I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 210 Queen Dowager Dou: Where's My Son?

In the afternoon of the same day, Changle Palace and Changxin Palace.

The Empress Dowager Dou was sitting on the imperial couch, and together with Liu Xing, the pottery master beside her, cast her concerned eyes on the emperor Qi beside her.

At this time, Tianzi Qi was obviously still a little angry, with a gloomy expression and lowered his head, rubbing his fingers on his forehead.

Besides the mother and son, Wei Qihou Dou Ying, who had just resigned from the post of general and changed to be the crown prince, also sat beside him with a thoughtful face.

From time to time, a trace of entanglement and hesitation flashed across his eyes...
"A few years ago, there was an old stubborn bull named Shentu Jia, who made me so angry that my life was shortened by several years."

"Now there's another Zhou Yafu who hasn't become the prime minister yet, so he's going to start to get mad at me..."

"I think I've lived too long..."

"I think my life is too long!!"

In a few or two sentences, Tian Ziqi's anger, which had been suppressed with great difficulty, just rushed to the top of his head with a 'bass'!

A low growl full of annoyance also provoked Empress Dowager Dou who was beside her to sigh and sigh, and patted the back of Tianzi Qi's hand gropingly.

"This week Yafu..."

"Ugh······"

"That's the kind of temperament, and now, there is a peerless military service to quell the rebellion;"

"It's normal to be crazy and arrogant."

"After all, it's a foreign surname, it's not as good as our own family..."

"——The same goes for my own family!"

Before Empress Dowager Dou finished speaking, Tianzi Qi let out another low growl coldly, angrily resting his forehead with his left hand, while pointing his fingers at Dou Ying with his right hand.

"Queen Mother, ask yourself!"

"Ask this Dou Wangsun—this family, what have they done!"

"Ask my mother's nephew, how my great general of the Han family, Wei Qihou, treats my mother's grandson!"

"—Ask this prince and Taifu how he treats the crown prince of my Han family!!!"

There was another deep heck without warning, which made Queen Dowager Dou subconsciously angry, and Dou Ying was so frightened that she hurriedly lowered her head.

After Empress Dowager Dou came back, she turned her head thoughtfully, and looked gloomyly at Dou Ying, who had already lowered her head.

"Dou Ying~"

With a soft cry, Dou Ying raised her head hastily.

He wanted to change his words a few times, but finally hesitantly lowered his head and didn't say a word.

After a long delay in waiting for Dou Ying's reply, Empress Dowager Dou turned sideways again, only to see Tian Zi Qi beside her, who also turned her head away angrily.

Finally, he looked at Liu who was standing beside him, and he shook his head with a confused expression on his face. The expression on the back of Mrs. Dou was completely dark...
"what happened?!"

"——You don't want to tell me anything because you think I'm blind!"

"My grandson, what happened!!!"

An extremely majestic and inexplicably heart-pounding cry, only made the palace people bow their heads one after another.

After a while, it was Tianzi Qi who finally turned his body irritably and waved to Chuntuo who was beside him.

Then, Chuntuo carefully turned sideways, bypassed the imperial couch, and walked to the side of Empress Dowager Dou.

While walking forward, Chuntuo did not forget to glance at Dou Ying;
At the side of Empress Dowager Dou, after the pottery owner Liu Xing took the position, Chuntuo bowed his body, lowered his voice, carefully considered his words, and gave Empress Dou a rough summary of what happened outside the city. report.

"Today, when Wei Qihou and Tiaohou returned to the imperial court, His Majesty asked Young Master Sheng to be the chief envoy, and Young Master Peng Zu to be the deputy envoy, to go out of the city to greet them for His Majesty."

With a soft word, Chuntuo couldn't help turning his head slightly, looking at Dou Ying out of the corner of his eye.

Seeing that Dou Ying was still bowing his head, Chuntuo continued: "When I saw the young master outside the city, Wei Qihou seemed a little..."

"Uh······"

"some·······"

"Some birth points?"

Chun Tuo carefully and carefully considered the sentence of "some birth", but still failed to stop Queen Mother Dou, and instantly understood the truth of the matter.

Looking at Dou Ying with a gloomy expression, he was about to speak when he heard Tianzi Qi beside him growl in a low voice: "And that bastard, what did you say and what did you react!"

"Tell the Queen Mother too!"

Hearing the emperor's words, Chuntuo's expression became more and more cautious.

Taking a careful look at Dou Ying again, he hastily bowed his upper body down again.

"Young Master said, Marquis Tiao and Marquis Wei have made great contributions to the country and should be honored enough."

"My son doesn't mind what happened outside the city today..."

"—Young Master also said that as long as there is an opportunity, he will definitely speak to His Majesty, and ask His Majesty not to be angry with Tiaohou and Wei Qihou because of today's incident."

"Young master said: Those who have made such contributions to the ancestral temple and the country must not be neglected;"

"It is also absolutely impossible to be hated because of such a trivial matter..."

Snapped!
As soon as Chuntuo finished speaking, he saw Tianzi Qi who was also sitting on the imperial couch, and clapped his hands inexplicably!

After Empress Dou turned around with a cloudy complexion, Tianzi Qi spread her hands again.

"Hey."

"The queen mother can figure it out herself."

"This General Dou, I can't control it anymore."

"Hey!"

"—Baby is a 'mere' emperor, how dare you control Dou~big~general~jun???"

"If you do something else that doesn't suit General Dou's wishes, I'm afraid that even the baby will be killed by General Dou righteously..."

With an extremely sarcastic tone, but pretending to be "I really don't dare to offend Dou Ying", the emperor Qi finally turned away, leaving only an angry embarrassment for his mother, Dou, who was beside him. Curb's back.

And beside Tian Ziqi, listening to Tian Ziqi's words of "General Dou", Empress Dowager Dou's already gloomy face became even more icy...
"Your Majesty!"

"Damn things!!!"

With a cold reprimand, Dou Ying was subconsciously about to fall to his knees;
After reacting, I realized that I was kneeling on the ground...
With a complicated complexion, she got up from her seat, walked in front of Empress Dowager Dou, knelt down neatly, and Dou Ying lowered her head again.

At this moment, Dou Ying couldn't see the majesty of the status of "Great General", "Wei Qihou", "Prince Taifu" and so on.

Yes, just a younger nephew kneeling respectfully and bowing his head, waiting for the elders to admonish and reprimand...
"how?"

"My grandson Sheng, isn't he worthy of being a student of 'General Dou'?"

"Or I, a blind old woman, can't get into Wei Qihou's eyes???"

"—Is it the queen mother and the emperor of my Han family, can't control the great general and hard-working Wei Qihou?!"

After asking a few questions in a cold voice, Empress Dowager Dou still had a stern face, and the sarcasm in her tone was even worse than that of the talented Emperor Qi.

And after Empress Dowager Dou's more embarrassing questions, Dou Ying finally put on a bitter face, raised her head, and roughly expressed her inner thoughts.

"Minister, guilty..."

"It's just that in the past, I always thought that the Empress Dowager and Your Majesty would appoint the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince."

"I also thought that I would become the teacher of the eldest son of the emperor."

"——Because of this reason, the eldest son of the emperor and I have already talked about the relationship between teachers and students in the early days, but there is no formal apprenticeship."

"Now, such an accident has happened, my lord..."

"I really don't know how to face Young Master Sheng;"

"If you become the son's grand tutor, you really don't know how to face the emperor's eldest son, who is now Linjiang King..."

Full of calm, but also full of sorrow, Dou Ying said what was in her heart, and Dou Ying did not forget to pause for a while at the Empress Dowager Dou and the emperor Qi, mother and son.

"The minister is not rude to the young master because he believes that he has contributed to the country. There are really other difficulties."

"To do such absurd thing is to live up to the trust of the Queen Mother and His Majesty."

"I implore the Queen Mother, Your Majesty, to punish me, an arrogant minister who does not know the dignity of the emperor and his ministers, and who is different..."

The extremely upright confession made Empress Dowager Dou's icy face slightly warmer with the naked eye;

As for Tianzi Qi at the side, although he still turned away and let out another cold snort, he obviously lost his temper.

——Even if he didn't calm down, it was no longer because of Dou Ying.

Sighing slightly, he turned sideways again, and saw that Tianzi Qi had passed away—at least he had passed away with Dou Ying, and Queen Mother Dou finally shook her head and sighed, looking at Dou Ying who was kneeling at her feet. .

"This matter is because Wang and Sun are confused."

"Even if it is said that the sky is broken, the king and grandson will definitely not take it."

"Regardless of the relationship between Wang Sun and the eldest son of the emperor before, and whether they have formal apprenticeships;"

"One point, Wang Sun, is a big mistake..."

"——In the past, the king and grandson were neither the prince nor the prince, nor the eldest son of the emperor, nor the prince."

"Am i right?"

In a relatively peaceful tone with a hint of didactic meaning, when she uttered such a qualitative sentence, Empress Dowager Dou paused.

With a sullen face, he bent down and looked at Dou Ying indifferently.

It wasn't until Dou Ying lowered her head in shame, and softly said, "The queen mother taught me the lesson", that the queen mother straightened up, and her complexion finally turned warm.

In the tone of voice, there is still the serious tone that only appears when the elders admonish the younger ones.

"In the past, the emperor and I did say through our mouths that we wanted Wang Sun to be the prince and tutor."

"Simply according to the rules of having a heir to establish a heir and no heir to establish an elder, the one who becomes the crown prince should indeed be the eldest son of the emperor."

"—But for these two things, neither I nor the emperor issued an edict;"

"Since there is no edict issued, then this is something that has not yet been decided."

"Even the emperor and I haven't made a decision yet, Wang and Sun have already called themselves the 'Prince and Taifu', and went to meet the eldest son of the emperor who has not yet been registered as the prince and prince, and talk about teachers and students..."

"Is this suitable?"

"Wang Sun, are you forcing the two of us?"

"Are you forcing my mother and son to appoint the king and grandson as the crown prince and tutor, and the eldest son of the emperor to be registered as the crown prince?"

···
"Now, the king and grandson have also fulfilled their wish to become the prince and grand tutor according to the previous promise made by me and the emperor;"

"It's just the crown prince, who has changed from the eldest son of the emperor who was considered the 'best choice' by both inside and outside the court, to Xiao Jiu today."

"But, is this something Wang and Sun can intervene in?"

"—The identity of a foreign relative, to intervene in the matter of establishing the crown prince?"

"Wang Sun, what do you want to do?"

"Be the second Lu Chan and Lu Lu?"

"Is it the second Bo Zhao?"

···
"The promise to let Wang Sun be the prince and tutor, the emperor and I have kept it."

"But the emperor and I have never promised anyone that the eldest son of the emperor will be registered as the crown prince."

"Changing Xiaojiu to be the heir apparent is not the emperor's arbitrary decision, but the emperor and I have repeatedly discussed and discussed before finally deciding."

"—Wang Sun, what should I do?"

"Is it to keep one's duty, cherish the honor one has gained, and as the crown prince and Taifu, Fu teaches Xiaojiu and Fu teaches the future prince and prince?"

"Or as a 'former general', force the queen mother and emperor of the Han family to register the crown prince according to the wishes of the king, grandson, ministers and relatives?"

There is no lack of seriousness in the peace, and there is no lack of gentleness in the strong, and even more reasonable and well-founded words, the Queen Mother Dou lowered her head again.

Looking at Dou Ying, she clearly wanted to get a satisfactory answer from Dou Ying.

It is rare for the Empress Dowager to be willing to speak the truth, rather than to protect her shortcomings in a simple sense. As a junior, Dou Ying is not someone who does not listen to the elders' admonitions.

After listening to Empress Dowager Dou's admonition carefully, and after thinking about it carefully, he finally knelt up straight sincerely, and gave Empress Dowager a pause.

"The empress dowager's teaching really made the minister wake up like a dream, and he didn't realize his mistake earlier."

"Please rest assured, Queen Mother, Your Majesty;"

"After leaving Changle, the minister will bare his upper body, carry the thorns on his back, and plead guilty to Young Master Sheng..."

He apologized again with the utmost respect, but did not make Empress Dowager Dou nod at the first moment;
Instead, he turned his body slightly, and looked to his side tentatively, with the sulking emperor Qi still behind his back.

"What does the emperor think?"

After this encounter, Dou Ying was scolded, apologized, and made it clear that she was "willing to plead guilty to Liu Shengchen";

In addition, Empress Dowager Dou made peace from it, and no matter how angry the emperor Qi was, there was no reason to continue to speak ill at each other.

It's just that when he thinks of the image he imagined in his mind, and the stubbornness he saw from Zhou Yafu's face just now in Weiyang Palace, Tianzi Qi is still a little bit hard to calm down.

Seeing that Tianzi Qi was silent for a moment, he took a deep breath, turned around with anger still remaining, and glared at Dou Ying viciously.

"Please blame the fart!"

"—How can a teacher plead guilty to his own students?!"

"If it spreads outside the palace, Quan Chang'an will say: The crown prince that I registered is a person that even the teacher doesn't know how to respect!"

Another soft reprimand made the Empress Dowager Dou on the side smile slightly, but saw Tianzi Qi suddenly get up from the couch, walk to Dou Ying's side, raised the arch of his foot, and kicked Dou Ying's butt hard!
"Still thinking about killing my son!"

Accompanied by Tian Ziqi's kick and the last light reprimand, the gloomy atmosphere in Changxin Hall finally returned to normal.

When Dou Ying knelt down again and made the first confession to Emperor Qidun, the last trace of anger on Emperor Qi's face was finally suppressed in his heart.

——Tianzi Qi, it’s not that he is not angry;
But after calming down, no matter how unreasonable Tianzi Qi was, he at least knew that the anger in his heart was not caused by Dou Ying.

At least, Dou Ying is not the main reason...
"Okay okay~"

"—I scolded and kicked and kicked;"

"Emperor, don't be angry anymore."

"After all, no matter how you say it, the ones you can really trust are your own family."

"In the future, no matter how important you are, it will always be useful to your family..."

After being persuaded by Empress Dowager Dou for the last time, and then lowered his head to look at Dou Ying who was kneeling in front of him, Emperor Qi finally took a deep breath.

Still with a sullen face, he strode back to the imperial couch and sat down, but in the end he just said something hard: "The queen mother has orders, my child, naturally I dare not disrespect."

"—I just don't know if General Dou, like my son, can listen to the teachings of the queen mother?"

Hearing that Tianzi Qi had calmed down, but he still couldn't shake his face, Empress Dowager Dou smiled lightly and shook her head, then turned sideways pretending to be angry, and gave Dou Ying a look.

"Dare he?!"

A half-joking, but clearly warning light reprimand caused Dou Ying to pause again: "Don't dare, don't dare..."

"--Humph!"

Following Tian Ziqi's last cold snort, the story of Dou Ying finally turned over.

Liu Xing, who was waiting by the side, also said a few witty words like 'Don't worry, brother, I'm watching', and Tian Ziqi's complexion finally returned to normal.

Seeing that Tianzi Qi was no longer angry, Empress Dowager Dou thought about it for a while, and then brought up the words in her heart that she always wanted to say, but she really didn't find the opportunity before.

"Speaking of this, please forgive me~"

"The third child, I also want to come to Chang'an, and ask the emperor to take the blame..."

The slightly probing words only provoked another frown on Emperor Qi's brows that had not yet been fully relaxed.

But Empress Dowager Dou stretched out her hand with a wry smile, fumbled to take Tian Ziqi's hand, and then lowered her head in shame.

"The third brother's car has already arrived at Hangu Pass..."

"I have also sent someone to Hangu Pass to pick up the third child."

"—After all, he is also the brother of the emperor's mother and compatriots."

"Even if it's for my sake, Emperor, don't blame the third child anymore..."

"Just this once;"

"In the future, if the third brother has any irregularities, the emperor will not bother him."

"I, will teach him a lesson myself..."

The pleading cautiously, but with a faint hint of sorrow, only made Tianzi Qi feel a little bit annoyed inexplicably.

After taking several deep breaths in succession, he managed to calm down, but he heard that the emperor asked an irrelevant question: "It has been a long time since the appointment of the crown prince."

"First, Empress Bo must be abolished, then Jia Ji must be canonized as empress, and finally, that bastard must be enshrined as Crown Prince."

"——All these piles and pieces are all related to the ancestral temple and the community, and there are major events that need to be worshiped and reported to the temple, and there is a long time interval between these events..."

Empress Dowager Dou immediately understood the words with a little deep meaning, and she nodded slowly without thinking.

"I understand what the emperor means..."

"The imperial edict to abolish the queen has already been drawn up."

"Just wait for the emperor to look at it, and then send it to the queen."

"——I thought, after all, it's not an honorable thing, so don't make a big fuss about it."

"Secretly send the imperial edict, and let the empress move to the North Palace where Empress Xiaohui Zhang once lived."

"It can be regarded as giving to the empress, the empress dowager first, to save a little more dignity..."

Received the cryptic promise from Empress Dowager Dou, Emperor Qi finally nodded.

From the beginning to the end, neither the mother nor the son mentioned a single word of 'no longer making the king of Liang as the heir';
But between vague words, they have already reached a compromise.

——Liang Wang Liu Wu's assassination of courtiers, the emperor Qi will not pursue it;

In exchange, Empress Dowager Dou no longer mentions the matter of "the crown prince's younger brother".

A big stone fell to the ground in his heart, and the emperor Qi Zong was still brooding over Zhou Yafu's attitude towards himself before, and felt a little bit of relief for a short time.

But before Tian Ziqi opened his mouth and said the phrase "then let the third child come to Chang'an", a news without warning disrupted Tian Ziqi's plan again.

"Queen~~~~"

"The Queen Mother..."

"Queen Mother!"

A voice from far to near, from low to high, came from outside the hall, which only made the four people in the hall, Empress Dowager Dou, Tianzi Qi, Dou Ying, and Liu Xun, all frown.

When the initiator of that voice came into the hall out of breath, the complexions of Empress Dowager Dou, mother Liu whore and daughter all changed again...

"you!"

"What are you, you're back by yourself?!"

"Where is King Liang!!"

"Where is my son Liu Wu!!!!!!"

(End of this chapter)