Marriage Princess: The Alluring Concubine of the Evil Emperor

Chapter 51

Qinghe looked at his back, his eyes were hot, and his heart was so sad, Lingfeng, it's not that sister Qinghe doesn't want to recognize you, it's just such absurd things, who will believe it?

Moreover, the friendship we grew up with, if you knew that I died tragically, how could you stand idly by?But I can't drag you into the water.

Tears slipped down without warning, she quickly wiped them away, took a deep breath, and stood up.

On the edge of the lotus pond, a forbidden soldier stepped forward to report, "Commander Gao, after you left, Princess Yili cried alone."

Gao Lingfeng waved his hand, his expression mixed with joy and sadness, "Weeping? Can you see clearly?

"I see clearly, after you turned around, her expression changed, she looked very sad, and the tears couldn't help sliding down."

"Don't tell anyone about this. If it leaked out, it would have killed you." Gao Lingfeng's eyes turned cold, and he said sternly.

"I swear by the lives of the fifteen members of my family that no third person will know about this matter."

Gao Lingfeng nodded, waved him back, and then asked the decree to leave the palace and rode his horse all the way to Huguo Temple.

The Hungry Ghost Festival is a day for offering sacrifices to ancestors. On this day, the eminent monks invited by the empress dowager began to recite sutras from the unitary hour to save the souls of the dead.

Concubine Shang Gui sent the hand-copied Buddhist scriptures for the Empress Dowager to burn in front of the chanting hall to surpass her ancestors.

The empress dowager chatted with her for a while, because the emperor ordered the news to be blocked, so the empress dowager didn't know that she was pregnant, so she read the Buddhist scriptures in person on a hot day, and ordered someone to serve mung bean soup to relieve her heat.

Concubine Shang Gui shyly said: "The concubine can't drink mung bean soup now, thanks to the empress dowager for her kindness."

"Why is this?" asked the Empress Dowager.

Concubine Shang Gui was startled, "Don't the Empress Dowager know? The concubine is pregnant."

"Really?" The Empress Dowager looked happy, but then she became slightly annoyed, "The emperor even kept such a happy event from the Ai family, and the Ai family has no place in his heart."

Concubine Shang Gui is also a little strange, it stands to reason that if the concubine is pregnant, the emperor will definitely notify the empress dowager, especially the empress dowager is sad because of the death of Princess Qinghe, it would be best if there is a happy event.

But, why didn't the emperor tell the empress dowager?
Aunt Gui beside the Empress Dowager said with a smile: "Empress Dowager, look at your concubine's belly has not yet bulged, this child is only a month old at most, during this time, the Emperor received foreign envoys, and was busy with the affairs of the court. Seven meats and eight vegetarians, so he hasn't told you yet, it's not that he doesn't plan to tell you."

"You just keep talking for him!" The empress dowager snorted, as if feeling ashamed, "Forget it, the Ai family doesn't care, talk or not."

Aunt Gui couldn't help laughing and said, "Okay, then the slave girl won't say anything, just sew her mouth shut with a needle and thread, right?"

The Empress Dowager said indifferently: "Send your concubine home!"

Seeing that the Empress Dowager was unhappy, Shang Guifei didn't dare to stay for long, so she stood up and said goodbye.

On the way back, she seemed uneasy, and said to Cai Ling: "This matter is a bit strange, the emperor didn't tell the empress dowager about such a serious pregnancy in the palace, even if the emperor didn't tell, the empress and Concubine Qi should report it, right?"

Cai Ling also felt strange, "Isn't it? This is indeed a bit strange."

Concubine Shang Gui thought for a while, and tried to drive away the uneasiness in her heart, "Forget it, no matter so much, these days, the emperor has also rewarded a lot, which proves that the emperor believes it. If he doesn't believe it, I'm afraid he would have sent other imperial doctors here Checked the pulse."

Cai Ling felt that things were not so simple, everything seemed to be going smoothly and calmly, but what was behind the calmness?What is hiding?The emperor's mind is becoming more and more difficult to guess now.

And the Empress Dowager sighed a long time after Concubine Shang Gui left, "These women are really tossing around!"

Aunt Gui's eyes were cold, "Tossing and tossing is tossing, and it's hard to escape the eyes of our ancestors."

"But how many years can the Ai family live?" The empress dowager's eyes were difficult, "If you can survive this winter, can you survive the spring of next year?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Aunt Gui scolded.

"Aijia knows his body, and is not afraid of this day. It's just that there are too many things behind this that he can't let go."

"Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, why worry so much?"

"There is no one in the court, there is no one in the court!" The empress dowager lamented.

Aunt Gui remained silent, she knew that this was the most embarrassing thing in the Empress Dowager's heart, but what could be done?This imperial court does not need her old man to be in power for those years now. The capable and virtuous ministers are getting old one by one, and the young and newly promoted ones are useless. The princes and princes are doing nothing, so why not worry?

"I heard from those people in Qiankun Palace that the emperor summoned Princess Yili today, and Princess Yili gave the emperor an idea to reopen the imperial examination!" Aunt Gui said.

The empress dowager was taken aback, "Yili gave the emperor an idea to reopen the imperial examination?"

"Moreover, let the emperor be the number one scholar in civil and military affairs, and gather talents for the use of the country."

The empress dowager was silent for a long time, "Call Eunuch Xi over here, Aijia wants to ask every word Princess Yili said."

"Old Ancestor, what do you want to investigate? Or do you suspect something?" Aunt Gui asked.

The empress dowager shook her head, "There's nothing to investigate, let alone anything to doubt, it's just that what this child Yili proposed is something that the Ai family has always wanted to do."

"It turns out that the ancestors wanted to reopen the imperial examination a long time ago, so why didn't you propose it to the emperor?"

"The imperial examination was abolished by the first emperor. The Ai family was the queen of the late emperor. How could it be proposed by the Ai family? It's just that the Ai family had mentioned this to Qinghe before, and this girl Qinghe was also very supportive of the reintroduction of the imperial examination. She said the hereditary system of officialdom If there are too many disadvantages, the country will inevitably go from prosperity to decline.”

"The princess's knowledge has always been ahead of her time," Aunt Gui said.

When Eunuch Xi heard that the Empress Dowager had summoned him, he hurried there. When the Empress Dowager asked the princess about the imperial examination, Eunuch Xi told the Empress Dowager everything that Princess Yili said.

Eunuch Xi was originally a person who was very good at imitating, his tone and gestures were very similar, not like Princess Yili, but like Princess Qinghe.

Qinghe sometimes pays attention to her own words and deeds, especially in front of people who know her well. However, she had very little contact with the emperor in her previous life, so when she talked with the emperor, she unconsciously revealed that she was the princess of Qinghe in her previous life. The demeanor and movements at that time, but she did not expect that those small movements, those tone of voice, and demeanor would be copied by Eunuch Xi to the Empress Dowager's eyes, which was like a repeat.

Therefore, when the empress dowager heard these words and saw these actions and demeanors, she saw a vivid Qinghe Princess.

It's just that the matter is too absurd, even though the empress dowager has doubts, she is still not sure.

After sending Eunuch Xi away, she pondered for a long time, then whispered a few words in Aunt Gui's ear.

Aunt Gui was taken aback, "How is this possible? This is ridiculous."

"If you don't try, Aijia will not give up. Aijia once had a dream, and everything in the dream was too real." The Empress Dowager said.

She is a person who cultivates Buddhism, and knows that everything is possible. The Buddhas in the world are powerful and have supernatural powers. How can it be impossible?

(End of this chapter)