into the bosom

Chapter 437
Xu Jiao really didn't know how to answer these words, so he froze slightly.

The eldest princess didn't seem to need her to answer, she said quietly, "That's great. Now, they are all together, but they left me alone."

These words made Xu Jiao feel uneasy suddenly, he tightly grasped the eldest princess's hand, and said anxiously, "Mother, don't let your imagination run wild. Could it be that you have forgotten how my mother persuaded me before? The deceased is like a man, and he will never give up day and night. Only when the mother is alive can the relatives who have passed away feel at ease, and the mother is not alone, there is also me in the mother."

Xu Jiao said this sentence very sonorously.

The Eldest Princess raised her eyes, and saw that her eyes were staring at her tightly without blinking, and the subtleties unexpectedly showed two points of tension, which made the Eldest Princess feel soft, lightly rubbed the back of her hand, and said softly Said, "Don't worry, Ajiao, I won't do stupid things. What's more..." What's more, the eldest princess didn't say anything, Xu Jiao heaved a sigh of relief, and frowned, just looking at the eldest princess at this time, she I don't know if I should ask.

Against the backdrop of the orange glow, the eldest princess's face was a little pure white, and the doubts that had been lingering in her heart since just now deepened. Xu Jiao hesitated and hesitated, but couldn't help but asked softly, "Mother, how long ago have I I heard that two days ago, Princess Huiming entered the palace with Silang Li, why didn't he see his mother and son?" Logically, Princess Huiming was also the adopted daughter of the Empress Dowager in name, and the Empress Dowager passed away. It's fine if she's not in the palace, since she is, she should stay by her side no matter what.But she was not there, and the defense in the palace had changed, there must be some reason for this.

Listening to her question, the eldest princess froze slightly, but suddenly raised her eyes to look at Xu Jiao, and there was a faint sharpness in her eyes for a moment.Xu Jiao flinched slightly from the sharp stabbing, but did not retreat after all, and calmly looked back at the gaze of the eldest princess.

The next moment, the sharpness in the eldest princess' eyes narrowed, and she said softly, "Ajiao, my mother didn't pass away due to illness."

The light words sounded like thunder in Xu Jiao's ears. She was startled, and hesitated for a long time before asking, "Mother?" What does this mean?
The Eldest Princess' expression was very calm, "Early this morning, my mother was in a good mood, and called His Majesty, Huiming, and I to accompany her for a meal. After breakfast, she said she wanted to go to the imperial garden. Let me go to the pavilion in the lake to decorate first." These years, the eldest princess has been by the queen mother's side, and she has done everything by herself. I have always felt that this is considered filial piety, so I don't doubt him.Perhaps she also had doubts, but she knew in her heart that the Queen Mother wanted to distract her and talk to Emperor Xian and Princess Huiming alone. Since it was the Queen Mother's intention, she would naturally not disobey.

Xu Jiao was silent, not daring to speak, quietly waiting for the princess's next words.

The eldest princess paused for a moment before saying, "I tidied up the pavilion in the lake, but I didn't see the queen mother and the others coming. I waited for a while and felt a little uneasy, so I turned back to Anfu Palace, but I didn't want to."

The eldest princess didn't say the following words, but Xu Jiao gasped.

The eldest princess looked at her with deep eyes and said, "The queen mother died of poisoning. When I arrived, the imperial doctor was administering needles to her. She kept vomiting black blood and had only her last breath left. The emperor said, it was Hui." What Ming did, she hated her mother and her father, so she finally couldn't hold back and took revenge herself. Huiming and her son have already been taken into custody by the emperor. I don't know where they are locked up. What the emperor plans to do I don't have the heart to ask about it."

Xu Jiao's thoughts surged in his mind for a while, and he didn't have a clue, "Mother believes?" Naturally, he was talking about Princess Huiming's poisoning of the Queen Mother at this time.

"I didn't see Huiming, but the queen mother still breathed a sigh of relief at that time, but she didn't have the slightest intention to refute the emperor's words." The queen mother acquiesced.The meaning of the plain words of the eldest princess could not be more obvious.

Xu Jiao's head was in a daze, and he didn't know how to react for a while.Something is clearly not right.

"Your Highness!" Xu Jiao hadn't come up with a reason yet, but Aunt Qiao went back and forth, followed by two maidservants. "People from the Department of Clothes Bureau came to deliver dresses to His Highness and Princess."

Both the eldest princess and Xu Jiao saw the neatly folded mourning clothes on the tray held by the two maidservants.

"The dress was made in a hurry, I'm afraid there is something inappropriate, please try it quickly, and if there is something inappropriate, you can modify it immediately." The two maids stopped saluting and said. .

The eldest princess gave a soft "hmm", then turned to Xu Jiao and said, "Then let's try it first!"

When Neg Xue and the others changed Xu Jiao's filial piety clothes, Xu Jiao was completely out of his mind, and his thoughts were flying... Even if Princess Huiming hated the Queen Mother, she couldn't do the stupid thing of poisoning the Queen Mother at this time, not to mention, that day In Mingye Palace, Xu Jiao still understood what Princess Huiming meant. What she really hated was the late emperor who had already been buried... On the contrary, it was the Empress Dowager who passed away suddenly at this time, and the changes in the palace...

Recalling that day the Empress Dowager promised Princess Huiming that she would persuade Emperor Xian, and later the Empress Dowager really called Emperor Xian to speak, and Princess Chang went to look for her by the Yuhu Lake on the way, but did not stay by her side.On the New Year's Eve of the second day, the mother and son were both loving and filial, and had a great time.At that time, she only acted as Empress Dowager and really persuaded Emperor Xian to agree to that matter, and she still felt a little unbelievable, but what if the mother and son had discussed another idea.

Pretending to agree to the conditions in Li Chongwu's proclamation, he issued an edict to sin against himself, and then issued an edict to the Zen throne to lure Princess Huiming into the palace, and then set up a dead end with the death of the queen mother...

The Queen Mother died of poisoning, and when the accident happened, the Eldest Princess was not there. There were only Emperor Xian and Princess Huiming by her side. Of these two, one was her own son and the other was an adopted daughter, but they hated the Queen Mother. Who was more serious? Motive for poisoning?Princess Huiming was the one who bit Emperor Xian to death. Before she died, the Empress Dowager had a chance, but she acquiesced that the murderer was Princess Huiming. There was no denying that the evidence was conclusive, so she had already been captured by Emperor Xian and taken into custody...

The Empress Dowager passed away suddenly, if the Li family army mobilized troops at this time, it would be unreasonable.And if the queen mother was poisoned by the mistress of the Li family army, the queen mother was also the adoptive mother of the mistress, and now Princess Huiming and Li Silang are both in the hands of Emperor Xian...

When Xu Jiao thought of this, his pupils shrank, and he rushed out...

"Princess!" Negative Xue shouted in amazement, tugging at a belt in her hand, and immediately followed after her.

When the eldest princess was outside, Xu Jiao rushed over, took the hand of the eldest princess, and hurriedly said, "Mother, I thought about it, and I'm afraid something is wrong..."

Before she could finish her sentence, the eldest princess pinched the back of her hand, and with her pair of red phoenix eyes with two points of warning, she gouged out at her.

Xu Jiao was startled, before he could react, he heard a voice from behind asking, "What are Yingyue and Sister Huang talking about, what's wrong?"

The back of Xu Jiao's neck and back felt cold in an instant, and when the eyes of the princess and the eldest princess were intertwined, the eldest princess had already turned around with her, and replied softly, "It's just the petty temper of some girls, but it's not easy for me to let you go. His Majesty laughed."

The eldest princess said, turning her head and glaring at Xu Jiao, she said, "I'm a well-behaved person on weekdays, why are you so ignorant today? I just said that you are not allowed to copy Buddhist scriptures, so why are you still talking about strange powers? Even if you don't copy According to the Buddhist scriptures, your grandmother can reach bliss early, what's wrong?"

Xu Jiao hurriedly answered, "What mother said is true, I made a fuss. Grandmother treats me well, so she won't scare me." While talking, she looked at Emperor Xian's reaction out of the corner of her eye.

Emperor Xian was a little stunned, as if he didn't expect the mother and daughter to be because of such an incident, and the next moment he said, "Yingyue is also a filial piety, so please don't be harsh on sister Huang." Xiang Xu Jiao said, "Your mother is in a bad mood, you should be more considerate."

"What your Majesty said is that Yingyue knew she was wrong." She lowered her eyes obediently, hiding the dark light in her eyes.

Emperor Xian had already changed into his filial piety clothes, looked at them, especially Xu Jiao, and then sighed and said to them, "You guys pack up quickly, I am afraid that the wives both inside and outside will come in." It's the palace." After saying that, he turned and left.

It was only then that Negative Snow had the opportunity to come forward to fasten Xu Jiao's belt. During this process, the Eldest Princess kept looking at Xu Jiao with heavy eyes. That kind of silent power filled her whole body, and even the atmosphere in the whole hall was so silent. Suffocating.

After Xu Jiao's belt was fastened, the eldest princess said in a deep voice, "You must be cautious in your words and deeds in the palace. You must think carefully about what you should say and what you should do, otherwise there will always be times when you will not come back. .”

"I know I was wrong, I was just in a hurry." Xu Jiao bit his lips and said, glanced left and right, the palace was full of cronies around their mother and daughter, but Xu Jiao was also worried that the wall had ears, so he took a small step forward Pulling the eldest princess's sleeve, she whispered in her ear, "Mother, what I just said is true, this matter does not make sense."

"You don't want this, do you? Is it because of her relationship with you?" the eldest princess asked coldly.

Xu Jiao wanted to say no, but it wasn't completely irrelevant, so she hesitated for a moment.

The eldest princess looked at her, her eyes flickered, "You have to believe in such things, just rely on your intuition. But I want real evidence." After the eldest princess said this, Xu Jiao was stunned. When she looked up at her, her eyes met Xu Jiao's, then she retracted her gaze, turned and walked out.

Xu Jiao stared at her back for a moment, and after a while, a light flashed in his eyes.

What mother meant...she was still skeptical.Moreover, the eldest princess's attitude was completely beyond Xu Jiao's expectations. In fact, no matter which guess is the truth, it is equally cruel to the eldest princess. But obviously, in this matter, the eldest princess and her Same, don't want to be confused.

This is a good thing.Xu Jiao clenched her fist lightly, at least she won't be hindered by her mother in her future actions, right?

Both the inside and outside of Anfu Palace were hung with white, and the inside and outside of the palace were the same. Even the palace people wore white, as if overnight, the whole palace was bathed in this solemn and desolate white.

In order to show filial piety, Emperor Xian specially asked the Empress Dowager to rest in Fengxian Hall, and was buried in the imperial mausoleum only after the March [-]th period.

According to the rules, the daily crying of the inner and outer wives is a physical labor.After a few days, Xu Jiao was a bit overwhelmed by herself, but Princess Pianchang never slack off at all, every time she knelt firmly and cried earnestly, Xu Jiao not only had to take care of herself, but also took care of her. idle.

She sorted out her thoughts, now that she is in the palace, the situation in the palace is clearer, on the contrary, she doesn't know the news outside the palace at all, the situation is unclear at the moment, and she dare not rashly summon their hidden people in the dark, so she just wanted to Unless it is absolutely necessary, don't reveal your own hole cards, which can be regarded as surviving strength.

As a result, she didn't know anything about the outside news, and she didn't know how Emperor Xian negotiated with the Li family army about the Queen Mother's death. In short, in the past few days, she was only organizing the funeral ceremony of the Queen Mother in an orderly manner, as if Chen Bing was outside In general, the Li family army did not exist, and the great Wei Dynasty was still peaceful all over the world.

But Xu Jiao also knew that she couldn't control the outside world, but the truth about the Queen Mother's death might only be found out after finding Princess Huiming.What's more, even if it wasn't for this, she couldn't just sit back and do nothing.

She asked Lingxue and Wen Tao to inquire secretly, but the one who escorted Princess Huiming's mother and child that day was Emperor Xian's cronies, and they only knew that they had left Anfu Palace and were escorted to the north of the palace.There is a large deserted palace in the north, but the path leading to the north of the palace is now blocked by the imperial army.Whether it is using private staff or they act on their own, it is a risk to investigate again.

Xu Jiao was a little worried for a while, but the eldest princess got up this morning and suddenly had a fever, which turned out to be sick.After Xu Jiao persuaded her for a long time, she reluctantly agreed to summon the imperial physician to see her. She finally drank the medicine, but she was still thinking about keeping the Queen Mother's wake at night. Down.

Seeing that the eldest princess fell into a deep sleep due to the effect of the medicine, Xu Jiao came out of the side hall with Lingxue and Wen Tao.Since the end of the new year, there has been no snow, but the sky is still cold.The night wind was tight, Xu Jiao gathered the plain white cloak around her body, and walked in the direction of Fengxian Hall.

A few days ago, she accompanied the eldest princess to Fengxian Hall to guard the spirit, and she was familiar with this path.Tonight, the sky was covered with thick clouds and there was no wind. In addition, the funeral had been held for several days, and everyone was a little tired, but at this time they walked in silence, and no one met anyone.When we arrived at Fengxian Hall, we met a few palace guards on duty.

The three masters and servants walked into the hall. There were no earth dragons in the hall, and the weather was still very cold. Xu Jiao chose a futon to sit cross-legged next to the coffin as before. It is a small portrait of Avalokitesvara painted by Xu Jiao. It was painted according to the face of the Queen Mother to express her grief.

She painted very carefully, while Wen Tao and Negative Xue would offer a stick of incense or burn some paper money every once in a while, and in the next courtyard, the great monk from Hongfa Temple who had been invited was reciting scriptures to save the Empress Dowager, The Sanskrit sound was lightly sent by the night wind in this quiet night, and it was not real, but it made people feel a little in a dream.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew open the half-closed palace door with a bang...

(End of this chapter)