The reborn poisonous woman is hard to abandon

Chapter 323
The ornately decorated palace was filled with a faint smell of sandalwood. The queen was half leaning on the beauty bed, and a court lady was kneeling on the ground and beating her legs.

Glancing at the man studying the vase opposite, the queen sat up, asked someone to cover her legs with a thin brocade quilt, and then spoke slowly.

"So, you want Huo Xun's life?"

Huo Xun's eyes flickered slightly: "Mother, this time it is the emperor who wants his life, not his son."

Hearing this, the empress looked startled, and raised her hand to signal the little maid to leave the room.

"Do you think I don't know what you're doing? Huo Ming has come to see me in the palace several times, asking me to intercede with the emperor for Huo Xun."

The man heard the voice with a look of indifference: "Mother, since he asked you to plead with the father, can't you just go to the father? As for whether the father agrees to release the person in the end, that is the father's business. You have nothing to do with your mother."

"you……"

As if she didn't expect Zhao Yan to say that, the queen's face froze, and then said: "Forget it, since you want his life, I won't interfere, but how is the military affairs arranged?"

"Mother, don't worry, I can't miss such a good opportunity. Now all the troops in Huo Xun's hands are in the hands of my son."

With a smile on the corner of Zhao Yan's mouth, he was full of pride.

This time, his and Huo Yuan's plan is to take advantage of Huo Xun and his confidantes being imprisoned in the dungeon awaiting trial, so that their own people can gradually control his army.

As for Huo Xun, from the moment the emperor ordered him to be executed, it was out of his consideration.

The reason why he ignored the queen's question just now was because the day after Huo Xun was ordered to be executed by the emperor, news came from his people that Huo Ming secretly sent a letter threatening that if the queen refused to save Huo Xun, they would kill Huo Xun. Tell the emperor about the affair.

It was not easy for that cowardly old man to think of such a way to save Huo Xun, but when he and the queen planned to threaten Huo Ming, all the evidence was naturally in their hands.

Huo Ming will only irritate the Emperor for the nonsense of no one to prove it, and the person who will die at that time is not necessarily who it is.

"Where did your jade pendant come from?"

Zhao Yan followed the Queen's line of sight, and found that she was frowning at the jade pendant on her waist, her eyes flashed, and she prevaricated: "Why does the queen mother care about this, it's just an ordinary jade pendant."

"Is that right?"

The queen stared suspiciously at the above pattern for a moment, and suddenly realized: "Tell me honestly, is this jade pendant given to you by Xiao Ruan? How many times has the queen mother told you that Xiao Ruan's complicated mind is definitely not Trustworthy person, why didn't you listen to my advice..."

"My son has said many times that he must marry her in this life. Why can't the queen mother agree to her son?"

Hearing that the queen wanted to stop him again, the smile on the corner of Zhao Yan's mouth disappeared instantly, and he looked straight into the queen's eyes with determination on his face.

"You, you are..."

The queen was gasping for breath from Zhao Yan's anger, and was about to reprimand when she suddenly saw a maid walking in from the door, so she could only tighten her lips.

"Empress, the eldest lady of the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War, please see me, do you want to see me?"

"Where is the eldest lady from Shangshu of the Ministry of War... Wait, you are talking about Xiao Ruan from the Xiao Mansion?"

The queen was in a fit of anger, and suddenly heard the maid say something about the Ministry of War Shangshufu, and was about to say no, when she suddenly realized that she was talking about Xiao Ruan, and immediately looked at Zhao Yan: "But you asked her to come to me?"

Zhao Yan was also puzzled at this time, if Xiao Ruan was not special on weekdays, he didn't even leave his room, how could he come to see the queen today?

"Forget it, since she's here, I'll probe into this woman's mind for you today, so as not to cause any rift between you and me!"

But seeing Zhao Yan's bewildered face, the queen rubbed her forehead to signal him to avoid it first.

"I have already promised Ruan'er that when I succeed, I will make her a queen. If the queen mother tries to test Ruan'er, she really has no intentions. I hope you can make her a minister."

"you!"

The queen never expected that Zhao Yan would give Xiao Ruan such a promise, and she was furious for a while but couldn't scold her.After finally suppressing the anger in her heart, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and say, "As long as she is willing to kill the child in her belly, I will believe her!"

After finishing speaking, regardless of Zhao Yan's expression, the queen directly ordered the little maid to bring him in.

But after a while, the little servant girl came in from outside the hall with a woman wearing a pink lotus root skirt.

The woman has picturesque eyebrows and a calm demeanor, with a few pomegranate-colored glazed beads adorned on her black and smooth hair bun, she is dignified and elegant, if it is not for her high belly, no one would doubt her .

"My daughter, Xiao Ruan, has met the empress."

When Xiao Ruan approached, the queen saw that she behaved gracefully, she didn't feel a little bit of stage fright, she showed a slight smile: "Miss Xiao is really a rare guest, you refused to come to the Japanese Palace, why are you in the mood to see me today?" ?”

Xiao Ruan hurriedly showed a smile to make his expression more sincere: "Thanks to the Queen's empress for forgiveness, how dare I come here to disturb the empress because my daughter is just an unknown person outside the palace? It's just that I dreamed of the Empress last night, and I thought it was a happy event. He came here rashly."

"Oh? Then I don't know what you dreamed about?"

"Back to the empress, the minister woke up in the middle of the night last night and couldn't sleep, but at this moment, a colorful golden phoenix suddenly broke into the minister's dream, and the minister fell asleep peacefully. The minister woke up Afterwards, after thinking about it, I always felt that I was cared by the empress."

Xiao Ruan moved her numb legs quietly, but her face was full of flattery: "My daughter's grandmother heard about this, and she wants Ruan'er to come quickly to thank her."

"So there is such a miracle? Miss Xiao doesn't need to thank Ben Gong. This phoenix is ​​a rare and auspicious thing. It is your luck that you can dream of it."

The queen didn't believe Xiao Ruan's words at all, but she thought that Zhao Yan was behind the screen, so she no longer had to make trouble in saluting, so she ordered someone to move a chair for her to sit down and talk.

"My daughter, I would like to thank the empress for her kind words."

There was a smile on the corner of the queen's mouth, Xiao Ruan thought that the queen believed her words, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief, but then she didn't know how to speak.

When she was leaving the Prince's Mansion two days ago, she was bumped by a little boy, and suddenly there was a note in her hand.

She could tell at a glance that the handwriting on it was written by the prince, but she was a little suspicious of the contents of the note, because there were only four words on the note, "go beg the queen".

Huo Xun pushed her to Zhao Yan's side to gain Zhao Yan's trust, but now Zhao Yan believed that she had no feelings for Huo Xun, but the prince asked her to beg the queen. Isn't this inconsistent with their previous plan ?

After holding the note in Xiao Ruan's hands for two days, she finally decided to come see the queen.

"Miss Xiao, I don't like to talk around corners, so I have to ask you clearly if I have something to say."

Xiao Ruan hesitated, and suddenly heard the queen's words, and raised her head unconsciously: "I don't know what the queen wants to ask?"

"Miss Xiao, don't worry, I need you to ensure that what you are telling is the truth before I can ask you."

The queen chuckled lightly, looking at Xiao Ruan's swollen belly from the corner of her eyes.

Judging from the size of her abdomen, the baby in her belly was approaching the time of delivery, but judging from the shape of her belly, she very doubted that Xiao Ruan was pregnant with a boy.

Xiao Ruan noticed the Queen's gaze, and bit her lips lightly: "In front of the Queen Mother, the courtiers naturally dare not tell half a lie."

Hearing this, the queen pretended to caress her fingertips, but quickly glanced at the screen: "Yan'er told me that he wanted to marry you, and that you had broken up with Huo Xun'en, but I didn't believe it. Do you dare to tell me whether it is true in front of Ben Gong?"

Hearing these words suddenly, Xiao Ruan couldn't help being a little surprised.

In a trance, Xiao Ruan couldn't help thinking of the promise Zhao Yan made many times: "Ruan'er, are you willing to be my king's woman? This king promised you that I will definitely make you my queen."

In the previous life, she took these hypocrisy as sincerity, but in this life, she knew that the other party was just tricking her into helping him seize the throne, and she could only treat Zhao Yan perfunctorily.

But Zhao Yan still solemnly told the queen about the two of them. Could it be that he really wanted to marry her to start?

While thinking about it, Xiao Ruan raised his eyes subconsciously, and suddenly saw the mockery on the queen's face that hadn't been put away, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he said immediately: "The empress, the servant girl is just a broken body, how can she be worthy of it?" Your Majesty? You don't have to worry, I still have this bit of self-knowledge..."

Before she could finish speaking, there was a strange noise in the room, and she unconsciously stopped the sound and looked towards the screen.

"Come on! Show me what's behind the screen!"

The queen expected that Xiao Ruan would not dare to tell lies after taking an oath, and when she heard that she was not good enough for Zhao Yan, she was overjoyed.

Still wanted Xiao Ruan to continue talking, but when he heard the noise behind the screen, he was worried that Zhao Yan would come out now, so he rushed outside angrily, "Come here, let me see what's going on behind the screen!"

A court lady came in at the sound, searched behind the screen for a while, and came out with a golden kitten in her arms.

"Return to madam, this little thing has slipped in, and this servant will take it away."

Seeing that Xiao Ruan's expression of suspicion had disappeared, the Queen's expression relaxed, she paused for a moment, and then deliberately said: "Since you are self-aware, why do you still want to give the King Huai jade pendant? You have repeatedly shown favor to King Huai, what is it?" What's the plan?"

The queen pressed her every step of the way, as if Xiao Ruan had to give her a satisfactory answer before giving up.

Originally, Xiao Ruan didn't know how to plead with the queen, but at this moment, facing her hopeful eyes, she suddenly said in her mind: "The empress really doesn't want me to be with the prince?"

The Queen's original intention was to force Xiao Ruan to say something that was not sincere to Zhao Yan, but Xiao Ruan asked back at this time, and worried that Zhao Yan behind the screen was dissatisfied with her words and came out voluntarily.

With a cover-up clear cough, the queen opened her mouth in a magnanimous manner.

(End of this chapter)