Otoharu

Chapter 618 The Missing Child

Grandma Gong opened the door, and saw Li Chengqi standing outside the door, she quickly bowed to salute.

Li Chengqi took a deep look at her, and then said with a smile: "You have worked hard, Madam, you are really busy today."

"No hard work! No hard work! This is what old slaves should do!" Gong Momo was flustered, not knowing what she had just said to the empress.But it was heard by this Highness.

"Qi'er, come in quickly." Empress Song shouted to Li Chengqi outside the door.

Just now, as if she had received an amnesty, Gong Nai quickly passed Li Chengqi and left.

When Li Chengqi entered the bedroom, Empress Song asked with some dissatisfaction: "Why don't the palace people pass it on?"

Li Chengqi chuckled, looked directly at Empress Song and asked, "Is there anything the Empress can't let the Emperor know? Or... is there something the Empress is hiding from me?"

Empress Song's eyes were a little dodged, and she coughed lightly: "What are you talking about? What can the queen mother hide from you? By the way, what is the attitude of the ministers now?" She immediately changed the subject while speaking.

"It's calmed down for the time being. I didn't let Xu Fu say that the father was poisoned, but that he had a sudden illness." Li Chengqi replied lightly.

"Why didn't you say it?" Empress Song was obviously displeased, "The Concubine Yun has ulterior motives and murdered your father, so she should be accused of her crimes to the world!"

Li Chengqi looked at Empress Song, and said in a calm tone: "Empress Mother, there is no evidence to prove that Emperor Father's poison was caused by Concubine Yun Gui, and I feel that it is better not to spread the secrets of the harem."

Empress Song was choked by her own son, her face became even more angry, and she scolded: "Concubine Yun fled in fear of crime, isn't this evidence, you are going to inherit the throne, how can you be so indecisive!"

"Mother! Do you really think that the poison was given by Concubine Yun Gui? My son doesn't think so. Poisoning and murdering the emperor, what good is it for Concubine Yun? According to the love that the emperor has for Concubine Yun, Concubine Yun should be looking forward to it." Your Majesty will live for a long time, right?" Li Chengqi also raised his voice and questioned Empress Song without showing any weakness.

Empress Song's complexion immediately became very ugly. She looked at her son in disbelief, and asked word by word: "Then Qier thinks, who poisoned and murdered your father?"

Li Chengqi didn't say anything, but still stared at Empress Song.

"You doubt me?" Empress Song's face gradually turned pale, as if she was hurt by her son's attitude.

Seeing Queen Song's appearance like this, Li Chengqi's eyes were a little shaken again.

"How can you doubt your mother!" Empress Song's eyes fell instantly, and she shouted in grief.

"Mother...that's not what I meant!" Li Chengqi panicked, and hurried forward to help Queen Song.

Empress Song shook off his hand, and said in tears, "I have been with your father since I was 14 years old. Before you, I gave birth to three children for your father, but none of them survived. One year old, when you were born, the queen mother was already 24 years old, and the queen mother stayed with your father for 26 years, 26 years! How many 26 years are there in life, and I have been with your father for half a lifetime. Do you think I Will you really murder your father?"

Li Chengqi felt so guilty at what Empress Song said, hugged her shoulders, and hurriedly apologized to appease, "Mother, it's my son's fault, hit me!"

Empress Song was very emotional, hugged Li Chengqi's shoulders, and kept beating his back, as if she was seriously injured by her son.

After Li Chengqi comforted her for a long time, Empress Song calmed down a little.

Li Chengqi helped Empress Song back to sit on the soft couch, and comforted her in a low voice: "Mother, I really know that I was wrong, so don't get angry, your body will be destroyed by anger, the minister there is really unfilial!"

Empress Song gasped, her eyes were as red as rotten peaches, she sighed for a long time, she didn't look at Li Chengqi, but said weakly: "Go back, mother mother is tired today, she needs to rest early, these few days, don't you I'm coming to the harem, and handle the affairs of the court properly."

"But the father..." Li Chengqi did not dare to disobey Queen Song's wishes at this moment, but he was still very worried about the situation of the father.

"On your father's side, the queen mother will take good care of her. Don't tell me you still can't trust the queen mother?" Empress Song looked up at Li Chengqi with sharp eyes.

Li Chengqi bowed his head immediately, and replied respectfully: "I will obey my mother."

Empress Song looked at her son who was leaving quickly, her expression remained gloomy, and she sat alone in the bedroom for a while before she called the maid to come in to wash up.

As soon as Empress Song finished washing, the palace nurse over there came back in a hurry.

Empress Song saw Gong Nai's ugly face, and guessed that something might have gone wrong again.Immediately waved away the servants who were waiting on the side, and hurriedly asked: "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, the child is gone!" Gong Nai's tone was flustered and full of bewilderment.

"It's gone? How could it be gone? Wasn't it always taken by the nanny of Qingxi Palace?" Queen Song frowned and asked in a bad tone.

"The old slave just went to find the nanny, and saw that the nanny fell asleep on the bed, but the child in the car was gone. The old slave woke up the nanny and asked, she said that the baby was still there before she fell asleep, and she didn't I know where the child has gone." Gong Nai said again.

"Trash! You can't even look at a child, you drag him out and stick him to death!" Empress Song was so annoyed that she smashed a teacup and said angrily.

Seeing Empress Song getting angry, Gong Nai was a little timid, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Mother, do you think... Could it be Concubine Yun Gui who took the child away?"

Empress Song snorted coldly, and said: "Impossible, if those guarding guards can let Concubine Yun take the child away, then what's the use of keeping these wine bags and rice bags in the palace!"

Grandma Gong thinks about it too, if she can steal the child without alarming the guards, she must be someone with skills.

"Let someone look for it! Didn't the child just be lost? The person who stole the child must not leave so soon, and as long as the child wakes up, he will definitely cry. Let the guards find the child before dawn!" Empress Song said immediately Madam Gong ordered.

Gong Nai immediately took the order to go down, she knew that tonight might be another sleepless night.

It's just that until dawn, the guards in the palace did not find the child who suddenly disappeared. Like Concubine Yun Gui, she seemed to have disappeared from the world suddenly.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, the concierge of Li's family walked out of the gate to clean the fallen leaves, but found a basket outside the gate with thick bedding in it. The concierge took a closer look and found the basket In it lay a baby the size of a kitten.

(End of this chapter)