that Zhao Qingze just glanced at her without saying a word, and was planning to leave right now, Concubine Li became anxious.

If the empress dowager could not be caught off guard, this trip was a surprise, and the empress dowager might have prepared for it next time. At that time, Concubine Li was not sure that she would be bitten back.

Moreover, Concubine Li glanced vigilantly at the palace man who seemed to have no sense of presence standing on the side. She had been in close contact with the queen mother during this time, but she dared not underestimate this palace man, although she seldom talked to the queen mother, or did anything. Thoughts, but at the critical moment, the ability of this palace man did not dare to let her underestimate.

At this moment, the palace man must have noticed something.

"Concubine Li, the queen mother is resting at this time, I don't want someone to wake the queen mother up!"

Zhao Qingze glanced at Concubine Li indifferently, frowned and said, as if he didn't take her behavior seriously.

Concubine Li took a deep breath, and respectfully whispered to Zhao Qingze: "Your Majesty, the concubine is anxious, but can I let the concubine enter the house to see the empress dowager, if the empress dowager has woken up now! "

Concubine Li knew that she could not forcibly ask the Queen Mother to be awakened at this time, but she was really unwilling to let her leave like this.

"Forget it, since you insist, you go!"

Zhao Qingze turned his head to look at the palace man, and said, "The palace man will accompany Concubine Li in!"

"Yes."

The palace maid lowered her head and agreed gently, she looked at the impatient Concubine Li with complicated eyes, and said softly: "Concubine Li, come with the slaves!"

She stretched out her hand and pushed open the door of the bedroom, and walked in with Concubine Li.

Zhao Qingze stood outside the door, watching the two figures disappear behind the door, with an unfathomable smile on his face.

The doors and windows in the bedroom were closed, only two candles were lit, the light was very dim, and it was very quiet, except for a few palace servants standing in front of the bed like a background wall, they could almost hear the breathing of the queen mother lying on the bed.

The curtains in front of the bed were not lowered, only a layer of tulle curtains on the bed was loosely hung down, when the palace people and Concubine Li walked in, they could see the body lying on the bed sleeping very peacefully.

"Concubine Li, the empress dowager is still asleep, let's go out!"

The palace man spoke softly and slowly, as if his footsteps wanted to stop in front of the bed, and he didn't intend to come any closer.

Concubine Li pursed her lips, raised her voice and said with a smile: "Palace people, let's go up and have a look. What if the Empress Dowager is just lying on the bed to rest her mind!"

Concubine Li was about to step forward to lift the gauze curtain, but the palace servants suddenly grabbed Concubine Li's hand and said softly: "Concubine Li, the empress dowager has a bad temper, if you accidentally disturb her old man, when the time comes Blame is not good."

"you……"

Concubine Li glanced at the hand that the palace man was holding tightly to her, and was really taken aback in her heart.

But thinking of the purpose of her visit today, she was not afraid, instead she laughed: "Prince, my movements are very light, how could I disturb the empress dowager!"

She stretched out her hand and brushed away the hand that the palace man was holding on to her, and said coldly: "The palace man, you are more disciplined!"

After all, she walked straight towards the Empress Dowager's bed. Before she got close, she kicked a small table next to the bed. .

Concubine Li made a frightened look on her face, but her eyes were fixed on the Queen Mother's face, and the Queen Mother's eyeballs moved twice, which seemed to be a sign of waking up.

Concubine Li knelt down in front of the bed and pleaded loudly: "The empress dowager, the concubine deserves to die, the concubine is too careless and disturbed the empress dowager!"

"Concubine Li?"

The Empress Dowager opened her eyes and glanced at Concubine Li who was kneeling on the ground, she obviously didn't understand what happened.

Although she was woken up, seeing that it was Concubine Li, she smiled slightly and said, "It's okay, get up, didn't Aijia let you have a good rest, why are you here again, you child is too filial It's..."

The smile on the Empress Dowager's face has not yet fallen, but Concubine Li stood up with a smile, and said softly: "Empress Dowager, it's not that the concubine is filial, but the emperor has something to look for you!"

The smile on Concubine Li's face had a different flavor, like a beauty flower that had spit out poisonous juice, "Since the Empress Dowager has woken up, I don't blame my concubine, so I invited the emperor to come in."

"emperor?"

The queen mother showed doubts on her face, and she looked at the palace man standing by the bed. When she looked at each other, she also had a bad premonition in her heart.

Before she could stop her, Concubine Li had already walked out the door.

Zhao Qingze walked in with Deng Xian, and Concubine Li followed behind, with an inexplicable smile on his face.

"Is the emperor looking for Ai's family for something?"

The Empress Dowager was expressionless, and asked in a cold tone, but her hands were tightly grasping the quilt covering her body, and the blue veins on her hands showed her nervousness.

"I just asked the Queen Mother to confirm one thing."

Zhao Qingze didn't answer the Queen Mother's question directly. After saying this, he looked at Concubine Li.

Concubine Li's heart tightened, but she didn't show it in the slightest.She slowly came out from behind Zhao Qingze, reached out and took out the small porcelain vase from earlier, with a faint smile on her face, she asked softly: "Empress Dowager, do you still remember this small porcelain vase for my concubine?"

The moment she saw the small porcelain bottle, the queen mother's pupils shrank violently, and she grabbed the quilt with more force, and the matter really developed towards her worst guess.

But her face didn't move at all, she just said in a calm tone: "What is Concubine Li talking about, why can't Aijia not understand, when did Aijia give you this porcelain vase, what's in it?"

The empress dowager's denial was already expected by Concubine Li, she didn't panic when she heard the words, she just said: "Empress dowager, you gave this porcelain bottle to my concubine this morning."

"Aijia gave you something in the morning, but Aijia gave you a set of jewelry. It was just for the sake of taking care of Aijia last night. As for the things in your hand, Aijia doesn't know when I passed it on to you.

The queen mother looked at Zhao Qingze suspiciously, with a bit of blame in her eyes: "What's the matter with the emperor, just because of this little porcelain bottle, he rashly came to Ai's family to ask some nonsensical questions."

Zhao Qingze just smiled, and did not speak: "Mother, there is no need to be excited, but because what Concubine Li said is of great importance, I have to be cautious, otherwise I will be unfair to any side."

He walked to the side and sat down, but he stopped talking, as if he was waiting for the result of the two people's argument.

Zhao Qingze's appearance of staying out of the matter made Concubine Li very sad, and it also made the Queen Mother gnash her teeth.

The queen mother stared at Zhao Qingze and said, "Your majesty, you let your concubine talk to your mother like this, isn't it too rude?"

"Mother, don't worry, if what Concubine Li said is just slander, I will deal with her properly to vent my anger on mother, but if what she said is true, then..."

Zhao Qingze's words did not go on, but it gave Li Concubine confidence. She straightened her body unconsciously, with a smile on her face, and said softly: "Empress Dowager, my concubine is willing to follow what the emperor said. If this concubine really has half The concubine is willing to be punished for slandering the empress dowager. Moreover, the empress dowager and the concubine have not said anything yet, why are you so excited?"

"You are just a little concubine. The Ai family is your elder and also the empress dowager. How can you talk to the Ai family like this." The empress dowager closed her eyes, as if unwilling to talk to Concubine Li.

Concubine Li laughed, and said softly: "The empress dowager treated the concubines in a different way. The concubine thought that the empress dowager was always gentle and loving, but I didn't expect..."

Concubine Li only said half of what she said, but she immediately changed her tone and said: "Empress Dowager, if it's an ordinary matter, it's fine as a concubine, but this matter of poisoning the imperial concubine, the concubine really can't agree with the queen mother." Empress."

"Who wants to poison the imperial concubine!"

The Empress Dowager still had her eyes closed, her eyelids did not move at all, she looked quite still.

"Isn't that what you said, the queen mother, you want to raise the second prince, but you feel that you have no chance with the second prince's biological mother, the imperial concubine, and when you gave the medicine to the concubine, you told the concubine that as long as the concubine is the second prince, you will have no chance." If he is gone, the concubine will be able to gain the emperor's favor."

Concubine Li spoke slowly, and the queen mother also listened quietly. When Concubine Li finished speaking, the queen mother laughed and looked at Concubine Li as if she was watching a joke: "Concubine Li, are you Hysteria! The Ai family wants to raise the second prince. The Ai family feels lonely in the palace. There is nothing wrong with wanting to raise a child to relieve boredom. Even if they didn't agree, the Ai family could only give up. And how could the Ai family say to get rid of the imperial concubine to compete for favor for you, even if the Ai family really wants to be favored by others, the Ai family's niece, Concubine De, is still in this palace!"

"The concubine also knows that there is no basis for her words now. No matter what the concubine says, she will never be able to speak for the empress dowager."

What Concubine Li said earlier was dismissed by the queen mother one by one, she didn't care, but said slowly, "The concubine first saw that the queen mother was recovering from illness, and felt that the queen mother treated her concubines kindly, so she came to be kind to my concubines." An Gong has been with the empress dowager for a long time, and the concubines were also obsessed with ghosts. They only think that the empress dowager is a good person, and everything is for the sake of the concubine. The concubine shared the emperor's worries, and the concubine believed it beyond her means, and together with the empress dowager, she wanted to find a place where the concubine Xian couldn't manage the palace affairs. From this, the empress dowager also let the concubine know a lot about you. The 'connections' in the palace. This time, the empress dowager wanted the concubine to poison the imperial concubine with medicine. The concubine said that she was incapable, so you gave the concubine a few people and said that they would help the concubine... "

"Concubine Li, don't talk nonsense here."

The Empress Dowager stared at Concubine Li fiercely, and interrupted her words viciously.She did say that she would help Concubine Li, but she didn't immediately give those people to Concubine Li. Since Concubine Li dared to say such a thing here, the Queen Mother realized at this time that Concubine Li might not be able to help Concubine Li from the very beginning. She planned to find her faults and ask the emperor for credit, and even set up a game for her.

"Empress Dowager, don't get excited, as long as the concubine tells those people, let the emperor check whether they belong to your empress dowager, then you will know the truth of what the concubine said!"

The smile on Concubine Li's face became more and more smug, and she also looked at Zhao Qingze with a smile.

The empress dowager took a deep breath, and just when she was about to get angry, the palace servants suddenly stood up and said softly: "Your maidservant interjected, the empress dowager was in charge of the palace affairs and protected the emperor and Prince Rong in the deep palace. When she grows up, she naturally has some power in her hands. Concubine Li's grandmother, Princess Changle Changle, was a favored princess in the palace. I am afraid that when Concubine Li entered the palace, she gave Concubine Li some power in the palace. It is actually not difficult to find out some people who belong to the Empress Dowager, and these people cannot explain the fact that the Empress Dowager wants Empress Li to poison the imperial concubine."

"Yes, there were many concubines back then, and the Ai family spent so much effort protecting the emperor and Li'er growing up, but now, it has become evidence of being slandered. If I had known this, it would have been better for the Ai family to let the emperor and Li'er live on their own. Forget about self-destruction!"

After hearing what the palace people said, the queen mother made a sad expression on her face, and said while hammering her chest repeatedly.

Concubine Li bit her lip, she was naturally not reconciled to what she said just now being dismissed by the palace people so easily, but she knew that it was not easy for her to insist on this now.

She held the porcelain bottle tightly in her hand, and said with a soft smile: "Yes, I know this, but it does not prove that this bottle of medicine was given by the empress dowager. The concubine was also afraid that she might have misunderstood the empress dowager, so she showed the bottle of medicine to a palace servant who knew medical skills. Personally, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager."

"Concubine Li, what nonsense are you talking about? It's just a bottle of medicine, so it's a joke that only Concubine De and Aijia have it."

"Chenqie, don't dare to talk nonsense. The palace man next to Chenqie has a great research on pharmacology. He said that taking this medicine once can make people gradually weaken and die. She has only seen this medicine in the Chen family. How to configure it, probably only the daughter of the Chen family knows." After Li Fei finished speaking, she turned her gaze to Zhao Qingze who was sitting on the side with his eyelids drooping in thought.

Zhao Qingze smiled slightly, and said: "Mother, I have also heard that the Chen family once had an ancestor who was very proficient in medicine, and it is not surprising that he could concoct such a miraculous medicine. Otherwise, let Deng Xian take someone to Defei Palace Look for it, if Concubine De also has this medicine in her hand, then..."

"Absurd! It is extremely absurd!"

The queen mother patted the bed board heavily with her hand and said, "Even if this medicine comes from the Chen family, who can guarantee that no one other than the Chen family can make it out? The family is really disappointed, the emperor might as well convict the Ai family now!"

Zhao Qingze smiled and said nothing, but turned his head and gave Deng Xian an order.

After Deng Xian bowed and saluted, he exited the door of the bedroom, obviously Zhao Qingze didn't intend to pay attention to the Queen Mother's words.

(End of this chapter)