Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 127

"how so?"

Ruyi looked at Zhao Qingze's appearance and didn't know what to say.

Even she, who barely knew the situation, knew that it was impossible for Zhao Qingze to kill the Empress Dowager, why did the Empress Dowager think so.If Zhao Qingze really wanted to kill the Supreme Emperor, would it have taken so long? Zhao Qingze could have done it as soon as he sat on the throne.

"In the eyes of the Queen Mother, I...killed my father, and even my mother."

Zhao Qingze clenched his hands into fists, took a deep breath, but smiled on his face, "Speaking of which, it's not a bad thing. The queen mother is afraid, she is afraid of me, and she will never take my words seriously again. Back to business!"

"do not talk."

Ruyi grabbed Zhao Qingze's hand backhand, and said softly: "The Queen Mother doesn't believe you, I believe you, and our children will believe you too."

Looking at Ruyi's serious gaze, Zhao Qingze smiled faintly.

Mingming's heart was restless and turbulent, but he didn't say anything more, he just stood up and calmly ate the meal that Ruyi asked the dining room to prepare for him.

It may be that he got the news and instructions early in the morning. The meals in the dining room are all vegetarian. After Zhao Qingze moved his chopsticks a few times, he didn't have any appetite to eat any more, so he put down his chopsticks. Later, under Ruyi's persuasion, Zhao Qingze finally Another small bowl of plain noodles was used.

After eating, Zhao Qingze didn't listen to Ruyi's persuasion to rest, but planned to go back to work directly.

Ruyi has no choice, and knows that if Zhao Qingze becomes stubborn, she will not be able to persuade her at all, so she can only helplessly say: "There is no need to be in such a hurry, you should take a rest, I just returned to the palace and I don't know anything, you talk to me OK."

Zhao Qingze just sat on the couch, but he didn't close his eyes, instead holding a cup of tea and talking to Ruyi.

"It seems that the Ministry of Internal Affairs hasn't brought the sackcloth filial piety. I'm going to watch the spirit at night. Can the two children only go for a while? I'm afraid it will be too much to stay with the children all the time."

Although Ruyi was puzzled by this, she knew that Zhao Qingze would ask someone to arrange it later on how to do it, but right now, Ruyi had nothing to say.

On the contrary, it was Zhao Qingze who heard it, but smiled and said: "No need, everything is as usual in Zhaoyang Palace, you and the child don't need to go to the mourning hall."

"Not going to the mourning hall..." Ruyi was a little at a loss when she heard this, "This is not appropriate, after all, the Supreme Emperor died."

Ruyi, as Zhao Qingze's concubine, how can she not go to the mourning hall to watch over her, even if the two children are young, but as the grandson of the Supreme Emperor, they still have to accompany her.

This matter is no longer a rule that can be changed, it's not that Zhao Qingze can not go if he can't say it, but it involves a tradition, a long-standing custom.Ruyi can assure you that if she and her two children don't go, it will be a excuse to talk about it later, and it can be used to attack their painful feet.

"Besides, the Queen Mother doesn't like me in the first place. If I don't go, the Queen Mother might have something to say!"

Ruyi said hesitantly, although they knew that it was not appropriate to mention the Queen Mother at this time, but this is indeed what they need to consider most.

"At that time, you can go when the coffin is lifted. You don't have to go to the wake. You are not in good health. Now that it's so cold today, it's not good to take the child away if you're sick." Zhao Qingze paused for a long time, He said again, "Empress Dowager, I'm afraid she won't appear in the mourning hall when the Supreme Emperor is buried."

"Queen Mother, why don't you go?" Ruyi was very surprised. The Supreme Emperor passed away. All the concubines and children of the Supreme Emperor, as well as their family members and ministers, must all appear in the mourning hall. As the official wife of the Supreme Emperor, the Empress Dowager No more reason than her absence.

"The Supreme Emperor passed away, and the Empress Dowager was overwhelmed with grief and fell ill!"

The corner of Zhao Qingze's mouth showed the mocking smile again.

The queen mother was indeed ill, and she was so sick that she could hardly get out of bed. Compared with the past, even the imperial doctor felt that the queen mother could not recover in the short term at least.

Since the queen mother heard the news of the death of the emperor, she began to hide in the palace. From morning to night, people guarded her bedroom inside and out. The candles with thick arms illuminated the palace brightly, but the queen mother His expression was still terrified.

"Your Majesty, I've taken some medicine."

The palace man took the medicine and walked to the bedside, but shocked the dazed Queen Mother.

"Medicine, what kind of medicine? I won't drink it!"

The Empress Dowager was terrified, but suddenly said in a rage.

"Your Majesty, the body is the most important thing." The palace man persuaded softly.

Who knows that the Queen Mother suddenly reached out and knocked the bowl of medicine on the ground, and shouted: "Did the emperor let you pour poison on Aijia, Aijia won't drink it!"

"My lady..."

The palace man turned pale when he heard the words, and quickly knelt on the ground to defend himself: "This is the tranquilizing decoction prescribed by the imperial doctor for the empress dowager, how dare the slaves poison the empress!"

"Neat God? Aijia doesn't need to be reassured!"

The queen mother took a deep breath and said, "Aijia doesn't need to drink medicine!"

"The Empress Dowager..."

When another palace servant came in with a tray of food in his hand, he couldn't help sighing when he saw this scene, and said softly: "Master, don't worry, the soup, medicine and food are trustworthy for slaves and servants." Some people do it by hand, and no one will prescribe medicine."

The Empress Dowager's face relaxed slightly when she saw the palace man. Obviously, this palace man was the same as the previous palace man. She was brought into the palace from the Chen family and had been with her for decades, and she trusted her.

But even so, the queen mother still did not dare to relax her vigilance, she just said: "Now the emperor has taken control of the entire palace, the people who mourned the family have been pulled out by the emperor, and the emperor has released people in Ci'an Palace, if you want to You can't guard against Ai's family."

"The food and medicine delivered to the empress dowager's mouth, someone will try it first, don't worry, empress." The palace maid patiently persuaded.

The expression on the Empress Dowager's face was slightly relaxed, but suddenly she seemed to think of something, but she looked at the palace maid and said, "No, if those who try it will take the antidote first!"

"The servant is trying the food for the Empress Dowager."

The palace man was clearly prepared, picked up the empty bowl at the side, picked up the food he brought in with clean chopsticks, and ate the food in front of the Queen Mother.

After a while, she persuaded with a smile: "Look, Empress Dowager, the slaves are fine, you can use some!"

"it is good……"

Although the Empress Dowager was still a little hesitant in her heart, since she learned the news of the Empress Dowager's death last night, she has been restless, neither eating nor drinking. At this moment, she is indeed hungry.

She stretched out her trembling hands, trying to pick up the chopsticks, but she lost her balance and the chopsticks fell to the ground. She looked at her hands blankly.

Seeing that, the palace man couldn't help but sighed in his heart, and said softly: "Servant, please feed the empress dowager!"

She took a spoon and scraped a layer of porridge and brought it to the Queen Mother's mouth. The Queen Mother hesitated and slowly opened her mouth, taking her first mouthful of food in a long time.

With the first bite, there will naturally be a second bite.

After feeding half a bowl, the palace servant saw that the Queen Mother's tense nerves had gradually relaxed, and then said softly: "Your Majesty, I don't know if I should say something or not?"

"Speak!"

The empress dowager's voice was no longer that cold and hard, and the palace servants relieved their hearts, and said softly: "I think about it for a while, and think that the emperor's death should have nothing to do with the emperor. Anyway, the emperor is the emperor's father, and if Your Majesty really wants to attack the Taishang Huang, how could he wait for so long!"

After the palace man finished speaking, he paused, carefully looking at the Queen Mother's face.

"go on!"

The Empress Dowager didn't show any expression changes, but said this sentence in her mouth.

Seeing this, the palace man also felt somewhat relieved, and then smiled and said slowly: "Besides, why should the empress worry that the emperor will do anything to your biological mother? If the emperor really meant this, what happened to the empress of the imperial concubine Li earlier?" It's a matter, the emperor can..."

"boom!"

Without warning, before the palace servants finished speaking, the small table next to the Queen Mother was overturned by the Queen Mother.

"Empress Dowager?"

The palace maid was startled, and her hand holding the porridge bowl trembled. She knelt on the ground in a daze, completely unaware that it was her words that offended the Queen Mother.

"What a favor the emperor has given you to let you say this in front of Aijia, so that Aijia can relax his vigilance."

The Empress Dowager looked at the kneeling maid sharply, clenched her hands into fists, and said hoarsely, "You, like that bitch Wang Lanying, have betrayed Aijia too!"

"Empress Dowager, servants are only loyal to you."

The palace man trembled, the lessons learned by the palace man were in front of her eyes, she was afraid that she would become the next palace man.

She doesn't have the scheming of a palace man, and no palace man has the emperor and imperial concubine to protect her. There is only death waiting for her.

"Only be loyal to the Ai family, only loyal to the Ai family, if you speak for the emperor, the Ai family will not be able to see what kind of person the emperor is, you think that if you say a few words, the Ai family will believe you, and the Ai family will have no ability to judge Already!"

With a hoarse voice, the queen mother smashed the jade pillow on the bed heavily towards the palace servant's head, the jade pillow smashed the palace servant's forehead to blood, but the queen mother felt a strange sense of joy.

"Tell your master later, the Ai family...the Ai family is not that easy to deal with, don't even try to attack the Ai family."

The palace man bowed and ran out of the empress dowager's bedroom almost as if escaping, but the empress dowager hugged her whole body into a ball after saying those words, trembling and frightened.

On that day, the last words Zhao Qingze said to the Queen Mother left a deep impression on the Queen Mother.

Zhao Qingze told her, let her see what she should do, and make her afraid. In a few days, the Supreme Emperor will die!The Empress Dowager did not believe this coincidence, she had already decided in her suspicious heart that it was Zhao Qingze who did something to the Empress Dowager in order to warn her.

For the rest of her life, she spent the rest of her life, which was not long but not short, with such beliefs, and with such beliefs, she became suspicious and anxious, and soon became old and became a A real old man, and a frail old man at that, lingering on his sick bed.

She didn't dare to drink medicine, dare not eat, or even drink water. The slightest movement could make her panic.

Zhao Qingze came to see her a few times, and every time, she was terrified, even hysterical, looking at the eldest son as if she was looking at a ghost.

After that, Zhao Qingze only stepped into Ci'an Palace once, when the Empress Dowager closed her eyes and lay quietly on the bed without moving.Only that time, their mother and son lived together peacefully in the same room, because the mother can no longer quarrel or quarrel.

But at that time, Zhao Qingze had no sorrow or joy.When he looked at this mother, there was no emotional fluctuation, no disappointment, no resentment, no nostalgia, or even as if he was just looking at a stranger.

But, at least before that, although Zhao Qingze treated the queen mother with disappointment and resentment, he had hoped that she would actually be the mother in his impression, caring and kind to him, and thinking of him.Even if she broke his heart again and again, and even did many things that Zhao Qingze couldn't tolerate, he was unwilling to do anything to this mother.

Although the Taishang Emperor's mourning hall was arranged in a palace next to the Chaoyang Hall, far away from the Zhaoyang Hall, but in this quiet night, the sound of ringing the bell and chanting Buddha could still be faintly heard, and Ruyi scared the two children. Asking the nanny to carry Tianyou to Aman's room, she personally watched the two children sleep before returning to the bedroom.

As soon as she entered the bedroom gate, Ruyi was taken aback by Zhao Qingze who was sitting on the couch.

"Qingze, why are you back? Aren't you guarding the spirit of the Supreme Emperor?"

Ruyi covered her chest and asked softly.

Zhao Qingze put down the teacup he was playing with in his hand, walked to Ruyi's side and patted Ruyi's shoulder and said softly, "I'm afraid you'll be scared if you sleep alone at night, so I'll come here to accompany you first, and I'll go there later."

"Don't worry about me, I will let peony and fragrant grass keep vigil for me at night."

It would be a lie to say that she is not afraid, but Ruyi is not that afraid after all, and there are a lot of people around her who are close and trustworthy, so she will not be so afraid that she cannot sleep peacefully.

But Zhao Qingze was willing to accompany her, so she was still happy.

"I'll ask the dining room to bring you some supper. You probably don't have much use for dinner, right?"

Ruyi thought about the lunch that Zhao Qingze had when he came back at noon, and felt that if she hadn't been watching, he might have eaten less than at noon, so he ordered the dining room to bring some food quickly.

Zhao Qingze didn't object either. After simply eating and washing up, Ruyi and Zhao Qingze lay on the bed. They had just washed up at this time, and the two of them didn't feel sleepy, so they started talking slowly.

But at this moment, the atmosphere was a bit strange. After all, it was during the funeral of the Supreme Emperor. It was inappropriate to say happy things, and it was not very good to say unhappy things.

But fortunately, Ruyi and Zhao Qingze didn't have so many taboos. Ruyi simply told Zhao Qingze about the situation of the two children today, and then after listening to Zhao Qingze talk about the situation before the mourning hall, they gradually became sleepy and began to close their eyes. eyes.

However, Zhao Qingze never closed his eyes. Looking at Ruyi in his arms, he gently pushed back the hair on her forehead for her, and then leaned his head against her head.

Perhaps Zhao Qingze would not have thought that he would actually say such false sweet words to Ruyi.He was worried that Ruyi wouldn't be able to fall asleep alone, but the biggest reason why he was lying here now was that he didn't feel safe, and he couldn't rest assured.

The sudden death of the Supreme Emperor and the harshness and distrust of the Empress Dowager made him feel cold and cold. Only by staying with Ruyi, her and the child, can he calm down and calm down.

However, he doesn't want to show his cowardly side to Ruyi. He hopes that in front of Ruyi, he is a man who can stand upright and support her, and he doesn't want her to see his weakness.

"Only you still trust me, and only you, Ruyi."

Zhao Qingze said something softly, barely audible, but hugged Ruyi in his hand even tighter.

(End of this chapter)