Reborn Lady's Scheming

Chapter 177 Please forgive your sins

Su Wen heard Lingshu say this, and said reproachfully: "You said you, let you guard the young lady, you are still sleeping, you, now you are more and more unreliable!"

Lingshu said aggrievedly: "I'm obviously very energetic. I used to stay up all night without getting sleepy. I don't know why. I fell asleep suddenly last night. When I woke up, the rooster crowed in the morning!"

"Pfft..." Xie Wanqing laughed out loud, she knew that none of this was the fault of the Spiritual Pivot, it was a good thing done by someone.

Seeing Xie Wanqing's smile, Lingshu asked, "Miss, what are you laughing at?"

"Laugh at you for being sleepy!" Xie Wanqing still smiled wickedly, making Lingshu feel uncomfortable all over.

Lingshu said with a mournful face: "Miss, I swear, I really don't sleep too much, hey... I feel that something is wrong, but we didn't lose anything, and the lady is fine!"

"Forget it, don't think too much, help me change quickly, and I have to go to the palace to face the saint!" Xie Wanqing interrupted Lingshu.

Lingshu and Su Wen hurriedly helped Xie Wanqing wash and change her clothes. When Lingshu was about to put some rouge on Xie Wanqing, Xie Wanqing stopped her and said, "No need!"

"But miss... your face is too pale now, I'm afraid it's not good-looking!" Lingshu said.

Xie Wanqing smiled and said: "I just want to be pale, otherwise how can I prove that the crown prince did something stupid and made me seriously ill?"

Only then did Lingshu understand, and said: "This slave is thinking about it, but looking at Miss like this really makes people feel uncomfortable!"

"It's okay, I'm fine now!" Xie Wanqing thought, Xuanyuan Jue must have fed her some panacea last night, otherwise she would not have recovered so quickly.

Lingshu and Suwen supported Xie Wanqing and walked out. Mrs. Cui and Xie Zian had already prepared the car and were waiting for Xie Wanqing.

Seeing her coming, he asked the two maids to help her into the car. There was a thick mattress in the car, apparently specially prepared for Xie Wanqing.

Xie Wanqing looked at Mrs. Cui and said gratefully: "Grandma is thoughtful and has laid so many mattresses!"

"Silly girl, it's freezing cold, and you just fell ill, so naturally you need to put on more cushions. If you keep bouncing in the cold, it will be serious again!" Mrs. Cui looked at Xie Wanqing's pale face with distress. , but after being sick for a day, his face became thinner.

Xie Wanqing shook her head, held the old lady's hand, and said, "Grandma, it's okay, I'll be fine soon, I'm young!"

Mrs. Cui patted her hand and said: "This time entering the palace, I'm afraid it will not be peaceful, you have to be more careful, don't say wrong things, our emperor is best at trying to figure out people's hearts, if you don't Shen, this matter will be difficult!"

What Mrs. Cui said was naturally about retiring the engagement with the crown prince.

The emperor's golden words made this marriage possible, so how could Xie Wanqing quit the engagement just because Xie Wanqing said so? What's more, it was related to the crown prince, and it was even more impossible for him to let the crown prince bear the stigma easily.

Xie Wanqing also understood in her heart, that's why she was willing to go deep into the East Palace, willing to be injured and humiliated, if she didn't make some sacrifices, how could she have an excuse to force the emperor to back down?

Xie Wanqing murmured: "Everyone says that I was born with a good life. My mother's family is noble, and my father is an excellent minister. I don't have to worry about getting a good marriage that all women in the world envy. Maybe he can easily marry me." To be in the world, to enjoy the wealth and honor in the world, but I don't know, all this is not what I want!"

Mrs. Cui sighed, and said: "Some things, if you don't live in them, how do you know what they are like. In a family like ours, there are many things that you can't help yourself. Later...you have thought about it, quit Marriage, what will happen in the future?"

"Wan'er thought about it, but Wan'er doesn't regret it. Even if I really entered the Eastern Palace and became the princess, with the temperament of a prince, he would never treat me kindly. What's more... I know that the emperor has facilitated such a marriage. He doesn't just woo the Cui family and the Xie family, he woos the Cui family, he fears the Cui family, fears the Cui family, which means that sooner or later the Cui family will be suppressed, grandma, am I right?"

Xie Wanqing wanted to know if her grandmother, who was a womanizer, could see through the true meaning of this.

Mrs. Cui looked at Xie Wanqing in surprise, and said, "Wan'er, you...who told you these things?"

"Grandma, there are some things that I don't need to be told by others. I can figure it out. Now that the world is peaceful and all sides are subject to submission, the emperor is no longer the King Wu Cheng who fought with you on horseback and shared weal and woe!"

Xie Wanqing didn't know it before, but after experiencing ups and downs in her life, can she still not understand?

Her tragedies, the tragedies of the Cui family, were all caused by the emperor in the final analysis. Although the Liu family and Xie Siru were executioners, without the emperor's help, the Cui family would not have fallen. From a dignified princess to a clothes slave.

Mrs. Cui sighed for a long time, sighing in this life contains too much sadness and helplessness.

She said: "Wan'er, I know these things in my heart, but I don't want to believe it. Before Xuanyuan established the country, that person was a brother and brother with us. We once made an oath in blood to help him unswervingly. He He also swore to the sky that he would treat us like brothers!"

"Mrs. Luohua, I, your grandfather, the emperor, and Mrs. Luohua's... We are all friends who have died together. I didn't expect that in the end, we would not be able to escape the fate of falling apart!"

Old Mrs. Cui became sentimental as she spoke, with tears in her old eyes. Those days and nights when she galloped on the battlefield and fought bloody battles, even though there was a crisis everywhere, and she might lose her life at any time, she was full of joy. She almost didn't think about anything except fighting.

But now, there is no need to fight, and they are not afraid that the enemy will attack at any time and will force them to resist with their flesh and blood, but they are beginning to be plotted against by the emperor whom they want to protect with all their heart.

Xie Wanqing said: "Grandma, there is no need to be like this. We all know that accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. When he gets old, he becomes more and more afraid, afraid of being betrayed by his courtiers, afraid of losing power, and afraid of anyone he thinks is dangerous. Make peace!"

"But we never thought of betrayal!" Mrs. Cui said sadly.

Xie Wanqing said: "But he doesn't think so. When he becomes the emperor, he has to consider whether his throne is safe or not!"

"Hey, that's all... It's meaningless to say these things. After all, that era has passed, and we are not the bloody children of the past!" Mrs. Cui finally let out a long sigh.

Xie Wanqing didn't speak, seeing that the carriage had already stopped at the gate of the palace, and after checking, the carriage was allowed to enter the gate of the palace.

The emperor was waiting for them in the Yangju Hall. It seemed that the emperor didn't want to make a big deal out of this matter, and planned to continue to adopt a policy of appeasement.

Xuanyuan Ming probably sent someone into the palace to talk to him last night. It was nothing more than the idea of ​​the villain suing first, but who is the emperor?How could he not understand the situation in the East Palace?
The emperor's attitude also proves that he understands yesterday's situation very well, otherwise he wouldn't just call them into the palace, I'm afraid they will be blamed!

Sure enough, as soon as the three of them entered the Yangju Hall, the emperor was wearing ordinary clothes, Xuanyuan Ming knelt on the ground, lowered his eyebrows and looked down, and the emperor was reprimanding him.

Mrs. Cui brought Xie Zi'an and Xie Wanqing to kneel down and salute. The emperor turned around, restrained his anger slightly, and said, "Ling Shuang, there are no outsiders here, so there is no need to be polite to me, get up quickly!"

Ling Shuang was Mrs. Cui's boudoir name, and Mrs. Cui was in a daze for a while when the emperor called out this long-lost title.

In recent years, she seldom saw the emperor. In the past, when the old Duke was here, the emperor often came to visit Cui's house in modest clothes. The three of them gathered around the stove, boiled two pots of daughter's red, and two plates of meat, and they could talk for most of the night.

Sometimes it was late, and the emperor would even stay overnight at Cui's house, and rush back to the palace for the morning court before dawn the next day, as if those days were just around the corner.

Mrs. Cui said: "Your Majesty, I am ashamed, I dare not get up!"

The emperor didn't expect Mrs. Cui to blame herself as soon as she opened her mouth. She didn't know how to say what he had prepared earlier.

"Ling Shuang, what are you talking about, let's talk after getting up!" The emperor made a gesture to step forward to help Mrs. Cui.

Mrs. Cui stubbornly said: "Please allow the emperor to finish speaking!"

The emperor was helpless, and said: "You are still as stubborn as before, that's all, you can speak up if you have something to say!"

Mrs. Cui then opened her mouth and said: "The eldest daughter of the minister passed away early, leaving behind a pair of children. The Xie family has not had a mother to teach them for many years, so the minister feels a little bit more distressed, and never wanted to spoil Zi'an so much , I offended His Royal Highness the Crown Prince yesterday, and please punish him!"

The emperor frowned. He wanted to make a big fuss about this matter, but after Mrs. Cui took the initiative to mention it, he avoided the seriousness and dismissed it as a collision, but he didn't know how to explain it.

If you don't follow Mrs. Cui's words, how can he show kindness later?If you follow her words, how can you beat this stick?
The emperor wholeheartedly wanted to show both kindness and power, to force Mrs. Cui to swallow this breath, but he didn't expect that someone would give him a difficult problem first!
The emperor thought for a while before he said: "Ling Shuang, this matter... I'm afraid it's not as simple as a collision. I heard that Xie Zi'an broke into the East Palace yesterday, but there was a lot of commotion!"

"That's right, when I went, I wanted to see His Highness, but was stopped outside the door. If I hadn't invited the gold medal bestowed by the emperor, I wouldn't be able to enter the door. I didn't expect that when I entered, I saw a group of archers surrounding me. Zi'an and Wan'er, I was taken aback, if I didn't see Zi'an hugging the unconscious Wan'er, I would have thought of Zi'an as an assassin and wanted to kill him!"

Mrs. Cui followed the emperor's words, but she accused the prince of intending to persecute and persecute her.

The emperor's face turned ugly, he glanced at the crown prince, and deliberately cursed angrily: "I just want to explain that this child is too disrespectful and made a fuss, and Zi'an just said something outrageous on the spur of the moment, so he thought that Zi'an's intentions were wrong. , Even the archers have been dispatched, it's too unsteady!"

Xuanyuan Ming knelt on the ground, lowered his head, but looked at Xie Zi'an unkindly, provocatively.

Xie Zi'an remained silent, as if Quan hadn't seen it, if he acted rashly at this time, it would only make things difficult for Madam Cui, so no matter how dissatisfied he was with Xuanyuan Ming, he couldn't bear it.

Mrs. Cui also showed a reproachful expression, looked at Xie Zi'an, and said: "Zi'an, don't admit your mistakes to the emperor and His Highness the crown prince. Although you are eager to protect your sister, the crown prince is the crown prince. There are differences between monarchs and ministers. How can you not distinguish between superior and inferior?" ?”

Xie Zian hurriedly kowtowed to the emperor and the prince, and said, "Please forgive me, the emperor and the prince!"

(End of this chapter)