Harem for a living

Chapter 188

After carefully checking Xiaosi Xiaowu up and down three times, to make sure that the two of them were not injured or anything happened, Chen Manrou was relieved, and turned her head to see that there was still panic on her face. The concubine of color sighed slightly in her heart.

I didn't even bother to ask questions, so I turned around and said: "Concubine Cheng, take the fifth prince back first, and Meng Jieyu, take the sixth prince back, remember to prepare them with shocking soup. Concubine Hui, Concubine De And Lan Zhaoyi, take the second princess, the third princess, and the fourth princess back first, and I will send you the medicinal materials later. The second prince and the eldest princess will go to my palace for a while?"

The emperor wants to appease the Empress Dowager Ci'an, these princes and daughters are Chen Manrou's task.The eldest princess hesitated for a moment and shook her head: "Thank you, Queen Mother, for your concern, but I am worried about the emperor's grandmother, so I want to go to Ci'an Palace to see the emperor's grandmother first."

"That's fine too. The Empress Dowager was frightened tonight. You can be considered as filial piety by spending more time with the Empress Dowager." Chen Manrou paused for a moment, then agreed with a smile, and turned to look at the second prince, who was already eight years old. Too much, and because the birth mother passed away early, so she is a lot more sensible, now she just smiled and nodded: "Thank you for your concern." Chen Manrou stretched out her hand and rubbed his head: "It's okay, you can also call me the queen mother."

After finishing the order, he called Lichun and Lixia to come over: "Lichun went to the Punishment Department, and passed on the oral order of the palace, asking the people from the Punishment Department to temporarily detain all the court ladies and eunuchs present tonight, and the Japanese Palace will interrogate them one by one. Cooperate The actions of the guards should also be optimistic about this place, and don't let people move anything at will. Li Xia, you go back to Yongshou Palace first, and order the small kitchen to prepare shock soup, hot meals, hot dishes, and hot water. I will go back in a while gone."

After the two of them had left, Chen Manrou turned around and said, "You guys should leave too, go back to yourselves, Concubine Hui, you have to worry a lot today, take good care of Qi Xiuyi, and don't let anything happen to the emperor's heir. And Concubine Hua , if you need anything, let someone tell me.”

With Li Qiu's support, Qi Xiuyi thanked her gratefully: "Thank you Empress Empress, I will definitely protect my body."

Li Qiu is the empress's first lady-in-waiting, and now she is sent to Qi Xiuyi's side, and everyone knows what it means.Although Concubine Hua was dissatisfied, she really looked much better than Qi Xiuyi, so she could only thank her.

After returning to Yongshou Palace, Chen Manrou appeased the second prince first. The second prince was not frightened at all, but just gave Chen Manrou a face, and then maintained a friendly relationship with the queen.So, after using the depressant soup and eating some food, I left and went back to the South Third Institute.

Chen Manrou just had the time to put her arms around Xiaosi and Xiaowu to ask, Xiaosi still had a look of shock on her face: "Su Shengshu knows kung fu, when the fire started, there was a little eunuch rushing towards his son, and he was about to hit him the table, Su Shengshu came out and tripped him and threw him to the side.”

"You mean, someone is going to attack you?" Chen Manrou was shocked. She had only paid attention to the emperor for a while, and she never expected her son to be in such a dangerous situation!
"Mother, I feel like, you see, when the fire started, everyone panicked, but the emperor yelled twice, and guards escorted us back, but the little eunuch rushed out suddenly. No one saw where he came from."

Xiao Si was also a little suspicious, squeezed his fingers, and said: "Qin Rong is also very sincere, and has always protected his son behind his back."

"Well, these two are really good, and you will pay more attention to them in the future." Chen Manrou rubbed Xiaosi's head and comforted her, but her heart was very uneasy. If someone wants to do something to Xiaosi, who is this person?

Now Xiao Si is the eldest son, but not the eldest son. The second prince is the eldest son.Someone did something to Xiaosi, so did anyone do something to the second prince?In other words, the second prince already had this kind of thought and strategy at a young age?
If not the second prince, then the third or fifth prince?The third prince was raised by Ci'an's side. Although he was arrogant, he didn't have such deep thoughts. Besides, it was too difficult to arrange these things without Ci'an's thoughts, so he should not be the third prince.

As for the Fifth Prince, Concubine Cheng isn't that stupid, is she?
But Chen Manrou was not sure in her heart, she had never figured out who Cheng Fei was.At the beginning of entering the palace, Concubine Cheng was arrogant and domineering, relying on a noble concubine as her backer, she almost offended everyone in the harem.Later, they designed to drag Concubine Yang into the big conspiracy, resulting in the death of Concubine Yang and the collapse of the Yang family.

Originally, she thought that she would take advantage of that opportunity to rise up, but who knew, she actually dived down again.If it wasn't for the emperor's flop, she would never invite pets, and she was even reluctant to have the emperor spend the night with her.

Besides, the fifth prince is not her own son, and she is not so stupid. For the sake of an adopted son, she should attack Zhonggong, right?
There are not many people with sons in this palace, except for those who have already confirmed that they are sons, there are two people who are pregnant and it is not known whether they are sons or not.It should be impossible for Qi Xiuyi, she is pregnant, if she had predicted what happened tonight, she would definitely not attend the banquet.In the same way, Concubine Hua should do the same.

Wait, what if they want to avoid suspicion?Knowing that there is such a thing, if you don't go, you may feel guilty, so you go to the banquet.Otherwise, in such an unexpected situation, the two pregnant women were completely fine, and they were not even frightened. This psychological quality is not too good, right?

After analyzing and analyzing, Chen Manrou felt that everyone was suspicious.

"Little Si, do you see what that little eunuch looks like?" Chen Manrou looked down at Xiao Si and asked, and Xiao Si shook her head: "Mother, I'm too short, so I couldn't see clearly when I looked up, but, then The little eunuch is wearing the clothes of a second-class eunuch, and there is no badge on his waist."

The little eunuchs in each palace had to wear waist tags with the name of the palace written on the waist tags, even the little eunuchs in the imperial garden would also write where they belonged.For example, those who take care of the flowers and plants in Qianqiu Pavilion will have the words "handyman in Qianqiu Pavilion" written on the sign.

Chen Manrou called Su Shengshu and Qin Rong over again, and asked them if they had seen the little eunuch's face clearly.Su Shengshu once met the little eunuch face to face, and he had a slight impression: "I remember that the man was quite handsome, with forked eyebrows and a slightly sunken nose."

Chen Manrou sketched it in her head, but it was still a little fuzzy, so she asked again: "Can you draw it?"

"The little one can't draw." Su Shengshu said with some embarrassment, and Qin Rong said beside him: "Your Majesty, why don't you let the little one try?"

"Okay, you two draw the appearance of that little eunuch." Chen Manrou nodded immediately, and asked someone to bring a pen and paper.According to Su Shengshu's description, Qin Rong started to paint, and then revised and modified it. After drawing for nearly half an hour, Su Shengshu nodded and said, "It's [-]% like it."

Chen Manrou took the portrait and stared at it for a long time with frowned eyes, feeling a little unfamiliar and unfamiliar.After thinking for a while, he put the portrait on the table, turned his head and told Lidong: "Go to Ci'an Palace and have a look. If the Empress Dowager has not yet fallen asleep, then I will say that the Palace wishes for the health of the Empress Dowager's phoenix body. If the Empress Dowager rests After that, you go to the emperor and say that I have something important to discuss with you."

Lidong responded and went immediately, and not long after, Chen Manrou heard the emperor asking from a distance: "What's the matter with someone looking for me?" After saying that, the person entered the door and saw Xiaosi still there. While doing it, I was a little puzzled: "Why hasn't Xiao Si rested yet? Where is Xiao Wu?"

"Xiao Wu has already fallen asleep. Your majesty, this concubine invited you here because I couldn't make up my mind about some things." Chen Manrou said directly, and then put the piece of paper in front of the emperor: "Xiao Si said just now that when the fire broke out, At that time, the little eunuch ran directly past him, although there was a table in between, but that table was heavy, if it fell on Xiao Si, either Xiao Si's leg would be crushed, or he would not be able to escape in time..."

The emperor's face darkened, and he turned to look at Xiao Si: "Can you tell that he ran towards you on purpose?"

"Well, everyone else was running to the other side of the father and came up with the Jiaotai Hall. Only he ran towards his son at a diagonal direction." At that time, the banquet was held outside the Jiaotai Hall, and the stage was in the On the other side of the side hall, the gate of Jiaotai Hall is diagonally facing the stage.Xiaosi and the other princes are located with their backs facing the main hall.
In other words, to escape from the fire, one should go to the lower left, not the direction of Xiaosi and the others, which is the opposite direction.

"Liu Cheng, do you know this little eunuch?" The emperor turned his head and asked with a flash of hostility on his face. Liu Cheng came over to have a look, and said hesitantly, "Look at the little eunuch, it looks like Concubine Li of Yikun Palace." People from your mother's place."

"You remember correctly?" The emperor asked again, Liu Cheng looked at it carefully for a while, and nodded firmly: "My little one remembers correctly, before Concubine Li sent someone to deliver snacks to Qianqing Palace, it was this little eunuch who went there of."

As the chief steward of the Qianqing Palace, Liu Cheng also had to have an impression of the eunuchs around some high-ranking concubines in the palace.

The emperor nodded and said: "You take people there immediately, and bring the little eunuch here."

Liu Cheng responded and hurried to go.The emperor turned his head and saw Chen Manrou hugging Xiaosi, and Xiaosi's head was biting, the look of being so sleepy but holding on to sleep was really cute.Thinking of such a lovely son who was almost killed by those malicious people today, I felt a little annoyed.

After a while, he patted Chen Manrou's arm and said, "Let Xiao Si go to rest first, I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly."

Chen Manrou nodded, and while hugging Xiao Si got up, she said: "The concubine has someone prepare hot water and rice, the emperor will use some later, and the concubine will be back in a while."

The emperor nodded, seeing that Chen Manrou was struggling to hold Xiao Si, he simply took Xiao Si by himself: "I'll send him back, you rest for a while." After speaking, without waiting for Chen Manrou's reaction, he turned around and left.

Chen Manrou thought about the emperor's expression towards her tonight, and felt a little relieved. It seems that what she did tonight was really right.In the future, as long as the emperor remembers his actions today, he should have more affection for himself and the children.

Thinking about it, Chen Manrou smiled wryly, look, her little four hasn't grown up yet, and their children haven't grown up yet either, so they started planning one by one.If I am not careful, I will end up in the same end as before and after.

Who did it today?
By the way, and this fire, shouldn't it be an accident?The Emperor's Longevity Festival is such an important festival, before the stage is set up, it must be carefully checked three times!When performing songs and dances, the little eunuchs who are guarding behind them will never allow accidents to happen.

(End of this chapter)