Why did the emperor rebel?

Chapter 266 Ji Ge's Illness
The New Year's Eve is getting closer and closer, and there is a festive atmosphere in the palace, except for the daily food and drink, which has been enriched a lot.

The maids and servants who usually walked around the palaces also received rewards, put on new clothes, and looked energetic.

The lanterns were lit early in the Qianqing Palace, and Zhu Qiyu was lazily leaning on the couch, wearing a comfortable wide-sleeved off-the-shoulder dragon-pattern swallow's suit.

Beside him is a warm hand stove, holding a copy of "Emperor Ming Ancestor's Instruction" in his hand, looking at it one by one.

There was sporadic snow falling outside the window, but Zhu Qiyu felt a little worried.

He just came back from Hang's. In this cold day, Brother Ji caught the wind and cold again. When he went to look at him, his little face was flushed with heat, and he looked very cute.

There are quite a few children in the palace now, his elder brother can't do anything else, but there are many concubines and heirs are prosperous.

Nowadays, there are no fewer than ten concubines who are well-known in the palace.

As for heirs, apart from Zhu Jianshen who has been established as the prince, he has two sons and a daughter.

The eldest daughter, Princess Huiqing, and Zhu Jianshen are of the same mother and compatriots, both descended from the noble concubine Zhou.

The other two concubine sons of Zhu Qizhen are the second prince Zhu Jianlin and the third prince Zhu Jianshi, both descended from the concubine Wan's family.

In addition, Concubine Hui Wang is pregnant with another child, and it is said that she will give birth in a month. If he remembers correctly, she should also be a prince.

Although these children cannot be said to be free from illness and disaster all the time, they did not get sick a few times this winter.

On the other hand, on Zhu Qiyu's side, Sister Hui's body is fairly strong and she hasn't been sick all winter, but Brother Ji has always been sick.

This time the wind and cold came with a menacing momentum, which really made Zhu Qiyu feel uneasy.

You know, in his previous life, he always had only one son, Brother Ji, so he was naturally very caring.

He remembered clearly that although brother Ji was not in good health in the previous life, he had never suffered such a severe wind and cold.

After reliving the whole life, there are still many things that will not follow the original track.

The mahogany door with hollow patterns was pushed open silently, Xing'an walked in lightly, saluted, and stood aside respectfully.

Zhu Qiyu glanced at him, rubbed his forehead, and felt a headache again.

There are still too few people in his hands!
Although there are many eunuchs in the palace, there are only a few who he can really rely on.

Now Cheng Jing is in charge of the Supervisor of Rituals, Admiral Shu Liang is in charge of Dongchang, Wang Cheng is in charge of the Huangdian, and Zhang Yong is in charge of the Four Guards of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

These are all urgent errands, so naturally they must put their own people on.

But in this way, his manpower will be stretched.

As a result, he had to transfer Xing'an, a young eunuch, from Kunning Palace to Jingyang Palace to help Mrs. Wu manage the affairs of the harem later.

Withdrawing his chaotic thoughts, Zhu Qiyu turned his eyes from the scroll in his hand to Xing'an and asked.

"Is everything cleared up?"

Brother Ji's illness was so strange that Zhu Qiyu was a little confused, so he specially asked Xing'an to investigate.

Now that he is back, there must be a result.

Xing'an has experienced these days in the harem, and he has obviously calmed down a lot. Hearing this, he seemed a little hesitant. He hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"My lord, I checked it out, but it has nothing to do with the Palace of Compassion and Peace. They are people from the Imperial Concubine's Palace, and they didn't take good care of His Highness."

Zhu Qiyu frowned, but didn't speak. He just set his eyes on Xing'an, who was sweating profusely.

After a while, Zhu Qiyu put down the scroll in his hand and said lightly.

"Xing'an, you are so talented that you dare to lie to me?"

Xing'an has served him since he was in Prince Ying's mansion, and Zhu Qiyu is naturally very familiar with the former's temperament.

His current tone was obviously a little guilty.

Zhu Qiyu has no doubts about Xing'an's loyalty.

But he is also clear that loyalty does not mean that Xing'an will not deceive him.

Xing'an was sweating profusely on his head, and immediately knelt down on the ground, saying.

"The emperor forgives you, it's not that the servants deliberately deceived you, it's really... it's..."

Seeing that Xing'an was still hesitating, Zhu Qiyu also felt a little strange.

He originally guessed that Brother Ji's illness was so strange that it might be related to Queen Mother Sun, but Xing'an denied it.

On such a big matter, he dare not speak nonsense.

Of course, he's hiding something, that's for sure.

What surprised Zhu Qiyu was that Xing'an still didn't dare to speak out even though he had already revealed the matter.

Is it possible...

Zhu Qiyu frowned, and asked, "Is it because the mother concubine won't let you tell?"

In today's palace, apart from Zhu Qiyu himself, the only one who can suppress Xing'an and make him behave like this is Empress Dowager Wu.

Even if other people, including Wang Shi, could make Xing'an obey his orders, they wouldn't let Xing'an take such a big risk to deceive him.

Xing'an nodded obediently, and said bravely.

"My lord, it's not the slaves who want to deceive you, but the empress dowager who said that now that the capital is in turmoil, it's not good for you to be distracted by the affairs of the harem."

"For the matter of the little Highness, her old man has already severely reprimanded the imperial concubine, and there will never be similar things happening again."

Rebuke the imperial concubine?

Zhu Qiyu's face suddenly sank, and he remembered that when she went to the Hang's Palace just now, she was indeed very haggard with tears on her face.

He thought it was because Hang was worried about Ji Ge's body, but now it seemed that it was not that simple.

With a cold snort, Zhu Qiyu waved his hand to get Xing'an up, and said.

"What is the situation, tell the truth, otherwise, I will go to the imperial concubine's palace to ask!"

Xing'an was in a dilemma for a while, but finally said.

"My lord, the reason why your highness is suffering from this illness is actually... Tiredness."

tired?

Zhu Qiyu looked at Xing'an, waiting for his explanation.

At the beginning of the conversation, Xing'an no longer concealed it, organized his language, and said.

"The thing is like this. Didn't you and the empress dowager discuss before, to hold a draft in the next year, and then take the opportunity to determine the system of the harem?"

"Now that the New Year's Eve is approaching, the empress is also planning to prepare for this matter. Her old man has called many wives into the palace these days, and asked them about the beautiful and talented women near the capital, and they are preparing for the next year. Draft."

"But this incident somehow spread to the imperial concubine's palace, causing the empress to lose her temper a lot."

"Then two days later, the empress ordered someone to teach the little highness to recite poems, but she never thought that this carelessness made the little highness tired, and that's why he got such a disease."

After all, Xing'an still didn't say it clearly, but the meaning has been expressed clearly enough.

It's nothing more than fighting for favor!

Since Zhu Qiyu woke up, he has a new view on many people and things, and his relative attitude has undergone some subtle changes.

In his previous life, his favorite was the Hang family, but he was not very close to the queen, the Wang family.

But this time after he ascended the throne, he and Wang settled down, and their relationship was much better than before.

In addition, with the lessons learned from the past, he has been raising his body for a period of time and trying to do as little as possible for intercourse, so most of the time, he rests in Kunning Palace and Qianqing Palace, and the number of times he goes to Hang's palace is indeed less many.

In such a situation, Hang couldn't help feeling that she had been left out. In addition, there was news from the Empress Dowager Wu's side that she wanted a new draft girl, so she was naturally in a hurry.

So, he turned his mind on Brother Ji.

Although Brother Ji is frail, he is precocious and a smart kid.

Probably, the Hang family planned to let Brother Ji learn to recite poems, perform in front of himself, and then regain the favor.

Zhu Qiyu can understand this thought, but what she did...

"Bullshit!"

The palm of the hand slapped on the table and made a loud noise, which scared all the maids and servants around to kneel down.

Zhu Qiyu got up, paced back and forth in the hall, and said.

"Brother Ji is still under two years old, and he has only learned to speak for less than three months. For such a young child, no matter what poems he recites, Mrs. Hang is simply fooling around!"

Xing'an was also so frightened that he knelt on the ground and said.

"The emperor is angry. The empress dowager has severely reprimanded the noble concubine for this matter, and punished the noble concubine not to step out of the palace gate before Zhengdan. She closed the door and thought about her mistakes. She also copied the scriptures a hundred times as a punishment."

Only then did Zhu Qiyu calm down his anger a little, picked up the teacup on the case, drank it, thought about it, and still felt something was wrong, said.

"Show me, go to Jingyang Palace!"

(End of this chapter)