Biography of Concubine Shujia

Chapter 90

"Yao'er!" Ten Niang suddenly woke up and sat up, panting heavily.The suffocating feeling of crying seems to be still in the memory.That too terrible feeling left her with lingering fears.

Her eyes were wide open, and her mind was full of the fear and despair in the eyes of the child when he fell off the horse.Thinking of the child's helpless eyes, her sour eyes wanted to shed tears again.

The people around him gently lifted her up and handed her a cup of warm tea.She took the teacup in front of her in a daze and drank it slowly.The warm tea flowed down her throat until it warmed her heart, and she seemed to wake up from a dream.

"Is there any news from Guanju Palace?" Ten Niang asked softly as she handed the teacup to the person beside her, rubbing her forehead.

"Yao'er You Ruhua will watch over it personally, you can sleep later." The man's voice came, with a touch of comfort.

"It's you!" Ten Niang pushed away the hand that was supporting her, shrank herself in the corner of the bed, hugged herself, and said coldly to the person who was looking at her with concern, "You go, I don't want to see you! "

"Girl!" The man's hand holding the teacup froze, and a few drops of warm water spilled out, splashing on the back of his hand, like someone's tears were rolling down, "What happened to Yao'er was an accident, I can explain it."

"Explain?" Shi Niang smiled sarcastically, "The emperor is the emperor, how could the emperor be wrong? Besides, you said you didn't want to explain."

The emperor was taken aback, "What I mean is that I don't want to publicize Yao'er's Zeng Lichu."

I only heard him explain in a low voice, "Guanju Palace is full of people staring at it, girl, if your words are heard by interested people, it will only cause more trouble for Yao'er. And there are people in the Queen's Palace, including the Empress Dowager. "

"Oh?" Shi Niang laughed, "It turns out that the concubine chose the wrong place to speak. The concubine's son is lying on the queen's bed, and the concubine can't say a few words of justice for the child? I have to watch you and the queen mother all the time before speaking. The look on his face, our third mother is indeed the most pitiful in this palace, we can only let others bully!"

"Girl, please speak carefully." The emperor put down the teacup, sat on the bed, and wrapped the silk quilt for Ten Niang.

Ten Niang tightly grasped the quilt, "This is the only way this concubine can talk, so go back!"

She still retreated, unwilling to be touched by the emperor.

"I can explain, and I will explain it to you alone." The emperor saw that Shi Niang had been resisting him, and even changed his name.

"Does the emperor want to explain? It's too late, and the concubine doesn't want to hear it anymore."

"You!" The emperor was a little annoyed by her repeated rejections.

He had never been so submissive and repeatedly begged any woman.The only one who doesn't appreciate it.

When the rumor first emerged, not only did he not stop it, but he also secretly intervened to promote the spread of the rumor in the palace.All his actions were just a step in the plan, to overthrow the situation set up by a certain family, for the court, for the empire, he thought she would understand what he was doing and what his plans were.

Unexpectedly, this rumor was exploited by someone with a heart, and finally killed his most beloved child.He didn't feel better than her, and even felt more sad and blamed himself than her for failing to protect their child, but being broken by someone.

At this time, it should be a good time to find clues together and get rid of the perpetrator, but she didn't listen to his explanation.

"I admit that I was negligent about the matter of Xiaosan. I only did this for the sake of the empire." The emperor suppressed his anger and explained again and again.

Shi Niang's face changed when she heard the words, and she said coldly, "Oh, it's ridiculous to use one's own meat to hunt and kill the former wolf, and one accidentally lost the meat and almost killed herself."

"Zhen..." The emperor had nothing to say in Shi Niang's sharp eyes.

"Your Majesty, please go back, Yaohua Palace can't accommodate your big Buddha!" ​​Shi Niang raised her head and looked directly at the emperor, "The concubines are meant to be punished for crimes, so they don't deserve your care. The whole Yaohua Palace waits for the prince to wake up." Afterwards, the palace will be closed, and the palace will be lowly, so I won't bother you to step on the lowly land in the future."

Facing Shi Niang's eviction order, the emperor got up helplessly and walked outside.

After walking a few steps, he turned back worriedly, "You, take a good rest, I will come to see you in a few days."

After speaking, he walked out slowly.

Shi Niang looked at his back, and was a little stunned for a moment. This man, since when, has changed from indestructible to thin, with a slight back.

She still remembers the shock of seeing him for the first time when she was in the palace selection, and the firm belief in everything in him, which she has always admired from the bottom of her heart for so many years.

In her heart, no matter how other people change, he will always be there and guard the empire.She came here for her family, for her glory, and for herself, but the most fundamental thing has never changed.She wanted to accompany him to protect the country and the world.

When did his figure start to become so thin, his steps start to become unsteady, and his heart start to become extremely cold?
She was distressed and at the same time a little sad, for him and for herself.

Immediately, she laughed. After all, she was still too tender and soft-hearted.

How could she forget that this man is the most powerful person in the empire, the one who can give up everything for the sake of the empire.How could he apologize and explain in front of himself for a little prince?It's just a bitter trick, isn't he almost relenting?

He kept his voice low, but it was just acting, a play to stabilize himself.

She believed in him and admired him, and longed to protect his homeland and world with him.But she never thought that his family and country would be sacrificed to her son, at the expense of the child's health.

At that moment, her indestructible admiration for him, her firm belief in him, was shaken.

She had doubts about him.She even began to question whether she had chosen the wrong direction in the first place on the path she was taking, so she took the wrong path and paid a painful price.

Her complicated thoughts were fighting fiercely in her head.

"Your Majesty, Eunuch Xin got the news that the Third Prince has woken up."

The struggle in her mind was temporarily broken in the transmission of the palace maid Huaping.

"Hurry up, change your clothes for me. I'm going to Guanju Palace." Ten Niang pushed off the thin quilt wrapped around her body, jumped out of bed excitedly, stood barefoot on the ground, and waited for the maids to come in to change her clothes.

"It's cold on the ground, you put it on first, don't catch a cold." Huaping knelt on the ground, putting on shoes and socks for Ten Niang, "At this time, the queen should be asleep. After all, the news from Eunuch Xin did not come from the right place. You are in such a hurry to go to the prison." Ju Gong, won't the Empress think too much?"

"I can't control so much, I only know that Yao'er is awake." Ten Niang pulled up her hair by herself, "The girl in the painting is used to thinking too much, she must have nothing about Yao'er waking up." Make it public. Ask Xiao Xinzi's people to send her a message and tell her to report the prince's waking up as soon as possible."

"My maidservant, go and inform Eunuch Xin." Huaping stood up and said, "Let Si Jin wait for you to change and freshen up."

"That's fine, so when we arrive, the queen will get the news and make arrangements. She will definitely open the palace door and wait for me to go."

What Jia Zhaoyi said was extremely bold, Huaping was startled suddenly.

Their master, Empress Zhaoyi, usually looks inconspicuous, but she is always unexpected at critical moments.

She dared to make a scene with the emperor in Guanju Palace, but she was only grounded afterwards.And this punishment is still waiting for the prince to wake up.She dared to break into Guanju Palace in the middle of the night, and she was not at all afraid of the queen's power in the inner palace.This can only show that the cards in her hand must be very powerful, and can even compete with the queen's power.

After figuring this out, Huaping was even more convinced by her master. She didn't show any timidity on her face, and she stepped back to do business without mentioning it.

Sure enough, as Master Jia said, when their master and servant arrived at Guanju Palace alone, not only the queen was there, but even Hui Shuyi, who was in charge of the affairs of the harem, was also there.

The emperor unexpectedly did not appear in the palace.

After Shi Niang bowed to the queen, she wished she could fly into the third prince's room immediately, but was stopped by the queen when she didn't want to.

The queen waved everyone away, leaving only Chen Shi and Shiniang, the three of them were speechless for a moment.

"Isn't there something wrong with your mother?" Shi Niang asked anxiously, what's the point of leaving her behind but not speaking, delaying her from seeing the child?
"Sister Hui, tell me, tell Sister Jia exactly what you know." The Queen waved her hand, signaling Ten Niang to be safe and not to be impatient.

"Yes, the concubine will tell Sister Jia the truth." Hui Shuyi said solemnly, "After the third prince's accident, I was ordered to investigate the prince's fall and injury. I found..."

"What is sister hesitating about?" Ten Niang asked sharply, "What unspeakable things did you find out?"

"I have found out that the news that the third prince will ascend the Great Treasure first came from...." Hui Shuyi made repeated determinations but still did not have the courage to say that name.

"Sister, it's hard to say, I will tell you for you." Ten Niang calmly even sneered, "The earliest news came from Yihua Palace. Jieyu Shu, the adoptive mother of the fourth prince, is very calculating."

"My sister knows?" Chen asked in surprise, "Then why is my sister?"

"The news first came from Yihua Palace. In Yihua Palace in the West Sixth Palace, there are two famous concubines, one is Miaogui, the biological mother of the second emperor's daughter, and the other is Xincai, the biological mother of the fourth prince. Shu's family They can calculate, and those who have sons will not settle down."

"Sister is right. Mr. Miaogui followed the emperor on his southern tour, and he is the one who is most aware of what happened back then. It is only natural for someone to accidentally say something wrong."

"What a human being, my sister still remembers that when he was in crisis, the only concubines who stood by his side were you and me. There were no other people, so she wanted to put this dirty water under common sense to It won't work if Miaogui or even the empress is splashed on her body."

"Among the people who followed the southern tour, there was the adoptive mother of the fourth prince." Chen closed her eyes, and then opened her eyes with a feeling of relief, "At the beginning, she didn't know the news, and she didn't get the custody of the prince, so naturally she didn't have a second heart. .”

"It's different now. The fourth prince is young and doesn't remember anything. The emperor and queen don't like Xincai. The palace people will bully Xincai just to please me. At this time, what should I do next to get rid of Xincai? The fourth prince is completely on her side of the Shu family and even the Shu family."

"Xin Cairen is his son, and it is logical to seek revenge from his sister's Prince Yao." Chen continued, "Speaking of which, Xin Cairen was also bullied by his sister. The sister did not do anything, but the other concubines have no sisters. The instruction will not go too far, let her suffer enough."

"Since the queen can't be brought down, it's a good idea to bring down the third prince who is competing for interests with the fourth prince first, and then make your sister mess up and fall out of favor. More importantly, this word came from the birth mother of the fourth prince. , in order to return justice to the third prince, giving death to Xincai is always light."

"Yes, kill three birds with one stone." Ten Niang clapped her hands, "Sister's reasoning is good, and Empress Empress, you have also worked hard. It's just that Ten Niang is unclear about one thing, and I hope you two can answer it?"

"Sister, please tell me, for Yao'er, I will definitely punish the murderer severely and give my sister justice." The queen said firmly.

"My younger sister said earlier that when the emperor was dying, only sister Hui and I were by my side. I can trust sister Hui, and I will not be so stupid as to expose the will that I once had, and then I personally asked the queen to destroy it. Content."

"That's right, what does my sister want to say?" Chen Shi had a bad feeling.

"Sister, what I want to say is, since both of us kept our promise and did not leak the news easily, the question is, how did Shu Jieyu know about this?"

"Your sister is referring to the historian?" Chen Shi hesitated, Du's girl is too smart, she can only deliberately distort the meaning of Du's words.

"My sister may not know that the historian died suddenly not long after returning to Beijing. Someone entrusted me with the order."

"Sister, it's rare to be confused sometimes." The queen suddenly interrupted Shi Niang.

"Young lady, you have been fooled by him for half your life, but I can't be fooled like this. It's rare to be confused, heh, I don't want to live in a fool."

Seeing Shi Niang's rebellious appearance, the queen had a headache.

"Sister Hui, you are his from beginning to end, empress, you are his wife, the purpose of the two of you and the meaning of the words, I understand that all of this is also ordered by him or he acquiesced, right? " Shi Niang sneered, "I just didn't expect to meet such a concubine who doesn't know what's good or bad, and doesn't care about the seriousness. I would rather be hit with a bloody head than die."

"Sister!" Seeing that Shi Niang was talking too much, the queen couldn't help but said anxiously, this girl is too lawless, she dares to say anything.

Shi Niang ignored the queen's obstruction and continued to question, "Today, I just want to ask him in front of you two. When he delivered the news in person that day, did you expect that today will come?"

"He passed the news to Shu Jieyu, instigating her to use it to seduce Xin Cairen. When rumors were flying all over the palace and he pushed it, what was he thinking? After Xin Cairen was bewitched, she decided to treat me What was he thinking when Yao'er started doing it? What was he thinking when Yao'er was lying on the bed, motionless and unconscious? Finally, he came to tell Ben Gong how much he regretted and felt sorry for Yao'er. What's the use of my son's fate?"

The queen and Hui Shuyi were silent, and they couldn't and couldn't refute Jia Zhaoyi's words.

"I still said the same thing, please help me to ask him, is he worthy of the empire, the world, and our mother and child?"

After Shi Niang finished speaking, without waiting for the two of them to say anything else, she got up and walked to the inner room.Looking at the son is more important than talking nonsense with them here.

"Sister!" Seeing that Shi Niang left them behind and was about to enter, Mrs. Chen wanted to stop her, but the queen stopped her with her eyes.

The queen's intentions are obvious, let them settle the grievances between the emperor and concubine by themselves.

Ten Niang took three steps and two steps, and came to the third prince's room.As soon as the door was opened, she froze in place.Fang understood the blocking meaning contained in Chen's last call.

I saw the emperor sitting beside the third prince's bed, staring blankly at Shi Niang who came in.

There was obvious hurt and anger in his eyes.

He sat there, and finally opened his mouth after a while, and asked Shi Niang, who was stunned, "Is this the kind of person I am in your heart? A person who doesn't care about his wife and children?!"

(End of this chapter)