The Six Palaces of Favorites: The Black-bellied Emperor's Cold Concubine

Chapter 614 A Letter (3)
Qingchen was dumbfounded for a moment, such things as praying for blessings are only effective if they are inhumane, how can anyone say what they want?

She was about to say no when she heard a voice from outside the hall saying, "I am the witness."

The empress was slightly stunned, and after a while hurriedly brought all the concubines up to salute and greet her, "The concubines and concubines are meeting with the emperor, and the emperor is Jin'an."

Xiao Jun walked in quickly, her eyes didn't linger on Qingchen, but she walked towards the queen who was seated above, "Excuse me, everyone get up and talk."

The queen ordered Zheyue to serve tea, and then said: "Why did your majesty leave the court so quickly today? I came to the palace of my concubines early in the morning, but is there anything important?"

"There is nothing important in the court, so I will come back earlier. Besides, the queen and concubine Li are going to enter the Buddhist hall today to pray for the queen mother and the eldest prince. I also want to come over and ask, what is the queen going to do about the palace? Do you want Concubine Ning to take care of it?"

The queen smiled and said: "Isn't it? The concubine has already told Concubine Ning that she will have to work hard these days."

Xiao Jun drank two sips of ginseng tea, and suddenly felt much warmer on her body. Just now, she hurried all the way, drank a few sips of cool wind, it was really uncomfortable, now she put down the teacup and said: "That's okay, Concubine Ning has been helping the Queen's assistant Liugong, I have nothing to worry about letting her take care of the affairs of the harem for the queen for the time being."

After a pause, he continued: "I was at the door just now, and I seem to have heard the Queen ask Concubine Chen about the Kongming Lantern. I did see Concubine Chen last night and only wrote four words. What does the Queen want a witness for?"

The queen told Xiao Jun the whole matter, turned around inadvertently, and saw that Concubine Ning was drinking tea leisurely with an ambiguous smile, and she looked not nervous, and instantly understood why the emperor was able to do so. If she came quickly, she must have sent someone to inform her. Not long ago, Lan Yan, the maid who accompanied Concubine Ning, did go out for an excuse.

The queen's jade hand on the phoenix chair suddenly clenched her fist, thinking that Concubine Ning must be afraid that if she is convicted of the crime of Concubine Chen, even if the emperor comes, she will not be able to let her due to the majesty of the mother of a country. The decision was changed day and night, so Concubine Ning would not have a helper?Once Concubine Chen is abolished, it will not be so easy to seal her again.

The empress can't easily dismiss her concubine, she usually discusses with the emperor first before making a decision, but if the concubine really committed the crime of seven crimes, the empress can use the phoenix seal to order her deposed.

Concubine Ning was aware of this, so she rushed to tell the emperor.

Seeing that what the emperor said just now was exactly the same as what Qing Chen said, she was not sure whether he was deliberately protecting or if he had really seen what Qing Chen wrote, so she ordered someone to submit those pages of letters and said: "I don't want to be wronged anymore. Concubine Chen, just now I asked her if she had any witnesses. The emperor looked to see if the handwriting of the letter was written by Concubine Chen. The concubine was too stupid to tell the truth from the fake, so he asked someone to fetch the scriptures that Concubine Chen had copied in the Buddhist hall. Comparing the handwriting, it looks like it was written by one person."

The emperor roughly glanced at the content, but there was no emotion on his face, he just asked lightly: "Where is the little eunuch who picked up the lamp?"

When the queen saw the question, she hurriedly replied: "The concubine was afraid that he would talk nonsense, so someone locked him up."

Xiao Jun ordered coldly: "Pass the decree, kill that little eunuch who tells the story!"

The queen seemed not to hear clearly, and asked with a look of astonishment, "Why is this, Your Majesty?"

Xiao Jun threw the letter paper in her hand on the table, and told Fu Quan, "Go and show the queen the "Ancient Mirror of the Emperor" and "The Mirror of Emperors and Ministers of Past Dynasties" that I ordered the concubine Chen to copy earlier."

Fu Quan responded, and hurriedly ordered people to pick it up. Xiao Jun didn't seem to care about it. When she was waiting to pick up things, she only asked about some trivial matters in the harem, which made the queen feel even more uncertain.

Liu An presented the two books that Qing Chen had copied before, Xiao Jun took them and handed them to the Queen without reading them, and said, "I know you all think I'm protecting Concubine Chen, but the Queen will compare them carefully. Does it look different?"

The queen compared the handwriting again patiently, and said doubtfully: "Your Majesty, forgive me for my poor eyesight, I really can't see any difference between these words."

Xiao Jun turned over a few pages of the book, pointed to a word on it and said, "Look at this word, is there any difference?"

The queen saw that it was a word "love", which was written by Concubine Chen, but the word "love" on the letter paper was slightly different, with an extra word "heart" in the middle.Because it was written before, there is no possibility of perjury.

The queen asked puzzledly: "The concubine Chen wrote this character at that time, why did she reduce the strokes?"

Xiao Jun smiled lightly and said: "It's not that the strokes have been reduced, but she has always written this character like this, so when I saw this letter, I knew it was not written by her, but someone deliberately imitated it, because I don't know her writing. It’s a habit, that’s why there’s such a mistake.”

When Xiao Jun saw her write the word "love", she also asked her why she wrote it in such a way. She replied that it was a simplified Chinese character. How can it be considered love? I won’t say it’s wrong, but it’s at least incomplete.”

Qingchen didn't think much about his words at that time, but now that he thinks about it, he realizes that the emperor had some deep meaning in saying those words at that time, maybe he could sense that although she was not hypocritical towards him at that time, at least There is someone else in her heart, and her love for him is incomplete.But loving someone has nothing to do with right or wrong, so he doesn't say she is wrong, but he is willing to spend his whole life waiting for her...

Qingchen looked at the emperor with some unease, feeling not only ashamed, but also grateful.He knew it clearly at the time, but tolerated her without saying anything. Now that something like this happened, but he trusted her so unconditionally, how could he not move her?You must know that even the emperor can't be so generous that he doesn't care about some things, or the emperor would care more about whether his woman is loyal to him or not.

Xiao Jun didn't respond to her, but she seemed to feel her eyes and emotions, and secretly hooked the corners of her mouth, but this fleeting smile still fell into Qingchen's eyes, she hung her head and remained silent, thinking But it is extremely joyful, it feels so good to be cared for by someone like this.

The empress felt a shock in her heart, and her complexion suddenly turned pale, as if she felt that she had seen the catastrophe of the future in an instant, and she was terrified.It's not that he didn't know that the emperor doted on Concubine Chen very much, but he didn't expect that even the emperor put so much effort into her habit of writing. Who doesn't have the habit, besides Concubine Chen, whose habit does the Emperor remember?Concubine Li, I can't see you.

Taking a few deep breaths, the empress tried her best to calm her emotions, and said with a forced smile: "So it's like this, the emperor is wise, so I won't wrong Concubine Chen."

(End of this chapter)