farm concubine

Chapter 233 Doubt

Did he really die like this with his ability?Emperor Renxiao never believed that his younger brother, who was held in the palm of his father's hand and doted on him, died like this.

"General Xuan Huwei enters the palace." Emperor Renxiao ordered in a deep voice.

After Emperor Renxiao's voice fell, there were calls one after another outside the palace.

Half a quarter of an hour later, I heard the report from the eunuch guarding outside the imperial study: "Your Majesty, General Huwei has arrived."

"Let him in."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The eunuch retreated to the side and shouted: "My Majesty, General Xuan Huwei has an audience—"

"I have seen the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live." General Huwei Yang Wei strode in, knelt in the center of the imperial study room and bowed to Emperor Renxiao.

"Aiqing is flat." Emperor Renxiao raised his hand lightly and said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Yang Wei rose up in response, waiting for Emperor Renxiao's order.

"Yang Aiqing, you will lead an army of [-] to Lianyun County tomorrow to encircle and suppress the pirates who killed Prince Jing's family of four, and you still want to find Prince Jing's family of four. I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death."

"I obey the order." Yang Wei clapped his hands and replied loudly, full of energy.

"Okay, Ai Qing is going to prepare for departure tomorrow."

"Yes, I will leave." Yang Wei cupped his hands, turned and left.

After Yang Wei left, Emperor Renxiao looked at the remaining civil servants: "A few lovers, there are still things to announce. If you have nothing to do, let's go back to the mansion to rest."

"Yes, Your Majesty." The matter of suppressing the bandits has been settled, without them there is nothing to do, and it is useless to stay, so they all leave.

After the civil servants left, Emperor Renxiao sat for a while, then stood up, and said to the personal eunuch: "Putting you to Weiyang Palace."

"Yes, the emperor put up Weiyang Palace—" the personal eunuch followed up with Emperor Renxiao, and shouted loudly towards the gate.

It's hard to be an eunuch these days, and it's even more difficult to be the emperor's personal eunuch.

In Weiyang Palace, as soon as the queen pulled out the phoenix crown, she heard the eunuch shout: "The emperor is here—" The queen was so frightened that she was in a hurry.

"Nurse, hurry up, help Ai's family to dress up." The queen ordered the personal nun in a panic.

"It's too late for the empress, hurry up and pick her up." The personal nurse hurriedly said.

Only then did the empress wake up like a dream: "Yes, yes, take me over, Mama is leaving." Fortunately, she hasn't changed her clothes yet, so she won't make a fool of herself in front of the emperor.

When Wu Wu came to the hall, the bright yellow figure of Emperor Ren Xiao had already stepped into the door, and the queen led a group of maids, nurses, and eunuchs to pick him up: "The concubine has seen the emperor."

Seeing that the queen had loosened her long hair, Emperor Renxiao quickly stepped forward to help her up: "Queen, get up, are you ready to rest?"

"Yes, my concubine didn't know that the emperor was coming, if she knew, she would definitely wait for the emperor." The queen said apologetically.

"It's not your fault, it's because I didn't inform you in advance." Emperor Renxiao pulled the queen to sit down on the couch, and said softly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for not blaming me." The queen nodded lightly.

While the two were talking, the maids had already made the bed and retreated silently.

After all the maids and eunuchs had left, Emperor Renxiao told what happened tonight: "The letter said that the second brother's family of four were killed by pirates, and Concubine Zhu was ill in bed."

The queen listened carefully to Emperor Renxiao's words, savoring carefully what he really meant by saying this to her.

"What does the emperor mean?" The queen asked suspiciously, she knew what Emperor Renxiao was thinking?But she can't say it out, otherwise her end will be miserable, no emperor wants to be known, even if she is a queen.

"Well, based on what I know about the Second Emperor, he is not someone who is easily plotted against." The queen's doubts satisfied Emperor Ren Xiao's vanity, and she unreservedly said that he had a guess in his heart.

"If it's as the emperor said, why did the second emperor do this?" The queen also didn't understand why Ouyang Yuanhao wanted to act in such a play?

"This is what I can't figure out." Emperor Renxiao sighed, remembering that after the emperor was buried, he took the initiative to investigate the interception of the letter. At that time, he said that the person did it very secretly and did not leave any clues, but Ouyang Yuanhao believed it. After listening to his words, he still showed trust in him. It turned out that everything Ouyang Yuanhao did was to paralyze him, just to get rid of the golden cicada today.

But why didn't Ouyang Yuanhao be a good prince and had to leave?You have to drag your family with you, why on earth?
Seeing Emperor Renxiao frowning, the queen felt very distressed. She had been married to him for many years, although she did not have an unforgettable love, but she still had feelings for him.

"Your Majesty, if you can't figure it out, don't think about it for now. Let's talk about it tomorrow." The queen persuaded softly.

"En." Emperor Renxiao nodded, and after being served by the queen to change clothes, the two lay down side by side to rest.

Emperor Renxiao slept very restlessly all night, and in a daze, he had a dream. In the dream, Emperor Xian stretched out his hand to him, demanding his life.

"Don't come over—" Just as the first emperor's hand was pinching his neck, Emperor Renxiao yelled and sat up.

"Your majesty, what's the matter with you?" The queen was awakened by Emperor Renxiao's shout, and asked with concern.

Emperor Renxiao was still in shock, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, shook his head and said: "I had a nightmare, I'm fine now."

"Then let's sleep for a while." The queen advised.

Emperor Renxiao no longer felt sleepy: "Go to sleep, I will go to court after sitting down for a while."

"That concubine changed clothes for the emperor."

"These things will be done by the palace people, you can sleep a little longer." Emperor Renxiao helped the queen tuck the quilt.

Seeing that Emperor Ren Xiao insisted so much, the queen did not insist anymore, and said before lying down: "If the emperor has something to do, remember to wake up the courtiers and concubines."

"Well, I see, go to sleep."

Seeing that Emperor Renxiao's mood had stabilized, the queen lay down with peace of mind and continued to sleep.

After sitting for a quarter of an hour, the emperor called his personal eunuch to come in to change his clothes. After washing, he left Weiyang Palace to go to court.

After the early dynasty, Emperor Renxiao received another urgent letter from Babaili, Lianjiang County, which said: "Concubine Zhu passed away a few days ago due to excessive grief."

One after another bad news came, and Emperor Renxiao was caught off guard. He hadn't figured out why Ouyang Yuanhao did this, and Concubine Zhu died one after another. All of this happened so suddenly.

"Pass down my will to take back Taifei Zhu's body and bury her in a dignified manner." Taifei Zhu was one of the four concubines of the late emperor. According to ancestral practice, Taifei Zhu's body can be placed in the imperial concubine's tomb in the imperial mausoleum.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

It's just that Emperor Renxiao's people were one step too late. When they arrived at Prince Jing's Mansion in Guizhou Prefecture, they were told by the steward Qin Zhengming that Concubine Zhu's body had been cremated into ashes.

Qin Zhengming also took out the jar containing Concubine Zhu's ashes.

The body of Concubine Zhu was not found, so they had to return to the capital to report the matter to Emperor Renxiao.

After confirming that the people sent by Emperor Renxiao had left, Qin Zhengming changed his sadness just now, and called Fei Cui and Pearl: "The Emperor Dog may be suspicious, you should be careful, it seems that we have to wait a little longer day to leave."

"Yes, Steward Qin." Fei Cui and Zhu Zhen replied at the same time, for the safety of the masters, it doesn't matter if they stay for a few more days.

(End of this chapter)