Empress Xiao Zhaoren in Qing Dynasty

Chapter 28

Rong Huang's face blushed, and she was dressed in a light pink flag with round flowers and dark patterns, which made her face like a peach blossom: "The emperor's mama has betrayed the concubine, serving you and the empress is the duty of the concubine." She said Saying this on the mouth, but thinking in my heart: "Hey, it should be blamed! You know how to show off, you have grown two hands for nothing, can't you pick up vegetables by yourself? If you want someone else to feed you, you deserve to be eaten by a eunuch!" The leftovers..."

She was thinking wildly in her mind, when she suddenly saw Xiao Zhuang winking at the Queen Mother, and said with a slight smile, "Go to Concubine Yi to see again, the Ai family has something to tell Concubine Zhao." She paused slightly, then turned her head to look again Xiang Ronghuang: "Ai's family is thinking... Maybe Concubine Zhao also has something to say to Ai's family?"

Rong Huang's heart skipped a beat when she heard this, she hastily lowered her head to hide her slightly discolored face.

This empress dowager really lived in the harem for most of her life, she is simply... so wise and close to a monster!

Xiao Zhuang felt that it was right that Rong Huang wanted to tell her something, but he didn't know if the two of them had the same thoughts?If Rong Huang and she were not thinking about the same thing, wouldn't it be embarrassing for her to mention Hesheli's matter hastily?Would the Empress Dowager feel that she was careless and couldn't guess her own thoughts?

Rong Huang's heart was turning back and forth, countless thoughts flashed through his mind.Xiao Zhuang's expression in the past two days was obviously not hesitant, and the thing that made her feel bad... the only thing related to Rong Huang was He Sheli's.Yesterday's incident with concubine Yi was also tricky, but it had nothing to do with Rong Huang at all.

Could it be...Could it be that Xiao Zhuang knew that the imperial physician Hou who was treating Concubine Yi was a secret clue of Niu Hulu's family, and wanted to force her to admit it?You must know that although the major families are secretly placing people in the palace, if this matter is brought to light, it will be a great sin!To put it more seriously, that is treason...

She opened her mouth, subconsciously wanting to justify herself.At this moment, Rong Huang keenly noticed that Xiao Zhuang's expression had changed!Although it was not very obvious, faint ripples suddenly appeared in her originally calm eyes, with a hint of complacency.

Rong Huang's heart suddenly set off a turbulent wave, but he bit his lips tightly when he got to the point of speaking, his complexion couldn't help turning pale.

No, that's not right... Xiao Zhuang is clearly trying to bomb her!Bullying that she has no experience in entering the palace just now, and wants her to give Xiao Zhuang a shock of her details!It's so dangerous, she almost mentioned the matter of Imperial Doctor Hou just now!
It seems that Xiao Zhuang doesn't know anything, but saw that Rong Huang took the initiative to pay his respects this morning, and guessed that she had something to say, so he deliberately showed his face to Rong Huang, so that Rong Huang would be so guilty that he would not choose what to say. .

In fact, she almost slipped her tongue.Fortunately, during the years spent in the office, she also learned a little bit of observation, otherwise she would be dead today.You must know that admitting that an imperial doctor is your confidant is not a simple matter. This not only means that Niu Hulu's family will have to go to great lengths to cultivate a loyal subordinate, but it may also add a crime to Rong Huang—poisoning Yi. eunuch.

She forced herself to calm down, then fell to her knees on the ground with a plop according to the original plan, bowed her head uprightly to Xiaozhuang, and softly shouted: "The concubine is guilty!"

Xiao Zhuang was taken aback by her sudden kneeling, but the Empress Dowager is the Empress Dowager, she quickly recovered her calm expression, and put on a high air: "What is Concubine Zhao doing? , What are you talking about, is it a crime or not?"

Rong Huang bit her lips tightly, until the blood dripped from the bite, then she raised her head pitifully to look at Xiao Zhuang.But after a while, two lines of hot tears appeared on her face. "Because of being timid and afraid of getting into trouble, the concubine was afraid of harming the family, and even more afraid of damaging the royal family's face, so she never dared to report to the Empress Dowager...to report the empress' loss of virginity before marriage!"

Xiao Zhuang's eyes immediately sank when he heard the words, if she was only intimidated by Rong Huang's actions just now, then at this moment she was really frightened by Rong Huang's unexpected words.

She had indeed suspected that Rong Huang had something to do with Hesheli's loss of virginity before, and she also felt that it was very likely that Niu Hulu's work was the cause.But Xiao Zhuang never expected that Rong Huang would openly reveal this matter on the second day after entering the palace.

Since Rong Huang has this courage, it means that there are only two possibilities for this matter: one, she is innocent.Two... She has already destroyed all the evidence, and she has done nothing wrong.

Thinking of this, Xiaozhuang raised his head and looked directly at Ronghuang, his eyes were so sharp that they seemed to pierce her heart: "Oh? Then tell Aijia what's going on?"

Seeing that she had succeeded in the first step, Rong Huang settled down, bit the tip of her tongue and said: "This matter... we need to start from the beginning." She carefully looked at Xiao Zhuang's eyes and saw that she had no objection, Then he continued carefully: "During the third year of Kangxi's election, the empress once regarded the concubine as a strong enemy. After the dust settled, the empress invited the concubine to go to Jingshan to play. Going together, who would have met a thug..."

"So the empress was ruined by the thugs?" Xiao Zhuang suddenly interrupted her, and said with a little displeasure: "The Ai family knows what you said, but do you think...the Ai family will believe it?"

Rong Huang was slightly taken aback, but this time she was not frightened by Xiao Zhuang, but her face turned pale after kneeling for a long time: "Don't say you don't believe the emperor Mama, even the concubines don't believe it! Feeling strange, you said that although Jingshan is inaccessible, it is still a royal garden, no matter how bold the thugs are, they would not dare to break into it easily! Later, later, the concubine understood that those thugs were dead men from the Hesheli family in disguise. Yes, their purpose is... to be concubines."

Of course Xiao Zhuang would not believe what she said, she was about to refute, but Rong Huang didn't give her this chance: "Emperor Mama is wise, that's the way it is, those dead men have neither seen the concubines nor the concubines. Empress, that's why I mistook the Empress as a concubine and ruined it for..."

The Empress Dowager narrowed her eyes, and various thoughts flashed through her mind.What Concubine Zhao said was indeed somewhat reasonable, but justified words did not mean the truth of the matter.She pondered for a moment, and couldn't help asking again: "You said that those mobs were disguised by members of the Hesheli family, do you have evidence?"

"The concubine didn't tell Ama about the matter because of the face of the royal family, so...the concubine is alone and weak, and has no ability to investigate this matter." She deliberately put her own disadvantages first, and let Xiaozhuang take all I figured out all my doubts, and then continued to explain: "But you, the empress dowager, have the ability. As far as my concubine knows, all the guards brought by the empress and Mrs. Suo'etu died later. Isn't this killing people to silence them? Whether it's true or not, the Empress Mama will know if she checks it out."

The queen's loss of virginity has always been a knot between Xiaozhuang and the emperor. Now that Ronghuang told the truth, Xiaozhuang had long since put on the mask of gentleness and kindness to her, and only cared about asking: "Even if the Hesheli family died So what about people? How did the Ai family know that it wasn't someone else's evil hands?" Although Xiaozhuang suspected that Ronghuang was responsible for this, she didn't want to fall out with the Niu Hulu family now, so she used the word "other people" The word replaces Hershey's.

Rong Huang let out a long sigh, tears welling up in his eyelashes: "This is all I know, if you don't believe what I say... there was also Namufu, my brother-in-law Guarja, who was present at the time, if you... you If you feel that there is no need to avoid suspicion, there is nothing wrong with asking the concubine's brother-in-law." Rong Huang was very hesitant when she said this, since she is now the imperial concubine, and Xiao Zhuang will not do anything because she knows the empress is missing. Zhenyi killed her and silenced her.But Namufu is different, he hangs around outside the palace all day, in order to prevent him from leaking out, Xiaozhuang will probably make him unable to speak forever...

(End of this chapter)