Doting on concubines and destroying wives? I don’t want to be the mistress of the Hou clan anymore.

Chapter 57 Calm down the storm
The carriages on the other two sides were also attacked to varying degrees. However, the dead soldiers who came to besiege them were not so lucky. Some escaped, and a few were killed on the spot.

Originally, Chen Jue planned to keep them alive, but they all had poison sacs in their mouths, and accidentally caused them to take poison and commit suicide collectively.

Chen Jue also had a lot of blood on his body and was waiting at the palace gate, waiting for the palace door to open.

The rain had stopped, and the sky was white as fish belly. The officials who came to court could not help but feel horrified when they looked at Chen Jue.

The chief steward of the palace hurriedly announced that the court would be closed for the day, and then personally welcomed Chen Jue into the inner hall to meet the emperor.

"Nephew, meet the emperor's uncle!"

Chen Jue knelt down and bowed, but the emperor who was sitting on top of him did not ask him to get up immediately. He just said coldly: "I think you are becoming more and more ignorant as you grow up!"

"Uncle, I... I was chased by many people last night." Chen Jue raised his head and looked at the emperor pitifully with his peach blossom eyes open.

"Are you injured?"

After signaling Chen Jue to get up, the emperor asked casually. He was the emperor after all, and although he was very concerned about Chen Jue's safety, he didn't show it on his face.

"The two guards my aunt gave me are really masters. They protected me and I wasn't hurt at all."

If Chen Jue was the one who injured the two guards, his guards would also suffer the consequences, knowing that what he told was a lie to cover up the two guards.

The emperor still nodded and asked casually: "Where is Gu Zhao?"

The Gu family can actually be considered relatives of the emperor.

The current Duke Yongyi Gu Xicheng's grandfather, the first generation Duke, once married a princess. Strictly speaking, Gu Xicheng is the cousin of His Majesty today.

"He is in a safe place." Chen Jue did not dare to tell the truth and said: "...Uncle, can you help him? Those people last night were not coming for me at all, but for Brother Qianjun. of."

"You don't know how dangerous it was yesterday. If we hadn't used the strategy of diverting the tiger away from the mountain, Brother Qianjun might not be here now."

"absurd."

When the emperor is angry, he will thunder and shake the whole world.

"Uncle, why did Gu Xicheng kill Brother Qianjun?"

Chen Jue has been walking around the palace since he was a child. Although he doesn't necessarily understand the emperor's temper very well, he can always get some clues after so many years.

Knowing that he was not in a good mood now, but it was not directed at himself, he dared to move forward.

"This is not something you should ask about." The emperor touched the rosary in his hand and said, "Let Gu Zhao come and see me."

"Go see your aunt. What happened last night scared her."

Chen Jue knew that the emperor was driving people away. He had to deal with business matters and it was inconvenient for him to stay. He could only look at Huang with sad eyes.

"Come on, hurry up, I get annoyed just looking at you!"

"But, uncle...can you promise me not to punish Brother Qianjun?"

The emperor sneered, and Chen Jue shuddered.

If the entanglement continues, he is afraid that he will not be able to protect himself.

When she went to the Queen's Palace, she didn't get up and didn't want to pay attention to Chen Jue, so she left it to dry in the yard.

The prince came over to pay his respects to the queen as usual. Seeing Chen Jue's grimace, he couldn't help teasing her.

"Oh, our little overlords in Kyoto also have time to recognize each other, why don't the queen mother want to see you?" Chen Jue rolled his eyes and said, "Brother Prince, do you have nothing to do?"

Although the prince was stern, he knew how to love the house and the bird, so he deliberately said contrary: "It's not because you made the queen angry with your homework. I will come over to see the queen today."

"Ah, aunt is sick?"

Chen Jue was a little anxious and a little guilty.

But if I had to do it again, he would never regret his choice.

If he had entered the palace last night, he might have been able to avoid this matter, but what should Brother Qianjun do?
Then he will be beyond redemption.

"It's okay, the queen just didn't sleep well," the prince casually rubbed Chen Jue's head and said, "In the past few years, you and Gu Zhao have gotten very close. He has a good temperament and a good temperament. I didn't expect that you could Since he is in love with you, you should help him, but you must also be considerate of your mother's painstaking efforts..."

"I know." Chen Jue said dullly.

The lady in charge beside the Queen quickly walked over and saluted the two of them. She looked at the stains on Chen Jue's body and frowned: "Little Marquis, what's wrong with you? Are you injured? You went in like this. , I’m afraid it will scare the Queen…”

"Okay," the prince waved his hand: "Go to my palace to freshen up, and then come back to see your mother."

Chen Jue followed the prince obediently.

He and his cousin didn't really have anything to talk about.

"There are rumors outside that Gu Zhao is not the child of the Duke. This is actually nonsense." The prince said: "One of the Wen women who delivered Mrs. Jiang's birth back then was sent from the palace."

"There are four stable women in total, and two gynecological masters are waiting outside. The one waiting outside is the previous generation of the Duke, and several relatives of the Gu family. It is definitely impossible to exchange the children."

"Qianjun has grown up these days. Although he resembles his mother more, his facial features are very similar to those of the Duke of Guo. I don't believe it when I say that he is not their biological child."

"Yes!" Chen Jue listened all the way and finally found someone who thought the same as him, and then he looked at the prince squarely.

"Since it's all rumors, don't worry about him."

"Brother Prince, what do you mean? Please speak clearly, I don't understand."

Chen Jue said: "Is there any evidence?"

"Well, I have found the stable woman, and she has an impression." The prince was silent for a while, and said in a very regretful tone: "But I can't find the other people, and I don't know if they are dead now. It’s alive.”

"Oh, I understand, thank you!"

After washing up in a hurry, Chen Jue was about to rush out of the palace. If the palace people hadn't stopped him knowing that he hadn't gone to see the Queen yet, he might have left the palace long ago and told Gu Zhao about this.

On the emperor's side, Lu Zhen, the young minister of Dali Temple who is in charge of this matter, has been called in: "The case has reached this point. I love you, but you have a clear vision."

Lu Zhen thought for a while and said: "There is something strange that Wei Chen really doesn't understand. I would like to ask your majesty to help Wei Chen come up with an idea."

"tell me the story."

Then Lu Zhen told some of Chen Jue's conjectures.

"I don't know whether these things are true or not, and I have sent people to secretly investigate." Lu Zhen said: "It's just that the people who delivered the second son's birth were dead or missing. There is really no clue."

"Since we have no clue, let's not investigate." The emperor touched the rosary repeatedly and said, "I will let them be responsible for the meeting between the two in a while and let them solve the "misunderstanding"."

"After all, they are father and son, they shouldn't have an overnight feud."

(End of this chapter)