Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 226 The Crown Prince and the Royal Concubine kowtow to each other! Wanli is numb!

Chapter 226 The Crown Prince and the Royal Concubine kowtow to each other! Wanli is numb!

"What...what? You want me to plead for Concubine Wang Gong and help her get out of the cold palace?"

Zheng Mengjing was simply unbelievable. She thought Zhang Chonghui was being mysterious and was wondering what he was going to do to her...

Unexpectedly, she was asked to release the 'enemy'!
"I'm telling you! It's absolutely impossible!"

Zheng Mengjing refused decisively and tightened his grip on Zhang Chonghui, fearing that he would run away if he got unhappy.

However, this time, Zhang Chonghui did not walk away in disdain like he did the previous times. Instead, he smiled and said:
"My Lady, what are you afraid of? Are you afraid that Concubine Wang Gong will come out and snatch your favor?"

Zheng Mengjing was certainly not afraid that Concubine Wang Gong would snatch her favor, but just when she was about to refute something, her chin was gently pinched.

Before she could even react, she heard the man's bewitching voice:
"My Lady, I heard that Concubine Wang Gong cried day and night in the cold palace and has already cried her eyes blind. She is just a blind person. Are you afraid that a blind person who looks worse than you and is not as smart as you can make a splash?"

"I'm not afraid!" Zheng Mengjing retorted hastily, and the next moment he realized it belatedly and moved his chin away with a red face.

Seeing that Zheng Mengjing was about to resist, Zhang Chonghui withdrew his hand in time and said seriously:

"My Lady, as the saying goes, you have to put on a good show. If you just kneel down and admit your mistake to the Crown Prince, people will inevitably think you are just pretending.

Listen to my advice. Only if you find a way to release Concubine Wang Gong from the cold palace, can your reputation as a virtuous person be truly virtuous."

Zheng Mengjing was stunned again. She originally wanted to scold Zhang Chonghui for being dishonest, but now the only thing on her mind was whether or not to release Concubine Wang Gong from the cold palace.

After a while of struggling, Zheng Mengjing was still reluctant and snorted, "But I don't want her to come out. I...I get annoyed just by looking at her!"

"Then don't look at her." Zhang Chonghui said, raising his hand again and tentatively patting Zheng Mengjing's shoulders twice. Seeing that the other party did not resist, he directly pressed his hand on it and said:

"Be good and listen to me. If you don't listen to me, I won't care about you if something goes wrong later."

Zheng Mengjing became anxious when he heard the word "don't care" and said hurriedly: "No, you can't just ignore me!"

"Okay, okay." Zhang Chonghui patted Zheng Mengjing's shoulder again and said in a gentle voice like coaxing a child:

"As long as you listen to me, I won't ignore you."

Zheng Mengjing was coaxed to the point of feeling dizzy. Although she knew that she was being taken advantage of, she inexplicably enjoyed this kind of 'arranged' deception.

For a moment, she even suddenly recalled the scene when her parents coaxed her when she was a child.

"Okay, you should go to the East Palace now, so that you can finish your work sooner."

Zhang Chonghui's words brought Zheng Mengjing back to her senses. Faced with such a direct arrangement, she always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't put her finger on it.

"Go quickly." Zhang Chonghui said again.

Being urged like this, Zheng Mengjing nodded subconsciously and said, "Okay..."

After the discussion was over, Zhang Chonghui was ready to leave, but before leaving, he planned to do another test.

Just when Zheng Mengjing let go of the arm that he had been hugging for a while in a daze, Zhang Chonghui suddenly grabbed her neck with one hand with quick eyes and hands!

"what……"

The sudden attack at this moment frightened Zheng Mengjing so much that she lost her voice, but before she could react, Zhang Chonghui had already retracted his hand!
"You...what are you doing? You...are you trying to strangle me to death?"

Zheng Mengjing covered her neck with horror. The brief feeling of suffocation just now made her extremely scared!
However, this fear of being dominated gave rise to a strange feeling in the subconscious for no reason. This was a kind of excitement that had never been experienced before?
Seeing that even though he had been so offended, Zheng Mengjing was not really angry, nor was he really scared, Zhang Chonghui suddenly understood what was going on.

He knew very well that a normal person who was strangled like this would have screamed in fear or run away, but Zheng Mengjing just covered his neck and stared at him in a daze.

It seems that he made the right bet again this time.

"My Lady Imperial Concubine." Zhang Chonghui explained apologetically:
"I just think your neck is particularly beautiful, long, white, and as elegant as a swan. I couldn't help it for a moment. You shouldn't mind, right?"

Zheng Mengjing was also puzzled by Zhang Chonghui's strange habit. Just when he was about to curse him, the other party left without even looking back!
gone……

Looking at Zhang Chonghui's back as he quickly left, Zheng Mengjing was stunned for a long time, until the aftereffect of being strangled in her throat completely disappeared, and then she came to her senses.

She tried to pinch herself for some unknown reason, but no matter how she pinched, she didn't feel the strange feeling she had just now.

At this point, Zheng Mengjing had completely dispelled her previous doubts. She smacked her head in frustration and cursed herself secretly:
"Oh, how could I be so stupid as to think that he was in league with the Emperor!"

……

Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Yijun didn't know why, but he suddenly wanted to see Concubine Zheng.

The last time I had this sudden feeling was the time before.

Recently, because of the assassination case, he has neglected Concubine Zheng for a long time, and if the situation continues to develop in this way, Uncle Zheng will be pushed out as a shield sooner or later.

Zhu Yijun already had a plan. At worst, he could promote Concubine Zheng to Imperial Concubine, which would be a compensation for this beloved woman.

However, I don’t know if it’s a coincidence.

Once again, on a whim, the Emperor came to the harem to visit his beloved concubine, but he came back empty-handed again.

It’s okay if I don’t see anyone this time, maybe it’s just a coincidence.

But after not seeing him for two consecutive times, any normal person would become suspicious, let alone a suspicious emperor.

However, it turns out that sometimes, some coincidences are always so illogical.

Just when Zhu Yijun became suspicious of his beloved Concubine Zheng and was about to send someone to find her!
The arrival of the news not only dispelled Zhu Yijun's suspicion, but also shocked him, who had not been away from home for a long time, so much that he immediately ordered people to prepare a sedan chair and go to Ciqing Palace where the prince lived!

……

Ciqing Palace.

When Zhu Changluo heard that Concubine Zheng came to the Eastern Palace to see him, he felt terrible!
In Zhu Changluo's eyes, Concubine Zheng was nothing more than an unforgivable old witch.

Now that the scary old witch has come to his door, Zhu Changluo is both scared and angry.

It just so happened that Crown Princess Guo was nearby at that time, so he simply left the task of receiving Concubine Zheng to her.

However, Crown Princess Guo was, after all, just a teenage girl, and in a sense, receiving Concubine Zheng was like receiving her mother-in-law.

The most important thing is that this mother-in-law is the stepmother that her husband hates and fears the most...

Guo was also very troubled, but as the mistress of the East Palace, she could only bite the bullet and go to meet this "evil mother-in-law" who had a very bad reputation.

It turns out that rumors are sometimes not necessarily all false.

For example, in Guo's eyes, Concubine Zheng was indeed an evil mother-in-law who was very difficult to deal with.

Even though she explained in a gentle voice that the prince was not feeling well and was resting and would not see guests, Concubine Zheng still insisted on seeing the prince.

Guo was helpless and could only try her best to stop them.

Zheng Mengjing also gave face and did not rush in directly.

It was not until the time was almost up and the emperor was about to arrive that Zheng Mengjing brought out her status as a royal concubine and forced the fence-sitters in the East Palace to leave.

During this period, there was only one eunuch who was determined to stop the powerful imperial concubine.

However, in the end, Cui Wensheng ordered his men to throw this eunuch aside.

Crown Prince Zhu Changluo finally met the person he least wanted to see.

But just as he gritted his teeth, forced a smile, and prepared to salute the beautiful woman with a vicious heart, a scene that he could never have imagined appeared!
"Madam Zheng...you...what are you doing?"

Seeing Concubine Zheng kneeling down with a plop, Zhu Changluo was stunned. In panic, his knees went weak and he knelt down!
Zheng Mengjing was also startled by Zhu Changluo's kneeling, but she quickly got into the mood, and tears immediately flowed out, full of grievance and self-blame, she sobbed with tears in her eyes:
"Prince, there are rumors everywhere right now. They say I want to harm you, but I am really innocent and wrongly accused, wuwuwu..."

Zheng Mengjing cried while explaining, and at the same time wiped the tears from her face with her sleeves, but no matter how she wiped, the tears did not stop. Seeing Zheng Mengjing crying and complaining, Zhu Changluo was stunned. If he hadn't always known that this beautiful stepmother had a vicious heart, he would have been deceived by her pitiful and innocent appearance.

Seeing Zheng Mengjing crying more and more aggrieved, Zhu Changluo could only keep saying: "Empress Zheng... please get up first, we have something to talk about..."

However, Zheng Mengjing just refused to get up. Not only that, she cried and even kowtowed!

"Wuwuwu...Prince, I have already knelt down before you, but you still won't believe me...

I really never thought of harming you... I'll kowtow to you, okay... wuwuwu..."

Looking at Zheng Mengjing kowtowed continuously, Zhu Changluo's mind was completely confused!

An even more confusing scene appeared. At this moment, he actually saw a figure that was almost impossible to appear here!
"Father...father..."

The little prince is still too young after all.

If it had been ten years later, when he saw Zheng Mengjing kowtowing to him, he would have kowtowed to him without saying a word instead of just standing there stupidly.

If it had been ten years later, he would not have just watched his emperor father limping over and helping up his stepmother, who was both wronged and delicate and pitiful.

"Wuwuwu... Your Majesty, there are rumors out there that my brother and I are planning to murder the Crown Prince...

No one believes that my brother and I are innocent, even you don't believe me...

I am alone and I have no words to defend myself, so please let me kowtow to the prince..."

While Zheng Mengjing was crying, he kept struggling to kneel down again, but no matter how hard he struggled, it was no use.

Seeing his beloved woman crying so aggrievedly and even doing such a humiliating thing as kneeling and kowtowing to the prince, Zhu Yijun felt so heartbroken that he almost melted.

Zhu Yijun was filled with deep guilt. His nose felt sore and he quickly comforted her, "Okay, my beloved, who said I don't believe you? I believe you."

However, Zheng Mengjing still cried, "But the prince doesn't believe me, wuwuwu..."

Only then did Zhu Yijun shift his gaze to Zhu Changluo, who was still kneeling on the ground in a daze.

Zhu Changluo then came to his senses from the loving scene that had just occurred before his eyes. After all, he had never seen such a loving scene between his father and biological mother.

It was not until this moment that Zhu Changluo truly discovered that the difference between love and not love was really obvious.

"Father." Zhu Changluo knew what his father, the emperor, wanted to hear. He said sensibly, "Your Highness, I believe in Empress Zheng."

After all, the young Crown Prince Zhu Changluo is still young, and it is difficult to hide things at this age.

Seeing that the expression of 'being forced' was about to overflow from the little prince's face, Zheng Mengjing hurriedly knelt down again, but this time the person she was kneeling to was Zhu Yijun.

"My dear, what are you doing?"

"Your Majesty, I have something to ask of you!"

"Get up first, and then we'll talk."

"If you don't agree to my request, I will never get up even if I die!"

"Okay, okay, what's the unwelcome request?"

"Your Majesty, I beg you to release Concubine Gong so that she can be reunited with the Crown Prince!"

For a moment, Zheng Mengjing's request made the whole air quiet.

Zhu Yijun's face became increasingly uglier. The shameful past once again surfaced in his mind, making him very uncomfortable.

However, Zhu Changluo's expression was one of surprise and sudden enlightenment!
At the same time, Zhu Changluo recalled the words that Zhang Chonghui, who was covered in blood, had said to him on the night of the Double Ninth Festival on September 9th...

……

"Your Highness, I may have killed someone. Could you please give me a set of clean clothes to change into and help me deal with that person?"

"This...you killed someone...this is a human life..."

"Your Highness, to be honest, that man claimed to be sent by Uncle Zheng to kill you. I'm afraid he wanted to find me because he wanted to make trouble for me and the emperor."

"I don't know about this. Don't say any more. I didn't hear anything..."

"Okay, since you didn't hear me, let me ask you another question. Do you still want your biological mother, Concubine Gong, to leave the cold palace?"

"Of course I do!"

"Since you want to, then please help me find a set of clean clothes first, and then help me clean up this bloody clothes. In addition, I guess Uncle Zheng will definitely not give up tonight, so let's just lure him into a trap!"

"Walk into a trap? Isn't that too risky..."

"Your Highness, do you want to save Concubine Wang Gong?"

"Of course! But..."

"This opportunity is rare and will never come back. Since you want to save Concubine Wang Gong, please listen to me this time, okay?"

"I'm good!"

……

Zhu Changluo, who had reacted, first looked at Zheng Mengjing, who was also kneeling on the ground and sobbing. He couldn't help but admire Zhang Chonghui in his heart and said, "You can handle this?"

Afterwards, Zhu Changluo looked at his emperor father again, only to see that the other party had a frown on his face and a very ugly expression.

"Sure enough...if you don't love me, you don't love me..." Zhu Changluo couldn't help but sigh in his heart again.

Concubine Zheng only knelt down and kowtowed, but her emperor father was so anxious that he ran to the Eastern Palace in person to comfort her.

His biological mother, Concubine Wang Gong, cried herself blind in the dark cold palace, but his father, the emperor, did not even ask about it...

The silence was finally broken by Zhu Yijun's helpless sigh.

"Forget it, just let Concubine Gong out. There's no need to lock her up any longer."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Changluo was so excited that his nose instantly felt sore, and tears rolled down his cheeks uncontrollably. He kowtowed and thanked the emperor incoherently:

"Your Majesty, thank you for your kindness! Thank you! Thank you!"

Zhu Yijun sighed and said, "Why thank me? You should thank your queen Zheng."

"Yes... Thank you, Empress Zheng! Thank you, Empress Zheng!" Zhu Changluo hurriedly turned to Zheng Mengjing and kowtowed back to him twice as much as the other party had just kowtowed to him.

Only then did Zheng Mengjing finally breathe a sigh of relief.

While responding to the polite words, he sighed in his heart:

"Fortunately, fortunately... Fortunately, he gave me this idea... Fortunately, he exists..."

At the same time, Zhu Changluo was also thinking about one thing in his heart - relying on Zhang Chonghui really works! It really works! It works better than anyone else!

Looking at the scene of 'loving mother and filial son' in front of him, Zhu Yijun was a little dazed.

He didn't know why, these two people were so close to him, but he always felt that some distance was getting farther and farther away...

Zhu Yijun shook his head, and when he helped Zheng Mengjing up again, he deliberately moved closer and sniffed.

This time, he didn't smell the scent of sandalwood from last time.

"It seems that I am overthinking it..."

(End of this chapter)

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